Media Freak-Out Monday

I'll explain why. Coming up. This is the Buck Sexton Show, where the mission or mission is to decode what really matters with actionable intelligence magnor mistake American, You're a great American Again, the Buck Sexton Show begins. He's a great guy. Now, Ken Jean the statement that Joe Biden was a low IQ individual who probably is based on his record. I think I agree with him on that Joe Biden was a disaster. His administration with President Obama, they were basically

a disaster when it came to so many things. Whether it was economy, whether it was military defense, no matter what it was, they had a lot of problems. So I'm not a fan. Welcome to the bucksac and Show. Everybody tell President President Trump there were some harsh words about Joe Biden, although are they untrue words? Or they just harsh words. Media went into full on freak out mode, which I suppose it's not even the least bit surprising.

They freak about everything, but saying that Biden is low IQ seems to be too much for our intrepid press cord to handle. I just I don't know. They never grow tired of the freak out. They never grow tired of suggesting a president Trump is basically the worst person in the history of the universe, and they think that if they keep telling us this, they will prevent him

from getting reelected. But I gotta tell you, I still believe that Trump's in very in a very good position if in fact, the economy stays where it is, and if we continue to see the prosperity and just the common sense approach to governance. They can complain about his tweets all day. They can complain about his side comments. Oh he's he's siding with dictators over his own countryman, this is what they say. They forget that we remember

what was like during the Obama years. We remember what it was like to hear that Republicans were a bunch of warmongers and in fact war criminals. This was commonly said about Bush and Cheney, especially toward the latter part of the Bush administration, there were some who thought that there should be charges brought against the commander into the Commander Chief when it was Bush, for just the decisions he made that they did not like. But now they're

worried about saying that someone is low IQ. I don't think Biden's very smart. Does that make me a bad person? That mean that I'm someone that isn't allowed to have an opinion anymore. I think there's a lot of ways that you can go back and look at what he's said over time, and he's a pure It's just what Reagan said, He's a pure demagogue. If you're somebody who's not particularly sophisticated in your political thinking, and by that I don't mean I don't mean fancy in your thinking.

I don't mean an establishment figure. I mean you're not sophisticated and you don't understand that most of these guys, most of these politicians, including Biden, are full of crap. Most of them lie. They try to stand for one thing when it comes to getting attention and donations, and then when they're in the swamp, when they're in DC, they go in a different direction. They hope nobody pays attention. You know, they sign they sign off on things and

hope that they don't get held accountable for it. And you know, there's all these different ways that they try to evade accountability while at the same time promoting their own individual brands and pretending like they're doing public service. I think Biden is, in that way the quintessential American politician with all the bad baggage that that brings with it. And given what they say about Trump on a regular basis, are we really to believe that Biden is low IQ?

Even if he said that, Kim jongun smiled at him a little bit because he said this, and maybe Kim jongan agrees that Biden's low AQU. Kim probably just smiled because it's kind of a funny thing for a president to say about an opponent, you know, when you know, here's a perfect example. Just to step back for a moment, they act like this is such a low blow low

IQ Biden. Can I also say that they were telling us not long ago that to call I think it was Maxine Waters low IQ, Brucer, Mike wasn't it Wasn't it Maxine Waters that he says it's low iq he used to right, Oh okay, yeah, I'm pretty sure it's low iq that he used to. We were told that was racist. Well now he calls Joe Biden low iq. So do we get to revisit the whole It wasn't racist to call Maxine Waters low iq? No, of course not.

They've skipped past that. They the destruction hath been wrought by the media, and therefore there's no reason for them to look at it again and have any kind of a conversation about maybe maybe they were wrong. But I remember in the show The West Wing, which was set up really to be an alternative presidency for Libs during the Bush administration, and that was that was what its

selling point was. You know that that there was going to be a a place where Libs could tune in and see what a good Democrat president that would really be. Like what was his name? His name was like jebedia or something or other, Right, the guy who was Bartlett, President Bartlett, That's what they used to call him. And you know he at one point had this supposed open mic. People always say hot mic, but that's not the correct terminology.

President Bartlett in the West Wing had this open mic moment. I didn't see that much of the show, but I remember this one where he referred to a guy as like a twenty two caliber mine in a three fifty

seven caliber world. And at the end of the episode, the really and that was created all this controversy that he'd called the political opponents, essentially called a political opponent stupid, and this got called on a mic, and at the end of the episode it comes out that sure enough, the president knew the mic was open, and this was a very clever employ to take a swipe at his Oh,

by the way, Republican opponent. Now you could say, to mean Buck, that's scripted and who cares, And it's Aaron Sorkin doing his usual liberal fast talking, too clever by half nonsense. And yes, that's all true. But if it were a Democrat in real life or in fiction calling a Republican stupid, nobody would bat an eyelash. Because they call Republican stupid all the time. They called Bush stupid. I mean they that's one of their favorite knocks on

prominent Republicans, that they're all just so so dumb. This is what they say. But you can't call Biden low. I You're You're not allowed to say that. You're not allowed to point to the fact that this guy is somebody who never was able to get a substantial percentage of the national voting population, even the Democrat side, to vote for him. He's really just been an along for

the ride. You know. He is the quintessential I said before, a politician, but also really the epitome of the establishment man. And he's a He's in the state of Delaware and just wants to make sure it keeps getting reelected in Delaware. I'm sure he brings home all kinds of goodies and and pork whatever he can for Delaware. And that's it. What has his record been in the past, A lot of a lot of embarrassment, a lot of nonsense, a lot of missteps. But this is what we're offered instead

of Trump. This is what we're told we're supposed to get excited about it. I just I really, I really can't do it, folks. I can't bring myself to accept this nonsensical position that Joe Biden is the is the answer to what ails us. I mean, in this period of tremendous Trump to arrangement syndrome. You'd think they could at least put forward to candidate that normal people could say is a return to normalcy. But the normalcy that Joe Biden represents is exactly is what Trump is in

office to get rid of. We don't want these careers, we don't want these lifetime politicians to be in charge of us. Oh, and then you add things like how is doing as president? And this is what we're always told. You know, you've got to ignore this, this doesn't really matter, and who cares? And it matters a lot. Libs going into the Obama reelection were constantly having to explain how

America's best days economically, we're behind it. There really wasn't the kind of growth that in the future, that wouldn't be the kind of growth that we'd seen in the past. It was a lot of excuse making for the Obama administration having a very slow recovery. And really it was about a kind of hostility to capitalism. I mean, that's that's what was a defining characteristic of you know, of

what Obama was pushing. You know, he was always very concerned with, you know, redistribution of wealth and with leveling the playing field based not on the removal of regulations or anything like that, but by picking picking winners and losers, having the government pick winners and losers instead of the market, and that had negative consequence. But you have the numbers that are out there right now for President Trump are very strong. I mean, here's Prime Minister Abbe. You know Trump,

Trump was over there playing golf. I wish I could get excited about golf, and so many great people I know love golf. I don't. I've tried a few times. I'm very bad, and I do not understand the appeal. And I kind of don't want to understand the appeal because I feel like I'll be giving away thousands of hours of my life to something that maybe is not the best usage of my time. But anyway, here's what Prime Minister Abbe of Japan has said about how things

are going with President Trump in office. You just remember, just a reminder, this is what's really happening versus what the Libs are telling this are happening. And that's their big pitch for for Biden is trying to convince us that things are terrible. Here's reality play for Japanese company investment to the tune of twenty four billion dollars to the United States, thereby creating forty five thousand new jobs.

Tax reformed that President conducted thanks to that automotive and image related to Japanese companies are making investment in my Pennsylvania, Michigan, Alabama, and Kentucky and others. They are mad. They have decided to make new investments in a short style. Aren'ty here there? Through the through the interpreter and the you know, the audio is not great, but you're getting the idea. A lot of new investment, a lot of new jobs, billions

and billions of dollars. It's not strange for me or for you to care more about that than is Trump being mean to Joe Biden? Is he making fun of Joe Biden in a way that is unpresidential? Unpresidential for him to say that. We've had plenty of Republicans who were very presidential, who didn't get very much done, who weren't able to achieve very much well, weren't able to win, first of all, but even if they did win, weren't able to enact the kind of policies that they promised

on the campaign trail. And while it's all well and good, and I'm look, I'm a very Some of you who have met me know this. I'm very polite by nature. I'm a very polite individual. I try to be respectful and friendly to everyone. I think that everyone should act that way. But I also know that there are more important things than the presidential decorum that some expect when it comes to how the commander in chief and the top of the executive branch conducts himself or perhaps herself

in the future. There are more important things, and Trump is executing on those more important things. Brings me to the questions over his foreign policy. Got to dive into some of that. I know North Korea is doing a little bit of some saber rattling, some missiles fired off. That's that's a bit problem matic. Look at kind of a grab bag that I focus. I mean, I sort of wish that there was a major, you know, deep state story, or we have something in the declassification had occurred.

