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January 23, 2018 116 mins

Trump signs it! Missing texts from Peter Strzok and Lisa Page. Amnesty for DACA means amnesty for a lot more than DACA. Buck digs into the Kurd-Turk conflict.

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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Mr garbutsch Off teared down this wall. Either you're with
us or you were with the terrorists. If you've got
healthcare already, then you can keep your plan. If you
are satisfied with Trump is not the President of the
United States, take it to a bank. Together, we will
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(00:34):
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calling the White House. Unfortunately, we cannot answer your call

(00:55):
today because Congressional Democrats are holding government funding, including funding
for our troops and other national security priorities hostage to
an unrelated immigration to be due to the substruction. The
government is shut down. In the meantime, you can leave
a comment for the President at www dot white House,

(01:16):
dot go forward slash contact it taking your calls as
soon as the government reopened. I love it, everybody. Buck
Sexton here. That was on the White House voicemail system
during the now already over government shutdown. But that is
a snapshot of why this ended the way that it

(01:39):
did the Democrats cave? Why would the Democrats cave? Well,
because there plan going into this was we're going to
win the public debate. We're going to be the ones
that are able to convince the American people that it's
the Republicans fault even though we're doing it. This was
Democrats burglarizing a house, so to speak, and screaming about

(02:04):
how other people are stealing stuff while they go through
the window. It could not have been more clear that
this was on the Democrats. But they assumed, with the
help of the media, and in no small part because
of hashtag resistance to Trump, Trump derangement syndrome, and let's

(02:25):
be honest, a lack of some degree of civics knowledge,
and the Democrat and general public, that they could come
out on top of this whole fiasco. And yet that
was not the case. Here's Chuck Schumer who had to
go out there and tell people that, sure enough, the
Senate voted to reopen the government. I've been having conversations

(02:49):
with the Republican leader over the weekend about a path forward.
After several discussions offers counter offers, the Republican Leader and
I have come to an arrangement we will vote today
to reopen the government to continue notion negotiating a global agreement,

(03:10):
with the commitment that if an agreement isn't reached by
February the eight the Senate will immediately proceed to consideration
of legislation dealing with DOCTA. There you have it from
Chuck Schumer himself. Eighteen. The vote was held in the
Senate and the government is on its way to being

(03:32):
open again if there's a few more procedural steps. But
you know who cares. The Senate was the problem. A
breathtaking step of arrogance here from Democrats thinking that they
could filipbuster, filibuster a budgetary measure and still convince people

(03:52):
that it wasn't they're doing right. And that was where
this all just was too much. And I would note
that I think Trump was the X factor here. Trump
got out there on Twitter. Trump was saying how they're
putting citizens above non citizens. Mike Pence making the case
in in very effective terms during the course of this

(04:14):
shutdown that this was the Democrats prioritizing illegal aliens. And
I love it when Democrats challenge me on that they're
not a legal aliens, they're dreamers. Well, actually, the technical
legal term is a legal alien. Dreamers is a made
up pr term. But Mike Pence pointed out that there

(04:35):
was a very clear choice being made here by the Democrats.
On the one hand, you had illegal aliens, on the
other you had funding for our military. I'm sure you're
all aware of what's going on in DESPI Artist's support
for West Resolutions, decided to play politics with military tam

(04:59):
you and you're shouldn't have to worry for one minute
about whether you're gonna get paid uniform in the United States.
Your president, your vice president, and the American people are
not going to put up with it. So there you
have it, laying it down. Won this fight because Trump

(05:23):
and his top people know that this is a political
street fight. That the Democrats aren't doing this out of
some noble conception of what we owe to dreamers, and
that's all just that's all just part of the propaganda
you see for the Democrat Party. The issue of DACA

(05:44):
Deferred Action for childt arrivals. He is really just the
first step to amnesty, and a critical one. In fact,
DACCA would likely give the Democrats a momentum that would
make full on amnesty inevitable absent very clear steps by
the government on enforcement, on building a wall, e verify,

(06:07):
there's a whole list that I've been talking to you about,
and even then we'd have to hold them to account
and be careful about what the future holds. But just
DACA with a little bit more funding for already existing
border patrol measures and immigrations and customs enforcement is a joke.
It's not going to do anything. In fact, you can
already see there has been a surge in illegal crossings

(06:30):
at the border. Gas people say part of this is
driven by the economy, right, but I mean technically, I
think you can buy bitcoin anywhere in the world, right,
so there's there's ways to get it on the economy
no matter where you are. Um, that's changing very rapidly.
Kind of kidding there about bitcoin. But the truth is

(06:51):
that many people realize that you want to be here
before many illegals realize that you want to be in
the country before the amnesty, because then you're gonna be
part of the next wave. You'll be an addendum to DACA.
You'll be not just DAPPA, but then it will be
deferred action for really nice people who are part of
the American Dream, whatever that acronym is, because that's what

(07:12):
the Democrats are gonna say until they get to the
eleven million, and this is what matters to them, the
eleven million people who would be permanent residents on their
way to getting citizenship. Remember the citizenship component of it.
You could say they won't be citizens, but Democrats will
continue to fight until they make them citizens. Right, they'll

(07:34):
make sure that the pathway that would be open to
them once permanent residency occurs for a legal aliens, they'll
make sure that there's a pathway to citizenship because then
Democrats win on every issue. If you think about this
in terms of just oh, they're trying to they're trying
to do this for the base. This is about getting
enthusiasm going from the left wing for the mid terms,

(07:57):
you're missing, I think the bigger picture. You're missing what's
really at stake. If they win on amnesty. If the
Democrats went on amnesty, they view it as they will
then win on everything else. Amnesty leads to abortion on demand,
always and forever. Because of the way the legislative and

(08:17):
electoral because of the implications for our legislative system and
the electoral college, they will win on the size of government.
They will win on border security, they will win on socialism.
They will win and win and win. You might even
say they will get tired of winning at some point.
They just have to win on this. They are changing

(08:39):
the American electorate. Now people would say, bark, but can't
we if you brought in, if you brought in these
illegal or not brought them in, if you legalize these
illegals and gave them citizenship, can't conservatives make the case
about limited government. Can't we give them, you know, some
copies of the Road to Serfdom and maybe some some
hyak and uh that is highk but some Milton Friedman,

(09:03):
can't we do that? You know? And them bossiots the
law see if they read that and take some important
important notes about what governments should really be all about.
And like the answer is, well, you're gonna have a
whole group of people that understandably and largely correctly attribute
their permanent status a very valuable and precious thing, attribute

(09:27):
their status to the Democrat Party. You will have generations
of then Latino Americans currently illegal aliens who would be
voting for the Democratic Party out of a sense of
fealty and obligation, and I'm not gonna say that. I
can't understand where that comes from, because the Democrats would

(09:47):
have said, forget about the law we were going to
We're going to change the law specifically for you. They're
not changing the law for everybody. There's still an immigration system,
there's still all kinds of hurdles and challenges in place
for people that want to come in legally. But we
are talking overwhelmingly about immigration from Latin America and specifically

(10:08):
from Mexico. The Mexico accounts for something along the lines
of seventy or eight percent of the illegal immigrant population
the country right now, it's call it roughly, So that's
what's really going on here. This is not a diverse
population of illegals. That's not That's not what's that issue.
You're talking primarily and predominantly about Mexican illegal immigration in

(10:33):
the United States and all of the cultural and political
changes that that would bring with it. If there was
an across the board legalization. It is an all all
in issue for the Democrat Party. If they went on this,
they went on everything else. That's why that's why you

(10:55):
get Chuck Schumer trying to do this. I yeah. I
think that they, uh. I think that they overplayed their hand,
or or maybe just poorly played their hand. I think
that they were overestimating their ability to make the case
because they don't have some Republican who's afraid of his
shadow in office right now. They don't have a moderate

(11:17):
Gail Pier who's going to be sitting in the White
House saying you know, yeah, you know, maybe maybe the
media can just lie about this as much as they want.
I think that Trump has been an important next factor
in all this. We've got to talk more about what
happens next, though, because this is just a delay. It's
really what I told you was gonna happen all along.
Remember in the week leading up to the shutdown, I

(11:40):
said that they're just gonna move this and we'll have
the debate later. Well, they shut the government down for
three days really just they it was actually just a weekend.
They didn't really shut anything down, right, but they shut
the government down technically for a few days, and now
the government's about to open back up a little later

(12:00):
on a Monday. It's like they had a holiday, really,
and we're supposed to have the debate later on about
immigration in a few weeks. And part of how we
got to this point is that the Republicans have said
to the Democrats that they are going to take action

(12:21):
on the issue of the dreamers. So now the next
time around, Democrats may be able to make a stronger
case for forcing the issue. And I'm not sure Republicans
are on this one. We are not out of the
woods yet, as they say, my friends, there's a lot
of fight left to go. We're gonna get into that
and more coming up this hour and over the course

(12:43):
of the show, we will talk more about the Schumer shutdown.
The Dems lost this one. Also the FISA memo. I've
got some updates for you on that. The FBI seems
to have misplaced some text messages between some senior agents
or senior d O J. Lawyer and an FBI agent,
Peter Struck. We've all come to know because of his

(13:05):
insurance policy comment about President Trump. The FBI for about
five months lost the text messages between these two. That see,
that seems a bit strange, doesn't it. Ah, that's right, strange,
that is we should take a look at that. We'll
talk about it. Also, Turkey engaged in a military incursion

(13:27):
into Syria against our Kurdish allies. My friends, the Kurds
are the reason that ISIS has been annihilated in Syria particularly,
but also they're very helpful in the rock. But in
Syria it's been the Kurdish ground force that has defeated ISIS,
with US military power in the air and assorted advisors

(13:47):
and other assistance for them, but it has been the Curds.
And right now the Turks are shelling them and this
could further destabilize an already nightmare situation in Syria. Not
a lot of other folks talking about this because they're
so invested in the latest moment to moment update on
the shutdown. But this is this is a big problem
for US. Turkey is a large NATO ally country with

(14:12):
considerable military force at a disposal, and if it is
going after one of ours meeting Kurdish allies of the
United States government, we gotta do something about that. I'll
get into y later on. So we gotta we gotta
jam packed, show that much. I can promise you. Eight
four four eight to five eight four four buck team.

(14:34):
It is Monday. It is good to be back, and
I'm excited to get a chance to hang out with you,
so stay right there. In regards to the government shutdown,
we were pleased to see Center Schummer accept the deal
that President Trump put on the table from the very beginning,
which was to responsibly fund the government and debate immigration

(14:56):
as a separate issue. A statement here from the President
of the United States it I will read quote. I
am pleased that Democrats and Congress have come to their
senses and are now willing to fund our great military,
border patrol, first responders, and insurance for vulnerable children. As
I've always said, once the government is funded, my administration
will work towards solving the problem of very unfair illegal immigration.

(15:18):
All right, So, Sarah Huckaby Sanders is please that Schumer's
taking the deal. And right now I got some breaking
news for you. Trump's about to sign it. Let's sign
the bill ending the shutdown. This little shutdown drama nonsense
is crazy, isn't it. It's really a sign. It's a

(15:39):
symptom of the dysfunction of our federal government in d C.
It's not in any way I think confidence inspiring that
we could spend so much time and have such a
spirited and even nasty back and forth between Democrats and
Republicans on what on this. It's a waste. It's a waste.

