1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:00,560 Speaker 1: He's hurt. 2 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:04,439 Speaker 2: On You's Talk eleven and ninety nine point three WBT 3 00:00:04,680 --> 00:00:09,160 Speaker 2: and Charlotte, North Carolina, please welcome Brett Winterble, filling in 4 00:00:09,320 --> 00:00:10,360 Speaker 2: for Clay and Buck. 5 00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:13,920 Speaker 1: No place I'd rather be than with everyone of one 6 00:00:13,920 --> 00:00:15,960 Speaker 1: of these people in the audience here. It's absolutely incredible. 7 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:20,320 Speaker 1: I'm so happy to be with you. President Trump and 8 00:00:20,360 --> 00:00:24,360 Speaker 1: soon to be President Trump suggested that the Panama Canal 9 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:26,960 Speaker 1: needs to be returned to the United States of America. 10 00:00:27,440 --> 00:00:30,280 Speaker 1: We're gonna let you hear what he said last night, 11 00:00:30,360 --> 00:00:32,360 Speaker 1: and we're gonna also take a look at some of 12 00:00:32,400 --> 00:00:34,760 Speaker 1: the other great stories that are out there. Our telephone 13 00:00:34,840 --> 00:00:37,120 Speaker 1: number is eight hundred and two eight two to eight 14 00:00:37,159 --> 00:00:39,840 Speaker 1: eight two. It is a pleasure to be with you here, 15 00:00:39,880 --> 00:00:42,199 Speaker 1: and it is always an honor to sit in for 16 00:00:42,840 --> 00:00:45,519 Speaker 1: Clay and Buck. I'm a huge fan of all of 17 00:00:45,520 --> 00:00:48,919 Speaker 1: their great work, and it's always fun to talk with 18 00:00:49,120 --> 00:00:52,519 Speaker 1: the smartest audiences that are out there in this country. 19 00:00:52,840 --> 00:00:55,279 Speaker 1: Let me start off with some of the sound from 20 00:00:55,360 --> 00:00:59,680 Speaker 1: last night. It was. It was a great rally, a 21 00:00:59,760 --> 00:01:02,880 Speaker 1: lot of energy. People were fired up. And by the way, 22 00:01:03,080 --> 00:01:04,800 Speaker 1: if you get a chance at some point, you want 23 00:01:04,800 --> 00:01:08,080 Speaker 1: to go and look at the very beginning of that rally. 24 00:01:08,640 --> 00:01:15,280 Speaker 1: It was incredible the first five minutes, the graphics, the sound, 25 00:01:15,920 --> 00:01:19,959 Speaker 1: they had it pitch perfect in terms of the granular 26 00:01:20,160 --> 00:01:24,000 Speaker 1: nature of everything that all of us have been through 27 00:01:24,640 --> 00:01:29,919 Speaker 1: over the last number of years. So it was absolutely phenomenal. 28 00:01:30,160 --> 00:01:32,399 Speaker 1: The President came out, he played a lot of the 29 00:01:32,480 --> 00:01:38,480 Speaker 1: hits and reinvigorated the mission that he is going to 30 00:01:38,520 --> 00:01:42,520 Speaker 1: follow in this upcoming administration. So let me give you 31 00:01:42,640 --> 00:01:46,440 Speaker 1: cut number eight. First. This is Donald Trump talking about 32 00:01:46,440 --> 00:01:49,040 Speaker 1: the imperative of securing the border, how they're going to 33 00:01:49,080 --> 00:01:53,120 Speaker 1: approach the border, and why it is such an important 34 00:01:53,160 --> 00:01:54,760 Speaker 1: point cutting and we're. 35 00:01:54,560 --> 00:01:57,200 Speaker 3: Going to change it because your border is a disaster. 36 00:01:57,320 --> 00:01:58,640 Speaker 3: Your border is a disaster. 37 00:01:58,800 --> 00:02:02,040 Speaker 1: What's going on, and you just have a few days 38 00:02:02,040 --> 00:02:02,440 Speaker 1: to wait. 39 00:02:02,920 --> 00:02:05,680 Speaker 3: We're going to be fully operational, I would say by 40 00:02:05,680 --> 00:02:08,240 Speaker 3: about two o'clock one to twentieth. 41 00:02:12,120 --> 00:02:14,239 Speaker 1: That's a win. That's a win right out of the 42 00:02:14,280 --> 00:02:17,200 Speaker 1: box because you're giving it an exact time on the 43 00:02:17,240 --> 00:02:19,880 Speaker 1: first day when this is going to start to work. Now, 44 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:23,600 Speaker 1: obviously he's going to do a little hyperbole here, but 45 00:02:23,760 --> 00:02:26,280 Speaker 1: it was a really important thing to come out with 46 00:02:26,320 --> 00:02:29,920 Speaker 1: that shot. Cut number twelve, he says, President Trump says, 47 00:02:30,080 --> 00:02:33,480 Speaker 1: we are well on our way to being done with 48 00:02:33,919 --> 00:02:37,160 Speaker 1: woke go and woke has to. 49 00:02:37,080 --> 00:02:41,800 Speaker 4: Stop because, along with everything else, it's destroying our country. 50 00:02:41,880 --> 00:02:44,919 Speaker 1: We're going to stop woke woke. 51 00:02:45,480 --> 00:02:45,960 Speaker 5: Woke is. 52 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:05,680 Speaker 4: As an example, in addition to the military basis. I 53 00:03:05,760 --> 00:03:08,639 Speaker 4: understand they want to now rename fourteen ships. 54 00:03:08,720 --> 00:03:09,960 Speaker 1: We want to rename them. 55 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:13,680 Speaker 4: Some of these ships have had a great and glorious past. 56 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:15,680 Speaker 4: They want to take the name off and put another 57 00:03:15,800 --> 00:03:16,280 Speaker 4: name down. 58 00:03:16,480 --> 00:03:18,360 Speaker 3: I can imagine whose name they're going to put up. 59 00:03:18,440 --> 00:03:19,480 Speaker 6: Not gonna happen with me. 60 00:03:20,840 --> 00:03:24,280 Speaker 1: I saw also a great shot, because what he's doing 61 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:29,120 Speaker 1: is he is he is galvanizing what this mission is 62 00:03:29,280 --> 00:03:37,920 Speaker 1: in this second term. Cut number eleven. Here's Trump with 63 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:38,960 Speaker 1: a stroke of my pen. 64 00:03:39,040 --> 00:03:43,560 Speaker 4: On day one, We're going to stop the transgender lunacy. 65 00:03:47,960 --> 00:03:52,880 Speaker 4: And I will sign executive orders to end child sexual mutilation, 66 00:03:53,680 --> 00:03:56,920 Speaker 4: get transgender out of the military and out of our 67 00:03:57,400 --> 00:04:16,200 Speaker 4: elementary schools and middle schools and score. And we will 68 00:04:16,320 --> 00:04:25,600 Speaker 4: keep men out of women's sports. And that will likewise 69 00:04:25,680 --> 00:04:28,479 Speaker 4: be done on day one. Should I do day one, 70 00:04:28,560 --> 00:04:29,560 Speaker 4: day two or day three? 71 00:04:29,680 --> 00:04:30,479 Speaker 1: How about day one? 72 00:04:30,560 --> 00:04:30,800 Speaker 5: Right? 