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Join the conversation called Buck Toll Free at eight four four nine hundred Buck that's eight four four nine hundred to eight to five The Future of talk radio Buck Sexton. I say to Congress, I will never sign another bill like this again. I'm not gonna do it again. Nobody read it. It's only hours old. Some people don't even know what At one point three trillion dollars, it's the second largest ever. President Obama signed one that was actually larger,

which I'm sure he wasn't too happy with either. But in this case it became so big because we need to take care of our military, and because the Democrats who don't believe in that, added things that they wanted in order to get their votes. There's a matter of national security. I've signed this omnibus budget bill. There are a lot of things that I'm unhappy about in this bill.

There are a lot of things that we shouldn't have had in this bill, but we were, in a sense forced if we want to build our military, we were forced to have. There are some things that we should have in the bill. But I say to Congress, I will never sign another bill like this again. I'm not gonna do it again. Nobody read it. It's only hours old. Some people don't even know what it is. At one point three trillion dollars, it's the second largest ever President

Obama signed one that was actually larger. Welcome to the buck, Sex and show everybody. Great to have you here. Look, I told you yesterday. You gotta give you gotta give the Buxter credit for keeping it real. I told you yesterday it's not it's not a good it's not a good budget. It's not Okay, alright, you could I could take the reflective you know, well whatever, you know. Trump

is gonna do the right thing here and there. I trust the Republicans in Congress, and Nope, not only do I think it's a bad at Trump I thought it was a bad bill, but he said look, I got no choice because I gotta fund the military. Um I go. I have a lot of thoughts on this thought For one thing, that there's the there's the Rand Paulian view of all this stuff. I think this is why people are so upset with politics, because when the Republicans are out of power, when they're in the minority, they are

the conservative party. But then when they get in the majority, there is no conservative party. Democrats don't care about spending any of the time. Republicans seem to care about it when they're criticizing Democrats. But now the Republicans are in your arch Republicans are like Katie bar the door. He talked about border security. I'm I'm flipping through the pages today reading the bill. I find out there is money

for border security in Tunisia and Jordan's. We have border security money in the Middle East, putting hot border security money for the US. Now, I think that everything that Ran Paul says, the Senator Paul says here is is correct. I don't think any of you disagree with it. What is there really to disagree on? Clearly there is something something happening here where How different is this really than what we would have expected if you had, if you

had a Democrat Congress. Well, actually here Senator Paul said that too. You know, I'm kind of old school. I think you ought to read the bills, you know, before we vote on them. This is bill. We got it last night at midnight. I've been working all day diligently through the bill, and I'm up to page six hundred. But you know, I've still got quite a bit of ways to go to read the bill. As far as the content of the bill, this could have been written

by President Obama and liberal Democrats. When I ran in two thousand and ten, when we had that Tea Party hideaway, we were opposed to President obama spending, and we were opposed to President Obama's trillion dollar deficits. This bill will give us a trillion dollar deficit this year. And there you have it. Trillion dollar deficits this year, twenty one trillions. Where we are that's gonna get worse. Now. I know how this how this goes in a conservative on the

conservative media side of things. So let me just let me dispense with that for a moment. Here. What people are gonna say, You're gonna hear a lot of like, oh, I'm so I'm so disappointed at the Republicans. Oh my gosh, what are the Republicans doing this? And and particularly people throwing throwing shade at the Republican Congress and not so much at the president because President Trump right now is very popular and he's the leader of the Republican Party.

It's a lot of different media folks are gonna say all of the Congress is just disappointing us. It's all about It's all about, you know, Mitch McConnell or Merchant McConnell. Mitch McConnell sounds a little bit like David Gergan apparently, but different, same but different, Carl. It's all our southern and southern version of southern version of David Gerham. Um. But here's here's what I want to tell you, because, as I say, I like to just just spew truth

from the freedom of whenever I can. And this is what we want, folks, this is what we all want. Other people aren't gonna tell it to you straight. I am telling it to you straight. This is what we want. Now. You may not, I may not, but we, as the American people right now in general, do want this and here's what I mean by it. We want to spend more then we take in. Nobody wants to say that the debt is a problem. Everyone wants to say that

their projects are too important. Everyone wants to say that the military needs more money than even Trump asked for, tens of billions, more than he asked for. This is the It's like the old, the old Santa Claus situation. Nobody wants to say there's no Santa Claus, especially when they're all getting presents. So I'm here to tell you there is no Santa Claus. Unless you're a kid who's listening to the show who's under the age of ten. Then there is a Santa Claus. And I'm being a jerk.

Don't listen to me. Kids under ten, Little team Little Team, Buck Squad. You have mom and dad tell you that this part of it, it's different. Um, you know, Bucks just having a bad day. Mom and Dad will explain. But for the rest of you, we want this. We want entitlements to remain untouched. We think we can spend more than we take in and continue to do so when we're already twenty one trillion dollars in debt. Spending is popular. Free stuff, goodies, government programs, they're popular. Cuts

are not popular. Less spending is not popular. People say, oh, you know, buck the six six billion dollars for the opioid crisis. What am I gonna say? We I talked to you about the opioid crisis here all the time, or frequently, not all the time, but I certainly have been raising the alarm about it. It's terrible what's going on. But as I've tried to tell you, it's about the illegal drug war much more so than prescription drugs and

prescription drug treatment. So no one wants to hear that we don't have money for that important thing fill in the blank. No one wants to hear that eventually this is going to be too much. And now I can't

tell you when. If I could, by the way, i'd prepare my you know, i'd prepare my portfolio and try to play the markets that you know, there's all kinds of ways you could probably try to capitalize off of a massive economic collapse, although the collapse could be so big that there's no such thing as a safe haven, really, right, that's also a thing that you have to be aware of. But right, however, everybody wants we want. We want the markets to be have, we want robust growth, jobs, all

this stuff. Everything. We want to let the good times roll. Nobody wants to hear about how we can have all these things. What's the real problem with our budget right now? The real problem is now there's gonna be a whole other focus we'll talk about at a moment, which is different pet projects of members of Congress and on the left and fine right. Discretionary spending. That's an issue too, because the politics involved in what's going on here. But

the real problem is entitlement spending. The real problem is that we don't want to raise the age of retirement, we don't want to change social security, we don't want to do means testing. We all want to take out about twice what we pay in over the course of our lives to medicare. And you can't and neither neither side of the al will touch it. Trump says he's not going to touch it. That's the real problem Medicaid spending.

I don't really want to touch that either. You're gonna let that keep on more and more free healthcare, more and more free healthcare for more and more non Americans too. You're gonna see illegal is getting more and more free healthcare in the years ahead. Just wait, you have a Democrat Congress and now the military, and I understand the argument for this, and this is what Trump was really focused on. He's saying that, you know, this is uh, this is necessary to rebuild our military. It's been he

says decimated. I think that's a bit strong, but uh, he says it's been underfunded in very important ways in recent years. Okay, but what are we allowed to cut? Then? What can we do less spending? I'm not saying cut like we're not going to have it anymore. What can we spend less on as a country or what changes can we make the future spending? The answer right now is nothing. The answer is that Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell, all the rest of them don't want this to change.

And I have to ask the question, or are we really just gonna rely on having uh, some slightly better federal judges in place as the explanation for what we've really gotten from a Republican Congress. That's it. That's good, but is that really enough? Is that going to get you out to the polls in the mid terms to vote. I don't know, I don't know. Uh, this is this

is the situation, folks. We have two political parties that understand that the route to power, to both achieving and maintaining power is by spending public money, which is your money and my money. But they want to spend it. Spending gets votes. You're giving people stuff all under the pretense that it's just coming from somebody else. But most of you realize that that's always a false a false bargain. It's a false bargain or a faustian bargain, depends on

how we are going to frame it. So this is this is disappointing. There's there's no way around that. It's disappointing. Trump said he was gonna veto at Lord said he might veto it last night. I'm like, all right, here is here's the fight here that we have. What's the words that have sensitive to send it back with a veto? Where's the wall funding? We were promised the wall. We weren't promised a few miles of wall that's like a

monument and an ugly one. I want an actual wall. Nope, no wall or thirty three miles of the couple of thousand miles of the US Mexico border. It'd be much better to spend the six six billion dollars they're talking about, in addition for opioid treatment to stopping the inflow of illegal drugs in the country, because then you can actually stop the heroin overdoses and the fence and the overdoses that are happening. Better to, you know, deal with the

problem at at the route if you can. But I don't know what the president honestly, you know he's saying that. He said, I started out the show, I will never sign a bill like this again. If that's how the President feels about it, why is he signing in the first place. His base would stay with him, the party would stay with him if you sent this back and he said, no, dice, no go. We can we we can do better than this. And then there's some other parts of this too that I'm not even clear where

what the President's going for me. And this is what he said about DOCTA recipients. DOCTA recipients have been treated extremely badly by the Democrats. We wanted to include DOCCA. We wanted to have him in this bill. Eight hundred thousand people, and actually it could even be more. And we wanted to include DOCCA in this bill. The Democrats would not do it. I wanted to include DOCTA. Does he mean he's saying we wanted to have an amnesty in exchange for wall funding, because that was what was

talked about a while ago. But okay, that's not that's not particularly encouraging either, folks. Look, I if you if you think there's a way, if you think there's a way to to look at this so that it doesn't seem like a capitulation something of a of a defeat. Oh yeah, in September, right before the mid terms, then political courage is gonna happen. Then disruption is going to be the order of the day. Where we all know that's not the case. This was it, This was it

to have a different budget. There's not gonna be another shot like this unless Republicans beat all expectations in the mid terms. But even then, even then, I'm not sure you're gonna see a change. I think Republicans are the Republican party. The Congress is complicit in this. Spending is popular, cuts are not. It's as simple as that. And until there's a real until we feel the pain of our overspending, of the government's overspending. This does not stop because foresight, wisdom,

preparing for the future, those are not sexy. I'm gonna make it rain in here. Who wants some cash? That's sexy, That gets people excited, And that's what this budget it is really a reflection of. And then there's some other problems in it that I'll get to in just a second. I wish I could say that, you know, I know it's Friday. I want to be in a good movie too. So well, but we've got other things we're talking about as well. Uh, talk the terrorist attack and well that's intense.

