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to eight to five, eight four four nine, Buck. I I have to say, I really like, I really like the the Trump approach so far on pardons. I've been discussing this with you all for a while, but I think that the President understands that it's yet again one of these opportunities where he has the chance to clarify. He has the chance to show that no matter what action he takes, there are people with platforms in the media who will try to tear him down for it.

Trump can pardon people that the left has been raging about their incarceration for years. Trump can do very clear outreach to UH minority groups or whatever it may be. They will try to tear him down for it. And I saw day there was the possibility of a uh. Well, here we have the president talking about play clip seven. There will be more parts. I thought Alice yesterday was beautiful. I thought Jack Johnson, which was recommended by Silvestis Loan

and some great boxers. I'm thinking about somebody that you all know very well, and he went through a lot and he wasn't very popular. Then he's circuly his memory is very popular. Now I'm thinking about Muhammad Ali. Muhammad Ali may in fact be the next the next pardon. Now it would be a posthumous pardon. It would be obviously after Muhammad les passed away. And there is also the fact that he has covered under I believe a

larger amnesty. He didn't register for selective service and so but it's a gesture Now people could say that the gesture is I don't know. Some will say that it's the right thing to do, other those say it's an empty gesture. But notice how the battle lines here are drawn specifically by those who like Trump and those who

don't like Trump. The battle lines will not be about whether this was something that at a previous point in time the left would have said, you know what's that's something that needs to happen, something that needs to get done.

So he shows us once once again that this is all about opposing Trump, no matter what the cost, no matter what the issue, And on pardon specifically, it is a way to remind all of us that what we've been told for last year over the Russia Trump collusion situation, what we've been told for the last year is that the FBI is infallible. Okay, I'm i overstate. The FBI is largely beyond reproach the media, the media trash cops, but FBI leadership in d C. They deserve nothing but

the utmost respect total patriots like James Comey. Although let's remember that when that IG report comes out, above blame and above reproach um, the IG report is going to I think put many large holes in that notion. But they've been relying on Trump is undermining our institutions. He's undermining our institutions, and that's also part of the drumbeat of those institutions have functions. Those functions results in decisions,

and and those decisions must be respected. Right that the process gives us an outcome, and the outcome is something that we have to accept. So whether they decide to indict Hillary or not, it's that's the way it is, right because they have the right. We shouldn't think about whether this is just, whether it's politicized, whether there were other indicators, here are other things that should be brought

into our consideration of the issue. The process is all we need to know with pardons, though, all of a sudden you hear them say, whoa Trump shouldn't know you can't do that, Well, yeah, he can do that, and

he is doing it. And this is yet another moment where you see that the executive as emperor that was when into overdrive under them administration, and people like me on record, all conservatives that I know who do this for a living, we're saying, you know, guys, this stuff with the executive orders and with the remember Obama would say things out loud like you know, and I've got to put a phone and and he would say that he's gonna go around Congress, and the left would cheer

for this. Right, the left would cheer. They would say, oh my gosh, you know, he's not going to allow obstruction to stand away. Well, that's actually the function of that's actually the function of those different bodies, right, that's the the purpose of Congress is to make decisions about whether or not Congress is gonna pass certain laws. It's not to say, hey, hey, President, what law should we pass? Oh cool that law, sign me up. That's not the way it's supposed to go. That is not the way

that this should be looked at. But they dispensed with all when it came to Obama, and now with Trump, all of a Suddeny're like, whoa executive power? There's a lot of a lot of parent the executive and you know, we we warned them, but they didn't care. Because power is the ultimate end goal. It's the single most important desire of progressivism is the attainment of power and wielding power.

That's it. Everything else the ill they'll shoehorn other things into it, but it is all about the state and what the state can do. And so that it's with that in mind that I see these pardons in the discussion of them and how they are opposed to it. But they can't say that. It's this is so clear cut, right. The president can pardon people. He has that power. They say, oh, well, he went outside the normal channels, or they're complaining that

celebrities are getting pardon the arbitrary folks. It always has been who gets a pardon whoever the president wants, kind of like firing people. Who can the president fire the executive branch that is answerable to him in the chain of command. Well, you can fire James Comey as he did for any reason or no reason. That is his right. Just like he can decide that he wants to pardon somebody because he likes their boat shoes, you know what

I mean. You can pardon somebody for any reason. And and they still try to find ways to oppose this. There's this this pathetic clawing at the UH at the last yeah, you know, their last effort here trying to find something with with Trump that is unconstitutional is gone. But no, it's all there he's done what he's supposed to do. He's been doing what he should do all along. But he also threw an interesting, an interesting uh addition into things today and had to produce your Mike for

bring this one of my attention. You got people ask him questions on his way to uh. He's got a press gagle, he's on his way to a meeting, and he put this out there. And this time is in protests with the NFL and pardons, the pardons that could be coming in the future. Play Cliff ten instead of talk. It's all talk, talk talk. We have a great country. You should stand for our national anthem. You shouldn't go in a locker room when our national anthem is played.

I'm gonna ask all of those people to recommend to me, because that's what they're protesting. People that they think we're unfairly treated by the justice system. And I'm gonna take a look at those applications and if I find and my committee finds that they're unfairly treated, then we will

pardon them or at least let them out. The President is now turning to NFL players and saying, look, you know, bring it to my attention, who who has been, who has been unfairly treated, who has been over incarcerated or perhaps even incarcerated unjustly. Who you there is, we'll see. But are they not willing to engage because I saw that earlier in the week, Kim Kardashian shows up with a specific request in mind and and put it put

aside for the moment, whether you agree. And I read that uh note yesterday during roll call from somebody who disagrees with the pardon that Trump signed for that woman who had been in prison for twenty years for drug conspiracy. I'll put that aside for a moment. Kardashian had an ask. She's a citizen, she's petitioning her government. She's gonna talk.

And it's at least it's a request for clemency, right, it's not a request for some green energy boon doggle or throw more funds my way courtesy of the taxpayer. And we'll call it something else, stimulus or something. So they were willing to criticize that. They won't even make the allowance there of Hey, we're against him on most stuff,

but on this we will finally, we'll finally stop. And I just believe that the the Trump's arrangement syndrome has gotten to a point now are the only way the only way forward is to just keep hammering them, just

keep pushing them. Keeps forced them to come out and say things that expose how unfair the medias treatment the president is, how unfair they're framing their narrative of this entire administration has been and will continue to be and hopefully bring about some change in that behavior, change in those attitudes. I don't know if it's possible, but I

also know there's really not much of an alternative. There's not much an alternative, and and the power of pardons is something that President Trump has wielded very very effectively so far. You know, he's not letting people out that everyone goes, oh my gosh, that guy's that guy's an axe murderer. We can't let him out of prison. Nope. He is picking cases that bring to mind, not just the specific injustices of those cases, but he's reminding us all,

don't put too much faith in this system, folks. I mean, yeah, it's the system we've got. We're trying to make it better, and but let's not act like it's infallible. And certainly not act that way because of a partisan impulse. And that's what's been happening here. That's what's been happening. Oh, I have to say, there was much more scrutiny of Trump's pardon of uh, Mike, the name is Alice. Her name is escaping. What's her last name, Alice Marie Johnson.

Thank you, Alice Marie Johnson. Much more scrutiny of that decision that then I recall, Okay, this is my recollection when Obama community the sentence of Oscar Lopez Rivera, who was had blood on his hands, was a terrorist, a a Puerto Rican separatist terrorists. So I think that the president's in the right things here. I think that he's showing us all what's really going on. Um, it is Friday, so you know what, and I've been working some movie quotes into the show in the week, so John pulled

us all together for us. Actually movie quote Friday hit it. Have you seen you here? I hope not? Sporadically. Three, for lack of a better word, is good Fridays. It's like people only do things because they get paid Fridays. And that's just truly sad. Yeah, that's right. Awesome movie quote Friday, not actually a quote Friday. I got this confused for a second. So I think a lot of you will be able to remember those different lines that I share with you during over the course of the show.

