1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:03,320 Speaker 1: Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and buck 2 00:00:03,360 --> 00:00:08,400 Speaker 1: Sexton Show podcast. Welcome back in our number two Clay 3 00:00:08,480 --> 00:00:11,520 Speaker 1: Travis buck Sexton Show. I appreciate all of you hanging 4 00:00:11,560 --> 00:00:14,560 Speaker 1: out with us as we roll through an open line Friday. 5 00:00:14,560 --> 00:00:16,079 Speaker 1: I want to let you know we'll take some of 6 00:00:16,120 --> 00:00:20,919 Speaker 1: your calls today eight hundred two eight two eight Too 7 00:00:21,040 --> 00:00:25,000 Speaker 1: much to come. Joe Biden scheduled to address the nation 8 00:00:25,280 --> 00:00:29,680 Speaker 1: again momentarily before he heads off on yet another vacation 9 00:00:30,200 --> 00:00:34,360 Speaker 1: to the beaches of Delaware, and there is a lot 10 00:00:34,440 --> 00:00:39,479 Speaker 1: going on obviously in Afghanistan. Also more to discuss on COVID. 11 00:00:39,600 --> 00:00:41,839 Speaker 1: In the third hour of this program, we will have 12 00:00:41,880 --> 00:00:47,519 Speaker 1: Alex Berenson, who has been really incredibly forward thinking in 13 00:00:47,640 --> 00:00:50,839 Speaker 1: terms of analyzing the data and telling us where we 14 00:00:50,920 --> 00:00:53,640 Speaker 1: are headed. And I'm excited to hear what he thinks 15 00:00:53,960 --> 00:00:56,880 Speaker 1: the weeks ahead are going to bring to bear. But 16 00:00:57,720 --> 00:01:02,080 Speaker 1: Joe Biden's presidency in tatters in many ways, as this 17 00:01:02,160 --> 00:01:05,040 Speaker 1: has been one of the worst weeks for any American 18 00:01:05,120 --> 00:01:10,800 Speaker 1: president in generations, as Afghanistan continues to spend out of control, 19 00:01:10,920 --> 00:01:13,680 Speaker 1: and things have gotten so bad for Joe Biden in fact, 20 00:01:14,160 --> 00:01:18,480 Speaker 1: that even his allies in the media, The New York Times, 21 00:01:18,480 --> 00:01:21,040 Speaker 1: the Washington Post, CNN, and with the exception of Joy 22 00:01:21,080 --> 00:01:26,200 Speaker 1: Reading MSNBC, even people there are turning on him, including 23 00:01:26,600 --> 00:01:30,639 Speaker 1: Maggie Haberman, who effectively said, Joe Biden has been lying. 24 00:01:30,720 --> 00:01:32,880 Speaker 1: She's with the New York Times. Here's what she said. 25 00:01:33,040 --> 00:01:35,319 Speaker 1: The administration has given a number of different reasons as 26 00:01:35,319 --> 00:01:38,640 Speaker 1: to why it was that the evacuations out of Afghanistan 27 00:01:38,680 --> 00:01:41,480 Speaker 1: did not take place sooner, and those are often in conflict, 28 00:01:41,480 --> 00:01:45,520 Speaker 1: and sometimes they're blaming blaming Afghanis, Afghans, Sometimes they're blaming 29 00:01:45,760 --> 00:01:49,440 Speaker 1: processing in the US system. Sometimes they are blaming the 30 00:01:49,440 --> 00:01:52,520 Speaker 1: Trump administration, and there is no clear through line. I 31 00:01:52,520 --> 00:01:54,440 Speaker 1: don't think it's hubris. I don't think that that is 32 00:01:54,480 --> 00:01:56,800 Speaker 1: what this is. I do think it is a policy 33 00:01:56,880 --> 00:01:59,840 Speaker 1: choice that President Biden has stuck with for some time, 34 00:02:00,160 --> 00:02:03,360 Speaker 1: been consistent about. But he said something publicly that did 35 00:02:03,400 --> 00:02:05,120 Speaker 1: not turn out to be true, and at the end 36 00:02:05,160 --> 00:02:08,560 Speaker 1: of the day, public officials get judged based on that, 37 00:02:08,600 --> 00:02:11,119 Speaker 1: and they have yet to give a coherent answer as 38 00:02:11,160 --> 00:02:14,240 Speaker 1: to why things went wrong the way they did and 39 00:02:14,320 --> 00:02:16,280 Speaker 1: how they want to try to fix them. Clark, and 40 00:02:16,560 --> 00:02:19,680 Speaker 1: this is what's so difficult about trying to analyze what's 41 00:02:19,680 --> 00:02:22,400 Speaker 1: really happened with the Biden administration on this issue because 42 00:02:22,800 --> 00:02:25,919 Speaker 1: they keep changing the story. Right, we recalled we were 43 00:02:25,960 --> 00:02:28,440 Speaker 1: here together on the show. Just a couple of days 44 00:02:28,440 --> 00:02:32,160 Speaker 1: ago they introduced this, Oh, we had no choice because 45 00:02:32,240 --> 00:02:36,680 Speaker 1: the Taliban was advancing so rapidly this year, meaning back 46 00:02:36,720 --> 00:02:40,680 Speaker 1: in like April and marks that US forces were going 47 00:02:40,720 --> 00:02:43,720 Speaker 1: to have to be deployed on mass in order to 48 00:02:43,760 --> 00:02:46,480 Speaker 1: meet them in the battlefield. It wouldn't have been enough 49 00:02:46,560 --> 00:02:49,040 Speaker 1: just to give very Now we could have a whole 50 00:02:49,280 --> 00:02:51,400 Speaker 1: but that's a whole separate conversation, and what we were 51 00:02:51,440 --> 00:02:54,919 Speaker 1: told initially, it's not what we were told in July 52 00:02:55,240 --> 00:02:58,919 Speaker 1: when Biden said they would fight right, and so that 53 00:02:59,080 --> 00:03:02,440 Speaker 1: undermines that rat And then it was I can't even 54 00:03:02,480 --> 00:03:04,800 Speaker 1: keep it straight either combided he says four days, forty 55 00:03:04,840 --> 00:03:07,040 Speaker 1: days or whatever. But a couple of days ago, it 56 00:03:07,240 --> 00:03:11,680 Speaker 1: was we prepared for every contingency. Clay. That is and 57 00:03:11,680 --> 00:03:13,840 Speaker 1: this is from people that I'm talking to who are 58 00:03:13,919 --> 00:03:17,520 Speaker 1: in contact with folks right now in Cobble today. That 59 00:03:17,720 --> 00:03:21,360 Speaker 1: is a lie. Biden is lying to us when he 60 00:03:21,400 --> 00:03:26,080 Speaker 1: says that he's lying, and the American public is taking note, 61 00:03:26,120 --> 00:03:28,760 Speaker 1: because one of the questions we had early this week, Buck, 62 00:03:28,919 --> 00:03:33,800 Speaker 1: on Monday, when this whole Afghanistan mess started to unspool itself, 63 00:03:33,880 --> 00:03:37,000 Speaker 1: we said, hey, it's a long way away. There are 64 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:39,800 Speaker 1: a lot of things going on domestically. How much is 65 00:03:39,800 --> 00:03:42,960 Speaker 1: the American public going to pay attention to the situation 66 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:47,520 Speaker 1: in Afghanistan? And the answer has been a great deal. 67 00:03:47,960 --> 00:03:51,320 Speaker 1: And we're starting to get some of these early poll results. 68 00:03:51,920 --> 00:03:56,920 Speaker 1: Joe Biden underwater in terms of people who are approving 69 00:03:56,920 --> 00:04:00,080 Speaker 1: of his presidency, even in the polls that we know 70 00:04:00,200 --> 00:04:03,800 Speaker 1: that can be highly inaccurate. But what significant here, Buck, 71 00:04:03,920 --> 00:04:08,120 Speaker 1: is I think we're seeing many people who are reasonable Democrats, 72 00:04:08,120 --> 00:04:11,640 Speaker 1: and I do believe some of them exist swing voters. Independence. 