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This Comy thing was you know, I I promised that I'm not going to spend too much time this week talking talking about Comy or or sank to Comy as I like to call him, because the sanctimony with this guy is it is a tornado of sanctimony every time he appears on TV. This interview was was hard to take and many ways hard to watch. But I feel like I've known comys in my day. I think a lot of us have. And if you if you understand who this guy is, then everything starts to make sense.

If you really put into context who this individual, who he reminds you of, who he operates like in your own life, you be like, yeah, I've known some I've known some comys in my day. Uh. And just as as I mentioned before, we've got some some more stuff on Syria to talk about. Also California and the National Guard going to the border. That's that's gonna be an interesting piece as well. So here's here's what I got for you on the whole comy thing went on for

a long time. I went back today and read through the transcript of it too, and not a lot of news breaking in this, but if you look between the lines, if you read between the lines a bit, you find that is a very problematic figure. This this Mr Komy fellow and has at various points in his career taken actions and made decisions that a non Komy would probably be ruined for I mean, this guy, he's a a

savvy political infighter, make no mistake about it. You know, he is the boy scout who will stab you in the back. So you think, oh, this guy, you know, anyone can trust him. Then all of a sudden, Ah, what's that in my back? What happened? You didn't see it coming because it came from Comy. I want to break down those some of his And this is who he is, right, that's what his the vibe, the feeling

you get about this guy. You know, I've told some of my friends recently that he's the one who, you know, if you weren't late, for if you weren't caught by the dean when you were late for school, he was the one who would just like give the Dina heads up that you were late. You know, is he right? Yeah? I mean technically maybe, But is it helpful? Is is that is that the cool thing to do? Is that

the right move? Is that showing good judgment? No? I don't think the world's a better place because you didn't get away with being ten minutes late to first period. You know, it's who Comey is. He's He's America's hall monitor. It's not somebody that I have a lot of admiration or respect for, and that's putting a modeling, not someone that I can honestly stomach spending too much time reading

about or or analyzing. But we'll do some of it today. Um. He also reminds me of some of the government employees I knew who were really quick to point out if anyone had violated even the most arcane regulation, even the most minute in the NYPD that had the patrol guy this big thick guide and you always knew. And this was told me by different sergeants on on the force

that I worked with in my time there. You know, you knew if somebody was on your on your side or not, based on how deep in the weeds they go in the patrol guy to find something to get you onto Jammu Up. I remember a guy telling me that, you know, when he worked in the equivalent of the Internal Affairs Bureau, there were the guys who I think

m IPD and I even forget. I think they call it an investigations or whatever, but and it's it's the it's what in the movies that have they know we're from the Internal Affairs and all the all the good guy cops who played by the road instet of rules or super hostile to them. That's not how it works out in real life internal affairs. In real life every

goes yes, sir, what do you need? Um? But there were the guys who would as part of the internal affairs component, they would get you on having your addresses of the m y p D. If your address changed and you didn't officially updated on your driver's license. They make a big deal of that. Does anyone really care? Are you not an effective law enforcement officer because the

records have you at the wrong address or something? If you move because people move in New York all the time because the rents are so expensive, and you know you've got really no choice. Um. But you know that's those Those are the differences between the people that you can count on and the people that you can't write, those who would go to the depths of of the patrol guy to find a way to get you. And that's who Comy is, except for himself, very clear about

that in this interview as well. He'll he'll find a way to justify sending anyone else down the river, throwing someone else under the bus. But he was always just acting from the most pure motives. He was always the guy who when he was breaking the rules, he was doing it actually for the best possible intentions. That's what

he was really all about. So with that here, let's get into some of the specifics from his his interview, like, for example, where he talked about the the leak of information that he had Comey leaks some stuff play clip one. Presidents tweeted innumerable times calling you a leaker. What's your response to President Trump? Look, it's true. I mean I'm the one who testified about it. That's how people know about it. I gave that unclassified memo to my friend

and asked him to give it to a reporter. That is entirely appropriate. Why not do it yourself? Why not do it openly, transparently, For one very practical reason. At the end of my driveway was a horde of media, and my thought was, if I give it to one reporter, then what's my answer to all the others about why I won't answer their questions. That's not an answer that that doesn't cut it right, because I wanted to be fair.

This is what I mean by you know, he's the guy who the rules really apply to everyone else, but not really to him. But he's he's holier than thou, but he gives himself an indulgence when necessary. I had to have a cutout give it to the paper because I didn't want to seem unfair. Well, then you're cut out. Is the guy who's being unfair, but you're the one who empowered him. So how does that make any difference? The answers, of course it doesn't. He's also stating that

the memo is unclassified. Well, according to Chuck Grassley in the Senate, that's not true. And beyond that, even if it's unclassified, the fact of the matter is that he was using his access as the FBI director two wage a personal war against the president to indulge a personal vendetta against the person who he answered to in the executive chain of command. There's this weird there's this weird theory that the media has been running around with it like the d o J and the FBI are are

really their own branch of government. And I think that what's been on earth and all of this in part is that they think of themselves as their own branch at the very top level at least, I mean not the rank and file, but you know, FBI director or attorney general. They think that they are in a separate category of government. They're not just another executive branch employee. And I think that that led to a very troubling

and obvious hubrists with people like James Comey. I mean, this guy really thinks that he's just got a better way all the time, and when he breaks the rules, it's because he knows the rules so very well. When he does something that's wrong, it's because, oh, it's just so right. It's really kind of a got a kind of while when you think about it. Um. But so he admitted that he leakes he leaked stuff, and he

says it's unclassifiedable. We'll see, we'll see. There are other parts of the interview I think where we got a much better sense even of how self serving all of his justifications really are. One of the parts of it that made me the most annoyed because he's not the

only one who has done this. You've had this from former cy I director Brennan as well, but that they'll suggest that like maybe Russia has got something on Trump, still maybe they've got something on them, and given their level of access to government information, including all kinds of sensitive collection platforms that are out there, and investigations for the FBI side of things too on national security related matters. This suggestion, when you've just left that role, that there

maybe something that is compromising the President United States. He's wildly irresponsible. It just is people can sit around and say, oh, no, you know, tell me he's he's great and he's doing his best, and he just wants to serve his country. And I see this and I say to myself, Uh, he really is acting like a wounded, uh, wounded and aggrieved high school kid here who gets to just lash out and cause problems for the country because he has

problems with how he was fired. And I would know it's not like he was fired in and it was you know, he's out on his butt on the street and he can't make a living. You know, I can't can earn a dollar. The guy had plenty of ways that he used to work. Doesn't talk about this very much. I've brought it up here on the show. He worked at one of the biggest hedge funds in the world

as an advisor for a while. I've told you in part why I think that decision was made because he was friends with pre Berrara, who was making a name for himself as the U S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York by going after very prominent hedge funds on insider trading with insider trading probes and charges in some cases. So it's a it's a good insurance policy to have a guy on the payroll who could get on the phone or maybe meet for lunch with the U S Attorney and be like, hey, my guys

are good. You know. That's all you have to say. By the way, nothing technically illegal about that, right. If you're friends with the U S. Attorney and he says, you know, hey, how are things going at that place, he goes, oh, yeah, my guys are all They're all good, they don't do anything bad. There's nothing illegal about that, And the U S Attorney gets the message without having

to get the message. Maybe he wants to be in on the uh gonna be an advisor to a major hedge fund, later, wants to be on the board of some companies, or in the case of pre Varr, wants to run over to CNN and be a CNN analyst right away. And apart joined the hashtag resistance, which is what he has done. Um, but this is this interview went on. It was a full hour when for a long time and Stephanopolis, who I have to say, And I don't mean this in a mean way, but Stephanopolis

is one of the great mysteries to me. I don't understand how he has the job that he has. I could not be I mean, yeah, he's a Clinton operative. He knows a lot of the Clinton people, and I get that there are connections, but the fact that they think they have to pay this guy a hundred million dollars to to ask a lot of questions that anyone would ask him, by the way, to not ask some questions that should have been asked. What were some of those?

I'll get into all that and more. I want to hear from all you folks if you would like to chat with me, not even California. So it's always nice to hear from the team when I'm on the road eight four four eight to five eight four or four nine hundred bucks. So we're gonna get into a little more because there's some very important stories that intersect with this coming interview, right, So it's not just me sitting here making fun of him for being a lanky, weirdo

with no self awareness, although that's a part of it too. Uh. There are some some stories that we get a little additional insight on or information that well, a whole bunch of different stories that that came into this interview. So we'll do some of that this hour, and then I'll talk to you about the National Guard situation with California and the border, how Trump's actually doing versus how the media pretends he's doing with the country, with the economy. Uh.

