1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:05,480 Speaker 1: Welcome everybody to the first twenty twenty six edition of 2 00:00:05,519 --> 00:00:09,600 Speaker 1: The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. And we have 3 00:00:10,240 --> 00:00:12,079 Speaker 1: so many big things talking about. First of all, we 4 00:00:12,119 --> 00:00:14,920 Speaker 1: missed you all. We hope you had a fantastic holiday. 5 00:00:16,079 --> 00:00:18,400 Speaker 1: It has been great here in the Second Household, and 6 00:00:18,480 --> 00:00:20,239 Speaker 1: o'clay and his family had wonderful time. 7 00:00:20,280 --> 00:00:21,080 Speaker 2: I hope you had a. 8 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:25,919 Speaker 1: Great holiday, Christmas, New Year, hanaka all the above, and 9 00:00:26,640 --> 00:00:29,720 Speaker 1: we are racked in stack for a big show today. 10 00:00:29,960 --> 00:00:32,320 Speaker 1: And when I think is going to be the best 11 00:00:32,520 --> 00:00:34,920 Speaker 1: year ever of the Clay Travis and Buck Saxon Show, 12 00:00:34,960 --> 00:00:38,680 Speaker 1: I just have that feeling. And things are looking pretty fantastic. 13 00:00:38,800 --> 00:00:41,720 Speaker 1: I might add for the Trump administration, what a way 14 00:00:41,840 --> 00:00:46,839 Speaker 1: to ring in the new year by bringing the thug 15 00:00:46,960 --> 00:00:53,240 Speaker 1: of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro to justice. This is a big story. 16 00:00:53,280 --> 00:00:57,440 Speaker 1: We're going to get into the details today. Maduro is 17 00:00:57,600 --> 00:01:05,160 Speaker 1: currently being trans into into court and there's court proceedings underway. 18 00:01:05,680 --> 00:01:09,120 Speaker 1: So this is this is huge. The short version is 19 00:01:09,120 --> 00:01:12,959 Speaker 1: that the most daring Special Operations raid since the Bin 20 00:01:13,040 --> 00:01:19,360 Speaker 1: Laden raid occurred in over the weekend and this has 21 00:01:19,440 --> 00:01:24,080 Speaker 1: now put Maduro into American custody. We will give you 22 00:01:24,200 --> 00:01:27,480 Speaker 1: the details of this operation. We will analyze this. The 23 00:01:27,520 --> 00:01:33,520 Speaker 1: tactical success and the strategic implications are incredible, an amazing 24 00:01:33,680 --> 00:01:39,039 Speaker 1: work here reportedly by Delta Force. That's that's the unit 25 00:01:39,080 --> 00:01:40,800 Speaker 1: that is getting their credit for this in the media, 26 00:01:41,840 --> 00:01:45,000 Speaker 1: which that they're Tier one just like Seal Team six, 27 00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:49,560 Speaker 1: incredible elead operators. But a whole all of the above 28 00:01:49,560 --> 00:01:52,800 Speaker 1: approach from different units here involved in this. We'll get 29 00:01:52,840 --> 00:01:55,000 Speaker 1: into this some other big stories. I might add, Tim 30 00:01:55,040 --> 00:01:58,200 Speaker 1: Walls is not going to run for reelection in Minnesota, 31 00:01:58,600 --> 00:02:02,840 Speaker 1: which comes on the heels of the massive, massive viral 32 00:02:03,040 --> 00:02:08,680 Speaker 1: Clay expose of the scale this multi billion dollar who 33 00:02:08,720 --> 00:02:15,200 Speaker 1: knows how many billions of overwhelmingly Somali immigrant fraud in Minnesota, 34 00:02:15,760 --> 00:02:18,560 Speaker 1: which is a big deal. And we'll discuss that. We've 35 00:02:18,600 --> 00:02:21,120 Speaker 1: also got the biggest one year drop in the national 36 00:02:21,120 --> 00:02:24,760 Speaker 1: homicide rate perhaps ever in twenty twenty five, which is 37 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:26,800 Speaker 1: something we should talk about with the Trump administration. So 38 00:02:27,040 --> 00:02:30,560 Speaker 1: we got a bunch of big stories to deal with. 39 00:02:30,600 --> 00:02:33,120 Speaker 1: Oh and Mam Donnie in New York, Kami Mamdanni. We 40 00:02:33,160 --> 00:02:36,600 Speaker 1: might held him tomorrow, but he's saying some wild things. 41 00:02:36,600 --> 00:02:39,840 Speaker 1: I'm very concerned for my beloved Big Apple clay, let, 42 00:02:40,280 --> 00:02:43,240 Speaker 1: let's dive into this to take us into this moment. Here, 43 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:49,680 Speaker 1: Trump saying, after they seize Maduro, not a single US 44 00:02:49,720 --> 00:02:56,840 Speaker 1: casualty in this raid, involving helicopters, fixed wing aircraft, armada, 45 00:02:56,880 --> 00:03:02,880 Speaker 1: off the coast, intelligence operatives. I mean, just everything working seamlessly, 46 00:03:02,919 --> 00:03:06,799 Speaker 1: perfectly together. And Trump is saying we're in charge. This 47 00:03:06,880 --> 00:03:07,920 Speaker 1: is cut to play it. 48 00:03:08,120 --> 00:03:11,040 Speaker 2: The next question is who's in charge of Venezuela right now? 49 00:03:11,040 --> 00:03:15,200 Speaker 3: Have you spoken to the newly sworn in president there Rodriguez, 50 00:03:15,639 --> 00:03:17,519 Speaker 3: and what are your thoughts on the entire. 51 00:03:17,320 --> 00:03:19,680 Speaker 2: Situation when you said the US would run Venezuela. 52 00:03:19,840 --> 00:03:21,960 Speaker 4: We're dealing with the people. We're dealing with the people 53 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:23,040 Speaker 4: that just got sported. 54 00:03:23,960 --> 00:03:27,880 Speaker 5: And don't ask me who's in charge, because they'll give 55 00:03:27,919 --> 00:03:31,560 Speaker 5: you an answer and it'll be very Contribuation means we're 56 00:03:31,560 --> 00:03:32,720 Speaker 5: in charge. 57 00:03:33,440 --> 00:03:36,640 Speaker 1: Clay, I think everybody knows Trump is calling the shots. 58 00:03:36,680 --> 00:03:41,840 Speaker 1: Trump is in charge. Huge change in Venezuela. And this 59 00:03:41,920 --> 00:03:45,040 Speaker 1: isn't just about Latin America. This is about the Western hemisphere. 60 00:03:45,040 --> 00:03:49,760 Speaker 1: They're big global implications, Russia, China, this is this is huge. 61 00:03:50,520 --> 00:03:54,160 Speaker 3: I think we can do the whole show today on 62 00:03:54,680 --> 00:04:00,640 Speaker 3: the Venezuela impact on the Delta Force badasses. I think 63 00:04:00,680 --> 00:04:04,160 Speaker 3: before we even get into the implications, I would imagine 64 00:04:04,160 --> 00:04:08,280 Speaker 3: that a lot of people are like me and just 65 00:04:08,800 --> 00:04:17,360 Speaker 3: blown away by the incredible organization and just incredible combat 66 00:04:17,400 --> 00:04:20,680 Speaker 3: dexterity that was put to brought to bear in this 67 00:04:20,720 --> 00:04:22,440 Speaker 3: particular raid. 68 00:04:22,839 --> 00:04:23,440 Speaker 2: Think about this. 69 00:04:24,080 --> 00:04:27,200 Speaker 3: We went into Venezuela in the middle of the night, 70 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:31,320 Speaker 3: and they knew we were coming. I was in the 71 00:04:31,360 --> 00:04:37,240 Speaker 3: Caribbean for much of the holiday and you would hear 72 00:04:37,920 --> 00:04:43,159 Speaker 3: constantly planes buzzing. There was this constant discussion about where 73 00:04:43,240 --> 00:04:47,359 Speaker 3: is the aircraft carrier? Where are the American military forces. 