The Nikki Haley Smackdown

nine hundred buck. That's eight four four, nine hundred to eight to five the future of talk radio. Buck Sexton, Remember this day in which it was singled out for attack in the General Assembly for the very act of exercising our right as a sovereign nation. We will remember it when we are called upon to once again make the world's largest contribution to the United Nations. And we will remember it when so many countries come calling on us, as they so often do, to pay even more and

to use our influence for their benefit. America will put our embassy in Jerusalem. That is what the American people want us to do, and it is the right thing to do. No vote in the United Nations will make any difference on that but this vote will make a difference on how Americans look at the u N and on how we look at countries who disrespect us in the u N box. Sex in here Team, Great to have you with me in the Freedom Hut. That was US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Hailey laying a

SmackDown on the United Nations General Assembly today. I have to say it was quite a good day for the ambassador and a day of clarity for many of the rest of us. We're not surprised to find out that the United Nations has quite an anti Israeli and in fact anti Semitic streak. That's not news. And we're not surprised that a bunch of countries all over the world that pretend to be courageous in moments like this where there's a vote that means nothing but they want to

get on the record anyway. We won't be surprised when they come asking for our help later on. But this is where we see the difference, isn't it between this administration and the previous one. The Obama administration was all about trying to just fit in with the pack of the international community, trying to be a part of all the different nations out there and really no different and in so many ways, no better than all the other countries.

And that's just nonsense. It's not true. Clap track. We are better than almost all countries in every sense, and we are the best country in a general sense. So it's nice to have some top down reaffirmation of that at the United Nations. The world sleep soundly at night

despite the fact that our military could crush anybody. The world is in fact a much better place each and every day because of America and the fact that Israel in such a short span of time has created a rule of law based democracy in the heart of the Middle East, where people have rights and a high standard of living and are coming up with new vaccines and computer technologies and on cutting edge of so many different industries.

And then you look around in the neighborhood and you're like, well, what's going on outside of Israeli borders. People feel very insecure about it. I guess you could say other nations, whether it's Saudi Arabia or the UAE or Egypt or name a country, they see what's happened in Israel, and they have to tell themselves lies about what's really happened

because they can't accept the truth. And then is that autocracy and theocracy more specifically in the case of the Saudias and many other Muslim states, is a path to misery. And the Israelis have something else. They have rule of law. They have a decent country and society that is the envy of the rest of the region. And that is why it is so hated by the rest of the region.

And we have America, close friend and ally of the Israeli state, that under this president, with this US Ambassador to the United Nations, will actually say, you know what, enough of enough of the garbage, enough of the crap that we have to deal with from all of you here. You should be so thankful that the current global hedgemon is as benevolent and decent to powers of the the United States.

You know, I see these polls that are out there, and there was one that was out pretty recently about which country is the one that is viewed as the greatest threat to peace instability, And in a lot of the world, it's America. It's a shocking number of countries they say it's America. The only real exceptions are in countries where there's an imminent national security challenger next door, right, So in India it's Pakistan and Pakistan it's India. You know,

in South Korea it's North Korea and North Koda. But if you look at a lot of polling, it will show you that around the world they view America as the biggest threat. And it's just a reminder that there's really no gratitude for the greatness of this country from a lot of the world, not from all of it. There are countless tens of millions that want to come here. Really, probably hundreds of millions that would love to come to America if they really were given the option, because they

understand at this place is the best. There's nothing jingoistic or strange about professing that America is number one because we are, and that's okay. It doesn't mean that every American is better than or worth more than people from every other country. It just means, as as a nation state, as these things go, we are in fact the best, and we want others to live in happiness and prosperity and liberty and security. And they should be happy that

that's the case, because it hasn't always been so. Oh, it's not always the reality of whatever the global hedgemon or the regional hedgemon. Maybe at any point in time. The great empires of the past were built on slavery in one form or another and conquest. We are the first to take at least the mantle of British leadership, although now we're talking about colonial period and create a

better world. Uh and the United Nations is a reflection I think of the disconnect that so many other countries have when it comes to what is the truth, what is the reality of America, and it is that they should be very thankful. I'm not expecting everyone all of the world to pray to America every day, but I also don't think that they should be slapping us in the face or that their leadership should be without consequence.

Given that this is none of their concern. They can pretend it is, but where America puts its embassy is the business of America. America and the host country that's it. This is not up for discussion or debate from other countries. This is our call, you know. This is like all the other countries of the world coming over to our house and saying, you know what you're gonna you're gonna put the kitchen here, no facts. Actually we'll decide where we put the kitchen. Not not up to you. It's

our house. Thanks a lot. They should be embarrassed, all these countries that did this today. But it is a moment in time, and we can see that the Trump administration is oh so different from its predecessor. No bowing, No, oh gosh, what have we done so badly all over the world. Maybe US foreign policy is the cause of so many of these ills that we see happening. Maybe the global war on terrorism is just one big, long,

extended blowback to US foreign policy. These are beliefs on the left that have infused themselves in the Democratic Party. They've taken this stuff on, and at the very top level there is at least some level of adherence to it. There's some acceptance of these ideas all the way up to the commander in chief in the previous administration obombed himself and America was the cause of problems in the world,

that America should be humbling itself before other powers. And the difference is quite a contrast, isn't it right now? And you see it on display the United Nations instead of being thankful for what we do all over the world takes its first chance here to say that they condemn our actions. It doesn't really mean anything. But then we have to start to think, well the symbolism, do symbolism have meaning or not? The United Nations is honestly

more symbolic than anything else. A lot of bureaucrats, I know, some people who have worked at the U n say that you've got some nice, you know, benefits, but nothing really happens in any meaningful sense, doesn't stop genocides from occurring, doesn't end civil wars, and creates forums for discussion that are largely unnecessary, and as we will talk about just a little bit, focus way too much on Israel, as though this small country in the Middle East, surrounded by

generally hostile powers, is the great threat to international stability. It's just a constant reminder of the inadequacy of the various, particularly Arab Muslim regimes that currently exist. That's that's why Israelists, at least one of the major reasons why it is so bothersome to them. Why are these really so much more prosperous and militarily more powerful than we are. It's it's an it's a worthwhile question for them to actually

look at honestly, but they won't. Instead, they'll just spread anti anti Semitic wise and defamation and wine and use the Palestinians as a as a pawn, try and escape accountability for the failures of Islamic leadership. That's just what's happening, that's the truth. But they won't want to see it that way. So today was It was a good day, and Nicki Haley did an excellent job. I must say I've often wondered why, in the face of such hostility, Israel has chosen to remain a member of this body.

And then I remember that Israel has chosen to remain in this institution because it's important to stand up for yourself. Israel must stand up for its own survival as a nation, but it also stands up for the ideals of freedom and human dignity that the United Nations is supposed to be about. Would you would you rather be? And you can do this thought experiment in so many different ways. You know, would you rather be taken on the battlefield as an enemy in in Israel, or in Syria or

in Saudi Arabia. Look at what the Saudis are doing to the Yemen's right now, Yemen is a humanitarian disaster. Saudis are writing incredibly wealthy Saudis are right next door and just letting the place burn and and involved in a vicious air campaign as well. So you can, you can have the thought experiments so many different ways. But the Israelis represent twenty one century civilization in a region that could use quite a bit more of that these days.

And that's just the truth. We will take a bunch of calls if you want today. I'd love to talk to you about the tax bill. It looks like a continuing resolution has been passed at least by the House. Is that the latest that there's not going to be a shutdown? Right? That's all you did? There will be no shutdown? Yeah, okay, we got we got away for the Senate stuff. So the House is passed it. We'll see what happens with the Senate. There's not enough of a there's not enough attention on them to do a

shutdown over the Christmas holiday. Plus the government's kind of shut down of the holiday anyway, it's like, oh gosh, what will happen? The government shuts down and pretty much shuts down Saturday and Sunday every week, and we all survive. Everybody, it's okay. You know what's what's really gonna kill us, all his net neutrality. That's where we're all gonna die. Eight four or four n eight to five, eight four four nine hundred buck second to last show of twenty seventeen.

I can't say it out loud too many times where I might get a little teary eyed here and get little weepy. It's amazing how fast fast time flies, Team Buck, you're all grown up now. Oh gosh, nationwide over a hundred twenty stations, Oh gosh, eight four four nine to eight to five. I'll be right back. Of these nations that take our money and then they vote against us at the Security Council when they vote against potentially at the Assembly, they take hundreds of millions of dollars and

even billions of dollars, and then they vote against us. Well, we're watching those votes. Let him vote against us will save a lot. We don't care. But this isn't like it used to be, where they could vote against you and then you pay them hundreds of millions of dollars and nobody knows what they're doing. So, Nikki, that was the right message that you and I agreed to be sent yesterday, and I've had a lot of good comment on it. Believing people are tired of the United States.

