1 00:00:00,520 --> 00:00:05,440 Speaker 1: Our three of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show 2 00:00:05,760 --> 00:00:09,840 Speaker 1: starts right now. My name is Sean Parnell. I'm in 3 00:00:09,880 --> 00:00:14,400 Speaker 1: the chair for Clay and Buck. Combat veteran, I'm a 4 00:00:14,400 --> 00:00:17,040 Speaker 1: New York Times bestselling author. But more important than both 5 00:00:17,079 --> 00:00:20,640 Speaker 1: of both of those things, I am a humble servant 6 00:00:20,960 --> 00:00:26,960 Speaker 1: of this country, now, America. We turn our attention to 7 00:00:27,720 --> 00:00:31,440 Speaker 1: the cabinet nomination process. And by the way, I can't 8 00:00:31,440 --> 00:00:34,120 Speaker 1: believe it's our three. This show is flying by, and 9 00:00:34,159 --> 00:00:37,320 Speaker 1: I can assure you that we are going to sprint 10 00:00:37,320 --> 00:00:40,479 Speaker 1: to the finish talking about things that you simply must 11 00:00:40,520 --> 00:00:45,480 Speaker 1: know about. So we've made the point during this show 12 00:00:45,560 --> 00:00:50,360 Speaker 1: that a president, both Democrat and Republican presidents, are entitled 13 00:00:50,440 --> 00:00:55,160 Speaker 1: to their cabinet. The assumption, the underlying assumption, is that 14 00:00:55,280 --> 00:00:59,400 Speaker 1: a president wins election has a mandate, and part of 15 00:00:59,400 --> 00:01:03,680 Speaker 1: that mandate includes having a set of advisors around the 16 00:01:03,680 --> 00:01:07,200 Speaker 1: president that reflect that mandate. And we are in that 17 00:01:07,319 --> 00:01:11,280 Speaker 1: process now with incoming presidents Elect Trump as he selects 18 00:01:11,319 --> 00:01:16,520 Speaker 1: his cabinet. Let's talk about Pete Hegseth for a moment. 19 00:01:17,800 --> 00:01:22,960 Speaker 1: His confirmation hearing is on January fourteenth. All cards on 20 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:26,920 Speaker 1: the table. I know Pete Hegseth. Personally, he's a good 21 00:01:26,959 --> 00:01:29,959 Speaker 1: friend of mine. We were both in the United States 22 00:01:30,120 --> 00:01:34,200 Speaker 1: Army Infantry. We both worked at the top of an 23 00:01:34,280 --> 00:01:38,959 Speaker 1: organization called Concerned Veterans for America. Pete was the CEO. 24 00:01:39,360 --> 00:01:43,120 Speaker 1: I was the senior advisor to this organization. This was 25 00:01:43,160 --> 00:01:46,679 Speaker 1: long before Pete was on Fox News or anything like that. 26 00:01:46,720 --> 00:01:50,760 Speaker 1: We worked to build this veterans organization. And here's why 27 00:01:50,800 --> 00:01:52,960 Speaker 1: this matters, and here's what you need to know about Pete, 28 00:01:52,960 --> 00:01:55,280 Speaker 1: because they are trying to smear this man, and we 29 00:01:55,360 --> 00:02:01,320 Speaker 1: should not allow this to happen because all two often America. 30 00:02:02,080 --> 00:02:07,680 Speaker 1: Anytime there is a strong America first person or candidate 31 00:02:07,720 --> 00:02:12,720 Speaker 1: who emerges, someone who cannot be controlled by the uniparty 32 00:02:12,840 --> 00:02:18,480 Speaker 1: swamp creatures in DC, the playbook is always the same 33 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:25,400 Speaker 1: character assassination, an outright destruction of everything that that person is. 34 00:02:25,480 --> 00:02:27,239 Speaker 1: And I am here to tell you that I believe 35 00:02:27,240 --> 00:02:33,680 Speaker 1: that that's evil. We saw what these people, these swamp 36 00:02:33,800 --> 00:02:37,200 Speaker 1: creatures in Washington did to Brett Kavanaugh, a good man. 37 00:02:38,520 --> 00:02:42,120 Speaker 1: They lied about him, said that he sexually assaulted women, 38 00:02:42,280 --> 00:02:45,600 Speaker 1: said that Brett Kavanaugh a man that kept his journals 39 00:02:45,639 --> 00:02:48,880 Speaker 1: since he was in eighth grade, was a gang the 40 00:02:48,960 --> 00:02:53,040 Speaker 1: leader of a serial gang rapist ring. Obviously it's insane, 41 00:02:53,280 --> 00:02:57,840 Speaker 1: Obviously it's crazy, but that is the point to sway. 42 00:02:58,600 --> 00:03:03,280 Speaker 1: We need Republicans say away from voting to confirm him. 43 00:03:03,320 --> 00:03:06,880 Speaker 1: And now the same playbook is being rolled out against 44 00:03:07,160 --> 00:03:13,359 Speaker 1: Pete haig Seth. Pete Hegseth is a veteran of Iraq, 45 00:03:14,040 --> 00:03:20,000 Speaker 1: combat veteran of Iraq, combat veteran of Afghanistan, and then 46 00:03:20,160 --> 00:03:25,560 Speaker 1: ironically served in Guantanamo Bay protecting the very prisoners who 47 00:03:25,560 --> 00:03:27,919 Speaker 1: are trying to kill him on the battlefield. Pete hag 48 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:33,160 Speaker 1: Seth has experienced all of the wars that the so 49 00:03:33,400 --> 00:03:37,400 Speaker 1: called experts and insiders, by the way, experts that are 50 00:03:37,400 --> 00:03:40,280 Speaker 1: both on the Democrat side of the isle and Republican 51 00:03:40,360 --> 00:03:44,640 Speaker 1: side of the isle. Pete Hegseth served at the tip 52 00:03:44,640 --> 00:03:48,120 Speaker 1: of the spear, on front towards enemy part of all 53 00:03:49,080 --> 00:03:52,760 Speaker 1: of those wars. Let me ask you a question, just 54 00:03:52,880 --> 00:03:58,240 Speaker 1: quick sidetrack here, I served in Afghanistan after nine to eleven. 55 00:03:58,920 --> 00:04:00,800 Speaker 1: I wanted to go after the enemy. As I told 56 00:04:00,800 --> 00:04:05,400 Speaker 1: you in the opening segments of this show. I believe 57 00:04:05,440 --> 00:04:08,760 Speaker 1: in the greatness of America. But let me ask you 58 00:04:08,840 --> 00:04:11,400 Speaker 1: all a question. What do we have to show for 59 00:04:11,480 --> 00:04:17,200 Speaker 1: the Afghan War now? Well, humiliating surrender on the world 60 00:04:17,279 --> 00:04:24,080 Speaker 1: stage in front of everybody, Twenty years of blood and 61 00:04:24,200 --> 00:04:31,599 Speaker 1: treasure thrown away in Afghanistan, thousands of Americans dead, tens 62 00:04:31,600 --> 00:04:36,919 Speaker 1: of thousands of Americans wounded, hundreds of thousands of Afghan 63 00:04:37,040 --> 00:04:40,520 Speaker 1: veterans suffering from the invisible wounds of war. Their lives 64 00:04:40,520 --> 00:04:46,279 Speaker 1: forever change, their families' lives forever changed. How about