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Bucks Sexton remission, decoding the news and disseminating information with actionable intelligence. Make no mistake American, You're a great American Again. This is the Bucks Sexton Show. CIA analysts, I can speak for three hours without a phone call. Try doing that sometimes it is Bucks. No. Do you see every single day that President Trump is trying to undermine our constitution? I thought an emergency was floods in Iowa, Okay. I thought that an emergency was wildfires in Colorado or a

hurricane in Florida. But he has put that on its head. I don't think it's going to be found constitutional, but that's the kind of games that he is playing with our constitution. Will you definitely vecho that resolution? It was introduced today that would block your national emergency if it happens on the wall. Yes, welcome to the buck Sex and show my friends. Great to have you with me on Friday. So the Democrats are trying to do their

usual maneuvering. Um. They're trying to figure out some way to make the president look bad on this declaration of national emergency because they won't really, they can't stop the declaration. The President has the right to declare. But what they're going to do is try to make it look bad and fight against it, and then legally there will be a challenge in the courts the moment funding is moved and they start trying to use it at the wall. So you know, you have emergency powers have been invoked.

I believe under this statute. Since the seventies, fifty nine national emergencies have been declared. Thirty one of them have been renewed each year. So you've got things like the you know this is all just just from a quick

Google search. You see this stuff. You have things that range from suspending all laws regulating chemical biological weapons, suspending any Clear Air Act implementation, authorizing constructing military projects using existing defense appropriate creations, for construction, draft drafting, retired Coast Guard officers. I mean a lot of stuff from emergency powers here, stretching back for a long time. But you notice that you know how much of that is really

an emergency? Or you know where? Where's the emergency there? Where's the house on fire? There? We started off with Klobaschar, best known for being unknown except for when she throws things at members of her staff and treats them horribly. As an aside, I am unable to and I shouldn't. I shouldn't start with this, but I have it on very good authority that at some point you will hear that Kirsten Gillibrand is not only a phony, but he

is a very nasty person. I have. I have an anecdote that is amazing to show the one she's a phony and she's really mean, just like Klobaschar. But I can't tell it because the person it's the person who told me about it as a Democrat, and I am I am for now sworn to secrecy and until that person is willing to come forward and share the story about his or her interactions with Kirsten jilla Brand as

a Democrat. Mind you, I can't. You know, I can't because that person if they won't back up my oh, but I want to because she's such a phony and she's a terrible, terrible person from what I understand. But Klobash are also really nasty. Look at all these really mean, really mean elected Democrats. Not a surprise, is it? You know? I think there are Republicans that are an elected office that are not my cup of tea. But most of the ones that I come across are pretty nice people.

Most of the ones that I've dealt with are rand Paul is chill. I would not call him warm and fuzzy. However, he can be a little can be a little prickly. But you know, by and large, most of the republic lookings that I've dealt with in the Senate and in the House are are pretty are pretty nice. I think I'm actually having I'm doing a bucket a bar segment soon with Congressman Duffy. I believe, I think that that's going to happen. So I got I got things, I

got things going on, things going on. I'll tell you about them, all right. But back to the Trump national emergency situation here. So they're hoping to put this in front of him, so he has to veto it. So essentially it'll be the Congress disagreeing with the President on this issue. But you know what's funny about about an executive executive authority is that so what unless they're going to repeal the law that gives him the authority, This

is just like their opinion, man. And ultimately, I think that it looks bad for Congress to be out there making the case the American people that what's going on in the southern border is not an emergency. How could it not be an emergency. You're on track for half a million people coming into the country falsely claiming asylum, abusing our system, abusing the generous and kind nature of

the American people for their own purposes. These are economic migrants, and they're showing up with families because they know they're more likely to be in this country if they show up as a family. And you have the drugs pouring into there's there's meth pouring into the country, and in levels that are that are mind blowing. In fact, I

believe meth. Now they're dropping the price of meth. The cartels are dropping methamphetamine prices just so they can maintain some of the markets they have, even if they're selling some of it at a loss based on their you know, importation illegal importation fees. So there are other drugs that they're trying to pile into the country other than just pentinol and and and the opioids that have been killing over seventy thousand Americans a year. Now, that's not an urgency,

you know, that doesn't matter. Think about the communities across the country where these drugs are flooding in. We're supposed to believe that that doesn't qualify for an executive action like this. I really, you know, this is it. If we can't win this argument on If we can't win this argument on the border under the Trump administration, we're

never gonna win this argument. It turns into something similar to what we have with the national debt, which is where there's really only one side of this that's right, But it's a long term, structural, strategic, foundational issue that you know, to deal with it now is painful, so much more popular to procrastinate, say it's not a big deal. We are heading toward a day facto open borders state, and if we don't establish secure borders under the Trump administration,

it's never going to happen. In fact, only they will not be secure. We're just going to have a policy where people can come and go. You know, essentially anyone who can get here can stay. And you know, you talk about things like sovereignty, the cohesion of a polity, of the political unit. You know, what is a country? We can take this down to a very distill this

down to its essets. A country is an idea. You know, we're Americans because of the culture and the and the the people around us and the ideology of this country that we buy into that we believe is important to us as individuals and as a nation, which is a group as a group as well. And you know, you can always make the case, well, why why can't you be a citizen of any country? It's not fair? Why

can't you just pick the whole nation? State system is based on the largely based on the accident of birth. It's unfair. It's inherently unfair. So if fairness is going to be the governing standard for who gets to stay and who doesn't get to stay, and it's a fairness not based on the law, but based on what feels good to people. You're an open border state. I don't want to tell anybody you're not allowed to be here in America. I mean, well, criminals obviously, but I don't

want to look Honduran migrants in the eye. I don't want to look some twenty two year old woman who arrives, you know, with her with her two kids under the age of tenants as you know, all I want to do is be in America. I don't want to look at her and say, sorry, you gotta go. That's not going to feel good. But if you look at what it means, if our law enforcement is I mean, then again, I also don't want to arrest people for simple drug possession. There's a lot of things I don't want to do.

If our law enforcement, though he isn't able to tell that woman who's not legally allowed to be in the country, I'm sorry. You know, we're gonna make or you're safe and take care of you and get you medical care, but you gotta go. Then everyone can come and stay. And if everyone can come and stay, we don't really have a country anymore. We have a kind of economic opportunity zone that has no particular character or ethos or

sustainable version of itself. It just will be in a constant flux of well, you know, you know, and you look at the numbers and look at how countries change over time, and there can be profound shifts, profound si. I think that a lot of Americans have this idea that the immigration that we're dealing with now is similar to immigration way from the past, and that's just nonsense. By the percentages, it's We've never had anything like this.

We've never had a larger illegal alien population in the country. We've also never had a larger legal immigrant population. And I would just note that while I'm in favor of of legal immigrants and we welcome legal immigrants into our American family, there's an assimilation process that has to happen there too. Maybe this is, you know, getting too deep into the issue, but there is a limit to how many legal immigrants you'd want to bring in as well.

And for people that that sounds that sounds crazy too. Okay, Well, let's let's assume that let's talk about a smaller country, right, Let's take it out of the context of America for a second. If if the Netherlands allowed eight million Rockies to immigrate to the Netherlands. Is the Netherlands still the Netherlands? No, it is not, It is something else, right, it would it would overwhelm the character and the legal and cultural

foundations of that country. It would overwhelm the assimilation system. I'm talking about a legal immigration way. Now. I don't think we're quite there with legal immigration year a year, but we're not far off off either. I mean, I do think that a million a year is at is a pretty high number. It is a lot of people that bring into a country to go through the assimilation process, especially when you have a lot of them are being

brought here through chain migration because of family connections. Now, the system is the system, So I have no problem with anybody who's going through system legally. But we also as a country and those people who are legal immigrants who become citizens to the country, they get to be part of this conversation too. We get to have a discussion as a nation about well, how many how many

legal immigrants do we really want to take in? And I understand that for people that their primary political motivation is to feel good about themselves and to take the position of the greatest generosity and never have to say no to people and just want to see the good in people and not look at how things can go wrong. Why wouldn't you want to be open borders, you know? And this is why I try to ask democrats questions like why why is a legal immigration from a Democrat

perspect active wisely illegal immigration bad? And the answers they don't think it is. There's no And you'll never get them to say, Well, if you have a country of three hundred and twenty million Americans and you were to allow the importation of the immigration of you know, ten million Hondurans, which is basically the population of Honduras because their country is so crappy, does that change? I mean, it's certainly going to change the political direction of the country.

It's going to change, you know. This is what we have to look at and and do people when they come in large enough numbers, does that affect their desire to assimilate when they're here? These are all these are all serious discussions about the future of the country and as it is affected by immigration. But it's so much easier to just say where a nation of immigrants, you know, they're doing the jobs Americans won't do just let people in.

