1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:03,320 Speaker 1: Welcome to today's edition of The Clay Travis and Buck 2 00:00:03,360 --> 00:00:08,000 Speaker 1: Sexton Show podcast. Welcome everybody to the Monday edition of 3 00:00:08,080 --> 00:00:12,200 Speaker 1: The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. This is Buck. 4 00:00:12,280 --> 00:00:16,040 Speaker 1: I'm gonna be in solo this week because our buddy 5 00:00:16,079 --> 00:00:19,160 Speaker 1: Clay is on a deserved vacation with the family having 6 00:00:19,200 --> 00:00:21,960 Speaker 1: a great time, and told him not to worry. He 7 00:00:22,079 --> 00:00:26,160 Speaker 1: will come back and the house that is this radio 8 00:00:26,160 --> 00:00:30,280 Speaker 1: show will not have been strewn with kegs and the 9 00:00:30,400 --> 00:00:33,520 Speaker 1: refuse of too many parties. We're gonna keep it, keep 10 00:00:33,520 --> 00:00:36,279 Speaker 1: it professional. Here're gonna keep it focused on the news, 11 00:00:36,280 --> 00:00:39,120 Speaker 1: no big parties while Clay. While the Clay is away, 12 00:00:39,200 --> 00:00:41,840 Speaker 1: the Buck will play a little bit, not too much, 13 00:00:41,840 --> 00:00:44,800 Speaker 1: I promise. So he's gonna have a great time on vacation. 14 00:00:44,840 --> 00:00:46,720 Speaker 1: He'll be back with us next Monday. I got you 15 00:00:47,040 --> 00:00:48,760 Speaker 1: every day this week, and we already have a ton 16 00:00:48,800 --> 00:00:53,720 Speaker 1: of news to break down today together. We have the 17 00:00:53,800 --> 00:00:59,160 Speaker 1: aftermath of that anti inflation bill that'll make inflation worse 18 00:00:59,440 --> 00:01:02,400 Speaker 1: or really do very much, but it will just spend 19 00:01:02,400 --> 00:01:06,080 Speaker 1: a whole bunch of money. We'll discuss why did Joe 20 00:01:06,120 --> 00:01:09,600 Speaker 1: Manchion go along with this? Is it totally a done deal. 21 00:01:09,680 --> 00:01:11,560 Speaker 1: I think it is, but there are some who are saying, 22 00:01:11,600 --> 00:01:14,720 Speaker 1: hold on a second, there's the possibility of a last 23 00:01:14,720 --> 00:01:17,840 Speaker 1: minute wrench in their plans. Will certainly talk about this. 24 00:01:18,560 --> 00:01:24,440 Speaker 1: Biden has tested positive for COVID again. So I just 25 00:01:24,480 --> 00:01:29,440 Speaker 1: want to do a quick review. Here, four vaccine shots, 26 00:01:30,680 --> 00:01:34,600 Speaker 1: four vaccine shots and I don't know how many packs 27 00:01:34,640 --> 00:01:38,280 Speaker 1: Loavid pills, and the guy just tested positive again. They 28 00:01:38,280 --> 00:01:43,120 Speaker 1: call it rebound positivity. We will certainly discuss this. Remember, 29 00:01:43,640 --> 00:01:46,600 Speaker 1: people got fired from their jobs for not getting this vaccine. 30 00:01:47,319 --> 00:01:49,400 Speaker 1: This vaccine that is so good that you can get 31 00:01:49,440 --> 00:01:52,960 Speaker 1: four shots and not only be positive, but be positive 32 00:01:52,960 --> 00:01:58,240 Speaker 1: the negative then positive again. Amazing, isn't it. That's something 33 00:01:58,240 --> 00:02:00,720 Speaker 1: that we will certainly die and do. As you know, 34 00:02:01,080 --> 00:02:03,280 Speaker 1: I'm not giving up this fight. I will not give 35 00:02:03,360 --> 00:02:05,919 Speaker 1: up until everyone goes buck. You're right, Fauci is awful. 36 00:02:05,960 --> 00:02:08,280 Speaker 1: We never should have shut down masks or idiotic. We 37 00:02:08,280 --> 00:02:12,480 Speaker 1: were wrong to listen to these libs. Wrong. They were 38 00:02:12,520 --> 00:02:15,440 Speaker 1: wrong about everything. I will not give up until that 39 00:02:15,520 --> 00:02:17,000 Speaker 1: is the and so maybe for the rest of my 40 00:02:17,040 --> 00:02:18,920 Speaker 1: life I'll be on this, but I don't care. It 41 00:02:19,080 --> 00:02:22,160 Speaker 1: is the truth. So we certainly have that discuss some 42 00:02:22,240 --> 00:02:28,720 Speaker 1: other stories too, like Wikipedia suspending edits of recession on 43 00:02:28,760 --> 00:02:31,840 Speaker 1: its page, because there has been a full scale effort 44 00:02:31,880 --> 00:02:35,360 Speaker 1: by the social media and digital giants to in real 45 00:02:35,400 --> 00:02:39,600 Speaker 1: time change the definition of recession and to not allow 46 00:02:39,720 --> 00:02:43,480 Speaker 1: people think about this, not allow people to use the 47 00:02:43,560 --> 00:02:47,160 Speaker 1: definition that is in commonplace, common understanding for many, many 48 00:02:47,240 --> 00:02:51,040 Speaker 1: years now, all in service to the idiotic Biden regime, 49 00:02:51,280 --> 00:02:54,400 Speaker 1: all in service to the incompetence of this White House. 50 00:02:55,080 --> 00:02:57,840 Speaker 1: It's very Soviet, then, that is not an overstatement that 51 00:02:58,360 --> 00:03:01,520 Speaker 1: this is straight out of the Soviet book. You can't 52 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:04,640 Speaker 1: actually win on the numbers. You can't actually just change 53 00:03:04,639 --> 00:03:07,040 Speaker 1: all the numbers, lie about what the numbers mean, lie 54 00:03:07,080 --> 00:03:10,640 Speaker 1: about the definitions, the words that we use to describe them, 55 00:03:12,040 --> 00:03:14,200 Speaker 1: and that's all come in your way. We've got a 56 00:03:14,200 --> 00:03:16,080 Speaker 1: lot today, as I said, But but first off, this 57 00:03:17,120 --> 00:03:22,840 Speaker 1: Pelosi visit to Taiwan is apparently happening. We're told this 58 00:03:22,880 --> 00:03:26,120 Speaker 1: is going to go down in the next couple of days. 59 00:03:26,480 --> 00:03:30,920 Speaker 1: It's causing a lot of consternation among well, depends on 60 00:03:30,960 --> 00:03:36,360 Speaker 1: who you ask. The Chinese Communist Party is making really 61 00:03:36,400 --> 00:03:43,920 Speaker 1: aggressive statements about this from Chinese state affiliated media. They 62 00:03:43,960 --> 00:03:48,880 Speaker 1: had one person put this out from a Chinese Communist 63 00:03:48,920 --> 00:03:54,320 Speaker 1: Party media platform Global Times. They put out that Pelosi 64 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:56,520 Speaker 1: is in Singapore and will fly to South Korea en 65 00:03:56,640 --> 00:04:03,640 Speaker 1: route to Taiwan after visiting Malaysia. The PLA has clearly 66 00:04:03,680 --> 00:04:07,240 Speaker 1: been well prepared. If she dares to stop in Taiwan, 67 00:04:08,080 --> 00:04:10,640 Speaker 1: it will be the moment to ignite the powder keg 68 00:04:10,720 --> 00:04:17,239 Speaker 1: of the situation in the Taiwan Straits. So there's also 69 00:04:17,279 --> 00:04:20,520 Speaker 1: this video of missiles being fired by the Chinese and 70 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:23,279 Speaker 1: a lot of saber rattling. I'm in a lot of 71 00:04:23,760 --> 00:04:27,840 Speaker 1: she better not or else, and now everyone's wondering what 72 00:04:27,880 --> 00:04:31,599 Speaker 1: that or else actually means. And I've got to tell you, 73 00:04:33,120 --> 00:04:36,479 Speaker 1: I'm of two minds on this thing. On