Demand Answers, But Don’t Let Christopher Wray January 6th Us

BUCK: “You ask for miracles. Theo: I give you the FBI.” Remember that one, Clay, right? That’s a great moment. Great moment. And I think that might be one of the best action movies of all time, and that was one of the best roles that Alan Rickman ever has as Hans Gruber, the German who had —

CLAY: Die Hard is almost impossible to turn off. If you’re walking, like, somehow you walk through a room and you see it, it’s hard to not sit down and watch. It’s like the Doritos of movies. You know, you have a Dorito, it’s hard to be like, “Oh, I’m only gonna have one Dorito.”

BUCK: I feel like Goodfellas, too, if that’s on I have to turn my eyes away or else I get sucked in and I watch it for the 300th time. But we’re not asking for miracles here from the FBI. We just want an explanation. We want to know what happens earlier this week at Mar-a-Lago. This is not a normal investigation, all right? So ever needs… Well, what if it was a drug lord? No, no. Is a former president and likely future president of the United States. So, we should be able to ask some — or demand some — answers here. Christopher Wray, the head of the FBI, did speak about this. What was he, in Oklahoma, right, at some kind of a conference of some kind?

CLAY: That’s right.

BUCK: We appreciate — oh, Nebraska. Pardon me. He was in Nebraska at a conference, and here he is giving us — well, actually, no, not giving us — the answers we asked for.

BUCK: Okay. I mean, there’s a lot here, Clay, to unpack. First of all, he says nothing to quiet the concerns of the American people right now about the FBI being used as the secret police of the Democrat deep state, okay? Let’s just get right to the heart of it. Nothing to say. Everyone, calm down. “We’ve got this covered. This is all rule of law. There’s no problem here. We’re not targeting Biden’s chief political opponent. We’re not doing that.”

We have a right to ask those questions now, considering they did do that to President Trump already. And previous FBI director, James Comey, watched all of that happen, called for all that to happen. But then also notice he goes — and I’m seeing people say, “Oh, well, why don’t Republicans black the blue?” Oh, no, we back the blue. We back law enforcement. And that means in the day-to-day sense where they’re actually under threat.

The threat to law enforcement doesn’t come from people who are upset about the search at Mar-a-Lago. You’re gonna talk about cops, FBI, federal, or local state cops getting shot, it’s by criminals who Democrats refuse to prosecute, refuse to lock up, and that the BLM movement and Democrat Party has emboldened. So, he’s wrong on many counts here in terms of his focus and in terms of what he doesn’t say.

CLAY: Also, I haven’t heard him speak out at all about the protests outside of Supreme Court justice homes or the danger that was endemic as soon as that leaked Supreme Court opinion came out. It’s been a few months, Buck, by the way — FBI, has anybody actually investigated that as a significant crime? It’s amazing how that story just kind of disappeared. Nobody knows who’s responsible for an unprecedented leak of a draft opinion in the Supreme Court.

But I’m already hearing people say, “Oh, this judge, this judge who signed this warrant, people are saying mean things about him online.” He’s getting a lot of threats. This is unacceptable. I didn’t hear any of those people say that about everybody trying… There was an assassination attempt on Brett Kavanaugh. I didn’t hear Christopher Wray come out and lecture Americans. And we, by the way, support police. And also, yes, don’t do anything violent to any judge.

BUCK: Of course.

CLAY: But if you’re going to speak out against mean things that people are saying about the judiciary, I would think that an attempted assassination of Brett Kavanaugh would probably merit a little bit more condemnation than so far people saying mean things about a judge who may have signed off on a warrant against Donald Trump.

BUCK: The most serious, extreme political violence, specifically political violence that we have seen in this country against elected officials, I can’t think of one in the last 10 years that is more extreme than what happened on that baseball field in Alexandria, Virginia, where a left-wing lunatic —

CLAY: Bernie Sanders supporter.

