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buck Sexton Show. This is the buck Sexton Show where the mission or mission is to decode what really matters with actionable intelligence. Make no mistake America, You're a great American Again The buck Sexton Show beginst. No, President Trump should understand there are not the votes for the wall in the House or the Senate. He is not going to get the wall in any form. I asked the people at Customs of Border Protection what would it cost to have scanners to scan all the vehicles coming in.

They said three hundred million dollars. That's a four cry from five billion, in a much more effective way to have a secure border. Most of us, speaking for myself, consider the wall immral ineffective, expensive to spend billions of dollars on an immoral, ineffective, and expensive wall. Don't waste billions of dollars of taxpayer money in order to build

something that will not make our border more secure. Border security is enormously important, but I think building a wall is a very costly and inefficient way to do that. So many lies, so many lies, and so little time to knock them all down. Welcome to the buck Sex and show everybody. Democrats are in full scale talking points mode right now. They're all in on this idea that

a wall just cannot happen. A wall cannot happen, and the GOP as of now, according to Mitch McConnell, is not willing to go to a shutdown send a majority leader. Mitch McConnell has declared the government's going to stay open and that the White House will be flexible, flexible on its border wall demands. Why I would like to know why they think this is a good idea. Why is it that the Republicans are the ones who once again are running to cave on the signature issue of this presidency.

What is the difference now? What has changed in their calculation? A week ago Trump was having his I Am Spartacus moment on this one. You know, he said, you know, we'll shut it down, Stephen Miller over the weekend, Presidents Senior a in the White House, Oh, we'll shut it down. You know. I'm not here to say everything that Trump does is advisors do is great. Often quite the opposite.

I'm here to tell you what I think about what's best for the country and what the reality of the agenda is that was promised by these people who were given power, including the President of the United States, to follow through on that agenda. You know, they were not saying build the existing fences and add to border patrol over time hours. No, they were saying build the wall. Not seeing this get through right now, not seeing how

it's gonna happen. Now. There are a bunch of ways this could play out, and I will get into them. But I do want to note that my initial inclination here, which is the GOP is unwilling to have a shutdown battle right before the Christmas holiday. They think they're gonna lose on this one. They think the Democrats and their media allies are going to manage to convince people that Republicans are being reckless, that all that just means that this is Lucy pulling the football and we are Charlie

missing by a mile and landed on our butts. Oh, we're gonna have the shutdown fight. Oh it's going to be the you know, now is our moment to finally do what's right here. Nope, that's that is That is not how this is going to play out. Unfortunately, that is not what is likely to happen. I don't know how the president. I'm just gonna say it. I don't know how the president can win reelection if the wall promise is not in any way fulfilled, meaning that that

construction has not started. I don't know, you know, because this is how I see this playing out right now. They're not going to do the shutdown. They're going to get a another continuing resolution, and you know they're gonna push They're gonna push this off into January and then they'll have another Oh no, we gotta have a big thing, and then they're gonna push it off again. No politician wants to make a hard choice. No members of Congress

want to do what's necessary and what's responsible here. They want to do what's easiest and what's going to get them reelected. It's all driven by self interest, and we're gonna be told, you know what, Okay, fine, maybe the president is going to order them to find the money somewhere else. I'm already seeing this. This is the storyline. All the President's gonna find the money somewhere else for the wall. Okay, where find five billion dollars? That's I'm

sure they can find that somewhere in the budget. But how are they gonna Oh well, okay, well, you know what. The President's also gonna just the President's going to tell the military that this should be done, this is the way it should go, and we will respond to this. All right, Well, guess what happens? Then a federal judge is going to block it, you know, just just the same way that a federal judge said no travel band, even though it was within the president's constitutional authority to

implement that travel band. As we know from the from the Supreme Court, they're gonna say, oh, some judge somewhere in the country is going to come up with a pretext to stop them, stop the building of the border wall, or stop the funding of it. They're the reapportionment of funding from within the federal government so that they could build a wall. No, no, no, they're gonna they're gonna find it. So then the judge shuts this thing down.

It turns into a court battle, and you know what they're gonna tell us for twenty twenty because that's how long this thing's gonna extend out with with no wall in place and no funding for a wall. You know what they're gonna tell us, Oh, well, we need to give Trump four more years and we need a supermajority in Congress. Now that's what we need, a supermajority in Congress to get this done. I think it's now never. They're either willing to have this fight and do everything

that they can to start building this wall. It's going to be piecemeal, it's gonna take a long time. It's not going to be an easy thing to do. But they either win the fight to begin construction, or you know, we gotta start thinking about a way to live under a democrat socialist regime because that's where this country's heading. And I don't like saying it, but that's what's that's what's going to happen. That's where we're gonna be. We've

basically lost the healthcare fight. I know other conservatives don't want to tell you that. They're, oh, you know, we're gonna we're gonna repeal and replace Obamacare. Really, when how you had a chance, didn't do it, it's only going to get harder. In fact, we're only moving further to the left, more government spending, more dependency on the government subsidizing healthcare. You think we're gonna have some great moment of clarity on this one, all of a sudden, the

Milton Friedman spirit is going to overtake the country. We're going to realize that a free market and healthcare is going to be better. No, of course not. People like free stuff. It's rational to like free stuff. The whole government system we have now when it comes to healthcare and a whole lot of things, is premised on not really letting you know, not really making it clear that you are paying for it, that that this doesn't come without cost. You know, they don't want you to know that.

They want to obfuscate that. They want to make it hard to understand that we're losing the fight over healthcare. What's the replacement plan? You know, got all these Republicans in Congress and their staffs and their offices, and I go over and I interview them the whole thing I always want asking what exactly do you do here? Guys don't have an Obamacare replacement plan, you haven't won the fight.

In fact, Amacare is more popular now than it's ever been based on the polling, it is more popular now. You could say, well, buck, that's because they you know, we have some stop gap measures and the Congress said, you don't have to pay the penalty. But the reason people sign up for Obamacare insurance that the main driver is not actually whether or not they have to pay the penalty. It's whether or not they get subsidies. Because in some cases the subsidy covers essentially their entire cost

of premium. So it's effectively like having free health insurance with limited access to the private health insurance market and a high deductible. But that's what it is. You know, we were told that Republicans would would fight. I mean I came into media on healthcare issue at the healthcare

issue time, right. I came in when Obamacare was the dominant subject matter, when the Tea Party was Yeah, we worried about the debt and the deficit, But what was really pushing the debt and deficit healthcare spending, Medicare and medicaid. That's where the problem is. Obamacare has only made that worse. And Obamacare was compelled commerce, and we were told that this is terrible, and it is terrible, it's wrong, it's unconstitutional. But what are we going to do about it? You know?

I start to worry that conservatism is accepting of its toothlessness when it comes to policy, when it comes to the way this country is governed and how that affects the three hundred and twenty million or so people who live here, that we just make really interesting arguments and never expect to actually win. And what's most frustrating right now with Trump and the Oval office. And I know it's a lame duck Congress, but we still do have

a majority. What's most frustrating is that Republicans are essentially now being told even when you win, you lose. Even when we have this is political miracle of the Trump administration that defeats the most propped up establishment back candidate imaginable. We can't we can't follow through, we can't execute. We're a lot of you know, the right conservatism. Trump is m whatever. A lot of promises, not all of execution. I know there's are people would say, oh buck the

economy and yeah, the economy is good. Stock market is not so good, but the economy is good. Unemployment still really low, regulations better than it was. Healthcare is not much better, it's not it's been two years. The wall hasn't been built. Still at war in Afghanistan, still have troops in about a third of Syria. So what exactly are the are the are the huge winds here the worst? Okay, we are not in the Paris Climate Agreement. Fine, that's good.

Iran sanctions are back good. I mean, there are good things, but all those key issues, those core issues that motivated sixty three million people to vote for President Trump. Where

are we now in this process? Do we think that there's going to be a better time to have this fight or after the Democrats are done turning Trump and everybody around him, everyone he's ever known or loved, practically is going to get the most intrusive, taxpayer funded examination of everything they've done, said, and everywhere they've been imaginable. You think then they're really going to have the fighting

spirit when we're having debates about a possible impeachment. That's when Trump and those around him are going to say, oh, yeah, let's get the wall. It is now or never. I am frustrated that. I'm also frustrated because of what happened with General Flynn, where you have I think increasingly the conclusion we have to draw from this is that yes he was set up. Yes they went after him, and there was you know, they were playing dirty pool. But Flynn also messed up. He messed up with the lobbying

for Turkey. He messed up by lying, I don't I'm waiting for him to say that he didn't actually lie. I'm waiting for someone to produce the three O two that the original three O two from either Struck or the other agent that was in the room that says that you know that that we have that moment of wow, they actually set this guy up. That still could happen, but it hasn't happened yet. In the meantime, Flynn is saying, yeah,

I lied. And we had the scene today with a judge, a judge who brought up that some might make the argument that Flynn sold out his country. It's a federal judge speaking to a three star general. It's been a frustrating day for the gendat. It doesn't mean that we've lost. And I'm not I'm not all fatalistic about this now. I just I'm disappointed that the White House, I think, has had the establishment whispering in its ear too much on this one, and they just they won't have this fight.

Pelosi and Schumer and their whole gang cannot win on the issue of immigration. If the debate has had in public and if people hear what they really think and what they really believe, they can't win. But if we don't have that, if we allow it to be business as usual, then yes, either shutdown won't happen or would be blamed on Republicans and Pelosi and Schumer, you know, laugh all the way to the election of the Beeto Biden ticket that everyone's talking about right now. Oh my gosh.