73 00:04:33,720 --> 00:04:36,880 Speaker 4: So he comes the Trump administration, it will be the 74 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:40,560 Speaker 4: official policy of the United States government that there are 75 00:04:40,600 --> 00:04:48,560 Speaker 4: only two genders, male and female. 76 00:04:49,320 --> 00:04:53,200 Speaker 1: These are young conservative activists. This is exactly the group 77 00:04:53,240 --> 00:04:55,800 Speaker 1: of people that he was talking to last night and 78 00:04:56,040 --> 00:04:59,320 Speaker 1: who he's been messaging with over the course of the 79 00:04:59,400 --> 00:05:03,440 Speaker 1: election and then into the aftermath of the election. But 80 00:05:03,520 --> 00:05:06,919 Speaker 1: if you look at the way he's dropped this in order, 81 00:05:07,600 --> 00:05:10,760 Speaker 1: Trump is going to do the border security. Trump is 82 00:05:10,800 --> 00:05:14,960 Speaker 1: going to end woke. Trump is going to end gender confusion. 83 00:05:15,080 --> 00:05:17,960 Speaker 1: And so how does he back this up? He backs 84 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:23,480 Speaker 1: it up with cut number nine, talking about the imperative 85 00:05:24,240 --> 00:05:25,640 Speaker 1: from these voters go. 86 00:05:26,560 --> 00:05:29,600 Speaker 4: But something happened also in the election, all fifty state 87 00:05:29,680 --> 00:05:34,440 Speaker 4: shifted toward the Republican Party, every single one of them, 88 00:05:34,600 --> 00:05:38,040 Speaker 4: and together we won the largest share of African American 89 00:05:38,120 --> 00:05:43,960 Speaker 4: voters of any Republican and modern history, actually in history. 90 00:05:44,680 --> 00:05:49,080 Speaker 4: We won more Hispanic American votes than any Republican ever. 91 00:05:49,440 --> 00:05:51,200 Speaker 1: And we won the vote. 92 00:05:52,520 --> 00:05:56,080 Speaker 4: We won the Latino men. Who's a Latino man? Do 93 00:05:56,080 --> 00:05:57,640 Speaker 4: we have any Latino man? 94 00:05:58,160 --> 00:05:58,280 Speaker 6: Now? 95 00:05:58,360 --> 00:05:59,920 Speaker 1: You're not a Latino man. 96 00:06:01,520 --> 00:06:06,000 Speaker 4: Very beautiful woman, but a man you are not, of 97 00:06:06,040 --> 00:06:08,440 Speaker 4: course nowadays. 98 00:06:07,839 --> 00:06:09,480 Speaker 6: Who the hell knows that? 99 00:06:11,960 --> 00:06:12,800 Speaker 1: But we won the. 100 00:06:14,440 --> 00:06:18,359 Speaker 4: Hispanic I call Hispanic I always said do you like 101 00:06:18,480 --> 00:06:20,480 Speaker 4: Latino or Hispanic? 102 00:06:20,560 --> 00:06:21,800 Speaker 1: Let's go, let's see a free. 103 00:06:21,720 --> 00:06:26,400 Speaker 4: Paul who likes to be called Latino. Okay, that's what's 104 00:06:26,440 --> 00:06:29,960 Speaker 4: always happening. Listen to this who likes to be called Hispanic. 105 00:06:33,480 --> 00:06:34,240 Speaker 6: Not as good as you. 106 00:06:35,720 --> 00:06:39,400 Speaker 4: But we won half of all voters aged eighteen to 107 00:06:39,520 --> 00:06:42,680 Speaker 4: twenty nine. There's never been anything like that. We won 108 00:06:42,720 --> 00:06:49,679 Speaker 4: by thirty six young people, and we got the higher 109 00:06:49,760 --> 00:06:54,320 Speaker 4: share of youth vote of any Republican ever before in history. 110 00:06:55,360 --> 00:06:58,160 Speaker 1: Why do you think that is? Why do you think 111 00:06:58,600 --> 00:07:06,280 Speaker 1: that he is gravitating those young voters. It's because they 112 00:07:06,360 --> 00:07:11,200 Speaker 1: have suffered mightily. If you go back in time, go 113 00:07:11,280 --> 00:07:12,920 Speaker 1: all the way back to two thousand and eight, two 114 00:07:12,960 --> 00:07:18,120 Speaker 1: thousand and nine, you think about these young voters. They 115 00:07:18,720 --> 00:07:25,200 Speaker 1: lived a majority of their life under the Obama, Biden 116 00:07:25,840 --> 00:07:32,640 Speaker 1: Harris administrations. They lived through that they were told that 117 00:07:33,240 --> 00:07:36,720 Speaker 1: America was not a great place, that we were problematic, 118 00:07:37,160 --> 00:07:39,680 Speaker 1: that we were not the people that they tell you 119 00:07:39,800 --> 00:07:42,640 Speaker 1: we are, that we were never great, all that sort 120 00:07:42,680 --> 00:07:45,640 Speaker 1: of stuff, Right, you know what the narrative was. And 121 00:07:45,680 --> 00:07:49,040 Speaker 1: then they get one term of Trump, they get one 122 00:07:49,080 --> 00:07:52,680 Speaker 1: turn of Trump, term of Trump, and then you've got 123 00:07:52,720 --> 00:07:57,400 Speaker 1: COVID and the Wuhan flu, and you see everything go 124 00:07:58,400 --> 00:08:06,440 Speaker 1: to insanity level fifty. And then you bring in Joe Biden, 125 00:08:06,480 --> 00:08:09,920 Speaker 1: who lies to the American people about his cognitive decline 126 00:08:10,280 --> 00:08:15,800 Speaker 1: Number one, number two. He pretends to be a guy 127 00:08:15,840 --> 00:08:19,400 Speaker 1: who is a moderate, and he is not a moderate. 128 00:08:20,280 --> 00:08:22,880 Speaker 1: He is not a moderate in any way, shape or form. 129 00:08:24,320 --> 00:08:28,480 Speaker 1: So what is Trump claim here? Trump claims all fifty 130 00:08:28,680 --> 00:08:33,720 Speaker 1: states turned towards the GOP. Now they're going to try 131 00:08:33,760 --> 00:08:39,000 Speaker 1: to spin this on Colbert or Kimmel or whatever. He's 132 00:08:39,080 --> 00:08:44,000 Speaker 1: not saying Trump won all fifty states. He's saying there 133 00:08:44,120 --> 00:08:52,240 Speaker 1: is momentum moving away from the creaky old sort of 134 00:08:52,400 --> 00:08:56,320 Speaker 1: agendas that you saw play out on the lawn of 135 00:08:56,360 --> 00:09:00,240 Speaker 1: the White House and every place else. Young people don't 136 00:09:00,280 --> 00:09:06,000 Speaker 1: want to be crammed down their throat any particular ideology. 137 00:09:06,080 --> 00:09:09,600 Speaker 1: These are young people. I've got two in my family. 138 00:09:10,200 --> 00:09:13,240 Speaker 1: I've got two of them. They do their own research, 139 00:09:13,559 --> 00:09:19,920 Speaker 1: They independently verify their cynical about nonsense that comes their way. 140 00:09:20,200 --> 00:09:24,400 Speaker 1: They are not easily fooled. So when you see what 141 00:09:24,600 --> 00:09:28,680 Speaker 1: happened at this rally last night, what you see on 142 00:09:28,840 --> 00:09:38,679 Speaker 1: its face is enthusiasm. Enthusiasm for these folks lucky cut 143 00:09:38,760 --> 00:09:40,840 Speaker 1: number thirteen, please Mike. 144 00:09:43,320 --> 00:09:47,240 Speaker 4: In conclusion, on January twentieth, the United States will turn 145 00:09:47,320 --> 00:09:56,120 Speaker 4: the page forever on four long, horrible years of failure, incompetence. 