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 --> 00:00:07,160 Speaker 1: Sexton Show podcast. Welcome back in our number two Clay 3 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:10,800 Speaker 1: Travis buck Sexton Show. A ton to discuss. If you 4 00:00:10,840 --> 00:00:13,360 Speaker 1: didn't listen to the first hour, what are you doing 5 00:00:13,440 --> 00:00:14,960 Speaker 1: with your life? Make sure you sign up for the 6 00:00:14,960 --> 00:00:17,520 Speaker 1: podcast you can go dive into it. We shared a 7 00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:20,919 Speaker 1: lot of the latest data on COVID, discussed the situation 8 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:23,799 Speaker 1: in Florida, you still got to get into Netflix, and 9 00:00:23,920 --> 00:00:27,680 Speaker 1: Dave Chappelle trying to have his speech stifled in some 10 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:31,440 Speaker 1: of the ridiculous protests and counter protests that we saw yesterday. 11 00:00:31,880 --> 00:00:37,040 Speaker 1: Ongoing budget battle on Capitol Hill, NBA player taking aim 12 00:00:37,240 --> 00:00:40,320 Speaker 1: at China. This is actually going to get pretty intriguing 13 00:00:40,360 --> 00:00:43,640 Speaker 1: and spicy. I think we bring in now Senator Marsha 14 00:00:43,760 --> 00:00:48,040 Speaker 1: Blackburn of my home state of Tennessee. Senator Blackburn, thanks 15 00:00:48,040 --> 00:00:51,040 Speaker 1: for taking time to join us in a busy week 16 00:00:51,280 --> 00:00:53,840 Speaker 1: on Capitol Hill, and I want to start with you here. 17 00:00:53,880 --> 00:00:56,240 Speaker 1: I know we got a lot to get into. But 18 00:00:56,560 --> 00:01:00,560 Speaker 1: doctor Fauci, based on the NIH's own statement that came 19 00:01:00,600 --> 00:01:04,319 Speaker 1: out this morning, it appears that he lied in front 20 00:01:04,360 --> 00:01:08,040 Speaker 1: of Congress. At a minimum, he should have to retract 21 00:01:08,200 --> 00:01:10,640 Speaker 1: much of the testimony that he has given about gain 22 00:01:10,680 --> 00:01:16,240 Speaker 1: a function research involving COVID. Do you agree with that prognosis, 23 00:01:16,280 --> 00:01:19,440 Speaker 1: that analysis that I just provided, And what should happen 24 00:01:19,520 --> 00:01:23,800 Speaker 1: to doctor Fauci based on this latest NIH statement, well play, 25 00:01:23,920 --> 00:01:29,000 Speaker 1: he should immediately be put on leave because of what 26 00:01:29,080 --> 00:01:33,360 Speaker 1: he has done, and then he should be required to 27 00:01:33,400 --> 00:01:38,240 Speaker 1: go back to the committee under oath and to correct 28 00:01:38,360 --> 00:01:43,000 Speaker 1: the record under oath. Now, of course I think that 29 00:01:43,120 --> 00:01:46,520 Speaker 1: doctor Fauci is one of those that should be removed 30 00:01:47,040 --> 00:01:51,240 Speaker 1: because when we were saying early on we need to 31 00:01:51,280 --> 00:01:54,960 Speaker 1: investigate this lab, he came out in defense of that lab. 32 00:01:55,640 --> 00:02:02,240 Speaker 1: And now we understand why he was in favor of 33 00:02:03,080 --> 00:02:07,840 Speaker 1: keeping that quiet, why he didn't want us investigating the lab, 34 00:02:08,520 --> 00:02:11,240 Speaker 1: why he didn't want us to look at the partners 35 00:02:11,240 --> 00:02:15,480 Speaker 1: they had in some of this research. Senator Blackburnard's buck, 36 00:02:15,680 --> 00:02:19,800 Speaker 1: I want to know what you think of the testimony today, 37 00:02:19,919 --> 00:02:22,040 Speaker 1: such as I know you're having to watch all of it. 38 00:02:22,040 --> 00:02:23,679 Speaker 1: You got other things you gotta do, but you have 39 00:02:24,240 --> 00:02:28,320 Speaker 1: Marrek Garland, the Attorney General on Capitol Hill, responding to 40 00:02:28,520 --> 00:02:33,560 Speaker 1: some pretty upset GOP members of Congress over the letter 41 00:02:33,639 --> 00:02:38,040 Speaker 1: he put out from his office, stating essentially that parents 42 00:02:38,120 --> 00:02:41,480 Speaker 1: who are speaking out at these school board meetings about 43 00:02:41,560 --> 00:02:44,560 Speaker 1: particularly critical race theory, but other issues as well, are 44 00:02:44,639 --> 00:02:49,640 Speaker 1: possible domestic terrorists or insurrectionists. What do you make of it? Well, 45 00:02:50,040 --> 00:02:55,600 Speaker 1: of course this was completely inappropriate, and moms and dads 46 00:02:56,280 --> 00:02:59,720 Speaker 1: going to a school board meeting to question people that 47 00:03:00,520 --> 00:03:04,760 Speaker 1: that are elected and a school system that is paid 48 00:03:04,800 --> 00:03:09,160 Speaker 1: for with taxpayer dollars. Some of these school boards are 49 00:03:09,240 --> 00:03:13,880 Speaker 1: so arrogant and out of touch they have forgotten that 50 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:17,360 Speaker 1: they do not work for the teachers union. They work 51 00:03:17,560 --> 00:03:22,679 Speaker 1: for the people of that jurisdiction who have elected them 52 00:03:22,680 --> 00:03:24,880 Speaker 1: and put them on that schoolboard. And if you want 53 00:03:24,919 --> 00:03:29,720 Speaker 1: to know why there is pornography or sexual assault, or 54 00:03:30,400 --> 00:03:34,440 Speaker 1: there is critical race theory or the sixteen nineteen project, 55 00:03:34,840 --> 00:03:37,760 Speaker 1: or why their children are being forced to wear masks, 56 00:03:38,080 --> 00:03:42,360 Speaker 1: you have every right to go and petition your government 57 00:03:42,760 --> 00:03:47,080 Speaker 1: and ask those questions. And if those individuals don't want 58 00:03:47,080 --> 00:03:50,040 Speaker 1: to answer the questions, then they ought to be resigning. 59 00:03:51,040 --> 00:03:53,960 Speaker 1: Senator Blackburn. A lot to get into. As I said, 60 00:03:54,040 --> 00:03:57,400 Speaker 1: we started this interview, but you recently visited the border. 