Lebron Bends Knee To Commies

American Again, the buck Sexton Show begins. No, Welcome to the buck Sexton Show. Everybody. Great to have you here with me. Thank you so much for joining today. Oh my, we have a lot going on. The Democrat debate is tonight, so that's exciting for some people. I don't even know if it's exciting for the Democrats, but I'll be watching. I'll be live tweeting a combination of insight and snark. So there's that to look forward to. We have a

couple of big news stories breaking today. We have I left this out of our little open there, but we found Hunter Biden, or rather one of the broadcast networks. I think it's ABC found Yeah, found Hunter Biden, and he's not doing himself any favors. We'll discuss that. We'll hear a bit from Hunter himself. Oh the most the most wayward of Biden's that would seem Hunter Biden. But the one thing that's gotten everybody really fired up today

is this Lebron James situation. Now, I'm sure all of you know without me telling you, but just to put it in the proper context, Lebron James is arguably the best basketball player who has ever lived. Some of the Michael Jordan fans out there are booing right now, but you know what I mean. Lebron James a big deal. The guy is certainly worth hundreds of millions of dollars, probably already close to, if not surpassing, a billion dollars.

He is a global sports icon, and he was really anointed as one of the biggest athletes, most important athletes in the world back when he was in high school. And he lived up to those expectations, which usually doesn't seem to be the case. So Labron James is somebody who has a tremendous audience, a huge platform, is wealthy beyond any normal person's wildest imagination. He's also someone who

is woke. He's an individual who, depending on the day, will share his thoughts on politics, particularly issues that deal would say, police violence and other assorted and sundry things out there that he will have to continue to look at. I'm sure now that people are going to be focusing even more on the issues of the day that he tackles. But Lebron James a guy who talks about things in the political realm, and I had mentioned on this show

a week ago. I had mentioned that it would be great if Lebron James would come forward and say something in support of the supporters of the protesters in Hong Kong. It would be great if Lebron James stepped forward and decided to speak in favor of freedom right. So he's spoken about Black Lives Matter, he's spoken about police violence,

He's spoken about different issues here. So this is an opportunity given what happened, as we know, you had the general manager of the Houston Rockets who criticized gently really or didn't even criticize the Chinese. He just spoke in support of the Hong Kong protesters. And what did Lebron James decide to do. I asked last week, I said, where's Lebron, Where's the King? Where's the man himself perhaps the single most famous, most powerful figure in professional sports today.

You could certainly make that argument. The NBA's all about weighing in on politics, telling us how woke they are. We know that they will they will protest, They'll support people protesting the national anthem, you know, support taking a need during our national anthem. They'll wear hoodies and solidarity with Trayvon Martin, all these different very political acts, and Lebron himself had even at one point, I'm trying to find this tweet, Lebron had shown everybody just actually how

truly woke he is. Here here you go. This is from I think about a yeah, from earlier this year, Lebron James injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. Wow, bold talk, strong words from King James, as he is widely known. But then he decided to speak on the China issue, and my, oh my, it was a disaster hit it. We all talked about

this freedom of speech. Yes, we all do have freedom of speech, but at times there are ramifications for the negative that can happen when you're not thinking about others and you only think about yourself. So I don't believe. I don't want to get into a word word or sentenced feud with Darylum with Daryl More, but I believe he wasn't educated on the situation at hand, and he spoken, and so many people could have been harmed, not only

financially but physically, emotionally, spiritually. So just be careful what we tweet and we say and what we do, even though yes, we do have freed them a lot of negative. Wow, Lebron James a man who will never have to worry about putting food on the table, not just for himself, for his family, but his family's family's family's family, based on the amount of money he has amassed, a global icon who's in no danger of losing his job or anything. He could have just not said anything about this, I

asked last week. I said, Lebron is woke, he is social justice aware. Now is the opportunity for him to take a stand for people who could really use it. And by the way, the Chinese market is huge for the NBA, but Chinese support Hong Konger's support for NBA players like Lebron is also very very strong. It would

have meant a lot, just some words of solidarity. But instead of that, what did we get Lebron James saying that Moray, the general manager of the Houston Rockets, was not educated on the issue when he said that he was in support of freedom for the people of Hong Kong. Oh, No, quite the contrary. I think. I think the Houston Rockets GM was right on the money, and I think that people understand that, and Daryl Moray did exactly the right thing from a moral ethical perspective, you can stay from

a business perspective, that wasn't a good idea. But Lebron James comes forward to show us that all that social justice stuff, you know, it's easy to take a knee in the United States, It's it's easy to And don't even get me started on Colin Kaepernick. That guy's a backup quarterback. He's at a point in his career where his value as a professional player is just not what it once was, and all of a sudden, he takes a knee and now he's like a Nike superstar. He's

a sports icon. Forget about the fact that he wore the socks with pig police officers on them, and we're just supposed to skip past that. Oh, he's a sports icon, all right. Lebron James, best basketball player in the world right now, criticizes the guy who's speaking out in favor of freedom in Hong Kong and claims that he is not I believe Maury has a we're gonna talk about

being educated on the issue. Not that this means he necessarily knows all that much about what's going on in Hong Kong, but I think it's a good good shot. First of all, he was right with his tweet, and More I think went to M I T. So I'm a pretty good I'm gonna guess that he has a good sense of what's going on. I think he has an advanced degree from M I T. I think More has a good sense of what's going on in Hong Kong's situation. A lot of people are very disappointed in

Lebron James right now. I would say, let's be serious about this, folks. Is it really a surprise? Is it really a surprise that professional athletes who have the option. As far as I'm concerned to avoid politics and just be professionals in what they do and share their opinions privately, but to use their public platform for political issues that opens them up. That means now that anybody's allowed to have an opinion, anyone's allowed to decide that they will

criticize what these players have to say. So Lebron James, Lebron James shows us whether he's really brave or not, and unfortunately came up quite short. And it also makes a lot of people question, what about all these athletes who are talking about justice and the need for the need for fighting for what's right. And well, that's all good when fighting for justice means you sell even more sneakers,

you sell even more jerseys and tickets. But what about the consequences, the economic consequences of fighting for justice when it's when it's hard. Oh, I see, you know the NBA has been telling players not to not to speak on this issue. Lebron James speaks out on this issue and says exactly the wrong thing. He had a week to figure out what the response was going to be, and this is what he comes up with. There's a bigger issue here. It's not just about Lebron James and

the NBA, although should we really have expected more? I leave that to you. China, which is a situation that President Trump has been tackling from the beginning of his presidency. We have a different feeling about how to deal with China now going forward than we did in the past because of Trump. China has tremendous influence over decisions that my friends are affecting you and me right now. China has control over parts of the media and the media

narrative here in America. And really there can be no better example of just how culturally and economically influential China is than to have a globally famous NBA superstar bend the knee to Beijing's Communist Party for fear of losing out on the almighty dollar. That sends a very strong message, doesn't it. And it sends a message I think also about what our future is going to be unless we wake up and accept that this is not going to be easy, just like the trade fight that Trump has

started as not easy. The fight for the truth about China, what's going on inside of China, what that country is doing around the world, that's going to become increasingly complicated. Journalists like to talk about how brave they are. Celebrities always think that they're brave when they take political stance, but most of them are just idiots. But journalists think that they're brave until all of a sudden ownership has a different feeling about things. Then it changes rather rapidly,

doesn't it. How does China influence us? How far does that influence go? Oh, we'll get to that. So how powerful and influential is communist China when it comes to pop culture? We've seen that they can influence the NBA. We've seen that they can tell people what they can and cannot say in this country, even when they're incredibly wealthy and incredibly influential. Where else does this extend well, Some people picked up on a very big change recently

in the new Top Gun movie. For example, in that Top Gun movie, you will recall well, in the original Top Gun movie, Tom Cruise has a bomber jacket on and on the back of that bomber jacket is a flag that is the flag of I want people, and that all of a sudden in the new version was changed to a different flag, and a lot of people notice this now why would that happen Because the biggest, really the biggest movie market by at least by ticket

sales in the world is a Chinese market. It's also why, unfortunately, we have all these horrifically bad superhero movies. Yeah, I'm gonna say it, bad superhero movies that are made all the time. That's right, Mark, you know, I'm right. Don't don't give me that. This isn't like an old man thing. This is a truth. You are very very incorrect. Yeah, they make them this way because they can dub. They can dub Thor and the Hulk and a Hulk smash and the same thing in every movie, and people in

foreign countries will watch it doesn't correct. Yeah, well, who you're gonna believe anyway? They change things because the Chinese government censors will block movies. Most recent example of this, I mentioned Top Gun. So that's that's a US movie. But there's a movie that's a joint animated project of DreamWorks, the famous you know animated and I forget what they even call. You know, the digital essentially makes the digital cartoons that people know and love. It's done very very well.

