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down here. I mean it's still swampy, don't get me wrong, but at least it's not something of a monsoon, which is what it was for for days and days last week. I I'm reaching a point now where I'm wondering some of the next moves that the deep state, anti Trump left has in store for us. I can see them coming a mile away, and I've been trying to prepare you for a while with don't think that just because we get to the truth that we will get justice.

They will completely disregard any sense of fairness, fair play, a decency, honor, integrity when they're finally caught. And we're seeing a little bit of I think a panic that is setting in among some of the media who have been running with this fairy tale for going on two years now, and a lot of former Obama administration senior government officials who have some explaining to do, at a minimum, Uh, the issue of the possibility of a spot. I mean,

it's been reported all over the place. People are naming the informant. We'll just refer to him as the informant guy who was meeting with Page and Papadopoulos, and that that he was trying to ingratiate himself with some of these Trump campaign officials, that he was pushing some of these issues. This is entrapment. This is an intelligence operation. That's what was being run to hear against people tied to a presidential campaign. There's no way around this anymore.

And that's why you've seen a remarkable shift, unbelievable really, from if you think. I mean, this was a year ago when people like you and me were saying that it looked like somebody was spying on Trump and there's oh no, it's crazy. It was a crazy thing to say. It was an irresponsible thing to say a year ago. Now here we are and all of a sudden, the anti Trump left is like, yeah, sure they were spying. Of course there were spying. No big deal. Are we

supposed to pretend that we don't know that? A year ago we were crazy to think that was happening, and now we're told we'd be crazy not to think that was happening. You see what they're doing here. You see how the propaganda is just constantly evade responsibility for their delusions there, myth making their dishonesty. Because that's what's happening, right.

They just keep changing the story as it as it moves along, as it fits their political needs, not as it pertains to the reality of what has come before it. What do they have to say today? That's what they'll say whatever works, whatever gets them through another twenty four hour news cycle, but uh, this is very serious stuff. Also, note that the leaks that came out about this informant reported in a whole bunch of different places. Uh, New York Times Daily Caller actually been doing and and hat

tip to them, fantastic work on this one. And they're just down the street here for me in d C. Daily Caller has been doing some great stuff on this getting answers. But we know that the has been going on now for a few days. We know that this information gets out there, and now you have the sanctimonious anti Trump left after using these police state tactics, which is what this is. I mean, this is the there's a reason, folks, and I try to remind all of us at this from Tim and Tom, I try to

bring it into our conversation. The reason that a lot of countries, the most feared apparatus in the country is not in fact the military all that's the single greatest concentration of force, But the most feared apparatus is the intelligence agency or agencies, and sometimes in fact the country ends up being run by the person who had previously occupied the job. Of top top spy, Vladimir Prutins one example,

but Saddam Hussein. You go through history, plenty of cases of either the person running the country was formerly running the intelligence agencies, or really the most powerful person in reality in the country was in fact the one running the intelligence agency, not the president of the prime minister of whomever. Because the ability to spy, to gather information, especially when you're talking about by extra legal nice way of saying illegal means, gives tremendous power. As we know,

power corrupts, and that's what you see happening here. They are now acting like this was all fine, this was necessary, There were plenty of reasons to do this spying on the Trump admistry. After telling us we were crazy before, now there's plenty of reasons to have this spying on the Trump administration. And oh, by the way, they also think that they that they can play this game of league information about the informant to get ahead of the story and then act like, how dare anyone talk about

this informant? I mean, I'm seeing people with a straight face who are prominent government officials. Here's here's your Senator Mark Warner is a perfect example play clip seven. When individuals want to try to reveal classified information about the identity of an FBI or c I a source that is against the law. And I find it outrageous that the president's allies are in effect playing uh fast and

loose with confidential information and don't take my work. Take the president's own FBI director Mr. Ray, who said, if you go out and start exposing classified information about informants, that you will make America less safe. I I am, I find this totally outrageous. On some of the actions of these albums. Who do we think expose this reported source? Uh, we know who did near times anti Trump newspapers relying on government as they say, believe them, take it or

leave it, government officials. So I need someone who explain to me who's the one who's then endangering the source. By the way, based on who we think the source is not in danger at all. It's a complete and utter lie. This is so flimsy. But you'll notice there's a lot of hiding behind there's there's there's a lot of um hiding behind the bureaucracy going on here. A lot of all the sort of sources and method sources

and methods. Oh, now we're going to play that game right now, We're going to play the All classified information is sacrosancing can never, can never be justified to be released, even when it's a question about should the president even be under investigation? Right now? Don't we think that these are competing competing goods? Right? Uh? Should we know the truth about this one source so that we know if this whole investigation of Trump is a sham put on

by senior Obama administration officials. That's what this is, folks. Obama's guys and a few gals that I can think of may have been the ones it almost it seems certain they were the ones that created this whole collusion Russian narrative out of out of almost nothing. I mean, they were stretching this stretching credulity to its limits in order to get this thing going. But now it's the source to source? Please, okay a lot. There are a lot of sources in a lot of places. There are

no danger whatsoever. And this guy, I mean, especially now that where we're finding out of this guy is based on media reports? Are we all? So? Am I not allowed to talk about the sources? This is this? I want to know. Senator Mark Warner. I don't want to ask him. So people like me and allowed to say that it's been published everywhere. So is that a threat? You know, there's a real underhanded litigiousness, you know, a

desire to try to ensnare people in the law. It's kind of like Mueller trying to get people lying on about non crimes. Officiousness is at the heart of this mentality, right, Oh no, you can't sources of methods, sources methods. The sources has been blown all of the media. You all know who the sources, the sources being written about newspapers all over the country. You do a Google search, you

see his photos and then everything. So we're just gonna sit around and be like, can't talk about you can't talk about the source. Why do you think they really care about this? Oh, that's right, because of how terrible it looks that from what we know, this was an individual who was run at the Trump campaign. This would be like, think about how easy this is. I'm somebody who wants to get at Hillary Clinton. Let's just say politically, I want to. I want to I want to mess

up her campaign. So what do I do? I hire some people to go and try and talk to some of Hillary's campaign aids about, uh, you know, hey guys, you know, do you know, like, do you do you have any friends you know where This is not a perfect example, but I'm just trying to put this in some kind of context. Do you know anybody who might be able to, you know, help me get some weed? You know? Think about that, right, Think about easy that

would be. And and by the way, the Hillary's campaign aids could well say well, you know, no, no, you know, I don't smoke or I don't do that or you know whatever. But then I could turn around and I could say, hey, guys, um, you know, I could talk to d A and say, you know, there's some senior Hillary people who are talking about about doing about some drug deal stuff going on. I think you guys should really look into this. All of a sudden, there's a

drug investigation Hillary Clinton's campaign aids. Right, That's basically what we're talking about here. Against the Trump campaign. You get some guy to be like, hey, do you know anything about Russia and emails? And you want to talk to me about that a little bit? And these guys were like, yeah, I don't really you know, nah, Papadopolis and and Paige not exactly not to be me, but not the sharpest tools in the ship. And they're like, non, I got nothing.

Oh there's somebody here talking about Hillary Clinton emails. Guys, we need to we need to investigate this. You see, they really fabricated this narrata. That's what we're not just finding out that they exceeded that that the deep state, anti Trump left, exceeded their authority, that they abused their power. All of that is all we know that's true. Now what we're facing is the possibility, the likelihood I would

say that they basically fabricated this that they did. They did the equivalent of running a confidential informant up to somebody to start a conversation and then use that conversation as the basis for an investigation. Well, I can tell you because I've been involved in counter terrorism cases, you can do this with anyone. It's not hard, trust me.

You know, you run somebody a radical of let's just say any ideology to not make this too political right now, but you run somebody up to somebody that you know has pretty unorthodox views on certain things, you say, hey, you get them engaged in conversation, you can get them to say things. If you're trained, you know what you're doing, that would at least create a pretext for further investigation if you really really want to. But isn't this what they and I'm not trying to exact, isn't this what

they did with the Stazi? I mean, it isn't that what you would expect? And in an actual police state, running informants into people's homes or running you a person to person human intelligence operations also something I'm very familiar with. And then use that interaction as the basis for remember not a criminal investigation, a counterintelligence investigation, which needs an even looser pretext. It's all coming together now, isn't it.

And this is why, by the way, there there's there's a desperational left to make this go away, to hide the information. But when I come back, I want to talk about my other so that the whole informant thing. People like Mark Warner, all those guy's in Jeopardy, they're liars. It's a joke. It's preposterous. The name is already out there. We all know the guy's name. And they need they need to stop playing these games. Right left. The Democrats

need to stop, but they won't. But even in addition to that, you have the notion of the independent d o J. I've the constitutional illiteracy on display from senior Democrats and major media figures right now. He's a complete and utter debacle. I will give you details in just a moment. But long term Republican call me was a long term Republican. They're all long term Republicans who hated Trump.

