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of talk radio. Buck Sexton, Welcome to the Buck Sexton Show. Everybody, great to have you with me, an honor, a privilege, and a pleasure. Thank you so much for or coming to hang out, coming to join in this meeting of patriots, like minded individuals. We are gonna dive into the news of the day and cover stuff that I doubt you'll hear anyone else get into. And we'll certainly talk about things in a way you won't hear anyone else talk about,

or in a way you won't hear from them. So there we go, eight four four five eight four buck quick roadmap to the show. We will get into the latest on five's abuse because we have to um, can't, can't skip over that one. The media just a White House under siege right now because of the Rob Porter stuff, which I'm gonna I'm trying to not play the media game here because they're running stories on this that really

have nothing to do even with Rob Porter. They just want to keep the name and the story going as much as they can. But we will discuss what's going on to some at some level, at least in the in the White House right now and surrounded with this a frenzy. Also, the dock negotiations are underway right now, so deferred action for childhood arrivals. Will there be an immigration deal? I think the answer is no, but we still should talk about it because why why do I

think the answer is no? They're in therein lies the the payoff. Therein lies the important stuff on a policy level. Also, I think I mentioned infrastructure, but then some national security somehow, some stuff that's getting just left on the cutting room floor by most of the networks. And this will get to later probably back half of the show, not exactly sure where, but how many you knew that there was a U S air strike to kill the whole bunch of Russians recently, so US planes blew up a bunch

of Russian nationals in Syria US fighters. Do we want to get into this? I think we do. Rather important what's going on right now in Syria because we have US forces in harm's way and we have a cauldron of multiple conflicts playing out in what I like to refer to I believes it's an accurate term for the Second Syrian Civil War. Pardon the alliteration, but that is what's going on there. We will discuss that. To be sure, A lot going on in Syria and on the Anti

Isis well beyond the anti Iis fight. Really, that's that's the main thrust of it. We will get into that though. But yeah, we have not only a US US fighter planes taking out some Russians on the ground. Now there are Russian contractors. I'll I'll talk to you about the details of it, right. I don't want to lead you astray, make you think that this is it was an intent. It wasn't intentional. We weren't trying to hit Russian but it just goes to show you what's at stake here.

Russia still got a whole lot of nukes. This is not something that we want to play around with, and they know it and we know it. We're like, oh gosh, there were Russians there. We'll get into this. And also an Iranian drone shot down in Israeli airspace. That's a big drone, not like not a drone that you're gonna see flying around the beach kid throws up in the air, big drone, military drone. We'll talk about that as well. That'll be coming up later on in the show. Oh

and also maybe some North Korea fallout. The short version is everyone who knows anything agrees with me that the media's coverage over the weekend of what was going on at the Winter Olympics was appalling. Appalling the speed with which the mainstream media will find an excuse to favorably compare literally the worst government on the planet right now to our current government in this country. It is. It is jaw dropping, and it is disgraceful, and it's something

that we should not forget anytime soon. Oh and there's some other the intel chiefs we're speaking today about worldwide threats, you know, for hours and hours. There were some interesting things that came out of that though, and I will address that But first before we get into that, we have more on the You can call it really the fall out of the Susan Rice email that I discussed with you yesterday. I've had people asking me all day to day, Um, people in the in the business was

over at Fox. People over there were asking me in the green room, what do you think about this? It seems so clumsy. So this is what you have to remember when you're talking about Clinton's and Obama era officials. Don't give them the benefit of thinking, well, you know, they have no scruples, so just put that aside for a second. But don't give them the benefit of well, that's so clumsy. There's no way they would do that.

Remember when we're talking about the Clinton Obama era of governance in this country, the eight years of Barack Obama UH and Hillary Clinton and other top officials around them running the show. You had things like the Secretary of State violating classified protocols over a hundred times with the

Homebrew server, you know all about that. You had the sitting Attorney General meet with Bill Clinton, the wife of the highest profile political target of a criminal investigation in the country probably ever in some ways right or you know, for an election year at least. Um, that's rather important and rather clumsy stuff, isn't it? So is it really be? Oh? And Susan Rice, as I was pointing out to people

today at Fox, was also she was camera. She was US and vassador Unitations or National Security advisor at the time. But after I think Nation Security advisor. After Benghazi, she was the one who went on TV and said that it was a peaceful you know, it was a peaceful protest that turned into something else. She was the first one who went out there on the Sunday shows and lied about Benghazi. There was no way we weren't going

to figure that out. And thankfully we've had Tonto and other guys come forward to tell us really what happened there, although they're still under some restrictions about what they can talk about. But so so you can't take this, Oh, she wouldn't do something that's so obvious as right herself a note that says it was all done by the book. Oh yeah, Obama didn't want anything, nothing bad to happen to to Trump with the Russia collusion stuff. Just let

that go the way it's going. No interference at all. I just want to make sure, you know, Note the time, Note the email, no interference at all. You say, oh, Buck, that's not this isn't slick. It's too obvious to be effective. And I would respond to you if you said that, And I had to respond to some people today, I meet meeting with meeting with Bill Clinton on the tarmac. You're you're the attorney general. There's pressed there that is

that is that obvious? Remember who you were dealing with when we are talking about whether you want to call it the swamp, the Obama era deep state, all these different forces working against the Trump administration and the Trump campaign before that. They were drunk with their own power, and they were certain that they weren't gonna get caught. And when people are arrogant, like the former Obama officials were talking about here, were clearly comy. McCabe yeah, struck.

I mean this guy, the FBI guy struck, Yeah, he was. He was a senior FBI person. By the way, It's not just some guy who's kicking indoors checking to see if college kids are counterfeiting with the copy machine or something. I mean he actually I think that would technically be a secret service operation. But maybe that's FBI. Now, the point is he was a senior guy, and he was operating with terrible personal operational security because he didn't think it was gonna get caught. It wasn't gonna be a

big deal. So Susan Rice writing herself an email that's basically an attempt to give the media talking points. Should they should? They need a trail of crumbs left for them to find this? Right? I mean, should they? Should this ever actually come out? It's obvious, but so much of what they did is obvious. It's sloppy. But so much of what Hillary Hollow and all the rest of them did was sloppy. I don't think that we're dealing with criminal masterminds here. We are not. We are absolutely not.

They've had the media covering for them all along, and look, Hillary gets away with a lot even when she's caught. You also have to factor that into the thinking of these officials. And I've been telling you that all along, even with the Figes abuse that is coming out that's being on earth as we go forward, if the worst case scenario was exposed here, beyond any doubt, right that there was, and I think we're there, but it's not provable yet, but certainly seems to be the preponderance of

the evidence that there was this political targeting. Carter Page was an excuse to look at all the different Trump people and if we get them dead to rights on that. I don't think that the Democrat Party and the left is going to turn on anybody who's implicated in that and say, oh gosh, what have you done. Know, they're gonna say, well, you know what they saw the danger of Trump is M, who you know, is worse than Kim Jong un. They saw the danger of Trump is

M and they did whatever was necessary. They're heroes of our democracy. But it's a republic. But you know what I mean, that's what will happen. So know how the other side thinks and operates very important. You know, I don't want to say know the enemies and not enemy, they're fellow Americans. But they've made some very very poor decisions and they've done some very bad things. You have to know the other side. And that's why I'm not willing to dismiss out of hand that Susan Rice would

write to see look it, it's just it's suspicious. There's nothing illegal about her writing this email to herself. There's no thing that I can say about it other than well, that looks weird. And now, given everything else we know, you've got to say to yourself. H m hmm. Yeah, by the book everything, just by the book, last day, last day before. She no longer is in a position to create a record, right to create a paper trail. It just seems a bit strange to me. And this

is the same person who went on TV. This is the same senior Obama administration of Fisher who went on TV and just blatantly ball face lied to the American people about Benghazi and was promoted for it from the role of US Ambassador to the United Nations to National Security advisor promoted by the Obama administration. Remember that, folks, her loyalty to Obama over country was rewarded. So you don't someone's really gonna tell me this beyond her, Nah,

I don't think so. I don't think so. We also have some more on the Carter Page situation here, very very important stuff. Our friend Andy McCarthy has been out there writing about this and doing some great work on it. It's just so interesting. The more we know about fis a targeting and what's going on here, the worse it looks.

I keep waiting for them to provide us with some information, you know, Democrats and Adam Schiff and all this, to give us the data that counters the overall argument and makes all this not look just so fetted, so repulsive. I haven't seen it yet. In fact, the more information we get, the more clear it is to me that very very disturbing stuff went on here. Illegal, I think, so unethical. I know. So we will get into that

and more after the break. Stay with me. Yeah, what our assessment is as of the present is, in fact, what it began spontaneously in Benghazi as a reaction to what it transpired some hours earlier in Cairo, where, of course, as you know, uh, there was a violent protest outside of our embassy, sparked by this hateful video. But you do not agree with him that this was something that had been plotted out. We did not have information at present that leads us to conclude that this was premeditated

or pre planned. Lying lying to the American people there. Former U S Ambassador to the U N Susan Rice on the Sunday Shows right after Benghazi, I mean days days after Benghazi just lying, lying about it. Oh yeah, it's about the video wasn't pre planned, as we know, because we eventually got access on the Hillary emails. Hillary

told Chelsea or Chelsea told Hillary, I forget who. Yeah, it was terrorist attack and that was the day of But she went on TV and said that, as you know, just I'm I'm trying to make sure that we're evaluating these different figures, different people in the administration before this one, who are are now implicated in so much of the foul play, the political targeting, the abuse of FISA to get after Trump, which I'm going to get into in a moment here in some detail. But don't give them

too much credit. Don't think that this is all they're all criminal masterminds and that they know exactly what they're doing and they never make a mistake, right. No, they actually trust that the system is so corrupt and so favorable to them, swamp dwellers, if you will believe that the swamp has their back, and they are generally correct. They have been maybe up until now. We will see, but that's the operating assumption that they use is oh, well, I'm even I can do this thing, and even if

I get caught, they'll they'll bail me out. The press will come to my press will come to my aid, and the system and as we see it, we used to believe that it was the media, and you know, the media was always backing up the Democrats all the time and tilting the scales towards the progressive left in this country. Now we know that there are some very powerful elements within the fourth branch of government, so to speak, not really a branch, but the bureaucracy, the federal bureaucracy,

that has taken much the same role. Um. So there you have it, taking much the same role as what the media has done. They're just doing it from the role of the Department of Justice. They are are doing it from the intelligence agencies. But they are trying to tilt the scales towards the left as well. It's very troubling to see that happening. So now a bit on the So that's on the Susan right, Emil. Look, maybe it's nothing, Maybe she just wrote a weird email to herself.

