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Speaker 1: Welcome to today's edition of The Clay Travis and Buck

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Speaker 1: Sexton Show podcast.

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Speaker 2: Welcome everybody to the Tuesday edition of The Clay Travis

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Speaker 2: and Buck Sexton Show. The audio phenomenon continues. Thank you

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Speaker 2: for being here with us. We have so much to

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Speaker 2: dive into. Doge doing its thing. The cuts are coming,

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Speaker 2: The cuts are coming fast and furious. The Federal Leviathan

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Speaker 2: is healing the heat. This is all very good stuff.

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Speaker 2: Some things and I have to have tip Chris Rufo

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Speaker 2: for this, that have been found from within the intelligence

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Speaker 2: community an internal but company remember not like private time,

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Speaker 2: an internal chat thread that Chris Rufo has gotten access

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Speaker 2: to from within the IC. So we have our own

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Speaker 2: classified Now this is unclassified information, but we do. There's

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Speaker 2: ways obviously you can talk to people in the building

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Speaker 2: at and you can you know, we're sending classified emails,

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Speaker 2: classified text messages, those sorts of things. There was some

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Speaker 2: kind of a thread set up for the lgbt QIA

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Speaker 2: plus plus members of the intelligence community, and some of

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Speaker 2: the things that were said are very troubling and make

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Speaker 2: you think that there are activist weirdos who have infiltrated

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Speaker 2: the intelligence community in the hundreds at least which is

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Speaker 2: and that's just what we can see. So we shall

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Speaker 2: discuss that a little bit. And I think actually a producer, Ali,

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Speaker 2: why don't we put out an asked to Chris Rufosi

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Speaker 2: if he wants to come on and discuss because I

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Speaker 2: can add a little. He's never been in the CIA,

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Speaker 2: so I could kind of look at what he's got

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Speaker 2: and give a sense as to what I think is

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Speaker 2: going on here. We've also got, like I said, doge

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Speaker 2: what they're doing the gender madness Bill Maher asking one

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Speaker 2: of the pod save bros Hey, if you think the

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Speaker 2: state should be able to hide gender dysphorio or dysmorphia,

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Speaker 2: whatever they want to call it this week from parents.

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Speaker 2: You're in a bad spot because the American people are

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Speaker 2: not with you. I think that's a really interesting discussion.

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Speaker 2: David Hog Clay, who would definitely benefit from some chalk,

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Speaker 2: Like we should get that guy. I don't know if

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Speaker 2: they could do chalk intravenously, but with this guy needs

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Speaker 2: some chalk from our our friends there. But anyway, David

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Speaker 2: Hogg talking about Biden's mental decline and how it was

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Speaker 2: hidden from everyody, I think that's really interesting. But for

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Speaker 2: those of us who are taking stock of where the

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Speaker 2: Democrats are at this moment in time, unburdened by what

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Speaker 2: has been. MSNBC is unburdened by the Joy Read Show

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Speaker 2: at this stage. And now she's very she's very upset. Now.

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Speaker 2: I will tell you this. Clay and I are both nice, Like,

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Speaker 2: we are both nice people. Clay Clay is a little

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Speaker 2: can be a little saltier, little sassy, or sometimes are

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Speaker 2: faster to be salty. I would say, is that fair? Am?

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Speaker 2: I? I don't want to speak for you, but you're you.

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Speaker 2: You like a good scrap online. You know I can

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Speaker 2: do and I don't. I don't like the way I

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Speaker 2: will describe it is I try to be super nice

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Speaker 2: to everybody, but the minute that someone is unkind to me,

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Speaker 2: I flip pretty quickly, right, Like I think that's fair. Yes, yes,

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Speaker 2: Clay has Clay has two speeds, chill with everybody or

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Speaker 2: nuclear war. Basically, I think that's that's somewhat accurate. Like

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Speaker 2: I don't force escalation. I'm like, are you really intending

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Speaker 2: to be so rude? Like Clay is just like nuke

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Speaker 2: boom gone, So it's accurate. Yeah, exactly, That's how it

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Speaker 2: goes I pay attention now with Joy Reid. She has

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Speaker 2: spent years being quite nasty to people on the right.

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Speaker 2: I think she has an animus to certain people that

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Speaker 2: comes out in her commentary, and now she wants sympathy.

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Speaker 2: This is cut too, and Clay, you can react to it.

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Speaker 2: Here we go, Joy Reid very sad that she's no

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Speaker 2: longer getting paid millions of dollars to be horrible at

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Speaker 2: her job. Played too.

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Speaker 3: My show had value and that that that what I

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Speaker 3: was doing value and value. And in the end, I'm sorry.

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Speaker 2: I try not to cry on TV, so I apologize.

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Speaker 3: In the end, where I land is that the moment

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Speaker 3: that I've of guilt, that I felt that I went

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Speaker 3: hard on so many issues, whether it was the Black

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Speaker 3: Lives Matter issues of a young baby or a mom

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Speaker 3: Hannah Jones put into our spirit that we need to

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Speaker 3: understand sixteen nineteen as the real founding of this country,

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Speaker 3: whether it's talking about Gaza and the fact that we

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Speaker 3: as the American people to have a right to object

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Speaker 3: to little babies being bombed. And where I come down

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Speaker 3: on that is, I'm not sorry.

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Speaker 2: Are you sorry, Clay for her No, I'm ecstatic, and

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Speaker 2: I also love that she started to cry because I

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Speaker 2: her because they were afraid that she would call them racist.

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Speaker 2: And I think this is emblematic of how everything has

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Speaker 2: fallen apart. How about Rachel matt Aubuch. Did you see this?

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Speaker 2: She went on right after Joy Reid and said MSNBC

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Speaker 2: is racist for firing Joy. Read This is Rachel mad Albach,

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Speaker 2: who makes twenty five million dollars a year to do

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Speaker 2: one show a week. I know she's on for the

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Speaker 2: first hundred days of Trump or whatever. Nobody seems to

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Speaker 2: really care. She's lost her mojo. But listen to cut three.

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Speaker 2: This is how much of a disaster inside of MSNBC is.

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Speaker 4: Buck.

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Speaker 2: I think you would agree with me on this. I'm

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Speaker 2: not ever going to and I don't think I ever

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Speaker 2: have publicly taken shots at my employer on the air.

