1 00:00:00,560 --> 00:00:03,880 Speaker 1: Third hour of Clay and Buck kicks off right now, 2 00:00:03,960 --> 00:00:07,280 Speaker 1: and we have at the bottom. Caroline Levitt will be 3 00:00:07,360 --> 00:00:11,280 Speaker 1: with US White House Press Secretary, a friend of the show. 4 00:00:12,440 --> 00:00:15,040 Speaker 1: We'll talk to her about the press conference she just gave. 5 00:00:15,160 --> 00:00:19,560 Speaker 1: What the nation was watching. It is quite engaging and 6 00:00:20,320 --> 00:00:25,840 Speaker 1: entertaining see her handling the various journals in the room, 7 00:00:25,920 --> 00:00:28,160 Speaker 1: some very good ones, some people are saying, some very 8 00:00:28,200 --> 00:00:31,400 Speaker 1: good ones, and some fake news. Of course, lots of 9 00:00:31,440 --> 00:00:33,560 Speaker 1: fake news in there. We will dive into all of 10 00:00:33,600 --> 00:00:38,400 Speaker 1: that with her. But something, including the executive order that 11 00:00:38,479 --> 00:00:41,959 Speaker 1: is going to be signed shortly by President Trump banning 12 00:00:42,320 --> 00:00:45,959 Speaker 1: men from competing in women's sports. I'm sure there will 13 00:00:45,960 --> 00:00:48,479 Speaker 1: be lawsuits over this. We can talk about all that, 14 00:00:48,560 --> 00:00:51,919 Speaker 1: but at least a declaration from the White House from 15 00:00:51,960 --> 00:00:57,920 Speaker 1: the very top stating that gender separated sports just makes 16 00:00:58,040 --> 00:01:00,480 Speaker 1: sense unless you want the end of women's which is 17 00:01:00,520 --> 00:01:04,200 Speaker 1: what will eventually happen. Unless you just want there to 18 00:01:04,200 --> 00:01:08,840 Speaker 1: be men and women competing against each other and no 19 00:01:09,040 --> 00:01:11,360 Speaker 1: separate leagues and no separate trophies and all the rest. 20 00:01:12,120 --> 00:01:14,880 Speaker 1: So the whole thing is insane, and I'll get into 21 00:01:14,880 --> 00:01:17,759 Speaker 1: why Democrats can't back down from this, but first something 22 00:01:17,760 --> 00:01:21,479 Speaker 1: that we had not spoken about yet on the show 23 00:01:22,240 --> 00:01:28,760 Speaker 1: is that the CIA is now offered buyouts as part 24 00:01:28,840 --> 00:01:33,720 Speaker 1: of this federal worker I don't like the word purge 25 00:01:35,200 --> 00:01:41,360 Speaker 1: asset reallocation. How about we the Trump's asset human capital reallocation. 26 00:01:41,680 --> 00:01:44,200 Speaker 1: That's what we could call it. So we know that 27 00:01:44,319 --> 00:01:46,720 Speaker 1: they have been offered eight months of pay and benefits 28 00:01:46,760 --> 00:01:51,760 Speaker 1: if they resign effective or the deadline of tomorrow. The 29 00:01:51,760 --> 00:01:57,120 Speaker 1: deadline to put it in for this is tomorrow. So far, 30 00:01:57,280 --> 00:02:01,000 Speaker 1: and I am not surprised at all by this, but 31 00:02:01,240 --> 00:02:06,600 Speaker 1: so far there has been I think less than one 32 00:02:06,640 --> 00:02:09,840 Speaker 1: percent of the federal workforce has taken up this offer, 33 00:02:10,200 --> 00:02:14,720 Speaker 1: which I did not in any way, is not surprising 34 00:02:14,760 --> 00:02:19,880 Speaker 1: me anyway. So and now we have some National security 35 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:23,800 Speaker 1: workers who have been offered this buyout to Initially I 36 00:02:23,800 --> 00:02:27,560 Speaker 1: think the Post Office and National Security were not offered it, 37 00:02:28,200 --> 00:02:32,360 Speaker 1: but now they, at least for some National Security employees, 38 00:02:32,400 --> 00:02:35,240 Speaker 1: they are. This is how the New York Times, reporting 39 00:02:35,240 --> 00:02:38,080 Speaker 1: on it. CIA sent the White House an unclassified email 40 00:02:38,560 --> 00:02:42,440 Speaker 1: listing employees hired in the past two years, part of 41 00:02:42,600 --> 00:02:46,640 Speaker 1: the Elon Musk led effort to drastically shrink the federal workforce. 42 00:02:47,080 --> 00:02:50,200 Speaker 1: The agency has also begun offering its employees the option 43 00:02:50,320 --> 00:02:55,799 Speaker 1: to stop working and then resign, effective September thirtieth. And 44 00:02:55,919 --> 00:03:00,240 Speaker 1: so what this is is if you are a probationary employee, 45 00:03:00,360 --> 00:03:03,679 Speaker 1: which just to be clear, it's not about a disciplinary matter, 46 00:03:03,680 --> 00:03:05,640 Speaker 1: although I think that could be too down the line. 47 00:03:05,800 --> 00:03:07,520 Speaker 1: But when you're hired initially, this was true of me 48 00:03:07,560 --> 00:03:12,040 Speaker 1: at the CIA, and I remember this your probationary employee, 49 00:03:12,040 --> 00:03:14,280 Speaker 1: which means it's very easy than to fire you. And 50 00:03:14,320 --> 00:03:16,400 Speaker 1: it kind of makes sense, especially when you're handling national 51 00:03:16,400 --> 00:03:19,000 Speaker 1: security and stuff. If you do something really, really stupid 52 00:03:19,040 --> 00:03:21,119 Speaker 1: in the first six months and people realize, oh my god, 53 00:03:21,120 --> 00:03:24,359 Speaker 1: how this guy or gal get through the hiring process. 54 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:27,880 Speaker 1: We can't have them in charge of top secret information. 55 00:03:29,200 --> 00:03:31,440 Speaker 1: It should be pretty easy to fire you. But what 56 00:03:31,520 --> 00:03:33,959 Speaker 1: about firing you later on? Why is that so hard? 57 00:03:34,160 --> 00:03:37,040 Speaker 1: Or is it really just impossible? This is what Trump 58 00:03:37,080 --> 00:03:41,400 Speaker 1: and Elon Musk are trying to address right now. I 59 00:03:41,480 --> 00:03:44,600 Speaker 1: will tell you if you believe that, and I speak 60 00:03:44,640 --> 00:03:46,080 Speaker 1: of what I know here at some level. It's been 61 00:03:46,280 --> 00:03:47,600 Speaker 1: of course, it's been a while since I was in 62 00:03:47,600 --> 00:03:50,960 Speaker 1: the agency. Gosh, I've spent considerably more time in the 63 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:55,200 Speaker 1: media than I have at the CIA. But if you 64 00:03:56,040 --> 00:04:03,200 Speaker 1: thought that us AID or us AID was a rogue elephant, 65 00:04:03,360 --> 00:04:06,720 Speaker 1: just wait until you see what the attitude is over 66 00:04:06,760 --> 00:04:09,840 Speaker 1: at the CIA. You're gonna have a lot of people 67 00:04:09,880 --> 00:04:15,480 Speaker 1: there who, especially when you get into the analysts. I 68 00:04:15,520 --> 00:04:19,840 Speaker 1: was an analyst, right analyst side of things, they are 69 00:04:19,880 --> 00:04:23,039 Speaker 1: going to view themselves as essentially unmovable on fireble and 70 00:04:23,560 --> 00:04:27,200 Speaker 1: h President Trump doesn't get to call the shots with them. Now. 71 00:04:27,600 --> 00:04:29,040 Speaker 1: I know what a lot of you are going to say, 72 00:04:29,040 --> 00:04:31,240 Speaker 1: which is, well, that's you know, that's tough, and he's 73 00:04:31,279 --> 00:04:35,200 Speaker 1: the president and he's gonna yes. But there's going to 74 00:04:35,279 --> 00:04:40,800 Speaker 1: be immediate, immediate court action that will be taken on 75 00:04:40,839 --> 00:04:43,320 Speaker 1: some of this stuff. So