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Hut on the western shores of the Delaware Bay. I can't give you the full location, but I am staring at the water, enjoying what's about to be an incredible moon rise, and talking to one of my favorite audiences in the whole wide world. So I'm here. I'm happy to be coast to coast uh for Buck, and I want you to join the conversation. I have some questions tonight, and I'm probably gonna make some people mad, probably gonna make more than some people mad, probably going to make

a whole bunch of people mad. But I want you to talk me out of my opinion on this. I want you to share your thoughts. So we're gonna get into the situation between the President and the Attorney General, and we're gonna get into the diplomacy efforts by one Lindsey Graham, who I happen to think the world of. I know a lot of people don't like him. Some of his policies bother me, but I think it's a really, really great servant to this country. Guy thirty plus years

in the military. Come on, and yeah, he violates my term limits the thing. So I have mixed emotions on that, but you know the number, write it down eight four four nine d buck eight four four. Before we get too heavily into topics, I want to spend just a couple of minutes talking about another guy I have mixed feelings over and I'm conflicted. I'm talking about Senator John McCain. I think John McCain is, without question, an American hero for what he did in Vietnam. Without question, on blinking

support for John McCain as a great American hero. The guy had the opportunity to get out of a Vietnam pow camp where he was in one of those rat traps where they would put them in the water inside a cage and just let him float and they would let the rats come up and mess with them. They would be they'd have their heads above water. That's about it. It was brutal what they were doing to John McCain. John McCain was beaten by the Vietnamese. John McCain was tortured.

John That might explain some of John McCain's positions on torture. And then John McCain came home, but he came home later later than he could have. The Vietnamese offered John McCain the ability to leave because it was some sort of some sort of respectful gesture, because his father was a decorated military man, because he was an officer, he could leave the prison. John McCain chose to stay behind

with the rest of his men. If they weren't getting out, he wasn't getting at And for that act alone, for the enduring the orchard, for the bravery he exhibit in service to this nation, you have to call John McCain a hero. And it's there I depart with the President on his his awful depiction of John McCain. Now, John McCain's service in the United States Senate, we differ on a few things, and as a matter of fact, I'm

I'm not gonna hide it. I have been calling for John McCain to step down since early this year, and a lot of people are mad at me over it. And I did it without his name. I just said, if you have Senator A who is fifty of the representation for a state in office and they are incapable of doing the job you hired them to do, it is truly his responsibility to allow his constitut truance to

have the support and the representation they deserve. And I thought John mcckins should have stepped down, and I got some angry male from people. Oh dare you. He's a hero. John McCain is a gigantic hero. He's a huge hero. But I think the people of Arizona deserve to have somebody in office doing the job they elected John McCain

to do. That's what I'm saying. And so now we get the news today, the terribly sad news today that John McCain's battle against the brain cancer the I think it's called glioblastoma, the very aggressive brain cancer that has stricken him. He's losing it. He's losing the battle and so John McCain announced, through an announcement from his family, a release from the family, that he was going to

end the efforts to fight his cancer. Terribly sad, terribly sad as someone someone who has lost two parents in the last two years and realizes the emotions required to put out that statement to tell the medical team, We're not going to do any more medication. It's coming to the realization that it's over. So to John McCain and Cindy McCain, his wife, and the family, Megan McCain and all of the attached members of the McCain family, this is a terrible day. This is an awful day. This

is a day no family wants to face. And I go back to John McCain is the hero again because while I disagreed with McCain on some of his actions in the Senate in the last few years, on how he treated the President, you can't understand after what the President said about him. You can certainly understand how John McCain held a grudge against President Trump after what was

said on the campaign trail. And God only knows. And I kind of wished publicly about two months ago that John McCain would have gotten a call from Donald Trump, maybe even a visit from the President as he was dealing with this battle privately at his family home. I think it would have been the most amazing thing for the President to do, to go out and put that put that fight to bet. It didn't happen, and I

don't think it's going to happen. Maybe a phone call has been scheduled, but that, to me, would have been the bigger thing to do. And I was raised by two great parents who always said be the bigger man. So maybe the President missed an opportunity to bury the hatchet with John McCain. John McCain's not dead. People are sending me text messages that John McCain die. No, he didn't die. He just has surrendered the medical battle in his fight against the brain cancer that he has been

so bravely standing up to. But unfortunately it looks like it probably won't be a long time. So thank you for service, John McCain. I wish I could shake your hand and thank you. I don't think that that's gonna happen either, But I want to play just a tiny clip it for an amazing interview with Jake Tapper Tapper talked to McCain. I think this was the very last interview where he was discussing his cancer and DOCCA and his legacy. But I'm fighting cancer that I know I'm

not gonna beat. I don't know if I could be as stand up and strong as John McCain. But he talked to Tapper weeks ago, months ago actually, and his attitude and his approach, it's something I hope I can mirror. So I'm getting the best treatment that anybody could get, and I'm very happy. I'm very happy with my life. I'm very happy with what I've been able to do. And there's two ways of looking at these things, and

one of them is to celebrate. I am able to celebrate a wonderful life, and I will be grateful for additional time that I have. Amazing, amazing. I would have cracked like a hot piece of glass put under a cold stream of water. That's the John McCain you gotta remember. That's the John McCain who said I know I could leave the prison camp, you bastards, but I'm not leaving my men. That's the guy you got to remember going forward. And so, while while he's alive and his family is

getting to spend some quality time with him. I kind of feel like this is the announcement that we received about ten days ago when Aretha Franklin's family said, Aretha is uh in in the hospital with friends and family and we're asking for prayers. So to the McCain family, you deserve our prayers and our thanks and a big hug and thank you, Senator McCain for your service. I still stand by everything I said for the people of Arizona.

But you're a hero, sir and uh. I wish I could tell you that to your face, and I wish the president could do that too, Michael Pelka, and for Buck Sexton. We have a boatload of stuff to cover tonight on a Friday night, some of it serious, like the last few minutes, and some of it kind of just downright silly. So we we will deal with all of that in due time. In due course. I have to tell you though, before before I break, I have to remind you of my experience with one of Buck's sponsors.

I I was an early adopter of the Simply Safe security systems. I was one of the people who when we first started carrying Simply Safe at oh, you know what they just told me. Don't talk about that till the end of the hour. So I'll hold off and I'll tell you what. We'll get back to this. I think I think we're gonna be able to get into the fight between the president and his attorney general with our friend, attorney Wendy Patrick. We're checking on that next.

Michael Pelka in for Buck Sexton on the Buck Sexton Show. Come on back, Michael Pelka in for Buck Sexton. Buck is on a special assignment. He'll be back on Monday. I'm hanging out in the freedom Hut. But my freedom hut, this is the constitutionally protected free speech First Amendment protected freedom hut protected by the Second Amendment, I might add.

So I'm hanging out on a Friday with you guys, when we're covering everything everything we can, I will get to some of my outrage and just a little bit, but I want to talk about, uh, the the madness of the last twenty four hours between the president and his attorney general. As things got crazy. But I need help. I need legal help. I also need psychological help. I realized that. So Wendy Patrick, our attorney friend and author, you can find her at Wendy Patrick pH d dot

com has agreed to join us from the road this evening. Wendy, Happy Friday to you, my friend. You are you with me, Wendy? Oh dear? Did we lose Wendy? I know she was on them. Yeah, okay, you can hear me. I can hear me. You sound great now, But let me do this because you were correct last week when you predicted that the Manafort jury would come in our early this week, and you were right. So let me open this cola

for you. Yeah. There, it is open to Candic Coke for you, poor Ner Coke know, oh you many well. I think I was right about that. What I did not expect was the Michael Cohen' plea that really was out of the blue. And for all of the leaking that goes on in this administration, in the Motor probe, I didn't see that, Colin Mike, did you No, I didn't. I was totally surprised by it. But it makes sense when you look at the speed with which all this is happening. Uh. And I want to get to that,

but I want to ask you about this breakdown. We know that the president has not been pleased with his attorney general, especially since Jeff Sessions recused himself early and people are saying maybe he should have told the president that before he was appointed that he was intending to recuse himself. But it's been kind of out of control, with the President throwing down, and then the he turned to general throwing down, and then Lindsey Graham trying to

be peacemaker. Uh, it's it's palace intrigue at the highest level. But where are you on this, Wendy? Do you think, uh, Sessions is going to be bumped after the midterms? I that would be such a bad political move. Who are they going to confirm to replace him. One of the things that struck me yesterday was that Session. Do you say Sessions threw down? It's the first time, Mike that he's thrown down. He has taken a lot of I

don't want to say ridicule. Let's just say criticism and will deferm that will define that term broadly from this president. The President's tweet today was taunting, but it was probably in response to the fact that Session stood up for himself after the President said what he did in his Fox News interview when he basically said, you know, Jeff hasn't stepped up, and Jeff was right back saying, I

took control of the Justice Department from day one. So you know, one of the things we know about Sessions, and I watched his confirmation hearing very closely. You probably did too, is he stands up for himself when it's important and when he feels like his integrity is being questioned.

