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

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Speaker 1: Sexton Show podcast. Welcome back to the Clay Travis and

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Speaker 1: Buck Sexton Show. We have been telling you about this

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Speaker 1: situation of protests outside Supreme Court justices homes and there's

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Speaker 1: a lot going on here. Let's start with the protests

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Speaker 1: outside of Justice Roberts and Kavanaugh's homes, I believe in

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Speaker 1: Montgomery County, which is in Maryland. And then the protest

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Speaker 1: that is now as of last night, has extended to

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Speaker 1: the state of Virginia, where in actually forget what the

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Speaker 1: area is in Virginia, but anyway, Aldo's home in northern

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Speaker 1: Virginia has also be in the side of protests. People

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Speaker 1: are pointing out, first of all, this is just childish, reckless,

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Speaker 1: and irresponsible. Start with that this is not the way

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Speaker 1: in a civil society that people should be acting. And

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Speaker 1: I would point out that even the Washington Post, believe

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Speaker 1: it or not, the editorial board yesterday wrote a peace

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Speaker 1: saying leave the justices alone at home. The Washington Post

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Speaker 1: editorial board, which I can tell you in general, will

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Speaker 1: lie down in traffic to keep abortion legal and to

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Speaker 1: support a Roe v. Wade last minute saving by a

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Speaker 1: reversal of the Supreme Court justices. The Washington Post is saying, again,

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Speaker 1: knock it off with the protests outside of the judges homes.

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Speaker 1: I think a part of that, A part of that

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Speaker 1: is the recognition that this is not legal. It is

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Speaker 1: not legal. At the federal level, there is a statute that,

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Speaker 1: very understandably, it makes perfect sense, bars people from trying

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Speaker 1: to intimidate judges and in any way affect the judicial process.

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Speaker 1: And having an angry mob outside your home and your

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Speaker 1: Supreme Court judge or any judge for that matter, is

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Speaker 1: intimidation affecting the process. Now, we don't think the bidendj

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Speaker 1: will do anything. I'm not going to send the FBI

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Speaker 1: in to clear out the area, not because they shouldn't

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Speaker 1: as a function of law, but because we all know

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Speaker 1: the politics here. Biden's DJ is a joke, and they're

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Speaker 1: not Merrick Garland, who was putting parents on notice that

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Speaker 1: maybe you're a domestic terrorist if you've got a problem

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Speaker 1: with the school board in your neighborhood. But no issue

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Speaker 1: with these threats of Supreme Court justices. But then, Clay,

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Speaker 1: the additional component of it is that I know under

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Speaker 1: Virginia law, I believe also under Maryland law there are

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Speaker 1: statutes that prohibit protest gatherings outside of private homes, which

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Speaker 1: given that so many public officials, by the way, live

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Speaker 1: in Maryland or Virginia who work in DC, you understand

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Speaker 1: how this would be a law on both places. And

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Speaker 1: there were people very critical of Glenn young Kin, the

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Speaker 1: governor of Virginia, who has done some good things since

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Speaker 1: he took office. We have noted to hear on the show.

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Speaker 1: But as we always tell you, we call balls and

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Speaker 1: strikes here, folks. You know when it's good, it's good.

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Speaker 1: When it's not, we tell you right when there's a problem,

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Speaker 1: we address it, even on our own team, so to speak,

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Speaker 1: even on the riot, even with conservatives. Clay, what do

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Speaker 1: you make of this with young kids saying they'll keep

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Speaker 1: the judges safe, but they're not going to go in

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Speaker 1: there and say you're not allowed to protest outside their home.

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Speaker 1: I don't believe that anybody of any political bent should

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Speaker 1: be able to protest outside of anyone's home. That includes me,

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Speaker 1: that includes you, Buck, that certainly includes anybody who is

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Speaker 1: involved in the judiciary. I think this should apply if

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Speaker 1: you are a Republican, if you are a Democrat. There

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Speaker 1: are plenty of places to seek redress for political opinions.

