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 --> 00:00:08,760 Speaker 1: Sexton Show podcast. Welcome in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show. 3 00:00:09,160 --> 00:00:14,760 Speaker 1: I am down here in fabulous Key West, Florida. Buck 4 00:00:14,880 --> 00:00:18,200 Speaker 1: is out for the remainder of the year. I will 5 00:00:18,239 --> 00:00:23,400 Speaker 1: bring the plane home Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, shortest day 6 00:00:23,440 --> 00:00:27,800 Speaker 1: of the year of sunlight. Winter is here and with 7 00:00:27,920 --> 00:00:32,320 Speaker 1: it frigid temperatures descending across the nation. As we move 8 00:00:32,479 --> 00:00:36,080 Speaker 1: closer to Christmas. I hope all of you are safe 9 00:00:36,120 --> 00:00:39,479 Speaker 1: and sound and planning the best possible Christmases that you 10 00:00:39,680 --> 00:00:43,239 Speaker 1: could have all over the country and around the world. 11 00:00:43,479 --> 00:00:47,000 Speaker 1: We have got a lot to discuss with you during 12 00:00:47,040 --> 00:00:50,279 Speaker 1: the course of today's program. We're gonna be joined by 13 00:00:50,360 --> 00:00:53,640 Speaker 1: Senator Rick Scott of Florida here in about fifteen minutes 14 00:00:54,160 --> 00:00:59,840 Speaker 1: to discuss what, frankly, is I think a disgraceful performance 15 00:01:00,120 --> 00:01:04,919 Speaker 1: Republicans in the Senate where they are poised to push 16 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:10,199 Speaker 1: through a one point seven trillion dollar bill that would 17 00:01:10,200 --> 00:01:16,479 Speaker 1: include forty five billion dollars additional for Ukraine to run 18 00:01:16,520 --> 00:01:20,560 Speaker 1: the total that we have given to Ukraine to one 19 00:01:20,640 --> 00:01:26,080 Speaker 1: hundred billion dollars. According to a report in the New 20 00:01:26,160 --> 00:01:30,520 Speaker 1: York times. And look, the reality is, I'm sure this 21 00:01:30,640 --> 00:01:37,240 Speaker 1: is partly hidden, but Russia's entire announced military budget for 22 00:01:37,400 --> 00:01:42,240 Speaker 1: a year sixty five billion dollars. That is the reported 23 00:01:42,319 --> 00:01:46,720 Speaker 1: number that Russia spends in an average year. We have 24 00:01:46,800 --> 00:01:52,520 Speaker 1: given Ukraine one hundred billion dollars. We can't protect our 25 00:01:52,680 --> 00:01:57,640 Speaker 1: own border, but we are primed to give a hundred 26 00:01:57,800 --> 00:02:01,559 Speaker 1: billion dollars to Ukraine. And you may remember the last 27 00:02:01,600 --> 00:02:05,800 Speaker 1: time we had a shutdown in this country, it was 28 00:02:05,840 --> 00:02:10,560 Speaker 1: over Donald Trump wanting five billion dollars for the border. 29 00:02:10,600 --> 00:02:12,680 Speaker 1: We're going to talk about the situation down at the 30 00:02:12,720 --> 00:02:16,360 Speaker 1: border as El Paso, Texas is run over, and we 31 00:02:16,440 --> 00:02:19,440 Speaker 1: continue to wait to see whether or not Title forty 32 00:02:19,480 --> 00:02:23,840 Speaker 1: two is going to be officially removed, when that might occur, 33 00:02:24,040 --> 00:02:27,400 Speaker 1: what the courts are going to say. But I just 34 00:02:27,480 --> 00:02:30,360 Speaker 1: want all of you to think in a big picture 35 00:02:30,480 --> 00:02:35,079 Speaker 1: right now where we are. Republicans won the House. That 36 00:02:35,120 --> 00:02:39,800 Speaker 1: means come January, we are going to have control of 37 00:02:39,840 --> 00:02:45,040 Speaker 1: the House of Representatives. Why would you not allow a 38 00:02:45,120 --> 00:02:51,000 Speaker 1: Republican House to be involved in negotiating Joe Biden's budget. 39 00:02:52,120 --> 00:02:55,600 Speaker 1: Why in the world would the Senate be rushing to 40 00:02:55,639 --> 00:03:00,320 Speaker 1: fund an entire year's worth of spending as we sit 41 00:03:00,440 --> 00:03:04,200 Speaker 1: here in the grips of the worst inflation of many 42 00:03:04,240 --> 00:03:09,280 Speaker 1: of our lives to generation bad inflation, that we would 43 00:03:09,280 --> 00:03:14,040 Speaker 1: be willing to spend an additional one point seven trillion dollars, 44 00:03:14,680 --> 00:03:18,040 Speaker 1: and that idiots like Mitch McConnell would be saying that 45 00:03:18,160 --> 00:03:22,200 Speaker 1: it deals with all of the demands that Republicans have. 46 00:03:22,960 --> 00:03:26,040 Speaker 1: This is crazy. It's evidence of how out of touch 47 00:03:26,120 --> 00:03:31,040 Speaker 1: Mitch McConnell and many of your senators right now are. 48 00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:34,320 Speaker 1: Listen to Mitch McConnell say, this is a big win 49 00:03:34,400 --> 00:03:38,480 Speaker 1: for Republicans, that we aren't even allowing a Republican House 50 00:03:38,520 --> 00:03:42,640 Speaker 1: to negotiate in any way with the Biden White House. 51 00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:46,960 Speaker 1: We're going to rush a four thousand plus page bill 52 00:03:47,080 --> 00:03:50,920 Speaker 1: that almost no one has even bothered to read through 53 00:03:51,040 --> 00:03:55,760 Speaker 1: for passage, one of the biggest expenditures in American history. 54 00:03:56,120 --> 00:04:01,200 Speaker 1: Listen to this assistance for the Ukrainians to defeat the Russians. 