That's what he did yesterday. And so the President fought back today and I thought it was also interesting they had a meeting yesterday apparently at the White House on the topic of their public Twitter and Twitter if you'd never came up, can you imagine that? Awkward? Awkward? Yeah, But at the same time, at the very same time, the world is absolutely obsessed with this, going, oh, Trump

paid Sessions, Sessions, It's Trump. And then you hear Lindsey Graham go, well, he was at the White House yesterday. He's sitting down with the President. You and your imitation says exactly what he sounded like. I love it, You're you're right, and he is trying to play peace Baker. He probably would love to see there be a some kind of a resolution, but you know, isn't going to run out and open all these investigations into Democrats and into Muller and into me just because the President taunted

him by tweet to do it. So it really does leave the specter is what is going to happen after the terms. But the President has to be talked off the ledge as usual. He's probably being you know, counseled by some of his advisors and cohler heads will prevail, that's my prediction. So don't go cracking another candicap until I win this one too. I do not see him being fired after the mid terms. That's interesting because last night with our our buddy Shannon Bream uh Lindsey Graham

said the following when he was quizzed on it. But you don't have to be Dr Phil to understand that the president that the attorney general do not have a good working relationship. Every president deserves an attorney general they have confidence in. As to Jeff Sessions, I've never met a finer man. He was a great senator, he's a great lawyer. I think he's been a good attorney general. But this is not working. So I hope the relationship

gets better. If it doesn't, I would imagine the president is going to look for a new attorney general cause what's going on is unsustainable. I'm not blaming anybody. I love Jeff Sessions, but from my point of view, the country is not being well served with as much frictional So there it is, Wendy, you are making the prediction. I'm going to vote with that's right. That's right, and you know what I might because we need to do

that in reverse order. We don't fire Jeff Sessions and then say, okay, now we're going to do a nationwide search for replacement, like we're trying to replace the CEO of a company. There needs to be and there maybe we're not privy to the discussions behind the scenes, but there needs to be a plan be in place before the president fire session. That plan by has to include a name that can be confirmed. It has to be a workable, practical replacement. And thank you, Wendy. I'm up

against the gigantic sorrows machine. We'll be back on the Buck Sexton Show. He's holding the line for America. Buck Sexton is back. Well, he'll be back Monday. Michael Pelka is sitting in for my friend Buck Sexton. Coast to Coast on the Buck Sexton Show. I love being here. I'm so thrilled to be here, and uh, I appreciate every opportunity to join you. I'm gonna bring in a guest to talk about the process we're going through to

make Judge Kavanaugh Justice Kavanaugh. But I got to take a quick call from somebody I think moved out of Atlanta, at least I think so, Rhett, you're in Alabama, welcome to the Buck Sexton Show. Well, thank you, Marke. I appreciate it. But I enjoining your show. Listen to Buck every chance I get. But I'm certainly enjoying the other day, so I appreciate it. Thank you, sir, Thank you, sir. The time an Jeff Sessions. You know, look, yeah I was,

I was. I was at the rally when Jeff Sessions walked out on stay Age with a great again had on, and I gotta tell you that was a proud moment. But I've gone from proud to disappointed to appear disgusted with Jeff Sessions, I think, And Rhett, I'm just gonna put this out there for you. I think we need to see what time tells us. Because every great legal mind I've talked to said Sessions was right to recuse himself, maybe wrong not to tell the president he was going

to do it before the appointment. But there are a lot of great legal minds like the one we just talked to, Wendy Patrick and others who said and gretive ancestor and who said he was right to do it. And we need to maybe watch history unfold and see I understand, because we all want the president to go full speed ahead and keep moving forward. But um, you know this one, I think a little bit of this is being played for the media. I'm just throwing that

out there. You know, there's a lot there's a lot of people out there that I hope that you know, and I certainly hope it myself. But but I's all they can come up with is uh, internal revenue problems and parking tickets. The Russia cramp is over. Yeah, oh, definitely with you, And I'm going to get into the internal revenue thing a little bit later. So you gotta stick around. But I sure thank you for joining us

in the freedom tonight. Uh, you gotta stick around for the conversation we're about to have, because I think this is a line in the sand that we're drawing as we deal with the the next phase of the change of the Supreme Court. So thank you, Rhett, appreciate have a great rest of your day. I have to confess earlier today I was hoping to get some insight to where we are with a Judge Kavanaugh and his process towards being Justice Kavanaugh. So I spoke with John Malcolm

from Heritage, the Heritage Foundation. Uh, John Malcolm, great great constitutional brain, a protector of liberty and freedom. And I said, John, would you hang out and talk to me about where we are at the Judge Kavanaugh. I know it's Friday evening. He goes, yeah, okay, we'll get it done. So welcome John Malcolm to the buck Sexton program Sir, appreciate your

being here. Happy to be with you now. John, I quizzed you earlier today, squeezed you for some info if you had seen the basketball court at the Supreme Court. You said, yeah, you haven't played on it yet, but it's probably a bucket list thing. And I think I think it's cool that it's up there. But I have one more question, one more Wonky Washington question for you. Have you seen the bowling ye in the White House. I have not played on it, but I have seen it.

A lot of my friends have in fact played on it. But I have that have gone bowling at it, but I have seen it. Yes, I am dying to roll a few frame sporting venues I've I've gotten to see. Yeah that you know, nobody knew how much. And now the swimming pool at the White House was covered over to make the press room years ago. And underneath that press room where Sarah Sanders holds forth, there's a swimming

pool that JFK used but lb J didn't like. Have you signed the wall of the swimming pool underneath the press room? No. I have been on the old yacht Presidentially Yatta Sequoya, before Jimmy Carter sold it, but I have not seen the wall. And where the where the pool is in the White House. Underneath the White House press room. All the TV equipment needed to broadcast all

those press events is in the pool. It's an empty swimming pool, so it's all tiled and and it's there, and every reporter and camera crew for the last fifty years has gone down there were the magic marker and signed the wall, and a lot of the presidents have to um yours truly was fortunate enough to tag the White House as it's known about about nine years ago, but not enough about that. So you need to ask your buddies in the White House next time you're in.

Can I see the pool? Can I sign the wall? You got well and look for it. Look for my name, you'll sign. I've made a big I'm right by Anderson Cooper actually on the wall. That's my at my brush with greatness. So where are we with Judge Cavanaugh becoming Justice kavanat? I know Schumer wants to shut it down, but can he No, I really don't think he can. Uh. You know, the Democrats see that this is going badly.

Judge Kavanaugh is a superbly qualified UH nominee. And you're not hearing any peep of any defection by any of the Republicans. Of course, the majority is incredibly slim. It's only with John McCain in Arizona and not coming back to Washington. Uh, it's a fifty to forty nine majority. But you're not really hearing any noises about any Republicans defecting. Rand Paul that was concerned about at one point, but after he met with Judge Kavanaugh. He said, I'm in.

I will vote to confirm him. So the Democrats are certainly shouting an awful lot about what a threat this is to abortion rights because they're trying to appeal to either Susan Collins or Lisa Murkowski. So far that doesn't appear to be working. Judge Kavanaugh has now met with both Senators Collins and Murkowski. So the next thing they're trying to do is come up with anything that will

delay this. If they delay it, maybe something pops up that that they can use, maybe hoping against hope, the Democrats we take the majority in the Senate and can scuttle the nomination. May maybe something else happens with President Trump makes him so unpopular that his nominated the Supreme Court loses team. But I don't think any of those things are going to happen. I mean the latest salvo.

I mean, first of all, a lot of the Democrats and we need to see every scrap of paper that ever a cross Brett Kavanaugh's desk during the time he was the staff assistant uh to President George W. Bush.

