Hollywood Elite Cheat Scheme

This is the buck Sexton Show, where the mission or mission is to decode what really matters with actionable intelligence. Mag no mistake, America. You're a great American Again the buck Sexton Show begins. He's a great guy? Did buck Sexton? Now? A central defendant in the scheme, WILLIAMS. Singer will plead guilty today to charges of racketeering, conspiracy, money laundering, conspiracy, conspiracy to defraud the United States, and obstruction of justice.

Between roughly twenty eleven and twenty eighteen, wealthy parents paid Singer about twenty five million dollars in total to guarantee their children's admission to elite schools, including Yale, Georgetown, Stanford, the University of Southern California, the University of Texas UCLA, and Wake Forest. Beyond enriching himself, Singer used that money to bribe college officials, Division one coaches, college exam administrators, all to secure admission for the children of his clients,

not on their merits, but through fraud. Singers Foundation purported to be a charitable organization, but was actually a front Singer used to launder the money that parents paid him, of which you would then take a portion and dole it out his bribes. Two coaches and others. Welcome to the Buck Sexton show Man. I love it when we get a story that we can really sink our teeth

into that is not Russia COLLUSI. It is not one of these things that we've been covering, you know, day in and day out for a couple of years now, and this is one of them. This is pretty incredible stuff, and there's some important lessons to take from all this, just just to give you a sense we're talking about here. So college admissions, as we know, are hyper competitive. Those of you who have kids, you know these days, and I don't have kids, so I gotta take your word

for it. But now these days it's like you're you're getting them out of diapers and already you got to think about like, oh are they going to prep for the SATs? You know, it's just turned into this arms race and it's out of control. And let me just say to you that from what I have now seen from I can't speak really as much of the generation above me. I think that the credentialing system of the university, which is all it is the university now, is a

credentialing system. It doesn't there is no guarantee of your level of education. Where you go to school does not mean you are smart, does not mean that you have some great background that anything. I have personal and professional experience with brilliant people who went to community college or went to no college. And I have personal and professional experience with people who went to Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, Gale,

you name it, who were pompous idiots. So it's a credentialing system because it's all we got, really, But when you dig into it a little more, what you find out is that it is imperfect at best, way beyond imperfect. And that's when you look at legacy admissions, affirmative action admissions, college athletics recruiting. You know, there's all these different ways people get in being the best oboist in Northern Alaska.

I mean, there's a lot of ways that you can get into these schools, and a lot of them that do not involve being what you would think of as the most academically capable. And remember, and don't even get me started on this whole world. We need to have athletic recruiting. Why these aren't minor league sports teams? Who cares?

These are educational facilities. I mean, when you think about all the money and all the stuff that's going into the and I know people love their college sports, but they should be treated as minor league minor league team and people should get paid. But we'll get into that discussion another time. So let's get into this though, this massive fraud that involves that's right. An actress that I have a certain fondness for Laurie Laughlin from Full House.

She is among one of those charge those of you who around my age. I don't care what you say you've seen full House, all right, actresses Felicity Huffman of Desperate Housewives, I can honestly say I have never seen a full episode of that show. I have seen clips, I've never watched a full episode. I do not have to turn into my man. Card and Lori Laughlin from Full House, they are among those who are charged. It's a twenty five million dollar fraud where people were finding

ways to cheat to get their kids into college. Now, the ways that they cheated were pretty amazing. Aunt Becky from Full House, that's Lory Laughlin paid five hundred thousand dollars in bribes, according to this indictment, and created fake photos of their daughter as a rowing competitive crew star to get into USC. First of all, I mean, I didn't know that it it was that competitive to get into USC. And I'm not trying to be a jerk. I just five hundred grand seems like a lot. But beyond that,

I rode crew. So I just think it's funny that somebody is photo shopping. I mean, this was this was a an intentional fraud, photo shopping their kids so that they can get into school. I mean, this would be like me saying I'm in a world class climber and just photoshopping a photo of buck with the swoop. Probably have to put a helmet on there, you know, at

the top of kill him and Jaro or something. And yeah, producer Mike is like five hundred k. The kid must have not been so bright because that's a high price for for usc. But you know, all of a sudden, I m a climber and kill him and jar I mean you you really have to look at some of the stuff that these people were doing. It's amazing. There was a coach women's soccer coach at Yale. It took four hundred thousand dollars because one of the scams was to pay off a coach. I mean, this is all

a big A lot of it was bribery. Some of it was cheating on test taking and but but a lot of it was bribery driven. So this one, you know, this this one coaching group, this one person that was at the heart of all this, the operation. Yeah, it paid admission test administrators and so people would change the scores they got. Oh I didn't get a twelve hundred, I got a fifteen fifty on the SAT. They would say, right, that's pretty easy. It's changed the number. It's just cook

the books. They would pay students to take the test for somebody else. That's another scam that they've pulled. But some of my favorites involved the coaches, because all the coach has to do is say, oh, this is a I want to recruit this person for an athletic team, and that depending on the sport, like women soccer at Yale. It's probably not enough to just wave you in, but it's going to help a lot. Coach took four hundred thousand dollars for that. Now, you know, you look at

this and you say to yourself. First of all, people really want their kids to get Oh. Another one, they really want their kids to get in the school. But a media executive from Nevada allegedly created a a photo of her son as a pole vaulting champion to get him into USC. I mean, this is amazing. Yes, my son is a world champion pole vaulter and really wants to go to USC. Meanwhile, the kids never pole vaulted in his life. Another one. It has to do with

phony learning disabilities. Oh and my friends, I can tell you from New York City this was rampant when I was in high school, absolutely rampant. I knew so many people who were pino good ish students, mediocre to good students at private schools in New York City in high school where you know, the arms race to get into an IVY or something like an IVY was just this was existential for people. I have to get into an IVY except Cornell because Cornell's an IVY. But it doesn't

really count. WHOA take that one. And I know the Cornell people, they always come at me and they call, you know, come at me. I know. I know. Amerst isn't good. Amerst isn't as good as Williams. See, we can all play these games. But they set up these fake learning disabilities so they would have untimed testing and then also have other provisions made for them. But here's the beauty of the untimed testing system for people with fake and those of you who have real learning disabilities.

I'm not talking about you and I and you're listening right now to a nationally syndicated radio host who was bottom of his class in grammar school until about the fifth or sixth grade and had had a speech impediment. So trust me, I need an additional work, additional help. I needed, you know, after school tutoring. I needed speech therapy. So I'm all for making sure that everybody gets their fullest chance and that. But I'm talking with people that

are faking again. I mean, imagine if I was going around as a little kid pretending to have a speech impediment so that I get out of certain classes. That's what these people are doing. And we're talking about millions and millions of dollars. Now do I really care about any of this in the sense that shouldn't even really go to prison for this? I mean, it is a fraud, But you're defrauding college admissions processes? Is that a criminal act?

You know? If I submit a resume that's embellished for a job and I get that job and I'm doing the job pretty well, do they have the right to throw me in prison because I lie to get the job. You know, I do have a level of discomfort with that, because some of these people are facing like really serious

federal charges conspiracy, fraud. But the bigger takeaway from all of this, The bigger takeaway from all this is that one our our society is just far too obsessed with the brand names of these schools and all of that. Right that we need to stop thinking that where you

go to college determinents. First of all, even people that go to fancy schools will tell you that where you go to grad school, it's much more important where you're going to undergrad anyway, and that a lot of people should think much more about going to a solid state school program for undergrad and then go for if they want to get that next credential. You know, you really want to shoot for the stars for grad school. But

even that, people taking a lot of debt. And I speak to with somebody who is in the media, one because I love it, but I'm not part of me is also I just didn't want to take on a couple of hundred thousand dollars a loans to go to business school. I want to do that. I want to get paid, i want to work. I want to grow as as an employee and as a as a professional person. I'm not looking to take on a lot of debt because I wasn't really show it anyway. So on the

one hand, we need to just stop this. And you know that I've been saying this for a long time. This is not new. But the obsession with brand value in these schools, it's just too much because it's not even true. I mean, there are people who buy their way and this is what you're seeing here. They buy their way into these schools. They get in because of

affirmative action rules, because of legacy rules. Although no one ever likes to hear this, the legacy admits generally have near the same SAT scores as the overall admitted class. They just get a nod. People don't like to hear that because they like to think that, oh, that's what the you know, the the affluent, you know, the rich kids, that's their version of affirmative action. You always hear kind of not really, I'm not saying the legacy is okay,

but at least that's more transactional. Speaking of transactional, also to the point about this not being that criminal, I gotta say, you know that you can get into it. I don't know how many of you know this or not. I know this because I knew people that their families did this for them. You can write a check and get into Harvard. This is well understood, and it costs you think a few million dollars essentially, but you do it through the Advancement Office. You do it in a

way that it's a gentlemanly bribe. Really, what's happened here is the colleges have been cut out of it, and other people are getting you know, the athletic coach has taken the cut instead of the advancement office and then putting your name on some room of a library right for four or five million bucks. I mean you could have You could send an illiterate to Harvard if you've

