Mixed Memo Emotions

That's eight four four nine hundred to eight to five the Future of talk radio. Buck Sexton. Welcome to the Buck Sexton Show. Everybody, great to have you with me, honor, privilege, and pleasure. Have you in the Freedom Hut eight four or four nine buck eight four or four nine hundred to eight two five. Should you have any thoughts, opinions, queries, sonnets, high coups. Actually don't call him with the high ku because that's just but you're welcome call him with anything

you want. Actually, so please do give us a ring. Let us know what your thoughts are on all things. We have much to discussed today. Obviously, gonna take a trip down Memo Lane. You gotta get into the latest on release the memo. Man I got. I got mixed emotions, mixed feelings about what this is all gonna turn into. I'm seeing all this reporting, including right on Fox News, that it's about to happen, not like while I'm on air,

although wouldn't that be interesting. Probably tomorrow, people are saying maybe Monday. As I have told people earlier today when I was on out Numbered on Fox News, which the show I love doing. It's great show. It's really fun, it's really uh good conversation, upbeat, really like it. Um, but that was earlier to then, and I just said, look, there's there's not a there's not another option here other than release the memo. There's no other Hey, what do

you to this point? I mean, this is this is like you're gonna turn this memo into the into the roswell, you know, landings and aliens and stuff. You can't do that. Oh yeah, We've been talking about this for weeks. It's been a NonStop news cycle on the memo. But you know what, Sorry America, think about what that message. I mean, it's actually gone to the point where it's almost comical.

I know, it's about really serious stuff. Think about what the message would be that this is sending neither the President nor the Congress really has the ability the right to tell the American people about what a subservient branch I'm sorry, subservient part of not branch part of the government has been up to. Yeah, that's a good precedent to set to set. Let me tell you one of the things that most separates us from all these scary

countries around the world. And people will talk about fascism and a police state somebody who knows something about how intelligence works in this country, but also in other countries too. One of the things about different intelligence agencies is they spend a lot of time learning about what intelligence is like in other countries. Right, And here's a sign of

a country that you've got to be concerned about. When you're i think, when you're talking about liberty and rule of law and civil rights and all that all that good stuff. When the intelligence agencies or agency, if it's kind of one super agency, when they are accountable to no one except the leader, and in fact, in many ways are more powerful than the leader, then you've got

a really bad situation going on. And what you will also see historically is that there are plenty of times when whoever was running the intelligence agency of any given country, And this is definitely in the in the twentieth century, and that's when we really have had the whole notion of a modern intelligence organization. Right before that, it was

very different. And before you had mass communication and you know, it was tough to be doing stuff at a certain speed and uh before you had phones, right before you had radio. Um. But you had people that would be senior in the intelligence agency who would end up running the country, right people that were the higher ups of whatever the internal security service was, and they end up

running the country. That's because they can amass so much power because if they don't have any restrictions on the information they can get on people. Think of what that means for their sway in politics, even if they don't have elections, although you know a lot of countries have elections that are for show. And you look at some of the different stands for example, and you got, yeah, their elections, the one candidate wins percent of the vote

and has for the last thirty years. But there are elections. I always love that too. What's why not just go? You know, why stop at ninety eight or I just want to maybe so they put some people on notice. It's like, hey, maybe we could say later on that you were part of that naughty two percent that didn't vote for the same guys running the country for twenty

or thirty years. The bottom line here, folks, is you can't have an intelligence and law enforcement apparatus that is above the law and above people, above the people, we the people. You just can't do it. And this whole conversation has, I think, on so much more damage, so much more damage to our trust and faith and institutions then was necessary. Does anyone really think that the FBI doesn't have people who make mistakes? I also noticed that we're so focused in the f I. FBI is a

subsidiary of the Department of Justice. This is all really d o J. And the d o J was run by recently Loretta Lynch and before that Eric Holder. Anybody really think that they were running a shop that wasn't political. Come on, right, we all know, we're all we're all big boys and girls here. We all know this. This is not surprising. And I've been trying to avoid what the Democrats want us to do here, which is to

make this all about the institutions. Oh, they've been complaining the institutions from the very beginning, and I always want to respond to them. In this instance, what could be a bigger abuse? I mean, if we're not worried about the FBI, the d o J involving itself in a partisan fashion, or really in any fashion, and a presidential election hoping to turn it one way or the other by using spying powers, If that doesn't worry us, what's

the point of having an over site committee. I mean, if Congress isn't going to use and and look I think they have and they will and probably tomorrow we're gonna find out what's in this memo and everything else. But if they're not going to use their oversight powers for this, then what do they have oversight powers? Now, let's let's all just keep it real here, let's not

get caught up in the nonsense. There is just, frankly, no way that this memo was going to be suppressed, That that was gonna be okay, that was never gonna be okay. I've been trying to tell you all along here. Uh. And I actually went to Twitter today just so I kind of had a written version of my prediction for what's gonna happen. You know what, We're gonna talk about some other stuff on the show too, because I'm sure

you start to get memo fatigue. I got memo fatigue, and one of the things that keeps me going with it it is just every time I want to move off the memo and talk to you. But you know, like we talked Cartel's North Korea, we cover a lot of ground near the economy clearly right. My latest s campades in the kitchen with cooking. I'll tell you about that too later on a lot of things. Netflix shows

action movie quotes. You know you listen. But every time I see a false narrative from the left about this memo, I'm like, no, no, no, no, no, I'm not I can't let them get away with it. I almost have a compulsion two shoot down their lies because it bothers me. It really does bother me. And they've tried so many different dishonest and in some cases quite slimy tricks to either make the memo go away. You're making it's not a big deal. I've written out what I think is

going to happen. So here's my my memo prediction for tomorrow, and we'll see how accurate I am based on this. Number One, Fusion GPS dossier usage confirmed for FISA warrant. I think we will see the Fusion GPS played a role here. Now we already think that that it will be confirmed, which is different. That is different, Okay. Number two other unspecified things still kept classified, also part of the warrant. Now I can't tell you what that is.

I don't have access anymore, which is a good thing because if I did, I couldn't talk to you about any of this anymore. But that's I think gonna be a part of this as well, which then leads into number three. Democrats will argue that this is a tiny part of the overall picture. So you're gonna have the the GPS dossier Hillary APO was used by the spying apparatus at least in some level, in some way to look at Trump people. I think that will be confirmed tomorrow.

These are my predictions. And then the Democrats will say, well, but those other stuff, and so therefore number three here is that they will argue, this is a tiny part of the overall picture. What's the other stuff? Oh, I can't tell you that sources and methods, sources and methods. The number four is going to be the the d o J. However, to anybody who is being honest about this looks bad. And what I mean by that is

this was a presidential election. Everyone the the threshold, the bar or what should be needed to use the spying apparatus of the United States government, and we're talking to high level stuff here, the threshold for using that against

a presidential campaign. You know, I remember, you know, when I was working on the intelligence side that we got so many lectures and ethics training and had legal repercussions and ramifications like you do not mess around on US soil with a B or C. You do not do these things, those things, And it was really and FISA is treated within the community at least it used to

be as highly sensitive, very close hold stuff. And you you know, and if you ever were to have abused FISA in any way, it was not you were I mean, the least of your problems was gonna be that you were getting fired. Right, So, given that that the Department or Justice could have allowed this to happen, even if it is not immediately provable that this was just a political hit, on Trump. Based on what they released probably tomorrow, they're just gonna look like a combination d O J

is gonna look incompetent and dishonest. Now, not the whole place, not everybody, but those individuals that were involved in this doesn't it does not pass the smell test that they would have done this that. Think about it this way. Everyone, you're in the room, okay, and put yourself This is a very useful exercise with any of these highly political government cases stories that we've been talking about here. Put

yourself in the shoes. You're in the room, and so and says, hey, so, I think you know, I've got a couple of sources that are saying something about Trump Russia. By the way, that was out there in the open source, right, there's a lot of people say, oh Trump and Russia, and there's all these connections. I've even heard rumors with no factual basis, Oh Russia, organized crime. Trump. People just

say this stuff. Right, it's a presidential campaign. You're sitting in the room and they go, hey, you know what, I've got this guy who's doing work for the d n C. Now maybe they didn't know that, but who knows what they know we're finding that out. I've got this guy that was doing work for the d n C and and he's got some really really bombshell level stuff on Trump. Uh, why don't we just whyn we just start tapping some phones and some people around Trump

and see what's going on with that. That that would not send up the biggest, brightest red flags for any honest government employee at that level within the d o J is mind boggling. It's just mind boggling. And so then that brings me to again playing our game here of are you in the are you in the shoes of the government bureaucrat that praised me what they had to know that this was bad and they did it anyway, probably because I thought Hillary would win. They get away

with it. But also never forget that if they had ever gotten information during this surveillance that was truly game over for Trump, it would have been game over for Trump. It was a risk that they were taking too. They could have been heroes, the heroes of the hashtag resistance. Oh and then number five on my list, so number

one was the Fusion GPS dossier confirmed. Number two other unspecified things also part of the five's activity number Three, Democrats will argue this a tiny part of the overall picture. Four D O J top level will look bad. Five And this is the annoying part everyone. But I'm just gonna tell you the Russia conspiracy theory lives on. It's not gonna go away based on this memo. But this is a battle I think that the Democrats are about

to lose. Is just a question how badly what kind of casualties, so to speak, does the Russia collusion conspiracy narrative take once this memo is out there on the street, and you know it could be tomorrow, which I mean, well, a very interesting freestyle Friday. I mean tomorrow night. You're always welcome to call with action movie quotes. But things could get things could get feisty tomorrow night on this radio show if we got a memo to work with. So there is that I see some lines lit. Do

feel free to call in. We've got lines open here in the Freedom Hunt. We've got a lot more to discuss. Talk about Trump's visit to West Virginia today. Also, maybe I'll get to this, Uh, this teacher on California, he's just saying idiotic, terrible stuff about the military, you know, they're there're really only a few things left in the country that you you publicly degrade at your peril, no matter who you are, there are only a few things left,

you know. Unfortunately, the military is still one of them. So I can't imagine how anybody could be so thoughtless and so dumb. But we might get into a little bit of a discussion there as well, because I want to. I want to address some of the idiotic points that were made. Um and I got a whole lot of stuff talking about, so when he had a quick break, and we'll be right back. The neat media is part

of the deep state. The elite media group has survived by being in collusion with the senior bureaucracy, the City of Washington, the senior reporters, the senior bureaucrats, the senior lobbyists. They all hang out together, They all talked to each other, they all compare notes when they get to read this. What the American people need to understand is that the Obama administration, in a series of steps that clearly violated the law, tried to both protect Hillary Clinton and tried

to destroy Donald Trump, and both actions were illegal. Uh and we're now in a situation, I believe where you're gonna see a requirement in the near future for an independent council literally to clean out the senior FBI and the senior Justice Department and to go after people who have left office who were part of the Obama team that was so clearly violating the law. That's former Speaker

new Gingrich. Obviously, I know you all know that. But just to give the man credit for his words, I agree with everything he said except this I am not clear on. And I think this might and I'm trying to be responsible and how I say they're respectful and how I say this, I don't think they broke the law. That doesn't mean that they didn't do something really bad.

