Comey & The Coup

This is the bus Sexton Show or the mission or mission is to decode what really matters with actionable intelligence. Make no mistake American. Bring You're a great American again, The Buck Sexton Show begins. He's a great guy. No, Welcome to the Buck Sexon Show. Everybody. They're excited to get a chance to hang out with you on this lovely out of evening. Thank you so much for being here. I am it's my last day with you for a week because I'm gonna be in China next week. So

that'll be fun. Assuming everything goes according to plan, I'll have some very good stories for all of you. I think it's important perspective. My timing to go to China is certainly pretty good. I think it's all of a sudden, it's become far and away the most important country in

the world outside of our own borders. I guess you could argue, maybe you know Mexico given the border crisis right now, but the border crisis is really more about Central American migrants moving through Mexico than specifically actions of the Mexican government. But China economically, from a technology perspective, national security perspective, and this is the this is the biggest, the biggest challenge we face as a country, and so it's very interesting that I'll have some time over there.

I've been over to Thailand and Vietnam before. That's the full extent out of my Asia experience. So I'm looking forward to being in China, and I'll tell you more about the plan for next week. But we're gonna have some new guest hosts for you, and they're all we have fantastic people line up for next week. So really, I hope you'll tune in every day as you always do. Obviously, you can also download the podcast if you can't listen live, because we're gonna have great shows for you next week.

We've put we've pulled together in an Avenger's style lineup on radio for next week, so it's gonna be really really good stuff. So with all that set now, there's no deal on on China yet, which is not a surprise. Let's talking more about that in the second hour. I really what's got most of my attention, this probably will not surprise any of you at all, is that James Comeek was given a town hall at CNN. Now, this did not pull CNN's ratings out of the ratings basement,

which is where they belong. CNN has become a parody of itself. It is. It is a crappy institution with a tremendous amount of dishonesty, and it's dishonest about what it is, what it's trying to accomplish. Many of the people who work there are nasty, and they are unethical in the way that they both present themselves to the public, and I would even say, and how they sometimes deal

with their fellow media people. I have there's no love lost between me and many many people over at CNN, And I can just tell you that I'm a good guy and they're not. I don't know what else it's I don't know else to say. They have gone to the dark side. There's something really wrong over there. There's something rotten in the heart of the cable news network started by Ted Turner back and whatever it was the nineties.

So what the Clinton News Network is n S Some of my peers in conservative media call it, Well, not anymore. I guess now, it's the Komy News Network. See what I did there. Amazing. So they had a whole Komy sit down last with with Anderson Cooper and another one of the one of the great products of media pr in my lifetime. Anderson Cooper is so famous and such a big deal. Why because he can read questions off a sheet and he you know, looks like a male model and great. A lot of people can do that.

I don't. I don't really understand it. But anyway, Comey was doing his thing last night, rewriting history. Very becomes that I understand how Comy plays the game. He's very definitive and very much the conscience of America. You know, he's he's a combination of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Jesus himself. When he's giving these pronouncements about well, the our democracy and the things that we have to do to really protect this wonderful Republic, and he's all just bombastic,

high falutin self aggrandizing nonsense. And then when he gets asked a question where really the truth is very good for Comy, then he gets well, and I don't really remember that. I don't really have much of a recollection of that specific fact. I know this is a complicated matter. You know, he goes into this hole. Looks he's a slimy lawyer. Remember this Comy is not an FBI guy. Comy is not somebody who's been you know, kicking indoors,

tackling bad guys, tracking down bank robbers and kidnappers. And no, no, Comey's a lawyer, just a lawyer. So you need to recall that too. I mean the fact he's FBI director. He's really a politician, a politician who has existed within the federal bureaucracy and elevated himself from within the federal bureaucracy. So he's a creature of it. And he is really, for me, a kind of quintessential manifestation of just how deformed in spirit these creatures of the bureaucracy can be

when they stay around for too long. Comey, first, I gotta smash a lot out of the lies he told on this thing last night, and this is this is all important. I think Comy's in trouble. I think I have some sources here in DC that tell me that this Inspector General's report that's going to come out, it's gonna be very I would say unkind to Comy, but that's not true. It's just going to be factual. But the facts are unkind to Komy. He's not going to come off well at all. And remember, Comey's the one

who bailed out Hillary. So if we can if we can definitively see that Komy bailed out Hillary and Comy was part of the soft coup to take down Trump. Huh. That's quite a legacy, isn't it. And I think the FBI is going to have to do a serious scrub of itself for politicization. And I think that the bureau's reputation at the leadership level. This is not for the

rank and file. If you're an FBI guy and you work in the you know, the my Semi office or the Omaha office or whatever, I'm not talking to you. I'm not talking about you, talking about the leadership based here in DC Christopher Ray not exactly impressing me this week, either, But Comy is trying to get ahead of where he knows all this is going. Komey, who took remember, took memos, took government property, wasn't his? You know, you don't write memos as FBI director, just take those home with you.

That's not how it works. Were they classified or not. I know there's a dispute about that, but I would argue that a conversation about any important matter between the President the United States and the FBI director should be classified many reasons, well you know, many reasons why in the classification code you could find it for that. For one, it gives insight into the president's mindset about a very

important matter. And speaking in a confidential setting with a senior law enforcement officers, one of the most senior law enforcement officers in the country, that's something that you want to keep from foreign adversaries from the press. Coomy leaked that to the media. What a dirty, dirty little trick the Komi poll. I thought he was above that. I thought Comy didn't do that kind of thing. Oh no,

but he absolutely absolutely did. Why would he do that? Komey, who pretends to be pure as the driven snow, untouched by the politicization that has unfortunately tainted so many other players in the swamp. Oh No, not Saint Komi, sank to Komy himself. He floats above it all, all nine foot four of him, just sort of this lanky emo giraffe, as my friend Sean Davis calls him. He just goes around lecturing everybody and never You'll notice, he never admits

any failings on his part. He's never made any mistakes. He's only made tough calls. He's never lied. He's only just conveniently forgotten what happened over and over and over again. I'm Onto Komy, you see. I know him. I don't know him personally, but I know who he is. I understand him. I've come across his type before, in the federal government and in life in general. And I'm not letting him slither away from all of this. He has put the country through a very damaging time. It is

time for some payback, for some justice. Here is James Komy on this CNN stage talking about whether the FBI spies or not. Play clip for the FBI doesn't spy? To begin with, the FBI investigates. You said it's not spine. Why do you think Attorney General Barr used the word spine, which is obviously word that the President has used as well. I can't explain it. I mean, the only explanation I can think of is he used it because the President uses it. Oh, look at that a little I can't

explain it, but it's because he's Trump's hacked. Look at a little backhanded, snide, slippery combie maneuver. I can't explain it, but I'm gonna explain it by saying something that's disparaging about Bill Barr and say that he's the President's lackey. This is a rhetorical technique of a particularly cowardly pedigree called pretorizio, where you know, I'm not going to say that my opponent is a philandering lout and a cheat, but other people could say that that's called predorzio. This

is what Comie does. You know, he's above it while he does it. This is the game that he plays. And he's wrong. He's wrong because he's not very bright. He thinks he's very bright, he's really not. He's wrong because obviously, spying is a word that we can all define and understand, and you could make the case that all kinds of law enforce and surveillance is a form

of spine. Right, and whenever there are groups in this country that civil rights advocates and others feel have been unfairly targeted by law enforcement, not by the federal government, not overseas, not using programs like Faiza explicitly created for counter intelligence collection purposes, but mere law enforcement surveillance in this country of certain groups that are oppressed minorities or

this or that, or leftists or Marxists or whatever. That is routinely referred to as spying, and it's considered a black mark on the history of the law enforcement community. And I mentioned, for example, the FBI spying on figures like Martin Luther King Jr. Of course they say that spying without batting an eyelash. Of course it's spying. Oh no, But now we can't say it's spine. Now we can't say that inserting a covert or confidential human informant asset.

We don't even know who really sent him and who did it. We just know that someone was sent by the government to go try to entrap was also entrapment. George Boppadopoulos that this isn't spying, This is nonsense. Even Clapper admitted that from a definitional standpoint, it's spying. And that's another way of saying, yeah, it's spying. If the definition is met, then it is that thing. Comy's playing

games here, as he always does. Comy's trying to hedge, trying to prevaricate, trying to create a cloud of misconception for his own benefit, and it gets worse play five, no doubt in my mind. But that doesn't mean I'm against review of it. That's totally fine. Do you think the Inspector General will find nothing inappropriate? I don't think so, at least the not that I know of. But if they do, they do, and they should be transparent about it. Again, I'm a big believer in the truth. If the truth

is there was something concerning, then let's hear it. I don't know of anything like that. I don't know of anything like that. We have text messages from the senior counterintelligence investigator at the FBI talking about an insurance policy to stop Trump from getting elected. We're not idiots. We know what they were discussing. We have it in plain text, we have him saying blank Trump this and blank Trump that, cursing about the Republican nominee and then president the United States,

nothing concerning. He goes on to talk about the severe consequences that page and struck face like, what severe severe consequences when you're talking about what these people did is going to prison? No one's even bring charges against them. Severe consequences. Comy's a joke, folks. I'm not letting this go.

