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 --> 00:00:09,160 Speaker 1: Sexton Show podcast. Welcome in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show, 3 00:00:09,440 --> 00:00:17,200 Speaker 1: Wednesday edition. Eight point five percent inflation. That's the month 4 00:00:17,400 --> 00:00:20,639 Speaker 1: of July number that came out this morning. It's down 5 00:00:20,680 --> 00:00:24,360 Speaker 1: from nine point one percent in June. Yay, Do you 6 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:27,920 Speaker 1: feel so much richer? Do you feel like? Man, my 7 00:00:28,080 --> 00:00:30,480 Speaker 1: trip to the grocery store, I couldn't believe how much 8 00:00:30,480 --> 00:00:32,960 Speaker 1: money I was saving. I'm just walking around slapping my 9 00:00:33,040 --> 00:00:36,040 Speaker 1: butler with one hundred dollar bills, dressed like the monopoly man. 10 00:00:36,320 --> 00:00:40,680 Speaker 1: That's amazing. I gotta I gotta tell you. Even the 11 00:00:40,720 --> 00:00:43,080 Speaker 1: New York Time yesterday they had an article about how 12 00:00:43,080 --> 00:00:46,519 Speaker 1: expensive pizza was getting in New York City, and I thought, oh, 13 00:00:46,640 --> 00:00:49,920 Speaker 1: pretty soon that scooters getting stolen from Buck again, these 14 00:00:49,960 --> 00:00:53,040 Speaker 1: these high inflationary times, I don't know what might happen. 15 00:00:53,120 --> 00:00:55,640 Speaker 1: So inflation eight point five percent. I'm gonna play you 16 00:00:55,720 --> 00:00:59,800 Speaker 1: a clip of Joe Biden saying it's zero percent. Because 17 00:01:00,040 --> 00:01:03,120 Speaker 1: they continue to try to redefine what words are. What 18 00:01:03,280 --> 00:01:07,280 Speaker 1: is a woman? What is recession? What is a raid? 19 00:01:07,880 --> 00:01:12,160 Speaker 1: What is inflation? They lie, they lie, and they lie, 20 00:01:12,400 --> 00:01:15,080 Speaker 1: and along the way some of you are looking around 21 00:01:15,200 --> 00:01:20,280 Speaker 1: like man I they're literally changing the definition in the 22 00:01:20,319 --> 00:01:25,280 Speaker 1: dictionary of words to suit their political aims. Not to 23 00:01:25,360 --> 00:01:30,240 Speaker 1: mention the continued fallout over the raid on Donald Trump 24 00:01:30,480 --> 00:01:34,679 Speaker 1: at Mara Lago. And first, Buck, I want to play 25 00:01:34,880 --> 00:01:37,160 Speaker 1: just because it's eight point five percent inflation, I feel 26 00:01:37,200 --> 00:01:40,200 Speaker 1: like we should let people know what the Biden administration 27 00:01:40,319 --> 00:01:42,840 Speaker 1: is trying to spin out there. And then we're going 28 00:01:42,880 --> 00:01:47,000 Speaker 1: to talk about the continued fallout, which I think has 29 00:01:47,160 --> 00:01:51,320 Speaker 1: rallied people around Donald Trump, the likes of which we 30 00:01:51,400 --> 00:01:56,560 Speaker 1: have not seen in years years. But first they tried 31 00:01:56,640 --> 00:01:59,520 Speaker 1: it out. Old Joe put it in the talleprompter for 32 00:01:59,640 --> 00:02:02,680 Speaker 1: him to read, and he said, today we received news 33 00:02:02,680 --> 00:02:05,880 Speaker 1: our economy had zero percent inflation in the month of July. 34 00:02:06,560 --> 00:02:09,680 Speaker 1: Zero percent. This is real. This is the talking point 35 00:02:09,720 --> 00:02:12,000 Speaker 1: that the White House is trying to sell. Listen, I 36 00:02:12,080 --> 00:02:15,120 Speaker 1: want to say a word about the news that came 37 00:02:15,160 --> 00:02:19,679 Speaker 1: out today relative to the economy. Actually, I just want 38 00:02:19,680 --> 00:02:24,160 Speaker 1: to say a number. Zero. Today we received news that 39 00:02:24,200 --> 00:02:28,560 Speaker 1: our economy had zero percent inflation in the month of July. 40 00:02:30,040 --> 00:02:33,480 Speaker 1: Zero percent. Here's what that means. Well, the price of 41 00:02:33,600 --> 00:02:36,560 Speaker 1: some things go up. Went up last month. The price 42 00:02:36,600 --> 00:02:40,040 Speaker 1: of other things went down by the same amount. The 43 00:02:40,120 --> 00:02:43,800 Speaker 1: result zero inflation last month, but people were still hurting. 44 00:02:44,560 --> 00:02:47,760 Speaker 1: But zero inflation last month. Can I ask you question, Clay, 45 00:02:48,520 --> 00:02:52,440 Speaker 1: is he so dumb that he actually thinks this is true? 46 00:02:52,960 --> 00:02:56,320 Speaker 1: Or is he so shameless that he's saying something that 47 00:02:56,440 --> 00:03:00,280 Speaker 1: is obviously untrue to people? Because that's who we is. 48 00:03:00,560 --> 00:03:02,640 Speaker 1: He's lied about plenty of things and he thinks he 49 00:03:02,680 --> 00:03:05,280 Speaker 1: has no choice. Which one? I feel like you can 50 00:03:05,320 --> 00:03:06,919 Speaker 1: make a case for either. Which one do you think 51 00:03:06,919 --> 00:03:12,919 Speaker 1: it is? It is a really interesting question, And sadly, 52 00:03:13,080 --> 00:03:16,960 Speaker 1: I think Joe Biden's ability to even understand what he's 53 00:03:17,040 --> 00:03:20,440 Speaker 1: doing and saying from one moment to the next is tenuous. 54 00:03:21,040 --> 00:03:25,400 Speaker 1: So I think, unfortunately, as many people who are dementia 55 00:03:25,520 --> 00:03:29,840 Speaker 1: laden or in the stages of dementia, some moments you 56 00:03:29,880 --> 00:03:33,120 Speaker 1: can have a conversation with them and you can think, oh, 57 00:03:33,160 --> 00:03:36,120 Speaker 1: they're pretty sharp, Oh they seem to be following it, 58 00:03:36,480 --> 00:03:39,520 Speaker 1: and then you just get a sentence where you're like, man, 59 00:03:40,040 --> 00:03:44,120 Speaker 1: they really don't know what's going on here. And it's sad. 60 00:03:44,760 --> 00:03:48,040 Speaker 1: I know virtually every person out there listening to us 61 00:03:48,160 --> 00:03:50,480 Speaker 1: right now has had a loved one, a friend that 62 00:03:50,560 --> 00:03:54,160 Speaker 1: they have seen go through this, and so Buck, I really, 63 00:03:54,200 --> 00:03:57,480 Speaker 1: I mean I was watching the clip of Joe Biden. 