1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:03,320 Speaker 1: Welcome to today's edition of The Clay Travis and Buck 2 00:00:03,360 --> 00:00:06,880 Speaker 1: Sexton Show podcast. The third hour of The Clay Travis 3 00:00:06,920 --> 00:00:09,720 Speaker 1: and Buck Sexton Show is here. Everyone. Thank you for 4 00:00:09,920 --> 00:00:11,640 Speaker 1: staying with us, or thank you for joining us if 5 00:00:11,640 --> 00:00:14,000 Speaker 1: you're tuning in now. It's about the State of the 6 00:00:14,080 --> 00:00:16,520 Speaker 1: Union tonight. We'll have more thoughts on that. For you 7 00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:20,280 Speaker 1: to wait is that it's it's nine o'clock right all 8 00:00:20,320 --> 00:00:22,599 Speaker 1: the time? Is the state of the Union? Sorry, I 9 00:00:22,680 --> 00:00:24,639 Speaker 1: was gonna check I square because I'm gonna be watching 10 00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:29,320 Speaker 1: it live with Clay. I think it's a nah, but 11 00:00:29,560 --> 00:00:32,280 Speaker 1: it's got to be nine. It's like it's like sports, right, 12 00:00:32,320 --> 00:00:34,480 Speaker 1: I mean, because it's only six on the West Coast, 13 00:00:34,560 --> 00:00:36,400 Speaker 1: there's no way that they're starting. It'll probably be like 14 00:00:36,560 --> 00:00:39,720 Speaker 1: nine oh five, nine ten that he'll come, you know, 15 00:00:39,800 --> 00:00:43,640 Speaker 1: stumbling out to the shake hands and then nine pm. 16 00:00:43,640 --> 00:00:45,120 Speaker 1: I was right, Yeah, I was right. Sometimes when I 17 00:00:45,120 --> 00:00:47,239 Speaker 1: think I'm wrong, I'm right usually the case. But I was. 18 00:00:47,280 --> 00:00:50,480 Speaker 1: I was right. So it's nine o'clock tonight. We've given 19 00:00:50,479 --> 00:00:52,839 Speaker 1: you some sense of what we're expecting, and we'll continue 20 00:00:52,880 --> 00:00:57,080 Speaker 1: to follow this one follow that issue throughout the final 21 00:00:57,160 --> 00:01:02,120 Speaker 1: hour of the show. Today. We've also got Ukraine right 22 00:01:02,160 --> 00:01:05,600 Speaker 1: now looking like it's about to get a whole lot worse. 23 00:01:05,720 --> 00:01:09,919 Speaker 1: You have this large Russian convoy making its way to Kiev, 24 00:01:10,120 --> 00:01:14,440 Speaker 1: the capital city of Ukraine, and there could be a 25 00:01:14,560 --> 00:01:20,320 Speaker 1: dramatic increase in shelling, in missile and aerial strikes, which 26 00:01:20,360 --> 00:01:25,839 Speaker 1: would increase casualties along with its civilian casualties. Right now, 27 00:01:27,160 --> 00:01:30,800 Speaker 1: Zelenski saying he's wondering if Russia is actually willing to negotiate. 28 00:01:30,920 --> 00:01:34,520 Speaker 1: We shall see if there's any updates on that. There 29 00:01:34,520 --> 00:01:38,039 Speaker 1: are civilian sites that have been hit in Kharkiv, another 30 00:01:38,120 --> 00:01:41,000 Speaker 1: major city close to the Russian border, where there have 31 00:01:41,160 --> 00:01:46,360 Speaker 1: been some large scale military operations under way against Ukraine. 32 00:01:47,240 --> 00:01:50,280 Speaker 1: Now the debate about what to do. We talked in 33 00:01:50,320 --> 00:01:53,639 Speaker 1: the first hour a little bit on whether the energy 34 00:01:53,720 --> 00:01:56,720 Speaker 1: sector it's something we're willing to go after with all 35 00:01:56,760 --> 00:01:59,960 Speaker 1: of this, Are we willing to take the pain economics 36 00:02:00,800 --> 00:02:03,120 Speaker 1: around the world, not just here in America but everywhere. 37 00:02:03,680 --> 00:02:06,880 Speaker 1: From effectively cutting off Russian oil. We have removed them 38 00:02:06,920 --> 00:02:10,400 Speaker 1: from the Swift system. There has been an effort to 39 00:02:10,440 --> 00:02:12,440 Speaker 1: make it very hard for Russia to engage in any 40 00:02:12,480 --> 00:02:17,800 Speaker 1: international financial transactions. But I'm also seeing Clay you know 41 00:02:17,880 --> 00:02:22,079 Speaker 1: didn't last very long when we seem to have something 42 00:02:22,120 --> 00:02:24,360 Speaker 1: of a consensus ian the White House saying and many 43 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:29,399 Speaker 1: others saying, there will not be US troops involved in 44 00:02:29,520 --> 00:02:34,120 Speaker 1: this conflict, there will not be US military engaging directly 45 00:02:34,240 --> 00:02:38,560 Speaker 1: with Russian military, as in fighting Putin's Russia. That that's 46 00:02:38,639 --> 00:02:43,680 Speaker 1: not going to happen. Here is Jensaki on that the 47 00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:46,640 Speaker 1: President has been very clear that he is not intending 48 00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:49,480 Speaker 1: to send US troops to fight a war with Russia. 49 00:02:49,520 --> 00:02:51,520 Speaker 1: And I think what's important to note here is that 50 00:02:51,639 --> 00:02:55,120 Speaker 1: is essentially what this would be a step toward, because 51 00:02:55,120 --> 00:02:57,919 Speaker 1: a no fly zone would require implementation, it would require 52 00:02:58,040 --> 00:03:02,320 Speaker 1: deploying US military to enforce, which would be a direct conflict, 53 00:03:02,639 --> 00:03:05,600 Speaker 1: potentially a direct conflict, and potentially a war with Russia, 54 00:03:05,600 --> 00:03:07,200 Speaker 1: which is something we are not planning to be a 55 00:03:07,200 --> 00:03:10,840 Speaker 1: part of. There are to be clear members of Congress 56 00:03:10,880 --> 00:03:15,800 Speaker 1: who have brought up or even called for no fly zones. Remarkably, 57 00:03:15,919 --> 00:03:19,640 Speaker 1: some of the Republicans Clay in Congress, who spend all 58 00:03:19,680 --> 00:03:23,120 Speaker 1: of their time attacking other Republicans, they seem to be 59 00:03:23,160 --> 00:03:29,760 Speaker 1: among the most desiring of increasing US presidents and even 60 00:03:29,880 --> 00:03:34,040 Speaker 1: US military in and around Ukraine. So this is something 61 00:03:34,040 --> 00:03:36,240 Speaker 1: that I do think we have to watch because the 62 00:03:36,360 --> 00:03:40,040 Speaker 1: imagery and the emotions around this, I do believe, unfortunately tragically, 63 00:03:40,080 --> 00:03:43,000 Speaker 1: is about to get a lot worse. And what seemed 64 00:03:43,040 --> 00:03:46,720 Speaker 1: like clarity on this is not America's fight can change 65 00:03:46,880 --> 00:03:49,840 Speaker 1: very quickly depending on what the conversation is here. You've 66 00:03:49,880 --> 00:03:53,040 Speaker 1: already got people members of Congress saying no flies. A 67 00:03:53,160 --> 00:03:55,640 Speaker 1: no fly zone with Russia turns into a war with 68 00:03:55,720 --> 00:04:01,160 Speaker 1: Russia very quickly, no doubt. And we're already seeing countries 69 00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:04,200 Speaker 1: have to make decisions. Let's leave aside the United States 70 00:04:04,280 --> 00:04:08,000 Speaker 1: right now. But as it pertains, for instance, to ships 71 00:04:08,160 --> 00:04:11,400 Speaker 1: coming through, what is Turkey going to do, As it 72 00:04:11,440 --> 00:04:17,120 Speaker 1: pertains to potentially allowing materials through, what is exactly Poland 73 00:04:17,200 --> 00:04:20,760 Speaker 1: going to do? And this is going to get more difficult. 74 00:04:20,960 --> 00:04:23,240 Speaker 1: And I think you raise a good point. This is 75 00:04:23,320 --> 00:04:26,719 Speaker 1: now an emotional issue for very many people. What I 76 00:04:26,720 --> 00:04:31,919 Speaker 1: mean by that is social media is ruled almost entirely 77 00:04:32,040 --> 00:04:38,520 Speaker 1: by emotion based emotion based obsession. Right. Benjamin Franklin back 78 00:04:38,520 --> 00:04:42,880 Speaker 1: in the day said passions rule, and they rarely rule wisely. 