1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:03,320 Speaker 1: Welcome to today's edition of The Clay Travis and Buck 2 00:00:03,360 --> 00:00:07,800 Speaker 1: Sexton Show podcast. Welcome back to the Clay Travis and 3 00:00:07,880 --> 00:00:12,200 Speaker 1: Buck Sexton Show. I'm Buck, he's Clay. We are diving 4 00:00:12,240 --> 00:00:16,319 Speaker 1: into this situation in Cuba. But plus this hour we 5 00:00:16,320 --> 00:00:20,520 Speaker 1: will transition into a discussion of the Biden administrations big 6 00:00:20,560 --> 00:00:24,640 Speaker 1: meeting with leaders from cities across the country and anti 7 00:00:24,800 --> 00:00:27,560 Speaker 1: violence experts. By that they usually mean anti gun experts 8 00:00:28,280 --> 00:00:31,200 Speaker 1: and what they're doing to combat the huge surge and 9 00:00:31,360 --> 00:00:36,040 Speaker 1: violent crime and shootings and murders across the countries. We'll 10 00:00:36,040 --> 00:00:37,879 Speaker 1: be diving into that law enforcementition in a second. But 11 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:40,960 Speaker 1: Clay and I keep going back and forth in every break. 12 00:00:40,800 --> 00:00:43,720 Speaker 1: We got a couple of ideas we want to flesh 13 00:00:43,760 --> 00:00:46,280 Speaker 1: out some more with all of you. One of them 14 00:00:46,400 --> 00:00:50,000 Speaker 1: is the notion of what degree of intervention right now 15 00:00:50,080 --> 00:00:54,440 Speaker 1: would be wise. I am very cautious about it. Clay 16 00:00:54,480 --> 00:00:57,360 Speaker 1: is more forward leaning on it. So we'll dive into that. 17 00:00:57,720 --> 00:01:03,280 Speaker 1: But there's also a pretty deafening silence right now from 18 00:01:03,400 --> 00:01:08,960 Speaker 1: Democrats who usually have so much to say about democracy 19 00:01:09,440 --> 00:01:14,440 Speaker 1: and freedom and the need and voting rights and all 20 00:01:14,520 --> 00:01:17,880 Speaker 1: these things. And yet Clay, when I look and I 21 00:01:17,959 --> 00:01:23,720 Speaker 1: see the latest from Alexandrio Kazi, Okazio Cortez or Bernie 22 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:27,759 Speaker 1: Sanders or others on the issue of Cuba. I mean, 23 00:01:27,760 --> 00:01:30,360 Speaker 1: it feels like one they're not saying anything. They've said 24 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:32,800 Speaker 1: nothing in twenty four hours on their social media accounts. 25 00:01:32,800 --> 00:01:38,200 Speaker 1: But beyond that, even the Biden administration, it all feels perfunctory. 26 00:01:38,200 --> 00:01:40,920 Speaker 1: It all feels a little boiler plate. And you can 27 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:46,640 Speaker 1: help but come away from this thinking there is a longstanding, 28 00:01:46,800 --> 00:01:51,800 Speaker 1: abiding sympathy that the Democrats and the leftist elites in 29 00:01:51,880 --> 00:01:58,440 Speaker 1: America have for socialism and yes specifically for communism in Cuba. 30 00:01:58,520 --> 00:02:00,920 Speaker 1: We've all seen it. We know, celebrities go there. They 31 00:02:00,920 --> 00:02:03,160 Speaker 1: always talk about how great that, Oh, the healthcare is 32 00:02:03,160 --> 00:02:05,080 Speaker 1: so great, you know, the literacy rate is so high. 33 00:02:05,080 --> 00:02:09,480 Speaker 1: They're always making it's a police state that locks people up, 34 00:02:09,520 --> 00:02:13,040 Speaker 1: that imprisons family members to pressure them, that's that expels 35 00:02:13,120 --> 00:02:16,440 Speaker 1: people to drown with or in front of their own 36 00:02:16,520 --> 00:02:19,120 Speaker 1: children because they're so desperate to get out of this 37 00:02:19,720 --> 00:02:24,560 Speaker 1: hellhole situation. And the Democrats, I mean, right now, if 38 00:02:24,560 --> 00:02:28,040 Speaker 1: you look at CNN, you know, CNN dot com, you'll 39 00:02:28,080 --> 00:02:32,120 Speaker 1: see that their biggest concern is, you know, the insurrection 40 00:02:32,200 --> 00:02:37,600 Speaker 1: and people not getting vaccinated enough. It's a fundamental failure 41 00:02:38,880 --> 00:02:44,959 Speaker 1: of our media and of our political culture in my opinion, 42 00:02:46,120 --> 00:02:50,120 Speaker 1: that everyone isn't talking about Cuba right now. And yes, 43 00:02:50,200 --> 00:02:53,520 Speaker 1: I understand some people think that I am crazy, and 44 00:02:53,560 --> 00:02:55,840 Speaker 1: I've been making this argument for decades. This is not 45 00:02:55,960 --> 00:03:01,320 Speaker 1: something new that to me when I ninety miles south 46 00:03:01,360 --> 00:03:05,400 Speaker 1: of the Keys and see Cuba sitting there, and obviously 47 00:03:05,440 --> 00:03:08,040 Speaker 1: I'm young ishbuck right. It wasn't like I was around 48 00:03:08,120 --> 00:03:09,760 Speaker 1: during the Bay of Pigs. It wasn't like I was 49 00:03:09,800 --> 00:03:12,760 Speaker 1: around during the Cuban missile crisis or anything like that. 50 00:03:13,560 --> 00:03:19,120 Speaker 1: But I see it as an incredible blight upon America 51 00:03:19,160 --> 00:03:22,880 Speaker 1: to a certain extent, that we have allowed this awful 52 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:27,240 Speaker 1: regime to exist when it's clear the Cuban people do 53 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:30,040 Speaker 1: not support it. It has been an end It has 54 00:03:30,040 --> 00:03:34,240 Speaker 1: been an unsingable aircraft carrier of communism in the region 55 00:03:34,520 --> 00:03:38,680 Speaker 1: the whole time, in Nicaragua, in El Salvador, in Venezuela, 56 00:03:38,760 --> 00:03:42,640 Speaker 1: and connections all over the world to communist regimes and authority. 57 00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:44,440 Speaker 1: Who are the friends of Cuba, Clay, that's always a 58 00:03:44,760 --> 00:03:48,880 Speaker 1: good place to start. Iran, Russia, all the governments, all 59 00:03:48,880 --> 00:03:53,680 Speaker 1: the governments that the Democrats supposedly dislike or hate, depending 60 00:03:53,680 --> 00:03:56,200 Speaker 1: on which we're talking about, but they have an affinity. 61 00:03:56,240 --> 00:03:59,920 Speaker 1: There's a special place in the lib heart for totalit 62 00:04:00,160 --> 00:04:02,680 Speaker 1: terrian thugs running Cuba. I don't know. I mean, that's 63 00:04:02,720 --> 00:04:07,280 Speaker 1: just the truth. And I when I see the people 64 00:04:07,320 --> 00:04:09,440 Speaker 1: in Cuba who are brave enough to take out American 65 00:04:09,480 --> 00:04:13,280 Speaker 1: flags and protest in favor of freedom. We failed in 66 00:04:13,360 --> 00:04:15,720 Speaker 1: Hong Kong, and I don't know why the Hong Kong 67 00:04:15,760 --> 00:04:18,560 Speaker 1: failure is not a bigger story, because to me, it's 68 00:04:18,560 --> 00:04:20,719 Speaker 1: a roadmap for what China is going to try to 69 00:04:20,720 --> 00:04:24,360 Speaker 1: do with Taiwan, another island nation, and we're going to 70 00:04:24,440 --> 00:04:28,080 Speaker 1: have to, I believe, at some point decide this strategic 71 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:31,919 Speaker 1: ambiguity as it pertains to Taiwan is not going to 72 00:04:31,960 --> 00:04:34,320 Speaker 1: be able to continue, and we're going