Democrats Beat Republicans?

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has agreed to a deal that reopens the government. They're going to try to get back pay and future pay to federal government employees. And no wall funds. No wall funds. Now. I understand that there are some there are some folks that are are really upset about this, and they may they may be right. I don't do the I know everything on radio routine. There are some people that pretend to be almost omniscient and all knowing that's their stick. You could say, I know a fair amount of stuff.

I don't have the answers to everything, and I certainly would never pretend to have the answers to everything. Is Is this the right move for Trump? Here? Maybe? And let me explain why am I concerned that? Sure enough, when it comes to political will, when it comes to having the ability to stick together so that your side wins, Democrats beat Republicublicans just like I always think they're going to. Yeah, of course, of course that surprises me. Of course, I've

got a problem with that. Um or rather doesn't surprise me, and I, uh pardon me, and I am bothered by it. But here's how this might be. Okay, here's how I see this as perhaps not the surrender that's um I know a lot of people are already h ankle. Let me let me say, what does Ann Colder sett on this when she says that this is basically the whimpiest thing Republican has done since George H. W. Bush or something like that. Uh so, the biggest whimper. Okay, here's

what ends. Oh my gosh, here's what Ann says. Good news for George Herbert Walker Bush as up today he's no longer the biggest whimp ever to serve as president of the United States. Man, Ann is not messed around on this wall thing. Here's the way this works out. And I don't know if it will. I don't know if it will. But the president now, the president now can say, okay, look, we open the government. So now

people are getting their pay again. And you know, not all the federal govern employees are going to be starving who are affected by the shutdown on all this, because that's what we're being told, Oh, it's it's all falling apart.

There's gonna be a few weeks here where the president can make the case again there won't be a shutdown under way, and without people being able to point to the downside of the shutdown, right, people not getting their pay and the air traffic controllers and the TSA agents and all the rest of it. Without that, it will become increasingly clear, I think, and especially when Trump does a State of the Union address, which I think now

is likely to be back on. Assuming that this deal all goes through and everything happens as planned, it is likely the case that I think the American people realize that Democrats just don't want Trump to have a barrier, not because they think it won't work or it's too expensive, they just don't want to. They don't want a cave

to Trump on anything period. This is about pure power politics, nothing to do with principles, nothing to do with Democrats thinking that a barrier of fense isn't really necessary or helpful or any of the rest of it. So let's all just understand that this was a test of wills, and right now there is reason to question whether Trump is going to come out on top of this, and I've got to be honest with you about that. You

know Trump originally and I haven't forgotten. Look, I got a lot of criticism for Republicans too, and we do need to keep all this in mind. Republicans, I think, could have gone with a nuclear option and just this, this whole sixty vote thing, this is garbage. Okay, we've got a majority in the Senate. They should have used the majority in the Senate and said enough of the sixty vote filibuster crap, let's just do it. That's one because the Democrats the next time they have the House

and the Senate, they're gonna they're gonna do it. I guarantee they're gonna do it. The lack of action from the Republicans in the House in the center of the course they're on this issue, the lack of a willingness to fight on this earlier on in a way that has the kind of conviction that makes people think that maybe it will really happen. That I find very I find very disconcerting. And that Trump, and you know, right before the Christmas break, was basically saying, yeah, I'm gonna

sign this and whatever. No big deal. These are all big problems. Republicans have not covered themselves in glory on this, and I'm not going to pretend that they are. Now that all that all said, all right, Trump now is able to make the case without the backdrop of a shutdown with people, Oh all the complaints about people, the missing more payments and missing And I'm not saying that wasn't happening. I'm just saying that it turned into who could make the most noise about how much pain there

was for these federal govern employees. And why is it the Democrats always win the shutdown debate? You know, why is it that Republicans managed to get out maneuvered by the Democrats on this? Find it very frustrating. Now, what does Trump plan to do now that we've got a few weeks here before there's gonna be another shutdown fighting, By the way, I think Trump will probably be willing to shut it down once more. Well, Trump told us

what he plans to do play thirteen. So let me be very clear, we really have no choice but to build a powerful wall or steel barrier. If we don't get a fair deal from Congress, the government will either shut down on February fifteenth. Again, I will use the powers afforded to me under the laws and the Constitution of the United States to address this emergency. We will have great security. And I want to thank you all

very much, Thank you very much. All Right, he's saying, he's saying he's going to declare his data of emergency. I'd also note that there is I think it was the non partisan Congressional Research Service that came out recently and said that Trump does in fact have options to build a wall in his authority. That will you know that that he can do, he can he can essentially go for it. We know that a court, no matter what his authority actually says, a court's going to stop him.

Though I mean, I can't, I can't imagine a future in which that does not happen. But at least, at least there are options here. At least there is the possibility of the president managing to get some wall construction going and continuing on in this fight, even though clearly

he has caved right now. But it's a reminder that the will to withstand is very important in the political climate one right now, I mean, the ability to endure and to resist the resistance is something that if Republicans don't have it, they're never gonna They're never gonna get anywhere of this stuff. They're never going to be able to overcome the intransigence of Democrats and deliver on key promises,

and securing the border certainly one of them. I mean, you know, just remember even if we even if we got the perfect fence tomorrow, we got the border fence ever or we need it. It's double layer. It's it's uh, you know, steel slats, and it has the the jump plates at the top so that people are the climb plates rather at the top so people can't climb on the Maybe we had all that and it gets built, and it gets built right Awa really fast. We still

have a massive immigration, illegal immigration problem. We have to hand it. We've got all the illegals inside the country. We've got these overstays, we've got birth tours, and we got all this stuff happening. We've got so many things to add into the mix here. This is word just fighting over step one. The fact that Democrats won't him to go there tells you all all you need to know. And Democrats are abably taking a victory lap here I really hope that Trump remembers this because right now it

looks like Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer one today. That's what it looks like. We gotta say what it is now that that doesn't mean that they're going to win in the end, and they've won the battle, Will they win the war over the wall? Not quite clear to me yet. We'll see. We also got to talk about Roger Stone and the fact that he's arrested and now indicted on I think seven federal counts and all lives were throwing a huge party today. They're also excited about

it doesn't really mean anything, doesn't really mean anything. I think it's, you know, gonna end up being a whole whole bunch of nothing. But they are very very excited about the prospect of getting Stone. So we'll see what. We'll see what end up happening. Eighty eight nine hundred two eight to five lines Team, they're open for this hour. Eighty eight nine two two five eighty eight nine hundred buck,

we'll be right back. In short, we do not have control over who is entering our country, where they come from, who they are, why they are coming. The painful reality is that the tremendous economic and financial burdens of illegal immigration fall on the shoulders of low income Americans, including millions of wonderful, patriotic, law abiding immigrants who enrich our nation. As commander in chief, my highest priority is the defense

of our great country. We cannot surrender operational control over the nation's borders to foreign cartels, traffickers, and smugglers. President's right, so start with that. We cannot do that. We cannot allow the status quote to continue at the border. When I have concerns that Democrats somehow get their way when we win elections. They get their way when they win elections. You know, what does it take? You gotta have sixty senators? Well not really, they could have gone they could have

just gone nuclear. It said, no more of the sixty senators. Crap, how about that idea? But I oppose this in general. I mean, you've already got all these checks and balances. You're gonna put additional checks on the checks and balances? Why? Why? I mean, the filibuster is a tradition, like like you know, the Senate taking naptime or having juicing cookies or something. I mean, the Senate is not bound by this. Do you guys have juicing cookies in school? Mike John you know?

Oh yeah, man remember that? Yeah, man, I used to. This is iced to fake Newton's. I'm pretzels and French fries, and you know something wasn't good for it. Eigntons were the bomb Charlie in Ocean City, Maryland. What's up, Charlie? Thanks for taking McCall buck. Yeah, thank you. I know.

I know the president wants to do the security okay, and he's going to present that to the people because the Democrats are not going to give him any money for that wall, so they're going to get a judge, and your judge you're gonna say, well, I you know, stay at order. If I wish President Trump, I would come back and say, judge, you don't have the authority I do. I'm the president. I protect this country period.

Do you think think that the president should say I'm going forward, and when a judge steps in and says no, you can't, the presidents like, actually, son, I'm the commander in chief exactly. That's yeah, yeah, I mean I wonder how that this is one of these things where you know, I've asked people before what happens if what happens if the president just says no, actually, that's not how I mean. I guess you could say, maybe the if the military

refused the order, but it's not an unlawful order. I mean, you know, building offense is not you know, this isn't a you know, some kind of a war crime, and they're building offense. The military is gonna say no, we're not gonna build defense. I don't I don't know. I don't think that's gonna happen in the American people. That's his job, not a chief, and it is it is

a worthwhile security measure too. We've been lied to, Charlie so much and for so long about this isn't an amazing all these people that say their job is to inform us so we can be you know, we can be citizens who know what's going on and better engage in our in our democracy. They say that, of course it's a republic, but we all get that. Then they turn around and say things like walls don't work and it's just a lie, and they're just lying their faces off.

