1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:03,320 Speaker 1: Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck 2 00:00:03,360 --> 00:00:08,600 Speaker 1: Sexton Show podcast. What a Day already, Welcome to the 3 00:00:08,720 --> 00:00:12,800 Speaker 1: Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. We are just coming 4 00:00:12,840 --> 00:00:16,320 Speaker 1: to the very end of the Governor Cuomo speech here 5 00:00:16,360 --> 00:00:19,200 Speaker 1: will bring you some of that, some of the most 6 00:00:19,239 --> 00:00:21,680 Speaker 1: important moments of it in just a second year, clayt 7 00:00:21,680 --> 00:00:24,320 Speaker 1: I will break down for you exactly what's going on. Plus, 8 00:00:24,320 --> 00:00:28,240 Speaker 1: we got Fauci calling for straight up mask mandates, little 9 00:00:28,320 --> 00:00:31,080 Speaker 1: lab coat tyrant not hiding it anymore. A judge in 10 00:00:31,160 --> 00:00:35,280 Speaker 1: DC thinks that the Capitol Hill rioters should be responsible 11 00:00:35,280 --> 00:00:39,080 Speaker 1: for the National Guard deployment costs after the riot. You know, 12 00:00:39,080 --> 00:00:41,239 Speaker 1: they're going easy on the people that they're holding in 13 00:00:41,800 --> 00:00:46,440 Speaker 1: solitary confinement for months on end, in some cases with 14 00:00:46,520 --> 00:00:48,720 Speaker 1: no violent crimes charge. And we'll get into that. And 15 00:00:48,800 --> 00:00:51,879 Speaker 1: also the Senate passing the trillion dollar infrastructure bill. I mean, 16 00:00:51,920 --> 00:00:55,240 Speaker 1: a absolutely stack show today. But well let's get let's 17 00:00:55,280 --> 00:00:58,480 Speaker 1: get right to the breaking news that is still happening 18 00:00:58,520 --> 00:01:02,920 Speaker 1: as I'm speaking to you here. Governor Cuomo had his 19 00:01:03,240 --> 00:01:07,080 Speaker 1: lawyer sitting before the Seal of New York and really 20 00:01:07,080 --> 00:01:09,280 Speaker 1: what looked to be at an official capacity which was 21 00:01:09,319 --> 00:01:12,559 Speaker 1: pretty strange when you think about it, outside council, sitting 22 00:01:12,560 --> 00:01:15,720 Speaker 1: in the governor's chair to present his side of the case, 23 00:01:15,800 --> 00:01:20,120 Speaker 1: pulling apart, picking apart, piece by piece, every allegation of 24 00:01:20,160 --> 00:01:25,400 Speaker 1: impropriety against Governor Andrew Cuomo. Didn't interview all the witnesses, 25 00:01:25,480 --> 00:01:28,320 Speaker 1: did give transcripts for all the witnesses. They did interview, 26 00:01:28,880 --> 00:01:31,480 Speaker 1: no governor's side presented, I mean, just going through it 27 00:01:31,600 --> 00:01:35,080 Speaker 1: like a defense attorney would, but doing it in what 28 00:01:35,160 --> 00:01:38,200 Speaker 1: seemed to be an almost quasi official capacity during a 29 00:01:38,240 --> 00:01:42,120 Speaker 1: press conference, and then followed up immediately by the governor. Now, 30 00:01:42,160 --> 00:01:46,520 Speaker 1: the Governor's position on this is he might have been 31 00:01:46,560 --> 00:01:50,680 Speaker 1: a bit insensitive. You know, he's from a different generation, Clay. 32 00:01:50,800 --> 00:01:54,360 Speaker 1: He's a guy who sees things through an old and 33 00:01:54,440 --> 00:01:59,040 Speaker 1: perhaps out of date lens. But at worst, he gave 34 00:01:59,480 --> 00:02:03,800 Speaker 1: some degree of offense or discomfort without actually intending to. 35 00:02:03,960 --> 00:02:07,800 Speaker 1: At worst, he was an older guy who was trying 36 00:02:07,800 --> 00:02:12,160 Speaker 1: to be affectionate and supportive, he says, not actually someone 37 00:02:12,160 --> 00:02:14,920 Speaker 1: who's a predator or coercing or doing any of the 38 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:16,959 Speaker 1: things that we were led to believe last week. We're 39 00:02:16,960 --> 00:02:20,240 Speaker 1: going on, Clay, what I see here, my man is 40 00:02:21,120 --> 00:02:25,480 Speaker 1: delay and redefine. He even mentioned how long the process 41 00:02:25,560 --> 00:02:28,880 Speaker 1: would take to impeach to impeach him, how difficult it 42 00:02:28,919 --> 00:02:30,840 Speaker 1: will be at a time when the City of New 43 00:02:30,919 --> 00:02:33,640 Speaker 1: York and the State of New York need excellent leadership, 44 00:02:34,080 --> 00:02:35,600 Speaker 1: and the rest of it seemed to me to be 45 00:02:36,320 --> 00:02:39,120 Speaker 1: what's really harassment though, I mean, what's the difference between 46 00:02:39,160 --> 00:02:40,880 Speaker 1: a touch on the back that you meet as a 47 00:02:40,919 --> 00:02:44,320 Speaker 1: friend versus a touch on the back for sexual gratification. Clay, 48 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:48,120 Speaker 1: He's definitely not resigning, But is he even going what 49 00:02:48,160 --> 00:02:52,400 Speaker 1: do you think it's Let me just say this, Andrew 50 00:02:52,480 --> 00:02:57,400 Speaker 1: Cuomo believes that he has a skill in talking to 51 00:02:57,480 --> 00:03:00,000 Speaker 1: the people of New York and in a larger context, 52 00:03:00,160 --> 00:03:04,160 Speaker 1: to the people of the country, and that he can 53 00:03:04,320 --> 00:03:09,919 Speaker 1: persuade them that what he did may have got breaking news. 54 00:03:10,480 --> 00:03:14,720 Speaker 1: He say, he is stepping aside. We got take this, 55 00:03:14,840 --> 00:03:18,680 Speaker 1: Live this, Bring this, sisters. We did more to battle 56 00:03:18,800 --> 00:03:24,280 Speaker 1: racism and anti semitism today. So much of the politics 57 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:29,640 Speaker 1: is just noise, just static, and that's why people tune 58 00:03:29,720 --> 00:03:36,960 Speaker 1: it out. What matters is actually improving people's lives. And 59 00:03:37,120 --> 00:03:41,280 Speaker 1: that's what you did. You made this state a better 60 00:03:41,360 --> 00:03:49,560 Speaker 1: state for the generations that follow and that is undeniable, inarguable, 61 00:03:50,120 --> 00:03:55,920 Speaker 1: and true even in these ugly, crazy times. I thank 62 00:03:55,960 --> 00:03:59,880 Speaker 1: Speaker Carl Heasty and Leader Andrea Stewart cousins for their leadership. 63 00:04:01,120 --> 00:04:05,200 Speaker 1: And let me see this on a personal note, in 64 00:04:05,240 --> 00:04:08,120 Speaker 1: many ways, I see the world through the eyes of 65 00:04:08,160 --> 00:04:13,280 Speaker 1: my daughters, Kara, Mariah and Michaela. They are twenty six 66 00:04:13,280 --> 00:04:17,560 Speaker 1: and twenty six, twins and twenty three, and I have 67 00:04:17,640 --> 00:04:21,520 Speaker 1: lived this experience with and through them. I have sat 68 00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:27,400 Speaker 1: on the couch with them, hearing the ugly accusations for weeks. 