a 65 00:04:46,360 --> 00:04:49,479 Speaker 1: rack when in there based on the premise of weapons 66 00:04:49,480 --> 00:04:51,599 Speaker 1: of mass destruction. Well we know now that that was 67 00:04:51,680 --> 00:04:57,360 Speaker 1: not true. Tens are thousands of Americans dead, tens of 68 00:04:57,400 --> 00:05:01,479 Speaker 1: thousands of Americans wounded, hundreds of thousands of Americans suffering 69 00:05:01,480 --> 00:05:04,600 Speaker 1: from the invisible wounds of war, trillions of dollars in debt, 70 00:05:04,640 --> 00:05:09,160 Speaker 1: over a million Iraqi's dead. We left a vacuum in 71 00:05:09,200 --> 00:05:13,080 Speaker 1: Iraq after we pulled out. Isis filled that vacuum and 72 00:05:13,240 --> 00:05:17,200 Speaker 1: rampaged across the Middle East, leaving a trail of bodies 73 00:05:17,279 --> 00:05:21,120 Speaker 1: in their wake. We have nothing to show for these 74 00:05:21,160 --> 00:05:23,960 Speaker 1: wars that the so called experts got us involved in. 75 00:05:24,040 --> 00:05:26,960 Speaker 1: But Pete Hegseth raised his hand to volunteer to serve 76 00:05:27,040 --> 00:05:31,120 Speaker 1: anyway he could as an Ivy League educated man. I'll 77 00:05:31,160 --> 00:05:34,240 Speaker 1: take that for a great a solid Ivy League education, whatever. 78 00:05:34,440 --> 00:05:37,039 Speaker 1: But the point remains, he could have worked at a 79 00:05:37,080 --> 00:05:40,640 Speaker 1: hedge fund. Put he could have put himself before his country. 80 00:05:40,640 --> 00:05:43,320 Speaker 1: He could have put making a buck before his country. 81 00:05:43,640 --> 00:05:46,560 Speaker 1: He could have put a great number of things before 82 00:05:46,600 --> 00:05:50,640 Speaker 1: this country. But he didn't. He volunteered knowing that he'd 83 00:05:50,640 --> 00:05:54,440 Speaker 1: go to war and Seth So I take particular umbrage 84 00:05:54,440 --> 00:05:58,719 Speaker 1: at the character assassination of Pete Hegseth So when he 85 00:05:58,800 --> 00:06:02,680 Speaker 1: comes back from all of these conflicts Iraq, Afghanistan, then 86 00:06:02,720 --> 00:06:06,320 Speaker 1: serves at Guantanamo. Obay, what does he do? As I mentioned, 87 00:06:06,320 --> 00:06:08,840 Speaker 1: he doesn't take a hedge fun job making millions of 88 00:06:08,880 --> 00:06:11,719 Speaker 1: dollars a year. No, he starts a nonprofit called Concerned 89 00:06:11,800 --> 00:06:15,840 Speaker 1: Veterans for America. You see, back in twenty thirteen when 90 00:06:15,880 --> 00:06:20,520 Speaker 1: we created this organization, there are all sorts of veterans 91 00:06:20,640 --> 00:06:24,320 Speaker 1: organizations out there. The Department of Disabled at the VFW, right, 92 00:06:24,360 --> 00:06:27,720 Speaker 1: the Disabled American Veterans, the American Legion. All of these 93 00:06:27,839 --> 00:06:34,240 Speaker 1: organizations were created to help veterans navigate the calcified bureaucracy 94 00:06:34,320 --> 00:06:36,880 Speaker 1: that is the Department of Veterans affairs and then help 95 00:06:36,960 --> 00:06:39,960 Speaker 1: them access benefits that they were bestead ressowed upon them 96 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:43,720 Speaker 1: on behalf of a grateful nation. At the time, we 97 00:06:43,800 --> 00:06:47,479 Speaker 1: realized that there was no veterans organization that worked on 98 00:06:47,560 --> 00:06:52,200 Speaker 1: the front end of policy, holding both Democrats and Republicans 99 00:06:52,240 --> 00:06:55,279 Speaker 1: accountable for the legislation that they passed on behalf of 100 00:06:55,320 --> 00:07:00,080 Speaker 1: our nation's heroes. And so we created a policy organization 101 00:07:00,960 --> 00:07:05,480 Speaker 1: that created good policy for this nation's veterans. Do you 102 00:07:05,560 --> 00:07:12,120 Speaker 1: remember the VA secret waitlist scandal there Baserka twenty fourteen, 103 00:07:13,280 --> 00:07:16,680 Speaker 1: where it came out that veterans were waiting for healthcare 104 00:07:17,800 --> 00:07:23,520 Speaker 1: and dying on these secret waitlists. Pete Hegseth single handedly 105 00:07:23,600 --> 00:07:27,680 Speaker 1: went on the media and shifted the needle culturally and 106 00:07:27,840 --> 00:07:35,840 Speaker 1: exposed this terrible, terrible thing. And then Pete Hegseth his leadership, 107 00:07:36,240 --> 00:07:39,080 Speaker 1: along with others it concerned Veterans for America crafted a 108 00:07:39,120 --> 00:07:43,120 Speaker 1: piece of legislation that was signed into law in twenty 109 00:07:43,160 --> 00:07:47,680 Speaker 1: eighteen under President Trump. That law was called the Mission Act. 110 00:07:49,320 --> 00:07:52,800 Speaker 1: What the Mission Act did, one of its core functions, 111 00:07:53,560 --> 00:07:57,160 Speaker 1: was give veterans a choice card and allowed them to 112 00:07:57,280 --> 00:08:01,240 Speaker 1: choose where they would receive their healthcare. That's kind of 113 00:08:01,280 --> 00:08:04,640 Speaker 1: a big deal. If you're a Korean War veteran amputee 114 00:08:04,640 --> 00:08:08,760 Speaker 1: living in Kansas, eight hours from a VA facility, the 115 00:08:08,840 --> 00:08:11,000 Speaker 1: fact that you don't have to drive eight hours for 116 00:08:11,080 --> 00:08:15,800 Speaker 1: your care is a pretty darn good thing. Pete heg 117 00:08:15,840 --> 00:08:21,200 Speaker 1: Say's leadership created all of this. This is a man 118 00:08:21,240 --> 00:08:23,080 Speaker 1: from the time that I've known him, has been involved 119 00:08:23,080 --> 00:08:25,880 Speaker 1: in helping and serving our country and helping him serving 120 00:08:26,040 --> 00:08:30,280 Speaker 1: this nation's veterans. And now he's been tapped as President 121 00:08:30,320 --> 00:08:35,439 Speaker 1: Trump to lead this country's military as the next Secretary 122 00:08:35,480 --> 00:08:39,400 Speaker 1: of Defense. And I contend that it's time, even though 123 00:08:39,440 --> 00:08:41,920 Speaker 1: that he is an outsider, even though he's not in 124 00:08:41,920 --> 00:08:46,000 Speaker 1: the Washington d C. Muck, It's time for a Secretary 125 00:08:46,040 --> 00:08:49,080 Speaker 1: of Defense that has actually served on the ground as 126 00:08:49,160 --> 00:08:52,200 Speaker 1: part of these wars, that actually felt what it's like 127 00:08:52,280 --> 00:08:54,720 Speaker 1: to have a bullet cracked by his head in combat, 128 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:58,160 Speaker 1: and knows how families suffer when we come back because 129 00:08:58,160 --> 00:09:00,719 Speaker 1: they know he knows how veterans suffer when they come 130 00:09:00,760 --> 00:09:05,480 Speaker 1: back with the invisible wounds of war. And that's why 131 00:09:05,520 --> 00:09:10,319 Speaker 1: everybody in this country should be offended at this hit 132 00:09:10,400 --> 00:09:15,679 Speaker 1: piece on Pete Hegseth, written in The New Yorker everybody 133 00:09:16,040 --> 00:09:21,400 Speaker 1: should be offended for Pete Hegseth. The article written by 134 00:09:21,480 --> 00:09:25,560 Speaker 1: Jane Mayer titled a Secret History Pete Hegseth's Secret History. 