1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:03,320 Speaker 1: Welcome to today's edition of The Clay Travis and Buck 2 00:00:03,360 --> 00:00:07,720 Speaker 1: Sexton Show podcast. Second hour of Clay in Bucket's going 3 00:00:08,080 --> 00:00:11,039 Speaker 1: right now, everybody, thanks for being with us. It's going 4 00:00:11,080 --> 00:00:14,320 Speaker 1: to take our attention over to NYC. Say hi to 5 00:00:14,360 --> 00:00:18,160 Speaker 1: all of our wor family in the Greater New York area, 6 00:00:18,200 --> 00:00:21,560 Speaker 1: and take a look at what's happening in America's largest 7 00:00:21,560 --> 00:00:23,880 Speaker 1: city here for a second. You know, yesterday we talked 8 00:00:23,880 --> 00:00:29,080 Speaker 1: about California, which is obviously a state, not a city, 9 00:00:29,080 --> 00:00:33,440 Speaker 1: but California as a state is running a twenty six 10 00:00:33,680 --> 00:00:37,559 Speaker 1: billion dollar deficit right now, which I don't know. It 11 00:00:37,600 --> 00:00:39,280 Speaker 1: seems like a lot of money to me for a 12 00:00:39,400 --> 00:00:41,640 Speaker 1: state to be twenty six billion dollars. In the whole 13 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:48,360 Speaker 1: New York City alone is facing a deficit this coming 14 00:00:48,440 --> 00:00:52,960 Speaker 1: year of about four billion dollars just a city, four 15 00:00:52,960 --> 00:00:58,800 Speaker 1: billion dollars, according to the comptroller. So it turns out 16 00:00:58,840 --> 00:01:04,000 Speaker 1: people leaving a place, and especially those who who tends 17 00:01:04,040 --> 00:01:07,280 Speaker 1: to be the most mobile, most easily mobile, those with 18 00:01:07,880 --> 00:01:10,800 Speaker 1: disposal income, and those who are high high earners. Right 19 00:01:10,920 --> 00:01:12,440 Speaker 1: those are people that can say, you know what I'm done, 20 00:01:12,440 --> 00:01:15,319 Speaker 1: I'm gonna go somewhere else. This has been a major 21 00:01:15,480 --> 00:01:19,160 Speaker 1: challenge for both New York and California, and I don't 22 00:01:19,160 --> 00:01:22,560 Speaker 1: see it turning around anytime soon. And perhaps you could 23 00:01:22,560 --> 00:01:25,440 Speaker 1: say California as a state is suffering from this more 24 00:01:25,920 --> 00:01:28,160 Speaker 1: New York as a city I think is suffering from us. 25 00:01:28,200 --> 00:01:32,120 Speaker 1: Where people aren't saying I've had enough of Saratoga or 26 00:01:32,160 --> 00:01:36,040 Speaker 1: Buffalo or the Hudson Valley, but they are saying New 27 00:01:36,120 --> 00:01:38,960 Speaker 1: York at New York City because there's an additional I 28 00:01:38,959 --> 00:01:41,640 Speaker 1: think it's an additional three percent clay you pay to 29 00:01:41,720 --> 00:01:43,240 Speaker 1: be in New York City. I gotta go back in 30 00:01:43,360 --> 00:01:47,480 Speaker 1: check that they've just had. People are saying enough is enough? Right? 31 00:01:47,920 --> 00:01:52,240 Speaker 1: So who is supposed to fix all of this? Eric Adams? 32 00:01:52,280 --> 00:01:55,200 Speaker 1: He comes in as the mayor and his first job 33 00:01:55,360 --> 00:01:59,520 Speaker 1: is supposed to be dealing with crime. Year over year, 34 00:01:59,600 --> 00:02:02,400 Speaker 1: crime down a little bit, but it hasn't been some 35 00:02:02,640 --> 00:02:05,760 Speaker 1: miracle turnaround story. And as we've described here on the show, 36 00:02:06,320 --> 00:02:09,640 Speaker 1: there's a rot within the actual system now because of 37 00:02:09,720 --> 00:02:13,000 Speaker 1: decisions made by the Deblasi administration, a lot of people 38 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:16,320 Speaker 1: in this Attorney's office, a lot of the regulations, rules 39 00:02:16,320 --> 00:02:19,640 Speaker 1: and approach that the NYPD has to deal with. All 40 00:02:19,680 --> 00:02:23,600 Speaker 1: these things mean that and just also the culture of 41 00:02:23,639 --> 00:02:27,280 Speaker 1: allowing criminality that has made things worse. It has not 42 00:02:27,400 --> 00:02:29,320 Speaker 1: really improved the way that we would have hoped even 43 00:02:29,320 --> 00:02:32,679 Speaker 1: a year in Okay. But the bigger challenge that Eric 44 00:02:32,680 --> 00:02:38,280 Speaker 1: Adams I didn't see coming was this migrant flow. And 45 00:02:38,520 --> 00:02:43,120 Speaker 1: here he is now. Remember the lip media. They're not 46 00:02:43,120 --> 00:02:46,000 Speaker 1: going to challenge Eric Adams in any aggressive way for 47 00:02:46,040 --> 00:02:50,240 Speaker 1: a number of reasons. I think they're increasingly warming up 48 00:02:50,280 --> 00:02:52,840 Speaker 1: to him on a national level. Democrats are thinking of 49 00:02:52,919 --> 00:02:55,560 Speaker 1: him more as a national figure. Mayor of New York 50 00:02:55,639 --> 00:02:58,480 Speaker 1: is often thought of as the only mayor. Well, if 51 00:02:58,480 --> 00:03:01,000 Speaker 1: you're the mayor of South Bend in the Yanna Clay, 52 00:03:01,360 --> 00:03:04,440 Speaker 1: you're obviously ready for cabinet, right, I mean, if you're 53 00:03:05,040 --> 00:03:08,160 Speaker 1: you know, you're president. If you can run South Bid, 54 00:03:08,280 --> 00:03:10,280 Speaker 1: you're ready to be the president of the United States. Man. 55 00:03:10,520 --> 00:03:12,280 Speaker 1: I mean, no offense to South Ben I'm sure it's 56 00:03:12,320 --> 00:03:14,200 Speaker 1: a lovely town, you know, Notre Dame and all that, 57 00:03:14,280 --> 00:03:16,720 Speaker 1: But you know, I don't think it's necessarily the job 58 00:03:16,800 --> 00:03:19,320 Speaker 1: you have before you're you're in the White House. Mayor 59 00:03:19,360 --> 00:03:23,919 Speaker 1: of New York City obviously different category. But this migrant 60 00:03:23,919 --> 00:03:28,720 Speaker 1: issue for New York has really created a dissonance, a 61 00:03:28,840 --> 00:03:32,799 Speaker 1: friction in the Democrat narrative because, as we all know, 62 00:03:33,320 --> 00:03:36,280 Speaker 1: there is this belief that the more the merrier when 63 00:03:36,320 --> 00:03:38,840 Speaker 1: it comes to illegal migrants. New York has always been 64 00:03:38,880 --> 00:03:41,440 Speaker 1: in statute of liberty, you know, legal migrants coming in 65 00:03:41,480 --> 00:03:44,040 Speaker 1: by the people. Forget, there were migrants who were turned 66 00:03:44,040 --> 00:03:49,120 Speaker 1: away at Ellis Island. Not everybody, even people who are 67 00:03:49,120 --> 00:03:52,720 Speaker 1: trying to come through the legal process, where sometimes for 68 00:03:52,800 --> 00:03:55,400 Speaker 1: reasons of health or if there was issue with the 69 00:03:55,480 --> 00:03:59,520 Speaker 1: documents whatever. And also in the big waves of migration 70 00:03:59,600 --> 00:04:02,760 Speaker 1: in this country, there were pretty considerable percentages of the 71 00:04:02,800 --> 00:04:07,400 Speaker 1: population who actually went back home to Italy or to Ireland, 72 00:04:07,520 --> 00:04:10,600 Speaker 1: or whatever the case may be, because there wasn't a 73 00:04:10,600 --> 00:04:13,080 Speaker 1: welfare state here. See, you either made it or you 74 00:04:13,080 --> 00:04:15,360 Speaker 1: didn't it. If you spend any time, have you ever 75 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:18,720 Speaker 1: been to the Tenement Museum Clay It's on the lower 76 00:04:18,839 --> 00:04:22,279 Speaker 1: side of Manhattan. No. I've been to Ellis Island, which 77 00:04:22,320 --> 00:04:25,040 Speaker 1: is a cool opportunity to go through. But no, I've 78 00:04:25,040 --> 00:04:27,839 Speaker 1: never been to the tenement museum. Tenement Museum a little 79 00:04:27,880 --> 00:04:32,120 Speaker 1: more bleak, you know, Ellis Island. I would imagine, come here. 80 00:04:32,279 --> 00:04:34,800 Speaker 1: We love you all them. You know that for immigrants. 