got a big enough checkbook. It's true, it's true. But then there's the part of this I think you're really you all see this too, and you know where I'm going. The whole notion we have in this country that we should be taking orders from and listening to this cast of elites, and that their elitism comes from this credentialing system. This has been called into question for a while, but now we really see that they're not as special as they think they are. They're not as amazing, brilliant, wise

worthy as we were all led to believe. In fact, I think one of the greatest destabilizing factors in the developed world right now, in the first world in the West, is that because of the Internet and our instantaneous exposure to the thoughts and acts and ideas of each other, which can come with some certainly some drawbacks, we now see that these are not This isn't some cast of

elites that should be running the country. That every individual should be judged on his or her merits, not where where they went to school, what names are associated with them. That's not who we want to be making our decisions, and that the elites are not nearly as skillful and adept, not just at running this country, but at driving our culture, at being involved in the most important ways, in those aspects of life that we all have to live by

without getting a say in. Really, so the whole system is up for question right now. The whole system is up for debate. And I know that this is just one case of this fraud, but I assure you this is not the only one. And in many ways this has been going on for a long time, and yet we are all still supposed to bow. Oh, you have a PhD in you know, women's in gender studies from Yale. You must be really smart. No, no, not true. And I definitely don't want you to just run the country

because of that. Maybe you're smart, maybe you're not. Kind of all depends. I've got some more details on this and much more coming up. Team stay with me, So you know, you look at so many of the people that are at the upper echelons of government, and in increasingly it's been the case in finance for a while, and you see that there are all these people that they're big claim to fame is where they went to school.

This is where I also get to say, and this is never popular, but you know, for the boomers out there, getting into Harvard today is statistically about ten times harder I think than getting into Harvard in the nineteen sixties, just in terms of the numbers of applications and the overall percentages, both the testing percentages and the percentages of those who get in. So these now have become this is all a globalized marketplace. Our schools are a global commodity.

People from Shanghai and people from you know, Dhaka want to go to Harvard in Stanford and Yale and apparently USC. I know, I'm I'm gonna get some USC. I'm just kidding. USC is great. It's great school. I know. Although it was funny, I can't, I cannot tell a lie. There was a whole thing about how the federal government, in this indictment laid out, you know, in order to you know, because they will establish the different players in the indictment.

And they had this listing of all the schools and it was, you know, Stanford University, a very selective private university, Yale University a very select or, highly selective private university, Georgetown University, a highly selective private university. USC a private university. That actually happened in the Actually, oh no, I'm sorry. It wasn't USC. I'm sorry, USC. I'm messing with you too much. It was you. You see, San Diego was the one that I think got got the got dunked

on accidentally by the federal government. UC San Diego all College. That's what they That's what they said. It was pretty funny. They didn't meet it that way. They didn't mean it that way, I'm sure, but it was. It was pretty amusing.

But this is this is forcing a very necessary conversation about you know, we need to stop thinking that these schools are producing the leaders of the future and all this stuff, that there's this elitism and sorting that goes on at the top universities has become almost fetishized by our system. And I don't know what. I can't tell you what it means to go to one of these schools that all these people were paying millions of dollars.

Lots of people that go to them don't have very successful careers and don't end up being very happy, and plenty of people that don't go to fancy schools or college at all end up being very happy and doing great. So it is always up to the individual. But this just goes to show you how competitive and out of whack the system is. Right now, he's holding the line

for America. Buck Sexton is back. The central and most serious question in this investigation, the reason Robert Mueller started it, is did the current president of the United States assist the Kremlin in an attack on our democracy? And if Mueller after two years, comes back and says I don't have the evidence to support that charge, that's a reckoning. That's a reckoning for progressives and Democrats who hope that Muller would essentially erase the twenty sixteen election. It's a

reckoning for the media. It's a reckoning around the country if, in fact, after all this time, there was no collusion. Yeah, it's a reckoning, your darn right, it is. So I'm hearing that there's a little bit of a delay from the DOJ in finalizing the Muller report has to do with a senior DJ employee who doesn't want to They want to wait till he's gone to release the report, but they don't want to He doesn't want to leave

until the report's been released. So there's a little bit of a chicken and egg issue here with when this thing's going to come out, because some of the people at the DJ are not gonna look so good with all of this. But I want to tell you, the more I thought about it after our show yesterday, the more clear it is to me that I think they're going to impeach Trump. I'm sorry, I'm not buying this. Oh no, we're not going to peach him. I think this is a head fake. And let me tell you why.

They have been telling us the president is a traitor. They have been telling us the president is a racist, who supports neo Nazis, who supports white nationalists, who has sexually assaulted dozens of women. I mean, they have so many horrific allegations against this president that is it is truly hard to keep track of them. It's hard to understand, you know, it's hard to remember all of them at any given time, and now now they're going to say

that they want to be reasonable. No, no, no, no, They just don't want to be accused of verdict first trial later. They don't want it to be obvious from their own statements that they've been ready to take down

Trump all along. And I have some voices to add into the mix here to that end, and that and that essentially what it would tell us if the Mulla report comes out doesn't have anything and they impeach him, and we know they're going to impeach him without finding anything new already and their other investigations, it just means that they were always going to impeach him, which doesn't look good for them. It does not look like they are being honest, which they are not. Obviously they're a

bunch of lying lunatics. But it makes it too clear they're not being honest in this whole process. And that's where I think you should That's where our friend Andy McCarthy comes in play five Pelosi to carry the message to the public that no, no, no, we're not here just to impeach Trump. While that's going on under the radar Madler's Committee and Shift's committee will go about the business of trying to dig into anything that could conceivably,

in their minds be a high crime and misdemeanor. Yeah, on the one hand, you've got Pelosi saying, oh, no, there's not going to be there's not going to be impeachment, and we're not going to go through that process even though we could. But yet you have all these other investigations going on. So this is just disingenuous. I mean, it is very obvious what's going on here. They're trying to one hedge their bets because what if they really

don't get anything at all from these other investigations. And two, they have to make it seem like they are respecting the process and going through the process and not just jumping to the conclusion that they want at the end of the process. They have to make it seem like this is a real investigation and not just a political which hunt, which is what it has been all along.

And that's where Maxine Waters, for example, is, let's just say, to be kind too straightforward in how she views this to I think tell the party line correctly, and she says that they're already there with what they need to get. Trump play for but I believe that we have everything that it needs to basically impeach him. Yeah, I believe that, and you're absolutely right. We're depending on mister Muller, depending on mister Mueller. But where we have everything we need

to impeach him, well, which is it? I need to know which one of those things? Is what the Democrats are actually saying here, Because if they have everything they need them, then they're not depending on mister Muller, that's pretty clear. But if they're waiting for Muller's report, that means that they should respect the end result of the Muller report if there is nothing to nothing to go on for impeachment purposes, which I think everyone is pretty

much now expecting. And I just think it's amazing. There's this whole industry of people the last two years on TV, not so much on radio because thank Hevin's Conservative still are dominant in radio, but on TV and the newspapers and books too, people have written whole books on collusion saying that you know that there was collusion, and how do you write a book on a fantasy but call

it nonfiction? Well, what happens to their credibility? When do we have a full accounting, and I would say a reckoning. And ABC's Terry Moran at the start of the segment called that are reckoning for all of the falsehoods, all the lies, and the real damage that has been done to our faith in the government institution. That everyone who says our institutions are being undermined by Trump. No, No, they've been really undermined by the anti Trump resistance. I

mean the anti Trump left. When it comes to Trump decided to burn the village down to save it. That's what they've done to the DOJ, to our federal government. They have gone scorched earth. And now they're going to have a turn and look and realize that, no, they didn't save anything. So they're they're looking to establish the new narrative here and that's where that's where the hesitation on pulling the trigger on impeachment comes from. They have to make it seem like they have not entirely made

up their minds. But I'm here to tell you that they have made up their minds. I really do believe that they will impeach this president, and I think it's going to be on the Stormy Daniels payoff. I really do. They're going to say that that's a campaign finance violation, and they're gonna they're gonna go with it, and they'll throw in some other stuff too. But that's that's the way I see this playing out, that the left is too crazy to be saying on this issue. That's where

I come down. We'll see if I'm right, but I think they're too crazy to be seen. We'll be right back. It all is part of the Trump derangement syndrome, which has replaced policy making in the hearts and souls of most of the Democrats, and that's the problem that they have. I think this explains xanrear kaisil Cortez's statements that she has made, and half the Democrats are making these statements

as well. But what really is troubling now, though, is how socialism has found a happy home inside a major American political party's leadership and it has become the dog wagging the tail. That's the problem. The Democrats have the hatred for Trump, the ideology, and if anything's going to boost the president as reelection, it's going to be the

Democrats more than anything. This is the counter argument to whether or not they will impeach, that the obvious and unrestrained hatred of the Democrats as the primary animating force of their twenty twenty hopes right, essentially Trump hatred. He's going to be what the party is first and foremost interested in, right that that's really what That's what they're going to be selling, is that they hate Trump. That

makes the base. I think that makes and I shouldn't say the base, that just makes everyone who voted for Trump think these other people are not serious. Trump has been imperfect. Trump has gotten into fights publicly that I don't think he needed to, and that we're unwise. He has surrounded himself with very sketchy people at very key and very key positions. There's no there's no question about this.

