Destroying The Ivanka Lie

what really matters with actionable intelligence. Make no mistake America, you're a great American again. The buck Sexton Show begins. Analyst, remember no, Welcome to the buck Sex and show. Everybody great to have you with me. Thanksgiving week is upon us. Man, I can taste the turkey right now. I can almost just imagine that gravy, just getting some of it, almost shirt because I love that gravy so much. The gravy is very important. By the way, do not skimp on

the gravy. Make sure that you really bring your a game, because you could have a great bird. You pour a week sauce on a great bird doesn't really matter anymore. Now now you got a mediocre bird. You don't want that. Now. We've got some important issues to get into today, including what's going on with this caravan and Tijuana. In fighting in the Democrat side of things, that's always fun. Look at what the Democrats are doing to fight with each other.

Trump finally released a statement on Kashogi, this Saudy dissident who was a US permanent resident got brutally murdered, and a consulate and the Saudi consulate in Turkey, and it's down. We've got some updates on that for you and all the rest of it. But I mean, there's just one story that I wanted to dive into today with all of you that is really a reminder of what we need to expect going forward, and that is that Ivanka Trump has come into the attention, the negative attention of

the media for the first time in a while. They usually stay away. You know, Ivanka doesn't really get involved in the more contentious, at least publicly, the more contentious political issues, but she used a personal email account to send hundreds of emails about government business and in the first year in office, and what you can imagine what immediately happens here is the left goes into full on freak out mode about how all see look at all

the hypocrisy with the Hillary's emails. That was a big deal, but this isn't a big deal with my friends, this is pathetic. Okay, let me give you the details of this so far, and I have to because unfortunately, this is what we're going to be doing. We need to get used to this. This is trench warfare, and that means we're going to be playing a lot of political defense the next two years. There's no way around it. I wish that I could come in here and we

could talk. We could talk more about policy that could be enacted. I mean, we'll still talk policy, but I mean policy that might actually get done and what the best way is for the government to do it. Instead, what we're gonna end up talking about is this and that completely bullcrap investigation of this administration figure, that administration figure Trump's finances, what Trump had for breakfast five years

ago on the third Tuesday of the month. That's the kind of stuff the Democrats are going to spend all their time on, and they're just gonna saturate the airwaves with this stuff. I mean, this is the kind of thing. Where'll you'll see people who they don't care. I mean, they will be gleeful even when some of these some of these theories that they have and some of the stuff does not pan out, because it's all about just

throwing more stuff at the other side. That it's based on lies or that there's no evidence behind it doesn't matter because it forces us to do what we're gonna have to do right now from home, which is just to play defense. Here's here's there's the story from the

Washington Post today. Ivanka Trump sent hundreds of emails last year to White House aids, cabin officials, and her assistants using a personal account, many of them in violation of federal records rules, according to people familiar with a White House examination of her correspondence. White House ethics officials learned of Trump's repeated use of a personal email while reviewing emails gathered last fall by five cabint agencies to respond

to a public records lawsuit. That review revealed that throughout much of twenty seventeen, she often discussed or relate official White House business using a private email account with a domain that she shares with her husband, Jared Kushner. The discovery alarms some advisors or President Trump, who feared that his daughter's practices bore similarities to the personal use email use of Hillary Clinton, an issue he made a focus of her twenty sixteen campaign. Uh, folks, folks, come on,

this is pathetic. All right, this is this is a joke. This was during primarily during the transition. She was sending emails about logistics and scheduling. You know, hey, guys, do we have this meeting later today? Okay, So let's just knock down some of the because what they're saying is, oh, it's like Hillary, and people are calling for an investigation. They're got to investigate this. The House has already said.

You have Democrat members of the House saying that they're going to be looking into this, like this is an issue that we need to care about. I mean, these people are delusional, they are nuts. But that's what's that's what's happening here. The big problem with Hillary's emails. Let's just take a quick, a quick trip down memory lane with Hillary. All right, The big problem was that there was classified information in her private email server and in

exchanging over unclassified unclassified service. It means it's very easy for especially a foreign intelligence adversary, to get access to that very very sensitive national security information. Every instance of that classified being sent, received, you know, transmitted, held on an unsecure server is in fact a crime. Now the statute does not get into intent, but you know people interpreted it, people being Democrats who are at the top of the DOJ. But you know, people determined that they

would not prosecutor for. But that's a very serious issue. Hillary Clinton having not just one over a hundred confirmed classified classified emails in that server, including Special Access program information, which is very very sensitive stuff, is reckless beyond words, and even Coomy, even sank To Coomy, said that it was extremely careless. There's no question what she did was egregious, was reckless, was wrong, and was criminal. Okay, classified versus

unclassified is a huge distinction here. There is absolutely nothing to suggest that anything in Ivanka's private emails was classified. Now, you could say to me, whoa buck, We don't know unless we investigate, I say, okay. But you could also say that about everything everyone's email. Do you have classified email? I don't know, we don't know. Maybe we should, maybe we should look at it, Maybe we should supped to

your email, right. I mean they could do this to any any public figure, anyone who's ever had a security clearance. They could just say, well, we won't know unless we check, and they just start pulling, pulling their information, pulling their data. So on the most important level is classified. Hillary had it, Ivanka doesn't. That puts this in a completely different category of discussion. Okay, And then you add in the other stuff. Ivanka didn't have a private server set up in her basement.

She used in email a private email domain for routine logisticals in business. And by the way, it's completely legal for her to do that. The only requirement under record keeping laws is that she would forward those emails to her government address so that they are part of record keeping. Okay, fine, When you look at what has happened here, she hasn't deleted any emails, unlike Hillary who deleted over you know, there was one over thirty thousand deleted. She wasn't deleting them.

They're all in the server still. So all the records have been kept, nothing has been hidden, nothing has been No one's used hammers on hard drives as they did with Hillary. No one has used bleach bit to try to digitally wipe all remnants of any information from the server, as they did with Hillary, and no one was running for president, or rather, Ivanka wasn't running for president running around lying about the use of her server as Hillary did. So those are just off the top of my head,

the ways that these are very different. But this is what the left does, right. This is this is a version of guy number one is a mass murderer, I jaywalked earlier today. We are technically both criminals, that is true, Buck and mass murderer, both technically lawbreakers. One of them is a jaywalker, one of them is. And I jaywalked like a madman. I mean I jaywalker. I'm in New York. I make a science of it. I make an art

form of my jaywalking. So, you know, yes, technically true, but dishonest on the merits and claiming that there's any similarity between Ivanka's email situation and Hillary Clinton's as I mean, this was like front page News today. I mean, this was a big all Morning Long and MSNBC, CNN, They're all running these big stories about it. This is this is an instance of they are they are creating a narrative and they're chasing it, and now they're going to

try it. They will use the media stories that are out there to try to claim but there's greater interest in an official congressional investigation of Ivanka's emails. What they really want is just to turn the heat up on Trump, to go after Ivanka and Jared, get them under oath, get them in public hearings. That's coming, And that's why I'm what I'm why I'm talking about this is, yes, wanted to smash the lives from the left, but this

is showing you their hand very early. The media is going to create the narrative and then Congress is going to act on it. The Democrat majority House is going to act on it with subpoenas and with hearings on just endless amounts of nonsense. And so you can already

start to see this playing out a little bit. And they're gonna love the idea, absolutely love the idea of getting Trump family members, Donald Trump, Junior, Ivanka, Jared Kushner, Trump confidants, you know, Kelly and Conway, put them under oath as often as they can. See if they can embarrass them, see if they can get them in a perjury trap. Just whatever that they can do. It will be a campaign of endless harassment against Trump and all

the people around Trump. And that's unfort you know, unfortunately, and enough Americans that believe the Democrat bullcrap to give them control of the House. And now this is what we're heading for. People say, oh, well, now there'll be an ability in government. It's not gonna be any accountability.

There certainly won't be any accountability for the clowns. They're gonna waste taxpayer time and dollars on what will be witch hunt investigation after witch hunt investigation that are just meant to be the equivalent of MSNBC style anti Trump monologues given from the floor of Congress, Ivanka's emails, just like Hillary's emails. That's a live but they'll keep going

with this. This is also why whenever these people want to lecture me or you on Trump's decorum or you know, maintaining decency in our politics, I'd say these people play dirtier, nastier, and more dishonest than anybody else could ever imagine. So I don't really need to hear it from the Schumer Pelosi, Maxine Waters axis about how we should all be acting and how Trump is so beyond the pale, and you know, it's so discrediting the way that he tweets and all

this stuff. This is what we're heading for. I mean, I'm going to try to find ways for us to focus in on what really matters on the policy debates and discussions. But Democrats are just going to They're just going to turn this into as much of a food fight as they can. And they don't care how, they don't care how dirty they get, because they're already filthy. Ivanka's emails are nothing like hillaries, and nothing about Ivanka is anything like Hillary. So there's that at least about

their situations. Eight four four two five eight four four nine hundred buck. We will be right back team. I'm thrilled to announce my support for this bipartisan bill that will make our community safer and give former inmates a second chance at life after they have served their time. So important, and we're all better off when former inmates can receive and re enter society is law abiding, productive citizens, and thanks to our booming economy, they now have a

chance at more opportunities than they've ever had before. This is true, our economy is so strong that when people are getting out of jail, they're actually able to find jobs. That's President Trump talking about this, this First Step Act and this effort at this bipartisan effort at criminal justice reform.