to have to 73 00:04:34,360 --> 00:04:36,920 Speaker 1: decide at some point or another, especially when you consider 74 00:04:36,960 --> 00:04:40,080 Speaker 1: the overall power that Taiwan has from an economic perspective 75 00:04:40,080 --> 00:04:42,799 Speaker 1: with their semiconductor industry. We're going to have to decide 76 00:04:42,800 --> 00:04:45,360 Speaker 1: at some point are we willing or not to defend 77 00:04:45,360 --> 00:04:50,200 Speaker 1: Taiwan in the event that China invades. And I believe 78 00:04:50,560 --> 00:04:54,599 Speaker 1: that Cuba, given the United States already has military bases 79 00:04:54,600 --> 00:04:57,640 Speaker 1: on the island and everything else. I think that Cuba 80 00:04:57,760 --> 00:05:01,680 Speaker 1: right now is poised, perhaps uniquely in our history, if 81 00:05:01,720 --> 00:05:05,880 Speaker 1: the United States makes the right choices to potentially have 82 00:05:06,160 --> 00:05:10,119 Speaker 1: a Berlin Wall like moment where they finally the people 83 00:05:10,120 --> 00:05:14,360 Speaker 1: of Cuba throw off the vestiges of this totalitarian go So. 84 00:05:14,360 --> 00:05:16,360 Speaker 1: So if the people do it, that's I mean, I'm 85 00:05:16,400 --> 00:05:19,200 Speaker 1: sitting here hoping and I know you are to hoping 86 00:05:19,200 --> 00:05:21,840 Speaker 1: and cheering for that. If the Cuban people are able, 87 00:05:21,920 --> 00:05:25,080 Speaker 1: and really all that has to happen would be large 88 00:05:25,160 --> 00:05:28,480 Speaker 1: enough numbers of the police and military of the Cuban 89 00:05:28,520 --> 00:05:31,200 Speaker 1: regime just say we're not raising our hands or our 90 00:05:31,240 --> 00:05:33,400 Speaker 1: guns against our own people, and the whole thing can 91 00:05:33,440 --> 00:05:37,920 Speaker 1: crumble if that takes place. But remember, people in those 92 00:05:37,960 --> 00:05:40,320 Speaker 1: positions may think that they'll be in prison. They worry 93 00:05:40,360 --> 00:05:43,400 Speaker 1: about their families. That's not as easy as it sounds. 94 00:05:43,440 --> 00:05:45,040 Speaker 1: We say, well, of course, who wouldn't want to just 95 00:05:45,040 --> 00:05:48,040 Speaker 1: defend their And I'm hoping that that happens. But I mean, Clay, 96 00:05:48,160 --> 00:05:49,840 Speaker 1: I've got to ask, because it seems like this is 97 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:53,800 Speaker 1: where your thoughts are leading us a little bit. If 98 00:05:53,800 --> 00:05:56,600 Speaker 1: the Biden administration said in a week, which, by the way, 99 00:05:56,640 --> 00:05:59,680 Speaker 1: they're not going to because they actually don't. Then this 100 00:05:59,720 --> 00:06:01,520 Speaker 1: is maybe what you're getting to here, And part of 101 00:06:01,560 --> 00:06:05,080 Speaker 1: this is you're illuminating the Biden administration has no interest 102 00:06:05,440 --> 00:06:08,719 Speaker 1: in giving the final shove to the regime in Cuba. 103 00:06:09,200 --> 00:06:11,360 Speaker 1: They don't want to do that. They'll let them play out. 104 00:06:11,520 --> 00:06:13,840 Speaker 1: But they're not actually you know what I I mean, they're 105 00:06:13,839 --> 00:06:17,440 Speaker 1: not actually willing to consider what I am suggesting, right, 106 00:06:17,440 --> 00:06:19,640 Speaker 1: I mean, this would be a more interesting conversation if 107 00:06:19,640 --> 00:06:23,440 Speaker 1: Trump were in office right now, if it is there 108 00:06:23,520 --> 00:06:29,760 Speaker 1: a way to militarily support these protesters in a way 109 00:06:29,760 --> 00:06:34,680 Speaker 1: to let the United States government clearly make as opposed 110 00:06:34,680 --> 00:06:37,080 Speaker 1: to putting a release on the White House website which 111 00:06:37,120 --> 00:06:39,679 Speaker 1: nobody can see in Cuba right now. Right they've shut 112 00:06:39,720 --> 00:06:43,520 Speaker 1: down the internet as best they can. And by the way, 113 00:06:43,560 --> 00:06:47,560 Speaker 1: what benefit does the United States saying we support you 114 00:06:47,880 --> 00:06:51,200 Speaker 1: when there's a jackbooted thug banging on your door that's 115 00:06:51,200 --> 00:06:53,400 Speaker 1: going to drag you out and your family and put 116 00:06:53,440 --> 00:06:57,039 Speaker 1: you in prison. We literally are doing the least possible 117 00:06:57,120 --> 00:07:00,320 Speaker 1: support that we could for Cuba. I would be more 118 00:07:00,360 --> 00:07:05,800 Speaker 1: inclined to actually support the Cuban people who are standing 119 00:07:05,839 --> 00:07:12,480 Speaker 1: up against this government potentially with military support. So when 120 00:07:12,480 --> 00:07:16,400 Speaker 1: you say military support, you mean you're talking to intervention 121 00:07:16,440 --> 00:07:18,440 Speaker 1: at some level like we set up we said basically 122 00:07:18,480 --> 00:07:21,160 Speaker 1: send down peacekeepers or something like that. Is that what 123 00:07:21,280 --> 00:07:23,680 Speaker 1: you yes? Man, I gotta tell you, I don't think. 124 00:07:23,720 --> 00:07:26,000 Speaker 1: I don't think the Trump administration even and of course 125 00:07:26,280 --> 00:07:28,880 Speaker 1: this is a counterfact, it's a radical idea. I don't 126 00:07:28,920 --> 00:07:31,200 Speaker 1: think the Trump administration would go anywhere near that, even 127 00:07:31,240 --> 00:07:33,960 Speaker 1: if they were in charge. I don't think. What's interesting, 128 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:37,080 Speaker 1: as Democrats generally don't want to go to war for 129 00:07:37,200 --> 00:07:41,120 Speaker 1: reasons of clear US national security interests, they often do 130 00:07:41,240 --> 00:07:44,480 Speaker 1: want to go to war for some humanitarian intervention somewhere 131 00:07:44,920 --> 00:07:46,880 Speaker 1: that's not really a war, but then it turns into 132 00:07:46,880 --> 00:07:48,880 Speaker 1: a war, and you know that. So so that is 133 00:07:48,920 --> 00:07:51,080 Speaker 1: a history that they have along standing history. But on 134 00:07:51,080 --> 00:07:54,240 Speaker 1: this issue, look, you just see this from everything that 135 00:07:54,280 --> 00:07:57,560 Speaker 1: they say, from all the pronouncements, from the deafening silence 136 00:07:57,720 --> 00:08:02,600 Speaker 1: of the Democrat left right now, they do not hate 137 00:08:02,640 --> 00:08:05,679 Speaker 1: the Cuban regime. You know, they don't hate the Cuban 138 00:08:05,720 --> 00:08:09,000 Speaker 1: regime the way they hate you know, Republicans and Karl 139 00:08:09,080 --> 00:08:11,880 Speaker 1: Rove and I mean, they really have a soft spot 140 00:08:12,120 --> 00:08:15,040 Speaker 1: that's very apparent, and that means that right now, I 141 00:08:15,080 --> 00:08:16,920 Speaker 1: think they're happy to do the This is what I 142 00:08:16,920 --> 00:08:20,600 Speaker 1: think we'll expect from the bidministration, the absolute bare minimum, 143 00:08:20,640 --> 00:08:22,240 Speaker 1: and hope that this is a problem they don't have 144 00:08:22,280 --> 00:08:24,360 Speaker 1: to really deal with. That's what I think you can expect. 