So that doesn't help a Trump. You won't have any doubt about that at the end of this because may he'll find no but maybe maybe he and Comey are so close. Their history is so close together that when you read Comey's book and you see what he has said, you really wonder about the objectivity of the investigation. Look, there was never a need for a special counsel. Special counsel have targets. They're looking to try to find crimes

against people that doesn't serve the interests of America. Get in there there, love it, there's getting frisky in there. It was him versus Dan Abrams. I think he's like an NBC News analyst. But yeah, I hate that talking about By the way, Oh, these are lifelong Republican and comy was actually call me is not a lifelong Republican, or at least not a GOT anymore. He changed his party affiliation to independent years ago. But it's as though they the people who say that, expect us not to

ever think about. Oh, there are Republicans who hate Trump more than any Democrats that I know. There are Republicans who are people whose names you would all know, Folks who I know for a fact, are angrier Trump than a lot of the Democrats I know, because they feel like Trump has stolen their party, stolen their prerogative, stolen their power, and they take it very personally the whole There there are people and never Trump who are crazier than almost not all, but almost any Democrats I know

in terms of their Trump arrangement syndrome. So how does this talking point persist? I just want to know how does this continue on all the Republicans? So what does that mean? There are Republicans who hate Trump more than any Democrat. But on the independence of the d o J. This is my favorite one. You get all these people saying, oh, Congress can ask the d o J for information about the investigation. Wrong Trump can't even communicate with the Department

of Justice about any investigation. You can't fire in either wrong. This is just basic constitutional Well, this is illiteracy when it comes to the Constitution. This is a lack I can't even say of understanding. It's not so much that they misinterpret the Constitution when it comes to DJ Right now, it seems to be a reminder that there are people who work in media and in the federal government who don't really know or respect much the notion of the

Constitution and the whole idea of oversight. Think about what it would mean if the d o J was beyond so they can just prosecute anybody for any reason. Right And there's what is the check on the Department of Justice if not the Congress? You know what the answer is, There isn't one. And we're tiring a counter intelligence investigation. I didn't even have a criminal predicate for this stuff.

They're just saying, oh, you know, we think national security, YadA YadA, let's do whatever we want, we'll keep it secret. This is not okay. This is police state stuff, folks. I mean, I'm familiar with the tools and techniques and how these things can go. You do not want federal prosecutors operating at the highest levels of government who don't have to answer to anybody. But but that's what Democrats

are saying. They want to no, no, all an independent do o J. You mean, like how the president can fire all the U S. Attorneys at the start of his administration independent like that, he's holding the line for America. Buck Sex is back. If they ran a spy ring or an informant ring and they were paying people within the Trump campaign, if any of that is true, that

is an absolute red line. There is not an honest person in this country who can believe that taxpayer dollars going to to fund this ring and and operate like this, like what said in the New York Times. If any of that is true, this is a red line in this country. You can't do this to political campaigns. This was done in in the spring, I mean before the counterintelligence investigation was even open. If that's true, we need to know about it. If they paid someone, it's an

absolute red line. And this is over with. This is over with, He says. Um, we'll have to see if Devin Nounez is right on this one, and to give his perspective on this and a lot of other stuff going on right now with Russia collusion and the Muller probe and all the rest of it. Andy McCarthy is with us now. He's a National Review columnists also served as as an assistant United States Attorney for the Southern

District of New York. Check out his latest column on National View dot Com and politicized Justice, Desperate times call for disparate measures. And you're great to have you back, Great to be with you. Um let's start. I mean, I really enjoyed your column right it over the weekend where you just lay out the the enormous differences between how the Hillary email investigation was handled by the same people in in in many cases in d O J versus what's going on with Trump at each at every

stage of the game. But before we get into that side by side comparison, which I think everybody should be familiar with and they should read your work on it, what do you make of this whole, this whole informant situation. And yet Noon is saying, well, if this happened, it's a red line. I'm looking around, I'm seeing a lot of Democrats that are saying well, you know, we maybe kind of needed an informant because Trump is so dirty or something. Well that's the problem, bucket's the or something.

You know. Um, I'm not in the same place as Chairman Nunez of the Intelligence Committee, although I think he's uh a good right, because I can imagine certain scenarios as I'm sure you can, where if we had really strong evidence to believe that a political campaign was in cahoots with adversarial foreign power, that that would cry out to be investigated, and I would be you know, it would be something that you would hope responsible people would would think long and hard and be sure about it

before they took the what would be a grievous step of of using our counter intelligence powers, which are meant not to spy on Americans but to protect the country from hostile foreign powers, you know, before you would take the step and use those powers in this kind of a situation. One would hope that, you know, people would think long and hard about it. But I could imagine

if there was such evidence uh doing that. I just don't see that kind of evidence here, right, and and so what when we look at this though, Andy, I have to I have to know that there are some people I think I saw an analysis in the Washington Post actually saying that if there was, and there's also a lot of games being played here with well was

there an informant or wasn't there? Right, You've got major newspapers that are running with what they say or U S officials, d J leaks about this this individual that allegedly was reporting on Trump, and there's a lot of specific details about his name that's already out there all

over the place. Also with the specific people about whom he met with your Carter page and Papadopolis and with all that, now I'm seeing people say, well it was it was to protect Trump, And I'm seeing some desperate lines out there from the media on this, which which to me raises even more suspicions because there's just no way this was to protect Trump. Yeah. Plus, you know, when when you're gonna do things like we've seen done in this case, and we know that there were, for example,

Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act wire taps that were done. Uh, it's a part of federal law whether you do with this on the intelligence side or the or the criminal side, that before you take a step like that, you have to consider and in the case of wire taps, show to a chord that you've that there are alternative investigative techniques that you've thought about using or tried to use, and they won't work or don't work, and that's why

you need to do something. You know, this intrusive and that should back everybody up because there's usually always a way to to use a more benign procedure, particularly if

you're trying to protect the person, not investigate them. I mean, and I'm familiar with mafia cases where the FBI has approached people whose names came up and wire taps to say, uh, you know, we don't want to blow our investigation here, but you better be careful, um, because you know you're you're in cahoots with not nice people and they're yeah, they're talking about they're talking about your name and sleeping

with the fishes. I get it. Yeah, right. So I don't know why you rate that kind of a kind of behavior or that kind of treatment if you're mixed up with wise guys, But you don't rate that kind of treatment, you know, if you're running for president of

the United States. So why couldn't they have gone to the Trump campaign and said, you know, we're a little concerned here that the Russians are making efforts to infiltrate your campaign, and we were going to speak to a couple of people, but we want to alert you that that there's a problem or you know, you've got a guy like Carter Paige, who's one of the guys that

this informant evidently spied on. Paige had a prior history of cooperating with the FBI and the Justice Department in connection with a Russian investigation where they were trying to, uh, evidently recruit him to be an informant. So they had they had standing ties with this guy to the point where they had used his information in a criminal complaint against the Russian spy. So why don't you bring Page in and sit him down at the table and say,

Carter or what's going on here? Um? Instead, it looks to me like they jumped to the you know, to the sort of you know, Defcon one where they say, uh, we need to infiltrate this campaign with spies and we need to do national security wire taps. And I've been resisting leading to that conclusion, Buck, because I don't want

to believe that that's what they did. I believe, I want to believe that if they did those kinds of tactics, that there must have been, you know, really strong evidence that Trump or people in Trump's campaign were in some kind of a nefarious conspiracy with the Kremlin. But I ain't seeing it. We're speaking to Annie McCarthy. He's at

a National Review. You should read his his it is work on this issue, especially where he lines up the pieces in politicized justice, desperate times call for disparate measures. Read it. I read the more than once. It really do. Please check it out. But any I want to ask also about I mean, I got a lot of questions

I want to ask you. I know, we we can't trespass too much on your time, but oversight, I'm also seeing a lot of Trump is not Trump is not allowed to say anything to the d o J. Trump is not allowed to fire anyone in the d J. Congress is not allowed to get information from within the d o J. Who do some of these people running around it? And you know I'm talking, You've got fine steins and our fine stign You got others out there who do they think has oversight over the Department of Justice.

I mean, correct me if I'm wrong. The Department of Justice was created by an Act of Congress, and it's an executive practice, executive branch agency. That's exactly right, and it it answers to the politically accountable political representative. In the executive branch, it's the president and of course, and in Congress it's the representatives elected by the American people. So of course they're supposed to have oversight. And Buck, I want to make one other point, which is kind

of up the alley, um of of your experience in intelligence. Um, but is he is getting lost? I think in all of this talk about how we need the independence of law enforcement YadA YadA, YadA, um intelligence, especially counter intelligence, the FBI's um mission to protect the country against foreign threats.

