Hold The Line w/ Buck Sexton - 04-28-22

by economists. Surprise, Oh yeah, such a surprise. Democrats are blaming the economic slowdown on everything from Vladimir Putin to people not paying their fair share to anyone who's been paying attentions in twenty twenty one. Just the latest evidence that Bidenomics is not working for the American people. Friends, it is time for holding on. Welcome to holding on on, buck Sexton. Bad economy. Biden can't turn it around, and he's responsible for so much of the crappy decision making

as we've seen. So what are they gonna do. Well, they're gonna lie to you about it. They're gonna try to hide the football. They're gonna try to pretend that it's someone else's fault. But we're not going to let them get away with that. Here's a graphic that'll show you where we are right now. GDP growth in the Biden administration and a sad Biden face. They're one point four percent down in this quarter. Now, this is this Isiden, very solemn face. This is of course, what could be

the beginning of a recession. You get two quarters of negative economic growth, you are officially in a recession. And we could well be seeing that because remember inflation is at a forty year high eight point five percent for the last month, which is a lot, and that is just eating away at any economic gains, any financial gains folks could have. So how do the people American people

feel about the economy right now? Well, two percent think it's excellent, and I think they're probably in the employee of the West wing of this White House and or just completely disconnected from reality. Maybe they can't read a survey, or they like being more poor than they were before. Eighteen percent say good, Yeah, those are left wing Democrats who hate Trump so much. That's down twenty six percent from last year. By the way, forty two percent say poor,

thirty eight percent say fair. I mean, these are huge increases in the negative direction for the economy because things are not going well. People actually can observe this, right, you see what's going on with the price of gas. You see how much more expensive your grocery bill is. You know that, you feel that that's real. They can tell you it's not, but you know that they're lying to you. So that's an issue. Biden's got to figure a way to spin this because they are heading into

a nightmarish mid term election. Going to be so great for America, freedom and all that is good in the world, but the Democrats are going to be really sad. Despite the GDP drop for the first quarter, Biden wants you to know, there's enormous, enormous growth in the economy. Watch

this one. I think we're what you're seeing is enormous growth in the country that it was affected by everything from COVID and the COVID blockages that we've occurred along the way, COVID blockages or something, you know whatever, something like that. Right, No, no, No, What you've actually seen is, first of all, we spend too much money and lockdowns which were championed by Democrats, but they did occur under

the Trump administration at some level too. So we do need to be cognizant of reality because we're not the left, We're not going to make it up. Here, we spend too much money. The inflation is a problem. Remember, the Democrats want to spend even more money though already beyond the existing the existing deficit spending that's going to be going on based on automatic spending in the federal budget. So they're crazy. I mean, they're just going to make

this whole thing worse. But what are they going to do? Well? You see the politics of envy and of class warfare are always the go to for Democrats because people are feeling the pain right now at the pump, at the grocery store, paying their mortgage. Go try to buy a used car, You'll say to yourself, mine, gosh, this has gotten really expensive used cars. Both think about that. And Joe Biden says that if we really want to turn this thing around, you know, we have to do again,

like I said, a little class warfare. Let's just talk about how Republicans need to pay their fair share. Why for our Republican friends are really interested in doing something about dealing with the economic growth, and they should help us continue to lower the deficit, which we've done last

year over three and fifty billion dollars. They should be willing to work with us to have a tax code that is actually one that works, and everybody pays their fair share, and they should be in a position where you shouldn't be raising taxes on middle class folks. You should be raising taxes on people who everyone acknowledges in the vast majority of Republicans on paying their fair share. The vast majority of Republicans, notices aren't paying their fair

share last time I checked. You know, Jeff Bezos is a huge Democrat, big lid, and go down the list. A lot of the richest people in the country, in the world are Democrats. We know this, right. Nancy Pelosi's super rich, He's a Democrat. There's so many rich Democrats. Hollywood, New York City, the Upper East Side, Santa Monica. These are all Democrats strongholds. In fact, the wealthiest parts of every city in the country are overwhelmingly Blue Democrats stronghold.

