Neverending Investigation

eight four four nine hundred. Buck. That's eight four four nine hundred to eight to five the Future of talk radio. Buck Sexton. Welcome to Buck Sexton Show. Everybody, Thank you very much for being here. You got much to discuss today, as always eight four four or nine to eight to five, eight four four nine hundred Buck, I love to hear your thoughts. We will talk about the latest on the Russia collusion investigation in just a moment. We will also spend some time on McCabe at the FBI or formally

will he be fired or not? And what does that tell us about this whole situation. And then we will also have a follow up on the Russian alleged Russian use of Nuvochuk, the nerve agent that was used in a assassination attempt in the United Kingdom, and just a bunch of other stories that will get thrown into the mix. Here, I have to start with the biggest single news of

the day, though little news item. It's not so much that it's new as that it's a reminder of something that is already going on, and that is that Special Counsel Robert Mueller has subpoenaed the Trump organization in the Russia investigation. Now, the Trump org had already been giving

documents to Muller's team, so they were cooperating. So in that sense, it's not new, but the issuance of a subpoena by the Special Council has with it at least the perception that Mueller's sense of all this is that someone's trying to hide something, or that they can't trust that the willing cooperation thus far would continue or would

be sufficient. Basically, it's like Mueller thinks that he can't trust the Trump people to actually give the documents they're supposed to, and that's why he's going with the subpoena in this process. That's what That's what it strikes me as. And now we're getting into some really precarious territory because you have a special counsel that's going to be looking

at the complex finances of a large multinational corporation. And what if Mueller decides that he's going to bring some kind of a charge that's mickey mouse stuff, you know, Well, what if he's going to get them on some kind of I don't know, you know, some kind of a wire fraud or something. You know, there's there's so many

different things. One thing the public is not particularly familiar with is how messed up your life will be the moment that federal prosecutors and federal investigators I want to take a look at what's going on with you, and heaven forbid this should ever happen to any of you listening to this show or to yours, truly, because I do know what this is like from working on the law enforcement side for a big but also having close friends and associates who are in fact federal uh and

and some reformer federal prosecutors, and they've I'm always fascinated to hear how it goes, and I often describe it. I have fun analogies for this. The eye of sore On is a good one, you know, does the eye of sore and really bother you only when it's on you, right, Otherwise what's the big deal? But the moment it's on you, it's bad, it's scary. Or you could say that the federal government, at least on the d O j FBI side, is somewhat like the one eyed giant from the Odyssey.

You will recall the Odysseus and his cohorts hiding in the cave and the one eyed giant was eating them one at a time, and they managed to put a stake in his eye and then sneak out of the sneak out of the cave by hiding on the underside of sheep man. And think of the federal government as somewhat like the one eyed giant. Maybe even sons that I it's fine if it doesn't get a hand on you, but if it does, it's gonna be a very very bad day, meaning that when it's your turn, things get

ugly fast. You go most likely bankrupt, your reputation is ruined, you become radioactive professionally and for a lot of people personally, And even if at the end there's no real wrongdoing, you have suffered. The process is the punishment, I repeated, because I want you to remember it. The process is the punishment with this, and that's why there's so much support for it from Democrats, even though it has started

to slip out more and more in recent months. Most Democrats who are sane and reasonable, or at least close to sane and reasonable, understand there's never gonna be any collusion evidence that's found. They know that there's because there was no collusion, So how can you find evidence of

something that didn't happen? And also, as an aside, how would it be that at this point, after everything that we've seen and heard, after all of the leaks and all the investigations, everything that has happened, the Trump campaign, which has made some you know, made some errors here and there. I don't mean criminal stuff, I just made you know, They've hired some people, have fired some people

that there have been some stuff that's gone on. Right, we all know that the Trump campaign, though, was able to hide an international conspiracy to defeat Hillary Clinton in a presidential election from the most sophisticated intelligence and surveillance apparatus in the world. They were able to, as they say, they're able to find the Russia stuff, right, They found all these they're they're tracking down Twitter accounts and Facebook accounts. They can find all that, and they've got it all

mapped out. We've got indictments now from Muller. But they at this point still haven't found anything with any of the Trump people that would justify this investigation and that would qualify as collusion. Still has not happened, And so you have to wonder, is the Trump squad that's slick that they had such operational security that they couldn't find anything on them, or just does nothing of the collusion variety exists. I think we all know the answer to this.

But now the Mala thing has nothing to do with collusion. The Mala probe is payback. It is payback not just for Hillary Clinton's loss. It is payback for the slap in the face to the elites that Trump has represented. It is payback for all of the people who were expecting to get promotions and access and power because of

a new Democrat administration. It's payback for or Trump exposing that, Yes, in fact, there are left wing elements in very senior roles of the federal bureaucracy that I actually do have considerable power have amassed real authority for themselves, and Trump has exposed them. And worse than exposing them, in many ways, Trump has also challenged them openly. Mueller is all about payback. When you look into his background and you look into all these characters at the d o J. That and

we'll get to McCabe. Oh, don't worry, we'll get to McCabe situation in just a few minutes. There is a recurrent, recurring theme Mueller. Mueller is first and foremost concerned with the legacy of what he and the other d o J people are around him create for themselves. They have gone after with tenacity, fiercely, gone after people for investigations that were on the borderline all the way. Look into his past, look into the prosecutions, call me the same thing.

Comey and Mueller and these others, they created this narrative around themselves of oh, we we're the honest ones. And now we see, how how quickly does Comey become an anti Trump, rabid partisan in the press. How quickly does pret bar Or, the former U S. Attorney for New York the Southern District, the most important U. S. Attorney seat in the country, a stepping stone for you know, being the attorney general or any number of other senior

posts in Washington. How quickly before Priests shown up on CNN. He's a Democrat, he's a left winger. Did we get to see one? Can we see one senior d o J figure that is implicated in all this stuff, the Russia collusion investigation, all of it. Can we just see one who is not even pro Trump, just not rapidly anti Trump. Just one? I can't think of it. I'm not aware of one. What are the chances of that, folks?

What are the chances that each one of these officials McCabe, comby Mueller, go down the list of all the people are involved in this, not a single one of them is anything other than an obvious Democrat partisan pro Hillary acolyte. Seems sims rather suspicious and fishy. Doesn't it now add to that that the Trump organization is going to have all of its all of its books opened. Do we think there might be some embarrassing information that will find

its way into the press just somehow, oh somehow. Remember, there are anti trumpers in the government, and it's d o J that we're willing to break their oaths and violate federal criminal law, to commit felonies, just to stick a thumb in the eye of Trump's team, just to go after General Flynn. By the way, I say, when it comes to Andy McCabe, the former acting FBI director, I think that General Michael Flynn should get to determine whether or not McCabe gets fired and McCabe therefore loses

his over a million dollar pension. Because when it suits them, the Democrats and the deep State and the rest of them, they tell us the laws, the law, rules are rules. And when it doesn't, all of a sudden, we hear a lot of back talk and gibberish and nonsense and take the totality of the situation into account. And there's more going on here, and that's not fair. And I thought rules were rules. Well, we already saw this with Hitler in the emails. Were as are not rules. Laws

don't really count. When Democrats are implicated, something else automatically comes into the conversation. Mueller is now a rogue operation. I know he's still under the auspices of the d o J, but this is turning into banana Republic stuff,

my friends, This is third world nonsense. When you have a team of people who clearly have an animus against the administration and power against the elected officials entrusted by the American people to run this government, and when they have to deal with the constant irritation and threats from this nonsense special prosecutor that's just gonna keep going and going and going and dropping charges on people like Manifort that have nothing to do with frum And by the way,

guy's facing decades in prison for what, Well, you know, Mulla will figure it out. Enough is enough. I I'm of the mind, and I know this is unpopular. I know people get mad at me for saying it, but I don't really much care because I find power mad prosecutors to be the single greatest threat to liberty in this country that most of us will ever face. I think that they should shut it down. Yeah, there'd be Oh, it would be such a and then what and then

what what are they gonna say? What are they gonna do that The Democrats have already told us in the House They're still gonna keep investigating. The entire multibillion dollar media apparatus is going to keep investigating the d o J. Could investigate any information of collusion that was brought to their attention. Right, It's not like that means no more investigation of any kind. It's not like it means Trump would be out of hot water if he did something wrong.

But this has become too much, looking into the organization, looking into their finances. Are we all gonna act surprised? I, oh, gosh, you mean damaging, damaging, non criminal information found its way to the media, right when Mueller's getting all this stuff from the Trump organization. Oh wow, what a shock, What a shock. It's time to shut this thing down. I don't know if it I mean, I don't know if

it will happen. I have a feeling that they're going to continue on with it and there'll be more lame prosecutions brought against people for mickey mouse crimes. You know, lying, you know, the Papadopoulis effect and a lying to investigators. Notice that Jim Clapper, he can lie to the American people about surveillance and that's under oath. It's in front of Congress. But you know, we'll give give Clapp our pass. When is the law of the law, When do rules

actually count? Don't count? For Clapper. They don't count for Hillary with their emails. They don't count for Comey giving information that we've been told by the Senate is classified to a reporter to settle a political score. Don't count for him. Don't count for Loretta Lynch when she has a tarmac meaning and does not recuse herself from Hillary's email investigation. So so what are we to make of

all this? I mean, this is the great problem that we face in the Trump eras that so much of this has been exposed, and the rabid hatred of the left for not just Donald Trump but all those who support him has become so overwhelming that their willingness to break laws, destroy institutions, remove all integrity from public life has forced us to say, well, what do we do? Do we fight fire with fire or do we just

sit here and take it. It's a it's a question for which I do not have an easy answer for you. But we should be thinking about it right now. As the Mueller probe drags the entire Trump organization. Trump's children will now be involved in this. Everybody who has had a business dealing with Trump in recent years now has a team of pros acuters lined up to just find something to justify their time and to get back at Trump,

and we'll be right back. Stay with me. We're going to continue to fully cooperate out of respect for the Special Council. We're not going to comment for any specific questions about the Trump organization. I'd refer either Sarah Huckaby Sanders handling a lot of stuff in today's press conference in the White House. And yeah, they're going to continue cooperating.

