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That's eight four four, nine hundred to eight to five, the Future of talk radio. Buck Sexton Department SWAT team approached the vehicle. The suspect detonated a bomb inside the vehicle, knocking one of our SWAT officers back, and one of our SWAT officers fired at the suspect as well. The suspect is deceased UH and has significant injuries from a blast that occurred from detonating a bomb inside his vehicle. Welcome to buck Sexton Show everyone. You heard it there

from the Austin Police Chief. The serial bomber has been caught, or rather he's no longer with us. He is UH. He has been found, He detonated a bomb, he killed himself and looks like the terror that was visited upon the city of Austin in recent weeks is most likely over. There still could be some bombs circulating out there, but right now we are praying and fingers crossed and very hopeful that this has all come to an end. Here here's what we know about this particular mad bomber. His

name is Mark Anthony Condit. He's twenty three years old. He was homeschooled, grew up in the Austin area. Had spent some time on Internet sites doing a research for his bomb making. It's believe that he did this all himself, that he just created these. He ordered some batteries, unusual batteries online from Asia as part of his bomb making. According to the Daily Mail, bought some equipment from a home depot store. This was all uh D I y serial murder from Mark Anthony Condit. They were able to

zero in on him because of his FedEx. His FedEx stop so, as many of us said, including uh when it initially happened, I was over at Fox, I said, I think FedEx is going to be what what breaks this case open? And sure enough it was because they had cameras in place, and once you had him on although he was in disguise. It kind of a wig and a hole this guy set up. But once you knew where the suspect was at the time, you could

then use cell phone data. And also I've seen reports that they looked up his Google search history became a person of interest. The digital footprint here was what did him in. Well, homemade bomb that he didn't it himself really did him in. But I mean his he was captured because of the Internet and because of technology. So

that was the hope all along here. I think that it was not well, it was possible maybe, but it was unlikely that the serial bomber would be able to stay out of closed circuit television surveillance, that he would be able to evade all of the mechanisms that are in our day to day lives now as a result of the technology all around us. And so we don't have him a testy on our hands. You know, the mad bomber in New York City, as I mentioned in the fifties, almost I think for around a decade terrorized

New York City thirty three bombs. The UNI bomber ted Kazinski sixteen years I think it took before they finally got him. Um. Now, this bomber didn't have quite the ops sack, perhaps of of a Kazinski Um, but we were we were were lucky we got him when we did, because he could have put many more of these bombs out there if he If he had just stayed with delivering bombs to doorsteps in the initial way, it might have taken a lot longer to get him, and the

more people's lives could have been ended. I mean, what a what's just a terrible waste Um that people were maimed, people were killed by this maniac. It's it is heart wrenching, it really is. It's a gut punch. Um. In terms

of motive, I still don't know. This kid was homeschool a bunch of community college um, unemployed at the time of his I was gonna say at the time of his arrest, but it's really at the time of his detonation, and they don't have much on They say he was quiet, They say that he um was reasonably polite, kind of a loner and comes from a nice family. They're saying, you know, this is not what would have fit the profile in a lot of ways. I think people were

expecting a different a different character here. Yeah, he's a he's a single white male. He's a little on the younger side I think for cerial bombers. But single white male, loner, well not even really a loner. He lived with roommates, just quiet, perhaps better way to put it. Uh, something was deeply wrong here, something was twisted in his mind. He had he had chosen the darkness, my friends, he had chosen evil, gone down a path of evil. And

we know this from his actions. We also know that he used the alias Kelly Kilmore uh for his FedEx packages, Kelly kill Moore. So this was all premeditated. Obviously, he thought a lot about it, He prepared for it, he experimented, and this was a plot that he put into motion. I mean, this was you know, we we'd like to call him a madman because in some ways it maybe feels more manageable for us to just think that he's that the synapses in his brain were misfiring, that that

there was something clinically medically wrong with him. Maybe he just chose evil. We don't have enough of a psychological profile on him to know really what his background was or how he was, I was gonna say, pushed into it. That's the how he made this choice. How he made this choice. Ah, it's a reminder as well of what we face. This is a kid who didn't have anywhere near the red flags and warning signs of the Parkland shooter,

Nicolas Cruz. Right in that case, you look at it, you say to yourself, well, they should have done more. And now we find out that law enforcement on the scene, and I think that's very important. We're just trying it out. What I'm criticizing what happened at Parkland in terms of law enforcement response. It's just some who were there. Others who were there showed bravery and and skill in their professions.

But there were some who clearly did not get another one today that this was no and I'm sure right away, but they waited and waited and waited. He found out that one of the deputies was asleep in his patrol car, the one who was supposed to be posted at the very entrance that Nicholas Cruz used to go into the

building asleep in his car when this happened. I remember when I was a the technical title, by the way, because sometimes I'm on TV, they say different things that are are close to the technical title was Intelligence research specialist. It's is fancy way of saying an analyst or the Intelligence Division, the NYPD. But I remember that the guys told me, They're like, one thing we promise you is if you're found sleeping on this job, you will be suspended and you might be fired. You cannot get you

are a law enforcement entity here. You cannot literally be asleep on the job. And I always remember that, and and they were, they were absolutely serious about it. It was like there was that rule, and there was if you well failed the drug test. They had another term that they used for it that was a little crasp, but if you failed the drug test, you all you were automatically suspended pending termination. That was it. There was no like, oh, let's talk about this or give me

a second chance. Sleeping was the same thing a Parkland deputy, well, i should say a Broward County deputy at the shooting in Parkland was literally a leap on the job. But you look at this, you say, okay, law enforcement failed. Uh, there were all these missigns. FBI missed the tips with Mark Anthony Condit and the Austin SIRA bombing. Mark Anthony Condit,

twenty three years old. I'm not seeing the red flags anywhere, And I'm not even sure which which is really scarier, folks, The evil maniact that everyone knows about that no one can stop, or the quiet, sadistic killer that you can't see coming. I think you can make a case it's worse either way. I mean they're just both evil and both things that we have to be vigilant against and

fight against. And people who are now I saw the beginnings of the conversation about well, you know, we have to do more to stop somebody from being able to build bombs. Now you're talking about just regulating everyday chemicals out of exist. I mean, it's just not possible. This guy did not have any military story an, did not have any intelligence training. He was able to figure this out.

And if he, by the way, if if he had had any real professional background in explosives, tactics, techniques and procedures, if he had had any tradecraft operational security taught to him, he would have been a much more lethal serial bomber than he was. But he figured out the bomb components of this himself. And you know, people I saw a lot of folks going on TV saying, well, you know, clearly there's a sophisticational level of expertise. No, this is

not hard to do. You know, there's a whole span I mean bomb making and expert explosives like any other area. There's there's familiarity, I have familiarity EXPI explosives, and then there's real expertise, which only comes from dealing with them, handling them, defusing them. Right, that's the level you get at SWAT teams EO D, military e O D. You know they and they'll tell you that once you learn the basics of how to do this, it's not hard to do to build a bomb like this to kill

innocent people. There's a whole the whole range of bomb maker skill and bomb diffusal skill out there. So this guy was was low on the skill spectrum, but enough to be lethal in the context of just trying to blow up people in the Austin area. We don't know anything about the targets set yet. Um, we don't know anything about I want to say anything. We know who's hit obviously, but we don't have any analysis of why

not that I've seen law enforcement. They don't know what the motive is, but they also don't even know what would cluster together the addresses that he chose, not not something that has been made clear, so we'll continue to

follow this. The good news is, uh, this evil piece of refuse is gone, blew himself up in the car when police confronted him, and assuming that there are no more of these devices out there, but we have to hope that that is the case, and law Enforce is working very hard to figure out if that is the case or not. This has finally come to an end. So we're very thankful for the people of Austin that this nightmare is hopefully over and that the country can

breathe a sigh of relief. UM. But as with so many of these cases, will not be the last, so we should just be psychologically prepared for that, and you have to maintain a level of vigilance. UM. Give you a sense of where we're going here. We're gonna have the Attorney General joining us to talk about battling the opioid crisis, or Jeff Sessions will be our guests coming

up here in just a few minutes. I'll give you more of my thoughts on the opioid crisis as well, and then we'll talk about the uh situation of former senior intelligence officers from the Obama administration who are now popping up on TV left and right and just trashing Trump. That's very It's not just that it annoys me. I think what they're saying is untrue. I think it's unethical.

I've got a big problem with it. Also, the call to Russia, with the call to putin and the leak about what Trump said or did not say, we'll address that. We got follow up on the Facebook Cambridge Analytica story. Here's a short version. Everything I told you is looking more and more accurate in terms of the analysis with each passing day. Now, so I was right and the entire mainstream media was wrong. There's no surprise there. But

we'll give you some of the details. And we've got basically a lot more show and and some free speech issues coming up later in the show too. YouTube kicking firearms videos off the platform, and a guy in the UK who is heading to prison or making an offensive video. We'll hit that and more. We come back, stay, wouldn't he y? So we're about to talk about the opioid crisis. Here on the show, we have Attorney General Jeff Sessions

will be our guests in just a few moments. We're looking forward to asking him about what the administration is going to do when it comes to, uh, the pandemic of overdoses, and we will get to get to that with him shortly. Here we have but there's a story that I just want to note I I saw and here's I'm kind of in shock. I missed this somehow. Producer Mike brought it to my attention. It's from CNN.

