1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:03,320 Speaker 1: Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and buck 2 00:00:03,360 --> 00:00:08,719 Speaker 1: Sexton Show podcast. Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton Show. 3 00:00:10,160 --> 00:00:12,760 Speaker 1: I'm gonna talk here in a little bit. We're scheduled 4 00:00:12,800 --> 00:00:15,720 Speaker 1: to be joined by Missouri Senator Eric Schmidt to talk 5 00:00:15,720 --> 00:00:23,200 Speaker 1: about the explosive hearings going on surrounding everything relating to Twitter. 6 00:00:23,840 --> 00:00:29,040 Speaker 1: And this is important. And I did a really big 7 00:00:29,120 --> 00:00:32,720 Speaker 1: deep dive with Miranda Divine of The New York Post. 8 00:00:32,840 --> 00:00:37,760 Speaker 1: You can find it in the podcast and it's podcast 9 00:00:37,800 --> 00:00:42,239 Speaker 1: exclusive long form interview with Miranda Divine discussing the New 10 00:00:42,320 --> 00:00:45,760 Speaker 1: York Post and everything about the censorship surrounding the Hunter 11 00:00:45,760 --> 00:00:49,760 Speaker 1: Biden laptop story. And I think it's super important because 12 00:00:50,400 --> 00:00:54,280 Speaker 1: it's easy to get lost in all of the details 13 00:00:54,680 --> 00:00:59,080 Speaker 1: and not recognize the essence of what's important. So I 14 00:00:59,200 --> 00:01:02,480 Speaker 1: just want to hit you with the essence of this story, 15 00:01:02,960 --> 00:01:06,640 Speaker 1: and then I'm going to play several cuts from this 16 00:01:06,760 --> 00:01:09,759 Speaker 1: Twitter hearing and explain to you why it matters so much. 17 00:01:10,120 --> 00:01:13,000 Speaker 1: So here is if we were standing in front of 18 00:01:13,040 --> 00:01:16,560 Speaker 1: a jury. I always think about this back from practicing law, 19 00:01:17,959 --> 00:01:22,400 Speaker 1: the person who tells the best story wins almost every trial. 20 00:01:23,160 --> 00:01:27,760 Speaker 1: The law matters but people respond to story. So if 21 00:01:27,760 --> 00:01:30,880 Speaker 1: you're one of the twelve jurors sitting over there and 22 00:01:31,040 --> 00:01:34,000 Speaker 1: two people are telling a story, the person who tells 23 00:01:34,040 --> 00:01:36,240 Speaker 1: the best story is almost always going to win in 24 00:01:36,360 --> 00:01:42,160 Speaker 1: virtually every case. And so here is how I would 25 00:01:42,240 --> 00:01:46,039 Speaker 1: convey to a jury of the American public, why what 26 00:01:46,240 --> 00:01:49,720 Speaker 1: happened with Twitter and with the New York Post is 27 00:01:49,760 --> 00:01:54,360 Speaker 1: so incredibly important and what you need to know as 28 00:01:54,480 --> 00:01:59,000 Speaker 1: essential information without getting lost in all the weeds and 29 00:01:59,080 --> 00:02:02,840 Speaker 1: all the details everything else. This is the story distilled 30 00:02:02,840 --> 00:02:09,520 Speaker 1: in its essence. In December of twenty nineteen, the FBI 31 00:02:09,840 --> 00:02:16,359 Speaker 1: seized Hunter Biden's laptop from John Paul Maciaac, a Delaware 32 00:02:16,400 --> 00:02:20,760 Speaker 1: computer repairman who had been holding that laptop for months 33 00:02:21,160 --> 00:02:25,359 Speaker 1: and Hunter Biden had not returned to claim that laptop. 34 00:02:26,280 --> 00:02:28,920 Speaker 1: There was on the laptop that was handed to the 35 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:35,080 Speaker 1: FBI in December of twenty nineteen evidence of substantial criminal 36 00:02:35,080 --> 00:02:39,280 Speaker 1: wrongdoing by Hunter Biden and also his father, Joe Biden. 37 00:02:40,320 --> 00:02:45,280 Speaker 1: December of twenty nineteen, the FBI gets that laptop. During 38 00:02:45,360 --> 00:02:51,520 Speaker 1: twenty twenty, due to trumped up allegations, the FBI is 39 00:02:51,560 --> 00:02:56,839 Speaker 1: able to get a search warrant effectively without Rudy Giuliani 40 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:02,440 Speaker 1: knowing it to monitor all of Rudy Joe Giuliani's transmissions, 41 00:03:02,600 --> 00:03:07,520 Speaker 1: all of his cloud basically of text, messages, of emails, 42 00:03:07,720 --> 00:03:13,320 Speaker 1: all of that. And in that process, which is wild 43 00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:18,840 Speaker 1: to think about, in that process, they become aware that 44 00:03:18,919 --> 00:03:23,160 Speaker 1: Rudy Giuliani has got a copy of the Hunter Biden 45 00:03:23,800 --> 00:03:28,639 Speaker 1: laptop data because John Paul mc isaac made his own 46 00:03:28,760 --> 00:03:32,520 Speaker 1: copy because he didn't trust the FBI that they would 47 00:03:32,560 --> 00:03:38,520 Speaker 1: do something with it. So, after nearly a year of 48 00:03:38,560 --> 00:03:42,720 Speaker 1: the FBI doing nothing, John Paul mciaac reaches out to 49 00:03:42,800 --> 00:03:45,440 Speaker 1: Rudy Giuliani and says, hey, you need to see all 50 00:03:45,440 --> 00:03:49,320 Speaker 1: the stuff on this Hunter Biden laptop. The FBI is 51 00:03:49,360 --> 00:03:54,480 Speaker 1: aware of that communication. They're aware that Rudy Giuliani has 52 00:03:54,560 --> 00:04:01,760 Speaker 1: possession eventually of the things on the laptop, and they 53 00:04:01,800 --> 00:04:04,320 Speaker 1: are aware that Rudy Giuliani is talking to the New 54 00:04:04,400 --> 00:04:07,640 Speaker 1: York Post and other media outlets trying to get those 55 00:04:07,640 --> 00:04:10,200 Speaker 1: outlets to write a story about the Hunter Biden laptop. 56 00:04:12,240 --> 00:04:16,240 Speaker 1: As a result, they're aware when The New York Post 57 00:04:16,440 --> 00:04:21,560 Speaker 1: is about to publish and they are out there talking 58 00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:25,560 Speaker 1: to Twitter and Facebook and all the big tech companies 59 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:30,440 Speaker 1: letting them know that this story is coming and that 60 00:04:30,520 --> 00:04:36,800 Speaker 1: it may well be Russian disinformation. What's important here is 61 00:04:38,080 --> 00:04:42,800 Speaker 1: someone at the FBI, maybe it's Christopher Ray, maybe it's 62 00:04:42,800 --> 00:04:48,200 Speaker 1: someone below Christopher Ray's rank. Someone at the FBI knew 63 00:04:48,240 --> 00:04:51,000 Speaker 1: that this laptop was one hundred percent authentic because they 64 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:54,160 Speaker 1: had had it since December of twenty nineteen, knew that 65 00:04:54,240 --> 00:04:58,080 Speaker 1: Rudy Giuliani had copies of it, knew that there were 66 00:04:58,200 --> 00:05:04,000 Speaker 1: stories coming about this laptop and its authenticity, and decided 67 00:05:04,600 --> 00:05:09,360 Speaker 1: that they wanted to help Joe Biden get elected by 68 00:05:09,440 --> 00:05:13,520 Speaker 1: providing cover to argue that it was Russian disinformation even 69 00:05:13,600 --> 00:05:21,160 Speaker 1: though they knew that it was real. Someone at the FBI, 70 00:05:21,279 --> 00:05:27,560 Speaker 1: and this is the essence, someone at the FBI made 71 00:05:27,560 --> 00:05:33,600 Speaker 1: the decision to cover up the authenticity of this laptop 72 00:05:33,720 --> 00:05:37,360 Speaker 1: even though they knew it was real, and to help 73 00:05:37,480 --> 00:05:40,640 Speaker 1: ensure that Joe Biden was elected president as a result. 