Just yeah. Just double up, double up on the lightweights. That's the way to go. Double up on the lightweights, and you'll have it like a you know, a middleweight running for press. That sounds great, That sounds great. All right, we got we got a lot of I will talk to you about the Flint situation in detail. The second hour,

we'll break down what happened today. We've got a former federal prosecutor joining us to talk about that, also, my friend Sean Davis, the federalists, they've been doing excellent work. He'll give us his sense of it. And in the third hour, I'll tell you about the story I saw in the Daily Wire about an eleven year old dressed in drag and these media stories that are hailing this as some kind of victory. Ah. I mean, well, the world hasn't gone mad, but a lot of people in

and half. You've got got much more show coming. Team, stay with me. Schumer and I have set me to Schumer and I have said that we cannot accept the offer they made of a billion dollars slushman for the President to implement his very wrong immigration policies. So that

won't happen. So what's the way out? Well, we've said before very clearly that we could possibly come together around a CR for all seven bills more better than that, six bills that have already passed the Senate committees and one bill that CR for Homeland Security six and one or all seven under a CR. So as you're saying, you know, Trump's not going to get anything he wants out of this. I thought elections were supposed to have consequences.

Apparently only when Democrats win to elections have consequences. Notice, the discussion had been until today that Trump weren't five billion for the wall and the Democrats were offering one point five billion for border security overall? What do they expect that one point five billion is going to do to change the situation. If we had a real press corps, Democrats would be asked questions like, what are you going to do to stop all the illegals from coming into

the country? What are you going to do about the caravans and the family the tens of thousands of family units that are showing up at the southern border? Well, what's your policy for that? How does just continuing the status quo make anything better? Words, the answer is it doesn't make anything better, and they don't want to make anything better. I also just love the ridiculousness of Democrats pretending that all of a sudden they care about wasteful

government spending. You know, oh yes, oh a billion dollars slush faun Oh good heavens, what will we ever do about that? Also, they say that the border wall is racist. By the way, at sixteen, the President went to the heart of what I call his brown menace theory. These migrants, they're dirty people, They bring disease. This border wall thing is about controlling the browning of America. Donald Trump is fixated on the southern border, as he was the day

that he announced this campaign. It is not about securing the borders. It is about xenophobic, racist, bigoted beliefs he believes, and unfortunately, maybe the facts will bear this out. His base is scared of anyone who is not visibly white, and it's just all slanders. I want to know, if a wall is racist, shouldn't we be watching Democrats talk about how they want to tear down the existing wall and say the San Diego sector which has been keeping

out a flood of illegals. I mean, if a wall is racist, why aren't they telling us that we need to take down the wall that do exist and the fencing that's already there. Oh, it's only a new wall is racist, that only more fencing is racist. That's a fascinating position. I'd love to hear Schumer and Pelosi try to explain that one sometime what do Americans really care about?

If you based it on what gets media coverage, If you were to look at this and make your decisions based upon what the journalist class thinks matters, it's just an endless array of sob stories about everybody who tries to come to the country illegally, and then Trump the latest evil thing that someone that knew Trump wants somewhere thought he did. I mean, it's just that's what the media focuses on all the time. Meanwhile, now, look, I'm not a big pole guy. I think that polling is

often an invitation for somewhat lazy analysis. But I did think that this is an important reminder because it's exactly what if you would if I had been asked to guess. And I'm sure you feel the same way. What do Americans? According to this gallop Pole site is the biggest problem the biggest problems in America right now? You know what they say based on the percentages government, immigration, healthcare. That's about right, that's about right. That makes sense to me.

And immigration is a problem, yes, in many ways, but the American people are not with the progressive left on advocating for unlimited legal immigration continuously and just pretending it's either not a problem or just saying that they want more of it. American people are not on board for that by and large. Maybe twenty or thirty percent are, but the rest of the country is not. Why is government a problem? Well, I think that's kind of self evident.

That's a whole that's a whole show right there. Why is government a problem? I think a lot of it. They'll also has to do with our expectations. There's so much overpromising, there's so much that government is involved in that it's not good at that. It's understanding that, the understandable that people across across the board from all sides of the political aisle are frustrated with what's going on with government because it is not doing what it has

set out to do. It is not particularly effective, and there are important conversations to be had about this. You know, there's there's whole discussions about I mean, I got on a little healthcare a rent before, but government's going to be in charge of more of your healthcare in five years, in ten years than it is now, So we might as well start to figure out how to make it less terrible at it, you know, how to make it

less of an unaccountable bureaucracy than it already is. The free marketeers are losing ground every day, and we do not have a look for all the things about President Trump that I think on a policy On a policy level, I like now he is. He is for a muscular federal government. He is not a limited government, small government guy. Not what it comes to trade, not when it comes to a whole lot of issues. He wants the government to be very involved in aspects of trade and commerce.

And so where are we heading with all of this? Not to a very good place? You know, I'm starting to get a little Maybe it's just this week with all the bad news about I want to say bad news, it just mean negative news. I don't think the news is nearly as damaging as they want to pretend it is about Trump and everybody around him, but they make it sound like any day and any day now we're going to have that moment where that moment where we

all realize, oh no, they finally got him. The President's not going to be able to continue an office because of this. This is just not reality based. But unfortunately it's good ratings for the media to do this and it feeds into what is essentially a left wing delusion. Here, very interesting column from sarab A. Maria should have reached out to him, but I got busy with some things today. But he wrote in the New York Post about this, about how in his home country of Iran. He's now

a US citizen, but he was born in Iran. How even the most educated, the most sophisticated people believe in conspiracies, and particularly in the case of Iran, the conspiracies are either related to Jews or America or both. That's where the conspiracy theorists go. And it's hard to parody the level of conspiracy mongering that goes on in Iran. It, by the way, it's also true and other it's true in Iran, it's true in Egypt. There's a lot of the Mid East is a very conspiracy might have played.

People say the same about Russia and parts of Eastern Europe. I think too, where the general public, including the most

sophisticated players, are believers in conspiracy theories. We have that problem in this country now too, And we have this problem in a way that mirrors the problem, let's say, in another advanced, industrialized Western democracy like France, where instead of believing that the reason in France the yellow vests are rioting and why there's so much public support for them, it's because the French elite, the establishment, is making stupid

decisions that are disconnected from the reality of people's day to day lives and that are ideologically based and that are unsound in practice. Instead of accepting that, they think that, oh, there's this is the result of some right wing forces. There's an excuse. They find an excuse to not deal with the real problem that is at the heart of the hatred against Trump and the Trump movement as well. The elites of both parties, stretching back for decades now,

have been inect at the following things. They have been inect at creating a more stable Middle East. For example, they have been inept at dealing with the debt. In fact, that debt is by far worse than it has ever been. They cannot reform entitlements, They cannot come up with major improvements to the healthcare system that are that are government mandated. They cannot control the border. They can you know, you go down this list. Neither side can figure this out,

and they both say they can figure this out. Neither side can make real progress on these matters. In fact, they just keep getting worse. And maybe Trump won't be able to solve this either. That's looking increasingly likely right now.

But at least it gives us a moment to say, we're going to try something else because you clowns in both parties can't get this done, meaning you in the establishment, you who have been you know, the Bush dynasty advisors that the Clinton hangers on, you know, the old not been able to do what you said you would do. You cannot fix the major problems of this country. So

at least we're going to go to somebody else. We're gonna try something different, and if nothing else, it's a rebuke of the inability of the elites to handle these problems. And what do they come back with, well, something that would be right at home in Tehran. A complex conspiracy theory promulgated, propagandized by the very elites who feel rattled to feel that their position is threatened by the slow revelation that the public has had that those people in

charge don't know what the heck they're doing. They're not that smart, and we need to do something about it.

Instead of accepting those basic facts, the media, the GOP and Democrat establishment have looked at Trump like some sort of space alien and created effectively an alien invasion narrative, the Russia kaloo Jan fable to explain this instead of dealing with We've got more coming up, teams, stay with me if we've never seen a president of the United States who actually acts more in some ways like a

common grifter. And I looked up the definition of grifter the other day in the dictionary, and it seems to suit Donald Trump perfectly in terms of the way he has conducted himself all his life, but including astonishingly enough

in his presidency. The idea of being a grifter while at the same time being president of the United States, a glimplam artist, a con man, someone who lies, somebody who uses instruments at his command to obtain and do things that are untoward and underhanded, like what they you get. Carl Bernstein, beloved by the left wing mainstream media, on this rant about how Trump is a man? Where are the details? How has he been akhn man as president the United States? Where is the khana? I want to know?

Because he lies about unimportant matters, because he exaggerates, because he over sells, because he trolls liberals. I mean, but but where is the Khan that we're supposed to care about? It's what exactly and at what point do we start to realize as a nation? I think, you know, we

already realize it. But when does the rest of the country catch onto the fact that if you unleash the media and the prosecutorial arm of the federal government on a person and everyone around that person with the obvious mission of search and destroy, the person's going to be ruined. Their reputation will be ruined, their professional life will be ruined, their personal life may be destroyed, and at the end of all that, they may lose their freedom as well.

