Trump Is Beating Desperate Dems

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for better fences and better security along our borders. Look, I voted numerous times when I was a Senator to spend money to build a barrier six hundred thirty miles of board offense that create a significant barrier to illegal immigration offense will stop twenty keyloads of cocaine coming through that fence. I'm deeply opposed to illegal immigration, and I call on the federal government, the President, in the Immigration services to stop the inflood of illegal immigrants into this country.

The Democrats, which I've been saying all along, they don't give a damn about grime. They don't care about grime. They don't care about gang members coming in and stabbing people and cutting people up. We're spending a fortune on trying to stop drugs and they pour in through the border. But I see it more now than ever before. Democrats don't care about the border and they don't care about prime.

Welcome to the Buck Sexton Show. I know it's Friday, and we're I promise we're gonna have some fun later on in the show and we're gonna loosen things up a bit, but we had to start there with just I mean, the Democrats are just lying their faces off, they really are. You know, walls don't work. What you had, you had Schumer, Hillary Obama all talking about barriers and fences, and that's the whole that's what this whole discussions about.

Now they're pretending like that that means it's nothing. And you know, there's one part of this that I haven't really drilled down into. As we're in the midst of this shutdown, and I know that federal employees are not going without a paycheck for the first time. The part of this is that it's not Yes, there's huge political implications of this for twenty twenty. Yes, it matters a lot that we tackle the crisis. It is a crisis

at the border, that we deal with this. But then there's also how how can we have any faith in discussions about politics and policy in this country If as Americans we can't even trust the other side to agree that a wall works, what can we trust them with If there's going to be this fundamentally false premise that is relied upon by so many millions and millions of people, and the power apparatus and the meeting the Democratic Party that all of a sudden, offense is not really offense.

You know, a chair is not really a chair. This is what our politics has devolved into. We were having these conversations full of sophistry and insanity, and it really just is because Democrats are driven by emotions and desire for power, and they don't care how foolish this whole thing sounds. I have people still that look at me and said, walls don't work. I look, this is such a dumb thing to say, and look at the way

that the tone the conversation has transformed. If you had said a year ago even or maybe three two, three years ago before Trump came into office. But you know, during the Obama administration, if somebody had said build a wall, and when Trump was running for president, someone said, you know, build a wall, it was oh, that's so done, and everyone clap. You know, yeah, that's right. That's such a

stupid thing to say. Now that we're thinking about it and spending time looking at the issue, talking to actual experts. By the way, I am going to the border next week. I will be at a wall next week. I will be at a border meeting with border patrol, going all over the place, doing a lot of on the ground reporting. So the show will continue, obviously, I'll be doing the show from the West coast next week, but we're starting Tuesday.

But I'm really looking forward to getting ground truth because these people are just lying to me all the time in the media. I know they're lying, but I'm just amazed at how brazen they are, you know, brazen they are about it. They just don't care, just like Trump said, they don't care about crime that they have. They have no real concerns about any of the stuff that's going on in the border. It's fine for them, it's fine. They pretend to care, but we know that they don't.

You just hear insanely stupid things on TV from people who whose job is to go on TV and sound smart insanely dumb things. Here's over at over at MSNBC. Here's I don't know who this is, Maria Hinojosah, don't know who this is, saying that nine to eleven told us something very important about walls. This might surprise you.

Plick clip five. You sound like you don't think the Democratic response was as robust as it could have been, because the problem with the Democratic response is they are continuing to play into this terrative of oh my god, border security. Border security, guys, I've been talking about this story for thirty years. For thirty years, there's been the neurosis about border security. The greatest terrorist attack in our

country did not happen because someone crossed that border. It happened in our city because they got off of planes. So there it begins to feel like the wheels are just spinning, spinning, spinning, talking about border security. That's just that's just a non sequitur. You know, this is this is bringing something in the conversation has nothing to do with anything. No one is saying that our son, our southern barriers would stop all terrorist attacks. Maybe it wouldn't

even stop any terrorist attacks. It doesn't matter. But there there is as you see it now, there's this desperation because there is a focus on the issue now we are talking about it. Trump has taken the message to the American people that there's all these different all there's this, and there's that. There's all these reasons that they pretend to exist for why you shouldn't do this, and you knock them down one by one. We already have barriers

and fences along hundreds of miles of our border. We already know that those barriers and fences have dramatically improved security at those parts of the border. We already know that there has been bipartisan legislation passed in the last decade or so to build an entire barrier system along our southern border. You know, we have border patrol agents at the very highest level, down to the rank and file, telling us this is what they want and it would

be helpful other countries. Israel among them, have built incredibly effective barrier systems that have dramatically improved their security. Schumer voted for twenty five billion dollars a year ago for border security. Now they're saying five billion is too much. One billion they're saying is too much. A dollar is too much. Just you this out and what are we What are they even talking about? They might as well be pushing around a shopping cart with with gibberish written

on cardboard. This is not even a real debate, that's not even a real argument. They just keep saying things. I'm hearing that baap, but no intellectual half, no seriousness behind it whatsoever. And I think that there's a desperation that is creeping up in their minds. Because even if they just hold the line on this and say sorry, not going to give you any money for it, I think that Trumps has changed minds. He's certainly changed the conversation on this one. And we've just seen that the

Democrats are the party of lawlessness and a broken border. Fine, we can't say open border because they want to process the illegals that come in and make sure that they get state benefits on Obamacare, So it's not a totally open border. They're going to slow people down before they give them taxpayer funded goodies. But it's a broken border, and they like it that way. They prefer the broken system. They do not want a fixed system that keeps people out.

Every country in the world enforces its borders, we somehow are not allowed to every other country says you come, you can't, you go, you stay. We're not allowed to do that. We're mean people. If we do that, we're bad people, all of us. Doesn't matter what's your skin color, what's your ethnicity, what's your religion, if you aren't in favor of perpetuating this broken system where we are being exploited.

The American people are being exploited by one political faction that knows that we are a goodhearted people that bring in a million legal immigrants every year, and we're happy for the legal immigrants who are coming into this country. We welcome into our family. But they use that good natured approach that the American people overwhelmingly share to push this issue on us and say it has to be

even more more people. Illegal people, people who come into the country, illegals who commit crimes, shouldn't even be deported deportation is breaking up families. I mean, it's just all this rhetoric and lies and smears and slime. Ough Pelosi and Schumer and the whole Democrat gang. They are gross. And I'm happy that if nothing else that has been exposed for anyone with their with their eyes open, we've

seen what's really what's really happening here. And now that all said, the Trump Trump understands that this is rough on on some federal employees. And I know a lot of people live paycheck to paycheck. I I lived paycheck to paycheck. I know what that's like. Not fun. But this is Trump's message for those federal employees play twenty oh, we don't have it well, He says, many many federal

employees agree with what we're doing. They don't want to see people killed because we can't do a simple border structure. Everyone will be paid, we have no choice. That's what the President said, and that's an important thing for him to say. I understand that people that work for the federal government have this idea that you know, they will be they have employment forever. I mean that was kind of the sense when I was there too, and that there'll always be that paycheck, and that's one of the

advantages of working for the federal government. But Trump is saying, Look, even those people that are suffering hardship, and the hardship is real who work for the federal government, understand that this is a critical issue. We have to get control of this. There are literally lives hanging in the balance, and they are going to be paid. They will be I don't think anyone has any doubt there will be paid. So people keeps saying to be shown to show up

for work and not be paid. I've had lots of times in my life where I wasn't, you know, paid on time, or I didn't get the check when I was told I was going to get the check. As long as you get it in a reasonable time frame, you kind of just move on with your life, right. I've had plenty of times where I've had to, you know, cha chase down one employer or another for money that I was out. I mean, this is not unheard of for any of us. They will be paid, So I

think that's also an important part of this. That's something that we shouldn't allow to get way, you know, get all out of control with the media narrative about this, and ultimately I think that Trump is is doing pretty good, pretty a pretty good job of making this case. He's just Democratic representative from Minnesota discussing where his district is on the wall. This might surprise him, he played play clip nine. They are concerned about the trade situation, but

from what I can tell, they're still hanging with the president. Today, we got sixty seven calls for building the wall and five agains. So challenge to me, like, he's still pretty popular. And yet I hear from lib journals all the time, America overwhelming we disagrees with the world doesn't want a wall. Based on what one thing that you see the left do a lot and the journalists of the left, which you know is one of the same. One thing that they they do with great frequency, is this appeal to

imaginary experts. Right, Oh, I have some super secret geniuses or some incredible data that I'm just going to refer to and hope that you don't call me out on it because it doesn't really exist. You know, all the studies say, all the polls say, experts, I love this one in the border. Experts say walls don't work. That's not true. I hear it all the time. People say

it on TV all the time. It's not true. There are I have yet to meet an actual expert on border security who says that a barrier does not work because they know that they would be clowned if they said it, because I would have then border patrol from San Diego sector, who I'm gonna go see you next week. They'd say, no. This has helped us tremendously. Here are the stats to prove it. It's no question. It's no question they're lying to you, and they're lying for a reason.