But the terroristtack in France. Got a couple of authors joining us later in the show, because I like to mix things up. On Friday's we'll talk about the never Again movement with David Hogg at the head of it, and uh, a whole lot more. Oh it is, it is Friday. So as as per our tradition, people keep asking if I'm back, and I haven't really had an answer, but now yeah, I'm taking I'm back. You have a

right to be dead. Friday, don't come food eight four four nine hundred to eight to five eight four nine buck your thoughts. Welcome here, my friends, and how much

more stay with me? Scene in the Senate Budget Committee this past week was a disappointing when I think for the American people, they seem to be in full scale retreat from spending cuts and are talking about raising people's taxes again when push comes to show, I guess it's always easier to let the taxpayer take the fall, no matter well, let them be forewarned, no matter how well intentioned they might be, no matter what their illusions might be.

I have my veto pen drawn and ready for any tax increase that Congress might even think of sending up. And I have only one thing to say to the tax increases. Go ahead, make my day. The President Reagan getting in a little action movie quote Friday, with go ahead, make my day, Go ahead, make my day. There you go, I said. I think Reagan said it best. Actually I think the Reagan version is even better than the Eastwood version. That's right, Um, all right, So this is not a

new fight. The president has been well a Republican presidents have been trying to deal with this for a long time. Dynamics have played out before. But Reagan wielded that veto pan a lot. I think, I think didn't Reagan seventy eight times or something. Vito a lot of a lot of Reagan vitos over his time, So you can check me on that one, producer, Mike. But I think we both know that whatever comes up, whatever comes up from the from the buck cranium, tends to be has to

be backed up by the facts. Now I'm really stepping on it if I get this one wrong. Up Bam, Thank you, John. We got a lot of calls. Let's take some here. Greg in Mississippi, Hey, Greg, Greg, Hey, can you hear me? We can, sir, very good? Are all doing today? All right? What's in your mind? It's it's not good day for us, I don't think. But anyway, I think the I think the Democrats pulled a coup today on the genuss we got for on our side.

I think in in at the end of six months when they're we're in this position again, which is going to be right before election, that the uh Democrats are gonna have the upper hand. And I think the I think the Republicans capitulated the the majority in the Senate today on the Democrats evidently don't need to win anything now. Yeah, I just have to wonder if the Democrats can get the budget priorities they want through the legislature when they

don't have the House or the Senate. They're in great shape. Works for them, right, exactly exactly what do they need? They they are, They got the high grounds, they got everything they could possibly imagine. How because we've got a bunch of good this worse the spineless people. I mean, you know TOMPs setting up here saying that I signed this bill for eight eighty billion dollars, I signed this legislate.

It look, it's it's uh. You can never get too excited about something the president signs into law when he's like, I never want to do this again. Right, So that's not good. Greg. I think we're I think we're on an agreement on that, one Shield said, And thank you for the call from now in Mississippi, folks, lines are open. We got some calls in. We could take some more

if you want. Eight four four, eight to five. I've got to talk some more about this, and then I'll have some other updates for you, including on that terrorist attack in France. The Islamic State inspires yet another. He's holding the line for America, buck sex in his back. We funded the initial down payment of one point six billion dollars. We're going to be starting work literally on Monday on not only some new wall, but also fixing

existing walls and existing acceptable fences. There are some areas that you have to see through. You have to be able to see through the other side in order to see what's coming. And in many cases it's not a pretty picture. Uh, this is a short term funding, but it's immediate. This is the premier issue he ran on, and he's getting nothing at the end of the year, and this is our big leverage moment. And the folks

back home may not know. The Senate put in the last budget that they're not even going to do a budget next year, so no chance for wall funding, no chance to get the Good lad Bill, and the major immigration piece of legislation in the House that addresses the DOCCA brings the kids out of the shadows, but in exchange for rational policy going forward that the Asident believes him. So yeah, he gotta he gotta end this thing until he gets something of what he asked for as president.

When we have the House and the Senate. It's quite amazing your President Trump there and then Representative Dave Bratt. I look, I can't get excited at one point six billion dollars for the wall. That's, like I said yesterday, that's uh, saving for your house and putting a few quarters in the piggy bank. Technically, it is saving for the house. It'll take you a few hundred years though, and at at one point six billion a year, it's you're you're looking at well beyond a Trump presidency to

actually get a wall built. And that's if he wins both terms. So just keep that in mind. Another part of this that I I mentioned it yesterday, I wanted to give you some more specifics now there is there's five hundred five hundred million dollars funding for planned parenthood in this budget. The difference between the Republicans the Democrats on a lot of issues is very murky. Life is supposed to be one of the only ones that's clear, right, and and it is clear at least on a policy level.

You cannot be a Democrat now and not be pro choice, pro abortion. You can't, and you're not welcome in the Democrat party. More In fact, I saw some statistics early in the week about how you know, back in the seventies and then the in the eighties, almost half of Democrats were pro I'm talking about in Congress, we're pro life. So you had a lot of pro life Democrats. And then it's just less and less and less, and now the Democrat Party has signed on to be a party

of abortion extremists. There can be no limitations, no nothing, nine months, anytime, any reason, that's it. And then special privileges for abortion clinics about all you can't you know, no standing in the pathway and all all. You know, the First Amendment be damned right, because people need to people need to get abortion. According to Democrats, it's a it's a I was gonna say, a god given right,

but that's actually the the opposite of what it is. Um, that's how Democrats view it though, that it's a it's a I was gonna say, it's sacred to Democrats, but even that it's not sacred, I don't know, it's it's coming from the other direction. Um. Here's what Alexandra de Sanctus put out today, and I wanted to go through it with you quickly. On what this budget does for Planned Parenthood and what's really at stake here she's a National review and at the National Review Institute, um so

here's what she writes about the five million dollars. Here are some quick facts on what Planned Parenthood, which will receive half a billion dollars from the Omitibus bill our our Republican Congress just passed, was up to last year. Planned Parenthood clinics performed three h than eighty four abortions last year. That's over one third of all abortions in the US annually. Abortion is not just three percent of

what Planned Parenthood does. The group fabricates that statistic by conflating the number of clients with the number of services to downplay the group's provision of abortion. Planned Parenthood performed eighty three abortions last fall for every one adoption referral. It offered fewer than eight thousand prenatal services to pregnant mothers last year, compared to three hundred and twenty one thousand, three hundred and eighty four abortions. Planned Parenthood does not

provide crucial healthcare that women can't get anywhere else. There are just over six hundred Planned Parenthood clinics across the country compared to over thirteen thousand federally qualified healthcare centers, which offer a wide array of services without providing abortions. These federally qualified healthcare centers out numbered Planned Parenthood clinics twenty to one, and yet we're supposed to believe that Planned Parenthood is somehow serving millions of women who will

have nowhere else to turn. In California alone, the state with the most Planned Parenthood clinics by far, it's not surprising there are just a hundred and fourteen Planned parent locations compared to one thousand, nine hundred I'm sorry, one thousand, six hundred and nine federally qualified healthcare centers. Planned Parenthood's net assets at the end of last fiscal year told

them more than one point six billion dollars. The group spent hundreds of millions on movement building, which is just pouring money into electing Democrats who will keep directing money to Planned Parenthood. Despite all these facts, and despite Planned Parenthood's intense loyalty to the Democrat Party, a Republican Congress and Republican president just directed yet another half a billion

dollars to Planned Parenthood to fund its abortion business. This is completely unacceptable that all from Alexandra Dissanctus of National Review, Every single Republican that I'm aware of in the Congress is pro life. I have not heard or seen a single one of them in the last twenty four hours. Make if they've made noise over this, not nearly enough, not nearly enough. They do not have to fund Plant Parenthood.

They do not, but they did. Why can't have a fight over this because we're gonna lose a shutdown at some point. We are making too many excuses under the guise of political calculation and with Plant parent and I think we are well beyond that. This is not you know, can we fix DOCCA later or figure something out. This is a matter of urgency. It is now, It is every day, it is every passing hour. And say, oh, buck well, they could continue with private donations, Yeah they could.

