National Media Embarrassment

what you've been waiting for all day. The buck Sexton Show joined the conversation called Buck Toll Free at eight four four nine hundred Buck that's eight four four nine hundred to eight to five The future of talk radio, buck Sexton. People who say they don't want to give up their guns, they don't want change. What do you say to them? I think, unless you can give me a real reason and why you need it, you don't. You don't need it, honestly asking for less prayers, fewer prayers,

fewer words, and more action. But this is something that I'm going to carry with me forever, and I'm never going to stop. I don't think ever like I'm never gonna let this go. You are year old and right now I'm wearing a bullet group. Fast delmat are all the corporations that are still affiliated with the n r A. I just believe that everything should be more secure to curious, shot, untilled.

We won't tolerate being scared to come into school. We won't tolerate having to stay out of school because we're scared. We can't be hunted. Welcome to Bucks Action Show everybody. Today was a national school walk out to protest gun violence. It is a month since the terrible shooting at the Marjorie Stone in Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, and today we had thousands and thousands of kids, young adults

walking out of their schools across the country. I will say there are a few things that immediately jumped out of me. One is never before have I seen the media so willing to listen to the opinions of teenagers on national policy. I don't see it with really anything else that I can think of. You know, usually it's adults make and enforce the laws and teenagers obey them. An adults teach teenagers about the constitution and the law.

But here we have a movement of children, young adults, adolescents who are being used for obvious political purposes by one side of the political aisle. As I have told you. From the beginning, it was clear that leftist activist groups were involved in this. It was clear that there was astro turfing going on, that this was not some grassroots

movement without any involvement. You had organizers from the Women's March and other groups, and I can't even keep up with all of them who have reached out to these kids C and N. I don't know if they're going to be violating child labor laws, but they might as well give some of these kids a contributor contract. I don't know if they're even allowed to do that, but they probably should because they keep pointing, putting them on TV and treating them like they are experts. And this

is where the breakdown happens. You see, they're really trying to silence you and intimidate you by putting forward victims and claiming that if you oppose what those victims are promoting as policy, now you're a bad person. If you don't give way to the arguments of kids in this case, then clearly you are unfeeling uncaring and to borrow from some of the most famed this of these child activists, you support the n r A, which is a terrorist

organization they say, and terrorizes children. This is a national media embarrassment for sure. Look, do these kids no better? Do they think they're doing good? Thing? Tough to tell. You got to look at it on an individual case and depends on what they're saying and how they're saying. But saying that the First Amendment applies to kids and they have a voice in all this is just all a smoke screen. This is moral blackmail on a massive scale.

You have school districts that are spending money to bust these kids to protests. This has now become like a school activity that just goes to show you, goes to show you the leftist bent of most of the teachers, unions and a lot of teachers in these school systems, in public school And this is not going to advance policy. It wanted ad It's the argument is it, can you make can you make claims about how this is good? There's activism? You know, it's we got an engaged citizenry. Sure, yeah,

it's just exercising the First mment. Yeah, but everything is exercising the First Amendment, right, I mean, come on, some crazy guy that on the corner was telling me the world is gonna end as he's standing on a bunch of cardboard boxes. Well, he's just exercising the First Amendment. Doesn't mean I have to think he's right or respect when he's sang. These are all canards, These are all

red herrings. There smoke screens, as I said, And you'll notice that there aren't a lot of and there aren't a lot of kids appearing on TV who have a different take on this. They are handpicking which students get the national media platforms. They are deciding who will be the voice of this movement, and it is overwhelmingly along partisan lines. And the demonization of the n r A and the threats that I've even seen from people online about or directed towards people from the n r A

are appalling. They are absolutely appalling. But you've got waves of these students walking out across the country. It allows the media to pat itself on the back. It allows them to act like they're giving a voice to the voiceless here whatever. All the cliches apply. But we're also quite aware of the fact that there are adults who

see advantage in all this. There are adults who see that using children as pawns in a political battle is A is a an effective tactic, right, because if you're going to push back against the messaging, you're being mean if you point out that these kids don't know anything about firearms law or quite honestly law or the Constitution. Because I'm hearing what they're saying, and more to them

don't and I wouldn't expect them to their kids. But there's something strange about putting forward young people who don't have the experience or knowledge to debate national issues with any real capability, and to put them in positions where not only are they to be listened to, they're not supposed to be criticized, which is part of this whole thing if you come out too strongly against US. I called it a puppet show in the week when they keep putting these kids on TV, and oh gosh, people

got so mad at me. What do you think this is? Seeing an adults CNN producers see some kid who suffered a trauma? Was that one of these was it was at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas and they put them on TV and all of a sudden they're saying that you know this politicians owned by the n r A, and this person is a total hack who's got blood on his hands because he took n RA donations, and they're just being a little attack dogs. That's not okay, it's not acceptable.

But anything goes, anything goes, So the conversation, I suppose will continue. I saw today on the cover of the the Huffington Post they were using the hashtag enough. I wonder if they've formally switched from hashtag never again, which is meant to evoke the the Holocaust, and maybe they've

moved on to hashtag enough. I'm not sure. I don't know, um, but I do know that these kids don't understand gun policy, they don't understand criminology, they don't understand how violence in the statistics with violence in school, a vast majority of it occurs outside of school. By orders of magnitude, exponentially more violence occurs outside of school. That's where students are most likely to be harmed by each other and by non students. And most of the violence has nothing to

do with a deranged school shooter. It's drug related, it's gang related, but that's not what we're talking about here. This, this is specifically meant to mobile This is meant to mobilize a group of students for the purpose of fundraising for the left, passing legislation against the Second Amendment, and creating some issue for the Democrats to push going into

mid terms. Of course, the problem they're gonna run into is that gun control is not popular in places where they need to run towards the They need to run centrists, they need to run carbon copies if they can. Of what just happened in Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania's eighteenth district, which was won by the Democrats. I mean, he's has the other guy conceded yet by the way he conceded. No, he hasn't conceded, right, Okay, so it's in the six D

vote range right now. Oh. Another thing. Anytime somebody ever tells you that voter fraud doesn't matter or they know, they usually start with voter fraud doesn't happen, and then you do a Google search and they say, well, someone just went to prison for it last week. And they say, okay, well, it's not that big a deal. Doesn't happen that much. When you have congressional elections that are coming down to literally hundreds of votes, it's pretty clear that it matters.

It's pretty clear that even a very small fraction of votes cast being fraudulent or in any way hampered with could change the outcome. Um, well, that's that's another place we'll have to go and discuss. Oh I mentioned the adults. We'll talk more about where the adults come down here on using this movement for their own purposes, on pushing narratives that they find politically convenient, and how ultimately they won't address the truth. And it's one that I tell

you here on the show. School shootings are have been going down for decades. Children are incredibly safe in schools. We do not need to do all these things that people are saying we have to do. We need a baseline of competence from law enforcement, which we usually have, but in this case of the Stonean Douglas shooting, we did not baseline of competency, open communication and maybe some tightening of open communication between the schools and law enforcement,

and then some tightening of the background check system. This is not a modern pandemic. This is not an urgent plague. This has now become from a policy perspective, overblown. For every student that walked out today because they wanted to honor the memories of you know, the fellow students that were lost at stoneA Douglas High School, or that they did this as a form of mourning and community gathering.

Great God bless. But for those who are saying we need to change the Constitution of the United States because they say so because of what happened, I'm sorry, but they don't have enough wisdom or experience on the subject matter to influence my opinion, and I know they're not influencing yours either, And this is not the way that we should be debating issues of national importance in this country. It's a sham what the Democrats are doing. All Right, We've got a pat show. I'm gonna talk to you

about the passing of Stephen Hawking later on. We're also going to discuss that the UK has expelled twenty three diplomats from its shores and Russian diplomats in response to the Nova chalk poisoning. And what else have I got for you? A whole lot of stuff. We'll have Hillary making an appearance later. Oh, I have a follow up on the French bulldog that died in the overhead been because of a stupid airline employee. We will get that. Just I want I read it last night. I read

the details. I saw the photo too, and it disturbed me. It really made me mad. And you and say, that's not rational, Buck. You're reading stories about terrible wars and things all the time, and I know that's true, but I don't know that the photo of that French you really really hit home. It made me, Uh made me sad. So we'll talk about that, because there's a bigger lesson about airlines that we should draw from what happened on that plane where somebody's pet was forced into an overhead

beIN where it's slowly suffocated. We will we will talk more about that, and obviously your thoughts welcome as well. Eight to eight to five eight Buck. You can't call, but you want to tweet. I am at Buck Sexton on Twitter and I'm a lean, mean tweeting machine, including during the show and after and at two A and when I can't sleep. So get on the Twitter. We'll be right back. What do we want gun control? When

do we want it? Now? Governor Andrew Cromo was with them in that one, right, So the governor of New York State. They're demanding gun control, folks, there's already so much gun control. The way that this whole debate is framed is dishonest. They're claiming that they just want common sense gun control. We already have all kinds of gun control.

