No More Daca Deal?

The Buck Sexton Show. Join the conversation called Buck Toll Free at eight four four nine hundred Buck that's eight four four nine hundred to eight to five the Future of talk radio, Buck Sexton. The Democrats have really let them down. They've really let them down. They had this great opportunity and the Democrats have really let them out. It's a shame. And now people that take an advantage of data and that's a sid met has got to help us. Reporter and a lot of people are coming

in because they won't take advantage of Dota. And we're gonna have to really see he had a great chance to demigrats toward had a great, great chin. But you'll have to take a look of Mexico has got a helpless at the border. They flow right through Mexico. They send him into the United States. Can't hop it that way anymore. Welcome to the Buck Sexton Show everyone, great to have you here, and honor and a privilege as always President. They're making quite clear well a few points

on immigration. Most importantly, immigration fight is not over. The President is not throwing in the towel. He's saying he is not done with this one. In fact, he is going back to his earlier negotiations with the Democrats over DACA, the Deferred Action for Child who Arrivals program, and he's saying, look that Democrats weren't even willing to negotiate over it. You see that they just want amnesty. They're just the party of illegal aliens. Now they are pro illegal immigration.

They don't think there should be any concession. They're not willing to have a talk about what comes next and what needs to be done. They don't want more border security, they don't want more interior enforcement. And this is a radical shift even for the Democrat Party. It's occurring about the last twenty years or so. It is quite different

than their stated positions in the past. The editorial boards the Washington Post, the New York Times are now closer to open borders than they ever were, and there's greater uniformity and unanimity among their editorialists on the issue of being pro illegal immigration than at any time previously. Trump is saying there's not gonna be a dock and deal.

He had tweeted out over the weekend the following border A border patrol old agents are not allowed to properly do their job at the border because of ridiculous liberal Democrat laws like catch and release. Getting more dangerous caravans coming. Republicans must go to the nuclear option to pass tough laws. Now, no more DOCCA deal all in caps WI we get into what this refutation of any possible DOCTA deal would be. Let's start with the caravan. What is he talking about,

because folks, this is going to get very interesting. You have approximately twere people who have gathered together um who say that they are fleeing their countries because of fleeing Central American countries because of the violence and persecution that they face in their countries. Now they are in Wahaka, Mexico, actually, one of the few places in Mexico where I have been. I will tell you tequila is delicious. The sun shines brightly.

That is an aside they're in Wahaca, Mexico or Mexico if you will, and there are four hundred and twenty miles for our show from their starting point. They want to get to the US border, turn themselves in and claim asylum. You see, because of the current immigration laws, they will abuse this loophole and they will show up and say, oh see, we had to flee our country of origin. This case, almost all I believe Honduras, some might be from El Salvador, and they're going to get

to stay in the country, Folks. They're not gonna get turned away at the border. They're not going to try and sneak into the country. They're going to literally find and flag down the first border patrol agent they can and say I'm claiming asylum. Now you might say, well, do they all will they all receive asylum? Are they all going to qualify for asylum? And to that I

would respond, what do you think is gonna happen? And most of the sanctuary jurisdictions where they will end up, you think some judge is gonna say no, you don't get asylum from Honduras, which as one of the highest homicide rates per capita of any country. In the world which has been overrun by m S thir team. No, they're going to say, well, you're we're a nation of immigrants, including a nation of illegal immigrants. Now you get to stay, you get to remain here. But this is exactly the

kind of optics that we need to focus on. What we're talking about immigration and where the Democrats stand on all of this. You've got a thousand people making their way of twelve so making their way to the US border, who are just going to be able to stay in the country because of our current immigration laws. We have to change these laws. We also have to put more pressure on Mexico. They're not legal in Mexico either, folks. You know, Mexico used to be very strict about people

from Central America coming into coming into its borders. Never talked about that all that much, do they. Yeah, Mexico enforces its borders to the south. They absolutely try to prevent people from coming in. But when they think, when when they know and the plan is that they're going to continue on through Mexico and make their way into the United States, they let it go. They let it happen.

How can we consider the Mexican government to be good partners in border security if they are going to allow a caravan of people on foot travel hundreds and hundreds of miles in a huge mass across Mexican territory in order to make their way into our country. No, they're they're actually the Mexican government is complicit in illegal ngration. By the way, it's likely to only get worse. Uh, there's an election coming up in Mexico and you have

a a leftist who is gaining ground there. You're gonna have a government in Mexico coming up here pretty soon that is much more ideologically aligned with say the far left Central American states that have been disastrous in recent years. A the Central and South American states have been disastrous than even what we've got right now with Peanya yeto. You know, the Mexican Revolutionary Party, the pr I is corrupt,

but not straight up Marxists. You know that they're there's there's stuff to the left of them, and we may have a worse situation going on with Mexico. By the way, it's also why we need a wall, because we can't be reliant on our Mexican counterparts in the government to prevent immigration into our country, and we shouldn't rely on that, and that's not sound policy, it's not smart for us to do that. But I'm I am encouraged. You know.

I was a little discouraged last week, as many of you know, and as you noted in your emails and messages to me. I was discouraged that President Trump had signed that omnibus bill, and that he recognized right away that that was a mistake, that we should have fought more on this, that there should have been more at least made of what was going on here, That we did not get real substantial funding for the wall, that

we did not get any changes immigration law. And now we have to assume that unless the Republicans changed the rules in the Senate, get rid of the filibuster and clear a pathway for dare I say, ramming through the Trump agenda, which is what what they need to do now in advance the midterms, we could be in for some tough times, my friends. The time is now. We do not have time to waste. We do not have

time on our side. If we allow the narrative going into the midterms to be the Democrats get away with being completely intransigent on the issue of immigration, they get away with being absolutists on amnesty for legal aliens. How can how can the Republicans really expect us to show up in numbers and preserve majorities in the House and the Senate. How could they really realistically think that would happen.

The time for action on this is now. I also like the Trump is using our leverage economically to try and get something going here. NATA has to be renegotiated and have to existed really before the Internet. Right, very different world we're dealing with now, and so using NAPHA, using that trade deal as leverage with the Mexican government makes a whole lot of sense to me. Why wouldn't

we tie these things together. Why wouldn't we use our economic ties to get what really amounts to national security concessions from what's supposed to be an allied government, an allied state. So I'm I'm encouraged to see the President's tweets um much more positively disposed now towards the possibility of real action immigration. I'm not saying it's definitely happening, saying the fight's not yet lost, it's not over yet.

I think Trump may have needed a little bit of a refresher, a little bit of a reminder from his base and from those who pushed to get him here. But I think I think the message has gotten through. So now we can we have to see if the Republican Congress will go along by the law. We we have the White House sending us one of their top spokespersons, a deputy White House Press Secretary, Hogan Gidley. He'll be with us in just a few minutes talk about exactly this.

He's gonna tell us where the administration stands on the DOCCA fight. Remember, DOCCA is a large scale amnesty program. It's me millions of people. That wasn't even an for

the Democrats. So what does that tell you about where they're planning to go if they ever make it into the majority again, never mind, if there are the majority in all three well, in the House, the Senate, and the White House, you will have a massive amnesty for countless millions of the legal aliens of the country, and you can kiss the Republican Party goodbye, and even the fight for limited government, to fight for conservatism in this

country will become a quaint vestige of past political battle. It's not even really going to be meaningful anymore. That's what's at stake, that's what's really happening. So you gotta see if Trump will fight. I say, we fight. I think Trump's willing to do it too, So I have some hope here. So we'll have the White House joining us a little bit talk about it. Will also discuss the UH, the latest on Syria that'll be coming up

in the second hour. We'll talk about the the media using David Hogg as a weapon against their ideological opponents. It's getting worse and worse. It's really getting out of control. Maybe some talk on the trade fight back and forth with China, although I think we've we've plowed that field pretty well at this point, and no pun intended, right because they I think they're getting some putting some tariffs

on what almonds and some other food stuff. US agricultural sector is gonna take a little bit of a hit for the exports we have to China. So we'll hit that and basically a whole bunch of the whole bunch of other things. McKinley is now considered racist, by the way, I'll explain that one to you. That's gonna I'm leave ever on a cliffhanger, thou who even knows h McKinley is in this country? Not that many folks, I mean everyone who listens to this show, but most of America's

like McKinley. Didn't he play for the Yankees, but former president whose time in office was ended by an assassin this bullet. McKinley is now a controversial topic, believe it or not. Much to my much more data goes into my theory here about how they're gonna make every everybody in history controversial that they don't like. That's what's gonna

end up happening. All right, So we've got down a lot more eight four four to eight to five eight four buck team, we have so much show way, And if you'd like otherwise, sit back, relaxed, chill, and let the analysis roll on by stay with me. I've seen this pattern many times. All presidents go through it. In the first year for presidency, presidents really do rely much more on their staff and on outsiders, on foreign leaders

task what do you think what's going on? And as they settle into the job, they increasingly become more confident and they start to make their own calls and often disregard what the staff says. This is not your Donald Trump. They all do it. I think Donald Trump's got a superb team around him. Now. Donald Trump is the president, regardless of who the staff is and whether people like or don't like Donald Trump. He got elected and he's entitled to have his policies the way he wants them.

But after all, it's up to him. That's Ari Fleischer. But you know, I think, what am I wrong? You look at me like I had the wrong names. Okay, that's all. I don't have no worry. You're way back. I never met him, but I know who he is, well, way back to what I was in college, and he was the press secretary right now. But he's right, and he's saying what I've been saying, so obviously he's right. You know what I mean. You know what I'm saying.

