Trump Triggers Media Meltdown

the Buck Sexton Show begins. Analysts, remember he's a great guy. No, I think you might want to listen. I don't know. There's nothing well withth listening. If somebody call from a country Norway, we have information on your opponent, Oh, I think i'd want to hear it. Do you want that kind of interference in our elections? It's not an interference. They have information. I think i'd take it. If I thought there was something wrong, I'd go maybe to the

FBI if I thought there was something wrong. Welcome to the Buck Sexton Show. Oh man, here we go back to the old bag of tricks. Here for the Democrats, for the Libs, let's talk about foreign interference in our elections again. Oh gosh, the Trump Tower meeting where no

information of any worth or any consequence was exchanged. They're looking for something, anything, now to revive the fortunes of the hashtag resistance after the flop of the Mulla report, Muller's pathetic press conference to try to breathe new life into the efforts to impeach Trump. The Democrats know that impeachment comes with risks. They're trying to make it less risky by trashing Trump with the same old narratives that they've used in the past, the same old nonsense. It's

just ridiculous. And here they are asking the president, Oh, George Stephanopolis of ABC News, little Clinton operative sitting or actually standing there and get into that later, asking the President United States, why are you okay with that foreign interference. Let's think this through for a second, shall we. You're in a presidential campaign. There's opposition research coming in all over the place. People are saying all kinds of things.

You're hearing rumors all over and if someone remember he wasn't president when this happened. He's just a campaign for president. And someone says they've got really, really critical information about your opponent that could change the course of the the race. You're gonna say, no, sorry, I don't I don't like where the information is coming from. Is that realistic? Does anyone think that would that would really wash? That would be the case? This is silly. What if they send

an email to the president. What if somebody got Trump's phone number and send a text message, Hey, here's what you need to know. He opens his phone. There it is. He's supposed to say, ah, my eyes, I have to pretend that I forget this. I can never use this really valuable information that I have, or maybe it's not valuable. But you're supposed to what run away cry, say that you never wanted to see this in the first place. This is absurd. Is this is patternly absurd? Now that's

just on its own. This this new standard of oh, maybe I've got information that proves that Hillary Clinton's a criminal, but no, no, don't give that to me. It's from a foreign government, and this is America. We don't do that, sir. Meanwhile, the Clinton campaign sent operatives to Ukraine to try to dig up dirt on Trump. But that's not even the biggest effort of foreign interference. That they were engaged in.

Here's the problem for the Libs, for the Democrats. Enough people have read the reports, now understand what's going on that when Libs yell foreign interference, we yell back dossier. Here's the fundamental problem, the fundamental question that they cannot answer.

How are we supposed to pretend that they care the Libs care about foreign interference at the election when officially and as a matter of record, not a theory, not something that you know, maybe kind of sort o, we don't know yet, as a matter of public record that all sides agree on the facts about the DNC on behalf of the Hillary Clinton campaign hired a law firm that hired a foreign intelligence operative, a foreigner who was hired specifically because of his connections to Russians and time

working on Russia. And he went around and spoke to when you could see it in the dossier, Russian government official who gave him anti Trump information, most likely disinformation. And then he was used by the DNC and their law firm, Perkins Coy to launder that information, give it the veneer of credibility, run with it to the American journalist Cadre. The journos and give it to the FBI and the DOJ, and they ran with it and even took it to the fives Accord and presented it as real.

Where's the real foreign influence in the election in this situation, my friends, who's really using foreigners to try to change the results of the election to try to destroy political opponents. Trump's team, unbeknownst to Trump, including Maniford and Cohen and Trump Junior, sat down to have a meeting with the lady who said that she had really important information from Russia's prosecutor. Could have been information about Hillary Clinton being

a criminal, because Hillary Clinton is a criminal. What's the what's the big problem this sanctimony about how, oh, it's so unpatriotic. If you're going to tell me that taking that meetings on patriotic, and then you're gonna mumble mumble, you know, mister rect misdirect about the dossier and the role of Christopher Steele and all of his Russian subsources, including Russian government officials, in an active measures campaign against

Trump and against his people. You have no credibility. You're a hack. But the media is still they're still just trying to force feed this to the American people. Oh, just don't ignore what we know. Just believe what we say. Just take our word for take our version of these facts as all you need to know. This is just madness. It's madness what they're doing. But Trump's arrangement syndrome forces or induces this kind of mania. Anything that they can do to take down Trump, to stop him from four

more years, they think is justified. A lot of them, I believe, could not and I mean CNN and the Washington Post and a lot of prominent Democrats cannot psychologically handle four more years of Trump. They will be broken, if they have not already been broken. And so whatever they have to do to stop him they think is inherently justified. I want an answer. I want somebody who is prominent in the Democratic Party. I want some of

the masses of all these journals ringing around. How is the Steel dossier, with all of its Russian sources, which was successfully used against Trump, brought to the fires a court, unverified, unvetted, raw intelligence information. The DNC specifically went after somebody who had sources in Russia. How is that not foreign interference

in our election? A foreigner talking to foreigners, creating compromise, compromising information on Trump and running it to our own intelligence community as well as all the journals that want to take Trump down. How is that not for because it was paid for, because he was able to convince the clowns at the FBI that this was legit. That's not an answer. I want an answer or else. I don't want to hear about the Trump Power meeting from

any of these losers ever. Again, it's meaningless. They have no standards other than Trump derangement, and that's not a standard. We're just getting started here. I'll be right back. That's not the right answer. If a foreign government comes to you as a public official and I'll first to help your campaign, giving you anything of value, whether it be mining or information on your opponent, the right answer is snow,

and I've been consistent about that. I think Chris Frey's statement is to correct state, and I'm hoping some of my Democratic colleagues will take more seriously the fact that Christopher Still was a foreign agent paid for about the Timocratic Party. Okay, folks, here's where I gotta tell you that the Lindsey Graham is wrong. I disagree with Lindsey Graham. Foreign government comes to you and says they have really

important information. The right answer is no. That may sound really you know, you could pound your chest on that and say, see, look at how great we are and you know, keeping the American election just about Americans or whatever, which is also a whole other conversation. We've got a global media environment. We have an Internet that's global. There's information flowing all the time everywhere. Are we supposed to

now track down where the information comes from? Constantly? If a president sees a new story from a foreign country, a former country's news service that's a state news are they not allowed to use that information? If? What if it's then picked up by other news organizations, but the origin of it is the state news service of some other country, They're not allowed to use that. That would

be a contribution in a sense, wouldn't it. This is why these rules are ridiculous and this formulation is just wrong. And I think, you know, look, Lindsay Graham, I think he's a I think he's an honorable guy and a well intentioned guy. I don't think he's I don't I don't think he's that wise, and I think that he's wrong on stuff. And I think he's wrong on this. Um here, here's let's play this scenario game. They keep saying, okay, because really they create all those Russia hysteria stuff. But

let's say it's not Russia. Let's say it's some other country. Let's say it's someone else. All right, the Russian government is one thing. Let's say the French government comes forward and says, you know what, we've got information for you. You know Hillary in the last election, you know, Hillary Clinton's husband, Bill Clinton, uh, sexually assaulted. I'm just this is a scenario. This is a hypeth edical but I'm just Hillary Clinton's husband, Bill Clinton, sexually assaulted a young

girl in France. And you know, we have real evidence that's come forward, and we you know, we have a real process. But you know, you should know that this is what happened. And the French government, you know, the minute the French Minister of remember it was the Russian senior lawyer. I forget what the guy's title was, A

velance guy said she represented sort of the senior prosecutor. Well, what if the French minister of justice said, you know, we've got we've got reasonably that Bill Clinton assaulted a young girl and we wanted you to know that. We think the American people should know that. Does anybody want to sound like a total moron and tell me, oh, you can't use that information. Oh that's a that's a

campaign contribution. Mc dare. This is idiocy. The moment you take this standard they say they're setting up, and you apply it more generally and and try to make it universally applicable, not just in this Russia collusion hysteria, it all falls apart. And when you add to this the very real prospect that Hillary Clinton may have taken a bribe or a husband may have taken a bribe from Russia. What if Vesslanskaia is like, look, here's the information. You know, Hillary,

there was a meeting, it was arranged. Bill Clinton got a check for five hundred thousand dollars from a Russian bank to give a speech. No one gets paid a half million dollars for a speech. This is insane. But his wife was Secretary of State at the time. And then we had this agreement through an intermediary that Hillary was gonna, you know, de sanction the following Russians or something like that. What if that had happened that could

have happened. That's not a crazy scenario at all. I mean, Hillary and Bill Clinton or wildly corrupt and the media pretending they weren't is one of the greatest knocks on their credibility that you could point to. It's laughable. And the Clinton Foundation is collapsing. No one cares for the Clinton Foundation anymore because it was all affront for influence

peddling and access selling. Pretending to be a charity. It was a pass through for the Clinton brand and paying for their lifestyle and paying for their private jets and essentially creating a government in exile for the Clintons. And the media acted like, oh, oh, it's just a charity, there's nothing wrong. You're nothing wrong that's going on at all.

Absolute nonsense, total and complete nonsense. But let's say that there was information that there was a real quid pro quo, you know what, for what corruption, and the Russians had it and they were going to give it to Trump. You could say, well, buck, he has to take it to the FBI. Okay, But is he still not allowed to use the information? Does he have to wait to see if the FBI decides to bring charges or not. This opposition research. This is well, you know, what's fair

is fair. What information you have is information you have? Are is the expectation now that if a foreign government had information about criminal activity or corruption of a US political candidate, that the opponent of that candidate is supposed to sit on it and not say anything because it comes from foreign source. Why if it's true, why would you do that? These rules that they're pretending to believe in don't make any sense. They don't make any sense.

