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 --> 00:00:08,280 Speaker 1: Sexton Show podcast Woven Now number two Monday Edition, Clay 3 00:00:08,280 --> 00:00:11,720 Speaker 1: Travis Buck Sexton Show. We appreciate all of you listening 4 00:00:11,760 --> 00:00:13,960 Speaker 1: to us coast to coast and around the world. You 5 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:17,239 Speaker 1: can go subscribe to the podcast and join tens of 6 00:00:17,320 --> 00:00:21,000 Speaker 1: millions of Clay and Buck listeners on the download team 7 00:00:21,200 --> 00:00:23,720 Speaker 1: every single month. All you have to do is search 8 00:00:23,760 --> 00:00:26,040 Speaker 1: out my name, Clay Travis, search out Buck Sexton. 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I don't even know how it 18 00:00:57,160 --> 00:01:00,240 Speaker 1: all works to get podcasts delivered to your phone or 19 00:01:00,280 --> 00:01:05,400 Speaker 1: listening to vices. So Buck, you credit where credit is 20 00:01:05,480 --> 00:01:08,920 Speaker 1: due one hundred percent. In the two years that we've 21 00:01:08,920 --> 00:01:14,040 Speaker 1: been on this show, to my knowledge, have steadfastly argued 22 00:01:14,280 --> 00:01:17,720 Speaker 1: Joe Biden's running for reelection. I mean, Bill Riley called 23 00:01:17,720 --> 00:01:19,759 Speaker 1: me a genius, but said I was wrong on this 24 00:01:19,800 --> 00:01:23,280 Speaker 1: one on this show, paging doctor O'Reilly, we gotta get 25 00:01:23,319 --> 00:01:26,560 Speaker 1: him back. So I believe that they would find an 26 00:01:26,560 --> 00:01:31,479 Speaker 1: excuse to shuffle Joe Biden off the stage until the midterms. 27 00:01:31,959 --> 00:01:34,400 Speaker 1: Mid terms. Day after the midterms, come on, you go 28 00:01:34,440 --> 00:01:35,840 Speaker 1: back and listen to the tape. I said. The most 29 00:01:35,880 --> 00:01:39,400 Speaker 1: consequential outcome I thought of the midterms was it gives 30 00:01:39,440 --> 00:01:42,880 Speaker 1: Joe Biden twenty twenty four viability. It gives his political 31 00:01:42,920 --> 00:01:46,160 Speaker 1: candidacy life at a time when it seemed like they 32 00:01:46,160 --> 00:01:50,640 Speaker 1: were on the ropes and more inclined to have Democrats 33 00:01:50,680 --> 00:01:54,120 Speaker 1: stand up against him because of where the country was. Now, 34 00:01:54,640 --> 00:01:57,560 Speaker 1: we are almost as I said earlier to March. Joe 35 00:01:57,600 --> 00:02:02,160 Speaker 1: Biden announced in April twenty nineteen that he would be 36 00:02:02,280 --> 00:02:05,600 Speaker 1: running for the presidency in twenty twenty. The time frame 37 00:02:05,960 --> 00:02:10,760 Speaker 1: basically seems the same. Other than Mary Ann Williamson, the 38 00:02:11,240 --> 00:02:14,200 Speaker 1: kookie New Age guru of thought, whatever you want to 39 00:02:14,240 --> 00:02:16,600 Speaker 1: call her, it does not appear that there will be 40 00:02:16,639 --> 00:02:20,240 Speaker 1: any other Democrat challenging Joe Biden, at least not so far, 41 00:02:20,919 --> 00:02:25,800 Speaker 1: and Jill Biden actually came out and kind of put 42 00:02:25,919 --> 00:02:28,640 Speaker 1: this to bed. I want to play a couple of 43 00:02:28,639 --> 00:02:32,160 Speaker 1: cuts from you. She says that Joe Biden is ready 44 00:02:32,200 --> 00:02:37,160 Speaker 1: to run for twenty twenty four. Pretty much, he's not done. 45 00:02:37,560 --> 00:02:41,200 Speaker 1: He's not finished what he started, and that's what's important. 46 00:02:41,200 --> 00:02:46,000 Speaker 1: And I think, look at all that Joe has has done, 47 00:02:46,040 --> 00:02:50,239 Speaker 1: has accomplished. I mean, he brought us out of the chaos, 48 00:02:50,919 --> 00:02:54,520 Speaker 1: and he did that. He was elected because people wanted 49 00:02:54,680 --> 00:02:58,440 Speaker 1: steady leadership and I think they saw that in Joe 50 00:02:58,480 --> 00:03:01,920 Speaker 1: and they saw his care. So is all that's left 51 00:03:01,919 --> 00:03:04,360 Speaker 1: at this point is just to figure out a time 52 00:03:04,360 --> 00:03:08,200 Speaker 1: and place for the announcement pretty much pretty much. Okay, 53 00:03:08,200 --> 00:03:11,519 Speaker 1: that's one cut, and then she was asked about whether 54 00:03:11,600 --> 00:03:15,680 Speaker 1: she is wanting Joe to run listen to cut twelve. Well, 55 00:03:15,720 --> 00:03:20,760 Speaker 1: he said he intends to run, So nothing's been planned yet. 56 00:03:20,880 --> 00:03:23,960 Speaker 1: I think, you know, he's been so busy with being 57 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:27,960 Speaker 1: in Ukraine handling some of the crises at home, so 58 00:03:28,040 --> 00:03:30,519 Speaker 1: I think, you know, he's putting that first, he's putting 59 00:03:31,040 --> 00:03:35,040 Speaker 1: America's business before he's putting his own. But has the 60 00:03:35,120 --> 00:03:38,640 Speaker 1: decision been made amongst the family that he's going to run. Well, 61 00:03:38,680 --> 00:03:43,400 Speaker 1: it's Joe's really, it's Joe's decision, and we support whatever 62 00:03:43,440 --> 00:03:46,880 Speaker 1: he wants to do if he's in or there. If 63 00:03:46,920 --> 00:03:50,200 Speaker 1: he wants to do something else, we're there too. Is 64 00:03:50,280 --> 00:03:53,280 Speaker 1: there any chance at this point that he's not going 65 00:03:53,360 --> 00:03:56,440 Speaker 1: to run? Not in my book, you're all for it. 66 00:03:56,640 --> 00:04:00,120 Speaker 1: I'm all for it. Of course, there you go. So 67 00:04:00,200 --> 00:04:04,440 Speaker 1: that look, that takes away the obvious step down move, 68 00:04:04,480 --> 00:04:06,680 Speaker 1: which would be for him to say, my family for 69 00:04:06,920 --> 00:04:09,080 Speaker 1: reasons of health and I want to spend time with 70 00:04:09,120 --> 00:04:12,520 Speaker 1: the grandchildren, etc. That's not going to happen, right, So 71 00:04:12,560 --> 00:04:15,640 Speaker 1: he's not going to offer that up. You would think, look, 72 00:04:15,680 --> 00:04:17,960 Speaker 1: I would give someone if I were the oddsmaker on 73 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:19,479 Speaker 1: this one, I think I would give someone ten to 74 00:04:19,520 --> 00:04:21,200 Speaker 1: one odds at this point that Joe Biden is going 75 00:04:21,240 --> 00:04:25,080 Speaker 1: to run because ultimately, the look at the Federman effect, 76 00:04:25,560 --> 00:04:28,880 Speaker 1: the reality is that the Democrats view it as our 77 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:32,600 Speaker 1: team in power doing what the Democrat apparatus wants. It 78 00:04:32,640 --> 00:04:35,440 Speaker 1: does not matter. You could have a five year old 79 00:04:35,560 --> 00:04:39,280 Speaker 1: casting these votes or pushing these policies, signing these bills. 80 00:04:39,640 --> 00:04:43,640 Speaker 1: They don't care. And I know people will say, oh, 81 00:04:43,720 --> 00:04:46,320 Speaker 1: but what about independence and moderates, Buck, That's what really matters, 82 00:04:46,320 --> 00:04:50,400 Speaker 1: not the Democrat base, you know. And for independence and moderates, 83 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:52,279 Speaker 1: the story's going to be a version of what it 84 00:04:52,320 --> 00:04:54,039 Speaker 1: was the last time, which is, look, they said he 85 00:04:54,080 --> 00:04:57,440 Speaker 1: was too old before. It's things have kind of muddled along. 86 00:04:57,560 --> 00:05:00,120 Speaker 1: The job's not done, YadA YadA, Trump has hit l 87 00:05:00,279 --> 00:05:02,040 Speaker 1: I mean, this is what they're gonna or you know whomever, 88 00:05:02,360 --> 00:05:05,920 Speaker 1: This is what they're gonna say. And I think unfortunately 89 00:05:05,960 --> 00:05:07,919 Speaker 1: a lot of people now view it as they're not 90 00:05:08,040 --> 00:05:10,560 Speaker 1: voting for a candidate, they're voting for a team, and 91 00:05:10,680 --> 00:05:14,400 Speaker 1: team Democrat knows that the name recognition of Biden is 92 00:05:14,520 --> 00:05:17,560 Speaker 1: big as a bigger asset than any other candidate that 93 00:05:17,560 --> 00:05:20,640 Speaker 1: they could possibly put in his place. Just the Biden 94 00:05:20,800 --> 00:05:24,320 Speaker 1: name and the incumbency that he brings is more potent 95 00:05:24,360 --> 00:05:28,720 Speaker 1: for reelection or for the Democrat election than anyone else 96 00:05:28,760 --> 00:05:31,520 Speaker 1: that they could possibly put into the mix. So what 97 00:05:31,560 --> 00:05:33,840 Speaker 1: do we know about Democrats? Clay, First and foremost, they 98 00:05:33,920 --> 00:05:36,839 Speaker 1: want power, They want to win elections. What does that mean? 99 00:05:37,160 --> 00:05:39,520 Speaker 1: It means, like I've said for now two years, they'll 100 00:05:39,600 --> 00:05:42,440 Speaker 1: roll Joe