But they don't care, Charlie, because they're dishonest people. I hope you're right, man. I hope the President decides you just step it up and go for it here, so we'll have to see. But thank you for calling in. She'll tige eighty eight nine two eight two five lines open. It's Friday, it's freestyle kind of you can call in. We're live, my friends. Give us a ring. John in Atlanta, Georgia. You were on the Buck Section Show. Hey, podcast Dominions,

so I'm always a day behind. Okay, cool, thanks for listening. So anyway, actually I got two things I wanted to ask you about. But first one is I'd like to

doubtail dub tail. Yeah, up the last caller. And I'm not saying that the trail of tears is a good thing, but I kind of like Andrew Jackson said when the Supreme Court said he couldn't do it, he said something to the effect of, like, well, if the Supreme Court wants to send their army to stop mine, they're welcome to, you know, And if Trump wants to go, you know,

we're going to just build the wall. And if these judges want to get an army together to stop our as well, you know, they're welcome to do that if they like. But in the meantime, we're going to build the wall, and it's eight tenths of one percent of the military budget. So you say, the generals and the Joint Chief, Hey, can you guys get by on ninety

nine point two percent of your budget? Yeah? I mean this is why the idea that they can't afford or they shouldn't spend this money is bizarre, right, I mean, no person could take this seriously. Obama did his stibulus, and you know, he said shovel ready jobs, and at the end of it, there were no shovel ready jobs. That was eight hundred billions, so you basically could have built I think, what is it, one hundred and sixty walls for what Obama's stimulus that did nothing but enriched

Democrat donor machines around the country. You know, one thing that the Democrats don't understand this process is that without a border fence, the rest of the immigration picture can never be dealt with, because it just means wave after wave of demands for amnesty because you're gonna keep having there's a caravan at ten thousand right now on their way to the southern border. We're gonna keep having this problem.

Think about this book. If the Democrats figure out a way to get rid of the electoral college, and California, just just California says, you know what, We're gonna let a legals vote, then that that's it for the Republicans forever four yeah, or together and there are I'm amazed at how much Democrats embrace the no no electric college. But we only got about a minute. But that you

have one other point you wanted to make. I wanted to ask you about the abortion thing, right, and I I like your opinion on things, and I want to kind of just play Devil's advocate, you know. So they make abortion legal until the ninth month, and that's horrific and I'm against that, even though you know, I'm basically pro choice, but our women. Do you really believe women are out there waiting until you know, the beginning of a ninth, ninth month and then going, you know what,

just not in the mood. I think anything that happens that far along is because something horrifically bad has happened. Medically, well, there's but as I said, there's no medical situation where you have to abort a baby in the third trimester. There's only induced labor, which is not an abortion. So we gotta leave it there because we've got a break here. But I'll be back now. Once the President signs the continuing resolution, we in Congress will roll up our sleeves

and try to find some agreement on boorder security. We don't agree on some of the specifics aborder security. Democrats are firmly against the wall, but we agree on many things, such as the need for drug inspection technology, humanitarian aid, strength in security at our ports of entry, and that bodes well for finding an eventual agreement. The fact that we have so many areas where we can agree. But today the President will sign the bill to reopen the

government along the outlines of what we have proposed. You know what they really oppose, stopping illegals from crossing the southern border. You notice they'll talk about security at our ports of entry, okay, but there are places where the separation between Mexico and the US is just other a small fence or no fence, and people cross there all the time. People cross in the hundreds, depending on the incident. Hundreds of thousands of them are crossing a year, and

the Democrats just don't want to stop that. So when they say border security, how is it secure, they fundamentally do not apt that there is an obligation of law enforcement to stop people from entering the United States because we do not want them to come into the country illegally. They just don't. They don't believe in that. And those

of you who haven't seen it, you can see. I had to debate Charlie Sykes on this a couple of days or what was it yesterday, and he started getting very huffy, which he should probably slow his role a little bit on that one, and I started to just say, went into the superior knowledge of the border, which is a good thing to have. This state of California takes active steps to make it impossible for the border patrol and for immigration and Customs enforcement to do their job.

They make it as hard as possible. When you're doing something to make something as hard as possible, you are telling people something about how you feel about that thing. And when you make it as difficult as possible for law enforcement to both prevent illegal entry and police illegal entry in the interior by legal aliens, if somebody told me they they're calling them legal aliens is racist, and I just I have to laugh at this. That's what

the federal law says. If Congress wants to change it, so they're called, you know, individuals without explicit permission of the federal government to be on US soil. Will come up with an acronym and I'll say that, but the Federal code says a legal alien. So I prefer to be correct. And people come in they say undocumented, Like, no, I'm sorry, this is your politicized nonsense term, you know.

I mean, I'll sit down and I'll have a conversation to the other side about whether they're they're I'll refer to though their movement as pro choice. I mean, they're pro abortion, but I mean they're going to call themselves pro choice. Fine, you know, I don't sit there and say so, you're you're a part of the baby killer movement, although that would be accurate, you know, I you know, you don't get it as change the language because you feel like it, make up the words because that's what

you feel like doing. That's that's not an acceptable way to engage in political debate and discord. But you know, Schumer says, they're opposed to they're opposed to the wall, and I guarantee you. If he got pinned down by somebody on why are you posting the wall, he would say, well, because the four thousand concrete. We're past the four or sorry, two thousand, four thousand. We're gonna have a wall to China. We're past the two thousand mile solid brick wall idea

or concrete wall, We're past that. That's not the effective barrier method. What you really want is steel slat fencing. Okay, that's the most effective border patrol has it. They've been building more of it. That's the most effective one, and it works. I've seen it work. But you see, they returned to the talking points. They returned to the safe harbor of propaganda as a means of trying to avoid having to deal with the substance of the issue. They

don't want to deal with the substance. All right, lines lit, I know, I would say, take Holson's Friday bill in West Virginia, What is up, my friend? Thanks for taking my call. Hey, yeah, the federal employee union members, they must be whims in it. You know, the federal unions most probably donated funds, which is union member dues to elect the House Democrats. The union leaders and House Democrats.

They've been using the members as pawns in it. The members on to beyond their their union leaders in it to get the House Demps to settle and get them paid. The member of convers aren't losing any money. Wait, so you're gonna have to explain this one of me again. I'm sorry, I caught a last unit. Who are you're upset at the at the who and the why? Well, okay, the the federal union, Uh, the federal employees unions right their their their leadership probably donated money to the Democrats

for their election. Yeah, federal employees are effectively a subsidiary in the Democratic Party. Now, I mean overwhelmingly civilian federal employees or Democrats. I mean you look at the giving to Hillary Clinton and it was like over ninety percent of federal employees that gave gave it Hillary clin in the last election. To go ahead. But that's the only thought about their their members, the union leaders and the Democrats and converts to use them as pawned and hold

them up on their pay. These these what thirty six days or whatever instead of pay and m they the members should have got on their union leaders to go after conversence and say you get this thing, settle. If you want to get Trump, you get him some other way. But we want to be paid. I'm paying dues, and that you're given our dues to campaigns for the Democrats and that they owe us. Bill, I cannot match your passion on this issue. So I'll just I just you

had your say and I appreciate it, Sir Shield. Sorry, thank you for calling in. We got another West a lot of West Virginia love today on the show. Vicky in West Virginia. Hey, Vicky, Hi Buck. Oh yeah, I'm miss getting to talk to you. I'm glad you're in Washington. But it's it's hard for us. We have something to say. I have a good reason why people would get wait till the ninth month for an abortion if they were being paid. And I've read several different places and I

think that that the boys. It's the videos of the baby parts. Yeah, the Center for Medical Progress with David Dulayden, who did the undercover work of finding out the planned parent who was selling baby parts and that it was for profit. Yeah, one of those. In one of those recorded interviews, you can hear it. The drug companies and the science companies that develop supplements to sell to vitelmin companies. They wanted more mature baby parts to do testing on.

I mean, that's such a horrific thing that it's hard for you even think about it. But I haven't heard that before. But given what we saw in those Center for Medical Progress videos, which a court just said last week were not edited to be dishonest or disingenuous in anyway. The videos were real. I saw them. I'm haunted by them to the states. Still the most horrific thing I think I've ever seen on a video. It's it's awful

to think about. But they'll pay women to do that, and then they'll get those babies right when they're maybe not even dead. I don't know. I hope that's not true. And I don't mean to to disengage on this at all. I just I can't even I can't even imagine. I can't fathom. But I mean, I would say that, and thank you for calling in from West Virginia, Vicky, I

appreciate it. I would say that the the argument I'm hearing from some leftists about this new law in New York is well, a very very small percentage of abortions happened to the third trimester anyway. And to that, I say, Okay, if that's the argument, why make it legal explicitly legal? It already was legal if that if the life of the mother was in jeopardy in New York, So this expanded beyond that, if it never really happens, which is really what the suggestion is, why why make it legal?