You got all these DC types that want to sound like, oh, you know, because this is an opportunity to do a lot of you know, virtue signaling about what a patriot you are. And I'm Jelova. Oh I would never take foreign information. Yeah right, sure, people journalists taken. Okay, here's another for those who are saying, no, no, buck, you don't get it, you don't take you don't take information from foreign government use it against your plut Okay, let's

say the foreign government. Let's just move around some of the pieces that are already on the chessboard here. So Russian government source tells an American journalist, Oh, this is kind of like the Dacier, isn't it Russian government source tells an American journalist, Hey, you know, it turns out that you know, Hill got got paid off ten million dollars in an unmarked account for her and Bill to

change their stance on uranium one. I mean, just straight illegal as it gets corruption, right, a straight up payoff, tells that journalist. That journalist then contacts somebody in the Trump campaign and says, yeah, I've got word from this. This looks real. I've got word from this Russian source that the Russian government prosecutors saying that you know, Hillary Clinton took all this money and you know it looks real.

Is that campaign person? Because the information comes through an American source as an intermediary, but it's originally Russian, do they have an obligation to not do anything with it? Oh, it's okay if it goes through a pass through. Guess what. That makes it pretty easy to get the information from any foreign government to any campaign official. Just put it through a journalist as it pass through. This is ridiculous. It does not hold together. This is all narrative. It's

all story building from the anti Trump resistance. When you poke at this, it falls apart. And if you thought for one second that they intended to leave by their own rules. Remember Adam Schiff, one of the most dishonest and sanctimonious of all the anti trumpers in the Congress. Remember what happened when he had Russian comedians Vladimir Kiztsov and Alexei Stolarov call him up pretending to have information. We have the audio. Let's listen. What did democrats do?

I mean, what do they really do when they think they might get information from a foreign source that's damaging to their political opponents? Play clip five. Oh that you work for investigation regarding Trump and Russian governments? Yes, well, else some important information about it, and that is documented as well in mature as you want to provide to us. Yes, So Bussava met with Trump in New York at some point after the twenty thirteen Miss Universe pageant. Absolutely, and

she got compromising materials on tramp after their short relations. Okay, and what's the nature of the compromise. Well, there were pictures of naked Trump, and so Putin was made aware of the availability of the compromising material. Yes, of course Buzza shared those materials with sub checking sub sharct shares those materials with Putin because she's a god daughter of

Putin and Puttin decided to press on Trump. Does it sound like Adam Ship's like, whoa, whoa, Hey, I don't want any of this, compromise the word he used, their compromising information on Trump. I want to hear any of this. It's not the kind of stuff that we talk about here or America. We don't do that stuff. We don't, of course not. He wants to know all about it.

Oh yeah, sure, maybe he'd call the FBI, does anything that he wouldn't also call the Washington Post right after that if he thought this was real, and tell them that he's got a great story for them and they just have to sort of dig a little bit or help point them in the right direction. Folks, we're not all little kids here. We know how this game in politics has played. The Democrats play it dirtier than anybody else.

They play without principles, they play without honor, And so when they turn around as they're doing today and try to wag a finger and scold everybody on the other side, the Republicans and Trump for not playing according to their own constantly changing and murky and bizarre rules, you know what we should do, ignore them because they're full of it.

Some also defending the president as well, including Senator Tom kill Us of North Carolina, instead making it pointing it Hillary Clinton and her effort to try to get dirt on the Russia and the Trump campaign by hiring the opposition research firm Fusion GPS, which of course attracted with Christopher Steele, the former British agent, to try to look into potential ties between the Trump campaign and Russia. But

those two situations not entirely synonymous. Get potested emails and leak those out those that's much different than what was happening with the Steel situation with the Steele dossier. But nevertheless, you're hearing Republicans make that case as a lot of them trying to defend what the president is doing. Right. But these two things, the dossier and what Trump is talking about here, these two things are not the same. Yeah, they're not the exact same jets, but they're pretty dark close.

But this is a classic CNN thing. This is this is what you hear over there all the time. They'll they'll say something like it's a really profound statement, and when you think about it, it's one of the dumbest things you've ever heard. Well, the dossier and what happened here with the Trump campaign and meeting at Trump at Trump Tower. It's not the same, right, but the same principle should be involved, the same standards should be applied.

I really wonder is CNN staffing itself at the most senior levels with people who are just not all that bright, or who are so dishonest but in love with their own image and their overstuffed paychecks that they're willing to look stupid in front of smart and honest people and not care. I don't have an answer. I don't know which it is right now. There is no good answer to the question. Why does why do the foreign efforts of the DNC and the Hillary Clinton campaign not get

not get called foreign interference? But the Trump campaign taking a meeting where there was no interference. That's another important that's another important component of this. The Trump meeting was, at worst, you could say, an attempted acceptance of information from a foreign source, attempted but without success. That's the worst thing you could say. It had no impact on anything. The Veslant Sky meeting was a nothing, a zero, a

nothing burger. The Christopher Steel dossier, relying on a foreign intelligence operative and foreign Russian government sources for that dossier was a remarkably effective piece of disinformation. The effects we are still living with to this day. So, on the one hand, you have something that was effectively meaningless but has been magnified into a huge problem, which is the Trump Tower meeting and the Trump campaign people talking to Veslandskaya.

On the other hand, you have an incredibly successful disinformation and smear campaign using foreign sources, paying a foreigner, relying on foreign government information. But when you point this out, libs just they realize their best defenses to act like this is they're a bunch of total morons, Like they can understand why these two things being treated incongruously, Why these two matters receiving entirely separate treatment, Why that's incredibly disturbing.

It undermined that their whole premise, they're trying to really get this going all this may be the thing they believe that leads to impeachment right now, you know, and now they'll try this, and you know, next week it'll be the firing of Mueller, I'm sorry, or the attempt to fire Muller by with McGann, it'll be obstruction again, and the week after that it'll be They'll just keep coming back to these and they lose on the issue, they go away, they come back again, and they hope

that they can break through and they'll tire out their opponents. They'll they'll exhaust people like me and you who don't believe their bull and eventually they'll get their way. Their plan is to just be engaged in relentless propaganda. That's what this is, a relentless propaganda campaign. That's why when they're saying that these are different things, as though that's yeah, of course they're different things. But the key similarity foreign

information used to the benefit of a presidential campaign. That is irrefutable. That is a function of fact. So given that that is an irrefutable function of fact, why doesn't the press have to grapple with this? Why are Democrats being asked all the time to explain this? How is one foreign interference but the other is not? Why does the media get so upset about one and out the other?

But this is like what I told you yesterday. Bill Clinton got a bigger check for one speech from a Russian bank that was all tied up with oligarchs in the Russian government. He got more money from one country, Russia, for one speech than has been spent at every Trump property combined over the course of two years by twenty

two different foreign governments. And you see peace after peace about the emolument's clause and how they're buying Trump by spending money on burghers at his hotel, and nothing on how Clinton was selling his wife's office. That's what he was doing. This is extremely serious. The stark reality, the sad truth, is that we have a president in the United States who's not playing on America's team. He is

invited yet again foreign interference in our presidential elections. He said that and finally admitted in fact that he sees nothing wrong with collusion, which is in fact what happens when you accept information from a foreign entity. And he said in effect that he'd do it again. He sees no problem with a president of the United States being beholden to a foreign power, even a foreign hostile power, as inevitably one would be if you accepted information and

support from a foreign government. What a pile of bull from former Obama National security advisor Susan Rice, remember her, Remember Susan Rice, everybody, it was a spontaneous reaction to a video. That's what caused the death of for brave Americans that night in Benghazi, Libya. That's right, it was

a spontaneous video. Wasn't a terrorist attack? Can't use the T word, not not you know, right before and action is about to happen, and Obama is up on the ballot and he says that General Motors is alive, been Ladden is dead, and he's basically defeated al Kaya. You can't use the T word, can't say terrorists. But Susan Rice has come back out here to spread the Democrat talking points. It's extremely serious. A president who is not

playing on America's team. What a disgusting, unfair, ridiculous, disgraceful thing for a former senior bureaucrat to say, not playing on America's team. Meanwhile, a lot of America seems I think the president's doing just just a great job of playing on our team. Yeah, I'd like to know what Susan Rice thinks about Hillary Clinton accepting for an information. I mean, this has now become you know, this has now become a question of are people just going to

actively deny reality or not. And I think there's unfortunately a lot of them. Will this Susan Rice little monologue here about the president and not playing an America's team because he's inviting foreign interference. He didn't invite foreign interference in our election. He just said, Look, I mean, I foubody's gonna tell me they got something. They gotta tell me. I'm gonna talk to them. How could this even be policed?

How could this be adjudicated? Now you have others running around saying, oh, you know Mark Warner and the Senate in Capitol Hill, Well you know we've got to make laws to prevent this from happening. Where you can get a thing of value information? Okay, So if you meet with a foreigner who tells you I read this really great book on US Russia relations, you should check it out too. Is that a thing of value that might be a valuable insight? Do you have to report that? Now?

Where does this stop and start? Who makes the decisions about what's valuable information versus what's just hearsay, what's just being passed along for no apparent or clear reason. Everyone now is supposed to think that Natalia Vizelnetskaya in the Trump Tower meeting was because she said that this is part of the Russian government's you know, support for the

Trump candidacy. That that was the case. Maybe she was just a whacko, or maybe she had really really important information that would have changed the course of American history. That was true. You know, one thing that gets skipped skipped by with all of this is that the wiki leagues posted information from from Podesta and the DNC accounts. It was all true, you know, it was all real information.