69 00:04:28,600 --> 00:04:31,640 Speaker 1: I have seen the look in their eyes and the 70 00:04:31,720 --> 00:04:37,240 Speaker 1: expression on their faces, and it hurt. I want my 71 00:04:37,360 --> 00:04:42,960 Speaker 1: three jewels to know this. My greatest goal is for 72 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:45,960 Speaker 1: them to have a better future than the generations of 73 00:04:46,040 --> 00:04:50,320 Speaker 1: women before them. It is still, in many ways a 74 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:54,919 Speaker 1: man's world. It always has been. We have sexism that 75 00:04:55,080 --> 00:05:01,479 Speaker 1: is culturalized and institutionalized. My daughters have more talent and 76 00:05:01,680 --> 00:05:06,320 Speaker 1: natural gifts than I ever had. I want to make 77 00:05:06,320 --> 00:05:10,240 Speaker 1: sure that society allows them to fly as high as 78 00:05:10,279 --> 00:05:13,840 Speaker 1: their wings will carry them. There should be no assumptions, 79 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:19,360 Speaker 1: no stereotypes, no limitations. I want them to know from 80 00:05:19,360 --> 00:05:23,240 Speaker 1: the bottom of my heart that I never did and 81 00:05:23,360 --> 00:05:29,400 Speaker 1: I never would intentionally disrespect a woman or treat any 82 00:05:29,480 --> 00:05:34,840 Speaker 1: woman differently than I would want them treated. And that 83 00:05:35,040 --> 00:05:43,320 Speaker 1: is the God's honest truth. Your dad made mistakes, and 84 00:05:43,440 --> 00:05:48,719 Speaker 1: he apologized and he learned from it, and that's what 85 00:05:48,880 --> 00:05:53,120 Speaker 1: life is all about. And I know the political process 86 00:05:53,240 --> 00:05:58,200 Speaker 1: is flawed, and I understand their cynicism and distrust and 87 00:05:58,279 --> 00:06:03,120 Speaker 1: disappointment now, but don't give it up, because government is 88 00:06:03,160 --> 00:06:09,919 Speaker 1: still the best vehicle for making positive social change. Lastly, 89 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:15,280 Speaker 1: I want to remind all New Yorkers of an important 90 00:06:15,360 --> 00:06:19,640 Speaker 1: lesson and one that I will carry with me for 91 00:06:19,680 --> 00:06:23,440 Speaker 1: the rest of my life. And that's what you New 92 00:06:23,560 --> 00:06:29,279 Speaker 1: Yorkers did in battling COVID. The enemy landed in New 93 00:06:29,360 --> 00:06:35,840 Speaker 1: York State. COVID launched the attack here. It came on 94 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:41,040 Speaker 1: planes from Europe, and we had no idea. It was 95 00:06:41,080 --> 00:06:44,599 Speaker 1: an ambush and it was up to New Yorkers to 96 00:06:44,680 --> 00:06:51,560 Speaker 1: fight back. We were on our own and it was war. Nurses, doctors, 97 00:06:51,680 --> 00:06:58,560 Speaker 1: essential workers became our frontline heroes. Hospitals became the battlegrounds. 98 00:07:00,080 --> 00:07:08,720 Speaker 1: Streets were still and sirens filled the city's silence. Trailers 99 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:14,000 Speaker 1: carried the bodies of our fallen brothers and sisters. But 100 00:07:14,160 --> 00:07:19,160 Speaker 1: you refused to give up, and you fought back and 101 00:07:19,280 --> 00:07:23,360 Speaker 1: you won, going from the highest infection rate in the 102 00:07:23,560 --> 00:07:28,720 Speaker 1: nation to one of the lowest. No one thought we 103 00:07:28,800 --> 00:07:32,720 Speaker 1: could do it, but you did it. You led the nation, 104 00:07:33,440 --> 00:07:37,160 Speaker 1: and you showed the way forward. And how you did 105 00:07:37,200 --> 00:07:41,920 Speaker 1: it is what's most important. You did it together, not 106 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:44,560 Speaker 1: as Black New Yorkers or white New Yorkers, not as 107 00:07:44,680 --> 00:07:48,960 Speaker 1: LGBTQ New Yorkers, or straight New Yorkers, or Democrats or Republicans, 108 00:07:49,120 --> 00:07:52,880 Speaker 1: or upstate or downstate, or Jewish Muslim Protestant of Catholic 109 00:07:52,920 --> 00:07:58,000 Speaker 1: New Yorkers, but as one community, one family, the family 110 00:07:58,160 --> 00:08:03,840 Speaker 1: of New York. Overcame the naysayers and the haters and 111 00:08:03,960 --> 00:08:08,440 Speaker 1: the fear and the division, and you unified and you rose, 112 00:08:08,680 --> 00:08:14,040 Speaker 1: and you overcame, and you saved lives. And that was 113 00:08:14,200 --> 00:08:19,280 Speaker 1: powerful in its effect. It was beautiful to see, and 114 00:08:19,320 --> 00:08:24,440 Speaker 1: it was an honor to lead. Please remember that lesson, 115 00:08:25,480 --> 00:08:29,080 Speaker 1: Hold it, dear, and hold it up high for this 116 00:08:29,200 --> 00:08:32,760 Speaker 1: nation to see, because it is New York State at 117 00:08:32,800 --> 00:08:39,079 Speaker 1: her finest, creating her legacy, of filling her destiny, giving life. 118 00:08:39,640 --> 00:08:43,719 Speaker 1: An animation to the lady in the harbor, saying excelsior. 119 00:08:44,640 --> 00:08:49,559 Speaker 1: We can be better, we can reach higher and proclaiming 120 00:08:49,640 --> 00:08:59,439 Speaker 1: eplura basunum out of many, one unity, community love. That 121 00:08:59,559 --> 00:09:06,719 Speaker 1: is our founding premise and our enduring promise, and that 122 00:09:06,880 --> 00:09:11,280 Speaker 1: is the salvation of this nation that it so desperately 123 00:09:11,400 --> 00:09:17,520 Speaker 1: needs to hear. Thank you for the honor of serving you. 124 00:09:18,760 --> 00:09:22,560 Speaker 1: It has been the honor of my lifetime. God bless you. 125 00:09:22,679 --> 00:09:27,080 Speaker 1: All Right. Okay, Okay, Clay, my mind is completely blown. 126 00:09:27,160 --> 00:09:30,040 Speaker 1: Your mind is blown. Exactly what you said he would 127 00:09:30,040 --> 00:09:34,240 Speaker 1: never do. I'm just saying so much pack here. I 128 00:09:34,280 --> 00:09:37,360 Speaker 1: was talking to people in New York State legislature and 129 00:09:37,679 --> 00:09:40,760 Speaker 1: counsel as of yesterday. They're like, he's gonna least fight 130 00:09:40,800 --> 00:09:43,679 Speaker 1: it out. So he must have decided. There was no 131 00:09:43,720 --> 00:09:46,360 Speaker 1: advanced warning of this at all. He let it, Clay. 132 00:09:46,559 --> 00:09:48,679 Speaker 1: He had his lawyer come out and basically say all 133 00:09:48,720 --> 00:09:51,800 Speaker 1: the allegations against him are untrue. He came out and said, yeah, 134 00:09:51,800 --> 00:09:53,960 Speaker 1: I made a few mistakes, but no big deal. It 135 00:09:54,080 --> 00:09:56,000 Speaker 1: looked like we're the last two minutes of the press 136 00:09:56,000 --> 00:10:00,120 Speaker 1: conference and he's like, actually, I'm out. I'm stunned. What 137 00:10:00,160 --> 00:10:05,960 Speaker 1: did I say, Yester. This feels listening to this like 138 00:10:06,120 --> 00:10:08,679 Speaker 1: it might be an argument that he tries to come 139 00:10:08,720 --> 00:10:12,440 Speaker 1: back in twenty twenty two. He's gonna resign. He's done 140 00:10:12,440 --> 00:10:16,800 Speaker 1: it in time to potentially put himself into the Democratic primary. 141 00:10:17,120 --> 00:10:19,679 Speaker 1: He used this opportunity. Just think about it. Just think 142 00:10:19,720 --> 00:10:22,760 Speaker 1: about it. He used this opportunity to make the case 143 00:10:22,800 --> 00:10:26,000 Speaker 1: that he did nothing wrong, but that he was stepping 144 00:10:26,080 --> 00:10:30,080 Speaker 1: down because of the mess that would be entitled and 145 00:10:30,240 --> 00:10:33,880 Speaker 1: caused if he were going to be impeached. He now 146 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:38,080 Speaker 1: can step away and say I did nothing wrong. And 147 00:10:38,320 --> 00:10:41,160 Speaker 1: in theory, if he sits out for a couple of months, 148 00:10:41,600 --> 00:10:44,760 Speaker 1: he could come back and try to get reelected. Then 149 00:10:44,800 --> 00:10:49,280 Speaker 1: he's wiping all the problems clean and he is the 150 00:10:49,679 --> 00:10:55,760 Speaker 1: governor again in twenty twenty two. I mean, is stunning, stunning? Why? 151 00:10:56,000 --> 00:11:02,360 Speaker 1: I mean, clearly there was a reputational protection strategy here 152 00:11:02,400 --> 00:11:04,199 Speaker 1: with with That's why I mean, why have your lawyer 153 00:11:04,240 --> 00:11:05,599 Speaker 1: come out? Right? He could have First of all, he 154 00:11:05,600 --> 00:11:07,959 Speaker 1: could have resigned the first time out, So clearly he 155 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:10,720 Speaker 1: thought could have also resigned in the first five minutes 156 00:11:10,720 --> 00:11:13,280 Speaker 1: of this speech, as opposed to when we were listening, 157 00:11:13,280 --> 00:11:15,280 Speaker 1: we cut it out because we're like, okay, he's not 158 00:11:15,320 --> 00:11:18,360 Speaker 1: going to resign, and then he drops the bombshell because, 159 00:11:18,920 --> 00:11:21,080 Speaker 1: I mean, again, if you try to think like Andrew, 160 00:11:21,280 --> 00:11:23,040 Speaker 1: I mean, this is a theory, you may be you 161 00:11:23,080 --> 00:11:25,280 Speaker 1: may be right, but I would say, right now, no, 162 00:11:25,360 --> 00:11:28,679 Speaker 1: I'm just in the prediction game. I mean, my God, 163 00:11:28,800 --> 00:11:34,520 Speaker 1: resigning like this doesn't He can't disappear, right. So if 164 00:11:34,520 --> 00:11:36,960 Speaker 1: you think about what is the end goal, it is 165 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:42,319 Speaker 1: to maintain his relevancy instead of getting dragged through the mud. 166 00:11:42,440 --> 00:11:45,760 Speaker 1: He gets the final word in some way. Everybody took 167 00:11:45,800 --> 00:11:50,000 Speaker 1: this live Fox News, MSNBC, CNN, The Clay Travis and 168 00:11:50,040 --> 00:11:55,120 Speaker 1: Buck Sexton Show, and he decides to suddenly pivot at 169 00:11:55,120 --> 00:11:58,120 Speaker 1: the very end and say, hey, despite the fact that 170 00:11:58,160 --> 00:12:01,080 Speaker 1: I did nothing wrong, I'm gonna fall on the sword 171 00:12:01,240 --> 00:12:04,760 Speaker 1: basically for the betterment of New York. Two months time, Buck, 172 00:12:04,840 --> 00:12:07,800 Speaker 1: or whatever the time frame is. He comes back, He 173 00:12:07,920 --> 00:12:11,480 Speaker 1: re emerges. He says he's a changed man, he's learned, 174 00:12:11,640 --> 00:12:14,960 Speaker 1: and he's running and he gets to run against maybe 175 00:12:14,960 --> 00:12:17,199 Speaker 1: the woman who said that he was a sexual harasser, 176 00:12:17,360 --> 00:12:20,720 Speaker 1: Letitia James. He gets to run against whoever the other 177 00:12:20,840 --> 00:12:23,800 Speaker 1: Democrats are that would rise up and be interested in 178 00:12:23,800 --> 00:12:28,400 Speaker 1: this job. And the ultimate vindication he can claim is 179 00:12:28,400 --> 00:12:32,040 Speaker 1: if he gets the nomination, that the people of New 180 00:12:32,120 --> 00:12:35,920 Speaker 1: York still believe in him. They still believe in Andrew Cuomo, 181 00:12:36,080 --> 00:12:38,160 Speaker 1: and he can run again in twenty two. I'm not 182 00:12:38,200 --> 00:12:41,520 Speaker 1: saying he's gonna do it, but I'm saying all these pictures, 183 00:12:41,559 --> 00:12:44,920 Speaker 1: I think why he decided to resign now, as much 184 00:12:44,960 --> 00:12:47,160 Speaker 1: as the future component of this is interesting, I think 185 00:12:47,200 --> 00:12:48,640 Speaker 1: that's the answer. But yes, we got it. I mean, 186 00:12:48,640 --> 00:12:51,800 Speaker 1: this is blockbuster news, breaking live literally as we were 187 00:12:51,840 --> 00:12:53,920 Speaker 1: on the air. You heard it with us in real time. 188 00:12:54,040 --> 00:12:55,800 Speaker 1: I've never seen a press conference line. I mean you, 189 00:12:55,840 --> 00:12:58,120 Speaker 1: first of all, usually this is this league. This did clay, 190 00:12:58,200 --> 00:13:00,920 Speaker 1: This didn't lead. I'm saying nothing thing came. There's no 191 00:13:00,920 --> 00:13:03,080 Speaker 1: one saying. There was no expectation that he was going 192 00:13:03,160 --> 00:13:05,960 Speaker 1: to resign today in the media, no one leaked. I mean, anyway, 193 00:13:06,280 --> 00:13:08,480 Speaker 1: we'll come back into this. I gotta say, I'm I 194 00:13:08,520 --> 00:13:11,880 Speaker 1: am shocked, absolutely shocked. I didn't think he was gonna 195 00:13:11,920 --> 00:13:13,440 Speaker 1: do it. He did it. So if there you go. 196 00:13:13,559 --> 00:13:16,200 Speaker 1: Nobody can really predict the future. One of many things 197 00:13:16,200 --> 00:13:18,760 Speaker 1: we can predict though, these days, is that inflation is 198 00:13:18,800 --> 00:13:20,640 Speaker 1: going up and you got to protect your assets. One 199 00:13:20,679 --> 00:13:24,640 Speaker 1: way to do that is with gold. Protection is important 200 00:13:24,640 --> 00:13:27,079 Speaker 1: for your portfolio. But the greatest satisfaction I've had is 201 00:13:27,120 --> 00:13:29,040 Speaker 1: when I was buying gold from the Oxford Gold Group 202 00:13:29,040 --> 00:13:31,760 Speaker 1: and it arrived at my home. It was like Christmas Morning. 203 00:13:31,800 --> 00:13:34,360 Speaker 1: I invested and I held that investment in my hands. 204 00:13:34,559 --> 00:13:37,360 Speaker 1: Real gold, Well, my partners that Oxford Gold Group have 205 00:13:37,400 --> 00:13:40,000 Speaker 1: precious metals that can be delivered to your home. There's 206 00:13:40,080 --> 00:13:42,600 Speaker 1: nothing like real gold on your doorstep. Now, when I 207 00:13:42,600 --> 00:13:45,360 Speaker 1: open my safe, I have my passport, my home protection, 208 00:13:45,400 --> 00:13:47,720 Speaker 1: a bit of reserve cash, and real gold from the 209 00:13:47,760 --> 00:13:50,920 Speaker 1: Oxford Gold Group. So if you think buying gold is complicated, 210 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:52,680 Speaker 1: my friends of the Oxford Gold Group or who you 211 00:13:52,720 --> 00:13:55,280 Speaker 1: need to call, they'll explain everything to you. Having real 212 00:13:55,400 --> 00:13:57,960 Speaker 1: gold delivered to your home or having real gold as 213 00:13:58,000 --> 00:13:59,439 Speaker 1: part of your I array or four O one K. 214 00:13:59,600 --> 00:14:02,240 Speaker 1: It's just to phone call Away with the Oxford Gold Group. 215 00:14:02,520 --> 00:14:05,080 Speaker 1: Call them that eight three three four zero four gold 216 00:14:05,280 --> 00:14:07,240 Speaker 1: and learn how you can have real gold in your 217 00:14:07,240 --> 00:14:10,240 Speaker 1: IRA and deliver to your door. That's a three three 218 00:14:10,360 --> 00:14:13,400 Speaker 1: four zero four gold eight three three four zero four 219 00:14:13,640 --> 00:14:22,200 Speaker 1: g o l D breaking zerows, breaking news, breaking news. 220 00:14:26,200 --> 00:14:31,440 Speaker 1: I love New York and I love you, and everything 221 00:14:31,520 --> 00:14:35,880 Speaker 1: I have ever done has been motivated by that love, 222 00:14:37,200 --> 00:14:40,640 Speaker 1: and I would never want to be unhelpful in any way, 223 00:14:42,080 --> 00:14:46,120 Speaker 1: and I think that given the circumstances, the best way 224 00:14:46,160 --> 00:14:50,680 Speaker 1: I can help now is if I step aside and 225 00:14:50,840 --> 00:14:54,880 Speaker 1: let government get back to governing. And therefore that's what 226 00:14:54,960 --> 00:15:00,360 Speaker 1: I'll do, because I work for you, and doing the 227 00:15:00,480 --> 00:15:05,400 Speaker 1: right thing is doing the right thing for you, and 228 00:15:05,600 --> 00:15:10,680 Speaker 1: my resignation will be effectively fourteen days. That is New 229 00:15:10,760 --> 00:15:16,560 Speaker 1: York Governor Andrew Cuomo. Blockbuster news. I mean, it's rare 230 00:15:16,600 --> 00:15:19,000 Speaker 1: to actually have blockbuster news, but I think that's fair 231 00:15:19,040 --> 00:15:21,640 Speaker 1: to say. Literally, as we were coming on the air, 232 00:15:21,720 --> 00:15:24,479 Speaker 1: we were listening to the beginning of this press conference. 