As a company. DreamWorks made this movie called Abominable, which I've been thinking for a while, when is someone gonna make a movie. But I was thinking a horror movie as you as you know, I like bigfoot movies. We've talked about that on the show before. I think there should be more of them, and they should be better and not Harry and the Hendersons. I don't want a big, happy,

cuddly Bigfoot. But the movie Abominable is about a cute, cuddly cartoon, Yetti, which some of you think of I think as a cooler company, right, don't they make the coolers the little where you put the beer and the things? Am I? Yeah, I know America. But also this movie is about traversing across China and this young girl is with the big Foot, has to take him, has to take them back to I guess to Mount Everest. I

think it is. And sure enough Vietnam is very upset because guess what dream Works did in this movie in order to make sure that as a joint venture with the Chinese, it would get approved by the censors. Oh, they showed the South China Sea, the you know the seven dash line, the South China Sea. They showed that as Chinese territory, and the only reason that they would do this, the only reason that this would this would happen is because they want to make sure they can

get around the sensors. I'm sorry. The nine da I said, the seven dash line, nine dash line, pardon me, is that they want to get around the upset of the Chinese government. This is happening now. All the time, there was a a DJ, I believe recently, a famous DJ, which is still an amazing thing to me that that even exists. I feel like I could be a famous DJ. I'll make a playlist, I will put it up on Spotify or iTunes, and I will hit play and I will then be a famous day. I don't know. I

don't know how. I don't know how it works. I guess you gotta mix the beats and to all that stuff. I'm hip, I know, I know what the kids do. So I got to mix all the beats with all the flavor. But this guy's a famous DJ. He tweeted something about China, and now the Chinese government has banned him for life as a result of this. I'm trying to see if I can remember who exactly, who exactly it was. Some of you might know dj Z band I'm sorry, and he was banned for liking a South

Park tweet on Twitter. South Park's one of the few comedic you know, comedic enterprises that will still make fun of things you're not supposed to make fun of, which is wonderful. It's very important part of society these days. There have to be people willing to make the jokes that you're not supposed to make or else why are we making jokes at all? But djz liked liked a tweet from South Park about the making fun of China, and now he's banned Forever. You're going to see more

of this. People who speak out against China's policy in Hong Kong who are famous are going to get banned. In fact, even people who aren't very famous might get banned. It just won't be a news story. It took me months to get a visa to be able to go to China. You know, the whole XCIA current news media person thing didn't really sit that well with the Communist Party. Apparently this is a big fight, my friends, This is going to continue. This shows you what kind of influence

China has. We're not worried about invasion, We're worried about bending the knee culturally and Econ'm back Team Buck. I wanted to bring in an additional voice here on Lebron James, China, the NBA, Hong Kong, all the stuff that we've been talking about today so far on the show. We have Clay Travis with us now. He is a nationally syndicated radio host and author of the book Republicans Buy Sneakers two, which is definitely true. I'm a Republican, I buy sneakers. Clay,

Thanks for coming on. Appreciate you having me. All right, so let's start with this. You you wrote a piece for OutKick the Coverage where you lay out that I mean, I was saying this at the start. I don't follow if you follow sports very closely and sports in the intersection of politics. I do politics and occasionally when sports

happens to cross over into my world. But you take the position in your piece that Lebron James has been heralded as someone akin to the greatness of Muhammad Ali, not just as a sports figure, but as a political figure, and you think that's unwarranted. Tell us why, Well, because he's never really taken a stand on it anything that matters.

And by what I mean there, when you look at Muhammad Ali's history, the man faced imprisonment, he stood up to the idea of a draft, he stood up to the idea of a war, and as a result he suffered severe consequences. But he took a stand on an issue that was dividing the country in a major way. Lebron has never taken a stand in any way, and that's why I wrote last week that this China situation offered an opportunity for Lebron James. You know this because

you hear it all the time. There's much talk about being on the right side of history. And for anybody I'm a history major, I'm a long time history buff. Anybody who's spend any time studying history knows that very often the idea that there's a right and wrong side of history that is going to be determined during your life is often incorrect. Sometimes it takes hundreds of years to figure out exactly who was on the right and wrong side of history, and byographies will consistently debate that

for many different issues. But we know that the right side of history beens in the direction of democracy, ringom of speech, human rights, basic individual freedoms are without a doubt, on the right side of history. So Lebron James had an opportunity here to stand up to China and say, I believe that the one point four billion people who live in China are entitled and should have the same exact rights that I do in America today. I believe

in democracy. I believe in capitalism. I believe in something as important as that. And if he had done so, that could be a crucible moment down the line for his legacy. But in the meantime, you know that in the long range he's going to be I believe, on the right side of history because the winds of societal change been towards the directions of capitalistic democracies. Instead, he chose to shut up in durable and take communist dictator money.

And if he had, we've been a capital If that's all he cared about, or all the NBA it's cared about, I don't think this hypocrisy would be striking so many as being so rank, so glaring, so difficult to stomach. Now do you think that that Lebron James. I mean, look personally, it feels like a financial pressure from China on him personally is that would be tough. Any financial pressure on him is going to be a tough thing, or you could at least argue would be a difficult

thing to pull off. How much pressure can the Chinese put on the NBA? I mean for someone like me, I I like basketball, I like the NBA. I haven't watched a game probably in five years. So tell me how big a deal is it for China to start to slap down and either particular NBA players or just NBA access into the Chinese market. Well, I think it's a fascinating question, and one answer I would imagine that China can sort of hint that is, we don't have

to pay you for the rights to your games. We can do what we've done with the out of Western products, which is allow rampant piracy to occur in this country such that we don't have to pay you anything substantial for your rights, and the people who are NBA fans in China, we can make it available to them without going after the pirates and everything else associated with that.

But I think what you're hitting at is the key is all of China's power in this scenario is derived from financial related issues, and so the biggest the biggest thing that is disappointing to me I think about Lebron in general, is I don't know what your dollar figure is, but I've pretty much reached it. Where if you told me I could make twenty percent more, but I had to say things that I disagreed with in order to make that twenty percent more, I wouldn't do it, right.

I mean, my intellectual honesty is worth a lot more to me than twenty percent more. Now, I worked as a lawyer, so if you told me, hey, I'll pay you a hundred times as much, I might be willing to argue for anybody. Right. I've defended murders, I've defended

rapist you know. I look, that's part of the job, right, But for what we do, to be in the marketplace of ideas and be selling something I didn't believe in, it's really disappointing to think that to sellout dollar figure would only be about twenty percent more for somebody like Lebron, especially if you've already made hundreds of millions of dollars. And by the way, especially if you've made those hundreds of millions of dollars at the fount of democratic capitalism.

To turn your back on that in exchange for platitudes from your communist dictator leaders is to be really disappointing and essentially blows up Lebron James's argument that he's more than an athlete, or that he refuses to shut up and dribble. Why did he go after Maury specifically? That seems not only was Lebron wrong on this, he seemed to really be doing the bidding of the Chinese if

the Chinese government had written his talking points. And I think Shi Jinping said, you know, anyone who stands there away in Hong Kong, we will annihilate them and grind their bones to dust. So okay, so she goes a little more to the mat on this stuff than than even anybody in the NBA would fine, But if they were trying to write plausible talking points for somebody in the NBA, I think it would include Morey doesn't understand the situation. I think that's one of the ways to

undermine the tweet that got this whole situation. It got this whole ruckus started. So why do you think Lebron went after More? Is there any personal beef there I mean, these are things that I wouldn't know that you would know. Well, first of all, I think you're right in claiming that this is a complicated issue. He followed up on what Steve Kerr said last week, which was, Oh, it's almost impossible to come up with an opinion on a situation

like this when the reality's pretty straightforward. You know, they're either in favor of democratic protesters in Hong Kong, or you're opposed to them and you believe in autocratic Chinese rule of an authoritarian nature, or you don't. This is not, you know, like so many issues that we confront on a daily basis in American life, where okay, let's figure out how the Second Amendment is going to apply in twenty nineteen. Okay, I can see how that could be complicated,

and there could be a variety of different issues. To me, what Darryl Moray said in terms of endorsing democracy is the equivalent of saying cancer is bad. Right. I mean, I'm sure there's some one or two people out there who are like, you know, cancer is underrated in my opinions, but in general, this is like I'm in favor of clean drinking water, I'm in favor of kids having an opportunity to go to school and get an education for free. These are not controversial ideas in general, So I think

you're right. I think that Lebron has used Darryl Moray as a target because one, it was his tweet that set off this firestorm in China, but also because I believe Lebron is trying to make this issue seem more complicated than it is and also make more a seem less understanding of this situation. And by the way, really what Lebron is doing, in addition to echoing communist talking points, is he's echoing one of the NBA owners who is Joseph's eye ob belously, he's how you pronounce his name.

But the Ali Baba guy who now owns the NETS, it sounds like he's set down with Lebron and tried to brainwash him. And he's the guy who wrote that Facebook post right about China's China's history and the territorial integrity and how sensitive it is, and it was some real whiny nonsense. Yeah, and it also essentially told Americans that we shouldn't be concerned with democracy around the world.