So there you have it. UM eight four four n eight to five. You want to chat, We've got lines open. I'm here in the swamp. I love the every team. I really do look forward to this part of my day every day, this opportunity to chat with all of you, and especially I'm in a new place, surrounded by a lot of swamp creatures. Unfortunately our people are in charge, right,

but surrounded by a lot of swamp creatures. It's good that you guys are my or my lifeline to the real world here every day on the on the radio waves. We even sent out way, Yeah, that's the waves, because right, that's how that's how radio works. Uh. And with that, we'll be right back Where aware is Milannia Trump. She was last seen in public on May ten, That was eighteen days ago. One thing that the President in the White House has been quite quiet about is Malannia Trump

and her status. There's been a lot of questions about her surgery, her time at Walter Read and now her invisibility. The last time we caught a glimpse of her was on May twenty four days, more than three weeks. One thing we did not see was First Lady Annie A. Trump. The First Lady has not been seen in public for twenty five days, twenty six days without being in the public eye. She's doing stuff in the White House. Isn't

there a picture? She didn't go to Camp David with the weekend and he took some of his children and now his young son. You know, where's the picture? David Frum, who's the Atlantic senior editor to your eyes last weekend of tweets some basically saying uh that President Trump could have possibly beaten his wife and covered it up. The tweet says closed President Trump punched the First Lady in the White House and then ordered the Secret Service to

conceal the assaulting. A lot of questions being asked about something that there shouldn't be any question over. First Lady had to have a kidney procedure. She had to have surgery. It's has been known, it's been known all along. But you will also note that in that series that we played for you, of of questions there there's meant to be a kind of yeah, maybe there's something sinister going

on here. Vibe to it all there, there's they're supposed to be a well, you know, maybe something's being covered up or we're not being told something, because otherwise, how is this even a story? How is this even something that anyone needs to ask about? Well, I can tell you that when you dig into this a little more, you find and Trump responded. Trump wrote about this. He wrote that the fake news media has been so unfair and vicious to my wife and our great first Lady,

Milania during her recovery from surgery. They reported everything from near death to facelift, to left the White House for New York or Virginia, to abuse, all fakes. She's doing really well now. Of course, the peddlers of fake news came and said, that's not true. The media, you know, they always think the media means them. That's a tough thing to speak for the media. But he had the New York Times, and I had to brief Hayton of the federals who pulled all these togethers. New York Times

implied the timing of milannis kidney surgery was suspect. You had the Roots say that Milania uh a, Milannia had a body double at an event. You had rolling a Rolling Stone writer Jamille Smith suggest that Milanni's absence was due to physical abuse. You had Politico uh blaming the White House for stoking conspiracy theories and then proceeding to do just that about this whole Milannia situation. And the situation isn't the first lady had to have surgery. I

just hope she's doing well. You know, it's also someone's wife and a mom and someone's daughter, right, I mean, these journals journalists are savages. I think one of the problems that I have in d C. They're just all these these just puff shirt you know, clownish journalists running all over the place who are not nice people, very petty, very vindictive and really distasteful. And I do not like them.

And that's a problem. You know, in New York can kind of ignore people a little bit more because it's such a big city that you just kind of you do. Everyone's ignoring everybody, so you actually have it in a weird way in New York a tremendous amount of privacy because nobody cares there's so many people and so much going on that nobody cares, you know, in d C. I walk around. I gotta walk past the Washington Post all the time, and I'm like, uh, yeah, it feels

so it feels so swampy. I just don't like how swampy it all feels. And eight four four nine Buck, eight four four to eight to five, you like to chat. We've got some lines late. We could take a couple more calls, um, kind of talk to you about some breaking news that on the clip side. I don't know how else to say, though, And it's look, it's really it's really sad. It's a couple of really sad news stories. But I don't think we're gonna spend some time on

He's holding the line for America. Buck Sexton his back. All right, we've got some calls here, let's get to it. And now I knew this, I knew this day would come. This is a question to when. But here we are. I am not the only Buck in the universe. There is in fact another Buck out there. He is calling in right now from Mobile, Alabama. But great to have you on. How's it going? Man? Your name is awesome. Other than that I'm good. Yeah, I've been listening to

you for quite a while now. Thank you for two years every Yeah, they just put you on the radio about two years ago. I'm gonna listen to you ever since. Thank you so much. What I'm calling about is any media is is reacting to Milania not being out in the public showing her face this and that. I mean,

for conal laws, you just had surgery. That's pretty major surgery from what I hear, and she's having a hard time of covering from it, you know, And it just doesn't make any kind of sense of how the media wants to focus on why is she not showing her face whenever they should be focused on what's going on into this country and what's going on you know out and abroad and the immigration and all this kind of stuff.

It just doesn't make any sense to me about why do they focus on her not being you know, well right now they should be wishing that she gets the feeling better, you know, hoping for you know, good health and all that, instead of just trying to Yeah, it's really nasty, I mean, it's it's very It just shows such a lack of of kindness quite honestly and just

a lack of consideration. Yeah, it's common decency. I mean I was dealing with something like this the other day at work about you know, how can people be so rude and in considerate of others? And because whenever I don't whenever I'm in public or even when I met the house my wife and kids, I always trying to think about their well being before or do my own. And then once I know that they're okay, I'm worried

about myself. And it's the same thing with me. They don't care about nobody else with themselves and their agenda. That's yeah, that's true, man, Buck, thank you so much for calling in. It feels a little like I was speaking to myself there as a little Freudian. It's like Bucks, so tell me all of your dreams, you know. It's like Buck speaking of Buck. I'd probably do a segment with that. I get to ask me the questions that if I were you, i'd ask me. That makes some sense,

I think John in Cincinnati, Ohio? What up? John? So Buck a long time with a long time listener, first multiple time caller, Actually, thank you back, called you back while you're on the Blaze and I've been listening to you Saturdays since you were on Saturdays. Yes, well, thank you so much half the time. Um, I got a movie quote for you. All right, let's jim. Oh okay, well, Jim, since you are my guest and I am your host, what is your pleasure? What do you like to do? Oh?

I don't know, play chess? Screw well, let's play chess. Mm hmm, I got nothing. Saddles one of the most awesome movies ever. I'm gonna tell you something, John, and it's just between you and me. Okay, I don't want you to judge, man, I want't even else to know this. I've never seen Blazing Saddles and producer Mike looked like he like he just had an a video show without knowing it. Oh wait, you haven't seen it either. Woo. Yeah, it's it's one of the best movies of all time.

I've probably been watching it off and on since I was like five. I can tell you only understanding the jokes because I grow up. I feel like there aren't that man. There are very few movies for me that are funny when I was a kid that I still think are funny when I'm older. Ghostbusters falls into that category, but if you say Blazing Saddles is also in that category, I will certainly I'll certainly give it a give it a watch. So thank you very much, John for being

a listener for calling in. I appreciate it, and uh like from you, Um yeah, what's uh trying to think of my favorite western? I'm not that well. I want

to see the Hostiles movie that came out. It didn't last that long to people told him it was very good, like a little bleak, a little intense, but it was very well made and it didn't do the whole I mean, I just this thing of like, you know, like everyone's every society has got their problems, right, but you notice this trend of like the you know, Native Americans are either you know, they're they're like all the all the

good guys in more content contemporary movies. I know they used to be all the bad guys, right, but now it's all the good guys. And I'm always like, why do we have to politicize everything? Apparently in Hostiles, you've got you know, you know, US cavalry doing some bad things. You've got Native tribes doing some bad things. It's like like the way it was like the world. But I want to see that one. I mean, Tombstone is my favorite Western, but it also is kind of an action movie.

But the bottom line is that it's really to him Stone. I feel like I'm kind of stalling because I don't even want to have to dive into our next topic because it's it's it's a bummer. But I want to share some thoughts with you about two two pieces of news that came in today. One has to do with the suicide of Anthony Bourdain, which you know that when people say it's a shock, I think suicide if someone you don't know, is always a shock because how could you.

But occasionally there'll be some precursors. You know, somebody will have been, you know, maybe institutionalized, or have terrible bouts of depression, and that will be public as you have some idea Bourdaine just I would never have thought. But then again with you know, with Robin Williams, I would have never have thought, so he had the Bourdaine. And then also a note today that I saw from a personal letter from Charles crot Hammer. We'll talk about both

these on the other side of the breaks. So stay with me. The Anthony Bourdain UH is dead an apparent suicide, and I'll do we'll deal with this story and then we have another very sad story, UM talk about today, another media figure. I tend to be somebody who doesn't over over personalized people that I don't know. And I never I never met boor Day. I have no personal

connection whatsoever. But I do remember times when I was just all I wanted was to watch something that wasn't going to be political or at least overly political, annoyingly political, something that you could just sit back and enjoy. And it was. It was a story, it was a journey, you know. The Well. Then when I went to Vietnam some years ago, I had planned to do all this research before I went, but I one thing I did do because I didn't really have time to do all

that research, was I downloaded Anthony Bourdain's UH. I downloaded his episode on iTunes of him in Vietnam, and I remember I watched it and I then went to at least one of the places he went. It was this little and I'm with my little brother, and it was really tough to find and in in this show, you had seen this being, you know, elderly Vietnamese women with a little soupcart making this, what he said, was one of the most of course, right, but one of the

most delicious soups he's ever had ever. And we went to find this. It's just a cart in an alley way and we managed to, which I'm impressed to this day that we actually found it, because it wasn't a restaurant, it wasn't really marked. You had to kind of go to the neighborhood and look around. It wasn't an easy thing.

And we got there. It was a motto brother. And what it was clear to me was that they had done a little bit of staging for the episode before um, before they actually filmed it, because when we got there, there was around this cart, this in this whole alleyway. There's just trash and dogs wandering everywhere and like little kind of rickety looking tiny plastic chairs for people to sit in. So it was a little like almost like a trash dump, is what it really looked like. But

there was the car. I mean, when we had the soup, and you know what, the soup was incredible, and I only had it and only knew about it because of Bourdain show. So it's just, you know, I bring that up because for me, it's an example of how people you don't know, through their through their work, through their their craft, there art, there, creative endeavors can can affect

your life. And some of my my favorite moments all time of doing this media thing, which I never sought out to do and was not my plan and just kind of happened. Or when people tell me that, you know, they when they were undergoing chemo, they listened to the Battle of Lepanto over and over and it gave them comfort. Or it's just which is a story that one of my beloved members of Team Buck told or sent to me some some years ago, that stuff really that can

really matter, can really help people. And so Bourdain is one of those rare individuals who um really changed my thinking about the whole area of life, which is food and cooking in the culinary world. I read Kitchen Confidential long, I mean not a long, long, long time ago. I want to say, maybe I was in college. Yeah, I think I was in college. And if you haven't read about it's a great book. It's very very readable. It's a really really it's a fun read, but he also

learned some things about it, and he has it. He had a very good storytelling voice, and clearly was was incredibly successful. And I think it's just hard first to process that somebody who comes across that way. And I know, I know that mental illness is something that people often hide very well, hid for very long periods of time, um or you know what I mean, mental illness, severe depression, alcoholism.