Follow up on the serious strikes. I'm still um skeptical of how useful or or important they were in the grand scheme of things. In the third hour, some random topics. I think we'll be talking about sugar wokeness and how it affects the way that we couldn't like sugar. That's a topic, Oh it is on this show. Uh. And there's one other thing that I was hoping to talk to you about the third hour, and I'm totally blanking what it is now, but it's gonna be amazing that much,

I can promise you. All Right, team hitting a quick break, We'll be right back. This is a man without courage. He didn't have courage to tell the President to his face he was wrong. Instead, he leaked it. He didn't have courage to walk out of the meeting, which he said was an improper meeting when he was in the presence of the president. He showed no courage. Look, I think one of the reasons that the President talks to me from time time as I tell him exactly what

I think. At every point in time, I told Obama what I thought, I told Clinton what I thought. If you're the head of the FBI, you gotta look the president in the eye and you have sas president, you're wrong. I agree with the dirsh I've been staying on a lot like it. But it's true. Comy is is posing as some kind of moral hero all the time. Let in reality he's really kind of a self serving snake. Why not Why do you have to get fired? Let's just start with let's start with some of these very

basic questions. Why don't you get fired? Why couldn't he resign? If Trump is, as he says, such a stain on government and the FBI and all the others, all the other really really terrible stuff that Comey says about the current president United States, Why don't you get pushed out? Wouldn't it seem like a pretty straightforward thing to say, Oh, hold on a second, Um, if he was so bad, then I think it's fair to say that you should

have known he was so bad. And the way for a public official to stand on principle is not to try to protect his or her job and uh perks and prerogative, but actually to say, hold on, I'm gonna say this is wrong now and have an impact by resigning, now,

you know. I just I thought it was um very telling that in all this talk with Comy, by the way, it never comes across that this is a guy who, when it might go against his interests, is brave what it might go against his interests, will speak truth to power. And there were so many things he said that we're also just complete another craft. I mean going into the transcript here for a second. Uh, he said, Well, for a bunch of reasons. It's sort of built over the

course of the investigation. First of all, we had the problem that President Obama had twice publicly basically said there was no there there in an interview with Fox on Fox in an interview in sixty minutes. I think both times he said that George step Anopolis and he said, so that's his Justice Department. Stephanopolis says, did that surprise you? It really did surprise me. He's a very smart man and a lawyer, and so it surprised me. He shouldn't

have done it. It was inappropriate. So Obama saying that there was no there there in the Hillary investigations inappropriate. Did Comey ever, stopped to think that maybe it's more than inappropriate. Maybe it was effectively a command given two Laretta Lynch and whoever else was at d o J involved in this to make sure that this happened that way.

You know, if you think about it in another context, if somebody went on TV, let's say that the CEO of a company, and you know, he was like, well, everybody should sell all of my uh my top company officers, they should all sell their stock, and they did that before there was gonna be some really bad news. Uh, that would be a problem, right. People would say, well, I mean, you know it's uh the lead guy is

adding a tony here. That's really bad. And by the way that I mean, if it's inside information or something. Somebody could go to prison for that, but it would be considered a signal. It doesn't matter if he says it's the individual. If he's like, yeah, I mean look, if I held stock, I'd sell it right now. That's all you need, all the all the necessary folks who know what's going on, they would take that as okay, Well, the guy at the top is saying, you know, sell,

so we gotta sell. And when the guy at the top in this case, Obama says there's no they're they're guess what. Who who at the d J. Let's let's like walk this back for a second. Who the d J is gonna say? You know what? Obama just told the whole country that Hillary's email investigation is like a is a nothing burger, But I would like to make

it a sudden something burger with cheese. I would like to add some special sauce and grilled onions to the something burger that I'm going to make of Hillary's email investigation. I don't think anyone's gonna do that. Then we could all agree, right, I'm not I'm not pushing too far here. I'm not going off and it never never land. There's no one at the d O Jay, who, after Obama had publicly said there's nothing going on, there was going to say otherwise full stop. Your life would have been

made miserable. Oh you would have Can you imagine the d It doesn't matter what level you are, all of a sudden, you're gonna get all of your all your communications audited. Your family. You know your family is gonna have people parked outside their house. You know, reporters are gonna be all over the whole thing. So what did call me do? He goes along to get along? Meanwhile, he's the last honest cop in America even there was

never actually a cop, you know what I mean. He acts like he was Mr FBI g Man kicking indoors. That was also not something he was ever doing. Comy is a politically connected lawyer, and that's it. And that's what came across in the interview. We got a lot more stay with me. He's holding the line for America Bucks. Next it is back a couple of years back, he gave a speech saying, if we fall in love with

our own virtue, we can go sideways. At any point over the last two years, did you fall prey to that? Did you fall in love with your own virtue. I don't think so, but I worried about it constantly. And the guard rail for that, because that's a big worry I have about myself, was to surround myself with people who will hit that, hit at the certainty, hit at the pride, to make sure I've thought about things well.

I'm gonna teach. I'm gonna travel around and speak about leadership, but I want to offer them a vision of here's what it should look like. Values matter. This president does not reflect the values of this country. He I don't know if you call this. He's too virtuous to fall in love with his own virtue. That was his answer, And that is how he feels about it. By the way, that comy can't hear you over the sound of how awesome he is. That's what he's trying to tell you.

M This guy is a real piece of work, really is Uh. That's not a problem that normal people have. Are they falling in love with how how virtuous they are? And I think somebody I would tell you this. And I have friends who are on the prosecutorial side, federal prosecutors, some people who are very actually very close friends of mine are prosecutors and uh, and they struggle with this, you know, they struggle with what's what's fair, what's just and not just? Well, that's what the rules are. The

rules are the rules. Put that person away for twenty years. The rules are the rules. Because they know that the rules are subject to interpretation, there are gray areas. Some people get the benefit of the doubts. Some people what I had, I had a Jesuity used to say, the doubt of the benefit is that a thing? I don't know if that's a thing or not. The doubt of the benefit, um, but you know what, what we're going for with that, and you comey is reflective of a

system that I think very obviously has been corrupted. It's been corrupted in some very serious ways. I was asked earlier today, you know, what do you think about This was by a friend out here in California. What do you think about the swamp? I said, well, let's just

take a step back for a moment. When you have had the intense politicization of academia, college campuses, colleges across the country, and universities, of law schools, of graduate schools, and of the media, entertainment media more so than than anything else. But news media too, although I don't know, maybe their neck and neck. I mean they're both nine

plus percent liberal. But when you've had that happen, and then you have certain career tracks within the federal government that put certain schools and background and educational achievement of one kind or another, you know, elevate that. Yeah, that

then it really matters. When law schools are all social justice warrior factories, and most of them have become that now, and most of these advanced degree programs that aren't specifically related to a a real discipline, right, I mean, if you're getting a master's or a PhD and applied mathematics, I think that that's probably not going to be too politicized. But with the rest of them, because they're so left wing,

that matters. That's why you have all these state department people and FBI people, because they go to these left wing well and the best schools, I'll just say it, the most elite, the most uh hard to get into. They're not nearly as elite as they think they are because of all the different diversity demands and social justice warrior initiatives that are on hand at any given time. But you know, they're the best of what we've got in terms of the eliteism of their admissions. And yeah,

that means it. Now you're gonna have a lot of you know, Sally Yates hates Trump, McCabe hates Trump. You know, uh, Comey obviously hates trauma. You got on the line. You know, Brendon hates Trump, Clapper hates Trump. What do all these people? How is it possible that we can't have one person from the prior administration that's in a supposedly non political

role who is in fact non political. All these very senior government officials who you know, they just want to be right on the front lines of opposition to Trump and his agenda. And it can't be a coincidence. There's something bigger going on here. And I think this is a big part of of what the swamp really is. And I think that Comey is an example of exactly

how out of control much of this is. I mean, Comey somebody who, as I was saying, has made decisions at key points in his career that show that he's a political player, and of the decisions that he made had a real impact on history. And I think he relished. He pretends in this interview with Stephanopolis to dread it, to have all of this on the one hand. On the other and you know, he he poses as someone who you know is losing sleep over this all the time.

And I don't even think that it's a case where you could say that, you know, Comy is like the punchest pilot of all this. You know, well, you know, whatever the whatever, I'm supposed to do, whatever the people want here. No, he had an agenda the whole time.

He in a gendera the whole time, and it was whatever's gonna make him look the best, whatever would allow him to be the best commist that he could be very important part of the There's so much in the interview, touches on the Hillary email investigation, the tarmac, Lauretta Lynch

and all that. UM. A few things that I wanted to get because I could talk about this at length and not really hit on some very meaty point pins that we need to we need to do um And I'm trying to avoid it though, And before we close this out, I might have to get into some of the the really petty, childish stuff. So in the one hand, you've got this guy who's like, you know, I'm I'm

the conscience of America. I'm going to go around and give speeches on ethics and leadership and it's all about the truth and being more than just somebody who's out for the self and all this. And then he's like, but I didn't like the shoes the president was wearing. But you know, I thought that the president is not as handsome as he thinks he is and stuff like that. You're just his hands aren't that big. His hair is

kind of weird. Why do that unless you can't help yourself because you're a huge phony, which is you know, does he call him phony comy because he probably should. I know he's been great lion comey and grandstanding comby. I think phony comy is better better, although I I do like my formulation of sancta coomy. He is very

sancta comus. Uh. But here's the the part of it that some of the parts that I thought were particularly worthwhile from the and I won't make you sit through and listen to too much of his of the clips. I'm sure a lot of you watched this, but if we're if we're analyzing this together, some very worthwhile moments that struck me, like, for example, on the whole notion of the tarmac meeting and how that came about. The truth is that he's never had a real, really worthwhile

explanation for this. Here quote, I don't know what they talked about. This is for remember, Rhoda Lynch is having a personal meeting with Bill Clinton while his wife is under FBI investigation for actually breaking federal laws, which is what she did. She broke the law. They didn't charge her, but she broke the law. Okay, And any person who looks at this realizes this stinkst I haven't and only that.