Nobody could withstand this. You know. One of the things that has been most amazing about Trump has just been his willingness to stay in the fight. You know, I've had days where I thought, man, maybe Trump has just he's just had it. Man, he doesn't need this. They don't want to do this. In a nice life, A billionaire, beautiful wife, lovely kids, grandkids, doesn't need to do this. Yeah, I know, he's got a very big ego. Everybody in

politics has a very big ego. But and I wonder if he would have signed on for this knowing what he was going to be put through. But this sends people always talk about the undermining or institutions, and they discuss how, oh Trump does this and that. What I always think is anyone who is looking at what Trump and the people around him are being put through, anyone who's paying attention to this is coming away with the

following message. If you have a good life, if you're happy, if you're successful, if you have you know, a good family and you've been either you're just and but the successful doesn't mean rich. It just means you know you have what you need and what you what? What do you need to be happy in life? And you know you've acquired enough that you're comfortable whatever that means for you.

Would you really want to challenge the machine? Do you want to be a part of this effort to change things in this country for the better, to restore some sense of sanity and public discussions about issues that we've been lied to. I mean, I keep telling you we're lied to about immigration all the time. I mean the mainstream media, the so called guardians of truth lie to you about immigration all the time, and when they get pushed on it, they just get upset. They get angry.

You know. I had I had someone today come in to Rising from the Natural Resource Defense Counsel arguing for why it's some big win this this plan in Poland with the two hundred nations to limit you know, to limit their CO two and they're gonna stop climate Chase. I said, look, not only is this unenforceable, but today is based upon things like China promising to meet its

benchmarks in ten years about less pollution. You know what's going to happen in ten years, China's gonna show up at the next meeting, you know, and get a lot of pad on the back from everybody around, you know, whoever the representatives are from China, and nothing will have changed, and we'll just go We'll just keep going through this,

We'll keep going through this whole process. But if you ask very basic questions, as I did, like why do we even care about this when even if everybody did exactly what they if every country at this you probably we don't even know if you paid attention to this. They just had essentially the follow up to the Paris Climate Accord meeting. They had it in Poland, and the US is fortunately because the Trump not signing on for

all this nonsense. But even if they did what everyone says they're gonna do at this meeting, they wouldn't even maintain or they wouldn't keep CO two levels below, or you know, they wouldn't keep the temperature below because of CO two levels what is necessary to avoid quote catastrophic climate change. So even if they did this perfectly, it's not enough, but they still want to pat themselves in

the back. I mean, this is just a big self congratulation circle for everybody who supports it, for everybody who's there, this is meaningless. It's nonsense, and they become hostile to you for pointing this out. It's obvious, but they respond with hostility and outrage. And oh, the science says. If I have one more person that could not tell me the temperature at which water boils, explain to me that the science says the following climate change nonsense, I'm going

to lose my mind. But then there's also this part of me that that sees what the Trump effect is, if you will, or maybe you'd call it the Mueller effect, where you have people getting destroyed because they want to stand for the truth, the people getting destroyed because they want to be able to have an open and honest conversation about things that really matter, because they think that it will be better for the country in the short run and the long run if there's honesty around important

public policy issues, and honesty requires a willingness to hear uncomfortable things, uncomfortable truths, uncomfortable theories ideas. Otherwise, what you have is this echo chamber effect getting stronger and stronger all the time, where the so called eletes, the the the enlightened class among us get to determine what you know. And I want to know why do they think Whenever I sit down with some of these climate change alarmis, they go, what, very few of them were better than

I was at school. I'm just going to be honest with you. I mean, very few of them are people that academically, because I know who they are and I know what their backgrounds are. The ones that go on TV to talk about this that they wouldn't they wouldn't have wowed me in the class from they wouldn't have outdone me in the classroom if we had been in the same place doing this. So why am I supposed to think that they they know so much more on this and that I'm so crazy that I can't even

question it. What is this based in? It's really based in this this elitism that people have bought into on the left, and it's it's a hallmark of the Democratic Party. Now, you don't have to be smart. You just have to support the smart the smart people, which are the Democrats. You don't have to know anything. You just have to say you're for the Party of science and math and facts, which are the Democrats. But they're not the party of science and maths. In fact, they think a man can

be a woman. They got big problems in the fact department the Democratic Party, big problems indeed. And I know I got a little I got off this topic here, but you know, Carl bernste It was really referring to this then. And I think there's a lot of talk because the Trump Foundation, the charitable foundation started by Donald Trump, is going to be shut down because the New York State Attorney General, who big surprised, another huge, huge Democrat,

says that there was a shocking pattern of illegality. So they're just dissolving this. They're dissolving the chair of the Trump charity. I don't know much about the Trump Charity. I'd have to look into this and see, you know, what was really going on here? Was it probably poorly? Ron? Maybe who knows? I wouldn't wouldn't surprise me. Is that bad? Yeah,

that's not you should have charity should be. But this is this is where I have to turn around and say, Okay, does anybody think that there has been a prosecutor so far who was taking it upon himself or herself to really dig into the Clinton Foundation, and we're going to

talk about corrupt charities and illegal dealing through charities. Is there anybody out there who would look at what's going on with the Clinton Foundation and come away with the conclusion that this was not shady, that all of this was on the up and up. Now they don't even look, They don't even pay any attention. This is two tier justice system. We have one for Democrats, one for Republicans. It's a huge problem. It's pulling this country apart. You

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dot com your new alternative social media. We're arguing that he was certainly ambushed and that the FBI that we know, had clear political bias. We've seen that time and time again. One thing we're one hundred percent sure on is that the President made the right decision in firing James Coming because every single day we learn more and more all of the things that he did that were so far out of bounds for what the FBI director should do. And we'll see how that plays out in court today.

Just one more, that's one thing that we're one So, what the heck happened today in federal court in Virginia. What was Judge Sullivan doing? And what does it mean for Flynn, for the Mueller probe, for justice and the rule of law in America. To make sense of those very straightforward issues, we have our friend Sean Davis back in action here. He is the co founder of The Federalist. You can also follow him on Twitter at Sean ce Davis, where he fights for truth, justice and the American way

all the time. Sean, great to have you, man, great to be here. Thank you for having me. All Right, Well, what happened today with Judge Sullivan, with Flynn with a special counsel, It just seemed like a real blow to the confidence of the American people that the folks who have all this power understand the law. Yeah, So what happened was today was to be the sentencing for Flynn, who pleaded guilty to one charge of making false statements

to the FBI. The stem back to a January twenty four, twenty seventeen, interview he had with counter intel FBI agent Peter Struck and another agent whose name has been redacted from the filings, and what has happened over the last year or so through a series of filings, through a lot of documents, learn people started to cast doubt on what actually happened with that flee wondering, well, did he lie?

Why have we not seen the original FBI document from that conversation with how they wrote down what he actually said or what they said he said. And late last week the judge ordered all those documents to be filed. It's interesting that they weren't filed and made available over a nearly two year long investigation until Judge Sullivan ordered them to be made available. And then on Monday, late last night, they Judge Sullivan ordered the original three O

two to be filed and they looked through that. That gets us to this morning and this afternoon, which was the flee And what happened was, through a series of court filings, flends people had kind of intimated that maybe he didn't lie, Maybe the Feds had been a little wishywashy with the evidence. Maybe this was all coercion I'd been given the lawyer. And what Judge him at Sullivan did is he gave Flynn an opportunity to just take those intimations from the filing head on. He said, do

you want to withdraw your plea? And Flinn said no. And I think that kind of took Sullivan a back, having read the filings in the implications that were in there, and he said, so you did lie. Yes, I did lie. Did you know you you could have had a lawyer? Yes, I knew. Did you know that lying to the Federals of Crime? Yes? I knew that. And that seemed to set the judge off because he has a reputation of

wanting all the facts from the FBI. He took the extraordinary measure of requiring all these documents to be made public. He got them and he looked and said, wait, there's nothing there. There number one and number two, I'm giving you the opportunity to withdraw the plea and you're not doing it. What on earth is going on? And that seemed to set the tone for the whole hearing. But then there was that exchange where he said, couldn't someone

make the case that you sold out your country? And then the judge went to a recess and then came back and said, that's not what I meant to say. Well, what do you make of that? Yeah, that that was really odd and it seemed to be based on a mischaracterization of the facts, which I think is why the judge came back. He seemed to be under the impression when he made the initial charge, said well, you could

have been charged from the Logan Act. You are an unregistered foreign agent while you were a national security advisor. You know, I might even say you're a traitor. The actual facts were that he had stopped that work for Turkey or for Turkish interests before he became national security advisor, so it kind of wasn't operative there. So that was a very strange outburst from the judge. Although taken outside of the legal context, I kind of agree with him.

The charges that they gotten him to plea to in my mind, are not nearly serious as serious as the ones they didn't go after him on, namely being an unregistered agent of a foreign government. I think that's far more serious than making false statements to the FBI in an interview which they actually had no business. Yeah, I agree, And I think this is a this is a part that doesn't get enough attention. I think that Flynn. Look,

I think Flynn got hosed. I mean, yes, he lied, but they you know, they set him up to lie, and they obviously didn't do similar things with Hillary or any of her top people. Of the emails, and everyone sees that disparity and understands that that's just that's the two tier justice system we have at work for Democrats

and Republicans unfortunately. But on this Flynn stuff, being involved with guys who are trying to get a Turkish, a Turkish dissident from Pennsylvania extradited to Turkey for charges of being involved in a coup, that nobody who knows the issue that I know, have any belief that he actually was involved in where he will be tortured and disappeared is not okay, No, it's not. And That's part of my I have so many problems with the Mueller investigation,

namely because it's very one sided. You had Tony Podesta, the brother of Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman, who was an unregistered foreign agent. He was Paulman of Forts Partner. You had Mercury Public Affairs doing the same thing. None of those people got charged. John Podess's brother didn't get charged,

even though he was doing the thing. You had Andrew McCabe, who, according to the Department of Justice Inspector General, lied four times to federal agents, including I believe three times under Oh okay, where are the false statement charge? Yeah, why hasn't he been charged? By the way, do we ever get an answer to that? I have no idea. We know that Hillary and her people made false statements, they

weren't charged. We know that Hillary's people not only were not charged, but fact witnesses posing his attorneys were allowed to be in these depositions and interviews with him, and oh, by the way, at the end of that, they got immunity. So my beef is not specifically with how Flynn was charged or why if he lied, he deserves to pay the consequence. I don't understand this two tiered system of justice.

