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decode what really matters with actionable intelligence. Make no mistake American grant You're a great American Again the buck Sexton Show begins. However, he would like to thank John Challis for granting him a fair trial, Thank the jury for their very long and hard fought deliberations. He is evaluating all of his options at this point. Thank you everyone. Today, as you heard, Michael Golan pled guilty to eight felony charges.

Five of those dealt with tax evasion for the years two thousand and twelve through two thousand and sixteen, in which he failed to report approximately four point one million dollars in reported income. Approximately two point five of that money was from interest payments from a personal loan that he failed to report. Approximately one point three million dollars of that money was from the operation of his taxi

medallion business. Approximately one hundred thousand dollars of that money was from brokerage commissions and over two hundred thousand dollars was from consulting fees. That's over four point three million dollars over five year period, which translates into a loss to the United States Treasury of approximately one point three

million dollars. In addition, in count six, Mr Cohen played guilty to making false statements to a financial institution in connection with an application for a home equity line of credit. In that application, he failed to disclose more than fourteen million dollars in debt that he had, and as a results of that concealment, he obtained that five dollar line of credit, which he would not have been entitled to had he been candid and honest. But very sad about that.

It doesn't involve me, but I still feel, you know, it's a very sad thing that happened. This has nothing to do with Russian collusion. Just started as Russian collusion. This has absolutely nothing to do there's a witch hunt and it's a disgrace, but this has nothing to do what they started out looking for Russians involved in our campaign. There were done. I feel very badly for a manta for it. Again. He worked for Bob Toh. He worked for Ronald Reagan, He worked for many, many people, and

that's the way it ends up. And it was not the original mission, believe me, it was. There was something very much different, so had nothing to do with Russian collusion. We continue the witch Thank you very much. Welcome to the Bucks Exton Show. We continue the witch hunt. The President says, h And that's certainly true. It's a fascinating and I would tell you, folks, a very unsettling thing to see what has happened here in these two trials, or at least one trial and one set of set

of charges, one immediant trial. And I want to break these down. And you know the details of them are not all that important in terms of at least the charges, right, the the details of what they hit. And you'll you'll notice that that one the prosecutor who was stating what what Cohen did, he kept saying, you a four million dollars of hitting it, And well, it's one million dollars that the the federal government did not get their hands on. It's one million dollars that is really at issue here.

That was there cut, That was Uncle Sam's cut from what at least from what I can gather um and on Manafort. They got him on uh eight counts, ten counts, there was a there was a mistrial. I couldn't tell on ten of the counts. Now, a lot of people are gonna look at this as is already the case. I see here on CNN a slightly celebratory tone. A lot of people are now gonna run and talk about

how everyone who's around Trump is a crook. And I would like to start with some very very important, let's say, basic assumptions that we should all have here before we get into all this. I know people are gonna say, oh my gosh, look what this proves. And first of all, proves nothing about Russia collusion or the election, nothing, absolutely nothing. The President's right about that. But what I can't tell

you was this. If you had taken a team of ferocious, ideologically driven federal prosecutors and given them unfettered authority to pull whatever records they want, to pull anyone they want under oath, and essentially to go get scalps, and you had unleashed that group a manner, I mean, a Mueller like squad on a Hillary Clinton and her immediate circle. Okay, I no serious person could convince me that you would not find tax problems, financial impropriety, uh, you know, failure

to register as a foreign agent. A lot of these things that come up with Manafort and with Cohen you would see in similar fashion with Hillary and her And in fact, I think Hillary herself, quite honestly, if you if you were to shake the tree vigorously long enough, things would fall down. That would be criminal in nature. Uh. And and some of you are saying, well, buck, also, you don't have to shake any tree because she violated classification protocol so that she could maintain um maintain. And

you know, people always forget this. I think this is important to remember. And I know this is where I I get a lot of trouble from my liberal friends. Why are you talking about Hillary when it's man of no? Because it matters? It really They can call it what about is M? All they want, but this really does matter because the worst thing you can have is what about is M? In the justice system? They say, it's what about is M from pundits and people that go

on the news, But what about is M? When it comes to the justice system, meaning you know, well, what about this thing? But not what about that thing? When people are treated differently based on their connections, their political affiliations. Uh, that is incredibly destructive. And you were talking about undermining institutions. When Republicans can count up getting the harshest possible treatment from federal prosecutors and Democrats know that they will be

treated as leniently as they possibly can. We have a very we're entering a very dark period in our country. And with Hillary and those around her, it was obvious to anybody who was paying attention that she was getting special treatment. Um that yes, she broke laws. But also if you were to dig into the Clinton Foundation and what they were doing, there was clear impropriety there and they just weren't willing to see it or take action

on it. With Trump, you see the opposite. You know, with with Trump, you see an effort to do everything possible, and the prosecutors, prosecutors arsenal that the tool kits that they have arsenal sounds scarier, will stay with that the arsenal raw uh to take to take people down. This is different, folks. This is distinct from what we've seen with others, and and and there there's some other things that just just some general feelings on this that I have.

One of them is that any American should here that Maniford And maybe I'll talk about with the co and stuff, and I want to focus on a manaph for a second. Any American should here that Manaford faced for in some of the specific accounts. Right, he had eighteen counts against him, ten of them mistrial, eight of them found guilty. That on some of those counts in which he was found guilty, one infraction and we're talking about tax infractions could be

punishable by up to thirty years in federal prison. And I understand what the argument is here, right folks, people will say, oh, but he'll never get that, Okay, But what kind of country are we live again where you could, even in theory, go to prison for thirty years based on not letting the federal government steal even more of your stuff. I always think that's important to remember with these tax fraud cases too. You know, uh, the the notion is that, well, you're not paying any taxes. No,

it's that you didn't pay all of your taxes. You're still paying taxes. You know, you're still contributing the federal government's still taking money from you. Just a question of did they get their full cut or not? And I know that you know, the country would cease to run if nobody paid their taxes. And you know some of you're gonna tell me, well, buck, we had no federal

income tax until the twentieth century. I know that's all true, and I wish we could go back to that, although I don't think there's any really serious effort right now to get us there. Um, But in the meantime we we would have a serious financial crisis on our hands. And people don't pay their taxes. Okay, fine, thirty years though, three zero one count. Think of any person, you know, Think of the worst boss, the most lumberg like boss.

They have to come in here on Sunday, you know, the worst boss you've ever had, the worst neighbor or whatever, somebody just drove you nuts. And if they got caught on one on one count of tax evasion, would you think it was just to send them away for thirty years? What is that all about? You know, we have this system of a federal prosecution where so much is in favor of the prosecutors at this point, I mean, you effectively gamble away your entire life if you even want

to try and protest your innytance that look. I yeah, I think Manufort, sure, I think he's guilty. Of course, do I think that he violated the law? Yes, to the law matter, sure of course. But with Democrats, is it fair to say the law is the law? Certainly not the case when it comes to legal immigrants. You know, when when I always bring up how Democrats feel about illegal immigration, which is the laws don't count, I will talk to you also about you know, taxes, and the

same case can be made. Right. You can say about illegal immigrants, come on, they just want to be here, They just want their piece of the dream. You can say about Paul man Effort, well, he's contributing to the economy, and you know he he didn't hurt anybody. And it doesn't it doesn't financially matter to the federal government that one person did not pay you know, whatever it was, millions of dollars of tacts. It makes no difference whatsoever,

zero difference. But we punish him because we believe in a rule of law. With legal immigration, you'll notice that logic does not apply anymore. The law is no longer the law. The law is some kind of a of a suggestion. It's it's something that changes based on the whims of the Democrat mob. And that's that's another that's another part of this I think is important focus on.

And and finally there's this. I know there's some there's celebration out there among people who hate Trump, their celebration out there among people that really just want to see suffering, among those who were even for a short time as mana for it was a short timer for he was fired on the Trump campaign. Um, but they they really like to joy ride in this man's in this man's downfall. And I would just say that that is unseemly, folks, it really is. You know that we're not talking about

a a psycho killer. We're not talking about a rapist, murderer, somebody who's you know, beneath contempt. We're talking about a guy who's greedy, who was was shady and his business dealings, and who is only let's all be clear about this, only now facing the rest of his life, possibly in prison. That's right. He could spend the I mean, he might

get an eight ten twelve years sentence. Yeah, you know, maybe maybe he'll get out and have some time, but he could get a lot more than that too, but I think he faces over eighty years, which is also, let's all be honest, insane, eighty years. I mean he should have to make financial restitution, pay a fine, and be banned from, you know, the the industry he was in, and you know, do a lot of chair already work like I actually go volunteer and help people. I mean,

it's lock them away for eighty years. Why is that even on the books? Why should that even be possible. So there's a lot of celebration out there right now, the folks because a guy who had worked for other administrations you won't hear much about that, who was kind of a political insider, a political player here in d C. And obviously abroad, he got jammed up on a tax fraud case. Look at how far we've gone from Russia

collusion and the sanctity of our elections. We now have journalists who can barely hide their glee at some you know, political gun for hire basically who didn't pay his taxes. And this is supposed to make us sleep more soundly at night. I just I you know this, This is this has become a focus of the Trump deranged in ways that tell us much more about them then it tells us about Russia collusion or Trump or anthing else going on here. I want to talk to us about