81 00:04:35,240 --> 00:04:38,120 Speaker 1: You know, america shining city on a hill. The Tenement 82 00:04:38,240 --> 00:04:41,640 Speaker 1: Museum is this is what it was like in the 83 00:04:41,680 --> 00:04:45,839 Speaker 1: early nineteen hundreds, being in America's largest city. And I 84 00:04:45,880 --> 00:04:49,360 Speaker 1: mean you had eight people to a room, you had 85 00:04:49,440 --> 00:04:53,000 Speaker 1: basically no light, You had very unsanitary conditions. You would 86 00:04:53,040 --> 00:04:56,279 Speaker 1: have cholera outbreaks that would kill thousands, and they would 87 00:04:56,320 --> 00:05:00,799 Speaker 1: stack them. They would stack bodies outside these very cramped 88 00:05:00,880 --> 00:05:03,719 Speaker 1: quarters housing that's still This museum is obviously one of 89 00:05:03,720 --> 00:05:06,640 Speaker 1: these old tenement buildings. They would stack the bodies out 90 00:05:06,680 --> 00:05:10,080 Speaker 1: when there had when they were cholera or typhus outbreaks. 91 00:05:10,160 --> 00:05:13,200 Speaker 1: So it was rough. It was not a good You 92 00:05:13,320 --> 00:05:16,800 Speaker 1: say that you had never been to the Statue of Liberty. 93 00:05:18,960 --> 00:05:20,440 Speaker 1: I cannot tell a lie. I haven't been to the 94 00:05:20,480 --> 00:05:22,320 Speaker 1: Statue of Liberty. That is the truth. That is still 95 00:05:22,760 --> 00:05:25,320 Speaker 1: I'm just thinking about it because of the Ellis Island discussion. 96 00:05:25,360 --> 00:05:28,200 Speaker 1: You've been to the Tenement Museum, but you haven't been 97 00:05:28,240 --> 00:05:30,640 Speaker 1: to the Statue of Liberty. That is a that is 98 00:05:30,680 --> 00:05:34,160 Speaker 1: probably all the time that happens. I see it. It's amazing. 99 00:05:34,200 --> 00:05:36,080 Speaker 1: It's majestic. You know, I've seen it. I don't know. 100 00:05:36,120 --> 00:05:38,120 Speaker 1: I gotta go. I probably should go. But I've also 101 00:05:38,200 --> 00:05:40,160 Speaker 1: seen the Will Smith movie where he takes a date 102 00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:43,920 Speaker 1: to Ellis Island. You remember that hitch you see this? Oh, 103 00:05:43,960 --> 00:05:45,839 Speaker 1: I did see that movie again. I've seen the look. 104 00:05:45,839 --> 00:05:48,960 Speaker 1: I'm sure you've seen Ghostbusters when spoiler alert got to 105 00:05:48,960 --> 00:05:50,960 Speaker 1: be careful out there. Never know when people haven't seen it. 106 00:05:51,520 --> 00:05:56,320 Speaker 1: When the statue of Liberty actually comes walking through through town. Right, 107 00:05:56,360 --> 00:05:59,800 Speaker 1: that's Ghostbusters two with the pink gustmusters two. Yeah, that's 108 00:06:00,240 --> 00:06:03,520 Speaker 1: which is very underrated film, the Ghostbusters two. Everybody likes 109 00:06:03,560 --> 00:06:06,919 Speaker 1: Ghostbusters one. Ghostbusters two is also good. That painting was 110 00:06:06,920 --> 00:06:10,640 Speaker 1: really scary with a vego you will remember, yes, yeah, 111 00:06:10,680 --> 00:06:13,120 Speaker 1: it was a scary painting. Scary paintings can mess you well. 112 00:06:13,120 --> 00:06:16,240 Speaker 1: I'll tell you my grandparents had a had a frowny 113 00:06:16,440 --> 00:06:20,600 Speaker 1: clown I'm not kidding, a frowning clown painting. That was terrifying. 114 00:06:21,480 --> 00:06:24,000 Speaker 1: Why did they have a frowning clown painting? In the 115 00:06:24,040 --> 00:06:27,400 Speaker 1: hoop audit? And it was like it like came through family. 116 00:06:27,480 --> 00:06:30,520 Speaker 1: It was the great grandparents or the great great grandparents. 117 00:06:30,560 --> 00:06:32,640 Speaker 1: But don't worry, we gave that one away at all. 118 00:06:32,800 --> 00:06:35,240 Speaker 1: We're buying art work. Laura's got a little bit of 119 00:06:35,320 --> 00:06:40,520 Speaker 1: I would say, a morose opinion of what like art 120 00:06:40,600 --> 00:06:43,040 Speaker 1: should be. And like we were standing in front of 121 00:06:43,040 --> 00:06:44,919 Speaker 1: a painting. Reason, I don't want to see that on 122 00:06:44,960 --> 00:06:47,120 Speaker 1: the wall, you know, like where you walk in, you're 123 00:06:47,120 --> 00:06:49,840 Speaker 1: like life is miserable, you know, like why why do 124 00:06:50,120 --> 00:06:53,120 Speaker 1: why even go on? Like I want some bright color, 125 00:06:53,279 --> 00:06:57,559 Speaker 1: some happiness, vibrancy. A frowning clown from the ninth early 126 00:06:57,680 --> 00:07:01,240 Speaker 1: nineteen hundreds, that's like, that's really pretty creepy. Yeah, I 127 00:07:01,279 --> 00:07:03,120 Speaker 1: was always waiting for its little hand to just pop 128 00:07:03,160 --> 00:07:05,760 Speaker 1: out of the painting with a knife. Anyway, I'm scary 129 00:07:05,800 --> 00:07:09,560 Speaker 1: looking so back to so at the Tonomy Museum. Immigrants 130 00:07:09,640 --> 00:07:13,760 Speaker 1: very different situation than what we have. Well, I remember 131 00:07:13,800 --> 00:07:16,200 Speaker 1: that was coming through the legal process. Now we're talking 132 00:07:16,240 --> 00:07:21,400 Speaker 1: about illegal immigrants. And here's what Eric Adams says about 133 00:07:21,440 --> 00:07:24,280 Speaker 1: not just New York City, but all the big Democrat 134 00:07:24,360 --> 00:07:27,200 Speaker 1: controlled cities play clip one. I believe that when I 135 00:07:27,280 --> 00:07:30,600 Speaker 1: took the trip to El Paso, you can see firsthand 136 00:07:30,680 --> 00:07:35,120 Speaker 1: the impact of how it not only harm the foundation 137 00:07:35,200 --> 00:07:40,000 Speaker 1: of Passo, but look at Chicago, Houston, Washington, New York City. 138 00:07:40,320 --> 00:07:43,960 Speaker 1: This is just unfair for cities to carry the weight 139 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:48,880 Speaker 1: of a national problem. We're going to open four more hotels, 140 00:07:48,920 --> 00:07:52,600 Speaker 1: emergency hotels. We had to open herks. This is a 141 00:07:52,680 --> 00:07:56,720 Speaker 1: major financial impact on New York City and cities across 142 00:07:56,760 --> 00:08:00,040 Speaker 1: this country that are receiving a brunt of it. So 143 00:08:00,240 --> 00:08:02,440 Speaker 1: I want everyone to really listen to what he's saying there, 144 00:08:02,440 --> 00:08:06,520 Speaker 1: because Clay, this is important. The story from Democrats, for 145 00:08:06,920 --> 00:08:10,040 Speaker 1: honestly my entire adult life, certainly through all the Obama 146 00:08:10,080 --> 00:08:12,800 Speaker 1: administration and all the years of Trump and kids in 147 00:08:12,840 --> 00:08:16,560 Speaker 1: cages and all the stuff they talked about was illegal immigrants. 