74 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:45,919 Speaker 1: That's it. Where we can talk about Twitter, and we 75 00:05:45,960 --> 00:05:48,480 Speaker 1: can talk about Facebook, and there's no doubt that they 76 00:05:48,520 --> 00:05:52,080 Speaker 1: were rigged. But if you put yourself in the perspective 77 00:05:52,160 --> 00:05:54,839 Speaker 1: of a random guy or girl who works at Twitter 78 00:05:54,960 --> 00:05:59,360 Speaker 1: or Facebook, if the FBI is briefing you telling you 79 00:05:59,720 --> 00:06:04,000 Speaker 1: that Russians are trying to rig the election, You're probably 80 00:06:04,040 --> 00:06:07,320 Speaker 1: gonna believe it. You're just a twenty seven or twenty 81 00:06:07,320 --> 00:06:11,599 Speaker 1: eight year old employee who is being directly briefed by 82 00:06:11,640 --> 00:06:17,400 Speaker 1: the FBI. Imagine that the FBI comes to your place 83 00:06:17,440 --> 00:06:21,479 Speaker 1: of business when you're in your twenties and tells you 84 00:06:21,520 --> 00:06:25,440 Speaker 1: that a crime's about to occur. Most of us would say, oh, oh, 85 00:06:25,440 --> 00:06:27,360 Speaker 1: you know what. The FBI knows what they're talking about. 86 00:06:27,400 --> 00:06:33,279 Speaker 1: That's exactly what they did. But somebody at the FBI 87 00:06:33,720 --> 00:06:39,800 Speaker 1: ordered the code read somebody in our nation's top law 88 00:06:39,960 --> 00:06:47,359 Speaker 1: enforcement federal organization rigged the election. They're in Joe Biden's pocket. 89 00:06:49,240 --> 00:06:57,159 Speaker 1: Who who made that choice? And how do we still 90 00:06:57,200 --> 00:07:02,720 Speaker 1: not know? Over two years later? Again, the simple facts 91 00:07:03,080 --> 00:07:05,880 Speaker 1: they had the laptop. The FBI did for almost a 92 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:08,240 Speaker 1: year before the New York Post story came out. They 93 00:07:08,279 --> 00:07:13,120 Speaker 1: knew it was real, yet they decided to brief all 94 00:07:13,160 --> 00:07:16,760 Speaker 1: these big tech companies and tell them that Russian misinformation 95 00:07:16,840 --> 00:07:20,800 Speaker 1: was going to be coming surrounding the laptop. Someone at 96 00:07:20,800 --> 00:07:23,440 Speaker 1: the FBI knew this was real and ordered the code 97 00:07:23,480 --> 00:07:27,920 Speaker 1: read that's what we need to uncover. That's the person 98 00:07:27,960 --> 00:07:31,640 Speaker 1: who is most criminally culpable. That's the person who should 99 00:07:31,680 --> 00:07:39,400 Speaker 1: be in prison right now. And this is important. Now. Look, 100 00:07:39,680 --> 00:07:41,400 Speaker 1: I want to play a couple of cuts for you here. 101 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:47,080 Speaker 1: Clay Higgins, a Republican congressman from Louisiana. He tells Twitter 102 00:07:47,120 --> 00:07:50,280 Speaker 1: executives to prepare to be arrested for criminal interference in 103 00:07:50,280 --> 00:07:53,880 Speaker 1: the twenty twenty election. I appreciate that. I think Twitter 104 00:07:54,080 --> 00:07:58,840 Speaker 1: certainly behaved in a manner many employees at Twitter did 105 00:07:59,320 --> 00:08:03,200 Speaker 1: that there should be consequences. But what I'm telling you 106 00:08:03,320 --> 00:08:06,560 Speaker 1: is these Twitter employees are further down the food chain. 107 00:08:07,360 --> 00:08:09,560 Speaker 1: What we need to know is who with the FBI 108 00:08:09,880 --> 00:08:12,280 Speaker 1: ordered the code read but listen to cut three here. 109 00:08:12,640 --> 00:08:16,280 Speaker 1: Bottom line is that FI had to Biden crime family 110 00:08:16,360 --> 00:08:19,720 Speaker 1: laptop for a year. They knew it was leaking, they 111 00:08:19,800 --> 00:08:23,640 Speaker 1: knew it would hurt the Biden campaign, So the FI 112 00:08:23,760 --> 00:08:28,720 Speaker 1: used its relationship with Twitter to suppress criminal evidence being 113 00:08:28,760 --> 00:08:33,319 Speaker 1: revealed about Joe Biden one month before the twenty twenty elections. 114 00:08:33,960 --> 00:08:37,200 Speaker 1: You ladies and gentlemen interfered with the United States of 115 00:08:37,200 --> 00:08:42,559 Speaker 1: America twenty twenty presidential election knowingly and willingly. That's the 116 00:08:42,679 --> 00:08:45,720 Speaker 1: bad news is going to get worse because This is 117 00:08:45,760 --> 00:08:51,240 Speaker 1: the investigation part. Later comes the arrest part. Okay, I 118 00:08:51,360 --> 00:08:54,440 Speaker 1: hope that there are criminal prosecutions in this case. But 119 00:08:54,600 --> 00:09:01,239 Speaker 1: the Twitter people are stooges. They're patsies. They're not particularly 120 00:09:01,280 --> 00:09:06,520 Speaker 1: intelligent tech executives who were in favor of Democrats and 121 00:09:06,600 --> 00:09:11,199 Speaker 1: were particularly susceptible to believe that the Russians were trying 122 00:09:11,200 --> 00:09:15,760 Speaker 1: to elect Donald Trump in twenty twenty, But the FBI 123 00:09:16,120 --> 00:09:22,280 Speaker 1: played them. These Twitter stooges are just the puppets. They're 124 00:09:22,320 --> 00:09:28,880 Speaker 1: just dancing. Who's the puppet master? Who inside of our 125 00:09:29,080 --> 00:09:35,000 Speaker 1: government being paid by your tax dollars? Who at the 126 00:09:35,160 --> 00:09:40,240 Speaker 1: FBI ordered the code read? How do we still not know? 127 00:09:43,160 --> 00:09:46,520 Speaker 1: There are people at the FBI who were high enough up. 128 00:09:46,679 --> 00:09:49,760 Speaker 1: Maybe there's multiple people, maybe there's seven or eight. Maybe 129 00:09:49,800 --> 00:09:54,240 Speaker 1: there's only one who allowed this to occur, Who planned it, 130 00:09:54,280 --> 00:09:59,000 Speaker 1: who plotted it, who intentionally attempted to influence the election 131 00:09:59,160 --> 00:10:02,000 Speaker 1: in favor of Joe Biden and succeeded in doing so. 132 00:10:03,320 --> 00:10:06,920 Speaker 1: We have the evidence that it happened at Twitter, We 133 00:10:07,040 --> 00:10:09,400 Speaker 1: have the evidence that it had happened at Facebook and 134 00:10:09,480 --> 00:10:14,240 Speaker 1: Instagram and everywhere else. That's important, But going after these 135 00:10:14,280 --> 00:10:19,439 Speaker 1: guys is like going after the low level foot soldiers, 136 00:10:20,760 --> 00:10:24,400 Speaker 1: the person or people who pulled the threads, the puppet masters, 137 00:10:25,080 --> 00:10:29,199 Speaker 1: the people who ordered the code read. So much as 138 00:10:29,240 --> 00:10:34,800 Speaker 1: we know they're still inside the FBI, they got away 139 00:10:34,840 --> 00:10:40,280 Speaker 1: with it. They rigged the twenty twenty election. They intentionally 140 00:10:40,320 --> 00:10:45,520 Speaker 1: spread falsehoods that they knew were falsehoods, and we still 141 00:10:45,600 --> 00:10:48,280 Speaker 1: don't know who they are. So as much as I 142 00:10:48,480 --> 00:10:54,559 Speaker 1: love what the Republicans are doing in having this hearing 143 00:10:54,720 --> 00:10:57,680 Speaker 1: in the House, many of them and many of their 144 00:10:57,679 --> 00:11:01,920 Speaker 1: staffs listened to this show, what