But Comey excuses this while simultaneously using it as the justification for being the one who steps in front of the American people and says there should be no charge against Hillary. So it's not that bad the tarmac meeting, he will say, But also, oh, I had to step in front and give that whole speech about the extreme carelessness. Right. And when when Steph Stephanopolis asked him about the tarmac meeting,

he said, I don't know what they talked about. I credit Lauretta Lynch because I think she's an honest person, saying we talked about grandchildren and other things. I find it hard to believe that Bill Clinton would have tried to obstruct justice by walking across the tarmac in front of a bunch of FBI agents. Okay, here's another interpretation on this one that I think is much more in line with how the Clinton's approach everything. Of course, they

thought that they could do this. Hillary was able to get away with the email thing. Hillary was. There's never been a real investigation of the Clinton Foundation, despite what is so blatantly and obviously a massive influenced peddling scheme where the sitting Secretary of State was effectively selling influence to her foundation on the premise that would turn into

influence with the next president United States. And you know, the husband taking enormous fees to give speeches while his wife is Secretary of State from foreign governments, my friends, And somehow this is not a big thing. You know that they can go in there and seize Michael Cohen, the personal lawyer for president from sees his attorney client privileged documents. But we've never really had anyone looked long

and hard at the Clinton Foundation. The reason that Loretta Lynch was so reckless about meeting with Bill Clinton on the tarmac is because they figured we're at the top of this system. We run the swamp, nothing's gonna happen to us, so of course we can do this. It's it's a similar thinking too with with hooting and the way that he uses or his you know, his people

will use nova chuk or polonium to poison someone. You might say to yourself, well, why would you use a chemical weapon that is so obviously going to be tied back to Russia? That's the point, because he can. What are we gonna do. We're gonna throw more sanctions on him? Oo Putin's really scared, right If it doesn't matter, why do it? Because you can? Why would Loretta Lynch meet with Bill Clinton because they wanted to talk about whatever

they were talking about. I think quite clearly she probably gave him a very um vaguely worded but clear enough for him to understand Na that don't worry, we got this covered. You know Hillary is gonna be fine, and that's all that was needed. Yeah, because think about the risks of what they're doing. If they really thought they'd get in trouble, how stupid can you be? No, they know that they're above the system. They know that they're above the law. And that's why. Remember Laura Lynch never

even refused herself. Okay, you've got Jeff Sessions, who's just trying to be a good, honorable guy, who pulled himself out of the bar fight that is the Russia collusion investigation because he thinks that's the right thing to do. Loretta Lynch is right in the middle of the bar fight over Hillary Clinton's EMIL investigation and didn't even didn't even start to didn't stop the think for a second, Oh yeah, I should I should accuse myself from this.

This looks dirty, this looks bad. Another thing in all this, and because look they covered a lot of ground is a long interview, right, I think ten million people watching, more people watch Stormy Daniels. Though, I'm just saying more interest in Stormy Daniels Trump thing than there wasn't. I don't know. It's salacious, and it's a word that's gotten

a lot of use over last year. We should come up with something else, maybe scirreless, you know, I don't know that there needs to be some other It's the salacious dossier, the salacious allegations against Trump. There's gotta be something else. Dossier another word that. Now, dossier was a thing. And now if you say the dossier ever knows what

you're talking about. But on the notion of or on the issue of classified information, this was an important part of all this, James Comey, with that, this is about the Hillary email stuff. Reason number two. I have to

talk about it very carefully. Classified information came into the possession of the U. S Intelligence community in the early part of it indicated there was material out there that raised the question of whether Loretta Lynch was controlling me and the FBI and keeping the Clinton campaign informed about

our investigation. Now I don't believe that, and I don't believe that's true, but there was material that I knew someday when it's declassified, and I thought it would be decades in the future, would cause historians to wonder, was there some strange business going on? There was Loretta Lynch somehow carrying water for the campaign and controlling what the FBI did. This is a massive steamy pile of you know what, This is just atrocious. This is so beyond

what anyone could reasonably be expected to believe. James Comey is saying here, I can't tell you about it, can't give any specifics, and it wouldn't come out for decades. But you know, I'm a guy who really worries about his legacy. But I'm not in love with my own virtue, because I'm too virtuous to be in love with my virtue.

But let me just say that I was. I was worried about those historians in decades from now, when they're thinking about building a life size statue of Comy at twelve feet tall, and when they're worried about what has happened in the past, they might look at this and say, well, there was this now declassified information that Comey says it's not credible, but that made them think that maybe Loretta Lynch was involved investigator. I mean, this is this is

just it's just nonsense. It's not real. What does this even mean? He's worried about what historians are gonna think in a few decades. Who thinks that way? Who the who the heck is gonna care in a few decades? Well, what does he's really worried? But this is I don't know if it's more that he's delusional at the legacy of comey or then he really thinks that he can just get away with making something up his own story. It's class pod can't tell you about it, which I

guess he he does think he can do that. But that's just a non factor in all of this um and and ultimately his his whole justification for the decision they came to on the Hillary emails, it's just garbage and not letting it. If Lauretta Lynch couldn't be the one to make the statement the American people, why couldn't her number two? It had to come from the FBI. That's a total that's a comy decision. That is, it was the ultimate grand standard move, the ultimate grand standard move.

And you could say, well, Buck, why would he later on talk about the Wiener investigation. Look, I didn't make up the name, all right, that's what else? What else am I gonna call it? Don't don't look at me the Ween they're investigating Weener. Get your mind out of the gutter. Um. But what are they gonna They're gonna suppress that information, take the act of step of not letting the public know they're looking into Wiener's Oh gosh, we're looking at the weiner server. So oh, I gotta

run a break. All right, We'll be our back. Sorry. It was the first time he met Donald Trump. What was your impression? He had impressively quaffed hair that looks to be all his I confess I stared at it pretty closely, and my reaction was I must take gackle of time in the morning. Tie was too long, as it always is. He looked slightly orange up close, with small white um half moons under his eyes, which I assume are from tanning goggles. What does this have to

do with anything? Why is the former FBI director talking about the current president United States like he's a you know, a sixth grade girl on no offense to sixth grade girls, but come on, didn't like his hair. Looks like he's a handing bad guys. An embarrassment. Grayson in Mesa, Arizona. What are you think of my friend field side Buck

against oss here? Hey, um, you know I just picked up here brit Hume with Brett there this afternoon on Fox UM, and he was pointing out a lot of things that were left out, the questionable things that were cut out, key questions that Stephanopolis was asking, we've only got about forty seconds, my friend, So what are some

of them? Well, the questions that regarding comey um uh, him taking on and assuming roles that are delegated to like the justice of partner where he became instead of his role as the FBI director, he was became judge, jury and execute. Yeah, he was running the DJ and the FBI by is by his own decision. Grace and appreciate you calling him and I gotta run into the next block here. He's back with you now, because when it comes to the fight for truth, the fuck never stops.

Welcome to our two of the Bucks extent show, my friends. Great to have you here. So we we've gone through a lot of the comy stuff. I want to I want to move past. I want to move past coomy palooza. Like no Buck, Buck, We've got a favor and the only prescription is more comy, not true. I know you've had enough, probably of comy. I've had enough at this point. I do. I think it's done now too, meaning it's

fading away. He doesn't have staying power, you know. He has all the charm of a of a recently divorced I R. S auditor who's just looking to looking to rage at the world. You know what I mean. It's not good. It's not good. He's he's in a rough space. He's he's not a guy that people really are gonna want to have around all that much. And I haven't even gotten a see it just happens. I was gonna start making fun of his, like Zen Lake tweets that he puts out. And also I saw something greasing. I

thought it must be photoshopper. He's like doing a jumping jack or something and he's like, yeah, you come anyway. We're moving on from that though, But it's all that stuff is important. His his justifications for what he did are not compelling. Um. He holds other people to a very extreme standard within the law, but holds himself to whatever standard he comes up with. UM. And he is

very very sanctimonious. But there's some real stuff that's also happening right now that has to do with the law on how people are tree dude within the context of the law, whether it is it is fair or not to them. Uh. And Michael Cohen, Trump's lawyer, has had his stuff seized, as you know, We've talked about it here and just today a judge has said that there well that a judge has denied the temporary restraining order that Cohen has asked for with regard to all of

his um all of his everything. Really, I mean, they seized all of his stuff. And imagine someone came into your home. Not just someone, Imagine the FBI came in and took all of your documents, your phones, your computers, and was able to go through everything and without any prohibitions on what could be seen. Now you're gonna, I understand what the what the left and the Democrat, the anti Trump folks they say here is Oh no, don't worry.

They're gonna bring in a taint team, which is what it is called, and they will try to separate out what is privileged from what is not. Well, here's the thing. Once they already have it that doesn't really feel like that doesn't make me feel warm and fuzzy. Once the FBI or once the people from the Department of Justice, once federal prosecutors have access this information, guess what the

tie is gonna go to the prosecutor here. If it's close to not being privileged, guess what it's not privileged. If there's any way they could justify it not being privileged. Guess what, that's where it's gonna go. And then there's another level too of when you know, think aback, think

back to when you were in school. You're like me and you were not somebody who really liked math, and there were copies of the textbook that had the answers in the back, and the whole thing was, you know, you're gonna you know, you're you're gonna get to the you're able to check your own work that way. But I have to admit sometimes I was like, wow, oh, you know, I got the answer here, and I'm just kinda I'm gonna kind of make up how I got there and just make sure I've got the answer. That's

always the temptation. If prosecutors have all this information handy. Now, I know people are gonna say the taint team is going to separate it out. But the the taint team, first of all, they work for the they work for the the other side. There for the other team, people are gonna say, oh, they're not gonna be there. It's gonna be independent independent, how they all know what they're

working on. When you can tell me these people don't talk Oh, yeah, sure, you're you're gonna After all, we've seen all the shenanigans with Loretta Lynch, the tarmac meeting Hillary, the emails, breaking the blackberries, using bleach bit to erase

their hard drives and no charges there. And you know, after all the stuff we have seen to shake our confidence in the nonpartisan nature of the Department of Justice, now they want us to be like, yeah, I mean, so they got all of Trump's lawyer stuff, but they're gonna be really judicious about what they keep what they don't. Right,

this is laughable, This is preposterous. And to finish off my math answer analogy, I still have nightmares about being in the middle of math exams that I'm not doing well and and it's it's like a stress to this day, you know, I have like a dream where it's like no, like I don't know, I can't do quadratic equations anymore.