And I don't mean like trigger finger discipline. I'm talking about all the laws that are which I know for a lot of your like that is gun control, Buck, But I'm talking about laws that are in place that govern the sale and transfer and storage and carriage and use. And you know, there's a whole cannon pardon the expression of law around guns. And in a place like New York, they do it in a way that it's supposed to

make it complicated. It's supposed to make it difficult. And there's all kinds of ownerous restrictions in place on the Second Amendment already, restrictions that they would never dream of bringing about it a similar level for other constitutionally protected rights, because they just flatly don't view the Second Amendment as a constitution constitutionally protected right. They think it is a quaint anachronism and that it's evil and that it needs

to go. They flatly do not believe that the right to bear arms is in the Constitution, and they are using children now to make that argument for them. It's not the first time, but this time around they have harness their powers of organizing for this purpose, and none other than Chuck Schumer, for example, joined it. I mean, the got these adults joining in the student chance, No surprise, Humer. Here's what he had to say. Now, everyone's I've been

through these wars. I am the author of the Brady Law and the assault weapons ban, the n r A. The n r A has made me public Enemy no. One, and I'm proud of it. And together we're gonna win where gonna win. We're gonna win where gonna win? I mean, what kind of bull crap chant is that we're gonna win? What exactly We're gonna ben more guns in New York State. There's already all kinds of bands in place for New York State. We're gonna eliminate the right to bear arms nationwide.

That's never gonna happen. That's well, I'm not gonna happen anytime soon, at least if they keep pushing. I'm sure they think that they can change perception enough that over time they might be able to get what they want with this. But it is uh it is distressing onetheless to see all this happening. It's very as I've been telling you, it's very Olynsky though. It's all about mobilization.

Make activism a social activity, make activism seem fun and cool and hip, and then people become activists, and then they want to keep going. It's like a party where you get to feel good about yourself, like a fun party, not a political party, you know. And then they're hoping that they'll have these networks in place for the midterms, and that they'll have people that rise up to get others to vote and to believe that they're giving them

a message that's important, that's powerful. That's what this whole game is. It's not going to change anything. I do want to talk to you about something else that has begun to make its way into the conversation, and I easy here with you, and I had to do with the Broward Sheriff's Department, Broward County Sheriff's Department policies when it came to arresting juveniles. It turns out that there was really something to it. I talked to you here

on the show about it. But the Obama administration through the Department of Education decided that there needed to be some social justice adjustments to how schools discipline teenagers and how quickly they reported to law enforcement. And they claim, but there is racial disparity in the system and therefore they had to change the way the system was giving out discipline. Well, we will dive into that together after this,

because I think it's gonna be eye opening. Investigation will continue unofficially despite the GOP shutting it down at the banner up on CNN as we were on the air. What a shock. That's it's classic. So they're gonna continue an investigation that's not really an investigation, but that way they can still pretend like it's an investigation. Yeah, this is what the Democrats do, all right, I promise you let to talk about this school discipline policies of the

Obama administration. Now, remember, and this is something that's easy, easy to lose sight of it. I don't have children yet, so I don't deal with any school system. Really. I just read about them a lot, but I've been to school. Uh. But the Obama administration was willing to throw its political muscle around via the Department of Education on a pretty

regular basis. The Obama team, if you remember, even threatened to cut off funding for I believe it was North but it might have been South Carolina schools if they did not acquiesce to the new Department of Education guidelines on trans gender students and bathroom usage they were going to. They threatened to cut funding, folks for public schools unless they allowed teenage boys to use the bathroom that they

prefer of teenage girls, and vice versa. So that was one time when you saw the politics of the Obama administration played out through the prism of the public school system. And that's important to remember. But there was another part of the Obama administration that was prominent all things social justice.

Obama was really a social justice warrior. President Obama was somebody who believed deeply in using the power of the government in a somewhat arbitrary fashion in order to benefit disadvantaged groups at the expense of so called advantage groups.

In social justice parlance of today, we'd call this addressing white privilege, for example, But in this specific in the specific case of the school system, there was a theory that Obama and his Department of Education and others put into practice of what they called the school to prison pipeline, and that there was too much arresting of high school, particularly minority high school students, going on that that created an environment where there would be further arrests and they'd

be pulled out of school, and the problem was the arrest, not the behavior. And then even before that, they would say that minority students were punished more severely for and this isn't important for the same infraction. That's always the claim, or the same infraction, they're punished much more severely than their non minority uh counterparts, particularly that black students are punished more harshly in school by teachers and administrators than

white students are for the same offense. That's the plane. Now here's a discussion between the former head of VICE. I think he's just out as of recently. I've always thought Vice was just all smoke in mirrors. I've said this to you I think before on the show. Virus is like a bunch of hipster's telling you about the news, but pretending they don't really care much about the news. They've got a book of slam poetry that they're compiling that's much more meaningful to them, right, I mean it's

so there's always this annoying insuction. Look at me um standing on the d m Z of North Korea, but like, I don't, I don't really care man doing Vice hard hitting journalism. But the the co founder and former head of Vice was sitting down with Obama to talk about this. This was a few years ago. But this is a good basic for a good basic definition of what this whole prison of pipeline thing is. Is the criminal justice

system in America racist. The system restudy has shown is biased somewhere institutionally in such a way where an African American youth is more likely to be suspended from school than a white youth for engaging in the same disruptive behavior, more likely to be arrested, more likely to be charged, more likely to be prosecuted aggressively, more likely to get a stiffer sentence. The system tilts in a direction that

is unjust. The statistics are so skewed you have to question whether we have become numb two the costs that it has on these communities. Whether you got the idea, but Noticety says, more likely to be suspended, more likely to be prosecuted for the same offense, and the New York Times wrote a piece about this recently, Trump finds

unlikely culprit in school shootings m A discipline policies. UH. This article has the unintended effect of confirming everything that I had read before and come to conclusions about with regard to the Broward County Sheriff's Department and how it's interacting with high school students, and also just how the s j W attitude of the Obama administration had permeated throughout the school system in a way that was really destructive because when you look at this piece, there are

a lot of I mean, first of all, they talk about the UH, the Rethink Discipline program um, which is the Trump Commission will examine, includes guidelines that the Obama aministration issued on the legal limitations on the use of restraints and seclusion, corporal punishment, and equity for special education students. So Rethink Discipline was they UH called this or the

Abdoministration and Disciplined guidelines that were given out. So they actually had guidelines on this, and what they were claiming was some of what I had told you, which is that UH, students based on how they're writing this and compulic statistics. They say students of color are singled out and more harshly punished than their uh than their white counterparts. There's a few things that just automatically jump out to

me about this claim. And I'm gonna translate all this in a moment into why we care in the context of the school shootings in general and the Marjorie Stone and Douglas shooting in particular in a second here, but the notion that being punished for the same infraction, there's no way to statistically account for this, But there's also no way to line up exactly is this a student that is, we're talking to things like disruptions and classrooms

or maybe you know, cursing or okay, and teacher listening to this nose. And I was just I was a soccer coach, right, So I wasn't a teacher, but I worked in a school for a period of time and had to deal with kids. And I had overwhelmingly super diligent,

well behaved, great kids. But even in that scale, there were the kids that I dealt with who had a you know, consistently a little bit of an attitude, a little bit of a discenary disciplinary problem and there were the kids who maybe once in a while would get a little out of sorts, but they generally weren't a problem.

Now I knew that there was a line sometimes that if any of them cross I'd have to actually, you know, bench them for a game, or you know, I had to do that a couple of times, or if they were being you know, rowdy, or if they were getting into it, because these were high school aged kids, if they were you know, saying they're going to fight someone on the other team, things like that would happen. I'd have to step in and and cut that off right away,

and they would have to be disciplined there. But you know, the kid that did it two or three times, or the kid that was close to doing it a few times, it was going to be more harshly punished by me then the kid who you know, just one time got a little heated during the game. And I'm trying to translate, trying to take that and put in the context of a classroom. I'm sure it's the same thing with teachers.