79 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:46,560 Speaker 1: That's what goes on every single day with social media. 80 00:04:46,680 --> 00:04:51,039 Speaker 1: And so you can already see a drumbeat of how 81 00:04:51,080 --> 00:04:54,920 Speaker 1: can we allow this to occur? I saw yesterday, Buck, 82 00:04:54,920 --> 00:04:58,760 Speaker 1: I'm sure you did too, that forty mile convoy of 83 00:04:58,960 --> 00:05:03,960 Speaker 1: Russian material that are rolling towards Kiev. Several people, including 84 00:05:04,360 --> 00:05:08,200 Speaker 1: I believe a couple of senators, said it was time 85 00:05:08,279 --> 00:05:14,440 Speaker 1: to consider bombing that convoy. Yes, and potentially obviously stepping 86 00:05:14,480 --> 00:05:19,440 Speaker 1: directly into this conflict, whether it is the no fly zone, 87 00:05:19,520 --> 00:05:22,240 Speaker 1: which gets into okay, Well, as soon as you start 88 00:05:22,880 --> 00:05:25,080 Speaker 1: setting up that no fly zone, you have to have 89 00:05:25,160 --> 00:05:28,600 Speaker 1: consequences if the no fly zone is violated, which makes 90 00:05:28,600 --> 00:05:31,839 Speaker 1: you a party to this battle. And I believe as 91 00:05:31,880 --> 00:05:35,919 Speaker 1: the civilians bear more and more of the brunt of 92 00:05:36,040 --> 00:05:41,960 Speaker 1: the pain of this advancement, this invasion by Russia, You're 93 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:44,600 Speaker 1: going to see more and more viral videos. You're going 94 00:05:44,640 --> 00:05:49,560 Speaker 1: to see more and more tearful children, tearful parents, and 95 00:05:49,720 --> 00:05:52,480 Speaker 1: many people are going to be asking the question, how 96 00:05:52,520 --> 00:05:56,960 Speaker 1: can we allow this to continue without getting involved ourselves. Clay, 97 00:05:57,000 --> 00:05:59,640 Speaker 1: I'm also concerned with some of the louder voices that 98 00:05:59,680 --> 00:06:05,760 Speaker 1: are merging on this, including Hillary Clinton, who is, interestingly enough, 99 00:06:05,839 --> 00:06:08,479 Speaker 1: coming forward a whole lot more in the media these days. 100 00:06:08,480 --> 00:06:11,360 Speaker 1: She had been quite quiet for a while, and now 101 00:06:11,400 --> 00:06:13,160 Speaker 1: you're seeing a lot of Hillary. I think we all 102 00:06:13,240 --> 00:06:16,960 Speaker 1: understand there could be some long term implications to that. 103 00:06:17,360 --> 00:06:21,680 Speaker 1: But here she is essentially saying don't worry. Well, she's 104 00:06:21,720 --> 00:06:24,440 Speaker 1: not saying don't worry, but she's saying, you know, we'll 105 00:06:24,480 --> 00:06:27,240 Speaker 1: turn this thing into Afghanistan with the Soviets back in 106 00:06:27,800 --> 00:06:35,760 Speaker 1: the eighties. Remember, the Russians invaded Afghanistan back in nineteen 107 00:06:35,960 --> 00:06:43,360 Speaker 1: eighty and although no country went in, they certainly had 108 00:06:43,400 --> 00:06:49,719 Speaker 1: a lot of countries supplying arms and advice and even 109 00:06:49,839 --> 00:06:54,760 Speaker 1: some advisors to those who were recruited to fight Russia. 110 00:06:54,960 --> 00:06:57,960 Speaker 1: It didn't end well for the Russians. There were other 111 00:06:58,680 --> 00:07:02,479 Speaker 1: unintended consequences, as we know, but the fact is that 112 00:07:03,040 --> 00:07:10,720 Speaker 1: a very motivated and then funded and armed insurgency basically 113 00:07:10,920 --> 00:07:14,840 Speaker 1: drove the Russians out of Afghanistan. Can we just say that, 114 00:07:15,400 --> 00:07:19,040 Speaker 1: you know, her basic history here is correct, but I 115 00:07:19,080 --> 00:07:22,320 Speaker 1: think the lesson from it is we should be very careful. 116 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:26,280 Speaker 1: You had between a million and two million Afghan civilians 117 00:07:26,760 --> 00:07:29,560 Speaker 1: died in that war. Very few people I think know 118 00:07:29,720 --> 00:07:33,200 Speaker 1: that number are usually the upper estimate is about two million. 119 00:07:33,680 --> 00:07:36,400 Speaker 1: Over the course of it, tens of thousands of Soviets 120 00:07:36,400 --> 00:07:40,120 Speaker 1: were killed or seriously wounded in that war. It went 121 00:07:40,200 --> 00:07:47,920 Speaker 1: on for years and then led to the Taliban taking 122 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:51,440 Speaker 1: charge and further war afterwards. So so the we're gonna 123 00:07:51,520 --> 00:07:53,960 Speaker 1: arm them like we did the mujah Hadean, Yeah, I mean, 124 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:57,160 Speaker 1: this isn't Charlie Wilson's war. This isn't a Hollywood movie. 125 00:07:57,320 --> 00:07:59,800 Speaker 1: This isn't an Avengers movie. You know, you're you're hearing 126 00:07:59,800 --> 00:08:02,640 Speaker 1: people talk about this or frame this in when I 127 00:08:02,680 --> 00:08:05,440 Speaker 1: think is a very simplistic narrative. The only thing that's 128 00:08:05,480 --> 00:08:10,160 Speaker 1: simple about this is Vladimir Putin has done something that 129 00:08:10,280 --> 00:08:12,440 Speaker 1: is terrible. You know, that is terrible, and a lot 130 00:08:12,480 --> 00:08:14,480 Speaker 1: of innocent people are going to die and be heard 131 00:08:14,520 --> 00:08:17,200 Speaker 1: over this. But how this plays out and what we're 132 00:08:17,200 --> 00:08:18,680 Speaker 1: going to see in the days and weeks ahead, I 133 00:08:18,720 --> 00:08:21,480 Speaker 1: think it is going to be incredibly gut wrenching and 134 00:08:21,600 --> 00:08:24,160 Speaker 1: it's going to be complicated to make this come to 135 00:08:24,200 --> 00:08:27,880 Speaker 1: an end under the best of circumstances. So the notion 136 00:08:27,920 --> 00:08:29,240 Speaker 1: that oh, we're going to arm them up like we 137 00:08:29,280 --> 00:08:33,280 Speaker 1: did the Mujahideen against the Soviets back in the eighties 138 00:08:34,080 --> 00:08:36,920 Speaker 1: for a decade long war play. We want to avoid 139 00:08:37,120 --> 00:08:39,360 Speaker 1: a decade long war in Europe. We want to avoid 140 00:08:39,400 --> 00:08:42,439 Speaker 1: a month long war if we can so. I think, 141 00:08:42,840 --> 00:08:44,559 Speaker 1: you know, some of the voices that are becoming very 142 00:08:44,600 --> 00:08:47,400 Speaker 1: loud on this are not people that I mean, Hillary 143 00:08:47,400 --> 00:08:49,560 Speaker 1: Clinton among them, are not people that anyone should be 144 00:08:49,600 --> 00:08:53,920 Speaker 1: listening to what I'm concerned about. Also, Buck, Joe Biden, 145 00:08:53,960 --> 00:08:56,559 Speaker 1: as we talked about earlier, has a thirty five percent 146 00:08:56,559 --> 00:08:59,440 Speaker 1: approval rating right now. Now, I'm sure that they are 147 00:08:59,440 --> 00:09:02,560 Speaker 1: going to argue you, hey, this is our opportunity. The 148 00:09:02,559 --> 00:09:07,000 Speaker 1: State of the Union address is to recalibrate and reset 149 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:11,160 Speaker 1: expectations for year two of the Biden presidency. I think 150 00:09:11,160 --> 00:09:15,240 Speaker 1: that's going to fail, because everything Joe Biden is touching 151 00:09:15,440 --> 00:09:20,080 Speaker 1: is failing. But if they start to recognize that there 152 00:09:20,320 --> 00:09:25,040 Speaker 1: is a substantial amount of support for Ukraine, I worry 153 00:09:25,160 --> 00:09:27,960 Speaker 1: that we could have a Wag the Dog like scenario 154 00:09:28,200 --> 00:09:34,079 Speaker 1: start to emerge, where the Ukrainian resistance is popular and 155 00:09:34,200 --> 00:09:37,360 Speaker 1: Joe Biden is so desperate to find something to be 156 00:09:37,440 --> 00:09:41,240 Speaker 1: associated with that is popular that he buys into this 157 00:09:41,360 --> 00:09:45,360 Speaker 1: idea that the United States needs to take increasingly more 158 00:09:45,400 --> 00:09:51,200 Speaker 1: substantial steps towards being directly in conflict with Russia. Right 159 00:09:51,559 --> 00:09:55,920 Speaker 1: because already what has knocked COVID off the front pages 160 00:09:56,400 --> 00:10:01,760 Speaker 1: and turned it into a secondary story Ukraine right everywhere 161 00:10:01,760 --> 00:10:03,680 Speaker 1: you look, you put on television. Now, I don't know 162 00:10:03,720 --> 00:10:06,720 Speaker 1: how long this goes on. Right a month from now, 163 00:10:06,760 --> 00:10:09,680 Speaker 1: if the situation is still similar as Ukraine's still going 164 00:10:09,720 --> 00:10:12,360 Speaker 1: to be the number one story in America, I don't know. 165 00:10:12,880 --> 00:10:14,920 Speaker 1: I don't know whether this is something that fades in 166 00:10:14,960 --> 00:10:18,480 Speaker 1: the American consciousness as it continues and we kind of 167 00:10:18,600 --> 00:10:23,880 Speaker 1: enter into a long slog of drawn out violence in Ukraine. 