But just hear me out here, when we're talking about not bringing if we're talking about the FBI and the d o J not bringing charges against Hillary, that's not breaking the law. That is refusing to enforce the law for political reasons. Not the same thing Hillary broke the law. Yes, So if he's talking about Hillary, no question she broke the law. But the whole Comie McCabe apparatus, they might

be guilty of ethics violations. I think they certainly are guilty of ethics violations in their duties at the FBI, but official misconduct maybe you could get them for that, for not unless you get some real clear evidence of you know, I mean, violating the Hatch Act. I mean, you're starting to stretch here, right, So let's I want to keep our expectations in line with what is possible, with what is likely to be, which is what is likely to happen, and not just what sounds good or

makes us feel good. And then on the spying portion of this, laws that may have been broken. Again, I'm speaking generally here, and I can't I don't know if if Newt was referring to specific law breaking or what specific law breaking is referring to. But here's what needs

to be kept in mind. If the FBI used information for a FISA warrant that was real, they did not lie, they did not falsify, but they decided to use open source or non classified information in the case of Fusion GPS to get a warrant and went through the appropriate processes.

That's an abuse of power. But and as you know, I've talked to former Prosecutor Andy McCarthy, who we all know in respect here on the show, and he agrees with me on this, that's an abuse of power, but that's not No one's going to prison for that, So we shouldn't set our expectations beyond what is likely here. Prison for leaking, Yes, that's a crime, but who did

the leaking, We don't know, we have some guesses. Also, generally, very hard to prove a leak, unless somebody's like, hey, here's any I'm sending an email with, like, here's that classified thing that I'm not supposed to tell you what.

Some people do do that, But generally, if it's a leak to a reporter and it comes from inside the government, because usually information is widely disseminated enough that you can't really narrow it down and anyway, So I just would note that right now there's a lot of attention, a lot of fervor around the issue of the memo and the release of the memo, very very unlikely that anyone is going to prison unless I am missing a statute.

And if any of you out there are lawyers and you think I'm I'm missing it, let me know any of your prosecutors. Although prosecutors tend to be KG about calling into political talk shows unless they're former prosecutors. Uh, I don't see it. I don't see criminal charges coming from this. This is a massive political scandal, and I think the only remedy will be for we the people to take a political action in response to it, and also to fire a bunch of bumps that needs to

happen to it. But and that's already started to happen. We got more to stay with me. He's holding the line for America. Buck Sexton is back, but spoken to a number of sources who have said that McCabe had actually asked members of the FBI um an FBI official actually to alter the three O two whether the three O two's, those are the witness interviews that the FBI

conducts with the witnesses. There was one person in particular that they believe McCabe had asked the FBI agents to alter the three O two s. And I think this is significant. It doesn't mean that they altered the three O twos, but even the fact that if they were asked allegedly, if this actually happened, that is a huge violation,

huge violation. And another very important question here is when the warrant was issued, who kept reauthorizing the warrant over and over again, as her friend Sarah Carter, she's a Fox News contributors here on Shawn Show a lot at nine pm, and she's pointing out that if they did change if if people in the fb I changed official records, if that was going on, then you are getting into criminal territory. Can't do that. That's not something that's on the list of Oh, yeah, sure you can. You can

do this, and then you'll be uh, you'll just be fired. No, no, no. You cannot change witness statements, you cannot tamper with evidence. So we'll have to see that may be a part of this too. I can't imagine there are any huge surprises in this memo because if there were, I have a sense that they would have leaked. That's why I think the fusion GPS component is the one thing that is likely to be confirmed in it. But speaking of criminal sentencing and situations, the Mueller team, it's just hit

the hit the wires today. Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team is postponing the sentencing of former National Security advisor and and general or decades Mike Flynn. They say they're doing this because of the status of the investigation, and that's got people asking questions about what this means for Russia, right, the Russia prope Russia. Ah, here's what I think about this. I believe that Flynn should be pardoned. I'm sorry, I'm oh, I'm sorry. I'm not sorry actually because I'm saying I

think you should be pardoned. But this is not a this is not justice. It is not justice for General Flynn to be facing any kind of confinement. I get a sense here that his deal probably I don't know, but he's cooperated and they're extending him here there. They want to get more cooperation from him. But I think Flynn knows that he can cooperate without any damage to his honor or anything, because there's when it comes to Russia collusion, it's nothing for him to cooperate on. There's

nothing here. So sure he'll answer whatever questions they've got. He'll he'll be as helpful as he possibly can. And that to me, this this signals and I'm reading in between the lines here, but to me, extending out the sentencing of Flynn meaning waiting before you see what the Flynn sentence is is just Mueller buy more time to have Flynn at least the prospect of Flynn in the background to sweat somebody, so to speak, here, to help

put the pressure on someone. So that is a reason that you would see the Flynn sentencing extended a bit longer. But I mean, come on, you lied about a non crime the FBI, what's the real damage here? Maybe they're

gonna say no, this is what might come up. The only way I think you see Flynn not getting pardoned by the president is if there's no jail time, still would have a felony on his record, so means he can't uh well, I guess it depends on the state right, But can't vote, can't on a firearm, all kinds of problems that come with felony, colony record. But we'll see if Trump is willing to pardon him. I mean, you can imagine for me, it's the right thing to do.

It also would have the little added wonderful bonus of making liberals completely lose their minds. I mean, it would be think about it, twenty four hours. Oh my gosh, the constitution has been lit on fire. But this is the president's constitutional prerogative. He has. He absolutely has the There is no person who can say that the President does not have the authority to pardon Michael Flynn. He absolutely positively does. But they're still gonna say, oh my gosh,

the rule of laws. But it doesn't matter. They don't even care. They just hate Trump. This is all nonsense. I mean, the arguments they've been making against the memo release have just been laughable. I'm seeing people get all all sanctimonious, but all sources am not. Though some people's lives will be in dangerous, this is not. I I assure you, there's nothing that's gonna come out of this new Nois memo that you're gonna be like, oh wow,

I'm glad I'm not that guy. You don't want to Well, maybe in terms of FBI people's careers, but not like a safety issue. So the arguments have been made, I think they've been made in bad faith, but they still they still got Flynn on the hook. Here. See if they can extend this out a little bit. I wonder, what do we get a sense here of what his? What I'm trying to see what his? Yeah, here we go.

They don't want to tell the judge it on Fox News this to sentence Flynn until they can tell the judge that he helped in the case and Flynn, if Flim were ever asked test find a trial, he would be a better witness if still facing the prospect of sentencing. So they're just holding us over him. And this is why I really have always resented this notion that there's no cost really to this investigation that you know, we were just trying to get at the truth here. People's

lives are being ruined. You know, we sit here, folks, how many times we have to go through this? Now, we got this with the Trump administration. The same thing happened with the whole uh plaime leak fiasco. They knew, they knew who the leaker was. The leaker, it was an accident and he did not intend to leak anything on purpose, and they agreed with that, and it was just that, look, and that does happen. I've said before, classified accidentally does slip out. Sometimes that does happen. I'm

not saying it's okay, but it happens. And that's taken into account when someone's going to be punished for it. It doesn't happen a hundred times on an unsecured server, and you know, over and over and over again, and nobody knows what Hillary style, but it does happen. But

that was all just to get Cheney. Here we are again that we had one Republican administrator, the last Republican administration, they managed to create this false story to get a special counsel going, and they almost they almost took down the Vice president with it. That was what they're trying

to do. And now we've got another one. You'll notice no special counsel during the Obama years, despite all the stuff that we could have looked into more there, Man, I would have liked the special council just on fast and furious. No one even really talks about it anymore. Yeah, you know, let's just let's just start a federal government program where we where we tell gun dealers to sell guns illegally two people that we know we're going to then make their way down to the cartels. Oh that's right,

who killed thirty thousand people last year? No special counsel for that, right, people are dying a border patrol agent dive, but no no special counsel there? Why, Oh, that's right, because Eric Holder was running the Justice Department. I brought this up today when they're asking about how oh Trump passed. Did Trump asked if if McCabe was on his team or is her on his team? Eric Older publicly proclaimed that he was president this is he was President Obama's wingman,

and then you'll be working very closely together. You know, they can't have it both ways. Is the Department of Justice a a subservience political organism too? The executive branch or is it its own branch of government? They can't keep shifting the storyline. I mean they do, but it's not fair, it's not right. It is dishonest for them to keep shifting the storyline. And that's what we've seen going on here. Find it very, uh, very disconcerting that

this is in fact where we are with it. And man, I just want them to I just want them to give us this this frigging memo. You know, I've had enough. I've had I don't if I have to see one more headline on SENNA, one more thing from Adam Schiff. You know, are so bad that guy. This is what the Democrats put up there for us too to fight against.

It makes it makes the job of getting annoyed with their lies a little bit easier because these are not some of these democrats that are making the case, and these are not likable peoples, are not compelling personalities, that's for sure. Ron in Alaska, you got thoughts, I got time. What's up? Hey? How are you doing? Buck Shield? Tie? She'll tiey, buddy. I'm good. Listen. I believe this goes back to my high school days, but in in history.