the coe and stuff. I know Trump is gonna be speaking uh in a little bit as well his rally to night. I'm sure it's gonna be It's gonna be fascinating. So that will pick up some of that live if we can eight four four nine hundred to eight to five eight four four nine hundred Buck also send me your thoughts on Facebook, Facebook dot com, slash buck sexty. The lines are lit. Team. So let's get to some of our wonderful callers. Here. We have John in Mississippi. Hey, John, Buck,

how are you. I'm good, Thanks for calling in good? Um yeah, so what uh? What disturbed me is that he could get thirty years in prison at doubt that he will, but he could. And yet on one count, by the way, John, not to interrupt you, but one count he was charged with eighteen counts. Amazing. So we routinely let murder, rapists and people who commit our robbery out in a fraction of the time that they're supposed

to serve. Is ironic. Well, yes, and you know, there's actually a pretty clear movement john on the left to suggest that, you know, financial crimes because of white privilege, for example, financial crimes are less harshly punished and are just as bad and therefore should be punished as harshly

as people who are violent. You know. So, so a violent criminal, uh, you know, a gang banger who you know, shoots a gun off at somebody and is guilty of attempted murder should serve you know, about the same amount of time as somebody who owes the federal government more tax money. I mean, there are people on the left will tell you that that's what justice would look like, that that happens. Well, the government has to uh scare the populace into submission, um, you know, with with a

with a sentence like that. Uh. They are trying to send a message that you don't mess with the government, and that's why they are so there. I think the government is terrified of things like cryptocurrency and bitcoin because they can't control it and they know it, and they're probably behind price manipulation of the bitcoin market and all that stuff right now. Um, but yeah, they're they're they're really not your friends. No, they are not your friend.

As I like to tell people, be very clear on that, the government is not your friend. So John, thank you very much for calling him, and I appreciate it. Shieldsaye Brent in New Mexico. Hey, Brent about shill time man Shields. Yeah. Well, on a note on that, I guess it goes to show you the difference between being charged by the federal

government by your state government. I mean, the state is the one who handles your murder charge, but if the federal government gets involved on a tax evasion thing, it's a whole another ballpark. Right. Oh yeah, I mean the federal secutors. Remember, you have to there's mandatory minimums, you have to serve your full sentence, there's no parole, and the resources that federal prosecutors have are way bigger and

better than usually what you'll get against a district attorney. Yes, sir, well, I kind of jumped the gun on the Cohen thing, but I didn't hear it your monologue, but I was reading in my Twitter feeding and I won't drop names on the reporters who were saying it. But rumor has it the Cohen might plead down to a campaign finance charge and if that happens told that implicate Trump? Or do you think that there is something that's seriously be

concerned about it? You think that they're just talking. I think that's that's a perfect segue to where I was gonna go here, which I wanted to start with, focus on mana fort Uh, and then get to the Cohen situation. I have to wonder also, I don't mean to be conspiratorial here, Brent, but you know that the timing of this maybe if you're Cohen, do you you know you did they plan this? It's it seems a little coincidental.

I guess it could be a coincidence. I can't say it it's not, but that this happens on the same day, doesn't that strike anybody? Is maybe somebody well, I think that the most likely situation is that Cohen maybe wanted to get this over with the same day that Manaford got his skill. I don't know, it's it's definitely something that I'm taking note of. We will talk about Cohen though, and what is going to happen with him, and whether or not, to your question, Brent, he's a possible problem

for Trump. We'll talk about that in in just a few moments here coming up after this break eight four four, Buck, if you want to chat eight four two way to five, will be right back. He's holding the line for America. Buck Sexton his back. So we were speaking before about the uh Cohen situation, or sorry, the Manaford situation, and now we should speak about the Cohin situation a bit um my Michael Colin was president's lawyer, is close confidante.

Some people in a in a nod to the Godfather and other mafia pop culture referred him as a consoliary. So we all know you don't pronounce the G, so it's not a consigliary. Um. But Michael Cohen, who is the president's personal attorney, has admitted to charges felony charges, including federal campaign finance law violations by arranging hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels and former Playboar model Kara mcdougalll at the direction of then candidate Trump.

Um In total, Coin pleaded guilty to five counts of tax evasion, one count of making false statements to a financial institution, one count of willfully causing an unlawful corporate contribution, and one count of making an excessive campaign contribution. Cohen could receive who wants to guess, who wants to guess? He You you heard those charges right, basically finance stuff like moving moving around some money to different things for

the purposes of enriching himself or for political reasons. Five years in prison, ten years in prison, try sixty five years in prison if convicted on all charges. Wow, that's what he could have received. His plea deal says he will not challenge a sentence between forty six and sixty three months, so four. Basically he's looking at four or

four or five years. Uh. And the deal does not involve a cooperation a group with federal prosecutors, so he could be He's gonna be sentenced on December twelve, So Cohen could go away for four He's gonna go away for four years, folks, for this four years. Uh, and he's not cooperating, which people are gonna point it this and say, well, what does that really mean about whether

he's any risk to the president. This brings me to what my my esteemed call or a few moments ago, I was asking about I don't think Trump, I don't think Cohen has anything on the president but understand, folks, that this is all about the president to the Democrats, is isn't about some individuals who didn't pay their taxes or did shady things in their businesses. Anything that anyone does around Trump, or that they did years before they were around Trump in the case of Manafort, anything that

they did that is wrong. The media will try to find a way to place at a Trump's feet. It's Trump's fault. Trump is the cause of the problem. Trump is the reason that these issues happen. Now. I know that's not rational, it's not reasonable, but this is what they believe. And you need to understand that that's really the takeaway here, and you can don't have to take my word for it. We've got a member of Congress, for example, Democrat, what is it, u Castro, John I mean, Mike, Yes, yes,

Representative Castro. Here's what he says about this place. Seventeen today, we witnessed the President United States go from the fine pan into the fire, moveing not just from political liability for a bad situation with Russia, collusion and so forth,

to perhaps legal liability. Now and the question has come up a few times about what the Congress will do and I can't say for sure what the Congress will do, but I believe that the Judiciary Committee in both the House and the Senate should take this this issue up immediately and should start to hold hearings about exactly what happened. Uh, Call in the folks who could coroborate what the president

may have done according to Michael Cohen. Call in the people from American media, the man who owns the Inquirer, for example, and corroborate what was said by Michael Cohen. The president's personal lawyer, somebody who has kept his secrets, somebody who has been not just a lawyer but a confidant to this president, has made very serious allegations about the president's behavior. Has nothing to do with the Russia, folks,

nothing at all. This is all about Stormy Daniels and h that other woman that Trump had the alleged actually Karen McDougal, But Karr McDougall right. Here here's what the report is on Fox News about this from this is Cohen's attorney, Lanny Davis, whom I interviewed a few weeks ago about this very issue. Here's what he says. Now that the guilty plea has been handed in quote. This is Michael fulfilling his promise made on July two to put his family and country first and tell the truth

about Donald Trump. Today, he stood up and testified under oath that Donald Trump directed him to commit a crime by making payments to two women for the principal purpose of influencing an election. If those payments were a crime for Michael Cohen, then why wouldn't they be a crime for Donald Trump? Uh? Now, this is on so many levels, folks. You have you have to dig a little bit below what what they're offering you up here, as as the

main headlines everything else. Because first of all, Cohen is Trump's lawyer, so someone is supposed to know if this is going to be a violation of law. A woman think that it would be Cohen and not the client. So start with that. And usually a lawyer who takes his client's direction to violate the law is in a weird spot to say, well, it's because I was told to Well, your job is to know the law and to be an officer of the court, even if you're

in private practice, you're not supposed to violate the law. Um. And then this notion of the principal purpose of influencing an election. You could say this, folks, about anything if this is now the definition of influencing an election. Giving Donald Trump a tissue to blow his nose before he goes on stage is an a legal campaign contribution. And

this is crazy repose of influencing an election. And he's trying to He's paying off people who are blackmailing him over a personal issue that I would know it also, I don't think would have had the least bit of actual effect on his election. I mean, maybe they didn't know that at the time it but but they're expanding these definitions. I mean that they're making sure that their interpretation of all legal matters is as negative and creates

as much jeopardy for Trump as possible. And you know, there's no innocent until proven guilty on their minds here. There's no sense of fair play or what's right for the country, or what's what's decent treatment for for Trump? Are of the circumstances. This is all being taken as evidence of Trump commited Trump himself committed a crime. I think we're quite clear here that what's going to happen

is there's going to be impeachment. What's going to happen is the Democrats, regardless of what comes out of all these investigations, and you know, all of Mueller's horses and all of Mueller's men and all the stuff that's going on here, Democrats are going to try to impeach the president of United States, period. And think of what that's going to do to the country. Think of how well things are going right now. We are in in uh an incredible period of booming economic growth. We're not at

we're not involved in some massive unnecessary war overseas. We feel like we're not getting lectures all the time from our own government about how we're insufficient and inapt and not good enough and disappointing him. You know, you know, with Obama, he was always you were disappointing him America. Just disappointing Obama gets annoying, gets old. That whole employ was was tiresome from the beginning. With Trump, he's like, yeah, we're gonna fix some things. Here are the things we're

gonna fix. We're gonna do this, We're gonna speak about things about normal people, speak about things. We're gonna stop the poll tested rigid you know, cyborg like conversation that politicians think they have to engage in order to win elections.