But when someone's whole job is to find joy and adventure and spread that to other people, it's just hard to imagine the darkness that they carry with themselves. It's it's hard to it's hard to imagine, really is so that part of it I found And I know that this week also you had Kate Spade. I wasn't familiar with with her at all except through the name from her massive, a massive clothing brand. And then you had

one more. But and I'm just gonna bring it in here, even though I can talk about it longer, because you know, it's a Friday, and I don't. I am always wary of bringing us down before the weekend, though sometimes it's

just the nature of this business. But this letter that was put out, it's just heartbreaking from Charles Crodhammer, who has I'm sure all of you are familiar with his work regular on Brett Brett Bears Panel on Fox News, one of the most prolific conservative columnists, if not the most prolific conservative columnists of the last thirty or forty years.

And from everyone that I ever heard who interacted with the guy, and I know a lot of people that work at and have worked at Fox, was top to bottom in every way, a class act and a really kind person. And that's for for people who are prominent in national media discussions. I'll be honest, it's really in

short supply these days. People are people are nasty. And one thing that I find that is troubling is that those who are in you know, those who are consumers of media, those who you know, watch certain shows, listen to certain shows. I'm always amazing like you that the choice with me that they'll listen to somebody, they won't

listen to somebody who's kind and who's brilliant. Although Charles was very, very successful, but there are other people I know of what I feel like I've never really gotten their due and are really good people on top of that, but they will listen to people who are jerks, more nasty, who are debasing who, And Charles was just the antithesis

of that in all of his work. Again, I can only value it and professionally, I never I never met Charles, but he wrote in this letter that he has weeks to live after a very long battle with cancer in which he had a large tumor removed from his abdomen.

And here here's another time when it feels like there is there is a loss that even for those of us like me who never met Charles Krodhammer Uh, the loss will be will be made real for us because his was a voice that I think was was truly valuable in the national conversation about all kinds of things. I never once saw him, and I watched I've watched

Brett Bear Show. I can't even count. They can't even begin to estimate the number of times I never once saw him Uh be belittle people or belittle anyone, be nasty, be snied, be undermining, be And it feels to me like that's actually just the direction of media now. It's all like twitter burns and nastiness and people acting in the worst spot, acting ways they would never do in person.

But the truth is most most like journalists out there who are constantly walking around talking about how they're speaking through the power, kind of cowards in person. They are very very little personal courage on display from And I don't just mean like taking risks to their own personal safety. I just mean they don't do things that are risky for them. They do what is best for them all the time and then pretend to be taking the risks.

But but Charles was a really important voice in the in the conversation, and and it's it's just very sad. It's very sad for his family. And I know for a lot of my friends are Fox who know Charles and worked with them for years and years. It's I don't know what else to say. It's been a rough been a rough week for news stories of of beloved figures who have had a major impact on a lot of lives around the world. And two suicides and uh kind of losing battle against cancer. It's tough, you know.

I'm I'm just gonna I want to leave it there for now. I can't spend much more time on it because it's gonna bring me down to And I am cognizant of you spending your time with me here. And I don't want us to. I don't want us to get you down, but I had to note and you know, prayers to the families of Bourdain and cry Well Krawdheimer still with us. And look, I don't want to be naive or anything, but you know, he said he's losing his battle in all his weeks to live. But you

never know, you never know. So there there is that you never know, Kenny from Boston. Maybe you can cheer me up a little bit, my friend. What's up? Yes, let's hope for a miracle cure for Charles Crowdehammer. I always loved him, and I never knew that he was actually a quartriplegic. And he was in the um. You know, he was in a wheel chair. I watched him so many times and I so oh he always sits so erect. I never figured it out, you know, and he was

he was really good all the time. And uh so I don't know, I've and say this, you know, Kenny, I don't know anybody else at that level of the punditry game who I've never seen step out of line with anybody or ack like a jerk. I mean in the way that he you know, to be the absolute peak, the absolute top and never getting nasty. It was pretty amazing, old school civility best. And anyway, so I got a question,

and um and I also have a movie quote. So what I wanted to know is, what are you postulating on what Mula or Mueller is going to be dropping when Trump has this uh nuclear thing, because he always in the timing is always uncanny, you know, you always kind of dropped something at a moment when something is either good for Trump or you know, it's it's not by accident, and so that's uh that And um, so I was just wondering what you think. I don't know.

I mean, I can't read into Mueller's you know, Ruller's thinking on this. And unfortunately, I don't think we have time for the movie quote, Kenny, because we've got to go into ah our next hour here. But thank you thanks for calling her brother. I appreciate it. Good to hear from you and just just hear your voice from up in Boston. Kenny. It uh, it's giving us a little boost here, which is great. So we're gonna be joined by our friend of Michael Malice here shortly, we'll

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tied to the Russia collusion. Nonsense? A former Senate Intelligence Committee aid was arrested, James Wolfe. But he was arrested for lying to investigators about his contacts with three reporters. They said that he made false statements to the FBI providing them, Uh, well about providing classified information or just even just talking to Oh no, yeah, he never ever

gave classified information to journalists. Uh, Mr Wolfe, According to this the Intelligence Committee's director of security, Oh wow, look at that. The director of securities later to appear before a federal jury today. And his case is interesting because the seizure was disclosed in a letter to Ali Watkins, a New York Times reporter who had been in a three year long relationship with Mr Wolfe. Now there's a lot going on here. There's a lot happening here, and

I will just say this. Uh. First of all, I I do not like I I am very uncomfortable with, as a general matter, any seizure of journalists records for the purpose of finding leaks. I think that it is a slippery slope. I think it is dangerous unless there's a very clear um national security safety rationale behind it.

You know. I think you have to balance out because when once the government can start seizing your all your communications and tracking down your sources, I mean, there's really no such thing as sources anymore, right for for journalists, So that becomes an issue except in the most extreme circumstances.

So I do want to say that. I will also say that one of the problems that the media has here is that they had a a moderated response, a a kind of muted response, shall we say, to the fact that the Obama administration use the Espionage Act more than every administration before it combined, listed James Rosen a Fox News as an unindicted co conspirator in one League case, and that Obama was the worst, the worst president when it came to press freedom, since at least Woodrow Wilson,

who was really bad. I wanted to lock people up for say anything you didn't like. So Obama was terrible in this issue. Yes, they would write some editorials here and they're saying, you know, we are uncomfortable with whatever. But they didn't say attorney general needs to step it, needs to resign. They didn't uh scream about police state

tactics or tyranny. And because they allowed Obama largely to get away with it without any political consequences, which is true, and it was really the fault of the DOJ and the federal government. It wasn't really Obama's fault that this happened, even though it would have gone directly up to hold her. His attorney general and holder would have signed off on it.

But you will see the double standard in action to be sure, um, and they're aware of the fact that we are aware that Obama did exactly this kind of thing where he would see his reporters communications records looking for leaks. Uh. And so that means that there will be a hypocrisy here, But it also means that they don't really care because they will often they will often tell stories that are incongruous with objective and objective view

of the situation. So remember that one and then another part of this that I think, you know, I'm not spending much on the Watkins New York Times. She's sleeping with somebody who is allegedly a source and also is writing stuff on Twitter about how she she was trying to throw people off the scent by lying and accusing Trump lawyers. I think it was of you know, the league, for which she was responded or she was around with the league, but for publishing the league she knew the

leaguer was. It wasn't troub lawyers. So she's engaged in propaganda. I mean that is straight. She is engaged in in peddling falsehoods two tell the public, you know, to create a an untrue perception in the public's mind. For a reporter, I think that's a pretty big deal. You know, when you know something is untrue and you tell people as a reporter that it is true, that should be an issue.

So that's That's one but the single most important part of all this for me, because like I said, there's a lot of different angles of this, is that Trump's arrangement syndrome is so strong and the hatred of this president is so strong that and I'm saying that they think that this was about the Uh, here we go. This is what they write, and this is a New York Times piece. Court documents described Mr Wolf's communications with

four reporters, including Miss Watkins, using encrypted messaging applications. It appeared that the FBI was investigating how Miss Watkins learned that Russian spies in had tried to recruit Carter Page, a former Trump foreign policy adviser. She published an article for BuzzFeed News on April seventeen about the attempted recruitment of Mr Page, in which he confirmed the contacts. So this is all about the Carter Page Russell conspiracy theory,

conspiracy theory. Thank folks, Now we found the first one. We found the first person who was willing to risk prison time assuming he's guilty. It's alleged. It's alleged, right, we don't know, We don't know. We gotta keep that, keep that out there. But here we likely have our first of many leak, the first of many leakers who looking at this, we have to assume there'll be a lot more. We'll have to guess that at some point they'll figure out who told the press about the Kisliak

Flynn call. Never mind all that, so many of these stories and these these journalists look, oh, we're doing such great work. No, they just get somebody to break the law, tell them something're not supposed to do, and then they run a story with it. A lot of times. Consequences be damned. I don't care, but people are leaking against this president in a way that puts them in criminal jeopardy.