The people that live here are great citizens that love this country. They're tired of this country being taken advantage of, and we're not going to be taken advantage of any longer. Amen, How is that controversial? You get all these stuffy, hissy foreign policy types were like, oh, how could he? The United Nations? Really, why do we have to give the most money the U N. I got even better question as a New Yorker why they have to have the

U n headquarters here? Put it somewhere else where they don't cause so much congestion and traffic and where there aren't so many great restaurants and ways for these countries to have their bureaucrats spending their taxpayers dollars. You know, I'm sure there's like a like an island somewhere. Send them to. I don't know, some other place the Falklands that's a little out of the way, But I'm just saying, you gotta find somewhere else to put them all right,

everybody wants to talk taxes, we give be that. I'm gonna have our friend dovid Iffun from the Alga Minor talk to us about you went vote today with Nicki Haley. But let's take We got lines lit up all over the place. I know I'm gonna miss you all too. I know I gotta get a lot of calls today tomorrow, Becau, I'm gonna not get to talk to you guys for a few days. Gonna make me. It's gonna give me the sadness. I'm gonna be sad. Um. Let's get Anne in Virginia. What's up an? Yeah, me too, but I'll

be back. It's gonna be a funen here in the hut. Okay um, okay. Gave employees a crossboard raise today and Christmas bonuses because the tax bill passed exactly. Yeah, it's good stuff. And yet is there a more democratically endorsed uh? You know them? No Democrats care about the middle class until someone does something from the middle class, and then they go kind of radio silent on or they lie about it and say it's bad. All right, and we're kind of losing here, so we're gonna roll and thank

you and shields. I have a merry Christmas to you. I couldn't really hear what you were saying, Uh, Wayne in Florida. Hey, Wayne, Hey, I just wanted to remind you it's not really a whole home continuing resolution in the in the Senate. Since they passed the tax bill and it did away with the individual mandate, the Lamar Alexander and Patty Murraam and McConnell is going to slap on the you can tinuing resolution and sneaking in there as an insurance company bailout. So remind everybody to call

the Wayne you're you're you're an are you die? Fellow? What does that mean? Well, it means that they're gonna end up giving millions to the insurance kudability and whatever to the insurance companies saying well, since you're losing all these customers, we've got to do something that, you know, make up the loss you're gonna take when all these customers drop off voluntarily. And so we want to make sure that people tell their senators no on the amendment.

But see, I don't understand why would they bail out the whole purpose of repealing the individual mandate as I see it is to show everybody that the moment you have free choice in these exchanges, they collapse because people don't want to buy this stuff. Because a lot of people get a bad deal. Why why would they want to bail them out? I agree we should not. I assume it's a McConnell deal, or somebody's getting some money from the insurance companies, some kickback, some finance, some Okay,

you're our big donors. We need to do something orious. They didn't just pull that out of a Yeah. Hey, I give Shields tie Wayne, thank you for calling. And Merry Christmas. I give a Trish Reagan over at Fox Business a lot of credit. She's she's pounding the drum on the Carrie interest loophole, which is a straight up

giveaway to private equity and hedge fund guys. And for those of you who don't have too much familiarity with those businesses, they make a lot of money, and the difference between what they pay in taxes on their large incomes with the carried interest loophole and without it is like, uh, you know, paying half, it's big. It is a big difference. And yeah, that was just that was the donor class. Don't forget it. The donor class is not just alive and well but still got a lot of power inside

the GOP. And this tax cut. Yes, Trump allowed this to happen. Without Trump, this doesn't happen. Trump allowed this to happen because without him, we don't win the White House. Right, But this is a very mainstream, mainline GOP thing. This is not a radical tax bill. This is what the GOP. The look at Paul Ryan, right, he couldn't be any happier. He's like a kid on Christmas a few days before Christmas.

So just remember this. It's good, but there's some stuff in there that's a little annoying, and we shouldn't forget that. There's got to be a lot more done. I'm not even gonna talk about I'm not gonna be the grinch today talks about the debt. But it's a problem. Well, we'll talk about that some other day. I got your calls screens lit. Let's take David in just a moment

here that he's out of the vote. He's as follows in favor against nine abstentions Draft Resolution A slash E s nash ten slash L twenty two, he's an update. So the u N General Assembly today voted overwhelmingly to condemn the United States decision to move a United States facility within a sovereign nation and member of the United Nations. Well, what are we to make of all this? Really, We've got David I Fune online now he's the editor in

chief of the Alga. Minor David gred to have you back, always a pleasant book, I guess today it was not surprising, but I think it's at some level still disappointing. David in some level, yes, but but in another level not so.

And I think for two reasons. The festival, you know, at the u N to begin with, is deeply problematic, and that's very very well known, the sense that it's you know, there are automatic majorities of the organization of Islamic corporation, the lonline movement, that are against Western interests, whatever they are. But I think we have seen some

some movement in the opposite direction here. If you combine the abstentions together with countries that didn't show up, together with those countries that voted against, you have about sixty one date that refused to play along with this latent and engregious degradation of of the u N cause and what the UN is supposed to stand for. Um So,

in that sense, I would say pigeon steps forward. But I think the bigger progress is actually on the U S front and the US approach to the u N. I mean, under the Abama administration, we saw a White House that kind of was easier, was eager to curry favor with the u N and and seek the approval of the international community for various policies. And here you have a White House which I think is taking the right approach, and that is listen, you know, we we

know what's right. We're doing the right thing, and we're keeping track of those of those other countries that are joining us. And by the way, they'll be repercussions because everybody needs something from America. What are the reasons for so many of these countries, David, that are are far away from from Israel, from the territories of Gaza and the West Bank. Why do have European countries, for example,

that are voting to condemn this. Well, I think you know, there's all kinds of different reasons, but I think you know that the European countries, by the way I would say, have have the least excuse some of the other countries. You know, they might say, well, we need the support of of Russia, we need the support of the Arab States. We need we need to you know, we need to kind of be included in these these UN groupings in order to have our voice heard at all, because you know,

we're just a small country, etcetera. So there are there are those types of explanations. Certainly, you know, there's the ideological explanation, which is the position of the Arab States who view Israel as uh the worst thing that ever happened uh on the planet, and that's how they act. But it's also a distraction from from their own regimes

and their own behaviors. And they feel if they can point the finger at israelis as the world's worst actor than they that's gonna distract from their own terrible activities. And uh, you know, we're talking about authoritarian and and and theysposic regime set. Uh. The Europeans you mentioned specifically really have no excuse. And I think it's just this sort of moral preening which is frankly pathetic. And we're starting to see segments of Europe, particularly in Europe. Uh,

take a step back. You had today the Czech Republic, Latvia, Hungary, Poland all abstained, which I would say is a good step in terms of a breakaway from European tradition, hopefully one that will continue and grow. David I fun Is the editor in chief of the Alga Minor, David, does this set the stage in your mind for an actual rejuvenation of the peace process or a restart of the

peace process in the future. I mean, what what does this most likely lead to in terms of the US relationship in brokering some kind of a deal in twenty eight team between Israel and the Palestinians. But I think the vote itself at the u N today is is mostly irrelevant in visa vita peace process. It's what the

vote was about that is more relevant. Now. I mean moving the embassy right in terms of moving the embassy right, So I think that actually is quite relevant and it's it's my personal view that it will do more to move the cause of peace forward. You know, this administration has has has shown time again and made very clear that they're determined to do things differently and that they're not going to keep implementing the same policies and then

expect different results. And one of the things that they've shown that they're very prepared to do differently is to create some repercussions for the Palestinians, who, in the past, I think we spoke a little bit about this last time, have always been handled by the US with with kid gloves, and I think this is this is just the beginning.

You know that the US is showing its serious is telling the Palestinians you know, you better get down off your high horse and play ball because the ticking clock is not in your favor over here. H This was the first step I think to show how serious the US was, But there are a lot more repercussions lined up for the posts if they're not prepared to to to show goodwill and serious commitment to to to these discussions.

It also seems like a reminder that at the United Nations there is a a fixation on condemning, criticizing, bullying Israel that can't be explained by simple state craft. David, Yeah, that's true. Even so, ja Jake Pepper, of all people from CNN was tweeting about this earlier today. The stats show that that there were twenty one resolutions condemning as well at the u N and only five resolutions condemning all other countries, one each I think for Syria, North Korea, Russia,

maybe China and one of the country. So that just just gives you a sense of of how this proportion it is and how ecregious it is. I mean, of course there's criticism to be had for for every country, but you know, Israel is a liberal democracy, it's a free society. I mean, it's it's it's insanity that really

undercuts everything the United Nations stands for. That this that this goes on, and for the US to take a step back and say, look, you know, have it your way, but we're not going to fit the bill anymore, right, or don't expect us to do to do things in the same way, which is what the message that the President sent yesterday and Nicki Haley sent from the UN podium is a correct approach for them to be reconsidering their their commitment to the funding to you into the

tune of twenty percent of its budget for more analysis and all the latest going on with Israel and the Middle East, go to the ALCA Minor dot com. David if Fune is the editor in chief there. David, thank you so much for joining us. Happy holidays and talk to you always a pleasure. Buck, you two good to talk to you, my friend. Alright, team eight four four nine hundred to eight to five eight four for nine hundred. Buck, What do you think of Nikki Haley lighting it up

today at the United Nations? I have to say I was quite pleased that and uh more coming up? All right, team lines are lit. Let's get to it. Rayab in Florida. Hey, what's up? Ray? Hey? Buck? Hey? Can you hear? Yes? Sir? Yes? Yeah? I like you show a lot. Thank you. I listened

to the solution today. I like to add a little bit when you were discussion about it, when you mentioned the sovereignty and of course we have the right to declare or whatever, as long as we don't step from somebody else's You mentioned that we're just declaring moving our embassy to whatever. That's okay, but don't declare you're meeting declaring that we're enforcing. Okay, we now we're going to

declare Jerusalem to be the capital offers. That's what you're right. Well, but but if you want to be stayed at fact, you have to step the whole thing. How about it of Syria or rug But hold on, hold on a second, ray Israel. Israel is a sovereign country and a member of the United Nations, right, I understand, right, right? So so they're the ones that are saying this is our capital, and we're the ones who are saying, okay, so we're gonna have our embassy in your capital. You're not the

one who've seen that the capital. You are the one who've seen that enforcing that now with the Israelis don't think Jerusalem is their capital? Know they agree that they had the east part belonged to the Palestinian and the west part belong to the Israel. No, they the Israelis are pretty sure that Jerusalem is their capital. You need to check the history. No, because that you add when you only twisting secle like this, you add to the

oh onto the fire. You know that this area is very very very sensitive, and no, I understand that it's very very sensitive to both sides. Don't just tick one side. I mean, but my friend, the best I gotta I gotta ask you, so if you were to right now go on and we could probably do this together if you want, while we're on air. If you were to type in into Google, which is a very well known search engine, what is the capital of Israel? You know what would come up? Right, the capital Israel. So far,

Come on, let's do this together. Going to Google, type it in paper paper see that now, now we're going. Now we're getting a little silly, right because I'm just telling you that the Israeli government, which is a country and a member nation of the United Nations member state, says that Jerusalem is their capital, and that is the that is the capital of Israel. So I don't I mean the the unwillingness to move the embassy in the past was a concession that was unnecessary to begin with.