They don't want to look at all at any of the over three hundred opinions that Judge Kavanaugh has written which show that he's eminently qualified to sit on the Supreme Court, And of course they want to see all these papers, even though they have already proclaimed that they have no intention of voting for Judge Kavanaugh at all. The latest is, of course, a lot of the Micael callent plea and the Maniford guilty uh verdict that somehow President Trump is tainted and you know, we can't trust

anybody he would nominate. And maybe this guy said it's all horse hockey, and I really don't remember anybody saying anything on either side of the political aisle. Back in the nineties, Justice is Stephen Bryer and Ruth Bader Ginsburg were nominated and confirmed to the Supreme Court when the Whitewater investigation was going on and Bill Clinton was certainly under investigation. Nobody dreamed of suggesting that there should be a vacancy and we should delay until the Whitewater investigation

was somehow completed. It's it's not This is a ploy and it's not going to gain any traction. All those confirmation durings will begin on September four, and Judge Kavanaugh, I am hoping will be confirmed before or around October one, which is when the Supreme Court resumes hearing oral arguments. This is a good news for me because I respect the work done by the Heritage Foundation. John Malcolm's with us one of the vps from Heritage. You should go

there Heritage dot org. Uh. Something I heard from a very respected voice in the media, Dana Perino, who I know she's on Fox, but I think she's also of fair. I really think she gives a really honest, fair opinion on things. And she was talking about the Democratic senators who have already said they're not going to vote yes in any way, shape or form for a judge Kavanaugh

to be to be moved through committee. But she was saying, it's not like they're not going to show up, because no senator alive is going to miss TV time and their chance to get in front of a camera and rail. Uh, two months before a mid term election and rail against the other side. You're saying that to no one's gonna avoid the hearings. How are they? No? I I sincerely

doubt if you're gonna want to hear Uh. You know, Senator Senator white House talk about dark money supporting Uh, Judge Kavanaugh on others are going to talk about how the President outsourced his selection to the Heritage Foundation, the Federalist Society, which is a bunch of nonsense. As well. There are at least two Democrats on the on the committee, Corey Booker and Kamala Harris, who give every indication that they're running for presidents, so they will try to out

rhetoric each other. Uh. Indeed, Corey, but I don't know how you get You get more overheated rhetoric than than Corey Booker statement than anybody who would vote for Judge Kavanaugh would be complicit and evil. But you know, look, if there's a way to top that rhetoric, I'm sure we'll see it during the confirmation hearing. Well, I can't wait. Was it four days of hearings total? Yeah, So the first day will be opening statements by the senators and

a few introductory statements by supporters of Judge Kavanaugh. The next two days will be the actual questioning of the nominee himself, and then the last day will be divided between some people who think that, you know, Judge Kavanaugh is the greatest and slice spread and other people who think that Judge Kavanaugh is somehow the devil incarnate. Well, I I cannot as a political fan and a guy who loves watching these hearings, this is maybe the most

important one we've had the Trump presidency. I can't wait to see it. But more importantly, I appreciate you John Malcolm for given us the inside on this. We will be looking forward to it. Gush, it's under two weeks before we get this. It's just around the corner. Then try to grab your popcorn and uh and and sit down and and other than for the nominee, it ought to be fun to watch. We might be two weeks from today celebrating as signing a swearing in, Right, is

that possible? No, Look, you got to have this October hearings that right after labor. Yeah, you gotta have the hearings. Then there'll be a week or two. The Democrats will delay it as long as they can before there was a vote out of committee, and then it goes to the floor of the Senate, where once more the Democrats will try to delay it as long as they can. But they can only delay it, they cannot stop it. Uh And so he will either be confirmed or rejected.

Around October one, if not before, no reason why it can't happen before October one. So that on day one when they he will argument, it's Judge Kavanaugh will be Justice Kavanaugh. I'll seat it up there on the on the bench. Great, thank you, Thank you, John Malcolm. We appreciate you so much, sir. Heritage Foundation Heritage dot org. People go there. Have a great rest of your weekend, sir. Great to be with you. Oh. I love hearing that. I love hearing that you can't stop the Trump train.

I love hearing that. And uh and now I want to find out how we can get into the Supreme Court basketball court and also into the White House bowling alley. It's one of those things we have to do. Michael Pelka in for Buck Sexton. We have more to do. Come on back, Michael Pelca is my name a k A. The Godfather in the parliaments of the Freedom Hut. I'm sitting in for my friend Buck Sexton. Still the bucks thatstn't show if you want to join the conversation eight

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The Blind Gossip reports, which cable news host and ms NBC, has such terrible flatulence that guests are running from from the studio after appearing on the show producers have reportedly tried everything from fans, the air fresheners, even removing the spicy food. I'm sorry, every no taco Tuesdays at MSNBC, at least not anymore, even removing the spicy food from

the host dressing room. Nothing apparently is working. And it's gotten so bad that now when you get off the elevators on the MSNBC floor at thirty Rocks right there in Midtown Manhattan, you can tell that that person is in the building. So I am asking, and I know I'm having I'm laughing harder at this than anybody else. I'm asking, who you think is the the flatulence supply at MSNBC. It's It's my poll. I put it on my Twitter account at stunt brain. You can go and

vote there. You've still got seventeen hours left to go. I'm thinking we need a poll. Who's the MSNBC Matt Farter is it? Chris Matthews, is it? Mika Brazinski? Could it be Rachel Maddow or Al Sharpton or somebody else You can add to this, but Chris Matthews currently in last place with just nine Mika in fourth third place with Al Sharpton with twenty nine and Rachel Mattow in the lead. I see, Seriously, I would have thought it would have been Matthews. I'm just saying sometimes the seniors

have a little problem with with the gas. That's all I got to say about that. Go ahead and vote, Go ahead and vote. We will be posting the results tomorrow, actually in about seventeen hours. Who do you think is the MSNBC Matt far Right? No, Buck doesn't go this highbrow, does he? Michael Pelca and for Buck Sexton. We'll talk about Trump and China and North Korea just around the corner on The buck Sexton Show. But you gotta be here, Come on back. Buck Sexton Mission, decoding the news and

disseminating information with actionable intelligence. Make no mistake America. You're a great American again. This is the buck Sexton Show. Thomas analysts. No, well, it's Michael Palca sitting in for my friend and my former colleague and my buddy Buck Sexton on The Buck Sexton Show. I'm also known as the Godfather in these quarters, so I'm happy to be here. Not the mob movie Godfather, but the old school movie Godfather.

And since it's Friday. Later on, I have to read you some clips from one of the most devastating movie reviews I have ever read. I love bad movie reviews. I have a certain schadenfreude when I read about a terrible movie and it's taken apart by a reviewer. So we'll get to that later. Today President Trump announced that the Secretary of State, Mike Pompeio, was not going to be heading to North Korea. This is a day after

we heard that. In fact, there was a new envoy to North Korea, a guy who was a big executive from Ford, and we were headed over there to keep things moving. But the President said, hold on a second. Things aren't really moving along the way we want them to move on the d nuclearization, and so, uh, the Secretary of States trip is on hold. And then he he mentioned China and he also said that he he hopes to see the Chairman soon and it was kind of a friendly note to Chairman Kim, but kind of

smack China. And I started thinking there's a message here, and so I reached out to a smart buddy of mine, Benjamin Weingarten. If you're not following Benjamin on Twitter, he's bh wine Garten, former colleague of mine when I was at the Blaze, and just a guy who's got a brain that needs a second head. He's got so much going on in there. And Ben wrote about China a few weeks ago, a brilliant turn on the connection between Diane Feinstein and a guy that was a Chinese spy

pretty much inside her organization. So I figured who better to talk about this? So welcome on a Friday night, taking time out of your schedule, Ben Winarten, how are you, buddy, Mike? I'm doing well, and thanks so much for having me and for the kind words. Appreciate it well. Your piece was one of the deeper dives on the Feinstein thing, and nobody. Nobody was talking about it except I think Glenn Beck talked about it considerably, and I think Buck

Mayhead too as well. And it's the stuff that I just stare at the mainstream media and say, what the hell is wrong with you guys? You have a senior senator who has been so important in this country, and she had an insider right there in her office for decades, and no one's really talking about about this at all, are they? Yeah, the story has really died and I have another piece coming in in the Federalist, likely next

week that we'll talk about how it has died. And really the reaction has been, of course non existent from the media, but more damning lee from my perspective, among the political class and in particular congressman, In particular Republican congressman, the response has been muted. To put it as diplomatically as I can, and I think that's a real damning indictment of all of Congress, all of an institution which supposedly cares a lot about foreign meddling and influence in

American politics. Yet when it comes to someone who, as you noted, a former chairwoman of the Senate Select Intelligence Committee, someone with access to the most sensitive intelligence information by

DestinE activities, the crown Jewels of Intelligence. To have someone who worked for her for twenty years and reportedly was recruited by the Chinese KGB or FSB, essentially their Ministry of State Security to collect intelligence on her is a massive, massive security breach, And for any of the myriad questions that one should ask about that relationship not to be

asked is a real indictmond of our political class. And what I went into in My piece was a much broader context that really makes this one individual allegance by part of a much broader Einstein China mosaic. Yeah, and it's not just the time that we heard, because we heard it was like twenty years. But you're saying there's been a forty year. The word you use and I love this great s a t word dalliance with Diane Feinstein.

