1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:03,880 Speaker 1: Second hour of Clay and Buck get's going right now. 2 00:00:03,880 --> 00:00:05,119 Speaker 2: Thank you for being here everybody. 3 00:00:05,680 --> 00:00:07,640 Speaker 1: As you know, Clay hanging out with the Pope, eating 4 00:00:07,640 --> 00:00:10,639 Speaker 1: some pasta, having a good time over in Rome. And 5 00:00:10,680 --> 00:00:12,520 Speaker 1: they'll be back with us either Friday or Monday. I 6 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:16,720 Speaker 1: think it depends on his flight situation. And we have 7 00:00:16,960 --> 00:00:21,880 Speaker 1: the near unanimous on the House one no vote, and 8 00:00:21,880 --> 00:00:24,759 Speaker 1: then the Senate all voted in favor of the release 9 00:00:24,800 --> 00:00:29,640 Speaker 1: of the Epstein additional Epstein files. I'm just gonna tell 10 00:00:29,640 --> 00:00:31,880 Speaker 1: you this, There's going to be a lot of is 11 00:00:31,880 --> 00:00:35,040 Speaker 1: it all of the files? Did they redact the files? 12 00:00:35,520 --> 00:00:36,200 Speaker 2: Are there more. 13 00:00:36,120 --> 00:00:43,479 Speaker 1: Classified versions of the files? Have they pulled stuff out? 14 00:00:43,920 --> 00:00:47,240 Speaker 1: Have they covered I mean, this is my my concern 15 00:00:47,280 --> 00:00:50,519 Speaker 1: with this is absolutely more transparency. Good find always in 16 00:00:50,560 --> 00:00:55,880 Speaker 1: favor of more transparency. Is there such a thing as 17 00:00:56,880 --> 00:01:00,800 Speaker 1: enough transparency that people will feel satisfied across the board? 18 00:01:00,880 --> 00:01:01,480 Speaker 2: I don't think so. 19 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:05,080 Speaker 1: This has been going on, This investigation has been going 20 00:01:05,080 --> 00:01:08,240 Speaker 1: on for a long time. The situation of Jeffrey Epstein 21 00:01:08,280 --> 00:01:11,400 Speaker 1: spanned decades. There were a lot of things that happened 22 00:01:11,400 --> 00:01:15,600 Speaker 1: on the government side that are by the official narrative 23 00:01:15,680 --> 00:01:20,600 Speaker 1: still inexplicable by the official narrative right what we're being told, 24 00:01:21,600 --> 00:01:24,560 Speaker 1: So I think it will end up being something along 25 00:01:24,600 --> 00:01:29,040 Speaker 1: the lines of the JFK, along the lines at JFK's assassination, 26 00:01:29,319 --> 00:01:32,520 Speaker 1: things like that, where people just don't ever believe it 27 00:01:32,560 --> 00:01:35,039 Speaker 1: they have the full picture, So be prepared for that too. 28 00:01:35,360 --> 00:01:38,360 Speaker 1: Some of you may feel that way yourselves. I don't 29 00:01:38,360 --> 00:01:42,720 Speaker 1: think that there's going to be a big exhale of Okay, 30 00:01:42,760 --> 00:01:47,960 Speaker 1: finally we have all the answers, but we'll have more answers. 31 00:01:48,400 --> 00:01:51,360 Speaker 1: That's a good thing. So I view it as more 32 00:01:51,440 --> 00:01:53,680 Speaker 1: likely to be a step in a direction now. I 33 00:01:53,720 --> 00:01:56,400 Speaker 1: also wanted to spend some time here on what Trump 34 00:01:56,480 --> 00:01:59,800 Speaker 1: is trying. So again that's happening. The release Trump's gonna 35 00:01:59,800 --> 00:02:05,600 Speaker 1: sign and that's coming out. But Trump is hosting the 36 00:02:05,600 --> 00:02:07,160 Speaker 1: Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia. 37 00:02:07,160 --> 00:02:09,480 Speaker 2: As you know, we talked about this bid yesterday and 38 00:02:09,520 --> 00:02:09,880 Speaker 2: there was. 39 00:02:09,840 --> 00:02:15,720 Speaker 1: That very terse exchange with an ABC reporter who went after. 40 00:02:16,960 --> 00:02:18,400 Speaker 2: Mohammed Vin Salomon. 41 00:02:18,960 --> 00:02:25,400 Speaker 1: For the assassin, I mean assassination of this guy Kashogi 42 00:02:25,760 --> 00:02:28,240 Speaker 1: and it was a journalist and I think they like 43 00:02:28,320 --> 00:02:34,240 Speaker 1: buried his body in the yard of the consulate in Istanbul, right, 44 00:02:34,280 --> 00:02:36,440 Speaker 1: something like that I mean, it was it was it 45 00:02:36,480 --> 00:02:40,280 Speaker 1: was grizzly stuff. But the world is the world that 46 00:02:40,320 --> 00:02:44,520 Speaker 1: we live in. And learning to work with the Saudis 47 00:02:44,840 --> 00:02:48,040 Speaker 1: and be operating in the interest of three hundred and 48 00:02:48,080 --> 00:02:52,800 Speaker 1: fifty million Americans, that's the goal, and that's what President 49 00:02:52,840 --> 00:02:57,920 Speaker 1: Trump should and is doing. So he's trying to push 50 00:02:57,919 --> 00:03:00,600 Speaker 1: things to Saudi Arabia and remember Saudi Era. This is 51 00:03:00,720 --> 00:03:03,600 Speaker 1: another part of this discussion that I think is worth 52 00:03:03,639 --> 00:03:10,079 Speaker 1: bringing into It is the single most important bulwark against 53 00:03:10,480 --> 00:03:17,560 Speaker 1: Iranian ambitions and Iranian meddling and destabilization in the region. 54 00:03:18,480 --> 00:03:21,440 Speaker 1: The Iranians are the Shia power of the Middle East, 55 00:03:21,480 --> 00:03:23,840 Speaker 1: the Shia Muslim power of the Middle East, and the 56 00:03:23,880 --> 00:03:28,320 Speaker 1: Saudis are our host to the cities of Mecca and Medina, 57 00:03:28,320 --> 00:03:34,040 Speaker 1: as you know, and they are the most powerful Sunni 58 00:03:34,320 --> 00:03:37,680 Speaker 1: Arab nation in the Middle East. So if we're going 59 00:03:37,760 --> 00:03:43,120 Speaker 1: to be working to box in the Iranians and make 60 00:03:43,160 --> 00:03:46,240 Speaker 1: sure that that regime is who knows how long it's 61 00:03:46,280 --> 00:03:48,840 Speaker 1: going to be able to cling to power, but at 62 00:03:48,960 --> 00:03:51,240 Speaker 1: least try to make sure that regime does as little 63 00:03:51,320 --> 00:03:54,920 Speaker 1: damage as possible. The Saudis are a very important ally 64 00:03:55,040 --> 00:03:58,080 Speaker 1: for us in that process. There's also the prospect of 65 00:03:58,160 --> 00:04:04,200 Speaker 1: a full Saudi normalization with Israel diplomatically, trade wise, and 66 00:04:04,600 --> 00:04:07,080 Speaker 1: if that were to happen, it would be a a 67 00:04:07,160 --> 00:04:11,480 Speaker 1: seismic shift in the Middle East and the power dynamic 68 00:04:12,080 --> 00:04:17,719 Speaker 1: and maybe put it on a much more stable path, 69 00:04:17,880 --> 00:04:20,960 Speaker 1: not a perfect path, but a more stable path than 70 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:23,520 Speaker 1: what we've seen with the Middle East and the post 71 00:04:23,560 --> 00:04:28,520 Speaker 1: World War two World War two period overall. So Trump 72 00:04:28,560 --> 00:04:31,240 Speaker 1: said that there are some important agreements. Sign let's get 73 00:04:31,240 --> 00:04:33,719 Speaker 1: into this. This is just from the last hour, so 74 00:04:33,760 --> 00:04:38,479 Speaker 1: this is just breaking just getting out there now. This 75 00:04:38,560 --> 00:04:40,880 Speaker 1: is cut twenty eight. He was talking about what some 76 00:04:40,920 --> 00:04:44,840 Speaker 1: of these agreements look like, and he cited that trillion 77 00:04:45,120 --> 00:04:46,200 Speaker 1: dollar figure. 