No Caving On The Wall

with actionable intelligence. Make no mistake American Great, You're a great American Again. The buck Sexton Show begins the sectimicalyst No. Just almost at three am in the morning, about one hundred and fifty undocumented migrants quite violently engaged our border patrol agents. They breached the border fence. There they were in higher ground based on just the layout of the area. There.

They were up upon a hill just over on the other side of that fence, moving women and children ahead of them, wrapped in blankets, trying to bring them over concertina wire that we had laid beyond the fence on the US side. And as our border patrol agents went down to try to not just apprehend the women and children, but a system so that they would not be injured by the wire. The migrants on the other side began hurling rocks and throwing rocks at our agents and also

putting the migrants at peril as well. That's when they deployed. The non lethal uses of force dispersed that group and ultimately most of them did head back into Mexico. About two dozen or so were ultimately apprehended by our agent. Welcome to the Buck Saxton Show, everybody. I am back. I am so happy to be here with you. After a break, we'll talk more about this later on in the show. I want, I want to get right to it. I missed you all, but I missed doing this show,

so let let me not stand on ceremony. There you had Customs and Border Patrol Deputy Commissioner Robert Perez saying, look what happened right around Christmas time. What happened at the border was a multi pronged incident, an effort to oh no, I'm sorry on New Year's desk, said Christmas right around New Year's not Christmas. This coordinated effort to overrun a sector of our southern border to assault police officers and to engage in this kind of aggressive lawlessness.

You know, those who say it's not an invasion. I just want to know, what do you call a coordinated breach of a law enforcement barrier using projectiles and you know, various tactics of of disorientation against our law enforcement officers. What do we call that? Does anyone, anyone have any any idea? It's not showing up at a port of entry and saying, hey, I'd like to be an American. It's not that. It's certainly not going through our legal

immigration process and showing your respect for this country. You know, one of the important things about being an immigrant is showing that you respect the laws of this country. You want to become a part of it. And if you want to become a part of the American family, that's great. There's the right way to do it, though, and only

one political party cares at all about this anymore. I mean, the Democrats have a ban and they are they are complete frauds when it comes to border security, outright frauds. And Trump has done the right thing by pushing us

into this shutdown. At least we're now having the fight at least we're going to have this debate publicly and we can see what a bunch of scheming, lying, hypocritical hyenas Pelosi and Schumer and the rest of the open borders Democrat gang really are that The reporting on this, of course, focused on how these migrants were exposed to tier guys. Oh they're exposed to tier guys. How could

anyone do anything so terrible? I'm glad that Border Patrol agent Rodney Scott wasn't going to just sit there and let this get said about the men of men and women of Border Patrol who are doing a difficult job and a very necessary one play clip two. Our agents responded with the least amount of force they possibly could to protect themselves in the border, and did actually secure the border in this area. One agent was hit in

a square the face of the rock. Luckily he had his helmet and shield on and was not seriously injured, but the violence associated that Caerevanes continued, what would the open borders cowardly leftist dems like our border patrol to do? You know? I would like to ask them, I mean I would like to put them maybe through through an

experiment here. What do they think would happen if if a normal American, any American anywhere in the country, walked, you know, twenty or thirty paces away from just a cop, any law enforcement officer, and through a rock, you know, a good be a big chunk of stone at the face of that law enforcement officer. Does anyone think that that person would get off, first of all, a lot worse than tear gas. I mean, if that officer catches up to that person and has you know, their their

baton out. I mean they're going to go to work, and rightfully so this person's obviously now a threat try to hurt you. So if you close that distance between them, and you know, between the rock thrower and the officer, you know, officers got gotta take care of that threat. You get hit in the face with a rock, could knock you out, knock your teeth out, disfigure you give you a concussion, could kill you. It could kill you.

And think of the mentality of people who want to come into America and would take an action against our law enforcement officers on the border that no American in his right mind would ever do on us soil. And I know, I know a lot, a lot of folks out there that you know, I have all kinds of different ideologies and notions about, you know, how they should

interact with the cops. And I can tell you this, No no one thinks that they're going to be able to throw a rock at a cop without their being consequences. You know, nobody thinks that that's a situation that should be allowed, should be allowed to happen. I mean, just think of that mentality. And yet you know, here we are, here, we are with people that are trying to cross that our southern border of throwing rocks at officers and showing such blatant, just gross disrespect for our men and women

in uniform. I like to remind you of this because I don't think it's nearly enough play. About a third of border patrol is comprised of veterans, A big percentage of border patrol or actually minority in particularly Latino American. And these are the people on the front lines who are getting rocks thrown at them. We're being told that who are being told that they're they're responsible for, you know, killing killing children at the border because they their face

with this inundation. I mean, this this flood of people and this all stretches back to Obama and Democrat activists and the left promoting this idea of yeah, you know, come come to the border, come to the border. Here's how, here's when. Yeah. Obama, sure, he said we don't come to the border, and then he made sure that they would come to the border. Don't come to the border, but I'm gonna make sure if you get here you

can stay. Don't come to the border. But you know, if you do get here, your the rest of your family gets to stay too. You know, we'll do DOC, We'll do DAPPA, We'll do all these different executive authority based programs. Forget about the law, forget about Congress, the constitution. Democrats want this. They want this, and you know that there's a problem because they won't own up to the fact that this is what they want. They can't be honest with the American people about where they stand on

the border. Tom Homan, who was ICE acting ICE Director, I've talked to him numerous times about about all these issues. You know, he's somebody who who really gets it on what we need to do. I mean, the border is in a crisis right now. We are having we are having riots, at our southern border of people who claim they want to come into this country. And notice how

they're trying to overrun certain areas. Almost like you can have a more secure or less secure border based upon the resources and yes, the physical barriers present in that area. But home In had this to say about this, the rock throwing. He knows there's going to be more, and he knows it's going to get worse. Play three. If these illegal amiads are throwing stones everywhere, I think the use of tear gases, I'm an amused force necessary to

protect themselves. I mean, and it's going to happen again. This is the second time it's happened. It's going to happen again. There's chaos in that border which the Democrats don't seem to grasp, and meanwhile the President is trying to get a fix for the border. Democrats all for nothing. I mean, they say the border was ineffective border barrier. And if you look at the data data speak for yourself. Every place they had built a barrier, illeig immigration has decreased,

that's a fact. Every place they built one percent effective. And as far as the cost of the wall, there will be offset quickly. In amount of money we will saving immigration detention, immigration courts, the cost of so social services to illegal aliens in this country, and the US citizen born children. If you look at the costs of illig immigration, it's aid over one hundred billion dollars a year. That is a fraction of what the president's asking for.

So I truly believe the Democratic leadership understands this, but they're putting their political ambitions, their hatred for this Trump administration. They don't want to give this president a win at the expense of the safety of American people. I truly believe that. I think everything that Tom's saying there is accurate, and I would add to it. Democrats see this is the only issue they have to win on, and then

they went on all the other issues. This illegal immigration is their pathway to a permanent political majority, their pathway to a one party state in this country, and that means that it takes precedence over everything else. How else can you explain how we spend so much time arguing with Democrats over the rights of people who aren't even Americans,

who aren't even supposed to be here. Now, Democrats, oh many, they just all they want to talk about is illegal aliens, how we need to do more for legal aliens, bring more and don't call them illegal aliens, call them undocumented, DOCA, DABA, all these different programs. This is their their primary focus, you know, not dealing with the debt and deficit, not veteran homelessness, not you know, reforming our healthcare delivery systems in meaningful ways. You know, none of that, No, nothing

that's going to affect Americans. They are first and foremost concerned with what they can do to help non Americans. And they wonder why there's a backlash against the elites. They wonder why we don't really trust them. And Homan's point one that I make regularly on this show, and it's important because you know, I need to say it, and I think a lot of you need to hear it, because the mainstream media is just making it up as they go along on this Walls work. Of course they work.

You are being lied to, and I know you know it, but it's easy to get numb to it. It's easy to become numb over time to the media's misrepresentations, to the falsehoods that they peddle about immigration, most notably on the effectiveness of a wall. You just you keep hearing it, and you know, look, I find myself occasionally I'll just blurt out, yeah, what are we doing about the undocumented? Oh my gosh, that I just say that. It's not that I want to it's they say it. They keep

repeating it. The mere repetition, the propaganda has an effect, and they keep telling you a wall that doesn't work. After a while you start to think, well, I guess there must be a question about walls work. Bullcrap. Walls work, obviously. And here's the fear. The Democrats have the American people, at least a strong majority of us, you know, the the sixty or seventy percent of us who at least

can still be reasonable on some issues. Right, you know, about half of us are reasonable on most issues Republicans, and then there's maybe about sixty to sixty five percent of us who when it's really clear, we still kind. But unfortunately this you know, thirty to forty percent of the country is just wacko on their politics. Just they've bought all this nonsense and we're never going to be able to bring them back into reality. But for those of us that do operate in reality and want to

be want to be correct something. We want to be right. Oh I was right, I was right. No, No, I want to be correct. I want the positions that I'm supporting to be the ones that have the out that bring the outcomes that I want, that have the intended effect. And a wall would be one of the great slapdowns of a Democrat lie of all time, because they once

once it's up, and the numbers won't lie. You know, once it's up, we'll see that they've just been They've been clowning themselves on this one because there's both a thirst for power that drives a lot of this. They know if they keep the border open, and they keep this issue for reasons of identity politics and enlarging the state and pulling us apart as a as an American community that has shared values when it comes to respect for rule of law. And they're excited by all that,