Jared Cushner's very involved in Avengeance. I hire this just because one it's an example of how conservatives and the right get it basically no credit from the other side when they do things that everyone kind of agrees or at least well intentioned. You you may disagree with this criminal reform bill, by the way, I know some conservatives who do, but at least it is well intentioned. You

want to give people a second chance. You want to be fair to them, people that you know, serve time that are incarcerated or not non people because they made a mistake, because you know, they've they've had a difficulty making the right choice at different points in their lives. I mean, look within reason, right, I'm not talking about like mass murderers here. We're talking usually about people that got them involved in drugs. I mean, drugs is the prime you know, it is the prime mover in large

scale incarceration in this country. And so the Trump is trying to do something here I mean, and they get so little credit. There's no good faith from the other side about what Trump will do or what he's willing to I think by the way Pelosi gave him a serious infrastructure package. I think he'd pushed Mitch McConnell, and I think he'd pushed the Republicans in the House as well as in the Senate to try to do something on it. I really do. But this is one of

the very rare things. I know, it's we got the lame duck here, but this is one of the rare, rare moments where he might actually see some legislative movement before we get into just know, interractable political political warfare.

And I also want to note that while we got the other side always posing like the people that are evidence based, and you know that the left Democrats, they they've really internalized this notion that they're the one, you know, Trump is the crazy one, and they're just trying to save the republic. Trump is the one that's disconnected from reality, and they're the ones that are kind of standing, you know, standing on the front lines of saving the republic or

our democracy. They prefer that to republic whatever it is. I saw this. Yugov pulled it in from the Economist, and Yugov and I just I had to note this one. Sixty seven percent of Democrats believe it is definitely true or probably true that Russia tampered with vote tallies in order to get Donald Trump elected. Almost seven out of ten Democrats pretty much believe not that Russia and Trump colluded.

Oh no, no, that's a whole separate thing, that Russia actually changed votes so that Trump would win the twenty sixteen election. Not a single person, not a single publication, No one has provided one piece of evidence to support that. You could say, as the left loves to all the time, without evidence, this allegation is entirely without evidence. Sixty seven percent of Democrats think that Putin was able to get

into air gapped voting machines and change. If Putin could do that, by the way, I mean you almost want to tip your hat to them. If the Russians are that skilled that nobody noticed. Boris oleg and Yuri like will judge the Volts. It will make the volta change. But this, this is why I tell you we are in a time of democratic mass delusion. They have convinced themselves their media is convinced about things that are just flatly untrue. They think that we're delusional, and I see that.

I'm like, look, I don't like all the Trump's tweets. I don't like everything that Trump does and says. I don't agree with them all the time. And I know that there's some core stuff that he does and said, I just like his policies. I'm I'm not delusional about it. Yeah. I think he tells FIBs sometimes to mess with the media or because he feels like it, but it's not important and I don't really care. Democrats actually believe the crazy. They don't think that that it's, you know, the cost

of doing business for their side. They believe things like Russia tampered with vote tallies. Strong majority of Democrats believe that according to this ball it's just nuts. Kaushogie. Trump's got a statement on it. Left's going to freak out about it. We got to get into that, so stay right, stay right there, team. I don't make deals with Saudi Arabia. I don't have money from Saudi Arabia. I have nothing to do with Saudi Arabia. I couldn't care less and I will tell you. It is. Most of you know.

Being president has cost me a fortune, and that's okay with me. I knew that a long time ago. All I do is focus on this country and making great deals for this country. I don't focus on making great deals for myself because I don't care anymore. So Saudi Arabia has nothing to do with me. What does have to do with me is putting America first. Right now,

we have oil prices in great shape. I'm not going to destroy the world economy and I'm not going to destroy the economy for our country by being foolish with Saudi Arabias. I think the statement was pretty obvious what

I said, it's about America first. That's Trump in the midst of what is now a media frenzy to almost blame the president of the United States for the torture, murder and dismemberment of a Saudi dissident writer and kind of pundit for the Washington Post opinion calumnist, and it's it's really this is all a bash Trump operation now because there's nothing because I've been saying all along, there's nothing Trump can do that would that would placate critics

on this issue. And the only things that he could do that would get close to play hitting them would be recklessly stupid for the president of the United States to do under the circumstances. I mean, would just be completely unacceptably stupid. You know, what are we really gonna do. We're gonna try to go to the Are we gonna rendition the leader of Saudi Arabia, the Crown Prince mom had been Salmon and take him to the Hague to stand trial. What under what authority are we going to

punish him? We're gonna try to extradite the leader of Saudi Arabia. You know, this isn't like the leader of Vanawatu or something. I mean, you know, they do have real resources, a real military, and a lot of people. So this is this is not going to be a simple, straightforward thing for us to even if we were that crazy, which we're not. I'm just saying this the thing when you talk about when you talk about the options here, none of the options that people want Trump to pursue

are realistic. Okay, So he released a statement today from the White House. I'm gonna read, well, read most of it to you, because it'll go pretty quickly it's interally, he writes, the world is a very dangerous place exclamation point. The country of Iran, as an example, is responsible for a bloody proxy war against Saudi Arabia and Yemen, trying

to destabilize Iraq's fragile attempt at democracy. Supporting the terror group has belong lemonon propping up dictator Bashar Assad in Syria who has killed millions of his own citizens, and much more likewise, the Iranians have killed many Americans and other innocent people throughout the Middle East. On the other hand, Saudi Arabia would gladly withdraw from Yemen. If the Iranians would agree to leave, they would immediately provide humanitarian assistance.

After my heavily negotiate a trip to Saudi Arabia last year, the Kingdom agreed to spend and invest four hundred and fifty billion dollars in the United States. This is a record amount of money. It will create hundreds of thousands of jobs in tremendous economic development. Of the four hundred and fifty billion, one hundred and ten billion will be spent on the purchase of military equipment from Boweing, Lockheed

Raytheon and many other defense contractors. If we foolishly canceled these contracts, Russia and China would be the enormous beneficiaries, very happy to acquire all of this newfound business. It would be a gift from them to the United States. The crime against Jamal Kashogi was a terrible one and one that our country does not condone. Indeed, we have taken strong action against those already known to have participated in the murder. After great independent research, we now know

many details of this horrible crime. We've already sanctioned seventeen Saudis known to have been involved in the murder of mister Kashogi and the disposal of his body. Representatives of Saudi Arabia say that Kashogi was an enemy of the state and a member of the Muslim brotherhood. But my decision is in no way based on that. This is an unacceptable and horrible crime. King Salmon and Crown Prince Mohammad been Salmon vigorously deny any knowledge of the planning

or execution. Our intelligence agencies continue to access all information. But it could very well be that Crown Prince had no knowledge of this tragic event. Maybe he did, Maybe he didn't. I understand their members of Congress who for political reasons or others want to go in a different direction for me. They're free to do so. I intend to ensure that in a very dangerous world, America is pursuing its national interests and vigorously contesting countries that we

should do his harm. Very simply. It is called America first. So I skipped some parts of that. I'm want to go too much detail in the radio, but I mean that you get you get the gist for sure. That's most of it. So here's a Trump is saying, We've got important business with Saudi Arabia. We need Saudi Arabia as a counter terrorism partner, we need the saudiast to be a buffer against Iranian expansionism and extremism throughout the

Middle East. And we aren't about to go after the leader of a country that we've been allied with for a long time without having definitive proof of this. And for all the people saying, oh, the Washington Post report that the intelligence agencies, okay, yeah, the intelligent agencies also thoughts of dominant weapons of mass destruction. Intelligence agency, These aren't law enforcement organizations. They don't deal with beyond a reasonable doubt. They deal with what we think what is

our best assessment. So I'm not saying you can you disregard their assessment, but the best assessment isn't enough in this case. There's not enough certainty to outweigh US interests in Saudi Arabia and dealing with the King of Saudi Arabia. And you know, people are I understand a lot of

you listening, probably yeah, buck. Of course journalists are in full freak out mode over this though, because oh the line is that Trump is soft on dictators, and Trump doesn't care and even Trump is personally making making money off of this somehow. I mean, this is crazy play clip fourteen. We're not going to give up hundreds of billions of dollars in orders and let Russia, China and everybody else have them. If you look at Iran, just take a look at Iran, and you look at what

they're doing. They are a terrorist nation right now. Although I must tell you they're a better right now than they were when I took off. As when I took off, as they were heading in a very very bad direction, and at some point things very positive frankly could happen with Iran, but we also need a counterbalance and Israel needs help also. If we abandoned Saudi Arabia would be a terrible mistake. Presidents just saying it. We're not going to abandon the Saudiast. It's not in it. It's not

in our interests to abandon the Saudiast. We've got big deals to do with them. We've got big strategic interests in the region. And you know what, what the terrible thing that happened to one guy is not enough to derail all us interests in this relationship. It's just it's just not are we really going to and by the way, really going to what? What do these journalists even want to happen? And I know you know this, this is

from the beginning. This has been an opportunity and an opening for the media to bash Trump, to say that he's too cozy with dictators. Any we got more comments with me. Think you have to ask those people what their motivation is. I think of the seventeen it's mostly like fourteen men who are on that letter. If in fact there is any misogyny involved in it, it's their problem,

not mine. My main concerned was that there is no vision, there is no common value, there is no goal that is really articulated in this letter aside from we need to change. And when you actually look at the signatories, it is not necessarily reflective of the diversity of the party we You know, after we have about sixteen signatories, fourteen of them are male. There are very few people of color in the caucus. There there's very few ideological diversity.

It's not like there are progressives that are signing on. It's not like you have a broad based coalition. So I find you know, I don't. I'm not totally bought into the concept. So there you have the kind of two standard bearers within the Democratic Congress right now, or you know, the soon to be Democrat majority House of Representatives. You've got Nancy Pelosi and on the one end, who represents the ultimate establishment inside DC player I mean, Nancy

Pelosi is the swamp personified. And then you've got Ocazio Cortez, who is the not especially well read but somewhat telegenic and charismatic progressive from Queens, who's the youngest I think we're the youngest member of Congress of all time, and who just just you know, just wants like free stuff, like for everyone, man, I mean, just go for it. So that that there's a lot of that going on now too, there's this sort of new progressive surge into

the Congress. But here's what I think is gonna happen. They're all gonna fall in line beyond Pelosi. This talk of a Pelosi an anti Pelosi political insurgency when the Democrat it's just not going to happen because ultimately Democrats are very much unified on what matters to them, which is enlarging the government control of people's lives, spending the taxpayers money, and dictating as much of your life as they can. That's it' that's what they really want to do.