the one hand, 74 00:04:37,800 --> 00:04:41,719 Speaker 1: you can't bow down to the Chinese Communist Party more 75 00:04:41,760 --> 00:04:43,680 Speaker 1: than we already do as a government. And let's be 76 00:04:43,720 --> 00:04:46,840 Speaker 1: honest as a country on a regular basis, need all 77 00:04:46,880 --> 00:04:49,520 Speaker 1: that cheap stuff imported into this country. You need to 78 00:04:49,520 --> 00:04:51,599 Speaker 1: be able to buy whatever it is on Amazon, have 79 00:04:51,680 --> 00:04:54,599 Speaker 1: it right delivered to you. Don't want to make it here, 80 00:04:54,839 --> 00:04:59,320 Speaker 1: haven't made overseas. So we've excused a lot of behavior 81 00:04:59,400 --> 00:05:03,160 Speaker 1: until Trump came along. Doesn't get nearly enough credit for this, 82 00:05:03,200 --> 00:05:05,880 Speaker 1: and it was great to see the man himself number 83 00:05:05,920 --> 00:05:09,280 Speaker 1: forty five on Friday, a nice long chat with him 84 00:05:09,279 --> 00:05:12,360 Speaker 1: on air and off air. He was right about how 85 00:05:12,440 --> 00:05:14,919 Speaker 1: China has been taking advantage of the United States. He 86 00:05:14,960 --> 00:05:18,480 Speaker 1: was right about the need for the US to stand 87 00:05:18,560 --> 00:05:23,559 Speaker 1: up to Chinese policies on trade, and just the way 88 00:05:23,640 --> 00:05:28,280 Speaker 1: that they always do what's in their interests and always 89 00:05:28,279 --> 00:05:32,320 Speaker 1: do things that harm our interests while our own elites say, well, 90 00:05:32,360 --> 00:05:34,880 Speaker 1: this is the way it has to be. No, it doesn't. Actually, 91 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:38,480 Speaker 1: it doesn't have to be that way. And things now, 92 00:05:38,480 --> 00:05:40,840 Speaker 1: I believe are at a different place than they were 93 00:05:40,880 --> 00:05:45,720 Speaker 1: before the Trump president presidency. So on the one hand, yeah, 94 00:05:45,800 --> 00:05:49,120 Speaker 1: Pelosi can't bend the knee. That looks bad. But on 95 00:05:49,160 --> 00:05:52,200 Speaker 1: the other hand, what are we really willing to risk 96 00:05:52,400 --> 00:05:56,680 Speaker 1: over Taiwan? Ask yourself this question? You know. I was 97 00:05:56,760 --> 00:06:01,800 Speaker 1: listening over the weekend. There's this great new podcast on 98 00:06:02,640 --> 00:06:06,800 Speaker 1: the scene, Sean Ryan, who's a former Navy seal, and 99 00:06:06,839 --> 00:06:11,159 Speaker 1: he's had some great guests, DJ Shipley and Eric Prince. 100 00:06:11,200 --> 00:06:12,880 Speaker 1: I was listening to some of these podcasts that he's 101 00:06:12,880 --> 00:06:15,440 Speaker 1: done long form, and the Eric Prince one is really 102 00:06:15,480 --> 00:06:21,080 Speaker 1: interesting because it takes you into just how in so 103 00:06:21,200 --> 00:06:28,040 Speaker 1: many ways incompetent and insidious. The consensus, the machinery, particularly 104 00:06:28,040 --> 00:06:30,640 Speaker 1: on foreign policy. But the moment that you're you're talking 105 00:06:30,640 --> 00:06:35,919 Speaker 1: about foreign policy mixed in with domestic politics, what is 106 00:06:36,080 --> 00:06:40,640 Speaker 1: so often the consent is everybody knows, everybody believes. They say, well, 107 00:06:40,640 --> 00:06:45,000 Speaker 1: why is that really true? And we keep in mind 108 00:06:45,040 --> 00:06:49,600 Speaker 1: we have assigned agreement as a country that we would defend, 109 00:06:50,920 --> 00:06:54,960 Speaker 1: we would defend the territorial integrity of Ukraine. And then 110 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:58,919 Speaker 1: when Ukraine was invaded by Russia, I think sanity prevailed 111 00:06:58,920 --> 00:07:00,680 Speaker 1: because we said, well, hold on not actually going to 112 00:07:00,720 --> 00:07:04,360 Speaker 1: go to war with Russia over Ukraine. Now I understand 113 00:07:04,400 --> 00:07:08,960 Speaker 1: that for the defense of free people's and our sense 114 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:12,680 Speaker 1: of democracy and decency and humanitarianism and all the rest 115 00:07:12,680 --> 00:07:16,240 Speaker 1: of it. Taiwan is a country that is an ally. 116 00:07:16,400 --> 00:07:20,960 Speaker 1: Taiwan matters in that sense of the United States. But 117 00:07:21,080 --> 00:07:23,080 Speaker 1: at some point we actually have to look at the question, 118 00:07:23,400 --> 00:07:27,320 Speaker 1: would we be willing to risk and even engage in 119 00:07:27,480 --> 00:07:31,840 Speaker 1: a war with China over this island. It's not American soil, 120 00:07:32,280 --> 00:07:35,480 Speaker 1: it's not American citizens there. Would would you want to 121 00:07:35,520 --> 00:07:38,640 Speaker 1: actually go and send or would you send your own 122 00:07:38,760 --> 00:07:41,320 Speaker 1: your own children to go fight? I mean as adults, obviously, 123 00:07:41,400 --> 00:07:44,280 Speaker 1: but would you want people from your family to go 124 00:07:44,360 --> 00:07:47,720 Speaker 1: and fight in the Taiwan Straits over this? And I 125 00:07:47,720 --> 00:07:49,880 Speaker 1: think it's interesting that people get so uncomfortable when you 126 00:07:49,920 --> 00:07:53,800 Speaker 1: ask that question. Why isn't that the critical question? Shouldn't 127 00:07:53,800 --> 00:07:57,200 Speaker 1: we all be very clear on this? As I was 128 00:07:57,240 --> 00:08:00,920 Speaker 1: saying in that long form with Eric Prince, the founder 129 00:08:00,920 --> 00:08:04,760 Speaker 1: of Blackwater, the most fascinating thing to me other than 130 00:08:04,800 --> 00:08:09,640 Speaker 1: a lot of the managerial excellence and general concepts that 131 00:08:09,640 --> 00:08:12,320 Speaker 1: are applicable to life, but what was really interesting was 132 00:08:12,360 --> 00:08:18,400 Speaker 1: just how incompetent and also self dealing and willing to 133 00:08:18,440 --> 00:08:20,680 Speaker 1: cover its own butt the federal government is. And I 134 00:08:20,760 --> 00:08:23,640 Speaker 1: experienced some of that even myself. I saw it, and 135 00:08:23,720 --> 00:08:25,800 Speaker 1: I wasn't involved at the top levels, but I saw 136 00:08:25,800 --> 00:08:29,240 Speaker 1: it happening when I was in the CIA, that the 137 00:08:29,240 --> 00:08:32,679 Speaker 1: federal government is always first and foremost concerned about the 138 00:08:32,720 --> 00:08:37,440 Speaker 1: bureaucracy and the foreign policy establishment, the State Department, the 139 00:08:37,520 --> 00:08:40,680 Speaker 1: think tanks. They put out these papers and it makes 140 00:08:40,679 --> 00:08:43,720 Speaker 1: people feel good to talk about democracy and the defense 141 00:08:43,760 --> 00:08:47,160 Speaker 1: of our allies abroad and all of this. We spent 142 00:08:47,200 --> 00:08:52,000 Speaker 1: twenty years in Afghanistan for what for what now? The 143 00:08:52,040 --> 00:08:55,599 Speaker 1: initial invasion was not only the right idea, it was 144 00:08:55,640 --> 00:08:59,080 Speaker 1: a necessary idea. But then the expansion into nation building 145 00:08:59,480 --> 00:09:02,280 Speaker 1: just happened. And