We're going to dive into this and we're going to chop lanky Coomey's lies down to size, and then we'll talk about China and a bit more about what's going to be happening next week while I'm over in China, and we're gonna have a fantastic show because we always do. Is Friday. We are chilling like villains, but we're actually the good guys. We'll be right back again. Mueller didn't say it wasn't the case. He didn't disprove it, but

he also didn't establish that it was the case. Another important thing is the counterintelligence part of this work, which is what whether the Russians had leverage over the president. That would be part of the counter intelligence investigation. Mueller left that with the FBI. His document is about a prosecutor's look at whether they are crimes to be Do you think the Russians have leverage over President Trump? I don't know the answer to that. Thing's possible, yes, another

classic communism. I don't know. But let's go with the thing that makes Trump look bad. I don't know, but it's possible. You think about, think about how disgraceful this is, how dishonest and gross this is. I can play this game too. Is there any evidence that James Coomy is a murderer? No, but I can't prove to you that he's not a murderer. So he could be. There's no

proof that he is. I'm not saying that he's ever, but I can't tell you definitively that there's no chance that there aren't, you know, a bunch of bodies in his backyard somewhere right You don't. I don't know. Do you know? Can you prove no? Can you prove a negative? This is idiocy, but this is what he's doing. He's doing to the president of the United States. Do the Russians have leverage over Trump? Well, I don't know. But I think they, you know, I think they could. Okay,

do the Chinese have leverage over Trump? Do the do the you know, do the Uzbeks, do the Azerbaijanis, do the Argentinians? You know? Well, I don't know. I think they could, any of them? Could? You idiots? I can't believe this guy held the government posts he did as long as he did, and people didn't seem to figure this out. Coomey is a bad guy, folks, I mean Trump.

One thing that has been forgotten here is that what he came in, we said that, or the one of the promises that was that he would clean up the swamp or he would drain the swamp. And I think it's interesting. Trump apparently didn't like that swamp term, but then it just caught on so much they had to embrace it. He also Trump told me that he does not like the President told me he does not like the term deep state. I'm sorry, it's a good term.

I think he's and then people use it all the time now because that is what we're dealing with here. But part of how he has drained the swamp is by being essentially a kind of you know, fly trap for the swamp creatures. You know, he's bait. He draws them out. Callmy would still be FBI director. If you would, you know, a sort of traditional Republican or a Democrat who is in the in the position, call me would

still be at the FBI. He'd still be making very important decisions about who, you know, prosecute, prosecutions and investigations. He'd still be there. That's stunning. Sky is a is a clown, is a joke. At least Trump has been able to get out there and start to say this a little bit, start to explain a bit more of what we are seeing. And I think that that Inspector General report, by the way, I think the Inspector General

report comes out in June. What Trump should do is he should hold back the release of the information, the declassification of the fives and everything. That should be his October surprise. And I know I want it before then too, I get it. But Trump should hold the declassification of the fish, the Russia investigation origin documents and all. He should hold that until September before the election, and then

just let it rip. Then let it fly, because that stuff is gonna just look so bad for all these jokers. Will it change the election out come out? I mean it should. People should be embarrassed for this Democrat. Part of the problem is though the true hardcore Democrats, they know that there is dishonesty in this process. They know that this was all a get Trump operation. They liked

that part of it. So even when we prove that that's what happened here by releasing those documents, when the President does that, I gotta tell you, maybe it sways some minds of undecided voters, But more to the point, I just want them to have to just take it right on the chin for what they did this president. I really think that that's what they deserved, and I wanted to get out there. He's holding the line for America.

Buck Sexton is back. There has to be accountability for all of this, and the only way you have that is with a gigantic take investigation into how it all happened, which means grand jury's indictments if necessary. Culture then there has to be a public accounting, and then you have to have leaders. We have one now with Barr. The FBI, however, is rutderless. Chris Ray is a disaster. He's an empty suit,

not only that he's disingenuous. Yes, he has never given the big speech that you have to give when you come into an organization like that, we're going to fix this. We made some bad mistakes. He has never said that to the FBI employee. How can you lead an institution back to credibility when you don't address the problem frontally. I agree with Joe de Janova here that there has

been really no accountabilit in the FBI whatsoever. I think that there is a kind of deep state delusion going on over there that if they just let this go, if they don't focus on it, if they don't pay any attention to what happened, then everything will be Joe's fine and there's nothing to worry about. But unfortunately that is not the case. They need to have a coming together on this one. They need to have a what went wrong and how do we make sure it did

not it does not happen again in the future. But instead they're pretending that everything has been fine, that it's all been on me on the up and up, and they've got sank To Komy going on TV spreading lines then continuing to dig in and isn't it so interesting that none of the everything that benefits a Democrat in this process, well you know it's Hillary or you know, I mean that Comy always has the benefit of the doubt for the Democrat and always has the worst possible

interpretation for Trump and then wants to tell us that he's operating good faith. Let me tell you this, you know when and I don't think we have a sound beat on this one, but there was a moment when Komy tried to claim that here I can actually I can pull up the verbic of this one. He said that there was a totally normal step, he said, a totally normal step to plant undercover sources in a political campaign.

Let me just tell you in shorthand bullcrap, Okay, that is absolutely completely insane for him to act like a single sourced, unvetted tip, which is essentially gossip from some foreign overseas Rando this Australian diplomat and Joseph mitsud that that would be enough to justify the FBI sending some kind of clandestine asset to spy on a US presidential

campaign is nuts. This is effectively the same as the FBI director telling you this is really no different in my mind from the FBI director telling you that they opened a full field investigation on a conspiracy that claims that Donald Trump is actually a reptile. Oh no, buck,

they had a legitimate predicate for it. There's an email from you know, truthteller one seven five nine at aol dot com came right into the FBI tip box, and so we took truthteller one nine five seven two's email and we had to you know, what are we going to do? The president could be a reptile? Buck? Don't you think that we would be We would be you know, not conducting our duties properly if we didn't chase this down.

So sure, we got a FISA and we ran a bunch of clandestine assets based on this anonymous tip in the FBI email box. We got the tip. We didn't do anything. This is what James Coomey has done here. This is what we are being told to swallow. I'm sorry,

I'm spitting it out back in their face. Yeah, unacceptable, Komey, No frigging way unacceptable that the Let me just give you a few additional data points here to prove why I'm writing Komey's a clown in a jerk and not nearly as clever as smart as he thinks he is. There are very serious prohibitions in place at the DOJ merely for pulling the records of a journalist in a

national security inform in a national security case. Okay, it goes all the way to the Attorney General's desk if you're going to pull a journalist's records to try to find a source for a nationally This is usually come up in Nationalscourney League investigations. They have a very high level of sensitivity around this First Amendment, balancing, YadA, YadA,

all that stuff. You're gonna tell me that comey who says he was briefed on this, I knew about this, never thought you know, maybe we need a little bit more. Maybe we can't just run a probe of an active presidential campaign that is actually the Republican nominee months away from election day. Maybe we need to go on more than the word of a foreigner who has no proof, has nothing other than his word, just some FBI agents. Did that ever get factored in here? Did you ever

think about this? You're gonna tell me the bar is that low. All it takes is, you know, a comment from miff suit about you know, email about basically rumors somebody mouthing off at a bar. I think to start

a full field investigation. I mean, if I'm in a bar here in DC and I get super wasted, which I don't tend to do, but you know, if that happened and I said, you know what, I'm actually I'm aware of a plot where, you know, Vladimir Putin is planning on on, you know, running for United States Senate because he's bought off the entire Senate and they're gonna change the law and they're gonna make it possible for

him to do that. I mean, it's the stupidest thing you've ever heard, right, But can they run an investigation on me because of this Putent plot? Can they pull my phones and everything because I said something dumb in a bar. Comy's defense here is really when you when you boil it all down. The senior ranks of the FBI are so stupid and so trumped deranged, and their judgment is so poor that when one guy said he heard something from Papadopoulos, they risked the entire reputation of

the FBI. They risked the validity and trust the American people could have in a presidential election. They rolled the dice on the word of Mith, Sued and a diplomat from Australian named Downer. They were willing to do that. I don't know what's worse. That they're lying about it and expect us to believe this when this clearly isn't really all that was going on, and they haven't told us about the rest or and this is a possibility. Maybe the people running the FBI, including Comy, are a

bunch of hysterical Ninton income poops. Maybe they're just not very smart. I don't know what's worse, But these are the options we're left with because the explanation Comy's giving is laughable, This is preposterous. Anson Cooper of course, doesn't push him on any of this. You're gonna open, You're gonna send You're gonna send clandestine assets to go and meet with presidential campaign, and then you're gonna open FIS on carter page. You'reven gonna address that on carter page.

Who's working with the FBI before doesn't add up, Folks, the deep state coup. They're scared, they're trying to cover themselves. But we're coming for them. We are, We'll be right back. Do you think the Attorney General should go to jail? How do you get this thing moving? Do you oppose fines? Do you suggest, maybe even as some of said jail time,

should he go to jail for it? We send the sergeant of arms out to handcuff the individual who is declining to well, I'm going to start with mister Barr, Attorney General of the United States, to be arrested by the sergeant of arms and put in jail. You don't want to throw the ag in cuffs though, right, I hear, don't want to throw him in jail, but I'm ready to do so. And you have to have him sit for hearing, and I think you have to have him locked up to use our sergeant, our arms and to

bring him in. He can either be held there to testify or he can be punished. And there is actually a jail in the capital. What a bunch of bs hysteria. I mean, the Democrats have humiliated themselves the last couple of weeks on this issue, but especially this week as I look back on it with all though, oh yeah, they're gonna put the Attorney General in jail. I you know, I kind of wish that Barr would just say, you know what, bring it, suckers, what are you really gonna do?