I'm just gonna speak to people the way people speak, and approach issues the way a normal person who wants to fix them would, and not do everything as though you're scared or you know, you don't know which way is up, which weighs down, what's right and what's wrong. You're just gonna try to fix problems and make things

better for America. I mean, I know it sounds very simplistic, but it's also very powerful, and that approach has been so powerful, and the Democrats can't beat him on the messaging, so they're trying to beat him by twisting and weaponizing the law. I've worked on criminal cases, I've been an

investigator on counter terrorism cases. But I can tell you that if a trained group of investigators, particularly i you're getting federal prosecutors involved, wants to get you, they're probably going to be able to if they really want to.

They will find if you're involved in business dealings, if you're a high profile person, who is you know, dealing with incoming from a whole different variety of places all the time, they'll find a way there's usually a way, and what we've seen here is that attitude has been taken against the sitting president United States by the other side. There's also another, you know, so so I just I want to note that before I get to another very important point, because this is this is what the Democrats

come up with. They have to remove. They can't beat Trump on the merits, so they have to say he didn't win the election. He's crazy, he he and he cheated. You know, he's mentally unfit for office, even though he's doing a great job in office. He's you know, the worst president ever, even though he would crush any Democrat who ran again. If we held an election tomorrow against any Democrat right now in the field, Trump would win.

I bet all that, I bet all the money I have on it, which would hundreds of dollars would be at stake, right But I'm telling you that's what would happen, despite what they tell us about Trump all the time, despite the way that they frame these issues. And then there's another and this is the one that that really bothers me. Um, you know, other than that they can't beat him on messaging, that can't beat him politically. So they're trying to beat him legally. They're they're engaging in

a form of politicized lawfare against this president. They have made it very clear to anyone who feels like there's finally been some headway. May there's finally been in roads against the establishment against call it the swamp if you want, whatever it may be, against our our journalists and and politician ruling class. You know, our political elites elite because

they think they are not because they actually are. That this is now going to be held up as the example of what happens when you step out of line. If you step out of line and you try to assist Trump, you try to be around Trump you want to be, You're gonna get chased out of restaurants, You're gonna get attacked in public, sometimes physically. You're gonna be called horrible things. You're gonna have your sponsors boycotted, and

you're also gonna have prosecutors who go after you. Does anyone think if Cohen was not involved with Trump, he would he would be facing four years in prison right now. I'm not saying that makes it did, right, but I we're really gonna just dig into this. We should does anyone think many for it would be facing over eighty years in prison if he was not Trump's former campaign chairman. Of course not. This is all about said It's it's all about score settling and sending messages. The score settling

is the media is angry. They're angry because they felt like they had to choke down a lot of you know, ready for her. Hillary is great crap and they know it, and they felt debased by it, and they and they should because it was disgraceful what they did. But they're angry about that. But they choked out all that, Oh yeah,

Hillary is actually an honest, ethical, good person. Because they thought that there would be a White House for eight years or they would all have, you know, lots of entree and you know, the the cool kid, the good guy team would be in the White House, just like they were for eight years in the Obama administration, and it was gonna be the pinnacle of their careers. Same for a lot of senior government officials, including ones that

are signing letters now against Trump and everything else. They thought that, you know, their their ship was coming into ports, so to speak, and Trump scuttled it. So they're angry and they want to settle scores, just like this happened with Bush as well. They went after Scooter Libby, they were trying to go after Karl Rovee. They weaponized the law. This is how the left plays the game, folks. They are a little tyrants. They don't want to beat you in a debate. They don't want to bring you over

their side. This is not a good faith political back and forth. This is they want to crush us. They have no scruples, they have no principles. They'll do anything that they can. Now, should Maniford and Cohen make it so easy for them, No, they should not. But understand that this is only happening because of Trump. And it's

not the end of it either. You know that there are going to be more efforts to bring charges, to use the law as a tool of politics, no matter who destroys, and no matter what the wreckage left behind. Maybe and just think of this, you know, Democrats pretend that Trump is such a divider and he's so negative, he's so bad for us and all this other stuff.

How divided does the country feel if the president that you know, over sixty million of us voted for, including me, all right, and I cast my vote for this guy, I throw my support behind it before the election, and you know, each month I feel like he's doing an even better job. If that president is not just be sent by h removal proceedings by the or rather impeachment proceedings by the Congress, but then perhaps it becomes an

issue of the Senate will try. You know, Democrats, senators will try to take him out of office through removal proceedings. If they get now, they'll never get there. I know it's two thirds and all the rest of it, but that will be a a thing you will hear from some Democrats, I think in the future if if things keep going this dire action. You want to talk about a country that's not united. They're trying to because they are sore losers, because their babies, because they won't accept

the world as it is. They won't accept that their ideas stink. Democrats are just gonna find some way to stop the Trump presidency. They won't just lie it happened, they won't judge him based in the results. They'll find some way to stop it. You want to talk about a country that's gonna be divided. I'm actually frightened about what the country feels like if they manage to stop the presidency in some way, not at the ballot box, because that's really their goaliere, folks, that is their goal.

They think this is Nixon Part two. They think they're gonna find a way. They're gonna probably pressure him to resign. Eight four four nine Buck Team eight four four two five will be right back. As far as the diplomatic side and the leveraging of saying sans, there isn't much more to do than what you see as far as

the trajectory coming out of the administration and Congress. You see the response as related to the use of violation of what is international law using chemical biological weapons as we saw in UK where innocent UK civilians either lost their lives or were injured. What is announced today has to do with Russia supplying support to North Korea. Now, as far as the trajectory that we're on is one that that is getting towards cutting off diplomatic relations towards Russia,

cutting off exports to Russia. We have already seenior implementation a couple of weeks back of cutting off the US national security sensitive technologies to Russia, and now so we're on a trajectory towards cutting off access to the American banking system. So I think there are arguments to be made that perhaps more sanctions aren't the way to go. Sanctions are sort of the stick, and the question is

what is the carrot um. I would say that one of the carrots might be considering whether or not we continue to insist that Ukraine and Georgia be a NATO UM. I think that if you really wanted to influence Russia's behavior, and you were talking in a one to one basis with Russia, and you were to have some sort of agreement, I think in agreement not to have Ukraine and Georgia NATO might lead to less conflict. In both Ukraine and Georgia.

There is the argument that they're much of the uh the military conflict and fomating a military conflict is because they do seriously fear and worry and are concerned and are opposed to having them in NATO. What if our posture against Russia is actually becoming too aggressive, folks, because of Trump's arrangement syndrome. What if, in the leftist frenzy to seem tough against Russia, we've actually moved the Overton window of a Russia policy discussion way too far toward conflict.

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would have to agree with Governor Cuomo. Can you point to a time or do you think there was a time when America was great? I mean not particularly the idea that there was a once great America is, you know, pointing towards this false sense of nationalism that you know what is talking about white America. You know, it's it's not great. I think it has been great for straight white men for a very long time. Do you think that there is a time you can point to where

America was great? I don't know, honestly, mm hmm, that's go on. Um, not great, but like there was definitely some progress, and I think we're just to regret going through a Christian hounity. It was never really great. But we do do like great things sometimes, like we fix a lot of problems, but it's never just been wholly great. Was American exceptionalism taught in the classroom? Where do you know what that is? No? No, it was not. No, I do not. And is that a phrase that you're

familiar with. I've never heard it before. I personally wasn't taught American exceptionalism because I went to a very like fourthinking liberal school here in the city. I don't think i've heard that room before a class. They've never heard of American exceptionalism, folks, And I certainly don't believe that America has been great in the past. Welcome back the box. Actually show that was we got. We got some millennial in the street interviews today. That's always fun to run,

especially this time of year. And producer Mike who who was that again? That was a Cabit Phillips from campus Reform? I was campus reform. Okay, they're walking around asking millennials what happens after? Isn't there a new thing now? Is it? Zennials? Is that what people are calling it? That's a lame name. We've got to come up with a better name. I don't think zennials is a good enough name for whatever is below millennials, right, younger than millennials, because millennia, it

can't be millennials forever. Everyone gets their generation or two right then anyone. So they're asking them about this and and this is all spurred on by what Cuomo said, which was that nobody needs a buzuka to kill a three toad sloth. Oh no, that was a different speech he gave. The speech he gave was, you know, America was never great. And when he said it, a lot of people immediately recognize this for what it was, which

was a clear political blunder. Right, people have I think of an obvious understanding that you don't usually when you're running for high office in America, especially with someone like Cuomo who thinks one day he may be president of the United States of America, assuming those states are still America, and of which is also in there between those two words.

But you know this guy who oh they're calling a generation Z. What Yeah, that's what I'm ready Generation Z. First of all, it sounds like a bad, a bad zombie movie. Which let me ask you this, Mike, what is the best What is the best zombie movie? Of all time. That's a good question, because you know, I was not into zombie anything at all until very recently. Um, I started watching Walking Down and I thought it was

pretty good. So I'm not the best subject to go to on that, but um, all right, Brandon, can you save your Can you save your colleague? Here? Before he gets a code read from Afar, what is the best zombie movie? The best zombie movie is trained to Boustan, a Japanese horror movie. I knows South Korean Japanese zombie film. Okay, you just blew my mind there, producer, Brandon. That's some next level stuff you just pulled out. What is this about? You asked a horror fan. That's what happened. Oh, I

didn't even know. Look what we stumbled a paw in here, folks, You've got an in house expert. That's what I like to hear. It's on Netflix. Check it out Trained to Busin. Is it actually pretty good? Yeah? Yeah, Tona is still one of the best bombie films I've seen in a long time. Okay, I will check it out because I like Dawn of the Dead, which is the I think it's a George Ramarro one. Right when they're in the mall. That's my favorite one. I think that's the best one.