55 00:04:02,040 --> 00:04:06,160 Speaker 1: That's the number one priority for the United States right now, 56 00:04:06,840 --> 00:04:09,680 Speaker 1: according to most Republicans. That's sort of how we see 57 00:04:10,040 --> 00:04:16,080 Speaker 1: the challenges confronting the country at the moment. So admittedly, 58 00:04:16,160 --> 00:04:19,919 Speaker 1: I'm pretty proud of the fact that with a Democratic 59 00:04:19,960 --> 00:04:23,599 Speaker 1: President of Democratic House and Democratic Senate. We were able 60 00:04:24,120 --> 00:04:29,479 Speaker 1: to achieve through this to a spending bill, essentially all 61 00:04:30,120 --> 00:04:36,400 Speaker 1: of our priorities. I don't know anyone that believes funding 62 00:04:36,560 --> 00:04:42,080 Speaker 1: Ukraine is the number one goal of Republicans. Do any 63 00:04:42,160 --> 00:04:46,760 Speaker 1: of you out there listening right now even know anyone 64 00:04:46,800 --> 00:04:49,080 Speaker 1: who would say yeah, With all the things that are 65 00:04:49,120 --> 00:04:53,200 Speaker 1: going wrong in this country right now, forty year high inflation, 66 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:57,600 Speaker 1: we've got, certainly on top of that, a border with 67 00:04:58,040 --> 00:05:01,880 Speaker 1: tens of thousands of people basically coming across every day. 68 00:05:02,120 --> 00:05:04,960 Speaker 1: I'm gonna play a cut for you in this hour. 69 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:10,440 Speaker 1: MSNBC is even down right now at the border. And 70 00:05:10,520 --> 00:05:13,360 Speaker 1: remember when our good friend Karine Jean Pierre said, oh, 71 00:05:13,440 --> 00:05:18,200 Speaker 1: people don't just walk across the border. Even MSNBC is 72 00:05:18,279 --> 00:05:22,919 Speaker 1: talking to everyone just walking across the border that's actually 73 00:05:22,960 --> 00:05:27,080 Speaker 1: taking place. We've got forty year high inflation, We've got 74 00:05:27,160 --> 00:05:32,080 Speaker 1: an undefended, completely insecure southern border with tens of thousands 75 00:05:32,080 --> 00:05:34,880 Speaker 1: of people walking across basically every day, and then about 76 00:05:34,880 --> 00:05:38,120 Speaker 1: to get worse in the event that Title forty two 77 00:05:38,520 --> 00:05:42,279 Speaker 1: is removed. But right now, basically we have a wide 78 00:05:42,279 --> 00:05:45,960 Speaker 1: open southern border. The entire world knows it. It used 79 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:48,560 Speaker 1: to be that we were only concerned about people from 80 00:05:48,600 --> 00:05:52,280 Speaker 1: Mexico making the trip over. Now you have and this 81 00:05:52,360 --> 00:05:56,520 Speaker 1: is no exaggeration, this is no hyperbole. You have people 82 00:05:56,640 --> 00:06:00,640 Speaker 1: traveling from all over the world to get to our 83 00:06:00,680 --> 00:06:03,360 Speaker 1: southern border because they know they can just walk right 84 00:06:03,440 --> 00:06:07,800 Speaker 1: across and slowly. You are having cities all over America, 85 00:06:07,880 --> 00:06:10,440 Speaker 1: even big cities like Washington, d C. In Chicago and 86 00:06:10,520 --> 00:06:14,640 Speaker 1: New York, where these illegal immigrants are being bussed waving 87 00:06:14,680 --> 00:06:17,760 Speaker 1: the white flag and saying we can't handle this. Remember 88 00:06:17,760 --> 00:06:21,760 Speaker 1: when Martha's Vineyard basically shut down over around fifty illegals 89 00:06:21,760 --> 00:06:25,760 Speaker 1: being flown in Ronda Santis did that. We're talking about 90 00:06:25,800 --> 00:06:30,560 Speaker 1: tens of thousands of illegals rolling into El Paso. I 91 00:06:30,640 --> 00:06:34,600 Speaker 1: was watching Fox News last night. They have border agents 92 00:06:34,640 --> 00:06:38,200 Speaker 1: trying to chase people down in the middle of neighborhoods 93 00:06:38,839 --> 00:06:42,520 Speaker 1: all over Texas. Right now. This is one of the 94 00:06:42,560 --> 00:06:46,679 Speaker 1: worst situations we've ever seen. Forty year high inflation, we've 95 00:06:46,680 --> 00:06:51,480 Speaker 1: got a wide open border, we've got twenty first century 96 00:06:51,640 --> 00:06:55,799 Speaker 1: highs and murders all over the country. Violent crime is surging, 97 00:06:56,720 --> 00:06:59,880 Speaker 1: and Mitch McConnell is so out of touch that he 98 00:07:00,120 --> 00:07:05,440 Speaker 1: thinks Republicans are most concerned with what's going on in Ukraine. 99 00:07:06,400 --> 00:07:14,480 Speaker 1: A hundred billion dollars now just basic negotiating strategy. If 100 00:07:14,520 --> 00:07:17,600 Speaker 1: Republicans are about to take over the House, which is 101 00:07:17,720 --> 00:07:20,480 Speaker 1: going to happen in a couple of weeks, as soon 102 00:07:20,520 --> 00:07:25,080 Speaker 1: as we flip this calendar, why in the world would 103 00:07:25,120 --> 00:07:30,040 Speaker 1: you bend over and acquiesce to everything that Joe Biden's 104 00:07:30,680 --> 00:07:35,160 Speaker 1: party want. Why would you agree to spend an additional 105 00:07:35,240 --> 00:07:38,840 Speaker 1: one point seven trillion dollars? Why would you take the 106 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:43,880 Speaker 1: power out of the Republicans in the House and deliver 107 00:07:44,040 --> 00:07:48,920 Speaker 1: it entirely to the Biden White House. They're going to 108 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:52,280 Speaker 1: lose the House. They couldn't pass this one point seven 109 00:07:52,400 --> 00:07:57,560 Speaker 1: trillion dollars spending bill. They could not do it. So 110 00:07:57,680 --> 00:08:01,920 Speaker 1: long as we waited two weeks and said we're not 111 00:08:02,080 --> 00:08:04,280 Speaker 1: going to do this before the end of the year. 112 00:08:04,360 --> 00:08:08,440 Speaker 1: You're gonna have to negotiate with a Republican House and 113 00:08:08,480 --> 00:08:12,160 Speaker 1: then we'll talk about what this spending looks like. Instead, 114 00:08:12,200 --> 00:08:17,280 Speaker 1: they're bringing in Zalinski and letting him address Congress, and 115 00:08:17,360 --> 00:08:20,320 Speaker 1: he's gonna lecture Congress that they're not giving him enough money. 116 00:08:20,720 --> 00:08:26,680 Speaker 1: And we already know that Ukraine has very limited controls 117 00:08:26,720 --> 00:08:29,800 Speaker 1: over the money that they are spending. I don't about you, 118 00:08:30,240 --> 00:08:35,840 Speaker 1: but a hundred billion dollars an American taxpayer aid for 119 00:08:36,200 --> 00:08:40,280 Speaker 1: Ukraine to protect its borders when we won't even protect 120 00:08:40,280 --> 00:08:44,800 Speaker 1: our own border, that's indefensible. The choices that Mitch McConnell 121 00:08:45,200 --> 00:08:48,480 Speaker 1: is making right now and everyone lining up behind him, 122 00:08:48,760 --> 00:08:52,319 Speaker 1: I believe is one hundred percent maybe even one might 123 00:08:52,400 --> 00:08:56,920 Speaker 1: say one hundred billion percent wrong. This one point seven 124 00:08:57,200 --> 00:09:01,640 Speaker 1: trillion dollars deal, and I say deal in quotation marks 125 00:09:01,679 --> 00:09:06,800 Speaker 1: because it is such a disaster, is frankly unacceptable. We'll 126 00:09:06,840 --> 00:09:08,960 Speaker 1: go through some of the spending, but I'm gonna go 127 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:11,520 Speaker 1: to break here a little bit early because I wanted 128 00:09:11,559 --> 00:09:15,880 Speaker 1: to get Senator Rick Scott from Florida in to help 129 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:19,920 Speaker 1: us to understand why in the world this deal is happening, 130 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:24,200 Speaker 1: and why it is happening now. Frankly, I believe it 131 00:09:24,320 --> 00:09:28,839 Speaker 1: is yet another complete and total failure from Mitch McConnell 132 00:09:28,880 --> 00:09:32,160 Speaker 1: to understand or care about the people that he actually 133 00:09:32,200 --> 00:09:37,199 Speaker 1: represents and their priorities. None of us put Ukraine at 134 00:09:37,200 --> 00:09:40,040 Speaker 1: the top of the list when the border, when crime, 135 00:09:40,800 --> 00:09:44,839 Speaker 1: and when inflation is a disaster for actual Americans. 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You 165 00:11:18,960 --> 00:11:22,240 Speaker 1: just heard me talking about the one point seven trillion 166 00:11:22,320 --> 00:11:25,880 Speaker 1: dollar bill, Senator Scott. I'm down in your state, Key West. 167 00:11:25,920 --> 00:11:28,280 Speaker 1: Pretty fantastic down here, and Buck and I both spend 168 00:11:28,280 --> 00:11:30,160 Speaker 1: a lot of time in the state of Florida, so 169 00:11:30,240 --> 00:11:32,240 Speaker 1: we thank you on some level for repping us, as 170 00:11:32,240 --> 00:11:34,560 Speaker 1: well as many people that are listening across the state 171 00:11:34,600 --> 00:11:37,280 Speaker 1: of Florida right now. But I gotta ask you right 172 00:11:37,320 --> 00:11:41,160 Speaker 1: off the top. Mitch McConnell said yesterday the top priority 173 00:11:41,240 --> 00:11:46,160 Speaker 1: for Republicans in his mind is giving forty five billion 174 00:11:46,200 --> 00:11:50,280 Speaker 1: dollars to Ukraine. I don't know any Republican whose top 175 00:11:50,280 --> 00:11:55,120 Speaker 1: priority right now in the country is Ukraine. Do you no? 176 00:11:55,440 --> 00:11:57,000 Speaker 1: The top I already ought to be taking care of 177 00:11:57,040 --> 00:12:00,160 Speaker 1: American Susans. We are getting flash under control, you get 178 00:12:00,240 --> 00:12:02,800 Speaker 1: rid of this debt. We've got to make sure we 179 00:12:02,800 --> 00:12:06,080 Speaker 1: have a lethal military. We've got to make sure get 180 00:12:06,120 --> 00:12:07,720 Speaker 1: crimed down. I mean, those are the things that people 181 00:12:07,760 --> 00:12:11,200 Speaker 1: care about. Look, I support making sure that we can 182 00:12:11,240 --> 00:12:14,760 Speaker 1: help we can help Ukraine be able to defeat Russia 183 00:12:15,080 --> 00:12:17,880 Speaker 1: with lethal weapons. But it's not the most important thing 184 00:12:18,600 --> 00:12:21,680 Speaker 1: we should be doing. And by the way, it's it's 185 00:12:22,080 --> 00:12:25,959 Speaker 1: it's a lot of money. And with this bill. We 186 00:12:26,040 --> 00:12:28,840 Speaker 1: got this bill one thirty yesterday morning. It's three times 187 00:12:28,880 --> 00:12:31,280 Speaker 1: the size of the Bible. There they want to vote 188 00:12:31,320 --> 00:12:33,960 Speaker 1: on it today. No one there will not be one 189 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:35,920 Speaker 1: person votes for this bill that will know what's in it. 190 00:12:36,600 --> 00:12:38,240 Speaker 1: There's no way you can't read the Bible that fast. 191 00:12:38,360 --> 00:12:40,560 Speaker 1: It's three times the size of the Bible. Now, it's 192 00:12:40,640 --> 00:12:42,800 Speaker 1: perfect example. Do know there's a lot of bad things 193 00:12:42,800 --> 00:12:46,800 Speaker 1: in it. So this is what's so crazy to me. 194 00:12:47,080 --> 00:12:49,640 Speaker 1: You come from the world of business, and a big 195 00:12:49,679 --> 00:12:53,720 Speaker 1: part of being successful in business is negotiation, and a 196 00:12:53,760 --> 00:12:56,880 Speaker 1: big part of success with negotiation is leverage. Tell me 197 00:12:56,960 --> 00:13:00,199 Speaker 1: what I'm missing here. When the Republicans are going to 198 00:13:00,280 --> 00:13:02,840 Speaker 1: take the House in a couple of weeks, I know 199 00:13:02,920 --> 00:13:05,600 Speaker 1: you're close in the Senate at fifty one forty nine, 200 00:13:05,640 --> 00:13:07,960 Speaker 1: or however you want to classify it, depending on how 201 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:10,880 Speaker 1: you define cinema and when Mansion decides to make a 202 00:13:10,960 --> 00:13:14,840 Speaker 1: switch potentially, But why in the world would you agree 203 00:13:14,880 --> 00:13:18,520 Speaker 1: to this bill right before the House comes into the 204 00:13:18,520 --> 00:13:21,120 Speaker 1: hands of the Republicans? What am I missing from a 205 00:13:21,160 --> 00:13:24,800 Speaker 1: negotiation strategy here? How would it not be much better 206 00:13:24,840 --> 00:13:28,119 Speaker 1: for Republicans to control one half of Congress and negotiate 207 00:13:28,160 --> 00:13:32,080 Speaker 1: something new next year? Well, iran against Mish McCollough to 208 00:13:32,080 --> 00:13:34,920 Speaker 1: be the leader of the Republican Republicans the Senate for 209 00:13:34,920 --> 00:13:39,079 Speaker 1: this reason quick given to the Caden and to the Democrats. 