168 00:10:24,360 --> 00:10:26,200 Speaker 1: I tend to think that Americans are going to have 169 00:10:26,320 --> 00:10:28,720 Speaker 1: relatively short memories, but buck remember one of the big 170 00:10:28,720 --> 00:10:33,000 Speaker 1: topics we discussed was as Afghanistan collapsed. If you go 171 00:10:33,040 --> 00:10:36,320 Speaker 1: back and look at Joe Biden's approval ratings, they turn 172 00:10:36,400 --> 00:10:39,080 Speaker 1: negative for the first time in the wake of Afghanistan, 173 00:10:39,520 --> 00:10:43,679 Speaker 1: and they have continued to plummet since then. Afghanistan then 174 00:10:43,760 --> 00:10:48,400 Speaker 1: became a window into larger failures for the Biden administration. 175 00:10:48,720 --> 00:10:53,720 Speaker 1: It reflected those failures is the same thing, potentially in 176 00:10:53,840 --> 00:10:57,400 Speaker 1: reverse from the Biden administration's perspective, going to offer them 177 00:10:57,440 --> 00:11:00,440 Speaker 1: an opportunity in Ukraine where they can take all of 178 00:11:00,480 --> 00:11:04,160 Speaker 1: the failures domestically off the front page and pour all 179 00:11:04,200 --> 00:11:07,960 Speaker 1: their energy and attention into trying to combat the Russians 180 00:11:08,040 --> 00:11:11,320 Speaker 1: in Ukraine. I don't know, but that's one of my 181 00:11:11,400 --> 00:11:14,959 Speaker 1: fears that this could become the trajectory that the Biden 182 00:11:14,960 --> 00:11:17,600 Speaker 1: administration decides to follow. We'll talk about this and more. 183 00:11:18,480 --> 00:11:22,200 Speaker 1: Stock market down over seven hundred points, price of oil surging, 184 00:11:22,240 --> 00:11:24,199 Speaker 1: what's the impact there? Will continue to break it all down. 185 00:11:24,240 --> 00:11:27,199 Speaker 1: Play real quick, did you see the Cuomo ad? We 186 00:11:27,280 --> 00:11:29,600 Speaker 1: got to play the Cuomo ad. Cuomo wants to make 187 00:11:29,640 --> 00:11:31,280 Speaker 1: a comeback. Maybe he was listening to you on the 188 00:11:31,320 --> 00:11:34,800 Speaker 1: show and you said he's gonna make because IVE got 189 00:11:34,880 --> 00:11:38,360 Speaker 1: Clake Travis and they listen. They do very good radio. 190 00:11:38,760 --> 00:11:42,079 Speaker 1: Clay Travis bucks actually very smart. They know I'm coming back. 191 00:11:42,640 --> 00:11:44,400 Speaker 1: But I mean, if he was listening, he would have 192 00:11:44,440 --> 00:11:46,680 Speaker 1: heard me as being one of the only people saying 193 00:11:46,720 --> 00:11:48,960 Speaker 1: that his career was not over and he's got a 194 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:50,800 Speaker 1: new ad. We need to play that for you. And 195 00:11:51,040 --> 00:11:54,280 Speaker 1: as bad as Cuomo was a lot better than Hokol, 196 00:11:54,440 --> 00:11:57,000 Speaker 1: I gotta be honest with you. As bad as Cuomo was, 197 00:11:57,040 --> 00:12:00,560 Speaker 1: and I think he was an absolute unmitigated disaster, he 198 00:12:00,600 --> 00:12:04,240 Speaker 1: at least wasn't walking around in his you know, Ambulet 199 00:12:04,240 --> 00:12:06,680 Speaker 1: whatever you want to call it, pendant with the vaccine 200 00:12:06,800 --> 00:12:10,000 Speaker 1: as is on his necklace. I mean, what an imbecile 201 00:12:10,080 --> 00:12:13,080 Speaker 1: she is. As inflation continues, it's important to keep your 202 00:12:13,120 --> 00:12:15,600 Speaker 1: budget and financial goals top of mind. Think about all 203 00:12:15,600 --> 00:12:17,960 Speaker 1: the things you do today to come out ahead, and 204 00:12:18,160 --> 00:12:21,000 Speaker 1: one of those things can be refinancing your mortgage. Look, 205 00:12:21,160 --> 00:12:24,200 Speaker 1: you know, if you haven't done this already, mortgage rates 206 00:12:24,240 --> 00:12:26,560 Speaker 1: are scheduled to go up as the FED is going 207 00:12:26,600 --> 00:12:29,760 Speaker 1: to be raising rates in the months ahead. We know 208 00:12:29,960 --> 00:12:32,760 Speaker 1: that lots of you can still save a bundle. And 209 00:12:32,840 --> 00:12:36,000 Speaker 1: we're talking about real money, a thousand dollars a month, 210 00:12:36,320 --> 00:12:39,079 Speaker 1: getting to miss a couple of different payments to put 211 00:12:39,120 --> 00:12:42,000 Speaker 1: your financial house in order. I'm talking about twelve thousand 212 00:12:42,040 --> 00:12:44,640 Speaker 1: dollars a year over the life of a mortgage. You 213 00:12:44,640 --> 00:12:50,040 Speaker 1: could save six figures from one ten minute phone call. 214 00:12:50,440 --> 00:12:52,960 Speaker 1: All you have to do is call American Financing. Do 215 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:55,439 Speaker 1: it right now, don't wait. You and your wife probably 216 00:12:55,440 --> 00:12:57,440 Speaker 1: been talking about Hey, Howney, did you call today? I 217 00:12:57,520 --> 00:12:59,520 Speaker 1: told you to call it? You called No, I got busy. 218 00:13:00,720 --> 00:13:03,079 Speaker 1: Continue that conversation. You can be the star of the 219 00:13:03,120 --> 00:13:07,240 Speaker 1: household today. You can call eight hundred seven seven seven 220 00:13:07,480 --> 00:13:11,200 Speaker 1: eighty one o nine. That's eight hundred. Hey, listen to me. 221 00:13:11,480 --> 00:13:13,720 Speaker 1: When your wife says, hey, did you call or after 222 00:13:13,760 --> 00:13:15,160 Speaker 1: Clay did his ad, you know we would say and 223 00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:16,720 Speaker 1: you need to do that for a while, and you 224 00:13:16,800 --> 00:13:19,840 Speaker 1: say no, time after time. Today you can be the hero. 225 00:13:20,080 --> 00:13:23,040 Speaker 1: All you have to do eight hundred seven seven seven 226 00:13:23,120 --> 00:13:26,920 Speaker 1: eighty one oh nine save your family a bundle. American 227 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:31,120 Speaker 1: Financing dot net mls one eight two three three four mls, 228 00:13:31,200 --> 00:13:39,360 Speaker 1: Consumer Access dot org. Walking back in Clay Travis buck 229 00:13:39,480 --> 00:13:42,840 Speaker 1: Sexton Show. It is the time of the state of 230 00:13:42,920 --> 00:13:45,040 Speaker 1: the Union. The state of the union is not very strong. 