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 --> 00:00:07,400 Speaker 1: Sexton Show podcast. Welcome into the Friday edition of The 3 00:00:07,440 --> 00:00:11,039 Speaker 1: Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. A lot going on 4 00:00:11,160 --> 00:00:14,200 Speaker 1: right now, as you know, with the war in Ukraine. 5 00:00:14,280 --> 00:00:16,560 Speaker 1: Will bring you the most up to date information we 6 00:00:16,640 --> 00:00:20,479 Speaker 1: can right now. Russian troops already entering Key, the capital 7 00:00:20,600 --> 00:00:26,560 Speaker 1: city bus the Biden administration has named Kenttanji Brown as 8 00:00:26,600 --> 00:00:29,600 Speaker 1: the pick for the Supreme Court that Biden is making. 9 00:00:29,640 --> 00:00:32,120 Speaker 1: We'll have some analysis of that. Clay is going to 10 00:00:32,200 --> 00:00:34,800 Speaker 1: dive deep into it just a little bit third hour 11 00:00:34,840 --> 00:00:38,520 Speaker 1: of the program. Our friend Alex Barrenson on COVID, which, 12 00:00:38,760 --> 00:00:44,600 Speaker 1: as we know, a fight continues for normalcy, accountability and 13 00:00:45,560 --> 00:00:49,519 Speaker 1: getting the answers what actually happened, How effective really was 14 00:00:49,560 --> 00:00:53,239 Speaker 1: the vaccination program, How effective were the boosters, What do 15 00:00:53,320 --> 00:00:55,600 Speaker 1: they make where do they make a difference. We'll get 16 00:00:55,600 --> 00:00:57,240 Speaker 1: into all of that coming up in the third hour, 17 00:00:57,320 --> 00:01:00,960 Speaker 1: But first off, the biggest story in the world right 18 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:06,920 Speaker 1: now is clearly the situation in Ukraine. You have Ukrainian 19 00:01:07,720 --> 00:01:12,800 Speaker 1: defense forces putting up some serious resistance, but already the 20 00:01:12,920 --> 00:01:17,039 Speaker 1: Russians are entering the capital of Kiev. This was a 21 00:01:17,160 --> 00:01:20,800 Speaker 1: multi pronged attack. Yesterday. You've probably seen if you're on 22 00:01:20,840 --> 00:01:25,200 Speaker 1: social media some of the video of m I eight 23 00:01:25,319 --> 00:01:30,880 Speaker 1: Russian attack helicopters, transport helicopters trying to take a key airfield. 24 00:01:31,560 --> 00:01:35,080 Speaker 1: This is a situation that is evolving minute by minute, 25 00:01:35,360 --> 00:01:37,160 Speaker 1: and we're going to bring you the most up to 26 00:01:37,240 --> 00:01:40,960 Speaker 1: date information we can. There's already gunfire and explosions as 27 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:44,280 Speaker 1: of right now in the capital city. The President of 28 00:01:44,400 --> 00:01:48,360 Speaker 1: Ukraine Zelenski, has said that he believes he is target 29 00:01:48,520 --> 00:01:52,120 Speaker 1: number one of the Russian Federation and his family. He 30 00:01:52,160 --> 00:01:55,200 Speaker 1: has said this is target number two. They are in 31 00:01:55,400 --> 00:01:58,360 Speaker 1: secure locations in the capital city, but they are choosing 32 00:01:58,880 --> 00:02:01,920 Speaker 1: not to leave. You have a lot of Ukrainians who 33 00:02:01,920 --> 00:02:06,320 Speaker 1: are being handed weapons. There's essentially a civilian defense force 34 00:02:06,400 --> 00:02:09,519 Speaker 1: being created in real time. They're saying they're going to 35 00:02:09,600 --> 00:02:11,799 Speaker 1: fight till the very end. You have members of the 36 00:02:11,880 --> 00:02:18,120 Speaker 1: Ukrainian Parliament putting one bullet resistant vests and taking AK 37 00:02:18,280 --> 00:02:20,720 Speaker 1: forty seven's and saying they are going to fight till 38 00:02:20,720 --> 00:02:24,919 Speaker 1: the very end. They'll defend the Parliament building itself. And 39 00:02:25,200 --> 00:02:30,120 Speaker 1: you also have video of Chechen quote hunters right now 40 00:02:30,480 --> 00:02:33,560 Speaker 1: who are being deployed in parts of Ukraine and given 41 00:02:33,600 --> 00:02:37,840 Speaker 1: a stack of cards with Ukrainian politicians on them, but 42 00:02:37,880 --> 00:02:42,720 Speaker 1: they're supposed to find and either capture or kill play. 43 00:02:42,800 --> 00:02:46,520 Speaker 1: This looks like it is about to get very ugly. 44 00:02:46,880 --> 00:02:49,280 Speaker 1: Over one hundred casualties in the first day, one hundred 45 00:02:49,360 --> 00:02:53,400 Speaker 1: killed Ukrainian military and civilians. That's the official number. I 46 00:02:53,400 --> 00:02:54,920 Speaker 1: think it was one hundred and twenty seven is what 47 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:58,280 Speaker 1: I saw. You could see this turn into street to 48 00:02:58,360 --> 00:03:01,959 Speaker 1: street fighting very quickly. Putin said as maybe there is 49 00:03:01,960 --> 00:03:04,240 Speaker 1: a negotiation to be had, but some are saying that's 50 00:03:04,240 --> 00:03:07,480 Speaker 1: a head faint, and I think in the background, we're 51 00:03:07,480 --> 00:03:11,639 Speaker 1: all wondering why is it that the Biden administration hasn't 52 00:03:11,680 --> 00:03:16,720 Speaker 1: even been willing to use swift sanctions against the Putin regime. 53 00:03:17,160 --> 00:03:19,520 Speaker 1: This looks like it's about to get a whole lot worse. 54 00:03:19,680 --> 00:03:22,400 Speaker 1: And I want to know what you think should be 55 00:03:22,440 --> 00:03:28,480 Speaker 1: done at this stage. Everything that Joe Biden has tried 56 00:03:28,520 --> 00:03:32,880 Speaker 1: to do in his entire tenure so far has failed, 57 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:36,200 Speaker 1: and this seems like the latest example of that. Buck 58 00:03:36,320 --> 00:03:40,880 Speaker 1: and I was reading this morning. We talked yesterday during 59 00:03:41,160 --> 00:03:46,440 Speaker 1: the press conference availability Biden dodged a question on China 60 00:03:46,560 --> 00:03:49,560 Speaker 1: and he was specifically asked because he hadn't mentioned China 61 00:03:49,640 --> 00:03:53,000 Speaker 1: having any influence or any impact on trying to get 62 00:03:53,440 --> 00:03:58,640 Speaker 1: Russia not to invade Ukraine. This morning, early I think 63 00:03:58,640 --> 00:04:00,720 Speaker 1: it was late last night, the New York Times broke 64 00:04:00,760 --> 00:04:05,120 Speaker 1: a story that for the past three months, the United 65 00:04:05,160 --> 00:04:08,400 Speaker 1: States has been trying to persuade China to join them 66 00:04:08,480 --> 00:04:12,440 Speaker 1: in putting pressure on Russia not to invade Ukraine, and 67 00:04:12,520 --> 00:04:17,279 Speaker 1: that instead of doing that, China has been taking intelligence 68 00:04:17,480 --> 00:04:22,839 Speaker 1: shared with them about the dangers in Ukraine and telling 69 00:04:23,040 --> 00:04:28,240 Speaker 1: Russia what the United States was saying to China, basically 70 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:32,719 Speaker 1: spoiling all of the intelligence that the United States was 71 00:04:32,839 --> 00:04:38,240 Speaker 1: gleaning and immediately sharing it with Russia. And so as 72 00:04:38,279 --> 00:04:41,839 Speaker 1: big of a mess as Ukraine is, the bigger mess 73 00:04:41,839 --> 00:04:43,400 Speaker 1: that I think we're going to have to deal with 74 00:04:44,040 --> 00:04:47,440 Speaker 1: for many years to come. Now, Buck is there is 75 00:04:47,480 --> 00:04:51,560 Speaker 1: an unholy alliance now that seems quite clear between Russia 76 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:55,560 Speaker 1: and China, and maybe at some point it also is 77 00:04:55,600 --> 00:04:59,839 Speaker 1: going to expand and include Iran. And given the power 78 00:05:00,040 --> 00:05:04,480 Speaker 1: that China has on the global marketplace, any sort of 79 00:05:04,560 --> 00:05:08,360 Speaker 1: sanctions that you're trying to levy against Russia are not 80 00:05:08,400 --> 00:05:12,240 Speaker 1: going to be very effective. If China remains the partner 81 00:05:12,320 --> 00:05:14,720 Speaker 1: and also Buck this is also crazy and I think 82 00:05:14,720 --> 00:05:19,320 Speaker 1: it deserves more attention. This embargo, the sanctions, however you 83 00:05:19,360 --> 00:05:22,080 Speaker 1: want to classify it against Russia, is not for the 84 00:05:22,120 --> 00:05:26,640 Speaker 1: most part impacting actual Russian oil and petroleum products. They're 85 00:05:26,640 --> 00:05:31,080 Speaker 1: still able to sell to Europe because they have such 86 00:05:31,120 --> 00:05:36,040 Speaker 1: a tight control over the European oil and gas population 87 00:05:36,480 --> 00:05:40,520 Speaker 1: that they don't have the ability to have energy independence. 