So what is he even talking about. Republicans have to pay their fair share. Yeah, okay, a small business owner who lives in Oklahoma is making fifty grand a year. He's not paying his fair share. A lot of Republicans just like that, folks. It's all just blather from these idiots, because what are they gonna say, we're bad at our jobs, we don't know what we're doing. Our whole class warfare

stick isn't going to get it done. I mean, Joe Biden somehow maybe what was it, seventeen million dollars after he was vice president. That's interesting, five million of it unexplained, by the way. But oh, he's just fighting for the folks. You see, he cares about the working class, sure he does. You know who else pretends that cares so much about

the working class, Chuck Schumer. And now that they're saying as well, Republicans who aren't in power and don't get to make decisions, they're not doing anything to make this better. Here's the Senate majority leader. Democrats are focused like a laser on developing and passing legislation to lower costs and improve americans daily lives. It is our top priority, and higher gas prices is the place where Americans feel it

the most. But passing legislation to fight higher gas prices at the pump is at the very top of our list. The American people didn't send us here to just point fingers a blame at each other. That seems to be what our colleagues on the other side of the ai'll do.

They don't have any constructive suggestions, no constructive suggestions. How about get out of the way, stop taxing people, stop with your regulation, unleash the energy sector, fossil fuel energy, that is is, stop telling industry that you're going to be taxing them even more, Stop telling people that they're not paying their fair share. Get out of the way. America is the greatest engine of economic prosperity and growth of any country in history. Get out of the way lives.

But they won't do it. Fact Pelosi, who somehow it's really good at investing in the stock market for somebody who has a whole lot of what would be considered inside information, right but anyway, Nancy Pelosi, but they're exempted from that. As you know, Congress doesn't really have to play by insider information laws the same way as other people. Belosi says that it's exploitation by the oil companies. That's the problem for gas prices. Watch so lowering cost at

the pump, lowering cost at the kitchen table. That's what Democrats are about. And again we're going to beginning down this path with very serious legislation that is for now recognizing COVID and what that has done to supply the Ukraine, what that has done to supply, but ignizing there is an ongoing exploitation and manipulation that its own fair to America's working families. Ah Yes, brainless pseudo populism. Courtesy of Nancy Pelosi. We'll have more on today's disappointing economic news

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know whatever that's supposed to mean. Despite the bad news about America's economic growth, President Biden is saying he's, you know, not that worried about our recession. Really probably worth noting he wasn't worried about the long term effective inflation either. But here we are at least one major financial institution

is worried about a recession. This week, economist at Deutsche Bank predicted a quote major recession could be on its way, claim it would likely be worse than the investment bank initially predicted. So could America be headed for recession or is there still time to let's say right the plane I mean now. Senior economic at FreedomWorks, Steve Moore, Steve, thanks for being with us. Thank you. I mean, so

just put it in the context. How bad is the news today before I get the predictions and the other things going here? One point five I'm sorry, one point four percent GDP decrease. What's that like? It's very negative and it's shockingly negative. I mean, first of all, anytime you get a negative number on GDP, that's bad. It means the economy is contracting. It means people are getting poorer. But more importantly, you know, we should be booming right now.

I mean, my goodness, COVID is over, businesses are reopening, people are going out back out to restaurants and stores. You've got the all of these factors that should be We should be bib or six or seven percent positive growth right now. And I think if Trump for president, that's about where we would be. It's amazing how much bideness screwed up this economy in fourteen months now. The driving factor behind this bad report was inflation. Inflation is

the villain here. If you look at the nominal GDP, that's the GDP not adjusted for inflation, there was a solid number. We grew by five five and a half percent. The problem is all of those gains were just eroded by this tidal wave of inflation. That's how we got

a negative number. So you better do something, Joe Biden about spending, which is why yesterday when he announced that we're going to forgive one point six trillion dollars of debt and you have the federal government pay that off, and then today he says we're gonna have another thirty three billion dollars for Ukraine. They're just spending money like

it's candy, and that's the driving force of this inflation. Yeah, I want to ask just a little more about that specific points, Steve, because they're now saying, of course it's the Putin price hike, which that's not going to fly there because we can see inflation was starting long before what happened in Ukraine. That's talking point fell away pretty quickly.