That just shows you the depth of the hatred. And it shows you also how committed some of these deep staters really are to the notion of stopping this Trump presidency. They'll risk go into prison. Some of them are going to go to prison over this. Was it worth it? Was it worth running a story in BuzzFeed? You know, being the source for the story in BuzzFeed that put it out there, the carter Page, who is is harmless by virtue of nothing else but his ineptitude. The Carter

Page was gonna be recruited by the by Russia. You know, I really think that people are gonna have a lot of regrets about this. But Jeff Sessions, that's right, and the d o J they're on it. They're gonna find more people, and we are going to find some swamp figures that I think you've heard of before involved in this mark my words. I would take some guesses right now, but that might be a little unfair. But their names you've heard before on this show. Let's talk about North Korea.

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Verification Network. It is more likely than not that there is a on fl possibly a full blown war with an allerging nuclear power. He is not merely being cavalier with a threat about nuclear war. He's being cavalier in a way that it makes him seem demented. These are the messages from a person who is not well, from a leader who is not fit for office, after a nuclear holocaust or after a million dollars, And that's where we are. This is not an exaggeration, probably closer to

an outright war with North Korea. Got a chance of war, I'd say from where I sit right now, easily construe what he's been saying as a declaration or at least a threat of war. What is the ignition point for Kim and Moon's fuse with this provrocative rhetoric. Trump's comments about nuclear weapons have experts worried he could literally inadvertently trigger a catastrophe. You have reason to be scared of a war that could wipe out five thousand people. Now

I just think he wants to use nukes. That's what I think he feels. Dylan ever, accused the media of being lazy when it comes to fearmongering. That's incredible. I think he wants to use nukes, Thanks, Mika. Yeah, that's what. He just wants to start nuking people. That's the President Trump wants. We got a summit coming up next week, as you know, folks, a big summit, and we may be closer to a deal with North Korea than at

at any time and certainly recent memory. Um. But I want to get someone else's perspective on this, as we are literally days away from finding out if there's an opening or not for the US and North Korea. We've got Michael Malice with us on the line. He is the host of Your Welcome and also the author of Dear Reader, the unauthorized biography of Kim Jong Michael. Great to have you back, sir. Thanks. What do you make of this going into the summit? What are your expectations?

How do you think it's going so far that the American media is just as accurate in their provocations as the North Korean media. Yeah, it's it's almost like they're cheering for nuclear war in a lot of those clips. It's amazing, isn't it. Like as long as Trump looks bad, they're like, yeah, so we lose a few million people

in North Korea. How are you supposed to get a regime that has dug in its heels for literally over seventy years, that has no problems executing its own citizens, starving its own citizens, uh, killing members of the ruling elite. How are you supposed to get them to change their entire system without some brinksmanship? How are you you know, it's let's let's look at it this way in terms that anyone can understand. Buck, you and I are buddies.

Let's suppose I had an issue with you. If I brought it up and escalated situations, there's a possibility it's going to get heated. But if you want things to change in a relationship, that's the risk anyone has to take, whether it's selling a car or there's a problem with your landlord. I mean, these people are living in the world where they've never really had to take risks other than running their mouths, and there's never any consequences for them.

And that's why it upsets them when President Trump is actually forcing change of some kind on the Korean peninsula. And here's the other thing. They're acting like he's you know, like like in some kind of weird simulation and he's in the front of computer and not getting in for anyone. He's having regular public meetings with China, Japan, and South Korea.

We're flying they're they're flying here, but they're acting as if, you know, he's some kind of toddler who is not talking to anyone and it's just making decisions on his own, and yet somehows all working out. It's astonishing to hear how many people who have no particular insight into the president's daily schedule, phone calls, preparation meetings with aids, and and officials around him who are saying he hasn't prepped enough.

Hearing that a lot he hasn't prepped it up, what does it even mean, Michael, I mean, yeah, he doesn't speak Korean and he's not going to before the meeting. Like it just seems to me like this is something that people say when they have nothing else to say

but they hate the president. Well, it's also the kind of thing where it's like, do they really think that as soon as the Singapore summit ends, President Trump's gonna join Kim Jong un on a flight to Pyongyang and they personally are going to start taking apart this nuclear site. I mean that that's not how it works. I mean the preparation he's had, by all accounts, a great deal

of preparation. Uh, he's been first of all, as he's been president for almost two years at this point, do they expect only someone who has been a North Korean scholar to engage with the North Korean regime? Do we really think that the Chinese President g and Prime Minister Abbe from Japan didn't sit him down and say these are the important points? Are they stupid too? I mean, this makes no sense in any level because and here's why I wrote the book, and this is you know,

I'm glad you have me on in this issue. North Korea is a very very complicated subject. No one denies this. So maybe because they feel unprepared to talk about it, they're they're projecting to some extent. And my rule of thumb is if someone doesn't know how to pronounce Kim

Jong UN's name, they shouldn't be running them out. Now, do just just one I should I wanted to throw by you, Michael, what should we know about one of the differences between Kim Jong n as it affects his persona and the ability to you know, our our ability in the past to try and negotiate with him versus Kim Jong Il. I'm sorry, Kim Jong il in the

past versus Kim Jong owen today? You know, what should we What are the differences that maybe either leave us more of an opening here or less of an opening. That's a very, very long and nuanced question. I'll answer it as distinctly as possible. Kim Jong il took over

for his father, the great leader, Kim Il sung. They've only been three leaders of North Korea since its founding, and Kim Jong il was very much a function of the Cold War, and he also very much had to fight to maintain his hold on power because in the idea of in the ideology of communism, the idea that a son would succeed his father in this kind of

monarchist fashion is complete nathema to mark societyology. But again, with the falling of the Soviet Union in the late eighties early nineties and the collapse of the Second World Uh, Kim Jong un has to deal with none of that. You know, he took power in the Soviet Union was long gone. North Korea was already at that point highly isolated, so he with any young person, there is that possibility to do things differently. And he also has this kind

of leeway under North Korean law. And I'm using the word law or broadly because there's no real legality. It's whatever the government decides at a whim. He can do whatever he wants, and he can spin it however he wants. So, for example, North Korea has these black markets in every town where because people are no longer getting food reliably

from the government. And this is you know, capitalism and its purist but and capitalism is anathema to the duchy idea of the North Korean ideology, but they pretend it's not capitalism. So when you get to define terms however where you want, that really does give you some freedom. On the other hand, as we have seen in other such regimes which are nowhere nearest that is North Korea, but I'm thinking of places like Romania as a classic example,

Iraq and Libya. When these regimes fall, the people at the top are often personally executed. He had a rough end, yes he did, So that is a big and they're very very very painfully aware of this in North Korea.

So this is a very big you know, North Korea as a prison even for the people the very top, because if he does want to liberalize and make it kind of like a Singapore, people are going to very quickly find out the population that they've been brainwashed lives too and starved intentionally for decades, and they're not going to think, oh, you're a great guy. You know, They're going to want to exact vengeance, and fairly they're not gonna look at him like a Gelsten. How then, do

do we set up a framework? I mean, what is the what does a deal with North Korea that can actually work in the broadest strokes, Michael, what is it look like? I The way I think in the broadest strokes should be sort of a relay race where we're handing over the baton to China, because North Korea will

always be primarily China's problem there, they're geographically approximate. Historically, there's long strong bonds between Korea and China UM, and China doesn't want a US allied right on their border,

UM and so on and so forth. It says they have a very strong relationship, So a lot of it has to be also this kind of good cop bad cop, which I think President Trump and President are playing very well, which is China gets to be the reasonable statesman, Trump gets to be the unreliable blow hard and that drives Kim Jong un for there's the China's arms. So that

is a good mechanism to move forward. And listen, if they want us to remove our troops from the Korean peninsula and in exchange they you know, they have the fourth largest army in the world, even though they're South Pennsylvania. If in exchange they demilitarized and denuclearized, spend less money on the army, spend more money on food and infrastructure and things like that, I think that would be a win win all across. And my biggest concern always is

liberating these peacefully, liberating these twenty five million slaves. Absolutely I agree, and that's why I find it so honestly discussing that people in the in the media in particular, seem to be rooting for failure here quite openly, I think rooting for failure and and buck How are human rights a partisan issue? It is mind boggling to me when we have literal concentration camps where people are dismembered men are sent into minds and they never see sunlight again,

and their skin starts to slough off. These are things that are unimaginable to us in the West. Any kind of sliver of hope we have to hold onto. If you want to hear President Trump, go ahead, pay President Trump. Pretend he's the puppet of the Japanese and the Chinese in the South Koreans. If that's what it takes for you to suade your conscious that you're rooting for happy

ending to this nightmare worst country on Earth. Everybody should check out Mike's book Dear Reader, The unauthorized biography of Kim Jung Un. Mr Mallis Oh. Also check out his show You're Welcome. Where can people find a Michael? It's on iTunes and YouTube iTunes on YouTube. Easy enough, Michael. Great to have you. We'll talk to you soon. Take care. If you think having your credit cards stolen his bath. It's nothing compared to home title theft. Everything is online

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being said, Rush here should be in this stated. Why are we having him meetings without rug yet being in the meeting as I would recommend, and sits up to them, but Russia should be in the meeting, it should be part of it. Oh my, they're very upset at Trump about this, or I should say, they're using this as a as a means to try and further create this narrative of you know, Trump is in Russia's pocket. Uh, Russia has something on Trump. And you keep hearing this stuff,

I'm like, what what are they talking about? You mean that the Trump who is willing to do things that even Obama would not do, like give anti tank missiles, javelin anti tech missiles and and UH sniper rifles to the Ukrainian military as they can fight against Russian separatists or Russian backed separatists. That that in the pocket Trump.