So I just wanted to dig into some of this. And we'll have some of our friends joining us on the show today that you'll be familiar with them. Sure, Jesse Kelly. Maybe Jesse Kelly. He's only seven foot three, so he's got that going for him, which is nice. And then we also have I think Benny Johnson from The Daily Caller might join us for some fun that we got an expert from the Center Frommigration Studies who's gonna be calling in. It's gonna be just a good

solid Freedom Haught Friday extravaganzas. So strap in team, we'll be right back. Congress should do this if they can't do it. I will declare a national emergency. I have the absolute right to do it. It says as clear as you can now what will happen. I'll be sued, it will be brought to the Ninth Circuit, and maybe even though the wording is unambiguous, just like with the travel ban, it'll be appealed to the Ninth Circuit and we'll probably lose their two and then hopefully we'll win

in the Supreme Court. They'll always bring it to the Ninth Circuit, and then you never know what's going to come out of the Ninth Circuit, and you never know what's going to come out on appeal. But fortunately we have a Supreme Court that's treated us very fairly. We have a country that is under siege. You could actually, you know a lot of people don't like the word invasion. If we have a country that's being invaded by criminals

and by drug and we're going to stop it. So I want the Democrats to come back to Washington and vote. Thank you very much. Strong messaging from the President. He's right, and he knows it, and he's also right about how this is going to go down. If he does declare a national emergency. They will excuse me, they will find some way to pretend that that's, you know, beyond his authority.

You know, there's the truth is that the Democrat approached the law is to just question what every word in every statute means as a form of lawfare, right, so that they can read the statute the statue. You can say the president may, in his authority, declare a state of emergency, and they will say, well, what is a state? What is an emergency? What is a president? I mean, this is this is nonsense, but unfortunately it works because

they don't operate in good faith on these issues. It was very clear that the president had the right to institute what became known as the travel ban. It was very obvious that the president, under his executi authority could do this, but a lot of judges pretended that he couldn't just because they didn't like it. Don't like don't like not legal. That's the way they approach it. Do I have some concerns about a national emergency? What? Absolutely?

I have concerns because Democrats are nuts. Democrats are wackos. Now, they don't operate in the same universe that many of the rest of us, Do they really, Yes, there will be a national emergency on climate change, a national emergency on you know, they're going to go from the war on all these things, you know, the war on poverty, the war on guns or gun violence, you know, to a national emergency for all these things. And that's going to be a future that well, you know the problemly see,

here's the thing. I'm actually just catching myself and thinking about this. We're thinking to ourselves, oh, well, if Trump does it, then the president will be said me, want to look what Obama did. He shredded the constitution and overreaches an executive many times on massive policy issues, rewrote Obamacare in real time, and they did all kinds of stuff. So it's not like if Trump doesn't declare national emergency, they won't don't do it anyway. So I'm starting to think,

you know what, declare that national emergency. Man, go for it. Let's do this. Let's win on this one. Let's get a win. How about that. I agree with the president. He's doing this thing. Right, we come back, I'll talk to you about my latest making fun of CNN moment that's coming up. And as a sign of the times, in this debate on the shutdown. CNN asked if Kusi would provide a reporter to offer our local view of the debate, especially to learn if the wall works in

San Diego. Kusi offered our own damn plan, who's reported many times that the wall is not an issue here. In fact, most IS officials believe it is. Effective. Issue we face is the migrants and the debate over their treatments. Now knowing this, CNN declined to have us on their programs, which often present the wall as not required in other places, like the stretch of the Texas Sport of the president visit earlier today. They didn't like what they heard from us.

It's just some background for you. Oh look at that, folks. You mean you mean to tell me hold on a second, you mean that. CNN reached out to a local news station that covers the San Diego border and border wall all the time, and when they found out that, you know, they wanted to have somebody to talk to me about this. And when they found out that this is a local news station, it's not some not a Fox affiliate or

anything else. When they found out this local news station says things like the wall works, all of a sudden, CNN's like, yeah, I don't want to be a part of this. They had no interest in them anymore, no interest at all. I know this is not any kind of surprise to you, right, we all know that CNN is perpetuating a giant and continuing journalistic fraud by pretending that they don't have any kind of opinions and they're not pushing an agenda. I mean, that's it's laughable, right,

it's it's it's dumb. But I just like it when when we finally get to hear it from fellow from some fellow journalists who have nothing, no dog in this fight other than just hey, you know, kind of interesting. CNN disappeared on us after we agreed to help them and provide insight to them. But they don't they don't want to hear it, you know, they don't want to hear it. And uh, that's that's really where where the

conversation has gone. Now. People are on the left retreating into these little intellectual bunkers where they can have the usual suspects, you know, making fun of conservatives, saying that the wall is unnecessary, just just feeding them the stuff that they want to hear. Not the stuff that's true. The stuff that's true doesn't really matter to them. The stuff that's true somehow gets you know, gets swept aside, and all of this. They just want to be told

what they want to be told. And that's what you see with CNN. You see this happening in a whole bunch of places right now. Speaking of seeing, and also you know, they were trying to have a debate last night with Steve Cortez, who I've actually done some hits with it Fox. I've also worked with Anna Vara over there. I think she's the worst public policy analyst and talking head on television, and that's that's saying a lot, but I think she may actually be the single worst one,

the least insightful, the least intellectual. She's nasty, she's snide, she's she's honestly a not a nice person from my interactions with her, and not good at her job. But CNN loves her because she plays this character on TV for them, and and they and their audience thinks that she's you know, feisty and brilliant or I don't know

what they think because they're idiots. But she while Steve Cortez is trying to talk to her about the about angel families and about the losses that have happened because the government, our government has failed in its duty to secure the borders. It's meant that people have died because of illegal aliens that have you know, drunk driving, criminally negligent homicide, emist, their teen murders, all kinds of stuff that's going on here. And this is this is how

this exchange went play six. Even if that's fake, it's fake, it's fake newss. Okay, say that it's equal to the real data. It's not bs. But even if I were to even if I were to grant you that, Okay, the point is, the illegal aliens crime rate should be zero. It should be you can do your nails. You know who can't do their nails are people who've been killed Anna by dangerous, known illegal aliens who've been allowed to stay in this country because of the leftist policies that

people like you promote. Steve Cortez is pretty pretty competent pundit. I gotta say I think Steve does a good job. I don't. I got no beef with Steve at all. A nice guy does a good job. You know, he's he's a conservative, and he's over at CNN, so he's just taken all kinds of all kinds of nonsense all the time. I know what that's like. But Anna Navarro, you didn't even really hear her there. She kind of just sighed. She started fighting. He's talking about people dying

from illegal immigrants. Anna Navar starts filing her nails on TV, which is I would note so disrespectful. If I did something like that to Na Navarro. Oh my gosh, they would say it's racist. They would say, you know, all these other things. But they make they make all these all these these special rules up for their preferred libs on TV. They can act like they can act in such a rude fashion and act in such a nasty way and never face the conquence because CNN's a joke.

It's a joke. They should just be honest about what they are now. I mean, you know, they still are coasting on this this brand of the real place for TV journalism. But it's no it's no longer a truth. If it ever was a truth, which I would argue it was never true. It's just gotten a lot less

true now. But they've been so harmful in this discussion about the border and what's really going on there and what the truth is of border security measures that Trump is trying is trying to push and and they're they're so nasty about it all too. That's why I like, when I don't know how many I know a lot of you aren't on Twitter, but there's this meme with Jim Acosta whatever, Jim Acosta starts making stories about himself, which is all that guy does. I mean, he's really

a buffoon. He doesn't he doesn't seem very smart at all. Uh. Whenever he does, though, people will tweet dear diary at him, dear diary, and then then whatever Jim Acosta is thinking is the whole point is that it's another they'll respond to Jim Acosta, so it's like a dear it's like a diar re entry from him. President Trump did that

to him on Twitter yesterday. I mean, it's amazing, it's amazing, and from what I understand Acosta today, I read Acost today said, you know, thank you, sarcastically to the President for doing that. But I'm glad we have a president who calls them out for this this stuff. I'm glad we were a president who doesn't just justesn't just sit back and let the media run around and act like a bunch of spoiled brats all the time, because that's what they are. And somebody should finally tell you, know,

you notice for a while, we haven't heard. Oh, the Trump is beating up so much on the media and he's making it dangerous for us. It's not dangerous for the media. It's just stupid. That's always that's always been a cry baby point. Yeah, any job can be dangerous. Maniacts and come after you at any job, manis and come after you because they're just get obsessed with you when you walk out your front door. You know, you never know. But the media loves loves to run around

and act like they're just so brave. I want to talk to you about how the Democrats are engaging in Democrats in the Senate, for example, engaging in anti Catholic bigotry that ties right into the looming battle of the

Supreme Court. It's important story that's coming up. The Democratic Party has a problem with traditional believing Christians, There's no question about it, okay, And I know that a lot of people would say oh buck, But what about this, you know, social justice pastor here, or what about this. I'm not saying that all of them do, but there's clearly an issue. If you are a rabid anti Christian atheist, chances are you're a Democrat, not always, but generally speaking.

And if you're going to look for government policy that tramples on religious freedom, whether it's suing the Little Sisters of the poor, or forcing people to take down a cross that was put along the side of a highway to commemorate somebody getting killed there, or you know, any number of things, it comes from the left. The left is where hostility to Christian and traditional Jewish faith comes from.