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Speaker 2: I think it's super unprofessional. And I also think, like

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Speaker 2: you're not going to agree with everything that ever that

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Speaker 2: ever happens to you at any job. For Rachel Maddow,

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Speaker 2: who I think has been treated more fairly by MSNBC

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Speaker 2: than maybe anyone in our entire industry, they made her

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Speaker 2: a star. She's very replaceable. Yes, they made her a superstar,

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Speaker 2: paying her tens of millions of dollars and has absolutely

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Speaker 2: zero gratitude. I'll tell you this, I have never turned

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Speaker 2: because I think it with the exception of CNN, however,

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Speaker 2: I was a contractor there for like, yeah, short period

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Speaker 2: of time, and that was political. It wasn't that. I

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Speaker 2: wasn't saying CNN like mistreated me as an employee. I

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Speaker 2: was just like, they're out of their minds. They hate

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Speaker 2: Trump and they're destroying the That's just the truth. But

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Speaker 2: it shows a real character deficit, especially especially when you've

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Speaker 2: been elevated the way that Rachel Maddow has been an

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Speaker 2: MSNBC to turn around and say, oh, you know, look

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Speaker 2: at what they're doing. But you know what this is Clay.

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Speaker 2: All the very overpaid white hosts in primetime at MSNBC,

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Speaker 2: they have to go above and beyond to make everyone

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Speaker 2: understand how much they care about diversity, equity and inclusion.

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Speaker 2: And by the way, it's all bs because if she

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Speaker 2: should insist that MSNBC replace her with a minority, a

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Speaker 2: black woman in particular. But this was Rachel. Of course

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Speaker 2: she's not gonna do that because she wants her money

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Speaker 2: and she also wants to tell everybody how holier than

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Speaker 2: now she is. But remember buck, was that Rona McDaniel

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Speaker 2: that got hired by NBC News and Rachel Maddow threw

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Speaker 2: it was Rona McDaniel. This is the not the first

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Speaker 2: time we've seen a major flare up that has occurred

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Speaker 2: inside of the community here. But here is Rachel Maddow saying, Hey, basically,

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Speaker 5: Listen, there is no colleague for whom I have had

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Speaker 5: more affection and more respect than Joy Reid. I love

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Speaker 5: everything about her. I have learned so much from her,

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Speaker 5: I have so much more to learn from her. I

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Speaker 5: do not want to lose her as a colleague. Here

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Speaker 5: at MSNBC, and personally, I think it is a bad

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Speaker 5: mistake to let her walk out the door. It is

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Speaker 5: not my call and I understand that, but that's what

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Speaker 5: I think. I will tell you. It is also unnerving

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Speaker 5: our non white hosts in primetime are losing their shows,

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Speaker 5: as is Katie Fang on the weekend, and that feels

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Speaker 5: worse than bad no matter who replaces them. That feels

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Speaker 2: Oh, they're so at MSNBC. They're so racist. All of

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Speaker 2: a sudden, I got a couple things for you on

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Speaker 2: this Clay. One is this is a reminder that as

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Speaker 2: far as the left is concerned, the metrics don't matter

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Speaker 2: when it comes to anything that involves race and DEI.

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Speaker 2: Her numbers are terrible. This is a business right. She

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Speaker 2: doesn't actually move the needle. It would be one thing,

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Speaker 2: and it's a different thing if they had a situation

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Speaker 2: where where Joy Reid's numbers were doing great, but they

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Speaker 2: thought her, you know, persona was too toxic for the

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Speaker 2: current environment, which has happened to other hosts by the way,

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Speaker 2: at other networks, but whatever, and they pushed that person

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Speaker 2: out right, that would be one thing. Her numbers are terrible,

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Speaker 2: so objectively she is failing at her job. TV is

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Speaker 2: a brutal business. You and I know this, so is radio.

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Speaker 2: By the way, you're not getting the numbers. Somebody else

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Speaker 2: Part two for me is madam makes what thirty million

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Speaker 2: dollars a year? Yeah, twenty five million. Now she got

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Speaker 2: thirty million. They gave her a pay cut to do

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Speaker 2: Go she should go to the execs at MSNBC and

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Speaker 2: say because also Joy reads this, this is one thing

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Speaker 2: in radio sometimes as well. But when the host goes,

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Speaker 2: when the show is I've been on a show that's

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Speaker 2: been canceled before. And it's like when a head coach

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Speaker 2: I've seen. It's a few dozen staffers working on our show,

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Speaker 2: and a lot of them are being if not all

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Speaker 2: of them being let go. My point is merely, if

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Speaker 2: Rachel Mattat was so upset by this, she should have

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Speaker 2: gone to them. She doesn't need any more money. She

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Speaker 2: out of my salary and cover Joy and her staff

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Speaker 2: for another year. Give them another She could do that,

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Speaker 2: it wouldn't be as good. People have done that in

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Speaker 2: media before they've taken There have been actors have taken

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Speaker 2: famously to pay the staff a lot more to you know,

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Speaker 2: the crew a lot more during COVID. I bet you

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Speaker 2: did this, Buck, I mean, everybody at iHeart took substantial

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Speaker 2: laid off. I think a lot of on air people did. Yes,

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Speaker 2: I mean that's what you do for your people, right,

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Speaker 2: putting out and you have a loyalty to them and

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Speaker 2: vice versa. So I just think it's interesting in Rachel

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Speaker 2: Mattaw here she is crying about this, or well not

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Speaker 2: quite crying, that's Joy Reid, but whining about this, and

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Speaker 2: it's completely within her power to have changed the situation.

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Speaker 2: She could also just say I'm going to fund Why

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Speaker 4: this budget resolution would allow us to It sets the

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Speaker 4: So that's that's where primary focus is in the in

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Speaker 4: we can actually do via reconciliation, which is you know,

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Speaker 4: I'm sure you talk to your listeners many times as

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Speaker 4: that's what we're we're really fools. But we are going

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Speaker 4: to have to codify some of the stuff that that

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Speaker 4: Elon Musk is identifying. And understand there's been there's been

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Speaker 4: efforts over the years to do Citizens against Government Waste

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Speaker 4: over the years. The ear marks, the bridge to know

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Speaker 4: But there's never been this kind of intensity and focus

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Speaker 4: going to be the guy who randos. That is what

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Speaker 4: six trillion dollars debt that's now piled up. So that's

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Speaker 4: that's where we got to put it. At some point,

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Speaker 4: we're going to have to codify what he's what Elon

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Speaker 4: is identifying and his team, but also we've got to

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Speaker 4: get this reconciliation package done.