But I told my teacher back then that there has been a government within our government since the JFK assassination and it hasn't changed since in all these years. And it's my belief that the president should go and get either a point or a special prosc and purge all these FBI, d O J possibly looking in S A, passibly looking at C I A, and and get rid of the people at the top levels that uh where

the corruption lies. Because this a lot of these are Obama holdovers and and he really should have had em purged when he took over, but I guess it couldn't happen. I don't know why. But but at any rate, h the corruption and the lies that are going on in Washington right now, the American voters better wake up, and I'm telling them they'd better wake up, because if we

continue the way we're going, we're gonna lose this country. Uh. We we have people that that are not they're so corrupt that that that they have no allegiance to the country anymore, and and they're willing to do anything that they want to obtain their goals. Well, it's definitely true. There are people with a lot of power in our government ron who are gonna We're gonna do what they can do. They'll they'll do what they can to hurt the country if it means that they get to inflict

their political wishes on us in some way. Thank you for calling it from Alaska, my friend shield Side. Uh, we got a lot more to get into here. My friends. Talk a bit about Trump's speech today in West Virginia. We'll discuss that and uh, and a whole lot more. So stay right there. So comey, formerly FBI director just put out a tweet before I came on air. Here's what it says. All should appreciate the FBI speaking up. I wish more of our leaders would, but take heart.

American history shows that in the long run, weasels and liars never hold the field, so long as good people stand up. Not a lot of schools or streets named for Joe McCarthy. Okay, uh, you know, call me the guru. UM, explain to me who who are the weasels and liars? Year? So as he saying, is he saying the president's a weasel or a liar? Is that? Is that what's going on? I feel like he is do we all do we all think that we can move past? Oh Comey, he's

he's not a partisan player. He's not trust me, he's been. He just does what's best for Comey all the time. I remember, rich lawyer. Stop thinking of it as an FBI Guy's not an FBI guy. He's a rich lawyer. All right. That changes things very very quickly, I believe. Justin in Winston Salem, North Carolina, what's up? Justin? Hey? How's it going? But I'm good. Yeah, I just wanted to make a comment regarding your last caller there from Alaska. UM, I'm probably as far away from him as uh as

he is from me. I'm from Wednesday of North Carolina. I'm twenty nine years old, and uh, well, I just wanted to let him know that the American people have woken up. We woke up last year when we voted Donald Trump end office. Uh we need to change, and uh, well he's the first start. Problem is we can, you know, go about this process of special prosecutors and all that, but nothing ever happens to the Democrats, you know, And

I think it's a big problem. So I mean, what do we have to do to really prosecute the Democrats? I mean, I'll be all these high ranking officials and all that, and they seem to just scathe off and you know, skip sentences and uh, really get away with all, you know, justin I don't think I'm being I don't think I'm being uh, you know, what's the word. I'm trying.

I don't think I have tunnel vision here when I say that, I don't ever see Republicans playing the game quite the same way that Democrats do with this stuff. I've Saturday before and told you about all the different, very clearly politically motivated prosecutions of top level Republicans across the country. I've gone on the list, right, Rick Perry, Um, Chris See, Scott Walker McDonald, former governor of Virginia. I mean, these are all political prosecutions, and they all went nowhere,

by the way, except for McDonald. The Supreme Court had to reverse that because it was such a stretch to get him on corruption. And you see the other side of it here, like it just doesn't they don't. The game isn't played the same way. And I don't really have an answer for that other than start to say that I just think that democrats power is the power is the reason for the existence of the Democrat Party.

It's not it's not a sense of shared principle. It's larger state and the emotional trajectory of the people that call themselves Democrats at any point in time. But I don't have a clear answer for other than I see it too, man, I cannot Why do we not have a special counsel under Obama? Never even discussed, really, right, it just never happened. We had a special counsel under Bush, we have a special counsel under Trump. And people say, well, we have a special counselor to Clinton because we need

needed one, or we at least need an investigation. I mean, the guy was doing all kinds of flagrantly illegal and improper stuff, so and not like, oh, maybe we'll find something. We keep investigating. We know what he did, Andy Loddon and growth then he got away with it. So I mean, and that's our political history for the last twenty plus years. Right, So this is scary stuff. But justin you're right, we

woke up. We uh, we defeated the Hillary machine and against all odds and as it seems now against Stephen the wishes of some of the deep state of the d o J. Thanks for calling your brother. Good to talk to you from North Carolina. I appreciate it. Uh, let's talk Larry in Johnsville, Ohio? Was it Larry? All right? Buck? Enjoy your show, enjoy your calls. Larry. What's going on? I got a couple comments about the state of the Union address. I think you're either be a thorough investigation

by the c I, a FBI, a BC. Whoever whoever scorted super glue on all of them democratic seats had to be prosecuted. It is mean to spread all that super glow. And it's not environmentally friendly either, that's true. And one another observation, Uh, somebody I had to send Nancy Pulski some more polly grip because I think she was having trouble with her dangers. Either that or depends was righting up winter. She did not look happy. I will agree that she did not look happy at that

state of the Union. Larry and Larry, yes, sir, and that new Supreme Court just was that him or a statue of course which I don't know. Did he not stand up or something? He nothing? I didn't see that, but okay, I'll write him a strongly worded Larry. Thanks for calling it from Ohio, my friend Shields. It was like Larry adds a special flavor to the show. I appreciate. Here from Barry down in Biloxi, Mississippi. What's up, Barry? Hey, what how are you doing? I'm good man, thank you

for your call. I'm wondering. I'm wondering why have we not hurt anything at all about Hatch Act violations. I mean, I thought federal employees couldn't even wear a campaign button or have a poster, and here these people are spending their whole time on the job uh favor in their political candidate and and trying to wipe out the other guy. Does that still exists? Yeah, I mean the Hatch Act. I don't think the Hatch Act is. I think you just get fired for it. So the Hatch Act is

not a criminal statute. I think the penalty is just firing, and so it's it's rarely enforced. Yes, you're right, you can't wear You know, when I was in the CIA, I couldn't show up at a campaign event say hey, I'm buck, I'm from the CIA, and the CIA supports this guy, right, which you know may may not have been a good thing for that candidate. Um, but that you know, I could have gotten fired for that under the Hatch Act. But it's not a criminal thing. So

that's why it doesn't have quite the same impact. And also I'll just say it, and I can't tell you very more than just my own impression. I only ever heard Hatch Act complaints from Democrats about Republicans when I was in government, never the other way. So we're just less snowflake like I guess when it comes to that stuff. But thanks very for calling team our two coming up. He's back with you now, because when it comes to

the fight for truth, the fuck never stops. Africa and Hispanic unemployment have both reached the lowest levels ever recorded. That's something very very special. And when I made that statement the other night, there was zero movement from the Democrats. They sat there stone called, no smile, no applause. You would have thought that on that one they would have sort of at least clapped a little bit, which tells you perhaps they'd rather see us not do well than

see our country do great. And that's not good. There's one more, very important promise we're keeping. No longer are we making apologies for America. We don't apologize anymore. We're proud of our history, we're confident in our values, and we're grateful to our heroes, and we are determined to create a brighter future for all of our people. Welcome back to the buck Sex and show everybody our too is up and running here. That was President Trump earlier

today in West Virginia. And some times I pose the question as a means of getting into some analysis here in the show, why do they hate Trump so much?

And you know that answer he or that that excerpt we just played for you where you talked about how no more apologizing for America and a different view of America's role in the world, that's one of the reasons why they hate him so much, and that hatred burns so brightly in the minds of leftists and Democrats that they, in fact do, I think, want to see the country suffer rather than see it prosper under Trump. I don't think that's an overstatement. I don't think it's an unfair

point for the president to make. I think it's actually quite clear that that is what we are dealing with. The economy is very strong. The comments that have been made by many Democrats in response to the tax reform, I think that that might come back to haunt them, even as far down aline as the mid terms. I really do, and Trump certainly thinks so. With these corporations giving tremendous bonuses to everybody, that Nancy Pelosi called crumbs, that was a bad that could be like deplorable. That

does that make sense? Deplorable and crumbs, those two words they seem to have a resemblance. I hope it has the same meaning. But she called it crumbs. When people are getting two thousand and three thousand dollars and one

thousand dollars, that's not crumbs. It's a lot of money. Now, most of the Democrats, and even including Pelosi, aren't so so dumb that they can't understand why it's bad politics to say that a few thousand dollars for a family in this country, that's you know, earning somewhere in the in the median income of fifty thou dollars a year. Let's say, Uh, most people can understand why that's bad politics. But what you see exposed again in again with the Democrats,

and this is the Democrat party of today. And Trump understands this, which is why I think he's got so much confidence. Although Trump certainly never lacks in confidence, but confidence in the GOP's fortunes going into the mid terms because otherwise you look at the historical the the historical record for midterm elections the party in power, I think they've only been three times stretching back to the Civil War, that the party that was in power did not lose

seats in a mid term in the midterm election. Right, it was George W. Bush, Richard Nixon, and I'm forgetting what the third one was. Sorry, but pretty good that I pulled that out of thin air though, Right, Steve,

come on, I mean, give the guys some credit. So it's generally speaking unlikely that you will have gains for Republicans the mid terms, and it's a question will they lose, you know, three seats or twenty seats um But I think Trump is feeling pretty confident about it because the economy is strong, and because the Democrats keep exposing themselves for all of us who care to pay attention to it, for all of us who I want to know what's really going on, exposing themselves as having a disdain for

just normal people. You can say, for the folks. Democrats just doesn't doesn't really lock in with their preferred narrative about what's going on in the country. They just don't have a place for people who are not in a protected category, are not a an oppressed group or a victimized group. I mean, if you're just somebody who wants to live your life, do your thing, and not have the government as a barrier to your own pursuit of happiness and success, whatever that may be, the Democrat Party

doesn't really have a place for you. You know, hard work is not something that you can really talk about when your first concern, as it is for the Democrats, is where you fit into the patriarchy, where you fit into the various layers of oppression, you know, the we haven't talked about intersectionality in a while, but intersectionality is not just a fancy campus college campus term that Democrats throw around to sound like they know what they're talking about.

