Clinton's Russia Red Hand

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Buck Sexton with America now joined the conversation called Buck
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of talk radio, Buck Sexton, Team Buck. Welcome to the

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Freedom Hunt Baltimore, Maryland edition. I'm here in Baltimore, Maryland,
meeting with some friends and associates in the in the business.
I was in d C yesterday very much enjoyed my
stroll down Memory Lane in the District of Columbia. Doesn't
have the best politics, obviously, but it is a place that, uh,

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you know, I generally have some fondness for. And now
I'm here in Baltimore and enjoying, enjoying the sites and
getting to get acclamate to this place. Never been here before,
first time ever, first time ever in Baltimore, So let's
get into what we're gonna talk about today on the show,

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and we will be taking calls eight four buck eight
four four nine two eight two five. We're gonna be
jumping into healthcare here in a second, the latest on that.
We'll also talk about the uh liberation of Rucca from
the Islamic States, grasp that I'll be coming up later

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on this hour. Also some more information about the extent
of pro Hillary corruption in the government, both at the
d o J and well across the board during the
Obama administration. We'll get into that later on. Its very
interesting reporting on it. If I have time, maybe some
of the New York Times undercover footage courtesy of Project

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Very Toss I may speak to that for a little bit.
I see here there's some breaking news that yet another
individual has been caught up in the sexual harassment allegations
that are rocking Hollywood, that are really tearing going after
some of the the big heavy hitters, not just Harvey Weinstein,

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there're others too, And the Amazon Studios head has resigned
after harassment accusation. Keep in mind that Amazon, Netflix, these
are the big studios of the future, so this is
a big deal. We don't think of Amazon as a
as a Hollywood, as a Hollywood producer, or as something
that makes products that are in that space. But Amazon

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has a ton of cash on its balance sheet and
a lot of ability to not just put content out
there for people to buy, but also to create its
own content. So that that is just some breaking news
owner share with you. I think I'll skip past the
latest iteration of CNN with oh my gosh, there's a
troll Russian trolls. There's like all these trolls from Russia

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that are trying to we're trying to influence the election.
I don't even know what to say about it at
this point. This is an obsession on the left with
the oh the Facebook ads and trolling, and they just
will not let it go. He here we are. We're
gonna be at the at the one year mark pretty
soon of the Trump presidency and we're still gonna be
hearing about it. A Russian oligarch had a friend who

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also had a cousin who owned a business that bought
some stuff tied to the Kremlin and then put Facebook
ads out. It's just what is this? Yeah, I mean,
the Russians engage in propaganda they've engaged in again for
a long time. It's nothing new, but it gets people
on the left excited because it's it just feeds the

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idea that the election never really happened and will somehow
be nullified, which what this all comes down to. These
long estate discussion come up I think will be really
interesting and will also work in some of the Kurdish
independence uh analysis that I haven't gotten to yet. But first,
let's talk healthcare for a minute, because there were some

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surprises on the healthcare front today. And oh and maybe
i'll get to uh the John McCain feud right now
in the media with Trump over comments about nationalism. I
don't I don't know. I don't know if you really
do we want to hear. But do you want to
get into that today? Maybe maybe not? Uh, First on healthcare,

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because that does matter. As I say, we prioritize here
right usually beginning of the show, most important news the day,
thirty thousand foot strategic level, big impact situations and analysis,
and then we tend to get a little deeper into
the weeds, maybe a little national security in the third hour.
It's just what I think about what's going on in life.

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Maybe some history, some other fun or interesting or compelling stuff. Today.
I'll probably do some news in the last hour of
the show. But healthcare is one of those topics that
when there's something that has occurred, something has changed, it
is necessary for us to keep an eye on it.
Because I'm sure you've got a little card in your pocket,
or you've got one nearby, or whatever you deal with healthcare.

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We all deal with it personally as a family and friends,
as a business owner, whatever it. Maybe we're constantly interacting
with the health care market. It is. You may not
care that much about health care stories, although I'm sure
you do, but healthcare certainly cares about you. There is
no way to avoid it. And Trump has been very
clear for a long time now, whenever I say that,

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I think of Obama, let me be clear. Well, i'd
like to be clear. Well, let me be clear. Uh,
I just did my own little montage there. But that
was a favorite verbal pose of the Obama, of the
Obama rhetorical tool kid right, Well, may well, may be clear,
I'm gonna be clear. So whenever I say that, now,

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that's Obama. Also for a while, maybe not want to
say the word, folks, because I felt like he was
particularly overused it as a means of of seeming like,
you know, he's in touch with the folks. You know,
people use this word folks because it makes them seem folksy, right,
it makes them seem more approachable and connected, know, just
just a part of the folks. Man. I'm just but

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now I use it again because it is a it
is a fun catch all. And I don't think I
can get away with saying y'all yet. Although I appreciate
that many of my wonderful team buck listeners in the
South have said buck you are you are cleared. I
give you permission to yawl it up. But I still,
as a Yankee from New York City, I kind of
stumble on my all, it's just not there yet. It's

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just not there yet. I'm working on y'all. I'm getting
better at it. But healthcare, all right, So Trump has
been clear going back on track here for a moment
about how Obamacare is a disaster. He's been saying it
for quite some time. He just said it earlier today.
Here's what it was. Play clip to please Obamacare? He did,

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are you trying to keep it alive? Obamacare is virtually dead.
At best, you could say it's in its final legs.
The premiums are going through the roof, the deductibles are
so high that people don't get to use it. Obamacare
is a disgrace to our nation. And we are solving

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the problem of Obamacare now for most of us, because
we've been promised for a long time. For most of us,
Obamacare being solved means Obamacare being gone. That was my impression,
because that's what I was told, Repeal in her place,
repeat and replace. The Congress has failed now multiple times

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to get to that point at which repeal and replace happens.
And so now we look at, well, what can be done,
what is achievable? And with the President telling us all
that Obamacare is on its last legs, that it's going
to be it's gonna be all collapsing and getting worse
and worse, I think there's a little dissonance. There's some

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understandable confusion. I share in the confusion because we're also
hearing today the following this from the Wall Street Journal
quote to senators on Tuesday finalize the basic contours of
a bipartisan deal designed to shore up the nation's health
insurance markets. While giving states more say and how they

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implement rules set out by the Affordable Care Act. The
bill would, among other things, preserved for two years, the
billions of dollars in payments made to insurers to offset
consumers out of pocket costs. President Donald Trump said last
week his administration would be ending the payments, a move
democrats and health analysts have feared would lead to rising

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premiums and scant ensure participation on the individual markets. The bill,
forge by centers Lamar Alexander of Tennessee and Patty Murray
of Washington, caps almost three months of talks to forging
agreement that aims to appeal to both parties. So so
let's just let's take steps to take a step back
and take stock of what this means. They're saying President

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Trump's out there sing Obamacare is on the way out.
It's it's a a dying statute, or it's a dying construct.
It's just not going to be sustainable, and that I
think is certainly true. But then you wonder, all right, well,
why aren't we going to try and fix it, because
just sending more money to you know, last week, Trump's

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on this executive order that stops the payments that the
federal government was making of the executive branch instead of
through legislative appropriations. It's going to stop the process of
giving that money the exchanges. But now here Congress is acting, right,
So so Trump's like, this is for Congress to act on,
but the Congress is acting. Okay, that's a good thing.

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But isn't this the Congress then shoring up the failing
Obamacare bill with taxpayer dollars in a way that if
we really think this law should go is going and
needs to go, why are we gonna shovel money at it?
Isn't that a problem of I'm a little bit I
have to share with you. I'm a little perplex right now.

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And Trump spoke about this earlier day as well. Play
clip thirteen please um. Apparently Lamar Alexander has said he's
made a deal with Senator Patty Murray to stabilize Obamacare.
Has the White House been involved in those negotiations and
will you support that deal? Yes, we have been involved,
and this is a short term deal because we think
ultimately block grants going to the states is going to

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be the answer. That's a very good solution. We think
it's going to not only save money, but give people
much better healthcare with a very very much smaller premium spike,
and you look at what's gone on with that, also
much lower deductible so they can use it. Uh Lamar
has been working very very hard with the Democratic his

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colleagues on the other side, and Patty Murray is one
of them in particular, and they're coming up and they're
fairly close to a short term solution. The solution will
be for about a year or two years, and it
will get us over this intermediate hump because we have,
as you probably know, we have either half the votes
who were very close to having the votes, and we
will get the votes for having really the potential of

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having great healthcare in our country. So they are indeed working,
but it is a short term solution so that we
don't have this very dangerous little period, including dangerous period
for insurance companies by the way, for a period of
one year two years, we will have a very good solution,
but we're going to have a great solution ultimately. I

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think a better word than solution here would be stop gap.
If the belief is that or if the purpose is
that this is just to prevent the exchanges from collapsing
in the short term, then that's all this should be, right,
And so to say it's a solution, okay, maybe you
could say it's solving the immediate problem, but it's not
dealing with the overarching issues of Obamacare. This just puts

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money into it and says, okay, well, we'll do something
better going forward. What's that something that's supposed to be
better or or starting to make things better. The legislation,
this bipartisan legislation that's out there today, would make it
easier to get a bare bones health insurance plan. People
call them a catastrophic plans. I believe. They also call

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them copper plans because it's like gold, silver, bronze or
copper slightly better than rusty tin, rusty tin nail plan
or something, right, I mean, they've got copper plan here.
Uh So these plans would be available there are there
available only to people under age thirty. And there's some

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other provisos. You've got to show economic hardship. That so
more people be able to get low cost, high high
not high premium. Sorry, that would be the high deductible,
thank you, low cost, high deductible plans. So that's a
little bit better, but not that much better. This is

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I think where we're going to run into some problems here,
because if the horizon of healthcare reform is extended too far,
then you're assuming that Republicans are going to be in
this position forever, which I'm starting to see that this
is not part of the legislative thinking here, or maybe
it is, which would be even more disconcerting. But Okay,

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we're gonna do this for years, or well, what what
does the Senate look like in two years? Are we
so sure that it's going to stay in Republican hands
in two years, especially if the repeal in replace of
Obamacare has not happened, if promises have not been kept,
This isn't really keeping a promise. Uh. This is at
best rolling back some of the mandatory benefits under the

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A c A. But here's the problem. If the overall
structure of the Obamacare exchanges and everything else stays in place,
and it's just a question of turning the money on
and turning the money off from the federal government and
also expanding mandatory benefits under A c A the Affordable
Care Act Obamacare, or contracting those benefits based on the
political whims of any given moment of any given Congress.