We're going to get into that in June in a big way. I know that for sure when they released the Inspector General report. You know, today's one of these days where we just have a lot of stories to cover. Our different stories. So we're going to move through a bunch of topics and cover some real ground. And the Supreme Court case es today some very interesting decisions there that I'll want to spend some time on with all of you. So sit back, relax, and let the freedom

hunt roll. We'll be right back. I think Biden's busy focusing on his campaign messages and doesn't need to respond to President Trump. But how many desboits are on the Trump twenty twenty real elect campaign at this point? Right? I mean, you have Kim Jong un criticizing President Trump's political rivals, you have Vladimir Putin criticizing Democrats. Let's just wait for him to say something about Joe Biden. And

it's all pretty clear why they're doing it. These desbots are trying to manipulate President Trump by criticizing his rivals because they want him in the Oval office from twenty twenty onward. He's been pretty good for them. Russia is misbehaving globally, Kim Jong UN's making more weapons, making more friends. I think that Kim Jong un wants to ride the Trump train all the way through twenty twenty because it is so good for Kim jong Un to have Trump

in the oval office. That is the dumbest national security analysis I've heard in a long time. It's a CNN analysis, not surprising. Everything she said there is false and just stupid. They keep putting her on air. The why because she feeds into the Trump derangement syndrome that the audience of CNN wants to hear. That's that's all it is. You know, the CNN audience like a bunch of hamsters. They want to push a pedal and get anti trumpism, push a

pedal and get anti anti trumpism. That's why some of you may have seen in that interview I gave which got a bit of play, where I explained why CNN has lost its mind and how Trump has broken CNN and how there's no shortage of wackiness now at CNN as a result of Trump's presidency. I mean, they really

just can't handle him. They don't know what to do, and their audience has been so thoroughly propagandized against President Trump that there's no realistic expectation, no one can have any realistic expectation that the audience could be brought back to reality. You know, they would rather hear stuff like this. I mean, she said, you know, Trump has been good for Kim Jong and Kim Jong un? How is that possible? CNN national security aliments too. I'd never heard her before

she's on CNN. How would that be possible? There are more sanctions that are more crippling and damaging to North Korea's economy and specifically targeted at North Korea's nuclear and missile programs than at any time in history, right now, more than ever before. So how is that good for

North Korea? The Trump had beenstration is pushing for the removal by democratic means, but the removal of Maduro by the GUIDEAU opposition in Venezuela and after Cuba, Russia is probably the single closest ally that Venezuela has in Russia's probably in the number two spot. Is that? Is that doing Putin's bidding? I mean, I just would like to

see some of these so called experts explain themselves. You know, I wish they were on a network, or the anchors weren't a bunch of total buffoons, I mean, anti intellectual, incurious, preening buffoons, because that's what you have at CNN all across the board. I wish that they would ask a question like the ones that I'm asking. Do you think that she would have an answer to twenty of this?

You know a lot, there'd be a lot of stumbling, a lot of a lot of dodging, and you know, Trump, Charlottesville, twenty fifth Amendment, Russia collusion. You know, it just would all all this. It's like argument by automotopia, you know, just making noises. It's a fun word to say, isn't automotopia? But that's what they do. They can engage in the substance because they don't have sufficient substance to make the case.

They can't explain their positions. They just want to get out the talking points that appeal to the pre existing political prejudices of the left wing audience that watches them. I'm still in a bit of a rage at watching CNN International in my hotel room in Beijing and just seeing how it was. It's anti I'm telling you the truth. It's anti American propaganda. That's what the that's what CNN was pushing out. We're gonna go to war with Iran,

We're gonna go to war with North Korea. The president has broken the law he's lawless, he hates immigrants, all these things. This is what they're telling the world. It's an embarrassment. CNN's an embarrassment on the world stage. It's being of embarrassment. Liberal geostrategist In Bremer of a Eurasia Group, who I will say is more knowledgeable than a lot of other libs I've I'm familiar with Ian I've a long time ago actually met Bremer and talked to him

for a while about some geopolitical issues. He is, he's a smart little dude. He's little, but he's not a He's not an individual of good judgment and does not understand the big picture. And that I think is a pretty good way to set up what happened next. He got into a whole bunch of hot water. If you don't know this guy, Ian Bremer, he's the president of the Eurasia Group, and he tweeted out a quote on

Sunday to President Trump. And this is this is just a case study in how trumped derangement syndrome both can instantaneously infect Twitter. And then also you see the media will self justify what is fake news, or that there will be people who will claim, oh, well, even if it's not true, it rings true to borrow from that guy who's the Michael Wolf, the author of Fire and Fury, isn't no, that's the Fire and Fury is the Fire and Fury. I think. So he has a new a

new book out, Siege about Trump. We'll get we'll get to that a bit a bit later on. But back to Ian Bremer here. He tweeted this out and represented it as a quote from President Trump, and the quote was, well, what he wrote was President Trump in Tokyo quote Kim Jong un is smarter and would make a better president than sleepy Joe Biden. Now this was then shared, and it wasn't shared by just a bunch of people that you've never heard of. It was shared by Congressman Ted

Lew of California, noted Trump deranged far left loon. C Ann contributor Anna Navarro car Danias, who I would note is among the dumbest people on television. That's you know, if it were an IQ contest between her and Joe Biden, it's it's going to be close. It's gonna be close.

She's among the dumbest analysts on television, and not a nice person either for those of you who are curious, I've worked with her, much to my regret, in the past, and you know, she shared it and then all of a sudden it comes out, Oh wait a second, that's fake. You could even say, you know, say it was fake news. And then Bremer, who's a lib, pretends not to be. He pretends to just be a geopolitical strategist and expert.

This is just like journalists. There's always this facade that they want to put up of the you know that that objectivity gives them greater narrative power, meaning they can create a more potent anti Trump narrative. If they have this this retense of being objective, they're not partisans. They're just telling the truth. You know. This is like CNN with the apples and bananas. You know, we're not an anti Trump get Trump network. We're just calling We're just

calling balls and stripes, man, We're just doing the truth. No, they're not. They're absolutely not. It's obviously ridiculous for them to claim otherwise. But Bremer defended the tweet at first and said it was obviously ludicrous and yet kind of plausible, and he wrote, especially on Twitter, where people automatically support whatever political position they have. That's the point. He eventually

had to apologize. He said, my tweet yesterday about Trump preferring Kim Jong unto Biden as president was meant in jest. I should have been clearer my apologies. Now, you know, I don't know why he would you know, I don't know why he would think that that that's a funny. That's a particularly funny joke. You know, I could write a really stupid thing and pretend that it was Okazu Cortez and it could be really, really dumb, unless it was so blatant that even Okazu Quartez would understand that

it's a joke. You know, you're running the risk of misrepresenting, misrepresenting something. And I think that that that is what happened. But you know, in a Trump deranged world, particularly among the elites, people like Bremer who think very We're gonna talk about somebody who's an establishment guy who thinks very highly of himself. Trust me, Ian Bremer's in that category,

but in that in that milieu, in that strata. And I sound like a guy who walks around wearing an ascot when I use these words, But those are the kind of people that will believe the stuff because they really think that Trump is capable of essentially saying anything and anything that will support that belief, anything that will go to you know, oh yeah, Trump is in fact the worst person ever. They will they will sign on for that essentially right away. They don't think through it

beyond that. Now onto the foreign policy challenges right now, because they're really going after Trump on this and I think it's because of what happened recently in a rom but there's also what look, let's let's be let's be honest about the whole in the news cycle right now, the media has gotten used to having a major story, even if they have to concoct it, even if they have to re essentially do a retread and go back

onto what they've already done the past. They're used to having some kind of Muller quote unquote bombshell to either prereport on, report on, or post report on, meaning we think this is coming, this has happened. Oh let's talk about this thing that happened. That has been the cycle of the news meeting, that's really been the beating heart of most of the mainstream news outlet. It's for over

two years now. But in the in a post Muller Report world and pre Inspector General Report, there aren't enough leaks to sustain them. There aren't enough ways for them to write the same story over and over because they need some little kernel of news. They need something to justify telling us the same thing they've already told us

a million different times. And that's why I think there's this focus right now on foreign policy, because one in doubt the establishment will go to one of their favorite areas of criticism. They can't criticize Trump on the economy. They just sound stupid. I mean, they try, sometimes it doesn't particularly work. But on North Korea and Iran, you're seeing a lot of Oh, Trump is over his head, he's over his skis, He's doing all this bad stuff.

You know, for one reason or another, they're they're upset at Trump and upset at how he's handling all this foreign policy. And let's start with North Korea. Here's what the President has said about what's going on there. Because they're already you know, the Libs, even in a case of national security that you would think everybody could put aside their own feelings of partisanship, you know, it would

be such a win for the world. And I really mean that if Trump's North Korea gambit were to come through. But you know Pelosi's rooting against him. You know that while Trump's angling for a deal, there are Democrats who know their fingers crossed that it won't happen, because it would not only be politically problematic for them, it would also mean that their claims that Trump is terrible and

the worst and can't understand foreign policy would look particularly hollow. Right, So there there's a lot writing on this for Democrats for all the wrong reasons. But here's what Trump says about the current status of what's going on with his North Korea negotiation play. We continue to hope the Chairman Kim seizes the opportunity to transform his country through d nuclearization. It is a country with tremendous economic and other potential.