61 00:03:57,760 --> 00:04:01,760 Speaker 1: We now know one point seven million people have crossed 62 00:04:01,760 --> 00:04:03,880 Speaker 1: the border, which is a record going I think all 63 00:04:03,880 --> 00:04:05,800 Speaker 1: the way back to nineteen eighty six, and there's some 64 00:04:05,880 --> 00:04:08,680 Speaker 1: unique circumstances associated with nineteen eighty six. So for many 65 00:04:08,720 --> 00:04:12,120 Speaker 1: people listening right now, border crossing is the highest level 66 00:04:12,280 --> 00:04:16,520 Speaker 1: of their lives illegally. What should happen, Yeah, what should 67 00:04:16,520 --> 00:04:19,520 Speaker 1: happen with Secretary Mayorcus? And what did you see when 68 00:04:19,560 --> 00:04:22,840 Speaker 1: you were at the border? Well, we thought we were 69 00:04:22,839 --> 00:04:25,839 Speaker 1: going to have Secretary Mayorcus in front of us today, 70 00:04:25,839 --> 00:04:29,880 Speaker 1: but he has COVID, he did not want to testify 71 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:37,360 Speaker 1: by remote and virtually for us today about what I 72 00:04:37,560 --> 00:04:40,560 Speaker 1: saw was a lot of chaos and confusion. There's some 73 00:04:40,680 --> 00:04:43,960 Speaker 1: border patrols that want to do their job. The Texas 74 00:04:44,080 --> 00:04:47,400 Speaker 1: Highway Patrol and the National Guard have stepped up under 75 00:04:47,520 --> 00:04:52,400 Speaker 1: Operation Loan Star in order to protect that border. You've 76 00:04:52,640 --> 00:04:57,400 Speaker 1: got border patrols that are very concerned about the Haitian migrants, 77 00:04:57,800 --> 00:05:01,799 Speaker 1: the sixty thousand that are headed to Award that southern border, 78 00:05:02,279 --> 00:05:06,840 Speaker 1: and they were very specific in their conversations with me. 79 00:05:06,960 --> 00:05:09,680 Speaker 1: And of course I've been going down there now for 80 00:05:09,800 --> 00:05:13,840 Speaker 1: over a decade. When I had legislation, I was working 81 00:05:13,880 --> 00:05:19,120 Speaker 1: with them to deport the criminal illegal aliens. And what 82 00:05:19,160 --> 00:05:24,080 Speaker 1: they're seeing is a lot of uptick, not only in 83 00:05:24,160 --> 00:05:31,200 Speaker 1: the humanitarian crisis with the trafficking of individuals. The criminal 84 00:05:31,480 --> 00:05:37,240 Speaker 1: element is just much more aggressive. You know, they're shooting 85 00:05:37,520 --> 00:05:40,320 Speaker 1: on the Mexico side of the border. They have not 86 00:05:40,520 --> 00:05:45,440 Speaker 1: shot at our National Guard in highway Patrol and CBP. 87 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:51,280 Speaker 1: Yet they also are very concerned about all the gotaways 88 00:05:51,640 --> 00:05:56,279 Speaker 1: and the amount of drug trafficking, human trafficking, the bad 89 00:05:56,320 --> 00:06:00,560 Speaker 1: elements that do not want to be apprehended, and has 90 00:06:00,839 --> 00:06:04,600 Speaker 1: picked up their hundreds of thousands of gotaways that are 91 00:06:04,640 --> 00:06:08,000 Speaker 1: getting through that border. And I said, tell me what 92 00:06:08,160 --> 00:06:11,599 Speaker 1: you need us to do first, and they said, look, 93 00:06:11,680 --> 00:06:17,159 Speaker 1: this situation is fixable, and that is their term. They said, first, 94 00:06:17,279 --> 00:06:20,000 Speaker 1: go back to building the wall. That was a huge help. 95 00:06:20,080 --> 00:06:23,760 Speaker 1: They've asked for it for decades. President Trump moved forward 96 00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:27,960 Speaker 1: on its second put remain in Mexico back in place, 97 00:06:28,800 --> 00:06:33,000 Speaker 1: end catch and release so that people are not just apprehended, 98 00:06:33,080 --> 00:06:36,200 Speaker 1: put on a plane to your community, told to show 99 00:06:36,279 --> 00:06:39,880 Speaker 1: up in court two years later, and then allow them 100 00:06:39,920 --> 00:06:43,640 Speaker 1: to exercise Title forty two, so that people who are 101 00:06:43,960 --> 00:06:47,520 Speaker 1: HIV positive, people that have COVID, people that have measles 102 00:06:47,839 --> 00:06:50,279 Speaker 1: are not going to be put on those planes and 103 00:06:50,440 --> 00:06:57,159 Speaker 1: moves into the country's interior. And those are things that, 104 00:06:57,240 --> 00:06:59,599 Speaker 1: as they say, if you do this and if you 105 00:07:00,080 --> 00:07:03,400 Speaker 1: force the rule of law, we can keep this country safe. 106 00:07:03,440 --> 00:07:06,680 Speaker 1: But right now we don't know what is coming across 107 00:07:06,760 --> 00:07:12,480 Speaker 1: the border when it comes to weapons, our drugs are traffickers. 108 00:07:12,840 --> 00:07:16,040 Speaker 1: We don't know if there are people that are known 109 00:07:16,240 --> 00:07:22,120 Speaker 1: terrorists to on the in the gotaways, because we don't 110 00:07:22,160 --> 00:07:24,600 Speaker 1: really know who it is that is coming in. And 111 00:07:24,680 --> 00:07:27,800 Speaker 1: you know, one thing that was so interesting when I 112 00:07:27,880 --> 00:07:33,880 Speaker 1: was leaving McAllen, I met with a TSA agent. They 113 00:07:33,920 --> 00:07:39,240 Speaker 1: have set up a special screening process to screen these 114 00:07:39,760 --> 00:07:43,560 Speaker 1: that are coming in. These individuals coming into the country 115 00:07:43,600 --> 00:07:50,760 Speaker 1: illegally because they do not have documentation, so they have 116 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:55,080 Speaker 1: a special screening line for them so that they can 117 00:07:55,120 --> 00:07:58,680 Speaker 1: put them onto commercial flights. We're speaking to Senator Marsha 118 00:07:58,760 --> 00:08:04,640 Speaker 1: Blackburn of Tennis. See Senator. The bill that the Democrats 119 00:08:04,640 --> 00:08:07,040 Speaker 1: and the Biden White House wants to get through, the 120 00:08:07,160 --> 00:08:11,240 Speaker 1: massive Reconciliation Bill, three point five trillion of spending, an 121 00:08:11,240 --> 00:08:14,680 Speaker 1: additional trillion of infrastructure, and who knows what else. It 122 00:08:14,760 --> 00:08:18,040 Speaker 1: has stalled out for now, so much so that yesterday 123 00:08:18,080 --> 00:08:20,600 Speaker 1: Clan and I were talking on the show about reports 124 00:08:20,640 --> 00:08:23,440 Speaker 1: that Senator Mansion caught in the middle of all this, 125 00:08:23,640 --> 00:08:27,679 Speaker 1: your colleague may decide to perhaps leave the Democrat Party. 126 00:08:27,800 --> 00:08:29,480 Speaker 1: I'm wondering if you can just shed some light on 127 00:08:29,800 --> 00:08:33,839 Speaker 1: where does the whole process with this massive Biden agenda 128 00:08:33,920 --> 00:08:36,600 Speaker 1: bill stand and what do you think about the reporting 129 00:08:36,600 --> 00:08:41,079 Speaker 1: on Senator Mansion of West Virginia. Well, first, the reporting 130 00:08:41,120 --> 00:08:44,760 Speaker 1: on Senator Mansion, I've not discussed this with him personally. 131 00:08:45,320 --> 00:08:49,120 Speaker 1: I don't see him changing parties. I do think that 132 00:08:49,280 --> 00:08:52,640 Speaker 1: there are several in the Democratic parties that would like 133 00:08:52,800 --> 00:08:58,880 Speaker 1: to conduct themselves in a more independent framework simply because 134 00:08:58,960 --> 00:09:02,600 Speaker 1: they don't agree with what is happening in the Democratic Party. 