88 00:05:40,680 --> 00:05:43,800 Speaker 1: And so Russia knew this. It doesn't seem like anything 89 00:05:43,800 --> 00:05:46,839 Speaker 1: we've done as surprise Putin, and certainly it hasn't been 90 00:05:46,839 --> 00:05:49,760 Speaker 1: consequential enough to get him to change in any manner 91 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:53,240 Speaker 1: his behavior so far. We're wondering right now. I think 92 00:05:53,240 --> 00:05:56,039 Speaker 1: everyone who's following this, and I know I said this 93 00:05:56,040 --> 00:05:57,719 Speaker 1: to Lay before the show, and I really mean this. 94 00:05:58,640 --> 00:06:02,279 Speaker 1: I just miss I miss having President Trump, I certainly 95 00:06:02,360 --> 00:06:05,839 Speaker 1: compared to what we see with Joe Biden. I believe 96 00:06:05,880 --> 00:06:09,240 Speaker 1: what the President told us earlier this week was true, 97 00:06:09,279 --> 00:06:11,000 Speaker 1: which is that Putin just would not have done this 98 00:06:11,040 --> 00:06:16,080 Speaker 1: with Trump and office because his unpredictability, Trump's unpredictability and 99 00:06:16,160 --> 00:06:19,400 Speaker 1: the fact that you were dealing with somebody who had 100 00:06:19,800 --> 00:06:22,560 Speaker 1: a whole lot of punchback in him. I feel like 101 00:06:22,640 --> 00:06:24,960 Speaker 1: that in and of itself was going to be something 102 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:28,880 Speaker 1: of a barrier to Putin's machinations here. That was going 103 00:06:28,920 --> 00:06:31,920 Speaker 1: to be something that would slow him down. But looking 104 00:06:31,960 --> 00:06:33,600 Speaker 1: now at what's going to happen, because if you point 105 00:06:33,600 --> 00:06:36,240 Speaker 1: out the sanctions, how seriously can you take sanctions that 106 00:06:36,279 --> 00:06:38,760 Speaker 1: don't go to the heart of the Russian economy? How 107 00:06:38,800 --> 00:06:41,719 Speaker 1: seriously can you take sanctions? The Swift system, which is 108 00:06:41,760 --> 00:06:45,960 Speaker 1: based out of Belgium, is essentially the clearinghouse for all 109 00:06:46,040 --> 00:06:50,960 Speaker 1: international international financial transactions. Thousands of financial institutions around the 110 00:06:50,960 --> 00:06:54,400 Speaker 1: world have their transactions cleared through the Swift system. You 111 00:06:54,480 --> 00:06:56,520 Speaker 1: cut Russia off from that, it no longer has an 112 00:06:56,560 --> 00:06:59,839 Speaker 1: international economy to speak of. Really, it will still do 113 00:07:00,080 --> 00:07:04,000 Speaker 1: up with China, fine, but there will be enormous financial consequences. 114 00:07:04,400 --> 00:07:07,000 Speaker 1: What are we waiting for? And there's video of Russian 115 00:07:07,200 --> 00:07:11,920 Speaker 1: tanks ruling over Ukrainian civilian cars. I mean, there's there's 116 00:07:11,920 --> 00:07:16,680 Speaker 1: already video of Chechen quote hunters getting ready to go. Fine, 117 00:07:16,760 --> 00:07:21,080 Speaker 1: Notcha Zelenski but his family. And look, we've all understood 118 00:07:21,120 --> 00:07:23,400 Speaker 1: that this is not America's fight in a sense that 119 00:07:23,440 --> 00:07:26,400 Speaker 1: we're going to get involved militarily. But if you're gonna take, 120 00:07:26,440 --> 00:07:29,000 Speaker 1: If you're going to take the actions economically to try 121 00:07:29,040 --> 00:07:32,040 Speaker 1: to change the calculation for Putin, wouldn't now be the 122 00:07:32,080 --> 00:07:34,800 Speaker 1: time to do it with all the seriousness you can 123 00:07:34,840 --> 00:07:37,520 Speaker 1: possibly muster. What are we waiting for? You almost wonder 124 00:07:37,520 --> 00:07:40,640 Speaker 1: if Biden thinks that Putin can achieve his objectives so 125 00:07:40,760 --> 00:07:44,000 Speaker 1: quickly that it won't even really extend out beyond a 126 00:07:44,040 --> 00:07:46,880 Speaker 1: few weeks or perhaps a few days, as they're already 127 00:07:46,920 --> 00:07:49,640 Speaker 1: in the capital of kievs So I have to say 128 00:07:49,680 --> 00:07:53,280 Speaker 1: I view this as indicative of a lot of failures 129 00:07:53,320 --> 00:07:58,040 Speaker 1: of international institutions. Also, just the did you feel like 130 00:07:58,080 --> 00:08:00,880 Speaker 1: the Biden regime really thought that this was going to happen? 131 00:08:01,200 --> 00:08:02,640 Speaker 1: We had been talking about it for a few weeks, 132 00:08:02,640 --> 00:08:05,160 Speaker 1: but I mean, Clay I did a special on the 133 00:08:05,160 --> 00:08:08,440 Speaker 1: first TV and the end of December about the upcoming 134 00:08:08,440 --> 00:08:10,360 Speaker 1: war in Ukraine. I mean, people can go can go 135 00:08:10,440 --> 00:08:12,119 Speaker 1: see it. We had all these guests on and saying 136 00:08:12,240 --> 00:08:14,360 Speaker 1: because it looked like that's what was going to happen. 137 00:08:14,480 --> 00:08:16,640 Speaker 1: That was in December. We're in almost March now, or 138 00:08:16,640 --> 00:08:19,800 Speaker 1: obviously it's February twenty fifth. The Biden administration had a 139 00:08:19,840 --> 00:08:21,720 Speaker 1: lot of time this wasn't a sneak attack that came 140 00:08:21,720 --> 00:08:24,000 Speaker 1: out of nowhere. This wasn't something that we should have 141 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:26,720 Speaker 1: been totally unprepared for. And this is the best we 142 00:08:26,880 --> 00:08:28,920 Speaker 1: can muster. If we can't stop this, you have to 143 00:08:28,960 --> 00:08:32,120 Speaker 1: wonder what's the point of view on Security Council, what's 144 00:08:32,160 --> 00:08:34,880 Speaker 1: the point of some of these institutions that we're supposed 145 00:08:34,880 --> 00:08:38,199 Speaker 1: to believe have some sway in the international scene. I 146 00:08:38,760 --> 00:08:42,120 Speaker 1: feel like it's it's it's very frustrating to watch this 147 00:08:42,120 --> 00:08:44,319 Speaker 1: play out because the human suffering in Ukraine. You already 148 00:08:44,320 --> 00:08:47,040 Speaker 1: see the refugee flows on the way on the way 149 00:08:47,080 --> 00:08:49,880 Speaker 1: to Romania and in Poland. This is going to get 150 00:08:49,920 --> 00:08:52,320 Speaker 1: a lot worse, especially if Ukrainians fight Clay. If they 151 00:08:52,360 --> 00:08:55,480 Speaker 1: continue to fight even after the government capitulates, you're going 152 00:08:55,559 --> 00:08:57,840 Speaker 1: to see large numbers of casualties on the streets. People 153 00:08:57,840 --> 00:08:59,560 Speaker 1: are going to and we're gonna see it too, because 154 00:08:59,559 --> 00:09:04,520 Speaker 1: everyone as their own video and audio dispersal tool, with 155 00:09:04,559 --> 00:09:06,880 Speaker 1: their phones in their hands, everybody's going to be able 156 00:09:07,200 --> 00:09:09,240 Speaker 1: to cover this live as it happens. It's going to 157 00:09:09,280 --> 00:09:11,760 Speaker 1: get very ugly, and I think the Bidendministration is just 158 00:09:11,800 --> 00:09:14,680 Speaker 1: not prepared for this at all. Well, the incompetence of 159 00:09:14,720 --> 00:09:18,720 Speaker 1: the UN was on stark relief when the invasion was 160 00:09:18,840 --> 00:09:23,920 Speaker 1: ongoing while Russia was chairing one of the UN discussions 161 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:27,800 Speaker 1: surrounding this incident. I don't know how much more of 162 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:32,800 Speaker 1: a worthless organization you can have devoted, supposedly to the 163 00:09:32,880 --> 00:09:36,400 Speaker 1: idea of world peace that's being chaired by a member 164 00:09:36,679 --> 00:09:41,480 Speaker 1: of the organization that's invading another member. And to your 165 00:09:41,520 --> 00:09:44,800 Speaker 1: point on the sanctions, it feels like the Biden administration 166 00:09:45,240 --> 00:09:49,319 Speaker 1: gets surprised far too often in the first year in 167 00:09:49,480 --> 00:09:52,840 Speaker 1: change of its tenure. It's surprised by the fact that 168 00:09:52,920 --> 00:09:56,840 Speaker 1: inflation skyrockets, it's surprised by the fact that murder skyrockets, 169 00:09:56,880 --> 00:10:00,520 Speaker 1: that the border in the south continu used to have 170 00:10:00,600 --> 00:10:05,040 Speaker 1: people spiral across it, that COVID surgies have continued, and 171 00:10:05,200 --> 00:10:10,280 Speaker 1: all of those surprises are further failures. So they really 172 00:10:10,840 --> 00:10:13,600 Speaker 1: believed in some way that these sanctions. Remember they didn't 173 00:10:13,600 --> 00:10:16,720 Speaker 1: even put the sanctions in place beforehand. They thought the 174 00:10:16,840 --> 00:10:20,720 Speaker 1: mere threat of the sanctions was going to keep Vladimir 175 00:10:20,760 --> 00:10:24,960 Speaker 1: Putin from undertaking this invasion. And then they seem to hope, okay, well, 176 00:10:24,960 --> 00:10:27,720 Speaker 1: maybe it's just going to be a relatively benign in 177 00:10:27,760 --> 00:10:31,440 Speaker 1: the grand scheme of things, takeover of the eastern part 178 00:10:31,520 --> 00:10:34,520 Speaker 1: of Ukraine. And now buck I wonder, and I think 179 00:10:34,559 --> 00:10:37,720 Speaker 1: for everybody out there who's listening to us, the question is, 180 00:10:37,720 --> 00:10:41,280 Speaker 1: is this the extent of Putin's ambition? Is he truly 181 00:10:41,360 --> 00:10:44,400 Speaker 1: going to say, okay, now I've got Ukraine. We know 182 00:10:44,440 --> 00:10:47,320 Speaker 1: what happened in Georgia, we know what happened in Crimea. 183 00:10:47,360 --> 00:10:50,800 Speaker 1: But the suggestion here would be that Putin's not done, 184 00:10:51,040 --> 00:10:53,079 Speaker 1: and then maybe the Baltic States could be next on 185 00:10:53,320 --> 00:10:57,360 Speaker 1: his chopping block. In other words, that he seems as 186 00:10:57,360 --> 00:11:00,000 Speaker 1: if every time you think, okay, well now he's satisfied, 187 00:11:00,520 --> 00:11:04,160 Speaker 1: appeasement has failed with him time after time. Why is 188 00:11:04,200 --> 00:11:06,920 Speaker 1: he suddenly going to decide I've had enough. We don't 189 00:11:06,960 --> 00:11:09,240 Speaker 1: even know the full extent of his ambitions in Ukraine. 190 00:11:09,400 --> 00:11:11,880 Speaker 1: As we have gunfire right now ringing out in Kiev 191 00:11:11,960 --> 00:11:14,800 Speaker 1: in the capital city, and you have seen this pretty 192 00:11:14,880 --> 00:11:20,200 Speaker 1: major military military operation under way. Is it just to 193 00:11:20,920 --> 00:11:24,760 Speaker 1: get rid of Zelenski and the existing government and replace 194 00:11:24,800 --> 00:11:28,000 Speaker 1: it with Russian puppets and then and then they'll say okay, 195 00:11:28,080 --> 00:11:31,120 Speaker 1: they'll probably retreat. My sense is, and I could be wrong, 196 00:11:31,200 --> 00:11:34,680 Speaker 1: My sense is that the daun Bass region is the 197 00:11:34,720 --> 00:11:37,600 Speaker 1: Russian Federation now always in forever in their minds as 198 00:11:37,600 --> 00:11:40,000 Speaker 1: actual territory, so they've they've taken that. Those are the 199 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:43,959 Speaker 1: breakaway provinces that I'm talking about what Putin's position will 200 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:46,120 Speaker 1: be on this. But then the rest of Ukraine does 201 00:11:46,120 --> 00:11:49,439 Speaker 1: it become effectively Belarus where you have look, Belarus is 202 00:11:49,440 --> 00:11:52,680 Speaker 1: a staging ground right now for this invasion, so you 203 00:11:52,760 --> 00:11:55,280 Speaker 1: have all the advantage in a sense of having a 204 00:11:55,800 --> 00:11:59,720 Speaker 1: client state that's also a buffer state between between Russian 205 00:12:00,120 --> 00:12:04,640 Speaker 1: actual Russian Federation territory and NATO clay. The alternative, though, 206 00:12:04,679 --> 00:12:06,360 Speaker 1: is that he goes, no, no, this is actually it's 207 00:12:06,400 --> 00:12:08,880 Speaker 1: going to be. The whole country is now like what 208 00:12:08,920 --> 00:12:11,280 Speaker 1: we have seen in dun bosson Crimea, whereby it is 209 00:12:11,520 --> 00:12:14,360 Speaker 1: Russian passports handed out to everyone. You're under Russian law. 210 00:12:14,360 --> 00:12:16,600 Speaker 1: This is part of the Russian Federation. About forty million 211 00:12:16,640 --> 00:12:19,240 Speaker 1: people here. It's not for people who've forgotten about the population. 212 00:12:19,280 --> 00:12:22,360 Speaker 1: It's a fairly substantial number of people. What he has 213 00:12:22,360 --> 00:12:25,839 Speaker 1: done in the past, places like Abkhazia and South Ossetia 214 00:12:25,880 --> 00:12:28,959 Speaker 1: in Georgia, those were the breakaway provinces you're talking that 215 00:12:29,040 --> 00:12:31,320 Speaker 1: a much much smaller I mean, let's be honest, how 216 00:12:31,320 --> 00:12:33,440 Speaker 1: many people have any idea where those things even are 217 00:12:33,480 --> 00:12:36,240 Speaker 1: on a map? Those are tiny And that's like breaking 218 00:12:36,280 --> 00:12:38,959 Speaker 1: off Rhode Island instead of breaking off Texas, Right, this 219 00:12:39,040 --> 00:12:42,600 Speaker 1: is a very different situation. And do they have the 220 00:12:42,640 --> 00:12:45,640 Speaker 1: military wherewithal to do that? So while yeah, we're looking 221 00:12:45,679 --> 00:12:49,160 Speaker 1: at there's those those further down the line, considerations about 222 00:12:49,240 --> 00:12:52,040 Speaker 1: as you brought up Taiwan, and now the conventional wisdom 223 00:12:52,120 --> 00:12:54,240 Speaker 1: is if China has had a better time to go 224 00:12:54,320 --> 00:12:58,680 Speaker 1: after Taiwan, doesn't seem like it doesn't. It's not apparent, Yeah, 225 00:12:58,760 --> 00:13:00,839 Speaker 1: not apparent what that would be than the next few months, 226 00:13:00,920 --> 00:13:04,240 Speaker 1: let's say. But even in the expansion of NATO, Biden 227 00:13:04,240 --> 00:13:06,400 Speaker 1: has made it very clear there's no way to walk 228 00:13:06,440 --> 00:13:09,720 Speaker 1: away from a Russian incursion into a NATO country at 229 00:13:09,720 --> 00:13:12,160 Speaker 1: this point without the complete collapse of what we know 230 00:13:12,240 --> 00:13:15,360 Speaker 1: of as the international order, an international because that's treaty, right, 231 00:13:15,400 --> 00:13:18,720 Speaker 1: that's actually contract. We are all in this together, So 232 00:13:18,760 --> 00:13:21,480 Speaker 1: I don't versus Russia at that point, and it spirals 233 00:13:21,480 --> 00:13:24,040 Speaker 1: into i mean close to almost a world war. And 234 00:13:24,920 --> 00:13:27,840 Speaker 1: if that gets very ugly, Look, the unified might of 235 00:13:27,880 --> 00:13:30,839 Speaker 1: the US and all the EU countries together against the 236 00:13:30,880 --> 00:13:33,880 Speaker 1: Russian military. That's that's actually a fight that we win 237 00:13:33,920 --> 00:13:36,160 Speaker 1: in a conventional sense very quickly. What gets everyone so 238 00:13:36,240 --> 00:13:40,440 Speaker 1: frightened is this putin crazy enough to actually go nuclear? 239 00:13:40,480 --> 00:13:43,640 Speaker 1: Remember there's there's low yield nuclear weapons that made there's 240 00:13:43,800 --> 00:13:48,360 Speaker 1: escalation even within nuclear force, right, So that's not That's 241 00:13:48,360 --> 00:13:50,959 Speaker 1: where everyone gets very very concerned right now? Though? Is 242 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:54,319 Speaker 1: it just is he trying to topple the government and 243 00:13:54,360 --> 00:13:58,040 Speaker 1: then essentially withdraw for a negotiated settlement or is he 244 00:13:58,120 --> 00:13:59,960 Speaker 1: taking the entire country of Ukraine as part of the 245 00:14:00,040 --> 00:14:04,600 Speaker 1: rushing federation? And what are we going we being the West, 246 00:14:04,679 --> 00:14:07,560 Speaker 1: I mean, what is the what are the EU countries 247 00:14:07,679 --> 00:14:10,520 Speaker 1: and the US going to do about this? And you know, 248 00:14:10,600 --> 00:14:14,480 Speaker 1: notice Bide administration just feels like it's deer in the 249 00:14:14,480 --> 00:14:16,719 Speaker 1: headlights on this whole issue, and I don't think that's 250 00:14:16,720 --> 00:14:18,839 Speaker 1: going to get better anytime soon. 