The United States also remains committed to the issue of abductions, which I know is a top priority for Prime Minister Abbey. So what happened is the North Koreans fired off some on May nine, They fired off some short range ballistic missiles. And this is a violation of you and resolutions and it's clearly a provacation. I'm not here to tell you that things that are are not. I'm not going to say that this is good, this is progress, this is to be expected. I'm here to say, Okay, you know,

maybe maybe this Trump negotiation isn't going to work. We don't know yet. It's too early to know. But there's no loss here. The president has not gone on an apology tour around the world world. He did not go before Kim Jong un and bow and be submissive. He did say he loved him, which is weird. Again, it's weird. I'm just gonna say when things are what they are,

it's a weird thing to say. I don't know why Trump went that direction, and I give him a lot of latitude because one, he's the president despite all the forces against him, and I'm not. And two I think that to be an unconventional and mold breaking president, you're going to have to do things that make people think, WHOA is that really the way that this should be done. With all all that said, though, you know, North Korea may not turn out the way that it's supposed to.

North Korea may not be some big win for the administration, but unlike what we saw with Obama's foreign policy. It's not going to be a catastrophic loss either. He's taking his shot and trying to do something good. I wish he would focus more on or at least have more success. I think there is some administration focus on the border. The Republicans would get their act together. You know, it's going to be the big Achilles heel for the Republican

Party going into the going into the elections. It's going to be healthcare. Again, here's a really simple question, folks, as we sit here and you know, it's a pretty look. It's a it's a newsday where there's no giant news stories out there. It's a lot of sort of second tier level stories. There's nothing that's really moving the needle

in a big way in the news cycle. This would be a perfect opportunity if Republicans actually had their stuff together to come up with, you know, some healthcare approach that would allow for people to know what the Republican Party stands for. What does the Republican Party stand for? Healthcare? Free markets? Okay, great, how this is gonna be a problem. It was a problem FIRS in the mid Tim's gonna be a problem. Now. I don't know what the Trump

with the Trump camp is suggesting for healthcare. I do know that, you know, every every time now I get a bill from a doctor's office, I just win. It just feels like it's more expensive and gets worse all the time. They're less effective. I spend less time with the doctor, and my bill is just bigger and bigger now every every year, somehow I'm in a worse position visa via the medical community. And you know, thankfully I don't have a I don't have a wife, I don't

have kids. I don't have a family that I have. For so many of you who have to deal with all that, I don't know. I don't know how you do it, so expensive, so time consuming, so much paperwork and nonsense. There are opportunities here for Trump and the Republicans to at least present something really worthwhile and sell it. You know, Trump is a salesman. He's a gifted salesman. That's one area where I think that his skill set,

if anything, is undervalued or is underappreciated. You know, he's much better at conveying to the public why something is good or why something is bad. You know, he's very good at at just that at persuasion, and healthcare is such a big area for more Republican attention. Right now, we're just letting, we're letting the media dominate the narrative with all this stuff about foreign policy and Trump and Iran and North Korea. And here's here's one part of

this that I just won't lose. I refuse to lose sight of for anyone who supported the Obama administration and then supported Hillary for president to think that they're in a position to lecture the rest of us about, you know, about what is going on with the Trump administration's foreign policy. This is just crazy. Every major foreign policy challenged, every area of foreign policy, kind of foreign policy hotspot under

Obama got worse. And everything that Hillary touched turned to lead except for things that enrich Hillary and her husband that always totally turned to gold. But every foreign policy issue was a loss, if not a disaster. Those same people I want to tell us how Trump should be doing it now, it's it's really just not it's just crazy.

How do you pay for them? Well, what we have chosen not to do because with just ingender enormous toby is to tell you how I'm gonna raise every nickel in a three hundred three point five trillion dollars, but that's something that it's going to have to be discussed. So I wanted to lay out the program as to what it would mean and to tell you that it will cost you and ordinary Americans a lot less than

you are currently spending on average. Okay, what will probably end up looking like is a payroll tax on employers and increase in income tax in a progressive way for ordinary people with a significant deductible for low income people who will pay nothing for it. Upber income people will pay more. Party said, it's gonna health get planned. You're gonna have the very rich pay and it's it's gonna be better, it's gonna be cheaper for the average American.

It's not true, folks, It is not true. And as I was speaking for about where the Republicans on healthcare, where's the messaging? You got holes? Right now in the news cycle, people like they like news? Why people listen to this show. I listen to all the different shows and watch TV and reduce papers in the Internet or whatever. People like the news, and right now there's an opportunity to really get out there and establish what it is

that Republicans are trying to sell in healthcare. Instead, you got Bernie Sanders running around like the tooth fairy, just promising to leave twenty dollar bills under everybody's pillow. All you lose to live at tooth and then I'll take that tooth because I want them, and then I'll replace it with the night's Chris twenty dollar bill. That's what he's saying. And what do we have, Oh, it's just going to be a payroll tax. It's just going to be an increase in a very progressive way on the

wealth East Americans. That's gonna pay for all this. That's not gonna raise trillions of dollars. If you want a Swedish system of healthcare, you have to pay Swedish tax rates. That's just the way it will be. And the Swedish government is far more lean and efficient than ours. You know that the Swedes are in a much better position to implement the kind of progressive tax rate that we've seen, and the Swedes are in a much better position to

have their government provide these kinds of services. Right, But anyway, not not to get too deep into into Sweden, but you know, here we are, it's healthcare, and Bernie Sanders is out there and he's he's giving the message out to people. You know, I don't want us to get asleep at the wheel. I don't want Republicans to think that they can play a very safe game here, that that Trump can play it safe. He look, he's not going to. But it's really the rest of the party,

and it's where the Democrats staminast. We know nothing is really going to a kind of get done. I mean, Trump even said this play Club seven. This is on the US Mexico Canada trade deal. Here's what Trump said, play seven. I think that we will work with them. We have a USMCA. I would imagine that Nancy Pelosi will approve that. I would it would be very hard not to. But we'll see. But certainly, as things get approved, I would love to sign them. It's only good for

our country. Trump says he'd like to sign some deals, want to do some work with the other side. But here's what you and I both know, and we don't have to be told this. We know that there's no chance the Democrats are going to work in them on anything. In fact, it's really hard for the president to extend his hand in professional never mind a friendly way to the other side when they're still stuck on you know,

he's a criminal, he should be impeached. He got this book out now with Wolfe, Michael Wolfe saying that Muller wrote a draft that initially was going to say the president should be indicted for obstruction, but then he he backed off of that. How this guy wolf would get that, which should be the juiciest detail in a very long time, probably the juicy detail of the entire Special Counsel investigation

that defies that defies explanation. I think it defies belief to we have more on the status of the post Muller probe and all that coming up. It's about time for her to just cut off the nonsense. If she doesn't, of course, and they actually go and proceed to be interesting, see if those thirty or forty Democrats modern Democrats actually go along with it. If they do and they actually get an impeachment done, of course it has to come over to the Senate, as everybody knows where it will

just simply be dropped. This is not about the twenty twenty elections, about doing what's right now for our country. This is going to be a president that we set when we don't hold this president accountable to the rule of law until the United States Constitution. Why do you think you can't convince a majority of House Democrats that it's time to impeach them. No, I think it is moving towards that it's going to demand it. It already is. Some of them are saying it. I've felt this way

all along impeachment. They think it's gonna happen, They think it needs to happen. They are are not willing to let this go and keep running out to you it should be entirely a function of whether the president deserves to be impeached or not, instead of oh, how will this look for us? What will this mean for us

going forward? If in fact the president is impeached, does that make it harder for us to you know, win seats in the House and the Senate and defeat the president because no one thinks, no one seriously believes he's going to be removed by two thirds vote of the Senate.

No one really thinks that that's going to happen. So, you know, and just as it a side I watched speaking of politics and all this, I was just last night trying to I had a hard time falling asleep, and I was looking for someone to watch, and I threw on Designated Survivor, and man, it is so for some reason, those ABC, NBC, CBS, those shows on those networks, I just find her. The writing is always so trite, and it's all so predictable and key for Sutherland the

whole thing. Man, I don't know, we need some. There's some. There's a lot of great shows out there, don't I'm not even I'm not even gonna get into a Game of Thrones. I called it. I've been saying all along. The show really lost its way in the last This last season was pretty much just garbage top to bottom, and the season before that was very shaky in some parts, and without the great source material of the books, the writers were just not in a position to execute at

the same level. But anyway, I know you don't want you don't you don't come here from my Game of Thrones hot takes. But I finally caught up post China and post Los Angeles trips. I was able to watch it. I didn't think it was I think I thought it was all very predictable and not very good. But back to speaking of predictable, back to impeachment and whether impeachment it's going to happen or not. I just think that

they tell you everything that you need to know. With the fact that even the Democrats in the House, as rapidly anti Trump as they are and as dedicated as they are to the you know, removal of Trump from office, at least in theory or the destruction of Trump's presidency, they can't bring themselves to actually do this. They can't bring themselves just commit to it. What else we already have the mull Report. What else do we have to know? What else has to be said for them to come around?

And there's just this back and forth. They're really just putting their fingers in fingers in the air to see which way the wind is blowing, and that's how they're going to determine whether or not the president is worthy of impeachment. But that tells you everything, because then it's it's it's just a political calculation has been along. This is just a fight for power. There's nothing about principle here. They're not, you know, standing up for the little guy.

They don't care about the Constitution. You know, depending on the day, a lot of libs in government and outside of government will tell you the Constitution is really old and we shouldn't pay attention to it and it doesn't really matter at her. And you know, why don't people just realize that, you know, there's other stuff that we should we should really care about. You know, there's other stuff that should be determining the future of this country.