135 00:09:02,840 --> 00:09:05,960 Speaker 1: And a big part of that is this massive spending bill. 136 00:09:06,360 --> 00:09:09,280 Speaker 1: And of course last week we heard that they were 137 00:09:09,480 --> 00:09:12,960 Speaker 1: so frustrated they couldn't get the three and a half trillion, 138 00:09:13,080 --> 00:09:16,760 Speaker 1: which is really five trillion across the finish line, so 139 00:09:16,840 --> 00:09:20,680 Speaker 1: they were going to pare it back, keep all of 140 00:09:20,760 --> 00:09:25,920 Speaker 1: the programs, put them in as pilot projects or as 141 00:09:26,040 --> 00:09:30,320 Speaker 1: one year programs, but make them mandatory. So this then 142 00:09:30,720 --> 00:09:36,680 Speaker 1: in following years you have to fund these programs, so 143 00:09:36,720 --> 00:09:39,439 Speaker 1: you would see all of this increase in the welfare 144 00:09:39,520 --> 00:09:44,040 Speaker 1: state government pushing to take control of your kids, your healthcare, 145 00:09:44,520 --> 00:09:48,439 Speaker 1: your bank account. They would still move forward with all 146 00:09:48,480 --> 00:09:51,720 Speaker 1: of that, move forward with a green new deal, move 147 00:09:51,840 --> 00:09:56,000 Speaker 1: forward with what they're wanting to do with Medicare and Medicaid. 148 00:09:56,080 --> 00:09:58,800 Speaker 1: It's just they would do it for a shorter period 149 00:09:58,880 --> 00:10:01,200 Speaker 1: of time and say, look, look, we got our wish 150 00:10:01,280 --> 00:10:04,360 Speaker 1: list down. We can pay for this with one and 151 00:10:04,400 --> 00:10:09,319 Speaker 1: a half trillion dollars. Senator Blackburn, last question, I think 152 00:10:09,360 --> 00:10:11,640 Speaker 1: here for you and we appreciate the time. I saw 153 00:10:11,720 --> 00:10:14,360 Speaker 1: you tweet out about this, and I know we've discussed 154 00:10:14,400 --> 00:10:18,120 Speaker 1: it before. Enis Canter, who is a basketball player for 155 00:10:18,160 --> 00:10:22,439 Speaker 1: the Boston Celtics, came out and said, among other things 156 00:10:22,520 --> 00:10:25,640 Speaker 1: that I think everybody almost listening to us would agree 157 00:10:25,679 --> 00:10:29,200 Speaker 1: with him, that Chairman z in China is a brutal 158 00:10:29,280 --> 00:10:33,559 Speaker 1: dictator and that the people under his thumb deserve freedom. 159 00:10:33,640 --> 00:10:37,959 Speaker 1: As a result, China has pulled Boston Celtics games off 160 00:10:38,040 --> 00:10:42,720 Speaker 1: television inside of their country. Do you hope to see 161 00:10:42,840 --> 00:10:46,720 Speaker 1: other NBA players speak out like Enis Cantor did against 162 00:10:46,800 --> 00:10:52,840 Speaker 1: China and do you support him fully in his commentary? Yes, 163 00:10:53,280 --> 00:10:59,720 Speaker 1: you know, we have really been surprised with how some 164 00:11:00,240 --> 00:11:07,439 Speaker 1: of these American corporations, the NBA, Apple and others count 165 00:11:07,520 --> 00:11:11,920 Speaker 1: own to the communist Chinese. And this just shows you 166 00:11:12,040 --> 00:11:15,079 Speaker 1: if you are not in complete agreement with them, then 167 00:11:15,160 --> 00:11:18,360 Speaker 1: they are going to cut you off. And look at 168 00:11:18,400 --> 00:11:21,800 Speaker 1: what they are doing. Chairman g of course he is 169 00:11:21,840 --> 00:11:25,200 Speaker 1: a brutal dictator. Look at the genocide that they're carrying 170 00:11:25,240 --> 00:11:28,800 Speaker 1: out on the weekers. 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But we talked about briefly what's going 221 00:14:09,320 --> 00:14:12,040 Speaker 1: on on Capitol Hill right now where you have Attorney 222 00:14:12,040 --> 00:14:15,040 Speaker 1: General Merrick Garland, you know, the guy whose office put 223 00:14:15,040 --> 00:14:18,680 Speaker 1: out that nice free speech. You have parents concerned about 224 00:14:18,720 --> 00:14:21,600 Speaker 1: their kids in school. Be a shame if something happened 225 00:14:21,640 --> 00:14:26,880 Speaker 1: to it. You know, a really unsettling action from the 226 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:29,800 Speaker 1: chief law enforcement officer of the United States. Federal government 227 00:14:30,280 --> 00:14:35,840 Speaker 1: Representative Jim Jordan put this in a half Nelson today. 228 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:40,480 Speaker 1: Here he is talking about the politicization of the DJ 229 00:14:40,760 --> 00:14:43,440 Speaker 1: on Capitol Hill. The chairman just said the Trump DOJ 230 00:14:43,760 --> 00:14:46,400 Speaker 1: was political and when after their opponents, are you kidding me? 231 00:14:46,600 --> 00:14:49,560 Speaker 1: Three weeks ago, the National School Board Association rites President 232 00:14:49,640 --> 00:14:52,680 Speaker 1: by asking him to involve the FBI and local school 233 00:14:52,680 --> 00:14:55,640 Speaker 1: board matters. Five days later, the Attorney General of the 234 00:14:55,680 --> 00:14:59,200 Speaker 1: United States does just that, does exactly what a political 235 00:14:59,280 --> 00:15:03,200 Speaker 1: organization asked to be done. Five days. We've sent Republicans 236 00:15:03,240 --> 00:15:05,320 Speaker 1: on this committee sent the Attorney General thirteen letters in 237 00:15:05,320 --> 00:15:08,240 Speaker 1: the last six months. Takes weeks and months to get 238 00:15:08,240 --> 00:15:11,480 Speaker 1: a response. Eight of the letters we've got nothing. They 239 00:15:11,520 --> 00:15:12,880 Speaker 1: just gave us the fingers say we're not going to 240 00:15:12,960 --> 00:15:15,200 Speaker 1: get back to you. And all our letters were actually 241 00:15:15,200 --> 00:15:17,760 Speaker 1: sent to the Attorney General. Here's a letter sent to 242 00:15:17,840 --> 00:15:21,200 Speaker 1: someone else asking for a specific thing to be done, 243 00:15:21,440 --> 00:15:24,120 Speaker 1: and in five days the Attorney General does it. Here's 244 00:15:24,120 --> 00:15:26,880 Speaker 1: what the October fourth memo said, quote, I'm directing the 245 00:15:26,920 --> 00:15:30,600 Speaker 1: FBI to convene meetings with local leaders. These meetings will 246 00:15:30,600 --> 00:15:34,880 Speaker 1: open dedicated lines of communication for threat reporting. Dedicated lines 247 00:15:34,920 --> 00:15:39,640 Speaker 1: of communication for threat reporting. A snitch line on parents 248 00:15:40,200 --> 00:15:44,320 Speaker 1: started five days after a left wing political organization has 249 00:15:44,480 --> 00:15:46,560 Speaker 1: for it. That's not political. I don't know what is 250 00:15:47,760 --> 00:15:49,920 Speaker 1: well said by Jim Jordan, who, by the way, is 251 00:15:49,960 --> 00:15:52,760 Speaker 1: going to be on with us I believe next week. 252 00:15:53,680 --> 00:15:58,880 Speaker 1: And it's so well said, Buck, because when you actually 253 00:15:58,960 --> 00:16:03,400 Speaker 1: deconstruct what's going on here, it is set. First of all, 254 00:16:04,080 --> 00:16:05,840 Speaker 1: this is what I said when this story came out. 255 00:16:06,320 --> 00:16:10,560 Speaker 1: If somebody commits a crime locally, it should be prosecuted, right. 