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Use promo code Clay and Buck. 269 00:15:13,440 --> 00:15:16,440 Speaker 1: That's my pillow dot com. Click on the radio list 270 00:15:16,480 --> 00:15:24,520 Speaker 1: or specials. Use promo code Clay and Buck. Welcome back 271 00:15:24,520 --> 00:15:28,760 Speaker 1: to Clay and Buck Show. We had a big fake 272 00:15:28,960 --> 00:15:33,240 Speaker 1: news moment from the Lib Democrat media earlier this week. 273 00:15:33,320 --> 00:15:37,200 Speaker 1: Clain and I have still we're still trying to We 274 00:15:37,320 --> 00:15:39,640 Speaker 1: know they do this, but just because you expect something 275 00:15:39,680 --> 00:15:43,200 Speaker 1: doesn't mean that it's something you can process without wanting 276 00:15:43,240 --> 00:15:48,080 Speaker 1: to throw heavy objects at the wall or shout things 277 00:15:48,080 --> 00:15:50,280 Speaker 1: you can't say on the radio. We had our interview 278 00:15:50,280 --> 00:15:53,040 Speaker 1: with President Trump on Monday, obviously given the events of 279 00:15:53,080 --> 00:15:56,720 Speaker 1: this week, to hear from the former president who was 280 00:15:56,920 --> 00:16:00,520 Speaker 1: maligned and slandered as a Russian puppet for four years 281 00:16:01,160 --> 00:16:04,200 Speaker 1: without any of this stuff going on on. Somehow on 282 00:16:04,280 --> 00:16:08,320 Speaker 1: Trump's watch, they decided the enemies of the United States 283 00:16:08,360 --> 00:16:11,440 Speaker 1: decided to keep it real quiet, to play it real cool. 284 00:16:12,200 --> 00:16:15,760 Speaker 1: Biden's in office less than a year, and it's all systems. 285 00:16:15,800 --> 00:16:20,680 Speaker 1: Go take what you can, you know, ignore the doddering 286 00:16:20,760 --> 00:16:24,720 Speaker 1: old fool on the world stage. So they're despot right 287 00:16:24,720 --> 00:16:26,440 Speaker 1: now now when we can get into the politics of 288 00:16:26,440 --> 00:16:28,920 Speaker 1: this a little bit, they're trying to make this they're 289 00:16:29,160 --> 00:16:32,600 Speaker 1: they're trying to make this about Trump's foreign policy somehow 290 00:16:32,720 --> 00:16:35,440 Speaker 1: leading to this, which is insane but even more of 291 00:16:35,480 --> 00:16:38,720 Speaker 1: a slander. And this comes from Hillary who's out there 292 00:16:38,760 --> 00:16:41,000 Speaker 1: still doing what she always does, which is just making 293 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:45,200 Speaker 1: stuff up that benefits are politically Clay's there's this lie 294 00:16:45,320 --> 00:16:48,960 Speaker 1: that's very common where and it's all over the media 295 00:16:49,080 --> 00:16:53,000 Speaker 1: right now, all over the convert. Remember, the perception in 296 00:16:53,040 --> 00:16:57,360 Speaker 1: this country matters insofar as in thirty days time, if 297 00:16:57,440 --> 00:17:01,680 Speaker 1: the lunatics of the Biden administration that are running around 298 00:17:01,760 --> 00:17:04,560 Speaker 1: running cover for him got their way, maybe we would 299 00:17:04,600 --> 00:17:06,399 Speaker 1: all of a sudden be drawn into a Russian conflict. 300 00:17:06,440 --> 00:17:09,199 Speaker 1: I mean, perception matters here. It's not a hard and 301 00:17:09,240 --> 00:17:11,280 Speaker 1: fast thing that this is just going to pass without 302 00:17:11,280 --> 00:17:16,040 Speaker 1: American involvement. They're running around saying that the right is 303 00:17:16,080 --> 00:17:20,800 Speaker 1: somehow pro Putin and rallying to the cause of Putin. 304 00:17:20,880 --> 00:17:25,520 Speaker 1: This is an intellectually indefensable slander. It is based on 305 00:17:25,640 --> 00:17:28,160 Speaker 1: nothing and Hillary Clinton. If you're looking for a big lie, 306 00:17:28,240 --> 00:17:31,399 Speaker 1: Hillary Clinton's always got you covered there play Club nine. 307 00:17:31,480 --> 00:17:35,520 Speaker 1: I do think it's important to support both the Ukrainian 308 00:17:35,560 --> 00:17:40,400 Speaker 1: military and then, depending upon what happens and how quickly 309 00:17:40,640 --> 00:17:45,480 Speaker 1: events unfold, supporting those who are putting up resistance. But 310 00:17:45,640 --> 00:17:49,560 Speaker 1: I want to make another point, which is that we 311 00:17:49,600 --> 00:17:52,719 Speaker 1: have to also make sure that within our own country 312 00:17:53,359 --> 00:17:57,680 Speaker 1: we are calling out those people who are giving aid 313 00:17:57,720 --> 00:18:01,159 Speaker 1: and comfort to Vladimir Putin, who are talking about what 314 00:18:01,240 --> 00:18:03,399 Speaker 1: a genius he is, what a smart move it is, 315 00:18:04,200 --> 00:18:11,240 Speaker 1: who are unfortunately being broadcast by Russian media not only 316 00:18:11,280 --> 00:18:15,720 Speaker 1: inside Russia but in Europe, to demonstrate the division within 317 00:18:15,760 --> 00:18:19,200 Speaker 1: our own country. There's so much here, Clayton, We're both 318 00:18:19,280 --> 00:18:21,879 Speaker 1: wanting to know. She's referencing our interview folks earlier this 319 00:18:21,920 --> 00:18:24,239 Speaker 1: week at Marlago. That's what she is referencing. This has 320 00:18:24,280 --> 00:18:29,920 Speaker 1: become a big area of misrepresentation from the media. They're saying, oh, 321 00:18:29,680 --> 00:18:31,359 Speaker 1: you know, and I've even people say why didn't you 322 00:18:31,400 --> 00:18:33,680 Speaker 1: why don't you push back more? I'm like, because Trump's 323 00:18:33,840 --> 00:18:37,200 Speaker 1: whole point was, yeah, he was saying, tactically, Putin is 324 00:18:37,200 --> 00:18:40,600 Speaker 1: out maneuvering Biden on this and looking smarter than Biden 325 00:18:40,720 --> 00:18:43,760 Speaker 1: from from the perspective of Putin, the madman who wants 326 00:18:43,800 --> 00:18:46,520 Speaker 1: to strike in the heart of Ukraine. Be saying, this 327 00:18:46,560 --> 00:18:50,760 Speaker 1: crap never would have happened when I, meaning Trump, was president, 328 00:18:51,160 --> 00:18:55,920 Speaker 1: because I would have had severe consequences for Putin in store, 329 00:18:55,920 --> 00:18:57,359 Speaker 1: and he would have known that it would have been 330 00:18:57,359 --> 00:19:01,200 Speaker 1: an idle threat. There's no well, what are the Democrats 331 00:19:01,240 --> 00:19:03,960 Speaker 1: willing to do that Republicans aren't willing to do with 332 00:19:04,040 --> 00:19:06,120 Speaker 1: this phase. Trump was the one who was saying there 333 00:19:06,160 --> 00:19:09,320 Speaker 1: are tanks that are blowing up right now, Russian tanks 334 00:19:09,320 --> 00:19:12,520 Speaker 1: blowing up right now with missiles that Trump sent the 335 00:19:12,640 --> 00:19:17,080 Speaker 1: Ukrainian government that Democrats explicitly refuse to send because they 336 00:19:17,080 --> 00:19:19,359 Speaker 1: didn't want to anger Putin. Why do we have to 337 00:19:19,359 --> 00:19:21,760 Speaker 1: listen to this craft from Hillary? It's such a lie, 338 00:19:21,960 --> 00:19:25,159 Speaker 1: It's a total why and what it represents, and I 339 00:19:25,160 --> 00:19:29,119 Speaker 1: think people have to look through the why and recognize 340 00:19:29,160 --> 00:19:32,160 Speaker 1: that's why it's happening. Is they don't have a good 341 00:19:32,160 --> 00:19:36,680 Speaker 1: explanation for the central question here, which is, if Donald 342 00:19:36,680 --> 00:19:42,639 Speaker 1: Trump and Vladimir Putin are such collusion buddies, why in 343 00:19:42,680 --> 00:19:46,440 Speaker 1: the world was Putin afraid to do this to Ukraine 344 00:19:46,800 --> 00:19:49,760 Speaker 1: for four years while Donald Trump was in office. Yes, 345 00:19:49,800 --> 00:19:51,920 Speaker 1: there isn't an answer to that. That is the reason 346 00:19:52,240 --> 00:19:55,600 Speaker 1: anybody who is making anybody you're arguing with, anybody you're 347 00:19:55,640 --> 00:19:59,679 Speaker 1: discussing with, That is the essence of the question that 348 00:19:59,760 --> 00:20:02,800 Speaker 1: you have to ask. And Trump's answer is, as he 349 00:20:02,920 --> 00:20:07,639 Speaker 1: told us, because Putin feared what he might do. And 350 00:20:07,680 --> 00:20:10,760 Speaker 1: if you listen to that interview as opposed to reading 351 00:20:10,760 --> 00:20:14,359 Speaker 1: a part of the transcript or only listening to thirty 352 00:20:14,440 --> 00:20:17,280 Speaker 1: or forty five seconds of an answer, and this is 353 00:20:17,280 --> 00:20:19,280 Speaker 1: what's going on. By the way, in the New York Times, 354 00:20:19,280 --> 00:20:22,000 Speaker 1: one of the New York Times beat. What's her title. 