He's telling everybody that you know, there's other shake up in the White House. You'll notice that everything's fine. It's fine. Yeah, Okay, so that Dow had a bad day to day. A

lot of some swings in the doal. You know, they gotta they gotta get rid of some of the you know, there's there's buying hold investors in buying fold investors, you know, and so you're you're knocking off some of the weak stuff right now from various stocks, you know, people that are just in it for the quick, that have holding on for the long. But it's all gonna be all right. Stuff about China, a little bit of disruption here and there, but it's not the end of the world, like I've

been saying. Okay, so they're gonna hit back at some of our agricultural products. Now, alright, China, you want to play this game, We might decide a little more too. We're in a much stronger position than they are. I don't know why it became a consensus opinion among the US foreign policy elites that other countries get to dictate the terms of deals and and action to us, that that they get to seize the initiative on things like trade, and we have to just deal with whatever we are

we're given. I don't think that's necessarily way to go, especially with China. Somehow, China putting tariffs in place has allowed it to become the second biggest economy in the world and had explosive growth for decades. So all the stuff about how tariffs lead to trade wars, They're gonna impoverish you. Seems a little overblown, doesn't it until now hasn't led to a trade war from China, or it's been a one way trade war and we've been losing

it because we're not fighting it. It's just been theft, the theft of wealth, of intellectual property that's gone on. As you know. I keep hitting because I think it's very important. But despite all this, the president cornered Rasmussen today is that fifty approval presidential approval and now that disapprove. That's right. We call those people vegans just kidding, no, but don't approve of the president and present is a great number. It's better than what where Obama was at

this point in time. Now. I would like to tell you it's because of MAGA, because he's making American great again. That's a part of it. To be sure, first year is very successful. Things went well, and I know there's tough battles ahead. I was just talking to immigration before. But you know what I think is pushing the surge right now in presidential approval. If the Democrats could just just be normal, you know, just be normal for like a week or two. They'd be in a great spot.

But they can't do it, can't do it. All they have to do is not be crazy, and I'm not really capable of it. I mean, for for a day or two here or there, but eventually it comes out that they're the party. I mean eventually, I mean it's just a matter of days. They're the party of near open borders. They're the party of amnesty. They're the party of sanctuary cities. They're the party of lawlessness, of more taxation,

of more ineffective government. I saw people run around today saying, you know, why don't we all teachers need to have a starting salary of a hundred thousand because of this teacher protests somewhere starting salary of a hundred thousand. Really, I was brought into the most elite part of the intelligence community right out of college, and my salary was way less than a hundred thousand. Everybody, it's just like slightly better than minimum wage, I think. I mean, my gosh,

but Democrats can't be normal. Look at what they've done on guns. Any honest observer of what has happened just on the gun control debate alone, we're gonna revisit the issue of h David Hogg running around and yelling at everybody in the second hour today. But all Democrats have to do is not be crazy. And on gun control alone, we see they're crazy and they're dishonest. So I think that's helping Trump out a lot, I really do. I

think it's that they just can't manage to be normal. Um, we've got the White House joining us in a few minutes to talk about the DOCCA policy fight, and then later on we'll discuss the media's freak out about a possible conservative competitor. Oh no, that and more coming up. If he wanted to see something get done, and Democrats refused to actually put something on the table or work with the President to get anything done. They wanted to

use doctor recipients as political ponds. Uh. I think what's happened here is incredibly sad. The President wanted to make a deal. He made two incredibly generous offers that went far and above even with the previous administrations had done on DACA, and Democrats still refused to make a deal. And I think it's because we're getting close to an election. Well, there you have Sarah Huckaby Sanders talking about DACA for an Action for Childhood Arrivals program. President Trump has said

there's not going to be a deal. He wrote it in Twitter. Well what does this all mean? Where does it stand? We are actually joined by someone from the White House right now. We have Hogan Gidley with US online. He is the Deputy White House Press Secretary. Hogan, thank you so much for joining Hey, Buck, thanks so much for the time. So, uh, DOCCA deal right now not going anywhere? Is this just the President calling out Democrats for being unwilling to even attempt to meet him halfway

on this? What's the status? Absolutely, they just refused to come to the table whatsoever. You'll remember the Shimmer shutdown weeks ago, months ago, I guess now, where Democrats basically said, listen, we're gonna stand up for hundreds of thousands of people who are here illegally and unlawfully as opposed to protecting

hundreds of millions of American citizens. That was exposed. Sarah made the right call just now where they're playing politics with people's lives, and Democrats decided that they just were not going to do anything to secure our borders. They were not going to have a conversation about a delon DOCA, even though it was three times that of the previous administration's offer for pathway to citizenship. And you'll remember to buck, the right wasn't too happy with the president's plans. I

wasn't too happy with it, be honest with you. I thought it was a very generous offer to the left to start out with. They won't even talk to him though, absolutely, And that's what was so interesting is they were upset then people on the left or upset because they didn't like the the the enforcement pieces, where we got rid of chain migration, we ended the visa lottery program, all dangerous programs for this country, and then we built a wall.

They didn't like that part. So you can't define down the middle better than a plan that gave Democrats more than they wanted on DOCCA and gave Republicans what they wanted on border security, protecting our our our southern border. And for whatever reason, Democrats not only do they not want it, they wouldn't even come to the table to have the discussion. It's it's just it's it's quite frankly disgusting. Now we have the midterms, they're gonna be here before

we know it, Hogan. But in the meantime, people like me. When I say people, I really mean buck. But but we would like to know what is the White House and GOP majority's plan to get some things done on immigration. Are they just going to sit back and allow the Democrats to obstruct everything? Are they going to go with the nuclear options? They can push through some legislation because it's not just a wall. There's also e Verify that needs a look, Legal immigration needs changes, h one, b

Visa's interior enforcement. As you know, we could go all day on this. Can we expect some action in the next six months or so on it? Or is it's just gonna get put by the wayside because the mid terms? Well, I sure hope. So you know, the president has been all about action since he got into office. I mean record setting accomplishments and record setting time. You saw the Heritage report, the city had already accomplished sixtent of what he wanted. That was before funding the military and before

building the wall. So I imagine it's even higher now. But you know the other question, obviously, this is a congress This requires a congressional fix. Uh, you know, Barack Obama unlawfully and illegally UH created doc out of whole cloth. Many people say it's unconstitutional. We believe that it is as well, and Congress is required to fix the situation. So hopefully they can come to the table and get something done. But there is no doubt that we do not want to be in the same position five years

down the road, ten years down the road. And that's why the President wanted and still wants a long lasting solution to not just DACA, but as you mentioned, all the other parts as well. We started with the four the four pillars, as you'll remember, the wall, all ending j migration, in the visa lottery, and in fixing DOCCA, and then we would worry about the second parts, the H one B S as you mentioned, and the other ones UH in future legislation. But leading up to now,

this doesn't stop for this president. He doesn't just throw up his hands and say, well, I guess we're done. He wants the nuclear option. He tweeted about it this weekend. It remains to be seeing whether Republicans will do it.

But in the upcoming budget proposals, this president is going to put forth full funding for the things he wants in the wall and also revisit these uh crucial enforcement mechanisms that loopholes that have been exploited for far too long by dangerous gang members like MS thirteen and you know, Buck, this immigration system has been broken basically since Ronald Reagan about forty years ago. And Reagan put forward an amnesty

and didn't get the enforcement he was promised. He even want on record to say that he thought that was quite a mistake. We got Hogan Gidley with us on the line, folks, he's a deputy White House Press secretary. All Right, Hogan, I've got to ask you about the wall. Yes, there was a little over billion dollars in funding for wall upgrades and a little bit of new wall in the last omnibus budget but or the last omnibus package. But that's just one step in what's going to be

a very very long process. Can you just try to walk us through, assuming you have a Republican majority of the Congress that will play ball with the president and will push forward the agenda of getting a wall built, how is this supposed to work? So? I think a lot of folks, myself included, look at this and say, if they weren't willing to fight for a wall in this last omnibus. Why should we think they'll fight for

in the next one. Well, remember we we put forth a package, our first budget that never got a vote. The President put forth a budget that fully funded the wall, had these mechanisms for enforcement and safety for the customers, border control in our in our package, never got to vote. Instead, they went for multiple continuing resolutions. It was just excruciating. No one could get that funding stream down in in a two year budget deal with caps, which is what

the President asked for. It didn't happen. So remember, all we really have left is the six months. So what the President did was said, let's fully fund my wall for the six months, and then we'll put the more money in for the next budget that comes out. Because right now, they dithered around for so long it took them forever to actually get to a vote. When they finally did, there were only really six months left remaining

in the budgets. So the President demanded, look, we didn't have to give up the The Democrats don't want to build one inch of this wall. They don't want to pour one cube of concrete for this wall. We didn't give up anything to get it. Remember Doc again, exposing the Democrats sybocricy. Here Doc is not even in the omnibus bill, but our wall is. And as we move forward, the President is gonna push harder and and remind the

American people what's at stake here. Walls work, whether it's in San Diego where they've seen a drop in illegal crossings, or the one around Jerusalem where they've seen drop in illegal crossings, they know it works. Democrats are afraid of it because, as you know, they want open borders and they don't want any enforcement, which is a complete one eighty from where they used to be. You remember, Democrats used to be for a wall. They used to be

for protecting the Secure Fence Act. I remember it, Bipartisan went through right protecting the American worker. They went, they railed about that from the House and the Senate floors. And here we are now and they've changed done a one eighty on it. The only two things have changed. Only two things have changed since that original Secure Fences Act. One is the problem has gotten demonstrably worse, and two is Donald Trump's in the White House. That's really it.