But anyway, what my look, I appreciate ray of you calling in. We're not gonna get anywhere of this. If you say it's not the capital, I'm I'm telling you it is. And there's a recognition of reality. It doesn't change anything where the US building is with regard to whether or not it is the capital. It just shows that the US isn't living in some alternative universe. But I appreciate you calling in Uh, yeah, no, the Google. The Google will say it for all of you. Jerusalem is,

in fact the capital Israel. I'm just littit out there. Herb in New Jersey? What up? Herb sales high buck? Merry Christmas time, Merry Christmas to you, sir. I have to agree with to Um. I think RAB is a little misguided in that. Uh, we haven't. I don't think we've declared that Jerusalem is Israel's capital. I think Israel did that. I think we just recognized it, just like um. So many countries have wisely recognized Israel's right to exist as a nation, and so we've recognized Israel's right to

declare Jerusalem capital. Very simple. Um. The reason I called buck is that, Um. I just think, Uh, Nicky Haley is the absolute bomb. Um. You know, it's almost like if you were to believe in reincarnation, the spirit of John Wayne has been reborn. And Nicki Haley because she's not afraid to stand there and tell it like it is and pretty much not care if you like it or not. She's gonna say what's on her mind. She did a great she did a great job today. I

agree with you. And by the way, I would think. I'm not sure how long till her is gonna want to stay around. A Secretary of State got to assume that Nicky Haley is uh top of the list or replace him if if Rex decides he wants to do a little more fly fishing and spend his hey, she'd she'd have my vote to replace him without without a doubt. You know, every time she opens her mouth to the u N I leap out of my seat. I throw

my fist in the air and holler yeah. Of course it scares my wife, and one of my dogs runs and hides. But I'm just really really proud of her when when she represents us in the United Nations and she by a president who believes that we have a right as the strongest nation in the world, to voice our opinion, and we expect our opinion to be respected, just like they want us to respect. There's there's a

new Naudien life list in town. Nicky Haley is kicking button and taking names, and I am looking forward to seeing that list because I'll buy products from those nine nations that agree with us, and the hud that didn't, well, I guess what they're not getting any more of my money either, all right, her, thanks for the great calling. My friend Mary Christmas Tyrone. Yes, sir, you mentioned that Secretary of State job you know who really has been

campaigning for right, No, Lindsey Graham. Lindsay Graham, that's why he's so friendly with the president. That I've read a whole bunch of art that makes I can see that. Actually, now that you're bringing it up, I hadn't. Oh Lindsay, Oh my, that would not that would not be my favorite move. I look, I'm just not a Lindsay Graham person. I was easy. I'm not a hater. I just not my not my top pick of the of the politicos out there. Daniel in Virginia on the I Heart app.

What's going on? Daniel? Hey, Hey, I just wanted to call it in. Thank you for everything to do because it's really great. Thank you very much. I appreciate that's all you got. Not really I got a little bit more though, just like how I really love your show. Um, I'm probably one of your youngest listeners because I'm only like fifteen and eight months. Oh wow, oh wow, alright, man, we got I'm not even what do we You're not even are you a millennial? Are you too young to

be a millennial. I'm not even sure what your designation is, man, but that's great that you listen to the show. I'm so glad you. Do you have any any anybodies that are also conservatives like you, or that at least interested in politics and world affairs. I don't know, really, I don't really talk about politics much at school. It's probably a good move, my friend. I don't want you to

get in trouble with anybody, especially your teachers. They'll they'll find a way to to you know, give you a bad grade if they find out you listen to this show. So I promise we won't tell anybody. But it's great that you listen. Man, I I'm really appreciative, and have a very merry Christmas with your family, and please join us in eighteen all right, all right, all right, she'll tie brother. Look at that, a fifteen year old member

a team book. I love it. I love it. We spanned the whole and I used to there was this lady used to call in, uh and if she's listening, you know, we'd love to hear from you. She used to call in all the time. On the original Saturday Squad. And her name was Irma, and I think she told me she was five, and she she would call in and she'd have these great calls about like freedom and how she fled from Germany and how we need to

understand what the greatness of America. And she had a really she had a cool German accent, and she would go on these rants about freedom that were amazing. So I'm just saying, we get the whole, the whole spectrum here fifteen to eighty five or or a hundred and five if you're out there, I don't know, you know, I'm sure there might be one or two. Um now on not on a non important note for a second. Here I see two or not as important? Uh, two

CEOs stepping down. One is Eric Schmidt at Google or what. I'm not sure he's the CEO. He's some what is the chairman or something? Yeah, executive chairman of Alphabet. It's not called Google anymore. For those who were I want to be in the know, Google is now called Alphabet. Well hello, um, he'll be in a technical advisor role. I don't know how important this is or not, but I also see and I feel like people are probably

gonna have some opinions on this one. Papa John's founder is out, and this is because, well, why is this? Why is the Papa John's Papa John's founder stepping down? Tyrone? What do we got? Didn't he do a lot of complaining about his sales numbers and blaming the NFL? And yeah, there was some NFL stuff and he said some um I heard he said some racially insensitive things as well. And now at the point he made himself such an important part part of that brand that when he went bad,

the brand can't really recover. And I don't want to talk about the product. No, No, I want you to talk about the product of all the fast food pizza chains. Where does Papa John's fall. They're the worst of them all by a lot. It's not even food. Oh man, I can't eat it, so I can't weigh in. I would feel guilty giving a hot Papa John's pizza to a homeless person. Oh my gosh, that is cold. Amy, is it the worst? Is it? Yeah? She's Amy, so polite. She just gave like a little She's like, oh well, yeah,

but yeah, Tyrone's calling it like it is. I can't say I've never had Papa John's pizza. Uh. In college, I did eat way too much dominoes. I blamed the freshman thirty on that. But yeah, I did not have We did not have Papa John's. Well we will, at least not that I was aware of. But he stepped down. But yeah, the NFL. NFL was part of this. They're saying, Uh, do you have any thoughts on the U N Russia collusion pizza? So I spoke to you about this big

story on the Obama administration. You talked about this earlier in the week where the report is and it's from Politico that President Obama decided to uh call off the dog,

so to speak. He decided to take the pressure off Hesballah, and it was because he wanted his administration so so very much to get any kind of deal nuclear deal, which was a foreign policy legacy item for the Obama administration and also would be the one thing the Democrats would point to in the Middle East where they'd say, see, we we accomplished something, because everywhere else the Middle East it was just everything burning down to the ground and

looking terrible under the Obama aministration, really bad. But with the Iran deal, they're gonna say, well that it was worth all the all the anarchy and suffering and casualties and misery that have been endured in areas where Iran is engaged in proxy war, has some interest in fomenting bloodshed. All that was the price we were willing to pay for for Iran deal. But it is new that the Obama administration would have said hold on back off of

Hezbollah because we want this deal. And that includes even the importation of drugs into this country. That includes Hesblah's international criminal networks. Just as North Korea engages in criminal activity for profit because it does not care what the international community thinks of it, the same is true for Hezblah.

HESBA as a designated terrorist organization, So hesblah uh sells its tentacles all over the world, do what they can to raise money through a listed means, arms trafficking, drug trafficking. They don't care whatever, whatever gets the most cash in their pockets and they can send back so that Hesblah can continue to be this growing cancer in the Middle East. But now some people are taking notice of this. First of all, you had former Senior before I take it

to the Republican side. You had former senior advised here to the White House on national security. I forget his specific title. Uh. I think he was like Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications. I think that was his job title. Ben Rhodes, who's part of this? Uh? This this crew of of of bros who used to work in the Obama White House foreign policy bros. Hey, what's up? Remember that guy? I was? It was it. I can't remember his name, the guy who went on TV and

he's like, Benghazi was like two years ago. Bra, Get with the Times. Bra. He's like flipping his hair's like I'm gonna go hang Tan. Yeah, it's like Kianu and point break. I shouldn't profane Kiano and point break by bringing by bringing this guy into I forget what his name though, was, Um, I'll have I'll have it for you. In a moment, I think I think, Yeah, it was Tommy v. Tour. That's right, Tommy V Tour. I remember

that guy. The only thing I remember about him was that when he was on TV, he's like Benghazi was two years ago, Bra, and everyone's like, wow, this guy is uh, this is the best of the best of the Obama administration, doesn't it. So him and one of the young speechwriter guys, and then also Ben Rhodes, they were kind of the they're out there now defending the legacy of the obamaministration and they're really upset with this political reporter and they're just going out there saying the

political reporter is making it up. And Ben Rhodes tweeted out along that that that there should be a photo of Trump with all of his top people, and that was from Phifer the Clinton the clintonisto Dan Pheiffer, and then Rhodes responded on Twitter that the photos should be along the oh bits of and he named a bunch of of Trump officials. Just another reminder that these are not These are not honorable people were talking about here.

Just because they have served in some in your capacity as an appointee in an administration doesn't mean they're honorable people. And now they're running around trying to undermine and smear this political reporter by saying that his stuff is is unsourced, it's fake, it's not true. And I give them, I give the reporter credit because he is Josh Meyer is the guy, and he is stepping up and he's saying sorry. He responded to one of these Obama acolytes, I'm sorry, man,

but I'm tired of you guys blatantly lying about my work. Seriously, it's beneath you, Ben Rhodes and Tommy Vitor, et cetera. You've either not read it or are willfully disregarding the many other people quoted, the documents people can link, the documents people can link to, and the obvious facts. So this guy Meyer knows he's got a He got a big piece out this week on this soft peddling Hezbollah law enforcement operations. You know, it's it's damaging to the

Obama's Obama team legacy. And you know this because they're going out and Politico is a leftist center. It's it's a Democrat friendly outlet. But even even Democrat friendly outlets sometimes will find a story that's just too juicy to resist. And this was a good one, and we should give Josh Meyer a hat tip for it. I mean, he he did the reporting, he did the due diligence, but you have these former Obama people running around saying that it's all lies, and he's like, how is it a lie?

