Guest Host: Harlan Hill

a great guy. Got to know him over the last few months because we moved to DC around the same time from New York. And on this Friday, the twenty eighth of December twenty eighteen, we have a lot of ground to cover, lots of news is coming in at the end of the year, and we have a lot of forecasting to do as we go into twenty nineteen. I have a great show planned over the next three

hours that includes some just phenomenal guests. You're going to hear from the Daily Callers, Stephanie Hamill, doctor Sebastian Gorka, Diamond and Silk, Judicial Watches, Thomfin and Moore. But I want to start with illegal immigration. I'm sick of hearing about this issue. I'm sick of hearing the excuses. I'm sick of kicking the can down the road. I'm sick of the inaction. Men and women Americans are literally dying on the streets at the hands of illegal immigrants. Drugs

and unspeakable crimes are committed with regularity. We're almost desensitized to it at this point in our country. And these crimes should never happen because these people shouldn't be here in the first place. We have police officers, and in this case that we're going to discuss today, this police officer was a legal immigrant to the United States, murdered at the hands of a monster. And where are the Democrats?

Where are the Republicans? Where have they been? Over the last two years, every Republican and Congress was sent to Washington with an electoral mandate to stop this problem. Arguably, this is the most significant tenant of the twenty sixteen Trump Revolution, stopping illegal immigration. And despite the President's best efforts, we're not making any progress on this because of Congress.

They had two years to do anything, to do anything, but we have obstructionists and the establishments of both parties Democrat and Republican who have blood on their hands. They could stop this. We could stop this today, between border security, building the wall, mandatory Verify, and deporting people people that commit crimes. We have people that habitually commit crimes and break the laws in this country and are here illegally, and we know about them, and they're released into the

general population, and it breaks my heart. I mean a wife and this hero's child he won't ever see his dad again because of bad public policy. It's plain and simple. Washington could stop this. We could stop this. Well. You know, last night I was watching Fox News and I heard a clip of the police chief who hired Ron Singh, the police officer that was murdered, and the chief was inconsolable. He just broke down. Let's play that club. You have

to understand, this was not supposed to happen here. I've been I've been to too many of these funerals and I never thought, however, that I would have to be doing this. I do not want to be here today. I would give anything not to I did not know Christmas morning, at four o'clock in the morning, when I said goodbye to him and send him off to his family,

that it would be the last time that I saw it. Yes, he was a police officer, but more importantly, he was a human being, and that's how he would want to be remembered. He was proud to wear the uniform and he does want to be remembered as a police officer. But don't forget the other things, the little things that

are oftentimes forgotten in these stories. That his five month old he will never here talk, he will never see his son walk, He doesn't get to hold that little boy, hug his wife, say good night anymore because a coward took his life. Please help us find this man and bring him to justice. I hope he's watching today and he does the right thing and turns himself in. We

need closure, His family needs closure. Joining me out of discuss is Fox New Star, Daily Caller, video columnists and honestly one of my best friends in the world, Stephanie Hamill. Stephanie First, thank you, Harlan introduction. Stephanie, First, let me ask you to react to that clip. I mean, it's just heartbreaking, heartbreaking. I don't even have words to describe what I saw. And we all feel for him. We all have families and the idea that He's a father

of a five month old son. He's leaving behind a wife who loved him. This happened on Christmas night. He was working over time because he wants to provide for his family and do the best. And the way that his colleagues described him, I mean, he was an exceptional person. He was a hard worker. And what they touched on was the fact that he was a legal immigrant from Fiji. He did everything the right way. He came to this

country to seek the American dream. He had it and it was all taken away in just one night by an illegal immigrant. That's the suspect, and they did catch him. There was a man hunt. They found him today, Gustavo Perez Ariaga. He's the man who's accused of shooting Ronel Singh. And they found him at a brother's house allegedly, and his brother's an illegal immigrant, and also one of his co workers another illegal immigrant. And you have to wonder today,

I mean, you touched on this. The Democrats have blood on their hands. There are laws that are making it easy for criminals to live freely, to walk the streets of some of the states in our country. California is a sanctuary city, and this is what some of colleagues were talking about. The sheriff of that county was discussing this and he wasn't holding back. And a lot of these police officers and sariffs are afraid to speak their minds. They're afraid of retaliation. But he didn't hold back. This

was this cross the line. This is not something that they were used to sing in their county or in Newman, California, but it happened, and so they have to address the issue. And there's so many things. You know, people are saying, built the wall today. Build the wall, you know, building the walls one step, but there are so many other things that we need to fix. It's not just a wall, it's I mean, that's part of it. We need to do everything that we can to en four our nation spots.

And we are blowing out the red carpet inviting people to this country. And you know, whether it's through a vista that they overstay, or the fact that we have employers that are employing the legal in our friends, what about you verify all of these other things. We don't know how Stavo perez Ariaga, as a suspect, made it into this country could have been any of the above. We're not sure a WAA would have prevented him from coming into this country, but these are all issues and

things that need to be discussed, absolutely. And one of the most troubling takeaways add from this is that as soon as the story broke, actor Chris Pratt took to Twitter and he was asking for people to be on the lookout for this suspect, and he got just lambasted by liberals and you know, calling him out, saying well, why don't you call out you know, victims of you know,

police brutality. Why are you focusing on just this? What does it say about this country that we have this kneed youre reaction from a sizeable portion of the country that just asking for help to identify someone that was innocently murdered the suspect of someone that murdered an innocent person is controversial? What does that say about the country? Yeah, it isn't controversial. And notice the silence from the liberal

media on this issue. Normally, you know, they have kind of like a protocol, especially if there's a gun involved, they would be calling for gun control today, but instead they're actually not even really wanting to talk about this story. And then they do talk about it, they say that the Republicans or people that are for border security and for enforcing our immigration laws, that they're demonizing all immigrants, not just the legal immigrants in general, because they like

to put everyone in the same category. And that's not fair. And yeah, we don't want to demonize all immigrants, or even illegal immigrants for that matter. But the fact is that we already have enough problems in our country. We don't need to be inviting criminals making it easier for them in this country. Yeah, and sanctuary city laws really

don't protect a legal immigrants. They protect criminals and makes it difficult for police officers to do their jobs to share information with eyes when it comes to the detainers. I mean, it's really astounding that lawmakers will continue to push to make things easier for criminals to operate in this country. Oh yeah, well, and so let me ask you. I mean, you used to live in California. California, you know, has quickly become a sanctuary state. I mean, they're just

totally flouting federal law on illegal immigration. Is this going to become more common? Um? I hope not. I mean I hope people learn about it. Are people are people in California? I mean, is is public opinion with the idea of sanctuary cities and sanctuary states. Well, the public opinion on it is I think it's confusing on what

it really with the law really states. So people when they think of sanctuary they're they're, you know, hoping that and law enforcement is investing into church in school and you know, carrying families the party and then doing like mass deportations. Yeah, but that's what their idea of a sanctuary.

They don't realize that it's actually just paperwork and it really affects police officers communicating with ice, right, and if they knew that, which they don't, because the liberal media won't talk about it, and people don't have time to look up laws and look through all the texts and everything, and people just out busy lives, so they want to go with what feels good. So they just don't really know a lot about it, and it's a public opinion on it wasn't strong. Like I don't think a lot

of people work for sanctuary city. Did you ask any legal immigrants who went to the process. They don't like it well, and so let's let's shift gears here and let's move to Washington. Are we going to get anything done on this? I mean, we have this shutdown right now. If you had to get a crystal ball out, do you think that the Democrats are going to come to the table with the President and provide some material funding to secure the border? I hope. So. I mean Democrats

aren't willing to negotiate. They never do. It seems like Republicans always cave and we always, you know, no matter who has the majority, it seems like they're always doing what the Democrats want. I mean, they're asking for a very simple request, but five dollion dollars for the wall. It's not very much, and that's not even what we need. I mean, we need a lot more money to build

a full wall. So I think that's the Democrats. They're just not serious when it comes to fixing our immigration problems. They talk about comprehensive immigration reform. Comprehensive like what does that even mean? And even the Republicans are guilty of this as well. I mean, no one is giving answers, no one really had solutions, And you know, my theory is a lot of people just don't really want to

tackle the issue. A lot of their donors on both sides a businesses and they want to employee legal immigrants that they don't you know, they don't want these people quote out of the shadows like they benefit from that. So until we actually have we verify and a real system, like I mean, comprehensive immigration reform really is. It's that complicated. And I'm not saying I'm calling for a mass deportation. I'm not even against the amnesty. I'm just against this.

What we're having right now is these caravans, thousands of people come fromming the border. We have some anywhere between eleven million and thirty million people quote living in the shadows. Why don't we deal with that first? Why don't we tackle that first, and then you know, then we can

go through the process. But the United States is the most generous when it comes to green cards in the world, and so I don't at some point we have to stop just letting whoever end whenever they want to come here. And also we need to know who's coming here. That this man he shot the police officer officers thing, he had a criminal record, He had two DUIs YEP and so you know, democrats care about DUIs unless, of course it's a legal immigrants. Who are the ones that are

the US? Isn't that ironic? Yeah? Of course. Well my last question here is do you think the President made the right call to shut down the government and to choose this moment in time to fight the Democrats? Oh? Absolutely. I was surprised that he had changed his mind at the last minute to begin with, because he said he was for the shutdown and then he wasn't. So I mean, he needs to be forceful, he needs to be strong, and whatever he promises, he needs to stick to that.

