No Retreat, No Surrender

up on The Buck Sexton Show. This is the Buck Sexton Show, where the mission or mission is to decode what really matters with actionable intelligence. Make no mistake America, You're a great American Again The Buck Sexton Show begins. No, I Horrison. They should they're not happy. Where should they go? It's up to them or wherever they want, or they can stay. But they should love our country. They shouldn't

hate our country. You look at what they've said. I have clips right here, the most vile, horrible statements about our country, about Israel, about others. That's up to them. You can do what they want, they can leave, they can stay that they should love our country and they should work for the good of our country. Welcome to the Buck Sex and Show. Everybody. Trump not backing down an inch, not saying sorry because he knows, he knows

what's what's he really gonna do? How's this really gonna go? Oh? He says, you know what, I'm sorry that was racist, And then they're gonna say, Wow, Trump has really turned a corner. He's a better, brighter, warmer, fuzzier Trump. Now, maybe we'll stop saying that he's a trader or racist or rapist and a psychopath. Maybe they'll stop. Oh no, they won't stop any of that. Remember we play now

by Prince Geoffrey rules from Game of Thrones. Politically, they want you to bend the knee so that they can finish you off. They want you to apologize so that your career is ruined. And then they'll say, see, he

apologized exactly like a guilty person would. That's how they do this now, And I'm sorry, I'm not willing to play the game of Oh, we're gonna care about political rhetoric now, we're gonna care so much about about the specific, specific intonation of every utterance from this White House or

from this president. When we just had an attempted mass casualty terror attack at at an Ice facility in Washington State where the guy left a manifesto in case you didn't know, because you probably don't because the media is not talking about this, where he was like, yeah, I'm Antifa, and I did this because of the concentration camps were

running at the border. So effectively, an antifa left wing Democrat voter who thinks AOC tells the truth tried to kill a bunch of federal agents and maybe a whole bunch of other people by blowing up a building in Washington State. How much how much coverage has that gotten versus Trump effectively mouthing off on Twitter about a bunch of annoying members of Congress who clearly do have a real chip on their shoulder about this country and have

real deep seated animus toward America in general. You might say, well, Buck, you know that's there are members of Congress, and I'm sure they love the country in their own way. Yeah, well, you know plenty people love countries. People that want to take over other countries might not really like that country, but they think if they run it it'll be fine. They think if they're in charge, it'll be great. They'll

change it all, they'll make it all better. And all this talk about justice and equity and all these things. We had a Democrat administration for eight years. Where were the improvements in justice and equity and social justice, all these things we heard about. How did any of that get better? Because people aren't priced out of the insurance market anymore because of you know, single because of not single power, because of no prexisting conditions. Okay, well, you

know that's one thing. But I don't think that really did nearly as much as a lot of people would have thought. And I also think that now that president has decided that he is in a fight with an opposition that knows no rules, gives no quarter, and does not care as long as they win, and that's going to be his approach. Now we can all sit around and say to the president, you know, maybe you should be nicer to the other side and they'll be nice too. I think I think that would be foolish. Do I

wish the president would avoid saying things that are demonstrably incorrect? Yes? Do I wish the president would phrase things differently sometimes? Yes? But I also feel like we're asking Trump, and we're asking this administration those around him to fight these messaging

battles in the sense where they're completely Outgune. I mean, they've got the entire media against them, They've got all of Hollywood against them, and we're saying, well, they win most of the time, but sometimes when when something goes astray, we want to come down really hard on this administration. I just think that that's not helpful. And I'm seeing a lot of people, Republican members of Congress and different conservative commentators that are giving Trump a very hard time

on this issue. Look, I think that I know what Trump was getting at. You know, if you don't like this country, no matter who you are, you shouldn't be here because you're lucky to be here. That's what he was trying to say. Did he say it exactly? You know this also, this reminds me of It's it's a version of what happened also in Charlotte and Charlottesville. When Trump was asked about what happened, he condemned, Oh you know we're here about this. He condemned, and he condemned.

And then he said, well, you know they're they're when talking about those who wanted to pull down the Robert E. Lee statue and those who did and he was trying to say they were good people on both sides of that debate, but he was in artful, he was imprecise, and they pounced, and all of a sudden it was, Oh, yeah, Trump. No one really thinks that Trump likes the tiki torch losers. No one really. I mean maybe some people believe that, but no rational person thinks that. But that's what they

want to tell you. They want you to focus on on this. Ah, he's a racist. Ah, he's so, he's so terrible. Meanwhile, we have real problems in this country that the president should be focused on that we should be addressing. Not that are that are tweet based, but that affect the future of these United States, and really are this is a problem. It's only going to get much worse than that. Is what's going on at our

at our southern border. Right now. We have a president that we believe it would be better than his predecessors are dealing with this. Maybe you could say that he has kicked over the rock to see what's underneath, and it's a lot more treacherous than he had realized in terms of the loopoles and the just inefficient system and the judges and the whole bureaucracy set against him. But this is not going the way that it should. And Trump is saying, look, we're going to have to find

ways to get people to be more cooperative here. Foreign governments need to be more cooperative. That's work today. He said, Look, we're you know, Honduras and Guatemala. I think it was in Guatemala. They just had some Supreme court decision that in their Supreme Court that said that they can't they can't take in the refugees from Honduras and El Salvador or something. It's very convenient the Supreme Court comes up with that decision. Why can't they exactly some law that

we've got. But I think that putting pressure on those countries to do more about their migration problems or their migration problem for US is important. And Trump spoke about that as well, that you know, I do want to focus on the policy. I do want to get into what matters. But instead they just want to make this a big conversation about racism. Racism all the time. That's what they want to talk about. Here's what Trump said about Honduras and Guatemala. Let's talk about that. Twenty three

we don't give them any more money. They've been ripping us off for years. I'm not a fan. So until they shape up, we were giving them hundreds of millions of dollars like fools for years, and all they did is send us up a lot of people, caused a lot of problems, and a lot of the people in

those caravans were criminals, hardened criminals, dangerous people. And why not Why would Honduras or Guatemala or else Salvador, why would they keep their criminals when you can put them into the caravan, lose them in a caravan and send them up to the United States. We take everybody because the Democrats don't allow immigration laws that mean anything. It's horrible.

You will all recall, I believe what was it the Muriel Muriel boat lift situation with Cuba where we decided to open up for a period of time to Cuban refugees and Castro to spite us emptied out the prisons. Does anyone think that al Salvador and Honduras are you know, the people that are fleeing those countries are those who are most likely to contribute meaningfully to the US economy, to be the most productive possible. Now you can say box, that's not we can't think about that. That is what

our immigration system does. It makes these judgments, It makes these decisions all the time. So can we talk about it or not? Are we allowed to discuss the system we have or do we have to pretend that there is no system. There's just whoever seems the nicest to us. We just want to be the nice people. We don't want to do anything that makes anyone feel bad. Cutting

off money to Guando, Guatemalan, Honduras is one step. It's not going to solve the problem, but it's another step toward stopping what is happening at our southern border from continuing on. I do think that the administration understands the scope of the problem, and they have at least showed us how extreme And this is one of the great gifts of the Trump administration, as these shows us just

how crazy the left really is. They've gone full on open borders, and they want to make crossing illegally no longer illegal. They don't want anyone to be deported, they want sanctuary cities across the country. They don't speak out against the horrible things that members of Congress say about ice and border patrol. They've shown us who they really are,

and it's quite honestly frightening as an American. The Democratic Party is frightening on immigration, frightening because of the lies they tell, because of the dishonesty around their positions across the board, because of the delusions under which they operate. They're scary, and yet we have to find a way to do something with them through them in the future in order get gyting done. Trump is saying, now we're going to need what sixty senators and control the House

to get anything done. And even then I worry about some Republicans not having enough of a spine to do what is necessary here. But Trump's saying, look, the people that are coming from Central America are not necessarily the people that we would want to bring into this country throw our immigration system. And that's why he talks about

MS thirteen. And you might say, well, buck, but that's only a small percentage, okay, But we're allowed to not want the small percentage of MS thirteen members to come into the country too. This is supposed to be what's in the best interest of the American people. It is not supposed to be whatever makes news anchors at night on CNN feel like they're really really virtuous. But that's

the driving thought process. That and of course control of the government, and control of essentially making America a single party a single party state where the Democratic Party is in power and there's a enfeebled and largely irrelevant but pro form a Republican opposition that never gets a majority anywhere. That's what they're looking for, and that's what's in play right now. How many elections you think we're gonna win if you have an amnesty of twenty million illegals? Just

just do the math real quick in your head. How many elections you think? How many more states will flip blue from red if there's an amnesty? And what does a continued open borders status at our southern border do in terms of the pressures the political pressures for an amnesty. This is all obvious if you just work it out step by step in your head. The Democrats have done that work. They know, and that's why they don't care. They'll say anything. They'll say anything here Trump is taking actions.