Not to know Islamic faith, no Islamic faith. They have no hostility at all, and they have no problem with it. Which is a whole other discussion that ties into intersectionality and identity politics and the way that the left views Islam is a non white religion and therefore it's inherently in a religion of the oppressed, even though it's the second largest religion in the world and it's the majority religion in Gosh, I don't even forty fifty countries. Something

like that. Maybe sixty countries. So that's that's just a bit of a underlying premise that I wanted to put out there before I get into this story, because you know, things are going to get as soon as we find out that Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and I really do believe it if she Heaven forbid, if something happens to her, but she is still you know, she could be incapacitated in some way, and the Libs will say that she's still, you know, sitting on the Supreme Court, and that's that.

It does not matter. They are absolutely all in on Ruth Bader Ginsburg until there's a new president. They don't care what they don't care what they have to do, but they're also preparing for the fight that they might not be able to stop from happening, which would occur if there is a vacancy that opens up. But maybe it's not Ruth Bader Ginsberg. Maybe it's another vacancy, Maybe another Supreme Court justice gets gets tired, wants to go

fly fish. Who knows, but Kamala Harris, who is now I think considered by a lot of insider types at least the front runner for the Democrat twenty twenty nomination.

The front runner status is going to change hundreds of times between now and the actual primary, but she has shown us a side of her that is indicative of where the Democrats are many on many issues that deal with Catholics who believe in Catholic doctrine, and I will not get into a long, a long discussion right now about I don't know how Catholics vote for Nancy Pelosi.

I don't know how Catholics vote for Joe Biden. I don't understand if you really believe, you know, if you're somebody who believes, and if you're a Catholic and you believe in Church doctrine and you believe in the dogma, then you would have to be pro life. You would have to be for traditional marriages between a man and a woman. And so I don't know how people who think those things believe those things and think that they're

moral issues of especially on the life issue. The marriage issue I think is as fuzzier for a lot of people. But on the issue of life, I don't know how that doesn't. I don't I really mean that, I don't know what these A lot of these Catholics that I know are thinking and you get these Catholics that are all about open borders and social justice, and I'm like, wait, what what's going on here? You're going to support the

party that is for all kinds of just outright immorality. Anyway, Kamala Harris posed a series of questions recently to Brian Boucher, who is President Trump's nominee for the District Court in Nebraska. Here's her third question. Since nineteen ninety three, you have been a member of the Knights of Columbus, an all

male society comprised primarily of Catholic men. In twenty sixteen, Carl Anderson, leader of the Knights of Columbus, described abortion as a legal regime that has resulted in more than forty million deaths. Mister Anderson went on to said abortion is the killing of the innocent on a massive scale. Were you aware that the Knights of Columbus opposed a woman's right to choose when you joined the organization? Harris

wasn't finished there. She followed up with quote, were you aware that the Knights of Columbus opposed marriage equality when you joined the organization? And have you in any way ever assisted with or contributed to advocacy against women's reproductive rights. This is bigotry, by the way, This is anti Catholic bigotry that is on display. And Democrats do this all

the time. They did this with what was her name, Feinstein saying the dogma lives strongly within you to to a nominee not that long ago, who was a Catholic. And what you see here is, first of all, I mean the hostility to the Knights of Columbus. The Knights of Columbus is a is the largest fraternal Catholic organization

I think that there is. It's got two million members, was founded by a priest in Connecticut, I believe memory serves back in eighteen eighty one a parish meeting and that was an eighteen toy one announced an organization of two million people that believes in charity, patriotism and faith. And now your membership in the Knights of Columbus is a point of not just inquiry, but a point of

attack for Democrats. And that Kamala Harris thinks that she can get away with this, and she can, by the way, because people will excuse it, and they they they have no problem creating a religious test for federal judges for Supreme Court nominees, because that's how devoted they are to continuing what she called to women's right to choose, which is the right to an abortion, which is to kill

a baby. And that's I would note what you're going to see come up if there's if there's a seat that opens for Ruth Bader Ginsburg or any other liberal on the Court, the most likely candidate still is Amy Coney Barrett. That could change, but it'll be Amy Coney Barrett, who is a female Catholic and a devout Catholic with many, many children. And the ugliness that you're going to see is all about a woman's quote right to choose, essentially a legalized regime for abortion. That's what it is. We

should call it what it is. And being a Catholic, Democrats will be willing to do this. Being a Catholic, they will say, who is a believing Catholic? Not a kind of Christmas in Easter or wishywashy Catholic. A believing Catholic will be a disqualifying a disqualifying condition for an open Supreme Court. Sea think about if they applied that

logic too, and they already do this. They already gang up on Catholics who are going to be judges in general, But think about what they did that to any other religion. Can you imagine asking any questions of a Jewish or Muslim jurist based upon the tenets of the faith and essentially say you can't be trusted to be a real judge whose impartial applies the law because of your faith tradition.

Can you imagine the backlash would be to that. How understandably upset people would be in response to that, But not with Catholics, not with Catholics, and no, I would not with any Christian denomination in this country. Oh, Catholics get it particularly believing Catholics get it particularly rough from

the left. And I would just note that there's a little bit of irony here as well, because when Michael McGivney, who was the Catholic priest who founded what became the Knights of Columbus named for Christopher Columbus by the way back in Connecticut, it was because Catholic were being discriminated against. We don't often talk about this in this country anymore, but you know, the ku Klux Klan hated Catholics. That's what one of the K's supposed to stand for. They

didn't like Catholics. The American society more generally was very discriminatory against Catholics, especially around the turn of the twentieth century. So you know, it was a big deal when JFK became the first Catholic president. This there's some stuff here, there's some stuff here, and there's a little bit of discrimination coming back into this in a way that I

think it's going to get blown into the open. If you have that open Supreme Court seat, being a Catholic who is a believing Catholic will be used as a disqualifier, a litmus test for the Supreme Court. That's that's what the Libs, the left, we'll be willing to do. It's disgusting. But as we know from the Kavanaugh hearings, they have no principles, They have no honor or integrity to protect. They just want to protect power, and they think that

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can see for yourself. Go TOMGVN dot com again. The website is MYGVN dot com or call eight seven seven six nine five one one seven nine for Global Verification Network. Make sure you tell them Bucksex and sent you leave no stone unturned. We continue to see an influx of people who, as you describe these humanitarians got yesterday, we

had four hundred and fifty AFPREHIDIS president yesterday alone. You have two hundred and four and fifty out of that one hundred and thirty s three from countries other than the Central American countries. In Mexico, India, we apprehended some Pakis and agreed some folks from romanias on and on.

How many pakistan Asias too? Yesterday, just yesterday down at the Rio Grand section of the border with President visiting the Collin Texas, you heard there from a border patrol agent that you had not just four hundred and fifty apprehensions in that one sector that one day, some from India, Pakistan and Romania. What is going on the border and how big of a crisis is this really? We have Art Arthur joining us now. He is a resident fellow

in law and Policy at the Center for Immigration Studies. Art, thanks so much, Thank you for having me. Buck. All right, so, how how would you gauge the situation right now at the border? You know, what is the truth of how this is or is not a crisis? Oh, it's it's a huge crisis right now. About sixty one percent of all the migrants who are being apprehended along that border

or family units who are unaccompanied alien children. This is an astounding number that keeps going up month by month, particularly compared to the early days of the Trump administration when I was a trial attorney with the ISS. When I started out as an immigration judge back in two thousand and six, most of the aliens we saw crossing

over that border were single adult males from Mexico. Now we're almost you know again, the majority of the people that we're seeing are families with children from Central America, particularly from three Central American countries, El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala. But as the clip indicated, we're also seeing people from other countries including Pakistan, Romania, all over the world that have taken advantage of our lacks border policies to come

to the United States. So it's a crisis, and how do we how should we handle this crisis? I mean, if you were to give me, yes, the wall is the center of the policy fight right now. But if we really wanted what could be considered a secure border doesn't mean perfect, it doesn't mean that there can't be a cartel tunnel somewhere, and you know that that people

aren't going to get through here and there. But if we wanted something that I think there could be agreement deserves to be called secure, what do we what do we have to do? Are how do we fix it. The most important thing that we can do is to close the loopholes that are being exploited by the smugglers and by those aliens who are coming to the border right now. In a twenty one year old settlement agreement that was reached by the Clinton administration, people are children

are released after twenty days. This is the Flores Degree Right's Flores Right Flores settlement agreement. It doesn't matter whether they come with their parents or without their parents. And the fact is that the Trump administration as a policy of not separating families. So if the children get released, the adults get released. And that's why we're getting sixty one percent of the people showing up at the border being family units and kids because they know that they're

going to get released. So the status right now, and I think that there's a lot of a lot of people are reporting on what they want to report on here and not necessarily what's really going on. The status right now is if you show up from any foreign country, if you show up at a southern border with somebody who is a minor, what do you have to do to get into the country? And I mean, who's being turned away in that situation. Is anyone being turned away

in that situation right away? Well, what's supposed to happen is that they're supposed to be processed for expedited removal. And as that sounds, they don't appear before an immigration judge and immigration officer makes the determination, we get them travel documents, and we send them back home. That's how it's supposed to work. But if you claim credible fear, then you get to have an interview with an asylum officer.