74 00:04:47,680 --> 00:04:50,680 Speaker 3: So it wasn't as if we suddenly went in and 75 00:04:50,760 --> 00:04:53,760 Speaker 3: there was no pre existing idea that we might be 76 00:04:53,880 --> 00:04:54,480 Speaker 3: going in. 77 00:04:55,080 --> 00:04:57,080 Speaker 2: They said that they initially had it. 78 00:04:57,080 --> 00:04:59,960 Speaker 3: Scheduled what four days before, and had to change it 79 00:05:00,080 --> 00:05:04,920 Speaker 3: because of weather. Zero casualties. Now, there may have been 80 00:05:04,960 --> 00:05:07,760 Speaker 3: a couple of people who were wounded, so but no 81 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:12,080 Speaker 3: mortal woundings, no loss of life, no loss of material, well, 82 00:05:12,279 --> 00:05:13,520 Speaker 3: no American casualties. 83 00:05:13,560 --> 00:05:18,960 Speaker 1: About eighty Venezuelans, I think civilian military, that's what they're saying. 84 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:20,720 Speaker 2: Taken out Certainly, you wouldn't. 85 00:05:20,360 --> 00:05:26,800 Speaker 1: Have wanted to be on Maduro's mostly Cuban personal security detail, 86 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:29,960 Speaker 1: going up against Delta operators who had been training for 87 00:05:30,120 --> 00:05:35,360 Speaker 1: months on a mock up of exactly the building that 88 00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:37,800 Speaker 1: they had to go into. You got no chance against 89 00:05:37,800 --> 00:05:40,640 Speaker 1: those guys. I thought it was, and I saw you tweet. 90 00:05:40,680 --> 00:05:43,800 Speaker 3: I think about this more impressive even than when we 91 00:05:43,880 --> 00:05:46,719 Speaker 3: went and got Osama bin Laden in terms of the 92 00:05:46,800 --> 00:05:50,880 Speaker 3: moving parts and the requirements involved. You know, the challenge 93 00:05:50,880 --> 00:05:53,919 Speaker 3: with bin Laden was nobody knew where he was. But 94 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:56,720 Speaker 3: the number of people that actually had to go into 95 00:05:57,480 --> 00:06:00,479 Speaker 3: Pakistan right about about if I remember correctly, in order 96 00:06:00,560 --> 00:06:03,680 Speaker 3: to be able to get him was relatively small, and 97 00:06:03,720 --> 00:06:06,520 Speaker 3: the number of people involved in that raid was too. 98 00:06:06,800 --> 00:06:12,320 Speaker 3: This was basically what ten twenty thirty x in terms 99 00:06:12,360 --> 00:06:15,720 Speaker 3: of the complexity of the moving parts going into one 100 00:06:15,760 --> 00:06:20,520 Speaker 3: of the most populated cities in the world, candidly Caracas, 101 00:06:20,839 --> 00:06:24,839 Speaker 3: and just to take out Maduro and do it all 102 00:06:24,880 --> 00:06:29,880 Speaker 3: without a significant impact to the American forces at all, 103 00:06:30,240 --> 00:06:35,000 Speaker 3: and to send the message buck to Iran, to Cuba, 104 00:06:35,360 --> 00:06:39,800 Speaker 3: to frankly probably Russia, any of these bad actors out 105 00:06:39,839 --> 00:06:43,520 Speaker 3: there of what we are capable of doing in terms 106 00:06:43,600 --> 00:06:48,480 Speaker 3: of organizational capacity and just lethality. I woke up to 107 00:06:48,520 --> 00:06:50,919 Speaker 3: it like most people and just said, holy crap, what 108 00:06:51,040 --> 00:06:55,120 Speaker 3: an unbelievable stroke. And there are lots of implications coming 109 00:06:55,200 --> 00:06:58,320 Speaker 3: from it, but purely from you were involved in the CIA. 110 00:06:58,360 --> 00:07:01,960 Speaker 3: Purely from the organizational cuppacities of this is what. Is 111 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:05,880 Speaker 3: there even an analogy of of of an excellent and 112 00:07:05,960 --> 00:07:09,240 Speaker 3: successful raid like this that you could make that's anywhere 113 00:07:09,240 --> 00:07:12,480 Speaker 3: near the complexity and successful level. I can't even think 114 00:07:12,480 --> 00:07:12,800 Speaker 3: of one. 115 00:07:13,320 --> 00:07:17,520 Speaker 1: No, this is this is something that brought together elements 116 00:07:17,560 --> 00:07:20,640 Speaker 1: that have never really been used in quite this way before. 117 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:23,600 Speaker 1: I mean, let's let's step back, you compare. The only 118 00:07:23,640 --> 00:07:25,520 Speaker 1: thing that's comparable in our recent memory would be the 119 00:07:25,520 --> 00:07:30,280 Speaker 1: bin Laden raid and the issues that you deal with here. 120 00:07:30,840 --> 00:07:33,520 Speaker 1: You know, the bin Laden raid. Yes, the Pakistani military 121 00:07:33,560 --> 00:07:37,720 Speaker 1: response was a concern, but bin Lad now Abadabad was 122 00:07:38,200 --> 00:07:42,080 Speaker 1: near a Pakistani military base. But Bin Laden did not 123 00:07:42,360 --> 00:07:48,600 Speaker 1: have a battalion of Pakistani military around him in charge 124 00:07:48,640 --> 00:07:51,920 Speaker 1: of his security all day. Bin Laden could not call 125 00:07:52,040 --> 00:07:57,400 Speaker 1: upon the direction of a of surface to air missile sites. 126 00:07:57,840 --> 00:08:02,200 Speaker 1: And I mean Baduro did have control of the national 127 00:08:02,200 --> 00:08:06,120 Speaker 1: military of Venezuela. So that's this is a whole level 128 00:08:06,400 --> 00:08:09,960 Speaker 1: of risk and complexity beyond what you would see that 129 00:08:10,080 --> 00:08:14,680 Speaker 1: in that situation. Uh and and here's here's the breakdown 130 00:08:14,720 --> 00:08:17,920 Speaker 1: that we get they made, but Cararak is essentially whole 131 00:08:17,920 --> 00:08:19,560 Speaker 1: areas of it. They blacked it out, So that's a 132 00:08:19,600 --> 00:08:25,360 Speaker 1: cyber capability. They had mapped out Maduro's day to day 133 00:08:25,720 --> 00:08:27,960 Speaker 1: movements to the point where it was reported they even 134 00:08:28,040 --> 00:08:30,680 Speaker 1: knew what pets and what outfits he liked to put 135 00:08:30,720 --> 00:08:32,880 Speaker 1: on day to day. I mean, that's how close to 136 00:08:32,960 --> 00:08:37,120 Speaker 1: Maduro they were. So the intelligence gathering success component of 137 00:08:37,160 --> 00:08:40,960 Speaker 1: this was also tremendous, and that that brings to bear 138 00:08:41,040 --> 00:08:45,400 Speaker 1: everything human intelligence, you know, sources, individuals, but also what 139 00:08:45,440 --> 00:08:48,119 Speaker 1: they can pull out of the sky, electronic signals intelligence. 