and they're also concerned. I'm not concerned that this is going to keep going. They love that it's happening. They're concerned that we may actually be able to end this scam because that's when the accountability kicks in, when we see how they've been lying on them. This is why the fight right now, the shutdown, this is necessary. This has to happen. You know, I wanted to happen when I thought Trump wasn't going through with it, those who listen to the the show, No, I was, you know what,

off about it. I was mad. And the President's going He's going to the mount of this one and he's fighting. I hope he stays. I hope he does not cave. I'm still worried that he will. But so far, I gotta give credit where it's due, and he is fighting this fight. And man, it is gonna get uglier and

uglier in the days ahead. I mean, they are gonna do everything they can because from there, from the left's perspective, the Democrats, if they can hold Trump off on this one, if they can withstand the pressure and finally have Republicans walk away with nothing. We're talking about five billion dollars. Mean,

this should be easy, right walk away with nothing. It will just create a momentum for all of the most anti Trump lunatics going into the investigations and the hearings and the over all the stuff that we know is coming. I mean this year, man, I'm glad to have all of you, because this year is going to be it's gonna be rough in that regard. We're gonna be playing. We're gonna be playing a lot of defense, a lot of a lot of shields eye for real coming up this year, so get ready for it. We get a

lot more show. It is so good to be back here with you. I honestly missed it and I'm not going anywhere for a long time, so stick with me. I'll your back. It's so ridiculous. This is a system that we have, and nobody pointed it out until we came a law. So you end up in a court case to tell somebody normally it's like, hey, you're on our land, we don't want you, and you have to come through legally get out. So we catch, we do paperwork,

we bring him to court. You could never have enough judges because you're talking about thousands, tens of thousands of people. You end up in trials, but the trials don't take place because what they have to do, because it's impossible to hold all of it. This is by law. This is by these idiotic laws given to us by largely by the Democrats, mostly by the Democrats, that we can

change in one hour if people got together. These laws that Trump is talking about immigration laws, He's right, they're dumb, they're not working. They are invitations to abuse and bureaucratic inertia and fraud. And he's totally right, which is why a wall is just one step, a necessary one, but one step toward dealing with our legal immigration problem, one step in the process. You know, we also need a more streamlined process to deal with those who want asylum.

We need to clamp down on all the fraud that goes on in people saying that they are have a credible fear for just being you know, Honduran. We need to get e verified. We need workplace enforcement, we need to end sanctuary cities. I mean, there's this whole laundry list of very important things, and that's why I just think, you know, if we can't get the wall, you start to wonder what's the point. I mean, if we can't

even get that front line. You know, this is like saying I want I want you to have to secure a home. Let's put a lock on your front door. That doesn't mean I don't want a security system. I don't want you to, you know, have a weapon for home defense, preferably a firearm, maybe a shotgun, depends on what you want. You know, I want you to have all those things too. But let's start with a lock on your door. Right the wall is the lock on

the door. If we can't get that, you have to wonder what do we even do about the rest of That's why this issue is so important, and yes it is worth a shutdown. I'll get more into that, and I'll also talk about this Romney Trump feud. I don't find it as interesting. I think the media is gonna yeah, this is just a chance in the trash Trump's Oh look a Republican doesn't like Trump. I'll give you some

some of my thoughts on that. There is an interesting foreign policy angle to it that I think you'll definitely want to hear. And then I've got a big third hour coming to tell you about the whole vacation. So well, it's a twelve days of Christmas we've had concluding the day, twelve days of a government shut down. He is desperate because he fears the Mull investigation. This serves as a distraction and Jan's up base that. Frankly, Chris doesn't like

the federal government anyway. They could care less. His basically care less if the government is open. But think about this in terms of this wall. We just celebrated Christmas, or at least try to federal workers. I was reading online Time magazine to the piece some federal workers who aren't getting paychecks are having to return to Christmas gifts, okay, having to seek second jobs. Get ready for it. An endless stream of shutdown emotion theater is coming your way.

You are going to hear all kinds of new stories about, you know, how this family couldn't you know this family because one of them are you know, the head of households of federal government employee. Couldn't get this mortgage they applied for that family, you know, couldn't afford little Timmy's braces. You know all these things, And I understand, I get it, you get it to that stinks. But I also know, you know, and so I feel for those people. And

I don't mean that I'm not mocking their problems. I'm just saying the media is going to exploit their problems. Right now, the media's going to exploit the gap in pay it. And I would also note that, you know, we don't have to live in a country, or rather, we don't necessarily live in a country where we should expect it. If you work for the federal government, you are essentially unfireable and never miss a paycheck, which is the that is the expectation. I mean, you're not entirely

you know, you can't break the law. I mean there's one, but generally, if you get a federal government job, you expect to have it for life and never miss a paycheck a pay period, which is not a luxury that the rest of the workforce gets at all. And I have been to, you know, been to offices on many a day where a lot of my friends and colleagues were told you no longer have a paycheck, and you longer you no longer have healthcare. And I've been there

for those conversations. I've been there when that happens. That is not fun. I've been there one n told I don't longer have a job. So you know, there are limits. I think to how far people sympathy here will go for those folks who are that doesn't mean there should be no sympathy. I'm not trying to be, you know, a grinch jerk here, but they're going to really play this game, how the Democrats are going to just try to make this all about a SOB story. And I

would offer this as the shutdown showdown continues on. There are very real economic and security and safety reasons why we need a more secure border. This is not without major costs, without major consequence. There are people who are losing their lives because the federal government cannot secure the border effectively. You know. There there was this incident that just happened with police corporal Ronald Singh over the bread

I mean, just heartbreaking. And what we find out is that Gustavo Perez Ariaga was in the country illegally, had previous arrests, and is now in custody, you know, for allegedly killing this corporal Ronald Singh in California after a two day long manhunt. Now, there are a lot of reasons that this is enraging. One of them is that Immigrations and Customs Enforcement says that they have had no contact with this illegal immigrant. Okay, they have had no

contact with them. How is that possible, Well, it's only possible because of the sanctuary city policy of the state of California, as well as all the cities of California that tries to actively stemy, I mean, tries to prevent law enforcement from effectively doing their jobs. That's what's going on here. That is why you could have somebody like this, who's this I mean, this guy is a criminal. This

guy is a criminal. I'm by the way, I'm happy to see that seven other people have been charged with aiding this guy, this scum perez Ariaga for killing Corporal sing you know, I mean, here we have It's such an interesting story, isn't you have? Corporal sing A, a legal immigrant to this country. He immigrated from Fiji, always dreamed of becoming a police officer. He had a five month old son, and he joined the police force in Newman, California in twenty eleven. I mean, this guy, you know,

this is who we want in the country. You know, I want corporal I want Corporal sings. I want people that obey the law, that take real responsibility for themselves their communities into their hands, that want to contribute, that want to be great Americans. I do not want Perez Ariaga, who's in the country illegally with a long rap sheet and now as a murderer. Okay, that's who we don't want,

and that's why I'm also important now. I bring this up because, yes, federal government employees in this shutdown are hurting, and I get that. But seventy thousand plus people ear are dying dying from opioid overdoses that are primarily that are primarily supplied by these drug cartels. How many thousands of people have been in the last five years assaulted, raped, murdered, been hit by a drunk driver illegal all from the

illegal aliens in the country. How many thousands of people have suffered life altering or life ending incidents because of illegal aliens in the country. Once you start, you know this is what government's all about. It's about making difficult decisions. It's about weighing the benefits and the costs of different policies. This idea that somehow we're going to be able to get a border wall with an intransigent open borders radical left wing Democrat party without a real fight is a fantasy.

They want the status quote to continue. They want a border that allows people who are not criminal masterminds far from it, to be deported and get back into the country. Five six, seven, ten times. Who knows they want sanctuary city policies to continue only in this area, only in this area of our law. Is there such a clear and obvious double standard. In fact, if you look at

in a California, it's a really interesting case. And I'll talk more about Victor Davis Hansen later on this hour and an article that I read that he wrote, I'll talk to you about it. But how you know, California is essentially this the hyper nanny state with all kinds

of regulations and environmental protections that everything. But if you go into illegal immigrant communities, you're you're you're able either people are able to have all kinds of trash on their lawn, They're able to park you know, campers in their backyard that don't have a permit, and you know, all that stuff goes out the window, all that stuff all of a sudden is I you know, we can't really enforce that, you know, because we're not We're not

going to burden this community with the crazy laws or even the sensible laws of you know, the rest of California. I mean, there there are there's a two track legal system in place for illegal immigrates for their benefit, and the whole situation needs to be reassessed and looked at again. Um, I'll have more for you on this right after the break. They'll stay with me. Wall is effective, it's a crucial

part of any kind of border security. Typical argument we hear from Democrats that it doesn't make sense, it's too expensive, it's medieval. Wait, you know, I'd like to hear some reasoning behind that. It's not too expensive. It's point one percent of our entire federal budget. Point one percent is what we're talking about. That's what five billion dollars ends up being. So it's really not about the money for them. Well, the president's not willing to compromise on or the outcomes.