And that's the big issue here, I think buck right when you really break it down, is China has moved from a country that was, hey, you want to show you the new Avengers movie, well, we need you to cut these two minutes out in order to play in China, and Disney and all the big companies acquiesced to those

demands to get into the Chinese market. What they have now started to do, and I think this is an interesting pivot point for China is they are arguing, now, American company, we don't care that your citizens have the right under American law to have First Amendment freedoms and say what they have said, if you want to do business with us, you need to police your employees outside of the bounds of our country with what they are saying and doing. And that to me is a big

step by China outside of their terry. Now, that is a really important point. By the way, this isn't if you're going to come into our house, it's our rules. It's you better do things in your house that we want you to or else you'll never be welcome at

our house. Yeah. This is a big difference, right, I mean, it's the difference between let's I mean and again I don't know that a lot of people have noticed this, but that's why I think this is such a larger battle on the grand scale, and why Lagron's decision here

is so disappointing. If you believe as I do, that much of the twenty first century is likely to be maybe a new Cold War, however you want to define it, between America and China, the question is, do you believe in a communist, authoritarian governments of vision for the twenty first century as it expands beyond its territorial borders and begins to try to influence the world, or do you believe in the vision of a capitalistic democracy like the

United States and many of our allies. And Lebron James has effectively said, I believe in the communist dictatorship vision. And that is why this is so disappointing, because I think we're starting to see the early shots being fired in a global war of ideas, and Lebron has come down on the side of the Chinese. Clay Travis, everybody the book is Republicans, buy Sneakers too. I actually have a copy. Highly recommend you all go out and get one.

He's also a nationally syndicated radio host. You can check out his podcast. Clay, thank you so much for joining us that we appreciate it. Appreciate it, my man. You got a great show. I hear great things about it. Look forward to seeing the politicon here in a few weeks. I'm glad we managed to cover the Lebron James China Hong Kong controversy today because I think that it really is and I agree with what our guests there Clay Travis said, I think this is just going to continue

to get worse. I don't think that there's going to be any reprieve here, and the Chinese, their leverage is only going to become more potent as time goes on unless we start to see this for what it is and push back. And the Chinese have been playing a long game here. They have these Confucious centers that they

fond all across America. These Confucius centers create this perception of a China that many people argue is just not and the way that China approaches the rest of the world that's meant to lull us into a sense that the Chinese have no ambitions beyond their own territory and just want to be good trading partners, and they want prosperity for their people and peace around the world. A

lot of very powerful propaganda. In fact, I believe that the China People's Daily, which is a or the China Daily, which is a publication approved by the People's Republic of China, was for a time being added to The Washington Post when it was delivered to people's home some years ago as a special advertising bulletin kind of its propaganda. The Washington Post was like, yeah, well, we'll take Chinese money and distribute propaganda all over the world. So has been

going on. And then with Lebron James, yeah, I'm not surprised really, And the more I think about it, the more sense it makes that this is This is a tough issue for the NBA in that there will be consequences. It's not tough to know which side to be on, but it's tough as in, you could actually have some bad things happen if you speak out against the Chinese.

Nothing bad is going to happen to anybody the NBA for wearing a hoodie and solidarity with Trey von or tweeting out about social justice or saying that you know, Colin Kaepernick should be supported in his self indulgent protest movement, all that stuff, all of it, right, that's that's easy.

In fact, that's brand enhancing. And you've seen that now some of the more social justice aware things that were in all things that Nike has done, like putting Kaepernick on I forget we're starting a campaign with them, I forget what it's called. It's like the equivalent of putting him on a Wheaty's box. He's now a big sports hero for Nike. That has resulted in an increase in sales, So there is really a financial upside. Not only does it not hurt them to take these stands in the NBA,

there's a financial upside to it. Certainly a huge upside for Colin Kaepernick. But you don't want to listen to celebrities in general on these issues because I mean, you should just listen to people who are knowledgeable and intelligent. So if a celebrity happens to be knowledgeable and intelligent on an issue, of course, but being a celebrity does not mean as all. If you know, it means you are neither knowledgeable nor intelligent. On its face, you could be,

but it doesn't mean you are. And another example is I mean Jane Fonda still out there, you know, hannoy, Jane still doing her thing. People listen, media gives her airtime. Here she is. Just in case you haven't heard enough scaremongering on climate change, let's hear from non scient taste. I would argue non book reader Chain Fonda about climate change. Play clip seven. Please. The Inner Governmental Panel on Climate Crisis told us last year that we only have well,

last year they said twelve years. Now it's eleven years. We have eleven years left to try to turn this fossil fuel disaster around so that we don't completely pass the tipping point and it becomes untenable, untenable to govern, untenable to have a stable economy or any kind of human rights or anything. It's there's just going to be one disaster on top of the other. But we do

have time. We have time, and it's going to require that people in every country all around the world organize and mobilize and if necessary, bring government to a halt. If we can't make them do the right thing. I mean, it wouldn't have to be this radical and fundamental. If the fossil fuel industry hadn't lied to us for thirty years.

Fossil fuel disaster. That's interesting because what she refers to as a disaster, you could also look at as an objective observer and historian and see that fossil fuels have directly, not just coincided with, but created the economic conditions for more prosperity, longer lifespan, easier lives, better lives around the world than any other series of scientific advances in human history. You do not have modern capitalism without fossil fuels. You

don't have. It doesn't exist. You do not have this modern world of technological wonders that we all live in. But now the left in this country and much of it around the world, has embraced this hatred of fossil fuels. They're the enemy. They're gonna kill us all they say. Oh, and also the claim that we should bring governments to a halt. There are a few people as clownish and stupid as the protesters against climate the protesters who are

climate change activists against fossil fuels. In recent weeks, you've seen things. They've spray painted buildings red. They do all this crazy idiocy. I almost don't want to ever call them protesters. People in Hong Kong taking truncheons to the face, getting sprayed and hit with rubber bullets and tear gas and standing up for basic human rights. Those are protesters. These climate change activists, they're really just engaged in a kind of self indulgent virtue signaling. Theater Jane Fond is

a part of it. Well, they found Hunter Biden everybody where Hunter. Remember Where's Waldo? That book when you were a kid, you try to find Waldo with all the people around him. Well, we're playing where it's Hunter. Turns out they were able to get him. You have the Democrat debate happening tonight, and it seemed that the Biden handlers and assorted media strategists and all the other folks who were involved in trying to prop up the Biden situation here and make it look like it's not as

bad as we all know it is. They figured, Okay, well, let's let's get ahead of this thing, because Biden's gonna have to get even then, the pro Biden journos know that he's gonna have to get some kind of question about this tonight, so better to get ahead of it and to have Hunter Biden establish that, you know, there was nothing going on here, nothing wrong here. Everything is just fine. At least that's supposed to be the storyline.

That's what we're supposed to take. And I want to play this for you because there are problems even with Hunters very favorable, helpful to him interview right, the way they ask him the most basic questions. He knows they're not going to come at him with anything, particularly though the last questions like do you think it was a good idea? They won't say. How can you tell us that it wasn't corruption? I mean, you know, it's all about how they framed the questions and posed the questions.

But here is Hunter Biden when asked on I think it's ABC, right, ABC, CBS, NBC. It's all it's all the same thing. I mean, they think it's not, but I think it is. Here's what Hunter Biden says when asked about whether he talked to his dad about the stuff. Oh please, let's let's know this. Let let's find out what he said. Play five. I'm sorry, Play sixteen. I want to get to the heart of it. Did you and your father ever discuss you free as I said. The only time was after a news account, and it

wasn't a discussion in anyway. There's no butt to this. No, we never did. Your dad said I hope you know what you're doing. Hope you know what you're doing. I do, And I said I do. And that was literally the end of our discussion. Why because my dad was vice president of the United States. There's literally nothing as a young man or as a full grown adult that my father in some way hasn't had influence over as it

does not serve either one of us. When he said I hope you know what you're doing, what did he think you were doing? Well? He wrote? The press reports that I joined the board of Barisma, which was a Ukrainian natural gas company, and there's been a lot of misinformation about me, not about my dad. Nobody buys that, but it buys this idea that I was unqualified to be on the board. What were your qualifications to be on the board of Barisma? Well, I was vice chairman

of the board of Amtrak for five years. I was the chairman of the board of the UN World Food Program. I was a lawyer for A boy Schiller Flexner, one of the most prestigious law firms in the world. You didn't have any extensive knowledge about natural gas or Ukraine itself though, No, But I think that I had as much knowledge as anybody else that was on the board, if not more. In the list you gave me of the reasons why you're on that board, you did not list the fact that you were the son of the

of course. Yeah, what role do you think that lay? I think that it is impossible for me to be on any of the boards that I just mentioned without saying that on the sun of the Vice President of the United States you were paid fifty thousand dollars a month for your position. Look, I'm a privacy citizen. One thing that I don't have to do is sit here and open my kimono as it relates to how much money I make or make or deer didn't. But it's