But then when the constitution suits them, Ah, that's when you'll start to hear all of a sudden, how how important, how profound it is. You know, Newt was out on this question of impeachment. I think he's Look, he's a guy who he knows the impeachment game. He knows how that whole thing goes real well. And and there's something that gets skipped over a lot of the time in the discussions over this that I think is really really valid, really important, and I'll I'll let the Newtster take the

helm From minute plate fifteen. Ken Star issues a report which has eleven counts, and when she says he is guilty, okay, five of them are obstruction discount guilty, discount guilty. If more an issue report that said Donald Trump is guilty on eleven counts, there would be an impeachment effort. In Clinton's case, they're felonies. I mean, it always takes me the feminist who worry about this. You know, Clinton was convinting a felony of perjury in a sexual harassment lossuit.

In Trump's case, Mueller comes back and says, there's nothing there that you could take him to court on. There's a pretty big gap here. Does anyone really believe that if they had more evidence? You see this, this was the I didn't What Mueller did was the equivalent of the I didn't really try defense when you know you lose the race. You know, when if you're going to raise somebody and then you don't, you can't beat them.

You stop like fifty fifty feet from the finish line before they can finish and say, well, I didn't really try. That's what Mueller did with the report by saying that we couldn't really bring charges anyway. That was the fallback position, because I assure you, I assure you, if they really had the president nailed on something, if it was clear that he broke the law, and they could make that

case beyond a reasonable doubt. Then what would have been in the report is the president broke the law, we should bring charges, or we would bring charges, but we can. The fallback position was merely because well, what's the you know, what's the case going to be? What was the charge going to be? They brought up ten different ones. Okay, which one? Which one is the clear case of obstruction?

Of the ten little vignettes, little stories that Muller tells in his diary entries posing as the Mueller report, which is the one that really, you know, no matter how much you like this president or how much you want to defend him, you can't get pasted. I can't think of it. Can you think of it? I got nothing. I don't see it. I don't think that it's there. I don't think that there's anything that Mueller has that was was a slam dunk or even close to it. And if he had it, he to use it. But

keep in mind, Clinton, it was a slam dunk. The guy lied, the guy lied, the guy obstructed, the guy did all kinds of things that were bright red line crossing, and Democrats still completely circled the wagons around him. Democrats still you know, refuse to accept that what Bill Clinton did was completely beyond the pale, was totally unacceptable. So what we have is just the Democrats now pretending like

we have no ability to recall that history. We have Democrats who act in dishonorable fashion around this question of impeachment. And that's why when you hear from those like Rashida to Leb and Kevin Kramer and you know, and others on this issue. Kevin Kramer, I know he's a Republican, so forget him. But when you hear Rashida to Leed talking about that he just came in the top of the segment, you recognize that they're just lying. They're lying

to the public all the time. But the public, a lot of the public likes to be lied to about Trump, and this is why their complaints about Trump and his exaggerations and his stretching of the truth and all the things that he does. This is why it never really resonates, because we turn around and say, you know, you guys

are engaged in constant, constant lying about this president. You guys can't help yourselves but come up with stories, creating fake quotes and tweeting them out and saying, oh, sorry, my bad. Didn't think people would take that seriously. No, no, we are going to take it seriously, just like we took it seriously when for two years they were suggesting

or outright accusing the president of committing treason. And now when the President says, oh, some of those deep state clowns, they may have betrayed their country, even if it didn't arise to the constitutional and legal definition of treason, they say, oh, how could he use that word? How could he use that word? It was what they were how they were describing him for the last how many years. They still

believe it. Some of them still believe it. I'm always amazed there are all these Russia collusion truthers out there now who block me on Twitter, and I don't even know who they are, but I suppose I've created something of a of a stir online by just going after them, and they particularly dislike that. I'm from the CIA and am willing to call out the top echelon of bureaucrats at both CIA and FBI for what really was a

soft coup attempt. And there's a tremendous nervousness that we're going to find out exactly what happened, and that there are not just going to be consequences for those involved directly it did, but also consequences for those who look like morons utter morons, and that includes a lot of the press for perpetuating this story. And I think what'll end up happening is they're gonna they're gonna go here's

here's my prediction. They're gonna wait to go full throw on impeachment till after the Inspector General report comes out. The idea of being go on offense, go on offense against Trump. That's what the Democrats are gonna do. It doesn't matter how shameless and how brazen it is. They're gonna go on offense. They're gonna say, see, we have to remove him. And we're gonna say, well, hold on a second, there was a deep state could remove him. Now you're gonna try to remove him or try to

impeach him through the processes of the Congress. And they say, yeah, that's right, Now is the time to do it. They have no honor, they have no integrity. And if you're somebody who has no honor integrity, what do you do when you're caught blame the other side. That's how I see this playing out. Why should another white guy be president? Well, white guy who doesn't see other identities or understand other

experiences should not be president. I do, and you know where there would be gaps, and my knowledge or my experience will pass the mic to people you know who do have that experience. I've also pledged that I would ask a woman to serve as vice Swallowell, there who believe it or not? Congress and Swallowell, he of Russia collusion, fraud, fame is one of I can't keep track. I do this for a living, and I can't even tell you how many Democrats are actually running for office right now.

I just I know it's a lot. I know there are a lot of them running for office, but I couldn't tell you what the I think it's twenty one, it might be twenty two. You know at some point who even you know, it doesn't even really matter. Most of them are. This is just ridiculousness. Swallowell, I think is in that category. But you know this is a This is more than just Eric Swalwell that has to do this. The ben venye oh, I need to debase my knowledge and my opinions on things because I need

to confront my whiteness. I confront my whiteness all the time. These are things that don't even make sense. You say them out loud, you think, what do what do they think? What do democrats the left think they mean when they do this? What is really the purpose of it? You know, Swawell here, this is just the it's kind of a pathetic bend the knee experience. He says, I know where there are gaps in my knowledge or experience, and I

know when to pass the mic. You know what the answer should be to why should another white guy be president? Which was the question that he was asked. The answer to that should be because I'm the best person for the job. If that's not the answer, then you darn sure shouldn't be president, which we all know Eric Swalwell should not be a president. But you know, even for a Democrat, this is a stretch. Even for a Democrat,

this is a bad idea. I mean, I would heaven forbid if I had to pick a Democrat, would be pretty low down on the list. But he knows that this is the the intersectional left is the center. Now is the kind of hard and soul of the Democratic Party, and the activist class and the media and Hollywood elites have embraced all this. You know they are true believers if you will in the notion that you are somehow

a problem. You've done something wrong by being a white guy, right, you have to apologize, you have to confront your privilege. This is just what they say. It's a kind of original sin now to be a white male in American politics, according to leftist Democrats, because you've enjoyed white privilege your whole life. You so you inherently have had this this special advantage that you can't quantify and that you had no control over. But you're supposed to make some kind

of amends for it. How could you ever make amends for being who you are? Isn't this contrary to what is really at the center of so much of democratic identity politics, which is that you need to be you know you do you? You need to be you, You need to live your truth. So why can't I just say, or why can't Eric Squalle just say I'm living my truth as a white male, as a white male, cisgender heterosexual. Why why can't that just be my truth that I live without being beat up on and told that that

somehow is problematic. Well, because this is all as we know about power. This is about the transference of power from one group to another group via a narrative. The narrative here is intersectionality or identity politics. These are different variations on a theme. They are different ways of saying essentially the same thing. But isn't it so interesting that a democratic party that is a sessed with identity politics finds itself having to apologize once again for having straight

white males. Well, Buddha Jig is a Buddha judge, is um he's high, you know, high enough that you could put him in the top three, I guess, but straight white males effectively or number one and two right now, Bernie, and I was gonna say Betto Bettos like really sorry. I don't know if you saw this, but he apologized for being a bad word after he lost his election, and he just like wants everyone to be his friend again. And I don't think that's gonna happen, Betto. I think

I think Betto's toast. Se used to say back in the nineties, I smell burnt toast. In this case, it's Betto's toast. I think he's done so. But there's another reason why you have straight white male or in this case, two white males. I mentioned Buddha Judge is number three. I think I keep saying his name differently. I know,

I can't. You know, it's a it's a hard one, and that is that some of the females in the Democrat primary right now are just I think it's fair to say they're underperforming from where even Democrats thought they would be. You know, Elizabeth Warren had the most spectacular unforced error in politics that I can I've seen maybe ever with that whole one one and twenty fourth Cherokee thing. I mean, that was so bizarre. And I was calling CNN out the day that happened because they reported initially

as like Elizabeth Warren proving her heritage. It's like, are you guys morons? She's proving that she's not even vaguely Native American. And someone from CNN Corporate Communications actually came after me publicly. That was fun. He learned the buck slap stings. It's like, do you really want to you really want to play this game and pretend that CNN is an objective news source. You want to do this publicly,

you want to have this out. There's a reason why none of your anchors publicly will try to challenge me on this because they will get intellectually smoked. And they know it. That's why they don't exactly buck slap. They know it's way to the I like that one too. But Amy klobishchar she's another one who you know, they want it to happen. They want Amy Klobisher to be a thing, you know, to be a political phenomenon. They want Kamala Harris. I mean, they're they're they're just there

and they don't have it. They don't have it. You think that a political ideology that has such dominance in the in college campuses, in news media, in entertainment media in a way that's you know, Netflix is now saying they're gonna pull back their investment in Georgia because of the Heartbeat Bill. You never see this in the other direction.