Illegal immigrants are more American than Americans, all this stuff, and this is where the Democrats have gone with this. So Trump is Trump is right about securing the border. I don't know if he's gonna win this fight. I

don't know if he's gonna win this fight. It might be that the Democrats may have their long term strategy to change the demographics of this country such that there's a permanent left of center majority for the Democratic Party, and that enough Republicans have been bought and paid for on the immigration issue that they won't stand for the law. I don't know. It's kind of a bummer thing to tell you on a Friday, but we may be too late on this issue. I don't know if anybody's gonna

get it done. If Trump can't get it done. So I hope that he's able to prevail on this one in the courts, in public opinion in twenty twenty. But there's some concerning signs here. All right, we gotta roll into a quick break. I will be back with you with so much were we gotta talk about the smallette smolette, monsieur smolet. That whole situation stay with me. What do you staying on some form of reparations for black people. Well, look, I think that we have got to address that. Again,

it's back to the inequities there through. Look, America has a history of two hundred years of slavery. We had Jim Crow. We've got to recognize back to that earlier point, people aren't starting out on the same base in terms of their ability to succeed, and so we have got to recognize that and give people a lift up. We have a history of racism in America. So you are for some type Yes I am, Yes, I am. That's Kamala Harris, prime top tier candidate from the Democrats for

the presidency. So far, a lot of establishment folks excited about her candidacy. You know, there's definitely a buzz around her saying that she is in favor of reparations. I do not now I could be wrong here, so one of you could point this out. I do not remember hearing a president in recent memory, any any Democrat presidential candidate that I can think of. Again, this is just off top of my head that was in favor, openly

in favor of reparations for slavery. The federal government stepping in with reparations, and I would be very curious to know what that would look like. What is she really talking about here? We already have affirmative action. Affirmative action is running into some problems now because of the discriminatory

effect against Asians that affirmative action has resulted in. And affirmative action has been has been extended way beyond African Americans, to Latinos, to Native Americans, to transgender individuals, to LGBT me. I mean, affirmative action is now everything that's not essentially an Asian or a you know why mail. So that's that's where a firm invaction has gone. But I also noted in this and that was I think an interview on this radio show, The Breakfast Club. But she mentioned this,

the inequities. You remember this, This is important. I brought this up, I think yesterday here on the show. Not inequalities. You have to pay attention to the words that leftist used inequities. Inequality is the way it is treated in public policy discussions. Is about the law. Right are you equal in the law? Equal is rights? Equal is you know you are treated the same way by the state. Inequity Inequity is the absence of fair ends. Not fair process,

but fair ends, fair results. Do you have the same that what somebody else has? Forget about the decisions you've made, forget about the work you've done, forget about your skills and abilities. Do you have the same that somebody else has? Oh you don't. That's inequity in the eyes of the left. And if you are in a protected category, you should

not have to suffer inequity. And in fact, this state should have to come in to give you the same ends, the same results and benefits that somebody else has because of your identity group. This is gonna you're gonna see more of this. Pay attention to that term inequity versus inequality. The Left is going to be all about this. Somebody tweeted yesterday of the day before, and I thought it made a lot of sense. So this is a police

department that has had some issues. I think there are issues with the Chicago Police Department as a general proposition, whether or not they are alleged to have treated people of color fairly, other or not, they are capable of doing an investigation without any difficult issues arising. I mean, you've got to be kidding me. Smolette's attorneys there, Garrigos and Benjamin Brafman, are starting to do the whole Well, maybe Chicago PD is racist. Maybe maybe that's really the

problem here. I mean, this guy, if the maximum he can serve us three years, I think he should get three years. You really got to make an example of this idiot. What he did is disgusting, it's wrong, and that he's got his attorneys out there now saying, yeah, maybe Chicago Police Department's racist. I'm sorry. They gave this guy, this utter moron, Chelsea Small, this spoiled brat by the way, who was upset that he didn't get paid more money for their show he was on. They gave him more

than the benefit of the doubt. They gave him every opportunity to not just explain his side of story, but to come clean. He did neither of those things, and now here we are. It's it's appalling. Ed Davis, the former Boston Police commissioner, saw this for what it is play six. When defense attorneys don't have any facts, they go to process and they're trying to throw enough smoke up there to establish reasonable doubt in the minds of the prospective jurors. That's what this is all about. But

you know Ed described this very well yesterday. He called it a despicable crime. And when you hear his presentation and the presentation of the state's attorney, there's almost an embarrassment of evidence here against Smalllett couldn't be any more obvious, and I think it's it's just reprehensible that lawyers are going out there now and are just are essentially saying Chicago, Chicago is racist, the country's racist, Chicago police are racist.

If that defense would work for Smallett, then what you're really or Smollette, then what you're really saying is that no African American in Chicago could be committed of any crime because the police department's just so racist that even when the evidence is overwhelming, as we already know it is. I mean, this this guy, it could not be more obvious that this is a hoax, and more clear this is a hoax. If he gave us a signed confession with videotape, then maybe it'd be more obvious, but it's

still I'm sure lawyers would say he was coerced. He was coerced into his confession. At this point, some lawyers are great. Some lawyers men. No shame, no shame at all. You know, the guy should be punished. I saw today that there was some beginnings of a narrative that, oh, maybe he's got a drug problem or something. I'm sorry, no, let's not. Let's not do that one now either. I mean, this is these are all just desperation maneuvers. These are

all these are all hail mary's to avoid accountability. And you know it's just it's I hope I was gonna say it's not gonna work. I hope none of this works. But you know, with our justice system sometimes sometimes things can be surprisingly illogical and unfair. He should serve time, he should spend some time in a prison cells. The drsh weight on this one, and I think the dursh

just got this one correct. Play for if the facts are as the police say they are, if actually payments were made and a plan was hacked to put a rope around the neck, and a police report was filed, then we have a potential for a serious a crime. I think people who make false reports or to go to jail. I think you know in the Bible, if you falsely accused somebody, you get the penalty that the

person would have gotten had the accusation been true. So if in fact these people had attacked him in this racist way and put a noose around his neck, they would have gotten some years in jail. If you're going to follow the Bible, this guy ought to get the same penalty that he falsely accused other people of getting.

Totally agree with the dersh on this. And let me also say that we have been treated to lecture after lecture from partisans in the media and in the Democratic Party about how lying to the system destroys the system.

So even a relatively minor lie in the course of a federal investigation, oh, I don't know, like the Muller probe, for example, even a relatively minor lie is unacceptable because that lie makes the work of the entire system harder and so people have to be held accountable for this, and there has to be there have to be consequences for this. Right. Well, if that's the case for lie, false accusation is just a form of lying. It's no different.

You know, if you sit there and say I never spoke to Putin and you did speak to Putin, and they're going to throw you in prison for that, saying, well, I didn't speak to Putin, but this other guy did, and he should go to jail for that, and he didn't. That's just another form of line. A false report is an official lie that hurts the system. So if you're somebody who thinks that George Papadappolis should have gone to prison, you better darnwell think that jose Smalllett should go to prison,

or else you're gonna have some explaining to do. As far as I am concerned with all of this, it's amazing the oh wait, Smallett's statement that we have that, all right, we have Smallett's statement to the prosecution here plicklip two. Smalletts stated that he wanted them to adhere

to attack him. Defendant Smalett also stated he wanted the brothers to catch his attention by calling him an empire f empire n Defendant Smollett also included that he wanted Ola to place a rope around his neck, pour gasoline on him, and yell this is mega country. Astonishing, isn't it astonishing? Um? But yet here here we are that oh, by the way, CNN of course trying to cover for CNN and m SMC trying to cover for him. Play clip one. If we're going to see um, conservative media

probably play this up a bit. Sean Hannity is gonna eat Jessie Smalett's lunch every single second. Tucker Carlson is gonna et just Smalllet's lunch every single second. President nine is stas is gonna eat his lunch, Eat his lunch. Uh, eat his lunch every single second. Well doesn't that isn't that kind of deserving? Isn't that kind of deserving? Isn't that isn't that a air thing for for this to turn into? I mean, you know, why was I talking about this actor? Why was I able to know that

everything was fine? Why was I able to know that there was really no truth in this story? And all these different media companies, the big media apparatus, they couldn't figure it out. Oh, Republicans, pounce is the story? I see right? Ah, they're being mean to to Jussie. They're being mean to JUSSI no, no, no, I don't think so this is a guy who should go to prison.

We call this one team right all along? So we do a little victory dance on that when we've known all along that that was the case, and we also now should expect there to be accountability in this whole process. We should expect that somebody who was willing to draw resources off of investigations of homicides in a city with a serious homicide problem should not go unpunished and should not go unscathed. But you know, the sad part about this is the media is not going to learn a thing.

They're not going to change at all. And here's what I can tell you. The next and there will be one, the next big hate crime hoax that comes along, the same script for the media will be in play. They won't change their coverage, they won't be more skeptical. And it's because that, ultimately they really think that they did this the right way, even though they were totally wrong.

