Democrat Agenda 2019: Prosecute Trump

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are now living in a different political environment. The Democrats finally have control of well one one part of Congress, and that means that things are going to get Things are gonna get messy, messy Pelosi and her priorities, Oh my, the last one I thought, and that laundry list was the most interesting. We're going to make America more American

by making non Americans in the country illegally Americans. The dreamer's issue is one that the Democrats talk so much about, and yet the more you dig into it, the more you see that it's just the beginning of what is mass amnesty. It's mass I'm telling you it will be mass amnesty, meaning everybody more or less unless you are a hardened criminal. And even then, you know the ACLU and LaRaza and whatever whatever groups out there that ken will intervene to try to prevent there from being any

more deportations. If they get. If they get Dreamers, it's all over. In fact, it's it's just the reason they're so set on it, as they know that with that domino falling, all the rest of them toward amnesty will will follow. But Pelosi is Speaker of the House. Again, it's I'm trying to get used to it. You know. I remember what it was like back in the day. I remember not too long ago, what it was, what it meant for this government to have Nancy Pelosi in

that position. Donald Trump will not be president of the United States. Take it to the bank. Remember that. Yep, turns out Nancy was wrong on that one. So that's good news. But you have this this new Congress that I don't know how much people really care about it outside the Beltway. There's a lot of pomp and circumstance today. Who the new Congress. We had all these speeches, you know, yeah, whatever,

How does it matter to you? Well, it matters because, for one, we're now in a divided government scenario and that means gridlock. And I will just say that may be a good thing, you know, at least when a government is divided in this way. And keep in mind the way that they've set it up. The government's divided even when it's not. You know, unless you have sixty votes in the Senate, you can't really get all that much done, as we've seen, unless you have the sixty votes.

And this is a restraint that's put on members of Congress. Buy members of Congress, you know, I mean Mitch McConnell on the and the Senate Republicans were essentially the guys yelling hold me back in a bar fight. When there's no one holding the back. They're holding themselves back. They could have gone, you know, they could have changed the Senate rules. They could do that. They could make it a simple majority vote. There's nothing constitutional about the sixty

vote threshold for getting bills passed. That's just they've just made that up. They've just decided that this is how they want to do it. But now we are going to see what it's like when the Democrats can set the agenda in the House, can use House resources and really the bully pulpit of the floor of the House of Representatives to just be another voice of opposition against the administration. You know, when you count them up, there's

plenty of bastions of hashtag resistance. There's a lot of them, the judiciary. All you need, I mean, this is a legal strategy, folks, that's been deployed against even It's a form of lawfare against the Trump administration. You have Flora, you know for forum shopping, plural Flora right forum shopping. You just all you need to do is bring a case against the federal government in California, New York, Massachusetts.

Some federal judge will put a nationwide injunction in place and essentially overrule the executive branch and the Trump administration on a matter of policy until they can get the Supreme Court to weigh in. This is not hard, there's stein being them. Then you add into the media opposite the media opposition to Trump, which is just at levels that are insane. I mean they are in a frothy

mouthed anti Trump rage all the time. And now you've got the House of Representatives also added into it, where you got a majority that Nancy Pelosi's gonna lead and they're gonna do the look they've I think there was already someone today who introduced articles of impeachment. They're going to impeach. Just all talk to the contrary is they're just trying to make it. You know, they don't want to give away the ending of the movie, even though

we all know how this movie is gonna end. All you have to do is listen to them, hear them talk about this. Nancy Pelosi today was and we'll play the audio later. She's saying, maybe even the president can be criminally indicted. Wait what I thought. I thought that wasn't supposed to happen. This was actually yesterday, Representative Hank

This is the mentality of these Democrats. I'm trying to prepare you and me at the same time, or prepare us psychologically for the onslaught that's coming of smears, lies, lawfair investiga, investigations. Just meant his harassment and presidential harassment is going to be what our House of Representatives is doing more than anything else for the next eighteen months.

That's what's going to be happening. Just listen. Here, here's Congressman Johnson, Democrat from Georgia, yesterday speaking about the president the United States place. Seventeen Americans elected an authoritarian, anti immigrant, racist strong man to the nation's highest office, Donald Trump and his make America Great Again followers who want to return America back to a time when white men and white privilege were unchallenged and where minorities and women were

in their place. Much like Hitler took over the Nazi Party, Trump has taken over the Republican Party. Oh yeah, there we go. A Hitler reference. You knew it was common, folks, you knew it was coming. A Hitler reference to the President of the United States. Guys, we're really we're really going to get down to brass taxire for a moment. Trump is governing largely as a you know, accept on the issue of immigration, the wall to be fair, which

is a signature issue. But he's been been pretty centrist on all these pretty centrist on foreign policy, on taxes, on they didn't repeal Obamacare, they truncated it a bit, they cut it down. But you know, he's been and a lot of ways on policy actually a pretty moderate GOP or conservative force. You know, he has not been some hard I mean, and then Hitler stuff is this is just things. This is something that people who aren't very smart say he's like Hitler, or let's compare him

to Hitler. That's this is really an intelligence test, and it's one that much of the main stream media has has failed. Um, but it's one of the thing that we need to keep in mind going forward because they've they've been saying that this president is a racist, is a traitor, is Hitler. Total side note. Today, I had a I had a uber driver named Stalin, which I thought was pretty amazing. I've never that was his name. It popped up, I said, it's really your name is

your first name is Stalin? Well, you know, maybe he's trying to, you know, take that name and do a little, uh, you know, change it up a little bit. It means man of Steel, wasn't actually, you know, Stalin's Stalin's name is not really his name. It's kind of like che Guvara is not Chay is not really his name anyway. Um, but yeah, they called Trump Hitler, so of course they're gonna have to. You're gonna you're gonna not impeach Hitler? What kind of what kind of president does that set? Right?

I mean, they're gonna say this stupid stuff, They're gonna act on this stupid stuff, and they're gonna say moronic things. They're gonna act like morons. That's where the Democrats are gonna do. This is where it's heading. So we should just be prepared for that. We should also be prepared for a fair amount of rewriting history, which we know is always a thing that Democrats are engaged. And here's Representative Hakim Jeffries talking about the Pelosi nomination process today.

Just given all this praise to Nancy play sixteen, Nancy Pelosi, captain the ship that defeated the effort to privatize Social Security, rescued our economy in the midst of the Great Recession, save the American automobile industry, provided affordable healthcare, so more

than twenty million Americans. Nancy Pelosi will fight to lower healthcare costs, strengthen the Affordable Care Act, protect people with pre existing conditions, increase pay for everyday Americans, and act the Real Infrastructure Plan, clean up corruption, defend the Dreamers, fix the Voting Rights Act, and in the era of voter suppression, once and for all. It's it's it's like

a Maelstrom. It's a it's a tornado of wrong platitude, and what the heck were just subjected to their Uh you know, look, I know that politics in general, people boil things down to very basic phrases, and they want to they want to simplify things and all that. But you know, the idea that Nancy Pelosi is going to do all those things, or even wants to do all those things, just it's just nuts. The notion that Pelosi saved the economy. How how I mean they're talking about

rewriting history. Democrats have gotten such a pass. And I look, I blame not just the news media, but pop culture too. You go back and look at the movie The Big Short. Not a mention of Fannie may or Freddie Mack in the movie The Big Short, not a mention of the Community Reinvestment Act and the Clinton administration policy of suing banks financially destroying people who wouldn't make loans to essentially based on FICO scores underqualified applicants, a lot of whom

are minorities. So you know, the whole fin the whole Great Recession that we had to deal with, and the housing crisis. Yes, Wall Street played a role in. Wall Street is full of people who are rapaciously greedy, not all of them, but a lot of them. Is a lot of greed on Wall Street, no question. But there was also a tremendous amount of government policy policy that people like Pelosi. In fact, Pelosi was at the forefront of pushing for this stuff. But now we're going to

say that she saved the account of anyway. You know, Pelosi is a classic classic limousine liberal. Claims to be a Catholic, but wants abortion all nine months of a pregnancy for any reason, every reason, and wants you to pay for it, by the way, but still goes and takes communion, you know, still thinks of herself as a good Catholic. How I don't know. I guess, you know, nothing really matters anymore. Nothing is what it is, all

just subject to a whims and interpretation. But my friends, batten down the hatches because this is going to be a rough ride for the Trump administration starting today. I'm not saying that they're gonna win. I'm not saying that we're gonna lose. I'm just this is what there is so much insane rage. I mean, they really, you know, the elites, the the left wing power structure in this country, they hate Trump, but they also really hate Trump voters

don't forget that. They also really despond for supporting this president up to this point. And they want payback. That's going to motivate a lot of what they do. That's going to be a factor here behind the scenes. I want to get into this shutdown where it stands. Obviously we're still going to shutdown, but you know the wall.

I spoke to a senior Border patrol officer today. I'm hoping to get down to the border in the next couple of weeks, but I want to really dive into this issue of immigration because this is in a lot of ways make or break for the drump presidency. Can he can he get this wall? Can he fix this problem? That's the snakes are enormous right now. We'll come back to that because the President gave a press conference today kind of surprise people, so we'll talk about that a bit.

