1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:03,360 Speaker 1: Welcome to today's edition of the Clay, Travis and Buck 2 00:00:03,400 --> 00:00:06,240 Speaker 1: Sexton Show podcast. Hey, how about this. For the first 3 00:00:06,280 --> 00:00:10,720 Speaker 1: time ever, the Defense Department has allowing hundreds of recruits 4 00:00:10,760 --> 00:00:13,760 Speaker 1: to join without a waiver who've been diagnosed with a 5 00:00:13,880 --> 00:00:17,360 Speaker 1: tension deficit disorder. Wow. I mean, think of the new 6 00:00:17,440 --> 00:00:19,119 Speaker 1: slogan they could have. If it's good enough for the 7 00:00:19,160 --> 00:00:22,000 Speaker 1: Commander in chief, it's good enough for us. I don't know. 8 00:00:22,040 --> 00:00:25,480 Speaker 1: I'm just thinking, thinking out loud for a new army slogan. There, Hi, everybody. 9 00:00:25,640 --> 00:00:28,600 Speaker 1: Jason lewis here, otherwise known as the talk show Hosts, 10 00:00:29,080 --> 00:00:32,200 Speaker 1: formerly known as Congressman Jason lewis in for the Dynamic 11 00:00:32,240 --> 00:00:34,199 Speaker 1: Duo today. The truth of the matter is Clay and 12 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:36,640 Speaker 1: Buck are stranded in the Cincinnati airport and they couldn't 13 00:00:36,640 --> 00:00:39,760 Speaker 1: get to the studio. No, that's not true really at all. 14 00:00:39,800 --> 00:00:45,640 Speaker 1: But this crazy travel chaos from the cyclone bomb. Don't 15 00:00:45,680 --> 00:00:49,600 Speaker 1: you love how the mainstream media, the Democrat and media 16 00:00:49,720 --> 00:00:52,080 Speaker 1: complex I used to call it in the halls of Congress. 17 00:00:52,360 --> 00:00:54,720 Speaker 1: Do you not love how they are trying to turn 18 00:00:55,040 --> 00:00:57,960 Speaker 1: these winter storms, and trust me, I'm in the middle 19 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:02,720 Speaker 1: of them into a global warming debate, and so all 20 00:01:02,800 --> 00:01:05,960 Speaker 1: these airlines are canceling all these flights, and everybody stranded 21 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:08,720 Speaker 1: giving I'll be home for Christmas a whole new meaning. 22 00:01:09,080 --> 00:01:11,520 Speaker 1: I'll see in a couple of weeks. It is a 23 00:01:11,560 --> 00:01:14,000 Speaker 1: disaster out there. And that's very little to do with 24 00:01:14,080 --> 00:01:17,160 Speaker 1: extraordinarily cold weather. It was colder when I was a 25 00:01:17,240 --> 00:01:19,280 Speaker 1: kid in the sixties and seventies than it is now. 26 00:01:19,319 --> 00:01:22,280 Speaker 1: The temperature fluctuates. You see see how that works. Oh, 27 00:01:22,319 --> 00:01:25,679 Speaker 1: come on, now, that's the temperature. That's not the climate. 28 00:01:26,040 --> 00:01:29,160 Speaker 1: Don't you know what the difference is? The dirty little 29 00:01:29,160 --> 00:01:32,520 Speaker 1: secret is if you get enough temperature data, it becomes 30 00:01:32,560 --> 00:01:34,880 Speaker 1: the climate. But they don't want to go there because 31 00:01:35,640 --> 00:01:38,319 Speaker 1: they can't put out their narrative. I'll get into that 32 00:01:38,360 --> 00:01:41,559 Speaker 1: a little later. It wasn't just but what a few 33 00:01:41,600 --> 00:01:44,360 Speaker 1: decades ago when Time magazine had a headline called the 34 00:01:44,440 --> 00:01:50,320 Speaker 1: Big Freeze and Noah, the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration predicted 35 00:01:50,360 --> 00:01:54,080 Speaker 1: that the frigid weather would continue. Quote the chilling pronouncement 36 00:01:54,120 --> 00:01:58,720 Speaker 1: of Noah's senior climatologist is the forecast is for no change. 37 00:01:59,400 --> 00:02:01,160 Speaker 1: And you know what the solution was, by the way, 38 00:02:01,200 --> 00:02:03,800 Speaker 1: for the Big Chill in the nineteen seventies, we were 39 00:02:03,800 --> 00:02:06,040 Speaker 1: going to go into the next ice age was to 40 00:02:06,080 --> 00:02:10,200 Speaker 1: ban the internal combustion engine. I kid you not. The 41 00:02:10,240 --> 00:02:13,680 Speaker 1: more things change, the more they stayed the same. But 42 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:15,600 Speaker 1: I do want to give a shout out to all 43 00:02:15,600 --> 00:02:18,519 Speaker 1: those poor travelers out there trying to get through all 44 00:02:18,520 --> 00:02:22,239 Speaker 1: of this. I'm just trying to think if we had 45 00:02:22,680 --> 00:02:25,240 Speaker 1: we had the same sort of protocol at the border 46 00:02:25,639 --> 00:02:29,000 Speaker 1: as we do for traveling home for Christmas, why nobody 47 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:33,360 Speaker 1: would get across it. Apparently everybody is stuck everywhere still, 48 00:02:33,400 --> 00:02:36,280 Speaker 1: and that is miserable. It wasn't that long ago, I 49 00:02:36,280 --> 00:02:38,160 Speaker 1: think Thanksgiving where I had to spend the night on 50 00:02:38,200 --> 00:02:42,000 Speaker 1: a mat at the Minneapolis Saint Paul Airport, so I 51 00:02:42,080 --> 00:02:44,560 Speaker 1: know exactly what it's like. So hang in there. Hopefully 52 00:02:44,600 --> 00:02:46,320 Speaker 1: we'll get this up and running. I have a theory, 53 00:02:46,400 --> 00:02:49,480 Speaker 1: by the way, about all of this, and that is 54 00:02:49,720 --> 00:02:53,000 Speaker 1: the customer service crisis is my theory, and it's not 55 00:02:53,040 --> 00:02:57,720 Speaker 1: just airlines. I think part of that is the forerunner 56 00:02:57,800 --> 00:03:00,280 Speaker 1: of the digital age. You can't talk to any buddy 57 00:03:00,440 --> 00:03:02,720 Speaker 1: when you're trying to get customer service anymore. You get 58 00:03:02,720 --> 00:03:05,320 Speaker 1: a prompt, you get a recording. You don't talk to 59 00:03:05,360 --> 00:03:09,120 Speaker 1: a human no matter what business, whether it's retail, wholesale, 60 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:12,359 Speaker 1: you name it. There are no humans left. They're all 61 00:03:12,360 --> 00:03:17,519 Speaker 1: getting PPI payments, they're all getting supplemental unemployment insurance, they're 62 00:03:17,560 --> 00:03:22,000 Speaker 1: all getting expanded subsidies under the Inflation Reduction Act for 63 00:03:22,360 --> 00:03:25,760 Speaker 1: Obamacare subsidies. Why work, And in fact, there's a new 64 00:03:25,760 --> 00:03:29,000 Speaker 1: study out about why working, Why work doesn't pay anymore? 65 00:03:29,040 --> 00:03:33,079 Speaker 1: And that's why we can't get good customer service. It 66 00:03:33,320 --> 00:03:36,680 Speaker 1: really is a crisis in American business right now. It's horrible. 