135 00:09:26,600 --> 00:09:29,760 Speaker 1: It says a whistleblower report and other documents suggest that 136 00:09:29,800 --> 00:09:34,400 Speaker 1: Pete Hegseth was forced out of leadership positions for financial mismanagement, 137 00:09:34,480 --> 00:09:38,080 Speaker 1: sexist behavior, and repeatedly being intoxicated on the job. Well, 138 00:09:38,120 --> 00:09:41,720 Speaker 1: I can tell you, having served in these organizations with 139 00:09:41,880 --> 00:09:45,160 Speaker 1: him directly with him, that nothing could be further from 140 00:09:45,200 --> 00:09:50,800 Speaker 1: the truth. Those organizations were left in great shape. Let 141 00:09:50,840 --> 00:09:54,000 Speaker 1: me tell you something else that probably haven't heard reported 142 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:59,160 Speaker 1: on the news. You'll probably hear it here on this show. First, 143 00:10:00,360 --> 00:10:05,720 Speaker 1: that Pete Hegseth left the organization because as President Trump campaigned, 144 00:10:07,160 --> 00:10:10,440 Speaker 1: Pete Hegseth started to believe in President Trump's vision for 145 00:10:10,559 --> 00:10:17,040 Speaker 1: national security and foreign policy, and those views weren't necessarily 146 00:10:17,160 --> 00:10:20,199 Speaker 1: consonant with the people who were funding Concern Veterans for 147 00:10:20,240 --> 00:10:21,840 Speaker 1: America at the time. And this is, by the way, 148 00:10:21,840 --> 00:10:24,959 Speaker 1: this isn't a negative thing. This stuff happens in organizations 149 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:29,920 Speaker 1: all the time. And there was a conversation between Pete 150 00:10:30,480 --> 00:10:33,200 Speaker 1: and some of the folks at Concerned Veterans for America 151 00:10:33,720 --> 00:10:38,280 Speaker 1: about their policy differences, and Pete left the organization amicably. 152 00:10:38,320 --> 00:10:41,360 Speaker 1: But if you read this New Yorker piece, you'd think 153 00:10:41,360 --> 00:10:47,600 Speaker 1: that the opposite was true. The point is, folks, Pete 154 00:10:47,640 --> 00:10:52,760 Speaker 1: Hegseth has been slandered. The media has gone after his family. 155 00:10:54,160 --> 00:11:00,000 Speaker 1: The media has leveled one disgusting false allegation against peace 156 00:11:00,240 --> 00:11:03,000 Speaker 1: and his wife and his children, his amazing blended family 157 00:11:03,520 --> 00:11:07,760 Speaker 1: after the next. And what I put forth to you, 158 00:11:07,880 --> 00:11:13,360 Speaker 1: America is that we should reject it. You know, I 159 00:11:13,400 --> 00:11:15,880 Speaker 1: can't quite wrap my mind around this because it seems 160 00:11:15,920 --> 00:11:20,640 Speaker 1: a media creation, the intent of which is to gaslight 161 00:11:20,720 --> 00:11:24,319 Speaker 1: us into believing there should be some controversy about nominating 162 00:11:24,480 --> 00:11:28,960 Speaker 1: Trump's selections to his cabinet. No, a president is entitled 163 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:34,480 Speaker 1: to his cabinet. If Alejandro Majorcas can become a member 164 00:11:34,600 --> 00:11:38,400 Speaker 1: of President Biden's cabinet and then break every immigration law 165 00:11:38,400 --> 00:11:41,079 Speaker 1: that we have with some Republicans voting for him, then 166 00:11:41,120 --> 00:11:44,960 Speaker 1: there should be no problem with Pete Hagsath. If Pete 167 00:11:44,960 --> 00:11:50,000 Speaker 1: but keg Keg can become the Secretary of Transportation the 168 00:11:50,040 --> 00:11:52,240 Speaker 1: only thing with zero qualifications. By the way, the only 169 00:11:52,280 --> 00:11:55,240 Speaker 1: thing he's ever done is bankrupt a small town. If 170 00:11:55,280 --> 00:12:00,680 Speaker 1: he can become a Secretary of Transportation, then we should 171 00:12:00,679 --> 00:12:02,720 Speaker 1: have no problems with Pete Hexath. By the way, with 172 00:12:02,760 --> 00:12:07,360 Speaker 1: some Republicans voting for him as well. We should not 173 00:12:07,480 --> 00:12:10,400 Speaker 1: let the media gaslight us into believing that this is 174 00:12:10,320 --> 00:12:14,280 Speaker 1: a controversial thing. A president is entitled to his cabinet. 175 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:19,200 Speaker 1: And what has been frustrating to me and what we 176 00:12:19,240 --> 00:12:23,079 Speaker 1: should not we should not tolerate this from our Republican friends, 177 00:12:23,960 --> 00:12:29,360 Speaker 1: Republican elected officials. The only thing standing in the way 178 00:12:30,880 --> 00:12:37,600 Speaker 1: of President Trump's historic mandate are Republican senators right now. 179 00:12:39,040 --> 00:12:42,160 Speaker 1: And as much as many of those Republican senators don't 180 00:12:42,200 --> 00:12:47,360 Speaker 1: like to hear it, that is the truth. So I 181 00:12:47,400 --> 00:12:51,680 Speaker 1: put forth, do not allow the media and the Democrats 182 00:12:51,720 --> 00:12:55,320 Speaker 1: to divide us. A president is entitled to his cabinet. 