148 00:08:16,680 --> 00:08:18,960 Speaker 1: They just show up and do all the work that 149 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:21,240 Speaker 1: we won't do, and they add to the economy and 150 00:08:21,280 --> 00:08:24,360 Speaker 1: there's no downside at all, just economically, never mind any 151 00:08:24,440 --> 00:08:28,800 Speaker 1: social cohesion assimilation issues. There's no economic downside to it. 152 00:08:28,960 --> 00:08:31,360 Speaker 1: So shut up, stop being a bigot, and the more 153 00:08:31,520 --> 00:08:34,800 Speaker 1: illegal immigrants the better. That was the storyline. Well, now 154 00:08:34,840 --> 00:08:37,800 Speaker 1: we've had two point I'm estimating two point five million 155 00:08:37,800 --> 00:08:40,440 Speaker 1: with the goataways, it's over two million. I think two 156 00:08:40,440 --> 00:08:43,400 Speaker 1: point five is a pretty good guest for Biden's tattament office. 157 00:08:43,880 --> 00:08:46,480 Speaker 1: Mayor of New York is saying we can't afford this. 158 00:08:47,200 --> 00:08:50,600 Speaker 1: Hundreds of millions of dollars somehow going toward dealing with 159 00:08:50,640 --> 00:08:53,360 Speaker 1: these migrants. Why do you need hundreds of millions of 160 00:08:53,400 --> 00:08:55,800 Speaker 1: dollars going to it? More money is going towards illegal 161 00:08:55,800 --> 00:09:00,760 Speaker 1: immigrants in New York City, then housing insecure, meaning homeless 162 00:09:00,920 --> 00:09:06,600 Speaker 1: New Yorkers. It's I think you hit on something. And 163 00:09:06,679 --> 00:09:09,160 Speaker 1: the more I think about it, the more brilliant I 164 00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:11,280 Speaker 1: think it is. If you are I always think you 165 00:09:11,280 --> 00:09:13,439 Speaker 1: have to step out of your own mind and pretend 166 00:09:13,480 --> 00:09:17,640 Speaker 1: that you are Eric Adams or his advisors. That trip 167 00:09:17,679 --> 00:09:22,120 Speaker 1: to El Paso was a clear sign and a shot 168 00:09:22,160 --> 00:09:25,439 Speaker 1: across the bow. These statements that he is making now 169 00:09:26,240 --> 00:09:29,040 Speaker 1: that I think he's going to challenge Joe Biden. And 170 00:09:29,280 --> 00:09:32,760 Speaker 1: if you are Eric Adams, you are not the favored, 171 00:09:32,880 --> 00:09:36,480 Speaker 1: fair haired child of the Democrat Party where they're like, hey, 172 00:09:36,800 --> 00:09:40,000 Speaker 1: just wait till twenty twenty eight. You're not Gavin Newsom, 173 00:09:40,040 --> 00:09:43,920 Speaker 1: you aren't Kamala Harris, you aren't mayor Pete. You are 174 00:09:44,040 --> 00:09:47,880 Speaker 1: outside of the cool kid club. The DNC ain't rigging 175 00:09:47,960 --> 00:09:50,680 Speaker 1: anything for you. And Buck, what do we talk about 176 00:09:50,679 --> 00:09:54,560 Speaker 1: in the first hour that Biden had is attempting to 177 00:09:54,600 --> 00:10:01,320 Speaker 1: reconfigure the organization the order of the Democrat primaries. Imagine this, 178 00:10:02,320 --> 00:10:05,720 Speaker 1: what if Eric Adams were the only person to challenge 179 00:10:05,800 --> 00:10:10,959 Speaker 1: Joe Biden and they are constantly campaigning in South Carolina, 180 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:15,480 Speaker 1: which is a majority black electorate. How do you think 181 00:10:15,480 --> 00:10:18,800 Speaker 1: he might do? Because I think he connects in his fifties, 182 00:10:19,400 --> 00:10:22,160 Speaker 1: he sounds and thinks, I think like a lot of 183 00:10:22,200 --> 00:10:26,040 Speaker 1: South Carolina Black Democrat voters would sound and think like 184 00:10:26,200 --> 00:10:29,839 Speaker 1: we know, Joe Biden has no political antenna anymore. James 185 00:10:29,880 --> 00:10:32,960 Speaker 1: Clyburn obviously is a black, very powerful politician in South 186 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:36,959 Speaker 1: Carolina who basically said Joe Biden's my guy. But who 187 00:10:36,960 --> 00:10:40,160 Speaker 1: do you think would connect better on the campaign trail 188 00:10:40,280 --> 00:10:43,800 Speaker 1: in South Carolina as it the opening primary. If it's 189 00:10:43,960 --> 00:10:47,560 Speaker 1: Eric Adams and Joe Biden on a stage competing against 190 00:10:47,640 --> 00:10:51,520 Speaker 1: each other, and Eric Adams can actually speak, I think 191 00:10:52,240 --> 00:10:54,720 Speaker 1: on in a way that would connect better with those 192 00:10:54,760 --> 00:10:59,120 Speaker 1: South Carolina voters than Joe Biden could. And I wonder whether, 193 00:10:59,559 --> 00:11:03,360 Speaker 1: in trying to rig the game for himself, the Biden 194 00:11:03,440 --> 00:11:06,520 Speaker 1: people have not really thought about Eric Adams as a 195 00:11:06,679 --> 00:11:09,480 Speaker 1: legitimate someone who could start to get a little bit 196 00:11:09,480 --> 00:11:11,880 Speaker 1: of sizzle down there in South Carolina. All right, so 197 00:11:11,920 --> 00:11:14,800 Speaker 1: you have you have the illegal immigration angle of this, 198 00:11:14,880 --> 00:11:18,160 Speaker 1: which I think the Democrats realize the more people figure 199 00:11:18,160 --> 00:11:21,720 Speaker 1: out what's going on here, and that if forty thousand 200 00:11:21,760 --> 00:11:25,960 Speaker 1: migrants is putting a massive financial strain on New York City, 201 00:11:26,440 --> 00:11:30,559 Speaker 1: what are two point five million illegal migrants doing across 202 00:11:30,600 --> 00:11:34,760 Speaker 1: the US then mostly going to New York, Los Angeles, 203 00:11:35,480 --> 00:11:39,320 Speaker 1: maybe Chicago. I mean, you look at the major cities here, Houston. 204 00:11:39,960 --> 00:11:42,040 Speaker 1: What is that doing to their budgets? That's one big 205 00:11:42,120 --> 00:11:44,440 Speaker 1: piece of this story. So, I mean, I basically think 206 00:11:44,520 --> 00:11:48,199 Speaker 1: Eric Adams is becoming a national political figure, certainly in 207 00:11:48,280 --> 00:11:50,040 Speaker 1: terms of the conversation. That's why the trip of the 208 00:11:50,080 --> 00:11:52,440 Speaker 1: border was so meaningful. And then to your point about 209 00:11:52,480 --> 00:11:56,599 Speaker 1: the changing of assuming they actually do change the Democrat primary, 210 00:11:57,960 --> 00:11:59,760 Speaker 1: how does it look for Joe Biden if you have 211 00:11:59,800 --> 00:12:03,760 Speaker 1: Adams aside that he is going to run against him? Uh? 212 00:12:04,120 --> 00:12:07,560 Speaker 1: What you had Carter come pretty Kennedy come pretty close 213 00:12:07,559 --> 00:12:12,080 Speaker 1: to Carter back in nineteen eighty. Ford ran again right 214 00:12:12,120 --> 00:12:15,080 Speaker 1: there talking about incumbent presidents who had to face the challenge. 215 00:12:15,280 --> 00:12:18,360 Speaker 1: So you had Carter Kennedy, that was pretty tight. Ford 216 00:12:18,400 --> 00:12:21,960 Speaker 1: and Reagan and seventy six that was pretty Tightum, no 217 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:24,960 Speaker 1: one's ever done it in modern times. But it's dua 218 00:12:25,080 --> 00:12:28,960 Speaker 1: many two. You had George Bush getting challenged by Pat Buchanan, 219 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:32,199 Speaker 1: and Buchanon actually rattled his cage a little bit. Remember 220 00:12:32,240 --> 00:12:34,600 Speaker 1: back in the day, hasn't no one's won in the 221 00:12:34,640 --> 00:12:37,360 Speaker 1: modern era against the incumbent press. What I mean, no 222 00:12:37,400 --> 00:12:40,559 Speaker 1: one's done that, obviously, Carter, Kennedy, Ford, Reagan and as 223 00:12:40,559 --> 00:12:44,320 Speaker 1: you said, Buchanan. Yeah, that's right Buchanan. And uh, it's interesting. 