78 00:04:46,360 --> 00:04:47,280 Speaker 2: Listen to this. 79 00:04:47,279 --> 00:04:51,159 Speaker 3: This week, our countries also signed groundbreaking agreements on civil 80 00:04:51,279 --> 00:04:55,560 Speaker 3: nuclear energy, critical minerals, and artificial intelligence. And I want 81 00:04:55,600 --> 00:04:58,640 Speaker 3: to congratulate a lot of the great American leaders, business 82 00:04:58,760 --> 00:05:00,760 Speaker 3: leaders that are in the room. You'll do a great 83 00:05:00,880 --> 00:05:03,480 Speaker 3: job for Saudi Arabian for a lot of other people 84 00:05:03,520 --> 00:05:07,200 Speaker 3: in the room that are buying your product, taking your product, 85 00:05:07,279 --> 00:05:10,080 Speaker 3: and using your product. All of that is an addition 86 00:05:10,240 --> 00:05:13,600 Speaker 3: to the six hundred billion dollar investment in the United 87 00:05:13,640 --> 00:05:17,640 Speaker 3: States that Saudi Arabia announced during my unforgettable visit their 88 00:05:17,720 --> 00:05:19,839 Speaker 3: last spring. Well, I said, could you try and get 89 00:05:19,839 --> 00:05:23,400 Speaker 3: that up to a trillion dollars? And yesterday the Crown 90 00:05:23,480 --> 00:05:26,120 Speaker 3: prints announced that the number that they'll be investing in 91 00:05:26,160 --> 00:05:29,839 Speaker 3: the United States is one trillion dollars. So that's really 92 00:05:29,880 --> 00:05:30,240 Speaker 3: a dot. 93 00:05:32,320 --> 00:05:35,159 Speaker 1: So the Saudis are responsible for about ten eleven twelve 94 00:05:35,200 --> 00:05:38,080 Speaker 1: percent of global something like that. Ten eleven is percent 95 00:05:38,160 --> 00:05:42,520 Speaker 1: depends on the time period of the world's crude oil. 96 00:05:43,279 --> 00:05:47,960 Speaker 1: And so Thisaudi's matter, The Saudi's played important role in 97 00:05:47,960 --> 00:05:51,280 Speaker 1: a global economy that is that is still entirely depends 98 00:05:51,440 --> 00:05:55,159 Speaker 1: really a modern civilization around the world that is entirely 99 00:05:55,200 --> 00:05:58,279 Speaker 1: dependent on hydrocarbon fossil fuel. 100 00:05:59,240 --> 00:06:00,480 Speaker 2: This is this is all also. 101 00:06:00,279 --> 00:06:04,840 Speaker 1: Why our efforts to and the international community such as 102 00:06:04,839 --> 00:06:10,800 Speaker 1: it is NATO, maybe more more specifically to box in Russia. No, 103 00:06:10,920 --> 00:06:13,880 Speaker 1: Russia's got too much oil, too much gas, too much 104 00:06:13,920 --> 00:06:16,960 Speaker 1: that the world needs. Regardless of how we feel about 105 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:20,240 Speaker 1: Russia's war in Ukraine and how evil Putin is and 106 00:06:20,240 --> 00:06:23,160 Speaker 1: all that stuff, the oil is coming out of the 107 00:06:23,160 --> 00:06:25,360 Speaker 1: ground and we need it, and people are gonna pay 108 00:06:25,360 --> 00:06:27,360 Speaker 1: for it and they want it. Same thing is true 109 00:06:27,400 --> 00:06:31,320 Speaker 1: of Saudi Arabia. Know, this is the reality of nation 110 00:06:31,400 --> 00:06:34,920 Speaker 1: states is a bit like people. Does their talent outweigh 111 00:06:35,040 --> 00:06:39,920 Speaker 1: their baggage, so to speak, does the upside outweigh the 112 00:06:39,960 --> 00:06:42,960 Speaker 1: negatives of dealing with them? So you know, you can 113 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:46,160 Speaker 1: get away with a whole lot more if you are 114 00:06:46,480 --> 00:06:49,600 Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia, and if you are Russia. Then if you 115 00:06:49,680 --> 00:06:53,719 Speaker 1: are North Korea. Let's say North Korea doesn't export anything 116 00:06:53,760 --> 00:06:57,279 Speaker 1: except problems, which is why we have been far more 117 00:06:57,279 --> 00:06:59,120 Speaker 1: willing and the rest of the world has been far 118 00:06:59,160 --> 00:07:02,039 Speaker 1: more willing to cut them off from a whole lot 119 00:07:02,080 --> 00:07:02,360 Speaker 1: of things. 120 00:07:02,400 --> 00:07:03,200 Speaker 2: The same thing with China. 121 00:07:03,240 --> 00:07:05,359 Speaker 1: By the way, China is a as we know, massive 122 00:07:05,440 --> 00:07:09,279 Speaker 1: human rights abuser as well as a near peer competitor 123 00:07:09,320 --> 00:07:14,360 Speaker 1: to the US militarily economically. And while we would like 124 00:07:14,440 --> 00:07:17,840 Speaker 1: to decouple from China, perhaps it will take time. 125 00:07:18,480 --> 00:07:19,680 Speaker 2: And while we would like to. 126 00:07:19,800 --> 00:07:22,160 Speaker 1: Be able to bring more pressure to bear on China, 127 00:07:23,400 --> 00:07:24,600 Speaker 1: we have some limitations. 128 00:07:24,680 --> 00:07:25,800 Speaker 2: Trump is working with. 129 00:07:26,720 --> 00:07:31,680 Speaker 1: The cards that we have, but it's certainly not something 130 00:07:31,680 --> 00:07:32,840 Speaker 1: where we just get to dictate. 131 00:07:32,960 --> 00:07:37,360 Speaker 2: Same thing with Saudi Arabia. So a trillion dollars. 132 00:07:38,400 --> 00:07:41,960 Speaker 1: Invested in the United States, now this is a substantial, 133 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:45,120 Speaker 1: This gives the Saudi substantial influence. They've had substantial influence 134 00:07:45,200 --> 00:07:49,560 Speaker 1: in the US, in our media, in a lot of 135 00:07:49,640 --> 00:07:53,160 Speaker 1: US universities have taken a tremendous amount of Saudi money 136 00:07:53,240 --> 00:07:56,520 Speaker 1: over the years, and really more golf, golf, oil money 137 00:07:56,600 --> 00:08:00,800 Speaker 1: more broadly. But that's something we should be aware of. 138 00:08:01,280 --> 00:08:05,080 Speaker 1: There's a huge upside to this. Saudi investment in America 139 00:08:05,480 --> 00:08:10,040 Speaker 1: makes US richer, more jobs, more you know, we want 140 00:08:10,120 --> 00:08:14,760 Speaker 1: money coming into this country from foreign nations. We just 141 00:08:14,800 --> 00:08:17,840 Speaker 1: want to make sure we know where it's going and 142 00:08:17,880 --> 00:08:23,600 Speaker 1: how it's being You know, if here's a perfect example, BMW. 143 00:08:23,800 --> 00:08:25,720 Speaker 1: I think BMW is a great I drive a BMW. 144 00:08:25,760 --> 00:08:28,400 Speaker 1: BMW is a great car company. They want to set 145 00:08:28,480 --> 00:08:33,520 Speaker 1: up a US based manufacturing plant. I think it's in uh, 146 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:35,480 Speaker 1: South Carolina or something like that. 147 00:08:36,120 --> 00:08:38,000 Speaker 2: Great great. 148 00:08:38,080 --> 00:08:40,480 Speaker 1: You know, that's we want more jobs, we want more 149 00:08:40,480 --> 00:08:43,640 Speaker 1: production here, and we welcome that kind of an investment. 150 00:08:44,080 --> 00:08:47,360 Speaker 1: Do we want China to control US ports? 151 00:08:48,400 --> 00:08:48,480 Speaker 4: No? 152 00:08:49,200 --> 00:08:52,400 Speaker 2: Do we want China to be buying a US farmland? 153 00:08:53,200 --> 00:08:53,280 Speaker 5: No? 154 00:08:53,720 --> 00:08:55,800 Speaker 1: Right there there, we can pick and shoot and we 155 00:08:55,840 --> 00:09:00,560 Speaker 1: always have. And there are offices of the US government 156 00:09:00,600 --> 00:09:05,839 Speaker 1: already that look at this issue and deal with whether 157 00:09:06,880 --> 00:09:10,320 Speaker 1: there's too much foreign influence and say in national security 158 00:09:10,920 --> 00:09:15,120 Speaker 1: relevant industry. But with all that said, Trump's making these deals. 159 00:09:15,120 --> 00:09:18,160 Speaker 1: He's bringing all this money into the country, and that's 160 00:09:18,160 --> 00:09:20,880 Speaker 1: a good thing, and he's doing what he knows. I 161 00:09:20,920 --> 00:09:26,320 Speaker 1: think we'll have real benefits for the American people, for companies, 162 00:09:26,320 --> 00:09:29,920 Speaker 1: for jobs, for the stock market, and yes, for innovation 163 00:09:30,720 --> 00:09:33,120 Speaker 1: and our production of technology. 164 00:09:33,160 --> 00:09:33,360 Speaker 2: Here. 165 00:09:33,400 --> 00:09:36,680 Speaker 1: We want more done here at the highest level possible. 166 00:09:36,679 --> 00:09:39,600 Speaker 1: When it comes to technology. I've spoken to you about 167 00:09:39,600 --> 00:09:46,440 Speaker 1: how the Taiwanese semiconductor manufacturing Company TSMC. I visited them 168 00:09:46,440 --> 00:09:51,000 Speaker 1: when I was in Taiwan back in September, and they're 169 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:53,600 Speaker 1: doing incredible things. I mean, it almost seems like magic 170 00:09:53,679 --> 00:09:56,360 Speaker 1: the level of technology that they operate at, and our 171 00:09:56,600 --> 00:09:59,880 Speaker 1: entire AI future rests on the ability to make these 172 00:10:00,080 --> 00:10:03,319 Speaker 1: very very advanced chips. They've also now set up in Arizona, 173 00:10:04,080 --> 00:10:06,440 Speaker 1: some of you know you've probably driven past them many times, 174 00:10:06,800 --> 00:10:10,160 Speaker 1: a fab a fabrication facility for these chips, and are 175 00:10:10,200 --> 00:10:11,680 Speaker 1: expanding that rapidly over time. 176 00:10:11,720 --> 00:10:13,600 Speaker 2: We need this, we want this. This is a good thing. 177 00:10:14,280 --> 00:10:18,120 Speaker 1: Trombalzo spoke about tariffs in this sit down. This is 178 00:10:18,120 --> 00:10:19,000 Speaker 1: cut twenty nine. 179 00:10:19,360 --> 00:10:21,680 Speaker 3: Let's hear what he said, well, waiting for a decision. 