one of the reasons that happened is 146 00:09:02,280 --> 00:09:04,480 Speaker 1: because anybody who asked the question, what are we doing here? 147 00:09:04,520 --> 00:09:07,760 Speaker 1: What are we really trying to accomplish here? Was shouted down. 148 00:09:08,240 --> 00:09:09,959 Speaker 1: I think that it is time to have a really 149 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:13,080 Speaker 1: serious discussion over what length are we willing to go to, 150 00:09:13,200 --> 00:09:18,640 Speaker 1: because China right now is pushing in a way that 151 00:09:18,720 --> 00:09:21,920 Speaker 1: we haven't seen in a long time, making the kind 152 00:09:21,960 --> 00:09:25,040 Speaker 1: of statements that could lead to miscalculation, saying things that 153 00:09:26,440 --> 00:09:28,960 Speaker 1: do make us think that there's the possibility here of 154 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:32,360 Speaker 1: a true provocation, perhaps even an active war. Now. I 155 00:09:32,360 --> 00:09:34,880 Speaker 1: don't think they're going to do anything against Speaker Pelosi. 156 00:09:35,679 --> 00:09:38,760 Speaker 1: I hope they don't do anything against Speaker Pelosi. But 157 00:09:39,040 --> 00:09:43,400 Speaker 1: regardless of this specific trip, let's just all assume for 158 00:09:43,440 --> 00:09:47,440 Speaker 1: our purposes and certainly hope that it goes along without 159 00:09:47,480 --> 00:09:51,560 Speaker 1: any major incident. But what are we willing to do 160 00:09:52,240 --> 00:09:55,840 Speaker 1: in response to a Chinese effort to take Taiwan and 161 00:09:55,840 --> 00:09:57,920 Speaker 1: we are actually going to have a military response. Do 162 00:09:58,000 --> 00:09:59,800 Speaker 1: we want to go to war with China over this island? 163 00:10:01,120 --> 00:10:03,440 Speaker 1: I think there are a lot of people that don't 164 00:10:03,480 --> 00:10:07,480 Speaker 1: like that question, and then you ask them, Okay, so 165 00:10:07,559 --> 00:10:10,360 Speaker 1: the answers, yes, full scale war with China over Taiwan. 166 00:10:11,080 --> 00:10:13,200 Speaker 1: It's not we don't have we're not treaty bound. We 167 00:10:13,240 --> 00:10:18,720 Speaker 1: have a strategic ambiguity policy. Think about that. We're supposed 168 00:10:18,720 --> 00:10:20,800 Speaker 1: to all know the answer to this question, but the 169 00:10:21,960 --> 00:10:25,240 Speaker 1: basis of the question is in we don't really know 170 00:10:25,360 --> 00:10:28,640 Speaker 1: specifically what we're supposed to do or what we would do. 171 00:10:29,120 --> 00:10:32,440 Speaker 1: And that's meant to off balance the Chinese Communist Party. 172 00:10:32,440 --> 00:10:34,720 Speaker 1: And perhaps you could argue that's worked for a long time, 173 00:10:36,480 --> 00:10:38,720 Speaker 1: but a war with China is that's something we would 174 00:10:38,720 --> 00:10:40,800 Speaker 1: really be prepared to do. And I don't pretend to 175 00:10:40,840 --> 00:10:44,600 Speaker 1: have an easy answer either, but I've just noticed this 176 00:10:44,720 --> 00:10:48,360 Speaker 1: habit of people pretending, especially in the early phases, well, 177 00:10:48,360 --> 00:10:51,000 Speaker 1: we all know what the answer is. Really, we all 178 00:10:51,080 --> 00:10:53,200 Speaker 1: knew what the answer was with Iraq, we all knew 179 00:10:53,200 --> 00:10:56,520 Speaker 1: what the answer was with Afghanistan, with Libya, with the 180 00:10:56,600 --> 00:11:00,640 Speaker 1: Syrian civil War, with the war in Ukraine. It's all 181 00:11:00,679 --> 00:11:03,160 Speaker 1: so clear, right, there are these people that are on 182 00:11:03,320 --> 00:11:06,920 Speaker 1: the expert. If one thing, if there's one thing you 183 00:11:06,960 --> 00:11:09,240 Speaker 1: could take away from the COVID phenomenon. It's that just 184 00:11:09,280 --> 00:11:13,679 Speaker 1: because somebody has credentials, just because they're part of the 185 00:11:13,720 --> 00:11:18,160 Speaker 1: managerial elite in some sector of public life, it does 186 00:11:18,200 --> 00:11:21,120 Speaker 1: not mean that they are infallible. And in fact, it 187 00:11:21,120 --> 00:11:23,160 Speaker 1: doesn't even mean that they are smarter than you or 188 00:11:23,240 --> 00:11:25,320 Speaker 1: no more than you on the subject matter that they 189 00:11:25,320 --> 00:11:29,400 Speaker 1: are allegedly experts in. They may have a more specific 190 00:11:29,480 --> 00:11:32,480 Speaker 1: knowledge in some ways, but their judgment, which when you're 191 00:11:32,520 --> 00:11:36,120 Speaker 1: talking about policy, is fundamentally what matters. What big decisions 192 00:11:36,160 --> 00:11:39,880 Speaker 1: do you make when it finally comes down to it, 193 00:11:39,920 --> 00:11:42,520 Speaker 1: when you have that phone call, you know, mister President 194 00:11:42,640 --> 00:11:46,559 Speaker 1: or mister or Missus secret or Missus Secretary of State, 195 00:11:46,559 --> 00:11:49,840 Speaker 1: you know whatever, head of the CIA, head of the 196 00:11:50,600 --> 00:11:52,520 Speaker 1: chaino Chamber, of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, you're gonna 197 00:11:52,520 --> 00:11:54,440 Speaker 1: advise the commander in chief. What do you tell that 198 00:11:54,480 --> 00:11:57,800 Speaker 1: person when it really matters? And that's what it all 199 00:11:57,800 --> 00:12:01,960 Speaker 1: comes down to. That's why I'm sure that the Faucis 200 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:04,480 Speaker 1: and the Burkses of the world can cite obscure studies 201 00:12:04,480 --> 00:12:08,160 Speaker 1: and data to prove they're bonafidez on the issue, but 202 00:12:08,240 --> 00:12:10,800 Speaker 1: when it came to making the big calls, they were wrong. 203 00:12:11,080 --> 00:12:13,560 Speaker 1: When it comes to making a big call over Taiwan, 204 00:12:13,640 --> 00:12:19,560 Speaker 1: we better get it right. And that's my biggest My 205 00:12:19,559 --> 00:12:23,200 Speaker 1: biggest takeaway for you right now is that you'll notice 206 00:12:23,960 --> 00:12:28,280 Speaker 1: that no one really seems to have thought this through 207 00:12:28,440 --> 00:12:31,960 Speaker 1: beyond the we will defend democracy. What does that mean? 208 00:12:33,640 --> 00:12:35,800 Speaker 1: Somebody asked me, They said, Okay, do you want to 209 00:12:35,800 --> 00:12:37,800 Speaker 1: station yourself? You want to? You want to go? Obviously 210 00:12:37,840 --> 00:12:39,640 Speaker 1: I need training and all that, but just as an 211 00:12:39,679 --> 00:12:43,160 Speaker 1: intellectual exercise, you want to go station yourself on an 212 00:12:43,160 --> 00:12:46,080 Speaker 1: aircraft carrier off off the coast of Taiwan. Ready in 213 00:12:46,120 --> 00:12:51,520 Speaker 1: case of I would not want that job, actually, just 214 00:12:51,640 --> 00:12:53,400 Speaker 1: in terms of whether I think that that is the 215 00:12:53,440 --> 00:12:58,040 Speaker 1: proper policy to pursue in case of open hostilities? What 216 00:12:58,160 --> 00:13:02,920 Speaker 1: I feel? What I as an individual good about risking 217 00:13:02,960 --> 00:13:09,720 Speaker 1: my life for the independence of the island nation of Taiwan. 