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Speaker 2: I mentioned Ohio State off the top. Obviously the vice

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Speaker 2: happy to see that win over Notre Dame. You are

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Speaker 2: also involved, in addition to a billion other things going

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Speaker 2: across the line a little bit earlier today was that

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Speaker 2: there's going to be a hearing surrounding that. Am I right,

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Speaker 2: where are we going for people? Out there who are

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Speaker 2: big college sports fans? What are you examining?

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Speaker 4: Well, we're actually doing something that typically doesn't happen all

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Speaker 4: that often on Capitol Hill. We're actually going to do

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Speaker 4: hearing is what we're trying to get information. Whether it's

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Speaker 4: not some predetermined outcome that we want to some bill

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Speaker 4: we want to pass, or some decory we're trying to achieve.

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Speaker 4: We just want to We want everyone loves college sports.

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Speaker 4: We want them to be around. I watched the Oklahoma

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Speaker 4: State Iowa match on tape last night when I got

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Speaker 4: home late, and we want we love college sports and

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Speaker 4: most people's football, basketball, but there's so many other sports.

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Speaker 4: We want to make sure they're all doing well. We

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Speaker 4: met with Charlie Baker, we met with and through some

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Speaker 4: So we're looking at doing some hearings and field hearings

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Speaker 4: see we want to make sure this continues. It's been

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Speaker 4: such an amazing thing, and it's different from most other

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Speaker 4: countries where it's all club level, different kind of concept,

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Speaker 4: This idea that sports are good for students and student athletes.

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Speaker 4: That's why we have them in school, and when you

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Speaker 4: get to the top level Division one athletics, it's really

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Speaker 4: important to American So we're going to have some of

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Speaker 4: these hearings where we bring in people. We're kind of

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Speaker 4: waiting for this House decision when it's finalized, so we

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Speaker 4: sort of know exactly what's there, but we're actually gonna

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Speaker 4: solicit information. Imagine that Congress trying to get information and

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Speaker 4: figure out what's the best way to move forward. And

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Speaker 4: should we move forward at all as as you know

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Speaker 4: in Congress, or do you just let the marketplace work?

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Speaker 4: So those are the questions we have and we're trying to.

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Speaker 2: Get answers to Congressman, have you ever seen such a

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Speaker 2: lack of gusto from your counterparts on the Democrat side

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Speaker 2: in the Congress. It is a remarkable moment in American history.

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Speaker 2: Right now, it's just the deafening sound of crickets chirping.

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Speaker 2: As Trump is doing all this stuff, there's not much

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Speaker 2: happening from from them. What where do you think that goes?

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Speaker 2: Are they going to just summertime decide that they're going

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Speaker 2: to focus in on healthcare for the midterms or something.

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Speaker 2: How does it work?

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Speaker 4: Well, I mean, yeah, they're they're going to keep fighting.

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Speaker 4: The left is the left, and they don't like the

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Speaker 4: idea that we the people are in charge. I mean,

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Speaker 4: it's I would say, this is the fundamental Fight's what

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Speaker 4: you're seeing with with Musk. It's like, oh no, no, no,

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Speaker 4: it's the bureaucrats. It's the faucies of the world who

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Speaker 4: are supposed to run things, you know, the experts. It

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Speaker 4: can't be we the people, via the people we actually

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Speaker 4: elect into office. It can't be that model. That's a competition.

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Speaker 4: We don't want that. We want the bureau cust of runting.

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Speaker 4: So that's the fundamental fight. There's still going to be

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Speaker 4: the left. But you're right, the momentum is all and

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Speaker 4: the energy is all on President Trump's side and the

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Speaker 4: Republican side. And you see that with the fact that

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Speaker 4: every single person he is nominated, with the exception of

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Speaker 4: mister Gates, but every single one has been confirmed. And

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Speaker 4: now we have Dan Bondino gonna go help cash, We've

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Speaker 4: got Pam Bondi, Todd Blantch coming into justice. I mean,

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Speaker 4: it's the team he has put together. Good sharp people

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Speaker 4: who understand they're supposed to be in those positions to

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Speaker 4: serve we the people. That's the attitude that was I

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Speaker 4: think reflective in the election, and that's the attitude you

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Speaker 4: see in these folks, and I'm excited about it all.

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Speaker 2: Jim, what shall we know about the time frame here

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Speaker 2: on bills getting passed? I know there's been a discussion

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Speaker 2: one bill, two bills, one big beautiful bill. What is

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Speaker 2: the current process I guess under which the this is

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Speaker 2: playing out on Capitol Hill? And what should we know

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Speaker 2: from a time frame perspective based on what you know?

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Speaker 4: No good good question, And you know I'm as I

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Speaker 4: fell along tactically. One built, two bill, ten bills. I

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Speaker 4: don't care. I just want to get done what we

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Speaker 4: said we're going to do. But the one bill approach

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Speaker 4: is the budget for creating that. That vehicle is supposed

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Speaker 4: to happen tonight. Now, the Speaker said, we may or

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Speaker 4: may not be able to get the vote tonight, but

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Speaker 4: I think we can. We're working on that, and then

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Speaker 4: the final package. The timeline is the Speaker's laid out

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Speaker 4: and Leader Soon has talked about, is sometime in April

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Speaker 4: where we would get that one big beautiful bill, or

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Speaker 4: if it's two and you got to do a second one, okay,

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Speaker 4: but the idea with one is to get it done

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Speaker 4: sometime in April, so that those tax cuts are in place,

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Speaker 4: they stay in place, the new tax cuts come into place,

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Speaker 4: the money needed for Tom Homan to do his job

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Speaker 4: and secure our border because it takes revenue, it takes

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Speaker 4: resources to do that, and then some money for our

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Speaker 4: national defense, which again all the things we campaigned on.

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Speaker 4: That's the timeline, that's the Speaker's laid out, and that's

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Speaker 4: what we're trying to meet.

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Speaker 2: What do you think of the chances Congress and Jordan

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Speaker 2: that for the first and maybe only time, you'll be

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Speaker 2: a part of a bill that's actually called one Big

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Speaker 2: Beautiful Bill. I think it has a nice ring to it.

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Speaker 2: I'm just thrown that out there, you know, And it's.

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Speaker 4: So President Twulf and you know, you guys have spent

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Speaker 4: the bill is appropriately named. So let's hope we can

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Speaker 4: get it done tonight, get that first step done. Later

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Speaker 4: this evening.