140 00:08:48,640 --> 00:08:52,760 Speaker 1: So the intelligence gathering was flawless. The operational security was 141 00:08:52,800 --> 00:08:55,679 Speaker 1: obviously very high on this one. They knew that we 142 00:08:55,679 --> 00:08:57,400 Speaker 1: were coming for him at some point. Trump had made 143 00:08:57,400 --> 00:09:01,319 Speaker 1: that pretty clear. But exactly when matters a lot, because 144 00:09:01,320 --> 00:09:03,440 Speaker 1: he can't just hide in a closet forever, right, so 145 00:09:03,480 --> 00:09:05,360 Speaker 1: he's got to be able to move around. He was 146 00:09:05,480 --> 00:09:08,120 Speaker 1: on the largest military base Madua was on the largest 147 00:09:08,120 --> 00:09:13,080 Speaker 1: military base in Caracas, and we managed to take out 148 00:09:13,440 --> 00:09:16,240 Speaker 1: so we bring down their power grid. We managed to 149 00:09:16,280 --> 00:09:19,760 Speaker 1: take out their surface to air missile and radar installation 150 00:09:19,960 --> 00:09:23,520 Speaker 1: so we could fly rotary wings that would require fixed 151 00:09:23,559 --> 00:09:25,840 Speaker 1: wing We probably did, you know, F thirty fives or something, 152 00:09:26,040 --> 00:09:30,160 Speaker 1: and then we bring in rotary so modified helicopters and 153 00:09:30,200 --> 00:09:34,920 Speaker 1: the one sixty at Special Special Aviation Unit was you know, 154 00:09:34,960 --> 00:09:37,920 Speaker 1: the night Stalkers, famed night Stalkers, they were involved in 155 00:09:37,920 --> 00:09:41,160 Speaker 1: this too. So they come in with the rotary aircraft 156 00:09:41,640 --> 00:09:46,440 Speaker 1: to deploy troops, our Delta Force, who take out without 157 00:09:46,440 --> 00:09:49,640 Speaker 1: a single casualty. All of the guys assigned to at 158 00:09:49,720 --> 00:09:52,000 Speaker 1: least that we're exchanging gunfire with them to assign to 159 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:55,000 Speaker 1: protect Maduro. We load him and his wife into the 160 00:09:55,080 --> 00:09:57,240 Speaker 1: helos and get out of the country without a casualty. 161 00:09:57,280 --> 00:10:00,960 Speaker 1: Clay This this can go wrong. 162 00:10:01,120 --> 00:10:01,600 Speaker 2: This is the thing. 163 00:10:01,960 --> 00:10:05,680 Speaker 1: This can go wrong a thousand different ways, and yet 164 00:10:05,679 --> 00:10:08,320 Speaker 1: they didn't. They didn't have a single stumble. 165 00:10:07,920 --> 00:10:11,839 Speaker 3: Here even buck. It could go wrong with things that 166 00:10:11,920 --> 00:10:15,000 Speaker 3: aren't brought to bear by Venezuela, right. You could have 167 00:10:15,200 --> 00:10:17,760 Speaker 3: a health character that just has issues. You could have 168 00:10:18,040 --> 00:10:21,960 Speaker 3: any number of errors that don't even have to do 169 00:10:22,120 --> 00:10:27,240 Speaker 3: with oppositional forces. To have it be this flawless is 170 00:10:27,920 --> 00:10:31,000 Speaker 3: I mean, I think it's extraordinary. Now one of the 171 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:34,720 Speaker 3: things that now is brought to bear is what is 172 00:10:34,840 --> 00:10:38,440 Speaker 3: the goal now? So Maduro is going to be he's 173 00:10:38,440 --> 00:10:41,320 Speaker 3: pled not guilty to drug in weapons charges. Not a 174 00:10:41,360 --> 00:10:45,560 Speaker 3: surprise in a Manhattan federal court. That has just happened 175 00:10:45,600 --> 00:10:49,960 Speaker 3: in the last few minutes. There are not cameras obviously 176 00:10:50,080 --> 00:10:53,520 Speaker 3: inside of that courtroom, but everybody is reporting that he 177 00:10:53,600 --> 00:10:57,360 Speaker 3: has been arraigned and pled not guilty. I would imagine 178 00:10:57,360 --> 00:11:01,800 Speaker 3: that his wife will also plead not guilty. We have 179 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:03,880 Speaker 3: maybe if somebody can go back and grab it, because 180 00:11:03,880 --> 00:11:07,400 Speaker 3: we have a transcript. I know I said, hey, we 181 00:11:07,440 --> 00:11:10,160 Speaker 3: should go in, we should take Maduro out, because there 182 00:11:10,200 --> 00:11:14,000 Speaker 3: was reaction from some of you when I said a 183 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:16,040 Speaker 3: couple of months ago that this was coming, and I 184 00:11:16,040 --> 00:11:19,880 Speaker 3: thought it was a good move. Now the complexity is 185 00:11:19,920 --> 00:11:23,200 Speaker 3: going to be how do you start to put in 186 00:11:23,360 --> 00:11:27,040 Speaker 3: place a situation such that you don't end up with 187 00:11:27,200 --> 00:11:30,920 Speaker 3: Maduro or something worse. People are asking obviously you served 188 00:11:30,960 --> 00:11:34,760 Speaker 3: there is this an example of the Iraq situation. I 189 00:11:34,840 --> 00:11:37,720 Speaker 3: think the countries are very dissimilar, and I don't think 190 00:11:37,760 --> 00:11:40,800 Speaker 3: that there is the same concerns there, but those are 191 00:11:40,840 --> 00:11:44,400 Speaker 3: some of the questions that are arising as we figure 192 00:11:44,400 --> 00:11:46,400 Speaker 3: out how exactly does this play out going forward. 193 00:11:46,679 --> 00:11:51,680 Speaker 1: Maduro was an illegitimate ruler who ruined this country. So 194 00:11:51,800 --> 00:11:54,240 Speaker 1: this is a different thing right now. You could say 195 00:11:54,280 --> 00:11:58,480 Speaker 1: Saddam Hussein was, and he certainly was a brutal dictator 196 00:11:59,080 --> 00:12:01,640 Speaker 1: and did a lot a lot of terrible things, but 197 00:12:01,720 --> 00:12:04,120 Speaker 1: there were a lot of people who looked to him 198 00:12:04,400 --> 00:12:08,120 Speaker 1: as stability. There were a lot of I mean Iraqis. 199 00:12:08,160 --> 00:12:10,320 Speaker 1: If you were a Sunni Iraqi, and this is what 200 00:12:10,360 --> 00:12:11,560 Speaker 1: I don't want to get too deep in this. You're 201 00:12:11,600 --> 00:12:14,480 Speaker 1: a Sunni Iraqi who had been calling the shots the 202 00:12:14,480 --> 00:12:16,959 Speaker 1: Suonis had and then the Shia, who were actually the 203 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:18,400 Speaker 1: majority of the country, all of a sudden, are going 204 00:12:18,480 --> 00:12:20,840 Speaker 1: to come into power. You got a lot of concerns 205 00:12:20,880 --> 00:12:23,400 Speaker 1: about where that's going. And those concerns were well founded, 206 00:12:23,440 --> 00:12:25,440 Speaker 1: as we saw from the civil war that effectively broke 207 00:12:25,480 --> 00:12:29,079 Speaker 1: out during the US occupation. In this case, Maduro is 208 00:12:29,120 --> 00:12:33,000 Speaker 1: a scumbag narco trafficker, and we're saying and very clearly, 209 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:35,000 Speaker 1: and there's been a lot of conversations going on for 210 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:36,800 Speaker 1: a while. They just also to point out the Biden 211 00:12:36,840 --> 00:12:41,439 Speaker 1: administration said that Maduro was a narco trafficker, five million 212 00:12:41,520 --> 00:12:45,120 Speaker 1: dollars on him or anybody who could help him get arrested. 213 00:12:45,480 --> 00:12:47,560 Speaker 1: They put a twenty five million dollar bounty on his head. 214 00:12:47,600 --> 00:12:50,560 Speaker 1: But what's so clear here is this disparity, this this 215 00:12:50,679 --> 00:12:54,000 Speaker 1: difference between Democrat and Republican. Democrats will say the things 216 00:12:54,040 --> 00:12:56,600 Speaker 1: they have to say to seem to seem like they 217 00:12:56,600 --> 00:13:01,880 Speaker 1: are serious on national security. Republicans or Trump will actually 218 00:13:01,920 --> 00:13:04,920 Speaker 1: do the thing. Yes, they will do the thing right. 219 00:13:05,040 --> 00:13:07,760 Speaker 1: Democrats will say they want to secure the border. They don't, 220 00:13:07,800 --> 00:13:09,599 Speaker 1: but they will say that Trump. 