I mean, this is this is just what's happened. And we can talk about why that's happened another time, but that is what has happened with the Trump administration. But there's been a lot of good The policies of the administration on deregulation, tax cuts, the major policies the administration and these things are on point. I think he's doing a good job and I'm I am thankful, and we have to remember this. I'm thankful every day that we

have a President Trump instead of President Hillary Clinton. I couldn't be in this town. I couldn't live in DC under a Clinton administration, under a Hillary Clinton administrator, any Clinton administration for that matter, right, I just couldn't do it. I could not be in a position where I sit around and have to hear from all these different people about how how great she is and how amazing she is, when all we all know that it's a fraud, that

it's a lot that she's one. She's a fantastic example hollow. Hillary is a perfect example of someone who has created this resume and this these has all these credentials for herself that when you really look at it, none of it is impressive. It's just all branding. You know, the schools, the where she work, the what she's done, it's it's all an effort to build a brand. But there's really

a lot of poor judgment, ethical failings, incompetence. Look at the rollout of Hillary Care back in the nineties, and this is not somebody who's good at things and has skill and expertise in anything other than the promotion of Hillary Clinton. That's really what her Hillary Clinton's career is the self promotion of Hillary Clinton. So she is a Yeah, I know, she went to Yale Law School, and she went to Wellsey before that, and you know, people will try to make this case that, Oh and and she

was a senator and a secretary of State. Well, she was only a senator because of who her husband was. We all know this. She's moved to New York and ran for senator in one and she was only a secretary of State because she had been a senator beforehand, because of her husband is, because of her last name, and because Obama figured that a good way to deal with the rival the rivals in the Clinton administration or would be Clinton administration, was to co opt her as

a Secretary of State. It made sense at the time for him, but these are almost for her. It's largely just a function of being pushed along because of the dynastic nature of politics we have right now, which I find really annoying and I wish we could get away from this, but it's becoming so entrenched that now when you when you criticize that politics in this country should not be a family business, that people should not just say, oh, well, you know, my dad was the governor of such and such.

So now I'm this, you know, important thing or that important thing. You run up into this power structure where where people will you know, they'll they'll come at you on this because more and more we see that they're

just famous last names that pop up in politics. And when you say things like nepotism is bad and senator or president should not be an inherited position in any way, you're starting to find that that's an unpopular point of view in the corridors of power, which as another disconcerting, disconcerting thing that is that is going on, to be sure, but all along, you know, the Trump derangement first approach of the Democrats, I do think is going to be

a useful thing for Trump's reelection prospects. I think that the hatred of the Democrats because they can't control it. You know, they'd like to think that they'll make whyse decisions, wise choices on all of this, but really they're going to have to deal with the pink hat wearing, you know,

science and women's march, Antifa loving, lunatic left. There are going to be a lot of these different groups that will demand in order for them to be the little grassroots army of whoever the Democrat candidate's going to be. They're going to demand that there is vengeance against Trump for all that he's done. Now, there is just one little thought exprimer, What has Trump done? Let's really think

of this for a second. Other than poking the media and the eye, which is one of my favorite things that he's done because it was necessary and really only he could do it the way that he has, what has Trump done that justifies this derangement? You know that they made such a big deal. They made such a big deal about the Muslim ban, for example, which is not a Muslim ban, it's a few Muslim countries. It's you know, they made a big deal about the Muslim ban. Okay, um,

well what exactly has resulted from that? Why aren't they still so upset about that? I mean, the Supreme Court said it's it's legal, so we know that they were wrong about that, But well, why why have they just forgotten about this? Because who does? It really affect very few people and it has not been some big deal.

You know, you go down the list of things that they've been so angry about, and you say to yourself, would any reasonable person respond the way the left has responded in these cases, with just such a level of insane fury and hatred. What what? What has Trump done? That's Obamacare is still place. Yeah, the individual mandates not there, but Obamacare is still the law. The border is worse than it was under the Obama administration. It's just true.

It's not really Trump's fault, but it's true. The border is worse. We'll talk more about that in the next hour. You know, the economy is doing well, Yeah, okay, he gave tax cuts for corporations. Does that really get them so upset? What is it? When you look at it, It's really just that he challenges their sense. He challenges the left sense of their righteousness, and he is an impediment to their power. And that's all you have to be. You just have to stand in the way of the left.

You don't have to be an odious person. You don't have to be evil or mean or pushing policies that they think are particularly problematic in one way or another. You just have to be in the way and they will want to destroy you. So that's where the Trump arrangement syndrome really comes from. It's yeah, I mean Trump

is that particularly difficult for them. It's they just can't handle that Trump is who he is and has gotten away with what he's gotten away with, and that they threw everything at him that they could and have not been able to take this guy down. And in that sense, he's kind of a beacon of hope to the rest

of us. I really mean it. You know, if Trump can take everything, the left has a special Council probe all you know, the exposes the Billy Bush tape, these complex, multi fascinated efforts to ruin and destroy him from a very powerful left wing apparatus in this country across media and politics and academia. And if they haven't been able to destroy him, maybe it's possible for us to win. Maybe the country doesn't have to be overtaken, especially the

culture of the country, by the radical left. Maybe we don't have to accept that. Maybe it's not inevitable that they'll continue to be in control of what they have been in control of. You know, young people, we'll see the light. Earlier colleges won't be indoctrination factories for reflexive progressivism. Hollywood will start to make movies that inspire and that people enjoy instead of that preach and preen. Trump is

at least hope that that could happen. I don't know if he'll be able to manage those things during his time in office, but at least we know that the left's ability to isolate and destroy any target they want. It's not one hundred percent because they have not been able to do it to Trump yet, and they have tried. Got a big hour or two coming up, immigration, the expansion of the voter pool. Part of that is through immigration. By the way, the Democrats plans for twenty twenty, how

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for the same future for this country. We have very different visions for what America looks like from from at least the far left. You know, it used to be that they just wanted, you know, more dollars spent on healthcare, and you know, they wanted the systems that we have to just grow. But now they're looking for I meaning

the government systems. Now they're looking for fundamental transformation of the relationship between citizen and state under the rubric of climate change and with their open borders logic and all of these different hard left ideas coming together at one time socialism, they want a different country. They think they're fighting for a different country now. They're not trying to preserve and this is where you can see the breakdown

between the left and conservatives. We are trying to conserve the country that we have based upon the wisdom of the past and the knowledge of what is reality in our presence. We're not trying to change the world based upon a fantasy, a fiction that we've created and have sold to enough people to give us power. That's what

the left does. We say, here's what's happening. Here is the truth of this situation or that situation that the government has to handle and deal with, and how do we best, how do we best, if not solve it, at least address the problem or involve ourselves in this fight. But Democrats are saying, you know what, maybe we don't really do the focus on winning back Let's just say what it is. They don't think they can win back white we're class voters. With some of the candidates that

they're putting forward, I do not believe. But they think that if they have Elizabeth Warren, for example, she will win back previous Obama voters who voted for Trump in twenty sixteen in states like Pennsylvania and Wisconsin and others. I do not believe that they are confident in that. And so what are they doing now? They are trying to move They're trying to move the goalposts essentially on

who's able to vote. And now they're trying to figure out who's able to vote and change who's able to vote. So oh yeah. By the way, Congressman Scott Perry, I saw him in DC and he listens to the show sometimes. I was very nice of him to say, speaking of Pennsylvania, shout out to Congress and Perry in his office, But he looked at the truth thing is, the Democrats feel like if they can just change who votes, and they can change who wins, and this is what they've been

doing all along. They want to give felons and non citizens and sixteen year olds the right to vote. That's not going to make this a country with wiser decision making. Let's be clear about this. They don't want to give felons back all their rights. You know, they're not saying that felons should have gun rights, even for non look for violent felons. Yeah, I know. I'm all in agreement with you can own a gun if you're a violent felon. If you are somebody that was writing dad checks, I

think you should be allowed to have a firearm. I don't think that that, you know, I don't think that you should be barred forever for somebody who you know, lied to the FBI about a white collar crime. I think you should be able to own a firearm. That doesn't that doesn't make you a dangerous society. But they know that, you know, it's it's not just who it's it's not just who counts the votes, but also who

can vote. That they're very interested in, and winning over voters is something that is a little bit more complicated for them that they would rather just change the numbers. I mean, you look at four million felons in Florida will be able to vote in the next election. And you've already seen the beginning of what I think is going to become a more mainstream position. And this I've

been right on this stuff all along, folks. They are going to advocate for illegal aliens to begin to vote in local elections across the country, which it would just grows the power base of the Democrat left. And they also are going to want permanent residence screen card holders who cannot vote to be able to vote. They're going to try to expand the electorate dramatically, and even if they can't do it, you might say, buck, the Republicans will never go for that, and they would have to

be legislation passed. Yeah, but this is where their party is headed, because it's all logical from their perspective. I mean, they operate from a place of illogic, but it makes sense to them. If they don't think there's anything wrong with being illegal in this country, if they want all the illegals to stay, if they don't think that illegals have done anything wrong, why shouldn't illegals be able to vote?