We'll see if that's enough. You know, there's one thing I want to talk to you about when we come back, and maybe there's not a lot of focus on this. I don't know what to say. There should be a lot more. We're spending too much money, folks, twenty two soon to be twenty three trillion in debt. We are spending too much money. We used to care about this. Can just do me a favor. Let me spend a couple of minutes of time with you when we come

back addressing this problem. I'll feel better. I'll sleep more safely and warmly at night tonight if I can just tell you about what's good because this is something that the Republicans have to own. Two, we have to take some blame. I was gonna say, some control, some blame for what's happening here. And then we'll get more into this. This fight with Trump in the squad and everything. It's just consuming all the oxygen in the in the room today, all the new cycle about this stuff. So we'll work

through some of that. And then we got Turkey buying a Russian missile system that looks like Turkey's taking a step away from NATO, A big step away from NATO. I'm more like a leap got that got the BBC doing shady stuff with Iran to get access. I got all. I got all kinds of show for you, So stay around. If you're elected president of the United States, you're gonna have to go to Capitol Hill and sell this Vice President Biden instead. His plan would cost seven hundred and

fifty billion dollars over ten years. If you're talking to a lawmaker January twenty twenty one, and they say, Senator, give me a number Medicare for all, an approximate number, how much would it cost somewhere between thirty and forty over a ten year period, I'm what, thirty and forty trillion between friends, thirty and forty trillion, one hundred trillion, a jillion, a google plex zillion. It's all funny money. It doesn't matter. We're just printing it. We don't even

print it. It's just numbers on a screen. Make the numbers big up, boom done. Yeah, there's problems with that, folks. There are problems with our current fiscal trajectory. The White House is part of the problem right now. I know nobody wants to hear it. I know, don't don't touch that dial, because I'm telling you the truth. The White House is projecting a federal deficit of over a trillion dollars this year. That has only happened previously under the

Poma administration. It has never been that high before then in our country's history. Okay, a trillion dollars plus deficit for the year. This isn't sustainable. I know, we know. I came into politics and media at the during the rise of the Tea Party, and I remember all the arguments, and I remember people that really earnestly were concerned about the future of this country, about the death that future

generations would be saddled with. And right now there are a lot of things you can look at that could be the triggers for a serious financial meltdown. And by the way, if there's a financial meltdown, you know who's going to be in power when when the dust settles. It's not going to be the people that are talking about entrepreneurship and individual liberty and free markets. It's going to be people who say, we'll pay for your healthcare, We'll give you lots of free stuff. It's the rich

fat catch that caused all the problems. What could trigger this, Well, people say, what about interest rates rising? Yeah, that could happen it's going to happen at some point point starts to crowd out private investment just because we have to pay a greater interest pay off the interest on our debt. But it could be. I mean, you got a trillion dollar plus student loan bubble, was at one point six trillion,

now trillion dollars plus student loan bubble. You've got a trillion dollars subprime auto market right now, we've got a you know, the corporate debt, junk bond. Corporate debt is enormous, and there's a whole bunch of things that if one and it's just it just tumbles. The whole house of cards comes tumbling down. You just pull one out. Then all of a sudden, people get scared counterparty risk, and a couple of banks fail and boom. Now the market's

down twenty thirty percent. And guess what. They all blame Trump, They all blame the people that have been pushing for deregulation. And it's it's gonna be two thousand and eight all over again. We used to care about this, my friends. We used to care about spending too much money from via government. I think we still should care because the math says we should care, and this is there's a lot of reason to believe that this exacerbates I mean,

the whole quantitative easing program. It just inflates those with assets and inflates their balance sheets. If you own real estate, if you own a lot of stock, it's great. If you're the other eighty percent of America that doesn't have those kinds of assets, guess what your dollars are worthless. I mean, they keep saying inflation is almost non existent. That's that's because the way they measure inflation is inaccurate.

Things are getting more expensive for those who are laborers who work for their money day in, day out, for hours at a time, instead of people that are making big salaries and have a lot of passive income. It's getting more expensive. Things are more expensive. So when they talk about inflation, well, guess what. Your healthcare is more expensive, your food is more expensive, and your housing is more expensive.

They can say that there's no real inflation, or it's one percent or two percent or whatever that the Fed target is, but they're living in a fantasy land. You know this is happening under Trump. We used to care about this. We can say we don't care anymore. But let's at least be honest about that, because a trillion dollars one year deficit, more than a trillion dollars is too much money. All right, that was eating your piece

for the day. Team, We'll come back, Let's get back into the squad fight, and I won't tell you about how the economy is going to melt down, hopefully not under Trump. We've heard facilities on the US border called concentration camps. We've seen the far left throw accusations of racism and everyone anyone who disagrees with them on anything, including the Speaker of the House. We've seen a freshman Democratic congresswoman use anti Semitic tropes and imply people only

support Israel because of campaign contributions. The most vile accusations and insults against our nation have become incredibly routine, and we've seen back and forth of the past few days. I like Mitch McConnell on this subject. I gotta tell you, I think Mitch's Mitch is right on target, and he just keeps on putting those judges through. Said, don't think that Mitch doesn't doesn't do some good things for the cause.

Mitch certainly does. But I like where Mitch McConnell is on this, He saying, look, you know, and this is my feeling too. I'm just not going to be lectured on decorum and proper, proper rules of the road for discussion debate by the same people who call our border facilities concentration camps and just run around screaming about how everyone's racist all the time. And we'll use terms in

a really condescending, rude, belittling manner, like white privilege. Oh you must you know, have you had some success in life that's because of your white privilege. They'll throw that around like there's no problem. Oh yeah, that's fine. You didn't learn that you got white privilege. That's quite a thing to quantify, really, because I know I know a lot of white people that would have the same white privilege I do, and they've made very different choices and

led very different lives. So I don't know if it's all just my privilege that gets me everything right. I'm sure you feel the same way. Life is hard for everybody. We all have challenges, we all have pain and disappointment. But the group identity obsession of the left, it eradicates that it says, No, whatever you are isn't what you think you are. You are not a compilation of your choices, of your decisions, of your honor and your integrity and

your decency. That's not who you are. You're whatever they say you are are based on their version of events today and events proceeding today, the history as well as the present of the inequality that they are so obsessed with. Mitch McConnell's right, they have normalized the squad and the Democratic parties normalized the most horrific stuff. I'm sorry, no one ever what. Oh the big slur against Obama from the right that was that was used a lot was

that he was kind of a socialist. Now the Democrats are openly socialist, so you know what was was that unfair? No, they just didn't like the residence that had had because people said, yeah, I'm an Obama's kind of pushing us towards socialism. That's what he was doing. But nobody, nobody was calling Obama. I mean when I say nobody, of course, there's always some moron somewhere that thinks that, you know, Obama was actually a space alien sent here to take

over the world. I mean, there's idiots of all kinds. There's racist, there's morons. But the main thrust of criticism of Obama didn't involve things like saying he was a trader. You know. They weren't saying that he had been bought by a foreign country, a Manchurian candidate to run this country for wherever. People weren't saying he was crazy, weren't saying he was a rapist. That's stuff that's said about Trump,

and people as are will bucklers because it's true. No, it's not, And anyone who thinks that's true is an idiot. All right, Trump is not a rapist. He's never you know, if he had assaulted all these women all this time that have come forward and said, and by the way, what's the big story that we're supposed to believe? It's not Eegene Carol that blew up in their faces. So well, what's the story of Trump sexually assaulting somebody that we're

what's the name? What's the story? We'll keep hearing, Oh, a dozen women have come forward with what And then when you dig into it's, oh, Trump, you know, tried to kiss one once or you know, made a pass it one aggressively once. I mean, you know, that doesn't make him a rapist, folks. It just makes him a guy who thinks that ladies like him a little more than maybe some of them do, unless he forced himself on somebody and really committed a crime. And there's nothing

even to talk about here. But they say the most horrible things about the president the United States, and they do it as a part of trying to say that you and I are immoral as well because we support this, because we're okay, because we voted for Trump, because we'd vote for a let's be clear, a treasonist, crazy, racist, rapist. That's what they say about the presi United States. They

say it routinely like it's nothing. They say it in front of members of his family, they say it on TV, they say it from the biggest megaphones, the biggest microphones in the country. They don't give it a second thought. And now they want to tell us, oh, but Trump is so these are this mean tweet and it wasn't

really true. A blunder, Yeah, a life changing, perception altering moment for all of us that have flects are absolutely not I know what Trump's saying is this squad of squabbling democrats is full of anti Americanism, saying horrific things about a lot of very good people that are doing hard work on our border. And remember they did this with cops too. I remember the Black Lives Matter thing.

Black Lives Matter was a demonization of cops movement, and that was a primary, a primary purpose of the movement. I was at the rallies. I wish you could have see it. I debated Van Jones on this on CNN on Wolf Blitzer Show. You know, Wolf Flitzer Show never had me back after that because Van tried to pull the well, that's not true. They don't say that, and I was there. No, Actually, I have a video and

photos that is exactly what they say about cops. They do call cops murderers, they do call cops racist routinely. Oh yeah, I wasn't ready for that one. And Van is one of the I'll be honest, he's one of the smarter and more interesting scene end contributors. So there's you know, he's a lot smarter than Anna Navarro. But they didn't want to have an honest discussion about Black