256 00:16:11,080 --> 00:16:14,000 Speaker 1: That's the job of local prosecutors, That's the job of 257 00:16:14,080 --> 00:16:17,480 Speaker 1: local police officers. Were savage communists. We don't cheer on 258 00:16:17,520 --> 00:16:20,120 Speaker 1: the burning down of police stations or the attacking of 259 00:16:20,160 --> 00:16:22,600 Speaker 1: public officials or whatever. We don't do that stuff. But 260 00:16:22,720 --> 00:16:26,720 Speaker 1: the idea that you would involve the federal government in 261 00:16:26,720 --> 00:16:31,600 Speaker 1: investigations into what parents do or say at school boards, 262 00:16:31,920 --> 00:16:33,920 Speaker 1: and that that would and that you would label them 263 00:16:33,960 --> 00:16:39,200 Speaker 1: as domestic terrorist strikes at the very fabric of American democracy, 264 00:16:39,320 --> 00:16:43,800 Speaker 1: which is the essence of individuals being able to share 265 00:16:43,840 --> 00:16:48,760 Speaker 1: their opinions on political matters and on important issues such 266 00:16:48,800 --> 00:16:52,000 Speaker 1: as decisions that are being made to educate their children 267 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:54,160 Speaker 1: in local public schools, like this is the very heart 268 00:16:54,200 --> 00:16:57,560 Speaker 1: of democracy. And the fact that they would go out 269 00:16:57,600 --> 00:17:00,640 Speaker 1: there with this memo from the Attorney chap Nonmal's office. 270 00:17:00,640 --> 00:17:02,920 Speaker 1: This wasn't you know they got away with the IRS 271 00:17:03,040 --> 00:17:06,680 Speaker 1: targeting for a while back in eleven twenty twelve, because 272 00:17:06,680 --> 00:17:08,480 Speaker 1: I said, oh, it was some low level people in 273 00:17:08,560 --> 00:17:11,280 Speaker 1: like the Cincinnati or the Cleveland office of the IRS. 274 00:17:11,800 --> 00:17:15,280 Speaker 1: This is the absolute top of the DOJ food chain, 275 00:17:15,359 --> 00:17:18,960 Speaker 1: so to speak, putting out a letter that's clearly meant 276 00:17:19,320 --> 00:17:22,680 Speaker 1: to say the eye of Soroon is focused in on 277 00:17:22,760 --> 00:17:27,080 Speaker 1: these parents, which is going to have real implications. And 278 00:17:27,320 --> 00:17:29,480 Speaker 1: that was why they did it, And it's because they 279 00:17:29,480 --> 00:17:32,960 Speaker 1: feel so comfortable weaponizing the bureaucracy for their own ends, 280 00:17:33,920 --> 00:17:36,080 Speaker 1: no doubt, and credit to Jim Jordan for calling it out. 281 00:17:36,160 --> 00:17:38,080 Speaker 1: But this is and by the way, we mentioned this 282 00:17:38,119 --> 00:17:42,120 Speaker 1: earlier in the first hour, but the Attorney General, Mayrick Garland, 283 00:17:42,280 --> 00:17:44,800 Speaker 1: despite the fact saying that he was going to investigate 284 00:17:44,880 --> 00:17:47,400 Speaker 1: local school boards, he said he didn't know anything about 285 00:17:47,400 --> 00:17:50,080 Speaker 1: the Loudon County issues and the potential sexual assault that 286 00:17:50,200 --> 00:17:52,960 Speaker 1: was going on. 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I 310 00:19:09,400 --> 00:19:12,480 Speaker 1: want to talk about what I see and I think 311 00:19:12,480 --> 00:19:14,560 Speaker 1: Buck sees, and I know many of you see, as 312 00:19:14,600 --> 00:19:20,880 Speaker 1: well as the looming battle between identity politics, cancel culture, 313 00:19:21,200 --> 00:19:26,600 Speaker 1: and sane society, the insane versus the sane. So I 314 00:19:26,640 --> 00:19:28,879 Speaker 1: don't know how many of you have actually watched the 315 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:33,680 Speaker 1: Netflix comedy special that Dave Chappelle did. It was not 316 00:19:34,119 --> 00:19:39,280 Speaker 1: revolutionary in nature. It really wasn't that wildly out of 317 00:19:39,359 --> 00:19:44,320 Speaker 1: bounds in terms of comedic material, but it has turned 318 00:19:44,359 --> 00:19:49,439 Speaker 1: into a cultural flashpoint as transgender people have argued that 319 00:19:49,520 --> 00:19:54,199 Speaker 1: Netflix should not have distributed the Dave Chappelle special and 320 00:19:54,240 --> 00:19:57,720 Speaker 1: that they should also not allow it to continue to 321 00:19:57,760 --> 00:20:02,720 Speaker 1: remain on the platform because they believe that his jokes 322 00:20:03,200 --> 00:20:07,680 Speaker 1: are potentially going to create violence against them. And so 323 00:20:07,760 --> 00:20:12,240 Speaker 1: what you really have is an identity politics victim culture 324 00:20:12,720 --> 00:20:17,119 Speaker 1: which now has transgender people turning against a black comedian 325 00:20:17,320 --> 00:20:20,200 Speaker 1: over who has the right to say what? In America 326 00:20:20,280 --> 00:20:25,080 Speaker 1: today and yesterday while we were on the air, Netflix 327 00:20:25,280 --> 00:20:29,520 Speaker 1: had a protest featuring some employees, and there was also 328 00:20:29,600 --> 00:20:31,760 Speaker 1: a counter protest. So I want to start with the 329 00:20:31,760 --> 00:20:35,199 Speaker 1: counter protest because this is absolutely hysterical and if you 330 00:20:35,240 --> 00:20:38,639 Speaker 1: haven't seen this video, some people showed up to the 331 00:20:38,840 --> 00:20:43,360 Speaker 1: protest by transgender people against the Dave Chappelle comedy special 332 00:20:43,880 --> 00:20:48,680 Speaker 1: to simply chant, we like Dave, we like jokes. Jokes 333 00:20:48,720 --> 00:20:51,359 Speaker 1: are funny. You're not allowed to say you like jokes 334 00:20:51,359 --> 00:20:55,280 Speaker 1: in America today. Clay jokes are funny. Was what these 335 00:20:55,320 --> 00:20:58,439 Speaker 1: people showed up to protest. Okay, one of these guys 336 00:20:58,720 --> 00:21:03,840 Speaker 1: had a we like Dave sign. The sign was ripped 337 00:21:03,840 --> 00:21:07,040 Speaker 1: out of his hands, it was destroyed, and then they 338 00:21:07,080 --> 00:21:09,919 Speaker 1: have the activists, the transgender activists scream that he had 339 00:21:09,960 --> 00:21:12,960 Speaker 1: a weapon because he still had the piece of wood 340 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:15,840 Speaker 1: that he had been holding his sign up, only now 341 00:21:15,920 --> 00:21:18,520 Speaker 1: it had been stripped away of its sign. And I 342 00:21:18,640 --> 00:21:20,399 Speaker 1: believe we have a little bit of audio, and I 343 00:21:20,440 --> 00:21:24,560 Speaker 1: trust me on this. This is wildly hysterically entertaining. In 344 00:21:24,600 --> 00:21:27,760 Speaker 1: some ways, it's funnier than anything SNL has done, probably 345 00:21:27,800 --> 00:21:32,000 Speaker 1: in decades. But listen to this is a short cut 346 00:21:32,040 --> 00:21:35,720 Speaker 1: of the