(16:03):
But a part of a big part of this, I believe,
is that no one really knows what the DOCTA bill
is supposed or is going to be. And they're all,
I'm gonna mean, no one, I mean in the Congress,
and they're trying to position themselves for that. They're not
really sure about what's going to happen with the bill.

(16:27):
I have my own concerns. You know, you've got like
Lindsey Graham, for example, who I don't know. Some of
you probably think he's great. I I find him of
the time unhelpful and annoying. That's just that's just like
my opinion, man. But I find him to be, generally speaking,
not a voice from the right that is constructive, useful,

(16:51):
or particularly insightful at all. Um. And here's what he
had to send the immigration issue. I've taught with the President.
His heart is right on this issue. I think he's
got a good understanding of what we'll sell. And every
time we have a proposal, it is only yanked back
by staff members. As long as Stephen Miller is in

(17:12):
charge of negotiating immigration, we're going nowhere. He's been an
outlier for years. There's a deal to be had. What
is the deal? They will talk about this like it's
obvious or like we should somehow understand what is this
deal to be had? Because I, as I have been

(17:33):
telling you and I am I am right on this one,
Amnesty for DOCCA means amnesty for a lot more than DOCCA.
And if you don't, if you haven't extracted concessions on
immigration at that point, think about what the negotiation really
is here, folks, with Trump, you have a president who

(17:54):
beat all the odds, beat I don't want to get
into all that. You know that, all right, But you
have this president, this political force of nat Sure, who
rocketed to the front of the GOP ranks during the
primary on the issue of immigration. You have a president
in his first well beginning his second year now, but
you know, early on in his presidency, has the House,

(18:15):
has the Senate, and Democrats are pushing out there the
docat issue because it is their most effective bargaining tool.
It is the one area of immigration where people, including
a lot of Republicans I know, are at least sympathetic
to it. And I understand that right, the case that
they illustrate somebody who came here as a child, you

(18:38):
have sympathy, doesn't mean that they're in illegal consequences everybody.
I'd have sympathy for a kid who lost his house
because dad was involved in a stock insider trading scheme,
but you know what, They're gonna take his house. But nonetheless,
at least there is sympathy for it. But when you
see all these different pieces lining up, you have a
president who has been more forthright and yes, tougher on

(19:02):
illegal immigration than any of his predecessors by a mile,
who won the presidency in large part because of his
dance on immigration. With senior advisors, well, at least in
the case of Miller, who understand the issue and expect
real results, They're not gonna play some game with this.
Democrats are offering up their most potent pro amnesty weapon, DOCCA.

(19:26):
You better get the best stuff you can get right away.
Do we think it's gonna get easier in a year
or two years? What if the midterms goes against us, folks,
Nothing less than full scale amnesty hangs in the balance
of whatever happens with this DOCCA negotiation coming up here,
do not forget it. He's holding the line for America.

(19:59):
Buck Sexton is back. The difference from Lindsey Graham and
Steve King is that Steve King can actually win an
election in Iowa. We had a presidential campaign Donald Trump
on our party's nomination. Lindsey Graham didn't even make it
to the starting line. The American people have made it clear, certainly,
Republican voters have made it clear that they want Donald

(20:19):
Trump's approach to immigration, which is strong on our border
and focus on American workers when it comes to legal immigration,
but also being generous to the doctor population and giving
them legal protections. So they am Senator Cotton talking about
the difference between the Trump approach and the Lindsay Graham
approach to immigration. I'm telling you everybody, I this this

(20:42):
is this is the issue. This is the issue. The
best deal they're ever going to get, meaning the best
deal Republicans are ever gonna get on immigration has to
be now if there's going to be a deal at all.
But you know, if you wait, at some point, you
may have Democrats who are just writing and rewriting the

(21:03):
laws as they see fit, and your you'll have amnesty.
Is it an interesting though. Why did Obama Let's just
step back for a second. Why was it that President
Obama had to rely on executive amnesty, meaning that an
executive order was given by the former president for DACA
and DAPPA when there were at least the first two

(21:26):
years of Obama's presidency, they had the House and the
Center didn't even push the issue. Yes, I know they
went with Obamacare instead, but don't you get the sense
that Democrats don't really want to have to vote on
this thing unless they have Republicans giving them cover because

(21:48):
amnesty is not popular the American people, and all the
polls you you'll see on this are reflections of the
intent and the propagandistic efforts of the particular ulster, Meaning
that when you say, do you think that we should
find a pathway for the very kind, law abiding people
in this country who don't have legal status but really

(22:11):
just want to work hard and live the American dream,
yes or no, people are gonna say yes. When you
ask the question there are eleven million people who broke
the law to come into this country. Should we just
forget about the whole thing and let them stay forever?
Maybe make them citizens? The answer that people give, and
I mean all Americans when polled is overwhelmingly no. It

(22:33):
is overwhelmingly no. Fact interesting from Harvard. I just saw this.
Now there's a poll out that shows this is a
Harvard Harris poll. Seventy of those polled opposed chain migration.
Think about what chain migration means. In practice, everyone an
individual manages to get into the country, and then the

(22:55):
individual can sponsor the rest of his or her family
to come into the country. And that's primarily how we
do it, which means that for each person that has
brought into the United States on the current immigration system,
it's really a five x situation, right, I mean, I
for I don't know that. Don't quote me on that.
I'm just giving you a sense of what this means.

(23:17):
But it's a factor of several times whatever that whoever
that that individual is. You're not letting in one person.
You're really letting in a few four or five, maybe ten,
who knows, over the course of a few years. Because
it's not the chain migration is a possibility. It's a
majority of immigration into the country, and it's an end

(23:39):
on that on all of the different policies that we
have in place, or all the different ideas that we
should have made into policy that are concerned first and
foremost with a merit based immigration system. Chain migration needs
to end. I would note that has to be a
part of the DACA of any DACCA deal too. I

(24:00):
wonder by the way, I gave you a number before,
and I like to be as accurate as I can.
I said that what seventy or eighty percent of illegal
emerance in the country are here from Mexico, And I
did some digging in the break to make sure my
numbers are correct, and I was close, but a little
high because I was adding in my mind Central American
countries into the equation as well. And that's the statistic

(24:21):
that I've seen, which is that when you add Central
America and Mexico together, you're looking at about seventy to
eight of the overall illegal alien population of the United
States Mexico if if you believe the numbers eleven million
and and it seems like it seems low to me,
just because it's been eleven million for over a decade,

(24:42):
and I don't believe this inflow outflow analysis that you
see from people, But you've got about six million illegal
alien Mexicans in the United States and seven hundred and
fifty thousand illegal Guatemalan UH illegal alien Guatemaland's United States
UH four hundred and sixty five thousands, about half a
million ail Salvadorans and about four or five thousand Hondurans

(25:06):
in the country illegally dwarfs every other Those are by
far the biggest in terms of illegal alien population the
United States. So it's really a Mexico and Central America issue.
It's not a global issue. It's not that we've got
people from all over the world who want amnesty, although

(25:27):
that's true too. You've got about all other countries added together,
maybe two million UH, India, China, Korea, the Philippines. They
all have substantial numbers of illegal aliens in the country,
but they're a lot further away, a lot harder to
get here. Proximity and geography are key in the illegal
immigration issue, right, we understand this. It's quite clear why,

(25:51):
because our southern border is the primary point of entry
for illegals. I know half million visa over stays a year.
That also has to be dealt with. That's why you
need workplace enforcement, but with more robust interior enforcement of
immigration laws. The visa overstay issue would also be dealt with,
but at the end of the day, it has to

(26:12):
be Look, we're not going to let people stay who
an't on to be here or else anybody who wants
to can just show up and stay. That's not the
way this country is going to function. Or at least
if the Republicans can man up here show some stiffened spines,
then I think that we can get closer to an

(26:33):
immigration system that is rule of law and that benefits Americans. First,
we're a very diverse country in this in America, as
you know, We've got you know, people from all over
the world living here already, right, people from all which
is great. All different ethnicities and backgrounds and religions and
everything else. Fine, great. We need to be putting the
interests of all those folks, American citizens ahead of all

(26:57):
the foreigners. And I know it's unfair. Life is unfair,
The world is unfair. Right, It's not about fair, it's
about sovereignty and the future of this country. And America
does a lot of great things for the rest of
the world in ways that we can't even begin to quantify.
If this place turns into some corrupt, decrepit hellhole. And

(27:20):
it's happened, uh, you know other countries that were at
the top of their game, right, It's happened in other places,
Roman Empire, Byzantine Empire, you know, the UK kind of
handed over the torch of Western civilization to us nicely.
But it's it's happened in other countries that they went
into a period of decay and decline other empires. So

(27:41):
it's not impossible here, and that the country is changing
very very rapidly as we all know, all right, I
just want to give you those numbers. Oh so, yeah,
six million illegal alien Mexican immigrants in the country or
legal alien Mexicans in the country, and about three million,
uh roughly Central America. So it's like nine of the
eleven are from Mexico and Central America. It's a lot.

(28:04):
Jennis in Boston got some thoughts. Good good of you
to call in, Jennie. Are good to talk to you,
buck Um. I think you kind of just answered my
first question, which I wanted to know if you had
a sense of how Americans failed, because last week everyone
in Washington kept telling us that the American people support
giving him to see the doctor, And it seemed like
people on both sides of the aisle were saying that.

(28:26):
And I don't know if they really believe it, but
from what you just said, you you don't think that
that's true, that the American people support it. I mean,
I'm in Massachusetts. I don't know anyone who isn't a liberal,
So it's hard to for me to judge. What's the
rest of the country things. Well, it's all when you
say what the rest of the country, Um, what the
rest of the country thinks on this? It depends on

(28:48):
what the question is that's being at right. Yeah, And
and the way the Democrats play the game is they
say it's only going to be eight hundred thousand the
people that are in the doctor program. That's it. But
we know that a lot. They already tried DOPPA and
they tried that with executive order, so President trying, I
mean President Obama when he was in office, just said,
you know what, I'm just gonna decide that we're gonna

(29:10):
give legal status to the parents. Remember that, you know,
most folks two parents right to the parents of each DOCCA,
DOCTA recipient or a person that is covered under the
DOCTA program, which then made it go for a eight
hundred thousand to three or four million. And you know,
once you get to three or four million, you're gonna
have all these other people that say, hold on a second,

(29:31):
I'm in the country illegally. I want to be covered
under these programs too. And you can say, well, but
that's not right because they don't. Yeah, but who's gonna
adjudicate that? And anytime you're gonna start enforcing you know,
let's say you up workplace enforcement, you start enforcing immigration law,
you're gonna have people that the first thing they do
when they go in front of a judge just say, oh,
but I'm I'm actually adoppa, you know, DOCA person. They say, well,

(29:53):
where where are your where's your proofer? And they say, well,
you know, I'm working on it. You see what I mean.
They use the seems in the system as a means
of overriding the system, and that's what's going to happen.
So it's not I'm sorry, no, go ahead, go ahead.
Um Lindsay Graham's bill last week, I was trying to
find out this bill that was so reasonable, what was

(30:14):
in it? And he was he wouldn't want an amnesty
for all dreamers, not just DOCCA. Went from what I read, Well,
DOCCA is dreamers, but DAPPA is the parents of dreamers.
So the way I look at it, DOCCA is a
subset of dreamers. So all doc or dreamers, but not
all dream of DACA. That oh well, okay, yes, we'll
see this. This is an important No, this is an

(30:36):
important distinction. Janus, hold on a second. Some people um
would technically qualify for DOCCA but did not apply, and
they would say it's because they were afraid if the
federal government knew their status, it could be used against them.
So that will also be So you have eight hundred
thousand people that are in DOCCA, but the number of
those who would technically fall into the guidelines is considerably larger.