224 00:12:44,360 --> 00:12:48,079 Speaker 1: I feel like with the passage of time, the respect 225 00:12:48,120 --> 00:12:53,400 Speaker 1: that Pat Buchanan has among the conservative intelligentsia only only grows. 226 00:12:53,880 --> 00:12:56,440 Speaker 1: That's that's by perception of it. Hit on every past 227 00:12:56,480 --> 00:13:00,760 Speaker 1: a Trumpian issues. Yeah, he was a smart he was 228 00:13:00,760 --> 00:13:03,520 Speaker 1: a smart guy. You know, he was an MSNBC analyst 229 00:13:03,600 --> 00:13:07,079 Speaker 1: for a long time. Well, they used to actually pretend 230 00:13:07,080 --> 00:13:09,240 Speaker 1: that they were going to cover the real news as 231 00:13:09,240 --> 00:13:12,600 Speaker 1: opposed to becoming a propaganda network, and we come back. 232 00:13:12,640 --> 00:13:14,080 Speaker 1: I mean, I just think about that. I want everybody 233 00:13:14,120 --> 00:13:18,000 Speaker 1: out there, Joe Biden on the stage against Eric Adams 234 00:13:18,600 --> 00:13:21,960 Speaker 1: in that South Carolina primary, in the debating, assuming that 235 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:25,080 Speaker 1: he was willing to debate. 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From the Frontlines of Truth, Clay Travis and 263 00:14:51,880 --> 00:14:56,960 Speaker 1: Buck Sexton, Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show. 264 00:14:57,000 --> 00:15:00,160 Speaker 1: Appreciate all of you hanging out with us. We are 265 00:15:00,280 --> 00:15:03,600 Speaker 1: rolling through Thursday edition of the program out here in 266 00:15:03,920 --> 00:15:07,080 Speaker 1: Las Vegas. Buck still down in Miami, where I'm sure 267 00:15:07,080 --> 00:15:11,520 Speaker 1: the weather is absolutely fabulous as always. Breaking news story 268 00:15:11,560 --> 00:15:17,240 Speaker 1: that's out there from CNN, the National Archives has asked 269 00:15:17,360 --> 00:15:21,640 Speaker 1: former presidents and vice presidents to check and see if 270 00:15:21,680 --> 00:15:28,240 Speaker 1: they have classified and presidential documents. And here's the opening 271 00:15:28,280 --> 00:15:32,520 Speaker 1: paragraph of that story. National Archives formally asking presidents and 272 00:15:32,600 --> 00:15:36,720 Speaker 1: vice presidents to recheck their personal records for any classified 273 00:15:36,800 --> 00:15:41,280 Speaker 1: docs or other presidential records, and they have sent a 274 00:15:41,360 --> 00:15:47,280 Speaker 1: letter to all of the last six presidential administrations. I 275 00:15:47,440 --> 00:15:51,120 Speaker 1: feel like it's almost a certainty, Buck, based on what 276 00:15:51,160 --> 00:15:55,640 Speaker 1: we've seen from Trump, Biden, and certainly Vice President Pence, 277 00:15:56,200 --> 00:16:02,080 Speaker 1: that Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Come on, George W. Bush. 278 00:16:01,880 --> 00:16:06,080 Speaker 1: I would be very surprised if every one of these presidents, 279 00:16:06,080 --> 00:16:09,160 Speaker 1: based on what's going on right now, doesn't have in 280 00:16:09,200 --> 00:16:15,000 Speaker 1: their possession something improper classified presidential or vice presidential in nature. 281 00:16:15,080 --> 00:16:17,520 Speaker 1: Can we just also say, for a moment, Clay that 282 00:16:17,920 --> 00:16:22,200 Speaker 1: the whole Oh, but what Biden did versus what Trump 283 00:16:22,280 --> 00:16:26,000 Speaker 1: did that we initially heard the Trump things were when 284 00:16:26,040 --> 00:16:28,080 Speaker 1: he was president and when he left I did. Look, 285 00:16:28,120 --> 00:16:30,920 Speaker 1: if you find that Barack Obama took things that went 286 00:16:30,960 --> 00:16:34,240 Speaker 1: to the Obama Presidential Library, and there's some dispute, that's 287 00:16:34,280 --> 00:16:37,200 Speaker 1: an affirmative decision that is made by a president to 288 00:16:37,280 --> 00:16:40,760 Speaker 1: take documents that they actually had full control of, including declassification. 289 00:16:40,760 --> 00:16:43,800 Speaker 1: For it's a different category of thing Joe Biden, as 290 00:16:43,840 --> 00:16:46,800 Speaker 1: a senator or vice president just leaving stuff around his homes. 291 00:16:47,760 --> 00:16:49,800 Speaker 1: This would be like if you know, and it's not 292 00:16:49,840 --> 00:16:52,000 Speaker 1: even as bad because Trump was president and Biden at 293 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:54,800 Speaker 1: the time of these document issues was not. But this 294 00:16:54,840 --> 00:16:56,240 Speaker 1: would be like, you know, imagine if you were just 295 00:16:56,240 --> 00:16:59,200 Speaker 1: finding classified like under the golf carts at Marlago. You 296 00:16:59,280 --> 00:17:02,680 Speaker 1: know there is you know, next to the corvette. And 297 00:17:03,240 --> 00:17:06,280 Speaker 1: this makes you realize. I think for Biden this was 298 00:17:06,320 --> 00:17:09,359 Speaker 1: a habit. This wasn't a thing that happened one time 299 00:17:09,400 --> 00:17:11,960 Speaker 1: at the end of time in office. He would just 300 00:17:11,960 --> 00:17:14,840 Speaker 1: take classified out of skifts, go read it wherever he wanted, 301 00:17:14,880 --> 00:17:16,920 Speaker 1: and perhaps even worse than just read it, maybe even 302 00:17:16,960 --> 00:17:19,760 Speaker 1: gave it to, for example, Hunter Biden. But yeah, I 303 00:17:19,800 --> 00:17:22,280 Speaker 1: think that if they really did a scrub a lot 304 00:17:22,320 --> 00:17:26,080 Speaker 1: of these. Oh Hillary Clinton, she was really careful with 305 00:17:26,200 --> 00:17:28,360 Speaker 1: classified I'm sure you know, go to one of her 306 00:17:28,359 --> 00:17:31,000 Speaker 1: peach houses and see what turns up. Oh well, I 307 00:17:31,040 --> 00:17:34,760 Speaker 1: think it just continues to point out how quickly this 308 00:17:35,040 --> 00:17:39,719 Speaker 1: entire story has collapsed all around Trump. And if Obama 309 00:17:39,960 --> 00:17:43,000 Speaker 1: comes out to have classified documents, you think this story 310 00:17:43,080 --> 00:17:46,359 Speaker 1: is lasting at all? And Trump said he did. I 311 00:17:46,359 --> 00:17:50,000 Speaker 1: think he probably did. I think every president and vice president, 312 00:17:50,040 --> 00:17:55,360 Speaker 1: it feels like did at this point. My friends. 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But 340 00:19:18,520 --> 00:19:22,639 Speaker 1: I'll tee up the story here for a second of 341 00:19:23,800 --> 00:19:29,120 Speaker 1: what happened with Senator Kennedy at a judiciary hearing Senate 342 00:19:29,240 --> 00:19:33,719 Speaker 1: judiciary hearing a Biden judicial nominee was This is the 343 00:19:33,800 --> 00:19:38,119 Speaker 1: main story up on Fox right now, their headlining story. 344 00:19:39,520 --> 00:19:45,240 Speaker 1: Unable to answer very basic questions about the United States Constitution. 