I think he's willing to negotiate inputs, whether it's more or less wall, more or less fencing, or slats or drones or technology. What he's not going to compromise on is the safety of the American family or the protection of the American economy. That's needed by ensuring that we don't just have flows and flows of illegal immigration with no ability to manage it, or ensure that it is economically beneficial to American citizens. So look, I know who

the President is negotiating for. I don't really know who Democrats are negotiating. Are they really negotiating for illegal immigrants? During the final days of Republican control of the House of Representatives, we passed a plan that would have kept the government open and would have prioritized the safety, security, and mc well being of American citizens. So, if Nancy and Pelosian Democrats really believe in border security, if they want to make sure that we are a nation of laws,

I'm eager to see their plan. Yeah, what are the Democrats really angling for it here? You know, it's worth asking that question. Sure that they oppose Trump because they just have to, in their eyes, oppose everything Trump does, right hashtag resistance. Okay, but the argument doesn't hold up.

The argument they're making is nonsensible. First of all, as we know Democrats before this, the only issue that they ever wanted to cut any spending on was the military, which is one of the few things the federal government does that it really need to do and it's the only thing that can do it. So military spending they're willing to cut. But when it comes to securing our border, then all of us sudden, we find ourselves in this position where the Ocrats are cost conscious, their pinching pennies

when it comes to the border. That doesn't make any sense. This is not a hard people today. I had a representative from the federal government federal government employee union come on on rising and I asked her she I don't think she was prickly fond about told her I used to work for the federal government. That didn't help. I was an essential employee, so I was funded, didn't matter.

I didn't have to worry about these things. But I told her that, or I asked her, rather, you know, why should we even have unions representing the federal government workforce? And she looked at me like that was like I had three heads, like I was some space alien. And I said, you know that at the dawn of unions in this country, no less than and then FDR was like, I mean public sector unions, that would be crazy. We

don't need that. That's just going to be essentially a legalized form of political theft, you know, corruption and theft from the town payer. And that's what it is. By the way, that's why you have so many states and municipalities that can't balance They can't balance their budgets because of the the can the reality of these public sector unions, that especially when it comes to benefits and pension plans,

that's where the real that's where the real juices. They just put as much into them as they possibly can. It helps Democrats get elected, and it creates this self looking ice cream cone of tax tax the taxpayer more and take more money for you know, whether it's teachers or firemen or whomever. And then they organize and those unions push for those Democrats and it just keeps going around and around their round. That's why we don't want this.

But you know, I understand that there are federal government employees that are being negatively affected by that's putting aside the union point for a moment. They're being negatively impacted, and that's that's unfortunate. You know, they didn't do any wrong, and many of them are doing their jobs, you know, honorably, even valiantly in the case of say border patrol, and not getting paid on time or not getting their full pay. And I believe they will get back pay. But there's

there's some some issues here. And the federal government spends trillions of dollars, trillions of dollars and we're now going to be we're being told that this five billion dollars for the border is too much. Sure, the President has taken responsibility for the shutdown. I know that that's that's something that is being repeated on all the different news broadcast and it's true the press he said it. I mean,

I can't unsay something on the president's behalf. I can't say that he did not make a very clear statement of I am responsible, not me. Well, that would be kind of cool, buck Sexton. Shutdown the government. No, No, President Trump is responsible for the shutdown. But the shutdown is happening. You know, you get you get down to how can you be responsible for this when all you're really saying is go with what the House bill is, Fund this, fund this effort to secure the border with

the wall. As I've said to you, I mean, it's not just that they don't want to give into Trump. Well that's i'd say sixty or seventy percent of why they don't want because they just can't give Trump the wind. They can't let Trump keep faith with his base and deliver. I mean, he's already keeping faith with his base by fighting, but if he delivers on this promise of the wall. Then we're in a hole. Then we're in a whole different territory in terms of twenty twenty and the president's

prospects for reelection, right, I think he's a lock. He is ironclad if he manages to get this wall built in part even. But then there's the other component, which is if they if they start to build a wall in you know, they can do it the way we have it at the San Ya Cedro port of entry. You know, Tijuana had a few thousands Tijuana, as you've told me, many of you listen to show tell me, stop say Tijuana. Tijuana had over two thousand murders last year.

I think was approaching three thousand. Has more murders than like the top ten US cities combined one Mexican city last year. It's a lot of rough stuff going on over there, and the drug war going on in Tijuana on the Baja Peninsula. But I digress. They could build a wall in one sector where there's a high level of illegal crossings, where there is road access and an urban or semi urban area that really needs a wall

to short up. And then when they would be able to show us in three or six or nine months, whatever it is. After that barrier goes up, the precipitous drop in illegal crossings, which includes human smuggling, drug smuggling, all the other things that the other criminal activity that's around illegal crossings of the border, Then what's the Democratic argument, We're not going to spend money on this because we don't want the border to be secured. Because that's the

truth of it. They don't want the border to be secure. They want the illegals to keep pouring in. They know that it puts pressure on the GOP. They know that the demographic realities of the United States are being shifted in dramatic and rapid fashion toward a permanent Democrat Party majority.

And this is not not surprising at all that immigrants, never mind, the identity politics at the left plays with anybody that's considered non a you know, a non white or a what is it white, non hispanic, right, anyone who's not a white, non hispanic. And then also the needs that people have for state assistance, and that's just

going to keep going up and up and up. And there's only one political party that has no qualms at all about being the party of big government and a big state and that is the Democratic Party, so they win on this. I would just note that there's an excellent Victor Davis Hansen piece, you guys. You guys all know that I really like VDH. But you know, he wrote on California, and it's really by the numbers, and I think I think it's a new piece. I don't

think it's an old one that I saw. But he just says that this place is maybe it wasn't old piece I saw. Well, he lays it on it. He writes about California all the time. He's just saying it's you know, it's it's turning into like a Latin American stratified society. Latin American in the sense that it's similar to Brazil or any of these countries where the wealth gap is enormous, enormous between the rich and the poor, and the poor completely dependent on the large esse of

the rich and there's no middle class. That's what's happening in California. But all right, we got to talk about this Romney Trump feud that dominated the headlines today. I'll give you my important take on that coming up. You do not have to be subject to the whims of those big left wing email providers. You can actually join an email system that is all about protecting you and

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of the American public for suckers. He gets a free ride of the White House and all we get as allow as he had. Mit is a failed candidate. He failed, He failed horribly. That was a race that absolutely should have been one, and I don't know what happened to him. He creates scapegoats and Muslims and Mexican immigrants. He calls for the use of torture. This is the very brand of anger that has led other nations into the abyss. Portman Romney putman, I mean, I have a store that's

worth more money than he is. Donald Trump is a phony, a fraud because promises are as worthless as a degree from Trump University. And he walks like a penguin onto the stage. You haven't seen like a penguin. So mid Romney and Donald Trump are not bf fine, we don't need them to be. We don't care. That doesn't really matter. Mid Romney and Donald Trump don't have to get along, they don't have to like each other. But they are

supposed to be playing for the same team. They are supposed to be aligned when it comes to policy and implementing a conservative vision for the United States and quite honestly, saving this country from falling into the progressive abyss from which it will never recover. That's what they should be United on and Mit Rammy just won this Senate race

out in Utah. And I won't try to psychoanalyze too much what really motivates Mit at this point other than you know, he ran for president, he was governor of Massachusetts. Now he's going to be a centator from Utah. I mean, you know, America doesn't need Mitt Romney. Look, I think Mit Romney would have been I'm on record for this. I think he would have been a good president, a lot better than Obama. I think he's I think he's a pretty ethical guy. He's obviously led an admirable family life,

and he's been successful in business. And I think there's a lot about he's smart, and I think there's a lot about Mitt Romney that's good. He's great immigration, by the way, And I'm not going to just abandon that because right now he's interfewed with Trump. Mitt was good on immigration back in twenty twelve. Mit was a big, e verified guy. Look, these are just facts. Mitt was the self deportation guy. He knows he knows because he actually has an understanding of wages in business and how

a balance sheet works. That, yeah, it hurts low wage workers to have just to have all this unskilled, non English speaking labor dumped on the country, you know. And it hurts the taxpayer too. He knows this. Anybody knows this, who thinks about it, even though they are all these think tanks. There's a huge open borders industrial complex that is telling so much, so many lives. And one of

my favorites is, oh, well, immigrants, just add to GDP. Yeah, that's like saying, you know, more bodies in your house means more mouths to feed, so you're gonna have to buy more food. Okay, sure, But is that a good thing? What about? Yeah? GDP is good in that there's more stuff going on, But what is the downside of that added GDP? What are we paying out in tax dollars? What does it mean for our social and political fabric and for the assimilation processes we have? Oh, just adds

to GDP. As you know that, this gets me very fired up, and I don't want to go too deep down this this rabbit hole. But Mitt was good on immigration, but he is bad on Trump as you just heard there. And his first major public act here at is January first. This is published the first day of the new year. And so this was planned in advance, and Mit is Look, I think MIT's running. Let's just get right to it.

Let let's call it what it is. I think Mit is trying to prepare the groundwork for, you know, for him to run as a primary challenger against Trump, and he'll just he'll get he'll get crushed. And if he doesn't get crushed, and let's just say that he runs a run some third party candidacy, you know, it goes kind of the Ross Pero angle. He's just going to

hand the presidency to the Democrats? Is that really? You know, you start to wonder at what point do the results just not matter to the never trumpers because they're so in love with their own sense of righteousness and their need to be right. At what point is it clear

that the results just don't matter to them? And when I say results, I'm talking with things like do you want Do you want people that are going to be telling your ten year old that he or she is not a he or she but should be able to take Cormon therapary before they're even hitting puberty and have

that mandated in schools as federal policy. You want people who think that we're all going to be better off if we just give more money to welfare programs and more money to the states in order to spend how they see fit. You know, take more money. But you think we're all gonna better off? You know, does do issues of life matter or not? Do we want abortion extremists appointed to the Supreme Court and running state legislatures?