They think the mainstream media believes when it comes to hate crime hoaxes, even when they're wrong, they're still right because they've raised awareness. Be right back. So a lot of people have talked about small at this week. One of the best, and I want to give you a good chunk of it. Charles Barkley is one of the more entertaining TV commentators around period. You know, you don't always get great stuff from Charles, but you do get a lot of a lot of gems. I mean, Charles

Barkley comes up with stuff. I don't even really care about professional basketball very much. I used to watch it, but I don't have the time these days. But Charles Barkley is so amusing when he talks about professional basketball, and not even just that, just just topics in general, that I will sometimes watch. I will sometimes watch Charles Barkley on his panel on TNT just because I know he's so funny. The stuff that he said about Smoletts today though, because we got the we got Friday coming

up here, we got a weekend. I just figured be fun to share some of this with you. Here's what Charles Barkley said about this play eighteen. Just if you wasted all that damn time of money, you know what you should have did. That's what I'm really a Mason's neighborhood. This one over there that you would say has no chance of happening. Um, two black guys being the black guy and have figured out loud, that's us not on here, man. I think that's probably I think that's probably it. Okay,

the Lakers will not make the playoffs. The King's Will is the latest edition. Go ahead, Kenny, I can't leave your chuck here with caster check America. Let me just tell you something that do not commit crimes with checks. If you're gonna break the law, do not write a check. Because you're writing a check that what get cashed? Man, Paul, stop literally now, I got one more question. Be by the face mask, the rope and the thing in the

same story. They get it. You think they put that on a receipt, face mask, the rope, bleach the store. So they're obviously having some fun there on the set of TNT with Charles Barklay, just really going after the smolette thing. But I think I think you have to man, I don't think that this is a situation where we should all pretend like this isn't completely preposterous, that what he isn't absolutely ridiculous, uh, you know, and and and damaging and wrong, but also so stupid. This is real,

real buffoon kind of stuff. I mean, it's really astonishingly dumb. I mean, writing a check, buying the stuff from the store on video, bringing in two other guys to be a part of this, and all of it. It just makes no sense. It's somebody who's clearly not very smart. Um, and yet there are some people out there believe it, believe it or not, believe it or not. There are some people out there who aren't yet convinced, aren't yet

entirely convinced. If in fact, this guy Smolett did this whole thing play clip seven here, Maxie Waters ways in. I don't think we can at this point it makes sense of it. There's still some questions that we have, some answers that have to be given. He's a friend, he was at my office, we marched in the Pride Rate for get Together. He introduced me at Black Girl's Rock, and so I believed him when I heard about it. I still don't know all of the details. I'm waiting

for the final results of all of this. If in facts it's the hoax, of course I would be disappointed, But I'm just hopeful that whatever goes on, and if he finds that he's in trouble, that his life will be changed, then he has to redo it all over again. How much more does she need in terms of facts, I'm just wondering what the facts from? Does she not believe the Chicago Police Department. Does she not believe Eddie

Johnson is CPD superintendent who's speaking yesterday? I mean, this is what this is what Eddi Johnson said yesterday play three to let pay thirty five hundred dollars to stage this attack and dragt Chicago's reputation through the mud in the process. And why this stunt was orchestrated by Smilette because he was dissatisfied with his salary, so he concocted a story about being attacked. Is there any part of

that that Maxine Waters thinks he's a lie? Is there some is there some aspects of this that she Let's all be very clear. The chance that the Chicago Police Department would come out and say these things about a gay African American actor who claimed to have been attacked. Did the fact that they're coming out to say that this is a hoax? They are they have this thing as air tight as you could have anything, as air tight as you could have anything. So that's let's start

with that. But if he does face charges, there are some people who are saying, you know, crazier things have happened, and you start to think about some cases that have come up. This is Sonny Houstin on the View nineteen. He is going to mount a vigorous defense, and he's made it very clear that Jesse is still entitled to a presumption of innocence. And I think we do need to remember that for the police department to come out and lay this all out, we have to still be skeptical.

We don't know what's going to happen. I mean, did everybody think Casey Anthony was going to be found guilty, yes? Did everybody think O J was going to be found guilty? Yes? And those people were not found guilty. She's confusing analysis of the news with the legal process a little bit. There By the way, he's not going to mount a vigorous defense if he if he goes to trial, he's going to lose. He's going to take a plea bargain. He's not gonna mount no if they charge him, he's

gonna plead it out. No way, he's going to mount a vigorous defense. But to her point about Casey Anthony and o J. Yeah, I mean there are people that get away with crimes all the time. Unfortunately, I see that R. Kelly today was charged with ten counts of some kind of sexual misconduct. I don't know exactly what it is. R Kelly's ten counts of sexual misconduct. R Kelly was charged, and the documentary on him, I think

it's on Lifetime that I've watched. It's a series of like six or seven episodes, is very good and disturbing. R Kelly was prosecuted for underage sex and making child pornography. He was They had a video of him with the underage girl. They showed it to the jury and r Kelly said it might be his brother, that it wasn't him in the video, and he was found not guilty. How could a jury be so stupid? I don't know the OJ jury, I don't think. I think the OJ

jury always knew that he did it. They just thought that this was some getting back at, getting back at, you know, at the racist oppressors in this country. No one with you know, a functioning brain thought that OJ didn't do it. So is there a chance that Smalette would get off. Well maybe, But he's also he's not some hero to any community. I mean, this is all the whole thing is just is just grotesque, right, So I think he's going I think he's going to the

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You know why I won the race because I was a better candidate than she was and had nothing to do with Russia. And everybody knows it's a hoax. It's one of the greatest hoaxes ever perpetrated on this country. So I look forward to seeing the report. If it's an honest report, it will say that. If it's not an honest report, it won't. Yeah, we may in fact be in the last days of Mullermania. Mullermania. I could do some cool we could do some cool theme music

for Mullermania. I am so happy for well at least this reason. And maybe this is a little bit selfish, but I just don't want to have to talk about this case anymore. It's so obviously stupid. It's such a political hatchet job. It has been from the start. The people involved, or unseemly they're dishonor they're bad people. They've tried to undo the results of a democratic election, you know, And I just feel like we've talked this thing to death.

The whole country has. I mean, you turn on CNN and most nights there's a Russia story and a lot of nights and this is for the last two years, a lot of nights they lead with a Russia story and they bring people on who go, well, you know, we don't know yet, and we don't know yet, and all this It was the speculation Olympics for two years about whoa, maybe maybe Mueller's got this up as sleep and maybe now all of a sudden they're starting to try to manage expectations a bit now, and now they're

changing the whole tone, the whole vibe of the Mueller probe. And our friend Kim Strassel, who you know is a frequent visitor here on the show, wrote a great piece shifting sci f F TI N to phase two of collusion. Conspiracy theorists look for something new anticipating a Muller letdown, and let me just get Ki. Kim just nails it in this piece. Let me give you someone what she

gets into here. Quote There's been no more reliable regurgitator of fantastical Trump Russia collusion theories than Democratic Representative Adam Schiff. So when the House Intelligence Committee chairman sits down to describe a new phase of the Trump investigation. Pay attention. These are the fever swamps into which we will descend after Robert Muller's probe. The collusionists need a new phase as signs grow that the Special Council won't help realize

their revelries of a Donald Trump takedown. They had said mister Muller would provide all the answers. Now that it seems they won't like his answers, Democrats and media insist that any report will likely prove anticlimactic and inconclusive. This is merely the end of chapter one, said Nato Mariotti, a CNN legal analyst. Mister Schiff turned this week to a dependable scribe, the Washington Post, David Ignatius to lay out the next chapter of the Penny Dreadful, by the way,

a very good TV show on Cinemax. I think if you haven't seen it. Mister Ignatius was the original conduit for the League about former National Security Advisor Mike Flinn's conversations with a Russian ambassador and the far fetch claims that mister Flinn had violated the Logan Act. Of seventeen ninety nine. Mister Schiff has now dictated to mister Ignatius a whole new collusion theory. Forget Carter Page, Paul Manafort, George Papadopoulos, whoever the real Trump Russia canoodling rests in

Trump's finances. The future president was doing business with Russia and seeking Kremlin help. End quote. Guys, these people are shameless, aren't they. I mean, Kim totally nails it. She's right. I mean I've been saying this too, But this is this is where all of this is heading. We're just gonna start to hear now about how we need Trump's tax returns, We need to know more about about Trump's business dealings. And you see, this is just going to

be an investigation of Trump the person. That's what they're going to transition to. This is an investigation of Donald Trump. There. You know, they can try to say it's about Russia,

collusion anything else. But now, I mean, if they're talking about his business dealings, what is that If they didn't find collusion as in Trump and Trump's campaign actively contacting and working with the Russians to help steer the election to Trump, if they didn't find that then looking at Trump's finances can't be a part of that investigation because obviously Trump's finances, as it affects the Russia collusion narrative

would have already been covered. It would have already been there if they had any evidence of this what's whatever. So now they have no evidence of collusion. What they're saying is, let's just turn Trump's finances upside down and then we'll find evidence of collusion. You know, this is the throw the witch out in the lake, tire down with stones. If she drowns, she's innocent. If she floats, she's a witch. Trump can't win. Trump can't win. Don't even get me started on that scary movie The Witch.

I've been having nightmares the movie scary, too scary, man, too scary. But this is, this is what we're dealing with. These these people are the Democrats, their little media allies, little media stooges. They're they're utterly shameless. I mean, Rachel Maddow has been doing these. Now we have this really interesting revelation that's gonna blow your mind about Russia. Every night, you know, she takes a little pen out, she taps on the table, the whole stick. I mean, I don't

know who finds Rachel Maddow's show interesting. I really don't. It's just it's just more people speculating abou Russian night after night who don't know anything. There's no information. It's just speculations. Well maybe maybe yes, no kind of so they have nothing to offer in terms of knowledge, in terms of actual transmission of useful information or real information. No, it all just becomes the same old nonsense about how well, if this happened, then maybe that happened, then maybe this

other thing happened. You know, anybody? This is like when McCabe goes on TV and says Trump still could be a Russian asset. McCabe still could be a Russian asset. Can he prove to us that he's not a Russian asset? How do we know? Oh, let's investigate him. This is the essence of police state tactics. This is what happens in countries where there is no rule of law and where the people who have the ability to exercise judicial

and prosecutorial discretion do not act in faith. The bar for a counterintelligence investigation, as we've seen from McCabe and Coombe and others is essentially we think maybe this thing could have happened, so we're going to start pulling people's phone calls and emails and surveiling them because of counterintelligence concerns.