146 00:09:55,880 --> 00:10:01,520 Speaker 3: National decline, and we will inaugurate a new era peace, prosperity, 147 00:10:01,640 --> 00:10:06,200 Speaker 3: and national greatness. It's going to be national greatness will 148 00:10:06,280 --> 00:10:10,480 Speaker 3: be something very very special, and you could use a 149 00:10:10,520 --> 00:10:12,720 Speaker 3: little of that, because you haven't seen any of it 150 00:10:12,800 --> 00:10:15,520 Speaker 3: in four years. What's happened to our country is so sad. 151 00:10:16,200 --> 00:10:20,120 Speaker 4: We're going to cut your taxes and inflation, slash your prices, 152 00:10:20,280 --> 00:10:24,440 Speaker 4: raise your wages, and bring thousands of factories roaring back 153 00:10:24,480 --> 00:10:29,719 Speaker 4: to America and right back here too, Arizona, because. 154 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:37,360 Speaker 1: Because the people of Arizona are clamoring for this, because 155 00:10:37,400 --> 00:10:40,560 Speaker 1: the people of Arizona deserve a secure border, because the 156 00:10:40,559 --> 00:10:44,200 Speaker 1: people of Arizona need to know that the rest of 157 00:10:44,240 --> 00:10:48,000 Speaker 1: the country is not working against you, but is working 158 00:10:48,040 --> 00:10:52,640 Speaker 1: with you. Kay I saw a story earlier, very interesting story. 159 00:10:54,000 --> 00:11:00,800 Speaker 1: Mayor Pete right the Transportation Secretary. Mayor Pete is debating 160 00:11:00,840 --> 00:11:03,719 Speaker 1: whether or not he's going to spend more money on 161 00:11:03,880 --> 00:11:12,440 Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom's insane high speed rail air Quotes project that 162 00:11:12,440 --> 00:11:15,600 Speaker 1: we've already sunk like six hundred billion dollars into It's 163 00:11:15,640 --> 00:11:19,120 Speaker 1: a garbage proposal. It's a garbage plan, and it's not 164 00:11:19,320 --> 00:11:22,880 Speaker 1: anything that anybody wants to ride. Trust me, as somebody 165 00:11:22,880 --> 00:11:24,960 Speaker 1: who lived in California for a number of years, I 166 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:30,119 Speaker 1: know just how unsavory it can be riding on the Amtrak, 167 00:11:30,800 --> 00:11:33,280 Speaker 1: and in this day and age, it's gotta be fifty 168 00:11:33,320 --> 00:11:37,360 Speaker 1: times worse, I'm sure going up and down from San 169 00:11:37,440 --> 00:11:42,600 Speaker 1: Diego to northern California. But what Trump did was he 170 00:11:42,679 --> 00:11:45,720 Speaker 1: laid out a vision, he laid out bona fides, he 171 00:11:45,800 --> 00:11:49,680 Speaker 1: laid out all of those things. Then he scared the 172 00:11:49,679 --> 00:11:53,160 Speaker 1: rest of the world coming up. I'm gonna let you 173 00:11:53,280 --> 00:11:59,640 Speaker 1: hear what he says about the Pana Mocanal stick around, 174 00:11:59,720 --> 00:12:02,760 Speaker 1: don't go anywhere. My name is Brett Wittable. You're listening 175 00:12:03,080 --> 00:12:06,120 Speaker 1: to the Clay and Buck Show eight two two eight two. 176 00:12:06,160 --> 00:12:08,600 Speaker 1: To have your say, to give us your opinion, to 177 00:12:08,640 --> 00:12:11,040 Speaker 1: give us your takes. We're happy to be here. I'm 178 00:12:11,040 --> 00:12:12,680 Speaker 1: Brett Wittable. We'll be back right after this. 179 00:12:13,559 --> 00:12:18,599 Speaker 2: Stories are freedom stories of America, inspirational stories that you 180 00:12:18,720 --> 00:12:22,760 Speaker 2: unite us all each day, spend time with Clay and 181 00:12:22,800 --> 00:12:26,120 Speaker 2: find them on the free iHeartRadio app or wherever you 182 00:12:26,240 --> 00:12:27,400 Speaker 2: get your podcasts. 183 00:12:27,679 --> 00:12:31,800 Speaker 1: Always always enjoy the time with you. Let me do this, 184 00:12:32,840 --> 00:12:36,280 Speaker 1: Let me show you this, this ability to try to 185 00:12:36,360 --> 00:12:42,160 Speaker 1: create a wedge between Musk and President Trump. Elon Musk 186 00:12:42,160 --> 00:12:45,120 Speaker 1: and President Trump. All right, so give me cut number 187 00:12:45,240 --> 00:12:49,240 Speaker 1: one first. Please. Is this gonna work then with Donald 188 00:12:49,280 --> 00:12:50,760 Speaker 1: Trump soon? I don't think so. 189 00:12:50,920 --> 00:12:53,480 Speaker 7: I mean, look, they appear to be getting along well. 190 00:12:54,080 --> 00:12:57,960 Speaker 7: Musk was very instrumental in his victory. And I hear democrats, 191 00:12:58,040 --> 00:13:01,560 Speaker 7: you know, criticizing the idea that we have unelected people 192 00:13:01,600 --> 00:13:04,040 Speaker 7: with too much influence over the government. I invite them 193 00:13:04,080 --> 00:13:05,680 Speaker 7: to pick up the Wall Street Journal from this week 194 00:13:05,720 --> 00:13:07,800 Speaker 7: and find out that unelected people have been running the 195 00:13:07,840 --> 00:13:10,800 Speaker 7: government for the last four years. I hear democrats criticism 196 00:13:11,040 --> 00:13:14,640 Speaker 7: criticizing the influence of billionaires on our politics when you've 197 00:13:14,640 --> 00:13:18,360 Speaker 7: got this Soros punk running around collecting Democrat politicians like 198 00:13:18,400 --> 00:13:20,760 Speaker 7: my kids collect Pokemon cards. So I think all the 199 00:13:20,800 --> 00:13:24,679 Speaker 7: criticism of Musk coming from the left is totally hypocritical, 200 00:13:24,760 --> 00:13:27,959 Speaker 7: totally over the top, and he is doing something interesting, 201 00:13:28,200 --> 00:13:30,199 Speaker 7: bringing some transparency to. 202 00:13:30,160 --> 00:13:36,440 Speaker 1: The federal government. So Jerry Connolly, Jerry Connelly. You've seen 203 00:13:36,480 --> 00:13:38,040 Speaker 1: him a million times if you watch a lot of 204 00:13:38,040 --> 00:13:43,960 Speaker 1: c SPAN. He's a bomb thrower of sorts from behind 205 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:47,160 Speaker 1: the you know, behind the desk. He is a Democrat 206 00:13:47,440 --> 00:13:51,559 Speaker 1: from Virginia. He is the person that they aced into 207 00:13:52,200 --> 00:13:55,520 Speaker 1: as opposed to AOC in that job, and he's doing 208 00:13:55,559 --> 00:13:58,240 Speaker 1: the same sort of narrative here cut number two. 209 00:13:58,280 --> 00:14:01,960 Speaker 8: Polase So, I think it's really ominous for the incoming 210 00:14:02,080 --> 00:14:05,480 Speaker 8: Republican majority in the Congress. There were three big losers 211 00:14:05,520 --> 00:14:09,360 Speaker 8: this week. Donald Trump, who got eclipsed by an unelected 212 00:14:09,440 --> 00:14:12,600 Speaker 8: billionaire who, as you pointed out, was ranting and raving 213 00:14:12,640 --> 00:14:16,199 Speaker 8: with one hundred and fifty tweets filled with this information, 214 00:14:16,520 --> 00:14:23,080 Speaker 8: self interest, self dealing, made up, fabricated facts, distortions, and 215 00:14:23,640 --> 00:14:29,560 Speaker 8: all of this was designed by President Trump any law 216 00:14:29,680 --> 00:14:35,520 Speaker 8: musk to essentially sneak in a dead sealing extension so 217 00:14:35,640 --> 00:14:38,560 Speaker 8: they can get a two and a half trillion dollar 218 00:14:38,640 --> 00:14:41,280 Speaker 8: tax cut next year in reconciliation. 