What if it what if that number of three thousand, three eighty four was cut down by twenty or thinking how many lives that would be and just as a as a function of funding and access, how many lives to be saved? It seems seems more than worth it to me. But you know, a lot of Republican cowardice

on display, especially on this issue. I think it's because they know that the Republican who actually stands up and says he wants to do something about this, the elected representative who really wants to fight on this issue, the entire fire and fury of the left. Pardon the expression. They've ruined that now with that book, but the entire venom of the progressive left will be brought to bear

on that person, Dell. They will nothing outrageous Democrats now more than anyone who who who is not just talking tough about stopping abortions, but actually tries to do something about it anyway. So I I see no, I see no excuse for this. I don't understand what they think the excuses. Uh. And there is there is a shame here. There is shame in this, and uh it's frustrating, it really is. All right. I want to I want to take some calls here because it is Friday, and I've

been saying we would, um Chuck in Virginia. Welcome, sir Chuck. You there, Yeah, we're here. We're here, you buddy. What's up? I'm calling about this budget? Um, and I'll listen to you saying I listened to the guy from Mississippi say it about the Republicans being fearful. They're not afraid. If they were, they wouldn't fund land parenthood because I am ready to go to war with them over it. It's

not pro choice. It's killing babies. That's what's happening. And now my tax money, again with the party that I have supported, is going to kill babies. And I'm a religious man, and God clearly says that he hates the hands that shed innocent blood. And I'm to a point now where I'm almost ready to sign over all my property just to my wife and stop paying taxes. So let's see if the First Amendment will cover me, because religiously, it's an abomination for my tax money, my money to

be killing children that are unborn. Of our money is now ask form of slavery in the United States. It is. It is all of our money. Now, Chuck. You know they're they're they're taking five million dollars from taxpayers to do this under the pretense that it's for health care. It's a lie. It's a lie. I know, you know it. I know it. But people need to hear it more. That is a lie. We are paying for that, we are paying for those procedures. But the real lie is

that the Republicans are afraid. They're not afraid. Well, I think I think the answer, Truck, is actually what what are they afraid of? I think you're saying they're not afraid of their voters, and they're not afraid of, you know, of selling us out and funding planned paradode right, and they're not afraid of continuing to spend in this out of control fashion. So yeah, the same as the Democrat Party. The Democrat Party in the inner circle of the Republican

Party both want the same thing. I think they are way too close. They are too they are too close for comfort. Chuck. I share your passion. I very much appreciate your call and thank you for staying with us. Uh Paul, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Hey Paul, Hey buck shield tie. Okay, So a few weeks ago I called you about game theory and the prisoner's dilemma and Trump's successful use at T for TATA as a strategy. Well, I think Congress gave him a tat last night, and he did not

give them a tip they deserved. He didn't even show it to him. Did I just get beeped out? No, you didn't get but I don't really, So what are you trying to say? I don't understand. He should he should have he should have vetoted. Oh he should have Vito. Yeah, yeah, they they challenged him. He should have given him. He should have given him a tip for the tat they gave him. He should have been tip. Okay, let's listen to different analogy or whatever. It's like, it's too crazy

that one. Alright, Paul, No, no, it's all right, go ahead of you, but just you know, well, well, I think that he's also kind of showing that he's totally ready to be in the Republican Rhino leadership because like, instead of whining about the line item Vito, he should have recognized that he had he has more tools than he says. Now. I'm sure that somebody told him he's got a pen, but maybe he doesn't realize he's also got a pocket, which I think the Haberdasher Coolidge invented.

It's done a pocket veto. Yeah, thank you for calling him, Paul. The by the way, I said seventy eight Reagan vitos correct, But that's if you add the the general general veto to the pocket veto, right, it was like thirty six and well the numbers nine. There we go, So that was correct, by the way, just just pulling that one out there, you know, just doing what I do. Uh, let's talk about some other stuff though here for a moment.

We we have and the possibility of changing some of the Senate rules so that you'll actually get nominees through maybe going so called nuclear option on this. I like the idea we should the filibuster. We should talk about the filibuster. We come back, and then also we'll discuss this a terror attack in France, a reminder of the thread the Islamic state that is still out there. And we've got a lot more stuff. We're gonna switch it off a bit though, So Team quick Break coming and

we'll be right back. We have to get rid of the filibus to rule and go to fifty one votes in the Senate. If we're going to have really sustained continued success, we have to get a lot of great legislation approved, and without the filibuster rule, it'll happen just like magic. He is one hundred right about the filibuster.

The filibuster is the root cause of this mess. There is a reason that it's just one giant No one reads it, omnibus bill to fund everything in the government, and if you don't sign it, the whole government shuts down. It's because the minority party and both parties have done it threatens to filibuster each of the individual appropriation bills that are supposed to fund the government. Our system actually

can work if it's not filibustered. But because you can get leverage over filibustering at one bill at a time, so the government doesn't get his money that the proper the Department of Agriculture gets this money, the Department of Commerce gets its money. If you don't do it one at a time, you can get leveraged by holding the entire government funding hostage. And that's what the filibuster does. I agree. I think you gotta get rid of the filibuster.

I think that this is nonsense. What what ends up happening, and you've probably already seen some of this today, is that you have a you have a situation where everyone's gonna say, well, you know, we just need to elect more Republicans. Well, we also have to be realistic. You have a Republican House, Republican Senate, and a Republican president. You have a unified GOP government. If the if, what we're gonna be told now is oh, sorry, it's not enough.

We need to have supermajorities and all you know, No, that's not how this works, and that's not what's supposed to happen. That's not the way the Constitution set all the stuff up. You need supermajorities to get anything done. Get rid of the filibuster, absolutely, get rid of it. It is um, it is abused, and it is slowing things down. And no minority party should be able to do exactly what Ari Fleischer there. They former a White House Press secretary under Bush stairs they do, which is

they'll just make sure you can't do it. So yeah, I say get rid of it because I don't want to hear about how we need to. You know, if only we had more Republicans, then they'd finally get things done. Does it? Remember every time someone says that, I want to say, really did we did we not repeal or it wasn't even a full repeal, but did we not change Obamacare? Because we didn't have enough Republican votes. No, we just didn't have enough Republicans who would vote to

do it. Remember last summer, Yeah, I remember it. I remember how that went down. Not that we needed more Republicans, we were more Republicans, we just needed more real ones we're willing to stand and actually do something. So I get a little sick of the goal post shifting and all the changing of changing around with this stuff. Charlie and Ocean City, Maryland. Good to have you, sir, a shield Bucks outside. Charlie, Hey, I was, I was a

little disappointed with the President not vetoing. But I think this weekend he's going to change his mind grastically because I guarantee you his Twitter account is blowing up. So what do you think what will happen this weekend? His Twitter account will blow up, meaning that he's gonna I'm not I'm not following you here. Ye. People are going to tweet him. Oh he people are gonna tweet him about how they're unhappy. Okay, And I blame two people,

K Street, Ryan in H Street, McConnell. Hm. That's that's they're They're the drag on Arab But don't you think Trump should veto it to force their hand. I mean the shot I wish you would. Last night when I went to bed, I was happy. Yeah, me too. I thought he was gonna do it. Yeah, And then he didn't, and I thought, Man, he couldn't knocked this thing out of the park. He could have made those rhinos come back and do their job. Man. I agree, Charlie, thank

you for calling him. My friend got to talk to you from Maryland. Uh, Team, I'm gonna just bring up to speed on what happened in France. There was a standoff terrorist inspired by ISIS. We'll get to that more coming up. He's back with you now, because when it comes to the fight for truth, the fuck never stops. You are now entering the Freedom Technical Operations Center. All sensitive programs must be kept strictly. Need to know Team

Buck is cleared and ready to the Buck brief. According to the local mayor who is speaking to the Roys News agency. He says, all those hostages have been released, but the gunman is now holding a police officer as a hostage, so the hostage situation is ongoing. But the shoppers who are inside that supermarket have been released and a police office is that was earlier today, Um and that was a hostage situation that has actually been resolved

in France, resolved with the shooting of the terrorist. The Islamic State inspired this terrorist. I'll give you some of the details of it now. Just a reminder that isis is still out there as a group but also as a as an ideology. Their propaganda often uses the phrase remains and expands, the Caliphate remains and expands, and that is what they put out after this particular incident. So you had a gunman named red wah on Loch Deem.

He is a Moroccan um Moroccan national who moved to France, I believe, although he might have been born in France and to check on his nationality originally of Moroccan descent. Um. He walked into a supermarket in trebe Trebez in France

and he took hostages. He killed a member of staff and a customer and then he he sees hostages there a local member of the police and Francis gendar named Lieutenant Colonel ar No bell Trump, who was forty four years old, offered to take the place of a female hostage in the supermarket, to swap himself for the female

hostage and so she UH. She was able to get to safety unharmed, and the UH Lieutenant Colonel here Beltrum, the French gendarme, left his phone on so that law enforcement could hear exactly what was going on inside the supermarket during the hostage standoff, and then somehow it seems the terrorists perhaps became aware that the phone was on. Something happened and he started shooting. The gendarm hit him three times. He's now fighting for his life in the hospital.

But once that shooting started with the UH, well, I'm sure they could hear it outside anyway, but he had the phone on him and law enforcement immediately swooped in and eliminated this terrorist gunman red Juan lock Deem, So yet another jee hottest incident. It's amazing, you know, on some of these news stories about it. They also have him in The Guardian. They have a whole rundown of

the major Isis inspired terrorist attacks in France. And you have the the Cowache brothers who gunned down eleven people at Charlie Ebdom magazine in January. A knife attack against soldiers guarding a Jewish community center in Nice in February, a car attack in January a guy ran into four soldiers. UH police officer and his partner were stabbed to death in the outskirts of Paris June. I mean, I just keep reading down and then you had the Bata Klan massacre.

You've had some very very horrific terror attacks in France and just the last couple of years, all isis inspired or isis directed, and it is a reminder of the threat that we continue to face. The Islamic stay it has already claimed this attack and they are saying, of course there will be more. Not clear yet whether this red one lochtem fellow was a member of the Islamic State or just as the as ISIS propaganda calls it a lie in acting on behalf of the Islamic State.

But this is still very much out there, my friends, and something we have to keep an eye on. One more thing that I have not touched on that this is reminding me of. It's not it's really a separate story, but it has to do with what the Turks have

been up to in Syria. The Turks are engaged in military operations in northern Syria, clearing out areas held by our Kurdish allies who have been taking the fight to the Islamic State in the area of what was the Caliphate, and we are hearing barely a peep about it in

this country. And the Turkish government led by Ritwan, who's really rather anti American and very problematic from our respective and a and a despot in the making, if not a despot already is saying that he's going to go into a rock even and clear out Kords from some of the areas where they have retaken ground from the Islamic State in Iraq. This is a this is a big problem that we should all be more aware of.