Stay with me. I just appreciate them being here. I said, let's go out and see the press. You can tell them about the importance of the wall. They basically said, and I think I can take the word basically out. Without a wall, you cannot have border security without a very strong form of barrier. Call it what you will, but without a wall, you cannot have border security. It

won't work. You see what's just been put out on social media where thousands of people are rushing the border having a drone fly overhead, and I think nobody knows much or about technology, this type of technology, certainly than I do. Having drones and various other form of censors. They're all fine, but they're not going to stop the problems that this country has. We've never had more people wanting to come to the United States, and that has to do with the economy and has to do with

a lot of other things. We're doing great as a country, but the better we do, the more people want to come in. You can go out a barrier, you can go out whatever you want, but essentially we need protection in our country. We're going to make it good. The people of our country want it. I have never had so much support as I have in the last week over my stands for border security, for border control, and

for frankly the wall or the barrier. I have never had anything like it in terms of calls coming in, in terms of people writing in and tweet and doing whatever they have to do. I've never had this much support, and we've done some things that, as you know, have been very popular. I hope the Trump sticks with it. Sounds like you will. This is a pivotal moment. This

is a tipping point for the country. This is forcing the Democrats hand, This is forcing everyone to face the reality of what's happening at our southern border, which is that we do not have control of it. We have an ongoing illegal alien infiltration of the country that's been happening for decades. The tune of they say twelve million, now I think it's twenty to thirty. It's at least twenty and people want it to stop. They wanted to stop and a wall. This idea that a wall won't

work of it. I had Border Patrol Chief Operations tell me today, of course the wall works. We very in favor of the wall. Border Agent Brandon Judd spoke at that press conference where we just played you some some of the audio of President Trump. This is what he said about it, play twenty three. I've been a Borba troll agent for twenty one years. I can personally tell you from the work that I have done on the

Southwest border that physical barriers, that walls actually work. You hear a lot of talk from the expert that you hear a lot of talk that there are experts that say that walls don't work. I promise you that if you interview border patrol agents, they will tell you that walls work. I worked in Naco, Arizona for ten years. We didn't have physical barriers in Naco, and illegal immigration

and drug smuggling was absolutely out of control. We built those walls, those physical barriers, and illegal immigration dropped exponentially. Anywhere that you look where we have built walls, they have worked. They have been an absolute necessity for border patrol agents in securing the border. We need those physical barriers, and we appreciate President Trump and all of his efforts

in getting us those physical barriers. So this career border patrol agent Judd there, does he not know something that Nancy and Chuck know? Cold Can we get Nancy and Chuck to show up at that press conference and explain how walls don't work? I'd really like to. I'd like to know, you know, what is their argument to this. Are all the border patrol agents senior, all the way down to the rank and file, are they just that

what they've all been bought off with maga hats? I mean, somebody needs to explain to me what the answer is from the Democrats, because everybody who knows a darned thing about the border says the same thing when it comes to the wall, and that is the wall would work, Walls do work, and we need a wall. The Democrats didn't know, didn't believe, and didn't care about anything Secretary

Nilsen had to say. Had they listened, had they been able to understand, had they believe the information, they would now know that CBP has arrested seventeen thousand convicted criminals in one year coming into this country. Ice has detained almost four thousand known or suspected terrorists. Thousands of gang members have been arrested at our border as well. Nancy Pelosi refused to listen to those numbers, and when they were actually said and spread around the room, she refused

to believe them as well. I've never seen a thing

like it in my life. Democrats are denialists when it comes to the border, denialists when it comes to the crime that surges into this country, the deaths, the misery, the despair that results from the lawlessness not just that our border, but also of our immigration policies and the lack of enforcement in the interior of this country, sanctuary city policies, unwillingness to work with federal law enforcement to get gang members who are in sanctuary jurisdictions not just

arrested it out of the country out If they are illegals, they should not be here period. The numbers are staggering. You know. I had the Chief of Operations for Border Patrol on today. I talked to him for quite a bit offset on set, you know, on air and Chief Hastings, and we had a really interesting discussion about first of all, that the wall in Sandy and the barrier wall. You know, I hate the semantics. The barrier in place in the Sandy sied Row border sector at San Diego Central would

separates San Diego from Tijuana. And now it's now that I know how to say it, it's kind of fun to say, and I'll kind of want struck my stuff, you know, Tijuana, Hello, Como Sta Tijuana. But that barrier is effective, and it's so effective in fact, that you have people from the caravan trying to destroy it so

that they can get through. If it was just as easy as walk down the road a little bit and you'll get into the US where there's no barrier, guess what, they'd probably do that, right, They're trying to go through the barrier, trying to overrun. That's why you had that incident with one hundred and fifty migrants who are trying to overrun a one sector of the well, one part of the fence and then through rocks and had f tear gas deployed. But one part of this that I

don't think that that doesn't get talked bet enough. The Border patrol chief that keeps saying chief, the chief operations. He told me that they're looking into this and they they have early indications that there are English payers on the other side of the board. I remember, this is a career law enforcement guy, all right. He's not he's not trying to win some political office. He's just telling me what he knows. He says, there are are reports.

Now this is intel. This is not you know, this is not you know, a court record or matter public record.

Yet there's intel. There are English speakers, you know, native English speakers on the other side of the border who are encouraging and helping to coordinate incidents like the one we saw on New Year's where you had an effort to mass in one place and overrun border patrol and to use specific tactics like putting women and children so that they throw rocks at border patrol, and then when the tear gas is deployed, they move women and children forward so that, yes, you can get these photos because

obviously got journos down there, you get these photos of the women and children getting tear gas and all the stuff happening. But there's also the possibility, you know that depending on how they're deploying that tier gas, you know, maybe somebody gets hit by a tear gas projectile. Maybe you get a you know, a ten year old kid, and you know, I know there are different ways they can do this. You know, they can fire it out of a canister, and there's there's a lot of ways.

You know, maybe they're just throwing the smoke bombs, but that you know, if you get somebody that's injured in that exchange, especially if you women or a child, that's all you're gonna hear about. That's all you're gonna hear about. Meanwhile, the stuff that I'm telling you about, like there are from senior level of Border Patrol. They're saying there are people that are coordinating us on the other side, causing a causing the optics that will then be used as

open borders propaganda. Look at how evil we are, look at how bad our border patrol is being naughty, naughty, bad border patrol. They're trying to create those incidents, and then it's gonna be projected not just all around our media, but all around the world. So there is a hidden hand behind some of this. And I'm not I'm not just guessing or making it up. I'm being told this by people who are down there on the front lines

and who know. So that's one part. Of the other part is when you look at the storylines about how we've had two children have died, like any kid, any small child, then anyone who loses their life to an illness is a sad, sad story, regardless of you know what country they're from or the circussor you know it's

it's a sad thing. So we start from that problem, and we're good people, so we automatically have an emotional response to a child who's who's brought to the border, who dies from from a disease of any kind, right, and we do want to help anybody who shows up at our border who's showing signs of an acute illness should be treated. That's who we are, That's that's the

kind of people we are in America. But you know, there's another side to this story, and that is the as the chief told me today, over four thousand life saving measures taken by border patrol over the last year, four thousand incidents of border patrol saving people who were drowning, saving people who were dying from thirst, you know, or or or from hypothermia being you know, the grabbed out

in the desert. People forget the desert in the wintertime or even just at night gets really cold, right, intervening in life saving fashion and in some cases with real risk to themselves. You know, border patrol guys got to go out and jump out in the river and try to save somebody who's drowning. Anybody who's ever tried to save somebody from drowning will tell you it's it's danger

for number of reasons. One is the person you're trying to save might pull you under because they're panicking, and you know that's just the response that they're going to happen. So you know, you're not here about the four thousand lives that Border Patrol has saved or a life saving incidents involved with them. You do hear so much more about these two children. Now we've got a policy where everyone's going to be checked when they come to the border.

Guess what's going to happen. Guess what's gonna happen. Now, this is going to be abused. Now we're going to see people that are showing up of the border with chronic health conditions and they're going Now that that's you know, that's a different thing than you show up and say, okay, you know, if you're a kid and you're running a one hundred and three fever and we're worried about you,

you know, we take care of children. I mean, if you're you know, these are you know, the men and women of Border Patrol, their moms, their dads, their brothers and sisters, they got kids of their own. They're not you know, they're not heartless people. In fact, quite the country their law enforcement doing a really important job, and they get a lot of grief from the media, not

a not a lot of praise. You think of how much how in love with the like senior reaches of the FBI the media is because of Muller and you know, destroying Trump versus the way they treat border patrol, and you just see that it's it's all. It's opportunistic from them. It's opportunistic. I got more. I mean, as the border is an issue is you know, I'm very very fired up on this. So We're going to talk more about this in a moment. Stay with me. Democrats refuse to

acknowledge the facts. What the President did today was monumental. He brought them to the White House, to the Situation Room to have a conversation with Secretary Nielsen so she could brief them on all the crisis that's going on in the border. These numbers are devastating, they are sad, they are needless, and they are senseless, and Democrats wanted nothing to do with it. In fact, the President opened the meeting, he then turned to Secretary Nielsen, introduced her,

and said, now she's going to begin her briefing. Within five seconds, Chuck Schumer prompted Nancy Pelosi to cut Secretary Nielsen off, which she dutifully did within seconds, and then the entire presentation was basically over. I bet that the Secretary probably said fifty words in the entire presentation. I think that's really emblematic here of where the Democrats are on the boarder and on immigration in general. They just

don't want to hear it. They just want to tell stories about about illegal alien valedictorians, and they want to tell stories about family separation, and that's it. That there's nothing else. They don't want to talk about. What it does to depress wages to have so many illegals dump to the country, what it's doing in communities across the country, to have so many legals in the schools and the English as a second language. None of that, they don't

want to hear any of that. They don't want to hear about the opioid crisis and how the cartels are playing such a huge, huge role in this. And I'm gonna chase this story down. I mean, I'm gonna start writing more on this and trying to I'm glad I get to talk to all you, all of you about it, and thank you for listening on these issues because it's

so important. There is a media bias toward talking about the opioid epidemic as though it is primarily a function of over prescription by doctors, and again I have sources here and I've spoken to people in the DJ about this issue specifically, and the truth is that the stats that show over seventy thousand people dying from phansnopias are overwhelmingly point toward illegal, illegal drugs that are being sold by the cartels or by subsidiaries that the cartels in