Lives matter of the Obama administration. And people don't want to have an hon discussion, but immigration and board enforcement. Now they're demonizing law enforce and throwing them under the bus. And that's why their whole hero worship of Komey and the FBI and the hero it's so transparent, it's just whatever. It's all about utility for their cause at any point

in time, that's all that really matters. Now. I like what McConnell said, could could Trump maybe focus in a little more and not not, you know, put himself in a position where he has to play a little bit of defense here. And remember Trump doesn't really play defense. He just plays. He just plays offense with a hand tied behind his back. You know, he doesn't really believe, I think, in defense. But Liz Cheney, and she's really responding here to the comments of Pressley that if you

don't I can't remember the exact words. That's basically, if you're if you're a Hispanic face, but don't want to be a Hispanic voice, if you're a black face, but don't want to be a black voice who determines whose voice is legitimate the left, that's that's quite a that's quite an arrogant and I do think people would say a racist claim if if you have a certain skin color, you must say certain things or else you don't get

to speak for people of that skin color anymore. I think that that sounds like kind of textbook racism, doesn't it. And Cheney, Liz Cheney, that is not have to not Dick and Dick Cheney never really sad like him. I know that the John Stewart impersonation of Dick Cheney Jane's at the one time, or maybe once or twice I

met him. He is a very charming guy. I liked him. Um. But Liz Cheney's daughter, she's going after what's really problematic here, which is the anti the anti Americanism, and the vitriol and the nasty and the lies that are at the heart of this squad's opposition, not just a Trump, but to a lot of things. Americana Play eighteen. Our opposition to our colleagues beliefs has absolutely nothing to do with race,

or gender or religion. We oppose them and their policies because their policies are dangerous and wrong and would destroy America. The issue here is the content of their policies, and we will continue to stand up and fight against what we know is wrong for this nation. Absolutely. It is about their policies, you know, does anyone Look, I know so many conservatives, and I spend a lot of time talking to my fellow conservatives about whole, a whole slew

of things, and you know, political and otherwise. I'm sorry, but I do not know a single conservative that is any more critical of let's say, you know, AOC's version of a Green New Deal than they are of Elizabeth Warren's collectivist stupidity or Al Gore's climate change lunacy. We don't like their ideas. We don't care what their skin color is, we don't care what their ethnicity is. We just don't like their ideas. But they always want to

make it when they can about skin color. Try to throw that into the into the situation, throw that into the mix, force that into the conversation, because then it puts people who are trying to have an honest, adult discussion on the defensive. Oh I don't I don't want to be. I don't want them to call me racist. I got newsure. They're gonna call everybody racist. They were calling Pelosi racist a week ago. This is a learned behavior because they get away with the left gets away

with this a lot. They will just you know, throw out an accusation of racism, even if it's just the most frivolous, baseless thing, imagine, still will have some impact. It might work really well. So that's why Liz Cheney, who as we know, is a LGBT congresswoman who is a Republican, but she is she is same sex in her she has I believe a has a same sex partner.

She's married. Here's what she says about this. It's all about why they're wrong, not who they are when talking about the squad, and I think that this is right on target place. Seventeen socialist colleagues on the other side of the aisle are wrong when they advocate abortion up until the moment of birth, including partial birth abortion, late term abortion, and when they refuse to mandate care for

babies who are born alive. Our colleagues are wrong when they say that we should open America's borders, abolish ice, and abolish DHS. They're wrong when they advocate policies that would eliminate all private health insurance in this country, destroy Medicare, and force the American people to pay for free healthcare for illegal immigrants. Yep, wrong, wrong and wrong, wrong on policy, and also I think just wrong on facts, wrong on ethics,

wrong on everything. But these are the most prominitive voices in the Democratic Party. You know, you never hear about nice centrist Democrat congressmen or congresswomen from you know, purple states that have some ideas. Oh, that's not to get the attention. It's the radical socialist the Democratic Party to get all the attention. Why because this is really where the Democratic Party is. It is the socialist party. Now. I mean they you can say, oh about that's not true.

They're not socialists. They don't want to seize the means of production and control the redistribution of wealth. Actually they do. They just don't like the term socialism because then they have to carry with it the baggage of all these others. So that's why they have this this modifier of democratic socialism. But the Democratic Party, he is the socialist party of America.

Now there's a really very little difference between what the Democratic Socialists of America have been arguing for for a long time and what Democrats and the Democrat Party want now. Peace four women are distinctive for one important reason. I want America to know they're the only four Democrats to vote against any form of humanitarian aid at the border when that vote was taken two weeks ago. They have no moral authority to ever talk about the border and

the kids and the humanitarian crisis there. Yeah, someone should just keep hammering that point. Mckelly and Conway. She's smooth,

She's a smooth operator. She knows it's true. They like to talk about how much they care about the kids and cages at the border, but when it came time to help fund those kids at the border, guess what, they voted against it because it was more important for them to differentiate themselves from the rest of the group, to grandstand, to get more media attention, to be the the Jacobins, if you will, of the Democratic Party, to be the hardcore left, the revolutionary fringe that is increasingly

not on the outskirts, but pushing toward the center of party power, and whatever they have to do to get there, whatever they have to say. It seems to me they are willing to say. Representative Jayapal waited on this one talking about how or why Trump says the things that he says play ten the impact of his words are deeply felt across the country, and they're also felt by people who remember their own connections to their immigrant histories.

And so this is a racist, vile, xenophobic ploy to speak to I think a small part of his base, but this has been his playbook all along, personalized attack. And now he's even saying if you descend that somehow, you should go back to your country. If you criticize the country. I think descent is patriotic. I think descent is yeah, we always do this from Democrats. Sure, descent until until you have a Democrat in office. Then descent is totally unpatriotic. And we all know that's how they

play the game. I'm gonna tell you what I think Trump did here or what was motivating him. I think that he and a lot of Americans understand this intuitively get this. I think that he really loves this country and is proud of this country and does not seek to fundamentally transform it. Doesn't think that it's soaked in racism and evil and all these bad things from the past. I think things is a pretty darn good place, the

best place. And when he sees elected members of the federal government running it into the ground, dumping all over it, treating it like it should be completely broken down and rebuilt from the ground up. I think that he reacts to that as a person more than a politician. I think Trump just is sick of this stuff. And we've had, you know, we've had the the Romneyite Bush approach to the left of Oh, they can be crazy, but we'll just keep on, you know, speaking like we're at the

country club, and I'm sorry, it doesn't work. We do want someone on our side who's willing to say, you know what, stop dumping all over America all the time. This is gross. You're lucky to be here anyone who is here, not just people that have have been recent arrivals or the sons or daughters of immigrants. Everybody here is lucky to be here. And if someone doesn't feel that way, then yeah, I do think there's some questions, Well then why are you staying here? You're lucky to

be in this country. I mean every you know, I'm gonna be doing some international travel in a few days. We'll have a couple of guests hosts in on Thursday and Friday, and I'll be going to other countries, and you know, one thing I love the international travel is that feeling when I come back the US of A. I think this is amazing, and it's it's pretty much

every time I go away. The only the only exception is when I go to a beautiful beach somewhere, but that doesn't even really count because it's something I love that country so much. I just like that beach that I didn't leave for a few days, drinking margaritas until I got silly. You know. That's it. But every time I spend in an every time I go to another

country and really have to be there. I'm not saying they don't have a good time and it's not interesting everything, But I come back to this country and I always, ever without feel. I have this feeling of this place, this America that we live in is amazing. And I think that Trump just reacted. I don't think it was a political calculation at all. I think that it bothers him. I think it ticks him off when people, especially powerful people with a big megaphone, degrade this place because we're

all lucky to be here. I will always prefer to him as the occupant, as he is only occupying space. This is a president who has openly violated the very value our country aspires to upwood equality under the law,

religious liberty, equal protection, and protection from persecution. Since tweets and words from the President are simply a continuation of his racist is xenophobic playbook, we cannot allow these hateful actions by the President to distract us from the critical work to hold US administration accountable to the inconvening conditions at the border. So the first note that I want to tell children across this country is that no matter what the President says, this country belongs to you. Well,

there you have it. The squad as they are called, holding their press conference late late last evening, I think it was where they were going after the Trumpster obviously very disrespectful to the President, but we knew that would be the case. And you notice how the entire media apparatus has shifted from Trump as a trader who worked with the Russians, whoops, can't keep that law going anymo. Now Trump is a racist. And they always say that they'd like to play this game where the last people

you know is what Trump said racist? Is he a racist? Here's how I would like to start to have people answer this under the rules of the game as the Left sets them up. Is what Trump said racist? Well, sure, of course, because anything that can be construed as racist. Anything. If you can make a case, according to left that something is racist, it is racist. Just the ability to make a case that it's racist means that it's racist. That's the level of sensitivity that we're all supposed to

be operating under. I refuse to play that game. When someone is asking me if something is racist, I want to know, Okay, is a person making a value judgment about the worth, decency, integrity, merit about a human being based upon that person's skin color? And is that the way that person who is making the judgment feels about people of that skin color or ethnicity? Do you know racism is really do you judge people by their skin

color or not? Do you see somebody with a certain skin color and you think less of or more of perhaps that person? That's racism. Do I believe that Donald Trump is a racist? I absolutely do not. Do I think that Donald Trump refuses to speak about things in a politically correct fashion, yeah? Do I think that means he's going to say things that upsets leftists who want

us all walking on egg shows all the time. Absolutely do a lot of us feel like we've had enough of being told what is acceptable for us to say by people who have no good faith about the exchange, don't want to hear what we really think, don't want to hear what we have to say, just want us

all to be silent. I mean, this squad that has come together here of Pressley and to leave an Omar and AOC, they represent the hard left of the Democratic Party, identity politics based, anti American, pro socialist and just woke to the the you know, the complete degree of wokeness, whatever that would be. They're super woke and they have a lot of baggage. They bring a lot with them that I think the American people, the more they're exposed

to it, aren't on board for at all. You know, Omar Omar is probably the one with who I think the Democrats are going to They're going to regret the day that they decided that they would all be defending and holding a rop and acting like she's some very

