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It's one of the reasons why I'm days off. I try to talk less. I just look at people and nodded my head. M that's great. We got a lot to get you today. NATO, NATO North Atlantic Treaty organization been around for quite some time trying to counter the Soviets. You got Trump sitting down with Emmanuel Macron, who I will say, does remind me. I mean, you could cast him as this snooty French waiter in any movie or TV show. I brought you this ketchup because you're American

and you put ketchip on everything. You know what I mean? You could do that and it would it would work perfectly. Well, you know, it doesn't really smile, doesn't really exude a lot of warmth, but certainly exudes a lot of frenchness, a lot of French coming from this guy. But they're sitting there having a discussion about NATO. And here's what the media wants you to believe. Let's start with that.

If you're just a casual observer of news channels and newspapers, with of course the few exceptions that have not made anti Trump is their business model. But if you happen to take a look casually and just see what's going on with NATO, you will read things and see things about how Trump is terrible for NATO, He's been a great threat. In fact, there was a CNN analysis this morning. You can't make this stuff up. CNN analysis where he said or where it was said, that Trump is the

biggest threat to NATO. And so there's some irony in the fact that he is holding a meeting with different NATO leaders, including an Emmanuel Macron of France. This is is very stupid. This is aggressively stupid, as I was fond of saying in the past, because first of all, if anyone thinks that it's a greater threat than Putin, I would really need them to explain that. I also think that the threat that Putin poses to us as a general matter is being exaggerated. I know that I've

been telling you for years now. The media, the Democrats are completely willing to skip past the real concern that China poses to US as a near peer competitor, a country that at some point is going to try to flex its muscles and say, sorry, America, you're not the hegemon anymore. You don't get to make that call. Russia is a fraction of the Chinese economy and a fraction of the Chinese population. Let's be serious for a moment. Anybody who tells you that Russia has a bigger threat

than China doesn't know what they're talking about or is lying. Well, let's get back to NATO for a moment, shall we You have the discussion over ISIS fighters that got the most attention this morning from the Macron Trump meeting. Please produce a Brandon Plick Club twelve for me, the very first subjective in the regions is to finish war against ices and and don't don't make any mistake. Your number

one problem are not the firm fighters. This is the II fighters in the regions, and you have more and more in fighters due to the situation today. This is why he's a great politician because that was one of the greatest non answers I've ever preferred. And that's okay because sometimes if you can have some fundation from the DPUs side. I don't say about freas in Fern, but could be the press to say this is the European responsibility.

I'm sorry to say that we have some of our people, but if you don't think at the reality of the situations that no one not to be ambiguous with these brooks. This is why we thought that to discuss about our relations were still key. But I think any ambiguiki was Stilkey these books he's victim on to to everybody for

the situation. France has actually taken back some fighters. So we have a lot of fighters, We captured a lot of people, and we have captured one hundred percent of the caliphate that you know that that means that it's still going and going. We set a small contingent in and we wiped out another portion of ices. We don't want to happen to me what happened with President Obama where it reformed and then it became stronger than it was in the first place. So we don't want that

to happen. So this is the primary exchange that everyone was focusing on between these two or leaders today. One thing you see here is that the French, and this is true of really all of our European partners, with the possible exception of the Bridge, who do punch pretty close to if not at their weight, on these matters. We can count on the Brits in a way that we really can't count on other European states, count on the Aussies kind of the Canadians, but the French not

so much. The European states mine is Britain tend to want to have a much bigger say, but much less responsibility in all of these matters. And that's why Trump was poking Makran a bit here with the cameras rolling, knowing that this would perhaps get under the French leader's skin a little bit. America is somehow responsible for whatever outcome happens now in Syria. This is what you've been led to believe. Meanwhile, we are supposed to be one of many countries to have partnered up to deal with

the mess that is Syria. And all these people who say, oh, we should just stay there and stabilize, stabilize until what, until there's a challenger regime even place to Assad, because that's going to be a pretty picture that's going to work out really well. Or just stay indefinitely until Assad decides, Hey, I want that piece of the country back because I'm the leader, even if you want to pretend I'm not.

That doesn't look like it ends well for us. The people that think that we should just stay in Syria haven't really thought this through very much. They now point to continuing operations against ISIS as somehow proof that we should just stay forever. And I look at this and say, no, we should be trying to remove our troops so that they don't stay forever. And if we're in the last phases of isis mop up, then so be it. There's also always risk attended to any of these moves and maneuvers.

But what do the French really bring to the table here? What do they do that is helpful in this process? Well, sure they're a part of this coalition, and I'm sure they would point to different ways that they have tried to contribute. But we all know that somehow once again, and America is in the leadership role. Oh you mean that even under President Trump, America is in a leadership role. America is calling the shots, has the greatest degree of responsibility. Really,

I thought that Trump abdicated it. I thought Trump was destroying NATO. Wait you mean Trump got over one hundred billion dollars of additional funding from NATO members for their own defense. Remember, we are trying to prevent Russian aggression. We also asked the question, it should be asked much more frequently, what else should NATO will be doing? You know what, NATO's only mission in recent memory really has been Afghanistan. What is NATO doing in Afghanistan. We got

a lot of allies. We got this fancy NATO thing. I guess we better use it. How has Afghanistan worked out with this multi country coalition meant to stabilize it? How many of you listening right now either served yourselves or have friends, family members, loved ones who have served in Afghanistan to come back and say, that's not going to be whatever the policymakers think it's going to be. A being to bed. Almost all of them, probably all

of them. Anybody who served in a front line unit there knows there's not going to be some stable democracy. We're not gonna be able to point to this thing and say, yes, another NATO success. But even to ask these questions is treated as being Putin's puppet. This is what they say, Oh, you're putting out Russian propaganda. Do

they realize or do they care? To the leftists who hate Trump and the media acolytes of the Democratic Party pretending to be nonpartisan, do they care that making Russia into America's Enemy number one hurts us in a number of ways. It hurts us with regard to fighting against Islamic radicalism, where Russia is in fact an ally it hurts us with trying to get the Russians to play nicer and with more diplomacy on the European states on their periphery. We have a lot in common with Russia

in certain areas. In others we don't. They view us as oppositional. The Russian mentality is very much that they are. They view themselves as surrounded. We view Russia as vast eleven time zones. It's huge. They think of themselves though its surrounded by hostile states. They have to look on their periphery and see NATO to the west, see China and Japan to the east and southeast, and then even India pushing up from their south. From the underbelly, Russia

doesn't view itself as in some strategically sound position. Russia views itself as a victim of geopolitical circumstances, and in the post Soviet era even more so. Now I'm not saying they're correct or that's right, that's helpful, but we should at least understand what the mentality is and try to work within that reality. Does anyone really want to go to war with Russia? Better question, would anyone in the Democrat press right now, which is really just the press.

They want to send their children to go fight on the front lines of Estonia if there was a Russian incident involving Maskarovka. I'm not talking about all the tanks Roland and I'm saying some separatist movement where they all happen to speak Russian and some of you know there are, in fact many people in the Baltic States for whom Russian is their first language, their whole communities. There would not be that hard for this to happen. Are we

going to get involved in that fight? Now? You can say, yes, you can take that position, but we should at least people to have that discussion without the idiots in the media. And I've realized now the media really is full of people who have decided that it's not worthwhile to do

anything useful. It's much better for them to just try to be in the cool kid club all the time, to do whatever they have to do to impress the corporate executives who can sign over paychecks that are far bigger than what they would deserve if they weren't working for legacy media outlets. They don't care how stupid they look on these issues and how much. They push us with their belligerence in the reporting, closer and closer to

an actual conflict with Russia, which would be horrific. By the way, and I remember it's President Trump who blew up a couple of hundred Russian paramilitaries in the Syrian desert in order to protect our Kurdish allies, I might add, and Russia let that one go. We don't want to keep having close calls with the Russian state. To say that we should aim for better relations with Russia is so obvious that it shouldn't have to be said. But in our current environment, you hear the narrative Trump is

destroying NATO, Trump is Putin's puppet. Anything that deviates from that. Any facts you can present that don't go along with that narrative makes you a bad person. You're an idiot. You don't know anything. That's what the media will tell you. But hold on a second. What bad thing has happened to NATO? Well, name one bad thing that has happened to NATO because of Trump since he became the president.

If you NATO bureaus. A few European institutionalist types decided that it was he was a little gruff when he was asking for more money. Okay, guess what states paid up more money and they said they would That was the agreement that we had. NATO is nothing other than an agreement. In fact, so in some states can say yeah, we'll do this and then they don't do it. Doesn't that undermine the very core of what holds it all together. But there's never any discussion about any of this, That's honest.