But I just refused to dismiss it out of hand because people tell me I should. I don't. I don't like that Carter page interesting piece up by Alex Pappas on Fox News fox News dot Com talking about the real implications of what it means that carter Page was under FISA warrant and also, you know, I know Andy McCarthy, and I just realized, now we should have called I didn't. We'll get Andy on tomorrow. Maybe you're later this week, producer, Mike.

Let's let's reach out put out the Andy signal, uh, which we should work on what that sounds like or looks like. But here's the very important thing. One of the arguments you heard originally about the one of the arguments that you heard um when we're talking about carter Page and fives warrants and all that stuff, is that carter Page was already on the FBI's radar and stopped, you know, stopped working for the Trump campaign at some point, so you know, well, what was really taken into his

what were his communications really like? How much of this stuff was, how much of the targeting would allow or people to get caught up in this? And what this piece is saying is, and what Andy's been saying as well, is that well, if you if you're if you're under electronic surveillance, as it turns out they have access to you know, it's kind of like if they got if someone got access to your phone, your cell phone, and

they could hear every call you're making. Well, they also can see the calls that you've already made, and who you've talked to, and you know, whatever else they're looking

into it. So now think about this. It's not just the dates in question, but there's also the very real possibility of being able to essentially go through Carter Page's digital footprints, so to speak, and look at whatever communications he had and whoever he was talking to, and and pretty sure that you're gonna see some members of the Trump campaign popping up and all that. Right, there's been

reporting on this already. We don't know because they're still keeping this stuff under wraff, but it certainly seems likely. It certainly seems like there is ah a very high possibility of that. And it brings me back to another factory. You have to keep in mind as we go along. I remember, this is a this is a marathon, not a sprint. This whole Russia collusion thing, it's going to keep on. You know this, because we've been talking about

this already. We're already at the point now where a lot of us would like to, you know, sit down, have some of those gel packs that runners, you know, when the gel with the things that the hydration thing. I've never had one, but I feel like you have to earn those, you know what I mean. You've got to run more than like the half mile I put down on the treadmill to have a little gel pack thing.

But we've we've done enough now where we feel like, all right, we've we've been there, We've earned a gel packer two. And yet I want you to keep in mind that what's real, What was really at stake here was the possibility. The reason they would do all this was that they could have found campaign ending information on Trump. So they thought it was worth the risk and they wouldn't be caught. So that that's motive, motive, motive. You

have to remember motive in these discussions. Oh yeah, and that also is why I can tell you Trump Russia collusion, come on, nonsense, the worst plot ever, It doesn't even make sense. We'll get into some more Russia stuff coming up in a minute. Well, I lived through the water get because I was a candidate for the first time

as the nixt administration disintegrated. Um, things start to unravel and then one thing pulls another thing, and then one morning year in a space you never dreamed of, because they'll just keep on raveling. And I think Susan Rice's memo is one more example of this thing gradually unraveling. She's obviously trying to rewrite history. She's trying to make it look as if something happened that didn't happen. She writes the memo after Barack Obama is out of office,

after she no longer had a job. My suspicion, and I think Senator Graham shares this as well, is that they learned something between January five and January which caused them to want to change the narrative about this meeting. None of us knew about about the meeting. I'm with the Judge Newt. I'm with the Judge Newton Buck. It sounds like it sounds like a pretty awesome bluegrass band. Actually, the Judge Newton book I like it. Uh yeah, I'd

be like that, like the A team of political analysis. Um, those dudes both have good hair too, you know what I mean. So we we got a lot of good hair going on. We we could do something. I should, Hey, Judge Newt, we should talk anyway. They're they're correct, though that the whole email thing strikes all of us as as quite weird that they said that. I guess last done on Fox, I said up here on the show.

I mean, did I say at first? Probably? Of course, But nonetheless we all agree on this one, which is an important fact of all this. But today he had the various intel chiefs giving these and I'm not gonna spend too much time on it because I don't think you need me to give a big overview of of all the biggest global threats. I mean maybe that would be like a separate podcast I do some other time.

But you understand a lot of the threats that are out there, you know, we we talked about it here on the show, and you know, yeah, North Korea, you're on Islamic stage, hottists, Russia, cyber crime there you go. Right, That's that's pretty much the the rundown on a lot of what today's It wasn't even a grilling. It was mostly just being asked questions the intel chiefs of the different agencies, asking being answered answers some questions, but there

were some interesting things. There were some moments. First of all, there's the there's a story that I did not I don't think I spoke about here on the show. I read it in the New York Times, and I was aware of it, but I just didn't have the time to to get to it here. And it had to do with this maybe I mentioned it. I can't remember how to do with a an operation where the CIA reportedly, according to New York Times, tried to buy UH info hacking tools. And also with that, this shady guy offered

damaging information and on Trump. So that that actually, I think got a lot more attention than the the hacking tools component of the story. But it's a story that was printed out there, and I was looking at this and it's just it smelled funky. There's something about it that smell a little funky to me. I just like I read the stories and hundred grand and the guy just gets to walk away, and that's just the way this was, and it seems strange to me. Well, here's

the CIA director today addressing the specific story. Reporting on this matter has been atrocious, it's been ridiculous, totally inaccurate. UH and in our view, The suggestion to see I was cindral swindled is false. The people who were swindled were James rice And and Matt Rosenberg, the authors of those two pieces. Indeed, it's our uh, it's our view that the same two people who were proffering phony information to the United States government proffered that same phony information

to these two reporters. So I just want to be clear here. Here you got the c I A director saying basically that the New York Times story was fake news. I mean, he didn't use the words fake news. What are you saying? Fake news? So there was that kind of a fun little moment there, And there's a more so that's that New York Times story. We can kind of just move past it, right I And people say, oh, buck, don't you believe? Well, I didn't. The story didn't bring

true to me originally. So and it's it strikes me as unusual that the that the agency director would speak to a story in that way and so definitively. So, yeah, I I don't I'm not buying that. I'm not buying that New York Times piece. I'm not smell test is funky. You know, it's past the expiration date for sure. Yeah,

there's that. Okay. Now, one other thing that came up in the hearing that I thought was was kind of interesting and C and M was running with it for obvious reasons, the notion that that well, Russia is still trying to meddle in our elections, that Russia is going to find a way to get involved in our in

our upcoming midterm elections. Now, I'm sure that's probably true, but as I have explained to you, and I was doing this way well in advance of when Russia today the cable news channel that the Kremlin pays for in English language with you know, appealing telegenic English speaking American anchors here in this country and has been doing it for over a decade now, as the register is a foreign agent. But I've been saying to you on the

show for over a year. I think they registered this past fall that that's just straight up propaganda network that's been operating for a long time. A lot of people see it, and Adam Schiff went on it, other senior government officials went on it. Now, so yeah, Russia is trying to influence us in a lot of ways, and Russian trolls and sock puppets, which is what people refer to fake accounts that are um, you know that that pretend to be one thing, they're actually another. At least

that's what they call them on Facebook. I think they call them that on Twitter. Two, they're gonna be making more of those, and and their goal, from the best analysis I've read of the Russian attempts to involve themselves in our elections. Everything else is just to create chaos and distrust in the system, which is really the Russian version of extending a solitary digit from the hand to the United States electoral process. That's what they're trying to do.

They are they are hoping to just make things difficult, and I think it's interesting that that gets kind of pushed aside and the narratives there's, oh, they're just trying to help Trump, right because of all the Russia collusion nonsense that we've heard. But we're hearing these stories about how they're gonna get involved in midterm elections. CNN and others were even taking it further today. It's actually on the screen right now breaking News. Intel chiefs say Trump

has not specifically directed them to confront Russian meddling. Now, for the CNN audience, they see they're like, oh, see, Trump is basically a puppet off the Kremlin. This is crazy. He's not specifically directing them to they get all worked off about this, right And no, no, note that not specifically, so maybe he said some stuff about it. But I want to take this a little further though. I wanna

work on this for just a moment here. What the heck are we supposed to do about the kind of meddling in the elections that the Russians are either actively engaged in now or will be engaged in the midterms. Are we gonna block off the internet? Are we gonna we already have sanctions on Russia, although I know there's recently been some sanctions that were not enforcing. But the point is, you know, we tried that didn't do anything,

So what's the what's the sola Russia? By the way, sanctions on Russia this would be like having sanctions on China. It doesn't. It does not have the intended effect. It's too large and too powerful and important a country for us to be able to just easily economically isolated and bend it to our will. I would note that much smaller, much less powerful and important countries have defied sanctions for a long time. The history of sanctions working not so good,

not a so good. So we're being told that they're not specifically that that Trump has not specifically directed them to confront Russian meddling. And I just pushed this to the next, the next phase of the discussion. How what does that even mean? What was he supposed? This reminds me of whatever Trump had had is his early meetings with Putin? Look did you see that he shook Putin's hand and didn't even spit in his face? What kind of American is he? I mean there, what do they

think he was gonna? Do? You know? Russia is not what it used to be is this isn't the Soviet era, But Russia's still a large, important country with a very serious military and a whole lot of nuclear weapons. Like they always say that Trump is irresponsible on national security and foreign policy. Oh Trump, he's doing this wrong, He's doing that wrong. And then there is no level of belligerents that, at least rhetorically speaking, they will back away

from when it comes to our dealings with Russia. They they have become brainwash to think that we we have to be on this trajectory of complete and total opposition and rage against Russia as a government all the time. Very dangerous, very bad thinking. As I mentioned before, we just had an incident in Syria where we blew up with our airplanes airstrike. I'll give you the specifics later. You don't have to stay with me through the show, but blew up at least four, I think may have

been a few dozen Russians. So we need to keep Russian relations open and const insructive. And things are getting a little tense anyway, what would it mean to confront Russian meddling in the election? We're going let me tell you how this could go, folks, and you already know this, but let's just walk through it together, shall we. So we have Rex Tillerson, who I think could play the krusty but very resilient sheriff in any Western pretty much

ever filmed. You got Rex Tillerson, and he's gonna what. He's gonna sit down and speak to Lavrov of the Russian Foreign Minister. He's gonna call him on a secure line or something to say, hey, knockoff that meddling, you know what, Lavrov, Or we'll say one of two things, whatever the Russian counterpart is. I'll say one of two things, We're not doing that, or you're absolutely right, Well, we'll crack down on it, and no matter what the responses, it will have no effect, because how are you going

to stop this? Folks? We've seen breathless news reports about how there are like fake Facebook accounts out there and fake Twitter accounts that are pushing hoax news stories, as if that's a dire national security threat to US. People believe dumb news all the time. We just had a CIA director tell us that The New York Times ran a major story that was completely false and the reporter's writing it got duped. So what is confronting Russian meddling

supposed to me? And the answer is nothing. It's just feeding into more of the hysteria over this. I assure you, neither you, none of you listening to any of the country, nor me, have our political inclinations, are votes, or any of that influenced by Russia in the least. It's really hard to get me to change my mind. I'm sure a lot of you are very stubborn to by the way, just taking a guess. But there's nothing that Russia's gonna do. It's gonna make me go one way or the other.

