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the media. And they, of course are pointing to Trump supporters after last night's riley in Florida as the reason for this rise in concern. We'll talk about what's really going on here, and also the latest from the Muller probe and the possibility of it getting shut down. That and we're coming up on the buck Sexton Show. This is the buck Sexton Show, where the mission or mission is to decode what really matters with actionable intelligence. Make

no mistake American, You're a great American. Again, the buck Sexton Show begins. It is a text, no, it won't. Just to give you a sense as to what's happening right now. You can hear there is a forest of foods and other chance of this trunk crowd here in Tampa, Florea. They're saying things like CNN sucks, go home and fake news. Well, obviously all of those things are false. We're staying right here. We're to do our John. They're not all rally to

all the reviewers here tonight. But I think Washington is so anti Trump and the liberal media is so anti Trump. They don't understand what's happening out there. Let's just give you one example, sanctuary cities. Let let's let's let's cause for a second. Welcome to Bucks exit show. Everybody. Uh so you had you had a cost to last night there at the route. Look, I I have I have so many thoughts on this. Well, I think it's funny that people are chanting CNN sucks and go home CNN

and CNN is fake news. And their response to this is that those things are not true. It's like, well, it's really a matter of opinion, dude. Um, But what ended up happening here is that there was a lot of a lot of focus on this last nd the rally. Bubbaly Trump did a phenomenal job at the rally last night. He's incredible as a live performer. He is a force of nature. He is unlike any other unscripted people say, oh,

bood Obama. I'm like Obama could give a compelling left wing Democrats speech with a prompter that he had practiced beforehand on and somebody else writing it for him. But yes, he could deliver that effectively. All right, I'm not gonna say whereas Hillary can't even do that. Ah yeah, I'm really got a prompter it's just horrible, right, it hurts your ears. You don't want to see it. It's not good. Trump just gets up there and he just lets it

ripped for an hour. It's it's incredible that this guy does this and he's he's making all these points and he's really getting to get the crowd that energest. You know, I'll say this, I do it a lot of different kinds of media. There's a different energy when you're in front of a live crowd like that, especially a really big crowd. I don't care if you used to speaking to millions of people on TV or millions of people

on radio. It's a little bit, there's a little it's a little more intimidating, isn't the right word, But the energy is different. You gotta bring your a game. You know, there's there's no hiding whateveryone's in the room with you. You know, you can't you can't cut the commercial break what everyone's in the room with you, or in the in the arena with you, as the case may be.

But here's what you get. You know that this this martyrdom complex that CNN and much of the mainstream media have was on display last night and You're getting a lot of this in the follow up to it, uh, And I want to break this down for you because it is symbolic or really emblematic of what they still don't get. Let me tell you the real situation here. Okay, Jim Acosta, by the way, I don't know him really from sing and I never met him. I just know his work, so I don't know him personally, so none

of this is personal. There's some people see Ann that I know personally, and I tend I I avoid uh unfairly criticizing anyone, but I particularly look. I'll tell you if I'm friends with somebody, I'll say I'm friends with that person, and I generally won't go after them, even professionally, because I feel weird doing that. And I think that's a tough spot for some some people in the commentary business to be in sometimes. But at least I'm honest with you about it. There's only few people see Ann

feel that way about. They're a handful. Uh. I don't know what cost him. I do know that he's become a almost household name for people that watch TV news, if not a household name because of the Trump opposition, he is better known wealthier, and it's gonna be able to I know that you don't want to hear this, but write his own ticket after this administration, go wherever he wants to go, or get his own show at CNN because of Trump. Now, are we really supposed to

feel badly for him? I'm con used. Oh it's so hard, and they really just Oh, it's just this victimology complex that the left has. It stretches beyond identity politics. It stretches beyond you know, the way that they pander to different identity groups. Now it's the media has a victimology complex. I mean, the media thinks that they are being victimized by Trump. I keep having to point this out too, whenever they say something like, oh it's authoritarian. Look at

out trumpet so authoritarian. I want to say. Authoritarians have the whole media in their pocket. Authoritarians don't have the entire media against them trying to end them and take down their regime or take down their government. Obama was much scarier for press freedom than Trump was. That's what

they don't understand. Obama had the press doing his bidding, had the press asking questions when he When Obama would step out of line when Obama's Justice Department put a Fox News reporter in a in an espion indictment as a as a co conspirator, didn't charge him, but put him in the indictment. Yeah, the press corps, they made some noises about it. There's some of them who are like, well, this is troubling. They're calling Trump hitler. I mean, they're

saying that he's running concentration camps at the border. They're saying that he's a he's a fascist. You want to talk fascism. Obama's Justice Apartment was actually talking about journalists being criminals for doing their jobs. Use the ESPIONA Espionage Act more than every other administration combined. Yeah, they covered it, but they covered it. Was like, well, let's for us troubling questions about press freedom. I'm not sure Obama's the

best messenger for this press freedom all with trumpets. He's a fascist, he's a Nazi, he's hitler. And some of us understand the difference here, folks, people listening to the show understand the difference. But you know CNN that they forget all this stuff now and we're supposed to buy that that Trump is some terrible enemy of the press, because he says that the press of the enemy of the people. He says that large. I mean, look, he's he's not joking and then it's haha, but he's he's

trolling on a little bit. He's goading them. Oh and Trump gives all kinds of access to the press. He'll sit down for interviews with you know, Maggie Haymerman of the Times and these other people who all hate his guts. I'll talk to them. Unlike, let's be very clear about this. Trump has never, unlike Obama, really thought seriously about and taking actions that made people believe that he would prosecute journalists for doing their jobs. Obama, that was a real thing.

You know, with Obama, that was something you had to really consider because he had the whole press in his pocket. So there wasn't going to be this real rallying around. Oh that's right. Fox News, which was singled out, it singled out in that d o J indictment under Eric Holder's d J and also singled out by Obama for

ridicule and contempt on a regular basis. That's right. Now, CNN is getting a little what they used to, you know, dish out to the other side or seeing how the other side had to take it, and they're all where, pull over the we ambulance please. And then there's a there's a bigger issue here too, which is you had these uh, you know, these journalists last night who recovering by the way, there's their security there, they're all on camera.

Nobody hit anyone, Nobody threatened anyone that I that were aware of, like threatened actually harm anybody, you know, physical violence. Nothing happened. That's not the case. And we talk about what happens to conservatives and Trump supporters, that's not the case when you look at I mean that CNN. Uh. And you know, I know Dana pretty well from from working with her at the Blaze. Um. You know, I don't know her really socially, but I know her professionally.

And I mean with what happened to her at that CNN gun rally thing was was an abomination. You know, people were menacing her as a woman who walked in there. And and that audience has been has been fed this line by CNN, by the analysts they put on TV, by the so called anchors were really just pundits without the the goal to really fight and stand up for their positions. Right there was hide behind this little facade. It's cowardly. That's the problem with the CNN approach to

this stuff. It's cowardly. If you want to be a pundit, be a pundit, if you want to stand for if you want to be an activist, if you want to stand for issues, If your reason for getting out of bed every morning is you hate Trump, at least be a man about it, or be a strong woman about it whatever, you know what I mean, at least be honest about what's all. You know, We're just I'm just gonna sit here and tweet snarky stuff to undermine Trump

all day. And I'm just gonna do one story after another on Michael of Nadio and Stormy Daniels and Russia, Russia, Russia. But but oh no, I don't. I don't. I don't want to. I'm not I'm not partisan. I don't want to have to defend anything. Oh don't play it on, back off, don't be mean to me. It really is cowardly. I mean, they could start to say at the cowardly News network. I wrote this piece for The Hiller in the week you know, I does not make me popular

among the swamp set. I'm like this notion that journalists are under threat in the era of Trump. It's just garbage. It's preposterous. They were so desperate to make that terrible shooting in Baltimore about Trump, But that guy was a deranged maniac who had been coming after them for years before Trump was even in office. Nothing new with anything. And that and one other incident, which was if something you remember, if you forget exactly what it was. The

guy felt like he had been passed over. It was essentially a workplace it was workplace violence. But the guy televised it. It It was a journalist to forget in North or South Carolina. I think, um that was a few years ago. Those are the only incidents of more than one person being harmed doing journalism in this country in the last thirty years. A total of eleven journalists have been killed in the United States for doing their jobs

since nine team doing their jobs for any reason. By the way, so then, and you know that this includes writing stories about somebody that don't like it includes being in a dangerous neighborhood. Eleven journalists have been killed in this country. Now, I wish the number were zero, but let's not all sit around and do this. Woe as me. Journalists in America under threat? You know who was under threat? And this is one I want to spend some real time digging into this because I think that I think

this is I think this is important. I think it matters because the other side doesn't get that we're not giving in on this one. We're not playing their game anymore. You know who was under threat under the Obama administration. Cops And you can say, oh, buck, but no, that's not that's not fair. And well, no, the Black Lives Matter movement, which President Obama was supportive of, which is Department of Justice was supportive of, which the media was

fanning the flames of all the time. And I went to those rallies to cover them as a journalist I saw what was going on there, or to cover them as a pun it whatever I heard the chance. You know, I remember pigs in a blanket, fry him like bacon, and I remember what we want dead cops when we want it now. I remember all that, and the media was, oh, you know, man, racism is real, so you know, we can't really you can't really call this out and police

officers were murdered because of that rhetoric that led. There was a direct connection between a widespread narrative that the media really created with the help of activists, and the Obama administration and the White House. Obama was there. You know, if I had a son, he would he would have looked like Trayvon. You know, Obama did not hold back. You know, the whole Mike Brown thing and everything else.

There was a lot of support given for this idea that cops are racists who are hunting down black men for sport. That was what Black Lives Matter protesters were saying. And I know because I heard them say it, so I've been through the stuperilde. Let's not what they were No, that is what they were saying. That is what they were saying. And police officers were murdered because of that.

