M you are entering the freedom Hunt. Late breaking bombshell. Today, President Trump says that journalists broke off the record, a cardinal rule of journalism, in order to get at him when it comes to his negotiations with Canada. Will dive into that, and also Sean Spice, or former White House Press secretary, joins to talk about his book. I'll ask him all the important questions like is the White House actually in trouble? And what was it like being me?
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said they were violating it. It's unbelievable what's happening with the fake news. It's unbelievable. When you say off the record, that's a very it's not a legal term, but it's a term of honor. So when I say, off the record, here's the story, in order really to save time. I don't want to waste a lot of time. And then they say they actually printed my off the record. They said President Trump said off the record, and then they go onto this. I said, there's as the first, these
are very dishonorable people. But I said, in the end, it's okay because at least Canada knows how I feel. So it's fine, folks, welcome to the Bucks Action Show.
I've I've been telling you this was going to happen for a long time, that journalists would begin to journalists would just dispense with some of the the most well they would say, most sacred tenants of journalism, um, that journalists would break off the record, and more specifically, I have said that journalists would blow sources in order to get at and you've already seen that happen in some instances, not not quite super high level just yet, but we've
had journalists lie about sources recently to get at Trump at CNN, where they said that somebody was not a source when he was the source. So that's pretty bad. I'm telling you they're going to blow sources just to get at Trump. At some point somebody will speak to them, and then when it's in their interest to do so, they'll say the person who told us this is they will blow their own source. If it hurts Trump, that's coming. According the asn't we already have a violation of off
the record principle. Now off the record, as the President stated, there is not a legally binding thing. It is, as he said, a term of honor. It is about ethics and journalism. Journalism as a profession only has a few things. No plagiarism, protect sources, and you know, off the record. I mean, there there are some things that that they all agree to. Although there's no licensing for journalism. As I've pointed out, it's it's really just what's that in
Pirates of the Caribbean. It's not a rule, it's more like a guideline, the thing I says. And that that's certainly true for anything involving journalism, where you have a lot of, especially at the top echelons of the mainstream media, a lot of very slimy, dishonest people. And here's what end up happening. Bloomberg had an interview with Trump in the and I believe in the Oval Office, and he
was talking to them about his negotiations. Is very important economic negotiations that are going on right now over trade with our Canadian brothers and sisters to the north. Now, as much as we all love Canadians and we do, they are a different country and we do have some issues of trade to speed with them. But you know, it's within the family. But we gotta straighten this out.
And Trump spoke honestly, perhaps too honestly, to Bloomberg about this, and sure enough, the off the record comments about his negotiations with Canada got published. Here's what The Toronto Star writes writes about this and comments Trump wanted to be off the record. The U s u s. President told Bloomberg News reporters on Thursday that he is not making any compromise at all in the talks with Canada, but that he cannot say this publicly because quote, it's going
to be so insulting. They're not going to be able to make a deal. The president went on, here's the problem. If I say no, the answers no. If I say no, then you're going to put that and it's going to be so insulting. They're not going to be able to make a deal. I can't kill these people, Trump said of the Canadian government off the record, Canada's working their ass off. And every time we have a problem with a point, I just put up a picture of a
Chevrolet Impaula, Trump said. The impala is A is produced at the General Motors plant in Ontario. Trump is saying they violated off the record in order to hit at him. Now, journal a lot of journalists are scrambling. Now I see this in social media. Oh no, no, there they wouldn't do. There must be some mistake. There must be some mistake. I don't know. Doesn't sound like a mistake to me, folks.
And this is why this is so important, because this is all Remember, we're in the process of an evolution of how we think about how we discussed the media in this country because Trump is breaking down the barriers to the truth. Trump is actually forcing them to have to stand and make their case to the American public without the usual echo chamber effect. And you know somebody who will fight back. It's not a one way street. It's not just offense all the time for the media. Now,
the media sometimes has to play defense. But they hate Trump as you know. And they not only have dropped the pretense of objectivity when covering this presidency, now they're going even beyond partisan coverage to dropping the foundational rules of journalism to attack this president. Now that alone, you may say, Buck, that's not really you know, I mean, I don't expect any more from them, the journalists or a bunch of a bunch of frauds anyway. And and
that's true. I can't argue with you there. But here's another part of this that is important for all of us to keep in mind. They we're willing not just to dispense with essential central principles of journalism here to hit Trump, they also were willing to harm us national
sovereign economic interest to do so. That's right, folks. This is a great example of how our own journals are willing to undercut our own president when it comes to negotiations that are going to help the American economy, the American work or the American producer out there, and whether it's dairy or you know, any number of these issues that are being negotiated right now between them. This is the economic equivalent of when Democrats were rooting against us
in the Iraq war and in Afghanistan too. You're gonna see more of this. You're going to see efforts in the media to try to strengthen China's hand. We'll talk later about where the whole China trade war is right now. That's come up later in the show. But you'll see the media trying to make efforts to to bolster the Chinese case. Anything. They will take the side of anyone against this president. They don't care, and they will break any rule. They will do anything in order to get
at this president. They just don't care about anything else. This is because they have a problem, my friends, they have a derangement. There is a very serious issue in journalism overall right now with a form of anti Trump psychosis. It's really taken over people. I've been talking to friends about it in journalism this week. They say it's very real.
They know people that just cannot be objective anymore. They they they are caught off in all these lies and conspiracies, and they're spreading these lines of conspiracies in ways that are completely reckless, unjustifiable. But you know, this is uh, this is a quite a day. You know, the president, not what the president is gonna figure this out. It's not it's not not the end of the world. Well it's not. You know, we're not about to lose a war because of this. But here's what Trump said about
the deal with Canada. Play nineteen and this week we're working on Canada. We're working on a lot of different things. Last week it was Mexico and this week it's Canada. And if we don't make a deal with Canada, it's just fine. But we'll see how it all works out. I say, affectionately, we'll just have to teariff those cars coming in. That's a lot of money coming into the Conference of the United States. Oh, he's saying. Look, well, we'll figure it out one way or another. I mean,
Trump is rolling with it. But I want you to really remember this. You know this. This is a cardinal rule of journalism. This is this is central. You do not break off the record unless you have a really compelling, you know, really compelling reason to do so. And I don't know how this could be anything other than these journalists like the story is too good, too too good to sit on. We're gonna we're gonna quote the president.
Remember Bloomberg's American news media organization they're gonna quote the President United States against his wishes, trust with him, and assist the other side of the table in a negotiation that that affects the United States economy and American workers. That is what we are dealing with, folks. That is our own media. They are so quick to dispense with any any obligations to the American people and to patriotism, and then you know, tomorrow will be all the First Amendment.
We're on the We're on the front lines of defending the First Amendment. Bull are on the front lines of being a bunch of preening cry babies who have one concern of one concern only, and that is themselves. Let's talk about who I think is running against the against Trump and that that's coming up. Stay with me, folks. I I know it sounds a little a little out there right now. I know people they have scoffed at me with my whole The Democrats ultimate master plan here
is to run Hillary again. I know you. I know people think I'm crazy, but it makes sense. Look they're gonna say that, you know, think about it this way. It'll be a Hillary uh Kamala Harris ticket. The idea of being that, you know, Hillary brings the gravity, toss
and the experience. All of the Hillary Clinton hacks and hangers on would then get into the positions in government that they think are duly owed to them and that Trump stole from them like that will be the way that they view it, and and then there'll be essentially a handover. Hillary doesn't have to do it for eight years, just has to do it for four and then she writes the whole Clinton dynasty. She will have right to the great wrong of Trump's victory over her in when
the election was stolen by the Rusks. I know it sounds out there, but Hill Are and Kamala Harris together I think that that right now is the most likely Democrat ticket. And for those of you who are are looking at me right now or listen to me right now, but looking up at the sky saying, wow, Buck must be he must have weekend itis right now. He just wants to get out in party. He doesn't want to those you think that I've lost it. John Kerry, John
Kerry uh would not. In a recent or rather in an upcoming Face the Nation interview with Margaret Brennan was unwilling to rule out a White House run. John Kerry, he thinks he's gonna get in the game again, folks, he does. You have to remember, we're not dealing with normal, rational people here, okay. We are dealing with people who are obsessed with their own brand. They're obsessed with how
important they are, how necessary they are for government. You know how much they've they've contributed to America and how and they really think that America needs them. They convinced themselves of this because if they had to actually look at the way that they approach uh their office otherwise, that it would be clear that it really benefits them more than anything else. And this is really all about them.