145 00:08:24,560 --> 00:08:27,720 Speaker 1: And let me explain in my thought process, and you 146 00:08:27,720 --> 00:08:29,880 Speaker 1: can tell me whether you think that I'm insane here. 147 00:08:30,320 --> 00:08:33,800 Speaker 1: This to me is not Afghanistan, right. The Cuban people 148 00:08:34,679 --> 00:08:37,920 Speaker 1: share I think, a common history in a way that 149 00:08:37,960 --> 00:08:40,720 Speaker 1: the tribes of Afghanistan do not. To me, this is 150 00:08:40,760 --> 00:08:45,360 Speaker 1: not going into Iraq inspect expecting, like you said, Paul Wolfelwitz, 151 00:08:45,400 --> 00:08:48,240 Speaker 1: Oh they're gonna They're gonna see us as the great, 152 00:08:48,640 --> 00:08:51,920 Speaker 1: the great saviors of this country. I think that Cuba, 153 00:08:51,960 --> 00:08:54,880 Speaker 1: with its population of ten or eleven million people and 154 00:08:55,080 --> 00:08:58,160 Speaker 1: a history at least in living memory, in some sense 155 00:08:58,280 --> 00:09:01,760 Speaker 1: of democracy on that island, and the fact that when 156 00:09:01,760 --> 00:09:05,400 Speaker 1: democracy existed, they had cars that they still use now, 157 00:09:05,760 --> 00:09:11,960 Speaker 1: and they had they had a strong capitalistic economy that 158 00:09:12,040 --> 00:09:14,760 Speaker 1: they were able to support. I think there is a 159 00:09:14,880 --> 00:09:20,280 Speaker 1: working historical knowledge of freedom and democracy, even if it's 160 00:09:20,320 --> 00:09:23,840 Speaker 1: been spread word to mouth. Right for the younger generations 161 00:09:24,120 --> 00:09:26,600 Speaker 1: and they have enough of an exposure to the United States. 162 00:09:26,600 --> 00:09:28,200 Speaker 1: One of the things I always look at Buck is 163 00:09:28,440 --> 00:09:30,840 Speaker 1: the people who were out protesting were young, and a 164 00:09:30,880 --> 00:09:34,640 Speaker 1: lot of them were wearing American sports gear, like the 165 00:09:34,760 --> 00:09:40,120 Speaker 1: videos that I saw American sporting teams. Right there's the embargo. 166 00:09:40,600 --> 00:09:43,840 Speaker 1: They have family in Cuba, they understand I think, in 167 00:09:43,920 --> 00:09:49,720 Speaker 1: many ways what American freedom represents. And there is an elite, 168 00:09:49,840 --> 00:09:53,760 Speaker 1: I would say, of Cuban exiles in the United States 169 00:09:53,800 --> 00:09:56,719 Speaker 1: that have long been of the opinion that at some 170 00:09:56,840 --> 00:10:00,240 Speaker 1: point this awful regime is going to fall. So I 171 00:10:00,240 --> 00:10:04,040 Speaker 1: see it different than some of the other nation building 172 00:10:04,120 --> 00:10:06,440 Speaker 1: that we have done. I know, we've been saying that 173 00:10:06,440 --> 00:10:08,520 Speaker 1: Iran was going to fall as well for a very 174 00:10:08,559 --> 00:10:10,560 Speaker 1: long time, and every you know, and there was in 175 00:10:10,600 --> 00:10:13,400 Speaker 1: two thousand and nine, the beginning of the Obama there's 176 00:10:13,679 --> 00:10:15,640 Speaker 1: I think people will draw some parallels here if they 177 00:10:15,640 --> 00:10:17,920 Speaker 1: have not already. There was an opening where there were 178 00:10:17,920 --> 00:10:21,600 Speaker 1: protests in the streets at Tehran, and they smack that 179 00:10:21,640 --> 00:10:24,000 Speaker 1: whole thing down and shut it down, and the repression 180 00:10:24,040 --> 00:10:27,640 Speaker 1: machinery went into effect, and nothing nothing really changed in 181 00:10:27,679 --> 00:10:29,520 Speaker 1: Iran at all. In fact, a lot of people, a 182 00:10:29,559 --> 00:10:31,720 Speaker 1: lot of good people who stood up for freedom were crushed. 183 00:10:31,880 --> 00:10:35,360 Speaker 1: But look, let's let's address this. Clay Clay wants more 184 00:10:35,360 --> 00:10:37,800 Speaker 1: in directly. I'm seeing people. Some people are into it. 185 00:10:37,840 --> 00:10:41,360 Speaker 1: Some people are ready to go with El Commandante Clay 186 00:10:41,480 --> 00:10:43,679 Speaker 1: here and uh and you know, land troops and get 187 00:10:43,720 --> 00:10:46,480 Speaker 1: ready for it. 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We have got loaded lines 229 00:13:05,800 --> 00:13:09,320 Speaker 1: Cuban Americans, a lot of people weighing in with their 230 00:13:09,360 --> 00:13:15,560 Speaker 1: own perspectives on everything. Let's go to Joe in Austin, Texas. 231 00:13:15,600 --> 00:13:17,480 Speaker 1: He's the next one up. Joe, what do you think 232 00:13:17,480 --> 00:13:19,440 Speaker 1: of my ideas? What do you think of bucks discussion? 233 00:13:19,440 --> 00:13:22,559 Speaker 1: What do you think of the Cuban situation right now? Well, 234 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:26,880 Speaker 1: I'm all for your suggestion. As a matter of fact, 235 00:13:26,880 --> 00:13:28,959 Speaker 1: that I see to my Democratic cren that they start 236 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:31,520 Speaker 1: saying that I used, the border have to be controlled, 237 00:13:31,640 --> 00:13:34,800 Speaker 1: not at the border, but where they're coming from these countries, 238 00:13:34,840 --> 00:13:36,560 Speaker 1: and I'm saying, what do you do, You're gonna invade 239 00:13:36,559 --> 00:13:39,280 Speaker 1: the country. So I said, let's start it to them 240 00:13:39,880 --> 00:13:43,679 Speaker 1: ninety miles away. Let's let's start there there. It's a mess. 241 00:13:43,800 --> 00:13:49,360 Speaker 1: But my actual comment is this started way before nineteen 242 00:13:49,480 --> 00:13:53,520 Speaker 1: fifty nine during the revolution. I came here in sixty four, 243 00:13:54,480 --> 00:13:56,840 Speaker 1: and when my dad told me that we will go 244 00:13:56,960 --> 00:13:59,920 Speaker 1: into America. They're gonna see snare, they're going to ceo 245 00:14:00,040 --> 00:14:04,199 Speaker 1: these different things. My sister and I we got so excited. 246 00:14:04,679 --> 00:14:07,560 Speaker 1: We decided to make a kite and we flew the 247 00:14:07,600 --> 00:14:12,920 Speaker 1: American flag. They were there in ten fifteen minutes, trying 248 00:14:12,960 --> 00:14:16,640 Speaker 1: to arrest me, trying to arrest my sister. How old 249 00:14:16,679 --> 00:14:18,600 Speaker 1: were you and your sister when you flew the American 250 00:14:18,600 --> 00:14:21,160 Speaker 1: flag when you knew you were going to America? I 251 00:14:21,400 --> 00:14:27,120 Speaker 1: was four, she was fifteen, wow, eleven years old, and 252 00:14:27,200 --> 00:14:33,000 Speaker 1: this was fifty four. He uh, we we My father said, dogs, 253 00:14:33,600 --> 00:14:36,080 Speaker 1: we gotta get out of here. So we left and 254 00:14:36,160 --> 00:14:39,800 Speaker 1: we went back in fifty nine just for a visit, 255 00:14:40,120 --> 00:14:44,240 Speaker 1: visit family. My father got arrested for being a capital 256 00:14:44,320 --> 00:14:47,400 Speaker 1: list and whatever other charges they to go against him, 257 00:14:48,040 --> 00:14:51,760 Speaker 1: and when he was on on bail, we left the country. 