But cooperation doesn't get you very far with this Special Council because the fixes in I know others and some of my colleagues call it a witch hunt, and um, I think it's actually driven by you know, because a witch one do you think is something where they usually the villagers gonna go back to Salem and people actually believe that there's something. I think now we're almost beyond

which hunt. They know there's no witch They're just pretending because they want to just keep the investigation going because it allows them to pull people in, pull records in, look at information, look at all kinds of stuff. Here, here's something for you who wants to who wants to bet that at some point over the course of this investigation, Trump's tax returns leak some point. I'm not saying tomorrow or next month, but at some point all of a sudden,

some and they're gonna have some backstory for it. Though. Oh you know, got it from a source who met met me under a bridge and he left two chalk marks on the wall, and you know we had the secret handshake. And I'm a journalist. I can't tell you my sources. But just remember that right now you have pro Hillary, pro Hillary partisan prosecutors who are getting access to everything they want from Trump's company, which is going

to include a lot about Trump's personal finances. Who knows what else is gonna be in there, right reams and reams of documentation they're gonna have. I'm just I know, I'm sometimes you like to throw a long bomb into the end zone. You know it may not get caught, but you know, it keeps the defense got It keeps the defense awake. You know what I'm saying. I think you're gonna see Trump's tax returns leak, and I think it. I think it's gonna come from these one of these investors,

probably special counts, but one of these investigations that's going on. Uh, and then the press is going to present it like, well, we deserve a pullets or look what we've done, and we'll have to say, oh great, you know now we see that Trump takes a lot of tax deductions. They're all legal, and they'll be like, well, but they're so mean and occupy Wall Street and inequality and stuff, just like they did with Romney. It'll be the same thing all over again. Romny paid all the required taxes and

he was still a bad guy. Somehow he's holding the line for a merry buck Sexton, his back president Field Justice Department should act by Sunday. Fire Entry King. Uh, that's a determination that we would leave up to Attorney General Sessions. But we do think that it is well documented that he has had some very troubling behavior and by most accounts of bad actor and should have some calls for concern. But that would be a determination that

d J would have to make. He should not receive his full pension as results of as I just said, that would be a decision that Department of Justice would have to make. Or Andy McCabe, here's the guy who sat on the new information about Hillary's emails. Remember this is an FBI director who in October or September, I

forget which month it was. Finds out that accused and now convicted UH sexual predator Anthony Weener had classified information on his laptop courtesy of his wife, whom abbodd who somehow was never put through the gauntlet of prosecutors questioning her and possibly getting caught up in a perjury charge. Right, but think about that, the right hand woman whom abodin to Hillary Clinton at that point, the presumed next president

United States. So so let's just back the presumed next president of the United States is top advisor had classified information on the lab top that her pedophile husband had access to and owned, and that the acting FBI director or whatever he was deputy FBI director at the time of Cabe. It's like, Yeah, I don't know if we're gonna move on that one. Hey, I think we gotta give that a little time. Let's air that one out a little bit. Let's see what happens. See, I think

that's a problem. I think we all think that's a problem. And that's why right now, the fate of McCabe. Not keep in mind, this is just disciplinary but his pensions at stake um but much more importantly than that, it has to do with what the narrative becomes of McCabe's involvement in all of this. Is he going to be called as a witness in any possible obstruction prosecution of

Trump or any of his top people. As to whether I would feel sorrow for McCabe if he lost his pension, usually I would say, you know, be losing your pension, look for it's a big deal. I knew guys. I knew with the m Y p D. They were PhD s in their pensions, man, And I totally respect it. But I got they knew, you know, when they were

going to hit their number and everything. And it's a big part of what brings people into the line of work is Yeah, you're not gonna become rich working for the city, for example, but you're gonna be you do your time, you do a good job, You're gonna be taken care of. It's a promise. It's a contract between between in that case law enforcements a firefighters and other people, but between law enforcement in the city or the county or the state, whatever it may be. Right, So so

I totally respect that. In the case of McCabe. Now you're talking about a guy who is gonna if he gets fired, he becomes a martyr to the anti Trump cause he's gonna be just fine. They're gonna give him, you know, just just wait there. You know you're gonna see him. I don't know if he's a particularly chatty fellow. I know his wife has political aspirations because oh yeah,

that's right. His wife was the one who was running for state Senate in Virginia and got all this money from the d n C. And it's like tied into Terry mccalloff and oh what a surprise, like hundreds of thousands of dollars. She wants to be a Democrat, who wants to who wants to place a bet as to whether or not we can assume that McCabe really doesn't

like Trump. That's a household where I have a feeling there was a lot of Trump bashing going on, and that can affect things that can affect But when k will be taking care of this is one thing the left always does better than conservatives. It's true and mediates true in politics, true in government. If you take one for the team on the left, they have your back.

You know, if you're a conservative, and whether it's in politics or you know, they're like, oh, I couldn't get you know, you know, you know, you couldn't get a gig with Fox News or something. You know, you're on your own. That's it. There's no publishing houses that are rushing out to give you a big check. There's no companies are gonna rush to put you on the board with liberals. Though you're trust me, you'll he'll be good

to guy, he said, he'll be good to go. Gosh, I don't even know what Comy is getting on advance for his book. I'm assuming it's seven figures. By the way, no one's gonna read call me stupid book, you know, boring a book by the FBI Director's gonna first of all, a book written by a guy, or it's gonna be

ghost written, but he'll put his name on it. But he'll be directing it to somebody who thinks that putting out super weird tweets of like nature scenes and talking about the need to restore integrity in America like he's the chief of the boy Scout troops speaking down to all of us. He thinks that's normal. So his book

is going to be super boring. I mean, the Clintons have actually really excelled in getting paid a lot of money to have books written under their names that are boring and don't sell, but they still get huge, huge, Um what what do you producer, Mike, you got something for me? This political said it? Come he has a multimillion dollars and he hasn't don't even have the title for the book yet. So yeah, exactly, they're just gonna throw millions of dollars because this is this is how

the game works. This is the game. The left plays big. They make sure that people who do what what is necessary for the cause, they get paid, They get taken care of. It's gonna be on the board of companies and you know all this stuff. You know, look at big Sisapolitano, remember her. Hey, I'm gonna have my t S agents patch you down all over. She's like the chancellor of the UC school system. Now it's actually a

really big job. Yeah, she's uh so trust me. No, No, Bush Administration DHS secretary is being asked to be you know, putting it, put in that role. But I'm very good at it, she says, uh, kind of missing the Poltan Actually she was just a colorful character at that DHS. We miss miss being able to do her on the show. Oss on this show knows what I'm talking about. It's a regular And that was in the that was there

was a lot more going on with you know. Uh, it was the early days of the the machine that does like the puff puff for whatever when you go in the airport. You know, I don't even that was not so I sound like a villager who's just discovered technology.

The machine that does the puff puff. Yeah, but the thing that makes sure you don't have a bomb on your something when you're getting a playing whatever, that's called the Politano was very much a part of all those debates, all right back to McKay, Back to McKay, back on track, Sexton, get it together, Sexton. So he's even if lose his pens, is gonna be fine. That's all I'm trying to say.

And I'm winding a little bit how the left takes care of their own because trust me, as a conservative media these days, you're like, well, I hope everything goes okay because like otherwise, you know, no one's gonna be like, hey, Bucky want you to come teach at Columbia Journalism School. There are clowns, hacks, they got nowhere in this business.