But they well, once they have the answers, they can find other ways to get there, meaning once they have the information, they'll find another way to get it, not through the process of what the FBI just sees, you know, And you could say, well, buck, you know, if if Cohen's done anything shady, then he deserves whatever he gets. And to that, I just respond, you know, you don't

know anyone who hasn't done anything shady. If you're doing stuff, and if the government wants to wants to make an example of you, they'll find a way to make it look like you're shady. You know. One of the things that I actually talk about in the earlier days of the Buck Section show, one of the the the favorite topics that I would hit that I felt like never got enough attentions. One my mantras here, right, I like to do things that I think are really important, but

other people are focused on other stuff. It was over criminalization, and I became very familiar with all these different stories of people that faced really serious repercussions and meant, in some cases, pretty long stretches in prison for conduct that not only wasn't criminal in nature, but wasn't even problematic or damaging in terms of what it really did, but just violated some either obscure or uh, you know, obscure iss a good But sometimes it's really it's not even

just that it's obscured, it's it's that they don't even know if it's a statute or not that they don't even the people enforcing it aren't clear on what's covered and what's not. So how are you supposed to know? Oh, ignorance of the law is not not a defense. Well, actually, when you're talking about some of the stuff, ignorance the law should be a defense. But I bring that up

just because when you're more familiar with those cases. And there's a book even written by a Harvey silver Gate, uh, three Felonies a Day, where he says, you know you're you're committing felonies every day, you don't even know it. It doesn't make you bad person, doesn't mean you go to jail. But if you were really being strict in your application a law, you're probably committing felonies on a

pretty regular basis. Um. One of the ones that comes up often is exceeding authorized use of a computer and how people do that without realizing it, um. And and also just exceeding the terms of service and what that can mean all kinds of stuff. Maybe we could have you be interesting to. I'll go, you know, that's a book that I've cited before, and I'll be on and I just know the title, haven't read it, so now I've just given myself a little additional homework. I'll go back,

I'll check that one out. But if they have all your stuff and they want to get you, they will.

That's the point. There's a way to get you. And if you're a lawyer and you've been dealing with clients who have complicated legal relationships with international entities and a deal, like, they're gonna be able to get you the same way that I think it's Donald Rumsfeld some years ago admit or the I'm not admitted, but but offered that he writes a letter every year the I R S where he's like, I've I've done the best I can with this, but I know that if you really come after me,

you'll tell me that some of this is wrong. Just understand that I can't understand this, and I have a lot of resources, and I'm a really smart guy, and I've done my best. And he actually sends that letter to the I R S every year just to make a point. And he's right. If they if they wanted to overturn all of his books and look at all this stuff, uh, they wanted to pour through it, they

would find they would find things that are wrong. And maybe could even make a case that some of it was it was criminal in nature, a criminal violation of the tax code, even by accident. And the same thing is true to the broader tax codes. So that's when people say, oh, we've got a taint team. We're gonna separate out the stuff that uh, he's attorney client privileg

from what's not. That's that's a judgment call, and that you're already putting a lot of weight on the side of what the prosecutors want and what they're gonna get when they have possession of this, when it's when it's something that they already have and uh in their hands. Um and and it's all meant to show that they'll just do anything to get to get Trump and his people.

And it was tied into the article I I've mentioned as well about how article I read over the weekend about how Trump the whole president is coming to an end, which I'll talk to you more about later on. But that's not happening, but they think it is. And they think that this latest tough guy tactic of taking all of Cohen's information, taking all of his electronic devices, pouring

through his files. I sometimes want to ask. I wish I could sit down and actually force people at places like MSNBC and CNN to answer the question, why do they really think they're gonna find? What do they think they could produce at this point? Realistically? Although what's realistic for them? I don't know's I think they're all stuck

in a delusion. But realistically, that would not only show that what they think about Trump is true, but also that his base would say, people like me even would say, yeah, you know, that's too much. Come on, what's it really

going to be. It's just not not gonna happen. But it's troubling to see that with all the all the politicization of the judicial process that has occurred in the Trump era, right the primary, the general election, and afterwards, all the stuff we've seen, people like Comy are the ones making the decisions about what attorney client privilege does and does not mean for Trump, and they expect us to believe that that's fine, that there's no problem here,

then he'll get a fair shake. The swamp is deep, my friends, The swamp is very very deep. Eight four four five You want to chat eight four four I gotta talk to you about this latest situation with California and the National Guard. One of the one of the more interesting UM questions I asked people out here is, so what do you think about governance in California? And I've been trying to talk to as many folks is

as I can about that. Oh you know, I sat next to a guy at breakfast today who I won't say which one, but I know from a farm from one of these commercials where they they are advertising a and he's an actor, right, he's not. He's not actually somebody that suffers from the condition. Um. But I sat next like, that's the guy from that commercial, and he's like, yeah, I've got a I've got an embarrassing condition. You know. It's kind of like, that's the guy from the commercial.

And I thought of myself. You know, I never people that I don't know but you know from something. I almost never will go up with them in santydaying or whatever. And although all of you have you ever see me anywhere because I so rarely actually have person to person contact with members of Team Buck that like, by all means come over and give me a high five, you know, we can have a drink. But I was sitting there was like, does this guy like it when people say, hey,

you're the guy from the commercial. It the guy with the problem, the problem, you know, the problem with the thing. You know what I mean? You know, I got an embarrassing medical issue. But he doesn't actually have it right, So that's so he's an actor playing a guy with an embarrassing medical issue. And do you think your stuff? You're like, well, you know, do you want to be the in public? You know, I think the answers you leave the guy aload no matter what, obviously, but I

just thought it's kind of funny. I was like, yeah, I like them. People like, hey are you Buck? I'm like, I am indeed, um, but I'm known for different things. All right. Uh, the California situation that we'll talk about that stay with me. I got some calls up, but I've also got to talk to you about what's going on with California and the National Guard sent that's supposed to be sent to the border. But Scott in Long Beach, Mississippi, you're up first. Scott, Hey, Hey, how are you doing?

But I'm good. Thanks for the call. I just had a angle to add on the radar on Cohen's office. One thing I ever heard anybody bring up is uh, yeah, I think they they're looking for any criminal stuff they can find. But right now, a team of n FBI agents is going to get to review this stuff. But even if Trump's lawyer, if the Laurie wins the court and gets it reviewed by a master, I've heard that

master is going to be a judge. Well if that judge is no Obama pointing, what if this is just all one big fishing expedition to look for stuff to use against Trump in the election? Right? Well, I've been saying this too, that I think that some of the information, forget about whether it's used in a legal proceeding against Trump for any of his people. I think you may

see leaks of it exactly. And now we're talking about the equivalent of you know, what about is it okay if somebody can the FBI come in and sees uh, you know, a president's medical records, or then just all of a sudden stuff gets leaked. I mean it just seems strange. Well what it surprives you? I mean, look, look how they haven't gone after a leak or so far coming people they convicted the leak in anything well, all this stuff is that. That's a very good point.

It's not that hard to get. You know. You'll notice that of all the of all the anti Trump leaks out there, there has not been a single conviction of number my conviction, not even a single person charged. And these are leaks that would have come from a pretty small circle of individuals. I mean, you look at the leak over the phone call between the Russian ambassador and

incoming National Security Advisor Michael Flynn. There's not a lot of people that have access to this stuff exactly, So the SDI gets to look at all his tony clients information. Was to keep that from leaking like a sieve to the d n C and of the Democrats to start digging up all the dirt they can possibly dig up before election. No, I I see it the way you do.

I think it's a big problem. Scott, so will continue to follow closely, and I appreciate you calling in Shields high So this California story, I just mentioned it, but it's I'm here in Cali, I'm in l A, So I feel like it caught my eye. In particular, such a lovely state. I mean, the water here is so beauty full, the food so great. People are really fun. But the government here is just just bonkers. I mean,

they've got all kinds of problems. But now you're Governor Jerry Brown, who has rejected Trump's terms for the National Guards deployment to the US Mexico border. They're supposed to be four hundreds. Like it's not that big of uh, not that big of a group here, but you know, four hundred troops are supposed to be sent to the border to help out, and they have determined, meaning that Governor Brown has decided that the work that they would

be doing at the border is too close to immigration enforcement. Now, my understanding is that the stuff that there would be doing involves like vehicle maintenance. And here I'm trying to see what the actual list is, because it's not that they're not tracking, the National Guard is not grabbing and arresting people trying to cross the border, And um, what

was the what were the specifics here? Uh? Hold on a second, Oh yeah, here it is they would not allow its troops to fix and repair vehicles, operate remote control surveillance cameras, or perform other tasks under Trump's plan. So yeah, I mean stuff that's not arresting people are actively involved in immigration, uh law enforcement, they still won't let they won't let them do. And this is just another version of saying that that they are not they

are opposed. They've got the resources, right, Governor Brown here in California, how's the resources at his disposal? He could help out with the border sending some National Guard troops down to the border. Other border state governors have completely gone along with this. I think Trump says he's gonna senda where he's asked for. Remember, the governors have to

all sign off on this. Trump's gonna ask for a total of four thousand to help out with border related tasks, which, especially as we get into some of the warmer months, you have a lot higher rate of of border crossings. So and I think they're acting a surge. You got all this publicity around the so called caravan. That's not the last caravan you're gonna see. It's certainly not well. Mostly illegal crossings have nothing to do with caravans. There's

people crossing every day. But what can we think about this other than Governor Jerry Brown doesn't really believe in the mission of border patrol and the federal government's mission of securing the border. I think he's just not someone who believes him, you know. And this is not surprising if you follow the trajectory of politics and states that have a very large illegal alien population, they are now states that are there are favorable toward a near open

border status. And this is why we can't even really have a very productive discussion with the Democrats, because it used to be hey, and even a state like California be, hey, how do we cut down on illegal crossings? You know how the in the what to do about illegals in the country was considered a separate part of the discussion. But everyone was as recently as I would say ten years ago, everyone was, at least theoretically in the political class on board for securing the border. There was a

bipartisan consensus, Yeah, we need a secure border. Sure, fine, And that's gone now. California used a secure border as a bad thing because the people that are illegal in California have a tremendous amount of sway in the country,

in the state rather well in the country as well. Um, and there are many people that have either familial bonds, ties of kinship, friends, colleagues, coworkers whatever in the legal alien population who also view any enforcement of border security as some kind of slap in the face, some kind of attack on them. So sure enough, the Governor Brown here is backing down. I think Trump called him governor Moonbeam. Uh, he's backing off of that, No surprise. We're gonna talk

Syria coming up here in just a few minutes. And also what Trump's really do it stay? Since election day, we've created three million new jobs, three millions. And and people, if I would have said that prior to the election that will create in a short period of time three million jobs, that would have said, that's ridiculous, that's an exaggeration, how could it be possible. We would have taken a lot of heat. But we've created three million new jobs,

and now the numbers even higher than that. So since election day, three million new jobs. Unemployment rates for Hispanics? Are there any Hispanics in the room now? I think for Hispanics, the we have the lowest level ever recorded.