221 00:13:09,360 --> 00:13:10,319 Speaker 2: Will actually do it. 222 00:13:10,440 --> 00:13:13,120 Speaker 1: Democrats will put a twenty five million dollar bounty on 223 00:13:13,160 --> 00:13:17,240 Speaker 1: Maduro's head. Trump will actually go and get him, get 224 00:13:17,280 --> 00:13:20,760 Speaker 1: his head, so to speak. This is so clear for 225 00:13:20,800 --> 00:13:24,240 Speaker 1: everybody to see. And once again the opponents of Trump 226 00:13:24,280 --> 00:13:27,880 Speaker 1: on this one. I want more, bring more of this, 227 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:31,800 Speaker 1: We need more, aoc more, mom, Donnie Moore. International law, 228 00:13:31,880 --> 00:13:35,400 Speaker 1: what international law says that you can operate a narco state. 229 00:13:35,760 --> 00:13:40,359 Speaker 1: You can destroy the country. Eight million people fled Venezuela. 230 00:13:40,559 --> 00:13:42,840 Speaker 1: You can flood our country with drugs. But there's no 231 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:46,520 Speaker 1: immunity to flood America with drugs. There's no immunity for 232 00:13:46,600 --> 00:13:49,400 Speaker 1: some scumbag to do this, what are they even talking about? 233 00:13:49,720 --> 00:13:55,120 Speaker 3: Well, also they had ready to go as unfortunately they 234 00:13:55,160 --> 00:14:01,840 Speaker 3: always do immediate protests over Maduro being arrested, and the 235 00:14:01,920 --> 00:14:04,679 Speaker 3: protest of course are paid for and the protesters are 236 00:14:04,720 --> 00:14:07,440 Speaker 3: paid to show up. I mean, it's totally a stage 237 00:14:07,440 --> 00:14:12,319 Speaker 3: managed production. But contrasting that with people that have connection 238 00:14:12,440 --> 00:14:16,520 Speaker 3: to Venezuela, either refugees who have fled Venezuela or people 239 00:14:16,880 --> 00:14:21,160 Speaker 3: in Venezuela itself overwhelmingly supporting the decision that was made. 240 00:14:21,160 --> 00:14:24,720 Speaker 3: In fact, where you are right now in Miami is 241 00:14:24,800 --> 00:14:27,480 Speaker 3: what do we say, eight hundred thousand Venezuelans live in 242 00:14:27,480 --> 00:14:30,600 Speaker 3: the United States. I remember having this conversation before we 243 00:14:30,720 --> 00:14:34,360 Speaker 3: left for Christmas, and the number one place that is 244 00:14:34,400 --> 00:14:38,200 Speaker 3: the largest population is around draw which is where Trump 245 00:14:38,320 --> 00:14:40,000 Speaker 3: has the golf course. 246 00:14:40,040 --> 00:14:42,240 Speaker 2: It's probably the highest population concentration. 247 00:14:42,720 --> 00:14:46,080 Speaker 1: So they're more Venezuelan refugees within twenty minute drive of 248 00:14:46,080 --> 00:14:48,800 Speaker 1: where I'm currently sitting than anywhere else in the country. 249 00:14:49,120 --> 00:14:53,200 Speaker 1: And Clay, this tells you a lot. Miami Herald headline 250 00:14:53,400 --> 00:14:55,600 Speaker 1: from the last twenty four hours Miami Herald very left 251 00:14:55,600 --> 00:14:59,880 Speaker 1: wing paper, to be clear. After Maduro's capture Venezuelans and 252 00:15:00,080 --> 00:15:05,440 Speaker 1: South Florida dream of going home. Yeah, they know, they 253 00:15:05,480 --> 00:15:07,560 Speaker 1: know that their country is ruined by this guy, and 254 00:15:07,600 --> 00:15:09,720 Speaker 1: they know that Venezuela is actually a great country with 255 00:15:09,720 --> 00:15:11,560 Speaker 1: the lot going forward, a lot of resources. What we'll 256 00:15:11,560 --> 00:15:15,440 Speaker 1: talk more about this. It was until Maduro, really Chavez, 257 00:15:15,480 --> 00:15:18,320 Speaker 1: and then Maduro came along. 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How about 286 00:16:48,600 --> 00:16:51,560 Speaker 3: the hypocrisy He brands about all these things he wants 287 00:16:51,600 --> 00:16:55,160 Speaker 3: to do or is doing, but his actions belye his words. 288 00:16:55,760 --> 00:16:58,680 Speaker 4: Maybe the best metaphor was his claim. 289 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:02,520 Speaker 7: To bring the democracy to Venezuela. 290 00:17:02,720 --> 00:17:05,360 Speaker 4: There was a big policy there. It flopped. 291 00:17:06,400 --> 00:17:10,000 Speaker 7: If the policy was working Juan Guido wouldn't be in 292 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:10,840 Speaker 7: the balcony here. 293 00:17:10,880 --> 00:17:12,000 Speaker 4: He'd be in Venezuela. 294 00:17:12,800 --> 00:17:16,240 Speaker 7: He'd be sitting in the president's palace, or at least 295 00:17:16,320 --> 00:17:20,560 Speaker 7: waging a fight to win. He's here, and the president 296 00:17:20,600 --> 00:17:25,080 Speaker 7: brags about his Venezuela policy. Give us a break. He 297 00:17:25,119 --> 00:17:28,480 Speaker 7: hasn't brought an end to the Maduro regime. The Maduro 298 00:17:28,560 --> 00:17:31,639 Speaker 7: regime is more powerful today and more intrenched today than 299 00:17:31,640 --> 00:17:33,000 Speaker 7: it was when the president began. 300 00:17:34,960 --> 00:17:39,440 Speaker 1: He should just say sorry, or else he should man 301 00:17:39,480 --> 00:17:41,400 Speaker 1: the post himself. You don't have to say this guy 302 00:17:41,440 --> 00:17:42,119 Speaker 1: has got nothing. 303 00:17:42,480 --> 00:17:42,880 Speaker 4: I do. 304 00:17:42,960 --> 00:17:46,720 Speaker 3: Think this is the continued impact of Elon on Twitter. 305 00:17:46,720 --> 00:17:48,800 Speaker 3: And we'll talk about this some with Tim Walls in 306 00:17:48,800 --> 00:17:52,800 Speaker 3: this siding, he's not gonna run. 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Use my 324 00:18:52,520 --> 00:18:55,640 Speaker 3: name Clay for big discount on subscription for life. 325 00:18:55,760 --> 00:18:56,879 Speaker 2: That's chalk dot Com. 326 00:18:56,880 --> 00:19:02,560 Speaker 1: My name Clay, Commie Solidity is unfortunately alive and well, 327 00:19:02,600 --> 00:19:04,600 Speaker 1: my friends, welcome back to Clay and Buck. So you 328 00:19:04,680 --> 00:19:08,440 Speaker 1: have Maduro, and let me just say, Maduro is actually 329 00:19:08,480 --> 00:19:14,400 Speaker 1: a fantastic exemplar of a communist because he says things 330 00:19:15,040 --> 00:19:18,280 Speaker 1: that make people who don't know better believe that he 331 00:19:18,400 --> 00:19:22,000 Speaker 1: cares about the collective. They're going to share the wealth, 332 00:19:22,400 --> 00:19:25,720 Speaker 1: everyone's going to have more, and then he just proceeds 333 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:30,879 Speaker 1: to ruin everything, act like a complete thug, terrorize people, 334 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:34,520 Speaker 1: use extreme violence to stay in power and be incredibly 335 00:19:34,600 --> 00:19:38,119 Speaker 1: rich himself. That's actually what communists are, do we clear, 336 00:19:38,560 --> 00:19:41,720 Speaker 1: when communists get what they want, it is Maduro. Just 337 00:19:42,080 --> 00:19:45,040 Speaker 1: look at now, Look at China, look at any place 338 00:19:45,440 --> 00:19:49,879 Speaker 1: where there has been a communist system. Same