They end up teaching it like the top journalism school in the country, because you know, they show up and they're like, let's watch a movie of CBS Evening News, you know, and like see news is all about integrity and storytelling. It's like, yeah, great, thanks. You know, you will not find a lot of conservatives getting those gigs,

whether it's the academy boards of companies. There are plenty of conservatives to run companies, but they just know if they bring a if they bring a known conservative on the board of their company, then they become a target for boycott's And Media Matter. Media matter is really the worst, by the way, I throw around the term with the worst occasionally, but Media Matters actually deserves it the worst. People who work there should be ashamed. And you know,

I don't say that about places I give. I give as much of the benefit of the doubt and and good faith to the other side of arguments and discussions i possibly can. And I have loads of friends who are Democrats and leftists and we get along great, and it's fine. Media Matters is disgusting, though, it really needs to go really needs to go away. I mean, I

think the whole thing is dishonest too. It's a political action committee pretending to be a five at one C three or five one see four forget, which it's just a character assassination pack. That's all. It is, very very bad people. So we'll see if Trump fires McCabe. He's got until Sunday? Is that right? He's got until Sunday to fire before is I think it's I believe it's McCabe's fiftieth birthday, which is quite a That just kind

of ups the ending a little bit, doesn't it. I may be making that up, but people tell me things. I think it is his fiftieth birthday. And by the way, that's a that's a pretty good gig, isn't it retire full pension for life at fifty? That's nice. I assume I'm gonna be working until what am I right? His birthdays May five? Birthdays May five? Fine? How old is he? Though? He's fifty? Alright? Alright? Alright? So I mean I was kind of right. I was close close enough. It was

the matth test. I showed my work I get half credit for though, Okay, so he's fifty. Everybody, it's not actually his birthday. It'll be close though, would be an early birthday present if he gets the keepers pension. But that's that's a good gig. Good gig to be able to retire full pension of benefits of fifty. I gotta say for all the backbreaking labor of you know, sitting in a lot of meetings and doing a lot of paperwork. Um, no, no one us I think that it did. Look, that's

the Inspector General. They're the ones that have come out with this. It's not about uh, you know, it's not a Trump administration decision. It's internal to d o J. And they're saying that he had improper contact with or he essentially lied about or or misled. They're using all these kind of you know, halfway words about it, but that he wasn't fully forthcoming when he talked about what he told FBI personnel to tell the press about the

Hillary Clinton or But the Clinton foundation investigation. I think that's what it was, was a Clinton It was Clinton foundation, right, not Clinton email at all. All the Hillary, all the Hillary investigations, the criminal wrongdoing by Hillary Clinton is tough to keep track of there's a lot, so you gotta

keep an eye on it. Um, we gotta roll in a quick break here eight four to five team, If you would like to call in, I've got some updates for you on maybe some thoughts on the Pennsylvania election going forward. Is it Pelosi's party the Democrats? The answers yes, And then we can talk a bit about some other things too. Oh, there's surveillance video of that guy from the from the shooting, the Parkland school shooting, um of him outside and not doing anything. So that's now in

the news again. We might talk a bit more about that. Oh, and some follow up to yesterday's uh never Again movement protests. Oh, I've got some stuff for you on that. We've got more that we will want to share on it, so that will be coming up to. So we've got a past show and the third I aren't talking a bit about the the philosophy of why progressives are crazy, but I'm gonna really break it down for you. You're gonna

like it. It's gonna be something that's worth listening to more than once to you'd be like, oh, wow, now I know why they are so insane and why they are snowflakes who can unhandled normal debate like adults have. But you have to stay to the third hour for that. That'll be coming up in a bit. Until then, stay with me. One of the things I have always admired about President Trump is his opposition to the Iraq War, his fourth rightness about this, and his condemnation of the

regime change. So I'm perplexed by the nomination of people who loved the Iraq War so much that they would advocate for a war with Iran next. I think it goes against most of the things that President Trump campaigned on, that the unintended consequences of regime change in Iraq actually led to instability in the Middle East and actually made the conditions worse in the Middle East. I gotta say, I'm usually a pretty pro rand guy. I think he's getting way way ahead of his skis on this one,

or he's he's uh going too far. I don't know what his what it is about Pompela gets them so upset. But look a lot of people. If you're gonna discount anyone who thought the Iraq War was a good idea from being in any national security role going forward, and when he said good idea. By the way, I assume he just means voted for it. Remember, Congress, maybe he means some of the statements he's made about it. But you're not gonna have a lot of folks to choose from.

Congress voted overwhelmingly to give George W. Bush the authority to go to war if Iraq did not comply. And then also his problems with the new CIA director seemed to be just way overblown. People are saying it's he's not even accurate in what he's saying about her. And I don't know what something's really gotten Rampaul fired up about this stuff, and I just think he's wrong on this. I think that he's seeing big problems with there aren't

big problems. I like it when Rand. I stand with Rand when he's the one guy that will say stuff that we all should be saying. But this does not strike me. It's one of those cases. Sam in Charlotte, Sam, what is up my friend? Hey, Bud's going brother shield time man. Thank you for your call. Hey, I wish man you could put that sense of reason, sense of reason the capital um here. Here's what I don't understand,

and maybe you can help me understand it. You know, typically when you get an assignment, there's a scope of that assignment. There's a scope of work that has to be done. How in the world can the special Counsel have an unlimited scope creed on just any and everything they want to do at the expense of the taxpayers? And we just have to suit buy and say, okay, okay, you're just you're done when you're done, And I guess

you're never gonna be done. Well, you know, our friend Andy McCarthy is a former federal prosecutor of about twenty some odd years, has said that to have a special

counsel without a specific crime to investigate is preposterous. And because of that, because it's not narrowed in scope automatically by what they're looking at, they essentially can look at anything and that, and then they're they're just gonna be drawing on resources from the d o J based on the premise that they have to look at whatever they think they should be looking at. And Sam, it's just it's wrong, my friend, it should not be happening this way. Wells,

I share your frustrations. I mean, I'm sure a bunch of US Americans that. Listen to you, I can do UM, but it seems like the special counsels doing this and then they're trying to do everything they can. They can't get too Dromp because there's nothing they can't get to him, so they're trying to get to everything around him just to create hate and discontent and distractions. Yeah. I think they're just trying to get out whoever they can around them.

They're not gonna find any collusion. I'm with you, Sam, thanks for calling. And shield side John in Gulfport, Mississippi. Hey, John hally Buck Shields High. I'm stuck on this far. Jonathan Weiner, who was ahead of the Libya desk in the State Department under Hillary and UH under John Kerry

when he took over the State Department. Before the election in two sixteen, UH, he met up with his old friend Christopher Steele and Steele told him about the allegations contained in his dossier, and shortly thereafter he bumped into his other old friend, Sydney Blithal who is you know, a supporter of Hillary Clinton, well known from the avid supporter, loyal supporter of Hillary Clinton, who told him, yes, I had my own copy of these allegations, and that came

to me via this man named Cody Snarer s H E A R E R. And Cody Shearer has a background going back, supporting, helping the Clinton so all the way back to the nineties. And it so happens that a lot of these people we're talking about got there, got acquainted because they were after Ronald Reagan and Ali North back in the Iran Contra scandal. They were the they were the political fighters. John, I gave you all

the time we have my friend. I'm sorry, we gotta go into a break now, but thank you for the call. And I'll just let John what John said stand. We'll be back. He's back with you now, because when it comes to the fight for truth, the fuck never stops. Welcome back to the Buck Sexton Show. Thank you for being with me. You had the walk out from schools across the country yesterday, the Never Again movement, as it is self described, getting marches going across the country, lots

of demands made, lots of people holding up signs. So there's the way the media portrayed the whole situation. CNN here with the headline A Generation Raised on gun violence sends a loud message to adults. Um, not not really. I mean maybe it was loud the message, though I'm not sure it was received, as in not clear to me what they think is going to happen here or what should happen. You'll notice that the left gets very touchy, very defensive the moment you say, well, what is this

movement all about? Really? You know, Occupy Wall Street. You'll remember that for some years ago. What do they want? An end to inequality? That's not really a thing. Yeah, it's me and like we want to end inequality, like you know, to rich people. And like I'm not imaging, like he's not cool. It's not really much of a movement. I don't think you're gonna be telling your grandkids about the Occupy Wall Street movement. Intend it's fearsome march on

Zuccati Park in downtown Manhattan. And then you had Black Lives Matter. What does black lives matter all about? Folks? What does black lives matter? One? Woh pretty much to call cops racist? Oh't no. They said it was about raising awareness. But I was actually at some of those protests, and uh, they say terrible things about cops. So a lot, there's a lot of that. So there's that. What do

they want policy wise? Oh, you know, we want they want there to be federal oversight of police departments that have a history of discrimination. Okay, well you could just you could push for that without saying the cops are all racist murderers, right, that would It's one way to go. You might have a little bit more willingness for people to listen on either side if that were the case.

By the way, I see him up on CNN right now gurgling with gurgland is upon us or Trump and Remoller and verstre Remoller and Trump and federal Prostacus and or brooking the documents and Reagan nuction for he's up there doing this thing, always teaching at the Kennedy School. Now, by the way, you know what I know from all my friends who went to Harvard Kennedy School. It's where you go if you really wanted to agree from Harvard, but you couldn't get into any other Harvard schools. Yeah,

that's right. Being I'm just gonna say it, just gonna say it, dropping hate toward the Harvard Kennedy School. Take that. Um, where was I? Oh? Yeah? The Never Again movement and the kids by the way, literally kids, uh. In case you're wondering, I had a report. I saw some reporters sharing stuff. I actually had to put this out on Twitter, and I want to make sure I give you the the real deal with what happened here. Um here we had where wait, where did it go? Oh gosh, it

was yeah, you had an elementary school. An elementary school doing a walkout in Virginia because I really want to hear from eight year olds about the Second Amendment, the Constitution, policies regarding crime, policies regarding individual rights. I want eight year olds to be raising awareness. Now, I'm not making this up, folks. I got the photo in front of me and Alexander. I'm sure it was in other places too. This was the mobilization of the Democrat school public school

apparatus for a political purpose. Hat tipped to my former colleague Matt Wall. She's an excellent writer, who pointed out that to really push this whole thing home that the bias that I'm talking about there should be at the at the high school level, because we're not gonna involve like toddlers in this. Okay, at the high school level, We'll leave that to the left. Uh, they should do a walkout for life, meaning a walkout for the Life movement.

I promise you schools would clamp down on it and they would find all kinds of reasons to justify why they can't provide resources teachers. You know, it's pretty easy, right the kids gotta be in school, and the kids gotta be in school. We can't. We can't do that. You gotta do a march. March for life, you know, pro life mark. Meanwhile, this thing you got, you know, Cuomo showing up. You know, we want to end gone violence.