It's just everything is about bashing Trump. Nothing can be separate from bashing Trump. These people. This is the totalitarian mindset. And you go back, you see the way it was in the Soviet Union. If you were in any way opposing the Soviet state, you were a counter revolutionary and therefore you were to be nullified, you were to be destroyed. For the media right now, they have a Soviet mentality

about Trump, especially because we're in this reelection cycle. Now you're either trying to destroy President Trump or you're evil. You're part of the problem. Every issue, every news story, doesn't matter what it is, even when we're talking about things like conflict possibly between nuclear armed states. They're reckless about this stuff. Putin's puppet, oh Russia, more sanctions on Russia, more tough talk against Russia. Really, how far do we

really want to push that? Obama didn't push really much at all. By the way, he got real tough with Russia at the end of his presidency. We wouldn't have to deal with it, didn't want to send those javelin missiles, did the whole expulsion of Russian diplomats and added sanctions after he was going to be out of office, and

wasn't his problem anymore. Really easy to be tough them when you don't have to be the one that looks into the eyes of parents who have lost their child because of the stupidity of much older and allegedly wiser elected officials who think they know what they're doing. But really it's all about them in this whole process. It's not about NATO. It's about defeating Trump. There people who

want power. The narrative of NATO that you are being told every day has been completely misconstrued, distorted, and perverted as a club yet again against the presidents of the United States, and it is not based in reality. Just remember that as you see all of this playing out, Well, I haven't asked that to the president today. I have over the period time. We have a tremendous amount of

captured fighters. ISIS fighters over Interia, and they're Roland, the Latin Key, but many of from France, many of from Germany, and many are from UK. They're mostly from Europe, and some of the countries are agreeing. I have not spoken to the president about that. Would you like some nice ISIS fighters, I can give them. You can take everyone you want. The very large number of fighters you have under Rome to fight us me from from your in

the region. This is true that you have foreign fighters coming from Europe, but this is a tiny minoritia of the whole problem we have in the region. And I think number one priority because it's not yet finished. It's a graduate of IIS and it's always corps. This is our number one pio and it's not yet Dune. I'm

sorry to think that. Yes, you see that fighters in this region, in Syria and now in Iraq and more and more, and the whole the setidization of the region makes the situation more difficult to fix, the situation against ISIS. So who's going to be responsible for all those fighters we have on the ground. You have all these people that say that they know what to do in Syria, they know what the end game is really Your thousands and thousands of prisoners, what happens to them? They've all

been radicalized one way or another. Maybe some of them now would claim that they've turned on the Islamic state because it has crumbled. But anyone who would fight for a jihadest army that engages in mass torture, enslavement, rape, mutilation and murder, it's not somebody you're going to want

to let go anytime soon. Who takes all the Isis fighters. Well, isn't it nice to have a president who looks at some of the world leaders who are our allies, places like France, and I do love France and the French people, by the way, as much as I love will make fun of zam Brandon. They're also it's a beautiful culture with great food. That all said, sometimes a little bit

of tough love is necessary in diplomacy. Sometimes pushing our allies a little bit to do things they don't necessarily want to do means that we have to do less. And therefore, oh, that's right. It's America first, isn't it. Our interests should be pursued. That doesn't mean at the exclusion of being helpful and keeping our word to our allies. But it does mean that there's a whole other way to approach these issues. You get more funding out of

NATO members. Maybe you also get some NATO members like France to back anybody who's a French citizen who's an ISIS fighter. How about that for a crazy idea. I think it's very unpatriotic of the Democrats to put on a performance where they do that. I do. I think it's a bad thing for our country. Impeachment wasn't supposed to be used that way. All you have to do is read the transcripts. You see there was absolutely nothing

done wrong. They had legal scholars looking at the transcripts the other day and they say these are absolutely perfect. Trump is right when he uses those concepts. Those calls that we've made, two of them were absolutely perfect calls. And I think it's a very bad thing for our country. Does it cast in cloud Well, if it does, then the Democrats have done a very great disservice to the country, which they have. The Democrats have done a disservice to

the country, but they're not stopping. They don't care about the disservice they are doing, and so we have to now sit through this Judiciary Committee nonsense on Wednesday, another kabuki theater attack Trump extravaganza. We have our friend Raheim Kassam joining us now. He is the co host of the podcast called War Rum, which is on impeachment and related political matters. You can check that out on iTunes. Raheim, Great to have you back, sir, Hey, thanks for having me. Buck.

All right, so let's before we get into your expectations. And I know you're you're doing your show with Miller and with Bannon, so you guys are neck deep in this impeachment thing all the time. But before we get to what your expectations are for Wednesday, how do you assess what's happened so far? Is this? Have Democrats just been stumbling left and right? Or do we not really know what their strategy is? I don't think they quite

know what their strategy is. Buck, They went into this whole process, they were effectively sold a bit of a fantasy by this so called whistleblower. The fantasy didn't turn out to be reality. We heard from the whistleblower very early on in this process that they were things on the phone call between President Trump and President Lensky, which when the transcript was published, they weren't in there. Okay, So the Democrats then had to pivot and they said, well,

we're going to bring all these witnesses in. We're gonna bring people who were familiar with the president's thinking. We're going to bring people who were familiar with the call, who were on the call themselves. Let them elaborate on this. And then they brought all of these witnesses in, first in Adam Schiff's star chamber in the secretive basement Skiff for the Capitol Building. Then Matt Gates goes in and says, you can't do this privately. You have to do this publicly.

This is you're talking about attacking a democratically elected president. Do it in public. So then they had to pivot again start doing it in public and in public despite all the remonstrations of CNN and The New York Times. Actually none of the witnesses corroborated what the whistleblowers original statement was, and none of the witnesses actually set out anything that was illegal, that was unconstitutional, that was an abuse of the president's power, And so now the Democrats

are having to pivot again. This week, we're hearing that Nancy Pelosi is quietly attempting to build a new impeachment case around things other than Ukraine, going back to the Muller report, going back to the Russia collusion hoax, and of course Jerry Nadlow, who got ripped up by by

Cory Lewandowski in an earlier hearing earlier this year. You know, you've seen how this Chairman of the Judiciary Committee crumbles under pressure also, And I happen to believe therefore that after Wednesday, the Democrats are again going to have to pivot, and I think they may even be looking at removing withdrawing themselves from the impeachment staff and moving just onto a censure vote against President Trump and leaving it at that,

because this is really harming them. It's harming them in their thirty one swing districts they have to win next year.

It's harming their presidential candidates in their primary, and it's really taking a toll on Nancy Pelosi and how the base used Nancy Pelosi because she was seeming to be pulling the line or towing the line, or Rashida Talab but Alexander Cassio Cortez and the rest of the squad, and it makes her look not a leader of her party, but a follower of the far left elements that doesn't think they know what their strategy. Now. I know your

podcast is war room. Let's war game. If we can for a moment here this major decision that you got into. You alluded to briefly about the possibility of Democrats just doing a censure vote. Wouldn't that then be viewed? And by the way, I'm always I'm always somebody who says nobody can predict the future. I'm I would put my certainty that they will impeach at high but who knows. And as you're pointing out, this thing is not going there's no way that Nancy Pelosi thought that this would

be where it is right now. And I think that that much is clear. If they do a censure vote, only, isn't that then going into a reelection cycle essentially an admission that this was all just political nonsense and that they didn't have the goods on them though, you know, how do you view that component of it? I mean, at least if they go to the mat Raheem Pelosi

can say we impeached, we did what we can. Yes, she could say that, but then remember the public will be able to see and view and read everything that comes out in the Senate trial. There will be cross examination and cross cross examination. There will be representations at the very highest level on all of that. So she might even want to avoid that process if she goes for a censure and overseeing the impeachment process through. At least she can say, well, look, we got a lot

of very serious information of very serious players. All these are elected bureaucrats who are great patriots and everything that she wants to say about them, and we had to We were obligated to take them at their word and have this process out. But it turned out that the evidence was not an impeachable offense, although it was an

offense that the president should be censured over. And we take our constitutional you know, we take our constitutional obligations very seriously, and therefore that's why we're not pursuing this. But if you want a president who's not going to be censured for doing things on the international stage that they shouldn't be doing, then you vote for one of our guys next time. So at six of one and

half a dozen of the other. As far as Nancy Pelosi's concerned, but she is probably more concerned about more than actually losing face over the impeachment process, is actually losing power over her own party. So she's trying to weigh and measure right now, is there the appetite for a full blown impeachment trial out there? Are these thirty one Democrats in the swing district's going to side with her? Or are they going to actually vote a different way?

Are they going to distance themselves from party leadership, a House leadership over this or can she do something that pleases all sides which might be a censure vote? What would be the game changer from the Democrat side? Do you think that would be a realistic possibility on this Wednesday hearing men, I saw the list of some of the witnesses Raheem. It's as though they're trying to put the American people to sleep. It's a constitutional law professors.

That doesn't seem to me like it's going to move the needle. What could move the needle from Pula? You know, what is Nadler going to try to do or is you just going to repeat everything we've already heard and

hope that the repetition itself becomes the argument. Well, so, one of the things we're doing, or I'm doing as part of my role in the War Room podcast, is going through every single document, and yesterday you had the Republican Minority report releases one hundred and twenty three pages, and going through all of that, you can see why Republican Council Steve Caster wasn't playing up to the cameras in those public hearings over the last couple of weeks.

He was actually producing an evidentiary case because guess what, when it goes to a Senate trial, there needs to be an evidentiary record of what happened with Ukraine. There needs to be an evidentiary record of what happened with all these phone calls and text messages and WhatsApp, etc. Etc.

It's one thing, which is what the Democrat Council was doing to try and pump up headlines and get CNN to run funky Chiron's about you know what this witness says is an impeachable offense or what this witness implies happened between ambassadors on London David Holmes on a terrace at a restaurant in Ukraine after a bottle of wine. You know, that's one thing, But the other thing is

producing the evidentiary record. So now what they're doing in the Judiciary Committee is they are trying to backpeddle it away from the media. Gramming headlines, putting up constitutional law professors lends more towards producing an evidentiary record, or at least producing evidence to show that the press that has somehow overstepped his constitutional role. That's why they're getting all

boring with this. They know they're losing the fight as it pertains to the granularity and the detail of this impeachment process. I think the big game changer is going to be this. Look, if the Republicans manage to show and to have any doubt cast from any of these witnesses that say, look, maybe you disagree with the president's foreign policy and the way he went about the foreign policy, but do you see any evidence of wrongdoing, then that will be a second hit. But they did it the

last time with all these other witnesses. Remember, none of them were able to say, at the end of the day, this was a directly appeachable offense. They just said, Oh, I didn't quite like it. It didn't really fit with my worldview. If they managed to get this out of the next set of witnesses, that's two strikes. Nancy Pelosi will then have a third attempt at bat to do something different. It might be a censure vote, it might be pursuing a full trial, but then you know she's out.