important voice for the future. Here is here's what she said when she was asked about whether she would condemn al Qaeda, which you know she hasn't she I'm sure she would say that she can dems al Qaida's tactics, you know, I'm sure that she would have some way of saying but does she does she think that al Qaida was a mortal threat to the United States and that what we did to rout them out, to to eliminate, to take off the battlefield, to kill al Qaeda in

large numbers, which is what we did for years, and many of you listening were part of that effort. So I think that Omar really would would support that. Would she even cheer that on? No, I'm sure she thinks that al Qaida at some level is a response to American imperialism. I'm sure she thinks that. She probably would say it if you asked her. It just depends on

how you asked her. Who did the asking. You That al Qaida was supported by the US at one point, This is always a story, you hear, right, because we helped the Mujahadeen against the Soviets, and because Bin Laden joined the Mujahadeen. At one point, we we created al Kaieda. They'll say, I mean, this is this is idiocy, but it's out there all the time. Omar was asked do

you condemn al Qaida. Here's what she said, play too more in particular, but to all of you, can you respond to some of the president's specific claims, most notably that you're a communist and that you're pro Altida When he made the comment, I know that every single Muslim who has lived in this country and across the world has heard that comment, and so I will not dignify it with an answer, because I know that every single islam a fop, every single person who is hateful, who

is driven by an ideology of othering as this president is, rejoices in US responding to that, and so I think it is beyond time to ask Muslims to condemn terrorists. We are no longer going to allow the dignification of much ridiculous, ridiculous a statement. Meanwhile, a different set of rules for Republicans, for conservatives, for white males who are Republicans, are conservatives. Do you support David Duke? How many times did you hear about David Duke when it's not time

for a Republican to run for president? You never hear you never hear about this gut The guy's a loser. Nobody you know, nobody cares. He's a he's a bad dude with bad ideas who has no influence, and everybody just wishes would go away. But whenever it's time for Republican Toronto, did you condemn? Remember what a big thing they made over Trump with with you know, what do

you think of David Duke's endorsement or something? And all of a sudden, he's you know, they just do that to slime people, to slim them, because even this is the when did you stop beating your wife question that liberals get away with every election cycle, and they do it on the big Sunday shows. All the propaganda, all the crap they're peddling out of those Sunday shows set the tune in Washington. Most of those guys are jokes, by the way, who have those shows. They couldn't debate

their way out of a paperbag. They don't know anything about anything. They're just trying to look fancy for their corporate overlords and the people that they're going to go hang out with in the country club at Chevy Chase after hours. I mean, that's that's it. They really really have have no integrity in what they're doing, and in that whole process of setting the conversation for the week. But anyway, but back to you know, back to this game of when you condemn and when you don't condemn?

So she won't How easy is it? Or maybe better question, how hard is it to condemn All Kaida? Like, yeah, of course al Kaida is terrible, and you could and then if she wanted to say that's a stupid question, I'd say, all right, that's that's an okay. But no, instead she she won't condemn it. Now I don't like this will you condemn? Will you condemn? Game? In general? But let's just understand the Republicans, this all that, you know,

will you condemn this white nationalist? Well, yeah, white nationalists like the guys with the tiki torches and trials. These people are losers. They have no constituency, they have no power, they have no cultural residence to losers, So why should I have to condemn I have nothing to do with them, never had anything to do with them. Why should ANT even have to condemn them? Oh? Will will you condemn them? All? Okay? Fine,

you see this. So and so had to condemn white nationalists, probably because he's kind of close to the white nationalists. That's what they do. They're always trying to attach the spirit to people. But the good news for us is that omar Is also has problems with facts, has problems with dealing in reality, which is not surprising to anything, I'm sure. And she said, for example, well, here let's hear it from her play. This is all from the

press conference of the squad play four. This president who has been credibly accused of committing multiple crimes, including coluding with foreign government to interfere with our election. This is a president who has overseen the most corrupt administration in our history and pursued an agenda to allow millions of Americans to die from a lack of healthcare while he transfers millions of dollars in tax cuts to corporations. I mean, this is lunacy. He's quote, pursuing an agenda to allow

millions of Americans to die from a lack of healthcare. Yeah, that's what Trump wants millions of people to die. Aren't you just seeing people dying in the streets because they can't get that heart transplant or they you know, what is she even talking about. It's idiocy and this is not unique to her, But saying that Trump was credibly accused of colluding with Russia to throw the election. Does that ever go away? Do we ever have to do we ever get to stop hearing this lie? The investigation

did not show any collusion. Two year long spell counsel never should have happened in the first place. The investigation did not show any collusion. Okay, So what next? We're gonna still hear about how there was collusion? Okay, So why do we have the investigation? Oh because maybe maybe Mueller didn't find something of these intrepid members of Congress. It's just you know, it's it's all crap, it's all lies. Ah. But then we get to what really is going on here?

What is underlying this? What are they trying? What is this narrative supposed to do? Why is the left so full of itself right now? Is feeling feeling like it maybe can get what it wants to get? What does it want? Omar? Let us in on the game. I think here play three. I have not made impeachment central to my election or my tenure, but since the day that I'd gotten elected, I'd said to people it is not if he will be impeached, but when so it is time for us to stop allowing this president to

make a mockery out of our constitution. It's time for us to impeach this president. Impeach the president. Why, oh, that's right, because they say he's a racist. That's why he should be impeached. Impeach him for being a racist. I don't even know what to say about this, other than they're never going to give it up. If it doesn't matter if we win the debate, if we beat them on the battlefield of ideas. They they have to believe.

There's this part of the liberal brain now that has to think that Donald Trump instead instead of what they see happening around them in the world, which is that the country is doing well. There is prosperity. I'm concerned about how long it's gonna last. And I do think that unless we get our act together and make some changes, you know, with all the spending that's going on and this artificially low interest rates and there there are we're gonna I'm gonna listen to this show in a year

or two. I'm guessing more like two years. Like yep, we knew it was coming, but the good times were happening and nobody wanted to talk about the gathering storm. But nonetheless, what's going on right now, right now is good. So liberals have to believe that there's some horrible thing that Trump is guilty over that he's doing, because otherwise they'd have to come to grips with maybe they're just wrong, maybe they've been wrong all along here, Maybe they really

don't know what the heck they're talking about. Maybe they should just think more about what's good for the country and not what's good for their egos. But no, no, no, that's instead it's just, oh, Trump is a racist. He was a traitor. It looks like he wasn't a trader, and now they're saying he's a racist. Again, We've already been here. By the way, Trump is not a racist. He does not hate people of different ethnicities or colors. He does not think poorly of people because of skin color.

But you'll never convince them otherwise though. You'll never convince the left, the Democrats that that is not the case. It's a shame, but this is this is the what we're dealing with. Your I've got more on this, dealing with the squad in a moment, every single statement that we make is from a place of extreme love for every single person in this country. It is part of the mandate of why we ran for office and why

we got elected. Despite the occupant of the White House attempts to marginalize us and to silence us, please know that we are more than the four people. We ran on a mandate to advocate for and to represent those ignored, left out, and left behind. Our squad is big. Our squad includes any person committed to building a more equitable and just world. And that is the work that we want to get back to. And given the size of this squad and this great nation, we cannot we will

not be silent. I don't think anyone thinks they're going to be silent. I think I think we're past that. Uh, And no one is. No one's trying to silence them. So that's also just a strange place to take this discussion. There's there's no there's no group, there's no constituent saying that these members of Congress aren't allowed to speak or can't can't speak their mind on things. We just disagree with it. Also, I like with Omar, everything that she

says comes from love for you. Do you how many of you feel like you're getting a big, warm hug from Ilohan Omar. You know, huh. Everything that Omar says comes from a place of love. Just remember that as she says things like this place six. When I was in college, I took a terrorism class. Every time the professor said al Qaeda, he sort of like his shoulders went up. And you know, you know, hospitals. You don't say America with an intensity. You don't say England with

an intensity. You know you don't. You don't say the Army with an intensity. CARE was founded after nine eleven because they recognize that some people did something and that all of us were starting to lose access to our civil liberties. We need to abolish ice Woo and had all inhumane deportation and concession programs. We need to fight back against the criminalization of immigrants and those crossing the border. Oh that's all from love, folks. She says that stuff

because she loves you so much. She wonders why a professor would say al Qaida differently than how that professor would say America or Britain. But she's she's it's from love, because she loves you so much. She wants to get close to you and give you a little snuggle, give you a hug. She says that some people do something

on nine eleven. That's that's love. That's why she downplays the worst terrorist attack in the history of the world, folks, that's what nine eleven was, the worst single terrorist attack ever. I think I think that there's some fair questions about what omar really thinks of this country and that she could be elected. Look, I don't want to I don't want to go here, folks, but plenty of people in history have been elected to office who didn't love their

country and did some pretty terrible stuff. I don't want to start naming names, but there's plenty of that. You don't have to look that far that hard. So just because somebody was elected in the country doesn't mean that they represent the best interests of that country. It doesn't mean that they share the values of that country. So, yes, she is she is an American. That is a fact. She is a member of Congress, that is a fact. I think she has an obtuse and somewhat hateful view

of the country that took her in. That's an opinion, but it's such a well supported one that it starts to feel more like fact with each passing day. That's what we're dealing with here with the squad. This is all the part of the plan. Trump is a racist. Why do they want to hammer this home so much? Because they hope that people will become uncomfortable voting for this president based on the social stigma of voting for

a racists. This is electoral politics. This is not about oh please the people that are saying that our immigration and enforcement agents are like Nazis. Yeah, they really care about good faith debate and discussion. We're not all morons. This is politics. Trump is a racist. Trump is a racist. Trump is a racist. That's just that that's the message they want it to seep in so that people will say, you know what, I know Trump's done a good job,