where where I think Elon 76 00:04:43,440 --> 00:04:47,720 Speaker 1: is on very solid ground with the plans to cut 77 00:04:47,760 --> 00:04:51,880 Speaker 1: these agencies, the probationary employee thing they've I mean, those 78 00:04:51,880 --> 00:04:54,680 Speaker 1: people they're gonna get fired. They're going to be out 79 00:04:54,720 --> 00:04:56,880 Speaker 1: of a job. I mean, that's that's happening. I think 80 00:04:56,920 --> 00:04:59,240 Speaker 1: EPA has already had a thousand that have basically been 81 00:04:59,600 --> 00:05:03,120 Speaker 1: informed of this. So CEE I hired the last two years, 82 00:05:03,120 --> 00:05:07,200 Speaker 1: you're on probation Still, you're gonna be let go. Now, 83 00:05:07,560 --> 00:05:10,320 Speaker 1: this is at some level. Right, A lot of people 84 00:05:10,360 --> 00:05:12,080 Speaker 1: might be saying, well, isn't that kind of harsh is 85 00:05:12,080 --> 00:05:14,560 Speaker 1: and that's sort of unfair. This thing happens in the 86 00:05:14,560 --> 00:05:16,800 Speaker 1: private sector all the time, So if you've worked in 87 00:05:16,800 --> 00:05:20,760 Speaker 1: the private sector, you don't view these kinds of cuts 88 00:05:20,960 --> 00:05:25,400 Speaker 1: as something that anybody should be exempted from because none 89 00:05:25,440 --> 00:05:27,280 Speaker 1: of us are exempted from it. In the private sector 90 00:05:27,320 --> 00:05:31,000 Speaker 1: and the public sector, it's job security for life is 91 00:05:31,279 --> 00:05:35,760 Speaker 1: especially the federal government. That's generally the attitude. Well, I 92 00:05:35,800 --> 00:05:40,120 Speaker 1: think that may be changing under this administration, and I 93 00:05:40,160 --> 00:05:43,640 Speaker 1: think that they are very serious about changing it. You 94 00:05:43,680 --> 00:05:46,160 Speaker 1: have to get into the civil service laws and all 95 00:05:46,200 --> 00:05:49,200 Speaker 1: the rest of it. But it's also showing in terms 96 00:05:49,200 --> 00:05:51,760 Speaker 1: of whether they'll be able to do broader cuts, like 97 00:05:51,920 --> 00:05:56,960 Speaker 1: is it even is it even legally possible for Trump 98 00:05:57,040 --> 00:06:00,799 Speaker 1: and the running the executive branch to say we're cutting 99 00:06:02,160 --> 00:06:05,080 Speaker 1: fifty percent, eighty percent whatever it is going to be? 100 00:06:05,120 --> 00:06:08,040 Speaker 1: Eighty would be pretty big, That's what Elon did at Twitter. 101 00:06:08,320 --> 00:06:11,360 Speaker 1: But fifty percent of the CIA workforce overall is going 102 00:06:11,400 --> 00:06:14,800 Speaker 1: to be removed from their positions and told to go, 103 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:20,400 Speaker 1: you know, find employment elsewhere. Is that possible? We'll see? 104 00:06:20,600 --> 00:06:21,920 Speaker 1: That would be a lot there's going to be a 105 00:06:21,960 --> 00:06:24,720 Speaker 1: lot of people who are fighting against it, but it 106 00:06:24,760 --> 00:06:28,640 Speaker 1: is instructive. I think, as we have a thirty six 107 00:06:28,680 --> 00:06:33,000 Speaker 1: trillion dollar debt, and as we're finding massive amounts of 108 00:06:34,200 --> 00:06:38,599 Speaker 1: just graft and fraud and gross stuff going on with 109 00:06:39,080 --> 00:06:43,479 Speaker 1: the expenditures of USAID already, some of these things are 110 00:06:43,680 --> 00:06:48,680 Speaker 1: just insane. With all of that happening, I think that 111 00:06:48,760 --> 00:06:51,359 Speaker 1: people are seeing more and more the government has just 112 00:06:51,440 --> 00:06:56,960 Speaker 1: gotten beyond, beyond the scope of what it should be doing. 113 00:06:57,160 --> 00:07:02,440 Speaker 1: It is too large. The system bureaucracy, the fourth unelected 114 00:07:02,480 --> 00:07:05,880 Speaker 1: branch of government, has become the bureaucracy. When we talk 115 00:07:05,920 --> 00:07:09,440 Speaker 1: about the swamp, there are some other parts of it, 116 00:07:09,520 --> 00:07:12,120 Speaker 1: but the biggest part of the swamp is the forever 117 00:07:12,200 --> 00:07:16,640 Speaker 1: government of the of the bureaucrats. And the forever government 118 00:07:16,640 --> 00:07:20,720 Speaker 1: of the bureaucrats decided in the Trump era that they 119 00:07:20,760 --> 00:07:25,040 Speaker 1: were going to put their hand firmly on the scale 120 00:07:25,240 --> 00:07:30,640 Speaker 1: for Democrats numerous ways and numerous times. We're talking FBI, 121 00:07:31,400 --> 00:07:39,520 Speaker 1: FISA abuse, we're talking the whole range of January sixth 122 00:07:39,880 --> 00:07:42,680 Speaker 1: prosecutions of j six people, how that was done, but 123 00:07:42,760 --> 00:07:47,800 Speaker 1: also that the unconstitutional Special Council going after Trump using 124 00:07:47,800 --> 00:07:51,320 Speaker 1: the DOJ and the FBI, and just so much of this, 125 00:07:51,400 --> 00:07:54,720 Speaker 1: and of course leaks and I can't even catalog here. 126 00:07:54,760 --> 00:07:56,520 Speaker 1: We take up the rest of the hour, all the 127 00:07:56,560 --> 00:08:02,480 Speaker 1: ways that the national security bureaucracy and system had become 128 00:08:03,520 --> 00:08:08,560 Speaker 1: self aware and self interested such that it thought it 129 00:08:08,800 --> 00:08:13,840 Speaker 1: had an obligation to thwart the will of the American 130 00:08:13,920 --> 00:08:17,640 Speaker 1: people through an election to have Donald Trump as president 131 00:08:17,680 --> 00:08:22,000 Speaker 1: in twenty sixteen, the fifty one liars signing their name 132 00:08:22,080 --> 00:08:26,320 Speaker 1: to the Russian disinformation letter before the twenty twenty election, 133 00:08:26,840 --> 00:08:31,520 Speaker 1: and then the DOJ and the prosecutions, including national security 134 00:08:31,560 --> 00:08:34,880 Speaker 1: prosecution around documents. Oh yeah, I'm sure it was so 135 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:37,920 Speaker 1: essential that we get those documents back. You see all 136 00:08:37,960 --> 00:08:42,839 Speaker 1: of that. We can't just go forward and say we 137 00:08:43,360 --> 00:08:45,880 Speaker 1: insist you don't do that again and then go back 138 00:08:45,880 --> 00:08:50,520 Speaker 1: to business as usual. There have to be consequences, There 139 00:08:50,600 --> 00:08:55,240 Speaker 1: has to be accountability. Something must occur now that will 140 00:08:55,440 --> 00:08:58,920 Speaker 1: change that system, not just so that Trump can enact 141 00:08:58,920 --> 00:09:02,000 Speaker 1: the agenda along with the Republicans in the House and 142 00:09:02,040 --> 00:09:06,079 Speaker 1: the Senate and Trump Cabinet that he was elected to do, 143 00:09:06,960 --> 00:09:09,240 Speaker 1: but so that the next you know, it's not going 144 00:09:09,280 --> 00:09:11,319 Speaker 1: to be long until we don't have a President Trump 145 00:09:11,360 --> 00:09:14,080 Speaker 1: to carry this burden for us anymore. We don't have 146 00:09:14,400 --> 00:09:18,120 Speaker 1: the best political brawler in our lifetime putting on the 147 00:09:18,160 --> 00:09:20,720 Speaker 1: brass knuckles, so to speak. There's going to be another, 148 00:09:21,160 --> 00:09:23,080 Speaker 1: you know. And yeah, I think jd. Vance is great. 