What's the what's the point of doing that? And and I think they'll also and I've been speaking to some other people I'm very close to about this this week. We're well past the the the good faith part of the debate over over you know, where where life begins, and you know, where is the science? What does the science really tell us on an abortion? I mean, the science tells us that a baby that's I know you're gonna say, Buck, that's six months old, that's that's a

month old, that's a deal. But a baby in the third trimester is a baby. There's there's no there's nothing about that baby that is not a baby in the third month. I mean the third trimester, everything is formed, it is there, is ready to go, and it could live on its own outside the world. It is a baby. There's really no debate to be had over this. But this is this is the this is the dark and unfortunately, uh, this is the the evil rot that has spread within

the Democratic Party very very far. And you know, they can hate me and think I'm a weirdo as much as they want for this one, but they're just wrong on it. And I do know that they're Democrats to listen to this show, and I'm sure that there are there are a lot of a lot of women who listen to the show. And if just one of them listen to the show, but it believes what I'm saying or agrees with me all the time we've been talking about, this was worth it, and I'm hoping that there's more

than just one who believes what I'm saying. All right, But back to the union thing, if I can, for a moment or that other caller was talking about the federal unions and the shutdown and the politics of all that this was a weird you know, producer Mike pull this one for me and he was like, I said, really, Mike, this is what's happening here. So the FBI director Christopher Ray, who does strike me as something of a institutional institutionalist first instead of an America first. Guy. He said this

about the shutdown play eleven. I know tons of you are feeling the anxiety and the emotional strain of this shutdown, and one hundred percent of you are feeling the financial strain. Making some people stay home when they don't want to and making other show up without pay. It's mind boggling, it's shortsighted, and it's unfair. It takes a lot to get me angry, but I'm about as angry as I've been in a long long time, angry as he's been

in a long long time over this. Huh, Mike. I mean I feel like if I were the FBI director, given what's happened at the FBI in the last couple of years, there'd be some other things that would make me a lot angrier. Yeah, this sort of blew me away. I mean, this was done on the FBI website today and I'm sitting there listening to it, and I'm like, all right, this morning, you have Rogerstone being, you know, arrested for a process crime. You have his predecessors at

the FBI. What they've done to our system at justice is mind boggling. That's what's mind boggling to me. And he's out there talking about the shutdown. I was like, I can't wait to tell this the buck. And you know, soon as he told I was like, oh gosh, here we go. Yeah, man, this is you think there'd be bigger There'd be bigger things than his radar. Nobody thought that the FBI agents were going to get paid, no, but he thought the shutdown was going to go on forever.

I mean, it was really just to make the point and to see but unfortunately, I think, you know, the polling here was all pretty consistent in that people blame the Republicans, and I do think that it was a tactical error for Trump to say, you know, I'll take the blame for the shutdown, because then what happens when you're saying, well, who's there's a difference between who's blamed for something and who really bears responsibility for the situation.

As I've been saying, Republicans shouldn't have taken the position of no, it's the Democrats fault that weren't have shutdown. They should have been saying the Democrats are wrong on the border. We have an obligation. We have an obligation to protect this country and to protect its sovereignty. Democrats are trying to stop us from fulfilling that obligation. Enough is enough. This is on them. Doesn't matter what the processes of the shutdown and who started at first, and

you know, all that stuff, This is on them. And I think that it was a miss to allow it allow it to be what it was here. I think I think it was a missed opportunity to focus on trying to create a you know, you're responsible, No, you're responsible. Ultimately, the most important thing here was are we going to get a change at our southern borders so that we

can actually deal with the immigration. You cannot deal with the immigration issue if you have the continued inflow of illegal aliens in the United States by the hundreds of thousands a year, And as long as we don't have a barrier there and we don't have a border patrol that's three times the size it is right now, this is going to continue to happen as long as we have a Congress that won't fix the asylum process. We're not even talking about interior enforcement here, which is a

huge problem. You know, there really the world the Democrats have set up is it's not that hard to get into the country and if you get here, you're safe. That's what they want. That is what all of their policies are geared toward. And that's a problem. We should see that and understand that as a problem. They're dishonest on this issue. We will get into the Roger Stone stuff in the second hour day. I just I'm gonna I'm gonna tell you this before we get there, though.

I just suffer from a little bit of Muller probe fatigue at this point, and I'll talk to you more about that. But I don't know how these people in media gets you know how many times, Oh, this is it, Trump's finished, This is it, Trump's finished. No, he's not finished. He's not finished. We can keep getting all freaked out about it, but it's it's does it does not change the reality of what's really going on here eight at

eight nine hundred buck. If you want to get in another call or two before we get to the break, we'll try to do so. We got more here on Oh is the state of the Union actually gonna happen or not? I thought this would mean it probably will, But now I'm here, maybe not. Let's have to say, we'll figure it out. We'll be right back. The say

of union is not planned. Now I get that. What I'd said to the President is when the government is open, we will discuss a mutually agreeable date, and I'll look for it to doing that and welcoming the President to the House of Representatives for the state of the Union when we agree on that mutual Okay, so it sounds the state union will happen, as she says, now it a mutually agreeable date. Pelosi is so imperious. I don't know how it is the Democrats get away with her

being effectively their standard bearer. Now she is really there is nothing to be excited or or particularly enthusiastic about what it comes to Nancy Pelosi. But somehow she's the most powerful Democrat in the country. Still, it's it's kind of a remarkable thing. But speaking of power, she does understand that Play eighteen and our caucus. The beauty of it is the mix. And I always say when people say to me, oh, you're so food at organizing a caucus. No,

I don't unify our cause, our values unify us. I'm sure, it's the same in the Senate. And the fact is is that our diversity is our strength. The differences of in so many different ways, including differences of opinion, that's our strength. But our unity is our power. And that is what maybe the President underestimated Democrats. How many times have I said it? They stick together. They know how to get it done when power is on the line.

You know, Yes, their ideology is often contradictory and hypocritical and all, you know, with all the stuff we talked on the show, But when there's a tug of war, the Democrats all pull in the same direction. For their side. It's Republicans that have the Romneys and the you know, the the Jeff Flakes and the McCain types and all the rest of it. Right, they're the ones that have to deal with that. Democrats don't. For whatever reason. They

all stick together. All right, Things are gonna get nuts here in a second, we're gonna talk about the Roger Stone thing. If we're going to talk about nuts, let's talk about John bred in play nineteen. What's the story as you see it that Muller has begun to tell with the public information that we have that there was an extensive effort to try to influence the outcome of the election, that involved the Russians, that involved US persons, and that may have gone to the very top of

the Trump campaign. And still no evidence is the former CIA director, there's still no evidence for any of the things he's talking about, folks. So we're waiting for the evidence. The theory is still out there. But yes, they rested stone that's coming up. There are some businesses that you need to know that you can trust the people you're

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seven six nine five one one seven nine. That's eight seven seven six nine five one one seven nine, or go to MYGVN dot com. Good Morning America, Breaking news as we come on the air. President Trump's longtime advisor Roger Stone charge in the Rush investigation. Welcome to CBS this morning Breaking news. The FBI arrest former Trump campaign advisor Roger Stone at the break of dawn. Good morning,

breaking news. President Trump's former advisor Roger Stone arrested in Florida, indicted by Special counsel Robert Mueller, accused of witness tampering, obstruction of justice, and making false statements. So what does it mean for the investigation and the president? They got him? Oh, man, what a huge deal that they have another series of process crimes that they can they can put on the Muller mantle. How exciting. Oh my media's so pumped about

this one today. A few things. First of all, Roger Stone told me more than once last summer that he's like, I'm probably gonna get indicted. So this is this is a surprise to no one. This guy's been indicted, and you know, you look at what is in this indictment, and there's there's still will know they're there for the overall in there, the overall story of Russia collusion, but

the media wants to pretend like there is. They want they want to be right so desperately because I mean, just look at the week that they've had, starting with the BuzzFeed literally the last seven days with the BuzzFeed debacle. Oh yeah, the presidents are born perjury. It's all over for the president. He's gonna have to step down, he's gonna get impeached and removed. Oh it turns out the

Special Council says that story's fake. And then you had the Covington debacle where they're saying all these terrible things about these Catholic school students who have received I would I would also add hundreds hundreds of death threats. What is wrong with people? Why are they such maniacs? But yes, now they can add to the list of those grave threats to national security. Paul Maniford and Gates and Alex Vanderswan and you know who am I leaving out who

else is in this crew. That's you know, just just all these different names you put in the makes you say to yourself, Okay, when does this actually amount to something other than people who are being turned in sign out by the government, with all their taxes, all their business dealings being looked at and interrogated for long periods of time. And people who tend to have a problem with truth anyway, which certainly Roger Stone does. They can

get prosecuted by aggressive federal government attorneys. Right, what do we ever get beyond that? Do we ever get to a crime? We go? Oh, oh, that's right. Russians who are never going to set foot in a US courtroom, who are engage or were engaged in using Facebook to try and influence people in advance of the twenty sixteen elections. I mean, come on, come on, folks, it's nonsense. I mean, here,

here's on the New York Time describe this today. So yeah, The Special Counsel Robert Muller revealed on Friday the most direct link yet between Trump campaigns and Wiki League's parallel efforts to use Democratic Party materials stolen by Russians to

damage the election campaign of Hillary Clinton. In an indictment unsealed Friday, the Special Council disclosed evidence that a top campaign official in twenty sixteen dispatched Roger J. Stone, a long time advisor to President Trump, to get information from wikileagues about the thousands of hack democratic emails. The effort began well after it was widely reported that Russian intelligence operators were behind the theft, which was part of Moscow's

broad campaign to sabotage the twenty sixteen presidential election. And there's so much loaded stuff. And first of all, Moscow's campaign is sabotaged the election. That makes it sound like they were engaged in hacking, you know, voter talies where they were they're messing with voter machine voting machines. They put up some like you know, pro maga stuff on Facebook, and this is baway. They dramatically overstate how much of

an impact Facebook really has now. And also I think of all the media organizations I know of that can't even can't get any traction using Facebook anymore because Facebook just wants you to pay for everything all the time, and you got to pay a lot for it to really matter. And the Russians were really doing them, and they were just really messing around online to see what

would stick, see what would work. But we're always told, oh, you know, the Russians, there must be some kind of propaganda geniuses because they managed to get some people to you know, look at what Trump Trump twenty sixteen maga material. It's just this is all so overplayed and delusional. I wonder when people will get tired of But I realize that I already know that there's not going to be any there there at the end. So I just I

have to fight a degree of boredom with this. Now, for the left, it never is boring because the more they talk about it, the more they think that that validates their obsession with it in the first place. So they have a vested interest in just bring up all things Russia collusion related all the time. But I see it here and just say, can this please end from not just from the perspective of as a radio host and a TV host and a writer and all that other stuff that I sometimes do, but just as an