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Speaker 1: I don't believe that our neighborhoods outside of people's home

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Speaker 1: should be one of them, period, Okay, And that is

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Speaker 1: a content neutral policy that I would apply that I

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Speaker 1: politics involved are. Having said that, if you are Glenn

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Speaker 1: have been on this show before. He's the Attorney General

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Speaker 1: of Virginia Republicans. The challenge that I think they face

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Speaker 1: Buck is if you arrest people for this, are you

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Speaker 1: creating a much larger protest going forward and making the

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Speaker 1: people that you arrest martyrs? I think you might very

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Speaker 1: well be doing that, And so I'm sure in the

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Speaker 1: back of their minds they're trying to analyze this and say,

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Speaker 1: what is the best way to make this disappear sooner

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Speaker 1: read than later? If we arrest people, are we going

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Speaker 1: to make it worse? And I don't know for sure

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Speaker 1: think the challenge becomes, how do you reconcile this? And

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Speaker 1: this is why Buck. To me, the solution is the

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Speaker 1: opinion has to come out now. Chief Justice Roberts has

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Speaker 1: to release this opinion. And I understand the argument of, well,

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Speaker 1: dust bin of history. In my opinion, Buck, and what

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Speaker 1: Chief Justice Roberts need to sign on to it, making

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Speaker 1: a six three decision, so we're not talking about one

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Speaker 1: Supreme Court justice's homes. That's the solution. Do you think

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Speaker 1: You may be right, But if he truly cares about

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Speaker 1: say that this should go back to states. Because if

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Speaker 1: this is a five four decision, Buck, then as long

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Speaker 1: as this sticks at a five four decision, every conservative

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Speaker 1: justice is potentially under siege from a violent protester because

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Speaker 1: in their mind, they're going to think, if I take

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Speaker 1: it'll never normalize and the fight toal continue forever. It'll

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Speaker 1: back to the states, which I think is the right decision.

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Speaker 1: There isn't the constant drumbeat of only one justice needs

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Speaker 1: will complain, of course, but Clay, they'll complain at six

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Speaker 1: just my fear. My fear is that if it's five four,

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Speaker 1: here we have, speaking of fear. They're trying to tell

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Speaker 1: people becoming violent. And this is from This is from

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Speaker 1: CBS eating News plays an intelligence bulletin reviewed by CBS

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Speaker 1: News warrants extremists could be mobilizing during this powerful debate nationwide,

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Speaker 1: potentially targeting abortion clinics and government officials. So now let

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Speaker 1: me tell folks about how this goes. For a second.

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Speaker 1: You've done these because I've done these. Okay, I've done these.

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Speaker 1: I've done these four I've written for the PDB many

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Speaker 1: many times a President's Daily Briefing. I've run the PDB

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Speaker 1: So I'm just telling everybody. When CBS says we saw

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Speaker 1: list now, Travis and I got called the domestic terrorist.

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Speaker 1: Where the hell's Merrick Garland with actual domestic terrorism going on,

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Speaker 1: Merrick Garland calling out any of the left wing violence

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Speaker 1: they do a sort of cops show up, they recognize that,

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Speaker 1: you know, time was not on the side anymore, they

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Speaker 1: want to be around to see what the results were

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Speaker 1: going to be. Speaking of Douglas Blair, he's a producer

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Speaker 1: of The Daily Signal co host of the Daily Signal podcast, Doug,

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Speaker 1: is the expectation that they're just going to be ongoing

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Speaker 1: protests every day or are they going to try to

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Speaker 1: camp out somewhere in the neighborhood occupy style? What's going

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Speaker 1: to happen is based on what you're hearing from people

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Speaker 1: who are there and from the authorities who are trying

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Speaker 1: to keep it relatively orderly. It's an excellent question because

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Speaker 1: I don't see these ending anytime soon. So there's a

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Speaker 1: planned protest for tomorrow. They're going to go to all

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Speaker 1: the conservative justices houses. So far, they've only hit Alito,

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Speaker 1: rest of them. But I easily could see this going

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Speaker 1: on for a long long time. This is not a

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Speaker 1: group that gives up. Yesterday, I actually got some very

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Speaker 1: concerning footage of Black Block and Antifa members who had

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Speaker 1: attended these protests. All of the other protests I had seen,

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Speaker 1: and they did inappropriate things in front of the houses

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Speaker 1: of these justices, but there was no Black Block presence.

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Speaker 1: I'm from Portland, Oregon, so I know exactly what happens

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Speaker 1: when Antifa and Black Block show up to a protest.