The story of many, many millions of people who come to this country to look for an opportunity, and our president has now restored the capacity of people like me that started a business from the trunk of our cars to become a very prominent company where we impact over fifty families, and thinking Mr President very happy that right before he was elected, we had a town hall meeting and I took the liberty of elected him. I said, we're going to elect you in November, and we're gonna

see you soon. My god, I look prophetic today. So of the country, according to Rasmus in approves the job that President Trump is doing, which is really high for a president at this stage of the game, higher than Obama's approval at this point in time. And yet you can see that there are completely there are narratives that are so different right now of what's going on in the country that you have to think that we're talking

about a different country. Right You have, on the one hand, a narrative of an administration that is letting the letting the American people's business be business and let them do what they do, trying to take the constraints the shackles of government regulation off of our backs and uh off of the labor that we all do and in our

our jobs or do today lives. And and then the other hand you have you have people that are supposed to be informing us about this and talking about what's really going on that that matters to all of you. And what you are left with is people who say things like, oh that this weekend of The New Yorker published an essay, and they would just say, oh, it's just it's just they can essee me, and it's now like, you know, we rooted. They went out, there's opinion me in.

But what they published is obviously a reflection of what they think we should all read and know, not that that many people read The New Yorker in the first place, but it was a piece on how this is the basically the we're in the end times of the Trump presidency. And it was a completely serious piece in the sense that this was not not trying to be a a send up of things. This was not meant to be a parody. This is totally serious that we are in

the phase of the end. It's like the Berlin Wallace coming down that the Trump presidency is about to end, and pointing to the Michael Cohen record seizure as the evidence that that's really all the evans you need that this is all coming down and all falling apart. You know, you wonder at what point they stopped making these predictions, At what point being wrong becomes problematic enough for them

that they will no longer keep at it. Because last year, I remember The New Yorker and I actually pulled some of this over the weekend to read The New Yorker was writing about It was one of those publications that found it fashionable to write about how fascism was coming to America the courtesy of Trump, right, that Trump was going to be a fascist, And it's just isn't an amazing when you think with this Trump is gonna be a fascist? They say, Meanwhile, the guy is being stymied

and block left and right by random federal judges. And his response is never you know, sees that federal judge and take him into custody. You know, he's like, all right, I think that guy is wrong, but you know, we'll see you in court, and we're not gonna just run rough shot over all different parts the judiciary. We will go through the process. They talk about a president who

is undermining all of our institutions. Meanwhile, he plays within the guidelines as president of the institutions more so than his predecessor. Did you know Obama was the one who was like an off a pen on the phone, and he was just gonna do stuff whether or not it was within his constitutionally delegated authority to do so. Trump is like, well, okay, I wanted to do that, but I guess I can't right now, and we'll see and

we'll move on to other stuff. Trump is the one who's made serious efforts to negotiate with the other side on issues like immigration. His immigration offer of amnesty for DACA DOCCA covered individuals is more than anyone would have imagined a Republican in his position would have started out with. And Democrats were like, no, yeah, they don't want it, No part of it not enough for them. And you see the the focus still on on Cohen and the

lawyer and the Russia probe. And I know we've all I mean, part of me likes the comy story because it's so it's such a good way to illustrate grandiose bureaucrats. I think that all of us getting a solid dose of sancta comey is a pretty is pretty worthwhile in

that sense. But I also don't want to give this guy much more attention and much more of our of our viewership and and spending our our very precious hours listening to him drown on about leadership and ethics, because I think that ultimately he is well, not just a

waste of our time. I think he's pretty destructive. I think he's doing a lot of things that are very problematic for the country and certainly problematic for the federal bureaucracy, and the notion of civil servants as public servants instead of well self servicing and self promoted. But Trump is out there and he's still making the case. And I think that as long as as long as the economy holds together and we're able to forestall a debt crisis, it's coming, but hopefully it won't hit at a point

that is too damaging for the Trump presidents. As long as all that's happening, he's in pretty good shape and we'll be in pretty good shape for the mid terms. Here's what he said, by the way, about what's going on with companies coming into the country nineteen. We're working on new trade deals that are gonna be great deals. Where as you know, very tough on Cuba's not fair,

not fair what happened. Companies are moving back into our country. Now, we have billions of dollars and even trillions of dollars going to become ming back in already started Apple three fifty billion dollar investment. So many of the companies are bringing back their money. They're putting it to work. Chrysler is opening up a big, beautiful plant in Michigan, and so many other car companies, and it's a whole different story.

They all want to be part of it. What would the narrative from the mainstream media be like if none of this was happening. I think it's a fun thought experiment. What would they be saying if you didn't have record low unemployment, record low Hispanic and African American unemployment, if you didn't have companies bringing back billions of dollars to repatriating it into the States, also promising to have more jobs here. Think about what it would sound like that.

I mean, he's at This is quite a feat, and it's really an extenuate or a an extension of what he did during the primary. He's at with the entire media apparat not just opposed to him, but actively rooting for him to be criminally charged, indicted, and thrown out of office. All the above, and that you have entire media entities that have devoted themselves to that process. That's

what they want to happen here. Fortunately, the country is actually doing well and people can see that, and so there's a counterbalance, the counterbalancing force of reality against the destructive media narrative about Trump. Is is is remarkable, It really is. You know, if if we were at a time of stagnation and you know, unemployment was going up and the kind of could you imagine, what would they

even be saying? I don't know what. They just focus on that instead of what they're doing with the Trump Russia collusion fairy tale they've been telling for so long. I don't know, but I just I feel like, you know, you get it here because you won't hear it a whole lot of other places. I like to tell you that you know what Trump is doing. It is working in ways that matter to you and me every day. And they can talk about Michael Cohen until they're blue

in the face. All Right, we got to I want to update you on Syria the aftermath of those strikes, so we'll hit that coming up. Stay with me. You are now entering the freedom technical Operations Center. All sensitive programs musty keeps strictly need to know. Team Buck is cleared and ready for the Buck brief. The sole reason

we are there is to take out Isis. But as we start to see in the world, community watches as Syria kills innocent men, women and children, backed by Bashar al Assad, backed by Russia, backed by Iron the United States and its allies had to act. And so that's exactly what we did. We believe we degraded their ability to use chemical weapons. So there you had a State Department spokeswoman Heather, Now we're on the strikes. Some follow

up to the strikes in Syria. By the way, if you didn't get a chance to read it, please do check out on the on the Hill dot com. I wrote on this, Uh, my title was something along lines of Trump's serious strike hits the mark, But you know, instability looms. Um, there there's a or escalation looms rather, UM, I have concerns about that. But here here's more of what I'm thinking. After that whole thing happened, I spent

time obviously wrote about it. Over the weekend. I spent more time thinking as well about why do we fire these missiles off and blow up of a bunch of chemical weapons factories in Syria. I think that the the eventual answer we're gonna come to on this is that it won't really mean very much. It doesn't mean all that much. And I'm not sure that you can say anything has been accomplished other than messaging here. And how important you think that is is a very debatable proposition,

you know. On the one hand, yeah, I get it. We we don't want to be living in a world where dictators think that they can use chemical weapons with impunity on their own people. I understand that. But I also see this and think to myself, you're talking about dozens of people killed in a very inhuman and h or inhumane and brutal fashion. But you've got a half a million people have done in the Syrian Civil War,

and this is not stopping that war. In fact, that might you could argue it could uh, it could prolong it. I could make it. Now. I don't think that standing up against chemical weapons will prolong it, but a a greater US involvement that may come from that strike could make this thing drag on even longer. And then you also have this notion that we've really affected their chemical weapons program, which I gotta tell you I find I find tough. I know, I've I've seen some of the

analysis on this. I think maybe Maddest last week said that, you know, we've put or I don't don't quote me on that one. I'm not sure it was Maddest, but people were saying ti the administration, we've set their chemical weapons program back, you know years, you know, many been in months that this will be really meaningful as a a way of hitting them at basically taking their capability offline. I find that tough. I find that tough to believe because I think I mentioned this to you a bit

last week. Even saren gas, which is a nerve gas more more advanced and more terrifying and say chlorine gas or or even mustard gas. But saren gas has been around since it was initially came from pesticide research. They were trying to find something that was really effective at killing bugs. So you've got world War two era technology. That's what we're when we're discussing saren gas. It is a World War two era technology. It is not hard

to come up with this. And even if you were to assume as and I think the the big assumption assume that the chemical weapons facilities and capabilities that the Assad regime has or just completely wiped out by those US strikes. I think that's I think it's uh, it's a tough sell for me that they won't be able to relatively quickly reconstitute that and use it as they see fit. Now, even mon they don't. They don't have to, nor nor will they use chemical weapons on a regular basis.