this country on the streets. That's what's driving the opioid epidemic. Now, doctors aren't idiots. They know that they've got to watch who they're prescribing and what they're prescribing now, and they know that da has caused a thirty percent drop in overall opioid prescriptions in this country, and I think the last two years. I have to check for the spam, but it's it's down thirty percent from its height. So d EA is they're going after doctors, and obviously that's

how to real effect. But what the cartels are doing is filling in now. They know there's this huge market for opioids, so they're making them in Mexico, they are making counterfeit fentanyl and in fact, they've had cases in certain states. It's it's certainly happening in Cali Fornia, where they will make fentanyl. The cartels will illegally make fentanyl and make it look like oxycontent, so people think they're

taking black market oxy, but it's actually fentanyl. Fentanyl is easier to make, it's only like a four step process, and fentanyl is much more potent than OxyContin is. So that just and so they're trying to fill in where where there's now this this market for elicit drugs, they're trying to fill in by making it look like it's

big pharma drugs. But really this is the cartels posing as big pharma to make make profits those and so you know that's now you gotta understand that people are being found, they're finding oxycontent pills on them and at overdose sites. One it's not really oxy. So this doesn't come from any of the big pharma companies. Now, this isn't Fiser, This isn't you know, any of the big

drug makers out there necessarily. I mean that there's some of that too, obviously there's black market sales or prescription drugs. But just to show you where this is trending. Now you have the cartels pretending that they're big pharma pills and making them appear to be you know, using the molds, the same molds so that they can sell this to

people illegally. So you know, that's you know, that's I think a really important story for people to know because border security isn't just national security, because it's of possible terrorists infiltrations and all that people tend to a lot of people will just tune that out. It is an issue of life and death because of the drug trade in this country and what it is doing in this country, and most of that stuff is coming across the border.

Most overdosees are from illegally obtained drugs, which can include prescription drugs, but it's illegally obtained drugs. And the Democrats don't even they don't really want to talk about then they got nothing on this. They no willingness to hear out what's really going on. And that also brings me to speaking of California in the cartels, you know, sanctuary laws. My friend Lawrence Jones has been doing some men on the streets. The Lawrence Jones used working at the Blaze.

Now he's a Fox, a Fox contributor. Lawrence a great guy, and he's been asking residence California what they think of the state sanctuary laws. This was interesting play clip for a lot of people are blaming the California sanctuary state policy. Do you agree with that? I think it's the worst thing California has done. A little gun. I'm not the big wall person, but I think a sanctuary state is crazy. Sanctuary city policy, it's the stupidest thing that Democrats could

have ever done in this country. Well, it's stupid from the perspective. I agree with that last fellow on the street there. It's it's stupid from the perspective of law and order and public safety and rule of law. But if all you're really trying to do is ensure a Democrats supermajority to actually kind of evil, brilliant if you want to want another truth, it makes a lot of They get to pose as the humanitarians, the nice people, the saviors, the democrat the left, all these progressive open

borders activists. They get to be the ones too, you know, who care, who are kind, who who want to help people. And the media is completely complicit in this. Media doesn't want to doesn't want anyone to hear the stories about, you know, the deaths that result from an unwillingness to work with federal law enforcement at the local level and to deport people who are dangerous. They don't want to

talk about Kate Steinley. They don't want to talk about Officers sing and California's Sheriff Adam Christensen, he wants to talk about it because he's still obviously furious about what happened to Officer Ronald Singh, and we talked about him on the show yesterday. This officer was killed in line of duty in a traffic stop. Here's what this California

your Sheriff says about sanctuary city policies. Play three. I simply want to focus on the fact that this is a criminal, illegal alien with prior criminal activity that should have been reported to ice. We were prohibited. Law enforcement was prohibited because of sanctuary laws, and that led to the encounter with officers Singh. I'm suggesting that the outcome could have been different if law enforcement wasn't restricted, prohibited,

or had their hands tied because of political interference. That's right. Officers Sings left behind a wife and a five year old son. A five year old son doesn't have a dad anymore. Officers sing was the model of what we want immigrants to be in this country, come in legally, you know, be a stable family, member of a family, productive citizen, Serve your country, serve your community. We want Officer Sings, We don't want Gustavo Perez's the illegal alien,

long criminal record. But they didn't want to turn them over to ICE. It's committing crimes. Didn't want to turn them over to the ICE. That's mean. Well, you know what I think is really mean when people who are charged with public safety, when elected officials, act in a lawless fashion that results in the death of a public servant, the ruination of a good American family, and undermining the rule of law in the process, all because they want

to seem like they're so compassionate. You know, it's not compassionate. Leaving behind Officer Singh's wife and five year old child. That's not compassionate. It's a new year and you're probably thinking about some new hires you've got to make, or if you're a property owner, maybe you're going to be leasing it out soon. Right, you need background checks done.

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the end of his presidency. Trump has made a promise to the American people He's going to secure our border. Every Democrat in the past I agree with the border funding, keep changing their mind, and Lindsey Graham when he's right, he's right. You know, and the man is in the zone. He's pretty good, and I think he's correct here in terms of Trump, Trump can't cave. We might be in

a shutdown for a very long time. Trump cannot cave, and that means that this is just going to continue on ultimately because Democrats don't want a secure border, and we should have to make them really live with that reality. We can allow them to get away with the platitudes, you know, oh yeah, we want more border security. You know. I I get so frustrated out of here from from I had a new member of Congress on today. He's

from Nevada. I can't remember the guy's name. I interview a lot of congressmen these days, and that's a lot of it blurs together, and you know, but he's saying, yeah, he's a Democrat obviously, because you know, Crystals Crystal brought him on because we get to pick different I pick people that I want to speak to. She picks people that she will So today I got to speak to the head of Border oh sorry, the chief of Operations

of Board of Patrol, which is very interesting. Um and Crystal brought in this guy who was a who's a new congressman. But he's saying, you know, democrats are four, um are four border security? And how he's gonna say how? And they say they're for a border security, but we should also ask why they claim to be for border security when they don't really seem to think that there's a problem with people being in the country illegally, right, they say, uh, you know, here, here's here's a perfect

example of a Democrat on MSNBC. I don't even know who is Maria Hino Joseph. I don't know, is this some kind of policy analyst person or something, but she's giving voice to this on MSNBC's air play clip five. First of all, he calls them illegal immigrants. There's no such thing. And as an illegal immigrant, sir, no illegal human being in the planet. With Kelly, there is no such thing as an illegal human being? How many times we have to say this? Get your grammar correct? Okay, okay, um,

She's not she's not a well informed person. She's a journalist. That's so. I mean, it's not surprised, you know, lots of journalists are not well informed in this issue. But she's wrong because federal law states that there is, in fact something called an illegal alien, and that is what people who are in the country illegally are to be called. They're not undocumented. You can try to play all these word games as much as you want, but you're wrong.

This is this is a right and wrong issue. This is the you remember at CNN at Apple and Banana, which is hilaris because CNN is, you know, full of garbage and lies all the time. Uh, but this is where they you know, you have to make a stand. You're against this. You can't let them get away with this. And the fact that she's on MSNBC saying this crap. There's no such thing as an I legal immigrant. That's a lie. That's just not true. You know, this is

like saying there's no such thing as a murderer. No, there are, there are murderers. There's no such thing as homicide. No homicide exists. You can say you you don't want it to exist, but that's not This is not up for debater discussion. As a quick aside here, I saw Chelsea Manning tweeted out this is now something you'll see among among left wing activists. They'll just write the same thing out like ten times on Twitter and Chelsea Manning, who you know, sold out his country and you know

for what and now is lionizing. You read these you read these, uh you know, editorials about how Chelsea Manning not only will they talk about how you know he's some kind of hero now, but also that you know, he's like really attractive in this as a transgender female. Oh, that's that's coming. By the way, you're bigoted. If as a as a heterosexual male you do not find transgender females, which are also known as males, attractive, you're bigoted. That's

you've already seen it happening. Some people have written it, some people, you know. But the Miss Universe contest, you know, we're supposed to I can't even watch this show, The Marvelous Miss Mazal, which is supposed to take place in the fifties, but you know it's Amazon. Oh my gosh,

so progressive, so much lib nonsense going on. It's one of the reasons why I like shows at least that are from like the you know, then supposed to take place in ancient Rome or something, because at least then we don't have them all just giving long speeches on diversity. You know, we don't have Cicero standing up like, yes, what then what the Roman consuls need is more diversity, you know, at least if it's if it's a historical period piece or period show. You don't get you know,

you don't have quite as many lectures about transgenderism. But sure enough, I'm watching the marvelous Miss Mazel with Miss with Miss Molly, and they there's this. They go into this drag show in Paris, and the main characters starts talking about how beautiful all these men dressed as women are. False. You know, if we're now beauty is sure, it's subjective,

it's an aesthetic thing. But you know, I do not find men who dress as women beautiful, and I don't need people to go through this pretense of all acting like there that that's a beautiful thing. You know. That's the Today's I know you got me on transgender. I was talking immigration. Now I'm on transgender. That Today's show just had on this this transgender child or I'm sorry,

I'm sorry, not transgender child. Pardon me scratched that from her, This drag show child, this little boy who's dressed as a as a female in gyrating on stageless Leff and This is just sick. This is bizarre. But Chelsea man, and going back to the how I got on all this is saying that they and them is a singular pronoun and and he wrote that out. You know ten times that's just not true. And two plus two does not equal five. One plus one does not equal three.