258 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:54,080 Speaker 1: We snapped out. We've gone into the neighbor's cars. We 259 00:14:54,200 --> 00:14:56,840 Speaker 1: do it to the airport, and he and my mom 260 00:14:56,920 --> 00:14:59,720 Speaker 1: had not been back since start bus. I saw their 261 00:14:59,760 --> 00:15:03,880 Speaker 1: dead now. But I went back eight years ago because 262 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:07,320 Speaker 1: nobody had seen me since the age or four, and 263 00:15:07,720 --> 00:15:12,800 Speaker 1: when I was there, it was miserable. It was miserable. Um. Now, 264 00:15:12,920 --> 00:15:15,480 Speaker 1: my my, my families in the arts. I'm not going 265 00:15:15,560 --> 00:15:17,640 Speaker 1: to mention the ant because they're pretty famous over there, 266 00:15:17,760 --> 00:15:21,680 Speaker 1: but most of them live in Havana. I was born 267 00:15:21,800 --> 00:15:23,920 Speaker 1: deep into the country. So I went to Havanna to 268 00:15:24,080 --> 00:15:30,000 Speaker 1: visit my hand and because that family is in the arts, 269 00:15:30,040 --> 00:15:36,320 Speaker 1: they depleted. It is better than my family was down 270 00:15:36,480 --> 00:15:39,640 Speaker 1: in uh La Vidas, which is now. I sent this 271 00:15:39,720 --> 00:15:43,760 Speaker 1: speeding to but Um. But there was a knock at 272 00:15:43,760 --> 00:15:46,560 Speaker 1: the door one morning while I was down in my 273 00:15:46,720 --> 00:15:49,720 Speaker 1: home and I setn o'clock in the morning. Nobody, nobody 274 00:15:49,800 --> 00:15:51,640 Speaker 1: was getting up. So I got up and I said, 275 00:15:51,800 --> 00:15:54,760 Speaker 1: you know what's going on. I'll tell your hands to 276 00:15:54,880 --> 00:15:57,400 Speaker 1: me here, tell your hands to meet here. So I 277 00:15:57,480 --> 00:15:59,640 Speaker 1: started screaming, I don't know, I said, deal. I think, yeah, 278 00:15:59,720 --> 00:16:09,720 Speaker 1: y'all five or seven at that time, she's scrambling for 279 00:16:09,880 --> 00:16:14,600 Speaker 1: a little book to the stand in line to get me. Yeah, 280 00:16:15,080 --> 00:16:17,600 Speaker 1: this is what this is what socialism and price controls 281 00:16:17,640 --> 00:16:20,720 Speaker 1: gets you. And Joe, thank you for sharing that that assessment. 282 00:16:20,720 --> 00:16:21,920 Speaker 1: What's going on? You know, Clay, I know a lot 283 00:16:21,920 --> 00:16:23,400 Speaker 1: of people want to weigh into this, and we've got 284 00:16:23,760 --> 00:16:25,880 Speaker 1: completely lit line. So let's do this. We'll promise we'll 285 00:16:25,920 --> 00:16:28,600 Speaker 1: get to a few more folks. We come back and 286 00:16:28,640 --> 00:16:32,080 Speaker 1: we'll also I do we want to dive into the 287 00:16:32,160 --> 00:16:37,000 Speaker 1: latest on vaccination, door to door drive, also the latest 288 00:16:37,080 --> 00:16:40,280 Speaker 1: on the Biden administration. Oh, Clay, how do we fix 289 00:16:40,360 --> 00:16:42,360 Speaker 1: crime in this country? I got an idea. How about 290 00:16:42,360 --> 00:16:45,360 Speaker 1: the opposed to crime as a political party and just 291 00:16:45,640 --> 00:16:48,040 Speaker 1: be supportive of police and not defund them. I mean, 292 00:16:48,040 --> 00:16:49,640 Speaker 1: there are some ways we could do this. It's not 293 00:16:49,680 --> 00:16:51,880 Speaker 1: that hard. Yeah, that would make sense. By the way, 294 00:16:52,160 --> 00:16:57,359 Speaker 1: updated article just came down Wall Street Journal about arresting Cuba. 295 00:16:57,520 --> 00:17:01,040 Speaker 1: They have a particularly cracked down on well known dissidents 296 00:17:01,080 --> 00:17:03,760 Speaker 1: and civil rights activists. And some people may know these 297 00:17:03,840 --> 00:17:09,119 Speaker 1: names visual artist Luis manuel A Taro, poet Amari Pachaco 298 00:17:09,160 --> 00:17:12,280 Speaker 1: and if I'm killing a mispronunci mispronouncing some of these names. 299 00:17:12,600 --> 00:17:17,280 Speaker 1: Jose Daniel Ferrer, the leader of Cuba's most important opposition group, 300 00:17:17,359 --> 00:17:20,720 Speaker 1: human rights Organization, and dissident groups. They're all being arrested 301 00:17:21,040 --> 00:17:25,360 Speaker 1: and thrown into prison right now, and security forces are 302 00:17:25,400 --> 00:17:29,960 Speaker 1: taking over in an unprecedented manner right now across all 303 00:17:30,160 --> 00:17:33,399 Speaker 1: of Cuba. According to the most updated stories coming out, 304 00:17:33,440 --> 00:17:35,800 Speaker 1: this crackdown is gonna get ugly and we're gonna hear 305 00:17:35,800 --> 00:17:38,000 Speaker 1: about about five percent of it. I would say the 306 00:17:38,040 --> 00:17:40,320 Speaker 1: crackdown is going to be really vicious from the people 307 00:17:40,359 --> 00:17:42,560 Speaker 1: in charge. So look, we'll continue to follow it here. 308 00:17:42,600 --> 00:17:45,520 Speaker 1: Interesting But Clay no Espanol in school for you, huh? 309 00:17:45,680 --> 00:17:48,320 Speaker 1: I took I took French, German and Arabic in my 310 00:17:48,400 --> 00:17:51,760 Speaker 1: years in school, never studied any Spanish. I took Latin, 311 00:17:51,920 --> 00:17:54,720 Speaker 1: and I took French, did not take Spanish I had 312 00:17:55,840 --> 00:17:57,280 Speaker 1: Did you get one of our buddies in here actually 313 00:17:57,280 --> 00:17:59,200 Speaker 1: can speak a little Lespanol. But anyway, we'll come back, 314 00:17:59,480 --> 00:18:02,480 Speaker 1: take some more calls, get into the crime situation, how 315 00:18:02,480 --> 00:18:05,000 Speaker 1: we fix it, how Biden says he's gonna fix it. 316 00:18:05,359 --> 00:18:07,760 Speaker 1: That's all come up. 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Russlanba The 334 00:19:09,040 --> 00:19:13,560 Speaker 1: Man behind the Golden Eid Microphone a new podcast hosted 335 00:19:13,560 --> 00:19:15,840 Speaker 1: by yours truly, James Golden or as many If you 336 00:19:15,880 --> 00:19:19,199 Speaker 1: don't meet Bo Snard late, come with me behind the 337 00:19:19,280 --> 00:19:22,120 Speaker 1: scenes for an exciting and intimate look at the man 338 00:19:22,200 --> 00:19:25,320 Speaker 1: who changed America as we know it. On iHeart or 339 00:19:25,400 --> 00:19:29,480 Speaker 1: wherever you listen to your favorite podcast presented by the 340 00:19:29,560 --> 00:19:36,440 Speaker 1: Tunnel to Towers Foundation and My Pillow. Welcome back in 341 00:19:36,560 --> 00:19:38,680 Speaker 1: preside all of you hanging out with us. I'm Clay Travis. 342 00:19:38,680 --> 00:19:42,400 Speaker 1: He is Buck Sexton. We are talking about Cuba, massive 343 00:19:42,520 --> 00:19:47,720 Speaker 1: story being undercovered by the left wing media. Surprise, surprise. 