The Green Dream Is A Nightmare

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it does farting. This is so incredible. This is such a major watershed moment, and I am so incredibly excited that we are going to transition this country into the future and we are not going to be dragged behind by our past. No. I think it is a green dream. It is, it is. The green dream is a nightmare. My friends. Welcome to the Buck Sexton Show. So big news of the day, of course, is there's no deal out of no deal with the North Koreans out of Vietnam.

You had the testimony behind closed doors to Michael Cohen. We're going to cover a lot of ground today. GDP numbers came in. They're good, not amazing, but good. We'll talk about why. My friend Matty Duppler, who's an expert on these things. She's a number super nerd, and I say that in the best possible way. She'll be joining us later on the show to talk about what this means for the economy. How's the economy looking going into twenty twenty. My contention is that if the economy is strong,

Trump is unbeatable going into twenty twenty. But we are due for a recession, folks, So that's not that's not going to be a done deal. And Trump is going to have to do a lot to make sure that we don't hit some kind of a cyclical bump right

in time for some socialist wave to sweep. It doesn't have to sweep all of America, just has to flip a few hundred thousand votes come twenty twenty, and all of a sudden, you have a President Warren or President Sanders or you know, you name it, and they're all they're all signing onto this They're all signing onto this Green New Deal nonsense. All these presidential contenders so far, the major ones, have said this is what they want

to do. So what I did today, and we'll get into the nuclear diplomacy and what I see from what happened in North Korea that'll come up maybe a little bit later this hour. And I wanted to take a slightly different approach today and not allow what happened yesterday to continue to go on, which is where the left determines what the narrative is. Right. The left determines that we're all because at a certain level, if there's enough saturation coverage of something, even though how much do you

really even care about what Cohen said yesterday? It was really a waste of everybody's time, not really anything new, certainly nothing of any substance or importance, and just Cohen acting like the sly, dishonest disgrace that he is. But that was such a focus that there were a lot of other things that got pushed aside, like, for example, the nuclear diplomacy in Hanoi, And so I want us focus more on that today, very little on Cohen, but also on some of the deep dive that I did

on my own. Well I do all of this on my own, of course, but some of the deep dive into the Green New Deal, and specifically this idea that the Green New Deal is going to be an economic boost and will create millions of new, high paying jobs for the twenty first century economy. This is not new, by the way, this idea, this talking point, which is really that the center of the Democrat Party's platform right now is socialized medicine. They're going to call it Medicare

for all, but what they want is socialized medicine. Medicare for all is just like Obamacare was a way to get there. They want socialized medicine and they want a Green New Deal. Now you might think, really, why such a focus on this, and amnesty too, but they're not talking about amnesty yet. That's also coming. This was the triad of terribles from the Obama administration. First thing Obama did Obamacare, right, that was the very first thing he did.

Second thing he tried to do is get through amnesty with that. Remember that Gang of Eight bill, and oh we need to do and the Dreamers and DACA. The third thing was in climate change, and he wasn't able to get that. But those were the Those are the three dreams of the status left, because if you get those things, it's all over for limited government, conservatism, free

market capitalism, all that stuff. Just it doesn't evaporate overnight, but it is in permanent recession, perhaps never to come back. They know this, and that's why they focus so much on those areas. But the Green New Deal is front and center right now. Mitch McConnell in a he's a KG character, Mitch. He knows what's up. He wants to try to force them to vote. He's not making a

vote on it yet. It may not vote on it till before the August recess, So he wants them to have to take positions now and then we'll see where they are on the vote later. Merchant's a smart guy. You gotta give Mitch some credit. But I wanted to look into some of the the things that are said about the Green New Deal that just strike me as either implausible or flatly untrue. And the biggest one is that it's going to create all of these jobs, that

there's going to be this explosion of great millions. They say, millions and millions of jobs. Well, when you look into what the real plans are of organizations that promote this Green New Deal, when you look into what they're trying to do, you see that there's a tremendous amount of room for waste, fraud, nonsense, terrible, terrible planning. And that's what this is all about. Central planning. The Green New Deal allows central planning to become our way of life.

Everything will be centrally planned because the environment and environmentalism affects everything that you do, the products you use, the house you live in, the way you heat your home, the way you cool your home, the way you get to work, the way you sit at work, the way everything you do is affected by this Green New Deal ideology.

But when you start to break it into its component parts, and I read today, and I gotta tell you, there's not a lot of great research you'll find on the Green New Deal one, because it's a that they've made the concept relatively new. Although we have Obama right to play that. This is Obama from when he was president and talking about this play it. We will increase oil production here in the United States. Yes, we can drill more, but drilling is not a long term solution to our problem,

not even close. And that's why I will invest one hundred and fifty billion dollars over the next decade, working in partnership with states and local governments and the private sector. We are going to invest in affordable renewable sources of energy, wind power, on solar power, and the next generation of biofuels. An investment that will lead to new industries and five million new jobs that pay well and cannot be outsourced.

Five million jobs that pay well and cannot be outsourced. Well, let me tell you something about Obama that you may not know. The Obama stimulus package included billion of dollars set aside for what we would call Green New Deal style programs. And you know what really happened. Some of these companies that are getting massive government subsidies used money to buy windmills or solar farms, wind turbines, or solar farms or rather solar panels overseas and then use them

for their own purposes. They weren't creating jobs. Here. We know from Cylindra that the economic model, remember that Cylinder, the Obama administration boondoggle, hundreds of millions of dollars of loan guarantees for Cylindra. So that just means that they can lose money. And when they lose too much money, the taxpayer fills in the gap. And that was a Department of Energy program. By the way, they couldn't make it work. They were losing money on all the energy

they were creating. Now fast forward to today. So Obama had this plan too. Obama love this idea, and it didn't work. Now we've also seen what's happened in Europe where they've been pursuing some of what they their own versions of the Green New Deal. And guess what, despite enormous investments and I hate that word investment, because you know what investment is. They're taking your money, They are

taking your taxes. And when you're getting ready like me to write out a check in the next few weeks to the government to pay your taxes so that you can continue to be a freeman who doesn't go to prison. Remember that they want to take that and say it's an investment and give it to somebody who says they're doing the work of saving the planet by creating green energy.

Germany has had flat carbon emissions despite five hundred and billion dollars of investment that they've set aside by twenty twenty five in a renewable heavy electrical grid, and they've had a fifty percent rise in electricity costs. France has a tenth to carbon emissions. This was done a piece today I saw on Quilette. It was amazing. A tenth of the carbon emissions per unit of electricity is Germany and pays a little more than half for its electricity.

How through nuclear power. Nuclear power, if they're serious about clean energy and having affordable electricity, is what we should be doing. And yet the left hates nuclear power. Why because of the propaganda against it, Because it's not part of their belief system, because the Green New Deal is based on a religious belief system. Nuclear doesn't that's not clean,

that's not even though it actually is. There's waste from it, but the waste is very minimal and small, and the risk of nuclear some kind of a nuclear meltdown situations, very very very small nuclear power. If we were just being serious about our future when it comes to energy creation would be way more effective. But people are obsessed with solar and wind. That's what they really want. Well, there are cost of solar and wind. You can figure

out what they are just by thinking through it. They estimate that wind power which and this would all This is what the Green New Deal would be. The Green New Deal would be enormous amounts of taxpayer dollars flooding into buying land and clearing it for solar farms, because that's really what you need. You need a lot of solar panels to generate enough electricity to power you know, a major town or city. They're not attractive to look at, by the way, it's not nice in the landscape. You

know a lot of solar panels. Those solar panels, I would know, don't last forever last about twenty years. We don't really know how to dispose of them. What becomes of solar panels when they're no longer really useful. There's a lot of energy expended in making them, you know that. I talk about wind turbines as queens and arts for migratory foul, but particularly for endangered species of birds, for bald eagles, for you know, for all kinds of hawks

and raptors that are on the protected species list. They get chopped up by by wind turbines all the time. They estimate a million birds a year, including large you know, large birds that are protected. But you know, the environmentalists just turn a blind eye of that million birds of year, folks. So there is that. And then on this issue of the jobs, there's a fallacy and this is true of Democrats on a whole bunch of a whole bunch of aspects of job creation. But here's the basics of the

of the Green New Deal fallacy about job creation. They seem to think that you take money, you put it into you put it into building a solar farm, and that's a great thing. You're going to create a job. Well, how long does that job last? The statistics show doesn't last very long at all. What is a green job? They don't even define this. You know why because a huge portion of the so called jobs that are going to be created by a green deal are going to

be bureaucratic jobs. That's right, The administrators of our new green energy future, a lot of federal jobs, stating local jobs. People that are just pushing paper around about how wonderful our green new deal future is going to be. There not going to be that. We don't need human beings standing around holding up solar panels. The infrastructure to transfer this electricity from these different renewable sources is incredibly expensive. We have to put all that in the battery revolution

that we've been promised. You know, look at how Elon Musk's company is doing, folks. He's supposed to be mister battery man. The battery revolution is not here yet. It's not as simple as just you're going to charge it up and then when it's nighttime, those solar panels are going to be just fine because they've already charged up. A No, that's not how it works. The technology is

not there yet. And in terms of the job creation fallacy, the way that liberals approached the Green New Deal would be like saying, well, when somebody walks past a car and smashes the windshield, that's not a bad thing because then the person that sells windshields has to you know, they have to go and sell the windshield to the person that needs a new one. And there are people that construct the windshield, and the insurance company is going

to make a payout. But the insurance company gets paid along the way, and there's all this productivity around the smashing of the windshield. Well, what the green energy people don't understand is that the money that is going into that is less productive than the money that you could or rather than the ways you could have used that money if you didn't have a smashed windshield. This analogy that would be fossil fuels the windshield. If that's making sense.