American man. We got more important stuff to talk about

than this. This fundamentally does not matter the way that the Left is trying to make it matter, and Also, you know, if foreign influence or foreign interference is as much of a problem as they all say it is, do we ever get an explanation for why it's okay that Hillary Clinton used to law for Hillary Clinton's campaign, used a law firm to hire a foreigner, Christopher Steele, to use Russian sources to try to not just use the media to destroy Trump, but to use the media

using those Russian sources who gave disinformation to him, but also used our own intelligence community and FBI to try to monitor Trump to take him down. I mean, they leveraged foreign sources and foreign interference way more effectively than Trump did. The Hillary collusion is in is orders of magnitude more powerful than what we saw with the Russian

Facebook campaign and all the rest of it. And I've said this before, I do think it's it's just worth a quick repetition here, And that's if the Russian goal was really just so discord and to cause political problems, it has succeeded well beyond what, well beyond Russia's wildest dreams, because the Democrats have taken this thing and they've made

a mountain out of a mole hill. I mean, they've just made this into a much much bigger issue than ever whatever should have been could have or should have been. And that's because they just have this disbelief still the Trump is a president now. I mean occasionally I wake up in the morning and I feel like, Wow, Donald Trump is the president. This is a this is a wild world that we live in. But I don't actually

not believe he's the president. I just have to remind myself sometimes like, oh, it's really that's really a thing that happened. He is, in fact the president of the United States. It is something of a shock. The first time I ever learned about Roger Stone was actually in a documentary a long time ago about Elliot Spitzer. That was when I learned who this guy was. But you know, Stone's been around the game for a very very long time, and there were some interesting lines in the indictment that

everyone's focusing it on. But you know, if they had the goods, if they had the goods on Stone already that they knew the Trump would have was gonna get nailed, they would lay it out in this indictment. I mean, I think that that's the part of this that they're just they just skip over because it's convenient for them

to skip over it. Right. Here's number one. Stone was an official on the US presidential campaign of Donald J. Trump until around August twenty fifteen, and maintained regular contact with and publicly supported the Trump campaign throughout the twenty sixteen election. So he wasn't actually working for the Trump campaign during the twenty sixteen election. I think that's that somehow gets like lost in the sauce here. He actually wasn't working for the campaign. Number two, this is all

with CNN's picking out here. Stone was contacted by senior Trump campaign officials to inquire about future releases from Wiki Leagues. Everybody was talking about the Wiki Leagues releases at the time, and there are so many ways that I want to attack this, you know, there's a fatigue that sets in with the way that they set all this stuff up. But for one, after all those Wiki leaks releases, everyone was still certain Hillary was going to win the election.

All these media libs that act like, oh gosh, the WikiLeaks releases and d they get all spun up on this, but going into election, they were ninety seven percent sure Hillary was gonna win, So they knew it wasn't a big deal. They knew it didn't really matter, but now in retrospect, looking to justify why Hillary lost and why Donald Trump, in their minds, is not really the president, this will have to work. I can't even think of

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gets started in the first place. I mean, if you read this indictment, this is a bunch of bozos who don't even know what Wiki Leagues has much less, are in cahoots with the Kremlin, which is the reason that this investigation got launched in the first place. Yeah, that's right.

There's been a lot here that has still been unanswered for as in why do we why do we never get any explanation of the people that were pushing this investigation along, right, The people that are still saying, look, I talked to a bunch of lives about this today. They're all, oh, my gosh, the collusion in Russia, and they really think that this is happening. And I sit here and I say, guys, you gotta give it up, okay,

that it never made sense. There's nothing about this that makes any sense when you think about it as a rational person who doesn't just absolutely hate Trump. Collusion is a bad plan. Why would anyone collude with Russia? It doesn't make It doesn't make any sense. And instead we're just supposed to believe that these people who work for institutions like the dj and the FBI are in fact

above reproach. And one of the interesting things is, so there are a couple of things today about about the Stone, about the Stone arrest, that Kyle tension. One of them is that initially, and look, it was my reaction too, And if I'm wrong on this one, mayacaulp I thought, all right, they must have tipped off, because only CNN was there with a camera crew at five am when Stone got arrested by all these people. I mean, you

watch the video. They got guys with long guns and tack vested everything and I think it's fascinating people go in there and they say, oh, well, you know, that's just procedure. Man, that's just well, well it shouldn't be procedure. The guys a like a retiree who's just hanging out down in Florida, not bothering anybody really anymore. I mean, he barely leaves his house. He's not a flight risk, he's not a problem, and they have to send in

a swat team at five am to get him. Why don't they just send a detective and say, come with me, sir, Is there anything that that Roger Stone was really gonna make a run for it? But the liberals all of a sudden forget about these basic rights that they proclaim to care so much about, especially when it comes to the cops. The only time that you'll hear libs defend everything the cops do is whatever they do that is

bad for people tied to Trump. You know, they could if we had video of Muther's team giving electrode shocks to Roger Stone while he's you know, tied up to a pull somewhere and getting confess confess, they'd say, yeah, that's totally right. Look, the FBI's great. Why do you hte the FBI so much? They're important, They keep this country safe, you know, so only when there's some way to tie it into Trump and his people and it makes them look bad or it is part of the

FBI and the DOJ's ongoing anti Trump jihad. Then the police tactics are all fine, but it's a bad look. I don't care what anybody says. It's a bad look for people to think this way, that it's okay for the cops to show up and do this. And I'm never okay with this stuff. I mean, I hated when pre Berarra used to hold press conferences just to tell everybody about the dangerous white collar insider traders that he

would lock up. You know, I had dinner with next to a guy, not just me and him, but next to a guy who Preparara sent away for insider trading on a really flimsy charge, like I spent a couple of years in federal prison. And you know, you asked this guy like for what, but pre a press conference and sat across them. These guys, these guys are scummy, scummy. A lot of prosecutors are bad news. I don't know what it's going to take for who to realize this.

That doesn't mean all of them. I've got a couple of very good friends who are prosecutors too, and they're very ethical, and they're good people, and they're also conservatives. But you know, they're I know, they're people that on both sides of the aisles who serve in that prosecutor prosecutorial role honorably. But we should be allowed to question these things, not people thinking that there's some inherent unjust, unjust aspect to questioning those who are supposed to be

administering justice. By the way, you know a little more from Andy here on the day of the Stone arrest.

Here's him talking about the violation of the protocols that have gone on in the Mueller probe along the way, plicklip ten, given that they they violated, the FBI and the Justice Department violated all of their internal protocols in February of twenty seventeen by going public announcing the existence of the investigation and unbelievably saying that the Trump campaign was a subject of the investigation on suspicion of being

in coordination with the Kremlin. They had an obligation at some point in time to issue an interim finding that said, you know, look, we're looking at a lot of stuff here. We're looking at obstruction, we're looking at false statements. Who investigators looking at all these things, but there doesn't appear to be any evidence of conspiracy between Why would they do that, though, because they created the misimpression that there was.

They created that misimpression so that they could continue doing what they were doing. And I've always thought all along that the DOJ people involved in this, the FBI people involved in this, had to keep this thing going or else they would have had to answer for what they did in the early stages, bailing out Hill or and trying to find a way to take out Trump before

he could be the president. You know, if you keep the investigation going, then you're in a position to keep manufacturing the narrative and giving stuff to the media, and you know, you're in charge of how it all looks. Once you stop the investigation or admit there's nothing to the investigation, then there's the possibility that you're going to have to answer for what you did in the early stages. I remember DOJ was supposed to be able to wash

its own laundry. But they had that a review of various actions by the Federal Bureau of Investigation Department of Justice in advance of the twenty sixteen election. Who that was a sexy read, Remember that one man, that executive summary that got me all hot and bothered, that DJ report. But it was, it came out. It was a June twenty eighteen, and you know the summary of the report and the conclusion of the reporter that there was no bias. And the whole thing is bias. It just bias, bias, bias,

bias all over the place. So we absolutely cannot trust these people to be fair minded about what their own misdeeds were. And I think that that's really important. I think there's really an understanding that, you know, we should not we should not just accept that they somehow know more than we do about what's right and what's not when it comes to the most politicized kind of case possible.

I mean that that's what we're dealing with, dealing with incredibly political material, with the Hillary investigation, with the Russia collusion nonsense, all of it. There are some things that I can just say to myself, all right, look if libs. If libs want to, you know, act in a certain way themselves, they're adults. If they want to be foolish, they're allowed to be foolish. If they want to believe the sky is falling, they can leave the sky is falling.