67 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:39,280 Speaker 1: It's the worst I've ever seen it. And I'm no 68 00:03:39,360 --> 00:03:43,360 Speaker 1: Spring Chicken. Friends get you just can't get a hold 69 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:46,520 Speaker 1: of anybody. So when you combine the digital age, which 70 00:03:46,560 --> 00:03:51,000 Speaker 1: really is morphed into less service, you combine that with 71 00:03:51,480 --> 00:03:57,040 Speaker 1: the pandemic explosion of funds not to work. I mean, 72 00:03:57,080 --> 00:04:01,840 Speaker 1: think about this. We had five COVID relief bills signs 73 00:04:01,880 --> 00:04:05,360 Speaker 1: starting in twenty twenty worth, depending on your source, anywhere 74 00:04:05,400 --> 00:04:10,520 Speaker 1: from four to five trillion dollars, supplemental unemployment insurance, massively 75 00:04:10,640 --> 00:04:15,560 Speaker 1: expansion of health insurance vs. The ACA Obamacare. Then you 76 00:04:15,640 --> 00:04:18,120 Speaker 1: had PPI payments. Then you all those sorts of things, 77 00:04:18,279 --> 00:04:20,719 Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, what did business do? They 78 00:04:20,880 --> 00:04:24,040 Speaker 1: massively cut back. They thought, well, we're going to use 79 00:04:24,080 --> 00:04:26,520 Speaker 1: this time to root out some of the of the fat, 80 00:04:26,560 --> 00:04:29,120 Speaker 1: and boy did they ever. There's nobody left. Now. You 81 00:04:29,200 --> 00:04:32,479 Speaker 1: come out of this pandemic, the worst handled public health 82 00:04:32,520 --> 00:04:35,200 Speaker 1: challenge in the history of the United States of America 83 00:04:35,279 --> 00:04:37,840 Speaker 1: for a myriad of reasons. You come out of the 84 00:04:37,839 --> 00:04:42,400 Speaker 1: pandemic and you've got nobody willing to work. It's actually 85 00:04:42,680 --> 00:04:45,880 Speaker 1: an acute crisis in America right now. If you take 86 00:04:45,920 --> 00:04:50,159 Speaker 1: a look at this study from the Committee to Unleashed Prosperity, 87 00:04:50,480 --> 00:04:53,480 Speaker 1: you would have to make upwards of ninety eight thousand 88 00:04:53,520 --> 00:04:56,400 Speaker 1: dollars in my home state of Minnesota in order to 89 00:04:56,440 --> 00:05:00,880 Speaker 1: get a job. I kid you not in twenty four states. 90 00:05:00,920 --> 00:05:05,360 Speaker 1: When you add up unemployment benefits from COVID, the pandemic benefits, 91 00:05:05,360 --> 00:05:11,080 Speaker 1: and the ACA subsidies. Those the Obamacare massive subsidies because 92 00:05:11,080 --> 00:05:14,480 Speaker 1: the program was always destined to fail under the concept 93 00:05:14,520 --> 00:05:17,760 Speaker 1: known as a death spiral or what basically what happened 94 00:05:17,760 --> 00:05:20,600 Speaker 1: with Obamacare, and this is why we tried to repeal 95 00:05:20,640 --> 00:05:23,000 Speaker 1: it when I was in the House of Representatives. And 96 00:05:23,160 --> 00:05:25,760 Speaker 1: were it not for a couple of senators you've heard 97 00:05:25,800 --> 00:05:30,600 Speaker 1: this story before, we would have repealed Obamacare. But when 98 00:05:30,600 --> 00:05:34,120 Speaker 1: you take a look at an insurance exchange that says 99 00:05:34,480 --> 00:05:36,680 Speaker 1: we're going to charge the same price to people who 100 00:05:36,680 --> 00:05:39,279 Speaker 1: stay in shape as people who are sick, the prices 101 00:05:39,360 --> 00:05:41,279 Speaker 1: go up, and pretty soon the only people in the 102 00:05:41,320 --> 00:05:45,200 Speaker 1: exchanges are whom the sick. And that's the Obamacare death 103 00:05:45,240 --> 00:05:48,800 Speaker 1: spiral in a nutshell. And because that was destined to happen, 104 00:05:48,839 --> 00:05:52,360 Speaker 1: as some of us predicted, why you've got the need 105 00:05:52,440 --> 00:05:56,200 Speaker 1: for massive subsidies to keep this thing going. And that's 106 00:05:56,240 --> 00:05:59,599 Speaker 1: what the American Rescue Act by the Biden administration did. 107 00:05:59,839 --> 00:06:03,840 Speaker 1: That's what the Inflation Reduction Act did, and now, believe 108 00:06:03,839 --> 00:06:06,599 Speaker 1: it or not, for a family of four, if both 109 00:06:06,600 --> 00:06:10,200 Speaker 1: parents are not working, according to the Committee to Unleashed Prosperity, 110 00:06:10,760 --> 00:06:14,480 Speaker 1: both parents not working. When you add up the supplemental 111 00:06:14,520 --> 00:06:18,440 Speaker 1: unemployment benefits and the ACA subsidies, they are the annualized 112 00:06:18,480 --> 00:06:24,080 Speaker 1: equivalent of over the national median household income the highest 113 00:06:24,120 --> 00:06:27,560 Speaker 1: benefit states for not working. You know, you take a 114 00:06:27,560 --> 00:06:29,880 Speaker 1: look at all these subsidies. We're not talking just about 115 00:06:29,920 --> 00:06:32,640 Speaker 1: this stuff. We're talking about food stamps. We're talking about Medicaid, 116 00:06:32,640 --> 00:06:36,000 Speaker 1: which blew up during Obamacare. It was handled by this 117 00:06:36,080 --> 00:06:40,960 Speaker 1: omnibus bill recently here, but nevertheless Minnesota ninety eight thousand dollars, 118 00:06:41,200 --> 00:06:44,960 Speaker 1: nine hundred and fifteen, New Jersey one eighteen, one hundred 119 00:06:44,960 --> 00:06:48,200 Speaker 1: and eight thousand, Massachusetts on hundred and seventeen thousand, Washington 120 00:06:48,240 --> 00:06:50,840 Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty two thousand dollars is the earned 121 00:06:51,160 --> 00:06:56,000 Speaker 1: income equivalent of the subsidies received for not working. So 122 00:06:56,080 --> 00:07:00,960 Speaker 1: why would you work? Hence business can't hire anybody. They've 123 00:07:00,960 --> 00:07:04,920 Speaker 1: cut back too far. And now the airline's really become 124 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:09,880 Speaker 1: this little microcosm of this customer service crisis that we 125 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:15,200 Speaker 1: face in America right now, exacerbated by the mismanagement of COVID, 126 00:07:15,440 --> 00:07:21,560 Speaker 1: exacerbated by basically basically paying people not to work. And 127 00:07:21,680 --> 00:07:24,280 Speaker 1: that's where we are. And business is more than happy 128 00:07:24,320 --> 00:07:26,920 Speaker 1: to go along with a lot of this, unfortunately, because 129 00:07:27,120 --> 00:07:29,880 Speaker 1: they get to really cut their service to the bone 130 00:07:30,280 --> 00:07:33,320 Speaker 1: while still pleasing their masters on Wall Street and the 131 00:07:33,360 --> 00:07:36,000 Speaker 1: private equity crowd saying, oh, we like your next quarter 132 00:07:36,080 --> 00:07:40,960 Speaker 1: bottom line. That's really good, keep it up. It's actually 133 00:07:40,960 --> 00:07:43,880 Speaker 1: a real real problem. One ain't under two A two 134 00:07:43,960 --> 00:07:46,280 Speaker 1: two eight eight two. The contact line Clay and Buck 135 00:07:46,320 --> 00:07:49,200 Speaker 1: taking a few days off. As I say, I am 136 00:07:49,240 --> 00:07:52,040 Speaker 1: the talk show host formerly known as Congressman Jason Lewis, 137 00:07:52,080 --> 00:07:54,800 Speaker 1: long time talk show host before I ran for the House, 138 00:07:54,840 --> 00:07:58,440 Speaker 1: and one and in one term, one term, we did 139 00:07:58,600 --> 00:08:01,840 Speaker 1: more during those first two years of the Trump administration 140 00:08:03,240 --> 00:08:05,880 Speaker 1: than the Democrats have done since twenty eighteen when they 141 00:08:05,880 --> 00:08:08,680 Speaker 1: took over the House. Now you've got Republicans taken over 142 00:08:08,680 --> 00:08:10,880 Speaker 1: the House. And given what the Senate has been up to, 143 00:08:11,640 --> 00:08:15,800 Speaker 1: boy or people scrutinizing the GOP as well, they should 144 00:08:16,840 --> 00:08:20,600 Speaker 1: as well they should. The angst from that Senate omnibus 145 00:08:20,680 --> 00:08:25,840 Speaker 1: vote last week is still rippling through Republican quarters. And 146 00:08:25,920 --> 00:08:30,240 Speaker 1: there's