And CNN was the worst offender in giving that narrative, giving that storyline, oxygen, giving it more room to burn, throwing gasoline on the fire. They were doing all of that, and now they want to lecture us about creating a hostile environment. Now now they want to tell us, oh my god, the protesters. You know, there's there's more on

these books, but I've really had enough of this. I don't want to hear any more of the journalists, these these you know, cosseted, overpaid, wimpy milk post stealth liberals that go on TV and get all all all this acclaim and yeah, you know, people say, don't talk about George John cocktail parties. It's such a cliche. Okay, fine, I'll talk about color rama cocktail parties, right, I mean the fancy day, I'll talk about what goes on and Martha's Vineyard and Nantuckett and the Upper West Side. And

that's actually where all these journals live. And they're being treated as heroes among their friends. Their paychecks are only getting bigger, even though their audience is getting smaller at the NIT. But they know they'll be taking care of any risks, risks please. Everybody's watching them, was like, oh, thank you for standing up for truth against Trump the tyrant.

Oh my gosh, you're so brave. And you know, cost is just he just this is this is theater now right, we all know that he but others do it too. You know, you can't say CNN sucks? Why not? Why not? I remember covering Occupy Wall Street. As I said, and if you had a Fox News, if you had a Fox News uh signed microphone on up, if you'd signed itge that said Fox News up, people would people would get up in your face and threatened to yell at you.

And nobody was, Oh Fox News. It's so sad. And that's one network, the only network, the only network that represents the other fifty percent of the country that you think could have maybe more than one network, and that something you're gonna say, like news Max or in America. But if you look at the rate things, folks, there's one network in this, Fox News. So I'm not done with this because this got this, This got further coveragetay

in the White House press conference. I mean we we really should, we should really air this out, We should really dive into this a bit. I'll talk to you more about policy and immigration and all that other stuff later on on the show. This media fight right now is the center of Hey, we'll all talking about Muller probe and this Manafort, the Manaphort trial. This is like a It's a glorified tax evasion case, that's all it is.

I've got some thoughts on that I'll share the two eight four or four to five eight four four nine Buck as you can tell a little fired up today, team, I don't want to hear from you. Send me or not send me, call me, or send me a tweet if you want at buck Sexton, I'll go back. But I think Washington is so anti Trump, and the liberal media saw anti Trump don't understand what's happening out there. Let's just give you one example, sanctuary cities. Eighty four

of the American people believe sanctuary cities increased crime. Now every Democrat in the Senate co sponsored Senator Einstein's open border bill. There's no state in the country we're more than people favor open borders. So that the Democrats are talking themselves out on these radical left agendas, which in the Washington Post, the New York Times, and CBS News

all sounds terrific. But I think when you get down to September in October, we're going to discover that there there's a red wave, not a blue wave, and that people are going to repudiate the kind of radically streamism that we're seeing emerging in the Democratic Party. There is this extremism, I mean new Newt has been it's been been you know when new it's in the sweet spot. He's pretty good and uh, he's he's been making a lot of sense these days. Well for a while. Now.

You know this, this notion of sanctuary cities. I talked to you about it yesterday. There is really no good reason for this. There's nothing about sanctuary cities that respects the rule of law. There's nothing. It's just pandering from Democrats to constituencies that are in the country illegally. This this is speaking of collusion. Sanctuary cities are how the Democrats collude against the rule of law. That's what's going on. And I think people need to know that and that

story I told you yesterday. I really want more people understand that that because of these sanctuary policies, the Immigrations and Customs enforcement, criminal investigators who are handling drug trafficking, uh, child sexual exploitation, human smuggling, you know, crime crime, really important issues of criminal justice and keeping communities safe, they don't get cooperation from local law enforce And that was

told me by Obama's acting Ice director. Okay, so this is not I'm not looking at this on some blog somewhere you know that this guy told me to my face and somebody who was generally, you know, sympathetic at least to what Obama was trying to do on a lot of other immigration areas, but on this one, he's just like, that's not a good idea anyway. I just, you know, this is where we were as we're getting

closer to mid terms. I just hope the American people remember that abolished Ice was for about a month a rallying cry of the Democrat Party until they realized, oh my gosh, that's crazy. We probably we can't fool centrists and independence into voting for us if we're calling for abolishing ICE for doing their job. But I do want to get back to what happened at the White House today in response to CNN's ambulance session. Uh, this is

gonna be good, Sarah, how could be Sanders? She had a home run today in response, So we'll get to that. He's back with you now, because when it comes to the fight for truth, the buck never stops. Is the White House willing to say right now, in view of what happened with one of our TV colleagues last night, that it is wrong for his most vocal supporters to be menacing towards journalists doing their jobs in a situation like that, or in any situation, nobody was last night.

They were trying to prevent a broadcaster from getting his broadcast out and yelling at his network sucks. Is that right or wrong? I'm I'm sorry, what was the first part of your question? I said, no one was being violent last night in terms of hitting anybody, and no broadcaster was broadcasting state secrets. They were trying to do stand ups at a public rally, and he had people trying to yell over them, preventing them from doing their jobs and yelling that their network sucks. On live TV.

Support that or not. They really want to see if they can get on the record the White House calling out Trump supporters for saying that CNN sucks. That that seemed to be a quite quite a focus today for a few minutes there at the White House Press conference. By the way, I'm a believer in get get rid of the get rid of the cameras in the White

House press conments. You know how this goes? By the way, folks speaking of the swamp and things that you learn when you're down here, you know, they are signed seating, which is very very hierarchical in the White House Briefing Room, the White House Correspondence Association, you know, the people who are in charge of the White House Correspondence Dinner. Those uh, those elitists, throne shiners, they're the ones that decide who gets to sit where in that room, and they're very

involved in all this. And as I've said to you before, you know, I think the White House Correspondence Dinner, it's just the whole thing, is Ikey. I went many years ago, really my first year in media. I didn't know any better. I was like, yeah, I'll go. I was invited, I'll go. Uh it's it's first of all, it sucks. It's not fun, and you're around a lot of people who I don't really want to hang around, and it's really slow and boring,

and the food is bad. So what's the point. I went to a a couple of parties thrown by some other media entities that were after parties. Those were fun. I mean, did buck Gingham style? Can neither confirm nor deny. Yeah, Gettingham style? That was awesome? So where was I on this? That? That will give you a sense of how many years ago. It was too there was there was Gangham style folks. I think there was actually a video. I don't know, somebody somebody at BuzzFeed may or may not have Gangham

style buck video. Uh So, but back to the the guy saying that, oh no, look, how there's so mean to them? Ah, well, you know what. I want to give you my analysis. But first here's here's Sarah Houckeby Sanders, who's they're they're trying to box her into a corner. And I think she's at the she's kind of at the screw it part of this whole thing, where she's like, you know what, if you're just gonna take cheap shots at the president of the the time, we're gonna give it

as much as we get. And uh. Here here's how she responded to this line of question in play six team. Please, the President condemns and denounces any group that would uh and violence against another individual, UM, and certainly doesn't support uh groups that would promote that type of behavior. We've we've been clear about that a number of times, uh

since the beginning of the administration. On the second part of your question, Um, the President, as I just said, does not support violence against anyone and or anything, and we've been very clear, um every single time we've been asked about that. When it comes to the media, the President does think that the media holds a responsibility. Uh. We so fully support a free press, but there also

comes a high level of responsibility with that. The media routinely reports on classified information and government secrets that put lives in danger and risk valuable national security tools. This has happened both in our administration and in past administrations. One of the worst cases was the reporting on the US ability to listen to Osama bin Laden's satellite phone in the late nineties. Because of that reporting, he stopped

using that phone and the country lost valuable intelligence. Unfortunately, it's now standard to abandon common sense ethical practices. This is a two way street. We certainly support a free press, We certainly condemn violence against anybody, but we also asked that people act responsibly, uh and report um accurately and fairly. Yeah, that this this didn't all just start today or last

night at the at the Florida rally. You know, I'm sorry to have to keep repeating this because it's I know, it's uh, it's one of these events that we all wish we could kind of forget. But which political party and under which administration? Was there a mass assassination attempt of congressman against right? Which political party almost lost a bunch of its congressmen to a mass assassination? And did you know did get some of our people did get shot? Right,

some congressmen did get shot? But where was that? That's right? It was Republicans of the Freedom Caucus. And who shot them a Bernie bro a Democrat while Trump's president. So the only act of truly heinous political violence at that level against elected officials that has occurred while Trump has been in office has been against Republicans. And yet we have to sit around and get lectured by CNN and their ILK about how the president occurred his violence, the

president coured his violence? Here? Here, here's little test, folks, find me a news story of somebody who got punched in the face, had a drink poured on them, got slapped around because they had a Obama Biden T shirt on for all eight years of Obama in office. Maybe you'll find it, I mean, but you're gonna have to look, and I don't know if you'll find it. Good luck,

you probably won't find that. Now if I ask you, if I ask you to find an incident of a Trump supporter getting hit that way, literally hit getting getting assaulted, you'd be like, well, Buck, which week you want last week? Or you want the week before that, or you want the week before that. You know this happens, it happens to our side. Okay, I'm the one who has to walk around this city and when people see me, if they recognize me from what I do, which, by the way,

you know, I do conservative stuff. So I'm not saying that happens a lot. But if it does happen, or if I see a member of Team Buck, that's always exciting. But I have to think of myself. Okay, well, am I gonna have a problem here because what the mainstream media has been feeding its audience since Trump won is a steady diet of they don't care about murdered children, which is horrifically ironic because of course they're the pro abortion party, but they're saying, you know, children that get

killed in mass shootings, Republicans don't care about it. That was the whole tone and tenor of that that hate fest that they said was a town Hall. I mean, CNN should be ashamed of itself for that town Hall ashamed. You'll notice, by the way, all these anchors they talk tough on CNN. When was the last time you saw one of them going to a an unfriendly political environment and try to defend their reporting. They don't do it

like cowards. They snark on Twitter and then they go in their their their little privileged purchase and that they don't I've by the way, I've invited CNN anchors on this show lots of time never come on this show. I don't think that I won't. I mean, don't think that I don't. I just stopped because I kept getting told a little corporate won't allow. A corporate won allow? What's because they're cowards? Do they really want to have