You're gonna try to put him in prison? Are you kidding me? But these are the this is the thing they act like, they're the mature adults in government. Trump is the problem, you see, They're they're the ones that they want to just restore normalcy. And you know, I remember when saying lock her up about Hillary. I remember when saying lock her up was was a terrible thing that was undermining our democracy. And she was just a candidate.

She wasn't even a government official at the time. She wasn't she wasn't the president, she wasn't the attorney general. It's a person who wants to be the resident and saying lock her up for a crime, and what'll return to this for a crime that she definitely committed and that other people would have absolutely absolutely been prosecuted for.

I mean, look, if I had done what she had done, my expectation would have been that I had to take a plea bargain to avoid prison time for mishandling classified information. I really mean that that would have been my assumption, and every person I know who's not a anti Trump, left wing pro Hillary Democrat will admit that. They're like, yeah, that's that's true. You would be in trouble for this. She didn't even get a suspension of her clearance, nothing,

no discipline whatsoever for what she did with classified information. None, but remember lock her up chance. That's horrifying. It's undermining our democracy. Multi millionaire you know, news anchors who have big platform, not that big at CNN, but I mean, you know, kind of big. They're talking about arresting the Attorney General, putting people on TV or saying arrest the attorney general, and that's supposed to be fine. I mean, do they realize what kind of combustible stuff they're dealing

with here? They start arresting cabinet members and think about you know, these people are so nuts that it's even hard to explain. They want to arrest the attorney general because he won't give them documents after he voluntarily gave them ninety eight percent of the document, he won't give them documents that they are legally not entitled to. There is a statutory block on their ability to get six E grand jury material. It exists. It's real it's there,

but they're just saying, well, he should, he should wave it. Well, movie, he's not gonna wave it. There's a reason the laws there. If they want it go to a judge, they're gonna arrest him because he won't just do it. That's really a overview of the modern Democratic Party. Break the law that we tell you to break, arrest or else we're going to arrest you for breaking the law. This is like dealing with crazy people. This is not normal. But speaking of dealing with not normal, going back to James

Komy here for a moment, sank to Komy. Oh my one, not only sank to Coomy on the Hillary point. And this is you know, Democrats get very touchy now when you bring up Hillary. I'm sorry, No, that's not off limits. We just spent two years investigating what happened in summer

of twenty sixteen. For the most part, I don't want to hear about how the summer of twenty sixteen when it comes to Hillary is off limits, especially because Komey and Struck and all these other pages individuals that we're very much involved in Russia collusion hoax, we're also very much involved in protecting Hillary with the no fiasco the same people. This isn't some huge mystery, This isn't some

huge shock. You don't need a very big deep state to have an enormous effect, enormous impact on these two cases. When the people involved in the two cases are the same and at the very top of the f behind the DOJ, you only need about, you know, a half dozen of them, and it looks like we already know who they are. We're supposed to think this is a coincidence. But here's how James Comey aka Sancta Comey explains, tries

to explain himself because he look, he's broken up. Comy's going down, folks, Comy's in trouble, you know, he's and seeing that smug piece of garbage finally finally half to just sit and stew in the truth, which is that he is completely and utterly in love with his own false virtue. And then he ruined people. He did people dirty because he's such a smug, priggish punk. And to see him finally have to answer for the fact that, you know, he when other people break the laws, he's, oh,

no law breaking allowed. You know, James Comey is just the conscience of America. But when he breaks rules, it's where all everything's very complicated and I can't remember this, and I can't remember that, and I'm not sure about this, and you know, all of a sudden, he gets all slippery. Slippery comy is what he turns into. When he started to push him on some things. Here's what he said about Hillary and her emails and his whole effort to

essentially keep her from getting locked up play too. Secretary Clinton had engaged in conduct that was way beyond what the normal carelessness was. And so how do we explain to the American people that it's not the ordinary stuff, but it doesn't rise to the the level that you would be locked up for it. So I have to characterize the behavior in some way. Not they would attack her, but so the American people would understand. This is the basis for their judgment. It's not criminal, but it's not

the ordinary stuff. I probably should have said really sloppy or something, but I had to characterize it. The goal was to offer transparency to foster trust, So you would have used words other than extremely careless. Yeah, only because this is a technical thing. But the Republicans and the Congress got all wrapped around the axle on those words, because they said, Aha, that sounds like gross negligence, which is a violation of the law that was passed in

nineteen nineteen. I'd have said something more plain spoken and say, really slop. Listen to the slimy lawyering here from Sank to Koby. I shouldn't have said extremely caress if she said really slop. It's the same thing, you clown, and recklessness is in the statue. It's not up to Komy to play word games with recklessness versus extremely careless versus really sloppy. She was reckless. She put national security information at risk numerous times, over a hundred times, willfully, repeatedly.

She was culpable. But he bailed her out, and now he wants to try to explain that he didn't bail her out. We're not all idiots, Comy, And you know what the thing with James Comy is, he's just not as smart as he thinks he is. That's really his

greatest flaw. He's really kind of a middling bureaucrat who just sucked up to the right people, destroyed the right people at the right time, which is also very important for bureaucrats, you know, knew who to throw, knew who should be thrown under the bus and when for his own advancement. I've come across plenty of Comy's in my life. I have a particular disdain for individualists like him, and I really do hope that he gets his come uppance.

He deserves it. I want to talk about justice. Justice is James Comy's reputation being utterly and entirely ruined because of James Comey's actions, because he deserves it. That's some reports that the US is softening a stands on force technology transfers states subsidized. I don't think we're softening our stand sign anything. What I think is going on is a very good discussion about all these topics, and as I said, you've got a lot of clarity perhaps at the end of next week gets so we do not

yet have a deal with China on trade. I didn't think that was going to be the case. I think I told you that yesterday, and not that that's some great prediction. It's pretty obvious there would have been different indicators if there was going to be a deal, and I think that's why the markets. You know, there was a little bit of skittishness, but then it's kind of recovered because people One of the things about the market is people got to put their money where where their

mouths are right. You've got to make a bet. And that's why. You know, the way that this has gone on China is people understand this a long It's gonna be a long haul, and a lot of the market anxiety has already priced into people's perceptions are where this is going. You know, we've been thinking for a long time this is going to happen. Here's the update today

from the Wall Street Journal. Trade talks between the US and China broke off on Friday with no agreement announced, hours after President Trump raised a tariff level on two hundred billion dollars of imports from China. China and tweets Friday afternoon, Mister Trump called the two days of talks candid and constructive, but said tariffs will stay in place, penning the result of future negotiations. He said his relationship with Chinese President hij and Ping remains a very strong one,

and conversations into the future it will continue. Treasury Secretary Stephen Manuchin also describe the talks as constructive. Okay, you got Robert Lighthouser, who's the US trade representative here saying that you know, things are gonna We're gonna get things going. It's continuing on What do I think's going on here? I think I think the following tell you what's going with China's great time. I gotta say, is Buck going to go to China? And not? You know, am I

going to China? Am I gonna fix everything? Probably if when I come back from China there's a trade deal, are we you know, gonna say thank you, Buck? I would hope so, because I think that I'm I might be able to fix some things, might pop make the magic happen here. But on a real note, I mean I'm gonna be in China during a very instant time. I will say that is the US relationship with China

is that at a particularly poignant moment. But here we have a negotiation that I think has stalled because they're one hoping that some Democrat will win because they know that they'll be able to push the Democrat around and get what they want, and there just won't be this

willingness to spend political capital. Trump is spending real political capital and taking a lot of heat in order to deal with a problem that is a very real problem that no serious onlooker, no serious observer of the situation between the US and China disagrees exists. It's definitely there. There's definitely a big problem. But no previous administration has wanted to take this on. They've not been willing to deal with this the way that Trump is dealing with it,

which is to say no more. I'm not I'm not going to allow this to just continue on the predatory practices, the intellectual property theft, the just constantly putting their thumb on the scale against US on trade and getting a free ride on our backs along the way. It's not going to continue as is. And you know, a negotiation, there is a combative aspect to it. A negotiation is a process for resolving two opposing forces, opposing wills. It's not supposed to be a hug, a smooch, and okay,

we got everything figured out right away. That's not how a lot negotiations go. You also have to be patient, you have to be willing to walk away. Trump and his team are willing to do all of that here. Now. I think that the Chinese probably want to hold off and see what happens with the election because they're playing a long game as we know, So that means that they don't feel an urgency to get a deal done

right away. But as we look at when they'll be the most Like if you're asking me when a deal with China would actually happen, I would say it would be in the first quarter of twenty twenty. If President Trump wins reelection, that's when there will be the wreck cognition that because the Chinese are suffering, They're economy suffering more than ours because of their intransigence, because they won't you know, they won't anymore make changes that they need

to change change, you know, because of that. Though, eventually there'll be a position where the Chinese will have to recognize that four more years of Trump just beating them down with these tariffs isn't worth it. At least come up with some deal. You know, there's gonna be a lot of Keep in mind, a deal is not going to solve all problems. The Chinese will try to cheat within the framework of the deal. We're gonna have to punish number of things. But at least it would be

moving the right direction. But the time when I think you will finally get a trade deal with China is if Trump wins reelection. After his reelection and that gets going, then they can really put the heat onto the Chinese. Might might it's it might say, Okay, you're right, we'll start to change things up a little bit. So strap in, my friends, it's going to be a long road to China.