Forty year, four decades of contact, and that to me should be warranting uh an appearance across from Chucky Todd where he would ask the questions, but they won't. Dare. I would love to have seen Wolf or Jake Tapper, because I think Tapper might even try and push it, But nobody's covering it. Ben. And then we get today the President's news on North Korea, pulling back Pompeio's trip,

but mentioning China. Do you think the White House might be diving into the China situation with Feinstein and looking deeper on this? Well, President Trump was really the first politician to raise anything about this issue. In fact, the popular media I suspect would not have covered this at all were not for the fact that the President brought up Finstein's relationship with China and this particular spy in context of Trump Russia. So in other words, and in particular,

there are two linkages. One is Finstein is one of the people in the Senate, one of the senior most leaders there, who is leading the charge of the Trump Russia collusion allegations, which have been to this point a nothing burger, essentially, to use a popular term of the political class. And what Trump brought up was the hypocrisy that Senator Farinstein here had an actual spy in her house associated with the Chinese government, yet she is bringing

up Russia Trump collusion, which has been disproven. I mean, the only spies that we know of that we're within the House of Trump were spies that were implanted by our own law enforcement institution, so it's quite amazing. And then Senator Lindsey Graham, subsequent to that, brought up the

fact that look at this double standard. Senator finds Done had a spy in her house apparently, and the FBI came to her immediately voiced their concerns, and then he was let go although not prosecuted, which is amazing and a story in and of itself. But in the case of Trump, officials made the decision not to tell him anything about potential Russian efforts to try to infiltrate his campaign,

his administration, his office. So there there's a hypocrisy and a double standard here, which the Trump White House brought up, but there has not been follow up of the core question, which is Senator find Steinn's long time, forty year long links to the highest ranks of the Chinese Communist Party are taking very favorable lines to the Chinese Communist Party throughout her career as a senator, and her own personal profiting away of her husband, who's a very large investor

in China, which benefited from the very policies that she was supporting. It's more than disturbing that someone who was in her position has had that kind of close relationship with an adversary like China, who of course acts and really directs, in my view, the North Korean regime, which

brings us right to today's news. Yeah, I think what happened today was really a SmackDown of China and trying to get the message across to Sipang that Donald Trump knows what's going on, and I don't know if we can tie it directly to the great work you've done on the Feinstein story. But I think it's worth us going after as as loudly and as often as we can because the mainstream media isn't going to do it.

So uh. I see some of our other colleagues in the media, like se Cup getting all set about the way the President ended his tweet announcing that we weren't going to be traveling at Pompeo and his crew was not going to be traveling over to North Korea. That instead he the President is looking forward to meeting the Chairman and and having a good good time with him, but he kind of smacked China. Uh, were you mythed or upset about the terms of endearment if you will

that the President used for Chairman Kim. My read on the rhetoric is that this is highly tactical um and reflects the administration's posture towards any number of hotspots around the world. Let's not forget. And the President has brought this up himself when he was calling Chairman Kim little

rocket Man. People were saying that the President was deranged and he's going to get us into World War three and we're gonna have nuclear chaos and conflagration everywhere, and now we hear that the president is too soft on

Chairman Kim. I view this, this whip song as tactical, and I think in some respects, he is giving the North Koreans and adversaries around the world kind of a taste of their own medicine in the on the surface unpredictability in terms of his responses to world leaders and one day being nice and the next day not being

so nice to them. So I view it as tactical, and I think that people are trying to play on this narrative that the President befriends authoritarians, but in reality, he is challenging almost all of those worlds authoritarians on using every level of national power. Yeah, he's he's challenging. He's challenged Kim Jong Oon, He's challenged Er Dewan, He's he is putting people into his own diplomatic cross hairs. And I remind everybody that President Trump canceled the summit

with Kim on a few days before. He said okay, it's back on because we got North Korea to get back in line. And it's been almost a year since we've had a missile test. We we've seen some progress. Yes it's not fast enough, but uh, I just think I agree with you on this. It is tactical. Ben wein Garten. Where do we find you best? Is it the Federalist? Is it Twitter? Or are you just roaming the streets of midtown Manhattan. Ben Winegarden dot com is where I compile my podcast Big Ideas with Ben wine

Garden Night. Urge your listeners to check out this week's episode with a former CIA operative goes into fine Stein, John Brennan and security revocation, security clearance revocations and the like right primarily for the Federalist, but elsewhere. But it's all archived in my website Ben Winegarden dot com. And

follow me on Twitter at the h wine Garden. Yeah, it's on the iTunes Big Ideas with Ben weine Garten and you and get them all, including the one about the former CIA operative and uh I love the discussion of pulling credentials. Yeah, I would do it in a heartbeat if people were doing what some of these guys were doing. Thank you, my friend. I miss seeing you in person, but I appreciate you taking some time on a Friday evening for us. Mike, it's my pleasure and

keep up the great work. Thank you brother. Uh. There he goes Benjamin Weingarten, as I said, check him out. Uh. And I also want to remind you, uh, check out our friends at zip recruiter. Yeah, that was a commercial transition. You know, hiring is a challenge. But there is a place you can go where hiring a simple, fast and smart, a place where a growing business contact to uh can you connect with qualified candidates? That place is zip recruiter

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do with socialism. It's a question about our society. And this comes from a news item a restaurant in Germany named Almost Kitchen. Basically a restaurant has caused an uproar in town as the owners put a sign in the window that said children, little children and infants will not be allowed out inside the restaurant after five pm. Basically,

they've created what I call the dream situation. You see, I wanted to open a chain of fine dining, or at least reasonably fine dining establishments and call it bf D Baby free dining. And this comes from years of living in midtown Manhattan, where my wife and I would be out to dinner and you'd be sitting at your table trying to enjoy your meal, and somebody would have a child, a loud child or an auntie toddler, and in one case, the kids standing on the chair at

the table next to us. Kid is standing on the chair holding his arms out like Leonardo DiCaprio on the bow of the Titanic, screaming King of the World. But in this case, the kid was singing. And I shot the look over at the mother. You know, it started with side I, and nobody caught the side I. So then I turned my head and cocked it slightly to the right to indicate my displeasure, furrowed my brow, and gave her the look that really just says, really, lady,

do you want to ruin it for everybody else? So I endorse what this restaurant has done, and I want to know where you stand on this. Do you think it's this okay? Is this a good thing or a bad thing? Yeah? I really want to know eight four four buck eight four four n eight to five. We'll weigh in on this throughout the next few minutes and talk about whether or not it is a real deal.

But here's the the update. After just a couple of weeks of b f D baby free dining at this restaurant in Germany, what do you think has happened to business? What do you think has happened to the business of the place that has caused an uproar among so many young parents are like, you can't you can't keep us out. Business,

according to the owners, has doubled, doubled. Now, this is why I supported I think there are people like me and maybe even people like you who might be parents who have been in a restaurant and your child misbehaved, but when you wanted to go out on the town, maybe you experience the similar situation. Because karma, Karma's real people, and it comes back. That hammer comes back and swings and hit you right in the back of the head.

So let me know where you stand on this. We will discuss and uh, I'm sure someone's gonna think I'm insensitive and this is discrimination. Although this audience has a tendency to be more libertarian thinking to say that the business can do what they want and you will vote with your wallet or your feet and maybe go somewhere else.

Just an interesting turn on freedom and surprising it's happening in Germany, because you know if it happened here in America, if somebody put up a sign on a casual dining restaurant. I'm not talking about Applebee's, I'm not talking about Mickey D's. I'm talking about and not even Chucky Cheese. I'm talking about a restaurant where you have a cloth tablecloth, the way you have cloth napkins, and maybe menus that aren't seventeen pages long at a at a diner. So I'm

dying to know. Oh, Joe is checking in from Panama City, Florida. Welcome to the Buck Sexton Show. Joe, how are you doing well? You tell me, am I cutting it right for you tonight. You you had that right man, and you were saying how the kid was just standing up in the chair. Yeah, you're standing on the chair with his arms open and singing, and the whole place could hear it. But the mother just looked at me like, isn't he wonderful? You're lucky, You're lucky. You got off

easy around here. The kids just run up and down the aisles of the restaurant, that the mothers allowed the children just to walk up to other tables and all the other patrons in the restaurant. Well, this is why I think there's a marketplace. I think there's a marketplace for all this stuff. There's a marketplace for kids, there's a marketplace for adults. There's a marketplace for baby free dining.