I've got all these sources, well, what's a lie about this? And you sense the desperation from them, because the more of the American people know the truth about how Obama was conducting his foreign policy, the more they'll realize that they're in These former Obama officials are in no position whatsoever to be h casting aspersions on what Trump has done so far. They really they've they've got nothing, nothing to show for eight nothing worthwhile here's a show for

eight years of being in charge. So it's uh, it's interesting to see how this plays out. And one more thing here, you are beginning to see that Republicans have I think woken up to what's really happening with the whole Russia collusion investigation. This is just the weaponization of prosecutors and using investigations as a political tactic. It's not the first time it's happened. We've seen it happen before. I get all that, But Republicans are realizing what's going

on here. Even Rand Paul, for example, wants some answers. We've had this investigation about Russian collusion, maybe we need an investigation about high ranking Obama officials colluding to try to prevent Trump from being president. That's more serious than even water game. I have to say, you know, you

gotta fight fire with fire at some level. First of all, I would argue that there is a much greater likelihood of finding collusion or conspiracy could use that term among senior level d o J and FBI officials to undermine and destroy the Trump campaign and then presidency. Then you are that there was some secret plot with the Russians to turn the election. You are you are much more likely defined that to find the former than the ladder. But on top of that, Democrats are using this as

a weapon against the administration. The investigation now I'm not even talking about the findings and they know it. That's why when they hear that Mueller Mueller's probe might extend another year, they're so happy. It's not about justice, it's not about finding the truth. The process is the punishment. And if they want to play that game, and if this is the way it's gonna be, you know what, there are some other things we should be looking into.

You know, you're darn right we should be investing. And now they finally are investigating and calling to account senior FBI, senior d o J officials who were involved in all this, making them answer questions before Congress under oath behind closed doors. It this should have been happening for a while, and now it looks like there's also going to be an investigation into uranium one in Hillary Clinton, as their well

should be will we find anything? But if the Mueller probe is going on, we want answers to all of it. How about that. You know, what's good for the goose is good for the gender. What what's the way it's gonna be for the Democrats? If they're gonna play politics that way? Well, well, what's the alternative? We're gonna sit around, you know, be a bunch of never trumpers who are like, oh no, we have scruples on principles, We would never

investigate them unless we were a pent. Sure, Hey, investigating is trying to find out, right, they're gonna do this with the Muller probe, and this is a but I will have Then this is a self inflicted wound for the Trump administration at some level. Two. Yeah, the narrative was created about all the Russia stuff, and it was done dishonestly. But they never should have. I said it from the ginning. You should not have had Sessions recusing himself.

You never should have allowed this to happen, and I've been consistent on that from day one. This was an nightmare. This was gonna go on forever. It was not about justice, it was not about our you know. This was the this was the break in the damn for the Trump team, and I'm just it's unfortunate that they couldn't see it for what it was. And I don't trust this Rosenstein guy at d o J either. I'm just putting that out there. I'm not not loving what I'm seeing from

him either. All Right, we got lines late in here, so we want to get to some of those calls. Eight four four to eight to five. We will be back with a much more stay with me. It's time for Bob Mueller to put up her shut up. If there's evidence of collusion, let's see it. If there's not, let's move on as a country, and let's institute reforms at the FBI so that an egomaniac FBI director like James Comey cannot depart from the normal standard procedures that

guarantee all Americans equal treatment under the law. I agree with what Representative Matt gets said there. But unfortunately Muller prope is not gonna anytime soon. And this at all the hysteria about it. He's not gonna fire Muller. You know they're gonna be running think pieces on that when they're gonna be running an endless loop on c n over the holiday. Will will Trump fire Muller will be new Yar's eve. Hey, let's take a stop from the

champagne drinking and let's ask a question. Is Trump gonna fire Muller? Because it's just it's just like you know, hamsters hitting a pedal or when they you know, when they want a snack, like seeing an audience they want to hear about how Trump is going to cause a constitutional crisis. You know, that's the way it is. Should probably watch more MSNBC. I mean MSNBC is crushing seen in the ratings for a reason, right, It's probably more interesting,

I gotta figure. So we've got some calls up here. Kelly in Florida, thank you for holding Kelly. Hi, Hi, Hiley like Nicky Haley. Oh Haley, It's okay, it was said Kelly here, but I like Haley is good to go ahead? Hi, Okay, Well what I was calling about with today, I read often new Fox News app that Michelle Obama said that if women voted against Hillary Clinton, they voted against their own voice, and I just I

just couldn't believe it. It just filled me with so much anger for a woman to say that, Um, what do you mean against her own voice? She had no idea? Well, democrats, Democrats, Haley think of of women as a voting block, and it's determined, and their ideas and their beliefs and their principles are determined first and foremost by gender, not just by virtue of being people. Exactly I was. I felt like I was a little chest piece in her speech

wherever she was. I didn't care to read any more about it because I was just like, what, what a disgrace to women or even to men that highly believe in women and they're powerful and they do speak their minds. Haley, I just want to let you know, by the way, that I'm pretty sure that that was, uh that that news story, well I remember hearing about that. That was quite a quite a while ago, So I think you might need to update your Fox app. Yeah, I don't know.

It was, um like Hillary said, Hillary said it this week, said Michelle Obama. I don't know if it's just a story that they were running again to just, you know, kind of get the narrative out there. But I just I'm a registered Democrat, and I don't just because I have to pick a side. I'm not saying I am I'm not saying I'm a Republican. But I just felt like I needed to come on the radio and just let women know that they don't need to worry about

what these political figures are saying in their narratives. They need to just listen to themselves, listen to their gut. Is this your Is this your first time Hailey listening to the show? If I may ask, Um, actually, I've listened to you a little bit. Um. I just started listening to talk radio in the past eight months. Um. I so this is clearly your favorite talk radio show. Sure, yeah, you're putting me on the spot. But Andre are you? What are you like? College? Age? How old you? Haley?

I'm twenty two. I'm in I'm at my local state college. UM. I am interested in pursuing a career in children's um in children. UM. I don't know if I'm gonna write books or if I'm going to be a teacher or if I'm going to help well, team Buck Campus represent Haley. Have a very merry Christmas, and thank you very much for your call. We appreciate it. Uh, Eric on the I Heart app in New York. What's all er? Yeah, Hi Buck, Shield Time, Merry Christmas to you and yours

Shield Time, Merry Christmas to you and yours, sir. Thank you, Thank you. Um, I was just wondering on your opinion. I know you're joking before about moving the unto something like desolate island and the middle of nowhere, which I think would be completely awesome. But at the same time, though, Um,

while they're here in our country. I know that we of you know, diplomatic community and stuff like that, But to all the people who voted against what we believe in, I was wondering, is there anything that you know better than I do? Is there anything that we could do to them? Well? They're here? Wait, what do you wait? What do you mean? I'm sorry, it's like taking away some of their diplomatic privileges or you know, somehow just being a thrown on their side for voting against Nah,

we can't, we can't do that. That would mean we're operating in bad faith. That's that's that would be a no. No. We we gotta respect diplomatic protocol too, But we don't have to have the United Nations in midtown Manhattan and have all these bureaucrats running around with their government expense accounts and everything. I'm just saying that that does not that does not have to be the case. We could set up the u N somewhere else. I don't think that we get quite the benefits from it that a

lot of people seem to think that we do. Having it on on. Well, first of all, having a New York is just insane because it's the busiest city in the country and that basically shuts down for a few weeks. Uh not shuts down, but uh causes gridlock a few weeks a year whatever the general assemblies in town. And you know, there's a lot of other towns, a lot of lovely places in this country. We could set up the u N. You know, I got big airports. We

could do the whole thing. So I would be if I'm Trump, I would be like, you know what, let's move it to whatever town that we could use some some jobs, a little boost for local local industry. Let's move the u N there and see how many bureaucrats want to show up and hang out. But no, Eric, we we can't. We can't penalize them officially for taking votes that we don't like while they're here. UM. I agree, But I'm sorry to interrupting. Oh you're interrupting. I'm going

on and on. Go ahead. I was just thinking of, like, you know, is there a political way that we can agitate them or just kind of like stick it to them a little bit. I guess yeah, well Trump is saying that we might give them less money, so there's that That would be one. Yeah, that would be awesome. Hey, Eric, Mary Christmasman, thank you very much for calling in. Um. Yeah, there's there's some stuff that we could probably probably do.

But you know, look, it's a lot of countries, right as part of the problem here is that everybody pretty much voted, you know, not not with US. I mean, Micronesia was like what step off Micronesia, Micronesia was with US. Guatemala, bamn, Guatemala stepped up big. I'm trying to think who else, off top of my head, who else was on that list? Um? Was el Salvador with us or I think there was another Central American country that was not voting. Canada voted, uh what is it? Um not in an absentia, but

they voted uh, you know, no, no vote whatever. I'm forgetting what the word is. Pardon me for a second on that. But okay, Kenn, we'll take that. We'll take that. Canada. You know, our brothers and sisters up north in the in the in the great cold north of Canada. I appreciate that they um, they decided abstention. Thank you. They abstained. That's that's that's good enough. I'll take abstention here the countries that have and a bunch of other Eastern European

countries substained to who we had the whole list. Guatemala, That's what I was thinking. Okay, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, that's right. Did they can't bring the noise to the Marshall Islands. Don't try to push around the Marshall Islands. Naaru. I believe that's house pronounced yeah. I think that's also in the South Pacific. It's got like a three or four man army. I think I believe that's how it's pronounced. Togo and US. So that was that was the United Front.