180 00:10:21,760 --> 00:10:23,760 Speaker 3: We hope that's going to be good, but it's not. 181 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:27,200 Speaker 3: We'll do We always find ways, you know, we find ways. 182 00:10:27,240 --> 00:10:30,760 Speaker 3: But we've done things that nobody thought were possible, and 183 00:10:30,840 --> 00:10:34,760 Speaker 3: we're taking intriasions and trillions of dollars. Tariffs have been frankly, 184 00:10:34,800 --> 00:10:37,480 Speaker 3: the best thing that's ever happened to our country. They've 185 00:10:37,480 --> 00:10:40,040 Speaker 3: always been used against us, and we never had people 186 00:10:40,080 --> 00:10:43,079 Speaker 3: that were smart enough to use them in the opposite direction. 187 00:10:43,400 --> 00:10:46,920 Speaker 3: But there you do, and we have taken in trillions 188 00:10:46,920 --> 00:10:51,319 Speaker 3: of dollars and it's been absolutely amazing. We're going to 189 00:10:51,400 --> 00:10:55,520 Speaker 3: be doing a dividend to the people low and middle income, 190 00:10:55,600 --> 00:10:58,720 Speaker 3: moderate income people of ITA least two thousand dollars. In 191 00:10:58,760 --> 00:11:01,920 Speaker 3: addition to that will be paid down debt very substantially. 192 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:03,640 Speaker 3: It's kind of money we're taking in. 193 00:11:05,320 --> 00:11:09,360 Speaker 1: Paying down debt, giving the American people a dividend who 194 00:11:09,440 --> 00:11:11,679 Speaker 1: could really people who could really use it. These are 195 00:11:11,720 --> 00:11:14,400 Speaker 1: things that you would think the media would be in 196 00:11:14,440 --> 00:11:19,640 Speaker 1: favor of, but no, instead you get ABC News attacking 197 00:11:19,840 --> 00:11:24,480 Speaker 1: Trump and Mohammad BN Salomon for nine to eleven and Kashogi. 198 00:11:24,720 --> 00:11:26,800 Speaker 1: Do you think that if it were a Democrat administration. 199 00:11:26,960 --> 00:11:30,760 Speaker 1: That's scene in the White House yesterday whatever. Of course not, 200 00:11:31,320 --> 00:11:35,480 Speaker 1: of course not. The whole existence of the anti Trump 201 00:11:35,520 --> 00:11:40,120 Speaker 1: media has really just now for years, well maybe all along, 202 00:11:40,280 --> 00:11:44,400 Speaker 1: but particularly in recent years in this administration, it just 203 00:11:44,480 --> 00:11:49,240 Speaker 1: revolves around cheap shots, just an endless stream of cheap 204 00:11:49,280 --> 00:11:52,599 Speaker 1: shots against Trump. And that's why when he gets a 205 00:11:52,640 --> 00:11:57,640 Speaker 1: little bit, a little bit terse a little bit salty 206 00:11:57,679 --> 00:12:00,240 Speaker 1: in response, I think it's the right thing to do. 207 00:12:00,600 --> 00:12:02,360 Speaker 1: But he's just gonna sit there and get abused by 208 00:12:02,360 --> 00:12:04,760 Speaker 1: people in bad faith. I'm a journalist, so I'm attacking 209 00:12:04,840 --> 00:12:07,400 Speaker 1: and showing no respect whatsoever to the President of the 210 00:12:07,480 --> 00:12:08,040 Speaker 1: United States. 211 00:12:08,120 --> 00:12:10,079 Speaker 2: No, sorry, that's not gonna fly. 212 00:12:10,880 --> 00:12:11,000 Speaker 6: Ah. 213 00:12:11,080 --> 00:12:12,959 Speaker 1: Look, there are some family get togethers this time of 214 00:12:13,040 --> 00:12:15,600 Speaker 1: year that really feel like a family reunion, lots of laughter, 215 00:12:15,720 --> 00:12:20,800 Speaker 1: storytelling and picture sharing. Someone's super organized. They'll put together 216 00:12:20,920 --> 00:12:22,880 Speaker 1: a bunch of videos from back in the day, rewatch 217 00:12:22,920 --> 00:12:25,560 Speaker 1: and relive some great memories from the past. That's where 218 00:12:25,559 --> 00:12:28,240 Speaker 1: a legacy box is super helpful. In fact, my friends 219 00:12:28,679 --> 00:12:31,200 Speaker 1: I have here, I'm gonna bring it over to my 220 00:12:31,640 --> 00:12:34,080 Speaker 1: I'm picking up with my feets, I'm doing radio. I 221 00:12:34,200 --> 00:12:38,040 Speaker 1: have my legacy box in my hands right here, let's 222 00:12:38,080 --> 00:12:38,960 Speaker 1: get it right in the shot. 223 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:39,560 Speaker 2: There we go. 224 00:12:39,760 --> 00:12:41,520 Speaker 1: I've got my legacy box because you know what, I 225 00:12:41,600 --> 00:12:43,719 Speaker 1: found some old things that I could get transferred into 226 00:12:43,760 --> 00:12:45,840 Speaker 1: new media. And it's a fun thing to do this 227 00:12:45,920 --> 00:12:48,880 Speaker 1: time of year, reliving these memories. Look, it's a box, 228 00:12:48,880 --> 00:12:49,760 Speaker 1: it's his legacy box. 229 00:12:49,800 --> 00:12:50,640 Speaker 2: You put your old. 230 00:12:50,520 --> 00:12:55,319 Speaker 1: Tapes, photos, film, uh, you know whatever, the old media got, 231 00:12:55,559 --> 00:12:58,320 Speaker 1: laser discs, all that stuff. You put it in there 232 00:12:58,440 --> 00:13:00,520 Speaker 1: and you send it in VHS t it's really their 233 00:13:00,520 --> 00:13:03,960 Speaker 1: specialty and they send it back to you all digitized. 234 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:06,400 Speaker 1: They do this with care. They're amazing. It's a great company. 235 00:13:06,440 --> 00:13:09,520 Speaker 1: The founders are fantastic Americans. It's a really really good 236 00:13:09,600 --> 00:13:14,000 Speaker 1: holiday gift. VHS, VHSE, video cassettes, high eight film reels, 237 00:13:14,040 --> 00:13:17,400 Speaker 1: and twelve other types of analog media. All right now, 238 00:13:17,440 --> 00:13:20,920 Speaker 1: my friends, part of Legacy Boxes Black Friday sale. Digitize 239 00:13:20,960 --> 00:13:23,880 Speaker 1: your memories for just nine dollars per item. This nine 240 00:13:23,920 --> 00:13:27,080 Speaker 1: dollars per tapeal will not last long. At the Legacy 241 00:13:27,080 --> 00:13:29,719 Speaker 1: box dot com slash buck for early access to our 242 00:13:29,760 --> 00:13:33,559 Speaker 1: best deal of the year. That's legacybox dot com slash buck. 243 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:36,640 Speaker 1: Legacy box dot com slash buck. 244 00:13:37,600 --> 00:13:41,000 Speaker 7: You don't know what's you don't know right, but you 245 00:13:41,080 --> 00:13:45,600 Speaker 7: could on the Sunday hang with playing Buck podcast, welcome. 246 00:13:45,240 --> 00:13:49,480 Speaker 1: Back in here to play and Buck uh. So we're 247 00:13:49,480 --> 00:13:52,800 Speaker 1: talking about the Saudi investment in the US, this big meeting, 248 00:13:53,520 --> 00:13:58,280 Speaker 1: and again this is international diplomacy, but with a very 249 00:13:58,400 --> 00:14:02,480 Speaker 1: clear focus on what's best for the American people, what 250 00:14:02,600 --> 00:14:05,040 Speaker 1: will benefit the American people. This isn't the you know, 251 00:14:05,080 --> 00:14:08,720 Speaker 1: the usual thing when Democrats talk about the world stage. 252 00:14:08,840 --> 00:14:12,040 Speaker 1: It's like human rights and feeling good about ourselves and 253 00:14:12,120 --> 00:14:13,880 Speaker 1: climate change and consensus. 254 00:14:13,880 --> 00:14:14,840 Speaker 2: And Trump's like, look. 255 00:14:14,720 --> 00:14:18,080 Speaker 1: Let's get foreign partners that we're gonna work with. 256 00:14:18,120 --> 00:14:19,000 Speaker 2: Every administration. 257 00:14:19,080 --> 00:14:22,080 Speaker 1: Anyone who tells you that the Democrats would shun Saudi 258 00:14:22,080 --> 00:14:25,400 Speaker 1: Arabia and not is a moron. Would not happen. It 259 00:14:25,400 --> 00:14:29,280 Speaker 1: didn't happen under Biden. It's not going to happen. It's 260 00:14:29,320 --> 00:14:32,800 Speaker 1: never it has never happened in the modern history of 261 00:14:32,840 --> 00:14:36,480 Speaker 1: the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Because they're too they matter 262 00:14:36,520 --> 00:14:40,280 Speaker 1: too much, so we cannot like them. But that doesn't 263 00:14:40,280 --> 00:14:43,080 Speaker 1: mean we can ignore them. And I think that's a 264 00:14:43,120 --> 00:14:45,520 Speaker 1: bit of a lesson that everybody's learned here who didn't 265 00:14:45,520 --> 00:14:48,640 Speaker 1: see it coming with Russia too. You can try to 266 00:14:49,080 --> 00:14:51,600 Speaker 1: pressure them, but you cannot box them in and cut 267 00:14:51,640 --> 00:14:54,080 Speaker 1: them off from the global financial system and destroy the ruble. 