And that's the kind of meddling we're talking about. Sure, if they hack into our voting system, which they can't really do because there's a they're separate, there's an air gap with voting systems, but of if they tried some of this stuff, all right, you know, we'll get mad at them, We'll tell them don't do that. Maybe we'll impose more sanctions. But preemptively we're talking about what are

we gonna do. We're gonna tell them. You know, you can't have people making fake Twitter accounts that are saying mean stuff about Hillary still. I mean, this is just like I said, these people have lost their minds. They have no idea what they're talking about. Major news organization has no idea what they're talking about at all. They just know Russia is scary. Trump Russia. I mean, that's it childish, but it's dangerous. Rolling into a quick break,

we got a lot more. I think we'll talk immigration and infrastructure in the next hour, probably just immigration. I don't know. It's a little early for me on on infrastructure. Um, maybe budgets, Yeah, that's the ticket. Budgets probably get into that too. We'll be back. Yes, we we have seen Russian activity and intention to have an impact on the next election cycle. Here, I agree with Director Pompeio's assessment about the likelihood of the two thousand and eighteen occurrence

as well. This is not going to change or stop. Yes, it is not going to change, nor is it gonna stop. We have never seen any evidence of any significant change from last year. I agree with Director Pompeo as do I. So, yeah, you got a whole bunch of Intel chiefs today sitting in front of Congress. You'ret's saying exactly that it's gonna continue, it's not gonna stop. And I don't know how to take away from that is but but Trump, But Trump,

he didn't do enough. What does Trump do? I mean? But, like I was saying, they just they just want to whine about him. I guess it's it's all just the journalist. It's really all just one version of when remember that woman then the resist woman just like screamed in the air and it went just viral because it was such a horrifying shriek. There was a woman who like she like looked in the sky and yell at like one of the women at one of the women's marches or something,

you know, hashtag resist right. Journalists all secretly just want to do that all the time, and it really informs a lot of their coverage, or I should say it influences a lot of their coverage. We also had Kamela Harris who was asking the following, if the President asked you tomorrow to hand over to him additional sensitive FBI information on the investigations into his campaign, would you give it to him. I'm not going to discuss the investigation.

Do you believe the president should recuse himself from reviewing and declassifying sensitive FBI material related to this investigation? I think recusal questions are something I would encourage the president to talk to the White House counsel. But guess what not the FBI director's call. It's it's funny that you know or Harris. Yeah, look, she's she's grandstanding and doing what with both parties tend to do in these hearings, which is just make their point and pretend they're asking

a question. But yeah, yeah, do you think the President, who is the ultimate declassification authority. He's the commander in chief and the head of the executive branch of the government. Do you think he should just not be allowed to determine whether the American people see anything about Russia. You know, let's just tie his hands behind his back, the attorney General's attorney general's hands behind his back, and we've got

a special counsel. You know, we can let loose. Let loose the mad dogs of investigations, so to speak, right, just let them run around do whatever they want. But yeah, I should Trump accuse himself from it. Oh, It's just that's not gonna happen. I also saw that there was a breaking Fox News story a few moments ago that Trump's outside legal counsel is making the case that Trump should not speak to Mueller. And I hope all of Trump's counsel is making that case, because that is the

correct answer. There is no other answer. And I am glad that if nothing else. If I can provide you with with some lasting advice from listening to this show, one is where comfortable shoes whenever you can, too, is don't ever talk to the FBI when it's time for you to talk to the FBI. You'll know, right, if you've got your lawyer, president or whatever, and hopefully not you will ever have to deal with this or if you know, if you've been the victim of a crime

or something. Right, but you'll know. But as a general rule, never talked to the FBI. There's nothing against FBI agents. They just they have a tremendous tool at their disposal, which is the moment you say something that is material and false, they have you. You are You are now a criminal awaiting trial. Um which I actually think that

that law should be revisited. I think that testimony under oath versus testimony given the on the spur of the moment, for example, especially when it's sprung on somebody who doesn't even know they're a suspect. You know, I'm not saying it shouldn't be admissible. I'm just saying that that that you're gonna go to prison for five years just based on that. It seems a little harsh, a little harsh. But Trump should not speak to them. That would be a a mistake. I'm also going to just go out

there and say it. You know, I'm a little disappointed we don't have the memo. Yet I thought we'd have the Democrat memo, and I think it's going to be pretty lame. I don't think it's going to open up much in the way of new information. I don't think it's going to kick open this investigation and and tell us a lot. I do believe the Democrats have been playing games with the classified information they've put into it, as I knew they would, as I said they would, right.

But in the meantime, I kind of want to see what the Democrats have up their sleep on this one. We can get a really good sense as to whether or not. And I actually kind of wish that Trump had just said, you know what, fun if this is what Democrats want to put out there, he's actually just being responsible about this. So it must have been really bad information I would know, I mean, really sensitive classified information the Democrats put in their memo. Um. But then

I wonder why there. I guess the Republicans only voted to only voter to send it to the White House, knowing that Trump would have to say no, no no, no, we can't do that. The whole thing strikes me as a little odd. But I was hoping we had the Democrat memo this week. I don't know, it's looking like it's gonna get Yeah, it's gonna get held past it. I like, I like pulling apart the memos. I got all kinds of stuff going. Um. I think next hour we're gonna talk well, North Korea, some updates on that

and the press coverage of that. Also immigration, because you don't like talk about immigration. And then what's going on in Syria? Why or US planes dropping bombs on Russians. We'll get there. He's holding the line for America. Buck Sexton his back. Welcome to our two of the buck Sexton Show. Thank you so much for being here, thank you for staying, thank you for joining. Depending on what part of the we find you. Uh So, there's some

very important policy matters. I want to talk to you about, some things that we will all I think agree matter to our future. We even have some very troubling national security situations developing overseas, and there's just much to discuss. Much going on today. There was a White House press conference, however, and it sounded a whole lot like yesterday's White House Press conference on a day where we have the Senate hammering out well saying they're going to hammer out a

deal in immigration. I think there will be no deal because Democrats will not want a deal. They are unsious in their negotiations over immigration. They want amnesty. That's all they want, and that's what they're waiting for, and they expect to get it. That's it. There's nothing else for them. There's nothing else that maybe more immigration courts to process the amnesty. That's all. We'll talk about where that ends right now and what we can expect from that back

and forth. And then also more on infrastructure today. So looks like the Trump administration will be going forward on trying to improve roads and bridges and all the other things that we've been told about. Now they'll be trying to deregulate much of the permitting processes for things like bridges, and it's still early. I gotta see where all that's going.

But instead of even spending time on that at the White House press conference, there was only one subject that it seemed was getting any attention from the assembled journalist. There was only one subject that they wanted to ask about because it is clearly the most critical issue right now the government is handling that faces million Americans. And then of course, has ripples all around the world because

of American influence on the planet. Uh. The one issue was, well, was was this issue one full week into the domestic of You scandal involving now former White House Staff Secretary Rob Porter, what we went about Rob Porter telling the allegations you didn't deceive people learning drop Porter out to stay here without through security claries. The initial response from the White House was to prop up Porter and stand

by Porter. Now we're into a few days of this, and they were asking the Intel chiefs when they were assembled today in front of Congress, they were asking them about it. They want to know the timeline with Christopher Ray. They're going into background investigation discussions. And now you're getting a lot of a lot of very uh, very huffy, very agitated journalists out there who are saying it all somebody with an intern clearance should not be allowed to

handle sense of information. Now they're all security clearance experts. They're not. But this is just one way they keep the story and the headlines. They want to talk about the clearance process here. Here's I feel inclined to talk about it only insofar as I want to give you not the not that not that there's the other side of it. There's just additional information that I think is worth noting as we go through this. The guy has

already been fired. He's already been uh publicly shamed, as I think he should be, because you've got two ex wives and I think an ex girlfriend now right as well. Wasn't that also, So you've got three women who have come forward and provided evidence and on the record and give interviews. Uh, yeah, he had to go. But you'll notice they're beating up the White House for things like saying that they initially, you know, they initially defended him.

What's the let's just do a little thought experiment. What's the alternative that anytime anyone makes an allegation against any government official, especially anybody tied to this White House, they're just gone fired. They've somehow turned even a a a pause in the name of due process, just to pause, not even an actual due process, into complicity with domestic violence. That's what the media narrative right now is all about.

