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 --> 00:00:08,600 Speaker 1: Sexton Show podcast Walk Back in Clay Travis buck Sexton Show. 3 00:00:08,760 --> 00:00:11,560 Speaker 1: Thursday edition of the program. Hope all of you are 4 00:00:11,560 --> 00:00:15,280 Speaker 1: having fantastic early weekend. Maybe a lot of people getting 5 00:00:15,280 --> 00:00:18,319 Speaker 1: ready for spring break. I'm among them. I'll talk about 6 00:00:18,360 --> 00:00:19,840 Speaker 1: that in a second. We want to make sure all 7 00:00:19,840 --> 00:00:22,800 Speaker 1: of you go subscribe to the podcast. Search out my name, 8 00:00:22,880 --> 00:00:26,560 Speaker 1: Clay Travis, search out Buck Sexton. You can join tens 9 00:00:26,560 --> 00:00:30,080 Speaker 1: of millions of downloaders already this year and make sure 10 00:00:30,120 --> 00:00:33,040 Speaker 1: that you take us wherever you may be going around 11 00:00:33,040 --> 00:00:35,680 Speaker 1: the world. And we're joined now by one of the 12 00:00:35,720 --> 00:00:39,000 Speaker 1: senators from my home state of Tennessee, Marsha Blackburn. And 13 00:00:39,080 --> 00:00:41,080 Speaker 1: before we even get into questions, I want to give 14 00:00:41,080 --> 00:00:45,040 Speaker 1: a shout out to Senator Blackburn and her staff. My kids. 15 00:00:45,080 --> 00:00:47,320 Speaker 1: You have to get new passports for your kids every 16 00:00:47,400 --> 00:00:50,800 Speaker 1: five years. My kids, two of them had their passports 17 00:00:50,840 --> 00:00:52,960 Speaker 1: held up for like twelve weeks. We didn't know when 18 00:00:52,960 --> 00:00:56,120 Speaker 1: they were coming back. We were going to Italy. Caroline 19 00:00:56,200 --> 00:01:00,840 Speaker 1: and Savannah, who work in Marsha Blackburn's office, helped to 20 00:01:00,960 --> 00:01:03,720 Speaker 1: ensure that we got our passports. One of the most 21 00:01:03,760 --> 00:01:07,560 Speaker 1: primary I would say responsibilities of any representatives take care 22 00:01:07,600 --> 00:01:11,440 Speaker 1: of their constituents. So thank you, Senator Blackburn and your staff. 23 00:01:11,560 --> 00:01:14,920 Speaker 1: Caroline and Savannah hooked us up. Thank you. Well, yes 24 00:01:15,080 --> 00:01:18,600 Speaker 1: they did that. Caroline's a miracle worker. I tell you 25 00:01:19,040 --> 00:01:21,720 Speaker 1: she is a good one. Savannah too. But when it 26 00:01:21,760 --> 00:01:26,560 Speaker 1: comes to those passports and taking care of our Tennesseeans, 27 00:01:26,640 --> 00:01:32,280 Speaker 1: our veterans, we, by the way, handled about two thousand 28 00:01:32,800 --> 00:01:39,080 Speaker 1: cases trying to get Americans and our Afghan SIV applicants 29 00:01:39,280 --> 00:01:43,960 Speaker 1: out of Afghanistan. So we've got a good team and 30 00:01:44,080 --> 00:01:47,360 Speaker 1: I am very blessed to have them working on behalf 31 00:01:47,360 --> 00:01:49,800 Speaker 1: of the people of our state. Okay, I want to 32 00:01:49,840 --> 00:01:52,160 Speaker 1: start here because Buck and I were just talking about it. 33 00:01:52,600 --> 00:01:56,920 Speaker 1: Are you surprised by the outrage that has arisen from 34 00:01:57,000 --> 00:02:02,800 Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson's showing previously unseen January sixth footage? And what 35 00:02:02,920 --> 00:02:06,360 Speaker 1: does it say that there are Republicans who are also 36 00:02:06,560 --> 00:02:10,880 Speaker 1: ripping this review? What are your thoughts on this? There 37 00:02:10,919 --> 00:02:14,040 Speaker 1: are so many hours of footage from different angles, and 38 00:02:14,160 --> 00:02:19,000 Speaker 1: what we know is that the January sixth committee created 39 00:02:19,040 --> 00:02:24,720 Speaker 1: a narrative. They cherry picked components to build out their 40 00:02:24,880 --> 00:02:29,760 Speaker 1: narrative and then if anybody shows something or says something 41 00:02:29,800 --> 00:02:35,320 Speaker 1: to contradict that narrative, then they want to publicly shame 42 00:02:36,080 --> 00:02:39,679 Speaker 1: those individuals. Now, let me carry it a little bit 43 00:02:39,680 --> 00:02:42,919 Speaker 1: further into COVID. Look what is happening. What we're finding 44 00:02:42,919 --> 00:02:48,240 Speaker 1: out from doctor Redfield and about doctor Fauci, he created 45 00:02:48,280 --> 00:02:52,200 Speaker 1: a narrative of oh, COVID could not possibly have come 46 00:02:52,440 --> 00:02:56,240 Speaker 1: from the lab. It appears that what doctor Fauci was 47 00:02:56,320 --> 00:03:00,120 Speaker 1: doing was trying to play a world class game of 48 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:06,000 Speaker 1: cya and doing it at the expense of the American people, 49 00:03:06,440 --> 00:03:10,600 Speaker 1: so much so that the CDC director the Center for 50 00:03:10,760 --> 00:03:15,360 Speaker 1: Disease Control, he didn't even read him in because he 51 00:03:15,520 --> 00:03:20,160 Speaker 1: had a more scientific approach that everything should be on 52 00:03:20,200 --> 00:03:25,639 Speaker 1: the table and all of it should be reviewed and 53 00:03:25,680 --> 00:03:28,480 Speaker 1: then you can carry it over to dj. We had 54 00:03:28,480 --> 00:03:32,920 Speaker 1: the hearing with Merrick Garland last week and it was, well, 55 00:03:33,040 --> 00:03:35,680 Speaker 1: you know, why are you not going after these groups 56 00:03:35,720 --> 00:03:40,840 Speaker 1: that are firebombing churches and pregnancy centers. A pregnancy center 57 00:03:40,960 --> 00:03:44,800 Speaker 1: is there to give women who are pregnant, prenatal care, 58 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:49,280 Speaker 1: post natal care, in diapers, for babies, in formula, and 59 00:03:50,040 --> 00:03:55,880 Speaker 1: what then he is out here arresting eleven tennesseeans who 60 00:03:55,920 --> 00:03:59,320 Speaker 1: are singing and preying on the sidewalk across from an 61 00:03:59,320 --> 00:04:04,040 Speaker 1: abortion clinic. And his response to me as to why 62 00:04:04,120 --> 00:04:08,640 Speaker 1: he was going after those protesters and not going after 63 00:04:08,680 --> 00:04:12,040 Speaker 1: the people firebombing the clinics was well, you know, it's 64 00:04:12,040 --> 00:04:15,120 Speaker 1: easier to catch people that do crime in the daytime. 65 00:04:15,920 --> 00:04:20,559 Speaker 1: And the fact that he would even think that under 66 00:04:20,600 --> 00:04:24,200 Speaker 1: oath he could make such a statement, the fact that 67 00:04:24,240 --> 00:04:27,479 Speaker 1: they have this narrative that it is hard to find 68 00:04:27,520 --> 00:04:31,000 Speaker 1: these people because they do crimes at night, and that 69 00:04:31,160 --> 00:04:35,480 Speaker 1: people would believe that and accept that. But they're again, 70 00:04:36,560 --> 00:04:40,640 Speaker 1: this administration creates a narrative and if you cross them 71 00:04:41,160 --> 00:04:43,240 Speaker 1: then they're going to try to make you look like 72 00:04:43,360 --> 00:04:47,280 Speaker 1: an idiot. So our blackburnet's buck, thanks for being with us. 73 00:04:47,839 --> 00:04:49,760 Speaker 1: How are you to weigh in, if you would, on 74 00:04:49,800 --> 00:04:53,520 Speaker 1: the DC crime bill situation? Clay and I laid this 75 00:04:53,600 --> 00:04:56,920 Speaker 1: out for the audience earlier in the week, But to 76 00:04:57,040 --> 00:04:59,159 Speaker 1: tell everybody what's going on here, we know the DC 77 00:04:59,320 --> 00:05:04,479 Speaker 1: Council passed effectively a soft on crime bill, less prison time, 78 00:05:04,920 --> 00:05:09,400 Speaker 1: less severe sentencing, stuff like that. But even Biden is 79 00:05:09,440 --> 00:05:12,479 Speaker 1: backing away from what Democrats on the DC Council has done. 80 00:05:12,480 --> 00:05:16,640 Speaker 1: It explain how this process is working. Yes, DC, of 81 00:05:16,720 --> 00:05:22,839 Speaker 1: course is under the jurisdiction of Congress, and at Senator appropriations. 