It also has infected the beliefs and the policies of the Democrat Party, which is that everything has to be

broken down into these groups. These are balkanized smaller versions of the electorate, and then you have to pander to them, and you have to turn them against each other and use them against the the opposition, which is the Republican Party of course, which is now because of Trump and the messaging from it, a party once again of just working folks just don't really need to be constantly lectured about there there inadequacies when it comes to progressive ideology

that they just ideology. They just want to be able to of support their families, be left on their own and do their thing, and that's a good thing. But on immigration, I will continue to hit this subject because I think that, well, we know it's a very important policy matter. This is where we're really going to see what the what the Trumpsters made of when it comes to negotiating and acting as a dealmaker while he's the president. This is not gonna be easy. He's gonna have to

thread the needle here quite a bit. But on immigration, some of you actually brought it up here earlier on the show that maybe this initial offer of one point eight million dreamers, who would I know doc our recipients. I said, you know the problem with dreamers, It is a it is a use useful shorthand, right, so DOCCA is not really quite as a specific a way to refer to them. Anyway, Trump maybe is doing this just

a show. The Democrats are entirely un serious about immigration and cannot allow Trump a win on this, even if it means that Trump would be giving away more than I think a lot of people in his base would be willing or would be happy with him giving away. And here is what what Trump said about it earlier today. If the Democrats choose to philibuster a framework that includes a generous path to citizenship or something that is not fair, we are not going to improve it. We're just not

going to improve it. So we'll either have something that's fair and equitable and good and secure we're gonna have nothing at all. We will be demonstrating that we are very very serious. One of the reasons I gave a number that was I thought a very generous number was because I wanted to see whether or not they were interested in approving that. Because if they don't approve something within that sphere that means very simply that then that

can to approve it at all. They want to use it for an election issue, but it's now an election issue that will go to our benefit, not their benefit. See. I think the conventional wisdom going into this immigration negotiation would have been something like the following. Trump needs the support of his base going into it. He wants to get the best deal he can, and the best deal means the one that secures the border and and does the most for interior enforcement and for workplace enforcement with

the immigration system. And so there's no reason for him to make an initial offer that would include any kind of amnesty because he wants to see what we'll see what kind of deal he can get first. Instead, Trump just goes, all right, let's just let's just show our cards right away. This is what I'm willing to do. What are you willing to do? And it has made it to the Democrats don't really have a lot of room to run. What are they gonna say, No, it has to be an amnesty for everyone, or no, we

won't take it. We won't take an amnesty for one point eight million unless it doesn't come with a wall on any of these other border security provisions that Trump has insisting on. I think that's tough. I think that's a really tough sell for them if they forced a shutdown. I think that the government's was to run in the money February eighth, maybe something like that, and something like that, John, if I'm wrong with me now, I think it's something

like early February. The governments could rite out of money and Democrats got shellacked in the last shutdown, right, They got wasted and they had to turn that around. It wasn't a shutdown was it was actually a weekend, which I know people say the government shutdown every weekend on holidays anyway, But it wasn't even really a shutdown. I mean, the government was by the time we were telling the stories on air, I was like, whoops, that's over with.

Democrats had to pull out of that. They had to back off because they knew that public opinion wasn't with them. You're gonna stop providing services to citizens taxpayers because of a population of illegals. Really, that's a tough one for the mid terms. Uh. They really just want to keep the issue alive as long as they can, I think, because it means that they'll just run with the storyline

of a racist, heartless, unfeeling GOP. But if Trump makes them an offer that allows a couple of million to get amnesty and they turned that down, who are the unfeeling, un serious legislators? You know which party is just playing games with this? I think it becomes quite clear. So while I was concerned at first about the direction Trump was going in on immigration specifically, now I can see

some of the wisdom in this. I still would have a problem with amnesty for almost two million people, because it's never the number is never the number. And everyone I know who is really gone deep on this issue is aware of this and agrees with me. But Trump may not have to do any there might have to be any amnesty, and in the meantime, any government shutdown

that happens because of it would look entirely hollow. It would just be the most obvious grandstanding you could possibly see from folks like Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer and whomever, because they'll they'll walked away from If you think about how you sell that one. They walked away from amnesty for two million people, and now they can pretend they

care so much about this two million people. If they walk away from amnesty for the for Dhaka as proposed by Trump at this opening of negotiations, because they don't want a wall, then I think it's also just clear to anyone who is going to be even a little bit honest, Democrats are just pro illegal immigration. They're not trying to deal with legal immigration. They actually want more illegal immigration, which I think is already true, but it

will be more apparent, it will be more demonstrable. We can show people that that's in fact the case. So we will see how this how this dispute is resolved or not over what to do about Dhaka, and and how we will go go forward on the immigration because this has got to be a centerpiece for Trump right now. I mean, if he loses the House, you know all this talk we have right now about we're gonna be so frustrated. Oh yeah, we needed sixty votes in the

Senate to basically get anything done. This is This is the Senate's constructs that they can all just worry about fundraising and getting reelected and not have to take any tough votes. They like the sixty threshold, I think, make no mistake about it. In a house passes stuff all the time, we're like, oh, that would be great. Oh it will never get through the Senate. Why we have a majority, Oh, because we need Democrat votes for that too. What's the point of a majority if you need Democrat

votes to do anything. I'm just throwing lots of stuff out there today. But yeah, I think you should pardon General Flynn Trump, by the way, and I think that Mitch McConnell should just say, you know what, unless it's constitutionally prescribed otherwise. And there are some things that are constitutionally mandated, you know, removal from office for a president, for example, two thirds. But this whole you've gotta be able to get sixty two. Beat a filibuster. No, no

more of this. This is gard this is garbage, This is self imposed ineptitude, and we can't allow this to continue on the way that it is. I'm telling you, if we lose the House and goes in the mid terms, We're all be sitting around like, oh, you know what Trump could have done, if only, if only, He's got to do it now. That's why immigration has to be a place where he does it now. Time is not on the side of those who wish to uh secure the border and get something worthwhile from Trump's majority in

the House and the Senate. Well, I was right, but I wasn't right about all of it, or I didn't get all of it. When I said that mid terms, I told you correctly that everyone going back to Civil War basically loses with with three exceptions. And yes, it is true that George Bush in his first mid term picked up seats. It is also true that Nixon in wait, did I know, did I get the Nixon went wrong? Oh,

he picked up two Senate seats. Okay, so it depends on whether we're looking at the House or the Senate. But Nixon picked up two Senate seats, and but he lost House seats. But he picked up the House. I mean, he picked up the Senate Roosevelt picked up in thirty four. And then also I see here Clinton picked up in his first he picked up five five House seats in his first midterm election. So or no, was that a second midten sorry, his second midterm election? Yeah, there you go.

So I was close. So I mean the ones I said were correct, but I left one or two out. But I mean, FDR, does that really count? I guess it counts. Kenny in Saugus Sagas. How do we say that in Boston? You would say it's Sagas. It's just north of Boston, so I usually say it's just north to Boston over the eight miles north. How is the chowder in Saugust It's very chowy. Yeah, it's very good. Yeah. So I want to I'm here to scour your wisdom, to pick your brain. I want to know one thing.

They're discrediting this memo. Obviously, this is the campaign that's been lodged here. Um. I heard something about the FBI had broken a meeting to discuss the memo and at the White House and to uh decide what they wanted to leave in, what they could release and they will make an alterations. And at the same time, simultaneously Adam Schiff then Maline Noonez I'm saying he's making changes to it. And so I'm thinking that that's connected, that there's there's

probably they probably did that just to support that. And then there's another thing Washington Post. I read a story online that says, how come Trump is in a hurry to release this memo? Isn't this crazy? Couldn't he released it months ago? Look? There, there's Okay, So you're bringing up a lot of good points, and so let me make sure that I addressed them each in turn. About the edits, I saw that last night. I think Adam Schiff,

my favorite used sham wile salesman. I think he uh he tweeted something about how their edits made, and now we find out the edits were minor and structural. It also doesn't really matter, right because they're contesting parts of the memo anyway, So to say that some of it was edited, what does that even? Who? Who even really care at that point because they're gonna be contesting everything that it says, and they're gonna declassify it's going to

be public information. So it just struck me as very petty and very desperate. And I think that's where much of the resistance to releasing the memo has gone. They've become kind of petty and desperate. So no, well, what do we really Let's be realistic, right, Kenny, What do we think could possibly have been changed in there that would be worth risking the veracity of the rest of the memo that they insert at the last moment. It

just doesn't make sense, right. One of the reasons you know that certain conspiracies aren't real is because it's not even good for the conspirator. Doesn't make any sense. So you and then you brought up a few other things. What else did you want me to hit on? Uh? That was the Well, it was something with the FBI meeting with them off and uh. Oh. Also they said that Trump, they said that Trump was in a hurry to release this memo. But from what I'm understanding is

he could have actually uh ordered its release yea months ago. Yeah, he like he's the president. He could have said he could have ordered the executive branch to de classifies. Like, no one's gonna tell the commander in chief. You can't tell the American people about whatever that It doesn't work that way, right. The commander in chief can really and people would argue with me on this, but I've got

plenty of president to back it up. The president can do what's called real time which is not a legal definition, but real time declassification, which is just the president can tell the American people about whatever he wants. Functionally speaking, that is how it works, and no one ever contests that is not how it works. So the president can, Yeah, he can confer with other people and try to respect the processes that are in place for classified but he

can be classified whatever he wants. And I would just note Kenny that people now are complaining. I'm seeing some of the Democrat apparatus out there, journalists and talking heads and lawyer types that are saying, well, why do you go through the why do you go through the House process?

If he just could do it himself, as though that's now a bad thing, and we all know if Trump had just declassified it, they'd say that he's meddling and he's causing problems, and you know he's so anyway, he can't win either way, Kenny, thanks to the call, the good question, my friend. Great to talk to you up in Ugas. I like it, I learned, I learned lots of new towns on this show. My America g are.