And the media silence on this, I mean it is it is should be such an embarrassment that CNN and just runs night after night, story after story about women claiming to have had affairs with Trump over a decade ago, any number of stories more important than these. And beyond that, the Kurds are facing some really uh, really dangerous situations in Syria on on our behalf, and they are us allies and have been for a long time, and we're

not doing nearly enough for them. So you know, the news media is focused on some very superficial stuff that should not be getting anywhere near the coverage and attention that it does. And it just frustrates me. And here here I am as I'm literally talking to you. They've got they've got Karen McDougall alleged affair with Trump on the screen again. CNN has turned into the the Trump's alleged affairs channel. It was the Russia Collusion channel, now

it's the Trump's alleged affairs channel. I mean, I really do think the places is a disgrace. Now. It used to be that I didn't want to be affiliated with it because it had gone. Look these channels change over time, and there's a but they they have just gone into the sewer over there. It was always left a center, but it used to be a place where you could have a debate and discussion maybe and now it has uh, it has just lost it. It has lost it. I am I am appaulled, even though I should expect it,

I suppose anyway. That's but that's the update that I have for you. On France. This gendarme very heroic stuff and more of what we expect from law enforcement. Uh here and in our Western European allies right putting themselves in harm's way. And doing the right thing. Eight four four to five. You want to chat with me, by all means, call eight buck. We have a lot more to get to, including a discussion later this hour of

David Hoggs latest and we'll get to that. And third hour, I've got a couple of wonderful authors will be joining talk about their latest books, including Peter Schweitzer has got a book on just how how brazen some of the corruption, the high level corruption, including some Biden family members. What a shock. We'll get into that as well. So we've got much more. Come and stay with me. Vice President, do you care to respond to the President's tweet? Sir? Oh, no,

no response. Would you really fight the president? Sure? I was talking about high school. Go back and read what I said. I said high school. Apparently Biden's feeling the sting from the Trump tweet there a little bit. He sounded very aggravated with that female reporter asking about the whole exchange with Trump. You know, I always say it, uh, don't don't wrestle gators and to buy you you know, don't try to don't try to mess with Trump on Twitter.

You're gonna you'renn get slapped down I mean, you're gonna get a a buck slap, extraordinary Trump slap if you will. And that is what happened with Biden. So he's backing off it. They're they're they're delusional if they think the Biden really has a shot in I know, people like to do you'd like to put these ideas out there and they go, oh yeah, Biden. Biden. Biden's is the guy to get the job done, the really really unimpressive dude.

Not nothing about him to write home about. Um, lots of people say he's he's a little creepy a little bit. It can be a little bit weird though sometimes a little creepy. We'll we'll touch you grabby in photos. I'm not just saying, I mean, do you see the photos, You're like, whoa. So there's there's that. Um, we'll have to see if Biden learns his lesson. Then there's also by the way, um bennon making an appearance these days. Here's what here's Mr Bannon had to say in the

New Cycle this week. John Down is a good man, and I think that's why essentially more aggressive attorneys got brought in that are now you know, I think President Trump's going to war. I think it's very obviously He's going to go to war in this This is about John Dowd leaving, who was Trump's chief counsel, and the whole Russia collusion matter. And we now see that it looks at least like Trump doesn't want to take the

advice of I'm not gonna testify for Mueller. He's he's gonna do it, which I gotta say, I think it's probably a bad idea, but you know what, do I know? I can't pardon myself. So Trump may want He's lining up for a very aggressive approach on a number of fronts. Bolton now as his National security advisor. By the way, you think this stuff about firing Carson was true? I saw those reports today that he's gonna fire Ben Carson. I don't know over over a thirty thou dollar Dinet set.

That's expect I get my Dinet sets off of Amazon. I'm not a I'm not a fancy guy. Odds aren't in his favor. The odds are not his favor. If you're when we look at that chart of all the different people who have left this administration, you're like, WHOA this is it's just like an NFL team of people that are very senior who have left administration. Terms of how many people there are, it's been been very, very substantial. Yeah, So Dowd dropped dropped out of being Trump's chief counsel.

People say it's because Trump doesn't want to take a cautious approach. He want he wants. As Bannon said, I think Bennon might be right about this with it. Trump wants to go to war with Muller. That'll be interesting. I don't I have no idea how that's gonna shake out. I don't think anybody does. Um, it will be. It will be entertaining, though, that much is for sure. Brent in New Mexico, you've been very patient and on hold, how you doing, Brent Hey about Chilili. Now, My point

is is, uh, this is entirely irresponsible. And you know, I didn't vote for I didn't vote for Trump in the UH in the primaries, but I've stood buying through this stuff because I'm looking at actionable results and I'll put up with all of this other craps, you know what I mean, all of the shenanigans and stuff, but this is important to me. You know what I mean. As as a husband, I can't go to my wife and say, well, I pay the mortgage, but I spent the rest of my paycheck on Peyton Manning Jersey in

a box of beard, you know what I mean. But don't worry about little Susan is gonna take care of it on the credit card when I die, You know what I mean. This is important stuff to be You know, we're standing in from taking the arrows, but he starts signing stuff like this. Congress is definitely in trouble. Everybody's kissed. Man. This is not good. Yeah, I think it's a big problem because there's not gonna be a better opportunity in

the future. And I've gotten very tired. This discussion with Republicans and tackling the debt has been going on in earnest well you could say for decades, but ever since the Tea Party. This is supposed to be something that conservatives in America understanding, are united on, and we keep getting told by the Republican Congress, next time we'll fight, next time we'll fight. Well, at what point is it clear that it's just never, It's not next time, It's

never time, it's not gonna happen. No, I'm definitely My congressman's in deep trouble here. You know. We I've been to the town halls and stuff, and I've heard the whole same drum over and over and over again. And I guarantee voted for it. And people are fed up. Man. Yeah, I I agree, and I understand why they are. I can't tell them. I can't tell them this is a good thing, you know. I come here, I tell you guys the truth. This is not what should have happened here.

Trump should have vetoed it forced their hand. You know, if they lose a shutdown battle, fine, the midterms are far our long ways away. There's plenty of time to regroup, Brent, thanks for calling from New Mexico. Shield High. Plenty of time to regroup. They keep pushing this as though, oh, you know, national script, and they gave more. There's more money spent for the military than Trump even even asked for. It's a matter of national security. I've signed this omnibus

budget bill. There are a lot of things that I'm unhappy about in this bill. There are a lot of things that we shouldn't have had in this bill. But we were in a sense forced if we want to build our military, we were forced to have. There are some things that we should have in the bill. But I say to Congress, I will never sign another bill like this again. I'm not gonna do it again. Nobody read it. It's only hours old. Some people don't even know what it is. At one point three trillion dollars,

it's the second largest ever. President Obama signed one that was actually larger. Yeah, it's one point three trillion dollars, all right. I played a Fleisher clip befour for you. By the way, he also spoke about the military aspect of this bill. I wanted to play this in the last hour to get to it, so I just wanted to return for one second. Here. Uh, the benefits the president had today and being able to create a suspense. He brought people's attention to the problems of military cutbacks

and how dire it has been. But remember it only got that way because the two parties couldn't agree on spending initiatives before, so by default, they set up this system of draconian cuts in both domestic and military spending. Those draconian cuts actually went through in two thou and eleven and now they're undone here in two thousand and eighteen, they went too far in terms of the military. Um so if you were pro military, it's a good day to see its signed. Uh. You know, I'm as pro

military as anybody. I have a tough time accepting the the Leisher analysis here on this that's calling them draconian cuts. I remember it was called the sequester. You guys will remember that, the sequester, and it was a decrease in the increase in spending. It was not actually really much of a cut of anything. So it's we're gonna spend

you know this much more than we're already spending. The future. Well, now we're gonna spend a little less of what we are of the increase of what we're planning to spend in the future. We're told things I heard Trump today say, oh, we've got fewer surface ships in the navy. Well, it's not really comparable to say that a you know, a Nimits class carrier should be counted the same way as now a couple of era battleships. Right, we can do

a lot more with it. And I don't I don't see this as the victory that people are saying it is. I see it as pretty pretty disconcerting. Really, when when are we gonna have to fight? What are we gonna have that fight over Obamacare? Everyone? When are we going to have the fight over immigration? And when I say have the fight, I mean the the dust up that will happen when they take real action. Right. We got

Kenny in Boston who thinks this is all calculated. Kenny, Good to talk to you, Hi, Buck, How you doing. You went to Amherst College. I went to U Mass Amhers. I think I was there when you were there. But anyway, I need to ask you. Do you want to Amhers College? You played chess? Right? Yeah? Of course, all all us amorous nerds played chess. Of course. Well I played chess, and I played pretty good. I had a friend of mine who everyone, all of the other friends thought was adult.

You know, he was a stupid stuff. Well, when he played chess, he would make some seemingly the stupidest move you could ever. Oh my god, what an idiot. But you know what, he ends up winning the match. And I'm wondering if Trump's uh signing of this bill has something to do with that. Um certainly his changes of staff and attorneys probably does. I mean, you know, this makes another word of making it look like, oh my god, he's gonna go to war. You're gonna he's gonna uh

fire Muller. But in reality he isn't. In other words, it's a it's a it's a diversion of sorts and Kenny, I, I I hope you're right. I hope that this has been a thing for a long time. I hope that Trump is playing the proverbial four D chess that everyone's been talking about for a long time. We'll have to see. Thanks for calling her from Boston, my friend, have a good weekend up there. Oh is this moost? Is this most to snow on this Sunday again? No? I heard that.

That's a bad rumor. Don't don't let me start that rumor today. Oh wait, one thing before we go in the break. Today's today's National Puppy Day. That should make everyone happy. Actually gonna puppy this weekend because I love poppy. He's holding the line for America. Buck Sexton his back. I think the president is assembling a war cabinet to actually have a real war. He's got John Bolton, and the only question is when we find ourselves in a

military conflict. He's in the North Korea or Iran or both, We're going to be in for a very rough, if not calamitous time ahead. Nominate a warhawk as her third national security advisor in fourteen months. John Bolton being national Security Advisor will push the president and the nation in a more dangerous course. He's a hawk on North Korea. I think it raises the stakes for military reaction around the world. I don't think there's any doubt about that.