This is an an exercise in extreme solipsism. Remember, solipsism is when you are the center of the universe in your own mind, and that's certainly true of John Kerry. I I think Hillary she's there's a reason she's gonna be out there. She's gonna be fundraising for Democrats. There's nobody else to fill the void, folks, nobody. I don't really think Michelle Obama wants to step in, and I think she's perfectly happy to be treated like a rock star. And the closest thing in America to royalty for the
rest of her days. The Obamas have a very among Democrats. Circles are very powerful and and still revered, not even just respected, revered political brand. Hillary resents the crap out of that whole thing. And if she can just get Bill to not stare at Ariana Grande's grand day, if you know what I mean. I mean, I don't know if you saw today, but Bill, Bill was at the funeral, and sure enough Ariana Grande was performing, and there's a whole shot of Bill Clinton and he's he's really enjoying
listening and looking at Ms Grande. Man, he is he can he can't. He can't help himself. Folks, you got like a compulsion. But if she can keep Bill off, Hillary Hollow can keep Bill from being super creepy and being a political liability for her. I I really think that there's a I understand it's a long shot, folks, And you know, so don't don't play this interview back for me in a year when sure enough, you know,
you get Elizabeth Warren or somebody who's gonna be running. Uh. I'm just saying, if I could put you know, you know, and if you're gonna place a bet if I could bet on the horse right now that has twenty to one odds that I think actually would be worth it. I think Hillary. I think Hillary is better than a
twenty one shot. I think Hillary is more like a one in five that she runs, which when you think about what's going on in American politics, you think about her, She's run twice, hasn't won, and all the baggage that she brings along, it just goes to tell you that that's how entrenched the establishment is. That's how much the deep state of even the the elected Democrats and the all the different people that they bring along with them. You know, that's how immovable they are. I know, I know, John,
do you think there's a crazy idea? Maybe maybe I'm a little crazy. I could see I could see this happening though, you know they how well, let me see how how old this Hillary? Hillary? I think she's seventy Clinton age. She yeah, she's seventy. She could so in she would be gosh, math on the fly here seventy two, they say, yeah, she's like Reagan age basically, seventy two to seventy six. I'm sure we're talking. Look at what
they say about folks, look at Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Democrats have convinced themselves that Ruth Bader Ginsburg is like some kind of Olympic you know, triathlete or something. You know. They take photos, They've fallen over photos of her doing planks. I'm worried she's gonna pass out there there. They they've created this whole I mean, how old is Ginsburg. Let me just check this Ginsburg age. She is eighty five, folks, Ginsburg is eighty five years old. Hillary Clinton's only seventy.
And they're hoping that Ginsburg is gonna make it at least another three years before or something like that, at least the three years before she would retire. Let's say they want Ginsburg to stay as the Supreme Court just until she's basically ninety. You don't think that they would hope that Hillary will extend the clock so that she I I don't know, I'm just really I really think this is gonna happen, and it would. I would Can you imagine or replay a rematch of Trump Hillary in
It's It's a crazy idea. And I know people will make fun of me for this in the future, but right now, I don't know, it's somehow it kind of makes sense to me, somehow at all it all sticks together. Um, I'm I'm getting I'm just getting a weird feeling about it. There's just nobody else in the Democrat field right now. I mean, in the end, they're saying Elizabeth Warren Biden. I mean, how old is how old is Joe Biden? He's got to be He's got to be up there too.
Seventy five people are talking about Biden running again. He's seventy five. Hillary is only seventy. How can explain this to me? Riddle me this? How is it that Joe Biden is being talked about? Is the kind of default Democrat candidate going into right now for the president? Bernie Sanders seven when he six, they're talking about him running for president? And people can tell me that Hillary is what? Hillary is too old? Elizabeth Warren's the same age, she's
sixty nine. Donald Trump is seventy two. So you know, I just I I think it's gonna be Hillary again. Just give me this, folks. If I'm right, this will be one of the greatest predictions you've ever heard on talk radio. If I end up being right, So just just mark this day down and then put it away for posterity, because we're all gonna forget about this if sure enough, Kamala Harris or some other you know, it's
kind of mainstream Democrat ends up winning the nomination. But I'm telling you right now, if I had, if I had to put a bet down, I would bet Hillary with Kamala Harris below her on the ticket. That is what the Democrats run. He's holding the line for America. Buck Sexton is back. Oh, by the way, if they write tomorrow. The enthusiasm in the room was wanting, you know, they're like wanting. So you have to understand, I have a better education than they do, from a much better school.
But the elite, they're the elite. They're the elite. I went to better schools, I went to better everything. And by the way, by the way, you're ready for this, and I'm president and they're not the most remarkable thing about the modern Democrat Party is how truly undemocratic they really have become. Right, the so called resistance is bad because their ideas have been rejected by the American people. And we're really reach that we're getting rid of those bad ideas one by one, so fair, and it is
driving them crazy. They're the old and corrupt globalist ruling class that squandered trillions of dollars on foreign adventures. The whole world is watching, and the whole world gets it, and the whole world understands exactly what's going on. That's right, folks. Trump last night in Indiana, he was he was in in Trump form, baby, he was doing his thing. And you know, people, people love it. They love to hear when he just he tears into this notion of the elites.
By the way, he's the read. One of the reasons journalists hate him so much. There's a lot, but because overwhelmingly journalists are people who think of themselves as that the the very upper echelon of society. They're they're concert insructing a narrative of of our lives and with our every move and every day. And then what we also find is that a lot of journalists tend to go to I mean, not not that I'm I don't think that school snobbery is founded. I don't think it's true.
I don't think it's important, But a lot of journalists they think it's really important. You know, they'll tell you very quickly. They went to Columbia Journalism School, which who who even cares? No one, No one should ever go to journalism school. It's a giant waste of time. But the Columbia Journalism School as an Ivy League university. But generally speaking, and this is Trump, he knows where to
how to push their buttons. You know, journalists are people that they don't they don't make as much money as the people they cover, but they want to have as much power as the people they cover and influence. And they generally went to second or third tier schools and have a chip on their shoulder about it. It's true, it's true. Look, I know a lot of journalists, so when Trump pokes them on this one man, it just
gets them so angry. Uh. And that you know that that globalism is being rejected by people, and the old and corrupt globalist ruling class he says, is being rejected. That's another part of this that really upsets journalists, because
you know who they all work for, folks. They all work for the American equivalent of oligarch's or in some cases foreign oligarchs who just happened to own like Carlos slim Mexican oligarch who owns a big piece of the New York Times, but domestically even like Jeff Bezos with the Washington Post. And you go down the line and you look at at who controls what in the media, and these guys, all the the the elites in the media, the mainsime media, all work for what you could basically say,
there's our equivalent of an oligarch. And Trump didn't stop there like I said he was. He was doing. He was just talking about some great stuff last night. He spoke specifically about and I love what he does that the Sarcasm't think he spoke about what he's done for women, because we keep hearing it. And I know the polls show Trump's numbers with women not fantastic, but I think it's going to get better. But here's what he said about a plate too. All right, women, this is not good.
So African American, historic, Asian, American, Hispanic and all historic. Right, Sorry, women, I let you down again. Women's unemployment rate recently reached only the lowest rate in sixty five years. I let you down. I'm sorry sixty five years, folks. Feels feels like that would be a pretty important data point. I feel like if that had been the case in the
Obama administration, you would have heard it a lot. But then again, comparisons to anything uh related to Obama that are unfavorable when it comes to Trump in a while being compared, that's something that really upsets the That's the media and the elimination because remember that a lot of the media, a lot of the journals had a big investment in Obama's legacy because they constructed it. They created that whole narrative of Obama, right, I mean he yes,
he gave them the two the two autobiographies. Mind you guys, wasn't even fifty years old. He'd written to autobiographies. Wow, has a very high opinion on himself. But they took it and ran with it. And can remember Axel Rod as a journalist. I mean, the whole Obama as a political figure was was a construct. But Trump is erasing obama Ism and when it comes to policy and the and the Obama legacies within the government and perhaps more
clearly on the environment than anywhere else. As he said, as Trump said last night play three, we are canceling President Obama's illegal anti call so called clean power plan. You know, there's an example. It's such a beautiful name, clean power, clean power. Right. They want to have windmills all over the place when the wind doesn't blow, what do we do? We got problems. The environmentalists, we like windmills are really what about the thousands of birds they're killing.
Try going to the bottom of a windmill someday. It's not a pretty picture. The house is staring at a windmill. Not good. When you hear that noise going round and round and round and you're living with it, and then you go crazy after a couple of years. Not good. And the environmentalists they always new wonderful again, take a reasonable, rational person approach to these things. That it all starts to make sense, doesn't it. That's all the Trump is doing.
I mean, there's notion that we're gonna have all these windmills. Windmills. Windmills stink. I don't mean they actually smell, but windmills are are generally speaking, and eye sore. They are queas and arts for migratory foul. That's right. They buzzed them up. You get the picture. And Trump pointed that out. And if Obama's ideas in the environment were so good, he should have managed to get legislation through to pass it.
If Obama really had a compelling argument about how we need to change the way that we uh the way that we use energy in our economy, he should have just made the case. He shouldn't have decided to use executive orders and then have the media cover for him on those orders. You know that that that's not what should have happened, but it is. You know what that means though, folks, means Trump can get rid of it. It means that Trump is getting rid of it and
they hate it and they can't stop it. Right now. You know that the House of Representatives is in the balance this fall. I know that. But no matter what they got to deal with Trump on the executive side, he is just putting tons of great constitutionalist judges in the on the federal bench. Kavanaugh, Baby Kavanaugh was going to get through. So there's a lot to look forward to in this whole process. Now, let's talk more about
the Mueller probe in just a moment. All I can say this, our Justice Department and our FBI at the top of each because inside they have incredible people. But our Justice Department and our FBI have to start doing their job and doing it right, and doing it now,
because people are angry. People are angry. What's happening is a disgrace, and at some point I wanted to stay out, but at some point, if it doesn't straighten out properly, I want them to do their job, I will get involved, and I'll get in there by half to that's right, baby, Commander in chief may step in the chief executive United States government. He may say, you don't want enough to enough, and we're gonna have to actually clean house here. I
think it's law. It's long past time for the Department of Justice. I like this this thing that I'm hearing that m Rudy Giuliani, who is out there and and is a staunch defender of the president on all these issues. They're putting together a quote counter report according to Daily Beast. Here that's gonna just go to the very legitimacy of Mueller's investigation. The folks is important. This is a political fight. Let's not fool ourselves for one second. This is all
about politics. It has been from the start. This is a The whole rationale behind this investigation is not about does anyone even care about the Russian inference anymore? No, what are we doing about it? Nothing? It was a joke. Russian interference was a drop in not just the bucket, a drop in the ocean. Didn't change the election, change anything. That was just a pretext to get this whole thing going.