233 00:15:25,040 --> 00:15:28,360 Speaker 1: We then opened the show, and as we opened the show, 234 00:15:28,520 --> 00:15:32,600 Speaker 1: he makes the decision to resign. And one of my 235 00:15:32,640 --> 00:15:35,040 Speaker 1: first thoughts is, isn't gonna have to give back the 236 00:15:35,040 --> 00:15:38,800 Speaker 1: Emmy that he won? Buck? Will they rescind that? But 237 00:15:39,080 --> 00:15:42,320 Speaker 1: we are trying to figure out exactly what went on. 238 00:15:42,520 --> 00:15:45,640 Speaker 1: My theory is that he's trying to set the table 239 00:15:45,680 --> 00:15:48,280 Speaker 1: to come back in twenty twenty two. But in the meantime, Buck, 240 00:15:48,320 --> 00:15:49,920 Speaker 1: you live in New York. You've been talking to a 241 00:15:49,920 --> 00:15:53,360 Speaker 1: lot of people ever since this scandal began. It's fair 242 00:15:53,400 --> 00:15:56,120 Speaker 1: to say you are stunned that he has made the 243 00:15:56,200 --> 00:15:59,200 Speaker 1: decision to resign in the method and manner in which 244 00:15:59,200 --> 00:16:01,760 Speaker 1: he did. Just in the last twenty minutes, there must 245 00:16:01,800 --> 00:16:05,680 Speaker 1: have been conversations with Democrats in the you know, behind 246 00:16:05,760 --> 00:16:09,040 Speaker 1: closed doors in the state legislature where they just said, 247 00:16:10,080 --> 00:16:12,400 Speaker 1: you know, there's nothing, we don't care, there's nothing you 248 00:16:12,440 --> 00:16:15,400 Speaker 1: can do. I don't you know, because Cuomo's known. This 249 00:16:15,440 --> 00:16:18,240 Speaker 1: is a guy just whoever understands who will call and 250 00:16:18,400 --> 00:16:22,120 Speaker 1: threatened city councilmen personally threatened their careers. Obviously not like 251 00:16:22,240 --> 00:16:24,920 Speaker 1: mob boss style, but he'll you know, say you cross 252 00:16:25,040 --> 00:16:27,120 Speaker 1: me and you will suffer the college. He'll call them 253 00:16:27,160 --> 00:16:28,880 Speaker 1: at home at night. He's known to do this. I mean, 254 00:16:28,880 --> 00:16:31,840 Speaker 1: this is somebody who is considered one of the most 255 00:16:31,960 --> 00:16:36,760 Speaker 1: vindictive and and just difficult people to work with in 256 00:16:36,840 --> 00:16:39,120 Speaker 1: politics in New York, in Albany, which is a very 257 00:16:39,120 --> 00:16:42,120 Speaker 1: corrupt place to begin with. And just the fact that 258 00:16:42,120 --> 00:16:43,840 Speaker 1: this didn't leak, I mean, the fact that you didn't 259 00:16:43,840 --> 00:16:48,800 Speaker 1: get that precursor announcement. It's amazing that he also did 260 00:16:48,840 --> 00:16:51,280 Speaker 1: the whole Like why it Clay, I mean the lawyer 261 00:16:51,360 --> 00:16:54,800 Speaker 1: coming forward beforehand, what was that? What's the purpose of that, 262 00:16:55,240 --> 00:16:58,240 Speaker 1: maybe to forestall or to push aside some of the 263 00:16:58,280 --> 00:17:01,960 Speaker 1: actual criminal investigation that's going on, to give him protection 264 00:17:02,240 --> 00:17:05,000 Speaker 1: at some level for that, or to it just it 265 00:17:05,280 --> 00:17:07,600 Speaker 1: did not see him at all. I mean, we knew 266 00:17:07,640 --> 00:17:09,280 Speaker 1: that we were down the last couple of minutes before 267 00:17:09,280 --> 00:17:11,320 Speaker 1: we came on air. No way, it seemed like he 268 00:17:11,359 --> 00:17:13,600 Speaker 1: was about to resign based on the twenty or thirty 269 00:17:13,600 --> 00:17:15,639 Speaker 1: minutes you had heard before then, and then he just 270 00:17:15,680 --> 00:17:18,240 Speaker 1: switched gears and said I'm resigning. I mean, I was crazy. 271 00:17:18,400 --> 00:17:21,080 Speaker 1: I think the only way it makes sense because your 272 00:17:21,400 --> 00:17:23,320 Speaker 1: point is a good one. He laid out, for people 273 00:17:23,359 --> 00:17:27,360 Speaker 1: who didn't hear it, a very detailed defense against all 274 00:17:27,400 --> 00:17:30,120 Speaker 1: of the allegations of sexual harassment that have been put 275 00:17:30,160 --> 00:17:32,800 Speaker 1: forward against him. And then at the very end that 276 00:17:32,880 --> 00:17:34,760 Speaker 1: he may have handwritten this, he may have added it 277 00:17:34,800 --> 00:17:37,840 Speaker 1: at the last minute, he decided that he was going 278 00:17:37,920 --> 00:17:41,160 Speaker 1: to resign after he had already made his defense. Why 279 00:17:41,160 --> 00:17:46,040 Speaker 1: would he do that to me? The only possibility, the 280 00:17:46,080 --> 00:17:49,720 Speaker 1: only possibility is he's trying to set the table to 281 00:17:49,800 --> 00:17:51,760 Speaker 1: be able to come back or Clay he just couldn't 282 00:17:51,800 --> 00:17:53,680 Speaker 1: handle the political pressure because he had no allies and 283 00:17:53,720 --> 00:17:55,520 Speaker 1: they wanted him to go. I mean, I wouldn't, but 284 00:17:56,000 --> 00:17:57,960 Speaker 1: if he wants to find well, we're going to continue 285 00:17:58,000 --> 00:18:00,639 Speaker 1: to talk about this because it's such an unbullyable story. 286 00:18:00,640 --> 00:18:02,560 Speaker 1: In the meantime, I gotta tell you, if you're with 287 00:18:02,600 --> 00:18:05,000 Speaker 1: AT and T, Verizon or T Mobile, you're paying too 288 00:18:05,080 --> 00:18:08,520 Speaker 1: much for your cell service. 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Where Clay and I 304 00:18:58,640 --> 00:19:02,000 Speaker 1: are just sitting here dealing with if people use the 305 00:19:02,119 --> 00:19:06,040 Speaker 1: term bombshell or breaking news is abused all the time. 306 00:19:06,080 --> 00:19:08,720 Speaker 1: You know, they'll they'll run breaking news banners on CNN 307 00:19:08,800 --> 00:19:12,360 Speaker 1: for you know, artifacts found from a Titanic, really shiny 308 00:19:12,440 --> 00:19:14,560 Speaker 1: breaking news. I mean, they'll they'll put you know, nonsense 309 00:19:14,600 --> 00:19:17,639 Speaker 1: on this is breaking news, folks. The governor of New 310 00:19:17,760 --> 00:19:22,760 Speaker 1: York after Fauci, at one point the biggest Democrat hero 311 00:19:23,160 --> 00:19:27,880 Speaker 1: of the pandemic. Let's remember that he was getting Emmys 312 00:19:27,960 --> 00:19:32,800 Speaker 1: for his COVID press conferences. He got a five million 313 00:19:32,880 --> 00:19:37,560 Speaker 1: dollar book deal for his COVID leadership. He was called 314 00:19:37,600 --> 00:19:42,199 Speaker 1: he was getting people writing into him, putting hashtags on 315 00:19:42,240 --> 00:19:46,959 Speaker 1: social media calling themselves cuomosexuals. There were celebrities who were 316 00:19:46,960 --> 00:19:50,959 Speaker 1: talking about how gorgeous and brilliant and amazing he is. 317 00:19:51,160 --> 00:19:55,159 Speaker 1: There was even talk of him standing in as the 318 00:19:55,400 --> 00:20:00,359 Speaker 1: last minute Democrat candidate for presidents of the United States 319 00:20:00,359 --> 00:20:04,639 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty because he was so amazing. And Clay 320 00:20:04,960 --> 00:20:08,720 Speaker 1: now he gave a he had a lawyer come out 321 00:20:09,200 --> 00:20:11,560 Speaker 1: say that basically all the charges against him or Fawse 322 00:20:11,600 --> 00:20:15,080 Speaker 1: and uncorroborated. He come out. He came out, spent about 323 00:20:15,400 --> 00:20:18,520 Speaker 1: twenty thirty minutes telling everybody he just was trying to 324 00:20:18,520 --> 00:20:21,760 Speaker 1: be affectionate, no big deal, and in the last moments, 325 00:20:21,800 --> 00:20:28,160 Speaker 1: Governor Cuomo resigns, effective fourteen days from now. I'm gonna 326 00:20:28,200 --> 00:20:31,200 Speaker 1: say this, man, I think for a lot of folks, 327 00:20:31,240 --> 00:20:35,080 Speaker 1: I don't speak for myself, biggest political surprise to the 328 00:20:35,240 --> 00:20:40,480 Speaker 1: establishment perhaps or to some section of the establishment since Trump, 329 00:20:40,800 --> 00:20:43,960 Speaker 1: or certainly the biggest shock overall with him stepping down 330 00:20:44,320 --> 00:20:46,879 Speaker 1: since Trump won in twenty sixteen. I mean, this is 331 00:20:47,080 --> 00:20:52,520 Speaker 1: this is seismic. Yeah, look, I don't disagree with any 332 00:20:52,560 --> 00:20:56,199 Speaker 1: of that, and I think spinning it forward, the question is, 333 00:20:56,240 --> 00:20:58,879 Speaker 1: so you raised I think a good point, which is 334 00:20:59,160 --> 00:21:02,439 Speaker 1: this didn't leak it. So we know a lot of 335 00:21:02,560 --> 00:21:08,199 Speaker 1: Cuomo's advisors had abandoned him. So it's possible that he 336 00:21:08,359 --> 00:21:12,560 Speaker 1: laid out this entire defense and then at the very 337 00:21:12,800 --> 00:21:16,640 Speaker 1: end pivoted and decided that he was going to resign. 