If they want to get told that they're actually a great American, like al Gore just told Max's Boatum. That's right, Max Boot getting praised from I gotta work on my al Gore, I know, but I'm sort of close, a sort of luck. He talks like here like this, right, I mean, that's that's a little is that's getting close. All right, I'll work on it. But Max Boot getting love from al Gore is just the most classic thing ever.

This is a guy he used to be the hardcore right wing neo conservative in in you know, most rooms where he would be found, and yet here we are, sure enough getting love from al Gore on climate change. Because if you want the left to accept you, yeah, it really have to be in for climate change and obviously have to be pro choice, and you also have

to be in for this whole transgender situation. And I was told recently that by a friend who's a conservative, who's in the to the business side of conservative media, and he said that, you know, they really have a problem here where companies, even if they know that the transgender stuff is, you know, it doesn't really make sense. The rules change all the time. Who really knows what's what.

Even with all of that in place, there's always this fear of boycotts or just getting into some kind of trouble. So a lot of publications and a lot of people in the news business end up just staying away from the transgender issue because they don't want problems. And look, I understand that, right, nobody really wants to deal with sponsors, jumping ship or any of the stuff that ends up happening. That said, this one is one where I just also,

I can't help myself. Kate Hudson. You probably know the actress Kate Hudson. You might think to yourself, why is this person an actress? I'm now, I'm not. I know, whenever I say this, I probably end up being mean. It's like when someone says with all due respect and then they usually say something disrespectful, right, That's what usually happens. I'm not trying to be mean, but to me, Kate Hudson has always kind of looked like a turtle, and you know, just one of those things some people remind

you of a certain creature. Kate Hudson kind of reminds me of a turtle. Doesn't do it for me. I've never understood why she's in all these movies and people. It's producer Mike around. I need I'm gonna need a ruling from producer Micha on this one. Oh yeah, man, dude, Kate Hudson, I think it's weak sauce. Yeah, she's Goldie Haunt and Kurt Russell's daughter, so she's born into the industry and so you know, but it's always kind of like, why is she the leading lady? She's just not that appealing.

I agree. I think there's a point in time back in the day where I looked at her I thought she was semi pretty, but that's she's gotten older. Um, And it's almost one of those things ever look at a person and but you'd sort of judged by the people they date, like I've always seen her and it was just maybe I've always seen her with guys who I'm like, really, it's just surprising and I just sort of made me think of her, it's not as hot. So yeah, I've just I've just never I don't. I

don't like. And also I think that movie Almost Famous, which it was liked so amazing. I'm like, it's like a boomer amusement park ride. Okay, it's just let's all the boomers listen to their favorite music from their youth. And you know that that's the whole That movie sucks. I don't care anybody says that movie. That movie blows. Oh it's no good Man? Where was I? Um blows chunks.

So Kate Hudson Um says that she is raising her daughter and that, by the way, my whole thing about just not liking her as an actress, you know that you can take that all leave it. So maybe you're gonna light me up in the comments for that. That's okay, Um. But she says that she's raising her daughter genderless. First of all, I guess she should probably say she's raising her you know, gender neutral child genderless, But I digress.

She's raising her child genderless because she's unsure what gender she'll identify as in the future. How is this not child abuse? You know? This to me goes so far in the realm of just put setting your child up for failure and sending your child up for all kinds of therapy and issues and just lots of self worth

and self doubt and all these things. You know, when did anybody ever come up with the idea that a genderless approach was going to be a good thing in case she doesn't identify with her gender in the future. And just maybe if gender identity is this thing that needs to be embraced as a spectrum and not a binary reality, maybe then it's clear that this is really socially imposed, meaning that the way that somebody is going to be reared has an effect on their sense of

their gender identity. Well, if that's the case, then we just need to work more on how we're raising and rearing people so that they're clear about their gender. It's so strange here, we still don't know she says what she's going to identify as. I will say that right now, she's incredibly feminine in her energy, her sounds, and her way. It's very different from the boys. And it's really fun actually to watch the kids buy clothes with the boys.

It was just like onesies. Actually, I did pretty good with the boys. But with her, it's a whole other ball game. There's some stuff that I like, I can't do that to her because it's so over the top. I don't even know. I don't even know what she's talking about her. Look, a lot of you have kids. I don't have kids, so you're all going to be much better experts on how to how to raise a kid in ten years. But you know, that was kind of a plan on how to lose a date in

ten days or whatever. It's God's how to lose a guy in ten days? Was a date lose a guy. But this celebrity fashion right now, of gender identity and all this stuff, it's going to have real consequences. And unfortunately, the people that are going to suffer those consequences in some cases like this one, have no say in the matter. And I just feel like it is child abuse. Do you think that Lannie Davis has a legitimate cause of fear of what might happen to himself in prison or

his family, his father in law, others related to him. Yes, and this is a fear Andrew I've worked with for years as a prosecutor, So the subjects may be different. We may be talking about the president of the United States. But this is how gangs conduct themselves. This is how MS thirteen, the President's adversary, conducts themselves. And what they do is they try and intimidate people who have left the gang by threatening their family, by telling them if

they cooperate, harm will come to them. There we have Democrat Eric Swalwell. It was a smarmy fellow, perhaps the reincarnation of Smarmy Smurf. Some of you remember that Smimie's. You have Eric Swowell who is saying, referring to MS thirteen, that is a gang rooted in violence, rape and satanism. I think we did our whole right, didn't I didn't I go into a whole long discourse once about the

roots of MS thirteen. I always found it fascinating. The more you looked into MS thirteen, the more you find out that there there are a group that does in fact have real origins that are based in essentially devil worship. But anyway, but he refers to MS thirteen, this horrible gang that engages in terrible violence across the country, especially a horrific violence, a sexual violence against women, as the President's adversary, and I would like see, I'm a good guy.

I'm a fair minded individual, and so I would like to give Swalwell the benefit of the doubt here and assume that he too believes he too is of the mind that MS thirteen is his adversary. But increasingly I find the hardest question and it came up again today on the Rising Panel on Hill TV. The hardest question I posed to Democrats is why, and even some Republicans

why is illegal immigration bad? Ask a Democrat that, ask a Democrat why they because they'll say yes, But then when you try to push them, we'll give me, give me your explanations as to what the reasons are. Right, because let's just add it all up. Illegal immigrants do the jobs Americans won't do. They say that all the time, illegal immigrants are less likely to commit crimes in America, although I don't believe that. I think that's a lie, and I think that they always conflate the numbers to

make it more confusing. But they say that, so illegal immigrants do the jobs we won't do, are less likely to commit crime. And you know, we're a nation of immigrants, so they should really be treated with a special deference in our society. I'm talking about illegal immigrants now, So where's the downside? You know, where's the downside? If you are here because your parents brought you, hear your covernor daca,

you're supposed to stay. If you're here because you are the parents of somebody who snuck a kid into the country, that's dappa Democrats want you to stay. If you've been in the country for a few years, tamocrats will say that you are a part of those communities, and the sanctuary cities that are harboring you from immigrations and customs enforcement are clearly set up to make sure that you

can stay. So who's not supposed to stay? You know that we're gonna send send the you know whoever, the gang bangers and you know, some rapists and murderers that come across our radar who are illegal aliens, they don't get to stay. Okay, But that's a pretty small subset, isn't it. By the liberals own estimation of how many people are committing crimes for are legal immigrants in the country.

I don't think that you can get liberals this, you know, in this day and age, to really explain why illegal immigration is bad. They keep saying we need to make a system that works. You know, it's all these platitudes. Well, there's a system that works, entail a system that means anyone can come and stay, a system that means anybody is in a position where they're allowed to just pick when they can come, when they're going to be in

the United States, when they're not. I don't know, because we never really get to that part of the discussion. It's just a lot of talk about amnesty and then people doing a lot of virtue signaling around it. But you know, I've got another thing that this is I got a bone to pick here, and it ties into the wall. But also some other stuff. CNN I'm sure gleefully reporting on this one, and an apparent shot at Trump.

Pope says, builders of walls, so fear and divide. Just from Pope Francis, who is not doing a lot of good for Catholics who really believe in the doctrine. I can tell you that right now, Pope Francis is really into taking a lot of cues from the socialist hard left, which I would note that the socialist left is in so many points in history a real enemy of the Catholic Church. I think it's interesting that the church now has made common cause with the socialists left more and

more in this country. It depends on which country we're talking about. Pope Francis told thousands of Catholics and Panama gathered for World Youth Day that quote, we know that the father of lies, the devil, prefers a community divided and bickering. This is the criteria to divide people. The builders of bridges and the builders of walls. Those builders of walls so fear and look to divide people. What

do you want to be? The crowd replied builders of bridges, and Francis replied, you learned that, well, so I would be. I would be more okay with that of Francis, because then explain to me how how do we deal with people that then come to this country and have an expectation that the taxpayer is supposed to support them? Isn't isn't that theft? And we have laws right render under Caesar? What happened to all that? But you know, you can even put push that aside for a moment. I mean

the church, the church having a view on immigration. It is kind of like asking the church how big should my military be. I'm not sure that there never mind an authority on it. I'm not sure that their opinion

really should matter all that much. But there is an area where their opinion should very much matter, and that is on the the atrocity that occurred earlier this week, the legislative atrocity that will lead to real life atrocities, where you have the New York State Assembly cheering because now you can have an abortion in New York State anytime for any reason, although it's nine months of pregnity. By the way, that one of the lies, there's a

lot of lies run abortion. One of them that I've seen banded around is that that there needed to be this this abortion to save the life of a mother as a medical procedure. That's actually never that's never the case. There is no such There is no such medical condition where an abortion is necessary to save the life of the mother. There is induced labor in the third trimester where abortion, I'm sorry, where induced labor can be necessary.