So you would be a supporter, right, Joe. Absolutely. I mean I love kids, and I have a bunch of them myself, but when everybody's out trying to have a good time, there is no reason for everybody to think that their children are so special that they deserve to ruin the evening for every other patron in the restaurant. Be like Joe, people call the show eight four four and nine hundred Buck eight four four nine hundred two

eight to five, Come on back. He's back with you now, because when it comes to the fight for truth, the fuck never stops. Well, the buck has stopped for today. He'll be back Monday. Michael Pelka in for my friend Buck Sexton, sitting in my own little free speech bunker, on the shores of the Delaware Bay. Location not important because we don't need any interlopers. We must have stumbled into a hot topic here. I saw a story about a restaurant in Germany that has banned infants and small

children after five pm. You cannot bring an infant or a small child into a restaurant, you know, one with cloth napkins and tablecloths, at cetera. And people there are people have lost their mind. But the restaurants experienced the doubling in its business in the short period of time, and I said, I endorsed this. I had a dream once to open up a chain of restaurants similarly inclined in this country called b f D Baby Free Dining.

And then people told me I was insensitive, and I said, well, okay, what about one night a week that's b f D. One night a week where people like me and my wife and maybe some other parents even who go get a sitter for the night, can enjoy some silence. Somebody just texted me and said, you're lucky you didn't get a roll thrown at you at that restaurant where the kid was standing on the chair singing like he was on the Bowl of the Titanic King of the World.

But a lot of you have chimed in and the phones are are open at eight four four buck eight four four nine two A to five. Let's check in with Matt and Pittsburgh. Matt, welcome to the program. Are you with me or you again me? I'm kind of in the middle on this one, but I hope you fallow with what I have to say. I've raised several children, my wife and I, and we've taken them to some of the nicest restaurants in our area. And we two times, because of sick kids or something, we had to leave.

And when it got fussy, we got left. We weren't interrupting anyone else's time. Um, but you need you're your parent free dining. That's an interesting angle. But really, if you've got a kid standing on a chair carrying on, that's the parents fault. It is ut Yeah, but but but for the permission to bring the child, You're right. The parents aren't the same parents I had and you had and your kids had. I'm one of nine kids.

Think about that, Matt. Nine kids. We didn't out to dinner to fancy places that often, but when we did, if you so much, has got out a line for half a second. You got your dinner in the takeout plate and you ate it in the car because my dad wasn't playing. So uh. I understand your pointing at the parents, but if you prevent the opportunity from happening, because you can't fix bad parenting in one meal, but you you may be able to prevent it. But that's

a good one. Thank you, Matt. I appreciate it. Checking in with Lorie in Columbus, Georgia. Laurie, Welcome to the buck Sexton Show. I am all right? Am I wrong? Am I crazy? I think you're dead on? I think you'd be rolling into Yeah, you think so. One of those people that would be there every night. Now it's ridiculous.

Do you have children. I have zero children, but I like to enjoy especially let's say I work to night shift at work and I want to have breakfast rage Sunday morning paper forre go home and go to bed, and all these folks bringing screaming kids and you can't seem to get a waitress to take the hint that you want a quiet spot, and they'll put you in a quiet spot. And in the very next person they

put it Tablenax, gonna be somebody half a dozen kids. Now, if this works, Baker Harton, I was gonna say, if this idea works, Laura, didn't mean to cut you off. I think we could take this in a broader spectrum to other businesses. I envisioned movie theater, I thank you, thank you, A movie theater which is baby free. Uh, an airline which is baby free. I would think we would have a market we could tap into here. I attended I of to New York City for twenty five years.

My wife and I just moved out, and there was a time I couldn't make this up. We were at a movie in Jersey City, New Jersey, nearby where I worked, in the middle of the afternoon, and a woman was changing a baby in the row in front of me in the theater as the movie was going. And that's a health hazard. Well yeah, yeah, it was made me nuts. Well, Laurie, when we start the company, so I'll be I'll be telling you real quick, that's a that's a health hazard.

I believe it. I believe it, and I appreciate you for caring for people and nurses suggest undervalued. And we got to appreciate you more. When we start the BFD Company, I'll let you know because maybe he'll be a partner with us. Thank you, Thank you so much. Mark and Jackson Mississippi wants to weigh in on my unusual idea. Here, Mark, you with me or you again me? I'm with you now. Do you have kids now? They're all grown now, But um, back in the eighties when I was in service, I

was a stationed in Germany. You can take the dog to the the restaurant, but let me tell you talk child in there. You got some nasty looks. Boy, that's a good boy. I forgot about that. A lot of Europe allows you to bring your dog into a restaurant, but not the children. They don't want to be disturbed, and the dog has got to be out. I mean, impeccicab behavior. There's no accidents allowed. Well, yeah, but I'm all with you.

When I was, you know, bringing up my children, we have McDonald's, burger king, subway, that kind of stuff because we didn't want to disturb other people. And when we got a babysitter and went out for dinner, last thing I wanted with someone else's screaming. Mem me sitting next to me having a fight with his mama. Now you bring up a really interesting point here, Mark. Uh. First of all, let me let me say thank you for your service and remind everybody it's red shirt Friday. I'm

wearing a red shirt today. I wear a red shirt every Friday because it means remember everyone deployed. And I want you guys to start doing that. We did it last Friday, We're doing it this Friday. But you brought up something really important critical in in your thinking here. Mark. You talked about the fact that you were thinking about everybody else in the restaurant when you thought about whether or not you should bring your kids there. And we

don't do that anymore. It seems like we think about ourselves before we think about everybody else in the room, and that's what's missing. If we if we flipped the script on that and go back to where you were raised, where I was raised, I think we wouldn't need baby free dining because parents would have made the decision well ahead of time. But again, thank you for your service, Mark,

appreciate you for being there. Uh. I gotta check in with Carol in Florida in the question on baby free dining, Carol, I'm I with Are you with me or you against me? I am with baby free dining? Good good see. Are you a parent? No, I'm not. Um. I wanted to be, but unfortunately that was not God's will. My husband and I we were. We are in a position where we can get out to eat several times a week at

fine dining restaurants. And I just hid us the end of it when um uh, parents bring their young children to the restaurant where I'm trying to My husband and I and perhaps another couple are trying to enjoy a fine dinner beef and young you know, sa la la la, and there are children running around, um, coming up to our table or gleaming and yelling at their parents at the parents table. Um no, you know I will not

go back there. Well see, that's the interesting thing. You vote with your feet in your wallet, and I think that's I think that's the way we let businesses know. And in the case of this German restaurant, business has doubled in the few short weeks that they have had BFD. And it's to all the people texting me going, look, Mike, BFD means something different. I know that's why we say it. We're trying to get a rise out of you. Well,

thank you, Carol. Now you've got me thinking about beef bourg and yawn and a table side caesar salad and maybe a nice, nice Cabernet breathing on the side, exactly, exactly. We just want to have a nice adult conversation amongst each other, you know, and not have At one point, um, in one very nice Mexican restaurant, actually there was child running around, screaming around all the tables, and um, the food was wonderful, but we just got up and the left and did not pay the bill. Are you you

dine a dash because of bad behaving kids. I don't know if I can endorse that, Carol. I I can tell you to go and sit no more. But while I I can't endorse your behavior, I understand it is what I guess I should say, thank you for calling you guys. Why should I the waitresses, apparently there were some of the staff children. Why should I tolerate that I'm trying to have a fine meal in a fine

restaurant and these kids are running around. They were like three of them running around, screaming, coming up cable putty fingers in their food. Okay, that it entered right there, I would have walked to you've You've convinced me. Thank you, Carol'll have a great rest of your weekend. I hope you get a fine dining experience this weekend. Everyone should that they can. Uh, it seems great. We gotta check in with Tim in Ohio. Tim, you're calling on a

different subject and welcome to the Buck Sexton Show. Hey, thanks for having me on. I've talked about several times, but listen, I had I had a brother in law died from brain cancer, and about two months ago, I had a very close older friend, wonderful man, died of brain cancer. And I'm not wishing this horrible thing on John McCain, but let me tell you something. The way people gush over John McCain, I just want to make this statement. I want people to understand, because most people

don't know this. He was responsible for a hundred and thirty four deaths on on the aircraft carrier that he was on because he was playing a joke. He was being a hot shot. And then okay, he he was beaten and suffered in Vietnam. But you know what he cooperated and worked with the viet Cong and trained the n v A missile operators to shoot down our aircraft. So he was not only responsible for the USS forest all hundred and thirty some deaths, but he was also

responsible for the deaths that came. And you look it up. I'm telling you the increased amounts of shot down planes after he gave the information to the NBA SAM missile operators and Tim, hold on, hold on, Tim, I'm gonna look it up. I and I'll let you have your piece. But I don't politically agree with a lot of what John McCain did and as some of his remaining years

of action in the Senate. But I i'm gonna say, I'm gonna flat out say to you, I believe John McCain was an American hero in his service to this country. I will do my due diligence before I refute what you've said, but I will dig deeper because I'm sure there would have been a movie made about it had it been actually as you have presented it. But thank you for airing inventing your spleen Here, Michael Pelka is my name. I'm sitting in for Buck Sexton. My friend