He's a warmonger. He has no problem thinking about starting a war there. You have a bit of a media reaction to Ambassador Bolton or a c Ann refers to him a guy who sometimes appears on Fox News, but you had an Ambassador Bolton is. He's got them all very upset. Now they're all they're all very much bothered by the fact that Trump has a warhawk, and you

know he's the national security advisor. Okay, And what we need to understand is that the first of all, the media's response to anything national security related after the eight years of obama Ism, we remember Obama escalated dramatically U S troops in Afghanistan, not a peep, not a peep from the media about that being warmongering or anything else. And I would note that he as It's not like

he escalated and said we're gonna win. We have a debt to the Afghan people that we're gonna pay pay here or you know, whatever we've got, and we've made a promise, we're gonna honor it. No, no, he says, you know, we're gonna work to search, we're gonna buit more troops and they're gonna come home on exactly this time. So Telebone, you understand to wait, you need to wait. You know, the Taliban was very capable of just laying low for a bit while we had a surge in place. Yeah,

they falled over Samarias, I understand that. But truth of the matter is that surging at the same time that you're saying you're gonna withdraw is letting domestic politics determine battlefield considerations. And that is what the obamainistration did. But they didn't even criticize him for being a war marker.

Right now you're hearing this, which is such a such a pejorative and unfair and nasty way to describe a guy who has been a been in this era of uh national security, this area of national security and and and diplomatic service for decades. Um. People are saying that they should be terrified, horrified Bolton is dangerous all this stuff, you know, I will I want to give some credit to David French, who's you know, we have him on the show. I like David. He's a very very good

writer and a good guy. He's written a great piece on Bolton. He says Bolton is not crazy. The world is. And what we saw. One of the things we saw from the Obama years is that sitting back and thinking that doing nothing is some brilliant policy is actually dangerous. That watching Syria descend into an an absolute hell hole, which I know, we shouldn't have landed the eighty second airboard and decided to take over the country. I'm not

advocating for that, but there was basically nothing done. And as we see from what Trump has done now to defeat the Islamic State, there are ways to do things there without a lot of US casualties, without a lot of US risks that would have slowed down or stopped Isis from becoming the monstrosity that it was. That would have saved thousands, perhaps tens of thousands of lives, that

would have stopped terror attacks in Europe and here at home. Remember, the Islamic state became this clarion call to jihoti is m because of its success and because or it's perceived success. Right, that was why people would self radicalize and take it upon themselves to be jihadis without any formal training of any kind, because they wanted to that they were ideologically aligned with this notion of a caliphate. Overseas, Obama did

very little on North Korea. The situation North Korean nukes and the possibility of nuclear proliferation and missile proliferation technology got worse. For eight years under Obama, these things got worse. So why is it that we are in this position where we have to pretend at having somebody who takes a more aggressive approach to these foreign policy problems. By aggressive, I mean not just sit back, relax and let the

good times roll, you know, let things happen. That was what Obama did, That was what his people, That was what Susan Susan Rice's approach, except in Libya, where for reasons that still remain kinda huh under our two p responsibility to protect in Libya. That was the doctrine. That was Samantha power, that was Susan Rice. They built careers on that. Under that premise we intervened in Libya but

not in Syria. Why because that was the decision that they made o Libya became a failed state and disaster afterwards, and also a haven for the Islamic State. In fact, for a while, the only place that isis really controlled territory in any meaningful sense was Ras or the Ira Syria world or the original one, and then on the coast of Libya. So this notion that things were great under Obama's for Obama's foreign policy was failure. You looked at a place in the world, You looked at any

spot on a map where there was trouble. You look at a hot spot where people are shooting each other, bad things are happening. He got worse under Obama's years. Any problem, any national security challenge, he got worse under the eight years of Obama. And look at the people that he had around him. Meant the power, you know, very very much. A humanitarian internationalist Susan Rice, same thing, humanitarian nationalist Hillary Clinton, cold bloodless, self indulgent, self gratifying,

frightening human being. I mean, you know, but I guess technically uh supposed to be a technocrat of they were unable to do it. John carry Yeah, John Carrey, he's a model for the peace process. Couldn't even get in the door. But they're all free, Oh John, John Bolton's gonna lead us in a war. This is just this is just for ratings on TV, Folks that there's no there's no honesty and there's there's no truth behind it at all. Both In is more than qualified for the role.

He'll do a very good job, and he understands the world's a dangerous place. There's going to approach it as such. And maybe that's what makes the left so upset about him. All right, we've got we've got to talk about David Hogg coming up here. I got more stay with me. One more about school. You mentioned your backpack. What do they do with your backpack there? I think after we come back from spring break, they're requiring all of us

to have clear backpacks. I think one of the most important, one of the other important things to realize is many students want their privacy there. There are many um for example, females that are school when they had when they go through their mentoral cycle, they don't want people to see their tampons and stuff, and it it's just it's unnecessary.

It's embarrassing for a lot of the students, and it makes them feel isolated and separated from the rest of American school culture, where they're having essentially their First Amendment rights infringed upon because they can't freely wear whatever backpack they want, regardless of what it is. It has to be a clear backpack. What we should have is just more policies that make sure that these students are feeling

safe and secure in their schools. So that's David Hogg the single most prominent member of the Never Against Student movement against school violence. But it's really against guns. So let's understand that it's decided that it has decided that guns are the problem. But here you have what is the eighteen by the way, is the eighteen r he's eighteen? Do you have a teenager who has been thrust forward by the national media. He's now got a huge social

media following, Anderson Cooper has him all. Rachel Matto, we played it last night like I'm star struck by some of the never end people. I mean, she's literally pandering to these kids, because in doing so, Mattow panders to her audience. And here he is, after telling us all that if you won't abandon the Second Amendment, you don't care about dead kids. Now he's all like, whoa, whoa. You can't mess with high school backpack choices. This isn't

North Korea. Man. It's like, well, exactly, you either understand that there are trade offs for some of these security measures or you or you're just being dishonest, you know he's saying. And I would note his claim here is that he there's a First Amendment right to not have the First Ament right in school to have the kind

of backpack you want. And I would be like, well, first of all, there is a Second Amendment right to bear arms, and I do not think that there is a First Amendment right to carry whatever kind of parcel you want into school as an means of expression. So I think his constitutional jurisprudence needs quite a bit of work, needs quite a bit of additional thinking here. But this

is par for the course. None of this surprises me that you have this kid going around grandstanding, and the stuff he said yesterday, which we played for you, was just absolutely it was absolutely terrible. Uh, should be discrediting, But how do you discredit somebody who whenever he shows you who he is, the responses, Oh, but he's he's just a kid, and he's a victim, and he's trying to save other kids. Why do you hate kids so much? How much of a slander? How much nastiness? Um do

we have to accept from this kid? I mean, remember, this is a reminder, all right, this is he's going around giving interviews Anderston. By the way, I was an employee at CNI for two years. Anderson Cooper's people never wanted to have me on the show. Why I don't know, Probably because I take everybody to school. It is buck slaps of plenty. But nonetheless they put this kid on notice spew a bunch of nonsense. And here's what he sounds like in some of his interviews. They're pathetic funds

that want to keep killing our children. They could have blood from children spattered all over their faces and they wouldn't take action. When you're oldest parents like I don't know how to send an eye message and just like give me the phone and you take in You're like, okay, let me handle it, and you get it done in one second. Sadly, that's what we have to do with our government because our parents don't know how to use

the democracy. So we have to we think what sectors are out there that want to continue to sell more guns, murder more children and honestly just get reelected. What type of person are you when you want to see more money than children's lives? This type of person does that. He's not he's not even a smart teenager. He's actually just not smart and he's disrespectful. So that's why I'm I'm I've had enough of this. I'm not playing like, oh, but be guys to because at all they're traumatised. There

are a lot of kids are traumatized. Well, CNN was supposed to have on um Kyle Kyle Kaschev, right, I'm I might might be mispronouncing his last name, but he's one of the Parkland survivors who takes a very different tone and approach to these things. And CNN was supposed to have him on and they canceled him and they're gonna have him on a month afterwards, right, So the the impact of his appearance would be much less than what we've already had with the Parkland kids. Kyle kashev right. Yeah,

even want to think I'm wrong, I'm right. And they canceled on him. And this is from his Twitter account. By the way, they canceled on Kyle because he had retweeted something where someone referred to a CNN story as fake news. So they invited this kid on and then because of that they got rid of him. Notice how no one's gonna cancel any media appearances for David Hogg, even though he's he's saying, I played to the audio. He's saying explicitly, the n Ray is going to keep

killing children. You're going to keep killing Chill. The n Ray didn't kill anybody. You know, he's gonna keep killing children. He's cursing, and I mean some of the other things, by the way that you're you're old asked parents don't know how to use and also that parents don't know how to use democracy. No, actually, you disrespectful, little ingrate. People who were older than you know a lot more

about democracy. And we live in a republic, which is the distinction that I doubt he'd be able to grasp even if I tried to explain it. But nonetheless, this is who is being held up now by the left as some kind of a sage on the issue of gun control and stopping violence in schools. This is all just mobilization because progressivism has become a fashion statement. It is an identity as much, if not more so, that

it is a system of political beliefs. Progressivism is something that you sign on for because of what it says about you, not for what it means for the country, and not really for the policies that implements either. You want to be a progressive now because that's what this mark cool. Nice people are the good people, not the mean, white Christian racist people. That's what the Republicans are. This is what it's turned into. And pop culture has just become a megaphone for this and has been for a

long time. But they the complete lack of respect that some of these never again kids. And I even told you, I think it's disrespectful that they've appropriated a term, and yeah, that's what I'll say it appropriation borrow from a leftist lexicon. They've appropriated a term meant to mean no more genocide, from the Holocaust, and they're saying that this is this is not a hollow. We do not have a holocaust of children in school violence going on. We do not.