It's amazing how much the shift has occurred. It used to be pretty clear most folks had an understanding of the fact that if you you know, there's certain countries that you can try and just isolate and cut off. And for example, we've tried that with North Korea, although we've had limited success, because cutting off an entire country from the rest of the world and preventing it from being a problem is a lot easier said than done. But do we try that to some extent with Iran.

Russia is too big to ignore, and the purpose of the sanctions that have put and put been put in play, stretching back to Russia's annexation of crime is to get a change in Russian behavior. The additional sanctions that have to do with the election interference is also supposed to be a change in Russian behavior. Although I would note, how are the Russians I'm just playing devil's advocate here for a second, how are the Russians exactly supposed to

get the election interference related sanction is turned off? How does that happen? Really? Think about that one for a second. People will say, oh, buck, they're still interfering. Really, we know that top down, the Kremlin is telling people to interfere in our upcoming midterms. We you know, we we might have seen some preparations somewhere. There could be some you know, intelligence collection that leads us to believe that they want to do that, But we have sanctions in

place against them for the election interference before. And I would just note that it doesn't seem to me like that's an easy thing for them, even if they wanted to to turn around, because all it takes is some Russian hackers or some skilled Russian you know, cyber warriors of one kind or another, to decide that they're going to engage in some kind of hack of the election, that they are going to make our lives more difficult

come election time. And it could very easily be blamed on Russia because the media has created this environment where Russia is somehow a much bigger concern for US than China, even though the Russian economy is much smaller than the Chinese economy, the Russian military is much smaller than Chinese military, and our geo, our long term geo political, uh near pure rival is China. It is not Russia that said Russia, Well, it isn't our our primary challenger on the global stage.

It is too big to ignore. And that's why when Trump says that they should bring Russia back into the fold on this um, I just think it's I think it's a cheap shot, and a lot of people haven't taken it's a cheap shot to say, oh, it's because the Russians have something on him. I think it's a cheap shot to say, oh, well, the reason that Trump would bring the Russians back into the G seven, which is just a way of having countries meet and a

lot of these summits. And I'll tell you this. Other people was say, oh no, these summits are so important, and a lot of these summits. It's just an excuse for government bureaucrats. And you know the entourages of the various premiers to get together and spend a lot of their their subjects money and hang out with other important government bureaucrats and make decisions about your life. But general, how often do they come back from someone you're like, Wow,

they got that deal going. That's going to really change my life. Answers is not. It doesn't really happen that way. But Trump wanted to bring them back into the G seven. Is also, by the way he spoke a little bit about trade and terrorists play clip nine. All of these countries have been taking advantage of the United States un trade. You're so ware Canada, Georgia, Gerry farmers two hundred and seventy terris. We don't judge them, or if we do

it like a tiny percentage. We have massive trade deficit with almost every country. We will straighten that out. I don't forget, and I'll tell you what it's what I do. It won't even be hard, and in the end we'll all get along. But they understand that, you know, they're trying to act like, well, we fought with you in the wars, which they don't mention the fact that they have trade barriers against our farmers. They don't mention the fact that they're charging almost tariffs. You know, it's it's

just a function of logic at this point. Everyone they tell us the conventional wisdom is tariffs are bad, tariffs are attacks, and then there is a pass, a pass of expenses on the consumer. That that's true. But tariffs are attacks, they're they're a bad idea, but other countries have them, but we shouldn't respond to the other countries

that have them. No one ever stops to say, well, why do other countries have them if they're such an obviously bad idea, If there's no purpose to tariffs, if it's just self defeating, then why and how are we supposed to respond to the countries that's that decide that they're going to have tariffs. Despite the fact that we're always told, oh, it's such a bad idea. You don't have tariffs. You don't have tariffs. Yeah, I just want to answer that simple question. Yeah, I'm just sitting here

asking questions. I just want to know I do. I do, indeed, But the media is full of jerk's clowns and imbeciles and a lot of very nasty people with very sharp elbows and very high self regard. We'll talk a bit about where things stand with the M s M, the mainstream media these days when it comes to Trump, and

then even when it comes to yours. Truly, that and more is coming up in just a moment, so that he hadn't been really preparing for the summit with Kim Jong own, and then he defended that by saying to reporters as he was leaving the White House earlier today, while I've been preparing for this all my life. Of course, Wolf, as we know, before Donald Trump became President of the

United States, he was in the real estate business. So it's difficult to imagine how much preparation he was doing during his real estate days for pulling off some kind of agreement that would denuclearize North Korea. I'll tell you a couple of things. First, of all the hypocrisy is astounding because I know someone who spoke to Donald Trump recently about life in the White House, and Donald Trump's biggest complaint was that he's not allowed to watch porn

in the White House. So there you go, there's a little bit of news for you. He's upset that he can't watch porn in the White House and they have those you know, numbers blocked to, which must be a disappointment. I'm not really sure, but that's it just sort of flies in the face of all of this journalists everybody there. You go, a couple, a couple of a couple of

big je journalists letting loose on air. There a Costa from CNN among among the worst defenders of the pseudo journalists out there, And uh, I love to We're just bringing the facts. Like they all sit around, they get to ask some questions and then they try to get some gossip from sources that will tell us some about the White House. They act like there, you know, uh, publishing the Pentagon papers all the time, which the whole other conversations whether that was a good idea or not,

Oh man, it's pretty funny. Um, you know, A Costa here. His whole thing is he's saying he's engaged in a form of up to literalism. That will come up again in a few minutes. And I tell you about another exchange to have with one of the revered elitist journalists today on the twitters. Not that I wanted to, but you know, people come after the book. I don't know, people like to hate on the buck sometimes from the

elite media. Such a nice guy, and I don't really understand, and I really don't say like super inflammatory stuff I probably should. Like if I just showed up every day, I was just like, the tyranny is here, Like the deep state media is destroying the country, like every day. I feel like, you know that has an audience for sure. Um. I mean, I do think that the deep state is dangerous, is damaged in the country, and I think the media has has essentially engaged in self immolation, at least when

it comes to its credibility. But I try to put a little nuance into some things. But what a constant of there is. He goes, oh, Trump, Sis, he's been preparing for this his whole life. He's like, I don't see how he could be preparing Forby, It's like, dude, he means that he's been preparing for this moment his life. Like the same way that when somebody says to you, you know, are you ready before you go out to

give a big speech or something. If you turn to them and say, you know, I was born ready, you don't actually mean that you came out and like, you know, the placenta and the birth and all that stuff, and you were you were ready for this. That's not what you're saying. You're saying, know, yeah, like I'm I'm ready to go, or you know, are you ready for you know, I've been waiting for this my whole life. No, you were, not, in fact waiting for that moment for the entirety of

your life. You are someone who you know is excited about the opportunity you're about to have. Right, But I mean, so is a Costa Is he just is he not smart? Or is he just being a jerk? I don't you can answer that for me. I don't know. It could go either way. And then with Mika, I won't even pose that question. I'll just leave it. I'll just yeah, I'll just put it this way. She says, he's upset

he can't watch point of White House. You know, she's so smug and smarmy about Trump now a year ago, no, make that two years ago, when she could have you been taking a determined stand against Trump, stand for journalistic ethics, ethics, you know, stand for truth or you know whatever. All all these things and all these journalists are there are martyrs in the era of Trump. It's such a joke.

It's such a such a complete the buckle. But she was very cozy within that, Mika and Trump and I'm sorry, Mica and Joe and troll buddies, and then they had kind of a falling out. And now you know, it's a lot of like you know, high school kids stuff with oh, what gossip can we tell about Trump? And how he's so he's so grotesque, he's so clownish. He can't watch porn in the White House, they're saying now,

and that's that's a big thing for him. You know, Trump may have said that, I'm gonna say that, Trump may have said that, He's I guarantee you it was a joke, folks. But this, uh, you know, this this extreme literalism now because they're, oh, we're the truth tellers, were the truth tellers. This has become a thing. This is a trend I have noticed now. So now they fact check opinions as though their facts. Now they fact check. Uh,

you know people that are are are making jokes. Look what they did, I mean Mike with Sean Hannity earlier in the week. Yes, technically Sean said that, you know, they should destroy into that people should destroy evidence like Hillary. He was laughing and it was a joke to anybody with you know, ten i Q points to put together. But there were correct me if I'm wrong. A lot of media outlets, a lot of people in the media who were like Hannity, you're giving you know, advice to

He wasn't giving it. Am I missing something? Now you'reright on point? And how many of those people do you actually think heard him say that or just read a headline. Well, see, that's the other part of it, right. They are literalists on our side. Every word has to be parsed, every word in anything that they're trying to get down in. Dude, oh you said this, but it's really this, you know, you said red and it's chartreuse liar whoa settle down? Right?