we need to know 145 00:11:02,320 --> 00:11:08,440 Speaker 1: is who made this happen. That is the person who 146 00:11:08,520 --> 00:11:12,880 Speaker 1: remains a threat to our government. And frankly, if you 147 00:11:12,920 --> 00:11:16,360 Speaker 1: want to talk about democracy dying in darkness, that is 148 00:11:16,400 --> 00:11:19,920 Speaker 1: the person who is the biggest threat or people to 149 00:11:20,120 --> 00:11:25,600 Speaker 1: our democracy. They rigged the twenty twenty election based on 150 00:11:26,080 --> 00:11:31,480 Speaker 1: known lies in favor of Joe Biden. And you think 151 00:11:31,480 --> 00:11:36,200 Speaker 1: they're going to impart equal justice now, and you think 152 00:11:36,200 --> 00:11:39,760 Speaker 1: they're going to be fair and impartial as we get 153 00:11:39,760 --> 00:11:45,719 Speaker 1: ready for the twenty twenty four election, don't get lost 154 00:11:45,760 --> 00:11:50,240 Speaker 1: in going after stooges when there is a puppet master 155 00:11:50,520 --> 00:11:55,120 Speaker 1: in our government pulling the strings, who put Joe Biden 156 00:11:55,120 --> 00:11:59,800 Speaker 1: in office? Who is it? Who are these people? How 157 00:12:00,120 --> 00:12:03,840 Speaker 1: that happened? That's the question that has to be asked. 158 00:12:03,920 --> 00:12:06,480 Speaker 1: We know it happened. We have all the evidence from 159 00:12:06,520 --> 00:12:09,120 Speaker 1: inside a big tech and I love having all of 160 00:12:09,160 --> 00:12:14,479 Speaker 1: these Twitter employees grilled and held accountable for their clear biases. 161 00:12:15,160 --> 00:12:20,040 Speaker 1: But these are little people. These are the guys that 162 00:12:20,120 --> 00:12:25,480 Speaker 1: were dancing at the behest of the puppet master. Who 163 00:12:25,600 --> 00:12:29,640 Speaker 1: inside of our government made this happen. That's the question 164 00:12:29,679 --> 00:12:32,400 Speaker 1: that everybody should be asking. And that's the question that 165 00:12:32,640 --> 00:12:36,800 Speaker 1: I want us to uncover that, frankly, we must uncover. 166 00:12:38,240 --> 00:12:39,920 Speaker 1: All Right, we're gonna come back. I'll open up phone 167 00:12:39,960 --> 00:12:42,400 Speaker 1: lines eight hundred two two two eight two, going to 168 00:12:42,480 --> 00:12:45,040 Speaker 1: continue to take your calls. We've got a lot to discuss. 169 00:12:45,080 --> 00:12:47,280 Speaker 1: Potentially at the bottom of the hour. Eric Schmidt, Senator 170 00:12:47,280 --> 00:12:49,160 Speaker 1: from Missouri, I'll ask him the same question I just 171 00:12:49,200 --> 00:12:52,439 Speaker 1: ask you, guys, and again, so many people out there 172 00:12:52,480 --> 00:12:55,040 Speaker 1: listening to this show right now work on Capitol Hill. 173 00:12:55,160 --> 00:12:57,400 Speaker 1: A lot of you are doing the lions work here. 174 00:12:58,320 --> 00:13:01,439 Speaker 1: But we have to figure out who ordered the code 175 00:13:01,440 --> 00:13:04,000 Speaker 1: read that's the question. Now we know what was ordered, 176 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:06,680 Speaker 1: we know what happened. Don't go after the puppet. We 177 00:13:06,720 --> 00:13:09,839 Speaker 1: need the puppet Master, not the puppets. Mike Lindell and 178 00:13:09,880 --> 00:13:12,000 Speaker 1: as My Pillow products have made sleeping a whole lot 179 00:13:12,040 --> 00:13:14,680 Speaker 1: more comfortable. 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It's also important 204 00:14:21,800 --> 00:14:23,760 Speaker 1: to recognize that a lot of people inside of Twitter 205 00:14:23,800 --> 00:14:25,680 Speaker 1: are just not very smart, and they're trying to apply 206 00:14:25,800 --> 00:14:29,560 Speaker 1: rules that are very difficult to apply in terms of moderation, 207 00:14:30,280 --> 00:14:35,240 Speaker 1: and there were definitely some fireworks here of Twitter being 208 00:14:35,280 --> 00:14:39,360 Speaker 1: called out over its moderation policies. Again, I think this 209 00:14:39,480 --> 00:14:42,920 Speaker 1: is less significant than who the puppet master is inside 210 00:14:42,920 --> 00:14:46,320 Speaker 1: of the FBI trying to rig the election successfully. I 211 00:14:46,400 --> 00:14:49,680 Speaker 1: might add, that's the question that should be and is 212 00:14:49,760 --> 00:14:53,400 Speaker 1: the most essential to be answered. Who knew the laptop 213 00:14:53,520 --> 00:14:56,400 Speaker 1: was real and yet allowed the FBI to be conducting 214 00:14:56,960 --> 00:14:59,680 Speaker 1: a lot of these briefings claiming that the laptop was not. 215 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:04,640 Speaker 1: But they also, of course, as we well know, censored 216 00:15:04,800 --> 00:15:08,160 Speaker 1: people who ended up being one hundred percent right about 217 00:15:08,280 --> 00:15:11,680 Speaker 1: a large majority of the stories that are out there 218 00:15:11,720 --> 00:15:16,840 Speaker 1: surrounding COVID, which is also important. Again less important because 219 00:15:16,880 --> 00:15:19,240 Speaker 1: now Elon Muska owns the company and the protocols are 220 00:15:19,240 --> 00:15:21,640 Speaker 1: starting to change, and those are important things. But we 221 00:15:21,680 --> 00:15:23,880 Speaker 1: still need no puppet master. But I do wanted to play. 222 00:15:24,440 --> 00:15:28,320 Speaker 1: Nancy Mace from South Carolina went off on Twitter execs 223 00:15:28,320 --> 00:15:32,240 Speaker 1: over a blacklist of COVID policy critics. Where did you 224 00:15:32,280 --> 00:15:34,920 Speaker 1: go to medical school? I did not go to medical school. 225 00:15:34,960 --> 00:15:37,080 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I did not go to medicals. That's what 226 00:15:37,120 --> 00:15:39,120 Speaker 1: I thought. Why do you think you or anyone else 227 00:15:39,120 --> 00:15:42,680 Speaker 1: on Twitter had the medical expertise to censor a doctor's 228 00:15:42,920 --> 00:15:49,720 Speaker 1: expert opinion. Our policies regarding COVID were designed to protect individuals. 229 00:15:49,760 --> 00:15:53,560 Speaker 1: We were seeing you guys censored Harvard educated doctor, Stanford 230 00:15:53,640 --> 00:15:57,359 Speaker 1: educated doctors, doctors that are educated in the best places 231 00:15:57,440 --> 00:16:01,040 Speaker 1: in the world, and you silenced those voices. It's not 232 00:16:01,120 --> 00:16:03,880 Speaker 1: just about the laptop. This is about medical advised that 233 00:16:03,960 --> 00:16:07,440 Speaker 1: expert doctors we're trying to give Americans because social media 234 00:16:07,480 --> 00:16:14,520 Speaker 1: companies like Twitter, we're silencing their voices. It's important. It's downstream, 235 00:16:14,760 --> 00:16:17,040 Speaker 1: right from the big question, which is who at the 236 00:16:17,080 --> 00:16:19,560 Speaker 1: FBI ordered the rig job that led to Joe Biden 237 00:16:19,600 --> 00:16:22,800 Speaker 1: being put in office because theoretically those people are people 238 00:16:23,240 --> 00:16:26,520 Speaker 1: are still person or people larger group we don't know, 239 00:16:27,120 --> 00:16:29,560 Speaker 1: are still in positions of power and may well try 240 00:16:29,560 --> 00:16:32,480 Speaker 1: to rig things for Joe Biden again. And certainly we 241 00:16:32,520 --> 00:16:35,200 Speaker 1: know the FBI is not holding Hunter Biden accountable, despite 242 00:16:35,240 --> 00:16:38,120 Speaker 1: the fact that they've now had his laptop. We're entering 243 00:16:38,160 --> 00:16:41,320 Speaker 1: into what the fourth year of the FBI being in 244 00:16:41,360 --> 00:16:43,880 Speaker 1: possession of the Hunter Biden laptop. It ain't that complicated 245 00:16:43,880 --> 00:16:47,080 Speaker 1: of an investigation. They've had it since December of nineteen. 