73 00:04:11,680 --> 00:04:14,640 Speaker 1: We already knew, most of our audience knew that Joe 74 00:04:14,640 --> 00:04:17,719 Speaker 1: Biden was not up to this job. But what they're seeing, Buck, 75 00:04:18,240 --> 00:04:21,440 Speaker 1: is the lies of Afghanistan are connecting with the wise 76 00:04:21,520 --> 00:04:24,400 Speaker 1: on inflation, with the lies on the border, with the 77 00:04:24,480 --> 00:04:28,960 Speaker 1: lies on COVID, and they're all spiraling together. And Joe 78 00:04:28,960 --> 00:04:32,920 Speaker 1: Biden's big calling card was you can trust me, I 79 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:36,280 Speaker 1: will make things normal, And what many Americans are now 80 00:04:36,320 --> 00:04:39,080 Speaker 1: saying is, well, we can't trust this man in this administration, 81 00:04:39,440 --> 00:04:43,520 Speaker 1: and far from making things normal, abnormal has become the 82 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:46,640 Speaker 1: coin of the realm. He's not making things go back 83 00:04:46,880 --> 00:04:49,760 Speaker 1: to what they were like several years ago, when calmness 84 00:04:49,839 --> 00:04:52,880 Speaker 1: might have existed. Clarissa Ward, who is the CNN reporter 85 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:57,240 Speaker 1: who is look, I call balls and strikes. I give 86 00:04:57,240 --> 00:04:59,800 Speaker 1: credit where it's due. She's the one person that I've 87 00:04:59,800 --> 00:05:02,520 Speaker 1: seen in years who makes CNN look like it actually 88 00:05:02,560 --> 00:05:05,920 Speaker 1: sometimes does news credit where it's doing. She's single handedly, 89 00:05:06,480 --> 00:05:09,840 Speaker 1: you know, bringing the reputation of that entire news organization 90 00:05:09,920 --> 00:05:12,600 Speaker 1: up from the ashes. But anyway, she's on the ground 91 00:05:12,760 --> 00:05:15,080 Speaker 1: doing a lot of reporting right in and around the 92 00:05:15,160 --> 00:05:19,320 Speaker 1: Cobble Airport. And here she is on the reality of 93 00:05:19,360 --> 00:05:24,440 Speaker 1: this evacuation. Remember Biden says they prepared for every contingency. 94 00:05:24,520 --> 00:05:27,080 Speaker 1: This is going according to plan. You know, it's a 95 00:05:27,080 --> 00:05:30,880 Speaker 1: little bit like Frank the Tank. Uh, keep your composure. 96 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:34,840 Speaker 1: You know every old school everyone keeps a nice say 97 00:05:34,880 --> 00:05:38,719 Speaker 1: it is not prepared. They did not prepare for every contingency. 98 00:05:38,720 --> 00:05:42,719 Speaker 1: But anyway, here's Clariss Award play. I've now spent more 99 00:05:42,760 --> 00:05:46,520 Speaker 1: than twelve hours watching this Paul papaus as it plays out, 100 00:05:47,120 --> 00:05:53,039 Speaker 1: and it is very disorganized and violently. You know, off 101 00:05:53,040 --> 00:05:56,680 Speaker 1: the record, think guys will tell you that it's totally disorganized. 102 00:05:56,839 --> 00:05:59,080 Speaker 1: The left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing. 103 00:05:59,279 --> 00:06:03,680 Speaker 1: It's an annoy us operation. There are many different nationalities involved, 104 00:06:04,120 --> 00:06:08,840 Speaker 1: you know, We've seen planes from the Romanians, Varians, I mean, 105 00:06:08,960 --> 00:06:13,239 Speaker 1: all the French, the Italians. There's so many different contingencies 106 00:06:13,279 --> 00:06:17,480 Speaker 1: who are involved, who have multiple entrances to this airport. 107 00:06:17,680 --> 00:06:20,800 Speaker 1: You're trying to negotiate with the Taliban, deal with your 108 00:06:20,880 --> 00:06:26,560 Speaker 1: BATO allies, and frankly, so far, I mean, it's just 109 00:06:26,839 --> 00:06:31,039 Speaker 1: about moving along. But I was shocked when I came 110 00:06:31,120 --> 00:06:34,440 Speaker 1: today because listening to the chalking points that I was 111 00:06:34,480 --> 00:06:37,240 Speaker 1: hearing from the Pentagon in the White House, I thought 112 00:06:37,560 --> 00:06:42,440 Speaker 1: this whole thing was moving along, flinningly. Now this is 113 00:06:42,480 --> 00:06:46,400 Speaker 1: her today, Buck, saying what she's seeing on the ground. 114 00:06:46,400 --> 00:06:48,480 Speaker 1: And I want to build on your praise a little 115 00:06:48,480 --> 00:06:50,280 Speaker 1: because we do try to call balls and strikes and 116 00:06:50,279 --> 00:06:53,400 Speaker 1: be fair, unlike many other people in the media. This 117 00:06:53,520 --> 00:06:57,560 Speaker 1: is when journalists actually have real value, Buck, when they 118 00:06:57,600 --> 00:07:02,120 Speaker 1: can bring you with their ability on the ground, information 119 00:07:02,200 --> 00:07:04,960 Speaker 1: that doesn't exist elsewhere. I'm not talking about people who 120 00:07:05,040 --> 00:07:08,359 Speaker 1: want to spread propaganda and talking points. What she is 121 00:07:08,400 --> 00:07:11,600 Speaker 1: doing right there on the ground in Kabul with almost 122 00:07:11,640 --> 00:07:15,280 Speaker 1: no one else around, is she is illuminating the disconnect 123 00:07:15,360 --> 00:07:18,960 Speaker 1: between the Pentagon, the White House, the State Department, all 124 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:21,640 Speaker 1: of these talking points that they are putting out and 125 00:07:21,640 --> 00:07:24,080 Speaker 1: that Joe Biden's probably going to put out again, and 126 00:07:24,280 --> 00:07:28,440 Speaker 1: actual reality on the ground, which is the essence of 127 00:07:28,480 --> 00:07:31,960 Speaker 1: the job. Bring us better information than we would otherwise 128 00:07:32,040 --> 00:07:35,640 Speaker 1: have and show us what's really taking place. She deserves 129 00:07:35,640 --> 00:07:37,840 Speaker 1: a lot of praise high risk. I know you've had 130 00:07:37,880 --> 00:07:41,280 Speaker 1: interaction with her before, Buck, but this is where journalism 131 00:07:41,320 --> 00:07:44,239 Speaker 1: can actually be valuable to the masses. And I always 132 00:07:44,280 --> 00:07:48,120 Speaker 1: say that journalism is essentially a fiction in this country. 133 00:07:48,240 --> 00:07:51,680 Speaker 1: But there are some journalists. They do exist. They just 134 00:07:52,200 --> 00:07:54,080 Speaker 1: about one in one hundred of the people that go 135 00:07:54,120 --> 00:07:57,520 Speaker 1: around calling themselves journalis. But back to the crisis here, 136 00:07:57,600 --> 00:08:00,800 Speaker 1: not just not not just the imminent situation in Afghanistan. 137 00:08:00,840 --> 00:08:04,440 Speaker 1: By the way, you have no flights now, oh sorry, 138 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:08,080 Speaker 1: evacuation flights. As I'm saying this, they say, oh, they're 139 00:08:08,120 --> 00:08:10,240 Speaker 1: actually going to start back up. They hadn't had any 140 00:08:10,640 --> 00:08:13,360 Speaker 1: for I believe it was eight hours, had been just 141 00:08:13,520 --> 00:08:16,800 Speaker 1: reported in the last so they had no evacuation flights 142 00:08:16,840 --> 00:08:21,240 Speaker 1: going out. Now they're restarting the evacuation flights soon. We 143 00:08:21,280 --> 00:08:24,360 Speaker 1: don't know what exactly that means, but they say it'll 144 00:08:24,400 --> 00:08:27,720 Speaker 1: happen soon. But you know, Clay, this is where you 145 00:08:28,080 --> 00:08:30,920 Speaker 1: pull back and you say leadership when it comes to 146 00:08:30,960 --> 00:08:34,320 Speaker 1: foreign policy, in particular, the presidency really matters when it 147 00:08:34,320 --> 00:08:38,559 Speaker 1: comes to what we're seeing play out here. It's the 148 00:08:38,600 --> 00:08:42,080 Speaker 1: guy at the top who's making the decisions. And people 149 00:08:42,160 --> 00:08:46,480 Speaker 1: are seeing this and understanding this is a really bad situation. 