And here's what we know is going to happen. Mueller is gonna release this whole big report and no matter what it says at this point, just because they've prosecuted a bunch of different administration tied officials are formerly tried the administration, Uh, they're gonna say that there's so much corruption around Trump. It's gonna be the the the way
the Democrats position this. They're gonna say there's so much Trump corruption that even if they don't find anything, they will um they will say it needs to be there needs to be impeachment. So even if nothing really new or nothing additional comes out of this, they're gonna say, oh, well, there's there's enough already. I mean, they're going for impeachment no matter what. That's really the bottom line. They're going for impeachment, no matter what the end result of them
all the approbriated. So why not get ahead of this and make the case that this whole thing is a joke, because it is, you know, Trump should be on offenses. People should be on offense of this one, and they are on offense. All right. This is a political hack move, uh And that's what it's been from the very beginning. You know, they've got this uh Manafort associate Sam Patton
that they charged today. He has pleaded guilty in a case that is referred by Muller and you know, federal prosecutors uh nailed this guy, all right, So what do they get him on, by the way, failure to register as a foreign agent, folks, or I'm sorry, acting as an agent of a foreign principle. Um. He pleaded guilty to acting as an agent of a foreign principle. So yeah, and yeah, no, it's I'm sorry, it is failure register. This is a fairer violation. Phases up to five years
in prison for this one. Five years in prison, a fine about the two and fifty thousand dollars because he bought because he does work in Ukraine with you know, he was tied to man of four. He bought uh four tickets to the inauguration, paid fifty dollars for four tickets inauguration, uh, for a Ukrainian oligarch, so and the and he hid that he did it through a straw purchase or something, so it wasn't reported properly. Who the
heck cares? I mean, Okay, this is technically illegal, but a lot of things are technically illegal, folks, like storing classified information on your home Brew server in your basement when you're secretary of state. That's illegal. To a lot of things are illegal. You know that the prosecutor's office always has to take into account the ultimate aim of justice. It's not just about oh, well, we can find a way to make this or to talk about this in such a way that it's that it's illegal. Uh. To
construe this as illegal what with Trump? Anything they can do, anyone, they can flip, anybody, they can bring into the the fold here as part of the anti Trump resistance. And that's why they've gone after this. Gun fair they're gonna have this is another name, another guy, another nobody who is gonna have it. Has has his life upended and ruined because sure enough they want to get at Trump. I also thought this is intering that you had an According to CNN here you had two prosecutors leave uh
Special Council Muller's office. They're relatively junior um, but they had been with Mueller for a while. I wonder if some of them realize early on here that or not early on, but in advance, that this is not gonna end up. There's not gonna end well for the Muller probe. Actually, I think people are going to look back on the entire Muller Fiasca. People are honest about it. I mean,
they're the anti Trump partisans. They like it. There are people, I want to be very clear, there are people right now in this country, lots of them, and they a lot of them work at CNN. There are people in the media and the Democratic already who if there was unconscionable bias that was exposed from Mueller, even beyond what
we already know. But I mean, if they had Mueller on tape saying, you know, we were we gotta get Trump, no matter what we have to do, if if we have to fabricate evidence will stop him, to borrow from Peter Struck, and if that audio that you know, hypothetical audio was made public, they would still be very thankful and happy to Muller because of all the damage he's done to Trump's presidency already. It's not about justice, it's not about the truth. It is about destroying this administration.
That's the primary motivation, or that's what has been pushing them all along. And so I like that they're being proactive. I like the Giuliani's out there making the case and the Trump is saying, all right, d O j R. And by the way, he's putting them on notice too. Trump's let them not just because the Mueller probe, you know, the Muller probe ends, there's still people who are out there working at the d O j uh and and
then it's gonna be timed to dig into it. There are people, remember that as part of this as well. There are people who they may find themselves being investigated when they no longer have the shield of the ongoing Muller probe. You gotta remember right now, anything Trump does that can be construed as in any way affecting the Muller probe, Interfering with the Muller probe is politically toxic.
So that creates some degree of invulnerability at least temporary and vulnerability for the folks at DJ and FBI who may have been playing dirty here all along. Once the Mueller probe ends, and if Republicans managed to hold the House, that's another big part of this. Once the Muller probe ends, that stops, then we can start to really have the GOP dig into just what exactly happened here. Why is Bruce Or only testifying behind closed doors? For example? What
was that all about? I want to know what Bruce Or was doing. When the American people have a right to know there is a pre is it n see at stake? It's no longer acceptable to say, oh, well, you know, we need to we need to respect the the institutional you know, institutional prerogatives that are at stake here. No, no, no, the presidency is at stake. I think that this means, you know, talking about the president as being norm busting, he needs to bust some norms on this thing. So
I like that. By the way, Roger Stone has also said that he expects Mueller to charge him. I think that's just Stone, another guy that I've interviewed this summer. I think that's just Stone honestly trying to get attention. I don't think he really believes that Mueller is going to charge him. I think that Stone realizes he wants to be in the center of the story. He wants people to be taking photos of him and his uh very let's say, idiosyncratically tailored suits. I think that's his plan. Um,
apparently Stone is quite the snappy dresser. I don't think that he's actually gonna get charged, but we'll see. I don't think it's gonna be a or bombshell today, but hopefully while I'm on air here the bombshell doesn't drop, because then I'll look like I was wrong, which I don't like. I've got much more coming up. Team, stay with me. The fbion calls home title theft one of
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we haven't really fully replaced Obamacare. I'm not gonna say anything about a certain senator right now and how he voted on that whole issue, but you know, there are some people that decided they weren't going to play ball with the rest of of Team GOP on that. But we haven't gotten the full repeal and replace. And we
know that people are really concerned about healthcare. In fact, here according to Forbes, because I talked about this with with some frequency, when people say that they're really concerned about healthcare, the number one problem they have is prescription prices. And then the number two concerned is single payer coverage. So that and then we've got Medicare funding, Medicaid funding, And when you look at this, what you see, folks,
is that people are worried about their prescription drugs. They have been convinced that single payer is a good thing, and they want the government to be paying for their healthcare. This is troubling. This. If there's one thing I can point to that makes me worried for the mid terms, it's that the Republican messaging on healthcare right now is
almost non existent. Yes, the economy is really good, but healthcare is something that has a real uh impact in the way voters think about which party is addressing their needs. It goes, it goes to people's real concerns. Right to say, your your stock portfolio, or your your wages or whatever is up ten or that's great, But in your back of your mind, if you think I can't afford healthcare and if I get sick, I'm gonna go bankrupt, that affects you a lot more. That's gonna affect the way
you vote a lot more. But I am concerning that. Bernie Sanders, their healthcare is the universal right. Um. I think that almost sounded like Cuomo, but it's Bernie. We're not doing a good enough job on this one. We we the the GOP needs to flood the air waves with why single payor is going to be a disaster, why single payer is destined to be an economic catastrophe and also won't be good care. You know, I've run
this experiment in my own life. I've been doing doctor's office when I had crappy healthcare, a specialist and it was hard to get an appointment. I had to wait forever, and I had a doctor that I didn't like, and then I didn't think it was doing a very good job. They rushed me in and out, and that that was my healthcare. I've also been to a doctor where I said, I am writing a check, how much does this cost?
And let me tell you something. That doctor saw me right on time, spent a lot of time with me, no bs, no fuss, no muss, got exactly the care that I was promised, and it was delivered in a timely and efficient fashion. The market still matters. People need to be made aware of this. We if we do not have the economic incentives for we're not just more efficient coverage, but more healthcare delivered to more people. If
we don't have greater delivery mechanisms for healthcare. If we're not, if doctors feel like, you know what, it's not worth it anymore, we're gonna have big problems here, folks. What we do have though, on on our side of the equation in this whole thing because I I am critical and I'm concerned as we're going into this holiday week, and I'm concerned about the messaging around healthcare, no question about it. And I see here, I ask you, what do you What is the GOP saying they're going to
accomplish on healthcare? What are they promising to get done on healthcare? I don't even know. You tell me how they're approaching this issue, you know, you you tell me what they think the messages. Yeah, Obamacare stinks. But guess what they're not. They're not pushing for Obamacare anymore anymore, folks. The Democrats are saying they want single payer. Forget Obamacare. They just want the government to start writing checks for everybody's healthcare. And you've got states now that are saying
they want to do it too. I hope the states do it for so that we'll see how disastrous it is and maybe that will warn us off from But as I said to you, Democrats always have a way of saying that the experiment that they that has been run, you can't draw any conclusions from it because it didn't give the result they wanted. Um. But on our side of of the of the fence or what we've got going for us in this whole situation is that the Democrats all they have to do is not be crazy,
and they can't do it. They can't do it. Democrats are running around saying all sorts of just nonsensical, insane things. Here is, for example, Sean Caston of Chicago's six sixth district, he's a Democrat. Here's a little little comparison. He threw out their play nine in many ways. And this is to send the hyperbolical this Trump and a tremendicinetic count because they used to to you know, act Trump and
bin Laden have a lot in common. This This would be like saying Mother Teresa and Hitler have a lot in common. They're both really charismatic and inspired devoted followings. I mean, that's a true statement, but it's a moronic statement. Is an idiotic thing to say Trump and bin Laden have a lot I mean, first of the Democrats are the ones who were always you know, soft pedaling Islamic terrorism.