219 00:14:41,480 --> 00:14:42,600 Speaker 1: That failed miserably. 220 00:14:43,040 --> 00:14:46,360 Speaker 8: Thirty eight Republicans, in the face of a threat of 221 00:14:46,360 --> 00:14:48,760 Speaker 8: primary challenges, said we're not going to do that. The 222 00:14:48,800 --> 00:14:53,760 Speaker 8: second big loser, Speaker Mike Johnson. I think his speakership 223 00:14:53,840 --> 00:14:56,560 Speaker 8: is on life support going into January third, and I 224 00:14:56,600 --> 00:14:59,360 Speaker 8: think we're probably going to face multiple votes on a 225 00:14:59,360 --> 00:15:03,800 Speaker 8: new speaker because he showed the Peter principal par excellence. 226 00:15:04,120 --> 00:15:06,480 Speaker 8: He rose to the highest level of his own incompetence, 227 00:15:06,560 --> 00:15:10,080 Speaker 8: and it was painfully public. And the third big loser, 228 00:15:10,160 --> 00:15:14,360 Speaker 8: of course, is the Republican majority itself. All of this striations, 229 00:15:14,360 --> 00:15:17,880 Speaker 8: all of the fractures, are painfully evident to the public 230 00:15:18,160 --> 00:15:20,880 Speaker 8: and the you and me that they don't have it. 231 00:15:20,920 --> 00:15:23,600 Speaker 8: They can't get a working majority. 232 00:15:23,640 --> 00:15:28,280 Speaker 1: It's a very unstable calucus. It is not a caucus, 233 00:15:28,360 --> 00:15:31,400 Speaker 1: it is a conference, and people do have differing opinions 234 00:15:31,440 --> 00:15:34,040 Speaker 1: as opposed to the Democratic Party. It's very simple to 235 00:15:34,120 --> 00:15:37,720 Speaker 1: understand this, Congressman Connolly, it's very easy to understand this. 236 00:15:37,760 --> 00:15:39,760 Speaker 1: And by the way, so you don't like the two 237 00:15:39,920 --> 00:15:44,720 Speaker 1: trillion dollar cost of the tax cut, which is not 238 00:15:44,840 --> 00:15:47,840 Speaker 1: a cost, it's people keeping their money, But you loved 239 00:15:47,920 --> 00:15:51,240 Speaker 1: seven trillion dollars in garbage going out the door under 240 00:15:51,280 --> 00:15:55,400 Speaker 1: the Biden administration. You're totally fine with, you know, one 241 00:15:55,480 --> 00:15:58,680 Speaker 1: hundred and eighty five billion dollars going out for student 242 00:15:58,800 --> 00:16:04,640 Speaker 1: loan forgiveness. No, no, you're wrong. You're on the wrong 243 00:16:04,760 --> 00:16:07,480 Speaker 1: side of history. My man, you are on the wrong 244 00:16:07,520 --> 00:16:10,000 Speaker 1: side of history. And I can't wait to see when 245 00:16:10,040 --> 00:16:12,880 Speaker 1: you try to approach President Trump and ask him for 246 00:16:12,960 --> 00:16:18,560 Speaker 1: something and you suddenly want to change your tune. Can't wait. 247 00:16:19,320 --> 00:16:23,640 Speaker 1: Great stuff all the way around. I am Brent Whittervial. 248 00:16:24,200 --> 00:16:27,280 Speaker 1: You're listening to the Clay and Buck Show eight hundred 249 00:16:27,320 --> 00:16:30,520 Speaker 1: two two eight eight to two. We'll be back right 250 00:16:30,520 --> 00:16:30,960 Speaker 1: after this. 251 00:16:31,720 --> 00:16:36,880 Speaker 2: Clay Travis and Buck Sexton on the front lines of truth. 252 00:16:36,720 --> 00:16:38,640 Speaker 1: And it's a pleasure to be here for Clay and Buck. 253 00:16:38,800 --> 00:16:41,160 Speaker 1: Christmas Eve special with Clay and Buck's gonna be airing 254 00:16:41,200 --> 00:16:45,280 Speaker 1: tomorrow that contains original content from Clay's trip to the 255 00:16:45,280 --> 00:16:50,160 Speaker 1: Holy Land, a history deep dive with Buck on holiday traditions, 256 00:16:50,240 --> 00:16:53,400 Speaker 1: including the origin story of Saint Nick, and some meaningful 257 00:16:53,440 --> 00:16:57,000 Speaker 1: words from the Rush archives. You're not gonna want to 258 00:16:57,080 --> 00:17:01,800 Speaker 1: miss this at all, so stick around for that. I'm 259 00:17:01,840 --> 00:17:05,159 Speaker 1: curious to get your thoughts as you've been listening to 260 00:17:05,200 --> 00:17:08,160 Speaker 1: the program and obviously consuming a lot of the news 261 00:17:08,200 --> 00:17:11,600 Speaker 1: that's out there moving right now, this this attempt to 262 00:17:12,560 --> 00:17:20,360 Speaker 1: go after Congressman Gates former Congressman Gates over the issues 263 00:17:20,400 --> 00:17:25,920 Speaker 1: that have come up in this alleged report that exists 264 00:17:25,960 --> 00:17:30,960 Speaker 1: inside the Congress. Matt Gates is saying unequivocally, Look, I'm 265 00:17:30,960 --> 00:17:32,879 Speaker 1: no longer in the Congress. I don't think this is 266 00:17:32,880 --> 00:17:34,560 Speaker 1: ought to be an issue. It should never have been 267 00:17:35,480 --> 00:17:37,800 Speaker 1: released or any of that sort of stuff. How do 268 00:17:37,840 --> 00:17:40,359 Speaker 1: you feel about that? What if you left your job 269 00:17:40,840 --> 00:17:45,639 Speaker 1: and then suddenly they started circulating information about you and 270 00:17:45,760 --> 00:17:50,040 Speaker 1: allegations and things like that. Does that bother you in 271 00:17:50,119 --> 00:17:52,040 Speaker 1: any way, shape or form. It does seem to be 272 00:17:52,560 --> 00:17:57,760 Speaker 1: targeting for a number of different reasons, but not the 273 00:17:57,840 --> 00:18:00,560 Speaker 1: least of which is you know, if if you're no 274 00:18:00,640 --> 00:18:03,720 Speaker 1: longer in the Congress, then why would you drop that report? 