345 00:19:45,359 --> 00:19:49,880 Speaker 1: Now I won't say what the questions are because we're 346 00:19:49,920 --> 00:19:52,280 Speaker 1: at a point now where I want everyone to hear it. 347 00:19:52,920 --> 00:19:54,800 Speaker 1: We said we're gonna play, We're gonna hear it. But 348 00:19:54,880 --> 00:20:01,040 Speaker 1: I will say this, the general competency of the bureaucracy 349 00:20:01,960 --> 00:20:06,119 Speaker 1: is something that I think more and more Americans are doubting, 350 00:20:06,160 --> 00:20:11,080 Speaker 1: and doubting with really good reason. The federal bureaucrats increasingly 351 00:20:11,080 --> 00:20:16,600 Speaker 1: show themselves to be highly partisan and highly incompetent. And 352 00:20:16,680 --> 00:20:20,800 Speaker 1: this has been true with the CDC and Faucci, and 353 00:20:20,840 --> 00:20:23,520 Speaker 1: I know Fauci's you know, it's always so interesting, isn't it. 354 00:20:23,560 --> 00:20:26,240 Speaker 1: Faucci's kind of speaks for the CDC, at least he 355 00:20:26,240 --> 00:20:29,480 Speaker 1: did before he retired. But he's really at Naiad, which 356 00:20:29,480 --> 00:20:34,520 Speaker 1: he ran, which is a sub heading of the NIH right, 357 00:20:34,520 --> 00:20:37,320 Speaker 1: which is the National Institute of valid Whatever. Well know 358 00:20:37,680 --> 00:20:40,000 Speaker 1: he was at National Institue of Allergy and Infectious Disease, 359 00:20:40,040 --> 00:20:42,439 Speaker 1: and then there's National Institutes of Health NIH, which he 360 00:20:42,480 --> 00:20:46,320 Speaker 1: was part point being a total disaster the FBI. How 361 00:20:46,320 --> 00:20:47,679 Speaker 1: many times have we come in here and had to 362 00:20:47,680 --> 00:20:50,760 Speaker 1: talk about the mess that the FBI has made of 363 00:20:51,520 --> 00:20:55,760 Speaker 1: elections and of our politics. And I think increasingly what 364 00:20:55,800 --> 00:21:01,520 Speaker 1: we have is a situation where people should should start 365 00:21:01,520 --> 00:21:04,840 Speaker 1: to doubt the competency of the bureaucracy, and that actually 366 00:21:04,840 --> 00:21:08,120 Speaker 1: has really negative ramifications for the country going forward. When 367 00:21:08,440 --> 00:21:11,920 Speaker 1: federal agencies that have a specific mandate can't be trusted 368 00:21:11,960 --> 00:21:16,639 Speaker 1: to be a political and can't be trusted to be capable, 369 00:21:17,800 --> 00:21:21,080 Speaker 1: why should we have them effectively operating as the fourth 370 00:21:21,080 --> 00:21:25,240 Speaker 1: branch of government and governing so much of our lives. Yeah, 371 00:21:25,240 --> 00:21:27,040 Speaker 1: and when we play this audio, and I haven't even 372 00:21:27,119 --> 00:21:29,280 Speaker 1: heard the audio. We were talking about it off air. 373 00:21:29,920 --> 00:21:33,720 Speaker 1: So I've been an attorney now for eighteen years. I 374 00:21:33,760 --> 00:21:35,800 Speaker 1: passed the bar when I was twenty five years old, 375 00:21:36,680 --> 00:21:40,040 Speaker 1: US virgin Islands and the State of Tennessee, so I'm 376 00:21:40,080 --> 00:21:42,280 Speaker 1: licensed in two different places. I took two different bar 377 00:21:42,320 --> 00:21:44,679 Speaker 1: exams back to back years, and I'm sure there are 378 00:21:44,680 --> 00:21:46,760 Speaker 1: a lot of attorneys out there listening right now who 379 00:21:46,800 --> 00:21:49,879 Speaker 1: are going to nod their heads along here. I would 380 00:21:49,920 --> 00:21:52,200 Speaker 1: totally fail the bar exam if I took it right now, 381 00:21:52,520 --> 00:21:55,679 Speaker 1: because you have to memorize so many details that I 382 00:21:55,720 --> 00:22:01,080 Speaker 1: have not applied for almost two decades now, so a 383 00:22:01,119 --> 00:22:05,439 Speaker 1: lot of nuances, a lot of technicalities. But if I 384 00:22:05,560 --> 00:22:07,879 Speaker 1: were suddenly and they would never nominate me, and I 385 00:22:07,920 --> 00:22:09,719 Speaker 1: wouldn't want to do it. But if I were suddenly 386 00:22:09,760 --> 00:22:12,960 Speaker 1: nominated to be a federal district court judge, buck, I 387 00:22:13,080 --> 00:22:20,080 Speaker 1: would four months absolutely surround myself with every aspect of 388 00:22:20,119 --> 00:22:23,240 Speaker 1: the law and the job that a judge would undertake, 389 00:22:23,680 --> 00:22:26,960 Speaker 1: so that when I was testifying in front of Congress, 390 00:22:27,440 --> 00:22:31,920 Speaker 1: I was the best prepared that I could possibly be, 391 00:22:31,920 --> 00:22:35,119 Speaker 1: because I wouldn't want to be humiliated by getting asked 392 00:22:35,119 --> 00:22:38,000 Speaker 1: a question that I hadn't prepared myself for. To kind 393 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:41,200 Speaker 1: of contextualize this for everybody out there about what we're 394 00:22:41,320 --> 00:22:43,879 Speaker 1: going to hear here momentary here, just by way of 395 00:22:43,920 --> 00:22:47,560 Speaker 1: a little bit of backstory, back in twenty nineteen, the 396 00:22:47,840 --> 00:22:52,760 Speaker 1: Spokesman Review out in Spokane, Washington, had this headline. Governor 397 00:22:52,800 --> 00:22:56,640 Speaker 1: Insley appoints first female African American judge in Eastern Washington 398 00:22:56,680 --> 00:23:03,200 Speaker 1: do Spokane County Superior Court. So this Judge Bell ken Gren, 399 00:23:04,280 --> 00:23:06,879 Speaker 1: I don't know. Judge Charnell Bell ken Gren was the 400 00:23:06,920 --> 00:23:11,919 Speaker 1: first African American female judge appointed to the Spokane County 401 00:23:11,960 --> 00:23:15,560 Speaker 1: Superior Court. The Biden administration has now decided that she 402 00:23:15,640 --> 00:23:20,399 Speaker 1: should be in the Eastern District Federal Court of Washington. 403 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:24,480 Speaker 1: And here is just a clip that is now going 404 00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:28,720 Speaker 1: viral of what happened when a Senate judiciary hearing with 405 00:23:29,119 --> 00:23:32,359 Speaker 1: Senator Kennedy. Here what happens when he asked a question. Well, 406 00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:34,000 Speaker 1: I'll let you listen to the questions play. Tell me 407 00:23:34,040 --> 00:23:39,199 Speaker 1: what Article five of the Constitution does. Article five is 408 00:23:39,240 --> 00:23:41,880 Speaker 1: not coming to mind at the moment. Okay, how about 409 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:46,479 Speaker 1: Article two? Neither is Article two? Okay? Do you know 410 00:23:46,520 --> 00:23:52,000 Speaker 1: what purposivism is? In my twelve years as an Assistant 411 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:56,080 Speaker 1: Attorney General and my nine years serving as a judge, 412 00:23:56,359 --> 00:23:59,400 Speaker 1: I was not faced with that precise question. We are 413 00:23:59,440 --> 00:24:02,760 Speaker 1: the highest trial court in Washington State, so I'm frequently 414 00:24:03,040 --> 00:24:05,960 Speaker 1: faced with issues that I'm not familiar with, and I 415 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:10,000 Speaker 1: thoroughly review the law. Our research and apply the laws 416 00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:12,000 Speaker 1: to the fact that presented to me, or you're going 417 00:24:12,040 --> 00:24:14,800 Speaker 1: to be faced with it as if you're confirmed, I 418 00:24:14,960 --> 00:24:17,920 Speaker 1: can assure you of that, can I just say, Clay? 419 00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:20,919 Speaker 1: So people are obviously pointing other saying so there's been 420 00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:25,240 