By the way, you see that they released a number of these people tied to this facility in you that we that were tied to this facility out in what was it New Mexico. They released them without without charge. I couldn't believe it anyway. Um, but but here you got a guy who's gonna compare Trump in Midland, and clearly he thinks that just by taking such a reckless and stupid cheap shot at the pre is it in, he's helping himself. This is what I mean. Democrats, all
they have to do is not be crazy. They can't do it. They can't do it. They got Bertie Santis, what a little let's go pay for dead and the you know, the government's gonna fund all your health kid, because it's a universal right to have your health care funded, to have your college paid for. Well, no, it's really not. It's really not emergency care, life saving care. Yeah, you know, we're we're a wealthy enough society that we've got to
make sure that we're saving lives. But in our healthcare covers a huge range of is you know, can I get the government to pay for like a massage for me twice a week. It's great for my blood pressure and it really helps things out. Universal health care? Where does that stop and start? Of course, you're gonna have government bureaucrats are in charge of this stuff, and they're gonna make all these decisions. Oh but but in terms of Democrats that don't seem to be staying within the
bounds of normalcy. Here is Minnesota House candidate Kyle Green play clip six. Please hi, I mean neighbor, Kyle Green. I'm for just eight state representative. I'm not asking for you to vote for me as your leader. I'm asking for you to vote for me as your public servant. The primary duty of a state representative is to protect all the rights of his constituents. I want to be your state representative. I want to be your public servant, and I want to be your name. Uh he said
the N word at the end of that, folks. Um. So this guy thinks that the way to push his campaign to the public and put you know, and reach the next level is to throw a racial slur into his political ad. Oh he's a Democrat. We know that he's a Democrat. Wow. This is why, even though I think our healthcare messaging on the GOP sucks right now, we might still be able to hold the House because the Left is a bunch of loony's. So we got that going for us, which is nice. But I want
to tell you. We've got we've got Sean Spicer joining us here and just a little bit spicy. That's right. Sean Spicer has got a book out now. He was White House Press secretary. I got a chance to meet him. He actually came and hung out with me today on Rising as well, so we got to chat for it for quite a while. And you know, he's a very nice guy, I gotta say, And he's he's a he's a jovial fellow. It's a little more diminutive than you might guess, kind of a little bit on the petite side.
I'm just saying. I'm just saying, but you know, he's I could tell that. You know, he''re in this book and he was in the RNC for seven or eight years. He's been around the game for quite a long time. He's a little, uh, a little politically shell shocked after what he went through. So we're I'm gonna really put him through his paces, ask him a lot of questions about what what's what was really going on in this White House? Is a dysfunctional What was it like for
s and Al to make fun of you? Really? Do you like the nickname spicy? You know, we're gonna get all that's coming up this hour, folks. So we're gonna have Sean Spicer here in the Freedom hut uh. Stay with me for that and much more, folks. Our nation's capital has its charms, but it also is a place where there's plenty of break ins and and plenty of petty crimes to worry about. That's why I have a simply Safe home security system at my place. Simply Safe
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kind of crashing in on him. Think what he's trying to do, to use a military expression, is prep the battlefield for uh, taking some action later and in the meantime maximum extent that he can undermining the credibility of the investigations. Yeah, that's the former Director National Intelligence. I've spoken to him about this whole issue of the Russia collusion investigation, and you know, it's so interesting. That was, in my in my opinion, a classic case that that's
just sound. But we played a few of what psychologists called projection, because that what what he accused the president of doing, which is preparing the battlefield of you know, the of public opinion, essentially preparing the battlefield for what's going to come. I believe that has been a primary motivation for Brennan and Clapper and Hayden all along. Now, look, Hayden's in a slightly different category because he wasn't in office,
and this is an important distinction. He was not serving Indi intelligence community during the Russia collusion situation, right during during that whole narrative, that whole fairy tale, but Clapper and Brennan were comey was these are people who have
fingerprints all over this thing. And I believe that one of the reasons they've decided to just drop the mask and run out there and show themselves to be so rapidly partisan is that one they want to try and shift the Overton window of discussion around Trump and Russia collusion in a way that will be more favorable to
them when the truth comes out. And too, they want to make sure they have established because they know how powerful it is to have the left wing of America come to your defense, to have the media start writing all these profiles. I mean that puff piece they wrote about Bruce Or, they made it sound like Bruce Or was single handedly taken on the Russian mafia. You know, it's just like running around like a one man army, like like Bruce Or was basically a Dolph Lundgren movie
in the late eighties. You know, he takes on the Russian mob one Ruski at a time. I mean, it was Bruce Or is a desk jockey, I mean, just like me back in the old CIA days. Right. Actually I saw some more zones, but that's a different thing, and I'm still doing it, still doing analytic work. But Bruce, I don't know if he's ever been in in any of the active combat zones. All I know is that the guy is not exactly an imposing figure, and he's also not the hero that the New York Times is
making him sound like. He's an ideological zealot. But they want to make sure that when push comes to shove, they will have of the left wing of the Democratic Party. I'm really the Democratic Party overall, because the left wing controls the Democratic Party. I mean, the the psychological center of the Democratic Party is far left. And they're hoping that by establishing they're anti Trump bona fides, they will have assistance when we finally get to all the truth.
And that's why you know this, this Victor Davis Hansen piece that's been making the rounds. I've been given v d h a lot of love this week. I'm I think he's great. I think he's a fantastic writer and a very just a very clear minded thinker. And I remember I met him out at I met him out at the Hoover Institute when I was out there as
a visiting fellow. Um, what about a year ago, and I for said, you know, I read your book A War Like no Other, and you know, Victor, it was it was so good and I just really appreciate all your work and think you do such a good job. He's kind of like, Okay, thank you. He was really not He's a really low key He's a really low key guy. I can say that for sure. He's a low key guy. I was like, Oh, I was like, I think you're one of the finest editorial writers of our of you know, of of my jet or not
of my generation. But you know, around the scene today, that's very nice of you. You know, he's not he's not effusive. He's not exactly gonna give you a high five and a hug if you see him. But he's a great writer's a good dude. And he's just saying that Trump needs to declassify, as I've been saying for not just weeks but months now. I want Trump too deep class f five had enough. I've had enough of all of this, and that's that's what needs to happen. Here.
We need a shock therapy of truth around this whole Russia collusion thing. We already know what's coming, folks. That's what Clapper saying. The walls are closing in on Trump. What do you mean the Muller probe is run Everyone's losing patience with the Muller probe. It's running out of steam. The walls are closing in on Trump. How they They had thirty hours with McGann, the White House counsel, and
they still have no evidence of illusion. No intelligent person could look me in the eye and and say to me that if they had real evidence of collusion, we would not have heard of it by now. It's just not possible. It would have leaked. It would have leaked. So that's why they're doing all this other stuff. You know, Muller's is kicking, kicking all the tires, turning over all the stones. Uh, you know, mix your metaphors, you get
what I'm saying. That's what's going on here. So you can believe me, or you can believe you can believe Al Gore, who had this to say about Trump Plate twelve. So if he's watching this, what's your message to President Trump when it comes to climate. Oh, my only message would be resigned. I mean, I don't mean to be flipping about it. I don't think he is prepared to listen to advise about the importance of clean air and clean water. I don't think he is prepared to listen
to avoth on clean air and clean walloe. So he's not telling him to resign over the Mueller probe, even he should resign over his environmental policies. According to al Gore, guys, you know, it's just a reminder we're always told that Trump is is so norm busting, and it's so crazy as president. Al Gore won the popular vote in two thousand, Hillary Clinton won the popular vote in These are not just unimpressive people, they're clowns. They are clownish, lee unimpressive.
There's nothing to recommend them. Al Gore is a fraud. Hillary Clinton is a crook and a thief. And that's what the Democrats offer up to us instead. Oh, we're we're so foolish because we wanted to give Trump a shot, not because I think I don't think Trump is some kind of messiah. I just think he's gonna do a
good job. Can I just can I have somebody in office who's doing a good job instead of somebody who's you know, transforming the thoughts of the American literati about the future of this country and grappling with that's historical excesses or whatever. I just want somebody who was like, Yeah, let's make things work here, Let's do a good job. I don't want a politician that we have to think about.