You know these things matter. There are consequences here. It's not just oh, well, you know, we need to we need to clear out the GOP. We need a cleansing of the GOP. I've heard Republicans say this, prominent ones. They've told me. I look at them as say, you think that the way to win the battle is to lose it. That's your grand plan, man, No wonder Obama had eight years in office. But mit Romney's first act is to right this right this op ed. And he was,

as we all know, the twenty twelve nominee. And I was. I was supportive of him in twenty twelve. I was a a mid Romney supporter, no question about it. I thought he I thought he just annihilated Obama in the first presidential debate. And then Candy Crowley threw herself in front of Obama precious Obama to protect him in that second debate and kind of turned the tide for him. And what's wrong, by the way, and not just wrong to do so, but wrong in how she did it,

meaning she was wrong on the facts. But you know the op ed that mid Romney has written here, I want to pull it apart a little bit. I want to pull it apart a little bit. And here's what it says. Quote, the Trump presidency made a deep descent in December. First of all, too much alliteration. He needs to tell the staff members that wrote this calm down with the triple D. Here a deep descent in December.

The departures of Defense Secretary Jim Mattison, White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, the appointment of senior persons of lesser experience, the abandonment of allies who fight beside us, and the president's thoughtless claim that America has long been a sucker in world affairs all defined his presidency down. It is well known that Donald Trump was not my choice to the Republican presidential nomination. Blah blah blah blah blah. And he goes in and then I saw these other appointments.

They're going. Okay, let let's just stop here for a moment. Notice how the establishment GOP, what really, it seems has set them off is Trump's deviation from their prescribed foreign policy. You know, what really is just too much for them to handle is this idea that Trump does not have to play by the foreign policy rules that they have set out, you know, that he does not have to approach this as they would. Now, there's a lot to this.

One is that the the elite GOP types, they they think of foreign policy as a realm where they they separate themselves intellectually and experientially from the Hoi POLOI. You need to be a certain kind of Republican to be a well traveled and worldly enough to really understand the

ins and outs of foreign policy. You know. Meanwhile, I'd much rather hear from people who have served in the war zones and really know the ground truth about what's going on in Rock and Afghanistan than all these very arrogant neocon think tank types who just keep saying that what we're doing is working. When it's not working. It's not working Afghanistan, it is not working. Okay, And we could talk more about Iraq. I think the Iraqis. You know,

here's something you've heard here. I should probably mark this down as a prediction. And where everyone's acting like, oh, with Iraq, it's all about what the US wants to do. I think the Iraqis are going to kick us out in the not too distant future. They want us out. There are people that are saying, this is why it's not South Korea, this is why it's not Germany. They

don't want us there. They actually want us to leave, you know, in the Iraqi problem, and all all the idiots that were by the way, I was getting so many people yelling me about about Syria, and you know, I'll get into that a moment. But all all these people they don't know the first thing about what's going on are They don't know how many Sodrists meaning supporters of Maktada Alsader there are in the Iraqi parliament. Soder was a guy that we should have taken out with

a jadeam a decade ago. And he's a really bad dude with a lot of American soldiers blood on his hands. And his part is party within the Iraqi system, so you know, it is the most powerful party right now in the Parliament in terms of seats. Even this is whatever gets discussed though, this reality of oh Romney and these other goop folks that they act like they understand

these things so well. They've made a mess, a mess of the Middle East for decades, for decades, for as long as I've been you know, out of college, these guys have just been mucking things up left and right.

And it's just interesting that that this is what sets them off that Trump is debating from them a foreign policy, because I think that deep down there's a real concern that the Bush era elite GOP folks, um the you know, the advisors and the and the so called experts, they don't want everyone to realize how poorly they acquitted themselves when they were when they were in power. I mean it goes to that question. Obama was a disaster. The

Obama's foreign policy can just be described as unserious. I mean, this is not what people that understand the world would do. And that's true of his advisors, the true of his approach to Iran, It's true of his dithering on SI. You know, Obama just had the ability to sit back, do nothing, and how the media call him brilliant because

he's so contemplative. It was a joke. But the Bush people, you know, the neo conservative types, you know rip Weekly Standard, they do not have a good record on this stuff. And I think they're particularly touchy about it because they don't want there to be a full accounting for just how wrong they've been. But then Romney goes into you know, let me, I'm gonna come back into this labe. We'll do more of this Romney op ed and I'll explain where I am on this. And I think it's important.

Some of this dominated the news cycle, and the border to me and the Wall is so much more important than this feud with Romney and Trump, but it does illustrate him interesting dynamics when the GOP will be right back with this. But Romney's a freshman senator, so I'm not sure he's only a top pro publican because he was once the nominee and lost. I think eighty or eighty five percent of the party supports Trump. I think I'm not sure where mid Romney's trying to accomplish. Well.

I wish it could be more of a team player. You know. I'm surprised he did it this quickly. I was expecting something, but I was surprised he did it this quickly. And you know, look, I endorsed him. He thanked me very previously. It was very nice. But I am surprised because we've done a lot and he actually says it. I read his uped. He said it. You know, he agrees, and I don't think he would be able. I don't think anybody would have been able to do the tax cuts like I did. We got the greatest

tax cuts ever. There's a very important little point that President Trump slipped in there about mid Romney after he comes out metaphorically guns blazing with this op ed, and it's that Romney sought Trump's indorsement. So just so we are all clear, Romney trashes Trump when Trump is running and then asks Trump for what we believe, the secretary of State job when Trump wins, and then asks Trump for his indorsement and wants his endorsement when he's running

for Senate in Utah. And now his first thing is he comes out and trashes Trump. You know a lot of this op ed. I haven't gotten to this part of it yet. This op ed that Romney or his staff wrote, and it's the typical politician boilered plate about you know, our allies and our standing in the world and blah blah. But this stuff has no real meaning. It doesn't mean anything. It doesn't tell you anything. America should be good. Thanks, I guess, I guess you've solved

all the riddles. You know, a miracle should not be bad. Thank you. We understand what does that mean? But the part of this I find so interesting is Romney really focuses in on how character is essential, how character is such an important defining characteristic for the presidency. And you know, he even says that in the in the titles here, the president shapes that the public character of the nation.

Trump's character falls short. What kind of character does somebody have who has no loyalty to those whom he asks for favors and for help? You know. One of the reasons why there have been plenty of times where I could have and look at it probably has hurt my career that I don't go after people more, including on

my own side. It probably you know, I would get more attention, which this business is obsessed with attention if I would just the moment, you know, I think somebody's down and vulnerable that you know I don't particularly like in this business, I give them a kick. Or even if I do like them, I just know that you know I'm gonna pile on when they're at their weakest. But as I say to you, I don't. For me,

it's a question of honor. I do own trash friends on air, and I also don't trash people that have have been allies of mine. You know, I believe in personal I believe in person an a loyalty over professional advancement. So what does what does Mit think he's doing here? When he asks Trump's for jobs, asked Trump for help, I know he'd probably said, oh well, I would. I would be serving the American people at the pleasure of

the president. And Mid clearly has a very high opinion of himself, and I don't think it's completely without merit. I think I do think he's talented. I'm not going to pretend that I'm some Mid hater. I'm not a Mid hater. I wish he had been president. I early in my career was pushing for Mid to beat Obama, but it just was I mean, it was never gonna happen. It's just the Obama phenomenon, and with the media just running running cover for him in every way, and the

deck was so stacked against Romney. You know, I think he did. People now say, oh, he did a terrible job, he's a bad candidate. I think he actually a pretty pretty decent job all things considered him. Go back and watch that first debate. It was you know, It's why I realized debates don't matter all that much because Obama just was was smacked around by Romney on that stage.

It didn't matter, didn't matter. So but this idea of character, I also I have a disagreement with a lot of my fellow conservatis, including conservatives I really like and that I really respect, you know, people at you know, National Review and people that I used to work with even at The Blaze, who are very anti Trump and really think that his character is truly deficient. I don't. I don't refute their specific criticisms of the president. I think

that would be foolish. I mean, I don't think that it's unfair to say the plea the president flies off the handle and over personalizes things and can be petty and all that. I think that's just objective reality. In a lot of cases. That said, I also don't take my moral cues from the President of the United States, and I haven't in a long time. This is a guy doing a job. That's it. I don't view this as, oh, you know, my children need to emulate the president the

United States because was that the case under Clinton? Was that the case under Nixon? Johnson? JFK LBJ Well, I guess already said Johnson. Never mind, you add people like Woodrow Wilson in the mix, and then you're like, oh, Woodrow Wilson, former President the United States. Huge racist, I mean real racist, I mean supporting the clan, thinking people of different skin color are less than racist. Racist, like the real kind of worst racist in president United States.