They can say it, they can say it, they can say it. It does not make it so. And this is true on immigration as well. Illegal aliens are a thing in law, in statute, in reality. You can go on, you can try to make me say undocumented. You will fail because you're wrong. This is a right and wrong issue. See, this is why they can't. I mean, can you imagine they have me on MSNBC or CNN. I'll just buck slap everybody. Then they won't even know what I won't

even know what hit him. It's not even gonna happen. So and for those of you are saying, oh Buck, why aren't you more tenacious and slapping people around on Rising? I my co host. That's a special. That's a special relationship, co host relationship or special. It's like an on air marriage. You know, this is your this is the person that you are. You are doing a show with you were putting out a product. So Crystal's a wonderful person, and we share our points of view without attacking each other.

Everybody else who comes though, it's fair game. But you know, I've got a deal with the fact that you can't get a lot of libs to come on and debate on these issues. You can't get a lot of libs that want to talk about this with people like me because they know they're gonna be in a lot of they're gonna be in a tough spot. They'd rather just preach to the choir on on how there's no such thing as an a legal person. There's no such thing

as an a legal person. It's a lie. But anyway, back to the wall, I know I'm covering a lot in this segment. I've gotten a little fired up and I'm flying all over the place. So I'm sorry about the lack of I liked other radio hosts. You know, Oh this happened, and that happened. Let's worry about this other story. I mean, I sometimes we'll hear, you know, in a car with a radio on, I'll hear, you know,

how other hosts do this. And I'm always amazed that they'll just, oh, let's come from this topic to that topic. You know. Oh, you know Bill over there at the County Farm. He's got this guy whoa. I thought we're talking about tacks reform. You know what happened. People jump all over the place. But I try to stay more on topic. When I can, Lindsey Graham back, We'll bring it all back to Lindsey Graham. He says that Trump is not going to sign a bill that doesn't have

money for the wall. I hope he's right. Flay clip too. Let me tell you how our government works. Any bill passed from the House has to come to the Senate, task gets sixty votes, and for it to be signed in the law, the president has to sign it. He's not going to sign a bill that doesn't have money for the wall. I tell you exactly how this is going to end. The President is going to challenge the Democrats to compromise, and if they continue to say no,

they're going to pay a price. With American people. Most Americans want to do two things. They want to secure our border and they want to be reasonable to people like the DOCA population. DOCCA Lindsey Graham, Docca is a lot more complicated and from a rule of law position, a lot more precarious than most mainstream goop folks willing admit,

including I think Lindsey Graham. DOCCA is not some simple thing that we're just gonna give people status and it's all gonna be great, that you're gonna it's gonna be the number they tell you is gonna be a fraction of the end number. And there's gonna be lawsuits from

here to Kingdom. Come on, people saying that they should get DOCCA, who didn't get DOCCA, And oh, I'm a DOCCA person too, and oh, you can't prove I'm not that all said, I think if Trump really holds the line on this, I think Lindsey Graham is right that he needs to hold a line on this, we'll see where the American people really stand. But this is a pure political fight. This is all about public perception and the pressure that that can be brought to bear on

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exculpatory evidence. He didn't allow anybody to cross examine these witnesses. What if, for example, he's relying on Cohen, or he's relying on Manaphor, and they haven't been cross examined. These are people who were admitted liars, and so it seems to me the Trump team has to have an opportunity to present their case and then Congress and the public

can look at them both together. So team, as you know, I'm here in the swamp, and that has some the drawback is that it's the swamp and I'm surrounded by a lot of people are like, oh, I look for Congress Monzelazell I really important. No, really, not that important, slower role. They're nerdy hill staffer. I do not care. But there are some There are some benefits, and one of them is that I get the chance sometimes to sit down with you know, and I'm now I got

to do more of the journalist things. So I sit down with them, and I can't get into specifics of whom or or I can't attribute to them, but I certainly can tell you when I get really worthwhile and

interesting information from them. Just what the information is and I've been talking to some some high level sources the DOJ in the last last week or so since people have come back, although a lot of DJ is furloughed right now because the government's shut down, and you know, the Mueller probe is, well, this is this is not

this is not particularly breaking heres. The Muller probe is in its latter phase, um, but it's also going to be allowed to continue as it sees fit, which means that you know, you could they could get some new avenue of inquiry and all of a sudden it gets extended. And that's why even if it's in the last quarter, it's not quarter based, meaning it's not there's no at timetable here. So even if they think it's about to when I say about you, you know in the next

few months, that what we're talking about here, it's gonna end. Um. But what what the Mother Probe is really turned into, and there there are concerns about this from people at DJ that they can't necessarily vocalize, But the Mother Probe is turned into is an opportunity for essentially taxpayer funded oppo research against the president United States. And that's what this is going to be there's not going to be

any criminal charge against Donald Trump. That's that's not going to happen, although I would know that Nancy Pelosi today did say, oh, you know, it's not clear if if you can, if you can charge the president or not all of a sudden, we're here and that right they want to. That's just trying to feed red meat to

the left wing loon base. You know, they're they're coming up with different ways of of making sure that you know, you can try to convince their side that they're they're going to end the Trump presidency not at the ballot box, but but via the law. And I would just note and this this times in or discussion about impeachment and what the current Democrat majority House representative is going to do and if they think that the country is going to be in a better place if they're able, oh

we do it, Yeah, we have Pelosi playclip six. We have to wait and see what happens with the Muller report. We shouldn't be impeaching for a political reason, and we shouldn't avoid impeachment for a political reason because, as you well know, there is longstanding Department of Justice guidance that states a sitting president should not be indicted. I thought, it is not the law, and it is not the law. Everything indicate that a president can be indicted a president

who is in office. Could Robert Muller come back and say, I am seeking And I think that that is an open discussion. I think that is an open discussion in terms of the law. Notice how everything she shares, I mean, Nancy Peloski does you know intellection? Yeah, she has some good political survival instincts and all that stuff, and she, you know, is an insider and the you know, the ultimate Democrat political insider these days. But honestly, she says

everything points to but it's an open discussion. Well, well, which is it, Nancy? Can you or can you not indict a sitting president? And it is clear she has clearly she's not clear on what the answer to that is. But the Muller report may or may not be made public in the end. I think there's going to be

a tremendous amount of pressure to make it public. And one thing that you'll notice, and this is what Dershowitz was saying, that's why we came in with it, is that it's going to be a hatchet job of the administ no matter what. It's just going to be a compilation of all of the different exercises that Muller and his people have been through that are all intended toward one goal. And the goal is to get a prosecution. I mean, that is what they're That's what they're going for,

to get prosecutions. They're not there to adjudicate whether or not they should be looking at people. They're trying to rack and stack scalps. That's what special counsels do. That's what of Hillary voters, you know Weissman and uh you know Genie Ree and all the rest of them, that that's what they're trying to do. They're trying to take down people around Trump. And so there's going to be a really I think a really clear need for the administration to have a strong pushback strategy even one of

that stuff comes out. But also I think you maybe seeing the media. I I really can't get into specifics, you're gonna see a media freak out about DOJ policy in the in the coming weeks, I think, and when I when I'm able to tell you more about it, I will, um. But let's just say that the journos, some of them may be in for kind of a an interesting route a wicketing. Ah can't I know, I know,

I shouldn't do. I can't get in more detail than that, but I've got it on good, good authority that journalists are gonna going to be in a more interesting position in terms of how they're, how they think they're, how protected they think they really are, especially when you get into some of the uh, the efforts underway to find out, you know, how do they get this information that they're then using to bash the administration. But I digress. I'll have more for you on that as I can consider

that one kind of a teaser for now team. But you know, the Muller probe is still looms in the background. It ties into the way the Congress is going to be acting because you would think that the Special Counsel wraps up, there will be there would be no need for all these just assorted investigations that are But that's not going to be the approach that the that the

Libs that Pelosi and company take. They're gonna they're gonna pick up where Mueller leaves off, and they're gonna use whatever's in the Mullar Report as essentially the roadmap for what investigations they need to do for a full public accounting of this. That's unfortunately where all this is heading.

But the good news is at the end of the day, they're not going to be able to remove Trump from office, and this is going to turn into this is all going to just point to twenty twenty in the election. Let's talk about Syria coming up here. I was on Kennedy Show on Fox Business last night discussing this issue. I realized I didn't get into it right away, and I wanted to because we have some updates really on where Trump stands on the Syria question to pull out

and what's going to happen there. And here's something that will shock none of you Trump. Trump did not blow up the world with his decision. In fact, it's probably going to be a good decision that's coming up. You are now entering the Freedom Hontacle Operation Center. All S programs musty caps strictly need to know Team Buck is

cleared and ready for a Buck brief. Well, there's so many foolish things this man has done, but this, Frank's pretty high a decision that is dangerous and a decision that is a Christmas present to Vladimir Putin, giving a huge Christmas present to Putin and to Iran. I couldn't disagree more with this decision. It's a terrible decision. I think this will be considered one of the worst foreign

policy blunders of this century. So that was the left right before the Christmas on Trump's announcement that we're gonna We're gonna draw it down in Syria. Worst foreign policy decision ever, worst thing ever. Now that that's very that's very powerful stuff to say when you've had a foreign policy establishment that has been supporting endless war in Afghanistan and continued US military occupation or military presence, I should say, in Iraq and now the expansion of that to include area.

I reject these notions that and I want to get into Syria in some detail with you in a moment here, but I reject this idea that I'm seeing bandied about that we can turn Iraq and Afghanistan into more or less what we have with South Korea, with Okinawa in Japan, and with Germany. You know, you point to these places where in the aftermath of a war, we set up a major US military base. Here's here's the problem for that analogy. We're not in the aftermath of wars. We're

in ongoing conflict zones. And to have a military base in an ongoing conflict zone is a very different thing. Even if we are temporarily the guests of the host country, we may not be welcome in the host country over the long term and in the short term. There are real risks. If you go back and read about Reagan's military intervention was part of a multinational Elian you know, you have a lot of kind of eerie deja vu

about US military interventions in the Middle East. And as I've told you men, how many people will discuss this on their radio shows. Very few. But the French were bombing Damascus back in the nineteen twenties, back in the in the early days of airplanes, where you know, what's one of the first things the French air forces doing. They're bombing Damascus, trying to put down a revolt there.