But they are saying, well, there was a lot of spending that occurred during lockdowns, let's say, and under the Trump administration, and so this is really you're hearing this argument. Biden only spent one point nine trillion of emergency COVID funding in twenty twenty one. It was all that Trump indoors spending in twenty twenty that was the problem. What do you say to that? Sure, I mean we spent poor order five trillion dollars we didn't have on COVID,

you know, so it's true. Okay, that's reality. All this money we borrowed, more money than we possibly could. You have to wonder what did we get from four to five trillion dollars? A million people still died of COVID. I mean, I think if we just a department of government just help people be safe, do the right thing. This is a dangerous virus. You know, all this money wouldn't have been spent and we wouldn't have this big problem with inflation. Right now. We've got to get the

spending down. We've got to get you know, America drilling again and getting our energy independent again, and the FED is going to have to suck some of this inflation out of the economy. Now. I've done a number of interviews today. People always ask, well, wasn't that going to hurt the economy if we if we try to fight

the inflation. And my point is, look, if if if I had a diagnosis said you've got a tumor, the first thing you do is take out the tumor, right, I mean, you know this idea that we just let this inflation linger. The longer lingers, the worse it's going to get. We haven't had inlay you know this. We haven't an inflation like this in forty years. We had one point five percent inflation when Trump left. Fourteen months later,

we're eight and a half percent. And again, the match that lit this forest fire was out of control government spending and yes some of it was under Trump, and then Biden came in and spent another three trillion. So you published a piece on foxens dot com today in which you warned about stagflation. Just remind everybody what would that look like and why do you think we could

be heading towards stagflation? Well, for those who are not familiar with that term, because we haven't had it for a long time in America, stagflation is the combination of runaway inflation, which we clearly have right now, plus a retreating, shrinking economy. Now we're not in a segulation now again, if we, if we, the economy couldn't rally this quarter. But it remembered, two quarters in a row of negative growth is officially any recession. So we've had one quarter,

we get one more quarter. We are technically in a recession. I still think there's time to adjust to this. But when I hear Biden talk about, you know, we're a raise spending, and then I hear Chuck Schumer yesterday saying the best way to fight inflation was the major tax increase. Really, how in the world is a major tax increase going to cause the economy to do better? A very good question I'm wondering. I was gonna ask you about it.

Here here's Pelosi and Schumer blaming oil company profiteering and hoarding for high Guy's process watch. They are hoarding the windfall while keeping prices high for people at the pump. And this time of war, at any time, there's no excuse for big oil companies to protect, to profiteer, to price gal or exploit families. Oil companies last year made record profits on these tragedies, almost like vultures. We have the Ukraine tragedy, we have the COVID tragedy, and do

they try to make things better? No, they come in and make record profits. What do you say to that all companies are in business to make money and to make profits, And are we supposed to believe that all of a sudden, Joe Biden came into office, and all of a sudden, these companies got greedy. I mean, companies always try to make as much money as they can.