You know, if there's no difference between somebody in the eyes of the Democrat Party right now, there should be no difference in the way that government treats somebody who just ran across the border from El Salvador, then you or I or anybody. I mean, I'm assuming a lot of you are listening were born here, and a lot of you probably weren't, but most of you were born here, You or I who are citizens of this country. The Democratic Party has no real preference for us over those

who have just arrived illegally. Mind you, I'm not talking about legal immigrants. That's a different category. We could talk about that another time. They don't view illegal immigration as bad. Well, if you don't view legal immigration is bad. If in fact you want to encourage illegal immigration, why not extend more rights to them. The Hillary Clinton campaign website was openly advocating for the expansion of Obamacare access in the

last election to illegal aliens. So they were saying, oh, they won't get subsidies, but they should be able to get healthcare on the exchanges. Once you get them in the exchanges, Who thinks that that there would be state action to make up the shortfall and essentially give them, give illegal aliens the same subsidies that you get anywhere else. You can never, never trust the Democrats to adhere to

a principle. When there is power at stake, they will always find a way to maximize the benefit to them. They do not care. They do not care what rights, what processes, what history, what they will They will trample on all that with a smile, as long as it been if it's their political party. I mean, I can't think of the last time the Democrats voluntarily held themselves back because of oh, I don't know the constitution or the law. When they really wanted something. It's not something

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fight on the front line. Whether you agree with him or don't, at least we have a president who's supporting law enforcement, who is fighting for border security. Cartel will they don't have rules they're claimed by. When you say there's not a problem, there's out absolutely a problem in the cartel has no problem crossing any of those lines. Name me one thing that Democratic leadership has offered to slow this search down, to save lives crying across the border.

They have offered no fixes. The only one who's offering fixes here is President Trump, and every time he tries something, he gets sued. It's true. At least Trump is Trump. And I know I've been a little hard on the President recently with the border issue, but I think I've been fair. But at least we know that the President is engaged on this issue and supports law enforcement and would, if he had his way, have a secure border. The other side, as my buddy Tom Holman points out, there,

they oppose enforcement at every level. They want looser regulations at the border itself. They want looser regulations when it comes to immigration courts. They want interpretations of statute that will favor illegals, they want interpretation of existing all I mean everything that they are doing, Everything that they do and believe in here when it comes to the border, shows that they would like to have the status quo continue.

There are nothing they will vote for what they call more border security, but it's really just more people to be at the border to process those who are showing up now. So border patrol is before our very eyes right now, folks, being transitioned from a frontline law enforcement organization into a kind of international Red Cross and soup kitchen for whoever can get via foot by walking to

our southern border. Border patrol is now increasingly taken off the law enforcement job which is necessary for stopping human trafficking, ventonel and other drugs being smuggled into the country and all kinds of illegal activity that is going on at our border right other things getting smuggled in. They're being taken off of that mission for what they're now calling the humanitarian mission. And the only thing that the Democrats

are willing to fund. The only thing the Democrats are willing to fund when it comes to our border is more of the humanitarian mission, meaning people to process. They don't want to they don't want to make it easier to deport, they don't want to make it easier to catch or capture. They want more individuals there to bring food and clothing and provide shelter and process in those who are showing up. So what they've done is they've

turned the entire southern border into a massive port of entry. Essentially, that's where we are. And this is something that should concern everyone in the country because, as I was reading yesterday from that piece in The Atlantic, which occasionally has some good writing, if we don't have a nation state, you know, we don't have elections worthy of the name, and our whole country starts to feel like, what's really

going on here? If we don't have sovereignty, if we don't have control over our borders, are we even really a country anymore? Are we just slowly becoming something else? And not even that slowly. This is where it's important that everyone knows that the problem is only going to get bigger. We get the National Border Patrol Council President

Brandon Judd saying the following play eight. If we do not get control of the border, we're going to continue to see more FETE and al more opioids, more deaths here in the United States. We have to control the border and these migrants, they're being used as pawns. And that's the reason why this is so important. We need our politicians to have the political will to say we need to secure the border once and for all. We

do need to secure the border. But if we're going to be honest about that, and we are, because this is the freedom hunt, we are further from a secure border now then we've been in a long time that small loophole from the Obama administration about bringing children that

are from non contiguous country. So it doesn't work if you're a Mexican or Canadian, but if you come from a non contiguous country and you have a child, and the way that that is processed, and especially the speed with which those people are processed when they arrive in large numbers. They have now found a seam a week seemed to exploit in our system, and they are just

ramming through now as many people as possible. That's an insecure border, and we are going to see dramatic consequences from this if we do not get this under control. This was a piece from CNN, and now I remember recently. I mean it was not long ago when if you even brought up the possibility of there being disease issues with this nearly unrestrained migration that is happening into this country, you were a racist and a bad person. Yeah, you're a racist and a bad person if you even bring

this up. More than two thousand people in immigration and Customs enforcement custody are being quarantine amid an outbreak of months and other Jesus. That's according to CNN, all right, two thousand people. It's actually twenty two hundred and eighty seven as of March seventh, have a contagious condition including mumps, chicken pox, the flu. And that's just what we know about.

That's what we know about. Once you really dig into this, I'm sure you'll find that there are people who have other diseases that we get vaccinated against and therefore have heard immunity from it. But they don't get vaccinated. Fern and Honduras, they don't get vaccinated Fern and el Salvador and other countries take this stuff very seriously, and no one thinks that they're racist. I think even to be in is it. I think in Dubai, if you're going to become a citizen, you have to have an HIV test.

I could be wrong about that. If you're gonna be a citizen of the UAE, I think you have to have an HIV test. I mean, there are other countries health screening for immigrants is considered standard, but in this case, because the system is overwhelmed, and because any slowdown at the border must be indicative of some right wing fascist, xenophobic, you know whatever, whatever, all this stuff that they say. Because of all of that, we see them just getting

processed through faster and faster. And I just want to know what are the Libs going to say about this When somebody who has a childhood disease that can be lethal, let's say, or just it doesn't have to be a child, somebody who has a disease for which we generally have vaccinations against, and there's someone and someone dies, you know, and someone dies of complications, or does the government bear responsibility for that, for not protecting the American people from

this health risk. No one's saying it's not a health risk anymore. Two thousand plus now you can say, oh, buck, a lot of people get the flu, a lot of Yeah, but we're not trying to import more people that have mumps chicken box. By the way, there's also in that group. And I know this from border patrol. They told me, you know, yeah, there are there are people that have HIV.

There are people that have much more even serious health conditions as well, which I know people will say, oh buck, that can be managed, and yeah, but what about the cost of the US healthcare system too. We have immigration restrictions in place so that we're not just taking in the sick from the rest of the world, so that we're not just taking in the poor and those that

will need welfare from the rest of the world. You know, President Trump said, I think it was earlier today that we shouldn't be taking people, you know, immigrants, should not be relying on welfare. It is already federal regulation in the in the in the Federal Code on immigration that you cannot be a charge of the state if you're going to be an an immigrant in this country who's brought who comes in legally and then let's say wants to stay for you know, a green card or become

a permanent resident. You're not allowed to be a charge of the state. But no one enforces any of this. They don't care because we're lied to all the time. They say that immigrants don't get illegal immigrants rather don't get welfare benefits. That's just not true. If you have a kid, then you get all kinds of welfare benefits. So there's a huge incentive to have a kid if you're an illegal immigrant in this country as fast as possible, and we see a lot of people have acted on

that incentive. We're not going to fix the border anytime soon, but the government has got to get more serious about this. The Congress needs to act here. I mean, I've I'm in hoping that I'm going to get down to El Paso within a month or so and I'll be able to see for myself what's going on and bring you some more ground truth about it. But this we are about to see, first of all, how fake the fake news is when it comes to saying that there is no crisis. This is a crisis that when people realize

the magnitude of it. I think there's going to be something of a panic. We'll continue to follow, will be right back. I'm not allowed to say that, like you know or whatever, like whatever psych um like whatever you know or whatever, like it's like this like like for what you know, like and you know things like that, um like it's just like like it's just like you know, um like you know and you know, um you know whatever.