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Speaker 2: Fantastic Congress and Jim Jordan. But how appreciate you, sir,

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Speaker 2: Thanks so much. We'll talk soon.

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Speaker 2: eighty percent from average of the last quarter century from

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Speaker 2: two thousand to twenty twenty four. Tom Homan Borders are

646
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Speaker 2: will join us live on the program tomorrow. But this

647
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Speaker 2: was one of the strongest promises that Donald Trump made

648
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Speaker 2: on day one. I will shut down our southern border.

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Speaker 2: I will begin to deport violent criminals. Promise made, promise kept.

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Speaker 2: And you know, the numbers are extraordinary because by and large, Buck,

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Speaker 2: there's zero discussion suddenly about the border. If Trump had

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Speaker 2: fallen apart on the border, they'd be talking about it

653
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Speaker 2: a lot. Instead, it's shut down on a level we've

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Speaker 2: rarely seen in the past twenty five years. It also

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Speaker 2: goes to show beyond any doubt that Democrats were lying

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Speaker 2: for a long time when they were saying things like

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Speaker 2: we need congressional action to do anything about this, or

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Speaker 2: when they tried to at the last it was so transparent,

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Speaker 2: which is why the Republican in the Senate who went

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Speaker 2: along with it was just a useful idiot. When they

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Speaker 2: tried to pass that border security bill in the election year,

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I won't Republicans go with this border security bill.

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Speaker 2: They must want more illegals. You know, this is the

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Speaker 2: person who has burned your house down, running up with

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Speaker 2: a pail of water as it's smoldering, saying I'm here

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Speaker 2: to help. I mean, the whole thing was absolutely absurd.

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Speaker 2: This is a law enforcement issue, which means it's really

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Speaker 2: an executive branch issue, which means it's really a political

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Speaker 2: will issue. These individuals are in the country in violation

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Speaker 2: of existing congressional statutes. They are entering the country in

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Speaker 2: violation of existing congressionally passed statutes. So what you need

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Speaker 2: is people to enforce those laws and make sure there

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Speaker 2: are consequences as part of that enforcement, in this case

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Speaker 2: sending you back to the country that is your actual country,

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Speaker 2: and you don't just get to skip the line and

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Speaker 2: go around all the legal immigrants into American decide you're

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Speaker 2: going to stay here and get access to all the

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Speaker 2: benefits of being on American soil. So Trump is doing

679
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Speaker 2: a fantastic job with this so far. But I think

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Speaker 2: it does add to the sense of it should add

681
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Speaker 2: to the sense of outrage that people have that we

682
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Speaker 2: had to suffer through ten million illegals pouring into the

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Speaker 2: country under Biden. They wanted that to happen. This is

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Speaker 2: the key difference, right Clay. It's not that this was oh,

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Speaker 2: you know, we tried and they just overwhelmed and we

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Speaker 2: couldn't know. The Democrats pretended that they didn't want this

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Speaker 2: to happen, while they made sure that it was happening

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Speaker 2: and did nothing to stop it. In fact, they enabled it.

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Speaker 2: It was a policy decision that they made. It was

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Speaker 2: not a natural design and it wasn't a hurricane that

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Speaker 2: they were unprepared for or something. It was we are

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Speaker 2: making this situation what it is, which is a lawless

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Speaker 2: mess and really a seller out of the American people

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Speaker 2: and American sovereignty, no doubt. And now this is one

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00:37:04,920 --> 00:37:08,359
Speaker 2: thing we're going to keep pointing out. Congress does need

696
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Speaker 2: to act because we need to take away the presidential

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Speaker 2: authority that Biden took advantage of to allow the southern

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Speaker 2: border to be wide open again. So in order to

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Speaker 2: ensure hopefully that this doesn't happen again, Congress needs to

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Speaker 2: take in action. And this is part of the big

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Speaker 2: beautiful bill that hopefully would restrict the president's ability to

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Speaker 2: act under executive authority. But this is where Trump not

703
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Speaker 2: only has kept his promises, but he was accurate. He said,

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Speaker 2: all we have to do, and we'll talk about this

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Speaker 2: with Tom Homan tomorrow, all we have to do is

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Speaker 2: re implement the policies that we put in place last time,

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Speaker 2: and the southern border will cease being wide open for

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Speaker 2: the entire world. Trump did it. Thirty days boom, southern

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Speaker 2: border is shut. And in fact, based on these numbers,

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Speaker 2: I think there's a good chance that there are fewer

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Speaker 2: illegal immigrants in the country at all during the Trump

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Speaker 2: administration now than there was before. That is, we're not

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Speaker 2: allowing in a massive amount of illegals, and we're also

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Speaker 2: now sending violent illegals out. This may be the first

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Speaker 2: month since Joe Biden came into office where the number

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Speaker 2: of illegal immigrants in the United States has actually declined,

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Speaker 2: even if it's not as fast as people would want,

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Speaker 2: the positive trend lines have flipped. I think that this

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Speaker 2: is also part of a reorientation of the thinking of

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Speaker 2: the majority of the American people, Like I can't speak

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Speaker 2: to the insane, you know, I can't speak to the

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Speaker 2: people who are like, we need to change the law

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Speaker 2: for inseminated person instead of mom like we're never gonna

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Speaker 2: you can't. You can't fix that, Okay, But for we're

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Speaker 2: at solid majority issues here. Sixty percent of the American

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Speaker 2: people approve of the deeper quortations that Trump is doing

727
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Speaker 2: six zero sixty percent. And I think if they knew

728
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Speaker 2: more details about who these people are and what's really

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Speaker 2: been going on, the number would be more like seventy

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Speaker 2: seventy five percent. Uh. And that now you're just getting

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Speaker 2: to the hardcore open borders left, right, twenty twenty five

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Speaker 2: percent of the country is nuts. We can't do anything

733
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Speaker 2: about that. But really, twenty percent of any country is

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Speaker 2: going to be kind of a little bit nutty on politics.

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Speaker 2: I think that's fair to say. And you know, I

736
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Speaker 2: think there's a just a contingent of any society's going

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Speaker 2: to be kind of crazy. But here's the thing, Clay,

738
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Speaker 2: They're changing our perception of what is possible. Yes, you know,

739
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Speaker 2: yes Trump has this win. But if Trump is doing this,

740
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Speaker 2: future administrations as well will have to contend with the

741
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Speaker 2: fact that if all of a sudden the border gets

742
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Speaker 2: kicked wide open again, they can't play the oh, we're overwhelmed.