149 00:09:23,080 --> 00:09:25,240 Speaker 1: I think there are other Republicans who are great leadership 150 00:09:25,240 --> 00:09:29,320 Speaker 1: for the future. But you have to change this system now. 151 00:09:29,520 --> 00:09:34,200 Speaker 1: You can't leave this to ambush the next Republican to 152 00:09:34,320 --> 00:09:37,760 Speaker 1: take down the next guy or gal who challenges the system. 153 00:09:38,080 --> 00:09:42,199 Speaker 1: And so this is where it's it's happening, and this 154 00:09:42,280 --> 00:09:45,280 Speaker 1: is why it's so important that it gets done right 155 00:09:45,400 --> 00:09:50,080 Speaker 1: at the outset and whether it's through these buyouts, through 156 00:09:50,720 --> 00:09:54,240 Speaker 1: changing policies from the top down. You know, one of 157 00:09:54,280 --> 00:09:57,640 Speaker 1: the things that you've seen is whether it's CIA or 158 00:09:57,679 --> 00:10:02,280 Speaker 1: State Department or FBI or the military, I mean DEI 159 00:10:02,920 --> 00:10:07,679 Speaker 1: is essentially a DEI programs and all which exist everywhere. 160 00:10:07,720 --> 00:10:09,520 Speaker 1: I know people in the CIA still and let me 161 00:10:09,559 --> 00:10:11,959 Speaker 1: tell you a lot of DEI was going on in 162 00:10:11,960 --> 00:10:14,760 Speaker 1: the ce CIA. I mean they had like transgender Awareness 163 00:10:14,840 --> 00:10:19,520 Speaker 1: Days and you know, transgender festivals, and USAID is doing 164 00:10:19,559 --> 00:10:23,040 Speaker 1: the uh you know, trans muppet puppet shows and mongolia. 165 00:10:23,040 --> 00:10:25,680 Speaker 1: As we've discussed I mean, the whole thing is crazy, right. 166 00:10:26,520 --> 00:10:28,400 Speaker 1: But one of the reasons that they push all of 167 00:10:28,400 --> 00:10:33,360 Speaker 1: that is it affects who wants to work in these organizations. 168 00:10:34,120 --> 00:10:37,520 Speaker 1: It affects who gets promoted within these organizations because you 169 00:10:37,960 --> 00:10:39,800 Speaker 1: have to go along with it if you want to 170 00:10:39,840 --> 00:10:43,280 Speaker 1: make your way up. So it's a sifting mechanism internally. 171 00:10:43,480 --> 00:10:47,560 Speaker 1: You better mouth the preferred slogans of the apparatics. You 172 00:10:47,640 --> 00:10:51,600 Speaker 1: better say what the commissars demand you say, or else 173 00:10:51,640 --> 00:10:54,760 Speaker 1: you're not going to be promoted. In fact, you're going 174 00:10:54,800 --> 00:10:56,720 Speaker 1: to be demoted, You're going to be attacked, You're going 175 00:10:56,760 --> 00:11:01,360 Speaker 1: to be pushed out. It's just like what they've done 176 00:11:01,760 --> 00:11:05,440 Speaker 1: over the last fifty years in the university system, which 177 00:11:05,440 --> 00:11:09,000 Speaker 1: they did so thoroughly that they essentially eradicated conservatism and 178 00:11:09,040 --> 00:11:12,960 Speaker 1: sanity on ninety five percent of college campuses. In the 179 00:11:12,960 --> 00:11:16,480 Speaker 1: faculty lounge. It's the same playbook, but it's the playbook 180 00:11:16,520 --> 00:11:18,520 Speaker 1: at the Pentagon. It's the playbook for people that are 181 00:11:18,520 --> 00:11:22,320 Speaker 1: controlling you know, the nuclear submarine firing button. You know, 182 00:11:22,520 --> 00:11:26,000 Speaker 1: this is what they've done. You have to get rid 183 00:11:26,040 --> 00:11:29,360 Speaker 1: of this stuff. I have total confidence and Secretary of 184 00:11:29,440 --> 00:11:32,000 Speaker 1: Defense HEG Seth, And as we know our friend Sean Parnell, 185 00:11:32,040 --> 00:11:33,280 Speaker 1: we just talked to him before. He's going to be 186 00:11:33,320 --> 00:11:36,560 Speaker 1: running comms. Very important given the kind of things that 187 00:11:36,880 --> 00:11:39,520 Speaker 1: Secretary heg Seth is going to be tackling at the 188 00:11:39,559 --> 00:11:44,319 Speaker 1: Pentagon for the entire military. He's a very capable communicator himself, 189 00:11:44,360 --> 00:11:48,920 Speaker 1: of course, but having having that portfolio handed over when 190 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:52,920 Speaker 1: necessary to Sean, who's also a combat veteran, you have, 191 00:11:52,920 --> 00:11:57,080 Speaker 1: you gon have combat veterans at high levels of the military. 192 00:11:57,160 --> 00:11:59,080 Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know when the last time is 193 00:11:59,120 --> 00:12:01,520 Speaker 1: we had something like this. I don't just mean it 194 00:12:01,520 --> 00:12:04,320 Speaker 1: even served in a in a theater of war, I 195 00:12:04,360 --> 00:12:08,199 Speaker 1: mean served in combat, getting shot at and returning fire. 196 00:12:08,240 --> 00:12:12,120 Speaker 1: I mean read Sean Parnell's memoir. So that's going to 197 00:12:12,120 --> 00:12:16,600 Speaker 1: be a huge change. But you see they under the left, 198 00:12:16,679 --> 00:12:19,920 Speaker 1: and whether it's just because they have a mindset that 199 00:12:20,080 --> 00:12:24,439 Speaker 1: is more along the lines of Slolynski. A lot of 200 00:12:24,480 --> 00:12:26,280 Speaker 1: them have read Rules for Radicals, But even the ones 201 00:12:26,280 --> 00:12:29,760 Speaker 1: that haven't, they this whole notion of the mob mentality 202 00:12:30,160 --> 00:12:33,960 Speaker 1: and how to how to push people and how to 203 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:38,400 Speaker 1: control entities and organizations. This appeals to them. This all 204 00:12:38,520 --> 00:12:41,960 Speaker 1: has to be taken apart. It is a critical It 205 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:45,680 Speaker 1: is crucial work of the Trump administration that this gets done. 206 00:12:45,720 --> 00:12:48,520 Speaker 1: So I understand right now it's CIA buyouts, and it's 207 00:12:48,520 --> 00:12:52,720 Speaker 1: some changes in DEI and everything else, but this, it's 208 00:12:52,840 --> 00:12:56,520 Speaker 1: like the patient has come into the er, you know, 209 00:12:56,640 --> 00:12:59,800 Speaker 1: with you know, half of half of an are missing 210 00:13:00,080 --> 00:13:03,320 Speaker 1: and three bullet wounds in the leg. And it's going 211 00:13:03,400 --> 00:13:05,920 Speaker 1: to require a lot here. Some of it's gonna be triosh, 212 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:08,680 Speaker 1: some of it's going to be big time surgery. But 213 00:13:08,840 --> 00:13:13,360 Speaker 1: to fix this system, to fix the broken bureaucracy that 214 00:13:13,520 --> 00:13:16,960 Speaker 1: is running so much of our lives and affects so 215 00:13:17,120 --> 00:13:19,959 Speaker 1: much of us day to day, this is the work 216 00:13:19,960 --> 00:13:22,600 Speaker 1: that needs to be done. It is being led by Trump, 217 00:13:22,880 --> 00:13:27,760 Speaker 1: is being implemented by Elon Musk and people like Secretary 218 00:13:27,800 --> 00:13:33,080 Speaker 1: Hegseth and others, and it is as essential as anything 219 00:13:33,120 --> 00:13:36,800 Speaker 1: else that is going on right now with the Trump agenda. 220 00:13:37,559 --> 00:13:40,400 Speaker 1: It is absolutely critical. So we'll keep bringing you up 221 00:13:40,440 --> 00:13:43,040 Speaker 1: to speed on this. Just look at how they shriek 222 00:13:43,320 --> 00:13:49,040 Speaker 1: and howl in the left over the us AID situation. 