344 00:19:48,280 --> 00:19:51,240 Speaker 1: Bernie Sanders still said nothing. AOC still said nothing. The 345 00:19:51,240 --> 00:19:54,040 Speaker 1: White House has put out a statement which is in 346 00:19:54,160 --> 00:19:57,879 Speaker 1: support of the Cuban protesters, but meanwhile, crackdowns across the 347 00:19:58,040 --> 00:20:02,640 Speaker 1: entire island occurring at a massive level. And as that 348 00:20:02,840 --> 00:20:08,040 Speaker 1: is taking place, there are a lot of situations that 349 00:20:08,119 --> 00:20:12,160 Speaker 1: are continuing to be discussed, so many different ideas about 350 00:20:12,160 --> 00:20:15,320 Speaker 1: what exactly the United States could and should do to 351 00:20:15,320 --> 00:20:19,080 Speaker 1: help try to further these protesters who are supporting freedom 352 00:20:19,080 --> 00:20:22,480 Speaker 1: and democracy, a lot of different takes. Let's go to 353 00:20:22,680 --> 00:20:27,439 Speaker 1: John in Savannah, Georgia. John, what's up, hey? Play the 354 00:20:27,520 --> 00:20:29,240 Speaker 1: plan to invade Cube. I think that's going to be. 355 00:20:29,240 --> 00:20:31,320 Speaker 1: It could be an American version of Red Dawn. I 356 00:20:31,400 --> 00:20:34,200 Speaker 1: just see a lot of fifth balls there. I don't 357 00:20:34,240 --> 00:20:38,480 Speaker 1: have any no doubt, the greatest confidence in our troops, 358 00:20:38,480 --> 00:20:41,439 Speaker 1: but with this administration, really the same people that are 359 00:20:41,520 --> 00:20:44,959 Speaker 1: running the withdrawal in Afghanistan and our southern border, you know, 360 00:20:45,359 --> 00:20:47,400 Speaker 1: we want them to sign off on an ops plan 361 00:20:47,440 --> 00:20:51,640 Speaker 1: and executing an ops plan or order to go into Cuba. 362 00:20:51,800 --> 00:20:53,640 Speaker 1: I don't think there's any way they would do it, Buck, 363 00:20:53,640 --> 00:20:55,960 Speaker 1: And that's what we're talking about. I'm saying from my perspective, 364 00:20:55,960 --> 00:20:57,560 Speaker 1: and thanks for the call, by the way, John, I'm 365 00:20:57,560 --> 00:21:01,520 Speaker 1: saying from my perspective, I'm hired of the United States 366 00:21:01,560 --> 00:21:05,000 Speaker 1: response to Cuba being Hey, we're in favor of freedom 367 00:21:05,040 --> 00:21:07,679 Speaker 1: and democracy, and then we just watch all the freedom 368 00:21:07,680 --> 00:21:11,280 Speaker 1: and democracy protesters get their asses kicked, get thrown into 369 00:21:11,280 --> 00:21:13,760 Speaker 1: boats and try to make their way to the United States. 370 00:21:14,240 --> 00:21:16,639 Speaker 1: At some point you have to do, I think something 371 00:21:16,720 --> 00:21:18,840 Speaker 1: more than say, hey, we're in favor of freedom and 372 00:21:18,880 --> 00:21:21,400 Speaker 1: democracy and we're not going I mean, and I understand 373 00:21:21,400 --> 00:21:23,680 Speaker 1: you're doing the thought experiment of what you what you 374 00:21:23,720 --> 00:21:25,240 Speaker 1: would like to see happen if we could, but the 375 00:21:25,240 --> 00:21:28,440 Speaker 1: Bide administration that there's a zero percent chance in my mind, 376 00:21:28,520 --> 00:21:30,399 Speaker 1: and I think that would be pretty widely held that 377 00:21:30,400 --> 00:21:33,800 Speaker 1: they'll actually do any kind of any military interventional support. 378 00:21:34,040 --> 00:21:36,680 Speaker 1: Remember that there have been some very provocative things done 379 00:21:36,720 --> 00:21:39,840 Speaker 1: by the Cubans in recent years. There were these sonic 380 00:21:39,920 --> 00:21:43,280 Speaker 1: attacks that have been since pretty soundly confirmed, where they've 381 00:21:43,320 --> 00:21:47,720 Speaker 1: gone after US diplomats with really a horrific and crippling 382 00:21:47,800 --> 00:21:50,040 Speaker 1: weapon that uses It's not even fully it's like a 383 00:21:50,080 --> 00:21:55,200 Speaker 1: microwave weapon that creates you know, it debilitates people, it 384 00:21:55,520 --> 00:21:59,480 Speaker 1: makes them unable to it unbalances them, and it creates 385 00:21:59,480 --> 00:22:04,080 Speaker 1: tremendous So the Cubans, the Cuban regime is still is 386 00:22:04,080 --> 00:22:06,920 Speaker 1: still very aggressive towards the US in all kinds of ways. 387 00:22:06,960 --> 00:22:08,720 Speaker 1: But I mean, one thing that I think we have 388 00:22:08,760 --> 00:22:10,679 Speaker 1: to remember we're talking about the Democrats, and they'll go 389 00:22:10,720 --> 00:22:14,399 Speaker 1: with all this clay, is they don't want people to 390 00:22:14,520 --> 00:22:19,720 Speaker 1: make the obvious connection between the sixty year long failure 391 00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:23,600 Speaker 1: of central planning, which is the heart of any socialist system, 392 00:22:23,760 --> 00:22:27,720 Speaker 1: price controls and social justice. What does it do when 393 00:22:27,720 --> 00:22:30,080 Speaker 1: you really, when you don't have mean capitalists like you 394 00:22:30,160 --> 00:22:31,840 Speaker 1: and me and all of our listeners in the mix 395 00:22:31,920 --> 00:22:34,360 Speaker 1: right and Trump and you know, what does it mean 396 00:22:34,720 --> 00:22:38,119 Speaker 1: when the people who really believe in the social justice stuff, 397 00:22:38,119 --> 00:22:42,560 Speaker 1: the CRT, the central planning, the collectivism get their way. Well, 398 00:22:42,600 --> 00:22:45,320 Speaker 1: we have run experiments and we've seen it. And the 399 00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:49,880 Speaker 1: experiments are Cuba for the last sixty years, Venezuela, particularly 400 00:22:49,920 --> 00:22:53,440 Speaker 1: for the last fifteen or twenty years, you know, Nicaragua, 401 00:22:53,480 --> 00:22:57,520 Speaker 1: at different times, the Soviet Union North Korea, it fails. 402 00:22:57,600 --> 00:23:02,159 Speaker 1: It turns out. It turns out that the Democratic Socialists 403 00:23:02,160 --> 00:23:05,119 Speaker 1: in our own mix here in America or in our 404 00:23:05,119 --> 00:23:08,040 Speaker 1: own mixt are not particularly keen on the American people 405 00:23:08,080 --> 00:23:11,440 Speaker 1: figuring out. Hold on a minute, you mean that Cuba 406 00:23:11,480 --> 00:23:15,320 Speaker 1: could actually be a really prosperous, free and happy place 407 00:23:15,359 --> 00:23:18,720 Speaker 1: with amazing culture and good quality of life if only 408 00:23:18,760 --> 00:23:20,520 Speaker 1: they got rid of the people telling them what to 409 00:23:20,560 --> 00:23:23,000 Speaker 1: do all the time, who know the economy better and 410 00:23:23,080 --> 00:23:25,560 Speaker 1: don't want markets to work, and don't and don't believe 411 00:23:25,600 --> 00:23:29,520 Speaker 1: in private property and don't believe in free Oh. So 412 00:23:29,560 --> 00:23:32,280 Speaker 1: that's it thought. That's in the background of everything the 413 00:23:32,320 --> 00:23:34,520 Speaker 1: Democrat Party does on Cuba. They don't want people to 414 00:23:34,520 --> 00:23:38,120 Speaker 1: take that away as a lesson buck. Every cruise ship 415 00:23:38,119 --> 00:23:42,840 Speaker 1: in America circles Cuba, that's what they do. If Cuba 416 00:23:42,920 --> 00:23:49,400 Speaker 1: opened up, it would immediately immediately be a capitalist nirvana 417 00:23:49,520 --> 00:23:53,520 Speaker 1: in many ways. As they started to embrace freedom, the 418 00:23:53,600 --> 00:23:57,720 Speaker 1: quality of life of the average Cuban would skyrocket. Their 419 00:23:57,800 --> 00:23:59,679 Speaker 1: health book, there's an article in the New York in 420 00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:03,679 Speaker 1: the Wall Street Journal today they can't get treatment for scabies, 421 00:24:04,240 --> 00:24:07,200 Speaker 1: which is in the Grand scheme of things, a relatively 422 00:24:07,359 --> 00:24:12,159 Speaker 1: minor illness that is usually easily treated. My understanding is 423 00:24:12,200 --> 00:24:18,080 Speaker 1: with antibiotics. Their government is so fallen apart in terms 424 00:24:18,119 --> 00:24:21,560 Speaker 1: of healthcare right now, people are focused on COVID. They 425 00:24:21,560 --> 00:24:26,280 Speaker 1: can't even treat basic illnesses that should be able to 426 00:24:26,320 --> 00:24:30,560 Speaker 1: be solved with easy distribution of antibotics. We got like, 427 00:24:31,160 --> 00:24:33,879 Speaker 1: we got the folks here are ready to storm the beaches, 428 00:24:33,960 --> 00:24:36,520 Speaker 1: a bunch of them. Ray in Miami, Florida. Ray, you're 429 00:24:36,560 --> 00:24:40,080 Speaker 1: on the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. I'm not 430 00:24:40,119 --> 00:24:42,000 Speaker 1: sure I want to storm those beaches right away, but 431 00:24:42,080 --> 00:24:44,760 Speaker 1: I think it is a Cuban problem. It is not 432 00:24:44,800 --> 00:24:48,480 Speaker 1: an American problem. And you know what, You're absolutely right. 