We wouldn't have this crisis in energy and the high gas prices that are reaching five and in some cases six dollars a gallon around the country if we just continue to promote American oil and gas. Let's not forget that. Joe Biden said multiple times when he was running for president and even as president that his objective and many of his of his aides have said the same thing. We want to destroy the American oil and gas industry. So they reduced dramatically the amount of oil and gas

we produce, and guess what happens. That means the price goes up. And for those oil companies that have the oil gas, they have gotten a profit out of this, because the price of oil under Biden went from sixty dollars to one hundred and ten dollars a barrel. What are we looking at in the next six months. It feels like we've got some bad indicators here. Inflation is obviously at this forty year high, and the Biden administration

when they come. It would be one thing if they were saying, Stephen, that they were going to do the right things to fix it. But sometimes it sounds like they're trying to make it worse exactly. That's what makes me so nervous about this. You know, they want to spend more, they want to tax more. There was a new regulation that came out last week that's going to cost our companies six billion dollars to comply. You know the fact that the borders out of control, the rising

energy prices reverberate throughout the economy. We now have globally a food shortage, which is a you know, it could be a catastrophe, is real hunger and even a famine in many areas of the world. So these are troubling times. And I just want to point again to the fact that we've let this inflation monster out of the bottle and it's hard to get hard to stick that genie

back in the bottle. But we better do it quickly because there's no way we're going to get growth in the economy if you've got eight nine percent inflation, it's almost impossible. Steve, appreciate the expertise as always, Thanks for being I wished I had a better upbeat thing. We can still get as as my buddy Larry Cudloy says, the cavalry is coming, but right now the policy regime in Washington is very negative. Yeah, obviously that's what we

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is nonsense. Florida's statutes say, you know, teach about all these different things, including things like slavery in the civil rights movement. That is not critical race theory. I mean, that is just those are historical facts. That's part of

American history. And so we're doing all of that. About what we've said to teachers is those are the standards if you're if you're departing from that and you're teaching kids based on race, or if you're doing any of this stuff, you're departing from the standards, and you could be you could be disciplined as a result of that.

Evorada Santists has put his state of Florida at the forefront of the battle against critical race theory and woke teachers unions from rejecting certain public school textbooks to enacting the parent Parents' Rights in Education Bill Zennis has led a push to form education standards and practices in the sunshine. So when will others follow suit? See the light? Let's ask New York Post columnist Carol Markowitz. Carol, great to have you give up. Thanks for having me. It's amazing,

isn't it? To watch as the narrative shifted, because early on they were they were talking about this don't say gay bill, and it sounds, of course, so ominous, that sounds horrible. You're gonna say you can't say that we're gay. I mean, the left censor's words and says you can't say things. Of course, that's not in the bill. That's not the name of the bill. The whole thing was a big propaganda fight from the activists, and turns out people in the state of Florida and actually crossed the country,

including Democrats, are supportive of it. It's such an obvious thing. Who wants their case through third grader learning about sexual orientation or any kind of gender you know, mishmash that they have going on right now. I think that's such a basic thing for so many parents. And the thing was about this don't say gay bill is It's just as much don't say straight straight is a sexual orientation.

So the idea that you couldn't talk about gay relationships, you can't talk about any relationships, you can't get into sexual orientation at all. And I think that's a great thing. I have a kindergartener, I have a third grader, and I have a sixth grader, and I know that the sixth grader can handle things that the younger two just simply can't. Seems like common SAIS is something that the

state of Florida is embracing. And I also think that as Democrats continue to speak on the issue of schools and the teachers unions and shutdowns and CRT and gender identity theory and all this other stuff, more and more Americans saying what's going on here? And then there's just the general philosophy the Democrats seem to have. I mean, this was just just recently Biden talking to a room full of teachers. This is what This is what he

said to a room full of teachers. Watch. You've heard me say many times about our children, but it is true. They're all our children. And the recent years the teachers are the years because you recognize that they're not somebody else's children are like yours when they're in the classroom. They're not somebody else's children. They're like yours when you're in the classroom. I don't have kids. You do, but I'm guessing you don't think that that your kids belong

to the teachers too. I'm just saying, nobody was cleaning up puke three nights ago, and my kids were all sick overnight except me. So unless somebody wants to step in and help out with that, they're not their kids