BUCK: — Bernie Sanders supporter who was angry about health care, okay. So lunatics can get angry about anything and decide they’re gonna hurt people. Angry about health care. It wasn’t just like he wanted to do something bad and was stopped at a checkpoint like the guy going after Brett Kavanaugh. That’s bad enough. That’s scary enough. He opened fire and was specifically targeting conservative members of Congress.

He tried to assassinate Senator Rand Paul. He tried to assassinate a dozen other officials there that day. He shot Steve Scalise who almost bled out on that field. We never even hear about that anymore. There’s no discussion of this whatsoever. All we hear about is January 6th, five police officers or five people killed. The only person killed on January 6th was an unarmed female protester shot in the neck through a door.

That is the actual fact of the matter, and so for Christopher Wray to say this, who does he think he’s really speaking to? Anybody who’s upset about this as a threat to the republic who is reasonable understands that you don’t just…? You shouldn’t go out and threaten random FBI agents or anything like that. It’s criminal. It’s stupid. It’s bad. And anybody who would ever actually act on something doesn’t care what the FBI director says. If he wants to calm the nation down, calm everybody down. Don’t just say, well, we don’t like the mean things that are being said right now.

CLAY: Don’t let them January 6th you, either. There’s a lot of people out there listening right now, I feel like —

BUCK: Don’t do anything stupid. Totally.

CLAY: Don’t do anything dumb. Don’t do anything violent, don’t even talk about doing anything violent with people that you think are your friends, because what they want to do is what happened it looks like up in Michigan. We’ll talk with Julie Kelly I think in the next few days. They failed to get convictions in the Whitmer kidnapping case against two men who were acquitted.

They’re now recharging two other men who had mistrials, I believe. That trial currently underway. They want to find someone to be the face of domestic terrorism, and they want it to be a right-wing Trump supporter. Don’t let them entrap you into doing something dumb. Behave, period, but recognize that right now they want a scapegoat. Buck, you know as well as I do they’d love to arrest somebody right now —

BUCK: Oh, my gosh. Of course.

CLAY: — and try to change the story from the raid to the reaction to the raid and how dangerous January 6th still is because look at all these domestic terrorists out here.

BUCK: Worse than a mistake, it’s a blunder, right? This is something that people… It’s Talleyrand or attributed to Talleyrand as a quote. And you look at the January 6th situation, there were a hundred thousand people that day in D.C., give or take. Ninety-five, 98, whatever the percentage is of them completely lawful, did nothing wrong, protesting an election, but because some people broke the law, and some broke the law in serious ways even within those who were… You know, there are the trespassers and then the people who are hitting cops or attacking cops. Right? These are very different acts.

CLAY: Yeah.

BUCK: We could also talk about the double standard of justice whereby BLM rioters never received — they’re not being chased by the FBI all over the country. Of course, we’re aware of that. But you look at how the Democrats were the riot party. And we could say that. And one act on one day now complicates the narrative because the Democrats will say, “Oh, yeah? Sure. We may have rioted a hundred times, but you rioted that one time and we’re gonna have all of our media hacks focus on that one day, that one instance and pretend that that was supported by the movement more broadly of conservatism and Trumpism, which it was not.

CLAY: Yes. And that’s why I’m telling you, they want to shift this story. Would it surprise you at all if the FBI suddenly arrested somebody and said, “Look at these Neanderthals,” even used the word deplorable in his answer, “look at these deplorables that were trying to take aim at the FBI because we were trying to enforce truth, justice, and the American way with our raid on Donald Trump? They would love to pivot this story.

BUCK: The FBI has been exposed right now. And they know it. It’s really the DOJ actually ’cause there’s no way this happened without Merrick Garland’s say-so. The DOJ at the Biden administration has been exposed. We focus in on this, we push, we demand answers, we mobilize and vote. Any other nonsense that people are spewing online, there is nothing that would play into the hands of these authoritarians more than some, you know, person flying off the handle saying crazy stuff online about how he’s gonna — that —

CLAY: They show up at your door, knocking on it —

BUCK: — and CNN will run with that story for two days straight, 48-hour news cycle. It’s true. It’s true.