And he's promises to the American people aboard a wall. We want it not just the wall, but we also want you know, other measures to enforce our our nation laws and when it comes to immigration. So you know, I think he wrote Oliver, President compa is so far has delivered on much more than anyone excepted and you know, promise has made promises cut absolutely. All right, Stephanie, thanks again for joining me. I'm sure you know we'll catch up soon. If you guys want to keep up with Stephanie,

just go follow her on Twitter. Her handle is at steph m Hamill. You can also find her videos on the Daily Caller dot com. We'll be back after this quick break with more. Stay tuned to the Buck Sexton Show. In the midst of all the whining coming from the left, I mean, it's just crazy these days, right, They're chasing people out of restaurants, yelling at you in the coffee shop, acting like a bunch of maniacs. You have to wonder

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slash buck. Welcome back. You're listening to the Buck Sexton Show. I'm Harlan Hill filling in for You can follow me on Twitter at Harlan h A R l A N. The phone lines are open, so give us a call at eight four four nine twenty eight twenty five. That's eight four four nine hundred buck. For those of you

that are meeting me for the first time. I'm a frequent guest of Red Fox News, and I'm a Republican political consultant that only takes Trump Aline candidates, and I'm on board member of President Donald A. Trump's twenty twenty reelection campaign. So you will be hard pressed to find somebody more loyal to the present than may. We have a caller here. Our first caller is Rita from Illinois. Rita, how you doing? Are you there? I'm here? Go ahead, all right? Yes, um, I think we need a new

National Party to get rid of these Democrats. You come to Illinois. They have held Illinois hostage for years, and the whole time they've been robbing us to death. These people in Illinois can't get out of this state fast enough. It's so bad here anymore. And I think we need to get rid of the whole National Party and get a new one in you know, readA. I agree, you know, honestly, I think the establishment of both political parties are the

problem with this country. It's not just unique to the Democrats. I mean the Democrats. The whole party's riding and they're gonna have a massive civil war in twenty twenty as thirty or more candidates by for the nomination. It's gonna be a slugfest. It's gonna be nasty, and that will just work to continue to divide the party in a way that I don't think they're gonna be able to recover from. But to be fair, we have a civil war within the Republican Party that the president has basically won.

But there are some dormant Republicans that are just sitting this out. They think that they can run the clock out on President Donald Trump. There's no question that's their strategy. They think that, you know, if the Democrats get lucky, they can they can beat him in twenty twenty, and the old guard of the Republican Party that sold out the American middle class, that allowed endless illegal immigration will continue, will make a comeback and say, look, we told you so.

So it's not just the Democrats, it's the Republican Party. We got to have a fundamental change in this country that's focused on putting America first. Who cares what you know, rich you used to be, whether you're a registered Democrat or a registered Republican. I'm a former Democrat myself. I'm a Republican now, you know. But the country has changed. The House was on fire. The only guy that stood to put out the fire and turned this country around

was President Trump. And he's working against obstructionists in both parties that will only be satisfied when he's not in the White House anymore. Well, they've become anti American, They've become anti everything against America and their laws. On top of all this, plus they're putting the blame on the

young people up today. The young people up today were the ones who had books taken away, were institutional lives from crib to classroom, all their lives propaganda and lied to through school and they are so uneducated they can do nothing for themselves. God, you're so right. I mean, this is the fundamental problem in this country. You know, the education system has just totally fallen apart. We got to wake up and start focusing on this so that

we stay competitive on the global stage. And this is the challenge that we face in the twenty first century. Anyway, we want to hear from the rest of you guys. We had great, great guests coming up. So the phone lines are open. Call us at eight four four nine twenty eight twenty five. Again, this is the Buck Sexton Show, and we'll be right back after this commercial break. Welcome back. You're listening to the Buck Sexton Show. I'm Harlan Hill

filling in for Buck. The phone lines are open, so give us a call at eight four four nine twenty eight twenty five. That's eight four to four nine hundred Buck. Trump's arrangement syndrome has just swept the Democratic Party. Perhaps the institution's most affected by this. The mainstream media that really came into view this week as news outlets, you know, prematurely criticize the president for not visiting troops in Iraq, only to have to immediately retract their stories when they

found out that he was in fact. Are you there? Before we get to our next guest, doctor Sebastian Gorka, Let's listen to some of President Trump's remarks the troops, because while they're talking about him just signing Maga hats, I want you to listen to how this huge crowd of soldiers reacted to the President's speech. And here's a hint, they love him well. First of all, at ease, Attias, Let's have a good time. Let's have a good time.

The other reason I'm here today is to personally thank you and every service member throughout this region for the near elimination of the ISIS territorial Caliphate in Iraq and in Syria. Two years ago. When I became president, they were a very dominant group. They were very dominant. Today they're not so dominant anymore. America shouldn't be doing the fighting for every nation on Earth, not being reimbursed in

many cases at all. If they want us to do the fighting, they also have to pay a price, and sometimes that's also a monetary price. So we're not the suckers of the world. We're no longer the suckers, folks, and people aren't looking at us as suckers. And I love you folks because most of you are nodding your head this one. We're respected again. As a nation. We're respected again. Some people say, well, maybe somebody comes from

the area and they hit us on our homeland. If that happens, they will suffer consequences over here like nobody has ever suffered before. Let me just tell you, and I hope they hear that loud and clear, and that's not a threat. That's going to be a fact. If anything should happen at all, nobody will ever have suffered the consequences that they will suffer. Just remember I said it. Joining me now is doctor Sebastian Gorka, a former deputy assistant to President Donald J. Trump and current Fox News

national security strategist. Doctor Warka, thanks for joining me, absolutely, thank you for having me. Merry Christmas, going a happy New Year, Happy new year. Were you surprised by the media's latest fake news attack against President Trump on this Iraq visit? I mean it was they were hyper ventilating.

You know, first they were proven wrong that you know, the President ended up going to Iraq when they were reporting that he wasn't going to go and and then as soon as that passed and they were proven wrong, they started focusing on this maga hat nonsense. Are you surprised this? Are you just like immune to it? Now? You know, I thought I would be immune given my time in the White House of what I've seen in the last two years, the media never ever learning from

their mistakes and doubling down on the news. But I was horrifying, Harland. It was absolutely disgusting what they did. It was a disgrace the idea. Look look, look at the videos, Look at the photographs that Sarah Hukabi Sanders posted. Look at the faces about servicemen and women. Look at the joy they are on Christmas Day. Their commander in chief with the first Lady comes to a war zone to be with them, The smiles, a spontaneous chance of USA USA. And how does CNN, how does MSNBC react?

They want to get our war fighters into legal jeopardy. It's an absolute outrage. The men and women who wear the cloth of the Republic, who go into harm's way for us, and they want to quote some bogus legal jeopardy with regards Todd regulations. I worked for the DoD for five years. I'm familiar with the hat track. I've read the regulations on what uniform service and women Cannell Cannel do. The only thing that is prescribed is the

active involvement in uniform during political campaigns. Not getting your hat signed by your commander in chief, Harland. It was an utter disgrace. They're politicizing this, I mean a real way, and the President went out of his way to make this about the soldiers in the media. We're so transparent because they were willing to jump from one story to another. It's just clear that the President could not have done

anything right right. First they were mad that he didn't go, and then they're mad that he showed the soldiers too much respect. I mean, I'm flabbergasted, and I think that the American people have to start seeing through this. I mean, it's so transparent what they're doing, it's obvious. It really it should make you realize just who these people are. They if you love this country, they It's really really

that simple. If you look at that moment, that incredible moment I think it was where an am And said to the President that he re upped he stayed in the military, he re enlisted because of who the new commander in chief is. And how did he respond? He said them and said, I'm here, I'm here in uniform again because of you, mister President. And the President responded, I'm here in Iraq in this war zone because of you. They can't relate to that. They can't relate the self hatred,

the idea we had eight years under Obama. That's that's the reason my new book has the subtitle it does. My new book is why We Fight Defeating America's Enemies with No Apologies. And I'm really grateful my publisher came up with that subheading why because we had eight years of apologizing for who we are, with the commander in chief who didn't back up our military, who said we of the problem. Now and these people know it, these men and women know it. We have a commander in

chief who has the bank. Can you imagine the feeding houn, Can you imagine off the a years to finally have a commander in chief who trusts you and wants you to do your job. I'm sure it's an enormous relief for them, you know, I mean, after eight years of a president that not only didn't respect the military, he actively worked to undermine our military, starving it of the resources that it needed to stay competitive in an increasingly

dangerous world. Barack Obama undermined our national security and it took a president like President Donald J. Trump to finally reinvest in it, not just financially, but in terms of our confidence, to provide absolute confidence in our leaders to do what's necessary to win these complex So hats off. Yeah, I tell a story that tells you everything you need