82 00:05:23,160 --> 00:05:27,839 Speaker 1: Senator Haggerty is on the committee that oversees DC. And 83 00:05:28,040 --> 00:05:31,520 Speaker 1: when they did this, Senator Haggerty said, oh, no, you 84 00:05:31,560 --> 00:05:34,799 Speaker 1: don't do a soft on crime and lessen crime, because 85 00:05:34,839 --> 00:05:37,119 Speaker 1: there are so many people that we talked to every 86 00:05:37,160 --> 00:05:43,280 Speaker 1: day who have been mugged or assaulted, our cardjackings or robberies, 87 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:48,279 Speaker 1: and they want something done about crime. So DC Council, 88 00:05:48,440 --> 00:05:51,400 Speaker 1: instead of getting tough on crime and hiring more police 89 00:05:51,440 --> 00:05:55,240 Speaker 1: and supporting the police and giving the money, what they 90 00:05:55,279 --> 00:05:58,200 Speaker 1: wanted to do was to go soft on crime and 91 00:05:58,440 --> 00:06:02,000 Speaker 1: lessen the penalties and put it in a position where 92 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:04,360 Speaker 1: people don't have to go to court. You got a 93 00:06:04,440 --> 00:06:07,880 Speaker 1: risk lab and it's put in a record, and you 94 00:06:07,880 --> 00:06:10,320 Speaker 1: can just go back out and go back to doing crime, 95 00:06:10,440 --> 00:06:16,440 Speaker 1: going back to your way of life. So when we 96 00:06:16,680 --> 00:06:22,200 Speaker 1: voted on Senator Haggardy's resolution we had brought by partisan support. 97 00:06:22,600 --> 00:06:26,240 Speaker 1: It did pass. The Democrats in the House were furious. 98 00:06:26,320 --> 00:06:30,000 Speaker 1: Pelosi said, well, Biden could have told them first that 99 00:06:30,040 --> 00:06:32,719 Speaker 1: he was not going to veto this, that if it passed, 100 00:06:32,839 --> 00:06:36,400 Speaker 1: it would go through because you had more than half 101 00:06:36,520 --> 00:06:39,880 Speaker 1: of the Democrats in the House vote against it. But 102 00:06:40,120 --> 00:06:42,440 Speaker 1: of course this is going to be signed into law. 103 00:06:42,520 --> 00:06:48,000 Speaker 1: The DC Council is going to be overruled by Congress. 104 00:06:48,200 --> 00:06:50,680 Speaker 1: They cannot do this, and they're going to have to 105 00:06:50,720 --> 00:06:54,800 Speaker 1: get tough on crime and make the nation's capital safe 106 00:06:54,800 --> 00:06:58,599 Speaker 1: for all the Tennesseeans and everyone else who was coming 107 00:06:58,680 --> 00:07:02,480 Speaker 1: up to visit us, people that are conducting business. This week. 108 00:07:02,560 --> 00:07:05,040 Speaker 1: We have had school groups in town. We've had families 109 00:07:05,040 --> 00:07:09,360 Speaker 1: in town for spring break. We have had our disabled veterans, 110 00:07:09,560 --> 00:07:14,560 Speaker 1: our veterans of foreign wars, our community helped centers. They 111 00:07:14,560 --> 00:07:17,120 Speaker 1: have all been here, and we want people to be 112 00:07:17,200 --> 00:07:20,600 Speaker 1: able to walk around, see the Capitol, see the monuments, 113 00:07:20,760 --> 00:07:25,280 Speaker 1: and not be accosted or robbed as they are walking 114 00:07:25,360 --> 00:07:28,720 Speaker 1: on the street. You raised a really interesting point there, 115 00:07:28,760 --> 00:07:31,640 Speaker 1: and I want you to analyze it politically. So this 116 00:07:31,760 --> 00:07:36,600 Speaker 1: passed Senator Haggarty's resolution eighty one to fourteen in the Senate. 117 00:07:36,680 --> 00:07:40,840 Speaker 1: Even Chuck Schumer voted for it. Landslide. Hey, we're not 118 00:07:40,960 --> 00:07:44,560 Speaker 1: going to allow this bill in DC to continue to 119 00:07:44,680 --> 00:07:49,800 Speaker 1: lessen punishments to criminals. Yet a hundred and seventy three 120 00:07:49,800 --> 00:07:54,560 Speaker 1: Democrats before it passed in the Senate voted to oppose this. 121 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:57,600 Speaker 1: A lot of those Democrats are in toss up districts. 122 00:07:57,640 --> 00:08:00,480 Speaker 1: A lot of them are supposed to be representing a 123 00:08:00,520 --> 00:08:04,000 Speaker 1: lot of people in very competitive districts. Why do you 124 00:08:04,040 --> 00:08:07,560 Speaker 1: think the Biden administration cut the legs out from underneath 125 00:08:07,560 --> 00:08:10,920 Speaker 1: those hundred and seventy three Democrats? Do you think they 126 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:13,120 Speaker 1: didn't know that this was going to pass? They didn't 127 00:08:13,160 --> 00:08:15,280 Speaker 1: have a good accounting. Did they get scared by what 128 00:08:15,360 --> 00:08:18,720 Speaker 1: happened to Lori Lightfoot in Chicago? What was the calculus 129 00:08:18,800 --> 00:08:21,240 Speaker 1: here and why did Biden basically cut the legs out 130 00:08:21,240 --> 00:08:25,440 Speaker 1: from under his own party in the House In your opinion, well, 131 00:08:25,480 --> 00:08:27,760 Speaker 1: you just touched on it. They saw what happened to 132 00:08:27,840 --> 00:08:32,240 Speaker 1: Lori Lightfoot. They're hearing from people in blue cities who 133 00:08:32,280 --> 00:08:34,640 Speaker 1: are saying, you've got to be kidding me. A lot 134 00:08:34,679 --> 00:08:37,240 Speaker 1: of these folks that live in New York, they are 135 00:08:37,440 --> 00:08:41,200 Speaker 1: tired of having to pay for a driver to take 136 00:08:41,280 --> 00:08:43,920 Speaker 1: them from point eight point Bee when they used to 137 00:08:43,920 --> 00:08:47,520 Speaker 1: walk there and it was faster to walk than it 138 00:08:47,679 --> 00:08:50,080 Speaker 1: was to get in a car. They can't take the 139 00:08:50,120 --> 00:08:53,760 Speaker 1: subway in New York anymore because of the crime and 140 00:08:54,440 --> 00:08:58,400 Speaker 1: people that are living in the subway, so it runs 141 00:08:58,480 --> 00:09:01,360 Speaker 1: up the cost of living. This just coming up to 142 00:09:01,520 --> 00:09:06,520 Speaker 1: people when you see cities like Boston in New York 143 00:09:06,960 --> 00:09:13,679 Speaker 1: and Chicago, in Denver, in San Francisco, in LA and 144 00:09:14,240 --> 00:09:18,800 Speaker 1: you cannot go and move freely in public spaces because 145 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:24,320 Speaker 1: of the element of crime that is existing. And while 146 00:09:24,360 --> 00:09:27,680 Speaker 1: the Biden administration will not do anything about the border 147 00:09:28,120 --> 00:09:31,200 Speaker 1: and the gangs and the criminals and the terrorists that 148 00:09:31,240 --> 00:09:34,040 Speaker 1: are coming across that border, I think they felt like 149 00:09:34,120 --> 00:09:38,400 Speaker 1: the one thing they could do is support overriding the 150 00:09:38,520 --> 00:09:41,719 Speaker 1: DC Council and use that as hey, look at us, 151 00:09:41,760 --> 00:09:45,360 Speaker 1: we're tough on crime. Senator Blackburn, I want to ask 152 00:09:45,360 --> 00:09:48,480 Speaker 1: you also about the plan it seems for credit card 153 00:09:48,520 --> 00:09:55,079 Speaker 1: companies to start tracking gun purchases and what some of 154 00:09:55,120 --> 00:09:57,679 Speaker 1: the Second Amendment concerns are that you have about this, 155 00:09:57,760 --> 00:10:01,720 Speaker 1: as it seems there's a contin nued effort to, if 156 00:10:01,800 --> 00:10:07,160 Speaker 1: not legislate away Second Amendment rights, to use the corporate 157 00:10:07,400 --> 00:10:10,079 Speaker 1: corporate power to make sure that people can have Second 158 00:10:10,080 --> 00:10:12,960 Speaker 1: Amendment rights. Yeah, you know, Buck. And one of the 159 00:10:13,040 --> 00:10:17,040 Speaker 1: things to bear in mind there is I led that 160 00:10:17,200 --> 00:10:22,320 Speaker 1: Amicus brief with many of my Republican colleagues on the 161 00:10:22,360 --> 00:10:28,240 Speaker 1: pistol brace issue for as that goes to the Supreme Court, 162 00:10:28,520 --> 00:10:31,480 Speaker 1: and I was pleased so many joined me and weighing 163 00:10:31,520 --> 00:10:34,200 Speaker 1: in on that issue. The other thing I think you 164 00:10:34,280 --> 00:10:38,040 Speaker 1: have to keep in mind is that the Second Amendment 165 00:10:38,240 --> 00:10:41,480 Speaker 1: is the only one of our Bill of Rights freedoms 166 00:10:41,520 --> 00:10:44,840 Speaker 1: that in order to exercise that freedom you have to 167 00:10:44,880 --> 00:10:49,760 Speaker 1: go get a license from a local official. And what 168 00:10:49,840 --> 00:10:55,320 Speaker 1: we are looking at is how when the Democrats cannot 169 00:10:55,320 --> 00:10:59,800 Speaker 1: get something through Congress, what they do is go to corporations. 170 00:11:00,040 --> 00:11:03,760 Speaker 1: You're seeing it with all of this woke corporation, all 171 00:11:03,840 --> 00:11:08,640 Speaker 1: of this d EI, all of this e SG, that 172 00:11:08,920 --> 00:11:12,720 Speaker 1: is policies that they couldn't get through a vote if 173 00:11:12,760 --> 00:11:16,200 Speaker 1: they had to. People don't support that and they know it, 174 00:11:16,800 --> 00:11:20,120 Speaker 1: so they're trying to force the corporations. So if they 175 00:11:20,200 --> 00:11:25,680 Speaker 1: try to do this through a rulemaking authority, then we 176 00:11:25,679 --> 00:11:31,520 Speaker 1: will pull it up in a Congressional Review Act resolution 177 00:11:31,600 --> 00:11:36,320 Speaker 1: of disapproval. That's what we did to the DC Council. 178 00:11:36,760 --> 00:11:39,800 Speaker 1: That's the same format we use to take down the 179 00:11:40,200 --> 00:11:46,360 Speaker 1: ESG requirements on retirement funds last week. So there are 180 00:11:46,440 --> 00:11:49,000 Speaker 1: things that we can do. The Democrats are a little 181 00:11:49,040 --> 00:11:53,200 Speaker 1: bit short on members. Right now, they have three members 182 00:11:53,360 --> 00:11:57,360 Speaker 1: that are out, And what we are going to do 183 00:11:57,760 --> 00:12:03,520 Speaker 1: is continue to watch this and then fight back at 184 00:12:03,559 --> 00:12:06,120 Speaker 1: them every time they try one of these things and 185 00:12:06,280 --> 00:12:09,480 Speaker 1: point out what they're trying to do. They cannot get 186 00:12:09,520 --> 00:12:12,200 Speaker 1: their way, so they're trying to force their way. And 187 00:12:12,320 --> 00:12:14,960 Speaker 1: you know, Buck, I did a telephone town hall with 188 00:12:15,040 --> 00:12:18,880 Speaker 1: Tennesseeans last night. Every county and the state gets a 189 00:12:18,960 --> 00:12:21,880 Speaker 1: personal visit from me every year, and they also get 190 00:12:21,880 --> 00:12:25,640 Speaker 1: a telephone town hall from me. And one of the 191 00:12:25,760 --> 00:12:28,160 Speaker 1: things that kept coming up over and over. They would 192 00:12:28,200 --> 00:12:30,800 Speaker 1: talk about policies, but they would talk about the effect 193 00:12:30,920 --> 00:12:34,280 Speaker 1: this has on our freedoms and on our liberties, and 194 00:12:34,280 --> 00:12:39,320 Speaker 1: how concerned they are about what these leftist legislators, how 195 00:12:39,320 --> 00:12:42,880 Speaker 1: far left the Democrats have gone, and how it concerns 196 00:12:42,960 --> 00:12:45,760 Speaker 1: them that they are losing their freedom of speech, the 197 00:12:45,920 --> 00:12:50,199 Speaker 1: freedom of religion, they are losing Second Amendment rights, they're 198 00:12:50,240 --> 00:12:54,200 Speaker 1: losing that right to privacy, they're losing state's rights, and 199 00:12:54,280 --> 00:12:59,160 Speaker 1: they feel as if all of this is transforming the 200 00:12:59,240 --> 00:13:04,240 Speaker 1: country not for the good but for the band. We're 201 00:13:04,280 --> 00:13:08,200 Speaker 1: to be a country of buying for the people, and 202 00:13:08,360 --> 00:13:13,280 Speaker 1: this erosion of freedoms in the way they're thwarting the 203 00:13:13,480 --> 00:13:18,680 Speaker 1: exercising of those freedoms. That is something that in every 204 00:13:18,720 --> 00:13:22,440 Speaker 1: one of these questions that came in on a policy issue, 205 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:26,000 Speaker 1: there was a nugget of that, look at what this 206 00:13:26,200 --> 00:13:28,680 Speaker 1: is doing to our freedoms and what is it going 207 00:13:28,720 --> 00:13:32,360 Speaker 1: to do to our kids and grandkids? Last question for you, 208 00:13:32,679 --> 00:13:35,400 Speaker 1: Senator Blackburn. Joe Biden has put out a new budget 209 00:13:35,840 --> 00:13:41,800 Speaker 1: proposal and it includes massive tax increases both on individuals 210 00:13:42,280 --> 00:13:46,000 Speaker 1: and on corporations. Based on having the House and the 211 00:13:46,040 --> 00:13:50,440 Speaker 1: control to some extent of the party in the Senate, 212 00:13:50,600 --> 00:13:53,400 Speaker 1: you guys, I would imagine would all stay together on this. 213 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:56,760 Speaker 1: Is it fair to call these budget proposals basically dead 214 00:13:56,760 --> 00:13:59,680 Speaker 1: on arrival in terms of the massive, massive tax increases 215 00:13:59,679 --> 00:14:04,160 Speaker 1: to buy once? Yeah. Absolutely. And it is ludicrous that 216 00:14:04,320 --> 00:14:10,800 Speaker 1: they have their spokesperson Kareem out there, Kareem John Pierre 217 00:14:10,800 --> 00:14:15,600 Speaker 1: out there saying that this is going to cut the 218 00:14:15,679 --> 00:14:21,320 Speaker 1: federal debt by three trillion dollars. I mean, that is 219 00:14:21,480 --> 00:14:27,680 Speaker 1: just a stounding that they would have her saying that. 220 00:14:28,240 --> 00:14:31,960 Speaker 1: And here's the thing, Clay, on the tax increases, what 221 00:14:32,080 --> 00:14:34,360 Speaker 1: they're going after is a lot of your mom and 222 00:14:34,440 --> 00:14:41,480 Speaker 1: pop shops, your locally owned businesses, your small business, retailers, manufacturers, 223 00:14:41,560 --> 00:14:44,960 Speaker 1: things of that nature that may have a gross of 224 00:14:45,080 --> 00:14:49,520 Speaker 1: four hundred thousand a year, but by the time they 225 00:14:49,600 --> 00:14:53,720 Speaker 1: pay employees and vendors, they may be taking fifty thousand 226 00:14:53,800 --> 00:14:58,320 Speaker 1: a year out of that business because their overhead is high. Well, 227 00:14:58,880 --> 00:15:02,200 Speaker 1: those are the people they're going after, and they're going 228 00:15:02,240 --> 00:15:05,320 Speaker 1: to make it impossible for them to stay in business 229 00:15:05,400 --> 00:15:10,320 Speaker 1: or to grow their business, and because they're looking at 230 00:15:10,320 --> 00:15:13,960 Speaker 1: that gross not that net. So we need to be 231 00:15:14,080 --> 00:15:18,960 Speaker 1: very careful about that. Also, they are implementing their program 232 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:22,240 Speaker 1: where they're going to monitor tips, and they say, well, 233 00:15:22,280 --> 00:15:26,280 Speaker 1: it's a voluntary program, but they're going to end up 234 00:15:26,320 --> 00:15:33,359 Speaker 1: trying to course these restaurants and hair salons and entities 235 00:15:33,400 --> 00:15:38,880 Speaker 1: where people work on tips uber things of that nature, 236 00:15:39,240 --> 00:15:44,960 Speaker 1: and force them to enter into this program that monitors 237 00:15:45,280 --> 00:15:50,200 Speaker 1: tip income so that they can increase the taxes that 238 00:15:50,360 --> 00:15:55,960 Speaker 1: these individuals are paying. And I asked Danny Wharfel, who 239 00:15:56,080 --> 00:16:00,120 Speaker 1: is the nominee for IRS Commissioner, when he came for 240 00:16:00,280 --> 00:16:03,680 Speaker 1: US Senate Finance Committee, I said, listen, I don't know 241 00:16:03,800 --> 00:16:07,000 Speaker 1: anybody that works for tips. It's making four hundred k 242 00:16:07,120 --> 00:16:12,120 Speaker 1: a year and it's a great poet, you know. I 243 00:16:12,160 --> 00:16:14,240 Speaker 1: asked him, I said, how many people do you know 244 00:16:14,800 --> 00:16:18,040 Speaker 1: that are making four hundred thousand dollars a year? And 245 00:16:18,120 --> 00:16:22,040 Speaker 1: he did not answer the question. He sat there for 246 00:16:22,080 --> 00:16:25,400 Speaker 1: a few seconds and couldn't answer me. So great. It's 247 00:16:25,400 --> 00:16:27,520 Speaker 1: a great point because they've tried to argue, as you know, 248 00:16:27,600 --> 00:16:29,960 Speaker 1: Senator Blackburn, they're only going to go after the super 249 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:32,360 Speaker 1: wealthy and all of their tax searches. I think all 250 00:16:32,360 --> 00:16:33,720 Speaker 1: of us know that it's not going to be the 251 00:16:33,720 --> 00:16:35,800 Speaker 1: case at all. Thank you for all the work, good 252 00:16:35,800 --> 00:16:37,640 Speaker 1: stuff as always, and we'll talk to you again soon. 253 00:16:38,240 --> 00:16:41,080 Speaker 1: You got it, Take care by bye, Senator Marshall Blackburn 254 00:16:41,200 --> 00:16:43,480 Speaker 1: of Tennessee. Do you know Pure Talk saves the average 255 00:16:43,480 --> 00:16:46,880 Speaker 1: sized family over nine hundred thousand nine Oh, that would 256 00:16:46,880 --> 00:16:49,200 Speaker 1: be a big deal, nine hundred dollars a year. 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A lot of attention on where 276 00:17:47,119 --> 00:17:50,600 Speaker 1: things are going with the US Mexico border, especially after 277 00:17:50,720 --> 00:17:54,680 Speaker 1: two Americans were killed, four kidnapped, two killed down in 278 00:17:54,920 --> 00:17:58,320 Speaker 1: Matamoros recently. Clay is going to break down some of 279 00:17:58,359 --> 00:18:02,760 Speaker 1: that discussion, including the possible US military in Mexico that'll 280 00:18:02,800 --> 00:18:05,159 Speaker 1: be coming up here in just a couple of minutes, 281 00:18:06,040 --> 00:18:08,960 Speaker 1: no doubt, and it is kind of crazy to even 282 00:18:09,119 --> 00:18:11,159 Speaker 1: think about. In general. 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We're rolling 302 00:19:08,520 --> 00:19:11,840 Speaker 1: through the Thursday edition of the program, and yesterday you 303 00:19:11,880 --> 00:19:13,720 Speaker 1: may have heard us talking about maybe it was a 304 00:19:13,720 --> 00:19:15,359 Speaker 1: couple days ago. Certainly We've been talking about it for 305 00:19:15,400 --> 00:19:19,760 Speaker 1: a long time, but in earnest the conversation has been 306 00:19:19,840 --> 00:19:23,440 Speaker 1: kicked up about Mexico and the drug cartels because four 307 00:19:23,440 --> 00:19:28,119 Speaker 1: Americans were kidnapped, two of them were murdered, one injured, 308 00:19:28,440 --> 00:19:32,000 Speaker 1: and the other one is I believe alive and honestly buck. 309 00:19:32,240 --> 00:19:36,320 Speaker 1: I saw Jesse Waters yesterday opened his show doing a 310 00:19:36,400 --> 00:19:39,800 Speaker 1: story on the dangers that currently exist. For instance, in 311 00:19:39,880 --> 00:19:43,199 Speaker 1: Cancoon as many people get ready for spring break, a 312 00:19:43,200 --> 00:19:45,480 Speaker 1: lot of college kids, a lot of parents out there 313 00:19:45,840 --> 00:19:49,320 Speaker 1: regularly go down to the Yucatampa Pencil. It's beautiful, and 314 00:19:49,760 --> 00:19:54,679 Speaker 1: the cartel killings have even spiraled into that area. And 315 00:19:54,680 --> 00:19:56,399 Speaker 1: actually saw Jesse. I don't I don't want to kill 316 00:19:56,400 --> 00:19:59,080 Speaker 1: anybody spring break plans here. But I saw Jesse at 317 00:19:59,080 --> 00:20:00,919 Speaker 1: the end had like my parents say, I can't go 318 00:20:00,960 --> 00:20:03,879 Speaker 1: to kid kun now because if you're open, So I 319 00:20:03,920 --> 00:20:06,480 Speaker 1: don't want to try to kill anybody's spring break plans here. 320 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:12,159 Speaker 1: But the violence in Mexico has become so pronounced that 321 00:20:12,240 --> 00:20:14,760 Speaker 1: it is spilling over the border regularly. We know we've 322 00:20:14,800 --> 00:20:17,240 Speaker 1: got five million illegals who've entered the country since Joe 323 00:20:17,240 --> 00:20:20,760 Speaker 1: Biden became president. Around one hundred thousand people a year 324 00:20:20,880 --> 00:20:24,080 Speaker 1: or dying of drug overdoses. And so the conversation has 325 00:20:24,160 --> 00:20:28,000 Speaker 1: ticked up to what should we in America do about 326 00:20:28,080 --> 00:20:31,840 Speaker 1: the cartels effectively taking over in Mexico and certainly controlling 327 00:20:32,240 --> 00:20:36,600 Speaker 1: access to the border of the United States, and the 328 00:20:36,640 --> 00:20:39,480 Speaker 1: Mexican president, as we told you, would likely be the case, 329 00:20:39,520 --> 00:20:41,919 Speaker 1: Buck has come out and said basically he's not going 330 00:20:41,960 --> 00:20:44,879 Speaker 1: to do anything to the cartels, and that is not 331 00:20:44,960 --> 00:20:49,720 Speaker 1: necessarily a bad political move because that does allow him 332 00:20:49,920 --> 00:20:53,199 Speaker 1: an element of protection because he can say, oh, this 333 00:20:53,280 --> 00:20:56,320 Speaker 1: wasn't me, this was the big Bad USA, even when 334 00:20:56,359 --> 00:20:59,439 Speaker 1: he could be behind the scenes kind of acknowledging that 335 00:20:59,480 --> 00:21:01,360 Speaker 1: he's okay with some of this. And I would bet 336 00:21:01,359 --> 00:21:04,560 Speaker 1: Bucky would prefer the United States to take action against 337 00:21:04,600 --> 00:21:07,200 Speaker 1: the cartels as opposed to the Mexican police and government. 