223 00:13:49,440 --> 00:13:53,560 Speaker 1: Who even who wakes up caring about USAI d oh, 224 00:13:53,559 --> 00:13:56,120 Speaker 1: But they're slush fund for their buddies, including millions of 225 00:13:56,200 --> 00:14:00,640 Speaker 1: dollars going to Politico, a left wing politics website. Their 226 00:14:00,720 --> 00:14:03,600 Speaker 1: slush fund is in trouble now, so they're upset about it. 227 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:07,320 Speaker 1: You want to stop them. Stop the slush fund, stop 228 00:14:07,400 --> 00:14:12,720 Speaker 1: the funding of this madness, stop the internal HR mechanisms 229 00:14:12,960 --> 00:14:17,320 Speaker 1: that replicate it, that demand the madness. All of this 230 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:21,240 Speaker 1: is happening right now. So it's critical work. But just 231 00:14:21,320 --> 00:14:24,200 Speaker 1: keep in mind that it's also a beautiful thing that 232 00:14:24,240 --> 00:14:26,800 Speaker 1: we are finally here. I have been waiting for stuff 233 00:14:26,840 --> 00:14:29,560 Speaker 1: like this to happen, not just the fifteen years I've 234 00:14:29,560 --> 00:14:32,680 Speaker 1: been doing radio, but going back to when I was, 235 00:14:33,200 --> 00:14:38,640 Speaker 1: you know, a college kid. Finally, someone, someone has taken 236 00:14:38,720 --> 00:14:41,120 Speaker 1: up the battle on this one. 237 00:14:41,400 --> 00:14:41,640 Speaker 2: All right. 238 00:14:41,680 --> 00:14:44,600 Speaker 1: Look, normally Clay is the guy who's handling the sports analysis, 239 00:14:44,640 --> 00:14:46,320 Speaker 1: and you know, because he does that and he's good 240 00:14:46,320 --> 00:14:48,880 Speaker 1: at it. He's on his way to New Orleans, though. 241 00:14:49,400 --> 00:14:52,200 Speaker 1: We are going to have Clay's picks for the Big 242 00:14:52,240 --> 00:14:55,320 Speaker 1: Game on Sunday. I'm getting one pick. I think some 243 00:14:55,360 --> 00:14:56,960 Speaker 1: of you probably already know who I'm going to pick 244 00:14:57,000 --> 00:14:58,600 Speaker 1: and what I'm going to say, but you know, we'll see. 245 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:00,840 Speaker 1: The point is it's it's going to be a huge 246 00:15:00,880 --> 00:15:03,880 Speaker 1: weekend for prize picks my friends, such a fun way. 247 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:07,240 Speaker 1: We're having a little football party, a Super Bowl party 248 00:15:07,320 --> 00:15:10,040 Speaker 1: if you will hear at my place on Sunday. It'll 249 00:15:10,080 --> 00:15:12,200 Speaker 1: be the one football game I've watched all year. But 250 00:15:12,280 --> 00:15:14,640 Speaker 1: you know what, I'm gonna have my Prize Picks going, 251 00:15:14,640 --> 00:15:17,080 Speaker 1: which means that I'll be even more invested and it'll 252 00:15:17,120 --> 00:15:19,720 Speaker 1: be a more fun experience for me. Prize Picks all 253 00:15:19,720 --> 00:15:22,920 Speaker 1: about players, not the teams. New projections every day. You 254 00:15:22,960 --> 00:15:24,320 Speaker 1: know how it goes. We've been giving you the pick. 255 00:15:24,400 --> 00:15:27,360 Speaker 1: You just pick more or less on individual things. It's 256 00:15:27,440 --> 00:15:31,560 Speaker 1: really fun and you can do really well if you 257 00:15:31,600 --> 00:15:34,000 Speaker 1: happen to nail it. Prize Picks is available to play 258 00:15:34,080 --> 00:15:37,240 Speaker 1: in forty plus states now. 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She addressed Trump's 277 00:16:27,320 --> 00:16:31,920 Speaker 1: comments on Gaza, also banning men from women's sports, that 278 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:34,800 Speaker 1: executive order which is going to be signed right at 279 00:16:34,800 --> 00:16:37,280 Speaker 1: the end of this show. Actually, so we'll talk to 280 00:16:37,320 --> 00:16:40,040 Speaker 1: her in real time here live on the show in 281 00:16:40,080 --> 00:16:42,080 Speaker 1: just a few minutes. I believe she is still in 282 00:16:42,120 --> 00:16:45,560 Speaker 1: the White House, so she'll call in and in the meantime. 283 00:16:46,080 --> 00:16:49,440 Speaker 1: This is stunning. I mentioned Politico, which is a left 284 00:16:49,440 --> 00:16:54,760 Speaker 1: wing politics website, not very good, a lot of fake news. 285 00:16:55,200 --> 00:16:57,840 Speaker 1: They got eight million dollars from the government according to 286 00:16:58,240 --> 00:17:01,760 Speaker 1: records that now Elon Musk and his team are able 287 00:17:01,800 --> 00:17:04,080 Speaker 1: to see. I can see who the government is paying 288 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:08,320 Speaker 1: the New York Times. Elon just shared this as well. 289 00:17:08,359 --> 00:17:12,000 Speaker 1: He's calling the New York Times government funded media got 290 00:17:12,240 --> 00:17:15,960 Speaker 1: tens of millions of dollars over the last five years, 291 00:17:17,040 --> 00:17:22,360 Speaker 1: and a lot more starting in twenty twenty one, and 292 00:17:22,400 --> 00:17:27,600 Speaker 1: the biggest single expenditure, it seems here. This is from UH. 293 00:17:28,200 --> 00:17:33,199 Speaker 1: This is from Andrew Huberman, who's in this thread. Is 294 00:17:33,720 --> 00:17:39,359 Speaker 1: they had twenty nine million dollars from HHS to the 295 00:17:39,400 --> 00:17:43,040 Speaker 1: New York Times. What the heck is going on here? 296 00:17:43,560 --> 00:17:47,320 Speaker 1: Your tax dollars are funding to the tune of millions 297 00:17:47,359 --> 00:17:53,760 Speaker 1: and millions regime media that suppresses your rights and your 298 00:17:53,800 --> 00:17:57,479 Speaker 1: free speech. This is crazy stuff. We'll get back to it, 299 00:17:57,880 --> 00:17:59,920 Speaker 1: all right. 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We're trying to track down White House 319 00:18:59,640 --> 00:19:02,639 Speaker 1: Press to Terry Carolyn Levitt pretty busy, so it's okay. 320 00:19:02,800 --> 00:19:05,119 Speaker 1: She has to come and join us tomorrow. He's got 321 00:19:05,119 --> 00:19:06,880 Speaker 1: an open inventation. But we'll see if we can grab 322 00:19:06,920 --> 00:19:09,360 Speaker 1: her right now. We know we're hoping to catch her 323 00:19:09,359 --> 00:19:13,239 Speaker 1: in between briefings and sit downs with the President. We 324 00:19:13,280 --> 00:19:19,160 Speaker 1: do have some of her comments from the podium, including 325 00:19:19,160 --> 00:19:21,399 Speaker 1: on Gaza, which I think was particularly helpful. This is 326 00:19:21,480 --> 00:19:25,320 Speaker 1: cut thirty two guys. This is after Trump said that 327 00:19:25,400 --> 00:19:28,320 Speaker 1: Gaza could be the Riviera. A lot of people were 328 00:19:28,320 --> 00:19:31,280 Speaker 1: getting all spun up over this. Here's what she said 329 00:19:31,320 --> 00:19:33,560 Speaker 1: to put things into context. 330 00:19:33,800 --> 00:19:37,679 Speaker 4: This is an unhabitable place for human beings. Do you 331 00:19:37,720 --> 00:19:41,800 Speaker 4: really think that families can live their dream in a 332 00:19:41,840 --> 00:19:45,480 Speaker 4: region that looks like this with no running water, no electricity. 