This whole thing is a disaster. It does not work. The science is not there. It does not create the jobs they say it will. Each job that is created is incredibly expensive. It just moves jobs out of much more efficient fossil fuel energy production rules. It's going to create an enormous bureaucracy. It's going to allow the government to have its tentacles in every aspect of your life. The Green New Deal is a Green New nightmare. I am telling you, the more you dig into it, it

is awful. And every Democrat for president that has a serious shot right now are all officially signed onto this. We need more research on this, We mean, we need more people looking into this and pulling it apart and not just yes, the cow fart jokes are fine. I make them too, but we need to look at how wrong they are and why they're wrong, because people are going to believe this. I'm telling you They're going to

believe these lunatics. I'll be right back. So we do have the aftermath of what was not a not yet a successful deal in Hannoy or not a successful deal in trying to get North Korea off of its nuclear footing. We'll get to that in just a moment. I'll spend some time with you to talk through because you're gonna hear a lot of noise the media about how it's

big failure for Trump. But I just I think that this Green New Deal thing, I'm seeing a lack of intellectual seriousness and pulling apart it is worthy of being mocked. Make the mistake about it. I mean, I think we should just do whole segments where a kaiser Karts has its talking about like how we should stop eating meat because we're gonna say the planet Like, I get it right,

I mean I do that too fine. But when I'm looking around for who's really tackling this issue of Green New Deal jobs millions of jobs, they say this, what evidence do they have for this? Why don't we make them provide evidence? How will there be jobs? Will these just be jobs that are switched over from the currently productive energy economy? And what about people that are just involved in the bureaucracy that this is going to create, you know, the people that are going to measure how

green the Green New Deal is. And then also there's a selective technological optimism at work here where they just suggest that Green New Deal technology, you know, wind and solar and all this stuff is going to get better and better and better. What we've actually seen of a last particularly fifteen to twenty years, is that fossil fuel technology has become way more efficient. Fracking has brought about in an oil revolution in this country. We are a

global fossil fuel superpower, and right at that moment. What the left wants us to do is abandon that and embrace a massive bureaucracy that's really just a trojan horse for socialism. And they're going to call it the Green New Deal. I'm sorry, it's the Green New Nightmare. I'm not down with it, and we're going to keep fighting it.

But we'll talk about Trump and Kim coming up. I wanted to denuke certain areas and I wanted everything, and the sanctions are there, and I didn't want to give up the sanctions unless we had a real program, and they're not ready for that. Night understand that, fully, I really do. I mean, they spent a lot of time building it, and that doesn't mean the world has to be happy. But I wanted them to d nuke, d nuke, the President says, didn't want to give up sanctions. This

is why there is no deal now. The President was very clear that this should not be seen as an end to the process. Right. The President was saying today that after he left Hanoi, it's not like there's not going to be more follow on conversations here and more to discuss, but the relationship will continue on and will continue with the current status quo, which is that there won't be missile testing, there won't be advanced nuclear stuff going on, or ways to try to advance the nuclear

program that they have him. Mostly it's the missile testing, but there's other stuff that they could do too. Here's what the President said about this place sixteen. We will keep the relationship. We'll see what happens over the next period of time. But as you know, we've got our hostages back. There's no more testing. And one of the things importantly that Chairman Kim promised me last night is regardless, he's not going to do testing of rockets and nuclear

not going to do testing. So you know, I trust him and I take him at his word. I hope that's true. I think it was very good, very friendly. This wasn't a walk away, like you get up and walk out now. This was very friendly. We shook hands saying they're not there yet. Right, He's saying that we weren't able to get it done this time, but this channel is open now and we'll see. You know, part of this process, and I think this is hard for us as Americans to consider, is the preparation back home

in North Korea. I know it's not a democracy, it's a despotism. But to prepare the people around Kim, his senior advisors, military generals, the apparatus that Kim. It doesn't matter what despot you're talking about, there's always people that you have to have that implement your will. Right So, you know, even if you're Prince Jeoffrey and Game of Thrones or King Joffrey and Game of Thrones, you know you need the hand, and you know you need the

queen regent, and you need people around you. I know, I'm excited Game of Thrones is coming back in a few weeks. You need people around you to implement your will. You know, no matter how authoritarian any individual may be, there has to be an apparatus around them to enact their will. So Kim, even if he wanted to take steps in this direction, and I don't know if he does or not, I haven't had a chance to talk to him. I'm that would be kind of funny, wouldn't it. Man?

If I could, that would be quite an inner view. You know, he did take a question from a report. This was pretty remarkable, and you know, this is not something that it's certainly not something you see every day. He did take a question do we do we have that? He were saying, Oh, yeah, here we go play thirteen. This is before the meeting. Well, it's still really to tell. But I wouldn't say that I'm testing from what I feel right now. I do have a bling bad good

results would come out. I mean, you got to hear I've I've never heard the guy speak before. I'll be honest with you. I mean, I've read transcripts and obviously it's not speaking in English speaking Korean, but uh, I've never even heard his voice. It's always dubbed over. But you know, the the back home processes that he's going to have to if he Look, maybe this is all Maybe this is all for not I'm not trying to

rule that out. You know, this is the worst regime, the worst government on the planet, the one that I think is the most likely to provoke a war that could go nuclear. And the deprivation, the viciousness, the sadism, the slavery, the torture that the North Korean State engages in really exceeds anything anywhere else on planet Earth right now. I mean, they are number one, and you're dealing then with somebody who sits atop this this mountain of misery

and enslavement and despair. And you know, he didn't create this system, but he's at the top of this system. You have to remember, I'm not even sure it's clear that Kim could just flip some switch and all of a sudden everything starts to feel a lot more normal. There. The people have been propagandized too. There are a lot of people who live in such terror of the regime. They believe the regime. This is where I always telling you, you know, read Escape from Camp fourteen, read Aquariums of

pyeong Yang, and they will haunt you. I mean, those books will they will stay with you. You know. Escape from Camp fourteen is like a Korean version of the Gulag Archipelago. I mean, it's the kind of literature that affects the way that you see not just that country, but the way that you see life and the world around you. And it takes you into the real depths of human despair and misery and violence and hatred. And so, you know, make no mistake about it. North Korea is

the most evil country in the world right now. I mean, you know, Iran is an evil regime, but you know, the Iranian people learned way better shape than which you're what's going on in North Korea. A lot of Iranians driving around in BMW's and you know, having par It's a very very different scene, right, That's not the scene

you have in North Korea. And part of this whole process and the reason that it's going to be phased if it works, which it may not, because maybe he is you know, he could just be an evil soob and that's it. But at least now we're finding out at least now Trump is trying and when you and this is another part of this that I don't think it's nearly enough analytic play. You know, you look at who the North Korean dictators have liked in the past.

They like larger than life figures, you know, they like Dennis Rodman, you know, Kim Jong n Kim Jong Ill like Dennis Rodman, They love Michael Jordan, they like you know,

huge American celebrities. I forget, there's some other celebrities. I remember reading about this that the Kim dynasty really warmed to and I can't now And the problem with with some of the North koreanalysis you do is the North Korea jokes and memes that people may get met, you know, to get mixed in your head with because some of the stuff that is true sounds like it can't be true, you know, like Kim Jong gun got eighteen holes in one in golf in the same day, and things like,

you know, the North Korean news agency propaganda. It sounds so preposterous that it's like something from the Onion. But it isn't from the Onion. But Kim is going to have to go through a whole process here. It's not as straightforward as just Okay, I want our country to

be a normal country. I mean I think that there's a real risk that he could be you know, they could take him under house arrest, and there would be somebody that you know, you could have some kind of a palace coup, and there's other members of the family, you know, who knows. Our visibility into the real power structure in North Korea and the decision making process is,