Even even before we did this strike, it was relatively speaking, a rare tactic for them. Um. But by the way Trump Trump spoke about this and and the Syrian and Russian response, John Place seventeen, did our generals do a great job. And you know with way over hundred missile shut in, they didn't shoot one down? The equipment didn't work too well, their equipment and uh, they didn't shoot one you know you heard, oh they shot forty down, then they shot fifteen down. They watched. Then I called,

I said, did they know, sir? Every single one hit?

Its started? Think of that? How do you not one shot? Now, it's good to know that America has the capability to get past things like the surface to air missile systems that the Syrians have that they've gotten or borrowed or been able to leverage Russian technology in order to have UM But that also doesn't deal with the fundamental problem of the Syrians civil war and the conventional weapons usage that's killing four more people than anything that's happening to

deal with the chemical weapons side. So I know the administration feels strongly about this, and it seems like Trump has very much set a line for all right actions over there that we're not going to get, which is that's critical. That was my big concern going into this, because I remember when I talked to you about this on Friday, I said, I'm I'm hoping. I kind of knew that there was gonna be a striker like I'm hoping that they don't really do this, but if they do,

at least it should be limited. And I think that the precedent that it sets as well when it comes to constitutional well, you know this is how much can I even be upset about the president when all presidents basically do this. You know, I see a national security problem somewhere, I'm just gonna fire some missiles at it. That seems to be the approach of it's a bipartisan approach. There's something that I really don't like, and I'm president. I'm gonna send some missiles and blow it up. You know,

it's the war powers at constitutional Who knows. One of the more acrimonious debates that doesn't seem to go anywhere is does the president need to confer with Congress or not before declaring war. I get people on both sides of that one that are completely convinced of the the rightness of their position and think that the other side is just just nuts um. But you know, Syria, Well, we'll see what ends up happening in the in the

months ahead. That will give us a much better sense of whether they really are just limiting this to a a a one off against assad that that maintains the red line that Obama abandoned, but that does not drag us deeper into this thing. It was a big It was a big promise that Trump made during the campaign that we would not be fighting I think he was just reruning on the stupid wars on a pretty regular basis. We're not going to fight stupid wars. We're not going

to do that. And sure enough, I think that This is going to be the real rubber meets the road moment of whether or not Trump keeps that promise, because I don't want it, You don't want it. It's it's a terrible idea for us to start putting ourselves in a place or we are responsible for what happens in Syria, were responsible every time somebody sets off an I e. D or or puts a puts a car bomb somewhere. That just we've got other things that we've got to

do with our resources and our people. We've got a country to build here and continue building. I think that's a that's a fair way to look at it, all right. I want to get into some cultural stuff in the next hour. It'll be fun, including wokeness and how it destroys all your favorite movies and TV shows if you let it. We'll talk about that coming up. Enough with revisiting things, stop being surprised every time you watch an old movie or TV show and find some of the

ideas in it are old. A recent article by Molly Ringwold got a lot of attention because she revisited The Breakfast Club and her other eighties movies and found them troubling. In the age of me too. She said she was taken aback by the scope of the ugliness. Oh please, they were teen comedies, not snuff films. So there that's are we can said of. There you welcome to our three of the Buck Sexton Show. There you had Bill Maher, uh, left wing comedian, Uh, saying what I've been saying. So

this is good news in a sense. This this makes me happy that even people on the left are figuring out that this game that the left has really enjoyed playing for a while, this game of Hey, let's go back and look once again at everything that was made as as art and entertainment from decades ago and apply the current, the current standards of being woke, of being a social justice warrior to it. You're not gonna have anything left. You're not gonna have any music left, You're

not gonna have any TV shows left. Uh, it's all. A lot of books are gonna be forbidden. Bill Maher is seeing what I've seen for a long time now, which is that the progressive left has decided that it it will wield its power beyond its ability to even describe its outer limits when it comes to being censors of entertainment, pop culture and what is acceptable in discourse. As I've been mentioned that there are no outer limits

to this. There's no place where I can say, Okay, well they'll they'll leave that alone, because with the exception as noted here of of hip hop music, for for whatever reason, they don't really get into the misogyny and the particularly although some of you are also gonna say, well, you know, Buck, there's a lot of a lot of casual adultery and uh and drinking and pickup truck talk where there's not a lot of labor going on in the back of pickup truck, but maybe other stuff in

country music. And I would say that may be true as well. I'm not as familiar with country music and as as I am with hip hop music. As an urban dweller, um, I know more about the hip hop side of things. Believe it or not. For some of you, you're like, I do not believe it, Buck, but that against some of you also believe when I tweeted out a photo of a stretch pink Hummer this past weekend that it was really my car. Uh So some people, you know, some people believe some stuff. I went, I

bet us I bet that stretch pink Hummer. I put a photo up on Twitter of it. It was really like double stretch too. It was it's like the biggest car I've I've seen um and it was pink, pink, and it was a Hummer. Uh, it's gotta cost a couple hundred thousand dollars or something. I mean, I think it's gotta be really maybe a hundred fifty grand to and her grand. Very expensive. Nonetheless, I view, uh, this is a threat. I view this wokenus component as a a threat to all of the things that we can

enjoy together society. It's a big problem because it it pulls us apart one of the things that really brings us together. And I don't know if any of you saw. There was a over the weekend, a video making the rounds of a professional hockey player, and there was adorable

little girls. There were their brothers and her dad, and he keeps trying to throw a puck over the plexiglass to her and and one of the I think her brother grabs one, and then another brother gets another one, and the guy comes over this hockey player a third time to make sure this girl and she gets the puck you know, she gets the little puck thrown to her over the plexiglass divider at the at the ice hockey game, and she has this look of just pure

unfiltered joy in her face, and it's just really cute and funny, and it's it's it was a great, little, great little moment. And I think that sports, movies, TV, these are a lot of things that actually bring us into a place where we can agree and like them together. Right, Food, doing doing another thing I like to talk about here on the show, a lot of food because I like food. Um, but those are things that that are common ground for us.

You know, if I'm sitting down, uh oh, you know, I'm somebody who actually I like to chat with uber drivers, right, I'm somebody who doesn't usually sit completely silently in the in the car. I feel like I'm driving with this fellow or this madam, and I would like to, uh like to engage in some kind of friendly banter, little chit chat, a little back and forth. And you know, what's the place where you can prett easily go talk

about sports, talking about movies, talking about TV shows. You know, these days, for me, it's you know, what do you watch on Netflix, and most people, unless they just don't want to talk to you all, you can find some

way to say, yeah, we we can discuss this. And that's why I find it troubling beyond just the irritation of social justice warriors who find who won't let us find humor in anything, who refuse to accept that a world that is constrained by their vision of what is acceptable today is not only going to be stunted and and is going to be way less interesting and exciting than would otherwise be. It also negates much of the shared culture and history that we have as a society

that brings us together. And now I know some of you're thinking, oh, buck ah, you're taking this beyond TV shows too. Yeah, of course, this is where we get into UH statues that have to come down, and this is where we get into UH mascots and whether they're offensive or not, and all these other parts of what is shared in this country that is now subject to the political whims of the moment. And the response from the left on this is always the same, destroy, pull

it down. And I've been bringing these to your attention in recent weeks. A pooh from The Simpsons, and it is an amazing Hank Azaria who does that who's a he's a white guy like me, he does that voice. I have to sit here and say, I don't think I'm allowed to do an impersonation of Hank Azaria doing an impersonation of an Indian convenience store owner. I don't think that I'd be able to do that without risking some kind of backlash. Right, So that's where you can

see the rules here. Don't aren't even clear, don't even make any sense. The Breakfast Club with Molly Molly Ringwald's essay, That's what Bill Mahr was talking about there. Um, there are a bunch of oh a friends, which is whenever Ms Molly wants to upset me, she tells me that I'm not being very chandler. I'm being much more ross. Those who got the show know what I'm talking about. Those who don't are like Buck, what is wrong with you?

But anyway, the the you, you find any show and it'll either be homophobic, transphobic, um sexist, And I just say, you know, at some point we also need to understand that art is allowed to be offensive. Right, There's a difference between celebrating every aspect of an artistic work of one kind or another, and also allowing for the space for there to be art that will push buttons in

the first place. And and and this is also why whenever we start to have this conversation, you can see that UH liberals respond just with it with a rage, because they're drunk on the power they have in this current moment and they don't want to have to defend it. They like being able to be the censors because if they control the culture, they will control politics. And they know it, and they know that's why it's so essential to them, and that's why they're they're willing to just

just keep on pushing through despite all the contradictions. Sugar is bad for you doesn't mean it's not delicious. Doesn't mean that I don't like some very sugary things myself. Of course I do. It's a it's a weakness. I

have to be aware of it. But I just note that as I looked through more and more information about UH opioids and how the pain epidemic in this country, which was really an opioid epidemic in response to concerns over chronic pain, but but how that all happened and how the scientific community, in this case, the medical community was way off the mark in the nineties and in the early two thousands, and practicing good medicine at the

time was in many cases incredibly dangerous and really counterproductive for people. But I'm just reminded of of how, you know, I'm here in California and you have the whole you know, nanny state in full effect. And I was talking people today about you know, so, how how how's that whole high speed rail thing coming along? You're like, not so good, not so good, pretty expensive, and that's a pretty bad idea too. Um. But sure enough, you've got the paper bag,

only no plastic bag, so you've got that ban. I think you're going to see more and more efforts to regulate what we eat as essentially treating sugar as a UM a public health crisis. I really do believe you're gonna see this. UM just noting that over the weekend, I think, I yeah, I saw an interview on Reason dot COM's website with Gary Talbos, who I've had on the show. I had him on almost maybe a year ago,

give or take a month. I've always thought his work was really interesting on you know Why do we have some of the health problems, particularly diabetes and obesity. Why is there just been an enormous surge in the those issues and sugar is the most likely culprit. And I just have to take a moment laugh because you know, much of the policy here in California is based on or or should say, much of the conversation around policy. The policy is not in fact based in scientific fact.