this debate? Here's how they debate with a CNN anchor would go on this network with me who who spent real time there and knows a lot of people on the different shows, knows their producers, knows some of what these guys and gals are really like. By the way, which also they don't like. You know, I've gotten a little bit of a peak under the hood, and it's not good. Uh. I'm would start with CNN. Is CNN a partisan network? To CNN have a point of view,

the CNN a Democrat aligned news organization. They would all say no, so they start from the premise of they start from a lie, and then the conversation would just devolve. But that's they're still you know. I mean, if you had MSNBC on, they would say, yeah, we're you know, no, we're journalists. We're trying to print the facts. But you know, yeah, we have we're we're progressive or you know, we're I think they would say that. Maybe not, and maybe they're

just as delusional. And I just don't know them as well because I know CNN stuff better. But that rally they had or they're not rally, uh whatever. The town hall where Dana lash showed up and Marco Rubio and Marco Rubio, I don't know what he was doing there. I don't know why he thought that was a good idea, Mark Rubio, I gotta tell you, really disappointing. You know, I think there was some raw town There was obviously

some raw talent there. The guy got elected U S Senator itself made I mean, I still have respect for him. I'm not. But in the era of Trump, just you know, I don't need to hear the little model u n speech about how he knows he knows some things he's been briefed on about this or that national security issue, like let's actually get on board and get some get some wins on the board for the Republican Party here at home. And I think on that issue he has

been more than lacking. So I am just I'm disappointed in a a little little Marco. That's an aside, but I just want to put that out there. But CNN had that, and then they also allowed one of the survivors of the Parkland shooting to go on TV and and say unchallenged that people that don't agree with his myriad gun control ideas, you know, we gotta listen to eighteen year eighteen year old now explained to us all gun control his mirroad gun control, I deals, don't care about dead

children and have blood on their hands. That's what was being said, with anchors just nodding enthusiastically. I mean, Rachel mattaw was was fan girling when the Parkland kids came. I mean, I remember we played the audience like, oh my gosh, I'm so you know, this is so amazing. You know, it was of course all the theater for her audience too, because they were the the political tool

of the left for the moment. But then they weaponized that tool by having kids, one kid in particular, David Hogg, go on TV and go after people, and go after their careers, go after their sponsors, really trying to take them down. I really trying to hurt people, get people fired for disagreeing with them on policy, and call them heartless, you know, heartless people with with blood on their hands,

who don't care about dead children. And and and now CNN wants to lecture us all on discourse and civility. Do you think that they've spent a lot of time uh at at CNN or any of these other networks, any of the non Fox networks focused on what really goes on a campus. Now, when I when a college uh invites a conservative speaker, I don't want to talk about that. I don't want to talk about that issue. Do you think that they really cover how much security

is needed for some of these speakers? Of course not. And I mean I just say this to you, and I was saying before about Obama Biden. You could walk around any city in America for all eight years of Obama's presidency with an Obama Biden t shirt on, and you were either going to be a d percent safe or a percent and get a high five from other leftists you walk around. I will tell you this, I

would not be comfortable. And I know I look young, but you know, six ft tall, two hundred pounds, I would not be comfortable walking around Washington d c uh wearing a Maga hat for let's say a week. I want to stay not be comfortable. I don't mean I mean that, I know that I'd be looking for problems. I know that somebody would say something, they'd start something with me. And I also depends on what part of the city we're talking about, too, So that is reality.

Jim Acosta with cops everywhere on TV, with people yelling you suck, well, that's also reality. But that's not a threat. Nothing bad is gonna happen to Nothing bad is gonna happen to see ann They're going to continue to be, you know, an overpaid legacy media institution that has all kinds of access and gets its way all right. And this is just complete and utter slap sism. They're obsessed

with themselves. They're dishonest and how they present things. And for the very people who have done the most in this country to course in the political discourse and make it seem acceptable to really debase your political opponents, to drag them on Twitter, to make them hated, to make them untouchable, to make them less than dirt in the eyes of fellow Democrats. Right to just take Conservatives and Republicans and trash their character in their lives, get them boycotted,

all that stuff. For those people now to play oh wait here, we are just be night to each other. I just I don't want I won't have it. I won't have it. And they won't even go out and make this case publicly. They'll just go on friendly media outlets or people that really, you're right, thank you for thank you for holding the administration to account, thank you for speaking truth to power. Just punks. Really, it's just punks, and the American people are onto the game. I hope

that look. I hope see it changes. It wasn't as crazy five years ago. It really wasn't. It's gone into some other gear. It's some other level of wacko eight four eight to five eight four f Buck, we have much more show. I'd love to hear from you. Give me a ring, will be right back. Are we got lines lit here in the freedom hunt? Let's take some calls Herb in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Hey, Herb, Hey Buck, how you doing. I'm good man, thanks for calling in. What's up?

She'll tie? Hey listen, um, First of all, let me assure you that you could come to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, any day of the week, and as an analyst, uh, I believe you will appreciate this. You could bring your bright red maga hat and any day of the week and you could disappear in the crowd. Well that sounds nice. I gotta go hang out in Harrisburg more. Absolutely, Hey listen, um, I can't believe these uh cry baby journalists are actually

whining about Please make them stop. You know, you can't send that reporter over to a war zone for fear that they might you know, how, Hey, stop shooting so I can do my live shot. I mean, come on, if you can't take controversy, you ought not be there to try to report on it. Yeah, and I would just point out not a single journalist. Not a single journalist has been uh physically assaulted at a Trump rally that I am aware of, not one at all the rallies.

So I mean, well, you know, I'm just presenting the facts. And how many rallies have there been, how many journalists have been to those rallies? You know, they tried this crap with the Tea Party to the Tea Party got together hundreds of thousands of Americans at rallies. How many people, how many Tea Party assaults happened? I mean, the worst thing that ever happened at Tea Party is, you know, somebody put something in the recycling that they meant to

put in the trash. I mean, that's it. And and yet they acted like the Tea Party with some sort of a you know, some sort of mob assault on American democracy. It's just crazy, man. The only the only assaults I ever heard reported at a Tea Party rally where a Tea Party attendees getting assaulted. That's correct. I was gonna say that there are some union goons that assaulted some Tea Party people. I remember that happened to Shields Higher. Thanks for calling from a Harrisburg Rachel. We've

got about a minute. Rachel from California, what's on your mind? Hi? So, um, I keep hearing, how are you talking about the media and how they just don't really have brains and the sense that they're just really But how much do you think that like CNN reporting and affecting the American people, Like, do you think that people actually listen to that and

agree with them and then do something about it? Because I know, like, do you have CNN on in the background, because I hear a baby crying, so that would make sense? Does the baby here Accosta's voice? I would cry too. But I'm sorry you're You're asking a serious question, and I'll give you a serious answer. Um, I think that CNN is poisoning the discourse and his poisoning dialogue. But I think that also their audience is dwindling, and it's down about twenty or twenty five percent year to year,

which in TV terms is big. And you know, they've got less than a million people watching, which when you compare it to Fox, you know, on on a good night Fox and some of its lineup will have three or four million people. I mean, on Hannity will have four million people watch the show. So it's pretty amazing, right, But yeah, I do think Rachel that that CNN is making things worse. Shieldsay sorry for for jumping in there quickly. Uh, team, we got a big second hour. We gotta talk about

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terms of its importance right now. I mean, this is there's so much focus on this whole manifort situation, and I think this this should be a snooze fest, folks, right, this should be a nothing burger with cheese? Perhaps care yeer pretty sure? Mike? What is the best cheese for a burger? We did not cord to this beforehand. No, No, let's just forget all about all the calls. I know people want to talk to you, but this is an important question. We'll get to the calls in a moment. Mike,

do you have producer? Mike, do you want to jump in on this one. What is the best cheese for your burger? Is the important question the folks need to know. The answer is I got with American. It's a safe choice with this audience. I see what you did there. No, well, I will eat any cheese anytime, anywhere too. I'll go American. Um. That was I'm a big fan of Um. Yeah, that's that's that's the good American. What do you Yarlsberg guy? There you go, Yarlsberg. I was gonna say, I think

the answer is Cheddar. I don't care that it's I think technically British. I think Cheddar is good. Wisconsin, Hey, Wisconsin, Cheddar. There you go. We didn't get John in on this from but I have a feeling he's a blue cheese crumble guy. You know he's he's secretly he's got some hipster in there. He likes a little blue cheese crumble from you know, the raw milk Commune. That's that's the

that's the way to get the blue cheese going. Anyway, important questions that we have to answer sometimes during the show. I just thought of that now, Manafort though whatever he likes the most expensive cheese. I did have to note that yesterday it came out that he bought a a fifteen thousand dollar Ostrich jacket, and that's one of the things in this Manafort trial that they're all focused in on. This Judge T. S ellis the third who doesn't suffer

fools lightly. He had to tell them to stop with just the the the the wealth shaming or really the bling shaming that's been going on in this trial. But I will say, an Ostrich coat, that's really something that's released. You know, you really need your Ostrich coat as you're driving around in your tesla on your way to your holistic life coach. So he's spent fifteen dollars on that, and the judge today in this trial, I had to

tell that prosecutors to lay off this whole thing. But you know you can tell the interest in the Manapoort case. This is your folks. This is very straightforward. The fairer thing is just an add on because that's essentially how Mueller justifies that this falls under his purview in some way. Right, the Foreign Agent Registration Act violation, which people don't go to prison for. Usually they just say, all right, you gotta register. I mean, it's kind of a you know,

you get a mulligan on this one. Usually it's not that big a deal, but they throw that in there because it at least explains why this is being even looked at by Manaford. But then when you when you go a little a little further into this, you see that, Okay, so this guy did all this consulting, and how many people even knew that until Trump? I think Trump tweeted this out today. Manaford had worked for a lot of previous administrations. Uh, Manaford had you know, spend time. By

the way, do we have the CNN sucks chant? John? I just want to have that handy just in case. But we have to listen to it. Make sure there's no there's no potty mouth stuff there that people are yelling about how CNN suck. One of the the music to my ears. I think I'm gonna you know, if we were still in an era of of ring tones, I think I have to make that ring That'd be great every time I get a phone call see you on

sucks Uh, good times, good times. I think for your new show intro, we should we should probably put it and then let me think about that. That that that's a bold that's a bold move, producer Mike to open the show sucks. I don't think they're gonna have me over there again anytime soon for a for a segment. I think you are going anyway, yeah, I will see the last time. The last time I was over there, a very very prominent get An executive looked at me like what and this was gosh, I don't even know.