There's a big building named after him at Princeton, a whole school named after him at Princeton for international relations no less, you know, mister League of Nations. That worked out great. So I don't. I don't agree with this idea that the president is this kind of moral leader. First, and I also think that and this is where Romney really loses people. All of a sudden, we're supposed to care that Europeans don't really like him. You know, he

brought this up. You know, in this Pew research poll, how people eighty four percent of people used to think in Germany, Britain, France, Sweden, the American president would do the right thing, and now it's only sixteen percent. Here's what Trump said about that play fourteen when they say I'm not popular in Europe. I shouldn't be popular in Europe. If I was popular in Europe, I wouldn't be doing my job because I want Europe to pay. I don't

care about Europe. I'm not elected by Europeans. I'm elected by Americans that had presidents and other people within administrations in the past that allowed them to get anyway. Like some of them would say, well, no one ever asked us to pay. We have negotiations going on with numerous countries right now. Is it to pay a lot? From's essential point here is why the heck should he care what the European populations think about him. He's not the

president of Europe. He's a president of America. This is a revolutionary concept in this country. Apparently, here's one of these stories that as soon as I read it, I think to myself, these should get ten times the attention. Then it will. But for a whole bunch of reasons that I'm about to go into. It will be largely

glossed over or ignored. It and it ties into too many things that we're discussing, and now ties into the fifth columnist Republicans who do the work of the left from inside the party and pretend that it's because they're so moral and so ethical, But as we've discussed with Romney, it's really just all about advancing their own very narrow,

very immediate self interests. You know, they decide it. They're so worthy and decent and honorable when it's useful for them to bash Trump, But sometimes they don't need to bash Trump, so then they don't really care. I mean, you know, they go back and forth on this. It's not really about maintaining or enforcing a set of principles. It's just opportunism masquerading as being principled. And let me say before I get into this, and I know I'm keeping you on the edge here with what this new

story is. It's important, it's it's big. Let me say that, you know, the elites, and especially the elites within the GOP, because that's still a thing. They're still there, They're still behind the scenes and still involved very much. They're just not openly running things the way they were before Trump came along. They think, and Romney among them, that they have to remind us of President Trump's ethical and personal failings as if we don't know. And there's a lot

of condescension in that. I know about Trump's failings. Okay, I know about the three wives, and I know about the porn star payoffs, and I know about all and we know whether you believe he did that or not, and you know, I kind of go back and forth on some of the aspects of that, but uh, you know, clearly this was a guy who was a philanderer, and you know, I get all that, and look, no one's no one is perfect, and that shouldn't be you know, you don't want to say that, well, you know, you know,

Saddam Hussein, nobody's perfect, and then that can't just be a catch all that you use for everything. But we're not talking about somebody who did unpardonable and horrific, you know,

murderous things. But I'm a guy that he's imperfect. He's a playboy, and I think that well, but we all know this, and that's why when the Romneys of their GOP come forward and say this to us, It says, though they think we need to be told that because we're either so much less principle than them, that we need to be scolded into caring, or that maybe we just are so out of touch, out of the loop, that we don't know. Well. I would just like to assure Romney and the rest that we know we know

about the allegations and the realities of Trump's failings. It's that we also know that we want somebody who can serve an agenda that will benefit the American people, and that is a righteous and just agenda effectively, and that means that you've got to be able to engage in the messy, nasty game of politics. Okay, here's speaking of

all that. This was on Fox News today. An associate of the late Arizona Republican Senator John McCain shared with BuzzFeed News a copy of the unverified, sellacious opposition research dossier alleging that Russians had compromising material on President Trump, according to a federal court filing earlier today. Now, McCain had on numerous occasions denied being the source for BuzzFeed. Remember BuzzFeed was the first one CNN reported on the

existence of the dossier. BuzzFeed actually published the dossier, and now there are court cases about the legality of BuzzFeed's decision to do that, because, as we know, there were some falsehoods in there. Michael Cohen traveling to Prague and others. And this is the pp dossier. I mean, this is the Golden Showers the President United States. It's just look, I don't know how else to describe it. I gotta

tell you what it is. I know, look, I know it's gross, but this is disgraceful that this was briefed. I mean, if I were still in the CIA and I found out that the DNI or the FBI director had taken some APO Hillary Clinton d NC paid for APO research document full of you know, third hand garbage Russian sourcing, and briefly to the President United States and what was essentially a blackmail operation. I remember, Comey wanted to keep his job, right, so Comy presents this to Trump.

Wanted to suck up to him a little bit, but also, you know, because you got to be the one to break the news to him, but also to let him know, but we've got this on you. You know, this is out there. And then CNN somehow knew about this and was able to report on how it was briefed and

it was essentially a form of laundering the dossier. Well, what we find out today from and we only found out about it because of this court filing, is that associates of John McCain, associates of John McCain, one in particularist Guy Kramer, allegedly passed along the dossier to the media. Now McCain, John McCain passed it on to the FBI, which you can decide for yourself whether that was wise or necessary under the circumstances. I mean, remember, this is

just this is essentially a collection. This is a collection of rumors. There's no verification, no sourcing, no nothing on it, and a lot of it has actually been disproven or is unable to be proven, which in this case should be taken as nearly the same thing. And now we're being told that a McCabe associate, I mean sorry, a McCain associate was the one who made sure that the media had this to run with against Trump. We have we have to deal with friendly fire in the GOP

in a way that Democrats just don't. And it's really pathetic. You know, we have to as conservatives, as Republicans, we always have to be ready for yet another person from within our own rank ranks to just shank a fellow Republican when nobody's looking, with an editorial, with a TV news appearance, or in this case, you know, behind the scenes, just to do it when nobody's looking. And Democrats just

don't have this the same way. I mean, yes, you could, you could say that, you know, with Hillary and with Hillary and Bernie, that was unfair, but they weren't. They weren't destroying Bernie's political career always and forever. They just wanted Hillary to win. I'm not saying that justifies it, but it's different. This was spiked. This isn't somebody trying to run. Yeah, people run hard against candidates because they want to win races. This is somebody on my own team.

A Republican is the only person that's going to prevent Hillary Clinton from appointing a whole bunch of Ruth Bader Ginsburg clones the Supreme Court. The only person is going to save us from another eight years of Democrat misrule. And this is John McCain's people, and I'm sure with John McCain's full knowledge and consent passing along damaging oppo research to just to just to smear Trump. And I know they're gonna say, oh, it's it's you know, it's

for the country, it's for patriotism. That's why, you know. And John McCain always because military service, we're supposed to say everything that he did was was great. No. I refused to play that game. His military service was great and honorable. What he does after that fair game for us to talk about. And he did a lot of things that were really just about him. It was really just about sticking his thumb in the eye of those who were overshadowing the greatness of John McCain from within

his own party. There's no question that the Russians are a problem. We've known this a long time. The Russian government is not a friend of the United States, and there are very real concerns that we should all share about what the Russians are trying to do visa Americans

and American interests. I don't get nearly as energized as many on the left to about all things Russia, because for them, it's just a it's gotten tied up in this whole narrative of why Hillary didn't win and it's because Russia stole the election and all this other nonsense, this fantasy that they have concocted. But that doesn't mean

that there is no problem with Russia. And we've seen yet another instance of this where an American who was in Russia to attend a wedding, an American named Paul Whalen, who's a US citizen, is now being held by the Russian government. He's being held in the Leffertovo Prison, which, as I understand, is a pretty hellish place, and he just got a visit, well, he got a visit from a US ambassador of Russia, John Huntsman, and the ambassador saying, look,

we're going to get our guy out. I mean, this is I'm sure it's all nonsense, and the Russians are just doing this just because this is just a Russian thing to do, like to rub our noses and things. I'd like to cause problems where there are no problems. And obviously the lie about people, to lie about this man's activities, and you know, I don't know why they chose to grab him, but they've clearly grabbed this guy.

And you know, it's it's one of these moments where you you got to remember that one part of us that you know that that should feel like we're all united in is we want the US government when you're traveling abroad, you want the US government to really go to bat for you and go to bat for its people. Uh. And you know, and when you're dealing with countries like Russia and China, you know, we've got leverage, but we don't.

We don't get to dictate to them. We have to coax, cajole, bargain, negotiate, you know, threaten a little bit. But it's it's not an easy dance. And I certainly hope that we're able to get this guy Whalen out of prison soon. His brother, David Whalen wrote on Twitter that to quote, my brother was detained by the Russian government as an alleged spy. And you know it's just Whalen was a Marine Corps So not only we got an American that's being held,

but a Marine Corps vet. He was in the Marine Corp from ninety two thousand and eight, deployed to a rock twice, was a staff sergeant, and he was discharged for bad conduct on charges related to larceny. It says, but look, he served his country and um, you know this just in no way, in no way does this strike me as anything other than the Russians trying to thumb their nose at us. They grabbed this guy, you know, just because I know that seemed so weird. Why were

the Russians random the grab? They decided to grab somebody and they're holding him, um on BS on BS allegations and CNN. You'd think though, you know, and this is what what really got me all fired up. You think that here, here we got an American, a former marine. I know he was son it will be discharged, but you know he's a former marine. Would employ do a

rock twice? All right? The guy made some mistakes, but he also served his country and you know he wore the uniform and you know, carried a rifle and showed up, you know, showed up for his country when it mattered. You know, he he should expect that. The journalists, right, the same journalist where I was like, oh my gosh, it's so scary to be a journalist now and oh, Trump is destroying the First Amendment at all. You know, they're always whining about something Trump related, and they're always

looking for solidarity with each other. Oh, you know, Trump is destroying journalism. You think that when there's an American being held unjustly in Russia, there would the focus would just be on telling the story and letting the American people know what's going on, but also that we need to keep an eye on this and pressure our government representatives to get our guy back. You know, we want our guy back. This We're not dealing with North Korea here, okay.