It's very well done. I liked, uh twenty eight days later, I thought twenty eight weeks later. It was a little week, but I thought days later. I actually I lied, I actually do like I saw that. I like that one. As soon as you said that, I was like, oh, I saw that. Yeah, exactly exact, producer, Mike, I got your back. Don't worry about it. So, uh you got all this? How did I even get on on talking about, Oh,

millennials are generation Z? It does sound like that. What was the Brad There's a Brad Pitt zombie movie with something Z world war Z there. It is, so millennials are that age. Millennials, of course, are now getting further along in the you know, the the indoctrination um because

I think that the schools have gone further left. I know campuses have gone further left, and progressives feel like they've been winning the culture war for quite some time here that they really do feel like they are, um, I think close to the ultimate victory in the culture war.

And that's uh, that's reflected in the educational curriculums of particularly the universities, but also at the lower levels of these different schools, and that that that they walk around and say that, you know, they don't think America is great.

This is why I actually feel almost not sorry for Cuomo, but you know, I kind of know why he would say that, because you don't want to say that publicly, but you want, you are left wing supporters, to think you believe that it is really an article of faith at this point that the American left thinks that this country, this country, which is the greatest, most wealthy, most powerful, freest country in the history of the world, is not that great. This is a big difference. This is also

what we saw on display with Obama. He made his comment about how you know, he thinks that, you know, there's American exceptions in the same way that Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism. Essentially, the nullification of American exceptionalism was a belief held by the President of the United States for eight years, which is President Obama himself. Uh. And and in leftist democrat ideology in this country, there's a very clear especially in the way in the way that

they talk about our history. And yeah, of course we have their terrible parts of our history. We do have to confront them. We have to be honest about them and learn about them and know what they were. Um. But they take all they take all of that out of its historical context, judge it by the standards of today, and then think of themselves as somehow elevated by denigrating America, constantly putting themselves in a superior position to the America

that existed before them, and their ideology. You know, they think that they're the ones that will you know, bring out the bring about the America that that is in fact great right, the America that we should all be proud of. That can only happen when the left finally gets When the left finally gets their way, that's really all that they care about the other the day folks, the left gets their way, um and and they will do whatever they have to, whatever they can in that

and that whole process. You know, I know that today's a day when there's a lot of a lot of gloating from the left because of these uh, these Trump associates, or and some and at least in the case of Manaford, a former Trump associate, that's going down. But they don't think at all about the cost here long term. They don't think about what this really does. You know that they complain about how Trump pollutes are our politics, and

how his rhetoric is so out of line everything else. Meanwhile, I think anybody who's observing the way the left plays the game now has to feel like they are zero sum. They are no holds barred, and they do not care what carnage or destruction they leave in their wake as long as they're the ones power calling the shots in this country. Because remember, if you really are in charge here, you're in charge of a lot more than just here.

You know, America is the global driver on a number of in a number of ways, and a whole bunch of different fronts. And so the lust for power that the left fields in this country is really transnational and global in scope. It's not just limited to any one state, or or even all fifty states. And and today is a day when you see that they are playing a blood sport. And this is why you need somebody like

Trump who's in office. You need somebody who is going to fight back, is going to push back against all the nonsense and all of the lies and the tactics that they will deploy. They will do anything, They will lock people up because they don't like them. They will ruin people's lives for opposing them and feel righteous in doing so. Speaking of the Left is going to be making an appearance here in the show in just a moment, because she's gonna be making an appearance, well, lots of

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I start to worry that the media and they're just relentless assaults on Trump and everybody around him, has has taken, has had enough effect, has had enough of an impact that, you know, maybe we will lose the House. And then I see a bit of uh good news coming our way courtesy of the One and Only hat who is headlining d n some d n C fundraisers. Now, this

this is from CNNA Hillary Clinton. We'll headline three fundraisers for the Democratic National Committee the coming months in San Francisco, Chicago, and New York. The fundraisers, despite likely being closed to the press, will amount to the most public political step Clinton has taken since ending her tour promoting her memoir What Happened About Presidential Election. She's remained active on Twitter, and her political organization has donated to a host of

Democratic House candidates. She's yet to head light of public event for candidate Hillary's back, Folks. And here's my theory on this. I think she thinks she's running again. And I know you think I'm crazy for saying that. I know somebody like Buck, don't say it. Say it ain't so Buck, No, this cannot be. It cannot be. Oh, but I think it is. I think it most definitely is. I think that in her mind. I'm not saying that

means she will get the chance to run. I'm just saying that there's a very good chance that she thinks she's going to run again. And that's why she's out there doing this. Because if you're Hillary, why otherwise, why would you be out there subjecting yourself people like me who are gonna go what happened everywhere you show up? You know, why put yourself back into this political meat

grind or you're worth over a hundred million dollars. You've got more money than you ever know what to do with from giving speeches, also known as selling access and influence. But she's got all this money, you know, why not just kick back and write some books and you know, be a she's a grandma, be a grandma. You know, did do those other norm do those normal human being things that people do? What do you have to go

back out in the political spotlight? I think the most likely answer is that in her mind, she thinks that she's going to be the canton. By default, she'll be the candidate again, and it depends on what comes out of the Muther probe. Right, you see, this is the narrative, folks. Let let me walk you through this. It's Hillary is the only one who can set right the wrong that was done to the American people by Trump and the Russians. That's gonna be the storyline if not that Donald Trump

gets currently charged, That's not gonna happen. If Mueller writes a report for the Muller Probe that says that Donald Trump was in some way guilty of obstruction of the Russia probe, even if there's no criminal referral attached to it. But if he submits it so that the House will create impeachment, then the narrative from Hillary and a left will be see, he had to obstruct because he could not allow us to get to the truth which we still have not gotten to, which is that he did

collude with the Russians. This is what they're gonna say. And the only way to make this right is at the ballot box and to make Hillary finally our president. I'm ready for her. I mean, that's folks. I really think that's what in her mind and some of her handlers and some of the people around her. I think that's what's going on here. I do think that there is a a belief, uh, you know who else is gonna be Biden? I mean Trump already could Biden on

the size. But Biden was a dime a dozen politician that Obama put in the role of VP because you know, he kind of needed somebody, needed somebody who wasn't going to overshadow him in any way, who wasn't going to really be a challenge to Obama's stature or authority. And you know what, I guess would give him some some experienced grabby toss like I don't know. I mean, I've heard Biden speak. I was fun the guy, deeply, deeply unimpressive.

But there's another possibility here, because I'm trying to walk through all these things because I want Hillary out there. I want Hillary Clinton to be reminding the American voter of what they could have had, which is me, which is Hillary Clinton out there talking to them about how much she cares about them and just being a particularly inept and uh chrony ist klectocratic politician. I want her out there because I want people to remember, this is

what they could have had. Um. But then there's the other possibility, and this brings me back to why she's doing it. There's one that maybe she's doing it because she thinks she's going to be by default the Canada, it's gonna be Burnie. Guys, think about this. It's not gonna be Bernie, it's not gonna be Biden. I think Elizabeth Warren would get chewed up in a national national presidential election. And I think uh Kamala Harris is just

not ready for that level of prime time either. Maybe a VP slot, so who then you know, maybe Hillary says only I'll only be present for one term, and Kamala Harris would be my VP. You know, we'll be ready for both of her, so to speak, or both of the ladies. Um, that's that's one option that I could see happening here. Because the Democrats have nothing right now, no bench, nobody. I think they really also maybe hope that some big celebrity, someone like the Rock or Oprah

steps in and runs. That they viewed that as maybe the only possible real uh you know, counteractive or or you know, counter reaction against Trump that would be successful. But then there's this other as other alternative that popped into my feed today. Oh man, I've by the way, I have called this from the start. I have known that this was a very serious likelihood from the beginning. And that is and this is reported by Fox News well as other outlets that Chelsea Clinton, oh that's right, folks,

says she's a definite maybe to run for office. Now you know my feelings on on dynasties, and in fact, you know my feelings on nepotism. You know, I I think nepotism is generally a bad thing for high government officials. I cannot tell a lie and and also I think dynasties are a terrible thing for this country politically. It's just the whole the notion that we need to go with whoever has the last name and the family connections to run for higher office is it should be offensive

to all of us. I mean, it should feel like a slap in the face to our republic. Uh. And that Hillary Clinton, look, Bush, Clinton, Kennedy. We don't need any of them anymore, all right. There's plenty of ways for folks to get out their message. There are plenty of opportunities for anyone to make their case the American people. It should not be relying your last name. But but

Chelsea Clinton in particular, it just strikes me. I mean, if her mother was entitled and presumptuous about he was gonna shouldn't be gonna be the next president, that Chelsea would step into the breach here, that Chelsea be the one who thinks that she should. You know, you want to ask her a very simple question. Why because you went to a bunch of different fancy schools. All the children of rich celebrity politicians go to fancy schools. It's not hard for you to get in. They'll take you

just based on your last name. Do we really need more of that? We need more coasting on the last name. Never mind the fact that every time I've ever seen her giving a speech or doing anything in public, it's been deeply underwhelming. I mean, you should really go back and watch. I know I like to pick on this, but it's it was particularly bad. Go back and watch what was happening, What she was like when what happened, sorry,

what she was like on air. When she was doing hits for what was the Rockefeller Center or something or whatever. It's called the you know, thirty Rockefeller. I think it was some show, not thirty Rock. That's a different It was called something or other where she was doing interviews for the NBC for NBC and they paid her a huge sum of money, like six or seven hundred thousand dollars. She did a couple of interviews, almost terrible at them.