210 00:13:39,080 --> 00:13:43,559 Speaker 1: Why wouldn't we want the leadership in the Republican House 211 00:13:43,920 --> 00:13:47,200 Speaker 1: negotiate this bill? Yeah? Instead, this is a Democrat bill. 212 00:13:47,240 --> 00:13:51,000 Speaker 1: This is a Pelosi Schumer bill. That's what the sist. 213 00:13:51,160 --> 00:13:54,600 Speaker 1: It's not a Kevin McCarthy bill. I mean, he didn't 214 00:13:54,640 --> 00:13:56,840 Speaker 1: have any control over it. He's not going to vote 215 00:13:56,880 --> 00:13:59,680 Speaker 1: for it. He doesn't want us to do this. So 216 00:14:00,480 --> 00:14:02,960 Speaker 1: seventy five hundred year marks another one point one tree 217 00:14:03,280 --> 00:14:06,120 Speaker 1: wins for Pelosi and Schumer. That's who it's winsport now 218 00:14:06,120 --> 00:14:08,920 Speaker 1: for the most in public, Why in the world. Is 219 00:14:08,920 --> 00:14:11,959 Speaker 1: this happening you, I presume, based on all the coverage 220 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:15,560 Speaker 1: I'm seeing, barring something crazy, a lot of Senators are 221 00:14:15,559 --> 00:14:18,720 Speaker 1: going to go along, Republican senators with miss McConnell. This 222 00:14:18,760 --> 00:14:20,440 Speaker 1: is going to pass. They're going to ram it through 223 00:14:20,520 --> 00:14:24,400 Speaker 1: the House with a Democrat majority. Why in the world 224 00:14:24,680 --> 00:14:27,800 Speaker 1: is this being so rushed and our Republicans so eager, 225 00:14:27,920 --> 00:14:30,040 Speaker 1: so many of them to sign on. Here in your mind, 226 00:14:31,080 --> 00:14:33,960 Speaker 1: because here, because it's right before Christmas. We gotta get 227 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:36,040 Speaker 1: home that you know, there's a storm coming in the Midwest. 228 00:14:36,080 --> 00:14:38,600 Speaker 1: We gotta get out of here. Don't worry about voting, 229 00:14:38,760 --> 00:14:42,880 Speaker 1: don't worry about reading things. This is all orchestrated. This 230 00:14:42,920 --> 00:14:44,560 Speaker 1: has been orchestrated since I've been up here. We've been 231 00:14:44,600 --> 00:14:47,120 Speaker 1: up here for four years. Republicans did it. Democrats are 232 00:14:47,120 --> 00:14:50,000 Speaker 1: doing it. They organize this right before Christmas. And by 233 00:14:50,040 --> 00:14:52,840 Speaker 1: the way, if you don't go along, you know you must. 234 00:14:52,880 --> 00:14:54,520 Speaker 1: You know you're gonna make us all see a prayer 235 00:14:54,560 --> 00:14:56,840 Speaker 1: up through Christmas. It's really bad. And by the way, 236 00:14:56,880 --> 00:14:59,360 Speaker 1: government will get shut down right at Christmas. No, it 237 00:14:59,400 --> 00:15:02,200 Speaker 1: doesn't have to get shut down. This is all orchestrating. 238 00:15:02,440 --> 00:15:04,760 Speaker 1: We should not be doing bills we've never read. This 239 00:15:04,840 --> 00:15:08,200 Speaker 1: should not be This was negotiated by three people, right, Um, 240 00:15:08,440 --> 00:15:10,520 Speaker 1: I mean not even not even House Republicans were part 241 00:15:10,520 --> 00:15:14,360 Speaker 1: of the negotiation in this. So this is this is 242 00:15:14,440 --> 00:15:18,200 Speaker 1: all orchestrated when McConnell, you know, as a majority leader, 243 00:15:18,240 --> 00:15:20,400 Speaker 1: he did the same thing, and they and they try 244 00:15:20,440 --> 00:15:22,080 Speaker 1: to cram it down our throats. And because if you 245 00:15:22,120 --> 00:15:25,240 Speaker 1: don't go along, boy, you're you're you know, you're shutting 246 00:15:25,240 --> 00:15:27,440 Speaker 1: down government. No, y'all you can do is do a 247 00:15:27,440 --> 00:15:30,760 Speaker 1: continued resolution. This should have happened this. This is a budget. 248 00:15:31,320 --> 00:15:33,480 Speaker 1: It's not it's not the way you would do a budget, 249 00:15:33,560 --> 00:15:35,520 Speaker 1: but this is their budget, all right. This should have 250 00:15:35,520 --> 00:15:37,880 Speaker 1: been done before September thirty, when the fiscal year started. 251 00:15:37,880 --> 00:15:40,520 Speaker 1: We're in a continued resolution, which is stupid. I mean, 252 00:15:40,520 --> 00:15:41,960 Speaker 1: it's saying, oh, we're going to just spend what we 253 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:44,280 Speaker 1: spent last year on programs. Maybe we don't don't even 254 00:15:44,280 --> 00:15:46,880 Speaker 1: want to keep funding them. Um, but why wouldn't we 255 00:15:46,920 --> 00:15:49,720 Speaker 1: do a continued resolution until we get a new Republican 256 00:15:49,800 --> 00:15:52,840 Speaker 1: House and let them pass whatever spending bill we need, 257 00:15:53,240 --> 00:15:55,440 Speaker 1: no doubt and center Scott, what would you say, because 258 00:15:55,440 --> 00:15:57,520 Speaker 1: I think there's a huge majority of my audience and 259 00:15:57,560 --> 00:16:01,080 Speaker 1: Bucks audience out there listening right now that is fed 260 00:16:01,160 --> 00:16:05,240 Speaker 1: up with the basically the representation that they're getting from 261 00:16:05,240 --> 00:16:07,360 Speaker 1: the Republican Party right now, coming right out of a 262 00:16:07,400 --> 00:16:10,640 Speaker 1: midterm where obviously things didn't go as well as we wanted, 263 00:16:10,640 --> 00:16:13,400 Speaker 1: but at least we won the House. Do we have 264 00:16:13,440 --> 00:16:16,280 Speaker 1: two political parties here right now when we got an 265 00:16:16,280 --> 00:16:20,160 Speaker 1: acquiescence essentially to a one point seven trillion dollars budget. 266 00:16:20,200 --> 00:16:22,280 Speaker 1: What would you say to people out there who are 267 00:16:22,320 --> 00:16:25,240 Speaker 1: listening right now that are fed up with basically what 268 00:16:25,280 --> 00:16:30,160 Speaker 1: they see in terms of Republican opposition against this Biden administration. Well, 269 00:16:30,200 --> 00:16:33,880 Speaker 1: we've got a Republican party out outside DC. We need 270 00:16:33,880 --> 00:16:36,280 Speaker 1: to have a Republican party in DC. We need to 271 00:16:36,320 --> 00:16:39,000 Speaker 1: have people when they get up here do what they 272 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:40,640 Speaker 1: said they were going to do when they run. How 273 00:16:40,680 --> 00:16:43,200 Speaker 1: many people go home and said, hey, look, elect me 274 00:16:43,320 --> 00:16:46,120 Speaker 1: because I'm going to vote for things I've never read before. 