231 00:13:45,120 --> 00:13:48,040 Speaker 1: Joe Biden's going to claim that it is strong, and 232 00:13:48,280 --> 00:13:50,880 Speaker 1: it will be intriguing to see all the different arguments 233 00:13:50,880 --> 00:13:53,600 Speaker 1: that he attempts to marshal and make. We have laid 234 00:13:53,600 --> 00:13:56,760 Speaker 1: out many of those for you. But one of the 235 00:13:56,920 --> 00:14:02,280 Speaker 1: erstwhile stars of the Democratic Party, they even gave him 236 00:14:02,280 --> 00:14:06,840 Speaker 1: a special Emmy before they rescinded it. They also said 237 00:14:06,880 --> 00:14:10,000 Speaker 1: that he was maybe going to be their presidential nominee 238 00:14:10,360 --> 00:14:13,000 Speaker 1: before they ended up forcing him to step down. That 239 00:14:13,080 --> 00:14:15,439 Speaker 1: is one Andrew Cuomo. And by the way, the Andrew 240 00:14:15,840 --> 00:14:20,240 Speaker 1: Cuomo implosion ended up costing his brother Chris his job 241 00:14:20,280 --> 00:14:24,680 Speaker 1: at CNN, cost Jeff Zucker, who was running CNN his job, 242 00:14:25,160 --> 00:14:30,760 Speaker 1: cost Jeff Jeff Zucker's girlfriend her job, and has left 243 00:14:30,800 --> 00:14:35,160 Speaker 1: a monster mushroom cloud behind. But when all of this started, 244 00:14:35,200 --> 00:14:37,520 Speaker 1: if I remember correctly, Buck, we were doing the show 245 00:14:37,560 --> 00:14:42,400 Speaker 1: together in New York when Cuomo resigned and announced that 246 00:14:42,440 --> 00:14:45,480 Speaker 1: he would no longer be doing the show. I mean 247 00:14:46,600 --> 00:14:51,280 Speaker 1: we were, and I argued then shortly thereafter, there's no 248 00:14:51,320 --> 00:14:53,640 Speaker 1: way that Andrew Cuomo is going to ride off into 249 00:14:53,680 --> 00:14:55,800 Speaker 1: the sunset, and that he has done. He's got too 250 00:14:55,880 --> 00:14:58,920 Speaker 1: much money, and he will try to find a way 251 00:14:59,440 --> 00:15:05,480 Speaker 1: to find himself inextricably bound in up in state politics again. 252 00:15:05,680 --> 00:15:09,120 Speaker 1: And with that in mind, guess who is now running 253 00:15:09,240 --> 00:15:12,160 Speaker 1: ads in New York State? Have you actually seen this 254 00:15:12,200 --> 00:15:15,880 Speaker 1: ad on television? Buck? Only flipping around? Only heard it 255 00:15:16,360 --> 00:15:21,080 Speaker 1: all right, So let's listen Andrew Cuomo on the comeback trail. 256 00:15:21,240 --> 00:15:23,120 Speaker 1: This is the ad that he is running in the 257 00:15:23,120 --> 00:15:26,520 Speaker 1: state of New York. The case against Andrew Cuomo appears 258 00:15:26,520 --> 00:15:29,440 Speaker 1: to be crumbling, prosecutor says, unfortunately, the filings in this 259 00:15:29,480 --> 00:15:32,840 Speaker 1: matter are potentially defective. The New York State Attorney General 260 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:35,840 Speaker 1: may have turned a blind eye to crucial details, according 261 00:15:35,840 --> 00:15:38,920 Speaker 1: to the prosecutor, and there was an exculpatory evidence. It 262 00:15:39,040 --> 00:15:42,560 Speaker 1: also created more questions about the politicization of the process. 263 00:15:42,800 --> 00:15:47,200 Speaker 1: Five counties have declined to press charges, not one has 264 00:15:47,280 --> 00:15:54,520 Speaker 1: resulted in prosecution, and then complaint is hereby dismissed. Okay, 265 00:15:54,600 --> 00:15:58,200 Speaker 1: so we look, he's an egomaniac, right, I mean that 266 00:15:58,320 --> 00:16:01,640 Speaker 1: was obvious from the press, the press briefings he was 267 00:16:01,680 --> 00:16:03,720 Speaker 1: giving during COVID, the way that he handled all of 268 00:16:03,720 --> 00:16:08,600 Speaker 1: this stuff. But it is remarkable because he may force us. 269 00:16:08,680 --> 00:16:13,240 Speaker 1: Here's the thing all along, I wasn't. I wasn't calling 270 00:16:13,280 --> 00:16:15,880 Speaker 1: for Cuomo to step down or for him to be 271 00:16:16,480 --> 00:16:20,320 Speaker 1: no longer the governor because that he allegedly like touched 272 00:16:20,320 --> 00:16:24,000 Speaker 1: someone in the stomach area or something or whatever it was. 273 00:16:24,080 --> 00:16:28,480 Speaker 1: Because he not only sent COVID positive patients back into 274 00:16:28,560 --> 00:16:31,440 Speaker 1: nursing homes, but then lied about it and covered it 275 00:16:31,520 --> 00:16:34,520 Speaker 1: up officially. You cannot have someone who does that during 276 00:16:34,520 --> 00:16:37,080 Speaker 1: a crisis continue to be in power or else you 277 00:16:37,120 --> 00:16:40,000 Speaker 1: make a mockery of the idea of any accountability, any 278 00:16:40,080 --> 00:16:44,359 Speaker 1: legal accountability too. So he may force us to relitigate, 279 00:16:44,400 --> 00:16:47,080 Speaker 1: if you will, that issue in the public, because that's 280 00:16:47,080 --> 00:16:49,160 Speaker 1: really the problem. And I think Clay he's more vulnerable 281 00:16:49,160 --> 00:16:51,040 Speaker 1: on that than he was in the past because so 282 00:16:51,120 --> 00:16:53,160 Speaker 1: much of the fauci I COVID narrative, which he was 283 00:16:53,160 --> 00:16:55,680 Speaker 1: a huge part of in the early days, has all 284 00:16:55,720 --> 00:16:59,280 Speaker 1: come apart. Fauci said that he was a hero, you know, 285 00:16:59,360 --> 00:17:02,840 Speaker 1: he argued. Fauci did that Cuomo couldn't have handled anything 286 00:17:02,920 --> 00:17:06,240 Speaker 1: better that the whole process of New York. Mean, he 287 00:17:06,280 --> 00:17:11,200 Speaker 1: wrote a book louding his overall response along with everybody 288 00:17:11,200 --> 00:17:13,720 Speaker 1: else in New York. And remember in the early days 289 00:17:13,800 --> 00:17:17,240 Speaker 1: of the Cuomo Show on CNN, when Chris Cuomo would 290 00:17:17,240 --> 00:17:21,200 Speaker 1: interview his brother Andrew, the idea was, oh, these guys 291 00:17:21,320 --> 00:17:24,800 Speaker 1: are are heroes of COVID. They even stage that fake 292 00:17:24,880 --> 00:17:29,679 Speaker 1: recovery for Chris Cuomo from COVID when he came out 293 00:17:29,720 --> 00:17:32,000 Speaker 1: of the basement, when he was never actually in danger, 294 00:17:32,400 --> 00:17:36,880 Speaker 1: and all of this was a total sham. And what's 295 00:17:36,920 --> 00:17:40,119 Speaker 1: amazing is I do think there's a strong chance that 296 00:17:40,200 --> 00:17:42,639 Speaker 1: Andrew Cuomo will come back from this, I really do. 297 00:17:42,720 --> 00:17:46,360 Speaker 1: And there's some talk that he may challenge Letitia James, 298 00:17:46,640 --> 00:17:49,600 Speaker 1: the Attorney General of New York, in sort of a 299 00:17:49,640 --> 00:17:53,320 Speaker 1: head to head Battle Royal because it was her investigation 300 00:17:53,680 --> 00:17:56,119 Speaker 1: that effectively pushed him out of the office in the 301 00:17:56,119 --> 00:17:58,320 Speaker 1: first place. You know who's going to be his press secretary, 302 00:17:58,800 --> 00:18:02,160 Speaker 1: Probably Alison golis I. Was gonna say Chris Cuomo, but okay, 303 00:18:02,480 --> 00:18:05,560 Speaker 1: let's clost enough. That was Alison golost I. 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I l A stay to the 323 00:19:08,600 --> 00:19:11,359 Speaker 1: union address tonight, Clan Buck going strong here in the 324 00:19:11,400 --> 00:19:13,879 Speaker 1: third hour, getting you ready for it, or really you 325 00:19:13,920 --> 00:19:15,399 Speaker 1: don't even have to watch it because we'll just tell 326 00:19:15,400 --> 00:19:17,159 Speaker 1: you all about it tomorrow. Whether there's that, if you 327 00:19:17,200 --> 00:19:20,360 Speaker 1: want to do something more entertaining, there's a new Vikings 328 00:19:20,760 --> 00:19:24,679 Speaker 1: show on that was good. I see my brothers make 329 00:19:24,720 --> 00:19:28,720 Speaker 1: fun of me. They say, anytime there's swords meed and 330 00:19:29,040 --> 00:19:33,760 Speaker 1: dudes with you know, with beards, are you know all 331 00:19:33,800 --> 00:19:36,000 Speaker 1: about it? Yeah? I'm all about that stuff. I love 332 00:19:36,080 --> 00:19:40,520 Speaker 1: The Last Kingdom, which was a very good show on Netflix. 333 00:19:40,560 --> 00:19:43,720 Speaker 1: That's that's essentially the Viking invasion of what is today's 334 00:19:44,119 --> 00:19:48,439 Speaker 1: uh UK United Kingdom. Very good. The Vikings on what 335 00:19:48,520 --> 00:19:51,560 Speaker 1: Discovery Channel. I mean, I celebrate the whole, the whole. 