275 00:18:03,960 --> 00:18:06,920 Speaker 1: And does he maybe have a case to go find 276 00:18:07,200 --> 00:18:12,240 Speaker 1: a lawyer to sue. A lot of questions hanging out there, 277 00:18:12,280 --> 00:18:15,040 Speaker 1: certainly wondering your thoughts on that. At eight hundred two 278 00:18:15,080 --> 00:18:17,000 Speaker 1: A two to eight eight two eight hundred two A 279 00:18:17,080 --> 00:18:21,000 Speaker 1: two two eight A two. During the speech last night 280 00:18:21,200 --> 00:18:25,719 Speaker 1: President Trump at the rally in Arizona, turning Point, and 281 00:18:25,800 --> 00:18:28,720 Speaker 1: it was a very interesting thing that he raised. I 282 00:18:28,800 --> 00:18:33,639 Speaker 1: want to play this now. This is President Trump arguing 283 00:18:34,119 --> 00:18:38,879 Speaker 1: for the return of the Panama Canal to the United 284 00:18:38,920 --> 00:18:39,720 Speaker 1: States of America. 285 00:18:39,760 --> 00:18:44,360 Speaker 4: Cut ten example of the things we're doing and looking at. 286 00:18:45,480 --> 00:18:47,360 Speaker 3: It's such a terrible thing is happening. 287 00:18:48,520 --> 00:18:53,080 Speaker 4: The Panama Canal is considered a vital national asset for 288 00:18:53,160 --> 00:18:57,160 Speaker 4: the United States of America due to its critical role. 289 00:18:57,800 --> 00:19:02,800 Speaker 3: American economy, the whole worldomy, and also national security. 290 00:19:02,840 --> 00:19:03,840 Speaker 1: The Panama Canal. 291 00:19:03,920 --> 00:19:06,080 Speaker 3: Has anyone ever heard of the Panama can. 292 00:19:07,960 --> 00:19:10,679 Speaker 4: Because we're being ripped off at the Panama Canal, like 293 00:19:10,720 --> 00:19:14,679 Speaker 4: we're being ripped off everywhere else. A secure they just 294 00:19:14,760 --> 00:19:18,080 Speaker 4: a ticket back, And it's a good idea. 295 00:19:18,240 --> 00:19:20,919 Speaker 1: Where do you come from, sir? He doesn't come from Panama? 296 00:19:21,320 --> 00:19:23,200 Speaker 1: Oh yeah good? 297 00:19:24,240 --> 00:19:28,399 Speaker 4: A secure Panama Canal is crucial for US commerce and 298 00:19:28,600 --> 00:19:32,600 Speaker 4: rapid deployment of the Navy from the Atlantic all the 299 00:19:32,600 --> 00:19:36,760 Speaker 4: way to the Pacific. It's an incredible thing and drastically 300 00:19:37,520 --> 00:19:40,480 Speaker 4: cut shipping times down to US sports. 301 00:19:40,119 --> 00:19:42,240 Speaker 1: By days and even weeks. 302 00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:45,800 Speaker 4: The United States is the number one user of the 303 00:19:45,840 --> 00:19:50,159 Speaker 4: Panama Canal, with over seventy two percent of all transits 304 00:19:50,160 --> 00:19:52,919 Speaker 4: heading to or from US sports. Think of that. 305 00:19:52,960 --> 00:19:54,760 Speaker 1: So we built it, we're the ones that use it. 306 00:19:56,000 --> 00:19:57,040 Speaker 1: They gave it away. 307 00:19:58,200 --> 00:20:01,119 Speaker 4: Considered one of the words that really one of the 308 00:20:01,119 --> 00:20:02,560 Speaker 4: great wonders of the world. 309 00:20:03,760 --> 00:20:05,440 Speaker 1: The Panama Canal opened for. 310 00:20:05,440 --> 00:20:08,240 Speaker 4: Business one hundred and ten years ago and was built 311 00:20:08,280 --> 00:20:13,000 Speaker 4: at huge cost to the United States. And it really 312 00:20:13,119 --> 00:20:17,440 Speaker 4: is big when you consider the lives and the treasure, 313 00:20:17,600 --> 00:20:21,280 Speaker 4: the equivalent of one point two trillion dollars today. 314 00:20:21,320 --> 00:20:22,920 Speaker 3: You don't hear those numbers. 315 00:20:23,480 --> 00:20:27,040 Speaker 4: Thirty eight thousand American men, almost all men. 316 00:20:28,160 --> 00:20:32,040 Speaker 3: They went there to be construction workers and dig They 317 00:20:32,040 --> 00:20:37,240 Speaker 3: were diggers, and they were brave. Thirty eight thousand men 318 00:20:37,359 --> 00:20:43,679 Speaker 3: died from infected mosquitoes in the jungles of Panama during. 319 00:20:43,440 --> 00:20:45,800 Speaker 4: The construction period. Think of that, we lost thirty eight 320 00:20:45,840 --> 00:20:49,760 Speaker 4: thousand men. Teddy Roosevelt was President of. 321 00:20:49,720 --> 00:20:52,679 Speaker 3: The United States at the time of its building and 322 00:20:52,840 --> 00:20:57,639 Speaker 3: understood the strength of naval power and trade. When President 323 00:20:58,160 --> 00:21:00,560 Speaker 3: Jimmy Carter foolishly gave it a gave. 324 00:21:00,440 --> 00:21:02,240 Speaker 5: It away for one dollar one. 325 00:21:02,119 --> 00:21:07,399 Speaker 3: Dollar during his term in office, it was solely for 326 00:21:07,520 --> 00:21:11,400 Speaker 3: Panama to manage, and not for China or any other 327 00:21:11,480 --> 00:21:12,359 Speaker 3: country to manage. 328 00:21:12,359 --> 00:21:22,160 Speaker 4: You see what's going on there China. It was likewise 329 00:21:22,200 --> 00:21:26,920 Speaker 4: not given for Panama to charge the United States, its navy, 330 00:21:27,600 --> 00:21:33,080 Speaker 4: and its corporations doing business within our country exorbitant prices 331 00:21:33,119 --> 00:21:34,880 Speaker 4: and rates of passage, which they do. 332 00:21:34,960 --> 00:21:37,040 Speaker 3: They charge just like like. 333 00:21:37,880 --> 00:21:42,120 Speaker 4: It's a disgrace. Our navy and commerce have been treated 334 00:21:42,160 --> 00:21:47,439 Speaker 4: in a very unfair and in judicious way. The fees 335 00:21:47,520 --> 00:21:53,479 Speaker 4: being charged by Panama ridiculous, highly unfair, especially knowing the 336 00:21:53,520 --> 00:21:59,400 Speaker 4: extraordinary generosity that has been bestowed to Panama. I say 337 00:21:59,520 --> 00:22:03,959 Speaker 4: very full by the United States. This complete ripoff of 338 00:22:03,960 --> 00:22:06,560 Speaker 4: our country will immediately stop. 339 00:22:07,720 --> 00:22:08,680 Speaker 1: It's going to stop. 340 00:22:10,280 --> 00:22:17,320 Speaker 4: The United States has a big invested interest in the secure, efficient. 341 00:22:16,960 --> 00:22:21,320 Speaker 3: And reliable operation of the Panama Canal, and that was 342 00:22:21,440 --> 00:22:27,119 Speaker 3: always understood when they gave it to Panama. Can you 343 00:22:27,200 --> 00:22:32,080 Speaker 3: believe that we would never have done it if we. 344 00:22:32,040 --> 00:22:35,240 Speaker 4: Thought what's happening now can happen. 345 00:22:35,040 --> 00:22:39,920 Speaker 3: And we would never and we will never ever. 346 00:22:41,160 --> 00:22:42,879 Speaker 1: Let it fall into the wrong hands. 347 00:22:42,880 --> 00:22:45,919 Speaker 3: But it's falling into the wrong hands. It was not 348 00:22:46,080 --> 00:22:52,560 Speaker 3: given for the benefit of others by a token of cooperation. 349 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:55,480 Speaker 4: But it was given to Panama and to the people 350 00:22:55,520 --> 00:22:56,480 Speaker 4: of Panama. 