Collectivism and statism. Those are the twin pillars of the modern Democratic Party. Sure, we can slice the onion a little thinner into identity politics, transgender rights, abortion on demand, I mean there's all there's all those things too, But at a at a macro thirty thousand foot philosophical level, Democrats are about collectivism and stateism, big powerful government and treat people like groups and have an elite, which would

obviously be the Democrat Congress and the media. And others, an elite that determines what the collective good is and that must be pursued at the expense of individual rights and individual property and all the rest of it. Right, that's a summary view of what they're trying to do. They're trying to accomplish. You know, they always act like

they've got this big tent in big differences. You mean, the big difference for the Democrats is do they go for free college or just college that like the taxpayers are totally paying for. I mean, you know, it's really all the same stuff from them. You really don't hear where's the area of great ideological friction within For the Democrats, it's always just a question of how quickly they can

get to the same place, which is socialism. I mean the Democratic Party now, is this the American Socialist Party? They won't say that. It was really interesting, Actually, I had a a progressive activist on Rising and I said, do you think the Democrats are going to embrace because he's he's he had a Warren something like Warren Warren rocks pin on, like Elizabeth Warren is awesome. I know. So there's some people who still think Elizabeth Warren's going

to run for something. And I said, do you think that they'll just embrace the terminology, never mind the idea. They've already embraced the ideology. But will they embrace the terminology of democratic socialism? Will the Dems go full Democrats socialist in twenty twenty? And he said, oh no, no, no, of course not. Why not? Bernie Sanders says it, Okazio Cortez says it. I mean, these are the leading, the leading figures in the Democratic Party now. I mean Nancy

Pelosi doesn't say it quite yet. But you know, it's also hard for somebody who's worth fifty million dollars to act like she's really all that concerned with socialism, right, I mean, or rather, lots of rich people are conservant socialism, but they always end up falling into very hypocritical positions on that. Oh, like Bill de Blasio. By the way, that's a perfect transition. Here's what Bill Deblasio said recons

and Billa Blasi. I remember he's a guy, hey, Billy de Blasio, also known as Warren Wilhelm, that was his name. He changed his name as an adult. But but de Blasio recently said the following, I just want to read this to you because this really goes to the center of the idiocy and insanity of the left that believes we're heading toward a progressive utopia in this country. Okay, this is this is what Bill Deblasio said. Quote. What's been hardest is the way our legal system is structured

to favor private property. I think people all over this city of every background would like to have the city government be able to determine which building goes where, how high it will be, who gets to live in it, what the rent will be. I think there's a socialistic impulse which I hear every day in every kind of community, that they would like things to be planned in accordance with their need central planning. That's what he's talking about,

and I would too. Unfortunately, what stands in the way of that is hundreds of years of history that have elevated property rights and wealth to the point that that's the reality that calls the tune on a lot of development. I'll give you an example. I was down one day on Varick Street close to Canal and there's a big sign in front of a condo saying unit start at two million dollars, and that just drives people stark, raving mad in this city because that kind of development is

not for everyday people. It's almost like it's being flaunted. Look, if I had my druthers, the city government would determine every single plot of land how development would proceed, and there would be very stringent requirements around income levels and rents. That's a world I'd love to see. And I think, I think what we have in this city at least are people who would love to have the New Deal back.

On one level, they'd love to have a very very powerful government, including a federal government that's directly involved in addressing their day to day reality, very reachable right now, and it leaves this friction and this anger. End quote. Now, I read that whole thing to you, because that's essentially

Deblasio socialist manifesto. Here we have the mayor of the largest city in the United States saying that the local government should determine what gets built, what it looks like, how big it is, who gets to live there, what they pay. That's actually socialism. That's not even democratic socialism, that's just socialism. He's saying this openly. This guy was very tight with the Clintons by the way is a

very connected figure. Some people still think one day he might run for president, But I mean his complete lack of charm and charismo is probably an issue that didn't that Barry Hillary tried it anyway. But he's going for straight up socialism here, he really is. And here's the really fun part about it. He's talking about how, oh they're flaunting these new condominium You know what build a Blasio's home is estimated to be worth in Brooklyn about

two million dollars. So you got a guy who lives in a mansion paid for by the taxpayers, who owns privately a two million dollar home, who is going out there lecturing the people of New York City and the country as well in a sense on how government should be able to determine what is built, where it is built, who gets to live there, what they pay, what it costs, what the landlords can charge, and we're supposed to take

him seriously. It is hard to tell if it is ignorance of economics or just pure cynicism and demagoguery that pushes this, but socialism is ascendant within the Democratic Party, make no mistake about it. And whether they put a kind of traditional Democrat Pelosi face on it, or they let Acasio Quartz and this new crop of leftists run wild in the Congress. The Democratic Party is being overtaken by the socialist impulse. It is happening right now in

this country. I am telling you, it is going on before our very eyes, and we need to fight against this. We need to push back, We need to win this argument. Speaking of arguments, the one over immigration is just going to get more and more tense because there's no legislation that's going to fix any of this now. So now it's just going to be a question of executive branch, courts, media,

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for Android. Snippy your new alternative social media. Should this caravan had been stopped at the Guatemala border, of course I agree with that one hundred percent. You should have to country, have it to be with all these people because they have people, they have bad people, because they don't belong here. They're just migrants. But he's like the same in the same case, is like when Mexican migrants

going to the US. They're undocumented. You know of incidences here in Tijuana and in other cities that some of these people that are coming into these with these caravans are coming in crimes. This is not about racism. We don't dislike a certain group of people because they're from a country, one country or another. We are here because our government has not taken control of these what we call invasion. So the caravan has in part arrived in Tijuana.

Let's not forget that. In the immediate aftermath of the election, we were being told that Trump was fearmongering over the caravan. They'd never get there. Oh, there are a thousand miles away. A thousand miles away. That was the big that was the big talking point. Oh now they're there. You mean buses and trains exist in Mexico. Oh what a shock.

So here we are with people gathering at the boarder, caravan gathering at the border trying to you know, find a way to enter enter the United States en mass, right, in a huge group, and you have people who are protesting them in in a Tijuana saying that they don't

they do not wanted here. They're using much of the same rhetoric that we have heard from conservatives in this country, and the Libs, you can tell, don't really know how to handle this because they're just so used to saying you're a racist, stop being racist, that they're not used to having to make an argument about this or to deal with the facts of the case as they are actually presented. So you know, that's what they're They're not dealing with that component of it. They don't know really

what to say. Here's a Tijuana. I mean, we have some great audio here of these protesters in Tijuana. Can I say, I mean, didn't I say Tijuana. I'm just so saying it that way. I know it's Tijuana, but I want to say Tijuana. I want to Americanize it. But the protesters who are saying that explicitly, I mean, this guy's trans being translated for you by someone from the Spanish. But that Trump was right. Play clip two Donald Donald Trump. Well I know Donald Trump and I

know Verdad, which is true or right? Uh So Donald Trump was right. This was an invasion. What Trump said was true. This is an invasion. So the Mexican people of Tijuana are not pleased, at least some of them. I know, people can say, oh no, well, let's think about this for a second. Folks, who would want a mass of thousands of people that need to be fed, need to be using you know, restroom facilities, need to be clean and need to be kept orderly and safe

and all this other stuff. Would you want that just showing up in your neighborhood? Why would anyone want this? I mean, I live here in the swamp in DC. If a few thousand people descended upon, you know, my area of the swamp and we're living in the street, I wouldn't want that. Does that make me a bad person? Does that make me racist? I don't even care what race they are, right, I mean, I just I just wouldn't want anybody to be doing that. It's not safe,

it's not sanitary, and it's not orderly. And you know, the human mind, especially when it comes to your neighborhood and where you live, the human mind tends to crave a certain degree of organization. It's one of the reasons why we form ourselves into states and have governments. But people are finally starting to look at this and say, well, hold on a second, what does it mean if you know the Mexican people are allowed to be opposed to Honduran caravans coming into into some parts of Mexico. Are

the American people allow take a similar position. I mean, here's the mayor of Tijuan. Again, this is gonna be in Spanish, but I've got the translation here for you. This is the mayor of of Tijuana. Play three. I mean, we're not shot avalanche and tsunami. You may have caught there. So this is the mayor of Tijuana, says in Spanish. No city in the world is in favor of of this, is prepared to deal with this. If I may it's an avalanche, it's a tsunami. Um or sorry, no city

in the world is prepared to deal with this. It's an avalanche, it's a tsunami. Yeah, that's right. There are there are costs associated with dealing with this caravan. There, there's there are difficulties, there are hardships that people will have to endure because of this caravan, and and they

don't have to want it. We are so used to being shut down down in this country on any discussion involving immigration, but we're just we're just beaten down with the rhetoric about how we're all racist, That's what it is. Anybody doesn't matter what your skin, colorage, doesn't matter ethnicity, if you don't want masses of illegal immigrants. And that's they keep saying, Oh, they're asylum seekers. The asylum seeking

is the scam to get them in the country. You know, if if a thousand people were about to marry Americans from across the border that they had never met, Okay, I wouldn't sit here and allow people refer to them as green card holders. I would say they're engaged in marriage fraud, because that's what they are trying to do. These are overwhelmingly fraudulent claims of asylum that are and everybody knows it, and everybody knows it. And the caravan

is a real problem. The caravan's a real issue. And you know, last week we had all was and Fox News, I mean all these other news outlets were trashing conservatives, trashing conservative media because they said that this was all jinned up just for the election. Meanwhile, now we're actually looking at the problem and what are the Democrats offer. If this caravan a two thousand can come in and do this, why can't others? If this caravan can get

into the country. What about caravans from Brazil, from Venezuela, from Nicaragua under what, guys, can we stop anyone who has a very simple series of lines to deliver in the first lines of immigration enforcement, when they when they are essentially being processed by a border patrol and immigration and customs enforcement, and they say, I've got credible fear gangs want to hurt me, I'm fleeing violence. Anybody can

say that. Anybody can say that. And then what you realize is, oh, hold on a second, you mean to tell me that, you mean to tell me that there's no way to stop these people from coming in to America, that that that seems like a problem for some folks. That seems like a scam. And Democrats are in on the scam. And this is what they do with the leagual immigration. Oh by the way, we got a guy, here's just another guy, a Mexican living in Tijuana, who

is talking about this caravan. Here's what he says. Play four. I'm not really in favor of them coming the way they did. You know, to me, it feels like, um, they invaded and that was not the correct way. But I know all of them are not like that invaded. He says, Oh my gosh, so that Mexican is so racist against Hondurans. How could he? You know, I mean, I mean Mexicans being racist against Hondurans. I mean, at what point? At what point do we realize this is?