Like it's like because like you know, you know, blah blah blah, and I think, um, you know, like you know, that's what I'm saying, like close like um, you know, and I'm gonna get in a lot of trouble when I go back to work, like yeah, like you know whatever like AOC. There are really two sides to this,

this equation of dealing with AOC. On the one hand, she runs around like the ignoramist that she clearly is, and we can sit here and have a little bit of fun at her expense, sometimes not in a mean way, but in a necessary way. She's a powerful public figure, and she's somebody who should be called to account for

what she does and says. That said, there's also the side of this that I find increasingly concerning, and that is what if the guardrails when the Democratic Party that have traditionally brought them towards something of the center right. I mean, I'm not saying that the Democratic Party has The Democratic Party has been progressively hence progressive, progressively working its way further left for the last well for my lifetime. I can just speak to that with some some level

of expertise or at least personal experience. They've been moving hard left for thirty years. I mean since certainly the Clinton administration, but in some ways the Clinton administration was the beginning of the all out political warfare. Now, but even Nixon. You go back to Nixon, they were doing

the same thing against Nixon. So you know, they've been moving further and further left all along, but they at least used to have this at the end end of the day, we need to win that center of America concept, and I think they're they're trying to blow right past that. This is why they want to expand the voter pool. They want to let sixteen year olds vote, former felons vote, a legal aliens vote. They're they're not playing for the

center anymore. I think that they have concerns and they should have concerns that this is going to be a you know, this is now a place that they cannot return from. They've moved so far left that this is where they're going to be. You know. Even Chuck Todd running Democrat propaganda over at NBC or MSNBC or both, he's saying that Democrats, man, they're really out there. They're they're whacked out. Play thirteen. Democrats have spent much of

the last month wrestling themselves to the ground. They were embarrassed over the revelation that Virginia Governor Ralph Northam had once dressed in blackface, startled by subsequen accusations of sexual assault against Northam's lieutenant Governor, Justin Fairfax, and chronically unsure this week over how to handle a comment by freshman Democrat elan Omar her Second that many saw as anti Semitic.

And emerging more progressive cohort of elected Democrats is coming into conflict with an older generation of centrists and traditional liberals. These two Democratic factions are united and divided. They're united about the urgency of defeating President Trump next year, but at the same time they are divided, with each side seeing the other as the reason mister Trump may wind up winning after all, he's right. I hope he's right, because the far left stuff is just not where this

country is. And the media is there, and you see this from the way they talk about it. There's a kind of glee, a sense that oh, finally we're able to push for what we want to push for. Finally we're going to get what we've been fighting for all this time. But the American people aren't with them on this. The American people are not going as far left as as AOC, at least not yet. I'm very much a believer in my thesis that when we have when the

economic times get bad, it's a timing issue. If we have a big reset before the election, where the economy just just has to burn off a lot of excess. You know, twenty twenty five percent drop in the stock market, which will affect hiring, which will affect a lot of stuff, affect people's wealthoughtly, and you know home prices. I mean, every everything gets affected. Right. The market is just an indicator.

If you don't own any stock, it doesn't mean that the stock market does not matter to you, to your life. But that's when people turn to statism, progressivism, and the AOC like ideology of the left. And we should be concerned about that because she really does have ingrained in her a hostility to capitalism, as we discussed yesterday, I mean to free enterprise. She thinks capitalism is irredeemable in a corrupt system, and we don't know of a modern

economic system other than socialism with which we could replace capitalism. Right, there's no I don't think that she's suggesting we go back to trade and barter. I don't think she wants America to be a monarchist, mercantilist state. I'm pretty sure that the way that she sees the path ahead is we either have limited capitalism, which we should. We do not have free market capitalism in this country. We do

not have it. We have some of it, but we have a tremendous amount of government regulation, government intrusion to the market, chrony capitalism. There's a lot of that stuff that goes on too. And that's why as conservatives are focus is let's get rid of those constraints. Let's get rid of ways that certain people try to help themselves line their pockets, essentially cheat using the system to help them. Right, big business loves big government. For example, AOC is just

coming at us with corporations are bad. You know, these are our statements of faith on the left. Corporations are bad. Dark money is a Republican thing. These are stupid statements, but it's a good way to get the mob energized. It's a form of affecting community organizing and really rabble rousing. And she knows that. I mean, here is an example of just AOC airing out hostility to corporations without understanding the first thing about which she is talking. Play fourteen.

Since Wells Fargo financed the building of this pipeline and in an environmentally unstable way, why shouldn't the bank be held responsible for financing the cleanup of the of the disasters from these projects. We were not involved in the dancing of the x of the Xcel pipeline. We were one of the seventeen or nineteen banks that was involved in the financing of the Dakota Access pipeline. Okay, so, so Wells Fargo hasn't financed any company associated with the

Keystone Xcel pipeline. No, I didn't say that. I said we're not involved in financing that pipeline specifically. Okay, so

let's focus on the Dakota Access pipeline. Should Wells Fargo be held responsible for the damages incurred by climate change due to the financing of fossil fuels and these projects, I don't know how you calculate that, congressmant I'm safe from spills or when we have to reinvest in infrastructure, building sea walls, from the erosion of from the erosion of infrastructure, or cleanups wildfires, etc. I'm not aware that

there's been any of what you described that's occurred. Well about the cleanups from the leaks of the Dakota Access pipeline, I'm not aware of the leaks associated with the Dakota Access pipeline that you're describing. So hypothetically, if there was a leak from the Dakota Access pipeline, why shouldn't Wells Fargo pay for the cleanup of it? If since it

paid for the construction of the pipeline itself. Because we don't operate the pipeline, we provide financial to the company as operating the pipeline, so I know we probably like buckets. My ears are bleeding. Why am I listening to this this person. She's the day facto leader of the Democratic Party right now, full stop. If you're going to have you know, Pelosi say something or AOC say something, Guess who gets more attention. Guess who moves the needle more.

It's AOC already all right. As I've been saying, she is the Prince Joffrey from Game of Thrones. The Democratic Party. Everyone is kind of in fear of her, even though they know that she has really earned very little in terms of respect, has no knowledge, has no idea what she's talking about. And that exchange where she can't figure out why you wouldn't hold the bank that finances what is essentially a construction project liable for any issues that

come up from the construction project. I mean, think about this. If I if I go to the bank and I get a loan to build a house, and I build the house really poorly, and then I sell it to somebody and the house collapses on that person. Is the bank that gave me the money that I used to go buy material? Are they responsible for it? But only a really very stupid person could think that. She thinks that. Now, by the way, stupid does not mean not dangerous stupid.

People can be very powerful. They can be cultural icons, they can be dictators, they can you know, power is not and maybe this is a theme on the show today. Power and influence are not necessarily correlated with skill or ability or intelligence. So we need to we need to stop associating this person is powerful. Well, well, they must be powerful for a good reason. No, they might just be powerful. And that's what you have with Okazio Cortez.

She's just powerful. But she is not knowledgeable, she is not wise, she does not have good judgment. And she even managed to pack into this questioning of the Wells Fargo president and CEO there Tim Sloan, she managed to pack into it and also, shouldn't you just pay for climate change? All this is is the government seizing control of every aspect of your life through this whole climate change concept and then also engaging in a massive redistribution

of wealth in order to save the planet. I mean, this is a religious belief with forced donations attached to it, and they want this to be there's a globle socialism component to this. Oh, we're the developed world, so for the developing world, we should have to give them money because we've polluted so much to get here, and we'll help them. We'll pay for their green jobs and their green tech. Meanwhile, if you got rid of fossil fuels,

we have no means. Really interesting. Last night on Tucker Show, this guy who was the Canadian we played his audio on this show once a while ago. I think he was the Green Piece chief in Canada saying that we have nothing to replace. How do what works the farm equipment that's necessary all over the world to harvest crops if not fossil fuel powered combines, tractors, all that stuff. Got no answer to that, But they're not thinking about what the reality is. They're thinking AOC and others are

thinking about how they can get the power. They want the power. They'll figure out the details later. You want to see what that looks like. Do some reading on Mao's great lead Forward and not long ago didn't end Well, we'll be back. Mean pettiness has overtaken our politics. Sometimes it seems like we can't govern ourselves. We even talk to one another. If you notice, how can criticize the

saying anything nice about a Republican folks? This is not who we are, That isn't how we got here Joe Biden now saying that we need to not be mean to each other in politics, that pettiness has overtaken our politics. This is the same guy who I think it was last week said that Vice President Mike Pence was a nice guy, and then, because I forget, I think it was Cynthia Nixon said that Pence is very anti gay. That Biden walked it back and was like, yeah, you

know what, you're right. You know, it turns out that it turns out that that he's not so nice, that Pence is not such a good guy. I guess, or you know, he walked it back. I forget how he said it, but he essentially said, oh, yeah, you're right. I should have thought more about that before I said that Pence is a nice guy. Let me tell you something. I know people who work for Mike Pence. Everybody thinks Pence is a nice guy. Nobody thinks Pence is not

a nice guy. I've only interviewed him in a professional capacity. I can tell you he was a gentleman in dealing with me. And you might say, well, Buck, aren't they all gentlemen? No, they're not all gentlemen. They're not all cool I remember when case It came in. He was like, hey, buddy, what's going on. We're going to do an interview here? Yeah, what's up? John Kasey rhymes with Basic from Ohio. You know, my dad was a mailman. What's the blaze? Why do

you work? There? Were you sitting here? You're gonna ask me some questions? Hey, ho, where do you know? Ka Sick was like that friend of yours when you're in high school who had the dad who thought he was really cool and funny, and he was just painfully lame and should have just let you guys hang out and knop it all up in your all up in your stuff. That's Kasick, you know, the one that you're like, I didn't need your comment on that. I don't want your

comment on that. And thanks for thanks for playing buddy. So they're not all. They're all super nice and cool. Pence is a nice guy. But but here's really what I want to say about this. Biden's calling for us to step away from pettiness and politics. And I just say that Democrats and the Left really excels at this. They excel at being really nasty, really mean. If you

spend any time on left wing social media. You'll see it's just all everyone who's a conservative is a racist, fat, ugly, disgusting, hateful, bigoted, islamophobic, anti gay that sale this stuff and you know, ninety five percent of the time none of it is true. I mean, they're just being vicious, and it's echoed by a lot of politicians on the left. I'm not going to easily forget. I'm not going to forget anytime soon that the left has really been rooting for the president's

children to go to prison. I've seen a lot of it. I've seen them say it. I've seen them talking about they want Donald Trump Junior to be indicted. They want him And you say backwell, the president would just pardon him, not if it's stayed charges, not that they can find something in the state of New York to get him or Avanca with they've been rooting for that. You want

to talk about nasty, that's disgusting, That is disgusting. And people say, oh, but what about Hillary, Well, Hillary one did break the law a lot, and two I was always saying that she should have had to plead to the charges, but I don't think she would have gotten based on the guidelines and the statutes. I don't think she would have served a lot of time, and I've talked to national security lawyers specifically about that. They agree.