Ran Casam everybody. He is a co host of the war Room podcast with Jason Miller and Steve Van and they are diving deep into this every day. Right here before we let you go real quick, I just wondering Brexit. What's going on because it's been getting some headlines here and there, and then it kind of faded because the media is so obsessed with anti Trump is and where does it stand right now? Yeah, probably faded because we have a general election in the UK now coming up

on December the twelfth. This is an election that's been

called because there is a deadlock in Parliament. They can't get things going either way, and so it looks like Boris Johnson is going to be elected with a big parliamentary majority, an eighty class seat parliamentary majority, and therefore, by January the thirty first, he will be able to take Britain out of the European Union, not perhaps in the greatest way that some of us hardline Brixiteers like myself and Nigel Barrage would have liked, but it still

will be a leave by January the thirty first, and I'm optimistic about that. Less optimistic about pro amnesty liberal Boris Johnson being Prime Minister for the next five years, but we'll cross that bridge when we come to it. Well, it looks like Brexit might actually be happening. Isn't that kind of amazing because the elite media seems to have thought that they'd be able to just change this by

telling us that it's so bad. Nothing more powerful than the will of the people, rightim Cassam, Everybody War Room is the podcast. It's on iTunes. Check it out. Rheim, thanks so much, my friend, Thank you. We rolled back the Obama administrations cuddling up to Cuba by applying heavy new sanctions. We've recognized that engagement has not improved Cuba's regime and hasn't made it better. The human rights record

was worse. The risk to the Cuban people was worse than the risk of the United States was worse and their capacity to influence Venezuela even greater. So we've changed that. We've allowed Americans to seek justice by suing the regime in Havana to recover property that it stole a long time ago. It only makes sense when Americans had their stuff stolen, to give them a chance to get it back.

And we've applauded countries that have expelled Cubans who have come to live as doctors inside of their borders, who were really working on behalf of the government. These doctors. This is a program that's hard to fathom. Sometimes they send doctors to countries all around the world. They traffic to generate income for the Cuban leadership. So the doctors received ten or twenty percent of the revenue that they generate, and the rist to fund the Cuban regime, posing up

to dictators. Right, That's what you always hear about Trump from the mainstream media. And yet when you look back at the record of the president that was elevated by the media as some kind of god king Barack Obama, turns out that he had quite a fondness in action as a matter of policy, for dictators and regimes that do not deserve anything in terms of concessions from America. You see, this is where they always blur the lines.

You look at what's going on with North Korea. President Trump has tried to so far unsuccessfully and let's be honest, but has tried to create the basic interpersonal framework for some kind of a grand bargain with North Korea. Have any of the sanctions been lifted in North Korea? No, In fact, the sanctions are stronger than they've ever been. Has there been any concession made to North Korea? As

a matter of policy? Do we not still board their ships on the high seas and make sure that they're not engaged in illegal trade, particularly contraband black market trade for missiles and other aspects of the arms trade. Make sure they're not selling anything in violation of the crippling sanctions on the country. Don't we still do all of that? All Trump has done has said or spoken about Kim John Gunn said some weird things, no question, but spoken

about him and spoken to him. With Iran, the Obama administration came along and said, hey, so you don't have to do anything that's really difficult for you, and we're going to give you. We're actually going to deliver to you huge palettes of US cash which you can then fund your terror regime with. And we're going to make sure that neither the Israelis nor anybody else would be able to make a strike on your nuclear facilities because

you'll be under the ages. You'll be under the protection of this international deal that the Obama administration with European countries that have a long legacy of failure in the Middle East, thought was a good idea. That's giving stuff for nothing in return. We got nothing in return from Iran. They have centerfuges that they could turn on, they could turn them off. That doesn't that's not enough, that's not

a concession. With Cuba, you're the same situation. The Obama administration has decided we've been mean enough to Cuba for long enough. There's really no reason for us to take the approach that we have to do anything about Cuba anymore, or we should do a lot less. Let's be buddy buddy with Cuba, with Castro's dictatorship, which continues, by the way,

to be an enormous thorn in our side. Not just and when it comes to Cuban specific policy, but also with countries like Venezuela, wherever the worst elements, the worst political elements are operating, you know, the Marxist, communist, socialist revolutionary types in the Western Hemisphere and here in North and South America or anywhere for that matter, you can

often find the hand of the Cuban regime. They are running a totalitarian prison camp on that island, and they love to export that anywhere else they can, and they also like to leverage relationships with other brutal dictatorial types in order to stay in power themselves, Venezuela being a very good example of that. Despite the Jack Ryan movie where their hero at Venezuela is the female social justice warrior, yeah that's really the and the bad guys are those

right wing military types. Yeah they're the scary tale. Or maybe the bad guy's social justice warrior Namaduro, who has destroyed that country, been responsible for unimaginable deprivation and misery and despair. But Cuba is a bad regime. Didn't get any better despite the concessions the extended hand from the Obama administration, because ultimately there's just an ideological affinity for

Cuba that comes from a left in this country. In America, we have a lot of people who are Democrats, but they're really socialists, and they see socialists trying so hard to bring about that utopian society on the island of Cuba, and yeah, they can admit that it hasn't gone according to plan, but they still harbor this fondness for them.

Socialists tend to like other socialists. Is the really straightforward way to look at this, and that's what we're dealing with, what we were dealing with with the Obama administration in Cuba. Secretary of State Pompeo seems to be setting it right now. You won't see much of the media covering this, though, will you, because it would be yet another Obama administration foreign policy failure that has to be set right by

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that actually fits your life. We are on the final countdown for the Inspector General report from the FBI d OJ on possible FIZA abuse fies of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act meant to catch spies and terrorists and somehow deployed against Carter Page, who you could say is among the most unlikely assets of a foreign government you could find anywhere. Carter Page, who was a cooperative witness and just an all around helpful guy to the FBI to

nail some other Russians before. So, if you were already on the FBI's radar and you've had to help them in another case involving possible intelligence activities of a foreign government against the United States, you're going to try to get the Russians to meddle in a presidential election, get to coordinate with a presidential campaign. This is something that

only delusional or stupid people could believe. And yet, guess what, when that Inspector General report comes out next week, there will be a whole lot of people who are claiming that it exonerates the FBI, that it means nothing was done wrong, even though carter Page had a FISA collection done on him, which to any normal, any sane person,

is obviously absurd. I will still never forget when carter Page sat next to me, and which is before I interviewed him the first time, and he told me that he met my dad at an event in New York City of all things, and my dad was like, who but carter Page. It turned out he actually did meet him briefly. They shook heads or something, but it was quite a quite an interesting broment. What a small world we live in. Carter Page is not a Russian spy.

In fact, there was never even an allegation of any criminal They couldn't even concoct a theory of criminal wrongdoing against Carter Page. And yet a US citizen had all of his communications, cell phone records, emails, text messages, all of that just grabbed by the federal government because a few FBI agents were hysterical around this conspiracy theory that was really coming from the Hillary Clinton campaign. That's let me skip to the end of the story for all

of you. What we will find out and I think we'll find out from the Durham report. I'm not sure if it'll be before after the twenty twenty election though. Remember this is Inspector General Horowitz at the DJFBI. What we will find out from the attorney US Attorney Durham, who is a lawyer's lawyer or prosecutor's prosecutor according to both sides of the aisle up to this point, well you'll find out from eventually is that the Hillary Clinton

campaign got this whole thing start. That there's whole Russia, Russia, Russia. It really had its origins in the Hillary Clinton campaign.

That this was a Hillary info up against Trump, and that because people are such wild eyed left wing partisans, because Democrats have become such petty totalitarians, they seized on this and then abused their power in whatever ways they could, either in the press or in the government, to run with this theory, to pursue this theory, to really almost overturn the results of an election based on this theory, and it came from the Clinton camp very early on.

That is my prediction to you as to where all of us is heading, although it'll be some time before

we get there. What are we going to find out about the Inspector General report, Well, let's just remember a few things before we before we do our pregame analysis here of everything, let's remember that the Inspector General in this case, Horowitz, was an Obama appointee who oversaw a five hundred plus page report on Hillary Clinton's emails that was absolutely full of political bias, and Horowitz concluded, as if by magic, that all of that bias in no

way affected the decisions that the Department of Justice made about Hillary Clinton's emails. I am here to tell you, and you won't want to hear this. Probably I'm here to tell you that you should get ready for round two of this. What you will likely see in this Inspector General report is a whole lot of dubious decision making.

Just like with the press, right, the press gets stories wrong, but the stories they get wrong are overwhelmingly are overwhelmingly I would even argue entirely when it pertains to Trump

anti Trump. It's always anti Trump stories. You will see that the mistakes that the decision making at the FBI, and you know fbis within DJ but I'll use these go back and forth over these that the decisions made in the Department of Justice about this FISA warrant and this baseline theory that the Trump campaign was somehow colluding with Russia, the decisions made through all of that. The truth is, my friends, that they were all somehow negative.