Nobody needs a million rounds to kill a deer. We will get rid of all automatic machine gun chain saw bayonets. If you think, just go back to some of them. Some of the Cuomo greatest hits. The governor of New York here, I hate the big rifles that make the bang noise. It's very loud and it hurts my ears. So the elementary school walk out in Alexander, Virginia happened, and I know that that some members of the press share this photo. They're like, see now the movements really

coming together. Now it's all happening, folks. We have the ten year olds with us we we have kindergarten and pre kindergarten exercising their First Amendment rights. I just don't think it's as compelling as they do. I don't think that handing signs to two little kids on complicated political issues is a winning strategy for an argument. It may be a photo op of some kind, but I don't think that that's about to convince. It's not about to convince.

You're like, oh, yes, yes, now that I see that, uh, Mrs Mrs Smith's third grade class, third grade homeroom class, is deeply opposed to the Second Amendment. I think it's time we gave it another Look, what do you say, Congress. It's not how it works, it's not how it goes. Somehow they think that that this will be effective. Oh as if that wasn't enough at some of the other schools. Oh yeah, we saw some First Amendment First Amendment in action going on here in Tennessee. Oh do we have

we have audio of this one? In Tennessee, students tore down the American flag. And for these are high school students tore down the American flag in front of their building and stomped on it and ripped it apart because you know, gun violence, and here's what the police said about it. This is just audio them doing an Actually,

so that's First Amendment rights in action. Folks. You can't see it, but just you know, there's a whole group of high schoolers ripping down the flag in front of their school and ripping it apart, you know, because they want to show how opposed to gun violence they are. And so the way to do that is to just desecrate the flag in front of their school. Now there's a to mean that wants to say, all right, you know they're high school kids that they don't you know,

their kids. You can actually say this, and there there are. They are kids. Unlike when they talk about the unaccompanied miners of the border who say they're seventeen are actually twenty five. But these are actually kids, and they're gonna do foolish things. I did dumb things when I was a kid, not as dumb as this, but I did some dumb things. Hey. It's like, see if I can pop a wheelie on my bicycle. No, not something worth trying, in fact, and you find out the hard way when

you do. Uh. Anyway, this is exactly what I thought it would be this is the virtue signaling of adults being forced upon kids in schools and kids who see this as a a fun activity in a way to feel like they're part of something. Right. It's literally is like a fun group back to via let's go march and chant and hold up signs. An adults saying see listen to the children and the rest of us who are acting like adults and not just technically adults as a matter of age saying no, I don't think so.

It's not about listening to the children. And this has been a tremendously effective distraction operation. I would note from the biggest failures, the biggest points of failure in the entire park Land shooting, which were the result of failed law enforcement activities. Look, you you know this. I'm very pro law enforcement, law enforcement in my family, worked in

law enforcement for a short time myself. But that doesn't mean I'm not gonna call out when law enforcement messes up, right, And I know a lot of the folks listening who are cops across the country are like, yeah, you know, and guys do something badly. We gotta when I mean guys in the in the general, you know, when zur or there, because those are now pronouns that we'll talk about that later, pronouns that are made up that you're

goes to use. I'm jumping ahead of the script though, But when folks in general of all genders, uh see that people within their profession are making mistakes, that makes the rest of their profession. You know, it doesn't make them look dad, but you know it's they're upholding stand they're trying to uphold the standard, right, they got to call it out when it's wrong. I don't think any I never I haven't heard anybody really who defends the I mean, look, the FBI doesn't offend the FBI on this,

so there's no one defending. And the only people that are defending the Broward County Sheriff's office work for the Brower characters pretty much. Sheriff Scott is real. That's it. And this other guy Peterson who didn't go inside the school, who there's video up today showing you he's like, yeah, there's a gun fire inside. I'm gonna hang out out here. Good luck did nothing disgraceful. But you know there's another story I want to share with you. Not getting very

much attention at all. But it goes to one of the premises we've discussed here before on the show, and that is, is there an issue about disciplining students and not wanting to arrest people who are of this age because it looks bad and because of the new guidance and and do political do issues of political correctness factor?

And by the way, one very important point on the prisoner school pipeline and how it may have affected Nicholas Cruz, the Parkland Marjorie Stillman Douglas shooter, is was he considered a minority student for the purposes of law enforcement. I I think I've seen people write that he was, and therefore there would have been under policy, under guidelines put in place by the Obama administration, there would have been hesitation to arrest him. They would have wanted to do

other things. You know, it's tough in Florida with the way the media does this stuff. You know, Cruizes, his cruise considered a minority. That Cruz is not considered a minority because you know, Republican um Zimmerman was considered white, not a minority, because as he was involved in a scuffle with Trayvon Martin and the shooting and all that. Right, So Zimmerman was considered a white Hispanic, which was a new designation when I was not familiar with until the

media made that one up. I don't know if Nicholas Cruz at the time was considered, but I can imagine he would have been, and that may have in fact affected the way that law enforcement handled him under the guidelines that yes, Brower County Sheriff's office had in place. But that came all the way from the top, not just of the Obama administration, but from President Obama himself. But there's another case that I want to bring to your attention from Palm Beach that brings some of this together.

And it's also just it's a terrible it means a terrible situation, but I think it might illustrate some of what we're discussing here. So we will get back into this, uh in just a few minutes, eight four four to five. You want to call in eight four four, buck, We've got a lot more show coming. Stay there. Use there's another story another a murder in Florida involving a minor, a teenager seventeen years old, and the way that the Post reported on it was teen stab boys at sleepover

because of religious beliefs. Doesn't even want to guess which religious beliefs he was investigating, becoming acquainted with, radicalizing with perhaps at the time not Unitarianism, and promise you that not not not Presbyterianism. I'll let you guess. But he uh was arrested recently. He was arrested for for murder. And when we learn more information about this young man, what we find out is that, in a somewhat similar

way to Nicholas Cruise, Corey Johnson seventeen. This is written about in the Palm Beach Post and the New York Post and whole bunch of places. Seventeen year old Corey Johnson stabbed three people, one of them fatally, at a sleepover with other teenagers in Palm Beach. I guess what this teenager was like Nicholas Cruise, A well established bad kid. They knew about him for a long time. He was

on law enforcement's radar. He's now facing charges the first degree murder, but law enforcement, including the FBI, says it was just a matter of weeks before they were going to bring charges against him. Let me give you some of the background here, as to what was going on here.

This is from the Palm Beach Post. In January each when he's seventeen, several local law enforcement agencies and the FBI came together with a staff at the William Dwyer High School in Palm Beach Gardens, where this UH suspect here was a student at the time. The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office received information that Johnson supported the terrorist organization ISIS and had reached out to the group online

expressing his desire to join them. A Sheriff's detective interview Johnson for a mental health assessment, and then the team sympathized with terrorist organizations. According to the official report, Palm Beach County School District Police said that during middle school, Johnson made anti Semitic and anti homosexual statements. He also had similar beliefs to the KKK. School Police said they received information that Johnson had violent tendencies, had spoken about

inappropriate places to bomb, and as a white supremacist. Investigators also learned that there were several guns in side of Johnson's residence. His family later told investigators there were guns in his mother's home, but they were locked in a safe After the meeting, the FBI told Jupiter Police that a counter intelligence agency in Europe investigated Johnson's connections to several threats made on Instagram to a Catholic high school

in England. Though the report does not say what the threats were, authority says they were so severe in nature that up to a hundred students were removed from that school in England fearing some kind of attack. British news outlets reported on the threat in October t and the threat one threat posted on Instagram stated we will kill every single infidel student at this school, barring from the

Islamic state there. In the weeks following that meeting with federal law enforcement and Jupiter Police, they monitored his Johnson the suspect here the subject Johnson's movements and a social media account, interviewed his family, but they did not The FBI did not want to charge Johnson because he was a juvenile and believe a redirection approach would be best, so they spoke to the team. They told him I

of no further contact with ISIS. By the summer of the FBI said Johnson was making more online threats and then they decided, fine, We're gonna bring charges against him. Well, here's a problem, folks. They were gonna bring charges against him. Uh, And a couple of weeks before they could bring the charges, he tried to murder three people, stabbed one I believe a thirteen year old boy to death with a knife at a party because he was bad. This Johnson fellow,

he's a bad kid, bad adolescent. Whatever law enforcement knew about it, he had broken the law many many times. You cannot make not just threats across state lines, but transnational threats over the internet. He did. He was not arrested. They tried to intervene. They wanted to work with them, They wanted to do the right thing. Now we're talking about a little too much partying, some drugs, some stuff like that. Yeah, intervene right that the people kids as

their second chances. I get that when you're talking about somebody who's espousing gee hottest and radical beliefs and says that he and it's threatening to shoot up a school overseas. And I'm sure if we dug deeper here we find even more, you know, the usual stuff, abusing animals, torturing animals. I'm sure this guy was doing all that stuff. Law enforcement didn't want to get ahead of it, though they they and this is in Florida once again the same thing.