a real chasm in the GOP right now, and 147 00:08:30,400 --> 00:08:33,560 Speaker 1: I want to tell you it's well deserved, at least 148 00:08:33,559 --> 00:08:35,240 Speaker 1: on the Senate side. You know, when I was in 149 00:08:35,280 --> 00:08:37,080 Speaker 1: the House, the Senate was the place where all good 150 00:08:37,120 --> 00:08:41,760 Speaker 1: things went to die. Nothing much has changed. It's not 151 00:08:42,040 --> 00:08:47,359 Speaker 1: just the Omnibus bill, friends, the one point seven trillion 152 00:08:47,400 --> 00:08:53,800 Speaker 1: dollar boondoggle including earmarks that Mitch McConnell and company, eighteen 153 00:08:53,880 --> 00:08:58,959 Speaker 1: GOP senators basically bailed the Democrats out. And in an 154 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:01,840 Speaker 1: era of double digit inflation, it is double digit if 155 00:09:01,840 --> 00:09:03,920 Speaker 1: we calculated it the same way we did during the 156 00:09:03,960 --> 00:09:07,000 Speaker 1: Carter years, in an era of that, Why are we 157 00:09:07,040 --> 00:09:09,320 Speaker 1: spending one point seven trillion when if you wait a 158 00:09:09,320 --> 00:09:13,079 Speaker 1: couple of weeks, the House Budget Committee, upon which I served, 159 00:09:13,240 --> 00:09:15,880 Speaker 1: could have fashioned a reconciliation bill for the rest of 160 00:09:15,920 --> 00:09:19,720 Speaker 1: the year cutting spending. The Senators didn't want to do that, 161 00:09:19,760 --> 00:09:23,839 Speaker 1: the Republican senators with friends like this, who needs Democrats 162 00:09:24,880 --> 00:09:29,200 Speaker 1: at one point seven trillion dollars boondoggle including earmarks, passed 163 00:09:29,320 --> 00:09:32,160 Speaker 1: essentially by Republicans because the Democrats couldn't have done it alone. 164 00:09:32,600 --> 00:09:36,800 Speaker 1: But here's why people are so upset, my friends, They're 165 00:09:36,840 --> 00:09:39,560 Speaker 1: so upset because this wasn't the first time the Senate 166 00:09:39,600 --> 00:09:43,160 Speaker 1: has thrown conservatives under the bus. I mentioned when John 167 00:09:43,240 --> 00:09:47,760 Speaker 1: McCain and Lisa Murkowski killed the Obamacare repeal in twenty seventeen. 168 00:09:47,800 --> 00:09:49,760 Speaker 1: When I was in the House, we would have got 169 00:09:49,800 --> 00:09:52,319 Speaker 1: it to conference committee, at least the skinny repeal, and 170 00:09:52,480 --> 00:09:56,640 Speaker 1: we could have done something. As it stands, they killed it, 171 00:09:56,760 --> 00:10:00,800 Speaker 1: and now Obamacare is still here, getting subsidies, as I mentioned, 172 00:10:01,240 --> 00:10:05,080 Speaker 1: massive subsidies. But it wasn't just that. It wasn't just 173 00:10:05,120 --> 00:10:08,719 Speaker 1: the omnibus bill. It was five COVID relief bills. It 174 00:10:08,760 --> 00:10:12,560 Speaker 1: was the Semiconductor Welfare Bill for seventy six billion dollars. 175 00:10:13,280 --> 00:10:16,480 Speaker 1: It was the Inflation Reduction Act where they got they 176 00:10:16,520 --> 00:10:19,680 Speaker 1: got a really bad deal from Mansion. It was the 177 00:10:19,760 --> 00:10:23,280 Speaker 1: Infrastructure bill that was a trillion dollars Inflation Reduction Act 178 00:10:23,320 --> 00:10:28,160 Speaker 1: seven hundred and forty billion, that massively expanded the Obamacare subsidies, 179 00:10:28,840 --> 00:10:31,640 Speaker 1: the five COVID relief bills, as I mentioned, semiconductor, now 180 00:10:31,640 --> 00:10:34,760 Speaker 1: the Omnibus. Yeah, I can't figure out why Republicans, why 181 00:10:34,760 --> 00:10:38,760 Speaker 1: the grassroots are upset with the US Senate and Mitch McConnell. 182 00:10:39,040 --> 00:10:42,000 Speaker 1: It's a mystery, my friends. One eight hundred two eight 183 00:10:42,040 --> 00:10:44,280 Speaker 1: two two eight eight two. I am Jason lewis in 184 00:10:44,320 --> 00:10:47,199 Speaker 1: for Clay and Buck today and tomorrow. We'll come back, 185 00:10:47,280 --> 00:10:49,319 Speaker 1: get to some calls to cover a few other things. 186 00:10:49,360 --> 00:10:51,600 Speaker 1: So stick around, don't go anywhere. You're on the Clay 187 00:10:51,600 --> 00:10:55,920 Speaker 1: Travis and Buck Sexton Show. And welcome once again to 188 00:10:56,000 --> 00:10:58,160 Speaker 1: the Clay and Buck Show. I am the talk show 189 00:10:58,160 --> 00:11:01,120 Speaker 1: host formerly known as Congressman Jason Lewis sitting in for 190 00:11:01,160 --> 00:11:05,080 Speaker 1: the dynamic duo. They're getting some well deserved, well deserved 191 00:11:05,160 --> 00:11:07,640 Speaker 1: respite from the daily duties. They'll be back next week. 192 00:11:08,320 --> 00:11:09,920 Speaker 1: It's always a pleasure to be here, though. I got 193 00:11:10,040 --> 00:11:12,280 Speaker 1: to say, I've been here before and it's always nice 194 00:11:12,400 --> 00:11:15,120 Speaker 1: because you know, I mean, it may not think it's nice. 195 00:11:15,160 --> 00:11:17,280 Speaker 1: You talk into a mic and it doesn't answer back, 196 00:11:17,320 --> 00:11:20,280 Speaker 1: but that's just like talking to Biden. I mean, it's 197 00:11:20,280 --> 00:11:21,840 Speaker 1: the same sort of thing. You get it out of 198 00:11:21,840 --> 00:11:23,959 Speaker 1: your system and you can go where you want to 199 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:26,080 Speaker 1: go with it. Always nice to talk with you, though. 200 00:11:26,640 --> 00:11:29,520 Speaker 1: Across America, on the Clay and Buck Show, the contact 201 00:11:29,520 --> 00:11:32,440 Speaker 1: line has always one eight hundred two A two two 202 00:11:32,559 --> 00:11:36,199 Speaker 1: eight eight two. You know, I was thinking about about 203 00:11:36,200 --> 00:11:38,680 Speaker 1: the craziness of what's going on, and it almost does 204 00:11:38,840 --> 00:11:42,760 Speaker 1: become too much to handle at times. You know, We've 205 00:11:43,120 --> 00:11:45,120 Speaker 1: got and I'll get to this a little later, and 206 00:11:45,160 --> 00:11:47,600 Speaker 1: this is why people are so frustrated with the Republicans 207 00:11:47,600 --> 00:11:49,400 Speaker 1: in the Senate. But we've got inflation and yet we 208 00:11:49,520 --> 00:11:53,280 Speaker 1: go on a spending omnibus binge. We've got a border crisis, 209 00:11:53,320 --> 00:11:56,160 Speaker 1: a veritable invasion, and yet we're blogged down in a 210 00:11:56,200 --> 00:12:01,920 Speaker 1: war in Ukraine worrying about their borders. We've got I mean, 211 00:12:02,320 --> 00:12:03,920 Speaker 1: you think about all of the things we're doing. We've 212 00:12:03,960 --> 00:12:06,360 Speaker 1: got a crime wave coming out of the Minneapolis riots 213 00:12:06,360 --> 00:12:08,840 Speaker 1: of twenty twenty, of which I was campaigning for the 214 00:12:08,960 --> 00:12:14,240 Speaker 1: US Senate. And yet George Soros is still funneling money 215 00:12:14,280 --> 00:12:18,960 Speaker 1: to his dark money network of nonprofits trying to defund 216 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:21,679 Speaker 1: the police. In fact, there was a story the other 217 00:12:21,760 --> 00:12:25,679 Speaker 1: day here where was this George Soros's Open Society Foundation 218 00:12:26,080 --> 00:12:31,200 Speaker 1: dropped at least thirty five million into anti police groups, 219 00:12:31,240 --> 00:12:36,000 Speaker 1: according to Fox News. I mean, he's just won Arabella Advisors. 