A Florida judge said bond Tuesday at five thousand dollars for Zachary Cruise, the younger brother of Parkland shooter Nicholas Cruz, for a misdemeanor trespassing charge, despite protestations from his de vents attorney, who said his client was being punished for his brother's crime. Appearing via video before the same judge and in the same quard room as his brother had days earlier, Zachary Cruise stood shackled in a brown jump

student sandals. He was surrounded by three deputies. Seven hundred He's got a seven hundred fifty dollar bond. Uh. Oh, I'm sorry, that's for the Younger Cruises release. WHOA. I was like, that is um, that's wait, no, is that the is the brother older or younger? Is it the older brother younger brother? Mike hold on making Oh no, yeah it was it was the younger brother. Seven fifty dollar bond. Wow for I mean obviously the other I had to think about this for a second, but yeah,

the Nicholas Cruise has no bond. I mean he's probably facing the death penalty, but that's a lot. That's a big price tag for what, as I understand as a trespassing charge. The Wow, they're throwing the book at this guy. They're not messing around. But here's what happened, uh after cruises. Back to the CNN piece here after Cruises arrest. This is re member the Younger Cruise, the younger brother, Nicholas Cruise,

the shooter at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School. There's all kinds of problems and warning signs with this guy too. After cruising arrest Monday in Parkland, the eighteen year old told police he wanted to reflect on the school shooting and soak it in the team had no ties to Broward County, and then he surpassed all locked doors and gates and proceeded to ride his skateboard through school grounds. So Nicholas cruise the school shooters younger brother who's eighteen,

so he's an adult. I thought that it would be a good idea to trespass on Marjorie Stoneman Douglas grounds and go skateboarding through the school to soak it all in in reference to the shooting. Wow, uh, they they need to keep an eye on this guy. Well, I guess they're going to he's got a seven our bond. I wonder what the I'm trying to look and see here. I just Mike just told me about this before we went into the break. I wasn't planning and discussing this.

I'm just seeing the story in in the last few minutes here. But I'm wondering how long what kind of charges he faces Right now? He had a bunch of theft and criminal mischief please from his juvenile record, So they're trying they're using that to say, wow, yeah, here we go, guys. That the the usual trespassing bond is twenty five dollars. That's what That's what it usually costs to get out on bond. For trespassing and uh in Brower Counties twenty five dollars. They're holding this guy in

seven and fifty thousand dollars bond. Ah there, whoa, this is interesting, But he violated I'm sorry, he's got an ankle monitor on here. He was instructed to have no contact with what you got, Mike. They they're holding him, uh involuntarily and uh under evaluation under the Baker Act. So they're holding a brother under the Baker Act. Ah. Wow, they're not gonna I'm not gonna let that slip through the cracks this time. Okay, So this, this is a this is a big update to the story. Thank you

for bringing this to my attention. I didn't I didn't know about this one. So the younger brother now being held and there they're trying to see if he's a risk to the public as well. Um, this, this shooting in Parkland is the story is still moving, still moving along here. Um, all right, we got to the attorney I'm gonna have to switch topic because we have the Attorney General of the United States calling in a few minutes talk to us about the opioid crisis. We're gonna

talk about that, So stay with me. Welcome back everyone. The administration is tackling the opioid crisis and they are taking real tangible steps to save lives in this country. Right now, De douce with smart and sensible policy. To tell us what some of those steps are. We are joined by the Attorney General of the United States, Jeff Sessions. UH, Mr Attorney General, thank you so much for calling us. We appreciate it. Well, thank you. It's good to talk

with you, and it is indeed an important subject. Tell us what the administration. I know you've been outlining the plans, but for those listening, what are the main points of assault on this epidemic right now that you and the rest of the administration are engaged into to save lives and to to deal with the sixty four thousand dead in the last complete year of opioid overdoses, um buck.

We are determined to bring those death numbers down. They went up from fifty two thousand to sixty four thousand to sixty six thousand. We think in seventeen we need to bring those numbers down, not just play around with this problem, but actually first these trends. The President declared

a health emergency, a national health emergency. And he was with the first Lady in New Hampshire earlier in the week and I was with him there with several Cabinet members, and he made clear that this is a top priority for him. The first Lady had been through a knee on natal unit where babies are being born addicted to drugs,

and she talked about that. UM and UH, I remember being in New Hampshire earlier last year when UH we stood with nine thousand high school students that d e A had had put the event together with fifty mothers holding up fifty and large portraits one of their children who had died from a drug overdose. UH. He was a moving, moving thing. So you are right, it's a big, big, big issue. What are we doing. We're gonna have a new data analytics program. We think a lot of the

addiction starts with prescription drug addiction. So this program kicks out how many drugs are given doctor or hospital or or pharmacy has dispensed. Some of them are shockingly outliers, way above any normal expectation of prescriptions. UH. And they even contract how many people are tied who've died from overdose, who may have been getting drugs from that facility, so it helps our agents identify corrupt uh people who are

moving these drugs. We're moving forward with civil litigation against Big Farmer in some of the things that they're doing. We're determined to bring down the number of prescriptions that are actually properly prescribed. The presidential goal is to bring those numbers down. We know that uh, these opioid prescripture

and pain killers can create addiction themselves. UH. Can you speak the searchery gentle to the the issue specifically of of enforcement when it comes to traffickers, because that's gotten a lot of press attention recently, specifically with regard to enhance penalties for drug trafficking. Where where's the DJ on that word's administration on it? We are a hundred percent

behind that. We've got to get stronger sentences for fentanyl, which is a number one killer drug, and we believe and support the Sentencing Commission to raise uh the guidelines for senacing, but we really need Congress to to improve sentencing for that. The President has called for considering the death penalty for some of these gangs and some of these uh drug killers who are moving these drugs that are causing so much death. Uh, and we support that.

I sent out a memo yet today to our every United States attorney to consider the death penalty wherever it was appropriate and if we think that that will go up. Uh. And we have in every United States Attorney's office around the country, ninety four of them an opioid specialists that

I've required them to establish. We have an opioid leader here in Washington, UM that supports our prosecutors, and we expect to continue to see a surge in prosecutions and in fact, as you let me just advise you, but over the last four or five years, UH, we've seen a drop in prison population, in a drop an average

sentence for anyone convicted in federal court. We think that's gone too far, and we're asking our prosecutors to identify these uh big time gang don't bigglers, to prosecute them fully, and if they deserve the death penalty, to speak that. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is with us now here team Attorney General. I've been looking for a while at the connection between cartels and the opioid epidemic, and this is a theory. It's something I've been working on trying to

do research for. I'm wondering if you can speak to

what what the connections are. I mean, do we have some sense of the role and responsibility of Mexican based drug car tells of the MS thirteen gang here in the States and this huge surge because from the data I'm seeing from various, uh you know, national government sources, it seems like a lot of the overdoses we mentioned sixty four thousand, a lot of the overdoses come from heroin, which is always illegal, and fentonel, which is often illegal, which to me suggests that the role of the cartels

in the opioid epidemic is much bigger than the media is leading many of us to believe. You're exactly correct about this. Almost all centinnel and almost all heroine now is coming across the border from Mexico. Mexico is a growing poppy and record amounts. They need to spray more of this poppy plant. Uh, and that would be a big help and bus some more labs. But uh, they make meth in unlimited amounts in Mexico. Now all our met is not homemade, but almost all of it is

being transported across the border from big laboratories. The same is true with heroin. We're seeing a lot of white powder heroine. Uh even the heroine that's are driven and distributed by the the UH Domedicans of Dominican Republic gangs in the northeast UH is actually coming out of Mexico and actually across the Mexican border. UH So heroin, cocaine, meth, m fed amine centinel is overwhelmingly coming across the border

from Mexico. And the amount of being produced that are being produced are greater than what we've ever seen in general. And you've given us a lot of time, and I don't I don't want to hold you up before we let you go. If you can just tell me, what do you think about some of these cities in California that are trying to hold their own municipal referendums to opt out of sanctuary city status. Well, we salute that

and we encourage that. It's just such a fundamental violation of the One of the greatest things that's happened in law enforcement over the last forty years is cooperation between federal, state and all the local agencies. And what they're doing is they won't even tell the federal of ice officials that they have an illegal alien that they have condicted of a drug crime, for example, and do to be released,

convicted of an assault, convicted of rate. They won't even tell the federal officers who want to pick them up and deport them. Uh. In California, I had to soothe them last a week two weeks ago over there state law that says a private business who's approached by an ice officer to enquire about illegal aliens in the workforce, uh, they cannot allow on their own property the ice officer to come on on the premises. It's some really extreme action being taken in California. The gist of it is

they want to eviscerate the law. They really believe in open borders, and anybody that gets across the border, uh, they believe should not be ever to be deported. It's really a radical thing, and and I'm so proud that a number of the cities are standing up. Attorney General Jeff Sessions. We really appreciate your time, sir, thank you for all you're doing, and thanks for joining us well. Thank you, and I appreciate your interest in study in

this matter. Thank you very much, sir. Seeing we're gonna roll into a break. We'll be back in just a few moments eight four four to five, buck, We'll be right back. This epidemic can affect anyone, and that's why we want to educate everyone. The second part of our initiative is to reduce the supply of illicit drugs. Of the heroine in America comes from our southern border, where eventually the Democrats will agree with us and we'll build

the wall to keep the damn drugs out. President Trump is right on this one, and he's been right for a long time. I told you I've been looking at the numbers, and the numbers don't lie. We've actually seen a decrease in the last few years in prescriptions written for opioids. People have been overdosing on pain medication, one kind or another opioid based for quite a few years.