And about eighty nine percent of all aliens who are interviewed by asylum officers are found to have a credible fear. It's very low standards, lower than the standard for asylum well founded fear of persecution. And so consequently eighty nine percent of all the people who claim credible fear are admitted to the United States, so that can apply for

asylum before an immigration judge. But at the end of the day, nationals of those three countries El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala last year in FY two and eighteen, nine percent of those asylum claims were actually granted. So eighty nine percent we're found to have credible fear, nine percent got asylum. That's a huge disconnect that is allowing these folks into the United States. And again, these tearings can take up

to eight years to be done. We do we have good numbers are on what So what you just told me is that of the people who claim credible fear, only nine percent, so basically one in ten are actually given asylum in this country. But what about the ninety percent, I mean they're supposed to be removed. Do we know how many are actually being removed? Very few, exceptionally less than ten percent of being removed annually. And we have about we have more than nine hundred thousand alien absconders

in the United States. And but those are people who have already had their due process, have had their day in court, have been given the opportunity to make an application before an immigration judge, have been ordered removed, but who remained in the United States. So that's about ten percent of the illegal alien population in this country. A

little bit less, but still it's a huge number. What can you tell us about about research that you've done on barriers and what we should know about the sectors of our southern border that do in fact have fencing barriers walls, whatever, whatever the specifics may be. Well, again, I don't want to show my age, but a bit around immigration for a long time, and you know, I've seen the various operations that we've done. Operation Hold the Line in El Paso, they put up a wall. Uh,

the number of illegal entrance, you know, dropped dramatically. Operation Gatekeeper, we put up a wall in San Diego and the numbers dropped dramatically. Yuma, Arizona, we put up a wall, the numbers dropped dramatically. These things work. The walls work where we have them, and what they do is they actually push attempted migrants, are attempted illegal migrants into more remote areas where it's more difficult to cross. The harder we make it for those folks across, the fewer people

logically who would be attempting to cross. But you know, these these these laws, including Flores and the Credible Fear Standard Act, like the like the Witch's House and Handling Gretel. You know, they're they're an attractive nuisance that draw people

to those dangerous parts of the border. And unfortunately that's why we saw two children die last month because the parents are attempting to make entry through you know, desolate, remote areas, rather than simply going to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in their own country and making their refugee claims there, which is what they should be doing,

more alternatively, applying for asylum in Mexico. Mexico's an asylum granting country and actually has more lenient asylum laws than we do in the United States. The fact that these people are not doing that suggests that their economic migrants and not actually refugees fleeing persecution. There has been some reporting we're speaking of Art Arthur everybody. He's a resident fellow in law and policy at the Center for Immigration Studies.

It's been some reporting that another caravan convoy whatever we call it, is gathering in Honduras to make its way all the way up to the US Mexico border. And at least this time around, I think we won't be told, oh, it will never get there. They'll they'll it'll just dissipate because people have realized that there there are buses and trains and ways to move faster than just on foot.

What what happens right now under US policy, if we get let's say, another thousand migrants from Honduras show up at our border, they just get to claim incredible fear and be led into the United States. Is that how

it goes, That's correct. That's why the president's policy of you know, not allowing individuals who enter the United States illegally to claim asylum to get them to the ports of entry Mexico is indicated that they'll take care of them while they're in Mexico so that they can be processed in an orderly fashion at the ports of entry, rather than you know, attempting to enter through the bootheel of New Mexico, which is the most desolate place I've ever been to, and you know, run the risk of

them or their children dying. It's also important to note the dangers that opposed by the smugglers about I think it's something like thirty one percent of all female migrants who make that journey or sexually assaulted. Two thirds of the migrants in total are assaulted in one way or the other subject to some sort of violence. So this is amazingly dangerous process by which these people enter the

United States. And again, the humanitarian thing to do is to process them in the first country that they come to Mexico or alternatively, have them go to the un HCR in their own country to make their refugee claims and they can be processed through there. Or do you think that the president declaring an emergency is the right I mean, you're a fellow in law and policy. Do you think that this is the right move if, in fact, the Democrats don't give him a single dollar for additional

barrier construction, which seems to be the direction this is heading. Well, Miss Pelosi said that she would give one dollar, so I mean, okay, a fair point. I don't think that's going to be enough to do a whole lot of good, But declaring a national emergency in response to a humanitarian crisis probably would be something that would be appropriate. It's something that the president has the authority to do, but I think that that's something that he's actually going to

be rather reluctant to do. One of the reasons why, amongst the reasons why the Obama administration was criticized as because they did too much through administrative action. They granted amnesty temporary anest CE albeit to you know, six hundred and ninety thousand Dreamers, they continued temporary protected status for you know, dozens of years for you know, nationals of countries who had long since moved past the crises that

prompted those declarations to begin with. So again, the president, you know, campaigned against things that President Obama did, which was seizing too much power. I think the President's going to be very reluctant to use that power himself, but he may have to yet, Art Arthur, everybody from the Center for Immigration Studies CIS dot org if you want to see their latest research and art. We always appreciate you making the time. Thank you, Buck, I greatly appreciate

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Here's the truth, brothers and sisters. There's plenty of money in the world. There's plenty of money in this city. It's just in the wrong hands. That is some pretty radical rhetoric coming from the mayor of the largest city in the United States. That's uh, de Blasio really starting to unleash that that that progressive, that really that Marxist, you know, I mean de Blasio. I think he was the one who went and hung out with the Sandinista's

a Nicaragua of memory serves. I mean he really is, or he went down to Cuba to hang out with you know, he's one of these guys who like to do a little bit of commi tourism back in the day. You know. De Blasio is somebody who you know went to Ye. You know, he's he's checked all the boxes for the liberal elite and yet pretends to be at his core what it's actually a Marxist rabble rouser. But think about that. There's plenty of wealth in this city. It's just in the wrong hands, in the wrong hands.

This is not oh, we need to have a more robust social safety net. This is not you know, our city is doing great, let's improve public services, you know, the usual rhetoric you hear from Democrats and Republicans. This is something else, and it's coming from a guy who we've started to see now getting more attentional the national

stage for pushing policies that are are flatly socialists. I mean are just openly state confiscation of resources to give resources to other people on the basis of because we say so, and telling businesses that they have to transfer more of their resources more of their money to either employees or to unions or whatever it may be. But I think that you're going to hear more of this now. I think that the Progressives can't help themselves. I don't think that they are going to run Joe Biden for

twenty twenty. I think that the anger that has festered within the Democratic Party in the Trump era, and a lot of the anger also at the Hillary establishment of the Democratic Party, because remember, Hillary was supposed to the biggest selling point for Hillary to the hard left, which didn't win over all the Bernie Sanders people, to be sure, but but the biggest selling point that they had was

that Hillary was going to win. She was somebody you were supposed to vote for because she was going to win. But now what we see is something quite different on the left that they know that obviously Hillary didn't win, and for all the Russia collusion talking everything else, that's never it's never gonna change. Okay, there's no redo for the election, and you know, Hillary's out of the picture.

I finally now believe that she's done. What what happened was, I mean, I've I've come to accept that for whatever reason, Hillary knows that it's all over um. That could change, but I think there's such a crowded field of of Democrats they're going to try to muscle in and be the standard bearer for the party. There's just no way.

But you're gonna you know, the the the rhetoric and the attitudes of the progressive left that have been you know, shown to us in the Kavanaugh hearing, shown to us in you know, these by these Antifa groups and these uh harassment outfits that show up and yell at people at restaurants and and and are really aggressive and crazy. That that means that you're going to have increasingly radical

rhetoric use for by national level Democrat politicians. I really think that's going to happen now, especially heading into the election, because these people, you know, the ones who are are from the Olynski Hite school of Democrat community organizing, agitation activism, which is most of the of the Democrats that you can think of it, or at least whether they've studied Olynsky, they at least they at least deploy a similar rhetoric

and mirror many of the Olynsky tactics. They also realize that you know, much of your your success as a radical comes in understanding when the time is right, you have to you know, you have to strike when the iron is hot. You have to hit when you have your opening. And I believe that the progressives thing that they they have an opening right now when we've gotten a little bit as a country, a little fat and happy. You know, we've we've had this this big bullmarket for

a long time. We've had a lot of prosperity. It's been you know, and it has not been equally shared. But overall, if you look at it, I mean, you'd the true thing is people want to hear this. You would be in terms of your day to day life. You'd rather be middle class today than you would in nineteen fifty. No one who wants to hear that. But

it's true on a material prosperity level. I'm not saying, you know, spiritual and social level, but in terms of what you've got access to now whereas what you would access to them. We are we are all personally wealthy or overwhelmingly in this country than we would have been sixty years ago. But Deblasio saying the money's in the wrong hands, you know, this is this is otherising those who are doing well in a way that that can lead to some very ugly policies, and those ugly policies

can lead to some really difficult and dangerous times. So I'll just know what I mean. That really struck me. You know that the rich are exploiting you, that it's not really their money, it should be your money. This isn't what you would think that you'd hear from the mayor of the biggest city in the country. This is the stuff that you'd hear from some street corner rabble rouser activist type. But remember, we had a street activist in the Olenski I mold from Chicago who was president

for eight years. I wanted to fundamentally transform the country. We're gonna have another one who thinks he's gonna complete Obama's work. Just wait and see. That's what they're going to put up for the twenty twenty election. AI will increasingly replace repetitive jobs, not just for blue color work, but a lot of the white color work. A lot of things will become automated, will have automated stores, automated restaurants, and all together in fifteen years fast going to displace

about forty percent of jobs in the world. Forty percent of jobs in the world might might go away. Now this is I think the single most important social and economic issue that we're going to have to face of the next fifty years, honestly, and I'm the first to admit that no one can predict the future. So who knows. We could have some strain of flu that goes crazy and kill sixty million people, which is what happened. I think forty million were killed by Spanish influenza back in

the early twentieth century flu season. I got told by a guy who's senior at CDC on Rising or was it CDC or is one of those places. He's like, get your flu shot buck. I said, all right, all right, I'll get it. But back the issue at a hand.