This is a massive abuse, This is an enormous scandal, and that the Democrats are just unwilling to see what is plainly staring all of us in the face here just goes to show that you can't trust these people with power, their ideology, their party is morally and intellectually bankrupt. You don't want these people to be in charge. You do not want Democrats to be in a position to

sick the irs, the DOJ, the f behind people. Notice how who is Trump sicked the prosecutorial arm of the government on you know, you know, the Clintons used to have the IRS go after people. The IRS went after conservatives under the Obama administration, conservatives. Somehow, Republicans, this doesn't happen from our side. I wonder why that is. We don't weaponize the apparatus of the government the way the

left does, you know. And and for for people who are going to say, well what about the Clintons, Buck and Whitewater, the Clintons should have gone the Clintons should have been criminally prosecuted. The Clintons actually broke the law. We all know they broke the law in a whole bunch of ways, both of them more than once. So you know, that's that's not a witch hunt. That's actually yeah, you're that's that's just a hunt that's finding illegal behavior.

But this sole Muller thing, it's not. It's going to end next week. And Kim's right. Kim Strauss's right just means collusion. Chapter two begins. That's a woman who inflicted enormous rescue on American soldiers, on American citizens. She's a terrorist. She's not coming back. President Trump made clear that she wasn't coming back. She's not a US citizen, she has not entitled to US citizenship, and she's not coming back to our country to pose a threat. Secretary of State

is not messing around when talking about Hodah Muthana. This is the case. I believe we spoke to my friend Rahim Kasam about this one earlier in the week. But this is the case of a woman who was a I think thrice married isis bride. So she went off to join the Islamic State. Now and there's a lot of details I want to get into it. Let me start with this. Who sees the snuff videos, the the horrific murder videos that are out there of the Islamic

State orchering people, mutilating people, murdering people. Who sees that stuff and and then says I want to go join that group? Who sees that? What kind of a person would want to go be a part of that and marry fighters for this? I mean, this woman, you know she's a terrorist, folks, She is a terrorist. I know

you know that. But we need to make sure we keep a close eye here on the T word because there are some very interesting and shady and slimy figures that are emerging who all of a sudden are trying to make a case that, you know, maybe she wasn't that bad, or we should bring her back and she should have her day in court. Now. I think there are some legal issues here where, you know, it can go either way. I mean, in my opinion, if you wage war against your country, you should be able to

have your citizenship stripped from you. This woman not only not only joined the Islamic State in Syria, married multiple Isis men, was a bride for them. She was tweeting out ISIS propaganda and encouraging people on behalf of the Islamic State and posting online on behalf of the Islamic State to kill Americans here at home, not just on

the battlefield, here at home. She was one of the people who was encouraging who you could say was was digitally conspiring with individuals to radicalize on their own here, to mow people down with cars, to stab people, and just do all these disgusting, horrific terrorist things that we know the Islamic State has been doing. And now she's being held by Kurdish forces, she's in a refugee camp, she has a child. She says she wants to come home. She said, quote, I know I've ruined my future, in

my son's future, and I deeply regret it. And now people referring to as the Isis bride, and there's going to be I tell you this, the social justice left is going to start saying, oh, she was brainwashed and it wasn't her fault, and that she should be allowed back in the country. The Trump administration has just said, as you heard it there from a Secretary of State, she's not a citizen is not a citizen quote. The

State Department maintains that no such process is required. As Muthana is not, and never has been, an American citizen, she stands outside of the Fourteenth Amendments guarantee of birthright citizenship.

The government argues because her father, who is now a naturalized citizen, was formerly a Yemeni diplomat under the jurisdiction of his home country, that's right like in the Constitution, subject to the jurisdiction thereof US citizenship and Immigration Services guidelines specify an exception to birthright citizenship for children not born subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, as the Fourteenth Amendment requires, she may have been born here,

Pompeio said, she is not a US citizen, nor is she entitled the US citizenship. Muthana's lawyers, however, are indicating that her father has been was discharged from his diplomatic position by the time of her birth, by which point

her mother had gained permanent residency status. When the government revoked the young woman's passport in January, it stated that she hadn't was not a birthright citizen because her father's termination had not officially been documented until February nineteen ninety five. So you know, look, this is where you're going to get into. You know, if the papers weren't signed in time, the laws, the law, and if your citizenship papers didn't go through, guess what. Sorry. And I hope that nobody's

really gonna lose too much sleep over this one. But you know, the left, they see they see a Muslim minority, you know, Muslim minority female, and they are immediately trying to find ways to, if not openly take her side, certainly defend her, defend some aspects of her position. I saw the Council on Arab Islamic Relations. I only see the Council CARE. They call it the Council on Arab Islamic I'm sorry, Council on American Islamic Relations. Pardon me.

I only see CARE though. When it's like, hey, does anybody want to defend this terrorists and they're like, yes, we are from CARE. We would like to defend the terrorists. Like who is that really the only the only time we get to hear from you guys? Or if somebody leaves a mean voicemail on an imam's you know, phone message and then we get to hear about it. I'll never forget that I was in I was at CNN once and it was after one of the I think it might have been after the Pulse nightclub shooting. I

pretty but I forget. I was over there analyzing so many terror incidents. I think it was a Pulse nightclub shooting. And they brought me on and the segment before me was about the shooting, which had just happened maybe a couple of days before, and they wanted to talk to me about how is this going to spur arise in hate crimes because somebody left a mean voicemail on an EMMS on an emom's answering machine at a mosque somewhere.

I remember thinking, this is how CNN priorities work. You have a terrible attack with dozens and dozens of gay men slaughtered while they're trying to just have a night out, have a night of fun and enjoyment, and you know, killed for the crime of trying to dance and listen to some music by this Islamic state supporting psychopath. Remember when the FBI redacted information from the transcript to the

Obama FBI. There have been some big big signs out there that the FBI is not this UH team of crack gum shoes that a lot of people would like to believe they were. They were retracting things or redacting things like I'm doing this in the name of the Blank State, and I pray to Blank that I will be a martyr. I mean, I think we could do the film remember that with the UH. That was a real thing during the aftermath of Pulset nightclub shooting. But they immediately wanted to talk to me about is there

going to be a rise in hate crimes? And who are saying? You know, can we focus on the actual crime here? Can we actually talk about the Terrorist Act and not immediately switch this into like, well, like we don't want, you know, we don't want to talk about this hate crime, which is what it was. We want to talk about the possible hate crime against the Islamic community later on. And back to this this woman who's trying to come back from the Islamic State. I'm sorry

you you joined the enemy. You have no rights in this country as far as I'm concerned. You're not a citizen, so I mean government that the government says you're not a citizen and you don't have citizenship. What we're gonna give her citizenship now? So she wasn't a citizen when she went there, she's not a citizen now. And I

think that the Trump administrations right on this one. Notice, how though, they'll be plenty of Democrats that say, oh, it's tyranny and it's terrible what Trump is doing because they just opposed Trump, no matter what it is. It's one of the more remarkable tests of the left delusion here is that no matter what the circumstances may be.

You know, if Trump came out and said that he has managed to find a way that you could eat all the cheeseburgers you want, never gained a pound, that it would be healthy for you, the left would be anti cheeseburger. They would say that cheeseburgers are racist and evil and destroying the planet. So that's what we're up against, your folks. More national security, come out up here in just a moment to talk to you about the troop draw it out in Syria and the Vietnam Kim Summit

coming up. You are now entering the Freedom hug Dable Operation Center. All SENSI programs. Musky Caps strictly need to know Team Buck is cleared and ready for a Buck brief. This is a rough estimate about two hundred, not a specific number. We're gonna We're in constant contact with our allies. At the end of the day, the President wants to bring our troops home, and he's working towards that. He wants to do that in a safe and peaceful way.

I'm always going to be happy with the President pulling our men and women in harm's way out of harm's way, and also doing so responsibly. I agree. I believe that the two hundred that are remaining will keep Turkey out of the Syrian conflict, will also keep Iron's ambitions at bay. So this President, you deserve a lot of credit for destroying the Caliphate, but we need an insurance policy to

make sure that they don't come back. And the Kurds who helped us in the eyes of Turkey, THEYPG Kurds or part of the PKK, we need a buffer zone between Turkey and the Syrian Democratic forces so they don't go to war. You don't want to end one war and start another. We want to make sure is Sist never comes back and Iran cannot get these old fills that are in Syria. So by having a small US

presence will attract a lot of Europeans. It's time for the Europeans to take the lead here, and that's what this plan's about, is to put them in the lead with our help. News today that President Trump is going to keep two hundred troops in Syria. Obviously that's a that's a small contingent. We have a much larger contingent

of a few thousand troops next door in Iraq. And keep in mind, giving US navy and aerial assets that can be deployed in the Mediterranean as well as other bases in the region, we have no shortage of ways to blow up stuff in Syria if we want to, all right. So that's that's one thing that I think often gets you know, Oh, if we don't have troops there, what are we gonna do? Point it's thing on a map America in Syria, and America can destroy it if

we want to. It's not always a good thing for us to do it, but we have that capability to keep this contingent of troops there. I understand the reasoning behind this, and I understand why A lot of people are favorable to it right now. We heard there from Lindsay Graham, John James, Sarah Huckabee. Sanders announced this today, and it's a slight shift in the presidents. Well, it

wasn't really a plan. It was a tweet from a few weeks back where he said that we need to get out of Syria and get out of Syria as fast as possible. Here's why, here's the argument for us to keep these troops in Syria. And then I'm gonna make my argument as to why we need to get out of Syria. We need, we need to leave Syria. I think we can handle all of the different concerns without a US military presence in Syria, because the presence that we have now may seem small and manageable and fine.