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Then this we're just gonna this is gonna become like
the tax code, right goes up, a little down, a
little up, a little down, a little doesn't, but overall
it's still a monstrosity. That's the current tax code. Obamacare
is going to start to mirror that here, Republicans, do,
you know, make it a little better. But then Democrats
come into that. We cannot assume that incremental change is
good enough or even possible over the long term to

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achieve the ends of a replacement of Obamacare. Sweeping bold action,
my friends, at some point, the GOP Congress needs to
get it together, get their spines stiffened collectively, and take
action on Obamacare that will dramatically change the way we

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buy health insurance. The way it is market based, the
way providers have incentives for better, more efficient, more cost
effective care, and that the dollars follow the patient. The
patient makes the decisions. That's what has to happen here.
This is this nibbling around the edges. I'm not saying
it's not good, I'm just saying it's not good enough. Yet.

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I want to salute in both Lamar Alexander and Patty
Murray for working Hall Art on a bipartisan solution. We
think it's a good solution, and it got broad support
when Patty and I talked about it at the Caucus
at lunch today. First, it stabilizes the system two year.

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In two years, of course, sharing provides real stability to
the system, and we want to make sure that happens.
We want to work in the long term to reduce
premiums in increased coverage. Our Republican colleagues seem to be
in the opposite place on the long term, but I
think there's a growing consensus that in the short term
we need stability in the markets. So we've achieved stability

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if this agreement becomes law. We've also put in some
very significant anti sabotage provisions prating sabotaging this bill, and
the agreement would undo much of that sabotage. Sabotage no,
not allowed. Chuck Schumer likes this way too much, uh,

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way too much for me to think that it's a
good idea. That's I'm I'm opposed. I know this isn't
how you should do your politics in general, but I'm
opposed to it because Chuck is for it. But that's
a pretty Jack Schilma, that's a pretty good, pretty good
yardstick I think that you can use here. And you've
also got Senator Patty Murray, which is not exactly a

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giant not going to give me a giant vote of
confidence here play clip. Right now, patients and families across
our country are looking at the harmful steps that President
Trump has taken to sabotage healthcare in our country. They're
looking at their bank accounts, and they're realizing if the
President is allowed to continue down the path he has
headed on, they are the ones that are going to

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pay the price. So I'm really glad that Democrats and
Republicans agree it's unacceptable and that the uncertainty and dysfunction
cannot continue. And I'm very pleased that in the hearings
and discussions with over half he goes on to talk
about Sabbath TAJ. Sabotage is clearly the in the center
of the talking points right now for the Democrats. He's

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trying to sabotage it. He's just being the word. He's
sabotaging the healthcare marketplaces, says Chuck Shuma. But yeah, that's
that's what they're all supposed to say, because illegal payments,
they're not legal payments that have been made, because illegal
payments have been made by the were made by the

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Obama administration in order to shore up these failing exchanges.
Now those payments have to forevermore be made. It seems
they're just hiding how problematic the exchanges really are. They're
just hiding that this is this is a recipe doomed
and I think intentionally doomed to failure. Forcing people into

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exchanges that they don't want to be in, where they're
paying mostly for other people's health care or the taxpayer
is subsidizing them, is not gonna make for good exchanges.
All right, We've got a ton of lines live here,
so I do want to get to some calls. Eight
four to five will do that. We'll talk about Ice
is taking Roca. It is a day that of celebration
and the fight against Jeehodism. Today, my friends, we'll get

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into that he's holding the line for America buck sex
in his back. I see even more headlines now that
they're just popping up all over the place here about
sexual harassment allegation, sexual assault allegations from different actresses out

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there without necessarily Some of them are about wine seeing
some of them are about other individuals unnamed as if
yet Reese, Witherspoon, j this is all on the drudgepoort, Reese, Witherspoon,
Jennifer Lawrence, others that are coming out and saying I
can't even keep up with it, all saying that they
were really agree you just leave sexually harassed. And then
you have the main header on on drudger Bob Weinstein,

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so the brother of Harvey Weinstein accused of sexual harassment.
This is this is a day. It is a day
of reckoning, or I suppose a month of reckoning for
Hollywood for the entertain You know, when people say Hollywood
really for the entertainment industry, it's well beyond just Hollywood.
And also it's it's a music industry. News media industry

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has a has a problem with this too, but it's
in the entertainment industry. And I'll give you some of
my thoughts on why I think entergy. I think as
an industry it's particularly susceptible to real abuse of power,
and it's a culture that has gone hidden. And on
the other hand, there's so much virtue signaling right. It's
almost like they they doth they doth doth protest in

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favor of their progressivism and their feminism in Hollywood too much.
They make too much of a big deal about how
left wing and progressive and pro feminist and and pro
trans and all this stuff they are. And you go,
hm hmm. Now we look under the surface, and sure
enough there's a tremendous amount of hypocrisy and and exploitation

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and and even seeming the criminal behavior here. All right,
I got I know, I know lines, lines. I've gotta
get the lines. You folks are all kind enough to
call in and keep me company here, and everyone else
I know listening likes to hear from members of the team.
Tim in Mississippi on w b u V. Hey Tim, Hey,
but can you doing I'm all right, thank you for
calling listen a couple of things, and you kind of

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hit on a couple of my points here in the
last little bit that you did. But but this whole,
this whole deal with the insurance stuff, what what they're
trying to do. And by the way, Lamar Alexander, Lamar
Alexander just barely misses the cut for the swamp dwelling
six that are in the Senate, McConnell, McCain, Graham, mccowski,

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and conquered. Those guys need to be voted out of office.
But that's another point. Anyway, Alexander is just as big
as wamp brow as the risk. But but what this
thing is trying to do and then you hit on it.
The payments that were made to the insurance companies were
not mandated by law, They weren't even permitted by law.
Was done by executive order. Illegal, uh that that he
can make the order. But the payments are funded through

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the executive branch. What this bill will do is it
will take out of Donald Trump's hands the ability to
stop making these payments because essentially what they'll be doing
is memorializing this in a law. Okay, Now, two things
about this whole this whole deal. First of all, the
the subsidies, the money that is going to the insurance companies. Um,

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why why should uh why should taxpayer money be going
to ensures? And it winds up in their pockets a
great deal of Now we're also subsidizing the changes, you know,
to the the individual participants, So we're paying the insurance
taxpayer money. And I pay a lot of taxes. I'm
sure you do too. Taxpayer money is going into the

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pockets of the insurance companies and now it's not enough.
They can't make it their pull and have the exchanges
because we can't make money blah blah blah um my
premiums and I have have always paid my own insurance.
My premiums went from nine hundred dollars nine twelve dollars
to two thousand, three hundred five dollars a month in

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the last eight months here and your your care has
not gotten substantially better, has it. It's not like all
of a sudden you're getting the white glove service. No, no,
it has not, not a bit um so. So really,
the whole insurance thing, I'm paying, and a lot of
people are paying three different pieces. I'm paying for myself
at exorbitant rates. I'm paying insurers to do nothing but

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get rich, And I'm subsidizing people that for whatever reason didn't,
couldn't wouldn't have insurance except for this, and for for
the administration to allow this now to be put into law.
I think President Trump is going to be making a serious,
serious mistake. I totally agree you, Tim I said, what,
once you turn the money spigot on, it's it's gonna

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be almost impossible to turn it off, right, That's what
that's the mistake here. I think Trump made the right
call last week by saying, look, we're just not gonna
make these payments anymore, but by saying we are going
to make by by blessing this Senate move to be
bipartisan and funding the shortfalls in these exchanges. Well, isn't
Trump telling us that this is terrible, it's falling apart

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and people are going to feel the pain and understand
that they that this can't continue. Well, which is it?
I feel that there's a there's a disconnect here with
the strategy unit, and it feels very short term to me. Absolutely,
it does to me too, except as you know, if
they enter into this two year thing, like you said
a minute ago, um that if this happens to undo

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it will take another act of Congress. Who knows who's
going to control the congress um in two years? And
and really there's I mean, I don't know the specific ideas,
but but it's amazing how um, I guess economic system
dumb we are in this country. You know, people like free.
People think free is still a thing, Tim, People think

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that someone else paying for their health care at some
level or being subsidized by the taxpayer, is not them
and meaning it does not have any effect on the
economy and their own earnings and wages and prospects in
the economy. And I just one more thing on this him,
and then I got to move the next call. But
the ads on this for the Democrats right themselves. I mean,
it's it's one thing to say it's unconstitutional for the

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payments to continue to be made. I think that's a
that's a strong argument, right. You can't just have the
federal government writing checks that it feels like writing. Okay,
once Congress passes it, or assuming Congress passes us and
Trump signs it, then the ads or the the storyline
from Democrats becomes, they're cutting off funds for your health care,
full stop, and that's why it doesn't go away. All right,
Tim Shields time and great, great call. I can talk

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to you about this all day. But I want to
thank you very much, sir, But I want to move
to some of our other callers who are patiently waiting
here in the queue, and including our friend Greg who's
calling it from Oklahoma listening on the I Heart app.
We know Greg greg is a combat veteran. What's up, Greg, Hey? Buck?
I just wanted to talk about everybody's UH favorite soldier
who served with honor and distinction. Oh, I know you're

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talking about except berg All decided to plead guilty to
UH desertion and then misbehavior before the enemy. I think
the next step is really finding out what this punishment
is is going to be. Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure that
the death sentence is not on the table in this
particular situation, even though if you read the codes that

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he violated in a time of war, desertion is punsorable
by death, and so is mis misbehavior before the enemy.
And I think he's just gonna get life in prison
and be another cult hero to the left, just like
brad man It's unbelievable they've done with Bradley Manning by
not not to divert from the bird doll discussion, but
that Harvard offered offered him this uh this intern and

(27:09):
look I I see on all on a lot of
news networks, they're all referring to Bradley Manning as she
and Bradley manning the whistle blower. I'm like, dumping a
ton of classified documents on the internet is not whistle blowing.
It's just just it's betraying your country, and it's wildly irresponsible, right,
It's it's amazing the narrat anyway with burg Doll. I mean, look, Greg,