and my teacher. My kids have had really phenomenal teachers, both in Florida and in New York, who cared a lot about them, who worried about them, who made sure that they were okay, But when my kids went to the next grade, those teachers didn't like feel longing for them like I will when they go to college, for example. It's a very different relationship. It's nice for a teacher to care about their students, but it's not a parental

relationship at all. And the idea that these kids belong to anybody but the parents, it's step one in this fight. Those are my kids and they're not anybody else's kids. And I think that there's also an awakening that has happened across the country in Florida very much on the forefront of this, and that is who are the schools really? Who is operating the school system and to whose benefit?

Right during the pandemic in particular, Florida was open much faster, much sooner in terms of its schools than so many other places. Here is the American Federation of Teachers, I call her the Education Commissar Randy Weingarten talking about how

Republicans just hate public schools. Watch. The bottom line is this, they just don't want public schools, you know, they you know, Milton Friedman didn't want public schools, and they wanted to have choice or universal voucher systems, but this time they don't even care if they even have public education, and they won't brutalize anyone who is in their way. What

do you make of this, Carol? So you know, I have three kids in public schools, and it's very interesting because in Florida I feel safe leaving them in book schools because I know that Randy Winegarden simply won't have the kind of control over them that she has in places like, say in New York, and part of a large part of that is Governor de Santists and the laws that he is passing. I feel confident that my kids won't be brainwashed into leftism here, and that's such

a big thing for parents. I'm not against public schools again. I could send my kids to private I choose not to. And I think the idea that that conservatives hate public schools and want to smash them is ridiculous. And nobody did more to smash the public school system than Randy Winegarden. She said that schools were not essential, basically, and we believed her. So I'm very much for school vouchers to get kids out of the public school systems where Winegarden

has a lot of control. But for places like Florida, where Ronda Santist stands between us and these insane teachers unions, you know, public schools were great. What are you what are you seeing right now from the governor? I mean, obviously the Parents Rights Bill covered a number of issues, but just the what is the overall philosophy that he's using for the public school system in the state of Florida.

I'm just wondering if this could be a model for some other states because on the pandemic, I'll just say it, Florida was the model and it's why you live there now. Florida, Florida was the beacon of sanity and actual usage of data while all these other places completely lost their minds. So what does that look like from education content? Yeah, that's really what I'm thinking that it's going to be a model for other states to follow if they, you know,

take the lead. I think that they should. I think we'll. Governor to Santis is doing is presenting a very kid's first model of schooling, which is something we just simply haven't had for a while. This leftism, this leftist vocism that spreading in public schools around the country it's very serious, it's very damaging, and it's and you know, we started this conversation with whether CRT it means not teaching history.

That's ridiculous. As round To Santa said in the first clip, the CRT means that you'll have less time for history, you won't be learning enough math. It really will have a long term harm on academics. So parents who want their kids to learn should motivate their politicians to follow round to Santis's lead. And I just want to know what you think of the ability to mobilize parents going

into this midterms. Are there still folks? Probably less so in Florida because things have been better there in terms of the schools being open. But do you get the sense that parents will perhaps surprise people in Virginia. We saw this, let's say, with the Young Can election, because they're angry about what was done to their kids during the pandemic and they want the chance to vote on this issue. Do you think that's going to happen or

is that wishful thinking? No? Absolutely, I speak to so many parents around the country that are still fuming about it. Their kids lost at least a year of school in some places, it's really crazy that they, you know, people think that they just move on, that we just forget what happened. I personally can't forget, and my kids are in a much better place now. But it's the whole package.