336 00:19:51,600 --> 00:19:54,480 Speaker 1: I haven't watched any of those shows. Did you watch 337 00:19:54,560 --> 00:19:56,520 Speaker 1: Game of Thrones? Right? I mean you had to love 338 00:19:56,560 --> 00:19:59,919 Speaker 1: Game of Thrones. I'm like a Game of Thrones aficionado. 339 00:20:00,080 --> 00:20:02,480 Speaker 1: I mean I would say I've seen. I saw every episode, 340 00:20:02,480 --> 00:20:04,679 Speaker 1: and I watched them. I thought the first two seasons 341 00:20:04,680 --> 00:20:06,800 Speaker 1: were actually the best two seasons, and I watched those 342 00:20:06,880 --> 00:20:08,840 Speaker 1: more than I watched it more than one through on those. 343 00:20:09,200 --> 00:20:10,880 Speaker 1: But I'm just saying, if you want to watch I 344 00:20:10,960 --> 00:20:14,520 Speaker 1: heard Clay eighteen eighty three kind of got a little, 345 00:20:14,760 --> 00:20:16,960 Speaker 1: a little jump the shark, a little off the rails. 346 00:20:17,480 --> 00:20:20,359 Speaker 1: I watched the first three episodes, and then I feel 347 00:20:20,440 --> 00:20:22,960 Speaker 1: like such an old man. I couldn't figure out how 348 00:20:22,960 --> 00:20:26,520 Speaker 1: to find it on my television. So I haven't watched 349 00:20:26,560 --> 00:20:28,520 Speaker 1: like the last six or seven. So I'm trying to 350 00:20:28,560 --> 00:20:32,600 Speaker 1: finish Cobra Kai with my kids. We're watching the Karate 351 00:20:32,760 --> 00:20:36,040 Speaker 1: Kid Show. There's four seasons of that, and I've got 352 00:20:36,040 --> 00:20:38,080 Speaker 1: to figure out how to get back to watching eighteen 353 00:20:38,119 --> 00:20:40,720 Speaker 1: eighty three because again I don't even know how to 354 00:20:40,760 --> 00:20:43,440 Speaker 1: find it on my show. So yeah, you could be 355 00:20:43,480 --> 00:20:45,359 Speaker 1: watching any of those things instead of the State of 356 00:20:45,359 --> 00:20:47,000 Speaker 1: the Union, and we'll tell you everything that you miss 357 00:20:47,040 --> 00:20:48,800 Speaker 1: because you and I will be watching at nine o'clock 358 00:20:48,800 --> 00:20:51,520 Speaker 1: Eastern tonight, and it's one of these one of these 359 00:20:51,560 --> 00:20:53,320 Speaker 1: moments where this is our job, so we really do 360 00:20:53,359 --> 00:20:54,720 Speaker 1: this so you don't have to because it's gonna go 361 00:20:54,800 --> 00:20:57,400 Speaker 1: on probably an hour and a half. Yes, and it's 362 00:20:57,400 --> 00:20:58,800 Speaker 1: gonna be a lot, you know, a lot of what 363 00:20:58,840 --> 00:21:01,120 Speaker 1: he's gonna say anything that's really worthwhile. So this is great. 364 00:21:01,240 --> 00:21:03,640 Speaker 1: We provide a service here. You join us tomorrow, you'll 365 00:21:03,680 --> 00:21:04,840 Speaker 1: know everything you need to know about the state of 366 00:21:04,880 --> 00:21:06,800 Speaker 1: you and will play the audio that actually makes a 367 00:21:06,840 --> 00:21:09,880 Speaker 1: difference or one way or the other. But one one 368 00:21:09,960 --> 00:21:13,040 Speaker 1: theme I think will be interesting is when they try 369 00:21:13,040 --> 00:21:14,840 Speaker 1: they're gonna have to try to lean into some of this. 370 00:21:14,880 --> 00:21:19,000 Speaker 1: They're gonna have to do the like Biden's actually pretty great, folks, 371 00:21:19,080 --> 00:21:20,760 Speaker 1: They're gonna have to say that. He's gonna have to 372 00:21:20,800 --> 00:21:25,080 Speaker 1: say that with a straight face. This this is classic Kamala. 373 00:21:25,119 --> 00:21:28,560 Speaker 1: Harris just decided, you know, she went off script and 374 00:21:28,560 --> 00:21:31,760 Speaker 1: decided that she was gonna, you know, show show what 375 00:21:31,840 --> 00:21:35,360 Speaker 1: Kamala's got for everybody, kind of lay it out there 376 00:21:35,440 --> 00:21:37,919 Speaker 1: and uh and you know, do do some of that 377 00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:40,120 Speaker 1: politics stuff that she's supposed to be really good at. 378 00:21:40,480 --> 00:21:43,760 Speaker 1: Here she is explaining to folks how good things are. 379 00:21:43,800 --> 00:21:47,520 Speaker 1: In a way, because as we all know, elections matter, 380 00:21:49,520 --> 00:21:52,719 Speaker 1: and when folks vote, they order what they want, and 381 00:21:52,840 --> 00:21:59,560 Speaker 1: in this case, they got what they asked for and 382 00:21:59,600 --> 00:22:04,439 Speaker 1: went on script a little bit. Can I just okay, 383 00:22:04,640 --> 00:22:07,560 Speaker 1: I don't know if she's specifically referring to one thing 384 00:22:07,560 --> 00:22:10,480 Speaker 1: in that clip. I can just tell you though, that 385 00:22:10,600 --> 00:22:13,600 Speaker 1: you know, one one policy or one decision people want 386 00:22:14,080 --> 00:22:16,159 Speaker 1: people all over the internet and then this clip is 387 00:22:16,160 --> 00:22:19,320 Speaker 1: going viral that because they're saying really high inflation? Open 388 00:22:19,680 --> 00:22:22,240 Speaker 1: is is this what we actually ordered? So to speak 389 00:22:22,600 --> 00:22:26,280 Speaker 1: off the political menu And if you're wondering how much 390 00:22:26,320 --> 00:22:30,120 Speaker 1: more they'll do, the leaning thing here is Nancy Pelosi 391 00:22:30,240 --> 00:22:32,040 Speaker 1: is a gift to our side in so many ways. 392 00:22:32,320 --> 00:22:35,159 Speaker 1: Here she is today talking about how it's great. You 393 00:22:35,160 --> 00:22:37,200 Speaker 1: just don't realize how great it is now. The polls 394 00:22:37,240 --> 00:22:40,880 Speaker 1: show Americans deeply pessimistic about the economy. Inflation is only 395 00:22:40,920 --> 00:22:43,200 Speaker 1: going to rise with what's happening on the energy front, 396 00:22:43,520 --> 00:22:47,000 Speaker 1: with this warm What do you attribute to that? What 397 00:22:48,359 --> 00:22:51,320 Speaker 1: the decline in the presence polls even on COVID, On 398 00:22:51,359 --> 00:22:53,960 Speaker 1: how he's handled it? What can he do to turn 399 00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:57,000 Speaker 1: this around? Well? I think to nice going to be 400 00:22:57,119 --> 00:23:00,800 Speaker 1: very important because for people to appreciate what the president 401 00:23:00,880 --> 00:23:04,560 Speaker 1: has done and working together with the Congress, they have 402 00:23:04,680 --> 00:23:08,520 Speaker 1: to know what it is. President Lincoln said, public sentiment 403 00:23:08,640 --> 00:23:12,199 Speaker 1: is everything. With it, you can accomplish almost everything without it, 404 00:23:12,280 --> 00:23:17,639 Speaker 1: practically nothing. But people have to know for public sentiment. Oh, 405 00:23:17,760 --> 00:23:19,679 Speaker 1: not a good argument. We just not a good argument. 