If he's getting better in the Freedom Hunt, he's back with you now, because when it comes to the fight for truth, the fuck never stops. There's a new poll from Monbouth where the president's approval rating has ticked up to This is out of the thirties where President Trump has wallowed, one might say, for most of the time since is inauguration a b y? Why do we think? I mean, they did pass tax reformed by a Christmas deadline, Okay, after a year of failing to repeal in a place

Obamacare and fighting with each other. But I know that the tax reform plan, at least in many polls, he is viewed by a majority of Americans negatively. The polling on tax reform was really bad in December. It's actually rising, becoming more popular, and either people are responding to their own personal data or they're responding to these stories of corporations feeling a boost and sharing it with their workers, and that is a positive for him. It's it's a

legislative success and the economics. All the polls are moving in Donald Trump's direction have been for the last one month. The president's favorable has moved up five since tax reform was enacted in December, and his unfavorable has dropped three that's an eight point improvement in one month. Now he's still upside down. He's got a long way to go. But make no mistake, the president's numbers are on the move. Equally important the right track wrong track, and these are

the real clear politics average. The right track, wrong track has improved thirteen points in selection day. On election Day two thousand sixteen, the Americans felt overwhelmingly this nation's on the wrong track, and there's been a thirteen point improvement since Trump took over. You know what, another shorter way of talking about these polls would be just this is all about results. Wasn't it funny? That was a CNN clip initially that we played there and then we followed

up with ari A. R. Fleischer over at Fox. But in that CNN exchange, you had a B. Stoddard, she used to be with the Hill where it whish who she? Yeah? I forget she with the Hill still now? I don't wish She's moved on somewhere else, I think. But she's talking to to Jim Shooto of CNN and they're going back and fourth over like whoa. Okay. So so the

there are two very interesting takeaways from that. One is that people looked at tax reform negatively, and I know at CNN that's like a cause of celebration, right, Oh my gosh, it's great hit tax reform. But let's understand

what that means. It just means that the propaganda apparatus of the media is still so powerful that it is able to convince a majority of the American people that the government letting some Americans keep some percentage more of the money that they are earning is a bad thing. That's amazing, isn't it. How how is that possible? You might wonder to yourself, how would it be possible that

they would be able to convince some of that? And they're clearly annoyed at that is fading, that that concept of more money in the pockets of private citizens is bad somehow. But then also the well why is it rising since tax reform was enacted? Well, gee, I've got some ideas. Let's think about this, folks. Well, we got a couple of political analysts on there before. Why would tax reform after it happens become more popular? Do do do? Do? Do Do? Do? Right? I feel like I probably couldn't

actually play in the Jeopardy theme. It would be some kind of a rights thing. But I just sang it for you because I that's how much I care now. But the reason is quite obviously that it's gonna happen, and now people are seeing it, and I've got I have friends, I have friends, I know people personally who were saying, all of a sudden, I've got a little more money in my in my bank account. Each paycheck is a little bit bigger, and it helps. It helps.

It also creates a sense that we are moving forward here right. It creates a sense that things can get even better. And you know, I've seen now economists are now economists make weather men look infallible. But nonetheless, I've seen some predictions, some prognostications for the future where economists are saying that they think unemployment could be at three point five percent next year. So whether that happens or not, we will have to see. But that's certainly really low.

But this is the big problem that Democrats are gonna have. They're they're not used to having to contend with an objective reality of a Republican president who is making real gains in the economy for the very people that he's been saying he would do it for right that this is going to be a tough hill for them to overcome when you look at the benefits of the Trump administration and how it's rolling out for people right now, I think that the Democrats aren't going to have much

of a line. And that's when you get into just well, they they got to come up with something they hate Trump, right, and so you know, maybe they can take a page from the Maxi and Waters playbook here and just come up with some other stuff about Russia. They absolutely hated demotics television, absolutely interfering with SPA. What now we're talking about r T those who are one and that that's Maxi Waters, so sitting member of Congress. There's one about

urt uh. That's the Russia Today channel that's been around for over ten years and is a an open Kremlin front, right it is. It is Kremlin propaganda. People who have worked there have come out and talked about it. It is funded as a Kremlin front. There is really no question about this. And yet you'll still have people with so much uh self righteousness, say, oh my gosh, Russia might meddle in future elections unless we do more. And I said, well, what meddaling are we're really talking about.

There'll be these Facebook sock puppets that spread mean rumors about Hillary if it is that easy, If if creating some fake accounts overseas determines a presidential election the United States, we got even bigger problems in Russia. Everybody, I gotta

wonder what's going on with folks. But when you look at the amount of information a noise out there, especially in an election year, the notion that Russia would be able to cut through all that and be the decider, be the difference maker, it's just preposterous on its face, But that's what they're I bring up Russia and Maxie Waters what Maximum Water here? Because um, she's indicative of

where this is all going. It's gonna be Russia. They're gonna they're gonna run an election campaign, meaning the Democrats, the d n C. They're gonna run on the president United States is a UH is a cheater who worked with the Russians, betrayed his country. And that's why you should vote for Democrats because what else do they have? They don't want to. They're not gonna run on Obamacare because anybody who actually has Obamacare will just tell you

horror stories about how bad it is. For the most part, that's been my experience. Again, I know people who have had to get plans off of the exchanges, and they are generally very displeased with the plans that they have gotten off the exchanges. Yeah. I mean, it's great to have healthcare when you have an eight thousand dollar or ten thousand dollars deductible and even when you hit the deductible, you're only seeing doctors that you really don't want to see.

So they have nothing to run on. Really, they're gonna run on Trump as a racist who won't and who won't amnesty twelve million people and Russia. I don't think that's gonna be good enough. The only hope as I see it, the only hope that there is for the Democrats take this for what it's worth, is if there's a massive turn in the economy. Um, I think that's

the only way that they look. Maybe they'll win one or two seats on balance, but you know, all these elections are comes down to the candidate and the specifics of the race, but overall our national level, if the economy is as strong as it is right now, I just don't see how they can turn this thing around. I really don't. And I still know people who despite some there's been some rockiness in the markets this week, I still know people who are saying this is gonna

get even better. It's gonna be even better this year. I like to be optimistic. I'm gonna continue to be optimistic about the economy until until it's clearly wrong. How about that? That'll be my plan. Team lines are open if you want to chat, and by all means eight four four n eight to five eight four four buck. Also don't forget buck sexen dot com and you can check out gear from the team Team Bucky gear on

Buck sexing dot com. And if you have not listened yet to the Fall of Constants and Nopal parts two, I'm telling you it is chearing up the history podcast charts. It's going all the way to the top baby history podcasts. It's definitely beating out that history of the suffragette movement in thirty parts that I'm sure is there. So check that out. Check out the history podcast. Um and uh, that's that's what I got on that I realized something.

I don't know what to do about this exactly. I for some reason just wanted to get to Malta because I really like it as a storyline. But I now I'm thinking, maybe you know, I skipped over the seat of the first Siege of Vienna, But I feel like now it's already been done, right, So I can't go back to I can't go back to the first Siege of Vienna. I had to do multi first. So some of you are like, what are you talking about, buck,

don't worry about it. All makes sense, I think, hopefully. Um, and when we come back, Oh wow, I've got a little bit of news about vote. Remember I mentioned before something about voting and whether you can vote if you're a felon. That just there's a breaking news story on that. Maybe we'll discuss that and some other wonderful stuff. Stay

with me so a team. I don't have a whole lot on this, but I just wanted to note that I mentioned before for felons, because we're talking about whether General Flynn should be or Mike Flynn should be pardoned. And this just came in a few minutes ago. This is Miami Herald. A federal judge ruled that Florida's lifetime ban on restoring voting rights for felons violates the US Constitution.

US District Judge Mark Walker said Florida's vote restoration process and fairly relies on the personal support of Governor Rick Scott for citizens to regain this fundamental right. Walker ruled in a case brought by the Fair Elections Legal Network at Washington, d C. Group that challenge the constitutionality of

the Florida system. All Right, So if this Walker's decision came nine days after the state approved a ballot measure that, if passed in November, would restore the voting rights of about one point two million felons, I would just note everyone that we are all quite aware that Democrats are certainly aware that the overwhelming number of felon voters they expect will vote Democrat. Right, this is why Democrats are so in favor of restoring voting rights for convicted felons.

That didn't mcculloff also do this in Virginia. Wasn't that a big fight with tera mcculiffe um. I think I think it was so. Anyway, that's that's an update from whether you can vote as a felon or not. And I know you can't own a you can't legally own a firearm, although for violent felons they tend not to be like, oh gosh, I already served that ten years for armed robbery. I better not getting a legal gun for my next one. Right that tends not to slow

them down necessarily. Um. But that's the story that I had for you on or that's the only updated here

for you on voting and felons and felons rights. So I didn't I didn't talk about it originally because I wasn't really sure what are what are important analytic takeaway could be or but but you know what, this guy is such an idiot that I feel like we should just I don't want to skip over this entirely because it's it's indicative of a of a mindset that's much more widespread on the left than certainly the mainstream Democrats want admitute This guy, Gregory Salcido, he is a teacher

out in California, and he's on video and this is what this is what he had to say about the military. Think about the people who you know, you're freaking stupid, Uncle Louis or whatever. They're done. They're not like high level thinkers are not academic people that intellectual people. They're the freaking the lowest stuff I loan, they're not talented people.

That's how when president talks says we have the best military, and with presidents where I'll say that the way it was Obama ways anybody, I was like, no, the data is in, we don't have a good military. We it's a lot that our military should do. Joined the military. It's because you have no other options, because you didn't take care of business, academic, you cause your parents didn't love you enough to push you, and then you didn't love yourself enough. Don't you ever freaking bring them to

your military. To this guy, I don't understand what we let to freaking military guys come over here and recut you at school. We don't have pimps come into school. It would be hard to think of a more stupid, incorrect, and offensive rant that one could come up with. It mean, if you were writing the role in a movie of moron who who defames the military, I'm not sure you you could manage to be quite as offensive as this guy.

Or you have to try really hard, and you have to wonder, how could anyone be so ungrateful and dumb and and just disgraceful. I think General Kelly white House chief of Staff, nailed it pretty well well. I think the guy I ought to go to hell. Um, I just hope he enjoys the liberties in the in the lifestyle that that we have fought for. Yeah, I think a guy going to Hell is a pretty good That's

certainly a good start. And you know, this is all stories saying, I don't know why people do this thing of they they start sending you know, you never send anyone death threats because now, first of all, you just never do that. But also now they're turning the guy into a victim in the backlash. And instead of there's this just being a teachable moment, now he gets to say, oh, you know, the right wing is coming after me, although the left wing is, or at least the mainstream Democrats

are annoyed too. Because this goes to show that in this country, if you're anti military, you're times out of a hundred you're on the left right. Times out of a hundred, you're like a Democrat registered Bernie Sanders voter. Maybe you're about the Working Families Party or something, or you know, Communist Party USA, but you're on the left. If you're anti military, there's just no place for that at all on the right. I mean, as there shouldn't be for it anywhere. I also just think it. It

made me well. It reminded me of how this guy is so wrong, he's so dumb. When I think of some of my friends growing up who were not only served, but served in in combat and some really some really tough stuff in Iraq and Afghanistan, and my parents, if they're listening to show, they certainly know who I'm thinking of. A couple of them were friends of mine for many, many years. There are two guys in particular, UM, both

one and them both one of the Marine Corps. And not only were they yeah, I'm trying to think of the this way to describe them, the guys that everybody you know knew and liked and went to great schools, but also the two of them came from very well off backgrounds financially speaking, UM, and they both went into the Marine Corps and both went into combat U one enlisted, one as an officer. And they saw us. I mean,

I've I've been out for it with with one of them. Actually, I've been out with both of them over drinks to talk about it. But one of them, particular, I mean, he was he was in uh, the Fallujah part of the world when things were particularly spicy over there, and he saw some really you know, he saw some really

fierce combat. And I just so so, you know, I just have personal experience with friends of mine who served, who I knew growing up, and so that's why when he tells a story about, you know, no options, I'm like, actually, a lot of the people that I know who went to serve had nothing but options and had excelled in everything they had ever done, and could have done anything they wanted to do, even if they hadn't excelled at everything they'd ever done, but they wanted to serve the

United States Marine Corps. They wanted to serve the United States military. You know that this guy is not this this idiot who was speaking about this is not uh, he's almost not worth the time that I've already spent on him. But I do think that it's for for one, it's it gives me an opportunity to say that I was always so impressed, uh, both in my time in Iraq and Afghanistan and then just state side as well.