In fact, I would prefer in a as Trump's success goes on and further and further, other than his battles with the media, which are amazing, I just want to be able to ignore much of the political squabble and
focus on other problems, you know. I want to sit here and talk about how do we you know, how do we as a country come together to deal with the opioid epidemic, mean, how do we um deal with the problem of mass structural unemployment that may come from artificial intelligence and computer learning, and how that will affect the workplace and essentially eliminating a lot of a lot of jobs. Right, I mean, those are real, those are things we should all be thinking about. That that requires
research and analysis and time and depth of conversation. Instead, it's oh my god, Trump's a racist. He's a racist. Trump is not a racist. They can keep saying it, but they keep saying it because they can actually come up with a real repudiation of his policies, because it's hard to convince people that success is bad. All right, everybody, I got a special treat for you before you head
off for your Labor Day weekend festivities. Forget about the fact that it is a kind of Marxist left wing holiday. It's fun. You get a day off, So let's get excited about that. I have a Shawn Spicer here with me in studio in the Freedom Hut. Shawn Spicer, as you all know, was the White House Press secretary. He has a new book out, The Briefing, Mr Spicer. Great to have you here, Thanks for having me. Alright, so
the book, tell me a bit about it. Uh So, there's there's two people ask me all the time, why did I write a book? I left the White House and my plan wasn't to do it. But two things kind of came to light after I left. I was
doing a lot of speaking going around the country. One is sort of the perception and source of information that people had about me, where they'd say I read in the New York Times, they're read in Politico that you felt thought, and I finally realized when it comes to me, if I want to get my story straight, instead of relying on a bunch of mainstream media folks, I might as well tell my own story as to how I got where I got, what was going on at key
moments in time. And the second important thing, um and you and I were talking about this coming in is that there was a lot of things going on during the campaign in terms of what we were doing it, why we were doing it, the use of data are ground game things that no one was reporting on at the time. And I thought, if I don't put this down on paper and talk about what was going on behind the scenes, it's gonna get lost to history. Yeah.
I mean, the mainstream narrative on this stuff is that Trump won because Trump and his Twitter account exactly and then and and since then, it's because we colluded with some Russians, right so, right, But but I mean the idea is that there was a real sophisticated use of data. We had ground folks, uh grunt, you know, troops around the country and key battleground states were matching the data with the people, we knew where to go, what to
what adds to run. I mean there was a level of sophistication that no one wanted to take the time to look at because they thought, well, Hillary's got a thousand people in Brooklyn, you guys have a hundred, she must be doing it better. Uh. And sitting back and showing people, walking people through the campaign, what we were seeing, how many votes we needed, where we thought we could pick them up, blah blah blah was to me crucial for people who look back on this campaign and really
want to understand why Trump won. Now, there are some questions I gotta ask you, right, There's some that if I sat here and didn't ask right handed, right, yeah, people would say how could you not not not get an answer on this one? For example, Uh, why so many departures from this White House? Um? That's a good question,
because I think there's probably three main reasons. Um. Number one, Trump did not come into this office having been a politician, so he want if you think about Obama, Bush, Clinton, whatever they had been in politics, they had a cadre of people in orders that they had worked with for years. So you had people to call upon to Phil Key roles that you had worked it worked around. Um, he didn't have that, So he has this disparate group of folks. We didn't have a robust campaign to pull from either.
So you're pulling people that you know are from business, that are recommended to you, and some of them just are not good fits. Some of them aren't qualified. And then lastly, I think there's a high burnout rate and and that's another part of it in your estimation. I know you've been out for a while. Again, I mean, look, I think that the if if we turn the corner a year two, there are a lot of senior folks
that I would be surprised if they don't leave. I mean, the level of intensity that's there never you know, just of any White House is crazy, never mind this White House, which is running on an exponential factor of that. Never mind the fact that something like McGann or others have been there through the campaign. So if you think about it,
it's not just your time in the White House. I spent six years at the RNC before seven months of the White House, I had spent seven almost seven years just a NonStop And when you think about that in terms of you know, there's very little downtime. There's very little weekends that you get off, and so it's not just that. And I mean it gets ramped up in the White House to to a level that is even crazier than the fits of the final weeks of the
campaign on a constant basis. But I think something like Don has come in and he's done his job, and he's basically saying, Okay, it's been two years plus the campaign. I need to spend some time with my family now. People, even even from from my side of it, and I'm supportive of the president. I get to be open about this, which is nice. I'm like a lot of journalists who say they're just being neutral. I support President Trump. I voted for President Trump, and I think on a policy level,
he's done a great job. Is first now what eighteen months or so in office. Uh, And I'm very happy with all that. However, I do here and you have particular insight into this that the and and when I say here it, I I read it, I see it. It's being talked about all the time. But this White House from a bureaucratic and procedure standpoint, the actual White House is dysfunctional, that there are problems with the day to day one. Is that true? And if it's true,
doesn't matter. The second part of your question is the key part, because at the end of the day, are you looking at style or substance? Are you looking at results or not? And I think that if I'm of if I'm a citizen and I go, is the economy better or more people working on my way is going up? Do you really care about the process that got you there? Conversely, if the process is running smoothly and yet things aren't going well, do you really care how well something's being run? Um,
I would argue that it's disruptive. The president didn't come in, and this dovetails what you asked. The first question is, I don't think you're looking at somebody who's looking at norms and traditions and procedures and saying we've got to follow all these He's looking at getting things done, bringing in people that he thinks have unique experiences and abilities
to get things done. And he's not looking too huge tool to how things have been done since you know Dwight Eisenhower, it's I'm gonna get it done no matter what. And part of I I talked about this in the book. One of the things that was fascinating to me right off the bat, and if anyone's been involved in a campaign,
then they'll get this. On election night, we're down on the fifth floor of Trump Tower in a small room, gathered with the key senior staff, the vice president now that then Governor Pence, and we're all looking at results. And the President calls down Noel Vankin says where are you And she says, we're down in this little room kind of the senior team kind of pouring through results, doing a little analysis, and and why don't you come down? And Trump says, no, come up to twelve what everybody
was gathered in the middle of the war room. And it was interesting to me as someone who's been around politics a long time. Normally, they want the principle, the candidate, the member wants to be kind of among a small team so that they can have frank and you know, discussions results coming. Trump wanted to be among the people. That was the first real sign to me that this was not a guy who was looking to run and act like everyone else does in politics. And he's broken
the mold. Now I'm sure and we're speaking to Sean Spicer. By the way, he's got a new book out, The Briefing. Uh. Mostly, I think fair to say right about your time as White House Press secretary. I think we can all assume that when I asked the question, another that must ask, right, what was it like to be the press sectory? You say, oh, it was great to serve my country and this administration, And we can assume all that. Right. You work for Donald Trump. It's a great honor you were the White
House Press secretary. What surprised you about being a White House press secretary? I think what surprised me the most is how little we we and I prepared for the non traditional aspect to this. I looked at the role going in. I talked to so many of my predecessors on both sides of the aisle. I prepared like a normal press secretary. And I don't think that we knowing what we did, and it was staring us in the face. We should have said, this is not going to be
like everyone else's White House. This is going to be uniquely different and disruptive. And yet I prepared for it like I would have prepared for it had it you know, had it been in the tradition of every other guy that came for me. And I think that's where I sort of reflect on this in the book that I looked at it traditionally as opposed to disruptively. How could
you have been a disruptive White House Press secretary? I mean, I feel like some people, well, I think that that's you're you know, you're supposed to be because you're interacting with the media machine. For you to not be fitting into that mold but automatically, And I think we tried to do that. I talked about this in the book that we came in and the first thing that we did was shake up sort of who got called on and when they got called on. We didn't just focus
on the mainstream media. We looked at bringing in and incorporating a lot of other voices, conservative media, uh folks in the quote back of the room instead of just the mainstream media, um, and really get some outside perspectives. And we brought Skype in. But I think that part of it was just to understand that the relationship was going to change. It wasn't going to be that same relationship with the media that everyone else had. Trump doesn't need them in the way that they do, and that's
the that's the change in the dynamic. Did you feel like there was either a a bizarre hostility toward you from the press course specifically because of the Trump administration. Were you prepared for that aspect of it. No, No, I don't. I've been doing this twenty five years. I know that there's a bias. I think we all know and it's not. It's been proven by every you know, tons of study, so it's not. But I've always seen the press hide it. This time it was out on
full display. They've lost all sense of objectivity and they don't care about it. I mean, it's fascinating to me to see the openness by which many of these people are very clear about their their um animosity there uh, dislike of this president. They're not They're not even just partisan. In my estimation. What I see is is activism, right. No, not sometimes many times. I mean, you're right that there is the sense of objectivity is gone, yeah, and that
that's definitely different. And it's one thing that I actually like that about the administration because I think that now it's harder than ever before for people to keep up this pretense. Uh so so, and I know people ask about this all the time. I'm curious, uh and you know, I have a feeling I know where you might go to this, but I'll just put it out there. Do you embrace the nickname spicy? And how did you feel about whole SNL send up of you with Melissa McCarthy
and all this stuff. I've been called so many things, and if that's what you called me, pretty good with it. I um that I take that. That's what I'm saying. I've I've been called a lot of nasty things, so I'll take that. I think, Um, I don't think by any means, I was ever prepared for that. I mean because it was funny. I actually rarely find I rarely find SNL sketches funny. Occasionally I do, and one of the ones I did with you was actually finn The first one was funny, and I agree with that. I
kind of got to chuckle out of it. I laughed at the ones beyond that. It like our discussion with the Press Corps, they started to become personal and mean and victual as opposed to funny, and I was like, Okay, I don't I get what you're doing, but I don't think it's funny, and you know, I think that's a reflection also. And we saw this with Jimmy Fallon right. He tustled, He tustled Trump's hair, and people who are