406 00:23:19,720 --> 00:23:22,840 Speaker 1: We just don't know enough to know how great Joe 407 00:23:22,880 --> 00:23:26,240 Speaker 1: Biden is. Clay, that's the same argument that Joe Biden made. 408 00:23:26,680 --> 00:23:29,480 Speaker 1: You know, it sounds ridiculous coming out of Nancy Pelosi, 409 00:23:29,560 --> 00:23:33,000 Speaker 1: but was it. Over the weekend, Joe Biden said, Well, 410 00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:35,399 Speaker 1: a lot of the reason why people are unhappy is 411 00:23:35,440 --> 00:23:38,040 Speaker 1: they just don't know how good things are. And I 412 00:23:38,119 --> 00:23:41,199 Speaker 1: got to tell you, people know. You know when you 413 00:23:41,280 --> 00:23:44,960 Speaker 1: go to the grocery store and you're getting ten or 414 00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:48,879 Speaker 1: fifteen percent less for what you're paying than you used to. 415 00:23:49,200 --> 00:23:51,840 Speaker 1: You know, when you go to fill up your gas 416 00:23:51,880 --> 00:23:55,840 Speaker 1: tank and it costs over a hundred dollars to do it. Oh, 417 00:23:55,920 --> 00:24:00,720 Speaker 1: people know. And so the idea that people have it good. 418 00:24:00,760 --> 00:24:04,119 Speaker 1: And again, I think this is important because they're gonna 419 00:24:04,119 --> 00:24:06,359 Speaker 1: try to we know, they're gonna sell things that are 420 00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:08,760 Speaker 1: untrue because Biden's gonna say, hey, we've got six million 421 00:24:08,840 --> 00:24:11,040 Speaker 1: new jobs or whatever it is since I took office. No, 422 00:24:11,119 --> 00:24:15,199 Speaker 1: you don't. People who have not had their jobs. We 423 00:24:15,280 --> 00:24:17,840 Speaker 1: have not got back the same number of jobs that 424 00:24:17,920 --> 00:24:20,480 Speaker 1: we had in March of twenty twenty when we went 425 00:24:20,680 --> 00:24:24,000 Speaker 1: with fifteen days to stop the spread. We still haven't 426 00:24:24,080 --> 00:24:28,600 Speaker 1: regained those jobs, okay, And so this idea that we 427 00:24:28,640 --> 00:24:31,679 Speaker 1: have created new jobs is a lie. And even the 428 00:24:31,760 --> 00:24:34,840 Speaker 1: wages for the jobs that people have now, they're not 429 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:38,760 Speaker 1: increasing as fast as inflation. And people understand this. But 430 00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:42,040 Speaker 1: if you get a five percent raise but inflation seven 431 00:24:42,080 --> 00:24:44,200 Speaker 1: and a half percent, you have two and a half 432 00:24:44,240 --> 00:24:47,760 Speaker 1: percent less purchase power than you had before. People know 433 00:24:47,840 --> 00:24:50,040 Speaker 1: this when you can't go out buck if you've seen 434 00:24:50,480 --> 00:24:54,400 Speaker 1: what the cost of cars are now, Yes, it used 435 00:24:54,440 --> 00:24:57,399 Speaker 1: to be the case that you could go out and 436 00:24:57,480 --> 00:25:01,880 Speaker 1: almost nobody paid whatever the list price was for a vehicle. 437 00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:04,840 Speaker 1: Now right, it was unheard of. Whatever the price is 438 00:25:04,880 --> 00:25:08,320 Speaker 1: the sticker price in that window, you would pay five thousand, 439 00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:11,920 Speaker 1: ten thousand dollars less. Sometimes Now people are paying for 440 00:25:11,960 --> 00:25:14,640 Speaker 1: some cars I saw the other day. If you want 441 00:25:14,640 --> 00:25:17,159 Speaker 1: to get a Ford Bronco, you have to pay twenty 442 00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:20,840 Speaker 1: thousand dollars more than what the list price would be. 443 00:25:21,160 --> 00:25:24,360 Speaker 1: Same thing for many other cars. Used car prices. I mean, 444 00:25:24,560 --> 00:25:28,639 Speaker 1: these are real impacts in people's lives. Things are not 445 00:25:28,800 --> 00:25:31,040 Speaker 1: going well, and the idea that you're going to try 446 00:25:31,080 --> 00:25:33,560 Speaker 1: to tell them that they're just mistaken and not understanding 447 00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:37,000 Speaker 1: their own finances is frankly insulting. And to use your 448 00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:40,320 Speaker 1: phrase from yesterday, that dog ain't hunting anywhere. I was 449 00:25:40,359 --> 00:25:43,240 Speaker 1: in Palm Beach for the Marlago interview and I went 450 00:25:43,240 --> 00:25:46,760 Speaker 1: out to dinner beforehand, a little French, little French beach 451 00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:50,560 Speaker 1: stro in Palm Beach, Clay and the owner manager the 452 00:25:50,560 --> 00:25:52,760 Speaker 1: restaurant was standing out front. He's very French. He's smoking 453 00:25:52,800 --> 00:25:56,280 Speaker 1: a cigarette and he goes, you see this car over here, 454 00:25:56,560 --> 00:25:58,320 Speaker 1: and I'm like, yeah, he points he's got it. He's 455 00:25:58,320 --> 00:26:00,760 Speaker 1: got a nice little Mercedes. You know. Yeah. He says, 456 00:26:00,800 --> 00:26:05,480 Speaker 1: he sees this card. Pay forty percent over MSRP for 457 00:26:05,560 --> 00:26:09,160 Speaker 1: this vehicle. Where it for me? Perhaps? But I want 458 00:26:09,160 --> 00:26:12,600 Speaker 1: to say one thing, Resident Biden, and now I'd have 459 00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:15,480 Speaker 1: to bleep what he said. He was not happy, yeah 460 00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:18,520 Speaker 1: about paying. He said he paid forty percent over sticker 461 00:26:18,720 --> 00:26:20,320 Speaker 1: because it was a luxury car. It was one of 462 00:26:20,320 --> 00:26:23,919 Speaker 1: those um one of those like Mercedes Jeep, you know, 463 00:26:24,040 --> 00:26:27,040 Speaker 1: fancy a gwagon, yes, G wagons, Yeah, it was a gwagon. 464 00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:30,879 Speaker 1: G wagons are wildly popular, the Ford Broncos. I mean 465 00:26:30,920 --> 00:26:33,280 Speaker 1: there are certain cars that it's not. I mean, on 466 00:26:33,359 --> 00:26:37,000 Speaker 1: the watch, you're paying twenty and thirty and forty thousand 467 00:26:37,080 --> 00:26:39,600 Speaker 1: dollars sometimes over what the sticker price would other wise 468 00:26:39,640 --> 00:26:41,800 Speaker 1: being unheard of. Nobody's ever seen thing like this, and 469 00:26:41,920 --> 00:26:44,560 Speaker 1: they want to tell you. What's amazing is the same 470 00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:46,800 Speaker 1: way that we can line up as we have the 471 00:26:46,880 --> 00:26:49,800 Speaker 1: mask mandate states or the non mask mandate states and say, 472 00:26:49,840 --> 00:26:53,160 Speaker 1: look at this data. Everybody, what do you see When 473 00:26:53,160 --> 00:26:55,920 Speaker 1: you look at that data, you see that doesn't make it. 474 00:26:55,920 --> 00:26:57,919 Speaker 1: You know, the curve goes up the same time, it 475 00:26:57,960 --> 00:27:00,439 Speaker 1: comes down the same time. If anything. I actually some 476 00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:02,600 Speaker 1: of the non mask mandate states did a little bit better, 477 00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:04,760 Speaker 1: which I can't even explain that other I think the 478 00:27:05,080 --> 00:27:06,840 Speaker 1: I was thinking about that. I think the explanation would 479 00:27:06,880 --> 00:27:09,440 Speaker 1: probably be that the unmasked states probably have a higher 480 00:27:09,560 --> 00:27:12,919 Speaker 1: rate of COVID infection and so they might have more 481 00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:16,480 Speaker 1: natural thing that That's the only explanation I can think of, 482 00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:18,119 Speaker 1: because I was looking at that data too. But the 483 00:27:18,160 --> 00:27:20,480 Speaker 1: fascinating thing about the economic argument, and it goes to 484 00:27:20,560 --> 00:27:23,840 Speaker 1: the heart of what Nancy Pelosi is trying here, is 485 00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:26,560 Speaker 1: that to believe their explanations, you'd have to stop and 486 00:27:26,600 --> 00:27:30,719 Speaker 1: say to yourself, somehow, this didn't happen in the first 487 00:27:30,840 --> 00:27:33,919 Speaker 1: year of the pandemic, when Trump was dealing with this, 488 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:36,399 Speaker 1: when we did have actual shutdowns and all this stuff, 489 00:27:36,560 --> 00:27:38,960 Speaker 1: or at least it didn't happen to the same degree. 490 00:27:39,440 --> 00:27:44,720 Speaker 1: Biden comes into office, decision making changes, spending changes, and 491 00:27:44,800 --> 00:27:48,280 Speaker 1: all of a sudden you have rising inflation, supply chain issues, 492 00:27:48,560 --> 00:27:54,280 Speaker 1: almost like democrats overregulate over tax and create barriers to 493 00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:58,760 Speaker 1: economic productivity in the name of fairness and social justice. 