355 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:24,440 Speaker 1: I'm gonna look at this. This woman is the bureau 356 00:20:24,480 --> 00:20:27,959 Speaker 1: chief of Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean for the 357 00:20:27,960 --> 00:20:32,120 Speaker 1: New York Times. She tweeted me and said Trump praised 358 00:20:32,160 --> 00:20:35,800 Speaker 1: Putin for planning to invade Ukraine. And I said, no, 359 00:20:35,880 --> 00:20:39,320 Speaker 1: he didn't, He didn't praise Putin. And then she cited 360 00:20:39,760 --> 00:20:43,200 Speaker 1: She sent me on Twitter buck a direct link to 361 00:20:43,240 --> 00:20:48,199 Speaker 1: our actual transcript and writes, Putin declares a big portion 362 00:20:48,240 --> 00:20:52,600 Speaker 1: of Ukraine. Of Ukraine, Putin declares it independent. Oh that's wonderful. 363 00:20:53,040 --> 00:20:58,200 Speaker 1: That's sarcasm. She's taking Trump saying, oh that's wonderful, which 364 00:20:58,240 --> 00:21:01,880 Speaker 1: anybody who actually listened to the audio. She's citing our 365 00:21:01,960 --> 00:21:06,760 Speaker 1: own transcript as evidence that Trump is rooting for Ukraine 366 00:21:06,800 --> 00:21:09,359 Speaker 1: to be invaded. And again, this is important for everybody 367 00:21:09,400 --> 00:21:13,400 Speaker 1: out there listening. What they are trying to hide from you, 368 00:21:13,840 --> 00:21:17,159 Speaker 1: what they are trying to keep you from paying attention to, 369 00:21:17,720 --> 00:21:20,960 Speaker 1: is that fundamental question, Yes, that fundamental question that all 370 00:21:20,960 --> 00:21:24,600 Speaker 1: of you should be asking. Why didn't Putin invade For 371 00:21:24,640 --> 00:21:27,320 Speaker 1: four years while Trump was in an office, and then 372 00:21:27,359 --> 00:21:30,520 Speaker 1: almost as soon as Biden gets there, he mobilizes all 373 00:21:30,560 --> 00:21:33,280 Speaker 1: his troops and goes why they don't have an answer 374 00:21:33,320 --> 00:21:35,439 Speaker 1: for that, and so they say, oh, well look at 375 00:21:35,440 --> 00:21:37,560 Speaker 1: all this coddling that's going on with Putin. No. No, 376 00:21:37,600 --> 00:21:39,840 Speaker 1: the big question is why did the invasion happen? Because 377 00:21:39,880 --> 00:21:43,840 Speaker 1: Biden's weak. Biden's been in office a year, Clay, and 378 00:21:43,880 --> 00:21:47,280 Speaker 1: we've been saying, if you were asked, if you were 379 00:21:47,359 --> 00:21:49,800 Speaker 1: told that you were the lawyer so to speak, for 380 00:21:49,880 --> 00:21:52,040 Speaker 1: the Biden administration, and you had to make a case 381 00:21:52,040 --> 00:21:54,760 Speaker 1: about where the victories are, where things have gone, well 382 00:21:55,080 --> 00:21:59,280 Speaker 1: you got nothing. There's absolutely nothing. So there's a desperation 383 00:21:59,320 --> 00:22:02,160 Speaker 1: I think in the minds of particularly the people who 384 00:22:02,600 --> 00:22:07,320 Speaker 1: played the central role in hyden Biden in the basement. Oh, 385 00:22:07,359 --> 00:22:10,359 Speaker 1: it's gonna be great. He's gonna unify the country, normalcy, 386 00:22:10,480 --> 00:22:13,280 Speaker 1: he's super smart. Don't worry about his cognitive decline. He's 387 00:22:13,280 --> 00:22:16,800 Speaker 1: got everything covered. It's gonna be just great. Those people 388 00:22:17,520 --> 00:22:21,640 Speaker 1: were either so wrong as to look like morons in retrospect, 389 00:22:21,760 --> 00:22:24,919 Speaker 1: or so dishonest as to be deserving of the scorn 390 00:22:24,960 --> 00:22:28,959 Speaker 1: of the American people. And it's the media establishment that 391 00:22:29,080 --> 00:22:31,480 Speaker 1: pushed that stuff. It is the Democrat a line media 392 00:22:31,760 --> 00:22:33,879 Speaker 1: that told us all this, that we've we didn't even 393 00:22:33,880 --> 00:22:36,000 Speaker 1: have to wait very long. It's been it's been a year. 394 00:22:36,400 --> 00:22:39,480 Speaker 1: And now you add a foreign foreign policy catastrophe on 395 00:22:39,520 --> 00:22:42,119 Speaker 1: the top of us. Even CBS is Margaret Freni foreign 396 00:22:42,160 --> 00:22:47,919 Speaker 1: policy another sorry, I'm sorry after Afkanista, another foreign policy catastrophe. Here, 397 00:22:48,040 --> 00:22:51,040 Speaker 1: CBS is Margaret Brennan, who's you know, a lib, but 398 00:22:51,160 --> 00:22:53,400 Speaker 1: a smart one. I mean there are smart libs. She's 399 00:22:53,400 --> 00:22:56,400 Speaker 1: a smart lib. Here she is saying, you know, wait, 400 00:22:56,480 --> 00:22:58,600 Speaker 1: what your telling us doesn't make sense. Play clip ten. 401 00:22:59,080 --> 00:23:01,680 Speaker 1: I thought that was so interesting when President Biden said 402 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:06,080 Speaker 1: no one expected sanctions to prevent anything. Actually, that's exactly 403 00:23:06,280 --> 00:23:09,280 Speaker 1: what his foreign policy team said again and again. It 404 00:23:09,440 --> 00:23:11,800 Speaker 1: is what his secretary of State said to me on 405 00:23:11,840 --> 00:23:14,520 Speaker 1: Sunday alone. The purpose is to do everything we can 406 00:23:14,560 --> 00:23:17,520 Speaker 1: to deter it, to prevent a war, to deter the aggression, 407 00:23:17,520 --> 00:23:20,320 Speaker 1: and once you trigger sanctions, you lose the deterrent effect. 408 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:24,040 Speaker 1: Vladimir Putin was not deterred. What I heard and how 409 00:23:24,080 --> 00:23:27,399 Speaker 1: the President laid it out today was that they are 410 00:23:27,440 --> 00:23:31,120 Speaker 1: now looking for a reassessment by Putin that he's gone 411 00:23:31,160 --> 00:23:35,200 Speaker 1: this far. If they hit him now, will he stop 412 00:23:35,240 --> 00:23:38,200 Speaker 1: where he is? She's right by the way that they 413 00:23:38,200 --> 00:23:41,760 Speaker 1: are there. Their position now doesn't make any sense. It's 414 00:23:41,800 --> 00:23:45,440 Speaker 1: actually the same position. Kamala Harris argued, ka Kamala Harris's 415 00:23:45,480 --> 00:23:48,800 Speaker 1: defense before Biden cut the legs out from underneath her, right, Clay, 416 00:23:48,920 --> 00:23:50,800 Speaker 1: what we need to do is what we've been doing 417 00:23:50,880 --> 00:23:53,879 Speaker 1: every day, and that day is now. Okay, just remember that. 418 00:23:54,359 --> 00:23:56,520 Speaker 1: But I want to get that on a T shirt. 419 00:23:56,680 --> 00:23:59,239 Speaker 1: It's amazing. But I sit here and I say, hold on, 420 00:23:59,280 --> 00:24:02,800 Speaker 1: how many areas inflation will be transitory? No, no, it's 421 00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:06,960 Speaker 1: actually not transitory. The vaccine will stop the spread. No, 422 00:24:07,080 --> 00:24:09,560 Speaker 1: it actually didn't stop the spread. The sanctions are gonna 423 00:24:09,560 --> 00:24:12,119 Speaker 1: stop pooting. No, it didn't stop pooting. The Afghan Army's 424 00:24:12,119 --> 00:24:14,359 Speaker 1: gonna fight on. No, the Afghan Army didn't fight on. 425 00:24:14,840 --> 00:24:18,320 Speaker 1: How much wrong can they fit in one year before 426 00:24:18,359 --> 00:24:23,160 Speaker 1: people realize just maybe maybe everybody, we are being ruled 427 00:24:23,160 --> 00:24:25,719 Speaker 1: by idiots right now, it is possible leave that as 428 00:24:25,760 --> 00:24:31,920 Speaker 1: a possibility. Not only idiots, buck idiots who get everything wrong. Yeah, 429 00:24:31,920 --> 00:24:34,720 Speaker 1: if you were just predicting which direction a coin flip 430 00:24:34,840 --> 00:24:37,080 Speaker 1: was going to go, half the time, you would get 431 00:24:37,119 --> 00:24:41,640 Speaker 1: it right. Every major significant choice and decision they've had 432 00:24:41,640 --> 00:24:45,119 Speaker 1: to make they've gotten wrong, which would seem to defy 433 00:24:45,640 --> 00:24:49,479 Speaker 1: all laws of basic probability. If you're a homeowner, by 434 00:24:49,480 --> 00:24:52,200 Speaker 1: the way, and you haven't refied your mortgage, you're not alone. 435 00:24:52,280 --> 00:24:55,080 Speaker 1: Mortgage rates have been low for some time now, and 436 00:24:55,119 --> 00:24:57,720 Speaker 1: you're likely waiting for them to dip lower again. But 437 00:24:57,800 --> 00:25:00,320 Speaker 1: guess what, they're probably not gonna do that. We talked 438 00:25:00,320 --> 00:25:03,640 Speaker 1: about the fact inflation seven point five percent. 