338 00:21:16,680 --> 00:21:19,960 Speaker 1: And I always look, anytime a politician makes a choice 339 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:23,760 Speaker 1: like this, whether you love or hate Andrew Cuomo, and look, 340 00:21:23,800 --> 00:21:26,880 Speaker 1: I think he is one of the worst governors. If 341 00:21:26,920 --> 00:21:29,840 Speaker 1: you look at his record with COVID, and if you 342 00:21:29,880 --> 00:21:33,640 Speaker 1: look at these allegations regarding sexual harassment. I think he's 343 00:21:33,680 --> 00:21:36,040 Speaker 1: one of the worst governors that any state has elected, 344 00:21:36,040 --> 00:21:38,639 Speaker 1: certainly in the twenty first century. And if your goal 345 00:21:38,760 --> 00:21:41,439 Speaker 1: is to protect your citizens, based on the way he 346 00:21:41,520 --> 00:21:45,760 Speaker 1: responded to COVID with the nursing home collapse and everything 347 00:21:46,240 --> 00:21:49,240 Speaker 1: that spiraled out of that, which miraculously is not the 348 00:21:49,320 --> 00:21:52,040 Speaker 1: reason he is ending up having to resign, which is 349 00:21:52,119 --> 00:21:55,560 Speaker 1: wild to think of. It's the other scandal, the me 350 00:21:55,760 --> 00:21:58,720 Speaker 1: too element getting him here. I think you have to 351 00:21:58,760 --> 00:22:01,920 Speaker 1: think Buck, what is his goal? Right? And so the 352 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:04,040 Speaker 1: easy read here, and we talked about this a little 353 00:22:04,080 --> 00:22:07,159 Speaker 1: bit is he was going to be impeached right the 354 00:22:07,280 --> 00:22:10,199 Speaker 1: votes were there. He knows that he wasn't going to 355 00:22:10,240 --> 00:22:13,600 Speaker 1: be able to survive an impeachment process in New York 356 00:22:13,920 --> 00:22:16,760 Speaker 1: and that was going to take some period of time 357 00:22:16,800 --> 00:22:19,800 Speaker 1: to play out. So if you know that you're going 358 00:22:19,840 --> 00:22:22,560 Speaker 1: to be forced out of office, then you are left 359 00:22:22,600 --> 00:22:25,280 Speaker 1: with options. Do you choose to go out on your 360 00:22:25,280 --> 00:22:28,720 Speaker 1: own terms or do you fight tooth and nail until 361 00:22:28,760 --> 00:22:32,600 Speaker 1: the bitter end when they remove you from office? And 362 00:22:32,720 --> 00:22:36,639 Speaker 1: in what way based on those decisions, do you best 363 00:22:36,760 --> 00:22:40,000 Speaker 1: preserve your political viability? Because I just don't think I 364 00:22:40,040 --> 00:22:43,639 Speaker 1: could be wrong. I just don't think Andrew Cuomo is 365 00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:46,400 Speaker 1: going to throw up the peace sign like Richard Nixon 366 00:22:46,440 --> 00:22:49,639 Speaker 1: did and hop on a helicopter and fly away and 367 00:22:49,720 --> 00:22:52,959 Speaker 1: never run for elective office again. I think he's trying 368 00:22:52,960 --> 00:22:56,280 Speaker 1: to think, how do I trapped in this corner with 369 00:22:56,320 --> 00:23:00,800 Speaker 1: no real moves in some way still preserve a viable 370 00:23:00,800 --> 00:23:02,960 Speaker 1: political future for us. So the way that he'd have 371 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:06,560 Speaker 1: to have to gauge that would be which is which 372 00:23:06,600 --> 00:23:09,960 Speaker 1: is the worst situation? Right? Is it too? I mean this, 373 00:23:09,960 --> 00:23:12,760 Speaker 1: this is a resignation in disgrace. I mean, he can 374 00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:16,040 Speaker 1: call it whatever he wants, but he's resigning because eleven 375 00:23:16,080 --> 00:23:19,359 Speaker 1: will women came forward and said he's a grabby, creepy, 376 00:23:19,480 --> 00:23:22,600 Speaker 1: sexually harassing and there and their story was confessed back 377 00:23:22,880 --> 00:23:25,520 Speaker 1: and there's there's corroboration of it from different people, et cetera. 378 00:23:25,640 --> 00:23:28,679 Speaker 1: So he is resigning in disgrace. So you're telling me 379 00:23:28,760 --> 00:23:33,000 Speaker 1: you think that he's preserving the possibility of a total 380 00:23:33,080 --> 00:23:38,040 Speaker 1: political reversal in the future, which is at least legally true. Right, 381 00:23:38,080 --> 00:23:41,560 Speaker 1: He's he could run again legally, Okay, fine, But in 382 00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:45,359 Speaker 1: the meantime, uh, I think that there, there you have 383 00:23:45,400 --> 00:23:49,320 Speaker 1: to look at why did the Democrat Party turn on him? 384 00:23:49,359 --> 00:23:51,400 Speaker 1: So from the White House on down all the way 385 00:23:51,400 --> 00:23:54,359 Speaker 1: down to the State House, this guy was left with 386 00:23:54,840 --> 00:23:58,200 Speaker 1: no allies. I mean, there there were people who would 387 00:23:58,200 --> 00:24:00,360 Speaker 1: sort of say, when you know, you have to look 388 00:24:00,359 --> 00:24:02,080 Speaker 1: at some of the other situations where there were calls 389 00:24:02,080 --> 00:24:05,159 Speaker 1: for resignations. You had the Al Franken situation where it 390 00:24:05,240 --> 00:24:08,080 Speaker 1: seemed like the takeaway now and I don't know if 391 00:24:08,080 --> 00:24:09,840 Speaker 1: you see it this exact same way, but the takeaway 392 00:24:09,880 --> 00:24:14,360 Speaker 1: now is maybe that was actually too harsh. I think 393 00:24:14,400 --> 00:24:16,320 Speaker 1: I think that's correct. I think they acknowledged it. And 394 00:24:16,359 --> 00:24:21,760 Speaker 1: then in Virginia there was the Northam slash Fairfax slash Herring. 395 00:24:22,160 --> 00:24:25,520 Speaker 1: All the top three members of the of the executive 396 00:24:25,520 --> 00:24:28,320 Speaker 1: Branch for the state of Virginia. Now, Fairfax had two 397 00:24:28,320 --> 00:24:31,440 Speaker 1: sexual assault allegations. He's the number two guy, but Northam 398 00:24:31,600 --> 00:24:36,000 Speaker 1: and Herring had both had blackface issue black face situations 399 00:24:36,359 --> 00:24:39,160 Speaker 1: in their histories. None of them, none of the three 400 00:24:39,280 --> 00:24:41,240 Speaker 1: stepped down for their various issues. And I think there 401 00:24:41,280 --> 00:24:43,600 Speaker 1: was a sense of, Okay, we're kind of just admitting 402 00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:45,960 Speaker 1: that the Democrat Party has no principles, so now we 403 00:24:46,160 --> 00:24:49,040 Speaker 1: also it would have ended up with a Republican in past, right, right, 404 00:24:49,040 --> 00:24:52,919 Speaker 1: So the lieutenant governor and you know three had resigned, 405 00:24:52,920 --> 00:24:55,200 Speaker 1: which would have been three, but yeah, if all three 406 00:24:55,240 --> 00:24:57,240 Speaker 1: had been forced. But I think the idea was kind 407 00:24:57,240 --> 00:25:00,720 Speaker 1: of ridiculously funny in retrospect. But each of them had 408 00:25:00,760 --> 00:25:03,960 Speaker 1: their own unique scandal that if one resigned, the next 409 00:25:03,960 --> 00:25:05,560 Speaker 1: one would be the target and the next one being 410 00:25:05,560 --> 00:25:06,879 Speaker 1: the target, and then you would end up with the 411 00:25:06,960 --> 00:25:10,560 Speaker 1: Republican governor, whereas it's so dominant by Democratic Party in 412 00:25:10,600 --> 00:25:13,240 Speaker 1: New York. That isn't the issue here, right. I just also, 413 00:25:14,400 --> 00:25:16,400 Speaker 1: he didn't he thought he was gonna I mean, I'm 414 00:25:16,400 --> 00:25:18,280 Speaker 1: not I'm not just saying this because I really believe 415 00:25:18,320 --> 00:25:19,920 Speaker 1: he's gonna fight it out. And I made that clear, 416 00:25:19,960 --> 00:25:21,880 Speaker 1: and I owned that this guy resigned that I didn't 417 00:25:21,920 --> 00:25:23,720 Speaker 1: see that. I didn't see that coming, and neither of 418 00:25:23,760 --> 00:25:25,639 Speaker 1: the people I know working. Now keep in mind, I 419 00:25:25,640 --> 00:25:30,040 Speaker 1: talked to be fair, I saw no one saw this coming. 