So it's obvious that they're playing politics here and it's a shame for the American people first, and it's a shame for DOCTA recipient second, Holgan. Before I let you go, one more for you, And that's just for over a year now, I've been trying to inform the audience as much as I can about the the opioid epidemic and trying to dig into it. We've had world class medical

experts on the show. I've had journalists who covered the cartels in Mexico on the show and this has been an area of extreme interest for me and it's just need to come out, it seems to me. And we had the Attorney General, Jeff Sessions on a couple of weeks ago, and I asked him that I asked him about this. It's just being to come out that in fact, illegal immigration the opioid epidemic aren't just tied together there

inextricably linked. Now, the President, more than anyone else, has done a good job of exposing how MS thirteen is terrorizing communities across the country that's certainly tied the illegal immigration issue. Are you the Deputy White House Press Secretary? Are are you folks gonna be working more to tell the American people that the sixty thou plus deaths that we had in the country last year from overdoses of opioids are overwhelmingly tied to cartel activity, illegal immigration, and

a poorout border. Absolutely, and listen, we call it the crisis next door for a reason. It's no longer a friend of a friend of a friend who heard someone who may have had an opioid death in the family. This is people we know, people we love in our communities. They're getting these drugs a lot of times from people who pour across the border. And remember, and they come across, it's not like they walk across and then get arrested immediately.

They can bring and ship over with them, carry over with them opioids, and they can dump those pills with someone else who's working with them on this side of the border. They can stash them away under a rock, under you know, in someone's garden, for heaven's sakes, and they can go back and get them or tell friends where to get them. So just because you're arresting the individual who comes over who may be a smuggler or a drug dealer, doesn't mean you actually get the product.

The product is already out in this country. It's killing the American people, and it's time that they understand what's at stake in this immigration battle. And we will be doing everything in our power. The President will be using the bully pulpit of the White House to express the level of danger that exists out there, and not just human trafficking, which is bad enough, but bringing over drugs that come into our country and destroy our communities. Hogan Gidley,

Deputy White House Press Secretary. Everybody, Hogan, thank you so much for joining. Come back soon, Thanks so much. Buck. Anytime we're gonna roll into a quick break, we will be right back with much more. Stay with me. At least I want to put up the markets here. Um, this was one of the coastal elites missed. The Roseanne reboot may not be as popular with critics in Ellen New York, but boy, look at the middle of the country. Um,

and how well these are the best markets that Roseanne rated. Um. Total audience may be bigger than the Oscar Well, you could say that the era of Obama culture is over. You know, we've gone from girls on HBO to Roseanne, you know, bursting out of the scenes. The most watch network sitcom in the last four years. So are we going to start to see more coverage reflecting the Trump era.

I think that this is perhaps an indication and also a really successful revival to people like Roseanne in the nineties. They like it now to I have to disagree that was the least Jordan over on MSNBC. The era of Obama culture is over. Obama is going to be a force at Netflix. Susan Rice is now on the board of Netflix and one show. I mean this is kind of a version of the discussion or the argument you hear from the left. They'll say, oh, they are of

media dominance. You know, you have Fox News, right, that's one channel, it's the most successful channel, But that's only one channel. There are so many channels where you can get the usual leftist clap trap, the leftist malarkey, propaganda from the Democrat Party courtesy of the d n C. You get that on on most of the channels, most

of the shows. I just think it's got a funny you know, for people who you know on the left, they're always talking about what's what's representative and diversity, and you look at the diversity of shows and it is quite lacking. It is rather obvious that there is a dearth of worthwhile conservative, not even conservative, just not leftist propaganda shows on TV. It's very obvious. Right, So you get one show and he was like, oh, yeah, the Air of Obama. No it's not this is just one show.

And as I've noted, it's not even conservative. I saw the first two episodes. You know, yeah, there's a representation of a conservative, but it's not like this is a First of all, it's not a conservative family. I think a lot of people want to emulate. It's not like this would be. We were not particularly excited about the circumstances of this particular family. They're having a they're having a tough go I understand, but this isn't like, oh yeah,

look at the Conservatives doing great. It's only Rosanne who's maybe I guess the husband is too. I think people are are overstating the impact, is I in the culture? Yeah, there's a curiosity you gotta isn't What's really amazing is you've only got one show on TV that's getting all this attention right now that even has a Trump supporter on it. Where's the Trump supporter on Modern Family? I mean, I guess you could say it O'Neil is, but they

never make it explicit. I never see them talking about it. Where's that? Where are the Trump supporters on the rest of the shows, and who aren't treated like out of touch buffoons? Yeah, I just don't think it's some people think. By the way, we're gonna talk about the widespread media freak out about Sinclair, which is a broadcaster. This got so much attention for the weekend. We're gonna talk about that coming up. Also, a little more on David Hogg

the latest. There some good news from that fight that I wanted to share with you, So we've got that. And then i'll tell you about McKinley in the third hour and how he is now. Akinley is too hot for statues, you know, it's too too much of a contentious issue. Um. And maybe I'll tell you that there's new research that shows that chocolate is good for you.

By the way, another thing, last week they said coffee cures cancer and I was like, nonsense, excuse me, garbage crap uh and coffee he's in fact delicious and is in reasonable quantities good for you. Chocolate, same thing, anti oxidants Yo, they're like so good for you. Why I don't know. No one knows why people talk about any occident. I don't know why they're good for you. I just know they're supposed to be good for you. Chocolate is

delicious brand in New Mexico. What's up, my friend about Fields? Yeah, it's too bad about Netflix. Mant with Susanne Rice in Obama and all that. I love Netflix. Yeah, I still watch it. But you notice that they gave that guy Bill Nay a show. I think that may be the worst television show I've ever seen. I mean, of all time. I think it's up there. Yeah, I won't let my kids watch it, but it Isn't Susan Rice worth like

millions and millions and millions of dollars now? Susan Rice, I mean, I'm assuming she's probably pretty wealthy, although I don't. I actually don't know what her net wealth is. Very these folks get put up when you get put on the board of a company. It's like the sweetest gig imaginement For those who aren't up up to speed on this, if you could put on the board of a company, you basically have to call into four meetings a year and You get hundreds of thousands of dollars for that,

and that's your Those are all your responsibilities. You call in once a quarter to a meeting and you make hundreds of thousands of dollars. It's a pretty great gig. I would take it. I'm pretty sure you would do. Brent, absolutely, sign me up. Yeah. But the reason I called was I was listening to your interview and this guy was talking about how, yeah, we got to do this now, not five ten years down the road, and I got

to thinking about that, and that's that's true. Man. I know we don't want to compromise on that side, but for every day we don't get a deal done, there's a new data kid, you know what I mean, there's a new one born, and it's like the casino. You know, if you're down a eight hundred thousands, you better cash out your chips now before it's you know, a couple of millions. You know what I'm saying. Well, I don't think that the I don't think the time is on

our side here. I agree. I mean, you've got this caravan coming. I'm sure it's not it's not the last, by the way, and it might get a lot bigger by the time it gets close to the border. If I were somebody was trying to come into the country illegally, what better way than to see a caravan of Central American So the media is already saying you're gonna claim asylum, and you say, oh, you know, I'm a smuggler or

I'm MS thirteen or whatever. I'm gonna just turn myself in with this caravan to get into the country legally, and and and let the courts work it out. Right. It's great, you're ready in the pipeline for asylum. So I'm sure this thousand person caravan is gonna get a lot bigger. And I'm with you, Brent. I mean, they need to They need to figure this out sooner than later because Democrats feel like the constituency in waiting that they have of assumed to be amnestied's just getting bigger

and bigger. Shield High Brand, Thank you for the call. We're gonna talk about Sinclair coming up. Also, some abusive laws we're seeing to seize guns from people. It's not a surprise, it's something we have to address. Got that and much more coming up. Stay with me, team, He's back with you now because when it comes to the fight for truth, the fuck never stops the sharing of biased and on the social media first. Unfortunately. All right, so that made the rounds are the weak and stuff?

I made the rounds over the weekend. Welcome to the Buck Sexton Show. Everyone. That was a montage. We need a montage. Uh, Are they gonna make Team America episode or part two? Yet? We need Team Team America to Maga Nation or something. Would be amazing, right, Team America two Maga Squad would be the greatest movie of all time. I'm just putting that out there, Oscar. I mean, it would be it would be maga. It would be maga alicious that much, I can tell you it would be amazing.

I watched Team America many times back in the day. Some parts of it, I'm not gonna lie, a little little risque, but nonetheless, very very good movie. And we need we need a Team America for the Trump era. Nonetheless, that was a montage of Sinclair Broadcast Group, which is being turned into a a boogeyman by the left. They control all these channels. What are we gonna do? They control these local news channels and there and there's skill conservative.

Does that sound so scary. He sounds great to me, by the way, I'm sitting here cheering them on, clapping for him, high five of them. Great. You mean you mean that there there might be enough, There might be another layer in the world of TV news that is right of center in any capacity. To me, that sounds great to me. That sounds like something we definitely need in this country. Well, let's do some quick math, folks,

or just a quick rundown. What does the left have spewing their talking points and their version of the news member news as a narrative. People who say otherwise don't know what they're talking about, or they're lying to you. It's a narrative. It's a construct. People look at what's happening in the world, or they decide what they think is happening in the world, and they write it down and then they put it on TV. That's it. A lot of stuff that happens in port never makes it

on the news. Fact, I think a lot of nights right now, he's turn on CNN and it's the I Hate Trump Channel. As I say, we got my man gurgling with Gurgan up there, or Trump Watergate. It's gonna be absolutely impreachment, Watergate, niction for Reagan, impeach water groot. That's what's gonna happen over there. It's just the I Hate Trump channel. That's all they do. Gets boring after

a while, don't you think. But Sinclair controls a fair amount of stations local news stations across the country, including, by the way, a channel I believe here in New York called w p i X that I used to watch growing up because they had all of the like second tier action movies practically running on a loop. Man, I saw so many Van dam Chuck Norris and Stallone movies playing during the eight pm hour on w p

i X. I loved it, dude, it was amazing. So I have a debt of gratitude to Saint Claire for providing me with countless hours as a youth of action movies without me having to go to the video store, which is kind of a quaint little a quaint little vestige of history now right, it doesn't really doesn't really exist. I mean there are some here and there, But Sinclair gave me, gave me lots of Chuck Norris and Van Damn time in my youth. For that, I'm thankful, but

they're all angry about this. You know, John Oliver, John Oliver, who's going to show where he cares. She's lot really loudly, and he lectures Americans on politics and he kind of looks and sounds funny and stupid. People think he's smart because he's British. He did this whole thing on Sinclair.