(30:58):
How much larger, we don't really know. But we do
know that there were individuals that did not give their information,
or at least we'll claim they did not give their
information because they had concerns of the federal governments. The
point is that doctor gets a lot larger, a lot faster,
and the political will to enforce the law and to
change immigration law after DOCCA for the Democrats is zero, right,
It completely disappears. If they get what they want, they're

(31:20):
laughing all the way to the mid terms. And so
that's why, you know, Republicans, they've really got to make
the case. Jan's one more thing, and uh, I'll let
you respond, and then we got to go into a break.
Oh okay, um, no, are you good? Okay, if you're good,
that's cool too. Thank you very much for calling it
from Boston. I appreciate it. Um, I'm gonna put it
on the spot. What else do you have for me?

(31:40):
Come on eight four or four nine two, eight to
five you want to. We'll get to some of our
other callers after the break, or maybe I'll be mid rent.
We'll see. But eight four or four nine buck next
hour got to talk about text message is just disappearing,
you know FBI FBI agents. Yeah, they just disappear. How

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can that happen? And I really mean, how does that happen?
We are supposed to think that this is just all
a coincidence. Now, folks, it left the Democrats the deep state.
They are coincidence theorists. Too many coincidences. And I'm not
talking about things where I'm saying, well this could be true,
where that could be true. I'm talking about what is known,

(32:21):
known facts. I'm not connecting dots that are far apart
and require a leap of faith. I'm just looking at
the outline of what is right in front of us.
And it is not good for the trust that the US,
that U. S Citizens should have, for institutions, for rule

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of law, for the Democrat Party, for the media. We
are on the cusp of what could be the biggest
political scandal of my lifetime. That's the one only one
that I can speak to. That'll all be coming up
in the next hour. So stay right there, h This

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boat should be a no brainer, and it would be,
except the Democratic leader has convinced his members to filibuster
any funding bill that doesn't include legislation they are demanding
for people who came into the United States illegally. What
has been shoehorned into this discussion. Isn't insistence that we

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deal with an illegal immigration issue. Mins McConnell beat Chuck
Schumer on this one, no question. It's a wipeout for
the Democrats. Everyone. They lost this. That's not how the
media is gonna talk about it. They're just gonna say, oh, look,
the government's coming back online yea, government yea. But the

(33:51):
reality is that it came back online so quickly because
Democrats are like, oh crap, people figured it out this time.
What are we gonna do now? Chuck Schumer's like, that's right,
I mean sorry, I meant Mitch McConnell to Chuck Schumer. Whatever.
I got my characters mixed up in my head. He
was basically trying to tell him, though, that victory is his.

(34:15):
Mitch McConnell beat Schumer on this one. So you would
think that this is a good omen going forward for
what the trajectory of the debate over doctor is going
to be. But I am concerned, as I have been
telling you all along. I think there are plenty of
reasons that looking at this, we should think to ourselves,

(34:37):
Hold on a second, why did Republicans agree that they
would move on to the DOCTA issue as as soon
as the next couple of weeks in order to get
the government funded again? Why they should just say no
or the majority party fund the government or people are
going to know that you're acting like a bunch of babies.

(34:59):
I think the deal he may fool themselves on this one,
or I you know it depends on who we're talking about.
Some of them will fool themselves, some are just being dishonest.
But Democrats, well that they lost this round, but they
lost this battle, but the war is still on, so
to speak. And I've been telling you about why immigration

(35:20):
is so important and what the areas of it are
that don't get nearly enough attention, because that's where I
think we need. That's where we need to focus. If
we're gonna understand what's coming, You're gonna have all the
Republicans on the that are in the mainstream GOP side

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of things. A lot of them are gonna say, oh,
look at this, We've got this great deal now with DOCCA.
We're gonna extend doctor protection for you know, a year
or two years or three years or something, and we
got border funding. What does that mean? What does that mean?
And why do they have to wait for this negotiation

(36:03):
to happen? I think that there. Look, I think that
the legislative agenda here should be set by their majority party.
I know it's a crazy idea. Why don't Republicans try
to pass a bill that says that there I just
told you based on that poll, I mean, is that true?
Is that a be all, end all poll. No, but
it's a poll from Hark from Harvard. Hello Harvard. Uh,

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why not put something out there that says that they
are gonna end chain migration. Why not get rid of
the visa diversity diversity lottery, try to pass and fine,
if Democrats are gonna try to filibuster, make them, but
let's let's have them do that. One of the biggest

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problems all along on immigration, and this stretches all the
way back to you know, the Romney Obama Erave, the
Gang of eight, the Gang of six, the Gang and
whatever I mean, all all these different recent failed efforts
to get some kind of comprehensive immigration reform, is that
they wanted to be a big package deal. They wanted

(37:10):
to be a big package deal on immigration. And when
I say they, yeah, I mean Democrats and Republicans because
they don't want anyone to hold them responsible for any
one aspect of what's going on here. So that's how
you get amnesty, but border funding, but this, but that,
but here, but there, but pathway but English speaking, that
gotta do back taxes and all this stuff. What's gonna

(37:33):
happen is that you're gonna get the amnesty and nothing else.
And then when we say, well, who do we hold
accountable for this? Democrats and Republicans we're pointing fingers at
each other across the aisle saying it's their fault depending
on what we're talking about, and nobody really knows. Why not?
Why not do what the most sensible approach to immigration dictates,

(37:54):
which is take the issues one by one and say
that we're gonna go We're gonna go forward with this
in front of the American people, make the case. You
got Trump, you got his tweets, and then forced Democrats
to go to the mat against each of these individual items.
And when they say, oh no, because that has to
be part of a doctor deal, say why why? Why
does ending chain migration after part of a doctor deal?

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One has nothing to do with the other. Why you
know this is? This is where we'll see, assuming that
they forced their hand, now what the real deal is.

(38:37):
He's back with you now, because when it comes to
the fight for truth, the fuck never stops. Welcome back
to the Buck Sexton Show, the Mueller Investigation, the d
o J fusion, GPS, all this stuff coming together in
a way that many of us, any of us have

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deep concerns points to collusion and malfeasance, not between Trump
and Russia, but among a whole group of government employees,
political operatives, and even some of the media perhaps who
were trying to create a way to nullify the results

(39:26):
of the presidential election or prevent the election from ever
happening between Trump and Hillary by making Trump have to
step down. Here's the latest on this. It has come
to light, as you know, in recent months, there are
some very clearly anti Trump, FBI and d J folks

(39:49):
who were involved, specifically on matters having to do with Trump,
with Hillary's emails, with the most important and politically sensitive
investigations of the last well at least the last couple
of years, perhaps much longer than that. Now, the d

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o J FBR large places. FBI has got tens of
thousands of agents, d o J has I don't know,
something like a hundred thousand employees. I believe d o
J is huge. We're not talking about general sentiment. We're
not talking about office banter or hallway chatter between different agents.

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I understand this. People are people right. You're allowed to
have your thoughts about I'm Trump or anyone else. I'm
sure there are lots of FBI agents who having worked
with a known many an FBI agent in my day,
I'm sure they had lots of colorful things to say
about Madame Secretary Hillary Clinton. Some we're probably very amusing,
what do you mean? Some were probably you know, stuff

(40:54):
that I wish I could have heard. But the point
is that's not what's that issue here. What what is
an issue is that when you're drilling down into the
very small and powerful cadre some would say cabal of
Department of Justice and FBI figures who were involved in

(41:17):
both the Hillary email probe and the Russia Trump collusion
investigation and then the Muller probe, you have a circle
of never trumpers and a recent history of stonewalling from
the FBI and the d o J not trying to

(41:38):
turn over information to Congress that should be no big deal.
So you had this Peter Struck character who and look, people,
I can tell everyone really likes to put it out there.
You know, with his mistress, you know, uh Page, right,
miss at least what was her name? I forget her name,
but anyway, yeah, Lisa Page his mistress. Okay, the guy

(42:03):
was married and he was doing that that's not really
are that's neither here nor there for what we're talking about.
I mean, I think that we're focused on the investigation
and these agents and how or employees of the DJ
and how they would have acted in an anti Trump
fashion while in a position to make that really meaningful.

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But you have Struck in page exchanging text messages, Struck
wrote that Trump was an idiot. F Trump, you know
that that's very that's disconcerting. But as we all know,
the worst part of it was the insurance policy before
you're forty, and that that conversation seemed to have been
had in acting FBI Director Andy McCabe's office. So at

(42:48):
the very very top of the organization. This is not
two people at the water cooler having a chat overheard
by somebody and then reported to somebody who works at
the Washington Post. Right. This is high level stuff, and
we've seen plenty of circumstantial evidence. We're gonna put this
in legalistic terms that there are people from within the

(43:10):
DJ and the government apparatus that are willing to break
the law to hurt Trump. Write the leaks about the
Lynn Kissalak conversation, lots of leaks to different papers of
classified information trying to hurt Trump. So somewhere there's people
in the government who hate Trump who have access to
classify it at a high level and are willing to

(43:32):
give that to the media. And by the way, there
are people who hate Trump have access classified and are
involved these investigations who hate Trump. Maybe we can start
to put together are are are some of these the
same folks. Maybe Sally Yates, who should know the law
well enough to know that it is not up to

(43:54):
her to exercise her discretion as acting Attorney General when
it comes to the when it came to the travel band,
but she wanted a grandstand because she's a never Trumper,
She's a Democrat. These people are phonies. It's very important
you know that. The same way that you have these
phony journalists over at CNN and elsewhere who were acting

(44:16):
like they don't have opinions and they're just playing it
straight and right down the middle and just the facts,
the same thing is true of a lot of civil
servants and various government employees at the high level. I'm
not talking about the folks that are just showing up
doing the job and paying the mortgage. I was one
of those folks, but without the mortgage, because I never
owned any property, because never had any money. But I

(44:36):
was one of those folks, okay, And I was just
doing my job. I wasn't trying to play politics, and
I was trying to find terrorists. But we've seen now
all this. When you add all this together, plenty of
reason to think that there was foul play against Trump
at the top level, and that these individuals who try
to hold themselves up as so beyond reproach non part

(45:00):
ortis in. They're either lying or they're delusional, maybe a
little bit of both. And then you get the latest
news item from the last couple of days on this,
which is that the Department of Justice had to notify
Congress that there is a gap, a gap in the
records of what has been requested here. And this is