64 00:03:57,520 --> 00:03:58,960 Speaker 1: I'm sure you saw it, and I'm sure a lot 65 00:03:58,960 --> 00:04:02,000 Speaker 1: of our audience did, of him landing in the helicopter 66 00:04:02,600 --> 00:04:06,000 Speaker 1: and coming back from Kentucky. I guess it was Tuesday, 67 00:04:06,440 --> 00:04:10,080 Speaker 1: and he couldn't put on his suit coat getting off 68 00:04:10,240 --> 00:04:14,040 Speaker 1: of the helicopter. And then yesterday, well, I guess it 69 00:04:14,080 --> 00:04:16,680 Speaker 1: was Monday coming back in the suit coat. Yesterday, Tuesday 70 00:04:17,240 --> 00:04:20,760 Speaker 1: he had the press conference with Senator Schumer, and Buck, 71 00:04:20,800 --> 00:04:24,320 Speaker 1: did you see him shake Schumer's hand? And then Schumer 72 00:04:24,360 --> 00:04:26,719 Speaker 1: went down the line and shook everybody's hand, probably five 73 00:04:26,800 --> 00:04:29,760 Speaker 1: six seconds, and he came back in the direction of 74 00:04:29,839 --> 00:04:32,800 Speaker 1: Joe Biden. And it was as if Joe Biden didn't 75 00:04:32,839 --> 00:04:35,400 Speaker 1: realize he had already shaken his hand, because he put 76 00:04:35,400 --> 00:04:38,480 Speaker 1: his hand out again. So to your point, I really 77 00:04:38,520 --> 00:04:41,280 Speaker 1: think they're drugging this guy up, popping him up with 78 00:04:41,320 --> 00:04:43,480 Speaker 1: whatever they need. Remember the video that he put out 79 00:04:43,480 --> 00:04:45,800 Speaker 1: where his eyes were bugging out of his head, and 80 00:04:45,800 --> 00:04:48,719 Speaker 1: then they put him in shades after that, potentially because 81 00:04:48,720 --> 00:04:51,760 Speaker 1: they knew that it looked so ridiculous. I think they 82 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:54,600 Speaker 1: put it in the prompter and he reads it, and 83 00:04:54,640 --> 00:04:57,359 Speaker 1: so I don't even think he's conscious of the arguments 84 00:04:57,440 --> 00:04:59,440 Speaker 1: very often that he's making. Now. I do believe if 85 00:04:59,440 --> 00:05:04,240 Speaker 1: you put that the Inflation Reduction Act, he's gonna cut 86 00:05:04,279 --> 00:05:07,600 Speaker 1: eleventy billion dollars. Yeah, I think I think he'd read. 87 00:05:07,800 --> 00:05:10,040 Speaker 1: I think he'd read eleventy billion dollars off the prompter 88 00:05:10,120 --> 00:05:13,760 Speaker 1: and probably not think twice about it. They are shameless 89 00:05:13,760 --> 00:05:16,880 Speaker 1: about all of this because I also think that if 90 00:05:16,880 --> 00:05:19,000 Speaker 1: you had Democrats in a moment of honesty and it 91 00:05:19,120 --> 00:05:23,560 Speaker 1: was is a clearly not of sound mind, too old 92 00:05:23,560 --> 00:05:27,040 Speaker 1: for the job, Biden still better than any Republican alternative. 93 00:05:27,120 --> 00:05:29,719 Speaker 1: And I'm not even just Trump, any republican alternate thought. 94 00:05:29,720 --> 00:05:32,719 Speaker 1: So yes, because it's about a figurehead, it's about power, 95 00:05:33,080 --> 00:05:36,640 Speaker 1: it's about the individual. What's up? Cheney would say, y, yeah, 96 00:05:36,640 --> 00:05:42,000 Speaker 1: so well, former soon to be former congress Person Liz Cheney, 97 00:05:42,920 --> 00:05:44,719 Speaker 1: she's gonna lose. I think what it is about a week, 98 00:05:45,080 --> 00:05:48,800 Speaker 1: but it Democrats view it as the presidency is really 99 00:05:48,839 --> 00:05:52,200 Speaker 1: just about a baton of power now and as long 100 00:05:52,240 --> 00:05:55,960 Speaker 1: as their team has it, they're happy. The actual president himself. 101 00:05:56,760 --> 00:05:58,760 Speaker 1: They've given up on this. They got used to it 102 00:05:58,839 --> 00:06:01,440 Speaker 1: being really a lot about president in the Obama era, 103 00:06:01,520 --> 00:06:03,599 Speaker 1: because they were so excited about him and they thought 104 00:06:03,600 --> 00:06:06,279 Speaker 1: he was the most brilliant, amazing, wonderful politician in the 105 00:06:06,320 --> 00:06:09,160 Speaker 1: history of the planet. Now it's just as long as 106 00:06:09,200 --> 00:06:12,599 Speaker 1: our team is in charge and you have Democrats in 107 00:06:12,680 --> 00:06:16,960 Speaker 1: the various agencies at the top and appointees, and that's 108 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:19,080 Speaker 1: all that really matters to them. So I don't even 109 00:06:19,120 --> 00:06:22,080 Speaker 1: think that there's there's not even a sense of shame 110 00:06:22,320 --> 00:06:24,120 Speaker 1: that they have about what you're talking about, which just 111 00:06:24,120 --> 00:06:27,520 Speaker 1: does Bond even know what's going on. And it's fascinating 112 00:06:27,560 --> 00:06:30,920 Speaker 1: as well. I mean, eight point five percent inflation. They're 113 00:06:30,960 --> 00:06:33,880 Speaker 1: celebrating this, just so everyone's clear, they are selling the 114 00:06:33,880 --> 00:06:36,359 Speaker 1: real number is inflations at eight point five percent. It 115 00:06:36,480 --> 00:06:39,680 Speaker 1: did not go up in the month of July. It 116 00:06:39,760 --> 00:06:42,640 Speaker 1: went down a little bit. So this is a little 117 00:06:42,680 --> 00:06:44,240 Speaker 1: bit like saying, you know, if you're one hundred thousand 118 00:06:44,240 --> 00:06:46,560 Speaker 1: dollars in credit card debt and now you only are 119 00:06:46,680 --> 00:06:50,799 Speaker 1: ninety thousand dollars in debt, yeah, out of the woods? 120 00:06:50,839 --> 00:06:55,000 Speaker 1: Not really? Yeah, And would you have ever believed we'd 121 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:58,440 Speaker 1: be at a position where eight point five percent inflation 122 00:06:58,760 --> 00:07:01,320 Speaker 1: is a victory lap for Joe Biden and Democrats. It's 123 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:04,320 Speaker 1: eight point five percent increase off last year, and they're 124 00:07:04,320 --> 00:07:07,200 Speaker 1: trying to argue at zero percent month to month. But 125 00:07:07,360 --> 00:07:10,960 Speaker 1: that's not even accurate because all of you who are 126 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:15,400 Speaker 1: going out are paying prices predicated on what you paid 127 00:07:15,480 --> 00:07:19,480 Speaker 1: last year, right, So when you're going out in the numbers, 128 00:07:19,520 --> 00:07:22,960 Speaker 1: I think I've screenshotted one of the data points from 129 00:07:23,160 --> 00:07:28,160 Speaker 1: the July inflation numbers. It's pretty wild how much some 130 00:07:28,320 --> 00:07:32,520 Speaker 1: of these prices are up. And so the fact that 131 00:07:32,920 --> 00:07:36,440 Speaker 1: they didn't go up a little bit more doesn't feel 132 00:07:36,480 --> 00:07:38,840 Speaker 1: like a victory to your point, buck, when you're one 133 00:07:38,920 --> 00:07:42,320 Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars in debt, If the next month you're 134 00:07:42,360 --> 00:07:45,200 Speaker 1: still one hundred thousand dollars in debt, that ain't a 135 00:07:45,240 --> 00:07:47,720 Speaker 1: great feeling, you know. I mean, you've still got the debt. 136 00:07:48,160 --> 00:07:51,800 Speaker 1: And I don't know when we factor in the nearly 137 00:07:51,840 --> 00:07:55,840 Speaker 1: eight hundred billion dollars in expenditures, I don't know how 138 00:07:55,880 --> 00:07:59,000 Speaker 1: we're not going to have massive inflationary pressure moving through 139 00:07:59,120 --> 00:08:02,040 Speaker 1: the rest of the fall and in the next year. 140 00:08:02,200 --> 00:08:06,440 Speaker 1: There's a brazenness with the way this administration operates. They've 141 00:08:06,440 --> 00:08:10,320 Speaker 1: really gotten used to a clay. They'll they'll call it 142 00:08:10,400 --> 00:08:13,280 Speaker 1: the inflation Now. I know that's Congress, but Biden's got 143 00:08:13,360 --> 00:08:16,640 Speaker 1: to sign it. He's obviously involved in the discussion about 144 00:08:16,680 --> 00:08:19,480 Speaker 1: the naming of it. The Inflation Reduction Act is not 145 00:08:19,520 --> 00:08:22,760 Speaker 1: going to reduce inflation, actually increases it, according to most 146 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:29,640 Speaker 1: economic experts. And so the primary promise of this is false, 147 00:08:29,960 --> 00:08:33,880 Speaker 1: and they just don't care. It does not matter to them. 148 00:08:33,920 --> 00:08:36,400 Speaker 1: You know, are are we in an economic downturn? We 149 00:08:36,400 --> 00:08:39,920 Speaker 1: had two quarters of negative GDP? We're not in a recession. 