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you're a guy who was out there literally on on
the front lines and and uh you know, facing down
those uh, those enemies and dealing with those very real
threats to your person day in and day out. So
I hear from you and others who have warned the
uniform and served in combat zones across the board very
very much want to see stern, stern punishment, perhaps not

(27:51):
the ultimate punishment, but stern punishment for bird Doll for
what for what he did, because of the implications of
having other people having to go find him on top
of everything. On on CNN, your former colleague John Bremen,
he wondered aloud, if quote, beyond what he had already
served with captivity with the Taliban, would you know service

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justice for his desertion and misbehavior before the enemy, As
if him being captured wasn't his own fault and that
should count towards his sentencing at some point like it
was mind blowing that he actually said this, let me
have one other thing, this Greg, I mean, if this
were if burg Doll had not been brought back at
the cost of you know, trading Taliban senior you know,

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few senior fighters and and senior organizers, if burgall had
not been traded under the Obama administration and it was
not part of Obama's the whole Rose Garden speech and
all this stuff. Do you think that you'd be hearing
from any senior government officials who are who are clearly
Democrats about how yeah, you know, the punishment we don't

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have to worry about. No, it's because this was an
Obama decision and they don't want to they don't want
to look as bad, right, And they only did this
is because the memory hole, the v A scandal that
was exploding in front of their face at the time
they hold this Rose Garden and then all of a sudden,
the v A scandal disappears from the front page. And
this is great celebration of the you know, forty eight
hours of the Obama a ministration and saying, hey, he

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served with honor and distinction until you actually talk to
anybody that served with him and like, no, he completely
messed up the into the war. Greg, I know you
were in rock Vet before. We have to run into
a break here because we've got our guests, But let
me ask you first and foremost your thoughts on your
your thoughts on Kurdish independence and Kurds in the fight
against ices Buck. I'm grateful that you keep putting this

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in front of people. I think this is one of
the main passions that most veterans that I know have U.
The Curtish people are warriors that have a warrior culture,
and so it really uh speaks to us. And honestly,
if I didn't have a family, I would be over
there fighting with the Freshmerga or the p k K.
At this point, I mean, this is absolutely ridiculous. Trump's
statement yesterday UH really sent me into a heated and

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just because again we're leaving them behind and not backing
them up when they've literally saved Iraq from ISIS in
two thousand and fourteen, fifteen and sixteen and then push
them out and essentially took rocket today h Slash last night.
So to turn our back on these people is infuriating
and get my blood pressure up even right now just
talking about it. I hear you, I hear you. Man well,

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Greg has always great call my friend, thank you for
your service and Shields High team. We're going to run
into a quick break here. We're gonna talk about isis
the fall of Rock into the hands of the good
guys finally thanks to in large part of our friends
the Kurds along with some US some essential US MILL help.
We will get into that and also talk a bit

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about Kurtish independence and then the latest on Hillary's un
ending circle of corruption. We can have some fun with that,
and later on the show, I'll talk to you about
judicial uh not just activism, but lunacy courtesy of a
judge in Hawaii that is part of the hashtag resistance
against Trump. Maybe some thoughts on the Weinstein the continuing

(31:06):
spiral into the eighth circle of Hell, that is the
Weinstein harassment slash assault story as well. And it's gone
well beyond Weinstein, as I've been saying to it's now
spreading and there's more and more that's going to be
coming out. You are now entering the Freedom Tactical Operations Center.
Programs must be kept strictly need to know Team Buck

(31:31):
is cleared and ready for the Buck brief. Well, the
day we have been waiting for for years now is
finally upon us. The Islamic State has lost control of Rocca,
It's capital, it's de facto capital in Syria. Uh. The
Syrian Democratic forces with US backing and air power, have

(31:51):
finally beaten the j hottest Sadis not just on their
home turf, but in the heart of the territory that
they once controlled. And now it seems like it is
just going to continue to roll them up going forward.
We have Hassan Hassan with us. He is the co
author of ISIS inside the Army of Terror. Hassan, great

(32:13):
to have you back. Tell us what's going on with
Rocca right now? Well, thank you for having me. Well. Uh,
the bottle of Rockers is almost over. Uh. There's kind
of tent of the city. Uh. It's still under the
control of ISIS. Uh. But the American officials and people

(32:37):
like the commanders on the ground considered the battle done.
It's just a clearing and remain of pockets. You have
also had to also remember that the same thing happened
in most of the battle continued for for a bit
of a while, but it's really done practically speak right,
they sees that stadium that was set up by ISIS

(32:57):
in the center of Rocca as something i've a last
stand position, right, So that was the final, the final
big stronghold of of ISIS fighters that is now in
the hands of the Syrian Democratic forces. There will be
some mopping up operations in the city and then continued
security encounter and surgery concerns. But on the Syrian side,
and I want to ask you about the Iraqi sign

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just a moment, Hassan. On the Syrian side, what's still
left in ISIS or g hottest aligned hands in terms
of territory, Well, there is still there's still a major
stronghold UH in the province of der Zor that's larger
than Rocco in terms of territory size wise, it's it's

(33:40):
much bigger than Rocco, but it's UH. It's predominantly try Um,
predominantly rural areas. US. There's in that in that space,
there's kind of there's two or three small cities or
urban centers, but it's ISIS is on the run in Syria.
The problem though, is that this is a time when

(34:03):
ice ICES is changing tactics. So it's actually uh moving
away from kind of face to face with the US
backed forces. So they know so well they've melted away
into the civilian population now and they're going to engage
in insurgency. I so, yes, exactly, so insurgency and full force.

(34:25):
Now there are less emphasizing the territory and the klip
it and they're moving away into insurgency. They've been talking
about this recently in their publications and their public discourse, saying, uh,
in two thousands, in two thousand and eight, we did
the same thing. We dismantled all our fights in units

(34:45):
and turned and turned everyone into an I e D expert,
and we trained all all our fighters to be I
e D experts. And this is what they're trying to do. Now.
What is the status of the Syrian regime, the Assad regimes,
security and and territorial gains right now? I mean, how
is how is a sad looking at all? This? Well?

(35:07):
I said, is looking pretty well? He on one hand,
he has won the strategic war, so nobody wants to
topple as Sad anymore, and no regional even the oppositions
regional backers. They're not interested in bringing down Acid regime,
including Turkey. Turkey was one of the kind of the

(35:29):
sorriest backers of the Syrian opposition. They are now more
or less or indirectly actually working with the Acid regime,
and their policy is in line with the Russian and
the Iranian policy in northern Syria, so they're actually working together.
The Gulf states have no interest in Syria anymore. There
there we saw today, for example, the former uh A

(35:53):
Saudi ambassadors to Iraq went with Bret McGurk into Syria
to visit the deliberated area is that the Americans liberated
and helped liberate in eastern Syria, and they're talking about
rebuilding rock for example. So uh answered, this is looking
pretty you know, please stay right there. There's no there's
no serious Really, the Assad regime has lived throughout this

(36:17):
entire horrific civil war. Half a million casualties were so
the Asade regime is going to live to fight another day. Yes, absolutely,
abs what it's good to say, that's there's no question
about this at the opposition to talk about resistant asset,
but they're really privately that there except the reality this
is unless something changes. But for now as it is

(36:38):
is fine. The question really is what to do with
what remains of Syria and what what the future in
the kind of the far future, and is the since
future um nobody is talking about removing now and militarily
is also doing well. Now there's a race between the
Russians and Americans in the Eastern Syria over who takes

(37:01):
which areas in in what remains of isis Terris alright?
Hassan Hassan, co author of Isis Inside the Army of Terror?
Check it out. It's on Amazon. Hassan. Always great to
have you man, Thank you for your time. Thank you, sir,
He's back with you now. Because when it comes to
the fight for truth, the fuck never stops. Tee him.

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I know a lot of shows, TV radio, a lot
of hosts, a lot of people who work in the
information a new space would probably skip over any any
in depth discussion of a breakaway province of a faraway country,
though when we've been at war in and I've been

(37:46):
very involved in for quite some time now, but a
lot of people would skip over it in my business
in order to move on to the latest UH tweet
war against the Trump administration or whatever it may be,
right talk about how some unfunny leftist female comedian has
said something terrible about somebody on the on the right.

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I think Kurdistan matters. I think the Kurdish issue is important,
and I think that I can discuss it in a
way where you'll see that this reflects more than just
a decision about what the best strategy is for us
in dealing with this issue in Iraq. It reflects who

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we are as a country. And that's why I think
you get some of the most passionate reactions on this
issue from veterans, veterans who served in Iraq and who
saw firsthand the incredible spirit and tenacity and honor of

(38:53):
the Iraqi Kurds. Despite all of the atrocities around them,
the genocide around them, the genocide visited upon them by
Saddam Hussein, the on Fall campaign, the poison gas attack
at Halabja, a Kurdish town, dropping poison gas on men,

(39:17):
women and children from Saddam's helicopters. They have endured through
all of this, and despite the breakdown of their country
into a g hottest sadest anarchy. For a while, the
Kurds kept it together somehow, um as a result of

(39:38):
the bravery of Kurdish Peshmerga and the trustworthiness of the
Kurdish government. Look, I'm not naive, and no government is perfect.
They're acting in their own self interest and the interests
of their people. And the Barzanis and and the other
other clans that run the Kurdish area of Rock that
run Kurdistan are certainly not without sin. But because of

(40:04):
the Kurds, I can put it to you in these terms,
and I think that most of the veterans I know,
we get a lot of veterans who listened to the show,
and a lot of active military too. Because of the Kurds.
There are fewer Americans who have come back with grievous
wounds from Iraq. And there are few Americans who have

(40:25):
come back having been killed in action because of Kurdish actions,
because of what they did. Now, it's their country and
they have an interest in it and all of that.
But you can't say the same thing about a lot
of Sunni Arab towns in Iraq. You can't say the
same thing about fighting alongside you know, Sunni, And I'm