You know. You know, it's not about the size of the dog in the fight, right, It's about the size of the fighting the dog, that's right. Palau and Micronesia. But these are great trivia questions, like if you I used to play this game with my little brother, who got way too good at it. By the way, I was getting very frustrated. Where you'd have a globe and it would it had a little voice, and it was like all right here where you go and it would it would be like, you know, Vatican City and you

have to press on the globe where. It was a really fun game. It's actually great those of you who have kids that you want to get them to uh no geography, which is really understudied. I think in schools. It's a great game, really really recommended. Um. But yeah, Micronesia, these are the ones. I remember, Togo, I remember these from from that game, and I you know, these are the ones who'd like no and run out of time, and you know, because you couldn't find some of these

different different little countries. So okay, so we didn't exactly have like the great world powers necessarily with US in this un vote. But also here's another point to keep in mind about this whole u n. General Assembly vote today. Whatever what are they gonna do? It means really nothing, but it's annoying. It's mostly annoying, and we shouldn't have to be annoyed by countries that need us a lot

more than we need them. All right, eight four four eight to five, much more coming your way, team, I'll be right back. I mean, the big banking profits off this Republican tax bill are going to make your eyes roll back in your head. The wealthiest people and the most powerful corporations in this country started almost literally scrambling to figure out how they're going to handle all the

money the Republican tax bill just gave them. So when your family's taxes go up because of this bill, you can take comfort in knowing that that's what you're paying for. You're giving telecom companies and the biggest banks in the country are really embarrassing amount of money to have to explain away. It's just embarrassing class warfare from Rachel Matto. I mean, the thing about Matto is she's she's a sharp lady. I mean, she's, yeah, she is smart, So

when she's making stuff up. It's not out of ignorance, it's just out of cynicism and opportunism. And how are middle class people's taxes gonna go up? I mean, if you're a middle class person in a for example, if you're a middle class person under this tax bill in a blue state that has the state and local tax deduction issue, are your taxes really that much? Your property taxes that much more than fifteen twenty two dollars a year? Not in your your middle class? I mean, now we're

how expensive is your house? I mean, I know different jurisdictions have different taxation, but still, I mean, if you're paid like twenty or thirty grand and taxes on your house each your your middle class, that must be some house or some high taxation rate you've got. Um. And that's just assuming that there are some people. Yeah, that's that's taking her as a serious analyst on this issue, when in reality, it's just this is just boo rich

people in corporations, We love the middle class. Well, what about the fact that this is going to give of Americans a tax break? And that's as I told you, that's in the Brooklyns Institution. What about the fact that it's going to give an average of two thousand dollars in tax cuts to American families. That's bad. I need the Democrats to explain to me where these families are that are gonna have two thousand dollars more once this tax code cut goes through that are unhappy about it.

They are just making it up as they go along. But you know, Chuck Schumer's all sad about it. They're failing to reauthorize the Chip program that provides health care for millions of sick kids in the same week that Senate Republicans voted to slash corporate taxes. They're short changing millions of middle class Americans who lost their homes to wildfires and historic storms. I don't know what. I don't

know what that's supposed to be about. And this is an unpopular position, I know, but if you don't have insurance on your home and there is a natural disaster, it is not clear to me why the federal government has an obligation to pay for your home. I know that this this is a this people, they're very intense about this, But I say, well, if one person's house burns down and they don't have insurance. The federal government

does not write them a check. But if a thousand people's houses are burned down or flooded somehow, there's a federal the federal government's supposed to pay for that. I need someone to explain that. I understand the politics behind it, but I don't see a principle there. But I'm not even sure what Chuck is specifically referring to, other than is just opposed to this because Republicans got something through that'll help people. And I've given up on trying to

ring the alarm bell over the debt. People don't want to. People just don't want to hear it. Right now, I get it, you know, Well, okay, we're gonna live in the now, right and living in the now, this tax bill is a good thing. It is kind of funny. I think it was, Uh, what's the oh gosh, I'm forgetting the name of Sorry, I'm forgetting some names tonight. I'm tired, guys. It's been a long it's been a long year. You know, it's been a lot going on. I'm ready. I've got a little bit of vacation itis

going on. Um but the former bush Um Fleisher, thank you, Ari Fleisher. He tweeted out something today and it was the front page of USA today when Obamacare was passed and it was like huge victory and Congress for the administration like rare. And then with his tax cut packs getting passed, it was, you know, one point five trillion added to the deficit. Oh no, it's like, oh wow, USA today all of a sudden are deficit or debt hawks. Oh wow, Oh no, that's so sad. Look this is

they're allowed to do it. I just I pointed out because this is important for understanding what's what that the bias is very real. It's not just some thing that Republicans wind about all the time. It's true. Uh, Paul Ryan gives you the other perspective on this thing. We come to these jobs and improve the lives of the people we represent, and this bill, more than so many

other things we've ever tried of dude does that. And so we're very thankful and we're very hopeful because when we've been working on this issue for so many years, we can see on the horizon this great potential for our people and for our economy. We know this is the greatest country on earth, and we know that America has better days ahead, and we know that America has so much more potential to tap. This bill taps that potential. Okay,

glad to hear it. Oh, I should note that whenever I tell you there's not going to be a shutdown, and all the history onics and grand standing around it is just is laughable at this point. Just remember that so far, I'm I'm Batton batten a thousand on that one. I was gonna say bat in a hundred percent, But then people would know how little I know about baseball. I'm yeah, No, that would have been that would have been embarrassing. I just missed that one. Bat in a thousand,

uh sixty thirty two. The senters voted to extend the debt ceiling. You know can in resolution no no shutdown and no showdown either about immigration or any of the hot button issues that we're supposed to be. We were told at least we're going to be contained in this series of debt ceiling fights. Nope, they don't want to have it that. They don't want to have the fight. We there is a I guess I'm going to talk

about the debt. I promise you I wouldn't because it's ba humbug of me, But there is a bipartisan consensus in this country that is unbreakable right now that we are going to spend ourselves, and we're going to spend until it hurts. Literally, We're going to spend until stuff starts to go south, and let's just hope that at that point will be it won't be so bad, and then the deterioration won't be so rapid that it's unfixable, because just just raising taxes is not going to be enough.

If we get to the point where interest rates rise and you're you're more or less paying in interest what we pay for the military each year, that's not an unthinkable situation. So okay, you know, we're we're we're. It's bipartisan both parties. Nobody wants to touch it. Everyone just wants to go forward with what we've got, all right, fun that's where we are. I'm not going to be

the one guy standing on the island. I guess I am the one guy saying, but I'm not gonna be sitting around too much yelling about the debt because until something goes wrong, it's just you're fighting a losing battle. I will remind us occasionally of it. But it's not fun. Right, It's Christmas time. Every everybody gets the present. Now it's

tax code cut, baby, it's gonna be great. And we now have an extension of a debt ceiling too, so the government is we don't even extract concessions from the other side over the extension of the debt ceiling, which is just means that we It's like the government has a credit card and we're saying, well, we just needed we need to extend that line of credit. We need to make it even bigger. And instead of saying, all right, well we'll do that, but we want x ra y now,

we're like, yeah, just do it. You know, I'm on fifty in the hole. You know, let's let's throw a capital one card on their toil. Let's make it sixty. You know, let's just keep going on in and going and going. Okay, but hey, two thoud dollars in your pocket's gonna be nice. I agree. And how this will work out for corporations, Well, we've seen all these bonuses

getting passed around. We've seen a lot of companies, including Comcast, which I believe owns MSNBC, which means that technically Rachel matt Out may in fact herself be receiving a little financial assistance. I think she makes about ten million dollars a year, so she probably does not care. But I'm just saying Trump's doing her a solid. She may not see it that way, but Trump is doing her a solid.

I want to tell you about a story, though that did not get much coverage, that is a that is a big deal and has to do with lethal assistance to Ukraine and just disassembling this narrative of Trump as Putin's poodle scarbage, and we've got really good evidence as to why it's garbage. I'll tell you about it right after break. I want to highlight a story that absolutely decimates the prevailing narrative from the last year in the media.

If you ever have the misfortune of being stuck on a treadmill or in an airport, you may have seen CNN or MSNBC. And there's a very good chance that if that happened you, at some point, we're told or heard that Trump is essentially a puppet of Russia. In fact, earlier this week, the former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper to you and just sort of, you know, mutters

about stuff. He said that Putin treats Trump like an asset, meaning he has handled like somebody in intelligence would use an asset a spy. Right, that he's running him, that he is handling him. This is this is troubling stuff, and it's not true. That's why it's so disgraceful to hear this. But the media will say, no, Trump doesn't say anything mean about Putin, as though that's going to solve anything. Trump doesn't do anything that shows his disdain for Russia, and so he must be in the pocket

of the Russians. And they they have no evidence of this other than he doesn't pick fights with Putin and occasionally says things about how he kind of likes Putin. And I would just point out that there is a story now that is irrefutable that punches that narrative right in the face. The Trump administration has just approved lethal weapons sales to Ukraine for the first time since the conflict between Ukraine and Russia broke out in Eastern Ukraine.