I can guarantee you very very minimal. It's very hard to look into a place as closed off in the world as North Korea and really know who's making I mean, our visibility into the you know, the decision making in France into our own government is limited. You can imagine what we really know about North Korea. But the reason this fell apart with sanctions, This is very important Play fifteen. They wanted the sanctions lifted in their entirety and we

couldn't do that. They were willing to denuke a large portion of the areas that we wanted, but we couldn't give up all of the sanctions for that. So we continue to work and we'll see, but we had to walk away from that. I think we'll end up being very good friends with Chairman Kim and with North Korea. And I think they have tremendous potential. I've been telling everybody they have tremendous potential, unbelievable potential. But we're going

to see. But it was about sanctions. I mean, they wanted sanctions lifted, but they weren't willing to do an area that we wanted. I want to lift sanctions, but you know that wasn't going to happen if Trump had come back. I assure you, if Ump had come back from Hanoi, which is so much more important, and I know I've been saying to you, so much more important than this nonsense with Cohen on Capitol Hia. So it just goes to show you Democrats are unserious people. A

serious threat to the country, but unserious people. All the saturation coverage of Cohen, all that's all the news wires. Everyone's talking about me, while the president's trying to solve a war that's never even formally been ended and going on since nineteen fifty one, and deal with the greatest national security threat really in terms of positive, in terms of loss of life, potential, realistic national security threat that

exists in the world today. He's trying to tackle that, and you know, they just want to make jokes and make fun of him. But if he had come back from this and he had agreed to sanctions relief without a full accounting of the North Korean nuclear program and without an agreement on steps for denuclearization with verification procedures in play, I would have said Trump, Trump's getting played. I've told you, I'm disappointed on where the wall is right now. The wall is not where we were led

to believe it would be at this point. That doesn't mean but see there's a difference between it's not what I want, it's not perfect yet and someone has failed, someone has sold us out, someone was lying. Those are not the same thing, all right. The wall isn't where it should be now. And Trump hasn't gotten as far at this point in his presidency as he should have based on the importance of the wall in his campaign rhetoric and the size of the immigration crisis, which is

only going to get worse. We'll be talking more about that, I'm sure in the weeks ahead, but on this issue, the fact that he did not remove sanctions is absolutely essential. And this is where this is where the Obama administration fell into a trap because they were desperate and Obama couldn't you know, Obama's team couldn't negotiate their way out of a paper bag. I mean, they had no idea what they were really doing because they didn't really understand

the opposition. They didn't really understand who the Iranians are and what the Iranian regime is trying to do willing to do. And there was a tremendous amount of hubrists and an arrogance that was just dripping from the you know, Ben Rhodes and the other chief foreign policy propagandists of the Obama administration, and they didn't want to listen to anybody else. They thought that they knew better, they were smarter,

and they got They got just swindled, absolutely swindled. Because now the Iranian state's getting you know, well, Trump has rolled this back, but the Iranian state was on a roadway to getting richer and having a more robust nuclear program down the line that would be turn key, ready to go. It gets all this relief from sanctions. We gave it, palettes of cash, gave it all this money.

Iranian regime hasn't changed one bit towards us. Every every bit is as bellicose and as dangerous and as much of a threat to our interest in the Middle East and around the world as its always been. North Korea, we sat down or Trump's show, we didn't do it. Hey, here we are Team Buck has a ride for negotiations with Kim Jong hun. Now, but the President United States sat down with North Korea with Kim Jong hun and said, look, let's do this. He's right to focus on what how

much potential the country has. I would know he's right to spend time extolling the possibilities for wealth and for prosperity, because you know, the people at the top of Remember, I'm not saying North Korea is never going to be Switzerland, certainly not in our lifetime and probably not for you know, ever, maybe a few centuries. You know, North Korea is not even going to be Japan or South Korea anytime soon.

But North Korea could be you know, like China circa nineteen fifty in terms of the way it approaches things and the you know, the economy, or maybe China circa nineteens nineteen fifty probably wouldn't be that much better than but you know, it could be China thirty or forty years ago. Command economy, labor force. Yeah, rough conditions, bad stuff, corruption. You know, it's not like this is some place that everyone else wants to emulate. But you know, you've got

to get the power structure to go along. It's not just Kim. Even in a dictatorship, it's not just the dictator. And the reason I know about this is because I actually have a bunch of academic literature here on my bookshelf at home that I've read through about authoritarianism and dictatorship. You know what, the number one threat to dictators for the last five hundred years has been it's it's not external invasion, it's not financial collapse. It is a coup

from somebody powerful in their inner circle. Number one threat for dictators, or at least for the last I think hundred fifty years. I said five hundred, last hundred fifty years, that's the number one threat. So Kim Jong un goes back there and he doesn't have buy in from his general roles. All of a sudden, you know, some second cousin of Kims who's the you know, in command of the military says, you know, Kim's not feeling well. You're not going to see him for a while. We're running

the show. Now, who's gonna say, Who's gonna say anything about that? So it's a process. It's delicate, incredibly complicated. More on this week come back. Why these talks have failed under Bush and Clinton and Obama were we didn't think there was an existential threat. Yet now we know there is with the ability to hit a western city.

So Trump is much more urgent and serious. And second, we had this crazy appeasing idea of China that they were on the trajectory to the Family of Nations, and the more we appease them, the more the rich they got, the more reasonable they are. Trump doesn't buy into that.

We always gave up on sanctions. We said, why, I'm god, they're eating grass, or we have to be careful about the innocent North Korean people, But they don't rate when you're considering losing Seattle or Portland's So I think Trump brilliantly put it in Vietnam, and he's basically saying, without backdrop, this was an arch enemy of the United States. It's communist and it's doing much better than you are. That's the inducement, and that's Mickey Davis Hansen. He understands this.

But why should North Korea? Why should the North Korean power brokers, the decision makers, why why should they do this? What do they get out of it? Because I remember, there's going to be there's gonna be the possibility of external influence and they could lose their grip on power. Why well, you know, you can look from some other countries in the region that you still have authoritarian rule,

military rule, communist party rule. But people are rich, people are rich, and even some of the North Korean elite, I'm sure would like to get a little richer. And that's it's going to be incremental progress. Is I think what people have lost sight if here it has to be incremental progress, there is no there is no speedy version of getting North Korea from being the hermit Kingdom to reunifying with South Korea and everything being fine, and

that's never going to happen. Via Davids. Hanson also just spoke more broadly to Trump's record. I want to I mean, I VDH is one of my favorites these days. He really he really gets at play seven. I think people admired him from getting out of the Paris Climate Accord when you look back at it, moving the embassy to Jerusalem, defeating ISIS and almost annihilating isis the irandal. I think even at sponsors realized was flawed. I think even people realize now that NATO needed to pay more and their

pledged one hundred million dollars. So I think cumulative people are saying, you know what, if you look at the entire Trump record, especially under Secretary of State pump Pao, it's getting better, and it's already good. It is, it's getting better. We gotta hit a second hour here, team, We'll be right back. Every day I start the same way.

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with Kim Jong un. Now it's strike two, Hannoy once again, no deal to denuclearize North Korea, something that he's staked a lot of his legacy, a lot of his presidency on a very rough and rocky twenty four hours of the President humbled back in Washington, humbled here in Hanoi,

heading back to Washington empty handed. And so I think when we assess all of this in the hours and days and weeks ahead, I think what's going to become clear Christiana and Jim is that the President staked a lot of his presidency on something that is just much more difficult than reality TV. This is not something that can be wrapped up in a season of The Apprentice. Jim Acosta is an idiot, and CNN should be ashamed to put him out there as their chief White House correspondent.

I think he's just not very smart. He's just one of these classic TV zombie types who's much more worried about what kind of hair hold and spray he's using, and how the camera angle looks on his jawline and anything else. And it's just an ignoramus, isn't isn't smart, doesn't bring much to this, and here he is taking taking cheap shots at the President of the United States, who is legitimately trying to avert a future a future

nuclear crisis. You know, I mean, I could say one thing when when Obama took out Bin Laden by giving the order that he had sat on for a long time to join Special Operations Command and Enable Seal Team went in and actually did the mission. But anyway, people say, oh Obama got Bin Laden. No, our seals got Bin Laden, thank you. But Obama as Commander chief, did give the order. I didn't do a whole oh you know, but you know, I don't really It's it's not good that, you know,

we got justice for nine to eleven because Obama gave it. No, it was the right move. He got credit for it there, he had it right. I mean, there are some places where partisanship really just has no place, and on North

Korea nuclear diplomacy, that's where we should be. And you can just see these smug, gloating idiots in the mainstream media are are happy that Trump didn't get a deal, happy that Trump didn't get a deal that would have not only removed the the threat of a possible major nuclear military confrontation when remember, no great has a million million plus man standing army, has a tremendous amount of artillery and and you know, mechanized infantry, and I mean

there's all kinds of Soviet era and then upgraded military hardware they could bring to bear, which doesn't really affect us that much. I'm not saying they're gonna roll self propelled artillery into Omaha anytime soon, but it does affect South Korea. And we have thirty thousand or so troops who are in South Korea, so that they're there are conventional military concerns that we have to take very seriously.

But you know that that could have been at least we could have gotten to the start of the removal of any threat of that in the future. By the way, who's just say that North Korea doesn't just go totally wacko and invade South Korea again. You know, we take this position of, well, they would never do that. Well, the more you learn about North Korea, the crazier you realize it is, and the decision making apparatus there is

not something that we can effectively anticipate. And if they thought that they could take enough of South Korea quickly enough that we wouldn't want to retaliate. And you know that there's a lot of reason to believe that. Ideologically, at least, the North Korean leadership is a ligne with that anyway. I mean, it's just it's a huge problem set North Korea is a concentration camp above ground, a mass grave below it, and the president is making a

good faith effort. He really does want Yeah, he wants this for all presidents. I want there to be a degree of of you know, individual glory seeking in a president when it comes to things like this, because that's what keeps you in the fight, that's what keeps you willing to take these risks sometimes that you know there's going to be an everlasting legacy of achieving something that is truly great. You know, I want people to be motivated for themselves as well as for the greater good.