338 00:21:07,560 --> 00:21:10,879 Speaker 1: But this is where we are that this conversation is 339 00:21:10,920 --> 00:21:14,280 Speaker 1: now taking place about how engaged do we become. Look, 340 00:21:15,040 --> 00:21:19,080 Speaker 1: I do think that the cartels are an even bigger 341 00:21:19,160 --> 00:21:23,080 Speaker 1: national security threat to US than many of the terrorist 342 00:21:23,240 --> 00:21:26,359 Speaker 1: entities globally that people know by name. I think the 343 00:21:26,480 --> 00:21:30,040 Speaker 1: numbers speak to that, but also remember it's it's we 344 00:21:30,080 --> 00:21:33,520 Speaker 1: look at drug overdoses. Drug overdoses also have a lot 345 00:21:33,520 --> 00:21:40,000 Speaker 1: of there's additional downstream destruction from that of addicts law, 346 00:21:40,680 --> 00:21:46,679 Speaker 1: you know, destroyed families, criminal behavior tied to these drug sales, 347 00:21:46,720 --> 00:21:49,960 Speaker 1: and all these different cities across America, people that are 348 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:53,439 Speaker 1: engaging in lower pettier crimes in order to feed their 349 00:21:53,520 --> 00:21:55,600 Speaker 1: drug habit. I mean, if you go around, you see 350 00:21:55,640 --> 00:21:58,119 Speaker 1: what's happening in a lot of these cities. And we 351 00:21:58,640 --> 00:22:00,639 Speaker 1: watch as there are people kind of wandering around in 352 00:22:00,680 --> 00:22:03,639 Speaker 1: San Francisco and Portland and Philadelphia and some of the 353 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:07,480 Speaker 1: downtown areas who look like they're acting almost like zombies. 354 00:22:07,520 --> 00:22:10,520 Speaker 1: They're drug addicts, and they're overwhelmingly fentinel addics, and so 355 00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:14,760 Speaker 1: there's tremendous societal degradation that comes from this. So the 356 00:22:14,800 --> 00:22:18,280 Speaker 1: threat of the cartels is enormous to the they're doing 357 00:22:18,359 --> 00:22:21,200 Speaker 1: enormous damage now every day in this country. That much 358 00:22:21,200 --> 00:22:22,879 Speaker 1: we know. So then we get to how do we 359 00:22:22,920 --> 00:22:27,119 Speaker 1: deal with it? And you know, Vicente Fox, the president 360 00:22:27,160 --> 00:22:29,199 Speaker 1: of Mexico, was really the first one to take on 361 00:22:29,280 --> 00:22:32,760 Speaker 1: the cartels, and he had I didn't even know what 362 00:22:32,760 --> 00:22:35,080 Speaker 1: the final account was, but certainly it was over fifty 363 00:22:35,119 --> 00:22:39,080 Speaker 1: thousand dead, over the course of what was considered that 364 00:22:39,840 --> 00:22:43,879 Speaker 1: cartel conflict, and mostly vast majority of those were civilians, 365 00:22:43,920 --> 00:22:46,119 Speaker 1: a lot of people killed in the crossfire, police officers 366 00:22:46,160 --> 00:22:48,399 Speaker 1: being killed. To get a sense of I think the 367 00:22:48,520 --> 00:22:52,479 Speaker 1: scale that you would have to take it take on 368 00:22:52,600 --> 00:22:56,720 Speaker 1: in order to fight a narco war in Mexico. President 369 00:22:57,160 --> 00:23:02,239 Speaker 1: Bukeley down in El Salvador, he's decided that they are 370 00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:06,080 Speaker 1: fighting effectively a civil war all out against MS thirteen, 371 00:23:06,800 --> 00:23:10,080 Speaker 1: Mara Salvatrucia. It's a drug gang, really, but it's a 372 00:23:10,119 --> 00:23:13,480 Speaker 1: massive international drug gang. There are MS thirteen murders that 373 00:23:13,480 --> 00:23:15,960 Speaker 1: have happened in Long Island, New York. They're MS thirteen 374 00:23:16,040 --> 00:23:18,800 Speaker 1: murders that have happened just outside of Washington, DC. Right 375 00:23:18,840 --> 00:23:22,840 Speaker 1: all over the country. The tentacles of this vicious, ultra 376 00:23:22,920 --> 00:23:27,399 Speaker 1: violent group have spread. So Bukeley has decided to mobilize 377 00:23:27,440 --> 00:23:30,480 Speaker 1: all of El Salvador against this, to the point where 378 00:23:30,480 --> 00:23:32,680 Speaker 1: even and you may have seen this story a few 379 00:23:32,680 --> 00:23:37,520 Speaker 1: months ago, they had sent in prisoners to destroy the 380 00:23:37,640 --> 00:23:42,600 Speaker 1: grave sites, the grave stones of MS thirteen members, because 381 00:23:42,760 --> 00:23:45,720 Speaker 1: MS thirteen people killed in the drug wars have on 382 00:23:45,760 --> 00:23:47,840 Speaker 1: their grave that they are a member of MS thirteen, 383 00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:52,000 Speaker 1: and so Bukeley has decided that they're going to eliminate 384 00:23:52,119 --> 00:23:56,720 Speaker 1: this from society because the other gang members were gathering 385 00:23:56,840 --> 00:23:59,920 Speaker 1: at the sites in El Salvador, at these grave sites 386 00:24:00,440 --> 00:24:03,200 Speaker 1: of the gang members, and this became a common activity 387 00:24:03,240 --> 00:24:05,520 Speaker 1: for them. So one people didn't feel safe going into 388 00:24:05,560 --> 00:24:08,440 Speaker 1: the graveyards who weren't in these gangs. And two he's 389 00:24:08,480 --> 00:24:10,560 Speaker 1: taken the position and he's had some clips that have 390 00:24:10,600 --> 00:24:13,200 Speaker 1: gone very viral over this. The President of Al Salvador 391 00:24:13,880 --> 00:24:16,679 Speaker 1: that they're treating this like the Nazis in Germany, that 392 00:24:16,760 --> 00:24:23,159 Speaker 1: they're they're eradication of everything involving Ms thirteen in the 393 00:24:23,280 --> 00:24:26,080 Speaker 1: country of Al Salvador. Is he gonna win this fight? 394 00:24:26,480 --> 00:24:30,560 Speaker 1: We'll see. Has he turned all of society into or rather, 395 00:24:30,640 --> 00:24:32,720 Speaker 1: has he made this an all of society fight for 396 00:24:32,760 --> 00:24:35,400 Speaker 1: the future of his country. Yes, Al Salvador has six 397 00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:39,040 Speaker 1: million people. Mexico has about one hundred and thirty million people. 