I just resent that there are so many people in the country that seemed to think that having Clinton as a last name is still an asset too. Really at this point. That's so we'll see, but that maybe why Hillary is out there. She's trying to pave the way for Chelsea. Uh and Chelsea running for president, as far as I'm concerned, is another would be a great thing for the Republican Party because she has less political of even then her mother, which is a hard thing to

pull off. This is all about coal at all costs. It's about looking backwards to see how we can revive coal again and making false promises to those folks that the President is going to talk to tonight, as if we can look to the future as the only country in the world who's doing this, looking at coal as the future instead of understanding that the future is about

clean air, The future is about clean energy. The future is about addressing the challenge of climate change, which is really the most significant public health challenge that we face. This is a big day the the unvaliant of our Affordable Clean Energy Rule. What this rule will do will set guidelines for the States to then work with utilities around the country to make sure that every utility makes

reductions on their CEO two emissions going forward. It's very different from the Obama approach was very much a command to control approach, where they dictated to all the states what they had to do. We're actually be working cooperatively with the states in this it's not a rollback, it's a it's an overhaul because the Obama regulation it never took effect because the Supreme Court did take the unprecedented

action of issuing the stay. We're using the laws that Congress gave us, and we've moved forward with this new approach, which we believe is legally sound and can be implemented across the country and it will provide protections for all Americans as well as lower in electricity rates. The battle with the environmentalist wackos is underway, my friends. We played

there to two different sound bite three. One of them was from the former Obama e PA chief Gina McCarthy, and the other the gentleman has spoke rad after that was from Andrew Wheeler, who is the acting e p A administrator today. Big battle Brewer right now having to do with what they're calling the we can of Obama era regulations. Notice the uses of that term. There's a judgment in that when they say that he is that

that that Trump is weakening Obama's regulations. What they're saying is making the country more dangerous and making the environment more dangerous, and and it's a bad thing obviously, right you weaken something that's strong, weaken something that's good, why not just say change or we're not say fix a just reform. Even you won't see any coverage of this that suggests that the Obama team is I'm sorry that

the Trump team is reforming the Obama era regulations. You will only see stuff that suggests that this is a terrible you know, slashing and burning of all of the great things that Obama did. And I would just note, if the things that Obama was doing on the environment were so great, we we probably should have heard or we probably should have had them via Congress instead of what we did have, which was the Obama administration jamming this down our throats the executive action. Now, let's let

me give you some of the details here. I don't want to just keep this at the the general the general level, because you know, and the left is gonna fight this tooth and nail. There's about two percent of the country that really cares about climate change. And that two percent wants you to think that six of the country really cares about climate change, and they are they are desperate to make everyone else think that other people

think this is a big issue. You know, to make this a a a prominent national campaign that's all about you know this and this challenge to to the future. You heard what was it named Gina McCarthy there, I'm sorry, not Gina McCarthy. Yes, it was Gina McCarthy, who was the former eph d funder Obama saying that climate change is the greatest public health challenge of our time. Uh, you know what's a bigger public health challenge and climate change?

Sixty thousand, seventy thousand people you're dying from opioid overdose. That's a that's a much more imminent challenge, isn't it a public health challenge? You know? So that's another point here that you shouldn't you shouldn't lose sight of. It's not just oh, we can do the environment and all these other things. The people who are true environmentalist zealots are not looking to make minor changes. They're not looking

to engage in, you know, relatively small regulatory fixes. They want sweeping reform, and they want to do it under the guise of this is an imminent issue of saving the planet, and whatever we have to sacrifice in order to get there, we should do. They are extremists by definition. All right, this is now turning into another one of these hashtag resistance fights. I would not that California Attorney General Javier Best Sarah has said that his state is

going to Trump. You know, they just keep taking everything into the courts, folks. That's the that's the way the left goes. Nothing can be done by this commander in chief. At the left doesn't like without the threat of a lawsuit. They have zero respect at all for for his power. And you know that there is such a thing as being overly litigious. You know, you can basically sue anyone for anything. Doesn't mean they'll have any any merit in court.

But this is really the equivalent of what the Democrats are doing against Trump is the equivalent of a of a malicious lawsuit. You know, they are maliciously and intentionally just trying to come up the works, trying to jam up the Trump agenda as much as they can. So but what is this whole thing about. But Sarah said, the state's gonna suit Trump over a plan that was released today to weaken carbon dioxide emission limits on power plants.

My friends, carbon dioxide is a naturally occurring gas in our in our atmosphere. UM carbon dioxide is in fact all around us. It makes up a very small part of the overall atmosphere. I would know nitrogen, oxygen and oxygen are much more of the UM, you know, much more of the atmosphere. And the notion that this is a pollutant, though, I mean, it is not an overstatement to say that this is how the Left regulates air,

not air quality per se, just air. Because CEO two is to say it's a pollutant is like saying water is a pollutant. Water and high concentrations is very dangerous. Water can be quite destructive. Water can kill as we know from tsunamis and and flash floods. Water can kill thousands of people. Water can be very dangerous. Are we going to regulate water as a as a pollutant? Though? That would be crazy. Their plans to regulate CEO two are equally insane. But that's what the Obama aministration was

trying to do. Uh and and to make coal, of course even more expensive and less less of a possible. It's not a huge job creator anyway. I mean, you know that there's really the whole coal plant issue just became a proxy for the overall battle with the environmentalists on the left because they don't mind costing people jobs and increasing misery and some pretty hard hit parts of the country for no reason other than to scratch this itch they have over feeling like they're environmentalists that are

saving the planet. And oh, by the way, the new regulations because it would make cars, it would change the fuel emission standards going forward, and it would make cars cheaper because it would freeze in place fuel emission standards that have been there for a long time. They estimate that could say that alone could save a thousand lives a year because newer cars are safer, and those newer cars, people are more they're more survivable in them in the

event of a crash. So they're they're they are quite quite literally costing line lives here with their intransigence over the issue of environmentalism and CEO two and all this stuff. I mean, it's CEO two from power plants. Never mind what's going on in China and the rest of the world. I mean, they don't care a whit about all this stuff. But we're supposed to have these artificial constraints put on

our economy. We're supposed to be the ones that are sitting around, you know, worried about the planet melting down because of this. It's just complete and utter nonsense. And I'm glad that Trump administration is taking the fight to the looney left on their environmentalist fantasies. It needs to

be done. So that was some audio from a rally where uh, tens of thousands of Muslims got together at Vikings Stadium in Minnesota to h to celebrate d ed al Uddha, which is a different holiday than d I'll fitter uh. And and this is one of these times when I'm you know, I just gotta tell you, you know, very few what that that talk about this or or that will say, oh, well, it's great, you know, happy d al Uddha. The people that they don't seem to

know that. Usually the celebration evolves slitting the throats of animals and then the drained carcass gets kind of hung up in the air. Uh. And it's all about the the commemoration of the incident in the Old Testament where Abraham is supposed to sacrifice his son Isaac and at the last moment does not and kills a goat instead. But so that they slipped the throats of animals. You know, you know what makes me think about this today, for one, is we we don't really speak about Islam and radical

Islam that much anymore in the news cycle. And it's I think you got to say, well, one, certainly Trump is president, and that's different from what we had had before in terms of foreign policy and US policy against terrorism, and so that that's a change. I think that's only

that's only fair fair to say, um. But but also given the given the social media guidelines that are under so much discussion right now, given what we're being told about how hate speech is going to be increasingly regulated by these massive social platforms like Facebook and Twitter and others, what happens with Islam? Because you know that there's some very particular things about the Islamic faith that that's separated

from other faiths. One of him is that it it demands and anybody who challenges this or or you know what, wants to to to quibble with me on this one, we can run a quick we can run a quick experiment, right. It demands obedience to some of its tenants, even from non Muslims. What I mean by this is that if you blaspheme the prophet Muhammad, even if you are not a Muslim, your life is in jeopardy. And everyone understands that your life could be in jeopardy, people will threatened

to kill you. It's the only major religion I know of where for a mere statement, there's a credible threat against your life. It's the only one. There's there's no other religion where you can just make a statement of of your opinion on something and you would likely have to have a protection detail traveling around with you. Right, So there's something distinct about the Islamic faith in that regard.