It wasn't disinformation. And don't we I mean, don't we get to factor into this then you know, maybe we should know some of this stuff. Journalists, as a matter of course, as part of their jobs, try to solicit classified and in fact illegal information for them to have or possess, all under this idea that they need to inform the American public about it, and they take it upon themselves to decide what should and should not really

be classified. And you know what, this state of America's knowledge about what the government thinks should be secret ease at any given time. But oh, that's right, a president who's not playing on America's team, she says, and that's why they're they're they're waiting, you know that they're throwing all this stuff out there, and that's what today We know what today really was about. It's it's more than

anything else. Why Why was Stephanopolis standing? Why was that that little smarmy smurf allowed to do in any for the president where he's standing and looking down at him? Did the people working with the president not understand what those optics were supposed to be. It's the President United States. Little little Stephanopolis, little mini Stepan Stephanous should be sitting, and I was gonna say at eye level, you know,

he should be. He should be sitting and looking across the president at about naval level, and that's how the interview should go. He shouldn't be allowed to stand and look down at the president while he seated. That just strikes me as bad optics. I mean, I'm sure the President obviously allowed it to happen, but I think that was a mistake. And he asked the question that's been asked so many times before. There's nothing new about this. This is what they're gonna do there. They're gonna keep

you know, they're gonna keep cycling. Mike is saying that if Stephanopolis sat down, he'd be out of frame one and two. Maybe his you know, his little legs would be dangling on the end of the chair, which is not that's not a power look for a little steff. I've seen little Stephie. He's a little, tiny fellow. You know. He's also, from what I'm told, not a nice not a nice guy, and a former Clinton operative who's allowed to be a journalist, an objective journalist. That people still

say this stuff. I just want to laugh in their faces. They really believe this, They think that this is that anybody should believe this, That Stephanopolis is not playing for it. If you think Stephanopolis is not playing for a team, you're not smart enough to vote. And I wonder if you're smart enough to really like take care of yourself and you know, cook your own food. I mean, I really have questions. Essentially what you're saying there, Buck, I

think is really right. That really wasn't an interview with George Stephanopolis. It was an interview with the Clinton's. You know, Yes, basically that's what he was. And so why do we have to pretend like it's anything other than that? And why would the White House go along with this? But do we know why they allowed the strange setup of having Papadopolis standing and looking down at the president when he's in his chair. I just thought that was such

a weird decision. Did we see any any scuttlebut about that? I didn't see anything. But it's your I don't really actually even think about you just said it's a really good point. Yeah, man, Look, will you go back you look at that video. He's like looking it's like he's scolding the President United States, a little tiny Stephanopolis. You know. It's like he's he's telling the President that he wants to ride him around the office like a pony, which

he probably could. Yeah, get a little saddle, little Steffie. Hey, hey, pay me one hundred million dollars. I'm such a good journalist. Hey, But this is what this is what they're doing, folks. They're trying to you know, they're they're trying to create some momentum for impeachment. And so they they put out

these different versions. They'll say different versions of really the same thing, you know, and they want to say, oh, what gets traction, what gets people excited, what's going to get people fired up so that they'll go along with

our our impeachment efforts here. And uh, you know, Nancy Pelosi is trying to you know, she's the one who's trying to see what fits here, and because I think she knows that this is risky and her future power and her time to Speaker of the House is at risk, which matters to her more than anything else based on the decision making here about whether to impeach or not. First, let's get onto Nancy's response to Trump play clibit. You make it sound as if it could be a common thing.

It is not. And what the President said last night shows clearly, once again, over and over again that he does not know the difference between right and wrong. And that's probably the nicest thing I can say about him, because if he doesn't know the difference, it could explain some of his ridiculous behavior. And now to invite further involvement of foreign governments into our election, He's not inviting it.

This is just not true. If what he says is so bad, can they just accurately refer to what he said and not make crap up? Could they just do that? Is that asking too much? He wasn't saying yeah, please foreign government to the world, semi all the information you can. But Pelosi has to know that. But she also knows that ultimately this is about the eye word, this is

about impeachment. It is all political. And because it is so clearly political, you know that what Pelosi's going to do is say, oh, but this is not politics at all. This is classic Nancy gas lighting play nine. As we go down this path to seek the truth for the American people and to hold the president accountable, it has nothing to do with politics or any campaigns. It has everything to do if I may excuse me answer your question,

it is everything to do with patriotism, not partisanship. What we want to do is have a methodical approach to the path that we are on, and this will be included in that. And no one is above the law. Yeah, sure, who believes Nancy there? This is about getting the truth the American people. Really, what are they going to have Muller testify on Capitol Hill? Let's just start with that. They want the answers to a ballet, They want the truth to a bally that the single moost obvious witness

that they could call in this entire thing. They have no interest in calling. Anybody want to take a stab at how that's possible. Anyone want to try to tell me what's going on with that one? Oh you mean this is all political and Nancy's a joke and a liar. Oh yeah, that's right. There we go, get ready for folks. So Iran is doing some bad stuff, really bad stuff. In fact, looks like they're going after shipping in the Straits of Horn moves oil tankers. This could be a

big problem in the US response here. Well, we better gauge this appropriately because once they start attacking oil tankers, this can spile out of control real fast. We'll get to that next. You are now entering the Freedom Hunt Tanical Operation Center. All sensitive programs must be camps strictly need to know Team Buck is cleared and ready for

the Buck brief. It is the assessment of the United States government that the Islamic public of Iran's responsible for the attacks that occurred in the Gulf of Amon today. This assessment is based on intelligence, the weapons used, the level of expertise needed to execute the operation, recent similar Iranian attacks on shipping, and the fact that no proxy group operating in the area has the resources and proficiency

to act with such a high degree of sophistication. This has been a concern for a long time that the Iranians would escalate the fastest way they could think of, short of a direct attacks on Israel or a major terror attack through them on US US embassies or US personnel, and that is to create major global instability in the oil markets through attacks on shipping in the Strait of Horror Moves. On the Straight of Horror Moves is a place that has roughly twenty five to thirty percent of

the world some say twenty it's twenty two thirty. Let's say close to a quarter to a third of the world's oil supply shipped through it on any given day. So just today, having one tanker that's a Japanese vessel that was hit with some kind of it looks like a c mine or perhaps a torpedo, that caused global oil prices to rise as high as four percent today, though that went back down a little bit, but people

were concerned about a disruption in supply. Now you have to remember last month, you know, the last month there were four tankers attacked and the US blamed Iran for those incidents as well, and it is just based on the skill of these attacks, the technology and the weapons involved that the US assessment so far is that this is the Iranian regime. This is where we start to have to get really concerned learned about what the future

of US policy against Iran is going to be. It comes also at a time when you have this effort to stop the sale of sophisticated billions of dollars of sophisticated weapons to Saudi Arabia, which is the only regional country that's in any kind of real position to push back on Iran. Saudis have about a seventy billion dollar defense budget, and the Saudias because that Saudi Arabia is not just of but in a sense the primary Sunni majority state of the Muslim world. It's the place of

the Holy Cities of Mecca and Medina. The Saudias have a historic and long standing animosity, you could even say hatred perhaps of the Shia Iranian regime. And if we want somebody to be a counterbalanced to Iran, it's gonna have to be the Saudis. So that's why antagonizing the Sadies, whether it's over the war in Yemen or over the really grotesque incident. But remember he wasn't one of ours, and they lied about that for a while. Jamaica Shogi

not a US citizen, not even a permanent resident. The guy was here on a visa, So he's a Jamaica Shogi is a foreign national. That doesn't mean what happened to him was it okay, But it just means that that's not the United States government's urgent problem to deal with and fix. We don't change our foreign policy in response necessarily to what a foreign country does to a citizen of another foreign country. That's not how this works.

American citizens interests come first in these situations. But the hitting of an oil tanker in the this is the Gulf of Oman, but it's right in right in the same waterway effectively, or right nearby to the Strait of Hormouse.

And this is going to set everybody on edge because if the Iranians decide to go with the option that has been I mean I was writing assessments at the Blaze on this going back now eight nine years where look at the Irani I mean I did whole I remember this and some people who watched in the real news days know what I'm talking about at the Blaze that I would, I would stand up and do maps because map time with Buck was always a big, big hit in the Blaze days, at least we thought it was.

And I'd walk through why this straight of hormones was such an important strategic choke point. It's because of the energy supplies that come out come out of the Gulf, and if the Iranians decided to create not just the disruption in supply, but the attendant ecological disaster of a major series of strikes on it. I mean, oil tankers are like big floating target practice. It's not hard at

all for the Iranians to take them out. And as you know, one oil tanker getting hit, you have environmentalists concerned about species die off, and you know what it does to ecosystems in the water for who knows how long. What if you hit ten oil tankers, what if you hit twenty and all that all that oil, all those losses, What does that do to the global market? And what's really our response? What's our retaliation when it be Now?

I hope it doesn't go to this place, but it obviously could go to this place, and just by I can't really show you. As talking about maps, the Gulf of Oman is really the outflow area from the Persian Gulf, and the Strait of Hormuz is the place where you have this this tightening of the sort of a bottleneck effect between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. So I mean this is right off the Iranian coast.

I mean, Iran is all along this waterway and can very easily hit any number of these ships and tankers with either marine naval weapons or ground based weapons too. And there's not a whole lot that we can we can do about it. Now, the Iranians are saying this is all suspicious, and then it really know, what they're

hoping is to have some level of deniability. And this is a classic tactic in Middle East with Middle East regimes, where we may know well and good that the Iranians are behind this, but they are going to say that they had nothing to do with this. This is a false flag. This is the you know, the Americans looking for another wm D moment, trying to attack Iran with any you know, all this is all John Bolton and some kind of you know, some scheme, some plot that

he's put at work. You know. I also remember that it was what a week or two I forget what it was. It was a week or two ago when the administration was talking about how there's an escalation in the threat reporting coming out of this region, and there were concerns that Iranian boats were being outfitted for attacks. And there are all these other reports that came out in the anti Trump newspapers about how that was all lies and that intelligence doesn't really exist, and was it

all lies? Does that intelligence not really exist? I think that we might want to go back and revisit who was saying what to whom about all that. But Trump is willing to see this through. He completely rejects the Obama administration approach to Iran, which was appeasement, which was trying to find some means of getting the Mullas to like us more. Trump did not like that approach at all. Here's what Trump says about how he deals with Iran.