150 00:08:46,679 --> 00:08:50,600 Speaker 1: This is something where you must lose I don't just 151 00:08:50,640 --> 00:08:52,560 Speaker 1: mean the situation in the ground. I mean who's in 152 00:08:52,600 --> 00:08:55,719 Speaker 1: the White House. You have to lose confidence if you 153 00:08:55,760 --> 00:08:58,360 Speaker 1: were somebody that believed Joe Biden knew what the heck 154 00:08:58,400 --> 00:09:00,520 Speaker 1: he was doing was a steady hand on the wheel. 155 00:09:01,480 --> 00:09:03,280 Speaker 1: I want any other hand on the wheel than Joe 156 00:09:03,280 --> 00:09:06,720 Speaker 1: Biden right now. It's a disaster. Not only that we 157 00:09:06,720 --> 00:09:09,280 Speaker 1: should mention the eight hours because I know time zones 158 00:09:09,280 --> 00:09:12,719 Speaker 1: are complicated. This is no flights taking off for eight 159 00:09:12,760 --> 00:09:17,040 Speaker 1: hours during daylight, which would theoretically be the safest time 160 00:09:17,160 --> 00:09:21,160 Speaker 1: for people to be able to enter into the airport 161 00:09:21,240 --> 00:09:23,680 Speaker 1: and also the safest time for flights to be taking 162 00:09:23,720 --> 00:09:26,720 Speaker 1: off because as anyone out there would know, as you 163 00:09:26,800 --> 00:09:32,199 Speaker 1: get into it being dark, danger increases exponentially there. And 164 00:09:32,280 --> 00:09:35,480 Speaker 1: so this is a failure of Daylight in terms of 165 00:09:35,480 --> 00:09:38,640 Speaker 1: being able to get people able to take off. And 166 00:09:38,679 --> 00:09:41,920 Speaker 1: it's going to continue to run the reality of what 167 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:44,599 Speaker 1: life is on the ground right now in Kabbule is 168 00:09:44,640 --> 00:09:49,280 Speaker 1: going to continue to disconnect and create this discordant symmetry 169 00:09:49,600 --> 00:09:52,440 Speaker 1: between what the story is coming out of Washington, DC 170 00:09:52,640 --> 00:09:55,800 Speaker 1: and the Biden administration and what the reality is on 171 00:09:55,840 --> 00:09:59,760 Speaker 1: the ground in this incredibly pressure packed, in dangerous moment 172 00:10:00,280 --> 00:10:02,520 Speaker 1: to speak soon and then again, I think we have 173 00:10:02,600 --> 00:10:05,400 Speaker 1: to keep hammering this book because it's significant. Then he's 174 00:10:05,480 --> 00:10:09,760 Speaker 1: going to go on vacation over the weekend. Don't you 175 00:10:09,800 --> 00:10:12,880 Speaker 1: want this guy in the White House, whoever the president 176 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:15,560 Speaker 1: is monitoring this on minute by minute basis. Shouldn't need 177 00:10:15,679 --> 00:10:18,160 Speaker 1: he not be, you know, on the golf course getting 178 00:10:18,200 --> 00:10:20,760 Speaker 1: updates occasionally from AIDS. I mean, you would think that 179 00:10:20,800 --> 00:10:23,920 Speaker 1: at a White House. I'll say this, the Obama administration, 180 00:10:24,160 --> 00:10:27,560 Speaker 1: for all of the enormous criticism that I gave them 181 00:10:27,600 --> 00:10:31,200 Speaker 1: for eight years, they were pretty into the optics. You know. 182 00:10:31,240 --> 00:10:34,680 Speaker 1: They would try to manage the perception of the and 183 00:10:34,679 --> 00:10:36,640 Speaker 1: they had a tremendous amount of help because the media 184 00:10:36,720 --> 00:10:38,400 Speaker 1: was in their pocket and all the rest. I get it. 185 00:10:38,840 --> 00:10:40,880 Speaker 1: But this Biden White House, the media is all on 186 00:10:40,920 --> 00:10:43,800 Speaker 1: their team too, but they seem so incompetent that they 187 00:10:43,840 --> 00:10:47,040 Speaker 1: can't even control the optics. And that's why that photo, 188 00:10:47,080 --> 00:10:49,840 Speaker 1: for example, that was put out of Biden sitting in 189 00:10:49,880 --> 00:10:52,560 Speaker 1: the in like the Camp David command center or whatever 190 00:10:52,600 --> 00:10:55,720 Speaker 1: it's just by himself. It looked, it looked ridiculous. But 191 00:10:55,800 --> 00:10:58,120 Speaker 1: we're gonna come in in a few moments here, we believe, 192 00:10:58,440 --> 00:11:00,280 Speaker 1: I mean, Joe Biden's supposed to make a remark marks 193 00:11:00,600 --> 00:11:03,600 Speaker 1: any moment, we'll bring you into those. And I don't know, Clay, 194 00:11:03,600 --> 00:11:06,800 Speaker 1: maybe they're actually gonna start covering the border because that 195 00:11:06,880 --> 00:11:10,480 Speaker 1: crisis I think the media feels like isn't isn't quite 196 00:11:10,520 --> 00:11:12,960 Speaker 1: as bad as the one in Afghanistan. So they might switch. 197 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:15,040 Speaker 1: I don't know, because there's nothing that they can say 198 00:11:15,120 --> 00:11:20,120 Speaker 1: about this that doesn't make the current favored administration by 199 00:11:20,440 --> 00:11:23,160 Speaker 1: ninety five percent of journalists, doesn't make it look like 200 00:11:23,200 --> 00:11:26,439 Speaker 1: this is a catastrophe unfolding before us. We'll come back 201 00:11:26,440 --> 00:11:30,000 Speaker 1: into also with COVID numbers. Biden is obsessed Clay, and 202 00:11:30,120 --> 00:11:32,160 Speaker 1: I know you. Yeah, first of all, I think he's 203 00:11:32,160 --> 00:11:35,120 Speaker 1: obsessed with you and your Tennessee masking surrection. And I'm 204 00:11:35,160 --> 00:11:37,840 Speaker 1: a little bit considered. I'm a little bit concerned that 205 00:11:37,840 --> 00:11:39,520 Speaker 1: all of a sudden, you know, the black helicopters are 206 00:11:39,559 --> 00:11:41,240 Speaker 1: gonna show up for Clay and we're gonna have to 207 00:11:42,760 --> 00:11:47,400 Speaker 1: some you know, uh, undetermined classified site somewhere where they're 208 00:11:47,400 --> 00:11:51,360 Speaker 1: holding my buddy, Clay. This this, this audience will bust 209 00:11:51,400 --> 00:11:53,240 Speaker 1: you out, no problem, man, We'll get you out of there. 210 00:11:53,280 --> 00:11:56,880 Speaker 1: But uh, you know, the Biden administration's obsessed now with 211 00:11:56,920 --> 00:11:59,960 Speaker 1: masking kids. They feel emotionally invested in this. Biden him 212 00:12:00,080 --> 00:12:02,640 Speaker 1: self will come into that in a minute. Well, you know, 213 00:12:02,800 --> 00:12:05,199 Speaker 1: the more than five hundred mile journey through six states 214 00:12:05,200 --> 00:12:08,240 Speaker 1: and forty two days to honor the nine eleven fallen 215 00:12:08,520 --> 00:12:12,960 Speaker 1: is under way. Frank Siller, the Tunnel to Towers Foundation founder, 216 00:12:13,080 --> 00:12:15,839 Speaker 1: later read of the Pentagon, and started towards Shanksville. Along 217 00:12:15,840 --> 00:12:18,960 Speaker 1: the route. He's joined by nine eleven families, veterans, first responders, 218 00:12:19,160 --> 00:12:23,440 Speaker 1: and the Foundations program recipients. Parades are planned in several 219 00:12:23,440 --> 00:12:26,120 Speaker 1: cities to honor the fallen and the community's local heroes. 