all been reported. I gotta tell you, this was great, fantastic. After all of the whining from libs about Trump and the emoluments clause, we have been led to believe through story after story in The Washington Post, the New York Times, I nobody even knew what the heck the emoluments clause was until they thought maybe they could get Trump on it. Right that if if, forarders are buying cheeseburgers and beer at Trump Hotel in Dcy, that's constitutionally prohibited because they're

basically buying off the President United States. And I would just say to all the Washington Post journos who were running with this absurd theory, Oh, it's constitutionally not allowed to get payments for foreign government. Yeah, they're allowed to give you a big bag of money. They're allowed to be customers at a business that has expenses and payroll and that has countless other customers too. What leverage could

you possibly have there? Walk into the White House sometime, try this one and say I have no foreign policy experience, but I did buy a cheeseburger a Trump Hotel last night, and so I would like you to end this trade war with China. See how that goes with you, See how that does. But this is what they were saying. I'm not making it up. This is what they were telling people. It's absurd, it's ridiculous. And yet now when you have Hunter Biden doing this interview, this is just

picture They'll left always talks about privilege. There is no privilege like Brady politician child privilege, and this is bipartisan. It's true on all sides and both sides. I'm sorry, Braddy Politician. Child is a level of privilege. You get to go to any college you want, if you're young enough for that. You know, you get to be famous and people will pay you to speak. Why why would anyone pay Chelsea Clinton to speak anywhere? Who cares? What

soon to be a congressional candidate. I can assure you, Chelsea Clinton, and then after that senator and then after that presidential Kenny, They're going to revive the whole Clinton dynasty around her. Who cares what she has to say about anything? How has she proven that her thoughts are worthwhile? Who cares what any politicians children have to say about anything? Well, if they're particularly compelling, if they're legitimately interesting, good on

their feet, good on certain topics. I'm persuaded. But that's a case by case basis. Hunter Biden, however, is sitting there and he's basically looking the American people the eye, and he's like, yeah, you know, I mean like I was, I was just qualified as anybody else to be on the board of that company. Yeah, totally. Asking if he's qualified, he said he was on the board of Amtrack. Oh you mean Amtrack, the company that Joe Biden is linked to as a politician as part of his brand, Joe

Biden takes the amtrack from Delaware to DC. You know, Bupadah's blue collar Joe. That's the whole story. Oh oh, you mean that Amtrack thought it might be a good idea. I mean a company that is dependent upon the federal government for its large s. Yeah, they're gonna put the single US senator who probably rides that more than anyone else, rides that train more than nails, put his son on the board because because Hunter Biden so smart, I come on, man,

and his qualifications for this clearly nepotistic post. Are the other posts of nepotism granted to him because of who his dad is. This is what he's telling in the interview. Oh my gosh, un Food Program. He's on the board of the un Food Program. I'm sure that was really strenuous work. And he was hired by a big DC law firm. Well that had nothing to do with his

last name. My friends, this is the this is the embarrassment that the Democrats can They can pretend like it's not embarrassing, but when you look at the complaints, I mean, the hypocrisy is what's just so difficult to stomach here. You look at the way that they have talked about wind about all things related to Trump, everything that Trump and his family have ever done in office out of office.

You know, they believe that the trademarks that his children are getting approved around the world, that's elicit, that's wrong. You know, the emoluments calls, Trump hotels, the businesses. They're always worried about whether somebody in the United States government is paying to stay in a Trump hotel. I mean,

that's just they're completely fixated on this stuff. Never come up with anything but oh, under the Obama administration, the vice president's son was getting paid off by a foreign government, and we're supposed to believe that that didn't at least create the appearance you could say, well, there was never a there was never an explicit agreement between Biden and between hundred Biden and his dad that you know, borismo wouldn't get investigated or yeah, okay, but that's not that's

not how bribes necessarily work either, Folks. If a police officer is, you know, pulls me over and I don't know why he's pulled me over an hour to just say well hello, officer, and I slid a crisp. I was gonna say twenty, but then I'd really be in trouble, you know, a crisp one hundred dollar bill across the top of the door as I have, you know, put the window down. The officer's not going to say, oh, that's cool. We didn't agree that. I'm just gonna let

you off because you're giving me money. So I'm just gonna take the money and then make my determination. But has nothing to do with you giving me money. That's that's what's that's not going to happen. Paying off the vice president's son isn't about an explicit agreement. It's about the vice president's son is getting a lot of money. Does does that mean that maybe you're less likely to be okay? As Joe Biden point man on Ukraine policy, with an investigation of that company that results in people

going to prison or bad things happening? Are there concerns then about dirtying things up, muddying up the waters such that the Obama administration and anybody who worked for it, Any any diplomat, any any politician who was involved in Obama's foreign policy. To making that administration's decision making in Ukraine, they would have to know the Vice president's son is on the board of that company. There's no way they didn't know that, and this would have been talked about

in those circles working on Ukraine policy. That doesn't affect decision making, That doesn't matter to what they're trying to accomplish here. I've got to tell you, it seems to me that it would matter a whole heck them a lot, depending on the circumstances, even absent an explicit agreement that

there would do. And I think about how stupid that would be, would do We really have to pretend that anyone thinks Hunter Biden might have sent an email to his dad like, hey, I know that you know, I know that we shouldn't be talking about this, but you got a big check or I got a big check rather from his company, so you know, let's like back off them. Of course, not even Hunter Biden is that reckless,

So you're never going to find that. But what we have here is the admission that this was gross and that's why you know he stepped down from the board. It's a five year term. Wow, what a gig. By the way, can somebody put me on the board of a Ukrainian natural gas company at fifty k a month? Sign me up ethics or no ethics man. Fifty k a month for five years. That's really to do nothing,

to be on the board, to be a figurehead. This is the best no show job I've ever heard of, well one of them, and now he's stepping down for But he didn't do anything wrong, you see, it's just the it's created. It's good. I love this, he said. This is the interview too. It has created a distraction. Oh, a distract. That's a very nice way of saying. It's created a massive cluster of a problem for Hunter Biden, for his dad, and so they know he's got to back away from this. The gravy train has come to

a stop, Hunter Biden. But you just you gotta love the hootspa here, the willingness to look people in the eye and say, yeah, I was qualified for that board. I don't know anything about Ukraine or natural gas, but put me on the board of that company. Why should I be on the board of that company because you get on my dad's this famous politician. I'm on the board of a lot of companies because of who my dad is. So, you know, we just wanted to we

wanted to add this one into the mix. HM strikes me as a very shaky justification that much is for sure. Will this change anything going into the debates? It no, of course not. You know that they're going to pretend that Biden has answered all these questions and oh wait no, but he was asked specific We got one more here, he was asked about his relationship with his dad. And here's also this Hunter Biden interview moment play fourteen. So

you think it's perfectly fine. And the Trump children have been criticized for doing similar sorts of that's that's I don't look unlike them. I don't spend a lot of time thinking about them. I really don't. It's all noise, and what they do is they create just an enormous to them, not a noise. I have to then answer questions about accusations made by probably the most unethical group of people that we've ever seen in this republic. You said, no one votes or will vote for or against my

dad because of me, and my dad knows that. Do you still believe that they know who my dad is? My dad doesn't have to defend me. My dad only has to love me, and my dad loves me n equivalent. Look, I know that after being able to get up after bow died, say whatever the hell they want to say about me. I mean, who cares. Look, I'm like, I really, like I've said, I've been through some stuff in my life. I've been through some real, real stuff. This isn't real stuff.

It isn't it truly? Isn't that part of it? That Burnam and Billy Um, you know, say anything, do anything you want, you know. I mean, like, you know, Donald Prince Humperdink Trump Junior is not somebody that I really care about. I don't even know what that last thing was whatever, But he's clearly trying to tell everybody how this doesn't matter. He's doing a national TV interview on the subject the Night of the Democrat Debates because it

doesn't matter, right, because it doesn't matter at all. I would just have I would just have. You also keep in mind here that while he can invoke the ad, the Biden family has had tragedies many family have had tragedies, however, so I don't think that that's a shield for elicits or unethical behavior. It wouldn't be for other it wouldn't

be for other people. But keep in mind when he's saying that, oh, you know, this doesn't really matter and this is all all the nothing burger, which I agree with those who say that a nothing burger as a phrase is something we should probably phase out of the English language. Who came up with this? What is it?