That's not law enforcement activity. That is a mission that the Justice Department and the FBI have which is completely to support the president's most important duty to protect the United States against and and screams for oversight, Andy, because it's so such a potent weapon in the wrong hands. Yes, so you know, when the president wants to wants to decide, you know, should we take this or that measure against some foreign country? That might be a threat to the

United States or one of our interests. It's a commonplace through the president to say I want an investigation of this or I want information about that. This is not law enforcement, you know, it's it's perfectly well and good to say in the four corners of a criminal prosecution, we don't want politics intruding because we want the public to understand that the rule of law is what governs us in that realm, and it's not the whims of politics.

But when you're talking about the counter intelligence mission of the United States, that's holy in service to the president. So the thought that he can't interfere with it is like, well, why do we have it? Ben? Yeah? I mean, and you spend decades at the Southern District of New York

as an assistant U S Attorney. Was is there any way where if you were working on a case that was really politic the sensitive and Congress is like, well, we we want we want to have Andy come down and talk to us about this, where you could say, Nona, guys, sorry, the Department of Justice is independent of Congression. Congress. Yeah,

I think Buck. Usually the way these things work out, Um, Congress is sensitive to the idea that if it asks intrusive questions about an active investigation or an active prosecution, like a case that's on trial, it could screw up the investigation or it can screw up the courtpor sitting, and it doesn't want to be politically responsible for that. So generally speaking, Congress is responsible about what it asks for.

And if there's a problem, the Justice Department comes to them and says, you know, we'd love to be able to help you here, but here's the you know, here's the three reasons why it would really hurt our case. Right. But but but absolutely any but but could they Stone Wall, I mean, rather, could you have you know, in this theoretical example, the answer is no. You gotta give Congress

the information they want. That's exactly right. The Justice Department has an entity within the Justice Department that if you get if you're a line prosecutor in New York and you get a question from a congressman, you're supposed to get in touch with main Justice and they get in touch with Congress, so that you know, Congress isn't being ignored. But those things are getting worked out. What about on

the presidentials? And then then we'll let you go any But on the on the president's side of things, he put out this tweet he said he wants he wants the d o J to look into interference, and people are saying he can't do that. The Department of Justice, once again is independent. Well, it is part of the

executive branch. So how does that work out when when push comes to shove, I don't mean when everyone's playing nice with each other, Well, there is no independent you know, the the Justice Department, the FBI are not a fourth branch of the government. There politically accountable there. There they answer to the president. He's the politically accountable person. And if they commit misconduct, it's the president who's accountable for it.

So of course they answer to the president. And those who say that, you know, they have to be totally independent. There's you know, there's a dark history of law enforcement, awesome enforcement power being completely divorced from political accountability, and it usually is the history of tyranny. It's a pretty dark place. So, you know, I think I understand the good faith of people who say we have to resist political interference with law enforcement. And again, I think what

that means is that if there's a prosecution. We don't want, you know, politics deciding who gets prosecuted, and we don't want it intruding into a trial or an investigation. But the thought that these people don't answer to the political leadership of the executive ranch in our system is just wrong. Yeah. Well, I'm seeing a lot of that wrongness though right now. People. H yeah, I think almost you think that they're committing politics here. Yeah, you get a sense that has nothing

to do with with the laws. Everybody Annie McCarthy on this stuff has been doing fantastic job. In fact, the President himself has mentioned Anthony uh and and and he's writing on this in recent weeks. So check out on nash review dot com. Andy, thank you so much for making the time. We appreciate it. Thanks so much fun. All right, team eight four four to eight to five, eight four four nine hundred buck. We have much much more show coming for you, including perhaps discussion of some

foreign policy in the next hour. What the latest is there? I was right on China. We'll get to that. Stay with me. Politicizing what is a legitimate activity on the part and an important one on the part of the FBI. They use foremant informants and have strict rules and protocols under this. And but the big, the big thing here is this is not about spying on on his campaign. It's about what the Russians are doing. Were they attempting to infiltrate the campaign? And that was the concern. I mean,

that's the former director of National Intelligence. Is he serious? They're not spying on the campaign. They're spying on the Russians who are trying to infiltrate and therefore ally with the campaign. But that means you're spying on the campaign, right, I'm not. I'm not just you know, watching the back alley. I'm watching the back alley to see if the you know, illegal drug deal goes on. It's like, yeah, of course it. Oh my gosh, this doesn't even make sense anymore. I also,

I know I asked any about him. I gotta try to find it. I think it was one of CNN's analysts and whatever they're paying or it's not enough who wrote in the Washington Post. I think that if they were spying on Trump, it was for his own good. That's the new that's the new hotness, the the old and busted like no longer cool to say if you're an anti Trump leftist. Is there was no spying. Now the new hotness is there was spying, but it was

actually pro Trump spying. Kind of like they'll say, oh, the FBI investigation shows how favorable they were toward Trump because there weren't more leaks about the investigation. Meanwhile, that's because they didn't find anything. If they had found stuff, they would have ended Trump's campaign. We all get that. But there's just this desperation of storylines, narratives, talking points out there that never mind, aren't true, don't make sense.

And the former director of National Intelligence who's a clear anti Trump partisan, there's no question about it. Same thing with Brennan. Whether these are people, you know, if you say, oh, their career, buck their career. Yeah, just like Comey's a career prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald's a career prosecutor. Just because you worked in the government forever doesn't mean you're impartial. You know, maybe that's one of the myths that we have to

just completely tear apart here. Oh so and so we don't work for you know, Clapper is a career, a career, whatever career, military, career you name. It doesn't mean you're impartial, doesn't mean you don't have you can't beat partisan, have political biases that affect the way you do your job. But I just have to love that. Yeah, they weren't spying on Trump. They were spying on the Russians allying with Trump. Oh well, well in that case, you know, and now we we We didn't set up a video

camera in your bedroom to watch you. It was to watch you and your spouse. Oh well, I guess then it's like, no problem, no big deal. Do they do they hear themselves when they say these things. I guess at this point the storylines are collapsing more and more, and now the presidents saying He's gonna get some answers, get the truth. He met with Director rat to day of the FBI, So maybe we'll finally get those answers.

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that could be advocated that is intellectually consistent. Put aside for a moment that it's not feasible that it's unconstitutional, that I think it's a bad idea in a hundred different ways, But the only one that at least is work discussing at this point, considering all the gun laws that are already in place, would be an all out ban on private firearms ownership. Really, and that's it, because short of that, how do you stop the guy owns

a hand gunning a shotgun, his kids stole them. I think he also might have don't quote me on this when producer might fact check him in this. I think he also saw down the barrel again illegal. Uh So, everything else they're talking about is just virtue signaling. It's just emotion masquerading as policy discussion. Bernie Sanders, by the Way Center from Vermont, I think they've recently got a little stricterer. But Vermont has some of the loosest gun

laws in the country and some of the lowest. I believe it actually might be the lowest per capita violent crime in the country as well. So it's really easy to buy a gun in Vermont and there's almost no crime that is, you know, violent gun crime in Vermont. So I don't understand what's I thought it was about the laws, right, Oh, maybe it's not about the laws. Maybe there's something else going on. Yeah, thanks Mike, Mike, check me saught off. So add that to the list

of illegal things that this little mass murderer did. So what are we gonna do? Work on parents better securing their farms. Sure, you can pass a law that say it's gotta secure farms in New York and you've gotta have your gun in a lockbox with a trigger guard on it in the lock box and separate lock box for ammunition, which is gonna be great when the burgler comes. Burgler comes through the door and you can throw not one but two lock boxes at him because you're not

gonna have time to actually get your weapon. But you can pass a lall like that. So much dishonest around this issue. I'm seeing that this one's not gonna last quite as long though. I think they've got other problems trying to prop up the whole Russia collusion fantasy narrative

right there. There are other things that the media is got to exert its energy on right now, then just bashing the n r A. It is not an overstatement to say that that are mainstream media in this country is more comfortable using really harsh language, defamatory language about the National Rifle Association that they are about hamas or members of m S thirteen. That's just a fact at

this point. You know, you never see someone in the media challenge somebody from their side or the Democrat left side on being too mean about the n r A on maybe don't call them terrorists. You will see people say, oh, hold on, I miss their tea, and they're God's children too, or you know, Gaya's children. I don't want to exclude people who are pantheists or whatever. So yeah, there's that.

There's that, uh CNN and on others. By the way, I've been running around, their whole thing is that they're objective, they're honest, their journalists and look, there are some good journalists at all these places because it's tough to get a job in journalism and you gotta go where the money is if you want to actually support yourself and make a living. I get that, you know, people like, look, why do you go work at CNN for a couple of years because they were gonna pay me and I

wanted to go in there and fight the lines. Then I didn't realize that every time I went in the lines then I was gonna have about thirty seconds and my arms and my legs were gonna be shackled, and you know, it was never actually a fight, a fair fight. Yeah, so I left. But you take the opportunities where you can express your opinions and try to convince and try to engage in polemical combat where you can. But seeing in these other places, they they've got a lot of

problems with the truth, as you know, fake news. There is a reason why they get so upset about fake news. There's a reason why they will now actually canceled guests who have ever publicly referred to SENN as fake news. Think about that. Wow, really really sensitive, you know, really sensitive indeed. Um, But on this issue of guns specifically, they just repeat a line now that is so blatant and so obviously false that it can't be a mistake.