398 00:24:39,640 --> 00:24:43,320 Speaker 1: And you're talking about cart If you're looking at cartel operatives, 399 00:24:43,359 --> 00:24:48,280 Speaker 1: Clay tens of thousands of people who are directly tied 400 00:24:48,320 --> 00:24:52,800 Speaker 1: into probably carry arms for and are willing to engage 401 00:24:52,840 --> 00:24:55,760 Speaker 1: in all kinds of violent and illegal activity on behalf 402 00:24:55,800 --> 00:24:58,920 Speaker 1: of the cartels. So just a drone strike here, there's 403 00:24:58,960 --> 00:25:00,359 Speaker 1: not going to do it as the point, right, this 404 00:25:00,359 --> 00:25:02,760 Speaker 1: would have to be to really go after the cartels, 405 00:25:02,760 --> 00:25:04,680 Speaker 1: and to do it as a as a military or 406 00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:08,679 Speaker 1: even paramilitary operation. You're looking at something the scale of 407 00:25:08,720 --> 00:25:11,080 Speaker 1: which we haven't seen in this country in a long time. 408 00:25:11,800 --> 00:25:14,080 Speaker 1: We'd have to go after the Mexican drug cartels like 409 00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:17,680 Speaker 1: Trump would after ISIS. And honestly, I don't think Joe 410 00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:20,520 Speaker 1: Biden's going to do it, but I would suspect buck 411 00:25:20,600 --> 00:25:24,399 Speaker 1: if the twenty twenty four Republican presidential campaign is going 412 00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:27,840 Speaker 1: to actually lead to a lot of debate over this. Yeah, 413 00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:30,760 Speaker 1: but I mean again, Mexico, one hundred and thirty million people, 414 00:25:30,880 --> 00:25:33,640 Speaker 1: has a functioning government, has its own military, has its 415 00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:37,520 Speaker 1: own police and judicial system. And you know, I think 416 00:25:37,560 --> 00:25:41,760 Speaker 1: it's worth everybody remembering, remember this Biden administration to protect 417 00:25:41,840 --> 00:25:44,840 Speaker 1: during the withdrawal, to protect our soldiers they had, They 418 00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:46,879 Speaker 1: were very proud of themselves. They came out and they 419 00:25:46,920 --> 00:25:50,200 Speaker 1: bragged about the drone strike. We took action right away. 420 00:25:50,240 --> 00:25:53,359 Speaker 1: We had a drone strike on a vehicle that was 421 00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:59,080 Speaker 1: an svb ID suicide vehicle board improvised explosive device suicide 422 00:25:59,119 --> 00:26:01,919 Speaker 1: bombing car. Turned out it was I think a father 423 00:26:02,040 --> 00:26:06,399 Speaker 1: with five or six of his kids in the car. Yeah, 424 00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:08,440 Speaker 1: that's what they got it wrong. They got it as 425 00:26:08,440 --> 00:26:10,440 Speaker 1: wrong as it could be. So when we talk about 426 00:26:10,480 --> 00:26:13,920 Speaker 1: going with a even a paramilitary, even sort of more 427 00:26:13,960 --> 00:26:17,720 Speaker 1: covert action inside of Mexico, the moment you're talking about 428 00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:20,720 Speaker 1: using doing kinetic strikes with drones, planes, anything like that, 429 00:26:21,119 --> 00:26:24,040 Speaker 1: I mean, you're going to be pulling children out of 430 00:26:24,080 --> 00:26:27,600 Speaker 1: the rubble in you know, Tiquana, like this is going 431 00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:31,160 Speaker 1: to happen at some point. If you're so just everything's understand. 432 00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:33,320 Speaker 1: If you're really going to do it, be prepared for 433 00:26:33,840 --> 00:26:36,840 Speaker 1: a scale of conflict in a country that is on 434 00:26:36,880 --> 00:26:38,800 Speaker 1: our border, which is also very different than a country 435 00:26:38,800 --> 00:26:40,560 Speaker 1: that has thousands of miles away, a country that we 436 00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:43,600 Speaker 1: have very intricate and an in depth day to day 437 00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:48,600 Speaker 1: relations with. So I'm a little surprised at the some 438 00:26:48,680 --> 00:26:50,400 Speaker 1: of the some of the people on the Republican side, 439 00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:51,840 Speaker 1: they're saying, yeah, we've got to go out you know, 440 00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:53,960 Speaker 1: I know Trump said this, We've got to treat them 441 00:26:53,960 --> 00:26:56,480 Speaker 1: like isis okay? But what is that you know, the 442 00:26:56,480 --> 00:26:58,199 Speaker 1: devil's in the details. What does that really mean and 443 00:26:58,240 --> 00:26:59,880 Speaker 1: how we're really going to do it, because it would 444 00:26:59,880 --> 00:27:03,840 Speaker 1: be a very complicated and risky fight that would take 445 00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:07,359 Speaker 1: many years and a whole lot of casualties as well 446 00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:10,800 Speaker 1: as also the Mexican government has to be willing to 447 00:27:10,840 --> 00:27:13,320 Speaker 1: go along with this. We don't have the intelligence on 448 00:27:13,359 --> 00:27:15,200 Speaker 1: the ground in Mexico to know who's doing what in 449 00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:18,680 Speaker 1: the cartels, not even close. This is I want to 450 00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:20,680 Speaker 1: play a couple of the cuts because what we're talking about, 451 00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:22,280 Speaker 1: if you're out there and you haven't been paying attention, 452 00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:26,760 Speaker 1: it's become a very much topic of the day for sure, 453 00:27:26,800 --> 00:27:28,359 Speaker 1: and I think this is going to continue to build. 454 00:27:28,520 --> 00:27:31,320 Speaker 1: I want to play a couple of senators here. Lindsey 455 00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:34,560 Speaker 1: Graham says, I want every drug dealer in Mexico not 456 00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:37,320 Speaker 1: sleeping well at night, worried that there might be a 457 00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:40,080 Speaker 1: missile coming through the window. Listen to this. The authorization 458 00:27:40,119 --> 00:27:43,240 Speaker 1: to use military force is not to invade Mexico, not 459 00:27:43,280 --> 00:27:46,480 Speaker 1: to take the Mexican government down, is to use military 460 00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:49,680 Speaker 1: force to strike at the cartels, the labs and their 461 00:27:49,680 --> 00:27:53,119 Speaker 1: infrastructure that's killing Americans. We do this all over the world. 462 00:27:53,320 --> 00:27:56,320 Speaker 1: We hit Terris and Syria almost every night. We do 463 00:27:56,359 --> 00:27:59,439 Speaker 1: it in Iraq. Wherever there's a threat to Americans, we 464 00:27:59,560 --> 00:28:01,919 Speaker 1: deal with the threat. The number one job of the 465 00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:05,879 Speaker 1: federal government is to defend this nation. The Biden administration 466 00:28:06,119 --> 00:28:08,760 Speaker 1: has not done all they could do to stop the 467 00:28:08,760 --> 00:28:12,119 Speaker 1: fitnol posing of America. They have been slow, they have 468 00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:15,520 Speaker 1: been reluctant. I am changing the game. I want every 469 00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:18,480 Speaker 1: drug dealer in Mexico to not sleep well at night 470 00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:22,720 Speaker 1: wondering fare's a missile coming through the window. I mean, look, 471 00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:25,200 Speaker 1: he's I think he's out of his mind, honestly. I mean, 472 00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:28,600 Speaker 1: Lindsay Graham has never has never found