to know and why we fight. By the second year of the administration, we had a group of about eighteen future Green Berets visit the National Security Council, and I thought, hey, it'd be really cool. In addition to their briefings at the NSC, Why why don't we get them in front of their new commander in chief. How cool would that be? The Front Office immediately signed off. On the day they arrived, after their briefings on the NSC, I took them into

meet the President. The president in addition to meeting with them taking the time to get to know them, he took them into the Oval Office with no press there. This is not a press moment. He said, I want you, each of you to stand next to me, one by one, next to the resolute decks. Now, we're going to take

a photograph for you and your family. Can't publish it because you're going to be special operators, but you're going to have a photograph in the Oval office with the Commander in Chief to share with your family, to share with your units. That's who this man is. He's proud of our Jadair Christian heritage, is proud of what America stands for. And as a certain former president from Illinois

once said, elections have consequences, they do they ever? Well, the President in that speech, Um and a rock said, you know, we're no longer the suckers of the world. Yeah. And this coincides with his decision to withdraw resource or proops from Syria and to um, you know, pull back in Afghanistan. You know, you have enormous connections in the military all the way to the top. You're the pre

eminent national security strategist in the country. Um, you know, what are you hearing from people in terms of morale at the Pentagon and within the wider military. I can tell you just another story from the White House. The same day we took those future Green Berets and to see the President. I gave a brief on ISIS to the YEA to the soldiers, and afterwards there was somebody on the comment to the NFC who's from Jay Suck. So that's the tip of the best of the best.

That's the special operations for going covertly to do what needs to be done. And he was in civilian clothes. He was etiquet of briefing himself and he recognized me for the TV. I didn't know who he was, and he came up to me after he said privately, Dr Golga, I'm stuck here at the NFC. My buddies are in theater. They're killing bad guys in the Middle East. I just want you to know so the president knows that since he came on board, our morale has sky rocketed. And

you know, that's what you want to hear. After eight years of saying we are the problem, that America is responsible for the ills of the world. To have a man who not only trusts the military but unleashes them to do the job they were meant to do. Recall, ISIS was described by Obama as a generational threat. We just have to live with that changed at twelve oh one on January the twenty January the twentieth, twenty seventeen, we unleashed our military and within five months, the Isis

Caliphate no longer existed. That's what leadership can get you. What taking a shifting gears here a little bit and coming back to domestic politics, what do you think the outcome will be of this government shutdown? Is the president is going to get the wall. Look, the President just tweeted out that he's prepared to close down the border if he doesn't get funding for a war that, by

the way, the Democrats say they would fund. I mean in previous years for Donald Trump became president, they actually said that we need a war and they're going to fund it now because he's the president, because he's serious, and because they want to lock in their new plantation dwellers. They want to have illegal aliens right across the border become Democrat voters. They are going back on their promise I want to make I want to give a clear

message to your listeners. The president knows that he came president because his first substantive policy platform was immigration reform and building the wall. He will never back down for the next two years. The Democrats have the House, they have appropriations, so they're going to put a stranglehold on

significant funding. But the presidents going to continue to do to do what he's done already, which is to reprogram the fundible assets in the DoD budget to build the wall, because the wall is a national security imperative and he has every right to do so. Well, let's take you

brought up a great point there with Democrats. Back in twenty thirteen, all fifty four Democrats in the Senate voted to pass the Border Security Economic Opportunity in Immigration Modernization Act, and in this was forty six billion dollars for border security improvements that added seven hundred miles of border fencing. Every single Democrat in the Senate voted for it. Chuck Schumer,

Dian Fine stan Stein, Dick Durban, Harry Reid. I mean, and so the notion that the Democratic Party has not materially changed on the issue of immigration in just the last few years is totally debunked by that fact. They used to be on our side here and something has changed. And now you're a racist for merely suggesting that we should secure our border. And be a nation of laws. It's so dishonest to the American voter. Well, not only is it dishonest, it's disrespectful to the memories and the

sacrifices made by those that defend us. I mean, look at Corporal Sing. Corporal Sing who goes to work Christmas, is his five month old son and his beautiful wife at home, goes to work, stops an illegal alien who's already already been charged multiple times with d uy and he gets murdered. He gets killed. Corporal Sing, a legal immigrant to the United States, who loved to be a peace officer in America, and he's gunned down by legal alien.

What does Chuck Schumer, what does Nancy Plosi, What does mister Katchin release the former president Barack Obama have to say to that man's widow, to his five month old son, to the family of Kate Steinitz, You're right. They always do what for them is most politically expedient. It's the same with gay marriage. It doesn't matter what topic you pick. They will go with the flow as long as it

means power for them. If it means a one eighty, if it means a retraction, if it means thinking that the rest of America is stupid and doesn't remember what the Democrats promised to us. The sad fact today is that a Democrat who is strong on national security, like John F. Kennedy was, would not be allowed into the Democrat Party. That's how badly the radicals have taken over the DNC. Well, doctor Gorka, I just want to thank you so much for your time and your analysis. It's

truly unparalleled. And I want to mention to our listeners that doctor Gorka has a new book out, Why We Fight. Make sure to pick that up on Amazon or in your local bookstore. And doctor Gorka here, you have a brand new radio show called America First, and it premiers appropriately on January first. Is that right? I'm very excited. I'm joining the amazing people of the Salem Radio Wood Network and it's prag My galaghlari El, Delude Dogs and

the Taxis. I'm gonna have my own called America First, broadcasting line from the Swamp everyday Monday to Friday, three to six East Coast, twelve to three on the West Coast. We will be fighting for you on the front lines of the cultural war. So tune in America. First, check out our new website that goes live on the first. It's said Gorca dot com. That's seb gr ka dot com. And in the meantime, have a blessed new year. Thank you, Doctor Gorka. Hello everybody, welcome to the Buck Sexton Show.

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joining us now need basically no introduction. There are two internet sensations who became enormously popular in twenty sixteen for their viral YouTube video supporting President Trump. And I could tell you I just saw them last week at the White House and they're as popular as ever. I mean, yeah there, and the President loves them. He even gave him a shout out there So that was that was really something. So I want to welcome to the program the one and only Diamond and Silk, hosts of the

new Fox Nations show, appropriately named Diamond and Silk. Awre y'all doing, I would, I hope you do a well. Oh it's great to be with you guys. Now I got to ask, I got to ask, what do y'all think if this government shutdown? Look, the Democrats cost it because the democratslicit the House, the Senate. They are the ones responsible for funding our government and funding government projects, and when it comes to our national security, the border

will have to be funded. They decided to go home, go to Hawaii, go to their destinations, and have funds over the holiday. And so to stand there huckling it down and and and coming to the table with an agreement that we're going to fund the border wall. So if as or bust about it, and I don't think these people understand that. Oh yeah, I mean, so who's to blame for this? I mean, as far as I can see, it's the Democrats because the President's not asking

for much. I mean, just a few years ago, they voted, they voted, Democrats voted for tens of billions of dollars in border security, you know, because they wanted to look like they were conservative. Now the presidents just asking for five billion and they won't even give them that. So who's really to blame here that So it's their fault because they took an to uphold the constitution and to do certain duties. That duty is purned up funding our government.

And when you don't want to fund the government in this project, but you're funding, you're giving millions of dollars to day dreaming and wanting to know what happened with quails and this and that. That's crazy. You know, we're not gonna be able to daydream if we keep our boarders open. Look at how people are just walking up in our country. Look at the police officer that got gunned down for what. Imagine if we would have had a wall up. Imagine if immigration, the immigration problem was fixed.

I think it's time to hop it down and fix the problem instead of dismissing it or putting a band aid on it. It's time to fix the problems and that we can move forward. I can't blame my president Donald J. Trump, and the reason why it's because he stayed at the White House to do his job, and he don't even get paid for the money that he gets. He gives that away. Let's say it like that, right, But you have these congress if women and men that's in office that went home and they still got paid

for not doing their job. And I heard, I don't know if this is true that we say allegedly her it's been alleged they gave themself a pay raise. But I got to continue to do my research to find out that that's true, because they should have gave themselves no raise. As a matter of fact, they should give the money back because they don't work for us. They have proven that they work for illegal aliens. That's right. Well, and you know, I mean Nancy Pelosi's cashing that check

every month. Okay, somebody like Nancy Pelosi. She's not working for free like the president. And she's worth she's worth tens of millions of dollars, tens of millions. Okay, she's a rich woman. And I guarantee you she ain't working for free. Okay, there's no chance, So let me let me go ahead, There is no chance, Hall of You're right, yeah, So let me let me ask y'all. I mean, what

do y'all think about a Democratic Congress coming in? Because now the president he had Republicans, you know, many of them that didn't like him over the last two years, and it was hard to get some things done. But now he's gonna have a Democratic Congress. They're really not gonna try to work with him. I mean, I think they're going to try to impeach him. Well, here's the deal. They should not be trying to talking about investigate. They

should be legislating is what they should be doing. And what we're going to have to do as the American people is called them out on their stuff. They ran on, Okay, we want healthcare for all. You got the House, so you need to be fixing the healthcare problem, not trying to impeach a sitting president. And what are you going

to impeach him? All? For the economy booming, for unemployment being at an all time low, for economic opportunities for people, for for for putting it I'm signing the first step into law for for signing opportunity zones. What are you going to impeach him on? See, he is not like the traditional career politician. He's a businessman who's about the business. That's why he didn't go home for the holidays. He stayed at the White House because he's about the business.