They have managed to make it. They're they're managing to create an effective propaganda here whereby if you don't automatically and immediately throw the person that is accused of the wolves, you are complicit in their and their wrongdoing and in their crimes. Uh. That's an unfair standard to hold any organization to, including the White House. So that's one part of the objection that they have, and I think that they're being clearly they're they're being unfair, they're being disingenuous

about that. And there's the other component of it, which is the security clones. Did this come up in his background? Now, those of you who have ever gotten a clearance, as I have gone through that process, and especially for a high level clearance a T s H, you you have to open up a lot of your life to people who are government investigators. And it's all I would note on effectively under penalty of perjury, all the information you're giving them. So it can be a bit on the

stressful side, and they can ask people all kinds of questions. UM. I can't get into what was fair game when I joined the agency because we don't talk about that. But I can just tell you that pretty much what the agency wants to make fair game is what in their background investigation process. I think they can dig deep and if they find people and this is true government wide now for security clearance processes. If they find people that dislike you and say nasty stuff about you, is that

enough to stop you from getting the job? Should you be banned from especially in the case of say Intel community or well military, you get a clearance to depending on your job. People that work in the White House, you're not allowed to serve now because someone said nasty stuff about you, know, they have to verify it, right,

they have to. And that's what they call the adjudication process, where they look at all the different assembled bits of data in your background and they come to they come to uh, some some kind of a conclusion about it, and they make a determination do you get a clearance

or not? And I would note that I've had friends who are denied clearances based on what they told me and I don't know right, I didn't get to see their file, but denied clearances for some stuff that you'd be like, WHOA, really you get denied a clearance for that. It's not always the most clear cut standard. The adjudication process is behind closed doors office for good reason, and it can be a little bit of a mess. You can imagine the government is compiling a dossier on each

individual who's gonna get a clearance. Think of it that way. It's a dossier, right, They're pulling together all the stuff about you, all of your financials and everything they can And there are a lot of government employees with clearances. So do I think it is possible? It is, It is feasible. It is likely that Rob Porter. You know that the the FBI or whomever, I don't know who was doing his background clearance specifically. There's different government bodies

and agencies that can involve. But the government investigators found evidence that he was a wife beater. Yeah, I think they probably did. And I think it is also clear they didn't act on it right away because they needed to compile the file for adjudication. And did that maybe not get communicated to the White House in a timmy enough fashion, or did someone in the White House not act on it? It is possible. I think it wasn't communicated quickly. I don't know if somebody didn't act on

it in a way that they should have. Um, But that's the that's the only question that I see as being particularly or as being the one the media is pushing that is valid. This whole notion of like, oh my gosh, he's such a national security threat. I mean, we didn't find out that Rob Porter was a wrest and spy. We found out that he is a disgrace who hits women shouldn't be working in the White House, shouldn't have gotten the job. But it's not like he,

you know, sold the nuclear secrets or something. And the way the press is trying to dig into the story and keep it alive more and keep talking about I'm talking about it because it's all Trump is a misogynist. The Me Too movement is is gaining strength all the time. Trump is the as I said, called over at MSNBC, the commander in chief of rape culture. You know what's remember an MSNBC an analyst over there called Obama a

a word. He called him a word on air for it's, you know, as a slang term for a part of male anatomy. And he was banned from the air. That analyst was banned from the air for weeks. I forget how long he was suspended for a period of time for that. But you can go on MSNBC and say that this president is the command are in chief of rape culture, and that's okay. In fact, you're celebrated for it. It's, uh, it's pretty pretty uh clear the double standards that we're

dealing with here. But so in the Porter case, the notion that this is all about national security, I'm just seeing a lot of a lot of oh my gosh, the national security threats here. He was seeing classified information.

Him seeing classified information has really nothing to do with him being an abuser, meaning that that that does not mean that he there's no classified information component of the story other than he's not an honorable person who should be who should be trusted with his role in the White House. But that's a different This is this is an ethical issue, not a national security issue, is what

I'm trying to clarify. But the way the media talks about it, it's, oh my gosh, we're talking about clearance. I've never heard so much talking about security clearances in my life. And this from people who are saying that Hillary's hundred you know, hundred plus classified emails was no big deal. That's a national security risk. That's actually classified information problem, right, it's a rob Porter jerk problem, you know. Bad. And again, I mean, look, people, I know, people can

call and tell me, and I get it. He hasn't been proven guilty of anything in a court of law. He's entitled to a legal presumption of innocence. But if we're making assessments here, guys, I mean both both of his ex wives and and her ex girlfriend saying he he hit them and they have proof, I think that I like the White House made the right move getting rid of him, and that it wasn't fast enough for the press. Is liking is not not enough for them? Of course? Um, all right, I can see if some

lines are letting up. Maybe we'll get into some of this if you have thoughts on it. I wasn't gonna spend too much time on it, but then again, we talked about immigration a lot, and we'll spend some time some time on Syria in the third hour on the situation there. So we've got we've got a lot more show coming. And maybe do you think this producer, Mike, what do we think about this story about Office of Management and Budget saying that maybe people instead of getting

food stamps should get a food box. So you get you see this, you get a yeah, I've got some I've got some thoughts on that this could get I should get a little spicier that I anticipated. Actually, I've got some thoughts on that whole situation that maybe I should share with you. Let's mix it up a little bit here. You know, everyone's gonna blah blah cally blah blah. Immigration, Let's talk about food and national food policy and food stamps.

I think that could actually be really really interesting usage of our time here on the show. All right, time to go to a break. We'll be right back alright, seam lines are lit. Let's get to some calls. We got Brian in Saint Clair'sville, Ohio. Brian, thank you for giving us a ring. Well, thank you very much, but great evening to you. Um hey, were a bunch of

subjects that you're talking about. What's Ron Porter? And I personally would support him to be completely innocent until proven guilty and that it has to go through the due process.

And I say that wholeheartedly for the fact that I went through an abuse of marriage, ended up being falsely arrested at one time, and had to prove my innocence h her father the police report the day I was out of town, out of state actually, so I was able to improve money innocence on that one and then I didn't marry for another thirteen years, married another guy

and moved to Canada. That didn't turn out good either, And then all of a sudden, both of them got together and the next thing I know, I'm facing the same charge as possible accusations up in Canada and almost got tossed in Canadian gale. And and I just asked, I mean, this is an ordeal. How did your ex wives find each other a team up to try to try to mess you up? That's that's like Jerry Springer stuff. Yeah, it is Jerry Springer stuff. Um, the court did not.

Let's put this way, she wouldn't have received custody of our child if she had told the truth so encouraged me. She had to dispouraged me in order to demean my character. In the end, three years later, I mean, my divorce lasted three years. In the end, the court looked at me and says, we're not giving her custody at all. You get a full custody. So then when I moved

to Canada, I took my son to Canada. And of course, you know, everybody gets to know who everybody is and everything, and that's how it all kind of worked, but so you were you were exonerated, you saying, Brian, despite being accused by two ex wives of abuse. That's correct, that was correct. The first one done in the States, I had a proven in court. Luckily in Canada, I had already had all this information, so I just presented it, you know, to the attorneys and they worked it out.

And you know, the courts just dropped that point up there. But you know, the people will talk, they will talk together, they will form things. One thing I've learned, I've had psychology working in the medical field, and one thing I know, seventy of the people, doesn't matter if you're male or female, will lie at any time for any reason. Umkin of all will lie only when you're pushing the corner and have to, you know, have a defense mechanism, and then

little good. Only about five or seven percent of people really try to live their lives without lying. So um, Brian, we're part of the five or seven percent here, my friend. Right, So there we go, Amen, my friend, Thank you for calling in, Thanks for sharing your stories. Brian Shields High Daniel in Missouri. Daniel, Welcome to the Buck Sexton Show. Hey, what's going on? Shields? Fields high question, and I'm gonna play I guess partial devil's devil's advocate and maybe far

right wing conspiracy theorists. Since we're finding out all this corruption in the higher echelogs of the FBI, what's to say that during Mr Porter's background check, both of his ex wives were interviewed, told the interviewer about the physical and mental abuse, and he decided to bury it and say, Okay, I'm not putting this in the report. You guys say quiet, and we're gonna tell you exactly when we want this to come out, just to ruin the man. M hm, Well,

why would the background investigators? Well, I look, I can tell you this, Daniel. I can't say that that didn't happen, so you know, but I was just throwing it out there because I think it may be. Yeah, I mean, I think it's Here's what I would say, Daniel. I would say that's that's a highly unlikely scenario based on what I know in the way that the average government employee goes about their job. However, I'm telling you that's highly unlikely after spending a lot of time here on

the radio telling you that it is likely. In my opinion, that the senior most figures of the FBI and the Department of Justice abused one of the most powerful surveillance tools of the United States government to throw a presidential election. So I mean, I gotta keep an open mind, you know, I can't be dismissing throwing it in there because Peter Struck was involved with his interview process as well. So maybe he was the one that wait, Peter Struck was

involved with with with Rob Porter. Yeah, well didn't you say that earlier that he was he was one of the ones that was involved in interviewing him. No, don't remember saying that. I didn't. I mean, if I did, I was a mistake. And I think I don't. I don't think that's true, although I don't know. Let me check on producer, Mike. Can you take a look and see if there's any any correlation or correlation fancy radio talk,

any connection between all that stuff. But Daniel, hey man, I look, I like the outside the box thinking and you know, interested until proven guilty is a legal term. It is also a concept that that we should try to maintain in in most of our day to day as much as we can. But it looks really bad yeah, okay, I appreciate it, Danna, thank you very much for calling in. I would also say that, you know, it looks really bad with this guy Porter, and I, yeah, I know.

There's the pressure of and see look here, I've spent more time on this radio show than I intended to on the subject. But you guys get fired off about it. We've got a lot of calls coming in on it. So you know, I can't even take We're not going to take the next the next few calls because we've gotta move subjects. But the for me, if you're accused of this and it's not it's not true. I just don't think that you you step down and you allow

that to be a mark on your record. Um. And but I understand there's also the pressure of you can't drag the White House down with your fight on this. It's not fair to everything else is going on with this guy. I don't know this kind of this guy Pore. The more I've looked at this Rob Porter guy doesn't doesn't look good for me. It doesn't look good for my opinion. UM. So there's that a little more on North Korea, I think I want to talk to you

about maybe we won't get at immigration today. Definitely talking Syria. Oh, and some Israel stuff coming up, including UH Israel shooting down in Iranian drone in Israeli airspace. That's kind of a big deal because you know, the Iranians want to get nuclear weapons so that they can expand their power across the Middle East and also eventually destroy Israel. And and so there's some issues there that we should continue

to keep an eye on. So we'll talk about that in the third hour, as well as Oh, Anglo American heritage of our eagle system. That is a thing that we know about, but some people think that that term is inherently racist. Oh, we'll talk about that in the third hour. You are not gonna want to miss it. He's back with you now because when it comes to

the fight for truth, the fuck never stops. So I want to talk to you about the Office of Management and Budget Director McK mulvainey saying that maybe instead of giving people food stamps, which is more properly termed the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program or SNAP, give them a food box similar to the very popular and quite excellent from what I understand UH Food Service known as blue Apron where they send you the food to make a meal.