We have isolated incidents over a period of decades of despicable, evil, cowardly violence in a society of three million people, and we have fewer of them if you look at the long term trend now than we had in the nineties. So it's actually going down. It's not the problem that people have been led to believe it is in recent months. But I know we're not supposed to say that. We're not supposed to push back on mr Mr Hoggs nonsense here.

I mean, he is an adult, right, so you know if he's putting on big boy pants and wants to be on the national stage and wants to call other

people murderers, which is really borderline, uh slanderous. I think that once you start referring to people as murderers when they've killed no one, that's a that's a bit of a Now you'd say the n RAS and organization and he's I understand there's a First Amendment argument there, but I'm just saying it is pushing the limits it is pushing the limits of free speech and moving toward character assassination, which is really what this whole outfit is about. And

I've seen this before with the left. This is how they do things, This is how they engage with these movements. They try to put either sympathetic usually sympathetic victims at the front of a movement, and then everyone around it gets to just be the apparatus of the Democrat Party, the Democrat left in action, pushing for whatever they want, and whenever they meet resistance, they go, oh, a lot up. But here here's you know, they're they're they're hiding behind

the skirts, so to speak of the vanguard here. Oh, I don't want to fight. I don't want to No, no, you be mean to those people, the victims. They won't engage in the battle of ideas. So anyway, this is hog kid. I'm I'm I'm done with being patient with the whole thing. He's acting. He's acting like a child. He is, So maybe we can all agree that that's

that's to be expected here. But that's why CNN should not make a mockery of itself by giving a platform to a high school kid who is acting poorly even for a high school kid. All Right, we got our three coming up here with Peter Schweitzer. He's got a really interesting book out about how corruption in this country for the elites really works. Peter is the guy from He's the Clinton Cash author. He's to throw them, throw them all out about how I still tell people this

and they don't believe it. I'm like I used I had Peter on my show when I did Real News with the Blaze years ago, when I was part of a Real News I was one of the hosts and we'd have Peter on and he told about how insider trading Congress exempted itself from insider trading laws. You know, you can't make this stuff up. People go, no, way, Buck, oh no, but way, dude, way, it is in fact what they did. And he's he's great, you'll like that. And we've got Kristin Tate as well, who's a uh

an up and coming author. You see her on Fox News sometimes, real nice ladies. She's written about taxes, which I hate, and we're gonna bash taxes together. That's gonna be fun. Our three coming up in just a few He's holding the line for America. Buck Sexton his back. All right, everybody, we have an author with this now who's got a fantastic new book that you were all going to want to hear about and read, Secret Empires How the American political class hides corruption and enrichest family

and friends. The author is Peter Schweitzer. He's an investigative journalist, novelist, and political consultant. And Peter, thank you so much for joining. Great to have you, Hey, great to be on with you, Buck, thanks for having me. All right, walk us through. Peter, what do you what do you deal with this time around? Well, look,

a corruption is a never changing, evolving thing. And when most people think of corruption, they think of you know, Congressman Jefferson who had the ninety dollars cash in as freezer, you know, cold hard cash Jefferson. They called him. Um, well, that's the old school corruption. The new school is what I call offshore in corruption. They don't take the money themselves. They funnel the money through family members or maybe a

best friend. And the amounts of money are asked phonomically larger than say ninety thousand dollars, and they oftentimes involve you know, foreign entities like the government of China, or you know Ukrainian oligarchs who want to curry favor with American decision makers. So this is the new frontier of corruption. Uh. The amounts of money are large, and uh, it's it's really not just about politicians getting rich. It's actually warping

our policies. Now you have to tell us, Peter about some of the actual case studies you deal with in the book. Is that certainly this all sounds like stuff that people need to hear. Well, yes, thanks Bucks. Um. So one example, um that's in the book involves Joe Biden and in December, blue collar Joe no where. Yeah, this one surprises a lot of people because they may have the criticisms of Biden, but they don't think for financial impropriety fits into it. But you know, he is

vice president. In December, he flies over on air Force too to Beijing to meet with Chinese officials to talk to them about the South China see trade issues, technology transfer, you name it, on and on the point with him. Uh is his son Hunter Biden. Now, Joe Biden is criticized when he leaves Beijing by a lot of people

in the region for going soft on China. Uh. And what we find is that ten days after they leave Beijing, his son, who was on the trip with him, scores a one billion dollar investment deal with the Chinese governments, not with the Chinese company, but with the Chinese governments.

And what makes his troubling, Buck, is that not only is it the Chinese government giving this large deal to the son of the vice president with whom they're negotiating, but Hunter Biden has absolutely no background in private equity whatsoever. There's no logical explanation at all as to why he got this money other than the Chinese were seeking to pay off the bidens. How is that not criminal? I mean, is there some kind of carve out here that he

was abusing or is this just people don't know about it? Well, it's that people don't know about it. I mean this this was a story that took us about a year to research. You know, we follow the money, and we've got the corporate documents, We've got photographs of Hunter Biden on Chinese language government websites where he's meeting with the Chinese officials discussing these deals. So people don't know about them. Um,

that's the first thing. And the problem is, Buck, We've got disclosure laws in our country, but they don't deal with this kind of corruption. So you know, take Joe Biden when he's vice president, he has to disclose you know, a thousand dollar campaign contribution. If he's got a thousand dollars in g E stock, he needs to disclose that too. But if his son scores a billion dollar deal from

a foreign government, that's not required to be disclosed. So one of the things I call for is we've got to have transparency on the kinds of deals that family members of politicians are engaging in with foreign governments. Don't that doesn't that apply for spouses because I remember when the former governor of Virginia, Bob McDonald, was brought up not on state but federal corruption charges, eventually throw overturned by the Supreme Court, by the way, for everyone listening, um.

And at the time, I said, it looked like they were overreaching. They went after his wife for accepting gifts as though she were a public official guilty of corruption to although she held no office. Yeah. No, that's that's a great point, buck. Look a bribery, If you're charging somebody with bribery, it makes no difference if you're giving it to the politician or if you're giving it to a family member in exchange for something, the losses both

of those as briberies. So just because money or a deal is routed through Hunter Biden instead of going directly to Joe Biden, it does not make it any less bribery. It's you know, proving that in a court of law, you've got to try to show some level of a quid pro quo or a tradeoff that was done. And you know, these politicians are very sophisticated about this. They they they're never are rarely going to explicitly say, you know, you give me this and I'll give you that, but

it's implied and it's noticed. And in the case of Biden, there were actually three major deals that his son did with the Chinese government. Some of those deals involved, uh, the son of or the stepson of John carry in

a close carry aid named Devin Archer. So the Chinese really, i would argue, did an amazingly damaging job of subverting our political leadership between ten when it came to our diplomacy which with China, because they were essentially, you know, funneling money to family members and getting them to go soft on Chinese policy, just as an aside I've been saying for for a while now that it's fastening to watch the media get so angry about all things Russia

and somehow never see any kind of ominous similarities with what the Chinese are doing in terms of buying off people, influenced, influence, purchasing not really influenced, battling all the things that Chinese are up to. But that's an aside. I want to ask you, do you have anything on Russia specifically in the book. Uh, not so much Russia, but Ukraine close enough.

We'll take it. And you know, and I hate to pick on Hunter Biden, but again it's Hunter Biden and this uh carry aid named Devin Archer who become business partners with a guy named Igor Kolimowski who is really the most notorious of Ukrainian oligarchs. And as you know, buck to say that somebody is the most notorious Ukrainian oligarch, that that is quite in accomplating out some competition for sure, exactly, but um, you know, they they strike a deal with him.

We don't know how much money they made, but you can imagine it's quite a bit they're not going to throw their name around and associate with somebody like that. But here's the problem. So they go into business with

Igor Kolamowski. Kolamowski owns Privat Bank in the Ukraine, through which the Obama administration, led by Joe Biden uh sends one point eight billion dollars in I m F money, a billion of which disappears, and a lot of Ukrainians believe that Igor Kolimowski has something to do with that

money disappearing. So you've got this bizarre situation of somebody who allegedly is involved in the disappearance of a billion dollars in taxpayer money, whose business partners with the son of the Vice president and a close associate of the Secretary of State um and and this is just how this business gets done. And and you know it's it's got to be exposed and it's got to be challenged.

We're speaking to Peter Schweitzer. He's the author of the fantastic Clinton Cash, which I have read cover to cover, and also his latest secret Empires, How the American political class hides corruption and enriches family and friends. It is in my hand right now. It is also in my read pile. Uh, Peter, tell me just somebody that's not a Biden, who you or some other uh, some other component of this story you want to share before I've

let you get back to the rest of your book tour. Well, I would say the other example of involving China would be Mitch McConnell to sendate majority leader and his wife Choo Um. You know her. Her family has a long history UM in China, which there's nothing wrong with that, But the problem is is that their businesses is really tied up with the China States ship Building Corporation, which is UH, a Chinese government run company which is also

really the largest military contractor in Beijing. UM and UH that company, that entity has helped make the family very wealthy and and some of that money has flowed to Mitch McConnell. So it's a question again of the Chinese pursuing this policy what I call the princelings strategy. We've heard of the Chinese princelings, which are the children of Communist Party officials that you do business with to curry

favor in Beijing. They are mirroring that they are doing that in the United States and seeking out commercial ties with the family members of American politicians and hoping that it's going to bend or shape our policy in a more favorable direct for themselves. This would all have to be prosecuted by d O J anti corruption, Is that right?