I think it was last summer where he was saying, how you know it's it's a threat to our democracy and that became the big the big line this weekend, Jimmy Kimmel tweeted out that Sinclair's a threat to our democracy. So more speech is a threat to democracy now, or speech that they don't like is a threat to democracy. This is I think a continuation of Trump's arrangement syndrome. That montage I played you was of a really a

public service announcement that they ran on Sinclair channels. They're like, look, there's you know, we strive to provide you with the best information. You know, there is fake news out there, there are people that say things that aren't true, and if we ever do that, you know, let us know. That's what actually the full statement was all about. And yeah, they ran in all the different channels as a public

service announcement. But on any given night, I can turn, I can flip between how ABC, NBC, CBS, NPR, CNN, MSNBC all cover the latest you know story in the Mueller probe. And maybe there't use exactly the same words, but they might as well because it's the same darn thing on any given night. Right, So there's notion that the media doesn't already speak with one voice overwhelmingly on the left is a joke. But the notion that there may be competition in the cable additional competition in the

TV news space. I think Sinclair has UH coverage in seventy five percent of US homes just goes to show you that the left, when it comes to speech in general, but particularly television news, is anti competitive. It is to their great regret that they can't stamp Fox News out from the get go, because they've done that to other channels.

Oh yes, my friends, there have been other channels that would be conservative news networks that have been prevented from getting full cable distribution for reasons of politics, because who owns these cable distributors? Oh that's right, Comcast, Time, Warner, do you think that do you think that those are conservatives the executives that run those I'm gonna give you a hint. The answers, No, so Sinclair is according to

Jimmy Kimmel. According to John Oliver, oh look, I'm so funny and they can just let me curse and talk about American politics. Yeah, that shows they're just all They're just all repeats of each other. It's just it's the same, same thing, the same it's the the audience. They're like hamsters hitting the pedal. Ha ha. Republicans are racist, ha ha. Trump is an idiot, ha ha. He's destroying the country.

They're all doing the same thing. I actually had the experience speaking of like a a singular a singular voice in the media. I flipped between the gym. This is over the weekend. I was in a hotel because I was out in in Indiana Fort Wayne, great place. I'll tell you more about my trip out there later. And I yeah, I rarely well why sometimes I like to flip on local TV actually when I'm in another part of the country, just to kind of get a sense

of like how do they roll here with that? You know, what are they putting on the air kind of what kind of ads they run and what's I like to check out the vibe of the local news broadcast or see what they're you know, we'll see what they're into. Yeah, you know, you get up to like bang or main. They're like a rogue moose on the loose. It's like the most exciting thing you'll see. And everyone was like,

oh gosh, look at that moose. Go he's gone wrong. Um, but yeah, I like to check out the local news in different places. And I was watching, I was flipping through some of the channels, and I happened to stamp stumble upon the broadcast networks right, speaking of domination of the cable spectrum. So I turned. I go from in one series of about two minutes, Max, I go from the Jimmy Kimmel Show. I don't even know. I never

watched these guys. I don't even know what Jimmy Kimmel on one of the networks, to Stephen Colbert on one of the networks, to even Jimmy Fallon on one of the networks. She tends to be, I think, less political than the others. And they're all doing a variation of the same Trump joke basic. You know, it's like they're all just in the midst of a you know, Trump

is a weirdo destroying the country joke. And I'm just thinking to myself, not only has the left now destroyed comedy and they're no longer funny, but they're not even original anymore. They don't even have new interest doing content to offer about how much they hate Conservatives and believe in Christians in America and all the rest of it. They don't even come up with interesting ways of saying it. It's just all repetitive now, it's all echo chamber effect.

And they have no excuse because you see, on the right, you could even make the case that sometimes the repetition of messaging is necessary because we are pushing back against much larger and more numerous megaphones. On the left, they just do it because it's easy and because of cowardice, because it go with the flow of the mob mentality. But here, I mean, it's late at nine, I'm in

a hotel. You know, there's you know, there's that like there's that like, oh, I'm in a hotel in a in a new city field when you're like the first night you're there, and you know, it'd be nice to flip something on. It'd be nice to turn on the TV and I don't know, check in with like maybe maybe they're running big trouble a little China, and I can see my buddy Jack Burton's doing Jack Burton me,

you know, something like that. But instead I see these different comedians who aren't even funny, and they immediately not insult me, but just annoy me with their crappy Trump jokes, one after another, rapid succession. And so that's the media environment that we're currently in. And that's the media environment where we have members of the media complaining that Sinclair might have a merger with Tribune, which you mean that there's another possible big time player in the conservative space,

which to me just sounds fantastic. You know, whatever happened to free market folks, whatever happened, And may the best man, the best company win. Well, pup up up whenever comes. There's too much and you competitive, you're gonna be kidding me. They have ABC in their pockets, CBS in their pocket, NBC in their pocket, CNN, and I mean, you go down the list, and we can't we can't have one

one more channel. That's I don't even know what it would be because it hasn't even formed yet, but they are so set against this and trying to drum up all this opposition by hyperventilating over and just nonsense. That's what they're doing. It really is. It's nice. I gotta say. It was nice to be in a city where I could walk around and just have the feeling this was in Fort Wayne, Indiana, have the feeling of just being like, hey,

what's up. You vote for Trump? And there was a pretty good chance to be like, yeah, let's make America great again. And I could be like thanks, random stranger on the street, high five. We probably would get along really well and agree on most things. Instead of New York and people like what do you do? And I'm like, I work working in the media. You know, work for a meat media company. You know it is. I do some stuff. Well, what do you do for that? You know?

Is right? And do some maybe do a little radio if I want to sound cool. Though, it's like podcasting because the left podcasting is cool. Radio is owned by the right, so they don't like that anymore. You know, on the talk space, you gotta podcast do some stuff. Here and there. Anyway, I mentioned something to do about um a couple of things. We've got some updates on the Hog v. Ingram case, which I'll bring to you. And then also guns. They're using laws to seize guns

from people that should not have their guns seas. This is not surprising to any of you, I'm sure, but it is still absolutely worth our time to discuss. So we will get into that and much more right after this break. Very interesting news over the weekend. I mentioned the issue of firearm confiscations. Don't worry, I'll get to that. I don't like to put a teaser out there. And then, oh, let's just switch topics because Buck has a brain that goes in too many directions at once. Sorry, there's other

things though. London, for the first time in recorded history more murders than New York City. Yeah at now that's only up to this point in this year, but more people have been killed in London than in New York. By the way, how are people being killed in London? We get lectures a lot about gun control and gun violence. Guess what they're being killed with knives and a lot of it in home invasions. So you have the largest city in the United Kingdom and the largest city in

the United States, both around eight million ish residents. And you are safer in New York City where you can own a gun. I mean you can do it. I know people who who do just very It's a little annoying. It's difficult, but it's not impossible versus the UK, where it's basically impossible to get a handgun in London, basically impossible. Um and yet people who are bad fine ways to

do bad things. Nonetheless, they kill people with knives and invade their homes while they're in them, knowing that they're not they're very unlikely to come up against lethal resistance, lethal self defense. So and I'm sure in a lot of cases they've already cased the establishment or case the residents. No, it's probably an older person or you know. So that's that's going on lone. And so next time they all start lecturing us about oh it all the violence and everything,

well it's not it's not as easy. It's not as straightforward a thing as they think. By by the way, it's also a note also a a point to make here that New York City, I know a lot of you probably are like a buck. I don't like New York. That's fine where I'm doing the show from right now, though it's it's a different place than almost twenty years ago. It's so much safer than it feels like a different city. It's pretty astonishing. But that's a story for another time.

Are the guns thou police legally season guns under red flag laws? This was a big story up on Fox News today. Let me give you some of the details here. Alexander Mackenzie, thirty one year old Army veteran who was being treated for PTSD and his gun confiscated by the Seattle Police Department even though he had committed no crime. It's one of twenty seven guns seized legally by the Seattle Police Department from sixteen individuals under Washington's new Extreme

Risk Protection Order law. Um, so you have people who are having their guns taken from them under these red flag laws thirty states. According to the the Brady Campaign, which was I forget what the original name of the Brady Campaign wants, but it's basically the the campaign to band handguns. Right now people have referred to as the Brady Campaign. It used to be the Campaign to band handguns. Pretty much what was it called, Mike, I can't hear you.

