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way to undermine them. We'll talk about the way forward from here, and also we're joined by Andy McCarthy from National Review and Judge Jeanine Pirou with some fantastic legal analysis of that Mueller probe that I'm more coming up on the Buck Sexon Show. This is the Buck Sexton Show, where the mission or mission is to decode what really matters with actionable intelligence. Make no mistake American, You're a great American. Again, The Buck Sexton Show began insectivate analysts.

I realized that there is a need for some clarification. It should have been obvious. I thought it would be obvious, but I would like to clarify just in case it wasn't. In a key sentence in my remarks, I said the word would instead of wouldn't. The sentence should have been I don't see any reason why I wouldn't or why

it wouldn't be Russian. So just to repeat it, I said the word would instead of wouldn't, and the sentence should have been, and I thought it would be maybe a little bit unclear on the transcript or unclear on the actual video, the sentence should have been, I don't see any reason why it wouldn't be Russian, sort of a double negative. So you can put that in and I think that probably clarifies things pretty good by itself. Welcome to the Buck Sexton Show. That was President Trump

just a little bit before we went on air. Give it a press conference today. People are calling it a walk back, you can call it a clarification. But he's given a little additional detail on the press on on what he said at that press conference in hell Sinki, and he here's why this is so, This is so classic trauma. And people are gonna say a lot of things about this, like why did it take twenty four if it was a clarification about a word, why would

it take twenty four hours to clarify that? For example, where was the White House Comms team on that? I know what everyone's gonna say. Here's Trump's version of this. He figures he knows what or rather he believes that people know what he was trying to say and why he was saying what he was saying, and if it's gonna make people feel a little bit better about the situation, he'll say, yeah, okay, fine, I believe the intel agencies. I get it. You know, America on the world stage.

This wasn't the best messaging to sin But bottom line, I still think that there's a weird deep state cabal that tried to undermine my election, and I'm sick of these punks and the collusion thing is a joke and it's nonsense. Trump out like, that's kind of that's kind of what he's saying. That's his version of it. You know, Okay, I'll say, I changed the word, and you know, now we're now Is everyone happy? Is everybody happy? Now? They feel better? Now? They're everyone gonna calm down over this?

The answers, of course, no, all right, we'll get to some of that. They're not gonna calm down. I've I have heard some of the craziest stuff in the last twenty four hours. In terms of political analysis, people are I'm actually starting to get worried about them, Like I don't know how they sleep at night, being so worked up over something that affects them not at all. And that is in the grand scheme of things, actually so

very very minor. And I'm seeing all this other stuff. Now, all these experts are saying, well, policy doesn't matter, it's the words that matter. Okay, So now now we're in in in a in a world with Donald Trump. I just want to be very clear, if you oppose Trump, you're willing to now take the position that words speak louder than actions. Well, isn't that perfect? Isn't that very

Orwellian for this particular era. And isn't it then fitting that Trump fights fights back with his own Orwellian twist of Okay, I said, would I should have said wouldn't or not wouldn't have instead of wouldn't not have or whatever it is that he's doing it. And he's like, all right, fine, we're gonna play this game. We'll play

this game. It's gonna drive them nuts. He sends a signal to all of us who were saying, as I did, Yes, Ray, there's some stuff I didn't like, some stuff in the press conference a little bit Donald a little bit, a little bit off, but overall, no big deal, and I get what he's saying and everyone understands. And the media was baiting him with all these questions. They wanted him to be just spitting Putin's face, which would be idiotic. There's so much stupidity coming from the media and all

this stuff. They're all they're just such a bunch of glorified hall monitors. But he said, yeah, okay, you know, we get it, we heard it. Okay, we we know. On the big lies, Gazi wasn't a terrorist attack. If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan. You know, go go down, the go down a list of lies that actually matter to you in your day to day life, or should matter to the American people in their day to day lives. Media was m i A on most of that, you know,

not not really a lot of attention paid. There's the old book. We covered it. Yeah, I know you covered it, but you covered the whole of this racist this raises troubling whatever it's the Democrat, let me tell you some of the tells, some of the giveaways. When media doesn't like something A Democrat does, but it's a Democrat. They'll say things like, oh, well, there's raises troubling questions. Troubling questions have been raised by this. This makes us uncomfortable.

There are issues that stem from it. When a Republican does something, Democrats don't like it. It's nine eleven all over again. And oh my gosh, this is bloodier than Caesar's conquest of Gaul. I mean, they're really they lose their minds. And then when you say, well, you know, I think you're coverage of all normal. We covered both. We covered both as if the words and the intensity and the seriousness of the coverage don't matter at all. So they get all fixated on this thing with Trump

yesterday about the intelligence agencies. As I said to you, and actually I did a buck wild today at at Hill dot TV on this one. Do we really think it's weird that Trump has a little bit of a sour taste in his mouth when it comes to the intel agencies. They've all come out as partisan hacks against him. My commune and my former community where I was trained and learned the craft of intelligence will never be the same because of all these hacks from the Obama administration.

People say all book, but they're lifelong public servants. Not no, no, no, no. They were essentially Democrats sleeper agents the whole time, folks. That's what's really going on here, don't we see? It's just that with Obama gone, after eight years of obama Ism, and now everybody is on Twitter, everybody is a pundit. Now we see who these people really are. Brennan didn't just become a leftist yesterday. At least there's so much

stupid argument out there. Brandon voted for a communist decades ago. Who does that? Who does that? I would even let him into the c I never, never mind let him run it. He's saying it's a treason, and that's a very serious charge. I would also point out that treason can be punishable by death. So when people keep saying that, you know that's the charge that they're applying here, what are they What are they getting at? Treason is a

is a capital crime folks, under US federal code. So throwing that charge around is not something to be taken lightly. And they are straight they're straight up calling a botch press conference treason that wasn't even botched. That badly bow it. Don't get me wrong. I mean it wasn't great. That's up a little bit, but it wasn't like a big deal. And also it just gave us a twenty four hour period of you know, if the Democrats were serious people. I keep coming back to this notion of serious versus

un serious. Okay, they are deeply un serious, as we see from Okazio Cortez for example, who thinks that because people have two jobs there's lower levels of unemployment. Now, the future of the Democratic Party. Everybody doesn't know something that in eighth grader should know about the economy and how we measure unemployment. But future future there never mind her? Yeah, like Israel and Palestine and like i' mean the occupation of Palestine and Israel, and that's just the stuff and

the things and future the Democratic Party. There you go. But they want to lecture us on her. Oh we need people that are you know, that have more policy chops. Okay, that's fun, that's a fun conversation to have. You notice how quickly they swept that whole interview out of the way. For Okazia Cortes back to Trump, I'm I'm not trying to trying to divert from this. We're we're gonna work through this one together. Well, we've got our friend Anie

McCarthy joining a little bit. He's going to talk about the arrest of a Russian national in d C that barely I mentioned on the show yesterday, barely even got covered, arrested as an agent of influence, trumped up stuff. By the way, from what I can see so far, it's just we are we are living in a new red scare, except we need to come up with a new term for it because they're not communists, right, but there but there is a there is a a fever swamp mentality

among the Democrats now for anything Russia related. And that's why when I bring up things like, hey, you know, China has actually been a bigger is a bigger conventional military threat, a bigger cyber threat, a bigger economic rival, um, more damaging to our economy, more serious, a a foe on the world stage. There gon't always about China. We could walk and chew gum at the same time. Okay, yeah, but when it comes to Putin, you just want our president to to just go to go crazy and and

and yell at him and do all these things. You know, Obama himself was clear on the point that you can't really do very much about it. What are you gonna do? You're gonna shame the president of Russia because they ran this. It was basically an intel operation, not a particularly big one and not a very sophisticated one either, not important enough for Obama to raise the alarm about it. You know, this is there's there's so much hypocrisy with them on this.

If it was such a big deal, then what does it say about the Democrats that they were willing to when they were in charge of government, when they were in charge of national security, with the Obama administration calling the shots, they were gonna let this whole Russia intrusion, oh undermoting or democracy, or they were gonna let it slide because Hillary was gonna win. Do you do you would you let something, you know, would you let something

slide because of that? Do you think that's a uh if it were the equivalent of nine other would you let nine eleven slide if you thought it was gonna help your putting? No, well, they're saying that stuff. They're out there going completely nuts. I mean, here this to give you a sense of where they are in all this place. Six FBI director continues, the investigation, Department of Justice continue support for the investigation. Congress continues saying that

this investigation is legitimate. Curious point in American government when do we see almost a shadow government come out and say we cannot side with the government, whether it's the Cabinet or the Senate. I think that's the big question, and I agree with an earlier speaker. It's time for Americans to be out on the streets. We are under

attack from Russia. If there were physical missiles, like during the missile missile Cristis, Americans would be in the streets and protesting and asking for the president to protect us. These are invisible missiles. These are digital missiles. These people are insane invisible missiles. We're talking about Facebook accounts that are saying things like maga and and and lock her up about Hillary, basically parting commonplace American political discourse during

the election. Did digital missiles? I guess for the the snowflake is um of the left, and I guess because they believe that words they don't like equal violence. Maybe they are kind of like digital missiles, but it's only because they're crazy. No normal person would say these things.

I will tell you I aren't here today on set. Uh. You'll remember him for his purple heart comment, which he already had to walk back, but Representative Cohen of I Believe Tennessee, and I was interviewing him today here in the swamp because I get a lot of a lot of swamp creatures now coming come past the hut, so I get to interview them. And I asked him, and we don't have the audios that didn't asked for it, but here's the gist of it. I said, so, what

what should we do? People go, oh, my gosh, and digital missiles and you got you got Phil mud who's a former you know, Intel guy himself over at CNN yelling about how a shadow government should rise up. Excuse me, dude, I'm pretty sure it already did and it didn't work. And that's why they're so angry, and that's why they

won't stop. I think, if you're Brennan, if you're Comy, if you're after, if you're some of these guys who who knows what they really did, what they really said, and the lengths they went to stop Trump from being elected. The only way you maintain any sense of your reputation and your own sense of your your I guess your ethics is if Trump is a clear and present danger of the United States, They're very invested in that narrative. You have to think, why are they so invested in it?