This is over a year ago. What are you doing here? I was like, WHOA, what is that? I was invited? What do you mean? What am I doing here? You guys asked me to come on this thing. This is before Trump, but that was before Trump won. So the whole different world now whole different world. But then Manaphort trial, the guy is, you know, hiding money offshore allegedly right, it hasn't been proven yet, but it doesn't look good for him. He's hiding money off shore and you know

he's he's using it too. He's using that untaxed money to pay for things to support his lifestyle. Here it's a it's a pretty straightforward tax fraud case. And they're gonna really uh, they're gonna really nail him. And this is what they're going By the way, here's what Trump tweeted out. Um. Trump tweeted out that Paul Manafort this was earlier today. Paul Manafort worked for Ronald Reagan, Bob Dole, and many other highly prominent and respected political leaders. He

worked for me for a very short time. Why didn't government tell me that he was under investigation? These old charges have nothing to do with collusion, a hoax, that's true. The fascination folks with menaphort is they've just they've created this narrative in people's minds that somehow there's something Manafort Russia putin Facebook bought related that any day now is gonna come out. I'm telling you that's not gonna happen. You already know that's not gonna happen. But I'm just

reaffirming no way, no way. But this is really an extension of Trump' arrangement syndrome. And in fact, not not to get all all weepy and and Acosta like here, but I think it's really unseemly to see so many people reacting with glee to the fact that a a an American for the crime of hiding taxes from the hiding money from the government it's gonna spend the rest of his He's probably gonna die in prison. Now, he's gonna spend the rest of his life in prison if

he's convicted on all this. You know, he's got a family, you know, man of Ford probably probably has a dog, probably loves his dog. He's got a family, loves his family. I mean, you know, he's he's a person, and they're just they want this guy crushed. And it really reminds me of what happened with Scooter Libby in that sense. They hated Scooter Libby. Oh my gods, They're calling him a traitor and all this terrible stuff, and it was just he became the target of the rage that had

built up against the Bush administration. And MANA. Ford is now a target of the anti Trump rage. And I'm not saying Manafort. You know, with Libby, they just they just did him dirty. That's a whole different thing. But with with man of Fort, Okay, so the guy cheated on his taxes allegedly. I mean, it looks looks like you probably did. But that's what they're saying, cheating on

those taxes. You know, if I told you that somebody cheated on their taxes and you were sitting down and we're all having lunch, and he was sitting there with us, would you get up and leave? No, you probably say okay, that sucks. You know, you might you might say that sucks. You got caught, But you'd probably say, all right, you know, you pay your debt to society. You know, Okay, it doesn't make it like a terrible person. It's a crime.

You gotta you gotta answer for it. Fine, but not that big a deal in the grand scheme of things. And like the cosmic existential why are we here? You know, the the millions of dollars that Manaford didn't pay to the the U. S. Treasury makes zero difference to anyone, folks. I'm not justifying. I'm not saying you don't go to prison for it, but I'm just saying it really doesn't. You know, the victim here is the United States Treasury. And if you were to aggregate this out or not

or disaggregate this, I mean you'd see that. You know, Paul Manaford probably stole the equivalent of point zero zero zero zero zero one pennies from you or something, so I know he's gonna pay his debt to society, but it looks like he's gonna go to prison for a very very long time. I just find it unseemly and unnerving that people are celebrating this so much, like, yeah, we got him, all right, so he's a dirty tax cheat that really made Does this really make people feel

better about themselves at night? That this guy got nailed because he was foolish enough. And I've seen this with other people that got you know, they got close. It's kind of the Icarus effect, right, those of you who are Greek mythology fans, remember Icarus built the wings, got too close to the melted the wax, and the wings felled the sea. I wish do more Greek mythology on the show Man. That's one thing we haven't worked in

a while. But I've got my handsful now that I've committed to doing uh the Siege of Malta official Shields Shields High podcast, so that and and this month. I've committed to it, but cannot tell alive once he commits he has to do it. I just don't think this Man of Foord thing is is nearly as interesting as so many of my my media colleagues do. But that's because they view this as Manaford is getting the you know, the the two minutes hate from the mainstream media about Trump.

He's become the vessel for the scapegoat for anti Trump is um. And the fact that they've gone through everything. I mean, they rated his apartment, you know, the early raid in the morning, they got they used a key. They don't even know they got the key. I think that came up today. Uh, you know, the fact they did all this stuff, they went after him so hard, and they still haven't out on any Russia collusion. I think that tells you what you really need to know here.

I think that tells you that there's no Russia collusion to speak of. I don't have time to get into the collusion is is or is not a crime thing today because we did that yesterday. And I'm noticing that there's this shift, just mark my words on this. They're now saying, well, conspiracies a crime, and they're gonna try to play this game of collusion is a political offense and conspiracies their criminal offense, and they're gonna they're moving

the goalpost. So when they don't get conspiracy charges, they're gonna say, well, collusion is a political charge, and that's what we've proven, not in a court of law, but in the court of public opinion, as can only be shown in a mid term election. That they will say is a referendum on Trump and that if they win the House, they will then impeach him. Right, that's the whole playbook. I just took you through the Democrats playbook going into this midterm election, and that's what I reallys

the happening here. But you know, one thing that's come up a lot is the FBI's disparate treatment of threats to the Trump campaign versus threats to other campaigns. Why didn't they, as Trump pointed out, they didn't let him know that they were going after his campaign? Why is that the case? But in other cases they have the FBI did step it, notably with Hillary Clinton. We've actually got John Solomon, who's my colleague here at the Hill,

who's got a piece up on this. We're gonna discuss it with him now, burning up the charts, and everyone's reading this one said, WHOA, what's going on here? Why does Hillary get protected by the FBI when it comes to any Russian agent of influence? But agents of influence were encouraged almost it seems, by the FBI to penetrate Trump's campaign. We will get into that and uh much more coming up, teams, So stay with me. I don't know about you, but I end up checking way too

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Bouccina scandal. FBI could have prevented it. John, thanks so much for joining. Glad to be here. All right, so John, tell us what happened here. We've got a tale of two Russian Russian agents as you start out here, Yeah, that's exactly right. So when people look and say has there been disparate treatment in the FBI, bias or just playing different approaches, I think this is one that's going

to stand out to people. In Tourni eleven, there was a Russian spy ring led by a woman named Anna Chapman and uh as soon as she activated, she was a sleeper selling as soon as she activated, and one of her agents, UH, Cynthia Murphy was her American name, went to try to get to towards Hillary Clinton and get some political connections. A donor, Allan Patrick off close to Hillary Clinton. The FBI rolled up the whole ring. They took no chances, they didn't want any compromising of

US officials. So that's that's the That was the gold standard of how the FBI dealt with Russian spies or Russian influence agents. Now, as fast forward to two weeks ago, when the FBI suddenly arrested a woman named Maria Bettina.

What I reported this column is that the FBI knew since and maybe even earlier, that she was a Russian agent of influence, that she was trying to make inroads with conservative politicians, that she was having access to people who had security clearances, governors, members of Congress, former national security advisors, former ambassadors. And yet, unlike the Anna Chapman scenario when they were going after conservatives, the Russians weren't

rolled up. Maria Bettina had free access for basically four years UH to to make influence and and UH access to the conservative network of money donors, big big presidential candidates, even President Trump, and they didn't roll her up. And people are asking the question, well, why do you roll up one when they get close to Hillary Clinton, and you don't roll up the other one when they get close to conservatives, and uh, the FBI doesn't have a

good answer for that. Yeah, it seems to echo what Trump has said about how if there were problems with the Russians trying to penetrate his campaign, why was he as a presidential contender, Why wasn't his campaign informed of it. It seems like there's a double standard or john for what constitutes an actionable national security threat versus what the

bureau decides to let slide or or let play out. Well, I say in here that one of the interesting things that this these two cases happened under two separate FBI directors. Bob Mueller rolled up the Anna Chapman ring, and Bob Muller was a product of post nine eleven. He was the first FBI director after nine eleven, and he preached

that he was going to change the FBI right. He was going to make sure that on counter terrorism and counter intelligence they stopped worrying about prosecutions and they worried about preemption and prevention. You probably remember some of this when you were at the CIA, Buck that that the FBI was trying to transform itself. James Coby comes in, and I think he brings back to the FBI the old pre nine eleven sentiment. Uh, prosecution is the way we go. We get headlines, we get glory, we can

pat ourselves on the black. And the difference is that uh, Bob Mueller's team rolled up an agent as soon as they posed a threat to Hillary Clinton, and Maria Bettina has left to just run wild in America for four years. In fact, the government gives her a student visa after the evidence is gathered. The FBI sits on her for

eighteen months and watch what she does in secret surveillance. Uh. They allow the embassy in Moscow to take two congressmen to meet her in um in St. Petersburg, even though they have all of this open source intelligence of what she's doing. I think if you're Donald Trump and a conservative, you're gonna feel disserved when you compare it to the way Hillary Clinton's team got treated. And that that's the

real question. Then the question becomes why is it incompetence a change of philosophy, or was somebody in the FBI having a bias and hoping he could develop a case that one day would embarrass the Republicans. We don't know the answer. Why, you know, speaking of of the wire, why is the Boutina case not under the mull umbrella people that Yeah, absolutely. I think even Maria Bettina his

lawyers are wonder that allowed in court. I think that is a good question, which is if Bob Mueller's uh investigating a collusion in Russia efforts to influence the election. This is a woman that in sixteen had access to the president, his son, and numerous Now there's anything a llegs wrong by them, but numerous political leaders, numerous presidential candidates, Santorum and Governor Walker Uh. And yet through all that

there's no warning. And then afterwards it doesn't appear that the guy who's supposed to be looking at Russian election interference thinks it's a big deal, so he kicks it or allows it to go to the Washington U. S. Attorney's office. There's two theories of thought and people have talked to. One is he doesn't think she was a big deal, that this was sort of a low level, influenced peddaling scheme. Or two he sees some fault in

the FBI that he used to preach preemption too. And now they let this one go all the way through until they can make a great prosecution case, and he just doesn't want to be near it. But it's pretty clear, at least at this point, Bob Muler wants nothing to do with this case. The pieces up on Hill Dot TV, so folks can read it there the real Maria Bucina scandal.