You know, we don't expect the Russian regime to act like total psychopaths, although sometimes they can. And yet CNN, I mean you, you can't make this stuff up. CNN decided to to poke it and they got this guy's brother on TV and they ask, I can't you know what? I just want you to hear it. Remember, this guy's being held in a prison. Who knows if he's ever

going to see us soil, see his family again. Who knows if he's gonna, you know, face the same fate as you know some of the other folks that the Russians have decided to go after and they've just you know, they look, people get beaten to death in Russian prisons, they get stabbed, and the Russians say, oh, we had no idea. I mean, terrible things happened in Russian prisons all the time. And CNN decides to ask the brother of this detained American former marine about social media posts

about CNN. Play it. He had this social media account, the equivalent in Russia of Facebook. It's called VK and he's had it for thirteen years, and he had various postings on their pictures of him in Russia. I think the first one that we have is where he took like sort of rust and relaxation. Well, here's one. I wasn't planning to go to this one yet, but let's talk about this one. Here's one where he says just

drinking coffee and watching fake news. Now I'm not taking this personally that he's pictured with CNN, but I just am wondering, is this a statement on his part somehow? What the heck does that have to do with anything? This guy is in a Russian prison on trumped up

nonsense charges, you know, about being an alleged spy. Complete, complete crap, and you know who, his family must be absolutely horrified, terrified, And his brother is on with CNN the gold standard and TV journalism, which is a joke. And you have a CNN anchor saying, well, I'd really like to know you know, here I am standing in front your brother, standing in front of a photo calling CNN fake news? Did he call CNN fake news? You know what, there's a lot of fake news on CNN.

CNN is a lie. CNN is a lie. Let's start from that. It is not an objective news organization, period full stop. It's all about laundering liberalism for people who are pathetically attached to this idea that they their version of events, their version of the news is just the truth. It's just objective journalism. It's not left wing propaganda. And CNN still tries to operate in this this ground that is a lie. It tries to hold this position on the news spectrum that is just no longer tenable. But

think about this, this story. Is this they're going to ask about about whether he called sn in FA news? Does that mean that they don't want to tell his story anymore? Does that mean that now we don't have an American being held by Russian thugs that we need to be concerned about because because he said a mean thing about CNN, is that where we should take away from this. I just want to know why this overpaid, pompous CNN anchor is pushing on this issue to his brother.

I mean, I just put myself in this guy's shoes. If one of my brothers, God forbid, I've got two brothers, two of the greatest guys you'd ever meet. If one of my brothers was being held by a foreign power and I was being interviewed in my capacity as a as a family member of somebody detained by that foreign power, and and CNN was like, well, is it is it true that you wrote that CNN is fake news? I mean, I'd probably start dropping f bombs on live air, you know,

I mean, how dare you? And this is why people this is why people don't trust They don't trust CNN. They don't like CNN. Only people that still that for their own purposes so that they feel smart, that they feel like they're part of the elite in cool set. You know. Oh yeah, CNN, that's real journalism, Yeah really, yeah. Don Lemon is a real journalist. Idiot. You know, Bro Cuomo, Hey do I live Bro? You know he's a real journalist. He's the biggest draw they have right now for ratings.

I mean, I give him credit. He somehow pulled off this. I don't I don't know. He's there's this swindle into think of the people that into convincing people that they should watch this guy as some kind of a source for news. I don't know. But yeah, CNN, we got an American former marine detained and CNN wants to know if he committed the unpardonable sin of calling CNN fake

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see you. Oh gosh, yeah, who do we have here? It's brutal, folks, It's brutal. Elizabeth Warren has you know, put out this this little video of her just I'm just gonna get me a beer because I'm just like you. I'm just a Bruski drinking American, and I have no baggage that I bring to this whole thing at all. It's all great. Oh man, she has kicked off her presidential campaign. She's one of the earlier ones here to throw her her hat in the ring, so to speak.

And everyone's looking at this and they're just saying, Wow, she's she I just think she has no chance. I don't know why she's wasting her time or everyone else's time. Maybe it's necessary for her to feel like she's still relevant in some way. You know. It's even though she knows she can't win, she's going to have some kind of an ill fated presidential campaign because she figures, you know,

might as well go for it. But just this is someone who does not have the ability to easily connect with average Americans because she's someone who's built a career on fraud, really, which is what took place at Harvard. I mean, people that say that she's some great intellectual, they always say, well, it's because she was a professor

at Harvard. Well, she was only professor at Harvard because she claimed to be a minority Native American professor, and as we found out from her one one twenty fourth Native American DNA result, she's not in any meaningful way a Native American. And I can just say that I think the President has it nailed here when he says, well, this is what he said about Elizabeth Warren running Clay clip bit, Elizabeth Warren will be the first. She did very badly in proving that she who is of Indian heritage.

That didn't work out too well. You know, we'll see how she does. I wish her well. I hope she does well. I'd love to run against her. She says she's in the fight all the way. Mister president, do you do you really think she believes she can win? Well that, I don't know. You'd have to ask her psychiatrist. Yeah, I don't even think she believes she can win. But there are lots of reasons people run for the presidency

even when they know that they have no shot. The biggest, most obvious and unnecessary own goal I think I've ever seen in American politics was the fiasco of her of her DNA results. I've never seen anything like that. Nobody was there was no clamor for the results. Nobody was

pushing to hear or see the results. And whomever I think it should be made public record, whomever on her advisory staff or whatever it is, whoever told her that's a good idea that that person it should be known so that nobody ever takes political Actually, don't forget that. We want as many Democrats as possible to listen to that person's That's a much better way to go about this. That's a much better way forward. So we'll see what

ends up happening. Elizabeth Warren. Also, I saw this guy who is it in a Washington State The governor of Washington State is going to be running for president. He also put his he put Jay Insley, he put his name. I had never even heard of this guy. I would think it's funny. People say, Buck, you cover politics, how could you not have heard of you know, state assemblyman so and so or even Congressmen so and something like. There's a lot of these people, and most of them

are not particularly relevant or important. Jay Insley, the governor of Washington State, it's going to be running. And this is what I think is so fascinating. He's a single a single focus candidate, according to the press reports out on him already, he's somebody who who really believes that there's only one thing that we have to pay attention to, or one thing you should pay attention to, and why you should vote for him, And who wants who wants to guess what it is? Is it the twenty two

trillion dollars in death that we've piled up? Is it that America is? As I've started to read in a book by Charles Murray, Coming Apart, Coming Apart, we no longer have a shared culture between the various political ideologies, and we also actively are encouraged to hate each other for our political differences by the media, by the elites. No, it's none of those things, that's right. This single issue focus of his campaign of Washington State Governor Jay Ensley's

campaign will be climate change. Oh yes, climate change. It really is an amazing state of affairs when you can have one political party in this country that takes the position that the single most important issue that we face, the most important thing of all, is something that the other side does not even concede is a little bit important, you know, just a just a tad important. Bernie Sanders

you know, because that's what I would say. Yeah, the climate has changing, the climate has always been changing, is you know, it's humanity playing a role in this. Is human behavior involved in some way and in accelerating the climate change? Maybe, But as I say, it's the same you get the same answer for me if if I said, uh, you know, if I walk into Yankee Stadium, or let's do a coverage state, if I walked into Dallas Cowboys Stadium?

Have I changed the temperature of the stadium? I mean, theoretically it's it's imperceptible, right, but my body heat, I am another person in that stadium, and depends on I guess, on on how how effectively and at what level you could gauge the you know, that's what I mean. You know, have you changed the temperature of a swimming pool by pouring you know, a cup of hot tea into one end? Kind of? But not really? Have human beings changed the temperature of the globe in a meaningful way? I think

the answers must certainly know. Anyway, I don't have to get into all that right now because the other side is just nuts looney tunes. Here's Bernie Sanders and I'll read it to you in sender knees. We must look at climate change as if it were a devastating military attack against the United States and the entire planet, and we must respond accordingly. End quote. He put that out on Twitter last night. We should respond to climate change

as if it were a devastating military attack. I don't know if if he thinks that we need to nuke the climate, or if we're supposed to unleash our b one bombers on the coal industry. And I don't even know what he thinks he's trying to say. And this got thousands and thousands, tens of thousands of likes and retweets, and people just think it's it's it's brilliant, absolutely brilliant. And then you have that that complete fraudster who's going to be making a big comeback this year, that fraudster

known as Oh Gore. He's back and he's trying to push once again for well, his favorite pet issue. He was on the Daily Show. Here, I'll play it for you. There's an interesting report that came out last month from the UN, and in many ways I feel like Trump is using this as a arguments. It basically predicted, you know, hell on Earth, and it talked about how things are really going bad. But but the emissions gap was really interesting.

That was released yesterday by the United Nations. Yeah, and what they said is the G twenty countries are collectively not on track to meet their unconditional emissions pledges for twenty thirty. So countries that are not on track to make it include Argentina, Australia, Canada, the EU twenty eight, Korea, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, and the US right. Yeah, and

the EU right. So now Trump is arguing, if nobody else is meeting their requirements, why should the US put themselves at a disadvantage and you know, lose money and work with regulations, yes, when the rest world is not going to come to the table. Yeah. Well, first of all, since the end of World War Two, there's been one leader of the Community of Nations, and that has been the United States of America. If we add our leadership role, then that lets some of the other country is off

the hook. We really need it is the reassertion of US leadership and the good news. Leaders have the solutions available. We don't need any miraculous news. We have the logical brooch. You've got one, fine, we'll take it all right, which is just the same. It's the same crap from this guy, different day. Nothing changes. And this is the biggest this is the biggest scam ever. Go back and just you

don't have to take my workfare. Go back and watch an Inconvenient Truth and you'll be like, this is laughable. The thing could and look at the date and time stamp, so these different models they have of you know what, you know, Florida underwater by you know, twenty thirty or whatever it is. I mean, go back and look at this. The predictions in that movie are laughable, and now we know they're laughable, but we're still supposed to think that

this is going to happen in their right. I don't know what it is that it's going to take for people to finally give up this uh, this this delusion. I mean that the climate change alarmists are living in a delusion. And there's a lot of day we talked about everyone's everyone's been bought off by big cole. Think about green energy or big oil, big coal, big oil, whatever, same thing. Think about the Democrat platform going forward, I mean they're gonna be running on a green energy new deal.