Now it's complicated. The Eastern Dawn Boss region is a separatist region. There are a lot of Ukrainians who are fighting there. There are Russian irregulars, paramilitaries and Russian regulars there too, and it is a war through deception. It is maskarov. The Russians are engaged in warfare without it being open, meaning that they have people there that are either that are not in uniform, that are pretending to

be Ukrainian. They're sending munitions, but they try to make it munitions that are not identifiable with the cremlinal though they really kind of are. So Russia has been engaged in pushing an insurgency in Ukraine, which is a country that under the Budapest Memorandum, the US, Russia, and Great Britain are obligated to defend against territorial and aggression. The Obama administration refused any sales of lethal weapons to Ukraine to help it defend itself against the Russians. And right

now it's largely a trench warfare. I mean not in the old World War one sense, but it's static positions where there's not a lot of movement. There's some shelling and they're sniping and you're loosing. You have the Ukrainian military taking a casualty every few days. You've got about sixty thousand Ukrainian military against thirty or so thousand irregulars,

Russian paramilitaries and you know spet SNAs all that. So now the Trump administration comes along and says will allow for a forty one million dollar deal with the Tennessee based Barrett firearms manufacturer. They're gonna be able to sell M one oh seven A one sniper rifles, ammunition and accessories. Barrett fifty Cow sniper rifles are now getting sent to Ukraine.

Let me tell you something. This a nois Moscow. This means that there will now be some Russians who have to keep their heads down more in Ukraine, and there will be probably some Russians who get hit the taken off the battlefield k i A. Because of these Barrett fifty Cows. They really want these over there in Ukraine. They need better long range sniper rifles and this will give them that. And it's not a it's not a

total game changer. I'm not gonna overstate the battlefield impact here, but this is the US giving guns to a country that is effectively engaged in a war against a covert Russian presence. Imagine for a moment, if we were giving weapons to say a a an Arab militia in Syria so that it could shoot at Russian soldiers. They would have that would get them really upset. And Ukraine they care a lot more about than they do than they do Syria. But you see, this doesn't fit the narrative

at all. This is contra the narrative because Putin is going to be ticked off for this. This is the kind of stuff that gets the Russians really upset. This isn't all you know, we said something tough at the G twenty about Russia. You know, Obama can say tough things and do nothing. This is action from the Trump administration,

and it is before people try to dismiss it. Obama resolutely refused to do this, despite the aggression of the Russians against Ukraine, despite dismembering that country an ally of the United States that could be brought into NATO at some point in the future. It's not a NATO country. But despite all that that, the Obama administration was like, no, no, We're just gonna send along non lethal help. Well, why

make that distinction if it wasn't a big deal. It is a big deal, and it's going to annoy the Russians. Now you can talk about whether or not that's a good move, but it certainly flies in the face of Oh, Trump just does whatever Putin wants him to do. So remember this data point because the next time somebody tells you Trump is a Putin puppet, say really, because Trump is the reason that they are now sniper rifles going to Ukraine that are gonna be used to shoot at

Russian soldiers who have invaded Ukraine. So you're gonna tell me what exactly that Trump that Putin wants that to happen. I don't think so. And it's also very powerful as symbolism. This is the US taking a concrete step to assist Ukrainians on the battlefield against pro Russian separatists and Russian paramilitaries. It's a big deal. Don't let the anti Trump never Trump deluded. Uh loony's pretend like this is nothing, because it's not. And then you also have the US using

the Magnitsky Act. Again, there's more sanctions too, So these are things that the narrative, uh you know, they've can pose new sanctions under the Global Magnitsky Act. That just happened too. But these are things that Russia doesn't like and they're not You're gonna see this now, people that say that Trump does Russia's bidding and he does whatever Putin wants, They're just gonna try to ignore this because especially the sniper rifles going to Ukraine, that is a

big problem for those who are running with this. All Trump is, you know, the Kremlin has video of him and there they could destroy him, and he'll do anything they say. And you know, why doesn't Trump say more mean things about Putin? I don't know, maybe because Putin is running a country that still has thousands of nuclear

missiles and could be a real problem for us. It's amazing how much Democrats want the president of the United States too recklessly antagonize the head of state of a country that we think is, you know, got a bad government, and it does, and Putin's a thug and all that stuff is true, but we still have to deal with them. There's no world in which we get to do to ignore the Russians, box them in and act like they're

not a problem. So you have a lot of people that are really disingenuous about this, and I wanted to tell you about that. It's important to you remember it sniper rifles in the hands of the Ukrainian military. They're gonna be shooting at some Russians with it. Trust me, the Kremlins upset about it, and trust me, the media doesn't want to tell you this because it shatters the narrative of putin controls. Trump. We're rolling to a quick

break your team when we come back. I'm talking about a terror attack in Australia that may not be terror, may just be somebody who is having had a psychological breakdown. But I'll analyze it and we'll work through it together. We'll see is it terror, is it not terror. I'll get to that with you in just a few moments. Stay with me. You are now entering the Technical Operations Center. Programs must be kept strictly need to know team, but

it is cleared and ready for the butt brief. A mass casualty vehicle ramming attack in Australia that you probably have heard nothing or very little about. Why is that? Here are the details from earlier today. A suspect drove an suv into a crowd of people on a busy Melbourne street early on Thursday, injuring nineteen people. They're calling this an act of evil. Now you may be thinking,

is this terrorism? And I want to walk you through how we should view and analyze this situation because it is, I believe emblematic of many of the problems of our media right now. I know this is in Australia, but in the western world, UH, and Australians have to deal with similar terrorism issues to the United States. So let's

break this down to get other shall we. Let's look at the way it's being reported and then connect some of the dots, because this is, by the percentages, being completely misreported, although I cannot definitively say that they have gotten it wrong just yet. But let me tell you what we know. UH. The driver of the suv was in fact a Muslim Afghan immigrant who became a permanent citizen in Australia. His name is sided Neuri, and he

was known to authorities as a drug user. He had been arrested in the past, and he was on what the Australians referring to as a mental health plan, so he had been treated for mental health issues. They're saying that this is not a terrorist related incident, but I would point out that they're saying it is not connected terrorism based on what they know so far, and they are pointing to the fact that yeah, there's nothing in

there's nothing on this individual that has ISIS paraphernalia. There's nothing that yet has jumped out to say that this was done on behalf of the Islamic State. But let's look at some of the coincidences so far. First of all, Australia has a Muslim population of about two and a half percent, so that the perpetrator here falls in that two and a half percent, and we know that from within the Muslim world you have a disproportionate share of

vehicle terrorist attacks. That's already quite a big coincidence. Now, that's not to say that it could not be the case that sided Norri here was just a crazy person and was not in fact tied to or acting on behalf of the Islamic State. But it is to say that it would be unlikely under circumstances that he had

no ji hottest intent whatsoever. Based on the numbers, I think the overwhelming likelihood is that if in fact Nori, who is currently in a hospital in Australia under armed guard, reveals that his intent was to act on behalf of the Islamic State, which has been telling its adherents it's ideological sympathizers to use vehicle attacks just like this at a similar target set to what just happened in Melbourne

and and over the holidays. As we know, there's a greater likelihood of these kinds of attacks to begin with. But when we find out, if we find out that side Nori formally of Afghanistan, now a permanent resident to Australia was acting on behalf of the Islamic State, it will be a new story that comes out in a few days. It will be muted. And I can tell you that many of the journalists right now who are rushing to say it was not connected to terrorism won't

be rushing to say actually it was. You see, how could they know unless there was an ISIS flag graped over the hood of the car or something that within the opening minutes of a terrorist or opening hours after a terrorist attack, that it was in fact terrorism. You can only look at the likelihood. You can look at the percentages and make an educated guess at this stage. But notice how the press likes to point out what we don't know right away and state that as a fact.

So that it is a placeholder, no connection to terrorism. When that changes, If it changes, there'll be much less attention on the subject. This is the way that they

express a preference. This is how, whether in Australia or here in the US, the left wing uh anti islamophobic media, you, because they're always on the lookout for Islamophobia, finds ways to make sure that these attacks are put in a specific context and they take some of the attention and the political heat off of these incidents by doing it this way. Now, they would point out, and I'm aware of this, just this, I've been through this, right. I

was most recently on the Halloween attack. I was over at Fox and they brought on a detective right before me from the NYPD, my former you know h employer, and the guys like, this is a terrorist attack, and he said that right after I said, look, I think it's overwhelmingly likely that I'm sorry, Jee Hottest terror attack, right, And I said, look, I think this is overwhelmingly likely that it's a Je Hottest terror attack. But we don't yet have some key facts and places. We didn't know

anything about the driver at this point. We all he knew was that he had mowed down a bunch of people. And the reason that I didn't just run out there and say, well, it is a terror attack, as this detective who went on Fox before me did or right after me, I should say, is because there was that incident in Times Square where a guy just ran into a bunch of people, right and he wasn't He wasn't a g hottest. I believe he was hispanic if memory serves,

and he would. He just essentially snapped, He had a mental break and engaged in an act of of evil without a political motivation behind it. And that had happened here in New York. So I understand that there are possibilities for these things. There are different options, but I look at the probabilities and try to come up with a reasonable analysis, of reasonable assessment of what's most likely

what's going on in any given situation. In Australia, in there was another car attack in Melbourne where six people were killed and thirty others were wounded. And the individual responsible was known as Dimitrios Garga Sulus and he also it had mental health problems, engaged in illicit drug use, and had a history of family violence. Now, what was much less report was that at trial he had yelled out that the Muslim faith is the correct faith according

to the whole world. Was that just the rantings of a person who was disturbed or were the Australian Was the Australian press just really happy to assume that that had no greater meaning and that he hadn't converted. Keep in mind, conversion to Islam is possible, and I think very few reporters know this. All one has to do is recite the Arabic words that comprise what's known as the testimony of faith or the Shahada, which is law

la illa lah Mohammed Allah. So that's there is no God but God, and Mohammed is the messenger of God. And if you say that and you mean it in your heart and that is your belief, you you have become a Muslim. And you have to except that the Koran is is the revelation of God, and you have

to have a belief in judgment day. But the truth is that the media is not particularly curious about the ease with which one could technically become a Muslim, and so they would rather just say that somebody is mentally

disturbed and move on from there. And that's why with this case just from earlier today of said Noori running over a bunch of people on a busy street in Melbourne, Australia, right before the Christmas holiday, there is this desire to say, well, we we don't have smoking gun evidence of terrorism, so let's just call this an active evil and move on

from there. And if in fact this guy starts ranting from his hospital bed about how he did this for Allah, I have a feeling that that will be reported on page c seventeen of the Aussee Herald Sun and nobody

will really pay much attention to it at all. Journalists believe that they're making a moral choice here, and it's important that we all understand that they think that, on balance, doing what they can to diminish the outrage that people may feel about a Muslim immigrant to Australia engaging in a mass casualty attack, they think that that's worth it, even if it means there has to be some dishonesty

in the process. Is Sidnria of Australia possibly just a deranged person who did not believe that he was acting on behalf of jihad or isis specifically, it's possible, but