FBI could have prevented it. Also. I managed to get in a question about this to Devin Newness, which we have linked into the piece you can see to give you a little additional context. John, before we let you go, Uh, what do you make of the referral to the Southern District of New York that Mueller's team made about some lawyers, but not just lawyers. The reporter on this in the little Sketchy one had been a counsel to Obama in the White House. These are very prominent, very connected. We

have very connected Democrat lawyers to Pesto, you know. And there's a possible Foreign Agent Registration Act violation tied to this. What's going on there? I think that uh, Special Counsel Mauler is trying to keep his investigation as narrow as possible. It's not going to be a kitchen sink. He is signaling it's not going to be a kitchen seink. He kicks Maria Bettin there, right. He kicks Michael Cohen to the New York District, a southern just go New York,

even though clearly Cohen might have some relevant information. He kicks these other lawyers who were working in concert with or had something to do with Ukraine at the same time as Paul Manafort. So he's clearly signaling, Listen, I got a very narrow mandate and I'm sticking to it. I'm not gonna get poked for expanding my mandate. I'm not gonna be Janet Reno and Ken Starr or Lawrence Walsh in the Reagan years. Uh this, I'm gonna get my job done as quickly and get out of dodge

as quickly as I can. That's the what my reporting indicates from inside his shop. And uh and so anything that's answllary that doesn't directly relate to his question. Uh, you can see. And today there's another development, right, the president's lawyers got information about exactly what Bob Mueller wants to ask about. It's not about collusion, it's about obstruction. They only want to ask about the firing of James Combe.

It appears that gives us a lot of guidance that Bob Mueller is narrowing down and maybe even winding down where he's at Hill dot TV. Everybody to check it out, the real Maria Bettina scandal. FBI could have prevented it. John Solomon is the author. John, thank you for joining to be with you back. The team will be right back. He's holding the line for America. Buck sex in his back and when not going to be reduced to their vision of America. We're not going to be reduced to

their selfishness and their isolation and their division. That is not who we are. We're not going backwards. We're gonna go forward. We're gonna stand, and we're gonna rise, and we're gonna resist this administration. We will not be diminished, we will not be demeaned. We're gonna fight back. But we are right and they are long. We're gonna protect our health care system. It's the best in the nation. And we're gonna treat one another with the love, indignity,

love and dignity. We're gonna protect our healthcare. We're gonna make sure that we only yeoll, because when we yell, we get a point across, and our faith New York accent comes across even more strong. Cuomo out. You know, healthcare, folks, is something that everyone's gonna be talking about now for the first time in a while going into the mid germs. That and I'm gonna say it, I think Republicans have done a a poor job um on on healthcare going

into the mid germs in terms of the messaging. You know, we had a poll last month year at the Hill a pull that healthcare was a top issue for voters, and healthcare is going to continue to be a top issue for voters. So, you know, here's the here's the bottom line, folks. Obamacare is a failure. Obamacare is not what was promised, is not what they said it would be.

And then they had to try and protect us from some of the crappier parts of the law at least to extend us extended out longer, so we would take longer to figure out what was going on. Um But I don't think you know, if I asked you right now, what are the Republicans, what are the Republicans offering when it comes to uh, healthcare. You know, it's not enough just to say, well, single payer is idiotic and we can't do that and it's too expensive anything else. Yeah,

that that's true. That is true, But we have to offer an alternative to that. You Now, we have to do something that's more than just point out that. Uh. You know, there are there are a lot of Democrats out there who don't know the first thing about anything. So you know, there are some areas where I'd really like to see Republicans take the lead. And this is one of them. Insurers there something that's gonna be double digit increases folks in premiums. Uh, So you're you're gonna

have a big premium hike. And you know, if we're if we're counting on people to remember what Obamacare did and how it drives premiums up and how it's terrible for the health care system, I think we may be very disappointed when the votes are finally tallied up in the midterm election. So you know, this, this is a problem. Uh. And there's some other areas of this. You know, Medicare party, which people say is great, but it's also really expensive. We probably want to rain some of that in and

figure out how to bring down costs. And oh, I had on Senator Ron Johnson today we talked about the right to try legislation. So that'll mean that now, if you really, really really want a drug that hasn't gotten all the way through f d A approval, you can do it if you can afford it. You've mind, some of these drugs cost several hundred thousand dollars. But you know, I just I wish there was a more cohesive message

because remember, they did not repeal Obamacare. They didn't even skinny repeal Obamacare, and that leaves open territory for Democrats to come up with a counter narrative about what's going on here, leaves open territory for people like Cuomo to be like, we love our healthcare system. When I go into a doctor, he puts the shiny metal thing on my chest and it is a little cold, but it allows him to hear my heartbeat, which is good because if my heart was not beating, I believe I would

have a serious medical problem. So that's what they offer you. You know, the other side has no has no solutions other than to pretend that gonna get you a single payer system, which would be absolutely ruinous. Um, but that leaves because the Republicans haven't established a cohesive narrative on

this one. You might have Democrats you start playing games with, oh, well, you know, I'm actually for your more choice in hospitals and blah blah, and you know, we'll work within the system and you know, doing doing a little sort of dance, a little shuffle in the middle between the issues. And you know, every every election is local, right, folks. This is when you get the Connor Lamb effect. This guy in Pennsylvania who if you look at me talking to

me like it sounds like guy might be Republican. Then he goes, well, I'm you know, I'm pro choice and pro union and pro Obamacare, and you're going down the whole list, you know, pro legal alien, the whole thing. So if they can pull that stuff off, you know, I I don't even know what is the what is

the healthcare healthcare pitch from the Republicans right now? They did not manage to repeal Obamacare, and I think that that is a that's a a big miss, and they don't have a clear plan They've gone with people, so that's one area of vulnerability. I've got to be honest with you, it's an area of vulnerability I think going into the midterms. It creates concerns for me um and and it could resulting because you know what happens if

they take the House. This turns into impeachment central. That's what ends up happening in d C. We're just gonna talking impeachment all the time, and everyone's gonna go into their corner and we're gonna spend essentially the next two years in a protracted presidential re election battle. Congress is gonna be largely irrelevant. Nothing is gonna get done, and that's why it's so important that the Republicans keep the

House and keep the Senate. You know, I'd also like to see them take some bigger risks on the legislation they're putting forward, But you know, I don't know these days. You know, you've got the Mitch mcconnells, the Paul Ryan's calling the shots, not not non occuraging. I we got other stuff that I want to hit, So stay right there, team. So far, the Democrats haven't given us any votes, and that's because they will do anything they can to not

help the Trump agenda. Brett Kavanaugh, highest education, best grades, best test best everything. They thought fifteen years ago he was going to be a Supreme Court judge. Look at Justice Gorsuch. How good is he? Not allowing these great people to serve that country. It's a disgrace. So Trump making a case for Cavanal last night, it is a disgrace. And the people who are opposing Cavanaugh just always end up looking one of my favorite words recently, un serious. Right,

they look buffoonish, clownish. What's the problem? Oh? The the the currently serving judge on the DC Court of Appeals, which is considered the stepping stone to the Supreme Court by most of who watch these things closely. And the guy who has the best legal pedigree you could possibly have, who everyone says is fair minded and decent and kind and good and brilliant, who Elena Kagan hired when she

was dean of Harvard Law School. That person is somehow unqualified for I mean, I I saw this video today, and I try not to be nasty, even about politicians. And I know I don't get personal, but I try not to be too full of ridicule and snark. Although sometimes I fail and you get Kirsten. By the way, can we John, should the name be Kirsten or Kristen? I think we can only have one. I think no, no, I'm not saying what is her name? It's it's she's Kirsten. Uh, Jilip,

Wait is it? I just messed myself up as a Kurston. It's the only execute failure exactly exactly. Uh but anyway, No, it's it's gosh. The point I'm trying to make here, John, is that there should only be one name because they're too close together and people get them wrong. It's Kirsten, Gil Gillibrand, Alright, but we can only have one of these names. It can't be Kirsten or Kristen or Yearston because like there's kids Yeerston, Nielsen or whatever. It gets

very confusing. Alright. Anyway, Jilah Brand, who is a Cenator from New York my home state, I guess not anymore now my home states. Technically this I'm I'm a technically a swamped while I was terrible, good for access, good for the show, but so swampy. But here's what Gillibrand said today. Just you know, I had to get into

talking points, let it rip. Help all of you stands up against having first step in actually overturning Robi Wayne, the first step in making sure women don't have reproductive rights in this country, the first step in making sure that women don't have basic civil rights and civil liberties. This is a moment where we all have to fight back. All of us have to be organized, We have to make sure we are hard. We have to reach out to all our friends and everyone we care about in

all things the States. This has to be something that we all stand together and fight against. Dutch Kavanaugh will be horrible for women's basic civil rights and civil liberties, and against what the heck is she talking about, folks, that's a sitting senator. Some people talk about her as a a possible presidential contender, although that's that's a joke. Can you can you imagine Trump against her in a debate? I mean, it's just not nonstarter. And I really mean

that she strikes me as a deeply unimpressive person. From all the things, all the speeches, all the interviews, everything I've seen this, I don't know what what there is here to get excited about. For for for Democrats, I'm even talking about how I disagree with her, but you hear the things that she says there, and this all ties in, you know why they don't want Kavanaugh? Why then Kavana is not the guy here the way reproductive rights? This is a an Orwellian term in the truest sentiment.