counter protesters being confronted and them trying to 347 00:21:35,760 --> 00:21:48,359 Speaker 1: be shouted down for saying we like jokes, all right, 348 00:21:48,560 --> 00:21:51,120 Speaker 1: Dave is funny, we like jokes. If you could hear that. Now, 349 00:21:51,240 --> 00:21:54,000 Speaker 1: this is unacceptable to the transgender activists, and I just 350 00:21:54,040 --> 00:21:56,640 Speaker 1: want to play a couple of cuts from what they 351 00:21:56,680 --> 00:22:00,560 Speaker 1: were saying at their rally. Let's start with cut seven 352 00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:02,600 Speaker 1: and then we'll follow it up with cut eight. This 353 00:22:02,680 --> 00:22:05,800 Speaker 1: is from the Netflix protest today on the full moon 354 00:22:05,920 --> 00:22:09,480 Speaker 1: and airy it is time to make a change. It's 355 00:22:09,520 --> 00:22:13,040 Speaker 1: time to release the own and break in. Note what 356 00:22:13,280 --> 00:22:17,080 Speaker 1: needs to happen if the sea at Netflix wants to 357 00:22:17,160 --> 00:22:20,480 Speaker 1: make it right with trans people, your trans employees a 358 00:22:20,640 --> 00:22:24,800 Speaker 1: raise right now, give them a raised right now. But 359 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:28,320 Speaker 1: the hard work for the high labor and for putting 360 00:22:28,400 --> 00:22:32,119 Speaker 1: Dutch trauma off for the world to see. So this 361 00:22:32,200 --> 00:22:34,560 Speaker 1: is just a shakedown. That's what this turns into, right, 362 00:22:34,640 --> 00:22:37,560 Speaker 1: this is if you don't do what we say, we 363 00:22:37,640 --> 00:22:42,320 Speaker 1: are mobilizing the woke mob so that some people get 364 00:22:42,359 --> 00:22:44,880 Speaker 1: a payoff. Clay, That's actually what this is about, which 365 00:22:44,880 --> 00:22:49,040 Speaker 1: is fascinating because they also use the rhetoric of this 366 00:22:49,160 --> 00:22:54,000 Speaker 1: creates violence against us. So if you're so worried about 367 00:22:54,040 --> 00:22:57,280 Speaker 1: the violence that will be created by Dave Chappelle's jokes. 368 00:22:57,560 --> 00:22:59,880 Speaker 1: Shouldn't that be the thing that is addressed in some way? 369 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:03,159 Speaker 1: Oh it's okay, fine, Maybe maybe you're creating violence against us, 370 00:23:03,160 --> 00:23:07,320 Speaker 1: which by the way, is an outrageous, intellectually indefensible lie 371 00:23:07,359 --> 00:23:11,200 Speaker 1: in an absurdity. But beyond that, okay, maybe maybe we'll 372 00:23:11,240 --> 00:23:14,800 Speaker 1: look the other way, pay us off, give us, give 373 00:23:14,880 --> 00:23:18,800 Speaker 1: us special privileges. Netflix hr like walking around the office 374 00:23:18,880 --> 00:23:21,439 Speaker 1: knocking on the door. Hey, sorry to ask, are you 375 00:23:21,560 --> 00:23:24,600 Speaker 1: gender non binary? Which pronouns do you like? We're trying 376 00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:28,399 Speaker 1: to figure out who gets the raise for the transgender 377 00:23:28,440 --> 00:23:31,440 Speaker 1: special that you didn't like. But this your point buck 378 00:23:31,720 --> 00:23:37,000 Speaker 1: the other cut. Here is someone alleging that Dave Chappelle's 379 00:23:37,119 --> 00:23:40,960 Speaker 1: jokes puts their lives in danger. Listen to this time. 380 00:23:41,040 --> 00:23:42,840 Speaker 1: I'm here to La Tanton note that if he won't 381 00:23:42,840 --> 00:23:45,320 Speaker 1: stand up for their rights, we will, And that's the 382 00:23:46,160 --> 00:23:49,440 Speaker 1: we're here today. We are here today not because we 383 00:23:49,560 --> 00:23:51,560 Speaker 1: don't know how to take a joke. We're here because 384 00:23:51,560 --> 00:23:54,280 Speaker 1: we're concerned that the jokes are taking lives. Yeah, that's 385 00:23:54,320 --> 00:23:59,080 Speaker 1: not a laughing matter, it's not taking lives. It's not 386 00:23:59,119 --> 00:24:01,560 Speaker 1: that we can't take a joke. It's that your jokes 387 00:24:01,560 --> 00:24:04,280 Speaker 1: are literally killing people. This is what they say, which 388 00:24:04,320 --> 00:24:07,480 Speaker 1: is completely insane, but it also goes to show you 389 00:24:07,560 --> 00:24:11,320 Speaker 1: that they'll say whatever. They'll use any tactic of exaggeration 390 00:24:11,440 --> 00:24:14,760 Speaker 1: and emotional manipulation to get what they want out of 391 00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:18,479 Speaker 1: this exchange, which, as we know, is cash. It's power, 392 00:24:18,960 --> 00:24:22,399 Speaker 1: it's influence in Netflix, which let's all remember this, folks. 393 00:24:22,760 --> 00:24:25,200 Speaker 1: Netflix as a company. You know, we often talk about 394 00:24:25,240 --> 00:24:29,360 Speaker 1: big tech, and we talk Netflix is more powerful today 395 00:24:29,920 --> 00:24:34,600 Speaker 1: than any movie studio in America, is more influential in 396 00:24:34,640 --> 00:24:38,360 Speaker 1: the culture than any cable channel you can think of. 397 00:24:38,800 --> 00:24:44,159 Speaker 1: Netflix has massive, massive cultural implications all across the country. 398 00:24:44,240 --> 00:24:46,680 Speaker 1: And for those of say, oh, I don't subscribe to Netflix, okay, fine, 399 00:24:46,760 --> 00:24:49,919 Speaker 1: but if you look at their subscription numbers and some 400 00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:53,160 Speaker 1: of the growth rates that they've had in recent years. 401 00:24:53,359 --> 00:24:55,240 Speaker 1: You know, if you're twenty five years old, are you 402 00:24:55,280 --> 00:24:59,399 Speaker 1: watching you know, are you watching some cable channel I 403 00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:01,639 Speaker 1: don't know, like you know, Classic movie channel or something. No, 404 00:25:02,119 --> 00:25:05,600 Speaker 1: You're watching Netflix, You're watching Hulu. And so not only 405 00:25:05,680 --> 00:25:09,679 Speaker 1: is the payoff demand here, I think clay transparent for 406 00:25:09,720 --> 00:25:12,280 Speaker 1: what it is, but beyond that, they just want to 407 00:25:12,280 --> 00:25:15,840 Speaker 1: make sure that these companies that influence the culture and 408 00:25:15,880 --> 00:25:21,000 Speaker 1: therefore politics so much are absolutely terrified of being insufficiently woke. 409 00:25:21,119 --> 00:25:24,840 Speaker 1: This is about power in these institutions. It's also about 410 00:25:24,840 --> 00:25:28,960 Speaker 1: how much power transgender people have. Right now, you're claiming 411 00:25:29,080 --> 00:25:33,560 Speaker 1: we're a minority that's being discriminated against. Yet don't overlook 412 00:25:34,040 --> 00:25:37,800 Speaker 1: what an outlandish power grab they are referencing that they have. 413 00:25:38,080 --> 00:25:41,080 Speaker 1: They are demanding that somebody else not be able to 414 00:25:41,080 --> 00:25:44,360 Speaker 1: make a joke at their expense, and that no one 415 00:25:44,560 --> 00:25:46,760 Speaker 1: and by the way, it's not even really at their expense. 