(40:45):
generalizing here, I know they're there are excellent Sunni Arab
units in Iraq, and there are a lot of not
so good ones circa two thousand six, two thousand seven,
two thousand and eight, when the surge was happening. I mean,
you ask, you ask a veteran who's r of in
Iraq around that time period, would you rather have had
Peshmurger having your back or whoever the latest Iraqi army

(41:08):
you know, Sunni and Shia Arab lad Iraqi Army battalion
rolled in was. You won't get the same answer every time,
but from a lot of them, you're gonna hear Peshburger. So,
as I've said, I think we have a gentlemanly obligation.
We have a debt of honor to the Kurdish people.
I think that's well established. We are celebrating, and I

(41:30):
think not nearly celebrating enough the downfall of the Islamic
State right now because the Kurds provided the ground force.
So also to my previous thesis about how we have
fewer wounded and debt Americans in Iraq because of the Kurds,
that's certainly the case as well in the fight against

(41:51):
the Islamic State. So this is not just some far
away place that we can put out of mind. The
Islamic State was involved in mass casualty attacks in Europe.
Those attacks were planned in Rocca in the surrounding areas.
People were trained and funded in rock on the surrounding areas,

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and they were coming for us on our own soil
too here in America, and the Kurds helped stamp them out.
They're still doing it. There's more operations left to come,
but the Islamic State will, barring some unbelievable reversal of
fortune in the Islamic State is on the way out
as a state. It'll be an ideology and Jiad is

(42:37):
here to stay for a while. But a group that
calls itself a state, that is the Islamic State, that
functions as a government, that has its own passport making office,
that has its own police and Shariah courts and all that. Nope,
that's gonna be gone in Iraq and Syria soon and

(42:57):
again thanks to the Kurds. So that's why when I
see the latest news out of Kurdistan, it it really
saddens me. The Iraqi government largely pushed into this and
and egged on by I R G C. Kods force,
and Iran has seized Kerk Cook and the surrounding oil fields.

(43:21):
And Kerk Cook if that's a city that doesn't uh
pop up in the in the memory bank, it's for
us just another city in Iraq where we've had, you know,
our best and bravest fighting and trying to create stability
and turn the lights on and get the sewage flowing
and everything else in that in that city. But for

(43:41):
the Kurds, kirk Cook is Jerusalem. That's what they say
that kirk Cook is the Kurdish Jerusalem. It is the
most important city to them. Usually you think of Kurdistan
and areas like air Bill and the cities like our
Bill and Sumania. But for them, Kerk Cook is the
the holy Grail of cities. And the Iraqi government has

(44:05):
taken it back and taken it back by force. And
I've seen some reports on exchanges of gunfire between Iraqi
troops and some pesh Murga, although they were immediately said,
oh no, it's just a misunderstanding. I don't know, I'm
not there. But now the government in Baghdad wants even more.
They want the pesh Murga, who whose name means those

(44:27):
who make a pact with Death, who, even when outgunned
by ISIS fighters, were willing to stand their ground and
stick it out. The pesh Murger are supposed to come
under the authority of the central government in Baghdad. And
we look at this and we say to ourselves, Okay,
in the short term, I want to give you the

(44:47):
short term version of what's happening there and the long
term version, which is a combination of why you and
and everyone listening, Well, that's the general you, why we
should all care about this, and why there is an
opportunity here. And let me start with what the thinking is,
and then I'll get to why I think it's wrong

(45:08):
and how there should be a focus on something else. Um.
And I think I've talked talked to you for in
the show going back the Air of Woodrow Wilson, League
of Nations, the Kords, there's thirty million of them, largest
stateless people in the world. I just think they also
they deserve a homeland, not just because they say it,
not just because they have their own language and then
their own ethnicity. You can say that a lot of

(45:29):
they've earned it. They've earned it, and the international community
should recognize that. On the U S should be taking
a lead on this, but I'm getting ahead of myself.
In the short term, here's how the Trump administration so far,
and I break with them on this. You know, I'm
not here to just tell you everything Trump does is great.
That's not gonna happen. You know that this is a
foreign policy matter that I disagree with the current administration

(45:50):
position on. But I think Trump is persuadable on this.
I don't think it's all over yet. That's also why
I wanted to talk to you about this today on
the show. I don't think this is signed, sealed and
delivered against the Kurts, although it has gone badly in
recent days and it's certainly a major setback for them.
I think if Trump was presented with the arguments in

(46:13):
the right way, if he was presented with the arguments
that I'm making here on this show, for example, he
might change his mind and and there would be a
way to transition. It wouldn't be an overnight thing, but
everybody had a transition to official Kurdish independence. The short
term thinking on this is we don't want to upset
Turkey because Turkey gets very, uh very antsy about the

(46:37):
notion of kur even. Remember, Iraq is a separate country,
a different state from Turkey, right, but the Turks have
their own Kurdish minority. There has been the p KK
insurgency in Turkey for decades. It's killed a lot of
Turks and there's a lot of bad blood over this.
But to that, I say, the Turkish government has been
much less helpful and trustworthy on the issue of the

(46:59):
Islamic State then it should have been, especially early on.
The Turkish government needs us more than we need them,
and the Turkish government would learn to live with it.
They've got a lot of direct investment in northern Iraq already.
They have economic ties to Kurdistan as it is. And
just because we take up we say that a part

(47:20):
of Iraq can be Kurdish, doesn't mean that we would
then say, oh yeah, and Turkey too, a huge piece
of Turkey. No one suggesting that the Turks need to
well it. They'd say it's their backyard. But from my perspective,
they should back off on this one, but they won't.
They won't. But that's why we don't want upset Turkey
NATO ally, although causing problems for US in the region

(47:43):
and with are Doan has a government in place that
is it's just going down the wrong path of Islamism
and authoritarianism. It's pretty scary stuff what's happening in Turkey
right now, and they're locking up journalists like it's going
out of style. And then the other piece of this
is the Iraq Iran issue. And when you look at it,
you say, Okay, we've we've essentially helped build this government

(48:04):
in Iraq out of Baghdad with Hyderalla body as the
prime minister, and we don't want to go against them.
There are ally where we'd be carving up a part
of their country, right, but what are they really going
to say to us? They're they're going to do what
exactly tell us that this is this is impossible, that
this thinking is is beyond the pale. We've pushed for

(48:28):
Albanian independence or ethnic Albanians to have independence in the
state of Kosovo. Uh. You look at South Ossetia, you
look at South Sudan, new countries are being formed, still
the map is not done and over with. And then
you have the Iranian hand on this, which is the
most ominous and odious of all the players here. That

(48:52):
you have I r G. C. Kold's force in any way,
shape or form attached to these Shia militias that are
helping to take control in places like kirk Cook is
deeply disturbing. Uh. These are true enemies of the United States.

(49:13):
They are enemies of Western are Western allies? They are
enemies of Yes, they are enemies of Western civilization. Here's
what the Wallstreet Journal reports on this issue. Specifically, Iran,
with its own restive Kurdish population, was the most vocal
opponent of Kurdistan's independence. The chief of its Kods Force,

(49:35):
Major General Kassams Solimani, who has nurtured close ties with
Baghdad and Mr Barzani's Kurdish opponents, played a key role
in Monday's takeover of kerk Cook. This development has prompted Mr.
Barzani's movement to adopt a stridently anti Iranian tone, potentially
aligned the conflict with the broader Middle East fracture between
foes and allies of Tehran. Iran really doesn't want an

(49:58):
independent Kurdistan. I think Iran realizes that were that to happen,
you know what, if we were we were playing chess
instead of checkers here, if we were looking if the
government right now was looking steps down the line, and
I understand this would be a transition process. It wouldn't
be forever. But we could be given a lot more
help and backing to the Kurds than we are. We

(50:18):
could have air bases in Kurdistan. The Kurds would love it,
oh man, I'm sure they would. I mean I haven't
talked to them about it, you know, but I'm sure
the Kurds would love to have some a permanent US
military base. I mean, think along the lines of what
we have in South Korea and Germany. Have that right
up in Kurdistan in an area where the people couldn't
be any happier to see US, friendly, trustworthy. Kurdish food

(50:42):
is good. Look, I'm open about that. I think the
Kurds are great. Uh. Kurtish food is good. Kurtish people
are friendly. That like Americans. They love Americans. If we
set up an air base or two in the north,
you know, or whatever basis we want, and what do
you think the Iranians would think? Then no more of this,
all this this Baghdad Oh we've got you know, we
don't want to be puppets of the Americans and we're

(51:03):
gonna cause problem. You know, the courage will be like
come on in, the water's warm, because the Kurds are
real allies. And one more thing. So from a strategic
point of view, the relationship that we could have with
the Kurds, if they were an autonomous state, could just
get stronger and stronger and give us a tremendous amount
of leverage in a part of the world where we

(51:24):
could really use it. And we would have, you know,
we if we built an air base there, if there
was a Curtis stand, if it was a member of
you know, the the United Nations and seen by the
world as a new state. There's a lot of opportunities there,
opportunities for investment as well, all kinds of stuff. And
one more thing. And this is at the broadest level,
the broadest narrative of what I view is not just

(51:47):
the counter jihad and the global counterinsurgency against al Qaya,
the Islamic State and these other these other entities, these
other nihilistic, vile, destructive death cults that are out there
under the banner of of jihad. The Kurds have proven
that a Muslim ethnic group, so they're at their ethnic Kords,

(52:13):
but there Muslim by religion. The Kurds have proven that
an Islamic people can be modern, pro western, maintain their identity,
and be an ally to the civilized world in the
face of the worst jihaddest atrocity is imaginable. They have
been a beacon to the rest of the Muslim world,

(52:36):
whether they want to see it or not, about what
is possible, about what friendship with the West and with
the civilized nations of the world could mean. And to
miss this opportunity to say, see, there are friends, there
are allies. They've been with us, they have bled with us,
they have bled for us, and now we have an
opportunity to pay them back. I just think it's I

(52:57):
will say it. I think it's shameful. And we them
more than this, We owe them more than this. All right,
We've got calls up on the board here in the
Freedom Hunt. And I also want to thank UH w
CBM A M six eight, Baltimore for hosting me today.
UH special thanks to Shawn Casey, the programming director, Eric Steinegal,

(53:17):
the chief engineer w c B M A M UH
six eight in Baltimore. Thank you very much for giving
me a Mobile Freedom Hunt for the day, much much appreciated.
Let's get into all of the latest. Here we have
on the board. Here we have Dr Bob listening in

(53:38):
on the I Heart app from in Pennsylvania. What's going on?
Dr Bob? Hey page paging the doctor. What's up? Now?
You got you gotta cut no speaker phone, sir, You
gotta come right up to this because everyone wants to
hear you, Dr Bob. Okay, So there we go. Look
at oh Crystal clear. Man, it's like you're hanging out
here with me and everybody else. All right, here's the story.