351 00:22:56,600 --> 00:23:00,560 Speaker 1: But it has provisions. You got to treat us, and 352 00:23:00,560 --> 00:23:02,040 Speaker 1: they haven't treated us fairly. 353 00:23:02,080 --> 00:23:06,720 Speaker 4: If the principles, both moral and legal, of this magnanimous 354 00:23:06,760 --> 00:23:10,520 Speaker 4: gesture of giving are not followed, then we will demand 355 00:23:10,560 --> 00:23:13,800 Speaker 4: that the Panama Canal be returned to the United States 356 00:23:13,800 --> 00:23:19,520 Speaker 4: of America in full, quickly and without question. 357 00:23:19,920 --> 00:23:21,200 Speaker 1: I'm not going to stand for it. 358 00:23:21,960 --> 00:23:25,600 Speaker 4: So to the officials of Panama, please be guided accordingly. 359 00:23:28,080 --> 00:23:32,560 Speaker 1: What he wants is a better deal, and if that 360 00:23:32,640 --> 00:23:37,560 Speaker 1: means getting the Panama Canal, then so be it. This 361 00:23:37,640 --> 00:23:40,520 Speaker 1: is a very interesting time to see how this plays out, 362 00:23:40,680 --> 00:23:44,800 Speaker 1: because he's talking about Greenland, he's talking about Canada, he's 363 00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:51,359 Speaker 1: talking about the Panama Canal. You think about the United 364 00:23:51,359 --> 00:23:54,240 Speaker 1: States of America and the standing we have in the world, 365 00:23:55,440 --> 00:23:58,880 Speaker 1: and we allow people to come in. We allow people 366 00:23:58,920 --> 00:24:01,399 Speaker 1: to come in that shouldn't even be in here, which 367 00:24:01,480 --> 00:24:04,959 Speaker 1: is a horrible reality. But we're told but those are 368 00:24:05,040 --> 00:24:11,840 Speaker 1: cheap fakes that come from the Biden administration. Right, we 369 00:24:11,920 --> 00:24:14,640 Speaker 1: built it, thirty eight thousand lost their lives, et cetera, 370 00:24:14,680 --> 00:24:17,560 Speaker 1: et cetera, et cetera. We gave it back or we 371 00:24:17,640 --> 00:24:20,320 Speaker 1: gave it too, I should say, under the Carter regime 372 00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:26,879 Speaker 1: there and we bear no benefit in that regard. To me, 373 00:24:28,280 --> 00:24:36,080 Speaker 1: this is an important conversation because America should be compensated 374 00:24:36,119 --> 00:24:39,359 Speaker 1: in some way. Free cargo. Whatever you want to do 375 00:24:39,680 --> 00:24:42,439 Speaker 1: to come across. If you're a US flagged ship, you 376 00:24:42,480 --> 00:24:44,680 Speaker 1: don't have to pay. You don't have to pay anything 377 00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:48,600 Speaker 1: to transit that. Let everybody else carry that weight. We 378 00:24:48,680 --> 00:24:53,480 Speaker 1: did the work of building this and that country benefits 379 00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:58,920 Speaker 1: from it immensely. I think it's interesting that the president, 380 00:24:58,960 --> 00:25:04,080 Speaker 1: former president, the upcoming president is very, very passionate about 381 00:25:04,080 --> 00:25:05,760 Speaker 1: this issue, and I think it's going to be interesting. 382 00:25:05,880 --> 00:25:07,560 Speaker 1: All Right, we're gonna get a break in, we'll come back. 383 00:25:07,600 --> 00:25:09,800 Speaker 1: We'll take your calls. My name is Brett Wittable in 384 00:25:09,840 --> 00:25:12,560 Speaker 1: for Clay and Buck. Eight hundred two eight a two. 385 00:25:12,600 --> 00:25:14,400 Speaker 1: It's a pleasure to be with you. We'll be back 386 00:25:14,440 --> 00:25:19,280 Speaker 1: right after this Clay and Buck Christmas Eve special. 387 00:25:19,400 --> 00:25:22,320 Speaker 2: You won't want to miss Clay in the Holy Land 388 00:25:22,480 --> 00:25:24,720 Speaker 2: and Buck on the history of Saint Nicholas. 389 00:25:25,080 --> 00:25:28,760 Speaker 1: Grab your pistachio eggnog and tune in this Christmas Eve 390 00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:30,520 Speaker 1: and I am Brett Wittable. It is great to be 391 00:25:30,560 --> 00:25:33,560 Speaker 1: in here today for Clay and Buck. Great stuff out 392 00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:36,399 Speaker 1: there all the way around. One of the things that 393 00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:39,760 Speaker 1: I wanted to kind of talk about before we before 394 00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:42,160 Speaker 1: we shut it all down and stuff like that for 395 00:25:42,320 --> 00:25:48,080 Speaker 1: the night for the day is this idea about Trump 396 00:25:48,280 --> 00:25:55,080 Speaker 1: being courted by by certain people right and the media 397 00:25:55,640 --> 00:25:59,080 Speaker 1: is having a suck up moment. According to Axios, right 398 00:25:59,119 --> 00:26:05,040 Speaker 1: this is Arra Fisher and Dave Lawler, fearing political retribution 399 00:26:05,320 --> 00:26:09,560 Speaker 1: and strained by new business challenges. Media companies that once 400 00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:15,000 Speaker 1: covered President Elect Trump with skepticism and in many cases, disdain, 401 00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:21,800 Speaker 1: are reconsidering their approach. Why it matters. Trump's decisive victory 402 00:26:21,800 --> 00:26:25,800 Speaker 1: in November has forced media executives to put their business 403 00:26:25,800 --> 00:26:30,199 Speaker 1: interests ahead of their personal politics. Yeah wait, hold on, 404 00:26:30,359 --> 00:26:33,640 Speaker 1: let me stop laughing when I hear that. Yeah, that's 405 00:26:33,720 --> 00:26:37,280 Speaker 1: really quite something. Morning Joe co hosts Joe Scarborough and 406 00:26:37,320 --> 00:26:41,719 Speaker 1: Mika Brazinski, who railed last month against Trump for years 407 00:26:41,760 --> 00:26:44,399 Speaker 1: and went and met him down to mar A Lago. Well, 408 00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:46,440 Speaker 1: now suddenly they're just trying to get into a better 409 00:26:46,720 --> 00:26:51,080 Speaker 1: relationship with this guy. What would be the meeting of that. 410 00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:55,960 Speaker 1: If these people are really worried that people are getting 411 00:26:55,960 --> 00:27:01,399 Speaker 1: too cozy with Trump, they don't understand, they don't understand 412 00:27:01,440 --> 00:27:04,200 Speaker 1: the real game that's being played. They're going to try 413 00:27:04,240 --> 00:27:06,480 Speaker 1: to use them for ratings and then they're going to 414 00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:09,880 Speaker 1: turn right on them immediately. And that's just that's how 415 00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:12,280 Speaker 1: it's going to happen, folks. That's how it's going to happen. 