220 00:12:36,080 --> 00:12:41,240 Speaker 1: The nonprofit community is so fundamentally corrupt. I mean, remember 221 00:12:41,440 --> 00:12:43,680 Speaker 1: I don't have to tell you about the Center for 222 00:12:43,760 --> 00:12:48,240 Speaker 1: Technology and Civic Life. That was Facebook's plan to increase 223 00:12:48,360 --> 00:12:50,520 Speaker 1: voter turnout, and it became just a front group for 224 00:12:50,600 --> 00:12:55,040 Speaker 1: increasing Democrat voter turnout. These five or one C three's 225 00:12:55,160 --> 00:12:58,320 Speaker 1: are supposed to be nonpartisan. They abuse their charter each 226 00:12:58,320 --> 00:13:03,120 Speaker 1: and every day. And we need attorneys general, we need 227 00:13:03,520 --> 00:13:07,720 Speaker 1: secretaries of State, We need the Department of Justice to 228 00:13:07,840 --> 00:13:11,640 Speaker 1: actually look into the scam that is the nonprofit community 229 00:13:11,679 --> 00:13:14,760 Speaker 1: in many areas, not all, but many where they are 230 00:13:14,800 --> 00:13:19,360 Speaker 1: basically acting as conduits for dark liberal money. But you've 231 00:13:19,360 --> 00:13:22,720 Speaker 1: got all those things going on, and people going, how 232 00:13:22,760 --> 00:13:25,559 Speaker 1: did we get here? How on earth did we arrive 233 00:13:25,600 --> 00:13:30,079 Speaker 1: at a place where you've got the FBI and the CIA, 234 00:13:30,200 --> 00:13:34,800 Speaker 1: the national security state colluding with a common carrier known 235 00:13:34,840 --> 00:13:38,080 Speaker 1: as social media. And they are a common carrier, not 236 00:13:38,200 --> 00:13:40,280 Speaker 1: unlike the railroads at the turn of the century or 237 00:13:40,280 --> 00:13:43,920 Speaker 1: the turn of the nineteenth century, not unlike utility companies 238 00:13:43,960 --> 00:13:47,240 Speaker 1: which get special privileges for government in exchange for taking 239 00:13:47,280 --> 00:13:50,720 Speaker 1: on all comers. Except social media wasn't taking on all comers. 240 00:13:50,720 --> 00:13:53,560 Speaker 1: They were censoring at the behest of government, which made 241 00:13:53,559 --> 00:13:56,280 Speaker 1: them state actors, which means that they violation of the 242 00:13:56,280 --> 00:13:59,719 Speaker 1: First Amendment and election interference. How did we get to 243 00:13:59,760 --> 00:14:02,760 Speaker 1: the point where the Twitter files are proving without a 244 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:09,160 Speaker 1: doubt there was a censorship campaign, not just on Hunter's laptop, 245 00:14:09,600 --> 00:14:13,240 Speaker 1: but on the Russian collusion scandal on COVID. We find 246 00:14:13,240 --> 00:14:18,000 Speaker 1: out the misinformation on COVID was coming from was coming 247 00:14:18,080 --> 00:14:23,080 Speaker 1: from government actors and state actors working on there at 248 00:14:23,120 --> 00:14:30,280 Speaker 1: their behest. Well. As I mentioned earlier, the cold reality 249 00:14:30,360 --> 00:14:36,400 Speaker 1: of it all is it started with climate change. What tegic, No, 250 00:14:36,520 --> 00:14:40,240 Speaker 1: it started with climate change. That was the first moment, 251 00:14:40,560 --> 00:14:44,040 Speaker 1: least in the modern era where the left, the Democrat 252 00:14:44,120 --> 00:14:46,440 Speaker 1: media complex as I call them in my new book, 253 00:14:46,560 --> 00:14:50,200 Speaker 1: Party Animal, the truth about President Trump, power politics and 254 00:14:50,280 --> 00:14:52,920 Speaker 1: the partisan press run out and get it party animals. 255 00:14:52,920 --> 00:14:55,640 Speaker 1: Great read my experience in Congress and on the campaign 256 00:14:55,640 --> 00:15:02,240 Speaker 1: trail and in radio for twenty five years. When they realized, 257 00:15:02,440 --> 00:15:05,560 Speaker 1: as the La Times did in twenty thirteen, that they 258 00:15:05,560 --> 00:15:12,240 Speaker 1: could ban opposing views. When Chuck Todd realized on the 259 00:15:12,280 --> 00:15:15,120 Speaker 1: pseudo news program Meet the Press that he could ban 260 00:15:15,720 --> 00:15:20,040 Speaker 1: opposing views, when did they realize this? On climate change? 261 00:15:20,600 --> 00:15:22,840 Speaker 1: In twenty thirteen, the LA Time says we will no 262 00:15:22,880 --> 00:15:27,360 Speaker 1: longer print letters that don't agree with global warming. Chuck 263 00:15:27,400 --> 00:15:31,600 Speaker 1: Todd followed suit on Meet the Press when the wretched 264 00:15:31,640 --> 00:15:35,200 Speaker 1: hosts the partisan hack said, I'm not going to put 265 00:15:35,320 --> 00:15:39,280 Speaker 1: people who don't believe in global warming on the program. 266 00:15:39,440 --> 00:15:43,000 Speaker 1: You see what the social media echo chambers did was 267 00:15:43,120 --> 00:15:49,000 Speaker 1: amplify the censorship. It started with the mainstream press, and 268 00:15:49,120 --> 00:15:54,280 Speaker 1: frankly much of it started with as I mentioned, climate change, 269 00:15:54,880 --> 00:15:57,440 Speaker 1: even though we only have temperature records going back to 270 00:15:57,480 --> 00:16:02,640 Speaker 1: the late nineteenth century. Even though they in some cases 271 00:16:02,680 --> 00:16:06,440 Speaker 1: they put these urban heat island effects sensors Noah has 272 00:16:06,480 --> 00:16:09,400 Speaker 1: that have caused all sorts of problems getting an accurate reading. 273 00:16:09,720 --> 00:16:12,200 Speaker 1: There is no debate here. We are not going to 274 00:16:12,320 --> 00:16:15,240 Speaker 1: let you debate. We know the truth, and the truth 275 00:16:15,440 --> 00:16:18,680 Speaker 1: is you're gonna call it global warming whether you like 276 00:16:18,760 --> 00:16:21,800 Speaker 1: it or not. And that includes the cyclone bomb of 277 00:16:21,920 --> 00:16:26,400 Speaker 1: twenty degree below weather and massive snowfall from you know, 278 00:16:26,760 --> 00:16:30,360 Speaker 1: Buffalo to Kansas City or wherever. That's now global warming. 279 00:16:30,400 --> 00:16:34,000 Speaker 1: Two friends, it's never gonna end until if we start 280 00:16:34,120 --> 00:16:36,400 Speaker 1: standing up and saying yeah, nice tribe, but you're not 281 00:16:36,400 --> 00:16:39,120 Speaker 1: going to censor me. That's gonna be the reckoning, not 282 00:16:39,280 --> 00:16:49,400 Speaker 1: Jason Lewis back with more yes, yes, and it is 283 00:16:49,440 --> 00:16:51,360 Speaker 1: great to be back here talking with all of you 284 00:16:51,440 --> 00:16:53,840 Speaker 1: at one eight hundred two A two to eight eight two. 285 00:16:53,920 --> 00:16:55,240 Speaker 1: Before we get to the calls, I do want to 286 00:16:55,240 --> 00:16:57,960 Speaker 1: follow up on this climate issue, and I go over it, 287 00:16:58,000 --> 00:16:59,920 Speaker 1: by the way, in my book Party Animal, as well 288 00:17:00,040 --> 00:17:03,120 Speaker 1: as Jason Lewis dot substack dot com, so check those out. 289 00:17:03,400 --> 00:17:08,040 Speaker 1: But when was the first time you heard the term denier? Denier? 290 00:17:08,640 --> 00:17:12,200 Speaker 1: You were a climate denier. This is when the left 291 00:17:12,280 --> 00:17:16,919 Speaker 1: started flirting with fascism and censorship. Now it expanded beyond 292 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:19,680 Speaker 1: all proportion with the Twitter files and all the rest, 293 00:17:19,960 --> 00:17:23,480 Speaker 1: but this is how things start. You're a climate denier, 294 00:17:24,200 --> 00:17:27,000 Speaker 1: then you're an election denier. Then you're a vax denier. 