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Speaker 1: It gets real bad, real quick. So that was incredibly

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Speaker 1: disturbing for me to see that these people were attending

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Speaker 1: these protests. And I do want to note one thing

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Speaker 1: get more and more aggressive and more and more threatening

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Speaker 1: to the lives of the justices. I think it's despicable

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Speaker 1: how we haven't seen a response from the administration to this.

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Speaker 1: We saw a very lukewarm, very milktoast statement come out

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Speaker 1: from President Biden Jansaki about how you know violence is

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Speaker 1: unacceptable in protesting. Well, sure, that's fine, but like I

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Speaker 1: think we need actual condemnation of what is happening right

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Speaker 1: now in these particular protests. It's not acceptable for you

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Speaker 1: them to get the judgment that you want. Doug, last

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Speaker 1: question here for you. You're talking about the duration of

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Speaker 1: I would be really really angry about people taking over

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Speaker 1: because I'm trying to get my kids the Little League,

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Speaker 1: blue cities in the country. It's it's very, very, very

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Speaker 1: less leaning. So these sometimes the neighbors would come out

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Speaker 1: come out of their houses. They would cheer, they would clap.

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Speaker 1: As I mentioned, some would begin to walk with the protesters.

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Speaker 1: One of the protesters in charge of the Kavanaugh protests,

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Speaker 1: what's his neighbor? This was a person who thought this

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Speaker 1: he was an evil person. And again, I think that's

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Speaker 1: just so sad that we're at this point in the

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Speaker 1: country where your neighbor, somebody that you should at least

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Speaker 1: have friendly terms with or at least you know, interact with,

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Speaker 1: It seems like that is just such a strange place

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Speaker 1: for us to be right now. And the neighbors, the

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Speaker 1: a completely inappropriate way to do it, that they were

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Speaker 1: in on the game. Dog appreciate the time appreciate the work.

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Speaker 1: Will continue to follow you and your coverage of these

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Speaker 1: potential protests. Appreciate my maam, absolutely, thank you so much

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Speaker 1: for having me. Good deal. We got some major breaking

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Speaker 1: news that I think some of you are going to

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Speaker 1: be intrigued by. It involves Twitter and Elon Musk. Get

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Speaker 1: But first, Hillsdale College recognizes the graduating class of twenty

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Speaker 1: on a whole range of issues to Biden clean up

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Speaker 1: well as some other issues. The intimidation of conservative I

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Speaker 1: actually prefer to call them constitutional Supreme Court justices because

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Speaker 1: in judicial robes. But we're gonna get it all that

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Speaker 1: here in just a few minutes. Clay just sent me

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Speaker 1: this one because we're constant, we're like running a real

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Speaker 1: time newsticker between the two of us throughout the entire show.

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Speaker 1: Elon Musk has said there's so much which we could

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Speaker 1: fill in there By the way, Elon Musk has said

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Speaker 1: that if his purchase of Twitter goes through, he will

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Speaker 1: lift the ban on president former president Trump. And this

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Speaker 1: is interesting because if that's the case, we then have

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Speaker 1: a situation where Trump is on on truth social right now,

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Speaker 1: and truth social is and I don't say this as

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Speaker 1: as a as a knock on them, but truth social

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Speaker 1: is at this point less than one percent the user

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Speaker 1: the users of Twitter. I think that's is that about, right, Clay.

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Speaker 1: I mean it's it's maybe it's less than two or

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Speaker 1: three percent, but it's a tiny fraction of the overall users.

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Speaker 1: And so I mean, I'm on truth, Clays on truth.

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Speaker 1: What does the former president do Because that Twitter account,

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Speaker 1: the Trump Twitter account, was able to shape the news cycle,

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Speaker 1: it was able to change the national conversation. I mean

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Speaker 1: that that really I think Trump took Twitter from being

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Speaker 1: a a news journo and kind of, you know, a

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Speaker 1: in a lot of ways. Because the President of the

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Speaker 1: United States was speaking in real time to eighty million followers,

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Speaker 1: what does he do here, Clay? How does this play out?

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you you know, when I was doing sports

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Speaker 1: it would be like Donald Trump and me. So he

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Speaker 1: was not only setting the national agenda buck, he was

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Speaker 1: at night and all throughout the day. I mean, this

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Speaker 1: guy is an animal when it comes to his work ethic.