And you got Congress they want to go back to business as normal. A lot of them out their hands in the cookie tar and ain't no more cookies left and they scrambling for kuaw. That's right, and not to mention, if you look at it, there was a lot of deep state snakes, elitist Republicans right there alone with the Democrats for the last two years, and that's why a lot of stuff did not get done. So it's not gonna be no difference for the next two years with

the Democrats having the House. But Donald J. Trump did it with them or without them these last two years. He would continue to do it with them or without them for the next two years. Oh absolutely, Now, I mean, we have out this week there are all these stories that Congressman Maxine Waterso. I know, y'all did a whole documentary on She's going to be chairing the House Financial Services Committee, which is a big deal. Okay, how is

this happening? This woman's been discredited time and time again, and here she is. I mean, she's getting promotion. I mean, it's unbelievable. They don't care about that. They don't care about her getting her kick back. Patty, what about that situation with the bank that her husband was tied to and up under the Obama administration, that bank was built out because of her influence. They don't care anything about that. They want to continue to do. Listen, Banses as usual.

Let me, that's why you have them about ninety two, one hundred years old, still up there. It's the money, it's the money. But the gravy trains are coming to an end. I don't know how she got that position, what it is, what it is now, it's our responsibility to watch her because that's tax Paris dollars. It ain't nothing to be fool in the row when it comes

for our dollars. Oh absolutely, So let's just shift gears here to twenty twenty, because you know, I mean, we're a couple days from twenty nineteen now, and you're gonna have all these Democrats coming out of the wood work, you know, announcing their intentions to challenge President Trump. They're gonna be beating each other up in the Democratic primaries. I mean, if you're looking at the lists of candidates, like, what do you think about these people? I mean, like

Beata O'Rourke, I mean, what's his deal? Beetold me he told listen, hey don't have no deal because he couldn't even win Texas and they spent millions and millions of dollars, which we've got to understand the reason why you're seeing some of these people throws they had in the ring. It's all about money. How much had to raise and probably allegedly, this is my old personal opinion, how much they can take because they know they don't even stand its hands at winning when it comes come up. When

they come up to President Donald Trump. I look at Beto o, Beto, whatever his name is. He don't look presidential to me. He had all this sweat on the show. He looked like a sweat person. The President's just sweating. And no, we would never vote for him. When you see Beeto, you've been a vetold him, act like we don't did a veto, Absolutely not. It's a no for Beeto. What do you think about Corey Booker because people are saying he might be one of the guys. You know,

he's right up there with Beata. I mean, what are you think about? No, cry Booker. Let me tell you something about Corey Booker. Then Cory Booker admit some things that he used to do. The women now they want to downplay it. You don't hear the me too movement, you don't heed the hear time up movie. You don't hear none of them talking about it. But Cory Booker is an absolute no, no, no, He's already made a mess up there in the Senate. That's no. He's a

not well people don't realize. I mean, he left his when he was mayor of Newark. He left that place a dang disaster. I mean, so if we left out a disaster, what will we want someone like that to be running for president and be our president? Don't you know? It's gonna be a disaster up there at that White House if we allow him to get in to think about it for a minute. So it's an absolute it's

a no go for him. No. Yeah, And I you know we could go on not because they're gonna be I mean they're gonna be like coming out of the word work. They're gonna be like thirty Democrats and they're all gonna beating each other up. It's gonna be real nasty. You're gonna have Kamala Harris. And you know if you I don't care if it's fifty Democrats and they call Hillary to make fifty one yeah, one one, my brother, they go knock about one five one. And I see

him being the president in twenty twenty. And the reason why is because he's a man that don't wafer. He cares about the American people. When I look at how he said I'm going to secure the border. I want to secure the border, and he bessed out on his holiday to stay up there to fight for that. People respect that. And I don't care what side of the value on, but people respect that. Even the people that

didn't be vote for him respect that. And they know we do need border security because it drove down wages. And the first people it affects minority. I see why. Listen if they want to know why Hispanics love this president because most of them came in it did the right way. They got a line and they waited their turn, and they are appalled with the money that they pay.

How they can allow the borders to say open illegal aliens to come rush our borders, beat up on our throtocks at our border patrol ages, thinking they can just walk back up in here, walk in our country and take the American dream. Hu. It's to be up paid, but too hot to get in line the way to You'll try to do it the right way when you come into this country. We have laws and rules. It's time to follow up the law. That's right. Y'all. Know why people love you so much is because y'all don't

mince words, okay, and I know why it is. Y'all. Y'all aren't from the Acela Corridor. You're not. You don't live in DC, you don't live in New York, y'all. Are y'all still right down North Carolina? Right North Carolina. Let me tell you something. We listen, we pay attention, and we call it out. And you cannot use these big words where people don't understand it. You've got to call it out in Lama's time. Here's what it is. Job so people can get what's going on and guess

what people are paying attention to. Well they and look the people in the mainstream media, I mean and stuff. They think we're stupid, okay, they think it as Trump voters. We don't know what we're talking about, and we proved them wrong in twenty sixteen because we were right. Absolutely, and they think that we are crazy. They think that we are stupid. Let me tell you something, Americans do

not benefit from people running it. If we benefit from people just run across with our borders with no border security, then why don't you have doors up at your house and they're a way to security alarm? Tell Obama to goal knock down that wall he just built the bockets house. Tell Nancy Pelosi to get rid of our walls. Listen, we need border security. We cannot continue to risk our

national security. Elite the American people ride dirty and then people gett kill, Americans getting killed, and five million dollars should be are dropping a bucket if they can take our tast dollars and illegally fund SANCTU where we're sitting. So we can take our tast dollars and give President doctor Trump the funding he needs to find the wall. Absolutely, that's right. So I know y'all have this new show coming up on Fox Nation. Can you tell me a

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phone lines are open. We're gonna be taking a ton of calls for the rest of the show. Give us a call at eight four to four nine hundred twenty eight twenty five. Also, just a reminder, make sure to go download the Buck Sexton podcast. You can download it wherever you have podcasts, Apple, Google and elsewhere, even Spotify, so make sure you grab that. I know that we also have a caller Charlie from Ocean City, Maryland, Charlie, how are you doing. Thanks for taking my carl And

I wish the president does two things. Number One, shut down the border. That there's two thousand trumps across our border every day. Make this shutdown hurt the Mexicans. And number two, get the military. I was a CBE back in the sixties. I went to non several times. All we did was build. There's no problem. You have the Army Corps of engineers, You've got the Marine engineers, You've got the Air Force engineers. You've got enough military people to build the wall. And it won't cost no fifty

billion dollars. Oh well, absolutely. Now listen, the President said today he's willing to shut down the border. He's going to do whatever he has to do to make this happen. I'll tell you why. He knows that this is probably the biggest promise. Building the wall, securing the border is the biggest promise that he made coming out of twenty sixteen. If he's going to win in twenty twenty, he's got to deliver on it. And for two years didn't have

the help of the Republicans. He's certainly not going to have the help of Democrats when Snancy Pelosi's running Congress. It's not gonna happen. Maybe we can get some small funding here and there, but it's going to be an uphill climb and it's going to be a tough couple of years getting the president's agenda executed if we have to depend on Congress. So moving to your second point, I agree, let's use the full breadth power, the resources, and the know how of the American military to do this.

And there's a very simple rationale for using the military to do it. This is an issue of national security, plain and simple. We don't know who's coming into this country. We don't know could be terrorists, could be other radicals. And we know for a fact that we have murderers, habitual murderers. We know that we have drugs, We know that we have all kinds of criminals pouring across the border. We know that that's a fact. You can't dispute it.

I don't care what talking points Democrats want to trot out. It is a fact that you know we have a violent element among the people that are coming across our border illegally, and we need to act now. And I think that the President's next step after the shutdown is resolved, and I suspect we're gonna get some funding from Democrats and the shutdown will go as long as we need to, and you know, you know, chunk of change and we can you know, build however many miles of wall with

that five billion dollars. And I think the President will eventually get that. I don't think he's gonna acquiesced in the meantime. But that's not gonna be enough. I mean, we've got we've got a lot of border to secure, and so I have stand with you one hunder the President should use the military and whatever other resources he has available to fund this thing, to build this thing. Period. We don't have a choice. So Charlie, thank you for

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We have a government shutdown. We're heading for a divided government as Democrats will assume control of the House, and Democrats are just starting to lay out their plans to challenge President Donald J. Trump in twenty twenty. Joining me to break down where this all goes in twenty nineteen is conservative writer Ryan Grdosky. Hey, Ryan, I wanted to

great to have you. I was watching CNBC. Absolutely, I was watching CNBC and they're really pushing this idea that this government shutdown in the presence focus on illegal immigration is hurting the economy. I wanted to play a clip for you so you could hear it. The President is still taking the wrong lesson from the mid terms. He believes the mid terms validated everything that he was doing, and of course it didn't. If you look at the

voting independence went for the Democrats by twelve points. And what one Republican strategist said was that the President took the wrong lesson from the midterms and that the number one issue is the economy, but the President made immigration the number one issue. He continues to make immigration the number one issue. The Democrats aren't going to cave on that.