You see, I don't believe that teachers in the public school system are inherently racially biased in the way that the new York Times, the Abadministration's Department of Education and others assume, I just don't believe it, and the statistics alone can't can't be used to say that, well, there's a there's a disparate impact on minority students in these schools because the reality of crime statistics in this country, or that there's a disparate impact among the African American

community of of homicides. For example, right there are more African Americans per capita killed in homicides, and they're more African African Americans per capita that commit homicides. Now there's very complicated, uh socio economic reasons and you know, and and discussions to be had around that issue. But there's clearly a difference in the per capita incidents of violent crime in the African American community community than the rest

of the country. That there is a difference in school discipline as well, is something that should be a conversation, not something that is day facto or or on its face treated as racism, which is what they're saying, which

is what they're doing now. The way that so that's one level, is the way that the schools under the obomb aministration decided to deal with this was And now you're gonna start seeing the how Broward County factors into this was Well, you know, don't arrest kids, give them more written warnings, be be slower to turn them over to police, don't don't take school behavior that's criminal and

necessarily assume you have to call law enforcement. See if you can handle it internally, See if the school's disciplinary policies will deal with it first. Now, I met a lot of teachers in my life. I've never met a teacher who would relish the idea who would look forward

to calling police on one of his or her students ever. Ever, so the notion that the Department Education thinks that it should be telling teachers and administrators, you know, be slower to call the cops as a means of dealing with the problem is exactly the wrong way to deal with the problem. Letting kids get away with more behavior that is borderline up to and including criminal is not a

way of increasing or improving discipline. It's just a way for administrators and in some cases law enforcement to change the numbers and look like they're being less discriminatory. In the case of the Parkland school shooting, what we know is that the Broward County Sheriff's office was giving a lot of citea a lot of written warnings and citations to kids for what would have gotten them previously arrested.

And the theory here, it's not proven, but the theory is that with someone like Nicholas Cruz, you have a student who was in an ecosystem where behavior was much less likely to result in arrest and a visit from law enforcement and much more likely to be just bounced around the school system. And you know, he's eventually expelled. But there was a softer line taken by authority in Broward County which was responsible for safety of those students

at Parkland. And there's a way to take that thread and have it all the way at the top from President Obama himself on down less discipline in schools, the prison the school the prison pipeline, which is just a bogus theory that they have created to explain away many difficult socio and economic issues that are happening in schools and pretending that there's no disparity issues in discipline, that it's all just institutional racism, that's what they're saying, and

that may have had very, very tragic consequences when it filtered all the way down at the level of say Stoneman Douglas High School and how administrators, teachers, and others felt they should be dealing with problem students across the board, minority or otherwise. But this is something we will continue to revisit. It's but it just comes from the flawed theory of of the social justice warriors, which is if there is a remember if you remember, disparate impact as well.

That's a theory that says that if it affects one group more than another, it must be wrong if that group is disadvantaged, even if it's based on action and sound law. As I've said to you, there's a disparate impact of violent crime too. What do we do about that? You know, not enforced the law? I don't think so, all right, eight four four to five eight four four buck, We'll be right back. Also have a concerned when we talk about this of the impact of of having armed

teachers as it relates to African American Hispanic students. And here's why I say that there is an overwhelming body of evidence that shows that harsh disciplinary protocols disproportionately impact children of color. Do you have any concern about a policy that would result in arming teachers and the concern that we should make sure that if something like that were to occur, that there would be training around implicit bias. So that's Kamala Harris talking about this. So she's saying

implicit bias. I mean, the teachers shoot more minority students if they're armed in schools. This, this theory continues, and it it permeates so much of the policy making around school safety, doesn't it. Herber New Jersey, What do you think, my friend? Uh? Well, first of all, let me say shields high buck, thank you. Like you, I'm calling bs on this entire narrative that tries to take the focus off of truth and reality when you're talking about keeping

our kids safe while they're in school. Um, you know, I don't care how many tools of violence you try to make illegal. Uh. People who are contemplating a crime are going to obtain whatever tool they find necessary by any means necessary. And And what you're really talking about here, if you're serious about wanting to keep our kids safe, is trying to keep a shield between them and the

evil that promotes violence. Physical shield is the only thing that's going to protect our children because UM, well here's a perfect example. UM. There's a story going around uh the internet in the last twenty four hours about a situation that that that occurred in California where a student made some threats on social media. The police investigated, They found uh several weapons and ammunition in the possession of

this child in their home. UM, they arrested them and um charged them with the unlawful possession UM and averted any potential violence in that child school because they put up a shield. They invested, the law enforcement did its job there, and law enforcement in Parkland clearly was unfortunately asleep at wheel Herb. Thank you for calling in from New Jersey. I want to get to Bill and West Virginia before we have to go to the next hour. Bill, good to have you all right. Thanks thanks for taking

my time for your time there. Uh yeah, I wanted to talk about Chuck Schumer. He happens his big mouth and that and uh what's he got to say about the Obama Hary could fast and furious stuff. You know, the government broke the Lawler, we got gun laws, and they broke the gun laws in it. How many of these guns are available from Mexico coming back here to cause these problems? Yeah, I mean, Chuck Schumer's the worst.

So there's that can't understand that, Why don't the people start shoving at the Republicans starts shoving it back in his face, and that you know, it just dumbfails me. Yeah, I hear you, Bill, thank you for calling him my friend Shields I um yeah, Schumer, Oh gosh. We'll talk a little bit about the Party of Pelosi and Schumer and how this wind that Lamb had in Pennsylvania's eighteenth district is not indicative of some big wave coming for

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freedom hut dwellers. So we had a little bit of a loss, not a lot of big deal. But scone cicone. I like to say, I like the like the old country saccone, not the seccone americanized stuff. You know what do he was hen order spaghetti with red sauce. Next, next it's spaghetti manda nata. But nonetheless yet scone against Lamb.

I have nothing fun and what bad? I got nothing to say about Lamb's You know, I can't think of anything clever about that one, but Lamb one, or as I'm seeing some of the various female pundits I know, say the cute one one, Oh well, isn't that nice? Or at least he's declared victory and he's six hundred votes or so ahead, and and we have some audio from the cute one. Lay it. Lamb is a political unicorn. Essentially, he's running prone pro fracking. We were over stops ups up.

Let's let's play Mr Connor Lamb. What what he said? Not that Mark theeson is not great? But do we not have I thought we had some Lamb talking. Oh, Paul Ryan talking about Lamb. I miss read the cutsheet my friends live radio is a crazy thing. Let's hear from Paul Ryant. I think the candidate that's going to win this race is the candidate that ran is a pro life, pro gun, anti anti Nancy Pelosi conservative, that's the candidate's gonna win this race. So this is something

that you're not going to see repeated. Because they didn't have a primary, they were able to pick a candidate who could run as a conservative, who ran against the minority leader who ran on a conservative agenda. Um, you will have primaries and all these other races, and the primaries bring bring them to the left. So I just don't think that this is something they're gonna be able to see a repeat of. I agree with Paul Ryan's

analysis here. You can't you can't pull a limb in all these other districts because you're gonna be running people that are essentially saying me too, I'm just a Republican too, I'm I'm close to this other guy. It's not gonna be enough. There's just no way. And then you added the whole thing that people in the political chattering class like to talk about mid terms, the year of the mid term, like the whole year. But so much is going to change between now and then, things like how's

the economy doing. People are saying, this is a referenum on Trumpell. What's Trump is? I'm looking like in five or six months, right, that'll be very very different. Or yeah, five or six months, so that will all change. So this is not a referendum on anything. It just shows that. Oh I would note yesterday I was a little confused. We're talking to Selena Zito, who is from the district and knows this district p A eighteen very very well.

I was like, wait, why did I think that Lamb was a Lamb is one of these politicians who says he is personally pro life but will always vote pro choice. See that's how far he's willing to go. Uh, that's how far he's willing to go in order to appeal to Republican centrist voters. Right, that's what he's willing to do, or sorry, Democrat centrist voters is to say, oh, well, I'm with you. I mean, you know, I'm life is sacred, but I'm gonna vote for abortion. This is the head fake.

This is exactly what Democrats do time and again. It's not new, it's not a surprise. And the fact that this guy was able to, you know, with a good resume and a square jaw and a good TV appearance and all that was able to defeat us a cone is not not a huge shock. Um, not a huge shock. Uh So that's I don't think there's any major national level anything to take out of this. So I just want to put that. I want to put that aside for a moment, or not put it aside for a moment.

I want to put it aside. I think it's just the local. It's gonna be a different district in the fall. He's literally gonna be running in a different district. So how's it gonna look? Who knows? Who knows? The biggest thing I had from all this, or the biggest takeaway from me, is that hundreds of votes can change an election. It is not hard to think of a situation where there might be hundreds of either intentionally or unintentionally illegally cast votes. Not hard to think of that at all, right,

not something. It doesn't require a huge elaborate fraud to have a few hundred votes go one way or the other. In fact, there have been elections where that was the margin of the margin of victory, and your reason to believe that there was there were shenanigans all right. Now, switching gears for a moment here, because this is gonna be It's gonna be something that really sets the media a light. They are going to freak out about this.