743
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Speaker 2: We just need more We just need more immigration judges.

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Speaker 2: We just need more border patrol to welcome people into

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Speaker 2: the country who have come here illegally. Right, that's changed

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Speaker 2: the same way that does. And the budget stuff and

747
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Speaker 2: the government waste, fraud and abuse cutting is changing our

748
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Speaker 2: perception of whether we can actually tackle government spending, government growth. Right,

749
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Speaker 2: you can't fix this all at once, but when you

750
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Speaker 2: can do something about it, you then have the proof

751
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Speaker 2: that you can do more going forward. So I think

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Speaker 2: there's a mentality shift here that Trump is created so

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Speaker 2: much of success in life. And I don't want to

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Speaker 2: hop on my ted talk here, but is belief that

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Speaker 2: you can achieve success what is actually possible in all

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Speaker 2: facets of life? And I do think what Elon Musk

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Speaker 2: going to do electric vehicles. A lot of people thought

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Speaker 2: A lot of people thought he was crazy when he

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Speaker 2: the White House Press Secretary is crushing Lib's dreams and

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Speaker 2: taking souls over at the West Wig a lot of

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Speaker 2: fun to watch, making them very sad, very sad, indeed,

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Speaker 2: things we mentioned the White House Correspondent Association. No, you

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Speaker 2: know what, let's let's dive into this one first. We've

795
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Speaker 2: got a few very newsworthy This is just breaking now.

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Speaker 2: To be clear, she just was saying this recently. We

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Speaker 2: wanted to bring this to highlights from the press conference

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Speaker 2: in the West wind Clay and I are going to

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Speaker 2: go out there and we're going to go hang with

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Speaker 2: our favorite people in the Trump White House and Pentagon

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Speaker 2: and other places sometime in the next couple of months.

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Speaker 2: So we're planning that. I do have a child coming,

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Speaker 2: so that is a thing that I have to be

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Speaker 2: aware of in terms of our planning and scheduling. That's

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Speaker 2: what we're trying to rush around and plan around. What

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Speaker 2: the tax day is the do date right in theory? Whoa, whoa?

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Speaker 2: I mean, no, the day after tax Day? Okay, it

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Speaker 2: could come a little bit earlier than that. You know,

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Speaker 2: you don't know they got read fifteenth ish is the

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Speaker 2: baby's projected arrival? Yeah, April sixteenth, Yeah, that's the one.

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Speaker 2: Is tax day this fifteenth?

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Speaker 4: This year?

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Speaker 2: Sometimes it's a little later, isn't it. Okay, well it's

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Speaker 2: the fifteenth. Another day that America. You know that Rohnda

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Speaker 2: Santis is thinking about removing all property taxes in Florida.

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Speaker 2: He's trying to get this done, which would be amazing.

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Speaker 2: I don't know how we'd make room for all the

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Speaker 2: people that will want to move to this place. And

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Speaker 2: your game Tennessee yeah, it would be amazing. I mean,

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Speaker 2: my property taxes are pretty low, but any taxes being

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Speaker 2: removed I would be very happy to be a part of.

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Speaker 2: So we'll get into taxes and where they're going, as

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Speaker 2: in the federal bureaucracy and the bureaucrats who don't seem

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Speaker 2: to do very much as part of this Carolon Levitt

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Speaker 2: press conference. But first let's dive into this the I

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Speaker 2: think that the Democrat media for a long time has

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Speaker 2: actually been more important than the Democrat politicians. I think

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Speaker 2: that the Democrat media has been calling the shots much

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Speaker 2: more so and have been able to give a tremendous

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Speaker 2: amount of lift in the polls, lift an election time

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Speaker 2: to their side. That's changing. They are on the decline

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Speaker 2: and conservative MAGA and right wing media are all on

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Speaker 2: the ascent. And now it's not just in terms of

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Speaker 2: numbers and viewership that's been true for a long time now,

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Speaker 2: it's also in some of these structures of I guess

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Speaker 2: what we'd have to call journalism. And Caroline Levin, who's

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Speaker 2: the White House Press Secretary, announced this. Clay mentioned it

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Speaker 2: before the top of this hour that the White House

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Speaker 2: Corresponds Association will not control who can gain access play

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Speaker 2: twenty four.

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Speaker 6: As you all know, for decades, a group of DC

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Speaker 6: based journalists, the White House Correspondence Association, has long dictated

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Speaker 6: which journalists get to ask questions of the President of

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Speaker 6: the United States in these most intimate spaces. Not anymore.

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Speaker 6: I am proud to announce that we are going to

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Speaker 6: give the power back to the people who read your papers,

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Speaker 6: who watch your television shows, and who listen to your

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Speaker 6: radio stations. Moving forward, the White House Press Pool will

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Speaker 6: be determined by the White House Press Team. Legacy outlets

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Speaker 6: who have participated in the press pool for decades will

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Speaker 6: still be allowed to join, fear not, but we will

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Speaker 6: also be offering the privilege to well deserving outlets who

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Speaker 6: have never been allowed to share in this awesome responsibility.

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Speaker 2: So smart, the hierarchy is being changed. Why shouldn't it, Clay,

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Speaker 2: I love it well. Audience changed in a big way.

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Speaker 2: We have on this radio program more people who are

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Speaker 2: consuming us every day than almost any show in the country.

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Speaker 2: We talked about this earlier. When Meghan Kelly ran through

859
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Speaker 2: the twenty five to fifty four year old age viewing

860
00:46:40,719 --> 00:46:44,440
Speaker 2: audience for joy Read, she had fifty nine thousand people

861
00:46:45,200 --> 00:46:48,040
Speaker 2: we have fifty nine thousand of you listening in some

862
00:46:48,440 --> 00:46:53,799
Speaker 2: individual cities right now. So the millions of people that

863
00:46:53,840 --> 00:46:56,640
Speaker 2: we are fortunate enough to talk to every single day,

864
00:46:57,680 --> 00:47:01,400
Speaker 2: we don't have somebody at the White House asking questions

865
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Speaker 2: on a day to day basis, but a lot of

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Speaker 2: news organizations that have a pinprick of our overall audience do,

867
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Speaker 2: And so I think as the media environment evolves, it's

868
00:47:13,400 --> 00:47:18,719
Speaker 2: actually incredibly necessary that the people who are asking questions

869
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Speaker 2: have an audience worthy of being being able to ask questions. Right.