494 00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:02,720 Speaker 1: And you know it's somehow, of course, but like inflation, somehow, 495 00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:05,160 Speaker 1: Biden comes in and all of a sudden, the inflation 496 00:28:05,280 --> 00:28:07,720 Speaker 1: starts going up right after they spend one point nine 497 00:28:07,760 --> 00:28:10,199 Speaker 1: trillion dollars in the beginning of the year. So I 498 00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:11,800 Speaker 1: think it's very clear, Clay, it's gonna be a tough 499 00:28:11,840 --> 00:28:13,840 Speaker 1: argument for them to make. But then again, the alternative 500 00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:16,560 Speaker 1: is kind of like the mask thing, Clan Bucker, Right. 501 00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:18,359 Speaker 1: I don't think they're gonna say that it's a shame 502 00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:20,320 Speaker 1: they should, but and by the way, you know, there's 503 00:28:20,320 --> 00:28:22,000 Speaker 1: gonna be a lot of media as soon as Joe 504 00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:24,320 Speaker 1: Biden finishes that will be gushing. I mean, we could 505 00:28:24,320 --> 00:28:28,600 Speaker 1: probably go ahead and give our reviews incredible attempt to 506 00:28:28,680 --> 00:28:33,800 Speaker 1: bring America together and fight back against the forces of autocracy. 507 00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:35,960 Speaker 1: I could write their reviews right now before we even 508 00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:37,800 Speaker 1: see the way. Props to a producer Mike here in 509 00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:40,000 Speaker 1: New Yorker point on it. He's like, remember, they're gonna 510 00:28:40,040 --> 00:28:44,040 Speaker 1: make a lot of either explicit or just passing references 511 00:28:44,080 --> 00:28:49,240 Speaker 1: to unlike the insurrectionist, terrorist, white supremacist who was the predo. 512 00:28:49,840 --> 00:28:56,200 Speaker 1: Because if there, if they're framework for assessing Biden is 513 00:28:56,240 --> 00:28:59,560 Speaker 1: the objective reality that the American people are experiencing. Well, 514 00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:01,400 Speaker 1: of course it looks horrible, right Clay, So what are 515 00:29:01,440 --> 00:29:05,239 Speaker 1: they gonna do? Biden has pulled us away from the 516 00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:08,400 Speaker 1: end of our republic, a threat to our democracy. You know, 517 00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:11,040 Speaker 1: all the hysterical stuff that they tie to Trump. Perhaps 518 00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:13,000 Speaker 1: producer by totally true. By the way they're gonna do. 519 00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:15,000 Speaker 1: They're gonna do a lot of that. You're gonna hear 520 00:29:15,040 --> 00:29:17,800 Speaker 1: that at least it's not Trump still scared. Well they 521 00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:20,160 Speaker 1: actually that's we know they are still scared of Trump. 522 00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:22,880 Speaker 1: But conversation we'll get into more in the months ahead. 523 00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:26,000 Speaker 1: When it comes to ends underwear that's right. 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They said, this is a headline, 551 00:30:55,600 --> 00:31:00,680 Speaker 1: it's not widespread and changing legal documents to match gender 552 00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:05,160 Speaker 1: requires a long process. CBS News spoke with one woman 553 00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:09,040 Speaker 1: in Kiev who is now battling a war within a 554 00:31:09,040 --> 00:31:14,560 Speaker 1: war amid Russia's invasion. So CBS News everything that is 555 00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:17,400 Speaker 1: going on right now, they decide that they need to 556 00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:21,560 Speaker 1: cover one woman's quest to become a woman or whatever 557 00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:26,560 Speaker 1: as it pertains to her transgender, her transitioning. You really 558 00:31:26,560 --> 00:31:28,760 Speaker 1: do think that it's just a matter of time before 559 00:31:28,760 --> 00:31:31,240 Speaker 1: there's a think piece from CBS to the Washington Post 560 00:31:31,280 --> 00:31:35,280 Speaker 1: about how the threat of nuclear annihilation could really slow 561 00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:38,080 Speaker 1: down the transgender movement. I mean, these people have a 562 00:31:38,080 --> 00:31:42,920 Speaker 1: way of looking at the most serious of issues and 563 00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:46,520 Speaker 1: finding a way to make it actually an opportunity for 564 00:31:46,760 --> 00:31:50,480 Speaker 1: left wing virtue signaling in some capacity. You know, we're 565 00:31:50,480 --> 00:31:53,000 Speaker 1: in the middle of a war. It's like, well, as 566 00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:57,040 Speaker 1: things get really really you know, ugly and violent in Europe, 567 00:31:57,320 --> 00:32:00,520 Speaker 1: you know, diversity may be a casualty in the Russia. 568 00:32:00,560 --> 00:32:02,120 Speaker 1: I mean, you know, you look at the way that 569 00:32:02,160 --> 00:32:05,440 Speaker 1: they talk. What's the old little joke about the newspaper 570 00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:08,040 Speaker 1: headline right world about to end women and women in 571 00:32:08,080 --> 00:32:11,040 Speaker 1: minority's hardest hit. That was the old joke about the newspapers. 572 00:32:11,040 --> 00:32:15,000 Speaker 1: It's like that, it is crazy to think about. And 573 00:32:15,080 --> 00:32:16,400 Speaker 1: by the way, as we get ready for the State 574 00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:19,520 Speaker 1: of the Union, just to reiterate, Joe Biden yesterday walked 575 00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:22,600 Speaker 1: across the entire White House of lawn wearing his big 576 00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:25,920 Speaker 1: black mask because for no reason, even though he's outdoors. 