We's in just the Brady Bill. No, originally before was the Brady Bill, it was the the organization was called something else. You'll find out. You'll be like, wow, Buck, your wisdom extend ends beyond my wildest dreams. How did you know such things? And I'll have to say, producer, Mike, because all I do is read all day. I have no social life, maybe even have no life, but I do read a lot. There's something you'll see. There's a name there. It was called something else before it was

the Brady Campaign. Um, there was another name for it. We'll figure out what it is. I'm seeing the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act, thinking, no, no, no, no, I'll find it. I'll find that. I'll tell everybody. I'm just gonna pretend that I'm still right, even though it sounds like maybe I'm off the I'm off the off the field on this one. But anyway, we're coming back to this so that they're getting rid of people's guns. Now. In this one case, the guy actually PTSD said he

didn't really mind because he was having a really tough time. Alright, Fine, here's what ends up. Happening that, folks. I just want to prepare you for where this goes. They started to use these red flag laws against people with PTSD, they start to use it against people that have any form

of mental illness. What they do is, even in cases where they overstepped, they're gonna say, well, you know what, we're just trying to keep people safe and we're trying to prevent guns from being the hands of the mentally ill. And it becomes a talking point for them. This is how the propaganda gets made. This is the machinery of the talking points and the propaganda the Democrats will put out there to get national level gun control legislation when

they have a Democrat majority, etcetera, etcetera. This is how they do it. They create a situation where you're gonna have conservatives people like me who are saying, well, hold a whole lot of second, you can't be taking guns away from veterans who have PTSD or no threat to others or themselves and have done anything anything illegal, have

nothing wrong. And then when I get on record saying stuff like that, then the way the left respondses, oh see, the right won't even won't even agree that we should take guns out of the hands of the mentally ill. They won't get into the specifics that we're talking about veterans of PTSD and other people who have you know, uh, mental health issues but are not mentally ill in in any broad sense of the term. And that's the way that this is meant. So this is just the beginning.

It's incrementalism. You'll see more of this with some of these red flag laws in states that are considering passing them. They're going to start taking guns away from people, and then they'll be a really high level, high profile case that will come up, I guarantee it. And once that high profile case comes up, what you won't hear, Oh they're taking guns away from a veteran because of PTSD. You'll just hear, oh, see the n r A wants

guns in the hands of them mentally ill. Yes, the gun grabbers are willing to slander veterans and to do so in a way that they won't even be honest about what they're doing in order to try to get more confiscations going. Um, all right, we'll be back in just a minute. Team, stay with me. He's holding the line for America. Buck Sex, it is back gus they're disgusting individuals like a critical and disgusting that she doesn't

care about them. She doesn't care about police because she doesn't care about these children's lives, because our parents don't know how to use democracy, So we have tars are out there that want to continue to somewhere guns, murder more children and honestly just get reelected. Let's see more money than children's lives, you kill. So that was just a smattering of what David Hogg goes out in public

and says, and we can find even worse stuff. Claims people don't care about dead children, claims that the n r RAY is a terrorist organization, or that it could have the blood of children on their faces and they wouldn't stop what they're doing. The implication, of course, of the n RAY is responsible for the horrific shooting in Parkland, and this has gotten a lot of attention because we

saw something very important and very noteworthy. I guess that's just another way of saying important, so we can scratch one of those from the record, But nonetheless, we saw something very important happen with how this played out with Laura Ingram, and that is you can't apologize to those who weaponize debates on the left and who turned this into a function of ruining lives, ruining livelihoods, ruining careers and reputations. You can't apologize to them because they're not

operating in a good faith. Laura Ingram apologized, Hogg said, he openly said he did not accept This is a seventeen year old kid. Did not accept her apology. Oh and then you had all these sponsors pull out, sponsors that were showing, under the circumstances, a complete lack of any respect for the difficulty of doing a political show like this, a show like Laura Ingrams where you're gonna take positions. Now, look, do I think that Laura should

have gotten into this kid getting rejected from school. No, And everyone on the right that I respect has already said that she made a mistake. I mean, it wasn't a smart thing to do, wasn't the right thing to do, But it wasn't a terrible thing to do either. Wasn't a big deal. But the left is using hog as both sword and shield, and there's a huge double standard

that's at work as well. The double standard is that when you have someone like Joan Walsh who's over at CNN, who has said nasty things about about Kyle Cashev, for example, there's no outcry for her to be taken off the air. No one suggests, oh my gosh, you know she she can't be a punted anymore. Well, I mean, some people have pointed it out now because the double standard is so disconcerting. It it's just so outrageous. But more to the point, we just all need to be very clear.

We need to be very clear about the fact that you can't apologize. You have to you have to stand your ground own even when you're a little bit wrong. And I know that seems that seems like, come on, buck, it's not how we do things. But when you're dealing with these character assassins on the left, when you were dealing with a concerted effort to take someone down, to ruin their reputation, to drive away sponsors, to to really engage in a form of surgical strike economic warfare, which

is what this is. And and by the way, it's not even that surgical. You know, if they pulled lower Ingram off the air, there are people that work on that show who might lose their jobs. I know what this is like, I have friends who are producers at these networks. I know what it's like for these hosts. And I've also been in newsrooms when people have gotten fired for no wrong doing of their own. Just because someone a host has gotten let go, oftentimes they'll can everybody.

So is that really fair under the circumstances? No, of course not. Is that called for given the host being let go and possibly other people losing their jobs as well because Ingram made a joe about or not even really a joke just to comment and ill advised comment about Hogs college acceptances. While we're talking about this, I just want to know is the standard on the left now that we have uh we we have to expect that anyone who is a spokesperson for the March for

Our Lives gets into any college they want. Is anything short of that unacceptable? I just would like to know what the what the standard is. Does Kyle Cashev, when the time comes for him to apply to college get to assume that he can get into any college and if not, there's a political conspiracy against him, because that's what was raised before. There's something uh, very instructive about this whole situation with Ingram and Hog and it's a

reminder for all of us. By the way, Fox News, to its credit, has released a statement today from the co presidents saying that you know, Laura's coming back and it's and that's it and good for them. You know, if we're at the point where Fox News is subject to the pressure campaigns of these activists claiming to be all about the public good but really just pushing their own very very narrow agendas. But if we get to that point, my friends, where are we going to have

a voice that's safe. It's just a matter of time before they take off people who are on radio, who are hosts that they don't like, they'll start taking to They'll they'll pick us off from the top down, one by one until they have information dominance in the media space, true information dominance. I mean, there won't be any voices that will really be able to call them out and affect the national conversation. This is critical and it's also reminder of why when I say things to you like

please support this show, please support our sponsors. You all have an active role. People asked this. I was asked this this weekend actually in at WHOA Whoa. When I was in Fort Wayne and we did a live event for our listeners there. You know, what what can the average folks do here? And that's a question that you get a lot, and that's the one that is essential.

I understand why people ask it. One of the things you can do is support the side that reflects your values and beliefs in the so called information war that's going on right now. It means listen, it means spread the word. It means support the sponsors. You know. That's why when I say to you, yeah, please check out sponsors on this show. You see how important all this is.

Because the sponsors pull out of a show, for example, And my sponsors are all phenomenal patriots, and you know, I'm not worried about anything like that because they're all understand what we do here and we have a great relationship, right But by you supporting them, the sponsors want to stay around for economic reasons, which is very important to the show. With Lora Ingram, the sponsors leave, the pressure gets turned up all of a sudden too push her aside.

You know, it becomes a financial decision. And as I said, Fox has already said that's not gonna happen. But this is what we are up against, and they will do everything in their our two and then they don't care. They don't care what lives they're destroying the process, you know, they don't care who they harm and what it means for people. There's no there's no uh exceptions for good

faith debate on the left. No, they view this as just open partisan warfare, and boycotts are among their favored tactics. All right. Boycotts are top of the list. Also running with even the merest allegation of impropriety against a conservative personality, as though it has proven and as though there is no other version of events right away. That's another thing that they they like to do. But you know, Hag actually wrote, where's Laura Ingram's this is on Twitter? Where's

Laura Ingram's UH apology to Lebron James? Oh so, so, now not only does he not accept an apology publicly for him, but he also was demanding apology for I mean, this is this is demand ending that someone bend the knee and then saying you want to have them metaphorically executed anyway, but then saying that you want them to

bend the knee again just cuts. It's abuse and this is the kind of stuff that you would expect from Jeoffrey being barathy in in in Game of Thrones, you know, Jeoffrey, Jeoffrey says, if you that's I'm a big spoiler here. He says, if you admits your sins and beg forgiveness, or in this case, if you admit your trees in and beg forgiveness, you can live. That's what he says to at Ards stark Um played by Sean Bean very

well in that first season. And yeah, I know, big spoiler here, but guess what after he admits his treason, Little little King Jeoffrey hasn't beheaded anyway. Well, you know, if we're now in a culture where in media land, somebody can say you have to apologize, you do apologize, and they say not good enough. You still should lose all your sponsors, you still should lose your job. Oh, and you should be forced to appolize to other people. That means that this is no holds bar And that's

where we are. And you want to know what you can do. You stand by the people, and I don't just this isn't just self serving for me, although hopefully you feel this way about me and this show. But you stand by people that are speaking the truth, that are bringing you good information, and that do their jobs with ethics, with integrity, and that, by the way, do this despite the fact that it would be so much

easier to go on the other side. Um, I've I've talked to all my friends about this here in New York. It'd be so much easier if I were liberal, and it it's so straightforward to I know all their arguments, I know them backwards and forwards. I could make them. I could be a sellout. I could be there. Oh I used to be a conservant. Run to the other side. I just couldn't live with myself though. I couldn't look

at myself in the mirror. But you all have a voice, and you all have a vote in how this goes. Whether it's by continue you know, tweeting out and sending emails about how you stand with Laura, or by listening to this show, checking out our SPA websites, buying some of the some of their products and offerings. I mean, that's that's how you show your support. That's how you