It has to be intentional, and it has to do with the the the the idea that there have been twenty two and this was from CNN's official account, twenty two school shootings. Uh this year, two school shootings. You might say, Buck, that's that's a lot of school shootings, and you'd be right that that is a lot of school shootings. And then you also may see the statistic where they'll say school shooting since two thousand and nine, and it's like Mexico eight, South Africa six, Russia one.

By you believe that Russian number, I don't think so Russia in Germany one, Japan, Switzerland, Netherlands, etcetera. Zero, the United States two eight, oh my gosh, eight, more than a bunch of other countries like Japan. They want to show us. Okay, what's the truth of this number they keep putting out there. Let's just focus on this year before I get into this. Since two thousand and nine,

they refer to these incidents as school shootings. But what they mean by a school shooting is someone is shot by any kind of firearm, I believe, including a baby gun in one incident. I kid you, not uh anywhere on a campus of any kind in the United States. You might say, well, Buck, that sounds like a you know,

school shooting. I said, Okay, just understand that they used the number of twenty two to make it seem like there have been twenty two cases like Parkland, like what just happened in Texas, right, whether you had a mass casualty event many students killed and wounded. Uh, And and yes, one of these incidents is too many. But that being the case, why do they have to lie about how many incidents there are? And what does that do to

their credibilities news networks? Because what they are saying, you know, count as twenty two shootings include things like a gang fight on a university campus, or someone pulls out a gun and shoots at somebody else. Okay, it's a school shooting, but not not really it occurred on school grounds somewhere.

They include and this is what really they include completely legally owned guns but obviously you can't bring them on school property in most cases, but accidental discharge, including one incident this year of an accidental discharge in a classroom by somebody giving a gun safety instruction. There's a very famous video. I'm sure many of you I've seen it in my gun safety classes. I've taken many of them over the years. Very famous video of a guy I

think he's in Florida who pulls out a glock. I think he was d e A but I you know, I can't remember what the what the letters were in his chest. I think it was a d age and he's giving a lecture in front of a class and you know, with with a glock, many of you know

where this is going. You can remove the magazine. I still have one of the chamber, right, so he uh if members, I think he cleared his weapon, but then rack the slide and then pulled out the magazine and there was one of the chamber or he might have actually just pulled the magazine out and left one of the chamber forgot, but anyway, and then he goes to a holster's weapon and finger on the trigger and blows off his kneecap basically or part you know, shoots himself

in the knee. They include kind of incident here as a school shooting. Okay, so now if you have a professional law enforcement person who shows up at a school and happens to have an a D, which, by the way, is pretty terrible. I mean in terms of safety issues. I mean, you really an a D at a school. You're there to teach safety anyway, Yeah, it was it, Mike says, it was a D. A guy. Yeah, that's where I thought. I remember that video very well. I think that guy tried to sue, By the way, I

forget who he. I think he tried to sue the school or something didn't work. But they're including accidental discharges. They're including people getting hit with BB guns. They're including gang fights on Some universities are sprawling huge campuses. So if anyone at a at a you know, the university of huge, huge state school somewhere, pulls out a gun and shoots at somebody, even if it's like a robbery in the middle of the night, they call that a

school shooting. And that's how you get to twenty two. If you want to know how many shootings there are that you would think of a school shootings this year where somebody has gone into a cool to kill students. I think the number is either three or four. I think it's four for the year for too many. I get it, but four is not twenty two. So while I, oh, that's right, because they're not really journalists on this issue, they are activists. They're openly pushing an agenda and for

a place like CNN. As I said, they put this out from their official Twitter account, this line number or this very misleading maybe put it that way. Number of twenty two just goes to show you that they're not willing to just deal with the facts as they are.

They have they feel the need to stack the deck on this one for policy change purposes, or they just want or the expression additional ammunition to go after the n r A. We want to make the number twenty two so we can really hammer the n r A. Would also note that they have to be aware of the fact that the n r a's donations from its membership go up when the media completely trash Is the n r A right that it's a fundraising bonanza for the n r A When Democrat politicians like Pelosi and

others are out there talking about how the problem here is the n r A. They have to know that too, right, But you know, I'd be okay with c N and saying we are a we are a d n C media operation. Basically, I'd be okay with that in terms of at least there's on I mean, I think it's bad and pushing bad ideas, but least there's honesty. No, they act like we're we're big j journalists. But they'll then run the twenty two number. It's a lie. We've already been here by the way after park when they

were lying about the number. Again, they just keep doing it and it camp be an accident. But they do the whole apple banana thing when they want to tell us about how they're objective and just the facts right, it's preposterous. Uh, there's not gonna be any gun control legislation that comes out of us because no one can think of any gun control legislation that would have stopped what happened in Texas. That's a pretty straight for discussion. And there already is a lot of gun legislation on

the books. And this kid, this little murderer, violated many many laws in another law. I'm not gonna do anything. This is actually not that hard when you break it down to the reality of what's going on. All right, I've got a lot more on this. I know I got deeperness than I thought. We'll be right back, team. Stay with me. If you're hiring, I know what you're going through right now because I've been going through it in the last few weeks, and I know there's a

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Oh man, that's the CNN analyst Rick Cardona. Oh my god, you want to talk about uninformed? How does you just know? I mean they put her on TV all the time, Anderson Cooper, Jake Tapper, very respectful of her. It doesn't know anything. I mean, just just a could be a very nice lady. I'm sure she you know, sure has some lovely qualities. A complete and utter ignoramus, but kind of sort of sounds sometimes like maybe she knows something because of all the words strung together, like, you know,

go live in a dictatorship? What how who They're gonna go on TV with this stuff? It's amazing who you don't I always tell you that that the big problem with over at CNN is that they refused to accept the very obvious reality that they're everybody is left wing. As MSNBC, Kelly and Conway took him a task on this one, Kelly and well done, Placlibate. You're trying to

break news here and it's not working. I'm sorry. Did you just say something that a lot of people on your side of the isle are not willing to say. I'm not on the did you vote for Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump? The president? I left that spot blank on the ballot that day. But it's not appropriate. Voted for No, It's all appropriate to ask me things, but not people. It's a it's that appropriate. It's good. Brad Stelter doesn't vote. Brian Stoulter doesn't have political opinions. His

objective down the middle. Sarah's journalists, whoa, whoa, whoa, that's out alive. I mean to see kidding. Stelter is a Democrat, Tapper is a Democrat, Cooper is a Democrat, Lemon is a Democrat. Burnett is a Democrat. I mean, am I proved me wrong? Exactly? I mean, is anyone and forget about even just being Democrats? Do we think that a single one of them, if they were not in there, I don't vote mode would have voted for Trump. I mean, come on, right, this this is a fiction. This all.

I'm just a journalist. I don't have a pageant. I don't think about things. I just present the facts. I love that who'd you vote for? Probably whoa whoa whoa Letty. That's really personal. It's really personal. Oh my gosh, that guy who good times? Good times. That's the question I always want to ask them. I mean, you know, they'll never they'll never have me on these shows anymore, obviously

because they know what they're in for. Um questions, Yeah, exactly, But I just want to know, did really think like like does does Anerson Cooper? Does anyone ever get a chance to ask him? Hey, do you realize you're you're opposed to Trump, like you're you're actively working against the Trump administration, That your editorial and your story choice, your tone, you're all of it is anti Trump? Or do you

really think that people watching you don't know that? I think that, you know, the journalists asked questions all the time. Why don't we get to ask journalists these questions? They can ask me the question, what do you think? Well, Buck, well, what do you think our support Trump? Yeah, doesn't mean I think everything knows great. Doesn't mean I support every aspect of his policy or everything that he does. But yeah, supports Trump. And then I give you my thoughts as

somebody's sports Trump. Okay, well, why can't they do that? We're just churnalists. Excuse me, sir, You're a way out of line with this. We're not democrats at the CNN. We're just hn just facts, apples and bananas and stuff and stuff, that's for sure. Wow, we have a lot. I was talking about China. Let's get some policy for a moment here. I've got a little silly we'll get into that in just a few Well, the framework went into a number of potential legislative changes. It's a very

all encompassing thing. But for the moment, it's kind of at the forty thousand foot level. This is not a definitive agreement. This is a what we hope will be a path forward. If it doesn't work, the tariffs will go into effect. So nothing's been lost at all. Trump and China. I've been telling you guys. Everyone else is running around, running around saying I shouldn't say everyone else. A lot of people run around saying, oh my gosh, the trade wars coming. We're all it's gonna destroy the