NBC News reporting Sessions, the Attorney General, whom I will note we had calling into the show this week because he's, uh, he likes the freedom hunting. You know. The guy's very smart, individual's patriot, likes how we roll in the hut, you know what I mean. I get so I give Sessions credit for that. On top of it, he may fire

top FBI official Andrew McCabe before his pension eligibility. So people who think that McCay retiring early, oh, there's nothing they can do now, Nope, there's something they can do that would sting pretty bad, pretty badly. I know, advert people are gonna get mad at me. No improper grammar on AIRBUK. The FBI's Office of Profession and Responsibility has recommended the firing of former Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, who remains on the payroll, a move that could put his

pension at risk. According to officials familiar with the process, it is now up to Attorney General Jeff Sessions, our friend, whether to reverse that recommendation or to accept it. Why would McCabe get fired after a long and distinguished career at the d j OH for leaking information to reporters and for lying to investigators about doing so. Now, let's just take a moment, shall we. If you are a senior Department of Justice official, you know the law pretty well,

I'd assume, at least with regard. I'm not saying you uphold it all the time, but you at least know what the law is. You should know what the law is, and you would also know what would put you in professional and ethical jeopardy. Why why, oh why would you If you are Andy McCabe, Acting Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, why would you take this risk and leak to reporters unless one of two things were true, both of which are very important for our discussions going

forward of all the Russia collusion investigation stuff. One, you are sure that you will not get into trouble because the rest of the people around you will have your back because they're with you, they agree with you, they're anti Trumpers, and so they you're gonna be okay. And maybe, depending on what the timeline is here, maybe you figured Hillary was gonna win, and so that's why you we're willing to engage in all this because you knew of Hillary Wan and you were part of helping her win.

Everything was gonna be cool, right. The other option is you are so ideologically rabid in your opposition to Trump that you would risk your career and your pension in order to try and take Trump down. When we're talking about the deep state, my friends, when we discussed former Obama administration officials or just senior government officials and their willingness to go above and beyond to stop Trump and

help Hillary, this goes right in to that box. This is what we are just, this is what we're talking about. Someone who has spent decades working for the FBI putting bad guys away, knows the law backwards affords, and would get in trouble for a leaking to reporters at the very, very very end of his career. This gives you a sense of the severity of the problem of the deep

state at d o J and FBI. It also proves that it was very, very real, and I have to wonder if he's in trouble for this, what would happen if there was an independent investigation looking at say Sally Yates, looking at Peter struck looking at Bruce or all these different figures that we've become familiar with in the Russia collusion investigation. FBI side, d o J, lawyer side, someone leaked information to the newspapers to get General Flynn and

committed a felony in doing so. I think we have a pretty small list of people that are likely suspects. And if you can see the acting FBI director putting so much on the line for the pro Hillary anti Trump cause, what can you not see some of his compatriots, some of his fellow travelers, and the f beyond the d o J doing for the same end. Remember this one and keep an eye on what happens with Sessions

and this decision. We'll be back in a few The United Kingdom will now expel twenty three Russian diplomats who have been identified as undeclared intelligence officers. They have just one week to leave. This will be the single biggest expulsion for over thirty years. We're here today to discuss the use of a chemical weapon by one Council member in the territory of another Council member. Let me make one thing clear from the very beginning, the United States

stands in absolute solidarity with Great Britain. The United States believes that Russia is responsible for the attack on two people in the United Kingdom using a military grade nerve agent. Dozens of civilians and first responders were also exposed. There you have US Ambassador United Nations Nicki Haley, and someone who are actually thought was a likely replacement at one point for Rex Tillerson, but maybe that'll wait till term two. But Nikki Haley calling Russia out for the poisoning of

a former Russian intelligence officer who had defected. We don't really use that term anymore. I don't know why when you leave your country and take up residents in another, because you've you've been a turn coat, you've traded one country for the other. I feel like defection is the right term. But in this case, like he defected from the bad guys to the good guys, so we'll take

it right. That's good, um. But the Russians tried to poison him with Novachuk, and they did this so that we would know Scree Paul is the name of the individual they tried to poison and his daughter, and it's now believed that the the chemical was wiped on the handle of his car door, and there are let me just say, there are much easier and more effective ways to eliminate someone if if that was in fact the goal. This reminds me of the poisoning of Litvinenko, who was

given a UM radio active isotope years ago. If you remember UM, he was another person who was in a very similar fashion in two thousand and six was poisoned with polonium radiation syndrome or acute radiation polonium induced acute radiation syndrome. So the Russians do this, they'll go after people. We know this all over the world, and now it's a question of what will we do in response the UK.

The UK has banished I believe it's twenty three was a number, that's right, twenty three Russian diplomats suspected of intelligence activities. There's a lot of like what countries know and what they pretend not to know, and what they'll turn a blind eye too. And this is all you know, diplomatic and spook and spy stuff that gets wrapped into these conversations. But we've expelled twenty three Russian diplomats, and

there's some other things that are being done. You know, they're gonna seize any assets in the UK that they think maybe used for the purposes of UH elicit activities. There are things like that, but it's not really gonna strike fear into the hearts of Putin and his his top folks, right, we all know that, um. And it's because at a at some level, and I'm just gonna say it. I don't know if you've heard anyone else say it, but I'm just gonna come out and say it.

At some level, it is the case that you can't touch one of ours, and you know, the UK you can't touch one of theirs. But we have a different set of rules for how we deal with the Russians when they deal with their former you know, their former folks. Which is weird when you think about it, right, because if you're in the UK and you have residency, you should be treated as a as a UK national for all intents and purposes. But here we we look at

a little differently. I will say this, if, for example, the Russians had uh smeared this nova chuck on the door handle of a prominent American critic of Putin, we'd have we'd have a big problem right, we would have reprisals in mind that would go well beyond I think the expulsion of three diplomats, which is the most diplomats the uk IS has kicked out in in decades. But

we think of these things a little bit differently. And I just want to know that there these are the kind of the unspoken rules in international diplomacy and international espionage, that they exist, and we kind of know they exist, but we don't talk about them all that much. I mean, Nicki Haley uh spoke more about this, and like I said, she's calling the Russians out for sure. The Russians complained

recently that we criticize them too much. If the Russian government stopped using chemical weapons to assassinate its enemies, and if the Russian government stopped helping it's Syrian ally to use chemical weapons to kill Syrian children, and if Russia cooperated with the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons by turning over all information related to this nerve agent,

we would stop talking about them. We take no pleasure and having to constantly criticize Russia, but we need Russia to stop giving us so many reasons to do so.

And here's a little more unconventional thinking these days, Maybe, just maybe we should consider reserving criticism for Russia for things like this and not running around having our media and one of our two political parties pretending that Russians through the last election and creating all this fearmongering and scare mongering and paranoia around Putin and his plans to

intervene in our next election. I'm not saying it's not a problem, just saying it's not the big problem that people have been pretending it is, and they've been doing it for very obvious partisan reasons, But it doesn't start to sound a bit like noise coming from us. The

Russians do have a point. We do complain about them a lot and a lot more than we should have over the last eighteen months or so because we're complaining about, or rather people in this country are complaining about how Hillary lost the election, and Russia has been pulled in as a scapegoat on that, and that's embarrassing. And if I were Russia, I'd be mocking us too for that.

They have every right to be like, you know what, you know what, this is this slope, So in that sense, they are making some sense and we look at what's going on here, and we have to remember that, you know, there's only so many different diplomatic levels. There's only so many things, so many options you have at any point in time to hit back at a bully like Russia, and you do yourself no favors when you become the

country that cried wolf. And when we're looking at what's going on with Russia and they're machinations in Ukraine and Crimea in Syria as well as there social media meddling and needling of us, I think that we need to pick our battles. I mean, the nova chuk thing is serious, all right, This is a big deal because, like I was saying, originally, you know, they could have just had

somebody with a silence pistol or something. Not that that's morally really any different, although it wouldn't have put a lot of other people in jeopardy as this did. But they use nova chalk the same reason they use polonium. It's messy, it's it's making an example of someone. And if the Russians keep doing this kind of stuff, you know, we have to we might have to find a way to make an example, so to speak, of the Russians, and that could get very dangerous. I'll be back with

much more. Stay with me Team I inherit nothing from the Democratic Party. Some people stayed home and some people went third party. The tech revolution really weaponized. If you look at Facebook news, items posted were fake, the Russians, one thousand Russian agents, the bots, millions of bots, Citizens United. Then you've got Cambridge analytic of the Mercer's and Brexit, the bright Bart operation, Steve Bannon, Kelly Ann Conway, the John Podesta emails, Wiki leaks, in bed with Goosefer, in

bed with DC leaks, vast right wing conspiracy. Now it's a vast Russian conspiracy and at some point it sort of bleeds over into misogyny. Oh man, I had to producer Mike for an amazing montage there. I love it, dude. It's just there are so many excuses that it's amazing she can rattle them all off over the course of one speech. But she's clearly done a lot of thinking about it. Because Hillary just like she's just wandering the woods of Chappaqua, just trying to find herself, just drinking

glass after glass of rose. Because you know, Hillary is the kind of savage who drinks rose year round. You know that it's totally true. So Hillary is the gift that keeps on getting for the GOP. I really do hope that we are treated to all kinds of of Hillaryisms in the run up to the mid terms, because I think it's a great reminder for folks of what they avoided. It really is. She's just gonna be showing up and saying it could have had me, and everyone's

gonna be like, oh my gosh. You know, I feel like sometimes when I do the Hillary now, it's almost like I'm an Aprica, you know it is. It is that time of year my friends St Patrick's Day. I'm thinking about how that was a movie that I found terrifying when I was a kid. By the way, I used to I'm gonna tell you the true story right now. I used to go into one of my favorite things when my parents were shopping, because before I knew how to cook or cared about food other than you know,

I loved oreos and things like that. I would go into a video rental store next to the grocery store while my parents were in the group with my older brother and and my little brother. There's like the three section boys were going and we spent a lot of time, no surprise in the action movie section. And that's how you get into like the sea level Dolph Longren movies that I would watch, you know, show Down a Little Tokyo for example. Oh, I've seen it and it's bad.