870
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Speaker 2: I mean, to me, this is the essence of you

871
00:47:26,600 --> 00:47:29,799
Speaker 2: don't have an unlimited number of seats. You've been in

872
00:47:29,840 --> 00:47:32,920
Speaker 2: that White House press briefing room. It's actually very small.

873
00:47:33,360 --> 00:47:36,719
Speaker 2: It looks bigger on television, but the number of people

874
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Speaker 2: I don't know. Can you fit one hundred people in there?

875
00:47:38,960 --> 00:47:44,360
Speaker 2: Probably not seventy fives. It's a small room, relatively speaking.

876
00:47:44,800 --> 00:47:48,360
Speaker 2: And so when you have a limited access point to

877
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Speaker 2: something that a lot of people would have demand for,

878
00:47:51,080 --> 00:47:53,600
Speaker 2: it seems rational to me Buck to look at the

879
00:47:53,640 --> 00:47:59,160
Speaker 2: size of individual audiences of these news organizations and making

880
00:47:59,200 --> 00:48:01,880
Speaker 2: a decision about how you reach the largest possible audience

881
00:48:01,920 --> 00:48:05,600
Speaker 2: with your message that seems imminently rational to me. She

882
00:48:05,800 --> 00:48:09,600
Speaker 2: spoke also about something that's getting a lot of attention

883
00:48:09,680 --> 00:48:12,719
Speaker 2: from US and across the country, which is the Elon

884
00:48:13,120 --> 00:48:18,160
Speaker 2: I should say now second email opportunity for federal workers

885
00:48:18,239 --> 00:48:21,320
Speaker 2: to write five bullet points of what they had gotten

886
00:48:21,360 --> 00:48:23,960
Speaker 2: done last week. This was this whole concept that was

887
00:48:24,000 --> 00:48:29,160
Speaker 2: made famous when Elon wrote the CEO of Twitter in

888
00:48:29,200 --> 00:48:32,520
Speaker 2: response to some like nonsense email what have you gotten

889
00:48:32,560 --> 00:48:35,799
Speaker 2: done this week? And that that ceo was not long

890
00:48:35,840 --> 00:48:37,800
Speaker 2: for Twitter when he did not have a good answer

891
00:48:37,840 --> 00:48:41,440
Speaker 2: when Elon took over, because Twitter had become essentially a

892
00:48:41,440 --> 00:48:45,200
Speaker 2: social justice organization that was just losing money hand over

893
00:48:45,280 --> 00:48:49,360
Speaker 2: fist right, Twitter had become a very poorly run and

894
00:48:49,600 --> 00:48:55,400
Speaker 2: very poorly operated entity unless the goal was to suppress

895
00:48:55,400 --> 00:48:58,200
Speaker 2: conservative speech elevate liberal idiots. And you know that's what

896
00:48:58,239 --> 00:49:00,960
Speaker 2: they were doing, right, and you know, no more dead

897
00:49:01,040 --> 00:49:04,239
Speaker 2: naming and use preferred pronouns. That's what Twitter became. And

898
00:49:04,280 --> 00:49:07,040
Speaker 2: now Elon has freed it from those shackles of lunacy.

899
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Speaker 2: But for federal government employees, Clay, this is going to

900
00:49:12,400 --> 00:49:15,200
Speaker 2: be interesting because a lot of them have not responded.

901
00:49:15,719 --> 00:49:18,839
Speaker 2: Caroline Levitt spoke about this, This is cut twenty five.

902
00:49:18,920 --> 00:49:22,239
Speaker 2: This is in response to the second Elon email. He says,

903
00:49:22,239 --> 00:49:23,839
Speaker 2: if you don't respond to this one, you're actually gonna

904
00:49:23,840 --> 00:49:26,399
Speaker 2: get fired. Here's what White House Press Secretary Levitt says,

905
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Speaker 2: Play one.

906
00:49:26,920 --> 00:49:29,400
Speaker 6: All the Office of Personnel Management is asking. All this

907
00:49:29,480 --> 00:49:33,200
Speaker 6: administration is asking. President Trump is asking is for federal

908
00:49:33,280 --> 00:49:37,200
Speaker 6: workers who live off of the American taxpayer's dime to

909
00:49:37,280 --> 00:49:39,799
Speaker 6: send five bullet points of what they have done in

910
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Speaker 6: the previous week.

911
00:49:41,040 --> 00:49:42,439
Speaker 2: That is all we are asking for.

912
00:49:42,840 --> 00:49:45,120
Speaker 6: And so the Office of Personnel and Management sent out

913
00:49:45,160 --> 00:49:48,880
Speaker 6: additional guidance last night. Those responses should be directed to

914
00:49:49,000 --> 00:49:52,920
Speaker 6: agency leadership, and the President defers to his cabinet secretaries,

915
00:49:52,920 --> 00:49:57,120
Speaker 6: who he's obviously entrusted to pursue the guidance relative to

916
00:49:57,160 --> 00:50:00,320
Speaker 6: their specific workforce. And for some of the agents that

917
00:50:00,320 --> 00:50:02,440
Speaker 6: you've seen who have said, please don't send these emails,

918
00:50:02,440 --> 00:50:05,120
Speaker 6: it's in their best interest for that specific agency, and

919
00:50:05,160 --> 00:50:07,720
Speaker 6: the President supports that. And let me be very clear,

920
00:50:08,000 --> 00:50:11,520
Speaker 6: the President and Elon is his entire cabinet are working

921
00:50:11,640 --> 00:50:14,600
Speaker 6: as one unified team, and they are implementing these very

922
00:50:14,680 --> 00:50:15,759
Speaker 6: common sense solutions.

923
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Speaker 2: What's unfair about this, Clay, You've run your own company

924
00:50:20,960 --> 00:50:24,200
Speaker 2: and you've had employees. Would you be okay with people

925
00:50:24,200 --> 00:50:25,640
Speaker 2: getting an email from you like, hey, what have you

926
00:50:25,640 --> 00:50:27,040
Speaker 2: done this week? And they're like, I don't have to

927
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Speaker 2: respond to you, sir, No, I would fire them. And

928
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Speaker 2: I actually think that having a job at a place

929
00:50:35,160 --> 00:50:38,440
Speaker 2: as a privilege and that your job. When you work

930
00:50:38,600 --> 00:50:42,600
Speaker 2: at a place that is designed to make money, you

931
00:50:42,680 --> 00:50:45,799
Speaker 2: should be thinking at every moment of every day, how

932
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Speaker 2: do I make my boss more money? How do I

933
00:50:48,080 --> 00:50:51,279
Speaker 2: make the company more money? That's your job. This is

934
00:50:51,320 --> 00:50:54,160
Speaker 2: not a charity. There are plenty of charities out there.