The bad decisions were negative for Trump. Doesn't mean it was illegal. But you know, the tie goes to the runner, Well, the tie goes to the anti Trump deep state here every time, that's what's going to happen. So you'll see this pattern of yeah, we gotta get this fizy, Yeah, we gotta, we gotta do whatever we gotta do. We gotta stack it with the dossier. No one verifies anything, Doscia. It turns out the dossier is all crap and it's

a Hillary Clinton opposition document. You're gonna include that. Oh, but you know, the excuse there is that the FBI agents involved were lazy and stupid enough to believe the dossier. Okay, they're not bad people, they're just dumb and lazy. That's going to be the excuse implicit in what comes out on this report. That's what they're going to fall back on. The bureaucracy, you see, is not tainted. It's just inept. It's just not very good at what it's supposed to do.

But that they can live with. You know, that's cost of doing business. Isn't that interesting? There is one wild card in this scenario, though, you see. They know that they can count on Horowitz to be an institutionalist, to be somebody who wants to defend the edifice of the Department of Justice. It's so easy to convince yourself if

you work in these government agencies. I work for the CIA, man, I know, it's so easy to say, well, even if we colored a little bit outside the lines here, even if this looks a little shady and shakes the faith of the American people that these bureaucrats who are empowered for very specific ends do in fact abuse those ends

for partisan reasons. We still really need these places. We really need the Department of Justice, we need the FBI, we need all these different seventeen members of the intelligence community. And because we need them, if we have to give them more than the benefit of the doubt, if we have to look the other way, yet, what are reasonable rational person would understand as malfeasance, Well then that's just

the price of protecting these institutions. I noticed this is different than even somebody inside the bureaucracy who is left wing, who is ideologically willing to you know, the Lauretta Lynch approach. Yeah, I'm gonna meet with Bill Clinton on the tarmac, pretend it was a non secuit or conversation. Who cares all an accident. You know, I don't know what was said there,

but she didn't want anyone else to know either. There are ideologues inside the bureaucracy, people that clearly take the power that they have to try to help Team Democrat, help the left, help the socialists inside this country. Because they are the party of the state. But then you just have people who are not necessarily and I don't know enough about Horowitz to make the determination as to which one of these camps he falls into, although he'll

be in one of them. And we know this because of the Hillary email report was a giant a monument to political bias. Political bias everywhere, that's clear. But did that bias affect the decision making? This would be like somebody saying to you, Hey, you know this federal judge is presiding over this case. He's on tape the week before he started presiding over the trial saying that the

defendant is a moron, an idiot. Smells bad, terrible. But even though all of the judgments during the case made by the judge went against this defendant, we have no clear evidence that the bias that the judge established beforehand influenced any of those decisions. That is exactly what the DJ did with Hillary's emails. Now you would probably say, I mean, back hold on, a second federal judge would

have to recuse himself. Oh, you mean like Lauretta Lynch recused herself, by the way, as the attorney general from the Hillary Oh no, she never recused herself from that. Did she remember how the Democrats play the game? Remember how we play. We have all these Republicans who are these little suck ups in the classroom who run around, Oh, I never play rough. Oh well, the teacher give me a pat on the head. You know, they're tending to be never trumpers, and this is what they do. They

run around. Oh, how could we be so so harsh with the other side while the other side of just pounding our faces into the pavement all the time. That's how the left plays the game, and we walk around, Oh, we have people on our side. Why are we being so Why does Trump say the mean things about the Democrats. I'm glad somebody does. It's about time. But they don't recuse themselves from these things. They want to make sure they maintain control and they can keep the pressure on

their opponents. This is what you're going to see play out once again. Though the judge who says he hates somebody then is in the trial makes every decision against that person. But at the end of the day, you can claim you can't prove that the judge made all those decisions because he hated the person, right that this is what you're going to see in this Inspector General report.

This is my prediction for you. There'll be some Yes, someone change some stuff here, but you know, they change stuff to make the warrant the FIES are warrant application stronger, which is negative for Trump of course, and the Trump campaign. Then it would have otherwise been and you know, maybe they didn't do as much due diligence. They kind of ram through all this stuff just so they can get the FIES in going because remember, what if what if

things had turned out a little bit differently. We always think about Russia collusion and the possibility that using carter Page would have been a way to backdoor get access to anyone that in the Trump campaign orbit that he had spoken to and any information he may have about

the alleged Russia collusion. But what if they had found something else, What if there was some other criminality or collusion of some kind of what if there were campaign finance anything that they could have found in this whole process. Look at how they went after a Manaphort, look at

how they're going after Roger Stone. You think they would have overlooked this was a way to get a fantastic, wide open access to somebody in constant contact with the Trump campaign, in different senior members of that campaign, and to do so on a fishing expedition, and to think that it would all be kept secret by the way, which as we know now it will not be. This is a perfect way to bring down a presidential campaign or to bring down a president And this is what

the other side did. But there is one wrinkle in the left's plans here, I said, Horowitz will not will not allow for there to be any real consequences or accountability for the FBI won't allow it. It's not going to happen. It doesn't matter what's there. He already said, Lisa Page showed us that we can't really trust the FBI or raise us. I forget the verbiage raises core issues of trust the FBI. We already know that's there. But now we look at the rest of them. We

said to ourselves, hold on a second. They're going to present us with all this evidence of bias and wrongdoing and then they're going to claim that there was no bias or wrongdoing. That's what's going to happen here again, isn't it? And the answer is Yes, that's what I'm telling you to get ready for. But there's one problem. They're not the only ones who get to shape the

narrative here. There's another individual, as you know, one of my favorites in the administration, another individual out there who knows this game very well and probably saved Trump's presidents seal, though we don't often talk about it that way, because he knows the ambush that the left had had set

for this president. He understands what they were doing, he knows what the dirty politics were, and that man, his Attorney General Bar the story in the Washington Post says it all my friends, Bar disputes key Inspector General finding about FBI's Russia investigation from the Washington Post. We know exactly what's going on here. This is the story published yesterday.

Attorney General William P. Barr has told the associates he disagrees with the Justice Departments Inspector General on one of the key findings in an upcoming report that the FBI had enough information in July twenty sixteen to justify launching

an investigation into members of the Trump campaign. According to people familiar with the matter, the Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz is due to release his long awaited findings, but behind the scenes of the DJ disagreement at service about one of horow It's essential conclusions on the origins of the Russian investigation. The discord could be the prelude to a major fissure within financial law enforcement on the

controversial question of investigating a presidential campaign. Barr has not been swayed by Horowitz is rationale for concluding that the FBI had sufvision basis to open an investigation on July thirty one, twenty sixteen. My friends, this is the Achilles heel of the whole situation. What have I been saying to you now for years? Mueller didn't even touch this. Why how did this whole thing get started? Where did

this come from? Or we're to believe that they just happened to have people near Papadopolis, But Papadopolis happened to say a thing that Plice, We're not idiots. They had set up to get Papadopolis before this conversation he allegedly had with Downer in a bar in the UK. I believe papadop is running for a congress. By the way, yes, that's what they believe that they want us to believe that Bar knows. This is going to be the critical question.

There will be all this information presented, and people who are very invested in this will tell you they will feign stupidity, they will feign an abject lack of judgment, and they will say to you that the Russia collusion investigation was a duly predicated investigation from the start, meaning that there was something other than political malice as the real motivation for looking into all of this. Bar is going to look at this according to support, and I

believe in say not so fast. You're going to investigate a presidential campaign based on what a very low level advisory member of the campaign says to a guy in a bar in the UK. You're gonna do You're gonna make that call. You're then going to get FISA on another low level member of an advisory board of the Trump campaign. Really, and you're gonna act like that's fair.

I mean, look, you know you have people to walk into police stations across the country and say that you know, Elvis is in their shower and Osama bin Laden is hiding under their bed. If you sent in a squat team kicked in the front door and shot a couple of people. Because you're doing a ray to find Elvis and Osama, people would want to ask some questions like what the heck are you doing? That is going to be what we are faced with by the f behind now.

They were going to want us to believe they made stupid decisions in good faith, not because of politics, and bar is going to look at them it sounds like, and say, not so fast, we know what you're up to. This whole thing was in fact a hoax, an ambush,

and a scam. So people are making a lot of jokes about Bloomberg getting into the race at this point, and it turns out that Mayor Bloomberg has jumped into in a very crowded field, fifth place according to the most recent poll I've seen right away is that like six percent ahead of Kamala Harris. S tells you a lot about the media's love affair with the Harris campaign. Is that's gonna have to come to an end at

some point. There is really just no way that anyone's going to be able to continue to pretend that she is, as she once referred to herself, a top tier candidate. She is not a top tier candidate. But this is what the messages that we're getting from we're getting from the Democrat voters who are being pulled here. They all know thing and one thing only. They don't want Trump

to be president. After that, it gets very hazy for a lot of them, because no person could look anyone else in the eye with seriousness and say, yeah, Joe Biden's the great Joe Biden the future of America. And there was a cartoon circulating yesterday where somebody, a brilliant cartoonist, created this little cartoon just set that Joe Biden. Yeah, and I got hair on my legs, and my legs are the blonde hair and the hair is sticking up, sticking up, staring at the sky, sun shining down on

the legs. Little kids hopping around, dumping on my lap. I love it because my blonde leg hairs like all crazy straight. And then it's not. Then it's you know, it's like flying around my head and I'm crazy. Some guy created a video of it and it was it was amazing, It really was. I wish I could show. I wish those of you who are just listening on audio we could show it to you, but it was a stunning It was a starting to watch because this

is the person. We're in a country of over three hundred and twenty million people, and the best the Democrats can do is this really old, not very bright, weird guy with some corruption issues that should get a little more investigation. I think, you know, I think all of that is fair. This guy's going to be the next president the United States. He's going to be the one with the nuclear codes. We've been told for years Trump is not fit for office. Oh oh, I'm sorry. Joe

Biden is fit for office. I had seen references to the infamous corn Pop showdown, but I realized yesterday that we had not addressed the cornpop issue here on the show. And I feel like I am I am remiss as a result, because in that same campaign stop where he's talking, we wearing a hair and my leg is blood, and the sticks in the sky and the sun in my eye, and seven little chipmunks sitting on a brand she eat a lot of acorns, you know what I'm talking about.