220 00:12:26,160 --> 00:12:29,959 Speaker 1: Clay Yeah, And on the morning of nine eleven, Francs 221 00:12:29,960 --> 00:12:33,640 Speaker 1: are going to retrace his baby brother, Stevens footsteps twenty 222 00:12:33,760 --> 00:12:38,240 Speaker 1: years after nine eleven, walking from the tunnel into downtown 223 00:12:38,280 --> 00:12:41,760 Speaker 1: Manhattan to where the tower stood. His brother was one 224 00:12:41,800 --> 00:12:44,600 Speaker 1: of three hundred and forty three members of the fire 225 00:12:44,640 --> 00:12:47,520 Speaker 1: Department of the City of New York who died two thousand, 226 00:12:47,640 --> 00:12:50,680 Speaker 1: nine hundred seventy seven people killed. So many more have 227 00:12:50,800 --> 00:12:53,840 Speaker 1: died since from nine to eleven related illnesses. September twelfth, 228 00:12:53,880 --> 00:12:56,920 Speaker 1: the Foundations reading their names out loud as well another 229 00:12:57,000 --> 00:13:00,760 Speaker 1: ceremonious plan for Veterans Day. Those who have lost the 230 00:13:00,800 --> 00:13:04,480 Speaker 1: War on terror lives will not be forgotten. And that's 231 00:13:04,520 --> 00:13:07,200 Speaker 1: why we want you to help America keep its promise 232 00:13:07,280 --> 00:13:11,760 Speaker 1: to never forget honor heroes by donating eleven dollars a 233 00:13:11,800 --> 00:13:15,600 Speaker 1: month at t twot dot org. One more time, just 234 00:13:15,720 --> 00:13:25,280 Speaker 1: eleven dollars a month at t twot dot org. He 235 00:13:25,559 --> 00:13:29,760 Speaker 1: is obsessed with having the government forced kinder gardeners to 236 00:13:29,920 --> 00:13:32,920 Speaker 1: wear masks all day in school in Florida. We believe 237 00:13:32,960 --> 00:13:36,280 Speaker 1: that that's the parents' decision. Joe Biden thinks the federal 238 00:13:36,280 --> 00:13:39,640 Speaker 1: government should come and overrule the parents and force these 239 00:13:39,679 --> 00:13:42,160 Speaker 1: young kids to wear these masks. And you gotta wonder 240 00:13:42,440 --> 00:13:45,680 Speaker 1: where are your priorities that you're so obsessed with this 241 00:13:45,760 --> 00:13:49,120 Speaker 1: issue and so obsessed with taking away parents' rights, and 242 00:13:49,200 --> 00:13:53,040 Speaker 1: you're letting Afghanistan burn, our border burn, and so many 243 00:13:53,120 --> 00:13:56,880 Speaker 1: other things. Welcome back to Clay Travis and Buck Sexton show. 244 00:13:57,000 --> 00:14:02,840 Speaker 1: That was Governor Ron de Santisa, Florida on Sean Hannity's 245 00:14:02,920 --> 00:14:05,720 Speaker 1: show last night on Fox, just pointing out what I 246 00:14:05,720 --> 00:14:09,880 Speaker 1: think is obvious to anyone who's paying attention, which is 247 00:14:09,920 --> 00:14:14,959 Speaker 1: that the Democrats, the Biden administration, have decided that masking 248 00:14:15,040 --> 00:14:17,600 Speaker 1: up children. I mean, this is like the Alamo for them. 249 00:14:17,640 --> 00:14:20,160 Speaker 1: I mean, this is the last stand of the COVID resistance. 250 00:14:20,160 --> 00:14:23,560 Speaker 1: They're they're completely dug in on this. When all that 251 00:14:23,600 --> 00:14:28,000 Speaker 1: the Biden light on this Clay for the last well 252 00:14:28,080 --> 00:14:29,920 Speaker 1: the last time he spoke about it, which was yesterday, 253 00:14:29,960 --> 00:14:33,200 Speaker 1: the day before. It's a lie that there are masks 254 00:14:33,640 --> 00:14:36,880 Speaker 1: bands and schools. There are no mask bands. There are 255 00:14:37,080 --> 00:14:41,120 Speaker 1: governors who are saying parents should make the choice. So 256 00:14:41,200 --> 00:14:45,800 Speaker 1: essentially there are no mandates but banning mandates. They pretend 257 00:14:45,960 --> 00:14:48,400 Speaker 1: is the same as banning masks, because it gets them 258 00:14:48,400 --> 00:14:50,440 Speaker 1: into their safety is and plays of oh my gosh, 259 00:14:50,440 --> 00:14:52,440 Speaker 1: they wanted all the children to die. These people are 260 00:14:52,480 --> 00:14:56,000 Speaker 1: completely nuts. The data doesn't support what they want to do, 261 00:14:56,640 --> 00:15:00,640 Speaker 1: but you can tell that they're they're very he invested 262 00:15:00,640 --> 00:15:02,840 Speaker 1: in this, Clay, and I believe at some level it's 263 00:15:02,880 --> 00:15:07,280 Speaker 1: because if a state like Florida has kids unmasked, when 264 00:15:07,280 --> 00:15:10,240 Speaker 1: they look at the data after the first six months 265 00:15:10,280 --> 00:15:13,200 Speaker 1: of the school year, it'll be clear that in New York, 266 00:15:13,240 --> 00:15:15,040 Speaker 1: where they're gonna mask kids up, they might as well 267 00:15:15,080 --> 00:15:17,080 Speaker 1: put like saran wrap over their head, on top of 268 00:15:17,120 --> 00:15:19,400 Speaker 1: the mask, on top of you know, it's crazy what 269 00:15:19,440 --> 00:15:23,480 Speaker 1: they're doing. They're gonna see the data and they're gonna say, oh, 270 00:15:23,520 --> 00:15:26,440 Speaker 1: it doesn't actually do it. The mandates don't do anything. 271 00:15:26,440 --> 00:15:28,480 Speaker 1: I think they're terrified of that because they're gonna look stupid, 272 00:15:28,520 --> 00:15:31,960 Speaker 1: because they are stupid. That's right. And I say this, 273 00:15:32,080 --> 00:15:34,720 Speaker 1: you guys know last week I went and spoke at 274 00:15:34,720 --> 00:15:37,520 Speaker 1: my own school board. We've won that battle in the 275 00:15:37,560 --> 00:15:40,800 Speaker 1: short term in my home state of Tennessee. I think 276 00:15:40,840 --> 00:15:44,080 Speaker 1: it's a couple of different factors here. Buck One. If 277 00:15:44,120 --> 00:15:46,920 Speaker 1: you want your kids to be in person for schooling 278 00:15:47,960 --> 00:15:51,240 Speaker 1: starting off without them wearing masks is important because it 279 00:15:51,320 --> 00:15:55,120 Speaker 1: shifts the battleground instead of the battleground being, Hey, our 280 00:15:55,160 --> 00:15:57,640 Speaker 1: school's going to be open or not, you can fight 281 00:15:57,760 --> 00:16:00,920 Speaker 1: on masks, which is a level beyond and our school's 282 00:16:00,960 --> 00:16:03,160 Speaker 1: going to be open or not. I think that's significant. 283 00:16:03,560 --> 00:16:07,040 Speaker 1: I also think there are lots of reasonable people out there, 284 00:16:07,400 --> 00:16:10,440 Speaker 1: parents like me who care about our kids more than anything, 285 00:16:10,480 --> 00:16:13,480 Speaker 1: that would do anything to keep them safe, that look 286 00:16:13,520 --> 00:16:16,920 Speaker 1: at the data, know that there is nothing in any 287 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:20,480 Speaker 1: way that suggests that masking is making anybody safer. And 288 00:16:20,480 --> 00:16:25,040 Speaker 1: if you doubt that, look at what's going on in Oregon, 289 00:16:25,360 --> 00:16:28,680 Speaker 1: look at what's going on in Hawaii. Look as the 290 00:16:28,800 --> 00:16:31,720 Speaker 1: number of cases is going to spread into many of 291 00:16:31,720 --> 00:16:35,360 Speaker 1: these blue states which have been masking like crazy and 292 00:16:35,480 --> 00:16:37,920 Speaker 1: they are fraid. To your point as well, Buck that 293 00:16:38,040 --> 00:16:40,600 Speaker 1: if you have a control group, right, if everybody does 294 00:16:40,720 --> 00:16:43,160 Speaker 1: the same thing, there's no control group to prove that 295 00:16:43,200 --> 00:16:45,800 Speaker 1: masks don't work. If you have a control group, and 296 00:16:45,840 --> 00:16:48,479 Speaker 1: that's in Florida, and it's in Texas, and it's in Tennessee, 297 00:16:48,720 --> 00:16:51,680 Speaker 1: and it's in many other states with strong Republican governors 298 00:16:51,720 --> 00:16:55,240 Speaker 1: who are standing up for parental choice. That is a 299 00:16:55,280 --> 00:17:00,440 Speaker 1: significant attack up on the global geminy of COVID fear, 300 00:17:00,520 --> 00:17:03,520 Speaker 1: porn insanity, which is being driven by the Biden. Why 301 00:17:03,600 --> 00:17:05,119 Speaker 1: can I just also tell everybody there's more and more 302 00:17:05,119 --> 00:17:06,840 Speaker 1: of these stories now that are coming out for people 303 00:17:06,880 --> 00:17:09,439 Speaker 1: who say, oh, I just you know, I'll find a 304 00:17:09,440 --> 00:17:12,160 Speaker 1: way around some of these vaccine mandates. And we're talking 305 00:17:12,200 --> 00:17:15,000 Speaker 1: about masks. They're arresting people. I mean, you could say 306 00:17:15,040 --> 00:17:18,520 Speaker 1: this is you could say this is the prosecution, but 307 00:17:18,560 --> 00:17:21,640 Speaker 1: they've arrested people for either trying to sell or even 308 00:17:21,680 --> 00:17:26,240 Speaker 1: now use you know, those little CDC paper cards. So 309 00:17:26,440 --> 00:17:28,959 Speaker 1: this is this is going to become another real battleground. 