You never have a major media company say, you know that that state that wants to allow biological males to compete in athletics against biological females, We're just going to pull all of our business from that state. We don't do that. There is this emotional impulse that left us have it. They will indulge that brings them to it's not enough to disagree. They want to They want punishment. They want people to feel pain who don't agree with them. But well, we'll get back into why is Amy Klobaschar

not happening? He's back with you now, because when it comes to the fight for truth, the fuck never stops. Number of important Supreme Court decisions came down today. I want to spend us a little time with you going through what matters, why you care what happened here, without getting into all that much deeds Hill, But here's the quick thirty thousand foot view of what we saw in

the Supreme Court decisions that just came down. Liberals are very ideologically rigid, especially when it comes to the operate. When they have an opportunity on the court to get what they want, they make sure they go for it right. Conservatives still, just as a function of their approach to the law, try to leave things intact. They believe in starry decisives, they believe in precedent. They're not looking for every opportunity to just break down what was there before

and replace it with something else entirely right there. They don't do the Roe v. Wade approach. They don't make things up whole cloth because that's the way they want it to be. And so that means that the other side, the liberal justices, the activist justices on the court, they tend to get big winds thrown their way, whereas what we have is just a kind of judicial minimalism, right,

the respect of the law as it is. And even if Justice Scalia was perhaps the great example of this, even when he didn't like something and thought it might be wrong, he believed that if it was legal and constitutional, it was not his place to decide that it was wrong. It was to the people, and that Supreme Court justices are not there to decide what's best for the country. They're there to call balls and strikes with regard to the constitution. That's really it, and that was his approach.

You don't have that with liberal justices. They see the opportunity to hit a home run for their side and legislate from the bench, they go for it. So you had you had an abortion case. And abortion has become a big topic in recent recent months because of the renewed extremism, or perhaps just the more apparent extremism of the left on this issue up to and including the support of as we heard from Governor Ralph Northam. Oh,

what happened to Ralph Northam? Remember that guy at the photos and the black face who lied about it and said he wasn't sure it was him. It was him. The libs oh lips just swept that whole thing under the rug. That's right. You had the top three officials for the state government of Virginia, Northam, Harring and forgetting the guy's name see Fairfax, thank you all. I remembered, I remember, But this is how well they pushed uff down the memory hole. You just forget it. It's not

there anymore. Did any of them step down? No? Did any of them face any consequences? No? Why because if one went, there was the fear that all would go, and if all went, you'd have a Republican at the top of the government of the governor's ticket in Virginia based on the rules of succession. That succession not succession, just to be clear. So yeah, they just made that

whole They made that whole thing going. But you remember Northam was the one who talked about making an infant comfortable before it was aboarded outside the womb, and having a conversation with the mother about what to do with an outside there's a there's a better name for a fetus outside the womb. It's the more accurate, more precise, It's called a baby. What do you do with a baby?

And the answer is, according to Democrats, whatever the mother and the doctor decide, the baby does not have independent rights. It does not have legal protection of any kind. This is a rather horrifying thing for any human being to believe. But this is the this is the dogma of the left now, I mean, this is considered a kind of anti gospel among progressives. There is no there is no life there to protect. It does not matter my body, my choice. It's just slogans and anger and rage. You know.

I had actually a woman who figured out There was one woman who figured out who I was, so to speak, in California, among my travels among the far left libs there I was kind of undercover among the Libs in Los Angeles, and one of them figured out and the

first thing she wanted up talking about is abortion. And she said, why do you want to control my body, into which I looked at her and I thought, you know, there's a lot of ways I could go with this, but because that was certainly I have no interest in controlling this, particularly that this person or any person's body.

But I try to say to her, look, this is if you can understand that this is a discussion, or this is a debate over the second life, is that that has involved here, that there's a separate life, then we actually don't have much to talk about. If you don't think that a baby is a baby, I can't convince you that a baby is a baby. If you don't think that a human being with a brain, a heart, lungs, hands, fingers, fingernails is a human being, I don't know what to

say other than you're wrong. Right, So there's not a whole lot of a whole lot of room on this and I managed to kind of just get past it and get around the issue. But the left are are abortion extremists, and that's why today's decision was in a variety of ways, not just interesting for what it does right now, but also I think what it points to

down the line. You have this this case that involved a law passed in Indiana and signed by then Governor Pence now Vice President Mike Pence, and it required the fetal remains from a abortion to be disposed of separately, separately from the rest of what would be considered medical refuse, and to be either cremated or buried. Essentially, this law said that the fetal remains after an abortion are to be treated like the parts of a human being, which you know, if if when a person dies, they don't

throw the dead body on a trash heap. That is what they were doing with the And I know this is grizzly stuff, folks, but this is this is reality, and we deal in reality on this show. They do take the remains of an abortion, they throw it on to They put it in with medical refuse, with you know, use syringes and with you know, bloody cloths and just things that come from a doctor's They just throw it all in there, throw it all in together, thrown in

the trash, put it on a trash down. This law just said we're going to treat fetal remains as what they clearly are, which are the remains. It is the remains of a human being. I mean, if people want to argue that we won't extend legal personhood to that human being. I mean, it's a flawed argument, but at least it's an argument. But it's clearly this is a tiny These are tiny legs and arms and heads we're talking about. That's what's going on. And I mean I

have not forgotten. Still the most stomach churning and difficult news story I have had to cover was what we saw from the videotapes of the Center for Medical Progress and the sale of body parts for profit, that Planned Parenthood is engaged in the sale of fetal body parts for profit. That is what was happening. That was never that. They can call it heavily edited. They can lie and they can do the devil's work for him as much as they want. That is what was happening there. We

all know this. We saw the videos. It was not debunked. And man, did the forces of the organized left go after those individuals. David de Layden and the people that were working with him did everything in their power to ruin them, criminally prosecute them for the crime of journalism. They were willing to make undercover journalism a crime. All

of us sudden use wire tapping laws. I mean the left on this issue if you probe deeply, deeply enough, because it's it's again a threat to their power structure. It's a threat to the Democratic Party, to the left's grip on power in this country. But it's also a threat to their sense of moral superiority. One of the great and bizarre and obduse realities of our current time is that it is the leftists who think that they are decent and moral and kind, when in so many ways,

in so many places, they are anything. But their ideology is one of death and often misery and hypocrisy and despair and trying to do things in a way that reject both human nature and human history and try to replace it with empty promises. So there were two components of this Supreme Court ruling on the one had to do with the disposal of babies after an abortion and how they're to be supposed. And it isn't interesting that the plan parent, who would even fight that plan parent,

has a very when they were fighting. If they have they have a very clear interest in the dean the complete dehumanization of the fetus. Now, how do they square that with when a woman is pregnant and is murdered, for example, there'll be a double homicide charge. What's Planned Parenthood's legal position on that one, I would like to know. I'm not sure they've thought that far and figured it out.

They're just trying to do everything they can to protect this regime of infanticide and to continue running these abattoirs for infants known as plan Parenthood clinics across the country. Then you also have the prohibition in this law in Indiana on an abortion based upon sex, race, or possible

disability of a fetus. Now, the Planned Parenthood defense against this is why would somebody Why would you only why why would you only force somebody to have a baby if it, for example, had if they thought it was going to have Down syndrome. But somebody with a healthy baby could could do it anytime they want, and that that is an interesting line of logic, But I would or that is an intersting point for them to hold.

But it also note that what this really does, what this law shows is that abortion, in the way that the left defends it and calls it a right, it is a right. It's really a form of it. It's an open invitation to eugenics. This is a pure This is a purely eugenicist proposition, that getting rid of a baby because it's male or female instead of mail, or because it's the wrong race, or because it may have some disability. Uh, that is a that is a eugenicist proposition,

plain and simple. I mean, you can't really get around I mean this is and then you start to go And it's a reminder to the public of the eugenics roots of the abortion movement in this country, the abortion lobby and Planned Parenthood and Margaret Sanger, and that there has always been from the left, this promise that the

unwanted and this is from the left. This is the left disposition that the unwanted in society will be they'll be less of them because more will be aborted, and so it's a good thing for the rest of society. That is pure eugenics. That is that is and this is not an exaggeration. That is the position that the Nazis held. This was taken up by the Third Reich.

You know that we want They wanted to get rid of um disabilities in the general population by insisting on either sterilization or abortion for people that might have had a child with some congenital defect or the Nazis explicitly embraced this, and now you have planned parents saying no, if you if you really want a blue eyed baby, and you know this baby's gonna have brown eyes, and that's just you know, that's your decision, your body, your choice.