He also talked about his fight with at the public pool, the terrifying gang leader known as corn pop let Us revisit this. Shall we plick clip one? I learned a lot, and I learned that it makes a difference. This was the driving board area and I was one of the guards, and there weren't a lot of There's a three meter board and you fell off sideways. You landed on the damps, the darn cement over there. And Cornpop was a bad dude and he ran a bunch of bad boys. And

I did yeah. He and back in those days and shot things have changed. One of the things he had to use. If you use pomade in your hair, you had to wear a bathing cap and show. He was up on the board. Wouldn't list him. I said, hey, Esther, you off the board. I'll come up and drag you off. Well, he came off, and he said, I'll meet you outside my car. This was mostly days were all public housing. Behind you my car. There was a gate on here. I parked my car outside the gate and I he said,

I'll be waiting for you. Here's raight murder, three guys

and straight racers. Not a joke. I just I'll have to note that here you have Joe Biden, who I've heard giving speeches before, and I've actually actually went to a speech where a number of Democrat, like third tier Democrat candidates back in two thousand and eight, we're giving speeches, and Joe Biden was one of them because he was right there with Kucinich and I don't even remember who else for people that had no shot of winning the presidency.

But now he should be president. They tell you, because they got nothing else. They got nobody else on the bench. That's the problem. They got all these candidates, nobody that anyone's excited about. But I noticed that, Yeah, a guy named corn Pop and corn Pop out a bunch of bad dudes, is am I am? I the only one who picks up. He's like a little like a little bit of a Southern accent creeps into Joe Biden when he's trying to be a little folks here, right, I'm

not making it look. Guy's from Delaware. He's got as much of an accent as I do. Yeah, ain't no corn Popper's three meters up on the board. And you know ros corn Pop got the dang in the hair and the puppy puppy pupp and the puppy poop. And you know, I'm just talking like this because I like to talk like Thatt. This is Joe Biden. Everybody is so Joe Biden's talking all of a sudden. I mean, you know, it reminds you of Hillary. Hillary got away with this tool one but you was at I'm so,

I'm so down, tied my feet done, hurt. This was Hillary. I'm like, when did when did Hillary? All of a sudden? And if you go back and look at clips of her, because you know, she kind of actually has like more of a Midwestern thing if you really listen to her. Her intonation is. By the way, all the Midwestern people listening this right now are booing the crap out of me. And that's all right. I'm my Midwestern accent is not good. I agree, But she did do that sometimes. Joe Biden's

doing it here too. Of these politicians. Remember Joe Biden will put you all back in chains. Joe Biden said, So this is the Cornpop showed on first of all, I mean, even in the fifties, do you really think that there was some nefarious character who carried around straight razors and threatened people in public places named corn Pop. I'm not saying it's a lie. I'm just saying it doesn't ring true. But the Great Corn Pop Showdown of like nineteen sixty two or something whenever this was, I

don't know. Here here's how I went to play Clip two. There's a guy named bill Wright Mouse, the only white guy, and he did all the pools. He was the mechanic. And I said, what am I going to do? He said, come down here in the basement where mechanics. Where where all the pool builder is. You know, the chain used to be a chain that went across the deep end, and he cut off a six foot and left the chain. He fulled up. He said, you walk out with that chain.

And you walked to the car and say, you may cut me man, but I'm gonna wrap this chain around your head. I said, you're kidding me. He said no, If you don't, don't come back. And he was right. So I walked out with the chain and I walked up to my car. And they had those days. You used to remember the straight razor. You bang him on the curb, get him rusty, put him in the rain barrel, get him rusty. And I looked at him, but I

was smart. Then I said, first of all, I said, well, I tell you get off the board, and you get off the board, I'll kick you out again. But I shouldn't have called you Esther Williams. I apologize for that. I apologize, but I didn't know that apologie is going to work. He said, you apologize me. I said, I apologize what I'm not for thrown you out, but I apologize to what I said. He said, okay, closed the

straight razors, and my heart began to beat again. I mean, Joe Biden's telling you here that he was like about to get into some gay warfare kind of fight. Remember back in the day when they take the straight razor and they make it all rusty? Is that is that a thing? People make the straight razor rusty? So that why why they think they're gonna give you a tetanus. I don't understand what this is all, But again, this is just this guy. Look he's he's just full of it. Man,

He's always been full of it. It's amazing. He's like, I'm not tired to get off the board. Gotta get off the board. I've heard Joe Biden, he speaks normally without any any of this intonation whatsoever. But he thought that this would go over well with his crowd. But even more than that, it's just such a weird It's such a weird story for him to tell, and I don't believe it. I mean, Joe Biden, he's walking out, He's walking to meet a guy who has a straight

razor in the parking lot of a public pool. There's gonna be people everywhere, and he takes a chain out with him. I mean, do you believe that Joe Biden is some kind of badass he's willing to get into. You know, is this like the movie? What is it? The movie Warriors? Right? Isn't that where they the gangs in New York where they got the change come out to play a Yeah, I don't even know what that is, but I'm Starriors. It's yeah to play. I just know

of the movie. But I know they all carry around ship that used to be a thing gang members that would carry a chance chain is not that good of a weapon, Yeah, exactly. I mean, if someone gives me the choice between a chain or a baseball bat, you go baseball bat. Every time. I think you go knife over chain too. Yeah, you could throw it. Yeah, you know, it reminds me of how we used to think that

like nun chuckoos were a serious weapon. They're in fact illegal because people got so scared of them from movies. They're illegal in New York California. Now you cannot have It's like two pieces of metal with a string between it. That's illegal. And it's just because they're all these movies in the seventies and eighties where these gang members had you known nun chuck nunchuckoos or numbchucks or you know,

people call them different things. I believe the proper terminology is nun chuck us, but people call them numb chucks. That's what Michael Langlow said. That's right. The orange Nature Turtle. It's not. I mean, people saw that Bruce Lee movie and he's like hitting all these guys with No, it's not. It's not that easy. Actually, you really don't want you really don't want to be squaring off against somebody with with numpchucks. It's not it's not the best weapon. Not

that I've been in a lot of gang fights. It's not gonna lie, you know, but I'm not the one sitting there like, hey, then a bunch of guys said they're gonna cut me with a straight race or not grab a chain. I put on my leather jacket with the cutoff sleeves I had. They had him a gang colors on the back, and I just went out, you know your next president of the United States, everybody. And this isn't from like twenty years ago. This isn't like him talking as a youth. This is a few weeks back.

This is what the Democrats that. This is why Michael Bloomberg could get in the race and he's at you know, six percent, run off the back. This is the front runner. This isn't I'm not just making fun of some I'm like kookie candidate that nobody's you know, serious about. Is the Democrat front runner. This guy. Here's a fun question, ask your Democrats, what is the big idea that Joe Biden is running with and in support of. He's just a vessel for people's wishing longing for the Obama era.

That's really it. There's nothing that's not an idea, that's that's a fantasy. We're not going back to the Obama air. We're not going back to politics pre Trump. Liberals need to get a hold of this, They need to get an understanding of this. But I think it's gonna happen anytime soon. Everybody. We got our friend David Harsani in

the mix. He is a writer at National Review. He's got a great piece up on National Review right now, anti majoritarianism isn't on American And although we're gonna put a pin on that for one seconds, I want to ask him about some of the latest and greatest David. Great to have you back. Always a pleasure. Thanks. So we're just talking about Bloomberg and Biden. By the way, are you having as much fun with the blonde hair, straight legs, and corn pop story situation as everybody else?