310 00:17:29,200 --> 00:17:32,920 Speaker 1: They're arresting. This is crazy, folks. They're arresting people based 311 00:17:32,960 --> 00:17:38,360 Speaker 1: on stupid interpretations of data that aren't even I mean, 312 00:17:38,400 --> 00:17:41,480 Speaker 1: they're arresting people that have COVID antibodies because they won't 313 00:17:41,480 --> 00:17:43,040 Speaker 1: get the shop but they don't want to bend the 314 00:17:43,119 --> 00:17:45,119 Speaker 1: need of the vacs. Old things nuts click. We'll come 315 00:17:45,119 --> 00:17:46,960 Speaker 1: back into this and maybe Biden will actually show up 316 00:17:46,960 --> 00:17:48,840 Speaker 1: for his own remarks in a few minutes. Who knows, Yeah, 317 00:17:49,080 --> 00:17:50,960 Speaker 1: it's crazy. He's not even showing up, right now. But 318 00:17:51,040 --> 00:17:53,479 Speaker 1: are you worried about online privacy? It should be like 319 00:17:53,600 --> 00:17:55,760 Speaker 1: I am, like Buck is, like many of our listeners 320 00:17:55,760 --> 00:17:58,960 Speaker 1: are right now. 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Alex Barrenson, 340 00:19:11,440 --> 00:19:15,640 Speaker 1: who has been better about sharing the data and analyzing 341 00:19:15,680 --> 00:19:18,879 Speaker 1: it for the last eighteen months surrounding COVID than anybody, 342 00:19:19,240 --> 00:19:22,760 Speaker 1: but he's saying things that sometimes make him a target 343 00:19:22,960 --> 00:19:25,640 Speaker 1: and such that a lot of media are not even 344 00:19:25,680 --> 00:19:28,200 Speaker 1: able to talk with him or share any content. That's 345 00:19:28,200 --> 00:19:30,359 Speaker 1: gonna be a lot of fun. We're also scheduled to 346 00:19:30,480 --> 00:19:34,280 Speaker 1: talk with Jay Cutler, former NFL quarterback who lives near me, 347 00:19:34,640 --> 00:19:38,080 Speaker 1: anti the idea of kids having to wear masks, and 348 00:19:38,359 --> 00:19:43,639 Speaker 1: as a result, he lost his ub his Uber endorsement 349 00:19:43,880 --> 00:19:47,080 Speaker 1: because he said, hey, there's no benefit to kids wearing masks. 350 00:19:47,080 --> 00:19:49,280 Speaker 1: So that is what's coming in the third hour of 351 00:19:49,320 --> 00:19:53,520 Speaker 1: the program. Still awaiting Joe Biden, who has not yet 352 00:19:53,520 --> 00:19:56,680 Speaker 1: appeared for his scheduled press conference. He is now over 353 00:19:56,800 --> 00:19:59,520 Speaker 1: a half hour late. I believe for that is Biden 354 00:19:59,600 --> 00:20:02,919 Speaker 1: hyden because that wouldn't be the first time. Clay, Yeah, 355 00:20:02,960 --> 00:20:06,320 Speaker 1: and he's scheduled. It's also cutting into his vacation time 356 00:20:06,359 --> 00:20:10,440 Speaker 1: because he's scheduled to immediately hop on helicopter and fly 357 00:20:10,680 --> 00:20:13,879 Speaker 1: to Delaware and be able to kick his feet up 358 00:20:13,880 --> 00:20:16,760 Speaker 1: on the beach. We are, by the way, I am 359 00:20:16,800 --> 00:20:19,800 Speaker 1: out in Las Vegas. Buck, as we roll into the weekend. 360 00:20:19,840 --> 00:20:23,000 Speaker 1: You've got your brother's wedding that you're getting ready for 361 00:20:23,680 --> 00:20:26,560 Speaker 1: in New York City, and I've got to go try 362 00:20:26,600 --> 00:20:29,520 Speaker 1: to play against Ted Cruz and mister Beast and at 363 00:20:29,600 --> 00:20:35,320 Speaker 1: WWE Superstar and all these other Michael Phelps celebrities and 364 00:20:35,400 --> 00:20:39,960 Speaker 1: poker such that I am right now memorizing poker strategies, 365 00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:42,600 Speaker 1: Buck in commercial breaks, to try to be prepared for this. 366 00:20:42,760 --> 00:20:45,560 Speaker 1: It's gonna be on television eventually in Vegas, but I'm 367 00:20:45,560 --> 00:20:48,359 Speaker 1: out here in the City of sin Yeah, you just 368 00:20:48,400 --> 00:20:51,320 Speaker 1: gotta watch Ted cruds beard. That's the tell, my friend. 369 00:20:51,640 --> 00:20:53,600 Speaker 1: But when the when the beard, you know, and he 370 00:20:53,640 --> 00:20:55,920 Speaker 1: gets a little a little chi under there, that's I'm 371 00:20:55,920 --> 00:20:58,320 Speaker 1: telling you, you're gonna know what kind of hand he's got. 372 00:20:58,680 --> 00:21:01,040 Speaker 1: And yeah, my brother's wedding, it's going to beautiful here 373 00:21:01,040 --> 00:21:05,600 Speaker 1: in New York City. There are vaccine passports now in 374 00:21:05,640 --> 00:21:08,600 Speaker 1: effect at pretty much all restaurants in Manhattan. I mean, 375 00:21:08,640 --> 00:21:11,160 Speaker 1: that's that's the situation. There's photos all over the place 376 00:21:11,200 --> 00:21:13,600 Speaker 1: now if people just like you know, when you were 377 00:21:13,600 --> 00:21:15,800 Speaker 1: a kid, I mean, Clay, I'm sure you never had 378 00:21:15,800 --> 00:21:17,840 Speaker 1: a fake idea. Of course, of course right it never 379 00:21:17,840 --> 00:21:19,879 Speaker 1: would have dreamed of it. But but why ever, I 380 00:21:19,920 --> 00:21:22,879 Speaker 1: don't Why would I try to tell you violate the 381 00:21:22,960 --> 00:21:26,480 Speaker 1: sanctity of government documents? Another would I? But I mean, 382 00:21:26,520 --> 00:21:28,240 Speaker 1: let's just assume we had fake ideas back in the 383 00:21:28,280 --> 00:21:29,800 Speaker 1: day at one point because we wanted a drink before 384 00:21:29,800 --> 00:21:32,119 Speaker 1: we're twenty one, and you had to wait on those lines, 385 00:21:32,160 --> 00:21:35,280 Speaker 1: and sometimes the bouncer, if there were two bouncers, they 386 00:21:35,280 --> 00:21:36,560 Speaker 1: would kind of one would be at the front and 387 00:21:36,560 --> 00:21:38,520 Speaker 1: then one would work the line. That's what's going on now. 388 00:21:38,520 --> 00:21:41,160 Speaker 1: In some places they'll have staff, you know, the maitre 389 00:21:41,280 --> 00:21:43,720 Speaker 1: d of a restaurant or whatever will be there, and 390 00:21:43,760 --> 00:21:46,000 Speaker 1: then I'll have somebody else who's coming as they're checking 391 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:50,240 Speaker 1: you in to check your vaccine passports. Even though, and 392 00:21:50,240 --> 00:21:52,119 Speaker 1: we're gonna talk to Alex Barnston about this in just 393 00:21:52,160 --> 00:21:56,920 Speaker 1: a matter of a few minutes, the vaccines now require boosters, 394 00:21:57,160 --> 00:22:00,000 Speaker 1: which means for everybody just to work clear, the vaccine 395 00:22:00,240 --> 00:22:03,159 Speaker 1: don't work as well or as long as they promise you. 396 00:22:03,280 --> 00:22:06,359 Speaker 1: That is a fact. And nobody right now is fully 397 00:22:06,440 --> 00:22:08,800 Speaker 1: vaccinated because you haven't been able to get your booster. 