(45:22):
from the Attorney General's office. Let me just read this
statement was just released. Let me share this with you. Quote.
Six Congressional committees made a request to the Department of
Justice for FBI text messages between two FBI employees from
July one July, which the Department agreed to produce as

(45:43):
quickly as possible. The Inspector General has been reviewing these
texts based on allegations that Department or FBI policies or
procedures were not followed and that certain underlying investigative decisions
were based on improper consider rations. The Department of Justice
agreed to produce those records as quickly as possible. After

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reviewing the voluminous records on the FBI servers, which included
over fifty thousand texts, the Inspector General discovered the FBI's
system failed to retain text messages for approximately five months
between December to December sevent seventeen. Quote, we will leave

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no stone on turned to confirm with certainty why these
text messages are not now available to be produced, and
we'll use every technology available to determine whether the missing
messages are recoverable from another source. If we are successful,
we will update the congressional committees immediately and and quote, Okay,
a couple of things jump out here right. First of all,

(46:51):
we're talking about text messages everybody from their work phones,
their work devices that have a lot of sensitive and
as the FBI knows, subpoena bowl information in there right
part of discovery. What FBI agents say to each other
about a case can can get called into court. They

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know this. I know this when I was at the NYPD.
They have procedures in play specifically meant to protain You know,
this is not just a normal company, right, This is
the Federal Bureau of Investigation and this is on their
official work devices. They're gonna tell us that there was

(47:32):
just a GLI there just happened to be a glitch.
We fixed the glitch. I mean, they they really think
that that's gonna wash for the public. Now again, put
this in the context I gave you before. We're not
talking about some problem that's FBI wide. We're not talking about,

(47:54):
you know, some messages that who cares about? The specific
messages used on work devices between these two people who
are now at the center of the storm of anti
Trump shenanigans, a DJ and FBI. Those messages all of
a sudden disappear. Those messages are are not retrieval by

(48:18):
the FBI. And it goes without saying if you are hoping,
you know, if you're under investigation of the FBI and
you're hoping, sorry, bro TOA, it's deleted, like all the
tweets are, like all the text messages, like don't have
them anymore. And that's gonna save your butt. You are
gonna be mistaken. Trust me, they'll have it, they'll find it.

(48:39):
It's there, It exists on servers. FBI knows that the
digital footprint is, for many investigations, the best friend that
the law enforcement officers have. But we're supposed to think
back to my point about coincidence being a coincidence theorist,
This just just happens to come up here, right, records

(49:01):
directly related to the questions we're asking now, what else
was said about this? What else were they saying? They
already we've already seen some bad stuff between these two.
What else was on the list? Oh, we can't tell
you that because months of text messages on their work
devices disappear. Folks. This the FBI is the d J.

(49:21):
They have to retain work records. It's not a choice.
This isn't like, oh yeah, you know, whatever must be retained.
It is a huge part of what their day to
day obligations are when they're involved in investigations. Right, this
is and and you have to be very careful. I
know a lot of law enforcement out there, nos this.

(49:42):
I knew this from when I was doing counter terrorist
investigations the NYPD. You know, if you say, yeah, that
guy glad, we're gonna lock him up. He's a real
you know, he's a he's a schmo or something. Guess
what that can end up in court. That could be
a problem. You don't say dumb stuff like that. Oh
I would note, by the way, how dumb do we think? Now?

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Struck and Paige are work devices writing f the possible
future president United States? You work in the executive branch?
Are you out of your minds? I mean, are they
hiring imbeciles at these places? The answer is yes, actually
they are. There are a lot of very dumb people
who work for the federal government. That's a separate discussion.
A lot of brilliant people too, But that's I'm not

(50:24):
hearing enough of that from other people. This is not
just like the messages just that. This the FBI. They
have to keep the messages, they have to have access
to this. This is not a question. This is not
an option. This isn't like a you know, an additional
feature they'd love to have. And then there's one other
thing I want to get into before we we're gonna
break here. And I haven't even talked to you about

(50:45):
the FIS and memo yet. Oh yeah, we're gonna go there.
That's coming up in a second. I'm hearing more and
more from my sources on that one. And this is
one where I am really pulsing the sources and and
I'm gonna ask my people who this is too important?
You know, I gen really trying not to push too much,
you know, talk to people. I don't want anyone and
I know when government ever, you know, get in trouble

(51:06):
for anything. But I need to know whether this is
real or not. This memo is real or not. You know,
that's not that's not a national security issue. That's the
future of America issue. And the American people need to know.
Is this What does this memo really have? So I've
been asking around. But before I get to that, not
only do you have these text messages disappearing right now?
And look, maybe they'll find them all in a week

(51:26):
and we'll be told it. But I'm allowed to at
least take some of our time here on the show
and say, oh, okay, this is not gonna this is
not gonna fly. One more thing. Look at the timeline,
my friends, Look at what The timeline is here for
when these text messages have disappeared December fourteen to May seventeen.

(51:50):
Who wants to just take a little stab this. Who
wants to throw out what would be kind of a
crazy coincidence? It will be a crazy quincetance this timeline.
What if I told you at Mueller the special counsel
was appointed to investigate Trump over Russia collusion on May
sev Wow, doesn't that see him a little bit odd?

(52:17):
That just happened that the day that we find out
there's a massive, possibly administration ending investigation announced unexpectedly about
Russia Trump collusion, that's when all of a sudden, you
know that that coincides with the huh it just seems weird, right,

(52:41):
It just seems weird to me. I know, you say, well, buck,
hold on a second. That's that's when that's when the
other settle hole is. Yeah, but there's just too much
here that seems to me like mhmm, something's going on
the whole run up to the announcement. Because you see
the text messages after the announcement, they would know, oh,

(53:05):
right now it's real. Now there's somebody else who could
pull our messages you see what I'm saying. The gap
is all the months leading up to the Special Council
being appointed. Once the Special Counsel has been appointed, Yeah,
those text messages, sure, because they realized. Now this is
assuming they don't find them all tomorrow, and they might.

(53:27):
They might, but the coincidences are piling up too high.
There's too much going on here that can't just be
swept aside, unlike on the other side of this equation
where they're saying, oh, you know what, this guy I
met with a guy in London and you know, he
said something and it told some people, and then you know,
this guy talked to that guy and this other guy

(53:48):
like a game of ridiculous telephone. Now this is all real,
and there's some stuff here that we need answers to.
And I haven't even gotten into the fives of memory out.
That's that's coming up. Eight four four five. You smell
something fishy here? Is this FBI text message blackout? Is
this a big stinking fish or is this a nothing

(54:09):
burger that in a couple of days we'll find out
they have all the messages? What do you think? Eight
four buck eight four to five. We will get into
the fives a memo in just a bit. Stare right there?
Fake news better running high because the Buck Sexton Show

(54:31):
is back. Fifty thou text messages exchanged between FBI agents
Struck and d o J FBI lawyer Lisa Page, d
o J Layer Lisa Page or whatever. That doesn't include
the five months of missing ones. By the way, now
look you know there obviously they had some kind of connection.

(54:56):
That's a lot of text messages. I don't I don't
think I've ever texted anybody in my life times that.
I'm like, what is this? What does the FBI got
doing with all this time? That's a fair question to ask,
I think. Alright, Steve in Springfield, Massachusetts, good to you, Hi,

(55:16):
how are you doing. I'm good, Thanks for calling in
um High. It's been kind of like eating at me.
I heard a reference to it. Does Does Donald Trump
have the executive power to declassify the nunia's memo. Yes,
he does to be because I think the need for
making it public by far outweighs any national security unit.

(55:40):
I mean, I mean, no time forget that Obama pardons Snowden,
which was probably as a massive c I hate breach
and uh I think the public's right to know by
far Outwaigs Mom, Obama pardoned, Obama didn't pardon. Obama commuted
the sentence of Chelsea Manning. He did not pardon Snowding.
Just f y, I okay, okay, that's cool, No, I

(56:02):
just I just like to keep a fact straight, go ahead, Okay, cool.
But but the thing is like, like I told a
few friends of mine, you know, my relatives did not
immigrate from Eastern Europe just to watch our d R
FBI devolve into as uh a gestapo in the k
g B. Now, I I am very uh how do

(56:23):
I put this? I think it's very important Steve, that
we understand that this is the leadership in these places
tend to be political, and many of them are in
fact political appointees. That's different from the rank and file,
and I do think it will be it's it's unfair
if we find out, for example, and I think we might,
that three or four senior FBI d O J people

(56:45):
were part of a conspiracy against the Trump administration and everything,
and maybe it was ten there's tens of thousands of
people who work for the FBI. Right, they're not grabbing
people from their homes the middle and for no reason
making them disappear, which is that that's that's what the
Stasi would do. So I don't want us to go
too far with towering the whole institution when it's a
few very senior people. Now that's not to say a

(57:07):
few very senior people aren't a big problem. They are,
but I want to make sure that we try to
separate that out. I mean, I still have you know,
I still have friends in some of these places, including
friends who are Trump voters, and you know, are as
dead set against the never Trump collusion nonsense as anybody
else that I know. So I just want to keep that.
I wanted to keep that as part of our discussion.
I will talk and thank you for calling, and Steve,

(57:28):
I will talk about the release of the memo coming
up and what what the different ins and outs of
that are. But I am hearing and I've got to
the point now where if this memo is not what
it's supposed to be, and then the next time around,
I'm just say I don't want to hear it, okay,

(57:48):
because I've heard this now from lots of folks that
this fis and memo is jaw dropping Oh my gosh,
what the heck is going on in the federal government.
Why are they trying to destroy the Trump administration? That's
what I'm hearing. So we'll talk about what we know

(58:09):
about that so far right after this break. Other shows
just talk at you in the Freedom Hud. We have
a mission. We fight for the truth in a team effort,

(58:31):
and buck us back with our next play. All right,
can you tell us about this memo? What exactly is it?
It is essentially a set of talking points that the
Republican Intel staff drafted based on the highly classified materials
which most of the Republican members were forced to acknowledge.
They've not even read, so they don't know how distorted

(58:53):
these talking points are. They've made the common cause once
again with Russian bought because Russian bots are pushing their
narrative out there. It's in a redux of the campaign.
We have Julia sangs and wiki leaks and Russian trolls
and botts saying, you know, hashtag whatever the GOP narrative is.

(59:16):
Adam Schiff gives de w Wasserman Schultzer run for money
on the mechanical, absurd and idiotic talking points front. I
mean really really good at the staying on message, blatant falsehood,
just keep going, keep plowing through. What was all that stuff?
But what is Russia and wiki leaks? Like? Think about this?