218 00:13:10,600 --> 00:13:12,840 Speaker 1: And then I think we could also ask the next question, well, 219 00:13:12,880 --> 00:13:16,360 Speaker 1: if I wouldn't feel when I say, feel good about it, 220 00:13:16,360 --> 00:13:19,280 Speaker 1: if I wouldn't feel like it is necessary? Right, we're 221 00:13:19,320 --> 00:13:22,000 Speaker 1: talking about these questions. Would I want someone else? Would 222 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:24,000 Speaker 1: I push for someone else to do that in my place? 223 00:13:24,480 --> 00:13:28,280 Speaker 1: I think at some level a return to first principles 224 00:13:28,320 --> 00:13:32,000 Speaker 1: of our national security would be really helpful here. We've 225 00:13:32,040 --> 00:13:35,320 Speaker 1: gotten used to the apparatus just deploying troops and sending 226 00:13:35,360 --> 00:13:39,000 Speaker 1: people on one tour after another, and they're carrying the 227 00:13:39,080 --> 00:13:41,600 Speaker 1: load and their professionals, and this is what they do, 228 00:13:42,920 --> 00:13:45,640 Speaker 1: all right, But are we giving them the right mission set? 229 00:13:46,559 --> 00:13:50,240 Speaker 1: Do we as the American people actually want this? Or 230 00:13:50,559 --> 00:13:54,160 Speaker 1: is this just where inertia and the bureaucracy take us. 231 00:13:55,440 --> 00:13:58,040 Speaker 1: Afghanistan can be a lesson, I think in many ways 232 00:13:58,080 --> 00:14:01,120 Speaker 1: for our future, and as we see what's going on 233 00:14:01,160 --> 00:14:04,520 Speaker 1: in Ukraine, where we're effectively now committed to supplying in 234 00:14:04,600 --> 00:14:08,440 Speaker 1: a war that seems like it will stretch on for years, 235 00:14:08,480 --> 00:14:10,840 Speaker 1: and to what end? Exactly? What is the end state 236 00:14:10,840 --> 00:14:12,959 Speaker 1: we're looking for? You notice the White House doesn't even 237 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:15,440 Speaker 1: talk about it. Do you think that a war with 238 00:14:15,520 --> 00:14:20,680 Speaker 1: China would be quick and easy and forgotten thereafter? What 239 00:14:20,720 --> 00:14:22,840 Speaker 1: would we really be committing ourselves to? What are the 240 00:14:22,840 --> 00:14:26,080 Speaker 1: alternatives here? I don't think these are easy questions, By 241 00:14:26,120 --> 00:14:29,040 Speaker 1: the way, I don't pretend that they're easy, But I 242 00:14:29,080 --> 00:14:31,320 Speaker 1: think that the people in charge just want everyone else 243 00:14:31,360 --> 00:14:34,520 Speaker 1: to be quiet so they can pretend they are easy. 244 00:14:34,800 --> 00:14:37,520 Speaker 1: And that is dangerous and in this moment when the 245 00:14:37,560 --> 00:14:42,200 Speaker 1: Speaker of the House is a matter of twenty four 246 00:14:42,240 --> 00:14:45,800 Speaker 1: or forty eight hours away from possibly the most tense 247 00:14:45,840 --> 00:14:50,320 Speaker 1: moment we've seen with China in many years. I do 248 00:14:50,400 --> 00:14:52,240 Speaker 1: think it's important we think about what we would like 249 00:14:52,280 --> 00:14:54,200 Speaker 1: to really do as a country here, what we are 250 00:14:54,200 --> 00:14:56,160 Speaker 1: committed to do. We got a lot of problems here 251 00:14:56,200 --> 00:14:58,080 Speaker 1: at home to fix, a lot of our own issues 252 00:14:58,080 --> 00:15:02,600 Speaker 1: to tackle. Most businesses, my friends are trying to nickel 253 00:15:02,680 --> 00:15:05,960 Speaker 1: and dime you these days, and this economy just results 254 00:15:05,960 --> 00:15:08,040 Speaker 1: in a lot of that. Right, but not Pure Talk. 255 00:15:08,360 --> 00:15:11,120 Speaker 1: That's my wireless company. 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There's 275 00:16:13,680 --> 00:16:16,720 Speaker 1: no reason for any actions to be taken. It is 276 00:16:16,760 --> 00:16:20,720 Speaker 1: not uncommon for congressional leaders to travel to Taiwan. It 277 00:16:20,840 --> 00:16:23,560 Speaker 1: is very much in keeping with our policy and consistent 278 00:16:23,600 --> 00:16:26,280 Speaker 1: with our support to Taiwan under the Taiwan Relations Act. 279 00:16:26,840 --> 00:16:28,840 Speaker 1: We're not we shouldn't be as a country, we shouldn't 280 00:16:28,840 --> 00:16:32,560 Speaker 1: be intimidated by by that rhetoric or those potential actions. 281 00:16:32,920 --> 00:16:34,640 Speaker 1: This is an important trip for the speaker to be 282 00:16:34,680 --> 00:16:37,000 Speaker 1: on and we're gonna do whatever we can to support her. 283 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:40,880 Speaker 1: Welcome back to Clay an Buck. This is Buck. I 284 00:16:40,920 --> 00:16:42,840 Speaker 1: also just want to take a quick moment to note 285 00:16:42,880 --> 00:16:47,240 Speaker 1: that Nancy Pelosi is not some great freedom fighter. I 286 00:16:47,280 --> 00:16:50,280 Speaker 1: am well aware of the fact that Pelosi was just 287 00:16:50,960 --> 00:16:53,200 Speaker 1: had her husband buying a whole bunch of chip makers 288 00:16:53,200 --> 00:16:57,160 Speaker 1: in advance of the chip bill passing Congress billions and 289 00:16:57,160 --> 00:16:59,280 Speaker 1: billions of dollars in subsidies. Taiwan is one of the 290 00:16:59,320 --> 00:17:02,600 Speaker 1: most important manufacturers of I think, the most important manufacturer 291 00:17:02,600 --> 00:17:07,600 Speaker 1: of semiconductors in the world of chips, and Pelosi's always 292 00:17:07,640 --> 00:17:11,119 Speaker 1: playing an angle for Team Pelosi, so well aware of that. 293 00:17:11,160 --> 00:17:12,639 Speaker 1: I don't want you to think for it's not like 294 00:17:12,720 --> 00:17:15,840 Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi all of a sudden is channeling George Washington 295 00:17:15,920 --> 00:17:20,000 Speaker 1: and it's a country first above all else, no way, 296 00:17:20,080 --> 00:17:23,240 Speaker 1: So why is Pelosi going there? 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To say the least, A grain shipment has 334 00:19:17,960 --> 00:19:22,200 Speaker 1: departed Ukraine for the first time since the Russian invasion. 