416 00:25:46,800 --> 00:25:49,159 Speaker 1: It's just pointing out what I think many of you 417 00:25:49,240 --> 00:25:53,520 Speaker 1: agree out there, which is it's crazy to have transgender 418 00:25:54,080 --> 00:25:57,879 Speaker 1: athletes competing against biological women, right. I mean, we're just 419 00:25:57,920 --> 00:26:02,800 Speaker 1: talking about basic human difference in biology and saying it's 420 00:26:02,840 --> 00:26:05,879 Speaker 1: not crazy to say, hey, men don't have babies like 421 00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:08,800 Speaker 1: these are These are not outlag comments to make. We 422 00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:10,639 Speaker 1: might have to bleep, we might have to bleep that one, 423 00:26:10,680 --> 00:26:13,640 Speaker 1: Clay Travis, men don't have babies. I don't know what's 424 00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:17,040 Speaker 1: going to happen to you now, but the protesters pregnant 425 00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:20,280 Speaker 1: like these are not outlandish things to say, right These 426 00:26:20,320 --> 00:26:22,920 Speaker 1: are what's considered to be hateful language. You know, when 427 00:26:22,960 --> 00:26:25,200 Speaker 1: when you look at and you look at what happens 428 00:26:25,400 --> 00:26:28,560 Speaker 1: in you know, I've said that that a true tyranny 429 00:26:28,640 --> 00:26:31,000 Speaker 1: is capricious. Right. It's not that everyone lives on all 430 00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:33,919 Speaker 1: the super harsh rules. It's that the rules apply differently 431 00:26:33,920 --> 00:26:36,600 Speaker 1: depending on who's in power and what they want. What 432 00:26:36,760 --> 00:26:40,119 Speaker 1: you also find is that if you really want absolute 433 00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:44,080 Speaker 1: control of a society, it's not that you have to 434 00:26:44,320 --> 00:26:48,480 Speaker 1: get people to agree to lies. It's that you have 435 00:26:48,560 --> 00:26:51,760 Speaker 1: to get people to agree to what they know and 436 00:26:52,119 --> 00:26:55,920 Speaker 1: you know, our lies, but they do it anyway. Everyone 437 00:26:55,960 --> 00:26:57,919 Speaker 1: knows that everyone's lying. I mean, this goes back to 438 00:26:57,960 --> 00:27:00,640 Speaker 1: the Great Russian dissidence, like so during the Soviet era, 439 00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:03,520 Speaker 1: like Souls and nets In and others, everyone knew that 440 00:27:03,640 --> 00:27:06,040 Speaker 1: what the Soviet Union was saying on a regular basis 441 00:27:06,080 --> 00:27:08,719 Speaker 1: about everything was a lie, including the people saying it. 442 00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:11,000 Speaker 1: But the point was they had the brute force and 443 00:27:11,080 --> 00:27:13,439 Speaker 1: power to make you bend the knee and go along. 444 00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:17,080 Speaker 1: That's why saying men can get pregnant is so problematic 445 00:27:17,119 --> 00:27:20,119 Speaker 1: in America. That's why saying that you know you have 446 00:27:20,160 --> 00:27:24,520 Speaker 1: to use they for individuals is problematic because it is 447 00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:27,760 Speaker 1: forcing you to be complicit in lies. And we should 448 00:27:27,840 --> 00:27:31,720 Speaker 1: live not by lies. Amen. And what we are seeing 449 00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:33,679 Speaker 1: is and I hope this is what we're seeing, and 450 00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:35,280 Speaker 1: I think we're seeing more and more is I want 451 00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:36,680 Speaker 1: all of you to think about I encourage you to 452 00:27:36,720 --> 00:27:38,720 Speaker 1: go watch the videos of the protest that I shared 453 00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:40,960 Speaker 1: at my Twitter feed at Clay Travis and we played 454 00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:43,080 Speaker 1: some cuts for you. But I want you to think 455 00:27:43,119 --> 00:27:47,240 Speaker 1: about this. The people who are attacking people who showed 456 00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:49,640 Speaker 1: up at the protest to chant we like jokes, think 457 00:27:49,680 --> 00:27:51,960 Speaker 1: they're the good people. Want you to just think about that. 458 00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:54,000 Speaker 1: Everybody wants to talk about how history is going to 459 00:27:54,080 --> 00:27:57,480 Speaker 1: view things. How is history going to view the people 460 00:27:57,480 --> 00:28:01,359 Speaker 1: who were tearing down signs that said we like Dave 461 00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:03,240 Speaker 1: and we like jokes. Are they going to look like 462 00:28:03,280 --> 00:28:06,639 Speaker 1: the reasonable people in twenty thirty, forty fifty years or 463 00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:08,560 Speaker 1: are they going to look like the tyrants that they are? 464 00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:11,520 Speaker 1: I think we know in the meantime, every day Tunnel 465 00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:14,440 Speaker 1: the Towers is in conversation with family members of our 466 00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:17,960 Speaker 1: military service as well as first responders. You can imagine 467 00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:21,160 Speaker 1: how sensitive many of those conversations are. There's a lot 468 00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:23,480 Speaker 1: of listening, there's a lot of caring. What Tunnel the 469 00:28:23,520 --> 00:28:26,159 Speaker 1: Towers has accomplished with your support is providing care for 470 00:28:26,359 --> 00:28:29,919 Speaker 1: hundreds and hundreds of families. 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We also want to talk 490 00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:41,680 Speaker 1: to you in the next hour about a number of things. 