(59:38):
That has nothing to do with anything the question and
I guess that was from Aaron Burnett, who is a
famous TV anchor, just because I'm not really sure what
the what differentiates her from a thousand other people in
that job. But nonetheless she makes a lot of money
and is a famous, well sort of famous CNN anchor. Uh,

(59:59):
but I think she was on asked the question. I
don't know. The point is, it's about whether the memo
should be released. Should we see if in fact the
Fusion GPS dossier was used as the probable cause in
a sense, or as the the basis for the intelligence

(01:00:20):
investigation opened up on the Trump administration, or as a
Trump campaign and then Trump administration, we should know that
because that would be a very very big deal. Simply put,
it would mean that the media, working with a deep
state government apparatus at the Department of Justice and using

(01:00:44):
something they got from the Hillary Clinton campaign, took the
spying apparatus of the United States and used it to
mind for information and look for what could have just
been politically explosive. Right, Well, we all assume, because they
will us to assume that they were on the hunt
for criminal, criminal information. Here's something that I will, I

(01:01:07):
promise you, and again I have lots of data points
to back this up if we want to get into
it based on what we've already seen. If by running
the counterintelligence investigation, which is just spin, which just means spying,
is getting around normal Fourth Amendment protections, that's what that means.
If by doing that, somehow the people in charge of

(01:01:31):
this at the federal government had gotten information that that
was political kryptonite for Trump, it would have leaked out
into the media. So it didn't even have to be
about criminality or conspiracy with the Kremlin or any of
that stuff. It could have just been Look think about it.

(01:01:51):
Somebody says that, you know, one of Trump's top people
says that they heard Trump use a I don't know,
a racial slur, Right, one of Trump's top people's any
number of things that if you had somebody on tape
saying it and it was then released to the press,
could have been lights out for the Trump campaign. Any
number of things, or at least would have really hurt

(01:02:12):
the campaign. So that's another reason to get this counterintelligence
investigation going because it allows you to mind through all
the information and find what you know. And if you're
asking for oh buck, that sounds crazy, I'd say Flynn
kisel Jack. That made its way into the press to
make Flynn look bad and get him fired. And oh,

(01:02:33):
by the way, later on he gets charged with a
crime for lying the FBI about it, so that they
already did this that wasn't There was nothing that was
discussed that was a big deal, but it was released
to the press to make Flynn or to say that
Flynn was a liar and to undermine him and to
underrun the Trump campaign. So don't tell me that if
there was and that was using counterintelligence methods, right, don't

(01:02:55):
tell me that if they had found something else that
was really good, it wouldn't have made its way out
there because it was classified. All right. These people don't
care about classified. They make a mockery of classified. But
also note a very important distinction, and this has to
do with the mindset between emotional status Democrats and generally speaking,
the conservatives who work in the government. When there's a

(01:03:18):
Republican president. You get these just deeply damaging leaks. Sometimes
they'll just really damage national security, but they'll do it
in a way that it embarrasses the White House, embarrassed
the president. You don't have any of that with Obama.
You know, this is like when we're talking about media bias.
It's so obvious, yet a lot of people pretend it's
not there. There's a leak bias, my friends, where are

(01:03:44):
the big damaging leaks about the Obama administration? In fact,
you had the opposite of that. You had government apparatus
helping Obama targeting the Tea Party during with with the
I r S scandal and then covering up that information.
Oh yeah, those servers were that they were destroyed. I
r S servers destroyed, literally chopped up in the in

(01:04:06):
the landfill, piece by piece. Nothing you can do with
them anymore. Oh you know, it's just an accident, just happened.
Mechanically destroyed the hard drives that might have information about
the I r S targeting. Hillary Clinton wiped servers using
the most advanced technology she could get her hands on.
But oh, you know, she didn't think there was anything wrong. Now,

(01:04:27):
that's just norm right, that's just like tot's what people do,
n b D. No big deal for the gen xers
and above out there. But and now we've got the
missing text messages, which we'll see if they find them.
I think they realized they're going to have to produce
these things because if they don't, and that doesn't mean

(01:04:48):
that somebody didn't try to delete them, I would know
someone in the know. They may have got rid of
them at at the first level, hoping that you know,
they can wait this thing out or whatever. You know,
people are desperate. This is the cover up often is
where you get caught, not the crime. People get desperate.
They try to just do whatever they can to hide
the facts. Doesn't mean that there are some genius mastermind

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when they're doing it. But Okay, back to shift in
the fives and memo here, because I know I got
a little bit off topic of that for a second. Um,
we have a right to know what's in there, the
American people right to know. And the notion that that
the secrecy outweighs are right to know is just nonsense.
It's crap. Here's a little secret. I'll tell all of you.

(01:05:30):
A vast majority of government classified information is wildly overclassified,
a vast majority of it. A lot of stuff that
is marked secret. And I mean I've seen I spent
years of my life, right, I spent gosh, I don't know,
six six years or so reading stuff that was from
the open source all the way up to top secret
and above. Just reading stuff all the time, and a

(01:05:52):
lot of stuff that was marked you know, secret or
stuff that's more confidential. You'd say me, I mean I
kind of knew that, you know, it's not really and
it has to do usually with the source. How do
you get the information is often the bigger deal, not
what is the information, but a lot of stuff you'd
see You're like, I mean, come on, you know, yeah,
confidential assessment US government property. Eagles fans are likely to

(01:06:17):
get somewhat inebriated during the upcoming Super Bowl. I mean,
you can mark that confidential because you got an inside
source with the Eagles. But you know, I think it's
fair to say that there's gonna be some heavy drinking
at that Super Bowl, right. Not that I'm letting the
Pats fans off easy either, I'm just saying people are
gonna be partying pretty hard. I think so gosh, it's
like the Uncle Sam ball to the Eagles and the Patriots. Anyway, Uh,

(01:06:42):
A lot of informations are classified, so start with that.
Then you get to the next level here, which is okay,
so redact the information, redact what you need to protect
sources and methods. Great, do that, that's fine. I still
want to know what's in there. I want to know
what in these men, what's in this memo and what
was done. And there's no good argument that Democrats have

(01:07:06):
for not allowing that. But there's already been this party
line vote of oh no, the Democrats don't want this
stuff to be out there, which I guess they're just
hoping against hope that we will forget about this. It'll
move on. They can use procedure and hide behind it.
For those who are asking, by the way, did Trump
uh or ken Trump declassify? The answer is yes. But

(01:07:26):
if Trump were to declassify this, and it's a little
more complicated than that, but yeah, technically the commander in
chief does have declassification authority. If Trump did it, can
you imagine the outcry, Oh, he's he's he's under investigation,
he's polluted the investigation. Look what he's done. Look what
he's done, right, And then the whole story becomes not
what's in there, not what's in the memo, but oh

(01:07:48):
Trump is you know, he's intruded on this. We need
another special council investigate Trump because he's you know, blah
blah all that stuff. And I know you're like Buck.
Just hearing that from you makes me want to punch
myself in the face. And I understand that, but that's
what would happen. Trust me, makes me want to punch
myself in the face. Step. So on the declassification side
of things, that can be done, it should be done,
it must be done. There's an obligation here, and people

(01:08:11):
like Shift have these pathetic reasons because they're just they're
just clinging to I don't know what they're the last
hopes here that somehow this won't become public knowledge. Why
not allow people to look at it and let Americans
make the decision for themselves about whether it's useful information
or not. Well, because the American people, unfortunately don't have

(01:08:34):
the underlying materials and therefore they can't see how distorted,
uh and misleading this document is. Mm hmm, No, I
think we can trust we can trust the American people
to see this there shift. But isn't that an interesting
little moment there? You do get the sense from that
statement that he knows that it would be bad if

(01:08:54):
I got if it got out there, it's gonna be
bad for the Democrats. How bad I don't oh yet.
But not having the underlying information, Uh, if it's bad,
they could explain to us what that underlying information would
be if necessary, Right, there'd be some way that they
could make this. They could put this in the proper

(01:09:16):
context for us. I as I mean, the Democrats all
they do is spin all day, Right, he had a
little bit of he was showing his cards there, a
little bit this. This memo is gonna have to It's
gonna have to hit him where it hurts with the Democrats,
I think, And so we will have to see much
more of what's going on here. I'm gonna follow up

(01:09:38):
on this. There's no way that we should not see
that memo. And it is incumbent upon everybody listening right now.
If this falls out of the new cycle, you know,
pressure your congressman, make noise. Look, you can start a
hashtag that can go viral on this, right, release the memo.
It has to be released. We have to see it
because this could take the whole wind out of the
sales of the Mueller robe and everything else. I mean,

(01:10:01):
this could bring it all crashing down, basically, And if
that were the case, it should come crashing down, because
it means it was all based on falsehoods, and I
think it is. I think it was all right. Got
to hit a quick break here, eight four four nine
to five, eight four four buck, I'm gonna talking about
this Turkish incursion to the Syria. No one else is

(01:10:22):
talking about it, but I will. I know about this stuff,
and uh, it's it's a big problem, folks. This could
go away in a few days, or this could be
the beginning of a much messier Middle East than it
already is. So we'll get into that a more. Stick
with me. It's just bumps me out. But it's a

(01:10:51):
an indicator of how crazy the Russia fearmongering has really gotten.
Back in my single days as a young man, and uh,
the district of Columbia, I like to go check out
a restaurant slash bar called the Russia House. I don't worry,
it's not like you know, an embassy or something. It's
just a restaurant with some Russian theme, do it. It's

(01:11:13):
owned by I think one of them is. One of
them is Americans. Yeah, owned by a guy named last
named McGovern. Okay, so it's in a restaurant, but it's
got some fun you know, old ga and flavor of
oldka emborist and all this stuff. And I I went

(01:11:33):
on I feel like I went on a couple of
first dates there. Maybe even some second dates there. I mean,
I don't know. I definitely it was a great spot.
It's a really fun spot in in d C. And
they got a rock thrown through their window and they've
had problems because people are uh you know, they're seen

(01:11:54):
as like somehow tied to Putin or something. The anti
Russia idiocy on the left them with Democrats with MSNBC watchers.
Now means that a restaurant that's owned by at least
uh one American. I don't know if both of them
American or not, but one of the guys in American
is getting vandalized and there's like a pressure campaign on

(01:12:18):
it because of Russia and people are idiots. That's gonna
call them five thousand dollars to replace the window because
insurance it's more expensive, they go through insurance. I just
feel bad. I mean, I really spent some time in
that place. I had some great nights in the Russia House,
me commy Beart. We really tore it up in there,
and uh there you yeah, that's right. You know, you know,

(01:12:44):
many nights in there, I would drank the different Vodkas,
talk to ladies, enjoy myself in the Russia House. So
you know that makes me makes me annoyed that this
is what's happening. But when you run story after store
worry about how the Kremlin is controlling Trump like a
puppet everything, you know, this is what idiots do social

(01:13:04):
justice warriors. Nothing is safe from them, right, Anything that
gets caught up in the cause is subject to their tantrumps.
And so that's why literally a restaurant bar called the
Russia House is being vandalized, and there's like a kind
of slow moving boycott against the place by some folks
because Russia, it doesn't get much dumber folks. But here

(01:13:28):
we are. Next time I'm in d C, I'm gonna
open up a big well big for me, but a
big bar tab at that place and do what I can.
I'll buy a couple of rounds for the Russia House,
just because I feel bad for those guys. I love that.
By the way, if you're in d C. Great date spot,
that was one of that was one of my places.
That's right, used to go rolling the Russia House, all right,
box meandering down memory Lane here, Dave and Tucson, Arizona.

(01:13:52):
What's going on, Dave? Hey, just listening to you while
my wife retired cop and miss sitting myself and also
a retired cop. We're working out and we're getting matter
and matters. Were listening to you because you know, uh,
I did a lot of search warrants in my days
and narcotics, and you know how sacred that act is.
You swear and a firm, your honors on the line.