295 00:17:27,119 --> 00:17:31,600 Speaker 1: Then you're anything they can say to make you self censor. 296 00:17:32,040 --> 00:17:34,200 Speaker 1: People always ask me, well, Jason, you were on radio, 297 00:17:34,320 --> 00:17:36,560 Speaker 1: you're a pundant. Then you were in Congress, you ran 298 00:17:36,640 --> 00:17:40,840 Speaker 1: for the Senate. Um you know what? What what? What's 299 00:17:40,840 --> 00:17:44,440 Speaker 1: the answer. The answer is not a one size fits 300 00:17:44,480 --> 00:17:47,280 Speaker 1: all magic Juan. The answers for every American to stand 301 00:17:47,359 --> 00:17:50,840 Speaker 1: up and say, I won't be censored. I'm not going 302 00:17:50,880 --> 00:17:54,080 Speaker 1: to censor myself, and you're full of it. When it 303 00:17:54,119 --> 00:17:57,800 Speaker 1: comes to climate change. Now, I'm not saying CO two 304 00:17:57,840 --> 00:18:00,359 Speaker 1: hasn't increased, it has. What I'm saying is there is 305 00:18:00,400 --> 00:18:05,240 Speaker 1: no cataclysmic disaster in front of us. The cyclone bomb 306 00:18:05,400 --> 00:18:10,480 Speaker 1: is normal. Winter weather physicist Steve Coonan, who is a 307 00:18:10,520 --> 00:18:13,880 Speaker 1: Caltech professor and scientist in the Obama Energy Department, has 308 00:18:13,920 --> 00:18:17,680 Speaker 1: a great book called Unsettled. He not only points out 309 00:18:17,720 --> 00:18:20,040 Speaker 1: that cold weather is much more dangerous than hot, but 310 00:18:20,200 --> 00:18:22,359 Speaker 1: that ice sheets have been melting in sea levels have 311 00:18:22,440 --> 00:18:24,960 Speaker 1: been rising since the end of the last ice Age, 312 00:18:25,119 --> 00:18:29,680 Speaker 1: and they haven't accelerated. According to doctor Coonan, in recent years, 313 00:18:30,960 --> 00:18:37,560 Speaker 1: temperatures may fluctuate, lenina may cause this or that, but 314 00:18:37,720 --> 00:18:39,960 Speaker 1: here's the deal. If you go back to the ice 315 00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:42,280 Speaker 1: age of the nineteen seventies when I was in college 316 00:18:42,320 --> 00:18:48,800 Speaker 1: and it was frigid, the cyclone bomb was all winter long. Well, 317 00:18:48,800 --> 00:18:53,119 Speaker 1: you had scientists all over the media promoting that there's 318 00:18:53,160 --> 00:18:57,560 Speaker 1: no doubt there is a consensus in the scientific community 319 00:18:57,880 --> 00:19:03,200 Speaker 1: that this will continue. Scientists and computers at Noah are 320 00:19:03,320 --> 00:19:10,240 Speaker 1: confidently predicting the low temperature records will continue. Conon points 321 00:19:10,280 --> 00:19:14,200 Speaker 1: that out, as do others. Popular Technologies had an article 322 00:19:14,240 --> 00:19:17,720 Speaker 1: in twenty thirteen where there were hundreds of sources where 323 00:19:17,760 --> 00:19:22,000 Speaker 1: the media promoted global cooling alarmism. This is recently because 324 00:19:22,040 --> 00:19:25,359 Speaker 1: a few decades ago they hype signs of the coming 325 00:19:25,359 --> 00:19:29,359 Speaker 1: apocalypse and quote man made pollution being blamed as the cause. 326 00:19:29,640 --> 00:19:33,280 Speaker 1: Environmental extremists called for everything from outlawing the internal combustion 327 00:19:33,359 --> 00:19:39,200 Speaker 1: engine to communist style population controls rights. Popular technologies, well, 328 00:19:40,119 --> 00:19:42,320 Speaker 1: that's odd because those are the same remedies for global 329 00:19:42,359 --> 00:19:45,560 Speaker 1: warming as global cooling. You start to get the feeling 330 00:19:45,600 --> 00:19:49,280 Speaker 1: that there's an ulterioror motive here. Stand up to it, friends, 331 00:19:49,800 --> 00:19:53,119 Speaker 1: that's the only answer. In the long haul to the phones, 332 00:19:53,200 --> 00:19:56,000 Speaker 1: we go on. Clay and Buck, Carol and Springfield, mass 333 00:19:56,240 --> 00:20:00,600 Speaker 1: You are first up with former Congressman Jason Lewis High. Hi, 334 00:20:00,840 --> 00:20:03,280 Speaker 1: I'd like to make a comment about what's happening at 335 00:20:03,320 --> 00:20:07,560 Speaker 1: the airports. I believe I'm an independent number one, and 336 00:20:07,600 --> 00:20:10,920 Speaker 1: I believe if Donald Trump was still president, he'd half 337 00:20:10,960 --> 00:20:13,879 Speaker 1: the National Guard out there. He wouldn't be sitting on 338 00:20:13,920 --> 00:20:18,000 Speaker 1: his hands like all these other politicians want to blame Southwest, 339 00:20:18,160 --> 00:20:21,919 Speaker 1: want to blame this one, some of them. Let's get together, 340 00:20:22,080 --> 00:20:25,119 Speaker 1: let's make a solution. Let's get these people moving on 341 00:20:25,240 --> 00:20:28,520 Speaker 1: their vacations. They're not like Joe Biden. He can go 342 00:20:28,560 --> 00:20:31,920 Speaker 1: into the Virgin Islands or wherever he's going. Yeah. Well, look, 343 00:20:31,960 --> 00:20:34,960 Speaker 1: I mean I served on the Transportation Department in the House, 344 00:20:35,160 --> 00:20:38,280 Speaker 1: and we had a bill under a Terman Schumer at 345 00:20:38,280 --> 00:20:41,040 Speaker 1: the time, or no, it wasn't Schumer, it was a Schuster, 346 00:20:41,119 --> 00:20:46,200 Speaker 1: excuse me. And we were going to revamp the air 347 00:20:46,240 --> 00:20:49,680 Speaker 1: traffic controllers, try to get more resources and more reform 348 00:20:49,800 --> 00:20:51,800 Speaker 1: in there. We were going to look at some of 349 00:20:51,840 --> 00:20:53,720 Speaker 1: the fees. Actually, I think a lot of the problems 350 00:20:53,720 --> 00:20:58,280 Speaker 1: started when they unbundled luggage with the ticket. Remember in 351 00:20:58,280 --> 00:20:59,480 Speaker 1: the old days, he used to be able to buy 352 00:20:59,480 --> 00:21:02,880 Speaker 1: an airline ticket and your bags were included. But because 353 00:21:02,960 --> 00:21:08,560 Speaker 1: of the tax on tickets, the airlines unbundled fees for bags, 354 00:21:08,560 --> 00:21:11,600 Speaker 1: so there was no tax. And once they did that, 355 00:21:11,760 --> 00:21:14,439 Speaker 1: everybody's hauling their hope chest on the airline. Takes an 356 00:21:14,440 --> 00:21:16,480 Speaker 1: hour to get on the plane, an hour to get off. 357 00:21:16,560 --> 00:21:19,719 Speaker 1: That was a direct result of tax policy. So there's 358 00:21:19,760 --> 00:21:25,000 Speaker 1: as usual. You know, politicians like Pete Buddhajedge are responsible 359 00:21:25,040 --> 00:21:27,879 Speaker 1: for a lot of this, but it's also something that 360 00:21:27,920 --> 00:21:30,119 Speaker 1: happened during the pandemic too. I do believe there were 361 00:21:30,160 --> 00:21:37,320 Speaker 1: business overdid the cutbacks. Absolutely, everybody overdid the pandemic. What 362 00:21:37,400 --> 00:21:41,439 Speaker 1: they needed to do was do something. Stop sitting on 363 00:21:41,480 --> 00:21:46,680 Speaker 1: your hands, stopped leaning everybody and everything. Isn't it funny? Oh? 364 00:21:46,840 --> 00:21:49,760 Speaker 1: You know, speaking of that, speaking of that and Trump, Carol, 365 00:21:49,840 --> 00:21:55,080 Speaker 1: isn't it funny? How now the Biden administration and Ezekiel 366 00:21:55,240 --> 00:21:58,479 Speaker 1: Emanuel are wringing their hands. All the people that gave 367 