I am. You know how it works these days, as I'm not sure if things are actually true or not. I have to sort of research to make sure that these things are actually happening, and they are they are legitimate. So I am having fun. Yet, I mean, how can this guy what is he? Why is Biden? I was just talking this before we called him. Why is Biden the front runner? What is your take? How is this guy who's really somewhat clownish and preposterous and not even

not even entertaining clownish? What's going on? Well? I think people envision him as a certain kind of candidate, and without really paying that much attention to him, he's people forget he's you know, he's had failed presidential candidatis and not like slightly failed, but just like complete disasters before, and he's not ever been that great a politician. I think what's happened is that people are looking for a

candidate who can win. So it's some kind of moderate candidate, and he, I guess fits that bill and has enough experience in name recognition that it puts him in the lead. And people keep telling me he's going to fall apart and it's going to be over. But every poll I see, you know, he seems a pretty clear front runner to me. Now Bloomberg is in at i think six percent in the poll. Do you think that he shakes things up and makes anything, makes any noise that's worth hearing, at

least in terms of changing things around. I'm not sure yet. I think that there's obviously some I mean, it feels to me like Democrats that haven't found the candidate, that they're looking for someone who they feel like can win, someone who's not too far to the left. You know, at least certain Democrats so it's possible that he can take some of that, some of that away from maybe

Biden or mayor Peter or things like that. But in the end, though, I just don't I don't think he's likable enough, and I don't think that his positions are of the moment, especially on the left. Why can't may or Peak get more traction. I think he's actually kind of a lightweight when you really listen to him. I mean, I don't know if that's the reason. I just think maybe it's a name recognition thing, maybe because it looks like he's in second rate. I mean, you know, it

could be various things that turn off people. And there's still so many people running, so you never know, once Kamala Harris drops out or other people he may get, you know, those people might come over to him. So out of the people still left, I think he still has somewhat of a chance. And do you think that in taverns and local bars across the country, people are going to be pouring out some shots for the tragically ended set Stack campaign. Sometimes I'm like, oh, yeah, he

was running. It's weird. I guess people have nothing to lose anymore when they run, so you get tons of people running just for maybe because they want to be VP or something like that. I mean, it's like Michael Bennett still running. I don't even know. Yeah, that's a good question, by the one. Are your expectations for the IG report as it's just now days away. I mean I've been telling everybody that I think that there'll be some bad stuff, but it'll be just like what the

bureaucracies always do. Would you say, well, you know, there were some minor mistakes made, but overall everything's on and there's nothing really to be worried. There's no deep state, there's nothing to be worried about. What do you think?

I think that you're probably right though. All the leaking going on these days, and in all the sort of preemptive defenses that are going on, it makes me think that maybe it'll you know that people are a little bit worried about what's in there, But I mean generally you don't see the bureaucracy saying, you know, they've sort of you know, give you a pat on the hand or whatever. They don't you know, they're not going to

really come out. Yeah. Do you remember the five hundred page Horowitz Report where it was I read this thing and I remember thinking, well, this is this looks terrible. I mean, this is bias everywhere. They're like, well, you know, just because you have every reason to believe somebody's biased

doesn't mean their actual decision. I mean, it seemed to me that the Inspector General reports set a standard where unless you have people working the DOJ who are saying, I am doing this because I think Hillary is going to be president and I want to help her, there's no bias. You can't prove it, right, We can never prove it, or it's almost impossible to prove intent. But that's why they haven't rules set up so that you don't even either create the impression there's something some bias

going on, or that there is bias going on. So obviously when you break those rules, you break them for a reason. When you say things, you say them for a reason. So to me, it's incredible that we keep talking about the intent rather than the professionalism of the agents that you're talking about. Yeah, there's definitely going to be a drop in the stock in my opinion of the f behind the DOJ whenever this thing comes out. It's actually terrible in a way that Americans can trust

their institutions anymore. And it's not. And everyone wants to blame Trump, Trump and Trump fans and all that stuff, but they do most of this to themselves. Now I think, I think that's absolutely true. And I think as we continue to see the Democrat standard here as always, Trump is a stronger institutions. And then they talk about to stronger institutions, and maybe that's actually a perfect place, David to transition to your piece up in National Review. So guys,

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their rights, that that's not accountability to democracy. Walk us through this new trend in left wing public intellectual thought and why it's basically crazy. But I'll let you put in your own words. Well, I mean, the new case against Trumpism is that social conservatives have sold their soul so they can because they can sell their ideas through the democratic process, they will use undemocratic means, using Donald Trump to get what they want. This is kind of

a ridiculous contention for one reason. For the most the biggest reason is that Obviously Donald Trump has selected president. So it's not as if social conservatives haven't won anything they ran. You know, conservative are in the House and until recently, and they run the Senate for years, they can win elections. This is all based simply on one popular vote. More that Trump never ran for that's imaginary.

But more than that, they believe that anytime the court strikes down something in their favor for religious liberty or gun rights or free speech, that social conservative are using some kind of undemocratic system, whereas democrats, I mean, abortion, gay marriage, is a whole list of lidany of things in other cases that they've been upheld by the courts that they would never have had without the courts, that they've never called those on democratics. So I just think

it's a hypocrisymb just simply untrue. And you know, yesterday we talked a little bit here about the Elizabeth Warren promised to get rid of the electoral college. Is this just shameless pandering from Warren? I mean she does a lot of that, or do you think that she would really if she could, would she really want to do that? One hundred percent believe she would want to do that

if she could. I mean, there are efforts underway to get a bunch of states to sign a pack to to to throw away their votes to a popular vote in their electoral votes, to a popular vote overall, if they could, and I'm sure she would do it. I'm sure Bernie Sanders would do it. I mean other people. Obviously, I don't know if what Joe Biden would do. But I just don't understand. So people tell me, oh, you know that's never going to happen, don't worry about it.

You can still vote against Trump. Well I shouldn't. I take what politicians say seriously, meaning they're telling me they want to overturn the system. But you're telling me that's what you're telling me Trump is doing. But these people are openly advocating for the very same things you're telling me Trump is doing that he's not. So it makes no sense to me. Now is your what is your best case for why we should keep the electoral College?

By the way, Well, because we have we have fifty different states that deserve their you know, in a diffused democracy, deserve their own say, rather than having California and New York running the country. If you had if you had no electoral college. You know, Trump would have run a different campaign. He'd be in New York, he being California, pandering to those people with more liberal kind of ideas, and we'd have two states that mattered in a bunch

of states that didn't. That's not how the founders envisioned the treat Well, I certainly agree with that. I'm just wondering, what are your expectations for this Wednesday's judiciary hearing and impeachment? Oh gosh, I don't even know. I mean, I think you're gonna have a lot of that same where the press is like, you know, you can always tell where there's going to be a tweet that's just annoying and untrue when someone has to put wow when they first tweet.

You know, these reporters now do or like three exclamation points. You're gonna get a lot of that, and then when you actually read what was said, it'll be more of the same. I just don't think anyone's mind is being changed here. I don't think presidential candidates a lovely idea of impeachment. And you know, how do you line this?

I mean, because I agree, by the way, I love seeing all these and it's fun to guess at what some reporters are going to say about certain certain uh you know, witnesses and this impeachment thing before they even say, because it's really easy. They're like, oh my gosh, Trump, this is the final you know, now he's gone too far, and then they end up writing it. I mean, these people have no they're not not only are they bad fingers, they have no originality which is really really pretty annoying

skepticism about anything. I mean, I understand you on like trumpets show some skepticism towards both sides. I mean, that's what a good reporter should be doing. Yeah, that's that's been totally a band. I want to ask about it about that actually, because I think that people tend to look at Trump as the this singular exposure of the media in a way that has never really been done before. I mean, I think there's some truth to that. To be sure, he goes after them in a way publicly

and has a megaphone. They're not used to anyone ever having a megaphone that can match what they can do, usually in a left right. So Trump all of a sudden is at least able to meet them at a pretty equivalent level in terms of how many people he can reach and how he doesn't have to go through them in the same way. But I also you mentioned

Twitter all the exclamation points. I think that Twitter is in a sense that the death of quote nonpartisan journalism, because we just see all these journals all day long, like, what do they retweet, what are they like? What do they say? I mean, it's sort of like the DOJ thing where they say, well, there's lots and lots and lots of bias about the Hillary email thing, but we can't prove that any of those decisions were biased. It's

just that there was people saying bias stuff. I feel like it's the same argument getting out with journalists where it's anti Trump screeds all day in the Twitter feed, either retweeted or shared or liked or written themselves. But then when they're covering the Capitol Hill stuff, it's like, well, we're honest, we're honest brokers in this Yeah. I mean, Twitter has been a revelation in the sense of showing us what all these journals are really like and what

they think they can control themselves. And obviously I don't know what that's like. I'm having had to control myself in that way for a long time, but they simply can't not retweet things. And once Trump does, you know, start doing what he does where he's just sort of pushes right back and over the top stuff, they feel like now they can you know, they don't have to pretend that they're not completely biased. I mean, CNN runs an anti Trump organization. They have no interest in any

sort of other truth. So, you know, I think that that's bad for the American people in a way because we don't choose a journalists anymore. But in another way, at least it tells us what the truth is and that we can just deal with it, deal with them in a more honest way. So that's what it is, David Harsani. Everybody, he approaches lots of things with skepticism. So that's the good dude, is he. It's not easily easily swayed. Anti majoritarianism, isn't an American that's a national review.

David Harsani, thank you so much, so we'll talk to you soon. Thank you. There's no question that the far left thinks it is ascendant right now in our politics, and I think that they are on some solid ground in thinking. So you've got Sanders and Warren who are socialists. They're socialists. We could sit around and talk about the

nuances and the variations. They are socialists, and they are number two and three right now in all the polls, and that means, by the way, if you combine their numbers, it'd probably be meaning if one of them drops out, it's gonna be Bunny, but who knows, Maybe it's gonna be warn. He wants to see if he can help last the lesser socialist Elizabeth Warren. But that's that's another way of looking at this, so that we all understand

exactly how left wing the Democratic Party has gotten. And you even have some candidates now who are quite far left. We'll be running in twenty twenty, including mister jenk Uger. And I do not know if i'm pronouncing his life pronounce his first name, because he's known as jenk. I know that that's his name. I've talked to him before. Uger. I'm not sure if that's how you say's last name, but I'm not trying to mispronounce it. That's a that's lame.