They must have taken action under the premise that he was a clear in present danger and he's not. So what does that mean about what they did? But but I asked Cohen, I mentioned this. I asked Cohen and Nashville. I said, so, so, what should we do to respond? And he said, because he said, this is an act of war? I said, well, that's that's a cute phrase to throw around. That's that's got some really serious implications, though,

how should we respond? Sitting congressman, sitting member of the Democrat Party and Judiciary Committee, by the way, so you know, not not just some slouch out of nowhere. What should we do because of these this this terrible intrusion undermining our democracy, which is just a fat was phrase to begin with? He said, we should we should engage in an active war. In response, and said, well, what do you mean, Oh, we should hack Russia's banking sector and

shut it down, shut it all down. And I'm looking at this guy and for the first time I actually had a Democrat staring at me, who's saying we should invite the prospect of real war with Russia because Hillary didn't win the election and the Russians put up some Facebook accounts that were fake and got end Upidesta's email account. These people need help. Have they learned nothing? Uh, we're all of their anti war poses in the past just about being anti American. Yes, is the answer to that.

By the way, you know what is this. Russia is not the economic power it was, it's not the military power it was, but it still has a few thousand nuclear weapons. We're gonna start playing chicken with them over this over you know, a razor thin election margin that we're gonna pretend was influenced by. I mean, if the Russians were able to pull off turning the election, they would be the most incredible pr geniuses. You know, this is like the equivalent of somebody's saying, Hey, I'm gonna

take on Apple computers. I got a hundred dollars. Who's with me? I got a hundred dollars, Come on, I can do it. Right, Steve Jobs got nothing on me. People think you're crazy. That's what the Russians did an equivalent with this operation, and the Democrats are basically saying, let's go to war with Russia over They have lost their minds. I really mean this, and that's why Trump trolling a little bit today amuses me. I think it's good he clarifies the point. We'll get into this some

more in a moment. As you can see, I'm a little fired up about this. Stay with me. It's just as serious to me as the Cuban missile crisis in terms of an attack or the nine eleven attack. The President is taking the side of the people who attacked us instead of trying to prevent a future attack. He has done nothing to make sure that the elections four months away are going to be safe. And I would say that his performance today will live in infamy as

much as the Pearl Harbor attack or Crystal Knock. That was a former Water Day prosecutor they put on TV to make a jackass of herself. Not the only one. A lot of people running around just just be clowning themselves, clown clown all over the place. I have not seen anything like this in quite some time. Politico magazine with a big feature by Mark Hurtling, a general whom I remember from CNN from being on segments with him. But I thought to myself, Wow, some generals just aren't smart.

And the piece here in Politico is Putin's attack on the US is our pearl harbor. M hmm. That's a piece that this guy who was a general wrote. Okay, does anyone to try to defend that this is our

pearl harbor? Folks? That's what that's the stuff that they're saying, just just because apparently not a lot of folks on the left and the general the Warter, you know, they always have like one or two military guys because you always even know how most military people are conservative anyway, then one or two they'll just go along with whatever left says, right, because somebody's writing the checks in their

former military of course right there out. But because they don't seem to spend much time looking at a real historical comparison here, they're gonna say that what happened with Russian meddling in the election. Remember we're talking Facebook accounts, Twitter accounts, and a phishing scam that hit a couple

of email accounts. Okay, they're gonna compare that to uh, twenty four hundred people killed during Pearl Harbor, over eleven wounded, and then Pearl Harbor, by the way, launched a war that cost four hundred thousand plus American lives, six hundred thousand wounded, over to cost sixty million people their lives. They're gonna make this comparison. I mean, Crystal Knock, hundreds of people died, synagogues were we're we're burned down, dozens

and dozens of synagogues burned down. They're gonna they're gonna talk about this seriously. These are real comparisons. Crystal Knock, of course, a harbinger of the Holocaust. How do these people take themselves serious? They shouldn't. They're un serious. They're not there. It's not just a question they have bad judgment. They just looked dumb. The people writing this stuff and saying this stuff, they just look like they're not very smart people. But they're still on TV, and somehow we're

supposed to act like they are smart. I'm sorry, I'm not played along her differences in their testimony. In many cases, she admits that the text messages mean exactly what they say, as opposed to agents Struck, who thinks that we've all misinterpreted his own words on any text message that might be negative. Well, there's a news story you haven't heard

much about. Remember that the paramour of Peter Struck that now generally I think considered disgraced FBI counterintelligence agent who was involved in that exchange of text messages as well as very important investigations Hillary Clinton's emails and the Russia collusion situation Lisa Page testified. Well, we've got that and some other important legal stories to get to that have been I think consumed so far or pushed aside by

the news cycle. We've got Andy McCarthy with us now, the one and only you all know him from National Review or he's a senior writer also Fox News, where he's a contributor doing the best stuff on legal analysis out there. Andy, Great to have you back, Buck, always

a pleasure. So just I know there's not a ton on this Lisa Page thing, but it does seem noteworthy that the Republicans are saying, well least she says what she writes is what she means, or what she wrote is what we think it is, yeah, Buck, So once

I'm encouraged by silence, I wish we had more of it. Um. But it sounds to me like what what seems to be going on with miss Page is what you would hope would go on in most investigations that involve into viewing witnesses behind closed doors, which is there's an agreement that they're not going to leak the substance of what she says, uh, And there isn't any catterwauling apparently from

either side about it. And the one thing that we're hearing is that she's apparently more forthcoming than uh Peter Struck. Was that she concedes that the she concedes the obvious, which which shows a measure of sophistication these days, that you know, what what was said in the free wheeling text is an accurate reflection that the text means what

they say. And the one disturbing thing that I her that has come out, which doesn't have to do with the substance of her testimony, is that she was not made aware that the that the Congress wanted to speak to her. So evidently the the committees let the Justice Department in the FBI know some time ago that they would like to have a interview with her like they've been having with other witnesses, and they, according to her,

at least from what we're reported. From what's reported, the Department did not pass that information along to her, which is disturbing. I can tell you as a former prosecutor, I always agreed in any trial, but especially as like organized crime trials or racketeering trials, terrorism trials, I always agreed to accept service for the government's witnesses because you don't want to have a situation where you know people are getting accosted by process service and stuff like that.

That it's it's really irresponsible if that happened, that they didn't so that that at a minimum a mess up. Is there any more? Is there any other reason for it,

andy or just bureaucratic screw up? I well, it's impossible, buck I think not to look at it in the context of everything else we've seen where the FBI and the Justice Department have slow walk disclosure, have refused to comply with subpoenas, have redacted documents in a nonsensible way, and have conducted themselves overall in a way that I think an objective person could assume that their slow walking nous hoping the Democrats win the mid terms and that

the committee chairs change over to Democrats and the investigation goes away. And that's what I was thinking, but I wanted to hear the legal expert actually weigh on. So there we go, folks. Now, Andy, there's another big that's going to make sense to me. The law can just

the law can just screw us up here, buck, I guess. Uh. So, you know, Andy, there's another big story out there that, well, it would be a lot bigger if we hadn't just had the the press conference in Helsinki, which a lot of us are just going to kind of hope to move on pass from uh. And and that is this story of Maria Boutina, a twenty nine year old Russian woman living here in Washington, d C. Have not had the chance to rub elbows with miss Boutina at a

bar or anything yet, folks. So I can't tell you anything about her, not that I know of, correct. I mean, she might be under some other aliens or something. But Maria Bouttina, who is supposed to be studying America University, has been arrested by federal prosecutors for uh, not registering as a foreign agent and for essentially being an agent

of influence. Andy, what the heck is this all about? Well, you know, Buck, it happens that back in January, which the way our news cycles go today feels like a

thousand years ago. Um. I actually wrote a column about Maria Bouttina because the press was trying to drum her up at the time as as what I called collusion three point oh, you know, the carter page theory didn't work, and then they went to the papadopolist theory, and it seemed to me that Boutina was was three point oh, the idea of being in a nutshell, that she was using the n r A as a potential conduit, uh, between the I mean, it's hard to wrap your brain

around this, between the Trump campaign and the Russian regime, and there may have been exchanges of money and and that kind of thing to defeat them, to help Russia. Russia using the n r A to defeat the the prescriptions against foreign Interference and campaigns and the like. Um And I think the one thing that we can say about this that's significant is the fact that this is not part of Mueller's investigation. So what would seem to me that this is yet another angle that's been floated

as potential collusion angle. Uh, and that turns out to be a dry hole for those hoping that the smoking gun someday, someway someplace will emerge. Now, how much trouble would she be in here? And I mean this Brie Betina is a Russian national. She didn't I mean she might have not registered as a foreign agent at FARA, violation which has also been a problem for General Flynn and others, but is usually not something that is prosecuted with with a lot of seriousness or prosecutor at all.