Biden out in a wheelchair, you know, muttering 101 00:05:42,440 --> 00:05:45,240 Speaker 1: to himself. They do not look at fetterment. They don't care. 102 00:05:45,400 --> 00:05:48,080 Speaker 1: So that's why I think it's it's pretty clear at 103 00:05:48,120 --> 00:05:52,599 Speaker 1: this point, absent heaven forbid a real health change, that 104 00:05:52,720 --> 00:05:56,080 Speaker 1: would be something that they couldn't hide, that they couldn't 105 00:05:56,120 --> 00:05:59,160 Speaker 1: push through. How bad would the health change have to 106 00:05:59,200 --> 00:06:01,560 Speaker 1: be too? To be honest? I mean Fetterman one by 107 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:04,680 Speaker 1: five and can't speak and immediately gets elected and has 108 00:06:04,720 --> 00:06:08,040 Speaker 1: to check himself into a hospital for months. I mean 109 00:06:08,480 --> 00:06:11,080 Speaker 1: they well, one of the realities of a president. One 110 00:06:11,080 --> 00:06:13,000 Speaker 1: of the realities of a president. You know, when you're 111 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:15,360 Speaker 1: talking about somebody who's in their eighties, is now you're 112 00:06:15,400 --> 00:06:20,240 Speaker 1: just talking about someone's overall life expectancy and how long 113 00:06:20,320 --> 00:06:24,240 Speaker 1: they'll be able to continue in any capacity given the 114 00:06:24,360 --> 00:06:27,920 Speaker 1: health challenges of a person in their eighties, right, I mean, 115 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:29,880 Speaker 1: you know, eighties is you just look at look at 116 00:06:29,920 --> 00:06:32,160 Speaker 1: a chart. Eighties is very different from seventies four people. 117 00:06:32,240 --> 00:06:35,560 Speaker 1: Joe Biden's now getting into into that realm where I 118 00:06:35,600 --> 00:06:37,120 Speaker 1: think it would be hard for them, Clay to answer 119 00:06:37,160 --> 00:06:42,560 Speaker 1: your question to suggest that he'll bounce back right to 120 00:06:42,640 --> 00:06:45,000 Speaker 1: think about Fetterman. They keep saying, oh, he'll be fine. 121 00:06:45,080 --> 00:06:47,120 Speaker 1: It's just this is just like a temporary thing. By 122 00:06:47,120 --> 00:06:48,760 Speaker 1: the way, he's not just going to be fine. They 123 00:06:48,800 --> 00:06:51,320 Speaker 1: don't know that. And the guy's in the hospital as 124 00:06:51,320 --> 00:06:54,960 Speaker 1: we speak. So he's only fifty three, right, So that's 125 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:58,840 Speaker 1: what I'm saying. He could there's a plausible fact out 126 00:06:58,839 --> 00:07:01,360 Speaker 1: there that someone could argue, Okay, fifty three year old 127 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:03,600 Speaker 1: guy can get healthy again in eighty year. An eighty 128 00:07:03,680 --> 00:07:05,760 Speaker 1: year old has a stroke. I don't think anybody really 129 00:07:05,800 --> 00:07:08,800 Speaker 1: believes that. You know, the future is gonna it's not. 130 00:07:08,800 --> 00:07:10,520 Speaker 1: The future can't be bright in terms of spending time 131 00:07:10,560 --> 00:07:13,920 Speaker 1: with family, but running the country. This is where this 132 00:07:13,960 --> 00:07:15,920 Speaker 1: is what we're talking about everybody, because I know people 133 00:07:15,920 --> 00:07:17,800 Speaker 1: are going to write in some people get frushed and say, hey, 134 00:07:17,840 --> 00:07:21,000 Speaker 1: you know my you know I run or my grandfather runs, 135 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:22,960 Speaker 1: you know, a company and he's eighty three and he's 136 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:25,520 Speaker 1: fit as a fiddle. Well that's great, But you know, 137 00:07:25,960 --> 00:07:30,440 Speaker 1: the running a small business in your in your locality 138 00:07:30,600 --> 00:07:32,560 Speaker 1: is not being the president of the United States at 139 00:07:32,560 --> 00:07:34,880 Speaker 1: a time when everyone's talking about World War three breaking 140 00:07:34,880 --> 00:07:39,040 Speaker 1: out with a China Russia axis, Right, this matters. Well, 141 00:07:39,080 --> 00:07:41,720 Speaker 1: I saw I saw it. I thought this was good. 142 00:07:41,840 --> 00:07:45,920 Speaker 1: I flagged it. Nicky Haley floated. This was from a 143 00:07:45,960 --> 00:07:48,080 Speaker 1: Fox News poll that was released over the weekend. Buck 144 00:07:48,080 --> 00:07:50,800 Speaker 1: Do you remember Nicky Haley floated the idea of people 145 00:07:50,840 --> 00:07:52,800 Speaker 1: over the age of seventy five having to get a 146 00:07:52,840 --> 00:07:57,240 Speaker 1: mental competency test. Seventy seven percent of Americans are in 147 00:07:57,280 --> 00:08:00,880 Speaker 1: favor of it. Seventy seven percent, only twenty percent of pose. 148 00:08:01,480 --> 00:08:05,080 Speaker 1: And to me, and I'm curious if you would agree 149 00:08:05,320 --> 00:08:10,640 Speaker 1: the single biggest hurdle for Joe Biden winning re election 150 00:08:10,720 --> 00:08:13,960 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four is his age, the fact that 151 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:16,600 Speaker 1: he would be eighty two years old and that he 152 00:08:16,640 --> 00:08:19,080 Speaker 1: would finish at eighty six. Do you agree the number 153 00:08:19,120 --> 00:08:23,800 Speaker 1: one vulnerability to Biden is his age. I would say 154 00:08:23,840 --> 00:08:28,280 Speaker 1: that as a dependent variable because Donald Trump is how 155 00:08:28,320 --> 00:08:31,800 Speaker 1: old right now? That's my This is the issue. This 156 00:08:31,880 --> 00:08:34,640 Speaker 1: is the age number one for Biden. But to your point, 157 00:08:34,640 --> 00:08:36,959 Speaker 1: that's what I'm getting to. If Trump runs and he's 158 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:41,280 Speaker 1: seventy eight, it takes age off the table. If you 159 00:08:41,400 --> 00:08:43,800 Speaker 1: have I'm not even gonna make this about a single 160 00:08:43,880 --> 00:08:47,360 Speaker 1: candidate who's obviously having a particularly strong week in the 161 00:08:47,360 --> 00:08:50,920 Speaker 1: media right now on the Republican side, Any Republican candidate 162 00:08:51,320 --> 00:08:53,880 Speaker 1: other than Donald Trump that is being seriously. I mean, 163 00:08:53,960 --> 00:08:57,199 Speaker 1: what Pompeo is late fifties, maybe mid late fifties. I 164 00:08:57,240 --> 00:09:00,360 Speaker 1: gotta check his age, but he's certainly quite a bit younger. 165 00:09:00,880 --> 00:09:05,640 Speaker 1: Nicky Haley is a fifty one, she's I mean, she's 166 00:09:05,679 --> 00:09:08,400 Speaker 1: pretty young for a present. I look, it's and I 167 00:09:08,440 --> 00:09:11,120 Speaker 1: spend a lot of time reading about I like to 168 00:09:11,120 --> 00:09:13,360 Speaker 1: read biographies of the Founders, and one thing that is 169 00:09:13,400 --> 00:09:16,880 Speaker 1: so striking when you're with the exception of Benjamin Franklin, 170 00:09:17,640 --> 00:09:19,920 Speaker 1: all of the founders were in their twenties, thirties, and 171 00:09:19,920 --> 00:09:22,880 Speaker 1: forty yea, all of them across the board. And we 172 00:09:22,960 --> 00:09:25,160 Speaker 1: now have a I'm not sure I pronounced her at 173 00:09:25,200 --> 00:09:29,080 Speaker 1: a gerontocracy where you have too many people who are 174 00:09:29,120 --> 00:09:31,040 Speaker 1: too old with too much power in the United States 175 00:09:31,040 --> 00:09:33,720 Speaker 1: of America right now. And that's not an agism thing, 176 00:09:34,080 --> 00:09:37,280 Speaker 1: that say, what are the capabilities of people to be 177 00:09:37,440 --> 00:09:40,840 Speaker 1: energetically engaged and to have their best wisdom, judgment and 178 00:09:40,960 --> 00:09:45,200 Speaker 1: performance in their last decade or two of life, which 179 00:09:45,240 --> 00:09:47,679 Speaker 1: is the reality for people certainly in their eighties and 180 00:09:47,800 --> 00:09:52,840 Speaker 1: really largely in their mid to late seventies. And you 181 00:09:52,880 --> 00:09:55,160 Speaker 1: know this is we've never faced this before, because we've 182 00:09:55,200 --> 00:09:58,439 Speaker 1: never had so many people living and it's a great thing. 183 00:09:58,480 --> 00:10:00,680 Speaker 1: It's fantastic. Right. We all have members now who are 184 00:10:00,679 --> 00:10:03,360 Speaker 1: living into their eighties and their nineties, and that's all great. 185 00:10:03,600 --> 00:10:05,680 Speaker 1: We're not talking about just day to day life and 186 00:10:05,840 --> 00:10:09,160 Speaker 1: whether people can, you know, be vibrant members of their 187 00:10:09,160 --> 00:10:12,000 Speaker 1: families and do great things their communities. We're talking about 188 00:10:12,120 --> 00:10:15,800 Speaker 1: the commander in chief. And if you have Donald Trump 189 00:10:16,880 --> 00:10:21,600 Speaker 1: running against Joe Biden, the age thing becomes a non issue. Again. 