All of these conservative writers that wanted to maintain their dignity and thought they could do that by being anti anti Trump are now all going in to William Barr. I mean, I just want to let you let you guys know you were defending I don't know it, maybe even donning for a long time doesn't matter. You're defending

the most corrupt attorney general. I mean, since John Mitchell like, it's bad, your articles are going to look extraordinarily stupid and you're going to look like, well, Sicka fan, It's just it's really embarrassing. I hope you'll protect yourself from that because you really humiliated yourself over the past couple of weeks. Joe Scarborough's embarrassing. Joe Scarborough exists to be a fake Republican who just bashes Republicans. That that is

what his existence. I couldn't do it. I couldn't do it even for the four or five million dollars overpaid as he is that Joe Scarborough gets. Couldn't do it, couldn't wake up, couldn't look myself in the mirror every day showing up to a job, to pretend to care about things that matter, to pretend to have an ideological core, principles, morals, ethics, and then just trash my own side. So dishonorable. There's no amount of money that's worth being such a dishonorable hack.

But Scarborough sold out. Oh oh, you mean Joe Scarborough, who when he thought him and Trump were buddy buddy, he loved Trump, he was all about the Trump train, he and Mika, And for him to go around and trash conservative writers who are defending Attorney General Bar. Attorney General Bar has done nothing wrong. They can say whatever they want about, you know, the words that he has used so far. He has not broken any regulation, he has not done anything that is untoward, and they're calling

him the most. This guy's calling him a corrupt attorney general based on what? Why is he corrupt? How is he coruble? Well? What what? Because he released a summary of the Muller Muller's a prima donna, Mueller's come two point zero. Mueller's whole thing was, how do I, with the limited facts that we can pull together that aren't favorable for Trump? How can we do as much damage to Trump as possible? Under circumstances we can't prosecute him.

Let's figure something else out. Mueller was a get Trump operation. We all know this. We're not We're not silly. But what has bar done that was? That's so bad. The reason that there is this frenzy to undermine the attorney general, to destroy his reputation, and to call out anyone like me who will speak in his defense. The reason that is happening is because they know they have a formidable

opponent in both their destroy Trump operations. Now and somebody who methodically, legally, ethically is going to get some get some results. There will be accountability, People will be held to account for what they have done in their maniacal destroy Trump efforts. That's gonna happen now. That's why they hate the Attorney general so much. This Attorney General is just like Kavanaugh. I would say, and that he's the gold standard in terms of his resume. His background doesn't

get any better. He's as qualified to be the Attorney general as anybody farm or qualified than Eric Holder. You want to talk about corrupt, Never mind Operation Fast and Furious, which Eric Holder just covered up using executive privilege, covered up what happened. People died. Brian Terry, US border patrol agent murdered with weapons sold through straw purchasers to the cartels to try and prove how much guns were flowing into Mexico from the United States, and they covered it up.

Eric Holder also was the one who signed off on the pardon for Mark Rich who was given a pardon because his wife writes fat checks to the Democrat national community and Democrat candidates. Just just a pardon for sale, that's all that was. And everybody knew it, and even Holder can't defend it now, yeah, yeah, And it gave him a pardon, and they shouldn't give m name of pardon and Holders a he's a third tier legal intellect. But he was the Attorney general, oh okay, And he

was Obama's wingman by his own admission. But he's not corrupt, you know, we're not talking about it, and he was held in contempt, as we know, but that's largely just now a political tool. It doesn't mean that it's right when both sides do it, but both sides do it for for reasons that are inherently political. But what is Scarborough even talking about? Why does anyone listen to this guy?

I don't know who the Scarborough viewer is. I think it must be Democrats who think, well, he's a Republican that I like, and they like him because he's actually a Democrat who just bashes Republicans all day and that's quite a cute game. There's a whole slew of people over at CNN, that's what they do. They're so conservative, but when you listen to them, all they do is bash Republicans. They don't have any any harsh words to say about the infanticidal left and the abortion uber super

crazy extremists that dominate the Democratic Party right. They don't there anything to say about them, but they have a lot of nasty things to say about Trump and Trump's advisors. And you know what Trump said about this or trumpet about that. Scarborough is in that category one. He's one of these he's one of those think yourself, okay, producer, Mike, who's watching Who's watching Joe Scarborough? So I just did a quick search and then about their ratings, and here's

the first thing comes up. The Conservative Talker is now the lowest rated morning show on cable News first Line. So your answer, not a lot of people. Yeah, I mean, I really I think that he he created there, there's a His purpose is for Libs to feel like they can watch a conservative and and so they're open minded. If the watch a conservative, they can watch republic But he's not a Republican. So it's all it's all a fraud. I mean, Joe Scarborough's essentially engaged in a media fraud

every day. And you know, I mean, don't even get me started on like he says all this nasty stuff about Trump and Trump's personal life. Joe Scarborough, you might want to slow slow your role there a little bit, buddy, a little bit, a little bit of homewreck and going on from what I understand. You know, let's glass House, my friend, glass House. But I just want to know why he's slamming Bill Barr. It's one thing he's got beef with Trump. That's personal, right, that's just that's vindictive,

petty stuff. And look, I get it. Trump. Trump burns people that used to be friends with them, and they hate him forever. And you know, sometimes they come back to him. Sometimes they don't. I understand. But but this, this uh, this complete besmirching of Bill Barr's character is this is you know, someone as a hack and a joke when they try to say this attorney general is corrupt. I actually I feel better about how this country's future is gonna go knowing that Bill Barr's the attorney general

right now. This guy, this guy's a legal superstar. His credentials are impeccable. His integrity has never been challenged until now. No one's ever thought that he was a hack. No one's ever thought, oh, Trump's broken him. They say, based on what he doesn't need Trump, he doesn't care. This guy's a super successful lawyer in private practice, has already been attorney generally. He doesn't need this. But he's not going to take this stuff lying down. They can't bully him.

And they hate people. Left hates conservatives, They hate people with just a rational jurisprudence. They hate people that really believe the law is the law, because they can't believe. I am just so sick of it. I really am. One more thing. This whole effort to go after Trump's family. I know we talked about it yesterday, but it's it's appalling.

It's appalling. They're clearly trying to harass President. Now, I will say that by the President bringing you know, his daughter and son of law into his administration the White House, that's I think that you know, he's he's putting them in a position where they are going to be for congressional stuff. It's it's gonna be a fair game situation. They're gonna go after them because they're White House advisors. But we know that they're going to do a lot

more than just subpoenas and records. We know they want to try to take these people and ruin their lives. That's what the left will do. That's how the left tries to get get it, get its way. And here's Trump talking about the fact that Burr, Senator Burr, who's a Republican, is on a committee, leads a committee that subpoenad his son in the Senate play club sixteen. I was very surprised to see my son. My son's a very good person. My son testified for hours and hours.

My son was totally exonerated by Muller, who frankly does not like Donald Trump. Me this Donald Trump, and yet they want more testimony. They want to make his life even more of a circus. Donald Trump Junior, from what I understand, I do not believe. I could be wrong. Maybe he has someone on the campaign. He doesn't have a role in the administration though, but there's they really

he's in this situation. It's like when they really wanted to get either call Rover chaineater in the Bush administration. They really want to get one of Trump's kids. That's the left has a there's a bitterness, there's a vindictiveness in the left about how much they want to get one of the president's children. They want to make it about getting his kids. I mean, this is some real sick game of throne stuff from the left. It really is. And if you think that, you know, I'm just coming

up with us out of thin air. Here's joy Beiha saying exactly that play. Fifteen oh yesterday, Trump held a press conference about whatever, and he talked about his son, Don Junior getting subpoenaed by a Republican led Senate Intelligence Committee, and he actually sounds like he cares about someone other than himself. My son, my son. He kept saying, like as if he's a real father, as if he's a real father. No human feeling, no basic digna extended from

the left towards this president or his family. They are completely deranged. They are hateful, They are spiteful toward this president. You must remember that because it affects all of their judgment about him. It affects all of the way they view his policies, and it also affects the way they view people like you and me who support him. They don't They don't have the ability anymore on the left to step back and say, Okay, you know, we're all

people here, we're all doing our best. We mean, well, most of us are pretty decent, trying to do good things, and we have, you know, our commonalities and our shared love of different things like love of family, love of our children. Joy Barsy you know, gets in la. I mean, she's just a horrifying person, but you know she gets a laugh by saying he's not a real father, and who cares about this? And everything else. This is dehumanizing.