It's not just that schools closed, it's that we were gas lit every step of the way into believing that schools were somehow more unsafe than bars or you know, any number of things. So many dumb precautions were taken, and the story broke today that a lot of the COVID funds were used for programs like CRT. I mean,

that is really what you know. The problem is here is that all of these things are leftists are using to push their agenda in our schools, and people like Governor de Santists are saying, no, we won't stand for it. We just need more people like him around the country to speak up. Daryl, always good to see you, Thanks for being with us. Thank you, Buck, thank you. Joe Biden announced today he'd be asking Congress for indgial thirty

three billion dollars in Adukraine. That's on top of the billions we've already spent or sent them in arms since February So is all of this actually making a difference on the ground, and what's the long term planned here? Our friend Bill Roggio stops by to answer that. Stay with us. This morning, President Biden requested even more money from Congress to aid the Ukrainians fending off Russia's invasion.

Biden requested an additional thirty three billion dollars, which he says will help to ensure military aid, hospitality, and food supply to Ukraine in their time of need. So how much money are we going to give Ukraine before Putin considers us to be actually joining them in some more meaningful way in this fight? According to Joe Biden, we're never going to stop actually watched, as long as the assaults and the trustees continue, We're going to continue to

suppind military systems. It's critical this funding gets improved and improved as quickly as possible. So we're pumping billions of dollars into this conflict. Is it even making a difference the way that we had hoped? Joined me now to discuss, Senior felt the foundation for defensive Democracies, Bill Roggio, Bill,

good to see it. Thanks about always a pleasure. So the Associated Press reports the Assistants package, which is now heading to Congress for consideration, would be more than twice as large as the initial thirteen point six billion dollars a defense and economic aid for Ukraine and lesser allies that Congress enacted last month is now almost already exhausted. Thirty three billion dollars a lot of money, just the right move. What's it going to get us? It is

a lot of money. We had to keep in mind. We probably spent about, oh, I don't know, twenty thirty billion dollars a year on Afghan security courses and in

the end we saw what that got us. People were very quick to leave Afghanistan, to abandon Afghanistan because of the costs that war drug out for twenty years, and we were now, we're very quick to get into a war that looks to be looks to be an extended conflict, and this is war that's going to require if the Ukrainians are going to fend off the Russians, and I'm not sure they're able to do that with the weapons and the money that they're getting, this is going to

be This could take months, this could take years the way things are developing. And we also run the risk the longer this conflicts extended, the more weapons and more advanced weaponry we supply to the Ukrainians, the more the Russians can view US as an active in this war. And you know, I worry about the risk of coming into direct conflict with Russia. Not because Russia can beat us on the battlefield. I'm certain after what we witness

in the Ukraine that they can. It's that Russia is a nuclear armed state with ten times more nuclear weapons than US, and when two superpowers go head to head, all bets are off, and those are the risks are This is what I fear is not really being discussed in Washington today. Now, explain how you think that will that could play out. I mean, at some point, and

Putin has been saying very bellicost things. He's straight up said right that he will he will use nukes if somebody thinks they're going to get into Ukraine, meaning obviously user NATO, US and NATO get into Ukraine, He'll he'll go to the absolute matt on this. But short of a full scale military intervention, do you think there is a point at which Putin's calculation dramatically changes? I mean, you know, is it training, Is it just provision of

even bigger, more advanced military systems to the Ukrainians. How do you think that is assessed. Yeah, it's very difficult to understand what Russia, what Putin's red lines are when it comes to this military aid. So here's a scenario to think of what happens if Putin decides to strike assembly points for weapons being transitioned into Ukraine better inside of Poland. Then you have an attack on a NATO member and we have a there's a possible escalation. These

are the things that can happen. This is what I really worry about, not understanding, not knowing what provens rent minds. That's very dangerous and I don't hear and I'm not aware of any conversations happening inside of Washington, inside of policy makers circles. Everyone is keen to defeat the Russians.

I would love for the Russians to lose, but there could be unintended consequences to that, and we should at least be discussing them and gaining them out so as not to get into an armed conflict with Russia over Ukraine.