There's no such thing as a nothing burger. But remember that his dad's administra, well, his dad as vice president of administration, oversaw the spying on American citizens, right that was on on Obama and the vice president's watch spying on American citizens using FIS, People like Carter Page, people like George Papadopoulos. What did they do to deserve all that? What did General Flynn do to deserve to have his career destroyed, ruined, threatened with being sent to prison, threatened

with bankruptcy? Did he deserve that this all? Oh, we're above this, this is nothing really because the vice president was part of the Donald Trump is a trader. Donald Trump colluded with the Russians, lying chorus for a long time. The Vice president, his dad fights very dirty. When he thinks it's in his interests, we'll really do harm to people in their reputations the moment that he thinks it

is the way that he needs to go. And so now we're going to pretend we're above that, Hunter Biden, don't. I don't think so. We're going to pretend that the effort to run a Ukraine Gate version of Russia Gate as a soft coup attempt against this president. I'm sorry. It's just unacceptable and they're not above it. They're not above any of us. We won't tell everybody that. Today is our first day of the first new channel on

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The Kurds, who fought alongside the US against isis now horrific reports of atrocities committed by Turkish fact fighters on those very allies turns out that ABC News, which is one of the biggest news operations in the country, aired footage of what they claimed was a frontline battle explosion between Syrian Kurds and the invading Turkish military. Unfortunately, it was really from a nighttime machine gun demonstration at the

Knob Creek Gun Range in West Point, Kentucky. So, I mean, we all make geographic errors, but as those of you're listening to this show no doubt are already aware, Knob Creek Gun Range in West Point, Kentucky is quite a ways away from the front lines of the Turkish Syrian fighting in Northern Syria or Kurdish fighting in Northern Syria. That's that's an issue, that's a problem. How could this happen? You would say, well, there there of course that as

there's no dispute that this was a mess up. But then the issue becomes how could they make such a bizarre mistake? And this is going to tie in a second to the way the media is covering everything going on in Syriah right now. It's because anything that looks like it's mayhem and disaster and terrible right now is going to be put on the air, is going to be shared with the American public because it is viewed at as damaging for Trump. Any bodies, any any mayhem,

anything bad that is happening in Syria right now. The media has set this up so that is Trump has greenlit the invasion of Syria by the Turkish forces, and it's a desa everyone knows is a disaster, also terrible. I'm here to tell you it's it's not the disaster they're saying it is. And I think in the end we'll see that Trump was right in terms of strategy. And I know that there's a very few conservatives even agree with me on this. I think Trump is right,

and I will tell you why. But but first I would just note that here we have a circumstance where

you have fake news effectively happening. Now they'll say it's an accident, fine, but once again, it's a major error of fact that happens to occur in a way that if it were true, it would have been useful for the Trump is terrible rat that the media's obsessed with right here, A huge explosion and all this terrible stuff happening on the in the Kurdish Turkish fighting in northern Syria right now, it turns out it didn't really happen.

I would just note the following for you that the Syrian Civil War, which is what is still going on here. This is a civil war in a country with multiple factions inside the country, really dozens of factions inside the country vying for power and control. It is a place that involves foreign foreign governments taking sides and what then has become a proxy battle on Syrian soil. The Turks,

the Russians, the Iranians. Then you can't even name all the different foreign actors that are the Israelis occasionally show up and blow something up. I mean, a lot of people are very involved in what is going on here. And you also have a Sunni Shia schism that is the backdrop of this. Remember the all white minority in Syria that the Assad regime is a part of is Shia.

The majority of the anti Assad fighters are Sunni Arab and including many Sunni Arab jihadists and groups that are either directly or or indirectly affiliated with the Islamic State in al Qaida. So that's what's that's what's happening in this country. The Obama administration was leading on the Syria question for the international community. Over the course of I think it was let's say seven years, six or six or seven years, depending on how you calculated. But for

almost the entirety of Obama's president. He's certainly all of the second his second term, Syria has been a disaster. You had half a million people and it's just an estimate killed in the Syrian Civil War. And you have seen more outrage and dismay from the American journo establishment in the last seventy two hours then you saw in the seven years before it, where Obama was the guy

calling the shots in Syria. Notice how little coverage you saw, I would note of the fall of Rocca, the destruction of the Islamic state, things that happened while Trump was in office, the eradication of ISIS or the near eradication of ISIS. That yeah, there were news reports on it, but it was never You never had anyone from the national security establishment going on TV and saying, see, Trump does know something about this. Trump did have some idea

of how to make this all stop. But now that there's a problem, now that there's an issue, everyone is viewing this as clear evidence that the president has no idea, what's going on? He's reckless destroying everything, and that's also just not true. The Vice President spoke out on this in a number of fronts. Vice President Pence, and for example, here's what he had to say about the US position visa. As I've been telling you, the Turks are the ones

causing the problem here with our Kurdish allies. The Turks the ones you were saying we're going after them, and they don't have to do that. They could not do that. So why our administration, Why the Trump administration is being blamed for this is a question that I don't see nearly enough people attempting to answer. But here's what he Here's what the Vice President says about the conversation with Turkey.

Play eleven please. President Erdwan reached out and requested the call, and President Trump communicated to him very clearly that the United States of America wants Turkey to stop the invasion, to implement an immediate cease fire, and to begin to negotiate with Kurdish forces Syria to bring an end to

the violence. They're saying, cut it out, saying that what the Turks are doing is opposed by this White House opposed by the Trump administration, and Turkey is showing us as I have been saying, they're not really an ally. They certainly shouldn't be a NATO, but they're not really an ally. The Turks do not do what is helpful to our interests in cases where yes, they have their own interests. I understand that, but they don't need to be going after the Kurds like this right now. They

don't have to be doing it. There's not some imminent danger to Turkey from the Kurds, but they are highly sensitive to this issue, and you know, this gets back into decades and decades of fighting, and so they don't want to listen to us. There are sanctions now against Turkey, so we are taking economic action, economic action against the Turks against what is at least still officially a NATO ally.

Here's what the Vice President said play twelfth. Please, the sanctions that we're announced today will continue and will worsen unless and until Turkey embraces an immediate cease fire, stops the violence and agrees to negotiate a long term settlement of the issues along the border between Turkey and Syria, saying you better negotiate its use fire also is going

to be economic pain for the Turks. So good. This is the right move for the administration, and this is something that everybody needs to understand is being handled in a way that I think he's responsible for this White House right now, given the realities in the ground. But I want to step back just from the because the storyline is that we told that we basically told the Turks to invade. That's not true. We didn't tell the Turks to invade. We knew the Turks were planning. I'm

probably doing this. We've been asking them not to. But Trump wanted to move US troops out of the way because he doesn't want to get in. He doesn't want them to at some point they'd be in the middle of this. People think that fifty US soldiers we already had the Turks fire, they say, accidentally in the vicinity of our soldiers. At some point, US troops are not enough to deter these factions from going after each other.

And then and then we start getting involved, we start getting deeper than The national security establishment in this country does not want to learn the lesson of the last twenty years, which is that we do not want to be in Muslim majority countries in the Middle East or South Asia, that do not want a US military presence there, that are in the midst of fighting, that have major problems with terrorism. We don't want to be in charge of rebuilding their societies. We don't want to be in

charge of placating their various factions within the population. We're done. We don't want to do it anymore. And that's why I just note with some with some agitation there's this, the way they're reporting on this is to just all make it about how much these other factions are gaining and how much of a win it is for them. Here's the New York Times front page today, Russian troops

move in as US troops exit Syrian region. The Russian Defense Ministry said that its military police were patrolling territory between Turkish and Syrian forces, and then right below that, Russia savers US missteps in Syria and sees his opportunity if we're gonna talk abou Russia savoring missteps in Syria. Russia completely outplayed the Obama administration on this issue and managed to save the There was a time when Assad really looked like he was going to be He was

gonna be done. He was gonna get Arab springed, if you will. It was very a very close fought thing for a while, but then the Russians came in, the Iranians came in, and they propped him up. They backed him up when it was absolutely critical for the Assad regime to stay in power. But now we're being told, oh, look at all this, all this bounty that has been left for the Russians because the Trump administration has moved some US troops from this border region. Okay, well, now

the Russians are going to be dealing with this. This is not some area of great strategic interest to the United States. This is not Oh no, they've seized these oil fields that will be funding their government forever, and what will we do. We'd rather have these other, these other players in charge of this territory. We don't want to be the ones that are policing this. We don't don't want to be the ones that are keeping these

combatants from each other's necks. The Syrian government has moved into some of these areas, and I've been saying, nobody wants to say this, nobody wants to admit this out loud. Assad has won the Syrian Civil War, his regime endured, he stayed. That was the plan all along. There is no plan, realistic plan for him to be gone. There's no international pressure to speak of that's has a prayer of having a Sad stepped down or anything else. No,

so the Assad regime is staying. So given that they're staying, would we rather have Assad trying to prevent the resurgence of Ices which is anti Assad? Is you know, the enemy of my enemy, my friends, you gotta remember it. So now we got the Russians, we got the Syrians of the Assad regime rather and the Turks all staring at each other across the battlefield, and we don't have US troops that are right in the middle of this, and we're being told that this is a huge loss.