The left uses rhetoric about dehumanizing, that's what she's doing. But the president and his son, this is why the left. We have to understand. These peop are sick. They're sick, they're maniacs. They have problems, folks, they got a big problem. I guarantee you Joe Biden will not get to election day without this being investigated. Joe Biden was appointed the

point man for Ukraine. Two to three weeks later, his son, who had just been tossed out of the military for testing positive to cocaine, was appointed to a position on the most corrupt agency or the most corrupt business in Ukraine. Biden's kid took down about three to four million dollars we can count. And Biden, when the kid got under investigation, actually says quote, I strong armed the President of the Ukraine to dismiss the prosecutor because the son of a

leave it out was corrupt. What he left out of the explanation was that prosecutor was right on the tail of his son looking for the money that appeared to have been laundered. All of a sudden, the President of the Ukraine gets a call from the Vice President United States, and he's told you not going to get you one point two billion dollars loan guarantee, which they needed then

to prevent default, unless you've dismissed the prosecutor. Ah, it looks like Biden maybe having a little bit of trouble. Rudy Giuliani, whom I've had the good fortune to interview several times over the last six months or so, and I've bumped into him a few times socially in DC as well, and I like seeing Rudy. Rudy reminds me of New York, of my hometown, and also of what

he did for that city. So I always give a lot of a lot of respect and a degree of you know that there's a degree of fondness for mister Mayor there. You know, I'm somebody who doesn't believe that anyone in government should retain their government title when they leave. I will say that for for mister Mayor. With Rudy Giuliani, it's I choose that one because I think that he kind of earned it, you know, by turning New York around.

But that's just a personal choice. I don't like this thing where we call people ambassador or mister Speaker or you know, I like New Gingrich. He's not He's not Speaker Gingrich. I'm sorry, he's not the Speaker of the House anymore. He's New Gingridge, right. And I'm not beating up on Nude. I'm just saying this is this is a weird thing, and ambassadors in particular are very huffy about it. I might calm down, Ambo easy. Speaking of Ambos, we have an issue here with Biden's family and what

looks like some corrupt action that Biden took. And does anyone think that this is really beyond the pale for Joe Biden, You know, a guy who we all know is out for number one first and foremost, doesn't really represent much in the way of a political ideology. I don't think Biden's a true believer in anything other than Bidenism, you know. I think Biden is a Bidenist and kind of the same way that Comey is a Comyist, except James Coomy is also very much tied to the institution

of the FBI. And I think that really Comey started to think that, you know, late late Tan Samoi right, the state is me, Louis the was it Louis the fourteenth. I believe he said that Louis Catles in France. Same idea with Comey the FBI, same MOI that's James Comey. So but Biden is a guy who thinks for it, thinks of Biden. He's always did good Biden and his immediate family and how to line their pockets and how to use his influence. And you know that that just

doesn't surprise me at all. Remember Biden was also the guy who was charging the Secret Service some outrageous rent to have a little station on his property where they could kind of position themselves to provide him security. You know, he was charging them like, you know, top top dollar for a very minimal, minimal space. But so you have the Rudy kind of laid it out, we came in.

You have this possible corruption issue of Biden's sun and getting the heat taken off him from a Ukrainian prosecutor because Biden threatened a loan guarantee of over Billy Dodge. I mean this is you want to talk about obstruction, that's foreign I mean that's probably foreign Corrupt Practices Act violation. It's definitely abuse of government authority, abuse of power. It's

obstruction of Ukrainian justice. Probably. I don't know if that's something you could charge here, but uh, it's it's definitely unethical. And if this has proven, I think it's going to be a problem for Biden. The other area that is going to get more attention going forward is around this election meddling. Here's the basics of it. And Rudy's going out there. I mean, he's He's going on offense, folks,

and this is what needs to happen. We've been playing way too much defense in the on the right and in Trump world, and it's been just the whole hope that the barrage ends. Just put our heads down in the trench and hope that eventually the artillery rounds just stop getting fired at us. Instand we should go on offense and find out, well, we were doing this somewhat now you're seeing this with the Attorney General and what he's going to release hopefully the next month or so

from the Inspector General port of the DOJ. But also do some investigative work. You know, where's our Christopher Steele, you know, where's our guy who's out there really looking at what's gone on here? With Joe Biden and who knows what other Democrat candidates we're going to have to

do a deep dive into. We don't want Christopher Steele in the sense that we don't want somebody who is a fabricator and full of crap, but we want someone who's going to pull together a real a dossier of facts instead of lies about Joe Biden and what he did in Ukraine. And Giuliani is going to be looking into whether or not somebody on behalf of the DNC was asking the Ukrainian government for dirt on Paul Manaford. That's the allegation right now. That's what the that's what's

going to get some attention. And I just want to say that we need to establish right now if there was any outreach from anyone associated with the DNC in any way to a foreign government to get a thing of value, which is what the Democrats were saying about it when it was the vessel Nitskaya Trump Tower meeting to get a thing of value as an information from a foreign government, the Ukrainian government, which is it's not quite Russia, but it's not really a friendly either. You know,

We're not you know Ukraine is not Canada. Although if this becomes a thing, trust me, the Democrats are going to say, oh, Ukraine, it's the greatest country that we've

ever been friends with. It, it's amazing. But if we can prove that there was outreach to get APO research from the Ukrainian government against the Trump administration or i'm sorry, against the Trump campaign and Paul Manafort, how are Democrats going to explain that given the standard that they've set up, given what we have been told about, you know what's acceptable and what's not acceptable for a presidential campaign in terms of its foreign contacts and what it's going for.

I need someone to tell me if we can prove this, and Giuliani's on the case, he's gonna use all of his contacts, all of Rudy's horses, and all of Rudy's men here. What if the real foreign collusion was between the Democrats and Ukraine, that would be quite a story. What we can then say is a we should have a non for profit public option for basic banking services, and we should be piloting these projects through the US

Postal Service or in any other number of ways. I gotta say one thing about these far left Democrats is that they're good at at the talking points, the whipping people up into a kind of emotional frenzy. You know, class wolfare the rich people not paying off the taxes, the millionaires, the billionaires, they get them all. You know, Yeah,

it's right, it's unfair. Yeah, it's all those people, the dark money and politics and undermining our democracy and healthcare is a human right and all this stuff that it sounds good and it makes people feel good to say, but it doesn't really give you much in the way of, Okay, well,

what do we do about any of this? And what you see with the AOC and the burn the bourn elect a nickname it's good, is that when they get into the nitty gritty of how they'd make something never want to make it work, but how they try to

make something work, they have no idea what they're talking about. None, Okazio Cortez and Bertie Sanders trying to come up with a way to revolutionize the banking system and have the federal government essentially in charge of banking at some level is just indicative of the lack of understanding that they have of how really anything works. You know, AOC and Bernie. Neither of them have had to function much in the

in the private sector. Accounty Bernie certainly hasn't. And I'm sorry, I'm not yet past that this is a guy who went to the Soviet Union on his honeymoon. I haven't reached the point where I just think that that's like something cute and funny that we can all just forget about. I think that's quite strange. I think that's very, very weird, just like I haven't gotten past Kaza Bill de Blasio varonville Helm. I know you probably a Pawadi said that

because the guys his name was Warren Wilhelm. Doesn't he sound like a guy running around in a pith helmet from Bavaria? Varonville Helm. Yeah, and then he changed his name to Billy Blasio. But he he was gonna run for president. Now he's put the announcement off a little bit. I think he really as is. Everyone is just just going to make fun of him. The guy is such a dufish.

The good part about Bill de Blasio is that you know that, well, if he can be the mayor of New York, basically anybody can be the mayor of New York. It's a job that you could put somebody, you could just grab the first person you find on the street. In fact, I give it fifty fifty No, No, I think it's probably a little better than fifty fifty odds. Remember there's a lot of commies running around New York.

But I get it better than fifty fifty odds. If you just grab some stranger on the street and said hey, you're now the mayor of New York City, they'd probably do a better job than Bille Blasio. They'd listen to the advisors. They'd try to approach it with the common sense. The Blasio is a clown and a buffoon. But he also went to was it. I believe he went to hang out with the Sandinistas in Nicaragua back in the day. Producer Mike fact check me on that one. I think

he went there on vacation. You know, there's some people that are really attracted to the authoritarian left. I mean, they really believe that communism and Marxist revolution is something to be herald at, something to be celebrated. And you get these you get people like Bernie Sanders and AOC and others who have rarely a word of criticism for the likes of a Maduro or anything nasty to say about Cuba or the Castro regime. There's a clear affinity.

And you can't be somebody who understands how capitalist economies work and why they're good and not have a level of disdain for what we've seen in places like Cuba from the regime like Venezuela from the Maduro and before that, the Chavez regime. Right you, So you hear Bernie Sanders in an AOC talking about a public option for basic banking services, and you think to yourself, they don't understand

any of this, do they? They just know how to get other people who don't understand any of it to like them and vote for them, and to prey upon their insecurities and their ignorance so that they become supporters of Sanders and AOC. But these are not These are not people who are Look, let's let's just say it. They're not very knowledgeable. They're not all that bright. Bernie Sanders, Okazi Cortez not intellectually impressive, either of them. I would

not want them on my debate team. I would not want them on my you know, start a business team. They are just demagogues. They're really like actors and their acts, actors who are playing far left politicians for all of us to watch and see. Are they believers as well?

I think so. I think so at some level. But this not for profit public option for basic banking services that they talk about, this reminds me of one of the most interesting exchanges that I ever heard on the Adam Carolla podcast, which now there are a lot of big podcasts, but for a long time, Adam Carolla's podcast was really the podcast it was. He got in that game very early and built up a following very early. And but I remember listening to him talk to Gavin Newsom.