Was this another instance of the school to prison pipeline mentality? Oh no, we can't lock them up, we can't press charges because then there'll be a criminal for life. So let's just sort of sit back and wait and hope that nothing really bad happens. Well, this one wasn't a shooting. It was a stabbing. But someone's dead and law enforcement knew plenty ahead of time to do something in the state of Florida, but they chose not too. It's tough stuff,

but sometimes we have to dive into that together. We'll be right back. He's holding the line for America, Buck sext in his back and I spoke with the Prime Minister and we are in deep discussions. A very sad situation. It certainly looks like the Russians were behind it. Something that should never ever happen, and we're taking it very seriously, as I think are many others. The United States, as we have said, all along stands and solidarity with its

closest ally of the United Kingdom. We share the United Kingdom's assessment that Russia is responsible for the reckless nerve agent attack on British citizen and his daughter, and the United States is working together with our allies and partners to ensure that this kind of abhorrent attack does not happen again. Fray think further will keep you pissed. I applaud President Trump and taking this strong decisive action against Russia.

You know, if you look at what they did in our elections, Uh, he's finally taking action when the previous administration didn't. If you look at what President Trump recently did just a few weeks ago to to finally sell Javelin missiles to our friends the Ukraine so then they can push back on Russia's aggression in the Ukraine. I mean, these are strong decisive steps that our allies have been

calling on us to take four years. I'm glad we finally have a president Donald Trump who's willing to support our allies and push back on Russia's aggression. We hear so much about how Trump is unwilling to criticize Vladimir Putin, and then he criticizes Putinori calls out Russia for this,

and the press acts like it didn't happen. How many people even know, I mean, you don't have to be paying very close attention to the media that this administration, the one that's supposed to be so friendly towards Russia, so in Putin's pocket, the Kremlin's stooge, all that stuff. How many people even know that Trump was willing to

sell anti tank missiles. You you heard Steve schleisay, just their javelin missiles go after armor that is in eastern Ukraine that is either operated by or the property of the Russian government. The Obama administration was unwilling to do that. I thought it would be too provocative. Thought that sending over javelin missiles and sniper rifles which could be used to used by Ukrainian national military to go after the so called separatist Ukraine, that would be a little too

much of a thumb in Putin's eye. And yet Trump will do it. They just announced that they're adding the thirteen people on the Muller indictment list to US sanctions. Today, the Brits have expelled twenty three diplomats that they've ever actually undeclared intelligence officers. So the Brits have an up to that the Brits are doing things, all this pushback on Russia, and you'll notice that the administration never really gets any credit for it. It just happens, it passes,

and then within a few weeks. You know, why doesn't Trump criticize Russia more? As though his soul meaning for existence is to try and find ways to antagonize Vladimir Putin in Russia more than we already do. The Russia situation is complicated. I've had people asking about it in the last few days, actually, even just offline away from my media job. People say, you know, what do you think we should do. You've got a country with a tremendous amount of natural resources and a lot of nukes,

but an economy that's nothing to get too excited about. That. We want to work with where we can, and we've got to slop down where we have to, and that's the way it's gonna be. I'm much more bullish on US Russia relations in time. I don't mean tomorrow or next year, but you know, in ten years, fifteen years, I think Russia will be trending more towards the United States. I think China is going to be a big problem. We are on a a path for a clash of civilizations,

and not just in the rhetorical sense with China. But that's I suppose a discussion for another time the Russian use of the of the nerve agent nova. Chuck here, Look, it's reckless and no doubt about it, and that it injured what was it eighteen other people or eighteen other people were exposed to it had been taken to the hospital. If this were done in the United States, we would

expect there to be a very strong response. And it was done in the UK to our or in the within the borders of what is our closest ally or among sorry Canada, among our closest allies. I didn't mean to didn't mean to imply, as I've said to you, though, it is different when it's a Russian that we're talking about, even a former Russian. For whatever reason, we think of it that way, they think of it that way. Uh.

Your nationality is kind of a funky thing. You can you can surrender your passport and move to a new country. But places like Russia it is a mafia. You are not allowed to leave and they do not really much care. So I will say that was a that is a difference, and I think that's a red line that they would

be slowed across. I think the Russians understand that if you had a prominent US if you had a prominent American journalist who was a critic of the Kremlin who all of a sudden had no but chalk on his front door handle, Uh, then we'd have then we have big problems. And then you'd have to figure out what's ay, what's an acceptable response? Um, I think you now you're starting to talk about really trying to economically cripple Russia. And you know, once you start doing things like that,

then I can get out of control pretty quickly. Then things can get very ugly. But the Putin's up for re election soon. He's going to be election. I know it's funny, right an election, but he's going to be elected by a huge margin. He does have a lot of popular support inside of Russia and he's not going anywhere. So we have to work with him in find ways

to do what we can to encourage better behavior from him. Um, we'll have to see if the media finally lets up on the narrative that somehow Trump and all those who work for him are just so pro putent when he this White House is literally doing things that the Obama administration refused to do against Russia because they thought it

was too belligerent. And you still hear the oh he had some deal with Putin, And there's Russia collusion and the dossier and all that stuff that they they will not back off of that because they're so they're so professionally invested in the narrative. It's not gonna go anywhere anytime soon. So I just wanted to give a little update there on what's going on with Russia. Trump has straight up said we think it's them. Sarah Hackaby Sanders,

Everyone's saying, yeah, we think it's Russia. So all that stuff you're hearing, yes about it. Oh, Trump won't criticize them, It's all nonsense. Just a quick note. Also another follow up that I'll work in here before we get to go into a break, and then I'll I've got a whole bunch of I'm gonna talk to you about dangerous animals in the third hour of the show today about the philosophy of progressives and why they're so hostile. So

we've got all kinds of fun things coming up. But the aftermath of the Pennsylvania eighteenth district election that happened what was it two days ago? People are looking at this now, and what's funny to me is, yeah, okay, sure, if you run a young telegenic I feel like that's what you're allowed to say without you know, you can say someone telegenic and no one can be like, hey,

you don't, don't judge them based on their appearance. Um, you can run a I was a former marine and who does everything you can to sound and act like a Republican and you might be able to win a district that's sort of union union Democrat dominated, right, But in the general you're gonna have to deal the fact that this is the Democrat Party, is the party of Pelosi, Sanders and Schumer and Kamala Harris too. She's gonna become

a much bigger name going forward. I think they're gonna find a way to put her on a ticket in I'm just not sure if she's gonna be the top of it or but that's my expectation. But Pelosi is already getting a little bit here because people realize that she is. Yeah, she's popular, and U her district is basically a Marine County I think, which is north of

San Francisco. It's very posh and crazy liberal. Marine County is so liberal that I think sometimes they visit New York and they're like, this place is some sort of fascist, right wing dictatorship, Like they can't handle it. I mean, it's a whole other vel of liberal out there. But Pelosi was asked whether she basically, are are you a liability?

Nancy Pelosi? Are you a problem for the party? And here is what she said, And I've I feel pretty confident about the my ability to to do first and foremost a master legislator for the good of the American people that that have proven that. But what you've done is not why you should go forward. Why should go forward? Is what are you going to do next? And I don't think that the Koch brothers should decide who the

leader of the Democratic Party is in the House. Uh So she still calls herself the master legislative that's today Pelosi, You're great, and the master that just say there did not go anywhere, Folks. She likes power, likes power. Uh she's a master legislator. You can't make this stuff up. She said it before I wasn't. I was like, did she really say that? Again? Oh she did. It's Pelosi's party. Remember that. As we go into the mid terms, I've

got more. I should probably come up with some music that would be like an intro for when I want to talk about Bucks Bucks health thoughts, and I'll keep him on. I have no medical training of any kind whatsoever. Very limited like trauma wound. I wouldn't. I was gonna say expertise. That would be totally false, very limited trauma

wound like familiarization from some of my previous work. But I do like to talk about health issues because I think that there's I think that's one of the great unexplored and and misunderstood frontiers of the world around us.

I'm somebody who feels like there are so many answers that we don't yet have, and the more information we have access to now, the more clear it becomes that there's there's whole there are things that go on that the medical community isn't even really looking at very closely, but could be game changers for a lot of us down the line. Um. And one day I'll share my thoughts on you know, the gastro intestinal tract and how it's so important for health. It's something you learned about

when you have Celiac disease. But this is just something that's a little bit of a This is more of a lifestyle thing than a health thing, or a lifestyle thing than a medical one per se. But it's one that I've dealt with many times in my life. I'm sure you have too. In fact, some of your probably in the midst of it as you're listening to this show. This is on CBS Story here in New York. They asked a bunch of different medical professionals about the stress

that people feel. Were the stressful commute, especially a commute where you're moving slowly, you gotta go a long ways, and you don't know if you're gonna make it in time, if you're gonna be late for work. I don't know how many of you listening to the show have to rely on mass transit, for example, But whether it's mass transit or traffic jams, you probably at some point it felt, uh, you know, a little bit of a tightening in your chest.

You can have physical symptoms from the agitation of being stuck in a in a brutal commute, and this is a part of our of our lives that that I think really needs to change, especially with all the different technologies that allow people to work from home and to

contribute meaningfully to their business without being physically present. We've got to stop this thing of like that, this crush of people all trying to take the same the same highway, the same road at the same time to get where they are going, because it means that everyone's losing a lot of time in the process. But even worse, or maybe as bad, it's bad for your health. In fact, a stressful commute, according to this piece, is worse for

your physiological symptoms if you do it continuously. Stressful community is worse than PTSD according to some medical experts that talked to you about here, in terms of your blood pressure and other measurements that they can look at for your stress level. Um, it's really really important that you, uh, you work, you work on your breathing a little bit.