This is just gone off into crazy town. But Democrats do not They do not have a solution on this. They do not have an answer on this. Their whole thing is just like with socialism, the biggest thing socialism has going forward is that it sounds good. The biggest problem is that it doesn't work. Apply that logics and Democrats immigration. The best thing about Democrats immigration is they sound like they're nice and caring. The problem is they

don't care. They're not being nice, and they're creating problems for this country and for our rule of law and our sovereignty, and they know none of that even factors into their thinking at all. I find this, Uh, you know, we're gonna we're gonna continue to follow the story. I mean, I find this very troubling. I'm very annoyed by it, and I want more action from Republicans on this when they have to do a better job of making the case. Trump's the only one I see out there. Where are

the rest of the Republicans. Why aren't they sound the alarm about this massive asylum scam. Well, you go to the Ninth Circuit and it's a disgrace. And I'm gonna put in a major complaint because you cannot win if you're us a case in the Ninth Circuit. And I think it's a disgrace when people file every case gets filed in the Ninth Circuit, because they know that's not law,

that's not what this country stands for. Every case that gets filed in the Ninth Circuit, we get beaten and then we end up having to go to the Supreme Court, like the travel ban, and we won. This was an Obama judge. And I'll tell you what, It's not gonna happen like this anymore. Everybody that wants to sue the United States, they file their case in almost they file

their case in the Ninth Circuit. And it means in automatic laws, no matter what you do, no matter how good your case is, And the Ninth Circuit is really something we have to take a look at. Trump is completely correct here on the Ninth The Ninth Circuit and you know, you'll notice that the Libs and the activist judges on the Ninth Circuit are not in the least bit chastened by the fact that they've already been slapped down on a major issue dealing with immigration and presidential authority,

in this case, the travel ban. Trump was right, according to the Supreme Court on the travel ban. So these judges are just hashtag resistance. That's what's really going on. These are Obama appointees who think that their judgment of what the law should be is more important than what the law says. So let me just give you I mean, here's some of the background of this one from the

New York Times. President Trump signed a proclamation on November ninth that banned immigrants from applying for asylum if they failed to make the request at a legal checkpoint. Only those who entered the country through a port of entry would be eligible, he said, invoking national security powers to protect the integrity of the United States borders. When in days, the administration submitted a rule to the Federal Register, letting it go into effect immediately and without the customary period

for public comment. But the rule overhauled long standing asylum laws that people fleeing persecution can seek safety. The United States advocacy groups I left wing, left wing packs, which is what the Southern Poverty Law Center and the a cl you have become soothe administration and the judge put in this temporary stranding order. One Remember, all it takes is one federal judge to now stop the president of the United States from exercising his constitutional authority as commander

in chief. That's the country we're living in now. They tell us that there's tyranny. Meanwhile, you get any federal judge anywhere in the country can say nope, Trump can't do that, and Trump has to go Okay, we know, we gotta go to court and gotta go to the little process. This is just stalling. This is bad faith law from the left, which is when these judges are leftist. That's what this is. Okay. Understand also what the Trump administration has said here and what the left is therefore saying.

All Trump has said is you cannot cross into the country illegally and then say, oh yeah, I want asylum. So because what really that means is that now you'll have people to get near the border and they just wait until they think there's an opening, and then they can cross into the country and then they're home free. And if they get caught, instead of having to worry about being immediately turned around and deported, they just claim asylum. So it's like a get out of jail free card.

And what Trump has said is in order to protect our national sovereignty at the border, he will not allow I mean, as executive policy will no longer allow people to claim what they call defensive asylum, meaning that once you're already caught, you say, well, I want to claim asylum. Now Trump is saying no, sorry, that doesn't work. That's

not acceptable. And when you think about it, what the Left is there for telling you is that they want people to be able to come into the country however they want and abuse the system and claim asylum for cases that they are not going to win. I mean, over eighty percent to these aside these would be or these requesting these individuals requesting asylum, over eighty percent are going to be rejected. Okay, they're going to be rejected.

And this is where the Democrats are being so dishonest because at that point, once they're rejected, they're in the country illegally. So these are all soon to be These are illegals in waiting, folks, That's what we're talking about, over eighty percent of them by the numbers of what

we've seen in these recent Migaret waves. This is why I when I say that the Democrat Party has turned into a party that turns a blind eye to illegal immigration, to a party that is openly advocating for illegal immigration, I'm not exaggerating. They want to make it as easy as possible to be in this country illegally and to enter this country illegally, and they will pervert the law, they will turn the law upside down in order to

get there. Also, as I've been saying this, this notion that these judges are in a position to just overrule to a temporary on a temporary basis, but overall executive authority,

I mean, this is just it's just nonsense. It just goes to show you that there is such an anti Trump strain in this country right now that you have judges who don't have the respect for the law or for the powers that they hold to understand that Trump, as the commander in chief and under a duly pass congressional statute, has the authority to exempt illegal aliens from entering the country for any reason that he deems in the national interest. That is the law that the travel

ban was upheld under. In part. That law certainly applies here. So if Trump says, you know we're at we're at war with Iran, or you know we're war with any country, therefore illegal aliens or not illegal aliens, just aliens from Iran, non citizen non residents from Iran cannot enter the United States. He has the constitutional authority to do that. This also brings us to how the left really does seem to believe that foreigners have constitutional rights full constitutional rights as well,

and just just go down the line. Not only they think that foreigners should be able to essentially sue to come into the United States against the express wishes of the executive branch through the President, but they if they had their way, I think they would let foreigners vote in our elections too. There's no moral, principled outragemal left over illegal aliens voting in our elections. They just say it doesn't happen, But they're not saying if it did happen,

it's like really bad. They wish it could happen, but I mean, this is here's a perfect example of the crap that we have to deal with. Senior supervising attorney at the Southern Poverty Law Center, Melissa Crowe says, quote, this is a critical step in fighting back against President Trump's war honest asylum seekers. End quote. That's just idiocy.

These are not legitimate asylum seekers. These are people who are abusing asylum law getting ahead of other people who are really who are really trying to flee certain death in their countries being targeted by their own governments. These are economic migrants. These people want to be in America. We've got a big cozy welfare stake going to this country. Folks. It's a good time to be in America. If you've got no skills and don't speak English, it's not that

hard to be here now. It's easier than it's been in a long time. So that's what we're talking about. I mean, under this woman from the Southern Property Law Centers description or under her conception of asylum, the entire country of Honduras qualifies for asylum, all of it. So do we have to merge with Honduras now? And if Honduras qualifies, why does in Mexico. Mexico has got a tremendous violence problem, a lot of drugs, a lot of corruption. So what is you know, where do we draw the

line here? The answer is the left draws the line the moment that it's no longer in their political interests and the greater the number of impoverished Third world non English speaking immigrant the Left can pile into the United States, in their mind, the better. It just means that they have a greater chance of creating a one party state in this country, which is the ultimate goal, which is why I'm telling you right now twenty twenty, it's all

about amnesty. If they can get the presidency and control of the Senate, the first thing they're going to try to do is ram through an amnesty, and that is ballgame for conservatism. That is the end for those of us who believe in limited government, rule of law, and constitutionalism. We will be a different country then, So keep that in mind. I acknowledge there's a stock market correction, and I don't like to see anybody lose any money all any time, But these things happen, they come and go.

I'm just saying the psychology and stocks has gone down a bit. The economy is roaring. So Larry Cudlow is saying, look, don't don't everybody panic. Yeah, the stock market, and I can tell you this. I mean, if you've basically been looking at that the way the stock market's done since the beginning of the year, if you've been invested since the beginning of the year, all of your gains, if you've been really just in the S ANDP and sort of the you know, if you've been in some big

mutual funds, the gains are gone. And if you've invested in the main drivers of stock market growth in recent years, in terms of what they call the fang stocks, which are Facebook, Apple, Netflix, and Google, if you've been heavily invested in that, you've gotten You've gotten your shirt handed to you. I mean, it's been it's been rough last month. Now you could say, buck, I don't really care about the stock market. This isn't financial show. And I said,

you know, I know, I understand that. But people look at this and they say, maybe maybe this is a recession that's about to happen here, and there's there's concerns, there's concerns over that. Here's my problem is that I think that the market we've been in a ten year bull market, and there's a lot of reason to believe that a cyclical recession is going to happen in the

next year or two. And just as we saw with the way, the Democrats got incredibly lucky with Obama coming on the scene right when you at the end of eight years of Republican administration and a pretty rough recession hit right around the time that you're trying to see John McCain take on Barack Obama, right, I mean, that was very good timing for a pretty radical left wing president to come on the scene and talk about, you know, the redistribution of wealth and paying your fair share and

all that stuff. Because people get scared and they want that they want to believe the government's there for them, the government's going to help them, the government is the backstop of all this stuff. And right now there's a little bit of an increase in fear, and I worried that the Trump administration is heading in for something of a perfect storm here, where you're gonna have the House of Representatives is just going to turn into a Democrat

opo machine. I mean, they're gonna just be doing all these just like the Ivanka email stuff. They're gonna reach, they're gonna stretch, They're gonna come up with all kinds of nonsense, whatever they can then whatever they have to try and justify their insane positions. But they're in enough, they have enough power and enough authority and certainly enough amplification from the media that it is likely that they'll be able to get you know, the message out there

and get some tractionals and they're going to impeach the president. Now, impeaching the president when the economy is roaring and things are going really well in the country overall, certainly economically, impeaching the president seems like a petty part is in hatchet job. You know, it just seems Now. It doesn't

mean Democrats won't do it. It just means that I don't think that that helps them going into twenty twenty in those critical states that they will need to win if they're gonna be Trump right, they Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, Florida, you know the states. So you know, if that's what it's all gonna come down to, you know, then we need to understand that an economy that's on the downswing, even if it's not really Trump's fault, is going to

add to the woes of this administration. And you're gonna see I do believe you're going to see a moment here where the Democrats are going to have an opening to really push for the democratic socialism also known as socialism. I mean, I think they're really gonna push for that.