What what does this even mean? Why can't they just say abortion? If abortion is fine? Why can't you just say abortion if abortion is as I believe you can make a very clear case the single most important right to the modern Democratic Party, and the thing that they the thing that really defines the Democratic Party is that there's no room for pro life or is the Democratic

Party anymore none? Uh. People say, well, I'm personally pro life, as in a lot of ways, that's even worse to be personally pro life, so you know what what's ethical and what's not. Apparently, but then in your public life vote alongside the Nancy Pelosi's and the the abortion on demand all nine all nine months of her pregnancy crowd, this is what his issues where, you know, folks, abortion is there's not there's not a there's not a two

ways about it. There's not a you know, there's not some Oh, you know, it's it's this is just complicated. I mean, you know, it is a right and wrong issue. But but you'll notice the way she talks about it, and it's as part of her opposition to Kavanaugh. She's saying, oh, reproductive rights, civil rights, What civil rights does Kavana want

to take away from women? And a lot of us sit here and say, I don't even believe that it's the I don't even believe that it's the role of judges to to do the things that Democrats are worried about, meaning that they're supposed to rule the constitutionality of laws. They're not supposed to come up with new laws just because they like something or don't like something. So I also, you know that their fears in a sense give you

an idea of how Democrats view the Supreme Court. Their fears give you a sense of what what they would like to have and what they would have if they got one of their people in the White House. So I'm sorry the well in the way that's true, but also on on the Supreme Court, on the on the Supreme Court, So you know, I see this stuff about the capital is gonna get through, folks. I'm pretty confident

about it. And you know, Democrats, I think have already they've spent themselves to sugree or they're still so focused on anti trump Ism that all that rage and all that angst and anger and victory, all that they would normally ordinarily try to mobilize for the purposes of stopping a Supreme Court pick, that is, they don't have it because they're they're still all focused on Trump and Mueller and Russia and all this stuff. That's where they are

on this one. That's the the problem as I as I see it, um, you know, and then there's there's one other thing, by the way, and I have to do it with Kagan. I mentioned her before. The Daily Caller reported on this earlier in the week that Justice Kagan fears politicized confirmations are destroying faith in public courts.

I saw this tweet and I thought to myself, you know, this reminds me of the way the media views They never understand that you don't get to just pick the date when all consciousness begins, or you don't get to artificially say, well, I'm worried about what's happened in the last six months, and then the rest of us say,

what about the last six years? And this notion of a politicized confirmation battle first a lot of stretches back for decades, but it only really became an issue when liberals on the court started writing lass and then it was clear that progressivism in this country and the American left viewed the role of the Supreme Court as a super legislature. And then it became an arms race to try and get conservatives or liberals on the court. But liberals politicized at first, and this notion of a swing

vote as kind of the the balance. I mean, this is just this is a band aid on the overall problem. We shouldn't be we shouldn't be thinking about conservatives or liberals in the Supreme Court. We should be thinking about good judges who interpreted the law. And I have an understanding of the Constitution and some deference to pressident, but also understanding that the ultimately this is about upholding and

defending the Constitution via the law. And I just think it's fascinating that now that the political fights around the open over the Supreme Court, there's some liberals expressing regret about it. It's just because they're about to lose, folks. That's why they have regrets about it. That's the problem. And just like with with the media's I was saying, they they don't like all these attacks on the media

and everything else. That well, when they had a monopoly on the national conversation, which they did for many decades via the media, at least I'm not playing the media conversation. You know that that was fine. Now that's gone, and now they're worried about people not trusting the media. Okay, well, that lack of trust didn't come out of nowhere, just like our concerns about politicization of the Supreme Court didn't come out of nowhere. But you know, this is our

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do anything. The United States was allowed to truly get ripped off. But We're not gonna let that happen. I'm not like other politicians. You've seen what happens. I've kept my promises. They're not dumping so much anymore. You notice, and if they do, they're paying Tower four attacks. So you know what I say to that, dump all you want. I hope you dump a lot now. Thanks for our tariffs. Are steel workers are back on the job America and steel mills are back open for business. Trump quite a

rally last night in Florida, quite a rally. We we look. We've been talking about it, the dynamics between Trump and the press, but now people are getting a little bit more nervous about the possibility of a of a broadened trade war with China. Two billion dollars of Chinese imports, they're saying now, and this could start to bite just in time for the mid term elections, which I have

to say is it is a risk. You know, one thing though that you'll notice and and I believe a lot of people that have seen this Trump wave coming have understood this from the beginning, and it's it's at odds with much of the stuff you hear about politicians and how they should act and how they should be. Leadership isn't supposed to be a process of when we're talking about press sinential leadership trying to trying to establish a real change in direction on important issues to the country.

It's it's not about getting consensus and and polling in the media on your side. I mean, you you get consensus from as many of the American people as you can in order to become president. But once you're in that seat, leadership is not supposed to be putting your finger up in the air and deciding which way the wind is blowing and go with that. And on this issue of trade, uh, you know, my thinking has come much more around to the Trump point of view on this,

which is everyone agrees there's problems, especially with China. Every trade expert I say I talked to says there's problems with China. Everyone that I know who follows this issue, or even even in a every man sets right just from reading the newspapers, everyone understands China's problem for US UH and trade with China has caused problems in our economy.

I mean, if nothing else, the rip off of our intellectual property and some of the other things they're doing a really, really bad but no one does anything about it. No one does anything about it. And then Trump comes along and says, you know, we're actually gonna stop this. We're gonna hold the Chinese accountable for this. We are going to take action that will hopefully get a change in behavior from China. And they're not gonna like it.

And there could be some pain in the short term for US economically, and this is gonna be some rough seas. That's leadership, though understanding there's a problem, being willing to bear the costs of addressing the problem and giving yourself a real shot of fixing the problem. If it were obvious, folks, and I know you know this, and a lot of you are listening to the show, saw what was going

on with Trump before I did so. I I approached this with with some degree of humility because I've I have now seen I am I am a true believer through facts. I'm a true believer through reality on the ground, meaning that as I've seen what Trump has been able to do from the beginning, you know, and I've told this to friends and family mine, I'm like with every month, I'm like, Trump is even doing a better. Trump's even

better than I thought. And now we're going on eight months of that, so you can imagine around like, oh, Trump is even better than I thought. You know. I started out with all let's see where he goes. You know, it's amazing he beat Hillary and and I voted for him, and I told others to vote for him, and all right, I'm on, I'm on the Trump train. Let's see where

it can take us. And now I'm like up in the front of the Trump train with the engineers like choo choo baby, like a freight train choo cho you know, I'm I'm saying, let's go because I I see what is not just possible for him to achieve, but also who's against him and the lengths they're willing to go to look at how much we have to talk about the Mother probe and all this other stuff, and then on an issue like trade, my eyes have been opened.

You know, what do smart people say? Quote smart people, right, what do they say when when they're asked about trade, I'm a free trader. I like free trade. That's like saying, you know, I'm i'm pro I'm pro liberty. Oh what does that mean? You know? You yeah, I'm pro liberty. Your pro liberty. But that's not the answer to any question about liberty. That's not the answer to you know, should you be able to grow weed in your backyard? Well, i'm pro liberty. I mean, well that that's not enough.

By the way. I think the answer that's probably yes, you should be able to grow weed in your backyard. But that's a whole other discussion. I don't On trade. You just had this answer that was offered you, I'm I'm I'm pro free trade, you know, and that's what all the everyone looks around. Oh yeah, Trump comes along, They said, oh, he doesn't know anything, he doesn't understand. This is too complicated for him. And he's saying, well, no, actually,

free trade is not free right now. There are a lot of restrictions, there are a lot of tariffs, there's a lot of games the other side plays. I've been telling you about this, right, there's there's not there. There's quotas, there's percentages of the overall goods brought into the country. They're specific item tariffs where it's a percentage of you know, you pay a cost based on the on on the

price of the goods. I mean, there's all these different there's slowdown that they intentionally institute to give domestic production and advantage all kinds of stuff, and not just China's. China is doing it, but Canada's doing, the EU is doing a lot of people are doing it. So he comes here to shake things up. And I feel like some people, especially in the GOLP, they don't understand that

Yees shaking things up is uncomfortable at first. There is an adjustment period, there's there's a necessary adaptation that has to occur. And there's also the embracing of risk. Trump is embracing risk of there no question, and it might not work. We might get slammed in the mid terms. You know, if tariffs send up being a a big loser force in the short term and the economy terms. You know, this is not no one's offering guarantees here, folks.

The only guarantee is if you don't try to deal with China on trade, if you don't take the approach, if we've got to fix this, this is the status quo is not acceptable, then you'll be in a place where you're suffering the same problems you have. This Nothing gets better, that is, that's for sure, right Because if if you're letting somebody steal from you and ring this

ring the game, they're gonna keep doing that. That's the only thing you're If you try to stop them, you might not be successful, but if you do nothing, they're definitely gonna keep doing it to you. And I see how Trump has changed this changed this discussion such that now the so called smart sets like, well, I mean, yeah, you know, there's you're trying to as a problem and it's pretty bad, and you know, maybe there's something that

could be done here. So I just think that, you know, I'm not a it sound like I'm not like a trade expert like Ocasio Quartet style. I'm not like the expert on that thing or this other thing. But like I totally like want socialism, uh no, but really I'm not somebody spends all days sitting or sitting down reading long trade agreements. There are people who do that work it, various government agencies and probably some think tanks in the economic wing and everything else. That's not what I do.