This two America's where if you have the right politics, you can do whatever you want to get off scott free. But if you have the wrong politics, my goodness, we're going to make sure you go to prison or you have the convict scarlet letter on you for the rest of your life. It's it's the miscarriage in the misapplication of justice across both spectrum, both political parties, that I find so disturbing. Here, why do you think that this got pushed off that the Flynn sentencing got pushed off

to March. I'm seeing a lot of different theories about this, and after today I see here and I say, well, I could believe a couple of different things. What do you think? Well, so, I don't know. I'm not in Judge Sullivan's head. The impression that I got was that he was very upset by the kind of tiptoeing games that Flenn's counsel were trying to play. He was upset about the unregistered foreign agent stuff. He was upset that Flynn was saying he took responsibility while kind of intimating

and filings that maybe it wasn't his fault. It seemed to me very clear that the judge wanted to sentence Flynn to some amount of prison time, despite the recommendation

from the prosecutors that he gets none. And so I think what he is doing, especially in light of this far a case that came up yesterday with two of Flynn's Turkish associates, that he wants to give Flynn another ninety days to help DJ in any way he can cooperate in that case, and then at the end of ninety days, we'll kind of see where his attitude is and what his contributions are, and then the judge will

sentence in them. So I think what the judge was actually doing was restraining his own impulse to want to sentence Flynn to prison and give him one more chance to show that he accepts responsibility for what he did. You know, I why did Flynn Lee? People ask me this all the time, and I say, look, the heads of the intelligence community in general, in the last two years, if they were a stock, the stock has plummeted. I mean, you know, we don't think of because of people like Brennan,

because of people like Hayden and Clapper. The place where I used to work does not have the same luster in the public's eye as it once did. And I think rightfully so, but I think you got to put Flynn in that category two at this point, What the

heck was he thinking? Well, I mean, yeah, it's I will say my confidence in the intelligence community has been in very low in the tank for a while, starting with James Clapper lying to Congress under oath about mass surveillance, John Brennan lying to Congress under oath about spying on Congress itself. Who knows what gets into the heads of these people. Why did he think he didn't need a lawyer? Clearly you have two FBI agents. They're trying to ring

you up. Then, even knowing that they had the transcripts of his phone calls, apparently chose to give them very different characterizations than what they had in front of them. Who knows why people do what they do. But if he lied, he deserves to be held accountable for it. Yeah, But I mean, I think we can just and this is just I'm just expressing my frustration of this at

this point. But you know, Sean, there are limits too stupid, right, Usually you run to a place of such stupid to not tell the truth when the guys that are there are going to go back and look at exactly word for word what you said, and to not have a a your present, and to think that you could compose on the spot and get away, it's just it just

defies belief. And there was no crime. I mean, the other part of this that gets me frustrated is just that there's, to your point, you know who gets charged and who doesn't. People need to understand that's everything. Forget about trial by jury, forget about a vigorous defense. The decision to prosecute is the decision to destroy. But Flynn should know that he should. Yeah, I mean, I have no reason why the same question could be asked. Why did McCabe lie Apparently he thought he could get away

with it? Why did Clapper lie he thought he could get away with it? Why did Brennan lye he thought he would could get away with it? Yeah, three of those four guys were right. So if you're just playing the odds there, maybe it's not such a terrible decision to make, beyond the terrible moral and ethical components of it, and so on. A much simpler taking us to a simpler time, a simpler issue. Sean we're speaking of Sean Davis of the Federalist Everyone, the Federalist dot com where

you go to read his latest bump stocks. The administration said, their band, but it's not that easy, is it. No, So they came out issued a new rule today, or finalize the new rule today, which characterizes bump stocks, which are just a piece of plastic you put on a gun which uses the recoil of the gun to move your finger back and forth across the trigger, as opposed

to you moving pressing it deliberately. The problem with that, regardless of how you feel about bump stocks, is that they have no legal statustatory authority to characterize bump stocks as machine guns because there's a very very specific definition in federal law which happens to match actual physics and mechanics of a gun that says a machine gun is one where you pull the trigger once and it fires

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look at this rule. I think if they are facelessly applying the statute and the law, it will get tossed out pretty quickly because you simply cannot have an agency going in redefining the law unilaterally when Congress has already specifically said no, this is what this thing means. You don't get to go change it because you feel like it. Sean Davids to the federalist everybody, Sean, always get to talk to you, man. Always a pleasure. Thanks for having me.

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cases wildly different perspectives. And I know that Judge Knaps is run around speaking of different perspectives Judge Politano, and he's saying that he thinks Trump could be indicted based on what they already have. Right now, I'm just like, Judge, what are you talking about? I like Judge Nat, but I think he's I think he's way off on this one. But I for example, you know you got Durst saying

that Flynn was coerced here. But that didn't seem to hold water today based on what the judge was saying to him. But you know, here's the Durst play eleven. I don't believe it was a valid play. I think that Flynn was coerced into pleading guilty to a crime of which he was innocent. He was coerced by threats against his son, threats against his fortune. And the reason I think he was innocent is even if he told an untruth, which it seems as if he did, it

was not a material untruth. The government already knew everything they asked him about. They knew that he had conversations with the diplomat, they knew the nature of the conversations. They had recordings of it. And when you ask a question that you already know the answer to and you have proof of the answer, there's only one purpose to the question, and that is to elicit a lie to do a morality test, and that is not a proper function of the FBI. I hope the judge will agree

with that. It will take a lot of courage for the judge to throw out a plea that has already been accepted by him. Didn't look like that judge is ready for that today. We got ninety days now to figure out what's going to happen here. But I think that the dirsh is right here on the issue of material a material lie. You know, if I'm asked, you know who I emailed last week, and I name nine out of ten people, and that tenth person is just a memory lapse, that isn't a material lie necessarily. I mean,

it could be. But you know, if they asked me what I had for breakfast two weeks ago, and I think I had a bagel, but really I had corn flakes, that doesn't matter unless there's some reason for it to matter. You know, it can't just be a function of your recollection of a fact is different from what they believe it is or what they can prove it is. Because memory is imperfect and it has to also matter. It has to matter. That's what material means. It has to matter.

And Flynn's lye did not matter. So but they apply that statute now in a way where they can effectively get you. They'll say anything matters. You know, we've got Andy McCarthy, he's got a different, a different take on this from play thirteen. This is one of the one of the real curiosities of the way this has been covered. What's happened here is Muller has recommended something that I

think is almost certain to happen anyway. That is, if Muller hadn't made any recommendation of no jail time, this judge would impose no jail time on General Flynn because his crime, if his crime is trivial. And on the other side of the ledger, he's given thirty three years of decorated heroic service to the United States, and he's a first defender. In a normal case, he would get

no jail time. But with Muller making a motion to get him no jail time, the coverage will now be he got no jail time because of the explosive cooperation he gave to the Muller investigation. And I just don't think there's any evidence that he did that. And yet now we're in a position where it sounded like, and we just talked to Sean about this, it sounded like the judge was about to give him jail time. I mean, this is the whole the whole thing is such a mess.

And then you have Jonathan Turley. I mean, it's just we're going with the big legal eagles who are appearing on all the networks. Is here Jonathan Turley who is saying that this is actually serious. He says that it is matural that this is serious play twelve. And you can see why the original agents reportedly didn't believe he was intentionally lying. You know. So the question is is this a sort of a case of being you know, charge as a crime for being a chump? I mean

because he goes to this meeting without a lawyer. They I passed the protocol to let the White House Council be aware of this interview in this request, and it just snowballs out of control. And that violation of protocol, I wrote in a column recently, is a very serious one. Yeah, so that the I'm sorry, So what he views is serious is what the FBI did. So, you know, you got people coming to this from from all over the place, you know, people who are saying that, oh, he's guilty,

he lied. You know, closed the you know, closed the book on this, and it's all over with. For you'd like to think that in a case like this, there could be some agreement over what's really gone on here,

over over what matters. So far, most of the facts are in agreement, although I need to understand how is it that the original FBI agents didn't think he was because they compared it to transcripts later on and then they looked at what he said and they compared it, But they didn't keep an exact transcript of what he said.