Speaker 1: a lot of celebration about the elevation of this judge 421 00:24:25,280 --> 00:24:28,399 Speaker 1: because this judge represents diversity to the left and they 422 00:24:28,440 --> 00:24:31,120 Speaker 1: think we need more diversity, particularly on the court. Got 423 00:24:31,119 --> 00:24:34,000 Speaker 1: to have diversity all the time. If you're a federal judge, 424 00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:35,600 Speaker 1: you have to know what Article two of the US 425 00:24:35,680 --> 00:24:40,560 Speaker 1: Constitution does. I actually think you have to know what 426 00:24:40,720 --> 00:24:44,600 Speaker 1: is in the Constitution. If your job is to look 427 00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:48,399 Speaker 1: at the law which is set forth the foundation of 428 00:24:48,440 --> 00:24:52,520 Speaker 1: it by the Constitution, I think that's acceptable. It's a 429 00:24:52,640 --> 00:24:57,000 Speaker 1: form of questioning that is akin to what would happen 430 00:24:57,040 --> 00:24:58,840 Speaker 1: on a bar exam, which is why I was using 431 00:24:58,840 --> 00:25:01,960 Speaker 1: the bar exam as an example. A lot of lawyers 432 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:05,159 Speaker 1: are not experts in every aspect of the law, but 433 00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:09,639 Speaker 1: if you are going to testify in front of Congress, 434 00:25:10,520 --> 00:25:15,160 Speaker 1: you should have prepared for months for every possible question 435 00:25:15,320 --> 00:25:18,720 Speaker 1: you could be asked. And the fact that you have 436 00:25:18,800 --> 00:25:21,760 Speaker 1: to say, like I'm not prepared like I haven't looked 437 00:25:21,760 --> 00:25:25,760 Speaker 1: that up. Like you should never have a question that 438 00:25:25,840 --> 00:25:28,880 Speaker 1: you are unprepared for in front of the I think 439 00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:31,520 Speaker 1: so the third question, I would say that would be 440 00:25:31,520 --> 00:25:33,359 Speaker 1: because no one would know what that is. Who's not 441 00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:36,000 Speaker 1: working the law to be fair? Right, But I mean, Clay, 442 00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:38,879 Speaker 1: if someone asked a federal judge what is what do 443 00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:42,120 Speaker 1: you think about the Second Amendment? Or or someone soon 444 00:25:42,160 --> 00:25:44,239 Speaker 1: to be a federal judge, this is that level and 445 00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:46,119 Speaker 1: they said, I don't know what it is what the 446 00:25:46,119 --> 00:25:49,560 Speaker 1: Second Amendment is? So I think when you're talking about, 447 00:25:49,600 --> 00:25:51,720 Speaker 1: like you need to prepare for the bar exam, Clay, 448 00:25:51,760 --> 00:25:54,600 Speaker 1: she doesn't know it's an article too of the Constitution. Yeah. Right, 449 00:25:54,640 --> 00:25:58,479 Speaker 1: But what I'm saying is even the fact that she 450 00:25:58,640 --> 00:26:02,520 Speaker 1: doesn't know it when she is going to testify in 451 00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:07,080 Speaker 1: front of the Senate Judiciary Committee about deserving this job 452 00:26:07,720 --> 00:26:11,080 Speaker 1: is indefensible because you should before you go on, Like 453 00:26:11,280 --> 00:26:14,120 Speaker 1: when you are nominated for the Supreme Court, Buck, they 454 00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:19,040 Speaker 1: will spend weeks months grilling you. They give you tons 455 00:26:19,040 --> 00:26:22,800 Speaker 1: of documents to read so that you are prepared for 456 00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:25,680 Speaker 1: that filame for lack of a better way, because they're 457 00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:28,080 Speaker 1: trying to catch you. They're going to go over everything 458 00:26:28,080 --> 00:26:31,520 Speaker 1: you've ever written before. This is very basic stuff. The 459 00:26:31,560 --> 00:26:34,200 Speaker 1: fact that she is unprepared means that she didn't do 460 00:26:34,520 --> 00:26:38,439 Speaker 1: the most rudimentary level of homework to prepare for this hearing, 461 00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:42,119 Speaker 1: which is to me indefensible because you're basically auditioning for 462 00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:44,520 Speaker 1: a job, right. But I mean you also, I would 463 00:26:44,560 --> 00:26:47,440 Speaker 1: think that if you're going to be a judge period, 464 00:26:48,560 --> 00:26:50,679 Speaker 1: you know, you shouldn't have to really just brush up 465 00:26:50,680 --> 00:26:53,159 Speaker 1: on what the basics are of the constitution, right, So 466 00:26:53,600 --> 00:26:57,560 Speaker 1: I get it. But I'm saying, even if you are 467 00:26:57,600 --> 00:27:01,560 Speaker 1: not expected to get asked about this, right, you should 468 00:27:01,600 --> 00:27:04,960 Speaker 1: have prepared to such an extent that you can handle 469 00:27:05,080 --> 00:27:08,600 Speaker 1: any question they answer and absolutely knock it out of 470 00:27:08,600 --> 00:27:11,119 Speaker 1: the part. I am in addition to the fact that 471 00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:14,119 Speaker 1: she may not have this working knowledge, I'm troubled that 472 00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:16,800 Speaker 1: she didn't do the basic amount of homework to even 473 00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:19,160 Speaker 1: be able to have that conversation. It's like going in 474 00:27:19,160 --> 00:27:20,959 Speaker 1: for a job, and I'm troubled. I want to know 475 00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:25,679 Speaker 1: how much homework she has ever done with regard to 476 00:27:25,720 --> 00:27:30,720 Speaker 1: the law history. That's very very fair question. But have 477 00:27:30,800 --> 00:27:33,480 Speaker 1: you ever done You've probably done. I've interviewed people before 478 00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:38,280 Speaker 1: for jobs as a as a business owner, and they 479 00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:42,280 Speaker 1: have not done the most basic level of research on 480 00:27:42,359 --> 00:27:45,520 Speaker 1: what we do, what their job opportunity would be. And 481 00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:49,359 Speaker 1: I just immediately X amount, right, Like, if you weren't 482 00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:52,320 Speaker 1: willing to spend a little bit of time researching me 483 00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:55,400 Speaker 1: or the company that you are interviewing for, then why 484 00:27:55,400 --> 00:27:57,240 Speaker 1: in the world would I hire you and expect that 485 00:27:57,280 --> 00:27:59,960 Speaker 1: you're going to work hard and be a good employee. 486 00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:03,120 Speaker 1: You're actually here, This is like a failed job interview 487 00:28:03,119 --> 00:28:04,879 Speaker 1: to me, Like, you should just get a big X 488 00:28:04,920 --> 00:28:10,080 Speaker 1: across your application. She's gone. She's gonna get confirmed, by 489 00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:13,720 Speaker 1: the way, of course, because she's obviously such a constitutional scholar. 