Here this is a venture capitalist and artificial intelligence pioneer named Kai Fu Lee who is saying what many other top minds in technology and in venture capital, and essentially some of the highest performing entrepreneurs out there are saying about all this, and that is that they think that we are heading into a period where there's just going

to be massive disruptions to labor. And you know, people in the past have said that this was going to be a problem and they were wrong, right that there's there's definitely a tradition of exaggeration around oh all these all the jobs are going to go away? What's going to happen this? This brings me to I think I've even at a previous time done a history on the show of the Luddite movement and it had to do

with automated looms for weavers in the UK. And it was this apocryphal character known as ned Lud who is you know, Gonna, who was supposed to have been the the originator of this notion that we should they should

destroy the looms. But you know, there is something very different now about the kind of technological leaps that we are talking about and what it's going to mean for people to do labor, meaning to do especially if you're doing a physical task, right, if you're doing a physical task, how is that going to continue on when machinery is going to do this? And this is what brings up this conversation about And there's so many facets to this, and it's one of it's going to be a continuing

theme here on the show. We're going to talk about automation and not just job losses, but the way it's going to reconstruct many societies and the way it's going to change how we how we interact with each other, and what it means for wealth generation, the wealth gap that is a very real problem in many societies. I think it's going to become a bigger problem even in our society. It'll lead to social disruption and perhaps even revolutions in some places. I mean, this is really really

serious stuff. But that's why I want to continue to look at this because it also goes to some of what Tucker Carlson's monologue that went viral and has gotten so much attention goes to, which is, you know, people start talking about a massive welfare state and universal basic income and these ideas where work will be if not devalued. But I think you could argue it will be devalued, but work also will become for more people consider to be extraneous, and that the state will just have an

obligation to provide for people. And because we'll be living at a time of so much technology and abundance and and relative comfort, there will be this sense that maybe people don't have to work, and and you know this this then reminds me of a story that I was told back in when I was in the when I was at Saint David's, which was a Catholic school. I

went to New York City. We had this one uh teacher who and I don't remember the para bowl or the details of it, but he told the story about how this guy was in what he thought was heaven and all and he could he any food he wanted would appear, any place he wanted to be, he could be. He knew he had died, but any you know, any woman whose company he wanted would appear, and it sounds like heaven. Sounds like heaven. And then he would ask the person who was granting all these wishes, you know,

all I want is is work. I want I want to I want to build something, I want to do something, I want to challenge, I want to task. He said, oh, no, you can't have that. And he said, then the story wasn't like he was telling sort of little kids with

The story was, no, you're actually in hell. You're in hell, and your hell is that you have to only have those things that you thought you wanted so badly in life, and those things that you were willing to sacrifice for and give up your dignity and your honor and be a moral trying to achieve. And now you have that for eternity. And what you can have is to build, to construct, to create, to be additive, right to challenge yourself.

And now look it's it's a little bit of a simplistic story, but you get the idea Jordan Peterson does. He has a better You know, Jordan Peterson is now the intellectual dark dark Web guy used to come on this show way back that I had Jordan Peterson on this show in twenty seventeen when he was getting known as the Canadian professor who wouldn't use the wrong pronoun for people just base on what they wanted. And and I'm just saying, you know, we're kind of trend setters

here in the freedom of those listen to the show. No, you know, we had Jordan Peterson on before anybody. I had Candice Owen on this show before anybody knew who she was. You know, I'm just saying people have said, oh, you're gonna have red Pill Black on that was what her site was, or her YouTube channel's called. So I'm

I'm just saying we're trendsetters there. But Jordan Peterson tells this, or rather writes, oh no, I actually I can't remember if I read what he wrote or if I heard him in a speech, but he tells this story where you know, you think, when you're working and engaging your day to life, heaven is being on a beautiful beach, drinking margaritas without a care in the world. And he says, you know, really play that out, play that out in your mind. How does that go? Okay? If I could

make that happen for you. Now, now you're on a beach, it's the most gorgeous beach in the world, and you don't even you don't have to worry about money. They're just gonna let you stay on that beach. You're staying in a beautiful hotel. They're bringing you margaritas every day.

He's like, Okay, maybe for two weeks it's paradise. Maybe six weeks it's it's paradise, says But you get a couple of months into this, you realize you're not doing anything, you're not productive, you're probably getting fat from just drinking margaritas by other deligious but they're terrible for you. You're you're getting soft, and you're going to feel a lack of purpose at some point, and you're gonna want to

do something with yourself. You have to get up and want to do something, whether it's taking care of your family or going to an office or a job or a work site or whatever it may be. People need a purpose, and you can get purpose in all kinds of things. You're you know, the way that you interact with your fellow human beings. Are you kind? Are you helpful? Are you? Are you decent to them? But for a lot of people, especially you asking us, especially for men

in the male psyche, oh my gosh, microaggression. Purpose comes from work. As in the workplace, the work that's done in the home is every bit as important. And I think one of the rate social dysfunctions of the twentieth century, or really the late the second half of the twentieth century, is this idea of putting down women raising families as as important employment. It is the most important employment of society has. It is as important as any other job

there is. It's not necessarily economically rewarded the way that doing jobs are, but it is as important for society and based on what I'm told by people who actually do it as rewarding as anything you can do in life. I just wish our society hadn't decided to listen to these radical feminists who are miserable. By the way. They're miserable. Every time I talk to some radical liberal feminists. Misery is what I get as what I get from them. Oh yeah, you know, they're professor of such and such.

They're in their fifties, they have a life partner, male or female, I don't care, it doesn't matter. But you know, they don't want to call it a marriage, and and you know they don't have kids, and they you know, they chase their career and now they're you know, they're boomers, maybe late boomers, and for what for what they just they but they put down all their friends who got married and raised families, you know, put them down for decades. That's it. It's a recipe for misery. I just see it.

I see it in the in the the the generation above me and so. But you know, Jordan Peterson's point with it is the same point that I'm making, which is that you know, you need purpose, and once you start taking work away from men as as a purpose they have in their day to day life. And of course, remember part of the purposes you go to work not just to do that productive thing, but also to then enjoy the fruits of your labor and take care of your family, or take care of yourself if you don't

have a family. But then this is, this is the central part of our social existence. And now that a lot of this is going to be on I made it. A lot of this is going to be coming from machinery and AI programs. This is this is gonna be very disruptive. Yeah, maybe there are other jobs we can't think of yet, the jobs of the future. People will say,

maybe there are jobs we can't even imagine. You know, person that takes care of the you know, automated butler, let's bringing you everything right, the person that fixes it. There will be things, but that doesn't mean there won't be social disruptions and upheaval in the meantime. And look back throughout history. Yeah we push through things, but maybe we go through a fifty year period of regression. You know, maybe we go through fifty year period of upheaval and

you know, societal strife. It's not all just gonna be peaches, roses, unicorns, and fairy tales. Peaches are delicious. So that's important to keep in mind as we look at immigration as well, because here is what the Democrats and the libertarian open borders types, Here's here's what they don't get into. Here's what they don't address. And I think it's really essential that we keep it in mind as we talk about

all this. The immigrant population that is coming into the country illegally or that is scamming the system is overwhelmingly from you know, third world countries, developing countries now where they don't speak English, they don't have higher education, and they're coming into an economy where the stratification between those who can compete in a knowledge based economy and those who can't is getting wider and wider all the time.

That is not a recipe for happiness and cohesion in this society, and it is only a recipe for a larger state, higher taxes, and heavier burdens upon the productive class in this country imposed by the state. So you know this, the massive waves over time of of unskilled labor that don't compete at the same in the same kinds of jobs as the increasingly separate elite, if you will, the knowledge workers in this country, that's going to get

bigger and bigger, it's going to get worse. And there's also the people in this country that aren't able, haven't been given the opportunity to have, haven't been given the resources to compete at that level. You know, they feel like they're being displaced. And this is this is all a very complicated and if we don't deal with it as a country and as a society, I think a dangerous mix. So AI Jobs of the future fascinating, great stuff, but it's going to have real social implications that we

need to understand. What the administration is clearly demonstrating here is that despite the decision to withdraw from Syria according to the conditions that presidents imposed, we are not withdrawing the Middle East. We have provided an indispensable leadership to stand up to confront the Iranians, who are clearly the

strategic threats to the Middle East. What Secretary Pompeo is doing I solely applaud He's bringing countries from Asia, Europe, Africa, the Western Hemisphere and obviously the Middle East together to deal with this imposing threat to the region. Because they're not just a regional threat, they're a global threat in terms of sponsoring terrorism around the world. So today you just had the first reports about US true presence getting drawn down in Syria. It's going to be a while,

it's going to take some time. But I have said, I think that as long as it is done in this way, in a deliberate fashion, that make sure that there are protections for the Koords against the Turks and the possibility of Turkish particularly Turkish air strikes, and as long as we maintain close ties the Turks. I mean, pardon me to the Kurds on the ground meeting that we're just next door, We're just over the hill, and

you know we're there. If they really need this, we could, you know, spin up some apaches or some F sixteens, and you know that the cavalryes over that next ridge, us being the United States being the cavalry, that not extending our mission in our presence in Syria is the right thing. That we don't have a role to play in a continued military occupation of what has now liberated

Syria from the Islamic state. We also need to prepare for a future in which the Iranians continue their presence in Syria regardless of what we do, regardless of our positions and our activities, and not to over extend ourselves, which is also why I would note that there's this summit to Pompeo gave this speech, very good speech, by the way, on this international summit on Iran. I mean Lee Zelbin talked a bit about this play clip fifteen.