When you look at the statistics, what you find out is that, sure enough, the enormous spike over the last three or four years in opioid deaths has resulted from fentanyl on heroin. And I just asked the attorney generally United States, and he said, yes, this is true. It is from fentyl and heroin. Illegal drugs are actually what are what is killing a vast majority of the people

that are overdosing. Now, there's sometimes fentinyl. I've known people that have said that fentinyl can be prescribed in certain circumstances, but a vast majority of the fentanyl the people are getting is a version that's made in labs illegally and distributed illegally. So it's the illegal drug trade, folks, that is the reason we have sixty four thousand dead Americans

in the last year. It's a lot. I don't have to tell you that, but you look at it up against other figures of what is causing deaths in this country. It's the reason why you've actually had a decline in life expectancy for for American males in recent years. Uh or, I think it might have stalled out. Life expectancy is something you wouldn't expect to see in any direction except a positive one in this country. But I put all

this together a while ago. Remember we had our friend from Mexico City to journalist to you own Grillo joined. I said, you Own, there's more violence in Mexico and there's ever been before. The cartels are more powerful than they have ever been. Right now, you have news stories coming out of Mexico that looked like they were written by some fantasy assist thriller novel writer, and they're real.

You know, thirty forty man assault teams on the cartel side with automatic weapons and RPGs going up against federalist going up against Mexican Marines. You're not hearing about it here in this country, but that's happening, and that's been happening last year or so in Mexico. You also have these gangs like MS thirteen that are becoming more brazen and more distributed in cities across the country. And oh, by the way, the human smuggling networks for legal immigration

and the illegal immigrant diasper communities, that's right. That means sanctuary cities, my friends. Illegal immigrant diaspora in the United States is a highway now for the illegal drugs coming into this country that are killing over sixty thousand Americans a year. I knew that there was something wrong going on here, and the media doesn't want to talk about this because the moment, illegal immigration is undeniably a security issue with tens of thousands of American lives at stake.

Doesn't that change the whole conversation, my friends, doesn't make it a little harder. Just trot out a few people here and there and say, look at this valedictorian who was brought here illegally. How don't you feel terrible for the valedictorian. Well, that's not really what we're talking about here, are we. That's not really the policy issue that's at hand. You can do that with any number of issues. You know. They're nice, they're wonderful people who don't pay their taxes.

They go to prison for it. You don't see them getting on CNN. Look at the wonderful guy that this is. He just didn't pay his taxes for last ten years. They do this with the legal imigration. They lie about it. They try to twist the language and try to force us to have discussions that aren't based in fact. And they've been hiding this from you because the statistics in Mexico are clear. The cartels are more violent, more dangerous

than they've ever been. There are a whole new cartels popping up that people have even heard of this country that are more powerful and more violent than some of the ones they've supplanted and they are running heroin into this country because they are growing it. Now they are vertically integrated as a international drug commercial enterprise. They're not

just moving that. They used to move cocaine through Mexico and the United States and marijuana and a lot in the cocaine was grown in primarily Colombia, Peru, some in Venezuela. Now they're just growing the heroine right in Mexico. And what you find are, yes, there's a tie into the prescription issue in this country with doctors putting out too

many prescriptions for opioids. But the time is that well, when you start to shut this stuff down, now be bull that have a need, a biological physical need for opioids unless they're going to go through a proper detox and get clean. They figure, well, I mean the heroine is readily available and that I don't go into withdrawal if I get the heroine. So gangs like m S. THIRTEENA flooded the streets with heroin. Now it's cheaper, more readily available than it has ever been in this country.

And that's happening despite the fact that we have, as we've been talking about with the serial bomber case law enforcement technology deployed that has made much easier to attract organized crime. It's made it much more effective too, to deal with violent crime of all kinds. Meanwhile, heroin is flooding into the country. It's being grown across the border in Mexico, the Mexic I mean, there are so many

levels where this is a problem, folks. The Mexican President of Penyaeto, he's part of the pre the p r I. They are the Mexican Revolutionary Party. They were the one party in control of Mexico for over seven years. You know what their policy was with the cartels, not really a problem, just you know, don't cause too much issue for us. And then they went out of power and you had Vincente Fox and Calderone and they Mexican government took on the drug cartels and lost fifty thousand plus

Mexicans doing it. Now you've got the party in in place that was like, hey, why don't we try to turn more of a blind eye to cartel activity and the violence between much of the violences between the cartels because they're fighting over turf, but they're flooding our streets. The heroin that is being sold in Los Angeles Chicago

and the surrounding cities. Right, it's a hub spoke system that's being sold in New York City, right where I am, that's being sold in Long Island MS thirteen gangs penetrating out in Long Islands, being sold all across the country New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Phoenix, New Orleans. I mean, name a place. It's coming from Mexico and it's using the same smugglers that are bringing in a legal immigrants.

We'll keep following this team. He's back with you now because when it comes to the fight for truth, the fuck never stops. Welcome to our two of the Buck Sexton Show. Thank you so much for being here. You've got a lot to get to, including the former CIA director my old home agency, although I left before he was running the show there, Uh Brennan speaking out on Trump.

Speaking out's a polite way of saying, and he's really uh dumping on Trump in a way that is completely unacceptable in my opinion for a former intelligence chief, particularly one that just finished the job. Right. But I'll get

into why that bothers me so much a bit later on. Also, the heat that Trump continues to get on Russia and his call to Putin when Obama made the same call, because I mentioned yesterday, and I also want to challenge this on on policy grounds to what do they really think the answer is to the difficult and delicate relationship that the President United States has to have with the Russian premiere. Mm hmm. We will ponder that one together.

And then the absolutely disgraceful leak of the president's phone call and the instructions given to him from what is believed one of his top aids. It has to be somebody close to him. The reports are that's a small number of folks around. We'll get to all of that, and then by the way third hour, you definitely should stick around. Well, well, that's what I'm gonna be addressing. The Brennan issue, and also a free speech case out

of the UK that is bizarre. Um, someone's going to jail for a OK A comedian going to jail for teaching his pug two raise its paw in response to anti to an anti anti Semitic Nazi propaganda. Essentially he's going to prison for that. And then also what YouTube is doing to videos that try to show people how to um fire guns and how they're blocking access to websites that sell guns via YouTube. Now, this is active censorship on the social media platforms, censorship along political lines

the mainstream media. We will wake up one day soon and find out that the mainstream media is no longer dominant, that its air of dominance is over, and we will also realize that the era of progressive social media dominance is now the new fight, and it is upon us. Because they will have a huge headstart at that point. Facebook is one of the most valuable companies in the world, to Google not far behind. Twitter has also got quite

a bankroll. These are progressive, ideologically driven organizations. These social media platform companies have every bit the same sense of left wing evangelism that journalists working at the big three networks for decades when they had a monopoly on TV news.

They had the same sense of purpose that was had then they have now, and in many ways I think they haven't even more powerful grip on the public because you're interacting with this stuff all the time, which now brings me to you just I'm hoping this will be one of the last updates on the Cambridge Analytic story, because I have been right on this one all along. I will power myself on the back a little bit. I said the initial headlines, Oh they have they've weaponized,

they've weaponized information about people. They're doing micro targeting. That's terrified. I' cheological warfare weapon you mean marketing, you mean advertising campaigns that try to base themselves upon information, demographic info, the very broad stuff that's out. Well, it's worse than that.