Play fifteen. Ran is not the same country. When I became president, Iran was a terror all over the world. They had just made this horrible deal for the United States, the Iran Nuclear o'deal, and I became president and I terminated, did the deal and a run now is in chaos.

I still remember being on air at CNN and describing describing the transfer of hostages for pallettes of cash as paying a terrorist organiza or paying a terrorist regime for hostages and having all these CNN and let's go, oh no, this isn't. This isn't you know, it's a separate thing.

It's money that was already owed to them. I mean the mental gymnastics these people went through because they realize it looked really bad that the Obama administration was just handing sending palettes of cash to the Mullahs to give us back people the iranis never should have had at the first place. You know, one thing that is very true across the Middle East is you know, people see two horses, a strong horse and a weak horse, they go at the strong horse. Strength matters in the Middle East.

This is it's not a region where play by the rules, fair play can cosideration for the other side is respected, or is revered or even really considered to be necessarily a good thing in and of itself. It's all about who has the upper hand, and who has strength, and who shows strength and the Obama administration constantly showed weakness on Iran. This is why they had to have Ben Rhodes and the other national security apparatchicks in the Obama

administration tell and effectively using their own words. Here, you know, dumbass twenty five year old journalists in DC, you don't know anything what they wanted them to say, so they'd go out and say it about the Iran deal so they could get through a deal that was not in any way painful for Tehran and was ridiculous, and Trump recognized it as ridiculous. So now we're out of it. The Europeans are all figuring out whether they're what they're going to do now. But it wasn't a good deal.

It didn't deal with ballistic missiles, it didn't deal with terrorist activity. It gave way too much relief to an Iranian regime that just did not deserve it. And now we're at a place where the administration's got some tough choices to make because anything that involves US ground troops in the Middle East now the Trump administrations to think

of it as a true last resort. And I do not want any of the neo conservative tendencies to all of a sudden overtake this administration, and we have we have this premise that is made to seem normal that if we can just get rid of the Mullah's and maybe just take over Iron for like six months with one hundred or a hundred ty thousand soldiers, we can make this great country out of it. No, no, no, We've learned that lesson in Iraq, We've learned that lesson

in Afghanistan. We are not doing that again. So then you have to ask, well, what do we do? What is the response? If the Iranians decide just to completely way, it would mean the Europeans would have abandoned them the deal. But I don't think they're going to do this because the Iranian state, the economy is weak, their military is good at at asymmetrical and terrorist stuff, but not a first world power by any stretch with the in terms of their military. So how do we get them to

behave and what are our options? General Jack Keane had some thoughts on on this over at Fox. Here's what he said, Place sixteen more pressure that's got to bite more on them. They haven't changed them align aggressive behavior, but a couple of things have happened. There's less resources that they're providing to the proxies, and it's their proxies who are propping up lemon on running the war in Syria to civil war, running the war in Yemen as well.

So that already is a significant improvement over where we are, but we got to continue to match pressure campaign to for sure here it is absolutely critically now. I think the General is correct, although that may not be enough in an of itself. Yeah, we need to keep the pressure on, Okay, but that's what we've been doing. What if the Iranian step out of line and cross the red line of blowing up tankers them? What air strikes?

How many air strikes for how long? And what do we do if the Iranians then retaliate with and these are all these are the old concerns. This is what people have been writing reports and assessments on, stretching back for many years, for decades in some cases. What will Iran do when fully boxed into a corner? This may in a sense be an indicator of how well the Trump's strategy is working. That their behavior, you know, they're

trying to see if we'll blink. They're trying to see if we will abandon the pressure campaign, if we'll decide that we don't need to do what the Trump administration has been doing. Essentially, people will get scared and say, oh gosh, we don't want to We don't want a hot war with Iran, so we better be the ones. America needs to be the one to back off. I

think that would be a major mistake. I think that Iran has been a thorn in the side of America, Israel, and the rest of the world for far too long. The regime is an evil and illegitimate regime, and the pressure that we have on it is warranted. And we don't have to live in a world within Iran run by theocratic maniacs wet. We don't have to accept that. We've come to accept it, perhaps whether intentionally or not, because it's been around for so long, but that doesn't

mean that we have to really accept it forever. So tensions are very high. You'll see that headline, You'll hear people saying that a lot. It is true right now. But I hope that Trump stays the course because his instincts in dealing with the Mullahs I believe are correct. Fed's gone wild d OJ's stunning inability to prosecute its own bad actors. This from my colleague, former colleague at the Hill, mister John Solomon. Oh man, he loves, he loves to poke the Deep State in the eye with

these pieces. It's really fun. Let's just get into some of the salacious details here on the Hill dot com, shall we. One was caught red handed engaged in nepotism, Another, a lawyer no less, admitted to shoplifting at a Marine Barracks store, a third leaked sealed court information to the news media, and a fourth engaged in fraud by turning

a government garage into a personal repair shop. Four cases all saw solve in the past month, with suspects who cost taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars and significant breaches of public trust. But these weren't your everyday purps. All were US Department of Justice employees who are supposed to catch other criminals while working for the FBI, the Drug

Enforcement Administration, and US attorney's offices. Instead, they broke the law or violated the rules, and all managed to escape prosecution. They're proven transgressions. Recent Justice Department disciplinary files tell an undeniable story the DOJ is doing a poor job of punishing its own. This is one of these reads where you see that the federal bureaucracies, for all their talk about being public servants and how they just they only exist, they only you know, are around to do their best

for America, to help the American people. For all of that talk, for all of that noise they make, they think they should live by a slightly or in some cases, very different set of standards. And this is a recurring theme today on the show. If we have double standards, we really have no standards, because you either punish certain infractions a certain way because that's what's right, or you don't. And if you don't, well then that's to change the

way people view all punishments going forward. The DOJ is a place where you know, and I also say this, it's true, not just the DOJ, it's it's a lot of these government agencies. You will find that if you step out a line against the organization as one of their own, they will find ways to crush you and you will be punished to the maximum extent allowed by law. But if you're just doing stuff that's embarrassing to the organization in order to protect the organization, you know, the

DOJ and these others. They're almost like self sustaining organisms, you know, self interested organisms. So if you come at your home agency with whistleblowers stuff, or you do anything like that, then you're likely to just get crushed. They will. They will go into time and attendance fraud on you. There's some classic stuff they do, you know, to just make you sound like a criminal, but really there's political or politicial reasons that they're trying to take you down.

But if you just do stuff like you know, watch porn for twelve hours a day in your office from your government computer, you know, maybe they'll give you a slap on the wrist, but they don't want to make a big deal of it because that makes the whole agency look bad. This is stuff that really happens, by the way, it's classic though fed's gone wild. DJ's stunning ability to prosecute its own bad actors, and that's for sure.

Man John Solomon, that guy, he does not have any qualms about slapping the Deep State across the face and say, what's up, Deep State? Take that. I challenge you to a duel. Deep States. We'll be right back Mexico's moving six thousand troops to their southern border. That's a lot of troops. If Mexico does a great job, then you're not gonna have very many people coming up. If they don't, then we have Phase two. Phase two is very tough, but I think they're going to do a good job.

If Mexico does what they say they're going to do, it will be a huge help to what's going on in the border. These individuals are coming from these Northern Triangle countries primarily, but now from all around the world, as we've recently seen, coming to our border because they know that because Congress has failed to fix the loopholes and our immigration laws, that we can't detain them and

they'll be released into our country. If they can't even get to the United States and have to remain in Mexico or get stock stopped in Guatemala or somewhere else in the Northern Triangle, then yes, that's going to change the entire dynamic. It's a humanitarian crisis, it's a border security crisis, it's a public safety crisis. Unfortunately, Congress has failed to fix the crisis, and now as we can see going through the reprogramming, issue efforts, and the twenty

twenty budget they propose. They're not even willing to fund us properly to manage the crisis. So without the money and the resources and no changes to the laws, this crisis is not going to abate itself. That was the ICE Deputy director on the situation at the border, and Mexican promises to take action to help out here. Remember what I told last week. If Trump gets a deal in Mexico, all of a sudden is going to be more helpful. You know what, We're gonna be told, Oh

it doesn't matter. Oh, Trump didn't really get a deal. Trump didn't get a win. Let's not get crazy. We knew it. You knew it. I knew it. They cannot they cannot bring themselves in the press corps. The Democrats will not, to the point of denying clear obvious reality, will not give credit to Trump for anything. What was the big the big downside of his action? What was the big problem with him saying that we were gonna put tariffs in place and there was no big downside.

It looks like there was a pretty big upside here. I mean when I say there was no big downside, it managed to work. They didn't have to put the tariffs in place. That's, you know, a negotiation where you're not willing to take any risks. It's not a negotiation where you're going to win very much either. This is a very simple formulation, no risk, no reward. Trump will take risks on policy where he thinks it's necessary. And six thousand troops to the Mexican southern border, which is

the border with Guatemala. That could really help. Even if Mexico stops people from getting into the United States from Central America, then at least we don't have to worry about the giant loophole in our law that Congress won't fix that says if you're from a non contiguous country, you will not be able to be immediately deported, which

is a huge, huge problem. And the scope of this problem or filling at the place where no one can deny that this is a massive issue, and there's a lot of stuff that needs to be dealt with here and fixed. But when we think more about what the media has been willing to say about this and how they've acted in the past, I mean, I think we've got to understand here quite clearly that they've been lying.