275 00:16:46,720 --> 00:16:49,120 Speaker 1: You right, does that I'm going to vote for things 276 00:16:49,160 --> 00:16:51,640 Speaker 1: that's going to raise another debt by one point one 277 00:16:51,720 --> 00:16:55,240 Speaker 1: trillion dollars. No, I'm gonna cause more inflation. No, So 278 00:16:55,600 --> 00:16:58,600 Speaker 1: what you have to start? What you have to do 279 00:16:58,880 --> 00:17:02,400 Speaker 1: as a voter or hold people accountable if I do. 280 00:17:02,600 --> 00:17:04,480 Speaker 1: You know, I tell people this is what I believe in. 281 00:17:05,160 --> 00:17:06,840 Speaker 1: So if you voted for me, this is what I 282 00:17:06,880 --> 00:17:09,639 Speaker 1: plan on doing. And if I don't do it, you 283 00:17:09,680 --> 00:17:12,920 Speaker 1: should call and yell at me. So's got to hold 284 00:17:12,920 --> 00:17:17,879 Speaker 1: people accountable. So this passes in your mind, I'm assuming. 285 00:17:18,040 --> 00:17:21,359 Speaker 1: And then basically, when is the next time that Republicans 286 00:17:21,400 --> 00:17:23,960 Speaker 1: have any kind of impact on the budget in any 287 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:27,399 Speaker 1: kind of substantial way. We're basically punting for a year, right, Oh, no, 288 00:17:27,720 --> 00:17:30,560 Speaker 1: they'll do it next year. They'll here's here's copay. Oh 289 00:17:30,560 --> 00:17:32,560 Speaker 1: we're not going to ever do this again. This has 290 00:17:32,600 --> 00:17:35,200 Speaker 1: got to stop. And guess what next December we'll be 291 00:17:35,240 --> 00:17:37,720 Speaker 1: doing it again. I mean, there's nobody. I mean, what's 292 00:17:37,720 --> 00:17:41,240 Speaker 1: the pressure point it works, Shubar is getting what he wants. 293 00:17:42,080 --> 00:17:45,720 Speaker 1: I mean, Shuban Plosi won with this. We didn't win, 294 00:17:45,840 --> 00:17:49,119 Speaker 1: they won, all right, So there there's no pressure point 295 00:17:49,680 --> 00:17:52,640 Speaker 1: to do this. I mean, the next the next big 296 00:17:52,680 --> 00:17:55,080 Speaker 1: fight's going to be when we raise the dead ceiling. 297 00:17:55,119 --> 00:17:57,360 Speaker 1: And here's what they're gonna say, goes, Oh, you have 298 00:17:57,520 --> 00:18:01,680 Speaker 1: to raise the debt ceiling. Oh, let's stop spending money 299 00:18:01,680 --> 00:18:03,720 Speaker 1: and balance our budget and start paying down debt so 300 00:18:03,760 --> 00:18:05,200 Speaker 1: we don't never have to raise it. This the lease 301 00:18:05,400 --> 00:18:07,880 Speaker 1: I did want to governor balance a budget every year. 302 00:18:08,320 --> 00:18:10,719 Speaker 1: I actually made office of the state debt and then 303 00:18:10,800 --> 00:18:13,919 Speaker 1: that in payoff tween years when I became governor. You 304 00:18:13,960 --> 00:18:17,000 Speaker 1: can do these things. We gotta just start doing it, Amen, 305 00:18:17,480 --> 00:18:21,040 Speaker 1: Florida Senator Rick Scott, Mary Christmas, appreciate you joining us. 306 00:18:21,040 --> 00:18:23,400 Speaker 1: I'll continue to unpack this budget when we come back. 307 00:18:23,480 --> 00:18:26,280 Speaker 1: Eight hundred and two A two two eight A two 308 00:18:26,520 --> 00:18:28,199 Speaker 1: is the phone number if you want to weigh in 309 00:18:28,359 --> 00:18:31,800 Speaker 1: and join us and voice your displeasure with Mitch McConnell, 310 00:18:32,160 --> 00:18:35,800 Speaker 1: maybe the worst Senate Majority leader in many of our lifetimes, 311 00:18:35,840 --> 00:18:39,879 Speaker 1: selling out Travis and buck Sexton on the front lines. 312 00:18:41,560 --> 00:18:46,280 Speaker 1: Welcome back in play Travis buck Sexton show. I understand. 313 00:18:46,280 --> 00:18:49,480 Speaker 1: So we just were talking with Senator Rick Scott of Florida. 314 00:18:50,160 --> 00:18:54,560 Speaker 1: He's not going to vote in favor of this bill. 315 00:18:54,560 --> 00:18:58,480 Speaker 1: Why in the world is any Republican in the United 316 00:18:58,520 --> 00:19:03,119 Speaker 1: States Senate voting in favor of this bill. This is 317 00:19:03,160 --> 00:19:05,879 Speaker 1: a big deal. There's now reports out there checking the 318 00:19:05,880 --> 00:19:12,560 Speaker 1: news that this forty one hundred plus page bill, which 319 00:19:12,680 --> 00:19:16,400 Speaker 1: you heard Rick Scott say no one is actually read 320 00:19:17,920 --> 00:19:22,600 Speaker 1: that it's going to pass now at five am, potentially 321 00:19:23,080 --> 00:19:27,480 Speaker 1: in the morning, while most of America is still sleeping. 322 00:19:28,600 --> 00:19:34,240 Speaker 1: They released this bill after midnight. And I just want 323 00:19:34,280 --> 00:19:37,280 Speaker 1: to run through some of the things that are in 324 00:19:37,320 --> 00:19:39,880 Speaker 1: this bill, and I want to give credit to Dan 325 00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:44,040 Speaker 1: Bishop's office for collating a lot of this. You can 326 00:19:44,119 --> 00:19:49,120 Speaker 1: go follow Dan Bishop at at Rep Dan Bishop on Twitter. 327 00:19:50,200 --> 00:19:52,600 Speaker 1: Democrats are gonna spend. I'm gonna hit several of these 328 00:19:52,640 --> 00:19:54,280 Speaker 1: details for you because I think it's gonna make you 329 00:19:54,359 --> 00:19:57,920 Speaker 1: angrier and angrier. And when I say Democrats are going 330 00:19:57,960 --> 00:20:01,879 Speaker 1: to spend, I mean Democrats, with the support of many 331 00:20:01,960 --> 00:20:05,240 Speaker 1: of the Republicans that you voted for, are going to 332 00:20:05,280 --> 00:20:10,000 Speaker 1: spend four hundred and ten million dollars in this budget 333 00:20:10,640 --> 00:20:15,960 Speaker 1: on border security for Jordan. Lebanon eleven and is a 334 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:20,360 Speaker 1: town in Tennessee. My apologies Lebanon, Egypt, Tunisia and Aman 335 00:20:21,359 --> 00:20:26,359 Speaker 1: not doing anything at our own southern border. They're going 336 00:20:26,400 --> 00:20:31,000 Speaker 1: to spend, as I said earlier, a hundred billion dollars 337 00:20:31,240 --> 00:20:38,800 Speaker 1: total forty five billion more. This is crazy talk for Ukraine. 338 00:20:40,280 --> 00:20:43,560 Speaker 1: How did we get to a place where a party 339 00:20:43,600 --> 00:20:50,760 Speaker 1: that is supposedly the opposition is in reality endorsing wildly 340 00:20:50,960 --> 00:20:55,480 Speaker 1: outlandish spending plans. I'm gonna hit you with some of 341 00:20:55,480 --> 00:20:59,080 Speaker 1: these details. You can go find these yourself. This new 342 00:20:59,160 --> 00:21:06,960 Speaker 1: bill that Republicans are supporting expressly prohibits us from spending 343 00:21:07,240 --> 00:21:14,360 Speaker 1: any money to improve border security. This is pretty crazy. 