I mean? Who does this? Who could do something about this? Well, you know, the first thing you would want to do is you would want to investigate any communication, any favors or things that might have been offered in these cases. We just don't know. What we've done is followed the paper trail. We know the timing of these transactions, we know the nature of them, we know who they did them with, and that's troubling enough. So it's got to

be investigated. And then if you know, a grand jury or prosecutors believe something could be prosecuted, it would be the Department of Justice that would do it on public corruption charges based on what you know of the law around this issue. Right now, Peter, if if I were a let's say I were the governor of a state, and or now let's have more fun, if I were the president and my wife decided that she were the first lady, who by the way, is very lovely, very talented, uh,

and in this fictional story we're telling. And if she decided she were an artist and she were going to start selling her paintings in the open market, uh, Chinese government, Chinese investors, any number, if they started paying a whole lot of money for them, but they couldn't prove that I did a quid pro quo. Would I be in in uh? In the clear? In terms of corruption? You

probably would. I mean, that's the problem within one of the thing, because you mean, that's what Hillary Clinton's speeches were. By the way, that's just what I'm trying to think of, or Bill Clinton speeches rather when Hillary was secretary of State. That's exactly right. His speaking fees went up threefold the day she became Secretary of State from foreign entities. So you're exactly right. Yes, I mean, look that the challenge in all of this is the way that the laws

are written. Think about this. We have a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act which ensnared JP Morgan because JP Morgan was hiring the children of Communist Party officials in China to get favorable treatment there. They were charged under federal law and paid a three million dollar fine. That's the foreign corrupt practice If a Chinese company does the same thing in the States that has hired the children of American politicians.

That's not against the law. How crazy is that we have laws to prevent American companies, I think rightfully so from doing that in China, but foreign companies and foreign governments can do that in the United States and there's no law against it. So I think we need to change the laws as well. Peter Schweitzer is the author Everybody. His book Secret Empires, How the American Political Class Hides corruption and in richest family and friends is out. I am going to read it. You should too. It's on

Amazon dot com. Peter, thank you so much for your work, and thank you for joining us. Hey, thanks so much for having me Buck, I appreciate it. Good luck with everything with the book. Alright, team, we're gonna run into a quick break here. We actually have another author who's gonna be joining us here for a second. It's it's book Friday, everybody if the party. We're gonna come back and be joined by Kristen Tate in just a few minutes.

She's gonna talk to us about invisible taxes. Get excited, arts. We have Christen Tate with us now. She is a political columnist and author. She writes a weekly opinion column for The Hill, which is a fantastic website you should all check out. She also appears on Fox, CYNN, and MSNBC. She's got a new book, though, which is why we have a joining us right now, How do I tax thee? Let me count the ways? Christain, great to have you, so good to be here, thanks for having me on.

All right, so tell me how dost thou taxes me? Well? Okay, taxation is such a hot political topic right now, right, But when we have these discussions about taxation, we tend to focus on income taxes. But a lot of Americans don't understand is that income taxes make up less than half of our personal tax burden. There are hidden taxes embedded in nearly everything we do, every bill, we pay, every activity, every purchase. So I wrote, how do I

tax be? To expose all of the other ways that various levels of government are siphoning money out of our bank accounts in the city coffers, All right, give us some of the most egregious ones. Well, I think the most offensive are probably the taxes in our cell phone and electric bills. Just because almost everybody needs to have those services, So it's something that affects everybody. In New York City, which is where we live, there's uh taxes

on electric bills. That's a huge amount of money, UH, and the taxes are not being put to good use. For example, in every electric bill, there's something called a nine one one fee. Well would assume that a nine one fee would go towards emergency services, right, Well, that's

what they used to go to. And the fees were created in the ninety nineties and then upgrades to the to the emergency services were completed, but they kept the fees in the electric bills and now they're just funneled into the general fund where the city or state can spend it however they please. So there are lots of these fees that make up twenty percent of our electric bills. Likewise, cell phone bills are about seven percent taxes, And again the taxes are not usually put to good use. They're

usually funneled into general funds. So I would say that those are the most offensive just because they affect everyone. And of course these taxes hurt the poor more than they hurt the rich. But then there are like weird hidden taxes too that may not be as costly, but they're just sort of weird, like, for example, pet license fees. Do you have a dog, buck, My parents do, so

they pay a pet license fee. That's just wrong when you when you when you adopt a dog, you have to pay this thing to the government called a pet license fee, and you kind of assume that the fee goes towards something to help animals, like animal shelters or something, but really it's just the penalty for saving a dog. That's terrible. They're penalizing you for saving a pup. Pup, yes, and every year you have to renew this license. And

you know what's crazy. If you don't renew your pet license fee, in most parts of the country, it's a misdemeanor. So there are real stories of people being arrested for refusing to renew their pet license. I feel like, if I had a pet wallaby, maybe I gotta pay a license just because I'm I'm you know, I'm skating outside the edges a little bit. But but saving a pet puppy to me, that's like what you're story. And I

say puppy just meaning any dog. But I feel like We're always told that, you know, adopt, don't shopping all that stuff. Well, the government's taking a penny out of your pocket whether you adopt or shop. Right, And in most parts of the country, the money from the pet license fee does not go towards helping dogs. It does in some parts of the country, but in most it does not. It is just a sheer penalty for helping adopt the dog. That's it to folks listening right now, Kristin,

and we're speaking to Christin Tate. She's an author. Her latest book is How Do I Tax the which is just out now for people who live and say a state like Texas right where they have no no state income tax, but they've got to pay property taxes they own property. But what is the additional hidden tax bill that you're paying? Have you been able to compile some

sense of what those numbers to be? So if you're somebody who's paying of your income to the government right now, let's just say, do these non income based taxes when you add them together, is it another ten percent fift? Do you give us any sense of that? It's actually far more than that. So the Heartland Institute did a study that showed when you add the ELF taxes to your income tax the average American is paying around fifty percent of their income to the government. Now, of course

that can vary greatly. Some people don't pay income taxes because they get their earned income tax credits. But for the average American, they're paying about half of what they make to the government. And this should really terrify people back because think about it. If the government is profiting more off of your labor than you are, I mean, that's socialism right there. And how do we fix it? Christie, We've all got about thirty seconds or so, but what's

what's the quick version the elevator pitch to fix? Well, my book shows people how to kind of alter their spending habits to avoid some of these hidden taxes, because it is possible to save a little more money with different spending habits. But I also want to stress that most of these taxes are implemented on the state or local level, so it's pretty easy to get rid of them. We just need to be aware that they're there, and

then we can hold our politicians accountable. See everybody that the book pays for itself literally, because you'll learn how to get out of some of these taxes, How do I tax? The is the book? Kristen Tate is the author. Kristen, great to have you hanging out on the Freedom Up. Please come back soon and best of luck with the book. Thank you so much, Buck. I love joining your show. Thank you. Have a great weekend team. We're going to

roll into a break. We'll be right back. He's back with you now, because when it comes to the fight for truth, the fuck never stops. I want to introduce this next clip with a proviso with some prefacing here. I don't know if it is actually from the news cycle. I saw it on a bar Stool Sports feed, so Barstool Sports is obviously about sport. I don't know much about it's about sports. It's like a website and it's making the rounds. It's gone, it's gone viral. And here's

what I know about the clip. And I don't know if it's recent or not. I can't tell you the problems. I do know it was on Good Morning America and Barstool Sports shared this under the headline that that this gentleman is probably it's quite possibly the greatest storyteller of our generation. So I immediately had to to look at this and before we go off the weekends, I wanted to share something special with you. So this falls into that category. The segment is about burglarias and and home

invasions and what you can do during it. And g M A approaches this gentleman and he has a story about about being at home when a burglar comes in, so that that would be a home invasion. And he proceeds with with tremendous flair and and skillful or the skills of a rack con tour to share what it was like when he heard a burglar. Remember this was

on Good Morning America. Yeah, and see that's what the was because I heard him first, I said, hold on, I said, hold up, wait a minute, something ain't right. Because then I started to taste them, I say, and then I started to smell him. So it's like the smell that taste like, so I knew something was wrong. I knew something special about it, you know. So, so what did you do when you heard the intrude him? I ran up stairs. I had to run and I

had to do. What that little girl, what's that little girl? Uh? In the Holocaust? She had Uh she was a hathaway at Frank Frank and Beavan, and Frank I said, hadn't I had to get up the stairs, so he had so much rhythm when he was walking them, says that Doom, Doom Doom. I started the almost beat box up in the closet. Boom boom, boom boom. But I couldn't do it yet because I couldn't die. I got caught to them all. So I'm just a little shook up. That's

all that is. Oh man, that's going viral um. And you know there's there's some He makes some points there about how you know, you you want to make sure that you can take shelter inside your home during droughing a home invasion situation, and you know you want to be you want to be able to hear whatever is going on. And uh, yeah, you know, look, I've been home before. And it's when I've been home before, good story, buck,

I've been home. That's I've got weekend on the brain here, folks. No, but when uh, when I'm upstate with my family, my family has uh my family's house is upstate, or my family is a home upstate. And and I know to those of you who live way upstate, and to our friends in Albany, You're like, Buck, that's not even up Duchess County is not really upstate. It's like a it's like an extended suburb of New York City. It's it's

a hundred miles from New York City. And and I when I'm up there and you hear I hear anything, you know, I hear an owl, and I'm like, oh my gosh, it's a home invasion owl. They train them, you know, I'm really scared. I'm pretty sure Duchess County had I think it was one murder last year. I mean, they actually have a murder rate that is in the point something level, because they don't even average one a year.

And you know, like once a year there's a you know, a domestic dispute where like an elderly couple just finally can't take each other anymore or something, and someone reaches the first shotgun. That's the only homicides that I've ever really known about in in Duchess County. And uh, Meanwhile, in New York City, though, if I'm home, I could hear I mean, in the hallway of my building, I

could hear chainsaws. I could hear people like move, move, move, and I'd just be like, yay, you know, having a party. You know, it's not a big deal. It goes to show you what a difference in And you know, New York is very safe actually, but it's not safe like the countryside is safe. But as as a city slicker, you're out in the country, you hear something, you know, some animal makes a noise, and you're like, eat, god, man,

what is that? Good? Heavens? It definitely gets you. And then I look for like, where's the safest place in the in the house to hide? And you know, people always want to hide. People always want to hide in the closet. And I'm like, there's gotta be a better place, you know, There's gotta be a safe for him somewhere

that you you're all ready to rock. And hopefully I know many of you listening like buck, I don't my entire house is a safe for them, because you are probably well fortified with firearms and and and all the rest of it. Anyway, we're gonna get into some I just wanted to share that viral clip with you, though I have no idea if it's even from this week, this month, or it might have been from a few years ago, but it was quite a story that gentleman told.