From what I understand, they were taking notes. So how is it possible, And I'm just thinking through this with all of you, how could he be caught in a lie later on based only upon the notes and therefore the recollection of the FBI agents talking to him. Wouldn't you need the specificity of his exact words and the exact words of the transcript and compare them side by side. Well, they don't have a transcript of what Flynn told the

FBI agents. From what I understand, it wasn't recorded. And beyond that, where does it actually get dealt with whether this is material or not? And what if the FBI guy taking this down struck wasn't telling the truth. We just we're not allowed to believe it. That's possible. So a lot going on in the legal world. I want to bring in some expertise and some legal background to weigh in and all this. We have Sidney Powell with

us now. She's a former federal prosecutor. She used to work specifically a lot of appeals level issues and then also the author of License to Lie and a London Center fellow. Sidney, thank you so much for joining us on the program, My pleasure, Buck, thank you for having me enjoy your show. Thank you. So please tell me just what's your reaction to what happened today at the Flinn sentencing in that courtroom, because it seemed like the judge didn't even really know what was going on what

happened today. I think he has a number of concerns that were raised by both what the government's been filing and what the defense filed, and by the very nature of the plea itself, as well as the factual basis for the plea, and they weren't all resolved today. So I was very glad that General Flynn accepted his offer

of additional time in postponing the sentencing. The story that I think a lot of people are missing is that the judge has additional questions that he is going to be asking the prosecution in particular as well as the defense giving them a chance to answer them, one of which is, how were these statements that General Flynn made even material to the investigation that the FBI was supposedly conducting since they knew the answers to the questions they went over to ask him, And that goes to the

very validity of the factual basis for the plea itself. I also would want to know, and perhaps I missed this Sydney, but to my understanding, it has still not been made clear what exactly the crime was that they were supposed to be investigating when they went to speak to General Flynn. Well, there wasn't one. Well there you go. I think that was actually made clear today because he got the government to admit that there was no crime

in General Flynn talking to Ambassador Asley Act. And in fact, when he when the Special Counsel Assistant mentioned the possibility of the Logan Act, he was practically laughed out of the courtroom. And Judge Sullivan said, oh, you mean that statute that nobody's ever been prosecuted under, And the whole courtroom burst out in laughter. Right, So you know, why would I keep hearing from people? Oh? Well, Flynn lied. Flynn lied, and that's all that matters, and that's all

that anybody's supposed to care about here. Meanwhile, from from what we're actually hearing, there was a decision made. I mean, did you ever see anything like this when you were working as a as a federal prosecutor or? The FBI is like, well, there's no crime here, let's just go ask this person a bunch of questions and hope that he lies or she lies about something. No. I've never seen anything like this in any way, shape or form. It is beyond appalling. You know, how are we to

make of all that? I mean, you've got James come running around saying that the FBI, the FBI's reputational damage is the result of Fox News and Trump and Republicans who have no spine. Meanwhile, he acts like Andy McCabe, who was acting FBI director, wasn't fired for lying under oath several times according to the Inspector General report, which, as I understand it is also prosecutable. So you know, it's it's like we're living in a bizarre o land

where no one's really keeping track of what's happened Sydney. Yeah, there are three federal felonies outline that should be indicted already in the special in the Inspector General's report, And I mean, why haven't they been indicted? I mean, this two tiered system of justice we have just it's an article that you that you wrote, and we're speaking to Sidney Powell, who's a former federal prosecutor and author of License to Lie. An article that you wrote, you know,

got my attention. It's one of the reason why we wanted to have you on the program. Although also saw you do some very good analysis on Fox and Friends that this notion that people don't lie about lying, rather than that when you're prosecuted by the federal government and say, okay, I'm I'm gonna plead to a one zero, zero one charge, then you must be guilty, end of story, end of case. What's what's your as somebody who did this, It was

involved in hundreds and hundreds of federal prosecutions. Well, what's the truth of this? Well it happens all the time now. I mean when I was a federal prosecutor, and I'm not going to mention how old I am, I could probably be your mother. But you know, we did not do this. We always thought and I worked for nine different US attorneys from both political parties in three different

districts across the country. I mean, every US attorney I work for said, listen, they're more than enough dangerous crimes out there. You don't need to be making anything up, and you don't need to go looking for something. You know, prosecute what we've got. We've got plenty. But the prosecutors, now, it's like the higher profile, a more higher profile person they can take elm is the way they look at it.

You know, the higher the CEO or the CFO or the general or whatever, the prouder they are of themselves, and the bigger notch they get on their belt for doing it. Well, that's not the way we worked at all. So you have this whole different mindset of what a prosecution is, and they pride themselves on seeing how many

crimes they can throw at people. So it leaves people with no choice but to plead guilty, because the beating they're taking by pleading guilty isn't as bad as the beating they're going to take if they try to fight it. Just look at the difference between General Flynn and Paul Manaford.

Paul Manafort just tried to reach out to a potential witness that he didn't even know was on General Special Counsel's witness list, and he finds himself in solitary confinement and had all his assets frozen, so he can't hire counsel, all his children's assets frozen, and see to do how's he to fight? Yeah, I think that that's a that's a part of this this story overall with the Special Council, that people don't have enough of an appreciation of. I

know of somebody. I had a friend who was a criminal defense attorney and he was involved in a very very high profile case where somebody he just told me straight up, He's like, look, this person pleaded guilty because it was take the plea or go bankrupt and then probably go to prison for three times as long as you'll get if you don't take the plea, and he just figured, I can't I can't win. They feel like there's absolutely no way out and the only thing they

can do is plead guilty. And if that happens to somebody in the position of General Flynn, imagine what they do to poorer people who have no resources, no financial resources, no community resources, no sterling career to hold up on and point too, and you know they're just totally screwed. Did you have an opinion on either the reputation or just the ethics that you've seen from this special counsel

so far? But about some of the individuals involved specifically, what do you think of or did you know of Mueller? What do you think of or did you know of Weissman? I mean the people that are running this, because you are very conflicting things about this in the media. Oh well,

I mean this is easy. Andrew Weissman is the lead villain in my book, License to Lie, and one of only three ethics complaints I've ever filed in my life as against Andrew Weissman and two of his colleagues in License to Lie, And why was why do you fill that out? At me? Tell people? I think people should know about who this Weisman guy is, and from a former federal prosecutor, you know, as well from somebody who was ostensibly on the same team, so to speak. What

was Weisman doing? What do people need to know about this guy? Muller's number two. Yeah, they literally made up crimes. They destroyed Arthur Anderson, an eighty five thousand jobs, all

for nothing. The Supreme Court reverse rested in a unanimous decision two years later, finding that they literally had not charged the valid crime against Anderson, and the jury instructions were so devoid of criminal intent that Justice Rnquist, writing for the unanimous court, said, it was shocking how little criminal intent the jury instructions required, so that anybody could

have been convicted the way they instructed the jury. And then they made up a crime against four Merrill Lynch executives, sent four Merrill Lynch executives to prison for a year on an indictment that didn't stay to federal offense. While they actually yellow highlighted the evidence they knew proved their innocence and surgically exercised it from the meager summaries they gave the defense in preparation for the trial, and they

hid that evidence for six years. It was only by accident that we discovered it when the third team of prosecutors accidentally gave me the disc that had the yellow highlighted information on it. And I think that's one part of this that aside that people generally don't have an appreciation of or they don't have an understanding of and that is that even when prosecutors engage in egregious misconduct, the sanctions against them, I mean, the real oversight is

pretty limited. Oh, absolutely nothing. Nothing happened to them. I mean one of the cases in my book is the Ted Stevens case, the senator from Alaska, whose Judge Sullivan is the judicial hero of my book because he threw out the conviction against Senator Ted Stevens for egregious government misconduct, hiding evidence that showed he was innocent, and it costs the Alaska the state of Alaska, their Senate seat, changed the balance of power in the United States Senate. What

happened to those prosecutors? Nothing? And the first Department of Justice by that time, it's astonishing, And by that was a vote that was necessary to get Obamacare through, if memory serves exactly. Yeah, So you know, what do you do about the team? I mean, one of them got a thirty day suspension, but neither of them served it. One served a one day suspension. What can we do? It feels like there is a two tier justice system.

It feels like somehow the left and the statists and the progressives have managed to take over some of the court, or maybe they just use the corridors and the levers of power differently than than people who are constitutionalists and people on the right view. But you know, I can't find any prominent left wing pro Hillary pro Obama folks who get the same kind of treatment from the federal from the federal prosecutors offices. No, there isn't one that I know of. Ever, we've got to we've got to

curb the power of federal prosecutors in general. They just have way too much power, and they have absolute immunity. They can send an innocent person to prison for the rest of their lives knowing they're completely innocent, and not a single thing happens to him. That's just that's stunning. Well, the book that I can recommend everybody check out is License to Lie, author Sidney Powe, former federal prosecutor. Sidney, thank you so much for joining us on the show,

and we'd be honored to have you back sometime. Thank you, Buck anytime at all. I really appreciate the work that you do. All right, team, rolling into a quick break, we'll be right back. What impact does it have when the president calls Michael Cohen a rat some of who's cooperating with an investigation and questions how his office was rated by the FBI. It undermines the rule of law.

This is the President of the United States calling a witness who has cooperated with his own Justice Department a wret. Say that again to yourself at home and remind yourself where we have ended up. This is not about Republicans and Democrats. This is about what does it mean to be an American? What are the things that we care about above our policy disputes which are important. There's a set of values that represents the glue of this country and they are under attacked by things just like that.