491 00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:45,120 Speaker 1: One Florida, the cases are super low, lowest in the 492 00:29:45,120 --> 00:29:46,960 Speaker 1: forty eight states right now. When it comes to COVID, 493 00:29:47,280 --> 00:29:50,840 Speaker 1: Governor Rond Santa has taken a big stand for freedom 494 00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:55,800 Speaker 1: against vaccine mandates. We will discuss that in a little bit. Also, 495 00:29:56,520 --> 00:29:59,960 Speaker 1: Inez Cantor, who is a big time NBA player speaking 496 00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:02,160 Speaker 1: against China. Clay is gonna lay that one down for 497 00:30:02,240 --> 00:30:06,000 Speaker 1: us because that can have big implications. Never before did 498 00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:09,760 Speaker 1: we have athletes in this country generally terrified of our 499 00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:12,800 Speaker 1: biggest rival. When it was the Soviet era. You know, oh, 500 00:30:12,840 --> 00:30:14,640 Speaker 1: I can't speak out against No. In fact, it was 501 00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:17,520 Speaker 1: all USA, USA, Go watch Rocky four. That's how we 502 00:30:17,640 --> 00:30:21,200 Speaker 1: felt during the Soviet era. Now because the Chinese market 503 00:30:21,440 --> 00:30:25,600 Speaker 1: and all the money involved. But he has Cantor speaking out. Nonetheless, 504 00:30:25,640 --> 00:30:28,800 Speaker 1: we can discuss that in the next hour plus. The 505 00:30:28,840 --> 00:30:35,960 Speaker 1: cancelation of a prestigious lecture by an MIT geophysicist over well, 506 00:30:36,360 --> 00:30:39,200 Speaker 1: the battle of whether you can actually have ideas that 507 00:30:39,240 --> 00:30:42,280 Speaker 1: are not left wing and still be a scientist in 508 00:30:42,360 --> 00:30:45,600 Speaker 1: good standing. This goes to COVID policy. This goes to 509 00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:48,880 Speaker 1: so many things right now, because what you'll find out 510 00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:53,200 Speaker 1: is that science has been just as corrupted as the 511 00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:56,680 Speaker 1: so called social sciences at the university level, and that 512 00:30:56,760 --> 00:31:00,560 Speaker 1: has enormous implications for not just our society generally, but 513 00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:04,640 Speaker 1: also for why there is no honesty from the scientific 514 00:31:04,680 --> 00:31:08,320 Speaker 1: community in large part during COVID. But you know, the 515 00:31:08,320 --> 00:31:10,720 Speaker 1: Biden administration thinks that they're still going to get through 516 00:31:10,720 --> 00:31:14,000 Speaker 1: this major spending package and the build Back Better agenda 517 00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:17,400 Speaker 1: and all this other stuff they're talking about, including climate 518 00:31:17,480 --> 00:31:19,520 Speaker 1: as if we're supposed to be really focused in on that. 519 00:31:20,120 --> 00:31:24,520 Speaker 1: You know, we need more stronger levees, stronger power grids, 520 00:31:24,680 --> 00:31:28,800 Speaker 1: more durable able to withstand ever increasing ferocity intensity of 521 00:31:28,800 --> 00:31:31,400 Speaker 1: extreme weather. Any road it used to be, you have 522 00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:34,480 Speaker 1: a catastrophe and the road gets washed out. You build 523 00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:36,280 Speaker 1: it back to what it was before. You can't build 524 00:31:36,280 --> 00:31:38,920 Speaker 1: it back to the same standard. You've got to build 525 00:31:38,920 --> 00:31:42,400 Speaker 1: a road back literally higher. Not a joke, because the 526 00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:46,080 Speaker 1: weather has already changed, and if we don't do something 527 00:31:46,080 --> 00:31:49,440 Speaker 1: before we reach one point five degrees celsius, we're in trouble. 528 00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:55,080 Speaker 1: Play this whole thing about the proof of climate change 529 00:31:55,120 --> 00:31:59,440 Speaker 1: all around us from fires and weather and storms and tornadoes, 530 00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:03,080 Speaker 1: whether it's not more severe, This is just not true. 531 00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:05,680 Speaker 1: We keep going through this. They say it, and then 532 00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:08,239 Speaker 1: the actual data shows that they're making it up as 533 00:32:08,240 --> 00:32:11,440 Speaker 1: they go along. I feel like the Biden administration's floundering 534 00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:14,360 Speaker 1: because what exactly are they selling people on at this point? Well, 535 00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:16,720 Speaker 1: and also Joe's trying to sell people on something he 536 00:32:16,760 --> 00:32:19,680 Speaker 1: doesn't really believe in himself. Right, There's no way that 537 00:32:19,760 --> 00:32:23,040 Speaker 1: Joe Biden is sitting around and feels like climate change 538 00:32:23,560 --> 00:32:27,160 Speaker 1: is an existential threat to American life. That's what he says, 539 00:32:27,720 --> 00:32:31,480 Speaker 1: because he's trying to placate the far left wing of 540 00:32:30,560 --> 00:32:33,880 Speaker 1: his of his party now. But that's got to be 541 00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:37,320 Speaker 1: one of the great disappointments I would imagine of Joe 542 00:32:37,320 --> 00:32:39,880 Speaker 1: Biden's life. It's amazing to get elected president, but he 543 00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:42,560 Speaker 1: managed to do it after his mental faculties were gone 544 00:32:42,840 --> 00:32:45,680 Speaker 1: and when no one cares what he thinks. So he's 545 00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:49,000 Speaker 1: not leading anything. He's being dragged along. Like I said, 546 00:32:49,040 --> 00:32:53,360 Speaker 1: we can admits his style presidency, and as a result, 547 00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:56,239 Speaker 1: we are ending up in a situation where he's not 548 00:32:56,320 --> 00:32:59,560 Speaker 1: leading his party at all. In fact, he's just trying 549 00:32:59,600 --> 00:33:02,320 Speaker 1: to avoid becoming the target of this party. I think 550 00:33:02,320 --> 00:33:05,200 Speaker 1: that's a big story about Cinema and Mansion is he's 551 00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:07,600 Speaker 1: happy to have them be the bad guys instead of 552 00:33:07,600 --> 00:33:10,440 Speaker 1: people be mad at him. And the way they're trying 553 00:33:10,480 --> 00:33:13,760 Speaker 1: to sell this too. First of all, that weather is 554 00:33:13,760 --> 00:33:16,040 Speaker 1: so much more severe, and that's