150 00:08:40,520 --> 00:08:43,240 Speaker 1: Well that's always what we thought a recession was before. Well, 151 00:08:43,280 --> 00:08:46,360 Speaker 1: welcome to Biden world. The recession has changed, folks. The 152 00:08:46,400 --> 00:08:50,240 Speaker 1: recession will not be televised. So here we are with 153 00:08:50,280 --> 00:08:54,040 Speaker 1: people who change words, change definitions. Because the case that 154 00:08:54,080 --> 00:08:56,240 Speaker 1: they would make the American people, I think if they 155 00:08:56,240 --> 00:08:57,600 Speaker 1: looked at them, if they had to do it on 156 00:08:57,600 --> 00:09:01,559 Speaker 1: the merits is very weak. I mean, parent people shouldn't 157 00:09:01,559 --> 00:09:04,319 Speaker 1: think about what is Biden saying this month versus last month. 158 00:09:04,400 --> 00:09:06,199 Speaker 1: It should be what was the promise that he made? 159 00:09:06,679 --> 00:09:08,920 Speaker 1: What was the Biden campaign based on? And what have 160 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:12,480 Speaker 1: we actually seen? Well, and there's a great story out 161 00:09:12,559 --> 00:09:16,319 Speaker 1: from Politico. I know we've discussed a lot the challenges 162 00:09:16,360 --> 00:09:18,959 Speaker 1: that we're seeing in some of these Senate races. As 163 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:20,880 Speaker 1: we come down, I think it's fair to say the 164 00:09:20,880 --> 00:09:24,199 Speaker 1: proverbial home stretch here certainly post a Labor Day, when 165 00:09:24,200 --> 00:09:27,040 Speaker 1: everybody's summer vacations are over and all the kids are 166 00:09:27,040 --> 00:09:30,120 Speaker 1: back in school, football's back, I mean, we'll officially be 167 00:09:30,240 --> 00:09:33,439 Speaker 1: in campaign season. But there are some numbers I was 168 00:09:33,480 --> 00:09:36,240 Speaker 1: reading from Politico this morning. I think Laura Ingram shared 169 00:09:36,280 --> 00:09:41,040 Speaker 1: it early this morning. There are Biden districts that he 170 00:09:41,200 --> 00:09:45,280 Speaker 1: won by fourteen and fifteen points in Oregon, for instance, 171 00:09:45,640 --> 00:09:49,320 Speaker 1: where there are Republicans that are up right now, so 172 00:09:49,520 --> 00:09:51,760 Speaker 1: we know what happened with Myra Flores and down on 173 00:09:51,800 --> 00:09:54,560 Speaker 1: the border with how much she swung a district that 174 00:09:54,600 --> 00:09:57,640 Speaker 1: had voted for Joe Biden. We're talking about some of 175 00:09:57,640 --> 00:10:02,480 Speaker 1: these very blue states in Oregon, twenty point swings that 176 00:10:02,559 --> 00:10:05,560 Speaker 1: exist right now in the polling out there. And the 177 00:10:05,640 --> 00:10:08,439 Speaker 1: discussion in the political article that I thought was intriguing 178 00:10:08,800 --> 00:10:13,080 Speaker 1: was how many different places that theoretically are safe district's 179 00:10:13,120 --> 00:10:15,920 Speaker 1: buck where Democrats are acknowledging that they're going to have 180 00:10:15,960 --> 00:10:18,880 Speaker 1: to spend fairly substantial dollars And did you see we 181 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:23,439 Speaker 1: got so close to iohan Omar almost lost her Democrat 182 00:10:23,880 --> 00:10:27,600 Speaker 1: primary last night in Minnesota. I mean I think she 183 00:10:27,679 --> 00:10:31,800 Speaker 1: won by like two thousand votes. The ideology of the squad, 184 00:10:32,360 --> 00:10:37,040 Speaker 1: the progressive Democrats in the House is a political liability 185 00:10:37,120 --> 00:10:41,560 Speaker 1: now that we've seen enough of what that actually put 186 00:10:41,559 --> 00:10:45,200 Speaker 1: into practice, whether it's defund police, a whole range of issues, 187 00:10:45,720 --> 00:10:48,880 Speaker 1: but specifically on that one, it is a political liability 188 00:10:48,920 --> 00:10:52,360 Speaker 1: for the Democrats. Now they understand that now, So sure, 189 00:10:52,600 --> 00:10:55,280 Speaker 1: you know, AOC will continue to get she'll continue to 190 00:10:55,280 --> 00:10:59,480 Speaker 1: be reelected in a overwhelmingly Democrat district in Queens, New York. 191 00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:03,760 Speaker 1: But for anybody who's in a tough race, they're they're pretending, now, 192 00:11:03,760 --> 00:11:06,320 Speaker 1: oh that's not that's not the Democrat party that I 193 00:11:06,400 --> 00:11:08,760 Speaker 1: belonged to. I belong to a Democrat party. About the 194 00:11:08,960 --> 00:11:10,959 Speaker 1: You're gonna hear a lot of work in, folks. You're 195 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:14,840 Speaker 1: gonna see Democrats marching around going duck hunting for the 196 00:11:14,880 --> 00:11:18,640 Speaker 1: first time in places like you know, Missouri and uh 197 00:11:18,720 --> 00:11:21,360 Speaker 1: and states where there's a in Michigan, all of a sudden, 198 00:11:21,400 --> 00:11:24,560 Speaker 1: they're gonna be wearing camo clay. These Democrats were holding 199 00:11:24,600 --> 00:11:27,240 Speaker 1: a gun like it's a laser from out of space 200 00:11:27,280 --> 00:11:29,920 Speaker 1: that they've never seen before, because you know they're gun 201 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:32,720 Speaker 1: toting Democrats. This is what always happens. They have to 202 00:11:32,760 --> 00:11:36,959 Speaker 1: pretend to be less Democrat in order to actually get elected. Yeah, 203 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:42,600 Speaker 1: and the person who almost beat ilhan Omar five hundred 204 00:11:42,679 --> 00:11:47,560 Speaker 1: Twitter followers, she has three million. I just I it 205 00:11:47,640 --> 00:11:51,199 Speaker 1: would have been. I was watching that those election results 206 00:11:51,200 --> 00:11:53,640 Speaker 1: come in last night, and I think it ended up 207 00:11:53,800 --> 00:11:57,960 Speaker 1: fifty one forty nine something like that. And the guy 208 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:01,120 Speaker 1: who was running against her was in favor of funding 209 00:12:01,120 --> 00:12:04,480 Speaker 1: the police. Is Democrat, obviously, but a sane one in 210 00:12:04,600 --> 00:12:09,199 Speaker 1: favor of funding police, a believer in business, a believer 211 00:12:09,360 --> 00:12:14,200 Speaker 1: in capitalism, and in that district she almost lost. And 212 00:12:14,240 --> 00:12:17,640 Speaker 1: it makes me wonder. I kind of wish Republicans had 213 00:12:17,679 --> 00:12:20,360 Speaker 1: gotten involved in that race, like we've seen all the 214 00:12:20,400 --> 00:12:23,360 Speaker 1: Democrats get involved in other races, because this guy had 215 00:12:23,600 --> 00:12:26,920 Speaker 1: virtually no money. Imagine if somebody had spent five hundred 216 00:12:26,960 --> 00:12:29,559 Speaker 1: thousand dollars on his behalf. I think elan Omar may 217 00:12:29,559 --> 00:12:32,800 Speaker 1: well have lost. Come back to more on this and 218 00:12:32,920 --> 00:12:37,880 Speaker 1: certainly the latest updates on what happened at Marlago. For 219 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:40,840 Speaker 1: anybody who was making the case, just wait for the 220 00:12:40,920 --> 00:12:46,160 Speaker 1: facts let's see what the FBI has trust the process, Clay, 221 00:12:46,240 --> 00:12:48,800 Speaker 1: we know it is not looking good. For that point 222 00:12:48,800 --> 00:12:51,440 Speaker 1: of view. 