We have to stop being numb to it. Whether you're Republican or Democrat, you need to stand on your feet, overcome your shame and say something. Oh the sanctimony from sanc to Coomy. It continues on every time this guy gets a chance. It's always about America and fundamental decency and our values. Meanwhile, was it about fundamental decency for him to try to take down a president with leaks

to a newspaper about a private conversation. Yet with the President the United States and the Oval Office, I'm just wondering is that was that about fundamental decency? Anyone any want to get into that one? Oh? What about leaking classified documents? Would that would that be? Or even just

sensitive documents? What about the lack of honor that Comy displayed forget about the law for a moment, just the lack of honor as a person where he would, as a senior government official, sit down with the President the United States and for purely personal gain and out of spite, leak the details of a conversation to the media. Jam off the President United States as if he doesn't have more important things to do, then suffer to play Kate Komey's massive six foot eleven and change ego when it

comes to league and classified documents. Coomey, who's down on Capitol Hill? And look, he loves all the attention. He loves all of this. Komey didn't really want to talk about that when Katherine Herridger Fox News asked him play. Look four. My understanding is that when you shared your memos with your legal team, that there was a follow up for a classified containment operation by the Bureau. Was there a spill of classified information when you shared those memos? Yeah,

I'm not gonna talk about something like that. Wanted to talk about whether classified information was I'm not gonna talk about it one way or another. Woo Coomey got a little didn't like that. One didn't like all of a sudden, he's not the tall guy in the room. All of a sudden, he's not so into, you know, being America's lecturer in chief here a post formally held by Barack Obama. By the way, I love to lecture the American people, but you know, Comy loves to lecture the American people too.

And then you know, there's just so much here that when you look at it, I mean, Comy is is symptomatic or he is a symptom of the broader problem, which is the establishment hated Trump. They still hate Trump. And look, there's a lot of reason to criticize Trump. There's a lot of stuff about him that you could pick on that's completely legitimate. But at the end of the day, he saved us from Hillary. What he accomplished

politically is just short of a miracle. And there's finally a person who's in the Oval office, A finally person who's the head of the executive branch of our government who's willing to talk about issues that you weren't supposed to talk about it till now. I mean, we're having the discussion we're having on immigration. As much as I'm frustrated about it, as much as i worry that Trump's not going to be able to follow through on his promise,

I'm not saying he hasn't, under saying I'm worried. At least we can discuss whether we want continued, constant illegal immigration just flowing into the country and really talk about what the costs are to this country. Talk about the cost in dollar figures, in in lives due to the cartels and the opioids that are just flooding into this country. That's the only conversation now we can have because of Trump.

But the left and the Democrats and the statusts all working together here view him, view Trump and the ideas that he represents, put aside the manphisic and the ideas that he represents. Like that though the working, normal, everyday

American is getting a raw deal from his government. Now that the elite that the establishment aren't nearly as brilliant and wonderful as they would love to make, all the rest of us believe that their privileged positions do not come from being superior to us in skill, in acumen, inability, but because of connections and playing the system and exploiting their own levers to get to where they are, whether

it's in government or outside of it. All of that is very threatening to these people, which is why you had the establishment within the government working together to defeat and then destroy Trump when they couldn't defeat him, and that's why win. For example, he gets asked, why didn't he tell Sally Yates, who was the acting Attorney General? Why not tell Sally Yates about what was coming up here with this interview with Flynn. Here's what he said,

Play clip three. You didn't tell Sally Yates about this interview with Michael Flynn. The FBI was conducted until the day of Why did you wait until the day of

Saliates about that investigation? The days I have interview because I knew that if anything came of the interview, if it advanced our investigation, the attack from the Trump administration would be that an Obama holdover it intineered it, and so I had to make the decisions separate from her, to leave them with their only opportunity to challenge it would be to burn down the entire FBI. To my shock and horror, they've tried to do just that in

the face of silence from people in this building. So Coomy, McCabe and struck they are the FBI or were they employees of the FBI. I noticed the sensitivity about an Obama holdover Sally Yates engineering this because they knew that was a real thing. We got more on sactic comy coming up here at a moment. Team stay with me. I think the last person that we're going to take any lecture from about the values of this country is from a self admitted liar and leaker that we know

James Comey to be. There's no doubt that he did a tremendous number of things wrong and brought out age's corruption to the FBI. He led it with a political bias that is unheard of at an agency like that, and so he'll be the last person that we're going to take any type of lecture from. What we know is that we're fighting every single day to make America

better for the people of this country. It's why the President is so focused on making sure we have a strong economy, getting good trade deals, defeating isis, remaking the judiciary, and fighting for border security like we were seeing him do this week, like you've seen him do every day since he took office. This is a president who's fully committed to supporting and reflecting the values of the American people.

And we certainly won't be lectured by Sarah huckeby Sanders breathing fire in James Collmey's direction, I gotta tell you, I liked it. I like I've callmy is the worst. I mean, call me is the guy who reminds me of the people that I had to always be concerned about in the CIA and the intelligence community, the kind of people who would throw you under the bus just to show that they were doing their job and feel and feel so self righteous about it and never stop

to think, is this really fair? Is this important? Is this a full reflection of this person's contributions to, you know, to the fight to defending this country. Someone like James Comey just because the rules are the rules until the people that he wants to impress get in trouble, and then all of a sudden, if it's Hillary Clinton, the rules aren't the rules. Anymore, then the rules have got a change. These people are very dangerous. Remember, tyranny is

not the draconian application of law to everyone. A real tyranny is the capricious application of the law based upon whether somebody is part of the in group or not, part of the favored sector or not. Because if everyone has to live under our totalitarian but draconian rather laws, and everyone has to live under the very strict, various

your laws, at least you know what to expect. But James Coomey's FBI is if you're a very prominent political figure and you're a conservative, you know you're getting a different treatment. And it also comes from you know, these guys are all humans too, right, They're all they all have egos. They want the glowing treatment of the media. They want to be written about the New York Times for being you know, America's last honest copper. You know, whatever, right,

they love all that stuff. You know, Komy loves it. And you know that Komy likes this moment that he has in the spotlight after all the damage that he's done to the FBI. And I know FBI folks who will say that, I mean, James Comey's is a disgrace, a disgrace. And I can tell you if somebody who worked the CIA, Mike Hayden and John Brennan, they've disgraced the CIA with what they've done, particularly Brennan. I mean, Hayden,

I don't know what. I still am shocked at some of the stuff that he said, but part of me just doesn't want to believe that. It's I don't know. I mean, I work for my guy, I just have. But Brennan. Brennan is office rocker and really dangerous and wacko guy when it comes to the conversation in this country about the rule of law and the intelligence community. I mean, he's really bad news. But you know, Kobe really likes to just just give this this constant lecture.

It's all about America and the foundation of our ethics and values, and it's it's not about being partisan, but it is about being partisan with James Coom. That's the problem. Play clip five. People who know better, including Republican members of this body, have to have the courage to stand up and speak the truth, not be cowed by mean tweets or fear of their base. There is a truth

and they're not telling it. Their silence is shameful. The top Republicans who are remaining in the House Sex session, do you see any chaking that mantle coming up and defending the MBI taking on the president. Not yet to my view, to their everlasting shame. I hope they'll overcome to realize someday they got to explained to their grandchildren what they did today. No sank to Komey. No one's gonna have to explain to their grandchild. No one's gonna care.

All right, you're you're you're not the most You're not the center of this of this national drama that's going to be you know, written about and and be the story that everybody tells their kids for future generations. No, it just it's a petty bureaucrat with too much power, too much self absorption, and no no ability to self reflect. I mean, just this guy is scary in that regard. Such a false humility, and false humility is the scariest

kind coming from this guy. It's really distressing. Um, you know, Bob Goodlatt is asking some very important questions about all this. Here's Bob Goodlett on Kobe and the Special counsel on how all this has gone down Play seven. It's also very interesting that when Loretta Lynch told mister Komey to treat the Clinton investigation as a matter, he didn't seek

a special counsel. And when Loretta Lynch met with President Bill Clinton on the tarmac right before the announcement was made regarding that investigation, he didn't seek a special counsel, although he claims he thought about one. But when he was fired, that's when he engaged in leaking documents in order to get a special counsel appointed. And based on now that we have, near the end of this investigation, based upon, in my opinion, very false premises, good Lad

raises something very interesting here about Komey. That is that there is a clear he had a clear willingness to keep it under the vest, keep things quiet, keep it on the down low, as long as he was doing going to be FBI director. As long as James he gets what he wants, we don't have to worry about the constitution and the foundation of this country and the ethics and the morals of George Washington and Ben Franklin and blobde blobdy blah. As long as James Comy gets

to stay as FBI director. None of that seems to matter. It's what Comy loses his job that all of a sudden he goes scorched earth. Oh isn't that interesting when Comy would have to return to private life and get paid seven figures again, I mean, he was paid a million dollars a year plus from what I understand to be an advisor at a hedge fund in Connecticut. And it just so happened that that hedge fund was one of the very few that Coomy's mentee, pre Berarra didn't

go after with a vengeance looking for insider trading. Isn't that's a very good investment. I gotta say that for that edge fund, very good, very good to have Comey as an advisor on your saff advising on what exactly, Oh don't ask not supposed to ask you, Comy. Coomey's not for sale. You know one one thing I forgot.

I keep bringing up that that Scooter Libby the other Special Council debacle, another Republican administration, Democrats trying to make that seem like, oh my gosh, treason and as terrible was all crap, all garbage. They're just trying to destroy a good man because they're angry about Bush and they're angry about, you know, losing the election and the fact that they have to run some some slomial like John Kerry.