I view it as highly unlikely. And I also think that we have to look at the background of the media that reports on all this and understand that they come at it not looking for the truth, but with an agenda, and that agenda is we must combat Islamophobia, even if it means we have to mislead or lie to the public who we are supposed to as our first priority tell the truth. So that's my assessment what happened in Australia, and I, unlike the rest of the media,

will follow up with what happens there. All right, Tim, I'll be right back, Stay with me. Do you think his resignation was a good idea? I did not publicly call for his resignation because we are a colleague and we had many many talks over that time. So that's a Senator Amy klobschar It was like, I didn't call for his resignation. They've given us a date. Everybody they say the office is said it's January second. What I love, though, is that some of you still don't believe it. And

I'm not saying you're wrong. I'm just saying that's where we are now when it comes to what's reported and also the way the Democrats do business. Even when the official announcement comes out from the office, there are questions, and I think that we all have a lot of questions, given that this past year has been a particularly tough

one for the media. There's some some epic media fails in seventeen that I figured to be a little fond to go back and take a little trip down memory lane with some of them, like, for example, the whole Hillary What Happened tour and how that all came together? Play that one think in your book you talk about alternate nostril breathings? What is that? And dare you give me a demonstrate at this stage in your life, does even having to ask yourself the question of why her?

Do you give the absolution to those who didn't vote, to women who didn't know? Welcome back to my interview with former Secretarist State Hillary Clinton. Is now subject to a brief interruption because of this important video of a sneezing candec alright, um, I'm secretary. Um what's your favorite flavor of ice cream? Oh? The hard questions, how did you get out of bed in the morning? Because I did not run for president and I could barely do

it well. She There was so much warmth for Hillary of the media this year, despite the fact that what happened was a disaster. And it is, if anything, I think one of the the years that we will look back on and think to ourselves, this is when never again will we be force fed that the media is this objective standard bearer of truth. I think is is the year that it finally was the point of no return.

We are now in an opinion journalism universe. We are now in a country in which we can all I think finally accept or or we should, whether they let us or not. Not. Everyone's going to agree with me on this. Not everyone's going to be willing to sign off on it. But I don't care. It's the truth. We are in a partisan media environment, and this was the year because Trump was the president that that it finally just all came apart. They no longer could keep

up the facade. That's really one of the great benefits of Trump is um is that now we look at the major media outlets and we think to ourselves, oh, wow,

look at that. It could not be more clear how much they disdain this president versus how much they adored Hillary Clinton, even I think to the point where finally it has it has dawned upon most of the major left wing outlets that Hillary is no longer really a viable political candidate, although I should know today they were there were stories today about how Hillary may get involved in the twenty eighteen mid term, and I just I hope that she shows up at as many battleground states

as possible and is a reminder to every undecided voter of what they could have had amazing. That's you know, if I'm Donald Trump, I would be encouraging her in every way possible. You know, come on, Hillary, get out there, Go go fight for the team, you know, go push for the Democrats on the campaign trail, because the Clinton dynasties finally come to an end, and it was a

moment of a psychological break. I think for much of the mainstream media, they had this vision of the future, and this ties very directly into the resistance and never Trump is um. They had this vision of the future where it would just be eight years of wonderful Hillary Clinton access and progressive policy, and it was all just going to be exactly what they wanted, and it was taken from them. You know, this was the year the media found out that there is no progressive Santa Claus.

It is in fact not going to be what they had anticipated. The president would not be the president that they had hand picked for the American people. So that was one major component in losing so much respect or whatever respect you had left for the mainstream Let's this year other than Fox, the the non Fox media as some call it. And then there was the other major political story this year because it is a political story

about Russia. Russia, Russia, that's an obstruction of justice. You were saying that this could lead down the road to impeachment, but we weren't anywhere near that yet. Does this breaking news tonight change your view on that? Are true? Are we getting closer and closer to the possibility of yet another impeachment process? So in terms of impeachment, are you taking action, working with Republicans, are doing anything that would

actually move that agenda for you? Do you harbor any hopes that you will find a conservative legal mind to match your desire to proceed with impeachment on are you suggesting that President Trump should face impeachment? No, I'm not suggesting that the Congressman. What is your case for impeachment? Explain what do you say get this impeacement possibility? What's more needed to prove it? Obstructive justice and the pressive fires the guy coming after them after asking to drop

the case. From where do you need Well, yeah, Chris Matthews, everybody, a lot of a lot of people pushing impeachment as a storyline, a lot of very fancy journalists given tremendous platforms, running around talking about treason and collusion and impeachment and maybe even imprisonment for the president, all that, and yet here we are one year in, more or less soon to be officially one year in, and there is nothing

to substantiate any of this. And I always think it's so interesting, And I've had this situation a few times on TV, and then also, as one does these days, everyone is now a a social media pugilist who is a pundit, and you are forced to go back or not forced do, but a lot of us end up going back and forth. The moment you say there's no evidence, there are these these fits of rage from the left and the pro Hillary Democrats and the pro Obama Democrats.

Of course, there's so much evidence. Look, in front of the Evans, right in front of your face, and they say, well, what's the evidence, and they just yell louder. They really are the bleeding sheep from George Orwell's animal farm for our legs good, dude, legs bad. That is the Democrat mantra at this point, whatever they're told to say, they just bleed it out and try to drown drown out any sensible approach to what's happened here or what hasn't

happened when it comes to trumpet Russia. It has just been the effort to undo the electoral result, to change this election, and to drown out the truth with so much nastiness. I mean, that's been a major component of what the media has done this year. They have spun

off onto another planet. They are divid worst from reality, and they're also trying to ruin the reputations of people who are just being trying to be honest about it, at least trying to look at each stage in this process of the so called Mueller Russia collusion probe and say all right, well, we'll just give me the evidence that you say you have, and they never produce it, and then they get mad Unfortunately, My Friends is going

to be more of this. I wish I could say that it was over, but I think we are about halfway through. But on the on the flip side, at least, I'll give you some talk about Team Buck. That'll be fun. We'll get into some Team Buck emails. And also, I'm just gonna make fun of Tom broke off for a while because it's Christmas time. Stay with me for that team for all times sake, let's just get into a

Buck slap here. This is how, on what should be considered a journalistic broadcast, MSNBC talks about the President tweeted Tom and just want your reaction. Here was Fox and Friends just named most influential show and news. You deserve it, Three great people. The many fake news hate shows could study your formula for success. Notice how when Mika wants to show her disdain to the audience before we even

get into Brokaw's idiotic response. Notice how Mica makes it very clear to everyone watching that it's like she's reading the writings of a of a four year old. She might as well be like I'm Donald Trump and I'm doing finger painting. I mean, she's really laying it on thick there. She could just read it as a newsperson theoretically should, but no, she wants you to know that

she thinks Trump is so dumb. Ha ha ha. And just as a little aside here, Mika is in much more of a glass house than she seems to realize. Were she not the daughter of Za big new Braginsky, do we really think she would have gotten these media opportunities. She might want to just show a little more humility. But here we are, we're we're treated to meet his opinions all the time. Anyway, let's get to what Tom Broke call. What does Tom Broke Tom? Well, he watches

Fox News because it reinforces what he believes. Fox News after Shepherd Smith and the late afternoon is on a jihad right now on the whole question about whether there's a fairness about this or not. The transfer of uranium, for example, to Iran to Iran Chef Smith has gone in some detail to say it did not happen. She didn't have the authority to do that, because that ends at four three or five. But whenever he gets off here, and then from then on what happens the whole assault

is on the institutions. The whole assault was on the instant tutions. There's Tom Brokoll's going to be learning their country know what here he thinks about everything and the knows This guy is so lucky to have gotten where he did in the news business. He just happened to be in the right place at the right time in the golden era of bearing a newsreader. Or you turn it on Jobbert Schmirth after four third, this guy is an income poop alright. What he says is absolute babel babel.

And notice how he's treated with all of this deference by just tell us more. Tom Broke cawuty doesn't know anything. You know. I can tell you this. If Tom Broke aw had to actually show up in a newsroom today and do all the things that people in the media business are expected to do, that guy would crumble up into a little puddle in the corner. I've seen this firsthand. I worked at CBS Evening News with Dan Rather as

an intern. But I'm just saying I observed. I'm not saying I was high level and the guy came in, got his hair done and read some lines and went home. I mean, it was the easiest job The easy is seven million a year I've ever seen any human being get And he wasn't even very good at it. He was just lucky and the right people liked him. What Tom Broke all warns to tell you, well, there's a

jihad being waged right now my Fox News. He used the term jihad because he knows that it will perhaps get him additional attention, it will get under the skin of some of the people that he is trying to not just agitate, but that he's so clearly for whom he so clearly has a real disdain anybody who lives in a red state, or anybody who recognizes that jihad

is in fact a real threat to this country. But I just can't get over that we have these these honestly, these outdated clowns, like the Dan rathers and the Tom Broke cause, and they're treated with all this Steff, I have zero difference for these people. There's nothing impressive about any of them. They were entirely replaceable. They were lucky, you know, their their their skill set is matt lower without the sex scandal, congratulate nations. That's it, that's it.