But abortion is not in fact a necessary procedure in the third trimester ever, meaning that there's no you don't have to end the life of the baby, even though people want to pretend like you do. You could actually have the baby then and hopefully it's able to be kept alive if it's too premature, and then perhaps if the mother wants to give it up for adoption, which I think is always an honorable choice, she can do so. But the Pope doesn't seem to have much to say

about that. I gotta tell you, the Pope is not exactly inspiring confidence in those of us who think that the church is supposed to have guidance to offer its flock on these issues, and not much better. In New York, the Archbishop, the Cardinal of New York, Timothy Doland put out of statement here, I will not discuss any individual. Anything that follows as a statement of some general principles and should not be considered a statement on any specific person.

This is in regards to excommunication of officials supporting that abortion bill, Timothy Dolans wrote, First, excommunication should not be used as a weapon too often. I fear those who call for someone's excommunication do out of anger or frustration. Second, notable canon lawyers have said, under canon law, excommunication is not an appropriate response to a politician who supports for

or votes for legislation advancing abortion. Well, let me just say that if that is the case, then canon lawyers don't really have much of a role in the world today. And that is a pretty pretty big disappointment. But that's the truth. If you should not be excommunicated for being Andrew Cuomo who stands up and cheers for passing a bill that just lead it is legalizing murder, that is

what it is doing. What are you gonna excommunicate? Excommunicate somebody for you can only if you're a mass murderer yourself. It's crazy. But the Pope, you know, we'll weigh in. The Pope will will do a little virtue signaling, and it's papal virtue signaling over walls and fences and borders. Not a lot of words from the Pope about the fact that New York State now basically says kill a

baby anytime you want, for any reason you want. I think that I think the church should focus a little more on some of what matters, all right, I get frustrated on this one hour three is coming up. I've been watching our opponents, our future opponents, talking about seventy percent number one, they can't do it for seventy percent, it's got to be probably twice that number. But maybe more importantly what happens is you really have to study and take a look at what's happened to Venezuela. It

is a very, very sad situation. That's a big, beautiful area and by far the richest, and now it's one of the poorest places in the world. That's what socialism gets you when they want to raise your taxes to seventy He makes a fair point here, friends, about what

socialism can get you, as we see in Venezuela. Now I want to prepare you because if you're going to argue the point about high taxes and socialism to your lib colleagues or friends, they are no doubt going to toss back at you, Oh really, we're you know, what about what about Denmark? What about Norway? And if you do what I do, would you say, well, it's not they're not really socialist states. Those aren't really socialist states. That's that's an important place you can take the arguments

a little more nuanced. But Denmark, in particular, Sweden, Norway they have in many ways more business friendly regulations than we do. Believe it or not, as as crazy. And I know that sounds crazy, but as crazy as it may sound, it's it's true. They just have very high taxes across the board for everyone and relatively efficient provision

of government services. And they also have healthier people. You know, And whenever I know Americans, we like our cheeseburger in our big four by four, you know, with a maga hat on and doing our thing because we love Americans. We're Americans. But remember the cheeseburger bun might have to be gluten free. But I'm there with you and all the rest of it. The truth is that Europeans are, by and large, see what I did there, healthier than we are. And that's just a function of I think,

diet and lifestyle. So that affects the healthcare outcomes because people always say, oh, well, look at how good the health outcomes in Sweden are, and I say, well, yeah, but you know they're they tend to be have a much lower incidence of obesity and type two diabetes and some of the other major continuing health challenges that suck up a lot of the budget. But anyway, you know, you need to point out whatever people bring up, Oh

what about those European states. Another critical component of or necessary component of a country being truly socialist, is that the country has to be the government has to be able to control the means of production. Right, I mean, if you're look up, you know, the classical definition of socialism is not just a country with a big welfare state, because you know, we have a very large we have about a trillion dollar welfare state here you go. Socialism

is a political and economic theory. This is just off a dictionary dot com which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole. So every aspect of the economic system is essentially held in a common trust by the people, whatever that means, and can be therefore dictated or regulated by the regime in charge of implementing this socialist vision. Now, this is just contrary to basic human nature. Right. People

work harder when they benefit from that work. People take risks when they will benefit if those risks pay off. We do not. We are not day in and day out, biologically and neurologically geared toward going all out for the community. You know. There are some exceptions to this, obviously, military service to your country. And you know, there are places where people go above and beyond, but for the most part, we all kind of just focus on our own stuff

and want to take care of ourselves. And that's a good thing, because the more we want to take care of ourselves, the less we expect the state to take care of us. Because the only way the state can take care of some of us is by forcing the rest of us to give more than we want to, to be more more involved in state enterprises than we would like to be, for example. And I just bring this up because of all the You've got a couple

of threads this week about socialism. And for one, Democrats now by a really large margin are favorable towards socialism, or rather a very large margin of democrat or a large contingent, I should say, if Democrats are very favorable towards socialism, this is a this is a big change.

You know, in the early stage of Obama's presidency, if you ever said that Obama had some socialist had some socialist tendencies, if you said that you know, Obama had socialist tendencies, you you were accused of racism actually, or you were accused of at least slandering the great saintly

genius Barack Obama. Now, Democrats are pretty open about it, and when you're talking about a seventy percent tax rate in any context, I think people are going to start to say, well, that feels pretty close to what we would expect if we were living in a large welfare European style welfare state. So that's a conversation that's going to get louder and louder I think going forward. Elizabeth Warren has talked about her wealth tax propos a little

bit more since we brought it up yesterday. Here's what she says, Play six. The way that this has written is to say, first of all, going to tax all your assets wherever located around the globe. So if you were planning to move them to Switzerland or some island, doesn't make any difference. They are all going to be taxed.

And the second part of it is we're going to build right into the administration of this tax that it has a very high rate of monitoring of auditing, so rich people on the ultra millionaire tax, this one isn't going to have a bunch of exceptions. This one says all your assets were ever located, and we're going to keep counting and you're going to have to pay. I want to underline this part. It's to use that money to build opportunity for the rest of America. What the

heck does that mean? To use the money that they are seizing under threat of force, And never forget that that's what taxation is. Taxation is give me your money or I will take your freedom away and put you in prison. But she's saying that she wants to use that money to build opportunity for other people. That's such a such a wide open Oh it means whatever I say.

It means thing, isn't it. You know? Oh? Yes, it means that, you know, we're going to spend this money on schools, or we're going to spend this money on healthcare, or you know, maybe we're just gonna spend this money on green energy projects. Right. I mean, they'll come up with whatever rationale they want, whenever they want for the money that they take from you and that they spend. But I gotta tell you that Elizabeth Warren version of what we're talking about that starts to sound pretty scary.

You know, you know, wherever your money is around the world. We will just tax it and tax it, and it's like whoa, You're gonna come after people all over the place. Right, First of all, you have to under law. Right now, you have to note if you have overseas accounts. What was she saying is well, you can't even just you can't even just have an overseas bank account because your bank account's gonna get taken into assessments when we tax you.

Keep in mind the US is one of very few countries already that has extra territorial taxation, which a fancy way of saying, Uncle Sam will grab you wherever you are around the world. Flip you upside down, turn your pockets out and say gimme, gimme, gimme. Uncle Sam just sticks his dirty little pause right in there and takes your money. Doesn't matter where you are. There's some exceptions, your military deployed military personnel, who are a lot of

you listening to better than me. I forget what it is now, but there's I think you have a there's a tax breaks. They're a tax break there. But Ward is talking about a full own financial proctology exam here. I mean it's gonna be every year you gotta oh, I know, it's Friday. Every year. You're gonna have to have the government know everything you got and they're just gonna take it from you. They're gonna take it from you. And this will be at some of you, I know

have been writing me emails and things pointing this out. Look, I know that this is going to be abused. And keep in mind that the I understand how the liberal mind works. They start by saying, oh, we're just gonna have this tax for people that have more than ten million dollars in assets. Well, when they realize that that's not enough money for the things that they say they want to do, they've already established though the regulatory infrastructure

and established a kind of precedent. Or then just say oh, you know, it's over a million dollars in assets, and you say, well, hold on a second. If you if it's over a million dollars in assets, now you get a lot of people who've got a you know, a half million dollar home maybe or something close to that. And then they add on top of it, you know, you're four oh one k and you know it's all of a sudden, you know, getting to a million dollars

in total assets. You're not rich and I'm not saying you're not well off, but you're not a rich person, you know. So this is also why people always worry about switching to a value added tax, right, a VAT tax in this country, because they say, oh, it'll just be you know, ten percent or something on certain goods. Well, then it will be twenty percent on a lot of goods. Right. There's always you don't want to give the government easier access to mechanisms to take our money, but Elizabeth Warren

clearly does. But it all comes down to envying class warfare, which, as I've been saying to you, are very very popular things on the left. These are very popular concepts. People like to soak the rhetoric. They like the Occupy Wall Street mentality of you know, the one percent is the reason that we have so many of these problems. And you know, I always said life isn't fair. I mean, you look at some of the people that run this country, and I don't I don't just mean the government. A

lot of people that run everything. They run name a profession and they're at the top of it. A lot of them are people that inherited money. Not all of them, not a majority of them, but there's a lot of that. Is that fair? Well no, I mean it's not that the cream always rises. Some people start off with a

big bucket of cream. But it's also the reality that we live with because life isn't fair, and it doesn't really better any of our lives to look around and say, well, some people have had it really easy, because you know, you'd ever know. One day they just show up at your door when you're in your silk pajamas and your smoking jacket and your loafers, and they say, mister Stone, you're coming with us. And they say it with a dozen guys who have you know, submachine guns on them.