They usually right to give you the opportunity to make amends. Uh. They also are getting around some kind of a conspiracy charge, a kind of broad sweeping conspiracy I guess against the US government. But she didn't try to steal any secrets. She wasn't an espionage agent. So how much trouble is she in here? Well, you know, I I don't think she has a criminal record. They don't look to me like overwhelming charges. She could be in a fair amount

of trouble. It certainly does look like um A Moeller flash Wiseman type indictment in that they love this CONSI ver Sey against the United States charge, which I think is a really troubling invention, but they seem to use it in every case. But it's you know, it's the kind of charges that we've seen before that haven't previously

been treated as crimes. Uh. And I think that, you know, if you're dealing with somebody who hasn't doesn't have an extensive criminal record and charges that are usually not brought or activity that's not usually treated as criminal, uh, she's probably not in a world of trouble. But I think, you know, in terms of the bigger picture for the country as opposed to to for her, I think the news of it is that she's you know, that collusion

angle is is just not there. Andy, at this point, what kind of confidence do you have at the Mueller probe? Is is on the the I mean, I mean Mueller himself and his actions, that they're on the straight and arrow. Well, I've never thought they were on the straight and narrow. I thought that Mueller personally is a uh is a

person who is scrupulous, at least in my experience. And I said that when he was appointed I think he had a tenure with the people that he recruited, and some of the things that have gone on in the investigation book I think have been very, very troubling. I think the fact of this indictment against these Russians is very troubling because it seems to me that's the kind of thing that we don't indict. It's use the twelve

guys from last week. For everybody listening, And I know you wrote a piece about this last review, and you go ahead, yeah, And I think this is the natural logical consummation of their misuse of the counter intelligence authorities to do the investigation in the first place. Now they're indicting things that we're not supposed to indict because they're not the When foreign agents, foreign officials commit aggressive acts

against the States, that's not a law enforcement issue. That there's other ways that we deal with that sort of thing. And it seems to me that Muller is doing it because he figures he's got a free pass. These guys are never going to trial. So when there's an indictment that that is for a case that's never going to happen, I always think that that's more of a press release than a charging instrument. Yeah, and Andy, as a former mental guy, this whole thing strikes me as as almost

as preposterous. Quite honestly, we're gonna tell the Russians, hey, the assuming they were acting on Putin's orders or right, they were doing the bidding of the Kremlin here putting aside everything else about how oh, it's a threat to our democracy. The notion that the Kremlin would hand over g r U agents for doing the Kremlin's bidding because we say so is is completely bonkers. I mean, we would never do that on our side. We would never hand over our people to another government. Buck. I think

it's worse. I mean, think about and I agree with everything you just said emphatically, but but I just would

add to it. Think about when you were an intel guy, how thrilled you would have been to hear that we're now suddenly changing the rules of the game so that UH, intelligence operatives and government officials of other governments pursuing the interests of their country are now going to be subject to arrest when the domestic domestic politics of some country UH indicates that it's a good idea to charge them with a crime. Yeah, it's a non starter. It's a nightmare,

no way. Yeah, I think it's really bad. I mean, considering that are government is more active in the world than any other government on earth, it really seems to me that it's it's a very reckless thing to change the rules of the game this way, and to do it for what seems to me to be nothing but but but nakedly political purposes, and to justify the existence of Muller's investigation. I just think it's a reckless thing

to do. Do you have any sense of of how much longer we have to suffer through this this you know, national uh water torture of just drip, drip drip, trying

to figure out what's going on here with Muller. Do you have any any sense andy of how much longer we have to go through this buck You know, for the first time, I'm getting a sense that it may actually be winding down, because I really think that the upside of that indictment, if there is one, is that the logic of it is that there can't be the kind of a collision case that that was fantasized over

from the start. And it does seem to me that this flurry of activity, which they're clearly trying to do before the mid terms get into their kind of stretch run. Uh. It looks to me like he's trying to wrap up. Perhaps he's decided that there's no conspiracy to commit espionage against the Trump people. Uh. I've I've thought all along

that the obstruction thing was legally nonsense. Uh. And there's no case to pursue against President Trump except to write a report that the you know, the House can use or whatever it wants to use it for. Uh. It may be that he's actually trying to get this thing

wrapped up. And if he if he is, I think that would be for all the other things that have been said, it would be a credit to moll Or if he realizes that his investigation is doing damage to the ability of this government to function and he needs to wrap it up. Andy, if one last thing before we let you go, and everyone should read Andy's latest and National Review dot com. Also you'll see him on

Fox News. Just watch Fox. Uh. Andy, if the President came to you after the end this whole thing and said, all right, Andy, do you recommend of all the people caught up in this smaller thing, is there anyone you recommend that I pardon, which we all know he could do. Is there anyone that is there anyone that you would

drop as a name. Yeah, I've said slightly and publicly I think General Flint should be pardoned, and I think it's it's terrible that the politics of things are such that he can't be pardoned this minute, because I don't think his pardon. I don't think it should have awaited his indictment. But I certainly think under all the circumstances, given that the FBI didn't think that the agents who interviewed him didn't think that he lied, he didn't do

anything wrong. They pursued him on a preposterous Logan Act theory, and his prosecution was, to my mind, blatantly political. I think he should already have been pardoned, and I've certainly pardoned. I pardoned General Flynn yesterday. All Right, Well, I agree with you. So there's that I didn't know Andy took that position publicly, but I agree with the most preser Andy, thank you so much for joining us to come back soon. My pleasure to take care Phil. Alright, team, we've got

a lot more coming up, including Judge Janine. It's going to be joining us. WHOA, that's gonna be a party, Get excited for that. But you're all the judge you need from Foxnaw, he's got a lot of legal egals on the show tonight. We'll be right back, all right. We got a call from Patrick in Wabash, Indiana. Hey Patrick, Yes, Uh, Andy McCarthy uh sworped into what I'm going to talk about.

The Mueller um fishing expedition has told us that the Russian collusion supposedly with Trump didn't change one vote, unlike the Democrats in Detroit. I heard this on w W News that the Democrats got all of the votes in certain precincts, but even worse than that, they got more votes than there were people in the pre think. Yeah, well, they tell us that there's Patrick that that they claim there's no voter fraud, right, They say voter fraud doesn't exist.

And then I say, well, why are people going to prison every every year for voter fraud? And they say, okay, well there's some voter fraud, but it's not that much. You know, they're they're dishonest about that. And on the Mueller probe and Patrick, thank you for calling it From Indiana on the on the Mueller Probe book there they're uh, they're dug in folks. You just said, and and he's a very fair minded guy, very knowledge but also very fair minded. You know, I've you've those of you been

listening to the show for a while. Though. I've tried to push him, Andy, you know, come on, are these guys, what's going on? What's going on? I really want to know, you know, I really wanted his his assessment of it. Not I'm not asking for him to you know, preach to the choir. And you know, he said he him and I have had disagreements. He thought that you know, Patrick Fitzgerald for example, back in the day, was you know, a guy who was pretty on the up and up,

and I felt like Fitzgerald was a political headhunter. So and any of it. We've disagreed on some of this stuff. But you heard what he said in the Mamma Probe. He's like, this is just this is just out of control. And you know when Andy says that, I really think you can take it to the bank, because if he believed, you know, he wrote a piece on Nashvillbe He's saying, look, I think Trump's Helsinki summit was ill conceived and ill executed, so you know he'll call he calls balls and strikes.

But he also says the Mueller probe is this is a travesty, folks. It's an injustice. It really is at this point, and it's it's harming the country. You know, it's not too our benefit to have this be the situation. So we got some more on this. Judge Janine is gonna be joining the next hour. We've also got the return of President Obama. Mr. I got things I gonna tell you. I'm gonna lecture you, I gotta talk to you. So Obama is gonna be back. We'll have some interesting

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Check it out for yourself. Buck Sexton Mission decoding the news and disseminating information with actionable intelligence. Make no mistake, America, You're a great American again. This is the Buck Sexton Show. Analysts who are the people that started this. James Clapper, who lied to the Senate said they weren't collecting our information, and yet they were collecting all of our information and housing in Utah. John Brennan has now accused John Let

me finish. John Brennan has now accused the president of treason. This is John Brennan who voted for the Communist Party when he was a young man. John Brennan now thinks he's holier than everybody else. But these people had the power to collect every Americans information, and these are the people I am concerned to use their bias against President Trump, and absolutely I'm with the President on this. The intelligence community was full of biased people, including Peter Start McCabe

and dozens of others. HI five for rand Paul everybody. Why is he the only one that really sees this

for what it is? Why is he the only Republican that will stand up and point out what really matters here, which is the effort to destroy the Trump administration from former government officials, including the most senior intelligence officials in the United States government, who, by the way, we're using their government position to fabricate the collusion narrative that they are now tweeting about and puntiting about on the various cable networks. What why just why only Rant Paul everyone

else running scared for cover. You know, say what you will about Democrats, and I say a lot, but you'll notice how they take care of their own and Republicans love to lay the Holy earthen thou game o merchant, McConnell, McConnell, indisputable evidence, here's what. Here's what the GOP Senate majority leader had to say about stuff play clip, the annexation, the invasion of eastern Ukraine, not to mention the indisputable evidence ernest that they tried to impact the sixteen election.

So make no mistake about it. I would say to our friends in Europe, um, we understand the Russian threat. And I think that is the widespread view here in the United States Senate among members of both parties. The Russian threat is greatly exaggerated right now. That's the truth. And I don't know why Mitch McCarney, every everyone likes

to do this thing. You know, they're all behind Trump until there's any resistance, there's any any issue, and then they're all just lining up to release statements to release statements. You know, we don't need all your Republican statements trashing their president United States. Okay, he gets it, he clarified, he walked back. Whatever you want to say. Today wasn't a good press conference. But he's also got the entire press corps doing everything they can to just to ruin

his presidency. And they hurt. Then they don't care who gets hurt in the process. They don't care who goes to prison, They don't care what this does the American people, the American economy. They just want their way. They're like a bunch of frightening toddlers that have still way too much sway and authority in American society, and they're angry because they want their power back. Ram Paul seems to get it. And why is he the only one who's calling out the fact that there is a deep state?

I remember when people were talking about the deep state like it was some crazy conspiracy. And now what do we call it? When senior government officials were working to undermine an incoming presidency in this country? What do you call that? What do we call the fies? A warrants against harder page laughable stuff? I mean, this is crazy going after Carter Page. He's the center of some international conspiracy to these people, I mean, I really mean this.

Are are they taking large amounts of recreational drugs before they're signing off on these five A warrants? These FBI agents that are part of this process, that they feel good about themselves at night, like they're really defending the country from Carter Page. And that's what all this has been. You know, remember the whole collusion part of this is the only reason you've got a special counsel. Now they're falling back on the Oh, it's just about Russian interference.