190 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:24,240 Speaker 1: That's just that's the way it's gonna play out. People 191 00:10:24,280 --> 00:10:26,360 Speaker 1: can disagree with it, but that's how it's gonna shake out. 192 00:10:26,679 --> 00:10:29,960 Speaker 1: You're right. It cancels out the single biggest vulnerability for 193 00:10:30,040 --> 00:10:34,600 Speaker 1: Joe Biden because I look, my parents, greatest humans I've 194 00:10:34,640 --> 00:10:37,400 Speaker 1: ever known. They're probably listening right now that your parents 195 00:10:37,400 --> 00:10:41,160 Speaker 1: are listening to Buck. My parents are seventy eight. They're 196 00:10:41,160 --> 00:10:45,280 Speaker 1: headed down to Florida right now. My parents could not remotely, 197 00:10:45,480 --> 00:10:49,520 Speaker 1: either one of them handle the responsibilities of being president 198 00:10:49,520 --> 00:10:51,640 Speaker 1: of the United States. They were the best parents on 199 00:10:51,679 --> 00:10:56,760 Speaker 1: the planet. They both had incredible lives. Seventy eight, in 200 00:10:56,800 --> 00:10:59,719 Speaker 1: my opinion, is too old for the president of the 201 00:10:59,800 --> 00:11:03,520 Speaker 1: Unit States. I just I don't think that, and and 202 00:11:03,640 --> 00:11:06,080 Speaker 1: Biden has made it worse, frankly because he hasn't been 203 00:11:06,080 --> 00:11:09,400 Speaker 1: a young seventy eight and a young eighty. So so 204 00:11:09,480 --> 00:11:12,240 Speaker 1: because of the respect in which I in which I 205 00:11:12,240 --> 00:11:14,840 Speaker 1: hold this audience, I would just say I was making 206 00:11:14,880 --> 00:11:17,839 Speaker 1: the case in twenty twenty that Joe Biden is too 207 00:11:17,840 --> 00:11:21,600 Speaker 1: old for the job based on his age. Now I 208 00:11:21,640 --> 00:11:24,319 Speaker 1: am open to the idea that Donald Trump is sharper 209 00:11:24,360 --> 00:11:26,360 Speaker 1: and in better shape for his age than Biden. I'm 210 00:11:26,400 --> 00:11:30,120 Speaker 1: open to that line is but right, But I do 211 00:11:30,280 --> 00:11:34,160 Speaker 1: have to be honest when I say that. Now Trump 212 00:11:34,200 --> 00:11:36,880 Speaker 1: has passed that threshold where I think, you know, I 213 00:11:36,960 --> 00:11:39,319 Speaker 1: can't say a Democrat is too old at seventy eight, 214 00:11:39,360 --> 00:11:41,880 Speaker 1: but a Republican is great at seventy eight, just because 215 00:11:42,160 --> 00:11:44,520 Speaker 1: Democrats will do that stuff. But I think we have 216 00:11:44,559 --> 00:11:46,560 Speaker 1: to be honest about what we're drawing lines and what 217 00:11:46,600 --> 00:11:48,800 Speaker 1: we think is best for the country, because this really 218 00:11:48,880 --> 00:11:51,520 Speaker 1: is about what's best for the country, and that's supposed 219 00:11:51,520 --> 00:11:54,760 Speaker 1: to be with the election. With the election brings forth, 220 00:11:55,679 --> 00:11:58,040 Speaker 1: but I still believe it will very much be Joe Biden. 221 00:11:58,080 --> 00:12:00,400 Speaker 1: I think the Democrats do not care at all, and 222 00:12:00,520 --> 00:12:03,160 Speaker 1: I actually believe this really gets to it. I think 223 00:12:03,160 --> 00:12:07,320 Speaker 1: that the dream scenario for Democrats is that Joe Biden, 224 00:12:07,760 --> 00:12:11,480 Speaker 1: they push him through, they managed to do it, and 225 00:12:11,520 --> 00:12:15,439 Speaker 1: then he steps down one year in and Kamala as 226 00:12:15,480 --> 00:12:18,000 Speaker 1: his vice president, takes over the office and gets almost 227 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:20,920 Speaker 1: a full term. That is their dream scenario. Here's what 228 00:12:20,960 --> 00:12:24,760 Speaker 1: I would ask everybody out there to contemplate. If Democrats 229 00:12:24,880 --> 00:12:28,240 Speaker 1: knew that Donald Trump was not going to be the 230 00:12:28,320 --> 00:12:32,200 Speaker 1: Republican nominee. Right, let's pretend that because we have the 231 00:12:32,200 --> 00:12:35,480 Speaker 1: advantage right now, we know who the Democrats are going 232 00:12:35,520 --> 00:12:37,120 Speaker 1: to put forward. There's not going to be eight or 233 00:12:37,200 --> 00:12:40,120 Speaker 1: nine different candidates fighting it out over the next eight months, 234 00:12:40,120 --> 00:12:44,120 Speaker 1: and you can't project. We know Joe Biden is their guy. 235 00:12:45,080 --> 00:12:49,480 Speaker 1: If Democrats knew that Trump were not the Republican and 236 00:12:49,640 --> 00:12:52,920 Speaker 1: he was not going to run as a third party, 237 00:12:53,720 --> 00:12:56,160 Speaker 1: is there any way on the planet that they would 238 00:12:56,160 --> 00:12:58,840 Speaker 1: nominate Joe Biden? I would submit to you. The answer 239 00:12:58,920 --> 00:13:02,400 Speaker 1: is no. They're putting Biden in because they want him 240 00:13:02,400 --> 00:13:05,720 Speaker 1: in a rematch against Trump. If they didn't get Trump, 241 00:13:06,080 --> 00:13:08,840 Speaker 1: they would be running for the hills terrified. Just think 242 00:13:08,880 --> 00:13:12,200 Speaker 1: about it. I want to talk to you about preborn 243 00:13:12,400 --> 00:13:15,720 Speaker 1: for a moment here because their mission is so important 244 00:13:15,760 --> 00:13:19,120 Speaker 1: and it's something that you can help them with day 245 00:13:19,160 --> 00:13:21,840 Speaker 1: after day. Young women who just think they have no options, 246 00:13:22,080 --> 00:13:24,680 Speaker 1: they're choosing abortion. They're doing so under durest They feel 247 00:13:24,679 --> 00:13:27,320 Speaker 1: alone and trap like they have no help. But there 248 00:13:27,360 --> 00:13:30,600 Speaker 1: are other options, there are resources to support them, and 249 00:13:30,640 --> 00:13:33,480 Speaker 1: the Preborn Pregnancy Clinics are one of the options out 250 00:13:33,480 --> 00:13:37,440 Speaker 1: there that really steps in and helps. Preborn has rescued 251 00:13:37,480 --> 00:13:41,040 Speaker 1: over two hundred thousand babies by helping young mothers with 252 00:13:41,520 --> 00:13:43,800 Speaker 1: one of the most difficult decisions they'll likely ever be 253 00:13:43,840 --> 00:13:47,360 Speaker 1: faced with, the decisions to give life to their baby 254 00:13:47,440 --> 00:13:50,520 Speaker 1: or to end it. Preborn seeks these women out before 255 00:13:50,600 --> 00:13:53,680 Speaker 1: they make that choice and introduces them to the life 256 00:13:53,720 --> 00:13:57,560 Speaker 1: growing inside them through a free ultrasound. It is because 257 00:13:57,559 --> 00:14:01,760 Speaker 1: of generous donations from you, the pro life community, that's 258 00:14:01,800 --> 00:14:04,920 Speaker 1: why this is possible. Once a young mother hears that heartbeat, 259 00:14:04,960 --> 00:14:07,839 Speaker 1: sees that precious life, most of the time, she will 260 00:14:07,920 --> 00:14:11,800 Speaker 1: choose life. Twenty eight dollars that's what an ultrasound costs. 261 00:14:12,040 --> 00:14:15,320 Speaker 1: One hundred and forty dollars provides five ultrasounds that could 262 00:14:15,320 --> 00:14:17,840 Speaker 1: be five babies who come into this world. Think about that. 263 00:14:17,920 --> 00:14:19,640 Speaker 1: Think about what that will mean for their families in 264 00:14:19,640 --> 00:14:23,440 Speaker 1: the future. Consider making such a gift to this nonprofit organization, 265 00:14:23,680 --> 00:14:27,320 Speaker 1: the Preborn Clinics. Using your cell phone, all you have 266 00:14:27,360 --> 00:14:30,640 Speaker 1: to do is dial pound two five zero and say baby. 267 00:14:31,120 --> 00:14:34,240 Speaker 1: That's pound two five zero, say baby. Or you can 268 00:14:34,320 --> 00:14:38,480 Speaker 1: go to their website preborn dot com slash buck that's 269 00:14:38,520 --> 00:14:43,520 Speaker 1: preborn dot com slash b u c K one truth 270 00:14:43,640 --> 00:14:47,920 Speaker 1: revealed after another Clay Travis said buck Sexton, welcome back 271 00:14:47,920 --> 00:14:51,320 Speaker 1: in Clay Travis buck Sexton show. We'd get in a 272 00:14:51,400 --> 00:14:54,320 Speaker 1: lot of reaction to what is going to be. I 273 00:14:54,440 --> 00:14:59,640 Speaker 1: believe the story of twenty twenty three, the Republican battle 274 00:14:59,720 --> 00:15:04,520 Speaker 1: for the nomination, And again I think we can't overlook 275 00:15:04,760 --> 00:15:08,400 Speaker 1: how valuable it is that the Democrats are basically showing 276 00:15:08,480 --> 00:15:11,480 Speaker 1: us their hand. Right. It's like you're playing blackjack out 277 00:15:11,480 --> 00:15:14,680 Speaker 1: in Vegas, something I like to do, and if you 278 00:15:14,800 --> 00:15:18,640 Speaker 1: had the opportunity to know, Hey, what are the cards 279 00:15:18,640 --> 00:15:20,960 Speaker 1: of your opponent, you could decide, Hey, am I gonna 280 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:23,320 Speaker 1: hit on sixteen? Am I going to maybe a hit 281 00:15:23,360 --> 00:15:25,720 Speaker 1: on seventeen? If you know your opponents got an eighteen? 