It's American leadership, this is American exceptionalism. You have an important initiative to bring dozens of countries together when you make a decision to withdraw from the Iran nuclear Deal and sanctions are reimposed. There's a difference between just having US sanctions reimposed versus the international community reimposing sanctions as well. US sanctions alone very powerful. Having more countries on board

is important. Additionally, you have other Middle Eastern countries that also view Iranni and aggression as a existential threat to their nation and also to their region. So beyond just bilateral diplomacy, multilateral diplomacy and ramping up economic pressure, is the need for coalitions and leadership on the parts of other nations and involvement. So look, it's it's going to

be a multi pronged effort here. It's going to take a long time, and it's essentially just creating these allegiances and making sure that we're bad back and gallies to keep the Iranians in check. So, but the way to keep the Uranians in check is not to just keep putting a US military presence on the ground in country after country, which is what we were on schedule to do.

Got the US military and Yemen US military and Syria US military to rock US military and you know, you go down, you know, boff Ray and we got the fifth fleetal that we have a base there. But ay mean, we just got we got we got guys everywhere in the Middle East, right now, enough is enough? Trump understands, Yeah, he's not the the down on the weeds guy with a tremendous amount of you know, cultural knowledge about what's

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that option. If the endgame is emergency declaration by the President, do it, do it now. Lindsey Graham, who saying, throw down, President Trump, throw down. Lindsey Graham still still strutting his stuff after that U Bravo performance at the CAVANOL hearings this past summer. But is this the right move? How does this whole thing end? Well, we've got some some wisdom coming your way courtesy of Houston Texas. Right now, our friend Jesse Kelly, who want to come hang out

as a Friday. Here's the host of the Jesse Kelly Show, which you can hear down on the iHeart affiliate in Houston, Texas on nine fifty k p RC Monday through Friday's mister Jesse Kelly, great to have you, sir, good to be here back. And this ends ugly, I think, one way or the other, because he can't if he declares the state of emergency, half the Republicans are going to be mad about it. Politically, he should if we're just talking about re election. Politically, he should because he has

to have some kind of wall built for reelection. But man, is that a bad precedent for when the next scumbag gets elected? Off? It is? It is scary because you see, a normal person would look at this situation at the border and say, okay that it is a crisis. Okay, you got drugs flowing through, people are dying, You've got

bad laws in plays. Congress is not acting. Congress is not changing this, and it's not really in Congress's purview to change some of it in terms of you know, greater border patrol activity and the law enforcement component of it. That's an executive branch function. So there's all these things.

But you're right. See I've been thinking about the last few days and Libs are nuts, as you and I both know, and they will come in with a president Kamala Harris, and I don't want to get you too excited, and they'll say that you know that that gun violence is an emergency, and so they're just gonna say that they're gonna they need to confience under national emergency power. They're gonna come to skate all uh, you know, assault weapons or whatever, which would be a terrible idea on

so many levels. But you're right, it's what we always have to keep in mind. Now, we don't want nothing to get done, that's not the goal. But any powers we give them the next guy you're literated to give the person you hate the most those same kind of powers. That it's scary to think. I mean, think about climate change, but think about the national emergencies they could declare for the climate change far us and the things they could

do with it. It's it's frightening. Yeah, absolutely. Climate change is also the one where I have conversations Jesse with people who are seemingly normal, you know, Otherwise they sound like folks that you could have a normal chat with about a whole range of issues, and then climate change comes up and they're crazy all of a sudden. I'm like, what are you thinking? You really believe that we have we have more forest fires going on in California because

of global climate change? Or are you out of your mind? It's it's not a political stance. I tell people that it is a religion. Those those climate change people who really believe it, It is a religion to them. And what's funny is there's it's separated into two groups. Half of them are the wackos who believe it, and half of them are the politicians who don't believe it at all but pretend they do. Like Obama was this great climate change champion, but the guy flew whose personal pizza

chef from Chicago to DC to make him a pizza. Right. See, if you really thought that co two emissions, that that carbon emissions in the air were going to destroy the planet for future generations, wouldn't you modify your behavior just just a little bit, Like I'll tell you here, here's an example. I find littering horrendous right now, Whether I drop a little bit of my you know, bubble I don't chew bubblegum, but this is you get the idea. If I dropped my bubble gum wrapper on the street,

nobody's gonna die. Nothing's terrible. If the city is not going to be a trash eat. You know, it doesn't really matter except for the fact that I feel like my you know, my personal action should be reflective of how I feel, and I just think littering is a gross thing to do. So if I felt the way they do about climate change, I feel like I would modify my behavior. The fact that they don't modify their personal behavior makes me think that they're all full of

it and crazy. Yeah, they are full of it. They are full of it. But you know, every religion, climate change is the religion, and every religion needs to God, and that's what they want to be. They want to be that leader. And they know if they just bake it enough. These wackos all bowed out to him. I mean it was a Hollywood guys, was it DiCaprio who

was always talking about climate change? And then he just lives on a yacht for months at a time, yep, and flies everywhere and flies everywhere private of course, which I mean the thing about flying private, it's not just that that's they're obviously, you know, super limousine liberals or

private jet progressives. But it's also that if you look at the carbon emissions from one private flight, what that burns up in terms of gas versus what a normal person would do over the course of a month, it's astronomically more rights, it's a whole lot more so. Anyway, I even I agree with you, it's it's nonsense. But that's why you put the emergence, you know, the emergency powers.

The problem is that the government now is shared between one side of the country that's living in reality and the other side of the country that's just full of delusional snowflake cry babies. And that then brings me to this my friend, which was the bigger political self own, Beto O'Rourke doing a video of himself getting his teeth cleaned, as if that's something that anybody ever wants to Or Elizabeth Warren's DNA test. It's still Elizabeth Warren's DNA test.

That's the most embarrassing thing I've ever seen in politics. It's probably my favorite story ever because she's an insane person. But for years, run a scam that you're an Indian, get ready to run for president. Let Donald Trump troll you into taking a DNA test that proves you weren't an Indian, and then release said tests publicly as if it proved that you were an Indian. Has to be the dumbest thing I've ever seen a politician do in my entire life. I have still stunned that she could

be that's stupid. It's it's amazing to me because you know, this is what I have to I remind myself of this whenever I see, you know, the the just the outrage from the Washington Post, The New York Times, MSNBC, CNN, and the rest of the mainstream media crew over everything that Trump does, and then they'll say things like Trump should be removed with the twenty fifth Amendment, Trump is not fit to be president. And then they'll write glowing

editorials about Elizabeth Warren. I'm like, Elizabeth Warren thinks of being one to one thousand and twenty fourth native American makes her a native American. Elizaeth Warren is a crazy person. I think the best part of that one. Somebody said it, and I don't remember the member. I'm off the time, off my head, but the average American is like one in seven hundreds, so actually she's like the whitest person in the United States. And to release that publicly, I

just I'm I'm stunted. I can see taking the DNA test. Maybe you take it, cross your fingers, you know, hopefully you have a little then you can go out and prove it. But if it doesn't prove what you wanted it to prove, shut up about it, shred the results, then burn them, then launched them into outer space, and

never speak about them again. I also think that the Beto thing, which which we've been We've we've been talking about all day here where this guy takes his videos, It's like, oh, I just want to have a continue By the way, I'm not the only one who thinks he sounds like Napoleon Dynamite. I just want to have a continuing discussion about the border. Like I was just really, I just want to ride my skateboard and just be

really cool. And he does this weird video and I look at this guy like I've been told the last six months by every by no and I know a lot of them that Beto is so Kennedy ask he's so cool, he's so handsome, and I just want to be like, are we are we talking about the same person? This guy's a Doric who married a billionaire. Why do I have to pretend he's anything other than that? Buck.

I'm assuming you've seen the show of Veep, the HBO political show of Veep the Car Yeah, yeah, yeah, if you haven't, the main character of the show, for anybody who hasn't seen the show, has this scene where she decides she wants to go get ice cream, or she wants ice cream, and obviously she wants someone to bring it to her, but her staff convinces her that they should go out in public so she can be seen getting ice cream. And they call it normalizing. And that's

Betto's entire life is normalizing. That's why he rides a skateboard and water burger. That's why he takes an obviously can't obviously planned video of him playing air drums in his car. He's at the dentist. Look, I'm just like you. And it is so funny because he's the ultimate limousine liberal. I believe it's father's a billionaire and he is going to spend the next two years normalize it. That's what he's doing. Yes, and this is why the authenticity say.