get into this fight too. So I'm happy for lord Ingland that she's coming back, and I'm also happy that we've all realized what's really going on here with this Parkland student movement that's being abused by adults for political purposes. All right, we're gonna hit a quick break. Your team will be right back. Stay with me. You are now entering the Freedom Technical Operations Center. All sensitive programs must be kept strictly. Need to know Team Buck is cleared

and ready for the Buck Brief. We're knocking the hell out of Isis will be coming out of serial like very soon. Let the other people take care of it now, very soon, very soon, we're coming out. We're gonna have ad of the Caliphate as they call it sometimes refer to his land and taking it all back quickly, quickly. But we're going to be coming out of their real suit, going to get back to our country where we belong, where we want to be. There's three thousand or soul

fighters still left between a Rock and Syria. We've got to clean that up. We have to help the region in Syria there, the Eastern region, stabilize itself and recover. If we don't, I guarantee you guarantee that Isis will re emerge, and it will be another jolt in the arm and their barbarism will start all over again. The second thing that will happen is we will be turning Syria over to the Russians, to the Iranians and Hezbollah, and they will encroach on Israel and as a potential

war on the horizon between Israel and Hezba. President Trump renewed the relationship between the United States on the Sunni Arabs. If he pulls out of Syria, he's doing the very same things that Obamas did. Letting our Sunni Arab allies down makes no sense to me. There you had the current commander in chief, President Trump saying that we are getting out of Syria soon, and a former four star general, Fox News analyst Jack Keane saying, look, we leave Syria entirely,

isis is going to re emerge. And I'm here to tell you they're both right. I'm here to tell you that Trump needs to get our troops out of Syria. We can't have another situation like we do in Afghanistan. We can't be there trying to build a better country for people who won't do it for themselves or who are unable to do it for themselves. The world is a cruel and unfair place. U S soldiers do not join in order to create countries for other people. Aren't Americans who do not want to do the work of

creating their own polity that is worth fighting for? That is that not the purpose of our military and we've done enough of it recently. Um And I think that Trump has the right instincts with this. Okay, finish the job against ISIS, but you gotta go do I think General Keene is wrong that ISIS will re emerge in some capacity. No, but we already have a near permanent in a sense. I mean, it depends on how you want to gauge it. But US military presence in Iraqs

not going anywhere anytime soon. That's right next door. We can't be everywhere. We can't be the world's insert counterinsurgency force. We can't be suppressing every jettest movement around the globe.

Even if we were, let me say this, even if we stayed in our current force posture in Syria right now, there would be another one of the Isis, the Islamic States, satellite entities, all these ISIS affiliates around the world that would eventually get enough of a lee eat against that national army in whatever country we're talking about, whether it's Nigeria or Libya or the Philippines, that there would be another so called caliphate in existence. That this is a

whack a mole problem. We're going to be dealing with this for my entire lifetime most likely, and perhaps well beyond that. So we need to pick our battles and not over extend ourselves. The reason this was in the headlines I should notice because we lost a soldier. I've been saying for a while, isis Syria. All this matters.

We have people in harm's way, and that means that we are going to lose some of our best and we have we certainly have in large numbers in Iraq and in Afghanistan, but we've also now taken losses in Syria. This Curtis. This is from CNN. A US and a British soldier were killed in an improvised explosive device blast in man Bidge, Syria, and this was last week. There were reportedly on a classified mission to kill or capture a known ISIS umber. According to a Pentagon spokesman in

the U s military, is we're losing. Releasing few details about the mission that killed Master Sergeant Jonathan Dunbar and UK Soldier Sergeant Matt Tonrow, it certainly looks like a Tier one elite military h VT High Value target mission going after one of the baddest of the bad and we lost two of our best to an I E. D. Now, this is going to happen, folks. It's tragic, it's terrible. We mourn their loss and we comfort and support their families in every way that we can as a people.

But if we're gonna be going after these savages who run the Islamic State and other jihaddest groups, we are going to take losses in casualties. Now, the current force posture in Syria is pretty lean and mean. We do not have that much, at least not that much that we are allowed to know about in Syria. And so to me, it's not in it's not urgent that we pull out all the soldiers who are currently there, but we need to not get sucked in deeper and deeper.

And yes, it is it is true that Russia is more entrenched in Syria than we are, and that's going to continue to be the case. It is true that Iran is more entrenched in Syria than we are. That is going to continue to be the case. We can support good guys on the ground in Syria, we can support the Kurds. So we have largely I think UH ignominiously abandoned in recent months, or not necessarily abandoned, but

certainly haven't stood up for enough. But we we can't have this be yet another nation building project, and we don't even know what the next phase is supposed to be. Against the Assad regime, We're just trying to keep it from being a launch pad for international jihad. And this is where you start to get into the very unsavory discussion about well can we leave behind a weekend? Enough isis that Assad and Syria? You know we'll keep them

in check. And if we keep US special forces and UH operators, including special forces next door in Iraq, perhaps we can keep this from spiling out of control. Again. There are no easy answers, there are no perfect answers. That's why I'm telling you Trump is right and General Keen is right. All right, we gotta hit our three. We'll be back in just a few stay would he's holding the line for America. Buck Sexton his back, another presidential statue bites the dust. Welcome to our three of

the Buck Sexton Show team. I've been telling you for a while, and you've been seeing it yourselves, and you've been telling me because you know it's true that there are now no outer limits to the why washing of history that's going on with the pull down of various statues, everything from Robert E. Lee to now Christopher Columbus, the fight over mascots, all kinds of accusations, of microaggressions. All of that is happening and continues to get more and

more absurd. At first it was all about Confederate monuments and some professional sports teams and college sports teams mascots, but now it's just going after historical figures. Now it is a political movement underway where progressives are leaning on marginalized groups to be the vanguard of an effort to pull down statues they don't like. And wherever you are across the country, this is probably coming soon to a town near you, if it hasn't already hit your town.

So the latest is McKinley. I know some of you are probably thinking, Buck, what's the big problem with McKinley. This is not someone who owned slaves, not someone who was part of the wrong side or the of the Civil War or was. You know that there's nothing about him at first glance that would make you think that McKinley statues have to come down. But sure enough, that is in fact what's happening. There's this little town I've never heard of before called I don't know if it's

Arcada or Arcata. I'm gonna assume it's Arcada because I like saying that one more. But it's right on the coast of California. Small town of you know, in the thousands of people. But they have an eight and a half foot bronze statue of William McKinley. Now, for those who don't know, McKinley was president until he wasn't in nineteen o one when he was assassinated did by an anarchist.

This was on September six one. He was the president of the United States and he was on the grounds of the Pan American Exposition at the Temple of Music in Buffalo, New York. He was murdered assassinated by a fanatical anarchist named leon Chial Goosh. Now I won't get into too much of the Yeah, you know, Chila Goosh and Gutcho, who killed President Garfield, are really the the

lesser known of the four presidential assassins. Everyone knows John Wilkes Booth, and everyone knows Lee Harvey Oswald, but Gucho and Chill Gosh are kind of lost to history. But you think that McKinley might get a little bit of I don't know, a tie goes to the Runner philosophy because you've got a guy here who was assassinated while US president. He doesn't have that much that's named after from only president to come from the great state of Ohio.

And just recently, under the Obama administration, officially lost the designation of the tallest mountain in in in Alaska. So Mount McKinley is now Denali. But he's even gonna lose his or has lost his statue in this little very liberally heem he's he's Califonia, even he's lebu sing Califunia, this little liberal place named Marcada. They're getting rid of McKinley. And now you're probably thinking, Buck, why what grave sin has McKinley been guilty of in the past? That they

have to pull down his statue. Right McKinley, as I said, not even alive during the Civil War, never owned slaves. Wasn't some segregationist. Oh, it's about his treatment, or rather his policies in dealing with Native American people's. Native American groups are the ones who want McKinley's statue on for quote settler colonialism that savaged, raped and killed. So it's just a a very generic general opposition to McKinley for being a president at a time when bad things were

done to Native Americans. Let me just say that if this is now the standard, and I suppose it increasingly is becoming the standard, we can't have statues of anyone who was involved in the founding of this country. We can't have statues of anyone on either side of the Civil War. We really can have statues of anyone until

about twenty or thirty years ago. No scratch that. I don't think we could have statues of any president except for Barack Obama, because Barack Obama would be the only one who, while in office, wouldn't have been in opposition to same sex marriage. Oh but wait a second, Barack Obama opposed same sex marriage when he is trying to become president, so he also is a human rights criminal by contemporary standards. So who can we have statues of

I guess just Native American peoples who are oppressed. You know, you start to take this to its its own logical ends, and you see that there is no end, There is no stoppage, there is no outer boundary for this. It's just a question of power. It is a question of using the victimology of the left for rewriting our history

and trying to dictate our present. I just wonder if it would be considered acceptable at this point for progressives, or or if it is necessary for progressives that we rename any states from which we have derived that that come from uh, British or Dutch place names. So we have to get rid of New York, for example, we'd have to get rid of Virginia. We would have to you just go down the line. We couldn't call it Washington, d C. Or Washington State because he owned slaves. Are

we supposed to rename everything now? Are we supposed to only have statues that are what heroes of the twentieth century civil rights movement? And then homages to the oppressed and victimized Native American peoples of this country. Is that really the only part of our history that we are allowed to celebrate or even memorialize in any meaningful way? This is crazy. But you see this on Columbus Day. Now, you see this with various presidents. You see this with

the founding fathers. Just wait, give it time. They'll go after Lincoln too, the man who presided over the eradication of slavery. I also just can't help but notice that the double standard here, the hypocrisy is stifling. How is it that McKinley is a subject for leftist ire right now? Which, by the way, how many Americans even know anything about McKinley.