282 00:15:25,760 --> 00:15:29,120 Speaker 1: Of course you would, even though the risk Ordinarily you wouldn't. 283 00:15:29,360 --> 00:15:32,160 Speaker 1: Democrats are showing their heart, their cards. They're saying, we 284 00:15:32,200 --> 00:15:36,520 Speaker 1: are running Joe Biden, he's our guy, we are riding 285 00:15:36,600 --> 00:15:39,880 Speaker 1: him in twenty twenty four. To me, that is a 286 00:15:39,920 --> 00:15:44,880 Speaker 1: tremendous advantage for every Republican primary voter out there, because 287 00:15:45,160 --> 00:15:48,800 Speaker 1: you know who your opponent is and be honest with 288 00:15:48,880 --> 00:15:54,480 Speaker 1: yourself Democrats. In twenty twenty James Clyburn down in South Carolina, 289 00:15:54,800 --> 00:15:58,760 Speaker 1: he said Trump is the guy for Republicans. He looked 290 00:15:58,760 --> 00:16:02,960 Speaker 1: at the field and he said the only Democrat who's 291 00:16:03,040 --> 00:16:06,880 Speaker 1: running that he believed could beat Donald Trump was Joe Biden. 292 00:16:08,520 --> 00:16:10,960 Speaker 1: I think he was probably right. I don't think Bernie 293 00:16:10,960 --> 00:16:14,160 Speaker 1: Sanders would have won. I don't think Elizabeth Warren would 294 00:16:14,160 --> 00:16:17,280 Speaker 1: have won. I don't think Mayor Pete would have won. 295 00:16:18,120 --> 00:16:23,480 Speaker 1: I think the Democrats selected James Cliburn effectively the best 296 00:16:23,600 --> 00:16:26,800 Speaker 1: nominee to beat Donald Trump. That's what they did. They 297 00:16:26,800 --> 00:16:29,400 Speaker 1: had the advantage of knowing Trump was the opponent, and 298 00:16:29,600 --> 00:16:33,840 Speaker 1: James Cliburn basically said in the South Carolina primary, Boom, 299 00:16:33,880 --> 00:16:37,920 Speaker 1: Biden's the guy. He's gonna beat Trump. We all have 300 00:16:38,120 --> 00:16:41,680 Speaker 1: the opportunity to be kingmakers. Now, you me, every single 301 00:16:41,720 --> 00:16:45,080 Speaker 1: Republican primary voter knows that Joe Biden is the guy. 302 00:16:45,560 --> 00:16:47,760 Speaker 1: So I would say to all of you out there, 303 00:16:48,040 --> 00:16:50,880 Speaker 1: who is the guy who can beat Joe Biden. That's 304 00:16:50,920 --> 00:16:52,800 Speaker 1: who you should vote for. And we're gonna have a 305 00:16:52,880 --> 00:16:57,240 Speaker 1: variety of opinions. Doesn't mean that everybody has to agree 306 00:16:57,240 --> 00:17:00,200 Speaker 1: on who the right choice is. But I do think 307 00:17:00,240 --> 00:17:03,560 Speaker 1: we can't overlook what that opportunity is, and we have 308 00:17:03,600 --> 00:17:06,159 Speaker 1: to know how difficult it is going to be in 309 00:17:06,320 --> 00:17:09,959 Speaker 1: order to get past Joe Biden. And one thing's going 310 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:13,359 Speaker 1: to factor in here, buck is some of these states 311 00:17:13,400 --> 00:17:17,639 Speaker 1: now because of reshape post COVID, are like not even competitive. 312 00:17:18,160 --> 00:17:23,840 Speaker 1: Florida not competitive for Democrats anymore, Ohio not competitive. Texas 313 00:17:23,880 --> 00:17:27,680 Speaker 1: I don't believe remotely competitive. I think the red got redder, 314 00:17:27,760 --> 00:17:29,919 Speaker 1: the blue got bluer. And I saw this quote that 315 00:17:29,960 --> 00:17:32,720 Speaker 1: I wanted to share with you. Jordan Poyer is a 316 00:17:32,880 --> 00:17:38,359 Speaker 1: star safety for the Buffalo Bills. He is a free agent, 317 00:17:38,840 --> 00:17:44,480 Speaker 1: and on his Jordan Poyer podcast he said, you know, basically, 318 00:17:44,520 --> 00:17:46,560 Speaker 1: of course, I'm gonna look at what the tax rates 319 00:17:46,600 --> 00:17:49,120 Speaker 1: are right now. He's in New York. He's like, I'd 320 00:17:49,160 --> 00:17:51,639 Speaker 1: like to go somewhere that doesn't take half my money. 321 00:17:51,920 --> 00:17:54,320 Speaker 1: And I thought it was such an interesting discussion because 322 00:17:54,800 --> 00:17:58,680 Speaker 1: more and more Americans now recognize that they can do 323 00:17:58,720 --> 00:18:02,080 Speaker 1: their jobs in a state of their choice. And Buck, 324 00:18:02,160 --> 00:18:04,119 Speaker 1: I don't know why any I don't know why every 325 00:18:04,200 --> 00:18:07,359 Speaker 1: single person who could make the choice wouldn't choose to 326 00:18:07,480 --> 00:18:11,040 Speaker 1: live in Florida, Tennessee or Texas for instance, in my 327 00:18:11,160 --> 00:18:14,679 Speaker 1: home South, where you have zero state income tax. The 328 00:18:14,800 --> 00:18:16,840 Speaker 1: more money you make, the more sense it makes. If 329 00:18:16,840 --> 00:18:19,760 Speaker 1: you're a multi millionaire like Jordan poy or listen. You 330 00:18:19,800 --> 00:18:21,239 Speaker 1: know a lot of people ask me, oh, if it 331 00:18:21,280 --> 00:18:24,040 Speaker 1: wasn't wasn't Buffalo, then where would you go? You know, 332 00:18:24,040 --> 00:18:26,440 Speaker 1: I kind of pondered the question every once in a while. 333 00:18:26,560 --> 00:18:28,320 Speaker 1: Would love to go to a state that doesn't take 334 00:18:28,359 --> 00:18:30,159 Speaker 1: half of my money, and that has nothing to do 335 00:18:30,200 --> 00:18:33,399 Speaker 1: with the city or the fan, nothing to do with 336 00:18:33,440 --> 00:18:35,600 Speaker 1: any of that. I would love to go to a 337 00:18:35,640 --> 00:18:38,359 Speaker 1: place where they don't take half of my money. It's crazy, 338 00:18:38,400 --> 00:18:40,560 Speaker 1: you know, it's crazy to me to have taxes work. 339 00:18:40,720 --> 00:18:42,520 Speaker 1: You know, some people will say, oh, you know, you're 340 00:18:42,520 --> 00:18:44,720 Speaker 1: already making an x amount of money where the taxes, 341 00:18:44,760 --> 00:18:48,480 Speaker 1: even no taxes play big part in you know, all 342 00:18:48,480 --> 00:18:50,960 Speaker 1: of our lives. You know. You know, one of the 343 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:54,880 Speaker 1: things that I think this shows us is it used 344 00:18:54,920 --> 00:18:59,720 Speaker 1: to be that in these high tax states, they they 345 00:18:59,760 --> 00:19:02,680 Speaker 1: had things that you had to just grin and bear it, right, Yeah, 346 00:19:02,720 --> 00:19:04,840 Speaker 1: if you wanted to work in certain industries, I mean, 347 00:19:04,880 --> 00:19:08,560 Speaker 1: if you wanted to be taken seriously in Wall Street 348 00:19:08,600 --> 00:19:11,840 Speaker 1: for example, or in Hollywood, there was a time go 349 00:19:11,880 --> 00:19:14,600 Speaker 1: back to the nineties, where you basically there are always acceptance, 350 00:19:14,680 --> 00:19:18,280 Speaker 1: but you basically had city or you had to be 351 00:19:18,680 --> 00:19:21,520 Speaker 1: in Los Angeles like that was the So those cities, 352 00:19:21,720 --> 00:19:24,639 Speaker 1: because those are very, very enticing and very can be 353 00:19:24,760 --> 00:19:28,720 Speaker 1: very lucrative careers, those cities could afford to act like 354 00:19:28,800 --> 00:19:32,800 Speaker 1: the socialist redistribution machines that they are and have massive 355 00:19:32,840 --> 00:19:36,720 Speaker 1: welfare states blow to bureaucracies and enormous Medicaid budgets. By 356 00:19:36,760 --> 00:19:38,520 Speaker 1: the way, that's in the case of New York, which 357 00:19:38,560 --> 00:19:41,320 Speaker 1: just blows a huge hole through the budgets Medicaid. It's 358 00:19:41,359 --> 00:19:43,720 Speaker 1: the bureaucracy. And it's very important for people who know, 359 00:19:44,240 --> 00:19:47,439 Speaker 1: when you think about paying for services, understand that in 360 00:19:47,480 --> 00:19:49,680 Speaker 1: many cases, I know, the New York budget the best 361 00:19:49,680 --> 00:19:52,879 Speaker 1: because of my decades of living there, but you're paying 362 00:19:52,960 --> 00:19:57,040 Speaker 1: for retirees of the bureaucracy. You're actually not even paying 363 00:19:57,080 --> 00:20:00,840 Speaker 1: for the people who are keeping the train moving. Now 364 00:20:00,880 --> 00:20:03,479 Speaker 1: you're paying for people that retired ten years ago who 365 00:20:03,560 --> 00:20:05,680 Speaker 1: were working for the trains, and you're paying for them 366 00:20:06,080 --> 00:20:10,080 Speaker 1: for their for their families, healthcare. You're paying for depending 367 00:20:10,119 --> 00:20:14,320 Speaker 1: on the specific