344 00:21:15,720 --> 00:21:21,199 Speaker 1: It gives one point four three eight billion dollars to 345 00:21:21,320 --> 00:21:29,040 Speaker 1: the United Nations. There is a ton of giveaways, including 346 00:21:29,680 --> 00:21:37,040 Speaker 1: sixty five million dollars to study the risk store the 347 00:21:37,119 --> 00:21:46,399 Speaker 1: Pacific salmon population, three million dollars be friendly highways. How 348 00:21:46,440 --> 00:21:52,320 Speaker 1: about sixty five point seven million for the International Fisheries Commissions. 349 00:21:53,680 --> 00:21:59,520 Speaker 1: Five hundred and seventy five million dollars for family planning 350 00:22:00,119 --> 00:22:08,160 Speaker 1: in areas where population growth threatens biodiversity. You're gonna try 351 00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:11,679 Speaker 1: to just encourage people not to have kids so that 352 00:22:11,760 --> 00:22:14,760 Speaker 1: they don't harm the environment. To the tune of five 353 00:22:14,960 --> 00:22:19,960 Speaker 1: hundred and seventy five million dollars, We're gonna give sixty 354 00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:24,520 Speaker 1: five million dollars to name a federal building after Nancy Pelosi, 355 00:22:24,960 --> 00:22:30,000 Speaker 1: and two programs for Senator Pat Leahy, three point six 356 00:22:30,040 --> 00:22:36,960 Speaker 1: million dollars for a Michelle Obama trail, three million dollars. 357 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:41,400 Speaker 1: Why are we giving taxpayer dollars for an LBGTQ museum 358 00:22:41,400 --> 00:22:47,320 Speaker 1: in New York City. Four million dollars for career programs 359 00:22:47,320 --> 00:22:53,320 Speaker 1: in Fairfax County. They're also going to create a Ukrainian 360 00:22:53,520 --> 00:22:59,720 Speaker 1: Independence Park in Washington, DC. So we're tearing down American 361 00:23:00,040 --> 00:23:04,720 Speaker 1: history on a regular basis, but we're building a park 362 00:23:05,240 --> 00:23:13,320 Speaker 1: in honor of Ukrainian independence in Washington, DC. Five hundred 363 00:23:13,440 --> 00:23:19,199 Speaker 1: and twenty four million dollars for Diversity and Inclusion and 364 00:23:19,520 --> 00:23:25,080 Speaker 1: structural racism focused in NIH subdivision. I don't know about you, 365 00:23:25,680 --> 00:23:28,639 Speaker 1: but given the fact that our taxpayer dollars have already 366 00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:32,560 Speaker 1: probably aided and embedded the COVID virus being created in 367 00:23:32,600 --> 00:23:34,840 Speaker 1: a Chinese lab, why in the world are we giving 368 00:23:34,920 --> 00:23:40,399 Speaker 1: more money to the NIH? Why are we giving more 369 00:23:40,440 --> 00:23:46,359 Speaker 1: money to the support of the FBI given all of 370 00:23:46,400 --> 00:23:50,199 Speaker 1: the revelations that are coming out associated with the FBI's 371 00:23:50,280 --> 00:23:56,000 Speaker 1: behavior on Twitter alone. Two hundred million dollars for a 372 00:23:56,119 --> 00:24:03,240 Speaker 1: gender equity fund. I mean, I just looked through this. 373 00:24:04,400 --> 00:24:08,720 Speaker 1: Three hundred and thirty five million dollars to prepare for 374 00:24:09,080 --> 00:24:16,640 Speaker 1: a flu pandemic. We're giving more money to the Department 375 00:24:16,680 --> 00:24:21,400 Speaker 1: of Justice to prosecute all of these jan six prisoners 376 00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:24,280 Speaker 1: that have been in solitary confinement, many of them for years. 377 00:24:25,400 --> 00:24:30,560 Speaker 1: Five hundred and thirty five million dollars to the corporation 378 00:24:30,680 --> 00:24:36,560 Speaker 1: from Public Broadcasting, which also funds NPR. Why are we 379 00:24:36,640 --> 00:24:44,119 Speaker 1: funding funding the PBS and NPR at all anymore? Honest question? 380 00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:47,320 Speaker 1: Is there anybody out there who's like, hey, you know what, 381 00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:54,240 Speaker 1: We've got too few entertainment options. What benefit are we 382 00:24:54,280 --> 00:24:57,240 Speaker 1: getting for all this money? Why would we be giving 383 00:24:57,280 --> 00:25:00,919 Speaker 1: any money at all to NPR? I just PBS need 384 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:06,280 Speaker 1: to exist anymore, honest question. Is there anybody who can't 385 00:25:06,320 --> 00:25:12,600 Speaker 1: access every possible show under the sun. It feels like 386 00:25:12,680 --> 00:25:17,199 Speaker 1: already I understand that we needed maybe PBS back when 387 00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:21,920 Speaker 1: there were four channels and there wasn't that much public 388 00:25:21,960 --> 00:25:27,280 Speaker 1: interest programming. Is there an absence of radio and audio 389 00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:32,680 Speaker 1: podcast opportunities that we need to be providing funding to NPR, which, 390 00:25:32,720 --> 00:25:36,520 Speaker 1: by the way, hates the politics of everyone listening to 391 00:25:36,560 --> 00:25:41,359 Speaker 1: this program. We don't get tax dollars. We're not funded 392 00:25:41,359 --> 00:25:44,639 Speaker 1: by the United States government. We're a business. We have 393 00:25:44,720 --> 00:25:46,680 Speaker 1: to make our own money, like all of you who 394 00:25:46,720 --> 00:25:54,560 Speaker 1: work at businesses. Eleven point three billion dollars for the FBI, 395 00:25:56,400 --> 00:26:00,159 Speaker 1: two point six three billion for US attorneys with an 396 00:26:00,280 --> 00:26:05,680 Speaker 1: emphasis in the bill on prosecuting January six defendants, all 397 00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:10,719 Speaker 1: with substantial increases. If you are a Republican, why in 398 00:26:10,760 --> 00:26:16,040 Speaker 1: the world would you support this? Why does the House 399 00:26:16,040 --> 00:26:19,879 Speaker 1: of Representatives have an Office of Diversity and Inclusion in 400 00:26:19,920 --> 00:26:24,119 Speaker 1: the first place. Secondly, how do they get twenty six 401 00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:30,000 Speaker 1: million dollars for that office to twenty six million dollars? 