Some may know that he was assassinated and that there was a big mountain named after him, But after that, I'd be willing to bet that most folks would kind of scratch their heads. And if they even knew that the guy was president, you'd have to assume, all right, you know, not a bad showing based on what the

general crowd knows. But why is it that I don't see any movements in California or New York in the bluest of the blue states to take down, eliminate, remove all statues that have anything to do with Franklin Dental Delano Roosevelt f d R. F DR sent Japanese Americans into internment camps, not in the nineteenth century, not in the eighteenth century, but in the within living memory for well, uh, some Americans at this point, it was not that long ago. I often have to use a roadway here in New

York City called f d R Drive. There's the f DR Rose FDR Memorial on the title basin. In Washington, d C. There's the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, d C. Which I believe is for f d R and not for Teddy Roosevelt. There are lots of schools and bridges and streets all named for f DR. He engaged in what is obviously racial profiling, racial discrimination, and just outright racism in the context of the day and in the context of today. So why is there

no outrage? Wire is there no outcry? Oh? That's right because leftists and cultural mark exists in this country have elevated FDR, have rewritten the history to suggest that FDRs programs of massive government and of the redistribution of wealth and the creation of these enormous bureaucracies that all of that saved the country was economically successful and put us on a path towards the progressivism of today. So they're willing to overlook FDR's misdeeds. But now they're going after McKinley.

And I think this is this much is obvious, right. If they can go after McKinley, they can go after any historical figure they do not like. In time, they'll decide that because Ronald Reagan was for traditional marriage, he was a human rights violator and should be stripped from all public monuments and memorials. And I'm not saying they'll always get their way with this, but they will try.

They'll pushing and pushing, and over time they hope to change the culture and change the conversation enough that they can get their way. But if McKinley and his rather tragic administration, one of the four U S presidents to have been assassinated, if even his legacy is going to get caught up in the culture wars of today, nothing is safe, nothing is free from it. You can't assume that there is any historical figure until at least the

last few decades maybe even the last few years. Who won't be a subject of controversy for leftist activists in the future. They put a rope around McKinley the statue and they tore it down. They'll do it to more places. Unless we push back rolling into quick Break, team will be right back. Ye forgot climate change. Genetics is the most contentious field of science right now, bar none. I had a lovely Sunday. I went to Easter service with

my little sister. We're in different parts of city, so the sextons went to different churches, but I went with my sister and then we had a nice family dinner for Easter. And one of my brother said that he was taking one of those tests where you spit into a tube and you send it in and you get your ancestry readout. It's genetic testing. Now, that just sounds like some fun, and we're curious to see what the breakdown is. We were all taking some educated guesses last night.

But there are much more powerful and contentious tests that are gonna start aren't coming to an Internet service near you, that don't just measure your ancestry, but are starting to

measure intelligence. This via i Q and if you've read anything about the science of i Q, it is overwhelmingly time and again proven that i Q is largely inherited, and that i Q, which they sometimes referred to as G just the letter G as the variable for it as a means of trying to measure i Q. That i Q correlates with all kinds of life decisions and life achievement now correlates does not mean cause you could have a very high i Q and lead a miserable

and unsuccessful life. You could have a low i Q and have an incredibly successful and happy life. But there is something there, and it is based on the science, much more likely to be a function of your genetics, as much as a lot of people don't want to hear that, than it is your environment. The nature nurture conversation is one in which one side presents analysis of numbers and scientific findings and controlled experiments again and again and again, and the other side just says that's wrong.

And the moment they start looking at aggregate i Q data among populations, sure enough they will say that's racist. And you get into some very sensitive territory here where no one really wants to be treated like some kind

of bigot or eugenicist. By making the case that i Q is largely inherited, it is genetic, and that in the aggregate, as explained in Charles Murray's book The Bell Curve, there are mean meaning average, not true in every case by any means, mean differences between various races when it comes to y Q. Just to state, by the way,

what the Bell Curve is about is to come under suspicion. Now, just to tell you that I have read the Bell Curve is in progressive and I mean progressive intellectual circles, almost like saying, you know, I keep a copy of mind comp somewhere just in case, put aside for a moment that you actually should read mind Comps. You have an understanding of the evil of Hitler and his ideology. Right, the same reason I would read mind comp is that why I read isis and a sort of jihadest groups propaganda.

But one side of this debate on i Q isn't interested in greater information and scientific discovery. They view this as an issue of politics and righteousness. And that's why once some of these tests become available for consumer use, inexpensive and you can get a sense of your i Q. Oh, and by the way, also your genetic predispositions to a whole bunch of things, different diseases like arthritis and diabetes

and heart disease. Oh, that's right. Weight. Now, I'm veering away from the science for a second, but I will tell you this because I read obsessively on some issues, and particularly some areas of health. Weight is one of the most oversimplified issues by many in the well not necessarily scientific community, but that people who think they are educated, when in reality, everybody metabolizes differently, has different levels of sensitivity,

different levels of insulin resistance. This notion that you or I are as likely to gain weight or drop weight from a certain caloric intake in certain foods as the person next to us is about as scientific as saying, well, you know, I'm going to be as tall or when I was when I was a baby, I was going to be as tall as every other baby in the nursery.

Calories in, calories out matters, But how your body processes it is different for every human being, Just like how no matter how much I tried, I was never going to be an NBA level basketball player. I wasn't going to be tall enough. I wasn't going to be able to jump high enough. It was a function of my personal genetics. But we live in a society that almost fetishizes the notion of we all are exactly in every way equal. Not equal in the eyes of God and

equal in the eyes of the law. Those are two things that we are, or at least should be with the law, but equal in terms of our gifts and abilities. It's just not true, and it's not helpful for everyone to go through life believing the they only worked a little harder, they could also be a genius mathematician. If they only spend a little more time in the gym, they could also reach, you know, Olympic levels as a sprinter. The science on all of this is already clear and

only going to get clearer. Genetics really do matter when it comes to ability, and that includes intelligence. It doesn't mean they determine it, and it doesn't mean that someone is any more or less worthy as a person. But we need to stop shouting down scientific discovery in this area because it makes us somewhat uncomfortable and opens up a lot of difficult areas of discussion for public policy

analysis and society as a whole. If we just treat each other as individuals with our own individual gifts skills, and treat each other as the sum of our actions and not our ancestry, will all be fine. But we shouldn't pretend that the science is not clear on this, because it is genetics matter, especially for intelligence. He's back with you now because when it comes to the fight for truth, the fuck never stops. You know, it's a little late in the show, team, but I think it's

time for a buck slap. That was like you never is even catch actually very simple. Wow, that is quite a That is a series of slaps. That's like the thousand hands slap. You cannot defeat my woo shoe style. Alright, So Acosta, you all know Acosta. He is among the

most grandstanding of grand standards at CNN. He is the one who complains when CNN doesn't get question Gingie, you have to pull over the we ambulance for Acosta sometimes because he's used to the Obama administration where CNN was a favored not necessarily favorite, but certainly a favored media outlet. And now sometimes you know, they gotta stand in line with the rest of the hard working Journalists of America, and it doesn't like he doesn't like that very much.

But this past weekend, on Easter Sunday, no less, Jim Acosta decided that it was time to to press the president for answers. While the President, the First Lady, and some children were out on the White House lawn painting Easter eggs. I mean, this is the kind of presidential pageantry that you know, take it or leave it. But everyone kind of understands what this is. Right with some kids painting some Easter eggs, but not a costa man.

He wants answers just the president. What about the doctor kids? Should they worry about what's going to happen to the serve? Didn't you kill DACA? Sir? Didn't you kill data? That's the time it to get a get a sound bite going when he's painting the Easter eggs with little kids. Now I understand they'll say, oh, it's their right, it's the First Amendment. They're trying to just speak to the

power and everything else. Let me just say that I remember what it was like during the Obama administration and if a member of the press pushed too hard, you remember, I think it was that guy from the Daily Caller, actually who when Obama gave a speech in the Rose Garden, he just at the end tried to get in a question when Obama didn't want to take questions, and oh, there are such an outrage. How dare you, sir? How

dare you ask questions of the great Barack Obama. It's terrible you would do such a thing, how uncouth, how barbarous. But now that it's the Trump administration, all the old rules no longer apply. The hypocrisy from the media is endless. But you have at least one person who's not letting it well. I'm obviously not letting it slide because the costa guess the buck slap. But we have one person out there who has also decided to call out Acosta

on Twitter. Uh, Brad Parscal, who is Trump's campaign manager and kind of looks like a guy who might be from the show Sons of Anarchy. I'm just saying it's not who you would expect to be the campaign manager. Like if Parscal wasn't wearing a suit and all of a sudden threw on a cut off, you know, a sleeveless leather jacket and had a big gang emblem on the back. You'd be like, he's part of the you know something something writers. I don't know any cool any

cool names from the Sons of Anarchy. I only saw a couple of episodes. I should go back and watch more. I know, guys, my list at this point. You'll notice I don't ask for any more show recommendations because our list is long at this at this juncture. But Parscal tweeted out, maybe it is time for a Costa to

get a suspension for breaking protocol. And then Parsqual uh well pars out with that, and then a Costa came back and responded, um that he was just doing just doing my job, he writes, which is protected by the First Amendment of the Constitution. You might want to give it a read. Yeah, that's right over over at CNN. The rules are constantly changing, and they have decided sure enough that whatever they have to do to get in a sound bite that shows their opposition to Trump, they

are absolutely willing to do. So. You know, I was just telling some folks over the weekend when I was in Indiana, we had some Q and A at this talk tank session with with WHOA WHOA station out there are are fantas pastic affiliate in Fort Wayne. And you know, I was sitting around and talking to some of the folks, and I was trying to explain how I think Twitter, for all of its shortcomings, because it is an echo chamber of stupidity, a lot of the time, has been fantastic.