416 00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:16,159 Speaker 1: Let me go to Brian in North Carolina. Brian, welcome 417 00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:16,639 Speaker 1: to the show. 418 00:27:17,920 --> 00:27:23,480 Speaker 5: Hey just calling about gets Yes, basically, I think he 419 00:27:23,520 --> 00:27:26,120 Speaker 5: does have a case if he were to take that 420 00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:29,720 Speaker 5: to court for like, you know, slander or libel, what 421 00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:33,840 Speaker 5: what have you? You know against his character. But as 422 00:27:33,840 --> 00:27:37,680 Speaker 5: a conservative, I would have much preferred hearing him say 423 00:27:38,800 --> 00:27:42,000 Speaker 5: I did not do any of the stuff that is 424 00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:45,320 Speaker 5: in here that is alleged against me. That would have 425 00:27:45,359 --> 00:27:47,439 Speaker 5: made me feel a lot better. But I have not 426 00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:51,760 Speaker 5: heard that from him since this report came out. The 427 00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:53,919 Speaker 5: thing about the report that gets me though, that I 428 00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:58,760 Speaker 5: read was that they seem to often use words like likely, yes, 429 00:27:58,920 --> 00:28:02,320 Speaker 5: you know, he likely made them money for sex and drugs. 430 00:28:02,359 --> 00:28:06,120 Speaker 5: He likely did this, he likes. They don't have proof, right, 431 00:28:06,240 --> 00:28:08,399 Speaker 5: which is probably the same reason why they never charged 432 00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:11,920 Speaker 5: him in Congress because they do not have proof. So 433 00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:14,439 Speaker 5: to me, that's why it's slander. It's like, okay, until 434 00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:17,440 Speaker 5: you actually can prove it, you don't put that out 435 00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:21,000 Speaker 5: in the public, you know. That's that's a Democrat modus 436 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:24,400 Speaker 5: operandi thing, where you just accuse somebody of something really bad, 437 00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:27,280 Speaker 5: make him look really bad, and hey, who cares if 438 00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:29,439 Speaker 5: we have proof or not, let's just put it out 439 00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:30,840 Speaker 5: there and make them look really bad. And I think 440 00:28:30,840 --> 00:28:33,120 Speaker 5: that this is an attempt really to make Trump look 441 00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:37,439 Speaker 5: bad for him, you know, nominating him for the position 442 00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:39,320 Speaker 5: that he was going to have in his cabinet. I 443 00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:44,280 Speaker 5: just think that again, I wish that he had said, 444 00:28:45,040 --> 00:28:48,360 Speaker 5: this is all lies, go ahead and find me proof 445 00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:51,840 Speaker 5: and we'll talk. But there is no proof because it's 446 00:28:51,840 --> 00:28:54,280 Speaker 5: all lies. I would have much rather have hurt that well. 447 00:28:54,360 --> 00:28:56,280 Speaker 1: But but he's But here's the thing. So what you're 448 00:28:56,320 --> 00:28:58,200 Speaker 1: doing in that case, not you. I'm not saying you personally, 449 00:28:58,280 --> 00:29:01,920 Speaker 1: but like if that was the end answer, then they 450 00:29:01,960 --> 00:29:06,760 Speaker 1: only have to find like one random incident that this happened, 451 00:29:06,760 --> 00:29:09,160 Speaker 1: and now they would make it the entirety of it. 452 00:29:09,320 --> 00:29:12,640 Speaker 1: There's a reason that this is not a court of law. 453 00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:15,280 Speaker 1: This is an Ethics committee hearing, which is a much 454 00:29:15,320 --> 00:29:18,000 Speaker 1: different thing. It's more like an HR hearing right that 455 00:29:18,040 --> 00:29:21,520 Speaker 1: you're going to than being in court, because in court 456 00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:24,120 Speaker 1: you don't even have to put up a defense. You 457 00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:26,560 Speaker 1: can just go into court and say prove that I 458 00:29:26,640 --> 00:29:29,080 Speaker 1: robbed that bank, or prove that I gave her drugs, 459 00:29:29,160 --> 00:29:31,600 Speaker 1: or prove that I had sex with an underage person 460 00:29:31,720 --> 00:29:34,920 Speaker 1: or whatever it is. All of that stuff is going 461 00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:37,440 Speaker 1: to be questioned in the public arena. 462 00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:37,800 Speaker 6: Right. 463 00:29:38,040 --> 00:29:40,880 Speaker 1: You've got people who are lawyers that are going to 464 00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:44,600 Speaker 1: try to tear it apart. And so I understand what 465 00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:47,800 Speaker 1: you're saying, and I agree with much of what you're saying. 466 00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:50,080 Speaker 1: But the fact of the matter is if he comes 467 00:29:50,120 --> 00:29:52,040 Speaker 1: out and says I didn't do it, all they got 468 00:29:52,040 --> 00:29:54,960 Speaker 1: to do is find one little thing that they can 469 00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:57,000 Speaker 1: then hang it on, and then he looks like he's 470 00:29:57,000 --> 00:29:59,960 Speaker 1: a liar. So I think what he's doing is saying, hey, 471 00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:03,280 Speaker 1: I left Congress. This is a this is a settled matter. 472 00:30:03,560 --> 00:30:06,400 Speaker 1: Nobody nobody's coming out in public and saying, hey, I'm 473 00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:08,600 Speaker 1: suing him for one hundred million dollars because of this 474 00:30:08,760 --> 00:30:11,480 Speaker 1: or that. So you know, this is this is the 475 00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:15,480 Speaker 1: Congress just trying to to do things that you know 476 00:30:15,640 --> 00:30:18,840 Speaker 1: they're going to do. Congressional people are going to be congressional, right. 