Now what we want is these other players to take control of this area. Let the Russians try to figure out how to keep the Turks from fighting with the Kurds from fighting with the Syrian national government. Is it going to be something that works out well for no, of course not. I mean, the Russians are brutal and they've been bombing. They bombed civilians indiscriminately in the Aleppo campaign, and they've done all kinds of things in Syria that

are horrific, but it's not our fight ultimately. And people say, oh, but there's gonna be a resurgence of ISIS. Yeah, maybe, if there's a resurgence of ISIS, we'll have to deal with it. But there's never going to be some certification. There's no international bodies, there's no group that comes together says ah ISIS is finally gone. ISIS is the jehottest ideology in a region that has been riddled with extremism for as long as anybody can remember. You can argue

stretching back for centuries, really over a millennium. If we're really going to talk about it, there's going to be extremism there in some form for the foreseeable. There's still Alkaidi to the Arabian Peninsula operating in Yemen. There's still Boko Haram in Nigeria. There's still name your you know, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and Abu Sayf and the Philippines.

If you have these terrorist groups all over the world, do we all say, oh, no, but we need to be there because no, I mean, we maybe help the host government try to deal with it a little bit. But we're not leaving a thousand troops everywhere where there happens to be the possibility of or an ongoing jihadest threat. We'd rather work through allies, partners, or even enemy states that just happened to share our interest in suppressing that

terrorist entity. We should be honest about this stuff. What is the I keep saying, what is the alternative? All these people are talking, We're gonna leave. We're gonna leave US troops in this part of Syria for the next decade to what end. There's not going to be a political settlement. There's no there's no negotiating with the Assad regime over this. This isn't critical territory for them. It's

not like they can't function, their government can't function. We're going to operate an independent Kurdish Statelet what right right on Turkey's border in Syria? We're going to be in charge of that. What was the what was the game plan here? Oh, negotiate some kind of a political settlement. This is what people say when they have nothing else

to say. There wasn't gonna be any political settlement. So look, I know I've got a somewhat alternative or contrarian point of view on this, but also spent a lot of time in a rock, a lot of time in Afghanistan thinking about this, working on the stuff for the CIA. I know these arguments. I've seen what happens. No one saying that that Trump is the most eloquent in making the case, but he understands get out, the mission is done.

That's the lesson that we should have learned in Afghanistan and did not, and I'm hoping we've learned it now. For Syria. We are in the fight of our lives. Everything is on the table in twenty twenty. They think so too, because they think if they lose in twenty twenty that they're gonna have to the rules are gonna be fair, and they're never gonna win again. And they're right. If we win in twenty twenty, they're done forever. But it's scary for us too because if they win, literally

it could be the end of the world. Literally, it could be the end of the world. That there probably could win. That's that's really all I have to tell you about the Democrat debate tonight. That's Tom Steyer. The fact that that guy made a billion dollars is stunning. Just goes to show you. You give me a total political nincome, poop and make a billion dollars. So there's that. There's plenty of those running around. Uh yeah, the world

might literally end? How how is it possible? I can't exaggerate how much the Libs and the left exaggerate in these political discussions because they're saying things that, well, how do you go beyond the world will end? If your political party wins, the world will end? Is there anything more terrifying than that? Or is there a level? You know, can you take the dial to eleven? Is there is there anything that's that's bigger than the world will end? Of course not. This is why they when I say

these people are shrill hysterics, I mean it. And that's really the that's the Democrats slogan for the night's debate, vote Republican and the world will end and you hate everything and you're terrible. Well gee, that's really that's really helpful conversation, isn't it. Lives among the militant secularists are many so called progressives. But where is the progress? We are told we are living in a post Christian era.

But what has replaced the Judeo Christian moral system? What is it that can fill the spiritual void in the hearts of the individual person, and what is the system of values that can sustain human social life. The fact is that no secular creed has emerged capable of performing the role of religion. This is not decay, this is

organized destruction. Secularists and their allies have marshaled all the forces of mass communication, popular culture, the entertainment industry, and academia in an unremitting assault on religion and traditional that he is, Bill Barr, the Attorney General, is an excellent lawyer, but he's also as we just heard, and I would really recommend that you go if you have the chance, and watch or listen to that entire speech that he gave earlier in the week. He's also somebody who really

understands the spiritual crisis of our current moment. You have a left wing in this country that as I know, there are a lot of Democrats who they think of themselves as very religious and very spiritual. But the leadership of the progressive left, as he says, what progress have they made in spiritual areas other than the concerted effort

to destroy religion. The leadership of the left is atheist, at least in their policies, in their vision of the role of government in people's lives, and the leadership of the progressive left also views Judeo Christian values as not just in anachronism, but a threat, and threats must be dealt with, Threats must be destroyed. You can't allow that to continue on. You can't have an ongoing in the background possibility of a resurgence, let's say, in American culture

of Judeo Christian values. I say, I've always been and I'm honest with you about who I think is impressive and who is not in this administration, and who I believe has competence, and who is a buffoon, because unfortunately there have been a lot of those in the Trump

White House. Bill Barr is a very smart guy, and he understands what's really going on here and the point about pop culture being marshaled in a way that the forces of the left in pop culture are specifically actively working toward the destruction of what had been the moral fabric of this nation. You see it happening all the

time all around you. Left never takes a position that at least not not in recent memory, that Christian beliefs, Christian values, Judeo Christian beliefs and values should be supported, should be treated with any not just not deference, any respect. And the moment that I think really will stick out in a lot of people's minds was when Beto O'Rourke, who is clearly a man who is trying to punch

way above his weight in any presidential contest. He's just not like that, like smart, really, but he's just like really into himself and was like born to do this, and so he thinks he should be president. But when Beto said that churches that advocate for, say, traditional marriage, should lose their tax exempt status, he was giving voice to what the progressive left believes in this country just

has not been willing. They have not been willing to openly take that position because they don't want to suffer the political consequences. But that's not the same thing as rejecting this. That's not the same thing as saying that it should never happen. They're waiting for the moment in time when they can do it without fear of reprisal. And Betto really just gave away the game a bit early on all of this. And that's why I think now when we have these these conversations about is what's

the difference in the left and the right. The American left wants to put the government in place of God. You can still have your private God or gods, you know, whatever, whatever that may be, or you can still worship Mother Earth in private. Well that when they actually want as a function of public policy, because climate change activism is the religion. Why why is climate change activism catching on

so much? Why do so many people react as though they've been personally affronted, They have been as human beings, they have been undermined, they've been assaulted by the questioning of what is inherently a scientific debate. Why do they get so mad, call you a deny her even sometimes publicly say that you should be banned from raising doubts

about climate change. This is all straight out of a true believer of a religion, and a religion that has not matured to a level where it has its own sense of purpose and it's it's sense of its destiny such that it doesn't feel the need to be constantly forcing people to go along with what it says or else. But climate change has been catching on so much because there is a spiritual crisis in the country. Why do

people why should we What do we exist for? Oh? Sure, we exist because we want to be woke, We want justice, social justice. Of course, we will not rest until transgender athletes can compete against women in every sport, at every level, all the way down to grade school. These are all political purposes, but that doesn't really give people enough meaning.

No one person is necessary for any of that. We can exist because we're part of some great collective, which the left certainly believes, and that collective action is a motivating force in our day to day lives, and that we should just take satisfaction and pride in being a part of the great mass that is leveraged by the apparatus of the political left in this country to achieve certain ends. Yea, you know, part of that, part of

that entity, however you want to describe it. That's not enough. Ah, So you need something that is truly existential, a fight between good and evil, you know, between heaven and hell, between God and the devil. But you can't actually use

any of those things because that's religion. So where do you come up with now, Oh, well, humanity will go extinct unless we harness the collective that I was speaking about before and understand that that that our purpose as human beings now, according to the climate change activists, is not a relationship with God. It's not achieving our spiritual destiny of trying to become good people that are worthwhile and that do God's will here on earth, and none

of that stuff. That's all like Old Testament, New Testament, you know, you know whatever, it's ah, we exist for the purposes of saving the future generations of this planet by empowering a super government to change every aspect of our life, to stop putting CO two, which is less than one percent of the APT sphere in the air. That's why we exist. That's shallow stuff. It's also not true, but we'll put aside the scientific, the scientific gaping holes

on all that theory. This is why it's catching on so much now. It is a religious belief for people who think they're too smart for religion. I think I said that recently on Fox and all media matters, and all these groups got all upset because it's true. If it were silly, if the people that we're so into climate change. Weren't offended by the truth of the statement.