268 00:14:54,120 --> 00:14:57,880 Speaker 1: It didn't happen at all. But here is Treasury Secretary 269 00:14:57,920 --> 00:15:02,800 Speaker 1: Scott bessn't talk about because remember, there's the investment, that's 270 00:15:02,960 --> 00:15:06,080 Speaker 1: the saudis we're making here in the US, which is 271 00:15:06,400 --> 00:15:10,760 Speaker 1: in companies, in technology and things that can benefit we, 272 00:15:10,960 --> 00:15:15,760 Speaker 1: the American people. There's also the buying of this stuff here, right, 273 00:15:15,840 --> 00:15:18,200 Speaker 1: So they're investing here in factories and things like that, 274 00:15:18,240 --> 00:15:21,560 Speaker 1: but they're also going to buy our products. And here's 275 00:15:21,600 --> 00:15:24,080 Speaker 1: the Treasure Secretary. This is Secretary, this is cut thirteen. 276 00:15:24,680 --> 00:15:27,160 Speaker 5: If you are another country in the world, what do 277 00:15:27,200 --> 00:15:29,960 Speaker 5: you look to the US for? What are the sources 278 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:32,800 Speaker 5: of American power? And that's what we saw on display 279 00:15:32,840 --> 00:15:35,920 Speaker 5: here today. First there's a military, so Soundings are going 280 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:39,680 Speaker 5: to be buying F thirty five, the coveted by everyone 281 00:15:39,720 --> 00:15:42,240 Speaker 5: one around the world. Proof that they are a valuable 282 00:15:42,280 --> 00:15:47,200 Speaker 5: ally too, our great economy and the reserve currency status. 283 00:15:46,800 --> 00:15:47,320 Speaker 2: Of the dollar. 284 00:15:47,720 --> 00:15:51,320 Speaker 5: So they are willing to put in a trillion dollars 285 00:15:51,360 --> 00:15:55,400 Speaker 5: of investment into their portfolio that they already have here. 286 00:15:55,560 --> 00:15:57,960 Speaker 5: The US is a premier destination. 287 00:15:57,600 --> 00:15:58,240 Speaker 2: In the world. 288 00:15:58,560 --> 00:16:02,840 Speaker 5: And then three, a technology and innovation economy. Again, they 289 00:16:02,880 --> 00:16:06,240 Speaker 5: want to invest in that, they want to buy our chips. 290 00:16:07,720 --> 00:16:13,640 Speaker 1: Yes, they want to have more productive and lucrative for 291 00:16:13,760 --> 00:16:19,840 Speaker 1: American companies, businesses, individuals, relationships with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. 292 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:24,120 Speaker 1: And this is a good thing. This is something that 293 00:16:24,200 --> 00:16:26,800 Speaker 1: we will benefit all of us. I will tell you this. 294 00:16:27,400 --> 00:16:30,800 Speaker 1: The hypocrisy of the people who pretend to care about 295 00:16:30,880 --> 00:16:33,880 Speaker 1: human rights only based upon whoever is the human rights 296 00:16:33,880 --> 00:16:38,320 Speaker 1: I should say, of foreign nations only when there's a 297 00:16:38,360 --> 00:16:42,600 Speaker 1: Republican in the White House. It's just so tiresome. It's 298 00:16:42,640 --> 00:16:43,240 Speaker 1: so tiresome. 299 00:16:43,440 --> 00:16:44,600 Speaker 2: What are we really going to do. 300 00:16:44,840 --> 00:16:47,320 Speaker 1: We're not going to talk to the Saudis, We're not 301 00:16:47,360 --> 00:16:51,400 Speaker 1: going to deal with China. We're not going to, you know, 302 00:16:51,480 --> 00:16:55,280 Speaker 1: sit down with regimes that do things that we don't 303 00:16:55,400 --> 00:16:57,800 Speaker 1: like and that we don't agree with. But we don't 304 00:16:57,800 --> 00:16:59,920 Speaker 1: get to call the shots for everybody all over the world. 305 00:17:00,520 --> 00:17:04,600 Speaker 1: And it would be a huge misstep for the Trump 306 00:17:04,640 --> 00:17:11,520 Speaker 1: administration to decide that, in some uh, you know, feat 307 00:17:11,560 --> 00:17:15,520 Speaker 1: of self righteousness or sanctimony, we say we're not gonna do. 308 00:17:15,680 --> 00:17:19,080 Speaker 1: We're not gonna deal with the Saudis because they they, 309 00:17:19,240 --> 00:17:24,119 Speaker 1: you know, assassinated a foreign journalist and years ago, and 310 00:17:24,160 --> 00:17:27,199 Speaker 1: so now the American people are We're like, we're all 311 00:17:27,200 --> 00:17:27,919 Speaker 1: supposed to suffer. 312 00:17:28,119 --> 00:17:29,359 Speaker 2: What do they want us to do? 313 00:17:30,160 --> 00:17:30,359 Speaker 8: You know? 314 00:17:30,480 --> 00:17:32,679 Speaker 1: I always want to ask this of the critics, and 315 00:17:32,680 --> 00:17:34,440 Speaker 1: they're just so cynical because it's only when there's a 316 00:17:34,480 --> 00:17:37,280 Speaker 1: Republican It's like figuring out the world is a dangerous place. 317 00:17:37,560 --> 00:17:39,720 Speaker 1: There are people who play rough that we have. 318 00:17:39,720 --> 00:17:40,600 Speaker 2: To still deal with. 319 00:17:41,160 --> 00:17:44,040 Speaker 1: But they only figure this out when Donald Trump is 320 00:17:44,040 --> 00:17:46,600 Speaker 1: in office. This is not something I mean when when 321 00:17:46,680 --> 00:17:50,880 Speaker 1: doddering fool Joe Biden is stumbling around all of a sudden, 322 00:17:50,920 --> 00:17:55,400 Speaker 1: you know, oh, real politique and Kissinger and whatever. Interesting 323 00:17:55,400 --> 00:17:59,240 Speaker 1: how that happens. Christmas Eve is five weeks from today. Wow, 324 00:17:59,320 --> 00:18:01,800 Speaker 1: that's actually crazy easy to say out loud. Really important 325 00:18:01,840 --> 00:18:03,520 Speaker 1: for all of you to think about what you're gonna 326 00:18:03,520 --> 00:18:06,240 Speaker 1: get for those holiday shoppers or holiday gifts. Rather so 327 00:18:06,320 --> 00:18:08,679 Speaker 1: the shoppers in this audience, I want to help you 328 00:18:08,760 --> 00:18:11,400 Speaker 1: right now. Don't wait in line at the last minute 329 00:18:11,440 --> 00:18:14,800 Speaker 1: Christmas Eve and feel like it's all stressful. Get your 330 00:18:14,880 --> 00:18:18,639 Speaker 1: Christmas shopping done with Cozyarth, go to cozyearth dot com. 331 00:18:18,720 --> 00:18:22,000 Speaker 1: Cozyearth products, including their sheets, blankets, clothing, and household items 332 00:18:22,040 --> 00:18:23,760 Speaker 1: are hands down winners. 333 00:18:23,960 --> 00:18:26,720 Speaker 2: I love cozier stuff. I'm sleeping on Cozy Earth. 334 00:18:26,560 --> 00:18:31,679 Speaker 1: Sheets, their pillowcases, their pillows amazing. The bubble cuddle blanket 335 00:18:31,720 --> 00:18:33,960 Speaker 1: I told you my mom loved it so much that 336 00:18:34,040 --> 00:18:36,520 Speaker 1: my dad was like, I want one too, so I 337 00:18:36,560 --> 00:18:40,080 Speaker 1: had to get him a more masculine color. Cozy Earth 338 00:18:40,080 --> 00:18:43,639 Speaker 1: sheets are amazing. The blankets are incredible. The pajamas. Black 339 00:18:43,680 --> 00:18:46,080 Speaker 1: Friday has come early at cozyearth dot com. Use my 340 00:18:46,160 --> 00:18:49,480 Speaker 1: name buck as your promo code up to forty percent 341 00:18:49,520 --> 00:18:53,040 Speaker 1: off site wide cozyearth dot com. Go get your Christmas 342 00:18:53,040 --> 00:18:56,280 Speaker 1: shopping gun today promo code Buck. Let's talk about what's 343 00:18:56,280 --> 00:19:01,280 Speaker 1: going on in North Carolina. Our guest here Michael, running 344 00:19:01,320 --> 00:19:06,480 Speaker 1: for a critical Senate seat there. Michael appreciates you joining 345 00:19:06,560 --> 00:19:09,240 Speaker 1: us here calling in. Tell us what has been going 346 00:19:09,280 --> 00:19:14,520 Speaker 1: on with your state when it comes to illegal immigration enforcement. 347 00:19:14,640 --> 00:19:18,320 Speaker 1: There's been some very interesting exchanges I'm seeing online. 348 00:19:19,960 --> 00:19:22,560 Speaker 8: Yeah. Well, the biggest thing to kind of table set 349 00:19:22,600 --> 00:19:25,560 Speaker 8: for all of your listeners is the fact that my opponent, 350 00:19:25,960 --> 00:19:28,240 Speaker 8: Roy Cooper, when he was the governor of North Carolina 351 00:19:28,359 --> 00:19:33,640 Speaker 8: vetoed legislation which would have forced sheriffs to honor ICE 352 00:19:33,680 --> 00:19:37,480 Speaker 8: detainers and move violent criminal illegal aliens out of the state. 