H Before I get to that, though, I just would note that the there's breaking news coming from CNN, So I'm just telling you the source. Take it or leave it. That Adam Schiff of the House Intelligence Committee, the Democrat who is the face of the Democrat efforts in that committee. Yeah, ah, he has now come out to say that there will be no revisions, no revisions of the Democrat memo. Huh, well now you have. Now you have something of us standoff,

don't you. If they If this reporting is accurate and that is in fact what happens, that the Democrats refused to make any revisions to the memo, this then strikes me as showing us what the Democrat plan here was all along. The memo was created so that it could not be released, so that then they can continue to fight in the public sphere by a whisper campaign and propaganda and talking points without providing any actual substantive information to back it up. Just Oh, we had so much

more on carter page. We touts wanted to show you, but like you know, couldn't do it. We had so much on carter page that would have absolutely justified the spying on American citizen and therefore also the Trump campaign that went along with it. But you know, those mean Republicans wouldn't let us show it to you. This is what they are trying to pull off. I think we'll see it's not yet done with. But that's been my

sense of where this is going all along. Um, Now with that, let's talk about food shopping for a second. So if you're like me, you show up in the grocery store and you're like, all right, take me to the salad greens, take me to the let me think the chicken, no skin, no breading, certainly not fried, you know, just just lean protein veggies. Maybe if I'm feeling particularly saucy, allow myself a couple of apples. Uh, That's what I

go in there with the intention of. And somehow I find myself, you know, getting GUACAMOLEI and chips, and uh, you can never have enough cheddar cheese, maybe some brie, some fried chicken nuggets. Obviously, need to throw in some some honey mustard sauce. Maybe a little horse radish sauce too, in case I'm really gonna party, you know. And that's that's what and you know, a couple of chocolate bars because you need a sweet treat and maybe some ice cream,

and like that's what ends up in my cart. And Ms Molly makes fun of me a little bit for it sometimes because I go in there and I'm gonna eat like a guy who uh just can't wait to show off his six pack abs. But I leave like the guy who definitely does not have six pack apps. You know, I leave like a guy who enjoys enjoys his ribbis, his red meat and uh ice cream chez all the above. So I understand the struggle in the

grocery store is a real thing. You know. It's a struggle to get the right foods and also there's a struggle to pay for it. I live near a Whole Foods here in New York City, and Whole Foods is is a pricey place to shop for food. It's great, It's the closest grocery store to me. But I know it's sounding I'm sounding very very bougie right now, but

I swear I'm not. But there's a lot of you know, there's a lot of very good stuff there, and food is expensive, I get it, right, But the government has now waded into the issue of making food choices for people perhaps, which is you can imagine is going to get all kinds of political and uh. I think they're probably gonna back off this, but before they do, it's just visit with what Mick mulvaney, the director of the OMB, said about the SNAP program better known as food Stamps

Snap food stamps. A couple of changes there will hit the highlights. Um you may have heard about this already. The food box program one of the most innovative things. Actually, I think it originated at the U. S d a UH secretary but do wanted to give a chance. We thought it was a tremendous idea. So what we do is proposed that for folks who are on food stamps, part not all, part of their benefits come in the actual sort of and I don't want to steal somebody's copyright,

but a blue Apron type program. We actually receive the food instead of receive the cash. Um. It lowers the cost to us because we can buy prices at wholesale where they whereas they have to buy it at retail. It also makes sure that they're getting nutritious food. UM. So we're pretty excited about that. So say the government money,

give people food. That's the that's the planner that that's what he's trying to trying to get at at a ward in the washing post, those foods would include shelf stable milk, juice, grain, cereal, pasta, peanut, butter, beans, and canned meats, canned fruits, vegetables, some other stuff. Juice, by the way, I'm very anti juice, I know, yeah, very

anti juice. A lot of sugar. We all grow up thinking, Yeah, I drink a big glass of orange juice every day, and it's like the the caloric and and sugar equivalent of of coke juice. What do you say, what do you juice? Oh, juice like homemade juice. Wow, now you're boogie. Look at you, producer, Mike. Homemade juicer. Those things always look great. Then you find out you have to clean them. You know, it's like the really fancy coffee machine. You know,

I like the simple coffee machines. Simple kind of guy. But yeah, look here in New York City, there's a whole bunch of different chains where you go in there and they offer you some version of green juice, and they'll call it like doctor smoothies, green blend of Colon cleans or something, and like it's fifteen dollars and you get to them, just go in there and you know you and it usually the better it is for you, the more it tastes like lawn milch mixed with water.

That's the way it's supposed to go, right, So that's how it fifteen bucks. And you think out by the way, come to New York, come visit folks. Uh, I'll I'll direct you to some of these places you can go get your fifteen dollar your fifteen dollar juice. Um. Anyway, juice has got a lot of sugar in it. I'm just saying, if you have like orange juice, apple juice, delicious. Don't get me wrong, it's fine. What's the while? But just not people think of juice is healthy. I'm always like, no, no,

not really. But I digress. So they're gonna maybe do this government program where they give people that that need assistance in having and getting enough and getting a food on the table, are gonna be getting these different It'll be partially the what they're used to, which is a card and e be And like I've been in plenty of groceral grocery stores where people are using BT cards. I understand it's it's similar to a credit card. I

get how the process works. And there have been criticism in the past of should you be able to buy cigarettes with your EBT cards? Should you be able to buy soda? I'm like, never gonna get a soda sponsor here, at least a sugar soda any of the flavored waters out there that do not have sugar in them. Gladly have you been sponsors on the show. But I can't. I can't get excited about twenty four grams of sugar via high fructose corns share particularly, It's just not really

my jam. So anyway, but can you buy that stuff with food stamps? Can you? You know, is there any are you allowed to make any put any limits in place for what people are buying for their food? And it becomes very very tense, very political. People say, oh, you're gonna look at you you're now keep on. It's the government programs. The government's giving people. It's a welfare program. It is it's a welfare program. So they're giving people

money and letting people buy food with the money. Should they be able to direct them to certain kinds of foods and you know, say that you need to buy you know, chicken breast and uh broccoli and not Cheetos, for example, which I used to eat when I was a kid, like bags of with Nestley Quick. By the way, It's like I was trying to give myself a corn area in the fifth grade. But these are the things that I like, Cheetos, Nestle's Quick. I need a whole sleeve of those Pringles, you know, I just go go

Pringles for some reason. You could eat an entire thing of them, be like, hey, it wasn't that much anyway. So this is a big issue now or there's got a lot a lot of back and forth on it, and I just reminded of So I don't know if there's gonna go anywhere. I think they'll probably back off of it. Well maybe not. You know what we are talking about the Trump administration here, They may they may

take the heat on this. It would say, it would say the government money, and it would force people who are on I shouldn't say force, but it would give them some staple. And then I'm sure there'd be some choice within the program probably of what the staples would be, but people getting more nutritious food instead of just leaving them to their own devices. I would note that there's some very interesting and um under the radar studies that

have been done. I find food choice and all this fascinating because something we all do, right You're you're at the grocery store behind food. I'm gripped buying food or you know, some of you are like nobuk, I actually grow my own and I go out there and hunt it like a real man. But nonetheless, like most of you are probably going to the grocery store at some point, um and and getting food. Uh. But the choices that

you make, it becomes very political. As you remember, the primary initiative of Michelle Obama's time as First Lady was school lunches. Really that was or one of the primarynwerships. I think that was the probably best best known one. But you hear these stories from liberals about food deserts, for example, and the idea here for years was and this is kind of the payoff to this otherwise kind of rambling story about food stamps and blue Apron like

programs from the government everything else. You heard for years that the reason people in low income neighborhoods across all backgrounds. But low low, low income neighborhoods would not buy healthier food is because of quote food deserts. They don't have access to it. That's the Delhi on the corner which sells the I'm really beating up on Cheetos and Coca Cola right now. But anyway, you know, soda, soda pop and soda pop and it's not like my grandfather, they

still call that. I think they call it pop in the South still, right, Yeah, exactly, it's called pop like that is a proper terminology for a Southern anyway, soda pop into and cheetos and potato chips and whatever. But if they had access to Brussels sprouts and Collie flower and free range organic chicken, that is what low income people would would buy if they were given the option. Well, there was a study that was done back in It was actually here in New York City, and it had

some pretty interesting, uh pretty interesting end results, I would say. Um. For one, even when the federal government subsidizes healthy food initiatives and low income neighborhoods encourages the purchasing of food healthy food and loan income neighborhood. So so they they are literally making it cheaper and more available than it would otherwise be in the market, and really going out

of the way to say here's where their program. There are awareness programs, there are here's where it is in your neighborhood program, and there's the oh, it's even cheaper than it would be at a normal store because they're subsidizing it. And who wants to guess what they found out? Who wants to get us? If the food if when the government gets involved in food deserts for low income neighborhoods, it changes the buying patterns of the residents. Nope, people.