stock market. Say goodbye your four oh one k. Everyone's all upset about it. And what a good old bucks say? What did what a buck tell you? Other then it's all in the reflexes. Uh buck told you that sure enough, this would get worked out, or at least it wouldn't go in the direction of just a senseless trade war

without any attempt at negotiation. China has been doing bad stuff for a long time when it comes to intellectual property theft, when it comes to the terrorists that it puts in place, and has managed a fantastic amount of growth in a very short period of time for its people. But it has been doing so getting a not a free ride, but riding a little bit on the coattails

of other countries, notably US. Right, and we now have an administration that sees us for what it is, and it's saying, well, hold on a second, maybe maybe we should revisit some of these issues. Maybe we should look at the trade disparity between our two countries. And you know, Trump has been saying all along since the early days of the campaign, and is killing us on trade. They're they're beating us so badly on trade. Now, I don't think that a trade deficit is as zero samas Trump

makes it sound. Sometimes. I understand that it's not. But overall, there are certainly ways to get a better trade deal. Right. It's it's kind of like the climate change folks. I know this sounds like a digression, but it's not. They act like, whatever the temperature is, that's the perfect temperature. Well maybe the world, like, you know, half a half a degree celsius warmer is a little bit better. You know, maybe things actually improve a bit. There's still all the

bad things. Well, yeah, sure, you might have an increase in microbial growth in some inhabited parts of the world. You may have greater problem with malaria. You also probably have a longer growing season. Right, these are not static issues. These are these are goalposts that do move in fact. And with China, what's to say that the trade regime that we've had in place visa be this country that doesn't gage in a bit of predatory state capitalism here

and there. We know about it, right, We're all very aware of it. Who's to say that the deal can't be better? In fact, isn't it nonsensical to assume that whatever our relationship with China has been, that that is in fact the best way for it to be. No. Trump has come after this and said, hold on a second, let's look at this, let's take a different approach. And people are saying, oh, trade war trade When I said no, no,

you can go back and listen to the shows. You know, I said, I think that Trump's onto something here and a lot. And this is where I break with some of my very some very smart friends of mine who are conservatives in the media world, who are so they said, no, no, on this one, Trump is just you know, he's out of his depth. He doesn't understand the trade deals whatever.

Oh well, as of right now, we're hearing that there could be a very constructive conversation between Trump and China on a whole bunch of things, including agricultural, farm and agricultural products. Trump tweeted out over the weekend that quote China has agreed to by massive amounts of additional farm and agricultural products would be one of the best things to happen to our farmers in many years. Uh and also said on China barriers and tarroiffs to come down

for the first time. So what if he is opening up some of those four markets more to our you know, agricultural output. Right, what are some of the benefits we could see here? It's at least worth of conversation and more to the point, just as we see with the way that people criticize him on North Korea, they're not they're not willing. The Trump critics are not willing to see how his approach to China, never mind plays out,

how it even begins. Really, the moment that he talks about China and trade, you have all these this whole echo chamber effect out there of oh, he doesn't know what he's doing. It's gonna be terrible, he's gonna destroy things, and ah, no, he's not. He's just not. And don't you see a recurring theme here? You know, whether you think trade with China is particularly interesting or not, although I would note it's it's an important up relationship that

it really does affect our economy. So whatever business you're in, or you know, whatever whatever savings account you have at the bank, I mean, what's going on with China is important at a level that we can't really ignore. Economically speaking, we can't totally ignore it. They buy a lot of US treasuries, as we know, and we have a whole relationship with them where they're they're buying up treasuries and buying up treasuries, and we're selling them a lot of

our debt via that that process. But it's just another reminder that you have this conventional wisdom machinery in place on immigration, on North Korea, on Iran, on trade with China that is not only I think, going to be proven wrong in the long term, but is is really impatient and immature in the short term. They act like they go way beyond It's one thing to say I don't like what the end result of what Trump's doing on any of those issues is going to be, which

I would not. Also require some degree of prognostication. You have to be able to tell what the future is to know because not the future right pretty straightforward. But they won't even look at what's happening in the short term and be honest about it. They act like it's already a failure. They speak about these things, they speak about Trump's approach to China on trade as though it's already a disaster, not that it could be in the future,

but oh my gosh, look what he's done. And now we see that there's the possibility that not only is not a disaster, but could be yet a yet another economic boon for America. I saw today that the people I'm trying to remember what the exact statistic was, but people are more optimistic, more or less about getting a good job today than they have been in a very long time. And the sense of prosperity that the American people have, this is why it just drowns out all

the hating, all the from the left about Trump. It doesn't drown out hate in this country. Spent two minutes on social media talking about Trump, and you'll see how nasty everybody can be. But it this is what they didn't count on. It's one thing to have to struggle against Trump's messaging and his counterpunching media is still really twisting up and knots about that. It's another thing to have no answer, no effective countermeasure to Trump's economic results.

My friends, The mid terms loom large in all of this. If things continue on the trajectory they're on right now. Not only is the blue wave a myth, you could actually see Republicans gain seats, mark my words, and gain them we come back. I want to talk about starbucks new newest bathroom policy and how it could result in smelliness for all. Stay with me and Starbucks. It's a

story I've been following closely t him. As you know, there were some allegations of racism a while ago, and Starbucks responded with, well everything that it could at the time, right it said they're gonna They said they're gonna hold a a day of diversity training for every single one of their tens of thousands of employees across the country. They also said that they were very sorry about the the in students in question. But there's a new policy

now too. Who wants to guess, because you remember the problem with Starbucks was that they said that some people were allowed to use the bathroom without a purchase and others were not, and the claim was that this was based on race. Well, let me just put this out there. Does anybody right now think that Starbucks is gonna just let that continue on without taking action? No, of course

not so. Starbucks decided that they are going to now make all Starbucks is open to people without having to eat, uh drink or buy any well, without having to buy any food or drink. Quote, any person who enters our spaces, including patios, cafes, and restrooms, regardless of whether they make a purchase, is can sidered a customer. So yeah, yeah, eight thousand stores, by the way, are gonna be closed on May for racial not even diversity training, racial bias

training now here. Here's what he said. He said, we don't want to become a public bathroom, but we're gonna make the right decision a percent of the time and give people the key because we don't want anyone at star Wucks to feel as if we are not giving access to that bathroom because you are less than we want you to be more than. This is Schultz, the CEO. So let me tell you, Yeah, Starucks Chairman, Howard Schultz, let me tell you something about this. They're gonna be

the public bathroom now, folks. This is gonna be one of these liberal policies that some C suite group, you know, the the chairman and a bunch of his buddies are like, yeah, we have a solution and they get to feel like it's a smart thing. When there are cocktail parties that can seem very progressive, very forward thinking on the issue of bathroom usage, which, as you know, on are other circumstances, can become quite a contentious thing, right, male female bathroom

issue and all the rest of it. Uh, But here what we see is a situation where the Starbucks bathroom is going to become the closest thing in existence today. Do you just give it some time, the closest thing that exists today to a rest stop circuit on the inner State. Now, a lot of you listening are you know, within let's say, ten to fifteen years of my age,

and so you know what I'm talking about here. With when your parents would take you on long trips, you know, and this is before we all had smartphones and even game boys and all that stuff. There's nothing to do, but you'd have to stop. If it was a really long drive, you'd have to stop and go to one of these designated rest stops along on the East Coast here, which goes all the way from Maine to Florida. It's

basically the Holy East Coast. You go to one of these rest stops, and I remember, I mean some of the bathrooms there you go into and they were so gross, right, they were so putrid and filthy and unkempt, uh that you didn't want to even touch it with your the bottoms of your shoes. And then you had to make that I mean as and as a like a teenager, you know, you're like probably not necessarily the best personal hygiene. Right, Let's just be honest, folks, Right, teenagers can be a

little be a little uh on the sloppy side. I know I was as a teenager. I mean I was clean, but you know I could have been cleaner. You go into that bathroom, though, and you don't want to touch anything, and then you gotta think yourself, do you even want to touch the door handle? And you do that thing where you grab your shirt, you know, and you use your shirt as a barrier for your hand on the

door handle. But then if you're like me and you get O c D, You're like, oh gosh, but now whatever is on that door handles on the inside of my shirt, which is touching my you know, my belly, and now I'm gonna get some weird skin rash on my belly. So there's really no way around it. But the point here is that those rest stops were we're disgusting, uh, And there was a real like you know there here, like a couple of flies buzzing around. It's just the

whole thing because no one cared. This is not gonna happen at every Starbucks, not gonna happen at Starbucks in nice neighborhoods necessarily, but in high traffic and high traffic areas, people are gonna know they're just allowed to go in and use the Starbucks bathroom. And that means and by the way, I think that there's also this is just my opinion, so I could be wrong, but how often is that really true? That I'm wrong? But when people are at least paying as customers, they have a different

relationship with the establishment. I just think that there's a when when you create that connection of capitalism in a place, you're just less likely I'm not saying you won't, but you're less likely to trash the join and you know, you know, when you're in the bathroom, you're less likely to spray all over the place like an elephant, you know what I mean, You're less likely to just not I'm talking when you're washing your hands, don't be gross,

but you know you're You're just more likely to be uh, a little more respectful to the place, whereas if you just walk in and use a restaurant, I feel like you're less likely to be clean about so you know, clean about your your habits. But then you also have the issue of now people are just gonna use Starbucks forget about the bathrooms. Now people are gonna use Starbucks as there. I don't know if you know this company

we work, but you can rent office space why. I mean, it's a nice company, but why would you rent office space If you've got a local Starbucks, you can now just show up there and set up all day, no expectation that there has to be commerce going on. Thanks to the chairman of Starbucks, Howard Schultz, you don't have to buy your Mocha frapp soy thing. You can just sit there and hang out. You no longer have any obligation whatsoever to purchase anything to to engage in commerce.