I want everybody rowing in the same direction. So I think that Trump trying to achieve this is something that everybody should be willing to say they want. And yet you have smug Acosta saying it's much more difficult than reality TV. You know what is not that difficult preening in front of a camera about how much you hate Trump on CNN like an idiot, like an absolute idiot.

Speaking of idiots, Bob Menendez another a senator. Who wasn't he the guy that was flying down to the Dominican Republic And there was all kinds of interesting hubbub around that Senor Menendez. Oh, he is the guy who his best friend Meligan, was paying for his very high end lifestyle. Even Meligan just ripped off Medicare. And I think a sixty million dollar fraud, sixty million, might even an eighty million, but just just ripping off attacks bearer tens of millions

of dollars. That was Bob Menendez's best buddy. The only reason he didn't go to prison. Menendez didn't go to prisons because a jury was like, well, maybe they were just friends that he wasn't actually a quid pro quo corruption situation. Well yeah, but Menendez did lobby for some of Meligan's international babe patrol to get on the private jet and come to America and get them visas or something. I mean, Menendez should have gone to jail, all right,

Menendez should have gone to jail. Didn't go to jail. But on the summit, here's what he had to say. Remember this guy sits on the Senate Formulations Committee, Play a teen. What we saw in Hanoi was amateur hour with nuclear weapons at stake and the limits of reality TV diplomacy. What I worry about is that the president, by giving Kim John Noon the international not only recognition but almost acceptance, from going from pariah to an accepted

international leader, has squandered the leverage that we have. This is just classic, and I'm glad we played this audio for you. This is classic echo chamber ossified foreign policy elitism thinking. Here's the reality of what has happened with the North Korea. In North Korea gets more advanced missile programs, more advanced in its nuclear programs, and is no closer to liberalizing or becoming a less Bellico state now than

it has been in thirty years. It has been progressing administration after administration toward deliverable nuclear weapons atop an ICBM and all the so called smarts that up to this point hasn't been able to do. Squat and saying these things like squandering our leverage and elevating his profile and the he is the leader of North Korea. He's got nuclear weapons. You know, the people that take this position if we never should have talked to Kim Jong un.

To that, I say, well, we are talking to the Taliban, and we're about to effectively hand Afghanistan over to the Taliban if current trends continue. So what are we supposed to do? We don't talk to the enemy. I mean, North Korea is an enemy state, but we're not going to talk to them. What has that gotten us? It's gotten us a lot of missile firings. Hasn't helped the North Korean people. All that I'm not saying. See, this is the key talk, but don't concede. Obama was what

can I how can I make a deal? What can I do? What do I need to give you Iran to get a deal so that I have a foreign policy legacy? That was the Obama administration and all the so called smart set there. Trump is saying, all right, let's discuss. Here are my terms. You won't take my terms. I'm out. I'm out. That's the way it should be. What was really the other The other way was back

channeling with some diplomats and to get something going. You know, whatever, Please you think that the bureaucrats at the State Department are going to solve this problem. Find me a problem anywhere near as high stakes and challenging as this that low level State Department bureaucrats have been able to figure out. Please, I would really like to hear that story like this is this is an outcome that's it's disappointing, but it's not a disaster. And when you understand the dynamics at

play here, it's going to take time. The more that Trump and Kim Jong un, you could make this argument, and I think it's a fair one to make, the more that Kim Jong Uman Trump talk and have some kind of personal relationship, the easier it would be for the North Korean propaganda apparatus, which is what we're working on here, folks, to make it seem like, well, maybe America doesn't want to, you know, eat all of our children down to the bone and annihilate our entire country,

you know. And they're not going to be fair minded about it. Is. They still are going to say where monsters were barbarians? But you know, it can ratchet down tensions a little bit. It can't be any worse. I mean, the relationship between North Korean and the rest of the world can't get worse short of an all out invasion. But why haven't we done an all out invasion North Korea?

Why is North Korea the country that even back to the earliest days of the acts of evil, there's been no serious effort to topple, to invade, to do any of those things. Oh, that's right, because they have nukes and Soul is right next door, and they could destroy South Korea in a day, or you know, do tremendous damage to South Korea in a day, So we don't have that option. All right, we don't have that option. A lot of stupid stuff coming out of the pundits.

Oh Trump piece, he's so horrible. And look, I can handle some degree of criticism around whether or not it's okay to have Trump warm up to Kim Jong un. He you know, when he says we fell in love, and you know, Trump says some weird things. Yeah, of course, you know, I'm not here to blow smoke Trump. Some of the stuff Trump says, I'm like, did you really

have to say that? Come on, man, you know, But then again, I didn't beat the Democrat left wing Hillary machine and become president the United States when everybody said it was impossible. So I give the guy some leeway to do things the way he does them. Doesn't mean that I always agree, though, doesn't mean that I say, oh, yeah, that's a great idea. Do I like the comment he made about how he takes Kim Jong un at his

word about Otto Warrember? No, I don't. I don't. I you know, I just think that Otto was one of ours and the North Koreans acted like savages when it came to Otto, and that's not something that we should just let pass. Do. I think that Trump maybe was just trying to say, you know, it's not clear to him that the decision making about Otto was in Kim Jong UN's hands, and he doesn't want to throw away the relationship he has with Kim Jong unnecessarily. Maybe. But

I didn't. I didn't like it. I didn't like it. I thought it was a problem. And I'm not saying that what Trump has done here is perfect, but he's trying and we should all this is the key point in all this. We should all be rooting for him because this is about more than party affiliation and partisan nonsense. This is about true national and global security, and I still have hope that it's going to get it done.

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expert on what's happening in Israel. We have my friend David if Fun with us now. He is the editor in chief of the Alga Miner. David, great to have you back. Always a pleasure book. So what's happening with Beebee? Well, the truth is, it certainly looks like he's in the probably the second toughest spot he's ever been in politically

throughout the course of his extensive and illustrious career. The first was back in ninety seven after the Hebron Accords, where he was ultimately booted from office for the first time. The second round, he's held on the leadership position from

much much longer. The truth is, though he was in trouble before the indictments or the intention to indict was announced by Israel's Attorney channel today, where a new party, which is formed of a collaboration of three different former chiefs of staff of the Israeli military, was polling six or seven points ahead of his Likud party, and certainly this announcement today is only going to add to his troubles.

Having said that, Yahoo is a brilliant and masterful politician, and over the course of his career always seems to find a way out of the trickiest spots. So I wouldn't be too quick to write him off. But he's certainly in a pickle right now. Well, we'll tell us about this. What does he is he in trouble? I mean, what is he's what happened here? What do he do? Well, look, the question of you know what the end of the legal process is going to bring for him, We're not

going to know that until it all plays out. You know, there has to be there has to be an indictment, and there has to be you know, the whole the full extent of the legal process. What he's being accused of are bribery and breach of trust specifically. You know, there are a lot of details, and there are a

bunch of different cases. There are three different cases that he's being charged in Case one thousand, Case two thousand, Case four thousands, as they're known, but effectively in exchange for better coverage from media outlets, and also in exchange for some various favors jewelry, cigars, champagne. He's accused of doing political favors for certain leading business people and business oligarchs in Israel and one actually that's in the United States.

Two of those who he's accused of helping run two of Israel's biggest media outlets. So he's accused of seeking favorable coverage in exchange for various business favors. So what do you think, I mean, how does he get out of this? And by the way, how much do you assess politics? Internal politics in Israel are kind of, if not entirely behind these charges, pushing them on a little bit. Well, the truth is there's always an element of that, and you know we see that in this country as well.