183 00:12:56,320 --> 00:13:03,119 Speaker 1: So when Pete's confirmation hearing on January fourteenth, every Republican 184 00:13:03,120 --> 00:13:06,000 Speaker 1: in the Armed Services Committee and then every Republican thereafter 185 00:13:06,080 --> 00:13:09,920 Speaker 1: should support him and not even listen to any of 186 00:13:09,960 --> 00:13:15,240 Speaker 1: the media noise around Pete Hegseth, because if we let 187 00:13:15,280 --> 00:13:18,920 Speaker 1: them take out Pete Hegseth with false allegations and nonsense, 188 00:13:20,360 --> 00:13:23,000 Speaker 1: they will go for Tulsea Gabbard. They will go for RFK, 189 00:13:23,320 --> 00:13:27,800 Speaker 1: they will go for Cash Pattel. They won't stop. The 190 00:13:27,880 --> 00:13:33,320 Speaker 1: Democrats are relentless. We're gonna talk about Cash Battel and 191 00:13:33,360 --> 00:13:36,040 Speaker 1: why him being the next director of the FBI is 192 00:13:36,080 --> 00:13:38,880 Speaker 1: a very very good thing for all of us and 193 00:13:38,920 --> 00:13:42,200 Speaker 1: a potential smear campaign on the horizon for him. So 194 00:13:42,240 --> 00:13:44,920 Speaker 1: stay right there on the Clay and Buck Show. I'm 195 00:13:44,960 --> 00:13:47,240 Speaker 1: Sean Parnell in the chair for both of those guys. 196 00:13:48,440 --> 00:13:51,280 Speaker 1: We are back here on the Clay Travis and Buck 197 00:13:51,360 --> 00:13:53,480 Speaker 1: Sexton Show. My name's Sean Parnell. I'm in the chair 198 00:13:53,600 --> 00:13:57,360 Speaker 1: for those two great gentlemen, a combat veteran New York 199 00:13:57,400 --> 00:14:00,440 Speaker 1: Times bestselling author and a humble servant of America. Folks. 200 00:14:01,320 --> 00:14:04,520 Speaker 1: We've been talking about the Trump cabinet pick. We talked 201 00:14:04,520 --> 00:14:07,400 Speaker 1: about Pete Hegseth, and now we'll want to talk to 202 00:14:07,440 --> 00:14:10,760 Speaker 1: you a little bit about Cash Battel. The media right 203 00:14:10,840 --> 00:14:13,960 Speaker 1: now is cooking something up. You see that. I think 204 00:14:13,960 --> 00:14:18,560 Speaker 1: their knives out for Cash Battel were right now. I 205 00:14:18,559 --> 00:14:22,720 Speaker 1: think that they are, especially now that the media in 206 00:14:22,760 --> 00:14:25,320 Speaker 1: some of the Dems in Congress see that the attack 207 00:14:25,360 --> 00:14:28,960 Speaker 1: on Pete Hegseth is faltering they need another target. But 208 00:14:29,040 --> 00:14:32,880 Speaker 1: here's the thing. As long as the attack on Pete 209 00:14:32,920 --> 00:14:37,040 Speaker 1: Hegseth is unsuccessful, so too will be the attack on 210 00:14:37,160 --> 00:14:40,280 Speaker 1: Cash Battel. Which is why it's so important to defend 211 00:14:40,360 --> 00:14:44,440 Speaker 1: Pete and circle our wagons around him. The Democrats circle 212 00:14:44,480 --> 00:14:47,920 Speaker 1: their wagons around their people, and we should circle our 213 00:14:47,960 --> 00:14:52,240 Speaker 1: wagons around ours. When Republicans have power, we should wield 214 00:14:52,240 --> 00:14:56,840 Speaker 1: it unapologetically. Now this New Yorker headline I talked about 215 00:14:56,840 --> 00:14:58,800 Speaker 1: a New Yorker headline with Pete Hegseth. They're batting one 216 00:14:58,800 --> 00:15:03,480 Speaker 1: thousand in the media scum category for the month of December. 217 00:15:03,680 --> 00:15:06,640 Speaker 1: But this New Yorker headline. Listen to this, just try 218 00:15:06,680 --> 00:15:08,680 Speaker 1: not to try not to lose some my Q points 219 00:15:08,720 --> 00:15:12,160 Speaker 1: as I'm reading it. Though, j Edgar Hoover made the 220 00:15:12,280 --> 00:15:19,880 Speaker 1: FBI into a powerful, but nonpartisan colossus. Cash Btel's chief goal, 221 00:15:19,960 --> 00:15:23,800 Speaker 1: by contrast, is to weaponize the bureau to protect Donald 222 00:15:23,800 --> 00:15:27,560 Speaker 1: Trump and wreak vengeance on his administration's enemies. This is 223 00:15:27,640 --> 00:15:33,720 Speaker 1: their playbook. Cash Battel is going to be an authoritarian guy. 224 00:15:34,920 --> 00:15:38,600 Speaker 1: Cash Battel is gonna be a crazy person. I mean, 225 00:15:38,800 --> 00:15:42,920 Speaker 1: the FBI has been a spot on Muhammad Ali j 226 00:15:43,160 --> 00:15:46,960 Speaker 1: Edgar Hoover planned mass jailings. Jay Lings in nineteen fifty 227 00:15:47,720 --> 00:15:51,640 Speaker 1: nineteen seventy five talked about Jay Edgar Hoover weaponizing the 228 00:15:51,720 --> 00:15:55,960 Speaker 1: FBI against his political opponents and Time magazine or how 229 00:15:56,000 --> 00:16:00,400 Speaker 1: about the FBI Martin Luther King suicide suicide letter or 230 00:16:00,400 --> 00:16:03,760 Speaker 1: in blackmail package an anonymous nineteen sixty four letter in 231 00:16:03,800 --> 00:16:06,960 Speaker 1: packaged by the Federal Bureau of Investigation which was meant 232 00:16:07,160 --> 00:16:10,440 Speaker 1: to blackmail doctor Martin Luther King into committing suicide. This, 233 00:16:10,440 --> 00:16:13,240 Speaker 1: this is all the FBI, folks. The reason why they're 234 00:16:13,240 --> 00:16:16,479 Speaker 1: attacking Cash Mattel is he's going to reform the organization. 235 00:16:18,240 --> 00:16:21,160 Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. 236 00:16:21,200 --> 00:16:23,760 Speaker 1: My name's Sean Parnell in the chair for the guys, 237 00:16:24,400 --> 00:16:27,840 Speaker 1: and it has been an honor to do so. On 238 00:16:27,920 --> 00:16:31,760 Speaker 1: this New Year's Eve. Hard to believe that it's New 239 00:16:31,800 --> 00:16:35,600 Speaker 1: Year's Eve that we are on the brink of two 240 00:16:35,680 --> 00:16:42,200 Speaker 1: thousand and twenty five. Twenty and twenty four might have 241 00:16:42,320 --> 00:16:46,760 Speaker 1: been one of the craziest years in politics of all time. 242 00:16:48,240 --> 00:16:50,920 Speaker 1: On one hand, I'm hoping that two thousand and twenty 243 00:16:50,960 --> 00:16:53,560 Speaker 1: five is a little bit more chilled out, But something 244 00:16:53,600 --> 00:16:57,040 Speaker 1: tells me that it probably won't be. But one thing 245 00:16:57,840 --> 00:17:03,080 Speaker 1: almost always remains this and that is that the Democrats 246 00:17:03,640 --> 00:17:09,040 Speaker 1: have learned exactly zero lessons about why they lost. In 247 00:17:09,200 --> 00:17:14,359 Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, let me recap this for you. A 248 00:17:14,480 --> 00:17:19,040 Speaker 1: few days after the first attempt on President Trump's life, 249 00:17:19,960 --> 00:17:26,200 Speaker 1: the Democrats managed to shank Joe Biden and replace him 250 00:17:26,480 --> 00:17:31,760 Speaker 1: a sitting US President, with Kamala Harris, who has not 251 00:17:31,880 --> 00:17:37,919 Speaker 1: received a single Democrat vote in the primary primary. What 252 00:17:38,080 --> 00:17:43,800 Speaker 1: the Democrats also did was discard fourteen million Democrat primary 253 00:17:43,880 --> 00:17:49,080 Speaker 1: voters who cast their ballot for Joe Biden. I see, 254 00:17:49,119 --> 00:17:54,360 Speaker 1: the Democrats have a long history of disenfranchising their own voters, 255 00:17:54,400 --> 00:17:58,040 Speaker 1: while they sign simultaneously accused Republicans of yes being a 256 00:17:58,040 --> 00:18:03,560 Speaker 1: threat to democracy TM. But the reality is the Democrats 257 00:18:03,560 --> 00:18:09,080 Speaker 1: have been doing this since twenty sixteen. Bernie Sanders looked 258 00:18:09,160 --> 00:18:11,679 Speaker 1: like he was going to be the nominee in sixteen, 259 00:18:12,840 --> 00:18:15,639 Speaker 1: they stabbed him in the back. They used the super 260 00:18:15,640 --> 00:18:19,080 Speaker 1: delegate system to do it, and they went with Hillary Clinton. 