Maybe the Republicans in Congress will talk him into some type of compromise, But until the President moves off of the five billion for the wall, I don't see anything settling on the shutdown in the next few days. So let me just lay this out for the viewers. I mean, Ryan and I talk about policy and immigration constantly, and so I just know that he's going to have a lot to say about this because this guy on CNBC who's on all the time is inferring that immigration just

is not a top issue that motivates voters. And this harkens back, in my view, to a perception in twenty sixteen that largely led to the establishment being blindsided by the Trump Revolution. Ryan, you want to weigh in on that. Yeah, I don't think he knows what he's talking about. Twenty eighteen election showed anything. It was actually that, Um, the Republicans failure on healthcare motivated independence more than any other issue.

That's what If you look at like Kristen Cinema, who won, who was the first Democrat elected in thirty years in Arizona, narrowly beating Martha McSally, Cinema ran to the to the right of mcsalian immigration. She was constantly saying, how we need troops on the border. UM. And and many people who ran in and one in moderate suburban districts did not run on the open borders policy. Uh. That is that is that will be the main view of Democrats in the in the primary in twenty twenty, UM, they ran,

they ran to the to the middle. And there was a study done. I forget the institution that did it, but I certainly linked to it on Twitter later. UM that found that the people who voted for Obama twenty twelve, Trump and twenty sixteen, and then Democrats again in twenty eighteen, immigration was their number one issue and they were to the right of of of a center on immigration. It's just that they're a left of center on many many other issues, mainly healthcare and miss something you know you

don't need to be preached about. But you know, Republicans mean, you have said this over and over again. If Republicans do not figure out a way to bring down costs of healthcare, we're going to have socialized medicine in this country in the next fifteen twenty years. And it's you know, that is the main motivating factor for Democrats. It's all healthcare. So that's the main issue. But it's but Truva is

one hundred percent right to pursue a hardline view and immigration. So, I mean, the MSNBC was earlier pushing the idea that you know, voters are blaming President Trump for the shutdown and that this is going to lead to a route. You don't see that. I guess your point here is that you don't see people's views on immigration shifting materially at all as it relates to the shutdown or any that it's it's going to remain constant. People don't like

the ideas of you know, sanctuary cities. They don't like the idea of a police officer who is innocent and you know, away from his family on Christmas, being down by any legal immigrant. They don't like that. That's not a popular public opinion, right. I mean, that's not going to change just because the President decides to stand up the Democrats. Not only was he gunned down, but it's been I think I believe they caught the illegal alien.

But not only was he gunned down, but Nancy Pelosi, who comes from the same state that this police officer was gunned down, a legal immigrant, by the way, who was gunned down by an illegal immigrant. Nancy Pelosi has not mentioned him. Chuck Schumer hasn't mentioned him. I went through every Democrat in leadership and major Democrat presidential candidate. Kamala Harris has not mentioned him. Corey Booker hasn't mentioned him.

Bernie Standers hasn't mentioned They all mentioned this eight year old boy who died in custody a border patrol because he was dehydrated by human smugglers for weeks on end. But they did not mention this, this brave police officer who was murdered. And there was a viral vigil that went around on Christmas of a new York City police officer being attacked by three vagrant vagrants on the subway.

The main one who started the entire incident was an illegal alien with several detain ers that that we're ignored by by Mayor de Blasio. No, people care about safety and security. They're compassionate, but there they care about safety and security. They want the border um protected. And there's fifteen thousand more Central Americans trying to come to our border and we're being completely overwhelmed. And and I just I want, I don't think that most Americans care about

the shutdown. And secondly, um, those who those who really do are are are very heavily partisan, but they do want this border controlled and there's no other way about it. And Trump is right to whole firm He's going to certainly solidifying his base and people who who believe that our border needs to be secure. Well, let's shift gears

here to the Democratic primary for president in twenty twenty. UM. Just this week we had the news break that California is actually going to move up their primary date to Super Tuesday. And in my view, I mean, this just is a seismic shift and how Democrats are going to view the map as they start allocating resources in the primary for twenty twenty, can you explain to people, you know why this matters, Why having a state like California and Texas on the same day in the Democratic primaries

in twenty nineteen will matter. Right, So several things happen if for the twenty sixteen Democratic primary. One is to kind of help support Bernie Sanders supporters and get them back in the Democrat or attempt to bring them back in the Democratic fold. The Democrats did away with a large chunk I think about half or almost half of their super delicates, so the party will not have the same machinery as it did back in twenty sixteen to

help basically get Hillary Clinton over the line. A lot of it will be given to the voters, and the Democrats are are They give out delegates based upon proportion the votes, So if you get fifteen percent of the vote, you get about fifteen percent the delegates, and so on

and so forth. The thing is is that it was always these small and mid sized states that decided, and they would ramp up to big states like New York and California in Texas by having California and Tech by having sorry California in Texas right on Super Tuesday, being that will be the fifth election, they'll be Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada,

South Carolina, and then Super Tuesday. What happens is you could have a candidate like a Bernie or Beto or or Biden, when sweep three of those four states Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada, South Carolina will probably be going to a black Canada whoever runs because it is a majority a majority of Democrats in the state are black.

But but you could have them win three of those four and then California comes up, Kamala Harris sweeps California and Beto sweeps Texas or gets fifty percent or something close to that, then all those early states don't matter, and you go into an increasing likelihood of a broker convention.

And if you think that twenty sixteen was ugly between Bernie, Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton, it will it will be all out war if it is a Biden Beto ticket versus a Kamala Corey Booker ticket, where you have a very likelihood good likelihood of chance of splitting establishing Democrats versus non established democrats. Progresses versus moderates, young versus old, white versus minority. It could be very very men versus women.

You could be a very ugly contentious situation where two or maybe even three are very close to the presidency and are not even on the ticket because most people have the vice presidential candidate already on the ticket by the time the convention comes around. So it could be a very, very very serious problem for Democrats. And you know, you're gonna have a very strong likelihood of having twenty thirty candidates in the field, and many of them will

have at least a delegate. Now, do you think the Democrats have any ability to arrest control of the situation,

because I think you're right. I mean, it seems like it's it's possible we do have a BROKERD convention, and as we saw, I mean, we didn't have a ROOKERD convention in twenty sixteen, but there was still the perception that Bernie was slighted because of the party rules, because of the establishment working against him, And I think that actually really did have some longer term effects on Hillary Clinton. You know, in such a tight general election, who knows

may have actually decided the election. No, I believe that a hunt. I believe it did too, Okay, but so so do the Can the Democrats do anything at this point to pull together and unite the party so that they can avoid this or do you just think that they're so fragmented at this point that's just that's just not going to happen. Well, Bernie is Bernie is a big problem for the Democrats. One, he is not a registered Democrat, which irks a lot of established Democrats. Secondly,

he's very old. That worries a lot of established democ crafts. But also the fact of the matter is is that his supporters, so there are a large number of his supporters who do feel like the election was stolen from him, that he would have beaten Trump, and that this presidency is entirely due to the establishing parties. And they're still angry about twenty sixteen, and they're not going to sit

there and support any other candidate besides Bernie. And if they feel that this is happening again to them, they're going to be absolutely furious. Bernie has a right. Bernie supporters have already started a war against Beto, people who are being who's being built up by the Hillary Clinton camp.

Beto is on that Todd Save America and which is run by all former Hillary Clinton staffers and is already being pursued by Joe Biden as a possible VP candidate, you know, So it'll be a four white men running for president and vice president if Trump continues with Pence. But anyway, yeah, there's a lot of there's a lot

of tension in Anger right now. And if Bernie Sanders runs, I don't see any way around that, you know, unless he completely fans out and and people just kind of he's not as exciting as as as he was in twenty sixteen. But there's a mean he also never surrendered surrendered his list of the DNC after this after the election. So he has this fundraising base which is millions upon millions of people. He has millions and millions of supporter supporters. He's going to be very high up in the polls

in Hampshire and in Iowa. And that being said, though in a recent poll of Democratic candidates he is the most he is one of the most liked and one of the most disliked. So it's going to be very very difficult for UM for them to grapple with Bernie and there's a very strong chance he will run. And if he runs, uh, you know, it's going to be a bloody, bloody, bloody primary for Democrats where there's be

a lot of mud slinging um. And I wouldn't be surprised at all depending on who was a nominee, where you'll have a large segment of the Democratic Party again throwing their hands up in the air and saying this party isn't worth it for me. And you know, I'll be an independent, or I'll be green, or I'll do something else, but the Democratic Party is just too corrupt. Well, Ryan, I want to thank you for your time. I mean, this analysis has been extremely helpful. Where can people find

you on? My website is Ryan Gredusky dot com and you can follow me on Twitter at Ryan Grodowsky and Facebook at Ryan Gredusky. Awesome, all right, I'll see you soon, Ryan. Everybody will be right back. Stay tuned to the Buck Sexton Show. Hello, everybody, welcome back to the Freedom Hunt. You're listening to the Buck Sexton Show. I'm Harlan Hill and I'm filling in for Buck. It's actually Buck's birthday. I don't know if any of you guys know that it's you know, so happy birthday to Buck. You can