union contract, can be enormous, enormous expenses 368 00:20:14,359 --> 00:20:17,359 Speaker 1: a tie to wall this So in the case California, 369 00:20:17,359 --> 00:20:19,879 Speaker 1: you have something very similar. And now you have New 370 00:20:19,960 --> 00:20:22,439 Speaker 1: York City with a budget deficit. This just came out 371 00:20:22,440 --> 00:20:25,080 Speaker 1: a few days ago from the Comptroller Eric Adams. The 372 00:20:25,119 --> 00:20:28,280 Speaker 1: mayor is already saying, we got a big problem. You know, 373 00:20:28,320 --> 00:20:30,800 Speaker 1: we got a problem. It's worse than he thinks it 374 00:20:30,800 --> 00:20:35,400 Speaker 1: will be though. By twenty twenty seven, the budget deficit 375 00:20:35,560 --> 00:20:40,760 Speaker 1: of New York City could hit fourteen billion dollars, a 376 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:47,720 Speaker 1: fourteen billion dollars shortfall in the budget. Now New York, 377 00:20:48,200 --> 00:20:51,439 Speaker 1: you will note, has less people by about two million, 378 00:20:51,440 --> 00:20:54,600 Speaker 1: and maybe more like three million now then Florida and 379 00:20:54,840 --> 00:20:58,000 Speaker 1: double the budget of the state of Florida. Now. The 380 00:20:58,040 --> 00:21:00,480 Speaker 1: only way there are only two pounds, and this is 381 00:21:00,560 --> 00:21:04,119 Speaker 1: very important. They're only two pathways for a state like 382 00:21:04,160 --> 00:21:10,000 Speaker 1: New York California going forward, they change their ways because 383 00:21:10,040 --> 00:21:12,960 Speaker 1: they simply can't afford to do this stuff as a 384 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:15,879 Speaker 1: state government that they've been doing or and this is 385 00:21:15,880 --> 00:21:18,120 Speaker 1: why it's annoying, and this is why everybody. That's why 386 00:21:18,160 --> 00:21:25,200 Speaker 1: elections matter. Basically, federal bailouts, federal bailouts for New York, California, Illinois. 387 00:21:25,720 --> 00:21:27,639 Speaker 1: Now they may not call it that, but that's effectively 388 00:21:27,640 --> 00:21:29,760 Speaker 1: what it will be, which means that you who live 389 00:21:29,800 --> 00:21:34,080 Speaker 1: in Tennessee or Oklahoma, or Texas or Florida, or you 390 00:21:34,880 --> 00:21:38,560 Speaker 1: name a red state with a large population, will effectively 391 00:21:38,560 --> 00:21:43,520 Speaker 1: be subsidizing the welfare states of dysfunctional dystopias in New 392 00:21:43,600 --> 00:21:47,880 Speaker 1: York and California via the federal government, the Treasury Department 393 00:21:47,960 --> 00:21:50,760 Speaker 1: and the irs. So this is where it's all heading. 394 00:21:50,800 --> 00:21:53,159 Speaker 1: There's not really a third option because Clay it is 395 00:21:53,200 --> 00:21:56,760 Speaker 1: simply unsustainable math as people leave, and it's the high 396 00:21:56,760 --> 00:21:59,320 Speaker 1: earners who are leaving New York, California and other Blue states. 397 00:21:59,480 --> 00:22:02,439 Speaker 1: I think that's the big point. The high earners have 398 00:22:02,600 --> 00:22:07,280 Speaker 1: more flexibility and if you're paying I think it's thirteen 399 00:22:07,400 --> 00:22:13,000 Speaker 1: percent in state and local taxes. Now in California, let's 400 00:22:13,040 --> 00:22:16,080 Speaker 1: say you are fortunate enough to be a millionaire and 401 00:22:16,200 --> 00:22:20,760 Speaker 1: you can live wherever you want. Is California worth one 402 00:22:20,880 --> 00:22:25,119 Speaker 1: hundred and thirty thousand dollars a year to you compared 403 00:22:25,160 --> 00:22:28,800 Speaker 1: to Texas, Florida, or Tennessee. And that's if you make 404 00:22:28,840 --> 00:22:31,640 Speaker 1: a million. If you're a ten million a year guy, 405 00:22:32,560 --> 00:22:36,360 Speaker 1: is it worth one point three million dollars directly out 406 00:22:36,359 --> 00:22:43,760 Speaker 1: of your pocket into the coffers of California. Increasingly everyone 407 00:22:43,880 --> 00:22:47,520 Speaker 1: is voting with their feet in terms of what they 408 00:22:47,560 --> 00:22:51,080 Speaker 1: think about taxes. And I'm here to tell you when 409 00:22:51,119 --> 00:22:53,800 Speaker 1: I started to when I would travel out to LA 410 00:22:53,920 --> 00:22:57,840 Speaker 1: and I would get paid by Fox Sports for LA appearances, 411 00:22:58,800 --> 00:23:01,040 Speaker 1: I was not making very much money when I started 412 00:23:01,080 --> 00:23:03,720 Speaker 1: doing that, and I would look at what I yielded 413 00:23:04,119 --> 00:23:08,200 Speaker 1: versus doing a television hit at home compared to LA 414 00:23:08,240 --> 00:23:10,359 Speaker 1: because they would tax me on it, and I would 415 00:23:10,400 --> 00:23:13,200 Speaker 1: be like, oh my god, this is crazy. Like all 416 00:23:13,240 --> 00:23:15,960 Speaker 1: I'm doing, it's actually more work for me because I'm 417 00:23:15,960 --> 00:23:18,080 Speaker 1: traveling all the way out to LA to sit in 418 00:23:18,080 --> 00:23:21,639 Speaker 1: a studio there, and they're taking thirteen or fourteen percent 419 00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:24,679 Speaker 1: more of my money because I took the time to 420 00:23:24,720 --> 00:23:27,800 Speaker 1: travel to LA. It's crazy. Well, the other part of 421 00:23:27,840 --> 00:23:29,960 Speaker 1: this that I think has has really been a turning 422 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:32,879 Speaker 1: point for everybody is there are a couple of things. 423 00:23:33,600 --> 00:23:37,240 Speaker 1: One everyone now knows in the post COVID era, your 424 00:23:37,280 --> 00:23:40,119 Speaker 1: state and local government really matters. It's not just the 425 00:23:40,160 --> 00:23:42,840 Speaker 1: federal government. It's not just the presidency and the Congress 426 00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:46,359 Speaker 1: that matters. The governor, your state legislature. And if you 427 00:23:46,359 --> 00:23:48,359 Speaker 1: live in a city, you or mayor or your county 428 00:23:48,359 --> 00:23:51,560 Speaker 1: commissioner or whatever it may be. They can make your 429 00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:53,880 Speaker 1: life more difficult. They can even make your life miserable 430 00:23:53,920 --> 00:23:57,520 Speaker 1: under the wrong circumstances. And that's not the last time 431 00:23:57,560 --> 00:23:59,719 Speaker 1: that we're going to have an emergency where they can 432 00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:02,159 Speaker 1: do basically whatever they want. It will happen again. So 433 00:24:02,200 --> 00:24:05,120 Speaker 1: people have recognized that, which I think is a big 434 00:24:05,160 --> 00:24:07,240 Speaker 1: part of It's something that I certainly recognized about New 435 00:24:07,320 --> 00:24:10,639 Speaker 1: York City as a as a board and raised New Yorker. 436 00:24:11,160 --> 00:24:14,919 Speaker 1: And then beyond that, on the financial side, it's not 437 00:24:14,960 --> 00:24:17,439 Speaker 1: just that you're paying a lot in taxes. You know, 438 00:24:17,480 --> 00:24:20,000 Speaker 1: one thing that you'll hear from people when they try 439 00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:22,600 Speaker 1: to make the big case for like Sweden and the 440 00:24:22,640 --> 00:24:27,240 Speaker 1: Netherlands and you know whatever, Denmark, they'll say, well, we 441 00:24:27,320 --> 00:24:29,919 Speaker 1: get a lot, right, we get a lot for our taxes. Now, 442 00:24:29,960 --> 00:24:32,280 Speaker 1: by the way, those welfare systems are actually going to collapse, 443 00:24:32,320 --> 00:24:34,600 Speaker 1: But that's a whole other conversation. You know, they haven't 444 00:24:34,600 --> 00:24:35,879 Speaker 1: had them for that long and they're not going to 445 00:24:35,960 --> 00:24:37,959 Speaker 1: last that long. But at least they feel like they 446 00:24:38,040 --> 00:24:40,080 Speaker 1: get a lot for the taxes they pay. Or that's 447 00:24:40,119 --> 00:24:43,000 Speaker 1: a broadly held perception that you'll hear. If you live 448 00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:45,000 Speaker 1: in New York City, you're walking around, you're saying, by 449 00:24:45,040 --> 00:24:46,560 Speaker 1: the way, you live in San Francisco, you live in 450 00:24:46,560 --> 00:24:48,280 Speaker 1: Los Angeles, you live in a bunch of these places. 