But in terms of meanness, here's an example. Ilhan Omar was asked about her comparison of Obama and Trump, and here's what she said, Play eighteen. Just as different when it comes to do you think about that? Is silly to even think, and equally to is it true that you just think that he's more polished than Trump. One is human, the other is not. She says, Oh, yeah, that seems like a reasonable thing for this person to say. Ilhan Omar says that Obama's human. Trump is not human.

If they didn't treat this present the way that they do, I would be more willing to dismiss that as maybe just a bit of hyperbole. But they do think of this president as some terrible atrocity inflicted on the country. They do deeply despise him, and I think that they even dehumanize him, calling him orange Drum, all the stuff they say about Trump, it's it's really meant to make him not a person. They never give him credit for his family, They never give him credit for the people

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cleared and ready for the Buck brief. This deterioration in Venezuela is really getting scary and or scarier. It's been scary for a while, but now I'm I'm concerned that we are going to enter the more violent phase of this. There's already violence. There are these groups that will at a moment's notice hop on motorbikes to go terrorize, terrorize the opposition to Maduro. So there's clearly been and there's

an incredibly high murder rate. But there's thuggery and street violence going on in a systemic way, in an intentional way in Venezuela, and has been for a while. But this now is getting to a place where we've had a blackout for an extended period of time, which you can imagine, you know, having been in New York City at one at one point when there was a blackout in part of the city and seeing it from up

high on a building, up on a rooftop. It is an eerie feeling when a city is truly plunged into darkness. I cannot imagine what it's like when you're already in the violent chaos of the streets of Caracas, when you find out that they've been without power. Much of the whole country has been without power since Thursday afternoon. And now the anti us Bolvarian Revolution BS rhetoric gets trotted out by Madureau, who's looking for people to blame for

this one, because there's a clear desperation. You have photos of Venezuelan picking food out of the back of garbage trucks. You have people who are looking for runoff from water pipes just to get water. There's there's fear that the especially with the power outage, because remember power and water systems and pumping and if there's a cleaning going on as well of the water to make it potable, that you lose power, and you lose a lot more than

just you know, refrigerators and lights. You lose ventilation systems and ventilators and hospitals, you lose the ability to pump drinking water. You you know, you lose security for important facilities. I mean, you know, Without power, the world gets no matter where you are, very scary, very fast. You can imagine that in a circumstance like Venezuela, where you already have a country that is in the process of becoming an entirely failed state unless there's some kind of intervention

here from the Guido government. And this is when things, you know, with the increase in desperation, I think you also have an increase in the possibility of violence, which is why you've had the US Embassy declared that it will remove all American personnel from the embassy. It was just down to a minimal critical personnel staff, but now everybody's out. We have put even more pressure on trying to cut off Maduro's government from the lifelines that it

has economic lifelines, primarily Cuba, but also from Russia. We're seizing bank accounts, freezing bank accounts, shutting down their finances, and I will say that we are taking a pretty active role in this. There are dozens of countries that want Guido to be in charge of not Maduro, really all of Latin America except for Mexico, interestingly enough, because it's got this very far left Penneto government. But Mexico, Nicaragua, Cuba, maybe one or two other Latin American governments I can't

think of off the top of my head. They're the only ones that don't want Maduro gone. They are still sticking by Maduro. They still want and want him to be the president of this desperate country. But the US is, you know, we're now partnering with Guido in the ouster of Maduro, and we should be very clear about that this. This has moved beyond just diplomatic recognition and statements of support, which I think we're well within our rights to do. We are now engaging in I do think it's fair

to say financial warfare. And I know people are gonna say, oh, Buck, that's not that you're going too far that well, when you're shutting off all access to funds for a country, and we may even I wouldn't be surprised if we started going beyond the sanctions on Venezuelan oil and maybe even started perhaps shutting off additional sources of revenue into the country. So you know, it's it's a very volatile situation. And when you've got a blackout happening, oh, we're being

blamed for the blackout. Of course, the Majuro government is saying that it's our fault and that we are the reason, and that there's US technology at work here. So you know, this is something that is This is going to be a test I think for the Trump administration, how welcome the handless. They've got Elliott Abrams as the point man on this, who is a very savvy guy, but comes with a lot of political baggage because of his long time working in foreign policy for the United States government.

And as I said, when when you pull out all diplomatic staff from an embassy, that means that you are really concerned about two things. One is just retaliation against embassy personnel in general, but usually that also means that there is a feeling that we would not be able to sufficiently protect that embassy in the event of an incident. And if you can't count on the host government to respect diplomatic community and diplomatic protocol, which we cannot in

Maduro anymore. I think that's fair to say the contingent of marines that they have there to guard the ambassador and to guard the embassy staff, that that's not going to be enough. They will not be in a position to protect that embassy if Maduro decides to seize them. And you got Elliot Abrams running around saying that all options are on the table. That's a you know, people can argue with me on this, we can debate this,

but all options means all options. And I certainly hope that we do not get into a get to a place of any kind of military action in Venezuela, which would start you know how it goes, folks. It starts small. It starts with, Okay, we've got a US and we've got some US nationals who are in jeopardy, and we've

got to go in and get them. And you know, these things no one usually at least sometimes, but it's rare for zone to say, yeah, let's just add another add another military intervention onto the list of things we want to do as a country and as a government.

It starts out usually smaller than that. You know, look a look at our intervention in Somalia is a humanitarian mission to feed people, and there are other countries involved, and as we all know from the black Hawk down incident, that can be a lot more than you bargain for. So I am now entering a zone of caution here.

I think I think Trump and his team have done the right thing overall, but we cannot be in a position where we are responsible for what happens in Venezuela, and we certainly don't want to be involved in a military any kind of a military escalation because Munduro's back is up against the wall and he knows it, and there are a lot of people that work for him, if you remember, they view this as they view this

as ride or die. You know, they either stay in power and have authority and wealth, or they might be spending a long time in a Venezuelan prison, which I'm sure is a particularly nasty place to be. So this issue, we're going to continue to watch it. But I'm looking at this with a bit of trepidation, so we'll stay on it. You're probably familiar with AARP. You or someone

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dot us slash buck. Oh look at this. Democratic lawmakers unveil Journalist Protection Act amid Trump attacks on the media. This is from three Democratic lawmakers. They've introduced this Journal's Protection Act that will designate certain attacks on those reporting the news as a federal crime. Who put this forward? Representative Swalwell, Bloomenthal, and Menendez. It was originally introduced by Swalwell back in February twenty eighteen. Here's what they say

about this. The Journalist Protection Act makes it a federal crime to intentionally cause bodily harm to a journalist affecting interstate or foreign commerce in the course of reporting, or in a manner design to intimidate him or her from news gathering. For a media organization, it represents a clear statement that assaults against people engage in reporting is unacceptable and helps ensure law enforcement is able to punish those who interfere with news gathering. And this is also obviously

turned into a talking point against Trump. They're saying they're doing this because Trump's climate of extreme hostility toward the media needs a response, and that quote. Such antagonistic rhetoric encourages others to think, regardless of their views, that violence against journalists is more acceptable. This is complete and utter bull Trump is not encouraging violence against them. The media does not have and oh my gosh, we're being targeted

violence problem the media. It's full of a bunch of babies. Honestly, they're so lucky. And I say this to you, I am so lucky every day that I'm able to do this show and that I have all of you listening to me on one hundred and twenty five stations or so across the country, and the whole additional army of folks who just listen on the podcast. I am really lucky,

and it's why I like my job so much. I think it's it's a great thing, and I feel very blessed, honestly and truly to be able to do this work. I do not run around acting like, oh, it's so hard, and you know, I've got the left wing trying to take me out, take me down, call me names, lie about me, and all that stuff happens all the time.