353 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:41,439 Speaker 8: And so now we have a system where we have 354 00:19:41,520 --> 00:19:44,240 Speaker 8: a revolving door that's putting these criminals back on the street. 355 00:19:44,560 --> 00:19:47,480 Speaker 8: They are not being deported, and ICE has come in 356 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:50,520 Speaker 8: to make a number of arrests and help clean up 357 00:19:50,560 --> 00:19:53,600 Speaker 8: the mess that Roy Cooper has created in North Carolina. 358 00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:56,760 Speaker 1: People who are trying to get a sense of the 359 00:19:56,840 --> 00:19:59,679 Speaker 1: scale of the illegal immigration issue. I don't know if 360 00:19:59,720 --> 00:20:02,680 Speaker 1: you say all this it was being shared broadly online. 361 00:20:04,000 --> 00:20:08,560 Speaker 1: This number that in the Charlotte Public School system earlier 362 00:20:08,640 --> 00:20:11,879 Speaker 1: this week there were twenty one thousand. Now apparently the 363 00:20:11,960 --> 00:20:17,040 Speaker 1: CMS data is not finalized yet, but basically twenty one 364 00:20:17,080 --> 00:20:21,000 Speaker 1: thousand students missed school and just the Charlotte Public School 365 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:23,399 Speaker 1: District on Monday, which they say is fifteen percent. 366 00:20:23,440 --> 00:20:25,680 Speaker 2: I mean, this is this is kind of stunning. 367 00:20:25,720 --> 00:20:28,040 Speaker 1: I think that that many kids are affected by because 368 00:20:28,040 --> 00:20:29,359 Speaker 1: they have a legal immigrant parents. 369 00:20:29,800 --> 00:20:31,840 Speaker 2: What's going on here? What can you tell us about this? 370 00:20:32,760 --> 00:20:35,040 Speaker 8: Well, I think it's stunning that when you look at 371 00:20:35,119 --> 00:20:39,320 Speaker 8: the you know, millions of illegal immigrants that came across 372 00:20:39,320 --> 00:20:44,480 Speaker 8: the border. During Joe Biden's administration, ten fifteen million immigrants 373 00:20:44,480 --> 00:20:48,080 Speaker 8: that came across, hundreds of thousands of them were known 374 00:20:48,119 --> 00:20:52,760 Speaker 8: criminals who had records, and they still were released into 375 00:20:53,119 --> 00:20:55,399 Speaker 8: you know, states like North Carolina. The fact is that 376 00:20:55,720 --> 00:20:58,320 Speaker 8: North Carolina should not be a border state, but we 377 00:20:58,359 --> 00:21:00,920 Speaker 8: are a border state. And so you know, when we 378 00:21:00,960 --> 00:21:04,399 Speaker 8: think about having ICE come in and be able to 379 00:21:04,440 --> 00:21:06,480 Speaker 8: take these people off the street, and they're saying, you know, 380 00:21:06,520 --> 00:21:10,479 Speaker 8: there've been over two hundred plus arrests so far. You know, 381 00:21:10,520 --> 00:21:14,120 Speaker 8: these are people who've been arrested who have criminal records, 382 00:21:14,160 --> 00:21:18,320 Speaker 8: that people who are wanted for criminal records and need 383 00:21:18,359 --> 00:21:22,119 Speaker 8: to be deported. It is absolutely a dereliction of duty 384 00:21:22,760 --> 00:21:26,159 Speaker 8: for you know, the sheriff of Mecklenburg County, sheriffs of 385 00:21:26,440 --> 00:21:29,480 Speaker 8: of Wake County, which is Raleigh, or you know, Durham 386 00:21:29,520 --> 00:21:33,399 Speaker 8: County to not honor these ICE detainers. And it was 387 00:21:33,400 --> 00:21:36,120 Speaker 8: a dereliction of duty for Roy Cooper to veto legislation. 388 00:21:36,160 --> 00:21:38,679 Speaker 8: Would it have forced them to be able to do that? 389 00:21:39,960 --> 00:21:44,160 Speaker 1: What kind of drain on the budget has it been 390 00:21:44,280 --> 00:21:47,640 Speaker 1: for the State of North Carolina to have And can 391 00:21:47,640 --> 00:21:49,720 Speaker 1: you give us a sense there are some places we 392 00:21:49,760 --> 00:21:52,480 Speaker 1: think about illegal immigration a lot, right you think about 393 00:21:52,600 --> 00:21:56,520 Speaker 1: New York City and the state of California, Texas, you know, 394 00:21:56,560 --> 00:22:00,560 Speaker 1: places along the border the Carolinas don't necessarily come to 395 00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:03,000 Speaker 1: mind right away. But can you give some sense of 396 00:22:03,040 --> 00:22:06,320 Speaker 1: the of the scale and and also the cost for 397 00:22:06,560 --> 00:22:10,359 Speaker 1: the people of your state about illegal immigration, uh and 398 00:22:10,520 --> 00:22:12,159 Speaker 1: and how much of an issue it has become. 399 00:22:13,200 --> 00:22:15,120 Speaker 8: Well, it's a huge issue, you know when you talk 400 00:22:15,160 --> 00:22:18,960 Speaker 8: about uh, you know, the federal programs in the state 401 00:22:19,040 --> 00:22:21,639 Speaker 8: programs to be able to help our needy and the 402 00:22:21,640 --> 00:22:24,359 Speaker 8: fact that we have you know, millions of people around 403 00:22:24,359 --> 00:22:28,440 Speaker 8: the country illegal aliens that were on medicaid. The fact 404 00:22:28,440 --> 00:22:31,080 Speaker 8: that we actually had to pass legislation as part of 405 00:22:31,119 --> 00:22:34,159 Speaker 8: the One Big Beautiful Bill to take illegal aliens and 406 00:22:34,200 --> 00:22:37,400 Speaker 8: say that they cannot be on medicaid, and the fact 407 00:22:37,400 --> 00:22:40,320 Speaker 8: that the Democrats were fighting extremely hard to try and 408 00:22:40,400 --> 00:22:43,760 Speaker 8: put you know, those provisions back into place. When we 409 00:22:43,800 --> 00:22:45,960 Speaker 8: look at at food stamps, we look at at the 410 00:22:45,960 --> 00:22:49,040 Speaker 8: which programs, we look at you know, schools, and and 411 00:22:49,240 --> 00:22:51,720 Speaker 8: all of the other costs that are out there. The 412 00:22:52,359 --> 00:22:58,680 Speaker 8: societal costs for services for illegal aliens is absolutely stupefying, 413 00:22:59,040 --> 00:23:03,760 Speaker 8: and it is it is remarkable that that Democrats in 414 00:23:03,800 --> 00:23:07,560 Speaker 8: North Carolina and around the country, including Roy Cooper, want 415 00:23:07,600 --> 00:23:10,360 Speaker 8: to fight harder for illegal aliens than they do their 416 00:23:10,359 --> 00:23:11,560 Speaker 8: own constituents. 417 00:23:12,200 --> 00:23:14,840 Speaker 1: Speaking to Michael Watley, former R and C chair and 418 00:23:15,119 --> 00:23:20,840 Speaker 1: candidate for Senate in North Carolina, I know it's technically 419 00:23:20,880 --> 00:23:26,080 Speaker 1: early in that cycle, Michael, but the Republican Party has 420 00:23:26,160 --> 00:23:30,800 Speaker 1: already been, you know, moving forward with your candidacy, trying 421 00:23:30,840 --> 00:23:33,200 Speaker 1: to trying to back things up, back you up in 422 00:23:33,280 --> 00:23:36,800 Speaker 1: this because I think they recognize, Man, the Democrats, what 423 00:23:36,880 --> 00:23:38,960 Speaker 1: kind of money are they going to put behind Roy 424 00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:41,080 Speaker 1: Cooper to try to get this Senate see. 425 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:44,080 Speaker 8: Well, it's going to be the most expensive Senate race 426 00:23:44,119 --> 00:23:47,040 Speaker 8: in the history of the country. We've seen estimates that 427 00:23:47,080 --> 00:23:49,040 Speaker 8: this could be as high as six hundred to eight 428 00:23:49,119 --> 00:23:52,440 Speaker 8: hundred million dollars that will be spent in North Carolina. 429 00:23:52,520 --> 00:23:55,679 Speaker 8: We know that Democrats are going to pour hundreds of 430 00:23:55,760 --> 00:23:58,840 Speaker 8: millions of dollars into the race. It's it's really they're 431 00:23:58,960 --> 00:24:01,840 Speaker 8: they're one of two pick up opportunities that they have 432 00:24:02,040 --> 00:24:05,320 Speaker 8: all around the country, Susan Collins up in Maine being 433 00:24:05,359 --> 00:24:08,000 Speaker 8: the other one. And the fact is we're going to 434 00:24:08,080 --> 00:24:10,320 Speaker 8: have the support of President Trump. We're going to have 435 00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:12,840 Speaker 8: the support of the grassroots. We're going to have the support, 436 00:24:13,560 --> 00:24:16,320 Speaker 8: you know, from people all across North Carolina to be 437 00:24:16,359 --> 00:24:17,919 Speaker 8: able to go toe to toe with that out of 438 00:24:17,960 --> 00:24:21,560 Speaker 8: state money. But you know, we we look at, you know, 439 00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:23,600 Speaker 8: the amount of money that Roy Cooper is going to 440 00:24:23,600 --> 00:24:25,639 Speaker 8: be able to bring in from around the country, and 441 00:24:25,680 --> 00:24:28,840 Speaker 8: it's not daunting because as we saw in the last 442 00:24:28,880 --> 00:24:32,919 Speaker 8: election cycled, President Trump got outspent by a billion dollars. 