I know, that's one of the things people always say, like, you know, focusing breathing actually does help though if you do it, you know, it actually helps if you breathe properly. It's something that I've tried to get better at doing a radio show here. But if you've got a really stressful commute, I I offer you two things. See now I'm giving this is like the good advice. This is what you get the extra bonus, the layer of sprinkles on top of the ice cream, the icing or the

ice cream, either one of the Buck Sexton show. Where comfortable shoes. I'm changing your life just by telling you that I'm making your life better. Where comfortable shoes. And then on top of that, you know, figure out a way that your commute isn't driving your nuts. That's another very important data point that all you should have and and try to limit your commute and try to find ways if you can. Look. I know, jobs, it's tough.

You gotta go where the work is. And some people are working for a long time, and some people don't mind it. I mean I talk to people that come from like two hours away in New Jersey, you know, and they're like, I got a youd I got I got a big dog, not a little dog, A big dog. I got a odd I coming from Jersey, you know, I get stuck with the tunnel. I get stuck in the tunnel and turn on the Buck Sexton Show, and I'm like, you know what, You're onto something there, buddy.

It's all about mindset. You know, some people don't get upset when they get stuck in traffic or whatever. But if you are somebody like that, try to find ways to mitigate the physic because you know mitia. Mitigating the physiological symptoms is important because it you know this this stuff the stress your heart, you know, your your brain. I mean, there's a lot of research that's still being done, but all the evidence points towards your stress level affects

your cardiovascular health. It also affects your um neurological health and your brain functioning. So you gotta do what you can to take care of that. So see him. These are the nuggets of wisdom you get from the Buck Sexton Show, things like try to make your commute not so brutal and terrible, and also, um, try to take deep breaths if you get stuck in a situation like that. For me, and sometimes it's a subway. I've had situations where I had to get on live TV and there

was I'm in the subway here in New York. Because if you try to take a car, most of the time, You're never gonna get where you're going here, because all the TV studios are in Midtown Manhattan and in the middle of the city. And I've had the situation of sitting there in a subway knowing that I had to do a lot. I've TV hit, knowing that it was coming.

It was gonna come down two minutes, like literally, it was gonna be a matter of a hundred and eighty seconds whether I made the hit or not, and sitting there for five or ten minutes before that where the subway they do this thing where they go, you know, we are delayed. They have like a robotic voice that comes on, we are delayed. And if it's a delayed that's not that bad. They'll tell you like, we are

delayed because of trained traffic ahead. And then you know, like all right, we're probably okay, but they say this, we are delayed because of an investigation. Ah, now you're at like it's time to hit the emergency exit, like get out of there and like make a run for in the dark New York City Subway tunnel because you are done zo. You're gonna miss whatever that. That's happened

to me too. I've come close a few times to or you just sit there and freak out and turn into a puddle of sweat and everyone's like, why is that guy like freaking out so much? You're like, did you get the team? Because you can't text or email or anything either, so people would just think that you were rude and do and show up, or they'd worry about you. So stressful commutes, cut them out of your life as much as you can, or find ways to

make them not stressful. You know what the best way is, download the Buck Sexton Show podcast and have it at the ready at all times in case you miss a day or you just want to pick up some more of the fantastic information we bring to you from the Freedom Hut. That, my friends, is the way to get it done. That is how we roll. Alright, our three coming up, we're gonna talk about the mindset of progressive

social justice warriors. Why are they a bunch of snow flakes? Well, we will take a blowtorch to the snow flakes in just a few minutes here. If you stay with me, I'll explain much more. He's holding the line for America. Buck Sexton his back. Welcome to our three of the buck Sexton Show. One of my favorite things about being on for the three hours that I have each night with you, and also being on a later in the days,

I get to do deep dives into things. I got to do all kinds of interesting and fun research and present you with a lot that I know you're not going to hear anywhere else. And this falls into that category. This is where we get into our our third hour, which tends to be where I just share with you what whatever's top of mind for me. It's not dictated by the news cycle. It's not political or national security necessarily.

It's just whatever I've got for you. And there is a piece it was just published called the Psychology of Progressive Hostility on Quilette dot com that I cannot recommend to you more highly. We will post it up on my website a link to it, and I'll also share it on Facebook. It's written by Matthew Blackwell. Let me let me give you some of what he gets into.

But just to set the stage, why is it that I'm sure if you're listening to the show, there's a very good chance we share a lot of political beliefs, similar worldview Some of you maybe agree with me fifty or sixty percent of the time. A lot of you probably agree with me, hopefully plus of the time or maybe plus at the time, but you've probably come across the same phenomenon that I have, which is when someone

tells you as a conservative. We'll leave our liberal listeners out of this for a second, but there are some. But as a conservative, when someone tells you that you're wrong or that you have a belief that is wrong, your response tends to be tell me why, why is

that the case? What makes me wrong? And you're at least willing to hear it out there response that you see from liberals And this is not just my perception or I'm gonna get into some of the the science, if you will, on this, some of the social science, the studies on it. There have been studies Progressives in America today respond with, well, you know how they respond if you say, hey, you know, gun control is actually not as easy or good an ideas you seem to

think it is. They say, you're a terrible person. I hate your face. And he said, well, hold on, I'm not. I'm not a terrible person, and you're allowed to not like my face. But this is about a policy issue,

and there are pluses and minuses. One of the big problems that progressives have with their approach to any number of issues is that they actually see their opinion not just as as more correct, but as absolutely correct, meaning that there can be no there is no trade off, and therefore there is no good faith opposition to their idea. You either agree with them or you're factually wrong, or even worse, you agree with them, or you're You're bad. You are pushing for something that is that makes you

a bad person. It's a judgment on you that you don't see it their way. So here's here's this piece that walks us through some of this, and then I'll get into some of the social science and some of the authors that it it relies on. Uh quote. Recently, I arrived at a moment of introspection about a curious aspect of my own behavior. When I disagree with a conservative friend or colleague on some political issue, I have

no fear of speaking my mind. I talk, they listen, they respond, I talked some more, and at the end of it we get along just as we always have. But I've discovered that when a progressive friend says something with which I disagree or that I know to be incorrect. I'm hesitant to point it out. This hesitancy is a consequence of the different treatment one tends to receive from those on the right and left when expressing a difference of opinion. I am not, as it turns out, the

only one who has noticed this. That's a stupid, blanking question, answered a Socialist Alliance activists when I asked, sincerely where they were getting what sounded like inflated poverty statistics. Quote. If you don't believe in gay marriage or gun control on friend me, demand multiple Facebook status is from those I know. That's gross and racist, spluttered a red faced Ben Affleck when the atheist and neuroscientists Sam Harris criticized

Islamic doctrines on Bill Maher's Real Time. Nobody blinks an I when Harris criticizes Christianity, least of all Affleck, who starred in Kevin Smith's irreverent religious satire Dogma. But Christians are not held to be a sacra sank and protected minority on the political left and and then as skeptic magazines, Michael Shermer tweeted recently, when I debate Christians, Jews, creationists, climate deniers, etcetera. They are unfailingly polite, respectful, thoughtful, discerning,

and listen to my arguments. Far left social justice warriors do not. They simply look for fault and pounds. Isn't this so very true? My friends? I bet you come across this in your day to day lives, whether it's trying to have just a casual discussion about the day's events in the workplace, or if you're seeing friends for drinks after if you're getting the kids together with you know, and their parents show up and and all that stuff. Whatever it is that you're interacting with people out there,

have you come across the social justice warrior? It is likely that if you contradict them, or even just refuse to agree with them on something, they're not going to try to persuade you. They're going to try to slam you. They aren't looking for converts. They are hunting for heretics, as I like to say. And it is absolutely the case. And now we're starting to see that this is a widespread phenomenon. It is a a part of progressive belief system.

Now because I believe and this is where I'm departing from this piece for a moment, but progressive ism fills the place of religious belief for a vast majority of progressives. There are many progressives you'll come across who will claim they'll claim that they have, you know, an allegiance to one one religion or other. They'll claim that they have a relationship with a church or with the Almighty. Some of them certainly do. They usually see it though, as

a mechanism for so social justice right. They see it as a place for a community, not necessarily about the individual communing with God. But for a lot of progressives, you have a sense that their belief system, their political belief system, is deeply tied in to their identities as people. And that's why the moment that you disagree with them on something, the moment that you see things differently, it's

like you're negating who they are as people. Right, I believe in climate science because I'm a good person and I'm smart and I care about things. And you say, well, maybe you're just actually, maybe you've been conned, maybe you've been lied to. Maybe actually this isn't what you think it is. They're not going to respond to that with well, wow, you're right, Maybe I don't need to do all this stupid recycling all the time. You know how much I hate recycling. Uh, maybe I don't need to do that.