420 00:25:30,119 --> 00:25:33,040 Speaker 1: But even even in the middle of the speech, you 421 00:25:33,119 --> 00:25:34,919 Speaker 1: and I turned it off and came on because we 422 00:25:34,960 --> 00:25:37,320 Speaker 1: were like, okay, he resigned. It was I mean, fran 423 00:25:37,480 --> 00:25:39,680 Speaker 1: So I watched every minute of it, as did Clara. 424 00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:42,600 Speaker 1: Are watching the speech together and we're watching this. Okay, 425 00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:44,960 Speaker 1: so this is you know, he's he's getting into defending 426 00:25:45,040 --> 00:25:47,600 Speaker 1: himself as much. Yeah, he's getting ready to go. You know, 427 00:25:47,640 --> 00:25:49,439 Speaker 1: it's gonna take months, but he's gonna fight it out. 428 00:25:49,440 --> 00:25:51,879 Speaker 1: He's gonna defend his reputation. So here's one thing that 429 00:25:51,960 --> 00:25:55,359 Speaker 1: I think is apparent. The first thing when we talked 430 00:25:55,400 --> 00:25:58,359 Speaker 1: about it, he was planning to fight this every the 431 00:25:58,400 --> 00:26:00,920 Speaker 1: first speech, like why would you do this twice? Right 432 00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:04,800 Speaker 1: after the first seich He was planning to take this war. 433 00:26:05,080 --> 00:26:09,399 Speaker 1: But I think that he underestimated won the control that 434 00:26:09,880 --> 00:26:13,600 Speaker 1: the feminist left wing of the Democrat Party actually is 435 00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:17,960 Speaker 1: able to exercise in contemporary Democrat politics at some level. 436 00:26:18,359 --> 00:26:22,480 Speaker 1: And I think he also believed that his allies in 437 00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:24,720 Speaker 1: Albany and you know, that he would be able to 438 00:26:24,760 --> 00:26:27,560 Speaker 1: sort of retreat to his home base, you know, Pablo 439 00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:30,120 Speaker 1: Escobar style, when he decided to go back up into 440 00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:32,680 Speaker 1: his h you know, go back into meda Ian where 441 00:26:32,680 --> 00:26:34,560 Speaker 1: the people would remember him and take care of him, 442 00:26:34,600 --> 00:26:36,760 Speaker 1: when the government was actually really trying to track him down. 443 00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:40,199 Speaker 1: But Cuomo basically went to medi Ian and they were like, no, 444 00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:42,600 Speaker 1: we're actually going to hand you over. That seems to 445 00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:45,200 Speaker 1: be what happened. So here's the question that I think 446 00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:48,320 Speaker 1: we need to discuss as we go forward, because he's 447 00:26:48,320 --> 00:26:50,720 Speaker 1: gone now, right, and we can talk about the impact 448 00:26:50,960 --> 00:26:53,120 Speaker 1: of what that means for the Democratic Party. It doesn't 449 00:26:53,119 --> 00:26:55,480 Speaker 1: seem that substantial in the state of New York. For 450 00:26:55,560 --> 00:26:58,679 Speaker 1: the moment, it would take Andrew Cuomo off as a 451 00:26:58,760 --> 00:27:03,560 Speaker 1: potential twenty twenty four contender. Right, if you're Kamala Harris, 452 00:27:03,640 --> 00:27:07,000 Speaker 1: you probably are having a nice toast a wine glass 453 00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:10,600 Speaker 1: or a champagne because presuming that Joe Biden's not going 454 00:27:10,640 --> 00:27:14,919 Speaker 1: to run, this knocks down another heavyweight in the Democratic Party. 455 00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:19,880 Speaker 1: But do we actually believe that he's done? I think 456 00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:23,439 Speaker 1: that's the big question here. Is he actually going to 457 00:27:23,560 --> 00:27:26,720 Speaker 1: be done going forward? Or is the way in which 458 00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:29,920 Speaker 1: he did this trying to preserve a future for him 459 00:27:30,359 --> 00:27:32,919 Speaker 1: and us going to There's one piece that we do 460 00:27:33,040 --> 00:27:35,720 Speaker 1: have to enter into the where this will go, and 461 00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:38,000 Speaker 1: that's sort of down in the future quite a ways. 462 00:27:38,040 --> 00:27:40,120 Speaker 1: Right as we know. It's like us sitting here and saying, 463 00:27:40,119 --> 00:27:42,399 Speaker 1: who's gonna what's the composition of the House going to 464 00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:44,240 Speaker 1: be in the midterms. I mean we can kind of guess, 465 00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:47,440 Speaker 1: right will I think that's going to be really interesting 466 00:27:47,560 --> 00:27:50,919 Speaker 1: for the nomination. So so the assumption is that the 467 00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:56,840 Speaker 1: attorney now, right now, his lieutenant lieutenant governor is obviously 468 00:27:56,880 --> 00:27:59,000 Speaker 1: stepping in. That's the way the system works. But the 469 00:27:59,040 --> 00:28:02,800 Speaker 1: Attorney General, Leticia James, who is a a I will say, 470 00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:05,840 Speaker 1: within New York state politics pretty broadly, not even just 471 00:28:05,840 --> 00:28:08,800 Speaker 1: when the Democrat Party, people like her. I have friends 472 00:28:08,840 --> 00:28:11,200 Speaker 1: who like and respect her. Uh, you know, they don't 473 00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:13,679 Speaker 1: agree with her, but they say she's you know, she's 474 00:28:13,840 --> 00:28:17,639 Speaker 1: a reasonable actor on a number of different you know, 475 00:28:17,720 --> 00:28:21,520 Speaker 1: state affecting policy issues. Clay, She's gonna step in to 476 00:28:21,640 --> 00:28:25,040 Speaker 1: run and the Democrat ticket for governor. So you're gonna think, 477 00:28:25,040 --> 00:28:28,240 Speaker 1: I mean, think about the optics of that. Again. I look, predictions, 478 00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:31,440 Speaker 1: everyone's got them, and sometimes sometimes we get them wrong. 