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That 250 00:14:21,080 --> 00:14:26,960 Speaker 1: has the motivation for what happened. I think automatically people 251 00:14:26,960 --> 00:14:29,200 Speaker 1: that have been paying attention for the last five or 252 00:14:29,240 --> 00:14:33,040 Speaker 1: six years, that's the assumption, and the facts certainly are 253 00:14:33,200 --> 00:14:39,520 Speaker 1: already pointing in that direction. This was third world dictatorship 254 00:14:39,760 --> 00:14:44,200 Speaker 1: nonsense on display from the Biden regime. Karine Jean Pierre 255 00:14:44,520 --> 00:14:48,200 Speaker 1: of the West Wing was asked about this, and here 256 00:14:48,280 --> 00:14:50,520 Speaker 1: is what she said. Do you consider Donald Trump to 257 00:14:50,560 --> 00:14:54,520 Speaker 1: be a political rival of President I'm not going to 258 00:14:54,560 --> 00:14:56,920 Speaker 1: speak to that from here. You talking about the time, 259 00:14:57,160 --> 00:14:59,800 Speaker 1: So do you consider him to be I don't talk 260 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:02,920 Speaker 1: about Trump all the time. I think they talk about 261 00:15:02,960 --> 00:15:05,360 Speaker 1: trouble a lot from this, from this White House play, 262 00:15:05,600 --> 00:15:08,600 Speaker 1: and just I would note, we we're gonna have to 263 00:15:08,640 --> 00:15:11,040 Speaker 1: remind everybody of what they were saying versus what the 264 00:15:11,160 --> 00:15:15,080 Speaker 1: Democrats will be saying. Initially it was all the learning 265 00:15:15,160 --> 00:15:17,800 Speaker 1: should be a very high bar on the barn should 266 00:15:17,800 --> 00:15:21,200 Speaker 1: be very high. This is a very serious action because 267 00:15:21,280 --> 00:15:24,320 Speaker 1: there I think at one level, trying to damp dampen 268 00:15:24,480 --> 00:15:30,120 Speaker 1: down the anger. People are pissed off about what happened here. 269 00:15:30,280 --> 00:15:34,160 Speaker 1: People are really rightly so, I mean you're seeing it. 270 00:15:34,200 --> 00:15:36,920 Speaker 1: I'm seeing people reaching out just give it, give it 271 00:15:36,960 --> 00:15:39,160 Speaker 1: a week or so, and they're gonna start to say, well, 272 00:15:39,200 --> 00:15:42,720 Speaker 1: you know, on the National Archives is not the most 273 00:15:42,760 --> 00:15:45,760 Speaker 1: important agency for this kind of an action, but you know, 274 00:15:45,840 --> 00:15:47,840 Speaker 1: the laws, the law, just give it time. I think 275 00:15:47,880 --> 00:15:50,800 Speaker 1: that's where this is heading. Well, that's certainly where it's headed. 276 00:15:50,840 --> 00:15:53,640 Speaker 1: And what I'm bothered by is Biden said, oh, I 277 00:15:53,640 --> 00:15:58,280 Speaker 1: don't comment on Department of Justice investigations, or that's not 278 00:15:58,280 --> 00:16:02,080 Speaker 1: true at all. He's commented on things all the time. 279 00:16:02,800 --> 00:16:05,080 Speaker 1: I mean, Biden just came out. They had the story 280 00:16:05,120 --> 00:16:08,320 Speaker 1: out of Albuquerque about the four Muslim men who had 281 00:16:08,320 --> 00:16:11,520 Speaker 1: been shot, and Biden tweeted about the fact that he 282 00:16:11,600 --> 00:16:14,920 Speaker 1: hoped that they were able to find the person who 283 00:16:14,960 --> 00:16:17,800 Speaker 1: was responsible for that. Now he won't comment about it 284 00:16:17,880 --> 00:16:22,480 Speaker 1: further because the person who was evidently killing the Muslim 285 00:16:22,520 --> 00:16:25,480 Speaker 1: guys in Albuquerque, that story will disappeared. You see the story, Buck, 286 00:16:25,520 --> 00:16:28,720 Speaker 1: it's just another Muslim guy who was angry about evidently 287 00:16:28,720 --> 00:16:31,080 Speaker 1: who his daughter was dating or somebody. Why is that 288 00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:33,760 Speaker 1: so much less newsworthy than what it was in the 289 00:16:33,760 --> 00:16:36,440 Speaker 1: first twenty four hours. We should all wonder about that. 290 00:16:36,800 --> 00:16:40,040 Speaker 1: The idea is, ooh, it's some far right wing domestic terrorist. 291 00:16:40,280 --> 00:16:42,080 Speaker 1: Joe Biden would have been on an airplane to fly 292 00:16:42,120 --> 00:16:45,280 Speaker 1: to Albuquerque immediately to talk to the community there and 293 00:16:45,320 --> 00:16:48,360 Speaker 1: help them heal and everything else. But Biden came out 294 00:16:48,720 --> 00:16:51,240 Speaker 1: with the border. Buck. He still hasn't been to the border, 295 00:16:51,600 --> 00:16:54,920 Speaker 1: but he came out and immediately condemned the agents that 296 00:16:55,000 --> 00:16:59,320 Speaker 1: were supposedly whipping the Haitian immigrants in that photo. But 297 00:17:00,200 --> 00:17:03,200 Speaker 1: before there was any investigation that was associated with that, 298 00:17:04,119 --> 00:17:08,120 Speaker 1: he has come out and any time the narrative fits 299 00:17:08,280 --> 00:17:12,359 Speaker 1: his preferred view of the world, he regularly weighs in. 300 00:17:12,440 --> 00:17:16,240 Speaker 1: He said almost immediately about the January sixth defendants that 301 00:17:16,359 --> 00:17:19,000 Speaker 1: they all needed to be prosecuted to the fullest extent 302 00:17:19,119 --> 00:17:23,560 Speaker 1: of the law, and basically has allowed his Justice Department 303 00:17:23,800 --> 00:17:26,959 Speaker 1: to hold people in solitary confinement. I believe we're going 304 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:29,720 Speaker 1: to talk to Julie Kelly later this week about some 305 00:17:29,840 --> 00:17:34,080 Speaker 1: of those shenanigans that are going on. And so this 306 00:17:34,080 --> 00:17:37,440 Speaker 1: this idea that Biden doesn't comment on investigation, it's not true. 307 00:17:38,040 --> 00:17:39,280 Speaker 1: It wasn't true when they used to say that during 308 00:17:39,280 --> 00:17:43,639 Speaker 1: the Obama administration as well. I think it's it's really 309 00:17:43,640 --> 00:17:46,760 Speaker 1: hard for people to stomach clay that we're not allowed 310 00:17:46,800 --> 00:17:49,919 Speaker 1: to question election results because that's a threat to democracy. 