I think at the time Gavin Newsom was the mayor of San Francisco. I think that's right, and now he's obviously the governor of California. Whenever I think of the governor of California, I'm always in my head going to think of Schwarzenegger for some reason. But Gavin Newsom was having a conversation with Carolla and Carola's I didn't even think he's a he's a conservative necessarily. I think he's

just a a common sensor, if that's a thing. He's kind of a guy that just approaches things with the way that you would if you weren't already ideologically predisposed one may or the other. I don't listen to a stuff much, to be fair, but this was fascinating. There was a conversation he's having with with Gavin Newsom, and Gavin Newsom went off on how and I don't remember the statistic and this was from I want to say six years ago. It's a law time ago, but it

really I really remembered it. And he said, you know, the Latino population of I think it was the Bay Area and particularly maybe Oakland, but the Latino population in that part of California had a very low rate of having a checking account of any kind. And this was raised as a tremendous injustice right. Newsom was saying, it's so and really a form of structural racism. Why is it that a very large percentage, I forget what it is.

I don't want to say the number, but a large percentage of Latinos in the Bay Area, and I believe it was true for the rest of California as well don't even have a checking account, which is a very basic if you're going to understand your finances. You're gonna prepare for the future, you kind of need to have a check incount. And Corolla just said, Okay, well, why don't they have a checking account? Well, it's free. Checking accounts are free. I mean some people say, oh buck, no,

it's a certain bank. You need to have a balance, but I mean maybe maybe the balance is one hundred dollars, but I mean you're getting a yeah, how many people are really? I mean, you can get you get twenty billion dollars a year being sent across the border and remittances im and how many people really can't keep one hundred dollars in a checking account for any any period of time. I'm not saying it's no one is in that category, but really, and I don't even know if

that's the case anymore. I mean, I think most banks you can open a checking accounts free. You just can't have a maybe you can't have a zero or negative balance. But was fashionated was that when Corolla said, why don't they have a checking account? They're free? Newsome, you know, all of a sudden had had no answer. I feel like I want to go back and dig up this exchange because it was such a and it's just a

classic moment of here you have another leftist newsom. It's just like like ABOc and Bernie, another left left wing demagogue who knows what to say to get the crowd that they want to think that they're the good guy or gal to think that they're on the side of the poor. But when you asked them a very basic question about the problem that they say they want to address, they've never really even thought about it. You know, why do we need a not for public, not for profit

public option for banking services? Why do we need that checking counts are free? Did you Bernie and AOC have any answers to this? Well, I'm assuming if someone actually posed the question to them, it would be somewhat more like what happened with Gavin Newsommers. I care about poor people in minorities and systematic oppression, and I'm woke in social justice, and just they're just all turning these little talking point robots, never really think about anything. That's that's

a defining trait on the left these days. They're just it's just like all the talking points have been jammed into the system, and it's like mad libs with woke

with wokeness. With these woke phrases, doesn't really get into the substance or how you would fix anything, doesn't really ever tell you how they should or how they would want to address any of these problems, which starts to make you think after a well, maybe they just want to talk about the problems because of how it makes them sound when they talk about it, not because they

think they can actually fix it. It's been a number of mass shootings on school grounds in the last few weeks that have gotten attention to the media, not as much as some of the other mass shootings we've all come to know the names of, like Marjorie Stoneman, Douglas High School or Columbine or the christ Church Mosque massacre. Are these horrific events where you remember the names of the incident. In this case, I don't think we'll remember

the names quite the same way. But that's largely because in these cases rather the casualties were much lower. There have been three attempted major mass shootings in the United States alone between April twenty seventh and May seventh. So just in recent weeks, you had the synagogue shooting in Poway, California. You had a shooter walk into classroom at UNC Charlotte. And then on May seventh, you had a shooter open fire at a school in Highland Ranch, Colorado known as

a STEMS school. It's for science and with a focus on science and math. Now, the number of dead in these shootings was Obviously, every death is a terrible tragedy. There should never be a shooting in any school. But if we're talking about this as a matter of policy response and also the comparison to other shootings, now you're

looking at a pretty low death toll. And the reason given for this, or at least perhaps one of the reasons for the relatively lower death toll, as a David french Over at National Review has written it up, is heroes. There were heroes in these incidents, people who upon themselves to intervene and in several cases give their lives. As David writes here, let's remember and honor the names that truly matter. In Poway, the lone fatality, a brave woman

named Laurie Gilbert Kay died shielding her rabbi. At the same time, in Iraq, vet named Oscar Stewart charged straight at the shooter, yelling that he was going to kill him. The shooter fled the scene with Stuart at his heels, until Jonathan Morales, an off duty Border Patrol agent, engaged

the shooter with a firearm. At UNC Charlotte, a young man named Riley Howell was shot three times as he charged the shooter, yet he still managed to tackle him so forcefully that the suspect complained to first responders after his arrest of internal injuries. Howell gave his life to stop the attack, and in Colorado, a young man, a young man named Kendrick Castillo, immediately lunged for the gunman

when the shooting started. He gave his life, but his charge gave his classmates time to hide or flee, and then three other students also charged and subdued the shooter. As David rights, these brave Americans joined an increasing honor roll of heroes like James Shaw Junior, who disarmed a mass killer at a waffle house in Nashville, or Juan Carlos Nazario and Brian Whittle, two armed citizens who gunned

down a shooter outside an Oklahoma City restaurant. These men rightly have far more fame than the killers they faced. Their names are the names we remember, this is a part of the mass shooting discussion that should get more attention for a couple of reasons. For one, the heroes here should have their names known forever and always this same way that we understand that the bad guys want notoriety, and we should try to starve them of that to

the degree that we can. As a society, we should feel that the opposite is necessary for the good guys in these situations. The heroes, those who step up, those who intervene to save others and in many cases lose their lives in the process. Their names should be in our minds. Their names should come to our lips quickly when we think of heroes during a mass shooting incident. And then also on the policy side of this, or on the how do we solve this? How do we

deal with mass shooting incidents? As David writes here, there's the hero solution to the mass shooting contagent now, he admits in the piece, and you would think this right away. Of course, there are some instances, some circumstances where the heroes there is no possibility to be a hero. You know, if somebody walks into a crowded area and has sufficient firepower and enough tactical dexterity, it may not be physically

possible for anyone to do anything about it. This is why the evil cowards who go into mass shooting situations in schools or places of worship, that's why they do it there. As we know, there's a reason that they pick locations where they feel they are unlikely to come into contact with a good guy or gal with a gun. I think people you know always need to also remember that it was a lady officer, a female officer, who stepped up and engaged Nidal Hassan at the Fort Hood

mass murder shooting event. It was a female officer who she drew down on that guy, and he had been training a lot with pistols he had. He had pretty established tactical dexterity and a tactical skill, and she engaged that shooter and may have saved many lives in the process. I think she got hit if I recall, and I believe he got hit as well in that shooting. And I think she was you know, she was a diminutive

female officer. I think she was five one or five two, but courage, bravery and some skill with the firearms all she needed, and that's what she had. It was also one of the two officers who prevented a mass assassination of conservative members of Congress the Freedom Caucus at that baseball field, and Alexandria, Virginia, one of those two officers, was also female, engaged the shooter and took him down. So heroes on both sides of the gender spectrum, and

heroes that have certainly prevented much worse tragedies from happening. Now, there's some degree of luck involved in this as well. You know, if you happen to be that individual who has the courage and has the ability to stop one of these mass shootings, then the people around you whose lives we saved are very fortunate, because, as I said, in some cases, that's just not going to be possible.

But there is a mentality here. I think you're seeing it now and it's similar to the mentality after nine to eleven. And this is really at the heart of David's thesis and this very good National Review piece. And for those who might be thinking Buck David French used to have him on the show. I like David. I think he's a very good writer, and I think he's a good guy. I disagree with a lot of him on Trump and with a lot of what he says

on Trump. I think that he was very wrong with where he was on Russia collusion for a long time, and that's why we don't We don't engage on that subject much because I don't think it's particularly worth either of our time. But on stuff like this, on religious freedom, on life issues, on gun issues, David is quite excellent. He just really, really really hates Trump, so that can make it hard to talk to about anything Trump related. I think he hates Trump to the point where his

judgment on Trump is just is tainted. I think that he lacks the ability to see anything objective than involves Trump. That's my opinion. He probably thinks that I'm, you know, given Trump a BackRub all the time. I mean, it's it's a different approach to be sure. I could use

a backgroub right now. But anyway, but back to David, I mean, his thesis is very much that there's a change in mentality, and the mentality changes that now people perhaps understand that they cannot sit At least some people. It has spread far enough that there are many people who will not sit by or just engage in the flight part of the fight or flight reflex that we

all have. And after nine eleven, I mean, it was definitely the case that if there was any kind of a hijacking that was going to happen if somebody tried to take a plane, And many commentators and others pointed this out, and it was true. And I remember this

feeling after nine to eleven. You know, remember this mentality of if some guy thinks he's gonna take a box cutter and take control of this plane, he better be ready to have eighty year old women, you know, coming at him down down the walkway on the plane the aisle, you know, hitting them with their walkers and their canes. I mean, everybody on that plane would be in on

the fight, everybody, you know. I mean, I don't think the eight year old one would be the first one necessarily, but you see what I'm saying, It would be every person would understand that their lives are likely forfeit unless they do something and take dramatic and immediate action. So that is happening in some of these some of these mass shootings. So that's on the positive side of this as much as one can find any silver lining in