(54:02):
First of all, we have to transform everything that you
just said into action. Now I've written even though I'm Jewish,
I'm not Kurdish. I've written a half dozen articles over
the past decade on this issue. And I visited Congress
on Mondays three weeks ago when they had the hearing
when the Cassidy Bill, and dropped off a couple of

(54:24):
articles along those lines. To try to motivate people to
have a conference in Washington. They would pull together all
of the Kurdish lobbying groups. There are four of them,
and a guy named Sharko, a boss who has been
educating me on this. Who is the president of the
Kurdistan National Assembly of Syria can put this together, and

(54:49):
I'd like to ask you if we can recruit your
support to help coordinate pulling this together as soon as possible,
because we have to help the Donald under dan that
being neutral, as you pointed out yesterday, when Fox News
is actually supporting Iran via back. Dad. Do you think
we can do this? I don't. I don't know the

(55:11):
specifics of what you're trying for your Dr Bob, but
if if it, if there's a way that I can
be helpful in getting the administration to understand this Kurdish
issue from a perspective, and it sounds like you and
I share that that's something I would certainly be interested in. Well,
let me just suggest that Barzani would come over for
a conference. And the key difference between this and a

(55:34):
conference that was held in June is it would not
just be one of the Couratish groups, would be all
of them. And there we've we've written up in the
past the various factions that have been backed by various groups.
But the key thing is we have to push for independence.
We have to push for the fact that a hundred

(55:55):
years ago, the Treaty of Severa is promised that this
was going to occur, and then it was unfortunately supplanted.
And therefore this is something that's for the thirty plus
million heards, is something that should have been accomplished not
just yesterday, but a year ago, if not a century ago,

(56:18):
if not four thousand years ago, when they first started
working together as an ethnic group. All right, Dr Bob,
give me a favorite. Send me, send me all this,
Send me all this. You have my Facebook, right, send
me the message there. I'll get it, and uh, you
and I can we we can start a dialogue about
this via email and see where we go. All right,
I'm thrilled to hear from you. Thanks, Okay, all right,

(56:40):
Dr Bob, thank you, sir. So I've got two different
stories that i want to get to now, and I'm
not sure how much time I'm gonna spend on either,
so we'll see. I think I will skip over that
I saw it fox, that Bigfoot was reportedly sited in
northern California to pick just have gone viral. Oh man,

(57:02):
you know, there's just something it's just fun to read.
You know, it's nonsense, but it's fun to read a
big Foot story right now and again big Foot locked ness,
chupa cabra. There's all kinds of stuff out there. Maybe
you can get into some of that on around Halloween,
you know, take take a a fun view of the lore,

(57:22):
the mythology around all this stuff. I think mythology is
mythology is just stories as long as you realize it's
not real. Stories give me great. Uh So, I this
big Foot photo that was pretty funny. That's out there
right now. I don't think, I don't I don't know
much to add on that. I'm not a I'm not
a Sasquatch expert um and uh or I never just

(57:44):
really so, I guess the abominable snowman is that like
in the Himalayas versus the sasqu and Sasquatches up in
the Pacific Northwest. And I've never really and and big
Foot is the same as Sasquatch. So that's about as
much as that now, all right, like buck stop talking
about the things. Yeah, so I've got put that aside.
I just saw that story and it made me smile
for a second. That's all hard turn Now I want

(58:08):
to get into the the Hillary corruption stuff that broke today,
and I think was it Solomon and my friend Sarah Carter. Sarah,
by the way, it's just the greatest. I used to
work with her a lot at at the Blaze, and
it's amazing that a journalist can be so effective and
fierce in her profession and such an incredibly kind, warm

(58:33):
and trustworthy and patriotic human beings. So, uh, Sarah. I
can't say enough nice things about Sarah Carter. And you know,
we've had her on the show many times before. But
I've been working with Sarah for years. I'm not sure
if this was her. I think it is her piece,
it's Solomon as well. She's been working with John Solomon
a lot of the Hillary email stuff and also on

(58:53):
the Russia gate. So but there's more Hillary corruption about Russia,
and I'll get to that. Put put a pin in
that for a second, but we will talk about it.
I think it's just giving us more of it's more
detail that is supporting what we already know as as
conclusions about all this. But put a hold on that

(59:15):
for a second, because I also just want to note
that there is not a whole lot of new information
right think the two stories I wanted to get to
know obviously Russia. Hillary will get into that in a second,
but first on the Las Vegas mash shooting that happened.
Here we are now, we've had many days passed since

(59:39):
that incident, and we don't really have much more in
terms of information. I spoke to you yesterday about how
the timeline was fixed and how it seems like Hazos
Jesus Campos was maybe caught up in the possibility of
his employer being sued. He is completely, uh disappeared. I mean,

(01:00:02):
it's it's known that he's Oh it's Allison Span is
the one with the piece. Pardon me, well, Sarah still
all those things I said about Sarah Carter still stands.
So Sarah Carter is still wonderful. But it's Allison Span
with the with the piece on Russia, FBI and cover.
Yeah here, John Solomon and Allison Space. It was John
Solomon and Allison Span instead of John Solomon and Sarah Carter.

(01:00:26):
I'm sure Allison Span is great too, I just don't
know her. So, but back to Las Vegas. Thank you
producer Amy for not letting me continue to cite the
wrong person as the author of that piece. That's why
I've got you know, Amy, Yeah, making sure that I
stay on the on the factual path here. Uh, although
she left me alone with the Sasquatch thing, because we

(01:00:46):
all know sasquatch. It's just about fun. So we don't
have we don't have any more back to the serious
topic of of the investigation here, we don't have anything
on on the shooter. Really, we don't have any additional information,
which is kind of incredible at this point, not much
more in the way of motive. And this disappearance and

(01:01:07):
he's not disappeared like no one knows where he is,
but dropping off the radar of the security guard. It's
just something up. And I'm I don't have conspiracies for you.
I don't. I don't buy into that stuff. One of
the reasons why I never think that conspiracies are uh,
intellectually sound practice, it is because having spent time in

(01:01:27):
some places where there's a lot of conspiracy theories c
I A CFR. You know, go down, go down the
list of some of these organizations. It's often what people
think might be some grandiose plot. It's much more likely
to just be in competence, indifference, in aptitude, so I'll
be amazing if there was like all these people coming

(01:01:49):
together from all over the world and there's like this
this group of people that are like at the top,
you know, and and they're they're they're the ones given
the orders. I mean, they're the one saying like this
is how it's good that that gets people riled up,
and they no. No, Usually, conspiracies are just much more complicated,
are much more complicated then they have to be. And
that's because they're not accurate, right, That's why conspiracies become

(01:02:12):
so ornate. But they're interesting and so they draw attention
for people. I don't have any conspiracy to offer up
here about what's going on on Vegas, because nothing makes
sense to me. But I also don't have answers for you.
I don't have answers about the motive of the shooter.
I don't have answers about how you know, the timeline.
I think we've worked out a little bit, but still

(01:02:32):
the motive here, we don't have it. And I was
saying to you the first week of the shooting. I
just want to note this, I was saying the first
week that that shooting had happened, that I'm not sure
we're ever going to find out based on the the
almost unfathomable precision and planning and the meticulous nature of

(01:02:54):
what that guy Paddock did to engage in mass murder.
It just doesn't line up with what we see in
these case is in the past. And if you're gonna
if there was a political motive, if you do something
for a political motive, you want people to know. And
if you're that politicized, you tend to leave a trail
of your politics, and we don't. We still just don't

(01:03:15):
have it. Now. Another a lot of folks are out there, Oh,
you know, my law enforcement sources say, you know, it's
just a matter of hours before the equivalent of the
you know, the the handwritten note that explains it all
is revealed. They've got it. You know, people say stuff
like that, whether they're saying it in good faith or
they just want to be on on TV or on
radio and have something to say. I can't tell you,
but I was telling you right away, I don't think

(01:03:36):
that this is I don't see how we get to
a clear answer here, because if there was a clear answer,
we would probably know. And right now that's looking pretty
pretty accurate. And if it changes. I'll update you as
soon as I can. But I'm still sitting around waiting.
I mean, I'm not a part of this world anymore
on the investigative or analytics side. I'm still waiting to

(01:03:58):
hear something about loss Vegas on the motive and about
this shooter that all that brings it all together. So
it makes sense. I just I'm not there yet. Um,
And we're not there yet. No no one knows, I
mean no one. No one knows unless law enforces holding
stuff back. But there's no criminal trial here that we
know of. I mean, the shooters debt, So why would
law enforce and be holding out on us? That makes

(01:04:20):
no sense either. So there's just some there's some question
marks that are are lingering. Um. And I wanted to
note that now I told you we talked about Hillary
and the corruption and and all the and the Russia stuff.
Why don't I take this opportunity to we can reset,

(01:04:40):
get back into neutral here and go to a quick
break so we can all take a little breather here
from some of our wonderful sponsors. We come back, we'll
dive into this reporting on Hillary. Here's the here's the
short version of it. Did. The FBI uncovered Russian bribery
and meddling and all kinds of stuff going on before

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the Obama administration approved the controversial uranium deal with Moscow.
By the way, who was the Secretary of State during
all that? Oh that's right, Hillary, she was a secretary
of State. But what happened was, Oh, we'll find out
what happened Hillary. No, you won't. Yes I will, Yes,
I will. We're gonna look into what happened with Hillary here,
all right. I promised you Hillary time. You did? You

(01:05:27):
promised I promised you Hillary time. And so that now
we're gonna get and now we're gonna get into it.
I really, I really am now just just taking this
into like a like a parrot sound, but it's really
if you really listen closely, it sounds like Hillary. Don't
don't think that I'm just making a parody with a parrot.
I'll show myself out, all right. FBI uncovered Russian bribery

(01:05:51):
plot before Obama administration approved controversial nuclear deal with Moscow.
It's on the Hill dot Com seventy eight thousand shares
and counting on social media, so some people definitely read
this one and let me give you some of the
some of the broad strokes. There's a lot of detail here,

(01:06:11):
and it's good to have the details out there. It's
good reporting from it's great reporter from John Solomon and
Allison Span But, uh, you just need to know the
broad strokes to understand why this matters so much. But
let me get walk you through this a little bit. Quote.
Before the Obama administration approved a controversial deal in giving

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Moscow control of a large swath of American uranium, the
FBI had gathered substantial evidence that Russian nuclear industry officials
were engaged in bribery, kickbacks, extortion, and money laundering designed
to grow Vladimir Putin's atomic energy business inside the United States.