Russian interference is wildly exaggerated. It's not that important, it doesn't really matter, and we can't stop it. So what are we really gonna do. We're just gonna live now and fear our elections. Oh no, you know, what if what if somebody? What if somebody sent me a fake news and it's a Russian okay whatever? And you know, it's really with with Democrats. It's like just time to put on the big boy pants here. It's it's just too much. And Rampaul I give him a lot of

credit because oh he got hammered on this yesterday. But he's right. And wolf Blitzer, who usually you know, people think wolf Blitzer is like a neutral newsman. It's really just because he's generally so boring and lacking in like facial expression that you figure, well, I guess he's new He sounds neutral, as in, the tone doesn't go up or down. Here, I am my wolf Blitzer, I am reading off a prompter, and now I am doing an

interview on the things that I'm going to talk about. Uh, how they made this guy like a household name of news is an amazing thing to me. I don't I don't, I don't know. I mean, I guess he looks the part of newsman. I don't really know. But anyway, he was interviewing uh Rampaul and really was doing cross examining him because it as an objective news Nework. Anderson Cooper yesterday comes off, comes off the Trump pressor and says, that's the most disgraceful thing I've ever seen. That is

a pundit comment. That is not a news anchor comment. A news anchor says, well, there was the president United States. Now let's go to our panel for analysis. Okay, this this is not that hard. Oh my gosh, worst thing ever, worst than Pearl Harbor. And people say this, I mean, really, you gotta wonder about that. I I mean wonder about their mental health. But here's how this Wolf Blitzer thing went here. Yesterday. I wanted to play the audio, but we we you know, the show was too close to airtime.

Play clip to the most recent leaders of the intelligence community, James Clapper and John Brennan. James Clapper, Perjurde himself talking talking the content director of National I'm not interview or if you're gonna interrupt me question will if we can't really have no No, I just want to be occasially better. You're usually better than this Wolf of doing an interview, I mean, I think that's fair. Usually it's better than this. But you know what that was. Wolf felt pressure to

show he's democratic audience, which is what CNN has. I mean, CNN is the whole thing now is a giant fraud. The whole thing. You know, Their whole pretense that they're an objective news network without a political bias is laughable, but they still cling to it because otherwise they have to actually have their people go out there and make

real arguments. And stand behind what they say. You know, I I will, I will tell you I have more respect intellectually for matt Ow and Hayes and that whole crew than I do for the for the CNN Nightly lineup. Or Don Lemon is not a liberal? What are people? Morons? Come on? They still say this though they still pretend you know what I mean? Who? Who do we think? Who do we think Jake Kapper, Anderson Cooper, Aaron Burnett,

Don Lemon, Wolf Blitzer? Who do do we think that they're they like President they would have liked President Hillary Moore or President Trump? Boor does anyone wanted to spoot this? Is this really a serious conversation? And c not No, No, we're just journalists. We're just journalists because they know the you know, the the ground is shifting beneath their feet. You know, they've had this wonderful Golden Goose legacy media

operation going on. But we're entering a new world, a wild West of where ideas have to stand on their own and people have to be honest about where they come from and what they're doing. Can't hide behind this facade anymore objective and neutral news gathering. And you know, but Wolf wanted to signal to his I will say it's a cool name. I mean, from a buck to a wolf, it is a cool name. I give him that. It is a cool name for a newsman. You know, I'm not here to hate, you know what I mean?

And his beard. Respect it's bernanke level. You know. His beard is the mustache equivalent of what Bolton has, or rather, Bolton's mustache and Blitzer's beard are on the same plane of awesome. I respect it. Okay that said, Uh, it gets worse because Blitzer didn't like the interview because he's trying to signal his audience I don't like this. I

don't like this. But he can't come out and say that. So, as I've told you before, what the anchor does is interrupt, interrupt, show that you're you know, show that tension in the interview. Remember one of my rules. Whenever you go on TV and you see this, the first person that gets aggressively interrupted is the first person the anchor wants the audience to know I disagree with this person, or even I don't like this person. Watch how that goes. Not a clarification, right,

because sometimes they'll pile on. Oh, no, Buck, what you're really saying, you know, oh, so and so, what you're really saying is this right? Oh yes, yes, yes, I'm with you. Yes, good person, good person. I like you. Themen they go whoop up, hold on, hold on hold the one they cut off your flow in one of these supposedly you know, left right analysis segments. The person they cut off is the person they want to show the audience they do not like and do not respect.

Trust me, watch news with this in your mind, You're like, wow, Buck's got some ninja moves. That's true. But here's what Blitzer did after that, play three, Who do you trust? Center? The American intelligence community, the American law enforcement community, or of Vladimir Putin? What I would say is that all power needs to have checks and balances, and I think our intelligence community has way too much power. The fact that Peter Strock was able to bring incredible bias towards

the president of work US, that's not the question. The right question that should be asked Wolf is should that power be unchecked or should you have a judicial system that says, you know what, I understand what you have to do warrants, but you have to have checks and balances on intelligence. So so I just why don't you just say you believe in the intelligence community, the law enforce, you access there there, you accept their assessments. You notice

this is a tactic they do, right. They construct a whole narrative, a very complex narrative with a lot of misstatements and a lot of inferences and innu window. They construct a very complex narrative, and then they try to distill it down to one question, one yes or no question, and if you accept one side or other they make it a binary, then you to accept everything else. And this is what Trump is fighting against in that interview yesterday.

He knows the moment you say yes, Russia meddlon the election, then he's just subject to all it's oh see you're not really president, you didn't really win. He knows that's coming, so he's he's pushing back against that, even though you know that the premise of their question is constructed so that by just saying yeah, okay, they meddled, then the follow on to that because of all the media efforts around it as well, they must have changed the election

and all the stuff hal was to happen. Here's an example of perfect example of this. And by the way, Obama, we'll talk about him later. In Johannesburg, he did the same thing. He mentioned this specifically. Do you believe in climate change? That's the very that's a very loaded question, right, I mean, well, yeah, of climate change is a naturally occurring thing and has for all of history. Climate has always been changing. So yeah, of course I believe in

climate change. Do you believe that human beings have an effect on climate change? Well, I mean, you know, you can kind of take it at the butterfly effect level. Sure, him, If a butterfly flaps its wings in New York and you know, you could have the monsoon in Southeast Asia because of all the variability and you know, the decoupled non linear system that we live in that is the universe. Sure, theoretically could have an effect. But that's not what they're saying.

When you say I believe in climate change, you are saying to them and what they're gonna go, well, then we need to have you know, carbon emission caps, and we need to have all these restrictive environmentalist policies and all that comes with it. And they know they create a binary question so that you have to submit to the narrative that is behind the question, even though it's unfair, this is this is the propaganda value of what they're doing. And I know that this you know, this is this

is a complicated way of approaching the question. But you know, I have the smartest audience in radio, and so we talk about these things at the highest level. That's why Trump is so resistant to yes, they meddled the election. Yeah, he knows the Russians probably did this stuff whatever, but he also knows that they're not concerned with Russian meddling in the election. They're concerned with undermining and delegitimizing his win.

This would be like saying if the media had been running around with the story for the last eighteen months about how there was massive, massive voter fraud, massive voter fraud in the election, they couldn't prove any of it, and then they said, well, was there any voter And by the way, they would never do this because they claim that there isn't voter fraud and they don't want to know how much voter fraud there is. Democrats have

no interest in finding that out. But if you said, well, yeah, I mean there were a couple of votes changed like, no, no, no, do you believe in voter fraud? You go, well, okay, yeah, well, yes, you believe in voter fraud. Therefore we know the last election was illegitimate because of the massive voter fraud we've been talking about all along. You see how quickly it transitions into that. That's the game they're playing here, and

Trump knows it. That's why he's hesitant. Now, you know, could he be more adept at trying to get out of the trap? They said for him? Sure, yesterday he got he got jammed up. But you know they're trying to jam him up with every question every press conference, and people said, oh, book, he's a president. Build No, they're not asking him policy questions. They're asking him when

did you stop beating your wife? Questions and so and when every member of the press corps was the acception of Fox and a few other outlets are just asking you when you stop eating your wife day in and day out. And you're expected to have to answer these questions in one form another administration is people are gonna slip up. It's gonna happen. And they know that, right. You know, that's why the hyena arena of CNN and

all the rest get so excited by this. Yeah, Blitzer wants you to know he does not like he does not like those answers. He did not like what Ron Paul had to say. I ran Paul, pardon me. I had to say, uh man, I didn't even get it. There's some other stuff. But we got judged in joining that's gonna you guys think I'm fired up. Judge Denin. That's gonna be very interesting. We got Obama. We're talking about his speech later on in this hour, and uh, I got a whole I got a whole lot more shows.

So we are going to transition off this issue of the press conference everything else. I I just think it's important. And you know, I took some heat today because I did this with the short video and not saying it. You know, it didn't go mega viral or anything. But we're doing these short form videos ninety seconds called a buckshot. It's on my page now Facebook dot com slash buck sex.

And I just made this case. Is Trump really crazy to think that they're might be a problem with the intelligence community because the intelligence community at the top level has been waging almost almost an open war against him at this point. I mean, we know this, right, we see the people that used to run it, and now they're out, and all they want to do is tear down Trump at the expense of their own credibility, of

their own sanity, it seems. So it is it crazy that Trump is aware of this deep state and doesn't want to play into their hands. I don't think so. You know, even some conservatives got mad at me today. Whatever. You know, hey, producer, Mike, you can't you can't. You can't please all the You can't please all the never Trumpers all the time, you know what I mean, You can't please them any of the time. Really, I've lost friends over this. Man. It's crazy, you know. That's an

almost impossible crowd, that onever. Yeah, I mean, all with me. You just gotta be cool like books dogs and we can be friends, you know what I mean. So you got you can't dislike dogs. That that is kind of a red line for me. But all right, we got more common teams. Stay with me. The nineties are now calling the asked for their foreign policy back, because you know, the Cold War has been over for twenty years. In many of the areas where we are working to solve

problems Russia has been uh an ally. Governor Romney's answer, I thought it was incredibly revealing. He acts like he thinks the Cold War still on. Russia is still our major adversary. I don't know where he's been. And then Romney talks like he's only seen Russia by watching Rocky for you're a lot of Democrats, they're a little throwback. Just do a few years back, folks, not that long. Democrats like what is this crazy talk about Russia being

an adversary? Republican war mongers, and now they're like, oh my gosh, the Russians are inventing. I mean, when you listen to some of the analysis from the last twenty four hours, you really get the sense that a lot of UH news anchors and pundits and and de crap members of Congress think that they're in They're in like Red Dawn three or something, and and the Ruskies are invading. When you look at the Russian economy, I mean, we are so far ahead of Russia on all this stuff.