why, I mean, that's 555 00:33:16,160 --> 00:33:19,440 Speaker 1: just not true. They get it's like masks for kids 556 00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:22,880 Speaker 1: in school. It's so much better. It's just not true. 557 00:33:23,440 --> 00:33:26,400 Speaker 1: But this one is, this one is truly mind blowing 558 00:33:26,440 --> 00:33:28,360 Speaker 1: to what I said before about we know it's a lie. 559 00:33:28,480 --> 00:33:30,160 Speaker 1: They know it's a lie, but we're supposed to go 560 00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:33,400 Speaker 1: along with the lie that everyone knows is such. Here 561 00:33:33,480 --> 00:33:36,480 Speaker 1: he is still saying the five trillion dollars Build Back 562 00:33:36,560 --> 00:33:39,120 Speaker 1: Better Bill, well, what does it cost? And the cost 563 00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:41,040 Speaker 1: of the Build Back Better Bill in terms of adding 564 00:33:41,080 --> 00:33:47,680 Speaker 1: to is zero zero, zero, because we're gonna pay for 565 00:33:47,720 --> 00:33:50,560 Speaker 1: it all. In addition to that, half of it is 566 00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:54,080 Speaker 1: a tax cut. It's not spending money, it's a tax 567 00:33:54,120 --> 00:33:58,200 Speaker 1: cut from working class people. This is Joe Biden telling 568 00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:02,280 Speaker 1: the American people that he has invented a magic don't 569 00:34:02,280 --> 00:34:06,520 Speaker 1: ree lunch that you can eat endlessly that never runs 570 00:34:06,520 --> 00:34:09,920 Speaker 1: out that costs you nothing and that won't make you fat. 571 00:34:10,040 --> 00:34:13,040 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I'm not buying it. Well, and again I 572 00:34:13,080 --> 00:34:15,800 Speaker 1: don't even think Joe Biden buys it, and the media 573 00:34:15,880 --> 00:34:18,360 Speaker 1: should be pushing back. I mean, the cost of something 574 00:34:18,440 --> 00:34:21,200 Speaker 1: is not zero. I mean it's basically Biden trying to 575 00:34:21,360 --> 00:34:24,960 Speaker 1: argue that he's creating a free lunch, which you know, 576 00:34:25,160 --> 00:34:28,120 Speaker 1: economically does not ever exist. And we're talking about taking 577 00:34:28,120 --> 00:34:30,520 Speaker 1: money directly out of people's pockets many of you out 578 00:34:30,560 --> 00:34:34,279 Speaker 1: there listening to us, including your radio show host, and 579 00:34:34,360 --> 00:34:37,800 Speaker 1: putting it into the federal government. And by the way, 580 00:34:38,200 --> 00:34:40,000 Speaker 1: for a mandate. Is a great editorial in the Wall 581 00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:42,560 Speaker 1: Street Journal this morning. I know you read it too, Buck, 582 00:34:42,960 --> 00:34:45,759 Speaker 1: saying that what they're basically trying to do now is 583 00:34:46,200 --> 00:34:49,280 Speaker 1: they're going to stuff as much as they can into 584 00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:53,000 Speaker 1: this bill and claim that it only costs X number 585 00:34:53,040 --> 00:34:56,960 Speaker 1: of dollars because they sunset the provisions and don't count 586 00:34:57,000 --> 00:35:00,520 Speaker 1: it into the future when it adds really tens of 587 00:35:00,680 --> 00:35:04,000 Speaker 1: trillions of dollars in additional cost in the years ahead. 588 00:35:04,280 --> 00:35:06,680 Speaker 1: They're trying to sneak this in now, with the idea 589 00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:09,680 Speaker 1: being it'll be hard to eliminate in the years ahead, 590 00:35:09,719 --> 00:35:12,239 Speaker 1: which has been the case with many different entitlements that 591 00:35:12,400 --> 00:35:14,560 Speaker 1: now are eating up the vast majority of our budget. 592 00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:16,799 Speaker 1: This is very straightforward too. If these were such great 593 00:35:16,840 --> 00:35:21,200 Speaker 1: ideas they had in this massive bill, they would take 594 00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:26,880 Speaker 1: each really compelling idea individuals that the American people so 595 00:35:27,080 --> 00:35:30,440 Speaker 1: strongly agree with, they'd put it forward. They say, we 596 00:35:30,480 --> 00:35:33,840 Speaker 1: want to spend one hundred billion dollars on climate change, 597 00:35:33,840 --> 00:35:36,040 Speaker 1: whether proofing or whatever, and they'd put it out there 598 00:35:36,040 --> 00:35:38,040 Speaker 1: and everybody would vote and we would see do you 599 00:35:38,080 --> 00:35:40,960 Speaker 1: believe in this lunacy or not, members of Congress. But no, 600 00:35:41,120 --> 00:35:46,400 Speaker 1: instead they try to just push through this unwieldy monstrosity 601 00:35:46,480 --> 00:35:48,920 Speaker 1: full of whatever, and then they just pick one or 602 00:35:48,920 --> 00:35:51,560 Speaker 1: two things. They lie and say that it costs zero, 603 00:35:51,800 --> 00:35:54,880 Speaker 1: and they're just hoping to essentially redistribute a whole lot 604 00:35:54,920 --> 00:35:59,160 Speaker 1: of money to favored constituencies and special interests and of 605 00:35:59,160 --> 00:36:01,680 Speaker 1: course the welfare state, and then tell everybody what a 606 00:36:01,680 --> 00:36:04,279 Speaker 1: great job they're doing. That's the plan. That's the plan 607 00:36:04,360 --> 00:36:06,799 Speaker 1: for twenty twenty two. And we hope it's going to fail, 608 00:36:06,880 --> 00:36:09,200 Speaker 1: not only in twenty twenty two, but in the election 609 00:36:09,239 --> 00:36:11,080 Speaker 1: in Virginia in a couple of weeks we've been talking 610 00:36:11,080 --> 00:36:14,480 Speaker 1: about that. We'll tell you all about why China versus 611 00:36:14,480 --> 00:36:17,760 Speaker 1: the NBA may have just gotten a new birth of life, 612 00:36:17,880 --> 00:36:20,760 Speaker 1: and we'll give you the absolute latest on the COVID 613 00:36:20,840 --> 00:36:23,759 Speaker 1: montrosity and the fact that we're standing up against it 614 00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:26,720 Speaker 1: in Florida. I'm fired up as well about this MIT 615 00:36:27,080 --> 00:36:32,320 Speaker 1: lecture canceled because a geophysicist who was highly esteemed didn't 616 00:36:32,719 --> 00:36:36,120 Speaker 1: want to sign on for affirmative action as a policy 617 00:36:36,120 --> 00:36:37,960 Speaker 1: he supports. Not allowed to do that and still be 618 00:36:37,960 --> 00:36:42,200 Speaker 1: a scientist, apparently at the most prestigious science place in 619 00:36:42,239 --> 00:36:46,720 Speaker 1: the country. We'll talk about it coming up. You're listening 620 00:36:46,719 --> 00:36:50,920 Speaker 1: to Clay Travis and Buck Sexton fund the EIB Network.