490 00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:16,040 Speaker 1: She will be confirmed for the Federal Court. Good stuff, 491 00:28:16,800 --> 00:28:21,040 Speaker 1: because we have reached a world where your actual knowledge 492 00:28:21,240 --> 00:28:25,040 Speaker 1: and your actual skill does not matter. What matters is 493 00:28:25,119 --> 00:28:28,560 Speaker 1: whether you have the right identity politically, and that is 494 00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:31,840 Speaker 1: why I think the Democrat Party has gone completely off 495 00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:35,120 Speaker 1: the rails. I gotta tell you, we got a really 496 00:28:35,119 --> 00:28:37,720 Speaker 1: great deal for you right now in the my pillow 497 00:28:37,760 --> 00:28:40,360 Speaker 1: Giza dream sheets. 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Find it on 516 00:29:39,520 --> 00:29:43,600 Speaker 1: the iheartapp or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome back 517 00:29:43,640 --> 00:29:47,680 Speaker 1: in Clay Travis Buck Sexton show closing up second hour 518 00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:50,160 Speaker 1: of the program here encourage you to go subscribe to 519 00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:52,480 Speaker 1: the podcast. Make sure you don't miss a moment. Lots 520 00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:56,120 Speaker 1: of cool stuff podcast unique that is going up there 521 00:29:56,200 --> 00:29:58,320 Speaker 1: from both Buck and myself. You can starch out my 522 00:29:58,360 --> 00:30:01,040 Speaker 1: name Clay Travish, you can search out Buck se. One 523 00:30:01,080 --> 00:30:03,360 Speaker 1: bit of news we haven't hit on yet. They have 524 00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:07,360 Speaker 1: announced Buck that they are going to release the Paul 525 00:30:07,440 --> 00:30:13,880 Speaker 1: Pelosi video from the police officers as they were entering 526 00:30:14,480 --> 00:30:18,600 Speaker 1: his residence. Of course, this is the hammer attack, and 527 00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:21,640 Speaker 1: there's been a lot of discussion about what exactly took 528 00:30:21,640 --> 00:30:25,840 Speaker 1: place there. Did Paul Pelosi open the door? Did he 529 00:30:25,960 --> 00:30:29,520 Speaker 1: walk back to this individual and get attacked? I think 530 00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:33,280 Speaker 1: they at NBC, if I remember correctly, Buck, they suspended 531 00:30:33,320 --> 00:30:37,160 Speaker 1: a reporter who had suggested that Paul Pelosi opened the 532 00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:40,280 Speaker 1: door and then walked back into the vicinity of this 533 00:30:40,320 --> 00:30:44,400 Speaker 1: guy before the attack happened. One thing we know for sure, Buck, 534 00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:49,440 Speaker 1: is that the officers witnessed the assault, So this will 535 00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:52,680 Speaker 1: I think there was so much discussion and uncertainty about 536 00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:58,959 Speaker 1: exactly what happened. Releasing the police bodycam video should essentially 537 00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:03,880 Speaker 1: eliminate any of the conspiracy theories or any of the 538 00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:07,160 Speaker 1: discussion about exactly what went on, because if he did 539 00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:11,960 Speaker 1: truly open the door for police officers and then turn 540 00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:14,760 Speaker 1: around and walk back to this individual and get assaulted. 541 00:31:15,120 --> 00:31:18,760 Speaker 1: It's super odd behavior in that respect at a minimum. Yes, 542 00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:22,520 Speaker 1: and yet we both know that let's just say that 543 00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:27,800 Speaker 1: person who was suspended, let's just say that the video 544 00:31:27,840 --> 00:31:30,000 Speaker 1: we don't know, we'll see we are going to find 545 00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:33,200 Speaker 1: out now. And it's interesting that they tried to keep 546 00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:36,000 Speaker 1: it secret. They didn't want this to get out. And 547 00:31:36,040 --> 00:31:40,719 Speaker 1: a judge is putting this out, and it is in 548 00:31:40,800 --> 00:31:44,360 Speaker 1: part there has been a push by different media organizations 549 00:31:44,360 --> 00:31:46,760 Speaker 1: CNNN Fox, both on the same side of this one, 550 00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:49,240 Speaker 1: deciding that they want, of course, they want the public 551 00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:52,760 Speaker 1: to have this. And note that bodycam footage in general 552 00:31:53,080 --> 00:31:56,960 Speaker 1: should be a question or a matter of public record, right. 553 00:31:57,000 --> 00:31:59,040 Speaker 1: I mean, there's what would be the reason for not 554 00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:01,600 Speaker 1: showing this. I think it's interesting that there was any push. 555 00:32:01,800 --> 00:32:06,080 Speaker 1: So that's why people's ND ten I or ntena whatever, 556 00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:08,959 Speaker 1: however you do it or I see the grammarians if 557 00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:13,240 Speaker 1: they throw me off my game this one. You took 558 00:32:13,320 --> 00:32:15,640 Speaker 1: Latin in grammar school. You don't remember any of it? True, 559 00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:18,600 Speaker 1: I took Latin in grammar school. I don't remember very much. Um, 560 00:32:19,120 --> 00:32:22,960 Speaker 1: but I will tell you if that person who got 561 00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:26,360 Speaker 1: suspended finds out that what he reported was true. Do 562 00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:28,440 Speaker 1: you think that there'll be any real apology to know, 563 00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:32,080 Speaker 1: because the whole game is, you know, your job. Your 564 00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:35,400 Speaker 1: job is to help Nancy Pelosi as a journalist. That 565 00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:38,200 Speaker 1: is what was at CBS, ABC. Same thing at both places. 