479 00:28:31,760 --> 00:28:37,400 Speaker 1: But you're gonna have the the black female Democrat Darling 480 00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:42,520 Speaker 1: who just put out the report to destroy Andrew Cuomo's 481 00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:47,800 Speaker 1: political career running for governor. He's gonna run against us 482 00:28:47,840 --> 00:28:50,680 Speaker 1: because he's going to be able to argue Buck that 483 00:28:50,840 --> 00:28:54,160 Speaker 1: her entire report was political and was about giving her 484 00:28:54,200 --> 00:28:58,400 Speaker 1: the opportunity to be governor. That's I mean, look, man, 485 00:28:58,640 --> 00:29:01,440 Speaker 1: I Clay, we are having in a world today where 486 00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:04,000 Speaker 1: I gotta feel like anything as possible. But I mean 487 00:29:04,040 --> 00:29:06,840 Speaker 1: that that would be almost as mind blowing as what 488 00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:08,680 Speaker 1: just happened if he pulls it. But who But hey, 489 00:29:08,800 --> 00:29:10,760 Speaker 1: you know, that's that's what I think may happen in 490 00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:13,400 Speaker 1: the meantime. American history and Civics education, it's at a 491 00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:16,440 Speaker 1: turning point. Will we allow bureaucrats and lobbyists to choose 492 00:29:16,440 --> 00:29:19,640 Speaker 1: what school children are taught, or will we teach the 493 00:29:19,680 --> 00:29:23,000 Speaker 1: whole truth. My friends at Hillsdale College argue for teaching 494 00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:27,360 Speaker 1: the truth. They've made the Hillsdale seventeen seventy six curriculum 495 00:29:27,680 --> 00:29:32,160 Speaker 1: downloadable for free at K twelve dot Hillsdelle dot edu. 496 00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:34,480 Speaker 1: You can get it not only if you're a teacher, 497 00:29:34,520 --> 00:29:37,680 Speaker 1: but also a citizen like you and me, to share 498 00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:41,640 Speaker 1: with other concerned citizens. K through twelve History and Civics 499 00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:45,440 Speaker 1: curriculum designed to give educators guidance, not mandates, and let 500 00:29:45,560 --> 00:29:49,160 Speaker 1: students learn about American history as it really happened. It's 501 00:29:49,160 --> 00:29:51,480 Speaker 1: a big deal, buck, Yeah, and only through a complete 502 00:29:51,520 --> 00:29:54,920 Speaker 1: and honest study of our history can students really understand 503 00:29:54,960 --> 00:29:57,720 Speaker 1: the world around them. Our children deserve to be taught 504 00:29:57,760 --> 00:30:01,400 Speaker 1: the truth through a sound curriculum that was created by teachers, 505 00:30:01,560 --> 00:30:05,040 Speaker 1: not bureaucrats, and upholds the dignity of each individual. America's 506 00:30:05,080 --> 00:30:08,520 Speaker 1: future depends on an honest, candid look at our history. 507 00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:13,080 Speaker 1: Download Hillsdale's seventeen seventy six curriculum for free. That's right, 508 00:30:13,120 --> 00:30:16,880 Speaker 1: totally free today at K twelve dot Hillsdale dot edu. 509 00:30:17,240 --> 00:30:26,720 Speaker 1: That's K twelve dot Hillsdale dot edu. What am I 510 00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:32,120 Speaker 1: getting played? Travis buck Sexton Show. It's a word that's overused, 511 00:30:32,200 --> 00:30:37,280 Speaker 1: but legitimately blockbuster news if you're just starting off with us. 512 00:30:37,760 --> 00:30:43,800 Speaker 1: Andrew Cuomo has resigned from office effective fourteen days from now. 513 00:30:43,880 --> 00:30:47,640 Speaker 1: He did it in an address that was live as 514 00:30:47,680 --> 00:30:52,640 Speaker 1: we were coming on this program. It has sent shockwaves 515 00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:57,280 Speaker 1: throughout the Democratic Party nationwide. It certainly has sent shockwaves 516 00:30:57,320 --> 00:31:00,440 Speaker 1: throughout New York State. Remember this. This was a guy 517 00:31:00,440 --> 00:31:04,040 Speaker 1: who got an Emmy, who was the hero of the 518 00:31:04,040 --> 00:31:09,120 Speaker 1: initial COVID response, who represented everything that Donald Trump supposedly 519 00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:12,200 Speaker 1: did not in the way that he handled things. There 520 00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:15,720 Speaker 1: were controversies, body blows that continued to rain down upon him. 521 00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:17,480 Speaker 1: As you pointed out, buck Sexton, he got a five 522 00:31:17,560 --> 00:31:21,200 Speaker 1: million dollar book deal to write about the heroic response 523 00:31:21,280 --> 00:31:25,200 Speaker 1: to COVID. Even in his resignation he talked about the 524 00:31:25,240 --> 00:31:28,280 Speaker 1: way that the state of New York had responded to 525 00:31:28,360 --> 00:31:31,640 Speaker 1: COVID and the battles that they had fought. And now 526 00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:35,480 Speaker 1: the Lieutenant governor will be stepping into his office. He 527 00:31:35,520 --> 00:31:40,080 Speaker 1: was scheduled to have his term in next year. And 528 00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:43,760 Speaker 1: there are just so many shock waves emanating here. As 529 00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:47,480 Speaker 1: you pointed out, Buck, every Democratic politician ran from him, 530 00:31:48,320 --> 00:31:50,320 Speaker 1: and no one was willing to back him up in 531 00:31:50,320 --> 00:31:53,680 Speaker 1: the wake of this sexual harassment investigation, and ultimately he 532 00:31:53,760 --> 00:31:57,240 Speaker 1: decided maybe the most politically viable movie had left, given 533 00:31:57,240 --> 00:32:01,200 Speaker 1: that impeachment was coming, was to resign. Indeed, I mean, 534 00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:04,400 Speaker 1: I'm still sitting here. Rarely does it feel like you 535 00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:07,600 Speaker 1: get a political story with this kind of kind of 536 00:32:07,600 --> 00:32:09,360 Speaker 1: a jolt. And also the fact that they were able 537 00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:12,600 Speaker 1: to keep this from leaking. I mean, I have to 538 00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:15,720 Speaker 1: Cuomo must have written this final speech, and it was 539 00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:19,400 Speaker 1: probably a number of advisors and confidence you could count 540 00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:21,200 Speaker 1: on one hand who knew about what was going to 541 00:32:21,280 --> 00:32:24,520 Speaker 1: happen here, including his personal attorneys, outside counsel who spoke 542 00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:26,960 Speaker 1: before he did. I also wanted to tell everybody, we 543 00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:29,800 Speaker 1: are going to get to Senator Rand Paul joining us 544 00:32:29,800 --> 00:32:31,719 Speaker 1: in the third hour of the show. We're gonna talk 545 00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:35,000 Speaker 1: to him play about just everything COVID related. Where we 546 00:32:35,040 --> 00:32:38,200 Speaker 1: are with the vaccine mandates. Doctor Fauci has just straight 547 00:32:38,280 --> 00:32:40,680 Speaker 1: up said now he wants vaccine mandates. Plus we've got 548 00:32:40,680 --> 00:32:44,600 Speaker 1: the infrastructure of bill passing in this Senate. What's going 549 00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:46,520 Speaker 1: to happen now with a three point five trillion dollar 550 00:32:46,560 --> 00:32:50,080 Speaker 1: budget bill. And we've got also the judges in DC 551 00:32:50,240 --> 00:32:52,720 Speaker 1: when it comes to jan six, some of them showing 552 00:32:52,760 --> 00:32:56,040 Speaker 1: you where their politics lie. But let's go to Mike 553 00:32:56,200 --> 00:32:58,880 Speaker 1: in Cincinnati, Ohio for a second here