477 00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:21,719 Speaker 1: And I appreciate the call, Brian, very good call from 478 00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:25,240 Speaker 1: North Carolina. Kurt in Florida also wants to talk about this. Kurt, 479 00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:28,040 Speaker 1: Welcome to the program. 480 00:30:28,240 --> 00:30:30,880 Speaker 6: Hey, good listening to you this afternoon. I had the 481 00:30:30,920 --> 00:30:34,880 Speaker 6: same thoughts, as Brian on the Gates saying, and I agree, 482 00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:38,440 Speaker 6: your analogy is pretty good. Right, you leave a job there, 483 00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:41,640 Speaker 6: it's non applicable anymore if HR wants to go back 484 00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:45,080 Speaker 6: and look int your industry or whatnot, and there's no 485 00:30:45,280 --> 00:30:48,400 Speaker 6: facts there. I like a few of the other things 486 00:30:48,680 --> 00:30:52,560 Speaker 6: topics that were raised just recently, I think it's great 487 00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:55,320 Speaker 6: for Trump to at least bring up the Panama Canal 488 00:30:55,440 --> 00:30:58,440 Speaker 6: because what it would do is help lower inflation in 489 00:30:58,520 --> 00:31:01,920 Speaker 6: the long run because of transferat cost of materials, and 490 00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:05,960 Speaker 6: it will give a one up on the trade right. 491 00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:09,760 Speaker 6: So I think that it's weird that the media and 492 00:31:09,840 --> 00:31:12,520 Speaker 6: the Democrats are against all the good things that could 493 00:31:12,560 --> 00:31:16,000 Speaker 6: possibly happen for America just because they're Trump's ideas. 494 00:31:16,720 --> 00:31:20,120 Speaker 1: That's right, No, that's you're you nailed it. That's exactly 495 00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:23,560 Speaker 1: what they do. If it's a good idea and it's 496 00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:26,080 Speaker 1: been offered by Trump, they'll they'll say no, Like you 497 00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:28,800 Speaker 1: almost want to get somebody in the Congress who's a 498 00:31:28,920 --> 00:31:32,080 Speaker 1: Democrat that maybe you could get to say, hey, what 499 00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:34,480 Speaker 1: if we did this? And it's actually the exact same 500 00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:37,240 Speaker 1: idea that Trump is putting up just to just to 501 00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:40,080 Speaker 1: pull the mask off these people. But that's what this is, 502 00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:43,720 Speaker 1: how the whole situation, you know, functions and works, and 503 00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:50,000 Speaker 1: that is that's the galling part of this because I'm 504 00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:53,440 Speaker 1: not looking at a at a president who got reelected 505 00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:57,960 Speaker 1: after a term off and saying, Okay, he's got all 506 00:31:58,120 --> 00:32:02,080 Speaker 1: bad ideas. I'm gonna try to sit back and say, 507 00:32:02,240 --> 00:32:05,720 Speaker 1: what we need is people who have good ideas, things 508 00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:09,120 Speaker 1: that are going to edify the American economy, that are 509 00:32:09,160 --> 00:32:12,280 Speaker 1: going to make us stronger, to make us more desirable. 510 00:32:12,720 --> 00:32:14,840 Speaker 1: Go back to the crazy ideas that you got from 511 00:32:14,880 --> 00:32:18,680 Speaker 1: the Biden administration, right getting rid of the Keystone XL pipeline, 512 00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:21,360 Speaker 1: and then they decided they were going to strip down 513 00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:27,000 Speaker 1: the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. You think about all the stuff 514 00:32:27,040 --> 00:32:30,800 Speaker 1: that they did. It was to harm regular normal people, 515 00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:35,240 Speaker 1: not elites in the sky high rises around the country. 516 00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:40,400 Speaker 1: They want to alienate, they want to alienate the people 517 00:32:41,120 --> 00:32:45,320 Speaker 1: who are who are the working people. There's an old 518 00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:46,200 Speaker 1: saying that people use. 519 00:32:46,280 --> 00:32:46,400 Speaker 4: Right. 520 00:32:46,440 --> 00:32:49,440 Speaker 1: They say, either you get up and take a shower, 521 00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:52,200 Speaker 1: or you come home at night and take a shower. 522 00:32:52,240 --> 00:32:54,040 Speaker 1: It depends on the kind of job you have. Right, 523 00:32:54,320 --> 00:32:55,760 Speaker 1: you get up to take a shower in the morning, 524 00:32:55,800 --> 00:32:57,560 Speaker 1: you put on your suit, you go to work. The 525 00:32:57,680 --> 00:33:00,480 Speaker 1: other way you come home. Your work's really, really hard. 526 00:33:00,720 --> 00:33:04,320 Speaker 1: They don't like those people that work really hard generally, 527 00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:08,640 Speaker 1: but they really don't like people who carry the American spirit. 528 00:33:08,960 --> 00:33:10,680 Speaker 1: It's been a real pleasure to be with you all 529 00:33:10,800 --> 00:33:14,520 Speaker 1: here today. I've enjoyed my time, and I'll be back 530 00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:18,480 Speaker 1: on the thirtieth, so you know, stick around, enjoy Christmas, 531 00:33:18,960 --> 00:33:22,080 Speaker 1: Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, all that good stuff, and 532 00:33:22,200 --> 00:33:25,480 Speaker 1: I will be back on the thirtieth of December. I 533 00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:29,520 Speaker 1: appreciate so much the opportunity to spend time with Clay 534 00:33:29,640 --> 00:33:30,040 Speaker 1: and Buck.