I spent time at lots of different military facilities doing training, and I guess I don't know the state side stuff I can probably talk about, although not all of it's on of it and not allowed to talk about. Uh. But I was always so impressed with our military, and uh it was such an honor to be around them as a civilian intelligence analyst and to be even some little small part of what they were doing day to

day overseas. And and then also it's just it is a reminder for me, or for all of us, that there exists on the left, this this distaste for the military that I think just has to come from a sense of the uh well, one of a wild ignorance of what the milit This guy doesn't know an even milit he doesn't know anything. This guy is a complete imbecile. But also for a lot of a lot of leftists,

the military just makes them uncomfortable. It makes them feel, you know, that that there are people who would be willing to sacrifice what those in our military do and and have the virtues of those who serve in uniform. It makes the people that would criticize the military just makes them feel so uncomfortable and small and less then so they lash out other shows just talk at you in the Freedom Hud. We have a mission. We fight for the truth in a team effort and buck us

back with our next play. There's been talk of raids on California businesses for a while. I'm saying that it's happened. This week is seventies seven businesses in northern California. Immigrations and Customs enforcement officers have gone in, and let's say raids. They make it sound like they're swooping in there with swat teams and guys who are repelling off the helicopters.

Move Move Move. It's not like that they show up, probably wearing windbreakers that say ice on them, Ice ice baby, And you know they probably show up and they say, hey, do you have papers for all your workers? And I'm I'm guessing it's I'm not saying it's a pleasant experience, but I don't think it's They're not exactly rolling the flash bangs in there, like weir, you may have illegal workers in this meat processing factory. Move Move Move. I

don't think that's what the way that it goes. But I'm sure that they've gone in and they're checking the workers, and in California, that makes businesses nerve. I wonder what what percentage of hourly wage paying businesses in California have have at least one illegal immig work. I have no idea. That's not like a retroical question where I'm about to say and I'm bucked. So I've got an answer, but

I'm guessing it's probably pretty high. But this is one of the many different facets of the discussion of immigration that, as I've been said, we're gonna have. But you know, then you get into some of the media on this and you think they need to do some more were research on these topics. Uh. Joy Read, who is a host at MSNBC. Now, look, we've had some we've heard some dumb things said. This week on air, we had Kirsten Gillibrand with chained migration. So that was pretty bad

for a sitting US senator. Joy Read is not a sitting US senator, but she is a host at MSNBC, and I'm assuming she gets paid a whole lot of money to do that job. And she weighed in on the issue of MS thirteen and here's how it went. And give the speech tonight in which he makes it sound like the biggest issue in the United States are the biggest one is MS thirteen, a gang nobody that doesn't watch Foxos has ever heard of. So it makes it sound like they're the biggest Nobody that's never watched

Fox News has ever heard of m S thirteen. How Mara Salvatrucha thirteen an international criminal gang that has infiltrated UH dozens of states across the country. A gang that is well known actually in the DC area. Some of you who live in some parts of sort of sort of the Beltway region will be like, yep, we've had really terrible problems with m S thirteen. There were two young women murdered in their parents with the State of

the Union address that was in Long Island. You're in the New York areas at an hour or so from where I am doing this show right now. So and and the gangs, yes, they say they started in US prisons, but their local the locusts of power. Oh maybe because the border is porous, and so MS thirteen gang members

can go back and forth. And that's actually an advantage, isn't it to be able to leave the country where you're doing the crimes and go to a country where you can have relative safe haven because there's no effective rule of law in place right Al Salvador, Honduras, parts

of Mexico. But this is what you're going to get, the propagation of ignorance when it comes to immigration, because they would rather tell people lies about things like m S. Thirteen and make this a make gang activity that ties to border security and immigration, making an issue of just Fox News making a problem of the of the Fox News sphere instead of having to attack to tackle it and deal with it, which you know, I think that once we start to force one of the most important

things we could do for the immigration debate, in my humble opinion, would be to force states to start keeping much better stats on illegal alien crime and what's going on in the States that has to do with illegal aliens breaking the law. In general, the Feds have pretty decent stats and and there's a high percentage, especially when you add in drug crimes, a lot of illegal alien

drug crime, and so that's already well established. But if you're talking about violent crime, as I've been mentioned to you on the show, then you've really got to get

into what's going on at the state level. That's where you get state prisons and the activities of law enforcement that wouldn't be federal necessarily, And that's where I think you'd see that this is a is a big issue m and MS thirteen is frightening because I've told you it's also it's incredibly violent, and the gang initiations are are brutal, beyond the brutal, beyond imagination. Um. But they're also often doing the bidding of bigger transnational criminal organizations.

And this is all part of the storyline that you would be hearing if the media cared to talk much about this, but they have, and I would also not. You see how it's always whenever we're talking about legal immigration, there's always this focus on Well, of course, the Valedictorians the most sympathetic stories possible because they're trying to push a narrative. I get that. Well, you'll notice that they

you don't hear a lot of stories. You don't read a lot of stories about other forms of legal immigration that are going on, that aren't coming from south of the border, that aren't involving Mexico and Central American countries. Yeah, are we allowed to have it? Is it racist? Is

it xenophobic? Does it make you a bad person if you think that a people who come here from China specifically to have a baby on US soil so that the baby has citizenship, but then go back to China right away, so the person is raised in China but then has US citizenship. And this means that later on they can come here for for school or for whatever they want to do. Are we allowed to object to that?

Is that not scamming the system? I think actually some guy just got in trouble, by the way in I think it was Massachusetts for marrying nine women so that they could become permanent residents. Right, it was a fraudulent marriage scheme. These are there are all these different ways that people are abusing the system and enforcement is very low. I mean, look, it's not like the guy got to wife number two or three and they figured out that he was engaged in fraudulent marriage nine and he was busy.

That's a lot of that's a lot of marriages. That's like, that's like Larry King novel marriages. He's got I think he's yeah, I went there like seven or eight. Hey, buck back off, I'm lucky number seven. But Larry, Larry, I think he managed to seven He's managed to seven wives. Um, but is he still on that channel, by the way, the one that's the he wasn't even a weird you know,

he's still doing a thing, right. I forget what it is when of these guys, he was just never ever going to give up, never done with, never done with media, and never done with you know, Hey, there's always time for another wife. But yeah, this guy had had nine people. Buck, it could have been true love the whole time, with all the different ones. Okay, I mean, look whatever, it's not my life. Um, but the different ways that the immigration system are scammed, it just should be bothersome to

all Americans. And that's never the discussion we get to have. We never get to talk about fixes. It's just all we've heard about our dreamers. I want more of a discussion of Remember the Trump administration set up in office to set up the statistics of illegal alien crime. I'd like to know what those numbers are. We should all be much more familiar with that. We should know what some of the statistics involved here are. That makes makes it possible for us to make better decisions. Show, Um,

we're gonna get into a roll call obviously later on. Also, we've got a phenomenal congressional candidate joining was a former Navy seal. He's gonna tell you his story, and we've got a lot more coming. Oh and also Miko on Morning Joe said something interesting for a change. We'll be back with that. Stay with me. I do not watch Morning Joe because it is on MSNBC. I also don't watch it because I think it's a smug, boring show

full of people who don't say anything particularly insightful. But occasionally, any show that's on cable news might stumble upon an interesting exchange, and that actually happened on Morning Joe earlier today. So this guy, Michael Wolf, we all know him because of fire and fury. He's been getting all kinds of heat because he came out and said things like if it rings true, it is true. And he is now a h an emblem, a symbol of the era of fake news, anti Trump journalism in which we find ourselves.

And he has said some really nasty stuff about various people in Trump's orbit, including that the really the nastiest has to do with the insinuations that he has made recently that Nicky Haley, the U S Ambassador United Nations and a former governors you all know that she has had an affair with Donald Trump, which is such a grotesque and unfair charge that even repeating the charge that he made makes me feel uncomfortable because it feels like

it's something that should not be repeated, even as as quoting someone else. But we have have to smash the lie, and to smash the lie, you have to define it. You do have to say it. And he wrote in the end of the book about how Nicki Haley's spent very close to Trump talking about her future, spending a lone time, and then he went on the Bill Maher show, um, which I for a whole bunch of reasons, have have

never been asked to appear on. I don't think ever will be because I would smoke fools, because that's what I do. But the Bill mar Show had this guy on, I think it was last week. I did not watch. I do not watch it. And he said, well, if you want to know something else that you know that's interesting about Trump and he's having an affair, And they said, what do you mean. He goes, well, you know, if you look at the end of my book, you'll get

a hint. He was not subtle about it. And so he's basically he's basically sad that Nicky Haley he's having an affair at the president United States, which is just I mean, this guy is a client. I want my twelve dollars back for the kindle download of this guy's book, Fire and Fury. But Mika, oh, look at this. Mika had had enough. Finally, here here is how this exchange went. Let's put this next question, uh, in the entire credibility of your book, which was written really quickly. Excuse me,

your book. Let's let's let's put it on this next question. Do you regret inferring anything about Nicki Haley. I. I didn't infer anything about Nicki Haley. What I inferred was that the president is um um is that many of the people around the president believe he is still involved with various women. But you said she spent a lot of time in private time with that's I totally totally. I mean, that's exactly what people report and now, and specifically that was about her bid to become the Secretary

of State. So everywhere in the White House they were suddenly in a in a in quite a pen that this was actually happening. Has embraced it. Um, I'm going to go as far as to say that you might be having a fun time playing. So hold on, so you see what he's doing there by the way, you know, depending on which audience this guy Wolf is talking to, he he just changes what he's saying or changes what he's inferring. And she's got him here on this one because it is not it has not been murky what

his insinuation has been. She's not saying you explicitly said it, but you you know, this is like saying, oh, you know who I think is the dumbest person in Congress? Franci loc Well, I think people would figure out who I'm referring to, right, you know, it's it's not I didn't technically name anyone in Congress, but it's I'm not I'm not being I'm not being clever there. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

you're not big clever. So he continues on with this, let's put this next question, Uh, the entire credibility of your book, which was written really quickly, excuse me, your book. Let's let's let's put it on this next question, do you regret inferring anything about Nicki Haley. I. I didn't infer anything about Nicki Haley. What I inferred was that the president is um um is that many of the people around the president believe he is still involved with

various women. Now, but you said she spent a lot of time in private time with that's I totally, totally. I mean, that's exactly what people report and now, and specifically that was about her bid to become the Secretary of State. So everywhere in the White House they were suddenly in a in a in quite a panic that this was actually happenings why they pushed has embraced it. Um, I'm going to go as far as might be having a fun time. I'm playing a little game dancing around this.