And it would be better for the whole world if we could align more of our interest with the Russians and get them to play ball in a way they look at it wasn't long ago. You know, there's a whole other way to look at this, which I know, people, it's okay. People can yell at me for this. I don't care. Russia has come a long way from where it was in a pretty short period of time. Folks. We had the serious threat of mutually assured nuclear destruction

for decades. Okay, we had little kids hiding under their desks like that was gonna save them. You know, if the neutron bombs dropped. You know, they had the drills going on, and you know, now they got Russians. Yeah, it's not perfect, but they're showing up in vacation spots all over the world there, you know, the they got lots of expensive gear from Gucci and Fendi at all these other places and rocking the Versace suits. They're driving around in Porgias and Maserati's, and you know, those are

the ones that granted looted the Russian state industries. But I'd rather have them focused on capitalism and conspicuous consumption than trying to push some workers revolution and destroy all of us, right, I mean, when you really think about it, Russia has actually come a long way. I'm not saying it's okay, I'm not excusing any Putin does, but I

mean it's it's in my lifetime. They've gone from yeah, we might just have to destroy the entire United States and maybe the world to you know what, I like fancy fancy cars, nice watches, and big houses. This is a good thing. This is a good thing. We we can work with this. It's not perfect, it's not gonna be perfect anytime soon, but it's also not you know, doctor strange glove and nuclear destruction. So let's keep an eye on all this stuff. All right, We got judged

in coming up. He's back with you now, because when it comes to the fight for truth, the fuck never stops. All right, team, welcome back. We now have a guest who really needs no introduction, the one and only Judge Janine Piau of Fox News fame. She has a new book out, Liars, Leakers and Liberals, The Case against the Anti Trump Conspiracy. Judge Bireau, great to have you, Thanks so much for joining us. Well, Bucket's great to be with you, and I love the buck stops here. And

why thank you, madam? Why thank you? So tell us a judge about the new book. Well, you know, Buck, I've been a prosecutor, judge and d A for thirty years, so I know crime, I know the law, and I

know a con when I see it. And there was no question in my mind that a leading up to this last presidential election, there were people within the Department of Justice and the FBI who sought to essentially drag a criminal across the presidential Finnish line without any kind of real investigation, without a grand during the panel, none of the stuff that I did for years, and they

hold it a criminal investigation. And then when it appeared that Donald Trump might win for president, these same people within the FBI and the Department of Justice decide that what they're gonna do is they're going to create an

insurance policy. And you and your listeners, fuck may not have understood it at the time that these emails or text messages between FBI Peter Stuck, Assistant Director of counter Intelligence, and his girlfriend leads to paid UH Council and the FBI when they started talking about an insurance policy, I'm gonna start everyone really under stupid that meant, except it became very clear in my book Liar's leaders and ribberals

is almost present on this one. Where the insurance policy was the worst of coluction investigation, that would be their ace in the whole, in the event in their minds.

God for Donald Trump got elected. And that's why when we the Pewter struck last week arrogantly, condescendingly, smuggly, uh, defiantly, and unapologetically taught the members of Congress as though he were some kind of uh uh superior being, uh, it was clear that these people were running their own system of justice within our time, out of time honored FBI.

And that's why the book on Americans. What I was gonna say, Judge, well, what did you make of that the i G report that was a compendium page after page of blatant bias that then said no bias that affects actions. To me, it just seemed the whole thing seemed disingenuous. I've never felt so honestly disgusted by the d o J in recent memory, at least maybe ever. Well, I gotta tell you, you know, there's this saying, don't believe your lion. I I just uh, you know, it

was like Jim Kobe. It was the same feeling I had what Jim Cooley said, she was reckless. She was this with Hillary Quinn with those emaales and everybody's saying, guy, he's gonna in die, or's gonna call for her indictment, and nothing happened. The same with Peter Frock. He was biased in this and bias in that, but no book. There was biased in the outcome. Excuse me, I you're stupid. I mean, of course there was biased. This is a textbook definition of bias. And what they did was this

is the deep state. Fuck, this is the deep state covering for itself. Everybody's got the goods on everybody else. And that's why I was the book flyers and leaguers. They are wires, the lot leaders. Jim Kobe. I lived with him when I was re elected g A. He was ust attorney with his office next to mind, and each guy acted like he was holier than that out and the FBI behind us back that the rank and file, who are good men and women, call them. Cardinal Kobe.

I mean, he's just stuck on himself. But what they did for the first time in American history was they tried to overturn an election with their own two and thank God that the American people instinctively knew it was time for an outsider. They instinctively knew. This isn't about Republican and Democrat. It's about the swamp, the establishment. People going to Washington with pinimal means or mediocre means and come out multimillionaires and their families or multimillionaires. I'm fed

up with it. And you know what, Americans work hard. We don't deserve these people who think, oh, well, this should be a global country. Let them all come in and then you know, we can pay for it while we worked till the three jobs. So you know Americans are hard working, their fair, their charitable. But don't don't pull them all over their eyes. Don't tell them they're responsible and they're not Christian if they don't do what these oblists want them to do. And the book is

a reminder that everything is at stake right now. Buck everything. Judge, I gotta ask you, because I've I've heard some things. If called upon to serve this president as the attorney general, what would your response be, Well, I don't engage in hypotheticals even as a judge. Jack would I would? I would the same objections by lawyers in my courtroom who said, if this were to be the case, and I would say to them, if it's the case, we'll get to it. But it's not right now. Look Donald Trump, and I

write this in the book. He's been my friend for thirty years. I know him. I watched his just grow up. This is a man who believes in this country, who would just as easily have been on a golf course in Scotland stayed. They're playing golf for the next six months. Um and and and I I'm happy with what I'm doing. Who knows what the future holds. All right, Well, judge, you gotta promise us if it does come up, you gotta come back and we talk about it. Okay, I

do well. I I love you, and I thank you book and your listeners for of course, Judge, good luck on the book. Good luck in the book. Everybody check it out for yourself. Liars, leakers and liberals, the case against the anti Trump conspiracy. Judge Denin Pierro, thank you so much, and we'll talk to you soon. Thank you, book. Take care all right. So they had the judge only judge man, she's great. I've done her show. But time she's a lot of fun and she she gets it's

like Friday night and Judge Denine lights it up. Anyway, I'm gonna talk about I know now this is gonna be kind of a you know woo who so sad we gotta talk about Obama speech. Now we're really gonna dig into it. We got that coming up team, So stay right there, we'll be back. Unfortunately, too much of politics today seems to reject the very const up of objective truth. People just make stuff up. They just make stuff up. We see it in the growth of state

sponsored propaganda. We see it in Internet driven fabrications. We see it in the in the blurring of lines between news and entertainment. We see the utter loss of shame among political leaders where they're caught in a lie and they just doubled down and they lost the law. That's President Obama. Do you miss them? Everybody? I think we needed you know what, I think where they needed at this point in time, in our in our discourse in

this country. I think we needed the most recent former president United States two from overseas that was in uh Johannesburg, South Africa, give a thinly veiled broadside against the current US administration. You'll notice that you know who didn't do that. Bush during Obama's eight years didn't do it. I didn't think it was right, didn't think it was honorable to take cheap shots at the person who came after him in the Oval office. Just didn't didn't didn't do it.

Obama does it, but actually doesn't even have the courage to come out and just say it. Right, we all know who he's talking about there. Oh, when he's talking about state sponsored media, that's that's not new. If you asked him, oh, where's oh really, President Obama, where's the new state sponsored media? He's really talking about Fox News. This is all a a version of the same critiques were hearing day in and day out about Trump administration.

But Obama's just he's just leaving out Trump's name because he's he's so clever, it's so subtle. You know, at least have the courage if you're gonna take cheap shots at the administration from foreign soil, especially right now given what's happening in Hell, thinking everything else, you know, just say it. I would have more respect for Obama if you just called it out instead of this kind of wink and a nod of like, I mean, state sponsored media.

We all know we're talking about Fox News, right, you know, be forthright about it. One thing about Democrats, you know, very uh, very quick to be keyboard warriors, really tough on Twitter, and when they're overseas, you know, they just assume that the whole world is with them. You while most of the world doesn't care. What are the Americans ever say about anything? There's that too. Most people just care about their day to day lives in their country.

This whole notion of world opinion is this left wing fabrication in America. There's a word, there's a global opinion on anything. You can measure this seven billion people in the world. Do you think they most of them give a give a hoot about what's going on with our political problems. I don't think so, all right, They're worried about food on the table, you know, not getting a serious disease and hopefully providing for their families or or being in a place to have a family. That's it anyway.

So Obama, though, you know, it's been a while since Obama lectured the rest of us because he's he's really a demigod I mean, he's he's above us. He deigned to be among us mere mortals for eight years. And now Obama is back, and you know there's some stuff

that he said that I'll get into that. Well, I wish this was more of a tona actually we had for eight years when he was in office, instead of just a complete fixation on demonizing the political opposition that he had, uh, just being a pyromaniac in a field of straw men all the time with every conservative policy argument that he came across, never really dealt with it on the merits. And then the obsession with identity politics, toxic,

toxic identity politics. One of the real legacies of the Obama era is that we still deal with this now to this day, these this identity politics nonsense that it has only is worse than it has ever been. But you know, here, here's what he said about about oppression. Remember he's talking about the US while he's in South Africa. Play nineteen. It is a plain fete that racial discrimination still exists in both the United States and South Africa.

And it is also a fact that the accumulated disadvantages of years of institutionalized depression have created yawning disparities and income, and in wealth and education, and in health, in personal safety, and access to credit. Interesting, access to credit. You might think yourself, why is that there will be more of this? I've started to pick up on this again that in the aftermath of the financial collapse, and this is a

bit of a diversion, but this is important. In the aftermath of financial collapse, there are all these new rules that the banks, you Dodd Frank and all this stuff came crashing down on the banks and and all of a sudden, people realize making bad loans is a bad idea.