You know, they they ran with this thing with the Scooter Libby, but it was based on it was just based on spite that they went after him. But you know Fitzgerald, who was also Comey's lawyer right now, he was the one who went after Conrad black On on his services fraud. That's the thing we keep being told, which I would know got overturned by the Supreme Court. You know, we keep being told that you gotta trust

these guys. This is the system. They're professionals. And then when you look at the really big cases, the cases that matter, Republicans get treated terribly and there's no corollary on the other side. There's there's no equivalent. You know, there's no Democrats who are getting destroyed based on prosecutorial zeal and I think that that's noteworthy. And you know, also I think it's not worthy that Comy doesn't really

want to answer certain questions. Bob Goodlatt brought that one up play six the year and a half after James Comy was fired, he's still playing games with the Congress over this issue. We've interviewed fourteen other witnesses, all of whom who had security clearances but lost them when they were fired, went and got them back on a temporary basis. James Comy refused to do that. So if you read the transcript, you'll note a number of times when he's

asked about it matter, he said, well, that's classified. And the point is, even if we had moved the interview into a classified setting, he still would not have been able to answer the questions that he knew the answers to because they were classified and he didn't have clearance to talk about them. That's the kind of things we've had to put up with, mister Komy. You know, we're never really going to get a lot of these answers. Unfortunately.

I hate to be the one I to tell you that, just like I was telling people right after Romney lost to Obama, you're never going to see justice for what happened in Benghazi. No one's really going to be held accountable. That was right. I don't know if we're ever going to get all these answers. Very frustrating. I wish it

wasn't the case. I don't know if we're ever going to get these answers, because the fix is in the people who make these determinations about the information, who make the determinations about who gets prosecuted, who gets let go, who gets the second chance, who gets crushed. They are of the left. Now, they're not all hardcore progressives, but

they're Democrats. They opposed the Republican Party, and they, unlike many of their Republican counterpart arts adj and the federal judiciary and elsewhere, are not willing to abuse their power in the same way. There is not an equivalency here between the left and the right. It's unfortunate, but this is the world we're living in now. The left is weaponizing the law that's happening right before our very eyes, and it's gotten a lot of help from some folks

in the deep state. I want to share some titles with you from a couple left wing publications about something that happened recently that touches on the double standard whenever issues of the trans or LGBT community are involved and the media is covering it all right, This one from the Daily Beast quote RuPaul loves drag kid Desmond, you

will too fiercely. Back in June, The Today Show promoted this same individual quote, Meet the ten year old drag kid taking over social media with an inspiring message quote, it really is amazing being in the spotlight because I get so much support and I'm an inspiration to so many people, which is one of my number one goals, Desmond told The Daily Beast. I like all the fame

and helping the LGB community fight for our rights. This is about an eleven year old boy, and I have to hat tip the fine writing over at the Daily Wire for finding this piece. Amanda pressed to Jacomo is

the one who gets the byeline here. Just about a week ago in eleven year old Boy eleven folks in New York in a Brooklyn gay bar called three Dollar Bill, an eleven year old boy was put on stage dressed as a as a female, I mean dressed as an I guess as a woman or as a girl, and they try to make him a Gwen Stefani lookalike in full drag makeup, a blonde wig and a crop top as he danced on stage to a no doubt song and collected dollar bills from adult males who were at

the club viewing this. Now, I would just want to point out that if an eleven year old girl showed up at a just a a I guess a straight bar or just a standard bar and was gyrating on a stage eleven years old folks gyrating on a stage for the amusement and whatever, you know, just for the viewing pleasure, I don't even know what to say of a bunch of adult males. People would rightly be completely horrified,

They would be outraged. There might even be I don't know that they probably would be arrests made for endangering the welfare of a child. There might it might even fall under some kind of visual exploitation statute. I don't know.

I just know that this would never be okay. And if a bunch of friends of mine, heterosexual friends of mine, peers of mine, said, yeah, you know, we're at the bar last night, and they had an eleven year old girl in a crop top dancing on stage while adults threw money at her, I would probably call the police without even necessarily knowing what the crime is that I would want them to be arrest of woe. I would

just I would just freak out. And what I guess isn't really surprising or shouldn't be surprising, is that I was seeing I was seeing blue check journos today, you know, left wing, progressive activist journalist types who were defending this. And I'm sorry, but but there's an obvious double standard that exists in the way the media views LGBTQ and transgender issues when it comes to exploitation and what would fall under you know, exploitation in a in a heterosexual context.

I mean, to have a sexualized eleven year old dancing on stage is at a minimum morally abhorrent, and it may also be something that that violates certain statutes. I mean, once you get into some of the some of the law that exists I think people are you know, generally doesn't come up because you just obviously, you know, there's so many of these laws and unless you're somebody that's

violating them, you tend not to think about this. But this, whenever it comes to any kind of exploitation of a child, I mean, the laws are incredibly strict, as they should be, and it covers a lot more than actual you know, physical touching. Or any kind of physical abuse. There's a lot more that is swept up into those laws, and I was just amazed to see how many people were trying to say that this is I mean, look, the Daily Beast was writing pieces of selling media is celebrating this.

They're celebrating an eleven year old who was being dressed up and danced on stage for the amusement of gay men at a gay bar. And this is supposed to be normal, And okay, why why would anyone think that? But you know, this is also then this goes to the the over zealousness with which some people are trying to turn every issue that affects the LGBT community into a kind of a crusade. Right, they have lost all

sense of objectivity. I mean, this is also what you see with people who are advocating for eleven, twelfth, thirteen year olds to start transgender, you know, procedure procedures. I would just start taking you know, hormones at a very young age to start you know, the the sex change operation before they're even eighteen. I mean, this is just no normal person would think this. But then again, you know,

we had we had the miss or whatever. It does not Miss USA, but the Miss World pageant and there was a transgender contestant and a female beauty pageant, and we're supposed to think. I mean, you know, they're telling me, as a heterosexual male, that if I think it's bizarre and highly unattractive for a man to present as a woman because I am only attracted to women, there's something close minded about that. There's some kind of bigotry involved,

because they really live in this fantasy world. They think that there's like magic that's happening here where a man can become a woman, and therefore men who are attracted to women should be attracted to a transgender woman. Right. If you're not, they think there's something strange about you. This is crazy, This whole thing is nuts, and that they're even unable to see how it could affect children and the abuse that is inherent in this kind of

a thing. I mean, the idea that you would let eleven year old in any context dance in a sexual fashion for the amusement of adult adult anybody is horrifying. But this is how depraved the Left has become. They're fine, We're really starting to see the length they're willing to go to on this and just what they're willing to sacrifice, and any decency, any integrity, any honor that can be sacrificed to the LGBTQ trans crusade, including what it involves children.

Row called Tom everybody. Man, I can't believe it's already almost when day, or as somebody said to me, it is halfway to hump Day, which is halfway to Friday. Yes, that is that is technically a true thing that was said to me. So we're getting their team almost there for the holiday, almost ready to rock out and forget all of our troubles with some delicious egg nog. Perhaps I know that my family we do we do ham on Christmas. We go big with the roast. That honey

glaze roast ham m good. Before I get into roll call, I just I gotta say something about this. I sometimes have this, uh, this feeling that social media is going to destroy humankind. I mean just meaning that social media can be away from the worst people in society to get attention for themselves everything else. And this weekend I managed to cook a steak for Miss Molly and me that I and she would agree. And she's a very

good cook and she can be a tough critic. I think even she would agree that the steak was basically perfect. I mean it was really really well done. It was a boning RIBI so it was a tomahawk, and man, I seared that guy and I put a little time in there, and it was cast iron pan and it just and if you haven't seen it, it's on my Instagram. I think I put it up on Facebook too, just to you. I was proud of my work because I've really been trying to trying to improve my cooking technique.

I'm not somebody who's had much cooking experience and I want to get better at this. And so I remember I shared this. I thought to myself, you know, it's so nice. Sometimes the social media you get to do, you get to do nice things. You know. Sometimes you get to just share, you know, a photo of a puppy, or you get to you know, put out there that you know, you made really nice burgers for your family,

just something that you think. It's not political, right, this is I'm just a human being, man, I'm just a person like everybody else. And I put this steak up there and it's just a steak. I didn't I was in editorializing. I wasn't. I thought, if there are a few things that we can all still agree on in America, we can celebrate a perfectly seared Tomahawks steak should be on that list. And yet some guy who's a blue

check Twitter person. So from a verified account, some guy named Jerry Saltz wrote in response to my steak, my non political steak tweet. Oh look at this steak. It is so good. Here's here's a short eight second video of its sizzling. This guy who has a half a million Twitter followers. Uh, this guy who is somebody that you know, he would think wouldn't be acting like such a mediac responded to my tweet quote symbol of a very lonely man with bad daddy issues. I was flabbergasted.

I don't know this guy. I've had no He apparently won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism for New York Magazine in twenty eighteen. Guy's got a half a million Twitter followers. You know, he looks kind of like, you know, a less a less attractive version of Woody Allen. But you know, he's a guy who writes for New York Magazine, And I sort of sit here, I think to myself, what exactly can I do now where I don't have to expect that I'm gonna get all this all this nasty

blow back and all this stuff. You know, is there anything that's sacred? I mean, first of all, the notion that a steak cooking a steak is a symbol of a lonely man with daddy issues. It's so stupid. I think it's the dumbest thing I've ever read online from a person with a real platform and who works in media for a living, who is a writer for a living.