There's nothing about them that gives them some other than longevity in a business that's changed dramatically. It's entirely different now and the days of just showing up and I look like a newsreader, So give me the job that has changed. No, just because you sound like this and America, you know, because I'm going to pray on your intellectual insecurities at home, make you think that I sound smart, therefore I must be smart. Tom Broke Hall, Baby, it's

just a pollent. And I hate that we have to sit here and anyone anywhere across the country has to be lectured by these total lightweights, these empty suits. And you know, Mika's whole thing now is just turned into like performance art. She's the mean girl in high school and and President Trump is the one that she's trying a pick on. Now. I don't think Trump really cares all that much, But keep in mind Mika and Joe, they were chummy, chummy, buddy buddy with Trump until they weren't,

and now they are so desperate for relevance. They're part of the hashtag resistance. You know, either be a nice person or have principles. But don't be a jerk with no principles, because then you're just worthless, And I don't care what NBC or MSNBC is paying them. I don't care about the fancy country clubs that they belong to or the private jet travel that they so luxuriate in on a regular basis. In the fact that matters is

people are clowns, aren't more. Excuse me, young man, say that are good, and I'll have my staff of writers come up with a monologue to refute you for me, and then I'll read it over wash maybe Tom Brokaw go away. I mean, I know I'm trying to get in the Christmas spirit, but some people just just need a buckslab. So I saw that clip, and when he starts talking about a jihad, I would also note that I suppose we could say that jihad can be offensive.

Now you know that there used to be this story that you would hear from different people on the left that jihad is only defensive to create a false framework where jihad always has some uh moral backing because it's a defensive holy war. And anybody who has even the most passing familiarity with the history of the Islamic conquest notes that that is complete and utter garbage. It's kind of like the people that go around saying that jihad just means inner struggle. Yeah, tell that to about four

hundred years or so of jihadists around the world. Apparently they've been quite quite confused this whole time. Archon proms there confused. I don't know. I think it's it's it's just sometimes necessary to call out some of of these people. It's not I feel bad though, because it's not in the Christmas spirit. But I don't really feel bad because they're they're kind of terrible and they're being really mean, and I think that they have a disdain for a lot of the people that they are relying on to

watch them at home. You know, it's the the solipsism, the narcissism of the old school news anchors on these networks like ABC, NBC and CBS. It is it is still a site to behold. Let's come back to some team Buck Speaks. Stay with me. Only two more shows here in the Freedom Hunt in well, actually my math is off. We only really one more show because this is the end of the Thursday show. We have a show tomorrow and then I will be on vacation next week as well. The rest of the team here in

the Hut. So this is one of our last chances to hang out in and I would incur ridge any of you who have never yet this year called into the show. It's a great time to do it. Tomorrow. I mean, we're gonna let those lines, We're gonna let those lines breathe. Tomorrow, my friends are gonna be a

wide open lots of space on those phone lines. And even if you just want to call in and wish everyone to marry Christmas, I'm really hoping to make tomorrow uh kind of audio Christmas party in the Freedom Hut. All of you can call in whenever you want and we'll chat about things and have a great time. So um that that would be my pitch to all of you.

All I want for Christmas is to hear from a lot of Team Buck tomorrow, and for as many of Team Buck is is possible to maybe pick up a nine Line T shirt or a subscription to Create Club, because those are fantastic veteran owned and operated advertisers who have really given a big vote of confidence in the show by joining us for a campaign right over the

holiday season. So I've got my nine line T shirt right here, I've got my Create Club Create at home, and I'm really hoping those of you listening will give a shot to those wonderful wonderful companies were the great brands and the veterans, including a whole bunch of veterans the special operations community that are involved in those projects. So uh, that's that's what I wanted for Christmas. Those are my Christmas wishes for all of you here. And with that I will get into the latest edition of

some Team Buck Speaks. This one from Michael good Buck. Okay, a good Buck I am. I had some input concerning the possible new name for Team Buck Speaks, considering we are all residents of the Freedom Hut. Maybe you could call it Stories from the Freedom Hut. Just an idea, but it wouldn't hurt my feelings to leave the show, just like it is Shields High from Texas. Oh and then he writes one more quick one here. Sorry, I meant to say good day. Initially never been a big

proof reader. Well, Michael, I kind of like good Buck. Hello, good Buck. I'll take it, and yeah, I like Stories the Freedom Hell. We're gonna be thinking about some creative ideas and different changes we'll make into the show. In ten. One thing is Connie Bears coming back. I've your your wishes have been heard on this one team that the Bear will be back. It is happening. And as long as you want to hear from the Bear, there will

be regular commie bear appearances. And for a lot of you are like, what the heck is he talking about? You'll see comrades, You'll see uh. Next, we have Russ writing in here. Hey, Buck, just wanted to wish you and your family a merry Christmas. Shields high, brother, and be safe well. Russ. Thank you for the very kind note. Shields high and merry Christmas to you and yours as well. Robert with the following. Now, Trump has gone too far. He has gone after your grandchildren. He has taken credit

for giving taxpayers a big, beautiful Christmas gift. His so called gift will actually be paid for by your grandchildren. He has actually stooped to stealing from children. Robert. I actually think in concept what you're saying here about government

spending is true. But let's be real. In the meantime, we're gonna be helping a lot of middle class families with the tax cut here that they can really use and corporations will get a huge boost, And yeah, I'm skeptical of growth will pay for the one point five trillion dollar cut. I will tell you that. And I think that's a fair point. But you know, Trump is Trump is arriving on the scene when we're twenty trillion in the hole and nobody wants to talk about austerity

or even fiscal sanity right now. I try here on the show. I try so, but it's not fair to pin it on Trump. And I think in the short term the tax cut will be a good thing. Uh, Stephen, has the fallen for me? Here? Hey Buck, listening to the Tuesday show on my podcast app and wanted to share my family's farm story relating to government regulations. I'm the son of a Wisconsin farmer who was forced to cancel a planned expansion and sell his farm four years

ago because of state environmental regulations. My father had built a retirement home in a hill overlooking my home farm and will likely have to watch the farm degrade from his house as the current owner is not keeping up the building. The current owner missed the same deadline for installing an approved waste handling system, so the barn will not be able to house animals unless our Department of

Natural Resources changes its regulations. My father still touches the dairy industry as a milk truck driver, but I think he misses it. At least he has a few animals at his home, so my boys will know up close and personal what a cow and chicken his shields high. And thanks for generally supporting my brother's in law enforcement. I have found you to ask fair questions, which was

needed during the previous administration. Merry Christmas buck Well, Stephen, Merry Christmas to YouTube, and thank you for sharing your story, and thank you for being a member of our law enforcement community. You know I will just say this. You know, when I go on TV and or or even on this show, I hear directly from people in law enforce and who are my friends. So it's in the same way that you can always know that I will, to the to the best of my ability, maintain a certain

standard of conduct and decorum on this show. I I don't cuss, and I try to always air on the side of language that those of you who have little ones who may be listening could hear without it being a problem. Because my parents listened to the show, and I am never going to be okay with disappointing mom. So that's why I have a certain standard of conduct

on the show. Uh. I also know that my former brothers and sisters from the m y p D and also from the CIA listen into the show and see me on TV, and they have expectations of me as well, and that doesn't affect my analysis, but it just means that I know I've got an answer to them. So I'm not going on TV and saying anything just to say it or here on the radio show, because unlike a lot of other people, to do this for a living, I've got to look my friends in the eye and

have their respect afterwards. And that means a whole lot of folks at the NYPD and a whole bunch of folks at the c i A. So that is something that helps me keep it real, as I like to say, and helps me keep it real. We get Leonard writing in here with a quick one my vote keep team Buck Speaks. I've always liked it, Leo Oss original Saturday Squad. Well, Leo, Um,

I'm glad you know. Maybe we will keep it. But I like to hear the opinions and I very much appreciate yours and we will certainly take that into consideration. Christie with the following, she sent a photo here of a cat with a Santa hat on. Very cute. Christie, thank you, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you, Tie and Amy from our freedom hut to yours holiday shields high, Christie, Calvin and Hobbs. Okay, Christie, thank you

so much. Merry Christmas to you and shields Hi h. Raymond Rights, could you share your thoughts on crypto ripple. I'm assuming that's a type of cryptocurrency, but I will always tell you when I don't know something, Raymond, and I don't know so I can't can't necessarily tell you that one. But thank you very much for the question, and I will look into it. I'm learning a lot about crypto as much as I can. Uh Michael writes

in with the following, um, here we go. Uh Oh, your exchange on with Officer d And was so intense and your arguments spot on. I had to write and tell you how awesome that was. I respect law enforcement and my best friend is an Austin police officer, but you buck slapped him on the merits when he tried to pull the I want to take you on a ride along, BS. I like I like many of your fans, know your background and being an eight year Navy vet,

understand those who have been in war zones. Your arguments on the police shootings are sound and reasonable, and I'm with you that justice was not served. Keep up the good work, your content, articulation, and objective knowledge on these matters as priceless shields High from Austin, Oh. Also ps from Michael here instead of Team Buck speaks Team Buck roll Call. I kind of dig that. Actually, let's let's

mark that one down too. I like that one. I'm Michael, thank you for the kind words and appreciate the support. So with that, we're gonna get ready to close up the shop here in the Freedom Hunt for the day tomorrow, our last show of twenty seventeen. So if you haven't called in yet or you haven't written in, just just say hi. You know, we'll do a little think of it like we're doing Team Buck roll Call in the next twenty four hours. Send us a little Merry Christmas note.

If you can or say hi, or whatever you want to do, call in right in Official Team Bucket Gmail dot com or Facebook dot com slash buck Sexton and tomorrow, of course, the phones will be open for the show. We're gonna try to have a loose, fun freestyle Friday Christmas addition tomorrow, so look forward to that and until we assemble together once again in the Hut Shields High