Sean is actually making a joke. That is that no one who listens to it could look any of the face and says anything other than a joke. And still they still jump they jump on his case. I mean a few people do, some of the media. It's just it's just ridiculous. But with Miki here, what I bet happened is Trump made a joke because you know, he's a guy's guy and he says things a certain way.

I bet he made a joke about how he can't watch porn in the White House, and somebody relayed that as a joke, and Mika is like, well I heard that Trump says that he's upset that he can't watch porn in the White House? Well was he? Was he serious about it? That's one part of this, And then the other part of it is why are you telling us this? I mean, you know what, what? What is that? The thing? What? The percentage of American adult males who watched pornography is very high. I will tell you that

actually years ago. I made the conscious decision A long time ago. Now I don't know, it's been a while. I'm gonna say to to a shoe porn. I'm not saying like when the when the boobies come out on Game of Thrones, I run and high or something. I'm not. I'm not you know, I'm not a monk, you know. I I mean, I am the guy who is somewhat

disappointed about the Miss America bathing suit competition decision. Like, I'm not pretending that I don't you know, I'm not somebody who will occasionally ogl what is on the TV screen. But I do think that. Then this is a a whole other part of the conversation. But as a guy, I can tell you you appreciate, uh, you appreciate your intimate life more. You appreciate female beauty around you, especially the female beauty of the person that you are romantically with.

You appreciate that more. If you are not watching five hours of porn today, you I'm you. It is a desensitization that occurs over time. I'm telling you, guys who are listening. If you're like, you know, well, whatever age you may be, if if this is something that you if porn is laying a role in your life, get rid of it. Get rid of it the way you'd get rid of like a bad of a bad habit. You won't look back I'm telling you you won't look back and you will realize that it has it has

a negative effect. I don't. I'm not somebody's Oh, pornography is the reason that we like the society is coming apart. Although I know some very smart people who make who makes some pretty compelling arguments about that. I'm just saying,

for your own, for your own day to day purposes. Uh. You know, it's kind of like if you had if you know, if you have access to let let's say you have access to an entire to a store just full of sugary candy, right, just like a candy also known as a candy store, and you're just eating, eating, eating candy, candy, candy all the time, right, and then somebody shows up and you have a chocolate cake that

is like homemade and delicious and perfect. If you have been every day leading up to that three meals a day stuffing your face with starbursts and you know what else? Did you know? Twizzlers and all this junk I used to eat sometimes when my parents weren't looking as a kid, you will appreciate that chocolate cake glass. I think, Mike, is this analogy? Am I am? My is this making sense or is it too weird? Okay, I'm making sense,

thank you. So Mika does not have to tell us about the president's alleged desire to watch adults entertainment in the White House. I bet it was a joke that if she heard this at all, if it isn't actually just fake news, I bet it's a joke. And it's quite clear that when it comes to Trump, the media cannot take a joke. Speaking of which, uh so, I had a little bit of a little Twitter exchange a lot. I know a lot of you are on Twitter, but I'll kind of explain to you how it went today.

I mean, this is just the stuff when I say to myself, maybe I just want Twitter where I can talk to all of you. You know, I don't want annoying, self righteous, entitled, overpaid TV journalists like just annoying me. I don't need it. But but one of them did today, and I think it's a lot. It illuminates a fundamental lie at the heart of the mainstream media. And we'll

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That's buck to zero for off your entire next quarter. Sexton Permission Decoding the news and disseminating information with actionable intelligence. Make no mistake American Great, You're a great American again. This is the Buck Sexton Show. Analysts, no locum our, three folks. It's a three stoff punct that is for sure. And you know I try to. I try to approach my my business with a certain degree of of decorum and responsibility and respect and and even friendliness whenever possible.

I really try to do my best too, even when I disagree strongly with people, not make it personal, not getting nasty, not be uh you know, not just actually not not be a jerk. But not everybody else really takes that approach. Some people like to be very and I mean media folks, right. I'm not talking about just whoever can get a Twitter account. I mean people that are blue the blue check Twitter, right, the public person Twitter.

Sometimes people can be a bit snappy, a bit rude, a little bit unfair, and honestly just just kind of nasty. So you know, this is where I have to tell you that I had a yet another It's so interesting. Mr Tapper over at CNN seems to like to uh goad me on Twitter uh and and never just debate back and forth the issue, but always likes to remember this is just about tweets, right, Say someone's lying, say that I I someone's being dishonest and I'm being dishonest.

I'm like, and I'm like, the tweets stand for themselves. Man. It's a. It's a public It's essentially a public record of somebody's thoughts in real time that they decided to share with with who, you know, whomever wants to get on the internet. But I just think this was this was very instructive about why why does the media um turned so many people off? Why are they so distrusted?

Why are they more distrusted now than ever before? Why does Donald Trump's statement about fake news not only resonate with so many people, but also, uh, why is it that they're so sensitive about it? And I have to say, Uh, this I think is a pretty good version of it. I think this, this gives you a sense to a sense of what the problems are here. So the New York Times wrote that the Justice Department seized a as we've been discussing, right, they seized a reporter's phone and

email records. It's first known use of such an aggressive tactic under President Trump. And I just fired after this one. Obama did this. The press was willing to overlook it. They made it okay for Obama because he was so perfect. Press won't overlook it now. But guess what, too late now. I am obviously, as somebody who works in media and also used to work in the intelligence community aware of the media's coverage, meaning that there was coverage of the

various spying iterations by the Obama administration that specifically targeted journalists. Right, I am obviously very aware of that. Now it's Twitter, at shorthand at short form. I get all that, But immediately I got a a very a very nasty response by I wasn't tweeting at Jake Taber. I don't care, you know, to me, I mean, Jake Tapper. You could

replace him with fifteen other guys at CNN tomorrow. The ratings wouldn't change, and and I wouldn't care what I mean, it's his his opinion is not relevant to me, but his opinion of me. It's something he decided to to share in a particularly aggressive fashion. I'm trying to actually pull up the whole because this made it on the media. I'd folks, this this guy picked up as a separate story.

So I said that, and then you get, yeah, Jake Tapper, Jake Tapper correct CI analysts proclaiming media ignored Obama press crackdown. So sick of the lying, that's what, so Jake said, So sick of the lying in response to me, and then shared a bunch of his own because he's the media apparently, I mean, the media is a lot, right,

it's a very sweeping judgment. I understand there's really you could be engaged in a bit of sophistry and say there's no such thing as the media position on anything, which is kind of technically true but also useless, right, because there's clearly a a focus, a preponderance on or a focus, and a tendency preponders the wrong word for the media to take things a certain way. Um, So I have to say, I think this is so fascinating because you know, then I get so he's called it

a lie. I responded to him, and this was all in in in real time. I responded to him by overlook, I'm making a judgment about the intensity of the coverage and the outrage over the tactic. I'm obviously not saying nobody covered it. How would I have known about it if it wasn't through the news? But by all means use up too literalism is an opening to call it a lie. And then Jake says that's not how words work, and I said, that's really cute. Jake or that's really

you know, funny or whatever. Uh, he's very nasty to people on Twitter. He has this reputation. He does this all the time, and I think it's because fundamentally he's a part of a lie. Do you want to talk about lying? And the lie is that CNN is an objective news source, which if he was asked he would say it is. So he is living a lie every day. He is fundamentally a part of a lie by being a part of an organization that claims to be unbiased

and fair. Now, on the merits of this specific issue of whether they were willing to overlook Obama and this buying that occurdenter has watched, I want to make it very clear that, yeah, I could have said largely overlooked. There's some way, you know, if I was trying to be focused in on precision where nobody could quibble with me, I could do that. But is the position that the medium By the way, I got a whole pile on people in New York Times, Washington Post. Oh, we covered it,

we covered it. Yeah, Really, where are the editorials asking for Eric Holder's resignation for seizing the phone records of journalists for listing James Rosen of Fox News as an unindicted co conspirator. Oh, that's right, it was Fox. Do we think they were as upset about it when it was at Fox? And they would have been in other places, because you know journalism. They point me to all these

editorials they say, a troubling precedent for the obamaministration. The Obama administration was was effectively preparing to gut or in the process of gutting national security reporting overall. You'd think that people who make a living doing that would be more than just like publishing an editorial here and there. Yeah, we don't think. We don't think Obama should do this. Do you think one journalist changed his mind about Obama

and the abaministration based on this? No? But you see, my my problem is, folks, and I appreciate Tapper trying to correct me on that correct me as media it says, by the way, media, I also just makes it even worse by saying that I I ignored. I never said ignored. I said overlook. But oh, overlook doesn't mean that you're unaware of it, right, I mean overlook in the context that I was using it is to say, you know, they were like, Yeah, it's not that big a deal.

I'm not saying they never mentioned it, because that's crazy because obviously I could only know about the story for media coverage. So it's a it's a nonsensical point. But it brings me back to the center of the wheelhouse here, which is but see, CNN is just peddling a falsehood every day by pretending that they are not in an

organization devoted to the distry auction of the Trump administration too. Hopefully, if they have their way making Donald Trump lose his presidency and also maybe go to prison people around him go to prison, they would cheer. I'm sure if they could get you know, Jared or Vonka or somebody brought up on some kind of uh lame mickey mouse muller, go into the mat kind of charges, they'd be very

happy with that. And so that's why I think there's this heightened sensitivity because people realize, Okay, let's quibble with my language over the double standard of Obama versus Trump when it comes to the media's coverage of their spying. Let's do that. By the way, it's not just the spying that Obama did that they glossed over. There we go. That's what I said. That that they that they briefly touched on in some news stories that they quickly forgot about.