398 00:22:08,960 --> 00:22:11,840 Speaker 1: Yet no such they read today as well. Buck. You know, 399 00:22:11,840 --> 00:22:15,560 Speaker 1: we talked about the different cities San Francisco, La, New 400 00:22:15,680 --> 00:22:19,679 Speaker 1: Orleans breaking out these new rules, Washington, d C. New 401 00:22:19,760 --> 00:22:23,359 Speaker 1: York City, Philadelphia. They're saying, and this is what we 402 00:22:23,440 --> 00:22:26,800 Speaker 1: talked about, And it's like people don't understand how businesses work. 403 00:22:27,280 --> 00:22:31,040 Speaker 1: That twenty percent of New Orleans restaurants and bars that 404 00:22:31,160 --> 00:22:36,160 Speaker 1: manage to barely survive the COVID lockdowns are not going 405 00:22:36,240 --> 00:22:42,600 Speaker 1: to be able to survive vaccine passports and maintain their business. 406 00:22:42,080 --> 00:22:45,920 Speaker 1: And this is where it's just infuriated. There's also beyond 407 00:22:45,960 --> 00:22:47,800 Speaker 1: all this, we need to there needs to be an 408 00:22:47,920 --> 00:22:51,600 Speaker 1: enormous mindset shift here, because they get away with this 409 00:22:51,680 --> 00:22:57,920 Speaker 1: stuff under the continuing premise, the false premise that we're 410 00:22:57,960 --> 00:23:01,800 Speaker 1: making a trade off because they're keeping us safe, that 411 00:23:01,840 --> 00:23:07,200 Speaker 1: we're done from all these terribly annoying, economically destructive freedom 412 00:23:07,320 --> 00:23:11,840 Speaker 1: trampling things because it's saving lives. The reality, as you 413 00:23:11,880 --> 00:23:15,160 Speaker 1: and I know, Clay, is that in almost all of 414 00:23:15,200 --> 00:23:18,120 Speaker 1: these cases, the things that they're instituting making people do 415 00:23:18,840 --> 00:23:22,920 Speaker 1: aren't saving any lives, aren't stopping any COVID And even 416 00:23:22,920 --> 00:23:25,200 Speaker 1: in some of the things like we talked about plastic barriers. 417 00:23:25,240 --> 00:23:28,439 Speaker 1: They may be making things worse than they would otherwise be. 418 00:23:28,480 --> 00:23:30,120 Speaker 1: We'll come back in this. We know it is open 419 00:23:30,160 --> 00:23:32,119 Speaker 1: line Friday. We wanted to hear from some of you. 420 00:23:32,160 --> 00:23:34,040 Speaker 1: This is really interesting call. We meny to get to 421 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:37,159 Speaker 1: eight two two two eight A two for any of 422 00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:39,399 Speaker 1: you who want to get in here on Friday. Jim 423 00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:43,720 Speaker 1: in Florida, a Marine vet who has a translator outside 424 00:23:43,760 --> 00:23:47,800 Speaker 1: the gate in Cobble. Jim tell us what's going on. Yes, 425 00:23:47,960 --> 00:23:52,640 Speaker 1: I'm a Navy CB VET. I was embedded with the 426 00:23:52,680 --> 00:23:57,239 Speaker 1: India Companies three to six Marines, second Platoon one in 427 00:23:57,520 --> 00:24:01,560 Speaker 1: twenty ten and then again in twenty eleven. Our translator 428 00:24:03,240 --> 00:24:06,520 Speaker 1: he gave us a word by word translation. That's why 429 00:24:06,520 --> 00:24:08,359 Speaker 1: we trust him. He didn't give us a summary. And 430 00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:12,520 Speaker 1: he's outside the gate right now as we speak. And 431 00:24:12,600 --> 00:24:16,440 Speaker 1: he tells me just before I called you that there 432 00:24:16,440 --> 00:24:20,720 Speaker 1: are about six flights a night. There's nothing happening in 433 00:24:20,720 --> 00:24:24,919 Speaker 1: and out during the day. And I'm told him to 434 00:24:25,840 --> 00:24:29,160 Speaker 1: look for a French or an English convoy because they 435 00:24:29,200 --> 00:24:34,280 Speaker 1: are leaving the tarmac and they are picking up the 436 00:24:34,440 --> 00:24:39,359 Speaker 1: friendlies and their citizens have taken them to the airport, 437 00:24:39,880 --> 00:24:43,800 Speaker 1: and I said, the Americans are not. I've said, the 438 00:24:43,920 --> 00:24:50,520 Speaker 1: colonel in charge there has said that you're damaging the 439 00:24:51,080 --> 00:24:54,800 Speaker 1: relationship that they're trying to build with the Taliban government 440 00:24:55,560 --> 00:25:01,399 Speaker 1: by going outside and getting their citizens. So I didn't 441 00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:05,040 Speaker 1: have the heart to tell him that he's screwed. But 442 00:25:05,160 --> 00:25:09,000 Speaker 1: that's right where he's at right now. I'm turning my 443 00:25:09,160 --> 00:25:12,920 Speaker 1: congressman Congress from Posey. His office told me that there 444 00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:17,840 Speaker 1: are flights out of the India, US government flights military 445 00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:22,159 Speaker 1: going into Cobble and picking up refugees and taking him 446 00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:27,200 Speaker 1: back to India and out of Istanbul Turkey and another 447 00:25:27,280 --> 00:25:31,760 Speaker 1: part of Turkey. Also, thanks thanks for the Yeah, thanks 448 00:25:31,760 --> 00:25:33,359 Speaker 1: starting to cut you off, but thank you for the 449 00:25:33,480 --> 00:25:36,920 Speaker 1: update of what's going on. We played some clips from 450 00:25:37,040 --> 00:25:39,560 Speaker 1: right outside of that Cobble airport, and I think what 451 00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:42,480 Speaker 1: you're hearing and you just heard from our caller there 452 00:25:43,119 --> 00:25:48,360 Speaker 1: is the chaotic situations that exist right now are really 453 00:25:48,520 --> 00:25:54,520 Speaker 1: creating all sorts of major issues going forward. Buck for again, 454 00:25:54,640 --> 00:25:59,000 Speaker 1: Clarissa Ward on the ground reporting right now that there 455 00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:03,320 Speaker 1: are flights for eight hours that have taken off and 456 00:26:03,480 --> 00:26:07,720 Speaker 1: as a result, this is a major, major issue. Maybe 457 00:26:07,720 --> 00:26:10,320 Speaker 1: that's one reason why Joe Biden's not addressing the nation 458 00:26:10,359 --> 00:26:13,360 Speaker 1: as he was scheduled to do buck because they're aware 459 00:26:13,440 --> 00:26:16,080 Speaker 1: that they've got even more of a mess on the 460 00:26:16,119 --> 00:26:19,119 Speaker 1: ground today than maybe they anticipate. Is this the lateness 461 00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:21,760 Speaker 1: I have to assume here? And maybe you can't assume 462 00:26:21,760 --> 00:26:26,000 Speaker 1: anything about this Bide administration. Maybe it's so under just 463 00:26:26,240 --> 00:26:30,199 Speaker 1: dress and wildly incompetent that the normal analysis you would do. 464 00:26:30,320 --> 00:26:31,960 Speaker 1: I think it's possible that we're not even in a 465 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:36,160 Speaker 1: normal White House analysis situation anymore because of what we're 466 00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:37,879 Speaker 1: seeing here with Joe Biden. That's been the case I 467 00:26:37,880 --> 00:26:40,840 Speaker 1: think for a while. Lea Clay. To be this late 468 00:26:40,920 --> 00:26:42,760 Speaker 1: on an address like this, you have to think that 469 00:26:43,119 --> 00:26:46,679 Speaker 1: it's because there's either some last minute back and forth 470 00:26:46,720 --> 00:26:49,879 Speaker 1: about what the messaging should be, meaning that they're really 471 00:26:50,119 --> 00:26:53,400 Speaker 1: unsettled and uncertain about it, or they're trying to get 472 00:26:53,480 --> 00:26:56,000 Speaker 1: up to speed with events on the ground and not 473 00:26:56,160 --> 00:26:58,840 Speaker 1: have another debacle where they say things that a day 474 00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:01,200 Speaker 1: later or maybe even an hour later, we realized, oh, 475 00:27:01,280 --> 00:27:04,879 Speaker 1: that wasn't true. They're really not in charge. Let's get 476 00:27:06,320 --> 00:27:11,280 Speaker 1: Riscala in Florida. Other Florida caller, what's up? Riscala, Hey, guys, 477 00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:12,960 Speaker 1: I just want to let you know, as a veteran 478 00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:16,480 Speaker 1: in the Vietnam War, what is happening today is absolutely unacceptable. 