thing in Cuba. 339 00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:52,960 Speaker 1: The communists will talk about more wealth for all the people, 340 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:57,920 Speaker 1: but they actually just further impoverish or begin the impoverishment 341 00:19:58,040 --> 00:20:00,280 Speaker 1: it depending. I mean, Venezuela was not a poor country 342 00:20:00,320 --> 00:20:03,440 Speaker 1: before the commies took over. Venezuela was doing really well 343 00:20:03,640 --> 00:20:07,560 Speaker 1: going into the twenty first century, and then they went socialist, 344 00:20:07,680 --> 00:20:10,159 Speaker 1: and as we all know, that's a nightmare. But we 345 00:20:10,240 --> 00:20:12,159 Speaker 1: got a commie in New York as well, Clay, and 346 00:20:12,200 --> 00:20:15,320 Speaker 1: he's very upset. He's very upset about what's going on 347 00:20:15,359 --> 00:20:21,600 Speaker 1: here in Venezuela. I have Venezuelans metaphorically and maybe literally, 348 00:20:21,640 --> 00:20:24,920 Speaker 1: because they are a people known to enjoy dancing, dancing 349 00:20:24,960 --> 00:20:29,199 Speaker 1: in the streets here in Miami. In there's video circulating 350 00:20:29,200 --> 00:20:33,720 Speaker 1: of Venezuelan Venezuelans who are here who fled, and many 351 00:20:33,720 --> 00:20:36,359 Speaker 1: of them were true asylum seekers or true refugees in 352 00:20:36,359 --> 00:20:39,960 Speaker 1: the sense that their assets were seized, Maduro or Chavez 353 00:20:40,040 --> 00:20:41,760 Speaker 1: was going to torture them and their families and take 354 00:20:41,800 --> 00:20:45,600 Speaker 1: all their stuff. Like that's actual refugee stuff, not just 355 00:20:45,720 --> 00:20:48,200 Speaker 1: I want to be in America like the Somali stuff 356 00:20:48,200 --> 00:20:50,280 Speaker 1: we're seeing in Minnesota, so I can loot the system 357 00:20:50,320 --> 00:20:53,720 Speaker 1: and steal from the nice people that took me in Clay. 358 00:20:53,920 --> 00:20:55,600 Speaker 2: They're all thrilled. 359 00:20:55,880 --> 00:20:59,240 Speaker 1: They're crying about the prospect of what the future of 360 00:20:59,240 --> 00:21:03,760 Speaker 1: their country. Well, Mam Donnie, the newly installed yes, he 361 00:21:03,880 --> 00:21:08,160 Speaker 1: was elected, much to my tremendous sugar in the newly 362 00:21:08,200 --> 00:21:11,000 Speaker 1: installed Kami mayor of New York. Mam Donnie is saying 363 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:11,920 Speaker 1: this play fifteen. 364 00:21:12,200 --> 00:21:16,199 Speaker 5: I called the President and spoke with him directly to 365 00:21:16,280 --> 00:21:19,800 Speaker 5: register my opposition to this act and to make clear 366 00:21:19,880 --> 00:21:24,240 Speaker 5: that it was an opposition based on being opposed to 367 00:21:24,760 --> 00:21:28,680 Speaker 5: a pursuit of regime change, to the violation of federal 368 00:21:28,920 --> 00:21:33,640 Speaker 5: international law, and a desire to see that be consistent 369 00:21:33,680 --> 00:21:34,320 Speaker 5: each and every day. 370 00:21:34,680 --> 00:21:37,520 Speaker 4: And what was his response to you a conversation. 371 00:21:38,200 --> 00:21:42,720 Speaker 5: I registered my opposition, I made it clear, and we 372 00:21:42,800 --> 00:21:43,119 Speaker 5: lefted it. 373 00:21:43,160 --> 00:21:46,920 Speaker 1: Then, well, right, he called Trump to register his opposition. 374 00:21:46,960 --> 00:21:49,240 Speaker 1: What is he getting A letter from the student council. 375 00:21:49,760 --> 00:21:53,159 Speaker 1: You know, is he going to go tell the school 376 00:21:53,240 --> 00:21:54,280 Speaker 1: proctor on Trump? 377 00:21:54,320 --> 00:21:57,600 Speaker 3: Like, what does he think he's doing here, Clay, Mam, 378 00:21:57,680 --> 00:22:01,359 Speaker 3: Donnie is the face of the Democrat Party. Now, this 379 00:22:01,440 --> 00:22:05,399 Speaker 3: is what I said. And I feel so bad for 380 00:22:05,440 --> 00:22:08,800 Speaker 3: our WR listeners. I love you, guys, but we have 381 00:22:08,920 --> 00:22:12,320 Speaker 3: to let you sink into communism in order for the 382 00:22:12,359 --> 00:22:16,080 Speaker 3: rest of the country to flourish. And I really do 383 00:22:16,200 --> 00:22:20,119 Speaker 3: believe AOC and Mom Donnie as the face of the 384 00:22:20,119 --> 00:22:23,520 Speaker 3: Democrat Party in the midterms is going to be very 385 00:22:23,560 --> 00:22:28,000 Speaker 3: beneficial for the Republicans overall, and it's going to be 386 00:22:28,320 --> 00:22:31,520 Speaker 3: a bigger issue in twenty twenty eight too. Now, Gavin 387 00:22:31,560 --> 00:22:34,080 Speaker 3: Newsom is going to try to argue, hey, guys, actually, 388 00:22:34,119 --> 00:22:37,000 Speaker 3: I'm the face of the Democrat Party and we're gonna 389 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:40,360 Speaker 3: see that battle. Kamala Harris is going to run, much 390 00:22:40,440 --> 00:22:43,440 Speaker 3: to Buck's chagrin. I think he's going to lose a 391 00:22:44,320 --> 00:22:46,920 Speaker 3: He's going to lose a bet on that. 392 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:50,520 Speaker 1: But I think we'll see you stop with stop with 393 00:22:50,600 --> 00:22:52,959 Speaker 1: your sausa of celebration over there, buddies. 394 00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:57,879 Speaker 3: She's running. But look, I think in general what you 395 00:22:58,040 --> 00:23:00,960 Speaker 3: said is so important. Did you see the graph of 396 00:23:01,359 --> 00:23:08,960 Speaker 3: the comparison between Poland and Venezuela over the last thirty 397 00:23:09,080 --> 00:23:11,560 Speaker 3: or forty years. I think it was for people who 398 00:23:11,560 --> 00:23:14,399 Speaker 3: have not seen that graphic, maybe we can share that 399 00:23:14,440 --> 00:23:18,159 Speaker 3: from the Clay and Buck Twitter feed. But Poland was 400 00:23:18,720 --> 00:23:25,400 Speaker 3: a much smaller country, a much less successful country than Venezuela. Venezuela, 401 00:23:25,440 --> 00:23:28,080 Speaker 3: as we have talked about on this program, was probably 402 00:23:28,119 --> 00:23:32,520 Speaker 3: buck the most successful Latin American country in like nineteen 403 00:23:32,560 --> 00:23:37,119 Speaker 3: ninety five, right before the rise of Hugo Chavez. 404 00:23:37,680 --> 00:23:40,240 Speaker 1: It was the third wealthiest country in the Western hemisphere. 405 00:23:40,280 --> 00:23:43,840 Speaker 1: Was the United States, Canada, which, let's be honest, America Junior, 406 00:23:44,080 --> 00:23:45,040 Speaker 1: and then Venezuela. 407 00:23:45,160 --> 00:23:46,919 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's so, that's what it was. 408 00:23:47,600 --> 00:23:49,680 Speaker 3: And this is why so many people out there who 409 00:23:49,680 --> 00:23:52,200 Speaker 3: are listening to us right now all over the country, 410 00:23:52,240 --> 00:23:55,200 Speaker 3: who are Venezuelan. This is why they were so die 411 00:23:55,240 --> 00:23:58,440 Speaker 3: hard in their opposition to socialism. 