335 00:19:22,400 --> 00:19:24,960 Speaker 1: I may be saying, well, why does why does this 336 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:27,000 Speaker 1: really matter to us? Here? Ukraine is one of the 337 00:19:27,040 --> 00:19:31,720 Speaker 1: biggest grain exporters in the world and absent that supply 338 00:19:32,160 --> 00:19:35,200 Speaker 1: on the global market. Because grain is a global market, 339 00:19:35,960 --> 00:19:40,359 Speaker 1: you were likely to see substantial increases in the price 340 00:19:40,400 --> 00:19:43,920 Speaker 1: of food, and in poorer countries you might have even 341 00:19:43,960 --> 00:19:48,639 Speaker 1: seen hunger and perhaps even some famines popping up in 342 00:19:48,680 --> 00:19:51,320 Speaker 1: different places, depending if it got really bad. Now it 343 00:19:51,320 --> 00:19:54,920 Speaker 1: looks like they have a deal to at least export 344 00:19:55,000 --> 00:20:00,399 Speaker 1: the grain. So from the port of Odessa, only six 345 00:20:00,480 --> 00:20:05,720 Speaker 1: thousand metric tons of corn headed to Lebanon and from 346 00:20:05,720 --> 00:20:08,520 Speaker 1: there I'll be distributed to other other places. But that's 347 00:20:08,960 --> 00:20:11,000 Speaker 1: going on right now. That's a good thing. Russia is 348 00:20:11,040 --> 00:20:15,200 Speaker 1: also a very big producer of fertilizer, so that was 349 00:20:15,240 --> 00:20:19,320 Speaker 1: another concern here for the global food production market, which 350 00:20:19,400 --> 00:20:22,040 Speaker 1: very few people think about. You know, when I say 351 00:20:22,119 --> 00:20:24,200 Speaker 1: think about we obviously constantly think about food. I think 352 00:20:24,200 --> 00:20:28,080 Speaker 1: about food too much. But where our food comes from 353 00:20:28,280 --> 00:20:31,960 Speaker 1: and who has to do what to make sure that 354 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:36,200 Speaker 1: there is bread on the shelf, so to speak, people 355 00:20:36,240 --> 00:20:38,119 Speaker 1: don't spend very much time thinking about it. We live 356 00:20:38,160 --> 00:20:41,800 Speaker 1: in this world of incredible abundance now. But as you've seen, 357 00:20:41,840 --> 00:20:45,320 Speaker 1: even with the supply chain disruptions, the problem with baby formula, 358 00:20:45,400 --> 00:20:48,440 Speaker 1: it doesn't take that much to throw our very complicated 359 00:20:48,520 --> 00:20:52,400 Speaker 1: system off a bit, and there can be real suffering 360 00:20:52,440 --> 00:20:56,240 Speaker 1: that results from that. So good news from the grain front, 361 00:20:57,240 --> 00:20:59,360 Speaker 1: which matters. I mean, think about it almost like if 362 00:20:59,400 --> 00:21:02,639 Speaker 1: we had lost the major oil producer entirely offline. Now. 363 00:21:02,680 --> 00:21:05,520 Speaker 1: Of course, Russia is still producing oil despite all the 364 00:21:05,560 --> 00:21:08,480 Speaker 1: stuff in the early days of that invasion, and still 365 00:21:08,520 --> 00:21:10,639 Speaker 1: selling its soil in the global market. But if we 366 00:21:10,760 --> 00:21:14,920 Speaker 1: lost an oil producer, everybody would realize the downstream effects 367 00:21:14,920 --> 00:21:18,159 Speaker 1: of that same thing for grain, price of food, and 368 00:21:18,240 --> 00:21:21,240 Speaker 1: already with the rising prices you're seeing in the grocery stores. 369 00:21:21,320 --> 00:21:25,440 Speaker 1: This was a real challenge something people were concerned about. 370 00:21:25,480 --> 00:21:27,520 Speaker 1: So I don't know, by the way, if it's still 371 00:21:27,560 --> 00:21:30,439 Speaker 1: going to hit pretty hard or not. But at least 372 00:21:30,880 --> 00:21:33,399 Speaker 1: there's some deal and there is some right think about 373 00:21:33,400 --> 00:21:36,160 Speaker 1: this Russian EU crater at war, but they know they've 374 00:21:36,160 --> 00:21:39,160 Speaker 1: got to get the grain out. That gives you, I think, 375 00:21:39,200 --> 00:21:43,320 Speaker 1: a sense of the incentives here and the seriousness of 376 00:21:43,359 --> 00:21:47,320 Speaker 1: the situation. And then there's the incentives for Joe Mansion 377 00:21:47,480 --> 00:21:52,680 Speaker 1: to have done this last minute deal to do essentially 378 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:58,160 Speaker 1: a scale down, a skinny build back better if you will, 379 00:21:59,280 --> 00:22:02,600 Speaker 1: which is the buy didn't plan right, build back brokeus. 380 00:22:02,640 --> 00:22:05,640 Speaker 1: Some people call it whatever, but this is a slimmed 381 00:22:05,800 --> 00:22:12,000 Speaker 1: down version of that. It was interesting. ABC's John carl 382 00:22:12,280 --> 00:22:16,080 Speaker 1: Over the weekend asked him why, you know, because he 383 00:22:16,119 --> 00:22:18,480 Speaker 1: had been saying, oh, I won't do anything with climate provisions. 384 00:22:18,560 --> 00:22:20,960 Speaker 1: I mean, this was a huge head fake from Mansion, 385 00:22:21,560 --> 00:22:24,160 Speaker 1: and let's just get this out of the way right now. 386 00:22:24,160 --> 00:22:26,320 Speaker 1: There are a lot of lies they're telling you about this. 387 00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:28,840 Speaker 1: Oh it's not going to reduce taxes. Oh it's not 388 00:22:28,880 --> 00:22:32,919 Speaker 1: going to increase inflation. Oh it's not true. Tax and spend. 389 00:22:33,520 --> 00:22:36,240 Speaker 1: Democrats have a fever and the only prescription is taxing 390 00:22:36,280 --> 00:22:39,800 Speaker 1: and spending. That's it. That's really what this does. It 391 00:22:39,920 --> 00:22:41,960 Speaker 1: moves some money around to people that they like or 392 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:44,840 Speaker 1: causes that they like, and is going to increase costs 393 00:22:44,880 --> 00:22:46,440 Speaker 1: in a lot of ways for other people. But don't worry. 394 00:22:46,440 --> 00:22:49,119 Speaker 1: They'll point to the you know, everything is going to 395 00:22:49,160 --> 00:22:52,359 Speaker 1: be more expensive for you, but there's some money being 396 00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:57,760 Speaker 1: thrown or some additional leeway to negotiate prices for prescription 397 00:22:57,840 --> 00:23:00,560 Speaker 1: drugs for seniors on Medicare. So that's how they're hoping 398 00:23:00,600 --> 00:23:04,840 Speaker 1: politically to distract people from the fact that well, everything 399 00:23:04,880 --> 00:23:07,560 Speaker 1: else is going to get more expensive and job jobs 400 00:23:07,560 --> 00:23:10,400 Speaker 1: are going to be hurt by this and spending more 401 00:23:10,400 --> 00:23:13,600 Speaker 1: money at a time of serious inflation. Here is ABC's 402 00:23:13,640 --> 00:23:17,080 Speaker 1: John Carl asking Mansion, why the secrecy. Why did it 403 00:23:17,200 --> 00:23:19,399 Speaker 1: have to be negotiated in secret? As you know, this 404 00:23:19,440 --> 00:23:22,840 Speaker 1: has rubbed some of your colleagues the wrong way, Bernie Sanders, 405 00:23:23,200 --> 00:23:25,879 Speaker 1: I said, last I heard, Senator Mansion is not the 406 00:23:25,920 --> 00:23:28,840 Speaker 1: majority leader, despite what you may think. Last I heard, 407 00:23:28,840 --> 00:23:31,320 Speaker 1: he is not the only member of the Democratic Caucus. 