577 00:32:26,240 --> 00:32:29,000 Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden have both announced that they 578 00:32:29,040 --> 00:32:31,760 Speaker 1: will not be wearing masks. No one has to wear 579 00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:35,920 Speaker 1: a mask inside of Congress, as they miraculously ended their 580 00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:38,160 Speaker 1: mask bandy just in time for the State of the 581 00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:42,120 Speaker 1: Union address. And one of the foremost proponents of masking 582 00:32:42,360 --> 00:32:44,280 Speaker 1: has been The New York Times. New York Times and 583 00:32:44,320 --> 00:32:47,680 Speaker 1: their editorial this morning, Buck said it's time to take 584 00:32:47,760 --> 00:32:51,440 Speaker 1: masks off of school kids and probably of all of 585 00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:54,520 Speaker 1: the medical experts outside of the fauci world. These are 586 00:32:54,520 --> 00:32:58,840 Speaker 1: people who are theoretically independent medical experts. Doctor Lena Win. 587 00:32:59,120 --> 00:33:03,680 Speaker 1: A lot of you have heard her on CNN recently, Buck, 588 00:33:03,720 --> 00:33:07,080 Speaker 1: because we played these cuts. She argued that unvaccinated people 589 00:33:07,120 --> 00:33:10,120 Speaker 1: shouldn't be able to leave their houses. She argued that 590 00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:13,920 Speaker 1: unvaccinated people shouldn't be able to fly on airplanes. Well, 591 00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:16,239 Speaker 1: now she wants everybody to know that it's time to 592 00:33:16,240 --> 00:33:19,240 Speaker 1: get back to normal, and she now is arguing that 593 00:33:19,320 --> 00:33:22,080 Speaker 1: kids shouldn't have to wear masks in schools. But we've 594 00:33:22,120 --> 00:33:25,680 Speaker 1: got the receipts. I thought you guys would enjoy CNN's 595 00:33:25,720 --> 00:33:29,680 Speaker 1: foremost expert on COVID. Listen to some of the things 596 00:33:29,680 --> 00:33:34,880 Speaker 1: she said in recent months. Federal mask mandate, Yeah, this point, 597 00:33:34,920 --> 00:33:38,320 Speaker 1: there absolutely should be that mandate, because we know that 598 00:33:38,720 --> 00:33:41,280 Speaker 1: if all of us were masks, we reduce the chance 599 00:33:41,360 --> 00:33:45,400 Speaker 1: of transmitting or acquiring COVID nineteen by five times. There 600 00:33:45,520 --> 00:33:48,719 Speaker 1: is a real danger where we politicize science that public 601 00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:53,040 Speaker 1: trust is broken when we are politicizing science instead of 602 00:33:53,040 --> 00:33:56,400 Speaker 1: following scientific process. My kids are not eligible to be vaccinated. 603 00:33:56,440 --> 00:33:58,040 Speaker 1: It's not that I don't want them to be vaccinated, 604 00:33:58,160 --> 00:34:01,320 Speaker 1: is that they can't be and I do really worry me. 605 00:34:01,520 --> 00:34:03,239 Speaker 1: I have an almost four year old and a one 606 00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:06,120 Speaker 1: year old. I cannot wait until they're eligible to receive 607 00:34:06,160 --> 00:34:10,000 Speaker 1: the vaccine. I think until then, mask wearing four kids, 608 00:34:10,239 --> 00:34:13,719 Speaker 1: especially if we are living in high transmission areas, is 609 00:34:13,760 --> 00:34:15,640 Speaker 1: still going to be important. And what we really need 610 00:34:15,680 --> 00:34:18,160 Speaker 1: to do at this point is to make vaccination the 611 00:34:18,239 --> 00:34:21,000 Speaker 1: easy choice. It needs to be hard for people to 612 00:34:21,080 --> 00:34:26,200 Speaker 1: remain unvaccinated. Wow. Quite a reminder Clay of what we 613 00:34:26,200 --> 00:34:29,280 Speaker 1: were dealing with doctor Wenn. I think on the issue 614 00:34:29,320 --> 00:34:31,640 Speaker 1: of children, how she said she wanted to make sure 615 00:34:31,640 --> 00:34:33,920 Speaker 1: her kids were vaccinated or one year old. We're one 616 00:34:33,960 --> 00:34:37,240 Speaker 1: year old. This is just this is just reflecting back 617 00:34:37,320 --> 00:34:41,640 Speaker 1: to her preferred audience, a CNN audience, their anxiety so 618 00:34:41,680 --> 00:34:44,719 Speaker 1: they feel more, Okay. I refuse to believe that she's that. 619 00:34:45,200 --> 00:34:48,120 Speaker 1: I look, she's a smart woman, obviously right, she has, 620 00:34:48,160 --> 00:34:51,440 Speaker 1: you know, high level of intelligence, very poor judgment and 621 00:34:51,480 --> 00:34:54,000 Speaker 1: I think not very honest and work for Plan Parenter, 622 00:34:54,040 --> 00:34:55,759 Speaker 1: which is a whole rand. Plan Parenter, which is a 623 00:34:55,760 --> 00:34:59,160 Speaker 1: whole other conversation. But I refuse to believe that she's 624 00:34:59,160 --> 00:35:01,160 Speaker 1: so foolish that she actually thought her one year old 625 00:35:01,239 --> 00:35:03,279 Speaker 1: was in jeopardy from COVID. I think she just knew 626 00:35:03,880 --> 00:35:08,800 Speaker 1: the hysterics at home watching c and an MSNBC need 627 00:35:08,800 --> 00:35:10,640 Speaker 1: to hear that from me or they'll be mad. So 628 00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:12,080 Speaker 1: she went along with it. And by the way, I 629 00:35:12,080 --> 00:35:15,640 Speaker 1: think that was often what was going on this whole 630 00:35:15,680 --> 00:35:18,400 Speaker 1: time is people knew what their audience, they preferred Democrat 631 00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:20,479 Speaker 1: audience wanted to hear and see, and they went along 632 00:35:20,480 --> 00:35:23,799 Speaker 1: with They weren't actually that dumb. And we should reiterate again. 633 00:35:23,840 --> 00:35:25,560 Speaker 1: We talked about this in the first hour, but I 634 00:35:25,600 --> 00:35:28,360 Speaker 1: would encourage people to go read these articles for yourself. 635 00:35:28,520 --> 00:35:33,279 Speaker 1: But if you have kids ages five to eleven, they 636 00:35:33,320 --> 00:35:37,440 Speaker 1: have been permitted to get the COVID vaccine, the Fizer vaccine. 637 00:35:37,960 --> 00:35:41,000 Speaker 1: They just came out with data that said five to 638 00:35:41,200 --> 00:35:44,719 Speaker 1: eleven year olds did not have a decreased risk of 639 00:35:44,880 --> 00:35:48,440 Speaker 1: getting COVID if they had been vaccinated. Let I repeat that, 640 00:35:49,040 --> 00:35:51,680 Speaker 1: if you had a five to eleven year old, and 641 00:35:51,840 --> 00:35:54,480 Speaker 1: I do. I've got two kids in that range. My 642 00:35:54,600 --> 00:35:56,920 Speaker 1: kids are not getting vaccinated because I looked at the 643 00:35:57,000 --> 00:36:00,200 Speaker 1: data and knew that they weren't at risk. But even 644 00:36:00,280 --> 00:36:03,839 Speaker 1: if you went and got your kids vaccinated ages five 645 00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:09,000 Speaker 1: to eleven, the Fiser data has now come out. Doctor Fauci, everyone, 646 00:36:09,160 --> 00:36:11,440 Speaker 1: doctor Wynn, they were all telling you to get your 647 00:36:11,520 --> 00:36:16,240 Speaker 1: kids vaccinated did not reduce their chance of getting COVID 648 00:36:16,680 --> 00:36:19,279 Speaker 1: at all. I mean that is pretty seismic when you 649 00:36:19,320 --> 00:36:22,920 Speaker 1: consider the risk factors. Anytime you take a shot that 650 00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:27,480 Speaker 1: you don't need, zero health benefit to your kids in 651 00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:30,799 Speaker 1: terms of getting COVID five two eleven playing. What are 652 00:36:30,800 --> 00:36:33,640 Speaker 1: your last minute prep for the State of the Union. 653 00:36:33,640 --> 00:36:35,480 Speaker 1: What is going to be served tonight for dinner in 654 00:36:35,520 --> 00:36:38,359 Speaker 1: the Travis household and in preparation for this, I think 655 00:36:38,360 --> 00:36:41,200 Speaker 1: I'm going with takeout food, either Chinese or Mexican, because 656 00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:44,560 Speaker 1: I love that stuff. What about you? I think we 657 00:36:44,640 --> 00:36:47,359 Speaker 1: may go with steak tonight. I'm feeling like a stake night. 658 00:36:47,360 --> 00:36:49,880 Speaker 1: A'd some hardy in my stomach so I don't throw 659 00:36:49,960 --> 00:36:52,800 Speaker 1: up when I hear all the ridiculous propositions that Biden's 660 00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:55,080 Speaker 1: gonna put forward tonight, that we'll break it all down 661 00:36:55,080 --> 00:36:56,759 Speaker 1: for you. You don't have to watch, we'll do it 662 00:36:56,760 --> 00:36:58,640 Speaker 1: for you. Can try some ginger tea. I find that's 663 00:36:58,760 --> 00:37:00,560 Speaker 1: very helpful on the stage. Ginger Tea, I mean, you 664 00:37:00,600 --> 00:37:02,759 Speaker 1: make really questionable decisions when it comes to food.