(01:14:14):
You have to do it in good faith. And I
see this and and I'm waiting for a perp walk
with these FBI guys. And I gotta tell you, I
think the American law enforcement community is just sitting back
aghast that the Republicans even are piddling around. When you
go to get a warrant, that's a sacred act, that's
a critical and that's part of our freedoms. And I

(01:14:34):
tell you what, this is very frustrating me. These missing
texts and everything you brought up over the last the
whole part of your show has just got me fired up.
I'll tell you well, I'm glad that it's at least
worthwhile content for you, Dave, and uh and you and
the you and the missus. Thank you for what you
do to keep what you have done to keep the
streets safe. And yeah, it's true. I mean that they're

(01:14:56):
really harming. I think it's kind of ironic that Democrats
were complaining some about how Trump undermines institutions, but the
greatest undermining of institutions that we have seen since Trump
took office has been from people in those institutions acting
on behalf of Hillary. Right, comey and this whole crew,
this whole cabal. Alright, Dave, thank you very much for

(01:15:18):
calling him. And I think we've lost Dave of there
for a second. John in Mississippi, what's up, John? Hey Buck.
I want to put the rest of your concerns that
this thing is overblown the spice of memo, the new
Yez memo. I have a lot of confidence in representative
from Ohio, Jim Jordan's and he says it's worth seeing.

(01:15:42):
He says it's important, and so even if he's exaggerating,
even if he's blown your big out of proportion, I
am still very interested in seeing this memo that may
reveal what some of these people in the Justice Department
and the FBI we're doing in order to use their
offices for political means to undermine an election. Well, John,

(01:16:03):
I'm a percent with you on wanting to see the memo,
and I think and hope the memo is going to
have some very relevant information that will be very damaging
for the Russia collusion conspiracy nuts. But I'm just saying
at this point they better have the goods because we can't.
We can't have a head fake on this one. You

(01:16:23):
know what I mean. Well, you're saying you're not worried
about that, and I appreciate that. I hope you're right
exactly that's exactly right. I'm because I have confidence in
Jim Jordan's I've been watching him for years. His integrity
quotation is guy high. All right, John Shield, Hi, thank
you for calling in. We're gonna transition here in a
moment into a buck brief on Turkey. Showing our Kurdish allies.

(01:16:47):
We gotta talk about it. He's back with you now
because when it comes to the fight for truth, the
buck never stops. You are now entering the Freedom Technical

(01:17:11):
Operations Center. All sensitive programs must be keV strictly need
to know Team Buck is cleared and ready for the
buck brief a Turkish military operation into Syria striking a
US ally on the ground. Not nearly enough media coverage

(01:17:34):
of this situation, and it's one that could get much
worse and very quickly. Here's what's going on. So we
have been working to defeat the Islamic state in Syria,
separate out the Iraqi theater of that war. For a moment,
we're even working with Kurdish militia. It's really a Kurdish

(01:17:57):
military force, but we just we call it a militia
cause it's not technically Syrian national army because the Syrian
National Army belongs to the Assad regime and there is
no real Syrian government. In the rest of the country.
You have enclaves with their own forces, and one of
the enclaves a Kurdish ethnic enclave in Syria in the

(01:18:20):
north and in the east, northeast, of the country has
this militia called the YPG. YPG has been very effective.
The Kurdish are a stalwart ally of the Americans in
Iraq and Syria, and but they also have a long
story and they have a long standing tradition of bravery

(01:18:41):
and prowess on the battlefield. The Kurds have been fighting
against dictators for decades and beyond the old Turkish saying
that the Kurds, I'm sorry, the old Curtish saying that
the Curds have no friend, but the mountains is very apt.
They are in a sense hill people. They are from

(01:19:02):
the northern part of Iraq where there are elevations and
mountains um and they're also in the hillier parts of
southeastern Turkey. In fact, the Turks refer to the Kurds
as mountain Turks and have been very slow to recognize

(01:19:22):
Kurdish language and are very concerned that if there were
to be a Kurdish state in Iraq or in Syria,
the separatist movement along the Syria Turkey border would only
grow in strength and you could have a large portion
of Turkey that all of a sudden wants to be
independent and part of its own new nation. So the

(01:19:43):
YPG militia, the Turks say, and I know that's there's
no way to talk about this without getting into acronyms
and ethnicities and a lot of stuff going on here.
But the YPG militia is considered by the Turkish government
to be indistinguishable from a group called the p k
K of the Curtistan Workers Party. Curtistan Workers Party is

(01:20:07):
a terrorist organization that has bunness. Has also been part
of a separatist movement trying to create a Kurdish enclave,
a Curdish state inside of Turkey, stretching back for many,
many decades, and they have engaged in terrorist attacks against
Turks and the Turkish government. We look at this and
just say, okay, look, Syria is a nightmare. The Islamic

(01:20:31):
State is making these terrible torture videos and raping women
on mass and enslaving and raping children and cutting off
people's heads and lighting them on fire. We just need
somebody who can beat these evil psychopaths. And the Kurds
are reliable. You know, you don't isn't an interesting. You
don't have curd blue on green attacks, right, or green

(01:20:57):
on blue attacks. Rather you don't have Curd insiders who
turn on US forces and shoot them down like you
do with Pashto recruits in Afghanistan and Sonni Arab recruits
in Iraq. The Curds have been reliable partners in Iraq
and in Syria, and they are along with the escalated

(01:21:19):
air campaign of the Trump administration, for which for which
a lot of people don't want to give credit, but
it is true. Trump came into office and said, I've
got an idea. We want to beat these evil psychos
of the Islamic State. Notice how we also got to
call it isis now instead of eisl Let's call it isis.
It was bizarre. It was this pedantic nonsense with the

(01:21:43):
previous administration. Everyone except the president and like his top
appointees and government, we're calling it isis. He had to
call it is anyway. The uh, the Trump administration came
in and said, let's accelerate the air campaign. Let's let
the military officers on the ground, Let's let the military

(01:22:04):
military chain of command closest to the action make determinations
about what targets to hit and when to hit them.
Let's take the fight to them and clear the and
doing so clear the way for the Kurdish militia. And
this is why now Isis doesn't have RockA, doesn't have
all this territory used to have, and it's now just
lodged into a an enclave really uh, kind of no

(01:22:28):
man's land between Iraq and Syria. Part of the world
that I've spent some time in, and it looks like
tattooed from Star Wars, just flat desert as far as
the eye can see. And they've even set up now
a Willayott Willayott, which is the old Ottoman term. Those
of you who listened to the Shields High podcast, we'll
kind of know what I'm talking about here, old Ottoman designation,

(01:22:51):
provincial designation. They called it a williot and because that
was the previous caliphate, the Islamic State has aken that
terminology because they say they're the new caliphate. So they've
taken up the mantle of the Ottoman Caliphate of the
Autumn Empire, and they borrow the term will lay out,
but they've created a euphrates will layout which is really
between Iraq and Syria. YEA. Our friend Hassan Hassan even

(01:23:15):
wrote a piece calling it Sirak, which I think is
a good designation for it, and that's what they've been
relegated to. And this is in large part because the
Kurds have been clearing the ground while we clear as
much as we can of the battlefield beforehand with our
air power and then give them air cover. Now, if
we want to have a continuation of the pressure on

(01:23:37):
the Islamic State as well as the other groups, by
the way, other Jihada sentities inside of Iraq, then we
need to have a plan in place for dealing with
these other players. You've got assad his forces are still
trying to take back territory. He still views Syria as
his country, and his regime figures it's just a matter

(01:23:58):
of time before they're gonna take it back piece by piece.
You have the Turks now intervening militarily and intervening is
probably two general terment that Turks are blowing up our
allies right now. Air strikes, dozens of air strikes all
over uh this portion of northern Syrical in the region
of Afrin, it's called a f R I N. And

(01:24:20):
these are our guys that we've been working with who
have been taken the fight to Isis and the Turks
are saying there, p K K, I mean, who really knows.
But right now you've got a force that has been
backed by and helped by the United States military and

(01:24:40):
very effective in beating an evil terrorist entity in Syria
that had spread the jihaddest cancer into Europe, and he
had all the mass cows of the attacks there. And
we need we need a strategy here, folks, because a
political solution is way too neat and tidy a term.
But some kind of political settlements has to or framework
e been has to be on offer here. You've got

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Isis now in a in an insurgency phase. They have
been pushed out of the cities and the main areas
of control that they've had in the past. But remember
IIS came out of an insurgency phase to begin with.
It was al Qaeda in Iraq back in the days
of the US invasion and occupation of Iraq. A q

(01:25:25):
U I was defeated thanks to the Awakening and US
military operations the Surge. They were pushed out of Iraq
proper predominantly and into this corridor between Iraq and Syria
and into a period of exile slash insurgency. But then
they're able to come back as the Islamic state and

(01:25:46):
see his whole cities and became this huge problem for US.
So you have to keep the pressure on. But what
do we do about the Turks? There are NATO ally,
you have a major US presence at Injury Lick Air Base,
you know, the US military, US Air Force at Injo Lake,
and that's on Turkish soil. This is a delicate situation

(01:26:08):
for US because we gotta at some level there's a
message that has to be said here that if someone
is if a force is working with the backing and
blessing of the United States military, and somebody else comes
along and start of dropping bombs on them, we gotta
be like, hey, hold on a second, that's that's a
guy you can't hit. Were the United States? Sorry, you
gotta back off on this one. Now. I know the
Turks would say, well, they're you know that they're terrorists

(01:26:30):
just like the p k K. We might have to
have the talk with them where we say, defeating ISIS
is a greater priority right now than anything else. And
by the way, you know, are they really the same
or are they just come from a similar region, have
similar views about Kurtish autonomy, which by the way, I
am also favorable to. And I certainly would never advocate

(01:26:51):
for violence against Turkish civilians or the Turkish people in
favor of a Kurdish state. But I understand the political sentiment,
and I understand that right now what the Turks are
doing with the Radwan government prim or President Rwan, what
he's doing is not helpful. President Erdwan is allowing this

(01:27:14):
to complicate matters already in a very beaten down and
desperate part of the world, and says, you know, Sirius,
still just recovering from a civil war. You've got a
half million people dead, country has been ravaged, destroyed, and
we finally have got Isis on the ropes, in large
part because of our Kurdish friends. We kind of abandoned
our Kurdish friends some extent in Iraq, and now I'm

(01:27:37):
worried we're doing it again in Syria. This sends a
message anytime we're going to try in the future to
use indigenous forces for the purpose of defeating a jehattest
terrorist entity, they can look at what happened here with
the Curs and say, hold on a second, are we
just gonna be fighting and bleeding and dying alongside or
in front of American air power, and then when things

(01:27:58):
got rough politically, we can't count on them. This is
something that I really hope the Trump team spends some
time focused on. I hope that Maddis has got this one.
I've got a tremendous amount of faith in Maddie. I
know a lot of people do. But the Kurds are
being left high and dry once again here, all right.
I mean, look, if Turkey's got problems with If Turkey

(01:28:19):
wants to sit down and we we hash at an
agreement where they've got specific individuals they want handed over
for terrorist acts, that's one thing. But just to be
bombing the crap out of the Kurds in northern Syria
because they don't like the past actions of Kurds in
Syria visa be the Turkish state. That's not that's not okay,
That is not okay. I I know, and I am.