I don't talk about it that much on the show, but yeah, they're always trying to take me out, and people within the media business or trying to find conservatives like me to make an example of to undermine to advance their own careers with. So you know, anyone can sit around and a lot of you are probably, yeah, buck, guess what, my job's a hard here, and we could all sit around talk about all the problems come with our respective. That's why they call it work. That's why

they pay you for it. If it were, you know, sitting around eating cream puffs and getting a massage all day, which does sound pretty amazing right about now, they probably wouldn't pay you for it. You might have to pay them for it, so I understand this. I just think that journalists are honestly as a class, and that's really what they are, and that's how they view themselves. They are a Journalism is a personal identity for a lot of people, and a lot of them have never had

another job, which I also think. I think it's bad. I think that that's problematic. I think that a lot of folks who go right into journalism and have never done anything else. Now, they're obviously really good people who do that, and you don't have to send me all the names of all the great people. I'm sure they're amazing people at Fox or Reporters is all they ever done.

But I think that there's too much of that within journalism so that you don't have enough of a real life perspective brought into these newsrooms from outside of this enclave. And look, ninety percent of journalists or libs, for example, Well, if you're if you're a Lib journalist that goes to work for only LIB publications, you really don't understand the country. You just don't. You haven't had enough interaction with the American people who disagree with you or see things differently

from you. So I think that there's huge structural problems in journalism in general. But this idea that they need to pass a federal hate crime statute to protect journalists for doing their jobs, Well, then who else gets a federal hate crime statute? Right? Who? What other employment involves? Interstate commerce? Oh? Well, pretty much all commerce based on and you know, now we could who's ready for it?

Who's ready for it? Wickered v. Phil Burne the Supreme Court case that was one of the greatest travesties of constitutional jurisprudence, certainly of the last one hundred or so years. I mean, it's a it is terrible for it. So Wickered v. Filburn for a quick review something you're like, buck, I know Wickered v. Filburn No, no no, no, hold on, This one will be fun. I'll make it quick. It was a case where you had a guy who was

growing wheat and he didn't want to. So this goes right to the heart of the regulatory powers of the federal government. This guy was a farmer in Ohio and he had twelve acres of wheat beyond what he was supposed to under the Agricultural Adjustment Act of nineteen thirty eight, and he said, Look, I'm just growing this wheat for myself. I'm just growing my own wheat. You know, well, you know it's sweat for me. Why does the federal government

get a say in this? Well, the federal the Supreme Court came back with an opinion that said, well, because you're not going to be buying wheat on the wheat market, and the wheat market is a mule, is an interstate market. You are affecting that market by not buying on that market because you're making stuff for yourself, So we can regulate even with that you're making for your I mean, this was essentially the beginning of the federal government's ability

to regulate almost anything it wants. Um Wickered v. Philburn is the the first of the many headed hydra of federal overreach which we are becoming more used to. And that's not a good thing. I mean, you shouldn't think and I shouldn't think that it's normal now that, for example, gun crimes can always really be prosecuted as a federal crime. And you may now not always always, So don't take me literally on that. Take me seriously, but not literally.

But this is true. Gun crimes that involve you know, robbing a liquor store, for example, if the Feds want to process prosecute you rather as a federal that as a federal crime. There are statutes they can do it. Because you're interrupting interstate commerce with the armed robbery. That's

not the way the federal government's supposed to work. This has also led to vast over criminalization, where you have they estimate because they don't even know over five thousand federal criminal statutes and regulations that have criminal penalties attached to them. And that's another really bad thing. When we have the federal government how many crimes it can prosecute, it should be able to give us an exact number and know what is a crime and what is not.

But instead what we really have is a federal government that says, well, you know, it really depends, really depends, And to that I just would respond, that's not the way it's supposed to be. We started out with three three crimes in the constitution, piracy, counterfeiting, treason. Now we've got illegal packaging of a fish in plastic instead of

paper in international waters. We have people who got real I mean, you know, who went wandered onto federal land and didn't know they're on federal land and found an arrowhead and then are being prosecuted because they found essentially a really old rock on the ground and it falls under a statute about disturbing native artifacts or something. I mean,

just stuff like that. That all comes from this mentality that is exemplified and has been built upon in wickerd v. Philburn that allows the federal government to essentially involve itself in whatever it wants. So there you have that, my friends. I know I went a little bit of a tangent there, but I think it's a good one. And as so, this obviously shouldn't be a law that anyone passes. This is just the Democrats trying to make journalists feel better because,

you know, here's the other part of it. Journalists are used to feeling like the echo chambers, theirs and theirs alone, and now that there's all this connectivity with the you know, the fifty percent of Americans that journalists despise, they're seeing now that, oh, those people can respond back to them. And Trump has kicked open the door here by saying that you don't have to listen to these people. Some of them are good, but some of them are bad.

Some of them are ethical, but some of them are jerks. Well, now that means that we can always ask that question, is this just because this person writes for a newspaper or is on the television talking about the news, doesn't mean that they have some special knowledge, and it certainly doesn't mean that they're entitled to our respect. Is See, that's really part of what's made journalists so upset. They're not so much worried about their physical safety because that's

just babysh. I mean, journalists are fine. I've told you. In the last thirty years, I think five journalists have been killed doing their jobs in the United States in thirty years. That's according the Committee to Protect Journalists, who did not like when I pointed out that that's not exactly a terrifying statistic. What they really don't like is that their prestige and their place in our society has been questioned in a way that they weren't ready for.

And they they want some federal government odd to the fact that journalists are so important to the First Amendment. That's what this is really about. The show ain't over yet, folks. It's time for roll call, Roll call time. Everybody. If you want to be a part of it yourself, Facebook, dot com, slash buck sex, and that is where I

recommend you go and let's get to it. Brian writes Buck, I appreciated your comments yesterday about what if the Left tries to do to you what they are attempting on Tucker. You will go out with your shields high now that you have a team of Arden patriots behind you that have got your back on social media, they try to get you on some ignoramous action from your freshman year of college. I'm reminded of the one comment that Walter says to Donnie at the end of The Big Lebowski,

The social media outrage clowns are the night nihilists. No, Donnie, these men are called nihilists. Hey, Brian, I really appreciate that. Yeah, it's I've been saying it for a long time. It's one of the reasons why I try to maintain some consistency on this issue, among many other issues. At some point, someone's going to say that I've done something or said something that is problematic from the view of the Left. If I've done something that's actually problematic, I will always

admit it. Apologize for it, and that is just a function of honor and integrity. But what I'm saying is that the the outrage mob, the media matters. In fact, media matters came at me today a little bit, and there'll be more of that, I'm sure in the future. Media matters comes after me occasionally on Twitter, and you know they'll they'll try to take me down. And look, as long as the team is with me, I'll always be doing a show and I'm not going to back

down to the outrage mob. And I really hope that what we've seen from Tucker changes the standard going forward, because this is just nonsense. This this thing of if you're a conservative and you say something that's bad a long time time and go, or you say something that's that's borderline maybe inappropriate, but you know, stuff happens. The world's a the world's a contact sport, my friends. Uh, you're supposed to just be ruined and destroyed forever. But

liberals say crazy stuff all the time. You know, Liberals do things that you think to yourself, if I ever did that, I'd never you know, I'd never work in that industry again, and I'd be ignominiously expelled from the public square, and it's just at the double standard is just too much and I'm sick of it and I don't want to live my life by their rules anymore.

Oh it's tough. You know, people get sponsor pressure and then they you know, and then then all of a sudden, it's a you know, do you want the paycheck or not? And you got to remember there's for some people, there's real consequences for all this, which is why I hate organizations like Media Matters. I mean, they don't they're not adding to knowledge, to discourse. They're not I'm using there. They don't make people feel better. All they do is

just they're just out there to destroy. They're out there just to light small woodland creatures on fire their own amusement. They're disgusting. They're despicable people. And a lot of these left wing organizations out there that support them, whether we're talking Daily Co's, move on dot org, you know, the Young Turks, these different groups that are thinking that this thing. I even thin the pod Save America guys are advocating.

I saw this today. They're advocating for the boycott against Tucker. You know, why don't they Why don't they offer to have Tucker on their show and debate some of these issues, or why don't they actually try to engage and make their points good now that they just they just want they want their competitors gone. They want people that they disagree with destroyed, ruined, humiliated in front of their families.

You know, I try on this show for the most part. Yeah, I mean, occasionally some public personalities are going to come in for some criticism and mockery. But I don't make fun of people's appearance. And that's one I'm not perfect, I know, but I try very hard, you know. I don't, you know, visions make fun of anyone's appearance, because I just think that's just beneath anybody, And I try to

keep it on the substance and the ideas. What you see now, especially in social media world, is that it's always just just trying to destroy the people who are it's always ad hominum. They're trying to destroy the message, and it's a it's going to be worse in this country going forward to unless unless we finally take This is what taking a stand means. By the way, it's easy to say I take a stand on something and then when there's pressure and there's heat, you go, oh,

I'm not going to take that stand anymore. That stand has been fun, but I'm not doing that stand anymore. That's that's easy to do when you say that I will not bow to the outrage mob, understanding that that may come with additional consequences. That's that's taking a stand, and that's what That's what Tucker is doing, and that's what a lot of other people I think around him realize has to be done. And this is all apart from the fact that, look, I don't I don't like

some of the stuff that Tucker said at all. I think it's bad. But I don't think that people should lose their jobs and careers for saying something here or there, especially ten years ago, that is ill thought out, objectionable, wrong, any of the above. And yeah, obviously, I also I like Tucker and know that he's a good guy. He's a good person. He's worked incredibly hard to get where he is. He serves a very important role in public discourse.