I also thought about sharing a photo of miss Molly as she was wearing a black rifle t shirt in the kitchen with me just looking absolutely stunning and lovely and saying, I don't think. I don't think that I'm a very lonely man. I think I think that that's a pretty uh that's that's quite a stretch there, buddy. And yet, and yet, this was an exchange I had on social media, and you know what there was I thought about, you know, because I don't like it when

people do this. I could have really dragged the guy and gone after him and made a huge thing of it. But you know, I don't know people say dumping things on Twitter, and not everyone who says dumb things on Twitter is a bad person. I don't want to be one of those people that really just you know, just turns turns the blade even you know it pushes it even deeper and turns it around and really twists it.

So I decided I was just gonna be saying, you know what, I'll I'll let other people decide on this. One man, this is pretty dumb. But I let it go. And then I realized, you know what, in the in the spirit of Christmas, I'm gonna try to be even nicer for the rest of the month that I would

normally be on Twitter. I don't know if I'm going to succeed, but despite the fact that there are mean trolls out there, including trolls with big followings and a lot of people that you know, want to want to be reading their stuff, I'm gonna try to be even nice because that's what Christmas is all about. I mean, it's actually about the birth of Jesus Christ, our Savior, but let's put that aside for a moment. Let's we won't even get into that. Be able Dully forget about

that part of it. And I went to a whole Christmas music spectacular at the Kennedy Central last weekend. No talk of Jesus in this, which is interesting. I thought it is supposed to be Christmas songs and a lot of you know, all out woful Christmas is you, which it's not really what Christmas is not about. How I want, you know, somebody who's my love interest to you know

what I'm saying. I mean, I'm just saying a little bit of taking the Christ out of Christmas is a thing that happens with a lot to a lot, far too frequently in our in our country these days. But I'm gonna try to be even nicer on Twitter. That's one of my little Christmas resolutions for the depress of the month. And I'm already probably too nice. So but I'm not gonna stop cooking steaks. In fact, I've already

got a I've got later this week. I think I'm going for let mignon with some rosemary from my rosemary plant. Oh what's up? All right? Roll Call is next? Liberty, Truth and great Hair. Feel those funky beats. It's time for roll Call. But I know I gave you a head fake before. I'm the roll call, but this time I'm really I'm really getting getting into it. So here we go Facebook dot Com slash buck Sexton to be

a part of the role call partey. Eric writes, I find this whole Michael Flynn in front of the judge thing to be very punscious, pilot, Like, if the judge doesn't like it, why doesn't he put a stop to it? Well, Eric, judges, federal judges have a lot of authority. They have a lot of power to do all kinds of things. I think people generally don't realize. The judges can go well beyond the sentence and guidelines. They can go well, hello

the sentence and godelines. Judges can even set aside. People really don't know this one, and I bring this up and they usually say no way. Judges can set aside a jury verdict. They say, no, we're going to set aside that jury verdict and impose their own sentence. Now, that's regular and obviously would raise a lot of eyebrows, but they can do it. So as to why the judge is doing what he's doing here, there's a lot

of theories about it. Right now, I think that people got a little bit of a dose of reality today. If we think that federal judges are not a part of the very system that is being abused to go I approve of people for political purposes, I think we're missing We're missing the point. They're federal judges. Prosecutors are very cozy, They're very much part of the same team in a lot of ways. Judges are just there to

be a traffic cop in the process. But they're not Judges are not advocates for the citizenry over the state. Understand I remember, remember who pays the judges, the federal government.

That's where they're drawing their paycheck. Now, I'm not saying that doesn't mean they're judges who are very very much devoted to the Constitution and the rule of law and are an essential bullwork in defense of individual liberty, because there are But just I think that we've seen, or we were led to believe by some people that maybe weren't paying critically close attention, that federal judges are going to be our saviors. You know. It's like with this

Obamacare ruling. I mean, I think that this is not gonna stand up, and so this federal judge. If anything, has made it harder for Republicans. I think of the long term, because this is going to get overturned, and then they're gonna say, see, our our judges quote, our judges uphold Obamacare, and that's the law of land. Your

judges try to overturn Obamacare and they fail. So that's there's a There's a whole show to be had here, many shows, probably a whole a series that we could just do on the politicization of the judiciary and what it means for this country and some of the pitfalls that come from it. Thomas, what's up? A man said, whoh, Thomas, this is very long. I'm wondering what Robert Mueller's game

is here, Buck. What prompted him to refer flynn sentencing hearing to be conducted at this time when he knows the statute of limitations for his recommended charges doesn't expire for another four years, and he hasn't ended his investigation or submitted a final report to the DOJ. The timing here doesn't make any sense. Having Flynn testify against his partners would not be dependent on Flynn being sentenced for

his alleged crime. And now the prospect of Flynn being charged by Judge Sullivan for higher crimes would invalidate any further testimony or appearance in court, as well as witness against as well as a witness against his former business partners. Is that the deal between Muller and Flynn that Mueller will insulate Flynn from testifying against his partners, that exchange for more information, Shield Tie, Judge Sullivan should be outraged.

What's going on then, Shield side, Thomas, You're doing a lot of very good thinking on this, a lot of very good analysis. I have to tell you, I don't know. I don't know what the answer is here, and I think it's important to tell you when I really don't know. I have some ideas, I certainly have some analysis to offer up on it, as I have been throughout this show, but it's not exactly clear to me what's going on here. Remember we're going off of imperfect information. Even for a

federal trial. You know, indictments tend to be are sealed in the first place. But not only do we have sealed indictment issue, we also have the issue of classification and ongoing investigation. Right they're claiming that some of this information is classified, so we can't see it perhaps under any circumstances. And there's a lot that we're gonna have to sift through here. Why would this judge delay the center sing until March. Why would the judge say that

maybe he sold out? That Flynn sold out his country, which he then apologized for. Very irregular, A really unsteady day in the federal court today, I mean, not a day that gives people a lot of confidence in what's going on with the federal judiciary. So I'm open to a lot of a lot of different theories about this one. I do think that Flynn's liability here, the real liability, had to do with the lobbying for Turkey, and with trying to keep his son out of federal criminal jeopardy,

and also just wanted this whole thing to end. But you know that that leaves a lot open territory for wolves Flynn just saying he's guilty. You know, Annie MacArthur wrote this piece of the Weekend where he's like Flynn lytte it looks like Flynn Lyne. And that's that's the case as far as we know it. Flynn did lie. Why would he lie? Why a lot of the FBI

about this. What purpose would that serve? I find it very hard to believe that the former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency did not know or would not have known, that this conversation was monitored. It had been reported in the press that the conversation was monitored, which is why

it was a thing in the first place. So even if he didn't know for some reason that this conversation had been recorded and transcribed as part of counterintelligence monitoring, then which by the way, is a huge breach of protocol that this information even got out there and somebody committed a felony leak to get Flynn. And then the end, did the FBI try to set Flinn up? Absolutely, the FBI was trying to set Flint up. And I I want

to see the FBI. A few people in the FBI COMI struck McCabe, Sally Yates, you know, these pro institutionalist, pro Hillary holdovers in the Department of Justice. I mean, they're the ones that decided that they were going to get Flynn, and that's what happened here. But he made it way too easy for them. I mean, I can't tell you that Flynn didn't mess up here because he did, and the lobbying for Turkey. I saw this to you yesterday the show, and go back and listen to it.

I can't see a defense of this. I think this was really shady and showed very poor judgment, just as I said to you yesterday before the whole ordeal today in the Federal Court. I don't know why a three star general would think that advocating on behalf of Turkey, which is really an autocracy. Now. I mean, they say it's a democracy, but ERDAUA has effectively made it a Turkish version of Putin's Russia. Or maybe Putin is a

Russian version of Erduan's Turkey. So this is not a This is not a regime that he should have been that in any way Flynn should have been lending his credibility to him and involved with any He should have known better on that one. Now, should his life be ruined, should thirty years of service all be forgotten? Should he been targeted because he's part of Trump's inner circle? No, no, of course not. But there's a lot. You know, multiple

things can be true at the same time. It can be true that Flynn showed poor judgment and that Flynn was targeted by the FBI, and that's what I think happened here. It can be true that Flynn lied and that he never should have been put in a position for that lie to have been a criminal matter. You know, multiple things can be true at the same time. Rick writes, Buck, still love your show. Pretty sure that will never change.

Heard your Christmas movie list and wasn't surprised you'd never heard of the movie The Apartment, released in nineteen sixty, directed by Billy Wilder and starring Jack Lemon and Shirley McClain. Although some might think it dated now, I think the underlying message of right and wrong is still relevant. It is definitely a Christmas movie that will take you through

the gamut of emotions and very worth seeing. Merry Christmas to you and miss Molly shield tie Oss, Rick, oh Rick, thank you so much for letting me know what The Apartment's all about and for the con message. Miss Molly sends you a big hog and and a Christmas kiss on the cheek. And yeah, man, I think that that's a movie that I'll have to watch over this holiday season. I'm just laying low. I'm gonna be doing reading and thinking and resting and maybe even get to the gym

for the first time in a while. That would be nice. I do not have any exciting plans this year. I think that that's gonna be gonna be the way that we way that I rejuvenate a little bit here. You need to need to chill. Dale Rights. Hey, Buck, really appreciated your shout out to Trading Places as a great Christmas movie. Sometimes people forget about it. It remains not only my favorite Christmas movie, but one of my top

five comedies of all time. Randolph Mortimer truly an all star cast and also very educational with respect to concepts of the market and buying on margin. Yeah, I think the Trading Places people would say forty eight hours. I think Trading Places is Eddie Murphy's second best movie after Beverly Hills Cop. I know that might be a little controver schell, but I put it ahead of Beverly Hills Cop. I think it's really really entertaining, very very well done.

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