(01:28:40):
I am pro Kurdish, and I tend to be very
critical of Turkey. I'lbe I want to be honest with
all of you about that. And you know, I've met
many wonderful Turks in my day. I've met plenty of
Turks that I really did not like. So it's not
about that. It's just the Turkish government. The Turkish States
actions I find much less helpful. They can otherwise be.
You know, they could have helped us open up northern

(01:29:00):
front in the Iraq War, but they said no, by
the way, for their own domestic political reasons. But that's
a another story for another time. All right, I gotta
roll into a break here, uh eight four four nine
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(01:30:05):
listen on the I heart app. Follow Concepts and Noble
is an incredible story and it's one we should all
know and once we tell once we tackle this, they'll
be part two, which I think will be out next Monday,
where we finished the siege, and then we'll get into
Malta and some of our some of our classics where
I'll put some new twists on them. We'll be right
back sort of story day Team that I think serves

(01:30:40):
as a reminder for all of us. I was talking
to a friend who was a little I mean shaking
up would be too strong a word, but was a
little rattled because he had just heard from a friend
of his and this is what had happened. There were

(01:31:03):
some home invasions in my buddies general neighborhood, and it
had become known that there was a crew going around,
a few guys who were moving in a van, and
they were doing it in broad daylight, and they would
even put uh you know, orange cones like they were

(01:31:23):
doing some kind of work out on the street, and
then they would go in and just brute force kick
in the front door, break through the window, and then
just loot and ransacked the place. And they were doing
this in the late afternoon, I suppose, with the idea
being that they were doing it when people were least
likely to be home. Maybe they had been doing some

(01:31:46):
casing of the establishments beforehand, you know, meaning looking at
the routes and times of the individuals who lived there.
But as you know, home invasions are very very serious crime,
very frightening thing to just even hear about. My friend
was telling me that that his friend actually who was

(01:32:06):
in the neighborhood, who who knew because this has been
going on for a while and they're really trying to
catch this team. I think it's a few guys, three
or four guys um, all operating with this home invasion
uh m o of same time, same moving around in
a kind of a grayish van or something or beij
or you know whatever, nondescript van like they're doing work

(01:32:30):
and then they're just going to these homes, just breaking,
destroying and grabbing everything they can. And my friends buddy
was home, was home with his I think twelve year
old daughter when he heard uh, he said, is the
daughter thought that her dad at first was knocking on

(01:32:52):
her door because the banging was so loud. The banging
was them kicking in the front door. They got in
the door, and then the father obviously grabbed the daughter,
went into They went to the bedroom, locked the door,
called the police, and then I think shouted down over
the intercom system in the house that the police that

(01:33:14):
they were home and the police have been called. The
police have been called. Now the police response was just
under seven minutes, which was pretty good, especially this is
not a this is not in a city, This is
out in a kind of suburban suburban area. Um. But
I asked himbody, I said to him, well, does he

(01:33:35):
does your friend I don't know his friend, I said,
is your friend does he have a firearm in the house.
He goes, no, I don't. I don't think I don't
think he does. And I asked my friend, I said, well,
you know you're on You've got a wife and a
couple of small kids. I know you love hunting. I've
been hunting with you, right, I mean I've I've literally
been out hunting with this guy before, so I know

(01:33:57):
he you know, he's fire arms friendly. Zoe to speak, right,
Because do you have it? He goes, No, I've only
got a twenty two caliber rifle for target practice. I
don't have anything that's you know, for And I said, well,
I mean, in a pinch, that could work. But I
mean it's both action and and I think he looks
up like a little with a little more punch better

(01:34:19):
than nothing. But and I said, you know you gotta
get a twelve gage. I mean that's I don't know
a lot of you right now are like Buck Home
Defense getting Well, he lives in a very blue state.
The best he's gonna get a is a shotgun. I
mean that's it's very hard to get a handgun permit
in that state. So the best he's gonna do is
is a shotgun. Can get a shotgun. There. Um, I said,

(01:34:40):
you know you gotta get a shotgun because this look
I'm not I'm not advocating. You've got your You know
this guy, for example, who was there? Can you imagine
they're during the home invasion? Four o'clock, nice suburban neighborhood,
you know, not a lot of crime, but you never know.
Four o'clock in the afternoon, someone kicks in his front door.
Whole team of guys and they've got it set up
so it's like the doing work. So people perhaps aren't

(01:35:01):
gonna think anything of it. That's the whole scheme. But
he's there with his daughter. Think oh, the cops get there,
you know, and who loos to them? Under seven minutes
given the I've been in the area, I know the area.
That's pretty fast. In New York City for a felony
call like this, it's under five minutes. I forget what
the exact response time is, but it's quick. There's one.
There's the cops showing up for a noise complaint. There's

(01:35:22):
the cops showing up saying someone's kicking in my front door.
I'm scared him here with my daughter. They move here
and they don't mess around. I mean, I'm sure it's true.
Cops all around the country, they get there as fast
as they can. I said, I mean know, I'm not
advocating go downstairs and you know, turn into commando here
and and take matters in your own hands, although that's
also depends on your comfort with you know, he's got
If you've got a child there with you, I think

(01:35:43):
you probably stay right there and don't want to move.
But you know that's now you're getting into the details
of the situation. I said, you gotta be able to
at least, you know, uh, rack around in there. I mean,
you gotta at least be able to have your twelve
gauge and keep your you know, keep your child or
whomever with you while you call the cops, because I

(01:36:03):
gotta say I would not have wanted to be in
that room for those four or five minutes after yelling
we're at home, we've called the cops. Unfortunately, the guys
took off, so nobody was harmed. Nobody was hurt. But
it's just a reminder, folks. You know, you hear this
stuff here and there about this this one, you know,
as this was one of those stories could have gone
very bad. And my buddy was like, I think I'm

(01:36:25):
gonna be getting a shotgun on the way home from
work today. I said, yeah, not just for Clay Pigeon
shooting my man, We'll get one well direct that. So
I had a really exciting weekend team of deep diving
into some history. The Fall of Constantinople Part one podcast

(01:36:48):
is up on iTunes. You can listen on the I
herd app. I would be willing to bet very few
of you were ever even exposed to the storyline of
what happened in that city. And there's a political correct
angle to all this. I want everyone to be clear
on that as I go forward with some of these
history podcasts under the rubric of shields high. One of

(01:37:09):
the reasons that you may come upon these stories, even
as someone who's incredibly well read and knowledgeable, is that
in most history classes, certainly in a European and I
took ap European history for example, in high school because
you know, I'm fancy, and we didn't even touch on
this stuff. It's a it's a footnote at best. You

(01:37:31):
know Byzantium, the Eastern Orthodox Christian Empire, what happened there,
because it's helpful for the narrative of skipping right to
the colonial period, meaning that the Western European countries went
out and seized control, pillaged ransacked and enslaved all these
other countries all over the world during the colonial period

(01:37:53):
and are therefore responsible for the problems of well the
third world, the developing world, but more speci typically the
Muslim world. If you actually know the history, and you
see that one in the Muslim world, particularly the Ottoman
Empire was built on slavery. It was a slave trade
that lasted longer, covered more territory, and enslaved more people

(01:38:18):
than anything else in history, with the possible exception of
the Roman Empire, right, but it was a vast slave trade,
including many many Christian whites who were enslaved over the
course of a few hundred years. That'll be a whole podcast,
maybe even a podcast series unto itself, the white slave
trade under the Ottomans. But that's why you don't really

(01:38:40):
hear these back stories. And this is why I think
it's valuable to pull it together in a podcast format, storytelling,
giving it to you so you can share it with
other people and you can hear yourself. Because I'm somebody
who I studied Midy's history in college as well as
in high school, but in a more serious way in college,
and even there there were these gaps. It goes from

(01:39:04):
the rise of Mohammed and the Arabian Peninsula to the Crusades.
It's just kind of whoa Crusades comes out of nowhere,
these evil crusaders, and yeah, there was brutality and violence
on all sides here. The world was a very different
place then. But you'll notice that there are these these
leaps that happen and something well or some bits of

(01:39:25):
history are often skipped over. And that's why I'm telling
you about Charles Martell about the Fall of Jerusalem, which
I know you're all familiar with, but just to get
back into it, the fall of Constantinople, the Siege of Malta,
the Battle of Lepanto. These are the stories that get
lost in in history because they're all stories, well not all,
but they touch on and are the result of Islamic

(01:39:50):
conquest and expansion. Without that, you don't have these battles
that I'm talking to you about, and that changes the
whole dynamic then for Europe and America's uh blaming that
the blame that we get for the state of the
world today for any of these countries, particularly Muslim countries

(01:40:11):
in the air in the Arab world, but elsewhere too.
They'll say, Oh, it's a legacy of colonialism, that's why
they have all these dysfunctions and problems. Anyway, that's so.
So that's one I was talking about my weekend and
I got on this whole separate, the whole separate line
of discussion here. But I also did some Netflix watching.
MS Molly was back in town. She was in Hawaii

(01:40:33):
for work. Aloha love Hawaii is amazing. She loved it too.
It's it's a it's incredible to be in a place
that's so beautiful and and you're still on US soil
and really sizeable concentration of US military power there too,
so you know, in case some foreign country gets a
little upity, you got the United States Navy and Marines

(01:40:55):
and military in in considerable density given the size of
of the Hawaiian islands right there for you. But why
is amazing. She's gone this week again. So I'm in
bachelor road, which means that I throw stuff everywhere. You know.
It's like a Tasmanian devil, or the actual Tasmanian devil
from the cartoons. Real Tasmanian devils are like small weasels basically,

(01:41:19):
but the one from the cartoon would create these you know,
you know, and go all crazy. That's what my apartment
looks like right now, and then the day before she
comes back, I make it spick and span. I mean,
it is clean, right, There's nothing left on the ground,
nothing left anymore. But I watched some television, uh specifically
in Netflix. And I've said this before. I'm I'm just

(01:41:41):
gonna come clean with you guys here. I watch some
pretty especially when I'm doing a little bit of cooking
or I kind of half watched some things. So I
don't use the good shows for this. I use the
background shows. Now I've already seen all the sign felt
so I'm on my fourth or fifth iteration of that,
So I'll put on Seinfeld in the background. But more

(01:42:02):
often than Seinfeld, I'll actually use the show called Friends.
And I was thinking about it over the weekend because
I had seen a piece on Friday. I think it
was Kyle Smith from National Review wrote it, and Kyle's
very good, right, a very good film critic, and he
talked about how there is a backlash against the TV
show Friends, which is among the most successful and valuable

(01:42:26):
television shows in syndication. Ever, more money in syndication or
more money in residuals in syndication than even Seinfeld. And
I think it's behind like Baywatch and actually Hercules, the
legendary Journeys with Kevin Sorbo. It did remarkably well around

(01:42:46):
the world, as it has a global audience. But I digress. So,
Friends is this show that I look. It's I'm a
New Yorker. It's takes place in New York. They live
in the West Village, and it's fantasy land stuff. You
got these roommates who are going in and out of
these relationships. Everybody's funny, everybody is beautiful, and everybody doesn't