Back in in British and French, you know, British and French control of the region, you know, going back to Psykes Pico, the Sykes Pico Agreement after World War One, so and by the way Jihattest in their propaganda will still they'll talk about the Balfour Declaration in Sykes Pico. You know, this all looms very large and that part of the world. You know here, I think people generally

drop this stuff off the radar pretty quickly. But there's just no apt comparison between what's going on with our military presence in the Middle East and what happened after the Korean War the Second World War. And I think that we lull ourselves into a false sense of security um by not really assessing the dangers that we face properly.

You know, we thought we were able to be a stabilizing presence in Lebanon until Hesbella had had a suicide bomber drive a truck full of explosives into a US Marine barracks and kill over two hundred of our of our of our marines, a number of a number of Navy casualties beyond beyond the Marines as well. You know, that's that can happen in a day. That's not going to happen in South Korea. It's not going to happen in Germany. It could happen in Afghanistan, and it definitely

could happen in in Syria. So that's I think, you know, which obviously right next door to Lebanon. So that's one consideration that just we need to establish that right away.

But also the hysteria around Trump's decision here and the unwillingness to deal with the realities of what the so called smart set consensus or the you know, the foreign policy establishment, however you want to direct it, and the people that think they know a lot about foreign policy, many of them were in favor and bybly, you know, Brett McGurk, he's I know, people I don't know him, but I some of the people that I trust the most that still are on the national security side, they

say the guy's a kind of a grand standard. And it's really all about the you know, the way the media refers to Bret McGurk. I mean, you know, he's gonna get he's gonna be on the fifty thousand, one hundred thousand, probably fifty thousand dollars elected circuit lecture circuit here for a while, and he's gonna be an anti Trumper who resigned, and it's a good it's a good

brand move for him to leave at this point. Now, are there real concerns over the Koords and over what's of course, but guess what Trump is now taking those concerns into account when he announced this, I was saying to you on this show. I wrote it on Twitter as well. I think he's right in the grants game of things, Trump's decision not to create this permanent US military presence in Syria or se whatever that you know, nothing's ever permanent, right, so we can quibble, we can

get into the semantics here. Oh, it's just you know, we're staying for a while. Okay, Well, if you're gonna stay for ten years, it feels pretty permanent to be. And when was the last time we just said, hey, we're gonna take a military base and you know, well, yeah we did it. You know we we we changed our presence in Saudi Arabia because of the pressure we were under, you know, to stay in Saudi Arabia and security concerns and and the fact that the Middle East.

I mean, if you look at Ben Laden in the Earth in the early days of Ben Laden's manifestos. People forget about this now, but it was US military presence in Saudi Arabia that was getting this guy so hot and bothered. Um, so you know, you look at this decision that that Trump made and all ever was just always the worst decision ever. He's getting guarantees of security for the Kords. He's slowing it down. So now it's

going to take about one hundred and twenty days. And that is important on its own because it tells you how in trench we really are. You know, this isn't like all right, everybody like, you know, pack up the trucks, you know, hop on a few hop on a few Blackhawks and get out of dodge. No, this is we

got a real infrastructure in place in Syria now. And you know I've opposed this, stretching back to I think I wrote a National Review a piece titled Assad an Arab Problem in twenty twelve where I was like, look, we should not have you, we should not have boots on the ground in Syria. It's a bad idea for X, Y and Z reasons. And I think that so that was where I thought, almost now gone on seven years ago. So I'm not new to this. Let's not make Syria

another another Iraq like situation. I've tried to be at least to be principal on foreign policy is well, to be consistent on foreign policy means that you're not taking new information account right, You're going to be changing with the realities in the ground as much as you can.

But to me, principal is I think important because ultimately this is about US security and about making sure that we don't have troop commitments that we should not have, that we don't have people that are put our people put in harm's way for a fight that's not their fight, which is now that the Islamic State has been effectively suppressed,

I won't say defeated or eradicated, suppressed. We can have that discussion about what comes next and who should be doing that fighting, and I think it's an important one for us all to focus on. But think about what the alternative was here. Think about the alternative, and that is, if the foreign policy elites get what they want on Syria, it would mean that we stay and now we're committed to trying to get a political settlement. What the what

does that political settlement look look like? You have ASSAD with Russian and Iranian backing, in control of a vast majority of the Syrian population, it can be a little uh disorienting when you look at a map of Syria and you see the areas that the Kurds control. Most of what they control is desert with some roads connecting some villages. There's not a lot of major population. The population centers Damascus, Aleppo, Hama, homes, you know, all these

different la Latakia. I mean, these are places that the regime, the Assad regime controls, and that's where people live. So the population is already overwhelmingly under under the control of the Assad regime, and that's not going to change. There is no world, there's no future in which we are going to get Assad to step down. We're going to get a you know, elections to be held or Assad one. Assad had managed to outlast and therefore defeat the anti

Assad resistance in Syria. That is reality, and that the Russians and the Iranians run stin pardon the wordplay, and backed him at a critical moment to prevent them from overrunning him. That's now just history. That happened, that was under the Obama administration's watch. We can't change that to think that now this laid in the game, we are

going to have some kind of leverage visa VI. The Asad regime to push for a political set of settlement that says, what, a full Kurdish autonomy in these areas is not acceptable to Turks, and the Turks will completely freak out about that. So what do we really think this political you know, with with the Free Syrian Army or you know, whatever the acronym that they're using for it is now, but the resistance essentially is it's mostly

Kurdish fighters still. So there's not a sufficient Sunni Arab force to take on the Assad regime in any meaningful way, and we don't want them to, you know, we're not looking for it because that just perpetuates the of a war. So this is what nobody wants to say. Assad one. The Iranians are there to stay, the Russians are there to stay. The Russians had a base, a naval base at Tartus long before we were even getting involved, or long before there was a Syrian civil war. That none

of that's going to change. So what do we really think are no end in sight presence gives us in Syria helped suppresses the Islamic state. Well, we're hoping the Kurdish fighters will suppress the Islamic State. We can still give them air cover. In fact, we've had a number of air strikes since Trump made the announcement. They've accelerated air strikes as part of the planned US withdrawal of troops. So if we get guarantees of safety for the Kurds,

the Kurds have already said that they're reaching out. I know we're getting deep in the weeds here, but some of you, you know, look, this is important issue. I mean, to really know it, you have to really dig into it. Otherwise it's just plat. Otherwise it's the idiocy of Nancy Pelosi. They get put into Christmas present, isn't you know? As I know the first thing about any of this stuff.

I mean, I think it was Pelosi who said, not too long ago, the road the peace runs through Damascus, right before the Syrians civil war killed a half a million people. So you know, she doesn't know, she doesn't know. Squat not a deep thinker on these issues at all. But as you could hear from that sound bite, we came in with, oh yeah, that's right, you know, the Syrians or the you know, Christmas present for Prutin was the line that Democrats were all going with. You know,

it's important to think critically about these issues. They matter. We have Americans who are in harm's way and we don't you know, we don't want to allow this area to become a launch pad for Jihatas to try to attack us and blow us up all over the world again. But we also can't build everyone else's society for them. They won't let us do it. Although I'm concerned no one's thinking about this right now, I don't think the

Iraqis are going to let us stay that long. How Everyone just kind of assumes that our presence in Iraq is oh so welcome. Mmmm. That's uh, that's status a force agreement or that you know that okay that we have with them to be in country, And now that could go anytime. We don't know. Rocky politics are less stable than we think, and they're certain they're less pro American than we'd like to think too. By the way, Doug McGregor's a retired Army colonel. I've been seeing him

in the green room over at Fox. We've been talking. We've been chewing this issue over a lot lately. We have a lot of fun chatting about these different foreign policy challenges. You know, here's what he said about Syria. Play fourteen. You've got to remember that most of your senior officers or products of the Clinton, Bush Obama era,

so they have a lot invested in this. And remember that the people who live in the seven zip codes in and around Washington, DC have all become millionaires as a result of their investment in these failed operation and you have a lot of resistance to ending something that's been profitable for them. It hasn't been profitable for the American people. It's been a disaster, trillions dollars in debt over the last seventeen years, thousands of people killed and wounded,

and for what. The answer is not much. Not a lot of folks want to say it. I think I think Colonel McGregor is at least above the target, if not right on target. I mean he's close. He is a He very much thinks that there's a financial incentive for the elites that never gets brought into these discussions. But you know, that's a thread that I'll have to pull out and look at a little bit more. But

he really goes after that Play fifteen. People know, once we leave Syria, once we get completely out of Iraq. Once we get completely out of Afghanistan, it's over. And President Trump is going to do that. That's very clear. We got the Syrian government to go in there, we got out. Now we have created an enormous problem for mister Putin because mister Putin has cultivated the Turks, Mister Putin has also cultivated his Iranian and Syrian allies. He's

got to make a choice. Does he allow the Turks into Syria, then he loses his position with the Syrians and the Iranians. So the notion that mister Putin has somehow another one something is absurd. This has been a a clever move on the part of the President, essentially saying it's the opposite of a Christmas present for prudent. Whether Prutin realized it or not. So interesting, interesting, kind of kind of contrarit analysis from Colonel McGregor. There. We'll

have him on the show soon. I saw Doug just last night over Fox. We'll have him on. You know, he's a he's a smart guy and he calls it like he sees it. All right, quick break team, We'll be right back. Hold on a second. I'm gonna get me a beer. Hey, my husband Bruce is now do you want to pass on beer for now? I pass? Oh? Yeah, So this is my speedy flow. Oh it's my sweet thank you for being here. Hello. That was Elizabeth Warren