The only way that we ever got to the financial crisis where you had, you know, exotic dancers in Miami who owned five houses and all the rest of it, right, the only way we got to that point was that community organizers, really the original social justice warriors, decided that banks lending practices, which were based entirely upon income and history of paying bills, were racist. This goes back to the Community Reinvestment Act and decades of social justice agitation

over the issue. And they talked about redlining, and then you know, they would then they started bring federal suits against banks, and they decided they're going to get rid of the uh, the FICO score as a necessary component

in lending, or make it much less important. And that then led to the the monstrosities of the balance sheets that you had of different mortgages at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mack and I mean, this is the truth of how we got and then Wall Street, which is just like a pack of wolf circling you know, capitalism, it is about, you know, get what you can when you can. Then they came in package these things, sold them and almost took down the whole global economy. So for a

while they added back off this. But but I'm starting to hear this again, interesting, isn't it. Obomba says, you know, access to credit, I mean, access to credit in this country is supposed to be based upon your ability to pay, in your history of payment. It's not supposed to have anything to do with with your ethnicity, skin color, religion,

or anything else. But what they're gonna start saying is that the objective criteria, if they have a disparate impact on different communities, are no longer to be considered objective, which kicks the door wide open for all right, we're just gonna make loans to people based on favored status as an aggrieved minority group, which then means that you're gonna start making a lot of loans to people that can't pay them, and they're gonna either socialize those losses

in the broader economy or just keep pushing and pushing and pushing the deatload larger and larger until eventually, guess what, we have another financial crisis, and you know what they're gonna do. They're gonna turn around and they're gonna blame the greedy capitalists, even though it's actually government engineering that pushed the whole crisis. See, this is the version of the mortgage meltdown you want to hear from anybody else. It is all true. Go ahead, fact check me. You'll

see everything I'm telling you. Go back look at the Community Investment Act, look at redlining practices, Look at the government's response when they started bringing suits against banks for not loaning to people. And there was a number of cases actually in Chicago where they shoot certain banks that said they were racist, and the banks were actually community banks that were African American owned, and they were like, well,

we're just trying to do this. We're trying to make loans that we think will actually get paid back because we're a bank. The other banks were like, well, they were terrified of being considered racist, so they they wouldn't use that criteria. But you know, nobody ever wants to actually deal with the facts when it comes to lending, when it comes to these disparities. They just want to say what gets the biggest applause, and and Obama is dealing with doing that right now. Access to credit. I

know that sounds like such a throwaway. It's not a throwaway, and it really I heard. I actually had an interview here today with a a would be Okazio Cortez, another person who is young trying to unseen an incumbent senator in the Democrat Democrat Party in Delaware, and she also talked about access to credit. So I'm hearing this now, this is a thing. You're gonna hear more of this and real quick. And then there was something Obama said

that I have to say. I thought, wait a second, this is um like I like that place seventeen but democracy demands. They were able also to get inside the reality of people who are different than us, so we can understand their point of view. Maybe we can change their minds, but maybe they'll change ours. And you can't do this if you're just out of hand disregard what

your opponents have to say from the start. And you can't do it if you insist that those who aren't like you because they're white or because they're male, that somehow there's no way they can under stand what I'm feeling, but somehow they're lack standing to speak on certain matters. I think that's great. I've never heard Obama say anything like that before. I'm not saying he hasn't. I mean, I just say I I can't remember ever saying it

like that before. Was that a message that you that just because you're you're you know, you're a white male, for example, doesn't mean you can't understand the plight of a grieve minorities or and people need to understand that and occur. Is that a message that you feel like came through from the eight years of the Obama administration. I'm just going off on my own recollection here. I'm not you know, I don't need any any of the crazy fact checkers out there in a politic fact or whatever.

They don't need to jump on me. I'm just saying I don't I don't remember that at all. I'm totally behind that message. I want people to try to understand each other. I want people to come to good faith resolutions of political disagreements. So, okay, if that's the message

Obama wants to go with, I'm all for it. But I have a feeling what you're gonna see between now in the midterms is a lot more Obama give lectures abroad end at home about how all these terrible things are happening to the country, and he won't really mention Trump.

And I just wish if he was going to be out there and ignoring the precedent sent by his predecessor, if he's gonna be out there and being in the political fight, be honest about a former president Obama, just say what you mean to me when you say how about that? Got a big third hour coming up? Your team, Stay with me. We'll be right back. Strike Force Energy veteran own American, made one of the honest new energy products on the market. Look, strike Force is fantastic. I'm

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may recall that the founder of Papa John's. John Schnatter got embroiled in a racial slur scandal recently, and the board of Papa John's, a company that he was founder of and still owns a large piece of worth about five million dollars by the way. So Schnader is going to be fine out either way. But you know, your reputation is your reputation, no matter how rich you are. What Schnader had, the board turned on him, he resigned.

They're pulling him out of all of the marketing materials from Papa John's, and they really decided that he was He was not just a little bit out, he was out, and they were going to erase all trace of his presence at that company. I guess, other than changing the name from Papa John's to something else, because his name is John, I'm assuming maybe it's for his dad. I

don't know. I will also say that, well, I won't get into because people would point out rightly that I haven't had any fast food pizza in about ten years because I can't flower, and didn't know that until well but seven or eight years ago. But nonetheless, uh, that's

not really important for our discussion. What is important here is that Schnatter, formerly the CEO of Papa John's, is now saying that he made a mistake in stepping down, and then he should not have just allowed the board to push him out right away because the full story didn't really come out about his usage of a racial slur,

in this case, reportedly the N word. Now, I have somewhat uh, blasphemous views on this, in the sense that I do not believe that there should be such a thing as a word that any person is unable to use in any context, such that if I were, you know, in a court of law, and I was reading back the testimony of somebody who had just said a word, I would have to change the word to something else because of who I am, not because of a universally

applicable standard. It's one thing to say, buck, you're on radio, you can't curse. There's something to say, well, Buck, because you are, let's say, a Republican on radio, you can't curse. But Democrats can curse on radio. And I know that's not what happens, but I'm just trying to say. That's

what I mean by different rules for different people. Universally applicable means no one can say it, and then we can discuss, and we can discuss whether or not a prohibition is sensible on a word of prohibition is something that we could all agree on or not. But prohibitions that vary by person, I think are inherently problematic. I remember an essay years ago that Christopher Hitchins wrote on the pernicious effect of banning words. And he was somebody

who liked to be provocative. He was a great writer, a anti Christian bigot, but a great writer. Nonetheless, I mean, very talented writer. And you know he took that position. I agree with the position, and it reminds me of the kerfuffle now that surrounds well, the debacle that surrounds John Schnatter. People are calling him. Look, they're saying he's a racist. And the way that story was initially reported, here's a very wealthy, nationally recognizable at some level guy

who apparently used a racial slur. And what we find out is that, well, he didn't just drop a racial slur in conversation. He certainly didn't refer to anyone as a racial slur. Here's what the Wall Street Journal says, quote in his letter to the board, Mr Schnatter said he was asked during the media training whether he is racist, and he answered no. Quote. I then said something on the order of Colonel Sanders used the N word. I would never use that word, and Papa John's doesn't use

that word. End quote. Now he said the word right, not the N word, but the actual word that we all know is you know, is the is the other way of saying that is the other word. And that's what he had this national level that's what he had, this this national level crisis about for his company and

for him as an individual. And I look at this and I think to myself, so we're really at the place now where if I were to read aloud, let's say, from Uh Huckleberry finn Uh, and if you were to read some of the dialogue of characters in the Mark and Mark Twain novels and you did not change what was the written text and you read that aloud, I think you would be subject to the rage of the social justice mob, and your career and your reputation may

be ruined. Schnader did not use a racial epithet against any person, nor did he drop a racial epithet into his conversation. Thought lest lee. He said, I would not say this word, but by saying the word, he transgressed, Folks, I think this is a problem, and it really only from what I can gather, it really only is the case with this one word right now. I don't know.

Maybe there are a few other words that aren't people aren't as sensitive about, but where there's also a if you're from within the community, you can say it, but if you're outside the community, you can. I I even willing to discuss usage of banned words in certain contexts, but I want to be very clear from what from what is being reported here about Schnatter, founder of Papa John's Pizza Once. I'm sure most of you listening to this have probably eaten at some point in time. Maybe

some of you think it's great pizza. I don't know. I don't know why. I don't know. But what what Schnatter is pillar read for and what he has lost his reputation for and lost his place on the board of the company he founded, is using a word, or rather citing a word that someone else used. So this is now usage in any context is racist, is band is wrong? Depending on who the person is. That is

a pretty extreme bar for us to deal with. And I think it also goes to show that this is that that that this is now getting to a place where the rules are well, I don't know, I don't know really what the rules already, Moore, other than you better be very careful if you are not from within the community that is allowed to use certain uh you know, racial terms, racial terminology. You have to be super careful because everyone's going to just throw you to the wolves

right away. And I just I do not agree with this in principle. I do not agree with their words that some people can never use under any circumstances. I think it's a dangerous precedent in our language. I think it's dangerous for our discourse. I just disagree with it. But you'll notice I won't viol at it. You know, I'm not, And I'm not gonna be an idiot, right, I mean, I understand these are the rules. Now I disagree with the rules, but these are the rules. Um.

And then there's this other. Remember I'm not saying use use of racial epithets is ever okay or a good idea in everyday speech or anything else. What I'm saying is the ban on the actual saying of a word ever. I mean, it's like Voldemort, it's you know, he who shall not be spoken of. That is not something that I want as a precedent in the English language in an American society. That's not something that I think we

should be in favor of. And there are some liberals, there are some civil libertarians and some liberals out there who still agree with me. There are a few, there are a few. You know, if someone says a word in the wrong, if someone calls someone racial epithet, Yeah, that's an assault on their in you know, decency as a person, on their integrity, and that's you know, that person should be named and shamed and all that. I get that I'm talking about. You can't say the word

ever period in any context. That's too far. I just think that's too far. Uh. And then also on on Schnatter stepping down and stepping down quickly. We we have seen a shift happen. And it's not just in this case. That's in many cases where when there is when political correctness demands someone's head, you no longer get any benefit from bowing and apologizing to the mob. You no longer actually drive any benefit they you know, they go King Geoffrey from Game of Thrones on you. You admit your

crime and then they take your head. There is no mercy. So that's going to change our our discourse. I think for a lot of folks going forward, I think there's a greater recognition now than ever before that if you it used to be they wanted the apology, but they would kind of let you slink off into public life afterwards as long as you apologize and did the whole You had to do a grovel tour for a while

if you offended the social justice mob. Now, if you offend the social justice mob, you might as well make a last stand for your career. You might as well argue and plead your case and stand and fight unless you are really giving into the dictates of your own conscience, unless you really believe you aired. And then that's but you get no you get no benefit from the other side. And I've seen it in case after case. Now you do not get any understanding, any second chance. When the

social justice mob comes for you. It is now a last stand for your career, for your livelihood. Uh. And that's it's just a lesson that you see here. If you stepped out. If you give up your ability to fight back and plead your case. I'm not saying, you know whether this is not about Schnatter, this is just

in general. If you say, okay, I'm sorry, punish me and and let me go forward, what you'll find out now, and this is a change from some years ago, is oh no, we appreciate that you're sorry, but we're still going to ruin you, and there will be no second chance, and you are going to be held up as an example to others. You are now a cautionary tale. You are not somebody who can be brought back into There's no rehabilitation by the social justice mob. Now you are done.