451 00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:53,120 Speaker 1: You're saying to yourself, I'm paying to have like lunatic 452 00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:56,560 Speaker 1: drug addict, vagrants screaming at me on the streets, demanding money, 453 00:24:56,600 --> 00:24:59,760 Speaker 1: following me around, people camping out in front of my home, 454 00:25:00,119 --> 00:25:03,320 Speaker 1: people urinating on my street corner, and broad daylight not illegal, 455 00:25:03,359 --> 00:25:04,800 Speaker 1: by the way, in New York. This is stuff that 456 00:25:04,840 --> 00:25:07,399 Speaker 1: I saw people doing a heroin and broad daylight. The 457 00:25:07,480 --> 00:25:11,080 Speaker 1: streets are dirty, sanitations being cut. The cops aren't being 458 00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:14,919 Speaker 1: a respected and supported adequately to do their jobs effectively. 459 00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:17,880 Speaker 1: The prosecutors aren't actually locking up people who are threat 460 00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:21,960 Speaker 1: to public safety. What am I getting for this ten percent? 461 00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:25,080 Speaker 1: Twelve percent, maybe even thirteen percent that you're paying in 462 00:25:25,160 --> 00:25:28,360 Speaker 1: some of these states in addition to federal tax. That's 463 00:25:28,359 --> 00:25:30,000 Speaker 1: a tough question to answer. I think a lot of 464 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:34,399 Speaker 1: people are answering it with their feet. 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I saw this 495 00:27:08,119 --> 00:27:09,879 Speaker 1: during Sandy and a number of other things, that the 496 00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:12,200 Speaker 1: most important thing was to be there, to be able 497 00:27:12,200 --> 00:27:14,120 Speaker 1: to show people you were in charge, you were in touch. 498 00:27:14,359 --> 00:27:15,919 Speaker 1: I remember a woman saying to me the first day 499 00:27:15,920 --> 00:27:18,800 Speaker 1: after Sandy, you haven't forgotten us. People were worried that 500 00:27:18,800 --> 00:27:21,280 Speaker 1: they're being forgotten, and it's never too late. To go. 501 00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:24,880 Speaker 1: He'll get some criticism, but he should go. As Chris 502 00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:29,040 Speaker 1: Christie saying that Biden should still, even though it's been 503 00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:34,320 Speaker 1: quite a while, should go to East Palestine to just 504 00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:39,160 Speaker 1: show support and solidarity with that community. And the Clay 505 00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:41,639 Speaker 1: and I have talked about this. We would if we 506 00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:44,200 Speaker 1: had relatives in the area, we would rightly be concerned 507 00:27:44,240 --> 00:27:48,640 Speaker 1: about them. We would be concerned to hear about anyone 508 00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:52,760 Speaker 1: who is seeing a lot of dead fish wash up 509 00:27:52,840 --> 00:27:55,399 Speaker 1: all of a sudden, thousands and thousand of them, animals dying, 510 00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:58,359 Speaker 1: people saying they're getting bloody noses, all kinds of problems. 511 00:27:58,960 --> 00:28:03,400 Speaker 1: We have a government that has certainly lost some credibility 512 00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:06,040 Speaker 1: on the bureaucratic side of things over the course of COVID. 513 00:28:06,080 --> 00:28:08,800 Speaker 1: So the oh, don't worry, the experts are on it. 514 00:28:08,840 --> 00:28:11,080 Speaker 1: People don't buy that, and they shouldn't buy that. I 515 00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:13,920 Speaker 1: think that's another important part of this. But remember last 516 00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:18,480 Speaker 1: week lay when there was the talking point that Mayor 517 00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:22,840 Speaker 1: Pete Bodha Judge himself used It was oh, well, Trump 518 00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:27,000 Speaker 1: Trump rolled back regulation, so people that are he's going 519 00:28:27,040 --> 00:28:31,760 Speaker 1: to East Palestine, but his deregulation led to East Palestine. 520 00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:36,359 Speaker 1: That became the talking point that Joy Behar, remember she 521 00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:37,960 Speaker 1: read it, and remember she read her off a sheet 522 00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:40,640 Speaker 1: of paper. She was in, Oh, here we are the 523 00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:44,280 Speaker 1: East Palestine, the Trumpic deregulation and all the whole thing. 524 00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:46,520 Speaker 1: We're all sitting here and we're like, we really have 525 00:28:46,640 --> 00:28:50,160 Speaker 1: to Joey Behart can't spell East Palestine, but she's gonna 526 00:28:50,160 --> 00:28:52,960 Speaker 1: tell us about, you know, what's going on there, and 527 00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:56,400 Speaker 1: she reads all that stuff, and it was all about 528 00:28:56,440 --> 00:29:01,040 Speaker 1: how Trump deregulated. Well, the Washington Post, I don't know, 529 00:29:01,200 --> 00:29:04,000 Speaker 1: you know, occasionally they decide. I think sometimes they're so 530 00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:07,000 Speaker 1: bored they just end up doing journalism by accident. But 531 00:29:07,120 --> 00:29:10,120 Speaker 1: the Washing Post put out an analysis. Now they soft 532 00:29:10,120 --> 00:29:12,720 Speaker 1: paddled a little bit. But so far Trump's rollback of 533 00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:15,840 Speaker 1: regulations can't be blamed for the Ohio train wreck. Essentially, 534 00:29:15,920 --> 00:29:21,760 Speaker 1: going through everything that was touched by any Trump regulation, 535 00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:26,440 Speaker 1: electronically controlled pneumatic breaks, there was a change in ECP breaks. 536 00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:31,360 Speaker 1: Turns out, well, the train wasn't equipped with those breaks, 537 00:29:31,840 --> 00:29:37,040 Speaker 1: but it used locomotive and dynamic braking, so it didn't matter. 538 00:29:37,360 --> 00:29:43,640 Speaker 1: You go down this list break safety inspections, turns out, 539 00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:46,000 Speaker 1: no one yet says that there was any break issue. 540 00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:47,520 Speaker 1: So how can you even know if that had anything 541 00:29:47,560 --> 00:29:50,760 Speaker 1: to do with it? Two person crew acquirement that was changed. 542 00:29:50,800 --> 00:29:53,560 Speaker 1: Guess what this train had two people. That doesn't make 543 00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:58,280 Speaker 1: any difference. Minimum rail safety requirements, relevance to the derailment none. 544 00:29:58,320 --> 00:30:01,240 Speaker 1: The NTSP inspected the track. They make no report of 545 00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:05,360 Speaker 1: any problem, recurring safety audits, relevance to derailment none. I mean, 546 00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:09,000 Speaker 1: they go through this clay everything than anyone who really 547 00:30:09,080 --> 00:30:12,800 Speaker 1: dug into any Trump deregulation that has anything new of 548 00:30:12,840 --> 00:30:15,760 Speaker 1: the train so far, unless they're going to say it's 549 00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:18,120 Speaker 1: this one breaking issue or the issue of the breaks 550 00:30:18,120 --> 00:30:20,120 Speaker 1: and it would have been has nothing to do with 551 00:30:20,160 --> 00:30:21,920 Speaker 1: these Palestine. Do you think that any of the people, 552 00:30:21,960 --> 00:30:24,800 Speaker 1: including the Transportation secretary, who are making the it was 553 00:30:24,840 --> 00:30:27,520 Speaker 1: Trump's fault case last week, will care I think we 554 00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:30,080 Speaker 1: all know the answer. No, of course they won't. And 555 00:30:31,520 --> 00:30:37,200 Speaker 1: at some point, you are responsible for your own administration. 