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Federal agents used a confidential US witness working inside the
Russian nuclear industry to gather ex densive financial records, make
secret recordings that intercept emails as early as two thousand
and nine that showed Moscow had compromised an American uranium
trucking firm with bribes and kickbacks and violation of the

(01:07:14):
Ford Corrupt Practices Act Practices Act, according to the FBI
and court documents. Uh, and it's just there's a lot
more detail here, but let me just skip to some
of the parts you're gonna need to know. Rather than
bring immediate charges in the d J continued investigating the
matter for nearly four years, essentially leaving the American public

(01:07:34):
and Congress in the dark about nuclear Russian nuclear corruption
on US soil during a period when the Obama administration
made two major decisions benefiting Putin's commercial nuclear ambitions, um
and the And then you get into the Clinton aspect
of all this stuff here in just a second. But first, okay,

(01:07:54):
so there's this big investigation going on. FBI is looking
into it. Court documents can be consulted to give further
further proof of all this that the Russians are playing
dirty in the uranium sector and the government knows about this,
but the government doesn't do anything for four years. Meanwhile,

(01:08:16):
now we get into some other stuff here, right, So
the Aby administrations decided, no, no no, we're not gonna We're
not gonna go forward with these prosecutions. We're not gonna
raise the alarm. Not keep in mind, what have we
heard about all Russia corruption and and meddling in the election. Oh,
there should have been more done, That should have been
more done. What about before? Right, this is Russian meddling,
and all of our stuff is not new online in person,

(01:08:38):
old school, new school, up down and all around the place.
The Russians are meddling right there, doing whatever they can
not new, going back to the KGB era, going back
to UH compromise at the Provocatzia, Provocatzia and all these
other things that the KGB, you know, provocations and compromising

(01:09:01):
and all the things that KGB used to do. Maskova,
you know, i'd like the fake on Russian accent when
I say these words. And then you get Hillary in
on all this, and you start to wonder. It's it's
kind of interesting, isn't it that while this is all
going on, and this was written about in UH in
Clinton cash, all right, but there's all this shady Russian

(01:09:25):
business happening, and then you find out that, you know,
Hillary and the Clinton Foundation, there's all this money that's
coming into them too, And you just have to wonder,
given the sensitivity that should have been raised at the
time about Russia in our uranium sector, that Hillary as

(01:09:46):
Secretary of State allowed the Russians to purchase this large
steak in American an American uranium company. You would think,
you would think might get a little more attention to
raise some long to know how to be written about
by Peter Schweitzer for anyone to even noticed this right quote.
The Obama Administration's decision to approve Raza Tom's purchase of

(01:10:09):
Uranium one. Uranium one is the U S company has
been a source of political controversy since that's when conservative
author Peter Schweitzer and The New York Times documented how
Bill Clinton collected hundreds of thousands of dollars in Russian
speaking fees and his charitable foundation collected millions in donations
from parties interested in the deal while Hillary Clinton presided

(01:10:31):
on the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States.
The Obama administration and the Clinton's defended their actions at
the time, insisting there was no evidence that any Russians
or donors engaged in wrongdoing and there was no national
security reason for any member of the committee to oppose
Iranium one deal. But FBI, Energy Department and court documents
reviewed by The Hill show the FBI in fact had

(01:10:54):
gathered substantial evidence well before the committee's decision that Vadium Mercurian,
the main Russian overseeing Putin's nuclear expansion inside the United
States was engaged in wrongdoing starting in two thousand and nine. Okay, So,
like I said, there's a lot I know, there's a
lot of detail, a lot of names and guy's name,
like you know what was this guy? Vladimir and Vadim
and you know this and that and god, I've gotta stop.

(01:11:18):
My Russian keeps keeps floating into my Transylvanian because you know,
we got DRACTA coming up in a few weeks. Uh.
But here's what, here's what you this is already known,
but it just gives you more details about this. And
the Obama administration, the d o Janity administration sat on this,
didn't want to do much about it. And it just
goes to show that they made a political decision about

(01:11:40):
Russian medaling during the election, and the political decision was, look,
Hilary is gonna win anyway. You know, this is not
a big deal. Who cares? And that's the truth. It's
not a big deal. Who cares? Or if you want
to look into it, fine, but you know, looking into
the same way you look into like baseball and steroids
or something, right, I mean, Congress gets all sanctimonious and
nobody really cares. Uh, but no, no, Now they tell

(01:12:05):
us that this is a national security threat. Now they
tell us that the Russians are like lurking in every
corner and under every bed, and we've got to be
terrified of what Russia is gonna do next. And the
Russians aren't finished with us, and the Russians, yeah, we
have there are opposition governments around the world. To be
sure their enemy governments, enemy regimes around the world. But
to overstate the threat from Russia for purely political reasons,

(01:12:29):
right as an excuse for Hillary's loss to Donald Trump.
It's just pathetic. But they're not going to stop. And
when you look at how blatant the corruption was with
the Clinton Foundation and Hillary and the conflicts of interest there,
This is why the punches that the media try to
land on this administration just don't work. This is why

(01:12:50):
they keep coming. They keep coming to the American people
and saying, oh, he's gone too far. Now, oh this
latest thing he said. Now it's all over for Trump.
And it's not because we're paying attention. We see and
I don't even get I didn't even get to talk
about how the Department of Justice, or rather James Comey,
how did the FBI was writing and this was on

(01:13:10):
this was courtesy of Fox News dot Com yesterday, was
writing memos two show before Hillary was even interviewed that
the email thing was going nowhere. That's yeah, that's right.
A different justice system for the Clintons. At least they
thought that's what they had now with Trump in office, though,
I think things have changed because they've really become just obstructionists.

(01:13:36):
They have no good policies, and frankly, they're not good politicians,
but they are very good obstructionists and that's what they
do well. Obstruct Uh. The number of nominees that I
have approved by the Democrats are about half of what
President Obama had. And when you look at that and
you look at judicial appointments, look how slow that's going.

(01:13:56):
I'll have a hundred and forty five ultimately, which is
tremendous number, will have seventeen Court of Appeals supportments. But
they're not getting approved. They're being slow walked by Schulber
and the group of Democrats that really it's it's really disgraceful.
Even people that they know they're going to approve, they

(01:14:17):
take it right out to the end. They use every
single minute, and I think it's a very disgraceful situation. There.
We have President Trump who is not mincing words when
it comes to the Democrats, calling them obstructionists, particularly on
the issue of the judiciary, which a lot of folks
on the left no is one of the best places.

(01:14:38):
It probably is the single best option for the hashtag resistance.
But Trump was also talking earlier day about how he's
got a healthcare bill that he likes, or at least
he's saying he likes it as of now, that would
be bipartisan in nature. So so what is going on here?
He was buddy buddy with McConnell earlier in the week.

(01:14:58):
Now he's pushing for by partisan healthcare reform. What is
really happening To help us way through some of this?
We have Sarah Westwood on the line. She is the
Washington Examiners White House correspondent. Sarah, great to have you,
Thanks for having me. Okay, Sarah, Let's let's start with
the basics here. What is going on? One moment Trump

(01:15:19):
saying the Democrats are obstruction is the next it feels
like he's telling us that Chuck and Nancy have some
good ideas for shoring up the healthcare exchanges, while clearly
President Trump is trying to lay some defensive groundwork for
his decision to withhold those cost sharing reduction payments, which

(01:15:39):
UM analysts believe we're helping to prop up the Obamacare exchanges.
And so by withholding those and then also by doing
his executive order that he did last week which opened
up the possibility of selling insurance plans over state lines,
president Trump is taking some actions that are undermining the
integrity of the Obamacare system. It was already weak, and

(01:16:01):
this is only going to weaken it. So President Trump
has suggested that Republicans would be open to working with Democrats,
but that's clearly not a viable possibility. Democrats and Republicans
are so far apart on healthcare. They've uh, Democrats are pursuing,
you know, in some cases, a single payer system, while
Republicans are pursuing something that block grants medicate. So they

(01:16:22):
couldn't be further apart on healthcare. And really this is
a tool that both sides use sometimes to call for
a bipartisan solution, and it's an effort to highlight the
other side's unwillingness to work together. You have Senator Senator
Truck Schumer saying that the latest solution to show up

(01:16:42):
the exchanges is a pretty good idea. You got Senator
Patty Murray saying Democrats Republicans working together, that's a that's
a good thing, something we should all feel like it
is to be applauded. And yet I'm just wondering, is
this like when a little bit earlier, we had Trump,
what was it a few weeks ago, Trump saying that

(01:17:03):
there was a deal or there was reporting at least
of a deal on immigration with Chuck and Nancy, and
now we're told that's fallen apart. Do you think that
there's a chance that Trump is going to just change
his mind on this? By it's not really a bipartisan
reform on health here, it's just a quick fix or
a two year fix. There's always a possibility that President

(01:17:23):
Trump will change his mind on anything, and certainly with immigration,
we saw that's exactly what happened in his conversation with
the Democratic congressional leaders. He seemed to indicate that the
wall wasn't going to be part of what he pushed
for in any package that extended protection to the Dreamers
to to legislate the Dhaka order that he's rescinding next year.

(01:17:44):
But uh, Truck and Nancy came out ahead of the
White House announcing that the President Trump wasn't going to
pursue the wall in a way that made it look
like they've gotten some kind of concession. The White House
might have made mistake by letting Chuck and Nancy set
the tone for what the agreement was going to look like.