261 00:18:19,760 --> 00:18:22,520 Speaker 1: Of course, we all know how that worked out for 262 00:18:22,600 --> 00:18:27,000 Speaker 1: the Democrats. And then again in twenty twenty, looked like 263 00:18:27,040 --> 00:18:29,879 Speaker 1: it was going to be Bernie Sanders. The Democrats rigged 264 00:18:29,880 --> 00:18:33,359 Speaker 1: the system through the super delegate system again, got rid 265 00:18:33,440 --> 00:18:38,240 Speaker 1: of Bernie Sanders and went with Joe Biden, again discarding 266 00:18:38,280 --> 00:18:44,320 Speaker 1: the will of their own primary voters. At some point, 267 00:18:45,320 --> 00:18:48,440 Speaker 1: and I say this as someone who has run two 268 00:18:48,600 --> 00:18:52,919 Speaker 1: campaigns before, at some point that starts to take a 269 00:18:53,040 --> 00:18:57,440 Speaker 1: toll and affect your base. Now your base, I mean, 270 00:18:57,520 --> 00:19:00,840 Speaker 1: they are the meat and potatoes of any election. Primary 271 00:19:00,880 --> 00:19:04,600 Speaker 1: elections are important. I don't like primaries. If I was 272 00:19:04,600 --> 00:19:06,679 Speaker 1: a candidate, I wouldn't want to run in a multi 273 00:19:06,720 --> 00:19:09,560 Speaker 1: candidate field. But I will say that they are a 274 00:19:09,600 --> 00:19:15,280 Speaker 1: good thing because it gives the people a sense of 275 00:19:15,320 --> 00:19:21,080 Speaker 1: who's running, and the candidate that best represents the party's 276 00:19:21,119 --> 00:19:25,160 Speaker 1: primary voters tends to win a primary. That's how it works, 277 00:19:25,200 --> 00:19:27,879 Speaker 1: That's how it's intended to work. That's how our founders 278 00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:32,119 Speaker 1: intended for this thing to work. But the Democrats have 279 00:19:32,200 --> 00:19:34,879 Speaker 1: turned that all on its head, both through the use 280 00:19:34,920 --> 00:19:38,280 Speaker 1: of the super delegate system and just by outright discarding 281 00:19:39,560 --> 00:19:43,840 Speaker 1: their own parties voters. So they took it a step further. 282 00:19:44,800 --> 00:19:49,320 Speaker 1: In twenty twenty four, they had a sitting Democrat president. 283 00:19:49,480 --> 00:19:52,879 Speaker 1: Yes he was an animated corpse, No, he couldn't string 284 00:19:52,920 --> 00:19:56,159 Speaker 1: together two words. Yes, he was probably not going to 285 00:19:56,240 --> 00:19:58,239 Speaker 1: make it to the finish line anyway. But the point is, 286 00:19:58,480 --> 00:20:02,280 Speaker 1: the Democrats knew that Biden was in very, very grave 287 00:20:02,440 --> 00:20:05,639 Speaker 1: cognitive decline, even in twenty twenty. You don't have to 288 00:20:05,640 --> 00:20:08,520 Speaker 1: be a medical doctor to see that. There's a reason 289 00:20:08,520 --> 00:20:10,960 Speaker 1: why they used COVID to hide him in the basement. 290 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:15,320 Speaker 1: There's a reason why Republicans joked about him being basement Biden. 291 00:20:15,680 --> 00:20:18,800 Speaker 1: The reason why they did it is because as handlers 292 00:20:18,880 --> 00:20:23,160 Speaker 1: knew that Biden was in the grips of great cognitive decline. That, 293 00:20:23,880 --> 00:20:28,320 Speaker 1: my fellow Americans, is another deceit of the primary voters. 294 00:20:30,080 --> 00:20:34,119 Speaker 1: So every single time a national party does this. So thankfully, 295 00:20:34,600 --> 00:20:39,080 Speaker 1: we got problems on the Republican side, but nothing like this. 296 00:20:39,080 --> 00:20:41,359 Speaker 1: This is why it's important that the Democrats haven't learned 297 00:20:41,359 --> 00:20:43,960 Speaker 1: any lessons, because if they haven't learned any lessons, they're 298 00:20:43,960 --> 00:20:46,239 Speaker 1: not going to shift gears moving forward to shore up 299 00:20:46,240 --> 00:20:48,760 Speaker 1: some of these fractures in their base. And what I'm 300 00:20:48,760 --> 00:20:52,600 Speaker 1: building to is anytime you disenfranchise your voters, the more 301 00:20:52,640 --> 00:20:57,159 Speaker 1: you do it, little fractures in the base emerge, and 302 00:20:57,280 --> 00:21:02,320 Speaker 1: over time you start suffering from something that's called base fracture, 303 00:21:03,520 --> 00:21:07,359 Speaker 1: and that is precisely the issue that Kamala Harris had 304 00:21:08,600 --> 00:21:11,639 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four. In addition, by the way to 305 00:21:11,720 --> 00:21:14,760 Speaker 1: being just the dumbest candidate to ever grace the top 306 00:21:14,800 --> 00:21:17,359 Speaker 1: of the ticket in the history of this country. Again 307 00:21:17,400 --> 00:21:21,000 Speaker 1: I've mentioned before and I'll say it again, somehow the 308 00:21:21,040 --> 00:21:24,520 Speaker 1: Democrats managed to pick a candidate that was less popular 309 00:21:24,600 --> 00:21:29,119 Speaker 1: than Joe Biden and somehow also less articulate than Joe Biden, 310 00:21:29,680 --> 00:21:32,199 Speaker 1: and they thought that Kamala Harris was going to be 311 00:21:32,280 --> 00:21:34,880 Speaker 1: the answer to all of their problems. And of course 312 00:21:34,920 --> 00:21:37,199 Speaker 1: they were wrong, but they didn't have a base. They 313 00:21:37,200 --> 00:21:40,119 Speaker 1: had already their base was already fractured even before Kamala 314 00:21:40,160 --> 00:21:41,960 Speaker 1: Harris came along, and the fact that she had never 315 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:46,199 Speaker 1: earned a single primary vote hurt her even more. And 316 00:21:46,280 --> 00:21:49,480 Speaker 1: you see, just based in the data alone, especially in 317 00:21:49,520 --> 00:21:53,760 Speaker 1: Democrats