That certainly his political opponents are much more of gung ho about things. But the attorney general who's bought these charges is seen, as you know, mostly for the most part, of level headed guy who actually works for Yah who in the past as the cabinet secretary, that was his

immediate prior job. The question, really, though, is going to be, because the legal process hasn't played out, it's going to be you know what all the other members of his coalition, how they're going to react to this and potential partners

in a future coalition. So basically all of the right wing parties, including those that are further to the right of Knitt and the Irish Party, and also the ultra orthodox parties which make up the coalition as it stands today, have all said, you know, we're going to stand by net Yahoo. We'd be happy, we're happy to stay in his government now, and we're going we'd be happy to stay in his government or be a part of the

future government that he would form should he win the election. So, you know, it Israel, it's not just about the party that gets the most seats. It's also about the party that has the ability to build a majority block, because nobody gets the majority of the Kineta's seats. You know, the highest polling party now is a major competitor, is

polling at thirty five or thirty six seats. That's called the Blue and White Party, named after the Israeli flag, and his Liqud party is polling between twenty nine and thirty one thirty two, so he's falling a little bit behind. But what's important is not just how many seats you get, it's whether you're actually able to form a coalition, and the left wing block doesn't look like it's it's passing the sixty one seat threshold, and they might have trouble

actually forming the coalition. So it's happened in the past US that the party that won the most seats actually didn't end up in government because they couldn't form the coalition that was necessary. So that's one way that Niah, who might emerge intact, I would say, after this, this whole process is over all right, Well, David, you're gonna have to come back and tell us when all said and done, if BB manages to maneuver out of this

one again. Obviously he's close at the President Tromp. He's considered a staunch ally of the US in the region and obviously around the world. So always good to talk to my friend, editor in chief of the Alga Minor. If you want to know what's going on, you need to check out the Alga Minor. And David, thank you so much for joining us, my friend David. If fun, everybody holy is a pleasure team. We are going to roll into a quick break. We've got much more show

coming up, so stay with me. A lot of people tonight are humming ding dong. The witch is dead because the witch hunt, the Russia collusion narrative, it was thrown out there over and over and over again. And what happened was there was nothing there. And so for this unbelievable hearing today, you know, there were a lot of opportunities afforded this particular witness that shouldn't have happened. He had a thirty minute opening. I don't remember any witness

ever having a thirty minute opening. It was all trying to spin a narrative to start the impeachment process. His testimony was highly incriminating, explosive, a bombshell in the leads it should provide if corroborated by other witnesses and documents. Plainly, he laid out a roadmap of criminality committed by the president that needs to be followed not only by the Special Council, but by other prosecuting offices. Right now, no aspect of Trump world is not under investigation a Bloomenthal

de nang dick. There, no aspect of Trump world is not under investigation. He really gives away the game, doesn't He lets you know what this is all about. This is about weaponizing the law. That's what this is about. That is the primary motivation here for all of this stuff that we're seeing, Russia collusion, Southern districts of New York looking at the hush payments, trying to get Trump Trump's tax returns, all of it. But isn't it funny

of Mark Meadows and Dick Bluementhal. They're both there at this hearing, both, you know, watching the same events unfold, and they come away with completely different interpretations of it. Mark Meadows comes away with the one that I obviously share because it is based in reality and logic, But Dick Bluementhal comes away with, See, everything is evidence. Everything is evidence of Trump criminality. It's kind of like the left and climate change. Everything is evidence of climate change.

If it gets colder, it's because of climate change. If it gets warmer, it's because of climate change. If it stays the same, well that's really scary because the climate should be changing, So it's evidence of climate change. Everything

proves their thesis. Nothing can disprove their thesis. This is one of the most important tools for debating with liberals that I've talked to you about in the past, and that is ask them what data you could give them or what you know, what information you could provide them that would even if just theoretically disprove their thesis. For example, on climate change, it's not possible to disprove their thesis. If the temperature stayed exactly where it is, would that

disprove it? If it goes up, would that? You know, they can't. There's no information that you could ask them for ahead of time that would show. And by the way, even if you did, they would just then change the numbers and change the data sets so that all of a sudden, oh yeah, no, that's right, nothing to see here. That would be their approach. All right, you cannot falsified. It is unfalsifiable. The same thing is true with the left and all this Russia collusion stuff and just the

idea of President Trump's criminality. And they had the personal lawyer of the President of the United States for the last decade. I mean, they've got him over a barrel. I mean, he will tell them anything he can that's damaging to Trump. He'll do everything in his power in order to get a lesser sentence or just to be in the good graces of the Democrat left establishment. Now that he's going to prison, and he's going to be

looking for jobs when he comes out. If you can't get a criminal case based off of having the lawyer of the president when he was in his personal capacity, flip on him, wave all attorney client privilege, and just go on a mission of destruction against the president, any reasonable person would say there's nothing here. I mean this fiction that they cling to, that the payments to Stephanie

Clifford and Stormy Daniels, that those are criminal activity. First of all, we're talking about campaign finance stuff, all right, We're talking about campaign finance. We're not talking about a crime crime. We're talking about what is known as mallem prohibitum, not malamin say, Malamin say is something that is bad, right, cannibalism bad doesn't matter if the government says it's okay.

We'll talk more about that later. Mallem prohibitum as the government says you can't do this because we say so, we have a reason for it. But it's not something that is inherently rooted in some moral truth, right. I mean, you could argue, even I would argue that taxes are a mallem prohibitum violation. I mean, are you a bad person if you don't pay your taxes. No, if they wanted one hundred percent of your income as taxation, should you have to pay that? Is that a moral obligation

on you? I mean, that's prohibitum, right, So when you're discussing campaign finance violations, that's obviously malam prohibitum, which just means it's wrong because the state says it's wrong. Campaign finance laws change all the time. They are murky, they're opaque, and there are lots of ways you can get on

the wrong side of them, all right. So with that in mind, the idea that this is the most important thing they could get on Trump, that this is how they're really going to nail the president of the United States by making the case that a payoff to people claiming affairs with you is only a campaign expense and not a personal expense. Because if it is also a personal expense, guess what doesn't count. Did they have no case? If they had a case, they'd bring the charges. They

have no case. It's not in egal act. And I think even more importantly, it's not a disqualifying an immoral act. Oh he didn't, he didn't claim these as a campaign expenditure. Well, he didn't have to, so why should he. But that's the biggest thing, and they've gone after him with everything, with everything that they've got. And this is where we are so far. The collusion narrative, I would note, got crushed yesterday for anybody who was paying attention. The dossier

that said that Michael Cohen was in Prague false. The Russia cumpromats, compromising information, Russia compromat tapes of Trump, and the Golden Showers and the beds in Moscow doesn't exist. According to Cohen, the phone call that supposedly went from went from Roger Stone to Julian Assange never happened. Does anyone really believe that that would not be something the Muller team would already know about. They've pulled all their phone records and all the emails, they know about everything,

all communications they already have. Trust me, there's no way that there was some phone call to Assange they don't know about. But look at how stupid and how easily fooled the press is. You know that the press was willing to say early on here that they thought or when it was it was a couple of months ago earlier on that there was a meeting between Julian Osange and Manifort at the embassy, the Ecuadorian embassy in London. Who could believe that Julian Assange is among the most

watched and surveiled people on planet Earth. Okay, every major Western government that there is is keeping tabs on Julian Assange in one way or another. You think that Manafort, when he's working for the campaign, just had like a super secret meeting in an embassy, which by definition is going to have security, personnel, cameras, all kinds of things

in place by definition. But The Guardian reported that the press is nuts on this one and what they really can't do because for a lot of them, this is, you know, their life's work isn't so much bringing the public the truth, but it's creating. For a lot of journos journalists, their life's work is creating the perception of themselves as important, important purveyors of truth and the constructing a narrative that is what's best for the country and

really best for the world. They care more about the world than about America, and they can't handle the recognition that would come along with the collapse of the Russian narrative, that they aren't the journalists aren't the people they think they are, that they're actually just partisan clowns, that they're activists with website or you know, TV show access. That's it. There's no particular skill set they bring to bear. There's

no no great wisdom or expertise. They're just the little little peddlers of stories that favor the left, the Democrats, and they've just they've done everything in their power to destroy a presidency in order to you know, prop this

prop this whole left wing edifice up. So, you know, I think that what happened yesterday overall was a waste of time, but it was able to show us a few important things about the collusion narrative, namely that anybody who still thinks that there was collusion is just you will never be able to convince them. Otherwise, you will never be able to convince someone that collusion did not happen if they still believe that it happened, because it's

it's like climate change. It's now collusion has become really its own religious belief. Collusion has turned into a rallying cry for the left that they will never give up on so you know, I find it troubling but unfortunately unsurprising. We have one through ten for the people. That one is the clean Up Government, two was the Infrastructure Bill.

There is a prescription product, the Lower the Cost of Particution, Four is the Voting Rights Act, Five is the Equality Act, Six is the Dream Act for seven is Paycheck theres eight is today HR eight, nine will be a climate bill. And then we have ten reserved for something special that sounds super ominous coming from Nancy Pelosi. I can't say I know what that is, but that was the Speaker of the House giving you their legislative priorities. And I would just note that, you know I heard that list

and a lot of those things. I first of all, you think, what does that even mean? And the Paycheck Fairness Act, how is that going to be? How is that going to be implemented? But beyond that, how much of that do I even think is a good idea under any circumstances. I think the answer is very very little of it. Obviously, there's climate change there, prescription drug coverage. I mean, that's one place where the left and the right can come together on something like a bipartisan basis.

But you know prescription drug coverage, that that is a problem of really regulation and chrony capitalism, all right, that is what's going on. So you have the prescription drug companies that use the government in order to create barriers to entry and competition, and that's just wrong. It is just wrong. And you know that's why I think that when we talk about how to make these things better, people say the free market has failed. Look at prescription drugs.