the aftermath of mass shootings. The reason that we have a few people who are killed in these three shootings and they haven't dominated the news cycle as a result, because let's just be honest, in the news, there is that phrase, if it bleeds, it leads, and the more people who are wounded, end or killed, the more likely it is there's going to be news coverage of something and more sat ration coverage of it. We don't have a higher body count because, thank thank god, because people

stepped up. Because in these incidents there there were individuals who in some cases totally unarmed and just ran at a shooter knowing that they were very likely going to be the next one and then targeted and possibly lose their life in the process. But that's that's real hero stuff. And if this mentality has changed, similar to what we saw after nine to eleven, where people feel like in a mass shooting or in a school shooting or house of worship shooting scenario, the new reality is going to

be fight to the bitter end. That may change the calculation a bit. Now, you want to add to that, in my opinion, the arming of people who want to be armed. Concealed carry, by the way, not just not just open carry for school resource officers, but I think concealed carry for anyone who wants to be who's a license and rely liable adult. You know, these are people that would have to be background checked, would have to have had sufficient safety and weapons instructions so they know

what they're doing. That also changes the calculation. You know, bad guys think about their evil acts usually before they do them, and they there's a reason they go for gun free zones. There's a reason they go for these areas where they know they're not going to come up

against opposition. So you add the the hero phenomenon that we're seeing here during these mass shootings to the possibility of what just happened in Florida, where I believe they've now passed a or about to pass I can't remember off the top of my head a law that would allow teachers to be armed. I believe concealed carry as well.

This is moving in the right direction for how we can limit We're never going to we're never going to eliminate mass shootings, but we can limit mass shootings in number and perhaps even more so in lethality, which is critical, and that's what we should be aimed. Four. We should be trying to establish as best we can a downward trend in these mass shootings, and with each mass shooting, we're hoping there'll be fewer and fewer people who actually

get hit. I want to talk to you more specifically though, about what happened in Colorado and this incident, this stem school shooting, because there's some dynamics at work here that are worth diving into a little bit. So let's do that when we come back from the break. I didn't sit in that classroom, and I did not sit and watch my friends get shot, my friends die. To have a political conference on it. It's not right. So we gotta get out of here. We can't keep here just

because well we were mistreated here. We don't want to stay here. I want to thank Highland Drench High School for hosting us, even though it went a little off track, because politics are always fun, and so thank you all for coming, supporting, honoring. If you weren't here for politics. If you were, thanks for ruining it. And before we go, we want to say we quick we love you, Kendrick. We will remember you ever and always politicizing a tragedy and using the name of a true hero to gather

people together for a left wing agenda. That is what happened at the Highlands Ranch Stems School vigil. Now. I mentioned before we came into this break that there was a shooting at this school and there was an individual named Castillo who ran at the gunman and saved lives. He was he was killed, and eight students were wounded.

When you had two teenagers open fire in this K through twelve school that has a math and science specialization, interesting enough, one of the people who is being held as one of the suspects in this mass shooting is a transgender individual, a male who prefers female pronouns, or I might have that backwards. It might be a female who prefers male pronouns. I can't tell, but very I'm just very little coverage of that shooter, which I think is interesting. I believe that shooter may be a juvenile.

But I have a feeling if the shooter were a different profile, even though he or she is a juvenile, we would be hearing a whole lot more about it. But the bigger issue here, Oh thank you Mike tells me she's going from female to male, so it's a female to male transition, So a transgender male. I think I have that right. As we know there's no such thing as a true female to male transition or the

other way around. But we are being told increasingly to forget science and reality and just pretend, pretend because it makes people feel better. Back though, to this politicization of a vigil, that you'd have an event that was quote build as a vigil to honor Kendrick Castillo, who was the hero of this incident prevented many many others from being killed. Guess what a bunch of Brady Campaign to end gun violence people showed up and turned it into

a left wing banned guns rally. The event was organized by the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence and Democrats showed up Senators Michael Bennett and Representative Jason Crowe to speak at length about the need for federal action, and reporters were invited to cover the event. This is this is where you start to see once again, the virtue signaling that has really corroded the gun rights and gun

control debate. The left believes that people who think that law biding gun owners should be constitutionally protected in their right to own firearms without undo unnecessary and unconstitutional infringement

and harassment. The left believes that they're bad people. All you have to do is see the timeline of my former colleague and friend Dana lash for example, and the things that are said to her and about her by leftists, including prominent leftists in the media and gun control advocates, some of the most well known gun control advocates, and they blame law abiding gun owners who've never broken any laws in their lives the for dead children and mass shootings.

This is the mentality you see among Democrats. It's not a conversation about what's constructive to do. It's they're the good people that want to stop kids from getting killed. If you don't agree with them, you're one of the bad people who doesn't care about kids being killed. I mean, that's a stupid construction for the argument. That's a stupid way to approach it, but that is how they approach it. They really do think that this is a struggle between

good and evil, and good is banned guns. Good is stop people from having firearms that the left says they should not have, which really if they had their way, we would have something like the Australia model, which isn't even the model they say it is, and I'm talking about that before. But you know, you'd be able to have maybe you know, della barrel shotgun and some bolt action rifles and that's it, you know, no pistols, no

semi automatic rifles, none of that. And even still, given the hundreds of millions of firearms in circulation right now in this country, even if they try to institute a massive ban of that kind, it wouldn't stop violence. Bad people would still be able to get their hands on guns. There's still a global market for firearms. It's not just a US market. There would be illegal weapons. People that are willing to kill people and do mass shootings don't

care what the laws say about gun ownership. So Democrats get very agitated because they think that they're so brave and good and they're the ones that want to save the kids. But their ideas are stupid and their policies are unconstitutional, and they can't react to a real and rational discussion about guns and what to do about a gun violence without pointing a finger. And wanted to make this a virtue signaling contest. That's all they care about. They really do approach this like a bunch of self

righteous brats. That is what you see from leftist gun controllers, and that's why they politicize a vigil for a hero for their own purposes. The show ain't over yet, folks, keeping it real. It's time for roll call bad oh Man. Buck goes to China, China. That's happening. It's happening tomorrow, assuming all goes according to plan. I'm gonna miss you all very much, so I'll be out for a week. But I can tell you that next week we have in at the Helm of the Freedom Hunt. We have Rahinka, Sam,

Harlan Hill, Charlie Kirk, who else do we have? Brett Wintererbill Fantastic guess? So, so next week is kind of a smorgasbord of awesome. So I think you know, smurgas Borg is one of those Smorgas bored smorgas Borg what is it? Smorgas board with a D? Obviously, all right, that's what I said. We're just gonna pretend that's what I said. It's a buffet offering a variety of hot and cold meats, salads, and or dervs or derve's also being one of the hardest words out there to smell

Schmorgers board. So you'll have fantastic guests next week. It's going to be very exciting, and then I'll be doing I'll be back the following week in Los Angeles, Cala, California. It's gonna be fantastic, very much looking forward to that. Got some stuff to do out there on the left coast the best coast, um. I actually east coast is better, let's see. Jim Rights. I highly recommend a book called The Bloody Telegram, Nixon, Kissinger and a Forgotten Genocide by

Gary Hello. This is one of those damn robo calls. Gosh darn ittt. Why am I getting a robo call in the middle of my freaking radio show. Robo call? I'd see, I didn't even I didn't. I'm telling you, I'm gonna find these robo call people and I'm going to lose my mind on them. That's the thing that happened, all right, Jim Rights, I highly recommend this book called The Bloody Telegram, Nixon, Kissinger and a Forgotten Genocide by Gary Bass, an astonishing account of American history that no

one's ever heard of. What history? What genocide? Check it out? Okay, Jim, I know nothing about this, but I will give it a google. Michael, Right, I heard Bill Clinton might join Joe Biden on the campaign trail. It will be called our fondling father's tour. Michael, You're not the first one to write this joke to me, so I feel like someone saw this joke somewhere and now everyone sending this joke around. But thank you for your sharing of humor.

Adam writes Buck. We are often in the same position as Short Round was in when Indiana Jones was brainwashed? Question is where do we find the torch shields high? You know, I was thinking about this either day. The Indiana Jones movies. Look Indiana Jones. The story is a great story, The character is really cool, and I think it's a great concept. And those movies were very, very watchable in their day. They're fantastic. I'm just annoyed that

they couldn't make more good versions of them. It's such a great character. And that Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was was horrific. It was an a fence, it was an assault against all things so I did not enjoy it at all. Um. And yes, we need to find the torch and get short round to stop being brainwashed. Mug at um segot um mug at. Remember when he goes to like rip the guy's heart. You know what I'm talking about. He goes to rip the heart out of the guy. I think they're sat um if that's

that's from the top of my head. I don't think it's a real language they're saying. So I can just make up the words too. But that was intense, man. I'll never forget the first time I saw I was a kid, I saw that guy. I just pull the beating heart out of the dude before he put him in the fire pit. That't that's that was real deal. That was messed up. Uh. Dennis, all right, hey Buck,

long time listener, first time writer. Book recommendation. My brother Timothy May has several written books about Genghis Khan and the Mongols. All are available from Amazon Safe Travels. Dennis. Huh, Dennis, very cool man. I'll check out your brother's book. Thank you so much for writing in. I appreciate it. The Mongols is a part of history that we should I think we skipped over it when I was in school. It's just it's like, yeah, and some dudes with horses

who were pretty intense. They came in mess some stuff up and no, no, no, it was really important. They were the most dominant military force on the planet for quite a while and conquered a larger empire than any really anyone since or before in terms of population. I think you could definitely make that case. Let's see or turns of landmass, probably too, Chris. Someone's yelling, but the British Empire was larger with greater popular I don't think so. Man.