but can't vote for a racist. They only need some people, folks. Pretty small percentage law. You know, we admit a certain number of refugees from all around the world on some fairly narrow criterion, and typically refugee status is not granted just based on the economic need or because a family lives in a bad neighborhood or poverty. It's typically defined fairly narrowly. There may be some narrow circumstances in which there is a humanitarian or refugee status that a family

might be able to give here. If that were the case, it would be better for them to be able to apply in country rather than taking a very dangerous journey all the way up to Texas to make those same points. Oh my gosh, can you believe the horrible stuff Obama was saying about asylum back in twenty fourteen. Quote Typically, refugee status is not granted based on economic need, or because a family lives in a bad neighborhood, or because of poverty. End quote. That's right, that's not asylum. That's

not asylum. What are the people coming to our southern border doing claiming that that is either a cause for some or they're just lying and saying that. They say they have a credible fear of violence, and that's all they'll say. They'll repeat the same thing over and over. I've been told this by border patrol officers. They say things. You look at them and you know, okay, well they've been told to say this. You say, well, Buck, who's

telling them? The cartels? Because the cartels have the Internet, they have a lot more than that. They have billions of dollars. The cartels have figured this out and they're controlling access to the border. So this is a scam. This is a scam that's enriching the cartels, it's taking advantage of the American people. And why is it that Obama was able to say this back in twenty fourteen and he's not a terrible, terrible guy, and now we're being told, oh, actually Trump says this stuff and he's

a horrible, evil racist for it. How is it the Democratic Party in just five years ago was right on. They were write in line with at least what I'm saying now. They were saying that then they were making these claims then. So were they racist then? Or are they just completely full of it? Have no principles and we'll say whatever they have to say at any point in time to get what they want Politically. I think we all know the answer to this. I think we

understand what's really happening here. You know, this is the big lie they always tell us. It's not a crime to seek asylum. Okay, it is a crime to seek asylum with a lie and then stay in this country and then refuse to leave once you've been given your due process. So you know, this is what they do. Though they focus in the Democrats. I'm not even talking about the asylum seekers. The Democrats. They pick a talking point, they stick to it. You know, people are not illegal.

Seeking asylum is not a crime. Yeah, that's irrelevant. Lying about your background to a federal official to get asylum is a crime. And refusing to leave the country when you have received your due process and it is clear you are not an asylum seeker, that is a crime. And it's time we finally hold the left accountable for the lies they're telling about this stuff publicly. But I have to tell you, folks, this is not good right now.

I mean the situation with Trump and the border. I mean, this is this is not what we signed up for. This is not what we were promised. And that's just a fact. And you could tell me, oh, buck, but he's done everything he can. I'm a little frustrated. The entire legislative agenda of the Trump administration was more or less handed over to Paul Ryan for the first two years, which is the most important time for a new presidency to get big stuff done. And Paul Ryan is an

open border's, free market, absolutist kind of guy. He didn't he didn't want to take any action on the boarder, and they didn't take any action on the border. There was no ledgislation passed or even attempted to be passed that would have dealt with this situation at the border that would have in any You know what they just trying to do, folks, They've all they're trying to pass legislation to increase guess worker programs, so more foreigners competing

for your jobs. That's what the current Congress is looking to do. You'll notice that hasn't gotten a lot of attention both parties because the donor class loves that both parties want to increase foreign competition for your jobs. That's that is a Republican and Democrat. And you know, you look at these h one B visas and there's a lot of nonsense in there too. They're supposed to be bringing people in who have unique skills that could not be you cannot be it cannot be found on us.

So it's not true. They just bring people in who are then prisoners of the visa system and they can't leave that job because then they'll lose their visa and then they underpay them and then a lot of them go back home. That's not the way that this is. That's not how this is to go. But there's been Look there, they're massive, massive problems in our immigration system. Right now. None of this is being dealt with. But asylum is the I mean, this is the point. This

is what's collapsing the system. Really, this is what has gone completely completely haywire. And I've played that Obama clip for you just so that you know we're not crazy, folks. What we're saying is reality. What we're saying, should it should be done here? Is what the Democrats we're saying should be done here. Until pretty recently, they're the ones who have changed. They're the ones who have radicalized. We

have not radicalized. We're just saying, I mean, here's here's Ken Cucinelli, who's the acting United States Customs and Immigration Director, talking about what's really true about these asylum seekers. Play thirteen. Almost ninety percent of the people pouring themselves into our asylum system really don't have a shot at obtaining US

asylum in this country. Will stop people who are fraudulently frankly clogging our asylum system, and Mike, we have over three hundred thousand case backlog in asylum and they're getting in the way of people who have legitimate asylum claims, legitimate persecution claims. And remember, asylum is about safety. It isn't about forum shopping, and this regulation will stop the

forum shopping while preserving safety. Another way of explaining this is that there are people who currently are have fled watching their entire family, let's say, be executed in Syria. I mean I spoke to families where that had been the case. They'd watched their children, their parents, that their neighbors executed right out in the street because they were the wrong sect, or because they were an opponent of the regime, or whatever it may be. I was in

the refugee camps in Zaucherie. I saw and talk to people that's a refuge those people, though, some of them who have and from from different situations all over the world, who are trying to get legitimate refugee status. Member your refugee. If you apply outside the US, it's asylum. If you get to the US and then you effectively want to be a refugee in house, you're already here. But the

people that want that are in the refugee pipeline. They're they're getting delayed and they're being told, sorry, you know, we can't get to your claim. We can't let you in because we got to deal with all this stuff. There is a line skipping that occurs here. There's a cost to this. There's not just a cost to the tax beer. There's a cost to real asylum seekers, people that would qualify under the system that we really do

want to help. But you won't hear. There's some Democrats now, I mean here, Mark Morgan, who was I can't remember he was acting ICE director acting Yeah, I think he was acting ICE director and he was in the Obama aministration. You know, I talked to this guy, interviewed him a couple of times. He's a sharp dude. He gets it, and he knows that what the Democrats are doing right now is an absolute abject disgrace, disgrace. And here's here's

what the administration changing this rule. They're gonna challenge us in court as you who's gonna challenge in court any new challenges. This doesn't really care about the asylum system. It's a frivolous legal challenge. Of course, we should be able to say, we should be able to determine who comes in this country and who doesn't. Who really controls our immigration system? At this point? Is anyone in charge?

Do the American people get a vote in this or is it just you know, these open borders groups, these immigration lawyers paid for by the open borders groups and the media that loves the path themselves in the back while they send their kids to schools where they're never have to deal with a you know, their kids don't go to schools, so they're gonna have to deal with recent migrant arrivals from third world countries that don't speak English. Their kids don't have to deal with that. They don't

see the migrants are at their country club. You know, when when Chris Matthews and Scarborough and Anderson Cooper are in the Hamptons or Nantucket, they're not going to see any of these refugees. They don't care. They get to feel good about themselves. Their communities aren't going to be dealing with an influx of people who not only came in illegally, but are being told that America owes you something.

It's America's fault that you had to come here, so you know, you better get your as while you're here. Of course, this is reasonable. This is what Mark Morgan's saying. This is what any country would do you. If you're a true asylum seeker, the first safe country you get to, you should say, hey, can I have asylum here? You know, you're not allowed to be choosy in this process. It's not you know, oh well, I hear that Sweden has better dental benefits, so so ship me off to Sweden

from Guatemala. That's not all this is supposed to go play fourteen. This is basic international law is that if you're if you're fleeing a country and you're seek an asylum, the standard is you seek asylum and the first country you come to that Jess makes sense, Yeah, because otherwise what you have is what we're seeing people that are passing through countries on the way to the country they really want to get to as a means of skipping the line and be the immigration system. It's not, folks,

that is not how this is supposed to go. That is not the way this was set up to play out. And I think we're all starting to finally catch on here. I think people are starting to understand what is really at work here, which is the Democrats pushing an open borders agenda that's meant to destroy the Republican Party and throw us much more quickly into a far left, a democratic socialist administration that has a free hand to do

whatever it wants for as long as it wants. We you know, one of my concerns for America right now, and I don't want to sound like a broken record on this, but we we've gotten so used to things in the last couple of years feeling like they're moving the right direction. Things are pretty good. Nothing lasts forever, folks, and you know, we we've got to at least keep things in this country on a certain a certain playing field.