Buck Sexton. He's off today back Monday, and uh, we're trying to hold up our end. Thank you for hanging out with me. We'll be right back. Michael Pelka in for my buddy Bucks Sexton on this Friday night. And Uh, as Maxine Waters would say, be claiming my time, Yes I am. I'm reclaiming my time. I want to take one more call about the baby free dining idea. So Bill and Florida, you get the last word on baby free dining. Good idea, bad idea. How are you saying, Mike, Mike,

you're doing a good job. I gotta give you that now. You know, as farther as wall and poking goes in something, I'm retired with that. But you know, if if they serve beer or wine in that restaurant, there shouldn't be no children in there anyway, period. Well they sell beer at Chuck E Cheese, Well, you know it, maybe not here, they don't not where I'm at here in Florida, but you know why, Hey, they could put up a sign on the doors of adult people only, you know, if

they want to. I'm with you on this one, you know, So there's no disturbance over the children or whatever is going on. Okay, you know dot dots and kids or kids. Yes, I'm with you on that distinction, so I'll put you down to the yes vote. Thank you, Bill, have a great weekend. And and now reclaiming my time. Yes, I'm reclaiming my time. I have. Uh, the tally was overwhelmingly favorable for baby free dining. I think there were just one or two people who said, I'm kind of in

the middle. But you can't be in the middle. You have to make up a make up your mind, make a damn decision. People. Either you're for the baby free dining or against it, but you can't be squishy. Alright, I have to talk a little bit more about Maxine

Waters reclaiming times. Of course. Of course, now the president in Ohio tonight giving a little campaign support to congressional candidates, and he said something about Maxine Waters, and uh, I've got more to say about Auntie max And this is what just happened a few moments ago at the campaign event in Ohio. The truth is a vote for any Democrat at this point in November, as they vote for Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi and who the legendary. Maxine orders

the de facto head of the Democrat Party. She's the de facto head. Now, congratulations. Maxine didn't know what I'm just telling her. She doesn't know it. Yeah, I think she believes it, you know, I I honestly think that Pelosi and crew have got Maxine tied in a basement somewhere in her district, duct taped to a chair to get her to stop saying things about impeachment because they know the impeachment where is nucleay or hot. But we'll

get into what's going on with the impeachment word. I know Buck played that montage last night, but there's a push going on. The real agenda is impeach, impeach, impeach, and that's why the presidents continuing to bring it up at his rallies and it presses press events. He made a questionable statement yesterday about whether or not the market would crash, and we'll talk about that. Michael Pelca in for Buck Sexton on the Buck Sexton Show. Join us

right after the break. Come on back, Buck SEXTONSI decoding the news and disseminating information with actionable intelligence, no mistake, American Frank you're a great American Again. This is the buck Sexton Show. Analyst bock Sexton Show, Michael Pelca sitting in from my friend Buck Sexton on this Friday evening, Buckleby back Monday. Happy to be here. I'm also known as the godfather to many of you in this audience,

so I'm glad to be here. I hope you are riding along with me for the remainder of the program. We have a lot to do. We have to get to some really important topics. If you were here earlier, you heard me talk about John McCain. Senator John McCain, who announced through his family today that he was ending his treatments for his brain cancer. And while I have differed with John McCain in many ways and how he has governed in the past few years, I still call

John McCain a war hero. And there are people who take exception with that, and uh, I'm sorry. We're gonna agree to disagree, and people get very very heated about it. John McCain served this country. There are a million people currently and I give or take a few numbers here

and there who volunteered to serve this country. John McCain is one of those people who served this country and in the course of doing his duty being deployed, he was a prisoner of war, he was tortured, he had the option to leave, and would not leave his men. John McCain is a war hero, and so I I don't have a problem saying that. And I said earlier, I wish the President would have reached out to John McCain and tried to heal the wounds between the two.

There's obviously a whole bunch of bad blood between Donald Trump and John McCain, a whole bunch, and I'm sure a lot of it was caused by some of the things the President said about McCain not being a war hero and didn't like his heroes being captured, et cetera. But my mama always said, be the bigger man, Be the bigger man, and I would like my president to be the bigger man. I said it months ago. When John McCain left Washington, it looked like he was heading

home for the last few laps of his life. That it would have been. It would have been a great thing for for the president to do. I think it would have been a uniting and a healing thing for the president to have stopped by and reached out to John McCain. And maybe he tried. Maybe Donald Trump tried in the McCain family said I'm sorry, we're not gonna reach out and connect with you. That could have happened,

but we didn't hear anything about it. But now there was a chance, a chance tonight for the president in front of the audience that he was standing in front of tonight in Ohio to say something. I think he missed an opportunity. I think it would have been a really, really powerful moment for Donald Trump to have reached out and said something about John McCain. Apparently, according to some of my media friends, John Berman over at CNN and and Berman and I don't agree on everything, maybe on much,

but we agree on this. This was a missed opportunity for President Trump to reach out say something about John McCain or about his family at this event in Ohio. Just sorry, Mr President, And I'm sorry for those of you who are on the Trump train, but uh, maybe you're gonna call me Neil Cavudo on this one. But I think this was really one of those times that presidential behavior would have been the preferable thing for my president. And yes, I don't have a problem. I have no

hesitation in saying Donald Trump is my president. So sorry, sir. Now he did bring up some other stuff. The President went after the the New York governor. God, I'm glad we're out of New York, New York City. We lived in New York City for twenty five years. I want you to think about that. New York City and new Rudy Giuliani was a very different place. Uh Rudy Giuliani fixed it after David Dinkins destroyed it. Bloomberg kind of had a limp along after Juliani, and now Bill de

Blasio is destroying it. But the governor, who I believe Cuomo has designs on the White House. His dad wanted it, couldn't get it done, and now he's following in his father's footsteps. But Mario Cuomo, the New York governor's father like New York. He liked America. He said America was great. But his son, no, not so much, as we heard earlier this week, And the President brought that up in

Ohio tonight. In crime, we have in New York a governor, Governor Cuomo sues everybody you know you're going to that state, you get sued. That's why people don't want to move in for that and the fact that it's the highest scents. But if you go to New York, you get sued. And people are afraid to go to New York. They don't want to go. He recently stated that the new slogan was America was never great. That was now. He was so angry at me. You know, he hates me,

truly hates me. He used he used to like me, but then I decided to run for office and he doesn't like me too much. Hey, Schumer used to love me. Hard to believe, isn't it. But Cuomo came out with that by mistake. He was so angered because make America great again. And he just said America is never gonna be great again? And was it walks off. It's like everyone said what And he was talking to socialists and

they will go, whoa? What did you hear that? Did anybody hear the end of that where the crowd was going, whoa? He was that that's not a good one. I said, that's job threatening. Now he's gonna beat the person that's running in an actress who you know? But you could get a lot of votes, but he's gonna win. But you know, you go outside. I don't think somehow would that quote play Instead of make America great again, we'll say America? How would that looking a hat America was

never great? Exclamation doesn't work. Even Portman couldn't get elected with that. I don't think so, right, So, I think that Democrats would probably try that America was never that great. I would not put it past the Democrats to do that. And the President brought up Chuck Schumer. The President brought up Chuck Schumer, and I want to get back to my my big topic this hour, and that is what the Democrats are really up to. The Democrats are up

to two things. They believe that this president was not duly elected. They believe his election was not valid. They have said so from the very beginning. As a matter of fact, Maxine Waters talked about getting rid of Donald Trump before he was sworn in. She said this, he's going to be sworn in. But what I do not accept is that we stopped investigating what has been a most unusual circumstance in the way that this election was conducted,

so before he was even sworn in. Maxine said it's going to happen, and then over the course of the first year of the presidency, Maxine continued screaming about impeaching forty five and talked about how long it was going to take her to get it done. I believe it is possible to impeach him. How long is it got to take. I don't know, but I give it to about December, and I think I give it to December.