443 00:24:33,040 --> 00:24:35,600 Speaker 8: Kamala Harris, you know, raised and spent you know, two 444 00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:38,720 Speaker 8: point five billion dollars, but she had a terrible message. 445 00:24:38,800 --> 00:24:42,600 Speaker 8: And you know, good policy is good politics. So we're 446 00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:46,480 Speaker 8: going to win this race even if we're outspent, because 447 00:24:46,480 --> 00:24:49,119 Speaker 8: we're going to be focused on creating jobs and raising wages. 448 00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:51,560 Speaker 8: We're going to be focused on keeping our kids in 449 00:24:51,600 --> 00:24:55,240 Speaker 8: our community safe, and obviously this current conversation is a 450 00:24:55,280 --> 00:24:57,520 Speaker 8: big part of that. And we're also going to focus 451 00:24:57,560 --> 00:25:00,520 Speaker 8: on making sure that our men and women in uniform 452 00:25:00,800 --> 00:25:03,399 Speaker 8: have what they need to protect our interests in our 453 00:25:03,440 --> 00:25:04,440 Speaker 8: allies around the world. 454 00:25:05,560 --> 00:25:09,359 Speaker 1: I wanted to let you react to Josh Stein, the 455 00:25:09,440 --> 00:25:13,760 Speaker 1: Governor of North Carolina. Here, Michael, this has cut seventeen 456 00:25:13,840 --> 00:25:19,119 Speaker 1: on our sheet team, he's saying, well, I'll let everybody 457 00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:20,600 Speaker 1: hear what he's saying, Play seventeen. 458 00:25:20,840 --> 00:25:24,720 Speaker 4: We've seen mass heavily armed agents and paramilitary garb driving 459 00:25:24,800 --> 00:25:28,800 Speaker 4: unmarked cars, targeting American citizens based on their skin color, 460 00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:32,439 Speaker 4: racially profiling and picking up random people in parking lots 461 00:25:32,480 --> 00:25:36,400 Speaker 4: and off of our sidewalks, going after landscapers, simply decorating 462 00:25:36,440 --> 00:25:39,800 Speaker 4: a Christmas tree in someone's front yard, and entering churches 463 00:25:39,840 --> 00:25:43,440 Speaker 4: and stores to grab people. This is not making us safer. 464 00:25:43,520 --> 00:25:47,439 Speaker 4: It's stoking fear and dividing our community. We are a 465 00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:50,879 Speaker 4: nation of immigrants, and our state and this country is 466 00:25:50,920 --> 00:25:55,359 Speaker 4: stronger because of our immigrant communities. Unfortunately, our immigration system 467 00:25:55,440 --> 00:25:58,840 Speaker 4: is broken, but rather than fix it, the federal government 468 00:25:58,880 --> 00:26:00,680 Speaker 4: continues to play with it. 469 00:26:02,160 --> 00:26:06,199 Speaker 1: So Governor Governor Stein in North Carolina, Michael, does he 470 00:26:06,280 --> 00:26:09,480 Speaker 1: get all of his talking points from MSNBC? 471 00:26:09,680 --> 00:26:10,440 Speaker 2: How does that work? 472 00:26:11,359 --> 00:26:14,200 Speaker 8: Yeah? Absolutely? I mean that is lock stock and Barrow, 473 00:26:14,680 --> 00:26:19,680 Speaker 8: the messaging platform from the far left, the progressive radical left. 474 00:26:19,960 --> 00:26:23,080 Speaker 8: The fact is, if Roy Cooper had signed that legislation 475 00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:26,960 Speaker 8: and sheriff had honored their ice detainers, then we probably 476 00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:30,600 Speaker 8: would not need to have President Trump sending his administration 477 00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:33,480 Speaker 8: down here and taking these people off of the streets. 478 00:26:33,720 --> 00:26:36,760 Speaker 8: Nobody can dispute the fact that the hundreds of arrests 479 00:26:36,760 --> 00:26:40,280 Speaker 8: that have been made are people who have criminal records 480 00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:42,679 Speaker 8: and should not be walking the streets, whether it's in 481 00:26:42,760 --> 00:26:46,320 Speaker 8: Charlotte or Raleigh or anywhere else in North Carolina. And 482 00:26:46,359 --> 00:26:49,240 Speaker 8: the fact is that there are thousands of people who 483 00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:51,560 Speaker 8: are in North Carolina jails right now that are not 484 00:26:51,680 --> 00:26:55,119 Speaker 8: being turned over to Ice when they are when they 485 00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:58,919 Speaker 8: are illegal aliens. Is a huge problem. That that is 486 00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:01,560 Speaker 8: the fault of of Roy Cooper, is a total failure 487 00:27:01,560 --> 00:27:02,760 Speaker 8: of leadership on his part. 488 00:27:03,640 --> 00:27:05,800 Speaker 1: Now, Roy Cooper, your opponent in this Senate race, is 489 00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:09,399 Speaker 1: going to be trying to convince everybody that you know, 490 00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:13,560 Speaker 1: he's a pragmatic Democrat, one of the reasonable Democrats. 491 00:27:13,640 --> 00:27:13,800 Speaker 3: Right. 492 00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:17,080 Speaker 1: I mean, we're seeing right now in real time what 493 00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:20,520 Speaker 1: that actually means on say, illegal immigration and the enforcement 494 00:27:20,960 --> 00:27:24,400 Speaker 1: underway from the Trump administration. Democrats are expected to pretend 495 00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:27,679 Speaker 1: that this is like the East German Stazi picking up 496 00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:29,120 Speaker 1: innocent people off the streets. 497 00:27:29,160 --> 00:27:29,560 Speaker 2: Whatever. 498 00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:34,760 Speaker 1: Where are some other key areas of difference between what 499 00:27:34,840 --> 00:27:38,480 Speaker 1: you would bring to the United States Senate versus Roy Cooper. 500 00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:40,920 Speaker 1: Just so we have a huge audience all across North Carolina, 501 00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:43,960 Speaker 1: I want them to hear from you how you two 502 00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:47,000 Speaker 1: guys would be markedly different and what that would mean 503 00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:48,040 Speaker 1: in the United States Senate. 504 00:27:49,040 --> 00:27:51,080 Speaker 8: Well, we certainly could talk about the fact that he 505 00:27:51,320 --> 00:27:55,760 Speaker 8: vetoed six different bills with tax cuts, bounce budgets, police 506 00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:58,520 Speaker 8: pay raises, and teacher pay raises, and we can talk 507 00:27:58,520 --> 00:28:01,639 Speaker 8: about the legislation that he that would have kept boys 508 00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:04,600 Speaker 8: out of girls sports and men out of women's locker rooms. 