433 00:24:48,520 --> 00:24:50,679 Speaker 1: It's not just the medicine. This is not about COVID. 434 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:54,080 Speaker 1: This is about sixty years of oppression. It's about sixty 435 00:24:54,160 --> 00:24:58,840 Speaker 1: years of not having soap, water, just basic necessities. People 436 00:24:58,880 --> 00:25:01,840 Speaker 1: can't shower for the days because the water gets cut off. 437 00:25:02,119 --> 00:25:04,520 Speaker 1: They cut off the electricity last night, they cut off 438 00:25:04,560 --> 00:25:09,399 Speaker 1: the internet last night. We know what's going on. You know, 439 00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:11,960 Speaker 1: it's not a surprise. They're ninety miles away. Half the 440 00:25:12,040 --> 00:25:16,199 Speaker 1: people in this country, which our Cubans have people on 441 00:25:16,280 --> 00:25:18,560 Speaker 1: the other side, because that's what they do. They divide 442 00:25:18,560 --> 00:25:20,720 Speaker 1: you and then they say, here, go back to the US, 443 00:25:21,160 --> 00:25:23,760 Speaker 1: send back your money. And that's we've been supporting that 444 00:25:23,800 --> 00:25:26,080 Speaker 1: island for the last Yeah, remittances there are also a 445 00:25:26,119 --> 00:25:28,080 Speaker 1: big part of this that people don't often talk about, 446 00:25:28,080 --> 00:25:31,119 Speaker 1: but that's been a huge source of support for people 447 00:25:31,160 --> 00:25:33,680 Speaker 1: back in Cuba. I want to do Fred and Pompano, 448 00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:35,920 Speaker 1: Florida for a second. Here. Fred, you said you've got 449 00:25:35,920 --> 00:25:42,960 Speaker 1: families still there. Yep, I'm here about Pompano. Yeah. I 450 00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:45,640 Speaker 1: came with a Peter Pan program back in sixty one. 451 00:25:45,720 --> 00:25:48,040 Speaker 1: I was fourteen years old, so I saw a lot 452 00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:51,280 Speaker 1: of the things and the previous color is absolutely right. 453 00:25:51,280 --> 00:25:53,480 Speaker 1: I couldn't have put it better myself. I just want 454 00:25:53,480 --> 00:25:57,680 Speaker 1: to make the point. The rapid response brigades have been 455 00:25:57,680 --> 00:26:00,880 Speaker 1: around for a long, long long time, and you said 456 00:26:00,880 --> 00:26:04,040 Speaker 1: it beautifully. It's people that work for the government, government 457 00:26:04,080 --> 00:26:08,480 Speaker 1: agency stress as civilians, bust to the area of conflict 458 00:26:08,520 --> 00:26:11,520 Speaker 1: where people are demonstrated and so on, and they physically 459 00:26:11,520 --> 00:26:14,000 Speaker 1: beat them up, put them in busses and take them away. 460 00:26:14,080 --> 00:26:17,359 Speaker 1: So when the media is around taking pictures tec in video, 461 00:26:18,920 --> 00:26:21,720 Speaker 1: it seems like it's the same cubes that are fighting. No, 462 00:26:21,960 --> 00:26:25,359 Speaker 1: not the government agents. You put it beautifully. And the 463 00:26:25,400 --> 00:26:27,199 Speaker 1: second point I want to make, I don't know the 464 00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:31,080 Speaker 1: time short here, Barry Sanders, are you kidding me? He 465 00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:35,000 Speaker 1: is the guy who was not long ago was praised 466 00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:38,280 Speaker 1: in the educational system. And you're right right, Kenny can 467 00:26:38,320 --> 00:26:40,200 Speaker 1: I and Fred, great call, and thank you so much 468 00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:42,520 Speaker 1: for bringing that perspective, and appreciate your patience. Gonna you're 469 00:26:42,560 --> 00:26:45,200 Speaker 1: on hold for a long time. Play. Let's just remind 470 00:26:45,240 --> 00:26:49,080 Speaker 1: everybody you know the I mean the mayor of New 471 00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:53,440 Speaker 1: York City, I believe went to Nicaragua to be near 472 00:26:53,480 --> 00:26:58,040 Speaker 1: the Sandinistas on his honeymoon. So you know when we're 473 00:26:58,080 --> 00:27:01,840 Speaker 1: talking about you know, Bernie Sanders mooned in the Soviet Union, 474 00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:04,199 Speaker 1: which is also well known. So when I'm saying there 475 00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:07,120 Speaker 1: is an affinity, I'm not pulling that out of thin air. 476 00:27:07,280 --> 00:27:11,480 Speaker 1: And these are still American politicians in positions of extreme 477 00:27:11,600 --> 00:27:16,320 Speaker 1: influence and prominence, and they're sympathetic to commies. I'm sorry, 478 00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:20,560 Speaker 1: that's just the reality. Yeah, Look, there's no doubt. And 479 00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:24,840 Speaker 1: the Bernie Sanders recollection, remember for the twenty twenty presidential campaign, 480 00:27:25,359 --> 00:27:28,760 Speaker 1: they ended up losing the Democrats did Florida pretty substantially 481 00:27:28,880 --> 00:27:33,280 Speaker 1: no matter what, because of this massive outreach from Cuban voters, 482 00:27:33,359 --> 00:27:36,720 Speaker 1: Venezuelan voters. People have seen what really happens with socialism 483 00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:40,239 Speaker 1: and communism. But Democrats basically said, hey, we're not even 484 00:27:40,280 --> 00:27:42,400 Speaker 1: gonna be able to compete in the state of Florida 485 00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:46,120 Speaker 1: if Bernie Sanders is our nomination, is our nominee. Which 486 00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:48,920 Speaker 1: is one way that that Joe Biden ended up winning 487 00:27:49,359 --> 00:27:51,680 Speaker 1: was Bernie was so far out there in the left 488 00:27:51,760 --> 00:27:56,040 Speaker 1: wing idiocy as it pertained to praising Castro. I mean, 489 00:27:56,119 --> 00:27:58,719 Speaker 1: it's it's madness, all right, let's think it. Let's come 490 00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:01,159 Speaker 1: back in Clay. We've been promised. You know. Biden today 491 00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:05,639 Speaker 1: is hosting at the White House New York City's Democratic 492 00:28:05,720 --> 00:28:10,800 Speaker 1: mayoral candidate Eric Adams other law enforcement folks. Now Democrats 493 00:28:10,840 --> 00:28:12,840 Speaker 1: are getting serious all of a sudden, or at least 494 00:28:12,880 --> 00:28:15,280 Speaker 1: pretending to, I should say about what to do to 495 00:28:15,359 --> 00:28:18,080 Speaker 1: tackle crime. I have some theories about where this is 496 00:28:18,119 --> 00:28:20,480 Speaker 1: going to go very quickly, but we should break down 497 00:28:21,240 --> 00:28:23,280 Speaker 1: why is this happening. I mean, if they had listened 498 00:28:23,280 --> 00:28:25,160 Speaker 1: to the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton show, they would 499 00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:27,480 Speaker 1: have known now for weeks why they have the crime 500 00:28:27,560 --> 00:28:30,520 Speaker 1: problems they do in these cities. But let's let's address 501 00:28:30,600 --> 00:28:32,800 Speaker 1: that when we come back here in just a moment. 