You know, you got dout of the whole list. There's another one where Dolph Longren stays behind with a bunch of mercenaries. Uh, and they like helped defend a village and they want mineral rights or something. I mean, it's really I don't even remember what it was, but I've seen it. If there's a c oh um, I come in peace and if you're familiar with that one, it's about an alien who shows up and uh yeah, it's also really really bad movie. I'm pretty sure Dolf Lungern's

in that one. So anyway, occasionally, though, I would wander into the horror movie, which I was always very scared of horror movies growing up. I remember I saw Bram Stoker's Dracula and it was a little freaked out for a while. I was like tan Or Levin. That one freaked me out for a while. You know, the Wolfman that he turns into and stuff. I was a little scary. I think it's pretty good rendition. It's one of Keanu Reeves kind of it's lost in the Kianu repertoire, Oh

no kung Fu. But it's actually a pretty decent movie for what it was, very uh true to the book, very true to Bram Stoker's novel, which is still I'm a big fan of, big proponent of uh. But anyway, I remember going in and the leprechn movies. I always wanted to rent one, but I never could bring myself to do it when I was a kid because I

was just too freaked out. Because Warwick Davis who plays Willow in the movie Willow is the same guy who which is a movie we kind of a rip off The Lord of the Rings that Disney did in the nineties without paying Tolkien anything, I'm sure, and or maybe they did. And then he had Warwick Davis playing the Lepric and he's like, I'm the Leprica and he like shows up and he cuts people with his long nails. He's really scary looking, and it just freaked me out. Man.

And then what I found out later on was that who I want you guys, by show of hands, how many Leprecn movies do you think Warwick Davis made taking guess that's right. Five they made five lepre Con movies. There's that's right. There is a lepre Con in the Hood movie. I have seen some of it. You literally have Warwick Davis dressed as a Leprecn, little green hat, little little buckle shoes on, looks like a pilgrim, and he's smoking a blunt in a bathroom of a hip

hop club in New York City. Yeah, yes, that's a real thing. There's LEPrecon in space. Yeah, that's another one. So that's what I'm thinking about as we get closer to St. Patty's Day. How I never I've never seen one of the movies to this day. I don't think I can. I think it might, you know, it might still rattle me a little. It's like I can't watch the I've told you before, I can't watch all the

way through the Exorcist. And then I lived right next to the Exorcist steps in d C, which whirled me out. This was supposed to be a segment where I was gonna just make fun of Hillary for the whole time. Instead, I started talking about wandering around the bootleg version of Blockbuster when I was a kid, And uh, at least you learned that there were five lepre Con movies. And

fun fact, Jennifer Aniston was see. I spent a lot of time reading the jacket covers of these things, because that's I'd go in the video store and read the jacket covers. Jennifer Anniston was in the first leper Con movie, So it's got that going for it, which is nice. I'm a Jennifer Aniston. I'm a Jennifer Anston. And although Courtney Cox in the early in the early seasons of Friends, I was actually more Monica person than a Rachel person.

But that's a conversation for another time. All Right, we're gonna hit a quick break here. We come back. Even Hawking passed away. I'll have some thoughts on that for you in just a few Stephen Hawking passed away today. You're all familiar with him. He is a world famous astrophysicist and somebody who is considered one of the great geniuses of our time. And I should tell you right at the start that I have tremendous respect for two things.

One is that Stephen Hawking was able to overcome you know, he was seventy six years old when he when he passed away earlier today, he was able to overcome in unbelievable disability. I mean a tremendous burden where he essentially it's a rare disease. He essentially became almost entirely paralyzed. So looking at this now you have to first take into account that this this individual got over tremendous hurdles of his health, and then you add to that that he is able to do. Look, I'm a guy who's

impressed by people who can do calculus. Pretty well, you're looking at somebody here who is in a whole other level of mathematical and uh as a physicist, a whole other level of ability and genius, complete respect for that. And I am not somebody who's a math guy. So for me, people who can do math, I feel like anybody can sit around and argue stuff matth you have

to actually know some stuff math. You have to be able to do it, and there's a right and wrong answer, and so Hawking is very very impressive on those two levels. But now I'm gonna tell you what I really think

about the whole Hawking phenomenon, and this came out. I saw the movie The Theory of Everything, UH with some some other folks years ago, and I remember thinking that, one of this movie is really boring, and two it it presents Stephen Hawking as somebody who is the great genius of our time and has done tremendous things for humanity, when if you look at the record, if you look at what really happened as a result of Hawkings research

and theories, it's it's impressive without being all that important to humanity. Now, I know that's controversial. I know, but let's understand the company in which we are talking about Stephen Hawking. You know, people will will kind of go through this timeline and they'll say something like, you know, there's Isaac Newton, and then there's and I'm just skipping around here, you know, Isaac Newton and then Einstein and then Hawking. I mean, these are the great mathematical minds

and the great theoretical minds of all time. Hawking never wanna Nobel Prize, Hawking never won a Fields Medal, and Hawkings theories we're about things that don't have any effect on your day to day life really, and in fact, Hawking was wrong on a number of his theories that had to revise them. Now, I understand even the most brilliant mind is going to get things wrong sometimes, but he's by no means infallible. And among astrophysicists this is one of the little secrets out there. He's not even

considered best in class. Of the astrophysicists of the last fifty years or so. You won't study a lot of Hawking if you become a higher Now this is from the I do research, not I'm a mathematician, file right, I read about these things. I'm not saying that I understand the math at all. My brother is laughing right now. Who knows that he had to help me with my math over the years. So but I do do a lot of research, and I'm somebody who also isn't afraid

of taking a contrarian view of things like this. Hawking became a celebrity scientist. That was the overwhelming perception of this guy. When you look at the body of work that he left behind, things like the Big Bang theory, for example, and all of the work on black holes. This may be really impressive when it's on a chalkboard, or it may be really amazing to mathematically be able to map this stuff out. And it is how much do black holes affect you? How much has that changed

the world around you? The answer is it has not. Some scientists discover cures for diseases that save millions of lives, right I think you You could argue that the the polio vaccine, for example, or the initial Jonas Salk and the initial vaccination trials, different cures for disease that come from antibiotics, all those are much more important. You know, einstein theory of relativity, what that did for the world, for nuclear power, for nuclear weapons. You can look at

these things understand the impact the Big Bang theory. It starts with a lot of assumptions and has a lot of questions that it can answer. It really crosses over from being science into being philosophy. And this is part of why Hawking was so popular around the world. He was supposed to be the genius who was able to explain the origins of life and the world and the universe without taking a deity into account. Hawking is so very popular around the world that has been so celebrated

the media. As I said in part because of his tremendous ability and and his overcoming a physical infirmity, that that is inspiring, no question about it. But why was he so beloved? Why is he considered by most people? And I think that's a fair thing to say. If if if somebody had asked folks on the street who were reasonably well informed about the world, who's the smartest person on planet Earth, they would say, if they were Democrats,

Barack Obama. But if you ask them for the next smartest person on planet Earth, they would probably say Stephen Hawking, right, the most brilliant man on the planet, the smartest scientists alive. Those are the ideas we have about Hawckey, and they really don't stand up when you look at the record.