I mean they really talked with this. They're trying to bring back FDR, who they love, even though he put the Japanese in internment camps. I mean, FDR somehow gets a pass for being, in a lot of ways a pretty terrible president. But they want to bring this back and make this the centerpiece of the Democrats going forward. It's going to be all these jobs. And you want to talk about cronyism and chrony capitalism. Green energy is

rife with that crap. And if the Democrats come back into power, a lot of people are going to be very wealthy by making you pay more for your energy while they get sweetheart deals not by the free market but by the government. I don't know what your New Year's resolution is, but I've got one for you. Start drinking the best coffee you can find anywhere. I drink it every day myself. I love Black Rifle. I've got a box of Freedom Blend sitting right next to me

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been a lot of names floated. None of them have been really solid or really pushed by any one sort of party. Bu parties are sent scrambling in this issue. Yes, that congressional district that we are talking about does is the most democratic district in the whole state of Connecticut. Or I'm sorry, Republican in the state of Connecticut, but there's more independent voters than voters that are affiliated with

any party. So either party is going to have to work really hard in order to get people's votes in that district. And I think you know that you're right when you bring up the point a clip that we wanted to pull up of Bree Peyton doing what she was known to do it should be a writer and TV talking head, pundit analyst. She was a contributor at

the Federalist website. Those of you who listened to the show No pretty well, because I go back quite away as with the founder, Ben Dominic and with Sean Davis, and so you know the Federalist well, Bree who was one of their not just star writers, but was increasingly a visible national presence on Fox News and an other places. She was a frequent guest on my panel on Hill TV.

Bre passed away. As I'm sure many of you listening to this heard, it became a national news story that this incredibly kind, smart, very beautiful, twenty six year old conservative rising star just died died in a very short period of time. From what they believe is swine flew and I wasn't even aware that swine flu was something we still had to be on guard for it. It just this news came as a shock. I know it's been out there for a while, but I haven't had

a chance to talk to you about it yet. This came down on my birthday, I remembered. I went from receiving a slew of texts from friends, colleagues, family members, but friends and colleagues in the morning saying happy Birthday, to all of a sudden, there was a shift, and my phone all day was people trying to get the news to me of first that Bree was in dire straits in the hospital, and then that she had actually

passed away. I saw a notification on Twitter that they were asking for thoughts and one of her her friends was asking for thoughts and prayers for Bree. And within thirty minutes I saw another another notification that she had passed away, and it was it. Look it rattled me, It rattled a lot of people that I know. She was in very good health. Last time I saw her, I was with Molly and Bree and her boyfriend. He

came up and introduced himself to me. It was quite a quite a moment because he had actually been Bree's longtime boyfriend, had been an intern at the Blaze TV on my show on Real News there, so he knew a bit through that, and we had met each other, you know, maybe gosh five or six years ago now when he was an intern, and Molly and I had talked about meeting up for them with dinner, or meeting

up with them for dinner, and now she's gone. I'm not somebody who pretends to have the words in situations like this. And I know I speak for a living and this is I'm a radio host. It's strange for me to say I don't have the words. But when someone who is that much of a positive presence in so many lives, who is making all the all the right decisions, has nothing but bright future ahead of her and so much upside and just so much to contribute in every way. I don't just mean to professionally, but

in data to life. And Bree was a really sweet, really good person and a very Christian person, a believer and somebody who really practiced her faith. And for someone like that to be taken from us, to be taken out of my world here in DC, just as a colleague of hers, I can't imagine the sense of loss and grief that her family has her. She has many siblings, that her boyfriend has, that her close friends and people

that have known her for many, many years feel. And I don't have any anything, you know, certainly don't have anything to make this seem any less terrible and tragic than it is. All I can say is that we are all on borrowed time. We don't know when it's coming, we don't know how it's going to come, but we will all we will all meet our end, and it's it's I took it as a real wake up call, and the fact that it occurred on my birthday obviously

was just coincidental. But I think already I was in a contemplative mood and either thinking about what I've what I haven't achieved so far, and I know a lot of you probably have the same thing. I tend to be more negative on myself, more hard on myself for what I haven't done yet than what I have done.

And I was thinking about I'm thirty seven, and you know I needed to do this and neither that, And then I realized I got these messages about Brie, and I just thought the stuff that I'm wearing, it doesn't matter.

What matters is you know who you are every day that you have and how you treat the people around you, how loving and loyal and dependable and kind you are to the people that you are dealing with, you're interacting with, that are your people every day, and what you do in the world, and how you decide to spend your

energy and your time, That's what matters. Yeah, sure, we all we all want success, we all want recognition and all these different things, but we also don't know if we're ever going to just fall into a high grade fever and then a coma and then die one day. And it can I mean, if it happened to Breed in this way, it's just a reminder that it can happen absolutely any of us. Anyone listening to this, me, you, anyone.

You just don't know. I mean, she was with family on Christmas and with friends the next day and everything was fine, and then she probably went to sleep feeling a little off and had never would have thought in a million years that it was swine flew and then woke up the next day, or maybe never woke up the next day, she was unresponsive when her roommate founder,

so cherish every moment you have. I really mean that you think about what you're doing with your life right now, what you're doing every day, and focus more on how you contribute than you know how you could achieve more personalized goals. You know, who are you? Are you making the world around you better every day? And Bree, you are missed. So you may be asking yourself, well, what did you do Buck over this holiday break? Actually none of you are asking that, but let's just pretend for

a second. Let's just assume for a moment that maybe some of you care. I hope you all had had a great time. The most unexpected gift that I got was actually from our friends at Black Rifle Coffee. They sent me a huge, really a war chest out of black Rifle goodies of all kinds. So Black Rifle Coffee dot com slash buck if you want to go get some for yourself. But I mean, I mean an actual large Black rifle wooden chest. They sent it to me

to the Christmas gift. Those guys are awesome, so so kind of them, and it was one of the nicest gifts I've gotten in a long time as to what I did with my time. For those who're curious about that, I read a lot, I slept a lot, I read a lot. And the books that I read two books in their entirety. One is a history because obviously I tend to try to read a history book, a political or philosophy book, and that a general interest book at

any given time. And the history book that I so, I'm somebody who does multiple books at once, meaning I do chapter by chapter of different things. I read The Sea Wolves by Lars Brownworth, which if you are in any way a fan of the show Vikings on the History Channel, or if you are a fan of the Last Kingdom I Am Utrid, son of Utred, you will

be very into this book. It's essentially a much more detailed history of that same period of the Viking invasion of not just England but Ireland and the kingdoms of northern Germany and what was going on in that part of the world, and just some really interesting perspective on that. Also worth noting that this idea that the Vikings were this invincible army and would always beat everybody fought it,

it's really not the case. In fact, well armed Saxon kingdoms were very able to confront and even sometimes defeat these Vikings. The real advantage the Vikings had was speed and mobility based on their ships and their seamanship, and they you know, if you look at a map of England, for example, we don't think of it this way, but England has rivers that essentially make much of even inland England proper accessible by the sea, certainly accessible by any

narrow draft water vessel. And so the Vikings were able to for that at the time with lightning speed, hit different areas and they would go after soft targets. And the Vikings are really just a it was a culture of piracy. It was really a whole society built on piracy. And when you think of them more as pirates or experger with the big wooden shield and the and the acts and all that stuff. Then and they had better quality iron as well, which is obviously helpful for hand

to hand combat back in the day. But the book that I really enjoyed a whole lot that I wasn't necessarily thinking i'd like as much as I did, was by Tom Wright. And the book is The Billion Dollar Whale, and it is you got to read it. I mean, this is about this guy Joel, who managed to completely hoodwink some of the most sophisticated banks, investors, financial institutions in the world. And this guy is in his late

in late twenties when he's doing this. He essentially used his social connections to set up a phony Bologny sovereign wealth fund in Malaysia, use some Saudi contacts, and then throw a bunch of big parties. Next thing you know, this guy's hanging out with Leonardo DiCaprio, Jamie Fox going on dates with Miranda Kerr, bought her eight million dollars of jewelry. She's the Australian supermodel for those of you

don't know, used to be married to Orlando Bloom. And this guy funds the movie The Wolf of Wall Street with the ill gotten proceeds of this Malaysian one MDB sovereign wealth fund. He spends eighty five million dollars on parties in a less than twelve month period. Eighty five million on parties and travel and booze, and it was all all stolen money. It's an incredible story how this guy pulled it off, and you should check it out. So the billion dollars Whale highly recommend, and the Sea Wolves.