I always say, well, but there is no free market, and prescription drugs, even the basic protections you would expect for intellectual property, they always extended and they're all kinds of games. And our prescription drug costs are too high in this country. They just are. And it's because the drug companies are greedy. And if you look at the stats on how much the prices have gone up and

what they're doing with this stuff. Remember, intellectual property protection is part of it is not the fundamental basis for our society. Right. We do this to incentivize people, but there's do not have a fundamental right, for example, to in perpetuity be the only person who can create a

life saving drug. You have a period of time where you get to create that but you know, society does get to weigh in here at at some level too, especially when you think of all the regulations that are in place that prevent competing drugs and the money involved in all this stuff. It's not as simple as just

whatever I want is what I'm going to do. But Pelosi's whole agenda there, and that should really rally you in favor of, you know, making sure that we don't allow these people to be in power, because I promise you it's just going to get worse and worse. One thing that I wanted to bring up today and I wasn't sure how much you'd care, but Justin Trudeau, I'll

talk to you about it a little bit. Justin Trudeau is someone that you no doubt know about because he is the Prime Minister of Canada or Canada and our friend up in Canada, ezra Levant, who I've done his shows with back in the day and when they used to have the Sun News network. I really like that network. He laid out how in this country we have a fake corruption scandal going on with how Trump is so bad he's gonna go prison. It looks like Justin Trudeau

is probably all donezo. Maybe he can fake falling downstairs again to make all the ladies swoon. Hey, Justin Trudeau, he's very he's a very sexy man. Here's what Ezra says about what's going on with the Canadian PM. It looks like he's in big, big trouble. Quote from my American and British friends. Canada's Justin Trudeau is done. He might try to fight on. I personally think he's too damaged. He's irreparably damaged. Here's what's happened in a few short tweets.

Trudeau was detonated by his former attorney general, Jody Wilson or Rainbold, Canada's first Aboriginal attorney general. She just testified in Parliament in meticulous detail how Trudeau and his staff tried to get her to drop criminal charges against a corrupt company that he liked. She refused to bend the law for Trudeau's cronies, but they didn't stop Trudeau, his chief of staff, his principal secretary, or even the finance minister. They met her ten times, phoned her ten more, trying

to get the charges drop. She wouldn't, so Trudeau fired her as attorney general. The story leaked out earlier this month, but it was all anonymous sources. The former Attorney general herself didn't say a word, saying she was bound by attorney client privilege and cabinet confidences. She was effectively gagged. Trudeau was the only one talking. Trudeau took advantage of her and forced silence to claim she supported him and

everything was fine after all. When she fired her a g he appointed her to the minor post of Veterans minister. When she heard him make that boat, she quit as veterans minister. He was shocked. Then suddenly Gerald Butts, Trudeau's right hand man, his best friend since college, resigned, claiming he had done nothing wrong, which is odd. It looked

like a compromise. Butts left, so Wilson rabeled, met with a cabin in the again, and then finally, today, she testified in great detail exactly who pressured her, exactly when she named names, including the Prime Minister herself. Yep, that end quote there, folks. That is what obstruction looks like, folks. Calls and calls and calls, pressure and more pressure, and more pressure dropped the criminal charges. That's what obstruction looks like.

Not well, I hope you can look your way to you know, letting, you know, letting things go with this guy that service country for thirty years. But you know your call. That's not obstruction, all right. So you know here we have a textbook case in Canada of obstructing the judicial process by the Prime minister. By the way, it's a ten year possible prison sentence in Canada. I didn't realize Canada, man, you guys don't mess around with

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at least somewhat well. We had some numbers today about GDP growth last year, and some people are saying that it's not a good story for the president. US economy grew at two point nine percent in twenty eighteen. What does that mean? What can we say about this visa the other presidents? We got the lady herself to join us now, Miss Mattie Duppler, Senior Fellow at NPU, President of Forward Strategies, known to some of her favorite people as Duples. Mattie, great to have you on to you

as duples. You're the only person who called me that back again. Well, well now now it's just you, me and a few hundred thousand people across America. So good times, good time. So now friends exactly, just friends. So tell me, Maddie, what what are we what should we make of these numbers? Because I have a feeling that's some of my lib friends tomorrow are going to be giving me a hard time saying, blah blah, Trump's not the builder he said

he was. What do you say? Exactly right? Okay, So this morning, what we got was the data on GDP growth for the fourth quarter. This was delayed because of the government shutdown. Normally we see this data in January. It was delayed until now, so we'll see her as on these actually next month as well. But what we saw was a two point six percent GDP growth for the fourth quarter. I'm gonna walk through a couple of different numbers because it's important that people understand what the

full picture is of the data. We thought today two point six percent for the fourth quarter. That was us from two point two percent that economists thought we would see for fourth quarter growth. You remember, the fourth quarter was a little volatile, has some craziness going on in the stock market. Of course, trade tensions with China persists, and housing has been down for most of the year.

So the economists, we're expecting that we thought we would see a bigger dip in two four than ultimately we did. But what that means for the entire year, since that's the last quarterly data we're getting for twenty eighteen, is that the overall annual average growth for twenty eighteen was two point nine percent. Pretty darn good. That is a good pace for the economy to be homing along. Now. Detractors, of course, will say, hey, President Trump said we'd be

at three percent growth, where's that growth? You're one tenth of a percentage avoid off if you're looking at the average rate. But if you also look at fourth quarter growth growth measured from the fourth quarter of twenty seventeen, then it's three point one percent is what we're looking at for the growth for that time period. And economists do both these things. They look at the average annual growth and they look at quarter to quarter growth to

assess the health of the economy. So it's both true that Trump has got three percent growth for twenty eighteen and both not true that it has that he was able to merit out three percent growth for twenty eighteen. But even in that context, two point nine percent or three point one percent, that's a pretty strong number for the US economy, particularly when we're looking at a global slow down and growth with some of our closest alleys allies, and of course with some of the biggest economies in

the world, China being number one. Now, how does this of course I care most about America and have you he's doing for America. But if we're going to line up how Trump is doing so far in terms of GDP growth with Obama and all the socialists around him, how does this actually how does this actually go? Tell me about the number? But the average rate of growth. So that's that average number each year during the recovery, so during the President Obama's rank. I shouldn't say rain,

but you know that's how we treat our presidents. Down during President Obama when he was in office, that was two point two percent. And if you recall when President Trump released his first budget, he was saying that he would get to three percent growth for these last couple of years, and all of the luminaries on the left came out to say that's impossible, there's no way we'll

see three percent growth. That's a fantasy, that's crazy. Three percent is outrageous because they, of course, we're so used to this new normal of one point seven percent two percent growth every quarter. So and I would put in a side there that President Obama's budget called for four percent growth even though we were in the middle of a contraption. He said that that was possible. And apparently these guys weren't skeptical then, but three percent grows during

expansion to them was Jeff Lunacy. So that's for a little bit too. Today where we now see that we're at or above three percent for the year, it's a pretty darn good number. It reflects strength in the economy that we certainly haven't seen throughout the rest of this recovery. And you know, there's a lot of debate about who gets the credit for that. I think it's less important to talk about who gets the credit for that and talk a little bit a little bit more about what

lessons can be learned from this. There's been a lot of discussions on Twitter today with people thinking they're dunking on the president by arguing, well, Obama had a fourth quarter growth number that was better than this one. He had a three point i think eight percent growth number

in the fourth quarter twenty fifteen, which is true. He had a great growth number into Quinn in twenty fifteen, the fourth quarter, But it needs to also be stated that Obama in twenty thirteen kind of massive tax cut into law, mainly the extension of the Bush tax cuts. A majority of those were made permanent by Democrats and Republicans in Congress, and then President Obama finding that Intalan later that year, in twenty fifteen, he helps to signed a Path Act which with a number of tax extenders

which were awth to a tax cut. So for people to say that these numbers somehow reflect some kind of latency or deficiency in the in the pages that haven't made the taxon under Trump, and then toincite twenty fifteen as an understanding of that is to not understand your history of what's been happening in Washington over the past several years, which is that we've had a low creep towards better tax policy, one that was expedited immensally, but it passes the passage of the tax cut and jobst

in twenty seventeen. One thing I've known for a while from both academic time as well as being in the media, Mattie, is that economists can't predict squat. But I am seeing today people saying that, well, this is as good as it's going to be. Right. That's another way of taking a swipe at Trump here. What do you I don't listen to economists, but I listen to Mattie. What do you think about what we should expect for twenty nineteen and going into the election, and have we felt the

full lift from the tax cuts? You know, are there any other reasons to think that things could get better or are you expecting kind of status quo? What do you think? Well, what we have seen both in today's data dumps, but the data that we've seen over the last several months and certainly for the remainder of twenty eighteen, is that a lot of important metrics that proponents of tax reform has said would be affected by tax reform

are showing up. And what I mean by that is business investment, capital expenditures, the kind of spending you want to see in an economy that will benefit not just businesses but people up and now the income ladder that's happening. We thought that today was this investment continuing to rise in the data that we thought this morning, But over the course of last year, you saw the S and P that accompanies the S ANDP had their fourth highest i think caps year since we've been tracking that kind

of data. What we're seeing is businesses responding to a competitive environment that they hadn't expected that they would have and that they hadn't experienced in the recent past. So as long as the competitive nature of the US economy and that both tax US and D regulation continues, that kind of activity will certainly continue. There are a number of factors that kind of hang out there in the

balance as economic question marks. The trade discussion between the China and the United States is certainly one of them. I'm becoming increasingly worried that the President, not seeing enough movement on the conversation with China, will move instead to implement new tariffs, potentially targeted this time at the EU. Tariffs are taxes, and they are paid by Americans on consumer products, and that has an effect on our economy because we are a consumer drive an economy, seventy percent

of our GDP comes from consumer spending. So if the health of the consumer starts to be threatened, that's when I start to worry overall. But I'm going to turn an optimist. But I really think that it's important that we protect the American consumer in a way that allows them to benefit from the competitive nature, main competitive environment that has been fostered for businesses here in the United States, and in a way that they can do that with longevity,

without concerns that it will be short lived. And I will also say that when it comes to tax but you know what, the changes that remain in the code in twenty seventeen are not permanent. They will start to start to change in twenty twenty two, and the individual tax side of the code will change significantly in twenty twenty five. Now, that of course the long runway to get something done. But if we don't have a conversation in Congress for how to do that, that certainly can

start increasing anxiety. I will have downward pressure on the economy for sure. Well, you know, Maddie, I feel a little better now, So thank you for all that. You know, come on here for a buck you know, I feel like we're all gonna be okay because Maddie says it's all gonna be all right. Maddie Duppler, everybody, Maddie, aren't you in on Rising tomorrow? I sure am. I'm stubbing for the one and only Buck Sexton. I will be on a bit Hill TV hosting Rising with Crystal Ball.