People can say a lot of things about Trump, and a lot of things they say about him are true. But Trump is like, yeah, I'm a billionaire. I fly around in jets, but I like construction workers. I care about people who work jobs that they work, and whether people like Trump or not, people that work a lot of those jobs think that Trump does care and is trying to help them out. And he's not run around acting like he's a normal dude. He's like, I am

not normal. I'm a boss. I'm the Trump. So I just think that I think there's authenticity in owning it. There is, and he's getting his all goal department and he brags about it in his jet, his gigantic Trump's jet. But he does because of his upbringing. I guess his father used to make him work on construction crews. He does speak the language of the common man. And it's very fascinating that he is a New York billionaire, but the common man thinks he's one of him and he

loves it. Yeah. And you know, look, oh in Obama lives in effectively a castle in Washington, d C. I mean, you know, he lives in a mansion. There's so many of these people that are are held up on the media as having the common touch in some way or as just being like us. I'm like, this is not. No one gets. No normal person gets a fifty million dollars book advance, by the way, okay, and no one's ever gonna make money back on that. That's just buying

off the Obama legacy via the liberal publishing houses. But I got very, very one more important question for you, Jesse, before we let you go. I mean, when push comes to shove, just as as a man, Jesse Kelly, are you more likely if you were forced to wear a Ocasio Cortez twenty I'd have to be like twenty twenty eight or something. She's too young. Let's just say she could run Ocazio Cortez twenty twenty or Kamela Harris twenty twenty. Who gets who? Who is Jesse Kelly gonna wear a

T shirt for? I've never been more insolid thought. I can't even believe that's a question. Of course, it's Harris, get out really really well? Come on, Harris is like fifty three and still a dime. Obviously takes care of herself off Harris all day long. Oh the Cortes is not even in that conversation. I might right now. Oh my gosh, look at that. Jesse Kelly thought us know if if he had to go liberal, he's lett us

know who he would support. I sat at the table next to Lauretta Lynch at dinner last night here in DC. It was very swampy, but but I did not, of course disturb or even even a deal with her at all. So there's uh, just just throwing that in there, not for nothing, Jesse Kelly. Everybody nine to fifty k p RC down in Houston. Also follow him on Twitter look for the Jesse Kelly Show. It is excellent. He is excellent, Sir,

You're a great American. Have a fantastic weekend. This should be easy to get approved through Congress because the same people that are holding it up have approved it many times before. Ted and Johnamy, they these people approved it just a few years ago, and now all of a sudden there not that they came to me with a package beyond the barrier, and if it was something that we all agreed with, that the Senators agreed with, that everybody liked. It's common sense. Most of this is common sense.

I'm all for it. I'm prepared for anything. I'm prepared for the lawyers tell me like one that doesn't stop people from suing. It doesn't stop people from suing. But Trump's right, there should not be that hard talking about the wall we got. We have an expert joining us now on Trump, on walls, on all all things DC, and and just wisdom in life in general. Bennie Johnson is with us. He is a daily caller guy Eat does all kinds of great viral videos and posts, and

mister Bennie Johnson. Great to have you, sir buck. How are you doing, my bro I'm good man, I'm good. So you know, Trump is wall. I think that the wall is a great idea. You think the wall needs to happen. You've done some work on walls in the last week or so. What can you tell us about it? Oh? I mean walls are great, right, So think about it. If you live in a house or an apartment, or if you live in a dumpster, you still technically have

a house made of walls. And so a lot of people have walls, like really big walls, really fun walls. But typically you're office building where you go to work, where you eat at night, those have walls too, And the world are like a really important part of American society. I've discovered in my research. Fuck, I believe that CNN and I'm not even kidding, has been doing some pieces now on are there places where walls do work? It's like, yes, in fact there are. So so here's a fun thing

that we're doing at the Daily Caller. Now we're doing a series called Walls Across America. And what I am doing is as an intrepid on a less buck, I am traveling to wealthy or powerful politicians or influencers or techmoguls or celebrities homes and showing America the walls in

which they live behind. The point being that most wealthy or powerful people have walls, big walls, not just the walls that bake your house, but big giant walls with security fences around their house, keeping people from even entering what they hold dear, the property they hold deal deer, and the people they hold dear. We've done one with Obama, and we're about to launch item number two, series numbers, the second in the series. This one's gonna be a doozy.

This wall was amazing, amazing Buccas in Long Island and it's uh, you know. The point I guess is is ultimately not to direct people for wanting their houses and their loved ones and their treasure to be secure, but just to prove that walls do indeed work to protect those kind of things. Should America have one? But you know, I saw Jim Acosta down at the border, and Jim Acosta was standing at a wall and said, oh, here, I am at a wall, and I don't see a

lot of violence. So maybe walls don't work. Explain that one to me. So this is one of the one of the more magnificent cell phones in the history of American journalism. I do wonder if Jim Acosta is a false flag operation, if he is just an actual major Trump supporter who was like created, you know, created in sometimes experimental laboratory to just make every conservatives point for them.

What he did was he traveled to a part of Texas McCallan, Texas where there is a massive steel wall, a kind of wall that Trump wants to put in the border, and he posted the smugly talking about how safe he felt and how wonderful he felt, and how there was no crime and no violence around this wall. This, of course, is proving Trump's point exactly. Somehow, somehow Jimmacosta thought he was owning the cons by doing this. I

don't really know what exactly what goes on in his head. He's, uh, you know, one of one of the more confusing reporters because he does quite regularly prove the opposite of the point he's trying to make. Indeed, he does well, Benny, please keep up your work on walls, please please, sir, keep on owning those libs and where should folks go to see your latest work, your series owned Walls and

all other things. Benny Johnson series on Walls can be found at The Daily Caller on YouTube, on Facebook and on my private tube, Facebook, Instagram, Benny Johnson on Twitter, Benny Johnson on Facebook, Benny Johnson on Instagram, Daily Caller on all those platforms. We're gonna be We're gonna are you launching it this weekend our newest series on walls across America. Oh man, you're gonna love this new one. Fantastic stuff. My friend Benny Johnson. Everybody check out his stuff. Benny.

I'll talk to you soon. Thank you, buck Well team. You know you're hearing from Benny Johnson, you're hearing from Jesse Kelly, a little bit of a scholarship from our friend Art Arthur over at the CISK. And we've covered a lot of territory. That's what we like to do Fridays, like to let it rip, like bringing all kinds of folks. So and I also want you'd always know if there's someone you want me to have on the show, I'm happy to reach out and try to get them on

the show. To talk to them. So if you've got somebody out there you say, oh I saw that person on Fox. I think he or she would be really good. We'll reach out. We'll get them on. People like to hang out the Freedom Hud. It's a good place. We have roll calls coming up, in fact, a double roll call session for your delight. So stay with me, Team Buck. It's time for roll call. IM gonna do a double roll call because we're about to head off into the weekend.

Everybody's working for the weekend. Yeah. I know it's not the best, it's not the best rendition of the song, but you're excited because it is in fact the weekend, and that's a good thing. Let's get to it. I found a cash of Team Buck emails that I wanted to share with you. They were coming via Bucksexen dot com, which we have had under maintenance. I think you could still go to it, but we've had it under maintenance

a little while. We are slowly but surely planning a revamp of all things of all things Team Buck and bucksexen dot com related, so I wanted you to be aware of that, and with that, I will get to some of these emails that have been sent to me that I did not even know. We're there, all right? This was I don't even know when this was sent. I just got this catch of emails. This is from Brian who wrote to us at bucksx dot com. Buck, You've been hitting the subject of media dishonesty and loss

of integrity for many weeks. Now, listen to you talk is like listening to me talk, only I have better hair. Whoa fake news? The funny thing is the media knew that they were going to lose their power, or at least they had the idea they were going to lose their power. Back in twenty twelve, WikiLeaks exposed emails between CNN and Clinton that bore out the idea that because of the Internet, the media would no longer be able

to hold their spell over the American people. The Internet would allow people to look around and outside of the media narrative and find the actual truth. In modern times, we have recognized this and discovered that it is true. But back when the Clinton machine was trying to take over, they were already talking about it. Happily, they were unable to stop the momentum of that occurrence, and now people like you and me can see the media and the

government media complex for what it is. Hopefully their time is over or drawing to a close, and then we can actually have an honest national discussion about what our country is and where does going shields Hie Brian, Yeah, Brian, I think that the sense we have of the media has dramatically changed, and I think that this is a good thing. And that's why the media in general is so both sanctimonious and defensive at the same time, because

they're trying to hold on to what they have. They know that it's eventually losing battle, and they're very angry about it. In the meantime, they're very much trying to push back on all of this. So yes, absolutely, all all true, and I think your observations are astute. Matt right. Oh no, Andy, not Matt. Sorry, Andy writes, I love your two hours on Vlad the Impaler back in twenty fifteen.

Love it so much that did even more research on that time period and just completed and a script for an hour long episode factional show about Vlad's father's rise and fall. Thanks again, well, Andy, that sounds really cool, man, and I'm glad you enjoyed the Lad. Vlad the Impale Little the episode of Dragola Purginal though, of my impression of Napoleon Dynamite in the office, and ivern't thought it was really good, which is funny because I've actually never

seen Napoleon Dynamite. But but I'd like my Vlad the Impale little impression. That's fun. It's probably annoying to hear, though. Yeah. No, that's an amazing story of that of Vlad and Vlad's dad, the Order of the Dragon, really interesting period in history. My dream is to one day do some of those battles as a scripted series for Netflix or something like that. That would really if I could kind of pick a job that I could just do, I think that would be it. I would do a probably a whole Battle

of Lapan until miniseries. That would be boss. That'll be amazing, dude, that's a six episode I think six. You could do six hour long episodes for the Battleful Panto and it would because remember there were the battles before that led up to it. You could cover some of that and they I've already got it scripted out of my head. I've been watching Battlestar Galactica. So many of you have told me in the past that it's a great show.