just trying to be funny get angry. It was like a year later and suddenly now he's apologized for what for being funny. The guy's a comic, he's late night he is funny, and now suddenly he's having to apologize for being funny because he's not you know, he's not considered. Uh, he hasn't attacked him as much as he's supposed to. According to the Left, The brook is the Briefing. It's out now available on Amazon right and where Sean Spicer dot com. You can go wherever you want, John Spicer
dot com, Mr Shawn Spicer. Great to actually beat you a person that we gather here today to honor an American patriot serve a cause greater than himself. And we gather here remembering a man who knew how he wanted to be remembered. And so let me say to all those gathered and his beloved family, on behalf of a grateful nation, we will ever remember that John McCain served his country, and John McCain served his country honorably. Thank God,
bless the memory of John McCain. You know, we've got the way that the Republicans, like like Vice President Pence talk about John McCain, and look, it is the man's funeral, okay, And he did serve his country honorably. I have a lot of political disagreements with him, but you know I do there there is a need for decorument and respect here, and I've tried to show that in all of our discussions about the recently departed senator. I mean, there's absolutely
a need for that. And then there's the way the Democrats do things. I have just thought it was so gross and so um just so unbecoming to hear Democrats who will do this. They're playing the game, they're they're so clear about it. Oh, isn't John McCain so great? Unlike that Trump guy. Oh isn't John McCain so, you know, fantastic in how he served his country, not like Trump, who's you know, a chicken hawker. Well, whatever it may be, it's very very frustrating, and it's typical. Right, we know
that this is how the Democrats play the game. We know this is how they how they operate. But um, here, here, here's the here's an example of Look, Biden had a lot of nice things to say about McCain, But how about just making about McCain and not have any implied political messages placed out it. It wasn't about politics with John. He could disagree on substance, those of the underlying values that animated everything John did, everything he was could come
to a different conclusion. But were he parked company with you? If you lack the basic values of decency, respect, knowing that this project is bigger than yourself. The intolerance for the abusive power. He could not stand the abusive power wherever he saw it. Why does Joe Biden give a speech like this whenever he wants to be taken seriously? Well,
what Biden? His cadence is very forced and annoying. But I'm sorry, I know that maybe I'm reading a little too much between the lines here, but I see this as uh, this notion of the intolerance of the abuse of power. I mean, that's a pretty I think that's a pretty clear swipe at at Trump. I've never heard of John when else in his life, as John McCain made some big in his political life, made some big
uh statement about intolerance for the abuse of power. Now, I think that that's clearly Joe Biden trying to make this all about Trump. And they were doing it all week, folks. You know, whether it was Jake Tapper over at ten and saying, you know, unlike you know, he made the
whole comparison. I forget exactly how he said it. He made the comparison, and it's uh, you know, it's a very it's a very annoying habit the Democrats are in to pretend that, to pretend that they are just being patriotic and respectful, when really they are trying to use their use that as a political weapon. It's they're never able to put it aside. But this is what you should I suspect expect even more of going forward now
because they've politicized everything. Nothing can be a political uh, nothing is sacred or beyond the reach of leftist politics. And and including the way that many prominent Democrats are talking about what's gone on at the you know what, what the reality is here of the relationship between Trump and uh. The recently departed senator from Arizona. I don't know, guys, you you reached this point. Oh, there's another funeral that happened to la. I read the Franklin's funeral and and
there's more politicization going on at this one. Play sixteen, you know, the Sunday on my show, I misspelled respect, and a lot of y'all, a lot of y'all corrected me. Now I want you all to help me correct President Trump, to teach him what it means. A pretty good turn of turn of phrase there, I guess from that. Look, alf Al Sharpton, don't don't mistake it, you know, don't get it twisted. He's got skills. You know, he's a
he's a Charlattan that he's a he's a talented Charlatan. Uh. You know R E. S. P. I. C. T. I will never forget that. Uh. But you know he's look at Areta Franklin's funeral. He could say whatever he wants. And that's that's all. But but I'm just saying that taking shots at Trump, even when you're at a funeral, is is pretty standard operating procedure. Now for Democrats, there's nothing they'll do it in church. They'll do it at a funeral, you know, they'll they'll do it anywhere they
can because they can never do it enough. That things that came across when I was talking to Listen Milano, really, you're you think the media is not hustile enough the Trump like are are you? Are you a lunatic? Uh? And she said yeah, I mean he's not hustled off the Trump, which which was just remarkable, folks, It is an utterly remarkable thing that she was saying. We got a big hour three here coming up. Stay with me. Strike Force Energy veteran owned, American made, and one of
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Go to strike Force energy dot com received fifty percent off with the promo code b U c K. Well, certainly China is not prepared for a long term struggle with the United States, and the Chinese know that the only way they can win this trade war is if they bluff President Trump down. And by the way, it's not really a trade war now, it's a chech war, because we're talking about teriffs that are imposed under Section three or one of the Trade Act of V four
to remedy China's theft of US intellectual property. That theft runs in the hundreds of billions of dollars a year. And if you don't like the tariffs, China, you know, then just stop stealing our stuff. Our man Gordon Chang. They're laying it down other today This is one of the stories that gets nowhere near as much attention as it should right now. And why is that? Oh? That right?
Because it's positive for Trump? What us shock? But the the so called trade war is already moving in America's favor. And what we're finding out is that China has suffered a three month export downturn as Donald Trump's tariffs have have taken effect against them. And the truth is that there's a recognition now that didn't really exist before among a lot of people in this country that wait a second,
why why do we act? And this really this goes to the heart of Obamas M I've got a lot to say on this one, But why do we act like we have a we can what it comes to dealing with the Chinese? Why why do we think that that that that we if we were to upset China, they'd be able to just tank our economy and they would be fine. America is number one. We have the strongest economy in the world. The Chinese have been engaged in some very uh deceptive, dishonest, unfair trade practices for
a long time. We're just supposed to allow that to happen. Where is the sense in that and this is it's a revelation, folks. You know, we had for eight years of the Obama administration, we had a president whose approach to every foreign policy challenge revolved around a few fundamentally false ideas like the US is more or less a problem in world affairs. We do some good things, but on on balance, we create more problems than we fix,
and we have things to be sorry for. We need to be more humble, We need to ask permission and ask forgiveness. And that was really the way the Obama administration approached a lot of foreign policy problems. And on the economy, there was in the background always this thought with Obama and his advisors in dealing with any foreign policy economic issue, that America had exploited the world in
some way. Right, that that the same the same idea that you know, the fat cats and the rich here in America are are to blame for the problems of the poor. True leftists in the Obama ideological mold think that America's prosperity has come directly at the expense of other countries. So really we have to make amends for that,
We have to make global reparations. And that's what ties into are the push the Obama administration had for for example, climate change, right, climate change, as the left sees, it isn't just about saving the planet. It's also about about a massive transfer of wealth from developed first world nations
to poor or developing nations. And that's essentially us paying them and transferring massive amounts of wealth to other countries because we've exploited the global environment so much, and you know, we we need to essentially, like I said, pay reparations, make amends. We need to buy off the rest of the developed world. Meanwhile, China and into you're laughing at us over this. There's like the guys are idiots, right, But but Obama always took that approach. And you saw
on trade such ossified thinking. It was such an echo chamber. And and I remember approaching this with you, and I really appreciated that all of you listening to show you were willing to even you know, those of you who are much much more um economically minded, or much more into you know, study the economy that I'm I was not an economist by trade or in school. And this is really my areas of primary interests or national security and politics. The economy is third, but I'm learning as much.
I'm an autodid act on the economy. I'm learning as much as I can. And I just thought, wait, hold on a second. When everyone is saying something, I actually get a little suspicious when you know, when it comes to an issue like the economy or trade eight or something. I said, hold on, why are we all saying that? You know, it's all we were free traders? What does that mean? You know, when people can't answer a question
without becoming hostile, then you should ask more questions. And Trump, because he came at this from the perspective of somebody who didn't care what the consensus thought of him or his ideas, was able to keep pushing even though there were so much headway. And now we're seeing what the Chinese. Oh wait a second, if this is a game a chicken,
they're gonna pull off the road first. Um. And the the Chinese Ministry of Commerce, for example, is this is according to a political today is actiously watching the tariff development in the US. Quote. If the US goes ahead with the two billion billion dollar plan, the impact on Chinese exports will be material, said the source, who declined to be named. The leading export indicator fell into the contraction zone from June when the Trump administration announced tariffs
on fifty billion dollars of Chinese merchandise. You know, one of the reasons I like to look at the market as an indicator of what's really going on on foreign policy is because the market is where people that they can't hide what they're really doing or really thinking. Uh. The market has its own way of speaking. And if if people were really if it wasn't just Trump hatred pushing a lot of this oh my gosh, trade war talk, you would see that reflected in what people were doing
with their money. Right, Because I don't care how you know, ideologically committed you are as a leftist, you don't want to risk your life savings. You don't want to risk your four oh one k or or your entire stock portfolio. If you really believe that we are heading for a massive economic decline because of what Trump is doing, and instead of having for massive decline, it seems like the sky is the limit for the first time, which when you take a true free market capitalist approach, Uh, then
it also seems to make sense. Why should there be an upper limit here? Why shouldn't America just continue to get wealthier as we innovate and become more efficient and we make more progress in our technology. And you know, we should be getting wealthier all the time, and I know that's happening, but we have this idea of the cyclical nature of wealth creation this country. And I know some of your like Buck read the Creature for jack Al Island and which is a great book, by the way,
And you know the fed boom bus cycle. Yeah, I know that's all still very real, but that doesn't really, that doesn't have to be our reality. It only has been our reality because of some monetary policies, because of the way the government has been intruding on the market,
and a whole bunch of other factors. But we could be into a we are already or in a period of unparalleled economic growth in terms of where the stock market is now and and how long it's overall, if you go back now for for many years, how long it's been going in an upward trajectory. So there's a lot of really good stuff here and and on China. There was so much I just have to remember there
was so much fearmongering around this. I mean, there was such such a discussion about how Trump was going to destroy the global economy and oh, how could he and all these terrible things we're gonna happen, And now we're hearing more about how do Yeah, China is feeling it.