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Cohen Hearing. You know, today's Cohen Hearing was behind closed doors, and you know yesterday was it wasn't really that important.

I mean, the media was so fixated on it that I tried to pull out the worthwhile moments, but by and large it was I think waste of almost everybody involves time, except for Democrats who are delusional about collusion and about how Trump's going to prison and they're going to own Orange Man Trump and drump is bad and all the lunacy from the left about all things Trump.

But there was an exchange that I didn't get to you yesterday that I felt we should at least spend a moment on today with this new congresswoman Rashida to Leib. And here's the basic backstory is that Mark Cummings brought in Lynn Patton to speak on behalf of Trump because people were well, obviously the Democrats were trying to run with the narrative and use Cohen as a means of

bringing it home that Trump is such a racist. Well, this thing's got kind of testy yesterday and I didn't get to this that I just wanted to take a moment to bring it to your attention. This is this Talib who, by the ways, said all kinds of anti Semitic stuff. And she's one of these new radical lefty congresswomen that the progressives are all about. But you know, she's not impressive and doesn't seem very nice and this

was way out of line. Play clip one. Just to make a note, mister Chairman, just because someone has a person of color, a black person working for them, does not mean they aren't racist. And it is insensitive that some would even say. It's the fact that someone would actually use a prop a black woman in this chamber, in this committee is alone racist in itself. Donald Trump is setting its chairman. I asked President, I reclaim my time.

I asked that her words, when she's referring to an individual member of this body, be taken down and stricken from the record. I'm sure she didn't intend to do this, but if anyone knows my record as it relates, it should be you, mister chairman. Chairman, I would like to I want the words right now. I'm just saying that's what I believe to have happened. And if as a person of color in this committee, that's how I felt

at that moment, and I wanted to express that. But I am not calling the gentleman, mister Metals a racist for doing so. I'm saying that in itself it is a racist act. Oh, I'm not calling him a racist. He's just he just did a racist thing. This is

this new left wing loon Rashida to leave in Congress. Also, sure firs yourself as a person of color, you know, I think that people get a play start playing a little fast and loose here with you know, African Americans history of legalized discrimination against them and Jim Crow and slavery, that very real and very painful history. But that doesn't translate into oh, well, you know, I'm from Lebanon, so i'm a person of color too, or I'm from Jordan,

or I'm from you know. I mean, I'm sorry. I think that people are a little too quick to play that car. It's like no, no, no no, no, no, you know, you know, if you're from Turkey, I don't want to hear about how oppressed you are, all right, I think that we need to start drawing some lines on this stuff.

But even more importantly, that she would refer to a black woman who is in Congress, to who showed up to Congress to speak on behalf of the president referred to as a prop and say that her very presence is racist. But this is really the It's such a stupid thing to say and a horrible thing to say, but this is the left wing mentality, which is that even you know, if you don't have a person of

color speak on your behalf, well then you're racist. If you have a person of color who does speak on your behalf, then you're racist because you're using a person of color to speak for you. Use stupid racist, right, That's what they do. This is why when people criticize the Trump White House for not having more people of color. I always say, well, remember when Condoleeza Rice was the National Security Advisor for the Bush administration and then Secretary

of State. Did anybody ever give the administration credit for that? And Colin Powell was national Secretary of State, did anyone ever get credit for that? No, of course not. Conservators don't get credit for it. Then they're just Then we just get bashed for using quote a token, right, That's what they will say. Mark Meadows, by the way, he was firy by this. He responded to it, playcliff two. Mister chairman, There's nothing more personal to me than my relationship.

My nieces and nephews are people of color. Not many people know that. You know that, mister chairman. And to indicate that I asked someone who is a personal friend of the Trump family, who has worked for him, who knows this particular individual that she's coming in to be a prop it's racist to suggest that I asked her to come in here for that reason, you know, And of all the people on this committee, I've said it and got in trouble for it. Then you're one of

my best friends that shocks a lot of people. And likewise, miss Chairman, but you are and I would do and I could see and feel your pain, Chairman. And to my colleague, mister Meadows, that was not my intention. And I do apologize if that's what it sounded like. But I said someone in general, uh, nice, try on the walk back there. Look, give we are conservatives, we are principled. Give credit where it is due. Elijah Cummings stepped up and did the right thing there. Mark Meadows is his friend.

Mark Meadows is being called a racist by a Democrat for no good reason whatsoever. And Cummings was like, no, Mark is my Mark is my friend, He's my buddy. It was the most it was, honestly the most impressive thing I've ever seen a logic Cummings do. Because he is going to get a lot of heat from that, but but good for him for doing the right thing.

Whenever we see people, and it's important, especially in this era of zero some politics, whenever we see someone who who does the right thing and you really know it's the right thing, regardless of party affiliation, you've got to say that that thing they did, I'm not saying you have to agree with that person or join them and or you know whatever. But that thing that they did, you've got to say it's the right thing, and you've got to give credit where it's due to people who

do it. So Eligic Cummings stepped up. And then Lynn Patton, who was the person at issue here, the person of color who was there to speak on behalf of the president. She spoke play three. Why does she take the word of a self confessed perjurer and criminally convicted white man over a black female who's highly educated. That's more racist than being put up there as a quote unquote prop yep. Meanwhile, Don Lemon tried to justify to lead play clip four.

There's nothing more personal to me than my relationship. My nieces and nephews are people of color. So look, the congressman obviously loves his family. He saw how emotional he was there. But honestly, that is just not the point. Is you had loved ones who are people of color. It's not the point that you you've hired a person of color. It's not the point that some of your best friends or people of color. This is what especially

people of color try to get people to understand. All the no, no, okay, I mean we're done with Don Lemon anywhere here. No. No, how you treat people is what matters, not what party, what political affiliation you have. That doesn't mean you are or are not racist. How do you treat people? Don Mark Meadows obviously take it, takes it very personally because he treats people of color

as people. We'll be right back. I keep coming up with extreme scenarios where I show you where the left is going, or I show you what the logical ends of a position that the progressives take is going to be, and I do it to illustrate a point, but then it's only a matter of time before that is the reality, as in, I say, this is so this left wing idea is so crazy that next thing, you know, they're gonna be saying X, and then give it about a

six month lag time, and that's actually what they're saying, you know. So I'm having a hard time, you know, keeping up with how crazy the left is because my examples of how much crazier they're going to be keep coming true. So the extremes are no longer used to prove a point about the flaws in their logic. The extremes that I'm identifying are just way points on their progress into the depths of insane town. And here is a perfect example of that, an article in Academia Edu,

which is a clearinghouse for academic papers from Yuna. That's the closest I can get to Norwegian University of Oslo, and it is a moral case for legal age change. And let me just this is a This is a peer reviewed and published academic article at the University of Oslo, which I hear is lovely this time of year if you like skiing to class. University of Oslo is you know. Oh also the also Alto University in Finland, which I

hear they have a great program in snowcone making. But here's the piece, a moral case for legal age change. Should a person who feels his legal age does not correspond with his experienced age be allowed to change his legal age? In this paper I argue that in some cases people should be allowed to change their legal age.

Such cases would be when one the person genuinely feels his age differs significantly from his chronological age, and two the person's biological age is recognized to be significantly different than his chronological age. And three, age change would likely prevent, stop or reduce ageism or discrimination he would otherwise face. I mean, does it get does it get much much nuttier than this? There's a guy who is suing. I forget where, but you know, look what happens in Europe.

It's always just they're further down the socialism and progressivism insanity pathway than we are. But it is just a matter of time before we find ourselves face with the same problems that they have had or that they are having. And I know that there's a guy who's suing right now in Europe, in Europe because he says that he should be a lot of change his age, and they won't let him. But just think about this, you know, think about the ways this could be abused. And you know,

I don't know. You don't have to get very creative before you realize there's problems here. But the notion that legal age is a cause for discrimination, and that also somebody's psychology can overcome how society treats the physical reality of who they are. This just goes to show you that transgenderism, which is now not just embrace but it is dogmatically worshiped on the left transgenderism has now opened

the door very wide to transracialism. I don't think I mean, look at Elizabeth Warren, right, but I know I don't think I'm white. I think I'm actually from Papua New Guinea and should be treated as a Pacific islander. And now trans ageism. You're you're going to see more of this because liberal intellectual types are not necessarily real intellectuals.