I'm not loving it. I'm not a huge fan. I'm trying, Guys, I want to like it, but I just have not found Battlestar Galactica to be my thing. John writes, Buck, I was just listening to the Friday program, and yesterday I spent some time looking for a source for ring tones on my iPhone. I'm looking for lock her up and CNN sucks. Can you help. I don't know if there's ring tones for those, but there should be, and

I appreciate you writing in and raising the question. Let's see we have more emails come in here and this one says, oh, this is from Matthew. Oh, this one is long, Buck. I heard you asking about the official food of Chicago once. You were asking about deep dish pizza versus Polish sausage. It's a little more involved than that. First of all, the deep dish pizza is more of

a tourist trap type food. There are some famous restaurants for deep dish, but I would say locals in the region do not go out of their way for deep dish. In fact, growing up, I never had a deep dish or so called Chicago style pizza until I moved away. These places selling deep dish in the area. You're usually forced to go when you have a family or friends visiting because that's what they want, or maybe a visiting coworker because they insist you're done after a piece and

you always regret it. Yeah. I don't even know what deep dish pizza. I guess it's just really thick pizza. That sounds kind of I'll be honest, that sounds kind of gross. The more authentic Chicago pizza is what is referred to as tavern style. This is a thin crust pizza cut into squares, so not your traditional East Coast slice, but a square piece. The smaller square pieces a light it. Pace yourself and try different pizzas at a party, for instance.

You're not stuck with a big piece blah blah blah. The official food of that region is Chicago Land. Of the region that is Chicago Land would be a five way tie. Italian beef sandwiches, Polish sausage, Chicago style hot dogs, no catchup allowed, thin or tavern style pizza, and pirogie. Wow. I've not had any of those things, I think ever. Then again, I've also never really spent much. I've been to Chicago, but I've never really done Chicago. Something I'm

gonna have to I'm gonna have to change. But I'm not gonna change it now because I hear it's rather cold this time of year. So that is a little bit a little bit different. This is Matt. Here we go. Whoops, No, I already had Matt before. You know what I'm gonna do. Team. Now, I'm gonna switch back to Facebook. So I got that cash of emails. But now I'm gonna switch back to Facebook. So when I come back, we'll get into our role call on Facebook dot com. Slash Buck Sexton. Time to

spread some freedom coast to coast. He's a lean, mean analysis machine. Team Buck, It's time for roll call. You know, I had my check up this past week and so far, so good, nothing to nothing to be concerned about. I mean, I mean tiptop health. I wouldn't say tiptop shape right now. A little bit busy to get to the gym. Then how do you explain his freakish strength? He spied every day and That's what I'm gonna tell you. I had this, you know, the the physician's assistant who happened to be

a pretty attractive young lady. M did the whole. I'm standing on the scale and she's, you know, pushing the top of the scale a little bit at a time. It's that old doctor scale. You only see them in doctor's offices. Everyone else has digital scales now. But pushing the pushing the little weighted part a little more, a little more. I felt, I felt judged, felt a little judged. I'm not. I'm thinking because lean mean analysis machine. Well maybe analysis machine, but I gotta get back to being

lean and mean. So note to self this weekend, time to start start hitting the gym with a vengeance again. Dead lifts. I need to do the dad lifts and do the clean and jerk and the dead lift. Then everything will be fine. It's all I have to do. Squat rack. What you're doing this weekend, I'm doing the squat rock. That's all you have to do. Really, squat

rack changes everything. That's the that's the game changer. Note to self, all right, your thoughts roll call enough self help motivation for me um and uh Facebook dot com, slash buck sex and if you want to be in on this action, let us get right to it, shall we? Josh is first up in the mix here. Aerosmith isn't the best band in the last thirty years, I'd say Tool is. If you haven't ever heard the album Ladder Alice,

you need it's a pure work of art. Second, have you seen there was another assault weapon band bill put forward this week? I'm all for what Trump's doing with the border and showing the government, but I'm not excusing the bumpstock band he allowed to happen. I hope people call him out on it on the campaign trail. Josh, I don't know anybody else who would put Tool in

the best rock bands of all time category. That said, I can appreciate that you're a man who's willing to march to the beat of his own drum on that one. So yep, there we go, Tool. I don't even know John, do you know any Tool songs? I don't even know what Tool is. I've heard of it, but I can't even think of a song by Tool. TJ Rights whoop. That federal employee that you guys interviewed for Rising doesn't sound like she's doing everything she can to keep from

having to sell her car. I'm sorry, but why would you be out protesting if you might have to sell your car tomorrow. You just said you have a temp job. Shouldn't you be working there? Also, if missing your paycheck today means missing a car payment, which means losing your car, then you're probably already way behind on payments. Seems like lots of these federal employees have been spoiled for far too long and quite apparently do not know how to

save money. I'm sure there are people hurting out there, but they should try petitioning their church parish instead of protesting the government. You're gonna find a lot more empathy under God's roof than from the hand of the federal government. Rant over shields high TJ. TJ is bringing the bringing the salty stuff here, man, TJ. I would agree with you. People have been asking me, They're like, why would why would people be losing their house and going, you know,

having all these terrible financial consequence is happening. Nancy Pelosi saying that it's going to damage their credit all this stuff if you miss one paycheck, when I mean, I know for a fact with credit cards, you've got to be thirty days late for it to even possibly be reported to the credit agencies, and the damage of a thirty day late payment is pretty minimal. A ninety day late payment is a problem. So that you know, that's unless they've changed the way those algorithms and all that

stuff work. So Harry, have it, James, right, hibuck. Regarding the possibility of the president declaring a crisis at the border, we can argue that if it was wrong for obamaous circumvent Congress to get what he wanted DACA, then it's also wrong to do the same for Trump. Though I agree in principle these two situations are not the same and both sides aren't playing by the same rules. Plus Trump may actually have the law on his side. I suppose you could consider the so called dreamers a crisis,

but a crisis to who a legal aliens or US citizen? Also, are we to believe that there is some type of statute of limitations on a crisis? That is, you either don't recognize it or unable to deal with it at its inception, it cannot be called the crisis. I know it just crammed a lot in there, but I'm sure you can handle it. Sincerely, James, Well, James, thank you,

and I think I probably hopefully can handle it. The issue of the president declaring a national emergency or a national crisis, whatever we're going to call it, is an important one to take very seriously. But there is a statute. Remember we had Andy McCarthy on to talk about this in detail and even to read the statute. There is a statute that Congress past that says the president can do this. And there's also in that statute a place where the Congress can stop the president from that action.

So there is a check and a built in check on that power from the Congress. I think it's a two thirds majority, but you know what that means that the president can't just say, yeah, there's a crisis, so I'm going to go seize everybody's assault weapons. Well, one, that would be flatly unconstitutional, and two, the Congress could say, actually, you're not going to do that. But this is this

is serious stuff. I mean, I'm not going to and I'm not going to downplay what it means for the President to say I'm taking this action because there is a terrible crisis at our southern border. You know, I'm not going to pretend that that's not a combustible situation that also sets a precedent that future administrations may in fact abuse. Obama took flatly constitutional actions on a number of occasions and was stopped by the courts on a

number of occasions. You know, Obama's administration thought they could tell the Senate when it was and was not in recess. You know that there were things that are and then there was obviously DACA, and the administration was trying to find ways to just use executive power, and we were saying, then, hey, this is not acceptable, this is not within the scope of presidential authority. But the Libs and the little cheerleaders

in the media all went along with it. Well, now we're looking at Trump having the authority, but is it a good idea for him to use the authority. That's a different that's a different thing. But just because he has the authority, it does not mean necessarily he should use it. But in this case, I think he should because I believe that the border is a massive problem for the country going forward and has been a problem that we've been told to ignore for far too long.

So I'm with the president on taking the most bold action he can on this. Karen Right's most hilarious German movie I have ever seen is Goodbye Lenin about how things change when the Berlin Wall came down and Germany reunited. I've never heard of that, nor have I seen it, but it sounds interesting, So Karen, thank you for bringing it to my attention. David writes, Buck shields High. You

must have said something a little too accurate. I listened on podcasts and for some reason, your podcast on Google Play goes into perpetual loading. No other podcasts on their site is having this issue. FYI, Hey guys, is that happening. We gotta send Google a angry email. Stop stop trying to put Buck in a corner. Nobody puts Buck in

a corner. Dan writes Buck, I'm sure you can find the video or sound by from twenty sixteen debates and rallies where Trump said one way to have Mexico pay for the wall was to levy a fee or attacks and all the money transfers in the US to Mexico. But you are correct. You never said they would write it, that he would write a check. Yeah, no, Dan, I know,

and look at their campaign rhetoric. No matter what president we're talking about campaign rhetoric tends to be a little a little uh, you know, a little fast and loose. People will tend not to be held to every word they say in the campaign trail. Yeah, we got to hold people to the big promises, the important stuff. But you know, all of a sudden, we're we're going to assume that everything that a politician says when they're running for president, they will be held to every word of it.

That's that's quite a standard, and I don't think it's a standard that you know, I don't think it's a standard that we have held other presidents to. Republican order. Democrat Tommy writes buck take San Diego, Cafe Sevilla, hash House, a Go Go great places, and pro gluten free. The glue of gluten free. Girl I took there, became my misses thank me later. Well, Tommy, I'm thanking you now. My man really appreciate that. I will definitely, I will

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