311 00:17:50,240 --> 00:17:54,120 Speaker 1: But weaponizing the DOJ that's fine, that's not a threat 312 00:17:54,160 --> 00:17:58,080 Speaker 1: to It's a much much bigger threat to democracy. People 313 00:17:58,119 --> 00:18:00,800 Speaker 1: who are not in political power going to the Capitol, 314 00:18:01,080 --> 00:18:02,960 Speaker 1: or the person who maybe the next president of the 315 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:06,200 Speaker 1: United States being raided by his foe, which one is 316 00:18:06,240 --> 00:18:10,240 Speaker 1: bigger for sure. Some businesses institutions make the tough business 317 00:18:10,320 --> 00:18:13,080 Speaker 1: decisions not to take any government money. They don't want 318 00:18:13,119 --> 00:18:16,400 Speaker 1: the strings attached to that money. They'd rather be self sufficient, 319 00:18:16,480 --> 00:18:20,280 Speaker 1: operate on their own terms. 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That's Clay and Buck for Hillsdale 329 00:18:51,440 --> 00:18:57,959 Speaker 1: dot com. Welcome back in Clay, Travis Buck Sexton Show Confession, 330 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:02,479 Speaker 1: Big Star Wars Guy. Not as much the newer movies, 331 00:19:02,520 --> 00:19:04,800 Speaker 1: but we've watched them all. Not probably not a surprise 332 00:19:04,800 --> 00:19:07,760 Speaker 1: when you've got three young boys in the house. All 333 00:19:07,800 --> 00:19:10,000 Speaker 1: the Star Wars movies. We've talked a lot about the 334 00:19:10,080 --> 00:19:14,520 Speaker 1: nineteen eighties movies on this program. And the greatest trilogy 335 00:19:14,560 --> 00:19:16,199 Speaker 1: of all time, Clay, I'm gonna put you on the 336 00:19:16,240 --> 00:19:22,520 Speaker 1: hot spot here, sir, hot seat. Greatest trilogy movie all time? Ooh, 337 00:19:22,840 --> 00:19:26,320 Speaker 1: greatest trilogy movie of all time. I would probably go 338 00:19:26,480 --> 00:19:31,480 Speaker 1: the original Star Wars. Say Godfather, Yeah, Godfather three killed 339 00:19:31,520 --> 00:19:34,240 Speaker 1: the Godfather trilogy as being the greatest of all time. 340 00:19:34,320 --> 00:19:39,480 Speaker 1: I think, I go Indiana Jones. Indiana. Indiana Jones is 341 00:19:39,520 --> 00:19:41,439 Speaker 1: up there. I mean, I think Indiana Jones and the 342 00:19:42,119 --> 00:19:45,760 Speaker 1: Last Crusade is maybe the greatest movie that's ever been made. 343 00:19:45,840 --> 00:19:48,159 Speaker 1: And when I say that full when I say that 344 00:19:48,320 --> 00:19:52,680 Speaker 1: bold call, but I'm talking about if you're six years old, 345 00:19:52,760 --> 00:19:54,840 Speaker 1: you can watch that movie and love it, and if 346 00:19:54,840 --> 00:19:57,800 Speaker 1: you're eighty. I'm not talking about like, hey, let's compare 347 00:19:57,800 --> 00:20:02,200 Speaker 1: it to Orson Wells back in the Day, to Citizen 348 00:20:02,280 --> 00:20:05,119 Speaker 1: Kane or something like that, but just pure and enjoyment. 349 00:20:05,160 --> 00:20:07,760 Speaker 1: I'd also throw in Lord of the Rings trilogy. You know, 350 00:20:07,800 --> 00:20:11,280 Speaker 1: grow I read Tolkien growing up and then the trilogy 351 00:20:11,440 --> 00:20:13,359 Speaker 1: and I remember, even as a very young kid, thinking, 352 00:20:13,440 --> 00:20:16,080 Speaker 1: how can this not have been made into a movie already? 353 00:20:16,200 --> 00:20:21,639 Speaker 1: You know? So, yeah, that is a phenomenal trilogy. The 354 00:20:21,720 --> 00:20:24,600 Speaker 1: Back to the Future trilogy, back to the Future one 355 00:20:24,640 --> 00:20:26,480 Speaker 1: and two. It's got a little bit of The Godfather 356 00:20:26,680 --> 00:20:29,480 Speaker 1: to it, because Back to the Future three was much worse. 357 00:20:30,240 --> 00:20:32,160 Speaker 1: But the Back to the Future trilogy is really good. 358 00:20:32,720 --> 00:20:35,280 Speaker 1: Point on all the why I'm thinking about the trilogies. 359 00:20:35,320 --> 00:20:40,280 Speaker 1: Here is Scott Perry, who is a congressman, member of 360 00:20:40,280 --> 00:20:45,080 Speaker 1: the Freedom Caucus, was on vacation with his family yesterday 361 00:20:46,080 --> 00:20:51,920 Speaker 1: and he's at the beach with his family and they 362 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:56,840 Speaker 1: show up. FBI agents do and demand that he answered questions, 363 00:20:57,400 --> 00:21:00,880 Speaker 1: and when he refuses, they take his cell phone from him. 364 00:21:01,880 --> 00:21:05,320 Speaker 1: And when I saw this story, this story also broke 365 00:21:05,800 --> 00:21:08,760 Speaker 1: Buck every day. It's like stories break when I'm sitting 366 00:21:08,760 --> 00:21:11,560 Speaker 1: in the carpool line to pick up my son at 367 00:21:11,600 --> 00:21:14,800 Speaker 1: the end of football practice. When I saw this happen, 368 00:21:15,400 --> 00:21:18,840 Speaker 1: my very first thought was, and I'm not kidding about this. 369 00:21:19,400 --> 00:21:25,720 Speaker 1: It feels like in Star Wars when you see Emperor Palpatine, 370 00:21:26,400 --> 00:21:30,760 Speaker 1: who is about to become the authority, evil figure taking 371 00:21:30,760 --> 00:21:36,920 Speaker 1: over the empire, say execute Order sixty six. Now Buck 372 00:21:37,040 --> 00:21:39,720 Speaker 1: knows it. I was texting with our producer Ali. She 373 00:21:39,800 --> 00:21:41,719 Speaker 1: had no idea what it was, but she asked her 374 00:21:41,720 --> 00:21:45,280 Speaker 1: fiance Girard, who immediately My wife is a big Star 375 00:21:45,320 --> 00:21:48,639 Speaker 1: Wars person. I was mentioning it to her. This analogy. 376 00:21:48,760 --> 00:21:52,960 Speaker 1: It actually fits kind of scarily in the and if 377 00:21:52,960 --> 00:21:56,399 Speaker 1: you're not a Star Wars person, Order sixty six was 378 00:21:56,840 --> 00:22:01,200 Speaker 1: the Emperor as he's taking over complete and total power, 379 00:22:01,800 --> 00:22:07,120 Speaker 1: says execute all the Jeties. Basically everyone who had power 380 00:22:07,240 --> 00:22:12,000 Speaker 1: to stand up against the evil Empire was wiped out. 381 00:22:12,040 --> 00:22:14,320 Speaker 1: Now Buck one of the greatest scenes of all time 382 00:22:14,480 --> 00:22:19,439 Speaker 1: in the Star Wars of spoiler alert, Yoda does not 383 00:22:19,640 --> 00:22:22,680 Speaker 1: go down in the Order sixty scis. I'll allow you 384 00:22:22,720 --> 00:22:25,639 Speaker 1: to describe for people out there what happened. The Yoda 385 00:22:25,760 --> 00:22:29,119 Speaker 1: backflip and double decapitation of his assassins is one of 386 00:22:29,119 --> 00:22:31,359 Speaker 1: the better moments I can remember from all the Star 387 00:22:31,400 --> 00:22:34,080 Speaker 1: Wars movies. And I do think a lot of a 388 00:22:34,080 --> 00:22:37,959 Speaker 1: lot of these pop culture use. These pop culture moments 389 00:22:37,960 --> 00:22:40,480 Speaker 1: that you have in these really powerful films are really 390 00:22:40,520 --> 00:22:43,800 Speaker 1: popular films do come from some historical analogy. I mean, 391 00:22:43,840 --> 00:22:46,320 Speaker 1: for example, were you a game with your Game of Thrones? 