479 00:27:17,119 --> 00:27:19,959 Speaker 1: In the short time that this man has been a president, 480 00:27:20,040 --> 00:27:22,600 Speaker 1: he has driven our country and to the lowest depth 481 00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:24,600 Speaker 1: that has ever been in the history of our country. 482 00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:28,920 Speaker 1: We've left over one trillion dollars worth of equipment there 483 00:27:28,920 --> 00:27:31,680 Speaker 1: in Afghanistan. Guess who that's going to be used against? 484 00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:33,920 Speaker 1: What about all the people that we left there, that 485 00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:36,959 Speaker 1: we gave them our word we have your back, and 486 00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:39,280 Speaker 1: here we are stabbing them in the back instead of 487 00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:42,439 Speaker 1: covering their back. This is totally unacceptable. What happened to 488 00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:46,040 Speaker 1: the seventy million people who supposedly voted for Trump? Where 489 00:27:46,080 --> 00:27:48,159 Speaker 1: the hell are you people? Man? You all should be 490 00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:50,560 Speaker 1: speaking up right now. We should be up in arms 491 00:27:50,560 --> 00:27:55,440 Speaker 1: with these people. We cannot allow this to continue. Riscalari appreciation. 492 00:27:55,520 --> 00:27:57,800 Speaker 1: I think there's a lot of people fired up and 493 00:27:58,240 --> 00:28:01,800 Speaker 1: buck right. I mean, I think the combination of what's 494 00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:04,520 Speaker 1: going on with COVID, what's going on at the border, 495 00:28:04,840 --> 00:28:09,280 Speaker 1: what's going on with the overall collapse of the inflation. 496 00:28:09,359 --> 00:28:11,239 Speaker 1: People are fired up in a way they haven't been 497 00:28:11,240 --> 00:28:13,000 Speaker 1: in a long christ Kyala, thanks for calling from Florida. 498 00:28:13,040 --> 00:28:15,520 Speaker 1: And Clay, just to your point about everyone being fired up, 499 00:28:15,560 --> 00:28:21,200 Speaker 1: i'd say Americans, now, the ones who are paying attention, 500 00:28:21,240 --> 00:28:24,879 Speaker 1: have their eyes open, understand that our freedom, this is 501 00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:28,200 Speaker 1: on the COVID side. Our freedom is under greater assault 502 00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:31,240 Speaker 1: than it has ever been in my lifetime, no question 503 00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:35,840 Speaker 1: about it. Yes. And simultaneously, what we're seeing in Afghanistan 504 00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:39,560 Speaker 1: is the people in charge your morons. So your freedom 505 00:28:39,640 --> 00:28:42,600 Speaker 1: is under assault and the people in charge are morons. 506 00:28:42,920 --> 00:28:46,959 Speaker 1: That does not make for a happy American populace, at 507 00:28:47,040 --> 00:28:49,600 Speaker 1: least for those of us who aren't the brainwashed sheep 508 00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:51,680 Speaker 1: who just want to be safe and fed and warm 509 00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:53,800 Speaker 1: and everything else is the same to them. It doesn't 510 00:28:53,840 --> 00:28:55,960 Speaker 1: matter to them at all. Also known as you know, 511 00:28:56,160 --> 00:28:59,680 Speaker 1: MSNBC and CNN watchers. 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Sector B Lincoln Secretory, Austin Nassecurity Advisor Sulliman 542 00:30:37,320 --> 00:30:40,840 Speaker 1: and other members of the National Security Leadership Team the 543 00:30:40,880 --> 00:30:46,240 Speaker 1: Situation Room to discuss our ongoing efforts to evacuate American citizens, 544 00:30:46,920 --> 00:30:52,240 Speaker 1: third country civilians, Afghan allies and vulnerable Afghans. And I 545 00:30:52,320 --> 00:30:54,680 Speaker 1: want to provide the American people with a brief update 546 00:30:54,880 --> 00:30:59,080 Speaker 1: and on the situation in Afghanistan. Since I spoke to 547 00:30:59,120 --> 00:31:03,240 Speaker 1: John Monday, we made significant progress. We've secured the airport, 548 00:31:03,920 --> 00:31:08,240 Speaker 1: enabling flights to resume, not just military flights but civilian 549 00:31:08,320 --> 00:31:12,640 Speaker 1: charters and from other countries and the NGOs taking out 550 00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:18,880 Speaker 1: civilians and vulnerable a vulnerable Afghanies. And now we have 551 00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:21,480 Speaker 1: almost six thousand troops to the ground, including the eighty 552 00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:27,000 Speaker 1: second Airborne providing runway security, the Army tenth Mountain Division 553 00:31:27,240 --> 00:31:30,880 Speaker 1: standing guard around the airport, and the twenty fourth Marine 554 00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:35,080 Speaker 1: Expeditionary Unit assisting the civilian departure. This is one of 555 00:31:35,080 --> 00:31:39,160 Speaker 1: the largest, most difficult airlifts in history and the only 556 00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:42,080 Speaker 1: country in the world capable projecting in this much power. 557 00:31:42,840 --> 00:31:45,560 Speaker 1: On the far side of the world with this degree 558 00:31:45,560 --> 00:31:49,800 Speaker 1: of precision is the United States of America. We've already 559 00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:53,520 Speaker 1: evacuated more than eighteen thousand people since July, and approximately 560 00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:58,360 Speaker 1: thirteen thousand since our military a lift began on August 561 00:31:58,360 --> 00:32:02,520 Speaker 1: the fourteenth. Thousands more have been evacuated on private charter 562 00:32:02,560 --> 00:32:07,080 Speaker 1: flights facilitated by the US government. These numbers include the 563 00:32:07,120 --> 00:32:10,640 Speaker 1: American citizens and permanent residents, as well as their families. 