There wasn't some big narrative. There were no journalists who were saying, oh, you know, we we really need to rethink this whole oba I'm a love fest that we've been having. Come on, right, that's that's not what happened. We all know that's what happened. But even beyond that, you've got journalists that are running stories every day now about how US citizens like Carter Page can, with the discretion of the national security industry, lose all their all

their Fourth Amendment rights. Right, they can just pick up their emails, listen whatever they want. Journalists are fine with that because it's against Trump. I mean, the double standard is so glaring. It's laughable that anybody would try to say otherwise. But instead of that, call someone a liar. By the way, very strong, I was sharing an opinion. Mr Tapper is unfamiliar with the difference in an opinion and a fact. It's not a fact to say that the the media, which is not an individual, it's a

general conception of organizations. The media overlooking something is not a factual statement. I didn't say they actually never covered it. But you'll notice they that they'd rather play this game of well, we're the ones that are calling facts because Trump world is awful of lies. And also, I've actually never met Tapper, never spoken a word to him, don't

don't know much about him. I know he's nasty to people on a regular basis on Twitter, and I can tell you kind of funny stories about how this is the way that he operates right he can, he won't let things go. He and he demands retractions, demands retractions like who do you think you are? Thinks he's very important. That much is clear, very very full of himself. But on the on the the underlying substance here, and you know, as I said, this guy, different journalists are all away

and they're all dog piling me. Oh you're look at this article. Look at this article. Yeah, yeah, idiots. I know that you wrote articles about the Obama spuying. The point is you were willing to move on past it and not make it a major issue because Obama. And I'm just saying that I doubt they'll be the same tendency with Trump and his administration and using national security

powers to spy on journalists. This shouldn't be controversial. Actually this should be a pretty obvious thing to say, but you get heat for it will because when you point out the double standard, they get upset. The same way when you call them fake news, they get upset because they do rome with fake news. Oh no, I'm so you're right, Stormy Daniels, night after night after night. That's not fake news. What well, what is that? They're creating news out of a non news story? So what what

do they want us to call that? Anyway? Look, I mean this is why I think some days, you know, just retreat to the woods. Write some novels nobody will read. Learn how to like trap some fish, you know, get like some some of those gloves and the thing you need to the mask and everything for the honey, you know, I mean, you gotta have honey, Gotta have sweetener. I'm not I'm not a barbarian, right and live out in

the woods. Get some honey, just kind of keep it all going, you know, Get an old record player because that just feels a little more old timey. Put on the cat Stevens. Let the cat pur some days. Man, I just feel like that's the way to go. You know, this this whole trying trying to be out there fighting the fight, you know, taking it just just trying to spread spread knowledge and truth to the best of my ability.

You know, your days, You're just like, Man, it should have been like, yeah, set up like a tiki bar somewhere, real nice. You know, I had some like live music that would play. I'm getting myself all excited here. Some of you're probably gonna send me recommendations. Move to this city. You can order this town. You know, you can just

hang out by the beach, just chill one day. It would be also be fun to just have a Twitter account that, like it is not like I have no professional involvement in in the media anymore, and I can actually just tell people what I think of them. That would be fun and really tell them, like just say it, not care. But I would get in trouble. And profanity

is a problem, you know stuff like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know people will say, you know, buck, technically you shouldn't call person that, even if they are a terrible CNN jerk. Uh so you know it is what it is. Um anyway, Yes, this is why I just hate Twitter, because it's it's useful to a point, but as a means of conversation, it's no. No one's actually trying to engage.

They're really just and they're they're seeing who can come up with the sickest burn and who can create the biggest dog pile effect to silence, you know, the the people that they don't like. And I just find it, uh find a childish finds pretty annoying. And yeah, anyway, my last thing with Tapper was when I when he said that Scooter Libby leaked the name of a covert CIA officer and I'm like, I think he actually said agent because he doesn't know the difference in an agent

and an officer. And although don't quote me on that, oh my gosh, I could be wrong. Um I'm willing to bet that was correct. And I'm just like, well, that's actually not what happened. But okay, all right, you know I got all the other scene and they all come they're all like a team, like like a big it's like a clown car of of well of clowns, the clown News network, and they all come after you, yelling at you and stuff. So few people that go on are there now and share opinions. Uh, I have

really any respect for at this point. I mean professionally. Personally I can't speak to it, but professionally it's who who's who's the down the middle person you can trust over there. That's not skewing, that's not feeding into the Russia collusion fantasy. Anyway. Some people just need a bucks laugh, whether they realize they got one or not. Uh, we'll

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thirty five percent margin. Those surveying at the Quinnipiac University poll voice disagreement with the notion that players who during games uh protests police shootings of unarmed black men are disrespectful of America. A majority of voters also offered support for athletes right to protest on their playing fields and courts at expressed opposition. Now, first of all, calling them unpatriotic is very strong, So I feel like the poll is automatically skewing, uh and making it likely or to

get a certain outcome. To to to ask do you agree with their choice to do it? To call them unpatriotic is to pass judgment on the individuals themselves. It's I think a much better way to approach this would be to say, what do you think of the decision to do that? Um? So that's one part of this. And then also having the right to protest on the on the playing field, that's you know, I think that's just that's only fift so it's pretty evenly split. But I think a lot of that is just people who don't

understand that, you know, sure enough, Uh. The owners are allowed to set rules and regulations for their for their businesses. So it's not a right issue, it's a what is the owner one issue? But this was the most interesting part of this, you because we're talking about all his NFL knealing stuff these days. This most an interesting part of it that sevent of Republicans called NFL players kneeling unpatriotic and said they did not have a right to

protest during games. Well eight five and eight two of Democrats disagreed, So the NFL kneeling issue which brings in all different kinds of complexities, and you know it's just a free speech thing. Is it a police relations with minority communities? There's so many ways you can slice this and look at this, but this has become just like guns, a straight up polarized partisan issue. Whatever you know, whatever you are, as party affiliation goes, is what you think

about this issue, according to this poll. With obviously with some exceptions because eighty five percent, there's some some some were left out of this, but it is overwhelmingly the case now that just like if you support gun rights, you are almost certainly a Republican. If you support the right to life instead of the right to an abortion,

you're almost certainly a Republican. Now we can put NFL kneeling during the anthem on this list of issues that separate people out from each other and that are very much part of the the the political proxy fight that's going on all the time. So I think I think you are gonna have some more neil and come to fall,

that's for sure. I can't I don't know enough to say which teams and who's the most likely with it, but you know, I'm just amazed to these Democrats who say they don't find it on patriotic when somebody does that. You know, the flag is also a cultural thing. Now, I guess Democrats have this notion that there's no you know, don't no need to respect the flag. I guess, Uh, We'll be right back. Stay with me. He's holding the line for America. Buck Sexton his back. Hey, team Buck,

it's time for roll Call, Roll Call Friday. Let me we're gonna have a little extended session here in the Freedom public. Get into a little bit more of the roll call then we do on an average day, although lately I've been trying to extend it, uh, just because I enjoyed doing it so much, because I like hearing from all of you. Or I suppose technically it is reading from all of you, but it's certainly something that is that it's fun to do. So with that in mind,

let's get into it. We have hold on one second, let's see we got here. It's it's coming up, it's coming. There we go. Lannie, Hey buck Heart the show. Thank you, Lannie shields Hie from errors ownA. Oh my god, you were talking about impersonations yesterday and I swear you have the best I've ever heard, the best Alex Jones impersonation. That is hands down. Enjoy your weekend with miss Molly. Oh. By the way, it is produced producing gosh buck speak

English pronounced Lonnie, not Landing. Okay, Lonnie, thank you so much. Lanny. You you're obviously not tooled to build a bird's and Illuminati google it. Um. So there you have it, David, But I've realized that there you have it is my uh is my latest and greatest filler for when I can't get a segment to pop up as quickly as I want. Brian rites, I thought this was funny. High capacity magazines turn regular firearms into fully automatic weapons. Uh.