246 00:16:47,120 --> 00:16:51,720 Speaker 1: We're now into February of twenty three. I also want 247 00:16:51,760 --> 00:16:55,960 Speaker 1: to play for you. Here is Lauren Bobert going off 248 00:16:56,200 --> 00:17:01,160 Speaker 1: about Twitter banning her. Listen, you've suppressed my account for 249 00:17:01,560 --> 00:17:06,800 Speaker 1: this tweet. It's a freaking joke about Hillary Clinton being 250 00:17:06,880 --> 00:17:10,440 Speaker 1: angry that she couldn't rig her election. It's a joke. 251 00:17:10,680 --> 00:17:15,880 Speaker 1: But in response, being the sinister overlords that you all are, 252 00:17:16,240 --> 00:17:19,960 Speaker 1: you placed a ninety day account filter so I could 253 00:17:19,960 --> 00:17:22,600 Speaker 1: not be found. And now we see here that Twitter 254 00:17:22,680 --> 00:17:26,040 Speaker 1: staff said the visibility filter on my account excluded me 255 00:17:26,080 --> 00:17:30,320 Speaker 1: from top searches, prevented notifications for non followers, and much more. 256 00:17:30,760 --> 00:17:36,320 Speaker 1: This is considered an aggressive visibility filter. You silenced me 257 00:17:36,359 --> 00:17:41,440 Speaker 1: from communicating with the American people over a freaking joke. Now, 258 00:17:41,440 --> 00:17:45,040 Speaker 1: who the hell do you think that you are? I 259 00:17:45,160 --> 00:17:48,119 Speaker 1: love it, I love the fiery nature, I love Twitter 260 00:17:48,160 --> 00:17:53,280 Speaker 1: being held accountable. But again, this is all downstream. Who 261 00:17:53,640 --> 00:17:57,639 Speaker 1: ordered the code read? 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We've got the newest Senator 282 00:19:10,080 --> 00:19:13,640 Speaker 1: from Missouri, Eric Schmidt with us, who I believe just 283 00:19:13,840 --> 00:19:17,800 Speaker 1: came from a classified briefing about the Chinese spy balloon. 284 00:19:17,840 --> 00:19:20,000 Speaker 1: I presume you can't tell us a lot about that, 285 00:19:20,880 --> 00:19:23,920 Speaker 1: But Senor Smith, do you think this was a one 286 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:27,840 Speaker 1: time incursion across the length of our country? Do you 287 00:19:27,880 --> 00:19:30,560 Speaker 1: think the government should change its policy as it pertains 288 00:19:30,560 --> 00:19:33,199 Speaker 1: to these Chinese spy balloons? Not asking you to tell 289 00:19:33,280 --> 00:19:35,440 Speaker 1: us what you were briefed on, but just the larger 290 00:19:35,480 --> 00:19:38,840 Speaker 1: context here, Yeah, I think you know. There's a few 291 00:19:38,880 --> 00:19:40,840 Speaker 1: things to take from this. One is this is an 292 00:19:40,880 --> 00:19:46,240 Speaker 1: incredibly brazen move by the Chinese here to actually have 293 00:19:46,960 --> 00:19:49,560 Speaker 1: a spy balloon, and it sounds, I mean, it sounds 294 00:19:49,640 --> 00:19:53,919 Speaker 1: ridiculous to even say a Chinese spy balloon right traversing 295 00:19:53,920 --> 00:19:57,080 Speaker 1: over the continental United States, including places like nuclear silo 296 00:19:57,160 --> 00:19:59,760 Speaker 1: missile silos and in Missouri Whiteman Air Force Base, which 297 00:19:59,800 --> 00:20:01,480 Speaker 1: is a home of the B two stealth bomber the 298 00:20:01,720 --> 00:20:05,080 Speaker 1: National Geospatial Intelligence Agency in the same hol this area. 299 00:20:05,119 --> 00:20:07,480 Speaker 1: I mean, they were this wasn't just a drift, right, 300 00:20:07,480 --> 00:20:10,520 Speaker 1: They knew exactly what they were doing. I think they 301 00:20:10,520 --> 00:20:12,639 Speaker 1: were also in addition to the intelligence that they were 302 00:20:12,680 --> 00:20:15,800 Speaker 1: gathering as this took place, they were also gathering really 303 00:20:15,840 --> 00:20:19,280 Speaker 1: important intelligence on Joe Biden in how he reacts to 304 00:20:19,280 --> 00:20:23,159 Speaker 1: these kinds of situations. And that is very concerning to 305 00:20:23,200 --> 00:20:25,280 Speaker 1: me because there's just no way this should have happened. 306 00:20:25,280 --> 00:20:27,959 Speaker 1: This thing should have been shot down, you know, over 307 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:32,359 Speaker 1: the Illusion Islands, well before there's any concern about shooting 308 00:20:32,359 --> 00:20:35,000 Speaker 1: it down, you know, near a populated area, which I 309 00:20:35,160 --> 00:20:37,960 Speaker 1: obviously is a big concern. So there's just a number 310 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:40,560 Speaker 1: of failures here, Clay that it's just it's incredibly troubling. 311 00:20:40,640 --> 00:20:43,240 Speaker 1: My hope here is that I think this is how 312 00:20:43,280 --> 00:20:49,480 Speaker 1: the American people feel about this. There is a renewed desire, 313 00:20:49,560 --> 00:20:52,359 Speaker 1: I hope to really view China for what it is, 314 00:20:52,400 --> 00:20:54,840 Speaker 1: which is our chief adversary. We are in a competition 315 00:20:54,880 --> 00:20:58,520 Speaker 1: with them. They're being very aggressive. This was just the 316 00:20:58,560 --> 00:21:00,960 Speaker 1: most recent attempt of those sort of aggressive moves. And 317 00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:02,560 Speaker 1: this is coming on the heels of a president that 318 00:21:02,600 --> 00:21:06,119 Speaker 1: withdrew from Afghanistan looked weak on the world stage. You know, 319 00:21:06,320 --> 00:21:09,160 Speaker 1: servicemen died, tens of billions of dollars worth of equipments 320 00:21:09,240 --> 00:21:11,479 Speaker 1: left behind, and refuses to do anything to secure our 321 00:21:11,480 --> 00:21:14,080 Speaker 1: southern border. And now we have obviously an incursion into 322 00:21:14,200 --> 00:21:17,600 Speaker 1: US airspace. So these are these are serious issues, right 323 00:21:17,640 --> 00:21:20,240 Speaker 1: and they're coming to light. But we better come together 324 00:21:20,280 --> 00:21:22,920 Speaker 1: on this and have a renewed focus on China. So 325 00:21:23,160 --> 00:21:26,679 Speaker 1: do you think China is setting it up to invade Taiwan? 326 00:21:27,080 --> 00:21:32,280 Speaker 1: And if so, would they be more encouraged to invade 327 00:21:32,280 --> 00:21:34,960 Speaker 1: Taiwan based on the fact that we just let them 328 00:21:34,960 --> 00:21:38,000 Speaker 1: fly a spy balloon across the entire country and really 329 00:21:38,040 --> 00:21:40,280 Speaker 1: didn't do anything. In other words, our response, I think 330 00:21:40,280 --> 00:21:43,159 Speaker 1: it's fair to say, was quite weak. It's I mean, 331 00:21:43,200 --> 00:21:47,639 Speaker 1: it's hard to believe that they're somehow, uh you know, 332 00:21:47,800 --> 00:21:50,480 Speaker 1: more concerned about our response after this than they were before. 