Could it get more immoral than this, my friends? I mean, could it be more clearly demonic than this? You know, I flew back from Los Angeles just a couple of days ago, and I you know, I do not I'm not yet married. I know you'd have my own kids. I sat beyond there was a really cute little baby in front of me, and the baby wasn't crying a lot, which is very nice. It is very and it was just smiling and like to sort of do the whole peekaboo thing in between the seats, and the mom was

really friendly. And I don't know what could be a greater gift in any in anyone's life, and any mother's life, in any father's life than having an adorable little baby. And I have never met somebody to this day, I've never met somebody who said, wow, I really wish I really wish I'd aborted my son or daughter. I have tragically met some people who have the opposite feeling of I really shouldn't have made the choice that I made

to terminate the pregnancy. So these Supreme Court decisions that came down today, while they weren't big wins for the pro life movement, they are illustrating the realities of what's going on. And I can just say this to you if you want to take I know this is a difficult conversation, but if you want to take something from this that is at least hope, this regime of abortion and all nine months of a pregnancy funded by your tax dollars. By the way, it is funded by your

tax dollars, It's going to end. I can't tell you when, and I can't tell you how, but it will end. And just as we look back on some other periods in our history as how could that much and it wasn't everyone involved in it, it wasn't everywhere, But how could so much evil an im around have flourished in an otherwise great and just and decent country. We will look back at this, this period of the last fifty years or so, assuming it ends within fifty year. Who knows,

I'd say, how could this have been the case? How could a moral and otherwise moral country have allowed this to go on? We'll have more on this, friends, and I do want to talk to you about this show scher Noble that I because they are important lessons. I'm not just going to sit here and play TV critic, although sometimes I like to do that. That's kind of fun, but I'm not really going to do that. There's some important takeaways from watching that miniseries, and HBO will get

to that and more. Stay with it. What is wrong with Justin Amash? What is this guy's problem? Why is he doing a CNN town hall where was just earlier today? I think? Am I am? I right on this one. Yeah, just this just happened when we're on air to the CNN town hall where he's trashing Trump, calling for impeachment of the president, saying the Attorney General deliberately misrepresented the

Mule report. I mean with with Republican friends like Amash Amash, Am, I think it's Amash, you know, who needs crazy left wing enemies? You know, really, I think it's for an ask what is this guy's problem? Can Democrats never have this? Democrats never have defections fromin their own res you know why, because this suits. The enticements, the goodies that the left can offer people are just it's they just induced the sellouts, they really do. You know. It's the uh, it's the

Jeff Flake maneuver. Oh you know, I don't want the left, and I'm gonna be the rogue Republican that occasionally has nice words said about him by the left. I'm gonna go rogue on my own side so that no stop selling out I mean for him to say. And I just thoroughly disagree with Amasher on the merits. The attorney General didn't misrepresent anything, all right. If he misrepresented it, then tell me what he misrepresented and bring charges against

the president, you punk, But you won't, none of them will. Man. You know, It's really what it is is Trump just drives these people nuts. There are just certain people who can't handle that this guy that they believe so firmly is terrible in the job and should never have the job. It's actually doing a pretty good job. They just they

can't deal. They can't deal anyway, cher Noble. It's an incredible show, but there are lessons about government and bureaucracy that I take from it that I want to share with you that'll be coming up in the top of the hour. I mean, it's an incredible mini series and it's haunting and terrifying, and it's true. It makes it much more powerful. We'll get to that well of the good we did, it doesn't matter. What doesn't matter is that to them justice was done. See a just world.

There's a sane world. There was nothing sane about Chernobyl. I'm pleased to report that situation in Chernobyl estate. In terms of radiation, I'm told it's the equivalent of a chest X ray. No. Chernobyl is on fire and every atom of uranium is like a bullet, penetrating everything in its path, metal, concrete, flash not Chernobyl holds over three trillions of these bullets. So this is this is the betrailer for HBO's Sure Noble mini series, which I have to tell you all is I think the best thing

on television scripted show on television right now. It's it's absolutely worth watching if you even have to go on your TV and pay to just download it and watch it on demand. In some I think there are ways you can do that now even with HBO shows, you can buy it. If you don't have HBO, it's worth it. I think it's five or six episodes. I have not seen it all the way through. I've seen the first three episodes of it, and it's it's excellent. And it's

excellent for a number of reasons. One it's just the writing, the production value from what I understand, the accuracy of the costuming and the the shots, the way they set up this cinematography so you see you know the different components of the burning reactor, and it's all just very, very true to life that they really recreated this in a way that it's like a fast paid scripted documentary almost. There's nothing kind of silly or out of place about it.

But even more importantly, it is not as a reminder of a pretty shocking historical incident that I think has really gotten lost. And I'll tell you this truthfully, I'm not someone who knew much. I knew that Chernobyl there was a there was a meltdown, although from watching the mini series, which you see, is that it's more than a meltdown. The reactor exploded. It was a situation that if they did not get an under control. They were going to be irradiating the continent of Europe and who

knows what else. But the real reason why it's so worthwhile for you to watch is that I put Chernobyl in a kind of similar category to say, the lives of others, the German movie about the East German The Sorry, the German language movie about the East East Berlin Stazi, the Secret Police, and you watch the lives of others

and you understand what a real modern day tyranny is like. Well, what is tyranny in an advanced Western European country, What would tyranny look like in you know, the nineteen sixties, What would tyranny have felt like for everyday people? And this is why some of the most powerful anti Soviet

writing that was ever done. And obviously East Germany was part of the behind the Iron Curtain, part of the Soviet Union, and you had the Berlin Wall because of the separation of the West and the Soviet Soviet power. But it gives you some of the most powerful stuff is the description that you can get from people of the day to day what does it really like to

live under a totalitarian gime? What is it like when you cannot question authority when government officials make all of the important decisions for you in your life, whether you realize it or not. And how soul crushing that is, how dysfunctional it is. It's a reminder of what makes freedom precious to all of us. But what is so I think has such a great impact so profound about watching Chernobyl other than it's just a very good viewing experience.

I mean, it will suck you in and it's something that I think we'll stay with you for quite some time. Is the way that it shows you bureaucracy, I mean true, sclerotic, completely immovable bureaucracy and action. And what do incompetent government officials who are not in any way accountable to the people,

what do they do? What is their first impulse, even in the face of an unbelievable risk and a tremendous tragedy, even when you would think that your basic humanity If you were one of these government bureaucrats, and they take you through the various meetings of the you know, the local Communist party officials, the higher up sort of regional Communist Party officials, all the way up to the equivalent of the true energiesar, you know, not like the csars

we have here. But well, I guess it's not really a ZAR there either. They got rid of the ZAR. But they walk you through these different these different meetings, these discussions, and I'm sure that they're recreating the dialogue and all that, but it does show you that the number one goal of the bureaucracy, and this is something I say to you. And look some of the conversations that they have about this nuclear explosion and the reactor.

You know, it kind of reminds me of the approach I used to see from some people in the CIA and in the government just in general. Whenever something goes bad, the first reaction of the government bureaucrat is not, oh my gosh, what does this mean for the people they're supposed to be public servants. The first reaction is are we going to get in trouble? Is one of us going to get fired? Is the institution that we work

for are going to come into public disrepute? Will there possibly be a cutting of the budget, Will there be hearings? Because they don't have a product, so they're not really process, as I always say, is the product of bureaucracies. Bureaucracies often exist to exist much of the workforce in any especially a government bureaucracy is just there because there have to be people there. They don't particularly do anything, they don't do very much, and that you see in real time.

But then when you get into okay, you're faced with with true catastrophe. And you you heard some of there in that introduction your face. With the possibility of mass mass cancer cases and people dying and rady dying from radiation poisoning is from what I understand, one of the most painful and horrific ways you can go. It's like

being burned from the inside out. And you know, and this is what the and these bureaucrats all they want to make sure is that they're not in trouble and that the Communist Party looks good and that the Soviet Union looks good. And it was all about CYA cover or I guess maybe CYB cover your butt. That's rule number one in every bureaurous. Well, now, rule number one is process is the product, and rule number two is

cover your butt. And this is in a way a reminder of how you know, government is not your friend. Government is not there to keep you safe and warm. Government is not about making you feel better about yourself at night. Government should have very limited processes that it engages in, very limited missions, very limited scope. That it also has to have accountability to the people. And when you have an unaccountable bureaucracy, which we have in this

country too. This is not just in this over Union. We have unaccountable federal bureaucracies, hello deep State trying to get rid of Trump. Things can get out of control very quickly. And that's why when I look at this I watched this Chernobyl miniseries. The mentality of these these communists, I mean true commies, right, not commedies in the way that I like to throw the term around. Is just a general disparagement for psycholibs, although it works for them too.

But these real ideologically driven communist party officials who when faced with a reality that is that is not favorable to the interests of their party and of the bureaucratic mechanisms that it represents and overseas, they just insist on inverting reality. They insist that the truth is not true. That's what's false is correct. That's the response you get and from all the you know, the God that failed.

I've mentioned that to you before, the writings of former communists who turned on communism, including Richard right here in the United States and many others. It's I think almost You can download it online for free, I believe, but I'm not sure it's even really in print anymore. You can get it in some places, probably get on an Amazon for twenty bucks or something. It is well worth the read. It's excellent, and it just part of the process of understanding the failures of a communist system, of

any truly authoritarian system. Part of the ability to understand it has to be premised always in they don't care what happens to people. It's never about the people. That's why they're always naming everything the people's army, the people's palace, the people's this, the people's that they protest too much about the people, because it's never about the people. It's about them and their power and protecting that power and

those privileges. And that's what Your Noble, this mini series shows you in a way that will it will stay with you, it will haunt you. So I highly highly recommend you watch Your Noble. I do think it is the best thing on TV right now, and I'm going to finish the last episode tonight. So as far as China is concerned they were gonna make a deal, I think they probably wish they made the deal that they had on the table before they tried to renegotiate it.