But you're slurring a woman. It's disgraceful. It's and and um, Mika again, she has been accused of nothing. She has decided to deny what she has not been accused of. Certainly I didn't accuse her of this. The wait, are you are you suggesting that much suggesting the language is not ambiguous in any way, and the things that you've said in the way you've come. Are you kidding? You're on the Saturday Morning Joe. We don't be as here, well, no, not of a set of Morning Joe. Are you kidding me?

If you don't get it, you don't get about I'm sorry, this is awkward. You're here on the set with us. But we're done, Michael Will thank you. We're gonna go to break now. Look I give her some credit for finally dropping the hammer there. Although I love this. Excuse excuse me, sir, this is the set of Morning Joe. Like like this is, you know, sixty minutes in the eighties or something like. Just just just calm yourself there a little bit. All right, I've seen a lot of

stuff on Morning Joe. It's not impressive. But this guy, this is why this matters. I mean, forget about them, get thing because at this point that he's become he's become pretty toxic. Well you'll notice that when it was useful, the media was all playing along. They're all going on with this, and I told you I want my twelve dollars back from Kindle or whatever it was for doubling this guy's nonsense book. But when it was damaging the Trump you know, this is a common theme when it

was useful for them. There, Oh, we gotta look at this guy, and we got a book him for all these interviews and everything else. You know, you look at the way they treat him, and then you compare that to say, I don't know, compare that to like the way the media responded to and Coulter's book Audios America, which Trump read and then took some messaging from to

become the next president of the United States. Oh no, I can't have you know, they they've got all these problems about and she talks about it on air all the time. But this guy, Michael Wolf, he comes along with this book. He's just saying nons and stuff. You read the book, you go, there's no way, and you can always tell to this whole reconstructed conversations. I can't remember what I said to like my family or my girlfriend twelve hours ago. There's notion that your journalists like.

And then he furrowed his brow and said something that's just perfect for my book right then, like, no way, no way. I've sat in a fair amount of high level government meetings. I've been around people and important national security topics were being discussed, and it's very rare for someone to say something that you're like, Wow, that's a real doozy. That's quite that's quite a line, you know,

Mr President, I don't dance. You know, that's not It works in clear and present danger, but that's not the way the old Potomac two step Jack. You guys remember that scene in clear and present danger. It's good, Yeah, exactly. You know you're going to keep this one in your back pocket. I do sound just like the President, So I'm just putting that out there. Getting a little heat lately for some of my impressions. But go back and watch that movie. I could be that actor whatever his

name is. Anyway. But this whole Michael wolfbook, they used it. They trashed Trump yea to borrow from the one and only for a second Rush Limbaugh, the whole notion of the drive by media. The reason it's such a great thing to say it's stuck for solo because it's so true, right Michael Wolf. It's like he's the guy in the back seat with two tech nine just spraying all over the place. And yeah, you know, now they'll now, they'll let him go to prison. But you know they drove

him there. You know, they let him do his thing, They let him smear a bunch of people, and they let him it is. It is just appalling. And finally now he really gets called out for it, and it's on an issue, a me to issue, which is also a a place where you'll see plenty of big media names playing folks in the news. This is now a

brand issue for them, right. They want to be the person that speaks out against any an me too stuff, and uh, you know it's it's not an active bravery to stand up now and call it out for for me too. I will. This is kind of funny. I just I just saw this before today on the five, but there was a total change of pace. But they do text from mom. Do you ever see this? They have, some of them do these texts from their mom? I always I have some. I have some. It's pretty funny. Yeah.

I have some conservative friends here in New York, and I I keep all of my personal correspondence in in privacy and always will unless they were to give me permission explicitly and say you can use this stuff, because I get great stuff. I'm like, man, I want to steal some of my friends lines and throw them on Twitter, and I get great stuff sent to me all the time.

The conservative underground in New York City is a very very well well read and witty group of folks because we have to be you know, you gotta be ready for whatever. But that's I guess I'll have to think about a way to get that going another time. I would love to have some of my stealth conservative friends calling here. We'd have to give them. It would have to be like one of those shows where they do the guy who's in the witness protection or something, and

they do the word you know they met. They make the voice all weird. I didn't do a good job of that impression at all, but and they blur out the face. We have to do that with the Conservatives because I want them get in trouble with their Wall Street jobs or whatever else they do here. But these are just segment ideas that I have. So uh yeah, anyway, so good for me. Back to Morning Joe. Good for

me because she finally did something worth while on Morning Joe. Uh, we're gonna talk to a retired Navy seal Purple Heart recipient. We're gonna talk to him in just a moment here about his run for Congress. If fascinating, guy, Stay with me for that and much more. All right, everybody, So the midterms are always away, but we've already got some very interesting story shaping up, some different races across the ton of the country that are getting some attention. I

want to introduce you to Dan Crenshaw. Dan is a retired lieutenant commander. He's running for Congress to replace retiring Republican Congressman Ted Poe. Crenshaw was medically retired after a ten year career in the Navy Seals. Dan revealed that he was hit by an I E. D blast in Afghanistan will on his third deployment. He lost his right

eye and his left eye was badly damaged. He explains that after several miracle surgeries, he was able to regain sight in his left eye, and Dan Crenshaw retired the tenant Commander. Crenshaw is now running for Congress. Dahn, great to have you on, great to be here, Thank you for having me. All right, just just tell folks a little bit about your story. It's it's quite compelling, and it's good to see that people with backgrounds like yours are trying to get into the political arena. Yeah, I

mean you you hit all the high points. Um did about five deployments overall. After I did get hurt, like I left the Navy kicking and screaming, I did two more deployments back to the Middle East, and then my last one two six team was in Korea mostly until the operations related. So, um, you know, one of the reasons I'm running is because I want people in Congress with a he said, relevant experience on some of the

bigger issues are president is facing right now. That's Korea, that's the Iran, it's kind of terrorism, it's kind of prolifration issues. And uh, you know, the competition doesn't know anything about these. They just got talking points. And when it comes to national security, it comes to border security, comes to our defense, you can't rely on talking points, You can't rely on a think tank to tell you

what to think. You need experience, and I think the people in our leadership in Washington needs folks who can hit the ground running. Um. It's important to me and it's important to the safety of our country. Talk to you a bit about Korea dance, specifically the North South issue. Kim Jong on What do you think about what the Trump administration has been doing thus far and what would you either like to see changed or more of with

regard to North Korea if you were to be in Congress. Well, it's there's no easy answer to to solve in the North Spring crisis. UM. I think the President is trying a new track. I think there's method to the man is you. We need to create more leverage over the North Koreans and that's through China, and the President is doing that with a lot of a lot of rhetoric that maybe scares people. But if you don't have a credible threat on the table, that's a military action on

the table. If it's not credible, if they don't think you'll do it. Uh. The Chinese willing act and we really need the Chinese to use their influence over the North Koreans to bring them back. And I think behind the scenes we might be seeing that. So I think there is some method to that to what seems like madness. Um. But we have to keep the pressure on. We have to look at what more sanctions we can do and

isolate that regime and punish them for their bad behavior. Um. What what is new about this particular, Um, you know, new phase in North Korean relationships is the fact that they have an I CBM that can reach the United States. That when when this kind of saber rattling was occurring before, that wasn't the case. We didn't have to worry as much. But it is the case now and we do have to worry about the time when they can actually put a NUC their warhead on that I CBM that can

reach the United States. That's the real ticking time bomb for to speak, that we do not want to see happen and we cannot let happen. Speaking to retired Lieutenant Commander Dan Crunshaw of the Navy Seals, he is running for Congress in the Texas Congressional District number two. Uh so tell me about being a Texan, Dan, I love Texas. I used to work for the Blaze out of Dallas and spent a lot of time down there. I love Texas too, you know. And UH, good answer, needless to say.