392 00:22:46,359 --> 00:22:49,719 Speaker 1: Guy right? So much of Game of Thrones if you 393 00:22:49,760 --> 00:22:53,720 Speaker 1: are familiar with the War of the Roses in England, 394 00:22:53,720 --> 00:22:58,080 Speaker 1: and you're familiar with some of these Scottish and English 395 00:22:58,119 --> 00:23:01,520 Speaker 1: back and forth over anyway, the Red Wedding has a 396 00:23:01,600 --> 00:23:08,479 Speaker 1: historical press. But the Order sixty six does remind me 397 00:23:08,560 --> 00:23:11,359 Speaker 1: a little bit of and I think it probably was 398 00:23:11,400 --> 00:23:14,679 Speaker 1: inspired by, though I'm just guessing the Night of the 399 00:23:14,720 --> 00:23:18,920 Speaker 1: Long Knives by Hitler back in nineteen thirty four. When 400 00:23:18,960 --> 00:23:22,720 Speaker 1: the SS just went in and took out anybody who 401 00:23:22,800 --> 00:23:27,159 Speaker 1: wasn't totally on board from within the the Nazi and 402 00:23:27,400 --> 00:23:31,320 Speaker 1: German political hierarchy. So it was it was a purge 403 00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:35,080 Speaker 1: within the power circle that existed. So it wasn't even 404 00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:38,760 Speaker 1: you know, they were already purging people who and assassinating 405 00:23:38,800 --> 00:23:41,719 Speaker 1: people who were standing up openly. But these were in 406 00:23:41,760 --> 00:23:45,359 Speaker 1: some cases individuals who just weren't on board enough or 407 00:23:45,359 --> 00:23:48,720 Speaker 1: were a threat to Hitler's power. Um the in the 408 00:23:48,800 --> 00:23:52,400 Speaker 1: Garden of Beasts book, highly highly recommend that. I've read 409 00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:54,760 Speaker 1: it as well. Yeah, and it remember it builds up 410 00:23:54,800 --> 00:23:56,399 Speaker 1: to that, it builds up to the Night of the 411 00:23:56,400 --> 00:24:00,639 Speaker 1: Long Knives. That's essentially the the the major your moment 412 00:24:01,359 --> 00:24:03,280 Speaker 1: over the course of the book. But I just think 413 00:24:03,280 --> 00:24:05,679 Speaker 1: it's so interesting because what do they say in the 414 00:24:05,720 --> 00:24:09,560 Speaker 1: newspapers the next day, Oh, we were preventing, we were 415 00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:13,040 Speaker 1: preventing political violence and a coup, so we just had 416 00:24:13,080 --> 00:24:14,960 Speaker 1: to make some arrests. And you have to put arrest 417 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:20,840 Speaker 1: in quotes. Obviously, when you start to define words differently, 418 00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:26,879 Speaker 1: you say, what is a woman? What is a recession? 419 00:24:26,960 --> 00:24:30,679 Speaker 1: What is a raid? What is a raid? And you 420 00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:35,600 Speaker 1: are arguing that words are being misused, if they in 421 00:24:35,680 --> 00:24:39,320 Speaker 1: any way are a negative factor associated with your political arm, 422 00:24:40,119 --> 00:24:43,520 Speaker 1: there is an element of totalitarianism that is at play. 423 00:24:44,240 --> 00:24:49,359 Speaker 1: And as I was looking at the Scott Perry not 424 00:24:49,440 --> 00:24:53,240 Speaker 1: a rest, but taking of seizure of his phone, my 425 00:24:53,359 --> 00:24:59,680 Speaker 1: thought was, just who's next. They are executing what feels 426 00:24:59,720 --> 00:25:05,679 Speaker 1: like a direct attack upon the strongest members of the 427 00:25:05,800 --> 00:25:09,520 Speaker 1: Republican Party who are standing up to Joe Biden and 428 00:25:10,119 --> 00:25:16,240 Speaker 1: his authoritarianism. And I just want you to think about 429 00:25:16,280 --> 00:25:20,240 Speaker 1: what the reaction would be in the media buck if 430 00:25:20,280 --> 00:25:24,480 Speaker 1: when Donald Trump was president, the FBI had shown up 431 00:25:24,880 --> 00:25:29,440 Speaker 1: and seized AOC's phone, or if they had shown up 432 00:25:29,920 --> 00:25:36,760 Speaker 1: and rated Joe Biden's house and Hunter Biden's house. Every 433 00:25:36,760 --> 00:25:41,120 Speaker 1: single Democrat media member at the Washington Post, an MSNBC, 434 00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:44,480 Speaker 1: at CNN, at the New York Times would be accusing 435 00:25:44,560 --> 00:25:48,840 Speaker 1: Trump of attempting to become a dictator and using the 436 00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:52,760 Speaker 1: FBI as his own personal police force. They all would 437 00:25:52,800 --> 00:25:56,199 Speaker 1: be saying that. I do think that the double standard 438 00:25:57,160 --> 00:26:02,040 Speaker 1: issue and the hypocrisy allegation against Democrats it is important 439 00:26:02,080 --> 00:26:04,959 Speaker 1: as a baseline for our discussions, But I think what 440 00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:07,800 Speaker 1: we've also seen is they just don't care treating that 441 00:26:07,960 --> 00:26:11,119 Speaker 1: we we pointed, we'll say what if, and they respond, 442 00:26:11,680 --> 00:26:15,040 Speaker 1: will Trump is an existential threat to our democracy? Right? 443 00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:17,840 Speaker 1: This is? And so maybe maybe this is a place 444 00:26:17,960 --> 00:26:21,520 Speaker 1: we can turn into what we know about the raid now, 445 00:26:22,040 --> 00:26:25,879 Speaker 1: which is increasingly pushing in the direction of what our 446 00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:28,920 Speaker 1: first impulse was, which is this is just a this 447 00:26:28,960 --> 00:26:32,200 Speaker 1: is a political hit. And it wasn't a tally Rand 448 00:26:32,200 --> 00:26:34,680 Speaker 1: who said it's worse than a mistake, it's a blunder. 449 00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:38,840 Speaker 1: I think Democrats are now waking up the reality that 450 00:26:39,240 --> 00:26:42,280 Speaker 1: they are. You cannot trust their judgment on anything. No 451 00:26:42,320 --> 00:26:45,600 Speaker 1: one can trust their judgment judgment on anything involving Donald Trump. 452 00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:50,320 Speaker 1: And they did something here that was really stupid. They 453 00:26:50,359 --> 00:26:53,560 Speaker 1: have kicked the hornet's nest. People are very upset rightly 454 00:26:53,600 --> 00:26:57,040 Speaker 1: about this, and they don't they don't have a good explanation. 455 00:26:57,080 --> 00:27:01,280 Speaker 1: They don't, and it's because Trump emotionally crippled them. I mean, 456 00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:04,240 Speaker 1: they still can't. I think Marrick Garland really believes Clay 457 00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:07,719 Speaker 1: that Donald Trump is an existential threat to democracy. I 458 00:27:07,720 --> 00:27:10,440 Speaker 1: think he thinks that. I think he thinks that as well, Buck. 459 00:27:10,520 --> 00:27:12,320 Speaker 1: And we'll talk about this because I think at the 460 00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:14,040 Speaker 1: top of the next hour and on into the show. 461 00:27:14,080 --> 00:27:16,840 Speaker 1: We can also open up phone lines. Buck. What I 462 00:27:16,880 --> 00:27:21,800 Speaker 1: am seeing is a rallying behind Donald Trump, the likes 463 00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:24,760 Speaker 1: of which I have not seen in years now running 464 00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:28,000 Speaker 1: up to the election itself. I think most people out 465 00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:35,840 Speaker 1: there remember the enthusiasm, the fervor, the amount of crazed 466 00:27:36,359 --> 00:27:40,439 Speaker 1: ort that existed for Donald Trump in November of twenty twenty. 