You know, We've got to keep things within certain boundaries or else the next correction, the next downturn for this country could really put it on a different trajectory over the long term. I mean this, essentially, this place will

never be the same. You know, the next time that things get bad for a while, because they will, might be the last time that we think of America as a place of real individual liberty and freedom and optimism, where it's not just another sclerotic bureaucracy foisted atop people, you know, with with you know a lot of people in history and we think, oh, it's all of all of humanity is heading toward, you know, brighter days and better A lot of people have lived in countries in

fact that the rule, not the option, has been people living in countries where the government didn't give a didn't give a crap what they think. And where you're born is where you end up. There's no real upward mobility. You know, things aren't going to get better, and you just kind of learn to lower your expectations about everything and just be happy if there's food and a roof over your head. Most of the time. That's that's most of human history in nation states. That's that's been the

way it is more or less. Uh, you know, America doesn't doesn't necessarily stay as America forever. I think that we all need to recognize that. You look at a country, you look at some of the countries that had their descent into into fascism, into totalitarianism, they were relatively by their standards of their time, relatively well off and cultured. And things can turn fast, My friends, so we got to keep an eye on all this. I'm not saying it's gonna get terrible right away, but there is a

real lawlessness going on here. We've been removing MS thirteen by the thousands during my administration, and I tell my people much easier to go the other route, but I say, focus on the criminals. Focus on the people that are killing, people that are causing crime. Focus on them. Much easier just to go to general population. That's easy, but I don't do it the easy way. We're getting tremendous numbers of criminals. And yesterday it was just reported to me

before I woke as I said, how did that go? Yesterday? Didn't have to start yesterday. The truth is it started a number of days before yesterday, but yesterday was very successful. People come into our country illegally and they go out legally. Every person taken out had papers and we had court orders. What's wrong with that? If that's not what should happen. Shouldn't the Democrats? Shouldn't the Democrats advocate that we change the laws. Why should the laws stay as they are

if the laws themselves are unjust. He's talking about MS thirteen getting deported out of the country. Does anyone disapprove of that? And isn't this also a problem of having either too much immigration without enough assimilation, or having open or near open borders. This just I saw this story today about twenty two Los Angeles based MS thirteen gang members.

This is on the site Breaking nine Breaking nine one one Los Angeles based gang members charged in series of grizzly murders, including several slayings in which victims were hacked to death with with machetes in the Angeles National Forest and their hearts were cut out of their bodies. As Trump has said, you know, bad ombres right there there, there are there are definite downsides. Two are very las lackadaisical. Oh whatever, It's all fine immigration attitude. There's no question

about that. And I just want to know, are all these other countries, Canada, Australia, basically all of Europe, you know? I mean, if I was offered citizenship in Monaco or I have to pay no taxes, what I really consider it? Probably I think you have to have like a million a million liquids, so no luck for me. But you know, this is ridiculous. All these other countries have immigration systems that try to privilege the best possible people for that

country getting into the country. It's a skills or merit based immigration systems that that's the norm in the rest of the developed world. Yeah, try to become a Japanese citizen. See how that goes for You show up in Japan and say, hey, no, I have a right to be here, you know, because of World War Two and what you guys did, and they come up with some excuse. The Japanese will be very polite, very orderly, and they will show you to the next flight to wherever you came from.

It's not going to happen. But we aren't allowed to decide who comes here and who doesn't. We're not allowed to do that. And we're also apparently not allowed to say that there's any downside to a situation where people are just pouring into the country. We have no idea who they are, we have no idea what they're gonna do.

And you know, I mean m as their teams, a transnational gang that relies on recruiting from and and exploiting particularly El Salvadoran and Honduran illegal immigrant populations in the United States for horrible stuff like what we saw here, you know here, I mean, this is my you know, we're never allowed to talk about this, but you know, you look at the Los Angeles County most Wanted list. Just just just do that as a as a as an experiment, and then look and see how many of

them are illegals. Turns out there's a whole bunch of them whole I'm looking at the list right now. There's a whole bunch that either are illegal or come from communities where there are certainly a lot of illegality. And you have to look at their specific status to see if the individuals in fact illegal. But I'd be willing to guess a bunch of them are. I'm looking at some here that very likely. Folks, We'll be right back. You are now entering the Freedom Hot Tactical Operation Center.

All sensitive programs must be camps strictly need to know Team Buck is cleared and ready for the Buck brief. Turkey has been drifting out of NATO and the US

and the West's orbit for quite some time. There's been a long list of Turkish policy decisions that were certainly not not in line with our interests, certainly a slap in the face to the United States and stretching all the way back to their unwillingness to let us open a northern front in the Iraq War and the Second Iraq War, which could have changed the outcome of the war, and it could have made things go much more quickly.

And you know, who knows what will never be able to prove that one or the other, but they would not let us. And the Turks are far too friendly with Hamas. I think the Turkish turning a blind eye to what was going on in Syria for a while, especially at their border, was very helpful to the I know it was very helpful to the tens of thousands of recruits who flocked to the Islamic State. They're just flying to Turkey and driving down and just you know,

showing up in Syria. So that the Turks have been

a very fair weather friend for a while now. And I do think that there's some sense of a global political correctness that we're not as we're not as strict with Turkey as we would be with another NATO ally on these things, where we don't hold them to the same standard because Turkey's the only I guess, other than Albania's Muslim majority right, But Turkey's thought of as the as the major Muslim country in NATO, and it makes it seem that it's not that NATO is not just

some Western, at least nominally Christian Western alliance, that there's we have, you know, the Turks involved as well, which for any Mid East peacekeeping and stability operations, we could say, well, look we've got a you know, we've got a Muslim NATO state, but really Turkey shouldn't be in NATO, and

this is going to cause some big problems. The latest addition to the Turkey shouldn't be in NATO chorus comes courtesy of their decision to buy a very sophisticated Russian surface to surface to air missile system called the S four hundred. Now some of you may be familiar with the S three hundred, which had been a missile system that we had been worried about for some time getting into the hands of different Mid East regimes, including the Iranians,

and and this just makes it harder for air strikes. Right. This this is a serious challenge to Western aerial systems. So that's something that you know, you always have to remember is that the Russians will sometimes sell these systems. The S four hundred is the updated version of the S three hundreds. As I said, an anti aircraft system.

It is a self propelled I mean it looks like a almost like a big tractor with a bunch of huge tubes on the back of it, and it has who knows what the real specs are for this, I mean, there's gonna there's what they say. The operational range is about four hundred kilometers, they say, but it could be more, it could be less. I'm sure that the Russians have

classified this. The NATO name for this is the SA twenty one Growler, So we've been telling the Turks, look, don't buy the SA twenty one growler, the S four hundreds, better known as that, because it's not going to be compatible with any NATO technology. So you're going outside of NATO systems here for a very important, very expensive surface

to air missile system. There are concerns that Russians who may be involved, remember the missile system will also have to have maintenance training, and that means Russians on the ground in Turkey. There are concerns that the Russians may use then any involvement in the S four hundred system as a means of acquiring sensitive information about about our aircraft flying out of Injurlique air base. Remember, we have a big air base in Turkey Injurlique, and so there

are there are concerns over that. And then there's also the what does this mean going forward? And Trump has said that We're probably not going to sell them the F thirty five plane system, which I believe is the most expensive single weapons system in the history of the world. Right the F thirty five, the development of it, and there are some there have been problems with the F thirty five system, there have been reported on recently. But this is Turkey moving away the what people see here,

and this is a big decision. I mean, this is gonna This is a multi billion dollars shift away from weapons system that is US and NATO backed to one that is Russia backed. This is a move. It's going to create a lot of bad feeling inside the different capitals of European countries that are in NATO. For sure, Turkey is and the reason it has been an important country for a long time is its strategic location. It is a very important location for a whole bunch of reasons.

NATO already has the American made Patriot system, right. You remember the Patriot missiles. We all came to know about them during the first Persian Gulf War and they've been there since the civil war in Syria really heated up. But are tuan is saying that they need their own

long range missile system. Turkey has tried to buy its own Patriot system, but we wouldn't sell that to them, and Trump's or at least they never got a deal, and Trump said, Trump has blamed the Obama administration for that, but their Turkey's basically saying, this is what we need for our own defense. Sorry, we're going to do this. And now this might mean that we don't we don't sell them the F thirty five, which means that are they really going to be a NATO country indefinitely? I

think people have to look at this. I mean a NATO's spokesman just said, we are concerned about the potential consequences of Turkey's decision, in part because it is considered technologically incompatible with the weapons system used by NATO countries. Interoperability of our armed forces is fundamental to NATO for keeping our conduct of our operations and missions. We welcome the Turkey's working with several allies and development blah blah. Okay, well, yeah,

that's what that sounds like a NATO spokesperson saying this. Look, the problem of your folks is if we start to have a shift in Turkey away from the West, toward the East, toward more authoritarian regimes, toward Russia, then Turkey can become a kind of forward operating base, a beachhead for the Eastern authoritarian regimes right on the doorstep of Europe.

And this starts to bring up for those that know their history, a lot of you know, this feels very cyclical, right that Turkey has been more authoritarian recently under the Ertwuan regime, cracking down on journalist in Turkey is one

of the worst places in the world. I think it may be the worst in the world for imprisoning journalists that had previously been free, right, I mean, North Korea doesn't allow any journalism, but I think Turkey has switched over and is now really bad for press freedom, certainly the worst for press freedom of any country that we have any expectations of press freedom in. And they've they have an increasingly Islamist Islamist government. There was that coup attempt,

which they then aimed on Ghulanists. This guy Ghulin or ghoul rather, who was in Was he in Pennsylvania? I think there was that very the whole thing seemed kind of bizarre. There was that coup attempt. But if Turkey doesn't go in our direction, that has implications for shipping into the Black Sea, and and it could affect the ability of our ships to have free transit through the the Straits. I was gonna say Straits of horror moves.

That's obviously the Persian Gulf, the dardanelles Um, that's what we're you know this, and this takes us all the way back to well different periods in history where this has been among the most important choke points of any of any waterway in the world. Right. I mean, you look at the Bosphorus and the choke point that is created between the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, and understand

that that will matter going forward. If this is going to matter for for shipping, it's going to matter for pipelines and access to natural gas, in particular from the East. There's a lot that brides on this and Turkey keeps trending in the wrong direction, and I really do think that part of this is that the Turks get away with stuff because we kind of need to have a Muslim, a large Muslim majority NATO country to put a non

Western European American component in play. You know that right now there a lot of people looking at Turkey and saying, what is this country really doing? What's the long term? You know, I've always felt like the Turks have as a country. There's a little bit more there's a grandiosity about their sense of what the country is capable of.