333 00:21:50,520 --> 00:21:52,600 Speaker 1: I mean, I just don't think anybody with a half 334 00:21:52,640 --> 00:21:56,280 Speaker 1: a brain would believe that there's somehow more intimidated by 335 00:21:56,280 --> 00:21:58,480 Speaker 1: how the United States reacts to these kinds of situations. 336 00:21:58,720 --> 00:22:01,520 Speaker 1: I think they have in Moulty a number of ways 337 00:22:01,600 --> 00:22:04,200 Speaker 1: that they'd like to get Taiwan back under their control. 338 00:22:04,280 --> 00:22:06,680 Speaker 1: One is to try to affect some of the elections 339 00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:09,520 Speaker 1: that are coming up. But obviously this is a concern. 340 00:22:09,600 --> 00:22:13,680 Speaker 1: I mean, they believe it's part of China and Taiwan 341 00:22:13,680 --> 00:22:16,400 Speaker 1: as an independent state. So this is i mean all 342 00:22:16,440 --> 00:22:19,920 Speaker 1: setting up for you know, this to be a big 343 00:22:19,960 --> 00:22:22,080 Speaker 1: focus for the United States and for the world, and 344 00:22:22,119 --> 00:22:24,919 Speaker 1: so I just think it's very concerning. It's hard to 345 00:22:24,960 --> 00:22:27,840 Speaker 1: I think it's hard to overstate how bold this was. 346 00:22:28,320 --> 00:22:31,920 Speaker 1: Right to have a spy balloon floating over critical military 347 00:22:31,960 --> 00:22:35,280 Speaker 1: installations in the continental United States, the lower forty eight. 348 00:22:35,280 --> 00:22:38,760 Speaker 1: It's it's pretty shocking. And Joe Biden, you know, failed 349 00:22:38,800 --> 00:22:41,920 Speaker 1: every single one of the tests that were presented them here. Yeah, 350 00:22:41,960 --> 00:22:45,399 Speaker 1: there's no doubt about that. And I think, as you 351 00:22:45,520 --> 00:22:47,320 Speaker 1: rightly said, I mean, we set it on the radio 352 00:22:47,760 --> 00:22:50,440 Speaker 1: as soon as this became clear that it was in 353 00:22:50,520 --> 00:22:53,440 Speaker 1: our territory. I don't understand how the immediate response wasn't 354 00:22:53,440 --> 00:22:55,720 Speaker 1: to shoot it down, particularly because many of the states 355 00:22:55,720 --> 00:22:59,399 Speaker 1: it was flying over had ample space where there was 356 00:22:59,520 --> 00:23:02,800 Speaker 1: no massive population center that was potentially going to be threatened, 357 00:23:02,880 --> 00:23:05,520 Speaker 1: or even a population center hardly at all, certainly in Alaska. 358 00:23:05,520 --> 00:23:09,480 Speaker 1: As you mentioned, when you hear some of these stories, 359 00:23:09,760 --> 00:23:12,639 Speaker 1: it appears the Biden administration was kind of hoping nobody 360 00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:16,199 Speaker 1: would notice this spy balloon, right and only because it 361 00:23:16,240 --> 00:23:19,480 Speaker 1: became visible to the naked eye in Montana did this 362 00:23:19,520 --> 00:23:23,600 Speaker 1: story even start to go into in the circulation. There's 363 00:23:23,640 --> 00:23:26,240 Speaker 1: now also a report out there from I believe the 364 00:23:26,280 --> 00:23:30,480 Speaker 1: London Times that the Biden administration might have been involved 365 00:23:30,520 --> 00:23:35,480 Speaker 1: in sabotaging one of the pipelines in ordered over in Europe. 366 00:23:35,880 --> 00:23:38,600 Speaker 1: Are you concerned? And I know that happened, the explosion 367 00:23:38,600 --> 00:23:42,119 Speaker 1: in the European pipeline happened before you got into the Senate, 368 00:23:42,359 --> 00:23:45,480 Speaker 1: But are you concerned about the transparency that is being 369 00:23:45,480 --> 00:23:49,439 Speaker 1: provided to politicians, booth, Democrats and Republicans right now by 370 00:23:49,440 --> 00:23:53,720 Speaker 1: the Biden administration. Yes, it on every issue that you 371 00:23:53,760 --> 00:23:56,639 Speaker 1: just mentioned their clay. This is a big concern. And 372 00:23:56,840 --> 00:24:00,520 Speaker 1: this comes to you know, the constitutional duty for oversight 373 00:24:00,640 --> 00:24:04,120 Speaker 1: by the Article one branch the legislature, right the Congress 374 00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:06,040 Speaker 1: is supposed to have oversight. I mean, just a couple 375 00:24:06,119 --> 00:24:10,840 Speaker 1: of weeks ago the Bipartisan Select Committee on Intelligence, Republicans 376 00:24:10,840 --> 00:24:14,760 Speaker 1: and Democrats were stonewalled by folks in that committee about 377 00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:18,240 Speaker 1: what you know, sort of what they're discovering through these 378 00:24:18,840 --> 00:24:21,440 Speaker 1: top secret documents that are being uncovered in every residence 379 00:24:21,440 --> 00:24:23,960 Speaker 1: that Joe Biden's ever had for the last fifty years. Right, 380 00:24:24,359 --> 00:24:26,399 Speaker 1: That's not how this is supposed to work. And I 381 00:24:26,440 --> 00:24:28,080 Speaker 1: do think it speaks to a larger issue that you 382 00:24:28,119 --> 00:24:30,359 Speaker 1: and I have talked about before, Clay. We have to 383 00:24:30,520 --> 00:24:32,879 Speaker 1: be laser like focused. I would hope this isn't just 384 00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:34,880 Speaker 1: a partisan issue. It shouldn't be, but for me, it's 385 00:24:34,880 --> 00:24:36,880 Speaker 1: a focus as I entered the Senate here and I'm 386 00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:38,720 Speaker 1: going to be like a bulldog on this. We have 387 00:24:38,800 --> 00:24:42,800 Speaker 1: to fundamentally dismantle the administrative state. It is empathetical to 388 00:24:42,920 --> 00:24:44,919 Speaker 1: who we are as a country self government, where you 389 00:24:44,920 --> 00:24:47,640 Speaker 1: could send people there, send them home, send them back. 390 00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:51,119 Speaker 1: It's all based on the idea that somebody's accountable. We 391 00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:53,480 Speaker 1: have reached the point now where so many of these 392 00:24:53,480 --> 00:24:57,160 Speaker 1: bureaucrats who are unelected and unaccountable to anybody make these 393 00:24:57,200 --> 00:24:59,440 Speaker 1: decisions and don't feel like they have to answer for them. 394 00:24:59,560 --> 00:25:01,280 Speaker 1: And this is it really hurts the American people. It's 395 00:25:01,280 --> 00:25:03,520 Speaker 1: how you get to eighty seven thousand rs agents, how 396 00:25:03,560 --> 00:25:06,000 Speaker 1: you get to a place where some unelected guy from 397 00:25:06,040 --> 00:25:08,119 Speaker 1: the EPA is telling you got to shut down your farm. 398 00:25:08,359 --> 00:25:10,399 Speaker 1: It's how you end up with ESG, which is going 399 00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:12,360 Speaker 1: to do the same thing. It's going to cut off 400 00:25:12,359 --> 00:25:14,840 Speaker 1: domestic energy supply. All these folks have been emboldened and 401 00:25:15,119 --> 00:25:17,040 Speaker 1: you can't vote for them. And we've got to get 402 00:25:17,080 --> 00:25:19,679 Speaker 1: to a place where Congress is voting on this stuff, 403 00:25:20,400 --> 00:25:22,000 Speaker 1: you know, because none of this stuff would actually ever 404 00:25:22,040 --> 00:25:24,320 Speaker 1: happen if they want to propose a new rule, pull 405 00:25:24,359 --> 00:25:26,760 Speaker 1: back ten, whatever the number is. We've got to have 406 00:25:26,880 --> 00:25:29,879 Speaker 1: structural reform here because that is the underlying issue for 407 00:25:29,920 --> 00:25:32,719 Speaker 1: all of this. We're talking to Missouri Senator Eric Schmidt. 