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he's just a good, solid guy. I wanted to take a moment, and this is a little bit of personal privilege to say something about a friend of mine, somebody that you guys have probably seen on Fox News. Her name's Bree Peyton and Bree on Fox News almost every day. She's twenty six years old, and she was a writer at The Federalist and Bree unfortunately passed away today. She

was a rising star in the conservative movement. She was widely considered to be somebody that had an incredibly bright future, however, and she actually passed away from the H one in one virus swine flu. She passed away from the flu. You don't hear about this very often. Twenty six years old,

healthiest can be. I saw her just last week at Fox and she was visiting with some people out in San Diego, California, and a friend found her unconscious and barely breathing yesterday, and she was rushed to the ICU

and sedated. And everybody that I know in conservative media, including Buck you know, or or or you know, saying a prayer for her and her family tonight, because you just you don't hear of that very often, and you know, it sort of underlines in my head how important it is to take these things seriously, no matter how healthy or young you are. We've had a really good show so far. We still have another hour ahead of us, and in that time we're going to have Tom Fitton,

the president of Judicial Watch. He has some incredible insight on the prospects of Democrats trying to impeach the president in twenty nineteen in advance of twenty twenty. Tom and Judicial Watch are arguably the pre eminent organization that focuses on legal issues and on the conservative side. You know, they led the charge in terms of chasing down Hillary Clinton for her misuse of her private email server. They chase her down on the issues with Benghazi. They do

absolutely incredible work. And so I think you guys are really going to enjoy my conversation that I have. I'm gonna have with with Tom here in uh, you know, another five or six minutes. Incredibly bright, and he has the President's here. And so one thing that we've tried to do tonight is to provide as many voices as we could possibly find on uh, you know, a holiday weekend.

And you guys have had some great ones, you know, from doctor Sebastian Gorka the Diamond and Silk to Stephanie Caller over at the Hamil as Sephanie Hamile over at the Caller and um, and we've got some great ones ahead of us. I am incredibly m proud of what we've accomplished in such a short period of time with President Donald J. Trump, and I can tell that many of you are too. I mean, we've had some great conversations with with with callers, and I want to hear

from y'all exactly what's on your mind. You know, between the shutdown, the incoming Democratic Congress, the overreach of Nancy Pelosi. Uh, you know, some of the most unstable, dangerous characters, people like Maxine Waters rising to prominence in the Democratic Party. Let's talk about it. So, the phone lines are open. Give us a call at eight four to four nine hundred two eight two five. Welcome back. You're listening to the Buck Sexton Show. I'm Harlan Hill filling in for Buck.

The phone lines are open, so give us a call at eight four four nine twenty eight twenty five. That's eight four to four nine hundred buck. If you listen to the mainstream media, we're on the verge of an impeachment showdown in twenty nineteen. Just turn on MSNBC or CNN.

It's all you hear world waff for the last two years. Basically, in fact, New York Times just put out on an op ed that said that it's quote all but guaranteed the President Donald Trump will be impeached after Democrats take control of the House of Representatives unless he takes a queue from President Richard Nixon and leaves on his own.

I think that's wishful thinking about the New York Times join me to discuss this as the president of Judicial Watch and frequent Fox News guests Tom Fitten, Tom, thanks for joining me. Probably good to be with you. Thank you for having me. Absolutely so, Tom, is this just more crying wolf by the Democrats, or do you think that there's a legitimate possibility that leadership in this new Democratic House moved to impeach the president. I think they

were going to talk about impeaching the president. They may begin impeachment inquiries, which is one way of having their taking eating it too, where they're talking about the possibility of impeaching him and having hearings associated with that and satisfying their hardcore activists who want impeachment while actually just keeping the government operating without too much craziness in terms of a full blown impeachment effort. Yeah, So, I mean, what is it going to take for us to finally

get some evidence of any wrongdoing by the president. I mean this started. This whole process of trying to undermine the Donald Trump administration started before he was even elected. They were trying to plant seeds of doubt about Russian collusion in the event that he won. And he won, and that's what they've done. So at one point three years into this nonsense, are we finally going to get something?

I mean, I'm I'm waiting for the American people to finally throw their hands up in the air and just say this is this is nothing. Why. I don't think it's going to stop until the League Office, really, whether it's one term or two, I just see this as the Remember you know George Bush's win in Florida, how controversial that was for the left. They never gave up on it eight years later, and the Russia thing is much more sensitive for them, even though it was the

Clinton Democratic Party that generated the false allegations about Russia collusion. Yeah, but that doesn't matter because they don't have a media holding into account here. So you know, the normal checks in our in our system aren't working in terms of stamping down this outrageous conspiracy theory. As you know, the question is of the Democrats, the Democratic political leadership going to go you know, full movie, full moonbeam on it.

I don't know. Is this the new normal then? I mean, you know, looking out, I mean, eventually we will have a new We'll have a Democrat in the White House at some point in the future. You know, is this the new norm? I mean, do you think that we will reciprocate with these kinds of investigations to work to undermine a democratic administration on the right or do you think that this is a phenomenon that's unique to the

radicalism that we're seeing metastasize within the Democratic Party. Well, we couldn't get a legitimate investigation based on serious criminal allegation against Hillary Clint Cuche. Yes, there's no way, you know, the Republicans or Conservatives are going to come up with a fake investigation or fake allegations and demanded criminal investigations. Just yeah, there's a degree the new normal is the Trump slash Kavanaugh approach to politics by the left? Yes,

I just don't see any ecois of it on the right. Well, can you help me understand, I mean, you bring up a really interesting point. What's the deficiency here? Like why why can't we get a proper investigation into Hillary Clinton? I mean, she and her staff destroyed evidence, there was under subpoena material to a federal investigation, and nothing happened. Nothing happened, they got away. If I had done that, I mean, I'd be under the jail house right now.

I mean, so, what's the disconnect your Tom? Why are we I mean this is asymmetrical. Well, during the Obama administration, one day someone serious rout a history of it. The politicalization of the government metastasize, especially in the Justice Department and the FBI. So there was never any chance in retrospect of the radicalized Justice Department in terms of politics, seriously investigating and prosecuting Hillary. And it just wasn't going

to happen. I know, I was naive. I thought the right thing might happen, But in retrospect that didn't even I even I didn't understand the scope and breadth of the corruption at the top levels of the Justice Department and FBI at the time. And yeah, it's it's something that's going to be difficult to undo because the current leadership still doesn't have a full understanding of just how

political their agencies are. Absolutely and before we go here, I just got to ask, do you think that there's any risk of Republicans breaking with the Republican caucus and you know, working with Democrats to impeach the president. Do you think there's any risk of that? Oh, there's always going to be some Republicans showing a little leg in that regard, and that My guess is that there are some Republicans secretly and not too secretly, like you see

the president removed from office. But I don't think it will be a substantial number that will give much cred to the left wing impeachment abuses if they proceed. Got it, Tom, thanks so much for joining us your commentary analysis. I love it on Fox every time I see you, so I really appreciate your help tonight. Where can we find more of your content? I go to judicialwatch dot org and I've got a great Twitter feed at Tom Fitton and of course at Judici. Great. Thank you so much. Everyone.

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actually a contributor at CNN. He was like one of the few woke conservatives that were there that had, you know, brought the perspective that they're viewers just don't get, you know. And I always respected him for going into the Lionston, for going into the arena and not back and down. It takes some courage to do that, I'll tell you guys. I mean, I've done plenty of CNN in the past year. I don't do it anymore. I'm exclusive doing Fox News now, but I used to do a lot to see in

particularly back in twenty sixteen. And they play all kinds of games. You know, everybody knows about the bias that they have. Everybody knows that you know they have. You know, they hyper focus on every little fault that they can come up with, whether it's true or not about the president. Sometimes they just blatantly make stuff up. But one of the things that they do that you guys just don't see on screen, it's behind the scenes. One of the things that they do is, for one, this is actually

something that you do see. They will stack the panels against Trump voices. This isn't something that they used to do, you know, with traditional Republicans, but they view the Trump presidency and the MAGA movement as an existential threat to

their pre eminence right. And I mean, the media for a long time had a stranglehold on what Americans thought and with social media, with the president leveraging social media in a way that no president, including Barack Obama, had ever done to mobilize his message and to get out stories that just were being underreported, including you know, the stories of angel Moms, which you know is particularly relevant in the light of the story that we opened the

show up with about the police officer that was brutally murdered out in California. But getting back to CNN, one thing that they do is obviously they sacked the panels. They'll have the host who's almost certainly liberal. They're very almost no conservatives. It's gonna they're hosting shows. But one of the things that they do is they'll have the host who's a liberal, and then they'll have you know,

two to four Democrats. Then they love to throw a never Trump Republican in the mix, somebody like Anna Navarro or you know, they're it's a long list of people like that that are never Trumpers, and you know, don't reflect any major constituency in the Republican Party. I mean, how many never Trumpers are there left among voters. They're barely any. The president's intra party approval rating is to

the roof. So the fact that they give equal voice to never Trump Republicans as they give to pro Trump Republicans is so dishonest to their viewers. I mean, that just doesn't reflect the modern Republican Party, doesn't reflect America. It's a total fabrication. And so you know, so they they to recap they stack it with a host that is very anti Trump, and they will have all these Democrats have a never Trumper, and then they'll give us one pro Trump Republican and everybody, everybody on the panel

shouts down the Republican, the pro Trump Republican. They don't give us a time to respond to like personal attacks, and so they drown you out. So but then they can say, you know, oh, we're given we're given the Trump voice as a chance. Nah, they don't do that. The other thing that they do is that they will change your topics last minute, and that's normal in news.