556 00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:42,440 Speaker 1: Maybe you can blame the prior administration for the first 557 00:30:42,440 --> 00:30:45,560 Speaker 1: six months that you're in office for things that go awry. 558 00:30:45,840 --> 00:30:49,560 Speaker 1: I still don't think it works very well, but maybe 559 00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:53,680 Speaker 1: you can argue that everyone remembers Joe Biden, remember when 560 00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:55,800 Speaker 1: he was sitting at that little tiny desk that they 561 00:30:55,840 --> 00:30:59,120 Speaker 1: made for him where he was signing all these executive 562 00:30:59,240 --> 00:31:03,280 Speaker 1: orders at a furious pace, basically the day he came 563 00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:07,880 Speaker 1: into office, trying to undo as much of the Trump 564 00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:12,920 Speaker 1: administration's work as he possibly could. If there were something 565 00:31:13,360 --> 00:31:16,719 Speaker 1: that Trump had done that was so indefensible as it 566 00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:22,240 Speaker 1: pertains to train derailment or train transportation issues in this country, 567 00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:24,800 Speaker 1: Joe Biden's had over two years now to address it 568 00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:28,800 Speaker 1: before anything happened in East Palestine. And the larger context 569 00:31:28,880 --> 00:31:32,920 Speaker 1: here is I think the Biden administration acknowledges that they 570 00:31:32,920 --> 00:31:35,360 Speaker 1: have blown it in the way that they responded to 571 00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:38,400 Speaker 1: East Palestine. I don't think it was coincidental. I think 572 00:31:38,400 --> 00:31:42,720 Speaker 1: if this had been a city, they would have put 573 00:31:42,760 --> 00:31:46,080 Speaker 1: every bit of effort a blue city, I mean into 574 00:31:46,280 --> 00:31:48,520 Speaker 1: paying attention to this. They would have used it for 575 00:31:48,560 --> 00:31:52,520 Speaker 1: political purposes to the utmost of their ability. They wouldn't 576 00:31:52,520 --> 00:31:56,120 Speaker 1: have seen Mayor Pete in three weeks after this incident 577 00:31:56,200 --> 00:31:59,240 Speaker 1: unless Donald Trump had gone and they're just hoping that 578 00:31:59,320 --> 00:32:03,160 Speaker 1: they're cohorts in the media will stop covering this and 579 00:32:03,240 --> 00:32:06,280 Speaker 1: it will disappear because now if Joe Biden goes, I 580 00:32:06,360 --> 00:32:08,720 Speaker 1: think is the calculus inside of the Biden White House. 581 00:32:09,160 --> 00:32:12,719 Speaker 1: Then not only were you wrong to wait this long, 582 00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:15,560 Speaker 1: but you also have to acknowledge that it was a 583 00:32:15,640 --> 00:32:19,000 Speaker 1: serious issue. In the immediate response becomes, why did it 584 00:32:19,040 --> 00:32:21,360 Speaker 1: take you almost a month to go and talk to 585 00:32:21,400 --> 00:32:24,960 Speaker 1: these people and acknowledge what they are dealing with? And 586 00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:27,880 Speaker 1: then that is a default recognition that they blew it. 587 00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:30,520 Speaker 1: And so now I think they're just hoping the story 588 00:32:30,520 --> 00:32:35,080 Speaker 1: will go away. I think it's going to be an 589 00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:38,040 Speaker 1: issue for them for quite some time because Joe Biden 590 00:32:39,040 --> 00:32:43,120 Speaker 1: built his entire political career on the pretense that he 591 00:32:43,320 --> 00:32:47,080 Speaker 1: is a blue collar, working class guy who knows the 592 00:32:47,160 --> 00:32:50,480 Speaker 1: folks and cares about the folks. And you know, we 593 00:32:50,520 --> 00:32:54,680 Speaker 1: all know that he does this, you know, sometimes in 594 00:32:54,760 --> 00:32:57,920 Speaker 1: a blue collar on, blue collar off, depending on the circumstances, 595 00:32:57,960 --> 00:33:01,120 Speaker 1: but pretends to have this common touch. I mean reality, 596 00:33:01,240 --> 00:33:04,520 Speaker 1: Joe Biden has been living not just on a senate salary, 597 00:33:04,560 --> 00:33:07,200 Speaker 1: but living as a millionaire for a long time. I 598 00:33:07,240 --> 00:33:09,280 Speaker 1: do think there should be a little bit more interest 599 00:33:09,360 --> 00:33:11,800 Speaker 1: from where did all this money come from? I don't know, 600 00:33:11,800 --> 00:33:13,760 Speaker 1: it's kind of weird Hunter's getting millions of dollars And 601 00:33:13,840 --> 00:33:17,000 Speaker 1: also what about Joe's brother there's some interesting stuff going 602 00:33:17,040 --> 00:33:19,640 Speaker 1: on here, so there's no interest as we know, in 603 00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:22,000 Speaker 1: any of that. And also, Clay, notice how little you're 604 00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:26,040 Speaker 1: hearing about any kind of criminal anything about Hunter Biden 605 00:33:26,040 --> 00:33:28,920 Speaker 1: at this point. It's just faded away. It could come back, 606 00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:32,920 Speaker 1: but it has faded away entirely. But Joe Biden hasn't 607 00:33:32,920 --> 00:33:35,400 Speaker 1: cared about working class people except when it comes to 608 00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:37,680 Speaker 1: fooling them in devoting for him in fifty years. I mean, 609 00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:39,920 Speaker 1: this is not the reality of who he is as 610 00:33:39,960 --> 00:33:43,840 Speaker 1: a person. Joe Biden moves among and is of the elites. 611 00:33:44,160 --> 00:33:47,720 Speaker 1: He is the ultimate Democrat machine politician. You know who 612 00:33:47,720 --> 00:33:51,480 Speaker 1: His real constituency is credit card companies based in Delaware. 613 00:33:51,760 --> 00:33:55,240 Speaker 1: That's who Joe Biden really has represented. By the way, 614 00:33:55,320 --> 00:33:57,000 Speaker 1: a lot of what the credit card companies were doing, 615 00:33:57,040 --> 00:33:59,000 Speaker 1: if they didn't have so much cover, would have actually 616 00:33:59,080 --> 00:34:02,240 Speaker 1: been criminal dates around so people have to pay higher 617 00:34:02,280 --> 00:34:05,280 Speaker 1: interest after they change the due date without really telling 618 00:34:05,320 --> 00:34:07,160 Speaker 1: anybody about it, accepting a letter that you may or 619 00:34:07,160 --> 00:34:09,759 Speaker 1: may not get. Joe Biden was enabling all that. For 620 00:34:09,800 --> 00:34:11,319 Speaker 1: those of you who ever had problem with the credit 621 00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:14,680 Speaker 1: card companies and wondered, why isn't this, you know, considered 622 00:34:14,719 --> 00:34:18,760 Speaker 1: loan sharking basically, So yeah, that's who Joe Biden really 623 00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:21,440 Speaker 1: is a fraud and he's Palestine. 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Find the Clay and Buck app in your 673 00:37:03,239 --> 00:37:06,319 Speaker 1: app store and make it part of your day. You know, 674 00:37:06,440 --> 00:37:10,759 Speaker 1: Joe Mansion is a senator from West Virginia, which is 675 00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:14,320 Speaker 1: pretty remarkable West Virginia and a lot of wonderful people 676 00:37:14,360 --> 00:37:16,400 Speaker 1: from that great state listening to us. And I'm sitting 677 00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:21,280 Speaker 1: here saying, hold on a second. He's a Democrat. And 678 00:37:22,040 --> 00:37:28,680 Speaker 1: remember when the Democrats in an act of sheer spending lunacy, 679 00:37:28,719 --> 00:37:31,719 Speaker 1: we're trying to put forward a three trillion, really five 680 00:37:31,840 --> 00:37:36,760 Speaker 1: or six trillion because the sunset provisions ain't gonna sunset, folks, Okay, 681 00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:41,120 Speaker 1: once you start. Once Democrats starts spending money on a program, 682 00:37:41,840 --> 00:37:45,480 Speaker 1: then they keep spending money on that program. So it 683 00:37:45,520 --> 00:37:47,760 Speaker 1: was gonna be five or six trillion dollars or spending. 