You can just be a squatter. Now. I see this is where you you get liberals. Very prominent progressive company run by liberal lots of liberals at the top ranks of this thing. Probably all liberals, I would guess, but I don't know that for a fact. And they have this idea that and it sounds good to them. They figure, Hey, you know, why not give this a shot. Let anybody use the bathroom, let anyone stay in our place. They

don't have to buy anything at all. And it sounds really good, right, especially when you feel like you've been in a in a in a situation where there could be some bias against you or you know people that rather people think you've engaged in bias. Pardon me, so I switched that around. Um so deals with that problem. But now you've got the problem, how do you run a business when you're not actually conducting business necessarily? And I think that this is gonna fall by the wayside.

And more to the point, this is gonna mean that some Starbucks, particularly the bathrooms, are going to be the equivalent of a porta potty at a construction site in the southwestern United States in mid July that nobody has done anything about for like many months. That's that's what it's gonna be like in Sunday Starbucks bathrooms. Very unpleasant, very very unpleasant. I'm not thinking back the most unpleasant facilities I have ever used, which considering some of the

places I've been overseas, it's kind of amazing. I'm still here to talk to you actually, all right, um, we're gonna come back and talk about a really interesting map of what states hate what foods the most. We got a Hillary Clinton running around. We should pay for Hillary to go give speeches and we we should be all about Hillary running round promoting the cult of Hillary, which

is dwindling with each and every day. So we got that, and then my review of the movie Black Panther, which I promise will not take too long but will be worth your worth your time. Uh, that are more coming up. I love dogs. You love dogs, but you gotta make sure that you keep an eye on what they're up to. You gotta take care of those little furry fellows, because if you don't, you could have a problem on your hands.

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whole lot easier. It was just raining cats and dogs. You know. They don't really know where that expression comes from. The most widely accepted explanation of raining cats and dogs is that in London circa nineteen century, the houses in the poorer areas were thatched roof houses, and when they would get wet, dogs and cats could walk across the tops of the of the roofs because they were so

close together. But when we get wet, sometimes they would walk on part of the thatched right the grass that they would use for roofing, and and it would let them fall down. This sounds way too cute to be real, but they don't have an actual better explanation for it than that. So so here we are. Um but but back to uh the swamp. I've got some news for you. This is not important, by the way, and I keep holding off on my big announcement because I have to

What can I tell you, folks? You know I've I've got I've got bosses. Uh buck Buck is a little has to be a little corporate. Sometimes it's not because I mean to put it off, but we're just waiting to get some things aligned on our announcement and it's coming soon though coming very soon, I'm told this week, but I can't be certain about that. But as an acide of that, what did I have no idea how they get this information? And this is not an important story, but it's a fun story. So I just want to

switch gears. We're gonna talk about Hillary coming up in just a little bit. And then because she's out there still, that's right. Um. And also Black Panther, the movie which I saw. I will give you my review of it. It will not take along, and then we'll get into some roll call. But I found this chart and it comes from Mental Flaws. It could be complete nonsense. I don't know how they could possibly do this, but this is a um a shared This is what they say

on mental flaws. A shared hatred of something has a funny way of bringing people together. That's the idea behind Hater, a dating app launched earlier this year. The app might match users based on their mutual disdain for certain pop stars, fashion styles, or something. Many of us have strong opinions about food. According to the Hoffey and post, Hater put together this map of every states most hated food, using data collected from it's more than six hundred thousand users.

This was really interesting, folks. I gotta tell you, I don't have time to go through through absolutely all of them, but some of them were I find totally believable. At others deserve a high five. First of all, let's get right to it. So remember this is state by state the highest concentration of food hatred based on a sample size of six hundred thousand people across the country. In Texas, you guys know what time it is. You guys know

what's up. Steak cooked well done. And this is the one place where I cannot defend President Trump at all. I can't deflect, I can't explain it. You can't do your steaks well done with ketchup. I'm sorry, we're not barbarians, but Texas knows that they refused to go with steaks well done. Although, not to be completely left out of the conversation, Oklahoma hates veggie burgers, and you know what, Oklahoma, I'll put a point for you up on the board

based on that one. In Florida they say liquor rish, which I didn't even know anyone still ate liquorice, So that just strikes me as completely and utterly bizarre. Michigan hates cold pizza. What's I mean? I don't know why that's so bad. Cold pizzas is can be actually quite delicious. So Michigan, you get, you get minus points on that one. California, I think some of you can guess what food does California hate the most? Think political thing? Political Chick fil a.

I know right. Oh, I'm sorry you hate a company that treats its workers really well, has built an amazing American franchise and serves people incredibly tasty chicken sandwiches. And I actually had Chick fil A in my pre bea well before I knew that I was ciliac. So I have tasted the glory that is Chick fil A, and it is it is quite amazing. In the state of Nevada, they hate Lacroix, which is is a fruit flavored but sugarless soda drink that I will not lie to you.

I have cases of uh back home in New York City. I think it's quite delicious. So Nevada, I don't know, maybe you just maybe there's too much Lacroix going on there, but I think it's it's quite excellent. We've got some other ones here. Oh, New York City hates ranch dressing on pizzas. For New York State, I should say, Um, first of all, I didn't know that was a thing that people really knew about or cared about, but that's

what they say in New York. I think that's quite strange. Um. This is the one that really just upsets me, though, and this is uh Massachusetts. Oh no, I'm sorry, this is Connecticut, not Massachusetts. I can't see on this chart mayonnaise on fries. There's some things about me, team, I tell you the truth. There's some things about me that make me seem not particularly American, and this is one of them. I think mayonnaise is way better with good

crispy French fries than catch up. I know, I know, Producer, Mike, don't don't give me the look. It's there's nothing I can do about it. Man, It's just good. Mayo with French fries is amazing. Yes, it's very very French. I get it. But I I now do actually go to the extent of ordering ordering my French fries with a side of mayo, so I can't pretend to hate on

that one. Um. Who oh, Virginia, I'm sorry, West Virginia here hates tofu, which is fine, except I feel like that's about twenty years behind the food trend because tofu is not a particularly new thing. Um, and it's not a particularly popular thing these days. But hey, I'm with you, as Virginia. Tofu is disgusting and people shouldn't eat it unless they like it. In which case, what am I

even talking about? Uh? Then you have in yeah, Montana, and this is very America pumpkin spice anything, that's right. The state of Montana just hates pumpkin spice, which I can understand. It's pumpkin spice, of all the flavors you can think of, has to be among the most fruit fruit and bougie, So totally understandable, uh for me. And then you have I think this is I can't tell if the map is pot No, No, it's pointing at Washington, d C. Turkey bacon. Why do they hate turkey bag?