408 00:25:32,760 --> 00:25:35,080 Speaker 1: You've been very instrumental and being involved in the big 409 00:25:35,080 --> 00:25:37,960 Speaker 1: tech collusion and the rig job that's been going on 410 00:25:38,160 --> 00:25:42,040 Speaker 1: associated with censorship and allowing a true market place of 411 00:25:42,080 --> 00:25:45,320 Speaker 1: ideas to exist. I know, I'm sure you paid attention 412 00:25:45,359 --> 00:25:48,040 Speaker 1: some to the House hearing on Twitter and the New 413 00:25:48,119 --> 00:25:50,320 Speaker 1: York Post story and everything else, and certainly you've been 414 00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:52,840 Speaker 1: involved in lawsuits that have helped to uncover many of 415 00:25:52,840 --> 00:25:55,439 Speaker 1: these documents. I was just talking to start off the 416 00:25:55,560 --> 00:25:58,400 Speaker 1: second hour of the program here about as much attention 417 00:25:58,520 --> 00:26:01,080 Speaker 1: as we should give to Twitter and Facebook. Facebook, by 418 00:26:01,080 --> 00:26:03,480 Speaker 1: the way, has now allowed Donald Trump to be back 419 00:26:03,560 --> 00:26:06,040 Speaker 1: on Facebook. They've given him back his account. That report 420 00:26:06,080 --> 00:26:09,640 Speaker 1: coming down about fifteen minutes ago. Shouldn't we be focused 421 00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:14,320 Speaker 1: most of all on who inside of the FBI was 422 00:26:14,680 --> 00:26:18,120 Speaker 1: making the decision to brief these big tech companies on 423 00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:22,920 Speaker 1: the possibility of Hunter Biden laptop Russian and misinformation when 424 00:26:22,960 --> 00:26:26,400 Speaker 1: we know the FBI had the laptop and knew it 425 00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:29,480 Speaker 1: was real. In other words, it's good to focus on 426 00:26:29,520 --> 00:26:32,879 Speaker 1: Twitter and Facebook, and there's certainly massive censorship there, but 427 00:26:33,040 --> 00:26:36,440 Speaker 1: somebody inside of our own government at the FBI would 428 00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:40,880 Speaker 1: have had the optics on the laptop, and also on 429 00:26:40,960 --> 00:26:44,160 Speaker 1: the fact that all of these briefings were going on 430 00:26:44,240 --> 00:26:47,640 Speaker 1: for big tech. Somebody knew that the FBI was falsely 431 00:26:47,760 --> 00:26:52,120 Speaker 1: briefing big Tech arguing that it was Russian disinformation when 432 00:26:52,160 --> 00:26:55,000 Speaker 1: the laptop was one hundred percent real. Shouldn't we know 433 00:26:55,080 --> 00:26:57,439 Speaker 1: who that was or what group of people that was 434 00:26:57,600 --> 00:27:02,120 Speaker 1: considering they are actually the puppet masters here absolutely. And 435 00:27:02,280 --> 00:27:04,120 Speaker 1: you know in the lawsuit when I was Attorney General, 436 00:27:04,119 --> 00:27:07,600 Speaker 1: we filed the Missouri versus Biden lawsuit last May, and 437 00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:10,720 Speaker 1: we took the deposition of Anthony Fauci, And in addition 438 00:27:10,760 --> 00:27:12,919 Speaker 1: to him having the court reporter put a mask on 439 00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:16,280 Speaker 1: when she sneezed, I'm not making that up. That actually happened. Um, 440 00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:18,879 Speaker 1: you know, two and a half years later, that happened. 441 00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:21,639 Speaker 1: But in addition to that, it became very clear whatever 442 00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:25,560 Speaker 1: Fauci said big Tech censored. But we also Clay took 443 00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:28,240 Speaker 1: the deposition of Elvis Chan, who is right in the 444 00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:30,840 Speaker 1: middle of all of this, and he was the FBI 445 00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:34,240 Speaker 1: agent in Northern California briefing these big tech platforms, some 446 00:27:34,280 --> 00:27:36,119 Speaker 1: of the biggest companies in the history of the world, 447 00:27:36,280 --> 00:27:39,360 Speaker 1: with that immense power that they have. Knowing that they 448 00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:42,639 Speaker 1: had the laptop in December of late twenty nineteen, we 449 00:27:42,680 --> 00:27:44,719 Speaker 1: know that's I guess that's my question. Do we know 450 00:27:44,800 --> 00:27:47,520 Speaker 1: that he was aware of all of the details on 451 00:27:47,680 --> 00:27:50,560 Speaker 1: that laptop. Yeah, well, I don't know about you know, 452 00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:53,360 Speaker 1: exact details, but certainly the FBI had the laptop, right 453 00:27:53,440 --> 00:27:55,119 Speaker 1: and yeah, yeah, that's what I'm saying. It could have 454 00:27:55,119 --> 00:27:58,879 Speaker 1: been his boss Eric, who was like, this is yes, Clay, 455 00:27:58,960 --> 00:28:00,800 Speaker 1: we definitely need to go for that. I'm not suggesting 456 00:28:00,800 --> 00:28:02,560 Speaker 1: it at all that it's just told this stand. We 457 00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:04,440 Speaker 1: need that. And by the way, when people you know 458 00:28:04,440 --> 00:28:06,679 Speaker 1: on the left complain about these sort of hearings, this 459 00:28:06,760 --> 00:28:08,840 Speaker 1: is exactly what Congress. They can walk and chew gum 460 00:28:08,840 --> 00:28:11,800 Speaker 1: and pass meaningful legislation for working families. We should do 461 00:28:11,880 --> 00:28:14,639 Speaker 1: that also. But also a very important function is to 462 00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:16,520 Speaker 1: hold these people accountable because there's more than just one 463 00:28:16,560 --> 00:28:19,520 Speaker 1: FBI agent. They made a conscious decision to tell people 464 00:28:19,520 --> 00:28:21,800 Speaker 1: that wasn't you know that they knew wasn't true, that 465 00:28:21,800 --> 00:28:24,320 Speaker 1: this was accurate, there was a Hunter Biden laptop, and 466 00:28:24,320 --> 00:28:25,800 Speaker 1: then telling people look out for this, this is going 467 00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:28,320 Speaker 1: to be Russian disinformation. You've got the Twitter guys saying 468 00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:30,879 Speaker 1: they referenced specifically the Hunter Biden laptop. That is the 469 00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:33,600 Speaker 1: tip of the iceberg. They were having weekly censorship meetings, 470 00:28:34,080 --> 00:28:36,240 Speaker 1: they had a special portal. So yes, we need to 471 00:28:36,280 --> 00:28:38,360 Speaker 1: get not just at the big tech companies, we need 472 00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:40,960 Speaker 1: to get at the government folks who were involved in this, 473 00:28:41,160 --> 00:28:43,800 Speaker 1: who think it's their job to tell the American people 474 00:28:43,840 --> 00:28:45,560 Speaker 1: what they can think and what they can hear and 475 00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:48,280 Speaker 1: what they can say. So the Ministry of Truth, you know, 476 00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:50,640 Speaker 1: this effort, we got to unravel all of it, because 477 00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:52,840 Speaker 1: that's the kind of reform I think the American people 478 00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:54,800 Speaker 1: expect if they believe in the First Amendment, and I do. 479 00:28:55,720 --> 00:28:58,440 Speaker 1: Surely there's a puppet master somewhere in the FBI who 480 00:28:58,520 --> 00:29:01,320 Speaker 1: knew that laptop was real and may well have been 481 00:29:01,320 --> 00:29:04,200 Speaker 1: telling these FBI agents you still need to be going 482 00:29:04,240 --> 00:29:06,960 Speaker 1: and having all these big tech briefings. How was that 483 00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:09,120 Speaker 1: decision made? Who made it? That? To me is the 484 00:29:09,280 --> 00:29:11,280 Speaker 1: essence of the question that I think we need to 485 00:29:11,320 --> 00:29:14,960 Speaker 1: know the answer to the most much less serious. I 486 00:29:15,040 --> 00:29:19,400 Speaker 1: am out in Phoenix. You now represent Missouri. I am 487 00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:22,960 Speaker 1: betting on the Kansas City Chiefs to win this Super Bowl, 488 00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:25,600 Speaker 1: in which I imagine would make you happy. What do 489 00:29:25,640 --> 00:29:27,680 Speaker 1: you expect to see? And given the fact that you 490 00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:30,320 Speaker 1: probably want to be reelected in Missouri? How much are 491 00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:32,880 Speaker 1: the Chiefs going to beat the Eagles by? I'm going 492 00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:36,120 Speaker 1: to say by a touchdown? Yeah, I just think the 493 00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:38,720 Speaker 1: offense is too potent. I mean, Mahomes is so creative, 494 00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:40,960 Speaker 1: he can be a bunch of different ways. Now, obviously 495 00:29:40,960 --> 00:29:42,800 Speaker 1: Philadelphi has got a quarterback that can do the same thing. 496 00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:45,479 Speaker 1: But Mahomes is seasoned. This is not his first rodeo. 497 00:29:46,080 --> 00:29:47,720 Speaker 1: They've got a lot of weapons, and I think that 498 00:29:47,840 --> 00:29:50,800 Speaker 1: defense steps up and the Philadelphi defens is good. But 499 00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:52,760 Speaker 1: I think this is the Chiefs here. They've just proven 500 00:29:52,760 --> 00:29:55,920 Speaker 1: they've been very consistent with their offensive production. I don't 501 00:29:55,960 --> 00:29:57,720 Speaker 1: see any real reason why that's going to slow down 502 00:29:57,760 --> 00:29:59,640 Speaker 1: to the super Bowl. So I you're a smart man, 503 00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:04,320 Speaker 1: of always believe that you're a smart man. Hey, if 504 00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:06,800 Speaker 1: I get Mahomes plus the points, I'm taking him every time. 505 00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:09,120 Speaker 1: He's the best quarterback in the NFL. Chiefs fans are 506 00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:11,120 Speaker 1: lucky to have him, and I think they're lucky to 507 00:30:11,160 --> 00:30:14,160 Speaker 1: have you as one of their senators from Missouri. Congratulations 508 00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:16,800 Speaker 1: on the election, appreciation making the time for us anytime, 509 00:30:16,840 --> 00:30:19,760 Speaker 1: my friend, take care, it's Missouri Senator Eric Schmidt. He's 510 00:30:19,760 --> 00:30:22,200 Speaker 1: doing fantastic work for people from the show me state. 511 00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:25,120 Speaker 1: And I hope Patrick Mahomes. Unfortunately, if you're an Eagles fan, 512 00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:27,400 Speaker 1: you're not gonna like this will show them that he 513 00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:29,920 Speaker 1: is the boss. 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Just coming out of a classified 540 00:32:03,040 --> 00:32:07,080 Speaker 1: briefing on the Chinese spy balloon reports out there that 541 00:32:07,120 --> 00:32:11,600 Speaker 1: the Chinese spy balloons were used spoiler alert because they're 542 00:32:11,640 --> 00:32:15,920 Speaker 1: far more effective than satellites, and I would presume that 543 00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:18,840 Speaker 1: they are likely to continue going forward. We've got a 544 00:32:18,920 --> 00:32:20,800 Speaker 1: lot of people who want to weigh in on the 545 00:32:20,840 --> 00:32:23,880 Speaker 1: first couple of hours of the program. Reminder, my good 546 00:32:23,920 --> 00:32:27,280 Speaker 1: buddy buck Sexton is on his honeymoon. He'll be out 547 00:32:27,320 --> 00:32:29,800 Speaker 1: for the rest of this week and all of next 548 00:32:29,840 --> 00:32:34,320 Speaker 1: week as he celebrates that. Congratulations to both he and carry. 549 00:32:34,840 --> 00:32:38,360 Speaker 1: Let's take some of these calls, Gary in Northern Arizona. 550 00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:41,960 Speaker 1: What you got for me, Gary? Yeah, so good afternoon. 551 00:32:43,240 --> 00:32:48,640 Speaker 1: Lifeer in the military retired. Back when nine to eleven happened, 552 00:32:49,080 --> 00:32:52,360 Speaker 1: there was a new surge of patriotism, like we've never 553 00:32:52,400 --> 00:32:56,400 Speaker 1: seen in years. Prior to that, even a lot of 554 00:32:56,400 --> 00:32:58,680 Speaker 1: the theme parks were given a free admission to the 555 00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:03,440 Speaker 1: active duty retired that right now, with what I've seen 556 00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:07,800 Speaker 1: that happening with Disneyland, if they gave me a family package, 557 00:33:08,360 --> 00:33:10,720 Speaker 1: I tear it up, set it on fire, or center 558 00:33:10,760 --> 00:33:13,440 Speaker 1: back from whatever. I wouldn't. I mean, Disney used to 559 00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:16,240 Speaker 1: be wholesome. You knew if they came out with something 560 00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:19,000 Speaker 1: that it was for the whole family. And now they're 561 00:33:19,040 --> 00:33:21,800 Speaker 1: just