They're gonna say, you're telling me I'm not as good as person as I thought, or that's there. That's going to be their thought process, and the response is gonna be, I hate your faith And there are reasons for this. There are reasons for this in in our discourse. We're starting to see this more and more. This is not aberrant, it's not random, it's not based on the person and

has become a part of the ideology. So when people talk about the polarization of politics in this country, what they need to take into account is that there is one major component of the political spectrum that isn't even just about politics. It's about identity, and it is central to who on the left progressives. It's central to who they think they are as people. I want to continue with a little bit of this because I think this

is this deep dive into social justice. Warriors will explain a lot, and these are things that will affect you in your day to day life. I think you should know that you're not alone. If you've ever tried to say to someone, Hey, you know, maybe maybe abortion for all nine months of a pregnancy is a really immoral thing and you should rethink your stance on this. You tend not to get, Yeah, you're right, let's talk about it. You tend to get how could you you just want

to put women in slavery? Well, why is that the response? And why do you see this time and time again from one side of the political spectrum and not the other. Why is it the conservatives can have fierce debates with each other on sub on substance and then walk away friends and respectful of each other. And conservatives are willing to hear beliefs from all over the place and at least hear them out without assuming the person who holds

beliefs that contradict their own are bad people. This is it's not just, This is not just an intellectual exercise. It will help us all understand why we have to have the interactions that all of you listening to this show are having day in and day out. And also, what's going to happen in this country if this side wins out? What happens if progressivism becomes the dominant political ideology in America. We'll get into that some more in

just a few minutes. The Psychology of Progressive hostility, Part two. My friends, welcome back. Thank you for being here with me on the show. So let's just put this into some context. You guys all, remember when Trump was officially declared Trump was officially declared president, there was this this shriek from a Hillary supporting leftist that went viral. In case you missed it, or in case you just want to kick back, relax and let the good times roll again,

here's what a sounded like. Donald J. Trump is now President of the United States, to be able to introduce for the first time ever anywhere the President of the United States of America. Donald, you didn't get out of you here. That's a that's a full grown woman shrieking as loud and like making a noise that I didn't know a human being canna make. It's just, you know, it's like Hillary warming up her vocal cords for being on stage at the opera or something. I mean, it's

really bad. And and you know progressives are a little a little not so you know, they got problems for sure. But back to our scientific deep dive, into this. Others have started to pick up on this, and the notion that the that the conservative mind is willing to deal with challenges, to deal with uncertainty, and to see things as tradeoffs is increasingly supported by the social science literature.

And the notion that progressives emotionalize and get angry really quickly and freak out basically based on what their political beliefs are is increasingly a uh. This is not a sometime thing. This is a most or all the time thing. One of the great examples of this that he cites in this piece again this is unquilette dot com and it's by Matthew Blackwell, is this story of a professor in Canada UM who made the mistake, if you will, um at will, was that Wilfrid Laurier was the name

of the school. I think anyways, you made the mistake of showing a debate in her class where Professor Peterson was talking about whether or not people should have to refer to transgender individuals. This is in Canada. Folks with pronouns like zer z, i, R and there v er literally made up pronouns. The faculty of Wilford Laurier University or college, whichever it is Canada. I don't know what I don't know at these I don't know the Canadian schools.

Uh A. But the faculty brought her in for discipline and when she said I was I didn't even weigh in, they said, exactly, that's the problem. You showed a debate that other people were having and didn't tell the students, uh, which side was right. Here's actually how it's written in the piece during Shepherd, that's the professor Lindsay Shepherd during

her interrogation. Uh. Because remember she this was recorded. She said that, or rather her superiors she recorded, I'm sorry Not only did she get in trouble for for the video, she recorded the interrogation by the fellow faculty members, and in that her superiors can be heard explaining that Professor Peterson, whom we've had here on the show, his views were problematic and that she should have either criticized them or

not exposed her students to his opinions at all. But that would be taking sides, she said audibly on the tape that she made. Although she didn't share Peterson's views herself, she had played the video to encourage a class debate yes, replied one of her interrogators. Can't you see that this is something that is not really up for debate. Her job,

she was informed, is to oppose the political right. That's right, my friends, Whether or not you, as a function of law in Canada should have to refer to a person by the made up pronoun zer or ver is quote not really upper debate, According to professors at what I assume is a reasonably reputable Canadian institution of higher learning,

although maybe I'm giving too much credit. This exposes the mentality, This exposes what you see on the college campuses, and it exposes the uh the speech equals violence trope that the left relies on now as a as an excuse to shut down speakers they don't like, or the no platforming. They have effectively been conditioned to think in this way, you know, the circuitry in their brains, the wiring brings about this kind of overreaction to political beliefs. There's aren't

just correct, They're the only beliefs. No one can challenge them, and if people challenge them, they have to go on on the offensive. They have to attack back to this piece, and Quillett, in his remarkable book the righteous mind. Why good people are divided by politics and religion. Jonathan Hate

recalls a telling experiment. He and his colleagues Brian Nosick and Jesse Graham sought to discover how well conservative and what Hate terms liberal progressive students understood one another by having them answer moral questions as they thought their political opponents would answer them. The results were clear and consistent. According to Hate. In all analyzes, conservatives were more accurate than liberals. Asked to think the way a liberal thinks.

Conservatives answered moral questions just as the liberal would answer them, but liberal students were unable to do the reverse. Rather, they seem to put moral ideas into the mouths of conservatives that they don't hold to. Put it bluntly, Hate and his colleagues found the progressives don't understand conservatives the way conservatives understand progressives. He calls us the conservative advantage, and it goes a long way in explaining the different

ways each side deals with opinions unlike their own. People get angry at what they don't understand, and an all progressive education ensures that they don't understand. End quote. See my friends, we are cracking it open here and getting right to the center of it, right to the truth. Because you and I know what liberals think and believe, we can engage with them and at least are willing

to approach their opinions in good faith. But they are so costed in their echo chambers of higher education and the media and the Democrat Party and all the rest of it. They don't even know what we believe. Really, they're actually so ignorant that they think that we support the n r A, for example, because we don't really care that much about gun violence for some reason that they couldn't explain. They don't know what we believe, which is why they are so nasty and aggressive and hateful

in their responses. But this should all make you feel a little bit better about every uncomfortable exchange you've had with the progressive recently. In a sense, it's not really their fault. You just know a lot more than they do. You're much more well versed on the issues and have a much better understanding of what they think themselves and what you think. This is the conservative advantage will be right back. He's holding the line for America, Buck Sexton,

his back. What is the deadliest animal in the United States, my friends. Oh, I'm looking at you, producer, Mike and John. The deadliest animal by the numbers in the US is what can you you maybe give me like a hand signal or what what do you got? What do you got? What? A bear? A cat? No cat? No kid out? Actually they do. Cats do end up killing people sometimes because of the infections from the scratches. Is that what you're referring to? Are you talking about like like mountain lions

that go after bikers and hikers? What do we what do you know? Come on, squad, I was referring to, uh, cats because they killed massive amounts of like birds and rodents and stuff. So you're like, oh, killing people home slice people? So what kills the most people? Nothing? Alright? Fine? I mean usually feel like people be like bears, snakes. You know, they're not even playing along in here. They're just done with me today. All right? Five? The answer

is hornets, wasps, and bees. That's right. This is a study published by Wilderness and Environmental Medicine. Hornets, wasps, and bees kill the most people. Now, it's kind of an unfair question, right, It's kind of like asking what's the most deadly animal on the planet. And I will tell you because obviously you guys don't like this game that I'm playing with you right now. I'm not talking to you at home. I'm talking to the Freedom Hunt control room.

They're like, stop with the twenty questions. It's it's mosquitoes because of malaria and other pathogens that the yeah, dude were limiting malaria around the world would save so many more lives than combating climate change. But people really want to focus on other things. I want to focus on climate change. But yeah, I just thought this was in. The New York Times cited this report earlier this week on wilderness and from Wilderness and Environmental Medicine hornets watson bees.

But they killed people mostly because of those who have allergies, so it's not really a fair like one be sting if you have an allergy can kill you, right, But usually it's not that big of a deal. Although I remember I was very dumb when I was like seven or eight, and I definitely thought it was fun for a little while when i'd be out somewhere where they had grass to try and stomp on bees. When you're like seven or eight and not that strong or coordinated,

and you miss stomping on the bee. The beat, the bee gets his the be uh, the bee gets his revenge. It does happen anyway. I've been stung a few times. But then there's some other animals that that make the list. Here my favorite on Planet Earth. Dogs they were responsible for two hundred and uh wait from twenty two thousand and eight. By the way, it's a seven year period. They analyze, dogs were responsible for two d and seventy

two deaths. Uh so that's that's that's sad um the fatality rate and dog attacks, well, it's particularly high, unfortunately for the very young and the elderly. But surprisingly um neither wait, Oh my gosh, guys, I totally I totally lied to you just now, and I need to eat a big slice of humble pie. This piece starts out saying that everyone assumes it's bees wasps, and including me.

I'm actually wrong. For once. I know I should go, I should go do some push ups in the corner, or we should we should mark this occasion because it is so rare. Savor the flavor, gentleman. It's not something it's gonna happen very often. I am I am dead wrong on this one. It is not these wasps and hornets. It is in fact, pigs, cows and horses, Higgs, cows and horses. They were responsible for five hundred and seventies six deaths and it's from farm farm stuff, you know,

basically people getting attacked or trampled and farms. So that's actually the So the deadliest animals in America, according to this comprehensive study are pigs, cows, and horses, which is not exciting. Like if this were Australia, there would be probably some form of snake that has enough venom to kill three hundred people, and there there's saltwater crocodiles, there's

great white sharks, tiger sharks, bull sharks. Australia's got all the good scary animals, a lot of good scary animals in Africa too, But are scariest are pigs, cows, and horses according to this, which I have to say I found somewhat somewhat surprising. So not saying you should avoid it. I'm just saying be aware. You know, next time that cow has given you kind of a funny look, that cow might have some ill intentions. You know that you they sneak up on you. You You don't know what's going on.