They've been lying about this. I mean, here's a DHS chief just making it, making it as straightforward as possible, what's going on here? Play thirteen. I want to make clear that this crisis is unlike anything we've ever seen in our border, and it in large part is due to the gaps in our immigration laws that are driving Any of our men and women on the border can tell you that DHS facilities are overflowing, that our resources are stretched stin Yep, all of that is true. This

is a serious crisis. This is a problem that will not solve itself. The Trump administration is taking action, is taking pretty dramatic action, in fact, in order to make something happen here. And if judges don't stand in the way, I think that will be will be in a better place pretty soon. I think the Mexican government knows that Trump is serious about Look at the China tariffs. Oh, he'll never do it, it's a trade war, it's a bad idea. Oh, actually, he will do it, and he

has done it already. And this is one of the biggest gambles on trade in the economy that any president's taken a long time. But Trump really believes in this. But to give you a sense of the dishonesty in the way this issue is reported on, a representative Dan Crenshaw has pointed to the way that Time Magazine and The Hill, where I used to work until a week ago, the way that they have reported on the microan crisis

recently involves things like this. The Hill tweeted out the Trump administration is sending migrant children to the former Japanese to a former Japanese internment camp, and this is meant to get people to completely I think that they're aciting the the Time report here in the Hill though, so it's really a Time magazine report. I don't think that

this was original reporting from the Hill. And yes, the Fort Sill this is reported by So so the Hill is getting is getting hit here, but they're just reporting on a report. It was Time magazine that said, oh my gosh, Fort Sill, this is where there was the interment of Japanese Americans, and so this is a terrible thing. Dan Crenshaw understands that the people who are reporting on this as such, this is a bad faith reporting job

from Time magazine. Time magazine is just a left wing rag and I think a lot of people are surprised that it still exists in any capacity, but it certainly does. But here's Crenshaw on saying on Time magazine, saying that these migrant children are being sent to the same place as the as the intern Japanese were play fourteen. And this is another example of the media. This was Time magazine.

I think The Hill reported this year. They have a headline that says, you know, the administration is putting kids where we used to put where interment for Japanese americancerning World War To. The implication, of course, that they're going for is that, oh, we're putting people in concentration camps. Of course, nothing could be further from the truth. This is a military base. We are looking for places to house kids in a humane way. It's nonsense. It's used

for something different now. It is not a concentration camp. It's not even close to that. They've said that they're going to open it up to media and let people come look at it. You can make your arguments without being so unbelievably dishonest. But they just can't help themselves. How are we supposed to trust members of the media when they put out stories like this. I just can't believe it. How are we supposed to trust them? Good,

good question, Congressman Crunshaw. We're not supposed to trust them though, or we should not trust them. The Trump administration to send migrant children a former Japanese internment camps. That's the Time magazine piece. And what you find out if you read down a little bit, is that, Oh wait, the Health and Human Services Department under the Obama administration also used Fort Sill as a temporary emergency shelter for children

attained at the border. That's right, the Obama administration send children to this site. Did anyone ever say in the media Obama sending refugee kids to same place used as Japanese internment camp? No, that was never Why is that, folks? Why did that never come up? Why was that never said? You know the answer. It's just fun to ask the

question rhetorically, isn't it. No, And then you have the other reality that Fort Sill is a very large US military base and has been in continuous operation I think since the mid nineteenth century. So a lot of stuff goes on at Fort Sill. A lot of stuff happens there, you know. I'm I'm going to New York City this weekend. I'm gonna be a New York City for the weekend, a visit family and be with my pops for Father's Day.

And you could describe that as, you know, buck Sexton going to the city stolen from Native Americans for like whatever was a few dozen dollars in some wampum or something. But that's kind of a weird way to describe it. Is a lot of other stuff has happened in New York since then, And if you describe it that way out of nowhere, wouldn't that tell everyone a lot about what you are? You know, you have some agenda, buck Sexton heading to stolen Indian Land for the weekend, also

known as New York City. Okay, well, I mean, I guess that's technically true, but it's not really how I would think of things. You know, this is the absurdity of the media, though for them, accuracy now turns into any any question, who's this person? You could say, someone who's never been in my kitchen? Remember that from was it Norman Cheers? I've set it before the show? I forget technically true, you could say that about any number of people. Someone who's never been in my kitchen, but

it doesn't really tell you much. That was him doing trebec. That's that's right. That was in uh jein all I think right, yeah, no, that was that was in uh No, that was on the real cheers. I think he was on right or no. I thought it was him when he was playing alc Trebec. I think it was in the real chair. I don't know, wasn't it. We'll track it down. We'll track it down. Oh, I'm speaking to track it down. Track us down in a second. We'll be right back. What is going on in the Dominican Republic.

I've been to the DR a few times when I was very young. I barely remember it. I went with my family. I think I went once or twice. Maybe it was twice. Uh And it's getting all of this attention for all the wrong reasons these days. This is Fox News today is in the spotlight because there have been a series of deaths. For this year two last year, at least six American tourists have died on vacation in the Dominican Republic, and some of them in really suspicious

and weird circumstances. Here, you had David Harrison, forty five of Merrill. This was last summer checks in the hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Punta Kana. He and his wife are there at the twelve year old son for several days. Harrison starts to feel ill. The next day, after lying in bed still not feeling well, he decides to join his wife in the hotel casino. He notices a strange smell. Very spoke. Oh sorry. The wife notices a strange smell coming from her husband. He begins to

feel ill, returns to the room. She calls for an ambulance and he dies. Well. They say he had a heart attack. But her husband was very fit, very healthy person, and a bunch of these, a bunch of people Americans have all died of these same causes or similar circumstances. They're very sketchy. Producer, Mike, do you have a theory on this? Have you ever been in the dr Producer? And I don't think I'm ever gonna go. This is not making me want to sign up, I've got to say.

And I feel bad because it's one of these countries where about twenty percent of the entire GDP and twenty percent of their whole economy comes from tourism. So if tourism starts off and you think about Aruba, which is a place that I've been to, which I will tell you is gorgeous and basically stress free vacation in terms

of it's incredibly safe. The water is clean, there's no crime. Really, the doctors on the island are like Dutch trained and excellent, and like it's a very orderly clean place, and it's beautiful and like the food is great. You know, they lost Natalie Holloway got killed basically by this, by that psycho, and people didn't want to remember that. By the way, Gret event Sustern, I remember being in what was it high school or something and Gret event Suster your night,

We've grap gate. You're Natalie Halloway. You know, every night it was like a Natalie Holloway update. And you know, the tourism dropped off after that. Dude, people didn't want to go. I don't blame that, this this one. That's this one event. And on top of everything you're mentioning in the drum, big Poppy got shot. Oh that's right. Yeah, it was about sports and they I saw the one they paid Yeah eight that they paid the hitmen eight

thousand dollars. Yeah, it was like in There's like it was a definitely an assassination attempt on him, and he wasn't. I think it was an assassinate Big Poppy. I don't know, man, he's a lovable guy. I don't even get it. That takes a lot for me to say about a Red Sox guy. But you gotta love I was gonna say, I mean, you're a Philly guy and even you respect Big Pop and it's just crazy someone's gonna try to

shot the guy in the back eight thousand dollars. But you know what's what's really scary is when you look at the stats for how how little it costs usually

to pay for a hit on somebody. By the numbers, the lowest ever in the world, in the kind of open black will not open, but in the in a consistent black market I read was at the height of the violence in in Warez, the average hit, i mean, the average cartel hit on a person was the hitman was paid seventy dollars, which is just astonishing that actually came from a man yone Grillo in one of his books,

I was like, Wow, seventy bucks, dude, seventy bucks. Somebody will walk up and just pop somebody, no, no questions asked. Think about that crazy world, right? I mean eight thousand is still I mean, first of all, who goes and shoot somebody that don't know under any circumstances. Eight thousand dollars seems like a shockingly low figure to go and shoot any human being in the back. But and then you add into that this guy's incredibly famous. You're obviously

gonna get caught and go to prison forever. It just seems I don't know, man, I don't know if Big Poppy had some like sketchy associates or something. I haven't seen anything about that though, But really bad press, and I was looking to maybe go away for a week in the summer to a beach somewhere, and I feel bad. I think Dr Dude low on the list right now? Yes? Good in New Jersey much safer Jersey Shore. I don't know this Jersey Shore safer. I don't know. I don't know.

Producer Mike Clain, flip maybe what's the closest what's the closest beach to Philly? Where do Philly people go to the beach. So where do we go? Yeah, South Jersey. Well we'll head down the Atlantic Expressway instead of making a left and going north, we'll go south and avalon Stone Harbor, Kpe. May you know, you know, you know, we like to call that, what's that classy? Yeah right, it's classy. It's how it's how we do it on the weekends. Now we do exactly. Yeah. Yeah, here, indeed,

everyone's got there a little weekend getaway stuff. On the East Coast DC, it's all Maryland Shore pretty much. People gone then of course in New York it's out east, which is a fancy way of saying Long Island and the Hampton's. But you've gotta be even if you're not taking a helicopter, you better be ready to sitt in traffic for a very long time. But anyway, what's the next what's the next beach destination on producer Mike's radar

that is not the Dominican Republic. Yeah, I think I'm gonna go actually to Kate may Um at some point this summer. I haven't been there in a while, so I have a friend who lives down there, and I think I'm gonna go do a little Kate may action. Just a question, producer, Mark, did you get the invitation from producer Mike to his little beach junk because I did not. I did not either. I'm I'm the host, you're the technical producer. I feel like you know we

should be at least notified when the beach party happened. Man, I'll send pictures. Let it, Derek. Here we go. Now, now you all know what producer Mike isn't here. He's setting up the real the real attendees, the female attendees for his beach parties. That's whatever. I call out his name, and he's not in the studio. We know, we know what's actually what's actually going go it totalized, Man, No, k K I Actually I was trying to get down to DC once a long time ago, and I got stuck.