being so likable. I'm gonna get me a beer, she says as she's making a video in an effort to deal with the unlikability factor. Some of the dumbest political ANALYSI I've heard in a long time, which is saying a lot revolves around this idea that unlikable is somehow a word, a word that is a sexist word. And I sit here, I'm like, all I heard about Ted Cruise from the Trump supporters in the primary, it was how unlikable Ted Cruise was. So, you know, lots of

people are on John Kasik is unlikable. It's nothing to do with sexism. So I guess I'm not going to get a kas exclusive interview anytime soon. But nonetheless, I don't care. But Warren is trying so hard. Oh gosh, and now she's also trying to deal with the massive Yeah, that was a video that she released. Oh I'm just getting me a beer. Oh yeah, I'm gonna sound folksy so people like me. She also had to deal with the whole Native American heritage situation that well, it doesn't

exist right her heritage play clip twelfth. Now the president likes to call my mom a liar. What do the facts say? You absolutely have a Native American ancestor in your pedigree. I'm not enrolled to tribe and only tribe to determine tribal citizenship. I understand and respect that distinction. But my family history is my family history. Her truth is her truth, you see, and her truth is a lie. This is this is really stretching the limits of sanity

here with Elizabeth Warren. You know what was that she released the DNA test and she's one one thousand and twenty four that that doesn't count. I love today Trump. Trump tweeted out, you know a a meme that was Warren Warren one one thousand and twenty twentieth, which was just great. She's she's done, You're here, she's done. Democrats to be better running freshman Congresswoman Occasio Quartez. I really mean that they'd be better running her, No question for president.

No Elizabeth Warren. Elizabeth Warren's career in terms of the presidencies toast well, you know, after he was elected president, it was very much my hope that he would rise to the occasion, rise to the mantle of the office. After all, becoming president of the United States is quite an elevation for anybody. And he has said during the

campaign that he could be extraordinary presidential. When I hear that, I think of Washington and Lincoln and Jefferson and Roosevelt and Kennedy and Eisenhower, and I think of those qualities. And I think that while he spoke of that, and while that was my hope, I don't think he's followed through on that front the way he's followed through on

some of his other promises. I would like to just take issue again with the whole Mitt Romney assault on the Trump presidency that was set off the first remember

first day back in the new year. Everyone's getting back into their business, and Mitt Romney decides that he's going to not take a shot across the babbot, really a shot into the bow of the administration, and he's really going to go after Trump in his public publicly a waist as he can, and you know, just going on seeing in all these other places to just trash trash

the president's character. I just think it'sentionally that that he says presidential and he names all these people, and it's as though he's not nearly as sophisticated a thinker as he would like to believe he is. Because this notion that that that presidents in the past were so presidential doesn't stand up to scrutiny. I mean, when you say presidential in the in the sense of people of tremendous honor and personal integrity and dignating all this, Yeah, there

have been some. There have also been scoundrels who were the president. I mean there have been people who are president. And now this is not to say, oh that we know we can't criticize presidents for bad behavior, and no, it's not that at all. This isn't a what about ism or moral relativism or anything. I'm just saying I wish Mitt had thought this through a little bit more.

You're gonna talk about being presidential and you're gonna name JFK, who, by the way, you know, talking about nepotism, appointed his brother to be attorney general, so that that seems pretty nepotistic to me. And if you're going to discuss personal conduct. You know this, just go and you can read in the memoir of some young woman I think she was

nineteen the White House at the time. I won't get into the details, but let's just say that there was a lot of lascivious and decidedly unpresidential behavior going on in the Kennedy White House, and we just know not even the half of it. You go back and you look at president's past. It's just I'm not even going with the whole Bill Clinton thing, which don't even get me started. Right, We've we've already had this national conversation

about presidential conduct and actions. And you know what the Democrats decided in the nineties with the media as much of it's a saturation presence in our lives as it is, is as long as the person's given us what we want, we're going to support them and we don't really care. And even up to and including clear violations of law, which were the case with you know, Bill Clinton and some of the other Hillary Clinton later on, but even the case of clear violations of law. So we've already

had this conversation. I just I think it's interesting that the standard that Mitt Romney's sites isn't even really the standard sounding presidential What does that mean? Mit Romney's editorial that he wrote in the Washington Post did not give me a single takeaway for what a person should do in a tough policy decision or on a tough policy issue. There was nothing other than just you know, view of our allies. And you know that I know that it

was the most boiler plate. I felt like I was reading a high school valedictorian speech where at the end he's gonna say, so, we need to seize the future. Thanks, Mitt, will be sure that we focus on seizing the future. You know, Carpay, DM will seize the day. Whatever. I think it's I think it's nonsense. And this idea that Trump hasn't risen the occasion, I sit here. I sit here as somebody who was a Trump voter but definitely

little skeptical of how this would go. And if nothing else, you've got to give this guy credit for withstanding the withering assault on him from the media. I mean, the media is psychotically anti Trump. They embarrassed themselves with their anti trumpism, and we just assumed that, oh, well, you know,

Trump could handle it because anybody would handle. That's not true if you put a standard issue GOP establishment guy in the Oval office, who was the one who stopped Hillary, who stopped the Great Glass ceiling from being shattered and all this stuff, and was subject to the kind of just lunacy. You know, he's a conspiracy with Russia. He's a racist, he's a criminal, he's a trader, he's you know, you've got former heads of intel agencies calling this sitting

president United States somebody who's committed treason. You know, if we're really going to keep score and look at what has done with it's risen the occasion. This guy's tenacity. Mean, Donald Trump's ability to take the heat is phenomenal. I mean it's in the sense of it's a real he's a phenom. It is not normal. This would break other people. I mean, I know it. Bush by the end of his presidency, just from all the media criticism and the rock War stuff. I mean, he was he was operating

on fumes. And I don't mean the last six months, I mean the last four years and not have a lot left in the tank. And he wasn't subjected to quite the same it was. It was bad, and you know, I think we easily forget about how much we heard that Republicans were Nazis even in the Bush era, and that you know, Republicans were you know, war criminals in the Bush era. You know, now it's just nothing new. Every every Republican president is going to be accused by

the media of having cheated in the election. Somehow every Republican president's a legitimate I mean, this is nothing new. This is the new standard that the left wing loons are are asserting, or at least we can see in them asserting it. Anyway, back to Actor Romney here for a second, then, I feel like he he seems to think that what he did had to be done, that Romney had to write this op ed and had to trash the president after, as I mentioned yesterday, seeking his

endorsement asking him to be Secretary of State. You know it when it benefits Romney. He's all about Trump. So I think that makes it really hard to take this guy seriously when he wants to be the one speaking truth to power about Trump and now he says, well, you know, we're going to have a good relationship. Play eight. I continued to point out places where we're different and That's the great nature of this representative democracy, which is

where we agree, we come together. Where there are disagreements, we express those openly and honestly. That allows people to have trust in one another. And I look forward to being able to have a trusting relationship with the president and with others, despite differences from time to time. You know, I think it's hard to have a trusting relationship where somebody, in a really unprovoked an unproductive fashion, goes after your

character so publicly. And I don't think that we needed a lecture on presidential decorum from failed candidate Mitt Romney.

I really don't, and I can't help but notice that, you know, you look back at the pre Trump GOP offerings for the presidency, and you've got You've got Romney, and before that, you've got McCain, two people who perhaps in fashion only rivaled by like John Kasik and maybe Jeff Flake, or two people who are really fair weather Republicans, not Republicans when it counts at all, not conservatives not supporting GOP in order to get things done, but are

much more concerned with their own quests for personal political glory. It says a lot think about that before Trump. We had Romney and McCain, and these are those are both people. I mean, obviously McCain's passed away, but these are both people who went after went after Trump with everything they have, and I just would i'd feel a little bit more comfortable with their criticisms, although I will disagree with them regardless,

but I feel a little uncomfortable. I felt like there was just some introspection, some willingness to just dive into why is it that that Trump was it? Why did Trump win? It's not because of Russia. Only idiots think that, Okay, it's not because of Russia. Why did Trump win? What did he tap into? It's not xenophobia or racism either. You get a lot of previous Obama voters who voted

for Trump. What is it? Well, there's something at the core of American cultural and political life right now that feels rotten, and if nothing else, Trump is willing to speak about that and willing to call out the system and it's inequities, the unfairness that exists within our system, and a lot of the GOP elite, a lot of the GOP establishment, you know, wants to just tell us all, you know, just look at Milton Friedman. You know, open markets,

free trade, everything's great. You know, no, everything is not great. Everything is not fair. The market is not just speaking all the time. In fact, there's a lot of self dealing and self interest that's driving these decisions by government. So at least Trump says it's a swamp and it's gross. I mean, that's a start. Romney and McCain's even to think it's all about great public service, and we know

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right now. I go to producer Mike. He is my sage when it comes to all all investing, because he's got you know, he's he's got some some stones. Man, he'll he'll stay in these markets. Mike, How rattled are you buy this stuff? Right down? Stocks down ten percent? Dal's getting hammered six hundred and sixty points? What what the heck? Yeah, not at all, not worried a little bit. Look at you, man, Cool it's a cucumber. You have to like Warren Buffett, except not eighty and a closet liberal. Yeah,

the Oracle of New York has a nice ring to it. Yeah, I mean, you know, people are saying, oh, I would have set out on my Apple. I'm gonna sell out of Amazon. I'm like, these are the most valuable companies that have ever been created in the history of the world. I think I think they're gonna be okay, Yeah, I agree. Man.