412 00:23:58,000 --> 00:23:59,040 Speaker 2: Because they lived it. 413 00:23:59,680 --> 00:24:04,119 Speaker 3: They saw a country that was thriving, that has unbelievable 414 00:24:04,680 --> 00:24:08,560 Speaker 3: natural riches through oil and gas, and was having, as 415 00:24:08,600 --> 00:24:11,840 Speaker 3: you said, the third greatest GNP in all of the 416 00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:16,919 Speaker 3: Western hemisphere. And then Chavez came into power and starting 417 00:24:16,920 --> 00:24:19,639 Speaker 3: in the late nineties, the wheels came off this economy 418 00:24:19,960 --> 00:24:23,520 Speaker 3: and they still have. They stole all of the American assets, 419 00:24:23,600 --> 00:24:26,879 Speaker 3: all of the oil companies out there, and all Trump 420 00:24:26,960 --> 00:24:31,960 Speaker 3: is saying is We're going to make this country function efficiently. Again, 421 00:24:32,080 --> 00:24:36,160 Speaker 3: that's basically the plan is just to have success. 422 00:24:36,440 --> 00:24:39,280 Speaker 1: It's a number of things you don't get to operate, 423 00:24:40,160 --> 00:24:44,600 Speaker 1: you know, with impunity. A narco state that is sending 424 00:24:44,680 --> 00:24:49,080 Speaker 1: cocaine into the United States into Europe by the way, 425 00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:51,320 Speaker 1: in large numbers as well, you don't get. You just 426 00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:54,080 Speaker 1: do that because you say, well, I run this other 427 00:24:54,119 --> 00:24:57,960 Speaker 1: little tinpot dictatorship. You know, this is the mess around 428 00:24:58,080 --> 00:25:01,560 Speaker 1: and find out for power of Trump, and it's a 429 00:25:01,560 --> 00:25:04,560 Speaker 1: brilliant thing. But on the oil production, not just to 430 00:25:04,560 --> 00:25:07,960 Speaker 1: give everyone a sense of this, uh, they were. 431 00:25:07,800 --> 00:25:13,040 Speaker 2: Doing three million, three million. 432 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:19,480 Speaker 1: Barrels per day okay, produced in Venezuela right around to that, 433 00:25:19,640 --> 00:25:21,760 Speaker 1: like ninety eight, ninety nine, two thousand, so right around 434 00:25:21,760 --> 00:25:25,600 Speaker 1: the end of the twentieth century, three million barrels per day, and. 435 00:25:25,520 --> 00:25:26,960 Speaker 4: Then it went down to. 436 00:25:28,480 --> 00:25:30,800 Speaker 1: In Uh. I'm trying to COVID's not. 437 00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:31,520 Speaker 2: Really a fair commit. 438 00:25:31,720 --> 00:25:34,160 Speaker 3: I think they're doing a million now is the numbers 439 00:25:34,160 --> 00:25:35,800 Speaker 3: that I have a million? I was gonna say it's 440 00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:37,440 Speaker 3: it's it's a million, and what got down to half 441 00:25:37,480 --> 00:25:39,840 Speaker 3: a million during COVID but a million a day. 442 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:45,040 Speaker 1: So their their their production capacity has been annihilated by 443 00:25:45,080 --> 00:25:47,840 Speaker 1: the idiots in charge who said they were going to 444 00:25:47,880 --> 00:25:51,120 Speaker 1: make the poor people wealthier, they were going to give 445 00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:55,960 Speaker 1: people more stuff. The single most important financial asset of 446 00:25:56,040 --> 00:25:59,520 Speaker 1: this country has been so grossly mismanaged that you could 447 00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:02,639 Speaker 1: you should want to throw all the idiots in charge 448 00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:05,080 Speaker 1: in prison just because of that. And then Clay, you 449 00:26:05,080 --> 00:26:08,600 Speaker 1: add on to this trenda Aragua is a Venezuelan prison 450 00:26:08,720 --> 00:26:14,840 Speaker 1: gang that the narco terrorist regime of Maduro was working 451 00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:18,840 Speaker 1: with to one export the drugs, and of course Maduro 452 00:26:18,920 --> 00:26:21,359 Speaker 1: then is taking a cut, right and on top of 453 00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:25,000 Speaker 1: that they were doing this, they were terrorizing political opposition. 454 00:26:25,600 --> 00:26:29,439 Speaker 1: They were Maduro's street thugs, I mean, his actual thugs 455 00:26:29,440 --> 00:26:33,280 Speaker 1: from prison became street thugs of the regime who were 456 00:26:33,320 --> 00:26:37,760 Speaker 1: being enriched by the international cartel operation that Maduro was 457 00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:40,840 Speaker 1: presiding over, which is why Biden had a twenty five 458 00:26:40,920 --> 00:26:44,120 Speaker 1: million dollar bounty on Like there's no debate about any 459 00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:44,359 Speaker 1: of this. 460 00:26:45,080 --> 00:26:47,760 Speaker 3: Not only did they have the twenty five million dollar bounty, 461 00:26:47,760 --> 00:26:49,520 Speaker 3: buck they made it. 462 00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:51,680 Speaker 2: In January of this year. 463 00:26:52,359 --> 00:26:56,719 Speaker 3: In January of this year, they made that bounty twenty 464 00:26:56,960 --> 00:26:59,879 Speaker 3: five million dollars, and I think Trump took it to 465 00:26:59,880 --> 00:27:02,480 Speaker 3: fifty million, because there's that funny aside when they had 466 00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:05,439 Speaker 3: the press conference availability where Trump said to Marco Rubio, 467 00:27:05,560 --> 00:27:08,879 Speaker 3: Secretary of State, Hey, make sure nobody's able to claim that, 468 00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:12,359 Speaker 3: because it went to fifty million dollars in the event 469 00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:14,120 Speaker 3: that he were able to be captured. 470 00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:15,840 Speaker 2: But this is why. 471 00:27:15,680 --> 00:27:19,560 Speaker 3: When Kamala shared her shared her take of oh, this 472 00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:23,760 Speaker 3: is completely unacceptable, then there's an immediate response. And again 473 00:27:23,840 --> 00:27:26,639 Speaker 3: I come back to this is partly what creating a 474 00:27:26,760 --> 00:27:29,000 Speaker 3: free marketplace for Twitter has done. 475 00:27:29,320 --> 00:27:31,000 Speaker 2: It allows everybody out there. 476 00:27:30,840 --> 00:27:34,000 Speaker 3: To say, wait a minute, just in January, you guys, 477 00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:35,480 Speaker 3: I mean, I think we can grab the audio of 478 00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:38,040 Speaker 3: Karine Jean Pierre talking about it from the White House 479 00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:41,280 Speaker 3: press conference availability there as a press secretary. 480 00:27:41,800 --> 00:27:44,520 Speaker 2: They made it twenty five million dollars just in January. 