935
00:50:54,280 --> 00:50:56,440
Speaker 2: I encourage all of you to donate to them to

936
00:50:56,520 --> 00:51:00,960
Speaker 2: do great things. The purpose of any business is to

937
00:51:00,960 --> 00:51:03,279
Speaker 2: make money, and if you're not aiding and a betting that,

938
00:51:03,440 --> 00:51:05,319
Speaker 2: then you should be fired. In my opinion, I think

939
00:51:05,360 --> 00:51:08,160
Speaker 2: a big part of this that Elon has figured out

940
00:51:08,440 --> 00:51:10,720
Speaker 2: is that a lot of these people who are cashing

941
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Speaker 2: government checks aren't even willing to check their email because

942
00:51:15,239 --> 00:51:19,400
Speaker 2: they're working from home. They aren't doing anything. Some of

943
00:51:19,400 --> 00:51:23,200
Speaker 2: them may have side gigs, side hustles where they're doing

944
00:51:23,320 --> 00:51:26,000
Speaker 2: other things. When they claim to be being paid by

945
00:51:26,040 --> 00:51:31,879
Speaker 2: the taxpayer. We're funding this. Why should the gouver Why

946
00:51:31,880 --> 00:51:35,680
Speaker 2: should we we're paying all of these people's salaries, why

947
00:51:35,719 --> 00:51:38,560
Speaker 2: should we not expect a high quality of work in

948
00:51:38,640 --> 00:51:42,640
Speaker 2: exchange for our taxpayer dollars. I don't know about you, Buck,

949
00:51:42,719 --> 00:51:46,000
Speaker 2: I would much rather figure out how to invest my

950
00:51:46,080 --> 00:51:49,960
Speaker 2: own money and pay a lot lower tax rate. I

951
00:51:49,960 --> 00:51:52,480
Speaker 2: think I could create a lot more jobs all these things.

952
00:51:52,719 --> 00:51:54,960
Speaker 2: But if I'm having to pay the rate that I am,

953
00:51:55,080 --> 00:51:58,760
Speaker 2: nearly forty percent, I want to know that the people

954
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Speaker 2: that I am paying feor are doing a bare minimum

955
00:52:02,040 --> 00:52:05,399
Speaker 2: to justify their salaries. Well, they see. That's I think

956
00:52:05,440 --> 00:52:08,160
Speaker 2: what you the second thing you said there is really

957
00:52:08,160 --> 00:52:11,279
Speaker 2: the framework that we're working within. You said a moment ago,

958
00:52:12,040 --> 00:52:15,080
Speaker 2: I think we can expect high quality work. We should

959
00:52:15,160 --> 00:52:18,360
Speaker 2: be able to. But what we're looking at My standard

960
00:52:18,440 --> 00:52:20,319
Speaker 2: is if I'm paying for you, I should get high

961
00:52:20,400 --> 00:52:23,640
Speaker 2: quality work, right you're but see that's the private sector mentality.

962
00:52:23,680 --> 00:52:27,200
Speaker 2: That's like startup running a company mentality. What Elon is

963
00:52:27,239 --> 00:52:29,560
Speaker 2: dealing with is what is the second thing you said,

964
00:52:29,600 --> 00:52:32,320
Speaker 2: which is can can we expect you to do anything?

965
00:52:33,520 --> 00:52:35,600
Speaker 2: I am telling you this is the truth. There are

966
00:52:35,640 --> 00:52:37,920
Speaker 2: a lot because I saw it myself, there are a

967
00:52:38,000 --> 00:52:41,400
Speaker 2: lot of people within the federal government who don't do anything.

968
00:52:42,440 --> 00:52:45,000
Speaker 2: They show up, they sit at a computer, They go

969
00:52:45,040 --> 00:52:47,480
Speaker 2: on a thirty minute coffee break. They sit back at

970
00:52:47,480 --> 00:52:49,839
Speaker 2: their computers, they read the New York Times. They then

971
00:52:49,880 --> 00:52:52,239
Speaker 2: go hang out in the break room for another, you know,

972
00:52:52,320 --> 00:52:55,040
Speaker 2: forty five minutes. They sit down, they see if there's

973
00:52:55,040 --> 00:52:57,839
Speaker 2: any emails. They then go for a walk outside. I mean,

974
00:52:58,680 --> 00:53:01,000
Speaker 2: and I don't mean they're like I knew one guy.

975
00:53:01,040 --> 00:53:04,080
Speaker 2: This is common in a lot of these places. There

976
00:53:04,080 --> 00:53:07,840
Speaker 2: are people if you were in a an office, imagine

977
00:53:07,880 --> 00:53:11,520
Speaker 2: what these people are doing from home, right right, Let's

978
00:53:11,680 --> 00:53:13,600
Speaker 2: we at least had to show up when we're That's

979
00:53:13,600 --> 00:53:15,759
Speaker 2: what I'm saying, Like, at least you had to put

980
00:53:15,800 --> 00:53:18,839
Speaker 2: forth the effort to pretend. A lot of these guys

981
00:53:18,880 --> 00:53:21,440
Speaker 2: are eating Cheetos and watching Netflix while they're claiming that

982
00:53:21,480 --> 00:53:24,279
Speaker 2: they're doing taxpayer jobs. Well, I bet a lot of

983
00:53:24,320 --> 00:53:26,839
Speaker 2: people and this will be tight if there were if

984
00:53:26,880 --> 00:53:30,440
Speaker 2: they were reasonably smart about their con I bet there

985
00:53:30,440 --> 00:53:32,520
Speaker 2: are a lot of federal employees who were working off

986
00:53:32,520 --> 00:53:34,839
Speaker 2: books somewhere. Think about this, You get to you get

987
00:53:34,840 --> 00:53:37,719
Speaker 2: to have your job working remote at the Department of

988
00:53:38,160 --> 00:53:41,560
Speaker 2: Commerce or Agriculture or whatever. Uh you know, think of

989
00:53:41,600 --> 00:53:44,879
Speaker 2: an even less important agency, and you get to keep