strongholds cities all across America, that the base simply 318 00:21:54,040 --> 00:21:56,199 Speaker 1: didn't turn out in the way that they needed him to. 319 00:21:56,440 --> 00:22:00,560 Speaker 1: But that's because nothing, that nothing that just because of 320 00:22:00,680 --> 00:22:02,640 Speaker 1: the way the Democrats treated him, is what I'm trying 321 00:22:02,680 --> 00:22:06,520 Speaker 1: to say. And so now you have a scenario where 322 00:22:06,520 --> 00:22:09,600 Speaker 1: Democrats are reeling they're in disarray, which is why I 323 00:22:09,640 --> 00:22:13,080 Speaker 1: want Republicans to seize this moment and not waste any 324 00:22:13,119 --> 00:22:17,440 Speaker 1: time when your political enemies are down and out. Let 325 00:22:17,480 --> 00:22:20,720 Speaker 1: them be down and out. Seize that moment, climb to 326 00:22:20,760 --> 00:22:24,840 Speaker 1: the top of the hill, make substantive change. That's what 327 00:22:24,880 --> 00:22:28,240 Speaker 1: the Democrats would do, That's what Republicans should do as well. So, 328 00:22:28,280 --> 00:22:32,680 Speaker 1: now you have Biden thinking that he didn't pursue lawfare 329 00:22:32,840 --> 00:22:36,320 Speaker 1: aggressively enough, like, I don't know how. I don't know 330 00:22:36,359 --> 00:22:39,160 Speaker 1: how anyone could possibly think that. Now you have Biden, 331 00:22:39,200 --> 00:22:42,879 Speaker 1: as reported I think by the Washington Post, saying that 332 00:22:42,920 --> 00:22:45,720 Speaker 1: he regrets dropping out, that he should have been the 333 00:22:45,720 --> 00:22:48,040 Speaker 1: guy that he could have beat Trump. No, I don't 334 00:22:48,080 --> 00:22:51,879 Speaker 1: believe that that's true either. Meanwhile, their allies in the 335 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:55,399 Speaker 1: media are acting like they didn't know he was an 336 00:22:55,440 --> 00:22:58,439 Speaker 1: animated corpse for the last four years, which tells me 337 00:22:59,520 --> 00:23:03,359 Speaker 1: that they have no idea why Biden and then Kamala 338 00:23:03,480 --> 00:23:07,639 Speaker 1: Harris got sal ACKed this election cycle. Meanwhile, of course, 339 00:23:07,680 --> 00:23:13,200 Speaker 1: the media actively engaged in a cover up of Biden's 340 00:23:13,240 --> 00:23:17,560 Speaker 1: cognitive abilities for years. What they're really trying to do 341 00:23:17,680 --> 00:23:22,919 Speaker 1: is rewrite history and cover their tracks. They believe me. 342 00:23:22,960 --> 00:23:25,280 Speaker 1: They know that trust in them is at an all 343 00:23:25,320 --> 00:23:28,560 Speaker 1: time low and that these big corporate media companies are 344 00:23:28,600 --> 00:23:32,480 Speaker 1: simply polishing the brass on the Titanic as they sink 345 00:23:32,520 --> 00:23:37,040 Speaker 1: to the bottom of the ocean. But I'm telling you 346 00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:41,240 Speaker 1: Kamala Harris has also learned no lessons. She is living 347 00:23:41,280 --> 00:23:45,960 Speaker 1: in Lalla land. You wouldn't believe Kamala Harris's top spokesperson, 348 00:23:46,480 --> 00:23:51,200 Speaker 1: Simone Sanders, went on TV and said, essentially, Hey, Kamala 349 00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:52,800 Speaker 1: is still in the fight. You may see some of 350 00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:55,480 Speaker 1: her in the future. Just listen to cut thirteen. 351 00:23:55,800 --> 00:23:57,679 Speaker 2: I don't think the world has seen the last of 352 00:23:57,760 --> 00:24:00,119 Speaker 2: Vice President Kamala Harris. I don't know how she will 353 00:24:00,119 --> 00:24:04,160 Speaker 2: show up again, but she is a young politician who 354 00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:07,199 Speaker 2: garnered over seventy five million votes in this election, and 355 00:24:07,280 --> 00:24:08,960 Speaker 2: she will be back. When it comes to Donald Trump 356 00:24:08,960 --> 00:24:11,160 Speaker 2: and his presidency, I know a lot of folks are livening. 357 00:24:11,240 --> 00:24:12,720 Speaker 2: Donald Trump has a lot of bluster. We need to 358 00:24:12,760 --> 00:24:15,000 Speaker 2: wait and see what he will do. We have seen 359 00:24:15,040 --> 00:24:17,359 Speaker 2: what he has done, and while I think it would 360 00:24:17,359 --> 00:24:19,800 Speaker 2: be wrong for people to make big predictions about his presidency, 361 00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:22,080 Speaker 2: I think people need to pay attention to what he 362 00:24:22,240 --> 00:24:25,520 Speaker 2: says and what he actually does and judge him on that, 363 00:24:25,680 --> 00:24:27,640 Speaker 2: not some fantasy land we think we live in. 364 00:24:31,200 --> 00:24:35,719 Speaker 1: Please please, Democrats, run Kamala Harris at the top of 365 00:24:35,760 --> 00:24:39,040 Speaker 1: the ticket against JD. Vance in twenty twenty eight. This 366 00:24:39,119 --> 00:24:43,040 Speaker 1: is me, a lock stock and barrel card carrying Trump's supporter, 367 00:24:43,359 --> 00:24:47,800 Speaker 1: asking you to please run Kamala Harris at the top 368 00:24:47,840 --> 00:24:51,679 Speaker 1: of the ticket. I say this selfishly because she is 369 00:24:51,720 --> 00:24:54,640 Speaker 1: a buffoon. But it's not just the media, it's also 370 00:24:54,720 --> 00:24:59,040 Speaker 1: these Lincoln Project people, this guy named Rick Wilson. I mean, 371 00:24:59,320 --> 00:25:02,200 Speaker 1: learn to know les, folks. The Democrats have learned no lessons. 372 00:25:02,240 --> 00:25:05,000 Speaker 1: Their serguts have learned no lessons. Their allies in the 373 00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:07,520 Speaker 1: media have learned no lessons. And this bodes well for us. 374 00:25:07,920 --> 00:25:10,720 Speaker 1: Listen to Rick Wilson going on this vile rant against 375 00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:12,360 Speaker 1: Trump supporters in cut fourteen. 