So you know, there's do you never know what's going to happen in this crazy world we live in. But the wealth taxes, I think increasingly something that you're gonna hear, You're gonna hear about it. People are gonna say, huh, this is unworkable. But the left as a means of differentiating oneself in this crazy left wing Democratic party right now,

I think it's going to resonate. Do you ever think Look, the realistic endgame is that Republicans get two thirds of what they want and Democrats have to settle for the shorter straw. Is that isn't that? I mean, how the balance of power works. Well, let's talk about the balance of power. There are two coequal branches of government, the President of the United States and the Congress. And I'm sorry that is the wrong answer on this edition of

do you know anything about the government? And apparently the answer sitting Senator Elizabeth Warren is no, no, you do not. You do not the answer because there are three it turns out coequal branches of government, right, the judiciary, the legislature, and the executive So isn't that cute? In't that special? That she she actually kind of reminds me of Danny Carvey as the Church Late a little bit. Some of you see it. You're you're you're shaking your head a

little no, but a little yes. You are saying no but yes at the same time you gotta shy but we la it's peppy leapew calm down, or saying, oh no, what do you say? She doesn't apparently know what the branches of government are, which is just a fun thing. I know she probably misspoke or whatever, but come on, it's Eliza's Warren, I gotta give her a hard time sometimes.

You also saw the while there's this talk of socialism is going on, and I guess this is to be expected at some level, right, there is to be some expectation that this would happen. But you got libs jumping into the fray to defend socialism despite what's going on in Venezuela. And more than that, because Venezuela is a social justice really that's it's more that it's a social justice socialist state than anything else. Right, It's not just

about an economic system in Venezuela. There's also a lot of you know, anti American, anti imperialism, anti oppression rhetoric, rhetoric about racism, and then you know northe Americanos and all the stuff that we've done, and you know, there's a lot of of that that also undergirds what we've

seen in Venezuela. And I think i've I've discussed on the show in the past that price controls are one of the most pernicious policies they put in place in Venezuela in terms of the economic crisis, because they would just say, well, you know, the greedy, the greedy product. You know, the greedy producers of different products in Venezuela need to charge less. Well, guess what happens when you do that? They can't make money. So then then what

they do. They stop making the product because they don't want to lose money. And then what happens. People don't have product, right, No, no bread on the shelves. That is what happened in Venezuela. It's not hard to foresee. But when you're running around saying that everybody who's producing stuff is greedy and that's why things are expensive, you

get people all whipped up and they think that. But ilhan Omar, who is a favorite congresswoman of the left, she is a African American Muslim female, so there's a lot of a lot of intersectional points being added to her to her score sheet. She tweeted out that a US backed coup in Venezuela is not a solution to the dire issues they face. Trump's efforts to install a far right opposition will only inside violence and further destabilize the region. We must support Mexico, Uruguay and the Vatican

efforts to facilitate a peaceful dialogue. UM First of all, Guido is uh or Guido is not I always that's a name that I've I said it wrong a couple of times to start in. Now, yeah, I think it's Guido, so I think I'm right on that, But he's not far right. And for her to say that just is there's just an ignorance that's at the center of him.

This is the guy who's the speaker of the house essentially the equivalent of it, the speaker of the legislature there and you know the fact that lives in their frenzy to defend socialism and in their efforts to pretend that somehow there's no that that there's this isn't a case study in socialisms failures, of course, it's a case study of in socialisms failures. This place has a giant ATM machine underground with its oil money, and they still

can't pay their bills. Right, So we understand that this is a little bit of a sensitive topic at a time when there's a rise in socialism in America, you have that collapse in our own hemisphere of what was considered a model socialist and social justice based state. But for anyone to make excuses for or I know What they would say here is oh, they're not make excuses. Buck. They're saying, just just leave it, leave it to the Venezuelans.

We're not We're allowed to recognize whoever we want. Our government can say we recognize this as the legitimate government. And people said, oh, we shouldn't do that either. A relation. Should we have legitimized the Taliban and the nineties by saying they were the legitimate government Afghanistan they were running the place? Where should we have had relations with the Taliban all throughout the nineties. I mean, I'm sure some

lives would say yes. But this just shows you that owning Drumf and the Maga hat wearers is more important to the left, the increasingly radical left in this country than even standing in solidarity rhetorically and diplomatically. No one's talking about military any thing, just standing in solidarity with the oppressed and despoiled people of Venezuela who are turning out in the hundreds of thousands in the streets to

get rid of this Maduro thug, imbecile. But ilhan Omar the United States Congress new congresswoman, you know, she says we're backing a coup it's a US back coup because she's not very knowledgeable about anything. The show ain't over yet, folks, keeping it real. It's time for roll call sends this Friday. I figure we do a little double roll call, why not before we kick off the weekend. I get to sort of lean in and read off all the good stuff. Oh, I forgot to host a photo of adorable to lu

To Lula wearing I can't. I can't even describe how cute the up it is. My mom posted this one up in New York. I'll have to share, because when it's cold in NYC, you gotta dress your friendshee up like a little a little pup fashion model. You know you gotta get them all sorts of geared up with the fanciest threads. All right, Chris writes Buck, great show as usual, Chris, great assessment of radio as usual. I just have one gripe. Your audio clips are getting too long.

Oh no, if I wanted to hear those nuts, I'd watch some of the news. I have to fight to not turn the radio off when they drone on and on. I tune in for the dulcet tones of Buck, not the whack jobs. Chris duly noted, your critique offered in good faith, will be factored into our editorial line here going forward on the show. And occasionally what ends up happening is I throw a clip in in a break

just so you understand. If you want a little behind the scenes here, producer and DJ John or DJ Brandon, I'll throw something to them and we have very quick turnaround on it, and so I'll say, oh, man, I really want to get just a part of this clip, but I don't have time to cut it because I'll give it to them right beforehand, So that sometimes factors. In other times, I just like to hear how wacky the other side is before I dole out the buck slaps.

But I agree. I usually try to keep it at least to under a minute, so you know you're not gonna have to sit there and hear too much nonsense. Unless it's a back and forth debate clip that I'm playing you, then I feel like you need to hear the full context on both sides. But Chris, thank you so much, man, I appreciate it, and duly noted. Rachel writes, Hey, Buck, this government shutdown is a great thing. I understand the trials and tripulations of being without a paycheck. But that

was the drive to go find something else. These government workers take a government job knowing the risks of a furlough. Maybe the shutdown will encourage these people to move to the private sector, a great way to decrease government's size permanently. And I'll tell you something, Rachel. When I was down to the border in San Diego, Tijuana last week, where's the week before? Now I can't keep track. There's a

border crossing that's private privately route in private sector. It's a foot crossing to the main land crossing of or near rather the main port of entry. That's that's right there on the Tijuana San Diego border. So there's also a foot crossing where you can go and you just show your stuff and you walk back and forth. So, um, you know, private sector can do things that the government does right now, that is that is for sure. I know people think, oh, no, what will we do without

the government doing these things for us? We would we would find a way. It would in fact be okay. It's not something that we have to really lose too much sleepover. In my hum opinion, which whenever whatever someone says that. By the way, isn't it funny how their opinion is never humble? Oh? Man, I was trying to remember what the because somebody got me on the sollop

sism mistake. But I had another thing that I wanted to mention that I have been saying the wrong thing for so long, and then I found out recently that it was that I was saying at the wrong Oh. I had one of those you know, one of those ones that you've been saying a phrase all this time and you think you know what it is, and then you realize, wait, that's not what it is, or maybe it was a song lyric that happened I think too recently.