502 00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:35,560 Speaker 1: But you know, now is the time for those you 503 00:28:35,640 --> 00:28:38,160 Speaker 1: out there who have a mortgage. Now's the time to 504 00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:41,240 Speaker 1: save some big money every month. And it's not hard 505 00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:44,080 Speaker 1: to do this. You just got to refinance your mortgage 506 00:28:44,240 --> 00:28:46,800 Speaker 1: with the right folks, and you know you got to 507 00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:49,800 Speaker 1: do it now before rates get any higher. 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You 527 00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:03,240 Speaker 1: can go give us a five star review. We have 528 00:30:03,320 --> 00:30:08,440 Speaker 1: been discussing in great detail the protests emerging all over Cuba, 529 00:30:09,080 --> 00:30:12,120 Speaker 1: and to me it represents in many ways a failed 530 00:30:12,320 --> 00:30:16,960 Speaker 1: version of an idealized democratic universe where socialism the Bernie 531 00:30:17,040 --> 00:30:21,200 Speaker 1: Sanders of the world have their way and you end 532 00:30:21,320 --> 00:30:27,880 Speaker 1: up with this situation. And simultaneously the Democrats have also failed, 533 00:30:28,160 --> 00:30:30,800 Speaker 1: I think, with the dumbest argument that has ever been 534 00:30:30,920 --> 00:30:34,040 Speaker 1: made in the twenty first century from a political perspective, 535 00:30:34,080 --> 00:30:37,040 Speaker 1: it was defund the police. Joe Biden is having a 536 00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:40,560 Speaker 1: all hands on deck meeting at the White House today 537 00:30:40,640 --> 00:30:43,000 Speaker 1: with a lot of big city mayors to discuss the 538 00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:47,840 Speaker 1: overwhelming increase in murder and violent crime. Included there is 539 00:30:47,880 --> 00:30:50,760 Speaker 1: the winner of the Democratic primary for New York City 540 00:30:50,840 --> 00:30:54,000 Speaker 1: Mayor Eric Adams, and he basically came out and said, hey, 541 00:30:54,760 --> 00:30:58,000 Speaker 1: we blew it as a party talking about defund the police, 542 00:30:58,040 --> 00:31:00,840 Speaker 1: play cut eight and in terms of law, in terms 543 00:31:00,880 --> 00:31:05,760 Speaker 1: of state or city or national gun laws to try 544 00:31:05,840 --> 00:31:08,640 Speaker 1: to stop gun violence, what do you think would work? 545 00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:13,000 Speaker 1: And do you think the priorities of national Democrats may 546 00:31:13,040 --> 00:31:18,320 Speaker 1: have been misplaced? Yes, I do. I believe those priorities 547 00:31:18,840 --> 00:31:23,600 Speaker 1: they really were misplaced. And it's almost insulting what we 548 00:31:23,680 --> 00:31:27,080 Speaker 1: have witnessed over the last few years. Many of our 549 00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:31,000 Speaker 1: presidents they saw these numbers. They knew that the inner cities, 550 00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:34,480 Speaker 1: particularly where black, brown and poor people lived, they knew, 551 00:31:34,600 --> 00:31:37,880 Speaker 1: they knew they were dealing with this real crisis. And 552 00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:41,400 Speaker 1: it took this president to state that it is time 553 00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:44,280 Speaker 1: for us to stop ignoring what is happening in the 554 00:31:44,360 --> 00:31:47,360 Speaker 1: south sides of the Chicago's, in the Brownsville, in the 555 00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:50,520 Speaker 1: Atlantis of our city, of our country. And so it 556 00:31:50,720 --> 00:31:54,280 Speaker 1: is extremely important that just as we became energetic after 557 00:31:54,360 --> 00:31:58,800 Speaker 1: we saw mass shootings with assault rifles in the suburban 558 00:31:58,920 --> 00:32:01,680 Speaker 1: parts of our country, which we should have, we should 559 00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:05,360 Speaker 1: have also focused on the handgun. The number that is 560 00:32:05,520 --> 00:32:09,960 Speaker 1: By the way, Eric Adams talking about failed Democratic policies 561 00:32:10,040 --> 00:32:12,440 Speaker 1: and look, twenty two year veteran of the New York 562 00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:15,040 Speaker 1: City Police Department, Buck, you're a New York City native. 563 00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:18,040 Speaker 1: All this talk about the energized the left wing of 564 00:32:18,040 --> 00:32:21,960 Speaker 1: the Democratic Party who ended up winning the Democratic mayoral 565 00:32:22,040 --> 00:32:26,280 Speaker 1: nomination for New York City, the guy who emphasized safe streets, 566 00:32:26,720 --> 00:32:30,520 Speaker 1: bringing back plainclosed police officers may not have stopping frisk 567 00:32:30,600 --> 00:32:34,000 Speaker 1: coming back yet, but I think you are seeing what 568 00:32:35,720 --> 00:32:39,160 Speaker 1: two Republicans Giuliani and Bloomberg did back to back to 569 00:32:39,320 --> 00:32:42,560 Speaker 1: make New York City safe again was the right call, 570 00:32:42,880 --> 00:32:46,520 Speaker 1: and Democrats are paniced trying to put out the fires 571 00:32:46,560 --> 00:32:49,720 Speaker 1: that they created. I'm also not willing to give up 572 00:32:50,640 --> 00:32:53,840 Speaker 1: or just move past on what happened a year ago 573 00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:57,640 Speaker 1: in the twenty twenty election with this issue. Clay, My 574 00:32:57,840 --> 00:33:00,560 Speaker 1: argument here is that the Democrats were willing to go 575 00:33:00,920 --> 00:33:05,040 Speaker 1: so scorched earth in order to capitalize on whatever they 576 00:33:05,120 --> 00:33:08,400 Speaker 1: could to defeat Trump in the twenty twenty election that 577 00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:12,040 Speaker 1: things that were obvious to rational, reasonable people and things 578 00:33:12,120 --> 00:33:18,480 