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Speaker 1: I just think it's a really different So, first of all,

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Speaker 1: I think it's smart of Emon Musk, because it sets

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Speaker 1: So I think, from Elon Must's perspective, right decision more

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Speaker 1: difficult situation. Can Trump join Twitter or is he contractually

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Speaker 1: one question I would have, because it's likely that they

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Speaker 1: in the social media platform regime. There second part here,

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Speaker 1: is he actually benefiting from getting his Twitter account back now? Buck,

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Speaker 1: I can totally see the benefit when he was a

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Speaker 1: Trump are already active on social media in love with

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Speaker 1: Trump right now. Biden is a decrepit old man who

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Speaker 1: is failing on all fronts, and so the story is

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Speaker 1: Satan of the Blue check brigade out there, I think

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Speaker 1: that it might work against him because in twenty twenty four,

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Speaker 1: back in office. They don't it's a referendum on the incumbent.

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Speaker 1: If Trump becomes active again. My concern Buck is twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty four is a referendum on Trump again, and Biden

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Speaker 1: gets a pass on how bad he's been. So I

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Speaker 1: don't know that he benefits. Do you think he benefits? Like,

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Speaker 1: how do you analyze this? Ah, that's so hard because

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Speaker 1: if you're the advisor, he came to you and he said, Buck,

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Speaker 1: should I get back on Twitter? Takeaway for us, it's

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Speaker 1: obviously great because we can react to tweets. We're in media.

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Speaker 1: But if you are the goal is to win to

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Speaker 1: I'm like, how does this person follow the out trater? Oh?

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Speaker 1: It's because if Trump retweeted it, So that was always fun.

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Speaker 1: I was like, Oh, it's the guy from Charles and Charge.

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Speaker 1: He hates me, now, you know? Or not not that

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Speaker 1: show I'm just making one up, but because I think

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Speaker 1: dude from one I understand. Anyway, I'm just picking a

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Speaker 1: it's Look, I almost feel like it's too early. I

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Speaker 1: I will say it anyway. We need a we need

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Speaker 1: a Trump two point zero where there's more focus on results,

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Speaker 1: where there's less focus on people that honestly kiss up

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Speaker 1: who were very you know, I'm just saying we had Steve.

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Speaker 1: We have Steve Miller on the show a lot. One

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Speaker 1: I mean there are others too, but so I'm not

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Speaker 1: one of these people says, oh, everybody that was in

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Speaker 1: the first administration shouldn't be in the second administration. But

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Speaker 1: you need to have good advisors around him that he

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Speaker 1: for I for him to get for him getting re elected.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if Twitter is actually helpful. I think

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Speaker 1: the media then create it feeds into the lib media

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Speaker 1: obsession with Trump the man and the person instead of

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Speaker 1: the movement, and it just becomes look at this meme

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Speaker 1: thing he said, or look at this and it and

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Speaker 1: now now people could argue by the way I this

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Speaker 1: is one of those things where if someone thinks they

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Speaker 1: hear that, they say, Buck are totally wrong. I'll admit

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Speaker 1: I may be totally wrong on this one, but I

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Speaker 1: think Trump without running his own Twitter account on a

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Speaker 1: daily you know, maybe we could limit it. But the

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Speaker 1: thing is, Man, once the Trump bear is loose, I

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Speaker 1: don't know if you get him back in the cage.

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Speaker 1: Man like, once he has that Twitter account back, I

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Speaker 1: think he's gonna do what he wants to do. And

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Speaker 1: they actually like the idea of having Twitter buck if

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Speaker 1: he's reelected, because he's already president. But the actual campaign Twitter,

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Speaker 1: I don't know that he benefits because I think it

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Speaker 1: allows people to characterize him and start to make the

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Speaker 1: case that twenty twenty four is about Trump when the

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Speaker 1: reality is and even twenty twenty two if he came

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Speaker 1: back sooner than that. When the reality is twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: two and twenty twenty four are about Democrats failing on

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Speaker 1: an epic level. Nothing Republicans have done has caused where

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Speaker 1: we are right now. I'm gonna talk to Senator Marsha

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Speaker 1: Blackburn here in a few minutes about that failure by

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Speaker 1: the Biden administration, where's the economy heading? And much more

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Speaker 1: Stick around Clay and Buck rolling through slat Travis and

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Speaker 1: Buck Sexton on the front lines of truth,