(01:43:07):
really have to worry all that much. I mean that
the apartment for the set of Friends would be one
of the biggest New York City apartments I've ever seen.
And they have jobs like paleontologists and coffee barista. Not
exactly raking in the big bucks with those. But the
backlash against Friends, a show that debut I think over

(01:43:28):
twenty years ago, is that the humor is you know
what's coming here, folks. This is why I started think
about political correctness. In the beginning of this segment. The
humor is uh misogynist, they say, homophobic, full of body
shaming and white privilege and transphobia. So they are pulling

(01:43:49):
apart this show. Now, the social justice warriors are looking
at one of the most popular television shows of the
last thirty years, and they're saying that it is unacceptable
for all these different reasons. And it just reminds me
that nothing, even in the arts, is sacred to these
social justice warriors. I remember when Robin Williams Rest in Peace,

(01:44:14):
when he passed away, there were some retrospective clips that
were pulled together of Robin williams funniest moments and even
those clips because he does accents and he does impersonations
of people, and Robert Williams is probably the greatest comedic

(01:44:34):
genius of my generation. I know, for the generation before me,
people might say Richard Prior, they might have you know,
I mean Eddie Murphy, and his prime is certainly up
there to for my generation, but Robin Williams is definitely
in the top five or ten, and that upon his
passing we couldn't even celebrate his work fully as a

(01:44:56):
result of the newly found sensibilities of the social justice warriors.
This is crazy, right, Robin Williams wouldn't be able to
do what he does now on television without running a
foul of the PC Police and even Friends, a show
about young people in their twenties in New York City.
It's all it's like one big funny fantasy, right. There's

(01:45:18):
nothing realistic about the show at all. But it's well
written in it's clever, and it's it's not you can
kind of turn your brain off. There's a little bit
of uh, you know, it's not like you're watching something
that's intense. You know. Miss Molly loves to watch these
shows where they like bring in the Blue Lights and
they're like, have we found the killer yet? And they're like, well,
we found you know, we found one head over here
and we found a leg over here. And I'm like, ah, Molly,

(01:45:40):
why do you watch this stuff. She's very good at
being the detective though she always knows who the killer
is in the beginning. But I look at this moment
in time here where you have the social justice warriors
continuing to to gather and to to push even further,
and we we do need to address this as a

(01:46:01):
society and say, you know, it's just it's just too
much they're not. They shouldn't be allowed to kill humor,
they shouldn't be allowed to eradicate fun, and they're doing
a pretty good job. There's a lot of stuff that,
for example, I would love to do on this show
that I can only talk to close friends and family
members about without fear of reprisal. And I just mean

(01:46:21):
in terms of doing funny accents or doing impersonations of
public figures. But I can't do the impersonation unless it
falls into a very narrow categorization. Essentially, I can make
fun of uh, Caucasians who are male, and Republican political

(01:46:42):
figures who are Caucasian, and you know, maybe I can
get away with female too, and other than that has
to be in very broad terms, right, I can't do
regional accents. I can't do different ethnic accents. All of
that is off limits. And at some point, when are
we allowed to say we laughed together? We're laughing with

(01:47:02):
We're supposed to be laughing together. It's supposed to be fun.
It's not punching down, right, I know the difference between
punching down and having a good time, And it's very
it's very bothersome, you know. Here, I'm on radio, and
I feel I feel constricted, and anybody else does. And
a lot of what would have been okay, you know
ten or twenty years ago, we'll get you fired now.

(01:47:25):
So people say, oh, well, you remember when so and
so did that bit twenty years ago, fifteen years ago.
He's a superstar, so yeah, if he if he did
that now, he'd be fired, he'd be off the air.
And this is the anti creative impulse that is so
profound among the social justice worries now. Not even friends

(01:47:46):
gets past the radar. And if you look back you'll
find it. I mean, heaven forbid. They figure out how
many times in the James Bond movies James Bond used
to you know, yes, I'm just going to Darling. I
think it's tom for me to go do what I'm doing.
And he would just slap women across the face. Happened
a couple of a couple of movies, which is a
terrible thing, but you know, hey, he's a fictional character.

(01:48:08):
He didn't actually slap anybody. I wonder at what point
we just go through what the what the Soviets had
for a while where they were just erratic or or
in totalitarian Islamic societies. Right, what the Taliban does? Just
start getting rid of stuff that you find too offensive.
Don't even critique it, just get rid of it. Wipe
it from the public record. Very troubling. I know you're saying, Buck,

(01:48:30):
I hate friends and I don't care about that show. Fine,
although some of you secretly like it, don't lie, but
this is it's a troubling trend, that's all. And I
was reminded of it this weekend. All right, let's get
into some Team Buck roll call right after the break.
Stay there alright, everybody, So it's time where we get
to hear from all of you. It into it Friday,
So I've got a lot stored up in the Team

(01:48:52):
Buck bank. Here we go, Team Buck, It's time for
roll call. Don't know why I get a kick out
of playing that one every time. I kind of I
kind of like that one. So all right, here, here
we go. A lot of messages coming in from all
of you, and I am very thankful for them. So

(01:49:14):
let's get into it. Uh, we have rick with the
following right and in from Ohio. I'll be listening to
you on radio at six pm. I'd like to know
why everyone talks around why we can why we can
get answers on I think he means can't the Muller investigation.
He has never been investigating the collusion with Russia. It's

(01:49:36):
just a diversion. They're just buying time so they can
scrub themselves of all the facts of their collusion and
law breaking for Clinton's sake. It's clear that was all
manufactured for that purpose. Well, Rick, I think it's becoming
more clear. I think we are getting closer to that
than we ever have been before. But I'm not I

(01:49:58):
couldn't yet take it to court, so speak all right? Uh,
Karina writes in where's the latest Shields High podcast? Karna,
It was like an hour late today. It's supposed to
go up usually at three Eastern, but had to do
some last minute audio edits to it. But the Fall
of Constantinople Part one is up on iTunes. For whatever reason,

(01:50:18):
people seem to like. I just based on feedback, they
like Charles Martell and that story a little more than
the Fall of Jerusalem or the Conquest of Jerusalem. I'm
hoping that you think the Fall of Contents and Nople
is the best one yet. It's certainly among the most
important stories that I will be telling all of you
for what it meant for the future, UH, for the

(01:50:39):
future of Christendom as well as Islam. Dave with the
following why is Schumer allowed to address the media unchallenged
and mischaracterized the power situation and negotiation? It's like Bush
and Pelosi all over again. Well, Dave, Schumer can say
whatever he wants, and he certainly does, but at in

(01:51:00):
this case, I think has been defeated. I think Trump
is the reason I was saying all along. I think
Trump has been the X factor here and it has
changed the game. The Democrats can't get away with now
what they used to. Chadwick right soon with the following,
Buck do you take requests for buck slab the the UH?

(01:51:26):
Can you please deliver an epic buck slap of Evan McMullan.
He's basically the grossest example of the never trumpers and
a useful idiot that leftist MSM love to trot out.
I remember you having him on your show and him
presenting himself as a conscientious conservative. He's an impostor. It's
time for UH him to take It's time for him

(01:51:47):
to This is not really Chadwick. We had a little
bit of a typo here. I think it's time for
any him to take his race baiting, never Trump side
show and join the join the Democratic Party. Okay, yes
on Chadwick? Uh? Or yes on Evan McMullan. I agree
with you Chadwick that he has gone over to the

(01:52:09):
other side now he is doing the left work for them,
and I guess we'll pull some of his audio out.
You know, I tend to I tend to lay off
some of my former government government brethren um out of
a sense of I don't know, you know, formerly formerly
from the same team. But in this case, I yeah,

(01:52:31):
he's he's gotten pretty pretty irritating. I have to agree
with Chadwick, so I'll look for an opportunity to remember.
I go after people's content. I don't like to make
fun of you know, their appearance or there, you know,
their their wives or any of that. I leave that
to other people who are ungallant and don't have enough
thoughts and content, so they go for the nasty stuff. Uh.

(01:52:54):
John writes in spreading, Oh wait, no, he gave me
this one chields high buck. I love the History podcast.
Eager for more recently, I went to see Fano of
the opera. Before the show started, they said please turn
off your cell phones. Goes right along with what you
said about Georgetown basketball, and I'm spreading the word about
the Shields High podcast. John. The reason I haven't gone

(01:53:16):
to the movies is because people always ruin it, because
they act like savages and they talk on their cell phones.
And that's why I haven't yet seen I haven't yet
seen the um Uh, the Churchill movie, which I've been
intending to see, and I found out today I know
somebody who can get me a screener of it. So yeah,

(01:53:39):
I don't think I'm gonna make it to the movies.
Let's see we have next here, Hold on a second,
Oops Mark with the following Good Day Buck. I am
a homemaker and trying to find a good name to
brand home. Mead maker, I'm sorry mead Uh, and I'm
trying to find a good name aim for my meds.

(01:54:02):
I thought of Freedom Hunt Metery since I don't have
an actual location besides my home and it's more of
a state of mind. But remember that you use the
phrase freedom hunt with your show. I haven't actually listened
since you moved to your show later. So with your permission,
I'd like to use the Freedom hunt for my needs
and brand them under freedom hut Metery. Uh. I mean,

(01:54:23):
I don't know if I technically have the authority to
do this or not because I work for a big company,
But sounds great to me. Mark. I want to try
some of your I want to try some of your
mead um. So there you have it. Good luck to
you with that. That sounds really really cool. Cheryl with
the next one, you will love Longmire, great character portrayals
and justified as another great show. Enjoy your weekend. That's

(01:54:45):
actually from Joel, the husband of Cheryl. Uh. Yeah, I
want to check it out. I'm I'm hoping that this
will be a show that I can get into the
next few days. By the way, I hadn't finished the
Hell on Wheels show. I was stuck on season five
and I kinda got distracted and never finished it. It's
a pretty good show, you know. Me Andrews a little

(01:55:05):
bit here and there, but overall, I have to say
it's been been a worthwhile, a worthwhile viewing experience for me.
I thank you for everyone for all of the very
helpful suggestions and commentary on different Netflix shows and all
the rest of it. So I appreciate that. Like Francis,
here for your Netflix cute at Person of Interest and Blacklist,

(01:55:26):
I promise you will want to binge binge all right, Francis,
I will give that a shot. I'll have to go
and check it out. Steve just finished Friday's podcast Justified
on Hulu or Amazon outstanding and love to binge. Watch
that one Longmire again outstanding and storry to see it
and after season six. Another try is Hugh Lorie Chance

(01:55:48):
on Hulu. Very interesting, Shields high and enjoy the weekend. Well,
thank you, Steve. I've got enough TV shows in my
queue now to certainly get me through the winter, if
not more than that. So you're suggestions are all very
much appreciated. Do you remember if you want to send
me a note for Roll Call send us your thoughts
on the show. You can do it at Facebook dot
com slash Buck Sexton, also at official Team Buck at

(01:56:12):
gmail dot com. That's official Team Buck at gmail dot com.
I've got a whole bunch of shows planned for you
this week. Please check out our history podcast up on iTunes.
And you know the name because it's also how we
close out the show, shields high
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