But I see the argument he's making, and I think he deserves at this point, given the four point one percent GDP growth we've just had, given how well the economy is doing, giving that, given that wages UH have, wages as a percentage are up more now than they've been at any times since two thousand and eight, I think that he's bought himself the leeway to try this out and have our support as he does it. And and as I said before, it's also he doesn't He's

not taking a PLEBIS site here. This is not Oh guys, before I do this, I want to show hands. Do you think I should take on China and trade? He told us what the platform was, he told us what the agenda was, and those just voted for him and said, all right, let's go for it. Let's see what you got um and on this issue, I think he will surprise a lot of folks, just like I think he's gonna surprise people in North Korea. Although I've seen some of the troubling stuff in last twenty four hours about

them still building missiles. I'm not blind to it, neither of you. But let's see where it goes on this trade war. I hope that the timing of it is not the problem because the timing could affect the mid terms, but we will see. Let's talk about the border wall and the shutdown. I got some more on that, stay with me. Is the funding of the border wall going to wait until after the mid term elections? Probably, and

that's something we do have a disagreement on. And the homeland security won't get funded before the mid term probably not um but most of the government will be covered, and then at the end of the year, if we can't reach an agreement on that, we'll do what's called a continuing resolution for that little portion of the government spending that's left unpassed in individual bills. So you're not worried about the government shutdown because I have heard this theory.

I happen to think it's a good thing politically. I'm not doing good for politics. I'm doing it because it's the right thing to do. So I'm not looking at politics, but I happen to think that border security would be a good thing before the election. But there are many people within our party that are good, good people that like you, that agree with you on everything you say, but they'd rather do it after. They don't agree on

on doing it before. And I accept their you know, their opinion, but I happen to think it would be a good thing to do before. I actually think we'd get more and they'd be more pressure on the other side because we're doing it because the Democrats are not

giving us the votes. So the shutdown decision is going to come pretty soon here, and you're you know, you heard there that the two different sides that if you got one to get McConnell majority leader Merciable Cornell, and he's out there saying that that this absolutely, there absolutely should not be a shutdown. Not keep in mind, you know, Mitch is not he's not worried about his position, is not worried about his job, and you know he's a

guy who is risk averse on these things. Now. To be fair, Mitch is also he's he managed to hold you know, I gotta give there got some credit. I know a lot of people go and talk radio, they bash the majority leader because it's really easy to just Republicans. Yeah, Republicans let us down on a lot of stuff, but on some things, like, for example, not caving and doing the whole Merrick Garland thing. You know, Mitch McConnell held his people together. There weren't the defections that could have

gotten the Mitch Garland thing going. I mean Mitch Garland. Gosh, Merrick Garland. The uh Mitch Garland is somebody else, I guess, Americ Garland. And and as a result, we're gonna have Kavana on and I think Misch McConnell's gonna get having all through pretty quickly. So so we give him credit, all right. Fun, But you know, there's I think a bit of amnesia here, folks, there's a bit of amnesia about what happened, uh this past January with the the

Schumer shutdown. You guys remember that you remember the Schumer shutdown. Uh, well, here's here's a little bit of background. Uh. Mr Schumer should have remembered this from the Waltston Journal that at least in the short run, whoever caused the shutdown loses in Republicans. Senator Ted Cruz convence the GOLP House, it could defond Obamacare, etcetera, etcetera. Or Republicans picked up nine senten seas in thirteen House seats in mid terms. The

games were despite the shutdown, not because of it. Well, you know, he here's the problem with all this. I understand, this is the conventional wisdom, right, I understand this, But you know Schumer and those guys, they were threatening to shut down the government because they thought that they had the upper hand and we're told, oh, well, they they would have been blamed for it, so they stayed away

from it, right. But I think that maybe it was because it was on the issue of immigration and people don't want amnesty. They don't want the government shutdown for amnesty, and Trump was the x factor at all this. I think this can actually work through our advantage. You know, what is going to get people to turn out in the mid terms in competitive states. What's an issue that could really show where the Democrats stand versus where the Republicans stand. I have to say, I think it is

this issue. I don't think there's another issue that comes uh close to this. And that's why Trump is going around saying things about the border specifically play clip three. The evangelicals have been so amazing to us. They came out and they voted and double and triple the numbers that ever voted an election before. We love the evangelical for instance, if you want safety, if you want orders, if you want to have a country, then you need to go out and vote Republicans. That's right. There needs

to be a reason. People have to be told why they should take their time, why they should show up, and and and I don't believe that you know this. The whose fault is the shutdown? Is the question they always asked. They always say it's going to be the

Republicans fault. But on this issue, I think if we say that it's about funding homeland security and getting a wall, and and falling through a presidential promise when you have a majority in the House, majority of the Senate, the Democrats being obstructuredist on this one, I think that well, you know, look, folks, we're not gonna get a wall if it waits after the mid terms. I really think

that that's the case. And especially if the Democrats take the House, which all the numbers are said, it's going to happen. So fortune favors the bold. We can either try something here. We've had Trump be so disruptive, managed to beat the conventional wisdom on all this stuff time and again, and now the conventional wisdom is saying, oh no, no no, this time, this time, we're this time, We're really gonna get it. We understand this political moment. Don't

fall into this trap, don't make this mistake. And one, I think the media doesn't have the power that it has had in the past to assign blame over a shutdown. Uh. And too, I think that if Trump makes the case about why he is unwilling to remember, you know, he's unwilling to be a part of the Democrats doing business as usual, all this stuff, I think you could work. But you know, if I'm a betting man, I'm gonna

bet that they're just gonna go along. And I think that they're not gonna do the shutdown, and we're just gonna go into the mid terms and we're gonna lose the House. And you know what they're gonna say if we lose the House, Folks, you know this right now. And I don't mean to be pessimistic about this one.

I'm just trying to be honest. But at the moment they lose the House, what they're gonna say is, well, you know, now we can't do it because we gotta work with the Democrats, and that window that we had to try and get a border wall will be gone. I one thing and I'm absolutely certain of is that

a wall would be effective. And then Democrats if we ever got a wall built, Democrats what spen all this time talking about how you know they never opposed the wall really or the wall isn't isn't as effective as promised. They've told us as a joke, right that there's nothing that the wall will do. I meanwhile, anyone who's been to the border says, well, if you make it harder to get across the border, less, people will get across the border illegally. Um. They don't want to hear it.

They don't want to hear it. I'm I think there should be a wall, folks. This was what we were promised. Build the wall, was the chant. We don't have any of the audio right now, but you know we can find it very easily. It's all over the place. Build the wall, Build the wall. That's what they were saying.

A an establishment of sovereignty and a decision to break with the political consensus of the past few decades that we should just rely on members of Congress to get tougher when it comes to the enforcement of the very laws that they leave on the books that government for government,

Republican and Democrat have been unwilling to enforce. You know, I think we forget now that it was really the George W. Bush Karl Rove approach to be very soft on immigration issues, to not do very much at all about illegal immigration, and a huge number of legal immigrants crossed during the Bush years. The Bushes were not good on the border, folks. This is something that you don't

often hear about. Not good on the southern border, not good on border security, and it became this article of faith that for the GOP to be competitive in the future, they had to win over Hispanics. One reality, what they've done is just created a bigger constituency for the Democratic Party to leverage against Republicans on every issue, but specifically

on the issue of immigration. I mean, you know, California is lost to the GOP forever or at least for you know, for for my lifetime, unless some dramatic things change because of a legal immigration. Other states will follow. This is a political conquest and the Democrats know that right. This is taking territory for the Democrat Party by changing the demographics through a process of lawlessness. A wall would re establish some degree of law and order on the border.

And I think that it's worth I think it's worth a fight. But it's a gamble. We'll see if Republicans willing to roll the dice. Here's betting they won't agreet that liberty, truth, and great hair. The buck Sexton Show is back. I wanted to take a moment here to say happy thirty years of first in class, first in the nation broadcasting to Mr Rush Limbaugh. I know he's uh, he's today at at the thirtieth year mark. I actually was uh fortuitous enough to hear that there was gonna

be the President called. Then I saw on Twitter and I've managed to turn it on and here President Trump calling into a Russia lum balls show and thirty years of broadcasting. That's that's pretty incredible. You know, I'm there are a few people in the business who I have to say I always have and and will owe a debt of gratitude too, and certainly, I've got to put

Glenn in there. Glenn back for hiring me, for preventing me from taking on a couple of hundred thousand dollars of loans to go to uh graduate school instead of hiring me as a as. I was hired as an assistant editor for technology and national security at the Blaze dot com. And that was seven years ago. Um so yeah, assistant editor for for no, assistant editor for intelligence and technology. So the intelligence part I got, but the technology part

I did not. Anyway, Uh So Glenn hire me. That was a really obviously a milestone and I had never even thought of working in media really before that. But there was among the biggest breaks I got in my in my career, um was when I got the call from Russia Limball years ago now, gosh, it must have been four four years ago, at least maybe five. I got the call from It was five, right, John, thank you? Five might have been six, I don't at least five

years ago now. But I got the call from from Kid Carson, and it is the only time and you know, Kick Carson rest in peace, unfortunately lost the battle with cancer a couple of years back. But but Kid called me up, and I it was the only time I thought somebody was messing with me because he was like Kid Carson from the Rush Limball Show. How'd you like to fill in for Rush? I mean just just like that? I mean just know I was how like that fill

in for Rush? You know, following the in the footsteps of Mr Sean Hannity for example, who also not only is the biggest you know, Sean is the biggest show not on Fox News, not on Cable news on cable last month, which is just you know, that's astonishing. So congrats to Seawan and his whole team. I will say I miss I miss Sean and his and his team.