509 00:28:04,920 --> 00:28:07,520 Speaker 8: But I think that probably the most important thing that 510 00:28:07,560 --> 00:28:09,919 Speaker 8: we're going to need to talk about is keeping our 511 00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:13,199 Speaker 8: kids in our communities safe. And Roy Cooper, when he 512 00:28:13,320 --> 00:28:16,359 Speaker 8: was the governor in twenty twenty, when we had Antifa 513 00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:19,800 Speaker 8: and BLM riding all across North Carolina, was out there 514 00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:23,720 Speaker 8: marching with them in protest, and also signed an executive 515 00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:28,240 Speaker 8: order that basically created cashless bail and pre trial release 516 00:28:28,359 --> 00:28:31,600 Speaker 8: in North Carolina, created a revolving door for all of 517 00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:35,800 Speaker 8: our criminals and led to violent crime spikes in all 518 00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:39,520 Speaker 8: major North Carolina cities. And that that is the reason 519 00:28:39,920 --> 00:28:42,440 Speaker 8: why we had to Rena Zeroska, a beautiful young lady 520 00:28:42,920 --> 00:28:46,440 Speaker 8: who was murdered in Charlotte has kind of been held 521 00:28:46,560 --> 00:28:50,880 Speaker 8: up as the most vivid example where her murderer had 522 00:28:50,920 --> 00:28:54,520 Speaker 8: been arrested fourteen different times and released under Roy Cooper's 523 00:28:54,520 --> 00:28:57,760 Speaker 8: soft on crime policies. That we need to keep our 524 00:28:57,800 --> 00:29:00,000 Speaker 8: kids in our community safe. That is the number one 525 00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:04,080 Speaker 8: function for any government, whether it's state, local, or federal, 526 00:29:04,720 --> 00:29:09,240 Speaker 8: and we need, ultimately to have policies that are going 527 00:29:09,280 --> 00:29:11,800 Speaker 8: to be set at the federal level to keep our 528 00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:13,920 Speaker 8: kids in the community safe. And we cannot trust Roy 529 00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:16,080 Speaker 8: Cooper with it. But at the end of the day, 530 00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:18,240 Speaker 8: this is going to come down to a vote in 531 00:29:18,280 --> 00:29:21,120 Speaker 8: the Senate and whether we're going to have somebody who 532 00:29:21,160 --> 00:29:23,920 Speaker 8: will be an ally for President Trump and stand up 533 00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:27,000 Speaker 8: for the conservative values of North Carolina, or are we 534 00:29:27,080 --> 00:29:30,360 Speaker 8: going to have a radical progressive, a card carrying member 535 00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:33,120 Speaker 8: of the woke mob like Roy Cooper. And ultimately, at 536 00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:35,120 Speaker 8: the end of the day, North Carolina is going to 537 00:29:35,160 --> 00:29:37,960 Speaker 8: side with North Carolina values. They do not want a 538 00:29:37,960 --> 00:29:42,200 Speaker 8: candidate who's going to fight every day harder for criminals 539 00:29:42,240 --> 00:29:45,000 Speaker 8: and illegal aliens than he is his own constituents. 540 00:29:45,360 --> 00:29:47,520 Speaker 1: Well, Michael, make sure that you keep in touch with 541 00:29:47,600 --> 00:29:49,640 Speaker 1: us here and our team, so that as you get 542 00:29:49,920 --> 00:29:52,720 Speaker 1: deeper into this race and you have I'm sure a 543 00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:55,520 Speaker 1: debate that will happen with Roy Cooper, and we want 544 00:29:55,560 --> 00:29:57,480 Speaker 1: to get the word out and continue to talk about 545 00:29:57,480 --> 00:30:00,000 Speaker 1: this one because as you point out, it's North Carolina 546 00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:03,680 Speaker 1: in Maine that are the big targets for Democrat pickups. 547 00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:05,840 Speaker 1: So hundreds of millions of dollars going to be spent 548 00:30:05,880 --> 00:30:07,280 Speaker 1: against you. A lot of it's going to come from 549 00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:12,000 Speaker 1: Malibu and Manhattan. But anyway, as you already know, where 550 00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:14,560 Speaker 1: can people go to follow what you're doing, help out 551 00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:15,000 Speaker 1: pitch in. 552 00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:19,520 Speaker 8: Excellent. Michael Wattley dot com is the website and they 553 00:30:19,560 --> 00:30:22,640 Speaker 8: can follow me on xt at Wattley NC. 554 00:30:24,360 --> 00:30:26,719 Speaker 1: Bring home the w for us. Michael, thanks for joining us. 555 00:30:26,720 --> 00:30:29,360 Speaker 1: We'll talk to you again soon, Yes, sir, take care. 556 00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:34,560 Speaker 1: Winter time in Ukraine being cold is the least of 557 00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:37,640 Speaker 1: problems though for many displaced individuals and victims of the 558 00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:41,120 Speaker 1: NonStop or Russia. It's a country that the International Fellowship 559 00:30:41,120 --> 00:30:43,480 Speaker 1: of Christians and Jews are putting their focus on right now. 560 00:30:43,760 --> 00:30:46,760 Speaker 1: Through the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. With your donation, 561 00:30:47,280 --> 00:30:49,560 Speaker 1: you can help bring hope to those in need. Your 562 00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:52,080 Speaker 1: gift of twenty five dollars will provide a box full 563 00:30:52,120 --> 00:30:54,840 Speaker 1: of life saving essentials that will help feed families and 564 00:30:54,880 --> 00:30:58,560 Speaker 1: individuals feeling ignored and left defend for themselves. The IFCJ 565 00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:00,920 Speaker 1: is a wonderful organization of part with and we're honored 566 00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:02,920 Speaker 1: to have them in the Clay and Buck family. You 567 00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:04,920 Speaker 1: can show your support with a gift for those living 568 00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:08,560 Speaker 1: in war torn regions like Ukraine. With Thanksgiving coming next week, 569 00:31:08,600 --> 00:31:10,720 Speaker 1: now is the time to show gratitude by helping others 570 00:31:11,080 --> 00:31:13,480 Speaker 1: to rush your gift. Call eight eight eight four eight 571 00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:17,760 Speaker 1: eight IFCJ that's eight eight eight four eight eight four 572 00:31:17,840 --> 00:31:21,160 Speaker 1: three two five, or give online at Fellowship gift dot org. 573 00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:23,640 Speaker 1: That's Fellowship gift dot org. 574 00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:28,800 Speaker 7: News and politics, but also a little comic relief. Clay 575 00:31:28,880 --> 00:31:32,920 Speaker 7: Travis at Buck Sexton find them on the free iHeartRadio 576 00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:36,000 Speaker 7: app or wherever you get your podcasts. 577 00:31:36,040 --> 00:31:37,160 Speaker 2: All right, welcome back in here. 578 00:31:37,160 --> 00:31:40,440 Speaker 1: Coming up in a big third hour and just moments 579 00:31:41,040 --> 00:31:42,920 Speaker 1: and we'll have all the latest you from Trump's meetings 580 00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:44,880 Speaker 1: today with the Saudi Crown Prince. 581 00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:47,000 Speaker 2: Also any updates coming. 582 00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:50,960 Speaker 1: In on the signing of the Epstein Transparency Act, which 583 00:31:50,960 --> 00:31:54,560 Speaker 1: Trump's going to be doing, and if Clay has any 584 00:31:54,560 --> 00:31:58,520 Speaker 1: more words of wisdom. Now that he walks around with 585 00:31:58,560 --> 00:32:01,240 Speaker 1: wings and a halo on because he met with the Pope, 586 00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:04,680 Speaker 1: perhaps he can descend from the clouds in the sky 587 00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:07,840 Speaker 1: and with a little harp and tell us all everything 588 00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:10,400 Speaker 1: we need to know. You know, he has been blessed 589 00:32:11,040 --> 00:32:14,160 Speaker 1: from on high. We will get into that Crockett coffee. 