But they have this idea that science can solve everything. And I do think the technology makes the world better in so many ways. I think that technology is is advancing our lives and advancing human progress in in remarkable ways. But science is is a is a constant series of questions and answers, and it's it's not there's this thing we know and no more questions asked. And just as with opioids, how twenty years ago people are saying, yeah, you know, there's really not a lot of evidence that

it's uh, it's addictive. Oh yes, it is. Right. If you give people oxyconon, they're going to get at some point, they're gonna get addicted. People might have a different biochemistry, it might be more addictive for some than than for others, but they were wrong, wrong, wrong on this, and this is here in America and this is in my lifetime.

And another place where they've just been wrong, wrong, wrong is sugar and the roll of sugar in our diets and how it's just eat is creating wreckage all around um and there's a there's a profit motive and putting

more sugar into stuff, it's become very very cheap. There was a time when sugar was actually and many of you know this, you know this history, sugar was actually very expensive and hard to get and that and also the labor that it required was backbreaking, really difficult stuff, and that was why it relied predominantly in the Caribbean and in parts of the America's where sugar could be grown and relied on slavery. So it was really nasty, tough work, and the sugar cane had to be processed right,

it had to go through the process right away. But now it's become in really the twentieth century, became such a bigger part of our diets, and the advice that we were all getting, the advice that we were getting on the food pyramid and and for what we should be doing in our day to day diance was just wrong, folks.

It was bad. I remember being in science class in the fifth grade and we're all learning the food pyramid and they're telling me to eat six to twelve servings of rice and grain and white bread and you know, all day long. It's just terrible. This is terrible for us. I mean this notion that I think back to people

thinking that peanut butter and jelly was a healthy snack. No, it is not a healthy snack, right, But if you were growing, if you were a child of the eighties like me, people thought a lot of Penny and jay and people say, oh, that's a pretty good that's a

pretty good option. But like a snack, yeah, it's just just give me a whole bunch of uh, processed carbs and then some some gelatinous sugar and throw a little peanut butter on there, which has an incredibly high calorie and fat content and doesn't even have the benefits of say,

almond butter or some of the other nut butters out there. Um. But the scientific community was wrong on that too, uh And whatever research was done on it, a lot of it was actually put forward by the sugar companies, and the sugar lobby, which is even more amazing when you think about it, that the war on high fat food. Um, the notion that bacon and butter and uh, I know right, this is it enrages me too, that these things are

bad for you. This became the conventional wisdom, and it was and it still is kind of still seeing people trying to push back and oh no, you know, it's it's really good for you. You you need you know, you need these processed carbs in your diet, not really very very little. Uh. You know. My problem here as I sit here is and I like, I like to just indulge too much in some of the things that are good for you in smaller amounts, right, I'm like, yeah, I don't like a little bit of bacon. I like

a lot of bacon. French fries I know are not good for you, but I just eat them because I can't help it. Because that's of all the food weaknesses I have. I'm like, well, I mean, let's get aside of fries, right, I should probably cut that. I'd probably live five years longer if I just stop eating French fries. But I can't help myself. Although out here, you know, they've got they've got in and Out Burger here in California, which the burgers are amazing. I obviously get them with

no bun I gotta let us wrap um. But the fries are kind of weak sauce. I'm just gonna say that the fries are on the week sauce side. Uh. But anyways, sugar is going to be something that there are gonna be fights over sugar, and I think California is gonna be at the forefront of that. They're gonna be efforts to tell you that sugar should be regular. Look, we had it in New York with the big drinks right the BLOOMBERGI in. You know, you shouldn't be having

too much sugar in your drinks. Uh. And now is a sixty ounce big gulp a good idea for anyone? Probably not. Do I think that the government should tell you that you can have it? No, if they want to put up signs that lets you know that you're ingesting a few uh thousand calories um by drinking this stuff over the worse of you know, a few days, or you know, over the course of a week. Yeah, I think it's good for them to give you the

full knowledge of it. But I just also look at this as the response to science and government don't really mix that well when it comes to policy. Shouldn't be oh well, we're gonna get it right this time. Forget

about individual freedom, Let's just have more nanny state. And whether it was nanny state in dealing with pain, because that was all very it was all very regulated, and this was government policy to uh, you know what drugs would be allowed and what amounts and um, you know how quick and you tie in the h ms and how they were trying to get people in and out in and out of these opposite very very quickly. Uh. That was disastrous for the opioid epidemic in this country.

And also the big farmer. Don't even get me started. We'll talk about that all day. But all but sugar is is a scourge that I wish I had known about when I was younger. I mean just little things that I think about. A big glass of orange juice. I thought that was healthy. That is not healthy. You are basically having the equip blent of a coke in

terms of yeah, it's got some vitamin C. Great. The vitamin C absorption is not as good because it lacks the fiber of an actual orange that you would eat and the amount of sure orange juice can actually be used as a sweetener in other foods. So when you think about orange juice is something that I know, I guess we're not going to have an o J sponsor on the show anytime soon, But what can you do? Uh? But when you think about orange juice is something like

honey that you would put in something else to sweeten it. Now, imagine drinking a glass of honey first thing in the morning, and and you'd be like, wow, that's a bad idea, right, But this our whole conception of this and scientists and the food pyramid and what you should eat and what's healthy, they were wrong about all this, and it was government policy, and the government policy was being pushed along by private sector interest that could care less about what was making

you healthy. Talbots, I think, is a fashionating guy on

this um. He's done the most interesting He's a journalist, he's not even scientist, but he's on the most interesting research on why is it that we can't seem to figure out what really causes people to to gain way to have all these these these health related issues from weight gain and when you look at the cost to our society in all kinds of ways, but particularly just the medical cost of of having people that don't have the proper instruction about the roll of sugar in the diet.

It's vast, It's it's enormous. And I but I know this is happening. I just had this and I was walking around today in the in the galleria here, and uh, seeing all these different places that are just slinging sugar drinks at you as fast as they can. H this is gonna be a fight with the nanny state that looms ahead. I'm I have a I have a feeling, and I tend to be read about these things. All right, I want to talk to you about political scientists in

a moment here. Uh. One of my basic feces you've heard me on the show UM say before, I think, is that we shouldn't call it political science. And I've got a great data point as to why that is. You could also call a lot of these people who professional political scientists clowns after hearing what I have to say. But it has to do with the worst president of all time? Who is it? According to our highly educated political science class. We'll tell you when we get back.

I don't think the political scientists are scientists. And I say this as someone who technically has an academic background and wrote an honors thesis and political science at Amer's College. My thesis, by the way, was on a college speech a college campus speech codes. You can imagine how popular that was among the various political science professors who love those speech codes because they want to protect people from

scary thoughts. But they're there. I couldn't help but be struck by this, because, as I've said, I don't believe that political scientists are scientists. I think that there it's a discipline, but it's really like a multidisciplinary analysis of history and contemporary you know, political forces. And anyway, I think at Harvard they actually call it politics instead of political science. I think the political science as a as a a discipline. That's the word I was looking for.

I was gonna say doctrine, but that would have been wrong. As a discipline is it's just improperly named. Anyway, you get this piece on Yahoo News where they still still a lot of people use Yahoo. It's kind of amazing to me. Uh, Yahoo is still a thing. But Donald Trump is ranked the worst president in US history in this According to a Presidents and Executive Politics Presidential Greatness Survey, Trump is lower than President Nixon on this one. Um,

so that's pretty amazing. Even among conservatives. Abraham Lincoln unsurprisingly takes the top prize. This says, So they do this study every four years, and it's from social science researchers from the American Political Science Association Section on Presidents and Executive Politics. WHOA, there's a crazy seminar to go to at some point. Hey man, did you go to the American Political Science Association Section on Presidents and Executive Politics?

Last year? It was wild? Man? Did you see what they had there with the ice luge? It was crazy? No, not really. I don't think that that's the way it goes. But but this is funny to me for a whole bunch of reasons, because it's actually a great example of

keep this in mind. These are people who, at least theoretically from what we know, spend their entire professional lives, spend countless hours of their day trying to find ways to better understand politics in general and American politics more specifically. And what we find out is that they are incapable of putting together some pretty basic and rational thoughts. Here, what we find out is that they would put Trump

lower on the list. Lower on the list, then say, oh, Woodrow Wilson, who was a clan apologist who set resegregated the federal government, who wished the South had defeated the North in the Civil War. I mean Woodrow Wilson was a bad guy, by the way, all kinds of eugenicist inclinations as well. And you notice that they don't want to or at least they haven't yet named renamed Woody Woo, which is the School of International Relations at Princeton University.