It allows the president to go right around the media and go right to the people with whatever he feels like saying, doesn't have to call press conference, doesn't have to and it just gets out there into the public domain right away, which is great. I'll talk more about

Twitter come up in the next segment. But also it is the thing that has finally shattered the falsehood that the media has been running with for so long that their journalists are in fact unbiased, that they just do, you know, down the middle based on the facts, just the facts and all the rest of it. Because when you got a guy like a Costa who makes it very clear from his Twitter account how opposed to the administration he is, he can't do that at nine am and then at six pm up here on the news.

Oh I'm just a news anchor, I'm just here. I'll tell you what happened today, and I'm about as unbiased as a weather man. Well I would not. I think even weather men, because of climate change, in many cases, are politicized. And I'm not particularly happier right now because weather men gave me bad news for today. I'll get to that later as well. Um, But nonetheless, things are moving along with Acosta and all the rest. They can't hide anymore. We get to see an online, real time

record of their thoughts. We get to know where their biases really are, and as much as they can try to hide them, now they're out there for all of us. They're really a matter of public record. And so I think that's fantastic for this business. And it's really why CNN is in these paroxysms. The dope word, isn't it paroxysms? Come on, John, you can give a little nod of that. Well, that's pretty good. Pull that out of nowhere. It's not

like I got a list here paroxysms of age. It's because they are no longer able to pose as what they had in the past, which is the down the line journalist, the gold standard of journalism, all the rest of that. So, yeah, Acosta receives our buck slap of the day. There'll be more this week, don't worry. And John, can we do someone. I really like that particularly um exciting buck slaps. We need to get some more of

those going here. That one gets me fired up. I really love it makes me feel like I want to put on my ke and go to the dojo and study with the Shadoshi. Quick break, we'll be right back with roll call. I almost couldn't believe it. Well, woke up this morning in New York City and there was more snow coming down. Oh gosh, you know, it just

seems unfair Forran say. Thanks to everyone out in Fort Wayne, Indiana who hung out over the weekend, I was able to meet some of the wo WOA family out there, and thanks to the whole team at wo wo Radio in Fort Wayne, we had a really fun talk tanks. I got to meet some fantastic Hoosiers not Indiana and Inns which I had to figure that one out. And it was a great weekend though eight no less than

two rebis. I wanted to get the full scope of Indiana Ribby steak, so Friday I had just a classic Ribby and then Saturday I had a tomahawk, which I'm sure is a microaggression or bone in Rebby. So two Rebby's and forty eight hours means Indiana, you get a big high five, and I hope I get a chance

to come out and hang out again soon. It reminds me I think next on the list is going to be Austin, Texas to go see the folks at k lb J. But Buck Takes America will continue, piece by piece, and with that, you know what time it is, It's time for roll call. Yeah, groove of tunes. I love that style of music. I think it's big band, although I might be getting that one wrong. But one day I'll throw a big party and we'll have a live band and they'll play tunes like that, and you know what,

maybe it'll be a Team Bucapalooza events somewhere. I've got all kinds of fun ideas, So stay tuned for that. All right, Let's get into it if you want. Let's get into it out in a while. Of a sudden, I sound like a foreigner, but uh, if you want to send me your thoughts Facebook dot com, slash buck Sexton and please team, I would encourage you, especially in this day when you have the President of the United States putting out policy pronouncements via tweet. Sign up for

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he writes book. I follow about a half dozen podcasts, from political commentary to old time radio shows, and there's just one I never miss, the Buck Sexton show, just saying keep up the good work, well, Kevin. That is really kind and I greatly appreciate that. So please do uh please do continue to listen and spread the word and and it means a lot. Let me tell you, I've got some projects that you'll be hearing about coming up in the next few weeks, certainly the next couple

of months. And it keeps me going late into the night, and it keeps me able to, uh, you know, keep miss Molly on my side even though I she she goes to bed, and I'm usually up working for another two or three hours every night. That's how we at that's done. So thank you for your kind words. Uh Chris writes, I'm a longtime listener and I was listening to your Thursday podcast where you talking. You're talking about how you wish there was a sitcom with an all

American family. My wife and I feel the same way, and we have recently acquired the complete series of Home Improvement. It is older, but a great show to watch without having politics shoved down your throat. It is Tim Allen playing another great American family man. Love your show and shields high well, Chris, I will check it out. So thank you very much for the for the kind note,

and please keep listening. David. Next up here, he says, Buck, please think about making oss shirts with a military World War two theme to them. Uh, David, that sounds great. We are revamping our gear, we are revamping our website, so we're working on all of the above. Thank you for the suggestion. Um. Next up here we have uh Michael, who writes, by the way, you were way off base

with your discussion of Spanish Harlem. It's not a new phenomenon. Uh. The song Benny King released Spanish Harlem in nineteen sixty mostly Puerto Ricans and some Dominicans, and Michael is correct. I so I stand corrected on this one. It is in fact the case that while Compton, which is a well known predominantly African American neighborhood in Los Angeles, has recently, in the last fifteen twenty years or so, become almost entirely Latin American, uh, Spanish Harlem has been Spanish Harlem

for quite a long time. There have been some other demographic changes in New York that are more recent. A part of northern Manhattan, for example, has become much more heavily Dominican, and there has been a lot of demographic inflow from Latin America. Uh. But Spanish Harlem stretches back much further than the recent decades where you've seen demo graphic change a lot of these cities. And there you have it. See if I get it wrong, I'll let

you know and we correct it. But savor the flavor, Michael, because it's not gonna happen again. By the way, just a little bit of trivia. Before it was Spanish Harlem, it was actually largely Italian immigrants in that part of what is now Harlem Northern Manhattan. Now I want to switch gears and get into some of the emails we get. Remember official team Buck at gmail dot com. That's official

Team Buck at gmail dot com. If you want to send us your thoughts the email in set of Facebook, and we are still working on setting up a voicemail inbox where any of you who have thoughts, if you have an action movie quote for me, for example, or anything else, we can leave that voicemail open so those of you who don't get to listen live can always join in on the fun when you can. This email comes courtesy of Larry here right Steer Buck love your

show and the Shields High Stories. I've only been listening to your podcast for about two months, but I knew who you were from your guest toasting for Glen, Shawn and Rush. I just didn't know you had your own show until I found your Shields High Posts. I've collected laundry list of items I wanted to mention. Some maybe a little stale, but I don't write often to radio shows. Um Nancy Pelosi's whining about bonuses into permanent wage hikes is a bad idea. The Dems could just undo tax

reform and tax your new wage increases. It should stay as bonuses, so when the tax cut ends, so does the bonus. That would make a clear linkage to demn policy and your salary. Twice recently, use the word archaic when you when the context of your usage would have implied arcane was the word you meant. Not a big deal. You generally have excellent use of language. I'm sure you're correct. Well I shouldn't say I'm sure you're correct, but that

sounds like something I might have done. Those words are pretty close. Archaic means essentially old fashioned. Arcane means kind of obscure and not understood by very many anyway. Larry closes it up with keep up the good fight, Larry you Oha. Thank you so much, Larry for the kind email. And always always let me know if you think I missed one, even if it's just a word. Gotta keep it here in the Freedom Hunt. Uh Cathy, who is

original Saturday Squad O s s down in Georgia. She writes, Hey, Buck, I just listen to your podcast from Thursday and your review of the TV show Roseanne. Well, I don't care for the show myself. I heard your description and what you believe would make a great sitcom for conservatives. I just wanted to let you know that the show you described is called Last Man Standing with Tim Allen. We

got another vote for Last Man Standing here. The show was funny and witty and I still watched the reruns today. If you have not watched it, I should. I suggest you do, as it will prove to you a good conservative sitcom can be made. There are rumors all over the web the powers that be are thinking about bringing the show back. I hope they do. Cathy Oss down in Georgia, Kathey, I'm gonna check it out for sure.

I've got some time coming up on the road where I'll be solo traveling, and that would be a great time for me, assuming this is on Netflix or Hulu, to catch up a bit with the show. And now we've got an email in from Chuck, who writes first great show. See Chuck as a wise man. He knows you know. You gotta butter up the host a little bit, and then I'll read you guys correcting my grammar and

my usage of vocabulary. But first you gotta, you know, a great show, or you've just got to say something funny, all right, he writes. I agree, we must be careful how we treat Russia right now. They are not the bold Russia surrounded by a safety blanket of buffer states of the nineteen sixties Cold War. This is a vulnerable, threatened country who surprisingly feels bullied. I feel there are two incidents in Russian history that should not be ignored.

These incidents are the Mongol domination, invasion from the east and the Western invasion of the Swedish russ Both these events left the Russians feeling vulnerable and fearful. In short analysis, I think these events leave the Russians feeling insecure when they are not surrounded by a buffer of people who will suffer before them. I have witnessed this in dealing with Russians. I know any suggestion of Russia as less

than anywhere else brings a very chilly result. The same statement to say a Brazilian will get a huge laughing agreement. Oh yeah, we're a wonderful mess. Yeah they are freaking and I can tell you everyday Russians do freaking out. And I can tell you everyday Russians do not understand why their public enemy number one world wide, worldwide, all that paranoia and a huge arsenal of nuke weapons. Uh.

This is from Chuck in Grand Rapids. Chuck, great email, and you're correct about the Russian sense of territorial insecurity. Maybe that's an issue that will return to and maybe John Halford mckinder can provide some of that analysis for us. What's that all about? Are we gonna get all geopolitical here in the Hut? You know the answers, Yes, but not today until next time. Shields high