684 00:37:48,360 --> 00:37:50,399 Speaker 1: And he started, he started athwart that one and said 685 00:37:50,400 --> 00:37:53,440 Speaker 1: this is crazy. But then there was the Inflation Reduction Act, 686 00:37:53,760 --> 00:37:56,440 Speaker 1: which did not reduce inflation. It actually made inflation a 687 00:37:56,440 --> 00:37:58,919 Speaker 1: little bit worse. But it was just a political ploy. 688 00:37:59,040 --> 00:38:01,359 Speaker 1: He got a spending bill past at a time when 689 00:38:01,440 --> 00:38:04,439 Speaker 1: with high inflation and not take the political hit because 690 00:38:04,440 --> 00:38:06,319 Speaker 1: people are like, wait, hold on a second. If it's 691 00:38:06,360 --> 00:38:10,840 Speaker 1: the inflation reduction eh, it reduces inflate. No, does not 692 00:38:10,960 --> 00:38:16,360 Speaker 1: reduce inflation. That's not true. Here is Maria Bartaromo asking 693 00:38:16,960 --> 00:38:21,399 Speaker 1: Senator Mansion, Hey, do you identify as a Democrat? Still 694 00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:24,160 Speaker 1: play twenty one. My main concern to all of you 695 00:38:24,200 --> 00:38:26,120 Speaker 1: and all of your viewers, My main concern is how 696 00:38:26,120 --> 00:38:28,279 Speaker 1: do we bring this country together, How do we make 697 00:38:28,280 --> 00:38:31,400 Speaker 1: it work. How do we make Democrats Republicans become Americans 698 00:38:31,400 --> 00:38:34,720 Speaker 1: again and not just party affiliates. This is what's happening 699 00:38:34,840 --> 00:38:38,359 Speaker 1: right now. We're pushing people further apart, making people take 700 00:38:38,360 --> 00:38:40,759 Speaker 1: a side, and then we're rewarding for bad behavior. Your 701 00:38:40,840 --> 00:38:43,480 Speaker 1: country has to be about America and coming together. Do 702 00:38:43,560 --> 00:38:47,240 Speaker 1: you still be involved anyway? I can't. He's be involved 703 00:38:47,280 --> 00:38:50,480 Speaker 1: anyway I can to help. I identify as an American. 704 00:38:50,760 --> 00:38:56,400 Speaker 1: I'm an American through and through. Oh, come on, come on, Clay, 705 00:38:56,560 --> 00:39:00,359 Speaker 1: he identifies as an American. Well, yeah, we hope you're 706 00:39:00,360 --> 00:39:04,600 Speaker 1: a senator. Well his state, Donald Trump won by thirty 707 00:39:04,680 --> 00:39:09,880 Speaker 1: nine points, So Joe Mansion snuck across in eighteen because 708 00:39:09,880 --> 00:39:11,840 Speaker 1: he wasn't on the ballot in twenty. I think if 709 00:39:11,880 --> 00:39:13,640 Speaker 1: Joe Mansion had been on the ballot in twenty he 710 00:39:13,680 --> 00:39:18,560 Speaker 1: would have gotten absolutely filled and lost that seat. I 711 00:39:18,640 --> 00:39:20,279 Speaker 1: think he knows, and look, I've been on this for 712 00:39:20,320 --> 00:39:23,120 Speaker 1: a while. I think Joe Mansion knows that he has 713 00:39:23,160 --> 00:39:26,239 Speaker 1: a zero percent chance of winning as a Democrat in 714 00:39:26,280 --> 00:39:30,120 Speaker 1: West Virginia in twenty twenty four because whoever the nominee 715 00:39:30,120 --> 00:39:32,799 Speaker 1: is going to be for Republicans is going to win 716 00:39:33,280 --> 00:39:37,560 Speaker 1: by twenty five points plus maybe even more against Joe 717 00:39:37,560 --> 00:39:41,040 Speaker 1: Biden in West Virginia. I do not believe that it's 718 00:39:41,080 --> 00:39:46,799 Speaker 1: possible for any candidate like Joe Mansion or any other 719 00:39:46,880 --> 00:39:51,440 Speaker 1: Democrat to win when the Republican presidential candidate wins by 720 00:39:51,440 --> 00:39:56,279 Speaker 1: twenty five just not gonna happen. So Mansion, I think 721 00:39:56,520 --> 00:39:59,720 Speaker 1: what I think Mansion hoped Buck was. I think Mansion 722 00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:03,600 Speaker 1: he greatly hoped that Democrats would lose the Senate and 723 00:40:03,760 --> 00:40:06,520 Speaker 1: Republicans would take control of the Senate and then he 724 00:40:06,560 --> 00:40:10,560 Speaker 1: could switch and he wouldn't be responsible for changing control 725 00:40:10,600 --> 00:40:14,000 Speaker 1: of the chamber. And when that didn't happen, now he's 726 00:40:14,080 --> 00:40:16,760 Speaker 1: kind of stuck in this role where he has basically 727 00:40:16,760 --> 00:40:21,840 Speaker 1: two options retire or become a Republican and try to 728 00:40:21,960 --> 00:40:24,160 Speaker 1: run as a Republican. I don't think he has any 729 00:40:24,160 --> 00:40:26,480 Speaker 1: other option to stay in the Senate. He could run 730 00:40:26,560 --> 00:40:29,840 Speaker 1: the president. Maybe that's why at this point you and 731 00:40:29,840 --> 00:40:32,040 Speaker 1: I should just run for president, right, I mean, why not? Well, 732 00:40:32,080 --> 00:40:35,000 Speaker 1: we're busy here. Everybody knows everyone, everyone's getting in on 733 00:40:35,080 --> 00:40:39,399 Speaker 1: this game. Um, I would say, Joe Mansion, the people 734 00:40:39,440 --> 00:40:43,600 Speaker 1: of West Virginia need to elect a different senator. This 735 00:40:43,719 --> 00:40:46,359 Speaker 1: is this game of you don't know which way he's 736 00:40:46,360 --> 00:40:48,480 Speaker 1: gonna go, and he's kind of a Maverick or whatever. 737 00:40:49,440 --> 00:40:52,600 Speaker 1: This isn't a situation where he's the best we can 738 00:40:52,680 --> 00:40:55,839 Speaker 1: get in a purple state. Right, This thing people will say, 739 00:40:55,880 --> 00:40:57,239 Speaker 1: and I know people don't like to hear this, but 740 00:40:57,280 --> 00:40:59,800 Speaker 1: you know what's someone like like a Susan Collins for example, 741 00:41:00,160 --> 00:41:03,440 Speaker 1: Is Susan Collins the senator that you want that's gonna 742 00:41:03,520 --> 00:41:05,319 Speaker 1: come through for you in the clutch all the time 743 00:41:05,320 --> 00:41:09,360 Speaker 1: as a conservative? No, but in her home state? Is 744 00:41:09,360 --> 00:41:11,680 Speaker 1: that probably the best you're gonna be able to do 745 00:41:11,800 --> 00:41:13,719 Speaker 1: to get I mean, you could argument you maybe you'll 746 00:41:13,719 --> 00:41:15,279 Speaker 1: say no, but you could make an argument that you know, 747 00:41:15,360 --> 00:41:18,279 Speaker 1: Maine is you know, Maine is not Wyoming, right, Maine 748 00:41:18,320 --> 00:41:21,960 Speaker 1: is not Texas, um. But with Joe Mansion As to 749 00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:26,000 Speaker 1: your point about basically a forty point Republican winning state 750 00:41:26,040 --> 00:41:28,839 Speaker 1: with Trump the last time or thirty eight points right, Uh, 751 00:41:29,640 --> 00:41:33,120 Speaker 1: why don't you have a Republican senator does Why would 752 00:41:33,120 --> 00:41:35,600 Speaker 1: you have it? You know, it doesn't doesn't make sense 753 00:41:35,600 --> 00:41:37,840 Speaker 1: to me. So I think he doesn't really have a 754 00:41:37,880 --> 00:41:39,719 Speaker 1: lot of options to play at this point. But you know, 755 00:41:39,760 --> 00:41:44,320 Speaker 1: he's very slick. I'm an American. Oh okay, he won't 756 00:41:44,360 --> 00:41:47,560 Speaker 1: say that he's a Democrat. I believe he really hoped 757 00:41:47,600 --> 00:41:49,640 Speaker 1: Republicans were going to take the Senate. And credit to 758 00:41:49,719 --> 00:41:53,319 Speaker 1: Joe Manson where it's deserved, because this was important. He 759 00:41:53,400 --> 00:41:55,440 Speaker 1: one hundred percent nailed the fact that inflation was going 760 00:41:55,480 --> 00:41:57,680 Speaker 1: to get out of control. Remember, Joe Biden wanted to 761 00:41:57,719 --> 00:42:02,399 Speaker 1: spend five more trillion dollars and if Joe Manchin hadn't 762 00:42:02,400 --> 00:42:06,240 Speaker 1: come out against it, we'd be in infinitely worse shape 763 00:42:06,280 --> 00:42:08,800 Speaker 1: economically than we are. I mean, if they hadn't passed 764 00:42:08,800 --> 00:42:11,759 Speaker 1: the inflation reduction at play do we do? We have 765 00:42:11,840 --> 00:42:14,319 Speaker 1: Republicans in control of the Senate, and you know, we 766 00:42:14,360 --> 00:42:16,839 Speaker 1: can't prove this one way or the other. But he 767 00:42:16,920 --> 00:42:20,200 Speaker 1: was wrong on that one. That's cost eight hundred billion 768 00:42:20,320 --> 00:42:22,279 Speaker 1: or whatever it was. But at least he was right 769 00:42:22,400 --> 00:42:25,799 Speaker 1: on the five trillion. I wish West Virginia had been 770 00:42:25,880 --> 00:42:29,600 Speaker 1: right and elected a Republican in twenty eighteen. That would 771 00:42:29,600 --> 00:42:32,840 Speaker 1: have helped to a great extent. But you know, I 772 00:42:32,680 --> 00:42:35,800 Speaker 1: was I was hearing over the weekend that the Biden 773 00:42:35,800 --> 00:42:39,920 Speaker 1: administration is wagging a finger at China and saying, hey, 774 00:42:40,080 --> 00:42:43,040 Speaker 1: you better not do anything to make things harder for 775 00:42:43,120 --> 00:42:45,960 Speaker 1: us in Ukraine. I would like to address that. And 776 00:42:46,040 --> 00:42:48,879 Speaker 1: the notion that we're we think we're calling the shots 777 00:42:48,920 --> 00:42:51,480 Speaker 1: would have comes to China and Russia and Ukraine. I 778 00:42:51,560 --> 00:42:53,920 Speaker 1: don't think so. I don't think we're calling the shots 779 00:42:53,920 --> 00:42:56,200 Speaker 1: on China when it comes to anything. They're walking all 780 00:42:56,200 --> 00:42:58,319 Speaker 1: over the Week Loser that Joe Biden is