(01:18:05):
And so what you saw was President Trump Saul pulled
back a little bit from that and say, uh, well,
these are all of the border security and interior security
measures that we're going to push for as part of
the deal. Those included like to verify more ICE employees
and resources, and that put Democrats back on defense. Dates
then felt the need to backtrack from the deal. So

(01:18:26):
this is a lot of game woman trip, a lot
of signaling to supporters about who's going to fight for what.
At the end of the day, though, uh, these these
deals are all within the reach of Congress. They just
have to be willing to let the other side maybe
win a symbolic victory. Now and then we're speaking to
Sarah Westwood, who is the Washington Examiners. White House corresponded, Uh,

(01:18:50):
speaking to the White House, Sarah, what can you tell
us about as much as anyone can know? What can
you tell us about the relationship between Senate Majority Leader
Mitch McConnell and President Donald Trump. It seems like it's
been on a bit of a roller coaster lately. It
certainly has. But what we're hearing from our sources is
that it was President Trump the White House who initiated

(01:19:12):
that meeting, not the Senate Majority Leader. There are some
who think it's a recognition on the part of Trump
that he will need Senate Republicans to pass his legislative
agenda items, particularly tax form, and that antagonizing McConnell is
not going to be the way to get there. There
are some who think that President Trump is just laying

(01:19:32):
the groundwork to be able to say a little bit
down the line that he did everything he could, that
he looked, I did try to make nice with McConnell,
and look where it got us. That he's sort of
buying himself that credibility down the line. Uh, it was
just sort of remarkable to see President Trump go from
trading barbs with McConnell on Twitter to shaking his hand
and clapping his back in front of reporters in the

(01:19:53):
Rose Garden yesterday, and the relationship between the presidents and
Secretary of State Tillers in which I'm seeing being there's
additional reporting today to say that still some some tension
there or is that not really verified based on what
you're hearing from your sources. Well, remote, we're hearing that
the tension has been there for a long time, not

(01:20:14):
necessarily because of either side doing anything wrong, but because
Tillerson and Trump just may not be a good fit
professionally personally, that they have totally different styles, totally different
approaches to the job. That President Trump maybe thought he
was going to be hiring a contemporary, someone that he
could interact with in a friendly way because Rex Tillerson

(01:20:36):
came from the corporate world. But Tillerson was actually much
more cautious and careful then President Trump might have thought.
And so they don't necessarily get along that well on
a personal level, and that's really colored their professional relationship
as well. Um, I you know, I have no idea
whether Tillerson actually called President Trump a moron, but those
stories are just the symptom of the fact that they're working.

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Relationships has been complicated over the past few months. And
I saw some reporting about Senator Tom Cotton. Is that
is that confirmed yet or is that just in the
rumor mill? Still, Well, it's still in the rumor mill,
but it's certainly believable because President Trump clearly likes Senator
Tom Cotton and trust his council. Remember that just days

(01:21:18):
before President Trump gave that big speech about his new
approach to the Iran nuclear deal, he had Cotton into
the White House for a one on one meeting. That
the White House has been in contact with Cotton, relying
on his advice as they proceeded with this new Uran policy.
So Cotton is someone President Trump clearly trust and likes,
has praised in the past. That wouldn't be surprising them

(01:21:40):
that he would consider placing Cotton somewhere in the administration.
Should have vacancy open up. Is there going to be
some action from this Republican Congress on legislation by the
end of the year you think, or is this just
going to be a conversation, whether it's about taxes, healthcare
that just keeps getting pushed out. Well, it's the timeline

(01:22:02):
that the White House is for doing for TAXICR in particular,
it's really ambitious. Initially, Gary Cone had said they wanted
to see tax reform get through the House by October
the Senate by November. That's just not looking likely. There's
only two weeks left in October, and Republicans are still
haggling over the broad strokes of tax reform and whether

(01:22:23):
it should add to the deficits or not, just big
conceptual questions, let alone hammering out the nitty gritty of
what kind of language would pass the House by the
end of the month. So it's a really ambitious timeline.
And uh, the more it drags on, there's only a
couple of dozen legislative working days left on the calendar,

(01:22:43):
the more unlikely it looks that we'll see it this year,
all right. Sarah Westwood, White House correspondent for the Washington Examder. Sarah,
great to have you, thanks for joining us, Thanks for
having me. Just a note about the obstruction as some
point on the judiciary and what's going on there with Trump.
I'm sure it is true that the Democrats are doing
absolutely everything in their power to try and make it,

(01:23:08):
just make it as difficult as possible, as prolonged as
possible to get Trump's nominees to the bench. This is
one of the places where I think he's shown the
greatest support from conservatives. So he's getting the most support
from conservatives is on putting people. Uh course, it's the
most visible manifestation of this. The Supreme Court, but the

(01:23:30):
federal bench as well and appellate courts. The Obama administration's
legacy is largely a judicial one. Just keep that in mind.
I don't just mean the corruption within the do o
J because of all the leftist bureaucrats that clearly infiltrated it,
but I mean the actual judiciary, like the bench judges.

(01:23:53):
Uh we're talking about a large number of the current
currently in lace federal judges were appointed by Obama. And
remember that it was Harry Reid who got rid of
the filibuster for lower level meeting, non Supreme Court federal judges,

(01:24:14):
and that meant that they could just pack them with
devoted leftists, and they did. I think I should probably
check my statistic, but usually when I say this, i'm right,
I'm just being cautious. If I'm wrong, I'll correct it.
I think almost thirty percent in the let's say approximately
of the UH federal bench right now is comprised of
Obama appointees. Think about that, ish, A lot of judges

(01:24:42):
are far left wing Obama picks, and that's something that
stays with us unless we get rid of some of
those judges. And I think that you're seeing the need
for that with what's going on with this judge out
in in Hawaii. I think that people need to really
take seriously the removal of office, removal from office of
judges who are abusing their power. Why don't we talk

(01:25:05):
about that? Why don't I get into why I'm thinking
about the judiciary so much today? You got this judge
out in Hawaii who is stopping Trump's third iteration of
the so called travel band or is I like to
put it the temporary restriction or temporary enhancement on travel security.

(01:25:28):
He's holding the line for America. Buck Sexton his back
hut Baltimore addition today, excited to be hanging out here,
like I said the first time, So Baltimore is uh
is It is a nice town. I like it here.
You know, some good restaurants, there's some stuff to do.

(01:25:48):
I'm enjoying it, but I wanted to get into a
little bit of the continued fallout over the Harvey Weinstein situation.
Drudge has a big headline Harvey wood Cracking, and there's
just more and more of this stuff coming out, and

(01:26:09):
you know, I think that it's it's gonna be coming
out for quite some time because and this hasn't been
spoken about by that many people, I think yet, and
that's that there's something about the entertainment industry that is
particularly and has been particularly open to this kind of

(01:26:31):
exploitation for a long time. And it's because you have
individuals who are largely in terms of their careers, left
at the whim of completely well. They are left to
completely subjective decision making. There's not much that you can
do or say when you don't get the part in

(01:26:52):
a movie. It's just people in power deciding whether you
are a success or not. And that means that the
opportunity for abuse of power. And this is separate from
the specifics of all the sexual assault allegations that are
out there, but I just mean as a general concept,
Hollywood and the media and the entertainment industry are are

(01:27:14):
a profession where the power imbalance is tremendous between those
who have it and those who do not, and the
difference is stark. You know, let let me kind of.
And this is also true, I should note in the
in the news industry, particularly the TV news side, and
you've also seen plenty of problems coming from the TV

(01:27:35):
news industry with regard to harassment recently. But if you
are let's say a if you're a lawyer, if you
are working in a in a small business and you
have a role and that's what you do, you have
established something on your resume. You know that you have

(01:27:56):
a company that probably there's some either an HR department
or at least some basic h r H policies that
are in place. There's some structure for what's going on,
and there are other people, and there's transparent. Look I'm
speaking in generalities here, but there's other people around you,
and there's some sense of expectations for conduct in the workplace.

(01:28:17):
Now that sexual harassment happens, but the laws on the
books that have been in the books for a long
time mean that at a company, at a corporation that is,
you know, making the money that is profitable, the opportunities
to harass people always come with the possibility of a

(01:28:37):
major UH settlement of some kind right that you can
be sued, that there can be redress for people who
are harassed or sexually harassed in your standard American court.
Now that's not to say that harassment doesn't exist. I
know that the me too hashtag, which is about people
that have been sexually assaulted or harassed, has been mega

(01:28:58):
trending on Twitter. But I'm just trying to point out
that the entertainment industry specifically is going to be and
has been, a subject to people abusing their power in
this way because there really isn't much of a of
a structure and place for a lot of how this works.
There really isn't a an established best practices. There's no

(01:29:23):
corporate culture in Holly Well. I guess you could argue
the corporate culture is the casting couch mentality. It is
people doing anything to get ahead. But it's it's worse
in Hollywood then it would be, and and then I
believe it's worse in Hollywood than it is in in
almost any other industry, certainly in any other large industry.
And Hollywood has been uniquely susceptible to abuse of power

(01:29:48):
and harassment for a long time. What I think has
caused the explosion of allegations here, or or rather the
the outrage in response to the explosion allegations, is that
this stuff was so egregious and was suppressed for so long.
I believe that we all figured that there was that

(01:30:10):
there was behavior similar to this going on in Hollywood,
and that most people just ignored it. They've got their
own things to think about, and they didn't you know
what I mean similar to I mean sexual harassment comments
to women, uh quid pro quo for movie roles, that
that casting couch behavior. I think people have recognized for

(01:30:31):
a long time that that was going on, but we
just didn't know the specifics of it. Now that we
know the specifics and know that it's not only an
issue of what would be civil litigation, right, a suit
that could go to court that's monetary damages, but criminal allegations.