And then beyond that, what do we what do we make of criticism of Islam in a in a country where we have because of these propaganda groups like care and others that counsel on American Islamic relations, and there's there's a bunch of them out there, all funded by you know, the Middle East, and through cutouts and everything else, they've created this notion of islamaphobia, and they've tried to

conflate racism with criticism of Islam. I gotta tell you, I have absolutely no faith whatsoever in the social media platforms ability to discern what is legitimate criticism of Islam. But let's say even criticism of of the d al d al Uda or al Adha, sorry whatever, close enough festival you know what what about that? I mean, at what point do you find yourself in in in hot water for hate speech merely because you want to discuss what's going on? You know, is the festival of sacrifice? Okay,

that's what it's all about. It's and it's about you know, Abraham, As I said, Abraham was going to sacrifice his son, he gave him a ram instead. And yes, the's parts of this where they're supposed to give to the poor and the needy and give to relatives, but they usually slit animals throats. Enrich that that is the traditional practice here. So if I were a big peta person, if I were a big peta matter. Oh but wait wait, this is a total total digression for a second. But I

just I couldn't help I couldn't help it. I mentioned Peter. I have to mention this. Now. Nibisco, speaking of Peter, has changed its barnum animal crackers so that they're no longer in cages. That's right. Now, Peter did not like the way that animal crackers. The animals were actually in cages um or in in in a circus, so they changed it now to allow the animals to be free of the cages because they don't want I mean, I guess, uh, you know, I guess this is what Peter does with

its time. I mean, I hate animal cruelty, and I get irrationally angry and think irrationally violent thoughts when I know that anyone's been cruel to a dog. But I don't know. I didn't know that we had to change the animal crackers yet, I don't know that Peter really had to fight, had to fight this fight. But you know, they don't want them in cages. So now you're animal crackers, folks. If you eat those, they're no longer in in uh circus cases. But so on Islam and and UH and

with Peter. If you were a a big animal rights activist and you say that the sacrifice during either is UH is barbaric, are you engaged in hate speech or are you just criticizing a practice that you think is out of step with modern times and should not be you know, should not be acceptable on us soil. This is gonna you know, because I'm we've been quiet with Islam. Here are quiet in terms of criticism or discussion of

Islam in the news media for a little while. It's really gone down substantially, and I do think that it's worth noting that this will not hold. There will come a time at which we have to talk about Islam more often and more openly. And social media is going to be an issue. Uh, there is absolutely, in my opinion, there is absolutely going to be a crackdown on criticism of Islam on platforms like Facebook and Twitter. And that's

gonna get really nasty. That's gonna get intense the place where I b oyther Way see it happening right now. And this is why I have zero faith in the you know, the the social media outlets policing themselves. And look, Trump is all over this. I and everybody realizes this

is a big issue. But the way that I know this is gonna be a problem is is on transgender rights, because they're gonna do this whole thing of if you don't use the pronoun that somebody's transgender wants, if if you believe that that's you know that that that's inaccurate. As I do, I mean, it's an inaccurate thing to say someone as a he who's a she or she who's a heat. It's just inaccurate. I'm trying to be mean to anybody. But gender is a real thing and

it is not a malleable concept. And if they're gonna say it's a malleable concept, well then I need only people who have a physical gender genetic abnormality to be claiming to be non gender binary. But I think that that's how they get people even more people kicked off.

They're going to use the the language of transgender rights and can saying that it's a civil rights movement to say that opposition to that is hate speech or opposition to using preferred pronoun by transgender individuals as hate speech. But with Islam too, I mean, these are two very contentious areas where I mean, I can assure you that you know, whether it's Jack Dorsey at Twitter or Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook, these guys are not going to uh side with the folks who are are on the free

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a quadruple murder highlighted by Trump. This is from the New York Times. After Jose Portillo crossed into the United States illegally, he settled on Long Island and sought to join the same gang MS thirteen that was terrorizing his hometown in Al Salvador. On April eleven, seventeen, authorities say he took part in executing four Latino young Latino men in the woods behind a Central Icelip New York soccer field, a sensational crime that drew national attention and became a

rallying cry in President Trump's crackdown on illegal immigration. Mr Portillo, who is seventeen years old folks involved in a quadruple murder, pleaded guilty on Monday to federal racketeering charges and for

his role in the four murders. According to prosecutors, authorities initially charged him with a juvenile along with nine other gang members and the murder of the four young men, but even though Portillo was just shy of sixteen years old the time and the killings, the judge in the case decided he should be charged as an adult because of the se area the crime. Damn straight. So what is it about this now? First of all, this case, as was mentioned at the top, and that was all

from the New York Times reported this. By the way, this case was one that got a lot of national attention. Trump made sure that it got a lot of national attention, and there was a sense that, you know, this is what's happening. Finally, there there was the ability to talk about what's really going on in some of these communities where you have this influx of illegal immigrants. Because they're always telling us, Oh, it's the the they're just the dreamers,

you know. They're always telling is, oh, this is all people who just want to come to this country. And work hard, and we're supposed to accept that as the real you know, the real situation. I'm not allowed to ask any questions. In fact, if you ask questions, they

start to say you're probably racist. But but then you look at the other side of this, Well, if you're going to give me the upside of what it means to have these in the upside of what it means to have these uh people coming into the country, either illegally or claiming refugee status or however it is that they got here, can't we speak openly and honestly about the downside? Isn't that a a part of this process

as well? And the answer the media gives you a course is no, you are not allowed to do that. You are absolutely uh prohibited from discussing these cases. And if you do, you know, and what I mean discussing them, it's all about how you discussed them too, Like, yeah, the New York Times is saying that this gang quadruple murder happened, but they're not framing the narrative in such a way that this is a direct result of the Obama administration's immigration policy. When it came to if you

come from Central America open door policy. That's what happened. So countries like Al Salvador from which we get MS thirteen, although I know it was Salvadoran refugees in California actually who formed the group initially, but now it's main base

of operations is in Al Salvador. But when else Al Salvadoran's come into this country through the Obama adinistration policy and they kill people, We're not supposed to talk about the policy, and you know how how this could be affected by policy, or how policy has affected the situation.

We're just supposed to be quiet. Ex app that you know, our betters no more than us on this one, or listen to our betters on the issue of of immigration, and any question will be met with the nastiest kind of insinuations about you know, not liking brown people, or not liking people from you know, other countries, and all all of the usual moral blackmail that the left engages in.

But in this case, people should And by the way, the New York Times coverage of the case that I'm reading from here is it probably five d words, very short, very short. Um They seventeen murders, by the way, committed in Suffolk County alone, which is one county in New York State, from January six January April of Okay, seventeen murders, folks in a part of the country that's not known

for being particularly rough, for violent. That's a lot. You start to wonder, I mean, how many, Kate Steinley's, how many cases like this where you have a a quadruple, a brutal, quadruple homicide of young teenagers. This this is because of decisions that are made at the policy level by the Obama administration and bi sanctuary cities to turn a blind eye to all this. And oh, oh, by the way, not not for I don't want to skip past this either. It was very sad. Investigators today found

the body of Molly Tibbots. She is dead. She'd been missing for a month after she went for a jog. She was in Ohio, Iowa college student and in custody right now that they haven't said all that much, but in custody they have somebody who is quote subject to a federal immigration detainer. You know what that means, folks. I mean you're seeing that in some of the headlines. Subject to immigration detainer is what it says. In the

Washington Post. Do you know what that means? Illegal alien? Okay, so we might have to add Molly tibbots to the UH the body count of people brutally murdered by legal aliens in this country, who remember, should have never been in the country in the first place. You know, the position on this should be, we should have zero zero illegal aliens murdering people, because we should have zero illegal

aliens right there. We we shouldn't have to suffer any consequences from this because there shouldn't be anybody that could cause these kinds of terrible issues. You know, there's and and then. But back to m S thirteen for a second. Earlier in the week, there's another story. I was shocked the hell little attention to God. And it's that investigators who follow MS their team very closely, which you know

Trump has been. Trump has taken m S thir teen UH as as serious, well more seriously really than anybody. Trump is is absolutely dedicated as a president to raising awareness about and and tackling issue of m S thirteen gang violence. But m S thirteen is is in the process right now trying to find a way to organize itself. That's right, m S. Thirteen wants to mimic the more structured Mexican drug cartels and even organized crime along the lines of what you've seen with the Italian mafia, the

Russian mafia and others. And this is what's going on right now in that movement. And it's in part because these franchises have grown. Why have these m S franchises grown, folks, They're not growing with new recruits who are coming here from Vietnam. They're not growing with new recruits who are showing up here from you know, Italy. M S. Thirteen is growing because of the influx of Central American immigrants,

illegal immigrants and refugees into this country. And now we have this problem where we could have a a multinational gang that is involved in horrific violence, the kind of violence that investigators will tell you, you know that that career law enforcement will tell you. Some of those other groups now try to avoid because it just brings brings unnecessary attention to them. M S. Thirteinas a group that uses machetes intentionally because they want their you know, their enemies,

they want their opposition to be terrified of them. They want to be known as the most brutal, the most vicious, the most cutthroat, and so the headlines that they get from these incidents isn't bad for business in their eyes,

it's in fact the cost of doing business. It's how they want to do their business, which is very different from what you see from any of the other UH organized crime groups out there, who yes, engage in horrific violence and they're bad guys too, but they at least understand that on us soil, this kind of attention is is a problem for their interests of making money. It brings look, it brings greater law enforcement scrutiny. So you

got I m S. Thirteen trying to organize. You've got Molly Tibbitts possibly murdered by a I mean she she has been found dead. She was murdered, but possibly murdered by an a legal alien. And you have the possibility of h or and you have this other case rather in Long Island of four people who were murdered I m. S. Thirteen. So you know this, I wish the media would spend more time on this than than uh. Michael Lavinati, Yeah, I think this is a more pressing issue. But you know,