You know, this is a fast moving news cycle. And but all everybody else on the panel, everybody else that you see on TV, knows what the new topic is. This is a trick they play, and they will not tell us, so that we're totally blindsided and unprepared and puts us at a tremendous disadvantage. Now I told you guys earlier, I'm a former Democrat. I used to be a Democrat. I used to go on Fox News as a Democrat back in the day. I'm now very much

a Republican. I was always conservative Democrat, by the way, so give me, you know, don't hate me too much for that. I've seen the light. And I can remember going on Fox News back in the day as a Democrat, and I was never treated the way that CNN treats pro Trump Republicans. They didn't play any games like this, They didn't drown out our voices. It was always a fairer match. I can remember going on The O'Riley Factor, Okay Riley Factor, biggest show on cable news at the time,

huge had enormous, enormous social impact. A lot of people saw it, and at worst it would be the host, you know, Bill would be there, and then you'd have a Republican voice, and then the Democrat would would have a fair shot. You know, they're not getting drowned out. So Fox really does to this day give Democrats a fair shake. They're able to be defeated by Republican ideas on their own merit, and it says everything about CNN that they're afraid to give the ideas of the Republican

Party a fair shot. So coming up, now, we have a caller from South Carolina. Yeah, what question do you have a Hey, what's up? I was wondering what to take up the partial sit down? Oh? Well, for one, I'll be honest with you, I think that it was the best move the President could have made. The President made his most important core tenant coming out of twenty sixteen was the promise to build the wall to secure

the border to stop illegal immigration. And he didn't have a choice at this point, after two years of Congress led by Republicans not putting material funding on his desk to sign to build and secure the border. He had to put his foot down now, and I don't think he's going to pay much of a political price. I don't think that most Americans out there outside of the Acelic Corridor, outside of DC, New York, LA, I don't think anybody really cares that the government is shut down,

partially shut down. They don't care. So this was the time for the President to take a stand. And I think that he should ride this thing out as long as he has to. He should ride this thing out until he gets exactly what he wants. And you know what I'll waser, did the Democrats come to the table, Because you know I said earlier in my conversation with doctor Gorka, you know, it wasn't that long ago. The Democrats were down with the idea of securing the border.

Back in twenty thirteen, all fifty four Democrats that were in the Senate at the time, every single one, every single one of the Democrats in the Senate voted for the Border Security, Economic Opportunity and Immtegration Modernization Act in that it's a big long name. In that included forty six billion dollars for border security improvements, and it added over seven hundred miles of border fencing. The president's asking

for five billion dollars. You're telling me that many of the same Democrats that are still in the Senate and in the House can't come to the table for a music five billion dollars when they were on they came to the table for forty six billion back in twenty thirteen. And that includes the leader of the Democrats in the Senate, Chuck Schumer. He voted for this. But now supposedly walls are racist? Are you kidding me? And what do you think about the shutdown? Man? Well, I think it just

exposes the Last because they are a bunch of hypocrites. Yeah, and if they are, they preached saying, oh we're gonna build the fence where you know Obama preached, you know, the mass deportation, they're they're all that right now. The only thing they're trying to do is just undermine Chump right now. That's all the Last is doing any anymore. It's just to stop Chump. They hate Chump so much that they don't want him to succeed. They don't want

to see a wall built. I don't understand why, But I don't understand why they want people crossing out borders illegally. And I'm assuming you saw this, this cop that was just brutally murdered. You know, I was disgusted by it, that that scumbag. Yeah, of any man, all right, I get it. If you come to our country you need help, I want to give you help. But when you come into our country and you decide to kill a peace officer,

that takes it to the next step. That's when we should actually start opening our eyes and look that we need security on our wall. We need a security on a border. It's been going on long enough. Every year people are getting killed by easilygal immigrants who are crossing our border illegally, who shouldn't be here in the first place. And this all could be preventaged if we had border security. But well, border cussary with the wall. Oh absolutely, Well,

first of all, thank you for your call. I really appreciate it. I mean, I couldn't agree more with all of that. I mean, now's the time we sat around. We've waited, We kicked the can down the road for way too long. It's not just the last two years during the Bush administration, we didn't do enough either. As a Republican Party you know, Barack Obama and the Democrats for the last eight years certainly didn't do what was

needed to secure the border. They didn't really care. This has been a problem decades in the making, decades in the making, and enough's enough. We either solve this problem now or I'm telling you what, I don't think we're ever going to solve it in this country, maybe beyond repair, because the amount of crime and the drugs that continue

to pour across the border are totally unacceptable. No one has an issue with a degree of legal immigration, but we need immigration and moderation, and it's totally unacceptable that we don't know we don't know who's come into this country. That's a travesty and it's only a matter of time before it costs more American lives. Anyway, call in eight four four nine two eight two five. We've got one more interview coming up and the I'm gonna be taking all your calls on the other side of this this

break to make sure you call in. Welcome back. You're listening to the Buck Sexton Show. I'm Harland Hill filing for Buck. The mainstream media seem to be pushing endlessly, almost rooting for an economic downtterm. They report with bated breath the recent correction that we've seen in the stock market, and they all to blame at the feet of President Donald J. Trump. Let's play this clip from CNBC and

I think you'll see what I mean. It's interesting that you say that he's digging into this issue on immigration, which he very much is when it comes to the budget issue of the day. But he certainly is very impacted, very sensitive if he will, to US economic performance. We know he constantly looks at what's happening in the US stock markets as an indicator of his popularity in many ways.

So given what we've seen in markets, do you think this will be an impetus for change when it comes to President Trump digging in his heels not just on the border wall, but on things like China. Well, the question is what is going to be the lessons that he takes from everything. I think twenty nineteen is going to make twenty eighteen look team by Paris. I mean, USX Pats are like the canaries in the coal mine for US businesses. I mean, we send things coming first.

I've never seen such nervousness in the US business community as I see now. It comes with US China standoff, It comes with all the politics in Washington, it comes with the world moving forward without US, like EU, Japan and the CPTPP. So there's just so much nervousness now it's very hard to kick. What's going to make the markets better? Joining me now? Is markets Expert A frequent

Fox guest Katherin Rooney Vera. Katherine is a professor at the University of Miami and head of Global Research and chief investment Strategists at Baltic Capital Markets. Katherine, thanks for joining us. Thanks Han, So, you know, just listening to that last clip there, you know this is a message that I'm hearing cram down our throats on CNBC and elsewhere across all the liberal networks, that you know we're headed for a recession in twenty nineteen. I think it's

almost wishful thinking. Is there anything to this? And I couldn't agree with you more. It's almost breathless anticipation of a recession, hoping that it actually happens. I hear it where and as an economist and as you mentioned, a market strategists, it's just hard to justify. I often I say to my clients. Harland, I often say, I'd like to meet the economist who's calling for recession, who's a credible economist, and talk with him or her and say,

what are you looking at? Because what I'm looking at doesn't show me any signs of recession. What I am afraid of is that with all of this incessant talk about recession, because the market has corrected one thing does not induce the other. Of ten, fifteen, twenty percent correction in the stock market does not mean imminent recession. Um, what I'd like to see, what are you looking at? What is going on here? So look, I would say

that that the China issue is an interesting one. I think that President Trump is actually tackling it in the exactly proper fashion. I think we're actually going to get some type of resolution in the short term in the form of a deal, and I think the markets are going to be off to the racist. So I'm actually very positive on the markets and actively recommending long positions to my institutional clients. Is that the vibe that you're getting out there, I mean outside of the media, I

mean your peers. Are they thinking that twenty nineteen should be fairly solid? A lot of most people think there's going to be a deceleration. I would agree with that. But when we're talking about a deceleration, Harland, from three percent to two point seven two point eight percent, I mean, it's really not a big deceleration. So I think that there's too much emphasis on the deceleration and the negative aspects of everything, rather than on what has been the

motors and impetus for growth, which are twofold. One is tax reform, unequivocally, and two is the regulation. I mean, we have three percent growth. I remember at the beginning of the year, Harland, people would say to me, three percent growth is impossible. Three percent growth is impossible. Now we have quarterly, seasonally just annualized figures above four percent,

and for the year we're going to get three percent. Remember, one thing is important to know here for the audience is that potential growth through the United States of america's two point two percent. So if you're growing at two point six two point eight percent after a three percent year,

that's very strong. That's very strong. So the worst possible scenario that I can think of it and what keeps me up at night, is a self fulfilling prophecy if you get the mainstream media and really every media outlet talking about deceleration across the globe in the United States, possibility of recession, then I fear you would eventually see possibly consumer confidence dipping, which would could mean people putting breaks on investment or spending, and that could filter into

real economic data. So that's where I would be concerned from a self fulfilling prophecy perspect active. But the fact is is that if you look at total investment, if you look at consumption, or you look at exports, the economy is growing very strongly on multiple cylinders. Absolutely. And so I mean you identify China, I mean, what are the biggest risks we're facing If you're playing Devil's advocate here, Yeah,

I don't think it's China. I really don't. I mean, we've had decades of we've been complaining about intellectual property stuff for decades since Bill Clinton. So let's try something new here. I mean, I'm not afraid. I think I think it's a great way to go. We have the deal with NAFTA, which is the USMC. I think that's that's good precedent for what we should expect. That the rounds with China, and I think the incentives are aligned.