402 00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:33,040 Speaker 1: Why does the House of Representatives even have an Office 403 00:26:33,040 --> 00:26:38,080 Speaker 1: of Diversity Inclusion? Why is that necessary? We've got four 404 00:26:38,160 --> 00:26:43,399 Speaker 1: hundred and thirty five House of Representatives members. What in 405 00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:45,320 Speaker 1: the world do we need to be spending twenty six 406 00:26:45,359 --> 00:26:51,280 Speaker 1: million dollars on that two hundred and eighty six million 407 00:26:51,359 --> 00:26:56,960 Speaker 1: Title ten funding for planned parenthood. I mean, I am 408 00:26:57,000 --> 00:27:01,080 Speaker 1: just sketching through here and looking at all of this, 409 00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:05,600 Speaker 1: and I give credit for Representative Dan Bishop and his staff. 410 00:27:06,160 --> 00:27:10,520 Speaker 1: He represents the ninth District of North Carolina. His team 411 00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:14,719 Speaker 1: is actually reading through this four thousand, one hundred and 412 00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:21,840 Speaker 1: fifty five page bill. I mean, this is all crazy, 413 00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:24,960 Speaker 1: and I would encourage all of you to go follow this. 414 00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:31,119 Speaker 1: And my question that I would ask is why why 415 00:27:31,520 --> 00:27:38,240 Speaker 1: are Republicans allowing this to be rushed through the EPA 416 00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:40,760 Speaker 1: is going to get ten point one I'm still reading 417 00:27:40,760 --> 00:27:44,959 Speaker 1: this ten point one billion dollars, an increase of nearly 418 00:27:45,119 --> 00:27:48,520 Speaker 1: six hundred million dollars above what they got last year, 419 00:27:49,040 --> 00:27:51,919 Speaker 1: and one hundred and eight million of that is for 420 00:27:52,240 --> 00:28:00,520 Speaker 1: environmental justice activities. So all of this they're building a 421 00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:07,560 Speaker 1: brand new FBI headquarters three hundred and seventy five million 422 00:28:07,640 --> 00:28:17,359 Speaker 1: dollars it's going to cost. I just I'm reading all 423 00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:24,000 Speaker 1: of this, and I am thoroughly and completely disgusted that 424 00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:29,680 Speaker 1: we have such piss poor representation in Congress that they 425 00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:40,160 Speaker 1: would be rushing all of this through. I'm laughing right 426 00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:44,120 Speaker 1: now because rand Paul said the government spent one hundred 427 00:28:44,160 --> 00:28:48,080 Speaker 1: and eighteen thousand dollars to study if a medical replica 428 00:28:48,240 --> 00:28:50,760 Speaker 1: of Marvel. I can't even believe that this stuff is real. 429 00:28:50,920 --> 00:28:55,320 Speaker 1: Some of it to see whether Thanos could snap his fingers. 430 00:28:55,840 --> 00:28:58,760 Speaker 1: They apparently hired some dude to wear metal gloves and 431 00:28:58,880 --> 00:29:04,040 Speaker 1: snap his fingers one hundred thousand dollars. All of this 432 00:29:04,800 --> 00:29:08,400 Speaker 1: is madness. And if you're out there and you're listening 433 00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:10,000 Speaker 1: to me and you're thinking, how in the world did 434 00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:12,440 Speaker 1: we get here? We don't have an app opposition party, 435 00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:19,200 Speaker 1: because if we did, basic negotiation would suggest, hey, we're 436 00:29:19,240 --> 00:29:22,560 Speaker 1: about the Republican Party is to have half of Congress 437 00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:27,040 Speaker 1: next month. Let's wait and get a better deal then. 438 00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:32,520 Speaker 1: The reason I understand why Democrats want to rush through 439 00:29:32,560 --> 00:29:35,960 Speaker 1: this bill, why they want to pass this at five am, 440 00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:40,280 Speaker 1: I don't understand why Republicans are so eager to spend 441 00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:44,320 Speaker 1: one point seven trillion dollars to add a massive amount 442 00:29:44,440 --> 00:29:47,200 Speaker 1: to our national debt in a time of forty year 443 00:29:47,280 --> 00:29:52,320 Speaker 1: high inflation, and to further provide the Democrats with exactly 444 00:29:52,360 --> 00:29:58,000 Speaker 1: what they want. If you're negotiating and the party that 445 00:29:58,040 --> 00:30:02,800 Speaker 1: you're negotiating with rushes to get a deal done, it's 446 00:30:02,920 --> 00:30:06,680 Speaker 1: probably a sign that you struck a really bad deal. 447 00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:11,080 Speaker 1: Do you trust Mitch McConnell as a really savvy negotiator 448 00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:17,400 Speaker 1: given how many times he's gotten completely spun around and 449 00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:22,400 Speaker 1: used frankly by Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, Because I 450 00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:27,960 Speaker 1: don't that's what's happening, Everybody bending over backwards to make 451 00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:33,400 Speaker 1: Democrats happy just in time for the holiday rush. It's pathetic. 452 00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:35,640 Speaker 1: Take covering your calls. 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I'm in a beautiful location here in Key West, Florida. 