When you have a small presence, the ability for that to become a large presence is very real. And the necessity for it to become a large presence under circumstances that are not far fetched is also very real. Here's why they want to step troops. There number one reason that comes to mind, Although I think if you speak two people on the military side, as I have recently, they'll say that the biggest concern that they have is they don't want to abandon the Kords who are fighting

alongside us in Iraq. I'm sorry, well, interroctive done the two in Syria and fought bravely and fought well against the psychopaths of the Islamic State. Okay, So, and that's a real thing and American honor. There are global implications for the honor that we either gain or lose in the treatment of battlefield allies. I don't mean allies that are like, Hey, we're gonna go to a Davos, a Davos forum and talk about how we're going to ally

with you on climate change. I mean Kurds, and some of you who are listening to the show, I know for a fact have been out there with them, so you know what I'm talking about better than anybody else. I mean Kurds who are on the front lines, taking incoming, laying down fire against our enemy, alongside special US Special

Forces operators and alongside our guys. Those are allies, real allies, and there's an understandable concern that if we weren't there, then the Turks would launch air strikes against them because

they think that they are essentially the same. The Turks believe that our Syrian allies, Kurdish Syrian allies, and the Syrian democratic forces in Eastern Syria and Eastern and Northern Syria predominantly are the same as the PKK Marxist separatist terrorists that have been waging a thirty plus year struggle against the Turkish government. So the Turks have a very big problem with them. And this I understand all this.

That's the one part of it. The other part of it is the fear that the Islamic State is going to make some kind of a major comeback if we're not there all right now. So that's really the read. Oh and then there's another set of reasons that I don't think are good reasons. But there are people who say that we need to be there to counter Iranian influence.

I think that's unrealistic, and I think it's also a dangerous expansion of the mission set and the strategy that we're approaching all this with that we're there because we're going to try to broker a peace agreement with Assad. I think that's misplaced. I think that's just wrong. It's not going to work, it's not going to happen. Assad is not going anywhere. He's not going to negotiate with Assyrian Democratic forces for you, for him stepping down or

anything else else. I mean, Syria, it was through a civil war and the country has been chopped up into pieces. But there is this notion of what we need to counterbalance the other bad players Russia, Iran, Assad, Hesbollah. I don't. I don't think that we should be getting to that game because they all already have troops on the ground there ford operating bases. The Russians have had a naval base in Tartus for I don't know how many decades

now in Syria, So we're not counterbalancing. How then, on the way that we could do this without a true presence there, meaning that we should scale down this two hundred to essentially zero as soon as we can, That's

my opinion. We use the all the different military assets that we have in the region if we need to to back up Kurdish fighters on the ground, the Syrian Democratic forces there, and keep in mind, we could always have troops there that are non you know that that are not being reported on, right, I mean, we could always have operations going on there. That are not being publicized quite the way. What we're talking about this contingent

is advisors and so on and so forth. But as as long as we have the military presence that we do in the region, we can give air cover, give material support. We knew whatever we want in the in this part of Syria, and I think we can accomplish it without a troop presence there in terms of the Turkish Kurdish, and that's necessary for the suppression of ISIS, right. So this is people's worry about Iceis coming back, and to that, I say, you're never going to completely eradicate

the Islamic State. A lot of them have apparently moved into Iraq. Our foothold in Iraq is not as permanent as some people think. I think the Iraqis get restless with our presence there. So that's also worth keeping in mind. And that's not a reason to try to You know, right now we think Syria is more Syria we can be in with troops because we're so stable in Iraq. Well, what happens if that gets upended. I wouldn't want to

be that US troop contingent in Syria. If all of a sudden we have to pull out of a rock. So there's that, and then there's also trying to keep the Turks out of the Syrian conflict and out of air strikes on our our Kurdish friends and the Syrian Democratic forces. Now, then I just say, we got to make it clear to the Turks that you know, they're

not going to keep being a NATO country. We're not going to play ball with them and help them out on things that matter to them if they are going to be spoilers and refuse to respect some of our app Look, it's a request, it's an ask. We can't make them do this, and we're certainly not gonna take any military action against the Turkish Turkish forces on behalf of Kurdish allies. I think. So then you get into do you really want US troops to be a trip

wire there for the Turks? Essentially the Turks won't bomb some of these encampments because they don't want to kill American soldiers. Well, you're gonna keep American soldiers they're in harms way, and the hopes of the Turks don't do that. I don't like that plan. The biggest thing though, for me, I mean, so I try to work through some of the pieces there, because it's obviously a very complicated situation.

The biggest thing for me is we need to stop Our leadership needs to stop thinking that the answer to problems abroad all the time is to send United States military forces to calm things down, to chill things out, to make problems go away. We don't need to do that. We should not do that. And I think that Syria is the beginning of the turning of the tide away from Iraq, which has not been successful. Okay, we can talk about Iraq as much as anybody wants. I was

in the CIA's Iraq office for years. Iraq is not the success that we were promised, and it is not a particularly stable country. It's okay, But Afghanistan, which we are losing. We are losing in Afghanistan. We are going to We're going to try to create some face saving agreement with the Taliban where the Taliban is essentially left in control of the country or part of the country, and then eventually we'll be in control of half of the country. All the Pashtun parts of Afghanistan are going

to be Taliban run. It's just a matter of when. So that didn't work out for us. Enough is enough. And I do think that there's a class of elites in this country. And I mean that pretty specifically. I mean I can actually name some of them, the Bill Crystal and Max Boot. You know. Tucker Carlson wrote an article about them recently where he referred to them as the professional war peddlers, many of these Bush era, very muscular foreign policy neocon types. I think that their ideas

have largely been or should be repudiated. I think that they've dragged us into conflicts that have been far too costly in terms of lives and in terms of blood and treasure for the United States, and for what. For what? We should be putting our troops in harm's way when there is a clear US national security interest that we must defend and that we know we're going in hard

and we're going in furiously. We should not be leaving troops in places in unstable countries where the host government either doesn't want us or there is no host government really to speak of. We're propping up a host government and hoping that we can cobble these countries together on our own. That's just it's not a good policy. It's not a good idea, and I think Syria is the turning of the tide. I think people are going to realize that Syria is a place where finally we start

to draw down. Don't allow this to drag on forever. Draw down the Syrian our contingent in Syria, and let this be someone else's problem. If it's going to be a problem, I think that that's now. I know there's a lot of good faith debate on this. There's a lot of ways you can take this argument. But the problem with you know, it's never going to be easy to end an endless war, but the alternative is to keep fighting an endless war. I'm not saying it's risk free.

I'm not saying there's no chance Isis could come back. I'm saying we need to not make Syria our mission open ended for the foreseeable. It's a bad idea. We'll be right back. We're making progress the presence in no hurry. Particularly as long as things continue to move forward in a positive manner and as long as the conversations continue to go well again, we'll see what happens. I think that the only one setting high expectations is probably the media,

because they're looking for reasons to attack this president. So we have this summit coming up in Vietnam, where the media is I mean, that was Sara Hugaby Sanders setting it up properly. The media is going to do everything they can to tell us that Trump has failed with North Korea so far, and his summit is a bad idea, this one on one meeting in Vietnam, and you know, he's a fool on foreign policy and this is going to be a disaster. That's what they're gonna say. Now,

I don't believe it. That is the case. I can't tell you what's going to happen quite yet because I'm obviously it hasn't happened, and I don't believe anybody can predict the future. Here's what Lindsey Graham Lindsey Graham his expectations for this, Lindsay Graham getting on a play in

the media these days, play fourteen. My expectations are to give up his nuclear weapons over time, to convince him that he is better off without a nuclear arsenal Denny is with one, his nuclear weapons could fall in the hands of people would actually use him if he would not. The president is right to want this transition from a nuclear North Korea to a non nuclear North Korea. Chairman

Kim's at the table because he's afraid of Trump. We broke the Iran nuclear Agreement, which was putting Iron on a pathway to the nuclear weapon, and we destroyed the Caliphate and we got the Taliban at the table in Afghanistan. Why we've been strong in the face of adversity. Donald Trump has been the opposite of Barack Obama. The reason the Taliban's at the table. Kim's at the table as Trump has shown strength. Now we've got to close the deal.