They really exaggerate the contributions of Hawkings research, and you know when he starts getting into artificial intelligence and climate change and colonizing other planets and all this stuff getting beyond his knowledge set. My friends, one of the reasons why he was so beloved was that he was also a reliable and this is in the media. I mean, he was a reliable leftist atheist voice backed up by oh, he's the smartest person on the planet. Now, we don't

know who the smartest person the planet is. How would you even quantify or measure that? But I would just note that if going to start throwing that title around, I think it should probably go to someone who did things that changed the world that we live in. And there are people like that. There are people who changed our understanding of how we are interacting in our day to day lives, changed the world around us in ways

that matter. I don't think Hawking talking about whether or not the singularity essentially that in a black hole everything could come down and be compressed into one tiny little center of everything. I no, we can't explain the vastness of the universe, and we can't. We can't really comprehend what a black hole is. We can, we think we can,

but we can't. The whole notion of of of a universe that is infinite defies mathematical explanation, and the beginning of existence starting with just a whole bunch of things all compressed down and then going boom or just no reason doesn't make any sense. But this is why he is so beloved, the same reason that Darwin, for all of the flaws and all of the problems in Darwinian theory, which now he was like, oh, do you believe that

the Earth is two thousand years old? And they know, But if you read Darwin, there's there's we've learned a lot since Darwin was, you know, hanging out in the Galapagos. It's a while ago, folks, we've learned a lot since then. People look at Darwin as though we had all the answers. Did Darwin know what DNA even was? Could Darwin map the human genome? No? No. In fact, the more we look at Darwin's theories, they're convenient for a lot of

what the left believes. But we're talking nine century here, mid nineteenth century. Darwin's doing all this stuff. That was the guy was born over two hundred years ago, but he's very useful for certain narratives in present day. So I don't mean that I'm not speaking ill of the dead, by the way, And I started off by saying that Hawking is a genius of a level that I would never even aspire to. And in terms of his ability and his the most impressive thing about him, in my opinion,

is that he overcame such a debilitating disease. But if you watch The Theory of Everything, it's kind of boring. It's kind of a boring movie. It's a movie about Stephen Hawking. And you know, why, what what pressing world problem does he solve? What change in the world around us did he bring about? Oh, we we think we know how the universe started because of Stephen Hawking. No, we just have a theory about how the universe started

because of Stephen Hawking. And then once you get into all the stuff about black holes, sometimes he was right, sometimes he was wrong. Sometimes we don't even know. So I think that this is an or instance of the left having a tendency to elevate people of science when they are useful, as though they are they are the ultimate experts. They are unassailable with their opinions. And so that's why you get Stephen Hawking weighing in and all

these things. It doesn't know anything more than the next guy. And you know, you have you have this with the Neil de grass Tyson as well. It's the same idea Neil de grass Tyson. Yeah, it knows knows a lot about astronomy. Yeah, Hayden Planetarium here in New York City don't knows. But I don't care what Neil de grass Tyson has to say about gun control knows less than I do. Why do I care what he has to say about it? So this is where I think Hawking

also was elevated and was used for a political narrative. So, and like I said, just go back if it's a boring movie. In my opinion, the theory of everything, it's boring. It's kind of hard to watch. It's not fun. And you watch it, you're like, Okay, so this guy overcame some life obstacles. It's very interesting. But what's the great scientific discovery. What's the aha moment? The universe started because

of nothing and we're all going back to nothing. I'm not sure that's really a legacy that is helpful or one that I'd particularly want to celebrate, because I also don't think that it's true. I'm not a genius, but I think I'm right on this one. We'll be back in a few the buck is back for our three here in the Freedom Hud. I am ticked off, my friends. I just want to get that out there right away.

I got more details on this story about a mother and her two children flying from Houston to LaGuardia here in New York City, and they were forced to put their French bulldog in the overhead been where it was whimpering and slowly suffocated to death. There aren't a lot of news stories that I read when I find myself wanting to punch something or just show my my displeasure by destroying property, but this one really sets me off.

And it's because it's part of a larger mentality within the airline industry that I think we have to pay some attention to it. Now. First, on the specifics of this incident. If you didn't read about it, that the mother and her two children were carrying on in a dog carrier, as you're allowed to do, an adorable little French bulldog, and you can bring them with you on the plane. It's allowed as long as stay in the carrier, and usually they go in the seat in front of you.

For some reason as yet not really clarified, the the French bulldog was sticking out the carrier was sticking out a little bit into the aisle, and the stewardess or uh an airline attendant, whatever the proper terminology is. Gosh buck, with all your microaggressions the stewart has said that the dog has to go in the overhead compartment. And I saw this, or read this story, and thought to myself,

something's wrong here. And I don't just mean the insanely aggravating and gut punching feeling you get when you read the story of a French bulldog that was suffocated to death on a plane for no reason, which is horrible enough. I mean, well, look one thing about Americans that really separates us from a lot of other people in the rest of the world. We love our dogs. We're not like, oh, dogs are okay, and they have uses. We love our

dogs full stop. My family here in New York City has My parents have a French bulldog, so this one really hits home. I mean, I I love French shees, all dogs I'm quite fond of, but any squashy faced dog is part particular. I'm particularly fond of them. But something was not conveyed properly about this story. Either the stewardess is lying or there was some miscommunication. Something had to happen here, because people around her say that it was made quite clear that there was a dog in

this carrier. And I have a hard time believing that this stewardess would put a dog in a carrier in the overhead been It's so stupid and reckless and cruel that I have a hard time believing that she would knowingly do it. But then again, how could she not know there was a dog in this bag. I'm sure the woman who's the owner of the dog said there's a dog in the bag. There's just no way. And so what I think happened here and the reason why United is now just realizing what a p R nightmare

they have on their hands. What I think they're realizing is that, or we're realizing, is that the mentality on airplanes and the mentality that the airlines have in general, is of brainless authoritarian monopolies. You know, we've gotten used to this, but we don't have to this notion that when you're up in the sky, or even on the tarmac, or even in the terminal waiting for your flight, any

level of crappy treatment is somehow okay, it's acceptable. Airlines are the most grotesquely run American business that I can think of, and it's really a disgrace. You know, it used to be the cable companies were really terrible. The Netflix came along in Amazon, and now all of a sudden, cable companies don't say, you know, we'll show up between the hours of between the hours of twelve pm and nine pm. At some point, we'll take a thirty minute

lunch during the appointment. The appointment may not be on it, and we may not reschedule it on site for you. And you're like, I just want to get my cable fix that you're still charging me for even though it's out. That's gone away mostly and cable companies have had to shape up, and they generally have, but it's in response to their entire business model being threatened. Right with airlines, we need improved technology, we need disruptors in the space.

We need this to get better because it's just outrageous. You really get a little taste of totalitarianism being on a plane. You know, you sit where they tell you to sit. It's uncomfortable, You have no choice. Your physical comfort is in fact, not a concern of theirs. The biggest concern, by far is their bottom line. They tell you where to sit, they tell you how to sit, they tell you when you can get up, they tell you when you can go to the bathroom. They tell

you to look at me. They tell you stupid things you already know. They tell you things that are not true, like turn off the electronic device. It might be problems for us during takeoff. It's a lie. All this stuff, garbage upon garbage upon garbage, and even minor transgressions on

airplanes are investigated by the FBI. Actually, you know, if you get into a fight on an airplane, and I know about this from talking to my friends on the prosecutorial side, guess what it is most likely going to be the FBI that's waiting for you at the airport. You know, if you do anything that's really bad on an airplane, the FBI is gonna be waiting for you. So I'm not suggesting that airplanes should be some wild West where everyone can just get up, smoke cigarettes, do

whatever it is they want to do. But I am suggesting that there's a mentality on the air with the airlines across the board, from the from the way they priced tickets, the booking of tickets, the way they construct the seats and the planes and everything. It is just done with maximum exploitation of the customer and minimum redress for anything that they do to you. You know, they can lose your bags, you know, that's your problem. They

can delay you six hours, it's your problem. They can hold you in the tarmac for hours at a time, it's your problem. It is a little taste of totalitarianism every time you get on a plane, and it just doesn't have to be that way. And it's only because of that culture, in my opinion, that you could have a a functioning adult take a dog and put it into a compartment where it is sure to suffocate slowly to death. It's only because the airlines have this idea of you know, you do what we say when we

say it, or else. You know, no one's saying you can go in there and hang out with the pilots in the cockpit and steer the plane for a bit yourself. But some semblance of common sense and normalcy and reality would be nice. It doesn't have to be a flying penal colony up there all the time, where you're told exactly what you can do, what you can eat, where you can go. I mean, it's just it's crazy the

regulations they have in place. And there was a time until recently my friends when they were saying that you couldn't have a kindle and read it because maybe the elector the electronic device would interfere with their communications. That's that's insane. By the way, it's not like they pat you down and check you for kindles when you go on the plane, So if you left it on or left it off, they have no idea. That's what I mean.

The rules are dumb. The rules are dumb. Not all of them, but a lot of them are really really stupid. And the way that the airlines act is with a tremendous degree of arrogance because they're just unaccountable. They know that people go on you know, price Line or Expedi or one of these sites. They want the cheapest, easiest flight that they can get, and they'll try to cram

themselves into these horrifically uncomfortable little seats. Think of another business that over the last thirty years has gotten worse in basically every regard. I don't think you can. Maybe you could already, well, no, because health care advances. I mean, it's gotten a lot more expensive, but I don't think you can find one where you are paying a lot. You know, airline tickets feel as expensive today as they felt when I was a kid. So you're paying a

lot of money. The seats are crap and uncomfortable. Legram has This is actually a fact. Legram has actually gotten less on many of the major carriers than it was decades ago. So they are squeezing you in there like sardines. And the staff is trained to think that they're all a bunch of air marshals out there. You know, you cannot go to the bathroom. The pilots have the thing, you know. You know, I'll sign something if we do happen to hit some terrible pocket of turbulence and I

hit my head on the ceiling. You know, I'll sign something that's on me. All right, I want to get up and go to the bathroom. When I want to get up and go to the bathroom, I just think we've all had it, you know, we've all had it with all the airline personnel or first and foremost concerned with their safety. There's just a lot of a lot of disregarding of what it feels like to be strapped into one of these giant metal flying prisons that they put us in for a few hours at a time.