408 00:23:31,359 --> 00:23:34,119 Speaker 1: Why did this have to be basically just you and 409 00:23:34,200 --> 00:23:37,280 Speaker 1: Chuck Schumer in a room. I understand all the frustration 410 00:23:37,400 --> 00:23:39,119 Speaker 1: and the reason for that. I didn't want them to 411 00:23:39,160 --> 00:23:41,040 Speaker 1: go through that again. I didn't know if we could 412 00:23:41,040 --> 00:23:42,720 Speaker 1: get a deal. I did not know if we could 413 00:23:42,720 --> 00:23:44,800 Speaker 1: come to an agreement. So why would I put people 414 00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:48,199 Speaker 1: through this, all this drama. I've been through this for 415 00:23:48,240 --> 00:23:51,239 Speaker 1: eight months. I tried. I kept trying. I stayed there 416 00:23:51,280 --> 00:23:53,840 Speaker 1: and kept talking. I just couldn't get to where they 417 00:23:53,880 --> 00:23:56,399 Speaker 1: wanted to go to in my caucus. And rather than 418 00:23:56,560 --> 00:23:58,720 Speaker 1: everybody down and here we go again, I didn't want 419 00:23:58,720 --> 00:24:00,720 Speaker 1: to go through that. So I wanted to see if 420 00:24:00,760 --> 00:24:04,200 Speaker 1: we could come to that agreement. It is remarkable that 421 00:24:04,240 --> 00:24:07,320 Speaker 1: this guy has been elected as many times as he 422 00:24:07,359 --> 00:24:11,280 Speaker 1: has in West Virginia, a very red state, a very 423 00:24:11,480 --> 00:24:15,280 Speaker 1: pro Trump state, and you're voting for a Democrat for 424 00:24:15,320 --> 00:24:18,040 Speaker 1: anybody in that state, remember that you're not just voting 425 00:24:18,040 --> 00:24:22,199 Speaker 1: for Joe Mansion. You're voting for Joe Mansion Democrat. And 426 00:24:22,359 --> 00:24:24,359 Speaker 1: up to this point, we were always talking about how 427 00:24:24,359 --> 00:24:27,160 Speaker 1: it's seeing that he was holding the line against insanity 428 00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:30,400 Speaker 1: and saving his own party, But really it just meant 429 00:24:30,440 --> 00:24:33,840 Speaker 1: that he ratcheted down their craziness. But he's still going 430 00:24:33,880 --> 00:24:39,160 Speaker 1: along with it. He's still a part of the machinery 431 00:24:39,280 --> 00:24:41,440 Speaker 1: of the Democrats that has led us to this point 432 00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:44,920 Speaker 1: where everything is more expensive, where everything in the economy 433 00:24:45,040 --> 00:24:50,359 Speaker 1: is heading in the wrong direction. So how much credit 434 00:24:50,480 --> 00:24:55,199 Speaker 1: can you give somebody for going along with bad ideas? 435 00:24:55,240 --> 00:24:59,320 Speaker 1: Just a little less than the truly wacko Damns wanted 436 00:24:59,359 --> 00:25:03,560 Speaker 1: him to. Now he's claiming that the inflation. First of all, 437 00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:06,240 Speaker 1: the fact that they call it the Inflation Reduction Act 438 00:25:06,320 --> 00:25:10,159 Speaker 1: really tells you all you need to know. It is 439 00:25:10,200 --> 00:25:13,920 Speaker 1: not reducing inflation. But they know that's a huge problem 440 00:25:13,960 --> 00:25:16,880 Speaker 1: for them Right now, inflation is at a level where 441 00:25:16,920 --> 00:25:21,639 Speaker 1: the political consequences are being felt for the Libs. So 442 00:25:21,680 --> 00:25:23,320 Speaker 1: if they're going to pass a bill that spends a 443 00:25:23,320 --> 00:25:26,760 Speaker 1: whole lot of money on climate, the number of dollars 444 00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:30,080 Speaker 1: that we should be spending from the federal government, your dollars, 445 00:25:30,160 --> 00:25:35,840 Speaker 1: taxpayer dollars to address the climate crisis is zero. It's 446 00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:39,919 Speaker 1: not three hundred billion, it's not three billion. It's zero. 447 00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:47,200 Speaker 1: But Mansion knows it seems that the Democrats have turned 448 00:25:47,240 --> 00:25:49,520 Speaker 1: this into a religious belief. So he's going along with 449 00:25:49,560 --> 00:25:54,359 Speaker 1: the It fights inflation and lowers energy costs. I didn't 450 00:25:54,440 --> 00:25:56,879 Speaker 1: change my mind. I've never changed at all. This is 451 00:25:56,880 --> 00:26:00,000 Speaker 1: fighting inflation. This is all about that, the absolute horror 452 00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:03,800 Speaker 1: position that people were in now because of the inflation 453 00:26:03,880 --> 00:26:06,840 Speaker 1: cost whether it be gasoline, whether it be food pricing, 454 00:26:06,840 --> 00:26:09,200 Speaker 1: whether it be energy pricing, and it's around energy mostly 455 00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:12,480 Speaker 1: driving these high inflation. This is going to take care 456 00:26:12,480 --> 00:26:16,040 Speaker 1: of that because this is aggressively producing more energy to 457 00:26:16,119 --> 00:26:18,719 Speaker 1: get more supply to get the prices down. That's what 458 00:26:18,720 --> 00:26:23,200 Speaker 1: we're doing. But we didn't raise taxes. That's just not true. 459 00:26:24,240 --> 00:26:28,200 Speaker 1: He is raising taxes. Okay, this would raise taxes when 460 00:26:28,240 --> 00:26:33,240 Speaker 1: it's passed and done. And in fact, the latest analysis 461 00:26:33,280 --> 00:26:37,000 Speaker 1: of this that you can see suggests that it is 462 00:26:37,119 --> 00:26:39,720 Speaker 1: going to fall some of the tax burden will fall 463 00:26:39,760 --> 00:26:43,080 Speaker 1: on people making less than four hundred thousand dollars a year, 464 00:26:43,119 --> 00:26:45,000 Speaker 1: which that's not a surprise, do you. I mean, this 465 00:26:45,080 --> 00:26:48,199 Speaker 1: is classic Democrat Baden switch. Oh, it's all about just 466 00:26:48,280 --> 00:26:51,920 Speaker 1: bringing down the price of prescriptions for seniors. That's just 467 00:26:52,080 --> 00:26:54,800 Speaker 1: trying to get that's just Democrat propaganda. So seniors don't 468 00:26:54,840 --> 00:26:59,000 Speaker 1: realize that, especially if you're on a fixed income. Democrats 469 00:26:59,040 --> 00:27:02,800 Speaker 1: the by administration horrible for your quality of life. Oh no, 470 00:27:02,920 --> 00:27:05,400 Speaker 1: that's why we're trying to just we're gonna let Medicare 471 00:27:05,480 --> 00:27:10,600 Speaker 1: do better negotiation over prescription drug prices. Well, what about 472 00:27:10,640 --> 00:27:15,119 Speaker 1: the food, the rent or the mortgage, the gas for 473 00:27:15,160 --> 00:27:17,680 Speaker 1: your car, all that, where's that price all going It's 474 00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:19,960 Speaker 1: going up, it's going up. But on this one, they're 475 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:22,000 Speaker 1: saying they're going to do the right thing. Notice how 476 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:24,000 Speaker 1: even Mansion says it's going to bring the cost of 477 00:27:24,080 --> 00:27:26,680 Speaker 1: energy down by producing more energy. They're going to give 478 00:27:26,800 --> 00:27:33,080 Speaker 1: money to windmill farms and you know, solar energy manufacturers 479 00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:37,080 Speaker 1: or whatever. They're gonna spread money around the Green New 480 00:27:37,160 --> 00:27:41,840 Speaker 1: Deal apparatus. So the most expensive, least efficient energy source 481 00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:44,600 Speaker 1: as possible are going to get as much taxpayer cash 482 00:27:44,640 --> 00:27:46,920 Speaker 1: as possible. And they're gonna tell you it's bringing down 483 00:27:47,119 --> 00:27:48,840 Speaker 1: the cost of energy. We all know. You want to 484 00:27:48,840 --> 00:27:51,400 Speaker 1: bring down the cost of energy. You want to get 485 00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:54,359 Speaker 1: out of the way of the fossil fuel producers. You 486 00:27:54,359 --> 00:27:55,639 Speaker 1: want to get out of the way of the folks 487 00:27:55,640 --> 00:27:59,440 Speaker 1: working in and around the Permian Basin and in North Dakota. 