333 00:19:45,800 --> 00:19:48,600 Speaker 4: And the Special Envoy to the President, Steve Whitcoff, recently 334 00:19:48,640 --> 00:19:51,000 Speaker 4: traveled to Gaza, as you all know, and he came 335 00:19:51,040 --> 00:19:53,520 Speaker 4: back with images that he showed the President of the 336 00:19:53,520 --> 00:19:57,679 Speaker 4: dire situation here, and the President made this decision with 337 00:19:57,760 --> 00:20:00,639 Speaker 4: a humanitarian heart for all people in the region. 338 00:20:01,960 --> 00:20:04,520 Speaker 1: Caroline Levit joins us now she is the White House 339 00:20:04,600 --> 00:20:08,320 Speaker 1: Press Secretary. Caroline, appreciate you making the time. I know 340 00:20:08,400 --> 00:20:11,280 Speaker 1: you just finished, so you're probably a little fatigued of 341 00:20:11,359 --> 00:20:14,119 Speaker 1: answering questions, but here you get you get more time 342 00:20:14,160 --> 00:20:16,800 Speaker 1: and there's no bickering to try to get questions your 343 00:20:16,840 --> 00:20:20,160 Speaker 1: way from the audience. So that's good. I don't really 344 00:20:20,160 --> 00:20:23,199 Speaker 1: want to have you react to yourself. But on the 345 00:20:23,240 --> 00:20:25,560 Speaker 1: Gaza issue, and we just heard what you said during 346 00:20:25,560 --> 00:20:30,760 Speaker 1: the press conference, where is the president's mind on this? 347 00:20:30,800 --> 00:20:33,400 Speaker 1: I mean, is this just the early phases or does 348 00:20:33,440 --> 00:20:36,919 Speaker 1: he have some pathways that he wants to explore that 349 00:20:36,960 --> 00:20:38,280 Speaker 1: he's already thought through a bit. 350 00:20:39,200 --> 00:20:41,400 Speaker 2: Hey, sure, guys, Well thanks for having me. It's great 351 00:20:41,440 --> 00:20:43,440 Speaker 2: to be with you. It's my first time, i think, 352 00:20:43,520 --> 00:20:46,760 Speaker 2: joining since I've been in my new job. So last 353 00:20:46,760 --> 00:20:48,800 Speaker 2: time I was with you, we were campaigning all over 354 00:20:48,840 --> 00:20:51,080 Speaker 2: the country and now we're governing and it's a lot 355 00:20:51,119 --> 00:20:53,280 Speaker 2: of fun and we're getting a lot done. And when 356 00:20:53,280 --> 00:20:55,600 Speaker 2: it comes to Gaza, as I just answered in my 357 00:20:55,760 --> 00:20:59,880 Speaker 2: press conference moments ago, you know, the President has so 358 00:21:00,440 --> 00:21:02,879 Speaker 2: this idea for quite some time. He's talks to his 359 00:21:03,920 --> 00:21:07,119 Speaker 2: partners in the region in the Middle East about this 360 00:21:07,560 --> 00:21:10,760 Speaker 2: what he've used as an opportunity to rebuild this region 361 00:21:10,880 --> 00:21:16,120 Speaker 2: as a peaceful and habitable place for people that clearly 362 00:21:16,200 --> 00:21:20,479 Speaker 2: have been displaced because of Hamas's actions and a Rainian 363 00:21:20,560 --> 00:21:23,320 Speaker 2: back terrists in the region which have really led to 364 00:21:23,359 --> 00:21:26,880 Speaker 2: the demolition of Gaza. So look, I think it's an 365 00:21:26,920 --> 00:21:29,399 Speaker 2: out of the box idea. But that's why the American 366 00:21:29,440 --> 00:21:32,480 Speaker 2: people elected Donald Trump to actually solve problems and not 367 00:21:32,640 --> 00:21:35,479 Speaker 2: just resort back to the same old broken thinking that 368 00:21:35,520 --> 00:21:37,200 Speaker 2: got us into this mess in the first place. 369 00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:40,320 Speaker 1: So Caroline on this show where pretty by the way, 370 00:21:40,320 --> 00:21:43,119 Speaker 1: Clay is on his way currently flying down for the 371 00:21:43,119 --> 00:21:45,800 Speaker 1: super Bowl, so he's in the super Bowl zone. He 372 00:21:45,880 --> 00:21:48,000 Speaker 1: has to remind me that the super Bowl is this Sunday. 373 00:21:48,040 --> 00:21:51,000 Speaker 1: So I am not flying through the super Bowl. But 374 00:21:51,680 --> 00:21:55,000 Speaker 1: the executive order that President Trump is going to be signing, 375 00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:57,159 Speaker 1: I believe imminently, right in the next hour or so 376 00:21:58,160 --> 00:22:00,320 Speaker 1: is it's scheduled. So President Trump is going to be 377 00:22:00,320 --> 00:22:06,679 Speaker 1: signing an executive order dealing with banning transgender athletes from 378 00:22:07,160 --> 00:22:13,399 Speaker 1: women's sports. What are the mechanisms of enforcement on this 379 00:22:13,680 --> 00:22:16,000 Speaker 1: and how did the President come to this as something 380 00:22:16,040 --> 00:22:19,000 Speaker 1: he's hitting right away in the first thirty days. 381 00:22:19,880 --> 00:22:24,320 Speaker 2: Yeah, So the President has been very vocal and persistent 382 00:22:24,480 --> 00:22:29,000 Speaker 2: about his goal to end the participation of biological men 383 00:22:29,040 --> 00:22:31,159 Speaker 2: and women's sports. And I can't even believe I have 384 00:22:31,200 --> 00:22:34,359 Speaker 2: to say that out loud, but that's what this country 385 00:22:34,359 --> 00:22:36,000 Speaker 2: has come to, and I think it's a big reason 386 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:39,639 Speaker 2: the American people re elected President Trump. So here we 387 00:22:39,680 --> 00:22:42,800 Speaker 2: are today, he is going to be signing THISEO around 388 00:22:42,840 --> 00:22:48,359 Speaker 2: three o'clock PM Eastern time. There will be tens of amazing, 389 00:22:48,520 --> 00:22:53,479 Speaker 2: incredible athletes, female athletes, accomplished individuals, Riley Gaines, who I know, 390 00:22:53,560 --> 00:22:56,439 Speaker 2: you guys know very well. Stage Steele who participated in 391 00:22:56,480 --> 00:23:01,439 Speaker 2: my briefing today, in the President's executive order uphold the 392 00:23:01,440 --> 00:23:04,680 Speaker 2: promise of Title nine, and it will require the Department 393 00:23:04,720 --> 00:23:10,480 Speaker 2: of Justice to basically reverse the policies of the previous administration. 394 00:23:10,600 --> 00:23:15,520 Speaker 2: What was happening was divided administration was essentially subverting Title 395 00:23:15,600 --> 00:23:20,359 Speaker 2: mind and basically breaking of the law with their illegal 396 00:23:20,480 --> 00:23:24,399 Speaker 2: rewrite of the law that focused on gender identity instead 397 00:23:24,400 --> 00:23:28,400 Speaker 2: of biological sex. And so the President signed an executive 398 00:23:28,480 --> 00:23:32,080 Speaker 2: order previously last week that says that it's the official 399 00:23:32,119 --> 00:23:34,680 Speaker 2: policy of the United States government that there are only 400 00:23:34,720 --> 00:23:39,320 Speaker 2: two sexes, male and female. And so, you know, he's 401 00:23:39,359 --> 00:23:42,080 Speaker 2: made up very clear that's the position now of this government, 402 00:23:42,480 --> 00:23:45,359 Speaker 2: and he's going to direct the Department of Justice to 403 00:23:45,480 --> 00:23:50,200 Speaker 2: ensure that all schools are abiding by this new law. 404 00:23:51,480 --> 00:23:54,720 Speaker 1: You know, Caroline, I think it's so important, it's so 405 00:23:55,240 --> 00:23:58,800 Speaker 1: obviously the right thing to do, and it's also remarkable 406 00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:02,679 Speaker 1: that they're still opposition to this. So that's so widespread 407 00:24:02,720 --> 00:24:07,760 Speaker 1: among Democrats in the media and even Democrats in Congress 408 00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:10,720 Speaker 1: that they still seem to cling to this idea that, 409 00:24:11,240 --> 00:24:13,439 Speaker 1: you know, a man can become a woman and therefore 410 00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:16,400 Speaker 1: should compete in women's athletics. It strikes me is insane. 