They would ignore it because of who would care? But what I say is true, and what the Attorney general here says about the forces the militant secularists of the left, they view this as the ultimate spiritual battle of our age is to eradicate spirituality. The ultimate moral quest for the progressive left today is to troy the moral teachings that have been the bulwark of much of human civilization

for millennia. Now destroy all that kick at the load bearing walls of Judeo Christian Judeo Christian ideology, morality, ethics, kick at the load load bearing walls of Western civilization, and see what happens. This is what the progressive left is doing in this country, or this is how they're fighting,

this is what they're striving for all the time. We can sit back and allow it to happen and wonder why there'll be not just lost generations, but perhaps lost centuries, perhaps a new dark ages of militant secularism descending upon this country and many others with it. Or we can say, perhaps there is wisdom, there's wisdom in Judeo Christian teaching worth fighting for as a matter of public policy, not just as personal spiritual belief. I think the Attorney General

is really onto something. I think he knows exactly what he's talking about here. I wish he would run for something. You know, what I'm concerned about is an impeachment inquiry that's moving forward, that's denying the president and his administration due process. If we want to exercise oversight, which is our responsibility in Congress, you don't have to label it

an impeachment inquiry. If you do, I certainly hope that Speaker Pelosi and Leader Hoyer will put a vote on the floor of the House and just like the three other impeachments in our nation's history, to ensure that the American people know where each and every member of Congress stands in moving this inquiry forward. Otherwise we're just having committee hearings and people coming in and directing our own oversight. Yeah, they're manipulating this whole process in ways that couldn't be

any more obvious. They're weaponizing this whole impeachment inquiry mess against the President of the United States in ways that are dishonor us, that are unfair. No transparency, all this secret stuff going on, and but you know, think about what the real play is here, Adam Schiff and his shifty Democrat colleagues. I should be more clever than that, but it was close enough. They tell us that they have to have secrecy, they have to protect these witnesses. Oh,

we could never find out who the whistleblower is. Oh good, heavens not until they sign their six figure book deal and get on the speaking circuit. That then we can know who the whistleblower is. Oh maybe, and perhaps after the next election then you'll definitely, I think, find out who they know who the whistleblower is. This person's not going to stay secret forever, and by their own choice, I would say that they want secrecy until they don't.

They want the protections of They want the protections of the process, but not the protections for others in the process that come from transparency and accountability. So what we have here, my friends, is the Democrats showing us who they really are on this process and what they're really planning to do. They don't want people to know what's going on behind closed doors, but then they'll have a

very clear series of leaks. Most recently leaks involving the testimony of the former US ambassador to Ukraine, a series of leaks, So information can certainly get out from behind closed doors, but we can't have open access to any of it, so we can't really know what we said. We can't know who was asking what and what the games are the Democrats are playing here, which is why I have to say a representative Matt Gates, when he calls this a clown show, is most certainly onto something.

Play clip nine, please, So this morning we see further evidence that Adam Shift's clown show of an impeachment proceeding continues. Adam Schiff lied when he said that he and his team and not had contact with the whistleblower. He lied when he read a false transcript into the record as Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. Indeed, and doesn't get much better after that, impeaching the president for this Ukraine

Ukraine phone call. Some people have started to catch onto this because I know that you know you deal with this initial as a conservative, as somebody on the right, you try to assess things as they are, not as you wish that they would be. That's the emotionalism of the left. But when something like this comes up, you say, well, hold on, maybe you know did Trump? Did Trump really make a mistake here? Did you do something bad? A lot of people on the right that I know, I

think fell victim too. Well, if so many people are so outrage about this, there must be something wrong. More are starting to come around to my opinion, which is people do things for a personal benefit in politics all the time, and that's why we have to have very clear lines separating out what is corrupt from what it's just politics, because otherwise things can get very messy very quickly.

You know, you can accept a million dollars in cash for signing a bill, but there are a lot of ways if people can funnel cash to you for doing what you want or what they want you to do as a politician, that are totally illegal. And so just because the president would benefit politically if there was an investigation of Joe Biden and his son going on in Ukraine, it does not mean that that is illicit or illegal. Sorry, there's a there's a legitimate basis and this is why

all along haven't I haven't moved from this position. There's a legitimate basis for inquiry into the dealings that the Biden's had in Ukraine or the Obama administration, and if that happens to upset Democrats, that's just too bad. We see how, we see how the Democrats are investigating everybody and anybody whenever they want and not apologizing at all. So get ready tonight for I think I think a lot of I think a lot of Democrats actually are going to be on the same sheet of music here

in this debate. They're going to say, and some of you will be watching the debate probably as I'm as you're hearing this, but they're gonna defend Joe Biden on the Ukraine thing because that's that's a liability for the Democratic Party. That's a bigger thing. Corruption isn't just about Joe Biden. Corruption is about the Democratic Party and the Obama administration, which is still held up as without scandal.

Forget about Benghazi and Fast and Furious and the IRS targeting remember the Remember when the IRS was targeting the opponents of Barack Obama's administration. The thing that completely happened on the record, we know it, Andy, I'm going to prison for that. Anything really bad happened to anybody as a result of that. Nah in election year, by the way, in an election year, you have the irs going after Obama's political opponents. This is just this is what happened.

But we're supposed to be outraged. We're supposed to be outrage. Oh and they said it was it was just decisions made at the field level. You know, its decisions made by the field offices. It wasn't anything from up top. Sure, but Joe Biden asking for some kind of investigation of I'm sorry, Donald Trump asked him some kind of investigation of Joe Biden, Hunter Biden. That's considered to be the worst thing that anybody's a worse than water gate, which is a phrase that is so abused. It really now

that has no meeting. It would have to quickly be worse than worse than Watergate or else nobody will pay any attention to it. Here's a Senator Amy Klobischer, by the way, she's gonna If you're looking for somebody's gonna break out tonight, I think it might be her. Actually, media is trying to set her up for a big run here, and she's definitely in contention for a vice presidential running slot. I think in this they need to appeal to Midwest the crazy libs on the coasts. Here's

a klobaschart talking about why impeachment exists. Play six. We literally have a president who is using immigrants as political pawns, belittling people who don't agree with him, destroying our democracy with dark money and voter suppression, and allowing a foreign country to make mincemeat of our democracy. And by the way, if you want to know why we have impeachment provisions in the Constitution, look back at what James Madison said

at the Constitutional Convention. He said that he feared that a president would betray the trust of Americans for a foreign power. That was the reason he gave, and that is why those proceedings have begun in the House of Representatives. Destroying our democracy with dark money. She says, how like, what all these charges, all these these phrases that are trotted out, They're sounds so profound. It's just all sound and fury signifying nothing, my friends, But you already knew that,

which is what the Democrat debates tonight will be. Donald Trump in twenty sixteen said he was going to make America great again. And what was Hillary Clinton's response? America is already great. Remember that, and that did not work. That was not the right answer. We have to acknowledge the depth and the severity of the problems that are racking our communities. But then we need real solutions that

will actually improve our own lives. Donald Trump got some of the problems right, but his solutions were the opposite of what we need. I'd still tell you I think Yang and I know he probably hated what he just said. That's fine, because I think the President has shown us that he does understand some of the solutions, because look what's been going on in the country, Look what's been going on with the economy. But Yang and Tulsi Gabbard are people who the Democrats that they cannot accept them.

You know why, because there are reminders that you don't have to be a sanctimonious, shrill, pandering lunatic to be a Democrat, or maybe that you shouldn't have to be those things to be a democrat. And the reason that Tulsi and Yang are so upsetting to the democratic establishment

is that they're a reminder of what could be. Tulsie and Yang are both individuals that I disagree with on a whole range of issues, but they seem like decent people who are trying their best and who are willing to listen to the other side, which separates them from the rest of the Democrat crew. Tom's I cannot believe Tom Styer is going to be on that stage. Just a climate change radical, that's what he is. I mean, he is to climate change what you know what al

Qaeda is to jehotism. I mean he is a client. He is a hardcore believer, and yet he's gonna be I think guy's worth a billion dollars. I don't even want to say. You know, he's got plenty of money to buy books and actually read them, but he'd rather just talk about how we're going to save the world from CO two. Do you have a Corey Booker who is at this point, I think he's really playing for

a VP slot. The media loves him, there's all this there's always this very fawning support from the media about about him, but it just never really translates. Uh. Kamala Harris totally underperforming in this election cycle. Yang is Beetiger in California, her home state. Bernie just had a heart attack, folks, so well, you know he's not up for this. He's

too old, he's not up for this. I'm sorry. I know, we're you know, we're supposed to think Bernie's this cuddly fellow and it's all gonna be fine, and he's a cuddly comi and it's gonna think the money from the rich people, because it's the pool people. And when the rich people have enough money, the pool people could know that they can enough money to who and nine tax worth that's not that high the billionaires. You know, the whole thing, right, we know, his whole his whole stick,

the whole spiel. It's just it's not gonna work. And then you have Biden, Biden running around trying to convince people that he's not part of really a world class grifters scheme with his son. Not quite at Clintonian levels, but it's still it's still certainly high. And you know the problem with Biden is people ask the question why, and there's never a good answer why Joe Biden, because he's not Donald Trump. That's not enough, not even for crazy Democrats, really, well for some of them, but not

all of them. Elizabeth Warren, Wow, you know she was a she was a school teacher in the Midwest, and then she became a professor of law Harvard University. And you know what needs to happen in this country. We need we need the big money and politics to just go away. You think there's al this is. It's like America is being hectored and lectured by a really annoying kindergarten teacher all the time or a librarian who's just no talking in the library and makes it a really