They would like to make a deal. We're not ready to make a deal, and we're taking in tens of millions of dollars of tariffs, and that number could go up very, very substantially, very easily. But I think sometime in the future China and the United States will absolutely have a great trade deal, a great trade deal. The President says, well, we've got billions and billions of dollars

at stake. The market seem to be a little spooked lately about what the future is here, what should we expect, and is the President still on the right track when it comes to China. Some are saying this could be one of the biggest determining factors in how our economy does in what's going to be a very contentious election cycle. We've got our friend Gordon Chang joining us now as the author of the Coming Collapse of China. Gordon, great

to have you back. So much buck. How is Trump doing with all of this and does the current situation visa be China surprise you? Yeah, I think Trump's doing actually very well on trade, and the reason is that she's taken of mark departure from his predecessors. But it was something that absolutely needed to happen. You know, as for whether I'm surprised or not, we have always thought that there were impediments on the Chinese side to a

trade deal. Treasury Secretary Stephen Manuchen I think ignored them, but it was clear that there were problems inside the political system there, and now it's evidence that there are because China's we're talking about a people's war against the United States. In other words, we're the enemy of China and the Chinese people. Also, they talk about the economic system be a core interest quote unquote, and in Chinese Communist Party lingo, that is something that they can go

to war over. So clearly, right now we're not in a point where there can be an agreement between the

two sides. Do you think that there's a component of this where they're trying to wait out and see what happens in the election and the hopes that if there were to be a Democrat, any Democrat who defeated Trump, there would be an expectation that they'd be in a better position and maybe could just make this whole, this whole trade dispute in a sense, or least America's willingness to stand up to China when it comes to trade go away. I think that there maybe some elements in

the Chinese political system that think that way. You know, we saw, for instance, when the Molar report was released, China became much more interested in talking to President Trump, and I think that they probably were waiting for the release of that long anticipated document, you know, when it

comes to the election. I'm not so sure, because that's more than a year away, and I'm not so sure that Chinese officials think that they can actually wait that period of time, because if there were no deal until after the November twenty elections, a lot of companies would have in the interim made the decision to leave China, and I don't think the Chinese believed that that's a good thing for them and that they could withstand a

substantial reduction in their manufacturing sector. So Gordon, what should the Trump administration do? Stick to stick to its guns on this one. Should they hold fast? What is this the correct approach? Because right now, I think there a lot of people who view this. I mean I hear them on a regular basis, talking on TV, writing articles saying, just imagine how economy would be doing if Trump hadn't engaged in this back and forth with China. What do you say to that, Yes, long term, we have to

do this. You know, China is stealing somewhere between one hundred and fifty and six hundred billion dollars worth of US intellectual property each year. That's a grievous wound to the US and we've got to stop it. Now. People may say tariffs are not the way to do it, but if you take that position, then you're probably arguing for even more coercive measures. So tariffs are sort of

an inferim way. I think the President is going to find that He's probably going to go to even more drastic measures eventually, because the Chinese are going to force him to do that. And unfortunately, this is a fight that we have to have. But fortunately this is a perfect time for us to do so, because our economy is robust and the Chinese economy is increasingly fragile. Yeah,

what's going on with the Chinese economy right now? I mean how much of a how much pain are they feeling as a result of their intransigence on these trade issues the Trump administration is pushing back on. Yeah, the Chinese economy is not growing at the six point four percent pace that they claim for the first quarter of this year. It's probably in the onesies, maybe even in the twosies that we're seeing, for instance, important indicators pointing

negative at the end of last year. In December, an important Chinese professor in Beijing said, look, the Chinese economy in twenty eighteen is going to grow no more than one point six to seven percent, maybe even contract And there has really been no substantial improvement since then. A matter of fact, there's been some more negative factors that have occurred since December. So China right now is in trouble, especially because it's accumulating get sustainable pace, and I think

the Chinese are getting nervous. We're seeing this because people are starting to put money in gold and in hard currencies, and that's not a good sign for China. You know, Gordon I was just over there, and I know I spoke to you before I went over to China. I was in Beijing and Shanghai, as the audience knows, and there were a lot of different China experts that had been studying the issue for decades that I had access

to it. I was able to spend a lot of time with over there, and one thing that that seemed to come up in a bunch of different contexts was just the that the deterioration in US China relations has gone beyond just a trade dispute into feelings of negativity toward America and perhaps even toward Americans among at least some segments of the Chinese population. What's your take on that. Yeah, I think that there probably has been some it's probably widespread.

But also widespread is a real concern that China be able to make it through this, largely because they are dependent on the US economy and US producers and consumers. So at some point, you know, I think that we're going to see a divorce between the United States and China, largely because Cgping has dug in his heels and he has actually started to talk in terms that make it very difficult to have it that trade deal. When you say,

people's war. You bran the United States an enemy that's going to have consequences, and so yes, Chinese people may like us a lot less, but unfortunately this is something that we have to go through. And the Trump administration manages to get the Chinese to finally sign a deal that you would say, that's the deal we want to sign. How just by staying where staying with the positions they have right now the only way to get their buck because right now the Chinese are nowhere close to that.

The only way to get there is to have the Chinese feel that they're on the point of extinction and if they have choice. Wow, all right, Gordon shaying everybody authored the Coming Collapse of China. Gordon, nooys, appreciate you making the time for us. We'll talk to you soon. Thank you so much. Fuck all right, Jame, we got more coming up. Stay with us. Country is stronger, safer, and with more jobs because our president has made his

every move correct. Don't be fooled by the political left, because we are the people of this nation that is witnessing triumph. So let us stand with our president. Let us stand up for this truth that President Trump is the greatest president since Abraham Lincoln. God bless America and may God continue to guide this nation. John Void man look at him, let it, letting it go there, given and given us some of the good stuff, saying that

President Trump is the greatest president since Abraham Lincoln. That's got a lot of attention of the weekend. John Void who is a very good actor. I mean I've seen him in a lot of a lot of stuff, most recently in the show not Michael Clayton, what's it called, Mark? What's the show about? The guy who's the fixer in uh in Hollywood? He kind of is like, you know, the black bag guy who takes care of problems for people. He's got an Irish name. He's from Boston. I can't remember.

Don't even have a clue what you're talking. Oh yeah, it's it's Leev Schreiber. Everyone's yelling right now at the radio. They know they know what I'm talking about. But it's it's some show where he anyway, John voids in that he plays. He's does a good job as the kind of ne'er do well father figure that comes in to just just mess everything up for everyone. But here at

hold On, I have to I can't. I can't do this thing where I don't know the name of the show that I'm talking about, So Leef Schreiber Showtime, what's it called? Ray Donovan? Thank you Ray Donovan. Sorry, guys, I know that drives me crazy, right, and I can't bring things up and not know when I'm bringing up here on the show. But John Voyd does a very good job on that. It's it's funny to me because I was just out in, just out in Los Angeles, and I did have the experience of kind of infiltrating

a few a few precincts. I mean, I spent most of my time in LA and some of you my laugh in Venice Beach, which is far left, Santa Monica, which is also far left, but like a little richer far left, I think is what you'd say, a little more elitist far left. And then West Hollywood, which is known as being a very prominent gay area of Los Angeles, but also does you know, there's a lot of just restaurants and other things there that are fun to go to and check out at night. So it's a very

vibrant neighborhood with a lot of stuff going on. That's where I spent but it's very liberal. All these are very liberal areas, even for Los Angeles. I did make it into Beverly Hills for a little while. Well hello, Beverly Hills, you're looking you're looking, well, you're The recent work you've had done on those kles has been fantastic.

So I spent some time around there and I talk to people, and it is fun because I usually I don't launch into hey, I'm a I'm a conservative radio host, because then they would start melting in front of me, and it's it's like I would be walking human kryptonite. But I am in a position to say, well, I work for the Hill and maybe I'll let them think that I'm a journalist and I have a scruffy beard, and they kind of figure that i'm And man, did I get just in different places of the week that

I was there, out at restaurants and bars. I have a lot of friends in Los Angeles. Did I get a double dose of left wing stupidity? I mean, I just got so much. There's such an an incredible amount of ignorance, but also a kind of fervent ignorance that you get among the entertainment industry lives there are particularly they're they're militantly they're militantly stupid. They believe very very strongly in what they believe and though almost nothing about it.

And that's also where I think a deep insecurity comes in. Whenever you try to engage them in a conversation, they become emotional because it's really not about the issue. They get angry. You just drive a lot of libs, but with Hollywood libs man even more so. They get angry because the moment they're challenged, then there's this recognition that they might have to explain why it is they think

what they think, and they're exposed. They feel like a whold On a second, if I actually have to explain to somebody why I believe these things, why I think these things, then perhaps they'll figure out that I don't really know, that it's really a fashion, that there's a virtue signal like I saw I think it was a a quote by Oh Gosh, I can't remember now, but I saw a quote recently about how I think it was Russell Kirk that liberally is m appeals the most

to people's vanity, and that's why it's so such a powerful force. It appeals to human vanity, whereas conservatism is rooted in human reality, which is more difficult to understand and deal with. It's so true, man, That's that's the politics of Hollywood. Whatever appeals to an individual's vanity, that's what they believe. Rock and roll, fellow patriots, we made ours go up to eleven. It's time for roll call, Roll call time, everybody, Facebook dot com s last Buck Sexton.