I missed the last ferry out of Cape May, New Jersey, and and if you missed that ferry, and it's a holiday weekend, you have to drive all the way like up north and around and it's a total nightmare. So we actually ended up crashing. It's a really cute little town. I liked it. Yeah, it's nice, it's it's it's clean, it's fun, it's um you have really good restaurants, really clean beaches. What's the best beach you've ever been to? Since we're into the sort of summer season hearing people

thinking about maybe getting away for a weekend. Best beach you've ever been to in the United States? In the US? Okay, I probably would say recently it was in San Diego and it was at the Hotel del and it was beautiful there. I'd say their beaches were really, really nice. San Diego's great. I don't know a a lot more people don't live there. Fantastic. I mean I feel like it's you know, you think La is so much more overcrowded.

It feels like than Sa Diego, and the beach in San Diego is way better than the beach in l A. Absolutely, it's quiet, there's not a whole lot of people, you have to deal with any of the riff raft that you do up north. That's really a trick question, though, because the answer to what's the best beach in the United States, in my opinion, it always has to be something in Hawaii, but people don't think of that right away. Yeah, if Florida is nice, I like pomp Mark where are

you win on this one? I mean, I haven't been to many beaches outside of New York, so I'm gonna have to go with the one that's a block from my house in Long Beach. Oh look what he just did, dude, He just bigfooted us with the beach, a beach a block from his house. He's like, you suckers have to drive or fly. I just roll out of bed and go to the greatest beach ever producer mark for the win. I gotta say, buddy, you came through there in the clutch.

Look at that. You never become the best at anything by facing a mediocre opponent. The person you're really competing against is yourself. He waits. That's when you've learned who you really are. The guy you were last time isn't the best of you. For god, you aren't ours. I would just tell people, and I do tell people, just get out and try it. It can be super scary, but there's so many connections friendships that you can make

through adapted sports. How far can you push yourself? How far can we set that bar for you and your teammates, but also for those who are coming out behind us. If we explore and push the limits right now, how much further when you put this thing and in the future, push your limits and bring it. You may not feel like you aren't like everybody else, That's okay, Keep pushing forward, see where the road will lead. You may not feel like you're perfect, so that doesn't mean you can't be

where you want to be. That is some promotional video from the Warrior Games. Warrior Games are the Olympics for wounded and sick veterans. I want to bring on some folks who can tell you exactly what this organization, what this athletic competition is all about. By the way, June twenty first to thirtieth is in Tampa, is when the

Warrior Games occur. To tell us about this, we have Israel Del Toro, an Air Force Senior Master Sergeant Army Colonel Carrie Harball, director of the Warrior Games, and Travis Clayder, director of Communications for the Warrior Games. Travis Carry and Israel, thanks so much for joining otor to be with your Thanks for us here all right, So just given a little background, why don't we start with Carrie for a

moment here. Carrie, just give us a little background on how the Warrior games came together and what this is all about. Sure, Warrior Games have been around now about

almost ten years. Started off sort of as an inter mural activity with the Department Offense partnered with the Olympic Training Center out in Colorado Springs, and we joked that back then it was kind of, you know, white T shirts with our team names written in crayons on them, because it was wasn't much to it as we tried to figure out figure our way out of how to do a Paralympic event for our wounded warriors from all the service programs plus special operations where that fifth fifth

program that the Department Offense and Congress recognize, and so it evolved over time, and in twenty fifteen we did the first iteration of a pure DoD run Warrior game without the Olympic Training Center's partnership, and we took that to a quantico in The Marine Corps were the hosts.

Then it drifted to twenty sixteen to West Point, the Army were the hosts, then to Chicago in twenty seventeen with the Navy, twenty eighteen out in Colorado Springs with the Air Force, and then it was our turn the Special Operations Command, and we turned to our community that we're closest too, because our headquarters is located there at McDill Air Force Base in Florida, and we knew that we had incredibly generous community in the Tampa Bay area

that really embraces the active duty and veteran service members in their families and that would be the perfect location for our Warrior Games twenty nineteen. And that's what we've done.

We brought it in there. Three hundred athletes coming into town, two hundred US because each of the five programs bring in forty athlete team size, and then about one hundred foreign partner athletes because we've added to our games the foreign partners over the years, and we've got the UK, Australia, Canada, the Netherlands and in Denmark all coming in for this with about one hundred athletes total. Master Sergeant Master Sergeant del Toro, if I could ask you, how did you

get involved in this? Well, I've been part of it since the beginning. Back in twenty ten. I was I had just finally re enlisted, came back in the military, and the Air Force had asked me where you participate in this? To kind of show hope for other service members who are injured or wounded. For the folks listening is Rael, what happened to you? I got hurt December

two thousand and five. I was in an ID explosion at the bomb explode underneath my home v and I received third degree burns an eighty percent of my body, lost my fingers on both hands, and I have a sensitivity to the heat and cold now because of the loss of the two layer of scan that I had. And you were able to come back from that injury and that you received while in combat and re enlished

and even competed in these athletic games. Yes, sir, So they gave me a fifteen percent chance to survive my injuries, and you know it was in coming four months and you know I woke up. They gave me the green diagnosis, you know, never walk again, restoring the rest of my life military crewer pretty much over and be stuck in the hospital for another year and a half. And two months after they told me that, I I left that

hospital walking and breathing them my own end. And I wanted to continue to serve my country because people always ask me why it's like you can retire and make so much orange money as a retired guy. But you know, it's not about money. I love my job, I love certain my country, I love in the Air Force, I love being with my teammates. You know, I know plenty of people out there that have great paying jobs and they just hate their job. So why am I going

to give up a job that I truly love? And so I fought and February of twenty ten, you know, I became the first one hundred percent disabled airman to ever realist in the Air Force. And since then, I've just been pushing myself to trying to show not only service members who are hurt, injured, ill, but anyone out there in the world that's having a bad day and saying, man, you can get through this. Just stay positive, believe in yourself,

and you will overcome it. And that's what I've been doing since then and Israel and this is all remarkable off on its own and inspiring for everyone to hear. But you also now compete in athletic events. What's your event? Well, I'm not sure right now, because I think they might have signed me up for the Ultimate Champion, meaning I'll be doing like about ten events. But if not, I'll

be still doing a lot. I'll be cycling, shooting, shot put, this kiss one hundred meter dash, sitting, volleyball, and powerlifting and rowing. Wow, I wrote a little bit in college, so rowing is uh, you gotta really want to do it to be rowing. Yeah, I'm actually pretty psychic, least the powerlifting because just the other day I did a new max had two hundred and fifty pounds on the bench prints. That's the most sense maybe being hurt. So

that was pretty over milestone graduate. Congratulations on that. I think a lot of the guys listening like, man, I gotta get back to the gym, Travis. I want to ask you just for for everybody across the country who's hearing about this, A lot of them is probably the first time, although we have a really really large current

and former military listenership. But the Warrior Games for those who want to either be a part of it by showing up or watching it or just supporting the Warrior Games and this this whole effort, what do people need to know? Sure, Well, like you've mentioned, the game, start June twenty onet and run for the next ten days. The biggest thing that we can ask people to do is come out in person if you're in the area, if you're visiting Tampa Bay, right, yea. So it's held

down in Tampa Bay, it's out in the community. It's free and open to the public. So the best thing you can do if you want to come out and support these wounded warriors, these heroes, is come out to the events. Come out to the athletic events, and cheer them on. That's the biggest way you can show your support and honor these guys, these men and women. So yeah, if you're in the area, stop out. It's over the course of ten days across various venues and as DT

was saying, a lot of different sports. So no matter what you're into from an athletic standpoint, or if you just want to come out support the military, there's something some amazing competition to come out and watch. If you're not in the area, it's going to be live stream. So we're live streaming most about eighty to ninety percent of the athletic competition, So you can log onto DoD Warrior games dot com and you can see firsthand the competition. You don't even have to live in the Tampa area

be visiting the Tampa area to see what's going on. Gentlemen, thank you so much for telling us about the Warrior Games. Master Sergeant Israel del Toro, Army Colonel Carry Harbaugh, and Travis Claytter, Thank you so much, gentleman. Really appreciate your time and important work on this issue. And we'll be cheering for you. Thanks for having a song. All right, team, we'll be right back. So what's going on with Justin Amash? Well, our friend David Harsani's got some thoughts. He's writing a

piece on this. Meet Justin Amash, never Trump's newest shiny object. David harsanis a senior writer at The Federalist. David, great to have you back. Always read to be here. Thanks for having me all right, ma, So just for by way of review, because I haven't really talked about mister Amash on the show in detail. Why is he all of a sudden getting all this attention from the people who hate Trump? Well, he two weeks ago came out in you know he support supported impeachment. I guess there

was no particular bill, but just in general. He said that the Attorney General had miss lantin American people and that the president had obstructed justice, and he laid out his reasoning in tweets and I think on Facebook as he does for all his positions, and that if you want to impeach Trump, who are immediately elevated in by you know, by the never trumpers and Democrats as a principal person and possibly even the next president of the

United States. What exactly is you know, there's justin Amash is he's a libertarian, but you know he's saying that the presidented state should be impeached. What what is libertarian about that? I mean, to me, there's so much from the surveillance, surveillance operations, there's a lot of police state problems with what's going on here with the deep state and Trump and these people the FBI and DJ were clearly going after him. I where's all the outrage from