It's psychological warfare through Facebook or all. Yeah, I knew this would happen at the moment that people started to say that, they thought that, And I mean people, I'm talking even about some conservatives out there who think they who think they know the constitution of the law really well and think they understand things. They're like, oh, the Mueller charge against Russia is really a shot across the

bow for democracy. It's like, well, I'm not sure that Facebook accounts constitute a foreign foreign government engaging in information warfare against the United States U. And I also think that calling it a conspiracy to defrau the United States based upon a conception of fraud as something you don't like that interferes with what the governed does like is not a good precedent descent. But putting that aside for a moment here. Cambridge Analytic story is supposed to be

as follows. All this information was taken and this is the summary version of what the media has been and this has been like a top story if it if it wasn't for the Austin Cereal bomber case, this would have been the biggest news story this week so far. I mean CNN this and CNN is Cambrage Analytica and

Stormy Daniels very different, very different stories. Uh that we could that we can say, um yeah, But the storyline they were running with was that Facebook allowed a breach, a breach of information, and Cambrage Analytical, these super geniuses of algorithms and manipulation, social media, manipulation of the masses, elicitly used information from Facebook to micro target people in the United States and cost Hillary the election. That was the storyline. The reality is much more nuanced and much

less important. That's what it really comes down to. You at Anderson Cooper, who over at CNN, they love Anderson Cooper. I have never once seen Anderson Cooper give an interview or do anything where I was impressed. I will say that, and I've actually seen him act really poorly on TV a number of times. I can even cite some of the examples if I chose to. But he is that the single biggest name at CNN for reasons I could not conjure on the spot. I'm not really clear on

why he looks. He looks the part of news man um. But he's interviewed. He interviewed one of the guys involved with this whole camera ge analytical thing, and just let let's go through this together from a moment, and he'll you'll notice something as he's asking these questions. Go ahead, please play. Did they tell you what they were going to do with their data? Now? I knew it was for political consulting, but beyond ah, no idea. So but you knew it would be used to maybe target voters

or find out information about voters. My recollection is now, I mean, the we knew they wanted to use it for political political purposes, but there was a lot of ambiguity of what that meant. So, I mean, what did political purposes mean to you? Give me a lot of things. I mean, the actually use case for this data, I already told you that it's just not that accurate at the individual level. Is aggregate when you look at groups, if you want to understand, hey, what's the personality of

New Yorkers, it's actually pretty good. If you want to look at you know, Anderson Cooper, it's not great. Um, that would have been a really great use case, I think. So just be clear. I mean, as far as you know, were there any illicit activities anything untoward the transpired between Camerage Analytica and the Trump campaign concerning the election? Uh no, I don't even know if they actually worked for Trump

or use the data. Okay, all right, everybody, so can we just take a over here together and just basking the glory of what was just said on National TV on CNN in front of in front of an audience in the in the you know, low thousands in the demo. Um, the the guys is saying, so let's just be honest here for second, folks, the data is not that good. But we were told, oh my gosh, like Bannon and Mercer and and Data and Russia and Facebook and bra No,

the information is just not that good. As I told you, they would have to be geniuses. Everyone else is trying to do the same stuff, trying to target. Remember when you say target that's also even oh my gosh, like they're targeting. No, this isn't targeting like we're you know, hurting people. This is trying to give them information they want to see, that they want to click on, that they will take action on. It's advertising. We are literally

talking about political advertising everyone. That's it. They're not they're not turning people's computers into active listing devices when they're not around. They're they're not stealing your credit card information. They're sending you stuff like hey Hillary, maybe he's not a good presidential candidate, hashtag Hillary for prison. Oh my gosh, but this was like some big breakings for what have they done with the data? Well, people were giving this

to a third party. You just did the third party then give it to Cambridge Analytica. I also told you the journalists who are honest and cover the political campaign cover the presidential campaigns accurately, like Cambra Jenera isn't even considered good at this. But all of a sudden, you'll notice that they cast aside any skepticism. You know, all we hear is that Trump is Trump, and all of

us people are such a buffoons. They're so they're so dumb. Oh, but they had the genius social media people working for that Cambridge. Oh my gosh, it's a secret weapon. No, it's not. It's obvious that it's not. But if that wasn't enough for you, if you're not already like wow, buck, like this is a real This is a huge story in that it was made a huge story when it's actually a non story or a very low level, unimportant

story at best. What it really is a story about the delusions of the media, about how they're so willing to either lie or be fooled easily into propagating a lie because it excuses Hillary's loss and it bashes Trump. I mean, this has become a fixation. They have turned this into some kind of O. C. D tick. You know, Hillary didn't lose. Trump's a cheater. Hillary didn't lose. Trump's

a cheater. They can't let it go. But as as though it's not enough to just know the data is not what they said it was, then yeah, that guy would be like, I don't even think they used it, So what the heck have all these news networks been running for the last few days. That seems to be pretty by the way this was reported in The New York Times other places too, but they always reported very

unlike there's no clear events even use the data. So meanwhile, we've got people that are are all they're freaking out about Mark Zuckerberg. This is from the Hill or to Day. Mark Zuckerberg is drawing intense scrutiny from lawmakers demanding that the Facebook founder testified a Congress about the Cambridge Analytic

a controversy. Facebook's data practices are under the microscope like never before, following report the British research firm connected to President Trump's campaign improperly obtained information fifty million Facebook users as it's sought ways to influence the minds of voters the polls. Now that you know that the information is not good, that nothing that we know of illegal was

done in obtaining the information in the first place. It might have been a violation of Facebook terms of service maybe, and the information wasn't even used. But Mark Zuckerberg has got to be putting out this fire. And look, I'm not some big Zuckerberg fan. You know everyone's demanding Zuckerberg give us answers. Facebook has been selling your day to This is how they make all their money. This is

what they do. This is how you know, those of you who are listening to this show in Texas on Facebook, it might be like, oh, like, you know, what would you like to would you like to buy this delicious barbecue sauce? You know, if you if you live up in Wisconsin, you know, they may be saying, oh, you know, would you like this cheese to go with your meal? I don't know whatever, I'm trying to think of things randomly. You know, if you're in California, you're like, you know,

find the best pet therapists in your neighborhood. Like they can do this because they know where you are, because Facebook is sharing pretty general data about you with different advertisers what they do. But this goes also into a broader there's the category of the Trump delusion Trump arrangement syndrome that the whole camerage analytic a thing just fits

right into. But then there's also something else. There is this game that the Democrat media plays where a problem that has existed all along, when a Republican is in office, all of a sudden becomes a an out and out crisis. This has been exposed in the past, I think even back in the day Bernie Bernie Goldberg in his book Bias wrote about this. Uh and from his time at CBS. And I was a little intern at CBS when Dan Rather was there. It was my first, my first real

experience in learning to distrust and despise the mainstream media. Uh. But CBS would was one of many that would do this thing where all of a sudden, Republican administration comes into office and there's just all these stories about the problem of homelessness. They wouldn't tell you in the stories that the homelessness hasn't gotten worse. It's just we're telling you about it now. So homelessness exists, It's a problem should be dealt with, we should be helping people, helping

get back to the fear all that. But you have a Republican and when in the first six months of republic administration, it's like, let's turn out the stories about homelessness. There. There's not more of them now, it's just that we're gonna talk about them. That's like the Facebook data sharing issue. They've been doing this four years? Is it creepy? Does

a bother people? Sure? Is there a whole other discussion we should probably have about how social media is in many ways, disconnecting us from each other as human beings. It connects us as digital entities and presences, but it disconnects us from each other's human beings. It creates artificial connectivity between us. When we really need is human connection, being around each other, being with each other, seeing each other's people. That's a whole other discussion, maybe one worth

having later in the week. But this whole Cambridge analytic thing through the election cheated. It's a big scandal. Guys, gals, this is a joke. It's a joke, and why was I able to see it right away? And other people were like, well, we really need to go to the bottom of this, or no, we really don't. We really don't. Eight four four two five eight four four nine hundred buck team, I'll be right back. Are we got a bunch of lines lit. I want to take some calls

from you team. Let's see who's up here. We've got George in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Hey George, fuck, you nailed it. You said that the freezer you used this is targeted advertising. When I heard this going on, all I could think it was that I heard exactly the same thing from the Obama the political operatives when he was running. It's and and which are the which are the parties? Is ginning up hate? Trump has scum? Trump is ain't I Jew, not a part of his family's Jewish. It doesn't matter,

uh you name it. Their their whole mode, their whole operandi right now is jinning up hate and personal destruy option what they should what we should be looking at. The thing that really matters is the judges usurping the authority of the executive branch. They're creating laws out of whole class. They're not ruling on the law anymore. They're you know, they're they're blocking Trump, the executive branch, the Trump and the executive branch from stopping illegal executive orders

that Obama passed. It's amazing, isn't it with with DACA? That one president breaks the law and then the next president is unable to stop breaking the law. Based on what the courts are saying right now, it's crazy. And collusion collusion, there's no crime. Everybody says collusion would have been is no crime. But it's the biggest thing on

the planet right now. Collusion, collusion, collusion. Yeah, Well, I've always said this they used collusion and not conspiracy, because conspiracy is actually a criminal statute that can be proven or or not. Collusion is whatever they say it is, right. Collusion is when they find nothing with the Mullet probe. You know what they're gonna say, George, Well, the neednt get Trump Tower is all we really needed to know

there was collusion. We just haven't found it. They're never gonna stop, so we just need to be prepared for that. But thank you for your calling my friend Shield. Say, uh, let's take John in Gulfport, Mississippi. Hey John, Hey Buck. I'm a victim and I believe some of your listeners are victims as well of this targeting that just you're talking about. I don't know if it was Cambridge Analytica

or so, it was a outfit similar to them. But if you've ever gone to any webs website, say it's a Gateway Pundit or a CNN, and you have targeted advertising aimed on you that they that they picked up because you you may have maybe you decided you wanted to go to a Little Rock, Arkansas and stay in the Holiday Inn. Well, when you go to your favorite website, the advertisement that pops up is low. Behold right, well, John, this is how the internet. This is how the Internet works. Now,

this is why people think it's free. It's not really free. You're trading information and access to you as a consumer for the services that are offered on the Internet, whether it's uh Internet search like Google or websites. Yeah, yeah, well this is I mean that's so you're not really I mean you're not a Oh you're I think you're

saying that. Are you saying? It's sarcastic? I mean you're you're a victim of this the way anybody uses the internet's a victim of Okay, I'm sorry, Right, I'm like, John, You're gonna be okay, Right, the Little Rock Arkansas trip is gonna be fine. No, I hear you, man. It's just that that's what you're saying. Though. It's very important here. They're complaining about the Internet, John, That's what they're really doing there. They're mad about how people use the internet.