I appreciate what Lindsay Graham is staying there. He's wrong on Afghanistan. That's and anybody I know who knows Afghanistan well and whose opinion that's respect. I gotta tell you we are not at the table in Afghanistan because we're doing so much better. Obama raised the troop levels to over one hundred thousand there, took the fight to the Taliban in Kandahar, and Helmond did not. You know, yeah,

our troops beat our troops beat their guys. But at the end of the day, we didn't stabilize the country. But back to North Korea here, So I just I have to know Lindsay Graham. I think I think Lindsay Graham is wrong. Sometimes it's not wrong on Kavan, although I love you forever for that. With Lindsay, Lindsay gets a big he gets a big special paddle the back for that one. But on North Korea, I can't say he's wrong. I don't think that Kim Jong gun will

give up his nuclear weapons. I think that nuclear weapons are central to the belief system of the North Korean Communist Party. I think that nuclear the nuclear deterrent is really the reason for that and the reunification of the Korean peninsula by force. By the way, that is why the North Korean regime exists. So it will not eliminate it's reason for being. It will not give it up. I know that that. And you might ask me a buck,

where does that leave us? I don't know, But I don't think the North I don't think that Kim jongan is gonna give up their nukes. I just don't see it happening. That said, I think that Trump is right to try, and if I or him, I would certainly want to try, because the alternative is pretty horrific down the line, pretty horrific. He also hasn't given up anything in the process this whole thing of Oh by meeting with him, you legitimize him. He's the leader of North Korea.

We can hold our breath and pretend he's not the leader of North Korea. But what good does that do. He is the leader of North Korea, and I think we do well to live in that reality. He has not fired off any missile since Trump approach him with these overtures. I think that that's at least some version of progress here, and we'll have to see. But I'm not going to blow smoke here. Do I think the North kore is gonna give up their nukes? No? I

do not. I do not see that happening, And I think that Trump is going to make a very good faith effort to get there. We will see how it goes. But he doesn't lose anything by trying, because he's kept all the sanctions in place and he's not buying off the North Koreans like Obama bought off the Iranians. Got a really interesting idea to talk to you about in a moment here. What makes a good job and how do you make a job better that's coming up. AARP

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us slash buck. That's am AC dot us slash buck. AMAC is better, better for America. What makes people happy? It's an existential question if one ever existed, right, why are we here? What are we trying to accomplished? Don't worry, I don't think that here on this radio show right now. I'm going to be able to solve that. I know there are some hosts. You'd be like, WHOA, let me tell you I know everything. No, I don't actually have all the answers. I have a lot of them, but

I don't have all of them. I read this piece though it was actually it was in the New York Times. I must I must admit I do read the Times. I read the enemy's publications. Don't think that, you know. I leave that undone. But the piece is called Wealthy, Successful and Miserable, The Future of Work, Wealthy, Successful and Miserable, and it says that the upper echelon it's by Charles Duhigg says the upper echelon is hoarding money and privilege to a degree not seen in decades. But that doesn't

seem to make them happy at work. And it just goes into a story about a guy who went to Harvard Business School, graduated in the early two thousands, when there was a sense of just incredible optimism, hyper capitalism in America, so much wealth creation, and if you were on a certain track, if you went to these Ivy League schools, and by the way, this is all for those of you who don't care about any of that stuff. We'll get to what this matters for all of us

in a moment. But went to these fancy schools, you were on this pathway to extreme wealth and happiness and access and freedom and all these great things. Well, this individual has written this piece about how he went to his Harvard MBA Harvard Business School reunion. It's fifteenth reunion.

He just went to it this past summer. And what was so interesting is that here is this group of people who, if you were to segment off a cohort of individuals who have just been incredibly lucky to have graduated from Harvard Business School in America in the early two thousands, you are in the one one millionth of

one percent of humanity. I mean you are super lucky, I mean for all time in terms of the prospects that you have for wealth, for opportunity and just But what's so interesting, and many of you know where this is going, is guess what a lot of really unhappy people in his Harvard Business School class fifteen years later.

A lot of people who, despite what would be referred to as privilege by many people on the left these days, despite this, what is true privilege, going to Harvard and the business school and graduating and getting all these big jobs. But there are people that are still miserable. He said that there were people who quote complained about jobs that

were unfulfilling, tedious, or just plain bad. One classmate described having to invest five million dollars a day, which didn't sound terrible until he explained that if he put only four million dollars to work on Monday, he had to scramble to play six million dollars on Tuesday, and his co workers were constantly undermining one another in search of the next promotion. It was insanely stressful work done among

people he didn't particularly like. He earned about one point two million dollars a year and hated going to the office. I feel like I'm wasting my life, he told me. When I die, is anyone going to care that I earned an extra percentage point of return? My work feels totally meaningless. He recognized the incredible privilege of pay and status, but his anguish seemed genuine. If you spend twelve hours a day doing work you hate, at some point it

doesn't matter what your paycheck says. He told me, there's no magic salary at which a bad job becomes good. Now, I think this probably has It's probably really resonates with a lot of you listening. It resonates with me and I you know, as early don't make one point two million dollars a year. But the point is that if you are spending a lot of your time doing something that you that you don't have a passion for, you

feel as meaningless. It ceases to matter what they're paying you for it, because this is your life, this is your time, this is what you are doing with yourself. Time is the one commodity that you cannot get more of and you can never get back. So what do you do every day? And this is why I think our society, as much as I'm not somebody that goes on and rails against a materialism in American society, it is a problem. It is a problem. I can tell

you that I've had jobs. You know, one of the most fulfilling and fun jobs I ever had was being a JV soccer coach, high school soccer coach for my high school. In two thousand and four, I was a JV soccer coach at Regis High School in New York City and I think I was paid for the season. I forget it might have been like twelve hundred dollars or something like that. It wasn't, you know, a twelve week season, and maybe maybe it was two grand I

don't know it was. It was a little honorarium. It was not a salary salary, but it was a great gig. I was doing another gig at the Council on Foreign Relations at the time, Council on Four Relations, the Illuminati, the Builderbergs, but I was there, and then I did the whole coaching thing. And coaching was great, and if I could make a living doing it, I would love to do it. But I don't think I could have.

And I also think that there were limitations on how good a coach I would have been able to I would have been able to become give and that I wasn't a college or professional athlete myself, unless you count rowing, which is not really You're not really an athlete. You're just a masochist who wants to ruin ruin your days. But the point about wasting your life no matter how much money you make, I think that really should matter

to people. But it matters up to a point. You need there are all these different studies about happiness and about fulfillment, and you need a certain amount of money because I've also been in the position where you don't have money for things you need money for, you know, I have been in my late twenties when I realized I can't do you know, I can't afford to have a surgery for example, that a doctor has recommended that I have. I just don't have the money. So I

know what that's like. That's stressful. You don't want that either. See, I think most of the studies I've seen say that you know your your relative happiness, and you know, up to fifty or seventy five thousand dollars a year of income in America, you know it's making seventy instead of sixty. That feels good. You like that, you know, making sixty instead of fifty, you know, making fifty and so on and so forth, but making you know, one hundred and

sixty instead of one hundred and fifty. Hey, it doesn't really matter that much. And once you can imagine you get up into the millions, it really doesn't matter that much to people. I mean, it's the work is the work, and if you hate what you're doing and you think

it's meaningless. You can't get around that. And it was interesting that there are all these people that he goes through in this in this article who have had the most on a resume basis, on a you know, looking at their their pathway from an outsider's perspective, they've had this incredible run and they hate it and they hate it. An overall job satisfaction has gone down. In the mid nineteen eighties, According to this piece, sixty one percent of

workers said that they were satisfied with their jobs. Since then, as of twenty ten, forty three percent of workers are satisfied. That's a big that's a big drop. Only forty three percent of workers are satisfied, less than half. I think that there's a lot that drives this um. There are there are people that will point you to two different things. You know, they'll they'll point you to how you're always

uh here. He mentioned some of this article oppressive hours, political in fighting, the competition created by globalization, the internet, and the always on culture. You carry your phone around, they can reach you. You carry your email around, they can reach you. Right, You've got that going on all

the time. Something more more to this as well, though I think that we are increasingly as a society people are seeing the financial where with all of those around them that they're seeing, you know, it's like keeping up with the Joneses thing. They see what other people do and what they can do, and they think to themselves, why don't I have that, instead of thinking do I have what I need and what I want? And understanding that your own expectations are the only expectations that really

matter for these things. But dissatisfaction, even for people who are very financially well off, is pervasive. Now I want to pause because I want to come back and say that there's some real upside that there are two lessons that he gets into in this piece, which I will post on Facebook dot com slash buck Sexton so you

can all see it. But there are these two lessons that he gets into that I think will really stick with because we're not going to talk anymore about oh, the hedge fund manager who says his life is meaningless but he's worth millions of dollars. You may find that interesting, you may not, but it's just a way of getting into this piece because there are other people who find their lives really interesting and really have meaning. Their work lives have meaning in a way that may be surprising

to hear, probably be inspiring to hear. And then also the people that find work and find their roles that are the right ones for them. There's something very interesting that they all have in common, or that many of them have in common, and it's not what you would expect. And I think that will also this article. I found this article inspiring, not the part I've told you about so far, but see, this is how we do radio teases,

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do you? What are some of the lessons from this piece team that was written in the New York Times about how there are a lot of wealthy elite professionals who are really miserable with what they do even though they're financially successful. Money. You need enough money to be happy. This is my This is my role. This is not from the species. You need enough money, but money doesn't make you happy. Tons of times I've known people who are who are deeply unhappy. I've known people who were

incredibly wealthy, who are like Trump level wealthy. I've known, you know, children of Trump's generation who are incredibly wealthy, and they were on all kinds of you know, serious medication, or they were self medicating with drugs. You'd say, how is that? Well, you know your life is so easy, why aren't you happy? Because it's not enough. People need purpose. And one of the things I talk to you about is and it's a lot of things that I say on this radio show are also ways to solidify my

own thinking. And it's my own way of reminding myself. How do you derive happiness, enjoy from your day to day? How are you making yourself better? How are you treating the people around you? How are you contributing in a way that is positive? Right? And I don't get into the spiritual side of it as well, but I think when you're doing those things, you're also obviously serving, serving God and being a good Christian, and you know, these

things all tied together. But a couple of things come up in this piece that really were noted in me. One is he cites this study about again, this isn't this New York Times piece about a bunch of janitors, janitors who were working in a hospital, and some of them were incredibly happy with their jobs and their janitors.