bad environment for studying. That we got Yang, who Yeah, I don't make fun of Yanks. Yang's cool. I think Yang's all right. I don't I don't really have and I don't like his ideas on policy for the most part, I think that the universal basic income is a terrible idea that would just be uh. It would just result in fifty one percent of the country voting themselves more universal basic income all the time, which is not going to be good, not gonna be good for anybody. Then

you know what to think about Beato. Who is the worst? The worst of all of the counternates right now is Patu Rourke. And then you had Kloba Shar. I have to work on my Klobishar. She kind of sounds like this she's from a Midwest state and the Democrats need her support. And then you ohen Castro is still in the mix. I didn't realize that. Castro perhaps most famous for his suggestion that taxpayers fund the transgender Sir, I'm sorry, fund the abortions of transgender illegal aliens. Thank you for

that contribution to public discourse, Julian Castro. Thank you. That's your Democrat field tonight, folks. So as you are listening to this, you may be a bit ahead of the debater. It might be a bit after definitely worth watching the buckster do his tweet thang during the during the debates. That'll be fun, for sure, if you can check that out. And I think that if you're asking, if I'm asking for, it's fun to throw predictions out there because if I'm wrong,

we'll just forget about it. But if I'm right, I'll play it back for you in the air. I think you're gonna see Klobascher have a good night. And no matter what happens, the media is gonna say this standout is Lushapith Warren. Oh gosh, am I really gonna be the next president of the United States? Yeah? Maybe, folks, Maybe Hey, Team buck it's time for roll call maxbook dot com slash buck sections that will pick off the work call tonight. We also have Team Bucket. iHeartMedia dot

com if you want our email address. That is how we roll John kicking it off tonight, Hey Buck, got a story, might want to look into reporting on fake news. It should be breaking everywhe it's barely getting any traction with the mainstream media. I'm not surprised. Over the weekend, ABC got caught red handed when they claimed they mistakenly aired a video at a machine gun range in Kentucky, saying it was from the Turkish offensive in Syria. They

even called it slaughter in Syria. The clip aired multiple on multiple ABC shows before ABC pulled the video. The machine gun range is called Knob Creek. If you have any questions, please let me know. Keep up the good work. Shields high, John, Well, John, thank you, my man. As you probably know at this point, we did talk about that on the show, and I even told you why.

I think, Yeah, it was a mistake. They didn't mean for it to happen, But the climate for such an egregious error to happen is enabled by the desire to run with any story that is damaging to Trump as quickly as possible. No need for fact checking, no need for diving into it beyond that. Michael, hold on, let's go here, Tim, Tim, Sorry, Michael's didn't come up on the screen. Here, Buck, Your Warren is getting pretty good, but you need to add the annoying wavering that she

has in her voice. For Trudeau, just take your current Warren, drop it an octave and throw in some Canadian pronunciations. Do Trudeau by doing Warren but lower octave and Canadian pronunciations. That might be that might be closer than what we do right now for Trudeau, which is a fake accent for him because he does not sound as cool at all. But I like it. Nonetheless, maybe we should say that I am justin Trudeau, was brother Jean Pierre Trudeau, the

true power behind the cicerone in Kinada. Yeah, we have to create just a random character. It's like to keep doing a stupid French accent. That might be kind of fun. Monsieur Trudeau, he's time for you to go. You should not be the Prime minister off kinda da because singing in an accent. Really, I mean, we could probably do like a whole holiday special. It's like you're taking everything people complain about and you're putting it into one jingle bells.

Trudeau smells, Oh, we do this all day. That's what we'll be doing holidays when we take off a special. Buck sings to holiday hits. Calnder via a Leisha Birthward have a holly jolly Chrishmash. I could do it, we could. We could make the Bernie. Oh we got Bernie Sanders sleigh bells ringing in the You know Bernie Sanders would sing dradeal dradeal dradel produce Sir Mark, well he would. Oh yes, I forgot huge fair point. All right, Kristen

is next here. Um, I heard you say today that the day for Pluto, but you didn't give the name of the channel. Two forty eight is the channel. Two forty eight is a channel on Pluto TV. Um, there we go. Please do check it out, folks. It's fun, by the way, it's not you know, you should watch the first, First, and foremost, which is our new channel

on Pluto. But you know there's there's like lots of stuff on Pluto as so it's a great app to have and your number one destination on the Pluto TV app should be the first me my Man, Jesse Kelly. Other fantastic people are soon going to join the First Revolution on on Pluto TV, but we cannot name them quite yet, but they will be fantastic. We have we have all the we're getting. We are actually bring out all the best people, all the best people. Don't worry

about what Trump says about the best people. We're bringing on the best people. Mark Right's bark. Happy Columbus Day. Oh wait, there's a push to be rid of Columbus. Be careful what one wishes for. Does that mean no more Columbus Day parades or Columbus Day sales? Can't really change another name because without Columbus it would just be another day. Yeah. Well, they're trying to say that it

should be Indigenous People's Days. So I don't think that's going to catch on because it's the day that right, it's that it was picked for Columbus. So I don't think that no one anyone's gonna be on board really for switching that over, or at least not necessarily. And there were people that were throwing paint red paint on Columbus statutes, so forget where that happened. It's so stupid.

You know, we should all just understand that every single culture, and every religious group and every ethnicity, judged by the standards of today, in the fifteenth century, would have been xenophobic, racist, bigoted, and evil, okay everybody everywhere. There was no like tolerant by the standards of today. There was no tolerant culture. There was no you know, multiculturalism and diversity, these things. You had absolutist tribalism, religious wars. I mean, this is

what was going on. So why are we just gonna be This is why I brought up what was going on in the New World before it became the New World. You had Native American tribes warring against each other, taking over other tribes, enslaving other tribes, murdering each other. I mean, this is human history folks everywhere. So why do we pretend that, you know, oh, we can't celebrate this culture

or this individual because bad things happened. You know, look look at this stuff, and Muhammad was a war lord. Does that mean that Islam is now completely you know, beyond the paliph us to talk about I'm just I'm asking, I mean, why is why is that? Okay, Mohammed was uh you know, had there were captives of the of the earliest Islamic tribe, the Islamic faith who were murdered. I mean all kinds. Anyway, you know, we can talk

about this stuff all day. But I'm warden Roll called I'm getting fired up late in the show, Wayne Buck, thank you for your incisive analysis of politics. I need to ask you, have you heard Dana Lash is Elizabeth Warren? It's really it's the best. I mean, I'm gonna have to hear it because i don't know if it's better than mine. I'm just gonna you know, and I love I love Dana Lash, But is ear Elizabeth Warren better than mine? That is a question for the ages we

will have to see. Have you heard her? Elizabeth? Ward? You look at you're moving over here to tell me you have no just doing work. Oh, you're just working keeping the show in the air, doing that thing I do. Please keep doing that. It's helpful when we have a show that is still in the air. But yeah, maybe maybe Dana and I can have a Warren off. Wow, Dana, I would like to challenge shoot, who a Warren versus Warren.

I'll have to invite her on the show just for that. Yeah, we might, we might might have a conversation in Warren warren Ese. Warren is, Um, we could do that. Let's see, we've Douglas writing, Buck, why isn't the renaming of Columbus Day to Indigenous People's Day a prime example of cultural appropriation? Douglas, the answer to your question is that it is impossible, according to the social justice Left, for Western for people

to appropriate Western European culture. Appropriation is only one way thing that can only happen when people who are in a position of power over another people take their stuff. That's what they would say. The same way that there are many people on the left who now argue that race is m is only possible when a group that generally or systematically dominates another group engages in negative behaviors

toward that group. But a group that is, in terms of intersectional dynamics, the the oppressed cannot be the oppressor, which is also, by the way, nonsense. But nonetheless, this is what people say. I'm just telling you what they say, just telling you what's going on. Hey, Buck, Tom pe here, love your post and your broadcast appearances. Keep up the good work. Well, Tom Pete, thank you so much, my man.

I appreciate it, you have the family my warm regards, and I appreciate the kind thoughts about what we're doing here in the show. Irene, very good assessments of Biden and Biden Junior. It drives me crazy that the dim Democrats cannot see the hypocrisy. All right, I am with you on that one Foe show, Alan, hey Buck. Why aren't the famous people who were on the board of directors of tharn Nos being talked about since they were

not qualified to understand what Tharonos was doing. They were just as guilty as Biden son of not having the qualifications. I'm guessing there are a lot of people on Tharnos board that have no qualifications outside their contacts. Well, Alan, I mean, I think you can make the argument that a secretary of state gives our former secretary of state gives a certain degree of gravitas and also useful business connections and perhaps even strategic insight. You could argue those things,

but that's different. That's a different situation than what Hunter Biden would be, which is just a guy who's related to a guy who who's all those you could arguers are all those things, but yeah, company boards. Look, there are ways that people pay people off without doing the bag of cash under the table and board seats is very good way to do it. By the way, there's a sketchy Ukrainian company out there that's looking for somebody to sit on the board for a fifty k a month,

buck Sexton. This fantastic option. Fantastic option for the board seat. Talk to you tomorrow's team, Shields high