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That is American Financing. You can 458 00:26:06,840 --> 00:26:11,160 Speaker 1: also visit them online at American Financing dot net, MLS 459 00:26:11,200 --> 00:26:15,040 Speaker 1: one eight two three three four mls consumer access dot org. 460 00:26:20,560 --> 00:26:23,240 Speaker 1: Welcome back in we are rolling through the Friday edition 461 00:26:23,320 --> 00:26:26,440 Speaker 1: of the program. I'm Clay Travis. He Fucked Sexton download podcast. 462 00:26:26,560 --> 00:26:29,240 Speaker 1: Make sure you don't miss a minute. Well, you're joined 463 00:26:29,280 --> 00:26:33,520 Speaker 1: now by Michael Caputo, who is the former Assistant Secretary 464 00:26:33,520 --> 00:26:36,520 Speaker 1: of Health and Human Services for Public Affairs under Trump, 465 00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:39,800 Speaker 1: the only American to work for both the White House 466 00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:44,800 Speaker 1: and the Kremlin. And Michael, you have family right now 467 00:26:44,960 --> 00:26:48,480 Speaker 1: in Ukraine. You are uniquely suited to be able to 468 00:26:48,520 --> 00:26:52,760 Speaker 1: analyze this situation. What are your family members telling you 469 00:26:52,840 --> 00:26:57,399 Speaker 1: most recently, what are you hearing from them? Are they safe? Well, 470 00:26:57,480 --> 00:26:59,320 Speaker 1: my family, Thanks for having me on. By the way, 471 00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:03,760 Speaker 1: my family is not in Kiev. They're in an ancillary 472 00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:07,919 Speaker 1: city and so therefore, while they've heard some explosions in 473 00:27:08,880 --> 00:27:12,600 Speaker 1: far off areas where there were military bases in military 474 00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:17,280 Speaker 1: storage areas. They have not seen any fighting or heard 475 00:27:17,440 --> 00:27:21,959 Speaker 1: any real commotion while people are packing bags and leaving, 476 00:27:22,840 --> 00:27:27,160 Speaker 1: but just a few minutes ago in their town, air 477 00:27:27,280 --> 00:27:30,880 Speaker 1: rates sirens went off. I'm really right now, just taking 478 00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:34,600 Speaker 1: a break from trying to evacuate my family from Ukraine 479 00:27:34,600 --> 00:27:37,560 Speaker 1: to talk to you. This is very, very real for 480 00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:42,320 Speaker 1: our family, those evacuations. Right now. We've heard that up 481 00:27:42,320 --> 00:27:46,520 Speaker 1: to fifty thousand people have left Ukraine, mostly I believe 482 00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:50,560 Speaker 1: for Poland. Some are now trying to make it to Romania. 483 00:27:51,320 --> 00:27:54,280 Speaker 1: So those are those are I assume women and children 484 00:27:54,320 --> 00:27:57,520 Speaker 1: and the elderly who are engaged in those evacuations, because 485 00:27:57,520 --> 00:28:02,119 Speaker 1: I think Ukraine has declared that no a fighting age 486 00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:04,880 Speaker 1: male eighteen to sixty, which is quite a large span, 487 00:28:05,040 --> 00:28:06,880 Speaker 1: is able to leave the country. Is that the situation 488 00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:11,640 Speaker 1: on the ground. That's my understanding, And frankly, every mail 489 00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:14,840 Speaker 1: I know eighteen to sixty wouldn't even think of leaving. 490 00:28:16,240 --> 00:28:21,560 Speaker 1: My in laws, my father and mother are more advanced years. 491 00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:27,600 Speaker 1: Our concern is for their immediate safety. Like most Ukrainians, 492 00:28:28,560 --> 00:28:31,400 Speaker 1: my father and mother were didn't believe it was going 493 00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:35,800 Speaker 1: to happen, because you know Vladimir Putin. If people ask me, 494 00:28:35,840 --> 00:28:38,800 Speaker 1: when is Vladimir Putin going to invade Ukraine? I always 495 00:28:38,840 --> 00:28:42,960 Speaker 1: answered February twenty seventh, two thousand and fourteen. You know, 496 00:28:43,040 --> 00:28:47,280 Speaker 1: he invaded eight years ago, and Joe Biden gave them blankets, 497 00:28:47,520 --> 00:28:50,600 Speaker 1: if you remember, didn't give him anything else. And the 498 00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:54,200 Speaker 1: West has let Vladimir Putin fester like a boil on 499 00:28:54,240 --> 00:28:57,040 Speaker 1: the back side of Ukraine for eight years. So when 500 00:28:57,120 --> 00:28:59,480 Speaker 1: we try to tell my family, you guys need to 501 00:28:59,520 --> 00:29:01,120 Speaker 1: make a plan, and we need to get you over 502 00:29:01,200 --> 00:29:03,600 Speaker 1: here to the United States. You need to get out 503 00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:05,719 Speaker 1: of there, they were like shrugged about it. You know, 504 00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:09,160 Speaker 1: he's been here for a while. He's gonna just it's 505 00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:13,920 Speaker 1: all bluff. But you know, weakness is provocative to a 506 00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:19,120 Speaker 1: man like Ladimir Putin. And you know, obviously President Biden 507 00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:23,840 Speaker 1: projects weakness above all. So where do we go from here? 508 00:29:24,080 --> 00:29:26,120 Speaker 1: And obviously we're all rooting for you to get your 509 00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:29,960 Speaker 1: family out safely, But you were talking about Putin and 510 00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:33,280 Speaker 1: the weakness that's being projected by American leadership. Right now, 511 00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:36,680 Speaker 1: there's been discussion that maybe the Baltic States Finland now 512 00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:42,320 Speaker 1: is evidently in the crosshairs with Putin. Where does this 513 00:29:42,440 --> 00:29:45,600 Speaker 1: go from here? If you are assessing it, is he 514 00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:49,640 Speaker 1: finished in Ukraine or are there other areas that would 515 00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:52,560 Speaker 1: then be next on his hit list, so to speak, 516 00:29:52,880 --> 00:29:55,040 Speaker 1: of places that he wants to try to bring back 517 00:29:55,040 --> 00:29:59,440 Speaker 1: within the Russian sphere of influence. Ukraine is very unique 518 00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:03,240 Speaker 1: among all the as near and around the border of Russia. 519 00:30:03,520 --> 00:30:06,680 Speaker 1: I write a lot about this in my book Ukraine Hoax, 520 00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:11,520 Speaker 1: which is available on Amazons in Ukraine Hoax. I talk 521 00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:14,560 Speaker 1: about the fact that the Ukraine has long been the 522 00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:19,280 Speaker 1: playground of the globalist lead and their children, where where 523 00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:22,560 Speaker 1: people like Hunter Biden could make millions of dollars a 524 00:30:22,640 --> 00:30:26,360 Speaker 1: year doing nothing because they had influence over the policies 525 00:30:26,360 --> 00:30:28,320 Speaker 1: that his father is, the vice president who was in 526 00:30:28,440 --> 00:30:31,800 Speaker 1: charge of Ukraine policy in the United States. As vice president, 527 00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:35,080 Speaker 1: he could influence that and he did that on behalf 528 00:30:35,120 --> 00:30:38,360 Speaker 1: of oligarchs. The fact of the matter is the oligarchs 529 00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:42,600 Speaker 1: of Ukraine, the oligarchs of Russia, have been interacting with 530 00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:47,240 Speaker 1: the oligarchs of Italy and France and England and the 531 00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:51,920 Speaker 1: United States for decades now decades, and one of the 532 00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:55,840 Speaker 1: reasons why these sanctions that they're putting on Putin right 533 00:30:55,880 --> 00:30:59,520 Speaker 1: now are so laughable, just laughable. I mean, I noticed 534 00:30:59,560 --> 00:31:02,960 Speaker 1: that they're not They're still chusing to cut off a 535 00:31:03,040 --> 00:31:06,560 Speaker 1: Putin from the swift banking system. That's a joke, right, 536 00:31:06,960 --> 00:31:09,680 Speaker 1: And we're still not touching the oil and gas arena, 537 00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:12,680 Speaker 1: which is of course the whole reason that this thing 538 00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:15,440 Speaker 1: is happening. But at the same time, you look at Germany, 539 00:31:16,280 --> 00:31:19,160 Speaker 1: who is you know, basically to me, they sound like 540 00:31:19,160 --> 00:31:22,640 Speaker 1: they're pro Putin and in favor of this invasion and Italy. 