(01:30:51):
That's where the suppression of this goes, well beyond just well,
you know, there was a corporate culture, or there wasn't
a corporate culture in Hollywood. There was a culture of
the powerful praying on the powerless, and you know that
this is now into what feels like a criminal conspiracy,

(01:31:11):
and you're starting to see the beginnings of co conspirator
people talking about co conspirators with Weinstein. It's gone beyond
just enablers, because this guy was a predator. This was
somebody who was dangerous to women and praying upon them
in criminal ways, at least allegedly, right, nothing, nothing has

(01:31:33):
been proven yet in a court of law. This is
why we say allegedly it's a formality, but one that
is in place. But the allegations of a criminal nature
he denies. Of a civil suit nature he accepts, and
that's why he's gone to the rehab facility. But this
has gotten worse with each passing day. I don't think
we've seen the worst of it yet, and you're going

(01:31:56):
to see that there's been a transition from this was
a civil suit kind of complaint originally to know this
is now possible criminal charges. And now I'm wondering if
there's going to be more fallout for those around Harvey
Weinstein for being co conspirators in this, for being enablers
in this. That's where I think this may be going next.

(01:32:19):
M Well, everybody, it's been fun. I'm actually doing as
I said that the show today from Baltimore, which is
my first time in Baltimore. I've done something of a
of a coastal tour in the last few days. I
went back to my old stomping ground in Washington, d C.

(01:32:41):
Which I will tell you, I know it's a swamp,
but it is in its own way pretty charming and
alluring swamp. The food in d C has gotten really good.
I moved there in two thousand and five, and I
think DC has every year gotten better. So I know

(01:33:02):
that all things political and inside the Bellway we see
as being problematic, and there's and that's all true, right
that the wealthiest or three of the ten, or four
of the ten, might even be six of the ten.
I forget now several of the wealthiest counties in the
country are the ones immediately ringing d C. That shouldn't

(01:33:22):
be the case. It should not be feeding from the
trough of the federal government. But that's what happens. But
if you're just talking about a place to visit, I
gotta say d C is pretty great. I was in
Georgetown for a little bit. I met my little brother
who just happened to randomly be in town on on business,
and we we didn't even realize we're going to be
in town the same time until I told him I

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was going to be on Fox and had a lot
of fun yesterday on the Brett Bear panel, but we
met up afterwards one of our old haunts. I was
a young c I a officer in d C living
in Georgetown, and my little brother was a student at
George Town University. So even when I was outside of
New York City, my hometown, I had family nearby when

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we used to hang out all the time, and it
was it was great, and it was nice to be
back in town and to spend some time in my
old my old stomping ground, and also with a little
bro who's just the greatest guy anybody could could ever imagine.
So I wanted to also, uh take some time today

(01:34:27):
to get into the latest on Team Buck Speaks, because
this has become one of my one of my favorite
parts of of the show. Actually, it's a lot of
fun to be able to read off to all of
you what you're saying, especially because we have such a
large podcast audience. And also I know some of you

(01:34:48):
listen to the show either on the I Heart radio
app or you listen on a little bit of a
delay on your station. So for those of you who
can't call in live, which is it's always great to
have you with the live call ins. But for those
of you can't call it live. Facebook dot com slash
buck Sexton, the team and I Tyrone, Amy and me,

(01:35:08):
we are going through those messages and we're taking all
of your thoughts and advice into account, your criticism as well. Uh,
And it's a great way to have real connectivity with
all of you listening. So however you listen to the show,
and if you're just a little shy about calling in,
although you couldn't have anyone better than than producer Amy

(01:35:30):
as the first person you're going to talk to, she will.
She'll make you feel right at home when you call in.
But if you would rather write, or if you want
to share a link, or there's a story that you
think should be brought to the attention of the Freedom
Hut so that we can get involved in the discussion here,
or I can talk to my sources and try to
dig up more information on it. Facebook dot com slash

(01:35:51):
buck Sexton. So with that, uh, we have Mark writing
in doing great as usual on Brett Bear Killer Hair
bro always looking good, l O L. And then he writes, dang,
you're skinny now too, what's the secret? Looking younger and younger?
Always love your comments. You need to have your own

(01:36:13):
show on f n C. I think I'll tell them seriously, Well, Mark,
you are far too nice. Thank you very much, hopefully
I was having a good hair day yesterday on the
bread Bear panel. And in terms of dropping some LB's
one is, you know, I can't be if if I'm
gonna be a few years older than miss Molly, I
can't be losing a step to be in uh dad

(01:36:33):
Bob just yet right, I've I've got to actually be
a dad before I let the dad bod fully fully
get embraced. And also, I just find the enemies are
and I'm not saying I don't I don't enjoy both,
but the enemies are sugar and alcohol everything else and
sugar meaning also refined carbohydrates that your body breaks down

(01:36:53):
quickly and in your blood. In your blood sugar reflects. Uh.
It's as though you were you know, a cupcake, and
or you know a piece of chocolate and a bagel.
For all intents and purposes, you should think of them
a gun of the same way. So although I think
dark chocolate is fantastic, as you know, yeah, sugar and chocolate,
I mean, whoops, No, chocolate's phenomenal. Sugar and alcohol are

(01:37:17):
the enemy. If that's something that you want to make
some changes to. Uh. David writes in hey buck, just
listen to the Friday podcast. I will not give you
a hard time about the pearl handled revolver remark because
you corrected yourself. But on the subject of Friday, thank you.
I'm glad I got so many I corrected it on air,
and still people were writing again like how could you like,

(01:37:38):
I'm sorry, I know it wasn't it was Ivory. It
wasn't pearl on patents, revolver or revolvers. Oh gosh, that
I'm making another mistake. Apologies. But on the subject of
Friday the thirteenth, my wife and I uh met on
Friday the thirteenth, and we were married on on February
thirteenth and have been married for almost thirty years. Superstition

(01:37:59):
be d. D. Shields. High shout out to Ms Molly
Welcome home, Chica. And by the way, my wife's name
is Maria and she's a huge fan too. Well. David
and Maria, congrats on your marital bliss and thank you
very much for writing into the show. Shields High, Michael.
Michael writes in Hey, Buck, Shields High from Texas. I

(01:38:23):
was podcasting Friday Show. Just how to give a big
thumbs up to the gratuitous greenskeeper Carl talking about all
the doctors offering their advice literally made me L O L.
Thanks for the laugh, Shields High, buddy, Well Michael, glad
that it made you l O L. That's that's what
we aim for sometimes here. It can't be all serious
stuff all the time. Uh. Just this is from Ellen.

(01:38:47):
Just listen a lot of Just listen to Friday Podcast
here today. I guess people are delayed over the weekend
and they're right in on Monday. Just listen to Friday Podcast.
Great show as usual. I'm with you on the Exorcist.
I lived in d C for years and always avoided
that street when in Georgetown. Well, Ellen, I lived right

(01:39:07):
down from that street and I walked past it every
single day. I mean I drove past it, walked past
it every day. To give you a sense of where
I lived in Georgetown when I was down there, But
that is to me still the scariest movie ever made.
I am an adult. I am not afraid of the dark.
I have been in plenty of scary places around the world.
I do not enjoy watching The Exorcist. It will not

(01:39:28):
be on my list of movies for this Halloween. Although
the real Dracula that's coming up on the Bucks Exton
radio show in in a few weeks also known as
Buck Sexton with American Now So we have oho, sorry,
more people writing, lots more people writing in about the
pearl handled. Sorry they were they were not pearl handled.

(01:39:52):
I am not worthy. I am not worthy. They're not
pearl handled. They were ivory handled. That patent Carrott. We
have established that, all right. David writes in with something serious. Here, Hey, Buck,
here is the picture of the Vegas shooters sweet door
I mentioned earlier. It appears to be off the hinges
and laying sideways. I can count maybe ten bullet holes.

(01:40:12):
You know as well as I do that the door
would have been blown to hell if two rounds were
put through it at short range by an a R
fifteen on quote full automatic, that hallway would have looked
like a sawmill. It sucks. I even have to think
about it, but it doesn't make sense on any level,
and then a security guard disappears after the meeting with
MGM management. Anyway, looking forward to the Dracula episode, there

(01:40:33):
we go, perfect timing. David. The History Deep Dives are great,
and you produce a well balanced show. We can only
talk politics so much. Well, David, let me first say
thank you for that. I do like to mix it
up and bring a lot of information to the show because, look,
I know that there's so much commentary out there, and
by the time I'm on air, a lot of you

(01:40:54):
will have heard about the main news stories and maybe
even some commentary in the main news stories. So that's
one of the reasons why I like to go deep
on the national security side, bring a little expertise to things.
And also why I mix it up and why you
have uh, some history deep dives, some more philosophical segments,
some that are just about life and coming up the

(01:41:16):
real Dracula for those who don't know the story, I
think you'll really enjoy that. That will be as close
to Halloween. I gotta see what day of the week
Halloween is, but the real Dracula is always that's a
crowd pleaser because I'm I'm amazed to this day that
no one has really made a movie about the guy
that Dracula, the character was based on. I mean, it

(01:41:39):
is a historical character, as the cross versus Crescent theme
continues through this show in terms of our history, Deep
dives vlad dera cool who is the basis for Dracula,
was raised in the Ottoman court. He was the equivalent
in his day of like a special forces guy. He

(01:41:59):
had non traditional he fought in nontraditional ways. He was
schooled in the Ottoman arts of warfare and then fought
for the Christians against the Ottomans. He was also a
bloodthirsty maniac. But we'll get into all of that. We
will get into all of that. It's a fascinating historical
piece that I think doesn't get nearly enough attention, And

(01:42:20):
now that I've talked it up so much, we will
certainly have to spend some time on the show doing it.
Um Chessen writes in with a photo of his Chuck roast,
which I can tell you all looks delicious. So Chessen,
I hope you enjoyed that. I can't really describe it
well enough to do with Justice on radio. But I'm

(01:42:40):
sure it was absolutely fantastic. And let's see who else
I'm trying to make my there's so many and those
of writing in just you know, even if I don't
get to it on air. Um, if I don't get
to it on air, don't think that I'm not reading
it and that you're you're not being heard in the
sense that we're not getting to your messages. It just

(01:43:02):
means that we run out of time. And in fact,
I gotta call it there because it is time for
us to close up shop here in the Freedom Hut.
Thank you as always, Facebook dot Com, slash buck Sex.
Then if you want to send me those messages, I'm
gonna gonna be spending the night tonight in Baltimore, which
is a lovely, lovely place. I want to thank w

(01:43:22):
c w CBM for hosting me. Very generous of them
to allow me to come and use their wonderful radio
studio and get a chance to enjoy Baltimore and its
surroundings and be close to the folks down here. So
big thank you to w CBM.

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