And uh, I'm gonna come back in just a couple of minutes here and talk to you about all things roll call, which is really where I just get to voice your thoughts, which is a lot of fun. So stay with me for that. A great way to start the weekend coming up. Well, it's been a long week and I've got a glass of tequila waiting for me somewhere, so let's get right to it with some roll call team Buck, it's time for roll call Google funky beats.

I guess it's not it's more of like old school rock, but some of you complained about the dub step roll call, so off off there it is. We have it. Don't think that we don't have it. Don't think that it can't make an appearance at some point. So I wanted to get into your insights, uh, quips, witty and concisely analysis and all the rest of it here. So first up here we have Buck. That's my name. Gosh, sorry, he's writing too, or he's writing to me and it's

from Mike. I'm an old Saturday podcast listener. Oss squad. Are we watching the making of a sociopath in this hog kid? Um? No, No, I don't. I don't think so. I think we're just seeing somebody who's being elevated well beyond what his experience in life and his knowledge would recommend at this point. And it's it's a shame because you know that there's a part of that that feels well. First of all, you feel sympathy for any of these kids are at the school because they suffered a trauma.

But also you know, maybe he would be a really astute observer of politics and world events. But it does take a little bit of time. I've never met an eighteen year old kid in my life, and I'm like, yeah, I want to get some long lectures on a complex national policy, uh from this guy. It just hasn't happened for me. So I think you've You've got a little bit more, a little more work to do. But thank you Mike for being an OSS and Ted is up

next year. Ted writes, listening to the podcast of yesterday's episode, great show, well Ted, great note, I can't believe in an action movie officionado such as yourself. Oh here it comes you now? John? What they do is they say great show, and then they slip in because I know that I'm gonna I'm gonna read it on air. Then they slip in the but I got I got a bone to pick with you on something anyway, Ted writes, I can't believe an action movie aficionados such as yourself

has never watched Boondocks Saints. It's a great action flick, and I second the recommendation you received yesterday. Give it a watch. You won't be disappointed. Keep up the great work, Shields High. Ted. So, um, yeah, I'm I'm gonna watch and I'm just kidding about slipping slipping in a bone to pick there. But thank you very much, Ted for your kind note. I do appreciate it. Wow. We got a lot of a lot of notes in this week. People are lightening up, which I very much appreciate. Hey, Buck,

Shields High. Question. Um, well, whoops, what I'm I'm missing this one here? Oh she's asking me to pass something to Glenn. Okay, I'll take a look at this, Amy and I'll see if I can pass it to Glenn. Next up, we have Simcha from Israel. I love my team Buck Israel. Folks, we've we've got a robust presence of of Team Buck in Israel. Shield Side from Israel. Your podcasts have been a part of my daily routine since the first time you filled in for Glenn Beck.

I've heard you lament many times the foods that you can eat or cook with due to gluten. I just wanted to make sure you are aware that next week is pass Over and as such, many stores, and especially those a cater to Jewish communities, will be carrying gluten free versions of many products that might normally have some wheat content. Keep an eye out and ask a Jewish person to explain if you've got one handy. Keep doing

what you do so well? Uh, simcha or sam um? Well, thank you very much, Sam, it's I didn't I didn't know that. One problem that I have and and have not been able to figure out is uh, the Eucharist as a Catholic. You know, what do you do? I I cannot eat the you. I know, through transubstantiation it becomes the body and blood of Christ, but I can't

eat it. So that's the thing, and I've actually my uh, there's been some back and forth over it and the Catholic Church in case some of you were unaware, kind of slow to change on things. And so what I'm told is we'll just drink the wine. And I'm not gonna lie to you. I don't really like the idea of drinking from a chalice that all those other folks have been drinking from. So I got a little bit a dromophobia and celiac. So what do I do? I don't know. I gotta figure this one out. I got

I gotta get the Pope on the line. Well, actually got a lot of things, A lot of things I gotta talk to the Pope about. Next up is Steve, He writes, Buck. The more I listen to your program, the more respect I have for you. You bring a calm and rational conversation to the complex and dangerous times in which we live. Keep up the good work, Steve. Thank you very much for the kind note. I appreciate it. Um we have Uh, Well, my man Gentry is back. He was. He says that he's honored that his post

got to end the show. He agrees that comedy is subjective. What is hilarious to one might be offensive to another. Enus the true e full about this entire situation. Also, no Boondocks Saints really Shields High. Keep up the fantastic work, Gentry. And you know where is it, Gentry? It could be a hard g there. I should ask my friend Gentry. He can tell me which one. In the next message he sends Boondoc Saints. All right. You know what, guys, I've got enough messages about it at this point that

I it's it's gonna happen. I gotta find a time when Miss Molly is going to be gone from the house. She's not gonna like it, so I gotta find a time when uh, she's out and then I can watch it. So I'm gonna work on it. But yes, it is on the list. It will get watched. Amanda Rights Falling Buck. I love your show. Well, thank you, Amanda. I love your message. It's great to hear your perspective on politics and movies. I love your impression of Hillary Clinton. It

always makes me laugh. I wanted to write you because I listen to your episode mentioning the Maryland shooting and the Florida shooting. I'm currently teaching in a middle school. It's an adventure every day. I'm extremely put off by the fact no one is mentioning that the kid on kid and teacher a kid on teacher violence in school. I don't believe guns of the problem. I think parents

and children are the problem. Parents are investing values and morals in their children, they are leaving it to teachers and schools. I love my students, but it's not fair for me to be cussed out, punched, kicked, bit slapped or yelled at in class because I tell a kid to sit down or turn in their homework. People complain about school safety, but I asked my students how they're contributing to making a school safe with their behavior. Um Family values need to make a comeback in a big way.

Disrespecting teachers and faculty is not okay for students or parents. Thanks for keeping us informed and allowing us to share with you. Well man, thank you for your perspective. It's a very important issue. I had a number of friends who of including a a former uh well, an ex girlfriend. Sounds like you know something bad, but she was somebody that I dated in college and she's now married with several children, very very happy, and I wish her all

the best. But she went into a Teach for America program right out of school, and I remember talking to her later on about some of the stuff that she was subjected to and saw, and yeah, some of the kids get violent with the teachers, which you rarely hear about, and puts the teacher in a very difficult situation. A

whole bunch of ways. Right for the female teacher, it maybe that a sixteen or seventeen year old male or even a twelve or thirteen year old male student might be a physical, real physical threats who or even without a weapon. And for a male teacher, you know, you think, okay, well I'll just handle it. But you know, the kid punches you, or you know, throws a punch at you, and you defend yourself. You your teaching career is going

to be pretty pretty sure. Probably. I wouldn't count on the the school board to have your back on that necessarily. So yeah, we'll have to see. But thank you man If for that perspective. Um let's see who else we've got over here to him? Rites? Why is Trump not reinstated? The Ronald Fireside chats Adam, You're just gonna have to ask the Trumpster himself about this one. I do not know. Um, I think Fireside, I mean, first of all, fireside chats

with Trump would be a viral sensation. It would be incredible, Like can you imagine him sitting there with a glass of Scotch just talking about whatever to America? It would be destination viewing. Hey, it would be incredible. I mean, the whole idea would be no script, no nothing. He's like, let's just talk about what happened this week. He could sit there in a robe, like a Hugh Hefner esque robe. That's right. John points out he doesn't drink, so he

would have a glass of martin Elli's. That's what we always us to drink it Thanksgiving for the kids, you know, the adults got to have booze and we always got to crack open the Martin Ellis. I will say that stuff was delicious. The sparkling cider. Sparkling cider is incredible. It's got a lot of sugar, though, folks, a lot of sugar. Yeah. I know, I'm not wet blanket over here. It's got all this is like when I discover I'm like, oh, you know what's right. I can drink hard cider instead

of beer. Yeah, except hard cider, Like a big thing of hard cider. It's like two hundred and fifty calories, Like you might as well just have a you know, a chocolate doughnut or something. So yeah, um, hard cider has not been a big part of my of my social diet. Uh Pecesni alright, Pachesny cool name, Hey, love the show I listened to everyday work Shields High. Alright, Patchesney. I love that you love the show and listen to work, So thank you and shields high to you. She the

short the short notes are easy. Uh, what else do we have here? Up? Up, I'm gonna have to I'm realizing now I've got a kind of shut this thing down unfortunately for for the day, for the weekend. Everybody's working for in a weekend from the freedom Hut. See, that's what we should do, John, Instead of having actual library music we can play here over the airwaves because of rights and everything else. We should just have me record everything one man band. You know, I'll bust out

a recorder. I don't mean a recorder for my voice so we can tape it. I mean when I was like too too, too too, you know those little things that kids play. I'm amazing at the recorder I'm not even I'm not even kid. Right now, you think I'm crazy, I'm telling you the truth. I am not quite a recorder prodigy, but not far away from it. And if you give me a uh any, any sort of recorder like instrument, you know, from the Middle East or elsewhere,

I can make all kinds of noises with it. So there's that, all right, With that little tidbit, have a fantastic weekend, everybody. Thank you so much for joining me here in the Freedom Hunt every day. It is an honor and a privilege. I really do mean it. Tell a friend about the show, make sure you subscribe to the podcast even if you're alive listener, and until next time, have a great weekend. Shields High,