Now janitors, and I always and I say this, and I mean this, you know I any work that you do that is contributing and that is honorable and you were receive a paycheck for is something that deserves respect. And janitors are certainly in that capacity. In fact, janitors in New York City, not to get into this, they make over one hundred grands, So start with that. I know in New York City public school janitors make with overtime over one hundred thousand dollars. Let that one sit

there for a second. It's a lot more money than I made in my first many years of work. But so janitors, though, in this one hospital, they love their job. Why because they didn't see their job, according to this study, as just tidying up in this hospital unit for people that were dealing with really serious brain injuries. A lot

of the patients were actually in comas. The janitors, Yes, they changed the bed pans, they picked up trash, but some of the janitors would move pictures around on the wall and would try to leave things in the room looking particularly nice and make little changes because they believed quote a subtle stimulation in the unconscious patients environment might speed their recovery. One of the janitors also said, quote,

I enjoy entertaining the patients. That's not really part of my job description, but I like putting on a show for them. She would dance around, tell jokes, tell jokes to families sitting doing bedside vigils. She would try to cheer them up. She would try to distract them from the pain and uncertainty that surrounded them. That's right, janitors who were showing up with their job and doing a nest, sorry job with just the usual janitorial stuff, but also

view themselves as healers, view themselves as helpers. And for any of you who have ever been by a sick relative, you know that human decency and human contact and warmth and kindness even from strangers can really mean a lot. So that's one part of this is that you know you can be a janitor, which is great. You can also be a janitor who views himself or herself as someone who is contributing beyond their role, and that's where

a lot of happiness comes from. I'll tell you this in my high school, there was a janitor named Jimmy. And anybody who's listening to went to my high school knows I'm talking about. There was a janitor named Jimmy. And every single morning when I was when I was a student at this high school, he would wait outside for he was cleaning the street and know tiding up in things, but he would and every kid who walked into that school he would high five on the way

and say, how you doing. He high fived everybody who went in. And I'm gonna tell you, I had some days in that school where I wasn't particularly happy to be there. I was always happy to see Jimmy, and you always felt like, it's all right, I got Jimmy here, and he would give you a high five. Jimmy was a janitor. Jimmy was a lot more than a janitor, though not that just being a janitor is not enough, but he chose to make it more. We all can

make that choice to be more. One other interesting lesson in this piece that I think really matters, really really struck a note with me because I've had a non traditional career and I've had as many rejections and letdowns and shutdowns as as anybody could in media. Oh maybe one day I'll tell you about all the people in media who should have hired me, who should have hired me,

who didn't, who passed me over, who promised me. And I've only been doing this for about nine years at eight and nine years now, and even before that, all the jobs I applied for that I didn't get, or

you know, tons of that. What this one author says, though, is that when he found people who were really happy in their jobs, really happy and they felt like they had a good job, not just because the pay a good job, because they felt it was meaningful, they tended to be the people who had to struggle to figure out who they were and how they were going to

get there. That the people that went through these elite institutions and had these gold plated resumes and went to the most esteemed institutions, they didn't really they didn't really care that much about their jobs. They get paid a lot, but it doesn't really feel like much to them. But the people who end up getting rejected and they fail and they have to find that avenue, that that pathway

for themselves. They have to be creative, they have to be entrepreneurial, they have to take risks, they have to try things that people that are handed or that earned I'm not trying to say they were handed, but that earned their gold plated opportunities through the systems in place, would never take too risky. Look, I got into and this is I got into some of the best business

schools in the world. So the NBA program thing here really really struck a chord with me, and I said, you know what, I'm going to roll the dice on this media thing. If I had spent years at a hedge fund before that, would I have done that? Probably not. Now I do a job that I can honestly say, doing this radio show, I love my job. And I don't love all the things I do in media. This

radio show, I love my job. It matters to me, This audience matters to me, and that is something that is really special and I recognize it a special and

it was really hard to get here. But this notion that the struggle, the struggle to find that meaningful position for yourself and by though it's not just professional, I think this is true of people's lives, to the struggle to find out who you are and what makes you happy is a necessary part of the process for most people, and I think I think at the end of the day, to embrace that idea of fighting to get where you need to be. That there's going to be setbacks, that

they're going to be problems. It's not all going to be clear guys and wonderful sailing. Just know that if you stick to who you are and your values, and you're resilient and you fight, you'll get to a place where you're happy. Which doesn't mean we don't all get to be president. We all don't all get to be professional athletes, but we can't all be the best version of ourselves if we keep trying. That's what I took away from this. We can be the janitor who's helping

to heal people with brain damage. We'll be right back. Ain't no party like a Team Buck party, because a Team Buck party don't stop. Yeah, we got Buck turned up to eleven. It's time for a roll call. Doesn't that guy kind of sound like optis Prime? It's time for roll call? You know what I mean? Anybody John? Do you ever watch The Transformers? Yeah? Did years ago? Michael Bays stuff? No, all right, I mean if we really, if we really have to get into it, Transformers or ThunderCats.

I really like ThunderCats too. I think that would have to be my choice, ThunderCats. I think I go ThunderCats over Transformers. But I know we've just probably set the airwaves on fire. People like no Transformers, optimist Prime, and some of you are like Buck, what are you talking about?

Facebook dot com slashbuck Sexton. Because it is a Friday, and because I am excited to get to the weekend, We're gonna do a double roll call where we get to because you have so many messages in the inbox here that we have not gotten to from the week so we'll try to get to a bunch of them. So easy, just go to Facebook dot com slashbuck Sexton and send a message. Let me know what you think of the show. Things we've been working on. Come out to the coast, A few laughs, all that good stuff,

All right, Seth writes Buck. Did you know the Wendy Walls that advertises a podcast in between your segments is the same Wendy Walls who accused O'Reilly of sexual harassment in twenty seventeen. What is she doing on your show? Even so, I'm enjoying your show as much as ever. From seth M. Yeah, I don't know what ads are

running on some of them. I mean, there are sponsors, my friend, and then there are radio ads that run on stage, and so I don't I'm on one hundred and twenty five six something like that, one hundred and twenty some odd stations across the country. I do not know. So if you're if you're calling me, or if you're gonna send me a message because Bob's Waterbed in East Tallahassee is not getting it done for you, they're probably I don't. I don't know. They're not a sponsor of mine.

I can't speak to Bob's Waterbed of East Tallahassee, So I don't you know what I mean? Like this is local stations can do different things. The sponsors that I know, I know the CEOs, I know the companies I use, the products. That's a different that's a different situation. So I can't speak to this. I don't know who Wendy Walsh is. I don't know any about what you're talking about, and I really don't. I'm not trying to be coy,

but yeah, ads they're a good thing capitalism. I love I love all sponsors for shows like this that are good shows. Brad right, dear Buck. With all the talk from democratic hopeles about how great socialism is and how great it will be to stand in breadlines like the past days of the USSR, I haven't heard one word on how they or any other politician plans to tackle our raising or our rising rather national debt crisis. At what point are they going to realize these spend spend

spend mentality is killing our economy and our nation. I hate to sound like an alarmist, but the hens are going to come back to rouse someday. But there's a fox in the henhouse waiting for them. Would you like your I would like your thoughts on this and what we can do to help this great nation of ours before it's till it. Have a great week in Shields High. Brad. You're correct, I mean, you're right. The spending is out

of control. And when people would argue, oh, it's not out of control, book, well, it's about a trillion dollars this year, close to a trillion dollars this year, or I should say for the last fiscal year. We're twenty two trillion dollars in debt, and this much is for sure. When a financial crisis of that magnitude, that is that structural and foundational, when it is clear to anybody who's paying attention that it's a really, really big problem, it has to be dealt with. It's too late now, the

problem we have in this country. And remember I came into media, I left the CIA and came into media at the time of the rise of the Tea Party. So I remember when conservatives were very much concerned with the debt and the deficit, and this was a major national issue. That issue has only gotten worse, my friends, and I do think that there's a disconnect here between the recognition of national debt as a structural and strategic

not just economic, but national security threat as well. My friends, if our economy starts to crap out, guess what you think that China becomes more or less emboldened, You think that other enemies around the world are more or less likely to move against us in all kinds of ways. So I think that's a very Look, your point is very well taken, and you're not an alarmist, You're correct.