He's a warrior for our side. You know that all factors into it too, And I think if one of my biggest criticisms on the right is that we leave our own behind on the battlefield all the time, on the battlefield of ideas, we let our people just get eaten alive. And then we wonder why we don't have more media platforms. We wonder why the left has so much institutional dominance in places ranging from newsrooms across the country to Hollywood studios, to Netflix, to Google, to Facebook

to you name it. Well, maybe if the people that know what's right actually stand up and fight, we won't be in this position. Maybe if the individuals across the country who understand that there are principles are at stake and that the left will just run us all over, they will go volonde rebellion on us if we allow them to. Metaphorically speaking, some of you remember that from yesterday's show, which actually got a lot of feedback about.

I'm glad you guys liked a little bit of the history of well, the history of that and how it affects now. So as you can tell, I mean, I've thought a lot about this. I've also gotten a lot of heat for standing up for Tucker and now and really just standing up for Tucker's right to not lose his job or his livelihood because the left wants another scalp. You know, I think that that. So now I'm the eye of soroon has begun to turn onto me a little bit here. So just all you can do is

be who you are and keep fighting. And that's true for all of you listening to this show too. Be who are, keep fighting and support the people that fight for what you believe in, because they need your support now more than ever. Rachel, Hello there, Buck. I thought your story on the French Revolution was gruesome and hard to listen to. I know that it is necessary to know for our children's sake. It's sobering to think that

this could happen to us, God forbid. On another note, I was curious, how are you able to eat girl Scout cookie since you have ciliac disease as always Shields high or Rachel. Well, Rachel, I didn't discover that I had ciliac disease until twenty twelve, I think twenty twelve, So I've gone my entire life up until that point eating whatever I want, you know, thinking I have no allergies or intolerances. As you know, ciliac disease is an autoimmune disorder. It's not really an allergy. But so I

know how all these things taste. So when I talk to you about drinking beer, kicking back, eating pizza, oh I did that for decades. I know all about that. I just can't do it anymore unless I want to drink sorghum beer and eat almond flower pizza. Some of you will laugh, but almind flower pizza is actually so There's that. If you're ever in New York City, the best gluten free pizzeria is called Keste, telling you the pizzas as good as any other pizza you've had anywhere else.

My man Bart writes buck, is it not odd how the Dems always prioritize Muslims over all the other so called victimized minorities. This was made evident by the recent bill that was supposed to condemn Omar's anti semitism but didn't really. You see the same thing in England, France, Canada, and Sweden, where Muslims can bomb concerts, be head soldiers, ram trucks in the crowds, and yet avoid widespread condemnation. Worse, the government goes into overdrive to try to cover up

the crimes. I think money is behind it. I suspect that all the leftist parties, including the Dems in the USA, are receiving billions of dollars in funding from some big Persian golf donors. This is being reported all over, nobody seems to grasp the sheer magnitude of the problem. Well Bart opened up a few things here. One is that you remember when you're talking about intersectionality and the way the left views competing identity groups and how they factor

into the power structure. Right, that's what intersectionality is, and it's a it's a central concept on the or to the progressive left these days. When you see how they view things, it really is like they're putting it up on a wall, and you get points for different things. And so in the case of an ilhan Omar, you get points for being Muslim, female and black and being a born at born in Africa and then a refugee to this country. So you're a particularly protected person as

a result of that status. And you know, Jews in this country and in Israel are considered well off, first world,

highly educated, and white. And so even though you have this long millennia long history of oppression of the Jewish people, the intersectional left can't really adopt or can't really fully invest itself in viewing Jews as a minority that needs protection the same way that other minority groups do, because Jews do not fall into an oppressed underclass status in this country and in the post well, I was going to say, in the post war era of Israel, though,

Israel is always ready for another conflict if it needs to be, But after multiple battles with its Arab neighbors, Israel is also considered not the oppressed, but the oppressed or in leftist ideology. So that's why they have this

problem with Omar's anti Semitism. Omar's anti Semitism. They don't really want to call it out because they still view Omar as first and foremost a a victim, and they think that she is more a victim than the Jewish people that she obviously harbors some very nasty sentiments about.

So team, you know what, I'm gonna do a double roll call because I know I went on a bit of a tangent there, and I've got a whole bunch more in the inbox here, So why don't we hit just take a quick breath, have that last sip of black rifle, although it's kind of late, so unless you got to work tonight, I don't know if that's a good idea. Coffee tends to keep me up at night. Brandon is called. Can you drink coffee late in the evening? No? Yeah,

wait what, I don't drink coffee at all. You said, what I like my energy drinks, which I know are bad for you. But oh, you're one of these people that's made Monster Energy like one of the most profitable stocks to have owned in the last fifteen years. Or Monster Monster tastes. I mean, they're not a sponsor, so I can say that they taste like battery acid. But I might have like a red Bull over two days, kind of a red Bull? Really is that? Is that

you're the one of choice, that's the one you go too. Yeah, yeah, it's because it's I don't know, it's like sipping soda or carbonated water. It's nothing like too bad, But I don't know. I love the smell of coffee. I just don't like the taste. All right, Well, I'm weird. Learn something new. Every day. We're gonna we're gonna come right back with more role calls. Stay with me, all right? So we're back with a second piece of role call. Here.

We had so much coming into our inbox that I figured we could spend a little more time on it, and so here we are Brendan right looking ahead at twenty twenty four. I believe it is abundantly clear that those that have chosen politics as a career choice have no intention of advancing the eight year Trump conservative movement. Unfortunately, the best candidate choices of Shapiro, Kirk, Crowder, or Owens

won't be old enough to run for presidents. Perhaps Carlson Sexon or maybe Adam Carolla are the best choices we have. I think the people that have chosen political commentary is the only way a conservative message and policy can unapologetic be brought to the American people. What do you think? So? I think if you're asking me, do we have people who are old enough to run for president who are really conservative and could carry the message, but aren't part

of the boomer generation. A lot of a lot of individuals would think right away of Dan Crenshaw, who is obviously a member of Congress, former Navy seal, very well respected, very reasonable in his approach to politics, is and is liked by conservatives in the traditional mold, as well as the different echelons of Trump world. So I think Dan Crenshaw is somebody that you are obviously going to hear a lot more about. And I think that he's likely the future of the party in a lot of ways.

And I know that's early to say, but he's certainly got all the credentials, and he's got the respect to people, and you could tell he's got the persona, the temperament. So yeah, I think you're going to see Crenshaw twenty twenty four. Yep, I do. I think you are going to see Crenshaw twenty twenty four. And I think he's going to be a real contender. I've been saying for a while on the show, So where are Rhodes Scholar?

Navy seals? And I know people who are so impressive in every respect, and I feel like they don't run for office. They just want to go into the private sector and have a nice life. But we should get more people that have really impressive backgrounds. And I know that, you know there's Tom Cotton, went to Harvard Law School, was a platoon commander. I think in Afghanistan. I mean, look, we get people like that who run for office. But Crenshaw is along that mold of you know, a supercommando,

wounded veteran, really smart guy. I think you went to Harvard for not business school, but maybe got a Kennedy Kennedy school, So so some people the credentialing system works really well. Uh you know, I know I've been talking about how the elites are not what they pretend to be. But when you're when you're a combat veteran seal who then goes to Harvard and becomes congressman. Yeah, no, you've You're impressive. That's that's legit. Michael. Right, hold on a second,

Hey Buck, remember those first Saturday shows? I do. I remember when I thought you were more libertarian than conservative. Since you have become more popular, I have learned the truth. You are more conservative than you have than you are libertarian. I'm what has been called the conservatarian by your friend Charles Cook. So I'm still a big fan of yours. I'm just wondering what do you think about this? Have

you changed? Is it subconscious? Uh? Well, Michael, I think that like a lot of people, I evolve as I get older and think more about certain issues, and for example, I mean, I think that the libertarian approach on some stuff is because of the nature and the power of the progressive left that we face. It's kind of like people who said, oh, well, what Gandhi did with non violence worked in India, it would not have worked against

the Nazis. And I'm not trying to make I know anytime you bring in Nazis, you're going way off the rails. But the authoritarian left has become much more aggressive and authoritarian even over the last five or six years. And so while we can sit around saying, hey, let's just have hands off with the government, man, no, if we don't win the fight and actually have control of the government that is making these decisions, they're just going to make all these decisions for us. They will be in charge.

And so it's for me. Yeah, I would say that I'm I prefer libertarian. I prefer libertarian policies in a lot of ways. But I think that you have to take a conservative, a conservative's approach to winning on the issues and understanding that you can't sit this stuff out. That if you say, oh, we just won't have the government involved, what you're going to have is the left wing government involved, So you know, it's a little bit of a fight fire with fire response, but it's an

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