488 00:27:59,640 --> 00:28:02,720 Speaker 1: You want to allow American domestic energy production, which is 489 00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:06,560 Speaker 1: what Trump did, which is how we got to true 490 00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:09,359 Speaker 1: energy independence. And then Biden just gave it gave it 491 00:28:09,400 --> 00:28:13,240 Speaker 1: away or decided he didn't like that. Didn't like it 492 00:28:13,280 --> 00:28:15,720 Speaker 1: because of all the fossil fuels and the climate change. 493 00:28:16,119 --> 00:28:19,960 Speaker 1: They're all such frauds, friends, they really are. You know, 494 00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:25,600 Speaker 1: Igancy Taylor Swift, who does have some catchy tunes, getting 495 00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:28,240 Speaker 1: a lot of heat. She has some catchy tunes. I'm 496 00:28:28,280 --> 00:28:31,199 Speaker 1: not saying I'm a huge fan. I'm saying I'm like 497 00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:37,800 Speaker 1: a medium fan ish. But she is getting a lot 498 00:28:37,840 --> 00:28:39,680 Speaker 1: of heat because she flies everywhere private. But it's a 499 00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:43,560 Speaker 1: big climate activist. Pay attention to what people do, not 500 00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:45,760 Speaker 1: what they say, folks. A good lesson for life all 501 00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:48,840 Speaker 1: the time. Good lesson for looking at Joe mansion right 502 00:28:48,880 --> 00:28:51,520 Speaker 1: now too. Oh yeah, holding the line for sanity. Three 503 00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:55,320 Speaker 1: hundred and sixty billion dollars for green energy folks. Yeah, 504 00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:58,760 Speaker 1: only three hundred and sixty billion. Sure, great idea. That's 505 00:28:58,760 --> 00:29:01,680 Speaker 1: really gonna help a lot. Joe, West Virginia, we got 506 00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:04,400 Speaker 1: a lot of West Virginia listeners. If you vote again 507 00:29:04,440 --> 00:29:06,720 Speaker 1: for this guy, I don't know what to say. I 508 00:29:06,760 --> 00:29:11,160 Speaker 1: don't know, West West Virginia, you're disappointing me. We're halfway 509 00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:13,560 Speaker 1: through twenty twenty two and it's already been a big 510 00:29:13,640 --> 00:29:16,360 Speaker 1: year for healthcare data breaches. A recent breach at a 511 00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:19,760 Speaker 1: debt collection firm exposed data from one point nine million 512 00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:23,120 Speaker 1: patients tied to six hundred and fifty seven healthcare providers. 513 00:29:23,320 --> 00:29:26,720 Speaker 1: That's a huge number of people affected, but actually it's 514 00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:29,760 Speaker 1: only the third largest healthcare breach reporter this year. 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Call one eight hundred LifeLock 531 00:30:21,520 --> 00:30:24,440 Speaker 1: or go online to LifeLock dot com and use promo 532 00:30:24,480 --> 00:30:29,760 Speaker 1: code buck for twenty five percent off. Welcome back to 533 00:30:29,840 --> 00:30:32,840 Speaker 1: Clay and Buck. This is Buck Sexton here, an NYC. 534 00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:37,240 Speaker 1: Clay is on vacation this week. And who's up in 535 00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:42,840 Speaker 1: the upper Peninsula of Michigan. Mckinaw islet in Fact, which 536 00:30:42,840 --> 00:30:44,960 Speaker 1: sounds like a love sounds like a lovely place I've 537 00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:47,120 Speaker 1: never been. So if you see him there, if you 538 00:30:47,120 --> 00:30:49,000 Speaker 1: see him, if you see a guy walking around in 539 00:30:49,040 --> 00:30:53,040 Speaker 1: flip flops with a Hawaiian shirt on, looking like he's 540 00:30:53,120 --> 00:30:57,040 Speaker 1: just you know, loving life, that is probably our friend, 541 00:30:57,040 --> 00:31:01,280 Speaker 1: mister Clay Travis. So say hi to him. We've got 542 00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:05,880 Speaker 1: Blake Masters, who is right now leading in the polls 543 00:31:06,160 --> 00:31:10,240 Speaker 1: for the Republican primary in Arizona, that Senate race. He 544 00:31:10,280 --> 00:31:12,560 Speaker 1: will be joining us in the third hour, by the way, 545 00:31:12,560 --> 00:31:16,320 Speaker 1: I wanted to note that, and we will also be 546 00:31:16,360 --> 00:31:23,840 Speaker 1: talking a bit more here about Biden's additional COVID positive test. 547 00:31:24,120 --> 00:31:26,840 Speaker 1: I mean, I gotta tell you, this is one of 548 00:31:26,840 --> 00:31:29,160 Speaker 1: those moments where you've got to say, how much more 549 00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:32,560 Speaker 1: does it take before the Libs relent on this stuff. 550 00:31:32,760 --> 00:31:37,240 Speaker 1: We'll get into that. Also, spam in a can now 551 00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:41,240 Speaker 1: in a case as well, locking down the spam in 552 00:31:41,440 --> 00:31:48,440 Speaker 1: NYC stores because people are stealing canned meat. They're stealing 553 00:31:48,520 --> 00:31:51,200 Speaker 1: the canned meat. Friends, I've I've told you about this. 554 00:31:52,080 --> 00:31:55,920 Speaker 1: You can't get anything that is easily resellable. They will 555 00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:58,120 Speaker 1: lock down under lock and key. And now they're putting 556 00:31:58,160 --> 00:32:01,040 Speaker 1: him in these plexiglass cases that need a key to 557 00:32:01,080 --> 00:32:03,680 Speaker 1: open them. We'll talk about this. We got a bunch 558 00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:05,640 Speaker 1: of calls up. We've got some former military folks we 559 00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:13,440 Speaker 1: want to weigh in. So can we get rob in Tampa, Florida, 560 00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:18,400 Speaker 1: Romp thanks for calling in former military paratrooper Hey Mark, 561 00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:24,080 Speaker 1: thanks for having me to the point with China directly 562 00:32:24,080 --> 00:32:29,680 Speaker 1: and indirectly threatening us over a Pelosi, Taiwan visit. You know, 