If people want to buy Cheetos, they buy cheetos. If people want to buy free range of roast chicken, they brought buy free range roast chicken. The government, though, trying to educate, subsidize, encourage, course whatever people to eat healthier does not work. It was an abject failure. And so then what you figure out is that, Okay, so the notion of a food desert, it's not that it's not there and people can't afford it and people can't buy it,

and particularly talking about low income neighborhoods. It's that people in the neighborhood don't want to buy it. That when it's presented to them and it's like, hey, it's cheap, it's here, it's great, it's for you, They're like, I want something else. I don't want to you know, skinless chicken breast and uh, you know celery stocks. You know, I want what I want and whatever that may be. And if the stuff the government does not particularly healthy or or good for you. So anyway, I just think

that's we talked a lot about food here. It's probably Chef Buck comes out sometimes and wants to have a discussion with all of you. Um, Chef Molly's way better than Chef Buck. But that's a discussion for another time. We'll roll into a quick break. We will remember the third hour. We'll talk about what's going on in Syria because it's really crazy stuff, disconcerting and uh, troubling, But no one seems to care in the country right now,

which is weird to me given what's going on. But you know, they'd rather talk about how the White House is got pr problems right now. We'll be right back. Well, I gotta tell you I wasn't planning on talking about food stamps and the program that the government talked about. But every single line here is lit. It got whoa people want to talk about this. So let's let's get into some of these calls. Here. We have Jamie in Florida. Hey, Jamie hick Uh, I think they need to limit what

people can purchase with food stamps. I think the boxes should come in the same as the old you know, in the olden days, you've got cheese and means from the government. They already have a program called Wick Win Men and Infant and Children Wick where they tell you weekly what you can get. You can get so you know, so much milk, so much eggs, so much formula, so much this, that and the other each week of the month,

and you have to get it weekly. And it needs to go to that so that people who are getting assistance are actually using it for food instead of selling it on the street. I give you fifty cents on the dollars to buy their drugs, which they are doing and in large numbers. All right, Jamie, thank you for thank you for calling on the food stampers. You appreciate it. We got run in Florida also want to talk food stands. Hey Ron, hey buck Uh. I've been listening to you

since your real news days. Thank you, kudos, kudos on your progression so far and many more good things to come. Thank you. Okay, all right, So this is not a new thing. Back in the sixties. I'm a native New Yorker, so back in the sixties come from a very large family. They had U s d A when the program and they actually gave out you have to go to the distribution center to pick up uh the you're allot men of food for either it was bi weekly or a monthly,

so you would go to the distribution center. They gave you that big block of cheese. Have you ever heard the term government cheese. That's where it comes from. They gave you canned meats. They gave you boxes of powdered milk, and they gave you the big cans of peanut butter. The two different kinds of canned meats. So this is this program is a retread. Would be interesting to see what they come up with. What do you think good

idea on or not so good? Um? I listen, you know what with with all of the iterations out it that are that are currently out there with the blue aprons and the ones. They're doing it on a for profit basis. I think if they, if they knuckled down and thought about it, they could get something really good and beneficial out of it and still and get the cost savings. All right, Thank you, Ron, thank you for

calling it from Florida. Um Brent in New Mexico, Brett, we got about a minute and change, but go ahead a buck, Shield time, man, Shield TI. I just want to tell you, man, this is a serious issue. Man. Where I live, they'll take these cards and they'll go in there and every dime of it. I'm talking industrial law beings, all that stuff. They'll pay for it all in their EBT cards and then they'll get their little food chats that make Themali's and stuff, and it's just

cash in hand. And I mean they're turning this thing into a straight up business. And I mean they don't spend a dime on it, on Cheetos or nothing, but it's all it does. I would be I would be very curious to see what food stamp you know, what they have on food stamp fraud and food stamp abuse numbers, because I can tell you brown one of the things I learned about I was the m y p D is.

They're like one of them, just because for for obvious political reasons, welfare fraud you have to be really egregious for anyone to actually investigate or care. It's it's much more rampant than people want to admit or that they even know about. So that's an interesting Thank you for bringing up another component of this Shields high and uh, Team I gotta we're gonna get into a Buck brief coming up here. I gotta talk to you about what's going on in Syria. I appreciate all the calls that

came in. We still have many more folks calling in lines lit up on on food stamps if maybe we'll come back to that issue tomorrow. But I wanted to get into some national security here coming up, so stay with me for that in the third hour. The other shows just talk at you in the Freedom HUD. We have a mission. We fight for the truth in a team effort, and Buck us back with our next play. You are now entering the Freedom Technical Operations Center. Programs

must be kept strictly. Need to know Team Buck is cleared and ready for the Buck Brief. Reports of a US air strike that killed Russian nationals in Syria has reports have come in in recent days. Here's what we know. This coming from UH the This coming from CNN for Russian nationals, and perhaps dozens I'm sorry, this from New

York Times, and perhaps dozens more. We're killed in fighting between pro government forces in eastern Syria and members of the United States led coalition fighting the Islamic State, according to Russian and Syrian officials. Assyrian military officer said that about a hundred Syrian soldiers have been killed in the fighting on February seventh and eighth, but the news about Russian casualties has dribbled out slowly through Russian news organizations

and social media. Most of the fatalities were attributed to an air strike on enemy columns that was called in by American backed Kurdish soldiers who believed they were under attack. My friends, this is this is very troubling. UM. So here's what we know based on the reporting so far. The individual the Russians who were killed here, they were moving with Assad pro Assad militia forces, essentially right elements of the Assad regimes military forces or paramilitaries in the

dear Azor region. This is in the Euphrates River valley eastern eastern Syria, and the column was moving and the US backed Kurdish soldiers. They called in for American support seeing this large movement of Syrian soldiers, but there were some Russians among those Syrians. I believe the Russians were working for a private Russian security company called I'm assuming Wagner or Wagner, which has sent hundreds of contractors into Russia to work as well auxiliaries for the Assad regime.

So this allows Russian special forces, Russian spet SNAs and others to take part in the Syrian conflict, but to not technically be Russian flagged military, similar to what we've seen with paramilitaries operating in eastern Ukraine and part of the separatist movements there. But in this case you had a large US air strike that killed pro Assad regime forces,

killed a handful of Russians. The Russians are so far keeping a relatively low profile about this, but most of the casualties we're from a pro regime Christian militia, so not technically Syrian ASSAD soldiers as assyrious Assad regime soldiers. But this Christian militia. Like I mean, this is You've got so many different pieces and forces and movements and everything going on in Syria right now because we've really

gone into a new phase. We're no longer in the primarily anti Isis campaign of the Syrian civil war that has been one by this administration. We are now in a second Syrian civil war or the the war. The wars within this Syrian civil war are coming to the surface, and it's dizzy ng when you look at all the different factions and rivalries and what's going on in the country. And I I am surprised given that we of U. S troops in Syria, we have used troops on the

front lines. In fact, we've been worried in recent weeks that because of Turkish military action in the north of Syria across the border against US backed Kurdish forces, Syrian Kurdish forces, that we could have the Turks essentially shelling or dropping bombs on our guys in Turkey's a NATO ally and they're gonna be Now that hasn't happened, but

that was a very real concern. And they have dropped bombs in areas where and they have attacked in places where we have allies on the ground in Syria, which is very problesome. Force. Well, what are the Turks I think that they're they're doing by by engaging in such so we say unhelpful conduct. Ah. But this group, this Christian militia that we hit with an air strike, they call themselves the Isis Hunters, which is interesting. They they are part of this Assad regime branding effort to be

all about fighting against the terrorists. And this is complicated because the Assad regime is in fact fighting against terrorists, just also a lot more than terrorists and bombing a lot of innocent women and children and civilians in the process. Assad is using the very real fight against the Islamic State and the al Qaeda element in Syria as a cover within his own side for whatever brutality, chemical weapons attacks, and everything else that's been going on in the country.

He's just saying that it's either you know, it's either me or you can have those crazy Gihattas running the country. So his own people, Assad's people that are still inside of Asad controlled territory give him a much greater leeway than the otherwise would. But inside of this second Syrian Civil War. You have a whole bunch of different conflicts that are that are playing out. So for example, you've got the problem between American backed Kurdish fighters and Turkey.

You have the problem of Iran Syrian Israeli conflict that is looking more and more realistic all the time, considering that the Iranians were just flying a drone from Syria into Israel. I mean, they're using Syria. Iran is using Syria as a launch pad at a forward operating base to look at what's going on in Israel, and who knows what else. Keep in mind that Iranian backed militia

Hezbollah in Lebanon has been fired. You know, I think there have been conflicts between Israel and Hezbillah stretching back for decades. Was recently in two thousand and six Israeli tank columns went up into southern Lebanon. There's those all kinds of problems there. So now it might be Syria as well, could be a front of Israeli military at tension. So that's complicated. And then we also just have what happens with the Assad regime, and we say that we

want a sad to go. We say that we would like the Assad regime to be gone, but who's going to take its place, and how would that work. We don't really have much in the way of a game plan here, folks. We have defeated the Islamic State, but Syria is a devastated mess, and we have, as I've been saying, us troops, they're also US allies on the ground there that I think we have some obligation to for their fighting alongside our guys and taking the fights

of the Islamic States. So we can't just entirely write them off, right, We've got to do something about that. And this is a problem that you know, the administration is smart not to get too deep into the Syrian conflict and not to decide that we're going to remake or rebuild this country. That's that's a recipe for disaster. But when you have Russian troops and or Russian paramilitaries and American air strikes mixing, this is this is combustible.