I mean, obviously it's inferior to bacon, but in a pinch, you know, it's like Canadian bacon, also inferior to bacon, but better than no bacon, right, and better than tofu bacon. For example, Pennsylvania. That's right, all my Pennsylvania listeners, what do you think you hate? Not cheese whiz Chai lattes? You are chai latte haters, And you know what I'm

gonna go. I'm gonna go with that's okay. Lats are quite delicious until you find out that they have like forty grams of sugar in them, and well, assuming that you get the sweeten kind some of you probably drink. But why do you drink unsweetened chi latte's? That just seems un American to be Uh. Then I get to New Mexico, which hates chicken nuggets. New Mexico, seriously, get it together. What is wrong with you? Chicken nuggets are amazing. This isn't even a There's not even a discussion to

be had here. I don't know what's going on in New Mexico. I feel like there's a problem. My single favorite, though, and I really did want to get to this, my single favorite of all of the options here, gotta tell you, um was the state of Louisiana. You get congratulations and had a boy in a high five. State of Louisiana hates cookies with raisins. Totally true. By the way, Oh oh, you show me a cookie with raisins in it and you're like, oh, buck, but tasted it's so good. I'll say, oh,

excuse me, excuse me? Would chocolate chips not be better? You know the answers, Yes, you know the answer. Don't even pretend Mike and John they're with me on this one. The raisins are, Raisins are gross. Kentucky doesn't like hummus. I like hummus, although it's it's um kind of sneaky with how fatty it is. Oh, of course. Washington State, because we're where Starbucks comes from, we're so fancy. Washington State doesn't like curig k cups because they just like

their French press. They're so they're just all about being coffee purists. Please please, Washington State. All right, I don't need to hear about how you're you're too fancy for your cake cups up there, but makes sense you'd be you'd be opposed to that one and trying to see who else is on here? Uh? Some people hate In Minnesota, they hate beans. Is that just because you don't want to be offensive Minnesota? A Uh? In Iowa they hate Keenwa. What's wrong with Keemwa? I like Keenwa, I disagree with

I disagree with that one. And in uh, what else do we have her? Main? They hate Asian fusion. That's just because you don't have any main. Yeah, that's right, I said it, deal with it. Uh, and and I'll leave I'll leave it there. But that's your that's your smattering of food hatreds across the country. This I thought, this is really interesting. Oh New Jersey hates gas station wine because it's too fancy. Oh take that, and we got Hillary Clinton up next. Stay with me switching gears

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Just in case you missed it, Hillary Clinton over the weekend gave a speech at Yale's class day and here was the big joke in front of the assembled grads, to be a Russian. If you can't beat them, join them. If you can't beat them, join them. Yeah, Russian hat because Russia collusion. It gets worse, though, because Hillary is speaking to these young future leaders of America. If you believe all that crap about where you go to college and how it matters for the future of you know,

your success or not. Hillary, though, wanted to play kate their political prejudices as much as she possibly could. No surprise there, thrilled for all of you, even the three of you who live in Michigan and didn't request your

absentee ballots in time. No, this may seem like a relatively minor point, but once again, it's this idea that Democrats are obsessed with that they really won somehow, or really should have won somehow, that the American people were with Hillary, that it was either stolen from her, or it was the popular votes fault, or it was Russia's fault, or it was James Comby's fault, or maybe it was somehow al Gore's fault for not making a strong enough

case that it was the Supreme Court's fault in two thousand. I think you catch my drift. Somehow. There's always an excuse for a loss by a Democrat when it comes to a presidential election, and Hillary likes people to know that she's going to continue on with that tradition. And by the way, she also let everybody know that this isn't an act. This is still a big deal for her personally. I'm not over it. We know, Hillary, Oh, we know. Indeed, you are not over it. I'm not

over it. That's not surprising. I don't think there's anybody who would believe for a second that you were over it, even if you said I'm over it. I'm totally past it. I'm done. I'm just gonna drink shardonnay and chop a qua. I still think about the election. I still regret the mistakes I made. Does she really, though, do we believe that she regrets the mistakes that she made or does she have yet? So many close at hand excuses as to why she did not in fact win the second

presidential election for which she was considered inevitable. Seems quite strange to me that we are to believe that there is a reason other than Hillary's ineptitude as a politician. This is somebody with no actual record of accomplishment, just really a record of compiling a record. It was all built on resume, but the resume was built on the resumes of other people, most notably that of her husband.

She went from first Lady to senator, to secretary of State, to or to presidential candidate, to secretary of State to presidential candidate. Nowhere in that whole process do you have somebody who manages on her own to beat the odds in a fair contest or show in any way that there is real excellence. Oh eight, you may say, buck,

what about the Senate race. She was running against Giuliani, as you will recall, and Juliani, because of a cancer diagnosis, had to back out, so she effectively won that one

without having much of a fight either. But understand that her qualifications were that she had been the first lady, and I feel like if Milania, as lovely and kind as she is, were to say that she wanted to be a senator, a lot of Democrats would have quite a problem with that, But just the notion that Hilary somehow makes responsibility for all this I find objection able because to me, at least, it is so very very clear that she takes absolutely no responsibility in this process,

that she flatly and completely rejects the notion that she's not in fact the president of the United States because of anything that has to do with her. And just when you think, well, buck, what about that speech she gave, she says she took responsibility. How was my fault? Uh?

Then she went on and as you can imagine, she starts out by putting on a furry Russian hat to make a joke about Trump and if you can't beat them, join them, And then speaking to these Yale grads who have been indoctrinated in leftism for four years at least, she is going to give them a taste of Oh this is all about you know where this is going

defending our democracy. I still think though, that understanding what happened in such a weird and wild election in American history will help us defend our democracy in the future. This has become a mindless talking point. I guess it's been a mindless talking point all along. But for all the discussion we hear about how we need to know what happened with Russia so we can stop it the next time around, what have we learned that's new in

this process? They say, Russia set up social media accounts that push certain ideas, so the Russians push propaganda using social media. A lot of people push propaganda using social media. Unless you're gonna cut the Internet off from or America's Internet off from the rest of the world. This is not something that anyone has even begun to come up

with an idea about how to really stop. And for all the yelling about Russian fake news, there are a lot of us who said around saying, well, there are major American news media organizations that engage in fake news. But this is just a facade right the whole Oh, we have to figure out what went wrong with Russia to stop the next time or whatever. This is just a way to keep talking about it and make it sound virtuous when all this is being sore losers. Hillary

is a sore loser, the ultimate sore loser. In fact, I hate Moses and a lot of Democrats go along with her because they'd rather cling to the belief that they are not just on the right side of history, as Obama says, but on the right side of the law, on the right side of constitutional norms, on the right side of all of these very important, profound sounding issues, when in reality they just can't get on the right side of Hey, this is what's going on, folks. Trump

won the election. Hillary lost. She was a terrible candidate. There was actually no good reason for there to be a political momentum behind her, and time to move on. She won't move on, though, She'll continue giving these speeches that I think are increasingly sounding almost like a cry for help, because I waited my entire life for this. The world's gonna start over, I'm gonna burn it all. What happens now, what happens to the rest of the world.

So that's from the movie Black Panther. Now. I'm not trying to be a hater. Okay, sometimes I get accused of that because I do enjoy being the guy who, on some issues will be a bit contrarian, Like I will tell you, for example, that Bruce Springsteen isn't just overrated, he's not good. I will tell you that nobody should actually pretend that they enjoy listening to Bob Dylan because they don't like I will say these things because they are true. Oh, vanilla ice cream is not as good

as chocolate ice cream. This isn't an opinion, this is a fact. And yet here I am once again in a position where, despite what I think is the most objective opinion ever, I feel like there's some controversy around it. So the movie Black Panther, let's get to it. It rained for days here in d C. Rained for days. I had very little to do, because well, what are you gonna do in DC when it's raining, right when the swamp is so murky already. But I watched Black

Panther over the weekend. And now there is a movie that I went into feeling like, First of all, I'm I'm open to comic book movies. I have no problem with comic movies. I tend to like comic book movies. So there's nothing about this that automatically should be an issue, right. I like that. I think iron Man is a great movie, not just a good movie. I think iron Man is a great movie. I really enjoyed the movie Blade. I like Batman begins, I go to a whole list of

superhero movies. I want to like superhero movies. Okay, I'm not somebody goes what you have magic powers that understand? Excuse me, sir, but DELI human dig could actually fly, so you know I'm not that guy. I'm all right with superhero movies. I like superhero movies. I like the escapism, so I'm rooting for it to be a good movie going into it. And I see that Black Panther has

nineties seven percent critics approval on Rotten Tomatoes. I also see that it had one of the biggest movie openings of the end of the year and one of the biggest movie openings I believe of all time. And I've told you I don't go see movies in the theater for the most part because of people, because people ruin them, because they talk, because they hold their iPhones up. They ruin the experience, and I do not enjoy it when people do that. So I watched things on my own time.

I don't usually go to the movie theater. So I finally got a chance to watch Black Panther, and I was shocked because it is so bad as a movie that I don't understand how any critic never mind anyone of the audience thinks it's a good movie. It's one thing to say you enjoy it, like there are there are terrible movies that I enjoy watching, nonetheless for for all kinds of different reasons. But I know that they're bad. I don't sit there and try to tell you that

that blood Sport is a good movie. I love the movie, but I know that the acting is is horrific, the screenplay is garbage, and the whole thing doesn't really make any sense, including the realism of the fight scenes, which are preposterous. But but I can very clearly pick up that Black Panther is supposed to be not just entertaining for some folks, but also a good movie, and it's just not. I mean, and how can so many people

get this wrong? Why are we all supposed to sit around and act like this is actually a worthwhile thing for anyone, worthwhile thing for anyone to watch. I mean, just a few things that come to mind. For example, I could do this all day. So so Wakanda from the movie Black Panther is the most advanced, technologically advanced society on on the face of the earth, Yet they choose their leader by having a couple of shirtless guys fight to the death in what is basically a kiddie pool.