the opposite. They're part of this walk movement which 562 00:33:21,840 --> 00:33:24,080 Speaker 1: is just stilth in the United States and throughout the 563 00:33:24,120 --> 00:33:28,320 Speaker 1: country or the rest of the world. I don't know. 564 00:33:28,360 --> 00:33:30,920 Speaker 1: I don't know what else to say other than that, well, 565 00:33:30,960 --> 00:33:33,120 Speaker 1: thank you for the call to day, thank you for 566 00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:34,600 Speaker 1: the call, thank you for the service. And I think 567 00:33:34,600 --> 00:33:36,480 Speaker 1: increasingly there's a lot of people out there that would 568 00:33:36,520 --> 00:33:38,479 Speaker 1: agree with you, which is why I would say, if 569 00:33:38,520 --> 00:33:41,920 Speaker 1: you're fed up with what Disney is doing, cancel your 570 00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:44,200 Speaker 1: Disney Plus subscriptions. You don't have to do it for 571 00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:47,440 Speaker 1: a long time. You know, six months they start to 572 00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:50,040 Speaker 1: get the message you can come back. I think one 573 00:33:50,080 --> 00:33:53,400 Speaker 1: of the challenges of the business of streaming in general though, 574 00:33:53,960 --> 00:33:55,560 Speaker 1: is that a lot of people are realizing, Hey, I 575 00:33:55,600 --> 00:33:59,200 Speaker 1: can pay eleven dollars a month, watch everything that I 576 00:33:59,280 --> 00:34:03,040 Speaker 1: want for six months and then cancel, And so they're 577 00:34:03,040 --> 00:34:06,000 Speaker 1: realizing that they're not the annuity that they had hoped 578 00:34:06,080 --> 00:34:08,880 Speaker 1: they were. People don't sign up for years at a 579 00:34:08,960 --> 00:34:12,520 Speaker 1: time like they have historically for cable and satellite services. 580 00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:16,480 Speaker 1: Tony in Orlando, Florida, where Disney World itself is located. 581 00:34:16,480 --> 00:34:20,480 Speaker 1: What's up, Tony? Hello there, how are you doing? What 582 00:34:20,480 --> 00:34:24,399 Speaker 1: are you doing? I'm good, great to be on the show. 583 00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:27,960 Speaker 1: I wanted to tell you you guys are consistently great 584 00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:32,320 Speaker 1: on a daily basis, and I wanted to give props 585 00:34:32,320 --> 00:34:36,759 Speaker 1: to Buck on his upcoming nuptials and wish well, it 586 00:34:36,920 --> 00:34:39,840 Speaker 1: just happened on Saturday, and he is on his honeymoon 587 00:34:39,960 --> 00:34:42,640 Speaker 1: right now. So I appreciate the feedback and uh, and 588 00:34:42,719 --> 00:34:45,319 Speaker 1: certainly we're trying to endeavor to live up as best 589 00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:47,480 Speaker 1: we can to the legacy Rush put in place here 590 00:34:47,520 --> 00:34:49,640 Speaker 1: for this show every single day, So we appreciate hearing 591 00:34:49,680 --> 00:34:53,160 Speaker 1: that you're enjoying it. Well, thank you. I'm a daily listener, 592 00:34:53,200 --> 00:34:56,880 Speaker 1: but I was trying to listen. I can't listen all 593 00:34:57,000 --> 00:34:59,640 Speaker 1: three hours all the time because I gotta gop whatnot. 594 00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:05,480 Speaker 1: I got you. Yeah, I ended up thinking about this though, 595 00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:09,480 Speaker 1: and it's it's really strange. I was thinking, why Biden 596 00:35:09,680 --> 00:35:15,400 Speaker 1: wouldn't have an expert has met space suit wearing, you know, 597 00:35:15,440 --> 00:35:18,479 Speaker 1: because this is the future already, we're you know, we're 598 00:35:18,520 --> 00:35:20,759 Speaker 1: in and there's lots of stuff going on, you know, 599 00:35:20,920 --> 00:35:25,960 Speaker 1: a space force and everything. Why wouldn't he have a 600 00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:29,719 Speaker 1: super grappling hook take this big balloon into space out 601 00:35:29,719 --> 00:35:32,759 Speaker 1: of the atmosphere because there could be some kind of 602 00:35:32,880 --> 00:35:35,480 Speaker 1: toxins put in there and missed through the world and 603 00:35:35,560 --> 00:35:39,440 Speaker 1: it's like rising or antrax or whatever. It's like, what's 604 00:35:39,440 --> 00:35:41,920 Speaker 1: going on here? Man? Yeah, now, I appreciate I appreciate 605 00:35:41,920 --> 00:35:43,560 Speaker 1: the call. Look, that was one of the things that 606 00:35:43,560 --> 00:35:46,279 Speaker 1: that we said on the show about the Chinese spy 607 00:35:46,320 --> 00:35:48,480 Speaker 1: balloon the minute this story went public, when they said, oh, 608 00:35:48,520 --> 00:35:51,960 Speaker 1: we're afraid of shooting it down over you know, occupied territory, 609 00:35:52,040 --> 00:35:55,080 Speaker 1: potentially having somebody be injured on the ground. So that 610 00:35:55,160 --> 00:35:57,279 Speaker 1: just didn't add up because there's huge parts of the 611 00:35:57,360 --> 00:36:02,400 Speaker 1: United States that have absolutely no substantial population, right, so 612 00:36:02,440 --> 00:36:04,359 Speaker 1: the odds of, for instance, if you shot this thing 613 00:36:04,360 --> 00:36:08,480 Speaker 1: down over Alaska, particularly right when it's entered into our airspace. 614 00:36:08,719 --> 00:36:11,160 Speaker 1: There are lots of places all over Alaska where this 615 00:36:11,280 --> 00:36:13,920 Speaker 1: Chinese spy balloon would have landed and done almost no 616 00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:17,000 Speaker 1: Trump problems. Same thing. By the way, if there was 617 00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:21,240 Speaker 1: something toxic or dangerous about what was inside of that balloon, 618 00:36:21,680 --> 00:36:23,840 Speaker 1: you want to do it, knock it down where there's 619 00:36:23,880 --> 00:36:26,960 Speaker 1: nobody around. And it just didn't add up. Even the 620 00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:29,600 Speaker 1: decision to shoot this down in the Atlantic Ocean right 621 00:36:29,640 --> 00:36:31,919 Speaker 1: after it left the coast of South Carolina still doesn't 622 00:36:31,920 --> 00:36:34,319 Speaker 1: add up, because if there was actual danger associated with 623 00:36:34,320 --> 00:36:36,719 Speaker 1: shooting it down, it wouldn't have been much safer to 624 00:36:36,719 --> 00:36:38,480 Speaker 1: do it over water than it would have been over 625 00:36:38,520 --> 00:36:40,320 Speaker 1: Alaska in the first place. So I think this is 626 00:36:40,360 --> 00:36:43,640 Speaker 1: an example, unfortunately, of Joe Biden not being able to 627 00:36:43,719 --> 00:36:47,120 Speaker 1: handle situations without precedent because his mental faculties are not 628 00:36:47,200 --> 00:36:50,399 Speaker 1: strong enough. Speaking of mental faculties not being strong enough, 629 00:36:50,640 --> 00:36:54,160 Speaker 1: John Fetterman, the newest senator from Pennsylvania. He's in the 630 00:36:54,200 --> 00:36:57,000 Speaker 1: hospital right now already. We'll tell you about it next