They're gonna say this whole Medicare for all things is going to gain more attraction, and they'll just a lot of people and tell them, oh, yeah, the big lie that I'm hearing on that all the time on Medicare for all is oh okay, fine, yeah, you'll have to pay more in taxes, but you'll say it, you'll get more money back in savings on your healthcare. That's that's a lie. This is the magic cake that feeds everybody that never runs out, and that will make you fat

no matter how much of it you eat. You know, it's just not true. And government saving you money is to you know, through your healthcare after taking more money from you in the form of taxes. That's just not true. And I wish, I wish we could get people to really understand that. But the direction of the economy is really going to affect a lot of the political conversation. And I think that there's my concern all along has been Trump with a booming economy and a four percent

give or take unemployment rate is unstoppable, but unstoppable. But by the left, Trump with you know, the stock market taking a thirty percent dip from the high I and people's four oh one k's getting crushed. Pension by the way, all the pension funds for those of you that are

like I don't care about four own ks. Wherever you live across the country, the pension fund where you are is most likely invested, and the long term pension outlays all take into account that they got to make money by investing it, right, so to pay the pensions in in uh, you know punk satawni for the firefighters, they've I don't know why punk Satanni came to mind, but you know they've got to invest the pension money and

have a compound at a certain expected growth rate. Otherwise, you know, they've got to raise tax on people because they're not gonna have the money. They're gonna have pension shortfalls. So I don't think that when when I talk about the market. The market affects a lot more than just oh, like arm, oh, how's my portfolio doing? You know, let me just shine my monocle right now and put on my top hat please. I wish, by the way, that sounds like fun, not the monocle in the top hat,

but having that kind of money. So but that's where Trump, I think, comes much more vulnerable. And also look this China issue. The Chinese stock markets down about twenty percent this year. China stock market's getting roughed up, and Trump has There's no two ways about it. Trump has retaliated people who am saying he's picked he picked a fight and started a trade war with China. But he's really

just responding to an ongoing Chinese trade war. But he is responding to it, and the tensions are getting ratcheted up here as a result. Kudlu also spoke about this play Cliff twelve. It's got to include IP theft, it's got to include changes in ownership. It's got to stop the force transfer of technology. It's got to go to zero tariffs and zero non tariff barriers. It's got to having forceability, it's got to have strict timetables. It has

to have, frankly, more than we've seen so far. He said, Look, we're not backing down with China. If China is willing to play ball like a responsible actor here, if the Chinese government will stop the shenanigans and start acting like a normal, advanced, developed rule of law country in terms of its trade relations, well then you know we can

come to some kind of an agreement. Now I've said this all along because you know, the conventional wisdom on trade has been, you know, we're a free trade even though that's really more of a talking point than it is a concept you can implement. But you know, we're all about free trade. But if China is going to cheat, then we need to exact or extract some punishment for

their predatory trade practices. And as you mentioned in intellectual property theft, there's more than just you know, them having taxes on imports. Right, There's more than just tariffs to discuss here. There's a lot of other activity they're engaged in. But this is only good if we win, right, This

is only good if it works out. If this just results in continued back and forth and you know, economic dislocations and perhaps even global economic stagnation as a result of the two largest economies in the world getting to some kind of, you know, a contest of wills here. That's not good. So I've been willing to give the Trump administration the leeway to get this done. They still might, they'll probably. I'm sure if I could talk to Cutlow, and we interviewed him a few weeks ago at the Hill,

but I wasn't there for it. But next time I get a chance to talk to Cudlow, you know, I'm sure he would say that it's early, you know, and that this is going to take. It's a process. But you know, the longer it takes, the more pain that we suffered through it, the less it would be a victory. Right, So we got to see what ends up happening here with China. But the economy is key. If Trump is going to win in twenty twenty, we have to keep this economy going strong. And the left knows that, and

so they're willing to tank it. If they have to take off the shelf existing technologies, we could reduce carbon emissions by let's say thirty without any Yeah, it's not like we'd all have to go back to caves and you know, live off you know, fire. We could have electricity and smartphones and all that stuff, which would buy us probably another twenty thirty years for that technological breakthrough

that's necessary. The reason we don't do it is because we are still confused, blind shrouded with hate, anger, racism, mommy issues. Yeah, I mean you know we we we are, we are fraught with stuff. Obama is not nearly as impressive all the issues as the media tended he was for many, many years. Obama is somebody who has always been held up as having a much greater grasp of the complexities of politics than than he does, or at

least complexities of policy. And that's a perfect example. You know, we have off the shelf technology that would reduce carbon emissions by thirty percent, and the only reason we don't do it is mommy issues, racism. I can't you remember all this stuff that he's It was just like this long, this long string of of stupid non sequiturs, and I just I can't tell you with first of all, that Obama is still out there giving all these speeches and stuff.

You know, he's president for eight years. Maybe maybe just like do some good charity work. You know, maybe we don't have to hear the most recent president acting as a partisan surrogate for the party in opposition to the current president. Right, maybe that would be nice, like what George W. Bush did, for example. I know it's not required. I'm just saying it would be nice. It would be

more respectful and gentlemanly, I think. But I know this is not a time for gentlemanliness in politics, I suppose, at least not in the left's view, and honestly not on the rights either. It's pretty much a brawl. So here Obama makes this comment, any people are laughing and all it's so funny and all the things that he says there, and this is just one example of an obama Ism. But it sounds kind of wise and witty, and oh, Obama, just tell us more. It's just garbage.

He doesn't know what the heck he's talking about, which for a guy who was present for eight years, it's pretty remarkable. But the reason that we don't use those

off the shelf technologies is that they're really expensive. The reason that we don't use renewable at the rates that the left wants us to that the green extremes believe we should is because they are highly highly efficient still and with the increasing availability of fossil fuels and the better technology for getting at the fossil fuels as well as the more efficient technology for using it things like liquefied natural gas obviously fracking as part of the extraction process.

The idea that we're all of a sudden supposed to rely on wind, rely on solar, there's a lot this has been you know, solo has been the next big thing for the last forty years, and there's a reason for that. But either the notion that Obama puts forward there, I just think that's that this is of all the things from the Obama era that he would do on a regular basis, the way that he would go after he would create these straw men on the right and then just rip them apart as though he was doing

something really smart and really brave. That really bothered me. He never contends with the argument the other side, my argument against his whole I mean, never mind getting into the climate change is a threat to us thing, which is just that's just irrational. It's irrational. It's not a threat to us. We're all going to be fine, Okay, people have gotten those all scared and they think that he's talking about other people being scared and afraid and

mommy issues. But if there was a technology out there that was cheaper and better and more efficient for us to use what it came to energy, doesn't he think that he'd be using it. I mean, this is the guy he will remember on tape before he ran for president said you know, under my plan, electricity would skyrocket and price. He doesn't seem to understand that energy is the lifeblood of a modern economy and that when you put unnecessary pressures upward pressures on the price of energy,

you're hurting everything. You're making poor people pay more for their food, You're poor people paying more for their heat, everybody's paying more for stuff. It's just not a good idea. But instead of recognizing and dealing with the truth here, and the truth being that there are very clear reasons why we have not gone to renewables the way that left wants us to do, and by the way, they've

thrown so much the way as subsidies. And you guys, remember, Celendra, that giant Obama era boondoggle, hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer guarantees to a solar company that was get ready for it losing money on every transaction it did, but it was gonna what make it up on volume. That's like the old joke, we're losing money, but we're gonna make it up on volume. You know, we lose money on every unit, but the more we sell the oh,

the more the more money you lose. Right, Celendra was selling at a loss, and that's how you can lose hundreds of millions of dollars running an energy company. And whatever was twenty eleven. And I just think it's interesting that, you know, they can actually deal with the argument from our side, which is by the way, we are decarbonizing

as a globe and as a society. If you look at the history free of energy, but if one actually took the time as I have to read about the history of fossil fuel exploration and how energy has powered economies in the modern era, what you find out is that we've gone from highly carbon intensive, highly inefficient sources of fuel burning wood burning, whale fat, you know, you know, you go through you know, kerosene and and then coal and then gas, and now we're at liquefied natural gas.

I mean, we're getting cleaner as we or just natural gas in general, cleaner as we go along in terms of emissions and more efficiency and greater abundancy. And this is something that should be celebrated. But instead, you know, you get Obama making a snarky comment and he's he's

just parading ignorance on this. It's just not true that there is feasible technology to drop global carbon emissions by thirty percent that is cost effective that we could do, and that would buy us forty years of you know, leeway for other technologies to deal with climate change, which isn't even a threat we have to deal with. You. I don't know. I want to come back in another life and have everybody treat me like I'm a genius

when I don't know what I'm talking about. That that would be That would be really cool, you know, and no one ever is allowed to tell you otherwise, or else they're gonna be shouted down and everyone's gonna say they're a terrible person. That would be nice. That means, I mean, Obama had that for eight years. You just say stuff, tell stuff that wasn't true, Say stuff that's just inaccurate, you know, share opinions as other fact. And it was getting backstop by the media all the time.