Amash about about that? Which is? I don't think that's what about is him? Because that's central that he's saying you should be impeached. I'm like, well, look at the issue more holistically and is the other stuff okay? I just want to know where Amos stands on this. I mean, isn't he like mister fis US surveillance by the way, or he's all concerned about this stuff. Well, I don't

think he's looking he looks at things holistically. Honestly, I think he's very um tunnel visioned, bill by bill things like that. And I just don't think I stepped back and say, I actually think he's a principled guy. I think his positions to me, like I would like to see Justin Amash be a judge not a politician, because I don't think he believes in any sort of incrementalism towards getting you know, moving towards the goals that he

wants for as libertarianism goes, or anything else. So I do think generally as a principled guy, which makes what you just said more confusing to me, because clearly, as a libertarian, even though I've seen many libertarians abandon this, they're the concern of the you know, all of a sudden, they're less concerned at the FBI or the surveillance state

than they used to be. But let's just say that having a administration using that those mecca, you know, that those institutions against another political campaign, seems to me to be a far bigger problem than the supposed obstruction of justice, which is well within which Trump, you know, was well within his powers to do, like firing, the firing his FBI director, et cetera. So I don't really understand that position. Um, but generally, I mean, I think he's been a pretty

principled guy. So, you know, I don't really get it. What is he trying to accomplish? Though? Why be the loan Republican? Why people are now saying, who was it one of these guys who's who's so not conservative that he can go on CNN and call himself a conservative and CNN's okay with it. So whatever that means he's saying, was it Lewis Matt Lewis about Yeah? Yeah, the Daily Beast, which you know also known as woke dot Com, that

Ama should consider running for president. Well, here's the thing that bugged me about that is that when you look at Amasha's views on stuff, they are way outside anything and never Trumper would ever kind of want to support, right, So, I mean, he doesn't believe in any kind of gun control, basically doesn't believe in any kind of like restriction environmental to constriction restrictions. It's just tons of stuff. He's he's you know, a we actually have some pretty cool positions.

What you're telling me justin Amash is like it's like Buck, you can get that RPG you've always wanted. Absolutely like so in my so, I live in two worlds. As you know, as a columnist that can be all principled all the time and stuff like that, but I'm also a realist, right and you're not going to get certain kind of legislation. It's not going to happen. You have to work within a system when you're a politician. Doesn't mean you give up and surrender all the time, but

you have to be realistic. And nothing he believes in is sort of realistic. In DC today, we are not in a libertarian moment. Whatever the opposite of a libertarian moment is, that's exactly what we're in. So um, you know, his positions don't work that way. So I why he did he do this? I don't know. Maybe he likes to be a contrarian. I'm not sure. Maybe he really believes it, that's listen, he may. The thing though, is, you know, we can't be surprised if someone tries to

primary him. They act like they act like the Republicans are lockstepping behind Trump in some unprecedented way. No, this happens with every president. So there was no never Obama movement that didn't exist, you know what I'm saying. So I think this president actually has to deal with more internal you know, pushback than most. So I don't know. Yeah,

it's one guy that's look at you. We got we got a political commist here who's ending who's ending a dings damon with I don't know, this is an active bravery, David Harsanyi. This is so much principle going on here. Speaking of principle, I'm gonna I'm gonna redirect this here for a moment. Uh. The flavor of the day is that Trump should have like called a five alarm fire and the FBI and everything else about the meeting at

Trump Tower where nothing even really happened. And my favorite game of the day is ask a liberal how Christopher Steele a foreigner gathering information directly from Russian government sources, government agents, and government officials on Trump, knowing that this is during the campaign to hurt Trump. So you got a foreigner speaking to foreign government officials and then running that stuff back to not just the press, but also

our own government. How is that not foreign interference the election? I get every time I bring this up, liberals start sputtering about things that are just non sequitors. It's nuts. The position is nuts. I saw David from right, well, if Trump had sent an investigator to Moscow to look into stuff, that would be different. Can you imagine if Trump had sent a staffer to Moscow during the election,

what we would be talking about today. I mean, basically, a meeting that amounted to nothing in Trump Tower has ballooned into a giant conspiracy. If he had actually sent a staff or to Moscow, that would have been okay if he had done what Hillary did, if he had

if he had worked through a lawyer. He like when he answered that question, and the other day I said, sure, as long as you work through a lawyer, uh and the and the RNC, and you get Kremlin sources to you know, to sift it through some you know other you know, uh Opo research firm, then it's okay. But I wouldn't take it myself. But yeah, I mean, it's ridiculous, it's it just strikes me. It's totally unserious. And I think that, But yeah, it's not even hypocrisy or what

about is them? First of all, these people want to be back in power, so it's not what about is them? I'm talking about people who want to come back into power. But it's this this idea that you can have two sets of rules for just because you know, for both parties, you can't. You can't have government this way, you can't have a debate this way, and you can't have a society where there are two separate, you know, sets of

rules for different kinds of people. Well, I think that's also what really gets to the heart of why so many people on the right are just we're I mean, and I put myself in this category. We're just tired of it. And I know there's this this you know, not this inexact and some are bothered by, but this paradigm of wartime versus peacetime conservatism in the ideological spectrum right now, and the and the fight between the two

sides over what the future should look like. Every time I have it, I have somebody who used to be on the right start to tell me about Trump's obstruction, and then I asked them about anything Hillary related, which involved the same the same presidential campaign, and in fact, many of the same people instituting rules that are clearly a double standard, you know, at the DOJ, the FBI. Uh, they act like this is somehow not a part of the conversation. And I just think that's bad faith. I

think that's just indefensible. Yeah, of course it's bad faith. I mean this the whole what aboutism charges bad faith? Of course I want to know. I want to know if there was hypocrisy, because I want to know what rules we need to be following. You can't simply can't do you know, just you know, throw that away because it's inconvenient in your argument. But um, I actually you know, I have I think it is shape to get you know, to have a rush and give you information about another candidate.

But anyone who's been in DC for ten minutes knows well that there's all kinds of information being thrown around, and it comes from all kinds of different places. And in the end, Hillary was much more reliant on Russian information, and the media was much more reliant on information that came from the Kremlin through Democrats than they were through Trump. So how can you have this discussion and ignore ignore that fact Yeah, it just seems to me to be

completely bizarre. But everyone should check out what David's up to at the Federalist dot com. Also follow him David Harsani at Twitter. He's a senior editor at The Federalist. David, great to have you, my friend. Thanks for making the time. We appreciate it anytime. Thanks for having And if you decide to go a Mash twenty twenty, you got to come break that news on this show. I might, I might. All right, Matt, thanks so much, team will be right back.

Well it's real simple. Then Democrats are doing absolutely nothing while the Mexicans are stepping up working with the President to try and stop the illegal flow of immigrants coming into the country. Democrats in Congress for the longest time refuse to even acknowledge the fact there was a problem. Now we're starting to see them acknowledge there was a problem, but doing absolutely nothing to fix it, which may even be worse now they know there's a problem and they

still do nothing. They're so focused on attacking this president and trying to beat him up because they have no message, they have no agenda, that they can't even look at the real problems we have and do anything to try to fix them. Sarah Huckeybee Sanders is fierce. She has been a stalwart in this administration. She's dealt with more than her fair share of Trump't arrangement syndrome afflicted lunatics. She has had to just stand there and take abuse

in public while she's trying to have a meal. She's been really viciously ridiculed by the entertain payment industry and by the late night talk show hosts, and they're horrible to her, absolutely horrible to her. But she's stuck in there, and I have to say she's one of those people who rose to the challenge. I did not think she was particularly strong in the role at the beginning. She obviously had had work to do on her on her presentation.

I think anybody who hasn't done that job would probably be in something of the same position, or if they unless they'd had a really extensive interaction on camera and with the media or in the media. But I bring this up because the breaking news here is at Sarah Huckabee Sanders is going to be leaving the White House at the end of the month. That just broke a little bit before he went on air and President Trump says she is going to go to her home back

to her home state of Arkansas. He did not name a replacement as of yet. She's been in the Press secretary role since July of twenty seventeen. And look, I think that her departure is something of a loss for the administration because she was very solid and really understood. Which here's the thing. She knows who these punks in the media are, and she's not going through the Oh no, I actually think they're great and it's fine. No, no, no,

she knows they're punks. She knows the media is full of smarmy, self indulging Acosta clones, and she put a Costa in his place in ways that I think we're particularly necessary. And I think that her adversary relationship with the press illuminated for the American people, which is the most important thing. Just how disgracefully partisan much of the particularly the Washington press corps. You know, we talked about the media, and the media has so many levels. There's

so many different components of the news media. You of local news, the national level networks, the major newspapers, but the DC based Beltway, political Capitol Hill, White House, covery media is among the most self righteous, perhaps is the most self righteous. Feels like they're the ones that are truly speaking truth to power when they're overwhelmingly doing the opposite whenever they can, when their people are in power.

They're coddling power, they're giving backrubs to power. But they still think where they're doing that they're being brave and they should be praised and we should all be thankful for the work that they're doing. They are saving us from a lack of understanding, saving us from the ignorance of the American people, or the ignorance that we would be awash in were it not for their efforts to constantly educate us. But that Press Corps Sarah Sanders through

the occasional Haymaker at and it was fantastic. I thoroughly enjoy it. I think it was necessary. I think that she's changed the game. I've only met her once, very briefly, but I was interested to know that she knew my name, which was pretty funny. I was like, oh, well, I guess she knows who I am. I only met her one time, but she'll she'll be a lost administration, but we'll see who they replace her with but Sarah Huckabee Sanders served Trump well and we wish her well going forward.