And while the Russians publicly may be saying because they don't this, here's the weird. The thing that you gotta also remembers that Putin doesn't want his own people to know that Russians are dying in Ukraine and Syria. It also calls the diplomatic Headaches form. So that's while using these paramilitaries is a tool for them. They say that they're just on two Russian bases in Syria, officially an air base in a naval base, naval base at Tartus,

but they're much more involved than that. They've got ground troops that are right alongside the front lines trying to take back territory for the Assad regime. And the Russians may say, oh, sure, those weren't really our guys, so we'll just move on from this. But the fact of the matter is that they may, ah, they may try to get even with us in some way. This is

how the game, unfortunately has played right. The Russians can decide to make things very uncomfortable for us, but in a way that we couldn't openly retaliate against them, and that's how all of a sudden you could find we could find ourselves losing a whole bunch of our guys and sirious So you've got to pay very close attention to this. And there's also just we're gonna talk to David Iffun here in a moment about what's going on in Israel, which is a lot of stuff in the

security realm right now. But there was a an Iranian copy of the Lockheed Martin RQ one seventy Sentinel drone, remember that one that went down in December, even in Iran. The Iranians say they have reverse engineered it, and the Israeli military is saying that a knockoff of our Sentinel drone was sent by Iran via Syria into Israeli airspace and these Railis had to blow it out of the sky. This is this is tense. This is tense stuff. This is something should be getting a lot more a change

in the media than it has been. So we're gonna get into some of the details on the Israeli side of the Aasian here with David I fun In. And we're also going to talk about Anglo American law that'll be coming up, So stay with me alright, everybody. So we've been discussing a lot of national security today on the show. There's a lot going on, especially in the Mid East, and it's involving our close ally israel I. Got my friend David if fun on the phone right

now with us. He is the editor in chief of the Alga Minor, which is a newspaper you should all become familiar with David. Great to have you back, always a pleasure. But so first we've got Net and Yahoo. Prime Minister saying the following. I've been warning for some time about the dangers of Iran's military entrenchment in Syria. Iran seeks to use a Syrian territory to attack Israel for its professed goal of destroying Israel. Holds Iran and

its Syrian host responsible for today's aggression. We will continue to do whatever is necessary to protect our sovereignty at our security, So David the Prime Minister speaking after a drone and apparently in Iranian drone according to Israeli Defense Forces spokesman, and Iranian drone based on the the Sentinel drone that was well lost to the Iranian some years ago, which is a stealth drone meant for reconnaissance, had to

be shot down over Israel proper. What what's happening here? Well, look, just to give you a sense of the context, Israeli leaders and military leaders in particularly I've been saying for quite a while, is that eight of the threats facing the country in one way or another are emanating from Iran, and the Iranian threat takes on a few different forms. The most famous, obvious to me is the nuking a threat, which is something that has made headlines over the past

couple of years. But the biggest I think that's emerging that's really taking a lot of israel attention right now is that the Iranians have effectively taken advantage of the vacuum that's been left by the infighting in Syria and Iraqian frankly American abdication from the Arena, and started to set up establish military strongholds in the region. Now what obviously Iraq is a completely separate subject, but there's a

lot going on there that's really disturbing. The problem that we've been discussing now is Syria, which is right on Israel's border. So typically for the last number of years, this has been what these range have called a quiet border. They've got harmuss and Gaza, they've got the Sinai, they've got has Bolo and Lebanon. Syria has been quiet border.

The concern right now is that the Iranians have really established a very significant military foothold in another one of their borders, one that's typically been quiet, and we'll use

that to launch attacks. Reconnaissance of ailance are Israel and Israeli target and what we shot bursting out into the open was really the product of this build up over a number of months where one of the players, the Iranians, let's up, they let one of their journeys cross into an Israeli a space, of course, has to respond hard, fast and shop and the rest is what everybody's been

seeing in the headlines. This is really concerning, Dovid. I mean, for for everybody listening, we have a situation here where you have essentially the Iranian state in part colonizing uh well, Iraq and Syria, I mean, turning them into not just proxy battlegrounds, but also forward operating bases for Iranian military power and in the case of Israel, Iranian military power that's right next door. I mean, this is we're talking about, as you well know, you can see into the goal

on heights from Israel. I mean this is not I mean that that's exactly right. And frankly, this is a playbook that we've seen enacted in Lebanon, the South of Lebanon. I mean in many ways around effectively control of the country and the country's military. I mean they take offense when you put things like that, but effectively that is the case. And it's the playbook that they've now that's been emensely successful in Lebanon, and they've now merited in

multiple other arenas. They're doing that in a rockter, doing it Interia, They're trying to do it in Yemen and wherever. Frankly, wherever they find they find an opportunity, Wherever they see an opportunity, Whenever they see a vacuum, it rise round there. And they're not they're not afraid to put soldiers on the ground to put to invest resourcers uh and take advantage of the lack of appetite from for many of

the of the Western allies. Um to stick to stick to it in the long run, and they've been a mental successful and it's unfortunately for where you know, they have limited resources that are a country on the siege and every coire boarder they can take, they guests from the needs and now I'm excited they've just lost another one. We're speaking to David Affoon, who's the editor in chief of the Alga Minor. The Alga Minor is the fastest growing h Jewish newspaper in America. Check it out Alga

Minor dot com. Uh, David, let's just switch gears for a second. We started with a SoundBite from Prime Minister and Nen Yahoo. I'm reading today that police in Israel are recommending criminal charges against the current Prime minister. Looks like America is not the only place where politics gets uh gets really rough. What's going on here? Well, this is something that's been baking for for quite some time,

being the uh investigations into the Prime Minister's personal dealings. Um. Now, it is complicated, uh, and there are lots of different moving but effectively, the accusation is that the Prime Minister of his family had received over a number of years and lavish gifts, primarily cigars and champagne from various benefactors, and that in exchange that has helped them out of bits and pieces that they needed, including US visas and

and other things. There's also a second charge in fact that there were at least four investigations, but there are only two that culminated in a recommendation for indictment for by the police. The second was it was a deal that he had made, was a or or discussed because the deal wasn't actually enacted, but it was a deal that was discussed, uh with a newspaper publisher when he said that he would where he would take some action to weaken one of the newspapers competitors and exchange the

more favorable coverage. That was something that was discussed and was never acted. Now, now, the way it works in Israel, first of all, is that the police can recommend an indictment, but that the final decision is only made by the attorney general. So this brief or now certain the attorney general's officer quite a time. Obviously, it's an incredibly delicate situation.

You have a democratically elected leading and you have charges that are made against him, but you know by by going ahead and finding those charges, you know you're you're messing with the democratic process. So it's it's I would not want to be the attorney general right now. It's a huge weight and shoulders to make the right decision here, to make the right core And uh, yeah, for the first time in a while, Jeff Sessions may be saying, Wow, that guy's got a tough job. Yeah, that exactly right,

That's exactly right. And I have to tell you, I mean, you know, just just from from Rice and obviously we haven't seen the full picture yet and sometimes you know, they always stay whether it's there's fire, but what they're accusing him of effectively taking about a a million shekels and gifts, which is about two hundreds or thus thousand dollars, it does seem like listen, over the course of a number of years, it does seem like a very small

amount to to go down for. I mean, if if you're talking about corruption on on that level, you know, the level of a head of state, you know, you want to think that it involves many, many millions of dollars. Right to have a prime minister who served for you know, the longest, serving as ready Prime Master for more than a decade in its fourth term, he uh, shepherd of the country is a very very trying time. I would say it would be a very unfortunate thing for him

to go down over over something that's really so stupid. Yeah, I mean, you're telling me champagne and cigars. It's it seems pretty it seems pretty flimsy. But David we we gotta leave it there for right now. Please come back when we have updates on this story. And thank you. It's always for joining us. David I Fun, editor in chief of the Alga Minor Alga Minor dot com. Everybody, David, thank you so much. It's always a pleasant it. Alright, team,

we're gonna roll into a break. We come back. We've got a whole lot more show for you, So don't go anywhere, and uh, stay with me. Since our founding, the independently elected sheriff has been the people's protector who keeps law enforcement close to an accountable to people through the elective process. The office of sheriff is a critical part of the Anglo American heritage of law enforcement. We

must never erode this historic office. Now. That was Attorney General Jeff Sessions, and he was speaking earlier today at the National Sheriff's Association on I'm sorry this earlier this week on combating the opioid epidemic. This was yesterday, And that seems like a pretty non controversial statement, right. He's just saying that sheriffs have a longstanding, important role in

our history. And and he remember he's speaking to the National sheriff's association, So one would understand why he would want to mention sheriff's. But here's the problem. So they say, he mentioned the Anglo American tradition of law enforcement. Wait a second, I don't. I don't understand why would he say such a thing. People got very upset over this. They immediately went into this place of oh, that's some kind of a white nationalist dog whistle. Now, ignorance knows

no bounds on the left. We are quite aware of that. But this is really just going too far. You know, I can't I can't abide this. The buck cannot abide. This is not gonna fly. And other press outlets were going along because I'm gonna explain, and I know all of you listening already know. And the the anglis x tradition of law enforcement speaking about sheriff is actually are is speaking directly to English common law, which is a sin. It's the same thing common law, the Anglo Saxon tradition

of law. Our laws, the basis of our laws. I know natural law comes from God, but I mean the the structure of our laws comes from common law in England and hundreds of years of it. Right really stretching all the way back to the Magna Carta. Actually, so U you can rock it all the way back to the thirteenth century if you want. But it's it's a completely non controversial phrase if you understand what it means. But here's the problem, folks. A lot of people out there,

including journalists. I'm a journalist. I do not like to know things. I just like to write things and get outraged. Uh. A lot of journalists out there are at least putting or you know, adding some fuel to the fire here. I mean. You've got the Associated Press, for example, with this tweet earlier today. This is from their official a P Associated Press account A G. Sessions remark about the Anglo American heritage of law enforcement. Some see or some

here a racialized dog whistle. Those people are called ignorant because they do not understand something. There's not a debate here, there's not a discussion. This isn't a dog whistle issue. This should be like saying, uh uh, Buck Sexton is born in New York City. That is just a statement of fact. People can pretend that that is a political statement or racial statement or whatever, and they're just being imbeciles.