467 00:27:42,440 --> 00:27:46,840 Speaker 1: I haven't seen anything like this in nearly two years, 468 00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:51,120 Speaker 1: the wind, so to speak, behind the back of Donald Trump. 469 00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:57,720 Speaker 1: I think that to your point, Democrats massively overplayed their hand, 470 00:27:58,640 --> 00:28:01,399 Speaker 1: and reasonable people who may not even be huge Trump 471 00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:04,639 Speaker 1: supporters that are listening to us right now are saying 472 00:28:05,359 --> 00:28:09,080 Speaker 1: I've never wanted him to run more than I do 473 00:28:09,720 --> 00:28:13,040 Speaker 1: right now. 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Pure Talk 501 00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:42,200 Speaker 1: is simply smarter Wiler Welcome back in Clay Travis buck 502 00:29:42,240 --> 00:29:44,240 Speaker 1: Sexton show. Buck, I was just talking with you about 503 00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:46,440 Speaker 1: off the air, and by the way, encourage all of 504 00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:48,360 Speaker 1: you to go sign up for the Play and Buck Show. 505 00:29:49,240 --> 00:29:52,560 Speaker 1: I really do believe that on a day to day basis, 506 00:29:53,080 --> 00:29:58,480 Speaker 1: there is nowhere you're going to get more detailed, intelligent discussion, 507 00:29:58,720 --> 00:30:02,360 Speaker 1: certainly for three hour hours than we are having on 508 00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:04,479 Speaker 1: this show. You may not agree every single minute with 509 00:30:04,480 --> 00:30:06,640 Speaker 1: every single opinion we have, and frankly would be a 510 00:30:06,640 --> 00:30:09,680 Speaker 1: boring world if everybody had the exact same opinion. Maybe 511 00:30:09,720 --> 00:30:11,480 Speaker 1: it'd be the world that Joe Biden would prefer to 512 00:30:11,480 --> 00:30:13,720 Speaker 1: be running right now with the way he's running his 513 00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:19,200 Speaker 1: Justice Department. But great discussion yesterday. We're continuing and one 514 00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:22,560 Speaker 1: thing we haven't discussed about this raid, Buck, I want 515 00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:25,320 Speaker 1: to know way more about this judge who signed the 516 00:30:25,360 --> 00:30:30,960 Speaker 1: warrant that allowed these people, these FBI agents to storm 517 00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:37,520 Speaker 1: the gates of mar Lago. Increasingly, as more details come 518 00:30:37,520 --> 00:30:43,560 Speaker 1: out about this guy, he seems like Buck an incredible partisan. 519 00:30:44,360 --> 00:30:49,000 Speaker 1: His name is Bruce Reinhardt. According to reports, he is 520 00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:54,920 Speaker 1: an Obama campaign donor who appears to be a rabid partisan. 521 00:30:55,680 --> 00:30:58,880 Speaker 1: There are more and more videos coming out of him 522 00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:05,520 Speaker 1: ending Democrats no matter what, and so I want to 523 00:31:05,560 --> 00:31:09,320 Speaker 1: know he also, as we said before, and I hate 524 00:31:09,320 --> 00:31:12,960 Speaker 1: to get involved in the this person represented that person, 525 00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:17,200 Speaker 1: because remember John Adams represented the redcoats who fired on 526 00:31:17,240 --> 00:31:21,160 Speaker 1: the British, sorry, the British redcoats who fired on the 527 00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:28,320 Speaker 1: Patriots in the Boston massacre. And so who you I've 528 00:31:28,320 --> 00:31:33,240 Speaker 1: represented murderers. Who you represent doesn't always say everything about 529 00:31:33,280 --> 00:31:37,120 Speaker 1: you as a lawyer, but when every single thing you've 530 00:31:37,160 --> 00:31:42,520 Speaker 1: done buck is basically associated with being a democratic operative, 531 00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:46,120 Speaker 1: and then you happen to end up as the judge 532 00:31:46,520 --> 00:31:51,360 Speaker 1: who gets this warrant to sign, the entire process of 533 00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:57,440 Speaker 1: obtaining this warrant feels to me very fishy forum shopping 534 00:31:57,520 --> 00:32:00,640 Speaker 1: in the extreme. Knowing that this guy would sign off 535 00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:05,040 Speaker 1: on anything because he hated Trump, I feel like that's 536 00:32:05,040 --> 00:32:07,520 Speaker 1: where we're going with this. I do also want to 537 00:32:07,520 --> 00:32:11,479 Speaker 1: remind everybody of who we're dealing with here when it 538 00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:15,200 Speaker 1: comes to their ethics, their judgment, their honesty. What is 539 00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:17,840 Speaker 1: the deep state? What are they really all about? What 540 00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:21,920 Speaker 1: are they willing to do? General Michael Flynn served his 541 00:32:22,040 --> 00:32:26,120 Speaker 1: country for over thirty years. The United States military was 542 00:32:26,160 --> 00:32:30,760 Speaker 1: the incoming National Security advisor for the Trump administration, as 543 00:32:30,800 --> 00:32:33,520 Speaker 1: we now know, and they tried very hard to hide 544 00:32:33,520 --> 00:32:38,920 Speaker 1: it from us at the time. The outgoing Biden I'm sorry, 545 00:32:38,920 --> 00:32:43,880 Speaker 1: Obama White House used the Logan Act. We all remember 546 00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:47,640 Speaker 1: this as a pretext for sending in a high level 547 00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:51,040 Speaker 1: DJ figure. Sally Yates used a Logan Act as a 548 00:32:51,120 --> 00:32:55,200 Speaker 1: pretext to send two FBI agents in to sit down 549 00:32:55,240 --> 00:32:59,200 Speaker 1: with the incoming National security advisor and then claimed that he, 550 00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:01,840 Speaker 1: based on their handwritten notes, by the way, not an 551 00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:05,480 