It's uh, it's easy to get rattled, you know when you see the And one thing I had noticed was just funny when you're watching the news all day like I do, is when the stock market's plummeting, you know, the stations go hey wire and you have to dial up there. And then at the end of the day when it turns around, like the other day we had with that the biggest turnaround in stock market history when it was getting it down. That was down six hundred and yeah, one up a thousand. Well yeah that was

like one day. Yeah, one day went up on a thousand, but then the next day it went down I think six hundred and finished plus two hundred's eight hundred points swing it was the biggest swing in the history of the stock market. And why the style When the market was getting hammered, they're all over like, oh, it's six down six hundred phen it's down six hundred points, But when it fished up two hundred points, they didn't really talk about it. I thought that was interesting, you know.

I've i guess, like in a classic you know, like a classic almost forty conservative. I've really taken an interest in investing in more four oh one K in the last couple of years and people listen to the show now. I've actually even done some work with a with a financial research group called Stansbury. Just great guys that do do fantastic work. Um. And but you know, I'm a novice, right, I'm a novice investment. This one thing that I do

know is nobody can time the market. And the way you really hurt yourself is by trying to time the market and selling when basically things get scary. You sell because not only you losing, you know, you're basically selling what it's low and buying what it's high, which is not what you want to do. You're also paying fees, even if they're not very big fees. And all those transactions, so I can give that little bit of I've picked up that bit of advice. Right. Yeah, there was a

book when I was an amateur investor. I still am very amateur, but one of the books I read back in the day was a book by a guy named doctor Jeremy Siegel who taught to the University of Pennsylvania called Stocks for the Long Run. And it was just like that title always just stuck out to me, because you get in, you just got to stay in. I mean, go with like what you like and invest in the companies want to invest in, but don't do it for

a short term. And that's basically you know, there's a couple. Yeah, this is what I was telling everybody that you know, Producer Minke and I talk about out. We talked about our portfolio sometimes in the breaks between. And for those of you are like, oh, buck, I don't care about stock investing, well, you know, the stock market is first of all, it's necessary to keep all of our pension plans going. And you know, the stock market is not just for people that that are trying to you know,

grow grow their own personal wealth over time. There are real important tie ins to to the economy and ways that affect pretty much everybody. You're four one k obviously, but even if you have a pension plan, the stock market plays a big role in it because those pension plans at the state level, a lot of them rely on five six percent annualized growth, which a lot you know, you look at a year like last year, they didn't hit their five percent growth marks, I'm sure on a

lot of major funds. So you know, I think it's important for people to pay some attention to it. But I'm I'm just you know, trying to trying to learn as I go here, and I just feel like a couple a couple of things that I tell myself to make myself feel a little better. One is, if you look at the Dow Jones going all the way back to nineteen seventy eight, I think, which is when it they started tracking it, um, there is a very clear trend, and that is that over time, it goes up. Over time,

the US stock market is getting wealthier and wealthier. And you know, so if you to your point, Mike, if you take that long term view, uh, you're gonna be in better shape than if you're trying to essentially day trade, which is not a good idea. I do not recommend that for folks, right, yeah, And I think you know, we've had these interest rate hikes also, which are you know that didn't happen during the Bomb administration. There was no interest rate hikes. And we've had a few, which

is fine, which is good. And I think once we were you know, once the market adjust to the hikes, I think and by end of the first quarter twenty nineteen, we're gonna forget all about this because it's going to be back to running wild again. Yeah. Yeah, I think I think there's a good things are gonna pick up, you know, I think things are gonna get better. Yeah, I did. When When was the first I'm trying to see,

when was the first Dow Jones reading? Oh no, they have here Dow Jones and average goes all the way back to eighteen ninety six. What I thought they didn't start reading this? Uh oh maybe anyway, I think they've changed the indicase do the folks. This is where I'm getting beyond my you know, this is where I say I'm a novice. I'm a novice. Don't some of the basics I'm telling you are true, but don't don't take anything I say to the bank man, I'm trying to

learn this stuff as I go. But it's fun. I gotta say, well, it's it's fun to be an adult who spend a lot of time developing expertise in some areas and show up. It's almost like I'm taking piano lessons for the first time. I'm like, huh, like someone explained to me ebitda. You know, it's a different a different approach. Another thing though, just for since since we're doing like bucks not so great financial or I should say, not so expert, the advice overall is pretty good. You know.

A friend of mine told me recently. He's like, hey, you know you gotta you know you mentioned interest rates monkey, He's like, you got a savings account and said yeah. He said, well what are you getting on that savings account? I was like, uh, point zero six percent or something, and you know, there's there are places you can go you can get over a two percent return, which doesn't sound like a big deal, but it's actually nice. It

actually makes a difference. Yeah, well, I'll book a financial expert and we could tell him, you know, our thoughts on what the market is, and he'd be like, all right, you guys aren't funny. He get a laugh at it. Don't listen to Buck. Yeah, I should stick to politics in natural security. That's really that's really the the end

state of this conversation. But anyway, I just brought Mike on everybody because I want him to make me feel better about the Amazon and Facebook stock I own, because wow, they have been getting don't look, this is gonna be on I will yet, don't sweat it. You know what I actually say on a political side on Amy, you just mentioned Amazon. It's funny. I just read an article. There's a there's a few people I forget to where

the guy's from might have been Barrens. He predicted Amazon Amazon sitting around fifteen hundred dollars a share right now. It was it's high in twenty eighteen, was a little over two thousand dollars a share. He was predicting four thousand dollars a share by ends of twenty nineteen. So wow, yeah, wow, he was a little bit off bullish. No end of twenty nineteen, he's by end of twenty nineteen. Oh okay, so he's got we got time, We got time by

end of next year. He thinks it's kind of double you know what this, but you know what the other there was more bad news today, Mike, and this is gonna be near and dear to your heart. You probably haven't even seen this yet, so I'm sorry to be the one to break this to you. But according to according Drudge Report, here Israeli model bar Raffaelli is facing criminal charges for tax evasion and perjury. You know, free, free bar Raffaelli is all I can say. So that's

why she hasn't called me back exactly. I gotta tell you, I'm a fan and I'm glad she got rid of that bumm DiCaprio. Yeah, he's a tool, so there you go. Yeah, unfortunately a very rich one. But yes, remember anyway, bucking bucking producer Mike's financial corner. Everybody, do not make any decisions based on anything leaves. I just wanted to want to vent a little bit on this one. I am going to come back and get into some try to do some role call here and that's going to be

fun because it's always fun. So stick around for that and Facebook dot com slash buck Sexton if you want to send thoughts coming up, team, It's time for roll call. Indeed, another day in the life of mister buck Sexton here in DC. Thank you so much all for hanging out. I hope you're hope you're as happy to be back in the Hut as I am. I missed it. This is the problem I have with vacations is that vacation

is really not something that I can fully enjoy. Knowing that every day that I'm out three days I can handle pretty well. I can be out for three days, maybe four. Once I get beyond that, I start to say, how I wonder, I wonder how the team's doing, you know, I wonder if if everybody's okay, you know, across the country, if everyone's you know, just making sure they're eating all their veggies and you know, spreading freedom, And I start

to want My mind wanders back to that. So I can't really enjoy my mescal on the rocks and my beach time, which, by the way, I'm in desperate need of those two things, because I have not done that in quite a while. This year, I just stayed in the DC area. I really just was in on sleep patrol, which I know that's that's a boring story for me to tell you. So I'm not going to do that. Let's get right to it. Let's get to it here. Oh, hold on a second. Here we got a message from Wow,

this is interesting interesting. This is from Fox News, and this is from I'm sorry, this is from Michael Rather, but he's sending me a Fox News. I'm just seeing this now. Apparently I made it onto their website, he says, bub you're really chopping in tall cotton. Now Fox News just assumes people know who you are. And there's Sexton, no Trump arrangement syndrome limits. There we go. I made it onto the front of the Fox News website for I suppose that was for out Was that for outnumbered?

Or when when did I say that? Well, anyway, Michael, thank you for bringing in my attention. I don't even know I made it on the foxnews dot com website, but there you go. That's kind of fun. Yeah, that's one of the That's one of those things that always annoys me is depending on the outlet that writes about you. Obviously, Foxes that's that's my Even though I'm technically not a member of the family, I consider Fox my family. Have

tons of friends over there. I do obviously a lot of shows and just very fond of the people who work at the network and obviously agree with what they're trying to do every day. But other places, you know, Mediaite, which is a kind of trade publication online for people that work in the media. You know, whether they call you conservative analyst or by your name is depends on who the writer is there. And it's always a little it's a little slight. You get very used to slights

in this business. You know, people kind of people spitting in your petunias, if you know what I mean. Actually, I don't even know what I mean. I don't even know if that made sense. James, same first name that I have rights buck you sound you used a sound by at the start of yesterday's podcast about how the cost of the wall would be offset by savings in detention and processing. Can you point to the source someone

is challenging me where I heard it? Thanks? That was that was Tom Hohman, who was the former former acting Director of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement. I think he was saying that on Fox News, but that was Tom Hohman. I you know, so if you look up Tom Holman and that sound by or that quote, you should be able to pull it out pretty easily. Amy, rights, Oh buck, I am so angry about Mitt Romney. He swept into Utah with his billions and the establishments millions and edged

out any conservative that might stand a chance. For the first time ever, in twenty sixteen, I voted straight Republican ticket, knowing that Mitt was my only option. I figured it was better to get him than hand the Senate to the Democrats. I will say, however, in Utah's favor, that the state punishes our rhinos. I helped me a love get elected to my district, and I joined my district in speaking out against her when she voted with Bayner instead of the district. Please notice that she lost in

twenty sixteen. People were and are still mad at her for doing a belly flop into the swamp waters of DC. You know, I love my belly flop analogies. I expect Mitt will not only will not serve another term as our senator. Heck, maybe we can even recall him. Amy. You know, Mit, for me was It's not just that I disagree with a lot of what he says in

that editorial or particularly on the foreign policy side. I mean to act like the establishment is how the answers on foreign policy in recent years is to really allow yourself into a delusion. The establishment has made horrible errors strategic and I don't mean errors that nobody could have seen him coming. I mean errors that history tells us. You know, you can go back this guy, Mike Schoyer, who's kind of fallen off the fallen off the radar.