990
00:53:44,920 --> 00:53:47,600
Speaker 2: you get to get your federal salary, and maybe you

991
00:53:47,640 --> 00:53:49,319
Speaker 2: can go and you can take a shift as a

992
00:53:49,320 --> 00:53:51,840
Speaker 2: as a bartender, or you could go. You know, you

993
00:53:51,880 --> 00:53:53,880
Speaker 2: start to double dip. I mean this is you have

994
00:53:53,960 --> 00:53:55,920
Speaker 2: a side hustle, That's what I'm saying. Like you're an

995
00:53:56,000 --> 00:53:58,360
Speaker 2: uber driver, right, I mean you're like, hey, you know what,

996
00:53:58,400 --> 00:54:00,600
Speaker 2: I'm gonna do something else. Well, what I'm saying is,

997
00:54:00,600 --> 00:54:02,520
Speaker 2: if you're smart, you're doing it in cash, because if

998
00:54:02,560 --> 00:54:04,960
Speaker 2: they find out that you're doing this on company. The

999
00:54:05,000 --> 00:54:07,880
Speaker 2: one thing that this they always told me this in

1000
00:54:07,920 --> 00:54:10,359
Speaker 2: the CIA, cre true across the federal government. The one

1001
00:54:10,360 --> 00:54:12,480
Speaker 2: thing that will nail you as time and attendance fraud.

1002
00:54:13,480 --> 00:54:16,319
Speaker 2: Now that's a lot harder when you work from home, right,

1003
00:54:16,480 --> 00:54:18,600
Speaker 2: But if you have to be in a facility for

1004
00:54:18,760 --> 00:54:21,560
Speaker 2: your job and you're out somewhere else doing something else,

1005
00:54:22,000 --> 00:54:24,600
Speaker 2: that is you can be turned. They don't want to

1006
00:54:24,640 --> 00:54:27,479
Speaker 2: come in to the office anymore, right, because it makes

1007
00:54:27,480 --> 00:54:30,480
Speaker 2: it easier to track what's going on. Right, And this

1008
00:54:30,600 --> 00:54:33,200
Speaker 2: is for all these different agencies. So but look at

1009
00:54:33,200 --> 00:54:37,600
Speaker 2: the pushback on this, and look at the and I

1010
00:54:37,640 --> 00:54:39,600
Speaker 2: will tell you to my point about the twenty percent

1011
00:54:39,760 --> 00:54:42,040
Speaker 2: in my CIA office. In the Iraq office, people were

1012
00:54:42,040 --> 00:54:43,920
Speaker 2: staying till two three o'clock in the morning. People are

1013
00:54:43,960 --> 00:54:47,000
Speaker 2: coming back from their you know, fifth deployment overseas to

1014
00:54:47,040 --> 00:54:49,600
Speaker 2: a war zone. Like, there are people doing real stuff

1015
00:54:49,600 --> 00:54:51,279
Speaker 2: in some of these places. I want to be very

1016
00:54:51,360 --> 00:54:53,480
Speaker 2: clear about that. There are people that you know, people

1017
00:54:53,640 --> 00:54:56,319
Speaker 2: I had friends who got very grievously wounded. I mean,

1018
00:54:56,400 --> 00:55:00,000
Speaker 2: you know, this is real stuff, okay, But there are

1019
00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:02,640
Speaker 2: a lot of people at these agencies aren't doing squat

1020
00:55:02,840 --> 00:55:05,040
Speaker 2: and that's where you really got to figure out what's

1021
00:55:05,040 --> 00:55:07,759
Speaker 2: going on. I don't have an objection to work from

1022
00:55:07,840 --> 00:55:12,080
Speaker 2: home if you are incredibly productive, if you are able

1023
00:55:12,160 --> 00:55:14,400
Speaker 2: to do a lot of what you're doing, and a

1024
00:55:14,440 --> 00:55:16,160
Speaker 2: lot of people are working from home and doing a

1025
00:55:16,160 --> 00:55:18,000
Speaker 2: great job. Now you have to go out for meetings,

1026
00:55:18,040 --> 00:55:19,960
Speaker 2: all these different stuff, like you just stay at home.

1027
00:55:20,640 --> 00:55:24,960
Speaker 2: But the idea that it's the default that basically everybody

1028
00:55:25,040 --> 00:55:27,719
Speaker 2: gets to work from home is no way you can

1029
00:55:27,800 --> 00:55:29,640
Speaker 2: run a business, and I don't think it's any way

1030
00:55:29,640 --> 00:55:32,560
Speaker 2: you can run a government. Look, we told you yesterday

1031
00:55:32,680 --> 00:55:36,440
Speaker 2: great news out of Israel. Over the weekend, six hostages returned.

1032
00:55:36,520 --> 00:55:39,000
Speaker 2: And when I was in Israel. Last December, our partner,

1033
00:55:39,440 --> 00:55:42,880
Speaker 2: the IFCJ, that's the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews,

1034
00:55:43,200 --> 00:55:45,520
Speaker 2: they arranged a meeting with one of the fathers and

1035
00:55:45,600 --> 00:55:50,200
Speaker 2: as a dad myself heartbreaking to hear his story and

1036
00:55:50,239 --> 00:55:52,279
Speaker 2: that's why I was so elated that his son was

1037
00:55:52,360 --> 00:55:56,719
Speaker 2: released after five hundred days two birthdays in control by Hamas.

1038
00:55:57,040 --> 00:56:00,120
Speaker 2: But many other families, unfortunately, aren't going to get to

1039
00:56:00,160 --> 00:56:03,840
Speaker 2: have that kind of amazing reunion. It looks like a

1040
00:56:03,880 --> 00:56:06,840
Speaker 2: lot of the remaining hostages are going to be returning

1041
00:56:06,840 --> 00:56:09,759
Speaker 2: in coffins. That's why it's important we keep standing with

1042
00:56:09,800 --> 00:56:12,480
Speaker 2: our brothers and sisters in Israel. You can do that

1043
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1044
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1045
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Speaker 2: children taken from Near Oz, one of whom was ten

1046
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Speaker 2: months old. Saw a video of the four year old

1047
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Speaker 2: loved Batman running on the ground in near Oz, a

1048
00:56:31,760 --> 00:56:34,440
Speaker 2: place that we visited in the kibbutz where they were

1049
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Speaker 2: kidnapped from. That's what evil is. That's what evil does.

1050
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Speaker 2: And your ongoing monthly gift of forty five dollars will

1051
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1052
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