00:21:58,560 --> 00:22:01,640 Speaker 1: us the misinformation on COVID are wringing their hands over 368 00:22:01,680 --> 00:22:05,639 Speaker 1: the explosion of COVID in China and actually considering some 369 00:22:05,720 --> 00:22:10,399 Speaker 1: sort of traveler restriction from China. Remember when Trump first 370 00:22:10,440 --> 00:22:13,359 Speaker 1: put the travel ban on China, what the media said. 371 00:22:13,440 --> 00:22:17,879 Speaker 1: It was xenophobic. It's not the Chinese virus. But now 372 00:22:18,200 --> 00:22:21,040 Speaker 1: they appear to be following suits, so you're quite right 373 00:22:21,080 --> 00:22:23,400 Speaker 1: about all of that. Carol, thanks so much for checking in. 374 00:22:23,480 --> 00:22:27,080 Speaker 1: Let's go to Marcus Iowa, the Hawkeye State. Tim, thanks 375 00:22:27,080 --> 00:22:32,119 Speaker 1: for your patience. You're up next. Yes, mister Congressman, Michael's 376 00:22:32,160 --> 00:22:36,120 Speaker 1: got to do with McConnell's one point seven trillion dollars 377 00:22:36,119 --> 00:22:40,639 Speaker 1: spending spree. Yes, put in perspective what a trillion dollars is? 378 00:22:40,800 --> 00:22:45,159 Speaker 1: One trillion? For an example, if you had dollar bills 379 00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:49,840 Speaker 1: tied end to end, and you had a US aircraft 380 00:22:49,880 --> 00:22:52,320 Speaker 1: that could find MAK one, how long would it take 381 00:22:52,359 --> 00:22:55,560 Speaker 1: them to run out of dollar bills trailing out the back? Wow, 382 00:22:55,600 --> 00:22:57,800 Speaker 1: that's a good analogy. I don't know how many years, 383 00:22:58,760 --> 00:23:05,120 Speaker 1: how many fourteen years at the sports Pound, I don't look. 384 00:23:05,680 --> 00:23:08,680 Speaker 1: We are flirting with the financial abyss in America. We've 385 00:23:08,680 --> 00:23:12,440 Speaker 1: got a thirty one trillion dollar debt. If interest rates go, 386 00:23:12,920 --> 00:23:16,040 Speaker 1: we're anywhere near their post World War two leve The 387 00:23:16,080 --> 00:23:19,000 Speaker 1: ten year treasury post World War two averages about five 388 00:23:19,040 --> 00:23:21,639 Speaker 1: and a half five point seven percent. If rates go 389 00:23:21,720 --> 00:23:26,159 Speaker 1: anywhere near that, you will have a one one and 390 00:23:26,200 --> 00:23:30,240 Speaker 1: a half trillion dollars cost to service just the debt 391 00:23:30,359 --> 00:23:35,399 Speaker 1: in the federal budget, just the interest payments. This RaSE 392 00:23:35,440 --> 00:23:37,199 Speaker 1: get up there high. It used to be when the 393 00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:39,000 Speaker 1: interest rates were a bit higher than they are now. 394 00:23:39,440 --> 00:23:42,520 Speaker 1: It used to be the Mississippi River split the country 395 00:23:42,560 --> 00:23:44,680 Speaker 1: and a half. One half went to interest, the other 396 00:23:44,680 --> 00:23:48,320 Speaker 1: one half went to debt. Well, it used to being 397 00:23:48,440 --> 00:23:51,480 Speaker 1: we had the bond vigilantees on Wall Street when the 398 00:23:51,520 --> 00:23:53,840 Speaker 1: government wasn't printing money. There's only three ways for the 399 00:23:53,840 --> 00:23:57,760 Speaker 1: government to finance its obligations. One they can tax, two 400 00:23:57,800 --> 00:24:01,000 Speaker 1: they can borrow, three they can print money. Printing money 401 00:24:01,119 --> 00:24:02,960 Speaker 1: is never a good idea because it's the worst tax 402 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:07,480 Speaker 1: of all inflation. But when the government borrowed excessive amounts, 403 00:24:07,960 --> 00:24:12,320 Speaker 1: bondholders would naturally say, well, look, if inflation is going up, 404 00:24:12,400 --> 00:24:14,280 Speaker 1: I'm not going to loan you money at five percent 405 00:24:14,280 --> 00:24:16,480 Speaker 1: of inflation to six percent, they would jack up interest 406 00:24:16,520 --> 00:24:19,359 Speaker 1: rates and that would sort of tame it. Right now, 407 00:24:19,400 --> 00:24:22,640 Speaker 1: we're spending so much at six trillion dollars a year, 408 00:24:22,840 --> 00:24:24,960 Speaker 1: think about this, tim When I was on the budget 409 00:24:24,960 --> 00:24:28,480 Speaker 1: committee in twenty nineteen, well, actually we did the budget 410 00:24:28,480 --> 00:24:31,680 Speaker 1: for nineteen and twenty eighteen, the federal budget was about 411 00:24:31,680 --> 00:24:34,880 Speaker 1: four point one trillion. Today it's six point one trillion. 412 00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:37,400 Speaker 1: In a couple of years, we've had a two trillion 413 00:24:37,440 --> 00:24:40,680 Speaker 1: dollars And if you're trying to borrow that much money, 414 00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:43,320 Speaker 1: you'd interest rates at twenty one percent. If you'd tried 415 00:24:43,359 --> 00:24:45,800 Speaker 1: the tax that, you'd have to double everybody's taxes, which 416 00:24:45,800 --> 00:24:48,200 Speaker 1: would cause a recession. So what do they do. They 417 00:24:48,240 --> 00:24:51,080 Speaker 1: have the Fed write a credit on the Treasury's checkbook, 418 00:24:51,119 --> 00:24:54,760 Speaker 1: which is fiat money. And we continue to do this 419 00:24:54,800 --> 00:24:58,880 Speaker 1: with omnibus bills where we monetize the debt and we're 420 00:24:58,920 --> 00:25:01,320 Speaker 1: going to have a sovereig earned debt crisis, where there's 421 00:25:01,320 --> 00:25:03,520 Speaker 1: going to be a run on the dollar and your 422 00:25:03,560 --> 00:25:06,159 Speaker 1: savings will be wiped out in a New York minute 423 00:25:06,280 --> 00:25:08,480 Speaker 1: if we don't get a handle on spending. And yet, 424 00:25:08,800 --> 00:25:12,400 Speaker 1: what does the Senate do after they passed the Inflation 425 00:25:12,440 --> 00:25:17,440 Speaker 1: Reduction Act, the Infrastructure Bill, the Semiconductor Welfare Bill, five 426 00:25:17,520 --> 00:25:20,119 Speaker 1: COVID relief bills, they add on one point seven trillion 427 00:25:20,160 --> 00:25:24,560 Speaker 1: an omnibus bill. And Mitch can't figure out why Republicans 428 00:25:24,600 --> 00:25:31,119 Speaker 1: are mad at him. It is totally nuts. I was 429 00:25:31,160 --> 00:25:33,000 Speaker 1: on the budget Committee as well on Congress, and we 430 00:25:33,040 --> 00:25:35,960 Speaker 1: did three budgets in two years in one hundred and 431 00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:39,000 Speaker 1: fifteenth Congress, and we balanced a budget in ten years. 432 00:25:39,160 --> 00:25:42,560 Speaker 1: We tackled mandatory spending as well as discretionary spending. We 433 00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:46,160 Speaker 1: did it through budget reconciliation. There's no reason the incoming 434 00:25:46,200 --> 00:25:50,440 Speaker 1: Congress in January couldn't have written a budget reconciliation bill 435 00:25:50,520 --> 00:25:53,199 Speaker 1: for the rest of this year, then moved on for 436 00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:57,480 Speaker 1: fiscal year twenty three and twenty four. Actually could have 437 00:25:57,600 --> 00:25:59,199 Speaker 1: finished up on twenty three and then moved on to 438 00:25:59,240 --> 00:26:02,240 Speaker 1: twenty four and cut spending. So you've got to come 439 00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:05,800 Speaker 1: to the conclusion that these eighteen Republican senators simply didn't 440 00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:12,360 Speaker 1: want the House to cut spending. It's shocking, really, But look, 441 00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:14,240 Speaker 1: they're the same ones that gave us a respect for 442 00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:18,639 Speaker 1: Marriage Bill and all the rest, So they are you 443 00:26:18,680 --> 00:26:21,960 Speaker 1: know the how I'm biased here because I served in 444 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:24,240 Speaker 1: the House. But the House is not the problem, folks. 