I don't know what really happened to him, but you know, he was a very outside the box thinker and was formerly a CIA analyst who was running what became essentially the bin Laden Unit at the at the agency. And he wrote this book. He wrote this book that went into how you know, we should know everything we need to know about The book is called Imperial Hubris, Why

the West is Losing the War on Terror. And yeah, Michael Schuyer, I mean I read that book before I was told to read that book before I went into the CIA by people in the CIA who are like, you need to read this book. And and Mike was right, He's like, we're gonna go in there, we're gonna think it's gonna be different, and it's not going to be different. So don't let the don't let the foreign policy elites, such as they are. And look when I say that,

there's no easy way to have these conversations. You know, do I think you know, is somebody like my friend Jim Carafano over at the Heritage Foundation. Is he in an elite in a sense because he's got an not only military service, but decades of expertise in foreign policy. Yeah. But so you know, just because you're in the foreign policy establishment doesn't mean that you're not somebody who I think is really worthwhile and has a lot of good

things to say on these issues. But in general, the foreign policy establishment I think has been very, very wrong. And Imperial Huberts is a good book. I mean, Shower he burned some butts at over at Langley with this one. They did not, And it wasn't just Langley, I mean it was really the the overall the administration and everybody who was working on Afghan policy was really ticked off about this. So but back to Romney. Sorry, that got me on a little bit of of a rant there.

Back to Romney for a second. You know, he's allowing himself to be used by the other side. He's allowing what he says to be a weapon against whether he's willing to accept this or not, the very policies and

ideas that he claims that he's all for. So what I mean by this is, you know, he went on you know, Jake Tapper's show, and those who listen to the show know that I'm not a fan of Tapper's work or Tapper, but you know, he went on Tapper's show, and they're just giving him this platform, putting him on these Sunday shows and elevating him in this moment to trash Trump and the right with him, because remember Trump is the de facto leader of the Republican Party right now.

And so if you're somebody who really cares about just go down the list, secure boarders, rule of law, supporting life, you know, being being pro life support, and just go down to all the you know, limited government, although we didn't really talk about that anymore. You know, that'sn't even a it's a fair question what do conservatives even stand

for right now that we can all agree on. I know what you would say, what I would say about conservatism, but at the national level, it feels a little bit like we're we're not concerned with the debt. We're not concerned with the deficit. We're not you know, there's a lot of stuff that we have. We haven't reformed entitlements, we haven't gotten rid of Obamacare. You know, we got a lot of work to do. Sorry, I'm kind of ending the going toward the end of the show here

on a bummer note. But Romney supposedly cares about all those things, and he allows by going on Tapper's show and allowing himself to be manipulated in this way. Whether he knows it and doesn't care or just isn't savvy enough to know it, I can't tell you how can you claim to care about these things? You know? You do you want conservative justices on the Supreme Court or not? Do you want a deregulation going on at the federal

agency level or not? You know, there's a lot of things that by taking Trump down, you're taking all that down too. This is very you know, and I want to be very clear because I'm hoping that all of you're listening to this show are going to be joining the millions of other people down the line who will

be listening to this show. And I'm going to have to own some things later on that that I'm telling you now, And one of them is it's going to be very hard to attack a future Democrat administration or Republican administration. But to attack a future administration on you know, on issues of character, on issues of truthfulness, I mean,

we're gonna that's gonna be tough. You know, we've accepted a lot of us have I think many of you listening a more transactional relationship with politics now than we previously had as conservatives, meaning that Trump gets stuff for us or is trying to get things done in a policy level, and that's what we care about first and foremost. Everything else is very secondary. There's there's merit to that argument,

and that's a serious argument. And I think that Romney comes along with all this character stuff and talking about how Trump is a bad man essentially, and you have to look at Romney and say, are you really willing to just give up on all the rest of the things that you know, people like me support Trump to try and get Do you care about borders, you care about life? Do you care about rule of law? Do

you care about capitalism? Do you know you look at a Democrat left is going to get scarier and scarier over the next two years. Trust me. You know, if you care about all those things and you're trashing Trump, you got to ask to what end? And I think Mitt Romney didn't ask that question nearly nearly enough. I'm sorry. I went on a bit of a bit of a tear there. You know what, let me I have an undouble role call in a while. So that's actually fine.

Let me, I'm gonna hit a quick break, we'll come back. We'll do a little more role call because I can, because why not? And stay with me, all right? I said I was gonna do more role call because you know, I missed hearing from all of you. I'm also hoping to maybe you know, I get into these these uh cycles of thought. And that wasn't particularly artfully worded, but

I get in the zone. And you know, we don't take as many phone calls as we used to, and that's been pointed out by some of the year like, look, Buck, I don't I don't want calls all the time. You know, it's it's generally the mark of a of somewhat lackadaisical radio host. You just be like, all right, let's just every day, open the lines and let like everybody else talk for an hour, because you know, there's only so much quality control you can do about the topics that way.

That said, I want to do more calls, So I'm thinking about doing one night a week, and you can let me know on Facebook if you like this idea where I you know, the the second hour of the show, we're just gonna we're gonna rack in stack calls. I mean, I want, you know, I want to take a lot

of calls from Malodi. So at least that way people always know, Hey, if there's something on Monday that I really want to talk to, not just Buck, but everybody about is listening across the country, I can call in and know that, you know, if I'm willing to be a little patient, because usually we open the lines up that you know, it's like a Christmas tree all the lights go off. But if you can be a little bit patient, we'll make sure we will get you on air.

I will want to do that. I mean. Facebook has been working great for us on this so far because it allows people to sew easily and in their own time. It also brings our podcast audience into the discussion in a way that you know is nice because we have a very shall we say, a very robust nation YU download podcast audience, so the right in the digital and I know I've been saying I'm gonna get an email address set up forever, and I just you know, we gotta do that. Producer Mike DJ John, can we make

a note. We gotta do that. We gotta get it. We gotta get a real not like a official Team Buck Gmail address, which just sounds like I'm trying to get people to give you their bank information because a Nigerian prince or something. That's not good. All right, roll call, roll calls. Fuck Sallen tassee, I missed you guys, So I get all I get all flustered. Rachel, let's go, She writes, Hey, Buck, I have two thoughts for you.

Number one in regards to the rule in radio where you have someone fill in for you so that your audience misses you. I think that your excellent subs just make us appreciate you even more because you care so much about your audience to leave us in good hands. Well, thank you, Rachel. I really appreciate that. And that's honestly my goal, and that's what I'm trying to do that.

That's my approach to my fillins. I want you, those of you who are used to listening to this show Monday through Friday, or if you listen to the podcast over the weekend, I want you to always feel like when you're giving me your time, it's worthwhile. So I'm I'm getting the best villains I possibly can every time. And your feedback on fillins especially really matters, because you know, I'm these are everybody who fills it on this show.

I know and you know I I'm friends with them or I professionally at least have spent a lot of time with them, So it's something to consider. You know, one person that I'm thinking we should bring in to a fill in would be a Sager and Jetty from The Daily Caller. I just think he's such a good guy and really sharp reporter. I think he's actually got radio chops. So I'm hoping to do what I've done for some people over at Fox News, which is start them off in a direction their career that they hadn't

even considered before. There are a number of people who are now Fox News correspondence and anchors who I will have you know and the original Saturday squad. You guys all know this, But there are people who they got started in this business because I called them or I emailed them and said, hey, some of you were probably familiar. Maybe you know. I was a big and early proponent of Ellison Barber when she was at the Washington Free Beacon.

Now she's a rising star over at Fox News. I didn't find her, but I was somebody who was very much in favor of of putting her on TV at the Blaze. I did find Jillian Turner, who's just she's hosting shows over at Fox now. She's doing a great job of that. And you know, uh, there there are There are a few others that I don't want to go into too much. I don't want to take too much of a bow here, but there are a few

others that I've helped get going on all this. In fact, we have I'm hoping we'll get Joe Simonson back on radio sometime as a guest. He is a daily caller reporter, does some Fox News too. He was an intern for me at at the Blaze in the original Saturday version of this show. At the Blaze, he was he was my intern and we both wore boat shoes, and I saw it he came in. I mean, talk about a way to impress the boss. You know, he came in wearing not just boat shoes, but Sperry Gold Cup. John.

It's like he was my It's like he was my brother from another mother. I mean, you know, we're wearing the same shoes down to the and that's a very sp those of you who know the Sperry Gold Cup, it's worth the extra sixty bucks to get it, to get it right. William, By the way, that's mine. If I could have a dream sponsor, I think the dream sponsor would be Sperry would be high on the list. And I have. I've had more pairs of Sperry shoes in my life than any other brand of anything. William Rights,

I'm listening to last night. Bucks says the EIB doesn't use guys within active show as guest host lo and Behold at noon, Todd Herman comes on as guest host. Not only does Todd have an active show, he's in the three three to six pm Pacific time slot. For those of you time zone challenge. That's the same slot Bucks in. That's all I'm gonna say about that. Wow, you know I might have to I might have to make a phone call. I didn't know that. I guess then they will. Maybe the policy has changed, but I

have to call. I have to call El Rushbow's team say hey, guys, I'm still I'm very I'll do six hours of radio. You just tell me when. I think it's because we're on the same network and it's the same syndicator. I think that's the rule. I think maybe if you're outside, unless he's an iHeart host as well. But I'll look into that. Thanks for the heads up, William. Yeah, I gotta. I'm gona to give myself a code red team. It's been real. I'll see you tomorrow. Shield Tie