a war that 473 00:28:28,680 --> 00:28:31,400 Speaker 1: he wasn't excited for other Americans children to fight. I'm 474 00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:32,919 Speaker 1: just gonna say it, Okay, I don't know what he 475 00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:35,560 Speaker 1: thinks this is going to really be able to accomplish 476 00:28:35,680 --> 00:28:39,960 Speaker 1: going forward. You know how many? How many missile strikes 477 00:28:39,960 --> 00:28:41,520 Speaker 1: are we talking about? Let I mean, we can all 478 00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:45,960 Speaker 1: agree the cartel is massive. Billions and billions about dwarfs 479 00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:49,720 Speaker 1: the financial and military resources if they really wanted to 480 00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:54,600 Speaker 1: that you were seeing in parts of Syria, for example, 481 00:28:54,680 --> 00:29:00,600 Speaker 1: far more sophisticated communications, far more sophisticated training. And we're 482 00:29:00,600 --> 00:29:03,800 Speaker 1: gonna start firing missiles into Mexico, we're gonna treat I mean, 483 00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:05,520 Speaker 1: I don't know how else to say this, Lindsay. You know, 484 00:29:05,640 --> 00:29:09,440 Speaker 1: Mexico City isn't the northwest frontier province of Pakistan. Like, 485 00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:12,600 Speaker 1: there's a whole lot more risk of civilian casualties, a 486 00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:15,960 Speaker 1: whole lot more people. I don't know. I don't see it. 487 00:29:16,080 --> 00:29:18,560 Speaker 1: I don't see here's what. And then just to build 488 00:29:18,560 --> 00:29:20,560 Speaker 1: on top of it, You're right, Lindsay Graham tends to 489 00:29:20,560 --> 00:29:24,040 Speaker 1: be a hawk. Tom Cotton basically saying the same thing, 490 00:29:24,120 --> 00:29:27,040 Speaker 1: Senator from Arkansas. If ISIS and al Qaeda had set 491 00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:30,000 Speaker 1: up shop in Warez or Monterey or Tijuana, what would 492 00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:32,080 Speaker 1: you expect your government to do if they were killing 493 00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:34,520 Speaker 1: one hundred thousand Americans a year and whatever that is, 494 00:29:34,760 --> 00:29:37,640 Speaker 1: That's exactly what we should do to them in Mexico, 495 00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:40,560 Speaker 1: with or without the Mexican government. We have a long 496 00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:43,880 Speaker 1: history of our military protecting us from these threats from 497 00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:47,720 Speaker 1: drug traffickers and narco terrorists. If the Mexican government will 498 00:29:47,840 --> 00:29:52,080 Speaker 1: not or cannot stop these cartels from killing hundreds of 499 00:29:52,080 --> 00:29:56,760 Speaker 1: thousands of Americans, then America should. Oh it's gonna I'm 500 00:29:56,800 --> 00:30:00,760 Speaker 1: telling you, bucket's gonna get super spicy in terms of 501 00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:02,560 Speaker 1: this debate, Can I can I tell you what's really 502 00:30:02,560 --> 00:30:05,280 Speaker 1: going on here, Clay. They know Biden's not gonna do it, 503 00:30:05,320 --> 00:30:07,320 Speaker 1: so they get to sound they get to talk tough, 504 00:30:07,360 --> 00:30:09,200 Speaker 1: and people in the base will some of them will 505 00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:11,840 Speaker 1: like to hear this stuff. But it's not gonna happen. 506 00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:14,040 Speaker 1: It's not gonna have Joe. Biden's not gonna do it. 507 00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:16,840 Speaker 1: So then you get to where it gets really interesting. 508 00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:20,280 Speaker 1: Is the Republican nominee for twenty twenty four, what is 509 00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:22,720 Speaker 1: his plan? Because this isn't, as I said, it's gonna 510 00:30:22,760 --> 00:30:26,120 Speaker 1: be urging to be a Republican primary debate decision, because 511 00:30:26,160 --> 00:30:28,160 Speaker 1: you're right, Biden's not gonna do it, right, So so 512 00:30:28,480 --> 00:30:30,800 Speaker 1: we consider how they'd be, like, yeah, like sending everybody 513 00:30:30,800 --> 00:30:33,520 Speaker 1: and do everything, and you know, and then people go, yeah, 514 00:30:33,560 --> 00:30:36,800 Speaker 1: nothing's gonna happen. Biden's nothing. Biden's not even gonna secure 515 00:30:36,840 --> 00:30:39,840 Speaker 1: the border, you know, with the most basic plan possible, 516 00:30:39,840 --> 00:30:41,640 Speaker 1: which would at least start to stem the flow offender, 517 00:30:41,720 --> 00:30:45,120 Speaker 1: they could care less. Okay, but you're talking about like strikes, 518 00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:49,680 Speaker 1: drone strikes, special operations missions, you know, kicking indoors, landing 519 00:30:49,680 --> 00:30:52,320 Speaker 1: on rooftops and parts of Mexico. Biden. Biden's not going 520 00:30:52,400 --> 00:30:55,720 Speaker 1: to do that, but would the next Republican president? Is it? 521 00:30:55,760 --> 00:30:58,680 Speaker 1: And is it Trump? Or is it somebody else? That 522 00:30:58,800 --> 00:31:00,960 Speaker 1: I think is where the debate. It's really interesting because 523 00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:03,760 Speaker 1: the issue couldn't be more urgent. It is. 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Welcome act to Clay and Buck will be 550 00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:28,520 Speaker 1: coming up here in the third hour shortly, and we've 551 00:32:28,560 --> 00:32:33,400 Speaker 1: got more on the more on the Biden budget coming 552 00:32:33,480 --> 00:32:35,960 Speaker 1: your way. What is he gonna do? CKX and spend. 553 00:32:36,080 --> 00:32:38,320 Speaker 1: Of course, Also, Senator Rand Paul will be with us 554 00:32:38,320 --> 00:32:40,240 Speaker 1: in a few moments. You know, we're gonna talk to 555 00:32:40,280 --> 00:32:43,000 Speaker 1: him about Fauci. Maybe we'll do a mock Fauci interview 556 00:32:43,080 --> 00:32:45,520 Speaker 1: like he can. I'll pretend to be Fauci and he 557 00:32:45,560 --> 00:32:47,680 Speaker 1: can do his Rand Paul thing. I'll be like, I 558 00:32:47,840 --> 00:32:51,960 Speaker 1: can't answer any question. No you, sir, h you are 559 00:32:52,280 --> 00:32:56,040 Speaker 1: a bad man, and stop being mean to little Fauci 560 00:32:56,560 --> 00:32:59,360 Speaker 1: because there was more of that going on, and it's great. Really, 561 00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:04,400 Speaker 1: Senator was the only person in Congress who all along. 