541 00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:26,400 Speaker 1: On their sanctions, they carved out luxury good so the 542 00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:30,240 Speaker 1: oligarchs and Russia could still get their guci loafers. This 543 00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:32,440 Speaker 1: is a joke. The whole thing is a joke, and 544 00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:36,480 Speaker 1: it's all about the Olgarks of all these nations, including 545 00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:40,440 Speaker 1: the oligarchs of America, continuing to make money on the 546 00:31:40,480 --> 00:31:42,880 Speaker 1: backs of the Ukrainian people and by the way, on 547 00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:45,200 Speaker 1: the back the backs of the American people. Because of 548 00:31:45,320 --> 00:31:48,160 Speaker 1: all of this, all of our gas prices are going 549 00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:49,920 Speaker 1: to go through the roof, our inflation is going to 550 00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:53,440 Speaker 1: go through the roof, and meanwhile, the oligarchs of Russia 551 00:31:53,440 --> 00:31:57,240 Speaker 1: will get their guci loafers. Let's make no mistake about this. 552 00:31:57,720 --> 00:32:01,040 Speaker 1: Ukraine is the playground of the American and globalist elite, 553 00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:05,840 Speaker 1: including American politicians and our billionaires who are making money 554 00:32:06,040 --> 00:32:08,520 Speaker 1: and we don't get to pay for it. We're speaking 555 00:32:08,520 --> 00:32:13,080 Speaker 1: of Michael Caputo, former Trump Administration HHS official and author 556 00:32:13,120 --> 00:32:17,000 Speaker 1: of the Ukraine hoax. Michael, I know you lived in 557 00:32:17,120 --> 00:32:20,120 Speaker 1: Moscow for seven years, so you have some understanding of 558 00:32:20,120 --> 00:32:23,480 Speaker 1: the mind of the Russian people from being among them. 559 00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:27,360 Speaker 1: Two things for you, One, what do you think Putin's 560 00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:30,560 Speaker 1: end goal is with all this? And two? How far 561 00:32:30,680 --> 00:32:35,960 Speaker 1: will the Russian people go in supporting him toward those goals? Well, 562 00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:38,640 Speaker 1: I'll tell you I lived there seven years. I actually 563 00:32:38,640 --> 00:32:41,560 Speaker 1: worked for the Kremlin, which you can imagine how attractive 564 00:32:41,600 --> 00:32:44,320 Speaker 1: that made me to the fake Russia date hoax and 565 00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:49,800 Speaker 1: and the Mother Team. I was practically dating those people 566 00:32:49,840 --> 00:32:51,560 Speaker 1: for a couple of years, cost me three hundred fifty 567 00:32:51,600 --> 00:32:54,760 Speaker 1: thousand dollars in legal fees, and of course it's all crap, 568 00:32:54,800 --> 00:32:58,600 Speaker 1: It's all fake. I was working for Boris Yeltson, then president, 569 00:32:58,800 --> 00:33:01,280 Speaker 1: and I was sent there by Hillary Clinton's husband, Bill 570 00:33:01,320 --> 00:33:04,240 Speaker 1: Clinton to try to help him with their transition to democracy. 571 00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:07,280 Speaker 1: The situation is very different from the years when I 572 00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:10,720 Speaker 1: was working in the Kremlin. There was a democratic government. 573 00:33:10,960 --> 00:33:15,120 Speaker 1: The people who worked in the presidential administration were public servants. 574 00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:18,640 Speaker 1: When Vladimir Putin came in, we you know, we remember 575 00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:22,040 Speaker 1: the words of George W. Bush about how he looked 576 00:33:22,120 --> 00:33:24,120 Speaker 1: him in his eyes, he saw his soul and he 577 00:33:24,120 --> 00:33:26,720 Speaker 1: could work with him. By the time two thousand and five, 578 00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:29,080 Speaker 1: two thousand and six, two thousand and seven ran around, 579 00:33:29,400 --> 00:33:33,400 Speaker 1: we realized it was a totally different place. Vladimir Putin 580 00:33:34,040 --> 00:33:37,880 Speaker 1: is running a criminal gang, and this is not an exaggeration. 581 00:33:38,160 --> 00:33:40,480 Speaker 1: The people around him that we call him the Siloviki, 582 00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:44,080 Speaker 1: these close advisors of his, are almost all former his 583 00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:47,640 Speaker 1: former buddies from the KGB, and every single one of 584 00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:51,280 Speaker 1: them is a billionaire. Anybody brought into the Kremlin to 585 00:33:51,480 --> 00:33:55,240 Speaker 1: work with Vladimir Putin is expected to go ahead and 586 00:33:55,280 --> 00:33:57,440 Speaker 1: make money on the side. You get to you know, 587 00:33:57,600 --> 00:34:01,120 Speaker 1: I'll give you the assistant presidential advice in position. You'll 588 00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:04,120 Speaker 1: get the aluminum industry. You better go make billions because 589 00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:08,439 Speaker 1: you kick back money to Vladimir Putin. That explanation, which 590 00:34:08,480 --> 00:34:11,520 Speaker 1: I go through in the Ukraineoaks is important to understand 591 00:34:11,640 --> 00:34:15,240 Speaker 1: because this is a profit making enterprise for Vladimir Putin. 592 00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:18,440 Speaker 1: This is an oil and gas situation. For Vladimir Putin, 593 00:34:18,719 --> 00:34:22,719 Speaker 1: the people around him expect him to allow them to 594 00:34:22,840 --> 00:34:25,239 Speaker 1: make more, to create a situation where they can all 595 00:34:25,280 --> 00:34:28,000 Speaker 1: make more money so he gets a kickback on that money. 596 00:34:28,120 --> 00:34:31,520 Speaker 1: When I was in Russia, oil was about seventeen eighteen 597 00:34:32,400 --> 00:34:35,480 Speaker 1: a barrel. Now it's one hundred and sixty dollars a barrel. 598 00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:38,600 Speaker 1: These people are spending that money just building ugly homes 599 00:34:38,640 --> 00:34:41,280 Speaker 1: and by the way, their children and are in all 600 00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:45,400 Speaker 1: the boarding schools of them, you know, mansions in Mayfair, London. 601 00:34:45,800 --> 00:34:48,360 Speaker 1: They all hang out in the vip lounges of Paris. 602 00:34:48,640 --> 00:34:52,160 Speaker 1: They live and co ops in Manhattan. All these people, 603 00:34:52,239 --> 00:34:56,520 Speaker 1: these old regards, these Siloviki, these billionaires who are around 604 00:34:56,640 --> 00:35:00,600 Speaker 1: Vladimir Putin. They should be sanctioned. We should round up 605 00:35:00,719 --> 00:35:05,200 Speaker 1: their children, their wives, their cooks and their drivers and 606 00:35:05,320 --> 00:35:09,320 Speaker 1: take away their visas and send them packing back to Russia. 