And I see here, I just say to myself, and how do I get that gig where you're hailed as a genius when in reality a lot of your ideas are either mediocre or subpar. But you know, he does, he does sound convincing, I guess to lives and so that's that's really all it takes. Sometimes, do you need expert delivery of high quality screen solutions for employers, property managers and financial companies? Well, Global Verification Network is the

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five five nine six zero five three one eight. What's it like to be on the front line of the battle against the Islamic State? What were the sights and sounds and how how was it to be there trying to assist the Iraqis in taking back their country after the rise of Isis. We have an author who can tell us all about this. Ephraim Mattas is with us now. He is the author of City of Death Humanitarian Warriors in the Battle of Mosel, which you can get Nowlason.

It's out in bookstores as well. He's a former Navy seal. Ephram, thank you so much for joining us. Thanks for having me. Buck appreciate it. So, man, tell me, you come out of the Navy, you come out of the Navy seals and you decide that you're going to join a very very special unit fighting the Islamic State in northwestern Iraq. Well, what happened here? How'd you do this? Well so, actually, so I left the Navy early last year, and my thought was not necessarily to do the whole combat thing.

That wasn't that wasn't my intention. My intention was to do humanitarian work. And the guys that I joined up with, I volunteered with, were the Free Burma Rangers, and they were working in northern Iraq doing humanitarian stuff and doing medical things as well. They were armed, they were working with the Iraqi Army, and I just figured it was a good place for me, as a former seal to go and help and do some good in this world.

And during that during that time, the Iraqi Army unit that we were attached to, who we would we would feed the civilians and help the civilians and treat treat the wounded. Every time they cleared a new village or

something like that. That same unit was ordered to attack West Moosle And so what what went from a humanitarian mission, you know, ninety five percent of the time went to a full on you know, we basically transitioned into being full on combat medics for the assault into Mosul, and I mean that was some of the toughest fighting of the entire certainly in the Iraqi side of the of the equation of the entire fight against the Islamic State.

What was it like being being with those near those Iraqi units and and being right there beside them as they're going house to house door a door. I mean, what tell us about that? What I assume was a healthscape. I've seen some video by the way of you, f Rahim, when you're actually out there on the battlefield. I mean, actually there's a video of you online where you actually got wounded. So I mean you were right there in the action. What was it like to see all this Well,

I'll tell you what, man, it was. It was really it was kind of surreal, right. So I talked about it in the book City of Death, where, um, you know, I leave the seals right this this elite unit, where one of the top you know, uh close quarter combat units in the world. Um, you know, incredibly elite, tight knit. We have everything is you know, we have standard tactics, all this stuff, great equipment, and I go from that

to just total chaos on the battlefield. Right. So what's it like working with the Iraqis they fight a war was very different than we do. Their soldiers are ten ten days on ten days off, none of them really have body armor on. UM. They only fight after, you know, their morning tea and then they usually break for dinner and then that's it, you know, and so they don't do any night fighting. It was a very very strange thing. They're in comparison to the US forces. They're very disorganized

and all that. So it was very chaotic. It was extremely chaotic, if you want to know what it was like. UM. But I will also say this though, two about the individual Iraqi soldiers. And this isn't necessarily an endorsement of the Iraqi government, but the individual Iraqi soldiers were incredibly brave. I was. I was actually very surprised to see that these guys were were we were laying down their lives

to rescue um. You know, Sunni Muslims, and most of the guys in the in the that we were working with were Shia, and they were They were incredibly kind to the civilians. They were even kind to their ISIS captors. I never saw any We saw lots of ISIS prisoners, but I never saw any um mistreatment of those guys. And it was it was quite an interesting experience living in working directly with the iraqis holding security with them

at night, holding the line with them when ICE's counterattacks. Um, and I talked about all that stuff in the book The City of Death, and they're just really really really great human beings honestly, and I'm not saying that casually sounds cliche, but they truly are, Like they're really Um yeah, I mean, how did they How do they receive you?

I mean I'm assuming they must have been pretty darn grateful that somebody, especially with your skill set, shows up and it's like, I'm gonna I'm gonna help you take back your country just because I think it's the right thing to do. Yeah. Absolutely, these guys were incredibly gracious. Um,

they were. It was It was funny when I first showed up, the other guys I'm on the Free Bremer Rangers team had already been there for a couple of months, and so I sort of showed up and the other guys on the on the team were former special a couple of Special Forces guys and a couple of former Marines, and so so when I showed up, I was still I was literally fresh out of the fresh out of the seal teams. M I left and literally got a

flight directly and flew directly to Iraq. Like I was still technic in the Navy, but I was on leave, on terminal leave when I went to Iraq. It's usually not what I think people do when they're on leave, but yeah, I go ahead, no no um. And so yeah, when I when I flew to Iraq, I when I started working with these guys, my guard was still very much up. You know, I always had my hand on

my rifle. I was always you know, kind of had my standoffish and just I was thinking very tactically and I had to, like I had to really let my guard down and learn that I could trust these guys.

And I talk about that in the book City of Death, where you know, I'm first mingling with these Iraqi soldiers and they're they're so to answer your question, they were a little bit standoffish at first because I was acting different and they didn't understand why I was acting all tactical, you know, so I had to kind of cool it and become a little bit more comfortable around them. But once that happened, they were incredibly gracious, incredibly kind to us. Um.

You know, we didn't even speak the same language. But these guys would come hang out with us and like whatever room we were sleeping in, and they just come hang out and they're sitting there all talking in Arabic and we're just sitting there talking in English and everybody's just laughing and having a good time. It was very quite quite the surreal experience. Yeah, what can you tell me about the about the enemy side of the equation?

I mean, what did you what did you see from them in terms of tactics, in terms of their their skill level on the battlefield, and also obviously the aftermath of the atrocities and the violence they committed against civilians. I mean, just you know, give us a picture of what the other side of the battle feels like. Oh man, So I'll tell you what I thought to give you comparison.

I fought the Taliban in Afghanistan, um and I'll tell you what, man, this fighting ISIS was an entirely different animal, not just because we didn't have air support and whatever else, but the ISIS, the ISIS fighters were honestly, they were they were good. They were really good. And by the time we were pushing into West Mosel, sort of at the end of the Caliphe. That was their last stand,

right that West Mosele was their Alamo. Um, you know, all all the dumb ones were already dead, you know what I mean, like all the guys you know they were they had already been wiped out, and so it was extremely difficult to spot an ISIS fighter in the in the urban sprawl of what was going on. Um. I think I think I only saw one confirmed ISIS

fighter who popped out and fired an RPG. Um. You know, And because they would hide, they would they had I think three years to prepare Mosle for this offensive, so you know, they'd be two three rooms deep in these buildings they had. They were shooting from all kinds of hidden vantage points, and it was it was absolutely terrifying. And you know, of course they know what streets we have to go down, so those are all mined and booby trapped, and they'd use suicide bombers, car bombs, you

name it. And it was. It was insane. And a couple of other things that were interesting about this fight were the Islamic State fighters that were there. One they knew it was the last battle, so they were not trying to say of ammunition and to a lot of the Islamic State fighters. This was a very interesting thing. A lot of the bodies that we found of guys of Islamic State fighters that we killed during the assault, a lot of them were European guys. A lot of

them were white, you know, Chechens and things like that. Yeah, and we'd find we'd find handbooks and korans and sniper handbooks and stuff like that written in Russian. And the reason for that was because the other Islamic State fighters were trying to and some of them successfully did escape with the civilian crowds that were fleeing. You know, they shaved their beard and they try to blend in as

best they could with the crowds. The crowd a lot of times would point them out to us, but the white guys were not able to They weren't able to do that. The white Islamic State flighters were not able to do that. So a lot of the guys that we came across were um were those guys. And then they also again the final point is that they knew they were going to die. They knew they were going to die, and they knew they were going to be martyred.

So no matter no matter what they did. You know, according to their beliefs, they were going to go to heaven, right, So that's why, you know, you'd mentioned the day that

I got shot. You know, we were rescuing a girl and a man from a pile of rotting bodies or more than one hundred and fifty people have been slaughtered in the street right in front of ISIS headquarters there in West Mosle, and they were you know, the ISIS guys had no problem doing that because you know, they're going to be martyred and go to heaven anyway, and these people are apostates, so they are able to do that. So the level of cruelty was insane, but they're also

their sophistication was also incredible. One final point, they were

also making their own ammunition, like RPG ammunition. They were making one time use rockets and like little factories in random buildings all throughout Mosile, which I didn't even think was possible, but they'd figured out how to do it, and they were doing it literally like factory made RPG rounds and launcher tubes and all this stuff, so incredibly sophisticated, incredibly ruthless, and it was an honor to be a part of dealing with it, because you know, this was

this is my generation's Nazis. You know, like if you had been alive, if we had been alive during you know, World War Two, it would have been amazing to contribute to the downfall of the Nazis. Right, well, this is our generation's channel of the Islamic state is a death cult. It's a genocidal mass race being death cult. And yeah, well it's you know, and it's something that you know, I think that it's a good reminder for everybody out there.