562 00:33:04,560 --> 00:33:06,320 Speaker 1: I think I think he's I think he sniffed out 563 00:33:06,360 --> 00:33:08,320 Speaker 1: who fout you was? He knew who this guy was 564 00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:11,200 Speaker 1: and and thankfully tried to hold his feet to the 565 00:33:11,280 --> 00:33:14,040 Speaker 1: fire as much as he could during those hearings. Um. 566 00:33:14,080 --> 00:33:15,840 Speaker 1: So we'll get into that in just a moment. You know, Clay, 567 00:33:15,880 --> 00:33:18,480 Speaker 1: I had also mentioned I get some calls here in 568 00:33:18,480 --> 00:33:21,960 Speaker 1: a second, but it was, um, did you did you celebrate, 569 00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:26,040 Speaker 1: mister Clay Travis International Women's Day yesterday? Did I did? 570 00:33:26,160 --> 00:33:29,280 Speaker 1: I was? I was so excited. I went and UM, 571 00:33:29,440 --> 00:33:33,920 Speaker 1: and I was pulling up photos of Leah Thomas and 572 00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:37,200 Speaker 1: I was showing my kids and I was saying, hey, boys, 573 00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:40,360 Speaker 1: one day, if you grow up and decided to become 574 00:33:40,360 --> 00:33:43,480 Speaker 1: a girl, you can become the greatest women's athlete of 575 00:33:43,480 --> 00:33:46,680 Speaker 1: all time. Is really empowering. I thought conversation to be 576 00:33:46,720 --> 00:33:49,480 Speaker 1: having with my boys about sports and men dominating and 577 00:33:49,520 --> 00:33:53,200 Speaker 1: taking over women's athletics was really touching. I thought, Buck, Yeah, absolutely, 578 00:33:53,680 --> 00:33:56,800 Speaker 1: you know, don't don't let don't let your beard and 579 00:33:56,880 --> 00:34:00,360 Speaker 1: Harry armpits that everything prevent you from being the best, 580 00:34:00,520 --> 00:34:02,800 Speaker 1: you know, women's field hockey player. If you want down 581 00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:04,760 Speaker 1: the wall, you know, no, no problem. Let your penis 582 00:34:04,840 --> 00:34:07,320 Speaker 1: keep you out of the w NBA. It's an important 583 00:34:07,320 --> 00:34:09,759 Speaker 1: message to teach kids these days. Hey, yes you have 584 00:34:09,840 --> 00:34:12,239 Speaker 1: male genitals, but that doesn't mean you can't be the 585 00:34:12,239 --> 00:34:15,000 Speaker 1: greatest w NBA player of all time. You can still 586 00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:21,160 Speaker 1: do it. So yesterday the White House gave out the 587 00:34:21,200 --> 00:34:26,080 Speaker 1: Women of Courage Awards to honor women from around the 588 00:34:26,120 --> 00:34:29,680 Speaker 1: world who are building a brighter future for all. This 589 00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:32,960 Speaker 1: is from an official State Department press release. None other 590 00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:41,840 Speaker 1: than Jill Biden doctor put some respect on the woman's 591 00:34:41,920 --> 00:34:49,160 Speaker 1: days a course. If you, if you had an AI, 592 00:34:49,440 --> 00:34:53,400 Speaker 1: write a PhD dissertation on education, which is where her 593 00:34:53,520 --> 00:34:56,279 Speaker 1: doctorate comes from. I promise you it's better than whatever 594 00:34:56,360 --> 00:34:58,919 Speaker 1: Jill Biden wrote. Without even I just I assure you 595 00:34:59,160 --> 00:35:01,359 Speaker 1: if you wrote do an AI program. But you can 596 00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:02,960 Speaker 1: do right now by the way they have these open 597 00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:06,680 Speaker 1: AI systems. Write me a PhD thesis on education. It 598 00:35:06,680 --> 00:35:09,920 Speaker 1: would be light years ahead of whatever Jill Biden, do 599 00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:11,759 Speaker 1: you agree with me? By the way, if you're not 600 00:35:11,840 --> 00:35:14,239 Speaker 1: a medical doctor, I don't think you should get to 601 00:35:14,239 --> 00:35:16,959 Speaker 1: call yourself a doctor like I understand people can spend 602 00:35:16,960 --> 00:35:19,640 Speaker 1: a long time to become, you know, a doctor of 603 00:35:19,719 --> 00:35:23,600 Speaker 1: archaeology like Indiana Jones or whatever else. It It really 604 00:35:23,719 --> 00:35:26,680 Speaker 1: it feels like you're trading on the medical association, right. 605 00:35:26,840 --> 00:35:30,160 Speaker 1: I think doctor is for medical doctors. I will say 606 00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:35,000 Speaker 1: dentists they go to medical school doctors. Um. I think 607 00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:36,919 Speaker 1: it gets a little bit more interesting when you start 608 00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:39,880 Speaker 1: throwing h and all the dentists like your dad, I 609 00:35:40,560 --> 00:35:44,040 Speaker 1: have a juris doctorate, right, every lawyer does, and you 610 00:35:44,120 --> 00:35:46,239 Speaker 1: definitely can't call yourself doctor. No, no, well, I mean 611 00:35:46,800 --> 00:35:48,800 Speaker 1: I probably have spent more time in my degree, and 612 00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:50,640 Speaker 1: it's harder. If some of the young men of the 613 00:35:50,640 --> 00:35:53,280 Speaker 1: audience need dating advice. Maybe Clay could be the love doctor, 614 00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:55,320 Speaker 1: but he's definitely not a doctor. Yeah, well that my 615 00:35:55,360 --> 00:35:57,359 Speaker 1: wife would certainly say. They answer that is no, you 616 00:35:57,480 --> 00:36:00,160 Speaker 1: certainly should never hire an attorney who puts esquire or 617 00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:04,319 Speaker 1: after their name, because yes, also true. Um, but but 618 00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:06,840 Speaker 1: I just want to tell everybody that the White House 619 00:36:06,960 --> 00:36:10,840 Speaker 1: awarded these awarded the Women of Courage Awards to a 620 00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:13,520 Speaker 1: number of women. One of them, though the thing was, 621 00:36:13,520 --> 00:36:20,359 Speaker 1: wasn't actually a woman, was an Argentinian transwoman named Alba Ruwada, 622 00:36:20,880 --> 00:36:26,000 Speaker 1: who was a transgender woman who faced a lot of challenges, etc. Etc. 623 00:36:26,760 --> 00:36:29,480 Speaker 1: Not being accepted for being a woman. So now they 624 00:36:29,480 --> 00:36:34,799 Speaker 1: are giving out on International Women's Day awards for achievement 625 00:36:34,880 --> 00:36:39,000 Speaker 1: as a woman to people who are not actually women. 626 00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:42,360 Speaker 1: What what do you think if you're a woman and 627 00:36:42,440 --> 00:36:45,000 Speaker 1: you've been a woman your whole life, busting your ass 628 00:36:45,600 --> 00:36:49,640 Speaker 1: as a woman, and this dude just swoops in for 629 00:36:49,719 --> 00:36:53,160 Speaker 1: like two or three years and becomes a woman and 630 00:36:53,360 --> 00:36:56,400 Speaker 1: then gets Woman of the Year, Like just rise it 631 00:36:56,480 --> 00:36:58,360 Speaker 1: up and dunk it on you all balls in the 632 00:36:58,400 --> 00:37:00,759 Speaker 1: face style. I just I don't know understand how you 633 00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:03,600 Speaker 1: could eat your hand handle it next hour.