Speaker 1: actual transcript of the conversation, lied to them about a 552 00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:08,120 Speaker 1: phone call that was one hundred percent legal for him 553 00:33:08,120 --> 00:33:11,920 Speaker 1: to have engaged in. And the logan at Clay has 554 00:33:12,040 --> 00:33:15,360 Speaker 1: never once been used to prosecute a person successfully in 555 00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:18,960 Speaker 1: the history of the country. And Sally Ates goes, yeah, 556 00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:20,840 Speaker 1: let's send him in there under the Logan Act. Let's 557 00:33:20,880 --> 00:33:22,640 Speaker 1: see we can get away with Comey said this too, 558 00:33:22,760 --> 00:33:27,640 Speaker 1: Let's see where we can sneak in there. Those same individuals, 559 00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:30,719 Speaker 1: just with different names, but the same mentality, same roles 560 00:33:31,320 --> 00:33:34,840 Speaker 1: exist under the Biden administration. And I think that is 561 00:33:34,840 --> 00:33:38,040 Speaker 1: the mentality that they've applied here for the Marlago raid, 562 00:33:38,800 --> 00:33:44,840 Speaker 1: stretching the law to its maximum, bad faith, pretextual. Oh 563 00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:49,320 Speaker 1: but anything to defend our democracy. They're shameful. I mean, 564 00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:51,520 Speaker 1: remember you remember the Logan Act. Phenomenal people haven't look 565 00:33:51,560 --> 00:33:54,520 Speaker 1: that up and look. But the other thing I would 566 00:33:54,560 --> 00:33:56,760 Speaker 1: say is we're going to talk to Julie Kelly later 567 00:33:56,800 --> 00:33:59,960 Speaker 1: this week, I believe, and she's been doing phenomenal work 568 00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:03,200 Speaker 1: about the January sixth defendants. She's also covering right now 569 00:34:03,720 --> 00:34:08,080 Speaker 1: the situation in Michigan. Remember where they trumpeted a big 570 00:34:08,120 --> 00:34:10,360 Speaker 1: story about, Oh, there was a plot to kidnap and 571 00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:13,960 Speaker 1: assassinate Governor Whitmer up in Michigan. And this is why 572 00:34:13,960 --> 00:34:18,120 Speaker 1: we have to be so concerned about domestic terrorists, she tweeted, 573 00:34:18,880 --> 00:34:23,640 Speaker 1: Blue checks the FBI would never plant evidence. This is 574 00:34:23,680 --> 00:34:26,080 Speaker 1: something I'm really concerned about. With the raid that's going 575 00:34:26,080 --> 00:34:27,840 Speaker 1: on right now at Mara a Lago, we know the 576 00:34:27,920 --> 00:34:30,600 Speaker 1: lawyers weren't allowed to witness the raid. We know they 577 00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:33,879 Speaker 1: made them stand outside of the outside while the raid 578 00:34:33,960 --> 00:34:35,880 Speaker 1: was going on. I believe we're going to talk to 579 00:34:35,920 --> 00:34:38,680 Speaker 1: Miranda Divine tomorrow, who has a really good piece up 580 00:34:38,680 --> 00:34:40,600 Speaker 1: in the New York Post about some of the details 581 00:34:40,640 --> 00:34:45,200 Speaker 1: surrounding this raid. Right now, the Whitmer defendants this morning 582 00:34:45,719 --> 00:34:51,239 Speaker 1: are arguing that an FBI informant planted explosive materials in 583 00:34:51,320 --> 00:34:55,200 Speaker 1: the truck of a defendant so the FBI could confiscate 584 00:34:55,239 --> 00:35:00,920 Speaker 1: the evidence upon arrest. Fuck, are you rusting enough of 585 00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:06,279 Speaker 1: the FBI that you think it's beyond any doubt that 586 00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:09,600 Speaker 1: they would behave in a way where they would plant evidence. 587 00:35:09,640 --> 00:35:14,000 Speaker 1: I'm not for the FBI already. I worked for the CIA. 588 00:35:14,040 --> 00:35:17,000 Speaker 1: I had a TS clearance for many years. I was 589 00:35:17,040 --> 00:35:20,680 Speaker 1: in the federal bureaucracy and in rooms were highly sensitive 590 00:35:20,719 --> 00:35:25,040 Speaker 1: government operations and was all being discussed. And it's your 591 00:35:25,120 --> 00:35:28,279 Speaker 1: question about the FBI, Clay, I would advise anyone in 592 00:35:28,280 --> 00:35:30,520 Speaker 1: this country right now. If the FBI says, hey, I 593 00:35:30,520 --> 00:35:33,040 Speaker 1: just want to talk to you, the answer is no. Yeah, 594 00:35:33,120 --> 00:35:35,920 Speaker 1: the answer is talk to my lawyer. No, No, we 595 00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:37,680 Speaker 1: just want you to be helpful. We just want to 596 00:35:37,680 --> 00:35:39,879 Speaker 1: know do you know this guy who maybe did this thing, 597 00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:42,840 Speaker 1: who might have been around Trump, or you know somebody 598 00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:44,680 Speaker 1: who might have showed up for that that protest on 599 00:35:44,760 --> 00:35:47,440 Speaker 1: January The answer no matter what the topic is. When 600 00:35:47,480 --> 00:35:49,560 Speaker 1: the FBI says hey, can we talk to you, No, 601 00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:53,120 Speaker 1: talk to my lawyer. That's how much FBI ever knocks 602 00:35:53,160 --> 00:35:56,280 Speaker 1: on my door with a search warrant, I'm throwing double 603 00:35:56,320 --> 00:35:58,799 Speaker 1: birds up at them, and I'm going straight on my 604 00:35:58,840 --> 00:36:00,920 Speaker 1: phone to get my lawyer. I tell people that all 605 00:36:00,920 --> 00:36:04,960 Speaker 1: the time, to buck look, be very, be very careful 606 00:36:05,040 --> 00:36:08,520 Speaker 1: talking to authorities when they're trying to claim to you. Hey, 607 00:36:08,560 --> 00:36:10,759 Speaker 1: this is really simple. We just want to clear this up, 608 00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:12,879 Speaker 1: trying to help you out, trying to help you out. 609 00:36:12,880 --> 00:36:15,400 Speaker 1: We've got this done in a minute. Yeah, there are 610 00:36:15,440 --> 00:36:19,160 Speaker 1: so many people right now who have gotten entrapped with 611 00:36:19,440 --> 00:36:23,600 Speaker 1: that exact opening. You should always talk to your RAN, 612 00:36:23,719 --> 00:36:27,200 Speaker 1: the Defense Intelligence Agency, Clay and they got him. He 613 00:36:27,320 --> 00:36:31,560 Speaker 1: got got I don't trust the FBI at all. I 614 00:36:31,600 --> 00:36:34,480 Speaker 1: don't trust them to conduct an investigation. I don't conduct 615 00:36:34,520 --> 00:36:36,560 Speaker 1: them to trust them to conduct a raid, and I 616 00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:40,000 Speaker 1: especially don't trust them in anything surrounding Donald Trump. And 617 00:36:40,040 --> 00:36:44,680 Speaker 1: I think all of you are with me. They are untrustworthy, 618 00:36:44,960 --> 00:36:45,360 Speaker 1: period