I just don't know how to say it. But he's running for Congress now and he is, as you may some of you may know, the founder of the Young Turks, which is an online probably the most far left. I mean, it's kind of like The Nation, which is a bunch of commies where to found a news an online news program. They raised a whole bunch of money from, you know, a left wing multi multi millionaire or billionaire recently. That's so they're very well funded socialists, which tends to be

the case. People that love to benefit from the excesses of capitalism and then talk about or rather just benefit from capitalism and then like to talk about how they hate capitalism. I hope to one day be so rich that I can talk about how we shouldn't live in a societymore where people can get rich, let's close the

door for everybody else. I would have be one of these rich people who's like, I don't think anybody else should be really rich, you know, and therefore I am I am justifying my richness by saying that nobody else should be rich. That would be That would be a fun, self indulgent place to be, wouldn't I think there's no question about that. But the Young Churches also employed some of the nastiest, dumbest, and most vicious and stupid left wing talking heads in all of America, So they have

that distinction. I mean people who are just odious characters, as we have discussed before on the show, bad people, people that are unworthy of respect or real discourse, people that are deserving of and they are stupid audience by the way, as well deserving of approbrium. But jenk is you know he will, he will engage, you, will debate, So I at least will give him credit for standing up and being willing to exchange ideas of people on

his socialism. He talked about Medicare for all, for example, and here is what the Progressive Democrat candidate for I don't know which district in California says about Medicare for all play fourteen. First of all, Medicare for all polls excellent. Second of all, when you guys say you'd lose your insurance, that is terribly wrong. You have insurance. Even Michael Bennett, who doesn't like purce, okay, but you have better insurance.

Chris you mad, No, no, not maybe, definitely, I asked Michael BENNI Santo Michael Bennet, who does not like Medicare for All. He said, it's the Medicare for all would be the Cadillac plan. He said, yes, you get everything with Medicare for All, you get better insurance. There's no question about that. Jenk doesn't understand how markets or economies work. Apparently, what he's referring to here is the promise, the absurd promise by the way of Medicare for all. And I

think this is the Bernie Santa's version. It might be the war in version. But you know, Potato Potato that says that everything, vision, dental, you know, everything would be under this medicare. It would, in fact be much more than Medicare. Now, keeping my medicare is the one thing that threatens to collapse our entire economy as our debt continues to spiral out of control. But we're told, let's make that a lot, a lot bigger, a lot bigger.

Here's the problem with having everybody on the same plan. You want, I'll give you a perfect sample. Actually, I tried to make an appointment with a specialist in New York City earlier in the week. Right, God, I just tend to some some buck health issue and I was told the weight was two months. I have insurance, by the way, and this is a doctor that doesn't take insurance, but you can of course submit afterwards and all the rest of it. Two month wait, and that's a that's

a doctor who's not even an insurance mark. Just wait until you're under your plan. Everybody else in the whole country is supposed to be effectively on the same plan. Do you think you're gonna be able to see the doctor you want to see now? Of course not. How do you determine who gets to see what doctor? And when everyone's paying the same, everyone's network is the same, every doctor is the same. This is, by the way, this is I mean, this is like full on socialist medicine.

We're talking about here, determining everything other than the training of doctors and the provision of But that'll have to they'll have to add that into this because what happens is that there are no market signals to determine whether or not somebody can see a doctor in a certain timeframe. There are no market signals to make that designation, that determination. So what does the state does so sure that they'll

pay for your doctor visit? Just like they will in Canada, just like they will in the UK, and you'll wait six to nine months for it, maybe a year. You know, it happens most of the time. People find out what the weight is and they go see a different doctor, a doctor they don't particularly want to see. The practitioner matters. You know, this is these are goods and services. People are making decisions and determinations. The entire system gets better

when good doctors are rewarded, when good doctors can charge more. Also, smarter and better people in the future will want to go into medicine because they know they can be rewarded for this. The incentive structure in the medical system is wiped out in Medicare for All. Everyone's paid the same, everyone gets the same. Do you want Do you want that to be the case? No? I want to live in a country where I can choose the doctor that I see and see him in a reasonable or her

in a reasonable timeframe. The only way that these systems that do even less than Medicare for All, the only way they provide care is through rationing and waits. They tell you how much you can get, they tell you when you can get it. By the way, what also will be included in this new people are if you want to go see a shrink, a psychologist, psychiatrist, do you get to go every day? Very very expensive? Who's

going to pay for this? How much is determined? At some point the reality sets in where you can't just have people getting whatever they want, because if people get whatever they want, there won't be enough for people to get Without a mark in place to incentivize better, more efficient, faster care and to bring more people into the medical system so that there is more there are more goods and services to be distributed. This whole thing falls apart.

It's going to be better than your current insurance plan. Good luck with that, the Cadillac of plan. This is the folks. This is snake oil that you are being sold. It is a lie. It is a fiction. Unless they're willing to say middle class taxes will go up dramatically, which they will have to just to make the math work, and unless they are willing to say that yes, you will see the doctor that the government says you are allowed to see in the time frame that government determines

they are lying to you. They can point to any other major state operated medical system in the developed world and those are the realities that we are dealing with. That's it. So just yeah, medicare for all you. Someone's gonna pay for all your healthcare. This is state intrusion into one fifth, one sixth roughly of the economy in a way that will then lead to you, by the way, further socialized industries and sectors of our economy. This does

not get better. This only gets worse. Oh, breaking news, breaking news. You know how in the last hour of the show, I said, you know, when is Kamala gonna call it quits? I think I said that dedn'ty her. I was at least making fun of her terrible campaign. Kamala Harris is out. It's just happened. She's out, no longer running for president. I think Bloomberg showing up and being ahead of her right away in the polls, I think that was a little bit more than even her

campaign could could manage to deal with. Now that I think she's pulling about I don't know, four or five percent in some of the polls I've scene. That sounds about right, So I wonder where those votes will go, probably to Biden, but maybe not. I do think the pressure is going to really mount for here's the way that they do it. Elizabeth Warren says that, you know, well, the realistic way would be for Bernie Sanders to offer Elizabeth Warren the VP slot and then create like a

socialist dynasty going forward. But I don't know if I wisham With Warren's willing to accept that, so it is it is worth a well, well, we'll see how this how this plays out. Kamala Harris is out there everybody a campaign that the media wanted to work so badly, and there was always a media superficiality behind a lot of that. You know, they just thought that kamalas should be because they thought, yeah, Kamala should it should work

for Kamala. And the reality is that she's not a particularly talented politician, not somebody who was ready for this, not somebody who was big league enough. And also I think Tulsi Gabberd was kind of the Kamala spoiler a little bit. I think Tulsie Gabbert got in there and made it really hard for Kamala to get any momentum. You know, even with the media all pushing behind or all the media efforts to do everything that they could do.

It was not enough, it was insufficient. So Kamala Harris is out, as though, as though the Almighty heard from Buck's lips to God's ears that Kamala Harris was not gonna win the presidency. So today's the day that the Kamala Harris campaign calls it. Quins, don't cry too much, team. It's that time of year, my friends. People are now allowed to play their Christmas music because it's post Thanksgiving, and we know only Barbarians play Christmas music before Thanksgiving,

but now they're allowed. So, you know, I was telling you I was in a taxi yesterday and the guy was blasting some Christmas music and I felt like such a grinch because I was like, really, I'm sitting in traffic with just this. You know, I don't know. I like Christmas music in limited doses, and I like it basically the week of Christmas. But then I'm not that. I don't know. What do you like? Do you like

hanaka tuns? I think we discussed with Markers maybe two three three, that's right if you count Adam Sandler maybe, But so as a as a as a non Christian, what can you think of Christmas music? Just as a as a genre. It's a genre. There are some good ones that are just good musical songs, although my favorite is probably Alvin and Chipmunks. So I don't know what it says about me. There we go. So it's also the time of year you gotta think about getting people presents. Now.

I don't know how many familiar with this, but there is a very fancy stationary bike company out there called Peloton or Pelton. I think it's actually just Peloton, but I'd like to do it the French wakes. It sounds fancier. Peloton released an ad just in time people to get I think these bikes are I know there are many thousands of dollars. I think they run somewhere in the

like ten to fifteen thousand dollars range. Very expensive, okay, but you know when you could also just buy a bicycle or an old I don't know, or an old school stationary bike. I remember my grandfather have one at his house here in New York, and the thing was from the fifties, and you know, get on there and pedal, yeah, go and pedal your heart's content. But now Peloton is a very fancy bike and they put out this commercial that has gotten people totally outraged. I think I need

to describe a little bit. So you're going to hear a female voice. And this female that is starting this commercial is esthetically perfect. She is beautiful, she is slender, she's clearly a model. And this is the commercial in this incredible house. But this woman looks like she's probably about, you know, twenty seven years old. I love all the ads where they got people in their twenties living in like, you know, million dollar homes, because you know who doesn't.