Shield tie and thank you, thank you for giving me a ring. Um, that's a good way to put it. Media angry about usage of data for advertisements. Well, if that's the case, every news website I know of is pretty much toast. So there's that. We've got a lot more, including the fight over Russia and Brennan's nasty comments about Trump. That's all coming up. He's holding the line for America, buck Sexton his back. He admitted to doing things objectively

and independently and violent book. I think that has to extend not just to our investigations are intelligence analysis, but also has to extend to personnel decisions and disciplinary decisions. My commitment to making sure that our process is followed, that it relies on objective input, and that most importantly, it is not based on political or partisan influence is something I am utterly unyielding on it. That is the FBI director, Christopher Ray, he's got a he's got a

tough job these days, trying to uh maneuver. Well, I'm sure it's always a tough job. Although people say this, I'm like, you know, to be the head of one of these agencies, it's tough, but it's all so got it's very rewarding. You've got a lot of influence and power, and you've got fantastic private sector opportunities waiting for the moment you decided to stop. But maneuvering through the political mind fields right now for the FBI director would be

particularly tough. And then also the what would happen if some were to get their way, or if if the advice the council off somewhere listened to when you had Special Counsel Mueller get fired from his post because for example, as I've been said, I'm I'm a little bit of a h a pendulum on this. When I'm swinging back and forth, I'm like, no, maybe you get fired out, Okay,

maybe not. It's a judgment call, folks, It's a judgment call, because you gotta look at this as do we let this grind on forever or do and and just wait it out? Or do you deal with the backlash now and know that it can't be used to cripple the administration and to stop Trump from enacting policies that would benefit the country and the reason that he's in the White House right now? Uh, you got represented Louis Gomant, who I I gotta say, I am. I'm a Gomert.

I'm a Gomert believer. I like I like Representative Gomer. He's a good dude. He's just a good dude. Uh. He thinks he should be fired, though he thinks Mueller should be should be uh well toast from office play it. I think Mueller should be fired. He should be he should never have been, he should never been appointed, and

he should never have accepted. He should be fired. We have some establishment Republicans in the House and Senate that say, oh gee, if he were to fire Mueller, you know that that might we might need to impeach the president, even one senator saying that may be an impeachable offense. No,

it's not. I don't understand. Where are these republicans. Why Lindsey Graham get this notion that it's a it's a good idea to put out there that there's a red line that if Trump crosses a political red line, that if Trump crosses, then then impeachment would be on the table. And Lindsay Grant the other day said something like, if Trump were to do this, it would be the beginning of the end of his presidency. If you were fired, and it would have to be not specifically Trump out

fire Muller, right, Rod rosensteinmon have shut it down. Maybe you'd have a new Attorney general who wouldn't recuse himself, or maybe you'd have the current Attorney General unrecused himself. Whatever the process, maybe if you shut down the Muller probe, you got Lindsay Graham and other Republicans were saying that that's a red line. And I'm just sick of how when you see how the Obama administration dealt with scandals, it was putting on a clinic for the Republicans. You

never had damaging leaks. I'm just gonna be honest with you here, Okay. You never had damaging leaks from the senior Democrats. You never had damaging leaks from White House appointees of of influence meant to undermine President Obama himself, and you have so much of that going on here now. I guess some Republicans feel like they're doing what they ethically have to by saying that they would consider impeachment of I mean, or do they just want to have

nice editorials written about them the New York Times. I think it might be the latter. I think this might be a case where as we look further into it, we'll just see that they were grandstanding. And the swamp is swampy, my friends, The swamp is indeed a swampy thing. So I'll continue to look at this. I'm just wondering if, in fact, you know I I like this issue just

because I I'm very persuadable. Some of you write me emails you say, you know, Bock, he should really as firemallers should get this over it, and others are like, no, it's crazy, don't do it. And I, oh, man, I have a tough one here, because I think the Mueller probe is gonna go on for a very long time. I don't think I don't even think it's gonna finish this year. I think you're looking at Mueller probe for

a a long time. I mean, it's pretty much gonna be the whole first term that Trump's in office because Democrats are gonna They're incentivized to keep it going. They're incentivized. So that's something else that you've gotta keep in mind, is that there's gonna be efforts to push this along. Just before, I just wanted to know something. I really

want Hillary Clint Hill. I really want her to get as much media attention as possible because Pelosi, her policies are odious, but she knows to stay out of the public public eye close to election time. In some places and in some ways, she'll she'll come out and attack the Republican, she'll attack Trump, but she won't say, you know, Amosa pushing for far left policies that are just crazy. Uh, She's not gonna do that. So we need Hillary to be the one out there who is the face, so

to speak, of the Democrat Party. That would be great, whether the Muller probe ends or not. I want Hillary to be standing up there talking as much as she can, as often as she can, about well, whatever she can. And and here's a little taste of what's going to happen or what it sounds like when he has uh uh undermined the office and used it to enrich himself

and his family, uh, disregarded laws, ethical standards. He's crossed into a territory of behavior and actions that are unpredictable, that are erratic, that are undermining the stability of uh, the global order. Folks, very add Hillary Clinton casting aspersions on Trump for in for using political office to enrich

his family. I mean, the Clintons did this in a way that would have maked that would have made like the Medici family of the Italian Renaissance feel like WHOA, Maybe we should be a little less self indulgent here. I mean, the Clintons are worth a hundred million dollars plus, not from giving speeches. Folks. No one's speeches are worth that much money. No one is worth a hundred million

dollars because of speeches. They were. They were used speeches as a carve out, as a cutout for political influence, peddling, getting big checks written to them so that people would have access us or even the even the belief that they would have access later on. But she's gonna go out there and lecture the Trump campaign and lecture the public on what the Trump administration's ethics or lack of ethics. It's just astonishing. But we need, we need more Hillary.

We need her out there as much as possible. I want more Hillary, and maybe, you know, maybe should invite her on the show. Hi, welcome to the Freedom Hot It will be amazing to get Hillary to come hang out here. I doubt she'll join because I'm not going to pay her thirty five thousand dollars a minute or whatever her going great is, or at least that was her rate. Now you know what, I think we get

it out of bargain. Right now, I think Hillary's price points gone down considerably since she's no longer gonna be president United States. Two for one special it's gonna be amazing. We'll see. I'm gonna talk to you about Russia and the criticisms of Trump surrounding Russia in just a moment. Stay with me for that. As each member of this committee knows in the Russian government, at the direction of Vladimir Putin himself, orchestrated cyber attacks on our nation for

the purpose of influencing the election that year. Playing and simple. That was a former UH Chief of Homeland Security, J Johnson, Director of Homeland Director of DHS UH, and he's thinking Vladimir Putin order the attack on the U S. Election. Now, Johnson was testifying today before Congress about this. I just want to ask a really straightforward question, and what are we going to see the Mueller charge against Putin? If

he's indicting all these people. If you have the former secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, right cabinet level national security official who's saying that Putin ordered the attack on the U S election, plan and simple, they must know that, where are the charges We've charged thirteen Russians setting up troll accounts, stock puppet accounts, doing all that stuff. I mean, the day that Mueller brings a formal federal indictment against the president of Russia is gonna be lit

in the media. It's gonna be quite a day. I know what you're saying right now, or what you're thinking. Maybe you're saying it if you're really fired a book, what are you saying? Uh, They're never going to do that. That's crazy, right, because there are limits on how much we should poke or even swipe at the Russian bear, so to speak. There is a place that whether there's a time and a place at which it just becomes too much. But you'll notice the say this about Russia,

and they will make this claim. But if I were to have forced their hand, if I would have forced the Democrats, the media apparatus is hand right now and say all right, so, why don't we have a federal criminal indictment against Ladimir Putin personally and try to get him, you know, I don't know, extradite into the United States. They said, well, that's stupid, buck, And I'd say exactly exactly. But this week Putin is once again public enemy number

one in the United States. Well, maybe after Trump, because Trump made a phone call to him. Journalists didn't even stop for a second to think about who else made a phone call to Putin after an election victory. Yeah, to congratulate the Russian premier on his election. But I actually remember that phone call from two thousand and twelve, and there was some internal gnashing of teeth about the fact that President Buma did call to congratulate him, among

among the president's communication steth. But what also happened will It was you had a stepment from the State Department raising legitimate concerns about the way that that that election was conducted and about the broader human rights situation inside of Russia. Yeah, standard from the state departments, a legitimate concerns. It's very different, as is, very upset about it, very

scared because it a statement from the State Department. This guy serious, That was Josh Ernis, that was White House Press secretary under Obama for part of the time. A State Department very strangly worded. That is very very aggressive. That you'll notice the key part of what he said, though Obama called to congratulate Vladimir Putin. That is what happened. They can try to spin it now and say the State Department, they can do all that other stuff, which

you just heard a little bit of there. But at the end of the day, all that really matters is that they ran with a story because they thought it was bad for Trump, and they didn't even stop to think, well, what about my guy, what about Obama? What did he

do when it came to Putin? Uh? And by the way, for the for those who are always running around talking tough on Russia, now Obama called Obama called Putin after the conflict in Georgia, basically the Russian invasion of Georgia, after Putin had imprisoned a group that I will call p riot, even though it is not actually it's called

something else close enough, um. And also Putin had had journalists, you know, thrown in prisons, and there's all kinds of very very bad stuff that Putin had been doing when Obama called to congratulated, but the oppression was already there, right, there's this is nothing different. So the make believe with journalists now is oh, Putin was like not that bad and now it's really bad. No, he's always been really bad. I would also note that the leak about do not congratulate.