But you know, mozers in the universities are going to see this as a new frontier to make the argument against rationality, because ultimately, what the left likes to do as part of its relativistic approach to all things is to find a way to undermine facts and logic in their pursuit of power. Team Bucket, It's time for roll call. Role Call tom everybody, remember that tomorrow I will be That's Friday. I'll be at Seapack at the Gay Lord

International Convention Center in Maryland. Yes that is the name of the place, and I'll be giving a speech at eight forty five I should say a debate, not a speech. Having a debate at eight forty five am on Syria. And then I'm moderating a panel tomorrow evening at Sea Pack I think around six six thirty on cyber warfare and election integrity. It's gonna be wonky but should be very interesting. So if you are in the DC, Maryland, Virginia area, please please come by Sea Pack. You'll be

able to find me. I'll be the guy wandering around in boat shoes with the side swoop that you have all come to know and hopefully at least are amused by. So yes, please do come by and say what's up. And Ben Winegarten is going to be in for me tomorrow on radio because I can't get to see Pack do all the Seapack stuff, moderate the panel, and do the show. So I'm basically at Sea Pack tomorrow for the day. But Ben does a great job here on

the show. He's already lining up guests and it's going to be a really, really solid outing for mister Weingarten as always, and he gets psyched. I mean, he loves he loves Team Buck and he is always really enthusiastic about being a part of what we do here in the Hut. So make sure you tune into Ben. He's gonna lay it down Facebook dot com a slash a Buck sex and if you want in on this role. Call action action. It's fun to say. Robin rights follow

up on family leave. One hundred percent agree it shouldn't be regulated by the government. I am a self employed mother of five. Wow, Robin, I took eight weeks off with zero income and four more with part time. It required planning, sacrifice, and a good support network. It was so very well worth it. I will say that when I went through my miscarriage, I was given three days off from my employer at the time. That was generous by industry standards, but not nearly enough. Time off without

pay was not permitted. Again, shouldn't be government dated, but it should be a conversation our society is exploring together. Look, Robin, I totally agree. I think that family leave should be something that is discussed as a employee benefit right up front, the same way that you would discuss what your healthcare

plan is, what your four oh one K is. But it has to be thought of as a benefit because if it's a government mandate, is very likely that it will put undue strain on a lot of businesses, and there will, just as in our discussion of green energy, there are unforeseen and even sometimes unforeseeable consequences of government intrusion into market activity. Caroline, Sweet Caroline, bom bomp bap. Everybody.

Everybody knows that. That's the song that they put on at every bar in America at about two o'clock in the morning. It's not the last song, but it's the song they put on after bon Jovi Living on a Prayer, which comes on around one thirty whatever. It's like, na halfway there. Ever ever likes to just just scream Living on a Prayer at you know, twelve thirty, you know, at night around there, when they're really good and lit, that's when they get the bon job. But Sweet Caroline

comes on later on. Sweet Caroline is kind of when you got to make the all right, how am I going to get home safely? Do we need to call a cab? You know? Those are the those are the thoughts that come after Sweet Caroline. It's it's pretty much when the lights come on, you look around, you're like, what have I done with my night? Oh? Sorry, Caroline actually wanted to say some things. Um, hold on a second, I share outrage with people. Hold on, Carolin, let me

come back to this one. Tj Sorry Caroline, I lost your I lost my Wait, why is it? The computer is not cooperating here, guys, I'm sorry. Sometimes it freezes up on me. I sound like one of these old people. It's like the VCR won't work. Somebody make my VCR work. Kimberly writes, I agree with everyone else. Your Trey Gouty is not very good. You're not very good at doing a Southern drawl. Keep practicing, ouch pre Climberly word if I'm talking about luck. Just all right? I know you

hate it, you hate it. I don't want to all right, I give, I give. My Trey Gaudy has been voted off. The Island Trade does not have the speaking torch on the show. Will I will back off of the Trey Gaudy impersonations? Mark? Are you sure? But maybe I can get a bet? No? No, Trey, No, the people have spoken. Brian Rights buck Wow, watched your and Crystal's interview with the Sunrise co founder. You didn't let her off with a free pass, and it's a testament to your TV show.

Very entertaining and would love to know the post show commentary say I have a bachelor or science or electronic engineering. Does that make me an expert to indoctrinate my kids, niece's nephews, and other family members with Marxist political narratives, you know, because science. Yeah, Brian, I am rarely surprised

by the extra dreamism of the left. But for somebody who is an adult roughly around my age, maybe a little younger, probably about you know, thirty, I would say, who would look me in the eye and not have an immediate answer to should ten year olds be able to vote? This would be like me asking somebody, do you think that it's a good thing that cannibalism is outlawed? You shouldn't have to think about that one, right, It's it's good that we are not okay with cannibalism and

it is against the law. Cannibalism should be outlawed. That shouldn't be. That shouldn't be a stumper, you know, one that gets you stumped. And it's the same thing with should a ten year old be able to vote? You know, those of you who are Ghostbusters fan know, when someone asks you if you're a god, you say yes. When someone asks you if ten year olds can vote, you say no. You don't say I need to think on that one a little bit I don't have the answer,

and that was where the extremism really came out. You know, I try on Rising, I have to practice because I don't. It's not a platform like some of the conservative cable news shows where I can really just hammer at somebody if I want to. I have to share the stage and share the airtime with my liberal co host, So I have to just get in with pointed questions. I can't dominate and hound and do some of the things.

You know I can't. O'Reilly anybody on Rising? Those you used to watch O Riley, you know what I'm talking about. We'll do it live. Hey Bill was in his day. Bill was great at TV, no question about it. I got respect for the guy's TV skills. Harry rights, hey Buck.

It occurs to me, what's the number of Maizie Harronos Senate Bill ordering a fleet of clipper ships and their sailors that will be needed to supply everything to Hawaii, including tourists, shields high Harry, Harry, I have no idea what you're talking about, my man, So you know, you know stuff that I don't know. I got nothing for you on the main Herono, Bill Kristen not to be confused with Kursten. There are a couple of Keto ice creams that might be good to support your show. I'm

glad to support your show. Wink and Rebel are the names. Wink is also vegan for those who care, you know what, I will check those out, Kristen, I'd love to rep some Keto ice cream here in the show. And that reminds me. If you are a business owner, if you have a product, if you want to be a part of our sponsorships here on the show, you can reach

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if I think it's merited. So that's that we have real partnerships here. These are not companies that I don't know who they are or what they do, who runs it, none of that stuff. David Right's, hey, Buck, why don't we ever hear about how Chavez still billions of dollars and how his daughter transferred all that money out of the country and then and then she left the country as a billionaire. I'm sure the Venezuelans could use that money.

I guess Bernie thinks it's okay, all right, later, Doc, Yeah, you're absolutely right. This is what always happens in these so called socialist paradises. The people in charge just loot the country, just steal, steal and steal some more. And when you point that out, you're told that you're being a Yankee imperialist, or that you're being unfair to the socialist revolutionary credentials, or whatever. But yes, it is true

that the Chavez family are billionaires. And you would be hard pressed to show me a country where you have a socialist and a strong man and where you don't have a situation that the looting has occurred. It always socialism and strong man goes together like looting in and carrots or something, you know whatever. You know what I was, You know what I was going for, Rob Right, But

great show, truly love it, Rob Show loves you. I think the Democratic Party is at war on two fronts, the Green New Deal far left crazies and the conservatives who want truth in life. Where does that leave them? They are neither communist nor conservative. How do we get to this point where communism is at our door? God save America. Pray for our president, whom I trust, shields high for a president he is anointed. Uh, Well, you know you're right about the Green New Deal, and I did.

I think you're right also about the fundamental schism in this country. So we need to fight, and I think that we are in for a very very important and it's going to be quite a contest going into twenty twenty. Bill writes, Your trade gaudy does sound like Bill Cosby, what tree guardiles general putting pops. Maybe maybe I should just transfer over my trade gouty to being a Bill Cosby, and then you guys will like you genero putting and

wearing your big sweaters. Then rights buck, Since you like pistachio, I thought I was going to ask you what you thought of spamoni ice cream. However, since you've never even heard of neopolitan, I suppose it's a mood point. It's like I don't even know you anymore. Whoa whoa van, buddy? Okay, it is true. I don't know what spamoni is, and you know what, right here on air I'm finding out right now. It is a molded gelato with different colors

and flavors, usually containing candied fruits and nuts. Whoa vn. Let me tell you something, buddy. You keep your candied fruit and nut ice cream to yourself, all right, None of that I do. I don't like nuts in my ice cream. I don't like nuts in my brownies. Keep them out of air, all right? That's just and fruit? What are you putting? Putting raisins? Raisins and ice cream? Get out of here with that nonsense. But then you

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