I mean, fram one question for you. I know you were a seal, I know you fought in Afghanisan when you're in the midst of this, and it's pretty incredible that there are videos of you in Mosul running to people who have been wounded. You got wounded yourself. You know, you've got what are you carrying in ak and you're running around, You're doing all these things. You've got some Americans with, You've got some uh, some Iraqis in view. What do you I mean, are you just completely focused

the task at hand? I mean, are do you ever break psychologically in a moment you just say, oh my gosh, what the heck am I doing here? And then go back into go back into your training or yes, that's an excellent question. So one of the things that I talk about in City of Death, and one of the things I wanted to make I didn't want this to be another Seal book, right, there's there's dozens of Seal

books out there. I didn't want this to be that I talk a little bit about my time in the Seal, but I wanted this to be a very open and realistic portrait of what it's like to be in this fighting. And So to answer your question, and I talked about it in the book City of Death, is Yes, absolutely there was times I completely lost my composure. On the first day of the assault into West Mosle, which I didn't even know we were assaulting into West Mosel that day.

I thought we were just kind of moving forward a little bit. I literally broke down and started weeping as I held this little girl's hand who had been shot in the face, and you know that the other medics were working on her, that the real medics are working on her, and there's nothing I could do to help her. I just held her hand and just was like I just hope that she would survive. And I just began weeping. And I've never lost my composure before, you know, in combat.

And then that same exact night, Isis counterattacked and we our position was hit with the seven or eight rockets are RPG like direct hits within a matter of ten minutes. It was insane the amount of firepower that was coming back at us. And yet we were all like, dude, what are we doing here? We're potentially going to die tonight. And we all had to make that decision. And I know I certainly did. I really internalized it, and I was like, dude, I am I willing to die for

these Iraqi people? Am I willing to die to hold the line with the Iraqi army? You know? And these guys aren't even you know, fighting back effectively. And yeah, there was a lot of introspection. There was a lot of I don't have to be here. I paid my own way to be there. I wasn't paid to be there, you know, I had to buy my own plane ticket. And yeah, so there was a lot of introspection. And then the day that I was wounded, the day that we went on that mission, you know, we were talking

about it before and afterwards. The guys that were on the mission, the former Special Forces guy's name is David Ubank, he's the founder of Free Brommer Rangers. And then my other buddy, Sky Barkley, former marine. You know, we've been talking before we went out into this mission. We were like, dude, we're going to die. You know, there was it was, it was that bad. We were going directly into Isis territory.

They had the high ground on the flanks, and luckily the US military commanders we called them, are that David Ubank called them, and they they agreed to give us a smoke screen. So they literally fired an artillery barrage smoke screen to kind of blind the enemy a little bit, and we ran behind it in a rocky Army tank straight into the straight into the fray. They started dropping mortars and opened up on us with machine guns and we were able to get you know, two people out.

So yeah, there's a ton of introspection, um and I talk about it in detail in the book, and a lot of the feedback that people have been giving me from the book as they're like, thank you for being honest, thank you for telling what it's really like being there, you know, because I don't. I don't. I don't. I'm not trying to be some big tough guy because I'm not. I'm really not. I'm just a normal human being who

wants to who wants to help people. And yeah, so I discussed all those fears and all those all those doubts, and a lot of that was what the heck am I doing? Man? You know there's a well, fra you're a warrior, and you're a courageous and principal guy, man, And thank you for your service to this country, and thank you for your service for humanity as well. The book The City of Death Humanitarian Warriors in the Battle of Mosul. I actually just purchased it right now on Amazon.

I recommend you all do the same. Frame. Thank you so much, man, great to have you on. Thank you for your service. Been a route a week for Facebook, in fact, a difficult few months. You know why people are figuring out that there's a lot of left wing nonsense going on at that company, a lot of tilting the conversation away from conservatism and toward progressivism using algorithms and terms of service policy, all kinds of stuff. You know what gets around all that a new social media

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I will be issuing both peas and carrots a presidential pardon. Unfortunately, I can't guarantee that your pardons won't be enjoined by the Ninth Circuit always happens. They're guaranteed. It's kind of funny, right, It's kind of funny. You know. I gotta say, I don't really that's obviously from Trump pardoning the turkey today. The ceremony apparently goes back to the nineteen forties. And you know, it's been a thing for a while here,

and during George HW. Bush's first Thanksgiving US president, there's been this tradition for the president to pardon the turkey. I don't what is hold on to say? Here we go. Here's the white House history dot org pardoning the Thanksgiving turkey. Here's what it says. The official pardnering of White House turkeys is an interesting White House tradition that has captured the imagination of the public. And I wouldn't go that far, buddy.

In recent years, it's often stated that President Lincoln's eighteen sixty three clemency to a turkey, recorded in an eighteen sixty five dispatch by White House supporter Noah Brooks, was the origin for the pardoning ceremony. Reports of turkeys's gift to American presidents can be traced to the eighteen seventies, when Rhode Island poultry dealer Horace Vose began sending well

fed birds to the White House. The first families did not always feast upon Voss turkeys, but the yearly offering gained his farm widespread publicity and became a veritable institution at the White House. At Thanksgiving nineteen thirteen at Turkey come Lately from Kentucky, a few minutes of fame with the fine feathered Rhode Islander. Soon after, in December, Horace

Vos died, thus ending an era. By nineteen fourteen, the opportunity to give a turkey to a president was open to everyone, and poultry gifts were frequently touched with patriotism, partisanship, end glee. In nineteen twenty one, American Legion Post Front, Okay, etc. We got a lot more here. Recently, White House mythmakers claimed that President Truman began the tradition of partning a turkey. However,

the Truman Library disputes this. Ninety nineteen forty eight Truman except the two turkeys coming handy for Christmas Dinner nineteen eighty one. The practice of sending the presentation turkey to a farm became the norm under Ronald Reagan, the Turkey.

Oh eight, CNN did what playclip thirteen? John President Trump pardoning the Thanksgiving Turkey, the annual tradition peas the name of this turkey, and just the most unusual potomy here as this comes on the heels of a statement that the President has put out essentially pardoning Saudi Arabia and the crown Prince and the king there, despite what his intel community is expected to put out in a report today that Saudi Arabia is behind that these leaders of

Saudi Arabia are behind the killing of a Washington Post journalist. Wow, what a forced transition there, Oh my gosh, the parting of the turkey kind of like the partnering of Saudi Arabia. Wow, CNN, you can do better than that. That is that was really that was weak. That was weak. That's pretty funny. But that's the Trump's not allowed to do anything without

it being an opening for criticism. Trump can't even pardon the turkey without the pardoning of the turkey being used against him, you know, the Emolument's clause or something with the turkey. That's what it is. Yeah, that's the ticket. Every year this topic comes up and I just don't understand why how to have a conversation with your angry uncle over Thanksgiving. That's what this New York Times piece is called. And I see variations of this year in

and year out, you know. And here's what it says. Quote. Thanksgiving is a beloved holiday because it's a time to gather with relatives from afar. It's a dreaded holiday for the same reason. Many of us aren't accustomed to socializing with people who think differently from us, especially about politics. Our political attitudes and beliefs are intertwined with our most basic human needs, needs for safety, belonging, identity, self esteem,

and purpose. And when they're threatened, we're biologically wired to respond as if we're in physical peril. No, no, false, I'm gonna stop right there. This is how liberals view things. This is not how conservative view things. I don't view my politics as essential to my safety, belonging, idea, entity, self esteem, and purpose, not at all. In fact, I view my politics says, hey, I think this is the best way to get this thing that we're all trying to get, or that I think we should all have,

or that is, you know, intrinsic to human nature. But I'm open to debate it. I'm open to thinking about it another way. And honestly, you know my opinion. No one person's opinion matters all that much anyway. Past the gravy.

That's kind of how I feel about this stuff. But they set up this angry uncle bot that that's supposed to be kind of like a training a training module for libs that have to deal with clearly with conservatives, right, because conservatives are the ones that are going to be difficult. Conservatives the one that they say are going to be a problem. So he writes, Hey, it's the angry uncle bot. I have lots of opinions, but what kind of uncle

bot do you want to chat with? Then you have to reply, I'm more liberal, so I'll chat with conservative uncle bot. And I'm more conservatives, so I'll chat with liberal uncle bought. All right, So I click on I'm more liberal, so I'll chat just because I want to see what they say. Great. Let me tell you something. Trump has been great for America. Just look at the economy. It's booming. This is what the bot and you can click on this thing. Right, It's like a video game.

It's like a choose your own adventure for politics. So look at the economy, it's booming, and then you have to click on how would you reply? Trump has been good for the rich? The jobs numbers are misleading, So how are you doing financially? You know, all annoying left wing things to say, let's go with John, what do you think? Let's go with the jobs numbers are misleading. I hear that one a lot, and then the response is you don't like them because Trump looks good hashtag

fake news. And then the moderator comes in and says, this is not a good choice. This will turn the conversation into a debate over facts and figures. That's a problem because people tend not to be persuaded by contrary evidence. Try this response instead, so how are you doing financially? Good choice? The goal is to start a conversation. So basically, this is training folks. I know that there's a liberal version at a concertive version, but obviously people read the Times.

They're all going to be a bunch of screaming libs. This is training that libs need for how to talk to conservatives in their family. And it's just so funny to me because I've had to talk to Libs. My whole life, all the time, all around me. The notion that as an adult who has political views and beliefs, I would need the New York Times. I get it too right. I mean, this is supposed to be kind

of cute. It's little tongue in cheek. I'm not trying to be the Ebenezer Scrooge of Thanksgiving conversation here, although maybe I am. But it's just it just goes to show you, you know what the best thing to do on Thanksgiving is just enjoy being around family and friends and just don't get into annoying, contentious topics. Just don't do it. It doesn't matter. You're not gonna win anything, You're not going to convince anyone of anything. It's just

much less important. And I really do believe that Libs have a much stronger inclination on this. Libs are much more likely to just get way out of get their nose bent out of joint on this one, and freak out because they view to that intro the point made of the intro. They view politics as intrinsic to their being and who they are and all this other stuff, and it's just not really the case, you know, It's funny.