People are now saying Trump is really furious about it. Of course you should be furious about it, whether it's true or not. By the way, a very small number of people would have had access to those kinds of presidential notes for a phone call between the president of the US the president of Russia that somebody would, in a blatant effort to undermine the president, break the trust that the President of the United States should be able

to have as advisors. You know, if you if you're listening out there, if you happen to be that advisor, if you don't like the president, quit, don't be a coward, and don't be a backstabber. And that is exactly what happened here with this league. I will even note there are some never trumpers that I have seen today who have reasonable ethics sometimes who have been willing to say you can't have top advisors leaking this kind of stuff to the media. I mean, this is just you know,

what's next? Are we gonn have advisers who go in and record record private conversations with the president and just lead it to the media. I mean that that would be the next step. It's a it's a disgrace. It's another disgrace. One more thing I wanted to get to on this point. Uh, you'll notice how there's so much tough talk on Russia right now and not nearly anything even the same stratosphere of tough talk from the media

when it comes to China. He was like, oh my gosh, Prutent, he's an autocrat and he's so his human rights record. Why didn't Trump call him out for his human rights record? Apply that logic for a moment to China? Why should President Trump if he's going to constantly harangue and personally embarrass and be hostile toward the president of Russia. And by the way, I think he's a bad guy. I'm not sitting here saying Putin is not a bad guy.

I'm saying we've gotta be smart about this. But if he's going to do that because as a human rights record, because of autocracy and all the other things that journalist is week or whining about, what about shij and ping the president for life officially now in China and he's actually the head of the Communist Party in China, but he's there, he is the Chinese premier. He's been a part of a communist government that has presided over the mass slaughter of unborn girls because the one one child

policy in China stretched on for decades. I mean, let's let's not pretend that there's not a case you made that China's human rights record he's much worse than Russia's human rights record over the last twenty or thirty years, because it is there and the autocracy is there. So what's the difference. Oh, it's not smart to antagonize China in that way right now. It's not smart for our leader to personally get into it with their leader. No, I agree, that's true. How come the media can't figure

that out when it comes to Russia? Though? Why is it that this is only a placa? Oh that's right, all sense, all common sense gets cast aside if it can hurt Trump. That's how they approach everything, including the former CI director who spoke out this morning. I'm gonna take him to task with a buck slap that was like you never seen to cat John, Thanks, very simple buck slab for the former director of the c I A coming up in just a few he's holding the

line for America, Buck Sex in his back. Welcome to our three of the Buck Sexton Show. Everyone, Thank you so much for being here. Covered a lot of ground today on the show. Later on, I'll have some thoughts for you on affirmative action and uh a case, a free speech case in the U k of a man who taught his pug to do hate speech. I guess I'll have to walk you through this one. O don't know.

I'm saying he's going to prison for it. He taught his pug to do a Hitler salute, he put it on YouTube, and now he is going to prison in the United Kingdom. We will talk about that story later on this hour too, and will of course finish up with a roll call. But first, the former CIA director has been making the rounds. He's now an NBC senior national security analysts. There's been a glut you'll notice of

these former senior Obama administration muckety MUCKs. You know, these guys that mostly guys, there's some gals to who used to run different Obama era agencies and now they're all becoming talking heads. They're not, you know, they're not They're not going into teaching the same way they used to do. They're not going into the corporate sector and scessarily they're they're just running on TV and running their mouths a lot.

And Brennan has been particularly out of line recently. Here is what he said about the president earlier this week or earlier this this uh, this day, I meant this morning. Another way of saying earlier this day would be this morning Buck, good job, good with the English. But here's what he said on Morning Joe, which is like a show with like we're like Joe is just he's just so cool and laid back and politically savvy. You know, he just looks like he rolled in off the beach

from Nantucket. Man, he's got he's got his lady there, you know, you know, they're a thing. I don't know if you know they're married now. And uh he puts aside the guitar and the surfboard and just drop some political bombs. Is that some Morning Joe does it? Anyway, Here's what Brennan, though, the former CIA director, had to say about our current president. Is America being tried um at this point, especially in terms of its place in the world. Is this president letting our country down? Well?

I think the president has shown a lack of understanding of international affairs as well as a real um ignorance of what it takes to be president of the United States. And that's what prompted my tweets. Um. He is a mean spirited um. He is dishonest. He has shown a lack of integrity, and he has continued too. I think to be in the office of the presidency, and so I've decided to put my silence aside and to speak up and speak out put his silence aside. Silence didn't

last very long. Mr I would see eye director until like a year ago. It wasn't much in the way of silence. He's literally saying that America will triumph over the current president. This is this has banana Republic stuff. This is tinpot dictatorship rhetoric from the former director of the premier in Intelligence Agency. Sorry n s a uh in the United States, this isn't acceptable. This is actually really problematic. And you'll notice that this is happening now

with so many of these former Obama administration officials. You didn't have all the former Bush administration intel directors. Now I put intel people in a different category. They're supposed to be in a different category then White House communications folks. Yeah, they're they're partisan, they're political, they're supporting, they're tied to an administration. But we were always told that our intel professionals are nonpartisan. Just about the facts, man, just about

the truth the information. And they usually say this to us right before they tell us, how dare you criticize this former director of insert three letter agency? He's just speaking the truth about Russia collusion. Oh really, So, why is it that now we've seen beyond any reasonable doubt that Clapper and Brandon and yes, McCabe and comey there FBI is part of the intelligence community to access to incredibly sensitive information. Why and running national security investigations? We're

seeing that they're anti Trump partisans. We're not supposed to take note of this. There has been a change, is what I'm really trying to hammer home here. There has been a shift. The former Intel directors now become partisan pugilists right away. They just want to roll up their sleeves and get into the cable news fisticuffs a S A P. With Brennan. It gets even worse though, from Morning Joe. Here's what he said about Trump and vulnerabilities. What do you chuck it up to, Why won't the

president confront Vladimir Putin? Why won't he read the cards and the things that you say need to be said to Vladimir Putin? Do you believe he is somehow in debt to the president of Russia. I think he's afraid of the president of Russia. Well, I think one can speculate as to why that the Russians may have something on him personally that they could always roll out and make his life more difficult. They have something on him personally,

They may have something on him personally. Let's all understand, my friends, this is not a former senior White House advisor, you know, political advisor. This is not the equivalent of of David axel Rod or you know, even a Podesta or some of these other slimy characters out there. Valerie Jarrett going on TV and and taking taking cheap shots at the president. This is the former director of the Central Intelligence Agency who's taking a cheap and yes it

is a cheap shot. If the former CIA director has information to show that the President of the United States betrayed his country on behalf of Russia, I don't give a Damn what the regulations tell him? What people are gonna say, But oh, it's all classified. He has an obligation to go through the process, speak to Congress behind closed doors, do whatever he has to do to get that information out to the American public. And here's the other part of this. He doesn't have it. Of course,

he doesn't have it. Oh, this is the one case when it comes to information about President Trump that would truly bring down the whole administration. This is the one case where it's not leaking. Right, they'll leak Flynn's phone call to a to a Russian ambassador, do harmed in national security in the process, and ruin a man's career and commit a felony. They'll do that. But this information, Oh no, this is sacred. There's a process here, there's

a process. How convenient that the former director of my my employer, my agency, the place that trained me, that taught me aircraft, that taught me the skills of an analyst in the intelligence world, is now out there and playing the dirtiest of dirty politics. You know, they might have something on him personally. Oh, what do you mean, like the dossier, Brennan is the dossier true? Is that what you're saying. If that's the case, come out and

say it. You know, this is it's one of the grossest things that you will come across in a public servant. The well, I have I have information that would completely change this conversation and would destroy a political party and destroy a presidency, but I just can't share it with you because you're not cleared for that. Okay, look at that.

It's so cute. Uh. This is this is a very troubling trend of former senior intelligence officers, directors of the agency, and very senior FBI people you know, and others who become partisan hit men right away new administration comes in. Oh you know, well, if you only knew about this president what we know about this president, There's been so much of that and it needs to stop. It also is a window into the kind of people that President Obama was putting in senior national security roles. He was

picking partisan hitman to take those jobs. We know this now, Clapper Brennan McCabe comy partisan hitman, and it's a disgrace to a community of which I belonged to which I belonged at one point. It really is just one more thing don't ever forget, my friends, that while they're making all this noise about how Trump called Putin and he's not supposed to um, they have no answers whatsoever to what to do about Russia, how to make things better.