607 00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:12,840 Speaker 1: But we don't, you know why, because they own London 608 00:35:13,120 --> 00:35:15,680 Speaker 1: and because they're making tons of money for American people 609 00:35:15,920 --> 00:35:19,320 Speaker 1: on Wall Street. We don't do it because we're complacent 610 00:35:19,480 --> 00:35:25,200 Speaker 1: in it. Michael Caputo, author of the Ukraine Hoax. Michael, 611 00:35:25,239 --> 00:35:27,160 Speaker 1: thanks for bringing your expertise to the show today. 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Let you weigh in 648 00:37:20,040 --> 00:37:22,040 Speaker 1: a little bit as we close out the show. Eight 649 00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:24,480 Speaker 1: hundred two A two two eight eight two is that 650 00:37:24,520 --> 00:37:28,480 Speaker 1: phone number. Encourage you to go subscribe to the podcast, 651 00:37:28,640 --> 00:37:31,120 Speaker 1: because may make some news every now and then. You 652 00:37:31,160 --> 00:37:34,200 Speaker 1: may want to hear our interviews for yourself, certainly with 653 00:37:34,360 --> 00:37:38,280 Speaker 1: President Trump from Marlago on Tuesday. If you haven't already 654 00:37:38,320 --> 00:37:41,000 Speaker 1: heard that, I would encourage you to do so, because 655 00:37:41,719 --> 00:37:45,320 Speaker 1: it's better to hear it yourself than allow the media 656 00:37:45,400 --> 00:37:48,840 Speaker 1: to tell you what was said, because there's oftentimes a 657 00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:54,279 Speaker 1: lot of I think Trump completely and accurately diagnosed the 658 00:37:54,320 --> 00:37:58,600 Speaker 1: fake news media now more fake news. Democrats have been 659 00:37:58,640 --> 00:38:01,400 Speaker 1: claiming that they are the Party of Science for several 660 00:38:01,480 --> 00:38:04,640 Speaker 1: years now. Joe Biden ran a part of his platform 661 00:38:04,760 --> 00:38:09,280 Speaker 1: for the presidency was that he would listen to the scientists. Well, Buck, 662 00:38:09,360 --> 00:38:11,359 Speaker 1: you and I know, because we actually look at the data, 663 00:38:11,400 --> 00:38:13,520 Speaker 1: and it's not that complicated to look at the data, 664 00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:16,120 Speaker 1: analyze it, and come up with plans that make sense 665 00:38:16,120 --> 00:38:19,480 Speaker 1: based on the data we're seeing. There's no way to 666 00:38:19,719 --> 00:38:23,879 Speaker 1: justify suddenly a change in masking, as we've seen all 667 00:38:23,880 --> 00:38:27,040 Speaker 1: these different cities and states, all the blue areas that 668 00:38:27,080 --> 00:38:31,200 Speaker 1: have been wearing masks for so long, suddenly have recognized 669 00:38:31,239 --> 00:38:34,280 Speaker 1: that the polling has turned against them for kids in masks. 670 00:38:34,560 --> 00:38:38,239 Speaker 1: The polling has turned against them for indoor mask mandates, 671 00:38:38,239 --> 00:38:42,200 Speaker 1: certainly for outdoor mask mandates, and so they are abandoning 672 00:38:42,239 --> 00:38:46,760 Speaker 1: all of those in rapid fashion, even though the rates 673 00:38:46,880 --> 00:38:50,480 Speaker 1: of COVID infection are much higher today than they were 674 00:38:50,560 --> 00:38:53,200 Speaker 1: at the same date last year when Joe Biden was 675 00:38:53,200 --> 00:38:54,960 Speaker 1: telling you that he was going to solve COVID. But 676 00:38:55,560 --> 00:38:59,719 Speaker 1: part of this is a mental disorder which has been 677 00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:04,040 Speaker 1: ignosed by our good friend Production all Star Ali on 678 00:39:04,120 --> 00:39:07,000 Speaker 1: the staff, and she wrote this up and put it together, 679 00:39:07,040 --> 00:39:11,040 Speaker 1: and I think you're going to enjoy this PSA. If 680 00:39:11,080 --> 00:39:13,360 Speaker 1: you or someone you know is having a hard time 681 00:39:13,480 --> 00:39:18,440 Speaker 1: getting back to normal, they might have PPPs post pandemic 682 00:39:18,480 --> 00:39:24,000 Speaker 1: paranoia syndrome. Sides of PPPs compulsive testing, double masking everywhere, 683 00:39:24,120 --> 00:39:27,840 Speaker 1: and hanging on Fauci's every word. They ceased this morning 684 00:39:28,040 --> 00:39:31,680 Speaker 1: and took three tests afterwards. I'll never feel safe in 685 00:39:31,760 --> 00:39:34,520 Speaker 1: a group again. I have like an entire wardrobe of 686 00:39:34,600 --> 00:39:40,360 Speaker 1: masks my outlets. Post Pandemic paranoia syndrome is treatable, and 687 00:39:40,440 --> 00:39:44,160 Speaker 1: a better science and treatment center can help BS. Treatment 688 00:39:44,239 --> 00:39:48,520 Speaker 1: center services include daily mask free walks and horseback rides. 689 00:39:48,880 --> 00:39:51,720 Speaker 1: Group therapy that's not over zoom and the chairs aren't 690 00:39:51,760 --> 00:39:54,759 Speaker 1: six feet apart exposure to other points of view like 691 00:39:54,880 --> 00:39:58,840 Speaker 1: Clay Travis and Buck Sexton. Here's a testimonial from Karen, 692 00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:02,480 Speaker 1: whose family sent her from BS treatment after an intervention. 693 00:40:02,760 --> 00:40:05,640 Speaker 1: I was out of control and hit rock bottom after 694 00:40:05,680 --> 00:40:08,680 Speaker 1: a booster binge. No one had seen my face in 695 00:40:08,719 --> 00:40:13,200 Speaker 1: two years, and when they tried to remove the mask, well, 696 00:40:13,239 --> 00:40:16,440 Speaker 1: I'm not proud of that moment, but the BS Treatment 697 00:40:16,520 --> 00:40:19,400 Speaker 1: center helped me reclaim my life. Now I have a 698 00:40:19,440 --> 00:40:23,560 Speaker 1: new addiction, a healthy one. Clay Travis and Buck Sexton 699 00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:29,000 Speaker 1: Voices of Sanity in an Insane World. I gotta say 700 00:40:29,040 --> 00:40:31,480 Speaker 1: that one was really well done. That's really well done. 701 00:40:31,560 --> 00:40:34,799 Speaker 1: And it's also I think it hits all if you 702 00:40:34,880 --> 00:40:38,760 Speaker 1: live right now, if anyone living in New York, California, 703 00:40:38,840 --> 00:40:43,200 Speaker 1: New Jersey, New anywhere in New England, Washington, d C. Oh, 704 00:40:43,280 --> 00:40:46,239 Speaker 1: my gosh, probably Chicago. I haven't been to Chicago, but 705 00:40:47,120 --> 00:40:49,560 Speaker 1: a lot of these places you can just tell there's 706 00:40:49,560 --> 00:40:53,360 Speaker 1: still this this bizarre clinging to some of this in 707 00:40:53,400 --> 00:40:55,880 Speaker 1: the past. You know, when aren't we gonna get rid 708 00:40:55,920 --> 00:40:58,399 Speaker 1: of the little little places on elevators where your feet 709 00:40:58,400 --> 00:41:00,799 Speaker 1: were supposed. This was a thing that was done all 710 00:41:00,800 --> 00:41:04,359 Speaker 1: over the country. Stand here in the elevator, everybody that 711 00:41:04,400 --> 00:41:09,160 Speaker 1: will keep you safer. This we all understand how much 712 00:41:09,160 --> 00:41:11,319 Speaker 1: in the way of resource, all all the resources put 713 00:41:11,360 --> 00:41:16,839 Speaker 1: into hand sanitizer all this stuff that was done. And 714 00:41:16,920 --> 00:41:21,360 Speaker 1: it was pointless, utterly pointless. And the people like you 715 00:41:21,440 --> 00:41:23,839 Speaker 1: and me, Clay, and so many of our people right 716 00:41:23,840 --> 00:41:27,359 Speaker 1: now listening, who were saying, what is this madness? We 717 00:41:27,360 --> 00:41:31,520 Speaker 1: were called monsters, were called bad people for pointing out 718 00:41:31,560 --> 00:41:34,120 Speaker 1: that this was insane. It's Can we also point out 719 00:41:34,120 --> 00:41:37,960 Speaker 1: that Fauci is in hiding somewhere because the CDC has 720 00:41:38,040 --> 00:41:40,920 Speaker 1: changed their guidelines. They didn't have some big press conference 721 00:41:40,920 --> 00:41:43,200 Speaker 1: to announce it. I haven't seen the fouchmeister in a 722 00:41:43,200 --> 00:41:45,799 Speaker 1: while where I'm scanned that Clay is good to say 723 00:41:45,880 --> 00:41:50,840 Speaker 1: mean things about the data, so I'm avoiding his droplets. 724 00:41:50,840 --> 00:41:53,800 Speaker 1: He's not vaccinated. 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