566 00:32:38,640 --> 00:32:40,400 Speaker 1: That is what your job is. Your job is not 567 00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:43,120 Speaker 1: to tell the public facts. This is something I think 568 00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:45,520 Speaker 1: everyone needs to always remember that we have, we have 569 00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:49,840 Speaker 1: long been in this era where they're under the universal 570 00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:55,800 Speaker 1: understanding at CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS News, NBC News is 571 00:32:55,840 --> 00:32:58,440 Speaker 1: your job is to help democrats. Yes, tell people things 572 00:32:58,440 --> 00:33:00,880 Speaker 1: that are happening so they will watch us, but make 573 00:33:00,880 --> 00:33:03,120 Speaker 1: sure that you always frame it in a way and 574 00:33:03,160 --> 00:33:05,440 Speaker 1: that you edit, and that you limit, and that you 575 00:33:05,560 --> 00:33:10,160 Speaker 1: change the narrative to help democrats. That's it perfect example 576 00:33:10,240 --> 00:33:13,440 Speaker 1: of that. Remember, and I don't remember her name, but 577 00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:18,480 Speaker 1: the reporter who interviewed John Fetterman before the election, before 578 00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:24,000 Speaker 1: that disastrous performance in the debate and had a conversation 579 00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:28,280 Speaker 1: about how he was incapable of following her questions or 580 00:33:28,320 --> 00:33:33,000 Speaker 1: interacting with her. Everybody attacked her in the wake of 581 00:33:33,040 --> 00:33:36,280 Speaker 1: the debate, where it became clear that she had said 582 00:33:36,320 --> 00:33:41,360 Speaker 1: everything accurately. Nobody apologized. In fact, they continued to attack 583 00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:43,600 Speaker 1: her for sharing her opinion that he was not able 584 00:33:43,640 --> 00:33:47,160 Speaker 1: to communicate on a high level. Brian in Summerfield, North Carolina, 585 00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:50,720 Speaker 1: Buck has a really good question that I think probably 586 00:33:51,120 --> 00:33:53,360 Speaker 1: a lot of you out there listening over the last 587 00:33:53,400 --> 00:33:55,960 Speaker 1: couple of weeks as this story has continued to grow 588 00:33:56,360 --> 00:34:01,360 Speaker 1: surrounding classified documents. Brian, what's your question? Hey, thanks for 589 00:34:01,440 --> 00:34:03,320 Speaker 1: taking my call. I'm this kind of director at Buck 590 00:34:03,360 --> 00:34:06,800 Speaker 1: and the question is very simple, And let me just 591 00:34:06,840 --> 00:34:09,360 Speaker 1: preface this with this. I work in a warehousing company. 592 00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:13,359 Speaker 1: So I'm assuming, as a regular citizen that the National Archives, 593 00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:18,320 Speaker 1: since they're responsible for classified documents, top secret documents, whatever 594 00:34:18,360 --> 00:34:21,960 Speaker 1: classification you want to give it, why is it that 595 00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:26,080 Speaker 1: they are in a position where they are asking former 596 00:34:26,680 --> 00:34:31,800 Speaker 1: representatives of the people, president's, vice president, senators, what have you? Hey, guys, 597 00:34:33,200 --> 00:34:35,080 Speaker 1: can you do us a favor and go look through 598 00:34:35,120 --> 00:34:37,520 Speaker 1: your house, go look through your offices and see if 599 00:34:37,520 --> 00:34:40,040 Speaker 1: you have any documents that maybe should be back here 600 00:34:40,080 --> 00:34:43,120 Speaker 1: at the National Archives. Why is the question not the 601 00:34:43,160 --> 00:34:48,840 Speaker 1: other way around? It doesn't the National Archives know which 602 00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:53,239 Speaker 1: documents are not at the National Arts? And this is 603 00:34:53,280 --> 00:34:56,160 Speaker 1: the question I think a lot of people have buck, So, 604 00:34:56,680 --> 00:35:00,800 Speaker 1: I mean, the answer is there is so much more 605 00:35:00,800 --> 00:35:05,279 Speaker 1: classified out there than what the National Archives understand this. 606 00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:07,600 Speaker 1: And maybe a way to bring this bring this up 607 00:35:07,640 --> 00:35:10,920 Speaker 1: would be remember when James Coomey went in and there 608 00:35:11,040 --> 00:35:14,960 Speaker 1: was that whole brew haha, that whole fiasco over Coomy 609 00:35:15,400 --> 00:35:19,120 Speaker 1: meeting with Trump, and then Comy gave the notes to 610 00:35:19,200 --> 00:35:21,839 Speaker 1: somebody who then gave the notes to the New York 611 00:35:21,880 --> 00:35:24,879 Speaker 1: Times to try to try to hit Trump. Point here 612 00:35:24,960 --> 00:35:29,839 Speaker 1: being that document ended up being classified. Comey says it 613 00:35:29,880 --> 00:35:31,879 Speaker 1: wasn't classified at the time, so he you know, he's 614 00:35:31,920 --> 00:35:33,719 Speaker 1: doing his sank to Coomy thing and playing in the 615 00:35:33,719 --> 00:35:36,920 Speaker 1: gray area. But the point is there's documents that there 616 00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:39,920 Speaker 1: are lots of things that are classified the National Archives 617 00:35:39,960 --> 00:35:43,400 Speaker 1: has basically no idea about. And there's far more paper 618 00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:46,640 Speaker 1: flying around with classified on it than the National Archives 619 00:35:46,680 --> 00:35:49,200 Speaker 1: would be able to track and be aware of in 620 00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:54,439 Speaker 1: many lifetimes. This is not possible. Brian's asking a question 621 00:35:54,440 --> 00:35:55,680 Speaker 1: that I think a lot of people have because he 622 00:35:55,719 --> 00:35:57,880 Speaker 1: specifically said I work in a warehouse where if you 623 00:35:57,960 --> 00:35:59,919 Speaker 1: work in a warehouse, like let's say you're pulling things 624 00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:03,680 Speaker 1: for Amazon, you know there's twenty thousand things in inventory, 625 00:36:03,719 --> 00:36:06,560 Speaker 1: and sooner or later if something's missing, you're aware. The 626 00:36:06,680 --> 00:36:08,759 Speaker 1: answer is the Archives has no idea. It's not like 627 00:36:08,760 --> 00:36:12,080 Speaker 1: there's numbering one to fifty thousand and they're like, oh, 628 00:36:12,120 --> 00:36:15,160 Speaker 1: we're missing papers forty eight, two hundred and thirty one. 629 00:36:15,239 --> 00:36:18,000 Speaker 1: They have no idea how many papers there actually are, 630 00:36:18,560 --> 00:36:22,040 Speaker 1: which is why unless it's super historic worthy like the 631 00:36:22,120 --> 00:36:25,920 Speaker 1: Kim Jong un letters, which is why. My question is 632 00:36:26,560 --> 00:36:30,239 Speaker 1: did they recognize that Biden had something historic and they 633 00:36:30,239 --> 00:36:32,719 Speaker 1: were asking for him which started this entire search. But 634 00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:34,799 Speaker 1: I mean, if Biden, let's say Biden, I don't know, 635 00:36:34,840 --> 00:36:37,240 Speaker 1: let's say it took home an interesting State Department cable 636 00:36:37,239 --> 00:36:40,960 Speaker 1: that was classified about the politics of energy and natural 637 00:36:41,040 --> 00:36:44,560 Speaker 1: gas in eastern Ukraine, maybe to help out Hunter. Nobody 638 00:36:44,600 --> 00:36:46,680 Speaker 1: would have any idea that he had that paper.