There's no racial dog whistle involved in literally stating a fact of history and and not doing it any way where he he wasn't even trying to make a political statement or anything. He just SAI. Yeah, the angle American tradition of law enforcement, as I'm sure many of you know, the whole the term itself sheriff comes from a shire reeve. And this is a term we take from the United Kingdom. This is not something that Joe that just came from, you know, from Walker Texas ranger or something I guess

that would be a ranger. But you know what I mean, this is not something that we've just conjured up here in the American tradition. I was just thinking about Texas Ranger the other day for no for no apparent reason. Um, but that's what the whole notion of a shire reef, which is where we get the term sheriff is Anglo

Saxon comes from England. And so when he says our Anglo Saxon tradition of law to a sheriff's association, not only is he speaking specifically to sheriff's but he's just speaking about what is in fact our tradition of law. You know. This is like saying that that the that Great Britain was the colon or the England was the colonizer of the United States. The English they colonize the

United States. That is true. That's a true statement. You can say that's racist, or that doesn't that's not inclusive, or something else, but it's just a fact. So if people want to play this game now, we can't let them. Um this is and I would note it's not just some trolls, some Twitter troll idiots out there that are saying that's the problem. I read you from the Associated Press. They're saying some believe it's a dog whistle, but you

gotta sitting. US senator from Hawaii wrote the following today, do you know anyone who says Anglo American heritage in a sentence? What could possibly be the purpose of saying that other than to pit Americans against each other? For the chief law enforcement officer to use a dog whistle like that is appalling. Best no vote I ever cast Brian Schatz. It's his name. Yeah, I think, I mean, I'm right, I'm I don't think I'm mispronouncing it. Let me say it again. Ryan schats is a moron. That

is an idiotic statement. It's unfair to Attorney General Sessions. And this is just parading his ignorance. This is walking around saying I hated that book and I'm illiterate. That's what he's doing. He has no idea what he's talking about. Uh, Maddie Iglesias over at he's one of those left wing writers. I forget where he writes, Sessions. This is what he

what he wrote. Sessions could have avoided a lot of trouble this morning by either saying common law instead of Anglo American or not having a long record in public life as a racist. No, no, sorry, Iglesias, it doesn't work that way. Common law and Anglo American law are interchangeably used terms, right, This is these are not worthy. They do not mean different things. They mean the same thing. And then just saying well, because we don't what he's

really saying. At least there's some honesty in this. Is because Sessions is a quote racist, even though what he said isn't racist, we're all gonna pretend it's racist. Sitting us senator who is uh what's her from the show with the Three Witches and there Shannon Doherty is one of them. I just weston Nanotuno. What's the you know, charmed? I know, yeah, I saw, I saw a listen thank

you a Lissa Milano. She immediately tweeted out in response to Sessions is completely uncontroversial statement that he must be fired right away, and people who know anything went absolutely nuts. Um other I mean blue Choh. Linda Star Sore. She she got up on this too. Uh, your attorney general said this. The office of a sheriff is a critical part of the Anglo American heritage of law enforcement. She she quotes him because she thinks that's like a bad thing.

Like I said, this is the equivalent of saying that the the English uh fought America and the Revolutionary War. You can make it controversial if you're an idiot. Otherwise it's just a thing that happened. That is true. So anyway, Anglo American shire Reeve sheriff. We like to know things here, but other people don't. We're back with a little bit of an anecdote for my day and also some of your thoughts via roll call. Stay with me. I like to think of this as an injustice league of anti trumpers.

These are all people that had key access at important points in the entire Russia Trump collusion narrative, and also have an anti Trump animals that they don't like Donald Trump. And when you're talking about some of these folks like for example, Christopher Steel, Fine, he is a gun for hire. He's essentially a glorified private investigator in this context, but he has been involved at every step with the way

of manufacturing this Russia collusion narrative. Al Right, so as we closed up the show here, I gotta say that was a that was a very strong opening I had there on Fox and Friends this morning. All was going according to plan. I even coined a phrase that I think you'll be hearing more of the injustice League of anti Trumpers. I'm proud of myself. I came up with

that at five something in the morning. Those of you who have been with me, those who have been uh OSS original Saturday Squad in particular, tend to know that I am the opposite of a morning person. I am one of these people who can actually have a conversation really early in the morning that I basically entirely forget um. I sometimes have to stop myself from like walking out of my apartment just wearing a sweatshirt and boxers and like flip flops because you know you need pants. I'm

just not a morning person. I I can kind of rev up for a second early on, but you know, so like I can do it, but then afterwards it's a bit like those of you who have seen Old School when Will Farrell has to debate and and he debates the raging Cajun James Carville an Old School and then right after he finishes, he kind of like melts down and can't really speak anymore. That's how I am in the morning, right, I can. I can do it for a few minutes, and then I was just like

I just fall down and I can't really handle it anymore. Um. And it also means that occasionally I show up and um, maybe have tie askew or something like that. Well today during my Fox and Friends segment. And look, it's important, right if you're gonna be in the TV business, you gotta remember stay humble, because you will be humbled. Things will happen and you'll say, yeah, so I had. And if you go and you see the clip, and it's on the Fox and Friends account on the Twitter account,

so you can see it. It's on Facebook two, so it's out there. Um. I somehow, and I cannot only take so much credit for this, because I don't know even how one would do this. But everything looked fine with the swoop, which is my affectionate term for my own hair, which is probably weird that I refer to my hair, almost as though it's an inanimate object. We're in the third person, but in the era of Trump, I feel like hair has taken on a whole new personific Asian right, Trump has a swoop, I have a

swoop buck swoop, Trump swoop. You know, tomato tomato. And somehow, as I was doing my segment and no one thought to maybe just say, hey, Buck, you know you got a little thing going on there, I developed what I could only call a shark fin in the back of my head. So it's now, if it were in the front, it might look a bit like a foe hawk like it might have looked a little cool, But the shark fin has not yet caught on with the cool kids. Imagine like a retractable mohawk that only comes out of

the very back of my head. And that's why it was very It was shark finn like, and maybe that makes it sound much cooler than it was, But I just bring it up because one, it's just a reminder of, you know, stuff happens in TV. And and also too sure enough, despite the audio in that segment, I love it they carry like the Fox TV Show on different radio stations sometimes because or on different radioizations because at least people heard the The audio was great, right, kill

me and I I really like Brian. We had we had a really good back and forth and the segment was a strong segment. But all I saw the commentary afterwards, no one was like, Wow, Injustice League, that's a really cool phrase you've just coined. Like, oh, that's a really you know, you're really bringing some things together here. I like your insight about former CI director Brennan as a c I a guy. You've got a lot to offer on this. Oh no, they're all like nice shock finn jerk.

You look like you look like somebody woke up and city. I want to look like a porcupine, you know. I mean, it's some of them were funnier than others, at least the funny ones I'll kind of go with. But it's just a reminder that the problem with going on TV. One of the reasons why I love radio so much is it as there's a purity to this. Sure, maybe I'll sneeze sometimes, or you'll hear some off Mike banter or something, but more or less, I can sit here

in sweats, no one cares. I'm doing the show, and the content is the show, right, the connection, the conversation between me and you. You doing TV. If you know, let's just say you miss a patch shaving, because maybe that's happened to me before, and not like a big patch, but like a little one in HD. That stuff can show up and you just get ripped. I mean, people who just you do oh don't you don't want a mirror?

Dufus a? Do you even lift? Bro? I mean, that's kind of the stuff that you end up getting thrown at you. And it was. It was a reminder today that sure enough the shark Vin haircut is not yet cool, is not yet in style, so you know, it happens. It was a good segment though. It was a good thing. I want to play. I played the best part for you too, the Injustice League. I wanted to roll with that a little bit. So with that I want to

do a little roll call. Now we got some time for a roll call, not a lot, but a few minutes here to do it. Oh yeah, it's time for roll call. So first up here we have David, who made a request yesterday which producer Mike made sure I would not forget. David with the following, Hey, Buck, I am Oss. So is my wife. Her name is Maria. We remember watching you back on the Blaze way back in the day. February today is our wedding anniversary. How about a shout out? This comes from Doc David, And uh,

that's the shout out, my friend. Happy thirtieth anniversary to you and the wonderful Maria. Thank you for being with me Oss style since the Blaze days. And I hope you have another thirty or forty or fifty, you know, however many wonderful I don't know how old you guys are, so let's assume it's gonna be fifty, another fifty wonderful years of marital bliss ahead of you. So thank you so much and and congratulations guys. All right, next up here,

we've got a lot of messages today. Uh, I mean, it's always a it's always a reminder here that I have both the the best listeners in radio, the wittiest and the smartest listeners in radio. When I read through the messages, some of them would be great, but they're not exactly not safe for radio, but they're still really funny. Here we go, though, this one is, Adam writes, buck love the show Love shields high. Don't stress about getting the next episode out. Let it be a labor of

love and not a burden. Hopefully you see our eagerness for the next installment as an indicator of how good they are. I plan to incorporate them when I start home schooling my kids next year. Well, Adam, thank you so much, And that's exactly my approach. I'm gonna get them done as I can. The great thing about them is there's no These battles happen like h six seven years ago. But you know, you started getting into the

getting into the math here. It's been a little while, so I don't think we're gonna They're not gonna They're not gonna go stale. When I'm talking about what happened in the fiftie and seventeen centuries in the Mediterranean basin, Christian and Muslim forces facing off for control of the world. I was thinking, it's so interesting too that they don't really teach people, and I mentioned this on our Columbus Day segment when we talked about the history of Columbus Day.

They don't teach people that one of the one of the main reasons that they were looking for a a faster route to the Indies. Ever, ever, everyone assumes, oh, a faster route too, to the Indies and to India. You know, it's just it's because it takes a long time. There's obviously no Suez Canal, and it takes a long time to go around the southern tip of Africa, which is true. But then in now far away it was

the other direction. One of the reasons they had to find a faster route or a different route was that the overland route had to go through the Ottoman Empire the Caliphate, and that was a big problem if you're

European power at the time. In the Ottomans were able to take on any of the European Christian powers militarily and and then some so the notion that you're just we're just gonna have set up essentially a giant taxation collection waypoint anyone that tried to go to the east and along the old trade routes that have been there for centuries, don't even have tried to pass through autom in territory. There was no choice but to pass throughout them.

In territory. You're gonna be you know, you're gonna be paying all kinds of taxes, man, a lot of a lot of problems. Taxes cause a lot of problems. And that's a that's a discussion we'll get into again another time. Oh now we've got a different take on this. Kevin writes, what happened to Shields High? It's been two weeks thanks to the awesome podcast, but really, where is it? Well, Kevin, I appreciate it, man, I'm on it. I'm on it. I promise it's it's coming soon. I have I have

not forgotten that. Sure enough. We we do need to get to some Shields High in the near in the near future. So it's happening. It's happening. Um, I'm hoping this Monday. It really depends on how social I feel like being this weekend with Ms Molly. So with that, I gotta close up the Freedom Hunt for the night. My friends actually even go hang out with Miss Molly and Miss Molly's mom, So Miss Molly and Mrs Molly.

That's gonna be fun. Probably gonna watch some Bravo. Probably probably gonna drink something with a little bit of bubble in it. You know, why not. It sounds like a good time to me. With that in mind, my friends, tomorrow night, excited to join you here in the Freedom Hunt. As always, shields Hi