And I'm sick of it, and I you know, United had the problem last year with dragging the guy off the plane. Remember he paid for his seat, but they said, no, we want to give it to one of our people. So you don't actually have any real rights. We're just gonna take that seat away. You know, maybe that guy was heading for a job interview. I mean he wasn't, but maybe he was on a really important trip for him.

For whatever reason, United just saying sorry, we we have the right to just take you off the plane that you paid for because we want someone else to ride on your seat. I mean, that's United Airlines. And don't tell me this is what the market will allow with the market will say or the market speaks. Uh, these things operate with a tremendous amount of regulation in place. It's all f A A and all this other crap.

I think it's time for a change. I think we should maybe consider putting aside petty partisan differences and threatening to boycott. It's always the left that does this, but the left threatening to boycott companies all the time. You know, we should both sides of the aisle say, you know what, Airlines, enough is enough. The next time you step out of line,

we are going to boycott. This is gonna hurt your bottom line and you're gonna have to come up with more customer friendly policies and stop treating us like short term prisoners in the sky. Oh and one more thing. I know that people don't like it when we all look at an event and say, well, I would have been a hero or whatever. I would have run in there and you know, save the day. But if someone told me, I don't care who it is, take your dog, I'll for in this case is as one of my

family dogs. Take take your take the family dog and put it in a place where it's going to suffocate. They could taser me, they could pepper spray me, they could night stick me. Unless somebody was actually going to take a firearm and threatened to shoot me with it, it's not happening, and I'd have to think about whether I would do it even with a firearm trained on me. That's how I feel about dogs. So that's why this whole story just doesn't add up to me. And it's

also just horrific and tragic. All right, We'll be right back. One of the things I like to do on this show is talk to you about stories that are important and should be of high interest, but that you're unlikely to hear much of anything about elsewhere. I know that by the time I'm on air with you or you're listening to the podcast, you've had plenty of news programs blaring at you in the lunch room or maybe at

home if you go and watch TV. So I like to talk to you about things that I think you haven't already been exposed to whenever possible, especially when they deal with US national security. In this case, I want to tell you about Trump and national security as it if fects a chip maker. Here's what's going on. President Trump blocked a tech deal that a lot of people are saying is really unusual. This just happened yesterday, I'm sorry.

On Monday, Trump ordered the Singapore based company known as broad Calm to abandon it's a hundred and seventeen billion dollar bid for qual Calm. This would have been one of the biggest technology deals in history, and the President just queshed it. He's like, this is done zo. You think that this would get a bit more attention now. It's not being blocked on antitrust grounds. It's being blocked on quote credible evidence that the takeover threatens to impair

the national security of the United States. Here's what's really going on, or at least what's being reported. I think there's a lot that we don't know that's not yet out there in the public sphere that may well have affected this decision. But the administration put the kai bosh on this whole thing because the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States uh CE fus ce f i u S, which is an inter agency panel that the Treasury Department leads, recommended or or had several more weeks

to make its recommendation here. And that's why this is such a surprise for people. Trump just swooped in and said no. Now, the big issue is that the chips of the future are going to be an increasingly important part of our everyday life. And of course don't mean to Rito's or those kind of chips. I'm talking about the chips that are in your smartphone or in your smart devices at home, and they are looking to build a five G network for all those chips to run on.

Five G would be a hundred times master than the high speed Internet that you're currently used to. It would mean that you could download a high definition movie in seconds. I know a lot of you right now. If you're like me, you maybe download on iTunes a movie and it can take especially if you're download if your upload speeds or no, your download speeds sorry is a little a little lagging, can take an hour, It can take

a long time. But the problem is that qual Calm UM is essential in these processes, and as you can imagine, there will be a lot of national security just general security implications of this. Now, usually a Singapore based company

in this case, broad Calm wouldn't raise such red flags. Um. But it may have been the determination of the Trump administration and President Trump himself that when it comes to chip making going forward, especially these kinds of of chips that will go into the electronic devices that are all around us, and also the race to be the pre eminent digital digital era innovation country, which is what America is now, but China is clearly trying to catch up

to us. UM. That's where we had that, that's where there were clear concerns here. UM. If, for example, broad Calm, the Singapore based company, acquired qual Calm with this hundred and seventeen billion dollar bid, what if all of a sudden we didn't like the way that they were running the company. What if they were lagging behind and then major Chinese competitors like Huawei, Um, we're getting a leg

up on us. If they became too dominant in that market place, all of a sudden, you would have Chinese enabled smart chips all over the world. Now you can start to piece together even without being somebody who goes too deep on the technology, and I put myself in

that category. I'm not a technology guy, but you can figure out quite quickly why having Chinese high tech microchips all over the world, making them dominant in this space, and also all the applications that come with that, including military and security applications, would be a major concern for US. I have been saying this for a while, and I'm telling you I will be proven right, but it will just be in years before everyone realizes that what I

was saying was right. The theft of intellectual property that China has engaged in against the United States over the last couple of decades will have a civilization changing effect. There will come a day when China thinks it is able to stare US down as a military and technology equal, and it will largely be because of all the gains

they have made through theft and deception and hacking. By the time we all realize that's true, unfortunately, it's going to be too late, and we're gonna be staring down the dragon across the table, so to speak, will be right back. You know. I'm a big supporter of President Trump. One of the things I really liked about him as a candidate was his vocal opposition to the Iraq War, the idea that regime change in Iraq actually led to unintended consequences, it made a rand stronger and tip the

balance of power in the Middle East. He's appointing people around him who actually still think the Iraq War was a good idea and actually think that we should have a new war with Iran. So I think he's actually appointing people who don't understand American first policy and who happened to be more from the neo conservative camp that all we other war or always think America should be

involved in another war. Specifically, on the CIA director, I oppose her because she believes that water boarding should be something that we use, and I think America shouldn't be known for torture and I have members of my family in the military. I don't want, if they're ever captured, for foreign countries to think tortures. Okay. Senator Ram Paul really opposed to Trump's recent picks. We we've talked here about the ouster of Rex Tillerson. I'm gonna miss Rex

a little bit. I was kind of pro Rex. First of all, the guy's name is Rex. Second of all, he looks tough as nails, so I kind of liked him. Plus, he was the CEO of XI Mobile. Guys super rich. He's doing it because he thinks he can help the country. He's not doing it because he's trying to sell books, which I think is always a good thing. But then you go to these other picks, the new CIA director

and the new Secretary of State. I want to focus more on the Secretary of State first, and let me say that I have a piece which I hope you will all read up on the Hill. Uh. It's on the Hill dot com and it's Pompeo will clear the air in foggy Bottom, That's right. I like to think of myself as a word smith, so it's it's a piece that you should check out. I make the case

about why I think Pompeo is a good choice. I mean, it's nothing that's going to blow your socks off, but it's a pretty well developed argument, I think from his background and resume to being in alignment with Trump on

key policy issues. So my my biggest thing is that you've got a guy who needs to be alongside Trump for some very high stakes diplomacy, and you can have somebody you can't have a Secretary of State if you're Donald Trump, who's gonna be going, perhaps in the next few months, to sit down across from people out of the North Korean delegates, people who are representing iranny and interest you know, whatever the case may be. Whatever Secretary of State meetings, you know, out in the open or

behind closed doors, he's gonna have. You need someone who believes in the mission. You need someone who is in fact on board for this view of America and its role in the world, and I think Pompeio is there. Plus, you got a guy who went to West Point Harvard Law School, ran a successful congressional campaign, was a well liked c I a director, was well regarded in the building, even by people who politically did not align with him. And is also able to roll up his sleeves and

be a bit of a brawler when necessary. With all that DC and fightings, I think you've got a really good secretary of State here. I also think that the recent history of the Obama administration has shown us that there is not a whole lot to being a subpar secretary of State. John Kerry was one. Hillary Clinton was one. In fact, Hillary Clinton, I would argue, was even worse

than subpart. She was terrible because she was no. Yes, now it sounds like I'm having some kind of an episode here on radio, but I like Hillary to have some representation. It's fair, you know. She likes to appear, and it's been great for the news cycle this week just to have a little bit of Hillary popping up here. And they're fun for me in the freedom hunt, but

also just good for all my conservative brethren. It reminds us of what could have been and what would have been had Trump not arrived and chanted lock her up, Lock her up. Nonetheless, the Pompeio pointent I think is good on the CI director. You know, I want to look into this one a little bit more. I'm gonna I'm gonna be straight up with you guys. I tend not to weigh in that much on some of the upper level politics in the Intel community, just because I

don't want to have the eye of Soroon come my way. Uh. The moment that you start being in he was like, well, I hate the director is the moment that you're on their radar in a way that you just don't really want to be, you know. I mean there's people who say funny stuff to me, like well, they said, you know, you could told me what you'd hope to kill me,

and I'm like, no, that's not a thing. Or they'll say, you know, well, once you're in, you're never really out right, and I'm like, don't be ridiculous, except you know, you sign papers and things that are binding for your whole life, and and there is actually something to that. You know, you really don't want to get a call if you're me from Langley and they're like, you know, we just want to we want to talk to you about some stuff, some of the things you've said recently. So I tend

to stay out of that. I don't know anything about I've never met and don't know what I'm being honest with you don't know anything about the the new director of the CIA other than what I have read. Rand Paul is very opposed to her because of her alleged role in water boarding. It's tough for me to weigh in on that one way or the other because I'm not sure that it's being characterized accurately, and I get the sense that it's probably being very negatively and unfairly characterized.