That's the one of the downsides of being a swamp dweller, as I don't get to hang out in New York and see Sean and and and his He's got this amazing squad around him in New York City of really really great folks, and I don't get to hang out with him as much. So that's kind of a bummer anyway, Yeah, Sean. Sean actually told me that the first time he filled in for Rush, uh, the microphone fell down and like fell out of the holder at the very start of

the show, which is so classic. That's stuff like that has happened to me too. One of the times I filled in for Glenn, I remember, I I don't I don't know if John, but I don't think John was there for this one. Producer, John, I don't think you're you're running the board on this one. But I knocked over a venty Comi coffee Starbucks. Yeah, it was Sarah all over the place, man, I mean just and they had to run in the engineers because it was seeping over the top of the desk and it was gonna

get all in a very expensive gear. Uh. You know, Glenn had a beautiful studio in New York. Obviously Soda Soda Russian Sean. But anyway, back to Mr Lindball here, Uh, there is no one else like him. I've never met Rush to this day. I've never talked to him, never met him. Um, I know his team well, and you know, Rush letting me sit in for him was was a total game changer. It got me heard by folks across the country. I had somebody I did the Greg Gutfeld Show a couple of weeks ago, and I had people

come up me outside and you know what. Two of them said, not just two of them just came with me said, I've really liked you ever since I heard you fill in for Rush, And yeah, I think I did a pretty good job feeling for Rush but also getting the l rush boat stamp of approval was it was like, it's the radio equivalent of getting accepted to Harvard early admission. I mean, it doesn't get any better than that. So, uh, Mr Rush, thank you so much.

Happy thirty years of being the best. There'll never be anyone else like you, and you've changed a lot of folks lives, including mine. We got roll call coming up. Hey, team Buck, it's time for roll call. All right, let's get to it with some roll call we have. And by the way, if you want to be a part of the action Facebook dot com slash Buck Sexton best way to do it, Let's get to it. James writes

young Guns. I assume that James is referring to a movie quote from earlier in the week, and yes, in fact, you are correct. I did make a reference to young Guns, and here it is. But you can't be any geek off the street. I gotta be handy with the steel if you know what I mean, or any keep Indeed, Charlie from Young Guns, you cannot be any geek off the street, our buddy, Aries writes in buck Very Powerful

opening to the Monday podcast. Looking up the definition of treason in the dictionary, it says the crime of betraying one's country, especially by attempting to kill or overthrow the sovereign or government. So how is the attempt entities like the Koch brothers and Democrats were trying to overthrow the sovereign authority of American people by intentionally replacing us with four nationals not treason, one of the lesser of two evils, because they only want to replace us out of greed.

Uh and he wants Yeah, I mean, Aries, Look, I get it, I get it, my friend. It is a It is a frustration that there's so many who are working to overturn the election results one way or another. Bomb is next up here movie quote was from Tuesday night was die Hard again Shields High. All right, Bob, all right, you got me. That's right. It was die Hard. Although I think I've said this now on the air, but nonetheless you're correct. Uh, here we go. Next up

we have William who's still on this taekwondo kick? Hey man, just watch some of the greatest UFC fights. You'll see folks getting high kick to the forehead. You'll see a champion wrestler and champion jiu jitsu guy jab and kick for five rounds. Stop this in taekwondo. It's another tool in the toolbag. I spend good money on. My kids learned taekwondo. One thing is for sure. They might lose a street fight, but it won't be because they were afraid to fight. In our school, we're taught fancy kicks

are for sparring. My kids learned elbows, knees, joint locks, and submission. Okay, William, I'm I don't know any taekwondo. I I take your word for it, buddy, I just read somebody. But let's be clear. Earlier the week, somebody else wrote in to say they don't think taekwondo is effective. That's that's not on me. I'm just, you know, take that up with the other dude. I don't know. And then William writes, asked Joe Rogan of taekwondo is ineffective.

I'd be happy to ask Joe Rogan that if you ever had the chance to sit down with him on his podcast, that'd be great. So there you have it. Virginia. Greetings Buck, longtime Democrat, woke up with Trump and I really enjoy your show. Well, thank you, Virginia. I really like having a former Democrats listening. I even like having

current Democrats listening, because that's a listening to me. At least there's hope, you know, at least that maybe they they see where I'm coming from on some of this stuff, and they're willing to be They're willing to hear the other side, which is a good thing. Bill writes, check out Sabotan for some cool, newer pump up music. They make songs about historic battles with an upbeat, heavy metal feel. I personally like winged Hussars shields high. Bill. I have

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the most well known action movies. So I'm gonna start giving you some some curveballs, and you know what I'm gonna do to make it really the real deal. I'm gonna I'm gonna work in quotes. I'm not even gonna say that's an action movie quote. And we'll see who can get the secret action movie quote that I worked into the show and just say it at some point in this show. We'll see if you you guys want to strap on the big boy pants out there and team Bucklin on action movie quotes. You know you want

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with you? I would very much like to bring back Tom Foolery. Um, I you know, I think that's a good word. I think that's something that we could work, we could get going into the conversation. So thank you so much, Angie for that one. Patrick writes, here's a Spotify list with workout songs. Patrick, you are a scholar and a gentleman. Thank you for sharing that one. And uh,

I will let you know. I'll give you my my review of your workout Spotify list A S A P. I should probably post, you know what I'll do on on Facebook. Maybe I'll post my Spotify workout playlist for all you guys, those of you who are on Spotify. That would be a fun idea. You can tell me what you think and don't give me any guph because there's some you know, I don't know T Swift on there or something, and I try to mix it up, folks. T Swift is very talented, very very talented. That's all

I'm saying. Let's see what we got next here, Hold on a second, it's coming up. And the thing Jason Rights isn't amazing how the Party of Science and Evolution has completely abandoned both with both the issues of transgenderism and toxic male masculinity and the world of beta maile democrats. We see a complete rejection of survival of the fittest um. Interesting, I never thought of it that way. Um evolution, Yeah, I mean, they they're they're always trying to redefine merit

and excellence and and bend this. Look, this is there's an obsession on the left with collectivism and with equality. But those are the those are the the central beliefs I think of of leftism and atheism at some level too, But now I'm really getting down to the rabbit hole. But there's a central obsession with collectivism and equality, and

equality is an impossible goal. I mean, there is no such thing as as absolute equality, and so context is always necessary for any dis question of a discussion of equality, just like there's no such thing as absolute liberty. Folks, we know that no one thinks that liberty means do whatever you want, whatever you want, right, Well, equality just means equality in the nation state context, in the in the context of a polity, of a political organization of

human beings. It means equality before the law. That's really the best that we can hope for. All these other efforts to make us the same are doomed to failure because we are not the same. You are trying to square a circle. It does not work. Uh. And in a life is unfair. This is something else that I think a lot of liberals need to need to hear. And well, I guess that they all they do is talk about alan fair it is, but it's never gonna

not be unfair. I guess as part of the part of the discussion here, it's it's never going to be something that they can make go away. And so agitation under the guise of absolute equality is something you need to be on on guard against because it's it's not going to lead two good outcomes. H. So there you have it, Paul writes, Hey, buck love the show. I listened daily. Don't always agree, but that's okay. Well, Paul, absolutely,

you know. I don't expect people always agree. I feel you're honest and understand the world we have a deal with today. I'm not all right, nor am I a leftist. I guess I'm somewhere in between right leaning. Uh. And then he wrote, I have a question, And Paul, by the way, I'm really glad uh that you are able to listen to the show. You like the show and appreciate that, you know, I just want people listening. Anybody who has a mind for facts, knowledge and entertainment, I

would hope would give this show a shot. I do a tremendous amount of research and reading every day before I come on air, and I try to make the best use of the time we have together. And and then this is this is my life's work right now. Is this show that you're hearing. So thank you for listening to it. Thankful to be a part of it. I know you wrote I have a question, but I don't see a question here, so please get back to me with your question. I'll answered as soon as I can.

Sean writes, Hey, Buck Shields time. I love the show and have listen to you since you were on The Blaze. I'm always a day behind on your show, but I want to say Adam's over Jefferson any day, simplify from Sean. Interesting somebody was willing to say they actually prefer Adams over Jefferson. I feel like that's a rarity. I feel like you usually don't get that. People don't make that call. Michael right, Uh, you need to start using blaflom regularly. Huh,

I've actually never heard of blaslom. I don't. I don't even I'm assuming that's like piffle or you know, it's malarkey. Maybe I don't know anything about that, so I gotta look that word up, Donald buck Something not enough people point out about free healthcare. How many countries are there? Um, were you would die from an illness that might bankrupt you here, what would you rather be dead or in debt? Well,

you know, William, I'm sorry, Donald, Uh. This is one of these things where we can live in the real world that we can live in fantasy world. And the truth is that you're better off in America than pretty much any other country in the world if you have a life threatening illness. And that's I mean, maybe Switzerland. There's a few places people say, well, you know, they've got really advanced, But this is where you want to be.

And in part it's because we have incredibly hard working and next level brilliant surgeons and doctors and people in the medical field who are well compensated folks. Yes, that's a part of this. I want hard surgeons to make a million, two million, three million doll hours here. I want them to make that because I want you know, when it's when it's you know, my relative that's getting open heart surgery. I don't want somebody who was you know, middle of the class in in in high school and

third tier in grad school. No, I want somebody who is top of their game. And yeah, that's gonna be difficult to pay for. Sometimes it's gonna be costs literally costs associated with that. But isn't isn't that what you what's the alternative? It's all about incentives, folks. This is what collective is. The leftist don't understand is that individual interest self interest is a constant. It is a reality of our day to day lives. There's no way around it.

And to try to either eliminate it from the way that you're setting up laws and and setting up society, or think that you can somehow just pretend it's not there,

that that is again doomed to failure. And I think that when I bring this up, and I know it sounds maybe a little I don't know, as a territ or in the weeds or something, but this is that, this is what separates the mind of a conservative from the mind of a liberal These very basic concepts of the collective versus the individual, of you know, liberty versus equality. I mean, these are the this is why we approach the world differently than they do. So I think it

is important to spend some time on all that. Thank you for being your team. It's been a pleasure and honor as always, great to have you hanging out with me in the Freedom Hunt. We're gonna have a Raheem Kasam joining which can be a lot of fun on the Freedom Hunt podcast later on this week, so get excited for that. It's on iTunes, also on Stitcher or the I Heart app. Until next time, Team shields High. Have you ever heard of how announcer prevention is worth

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