And you know what, folks, China could just stop its predatory trade practices and we could have normalized free trade relations with China and maybe that would al show push the Chinese government more towards uh, you know, openness and transparency, and there could be even some long term political benefits from all of this. Look, I know there can be there all There's a thousand ways this whole thing can go out there go wrong. I get it. I'm not
saying there's no risk. There is risk, But we weren't told there was risk. We were told there was the certainty of catastrophe. And Trump has swatted that aside by just taking a common sense approach. Isn't one of the
great benefits of the Trump administration? Look, the great benefit of President Trump himself, for whatever faults and personal flaws or idiosyncrasies or whatever you want to talk about, Trump is somebody who is finally and how many of us have thought this for a long time why can't we have somebody who is our president as somebody who's a
political leader who just uses common sense. It just thinks, what would a normal person who approaches this problem think about the problem, and how would that person try to solve it? Not what do all the smart people say? And what do all the different special interests come at this with, and what's the history of the social justice that surrounds No, what would a normal common sense approach be. He's doing that on a whole bunch of issues and oh my gosh, like magic, it's working. Is there gonna
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that would be something we've chosen. A job so difficult, requiring so many technological developments, we're gonna have to start from scratching. Only after we master these tasks. Do we consider trying to land on the moon, Neil. If this flight is successful, you'll go down in history. What kind of thoughts do you have about that? We're planning on the flight being successful. The vehicle's not safe. You need to fail down here so we don't fail up there.
This isn't just another trip, Neal. Do you say you're coming back. There are risks, but we have every intention I'm coming back and we go quick y for three two. Now there you have the trailer for First Man, which automatically feels a little bit like the Patriarchy, Right, I
mean that kid, of course? Or do I? This is a biopic of Neil Armstrong, right man, the first man to land on the Moon, And you would think that this is the kind of movie that just based on the storyline, Come on, it's not gonna be political, right, It's gonna be an inspiring film about a great American achievement. That's right. This was achieved by the United States of America, by a whole lot of people working on the program,
by the brave astronauts who went up there. But if you thought that it would just be a recreation of history with some dramatic flair, you would be incorrect, folks. That's right. Uh. This movie, which starts Ryan Gosling as Neil Armstrong, has a little omission in it. Remember that whole thing about the first man on the Moon that when you think of it, what what do you picture in your mind? Some of your like a sound stage, because if they faked it, no, no, stop that they
did not fake it. How do I know, Well, I don't know. Smart people tell me they didn't fake it. But no, really, when you think back to it, there's the moonscape from the surface of the Moon. There's a an astronaut and what else is what else is in that photo? Folks? What else is there? All right? A big American flag on the moon? You know what they decided to take out of this movie in that iconic moment,
the American flag. That's right, folks. Ryan Gosling, who's a Canadian a h he he was asked about this one and he said, quote, I think this was widely regarded in the end as a human achievement, and that's how we chose to view it. I also think Neil was extremely humble, as were many of these astronauts, and time and time again he deferred the focus from himself to the two to four thousand people who made the mission possible.
He was reminding everyone that he was just the tip of the iceberg, and that's not just to be humble. That's also true. So I don't think that Neil viewed himself as an American hero. From my interviews with his family and people, that knew him. It was quite the opposite, and and we wanted the film to reflect Neil. I mean, give me a break, you know, I don't care what
his family thinks. You know, this is this is uh where where we might have a little bit of a of a digression here, or a little bit of a divergence. That's the word I was looking for, not a digression, pardon me, a little bit of a divergence. Because the
guy put the American flag on the moon. The whole program that he wouldn't have been in a position to take the you know, one small step from man and you know, he wouldn't even been a position to do that if it weren't for the United States of America. There was a whole other group of folks that were trying to put their flag on the moon first. That's right, the Soviet Union. We all, we all know about that right now. Out you could say, buck, who cares? Hollywood's
full of libs, which of course is true. But here's why I care. This is something you're going to see more of, folks, and it already exists, but now there's finally the the means and mechanisms in place for us to push back against it because we can do our own fact checking. We all have access to the Internet, and we are able to fight back against these lies. Rewriting of history is something that libs love to do.
It's really actually very Soviet in nature, speaking of the Soviet Union, uh, the rewriting because you're the Soviets and fact went to such extreme length that in their archives they were known to use razor blades to remove the names of people in official documents that they wanted to disappear by actually exercising the name. So the Soviets took revision of history to a whole, a whole other level, and they did keep pretty meticulous documentation and notes. Thing
that communists and states love is bureaucracy. But the notion of rewriting history in general because it's a more appealing or useful or socially justice conscious narrative today is happening all the time. I think about this with the way that they often teach, for example, the uh, the colonization period of not just North America, but Central and South
America as well, and you know, the the Aztecs. I'll offer I just finished this great book on the Aztecs and and the conquest, the defeat of Montezuma bay her Nan Cortez, and they want to talk about how advanced some aspects of a civilization where the the Aztecs had.
What they don't really want to talk about as much is that the Aztec Empire was built on a massive on a massive pile of skulls from human sacrifice, which was a constant ritual and really was the was It was central to the religious beliefs of the Aztecs, and also incredible slavery and brutality of other people's um But that's a other native peoples, you know that that gets brushed aside, the same way that when we talk about the slave trade today, we all know about the Transatlantic
American or the slave trade to the Americas. We know much less in history about the Islamic slave trade, which involved almost entirely the enslavement of Christians, particularly European white Christians, by Muslim North African slave traders UH into sexual slavery, into horrific uh work in quarries and in other inhumane conditions until they died on the on the slave ships, where galleys were used in warfare as well as in transport people would just be kept at the ore until
they essentially died of exhaustion. Uh that that's all skipped around, and it's because people don't want the real facts. You know. The Left has this idea that they are trying to promote a utopian society, and in doing so, they're willing to rewrite the past in order to write the future.
And we need to be on guard against this. If we're going to study history, if we're going to celebrate the past, even in what is loosely based in in truth, or even in what is you know, inspired by true events, we should be aware of the full story and little things like this removing the American flag from a movie about the American landing on on the Moon is something that's easy to dismiss, but it's part of a of a broader mindset, and it's one that we need to
call out because it's become far too prevalent on the left, and in their depiction of things in history, they are often rewriting it. And I think that's something that we just cannot can't let it stand. You know, do we really care about this Ryan Gosling movie? Now? I mean, have there been far too many movies, in my opinion, already made about you know, going to the Moon and
all that stuff. Uh. Probably, but we will continue to keep an eye on this and watch this because I think it's I think it's a yet another case where the left is making a conscious decision to try to pretend the past was different than it was. We're not gonna let him get away with it. Rock and roll, fellow patriots. Time to spread some freedom coast to coast. It's time for roll call. It's gonna be our last
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with Alyssa Milano. I watched the Hill dot TV interview and I definitely agree with you that she did not know who was interviewing her, especially when she kept saying we our and us. I'm pretty sure she was referring to Democrats and or Californians and just assume that you were one of them. Way to slip under the radar and expose her for the left as she is. I hope of the interview finalees where you tell her who you are and how you filled in for Rush Limbaugh
before so we could watch her head explode figuratively of course. PS. Maybe this interview is why your Wicky page was deleted so she and't look you up. God knows that liberal won't look past the first page of Google search when doing a little pre interview research. You know, I don't know why my Wikipedia. I don't know why my Wikipedia was deleted. I had a Wikipedia page. Is a nice little Wikipedia page is gone now. I don't understand what did I do to offend the Wikipedia gods? I mean, TJ.
Thanks for writing, and Drew writes, I'm a podcast listeners but anyways, the movie quote was from black Hawk Down, Shields High. Well, look at you, Drew. You are correct, sir. Limo is a word in common usage from the very early scenes of black Hawk Down where they're discussing a scrabble dispute. Black Hawkdown. I think is is it really holds up a great a great movie for what it is. I really enjoyed it. Seth writes, I really missed the Ilissa Milano from Commando in the spirit of Friday, get
to the Chopper. Yeah, absolutely, Look, I I agree. I'm a I'm a big fan of the original Lissa Mulano in although that get to the choppers from Predator. Uh so we've got to, you know, if we're gonna keep it one hundred, get to the choppers for Predator what indeed, get to the Chopper. All right, let's get back into roll call, folks. I'm sorry to get distracted there. You
know what happens with the movie quotes. I all of a sudden find myself in the midst of reminiscing about my youth spent watching, as you know, a lot of action movies that maybe we'll bring back action movie quote Friday. It's been a while. You know, I kind of faded out with it, but I kind of like it. Uh Martha writes, I would like to know who's paying for the uh five day funeral that the McCain planned for months ahead of himself. Um, Martha, I don't know. I
would assume. I mean, the McCain family is very wealthy. I actually have no idea. I couldn't answer that question, so apologies for not having the answer on on hand, Um, schmool, Right's high buck. This is schmall from Israel. I live in Israel and I'm interested, but not passionate about US politics. So I'm confused why steal a British national would be
so desperate to see Trump lose. I can understand why an American citizen would be passionate about the election results, but a British citizen was he concerned that Trump was pro Brexit? Seriously, something smells here. Could it be he was desperate because someone Russians or Hillary, we're paying him and we're threatening him to get the job done or else. I love to hear thoughts on this. Perhaps you can
run an article about it. Small Hey schmall, good good to talk to about a team buck Israel in the house. Uh why would steal? No? You know, I think that Steel is part of this mentality Schmoll that the the
kind of global establishment order was threatened by Trump. I do think that there are people, especially the elites in Western European countries, find that Trump was a political phenomenon and Trump is um was one that they thought concerned them too, that they had their own worries about, you know, how all that was was gonna go. And um that's why somebody and now looks steel. It might also have been for personal reasons. Maybe he just found Trump very odious.