And he's it's a letter, Brian. I don't know who this letter is from, but it looks great, So I don't know. I can't. I can't. I literally can't read any of it. But clearly fully I don't know, I don't know what it says. That's all I got for you, buddy. Next up is Adam never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it. George Bernard Shaw. Yes, that's the full quote that I referenced in passing, So

thank you very much Adam for that. I get uh Donka with the next message here, Hello, um Derka, how are you? Um? I'm good, dom Ca. What is Derka? And why are you ready to be on Facebook? That would be the That would be the question that I want to post you straight away. And next up is Hannah And by the way, if you want to be a part of roll Call Facebook dot com slash buck Sexton and uh, here we go. We have Hannah who writes,

hey man, love the show. Thanks for all you do so as I commission a Men of the Blaze calendar. Uh if I get this done, can we get you for an October surprise? Also? I would go fund me Hillary is what happened in your impression of her? I listened for the impressions millennial and Hillary are the best. Wow. Thank you Hannah Oss Homie Shields High great great to hear from you. I got the Hillary impersonation. It's so funny that people like it because I always think to myself,

is anyone gonna be mad at me? Because this doesn't actually sound at all like Hillary Clinton? But it, as I say, it captures her essence in a way that I think very few other impersonators are able to. I think that there's there's a particular resonance with folks when they hear me do the Hillary impersonation, because they're like, you know what, it doesn't sound like Hillary, but I know anyway that it is in fact Hillary. Uh. Next up is Matt buck You've been lamenting the lack of

proper email address for the show. Have you thought about having a contest fliti just for choose the address. I'd go for buck Topia at an email address, as always loved the show Shields High. Matt, that's actually a great idea. I like, I like buck Topia. We're gonna have a new email address. We're gonna have it soon. I'm just waiting to get more information on our website redesign, which is happening as we speak, and once that is up, we will be able to go from there. Uh. Next

up here, William. I know your generation needs to have your hero, but when you put it under the microscope, Lebron is just a distant second best from his area, nows Michael Jordan's I know that Michael has more uh more rings. I know that right, and I know that um Jordan is an icon that is really timeless. But I gotta say, Lebron, he's so dominant, so dominant, you know what the truth is, guys, I don't watch enough basketball to have all that much of an informed opinion

on this. Lebron has been the eight finals in a row. That's a very good point. That's impressive as heck. And Jordan never did that. But that's because Jordan left to play baseball. Just just saying, there you go. Yeah, you know, I I was last night. I was moving into my apartment and down here and I spent you know, I spent some time and I had to go out on the street in the neighborhood and I walked and I remember thinking, oh my gosh, I thought New York was loud.

This city is crazy, Like it's so loud to hear. There's so much noise and commotion, so many things going on in the street. But sure enough, of what I didn't realize until I went out and saw the oceans of people running around everywhere with red jerseys on, is that the Capitals were in the Stanley Cup Finals. Did you know this, Producer, Mike, I was unaware of this, and I'm here in d C. I'm in the swamp.

It turns out a swamp team is in the is in the Stanley Cup finals and and in fact one, so everybody was was getting really uh you know, amped up over this obviously, all these people walking around these red capitals jerseys in the street. I was looking for paper products. I won't get any worse specificity than that. It was kind of it was towards the later part

of the evening. I was looking for paper products, because truth be told, when you move into a place sometimes you forget things like I don't have paper products there. And I went into a a Walgreens. And when I was in the wall Greens, it was wall to wall people in these red jersey ease and you know, they were all um excited about the capitals. But my favorite thing was that there was a real commotion at one point by the coolers, and I could see what was

going on. These guys were just looking around this One guy goes, you, guys, oh no, they only have one kind of beer left, and it's oh duels, and the whole crowds like no. They all got so upset because there was a fair amount of drinking going on, and uh, pretty much every store within I'd say a ten block radius of this downtown d C Stanley Cup party had

had been ransacked. I mean people paid for it, but but they were out of booze, and so when the only thing they had left was oh duels, that did not sit well with the folks who had assembled there. They were not they were not happy about it. Uh, next up here? Oh yeah, So that was my story about the Stanley Cup. I also thought it was a playoff game. I didn't realize it was a Stanley Cup finals. So I need to become well better verse, I suppose in DC based teams. Willie writes Buck legal aliens can

lose their citizenship when committing a felony. Once lost, they are classed as illegal aliens. Um well, Willie, good to know. Thank you very much for for the tip. I know, if you're here on a visa, you can certainly be deported if you do anything bad. But is you know, Mike, can you check that? Can you you can? Really? If you're a permanent resident, you can lose your citizenship. That's

an interesting thing to throw into the mix. Uh. That is something that might have escaped the Buck wisdom such as it is here we go, Aries writes, I'm sick and tired. Uh, I'm sick and tired of these stupid conservatives getting their butts kicked on TV. As a concerns illegal immigration, the leftists always say that immigrants cammit less crime than most of the native population, which is exactly true for every non Islamic immigrant population in the world. However,

close to six of illegal aliens are criminals. If an uneducated white male like me knows this, why don't more people speaking up for our movement? No? Are they just brain lazy or stupid? Um hmm? Interesting? Alright? Aries? So Arias thrown out something I don't know if I've never seen that statistic before. So there you there you go? Aris? Uh, roll call. I just I read what the people say. Joseph next up here here it's trying to get to your sponsor. Is it nine lives apparel dot com? Okay? Uh?

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a line in the sand. Conservatives on one side, evil liberals on the other. Uh. Well, I want to get into more roll call, but you know what, let me let me take a quick policy or take a little beat, and when we come back, we'll hear more of your thoughts and we'll kick it off right for the weekend. So stay with yeah, come on, you know better than both those things. And uh, this this was into the psychology of Donald Trump? Is who is he? And what does he think? And why does he think so normally?

Why does he excell abnormal? He's as dismissive of truth as he is. It's you we go on with it. I just want to say the most disturbing part of the news to me today with this notion that he's he wants to now send troops to the border. Um, you know it's true that. Okay, come on, like Michael Ken lead to the uh, the diminishment of democracy. Come on, democracy. My only word for it is you you outdid yourself without montage. Man, that was amazing. I asked for a gurgling.

That was amazing. You get you get it straight up, destroyer Mark River. I love it. And the thing is, that's the guy they bring out when Senn wants to get serious. That's the guy who comes out. And it's just like it's like, everybody, wait, be quiet, everyone be quiet. Gurgan wants to wants to gurgle for asdiction for democracy and you look, you heard I'm not it's a good impersonation. You you know, you could be a big Gurgen fan or not. And you know, I'm just saying the impersonation.

I think it's it's pretty jet democracy. That's what all My favorite was to do X. I used to have to sit there sometimes. I used to have to sit there and be like, oh now I get to get lectured by this guy or a young whipper snapper over here, or northing about another thing or uh good times, good times. Let's see what we have next year, um boom we have. I'm sorry I made my I made it. I made it disappear the messages, which I should not do team because I've got limited time here to get to all

the rest of the roll call. Oh man, this weekend, I'm I'm gonna drink some mescal. That's what I'm gonna do. That's what That's what I've got on. That's the only thing I know for sure. There will be there will be mescal. You've seen there will be blood. Well, we drink up the oil. That was actually pretty good too for Thank you for On the Fly. I haven't watched that movie in a while, and Daniel day Lewis is like creepy good in that. It's like, did you actually

just become that that person? Because it doesn't seem very much like there's much Daniel Lewis left as you're watching that. All right, Um, we have Taylor next in our roll call here, Taylor Rights, don't beat me up too bad, bro. The t bones were on sale. These stuff Portobello mushrooms. Though, oh my look, I don't hate on vegetables when vegetables are used as either an accompaniment to or a vehicle for the ingestion of meat or cheese or dairy. So

those are my rules. Veggies are great as long as there is meat, and there's more meat than veggies and veggies that are used so that you can either eat a form of cheese or any form of meat that is a completely acceptable choice, as well as to your t bone. In this photo you've sent me Taylor instead of ribby. I will say this, Ribby is very fatty. I know that it's fatty and it's delicious, but sometimes you want to mix it up. You know, steak is a steak. I'll go flank steak, I'll go ribby, I'll

go butcher cut steak. I like all of the above as long as you get a good seer on it, and you cook that meat well, then you season in a bit too much. You know, it's a little bit, and then I think you're Then I think you're all good. Then I think you're good to go. So thank you for sharing that with me, my friend. I would like to get to get some cooking going this weekend, but you know, we'll see if that ends up happening. John, Next up here, do you want to get someone from

the boy Scouts on? There are a ton of misconceptions about the changes recently, Mike, Do we have something for the for the boy Scout situation? Here? Maybe? I mean, is there Well, we'll talk about maybe there's like a National Boy Scout expert uh or or troop leader or something whatever. We wouldn't want an expert. We wanted somebody party organization. But I'll give it some thought, my friend. I'm feeling very inclusive today, uh like salad minus the egg,

because I wanted to be vegan inclusive. Bill right, Hey Buck, I've been seeing some news lately about the guy that did the Las Vegas shooting, regarding his motives, but I questioned the sources. The fact that we also haven't heard very much follow up on this gives me pause. What have you heard? Bill? Great question? And the truth is I have heard very little on this. I don't have any outside sources or any particular insight into what happened in Las Vegas. All I can really say to you is, um,

I would like there to be more answers. I've said from the beginning, if you recall, if you've ben listen to the show for a long time, that my expectation was that we would not find out really de finitively what this guy's motive was. That there would never really come a time when we would be able to say to ourselves, UM, okay, we acent know what was going on here, so that that's where I am on that uh next up here, Tom writes, Oss can't even remember

where I was when you made the announcement. You've been on air five days a week. Buck, Seriously, wouldn't eating less vegetables be better for the planet? Killing and eating the animals that relentlessly murder our precious oxygen? Providing plants is the only way to be green. Don't these vegans care about the planet? Tom, I appreciate the sarcasm, and also thank you for being with me from the very earliest days. It is a great honor and is very

much appreciated. And you're a good man. He spells Tom with an h I've never I've only seen that once before. It's with the guy from Radiohead. That's right, Yeah, I know I know some things about some stuff. That's gonna be it for the freedom and for today, my friends. Next week I'll have a podcast up speaking of freedom. Hut the Freedom up with Buck Sexton. So I get ready for that one. This week we got pushed for

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