Speaker 1: that should have been truly as issues at least beyond politicization, 579 00:33:19,240 --> 00:33:22,760 Speaker 1: became weapons used against against Trump. We saw that would 580 00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:25,600 Speaker 1: certainly COVID. I mean, the Democrats made it seem in 581 00:33:25,680 --> 00:33:28,240 Speaker 1: twenty twenty like Trump made COVID in a lab at 582 00:33:28,320 --> 00:33:32,000 Speaker 1: Marlago or something. I mean, they were always always exaggerating 583 00:33:32,040 --> 00:33:33,840 Speaker 1: how he was so terrible and it's all his fault 584 00:33:33,880 --> 00:33:37,680 Speaker 1: and hydroxy chloroquin. But on the crime issue, they saw 585 00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:40,600 Speaker 1: the BLM movement two point zero after the death of 586 00:33:40,680 --> 00:33:45,800 Speaker 1: George Floyd, as an opportunity to mobilize the left wing base, 587 00:33:46,440 --> 00:33:50,120 Speaker 1: to create chaos and disorder, which really suppresses the conservative 588 00:33:50,120 --> 00:33:52,960 Speaker 1: base in this country because people, I know people who said, what, 589 00:33:53,120 --> 00:33:55,840 Speaker 1: why isn't Trump, Why isn't the administration doing more about this? 590 00:33:56,360 --> 00:33:58,400 Speaker 1: So it really hits it at two levels. There the 591 00:33:58,480 --> 00:34:02,080 Speaker 1: Democrat left wing act like what they see with the 592 00:34:02,200 --> 00:34:04,640 Speaker 1: riots and the attacks in the cities, and it's just 593 00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:07,920 Speaker 1: a reminder that they were willing, the mainstream Democrat party 594 00:34:08,400 --> 00:34:12,160 Speaker 1: was willing to pretend to be run by abject morons 595 00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:17,120 Speaker 1: who couldn't figure out that by undermining police and defunding them, 596 00:34:17,640 --> 00:34:21,920 Speaker 1: more people and disproportionately more minorities were going to be 597 00:34:22,080 --> 00:34:24,680 Speaker 1: shot and going to be killed. You know, we shouldn't 598 00:34:24,800 --> 00:34:26,719 Speaker 1: let them, I know, you know, they're coming to the 599 00:34:26,840 --> 00:34:29,960 Speaker 1: right conclusion now, Clay, But they should pay a price 600 00:34:30,320 --> 00:34:32,840 Speaker 1: politically for what they've put the country through for the 601 00:34:32,960 --> 00:34:40,360 Speaker 1: last year. I think that's true. And moreover, it's so 602 00:34:40,719 --> 00:34:44,719 Speaker 1: frustrating and so self evident that this was going to 603 00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:47,320 Speaker 1: be the result. And Buck, I feel like we're also 604 00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:49,120 Speaker 1: seeing into the future. You know what's going to happen 605 00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:53,640 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four BLM three point zero every four years. 606 00:34:53,840 --> 00:34:58,560 Speaker 1: In an effort to terrify their base of black supporters, 607 00:34:59,120 --> 00:35:02,600 Speaker 1: they need to sell the idea that America is a 608 00:35:02,760 --> 00:35:06,560 Speaker 1: fundamentally unsafe place and that police officers are the reason 609 00:35:06,680 --> 00:35:09,880 Speaker 1: why America is a fundamentally unsafe place. They are selling 610 00:35:10,360 --> 00:35:13,839 Speaker 1: an opposite version of reality. For those of you who 611 00:35:14,560 --> 00:35:18,239 Speaker 1: are Stranger Things fans, it's like we're in the upside down. 612 00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:22,800 Speaker 1: They are creating a fundamentally different world that is not 613 00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:26,880 Speaker 1: in any way constrained by reality or facts, which we 614 00:35:27,080 --> 00:35:29,360 Speaker 1: know the end result is going to be an Unfortunately, 615 00:35:29,440 --> 00:35:32,360 Speaker 1: the result here, Buck is there are thousands of people 616 00:35:32,920 --> 00:35:36,400 Speaker 1: that would otherwise be alive today if we had simply 617 00:35:36,440 --> 00:35:39,719 Speaker 1: allowed police to do their jobs. That's the reality. And 618 00:35:39,840 --> 00:35:42,800 Speaker 1: it's even worse because then police in response to that 619 00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:48,000 Speaker 1: political abandonment. And it's very real because elected officials. Remember 620 00:35:48,080 --> 00:35:50,200 Speaker 1: law enforcement at the state and local level in particular, 621 00:35:50,320 --> 00:35:54,399 Speaker 1: law enforcement is overseen by and run by, as I've 622 00:35:54,400 --> 00:35:58,000 Speaker 1: said before, the political class. So in a major city, 623 00:35:58,160 --> 00:36:00,840 Speaker 1: the mayor is like the commander in chief of the 624 00:36:00,920 --> 00:36:04,399 Speaker 1: police force. So when defund and the activist Democrat left 625 00:36:04,480 --> 00:36:08,040 Speaker 1: comes along and says, cops are the problem, and you 626 00:36:08,160 --> 00:36:11,719 Speaker 1: have all these different mayor's offices and prosecutors two in 627 00:36:11,800 --> 00:36:15,480 Speaker 1: these major cities Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Philadelphia, 628 00:36:15,560 --> 00:36:18,640 Speaker 1: San Francisco, you know, go down the list. Prosecutors want 629 00:36:18,640 --> 00:36:20,400 Speaker 1: to make a name for themselves and they want to 630 00:36:20,520 --> 00:36:22,880 Speaker 1: ride the political wave. Two. So now what are they 631 00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:28,560 Speaker 1: looking for? Opportunities to crack down on cops quote abuses 632 00:36:28,600 --> 00:36:30,759 Speaker 1: which in many cases or just whatever happens to get 633 00:36:30,840 --> 00:36:33,479 Speaker 1: uploaded onto the internet and looks like a police officer 634 00:36:33,640 --> 00:36:35,840 Speaker 1: using force in a way that can make people uncomfortable 635 00:36:36,080 --> 00:36:39,200 Speaker 1: absent the context of what's actually happened in that situation. 636 00:36:39,520 --> 00:36:42,560 Speaker 1: This is a lesson we shouldn't have had to learn 637 00:36:42,600 --> 00:36:45,240 Speaker 1: again because we've already learned it many times in the past. 638 00:36:45,680 --> 00:36:47,840 Speaker 1: But Democrats, you know, right now, all of a sudden, 639 00:36:47,840 --> 00:36:50,440 Speaker 1: they're trying to act like they're reasonable on this data 640 00:36:50,560 --> 00:36:53,520 Speaker 1: was clear, transparent, and self evident. Buck, There was no 641 00:36:53,760 --> 00:36:56,120 Speaker 1: uncertainty about what was going to happen, and yet we 642 00:36:56,239 --> 00:36:59,000 Speaker 1: found ourselves here again. By the way, some breaking news 643 00:36:59,120 --> 00:37:03,160 Speaker 1: out there. Texas Democrats are threatening to leave this state 644 00:37:03,480 --> 00:37:06,160 Speaker 1: over an issue with voting rights. We'll talk about it next. 645 00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:09,360 Speaker 1: We're listening to Clay Travis and Buck Sexton on the 646 00:37:09,520 --> 00:37:10,920 Speaker 1: EIB Network.