Our new special counsel, Mr. Mohler hasn't paneled a grand jury as you know as of yesterday, and they will be involved with investigations and they can do indictments also, So little by little, drip by drip is happening, could

be and we'll get him next Interesting. Interesting that Maxine Waters has been on this jag since before the president was sworn in, continued it and after the Democrats decided that it wasn't testing well to talk about impeachment, it wasn't it wasn't a good thing to talk about impeachment. They kind of put Maxine Waters in the closet. Really, have you seen her? Is anybody here from Maxine Waters in the last month? No, we haven't because Nancy Pelosi

has said, stop talking about the beachment. You gotta grow in it. Yeah. I think that is the only thing on their minds, the only thing, because if the Democrats can impeach Donald Trump, uh, they're they're not going to move them out of the office. They're not going to write bills that will get through the They might get through the House if they have the majority. They might get a bill to undo the tax cuts through the House,

but I don't think they'll get through the Senate. And if those bills certainly get to the President's desk, let's let's let's proba you what if? What if the Democrats win the House? Right now, all those experts, the same experts who said Hillary Clinton wants a lock a week before the election, a day before the election, the same group of experts, I'm now saying, well, it's a foregone conclusion that Republicans are going to lose forty seats and

they'll lose control of the House. If that happens, the bills go over to the Senate. Now, how does the Senate pass on a bill to undo the tax cuts, to undo the repatriation of American dollars that has spurred on one of the greatest economic surges in the history of any nation. How do they get the Senate to do that? But God forbid, something happens and we lose

control of the Senate. Do you think there would be an overwhelming majority, a veto proof majority, Because if the bill comes to the White House, do you think Donal Trump's gonna sign a bill that will undo all of the things. Well, if they impeach him, they're certainly not going to have sixty six votes, sixty seven votes to throw him out. They couldn't even get that done for Bill Clinton in the Senate when he was impeached. So

I think they want to do it. They want to undo everything Donald Trump has done since January and they believe they can. How how certain am I they believe they can? Listen to Representative Al Green from Texas, Now, what is the standard for impeachment? High crimes and misdemeanors. High crimes and misdemeanors, that's what's supposed to be the standard for impeaching a president. Here's what Al Green thinks

it should be. It is justice that we seek for the people of this country, and the president should be impeached. Doesn't have to commit a crime. Only has to have his case bought before the House of Representatives and two eighteen people decide that he has committed an impeachable act. Nope, did did you hear that correctly? Did I hear that correctly? Representative al Green, not the soul singer Al Green, not Reverend Al Green, but Representative Al Green from Texas, the

guy I can never tell. Is there something wrong with it? He's not. He's not a vision impaired, because it always looks like whenever he talks he closes his eyes. But he's he's talking about impeaching the president of the United States after he was elected by the people of the country. And uh seems to be saying that we don't need a crime in order to accuse someone of high crimes and misdemeanors. It is justice that we seek for the people of this country, and the president should be impeached.

Doesn't have to commit a crime, only has to have his case bought before the House of Representatives, and two eighteen people decide that he has committed an impeachable act. That happened today. That happened today, So you can expect Al Green to get a call from Nancy Pelosi's office, and to be told that if you don't want to end up in the same seller where we have Maxine Waters duct tape to a chair, you better tone it down, Mr. You better tone it down. Michael Pelka, and for Buck Sexton.

It's a Friday night. We got a lot to do. I've got a few more things I got to share with you also want to have a little fun, you want to join the conversation. Eight four four Buck eight four four, nine to eight to five, Come on back, Michael Belka and for Buck Sexton. This is the Buck Sexton program. Buck is back on Monday. I'm hanging out

in my own version of the Freedom Hunt. We call it the constitutionally protected Free Speech Bunker here on the Delaware Bay and uh, protecting your right to speak freely and and talk about things. You don't have to agree, but we can be agreeable or disagreeable without we can disagree without being disagreeable. I yeah, that's what I was trying to get out. It's been a long week. What

a week it's been. We started with Rudy Giuliani saying the truth is not the truth, and the left twisting his words and taking it out of context to today and in the discussion that we had earlier about the President and Jeff's sessions, the Attorney General kind of going toe to toe and Lindsey Graham trying to negotiate the piece between those two men. That was a statement that Graham thinks Lindsey Graham thinks he'll be a new attorney

general after the mid terms. Our buddy Wendy Patrick said no, she doesn't believe that's going to happen, but keep your eyes on that. We have bet a beverage on it. I want to talk about someone who kind of got into a little hot water yesterday and it's a guy respect over at Fox News, Neil Cavuto. Cavuto closed his show yesterday just before five pm with a three minute attack on the President, and he basically called out the President for change his position on things. He really ripped

into him. I'm going to give you what I consider to be the salient portion of that three minutes. Creed here it is, Mr President, you're that guy. You're both those guys, and you're right to be frustrated, but you are part of what's frustrating. It's it's not about stepping on your message. It's about constantly changing it. You are right to say your critics should be held accountable, but that doesn't mean you should hold this economic boom you

hold so dear hostage. It cheapens your argument, and it cheapens this country. I like tax stuts and soaring markets as much as anybody, But what good is it to fatten your wallet if you've lost your soul, if you forget your friends and you embolden your enemies. You are right to say somewhere out to get you. But all the nine, Mr President, of the problem is you, what you say, and how you keep changing what you say. I know you'll call this faith, but the implications of

what you're doing, Mr President, are very real. You are so non focused on promoting a financial boom that you fail to see that you are the one creating this moral bust. Kind of amazing to hear that on Fox Neil Cavuto calling out the President and tonight Cavuto a guy I respect greatly. He's a guy who fights through a tremendous amount of physical limitations that he has ms

that has made his life very difficult. I think Neil Cavuto was trying to send a message to the President that there are many of us who voted for him, many of us who would like him to up his game a little bit. So I'm I'm hoping, I'm hoping that that message gets across. Am I right in supporting Neil Cavuto for saying this? Or are we all supposed to be in lock step behind the president? What say you, Buck Sexton, audience, Is Neil Cavuto within the boundaries of

good concern vrative dialogue? The number eight four four d buck eight four four nine b U c K. You can weigh in on that while I show a little bit of a warning flair. If you don't think that those of us who are conservatives are being squeezed and trying to be nudged off off the shelf, look no further than David Horowitz, the guy who's think tank is

getting squeezed by Visa and MasterCard. They are no longer processing donations to David Horowitz and his Freedom Center because the Southern Poverty Law Center has basically labeled him a problem. I'm telling you they're nudging conservatives from shadow banning on Twitter two moments like this, we have to keep calling it out. Are you a visa customer. You a MasterCard customer, makes me wonder where I should put my allegiance with

my credit us. Michael Pelka stepping inside. You want to weigh in on Cavodo or anything, give me holler eight b U C Kman for buck Sexton Tonight, Bucks back Monday. He's holding the line for America. Buck Sexton is back. Michael Pelca in for Bucks Sexton on this Friday, hanging out in the h the constitutionally protected free speech bunker in Delaware. I've been talking about a lot of things tonight. The phones are lit up, so we have to go right to you. Guys. Let's check in with Steve. Steve,

welcome to the buck Sexton Show. What's on your mind? Well, I just listen to your clip about that. That from Neil Cavuto's show. And there was a number of years ago in the Daily Papers of a comic strip called Pogo, and Kogo's quote was, I've seen the enemy and it is us. And if you look at conservatives, I think that that's our issue. We are our own worst enemy. We've got a president who has got the economy roaring.

He's bringing some sense of national pride to up back to our country is trying to make America great again, and guys like Neil Cavuto don't seem to like his style. And we've got a president who is so embattled with the Russian collusion investigation, and everywhere he turns, he's being criticized in the media is h and and and we get upset because he chooses to protect himself or say something good about himself with no one in the media will.

And really it gets a little bit upsetting that conservatives want to turn on this president who's trying to lead us down to this path one at Americans like myself like to see and uh, I live in the great state of Mississippi. And and we're proud of Trump, but we like everything he says. We necessarily um like the common City makes the things he puts out on Twitter. No, but let's go bash him. Let's get together behind this guy.

We've got some momentum going and the guys like Neil Cabudo were doing nothing but bringing us Now, well, I'm I'm glad you called made your opinion known. I will tell you I I get very frustrated with this president. I voted for him without hesitation I would have voted for a blender against Hillary Clinton. Uh, he was my second choice. But I am. I am proudly on the

Trump train. I'm proudly talking about what he's doing. I'm proudly happy America is stronger economically and stronger defense wise. And I think consumer confidence is up. I read a stat yesterday Steve Black small business ownership is up four hundred percent during the Trump era. And there also is a doubling of the support for the president for a Republican president under under Donald Trump. So those are all

good indicators. But is it okay are we not allowed to say when we want him to be a little more presidential? We Yes, we elected a reality TV star to the White House. Yes, we got a guy who's on his third wife, who's a little brash, who doesn't speak politics. But is it okay for him for us to say when we don't like what he does? Isn't that part of the First Amendment. It's for us to protect speech we don't agree with. Absolutely, that is that

is part parcel of who we are. It just gets a little frustrating at times when our own we were eating ourselves. We've got enough, there's enough free speech out there? Uh can't we do? We have to disagree with every little word that he says? Why can't we focus on those good things and say some good things? And by whose definition are we talking presidential? Yeah, that's a great point. Fair point, fair point. I will give you that one.