590 00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:15,880 Speaker 1: By the way, I'm gonna be drinking some Crockett. I 591 00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:18,160 Speaker 1: did a lot of content today. I did the Piers 592 00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:20,240 Speaker 1: Morgan Show, which was like an hour. I did Making 593 00:32:20,320 --> 00:32:22,600 Speaker 1: Kelly Show, which was another hour. I'm doing three hours 594 00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:24,520 Speaker 1: of this show, and then I'm doing a podcast, The 595 00:32:24,840 --> 00:32:28,000 Speaker 1: Buck Brief, after the show. So I need Cracket Coffee. 596 00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:30,640 Speaker 1: Cracket Coffee dot com. Go check it out, subscribe please. 597 00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:35,160 Speaker 1: It is the best coffee you'll get anywhere. And we've 598 00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:39,040 Speaker 1: got some talkbacks here. D d who listens in Upstate 599 00:32:39,080 --> 00:32:42,520 Speaker 1: New York on the Great Wgy play it. 600 00:32:42,720 --> 00:32:46,960 Speaker 8: Please Clay, please tell me that you shaved. 601 00:32:46,600 --> 00:32:49,880 Speaker 3: Before you met the Pontiffs and you didn't wear that 602 00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:51,560 Speaker 3: wretched orange jacket. 603 00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:55,440 Speaker 2: WHOA, the range is hot. 604 00:32:56,280 --> 00:33:01,200 Speaker 1: We have a caller there calling out Clay saying, and 605 00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:04,040 Speaker 1: I don't know which one is the orange pretty sure, Ali, 606 00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:06,800 Speaker 1: do we know which one is the orange jacket? Clay's jackets. 607 00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:09,680 Speaker 1: He definitely goes game show host jackets. 608 00:33:09,720 --> 00:33:10,200 Speaker 2: Sometimes. 609 00:33:10,280 --> 00:33:13,360 Speaker 1: I'm just saying, right, he's not here to defend himself, 610 00:33:13,360 --> 00:33:17,480 Speaker 1: so when he comes back he can explain his jacket choices. 611 00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:20,840 Speaker 2: But I'm sure he was stressed. 612 00:33:20,520 --> 00:33:24,680 Speaker 1: Up very nice, very nicely, very nicely for a meeting 613 00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:27,680 Speaker 1: with the pontiff. But I'm really excited for him. That's 614 00:33:27,680 --> 00:33:31,240 Speaker 1: a very cool thing. I remember I went a long 615 00:33:31,320 --> 00:33:34,320 Speaker 1: time ago. I was maybe fourteen thirteen. I was in 616 00:33:34,360 --> 00:33:40,680 Speaker 1: Italy and went to Saint Peter's and went to the Vatican. 617 00:33:40,840 --> 00:33:44,400 Speaker 1: Vatican city was really really quite especially as a Catholic, 618 00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:48,080 Speaker 1: it was quite an experience. He's got that Syracuse orange jacket. 619 00:33:48,200 --> 00:33:51,760 Speaker 1: That's hideous. Bruce Rally says, Oh wow, Okay, he's got 620 00:33:51,800 --> 00:33:54,000 Speaker 1: an ugly orange jacket. I didn't even know about that one. 621 00:33:55,320 --> 00:33:59,880 Speaker 1: Let's also take here, Mike CC listener from San Diego, 622 00:34:00,120 --> 00:34:01,000 Speaker 1: Go play it. 623 00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:02,920 Speaker 2: This is Mike in San Diego. 624 00:34:03,040 --> 00:34:05,840 Speaker 6: I'm really curious to see what happens with the people 625 00:34:05,880 --> 00:34:09,080 Speaker 6: that are on this epstein lists. I know that there 626 00:34:09,080 --> 00:34:13,280 Speaker 6: were flight logs that shook movie stars and politicians and 627 00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:18,520 Speaker 6: other celebrities and powerful business people. I'm really curious to 628 00:34:18,520 --> 00:34:21,400 Speaker 6: see if there's Paul out outside of government. 629 00:34:23,640 --> 00:34:27,839 Speaker 1: Uh yeah, I'd be curious as well. I wouldn't hold 630 00:34:27,880 --> 00:34:29,799 Speaker 1: your breath on it, just because we don't know what's 631 00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:33,560 Speaker 1: in these files. And like I said, the files are 632 00:34:33,560 --> 00:34:36,200 Speaker 1: in the possession of the Department of Justice of the 633 00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:40,600 Speaker 1: United States government. If they're going to release the files, 634 00:34:41,600 --> 00:34:43,719 Speaker 1: I think it's very, very unlikely that they're going to 635 00:34:43,760 --> 00:34:46,719 Speaker 1: release files and say, oh, wow, you're right, we should 636 00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:49,480 Speaker 1: have prosecuted this person. We didn't even think about that 637 00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:54,040 Speaker 1: until now. So this is also what I was saying 638 00:34:54,200 --> 00:34:58,160 Speaker 1: about the complete non story of Trump's tax returns. 639 00:34:58,200 --> 00:35:02,200 Speaker 2: You remember that, Do you remember how how insane Democrats 640 00:35:02,239 --> 00:35:03,600 Speaker 2: were about. 641 00:35:03,480 --> 00:35:06,600 Speaker 1: The tax return And I used to joke about this 642 00:35:07,560 --> 00:35:10,160 Speaker 1: when I was doing my solo show years ago. I'd say, 643 00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:12,960 Speaker 1: they speak of this, and I mean Rachel Maddow at 644 00:35:13,040 --> 00:35:16,280 Speaker 1: MSNBC and the big voices of the time on the left. 645 00:35:16,800 --> 00:35:18,960 Speaker 1: They spoke of Trump's tax returns as if there was 646 00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:21,640 Speaker 1: going to be a page that was like big bribe 647 00:35:21,640 --> 00:35:25,759 Speaker 1: from Pultin, Like that's not going to happen. There isn't 648 00:35:25,800 --> 00:35:28,359 Speaker 1: going to be something that the tax returns are in 649 00:35:28,440 --> 00:35:32,200 Speaker 1: the possession of the government, so they think that if 650 00:35:32,200 --> 00:35:34,719 Speaker 1: they got leaked, then all of a sudden it would 651 00:35:34,719 --> 00:35:37,439 Speaker 1: be oh my gosh, the government was sitting this whole 652 00:35:37,480 --> 00:35:42,080 Speaker 1: time on the smoking gun evidence of Trump's Russia collusion. 653 00:35:42,520 --> 00:35:46,640 Speaker 1: That is a crazy belief that made no sense. And 654 00:35:46,680 --> 00:35:48,600 Speaker 1: as we know, they eventually some guy went to prison 655 00:35:48,600 --> 00:35:53,759 Speaker 1: for leaking Trump's tax returns. It made no sense, but 656 00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:54,919 Speaker 1: there you go. 657 00:35:55,719 --> 00:35:55,959 Speaker 2: Wow. 658 00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:59,240 Speaker 1: Prduce Rally says that play has a pink pepto bismal 659 00:35:59,360 --> 00:36:04,000 Speaker 1: colored check too. I haven't seen this one. That's something 660 00:36:04,360 --> 00:36:07,160 Speaker 1: that's something I gotta check out. Although a pink blazer 661 00:36:07,160 --> 00:36:13,160 Speaker 1: in Miami, especially with maybe a light blue shirt something 662 00:36:13,239 --> 00:36:15,560 Speaker 1: like that, it's pretty Crockett and tubs. 663 00:36:15,600 --> 00:36:15,719 Speaker 3: You know. 664 00:36:15,719 --> 00:36:17,719 Speaker 1: It's a throwback to Miami vice days. So I'm not 665 00:36:17,800 --> 00:36:19,880 Speaker 1: gonna hate on a pink blazer, at least not that 666 00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:22,560 Speaker 1: where I am. So we're gonna come back in here 667 00:36:22,719 --> 00:36:26,880 Speaker 1: and dive into the latest on immigration. 668 00:36:27,080 --> 00:36:29,000 Speaker 2: Oh and Rohn de Santa's governor of. 669 00:36:30,960 --> 00:36:35,680 Speaker 1: Florida, my state, fabulous governor, fantastic governor. He'll be with 670 00:36:35,760 --> 00:36:37,840 Speaker 1: us tomorrow at least that's on the schedule for right now, 671 00:36:38,200 --> 00:36:44,200 Speaker 1: might talk a bit about the housing situation, affordability, and 672 00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:48,319 Speaker 1: a lot of the debate surrounding property tax, which could 673 00:36:48,320 --> 00:36:49,400 Speaker 1: affect all of us. 674 00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:50,120 Speaker 2: We'll talk about it.