All right, Paul Buck, I can't believe you haven't mentioned doctor Gorka calling Jim Acosta a blank head in the White House briefing room. Did I just miss it? We should all take a cue from the doctor and start calling him Abelio. I bet he'd hate that shields high. I didn't know that doctor g did that. Doctor g really did he do that? I was unaware that he did, so I will have to look that one up. I

didn't even know that was a thing that happened. Doctor g I will tell you, other than having the most fantastic accents, it's perfect full radio. You know. Other than that, he's also a surprisingly large man and has and has giant hands. So it's funny because you know, he sometimes he has to argue with these little kind of nerdy media matters types. And I'm like you, you don't make Doctor G angry. You wouldn't like Doctor G when he's angry. He's a big dude. Surprised he doesn't look that big

on TV. I'm telling you in person, he's not like O'Riley tall. I mean O'Riley was like six foot ten or something. Riley was huge, But he's definitely a large, larger fellow. Um. You know, we have like a hulk versus the thing wrestling match Doctor G and Dan Bongino that I'm just you know, I'm telling you it would be a scrap. It would be a scrap for the ages. Tom writes, Hey buck love the show. A quick question regarding the Cummington High School debacle and the threats of

violence against these boys and their families. Doesn't the responsibility for these threats fall at least as much on the popular media as on Nathan Phillips. Thank you so much for what you do, Thomas Original Saturday Squad o s S. Which means, Thomas, you have been hanging out with me now for I think it'll be I need Stoats or one of the one of the og oss to tell me what the when the show actually started, because they always remember this stuff better. They remember the team buck

anniversaries better than I do. I think March or February of twenty twelve or thirteen, maybe maybe thirteen. So we've been now going on six years on the air I think on radio. That sounds right. I think it's been six years on air during the week, not because the Saturday show I think started in twenty twelve. Anyway, you've been with me for a while, Thomas, So thank you very much for that. Oh sorry, let me answer your question, buck stop all of your sollipsism. A quick question regarding

coming to high school. Yeah, of course, the media bears a lot of the responsibility for just just fanning the flames of the entire debacle. So you know, I think that's self evident. They fell down on this one pretty badly. A lot of people are doing a little victory dance today because it looks like maybe CNN didn't get tipped off about the FBI. Rate on. I keep going to say metaphor it pardon me, it's I got I got

Friday brain going on there for a second. The other guy, Roger Stone, who once told me as an aside that you should always wear a belt with a suit, no matter what the suit is or how well tailored it is. And I'm just telling you that I've heard variations on this. I've heard different opinions on it. Some people say, if the suit is properly tailored, you don't need to wear a belt, with others say, of course you have to wear a belt. You're not a savage. He's in the

latter category. Although I don't think he's going to be wearing as many suits. Well, no, he's released in his own recognizance. He's gonna be wearing a suit at court every day, and he probably wears a suit all the time. So, yes, the media is bad. Media is Oh. But but people that thought that the FBI got tipped off, maybe CNN gets lucky and did this. You know, a broken clock can be right twice a day, or is right twice a day, so it is possible. I have to admit

it's possible. See An got lucky on this one. They maybe didn't get tipped off, although I initially thought it had to be a tip off. But now the main thing that makes me think that because they had a guy go on TV Thursday night saying, oh, there's some weird stuff going on. We think something's happening tomorrow. But was that a cover? I'm not trying to be conspiratorial,

but was that a cover? Did they already know that something was going down and therefore a guy wanted to go on air and sound like they're just putting the pieces together when they actually did just get a leak? You know, you can't. I can't know because I don't trust CNN. But just because I don't trust CNN doesn't mean that it's impossible that maybe they got this one right from a journalistic perspective, although who really cares. Also,

I mean, it's like this huge scoop. It was a huge scoop for an hour or two because it showed us how appallingly overarmed and over prepared law enforcement was to go in after a guy that they shouldn't have been concerned about at all. They could have had one detective walk up and say, excuse me, mister Stone, can you please grab your nears, smoking jacket and pipe come with us. We'd like to process you for an arrest. And he would have gone along with them. It would

have been a problem. Robert hey Buck. If Trump declares an emergency to build a wall, we know will be challenged in court. What if a pro Trump group challenge the emergency, but they bring it in a conservative and not the Ninth Circuit. This would be a preemptive challenge in a Trump friendly court. Would this keep the left

from getting a stay? I don't think that would work because if so, you means essentially the opposite of jurisdiction shopping, right, or that that's what you're looking or rather to use jurisdiction shopping to the benefit of our side. So you say, instead of letting it just get get grabbed by the Ninth Circuit, maybe you take it to the Fifth Circuit, which is a pretty conservative one, and you let it

get ruled on there. But you would need I think the problem is you can't have a judge say what the government's doing is right and put a stay on other people's possible stays the judge can only rule on the government is doing something wrong and I'm going to stop them. And I don't think that a judge can preemptively stop another judge from saying it's wrong, although I don't know i'd have to. This is where me pretending to be a lawyer on radio catches the gets the better.

I mean, it's an interesting thought. I don't think it would work, though, Robert, that I can say, but the specifics of how it would go through the process, we need to get Annie mccartheo and he'll explain all the things. Quick quick pause here, team we come back. There's gonna be the most amazing role call session because we know that that means that once you're done listening to this role call roll Call number two, the weekend is here.

And once the weekend is here, then we know where the party at, and you know where the party at. Watch Fire Festival on Hulu and Netflix, both of them. Send me your thoughts, your messages on that it's going to be amazing. You will really enjoy it. And also, if you're a millennial or younger, you should watch you But if you're not a millennial younger, I don't think you're really gonna like it that much? Okay, stay with me. Hey, team Buck, It's time for roll call Team. I'm so

excited that Friday's here. Man, I'm planning. I'm gonna plan like a twelve hours sleep a thon. That's my exciting Next. Ms Molly comes back this weekend, and next weekend I think I'll be up in New York. So this weekend I'm gonna be laying low and slow. That's that's how we like to do it. Just just chill ax. I'm

gonna bust out. I've been a little good too. I got a chocolate stash, but I've been keeping I've stayed out of the chocolate stash all week but now on weekends I get I get to dip into it a little bit. I get to drink my whole milk and eat my chocolate. This is my weakness, you know. And I gotten a little bit of a habit of like a little bit of that every night. And then you start to walk around and you you're like, am I waddling? Or am I just getting old? Or what's going on?

But he's going home to his mom. Yeah, say a lot of mummy. Yep, fair, fair, point, and I'm hoping that, you know, I will actually get to the gym at least twice, maybe even three times this weekend, raw like a beast. And I haven't shaved the beard off yet. I know you guys can't see me. Eventually, we'll start

live streaming the radio show. It's just I haven't been able to set that up because I had to move to DC and start a new digital network for the Hill and all, you know, YadA YadA, all that stuff. But I still do you like the beard? John? All right? Yeah I do. I saw you on Tucker the other day and I thought it'll look good. Thank you, John, I appreciate that. Yeah, I'm gonna be on Howie Kurts his show on this Sunday, by the way, talking about

Covington kids and probably some other media stuff. So yeah, I'll get to talk to talk to Howie. He's great. By the way. It's a really really good show. I think that's on at either eleven or noon on Sunday. I forget, I have to check again, but check out Media Buzz with Howie Kurts this Sunday. Set your DVR team. I need you to watch and support your main man. Buck is gonna be waking up, drinking coffee and working

on a Sunday. Everybody's working for the Sunday. Yeah you can tell I really, I really want the weekend to start. Let's see Tia, right Buck great show is always a few comments. Number one Raheim, I know Rahim is. Rahim is a special character. He's good. Number two could low. I've missed hearing Larry weekly radio shows since he went to the White House, which have been a consolation when his prior TV show ended. He's so smart and so kind, reminds me of you. Thank you, Tia. I really like

Larry too, so that's that's that's all. I praise toy poodles. I inherited one, my first dog under seventy five pounds, and mine is not frou through. You can give them a plain cut. Mine is happy being a couch potato and lapdog. Unlike the scary docs in Yeah, carpet Sharks, you know, be careful, they just they'll get you. Or chasing after rabbits in the garden. She can go from

zero to sixty in one second. She'll be turning twelve is February, and she's always ready to take on the big dogs if she has to, but she rather make friends something to Considah shields high. I look, I have not been I love all dogs. Let me just let you know. You know you can. I don't care how controversial it is for me to say it. You know, this is like people like I'm sorry, I just take on too much responsibility at work. Just call me a workhorse,

but I don't. I don't care who hears it. I love all bugs, but I do have favorites within the within the kine canine realm. And I'm not I've never really been a poodle person. I know they're supposed to be really smart, and they're a kind of hypoallergenic. All thats uff. I'm not really a poodle. But it doesn't mean I don't like poodles. I mean, if you offered me a poodle or the world's cute at cat, I'm taking the poodle. Now. He just offended the cat all

the cat owners in the audience. Sorry about that. I like cats too. Cats are better than lizards. If you have a pet tarantula. I don't know if this is a show for you. All Right, I should just I should just stop. I should stop thinking. Yohan right, Buck. I was active duty from seventy four to seventy nine. Took Civil service exams in the seventies and was told that I only got minimal points because when I was in nothing was going on. They said the Vietnam cut

off was ten seventy three. That was later changed when the South felt the five seventy five. Now I was a Vietnam era VET. Never heard anyone call themselves a Vietnam Times VET. That is obviously an attempt to confuse Johann, You are a VET from that era, and that's what I wanted to hear from some of you who have actually worn the uniform and done it. What you think about it. So we'll take it. There we go. Glenn writes, Hey, Buck, So yesterday someone asked HI about a Muslim conquest book.

I've got a great one that I want to pick up, Sword and Scimitar by Raymond Ibrahim. I like Raymond stuff. I've read. I've read his articles. I haven't read a name his books, but that sounds like a pretty good I can't say I've read it, but that sounds like a pretty good option. So we'll check it out. Alex writes Buck, I love the show. As to Warren's wealth plan, it's a tax plan. It's certainly fraught with problems, and of course it's not an American kind of concept, and

that rhetoric will play to a point. It's the creep that the electorate must be alerted to. The inevitable creep will eventually get everyone. Plus, a new tax is a new concept to be flitted. Like Ram Emmanuel exploits a crisis. They'll find a way to whittle down businesses, family, farms, and even individuals in some proportion. It's a new tax. Thanks for your excellence, show, Alex and Mississippi, Well, thank you, Alex.

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