564 00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:15,840 Speaker 1: It includes SIV applicants and their families. Those Afghans who've 565 00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:20,160 Speaker 1: worked alongside US, served alongside of US, gone in a 566 00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:23,320 Speaker 1: combat with US, and provided invaluable assistance to US, such 567 00:32:23,360 --> 00:32:28,720 Speaker 1: as translators and interpreters. The United States stands biased commitment 568 00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:32,880 Speaker 1: that we've made to these people and includes other vulnerable Afghans, 569 00:32:32,920 --> 00:32:36,800 Speaker 1: such as women leaders and journalists. In fact, working in 570 00:32:36,840 --> 00:32:39,920 Speaker 1: close coordination with the management in The New York Times, 571 00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:43,400 Speaker 1: The Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, we have successfully 572 00:32:43,600 --> 00:32:46,760 Speaker 1: evacuated all two hundred and four of their employees in 573 00:32:46,760 --> 00:32:52,440 Speaker 1: Afghanistan on US military aircraft earlier this week. We've established 574 00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:55,840 Speaker 1: the flow of flights and we've increased the number of 575 00:32:55,840 --> 00:32:59,600 Speaker 1: people were moving out of the country. We paused flights 576 00:32:59,600 --> 00:33:02,480 Speaker 1: in a couple a few hours this morning to make 577 00:33:02,520 --> 00:33:06,240 Speaker 1: sure we could process the arriving evacuees at the transit points, 578 00:33:07,120 --> 00:33:09,880 Speaker 1: but our commander and cabole has already given the order 579 00:33:10,280 --> 00:33:14,240 Speaker 1: for outbound flights to resume them even with the Polos. 580 00:33:14,760 --> 00:33:19,280 Speaker 1: We've moved out five thousand, seven hundred evacuees yesterday, and 581 00:33:19,320 --> 00:33:23,160 Speaker 1: we're working on a variety to verify that number of 582 00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:25,680 Speaker 1: the Americans are still in country as we work on this, 583 00:33:26,040 --> 00:33:28,760 Speaker 1: because we're not doing the exact number of people who 584 00:33:28,760 --> 00:33:32,080 Speaker 1: are Americans are there and those who may have come 585 00:33:32,160 --> 00:33:35,120 Speaker 1: home to the United States, we want to get a 586 00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:38,080 Speaker 1: strong number as to exactly how many people are there, 587 00:33:38,240 --> 00:33:41,800 Speaker 1: how many American citizens, and where they are. Just yesterday, 588 00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:45,680 Speaker 1: among the many Americans we evacuated, there were one hundred 589 00:33:45,680 --> 00:33:49,280 Speaker 1: and sixty nine Americans who we've got over the wall 590 00:33:49,280 --> 00:33:53,719 Speaker 1: into the airport using military assets. We're also facilitating flights 591 00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:57,440 Speaker 1: for our allies and our partners and working in close 592 00:33:57,600 --> 00:34:03,880 Speaker 1: operational coordination with NATO on this evacuation. For example, we 593 00:34:03,920 --> 00:34:07,440 Speaker 1: provide an overwatch for the French convoy bringing hundreds of 594 00:34:07,520 --> 00:34:11,560 Speaker 1: their people from the French Embassy to the airport. These 595 00:34:11,560 --> 00:34:14,200 Speaker 1: operations are kind of going to continue over the coming 596 00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:18,080 Speaker 1: days before we complete our draw down. We're going to 597 00:34:18,160 --> 00:34:21,960 Speaker 1: do everything everything that we can to provide safe evacuation 598 00:34:22,120 --> 00:34:28,239 Speaker 1: for our Afghan allies, partners and Afghans who who might 599 00:34:28,280 --> 00:34:31,960 Speaker 1: be targeted if because of their association with the United States. 600 00:34:32,480 --> 00:34:36,200 Speaker 1: But let me be clear, any American who wants to 601 00:34:36,200 --> 00:34:40,640 Speaker 1: come home, we will get you home. Make no mistake, 602 00:34:40,760 --> 00:34:46,760 Speaker 1: This evacuation mission is dangerous and evolves risks to our enforces, 603 00:34:46,840 --> 00:34:51,560 Speaker 1: and as being conducted under difficult circumstances, I cannot promise 604 00:34:51,880 --> 00:34:54,399 Speaker 1: what the final outcome will be or what it will 605 00:34:54,480 --> 00:34:57,400 Speaker 1: be that it will be without risk of laws. But 606 00:34:57,480 --> 00:35:00,759 Speaker 1: as Commander in Chief, I can assure that I will 607 00:35:00,800 --> 00:35:05,799 Speaker 1: mobilize every resource necessary, and as an American, I offer 608 00:35:05,880 --> 00:35:08,840 Speaker 1: my gratitude to the brave men and women of the 609 00:35:08,960 --> 00:35:12,680 Speaker 1: US Armed Forces are carrying out this mission. They're incredible. 610 00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:17,000 Speaker 1: As we continue to work the logistics of evacuation, we're 611 00:35:17,040 --> 00:35:20,640 Speaker 1: in constant contact with the Tally Bond working to ensure 612 00:35:20,719 --> 00:35:24,760 Speaker 1: civilians have safe passes to the airport. We are particularly 613 00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:29,000 Speaker 1: focused on our engagements. I'm making sure every American who 614 00:35:29,040 --> 00:35:33,400 Speaker 1: wants to leave can get to the airport. Where we 615 00:35:33,480 --> 00:35:37,319 Speaker 1: have been seen challenges of Americans for Americans, we have 616 00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:40,919 Speaker 1: thus far been able to resolve them. We've been We've 617 00:35:40,960 --> 00:35:44,840 Speaker 1: made look and we made clear to the Tally Bond 618 00:35:45,160 --> 00:35:49,360 Speaker 1: that any attack, any attack on our forces or disruption 619 00:35:49,760 --> 00:35:52,760 Speaker 1: of our operations, the are what we met with swift 620 00:35:52,800 --> 00:35:57,120 Speaker 1: and forceful response. We're also keeping a close watch and 621 00:35:57,200 --> 00:36:01,839 Speaker 1: any potential terrorist threat at or around the airport, including 622 00:36:02,400 --> 00:36:06,000 Speaker 1: from the ISIS affiliates in Afghanistan who were released from 623 00:36:06,040 --> 00:36:10,160 Speaker 1: prison when the prisons were emptied, and because they are 624 00:36:10,280 --> 00:36:14,520 Speaker 1: by the way and make everybody understand that the ISIS 625 00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:17,759 Speaker 1: and Afghanistan are this have been the sworn enemy of 626 00:36:17,800 --> 00:36:22,320 Speaker 1: the Taliban. I've said all along, we're going to retain 627 00:36:22,480 --> 00:36:26,480 Speaker 1: a laser focus on our counter terrors and mission, working 628 00:36:26,480 --> 00:36:30,080 Speaker 1: in close coordination with our allies and our partners. And 629 00:36:31,080 --> 00:36:33,839 Speaker 1: all right, we're gonna continue to watch this for you, 630 00:36:33,880 --> 00:36:36,239 Speaker 1: monitor it and if he takes questions, which we'll find 631 00:36:36,239 --> 00:36:38,160 Speaker 1: out in a matter of moments here, we'll have that 632 00:36:38,239 --> 00:36:40,520 Speaker 1: for you. We come back also, Alex Barrenson Clay and 633 00:36:40,560 --> 00:36:44,440 Speaker 1: I will dive into the latest on COVID vaccination numbers, 634 00:36:44,440 --> 00:36:46,759 Speaker 1: the vaccines, the boosters. That's all coming up in a 635 00:36:46,800 --> 00:36:53,320 Speaker 1: big hour three stick around. You're listening to Clay Travis 636 00:36:53,360 --> 00:37:03,040 Speaker 1: and Buck Sexton fund the EIB Network three