411 00:24:16,520 --> 00:24:19,760 Speaker 1: I'm glad today's International Women's Sports Day too, Right, So 412 00:24:19,800 --> 00:24:23,560 Speaker 1: there's some symbolism, is yeah, yeah, some symbolism behind this. 413 00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:25,600 Speaker 1: So I think Trump is doing at President Trump's doing 414 00:24:25,640 --> 00:24:28,240 Speaker 1: absolutely the right thing. Something that I did not know, 415 00:24:28,440 --> 00:24:32,199 Speaker 1: which I think is when it comes to the Shenanigans 416 00:24:32,280 --> 00:24:36,080 Speaker 1: of the left, Caroline, that is something I rarely say 417 00:24:36,080 --> 00:24:37,960 Speaker 1: on this show, but I have to say something I 418 00:24:38,040 --> 00:24:41,639 Speaker 1: did not know was the funding that we are discovering. 419 00:24:41,720 --> 00:24:43,760 Speaker 1: I know you addressed this just before in the press 420 00:24:43,760 --> 00:24:47,240 Speaker 1: conference with regard to Politico, but now Elon Musk of 421 00:24:47,320 --> 00:24:51,000 Speaker 1: DOGE has also shared that The New York Times has 422 00:24:51,040 --> 00:24:54,920 Speaker 1: gotten tens of millions of dollars paid to it from 423 00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:58,920 Speaker 1: federal government agencies. What is going on here? 424 00:25:01,080 --> 00:25:04,240 Speaker 2: Yes, it's a very good question, and that's exactly why 425 00:25:04,280 --> 00:25:08,360 Speaker 2: the President has hired Elon Musk. Not hired because he's 426 00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:12,040 Speaker 2: working voluntarily and donating his time to serve at the 427 00:25:12,080 --> 00:25:15,320 Speaker 2: request of the president. But as task Elon Musk was 428 00:25:15,359 --> 00:25:19,240 Speaker 2: figuring out what is going on with our federal government 429 00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:22,760 Speaker 2: and we are, you know, DOGE and the President's team 430 00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:26,959 Speaker 2: are going line by line throughout these federal agencies and 431 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:31,040 Speaker 2: realizing the federal government has been wasting money. There is 432 00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:34,040 Speaker 2: so much fraud and waste and abuse, and we are 433 00:25:34,160 --> 00:25:39,560 Speaker 2: just getting started. So subscriptions services and essentially subsidizing these 434 00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:43,280 Speaker 2: very left wing media outlets in this country is just 435 00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:45,199 Speaker 2: one thing on the list. I mean, I held up 436 00:25:45,240 --> 00:25:49,240 Speaker 2: the paper today of all the crazy things that USAID 437 00:25:49,760 --> 00:25:54,320 Speaker 2: has been spending money on millions of dollars towards LGBTQ 438 00:25:54,520 --> 00:25:58,919 Speaker 2: priorities in foreign countries. I mean, that's not aligned with 439 00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:04,320 Speaker 2: the priorities the needs of the American people. And that's 440 00:26:04,359 --> 00:26:08,200 Speaker 2: exactly why Elon Musk and the President are moving forward 441 00:26:08,240 --> 00:26:11,600 Speaker 2: with this effort to ensure that the federal government is 442 00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:15,320 Speaker 2: running itself like a company and focusing on money in, 443 00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:18,200 Speaker 2: money out, and what do we actually need to spend 444 00:26:18,280 --> 00:26:21,479 Speaker 2: money on. And so it's very exciting to see all 445 00:26:21,520 --> 00:26:25,359 Speaker 2: of the crazy things that DOGE is revealing every single 446 00:26:25,480 --> 00:26:28,480 Speaker 2: day and enlightening the American people about where their tax 447 00:26:28,520 --> 00:26:29,280 Speaker 2: dollars are going. 448 00:26:30,320 --> 00:26:34,639 Speaker 1: My understanding is that they're now looking caroline at the 449 00:26:34,680 --> 00:26:38,760 Speaker 1: payments made to Medicare, which has always been This is 450 00:26:39,440 --> 00:26:41,719 Speaker 1: amazing and kind of jaw dropping when you hear it. 451 00:26:42,080 --> 00:26:45,920 Speaker 1: A place that there's just been the assumption billions, tens 452 00:26:45,920 --> 00:26:49,360 Speaker 1: of billions, perhaps even one hundred billion plus of annual 453 00:26:49,520 --> 00:26:53,720 Speaker 1: fraud occurs. Is if the administration's expectation that what we're 454 00:26:53,720 --> 00:26:58,360 Speaker 1: seeing in terms of not just kind of bizarre partisan spending, 455 00:26:58,600 --> 00:27:01,800 Speaker 1: but fraudulent spending from years past and the federal government 456 00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:04,000 Speaker 1: is going to be we're just seeing the tip of 457 00:27:04,040 --> 00:27:05,720 Speaker 1: the iceberg, and we're going to find a lot more. 458 00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:11,359 Speaker 2: Oh most definitely. I mean, look again, they've just scratching 459 00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:14,119 Speaker 2: the surface and are already finding new million, tens of 460 00:27:14,119 --> 00:27:17,119 Speaker 2: millions of dollars in wasteful spending. And you know, we also, 461 00:27:17,280 --> 00:27:20,160 Speaker 2: the President and this team also offered the federal buyout 462 00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:26,919 Speaker 2: program to federal workers who are not actually showing up 463 00:27:26,960 --> 00:27:30,120 Speaker 2: to work. They have been working from homes. Only six 464 00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:33,560 Speaker 2: percent of the federal workforce actually shows up to the 465 00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:38,920 Speaker 2: White House. If that's unbelievable. Most Americans, who, by the way, 466 00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:42,359 Speaker 2: fund the salaries of bureaucrafts in this city, have to 467 00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:44,159 Speaker 2: show up to the office. And I think it's a 468 00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:49,399 Speaker 2: very simple common sense expectation for saying federal government workers 469 00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:51,640 Speaker 2: should do the same. So we offered an eight month 470 00:27:51,720 --> 00:27:54,720 Speaker 2: buyout and more than forty thousand people have taken us 471 00:27:54,800 --> 00:27:57,400 Speaker 2: up on the offer to just hang out at home 472 00:27:57,520 --> 00:28:00,560 Speaker 2: get eight paid months of leave, and I think we're 473 00:28:00,560 --> 00:28:03,639 Speaker 2: going to have We're already seeing tremendous savings from this 474 00:28:03,680 --> 00:28:06,840 Speaker 2: buyout program for the American people, and we're going to 475 00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:09,720 Speaker 2: have a much more efficient workforce as a result as well. 476 00:28:10,640 --> 00:28:13,439 Speaker 1: Is there a plan we've seen reporting? We're speaking to 477 00:28:13,480 --> 00:28:16,879 Speaker 1: Caroline Levitt, White House Press Secretary, fresh off of just 478 00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:19,120 Speaker 1: doing a briefing in the West Wing. She's kind enough 479 00:28:19,119 --> 00:28:22,560 Speaker 1: to join us here on Clay and Buck. Is there 480 00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:25,840 Speaker 1: a plan to further cut the size of these federal 481 00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:30,720 Speaker 1: agencies involuntarily? And I asked because, and having worked at 482 00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:33,159 Speaker 1: the CIA, Carolina, I remember some of the rules and 483 00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:37,000 Speaker 1: regulations around this. There seems to be a widespread belief 484 00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:43,600 Speaker 1: that civil servants without you know, criminal malfeasance cannot be fired. 485 00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:47,840 Speaker 1: What can you tell us about what the administration's view 486 00:28:48,360 --> 00:28:52,520 Speaker 1: of that is and the sense that they can just 487 00:28:52,560 --> 00:28:54,400 Speaker 1: sort of wait it out. 488 00:28:55,040 --> 00:28:58,040 Speaker 2: Well, that's one of the reasons we have offered this 489 00:28:58,160 --> 00:29:02,720 Speaker 2: buyout program, because it is of again, a voluntary program 490 00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:05,320 Speaker 2: for workers who don't want to get on board with 491 00:29:05,360 --> 00:29:08,400 Speaker 2: this President's agenda which he was just duly elected to implement. 492 00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:11,640 Speaker 2: Who don't want to be productive workers and show up 493 00:29:11,680 --> 00:29:14,120 Speaker 2: to the office, Well then they get this offer of 494 00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:18,440 Speaker 2: eight months you know pay, and you know, the administration 495 00:29:18,520 --> 00:29:20,720 Speaker 2: will continue to look at legal options for you know, 496 00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:24,520 Speaker 2: terminating individuals, but for now, you know, they're again being 497 00:29:24,560 --> 00:29:29,680 Speaker 2: offered very generous sums to go home if they wish. 498 00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:32,200 Speaker 1: Wow, So there is there's positive the possibility down the 499 00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:36,600 Speaker 1: line though of involuntary departures from federal service. So we'll 500 00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:39,400 Speaker 1: continue to watch and see how that plays out. How 501 00:29:39,520 --> 00:29:42,000 Speaker 1: is the I'm really curious about this. You know, I 502 00:29:42,240 --> 00:29:44,640 Speaker 1: knew your predecessor, I know you do too, from the 503 00:29:44,680 --> 00:29:47,960 Speaker 1: Trump administration, Kelly MCANENNI and saw what she dealt with. 504 00:29:48,520 --> 00:29:51,880 Speaker 1: It feels like the manners from some in the press 505 00:29:51,880 --> 00:29:55,640 Speaker 1: corps or maybe uh improving, Perhaps they're a little less 506 00:29:56,080 --> 00:29:59,320 Speaker 1: hostile than they What would just just bring us into 507 00:30:01,040 --> 00:30:04,440 Speaker 1: the feel that you have from doing this now a 508 00:30:04,480 --> 00:30:07,360 Speaker 1: couple of weeks in and dealing with the press day 509 00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:09,240 Speaker 1: in and day out, because we're in a very different 510 00:30:09,280 --> 00:30:12,600 Speaker 1: media environment now than we were even certainly the start 511 00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:13,560 Speaker 1: of the Biden administration. 512 00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:16,640 Speaker 5: You know, I will. 513 00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:20,400 Speaker 2: Say that they are very respectful. They're almost subdued, I 514 00:30:20,400 --> 00:30:22,760 Speaker 2: would say, and I'm not sure if there's just so 515 00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:26,000 Speaker 2: much news happening out of this White House every day 516 00:30:26,080 --> 00:30:28,640 Speaker 2: that they don't they can't keep up. You know. They've 517 00:30:28,720 --> 00:30:32,200 Speaker 2: certainly expressed off the record to me and our team 518 00:30:32,320 --> 00:30:35,719 Speaker 2: that the pace of this White House is drastically different 519 00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:37,520 Speaker 2: dur in the past four years. I mean, it doesn't 520 00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:40,120 Speaker 2: take a genius to recognize that. Just look at everything 521 00:30:40,120 --> 00:30:43,600 Speaker 2: we're doing every day. So me perhaps that's discouraged them 522 00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:47,200 Speaker 2: a little bit. They can't help they can't stand all 523 00:30:47,240 --> 00:30:49,400 Speaker 2: of the winning that we are doing every day here 524 00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:55,400 Speaker 2: at sixteen hundred Pennsylvania Avenue. But look, I think, you know, 525 00:30:55,840 --> 00:30:59,080 Speaker 2: we've opened up this briefing room to new media members. 526 00:30:59,240 --> 00:31:02,800 Speaker 2: We have really proven that this president is the most 527 00:31:03,120 --> 00:31:07,920 Speaker 2: transparent and accessible president ever and he takes questions from 528 00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:11,600 Speaker 2: them almost every day. And it's a stark contrast to 529 00:31:11,680 --> 00:31:13,920 Speaker 2: what they experienced in the last four years, where you 530 00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:17,280 Speaker 2: had a spokeswoman who was going out there and lying 531 00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:20,480 Speaker 2: to their faces, and you had a president who hardly 532 00:31:20,480 --> 00:31:23,160 Speaker 2: spoke to them. So now all of that has changed 533 00:31:23,240 --> 00:31:26,240 Speaker 2: very quickly. And I think even if they don't like 534 00:31:26,320 --> 00:31:29,760 Speaker 2: Donald Trump, they will admit that he is incredibly transparent, 535 00:31:29,840 --> 00:31:33,880 Speaker 2: accessible and honest, and so maybe that's why they're being 536 00:31:34,080 --> 00:31:36,600 Speaker 2: definitely more chill. I would say this time around me, 537 00:31:36,680 --> 00:31:37,880 Speaker 2: in the first four. 538 00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:42,000 Speaker 1: Years, Play and I are both duly impressed but not 539 00:31:42,080 --> 00:31:46,479 Speaker 1: surprised by how well you've left into this role at 540 00:31:46,520 --> 00:31:49,120 Speaker 1: the start of the administration as White House Press Secretary. 