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I like to social life with everybody. No, not social I socialism. I'm not really sure what socialism actually is. So socialism is basically an economic system and where everybody's equal, there's no rich and there's no Oh no, I guess it's kind of like what Cuba does. I'm not quite so clear on these doctors socialism, but I think it's important that it isn't just every man for himself. I don't know, because socialism has worked in some places, still

trying to find where socialism work. Don't you know the difference between a democrat and a socialist? Honestly? No, how do you feel about socialism? Sir? It's great to have I just got back from here four weeks in Europe. Free healthcare, good schools. It's wonderful. Free, free everything you think that we have to pay for. Reason Pool just came out saying that democrats now view socialism more favorably than they view capitalism. What are your thoughts? Uh, it

doesn't make any sense. Socialism is ridiculous. I'm for it. I am for it because I think everybody should have a fair opportunity for health care, and um, yeah, does fair mean free? Fair means free. Do you hear any of your friends talking about socialism? Nope, they don't talk about politics at all. Nope. Who Bernie Sanders is, Yes, he believes in socialism. Bernie Sanders supporter. I don't like Donald Trump, so why not anything not Donald Donald Trump

is Okay? Yep. There are some Democrats mostly who believes socialism should replace capitalism. Do you think that's ever going to happen? Personally? I do not think that's ever gonna happen. I think capitalism is fantastic. It gives every American an opportunity to earn an income, each an individual. So there you have my old friend and colleague, Tommy Laren for

for Fox News there going around and asking people. I believe out in l A. It could have been in New York, though you get the same answers in either place. Though I don't know. In New York we read books, we know a little more than in l A. Oh, that's I'm just kidding, l A. I love you. I'm I'm actually coming out to see you in a few days. Los Angeles, wonderful. I'm just bitter because you have better weather,

among other things. But this is more of a question, or more important question then it might seem at first, because when you actually dig into it, it's not entirely clear to me why or how Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, how she define socialism? Is she a socialist? These are all these are all things that we don't really have particularly you know, good good answers too, because she does not really know what a soul shalist is, she tweeted out over the weekend. And I know the people like to say,

why are we picking on her? Well, the left said that she was the future of the Democratic Party. Basically, some very prominent people on the left have been saying that. So that makes it completely legitimate to discuss who is this person that we are supposed to believe is a

remarkably you know, talented politician of the future. And she shared uh on her Twitter account the following This is Alexandria Alexandria Ocasio Cortez back home after a lovely few days off, enjoying us examples of democratic socialism like Acadian National Park, Cafe co Ops. Definitely the top five breakfast sandwich I've ever had, supporting worker owned businesses, and a

planned parenthood helping people per usual. None of these could be described by anybody who knows what socialism is as socialism. Not a single one of these things is socialism. But she describes it as democratic socialism. And what is happening here, folks, is a corruption of language. And this is very important. What they're really saying now, what's happening on the left is they're trying to create or they're trying to to

change our conceptions around what certain words really mean. Socialism has for a very long time had a very negative connotation in American political discourse because socialism leads to lead directly to communism and the Soviet Union and the Iron Curtain and the Cold War and all those terrible things in the twentieth century. Mean, the threat of extermination for the United States was a direct consequence of the rotten ideology of socialism right taken to its ultimate ends or

its ultimate conclusion, which is always when fully implemented. It's not that it's not implemented properly, and that's the problem. When socialism is fully implemented, the end result is misery, shortage, lines for toilet paper, lines for bread, and human suffering and degradation. That's what happens. That's what socialism brings people. That's what that's what it it offers up for you.

But what you're seeing is this is how fascism has been fashioned into a club that the left will use to beat anybody they can with right just you know, if they don't like your idea, you're a fascist, that they will say that. You know, extremism on the right is fascism, where's extremism on the left is communism. It's not true. Fascism and communism are heresies from the same

socialist tree. There there's nothing about fascism that is conservative, and therefore there's nothing about fascism that you can reasonably are credibly placed on the right. On the right, you could say nationalism in some ways, which can be a component of fascism, is is more right wing. But to say that fascism as an ideology is on the right is just false. But they've fascism has just become a

term of general disparagement. In fact, there's a movie from back in the eighties called bar I think it's called Barcelona and or maybe I'm getting confused with another movie. But it's a guy. He's visiting a he's visiting his friend, and he's in the Navy, and he's an American and he's visiting his friend in Spain. So I know that's it's definitely I'm in the right place. I just can't

remember if I have the movie exactly right. But he walks around and Spaniards sneer at him and call him and call him a fascist because he's American, and I just remember this was this was a general term of disparagement for a while, and lefties in Europe would call anybody who opposed a very progressive socialist government policy, they call him a fascist as as a term of disparagement.

What's happening in this country now is that socialism is coming to me and just things that the democratic socialism is stuff people like, and that the left is saying that democratic socialism is just the distillation of the good parts of socialism without any of the bad parts. So democratic socialism, you see, is free healthcare. Democratic socialism is you know, greater rights for workers and unionization, and democratic

socialism is free school, free college. Um, what they don't talk to you about then, is well, doesn't leave behind government control of the means of production, because that's really what socialism is. Does it not involve? That doesn't involve incredibly high levels of taxation? How high and what should our expectations be for how long those how long we can go with those taxes before our economy implodes? So

this is what they're doing. They're changing socialism. They're trying to make socialism sound cool, and it no longer is really clear. It means by the way planned parent and has has just flatly nothing to do with socialism or anything else. And that's just a a scam and a slaughter house. But it's not to say that socialism is just. But this is what I mean. Anything that the left likes is socialism. Now. That's what they're saying democratic socialism,

and they use that to kind of deflect away from it. Um. But they're trying to change our perception of what the word means. And it's happening right now, and it's because the left has run out of ideas other than go hard left. You know, the Democrats have only one move that they can make from a policy perspective in their

minds at this point. Other than talking about the is ms and racism and sexism and all that, and that is too, uh, move toward a government mandated government business structures and redistribution of wealth on a massive scale, and an enormous welfare state and the taxes that come along with that, which would be ruinous for our economy and

for all of us. But this is what they're promising in the meantime, this is what they're saying is going to happen, and this is what is You know, if you get people like Ocasio Cortez in office, I think you can expect. But just watch how they try to change this definition. It's very important. You were seeing in real time, uh, the redefinition of socialism happening by the left to mean whatever they like and anything that's bad they say is not socialism. You know, I love this

story about public school hypocrisy. It's one that I've talked to you about before, but in this case, in this instance, it's one that I think is is particularly worth talking to you about. So so here's what here's what I

end up happening. This is not the first time, by the way, this has gone on in New York, but there is a school in New York City that is in a very very progressive, very very progressive area called Park Slope, right, and they this has got to be the single most strong liberal stronghold in Brooklyn, maybe the whole city. I mean, you live in Park slow because you are a a well off hipster, probably a hipster

with a family. So it's a little older than say Williamsburg. Anyway, this is like a Hillary Obama really even a Bernie Sanders stronghold in New York. And they have a school

that's a very a very good school. But it turns out that the Park Slope Public School is overwhelmingly white, right, And there are all these Libs that send their kids to this school, the District fifteen school I believe it is yes District fifteen Middle school, and there's an admissions process, and they are now saying that, well, you know, we have these other schools in the city that have already gone through this process of changing their admissions criteria so

that there's a greater diversity right there. Some are calling us a radical diversity plan. But here's the big shock of all shocks, folks, when these libs find out in Park Slope, I'm telling you this is plus Democrat territory. This is a hard left, deep blue part of not just any city, but of New York City. When they found out about this, the parents once again lose their minds.

And they've done this in other cases too. They did this in a similar situation at a place called Dumbo in New York where there was also a a substantial you know, there was one school, one public school, that was really strong and it was overwhelmingly white, and there was another public school that was struggling terribly and it was overwhelmingly minority. So in that case, in the Dumbo neighborhood of broken guess what the libs were all like, we don't wanna, we don't want to mix and match

the students from the different schools. Well, now asked forward a couple of years, and here we are in the same situation where you have a school that is overwhelmingly white that's doing very well, and a school that is overwhelmingly minority is doing very poorly. And the parents of those kids, despite the fact that I bet if you, if you were to pull them, they all think their woke, you know, they all uh, they all read the Huffington's Post and Slate dot Com and they watch MSNBC. I mean,

that's the audience talking about here. They don't want their kids to go to a school that has to go through this diversity program. They don't want their kids to have to do this. And this is what's particularly interesting about this case, other than the obvious, the obvious hypocrisy. Um, they had these meetings. Um, they had these meetings where they showed them video from the the civil rights era, And essentially we're saying that if they opposed this, it's

like there here, here we go. In a June twenty community presentation, a slide show and report prepared by a Department of Education consultant compared efforts to enact the changes to civil rights struggles during the nineteen fifties and sixties. Images in the report include a banner headline on the US Supreme Court barring racial segregation in public schools. It's followed by a photo showing two smiling black girls holding signs,

one reading integration is an education. The next photo shows an angry mob of white women would sign such as save Segregation vote, and a scowling white boy waving a sign reading all I want for Christmas is a clean white school end quote. One Park Slope mom this is now again from the New York post piece, whose fifth grader would be affected by the diversity plan, said she was galled because it suggested any critique would be pain in the worst possible light. If you're opposed to this plan,

you're a racist. From nine fifty is Alabama, the mom complained, Yeah, you know, social justice. These people always end up that the social justice wars always end up coming after their own right. It's just inevitable. They can't help it because that's the notion. I mean, that's the the the foundation of their ideology is that it's always having to look for new people to go on offense against. You have

to find new people to claim are the oppressors. And I just thought, I I just I get get enough of this because I know Brooklyn pretty well, and I know the people who live in Brooklyn, and this is a classic case. This is similar, folks, to what would happen if let's say you were able to tell all of the different uh CNN anchors that their kids would have to go to a failing minority public school instead of the fancy private school or the fancy public school.