376 00:25:12,480 --> 00:25:15,640 Speaker 3: The hyper populist, non college educated part of Trump's space, 377 00:25:15,800 --> 00:25:17,919 Speaker 3: which is the plurality at the minimum of majority. If 378 00:25:17,920 --> 00:25:22,040 Speaker 3: you say certain arguments, we're always going to be preconditioned 379 00:25:22,040 --> 00:25:26,080 Speaker 3: to believe that the word immigration or the word visa 380 00:25:26,560 --> 00:25:29,960 Speaker 3: always in their minds means brown people bad. And so 381 00:25:30,280 --> 00:25:34,320 Speaker 3: they have this belief that you know, the guy with 382 00:25:34,359 --> 00:25:37,440 Speaker 3: the ged and his fake Oakley sunglasses, his goatee and 383 00:25:37,520 --> 00:25:41,959 Speaker 3: his pickup truck. You know the universal Twitter bro that 384 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:44,800 Speaker 3: you see at every avatar on Twitter. That guy is 385 00:25:44,800 --> 00:25:47,119 Speaker 3: thinking to himself, well, I could have been the senior 386 00:25:47,280 --> 00:25:49,880 Speaker 3: software designer at Google if only it weren't for DEI 387 00:25:50,080 --> 00:25:53,800 Speaker 3: or immigration. It's absurd. But now you see these people 388 00:25:53,800 --> 00:25:55,880 Speaker 3: that rely on that as a core part of their business, 389 00:25:55,920 --> 00:25:58,480 Speaker 3: just like Donald Trump does. Also, by the way, for 390 00:25:58,640 --> 00:26:02,200 Speaker 3: service staff at mar Alaga on other resorts. You see 391 00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:05,560 Speaker 3: this conflict. It's gonna eventually, you know, the hyper populous. 392 00:26:06,119 --> 00:26:10,320 Speaker 3: They don't really care about the more sophisticated arguments about 393 00:26:10,440 --> 00:26:13,600 Speaker 3: H one B or OH one visas they carred around 394 00:26:13,640 --> 00:26:17,399 Speaker 3: people bad. That's their whole that's their whole driving conditioning 395 00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:19,320 Speaker 3: they've had from Fox for years. 396 00:26:20,600 --> 00:26:24,680 Speaker 1: Oh so there's Rick Wilson basically saying that all Trump 397 00:26:24,800 --> 00:26:29,679 Speaker 1: supporters are racists, which is a slandering and disgusting in 398 00:26:29,720 --> 00:26:31,800 Speaker 1: almost every way, but also indicative of the fact that 399 00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:34,239 Speaker 1: these morons have learned no lessons, and that is a 400 00:26:34,280 --> 00:26:38,239 Speaker 1: good thing politically. But let me also propose this to you. 401 00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:44,200 Speaker 1: This is also why accountability for those who waged law 402 00:26:44,280 --> 00:26:48,320 Speaker 1: fare and did terrible things to Americans during four years 403 00:26:48,320 --> 00:26:51,480 Speaker 1: of Joe Biden. Is so important because if the Democrats 404 00:26:51,520 --> 00:26:55,160 Speaker 1: have learned no lessons politically again, good thing for us, 405 00:26:55,800 --> 00:26:57,960 Speaker 1: but it means they're just going to do it again 406 00:26:58,040 --> 00:27:00,679 Speaker 1: in the future, and without accountability, there can be no 407 00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:04,679 Speaker 1: moving forward. And so hopefully the Trump Department of Justice 408 00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:08,439 Speaker 1: and incoming Attorney General Pam Body have solutions for all 409 00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:12,000 Speaker 1: of this, and I'm sure that they will. Last segment 410 00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:16,320 Speaker 1: of the Clay and Buck Show here on deck show 411 00:27:16,359 --> 00:27:19,560 Speaker 1: flew by, stay with us until the very end, folks. 412 00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:21,600 Speaker 1: I'm Sean parnell in the chair for Clay and Buck 413 00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:27,320 Speaker 1: Home Stretch. We are on the home stretch of the Clay, 414 00:27:27,320 --> 00:27:30,800 Speaker 1: Travis and Buck Sexton Show, sprinting to the finish here 415 00:27:31,520 --> 00:27:34,960 Speaker 1: at the tail end of our three. If you're thinking 416 00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:37,439 Speaker 1: to yourself, well, boy, that's not Clay or that's not Buck, well, 417 00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:39,480 Speaker 1: you'd be right. My name is Sean parnellum in the 418 00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:44,560 Speaker 1: chair for both of those great gentlemen. Folks. Something has 419 00:27:44,640 --> 00:27:49,480 Speaker 1: me very worried. Yes, the Democrats are in disarray. Yes, 420 00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:54,000 Speaker 1: I feel like Republicans have an unbelievable outlook and potential 421 00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:57,520 Speaker 1: in the year of twenty twenty five, especially pertinent as 422 00:27:57,560 --> 00:28:01,639 Speaker 1: this year comes to a close. But what is always 423 00:28:01,760 --> 00:28:04,560 Speaker 1: on the forefront of my mind, and I would encourage 424 00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:06,520 Speaker 1: you all to put it on the forefront of yours, 425 00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:09,080 Speaker 1: because this is how the Democrats operate is they don't 426 00:28:09,080 --> 00:28:11,320 Speaker 1: look at just this cycle. They play the long game, 427 00:28:11,359 --> 00:28:16,119 Speaker 1: and I think that we should too. So the question 428 00:28:16,240 --> 00:28:18,399 Speaker 1: that is on the forefront of my mind is what 429 00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:23,280 Speaker 1: do we do after Trump? And I mean that even 430 00:28:23,320 --> 00:28:25,280 Speaker 1: if you're not a Trump person, and now you all 431 00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:27,240 Speaker 1: know by now that I am a Trump person, I 432 00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:29,680 Speaker 1: put forth to you that he's the most electrifying political 433 00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:36,200 Speaker 1: candidate of my lifetime. He overperformed every statewide Senate candidate 434 00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:41,480 Speaker 1: republican statewide senate candidate in the country, even in the suburbs. 435 00:28:43,040 --> 00:28:47,240 Speaker 1: The senators who did win rode to victory on Trump's coattails. 