They let that go. They put Trump way ahead of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who, as we know, gainst a complete pass to this day for one of the darkest episode certainly in twentieth century American politics, where he put Americans in internment camps, Japanese Americans put in internment camps. So so Woodrow Wilson was a racist, segregationist, uh eugenicist, and who actually took took actions based on those ideas. Not

these these are not just like personal attacks. And f DR was a constitution shredding, uh, semi authoritarian, and they say Trump is worse. I mean, Trump is even worse then some of those nineteenth century presidents we've had in the run up to the Civil War that everyone's like, well, that guy was really bad. Uh. But this just goes to show you how completely out of touch political scientists are, not not with the public, which is that goes without

saying um, but with the reality around them. And also it goes more towards my theory of I just don't believe the political scientists are really scientists. Yeah. I know, they can do regression analysis and there. They can throw some numbers on these things and they can make it look sciencey, but the discipline is really politics, and politics is the study of history and human power dynamics and relations between groups and individuals right and the individual in

the state. Okay, and philosophy. And there's a whole bunch of stuff thrown into it, but it is not a science. Is poorly named. I'm like a one man band here, I know, but we should all just call it politics and stop calling a political science because political scientists are a bunch of bozos. Based on this study, Trump is the worst president ever Wow, guys. Yeah, all the low unemployment and economic growth and prosperity is just terrible. Are

we got roll call coming up? Stay with me, well, team, I'm out here in Los Angeles and that's always a fun time that the weather is nicer than New York. I saw video of a a subway stop that I take on a regular basis that it looked like the end times. We had some kind of a flash flood from rain in New York City, or at least in the subways. So being in l A that part of it's really nice out here at our I heart HQ

in Los Angeles or in the Los Angeles area. I'm actually in what is the Valley, which is kind of like l A but kind of not. But I'm enjoying it out here. It was freezing cold for l A last night. Thought I will say, for some reason, wherever I go it's a lot colder than it's supposed to be when I'm there, I am not good not good luck when it comes to weather. The other thing about l A is that even though I take I take Uber pretty much everywhere here, I'm not somebody who gets

any joy out of driving. I like to just sort of sit back and relax. I don't really particularly get excited about being the guy fighting the traffic. Even still so much time in cars out here. I need to be able to walk to places. So that's that's my only thing on l A for right now. But I'm having a good time out here meeting with all kinds of important folks from radio land and get a chance

to chat with them. So with that, let me stop just I'll hopefully have some better stories about my l A tre I just got in yesterday and so I haven't been able to hang out with T Swift or or I don't know if Cardi B is l A based, but I like to throw in Cardi B references now because I just found out who this artist is and apparently that's what the cool kids listen to right now. So you know, maybe I'll go by the set of Gosh.

I don't even know. They don't They don't do Leno or or Letterman out here, so what are the shows that they do out I don't know. I need to learn more about l A. With that rambling sense of whatever I've got in my head, it is time for your thoughts, my friends, some roll call the show ain't over yet, folks keeping it real just say keeping it real. I don't know why. That just sort of and for those who don't know, that's from the movie Clueless, because

because I'm keeping it real. And then that became a phrase that everybody continue to use. I think it's still or people will say keeping it one hundred now as well for shorthand. But I just I like our announcer keeping it real. All right, let's get into all of the latest good stuff here from roll Call. If you want to be a part of it, Facebook dot com, slash buck sextent, that is all you need and you can send us a message there. We read them all, we enjoy them all, and uh we try to get

as many on the air as we can. So we have Amy first up here. She writes, Oh my gosh, Buck, read some Comy excerpts from the book in a Valley girl accent. It would be comedic gold or read some in a vale girl accent. Since Comy is being such a little girl. Well, Amy, I tend to agree with you. Um, I have a I have a very negative view of of Comy based on his public persona. I feel like I really understand who comy is. As I've been discussing

throughout the show. I feel like it's quite clear this is someone who has gone through life with an irrationally high self regard. And uh, that's that explains a lot. I think that that takes us pretty close to where we where we are with all this, UM, thank you very much for the note. We have Phil up Next, he writes, Buck great show Friday, Creed on your playlist negates any chick artists you may find there. You get to keep your man card. Thank you very much, Phil.

I appreciate that I'm gonna hold onto my man card and I needed h. He also writes, Creed morphed into an even more powerhouse band, alter Bridge, which I highly recommend to any Freedom Hunt listener. Will Philip, I can tell you, in fact, you can fact check me on this one because of my public Spotify playlists that I have alter Bridge on there, so I am familiar with and enjoy alter Bridge. I I like any of that kind of that kind of power rock stuff I'm into,

especially if if it's more positive sounding. My only problem with some of the heavier rock is the moment people start doing the growl are you ready? You know all that kind of stuff that's I don't like that. It's scary, it sounds a little mean. I like the rock that's melodic and and inspiring. And now I sound like a huge dork. But you know what, I own it. I own it. I let it, I let it, let it roll. Uh See, this is what I tell us Molly when she says that my shoe choice, for example, is old

man like. I see, yes, but my feet are comfortable and I don't care if people don't like the shoes that I wear. Except when I'm on TV. I have conceded on that one. Now you will notice I I do not wear if I ever wear boat shoes on TV. Now, it's because I'm in a very very comfortable environment and I feel like I might as well, you know, just chill. But generally speaking, I wear shinable shoes. That's the new that's the new regime. I mean, we're in boat shoes

right now, don't worry. But in general, I on TV, we're shopable shoes, all right. Next up, we get Erica. She writes, I was listening to the last Thursday show and your discussion of opioid addiction. I found the idea you expressed last month about how people aren't being killed by prescription drugs rather by o ding on illegal drugs flowing in through our week border. I saw this chart with an article and how the reconfiguration of OxyContin caused

the jump to illegal drug use. Well, Erica, first of all, thank you for your message. And let me be clear about what I was at least trying to say, if not what I did say about all this, uh, the the the truth about OxyContin and about opiod over to overdoses complicated and and I would commend to you all. And I actually tweeted at him over the weekend just to let him know how great I thought. His book

was Sam Canonez uh maybe Queen Nonez. I'm not sure how you pronounce his name, but his book Dreamland is so good. I'm almost done with it. I'm reading three books. Uh well, sorry, I see that sounds like a humble brag, but it's really just because I my attention gets scattered and I forced myself now to be reading a novel. So I'm reading three books simultaneously, not at the same time, but contempt maybe contemporaneously is a better way to describe it.

And one that makes it sound less like I should punch myself in the face. But yeah, one of them is Dreamland. It's really really good. But to to your point about the deaths, people still die for prescription drug overdose, no question. In fact, I I think I've mentioned you before on this show. I had two very close childhood friends as obviously as we got a bit older, who both overdosed on prescription drugs. I don't know the specifics. I never wanted to um uh in any way be

insensitive to the family, so I didn't ask. I just knew it was prescription drugs. It might have been entirely accidental, or it might have been from abuse, but I anyway, the point being, uh, people still certainly die in pretty large numbers, unfortunately from prescription drugs. But the spike, the big spike in depths we've seen over the last five or six years comes from fentanyl, which is almost entirely illegally obtained and in many cases even illegally created fentanyl

and heroin. So you've had a pretty consistent number of opioid or prescription rug overdoses, and the last five or six years it's the illegal stuff, and there's a complicated relationship between how opioids in the prescription drug market because of H and this is all A lot of this is covered in Dreamland. There are other articles are other places you can read on it that are really good. But pain management through the nineties got this whole makeover

where people started prescribing, including first line medical professionals. Primary care doctors were told that not only should they prescribe opioids because they were very unlikely to be addictive, but they were under an obligation to and to treat pain as one of the you know, initial markers of health that they look for when you first go into an office. And now, of course, unlike blood pressure, pain is not

objective what kind of pain you're in. So there was this an enormous explosion of UH prescription drug usage from opioid, opioid derived or opioid drugs. Oxycotton the most famous which contains see CoDown and and they used to get people really big doses I mean doctors which describe really big doses of of oxy oxycotton on a daily basis for people. Um. But there are others as well, UM that I've been

learning learning more about recently. I vicul in, percocet. Uh. There are a few others that am actually blanking on right now that are that are pretty widely prescribed, but the big spike has been from fentanel and which is incredibly powerful, potent, very very dangerous, and heroin and the heroine. The heroin explosion of this country comes hand hand in glove with illegal alien population in uh in this country from Mexico and Central America, predominantly from Mexico. Now, it's interesting.

I've had this discussion with people recently and they say, isn't it so unfair? And I think it's important for all of us keeping mind as we discussed this, because I'll speak to you very honestly about the problems of illegal immigration, the problems of terrorism and there it reminds me that there's a cross over here. Right. Let's say one percent of the illegal immigrant population this country is involved in the drug trade. That's, by the way, I

can't even say that's a wild guess. I'm just making up that number because that's easy. Uh. It might be considerably less than that, it might be considerably more. But let's say one percent of the illegal immigrant population is involved in the drug trade in some capacity, transporting, selling, whatever um. That would be like saying, within the Islamic population of this country, what what percentage or actual radicals And if you said less than one percent, I think

that would be a fair a fair estimate. But the problem is that you can you can still have a massive problem even if only one percent of the legal alien population is importing heroin from Sinaloa in Mexico, from Nyaret and from other parts of the Mexican highlands that can easily grow poppy and easy grow poppy flowers. So to say that it's unfair, that's true, it's unfair to the ninety percent of the population that isn't involved, But that doesn't mean you don't have a huge problem and

it isn't contained within a certain group of people. UH. And this is one of the problems. This is one of the big challenges of public policy discussion that involves national security issues but also sensitive issues that affect people in their day to day lives and how they feel

they're treated. So UH, opioids. I find this topic fascinating on a whole bunch of of levels, and it's something we'll continue to talk about here in the HUT I am apologizing right now because I just I realized I've gone a little bit over and oh wait, wait, one more here from Lauren. She writes back, I just realized you're in soul Cow. If you and Miss Molly ever wants surf lessons, you know who to ask. Well, Lauren, thank you so much. I want to end on a

happy note, and Lauren gave us a happy note there. Sure, if I can ever get the time and the inclination to get up on a surfboard, if Miss Molly feels like she's up for it, we'll come down and check it out. She's out here doing some work too, so we're actually simultaneously in Los Angeles area. Um with that, my friends, I gotta close up the hut very much. Enjoying my time with you as always out here in

Los Angeles. I will be here every day and then Thursday actually in San Diego, but i'll be here every day this week until then, So please send me your thoughts, send me your recommendations for the best places to do fun stuff in l A. And until next time, my friends, Shields High