481 00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:47,080 Speaker 2: It's one of the final things they did well. 482 00:27:47,119 --> 00:27:50,240 Speaker 1: But again this is where you see the Democrats just 483 00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:55,600 Speaker 1: hope that everybody in America forgets what they have said 484 00:27:55,600 --> 00:27:57,920 Speaker 1: about So we played that Chuck Schumer, Chuck Schumer's like, lead, 485 00:27:58,000 --> 00:27:59,360 Speaker 1: you know you're not doing enough. 486 00:28:00,880 --> 00:28:03,080 Speaker 2: Claim you're gonna do stuff, and you're not willing to 487 00:28:03,119 --> 00:28:03,480 Speaker 2: do it. 488 00:28:04,160 --> 00:28:08,639 Speaker 1: They they can't attack this on the merits of the mission, 489 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:12,840 Speaker 1: meaning the tactical success, because you know, you know, and look, 490 00:28:13,080 --> 00:28:15,560 Speaker 1: Seal Team six got a lot of love, rightly deserved 491 00:28:15,560 --> 00:28:18,040 Speaker 1: a lot of love after the bin Laden raid. It's 492 00:28:18,119 --> 00:28:20,080 Speaker 1: Delta's time in the sun right now. Delta is now 493 00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:23,240 Speaker 1: getting a lot of credit for being also the absolute 494 00:28:23,320 --> 00:28:26,000 Speaker 1: best of the best Tier one operators, you know, the 495 00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:32,000 Speaker 1: best UH elite special Operations infantry force that you could 496 00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:35,160 Speaker 1: ever ever hope for ever trained, so fantastic for them. 497 00:28:35,240 --> 00:28:37,280 Speaker 1: So they can't attack them on the tactical But then 498 00:28:37,320 --> 00:28:39,400 Speaker 1: Clay on the strategic side of this, and this is 499 00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:42,240 Speaker 1: what I think in part upsets people like Mom Donnie. 500 00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:45,200 Speaker 1: It's not the international law thing. It's that this also 501 00:28:46,040 --> 00:28:52,560 Speaker 1: hurts the whole axis of America and Trump opposition globally. 502 00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:57,080 Speaker 1: This is bad for China, this is bad for Russia, 503 00:28:57,440 --> 00:29:01,040 Speaker 1: very bad for Cuba. It's even bad for Iran. Right 504 00:29:01,280 --> 00:29:07,400 Speaker 1: these are all places that lose because Maduro is no 505 00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:12,800 Speaker 1: longer a stooge for them selling them oil in violation 506 00:29:13,080 --> 00:29:14,720 Speaker 1: or just giving it to them the case of Cuba 507 00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:18,920 Speaker 1: in violation of US sanctions. This also shows them, like 508 00:29:18,960 --> 00:29:21,000 Speaker 1: I said, the mess around and find out foreign policy 509 00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:23,040 Speaker 1: of Trump, which Iran learned the hard way with its 510 00:29:23,120 --> 00:29:26,200 Speaker 1: nuke reactors, and now Maduro has learned this. This sends 511 00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:29,520 Speaker 1: a huge message to China on the Taiwan issue. I 512 00:29:29,520 --> 00:29:32,520 Speaker 1: would add that as well. I heard from the President 513 00:29:32,560 --> 00:29:35,400 Speaker 1: of Taiwan himself face to face. He told me after 514 00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:39,720 Speaker 1: what Trump did in Iran, the Taiwanese were like, you 515 00:29:39,720 --> 00:29:42,200 Speaker 1: know what, this guy's not messing around, And I don't 516 00:29:42,240 --> 00:29:45,480 Speaker 1: think and they know. The Taiwanese knew that the Chinese 517 00:29:45,560 --> 00:29:48,560 Speaker 1: were paying very close attention and going, oh, things are 518 00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:51,200 Speaker 1: different now. And I think that's a big lesson here. 519 00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:55,080 Speaker 1: But for the the Mamdani Kamis of the world, it's 520 00:29:55,120 --> 00:29:57,680 Speaker 1: wait a second, the workers of the world unite stuff. 521 00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:00,800 Speaker 1: It's not looking good for them. 522 00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:04,240 Speaker 3: I just again, as we start off twenty twenty six, 523 00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:08,120 Speaker 3: I don't think twenty twenty five could have gone any better. 524 00:30:09,560 --> 00:30:12,840 Speaker 3: You know, four point three percent GDP at the last 525 00:30:12,840 --> 00:30:16,000 Speaker 3: GDP that we got two point seven percent interest rate 526 00:30:17,360 --> 00:30:23,160 Speaker 3: sorry inflation. Interest rates have come down substantially seventy five 527 00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:28,000 Speaker 3: basis point cut. Your mortgages are much more affordable right 528 00:30:28,040 --> 00:30:30,320 Speaker 3: now as we start twenty twenty five than they were 529 00:30:30,360 --> 00:30:34,760 Speaker 3: at the end of the Biden era. And we haven't 530 00:30:34,760 --> 00:30:36,720 Speaker 3: even hardly talked about it. You mentioned it, Buck, but 531 00:30:37,120 --> 00:30:40,120 Speaker 3: the biggest decline on record in murders. I'm looking right 532 00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:43,840 Speaker 3: now at the Washington Post. You know, they said, oh, 533 00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:46,080 Speaker 3: Trump calling out the National Guard is going to have 534 00:30:46,160 --> 00:30:51,200 Speaker 3: no impact. Murders went down thirty two percent in Washington, 535 00:30:51,320 --> 00:30:56,240 Speaker 3: d C. In twenty twenty five. Thirty two percent down 536 00:30:56,240 --> 00:30:59,120 Speaker 3: to about one hundred and twenty five murders in Washington, 537 00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:03,440 Speaker 3: D C. That's unprecedented. So there's so much positive momentum 538 00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:04,920 Speaker 3: out there. By the way, we should open up phones 539 00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:06,800 Speaker 3: eight hundred and two A two to two eight A two. 540 00:31:06,880 --> 00:31:09,080 Speaker 3: I bet we got some Special Forces guys out there 541 00:31:09,480 --> 00:31:11,400 Speaker 3: that would like to react to what they have seen 542 00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:14,000 Speaker 3: from the Venezuela raid. We're going to have our buddy 543 00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:16,440 Speaker 3: David Rutherford, who is one of our guest hosts in 544 00:31:16,480 --> 00:31:18,800 Speaker 3: the third hour to talk about that. 