Team Buck, It's time for roll call Facebook dot com slashbuck Sexton. You know how the role call gets going mostly through Facebook dot com slashbuck Sexton. That's how. So you can write me there, let me know what's going down, tell me where I'm wrong, tell me where I'm right, mostly where I'm right, hopefully occasionally where I'm wrong, just so I appreciate all the notes telling me where I'm right. That's how we like it. Thank you so much for

hanging out, Team Buck. This is from Brian Agreed on the Trump International Hotel bar. It's a great vibe there with friendly people where I felt comfortable and a good refuge from the swamp people of DC. Like you, I believe that barring a great depression style recession, Trump will win in twenty twenty hands down. That said, one other factor can change this, and that's the liberal state and

deep state efforts to eliminate our electoral college. There's some shady stuff going on as of late, with leftist trying to eliminate significant votes in the middle of the country and assure liberal cities of the Germanting factor for twenty twenty elections. We have an electoral college for a reason, and more public attention and scrutiny needs to be brought to this. Both Prager, you and Glenn Beck have been going into it in detail. We all need to speak

out against this assault on our constitution. Oh, Brian, I mean this is You're correct, this is all very important. They're really is an effort to tell people that the electoral college is an anachronism. There's no need for an electoral college. We should just get rid of it entirely.

And the founders thought about this stuff in great detail, and we're very aware of the need for and the decision making behind the system of checks and balances we have in the constitutional framework that our government was constructed around. So yes, it's true that there are libs now who are willing to change the rules and change any number

of rules. I believe that there would be a liberal consensus if they could, if they could pull it off, if they had the raw power, meaning the seats in the House and the Senate as well as the Presidency, they would engage in packing of the Supreme Court, and I think they would have no qualms about it. I think they would absolutely go for it. We need to be aware that the rules that we think we're playing by, even those rules can change, and those rules are not

sacred to the left. John Rights, would you be interested in a Star Trek Picard, mister Sexton, I have no idea what you're asking me, really, other than I know that there's Jean Luke Piccard in Star Trek, but thank

you for writing. Jeremy Buck, I know you've delved in the background in history of the Middle East, but maybe it would be worth it to spend some time during a future show on the civil war in Yemen, on the tanker attacks that occurred to the Gulf of a mom There's a discussion that are on in Saudi Arabia are clashing over the civil war in Yemen. It seems like peace is nothing but a fairy tale in the

Middle East. Shields Hie, Jeremy, Yeah, Jeremy, A deep dive on the Yemeni Civil War would probably be worthwhile, so I think a lot of the folks listening would appreciate that, as long as it wasn't too long and it was jam packed with information. So I will make a note

of that. The very short version of a much longer story is that, yes, the Yemeni Civil War is now a proxy battle, and it is a Sunny Shia part of the Sunny Shia fight that is royaling the entire Middle East and will continue to and really has been a bat an ongoing battle in the Middle East since the eighth century or so. It's been going on for quite a while. Yeah, the situation Yemen. I mean, I was on Kennedy's show last night. We had a disagreement

about this one. Sometimes we have a little bit of a feisty exchange. On Kennedy's show on Fox Business. She thinks that the seven billion one points had one hundred and fifty billion. I think she's referring to the amount of arm sales over the eight years of the Obama administration. Then you get into the one hundred billion dollars plus category, and that's coming up on a decade. But what's left now is a seven billion dollar sale that the administration,

the Trump administration, wants to go forward with. And you have these senators who are saying, oh no, no, don't do at It doesn't really have any effect other than to make the senators who stand up and get to give a flowery speech about how Saudi Arabia's a dictatorship. Yeah, but are we not going to say they're an ally because they're an Allied state. And if we're going to start telling allied states that they're terrible but they're still our allies, we're gonna have a lot of problems and

they're not going to stop what's going on. You know, Yemen is an extension of the Arabian Peninsula. Yemen is a large country that borders Saudi Arabia. So we can say whatever we want about how we don't want there to be civilian casualties in this fight, but Saudi Arabia is going to do what it wants to do here, and we'd rather have the Saudis on our side, especially when we have to deal with the Iranians than the alternative.

Here we go, John, Right, So listen to your show in the morning and usually enjoy a snack during it. Today you played a clip of two idiots on CNN almost breaking their arms patting themselves on their backs about how they are the defenders of truth. I almost spit out my delicious orange and chocolate combo. Is it possible. You could give us a little warning when playing clip

from CNN. Well, John, no, I don't want to give you a warning because I want to make sure that you know you're on your toes, my friend, once you ready to rock, don't you already know what's going on? And that means that sometimes there's going to be some CNN nonsense on this show that will happen. That is a real thing. So there you have it. Here we go, John Rights, Hey, Buck, want to come to La. I like LA. I don't know why asking me about La specifically right now, but yeah? Or oh wait, La City?

What's that? Oh? Los Angeles Chocolate Convention? Now I know why you're inviting me, man, chocolate to the bet. Chocolate is my weakness? Well, I guess I have several weaknesses, but chocolate is high on the weakness scale. Wayne Right. Joe Biden says, cure cancer. Sure, why not? I mean we cured baldness. Check it out, Wayne Biden. I meant to play that cliplerd in the week. I don't think

we got to it. But yeah, Biden is now in this place where he'll he'll say anything and he can get away with promising whatever he wants to because ultimately the media will cover for him. That's just the way it's going to happen. Here we go, c K writes in Buck not sure if this is the right place for roll call? Oh it is, Ck, but just heard tonight's show where you told somebody that Dalmatians have a

bad temperament. Fake news. I've had approximately twenty four dollars since nineteen eighty and some were social butterflies, some more reserved, but none were mean. Such a false narrative spread. Who knows why dogs? If all breeds are as good as their training and socialization. Joined the Dalmatian Owners of America page if you want to learn more from long time and new owners, breeders and fans enjoy your show, Well, Ck, you're dropping the Dalmatian knowledge here for everyone across the

country to hear. And I can't say I totally agree with your All dogs are the same, which is how they're raised. Comment some dogs. There is a biochemistry to these animals, and some dogs are going to have a higher tendency toward aggression than others. It is true that the way the dog is raised is the single biggest determining factor. But you've also got to take into account the internal mechanics, if you will, the biochemistry of these animals, and you have a lesser margin for error with some

breeds than you do for others. And you know, I was, I was going to go into a whole thing about how there's a new dog on my floor that's a poodle, and how I'm not sure that poodle should count as dogs, and then I start and then I start trashing poodles, and poodle owners always freak out at being it's so

because poodle owners are very devoted to their poodles. And when I say, well, why don't you guys do the thing where you shave them all funny with the pom poms on the legs and the and they say, we don't do that, and you know, okay, but I'm just not a poodle guy. I'm just of the dogs. I like all dogs, but of the dog breeds out there, I think the one that I just I don't know. I don't really get the poodle thing. The doodle thing. I understand, they're a little they're a little more of

my speed. But the straight up poodles, oh, I know, they're so smart and everyone's gonna yell at me for look. You can like what you like. That's the good news. Different different strokes for different folks. Matt writes, a no party like a Canadian Society party for the study of education party. Matt, I don't know what you've I don't know what you've got in the I was gonna say that breathalyzer. What's that? The vaporizer up in Canada? But I could probably use some of myself right about now.

Let's see, Irene, any chance if you're rejoining the Blaze for a platform more exposure, Irene, I haven't spoken in my old colleagues at the Blaze about that at anytime in recent months. I will have a new platform this summer. I can't give you specifics on the details yet, but there will be cool new stuff happening in the Freedom Hut,

and that is for sure. That's definitely going down. And yeah, and also I have a book that I'm in the final stages of signing off on the contract to write, so that should be happening and hopefully the book will be out by Christmas time. And yes, I'm very much excited about it. Patty writes, I wish you were dressing shifts joke of a hearing. This is infuriating, innuendo, hypotheticals, lies all of shifts usual tactics. Yeah, I mean, shifty

shift is the sketchiest of sketchy. We all know this, so shouldn't be a surprise to anyone when it turns out that he's not, in fact on the up and up in these hearings. Paul Right, hey bucks. Someone mentioned books about bureaucracy on Roll Call the other day. I think the penultimate work on the subject is PJ O'Rourke's Parliament of Whors. I'm assuming you've read it, but if you haven't, it is the most cynically honest take ever

on the slug like workings of the US government. It's fierce, fiery, funny and accurate in an hl Menkin kind of way. For anyone trying to understand government should be required reading shields High. Well, you know, Paul, I've actually done a fair amount of work with PJ. We've done some fireside chats together. I write for an online magazine that he

edits called American Consequences. So I'm familiar with pj's work, but I and I know PJ personally, but I have not read Parliament of Whorrs, so that's quite a title, certainly eyecatching. But I will have to look into this based on your recommendations. Let's see here, Me me Buck. I just completed a mandatory online HR course. I was a pauled I've read Sex on nine Mountain, binary and microaggressions. Unfortunately, all the BS and the academic world has already infiltrated

the business world. I'm glad I'm near the end of my career rather than the beginning. I'd find it really difficult to keep up the facade of all this political correctness. When I started the HR, thing was don't discriminate based on race. Now there are so many categories that protected classes that makes your head spin. The only endangered species that is not protected as white males. Mimi from California, Well, Mimi, yeah,

it is true. Political correctness is now in charge of the corporate attitudes and companies across the country, which is certainly troubling, but it's one of the reasons why I support and like Trump. So I enjoy enjoy that aspect of Trumpism is that he at least fights back team. I'll be an NYC tomorrow up in New York City, so I'll be doing the show from there. Freedom Hunt united with producer Mike producer Mark Shields High