So is this making a difference in the way that we had we had hope, meaning the aid, the provision of weapons and assistance to Ukraine, because in the early days it felt like there was a lot of talk of how the Russians had been bloodied so badly that maybe this thing would come to a negotiated selement quickly.

Now it looks like this is and by the way, I expected this, and I believe you did too, that this is going to drag out into a much longer conflict that the Russian military machine it's it's not nimble, but it's vast and it is it does have a lot of capability over a long period of time to grind down an enemy. So I mean, is this is this really the US goal now? To continue to arm what will effectively be a long standing war in Europe, to arm the Ukrainian side of it. I mean, how many,

how many months? How many years you think we go on with this? Yeah, that's the real question. How long can we afford to go long along with this while the you know, the world is essentially on the precipice of a recession. We have rising prices all across the board. How long can a conflict like this extent? I think the answer is the weapons to your first question, the weapons the Ukraine have both have helped to drive back

the Russians from Kim Right Russians. I think a lot of the mistakes that were made by the Russians in and around Kiv are of the Russians making, and not necessarily of the weapons systems we sent. The weapon systems we're sending now it's not having the effect that we are hoping, which would be to blunt or halt a Russian advance. The Russians, as you had just said, they're grinding, slowly, taking over village after village, maybe advancing a mile two

three a day along that eastern and southern front. It's a grind. This is something the Russians are geared to do. This is what I expected them to do around Kiev, and they just stopped. So I was a little surprised by that. But what's happening in the east is exactly what both you and I have expected to happen. And I'm not sure the weapons systems that we're providing is enough to stop that. They're going to need far more advanced weaponry, which they're going to need training on and

a lot more of it. Than what we're seeing. The Russians have the advantage in logistics, they have the advantage of artillery, and there looks like they're getting the advantage in the numbers. The logistical problems you need graining that's a big that's a big issue. The length of their supply lines from the east from sorry, from the west to the east, that's a very difficult to overcome. So you know, are we by providing these weapons and not

looking to help for some type of political settlement? Here are we extending in this war? Were leading to the eventual the further destruction of the Ukrainian economy and its infrastructure. I don't have the answers to these things, but I again, nobody seems to even be asking these quess Do we know? I mean, has has Putin to the degree that let's just say this could be known and we could take him at his word? Do we know what Putin's ask is? If you will to stop this war? Like, what would

it take for? Because I saw that, you know, the territorial concessions even for don Boss and Lohansk and the area in the east of Ukraine. Zelenski said, well, that's off the table, Okay, well, but do we know what Putin would want in order to stop the war. Yeah, I think both sides are light years apart. It's what would stop them. Putin certainly wants all of Leukonskin Dennis blah blahs, that's certainly for sure. And I believe he

also wants to Hocupy. This has been stated by a Russian commander and this was very obvious from their operations. I believe that the Russians want full control of the Black Sea, including Odessa. And on the other side, Zelenski, which was willing to conceive these again in the darkest days at the beginning of this war, Zelenski was willing to concede, basically concede the don bust. They're not willing to do that anymore so when both sides, there's zero

room for negotiations here. And I think the pouring in of Western weapons has buoyed up the Ukrainians, and that's great. The Ukrainians have a right to defend their country, a right to fight as long as they want. But I think what this is doing is is making the gap between a political settlement between the two sides further and further. It's just extending the fight. At some point the two sides are going to have to sit down and hash out what is that. What is the end of this war?

And I don't see that end in sight. Bill. Appreciate your perspective as always, Thanks for being with us. Thanks Buck, always a pleasure. Great to see you all right. Joe Biden once again short circuits during his recent address on Ukraine. Like we say, it's not something that's enjoyable to watch, but you need to see it and understand what's going on. We'll have that and some other things for you in

quickit stay with us. The President has a senior moment today for sure, and DHS Secretary More New York announces the US is getting its own Ministry of Truth. To Barro from More Worlds nineteen eighty four, we have those stories in quicks. Let's get into it. Look, I don't like to have to point out a person cognitive to blind due to aid. I've seen this in my own life and members of my own family. It's a sad thing, and it's something that it's just the nature of getting older.