But but did you listen to my statement about John McCain what I had wished the president would have done earlier this year? I think I brought it up in February. I missed that, Okay, I said in February on the radio, maybe here, maybe elsewhere, because I fill in for a lot of guys all over the country. I said that I wish Donald Trump would have taken the initiative when John McCain left Washington and said I'm not coming back.

I wish the president would have reached out and tried to heal the divide, because, let's face it, it's a gi ganic divide, and you have two guys to Alpha's who are not going to give up any ground. And I think the president would have won a gigantic moral and popular victory if he had put the the hand out to John McCain, especially in McCain's early stages, of his hour of need. And now the night that John McCain has announced through his family that he's stopping treatment,

that he's giving up the fight. The President has said nothing. Now maybe he has and we don't know it. Maybe it's private. But I just think there are a couple of things that he could do, only a couple. I love where we're going as a nation, but I I think we wouldn't have a worry in the world about the mid terms if he would take a little step towards the towards the center of the party, not the Democrats,

the center of the party. That's all I'm saying. And you make a great point there, and I think it's very valid and and and what I would like to see happen is instead of guys like Neil Kombuto, who have such a big stage making these very public um critical commentaries of the president, that uh, maybe they would use their power in another way to maybe come in

behind the scenes. I would just like to see a support of president and and and not that there are so many, so many people who are tearing him down. If we could be supportive of him, and you know what I'm with you, I'd like to see him take the moral high ground. I'd like to see him reach out. The topic came and and I don't understand why he does everything he does, but I think part of the reason that he's successful is because he is so brash. It's not the politician. He's not the guy to reach

out and shake hands across the auto. He's a he's a he's a winner, take all kind of guy. And I think you got to take that all together, and you gotta say either I take him the way he is, or I don't take him at all. And if you're got to try to change the stripes of a of a zebra here, change the spots oneleprity is just not gonna work. We want to make him into something that he's not. He's always been this way. Well we elected him. And yeah, you go back to go back to the poem.

Let's go back to the poem he read on the campaign trail. You knew I was a snake before you took me in. He's been telling us for a long time. So I think we can find common ground on this, Steve, and I sure appreciate your sharing your opinion with me. Have a great rest of your weekend. Jason in Florida. I think you're echoing some of the initial comments from Steve about how the president is treated. Welcome, Jason, Hi, how are you. I'm good? What what's your thoughts on this? Well,

I'm not not professional. I'm a farmer. And you know, I just Rustcott five or more because of blueberries, because my blueberries went in the last ten years from twelve dollars a pound a dollar pound. Can't survive on that. So not after chilling farmers here in Florida, in this country. And you know, I like everything this president is doing and I live my life. If you're not for me, you're against me. And I think that's what Trump is.

Trump is for us, and we are for Trump. And if the people in Washington don't realize that poor people in this country like this man. We love this man, and that that's we just want to see people treating him with respect. And I understand how he lost his back at them because they lost old at him and he lost his back. He's a fighter. Yeah, he's what he said. He's a counterpuncher. He's a He's always said

he's a counterpuncher. Jason. Now you're a farmer, you're working farmer, some of the greatest people who keep this country growing and fed and feed the world. And you brought up NAFTA. From what I understand, I think we're about to make a breakthrough with NAFTA. Do you even follow what's going on with the negotiations with Mexico and Canada. I follow everything in the in the news. I follow. I follow everything that Trump does, everything that the Democrats do, everything

that I'm a registered Republican. Oh good, I'm glad. I think I think we're gonna have a breakthrough on NAFTA. Everybody I talked to, everybody I hear from in in that part of the world, in the trade world, and I will tell you, Jason, I questioned the President on his tariff strategy because I'm a free trade guy. I think the free market should decide. But I also understand that he's working China, he's working Canada, and he's working Mexico to get them to come back to the table

and be fair. So farmers like you don't see your income go from twelve bucks a pound to a bucket pound. Do you end up dry brush cutting what should be feeding people. It's got to be heartbreaking. So I I support your thinking here on this Jason. I'm I'm I'm not. I'm not. I wasn't born in this country. I'm on us. Where'd you come from the military, Where where did you come from? Sir? I came from Trinidad, from Trinidad, Okay, a tiny island community. And your son is in the military.

My son is in the military. He's in the neighbor to the US Navy. And you know, in Trinidad, when I was a kid, we had a president a prime minister that stopped all inputs in order to save the economy. And he did, you know, if we gotta stuff a little bit because I'm tired, I'm ready to suffer, because I've been suffering for the last twelve years farming here and I found all of my life I found in farm here. And I've been suffering all my life here

in this country, suffering be not farmer. And if Trump, President Trump, could do something to help farmers in this country, I'm gonna bucking all the way. Jason, you are remarkable, nothing short of inspirational. On a Friday night where I thought we were running the corner on the final lap, and I get a call from a guy who chose to be in this country, who made a decision to come here and to work hard and one of the hardest fields you could work in, work in the land.

And you're standing up for not only this country, but for your family. And now to tell me your son is in the Navy. I wear a red shirt every Friday, Jason, in memory of every person deployed. Uh. Please please let your son no and let your family know that this show supports him and we support you. Thank you, sir for taking the time to call us. Wow. Who I I'm truly touched by that phone call. I am moved by that. When you think of what it takes to

come here from another country legally. I'm not talking about illegals. I'm talking about people who endure the arduous task of coming into America that sometimes takes years and thousands of dollars. And now this guy isn't here on a high tech visa programming computers. He's putting his dirt, his hands in the dirt every day and bringing forth food. But he's willing to stick by the president. I wish Democrats could hear calls like that. I really do. Michael Pelka and

for Buck Sexton. I gotta get to some of the craziness before we get out of here. We'll be right back. Michael Pelka in for buck Sexton. Tonight, Buckets back Monday. He's on a special assignment. He'll tell you all about it on Monday. But I'm happy to be here. I wanted to read to you from the Vanity Fair. I know, Vanity Fair, Yeah, I know, I know, snooty entertainment fashion magazine. Vanity Fair has a review of The Happy Time Murders. I'm not going to read the review, but I want

to encourage you. Go to vanity fair dot com and read the review of The Happy Time Murders titled maybe the worst movie of the year, A total disaster with puppets, maybe the worst movie of the year. It's brutal. It's a brutal movie. I want to see it just to see if it lives up to this bad review. And h for anybody who wrote to me and said you're not gonna see it, say anything about the end of The Big Bang Theory, the CBS show that's going out there. No,

I never watched it, never, not once. I'm more of a live p D guy. Big Bang Theory get out of here. I lost Lewis. I was gonna talk to a guy named Lewis about Neil Cavuto. So maybe Lewis if you want to call back in and share your thoughts, happy to hear them. Anybody has a final thought? Eight four buck eight four four to five. In the meantime, do you want a home this? This is so amazing. The FBI calls home title theft one of the fastest

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So in other you can purchase alcohol and they will deliver it to your house. They're gonna check your ID and make sure you you pay for it, etcetera. But Kansas City, Missouri, is actually working on making liquor. It's easy to get delivered to your home as a pizza. Let's think about that. You'll be able to get liquor delivered to your home. So Kansas City, good for you for innovating. I wonder if they will eventually have drone delivery of the liquor. Just a possibility. I'm just saying.

And if you need good, good feelings at the end of the day, if you've had a rough week, you might want to look up the story I tweeted on a link to it earlier, the story of the dolphins who surrounded a mother humpback whale and her newborn calf to protect it from attacking males. Just remarkable video. The story is amazing. You've got to support nature when you can. And also, um, lest anybody think I don't support this president,

I am on behind him. Just in my world. I want Donald Trump to be a little more of a u niter. I think it's a good opportunity for us. And in the interim, go and visit my Twitter account at stunt Brain. Look for me on iTunes. Of course, I have a different podcast up all the time, and maybe I'll be back next week, sitting in for my friend Buck Sexton. Bucks back Monday. Until then, Michael Pelka saying thank you and as always, you know how we end test Studo, my friends test Studo