People are to seeing where I live. When I was like twenty eight years old, I had like three roommates living in the basement of some place in the village. Anyway, play play Peloton, now Peloton. Give it up for a first time ride, first ride. I'm ulrvous, but I'm excited. Let's do this five days in a row. Be surprised. I am rising with the sun. I was totally worth it a year ago. I didn't realize how much this

exchanged me. Thank you this holiday, give the gift of pel So there is this People have flipped out about this because you have this esthetically you know, physical, perfect, idealized woman who's like I'm so nervous to ride a stationary bike and the privacy of your own home. I mean, that's okay, I guess, but it seems to trust me, this woman is red. She's worked out plenty in her day. This is not her first her first time, and then I don't know how much it would change me. Now

what changed? Right? People are being a brand and are talking. People are being a little sensitive about this. It is the case, and I have seen this in action once or twice in my life. It is the case where, especially as a male, if you give any kind of fitness related equipment as a Christmas gift to a female in your life, producer bread and this could backfire dramatically. You probably would be hit with that piece of equipment. Yeah, they do. They do not. It's not a thing that

they get excited about. No, it's offensive unless she's offensive. I mean, if somebody said, buck, I want I'm gonna give you a for Christ's use, I'm gonna give you like a dozen sessions on a personal trainer, I'd say

it's fantastic, I need it. I guess it's it's different if you know the person perhaps and maybe she's seen the other other commercial for Peloton, and she's, oh, I want this, I want this, and the husband gets it far right if she's been explicit backward okay, commercial, but it kind of reminds me of what at the wedding in the office with where Jim and Pam are having their like, you know, the rehearsal dinner. Yeah, and then the Jim's two brothers stand up and they yell out

to their wives. You know, Pam's looking good, how about you, ladies? Tom for a little mo cardio, which is it would not go over well. I would not recommend anyone say that to their wife or anybody for that matter. That would not go over well. But this, this Peloton commercial got a lot of people, um really agitated, I would say, Edie after if you watch it, it makes even more sense because you're like this idealized existence. She's like, oh gosh,

like my Peloton bike has changed me so much. She looks like she went from about one hundred and seven pounds to a hundred and seven pounds right in this commercial. And what was she filming for the arrogance bothered me too. As soon as she walks in the door, she's shooting a selfie of her talking about going in the bike. As soon as she wakes up, the cameras right in

her face there there. I will tell you I live in a building here in New York where they have a gym in the building, and they are in fact, they do, in fact have a peloton in there. So I might have to try this now, just so I can give you from the front lines of Pelton. I can give you my assessment as to whether or not this is life changing. And I can use a lot of I mean, I should spend an hour of Dana

Pelton bike. I gotta work out more. It's because there's a video that you can do it with other people around the world. Is that what makes it so expensive? You can watch? Yeah, I think so. Okay, the class they have like a video and they video it tracks you and it's all metrics, c and things like that. I don't know, that's just kind of a this is what the people say. But see, I take the position and this is and I know that people will say, oh, black,

that's terrible. And by the way, anything that we advertise on this show as a gift you should definitely get because they're amazing. But in my family, among the adults. You know, I still I give gifts to people that you know, do work for me, do people that you know are in my life. That especially if people really, you know, in New York you're superintendent of the building, because everyone here, you know, lives in buildings where there

tend to be a staff that takes care of the building. Um, you know, you give those people a gift for Christmas cash Usually I do all that, for sure, But among family members, I just think that there's especially because I come from one. I'm one of four kids and my two parents or six of us. It's just such a hassle.

Ever got I gotta get at least five presents, and if I if I, you know, have a significant other, as has been the case in the past, if I have a significant other, I gotta get that person a gift, and that one has to be expensive. Of course. It's all such a hassle. Why can't we all just be together and celebrate the holiday for what it's really about. I agree, the birth of Jesus, not commercialism, thank you very much. So, you know, I just think that that's where we should be as a society. I call it

going grinch. Do it with a smile. It's the way to go. And with that roll call, time rock and roll. Fellow patriots, we made ours go up to an eleven. It's time for roll call. It is time for roll call. Let's get into the Facebook posts here and we get

to it. John Shieldsa, a real News fan. Pokahon has said a democracy should work by popular vote, and to call her old fashioned for thinking that way, maybe I'm a little rusty on my history, but I don't recall America ever being a democracy where elections were voted by We're decided by popular vote. Well, John, it's even more interesting than that in some ways, because if you go back to the origins of the concept of democracy, which we tend to find, as tend to think is ancient Greece.

In ancient Greece, only a very small number of the actual people living in the polis, in the city, in the city state, we're able to vote. It's not like in ancient Athens they walked around and every adult was given the right to make a determination. It was actually a very very small group of citizens, citizens who were ablished, who were landholders, who had some degree of sway in affairs, and it was definitely not women and it was not slaves.

There were slaves in ancient Greece, lots of them. And yeah, there there was a small percentage overall the population that would have been able to vote. So it's interesting that we now think of democracy as every person who is an adult gets to vote. But that's really a more modern innovation. It was not the case before. So you know, women suffrage did not become a thing until pretty recently. Brian Buck, I enjoy your analysis and your ability to articulate.

I think you may be off on a couple of predictions, though. Oh first, I don't think they're going to vote to impeach for the simple fact that they don't want to risk Trump getting a fair trial if they did. I'd almost want Republicans to go along with it so this mess can be handled properly and watch democrat at scramble as all their dirty laundry goes on display. But with the ads your report coming out, it may not be necessary. Second, I do believe Trump will go scorch earth on Democrats

after the report comes out. He has said repeatedly that this should never be allowed to happen to another president, and one way to ensure that it doesn't is to hold people accountable and an exact harsh consequences. Trump is a one to bluff. This would be a very interesting election year for shore Shields High. Well, Brian will get to see who's right on these predictions. I'll probably have

to revisit them and we'll see who's correct. I'm telling you they're going to impeach him, but you're saying no, I'm saying yes. And then on to Trump going scorch shirt on Democrats after the report comes out. I don't see how that would happen. What's he gonna do. He's gonna fire civil service employees even after there's been an inspector General report that does not recommend their firing. I don't know, Brian, what that accountability would even look like

if Trump wanted to do it. Now, that's it. I could be wrong. It has It has happened before, seldom, but it has happened. So that is a possibility that we should be aware of. Um, we'll have to take a look at it. We're looking at that, as Trump likes us say, we're looking at that. He says that about a lot of things. M Adam buck Pot roast if done correctly is amazing. Cook it low and slow, tenderness is key shields high. Well, Adam, thank you so

much man for something that I appreciate it. And uh yeah, man, I will have to check out some pot roast and next thing we got, Paul Buck, you know what strikes me as hilarious about this whole get Trump era. If they'd stuck with their very first original premise for investigation, they probably could have nailed him. Avon Forgets. The earliest instigations of him were for ties to organize crime. I guess they thought Russian collusion tested. Better keep it up,

She'll tie, all right, Paul, I mean I don't. I don't think that they're going to get Trump on anything, but I do appreciate the outside the box thinking, let's see where we got here I wanted I wanted to get into. I tend to go to the Facebook because it's it's easy, but I also want to look at what we got in the Team Buck. Team Buck at iHeartMedia dot com. That's the email address you want to send things to us? There, Ken writes the Buck don't stop. Can I contribute a nightly feature to the show A

Thousand Things? We all should know. Try these out amongst your staff and see how they like it. Yawning is caused by a warm brain. Only one America. Wait what? Okay, thank you? Ken? Whatever? We got another Ken, a different Ken. Let's see Friday, the President declared the Cartels is terror groups. I suspect that Trump has ordered a kind of Cicario Cia action with your contacts. You should suss it out, Okay, Ken, Yeah, I'll take a look. I'll take a look. Let's see

what we'd get here. Here you go, we get next up, somebody talking about how the audio is wrong. I don't understand what we're doing differently or wrong with the audio. I don't know. I don't know. That's got to be somebody else's to look into that, Harry, right Buck. You might want to check out the third season, fifth episode

of The Crown, entitled Coup. It concerns the attempt by Conservative persons to recruit Lord mount Batten to replace Harold Wilson's Socialist government after the massive devaluation of the pound and further deterioration in the British economy in nineteen sixty seven. I think that's the correct year. Yes, it is slow, but an interesting take on conservative socialist politics of the time. By the way, I think it's hilarious. No one gets that America is nearly as socialist under under FDR as

the USSR during World War Two. Shields, Hi, Harry, Yeah, man, there's a lot more socialism out there than people realize. That is true. Mark from New Zealand, Team Buck, New Zealand in the house, Hey, Buck Shields. I from New Zealand, but a followers. Since our government started contributing tens of millions of dollars in our taxes to Shillery and the Dems, is nobody's safe from the progressives fight for the First and Second Amendment rights We got told regularly we have

no rights, just the privilege the government allows us. Shields High, my friend Kiwee, Mark from New Zealand. Kyle, Right, dear Buck, don't be too eager to settle down and get married. You will turn into one of two versions of your former self, Buckless Sexton or Buck sexless. That's pretty good. That's pretty good, Kyle. I don't know. Kyle might get to might get an email of the day with that one. I cannot. I don't know. I can either confirm her

to kN because I've never been married. There's something that someone where on the internet says that I'm married. I've never been married. I don't know why this keeps. This comes up sometimes I've never been married. I don't I've never been engaged. I never been married. Hoping one day, hoping. Um, let's see we get here. Um we have Rocky right to have a happy Thanksgiving buck Rocky from Nebraska, Rocky from Nebraska, shieldside, big hug, Happy Thanksgiving to you too. Um.

We get more people writing about unequal audio levels. Producer Brandon, what is this people? We got a lot of We got like ten emails about unequal audio levels. What is going on here? Yead? I can't tell you because when I put her in and where Mike Marko puts it in, it's all level. So we might have to ask an engineer. I need to get you like a special gift so that you'll actually make the audio good for the audience, so that I make this anymore perfect, just like that

woman from the bike commercial. Yeah, I mean you know, I'm sure there's something we could bribe producer Brandon w so that he actually makes sure the audio is good. I don't have the bribe Producer Mark too, because when he comes back from the beach. Oh you've notice, have you gotten any selfies of him on the beach? I have not, so you know, I don't think Producer Mark is thinking about the freedom hunt enough right now. He's just oh, look at me. I'm you know, drinking pina

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