445 00:26:25,320 --> 00:26:28,760 Speaker 1: We've got a Republican senators that are missing one vital 446 00:26:28,960 --> 00:26:33,440 Speaker 1: ingredient in life. It's called a backbone, and until they 447 00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:38,680 Speaker 1: get one, we're going to have these frustrations. Tim thanks 448 00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:41,200 Speaker 1: for checking in. Let's move down south to Florida where 449 00:26:41,200 --> 00:26:44,080 Speaker 1: they're not worried about the cyclone bomb. I think it's 450 00:26:44,080 --> 00:26:48,200 Speaker 1: Bob down there. Bob, you're on the Claim Buck Show. Hi, Jason, 451 00:26:48,240 --> 00:26:50,840 Speaker 1: thanks for taking my call. Hey, I actually got pretty 452 00:26:50,920 --> 00:26:53,879 Speaker 1: darn cold down here last week. But well, I actually 453 00:26:53,920 --> 00:26:56,080 Speaker 1: say my hope to new Year is that the new 454 00:26:56,119 --> 00:27:02,000 Speaker 1: House Republicans will please impeach Biden illustration over and over 455 00:27:02,080 --> 00:27:04,840 Speaker 1: and over, just like they did the Trump Maybe that 456 00:27:04,920 --> 00:27:08,280 Speaker 1: way the news media will pay attention. Well, it's not. 457 00:27:08,440 --> 00:27:10,640 Speaker 1: It's a matter of the news media. It's also a 458 00:27:10,640 --> 00:27:14,760 Speaker 1: matter of the only way to defeat these zealots is 459 00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:17,119 Speaker 1: to fight fire with fire, and this is something that 460 00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:20,040 Speaker 1: Republicans are loath to do. We're going to rise above, 461 00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:22,639 Speaker 1: and then after they get the tar beat out of them, 462 00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:26,960 Speaker 1: they realize where can we go wrong. Republican consultants on campaigns, 463 00:27:26,960 --> 00:27:29,000 Speaker 1: and I can tell you this from first hand experience, 464 00:27:29,040 --> 00:27:31,480 Speaker 1: will tell you, oh no, no, no, don't punch down, 465 00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:34,800 Speaker 1: don't do that, just rise above. Meanwhile, Democrats are kicking 466 00:27:34,800 --> 00:27:40,080 Speaker 1: you in the shins. You can't unilaterally disarm. Yeah, well, 467 00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:43,919 Speaker 1: you know these are great governor down here. Put rules 468 00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:46,440 Speaker 1: in so that we can have honest elections. You know, 469 00:27:46,520 --> 00:27:49,320 Speaker 1: if you look at the last election in Florida, we 470 00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:53,320 Speaker 1: came out great. They even fixed the two communist Democrat 471 00:27:53,440 --> 00:27:56,200 Speaker 1: counties that were over. They're screwing us all the time. 472 00:27:56,720 --> 00:27:58,800 Speaker 1: We had a great election last time. But the rest 473 00:27:58,840 --> 00:28:02,399 Speaker 1: of the country. Hey, when you guys are talking about separation, 474 00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:05,040 Speaker 1: I would totally go on with that. Let the South 475 00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:08,880 Speaker 1: rise again. Well, let me tell you something. The philosophical 476 00:28:08,920 --> 00:28:12,719 Speaker 1: difference between Democrats and Republicans in Washington, and it's actually 477 00:28:12,840 --> 00:28:16,880 Speaker 1: quite quite not alarming, I guess, but quite profound when 478 00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:20,880 Speaker 1: you think about it. When Democrats get power, they go 479 00:28:20,920 --> 00:28:25,240 Speaker 1: on a lawless spree. You know, they unilaterally give amnesty 480 00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:27,520 Speaker 1: to Dreamers until the court calls them out on it, 481 00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:31,399 Speaker 1: Unilaterally forgive student loans even though hard working taxpayers have 482 00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:34,840 Speaker 1: to pay them off, even though even though it's unconstitutional. 483 00:28:35,440 --> 00:28:37,800 Speaker 1: They even hire their friends in the Department of Justice 484 00:28:37,840 --> 00:28:42,320 Speaker 1: to try to spy on their opposing campaigns. They use 485 00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:46,360 Speaker 1: power ruthlessly because they look to change the country. The 486 00:28:46,480 --> 00:28:50,920 Speaker 1: Party of George Sorrows, the anarchist revolutionaries are looking to 487 00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:55,120 Speaker 1: change the country, not win the next election. That's why 488 00:28:55,160 --> 00:28:57,320 Speaker 1: Biden will not let up in the last two years. 489 00:28:57,640 --> 00:29:01,120 Speaker 1: Democrats never let up. Republicans when they get power immediately 490 00:29:01,560 --> 00:29:04,880 Speaker 1: call Frank Luntz and look to the next election. They 491 00:29:04,880 --> 00:29:06,840 Speaker 1: look at the polls, and when they see a poll 492 00:29:06,880 --> 00:29:09,080 Speaker 1: that's down, they get scared. And I'll give you a 493 00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:12,000 Speaker 1: quick example before I break here, and that's Obamacare. In 494 00:29:12,040 --> 00:29:14,560 Speaker 1: twenty ten, the Democrats knew they were going to lose 495 00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:18,280 Speaker 1: the House by passing Obamacare. They did it anyway. Guess what. 496 00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:22,000 Speaker 1: They eventually got the House back. Oh, and Obamacare is 497 00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:24,640 Speaker 1: still with us. That is the difference. You're on the 498 00:29:24,640 --> 00:29:26,600 Speaker 1: Clay and Buck show. Stick around gang. I'll be back 499 00:29:26,640 --> 00:29:30,600 Speaker 1: with more right after this. You know, Bob says fight 500 00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:33,040 Speaker 1: fire with fire, and frankly, I couldn't agree more. And 501 00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:35,080 Speaker 1: it's going to have to take some different sort of 502 00:29:35,120 --> 00:29:40,120 Speaker 1: thinking in the bowels of the Republican consultancy class, which 503 00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:43,720 Speaker 1: here to forrest been immersed in polls and raising money. 