Even that they go to and what their responses would be in This is why I keep telling that hypocrisy is is a defining characteristic of the Democratic Party. It really truly is. You know, I think there's no way around it. There's no way to get around it other than just to be honest about it. Democrats are all about hypocrisy because they have no there's no underlying principles

of their ideology. Uh. And when it comes to schools, they love to talk about diversity and multiculturalism, but the moment they actually have to expose themselves were more importantly to them, their children to a multicultural ideology. We we hear about, we hear about the problems, right, We we hear about, Oh, well that's not that's not fair, and that's not for my kid, and that's not what should happen. And you know, meanwhile the rest of us sit around say, so,

good for everyone else's kids, but yours. Right, that's the liberal montra when it comes to diversity and multiculturalism, good for everybody else. You know, they don't want to sacrifice their kids, folks, and their futures. They want to sacrifice yours by putting them in a situation and where the academic environment may suffer. Maybe it doesn't, but maybe it does. And they don't want to take that risk, but they

want your kids to take that risk. Ah. Yes, this is this is liberalism one O one on display in Brooklyn, and it's true in the rest of the country as well. Whenever you get into some elite liberal enclave, roll Call is coming up. Dame Buck, It's time for roll Call. All right, it's my favorite part of the show. I like to say that because I'm hoping that you all feel like it's your favorite part of the show. To

the roll call segments. Facebook dot com slash Buck Sexton if you want to be a part of roll Call because it is so much fun. All right, let's get to it. Patrick rights, Buck mustard is the best compliment to fries. You could do a yellow mustard mayo, kitchen a oli and be onto something great shields high. Uh. Well, Patrick, I can't say that I agree with you. I think

that mayo with fries is simply the best. And I know that that makes me not really American, and I know that some of you are gonna get mad at me when I tell you that. I also think it's a terrible thing that the Eagles have now surpassed Thriller as the most popular in terms of purchases album of all time. Because I know that that's an unpopular position. But you know what, I'm just here to speak the truth, folks. I'm not here to be loved. That's actually not true.

I work in media. I think I am here to be loved. Actually, so forget that. I need to speak the truth and be loved or or at least be somewhat respected enough that people will listen. I don't know something like that. That sounds good. Let's just go for that. But Patrick, I'm a I'm a Mayo guy, and I can't change. I can't change who I am. Catch up, I'm okay with. I just think that I had too

much ketchup growing up. It's probably move on another thing now, uh, Adam Rights, I would love to see you in the team play this game on Facebook Live. You will have to play Jack Burton. Of course, the big trouble in Little China game, Adam, I did not know that was a thing. So okay, there we have it. Harry writes Shields high Buck. Please do not call the denizens of

DC swampers. Some of my Cajun ancestors were swampers who made a living trapping, hunting, and harvesting from the Louisiana swamps, a poor but honest life. Well, Harry, what do we what do we call then, the residents of the d C swamp? What's a better term for them? I believe our friend, the formidable Dan Bongino refers to them as swamp rats, which certainly brings with it the negative connotation that we may be seeking with our discussion of said swamp.

But this is an interesting and interesting question opposed here. What do we do about the swampers that are not actually d C folks? We don't want to make them think that we are in any way speaking pejordi about them. But yeah, thank you Harry for right and in good good to hear from you. Cool beard by the way, good beard from Harry. See, I can see everyone's photos and then, right, it's a nice little fun advantage here

of the royal I get to see these folks. Eric Readsbuck, do you think it's possible that Rosenstein is giving the administration information about all the others? It is? It is all about self preservation. That's the only reason I could think of for them to keep him around. I don't know. I gotta be honest with the Eric. I don't know really what Rosenstein's motivation is right now, other than obviously to keep himself out of trouble. But I couldn't tell

you definitively what I think Rosenstein's game is here. I think that Rosenstein is somebody who views the institution of the d o J. Remember my conversation with Kim Strassel of The Wall Street Journal yesterday. I think Rosenstein thinks of himself in terms of, you know, being a per chector of the d o J, you know, protecting the legacy of the Department of Justice, and he'll go to great length to do that. I don't know what beyond

that motivates am. I generally government bureaucrats just want to get their paycheck, go home, and not be bothered. So it's tough to always read into There are clearly zealots, right There are people like Struck, and I would argue Bruce Orr and Sally Yates who are very ideologically uh you know, firm in certain ways, um, very ideologically uh you know set, but in their progressive ways. Of course, John writes Buck good show yesterday. I enjoyed being on.

I like what you two are building. Look, John, thank you you are a guest on Rising and you wrote me this note. I didn't realize it till now, so I'm gonna write back to you. Thank you John. Great. See this is real time, folks. Great to have you. Um. So, next up we have Stephen writes, why have you got to remind us Michiganders of Jenny g this early in the morning. If I get in trouble for being drunk at work, I blame you. I don't know if you can blame me. If I get in trouble of being

drunk at work, I blame you. She was really Detroit's and Lansing's and Flint's governor, not Michigan's shields high. Well, you know, steven years ago I went to a a speech. I gave a speech in central Michigan, like, if Michigan is your hand, right, if Michigan is a is a mitten or a glove, right in the dead center of the palm. I gave a speech right there. I think it was Hanna Stoga and it was very red. I mean in terms of politics. People there were great, great Americans,

love the outdoors, love this country, and staunch conservatives. So I know, Michigan, it's like all these states, folks. You get into some of the cities, you think, Wow, everybody's a liberal, and then you get out into the into the country side, out in some of the outer lying suburbs, You're like, Wow, everybody's a conservative. I guess it's all gonna be okay. Alice writes, calling liberals leftist properly implies

they are in ism like socialism and communism. God bless you well, Alice, thank you, and uh, I appreciate your analysis here. Pete writes, really great show, buck, glad you showed up here in Naples, Florida on Fox News Radio this year. You're insightful commentary and the way you think before you speak or so refreshing. You're a bright star in a world full of deranged libs. Thanks and shields high from Pete. Pete, Well, thank you. Uh, look, I appreciate any any advice and and uh, what's the word

I'm looking for, encouragement. I appreciate any appreciation. Now any encouragement is is really great, so and it really means a lot to me. So thank you. Very much for that. Um, what do we have here, Marcus? Right? Uh? Mud is a poor man film. Mud is a poor man's not sec replacement for Buck sex did He's just been yelling on TV al Pacino Style for twelve months. Sad Well, Marcus, I can't say I disagree with you, So thank you very much for writing in Michael buck original red Eye

fan here. I heard someone gave you negative feedback on your impressions on Monday's roll Call. I love the impressions, especially Hillary Warren Wilhelm and Angela Merkele. I usually laugh out loud when you surprise us with them. Don't stop shields high, Michael, Well, thank you, Michael, team Team Buck, is you know lifting me up today? I gotta tell you I've actually it's one of these days where I just I've had kind of a rough day. So it's nice to hear from all of you. Makes the day

a whole lot better. Um, and thank you for all that. You are all much much appreciated, as you know, very much appreciated, And I'm glad you like the impressions. And hello, so does Hillary. So does Hillary, as does kys of Philhem. Hello, Yah, I really I want to open up like a little German sweet shop, just so I can stand there at the counter and say like, hello, everyone, would you like to try my Berlina Monica Rights. Hey, Buck, I had

an epiphany of what the left wants. They want everything to be completely free by taking all of everyone's money, and then they decide who gets how much free stuff based on your support for their causes. Well, Monica, that's I think that's also called the way that they viewed taxes. So you you're definitely onto something. So there is that, Noel, She'll tie. You were talking about barbecue in Austin recently. As a resident of the area, I would like to

suggest the original Salt Lick Barbecue in Driftwood. It's delicious. Also, if you don't feel like traveling but it is worth it, try Smokey Mose Barbecue Perk pork Loin. They have several locations throughout the Austin area. Keep up the Austinate awesomeness, Noel, Well, thank you, Noell, And that sounds great, And yeah, Austin is is high on my list, like I said, of places I want to get to and also where I want to have some kind of a team. Buck meet up.

We can plan on that hopefully, uh in the near in the near issue future, Rebecca. Well, here we go, Buck. I have a college aged brother and sister and their spouses, and they're so indoctrinated into progressive ideology it makes me sick. Riddle me this. How could a person scream about the line corrupt government, especially the military one second, and then screw about how the government should regulate everything on the

market A direct quote, not a strong man? Uh? Yeah, Well, Rebecca, Remember, hypocrisy is, as I say, a defining characteristic of modern liberalism. So they have no problem with hypocrisy because they realize that it can be useful in the short term. When you're not worried about the erosion of principle, you're not bound by those principles. And that's something you always got to keep in mind when you're thinking about the liberal mindset here, Matt right, Buck, have you ever considered Raymond

Ibraheim as a guest? I read as al Qaeda reader several years ago. It was a translation of messages that al Qaida released in the media, then went along with their software tone videos released to the West. I'd like to hear more from him. And think your views on Islamism would be sympatico Shields High Matt, Matt, I would certainly consider. I don't know Raymond's work off hand, but if you say he's interesting, I'll have producer Mike check him out. Seem that's gonna be it for the Freedom

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