All they can do is tear down and criticize and belittle. They think they think if they continue this they will win politically. But in the short term, and I believe in the long term you will see this is actually harming the country. These people think that they're being patriots. They pretend to be patriots by tearing down the very system that we have right now in order to get

at those they do not like. And when I see this filtering into the well at the top level of the intelligence community, in the bottom aginistration, it's really troubling and it's disgraceful. Brennan making these insinuations about Trump and then not backing them up is disgraceful and unethical, and he should be ashamed. That's the truth. We'll be right back.

Girlfriend is always runding Raven about how cute and adorable how we argas, and so I thought I would commiment in the least cute thing that I could think of which as a Nazi do I guess the Jews do? I guess the Jews wants the juice Kazi kau see kay in. So there you have some very offensive stuff. You have a pug being taught to salute like a Nazi in response to that guy who's making you know, look, he's he thinks he's being a provocative jokester, and he

says really really heinous things. His name is Marcus Meechen, and he's got this, like I said, he's got this pug who's doing this, and he uploaded a video of this to YouTube. And you would think, okay, well, there's a lot of really dumb stuff is being put on YouTube, a lot of nasty things are written on Twitter and on Facebook and all these places all the time. What are we gonna do about this other than say, you know, it's not as you know, I love pugs, so I

hate that a pug is being dragged. It's not the pug's fault, right, I feel bad. It is a really cute pug, but this guy is saying stuff that's grotesque and he shouldn't be doing it. And now you think that okay, So our role as a society that believes in free speech is to say that this is not and it's not. It's not funny, it's not cute, it's not I mean, the pug is cute, but what he's doing, what the human being is doing, is is not okay. He shouldn't be saying these things. It is deeply offensive.

And you can think of other For example, if somebody you know trained their dog to respond to certain racial epithets in this country, people would be or including the ones that we just heard, but people would be really outraged. So outrage is fine in a free society. Shouting down so well, I should say, shouting down, but counter speech is fine. Also, ignoring speech you don't like it's fine.

But that's not what's happened in the United Kingdom. And I think this is this is a vision of our own future, folks, with what's going on now with social media. YouTube is blocking conservatives in all kinds of ways, including right now, you do well, I'm gonna get ahead of myself, but before we talk about the American side of YouTube censorship, just understand that this guy is not just being kicked

off YouTube. He is being sent to prison for this now in the United Kingdom, what is your exact crime that they're claiming it's an offensive communication? I communicating an offensive message and through the hate crimes. Yeah, and you actually believe you are going to go to jail. So potentially today in five minutes, when we walked back in there, they could tell you you have to go to jail. Why do you believe that? I think it's because the

way that child has been like laid out. Also the fact that the police stepped the press off when they were coming to arrest me. They're making a show. That's they're making a right show. That's the funny thing is the Nuremberg trials didn't even take that's long. So that's why I'm just sitting there like this is a show, Like I'm pretty sure that failed. It was already to say before I was even in court. This is just

a publicity. They found him guilty by the way. They found him guilty of a hate crime for teaching, uh, teaching his pug to make a little pa. Look, the pug is moving its paw up again. I love I really love pugs. So I hate that there's a pug in the center. That it's so unfair that this is you know that pugg is being dragged into this. They're like, I really, I really believe pugs are a symbol of love and harmony and they're wonderful as you can tell. I'm a fan of all squashed faced dogs. But this

guy said really bad things. Do I think you should do it? No? Do I think you should go to prison? No? There is no free speech in the UK anymore. This is it's this is it is official. It's beneficial for a while maybe, but now you see it once again that a guy in the video was posted in September of on his YouTube channels. This has been going on for a long time, that's why he mentioned the trial. He posted under the name Count Dankula. Now I'm gonna

go out on a limb here. For those of you who may not know this, dank is often a word that is used by the by the youth to refer to marijuana. That dank weed is particularly pungent, aromatic, ke HC laden marijuana, and so Count Dankula, Count Duncula. He obviously eats a lot of chocolate, chip art, peanut m and m's, but Count Dankula was the name of the account that it was posted to, and it was viewed a few million times. YouTube pulled it down. Okay, fine,

it violents YouTube's terms of service, pull it down. But prison is too much. Prison goes too far. And to say that this violates a hey crime, when it's the guy's clearly making a very unfunny and nasty but he's clearly making a joke. Uh, just goes to show you that this is the direction for social justice warriors. Now they're gonna make speech they do not like illegal. They're going to make it criminal. It's not going to be enough for them to just say that. You you that

platforms can police this stuff. The police are gonna police speech. I wanted to add in something else here for a moment. You're seeing videos that are pulled from YouTube now based upon anything having to do and this is in this country, folks. Uh, in this country, YouTube is pulling ads that have to do with guns. YouTube is deciding that there are limits to what firearm demo videos you're allowed to see. They're ban in firearm demo videos. This is from This is

from Bloomberg, um and this was just posted earlier today. YouTube, a popular media site for firearms enthusiasts, quietly introduced tighter restrictions on videos involving weapons, becoming the latest battleground in the U S Gun controlled debate. YouTube will ban videos that promote or linked to websites selling firearms and accessories, including bump stocks, which allow a semi automatic rifle to fire faster. Additionally, YouTube said will prohibit videos with instructions

on how to assemble firearms. Uh. The video site has faced intense criticism for this. They are banning websites that sell up firearms and accessories from from the YouTube platform. The right to bear arms folks in the constitution. They're saying, basically, no, no more. YouTube is getting rid of that whole notion. Okay, Uh, this is why we can't trust the all. We're just

want to stop violence movements that are out there. No, they want to ban guns, and the massive social media platforms out there are taking action to try and push the culture toward banning guns. Because after the culture goes there, guess what politics will go there. Two, Keep in mind, on YouTube, you can still see uh all, I'm pretty sure you can still see beheading videos, although maybe those

are now violent terms of service. You can definitely find people building, or you can definitely find on the internet. You know, the anarchist Cookbook. I mean, there's all kinds of stuff that you can find on YouTube that's quite nasty and is repugnant. But they're getting rid of people that want to show you how to fire certain guns. They're getting rid of those videos. So censorship in the

UK means you go to prison. Censorship here means they demonetize you in deep platform you But you know what comes after YouTube and social media decides to demonetize and deep platform deep freedomize, which means sending you to prison. That's the next step we gotta be on watch for this year. Let a quick break, we'll be right back. He's holding the line for America. Buck Sexton his back. One of the big fights that you're going to see

during this administration with the social justice left. He's going to be over affirmative action. Now. I'm not sure when exactly it's going to come to a head. I just I just know that this is looming in the background, and you have cases that pop up here and there that are let's just say, harbingers of things to come. You have and this has published a National review just last couple of days, and it was about a professor at the University of Pennsylvania. The Yeah, the piece is

called the Truth Hurts at penn Law. Let me share with you a little bit of what's going on here. This is by Jason rich Wine. Quote. One are the chief criticisms of affirmative action is that a devalued credentials that minorities could otherwise use to distinguish themselves. If college admissions were purely merit based, employers would have no reason to discount an impressive degree just because it is held by a black or Hispanic applicant. Under our system of

racial preferences. However, it is not merely understandable but rational to suspect that minority applicants are less qualified than their paper credentials, imply for some proponents of a firm of action, the response to this problem is simple, ban those rational thoughts. Everyone must act as if we have a purely merit based admission system, even though everyone knows that we do not.

The success of affirmative action depends on it. University of Pennsylvania Law professor Amy Wax refuses to go along with the charade or the charade, as some say, and now she's in trouble. For it. As part of a critique of race based admissions. Professor Wax observed that black students at Penn Law rarely graduate in the top half of their class. Her observation is almost certainly correct, but Penn Law Dean ted Ruger declared it is false without providing

any evidence. This is classic, folks. Okay, so that's the end of the quote there for a moment. So here you have a system and this is true of a furtherve action across the board at the elite universities, a system that explicitly privileges certain races over others. They just aren't allowed to use quotas. Somehow the numbers stay the same every year. But they're not using quotas. They're taking a holistic approach. This is guard it. It's not honest.

It's not what's happening. But they say, oh, we just take a holistic approach. These schools make decisions based upon skin color and based upon racial preference, and then on top of that they insist that no one talked about the very system they have in place. This is going on at the University of Pennsylvania and Ivy League School. In fact, one of my brothers went there, and this is what the dean in this case has given as

his explanation for why they have forbiddenness. Professor who is tenured, by the way, so they can't really fire as much. I'm sure they'd love to tenure occasionally bites back. But Professor Wax is banned from teaching any mandatory first year courses.

And here is the reasoning for quote. In light of Professor Wax's statements, black student assigned to her class in their first year at Penn Law may reasonably wonder whether their professor has already come to a conclusion about their presence, performance, and potential for success in law school, and thereafter, they may legitimately question whether the inaccurate and belittling statement she has made may adversely affect their learning environment and career prospects.