I've been talking about the Turkish leadership now that they think that Turkey is a more important player than it is, and they haven't yet gotten the memo that historically Turkey was a huge power, but it is not anymore. We're gonna have to find a way to slap them down a little bit. Him in the F thirty five system not getting sold to Turkey. That's certainly one way of one way for us to show our displeasure, and then we'll have to see beyond that if there's any further

diplomatic rifts here. But Russia getting a real foothold in the Turkish in the Turkish military industrial complex. This is not something that we should ignore. This is something that's going to going to matter more going forward. And even though Putin has a very geopolitically a weekend, especially because of the depressed oil prices, he has been doing things in the interests of his country that it looks like he's out playing our diplomats a lot of the time.

I gotta be honest with you. That's and that's without talking about all that Russia collusion nonsense. This is the real Russia stuff we got to worry about. Five years ago. My son said I can't breathe eleven times, and today

we can't breathe because they have led us down. So this is from the case you may remember of Eric Garner, who was an African American man who was selling loose cigarettes on the street and a New York City Police officer, Daniel Pantaleo, who was with the NYPD where I formerly worked as a civilian intelligence analyst. But he placed Garner in a choke hold, and Garner was saying that he could not breathe. And look, this was a very at the time, a very contentious situation. It led to a

lot of protests. It was one of the cases that it was one of the cases that was part of the Black Lives Matter movement that would always be highlighted in as part of that movement, and I would I would say this about it. I'm I'm sympathetic because, first of all, no one should No one should lose their their kid. Who doesn't pose their child In this case, the guy was, you know, a grown adult, but that was his mother speaking. No one should lose a loved

one because they're selling loose cigarettes. Um. But this is a complicated situation because there's video of this and in the video when you watch it, Eric Garner does does not comply and you're not You're not allowed to do that.

You're you're not allowed to tell a police officer who is who is arresting you that you just don't want it, you don't you're not going to jail today, which is what he I think he might have even said that, but that that was the more or less the response that he gave his officer, which is, sorry, I'm just I'm just not going to jail today. Well, well, where

is that stop and start? The process is that officers are empowered by the state or in this case, the city, but the city as a subsidiary subsidiary of the state, to arrest you if they have if there's a problem cause for that arrest, right so, And whether you think that it should be illegal or not to sell untaxed cigarettes on the street, it is illegal. And when they went up to this guy, which I you know, you

can argue about that. They went up to this guy and they said, look, you're you know, you got to come with us, and then he said, I'm not going. And sure enough, he's a very large guy, he's a he's a guy who was already having, you know, a heart problems. He had a heart condition. And when they when the officer wrestled him to the ground, he went into a respiratory failure and he died. The officer did

not choke him to death. So when people talk about a chokehold, I mean that would a chokehold that leads to death would would be a function of asphyxiation. That's not what happened here. What happened is that the the chokehold that he used, which I know some people say it's not even really technically a chokehole, but you know, the way that they brought this guy down caused an escalation in his heart rate and then he went into

respiratory failure. So look, it's a sad situation. I mean, the guy, the guy didn't deserve to die the question at all. But the question is did the officer arresting him act with malice and with undue force under under these circumstances and this h Now that, by the way, they're blaming this on Attorney General bar which that's that's to be expected, I suppose, and anything to tie this

to the Trump administration. The quote here is that DJ officials did not feel convinced there was evidence approved beyond a reasonable doubt that the officer acted willfully. It's hard to thoughtfully apply specific techniques during physical confrontations with resisting parties, the officials said. The most challenging part of the case, according to officials, was proving Pantaleo's state of mind when he put his arm around Garner's neck and restricted his airflow.

So he wasn't trying to kill him, he was trying to subdue him. Is essentially the the upshot of this or that's that's the bottom line here. So you know, look, it's a tough one of folks. I mean, I feel I feel badly. I feel badly for the family of this individual. But let's keep in mind here, I think that they I think that they'll be if there isn't

already there will be a massive lawsuit. And knowing the way that the Blasia, oh sorry, there already was, the City of New York set up with Garners the state for five point nine million dollars in twenty fifteen. Yeah, this is what This became a big cause though you had Lebron James swearing I can't breathe t shirts, people saying,

you know, I can't breathe. You know, this became a much bigger issue than, for example, a case that I wrote about for The Hill where an individual was I think maliciously murdered by a police officer honestly, but he was a young white male, so it didn't get put

into the category of black lives matter. But this is where he was told to cross his legs and uncrossed his legs and crawl but don't you know, show me your hands, but crawl but uncrossed your legs in a hallway and the guy was whimpering and crying, and an officer with an AAR and there are two officers in the hallway with an r just just just wasted this

young guy. I mean, you know, because he tried to pull his h his shorts up and if you watch the video I wrote about it on the hill, If you watch the video, I mean, it was essentially an execution by a cop that had had scratched your your F word did on his rifle. Okay, is a guy. Guy's got problems, um, clearly. And I think he got away. I think he got away with with you know, with homicide honestly, but that did not get turned into a

big case. This got turned into a big case. And I think that this wasn't I think that this was a really unfortunate situation which is going to happen. And you know, ultimately, you know, do I think the officers should have like let him go sooner around the neck? Yeah, but you know, he wasn't trying to kill him, and you have to take that into account when you were looking at officer, there was no intent to murder or do or have undue harm to this individual. It's hard, folks.

We ask a lot of law enforcement and this stuff is all very politicized these days, and you know, this officer's life is never the same. And the people that say things like, oh, officers go out looking for this, they don't know what they're talking about the worst day of a police officer's life is a lethal force incident. And anybody who's ever served, and I know people in the NYPD who have been involved in that, and they say that it's it's life changing and not in a

not in a good way. So anyway, that's that's the upshot of this. You may see more talk of it because of the bar Attorney General bar tie in, but they did not put put federal charges against bring federal charges against officer Penthalia for Eric Garner's death, and the left is outraged about it. I think it's the right I think it's the right call by DJ. I do. I don't know how many of you ever watched the BBC.

I do know some Americans who think that the BBC, because because everyone has a very proper accent, that what they say must be so much more important and believable. Turns out that's not really the case. You can have a you can have a fancy British accent and be a total moron, as we have learned many, many, many times, particularly in the media world. But the BBC for some

is considered an international gold standard of journalistic credibility. Everyone who goes on there, it's just so proper, so credible. Oh yes, we're just going to report on whatever we see as journalists and we don't have any political opinions whatsoever. It turns out they do have political opinions, and in fact they tend to be overwhelmingly leftists and anti Israeli. There's that and a few other issues where you see the BBC showing what it really is. But this story,

and this is by a Yasha Ali. It's a huff Post story, but don't let that stop you from paying attention to it for a second. Here BBC accepts Iran's demand of blackout on its Persian sites amid regimes attacks on the press. Here's the story. The BBC has agreed

to condition. So this is the British Broadcasting Corporation agreed to conditions set by the Islamic Republic of Iran to not share reporting materials it gathers in Iran with its beat with its Persian language channel BBC Persian in including to an. According to an internal email obtained by huff Post, the agreement represents a capitulation to a government that has

been hostled to press freedom. The Iranian government routinely shuts down media organizations critical of the regime and imprisons, tortures, and executes journalists. The agreement was made with the Iranian government in exchange for Iran allowing a BBC correspondent into the country. It's not the first time that the BBC

has agreed to such terms. Look, journalists all the time are making decisions about who they will you know what they will report on, who they will report on, and you know how they will you know how they'll approach any given subject. And there's a lot there's a lot that journalists do that is very obviously partisan if you're going to just look at it for what it is. And they also make concessions. They make concessions for access.

They do it with different administrations. They do it with how they will tell somebody what's on the record versus off the record, and whether they'll give anonymity to sources. There's a lot of games that can be played. It all it's all just storytelling. It's the it's the presentation

of facts in story format. But I'm still very steamed about when I was in Beijing a couple months back, a few months ago now, and I saw CNN International and there's just no sense of patriotism whatsoever from CNN that the image that it projects of America to the rest of the world plays to the prejudices of a

global audience against America, and I think that's shameful. And the BBC here, which holds itself up as a as an international gold standard in reporting, is willing to take the deal offered by the Iranian regime which imprisons, tortures, murders journalists, in order to continue to have access for

its journalists. Now, if you are going to be a real First Amendment, well they don't have the First Amendment there, But if you're going to be a real free press advocate, wouldn't you tell the world about what Iran blackmails you into doing, or tries the blackmailion into doing as the news organization instead of just going along to get along. I'm sorry, but there's just so much dishonesty in the

journalism profession now, and that's why it's breaking down. That's why journalism as a as a career category, I'm not sure it really exists anymore, or it's it's ceasing to exist the way that it used to. Twenty five percent reduction in newsroom employment of the last twenty years, I believe, is the statistic that I saw, and I don't. I

don't find that the least bit surprising. In fact, I think if you look at journalism overall, because of the breakdown in the barriers, because people now can become journalists and a mass, very large followings without any institutional backing there, there's just a lot of downward pressure on these organizations and so they cave and BBC caves here because they want access to Iron. But I also think that you know, they would never they would never accept from Israel this

kind of adeal, but they'll accept it from Iran. I think there's more behind this, But just remember journalists like to pat themselves in the back for being brave, and most are. Most are really craven and pretty cowardly. The show ain't over yet, folks, keeping it real, it's time for roll call roll call time. Yes, indeed, how do it we do the roll call that we do. How do the voodoo that you do so well? It is

a spell you make me want to shoot Marcella. Hello Buck, I have followed your journey and wanting a dog from the beginning. Like you, I'm a dog nut and have been since early childhood. My favorite childhood book was the Official AKC Book of Dog Breeds, which I studied obsessively. Yesterday I heard you say that when the time comes, after marriage and kids, lol, you will get an English bulldog.