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What 572 00:32:48,320 --> 00:32:52,960 Speaker 3: do you think about Cuba, buck, Because basically the only 573 00:32:53,080 --> 00:32:56,360 Speaker 3: reason there is any Cuban economy at all has been 574 00:32:56,400 --> 00:32:59,520 Speaker 3: that Venezuela has helped prop them up by giving them 575 00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:03,360 Speaker 3: some of that oil that is far more affordable than 576 00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:04,640 Speaker 3: it otherwise would be. 577 00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:06,640 Speaker 2: And now with the. 578 00:33:08,560 --> 00:33:12,280 Speaker 3: Barricade that's basically put up without the oil being able 579 00:33:12,320 --> 00:33:17,200 Speaker 3: to get there, Essentially, Marco Rubio and Donald Trump, in 580 00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:21,680 Speaker 3: that press conference on right after the I guess was 581 00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:26,120 Speaker 3: it Sunday? Saturday? I guess right after the raid, said 582 00:33:26,280 --> 00:33:30,240 Speaker 3: Cuba's going to collapse too. And I've long thought and 583 00:33:30,440 --> 00:33:34,320 Speaker 3: wondered what the rationale has been all the way back 584 00:33:34,360 --> 00:33:36,320 Speaker 3: my whole life. But certainly for those of you who 585 00:33:36,400 --> 00:33:39,400 Speaker 3: remember the Cuban missile crisis and everything we lived through there, 586 00:33:39,760 --> 00:33:42,520 Speaker 3: why in the world have we allowed ninety minutes south 587 00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:47,480 Speaker 3: of the Florida Keys for Cuba to effectively be a 588 00:33:47,520 --> 00:33:48,840 Speaker 3: failed communist state? 589 00:33:49,280 --> 00:33:50,520 Speaker 2: Why have we allowed that to happen? 590 00:33:54,040 --> 00:33:56,360 Speaker 1: Next time you come down to Miami, I'm going to 591 00:33:56,400 --> 00:33:58,320 Speaker 1: have you just walk around the streets down here in 592 00:33:58,320 --> 00:34:00,800 Speaker 1: little Havana and just say what you said. Because all 593 00:34:00,840 --> 00:34:06,920 Speaker 1: the all the Cuban Americans who have defined really Miami 594 00:34:07,080 --> 00:34:09,799 Speaker 1: in many ways for decades, they ask exactly that question, 595 00:34:09,840 --> 00:34:11,520 Speaker 1: yahich is what that? What the heck is going on? 596 00:34:11,560 --> 00:34:14,160 Speaker 1: And they have no love for the regime there, and 597 00:34:14,200 --> 00:34:18,120 Speaker 1: if anything, they really wish that their home country were 598 00:34:18,200 --> 00:34:20,920 Speaker 1: rather they're there. In many cases their ancestors home country, 599 00:34:21,360 --> 00:34:24,160 Speaker 1: uh could be a free and prosperous place. There's no 600 00:34:24,200 --> 00:34:25,040 Speaker 1: reason for it not to be. 601 00:34:25,520 --> 00:34:25,719 Speaker 2: Uh. 602 00:34:26,080 --> 00:34:33,839 Speaker 1: They look that they've been essentially trading security forces as 603 00:34:33,880 --> 00:34:39,239 Speaker 1: in because remember the KGB trained the Cuban intelligence services 604 00:34:39,640 --> 00:34:41,839 Speaker 1: back in the old Cold War era, which is why 605 00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:46,400 Speaker 1: the Cuban intelligence services were very aggressive and actually pretty 606 00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:50,640 Speaker 1: competent at regime repress, at regime you know, stability repress 607 00:34:50,719 --> 00:34:53,720 Speaker 1: and all of that, because they learned from the best, 608 00:34:54,360 --> 00:34:57,200 Speaker 1: as in the worst, they learned from the KGB themselves. 609 00:34:57,760 --> 00:35:01,680 Speaker 1: They were providing the security for Maduro. So we just 610 00:35:01,719 --> 00:35:04,040 Speaker 1: wasted a bunch of or rather Delta Force just wasted 611 00:35:04,080 --> 00:35:07,240 Speaker 1: a bunch of Cuban guys standing around with machine guns 612 00:35:07,880 --> 00:35:12,480 Speaker 1: to protect Maduro. And they in exchange, the Venezuelan regime 613 00:35:12,520 --> 00:35:15,279 Speaker 1: is giving Cuba oil. Yeah, and this is what it 614 00:35:15,320 --> 00:35:17,120 Speaker 1: needs to be able to function it. Think about what 615 00:35:17,239 --> 00:35:19,200 Speaker 1: goes in the generators, Like, how do they have power? 616 00:35:19,239 --> 00:35:20,839 Speaker 1: I mean, it's an island to begin with, and they 617 00:35:20,840 --> 00:35:23,560 Speaker 1: don't have the natural resources to do this on their own. 618 00:35:23,920 --> 00:35:27,640 Speaker 1: So without that, they're going to be under under enormous pressure. 619 00:35:27,760 --> 00:35:30,720 Speaker 1: And I think also, you know, people think of oh Cuba. 620 00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:33,360 Speaker 1: And I'm not trying to get crazy here everybody, but 621 00:35:33,400 --> 00:35:35,200 Speaker 1: they think of the Bay of Pigs and the disaster. 622 00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:36,759 Speaker 1: I mean, I've got a dear friend down here in 623 00:35:36,800 --> 00:35:38,480 Speaker 1: Miami who was at the Bay of Pigs, who was 624 00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:41,640 Speaker 1: fighting at the Bay of Pigs. They think about that, 625 00:35:41,640 --> 00:35:44,520 Speaker 1: and they think about the debacle, the disaster. This could 626 00:35:44,560 --> 00:35:47,279 Speaker 1: have been a debacle disaster too clayed Venezuela, and it 627 00:35:47,320 --> 00:35:49,160 Speaker 1: was not. It was the opposite. So I think that 628 00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:52,799 Speaker 1: puts Cuba on notice. Oh, I think Cuba. Look, if 629 00:35:52,840 --> 00:35:53,839 Speaker 1: you have ever been on. 630 00:35:53,800 --> 00:36:00,880 Speaker 3: A cruise ship, Cuba warrids become almost immediately, snap your fingers. 631 00:36:01,239 --> 00:36:05,920 Speaker 3: It would become an unbelievable economic growth engine. I mean 632 00:36:05,960 --> 00:36:09,880 Speaker 3: Cuba was Las Vegas before Las Vegas existed. I mean, 633 00:36:09,920 --> 00:36:11,880 Speaker 3: you used to be able to hop on a speedboat 634 00:36:11,920 --> 00:36:14,520 Speaker 3: and be in Havana for dinner. 635 00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:18,160 Speaker 1: It could be one of the premier tourist destinations in 636 00:36:18,200 --> 00:36:21,320 Speaker 1: the Caribbean and really for beaches in the world. Honestly, 637 00:36:21,360 --> 00:36:22,640 Speaker 1: it could be an incredible place. 638 00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:24,879 Speaker 3: I mean, if you have ever been on a cruise ship, 639 00:36:25,120 --> 00:36:28,120 Speaker 3: you will go close enough to see the spires the 640 00:36:28,160 --> 00:36:31,640 Speaker 3: buildings of Havana from the cruise ship. 641 00:36:31,800 --> 00:36:32,839 Speaker 2: I mean, it is a no. 642 00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:39,160 Speaker 3: Brainer that that country should be an American allied source 643 00:36:39,400 --> 00:36:42,640 Speaker 3: of economic ingenuity. And I know there's a lot of 644 00:36:42,680 --> 00:36:46,359 Speaker 3: people out there listening right now. The Donro doctrine. We'll 645 00:36:46,360 --> 00:36:48,239 Speaker 3: talk about it when we come back. What does it 646 00:36:48,360 --> 00:36:51,760 Speaker 3: actually mean and what is the impact. Thanks for hanging 647 00:36:51,800 --> 00:36:53,080 Speaker 3: with us in twenty twenty six.