479 00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:23,360 Speaker 1: Met a lot of our listeners all over the place 480 00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:28,640 Speaker 1: down here. And the truth of the matter is, however, 481 00:32:29,480 --> 00:32:32,200 Speaker 1: that we have a lot of politicians who have no 482 00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:37,280 Speaker 1: sminds and have no interest in actually representing the people 483 00:32:37,640 --> 00:32:41,520 Speaker 1: that they may have initially gone to Washington to represent. 484 00:32:42,080 --> 00:32:47,520 Speaker 1: Let's just be honest, and not only that they are 485 00:32:47,680 --> 00:32:54,080 Speaker 1: so astoundingly tone deaf. Earlier we played for you Mitch 486 00:32:54,160 --> 00:32:56,760 Speaker 1: McConnell saying, can we gotta grab that audio again? Because 487 00:32:56,800 --> 00:33:01,200 Speaker 1: I think it's such a window into a disastrous way 488 00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:06,400 Speaker 1: of thinking of Mitch McConnell. At some point, you end 489 00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:11,720 Speaker 1: up really out of touch if you get too remote 490 00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:16,840 Speaker 1: from the people that you represent. Mitch McConnell has been 491 00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:21,520 Speaker 1: in Washington, DC for so long, he is a swamp creature. 492 00:33:22,720 --> 00:33:26,320 Speaker 1: He doesn't really even remember why he went to DC 493 00:33:26,880 --> 00:33:31,880 Speaker 1: in the first place. Did you see John Bayner come 494 00:33:31,880 --> 00:33:37,720 Speaker 1: back and cry praising Nancy Pelosi and her leadership of 495 00:33:37,760 --> 00:33:47,360 Speaker 1: the Democrats? Cried, No matter what you think of Democrats, 496 00:33:48,560 --> 00:33:51,920 Speaker 1: can you imagine, as you are listening right now to me, 497 00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:56,400 Speaker 1: that you would ever cry praising Nancy Pelosi for anything? 498 00:33:56,560 --> 00:33:59,800 Speaker 1: Maybe if your grandkid was about to get hit by 499 00:33:59,800 --> 00:34:03,560 Speaker 1: a car and Nancy Pelosi threw herself in front of 500 00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:07,200 Speaker 1: the car and heroically saved your child, maybe you would 501 00:34:07,280 --> 00:34:12,120 Speaker 1: cry when you praised her. Would you praise her for 502 00:34:12,200 --> 00:34:16,719 Speaker 1: building up a thirty one trillion dollar national debt, for 503 00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:21,440 Speaker 1: being in charge at forty year high inflation, for creating 504 00:34:21,840 --> 00:34:25,560 Speaker 1: the worst crime wave in the twenty first century, for 505 00:34:25,719 --> 00:34:28,760 Speaker 1: refusing to travel to the border or protect this country 506 00:34:28,880 --> 00:34:32,759 Speaker 1: sanctity at all? John Bayner did He used to be 507 00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:36,000 Speaker 1: the Speaker of the House, one of the most powerful 508 00:34:36,080 --> 00:34:40,200 Speaker 1: Republicans in any of our lives. He cried when they 509 00:34:40,280 --> 00:34:44,320 Speaker 1: unveiled a portrait of Nancy Pelosi, How does that happen? 510 00:34:44,640 --> 00:34:49,600 Speaker 1: You're a swamp creature. You forget who you rep Look, 511 00:34:49,640 --> 00:34:53,520 Speaker 1: do we have that Mitch McConnell again, imagine Mitch McConnell 512 00:34:54,200 --> 00:34:59,759 Speaker 1: being so out of touch that he really believes that 513 00:35:00,239 --> 00:35:06,120 Speaker 1: one point seven trillion dollars explosive, indefensible budget that he 514 00:35:06,200 --> 00:35:10,840 Speaker 1: didn't even allow Republicans to negotiate in the House on that. 515 00:35:10,960 --> 00:35:13,560 Speaker 1: This is a win for Republicans because it deals with 516 00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:16,880 Speaker 1: the biggest priority in any of your lives right now, 517 00:35:17,520 --> 00:35:20,240 Speaker 1: which is making sure that Ukraine has as much money 518 00:35:20,280 --> 00:35:23,080 Speaker 1: as possible to protect their borders. That's what he said, listen, 519 00:35:23,280 --> 00:35:28,759 Speaker 1: providing assistance for the Ukrainians to defeat the Russians. That's 520 00:35:28,840 --> 00:35:32,600 Speaker 1: the number one priority for the United States right now. 521 00:35:33,280 --> 00:35:36,160 Speaker 1: According to most Republicans, that's sort of how we see 522 00:35:36,520 --> 00:35:41,400 Speaker 1: the challenges confronting the country at the moment. Okay, so 523 00:35:44,239 --> 00:35:48,600 Speaker 1: he is so out of touch. Do you even know 524 00:35:49,360 --> 00:35:52,640 Speaker 1: any of you listening to me right now? A single 525 00:35:52,719 --> 00:35:56,040 Speaker 1: person who voted Republican in twenty twenty two, that's said, 526 00:35:56,440 --> 00:36:00,160 Speaker 1: the reason why I'm voting Republican is because I'm so 527 00:36:00,280 --> 00:36:03,760 Speaker 1: concerned about Ukraine's border, and I want to make sure 528 00:36:03,880 --> 00:36:07,319 Speaker 1: that Republicans will take care of that border. Because I 529 00:36:07,360 --> 00:36:09,600 Speaker 1: don't know a single person who said that was their 530 00:36:09,640 --> 00:36:14,960 Speaker 1: top reason for voting probably twenty things, maybe thirty things. 531 00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:17,160 Speaker 1: If we opened up the phone, that you guys could say, actually, 532 00:36:17,200 --> 00:36:20,120 Speaker 1: you know what my top priority was. Mitch McConnell is 533 00:36:20,160 --> 00:36:23,600 Speaker 1: so out of touch that he's doing a one point 534 00:36:23,640 --> 00:36:26,600 Speaker 1: seven trillion dollars spending bill and he thinks it's a 535 00:36:26,680 --> 00:36:29,840 Speaker 1: win because he believes, at least what he's saying publicly. 536 00:36:30,480 --> 00:36:36,360 Speaker 1: The Republican Party biggest right now focus is let's protect Ukraine. 537 00:36:36,800 --> 00:36:39,200 Speaker 1: This guy doesn't deserve to be the majority leader. I'm 538 00:36:39,239 --> 00:36:41,960 Speaker 1: not even sure he deserves to represent Kentucky four x