504 00:29:44,160 --> 00:29:47,360 Speaker 1: But I will tell you again from first hand experience there, 505 00:29:47,560 --> 00:29:50,760 Speaker 1: it's going to be a losing proposition if you think 506 00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:54,600 Speaker 1: you can outraise George Soros or the outside billion dollars 507 00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:57,720 Speaker 1: in dark money that funneled into campaigns like my Senate 508 00:29:57,720 --> 00:30:01,280 Speaker 1: campaign in Minnesota. We were down one point in October 509 00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:05,160 Speaker 1: in Minnesota. I felt like Blake Masters, though I got 510 00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:07,280 Speaker 1: no help from the Senate Leadership Fund. I couldn't figure 511 00:30:07,320 --> 00:30:10,240 Speaker 1: that out. But we were down one point. But we 512 00:30:10,240 --> 00:30:15,040 Speaker 1: were just getting swamped in this outside independent expenditure. And 513 00:30:15,320 --> 00:30:18,280 Speaker 1: that is a huge advantage Democrats have. They've got more 514 00:30:18,280 --> 00:30:21,880 Speaker 1: money than the Almighty, and yet they complain about campaign finance. 515 00:30:21,920 --> 00:30:25,120 Speaker 1: It's a bit of a joke. But the larger point, 516 00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:27,480 Speaker 1: to Bob's point is what can you do when you 517 00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:30,840 Speaker 1: have power? And the Republicans ought to keep the January 518 00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:35,960 Speaker 1: sixth Committee open and investigate or a whole host of things. 519 00:30:35,960 --> 00:30:38,800 Speaker 1: Why Pelosi didn't bring in the guard, Why who was 520 00:30:38,880 --> 00:30:43,400 Speaker 1: ray Epps, what were the cases for holding trespassers without 521 00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:47,480 Speaker 1: due process? All of these things, and do what Bob says, 522 00:30:47,560 --> 00:30:50,520 Speaker 1: the Democrats usually do. Oh no, no, we're not going 523 00:30:50,560 --> 00:30:53,920 Speaker 1: to stoop to their level. We're just gonna lose. That's 524 00:30:53,920 --> 00:30:55,960 Speaker 1: what needs to happen. By the way, I've got the 525 00:30:56,240 --> 00:30:59,560 Speaker 1: January six Committee was illegitimate from the start. McCarthy had 526 00:30:59,560 --> 00:31:03,280 Speaker 1: two picks, Jordan and Banks on that committee, and Pelosian 527 00:31:03,280 --> 00:31:05,720 Speaker 1: just said, we're not going to let you see your picks. Well, 528 00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:09,760 Speaker 1: guess what if you hand pick Liz Cheney or Adam Kinzinger. 529 00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:12,640 Speaker 1: Liz is not a ranking member. Ranking members come from 530 00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:16,360 Speaker 1: the appointment from the minority leader. The whole thing was 531 00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:20,080 Speaker 1: a fraud, and now they want criminal referrals without proving 532 00:31:20,120 --> 00:31:24,560 Speaker 1: criminal intent. What was it that somebody's told me a 533 00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:30,720 Speaker 1: while ago that the idiot in chief, Keith Olberman said, 534 00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:33,520 Speaker 1: once the court ruled on something last summer, that it's 535 00:31:33,520 --> 00:31:39,600 Speaker 1: time to dissolve the Supreme Court. Dissolve the Supreme Court. Now, 536 00:31:39,640 --> 00:31:42,280 Speaker 1: maybe he hadn't mind you dissolved quicker than his own career. 537 00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:46,200 Speaker 1: I don't know which is faster. But why is that 538 00:31:46,320 --> 00:31:50,760 Speaker 1: not insurrection? If we're going to criminalize speech, Donald Trump's 539 00:31:50,880 --> 00:31:56,160 Speaker 1: view on the elections or whomever, why stop there? You 540 00:31:56,200 --> 00:31:58,600 Speaker 1: see where this goes, And that's the only lesson these 541 00:31:58,640 --> 00:32:01,120 Speaker 1: people will learn. That's the only reason we got rid 542 00:32:01,120 --> 00:32:03,240 Speaker 1: of the independent council statute is when it was turned 543 00:32:03,240 --> 00:32:05,880 Speaker 1: on Clinton. Then Democrats said, well, maybe it's not good 544 00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:08,240 Speaker 1: to have all these independent councils. So now we're stuck 545 00:32:08,280 --> 00:32:11,080 Speaker 1: with special councils, which have a little less power than 546 00:32:11,160 --> 00:32:14,440 Speaker 1: independent councils. But nevertheless, that's the only lesson they learn. 547 00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:18,800 Speaker 1: So I think Bob was onto something. There may the way, 548 00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:20,840 Speaker 1: if you want to see that newsletter I just sent 549 00:32:20,880 --> 00:32:22,920 Speaker 1: out this morning, I believe on the J six Committee, 550 00:32:22,920 --> 00:32:26,120 Speaker 1: go to Jason Lewis dot substack dot com right now. 551 00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:29,000 Speaker 1: Vince in Fort Pierced, Florida. Thanks for your patience. You're 552 00:32:29,080 --> 00:32:33,560 Speaker 1: up next. Yeah, good morning, congressman. I wanted to talk 553 00:32:33,600 --> 00:32:37,800 Speaker 1: about the dark money and all these elections, and I 554 00:32:37,880 --> 00:32:41,040 Speaker 1: really you know, there's so much money being spent, trillions, 555 00:32:41,120 --> 00:32:44,680 Speaker 1: and there's so little accounting. Even this omnibus bill whatever, 556 00:32:44,720 --> 00:32:47,440 Speaker 1: they don't even know what's in it. But here's my theory. 557 00:32:47,800 --> 00:32:50,920 Speaker 1: If you look at Georgia, for example, just two people 558 00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:58,640 Speaker 1: for this election, Aircraft Party, some three hundred plot million dollars. Now, 559 00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:02,520 Speaker 1: this guy bankment Free supposedly gave forty million over several years. 560 00:33:02,840 --> 00:33:04,960 Speaker 1: And then you take George Suros I think he gave 561 00:33:05,040 --> 00:33:09,400 Speaker 1: some sixty millions. That doesn't even cover Statyevra. And then 562 00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:11,800 Speaker 1: where is that money coming from? And then you throw 563 00:33:11,840 --> 00:33:14,479 Speaker 1: in beeto, there's another hundred some odd. Tell you, I'll 564 00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:17,320 Speaker 1: tell you why. I'mby gets a clock. It's a great 565 00:33:17,360 --> 00:33:19,680 Speaker 1: it's a great point. We'll take it up next hour 566 00:33:19,760 --> 00:33:22,200 Speaker 1: before we get to Devin nuniez All coming up in 567 00:33:22,240 --> 00:33:24,240 Speaker 1: the second hour of The Clay and Buck Show. Actually 568 00:33:24,280 --> 00:33:26,040 Speaker 1: early is a good point. You can't win the money 569 00:33:26,040 --> 00:33:28,720 Speaker 1: game with these democrats that's coming up next. Don't go 570 00:33:28,760 --> 00:33:31,120 Speaker 1: in on the front line of truth.