436 00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:52,200 Speaker 1: This is undeniable. And when I say Trump is electrifying, 437 00:28:52,280 --> 00:28:54,440 Speaker 1: he is in so many ways. But I'm also talking 438 00:28:54,560 --> 00:29:00,720 Speaker 1: the empirical data as well. President Trump brings out an 439 00:29:00,720 --> 00:29:07,880 Speaker 1: eclectic and crazy crocs cross section of American voters, Democrats, Republicans, 440 00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:14,320 Speaker 1: union guys, suburban type establishment Republicans, folks that have never 441 00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:19,120 Speaker 1: voted before in their lives. All make up the Trump coalition. 442 00:29:20,440 --> 00:29:26,280 Speaker 1: Trump cut into Black Americans, Trump cut into Latino Americans, 443 00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:32,080 Speaker 1: traditional Democrat voting blocks, reliable Democrat voting blocks in a 444 00:29:32,120 --> 00:29:34,640 Speaker 1: way that no Republican had done since going back to 445 00:29:34,680 --> 00:29:40,560 Speaker 1: way before Jimmy Carter. Trump made inroads everywhere. So it 446 00:29:40,600 --> 00:29:44,320 Speaker 1: begs the question, what do we do without him at 447 00:29:44,320 --> 00:29:47,520 Speaker 1: the top of the ticket. And part of the reason 448 00:29:47,560 --> 00:29:49,800 Speaker 1: why I made the case that midterms are right around 449 00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:53,600 Speaker 1: the corner, and I don't want a long protracted speaker's fight, 450 00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:55,920 Speaker 1: and I want to seize this momentum what we have 451 00:29:56,280 --> 00:29:58,880 Speaker 1: with Republicans controlling the House and the Senate. In the 452 00:29:58,880 --> 00:30:00,840 Speaker 1: White House, I want to wheel the power when we 453 00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:03,040 Speaker 1: have it. I don't want to squander things like we 454 00:30:03,080 --> 00:30:06,960 Speaker 1: did in twenty sixteen to twenty eighteen. I don't want 455 00:30:06,960 --> 00:30:12,480 Speaker 1: to repeat of that. Let's not repeat the mistakes of 456 00:30:12,560 --> 00:30:17,040 Speaker 1: the past. So what do we do without President Trump? 457 00:30:19,840 --> 00:30:21,840 Speaker 1: We don't really have an answer to that question. There's 458 00:30:21,840 --> 00:30:24,760 Speaker 1: no real elected official that comes to mind. Jd Vance 459 00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:27,880 Speaker 1: is amazing. I think he's clearly the next in line 460 00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:30,520 Speaker 1: to be the leader of the America First Movement. Don 461 00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:37,920 Speaker 1: Junior is also incredible, but there's only one Donald J. Trump. Folks. 462 00:30:38,760 --> 00:30:41,000 Speaker 1: At the top of the show or early on the show, 463 00:30:41,080 --> 00:30:44,800 Speaker 1: I said, what makes this country exceptional are the hearts 464 00:30:44,840 --> 00:30:48,840 Speaker 1: of Americans who love it. That's what makes this country 465 00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:51,760 Speaker 1: a shining city upon a hill. Like Ronald Reagan said 466 00:30:52,320 --> 00:30:57,080 Speaker 1: all those many years ago. The answer to this question 467 00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:03,280 Speaker 1: is you, the dissatisfied Americans who feel left behind by 468 00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:06,520 Speaker 1: Republicans and Democrats who've been going to Washington for the 469 00:31:06,520 --> 00:31:11,040 Speaker 1: better part of fifty years. Drive an hour from where 470 00:31:11,080 --> 00:31:13,840 Speaker 1: I am sitting right now in any direction outside the 471 00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:17,160 Speaker 1: city of Pittsburgh, and you will drive through at least 472 00:31:17,280 --> 00:31:23,200 Speaker 1: three towns left derelict because of Republican and Democrat policies 473 00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:29,320 Speaker 1: that destroyed small town American culture. The answer to what 474 00:31:29,480 --> 00:31:35,960 Speaker 1: a post Trump world looks like rests with you. Get involved. 475 00:31:36,760 --> 00:31:42,600 Speaker 1: You're probably thinking one person can't change anything. I'm here 476 00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:45,640 Speaker 1: to tell you that one person can change the entire world. 477 00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:50,400 Speaker 1: And we don't need you to change the entire world. 478 00:31:51,240 --> 00:31:55,840 Speaker 1: Change your local government, change your state government. Run for Congress. 479 00:31:56,440 --> 00:31:59,440 Speaker 1: Challenge an incumbent that is in America first that doesn't 480 00:32:00,560 --> 00:32:04,440 Speaker 1: run true with the values that you believe in. Stay 481 00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:07,560 Speaker 1: involved in the direction of this country. No, get involved 482 00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:09,840 Speaker 1: in the direction of this country. Do not be a 483 00:32:09,880 --> 00:32:17,480 Speaker 1: spectator America. In the future of America rests in your hands. Yes, 484 00:32:17,520 --> 00:32:21,280 Speaker 1: we've got four years under President Trump, but the future 485 00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:26,480 Speaker 1: rests with you and what you decide to do. So 486 00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:28,600 Speaker 1: that brings us to the end here, folks, thanks for 487 00:32:28,720 --> 00:32:30,920 Speaker 1: riding with us for three straight hours here on the 488 00:32:30,960 --> 00:32:33,160 Speaker 1: Clay and Buck Show. It's been an honor to sit 489 00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:35,360 Speaker 1: in this chair for the guys. My name is Sean Parnell. 490 00:32:36,960 --> 00:32:39,080 Speaker 1: Clay and Buck will be back real soon. God bless 491 00:32:39,120 --> 00:32:42,160 Speaker 1: you all, folks, and God bless this amazing country that 492 00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:45,160 Speaker 1: we call home. Take care and have a great afternoon. 493 00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:53,920 Speaker 1: Flat Travis and Buck Sexton on the front Lines of 494 00:32:54,120 --> 00:33:01,160 Speaker 1: Truth four