I don't think that anyone had anything on Steele to push him into this. I just think that in his mind he was doing probably not just America but the world some great service by trying to uh throw a monkey wrench into the Trump campaign. So there you have that. Brandon black hawk Down. Yes, black Hawkdown also got the movie quote, so you're correct, Brandon. Um. Brandon also wrote my buck fifteen black rifle coffee arrived just in time.
I hope you didn't take offense the other day when I said that as a bald guy, I don't like to swoop. Brandon nobody has to like the swoop this America. So the swoop is a totally up to up to you how much you like or don't like it. Ah, Rob Rights Hi Buck talk about Mark Rich tomorrow. Bill Clinton pardoned him after he fled the country. He hit millions of money shields Hime Brother, Well, yeah, Mark Rich. Rob was somebody whose wife was a major Democrat donor,
and he fled justice and was pardoned. That's very rare. Usually you have to at least be in the country. I don't think. I don't know if that's ever happened before. Actually I can't say that it hasn't, But I'm not aware of someone being pardoned, uh who had fled the country in that way. I mean, maybe the only exception that comes to mind is Draft Dodgers and Canada who. But that was kind of a group party in and
that was really a policy more than a pardon. So I'm I'm not familiar with the case that's similar Mark Rich. Just remember, folks, you know who was involved in the Mark Rich pardon. That's right, Eric Holder, everybody. He was the one who signed off on it in Clinton's Department of Justice. It was in fact, Eric Holder and he said he felt badly about it. He said later on, but you know, too late. Eric. Uh, let's see. Thomas writes Buck, I'm trying to figure out why Rhn de Santis,
his opponent, would be upset. If you listen closely to Rhonda santis Is full response, he's telling the questioner that although it appears he will have a good run, the Republicans shouldn't take the election when for granted, because his opponent is well spoken and charismatic, and the Republicans should not take it for granted. Um. The media got it totally wrong on this because they didn't hear it. All they heard was what they were looking for from Thomas.
You know, Thomas, I don't think the media got it wrong because they didn't hear it. I think the media got it wrong and didn't care. I think the media saw this as an opportunity to trash a Republican, and even though they knew they knew that what they were doing was dishonest, they figured it was too good an opportunity to pass up. Um. Jim Rights. Uh oh no,
that's a short, short message, Keith writes Buck. De Santis using monkey up is no more racist than if his opponents said he's going to crush De Santis like a cracker in soup, shields high from Keith. I have never heard of crushing a cracker in soup, so I don't know what that is, but thanks for writing in, Keith. Kyle writes Buck in regards to De Santis, is monkey
this up quip? If that phrase is supposed to be a dog whistle for racist, as many on the left are asserting, I can't help but notice that those on the left are the ones barking over this. Uh seems like an active psychological projection. To me, if you have an unhealthy obsession with a person's race, maybe you're the racist and not the person who uses a common innocuous phrase to describe something. Indeed, Kyle, I I think that
they got this very wrong. And I think that the media loves to play the race card, even when they have to be dishonest to do it. And I think that's what we I really do think that's what we saw here. Team quick quick pause. Here, we're gonna come back when more roll call. Stay with me, and then we're back with some more roll call where we get to hear from all of you don't forget the Freedom Hunt podcast. Folks, it's out. It is me Jump Barnell
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and please do share with some friends. Uh, it's this is something even people don't really care much about politics. Uh you know they they will, I think enjoy the conversation we had, so spread it around, folks. Bob, it's good evening. Buck. Is Gary Heart's boat now considered racist since it was called monkey business? Have a great weekend, Shields high, Bob. Oh, hey, Bob, I I've never I don't know. I don't know about Gary Hart's boat, but I'm pretty sure it's not racist. So there you go.
Let's see. Oh, somebody also told me that there's a song. Well, there's a bunch of look monkey business monkeying around. Hey, we're the monkeys all that stuff. We know it's not racist. So I think our point, I think our point has been made to him. I think we all get it on that one, Bob writes, stuck in the airport for a few hours and I'm watching CNN. This is pure torture. I must have seen their promo for the r GB
film a hundred times. They're also fawning over Joe Biden's speech at McCain's funeral, almost like they're getting ready to endorse him for president. Well, Bob, let me say this about the cult of RBG. It's just weird, man, it's just weird. I mean, I'm not trying to be me, but she's a little old lady, you know, and they're trying to make it seem like she's some kind of folk hero who can do hundreds of push ups or something. You know. It's just I mean, I don't get it.
I really don't. You know, I don't find Ruth Bader like I'm gonna stop talking about with bitter Ginsburg. The cult of RBG is weird, though, r g B, that's RBG. Sorry, r g B is is weird? Is wait? No, are rb G you wrote r G B Bob. You're confusing me here. I'm getting getting my letters all mixed up. Uh al rights ESPN. Great x of the double standard, O, great example of the double standard squared. Um. I guess
so Mud also knows. Matthew writes, love the show and your view on the weaponization and politicization of McCain's death. Trotting out his patriotism just to beat Trump over the head with it is to stick a bole. Tell you the truth. He was a fly boy with an admiral daddy. Pretty sure he had a free ride until he got himself shot down. Yes, he stayed with his men in the face of further torture, but that's what he was
supposed to do, just like most vets. We did what we signed up for and saw our duty through until the end. Then he didn't want Trump to attend his funeral and lost all of my respects. So there's that. To borrow your hilarious phrase, cheers and shields, Hie, Matthew. Matthew appreciate you writing in, and I know people have very passionate views about the legacy of McCain. So I will let you speak for yourself on that one. Uh, Andrew Wrights listening to the show, and I can't agree
with you more. I make it a point to listen to both sides in a while. And I was on the road for an hour and a half today I listened to NPR. I was blown away by how uh political they made Senator John McCain's death. It was constant and every chance they got they would bash Trump. I don't understand how they think their stories were unbiased. Yeah, folks, the media fawning over McCain is something that they like
to do to hit Republicans with. That's what they That's why they like talking about McCain, and that's why they like talking about Trump, Trump versus McCain, all this stuff. It's a weapon against Republicans. So we should be very clear on that. And and that's just that's what they were doing. Um Hey, Buk Sheels. I want to tell
you an epic journey I just returned home from. It took me through for the first time Washington, d C. There were two people I had hoped to run into so I could give them each a high five for a job well done. But sadly my time grew short and I was forced to leave the swamp without seeing you or Potus. I know to it makes me sad too, perhaps next time. Until then, Virtual high five, Virtual high five accepted. Tim. Uh, if you happen to see that Donald,
pass it along, won't you. Also? On the way home to Florida, we stopped overnight in Savannah, just a mile down the road from nine Line Apparel Black Rifle Coffee. Uh. Their their whole facility there where I got myself a T shirt and a piping hot cup of silence or smooth. Wondering if this is the place you made the personal appearance a few months ago. Anyway, I'm an avid pdcast
listener looking forward to the next Shield's High episode. Congratulations on the TV show, Tim, Tim The answers, Yes, that is the facility and if any of you are ever down there, you should go check it out. The nine Line Apparel Black Rifle facility in Savannah, Georgia is quite a sight and the people work there are just awesome.
You'll love getting a chance to chat with them. Coffee is delicious, the gear is great uh, and they're really it's it's an amazing setup they've got they're doing all these designs and all the shirt production and everything else in house. The gear production in house, and the coffee is absolutely delicious. It's first rate and you'll just like it. I'm telling you it's It's worth a stop if you're
in Savannah. It's about a twenty twenty minute drive from downtown Savannah, but go check out there, you know, tell him Buck sent you and they'll know. They'll know. I hope, I'm just kidding. They'll know. Maybe, Evan writes, Hey, Buck, enjoying catching up on this show with the Godfather. I'm listening to the podcast on on Apple iPhone. Anyway. I didn't realize this, but apparently you can adjust a speed of play. I bumped it up to one point five times the normal rate. It took a second, but I
realized and then fixed it. Um, however, you can slow it down. Have you ever listened to Michael Pelca at half the normal speed? It's hilarious. He sounds like a really stoned drunk dude. It's extremely funny. You should check it out, enjoy your weekend. Well, even I'm not sure that the Godfathers sound you know, the only extremely stones drunk dude. Give him what you're telling me about Yeo, I can like slow down the podcast half speed, double speed.
I'm just kidding him and we love you. Um so yeah, I'm glad you guys enjoyed the Godfather. He's such he's always been such a good friend and and he's such a good guy, and I just I'm I'm happy that you all get a chance to listen to him. That he'll take the reins of the show whenever I'm whenever I'm gone, and he's able to folks, that's gonna be it for the Freedom Hunt for today. Have a great weekend. I've got huge plans for us. We come back next week, so I will see you then, same time, same place
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