You reach a certain age, this is going to happen. But this guy is not running the local hardware store. Joe Biden is the President of the United States. He has the nuclear codes, he has tremendous power. He can sign or not sign legislation that has enormous effect on the lives of the American people. You can declare war. We're in the midst of the world, facing off against a very aggressive Russia and the biggest war in Europe since World War Two, and Joe Biden's the commander in chief.

I bring this all to you because here he is while talking about Russia's kleptocracy. Watch really close of that will enhance our underlying effort to accommodate the Russian oligarchs and make sure we take there. I will be gotten gage. We're gonna accommodate them. We're gonna seize their yachts, their luxury homes. Another they'll be gotten gags of Pruden's cleptocracy. Yeah, cleptocracy. The guys who are the cleptocracy. But these are bad guys. Yeah.

As President United States, everybody Democrats thought this was a really great move, really responsible move for all of us. Yeah. Sure. D NHS Secretary mayorc Us has announced the formation of this is real a government misinformation and Disinformation Governance Board Watch. We have just established miss and Disinformation Governance SPORT in the Department of Homeland Security to more effectively combat this threat not only to election security, but to our homeland security.

Disinformation as a threat to our homeland security. Now, I know they're saying right now that it's really just in the context of Russian disinformation. I think also on migration issues. I think I saw something like that. But they're saying it's a very limited disinformation they're concerned with this. Does anyone think that it's going to stay there? This term disinformation is just really a word that is weaponized to silence those who do not agree with the consensus narrative.

That is what disinformation actually means. That is what it is actually about. Okay, as a way as they use it, And the Russians actually have the term disinformatzia, which is their version of disinformation, obviously just with a little bit of Russian flair. They use it all the time. And guess what, America, if you look back at what happened with our own government, with the deep state, with the media, there's a lot of disinformation about oh, I don't know,

like Donald Trump colluding with Russia stuff like that. Remember that that was a well, what would we call that, a huge concertive campaign to mislead the American people into something, to thinking something that has tremendous political consequence, that would assist one part of the ideological spectrum in this country at the expense of the other. That's disinformation, isn't it. Oh so maybe they're doing a disinformation bureau or whatever they're calling it, so that they can show us all

their expertise in doing disinformation. I don't know, maybe that's what's going on. Biden. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona says he is concerned about all the divisiveness and the culture wars out there. Watched this one, and we are concerned with some of the policies that are less curriculum, more about division, more about bringing politics into the schools. They said at the onset, our schools should not be the place for culture wars. Our parents want our children to recover from

what was missed during the pandemic for the misconstruction. They want the mental health needs of their students cared for. Yeah, the division and culture wars and the schools is the result of the Left turning these places into ideological and doctrine nation factories, public schools, very young kids too. And then the right because of what happened with zoom instruction at home, when the lunatic faucia, it's shut down schools

for well a year basically. Then we actually had parents who saw what was being taught with their kids and they were upset about that, rightly so and so now, yeah, there's there's a culture war, but it was a one way war before. Now it's going both ways in the schools as it should, as it should, people should know what's going on. I don't know if the Libs are

ever going to let this go. I think they're going to spend four years, some of them masking ostentatiously, so not to really defend themselves from a virus, but because the mask is a political symbol. And this is another example of how insane they are. Biden will not eat dinner with the White House Correspondence event because of COVID. Okay, here's the headline. Biden to skip the eating portion of the code or a correspondence dinner to limit his COVID risk.

But he's around people all the time elsewhere. I mean, they're so full of it, aren't. It's ridiculous. That's everything that's hold the line. The Nostpin News with Bill Riley is next Field's eye. Each morning, the President of the United States receives a highly classified briefing on the most important issues facing the country. It's called the President's Daily

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