So that's why I would I'm witholding some judgment on that. I'm when it comes to some agency things, I can be a little whimpy. Well that's because I kind of have to be. So there's that. But I think Pompeia has a good choice. And I usually really like Rand Paul and and support a lot of what he says, and I think he's an important voice not just for the GOP but for the whole country. On this one, I think he's wrong on POMPEII. I think he's being

a little harsh on the new CIA director. But one thing is for sure, my friends Democrats and Confirmation hearings are gonna have a field day with this. They're just gonna use it as a as a fundraising tool. I mean, I'm willing to bet you'll actually see congressional emails going out the days of those hearings, specifically citing, you know, we need to stop this evil Trump is um because Trump is like Himmler, you know, something like that. That's

what Hillary would say. All right, we'll be back in a few teams. Stay with me, you know, I'm getting my taxes ready. It is not the most exciting conversation, I know, but it's close to the show. I just want to share with you that my inner Patrick Henry really comes out when I have to just go through receipts and all this paperwork, and does this go in this column? Where does this go? Can I write this off?

All this stuff? It is such crap. And I know that we've gotten this tax cut, and we're all supposed to be so incredibly happy and grateful even that our government is giving us back a little more of our stuff. I'm somebody who, because of the various gigs and side hustles that I've got going on, ends up sending the

government check around tax time. And I think that's an experience that everybody should have, because when you send the government to check, it's a reminder that they are taking your money, And I think one of the biggest scams going is automatic withholding and the notion that someone like

me I owe the government money before tax day. And I just also resent the notion that I am forced by law to engage with a system that is inherently unfair and flawed and subject to interpretation, and for which there are criminal sanctions. You know, if you, if you pay your taxes, which I do. You know, all of you listening to as well, you should never have to think, oh gosh, what am I gonna do if I get

an audit. But anyone I know and everyone I know who's ever been through an audit is like it is a painful experience, and at the end of it, you don't get a high five and a gold star and a good job. It's just, well, I guess we're not going to take even more of your money or lock you up this time. I would like to be a tax radical, my friends. I want a flat tax, a fair tax, anything but the nonsense progressive taxation system we have right now, which as you know, is abused all

the time. And the reason the tax code is over seventy thousand pages long is because of special interests and carve outs and political favors. And there's a word for that that we would use in foreign countries. Corruption. That's why the tax code is over seventy thousand pages. I'm gonna keep hammering this until we actually get to tax day. But basically, the I R S should be dissolved. I asked Ted Cruz once he said if he could, he would dissolve it. And the tax code should be one page.

That's it. One maybe two rates, that's it. This is all just garbage. It's a social justice warrior, redistributive nonsense dressed up as something else. And with that, let's get into some roll call. Hey, Team Buck, it's time for roll call. You can't see me, but I'm dancing up a funking storm in here, all right. First up in roll call, and by the way, Facebook dot com slash buck sex and please follow the page and you can send me on the team here messages. Um. First up, Matthew,

great show. You and your crew are putting out some amazing content. When are you going to be in Austin. I just moved out here from California last year. Love the area. If I can, would like to see meet you and your staff Shields High. Well, Matthew, thank you so much for the very kind note. I'd love to meet you and your crew as well. Austin trip is being planned, but I don't have a firm date yet, and I will be for those of you who are WHOA Whoa lend listeners out in Fort Wayne, Indiana in

just a few short weeks March thirty one. Saturday, March thirty one, I will be at Talk Tank at WHOA WOA Radio in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Be there for the whole day. I'll be hanging out, chatting folks, maybe eating some barbecue, some kind of meat. I don't know what it will be, but I'll be there, so do turn out. I'd love to see as much of the team as I can. Newcomers especially welcome at the Talk Tank event in Fort Wayne, Indiana March thirty one. You can check

it out online. All right, Next up, Uh, here we go, Daniel here right, Hey, Buck, I wanted to talk to you for a minute about the school walks today. At my school, they told us it was done in honor of the students who lost their lives. But just a few minutes ago I got a notification from my news app which unfortunately for unfortunately has all news companies. It was from CBS and it said hundreds of students in schools are supposed to walk today to protest gun violence.

I'd love to walk for those students. But the second they made this political I was out. So either my school was doing it for a different reason or they were lying to us. I'm proud to say that most of the students in my current classroom didn't leave, but a few did. I personally think that the teachers should be allowed to have a concealed carry, but unknown to the students. If not guns, then certainly tasers. It's something that can quickly and effectively stop and out of control gunman.

If you ever want insight from a fifteen year old perspective, you can just message me. Well, Daniel, thank you so much for your note and for giving us a perspective that we really need today, which is uh that we have to hear from folks who are seeing this with their own eyes. So thank you Daniel for sharing your perspective. Great to have a fifteen year old member of Team Buck in the house. Jason, next up here, thank you so much for talking about South Africa yesterday. My wife's

uncle was brutally killed three months ago. It seems the world has been silent as we have watched it increase in violence and numbers on his neighbors, and now as his children, who are now orphaned, are looking at the government taking the only thing they have left because they are quote privileged, semperfy and shields high O s s forever from Jason, shout out to the rest of Oss Well, Jason, thank you and thank you for sharing that really tragic,

uh and and difficult personal story. The media are absolutely not as interested as they should be in covering what is going on in South Africa, and we know it's because social justice warriors in this country take and transpose their own political beliefs onto social, political, and cultural situations around the rest of the world. Hence, in Iraq, for example, Iraqi Christians who are a minority that is being targeted

for extermination are still Christian. Therefore they're not really targeted minorities. It doesn't make sense, but it's just the way that they have trained themselves as ideologues to view the rest of the world as well. We'll keep watching South Africa though, because it's a story that I think unfortunately, is only going to get worse. All right, now, we have a note from Angela and remember Facebook dot com slash Buck

Sexton to send us your thoughts. Angela rights, Uh hi, last week you mentioned that you had a trapper keeper when in high school. Not trying to make you feel old or anything, but original trapper keepers are now collectibles, no kidding. They are considered vintage. Well, welcome to the AM. I really that old club, well, Angela, I'm a proud member of the AM. I really that old club and the Get Off my Lawn Society. But I can imagine

the trapper keepers are collectibles. Now what people would do with them other than collect them, I have no idea, but I remember that was what you had to have because if you didn't have the hand out for your geography class and you had to go down and ask a teacher to give you a xerox, quite an ordeal. You don't want to lose those papers. That's where trapper keepers came in, all right, Next up here, uh bo, he writes. I'm with you, Buck. I hate the airlines.

I flew frequently during the eighties and nineties with very few issues, but after nine eleven, I have only flown a handful of times completely miserable experiences every time. I only fly now if forced to do so. I drove all the way to California in four thousand and eight miles round trip just to see my son. Well worth the extra time spent, plus I was able to carry a weapon. Uh. Well, both, thank you so much for calling in, and I really appreciate hearing from you on

this one. And I hate the airlines as well. Um, and I generally try not to pick on any one business, but I've just had too many days ruined, and you know, there's just not a culture of like, we're sorry, we're ruining your day. They're like that, you know, that's tough. Oh we didn't We didn't put enough fuel in the plane to get you to your destination. So we're gonna have to have an additional unplanned stop just because we were trying to, you know, scrape around the edges and

make a little extra cash at your expense. Sorry, yeah, that actually happened to me. These are the things that airlines do, and it's just a disgrace. It's because they don't feel the real impact from the market. For a whole bunch of reasons, and yes, airlines are the worst. All right, I'm gonna close it up there for today, Team, I'm looking forward to joining you tomorrow Friday. I will be on the show out Number Bird at twelve Eastern

twelve pm Eastern on Fox News. So a do tune in or set your DVR now for Friday Outnumbered on Fox News. That'll be a whole lot of fun and uh. Until then, my friends, you have your mission, you have your orders, no matter what comes your way. Shields high,