I think in this current environment, you're probably better off talking about religion and religious belief than you are about Trump. It's more likely you could agree on is there a God? And you know what is the truest or the only true religion? Then you are to get people on the opposing side of the Trump discussion to talk about things in a in a civil fashion. You know, you don't want someone to throw the turkey drums to get you.

Those things can be kind of big. You know, you don't want you don't want some kind of an incident. So you know how to have a conversation with your angry uncle. Why do they assume the uncle's angry? By the way, what about the aunt. I've got some very opinionated aunts. You know what. Why they got to assume if there's man's splaining going on, there could be woman's planing over that Thanksgiving turkey. I'm just I'm just checking all the boxes, my friends. Roll calls up next. The

show ain't over yet, folks, keeping it real. It's time for roll call, two shows away from Thanksgiving. On the roll call, that's where we are here, folks. Wow, time flies when you're doing a syndicated talk show. I gotta tell you, I can't believe already here. I've been living in the swamp for six months. Six months. I gotta tell you. I miss I miss my big apple. You know, home is home, and for me, home is that big, smelly, overpriced concrete jungle known as New York City. But DC, no,

I miss home. But it's good for the work. I got to interact with all the swamp creatures and bring you additional insights and knowledge and things like that because I'm here, so that part of it's cool. I gosh, I'm so tired. I'm actually drinking drinking coffee at this stage of the game. That's probably a bad idea, now, no wonder, I can't sleep at night. But it's black rifle coffee. That's the good news. Taste delicious, all right. Facebook dot Com slashbuck sex a team. I want. I

want some Facebook first timers. You know. I've got a big crew of wonderful, wonderful team Buck folks who will write in on a regular basis, and obviously we get a lot of notes in that are that are first timers in general. But I would love it for the holidays to get some team Buck first timers in the inbox here. All you do is go to the page Facebook dot com Slashbuck Sex and send me a message there and thank you so much for doing so. Whatever

you get the chance. Douglas rights, you are good on Rising. Today's co host and the panel were not too bright an extremely partisan, same as all the other shows. Well, Douglas, I'm glad that you think that I'm good on Rising. It's not easy to carry the conservative banner in that environment, and I do it as tactfully as I can, because, as I've said, I agreed when I came on the show to take a not too aggressive position with my conservative views. So I've I make my case, but I'm

not going to shout. I'm not going to lose my temper and all the rest of it. So that that's how I view all of it. But thank you for your support of what I do. Martin writes, can you verify is Wikipedia is telling the truth about you? Especially in the footnotes, it appears that Wikipedia is a takes a leftist slant of things written in it. Hittory will be kind to me for I shall rewrite it. Signed Wikipedia, Martineah, I've had left wingers, go try to delete my Wikipedia page.

I've had them try to put things on there that are not true. This is the way that unfortunately, social justice left acts on this stuff. This is the way that they that they will, you know, they conduct themselves. So yep, uh yeah, that's that's pretty much it. Um So there you go. I mean, oh yeah, I don't even have a I don't even have a Wikipedia page right now because they deleted it. They have deleted it. Um So, I don't know what else to tell you

other than yep, the social justice words. They're gonna come after me, and you know, they're just they're just scum. I mean, I get so. I really have an honest disdain for these particularly for these progressive guys out there who are just so smarmy and nasty, bata male pajama boy cowards. You know that that's really the designation, that's

what they are. And they all work at Huffington Post and move on, dot org and Slate and all these just talking points, memo, what's that other daily cos these just just steaming dung heaps of pseudo content that don't need to exist but they do for whatever reason. I just don't I just tend on to like those people.

I mean, no, I'm sure there's some people there who are fine, but in general, I mean, in general, if you work for move on dot org or you work for Media Matters, you're probably not a very good person. Not not true all the time, but in general, it's it's a fair bet, especially Media Matters. Media Matters is a disgrace. But I could go on and on. So, yeah, Wikipedia did they They've deleted my page and people keep trying to put it. Hey, any of you listening, please

go back and restore my Wikipedia page. How about that? It says thorough resourced as a lot of other Wikipedia pages that were out there. I've never written on it myself, obviously, but you know they've they've deleted it. So it's just such an annoyance. They just don't want people to be able to easily find me in my bio and background because they it's a form of deep platforming. They want a deep platform me on the Internet, and that's that's

what they're doing. It's disgusting. I hate these clowns. Philip bright Shield, hie Buck, You've talked about this before, but with the recent mccraven comments, please visit wide. General flag officers tend to be social liberals. I have a few hunches. It starts with the service academies, which, in my experience, churned out the more liberal offers of my peer group a life of insular focus, and later fete it as royalty as they rise to flag rank. These senior officers

have never lived or worked outside of a socialist environment. Therefore, while they're often great military minds, their whole personal experience is what of social prestige, Like an elite in any society, Philip, I think your analysis, and I'm guessing your military yourself. You're you're a military I can see if your bio your analysis is spot on. It's just that the nature of people that rise to the elite levels of the military command structure, not the elite levels. You know. When

I think of elite military, I think of Jaysack. I think of Seals, Army Rangers, Delta, Special Forces, MARSAC, you know, Air Force, pjs, etc. I mean, that's when I think of elite military, That's what that's what comes to mind. But at the elite levels of the military command structure, Yeah, these are people that are much more like politicians than they are like warriors in many cases, and that's their day.

Their day to day is much more similar to what you'd have as a congressman than what you'd have as a door kicker. So I do think that that affects their approach and certainly the perception they have of the world around them. And also I know that it's true on the intel analysts and civilian side. You know, you dident tend to need advanced degrees to impress the promotion

boards of some of these places. And so when you get advanced degrees, there's a certain level of indoctrination that occurs because they're talking about social science advanced degrees, not like getting a PhD in math. Right, you're getting a degree in international relations, a degree in political science, or one of those things. And yeah, those are liberal strongholds.

So there's a degree, and everybody's affected by this. Right, you want people around you to think you're smart, and you want to sound smart, so you end up saying the things that the smart people say. Now that all said, I mean, I'm just speaking about bureaucracies and gentlemen. I have no experience. I've never been in the military. I have no experience of the military command structure myself, so you know your analysis, Philip is more astute on that

than mine. I can tell you though that, you know, if you want to be CIA director, you got to kiss a lot of butt and you got to get advanced degrees, and that's pretty much it. You don't have to be some super intel officer. You really just have to be a politician. So as to the military side of it, I'll leave that to the many, many, many of you listening in this audience right now who are current or former military. One of the great points of pride in this show was what a huge and robust

military listenership we have. Laurel writes, Hey, Buck, Laurel and Idaho. Here was it one of your sponsors, which is the free TV website app. I listened at work and don't always remember to write down the important stuff, lol, Laurel, free TV. What are you talking about? Snippy dot com. It's a new social media platform, Laurel, that's a sponsor on the show. Maybe that's what you're you're going for. I'm not sure, though. Timothy writes, here's a bearded picture

for you from a Californian living in Canada. Talk about moving from the pan into the fire. Wow, Timothy, your beard is Your beard is like is next level dude. Like you could be a character in a TV show about the Civil War, and all the other Civil War guys would be like, gotta respect Timothy's beard. So props my friend. Thank you. Timothy writes, Oh another, this is a different Timothy Shield time Bucks, stop the madness with the burgers. Pickles are an absolute necessity for a counterpoint

to the red meat flavor. Go to five guys. I know Obama likes it too. Even a blind squirrel finds a nut and get a bacon cheeseburger all the way, it will change your life. Okay, Timothy, a few thinks here, all right. First of all, I love five guys, okay. Second of all, even though I can't eat the bun obviously. Second of all, I don't know why people are so dug in on this pickle on burger thing. I mean, look, I understand that you've been propagandized too by the pickle

industry for many, many years now. I understand that McDonald's unfortunately fell victim to the pickle on burger craze a long time ago. But it doesn't have to be that way. I'm showing you a glimpse of a brighter, better future where we don't have to have pickles on our burgers. We can have a pickle on the side of the plate, right next to your French fries, right next to your chips, you know, whatever it is you want to have there,

right next to your Brussels sprouts. If you're like me and you try to eat brossel sprouts with every meal. That's just the way that it can be, Timothy, I'm trying to show you a glimpse of a brighter future. That's it. Five Guys is excellent. Although my favorite of the fast food burger chains is In and Out Burger In and Out. It's my number one, even though the fries at In and Out are not that good, John, have you had the Have you had the fries in

and Out and five Guys? Five Guys fries are better, but In and Out Burger is is definitely, you know, definitely my favorite for the actual burger bah. John, you better be ready tomorrow. We're talking Thanksgiving food, Thanksgiving traditions. We're gonna have a whole, a whole shebang plan. You're ready for that action, add news. Buck, I'm out tomorrow. Wow, Wow, I'm I don't even know what to say. Now, Brandon will be here just leaving me. Yeah, Brandon, I don't know.

Brandon doesn't get as excited about food. He gets excited about music, but food. He's not a foodie. That's all right. We'll talk to him about it anyway. Willie is next here. You're right, say hey, Buck, I live in SoCal, quite a distance from the fires. The saddest part of the fiasco is the loss of life and the feeling that it could have been a much smaller tragedy if only common sense were used. Governor Brown blamed global warming not so long ago. He seemed rather quiet during Trump's visit.

What worries me most? Do we need a tragedy before we realize sanctuary cities and state policies are as dangerous as fires? How the voter, how the veterans, or rather how the voters can vote for the demn stuns me. Thanks for your excellent program, Willie, Well, thank you, Willie. And let me tell everybody out there, please do send me your Thanksgiving thoughts for tomorrow. We'll try to get a lot of that in on the show, what's the best side dish on Thanksgiving Feast Day? What are you

thankful for? What are you looking at? Four two and twenty nineteen and all that good stuff. Anything you want to send for the show tomorrow, Facebook dot com, slashbuck sexted, talk to you, then she'll tie