Now you are finished. That's a dangerous change, I think in in the character of our discussions around culture and politics and everything else. Uh. And you know that that Schnaders said the word he said obviously shows poor judgment, but you know it brings you back to this. Okay, So we really are at a place now where you are never you based on who you are, not based on the power of a word itself, based on who you are, in this case, based on your skin color,

can be permanently and forever in all context. Banned from uttering a word doesn't matter what the context is. That is a dangerous precedent. I don't care what anybody says. That is not something that we should just sit blithely by while that is a precedent in America. So I know people people disagree with me on the conservatives disagree

with me on this. That's fine. I'm I am pleading my case here, for there must always be the context of a word's usage has to matter in the evaluation of whether or not somebody has transgrassed, as you know, has shown themselves to be deficient in their character. The context matters. Just the word can't just be forever banned. All right, Maybe I'll tell you a happy story. Come o up here, stay with me. It can be the

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dot com. That's my g VN dot com. Or call eight seven seven six nine five nine. That's eight seven seven six nine five eleven seventy nine told me before here on the show that I think that the skill of first days, as in how to approach your first day in school, in work, in life, whatever it may be, right, whatever it is that you are facing for the first time,

is one of the more important things. And and it's something that I've, as I'm for many of you, have dealt with for as long as I can remember, and I've gotten better at as i've gotten older, and there

is a mindset to it. Well, here's a story that I just thought, given all the craziness out there right now, I would share with you, although I probably I would have told you about the story of a lost pug in Cape cod that went viral because the cops found the pug and then did a mug a mug shot, and they called it a pug shot, and they shared it so that whoever lost the pug would be able to find their pug. And they had a little, you know, mug shot thing under the pug where it. Yeah, it

was really really the whole little nameplate. It was really adorable, but you can't see it. So my description of it is all I can give you. But this is also a really nice story and it has to do with first day. So Walter Carr was supposed to have his first day of work with a moving company last week in in Alabama, in Homewood, Alabama, and he his car broke down the night before, a Sunday night before his first day of work, and he was gonna be with this moving company. So instead of doing a lot of

folks would have done, he just walked. He walked fourteen miles to his first job site, straight through the night. Walked fourteen miles and arrived at the place where he was supposed to join his team to be a mover, and he got there for everybody else, and he found out that rather the family that was high that hired the movers found out that this gentleman car and his mother were from New Orleans and they lost their home

during hurricane contry and then moved to Alabama. And this guy was very, very very humble and told the rest of the crew about how he walked fourteen miles through the night after his car broke down because he didn't want to be late for his first day on the job. And now this has gone viral and the owner of this the owner of this moving company called l Hops, has gifted a car to car his last name is C. A. R. R. But gave him four to escape as a thank you

for exemplifying. Look, it's a great pr move for the moving company. And Mike, you know, we all know this, right, but for exemplifying this, you know, can do attitude and and just not want to be late on his first day. And I'll tell you know, I've had to learn this. I've had to learn this myself, even relatively small things. You know, A couple of first day first day advice that I give out there. And you know, you're never

too old for a first day. You know, maybe it's if not, Yeah, we think of it usually with jobs or with school, but you know, first day anywhere, first day in a in a new gym can feel a little weird, first day in a you know, you go down the line, whatever it may be. You know, if you're traveling overseas, your first day at a place, you know, what's the one I always feel like one. Don't try to go big on the first day. This is just

my own personal recollection. You know, don't be the guy that tries to don't try to make an impression on your first day. Leave an impression on your first day. What I mean by that is, you know, don't try to rearrange the company's way of doing business day one. Just go along and be the guy that everyone is glad or gal that everyone's glad is there. You know that you're you're there to work, to do your job,

to be helpful. And and I will say I borrow this from my dad, who, by the way, his birthday is in fact coming up, so I'm excited to be giving him a happy birthday here on the show. Um, but you know, I my my dad always his attitude is everything, and in work and in school, it's the first day, definitely. That's the one thing that people pick up on, and it's something I'll tell you. I'm not great at hiding my attitude about things. My family would laugh if they heard this. For somebody used to be

an in talvient officer. I'm good at detecting other people's b s, if you will, I'm not good at doing my own bs. And that means that I'm also not good at putting on a happy face when I'm not happy about something or if I'm not loving the way things are going in the first day. So I've learned to get better at that. I wouldn't to get better at that. Another thing I think I might have mentioned this before on the show, uh is you know I used to think it wouldn't matter because I've always had

a lot of hair. I know it's a humble brag, but it wasn't until very later on in life when someone finally told me he was actually on the NYPD do not arrive for work late. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. It doesn't matter if you don't arrive for work late. Let me redo this. If your hair is wet, it looks like you just got out of the shower, because I always thought, come on, hair dry I don't need a hair dryer, right, that's for I always thought that's

kind of for ladies. Honestly, that was my thinking with this, because I could just air dry my hair. But if you you were close enough to work that you know I had showered in the morning. And I don't know if that's someone people agree with, but it's something that I paid more totion too. And especially in a workplace where a lot of people were traveling from far away to get there, it looked a little people took it

the wrong way. I guess when I would show up if I still had wet hair, I mean, not like soaking wet, but you know what I'm saying, if it looked like your hair was slicked back and still wet because you just you showered it for the morning. So little things like that you pick up. But the best thing I look, I never walked fourteen miles through the night for work, and I don't know if I ever went. And that guy is amazing, and you know, congrats to him.

But my thing that I've I've learned and I've seen it on both sides, and I've learned it the hard way in the easy way is don't try to make an impression. Just know that you are leaving an impression. And I think that's a good mantra going into a first day wherever you are, and if you're willing to work walk fourteen miles through the night to get to your jobs. Oh and the other thing is it is true, and it just bears repeating. I've learned this, this one

I have learned the hard way. I've gotten much better about this. Cannot be late. You just can't be late. You know it, even when people are all about it. This is what I've learned, even if it doesn't matter that you're not late. And by the way, later on you can be late. I'm talking about day one, Day one. You absolutely cannot be late. A lot of you are like Buck, we already know this. But I just for some of the young uns out there listening, some of

the team Buck campus, trust me. Even when they say it's okay, it's not okay when you're late. We'll be right back. He's holding the line for America. Buck sext in his back from I just saw your chriss conference with President Putin and he was embarrassing. I mean you stood there like a little with noodle, like a little uh fanboy. I mean I was asking. I said, when you're gonna ask him for an autocrat for selfie or something like that? Yeah, when you want to ask him

for this? Healfie. I mean you live. He sold out the dispress conference, our intelligence community, our justice system, in worst of all our country. You're the president of the United States. You shouldn't do that. You shouldn't do that. You're girling on And what's a metal with you? Who is your daddy? And what does he do? I mean, whatever happened to the strong words or to the strength of Ronald Reagan? And he stood there at the Berlin Wall and he said, Mr Guobachev, tear down this wall.

What happened? Don't that? What are your arms compuny for the governator? What happened? Don't that? Hen Trump's even lost the governator on this one. Oh no, what's he gonna do? I don't remember anybody particularly caring what Schwarzenegger had to say about foreign policy while he was governor of California. I'm pretty sure not too many folks will care now about this, but I did think one thing was interesting

about Look, Uh, Schwarzenegger's Austrian. By the way. People always think of him as being German because accident, Yeah, Hans and Franz. But he's actually Austrian. And it's like I who has an incredible story, even his life story in

the States is amazing. But when he says that he's talking about Gorbachoff and and uh, talking to the era of Gorbatof and yelts In and and Reagan and you know, tear down this wall and all this stuff, I gotta say that's the kind of rhetoric that conservatives certainly celebrate. But we celebrated in the context of we're facing down the Soviet Union, an evil empire that threatened the world

with annihilation. We really aren't doing that anymore. And I I I understand right now that the temperature is very hot. People are really fired off about this whole thing, and and they're saying stuff that's that I think it's just it's just borderline crazy. I mean, they're saying things about the president or no that are crazy. Forget borderline that that are crazy, But but I also, you know, I think it's such a loss for us, and maybe I'm

I'm off on a on a tangent. I just think it's such a loss for us that entertain nurs not Schwartzeninger, I knows, a politician, and people are even thinking maybe

he'd run for president at some point. Some of you will recall in the movie Demolition Man still still Sylvester Stallone, this this action movie stuff, Sylvester Stallone makes an offhanded joke about President Schwarzeneger one day, right because he wakes up in the future and there's been a President Schwarzeneger in the era of Trump, and it feels like none of that stuff can really be considered to be impossible. And I just thought that was that was kind of

stuck with. It's like, wow, President Schwarzeneger. People are thinking about that for a while. But I do wish that we could have some separation of our entertainment culture from the constant stream of politics. Hey, I know this has become a conservative point of contention here, that that everything is now political, but I really do find it troubling. I mean, it does bother me. I wish it wasn't

the case. Occasionally I see something that I go, oh wow, there's some there's a little bit of cultural commentary that breaks with them, a little bit of bravery. I like this show Silicon Valley, even though it's the people say it's like the Rise of the Beta mails over, you know the rest and all the that's all, you know, that's all kind of nonsense. But it's a funny show. It's might judge the guy who did Office Space. I like it, and I just I'm getting caught up in

the latest season. Over the weekend, I saw an episode where the big the big problem is that there is a character who is gay and Christian, and I won't get into all the details, but he's the gonna be the proprietor of a website. And the guy, the main character from the show outs him not as as gay because he's openly gay and that's fine in Silicon Valley

and everyone's fine with it. Outs him as Christian and the problems that that causes for this startup internet company, the problems that causes in Silicon Valley, and I just thought it was such It was so refreshing to finally an instance of some honesty in what we're being presented as comedy. That there's a lot that's going on folks that is worthy of of mockery and derision that never

gets touched because of political correctness and political sensitivities. And it is a true thing right now that to be any historically marginalized minority of any kind, to be from the lgbt Q community, any of that in the Bay Area Silicon Valley is not just fine, but it's it is openly celebrated, which is fine too, that's a good thing. But to be Christian is to subject yourself now to real hatred and people don't trust you. And that's not

a you know. And I was just surprised to see that finally someone in pop culture was willing to tackle this issue. And look at Mike Judge is very irreverent.