I know you're a fan of Frenchie's, Hi Lula, and now I'm wondering specifically what made you decide on an English bulldog versus a Frenchie Shields High Marcella, Well, Marcella, I'd be very happy with a French bulldog too, and they're very popular now in cities because they're just really like a smaller version of an English bulldog. I just I don't know, there's something about an English bully that I think they're the cutest. I don't have a better

answer than that. I just think they're the cutest, and they're a little bigger, a little a little heavier, maybe a little more rough and tumble. Though Frenchie's got a lot of personality for a small dog. I never understand people who are only like big dogs. Why do you only like big dogs? I know there's some dogs that look like they just crawled out of a sewer drain somewhere, and that's not good. But I mean a thirty or forty pound dog, which is what we're talking about with

say bulldogs. English bulldogs are easily thirty forty, sometimes more like fifty pounds. To me, that's a that's a that's a pretty big animal. That's not a small you know, French cheese. My mom is gonna yell at me for saying this. Frenchies could get upwards of thirty pounds if you feed them a lot, a little too much. Lula, Lula's nesting. She's in a nesting phase of her life,

trying to think one of the other. You know, my older brother has a Pomeranian, and Pomeranians are they're little dogs and they look fruit fruy, but they've got a they've got great personalities, and they're they're really sweet and kind of feisty, and they can be very they can be very chill when you want them to be. But also they'll run around and they'll hop up and down,

and they can be fun. So I've become And of course, then for those of you who are saying book what about Obviously I love labs and Golden Retrievers, and I am even somebody who I like Rottweilers and mastiffs. And I've now I'm gonna get an trouble because I'm gonna tell you the dogs that I'm just not a poodle person. You know, that doesn't mean I don't I dislike poodles. They're just very low on my list, along with boorzois. And you get some of these big, weird dogs I

don't really understand, you know, Airdale terriers. You know, I don't know some different strokes for different like who goes to the who goes to a breeder? Is like I only want an Airdale Terrier, you know, those big dogs with the kind of funky looking face. I don't know who does that. See, this is what happens. You gave me talking about dogs and I end up ranting about it. James, Right, So this is what AOC and the others are the four horsemen of the apocalypse. Well, let's be fair horsewomen

of the apocalypse, sir. Here we go oh, I was like this one, Chris buck love the show. You were wrong about Trump and the squad issue. While they might be US citizens, the point is their families fled from the holes they came from. They sure did a bang up job inculcating love for the country that harbored them. While of course they have First Amendment right, just goes to show that so many immigrants do not love this country and don't seem to do a great job passing

on appreciation. Just the fact that so many bring their grievances against America with them and pass it from generation generation proves the point there is no pushback from generation that brought them here. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree. Well, I mean, Chris, if if we're looking at the facts of what the Trump tweet that caused all this, the facts of it are, I don't believe. I mean Anna Pressley her I think her parents were born in the US, and her parents parents were born

in the US. AOC's parents were born in Puerto Rico, which is technically the United States. They're US citizens. Who else was on the list? Omar is the only one who really is who was originally a foreigner who became a US citizen, and then you have to leave who. I'm guessing her parents are immigrants, but I'd have to check and see they could have been born in this country too. I'm assuming there that she's first generation, but I don't know that, so I need to look into that.

Um So, I mean, you're you're Chris, You're entitled to think that Trump's tweet was was just fine and spot on. I thought it was an unforced unforced error because these four have been saying so much stupid and terrible stuff that why why bail them out by making the focus something else? And it's not good to put yourself in a position whereas the president United States, you're saying something that people are gonna look that they call Trump racist

no matter what. Right, that's not new. But you don't want to say, go back to where you came from when you're talking to uh, four minority women, three of whom we are from here. That's that's gonna be a tough one, a tough one to defend. Now, Trump isn't apologizing. He's he is on defense, but he's not apologizing for it. And that's his that's his choice. Um TJ. Buck for what it's worth and producer Mark, I listened to your

podcast via Stitcher and it sounds just fine. The sound quality must be because of the specific app they are listening through. Well, Producer Mark TJ is saying, you know what's up and people need to check themselves before they wreck themselves. TJ is my new favorite listener. There we go, Yeah, TJ's TJ's making the magic happen. Hopefully everyone'll figure this out. Here we go. We have Angela all rights Happy month. I was able to get through your Instagram this weekend,

a lovel of doggie pictures. I have a nine year old American Eskimo who's completely blind, A lover to death, can't wait to listen to your show. Well, Angela, thank you for standing in a photo of the Eskimo. Eskimos are are cool, cool dogs, cool dogs. Andrew, I'd say what sat, but I listened to the podcast the next morning, so what sid him? I don't know what that means. Let me suggest the sound level complainers that they update their iHeart apps. I know what they're talking about. Half

a new ones just once. The latest i heeart app update is from July one of twenty nineteen. Hey, maybe that's the fixed. Guys, make sure your I heeart app is updated, okay, and then tell me if that if that handles the problem. Uh Tom, right, Buck, I gotta call Oh my gosh, more of this. I gotta call a code read on producer Mike. That's actually producer Mark. I wasn't going to write in about the audio levels, but the guy that Tim wrote in his right, I

listen to your eye. Yeah, iHeart, and your voice is very low. The show is still awesome. Keep up the fight. Well, guys, make sure your iHeart app is up up to speed, up to date. Okay, we got another Sheldon is saying that it's fine. Thank you Sheldon for writing in. Man, people really have have they got? They got all the feelings about the the podcast volume. This is a real thing. We got another one of those. We got Joshua writing in another one of the pod. Well, you guys, you're

all debating each other on the podcast. Half you say it's fine, half you say it's not. There must be something specific to the after, so please try to try to update your iHeart app and see if that fixes it. Um John Kasick is not governor of Ohio. Mike Dewin is Oh Kasick isn't gosh my bad, I thought, I thought, uh what Kasey didn't run again? Good who served as the sixty ninth governor two twenty nineteen. Okay, yep, I stand sorry, I stand corrected. Kasick is no longer a governor.

There we go, alright, alright, Ohio. Hopefully this new guy Mike Dewin or is it Dwine? I guess it's Dwine. Hopefully he's a bit better. Um, we'll see. All right, guys, do me a favor. Unless you have something new on the podcast audio volume. Please don't no more. I'm reading through my entire inboxes podcast volume Tirades. I get it. We'll try to fix it. If the iHeart app fixes it for you, let me know that. Otherwise we'll look

into this. Robert hey Buck, I get that Trump may have misspoke regarding the squad and that three of the four actually Americans because they're born here. Maybe he was suggesting that they shouldn't be Americans only because they were born here. This is what you get when you have unassimilated parents. Rashida to Leib is the poster child for

the argument against birthright citizenship. Well, Robert, you know, there are interesting questions about assimilation that I think we're going to have to address in the years ahead, especially as you have an American Left, I mean, the Democratic Party that really doesn't view itself as it doesn't view assimilation as adherents for those who are new arrivals to any culture or way of doing things that already exists here. In fact, we're increasingly telling, or the left is increasingly

telling immigrants, hey, you can do whatever you want. The way you do things or the way you approach things is fine, no need to be more like America. You can just bring your own version of America here with you, which is not That's not the way it used to be. I think that there's there's a real pressure here on our assimilation situation. But there we go, Sandy Rights, Yes, do not let the media get away with their propagandis Sandy not On my watch, there'll be none of that,

Phil Rights. Buck Kasick is no longer governor of Ohio. That was good. Citizens of that state elected Mike Dwine last November. Phil Indeed, my bad, sorry about that. Sometimes Buck messes up, and he messed up on that one. So Yes, everybody. For the record, Kasik is not the governor of Ohio. Phil Wait, it was in Phil DeWine. I know some guy named Dwine is the governor of Ohio. Hmm, Mike Right's President Trump is a genius. Now Pelosi's gonna

have to defend the squad. He's destroying the Democratic Party with all their help. Oh well, okay, I mean I think Trump has been under some pressure this week. We will have to we will have to see all right, Wow, there's even more, even more on the podcast volume Mark, can we I guess we're gonna have to do an experiment where we download the different versions of the podcast and listen ourselves and see. What do you think? I think that's a good idea. Yeah, I think we should.

So I'll find all the different ways. Everyone, This is what I'm gonna do. Good news is I don't have a life, so I'm going to figure this out and we'll download all the things. Cole, right, hey, Buck, just saw you on Fox. I like the beard. I listen you always and hadn't mind a bushy beard. Wish I could grow that, but I have too much Irish in me. Well, thanks, Cole. Now it's kind of a trim down just scruff situation.

I had a bushy beard for like a month and then people said that I was I looked like I was starting to look a little too bin ladeny, so I got rid of it and now it's just down to the scruff. But some of the male audience does not like when I discuss my facial hair situation. So I'm just going to skip past that one team. That's gonna be it for the rest of well this show, but tomorrow they'll be a new show, which is exciting. I will talk to you then, Shields High