563 00:32:30,080 --> 00:32:33,480 Speaker 1: being from the military, new in the CIA background and 564 00:32:33,600 --> 00:32:36,360 Speaker 1: at a time when everyone was so proud and of 565 00:32:36,360 --> 00:32:41,440 Speaker 1: a strong, healthy, robust military. It's just gotten to a 566 00:32:41,560 --> 00:32:45,640 Speaker 1: point with this whole back and forth exchange in the 567 00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:48,960 Speaker 1: last week that I could pull the remaining hair out 568 00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:53,000 Speaker 1: of my head to think that China now is so embolded, 569 00:32:53,720 --> 00:32:55,719 Speaker 1: which I think has a lot to do listening to 570 00:32:55,760 --> 00:32:58,440 Speaker 1: you and Clay and other news sources, that has a 571 00:32:58,480 --> 00:33:01,680 Speaker 1: lot to do with a Hunter Joe Biden connection for 572 00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:06,280 Speaker 1: the last you know, six years, but so emboldened between 573 00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:14,200 Speaker 1: trade demands, military threats, indirect threats. I cannot believe that 574 00:33:14,280 --> 00:33:20,600 Speaker 1: this country would even consider softening or delaying or canceling 575 00:33:21,040 --> 00:33:26,880 Speaker 1: a visit by Pelosi to Taiwan because of this nonsense. 576 00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:31,680 Speaker 1: And I agree with you about the the situation and 577 00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:36,520 Speaker 1: Pelosi possibly if she doesn't go the message that that sends, 578 00:33:36,560 --> 00:33:38,760 Speaker 1: I mean it is you can't allow China to be 579 00:33:38,800 --> 00:33:44,160 Speaker 1: dictating foreign policy or or or foreign visits by you 580 00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:46,920 Speaker 1: remember to not Chinese soil. Of course they say Taiwan 581 00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:50,880 Speaker 1: is Chinese soil of time when he's strenuously disagree. But 582 00:33:50,920 --> 00:33:54,000 Speaker 1: I feel like Pelosi's motivations for this, it would be 583 00:33:54,040 --> 00:33:57,000 Speaker 1: so fascinating that it's probably related to the Chips and 584 00:33:57,040 --> 00:34:02,600 Speaker 1: them the investments in semiconductus et um. But I also 585 00:34:02,640 --> 00:34:04,920 Speaker 1: think she's so reckless and selfish that she might not 586 00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:10,360 Speaker 1: have even realized that she was poking a poking the 587 00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:12,880 Speaker 1: barrel on this one. Thanks for calling in. Rob Um 588 00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:16,440 Speaker 1: also on the on the situation of China. Just understand, 589 00:34:16,480 --> 00:34:20,359 Speaker 1: their economy is in really bad shape right now. They're 590 00:34:20,440 --> 00:34:26,520 Speaker 1: calling for the lowest growth target in UM, lowest growth 591 00:34:26,520 --> 00:34:31,239 Speaker 1: target in China's I think the last thirty years. So 592 00:34:31,360 --> 00:34:34,319 Speaker 1: they they've had runs on banks, They've got huge real 593 00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:38,879 Speaker 1: estate default issues. I mean, China hide so much from 594 00:34:38,880 --> 00:34:41,040 Speaker 1: the rest of the world when it comes to what's 595 00:34:41,080 --> 00:34:44,200 Speaker 1: going on internally, not only politically but economically, and everyone 596 00:34:44,280 --> 00:34:46,440 Speaker 1: has believed for a long time, but their growth numbers 597 00:34:46,440 --> 00:34:49,680 Speaker 1: are inflated. Uh. They're obviously engaged in all kinds of 598 00:34:49,680 --> 00:34:55,799 Speaker 1: currency manipulation and predatory trade practices, etc. But internally they've 599 00:34:55,840 --> 00:34:58,799 Speaker 1: got some real economic instabilities. You have a country with 600 00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:01,840 Speaker 1: internal economic mc problems the likes of which it hasn't 601 00:35:01,840 --> 00:35:07,080 Speaker 1: seen in decades, and you also have a country with 602 00:35:07,680 --> 00:35:11,960 Speaker 1: a surplus of young adult males because of China's one 603 00:35:12,080 --> 00:35:15,760 Speaker 1: child policy. It really threw off the demographics of the country, 604 00:35:16,320 --> 00:35:22,360 Speaker 1: and a rising tide of nationalism and perhaps militancy along 605 00:35:22,400 --> 00:35:28,000 Speaker 1: with it. These are very concerning factors. We have Chase 606 00:35:28,120 --> 00:35:32,800 Speaker 1: in Columbia, South Carolina. How you doing, Chase, I'm doing well. 607 00:35:33,040 --> 00:35:36,319 Speaker 1: I wanted to reach out to you all and thank 608 00:35:36,320 --> 00:35:38,680 Speaker 1: you for your shows to start. Thank you for your service. 609 00:35:38,760 --> 00:35:42,520 Speaker 1: I know you're a former marine, Yes, sir Marine, very 610 00:35:42,560 --> 00:35:45,319 Speaker 1: proud of it. What I can what I can say 611 00:35:45,360 --> 00:35:48,600 Speaker 1: about the current situation with Pelosi wanted to take a trip. 612 00:35:49,040 --> 00:35:51,440 Speaker 1: I definitely believe we don't need to cower down to 613 00:35:51,840 --> 00:35:54,480 Speaker 1: China ever, But I do believe that right now the 614 00:35:54,520 --> 00:35:57,080 Speaker 1: American public, the last thing we need is a conflict, 615 00:35:57,520 --> 00:36:00,560 Speaker 1: and I believe if it needs it means that we 616 00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:03,400 Speaker 1: need to cut ties with Taiwan. So be it. I 617 00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:06,080 Speaker 1: think that the American public could find a way to 618 00:36:06,080 --> 00:36:09,319 Speaker 1: produce goods as well as what China produces. So I 619 00:36:09,320 --> 00:36:11,480 Speaker 1: think that we need to try to start focusing more 620 00:36:11,520 --> 00:36:16,920 Speaker 1: economically on bringing jobs back, especially manufacturing jobs to America 621 00:36:17,520 --> 00:36:19,960 Speaker 1: due to the fact that we're our economy is faced 622 00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:23,120 Speaker 1: in such hardship right now. So any type of ties 623 00:36:23,160 --> 00:36:25,719 Speaker 1: we have to cut with the East, I say, let's 624 00:36:25,760 --> 00:36:31,160 Speaker 1: do it. And Chase, thanks for calling him, man, appreciate you. 625 00:36:31,600 --> 00:36:33,400 Speaker 1: We got to come back here in a few minutes 626 00:36:34,120 --> 00:36:40,320 Speaker 1: on the Biden positive part two for COVID and also 627 00:36:41,280 --> 00:36:44,439 Speaker 1: spam in a can in a case in your hand. 628 00:36:44,960 --> 00:36:47,400 Speaker 1: If you're in New York City, that's the reality here, 629 00:36:47,840 --> 00:36:54,480 Speaker 1: anti theft measures, you got to hear about it. Fleet, Travis, 630 00:36:54,520 --> 00:36:58,200 Speaker 1: and Buck Sexton on the front lines of truth.