I'm he's not some he's not blazing the trail for Christianity make it come back in America by any means, but he the does pick up on the fact that right now, uh, it is a precarious thing to live your faith and to be a Christian in America now you are always being told that you are, that you're a bad person that you're a bigot that and you have all these politicians like the Pelosi's of the world, who say that they're Christians, say that they're favorable towards Christianity.

But the moment that somebody's actually Christian, whoa, whoa, whoa, and then you've got a problem. I know it's straight from the governator a bit here, but it just made me think. I think of him and entertainment in Hollywood, and he is the greatest action movie hero of all times. So I wish he was on the Trump trains, but you know he's not so and it's not gonna happen. Roll Call is up next. Team stay with me, Hey, team Buck, It's time for roll call. Let's get to

the row. Call your thoughts I want to give him, want to read them? And then of the Facebook dot com slash box Sexton if you want in on this action. First up here we have Karen, who writes, I know you've been experimenting with what to wear on rising, get Ben Dominic to advise you. He looks comfortable and sharp in the blue check shirt with the blue blazer with the subtle plaid. Thank you, Karen. Ben is a very

sharp dresser indeed always has been. In fact, Ben tends to go for the pocket square, which is something that I a shoe in my startorial endeavors. But Ben is a buddy and I will certainly go to him if I really want help. I'll go to Miss Molly, who works in fashion, but I tend not to bother her with things like that, although I will ask her for a little assistance on the wardrobes. And some of you think that that would be a good idea, Aries writes,

hold up here it comes, but great show today. You're getting better and better, unlike other people who recently acquired a TV show whose radio shows have suffered. Thank you, Aries. I gotta tell you because I have a very different style of TV show in the morning. When I get the opportunity, when I get the chance to get on radio and just be me at night, I'm I'm extra fired up about it now, you know, because I gotta look, I gotta do a little delicate dance in the morning.

I gotta be a little uh, a little what's the word some of you are yelling out words right now that I probably don't want to hear. A little open minded, a little bit polite, and at on the Buck Sexton Show, it's just Buck Sexton. I get to be me and talk to all of you, so I love it. Kelly, next up here. As far as the Russian meddling goes, I haven't heard anyone defending the intelligence of the American people.

Facebook ads and tweets are nothing new to us. With every single election, lines and half truths are spread by opposing candidates. Although most Americans are not experts when it comes to politics, we do know to look deeper than social media post to determine who gets our votes. This whole fiasco angers me because it appears, as usual that the powers that be think we the citizens, are naive

and stupid. We are not stupid, and Donald Trump won the election because we are sick and tired of politicians running this country into the ground. We wanted to make America great again, and it had nothing to do with Russia or anyone else posting silly Facebook ads. Thank you for letting me vent well, Kelly. Thank you for giving words to what a lot of us are thinking. This notion that they were able to turn the election, change the outcoming election with a few Facebook ads and some

Russian trolls and this is just it's completely crazy. But even beyond that, it is insulting, as though you know, some fake news story about pizza gate or something was the reason Hillary laws Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan. That is not not to mention Florida and Ohio. That is not

what happened. And you know, the Democrats haven't given up on this because ultimately they can't accept that after eight years of Obama, there was a repudiation of left wing progressivism, that progressive ism has not one, that there is in fact an opposition ideologically to what is going on in this country on the left. And they just they completely and utterly they rejected. They will not be okay with it. And I think that that's what's what is driving so

much of the opposition right now. Brian, next up here, have you heard you're talking about books you're reading as wondering and wondering if you could put on your website a recommended reading lest Brian, we are in the process of revamping buck sex and dot com right now. I do want to have up a books section that I can refer people to. Uh And you know, right now I'm I'm reading a book on Cortes, The Conquistador, which I highly recommend to you. Uh, I think it's it's

by Buddy Levy. Actually, Conquistador Hernan Cortes, King Montezuma and the as stand uh of the Aztecs is the book by Buddy Levy. I'm reading right now on the Kunkistadors or on the Conquest, and it is it is excellent. I gotta tell you it is. It is a very very good book, and I'm I'm pleased with it. I would tend to hesitate to usually get a book without a real recommendation from someone by a guy named Buddy. But then again, my name is Buck. So who am I to Who am I to judge? Who am I

to judge? So I hope you liked that book. I also read read Notice recently by Browder, and I'm trying to think what else I you know, I read Frankenstein some months ago, which I was never assigned in school. I gotta tell you, not Great has nothing to do with the movie in Frankenstein, the one you think of. Not Great. The only Frankenstein I've ever seen in pop culture or in any kind of theatrical experience that was anywhere near the Frankenstein Monster of well, as you know,

I know you're read book. It's not though, I no, no, no, anywhere near the Frankenstein novel about Dr Frankenstein and the Demon as it is often referred to in the book. It is not. It's not the Frankenstein Monster, but the the only thing that I've ever seen that ever pays any real attention to the original novel was by Mary Shelley. Was the Cinemax series, Uh, Penny Dreadful. The the the Dr Frankenstein and his monster or the demon as it's referred to in that is not out of the book,

but at least there's some similarities to it. And if you see that. I thought Penny Dreadful had some great stuff. I mean it was overall. The last season was bad, which was a shame because it was the Dracula season. But the overall Penny Dreadful story arc I thought was actually pretty good. I I really enjoyed it. Um alright, next up here we have Canny Rights. Hey, Buck, I love your show. Thank you for reading the poignant piece by the five year old cancer patient who had written

his own obituary. Kudos because you got through it without totally choking up, although your voice did get a little thick toward the end. After complaining of headaches for several weeks, which is his pediatrician thought were related to his sinuses, My grandson Sam was diagnosed with brain cancer just before his fifth birthday. Over the next two years, he underwent several surgeries, chemo, and radiation. During this trying time, he became fascinated with Captain America and just had to have

all the action figure stuff we could get him. In the attached photo, he's wearing his Captain America costume note the shield while waiting for the doors to open for a Halloween party at his children's hospital in Oregon. Thanks to the grace of God, the skilled and dedicated staff at Dornbecker Hospital, and the support of Captain America, Sam will be celebrating his eleventh birthday this August nine. Shield

Ye Ken in Washington. Ken, that is a beautiful story in great news, Uh and Ken Semi here a photo, Uh, a photo of his his grandson when he's fighting the cancer. And then a photo now where he just looks great and you know, totally healthy and God bless men. I'm so happy that you know, your your grandson won his fight, pulled through and has a long and and enjoyous life ahead of him. Now, uh, it's always you know, you

gotta remember the important stuff. I think yesterday in particular, people were just so wrapped up and and what really doesn't have I'm just gonna say that, you know, it doesn't have that much to do with him. It's it's just not worth it. What really matters to you is your day to day. You know, how you act, who you are, how you treat people, what you're accomplishing, how you're helping others. That's that's the stuff that matters. And we all know this, and we all need to remind

each other of this. Um. I've often said that, you know, kindness is your first obligation, or kindness is our first obligation, and in these particularly politically heated moments, I just find that, Look, we can all use the reminder. You know, we can all take a moment to sit back and say, you know what, Ah, let's think about some inspiring stories. You're like young Sam for example, who beat cancer, and how important it is to love the ones around us, and

how my friends, everything is temporary. All of us are temporary here on earth, So excuse me for the digression there, but again, a really important story Ken, thank you for sharing. Jonathan. Next up here, Hey, Buck, you just made mention about transgender and dating apps, and it's very easy to ensure you're going to get what it is you're looking for in your profile. All you have to do is state if you prefer male or female organs. Then it doesn't

matter what they call themselves. You'll still end up getting what it is you're looking for. Hey, and they if they don't fit the profile, you won't have to worry about being called a bigot because you clearly stated you prefer just my two cents. Hope those two texts will not fail me. Shields high. Uh, my friend Jonathan, you know Jonathan in It shouldn't have to be at that place, but I think it is getting to that place. And I'm telling you you can. You can start the countdown clock.

You will start. You will see more articles. Now you've already had actors now can't play transgender actors. That's no longer allowed because of Scarlett Johansson. But you will see people who shame others because they will not state that they are or not are not okay with being attracted to someone who claims to be you know, so a heterosexual cannot say I only want to date women who are actually biologically women. That's going to be called bigger

than closed minded. It's already it's gonna happen. It's already happened a little bit, but it will become a much more wide. Just like ten years ago, if you said, the left will be arguing that thirteen year olds can use you know, the girl's locker room if they're a boy, if they think they're a girl. And they would have said that was crazy. Well that that's now official. It was official Obama administration policy. So I tend to have a pretty good track record on predicting this stuff. Just

putting that out there. Jenna writes my top three favorite things about daily listening to Buck Sexton Show three. The enthusiastically say this is your favorite part of the day, Well, it's mine too. The podcast two. My two year old cheers Team Buck, Team Buck. That's awesome, Thank you very much, Jenna. Number one, Team Buck gives me a hope that there are other conservatives, most of all yourself, who can articulate truth, news and interesting facts. Thank you, and the montages are great.

Keep them coming well. Thank you Jenni for the very kind message here on roll Call. Certainly brightened up my day. That's gonna be it for us here in the Hut for tonight. I will see or talk to you all tomorrow, same time as always, no matter what, She'll tie