with reaction to 554 00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:03,040 Speaker 1: this huge story. What's up, Hey, Clay and Buck. Absolutely 555 00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:05,000 Speaker 1: love your guys show, and I think you're just doing 556 00:33:05,040 --> 00:33:07,280 Speaker 1: a great job. I appreciate you're taking the call. Thank you, 557 00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:11,960 Speaker 1: Thank you. My idea is that maybe he really doesn't 558 00:33:11,960 --> 00:33:14,960 Speaker 1: resign in fourteen days. You know, he's never been trustworthy 559 00:33:14,960 --> 00:33:18,520 Speaker 1: on anything else, and you know, maybe there's some emergency, 560 00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:21,640 Speaker 1: you know that he can hang back and say, oh, COVID, 561 00:33:22,040 --> 00:33:24,320 Speaker 1: you know, requires me to stay in office. So I'm 562 00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:28,360 Speaker 1: not really convinced that, you know, he's, like you said, Buck, 563 00:33:28,400 --> 00:33:30,120 Speaker 1: he's going to do the Richard Nixon and go off 564 00:33:30,160 --> 00:33:32,640 Speaker 1: on the house that was actually Clay. But yeah, I'm sorry, 565 00:33:32,760 --> 00:33:35,680 Speaker 1: I don't I don't think. Yeah, I understand that argument. 566 00:33:36,320 --> 00:33:38,880 Speaker 1: There are lots of stunning directions that the world of 567 00:33:38,920 --> 00:33:41,959 Speaker 1: American politics in American life has gone in general. I 568 00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:44,840 Speaker 1: don't think Buck, I would be stunned beyond belief if 569 00:33:44,840 --> 00:33:47,000 Speaker 1: you can say I'm leaving in fourteen days and then 570 00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:49,400 Speaker 1: he just doesn't leave. I think Mike is just with 571 00:33:49,480 --> 00:33:53,920 Speaker 1: me insofar as he's stunned. Yeah, Mike, I think we're 572 00:33:53,960 --> 00:33:56,840 Speaker 1: both shocked about this one. I'm getting all these text messages. 573 00:33:56,840 --> 00:33:58,840 Speaker 1: I'm getting text messages from people, well, all you do 574 00:33:58,920 --> 00:34:01,560 Speaker 1: is report on New York, New York local, New York State, 575 00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:03,160 Speaker 1: and they're like, I didn't think he was going to 576 00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:06,840 Speaker 1: resign either. So it's a it's a pretty remarkable phenomenal Mike, 577 00:34:06,840 --> 00:34:10,360 Speaker 1: Thanks for calling in from Ohio. Claire in Florida, what 578 00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:13,680 Speaker 1: have you got for us? Claire, Good afternoon. Hey there. 579 00:34:13,960 --> 00:34:17,280 Speaker 1: I think we should use this govern this como crap 580 00:34:17,680 --> 00:34:21,319 Speaker 1: as a learning teaching point for young women to have 581 00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:25,160 Speaker 1: situational awareness and not both places where they may not 582 00:34:25,280 --> 00:34:29,040 Speaker 1: be safe and their parents and their educators should teach 583 00:34:29,080 --> 00:34:32,080 Speaker 1: them this. I appreciate the call, but I think the 584 00:34:32,160 --> 00:34:36,359 Speaker 1: perspective would be, you should be safe in the governor's office, right, 585 00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:39,440 Speaker 1: I mean, you should be safe from sexual harassment in 586 00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:42,360 Speaker 1: the governor's office and be able to do your job 587 00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:45,560 Speaker 1: regardless of whether you're male or female. And I think 588 00:34:45,600 --> 00:34:48,279 Speaker 1: even Andrew Cuomo would say that. Now, what Cuomo tried 589 00:34:48,320 --> 00:34:52,040 Speaker 1: to say is that basically the things that he was 590 00:34:52,160 --> 00:34:56,200 Speaker 1: doing were generational in nature problems, right. He was saying 591 00:34:56,200 --> 00:34:59,280 Speaker 1: it was like it was basically like Biden sniffing kids heads, 592 00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:02,480 Speaker 1: which is a little weird as a touchy feeling politician, 593 00:35:02,560 --> 00:35:05,200 Speaker 1: and in his generation that was normal, and that that 594 00:35:05,640 --> 00:35:09,200 Speaker 1: circumstances have changed since then. And I think that's what 595 00:35:09,320 --> 00:35:12,040 Speaker 1: he's That's why he laid out his sort of legalistic 596 00:35:12,080 --> 00:35:15,439 Speaker 1: defense before he resigned, saying, Hey, it's almost like he's 597 00:35:15,480 --> 00:35:20,000 Speaker 1: falling on the sword. I'm doing this because I'm saving 598 00:35:20,040 --> 00:35:22,160 Speaker 1: the people in New York bigger ties into what our 599 00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:24,000 Speaker 1: friend John and Brooklyn wants to talk to us about. 600 00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:26,439 Speaker 1: But got another New Yorker, John, what do you think 601 00:35:26,440 --> 00:35:30,480 Speaker 1: You're shocked? Where's this going? I'm a little surprised that 602 00:35:31,320 --> 00:35:34,040 Speaker 1: what happened here today. But more importantly, you guys have 603 00:35:34,200 --> 00:35:37,920 Speaker 1: commented he said that he resigned in disgrace, and I 604 00:35:37,960 --> 00:35:40,279 Speaker 1: would take issue with that. I don't think I said 605 00:35:40,320 --> 00:35:43,399 Speaker 1: that just to be yeah, go ahead. I don't think 606 00:35:43,400 --> 00:35:45,640 Speaker 1: these guys feel disgraced. I don't think they feel any 607 00:35:45,640 --> 00:35:47,520 Speaker 1: of that. I think that guys like him, And it 608 00:35:47,560 --> 00:35:50,319 Speaker 1: could be left or right or Republican, a Democrat, but 609 00:35:50,440 --> 00:35:52,759 Speaker 1: in his case, if he's going to stand up and 610 00:35:52,760 --> 00:35:56,480 Speaker 1: it's going to be generational, well, the last three governors 611 00:35:56,480 --> 00:35:59,600 Speaker 1: of New York have resigned in scandal, and all three 612 00:35:59,640 --> 00:36:02,720 Speaker 1: of them are Democrats. And now did the Democrats own 613 00:36:03,080 --> 00:36:07,279 Speaker 1: this generational nonsense? I mean no, I mean, well, you're 614 00:36:07,280 --> 00:36:10,040 Speaker 1: talking like Lord Elliott Spitzer and uh, I mean you're 615 00:36:10,040 --> 00:36:13,680 Speaker 1: there's there's a long history of disgrace New York politicians. 616 00:36:13,719 --> 00:36:16,760 Speaker 1: But I mean when I say disgrace, John um and 617 00:36:16,760 --> 00:36:18,680 Speaker 1: and great to have you call in from Brooklyn, I 618 00:36:18,760 --> 00:36:22,320 Speaker 1: mean our perception of like the public perception of Cuomo, 619 00:36:22,480 --> 00:36:25,040 Speaker 1: whether he feels disgraced or not, as a whole other 620 00:36:25,360 --> 00:36:28,399 Speaker 1: that's getting a little Freudian. But but Clay, we're gonna, 621 00:36:28,480 --> 00:36:30,480 Speaker 1: we're gonna die back. I mean, we'll die Best into 622 00:36:30,520 --> 00:36:33,319 Speaker 1: Disco's infrastructure plus everything else we got called everything, by 623 00:36:33,360 --> 00:36:35,840 Speaker 1: the way, poll questions up. I'm curious what our listeners 624 00:36:35,840 --> 00:36:39,560 Speaker 1: think about this. Do you believe that Andrew Cuomo will 625 00:36:39,600 --> 00:36:43,400 Speaker 1: ever run for political office again? You can go voteing 626 00:36:43,440 --> 00:36:46,520 Speaker 1: that at Clay Travis. I'm curioustening to Clay Travis and 627 00:36:46,719 --> 00:36:49,520 Speaker 1: Buck Sexton on the EIB Network.