I bring it up here on the show but you know, it's tough I discuss issues I compared to other radio shows that I don't listen to often, but I've listened to enough to know I try to cover. I try to cover as much as I can in terms of subject matter. A lot of people just go either all in on how much they love Trump, are all in and how much they hate Trump, and that's a successful and radio it's mostly how much they love Trump, and that's a successful business model for them. And I am

a capitalist, so I can appreciate that. But I know that I feel like when I talk about the debt, people just it's not in the zeitgeist right now. It's twenty two trillion dollars. You know, maybe it is worth it. Maybe this is the show. And I have as you know, I've worked with Stansbury, research with Porter Stansbury. He's a

brilliant financial mind. His whole team incredibly brilliant guys. They know, I mean, they'll tell you they publish on this that we are heading for an economic and financial calamity, so you know, and so I can leverage their research and their knowledge and I'm just telling you it's coming. But I feel like, you know, people there's so much that

I want to talk to this audience about. And I don't want to go too deep on a subject or hit a subject too often that people just, you know, for whatever reason, they don't really want to hear about it. But maybe maybe that should change here, maybe we get it going. And I am here in DC, in the swamp. I have a lot of swamp contacts. I have friends in the White House. I mean, you know it. I can get word up the chain. But the politics of this are it is popular to spend money on the

stuff that you want to spend money on. You know, That's that's the reality. It is popular to spend money on stuff you and and it's unpopular to say, let's raise the retirement age, let's have means testing for Social Security, Let's you know, change Medicare so there's more cost saving. You know, all this, all this stuff, no one wants to hear that. Nobody wants to hear that, even my own, even my generation, the generation below me, who are the

ones that are going to be saddled with those debts? Anyway, as you can tell, I've been brad. You touch the nerve here because I've been rambling on about your question about the debt for some time, but I have not forgotten the Tea Party movement and what it stood for and the truth of the message. And they were right. They were right. They won't necessarily they weren't necessarily right within eight years, but on a longer horizon they are correct.

It is a mathematical certainty. And if the US all of a sudden runs into a debt crisis where people no longer believe that we can pay our obligations, we lose our reserve currency status. We are in a world I've heard. Okay, I must move on. I cannot keep drilling down into this, David writes the Buckman, which is indeed my legal name, buck the You don't have to do but Buckman shields ye podcast listener, love the show.

I really appreciate your your segment last then, and how fundamentalist Islam is by far a more immediate threat to this nation than white nationalists. Are there any civilian accessible resources for those kind of statistics and numbers anywhere or that you specifically recommend? Well, Dave, the FBI stats are a good place to start. I will just tell you,

though you have to read into the stats. For example, you look at hate crimes and you see, and this isn't about radical Islam or white nationalist terrorism, but you look at the hate crime statistics and you'll see, wow, eight thousand hate crimes. That's more than you probably would have guessed, right there, eight thousand hate crimes the year.

But then when it does the breakdown, something like twenty to twenty five percent of them are essentially comments, and then another fifteen or twenty percent I mean, I'm forgetting the specific numbers, but vandalism, so it's comments, vandalism and simple assault, and assault does not necessarily include a physical assault, right. Oh, And that's a huge portion of them, so the number when you really get down to it, is a lot less.

And then and if you're talking about hate crimes that end in a murder, now you're fortunately, thankfully for this country. But then the numbers actually quite small. But when people think hate crimes, they don't think somebody scrawled a swastika on, you know, a cemetery in some small town somewhere. That's usually not what they're thinking, and that is counted as

a hate crime. They're thinking, you know, someone is brutally attacked because they're gay or somebody is is attacked by racists who don't like somebody, you know, who are hateful towards somebody because they're black. I mean, that's what hate crime makes you think of, right, and those are obviously heinous. Hate crime is not usually what you think of when you're talking about somebody who takes a roll of toilet paper and makes a swastika in a dorm on the floor,

probably late at night to be an idiot. That was a real thing, by the way, that that was investigated as a hate I remember there was a hate crime at Georgetown University many years ago where a guy who was and I might get some of the details wrong here because this was I don't know, over maybe maybe almost twenty years ago now, a guy grabbed a manure and just like ran across campus with a manure in his hand, and he was really drunk, and they thought that and I think he'd opt it when they were

chasing him, and so it was a hate crime. I mean, you know, there's a big variation of hate crimes, so you have to look into the statistics and you'll see what I mean. Same with terrorism. Terrorism, And this is why I got on this rent terrorism for example, can cover eco terrorists who let a few ferrets out of their cages at a testing facility. Well, okay, that's not good. I mean, you know, obviously you shouldn't. That's property, and what's going to happen to the wall. I guess the

ferrets are better off not being tested on. But you get what I'm saying. But when you think of ideological terrorism, you're thinking of murder, bombing, attempts, you know, assassinations. You're not thinking of lighting an suv on fire somewhere, or engaging in some form of hateful, you know, hateful conduct.

That's usually what we think of his terrorism. All right, I'm going to let our wonderful sponsors get a word in here for just a moment, and when we come back, we'll finish up Roll Call and I'll send you off on a fantastic weekend. All right, back with part two, Partdieu of Roll Call. Whatever I think of Partdieu, I think of hot Shots, Part Dieu. Man Charlie Sheen, I remember when Charlie Sheen was really like in his heyday. Wall Street is one of the movies I've seen as

many as any other movie in existence. And now Charlie Sheen. What a what a fall from I don't know if it was from Grace, but just what a fall that guy's had. All Right, Max writes, Hi, Buck, could you explain to me something I'm confused about with the investigations into Trump? I assume the government can't legally investigate someone for purely political reasons. What is required to open a criminal versus counterintelligence versus congressional investigation? What is needed in

these cases to issue a subpoena. Since you've worked in law enforcement, the CIA and as a journalist covering politics, I figured you are unusually qualified to explain this well, Max, thank you, and I think that is correct. I am more qualified then certainly about ninety five percent of the pundits and journals out there on this matter. And what I can tell you is that we are now seeing that the bar for our counterintelligence investigation is actually very low.

That it's really up to the discretion of the people in positions of authority at places like the FBI, And if they want to push for a counterintelligence investigation, they can do it, you know, they can get account There were reports in ABC News from months ago, and it's resurfaced recently that the FBI opened up a counterintelligence probe into Jeff Sessions. Now that hasn't been confirmed, but that was the ABC News report Jeff Sessions, folks for being

a Russian, a Russian agent. If you think that Jeff Sessions is a Russian agent, you are not smart. I don't care what title you have, I don't care how many years on the job you have at the FBI. If you think, and let me also say this, people say, oh, Buck, you haven't seen the evidence. Oh if there was evidence that would make the investigation of Jeff Sessions as a Russian asset not seem crazy, trust me, you would know

about it. Trust me, that would have been leaked. So Max, the answer your question is that there's a whole bunch of specific standards for a criminal, a criminal versus counterintelligence versus congressional investigation. You get into reasonable suspicion and probable cause, and there are terms of art that apply here. But for counterintelligence specifically, it's really up to the discretion of the people at the FBI, at the DOJ. It is

a discretionary issue. And remember, not only is there discretion involved, they also can hide the information. They can hide the investigation as classified from the public. So there's almost no accountability for counterintelligence investigations, almost none, which is why we've also seen Will bring up, oh the fiz accord, the fisichord authorize these investigations of Carter Page. That I always want to say, Okay, so what anybody who thinks that Carter Page is a Russian asset is also a moron,

an absolute moron. And you see them, they go on TV, they think they're so smart. They're not. Alan writes Buck, you were spot on regarding Jesse Smollett. Thank you, Alan, I'm glad it's nice to get a little credit for it. I doubt if any of the MSM or celebs who commented early on will apologize. My big question is where is Jesse getting the money to pay for all his lawyers and his crisis management teams. He doesn't have a lot of personal wealth, any ideas, Alan, I don't know.

I don't know what his personal wealth is. I do know that for some people there's probably just a professional incentive to be a part of the Jusse team in some way, and he was making from what I saw you, close to a million dollars a year on that show, and I'm sure he does some other things here and there, so I mean he's got some resources. This guy's not poor. It's got a lot more money than I do. So you know, I'm sure he can manage to pay some

lawyers for a bit. But we'll see. Brittany writes, can you recommend some books on American history? Nothing too dry? Please? Well, Brittany, I would also recommend that you, you know what, I will I will post your I will post your ask on the Facebook page, and so other people on the team can weigh in as well, because we have so many astute I mean, there are a lot of people listen to the show who are deeper on I'm just gonna bit a deeper on American history than I am.

I mean, they really get into it, especially certain periods. Civil War. I like the Revolutionary period a lot. That one I'm pretty good on, but my Civil War knowledge. Everybody thinks our World War two expert, and very few people actually are. But I'm pretty good on World War two and World War One. If you're looking for a book on American history, here's one. American Caesar by William Manchester.

It's about Douglas MacArthur. It's a phenomenal book. Phenomenal book and really will tell you some naching stuff about the Second World War. So my pick for this week would be American Caesar by William Manchester, Professor Emeritus at Wesleyan University. I think he died. Also is a great two biography or two volume biography of Churchill that I'd recommend you, but try American Caesar. Let me know what you think. That's it for today's show. Team, have a fantastic weekend. Shield's high