I am here in the swamp. I don't know why I'm being all sing songy about it, but yeah, yeah here we are much to discuss, much to talk of out, so let's get right to it. Uh. Erond writes no podcast since the last Thursday on Stitcher. iHeart I'm in Las Vegas, Nevada. Aaron, I hope that's not true. That's certainly not supposed to be true. So I don't know what to say about that. Is that is that right? Producer? Mark? Are we is there? Nothing? It's there? It's there, I

promise all right. Mark says it's there, and I argue with Mark at my peril. So guys, you know, please check again and see it always. I think some of you now just like to toy with my emotions and tell me that there's no podcast when there is a podcast, aren't it there is a podcast? Please tell me there's a podcast up. So yeah, good times, ah, Eric writes Buck,

welcome back from China. What are the fewest steps that would mostly fix the border problem and pause asylum or dictate that a solemic quests he made outside the country build the wall. The wall is useless if they can walk up with a key phrase like I fear persecution and be allowed into the country. Can't President Trump, whom I love and thank God for, do an executive action? Wouldn't something like that blow up in our face with

so called like so called family separation did? Also, you're so spot on about Aquaman, so much money and effort to end up with a hot mess. It is a mockery. Shields high, thank you, Eric, It is a look. I'm sticking to my guns on this one. It is a mockery. I think Aquaman was terrible. If you enjoyed it, folks, if you thought that it was a good movie, sorry, I just knocked over like half of the freedom Hut gosh, darnett, get your stuff, get your stuff together. If you enjoyed it.

Good for you, man. I mean, you know, there are lots of the movies that I like. I mean, there's music that I listened to that I don't want to tell you all about, you know, I don't want to make you all think like, oh my gosh, Buck listens to that. And it's not just t Swift that I'm embarrassed about. There's other stuff too. There is some other stuff. I mean, if the right Natalie and Brulia song comes on, do I kind of groove out to those tunes? How

many of you even know who Nalian Brually is? You know what's funny, There are a bunch of people listening to this right now who know exactly who I'm talking about. They're like, oh, and then they're in their head they're humming the tune. I'm already tone all right, Sorry about that, I know, I apologize. What else did Eric? Oh? Eric? Sorry? Eric asked me real questions about real things. So let me give that the attention and deference that it deserves.

In terms of fixing the border problem, yes, you're correct. A wall's not going to fix the asylum request issue. They can just walk up to a wall and find the entry way, because all the walls do have places of entry or ways that you can get around it or even through it or over it. And then when they're caught, because remember, part of what the wall does is just down a legal entry so that it's easier to get caught. But if they get caught, they say,

I have a credible fear. If they don't get caught, but then they're in the country pretty easy, right, and the president's executive orders. The problem there what slows them down on all that is the judges who come out and say, sorry, you're not allowed to You're not allowed to do that thing, these universal injunctions that come down. All it takes is one federal judge to decide that it's not allowed anymore. And that's kind of the end of it. Tim writes for Roll Call with lots of

exclamation points. I did appreciate the Casablanca reference last week. Solid Beto impression. I'd pay good money, so you do Beto with Ben Shapiro doing Chris Matthews and Crowder doing his Bernie keep up the good work. I really do hope your message about the borders getting through to the White House, well, thank you, Tim, and that would be fun. Shapiro doing Shapiro doing Chris Matthews, Crowder doing Bernie Buck doing betto You know, maybe many should put that out

there in the ether. That would be a fun little segment we could all do together, and I think it would work. It would work very well. Julie, Right, hey, Buck, great show on Friday. I'm glad you're back from China. Well, Julie, that makes two of us a little too much. A little too much brown sauce, which is just a fancy way of saying soy sauce. Which is a fancier way of saying gluten sauce. That's right, soy sauce number two ingredient. Check it out yourself. Wheat, very little soy in soy sauce.

It should be called wheat sauce, which is essentially a form of poisoning Buck. So we don't like that. Oh and by the way, Julie says, all the guest hosts were good or enjoyable. I'm wondering if it's ever been explained why Christopher Steel was desperate to stop Trump. I may have missed that in a disaster of the last two years. Maybe because he was desperate for a paycheck. If you ever go back the Freedom Up podcast, maybe you can do a listening contest for the next guest.

Not everyone has an interesting life, but I bet some of your or a listener contest, but I bet some of your listeners do. Thanks, Julie, Julie. Christopher Steele, I'm sure is just like so many others. I mean, this is what I would guess. I don't know this, so I just this is my surmising or my analyzing of the circumstances. But Christopher Steele is someone who is very much I'm sure of the internationalist establishment mindset, and that means that he've used Trump as a tremendous threat to

the establishment. That Trump is somebody who up ends not just the systems that the establishment relies on, but also the sense of importance and control and sense of self that so many people who rely on various institutions, you know, they feel like, well, what is it all about? If someone like Trump can come along and do a better job and maybe even disrespect or disregard some of these nose worms and some of these established ways of doing business.

So there was a very widespread revulsion among the elites against Trump. Of course, the great irony in there is that Trump is himself at least a billionaire of some level. We don't know exactly how much, but a billionaire, and so is financially speaking, in the true elite. But they view him as a traitor to his class. Now let's see here, Richard writes, buck happy hellos from the Hoosier about the app adversity score. Nonsense. A third of someone's

score is based on where you live. Let's say I'm well off and live in the suburbs of Chicago and Indiana. What's to stop me from buying a rundown house in Gary, Indiana, claim that as my primary residence and boosting my kids score so he gets into college, never really moving, and then selling it after This whole thing is stupid. I

agree on Aquaman too. If the people of Atlanta's have the power to do all this amazing stuff, unlimited power, and get all sea left to do as they please, they could pick up the trash on the ocean floor and not could have war with humanity. Bad premise but fun special effects shield hide. Yeah, Richard, not a look. I'm not trying to beat up on the pro Aquaman side, although is that what I'm doing right now? Am I squishing you pro aquaman people? Like a bunch of tender

calamari in my hand? That was my squishy noise. I don't know if that really even worked, just kind of sounded like, I well, anyway, it was a squishy noise of calamari in my hand. But let's move on back.

Let's just go to the next one. Oh but no, your point about changing your residence as a means of finding a way around or scheming gaming the system on the adversity score for application processes, I don't know if that would work, but I'm sure they're going to be all kinds of ways that people try to scheme it. You know, the rules we keep trying to move around.

It's hard enough to determine what is a fair minded you know, it's hard enough to determine what is a a an honest approach to weighing, engaging merit and skill and expertise. When you start adding all these other externalities into it, it it just becomes a mess. So, you know, I think that there will be ways that people can gain the system, and they will gain the system. I would also say this, you know, as a random aside, I don't want me think of this. I saw a

young woman. When I say a young woman, probably thirty. I saw a young woman who was also in her thirties like me, at a at a bar when I was in a Hollywood and I looked at her for a a second and I thought, where have I seen this person before? Because she looked very, very familiar, and and we kind of stared at each other for a second, and it turned out that she was I felt I knew her as maybe she was a friend, but I

am in Los Angeles. I should have known better. She was one of the actresses from the show Friday Night Lights, which I liked very much as a TV show, even though in a lot of ways it's ridiculous and the second season goes completely off the rails and there's a lot of there's a lot of stuff that was problematic about the show, but overall I felt that it kind of carried its weight and did a pretty good job.

But she was one of the characters introduced in the last I guess two seasons of the show and I said, oh, Friday Night Lights, you're in Friday Lights and she kind of said, you know, yeah, And I talked to her for a minute. I tell you, not very friendly, so kind of kind of disappointing, because here I have somebody who really liked the show, and you know, you just you don't want to meet You don't want to meet the actors a lot of times from the shows that

you like that much. I will tell you she was a little she was a little prickly, I'd say. And I wasn't. I swear I wasn't even. I was just being being a nice, normal dude sitting there. Wasn't trying to get a phone number or anything like that. All right, Gina, Oh okay, here we go, She says, she can't get on the iHeart. You know, guys, I don't know. I think that we're up on iHeart. It should it should work. Here, Here we go. Lynn rights, hey Bock. I wondering if

you're in Iraq in two thousand and nine. Wondered if that's you, Lynn. I was not there in oh nine. But thank you so much for writing in. Thank you for your service, Frank. I just finished reading Conquistador on your recommendation. Wow, was it good part of history. I had no clue about BLUs. I had this thought that Cortez easily defeated the Aztecs. Boy was I wrong. Well, Frank, I'm really glad you enjoyed it, man. I thought it was a was a great a great book, a great read.

You know. I'm almost done with Dune, the Frank Herbert sci fi novel, which you know, I've really never read much in the way of sci fi before, And I've got to say, I mean, he's an incredible storyteller and the intricate see of his descriptions and the story that he weaves. And I think this book was published in the sixties. It holds up very very well. Almost done

with it, in all eight hundred pages. I started reading it when I was in China, and I got a little distracted in Los Angeles, but I'm coming back to it now. I think it was I think it was pretty good. All right, team, Uh, that's gonna be it for today in the Freedom Hunt. Thank you as always for being here. I appreciate it. Please do if you have not already subscribed to the podcast, and I will talk to you tomorrow same time and place shields Hi