I'm sure there are actually malk cow is a bull, that's right. Good job Buck, Buck hasn't spent a lot of time on farms. I was gonna be like, is it a steer, No, that's a type of cow. Everybody listening to this who has any experience around for mentals is like, Buck, you gotta stop right now. You can't,

you can't dig up. But nonetheless, I just think this is really interesting because people think of dangerous animals like bears and uh, mountain lions, and you are more likely to be struck by lightning by a pretty wide margin, I think, than you are to be attacked by a bear. And from what I understand, there's still debate to this day as to whether or not a healthy wolf has ever attacked and eaten a person. In North America, rabid

wolves have definitely attacked people. No quite san and starving wolves. I see that thing. I think they create this little carve out for like wolves that are starving. But I'm kind of like, I don't really care if the wolf is super hungry when it eats me. I'm still getting eaten, so I think that counts. I don't think you get to wipe away the wolf eating people think because the wolves belly's empty, very hungry. No, No, that makes me sad. As you can tell. I like animals a lot. I

used to play a game growing up. My parents were very permissive and uh and kind, and I'd be like, I'd be like, Dad, who what a fight? Trying sarah Tops or a grizzly bear and he he would actually, my, my, my very highly educated father would actually give me an answer. And I was like, well, that's the answer. Clue, Hey, thos try saratops grizzly bear. To try Saratops has the light advantage, so clearly it's gonna cut out. So yeah, he'sy.

Can tell it like when I was when I was in kindergarten, I tried to spell out I wanted to be an animal conservationist. When I grew up, I didn't spell it properly, um, but I had heard about it. And then you get to hang out with animals. By the way, we got in the house here with us, now, that's right, DJ Cash producer, Mike's dog. Very very fun. We come back, we'll get into some roll call. Stay with me. Well, I think that's going to close it up here in the Freedom Hut today. I hope you

enjoyed the show. Let me know your thoughts at Facebook dot com slash buck Sexton, especially from a podcast squad out there. You can listen on iTunes if you don't already, you can subscribe on iTunes, so please do. And also be great if you told a friend, hey, what's what are your favorite podcasts? Well? Mine is the Buck sext and show. The more podcast we get, the happier I am. So make me happy, help me spread the podcast around. And with that, my friends, you know what Tom it is.

It's roll call time, Team Buck. It's time for roll call. I mean, it just makes you want to grab a claymore, go out there in a kilt and fight some Englishmen, you know. But nonetheless that's actually Scotland and I know technically on Saturday at St Patrick's Day. So there you have it. It is what it is people. The appropriation

has run far and wide. I've actually had a lot of people asking recently what I think about the I'm the people that get offended about St Patrick's Day garb now and I'm like, is this really what it's come to? There's now a thing, the Fighting Irish Show. They don't like it. It's a little lepre con and all the stuff about getting drunk on St. Patty's Day. I know, we just played Scotland the Bridge of which is not

really St Patty's Day. Now that I'm sitting here, we're gonna have to change up the bagpipes for tomorrow, because I think playing Scotland the Brave as a way of commemorating St. Patty's Day is probably not exactly correct, and the cultural appropriation is real. Alright, But with that for forget the music for a second. Let's get to what your thoughts are on all of this and more. Michael. Right when I was eight or nine, my older buds in the neighborhood took me with them to see the

Curse of the Werewolf with Oliver Reid. Yeah, it was that movie. Scared the crap out of me. I actually covered my eyes the last five minutes of the flick. Terrified of werewolves to this day. Thank god, I've never come up against one. Well, Michael, Uh, I agree, werewolves

are scary. They've had a real resurgence with these movies called Underworld, where you have a very slender, attractive British actress who's just wearing incredibly tight leather pants and chopping the heads off of likings, which is another word for werewolf and of course other vampires, because she's a vampire. She's one of those special vampires that fights against werewolves. It's kind of a weird deal. But if you're into that stuff, you might enjoy that show or that movie

next up here. Hold on a second. All right, we got Jason, he writes Buck. Today is my birthday. Well, happy birthday, Jason, And all I want for my birthday. Oh here we go is no more dub step roll call, Thanks buddy, and keep your shield high. Well, well, Jason, say we did it for you, my friend. There you go. We'll just we'll just say we did it for you. Nothing to do with St. Patty's Day. It's Jason's birthday, he gets. Well, at least he gets to change the tune,

not necessarily the tune he wants. Because of rights and clearances and all that, we have some limitations. As much as I would love to sit here and just play Credence Clearwater, I don't think we're allowed to do that. For a whole bunch of reasons. You know stuff. Uh, Connor is next up here here. It's a buck as a fan and a libertarian and a free speech purist. I'm asking you to help bring attention. My friends and

I are in the middle of um Okay. We are rehearsing for a musical American Idiot by green Day, and the mayor of the city of Brexville, Ohio is trying to shut our production down and I'm not sure about our chances. We feel we have the constitutional right to do this show. Censor. Censorship should be brought to attention on both sides of the political spectrum. I'm asking for your help and the help of those in the conservative free speech movement to bring attention to this and allow

freedom and liberty to win. If I can get a response, I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks so much, Connor. Well, Connor, there you go. You got a response on about a hundred and twenty five or so radio stations across the country. There you go, my man, plus a a large sports stadium full of podcast listeners. It's about right. So there

you go. You got some people that heard you, my friend, and yeah, I think you do have the constitutional right to do a show, although it's by Green Day, Green Days a little you know, Connor, I don't want upset you. Green Days a little overrated. Though they're okay, they're okay. I'm not even talking about their politics. I don't even get into that stuff. But you know, it is what it is. But Connor, you fight that good fight. My

libertarian friend. He's also a member of Young Team Buck Squad from what I can gather here, so yes, he's in high school. So there you go. So Connor, thank you very much. Uh Brent is next up here. He writes, Buck, I love your show. See Brent pays attention and knows if you want to be in roll call first line. I love your show. Very good way to start. And as a retired D O D employee, I like the fact that you have an inside the government point of view. But most of all, I love that you love dogs.

I'd listen anyway, but that puts you over the top. Keep up the great work, Brent. Well, Brent, thank you so much. Man. I really appreciate that I do. I do love dogs because Buck, he loves dogs. I don't know any you know what I'm talking about. That was from Dog Show and remember the SNL sketch Dog Show, Dog Show really, because hello dogs there was mr mr um oh gosh, I can't remember the names of the dogs now. I don't remember the names that there were

the two Little Dogs and dog Show. Anyway, John, if you figured it out, let me know. It's an SNL sketch. It's old though, because I'm old, all right, Um, Michael, he writes in Hey, hey, Buck, trip to Austin. If you have any questions or your team needs any help while you're on your way down here, where to go, work to do and be happy to help out or

even help organize. There are a few cool places close to downtown with good barbecue, like Terry Blacks Barbecue on Barton Springs Road or Uncle Billy's on Barton Springs Road, which has barbecue and is a micro brew. Wow, he's got a lot of Austin knowledge. He drops your Michael, thank you so much for this, my friend. I'm gonna go through it a bit and and uh, what's what's up? John? Pistachio and Nacho. No, it's not Lord Pistachio and Naco.

Those aren't the names. That's weird. Huh, that's I gotta No, those aren't that. I don't think those are the names. Those those are great. Calling your dog lord Pistachio is amazing and obviously has to wear a little a little dog top hat and have a monocle and be like, hey, hello, I'm a fancy doggie. Hello. But back to Michael and Austin and our wonderful affiliate down there, k L b J. I am gonna come down to Austin. It's just a

question of timing. I am coming out to Whoa Whoa in just a few weeks, March thirty one, I think, Uh, the date escapes my mind right now, but I'm pretty sure that's yeah, the thirty one of March. I'll be in FOURT Way in Indiana, rocking out, and I will also be heading out to California, I believe in about a month. So maybe we can get some Team Buck folks together there and we'll be so yeah, everybody listening on k E I b out in Los Angeles. We

might do a little event. It would be different though, you know. We'd have a lot of micro greens and we gather the best pet therapists in the area. I kid, I joke, come on, uh, but klb j Austin. Yeah, barbecue Joint in Austin. It will happen. Just a question whether it will be this spring or this fall. I don't know if I'm gonna show up in Austin in the middle of July. I might. I might wait until like octobery or something, but I might get it done soon enough. All right, Um, let's say we've got so

many messages in here. Thank you everybody. Remember if you want to be a part of it, Facebook dot com, slash buck Sexton, that is all you need to be in the roll call party. Uh what do we have here? Ben rights Buck? Last year in Pennsylvania alone, there were over a hundred thousand junior and youth hunters out of their class woods, sorry, out of their classrooms and in the woods responsibly using their firearms. No mass murders were committed.

There was no national media coverage. Well, Ben, you make a good point. A lot of people, a lot of young law biding gun owners, are exactly that, and I think that gets left out of much of this discussion. There you have it, um Will writes, Hold on a second, what do we got here? Uh? Antifa PCU great flick? Can you show me where the campus is. It's not like Eric, right on, right on, Q John, thank you one more, give me one more. I love it fantastic. Um, you know what. I think that's a good note to

end off for today. But thank you will for your note and phenomenal to have all of you writing in. Guys, We're gonna have a freestyle Friday tomorrow. It's going to be a lot of fun some of your thoughts and suggestions and uh, as I said, Facebook is great. Also, more of you should be on Twitter. Twitter is a great platform. I know a lot of you like. Once you start using it, you'll see, Uh, it's a really

good way to keep up on news. And if you want to argue with random strangers, Twitter is the best place for it. So check out Twitter for sure at buck Sexton if you want to follow me there, and you can also live treat me during the show. So with that, I will say, I will bid you adieu and wish you shields high.