These students may also reasonably feel an additional and unwarranted burden to perform well so that their performance may not be used or misused by their professor in public discourse about racial inequality and academic success. More broadly, this dynamic may negatively affect the classroom experience for all students, regardless of race or background. Um, this is amazing folks, that's the end of the quote. There. Here you have a dean at the University of Pennsylvanian Ivy League law school

who is making the case. Remember this is a this is a dean of a law school. You think he kind of knows logic and reason making the case that this professor made a statement that is very easy to prove false if it were false. He will not provide that evidence, though, because if he were to provide the evidence, then it would well, we all know, right, then you'd have to provide the evidence for other things in the affirmative action policy spectrum too, and then people would have

an expectation arts. So we're allowed to see the numbers, were allowed to talk about it. They can't provide the evidence because if they concede that there's evidence that proves this is true one way or the other, then they concede it's a rational point of discussion or reasonable point of discussion. And they refuse to do that, you're not allowed to talk about it. Affirmative action is now a policy in colleges and universities, and yes, in hiring for corporations, folks.

It is true in in corporate America as well. This is now filtered throughout the entire system. But it exists, and it exists under the totalitarian impulse to tell you that it does not exist, to make you say it does not exist, and that's the only way that it can all be held together. They won't allow you to question it or even discuss it as a system. This has to stop. This goes to the intellectual rock that has is at the heart of so much of what's

going on on campuses these days. They won't even engage with the ideas they are promoting because they're so clearly dubious. And look, if Professor Wax's statement is untrue, they should just provide the data it's untrue. If it's not untrue,

well then guess what. You have a professor of law who is making a blatantly clear, factual statement that goes right to the heart of affirm of action policy at University of Pennsylvania Law School, and for making a statement of fact, she is being singled out, belittled, and punished by her peers. That is the modern affirmative action system we have in this country. Under the Trump administration, with this Department of Justice, I am hoping we can turn

this around it is a corrupt system. It's wrong, it's unethical. It needs to stop. And the Left is in the wrong on this by a mile. By a mile. It's not even close. We're gonna have to hit a roll call here. Stay with me. It is a straight up blizzard here in New York City and along much of the East Coast. I think I'm gonna have to ski home tonight. I remember when, um, when the Nordic Track was the fitness craze I was putting in a lot

of late hours at the office. The pressure was really getting to My doctor told me if I didn't get some exercise, I'd be a prime candidate for a heart attack. That's why I got on track. Nordic Track. Nordic Track was just what I needed to work off stress. My doctor says, my blood pressure is lower two oh man. I mean. There still are some pretty lame late night fitness craze items that you see out there, and I'm gonna I'm gonna confess I actually owned a few of them.

But the Nordic Track, you know, oh yeah, just sort of against no resistance, stand and move your arms and legs back and forth in an effortless motion and you too can look like this fitness model in the commercial. That stuff is so effective, I mean not shake weight effective, Don't get me wrong. Shake weights clearly will give you a six pack or uh, ladies, that beach body is

just one shake weight away, you know, Oh my gosh. Uh. The lamest, though, were always the the ones that were meant for your abs specifically, and I definitely owned a few of these when I was maybe a senior in high school. I feel like I went in the back of some mail order catalog in Maxim magazine and got one of those things that I don't remember what it

was called. The it was like the ab cruncher or something that you would hold this It looked almost like a spaceship and you would just sort of hold it in your into your gut, and that was supposed to make you get six pack abs. Well, this is gonna blow that right out of the water. Listen to this seven minute apps. Think about it. You walk into a video storey, you see eight minute abs sitting there, there's seven minute abs right beside it. Which one are you

gonna pick? Man? I'm I would go for the seven Yeah, Bingo man, bingo seven minute apps and we guarantee. Just too good a workout is the eight minute folk. Yeah, you see, just just as good a workout as the eight minute folk. I love. There's Something about Mary is a guilty pleasure, a movie that could never be made today, but we're still allowed to like it because the social justice warriors haven't figured out that it's on demand and DVD. And with that, let's get into Roll Call team. It's

time for roll Call. First up in Roll Call today, in the Hut, we have Steve, who has a moose cooking follow up for us. Okay, Steve, moose meat is the best meat on the planet. Harvest a moose and you will have enough hormone free wild game meat to feed your family for an entire year. And he has in fact given me a guide to how to cook moose meat. Okay, Steve, Hey, hey, look, you're the expert, buddy, so I'll take your word for it. And based on this photo I'm looking at moose meat and roast beef

seemed very similar. So seems delicious. Oh wow, Nathan sent me something here, a bird been that is called the Sexton. The Sexton single malt Irish whiskey. Nathan, I gotta check this out, and maybe we could get them to be a sponsor on the show, because I mean, heaven, for Heaven's sake, my name is Sexton. The Burmans called Sexton

makes sense to me. Let's give it a shot. Next up here we have t J, who writes in awesome show buck Well, thank you, t J. T J knows how to butter me up at the beginning of the comments, so I appreciate that. Or he just listens to me when I say, if you want me to read your comments on air, say something nice about the show right away. But he writes awesome show buck. I think I'd like to expand on your bacon steak and egg breakfast idea. When I do dear steak and eggs, I typically bread

the steak and then fry them. What if you cook the bacon first, fry the breaded steak in the bacon grease, and follow up with the eggs fried in the bacon grease. Mind blown? Also, my go to seasoning for everything is Tony ch Chairs Creole seasoning. It's great on everything, even says so on the can well t J. I will have to check that out. I am unfamiliar with it, but I like your plan for what would that be? That would be bacon steak. I'm sorry, dear steak and eggs,

d s E Dear steak and eggs. Sony. Next up here, she writes, Buck is already working. She said this this morning, five am. I'm going to the gym, and you're already doing your best. Thank you so much, well, Sony, thank you. It was very kind of you to write me the note. It was also very kind of Brian Kilmeade and Ainsley ear Heart and the whole rest of the Fox and Friends crew to have me on this morning, really on

and off for the whole three hours. So it was very very much appreciate it, and it was important to be able to weigh in with analysis on the breaking news out of Austin. So I really did appreciate and Sony, I hope you enjoyed it as well. Uh. Paul is next up here, He writes, Hey, Buck, I grew up a few minutes from Los Alamitos, California. It has been a family oriented neighborhood for generations. The politicians in California

are missing it. The population wants criminals out of our state, but the politicians continue to move rough shot over popular wishes. This includes my Mexican American friends, some of whom are currently in the country illegally. This will bite them in the end. They will miss it, much like Trump was a surprise. They will not see the wave until it was all over for them. Um, all right, Paul, Well, thank you for weighing it. Appreciate it. Rain is next up here. I love the show is always I was

only able to listen to the first hour yesterday. Not sure if you cover the story about the YouTuber convicted in the UK for making an offensive video. I'll have to catch up on the podcast. Well, Rain, thank you so much for listening to the show, and I covered

it today in fact, so hopefully you're hearing this. And also earlier in the show you heard me discussing the conviction in the UK of this YouTube joke prankster guy who taught his pug to make a uh well to make a hit Laryan gesture when he would say seeing Hyle, as well as a few other very very bad and inappropriate things. Ali or I don't know if it's Ali or Ali want to start this. I think it's Ali. Oh No, it's Ali. It is Ali. Ali writes book, how are the March for Life kids going to be

protected with guns? Well, my friend, you you have a point there. I think they probably will be protected by law enforcement officials with guns. Um, and I hope that there is a March for Life that happens with school age students for a whole unsure of reasons. Um, let's see we got here. Next up is James kind of like me. My first name is James. For those of you to know a little a little buck Freedom Hunt trivia, He writes, great show. I listened every night at work

eight ten w g Y. That's up in Albany. One of our fantastic affiliates saw you on Fox. Is Bob Gates your old boss? Uh? Well, there were a few agency directors during my time. When I began, it was Porter Goss and by the time I finished, it was Panetta, So that should give you. And was there somebody else in between? I can't even remember now. I can't even remember all the directors, but there's a whole portrait gallery on the first floor Langley of them. So there's that.

But thank you for listening up in w g Y, Albany, And I hope other folks up in Albany. Know that if they want to weigh in, they want to let me know what they're thinking about the show. Uh, they can send me a message at acebook dot com slash buck Sexton. Um here we go, uh Hannah from Israel, she writes on Monday's show, you said the media is clearly their team, my team, concerning how the media presents news while they themselves professed to be impartial. It is

so clearly true. Why do you think they don't just come out and say they represent the left when it hurt them financially? What's the downside? How can they think they came to appeal to anyone who is not on the left? You know, Honna, I do think about this with some regularity, because you know, CNN, for example, is delusional about its political leanings. A lot of journalists I know over there, and I know them, some of them

I know well personally. They think that they're impartial. A lot of them know I think that this is all a game and that they act with him. They say they're impartial because it gives them mark ravitas. But I think some of them have have bought into this and they believe it is a short answer to your question, at least enough of them do, let the rest go along with it. All right, that's gonna be it for the Freedom Hut today. Thank you so much for joining

me here on the Buck Sexton Show. Please download the podcast it is on iTunes, subscribe to it as well. Subscribe to The Buck Sexton Show on iTunes. We've got much more coming up tomorrow. Until then, she'll tigh