Not only that, think about this, Harlan. You have some concessions from the Chinese, namely a relaxing of the rules against joint ventures, a drastic cut in and the tax put on US car imports in China, a reopening up imports for ellen G and soy products. So I think that's playing the groundwork for some sort of um, you know, trade deal. So what I'd be concerned about would be

the felfilling prophecy. I'm concerned about corporate leverage, But apart from that, I wouldn't say that we are like like Jennet Billen said, I mean, economic extensions do not dieable dage. So just because we've been growing before twenty and sixteen at a mediocre average rate of one point eight percent, doesn't mean that twenty nineteen or even twenty twenty mean recession is coming. And what do you think about interest rates?

Because obviously the President's gotten a lot of flak. You know, he's taken on the Federal Reserve saying that they're not making the right calls. And I think that there's a perception out there in the Trump movement that the federal Reserve is playing politics and that they're trying to put a stranglehold on this economy in advance at the twenty twenty election. What do you think. I don't think that's accurate.

I don't think that's accurate Harlem. But by one thing, I think that the SET has reached its stool and date that the dual mandate is of course, full employment and inflation of two percent. Inflation has been below two percent. We're talking core PCE for many years, and we've seen the past few data, past few months of data in deceleration. So I would definitely not agree that that Jerome Power or the SET is is acting on political impulse. It

really is focused on a dual mandate. I do suspect that we're not going to get more than one rate hike. If that over the course of the next twelve months, if the Fed does hike three or four times, that could precipitate the next recession. I mean historic. As you look at the economic cycle, there's peaks and troughs. Right, you go to the peak and then you start to decelerate, and then you go into recession. It's going to happen. These are economic cycles. That's part of the economy that

happens historically. What brings about that that inflection point is an overly ambitious fet a feed that moves too quickly or too aggressively. So I agree that is a risk, but I would I would suspect that given the combination both of full employment and an inflation that's kicking up to that two percent target, remember the targets two percent um, that the fet IS doesn't have to move more aggressively than the one hike over the next twelve months. If that,

I've got to ask you. So in politics, you know you watch TV, Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, and one of my biggest pet peeves is that there's no accountability when these pundits on television. And I'm one of them, right, I'm a pundit on television. You go on TV two when when you're great? When when pundits you are to thank you. When pundits go on television and they prognosticate and then they tend they turn out to be totally wrong.

I mean, basically ninety percent of the people that are on TV in advance of the twenty sixteen election, we're absolutely totally wrong in predicting the outcome of the election. Now there's no accountability in politics. Is there any accountability in terms of economics and people that are prognosticating on the on the on the long term outlook of the Accountmy I wish there was, Harlan, because really, I mean, the consensus was that three percent growth that was impossible.

I remember guys saying that as the outlets you mentioned impossible. Tax reform, I recall this. It was never going to happen. The consensus was tax reform was not going to happen, NAFTA was going to be canned. We would leave the wto Trump as an isolationist. None of that happened. We got three percent growth. Tax reform became an all star major economic growth motor. Right, Tax reform has been phenomenal. Consumer and business confidence is at highs that we haven't

seen in decades. Does that get covered? I don't see it, right. I don't see it. In fact, when I go on the news and I say, look, the market is selling off for fear. This is a sentiment driven sell off. There is no fundamental motor for this collapse in confidence in the market. Look at corporate earnings expansion, Harland, it is up twenty five percent year over year. That's not just dive it in buybacks. That's not buybacks, are paying

out dividends. That is corporations investing in themselves using the capax incentive. That's part of the tax reform. And I look at tax reform and people even say to me, I get this question quite a bit from clients and from from the media as well, Well, that's a one and done. Tax reform is a twenty and eighteen story. It's not going to happen and it's not going to help in twenty nineteen. Economics tells you something different. There's

something called a virtuous cycle. And the virtuous cycle what has what happens. Cut you cut people's taxes, they feel richer, they invest in, they spend more, They remodel their house or that buy that car, or they go on that vacation. Then corporations see that demand or for see that demand build up inventories. Inventories goes directly into the calculation of

US GDP. Bottom line. GDP does better, confidence continues to go higher, and people continue to spend an invest So the virtuous cycle continues, and I expect that to continue to be the case. Over the course of the next several years. So with the exception of any possible you know, black Swan or or other collapse and sentiment, I would expect this economic expansion to continue thanks to both smaller government, less taxes and less regulation. That was so great and insightful.

You don't hear this many places. And uh, you know Larry Cublow. I love that guy. I think that he gives great economic analysis and you might just give him a run for his money. So Catherine, thanks again for he's a great guy. Thanks again for joining me today. Where can people find you? Oh yeah, sure you can. Um well, I'm on Twitter, Kay Rooney Vera, LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, great, so you can certainly find me in all of those places, Kay Rooney Vera. Thank you very much, Harlan, and and

thank you for the invitation. Absolutely stay tuned to the Buck Sexton Show. We'll be right back. Welcome back to the Freedom Hut. You're listening to the Buck Sexton Show. I'm Harland Hill filling in for Buck. We've had a great show between doctor Sebastian Gorica, Stephanie Hamill, Diamond and Silk. I mean it's it's been a great show so far, and I hope you guys have enjoyed it. You can follow me on Twitter, my handles at Harlan h A R l An. I'm on Facebook and Instagram. Two, so

catch up with me there. The phone lines are open. We're gonna be taking another call or two here before the end of the show. The phone numbers eight four four nine hundred two eight two five. And just reminder before we go, make sure to download the Buck Sexton Show podcast. It's available wherever you, uh you listen to your podcasts, and I found it indispensable personally. So, uh, first up here, we're gonna go to George in South Carolina. George,

what's on your mind? Yeah, I'm on online. What's what? Yeah, what's on your mind? Oh? What's on my mind? Well? I was just thinking that Trump wants to build a wall, and all the Democrats are opposed to the wall, but it seems in the past they said they would take a sense and I think I think Trump should recouch is what he wants and call it offense. And uh, you know, potato patata, tomata tomato. His fence can be built identically according to the specifications of what is now

called a wall and just call it offense. I don't I don't care. Yeah, you know, well a lot of the I just think it's the way you uh you know, brand it is and call it offense and wall. Well, a lot of a lot of conservatives were resist resistant to the idea of calling a defense. And I think it's because, you know, they were used to the fences that Barack Obama and Democrats were building. Uh previously, they were easily punctured by illegals. They could just cut right

through the steel and come through. But I mean the president one to build something, you know, more substantial, and so if we just change the nomenclature, we just change how we describe this, that's fine with me. Once we've got the funds, he can do whatever he wants to do to build this. So I couldn't agree more. I mean, the basic the only thing that matters is do we get the funds. I mean, once the funds are there and they're allocated by Congress and we're not asking for

very much, I mean, I beat this home tonight. I Mean, all these Democrats back in twenty thirteen voted for way more funding than the presents asking for. They've they've voted for forty six billion dollars in funding for border fencing, forty six billion dollars, the presidents asking for a relatively small amount five billion. And so this idea that Democrats are resistant to the idea of a border wall and border security, it's just it's just convenient. They they don't

really mean it. And so that's the only thing that I might push back on is that, you know, they may not be sincere and that they're against the idea of a wall, um and would accept the fence. I think the president you know, couldn't move the goalpost twenty yards um, you know, and and they still, you know, would take an issue with it. Umte. Well that's what

I think. Yeah, absolutely, and so um. And the other idea that we got previously was the idea of bringing the Army Corps of Engineers down and just reallocating funds, calling this an issue of national security, and the president just decides to do it unilaterally. And if that's a concrete wall, the Army corp of Engineers has been building canals and digging canals and building a you know, in

a variety of contexts for a long time. I mean, they are more than capable of building something that would, uh, you know, appease our concerns about national security. So um, you know, if we change the name, I'm one hundred percent down with that. And I think that Republicans and conservatives should just be smart and realize that doesn't matter that we're calling an offence. Once the president has the funds,

he's gonna do what he wants. And then on the other hand, you know, if we don't get that, I think the president should say, you know, we're gonna reallocate funds from the defense budget. And with the President's done that is so smart is he's already dramatically increased the size of military spending over the last two years, and so there should be funds there that we can find anyway. I have enjoyed our time tonight, everybody. Thank you so much to Buck Saxton for lending me his microphone. We

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