For those of you that are into history, roll call coming up. The show ain't over yet, folks, keeping it real, it's time for roll call. Well, Team, I have missed you, so it's great to be back here in the Freedom Hut. Thank you for allowing me a bit of a breather there. I know that the guest host that we had were very well received and people generally, we're quite pleased, I think with how that all turned out. So we will certainly keep Raheem and Ben and Harlan as well as

the Godfather doctor Opelka. He's not a doctor, nor is he a godfather, but Mike is going to be joining in on all that too. So with that, I'm just happy to be back here with all of you and get a chance to do some roll call. Man, It's it's like i've It's like I've just been able to return home now. Good things, good times, Team Brad. Ryan's Happy New Year, Buck. I hope you had a great holiday and got some rest. Yeah, Brad, I think I

just slept for three days straight. At one point, I just wanted to know how much I wanted you to know how much I enjoyed all your guests, so it's especially Ben Weinearten. I think we could get our young up and comers and those interested in politics to take a moment and listening people like you and Ben, this world would be a much better place. I know you try to avoid the whole global warming topic, but I thought you might enjoy reading Bjorn Lomberg's The Skeptical Environmentalist.

It's an older read from two thousand and one, but I found it very enlightening. Thanks again for a great show, and I wish you all the best in twenty nineteen. Brad Well, Happy new year to you, Brad, and thank you for your kind message. I'll pass along your a kudos to my friend Ben wine Garden. I've known Ben for gosh, I don't know five or six years now. We go back quite a ways to when we were

both at the Blaze. But he's a great guy, very sharp, very insightful fellow, and I'm glad that he did such a good job here when he was guest hosting. And Brad, in terms of getting the word out to the conservative youth, please tell any young conservative this goes for all of you listening. Please tell any young conservatives. You know, Hey, have you downloaded the Buck Sexton Show. It's a podcast you can download anytime you want on iTunes listen anytime

you like. You can also listen to the iHeart app. So it's really easy for anybody to listen whenever they want to listen. And I hope you can spread the word Julie right, it's happy birthday, Buck. I heard you mentioned you have a birthday or did so? Hope it was great. I had a birthday the twenty first. Can't have you can't wait to have you live against She'll tie well, Julie, thank you, and it's great to be back live with all of you. And I'm just thankful

to be still going strong here on radio. Thirty seven years young, thirty seven man, I'm as Miss Molly calls it, I'm the oldest thirty seven year old she knows, which is true. I'm starting to get creaky bones, I really do you know. I know everyone has their news resolution with getting back into shape. I'm going to find the energy to get back to the gym. I have not been lazy. I've just been over to hired. There's a difference, right, overtired is is when we're sorry. Lazy is oh? I

finished work at five. I got there at you know, nine thirty this morning, and I just sat at a desk and now I just want to watch TV. I don't want to go to the gym. That's me being lazy overtired has I've been up since five am. I finished radio at nine pm, and I have not a lot of time in between. I can't go to the gym. So I'm gonna try to overcome that. That's one of my resolutions for this year. I've got a few of them,

but that's definitely one of them. At m Rights, I'm wondering in relation to the border, could we resurrect the private Tiers license to secure the border and add much needed incentive to stay at home. By the way, happy birthday. Private tiers license, you mean essentially set up the border like for bounty hunters to grab illegals who cross. That's interesting. Would they be using force? That could get very tricky,

very quickly. But at least you are. You are thinking outside the box, Adam, and for that I give you thanks. Carolyn Writes, better start practicing your Elizabeth Warren voice. It's a different screech than Hillary Happy New Year. Wow. I raw I was a Harvard law professor, and I, you know, I just want the redistribution of wealth, and I've got to find a way to kind of get into She has a there's a faint Midwestern twang, but it's mostly just her her unpleasant screech that that comes to mind.

I'll have to think if I can do a really good Elizabeth Warren impression that doesn't just sound like a Hillary redux how wow. But we'll see. Um. I will keep that one mind. You know, I've never developed a Trump impression, and some of you asked me why that is. I just think there are so many bad Trump impressions out there that I don't want to fall into that category of being yet another dumpster fire of Trump impersonation. Tia writes, Hi Buck, happy belated birthday. I always love

your show and love your high quality subs. When you're not with us. Raheem is a favorite. Of course. Just listen to Harland Harland Show on podcast and his show was outstanding, great guests, how to PAUSI frequently to take notes, but we still look forward to your return. Well to you. I like to have great feelings, you know, some in the radio business, there's a there's conflicting ideas in this

conflicting advice. And I will tell you that some people take the opinion that they want to have people fill in for them that make the audience miss them. And this is a well, this is a longstanding, well known radio trick. You know. It's like you always want your understudy to be a level or two below if you're the lead, if you're the star on the play. I don't take that approach at all. I want the best

fellains that we can get on the show. And that's why you know, I'm trying to get new people involved and have you and I listen to all of you, all of your feedback. I want this this time and this whether you're listening live, you're listening on the download, the podcast after the fact. I want this to be something you look forward to whether I'm here or not, but hopefully a little more look forward to it when I'm here. That's the plan, But I want you to

like it no matter what. You know. A good example this is I used to fill in, as you know, for a Rush Limball, and I can tell you that to fill in for Rush is such an honor and is considered such a fantastic opportunity and such exposure, such a good stepping stone for your career, that even to be a fill in for Rush is very, very competitive. I know some of you're like, well, Buck, you know you and Mark Snein and Eric Ericsson, and you know there are a few others that I'm sure come to

your mind right away. Yeah, But for every for everyone who's me, Mark or Eric or anyone else who's filled in, there are one hundred people that are hoping to fill in for Rush, that have pitched themselves to Rush's team, that you know are waiting in line to fill in for Rush. So I want that to be the vibe.

And I will tell you that there are many more people that ask to fill in on this show than I'm able to accommodate, especially in the last twelve months or so, because you know, now that it's in national. It was one thing when it was digital only, but now that we're in national syndication and people have an understanding of how many individuals listen to the show live and on replay, they want to they want to get

to speak to all the U folks. D Rites, Happy Birthday, Buck, a longtime listener, What are you coming back to the EIB microphone? Well, do you speak in of the EIB. There is a a longstanding policy of you can't be a Rush fill in if you have your own syndicated show, which which I understand. I mean, really, if you think about this way, it's it's a way of saying, you know, if you're going to be a fill in for Rush

and you can promote your you're doing, that's great. But if you're going to fill in for Rush and you have your own show, you know you're promoting it on his air, that's his audience. You know, I understand why that's not something that's done. So the answer is, as long as this show is going, I don't think I'll be back at the EIB microphone. But that doesn't mean

that I'm not constantly in contact with those guys. And I mean, you know, the EIB team Rush obviously at the head of it are you know, they are amazing and I have nothing but nothing but love and respect for those folks. Britney writes, hurry up and come back. The Freedom Hutt needs you. Brittany, thank you so much, thank you. It's very very kind. To you. Very nice to you to say, and I'm glad to be back Jennifer, whoa quite a long message here. Hello and happy birthday, Buck.

I hope you're enjoying your birthday on the holiday season with some well deserved R and R. I'm sure you've heard by now about the Newman, California law enforcement officer, Corporal Singh, who was shot and killed at what I am onto Suber twenty six. This was the town I grew up in. When I was there mostly in the eighties, it was practically Mayberry and Andy Griffith show reference. The population was about thirty five hundred nowns around eleven thousand.

My grandparents owned a small restaurant there. There were no stoplights, no fast food chains, and the fire department was made up of volunteers. This little town is in the heart of California's agricultural valley. As you can imagine, there are many Mexican immigrant laborers that lived there. Everyone that I know still lives or lived in Newman in the small towns that surround that, are just heartbroken by the loss of this law enforcement officer. He's the first who have

been killed in the line of duty in Newman. I feel a sense of loss, even though I didn't know him. I pray for his young family. Buck. I've been listening to you since the Real News days on the Blaze. I look forward to listening to you when you come back to your show. I hope you give this topic

the discussion deserves. This is everything right now. The man arrested for a killing, Corporal Sing, is an legal alien with ties to this Sereno gangs that has been busted for DUI's Corporal Sing was a legal immigrant who did everything in the proper manner to become a citizen and a law enforcement officer, and then he was killed in this way as sickening. I listen to every one of your shows. I appreciate all you're doing. Shields High, Jennifer Well.

Jennifer Well said at all that, and you know it's it is, especially when you are from a community as tight en it as the one you're talking about, and you lose a law enforcement officer. It rattles the whole community. People definitely have a sense of unease and anxiety and honestly a little bit of fear when that happens. So I can understand why it's as upsetting to you as it is, and clearly this the problem of illegal immigration.

It's just going to continue until we force political consequences and the Democrats and some of the Republicans who are aiding and abetting this whole process. Donna writes, Happy birthday, Buck. Mary Beth writes Happy birthday, Buck, and Donna says, it's the same birthday as your son. I hope that, in spite of the shocking loss of Bree, you had an awesome birthday. Enjoy your time off. I'm looking forward to your return. Love you original Saturday Squad. Donna, Well, Donna,

thank you so much, Thank all of you. I've got way more birthday messages than I can respond to here, but every single one of them was really appreciated and it meant a lot to read them. And that was I just took a kind of a day of, you know, chilling on my birthday. I did not really do anything particularly important, So thank you so much for writing to me, and it made the day a lot more special. And we've otherwise been and that's gonna be it for today.

Wow another first show, first show in of twenty nineteen. Wow, how time does fly? Like I said, tell somebody this year, your resolution as a member of Team Buck is to get this month one new person to download this show. That's all I want for Christmas, all I want for my birthday. And I'm telling you we're gonna be doing amazing things with your help. So I just tell one person.

Each one of you listening to this hey the Buck Sex and Show should check it out downloaded on iTunes, or listen to the iHeart app and without my friends until tomorrow and every day thereafter. She'ls high