A lot of people in China. Chris wrights Buck still can't get over at Judge Napolitano's conversion to Trump hater. I really don't care about his likes or dislike. What terrifies me is that he was a judge with truly awesome power. He seemingly overnight wanted to damage Trump and is offering twisted legal interpretations to indulge his anger. Am I supposed to believe that couldn't have happened when he

was a judge. We are at the mercy of these egomaniacs if we have the misfortune being entangled in court proceedings. How do I now trust that Nap didn't do this while he's a judge, probably isn't even aware of it on a conscious level. How many people did he damage in his career? How revolting your honor? Indeed, you know, Chris, I very much disagree with Judgement Politano in terms of what he says a lot of the time on Fox

these days. I've always found the judge to be very, very friendly and gentlemanly to me, and I've interacted with them many many times. So I like the judge. And as I always tell you, I'm upfront with you all about that. So you know that that that colors my judgment. A lot of people pretend that they're objective even when they likes somebody. No what I like somebody. I can be objective about some things, but my overall assessment is

not going to be what you could honestly describe as objective. Now, we're not friends. I don't like hang out and drink drink, you know stolch Nio with Judge Knapps like I do with I don't know, doctor Gorka. We hung out yesterday, had some drinks. Doctor G's the man, that guy's great, But I do like Judge and Politan, I don't know what's happened to him. I don't know why he has all of a sudden decided that he hates Trump and all of his legal analysis. It feels to me like

a kind of loyally version of Trump's arrangement syndrome. As for what he did when he was a judge, I think he was probably a good judge. I don't know. He was a state court judge. He was not a federal judge, So I think I wouldn't want to go too far on this, but yeah, judges do have a lot of power, and when you're in a courtroom, that's a real manifest a station of state power. And you understand that. Like the guy tells you to be quiet,

you have to be quiet, you know. So I have the First Amendment right to speak, and no you don't. In the court the judge. It's the judge's world and you're living in it. Mary Right. A great book I just finished is Women from Shanghai by Shan Wei Yang. It is interviews of survivors that were being accused of being rightists and counter revolutionaries. Mary. That sounds very interesting. I also think though, that that's probably not the book that I want to have in my bags when I

go through Chinese customs. Yes, hello, I am here to visit your country, and I have a book about the systematic abuse of people that disagree with your regime from within your country. Just thought i'd carry that around with me, perhaps take some photos with it held up near the Great Wall or no. No, I'm going there as a tourist, keeping a low profile, just hanging out doing the thing. And team. If for some reason I get held up over there, I know some of you are going to

circle a posse together and come and get me. So, yeah, exactly, I'm counting on you, Chess in all right, if Donald Trump pardon me. If Donald Trump Junior does sit down before Congress, I would want him to plead the fifth. This would make many in Congress the media claimate shows he has something to hide or is guilty. I would respond to those statements with, so you believe that Lois Lerner and Hillary Clinton are guilty or something to hide,

then sit back and watch the verbal gymnastics begin. Yeah, Chess, And you're right about how that would happen. And that's a very good example of the media bias in many of these high profile, very political cases at work. When they like someone who takes the fifth, we get lectures and of all these legal experts that go on TV specifically to tell us all about how pleading the fifth is not in any way an admission of guilt, and pleading the fifth is completely and utterly fine. And you know,

it's it's a great legal tradition. But if it's someone they don't like, then plead the fifth. All the person's obviously guilty, obviously guilty, guilty as sensor, so it chess, and you are correct, my friend. And from what I see here, you've got quite a beard going, my man, I had to trim mine down a little bit. It was going. It was going into a little beyond what I was looking at. You know, I starting to look like a hipster barista. You know, I like the kind

of I'm not gonna talk about my beard. Whenever I do, people say bucks, stop talking about your beard. All right. I know it's like a new toy. I'm excited to have a beard, but it's I don't know how long it's gonna last. Some people tell me that in the summertime, it gets itchy, John writes, Shields High Real News fan here, Wow, John, go back. We are partying with you like it's twenty twenty twelve, which I think is when we started Real News.

Nancy Pelosi just named two things, fossil fuels and gun violence, so make belief thing and a thing that's also made up by the left. Sure, gun violence is bad, but I'm pretty sure it's not number two on whatever list she has of things that they say require a Democrat president to solve. Strong man arguments from a woman who should be in a nursing home and not on TV. Commie Bear lives those leaves. Still, here's around Cammi Bear, who amuses you. Gun violence is not the number two

thing for presidents to solve. Yeah, we're not going to solve gun violence anytime soon. That is true until we solve the deficiencies of the human heart, which we will not do that anytime either. We're doing double roll calls. This is my last role call with you for a week, so that means the flip siur come right back, continue the conversation. Team. I'm gonna try not to get all weepy because I'm gonna miss you next week, but I'll

be right back. All right. We got part two of our role call for this freestyle Friday, which I gotta figure out how it's a freestyle because we used to do action movie quote Friday and we take a lot of phone calls and now it's kind of just like a Friday show. So I know, I'm aware we gotta make it a little more freestyle, a little more free wheeling. I do get a little sillier on the Friday Show. I'm a silly man, so I think maybe that's maybe that's a difference. I'm gonna that's my story and I'm

sticking to it. James, Right, Just some thoughts. They want to impeach a president who donates money to charity, all of his money that he has paid for doing his job. He deserves that money, but the left is willing to let that generosity go. I'd like to see any liberal donate their money to charity because President Trump is not doing it for the money. He's doing it for his country.

President Trump is trying to prove a point to show the world and our country how much he loves our country and is willing to give up his lavish lifestyle to help improve our lives and be able to take care of ourselves on our own and not buy government assistance. You cannot prosper on government assistance. You can only move forward,

or rather, you cannot move forward, you can only go backward. James, I got nothing to add to that, my friend, other than just say already, thank you so much for frightening in Matthew Buck, here's a flip on the argument of federal circuit judges being able to issue a nationwide or even circuit wide stay. The civil rights of US citizens are being infringed, shouldn't the government be stayed from implementation

until the case has been tried? Do I think what the Ninth Circuit has been doing for the last few years is correct. No, But removing that whole power can severely hurt US citizens in the long run, as always shields high. Yeah, Matthew mean that's I think you're what you're saying is there's a good reason why you can have a nationwide injunction. But I think that they're looking at this again because what you have, and this is a this is a recurring theme in our battles with

the leftists. What you have is the judges now are treating everything like it's an imminent civil rights violation. Anything as a matter of policy that Trump does that some federal judge does not like, they'll just overrule. So there's a bad faith component to this that you have to you have to keep in mind, and that it's not even an appeals court or an on bank review or anything like that. It's just one judge can overrule the president of the United States on any action that the

judge decides. That's just that's too much power in the hands of think of it this way. That's way too much power in the hands of any individual federal judge. Federal judge is not this isn't the Supreme Court, This isn't a five four ruling or something. This is just some judge somewhere that was appointed by a previous president. That judge is able to say, no president can't do that, No president can't do that, and even though they can

be overturned on appeal, and that is what's happened. That's a tremendously disruptive power to give to one federal judge somewhere. So that's what I would say about that. Nathan right Hey, Buck just a quick note to let you know, i'd throw you a few bucks per month for commercial free full episodes of your radio show. I'll listen either way. But I'm sure I'm not the only one out here with support your content via other means in advertising shields high. Well, Nathan,

thank you so much, man. I that means a lot. And you know, we'll see what in the digital media future that we are all in this business hurtling toward, it's gonna be very likely that you're really just gonna everyone's gonna rely on the people that consume their content to support that content, whether it's through what we do right now, which is advertiser support and by you being customers of the advertisers that are on the show, or perhaps even a direct subscription model of some kind later.

So thank you for the vote of confidence and the encouragement, my friend, have a fantastic weekend. Susan Rights. Let's see four admitted liars in the CA have an all case, not one word about it, but now great concern over any little disgusting lie the Democrats wish to make up. Nancy Pelosi is concerned over ethics. Nancy Pelosi and ethics. Exclamation question mark, question mark question Mark, how is it they're getting away with the filthy lies. Susan took the

exclamation points right out of my mouth. Dwayne Rights can't help but think that Mother's decision to pass on the obstruction charge was just a ploy to keep the whole thing alive. If he clears Trump out of his mouth, the Dems have a little recourse and it's over. If he makes bar do it, the Dems can claim cover up and keep the circus alive as long as they want. The Dems have no soul and are doing a measurable harm to our government. Men, Dwayne does not hold back.

Let's see we have here. Wow, this is really long. I will have to come back to this one because this is quite a lengthy one. Let's see. Don right, it's good evening. Buck Shield's high in La Lower Alabama. Not Callie. What do you think of the odds? Are the Dems are rolling a Trojan horse um test? Dudo? Don I don't know, man, that's a good question. Democrats might do that. Everybody. I'll miss you next week, great guests in every day though, I'll be talking to you

from China. Well, actually i'll be talking you about China. Want to get back TUC then shields high