It's like water up to their ankles or something. That doesn't strike me as what you would expect from a society that's so advanced that it could promote peace for all the rest of the world just based on its knowledge. It also struck me as a little strange. And look, I'm a hey with Wakanda, this this place in Africa that has this incredible technology at all. I can buy into some of the backstory and all that, but the best weapon they have is a magic rhinoceros that comes

out of the ground and runs people over. I mean, I'm just telling you what I saw in the movie. There's no plot, The dialogue is laughable, the action sequences aren't good. There's way too much c G. I I really ask who can think this is a good movie. It's not that it's not good. It's bad, but everyone pretends they like it. Strikes me it's very very odd. By the way, I'm excited for Deadpool too. That will

be a very good movie. When we've got roll Call coming up, team, this party is about to get lit. Feel those it's time for roll call now. Don't lie. You were stamping your foot on that one. You were enjoying a little bit of those funky, funky roll call beats. You want to be a part of the action, you know what to do, Facebook dot com, slash Buck Sexton, and we will hopefully get a chance to read your thoughts, critiques, uh praises, high coups, sonnets, all the rest of it

on the air. So thank you so much for joining. All right, um, let's go. We have first up here Monica who writes iPod subscriber Here, Buck, I guess iTunes subscriber. Yeah, I've been removed from your automatic subscription three times last month. Not sure, but you might want to check it out shields high. Um, all right, I will look into that one. Monica, don't know what to say. Oh, then we'll have the

tech team check it out. Next up here we have Matt, who writes The thing I love about your show is that can be a deep dive into history or theory one hour and something lighthearted the next. I want to give credit to America now for seeing the potential and all the work your team is doing to go big. In the past, you occasionally did science segments more. Please as you fight the dad bod, maybe bring on Dr

Jason Fung, who's questioning a lot of diet conventions. I work in the Space program, so I'm tempted to say shields up, but shield's eye sounds better. Matt down in Texas well, Matt, thank you so much. You know, I try to come at science from the perspective of somebody who has no scientific background whatsoever, but really likes reading

and learning and thinking through problems. And I have to tell you it's it's been one of the more interesting part of my journey, particularly on on health and nutrition, to just see how often the conventional wisdom has been wrong. Now, not always diametrically opposed right, not always the exact polar opposite, but not not nearly as correct as they say it is,

and in some cases almost entirely incorrect. I've talked to you about the food pyramid, for example, and how twelve servings of grain and rice and bread to day is insane. I mean, it's it's disastrous for anyone. And then also the war on fat and its replacement with sugar, meaning the war on fat in food. Throughout my childhood really remember people always eating these fat free foods and fat free cookies. We used to have margarine, which was and

I knew this as a kid. I'm like, what is that grotesque, mutant looking neon yellow that they're putting out a bar of in the middle of the table. I just want butter. But they gave us margarine in my school, which is absolutely disgusting. So yeah, I'll try to bring more of the science segments in where I'm approaching it as a lay person, and we'll have some experts on when we can. But people who say things like the science is settled are a lot of times just complete ignoramuses.

They have no idea what they're talking about. Science until really about the last hundred years or so new very very little, which is a pretty remarkable thing when you when you consider it, human beings have been around for a really long time, and we're just starting to figure stuff out, and we were just mapping human genomes and and we're just beginning to get some insight into the full depth and scope of what goes on at the

cellular level in the world around us. Anyway, A lot a lot of stuff, a lot of stuff there, thank you, So much Matt and Shields high Uh Mark, next up here, he writes, Buck or Buck Staff. No, it's me, Mark, I'm here. I'm on the air live from talking to you. I was wondering if you were going to comment on the passing of one of the eminent Middle Eastern scholars, Bernard Lewis. I read his Crisis of Islam while in

college and found it equally informative and insightful. The book was such a good example of responsible and simple scholarship. He was a rare man in this modern age and will be missed. Perhaps his passing could be a good opportunity to chat around the state of Middle Eastern studies on campus and the competing theories and approaches of Orientalism. I know that as an unpc word by some, but that's a but that's nonsense, and I'm a bit old school. I hope you have a great day. Keep up the

great work. God bless Shields high Mark, who also writes ps more history. Um, well, Mark, I'm I'm working on it. I promise you, I've I'm working on it. I'm just I'm I'm not gonna lie to you, guys. I'm overwhelmed these days I've got so many things I'm trying to do, and the good news is a priority one is always this show. But I'm launching another video project that any day now i'll be able to give you guys all the details of. Uh, we're launching another podcast here which

is gonna be a kind of Buck unplugged segment. We're gonna call it The Freedom Hunt with Buck Sexton, So you're getting a preview of that. That should hopefully be out weekly starting in uh about two weeks, and I'm hoping all of you will download that. We're we haven't even created don't look for it yet. We haven't even created the iTunes iTunes landing page, but that will be

coming out as well. Just be an opportunity for me to kind of fly off the cuff, not be bound by news of the day and do some I don't know, the kind of biggest thoughts of the week stuff, you know what's just in general, it'll be like we're all sitting around hanging out talking. That's that's my You know, when when Seinfeld pitches their show to show about nothing where they just do but but it's really a show

about everything. The Freedom Halt with Buck Saxton is just gonna be a shorthand version of here's what I think is really going on. And if you say about what the answer is, well, what do you want? What do you want to talk about? Because it could be anything. Uh. And oh, as to Bernard Lewis, Yes, he passed away. I saw that Secretary of State Pompeo made note of

it in a tweet. Um, Bernard Lewis was was probably the greatest contemporary American scholar of the Middle East, so that I think that there's no more fitting epitaph for him than that. And I was just talking about him last week because we had a member of Team Buck Israel who pointed out and I conceded rightfully that Bernard Lewis is a far better example of somebody to read on the issue of the Middle East then say Segev or Freedman or some of the other well known leftists

on this stuff. Uh. Next up, I'm trying to load this up. Um. This is from Sean he writes book. It would really meet a lot if you took the same stance that a number of other news media outlets, including The Daily Wire, have taken and pledged to not disclose the name or post any photos of shooters and mass shootings, especially school shootings. The fame just encourages others

to follow in their footsteps. If the media as a whole would pledge to never show their faces or disclose their names, I believe it would help cut down on the glory they feel they receive when committing these heinous acts. Sean, I I agree with the thinking on that. I think in practice it's very very difficult to do because what ends up happening, and that's really a function of the Internet.

What ends up happening is people want to see the photo, and they want to see the name, and so even if it's really only published in one place, it gets spread everywhere because of the nature of human interest in these events. And I just don't really think it's possible to suppress. Now that said, I do think that the

way we cover it can be responsible or irresponsible. I an example of this would be when Rolling Stone put uh Jahar Sarneyev, the one of the two Boston Marathon bombers, on their cover, looking like some kind of young rock star. I mean, that's kind of the that's really the height of disgraceful and irresponsible coverage of a murdering terrorists psychopath. So it's clearly possible to go well beyond any journalistic standards or integrity. So that's my focus with these things.

It's just to try to cover it in a way where we're being accurate. It's on it's about the facts. It's analysis that is in no way doing anything other than discussing the event and the ideology behind it from the perspective of wanting to combat, combat, defeat and destroy it. So but Sean, I'll think about it. Um, I'll give it some thought for sure, and I'm not saying it's wrong. I just I don't know if it's really feasible. I

don't know if it is really possible. Next up here we have William who writes the following that uh here he writes, after watching Cobra Kai and Donald Trump becoming president, a lot of folks just don't give a crap anymore. PC what. It's a dangerous game the left is playing now and it's and when you apologize for racism, you lose listeners. I'm married with children to a non white

Samoan and have dated lots of minorities. You're playing into the left when you call folks racist shields high Uh Okay, William I don't know who I called racist. I mean there are racists. There are people who are racists. So I'm not really sure who are specifically referring to. But I appreciate the the note. Thanks for reaching out. We have hold on one second here, some folks, eric right buck. We had some protests in Savannah. People were laying down

in front of busses. It got a little harry. We had to escort the busses out of Savannah. Uh oh. I think the tactical unit was our canine unit. Interesting, I gotta check this story out. There was a it was a deportation buss people lying down in front of it. That's illegal, folks, that's not uh, that's not engaging in peaceful protests. That's actually breaking the law when you block streets and block cars for moving. I think this is

one of the more annoying tactics the left uses. And it's so called protest culture or it's protest culture, it's not so called. We've got a lot more great stuff in the role call. The good news is we got it every day this week to get into all the latest I just want to say thank you to all of you for joining me here. I have so much more news and exciting stuff tell you about in the days ahead. Uh. Please do tell a friend or two about the show when you get a chance this week.

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