541 00:31:49,560 --> 00:31:52,960 Speaker 1: So congrats on what you and the administration and President 542 00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:56,160 Speaker 1: Trump have accomplished so far. I know this audience is 543 00:31:56,320 --> 00:32:00,120 Speaker 1: incredibly supportive and fired up about what is coming and 544 00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:02,720 Speaker 1: the full agenda being implemented, and we appreciate you making 545 00:32:02,720 --> 00:32:04,240 Speaker 1: the time for us and hope you'll come back soon. 546 00:32:04,640 --> 00:32:06,200 Speaker 1: Clay wants you to come back soon so he can 547 00:32:06,240 --> 00:32:08,360 Speaker 1: talk to you. So he's bummed, but he'll be back 548 00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:08,840 Speaker 1: next time. 549 00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:12,480 Speaker 2: Well, thank you guys so much. We love what you're doing, 550 00:32:12,520 --> 00:32:14,960 Speaker 2: and hopefully we'll see you soon in the briefing room someday. 551 00:32:14,960 --> 00:32:17,760 Speaker 1: You're always well, Oh, we're Clay and I already just 552 00:32:17,760 --> 00:32:19,360 Speaker 1: thinking about when we're gonna put it on the calendar. 553 00:32:19,360 --> 00:32:20,640 Speaker 1: We're going to come and hang out. It's going to 554 00:32:20,680 --> 00:32:23,520 Speaker 1: be fantastic. We'll have some good news that day. Thank 555 00:32:23,560 --> 00:32:27,600 Speaker 1: you so much, Caroline, Thank you, thank you. If there 556 00:32:27,640 --> 00:32:30,120 Speaker 1: was a Camquarder in your family's history, then there's likely 557 00:32:30,160 --> 00:32:32,840 Speaker 1: a bunch of videotapes that are stored away someplace. Think 558 00:32:32,840 --> 00:32:35,440 Speaker 1: of all the memories contained on those tapes. 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I must learn about who the 594 00:34:18,320 --> 00:34:20,440 Speaker 1: players are. I think I remember who the teams are, 595 00:34:20,480 --> 00:34:23,440 Speaker 1: so that's exciting. And also we want to make sure 596 00:34:23,440 --> 00:34:27,000 Speaker 1: we get a lot of your VIP emails coming in. 597 00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:29,120 Speaker 1: Go to Clayanbuck dot com sign up to become a 598 00:34:29,239 --> 00:34:34,520 Speaker 1: v IP caller. Mark in Meadville, Pennsylvania. 599 00:34:34,520 --> 00:34:38,440 Speaker 5: What's going on, Mark, Well, Hi, Buck, I really appreciate 600 00:34:38,440 --> 00:34:40,440 Speaker 5: what you guys are doing. Rush would be proud of 601 00:34:40,480 --> 00:34:41,080 Speaker 5: you guys. 602 00:34:41,360 --> 00:34:42,200 Speaker 1: Oh, thank you so much. 603 00:34:42,239 --> 00:34:42,399 Speaker 2: Way. 604 00:34:42,400 --> 00:34:45,600 Speaker 5: The other yes, sir, yes, And the other thing was 605 00:34:45,600 --> 00:34:48,880 Speaker 5: on these DEM's going crazy over what Elon's doing. The 606 00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:51,600 Speaker 5: bureaucrats he's getting rid of. They weren't elected either, but 607 00:34:51,640 --> 00:34:54,160 Speaker 5: appointed and they're just blowing. They're getting upset over the 608 00:34:54,160 --> 00:34:56,360 Speaker 5: whole thing. And anyway, I want your thoughts on that, 609 00:34:56,480 --> 00:34:59,160 Speaker 5: and also also your thoughts on Trump turning the Gauze 610 00:34:59,239 --> 00:35:00,840 Speaker 5: Strip into a Vegas strip. 611 00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:04,719 Speaker 1: Thank you so much for for calling in. I would 612 00:35:04,800 --> 00:35:07,360 Speaker 1: just say this about Uh, first of all, in the 613 00:35:07,360 --> 00:35:11,759 Speaker 1: Gaza thing, Trump is, he's he's you know, when he's talking, 614 00:35:11,760 --> 00:35:14,080 Speaker 1: when he's telling a story and he's weaving. He's kind 615 00:35:14,080 --> 00:35:16,240 Speaker 1: of weaving on Gaza. We're not going to be landing 616 00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:18,800 Speaker 1: eighty second Airborne and setting up you know, air bases 617 00:35:18,880 --> 00:35:21,520 Speaker 1: or anything. In God, It's not gonna happen. So uh, 618 00:35:21,600 --> 00:35:23,719 Speaker 1: if I'm wrong, I'll correct myself. But on this, on 619 00:35:23,760 --> 00:35:26,080 Speaker 1: the national security stuff, I'm almost never wrong. If you 620 00:35:26,080 --> 00:35:28,400 Speaker 1: remember when the Russia Ukraine war broke out in the 621 00:35:28,440 --> 00:35:29,880 Speaker 1: first week. I was like, well, this is gonna end 622 00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:31,920 Speaker 1: up costing a trillion dollars and a huge amount of 623 00:35:31,920 --> 00:35:34,040 Speaker 1: loss of life, and what is going to be accomplished 624 00:35:34,080 --> 00:35:35,840 Speaker 1: in the end. It is gonna end up costing a 625 00:35:35,840 --> 00:35:39,560 Speaker 1: trillion dollars. But there's that And oh, what was the 626 00:35:39,640 --> 00:35:41,080 Speaker 1: what was the first part guys that he was? He 627 00:35:41,080 --> 00:35:42,600 Speaker 1: asked me. I just got so wrapped up in the 628 00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:45,640 Speaker 1: second part he was, I can't remember what the first part. 629 00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:49,439 Speaker 1: He gave me a two part question. Is he still 630 00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:49,719 Speaker 1: with us? 631 00:35:52,800 --> 00:35:52,960 Speaker 2: Yeah? 632 00:35:53,040 --> 00:35:54,680 Speaker 1: Yeah, you're still What was the first part of your question? 633 00:35:55,640 --> 00:35:59,000 Speaker 5: Well on the Dems going crazier over what Elon's. 634 00:35:58,680 --> 00:36:03,080 Speaker 1: Oh, Elon, Elon? Yeah, yeah, I love, thank you, thank you, 635 00:36:03,200 --> 00:36:06,640 Speaker 1: very important. This is what happens when you bring a 636 00:36:07,040 --> 00:36:10,720 Speaker 1: brilliant manager and really a turnaround guy. You know, Elon 637 00:36:10,800 --> 00:36:14,400 Speaker 1: didn't found Tesla. He took over Tesla and turned it 638 00:36:14,440 --> 00:36:19,200 Speaker 1: into a global BMN, right, so a trillion dollar company. 639 00:36:19,719 --> 00:36:22,720 Speaker 1: And we've been saying for so long in the conservative movement, 640 00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:29,480 Speaker 1: we need private sector approaches to public sector actions, and 641 00:36:30,239 --> 00:36:33,760 Speaker 1: that's what they're getting. And the swamp in the deep state, 642 00:36:33,840 --> 00:36:37,280 Speaker 1: they are in full freak out because when the little 643 00:36:37,320 --> 00:36:42,600 Speaker 1: piggies can't get to the taxpayer trough, they start squealing, 644 00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:46,000 Speaker 1: and there are a lot of squealing little deep state 645 00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:48,680 Speaker 1: piggies running around in DC right now