And you know what's important to us and here in Texas, it's sport of security first, and it sported security second. Uh, it's economic freedom. Uh, it's patriotism, It's red, white and blue. That's what we're about, and that's the kind of value

I want to bring to Congress. I feel like you can bring up the border security issue, by the way, and I've been chasing down some some connections between the surgeon and opioid deaths in this overdoses in this country, and also the rising power in Mexico of the cartels, which seems to me to be a story that's not

getting nearly enough attention. A big part of that is that the border, even when there may be illegal alien crossings at at a downward tilts for a while, the border is still very much open to enterprising drug traffickers who have tremendous resources and a whole lot of economic reason to get across. Yeah, that's exactly right, And you really bring up a good point about how that might affect our opioid crisis that is really becoming a national

security threat. We're losing people constantly to that all over the country. We were that that's something that I would, you know, I would support some kind of federal action and funding for m to combat that. And part of that is border security. Uh, you know, we probably probably do see a good deal of that drug trait coming from the southern border. It's also there's a lot of reasons there's an opioid crisis. It's it's over prescription. It's

over prescribing these these drugs. It's it's bad pharmacies and corrupt pharmacies that are dealing them out. Um, can be down. That is huge. But you know, making sure our border is safe and secure is just so important to Texans. Were on the front lines. We we we would appreciate the rest of the country understood that. Um. We know when you when you hear rhetoric from the Democrats coming out of Joe Kennedy from Massachusetts, you know, I get

it different up in Massachusetts. I know. I lived there, I went to I did, I went to Harvard. I get it. But we're in Texas. Were on the front lines. Um, we need we need to secure the border. We see, we see how porce it is, we see those kind of those raute lines that you're talking about from the drug trade. It's only a matter of time too. And one thing we need to be thinking about. There's really

ungoverned territories on the other side. But what happens when when other entities like Okay to our ices want to use those same lines of entry. Uh. And and those interests of line between the drug cartels and you know chihata groups. What happens then yet, but we need to be worried about it. One more for you, and and that is and look, I'm putting you on the hot seat a little bit here, but you're running for office, So this shouldn't this shouldn't be a surprise or comes

anything new to you? Your favorite all time military memoir? Jeeze? How about how about I give you a really cheesy one. Uh? You know, how about the book that got me started on this path? And it's a little cheesy, but it's written by Dick Marcinko. It's called Rogue Warrior. And you know it's if I hadn't read that book, I wouldn't be here. Now, that's a great book. Twelve I was twelve years old, Uh, and you know that that's that's

what set beyond this path. And I you know, I've read it was twelve and wanted to be a seal ever since. I like it. Good story, good answer, We'll take it. Dan. Where should people go if they want to learn more about your campaign and send some support your way? Please? Go to crunch Off for Congress dot com. That's c R E N s H A W fo R congress dot com. You can donate there. You can see my media appearances is talking about the issues on there. Please go there and check out the campaign and follow

us on Facebook and Twitter. All the links are there. A great story, a strong candidate, Dan Crunch everybody down in Texas running for Congress. Dan, Thank you for your service, best to luck. Thank you very much. Dan. All right, team, so we are going to roll into a breaker. We're gonna get into some Team Buck roll call. See I'm I'm I'm back on my game today in terms of not getting things confused and in the head quite the same way as I did yesterday. We gotta some roll

call and hear from all of you. All right, everybody gets the end of the show. So this is where you guys get to tell me what we're talking about with roll call. Team Buck. It's time for roll call. It is indeed. All right, let's see what we got up first. This is always a little risky, by the way. Sometimes I start reading stuff and I'm like, oh, I can't read that on the radio. So hopefully, hopefully we won't have any of that today, although that can happen

for sure. Hey, you know, I gotta keep it spicy. You gotta keep you on your toes out there and radio listening land. Speaking of spicy, Miss Molly said that she thinks that we should have a cook off because I'm getting a little big from my breeches with my culinary skills, talking a big game about my ribbi searing and various other escapades in the kitchen. And I'm like, honey, we're on the same team. We don't do opposing teams. I'll let you know. I'll be the sioux chef. You

get to run the kitchen. That's the way we'll do this. But she's she's got quite it when she puts her mind to it. She's actually quite a good hand in the kitchen. Um, I'm not gonna say that. I don't you know. One day I will do my version of eggs. I'll a buck and I will show you all, maybe on a Facebook live video, just how to make the best scrambled eggs there are. I mean, there are a few key tips I really should show you because the problem I have now there is anywhere I go and

I order scrambled eggs. I'm like, hey, these are okay technically speaking, technically these are scrambled eggs, but they're also not as good as my scrambled eggs. I'm just saying, so, uh, let's get into some team Buck speaks. Here we get see, I just did it some roll call. Those novels that you were thinking about, this is from Alan, that were sold at grocery stores were called dime store novels back

in the day. That's where you would find it was Nickel and dimes stores, and they were considered to be trash books for women. Yes, yes, Alan, that is correct, dime store novels. That is what I'm talking about. You know, the historical piece that it's always you know, her husband, you know, her husband left for the war, and then like the handsome guy comes through town, and then the husband returns from war, and then you know, the passion and the drama all that stuff. Um not that I

didn't read them, I'm just I saw the covers of them. Sometimes. All right, here we go, uh, Ilsa writes in Buck. I never know if it does any good to send you messages here. Well, Elsa, you're getting your message read on the nationally broadcast radio show. But I don't know how else to get your attention. I don't remember remember how I reached you when I was actually getting you too. Right back about my husband's escape from communist Yugoslavia. But

my concern today is with the Judicial Watch report. Another friend shared with me that was about the GOP flying DOCTA recipients to different areas on commercial flights of the country. What do you know about this? Several people are now saying that they will not vote for Republicans again with this report. It's true, ILSA, I will tell you I don't know much about it. Let me look into it, and if it's true, and if it's happening, I will come back to you with a with some analysis on it.

But for right now, I just I don't know what the specifics are of the incident or the situation that you are citing, So I will take a a rain check on the question. If that's okay for now? Uh see, Oh here we go. Michael writes in man, your trade gaudy was the worst. You've done some real stinkers, but that one takes the cake. Hillary is still the best. What happened is still the best. Okay, Michael, thank you. I agree that Hillary is still the best, but you

really the trade gutties your excuse me? Sure, or you're gonna answer to the question or not. No, you're in my courtroom. Sure. Really, it doesn't sound at all I trade. Come on, come on, I think it's a little bit. I don't think it's the worst. I think I've definitely done worst. I've done worse ones. I had to stop doing al Gore because my al Gore needed to be better than it was and it didn't sound enough like al Core. So I gotta work on my al Gore,

Jessica writes in Hey Buck. And also, though al Gore is not really famous these days or he's not talked about the media, so maybe I don't have to work on my al Gore. You're all like, yeah, that's a way better plan, Jessica. With the next one, Hey Buck, I've been listening to Shields High podcast. But to be honest, I'm a person that learns better by reading literature myself. Is this all from a book that I can get

my hands on? Uh? Well, Jessica, not really. It's my stream of consciousness about the different historical periods and and incidents that I'm talking to you about. I can give you some books to read that touch on the subject matter, and I could put that maybe up on Facebook as a response to you and everyone else can see it as well. I am very uh well, I'm I'm very

fond of some of the works of Roger Crowley. He wrote a book on called Empire of the Seas, which was very good about the Ottoman advance across the Mediterranean. He also wrote a book called fourteen fifty three specifically

about the fall of Constantinople. That's very good. A lot of my Crusades reading is actually a compilation of contemporary chroniclers, so that's more like a compendium of sources, you know, Folkler, of of Shart and uh other different other, other different, other people that were writing about it from the time period. So I don't have a book for you, but I can tell you that there are books that go into it.

And the first two shows were scripted, and then in response to comments from all of you after that, I said, all right, I'm not gonna be a script anymore. I'm just gonna kind of go and talk about it. And that seems to be working pretty well. Some of you seem to think that's a more stylistically, that's a better choice. So that's where we've been doing the Shields High. Let's

see we get next. Um william writes the milk carton, the milk in cartons and all the cocoa packages I could get from m R. E. S. I mixed those with the coffee packs three years in Iraq. I love your Shields High episodes, but I understand the research and hard work. Maybe you should quit the podcast and make some nat GEO type TV episodes. Dream big, Buck, William William, I would love to do that. Maybe somebody should just

come along and, you know, fund my my project. I mean the I think that a a TV series on La Panto would be really awesome, and I've said that before. Malta would be really cool too, because it it does it actually be a good movie. I think it would be a good movie in the epic cinematic genre. But it probably costs a lot of money, so uh, Damnian. Next up on roll call, Buck, have you ever thought about live streaming the show on a platform like YouTube

or Facebook Live? As always, thanks to your service to our country and Shields High, Damian, Yes, We've thought about it, and yes, we are going to put something together where we're gonna be live streaming at some point in the future a portion of the radio show, if not all of the radio show. So the answer your question is, yes, we don't have it up yet. Facebook Live would be

a lot of fun. I kind of like the idea though, of having something that's up on buck sex and dot com that's specific to the team, And I'd like to get away from relying on some of these third party social media platforms because I'm I'm losing faith in truck Us that they're well, I'm losing faith that they can be trusted. How about that? Uh next up here? Um, Tyler? Oh no, Tyler, we did that one yesterday. See I I I remember uh Doug Wright said, hey Buck while

watching an old favorite. This scene stood out as a sum total of what we see from the Democrats resistance mindset for the past year. Oh it's Monty Python, She's a witch. I know that sketch. That's I kind of remember that one. I think. Uh, let's see who's next up on the list. Michelle says Trey Gaudy said from the start that he only spent x number of years in office. I don't believe there's any more to it than that. Uh, shields high. Well, Michelle, you may very

well be right. Uh, I don't you know. I don't know. And while I do, it apparently not a particularly accurate impression of Trey Goudy. It is with It is a an impression done with fondness. I think that he's or not fondness. I don't know him, but you know, respectfully, i'm laughing with Trey. I'm not laughing at Trey, but I do think he'd be a very interesting pick for an administration. He certainly has the background, he's got the chops,

as they say, to take a senior administration post. By the way, don't let me forget producer Mike that we need to get some of the emails going from official team buck at gmail dot com. I don't want to just be on the Facebook here, speaking of letting these platforms dominate everything that we're doing, which is increasingly the

case all the time. Now. He got all this Facebook stuff, and I keep looking into I keep seeing these articles where they're saying, you know, there, it's like rewiring our brains, and yeah, it needs to we need to take of social media like TV. You wouldn't watch TV and three minute increments all day long. And that's the way you should a little bit of social media and then put it down, right, a little bit of social media and

then put it down. Not a constant. Uh, it's like a slow rolling binge of just social media all the time, Ken, next one here, Buck. The whole issue is not about Trump being president. It's about Hillary not being president. Any other Republican candidate would have seen in the same position, and the fires of warrant would have been against their campaign manager. Your thoughts, Oh, you know, Ken, I don't think so, because I mean, look, I can't prove that

you're wrong, because we don't know. We can't prove a negative here, can't go back and change history. But because of some of the associates that Trump had around him, I think that there's a case to be made that there was greater susceptibility because of manaforts and the like to the kinds of discretionary abuses at FBI and d o J. And I just realized we're closing up the shop here at the Freedom Hut for today. Freestyle Friday is tomorrow. Shields High