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Speaker 1: Welcome to today's edition of The Clay Travis and Buck

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Speaker 1: Sexton Show podcast. Hey everybody, it is the Clay Travis

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Speaker 1: and Buck Sexton Show on this Thursday, July fourteen. So

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Speaker 1: glad to have you rolling with us all across the country.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for tuning in. We've got more on inflation the economy. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: this is going to be a story every day until

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Speaker 1: the election and thereafter because it's so bad. It's such

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Speaker 1: a situation of well compounding errors, I think over time,

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Speaker 1: and we'll discuss that to be sure. Also, COVID stuff, folks,

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Speaker 1: there's a new I want to make sure I get

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Speaker 1: this one right. You know, it used to be we

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Speaker 1: had the place names, you know, lime disease, ebola virus.

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Speaker 1: Now it's all that's racist. See now it's all BA

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Speaker 1: five two three seven niner. I mean, it's getting real

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Speaker 1: complicated to keep track of the various versions of these viruses.

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Speaker 1: There's a new one that has been so actually, this

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Speaker 1: one has a cool name, so I don't know if

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Speaker 1: that makes it an allusion to Greek mythology Centaurus. Covid

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Speaker 1: subvariant they're saying has been found in the Netherlands, so

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Speaker 1: you know, you know, I don't know you would you

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Speaker 1: want to get BA seven two five to niner or

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Speaker 1: do you want the centaur COVID because probably scary sound

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Speaker 1: dig right? So that remix? Man I said, I had

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Speaker 1: the Alpha, I had the Omicron. I you know, I

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Speaker 1: feel like the remix. I'm probably gonna get the remix.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna be on the road for the entire fall

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Speaker 1: for the bus tour college football season again. In fact, Buck,

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Speaker 1: I think you're gonna be with me. And one of

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Speaker 1: the markets were number one overall in the nation, Austin,

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Speaker 1: Texas for the opener Alabama Texas game. But I guaranteed

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Speaker 1: already to get whatever variant is circulating on the road

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Speaker 1: this fall. I would put one hundred percent odds that

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Speaker 1: I'll get COVID a third time, just hopefully we won't

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Speaker 1: get it at the same time because we were about

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Speaker 1: a week apart our COVID diagnoses this last season. You know,

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Speaker 1: during the COVID season, we were about a week apart,

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Speaker 1: apart or something. So that's coming your way, folks, Masks,

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Speaker 1: the World Health Organization, they're talking about it. So this

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Speaker 1: is why I actually love it when the libs on

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Speaker 1: Twitter and other places refer to me as an anti

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Speaker 1: mask fanatic. Yes, I'm an anti mask zealot. Yes, this

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Speaker 1: is a hill I will die on, Not because of

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Speaker 1: COVID and unmasking myself, by the way, So that's something

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Speaker 1: we'll get to it. You guys. By the way, for

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Speaker 1: people you're in New York City, you're going to have

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Speaker 1: to wear masks again. Like I would bet almost every

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Speaker 1: dollar that I put into the into gambling, which is

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Speaker 1: too much, that both New York and La by November

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Speaker 1: will be wearing masks again, if not beforehand. As of

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Speaker 1: this morning, the La County Health director Barbara Ferrare, and

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Speaker 1: I mean, these it's amazing how many of these city

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Speaker 1: health directors seem like they should be teaching gender studies

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Speaker 1: at Wellesley. You know, there's such a political and cultural crossover.

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Speaker 1: Wait a second, I thought health doctors were you know,

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Speaker 1: health directors were supposed to be science nerds. You don't

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Speaker 1: really get that much of it. But so Los Angeles

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Speaker 1: that's the whole county of Los Angeles with millions of residents.

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Speaker 1: That was this morning, they're already saying it, so well,

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Speaker 1: we'll get into some of that, and later this week,

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Speaker 1: I believe we're gonna have Alex Barnson joined because the

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Speaker 1: data on vaccines just keeps on coming and I don't care.

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Speaker 1: This should be a bigger story. More people should be

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Speaker 1: talking about this. The fact that we just had sixty

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Speaker 1: thousand National Guard members roughly sixty thousand who faced firing

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Speaker 1: last week over booster mandates is completely insane and outrageous.

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Speaker 1: So we'll stay on this, and I feel like we're

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Speaker 1: talking about it even before we met. Do you think

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Speaker 1: Buck imagine in a different world Trump is still the president.

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Speaker 1: Don't you think the media, the Washington Post, The New

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Speaker 1: York Times, MSNBC, CNN, Don't you think they'd be aggressively

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Speaker 1: investigating the COVID shot and blaming Trump for saying this

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Speaker 1: was going to be ninety five percent effective and we're

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Speaker 1: basically down to five percent effective. Because because Biden basically

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Speaker 1: the shot, there would be breathless stories on the front

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Speaker 1: page of the Washington Post about how Jared Kushner owned

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Speaker 1: one hundred thousand dollars of an ETF that, as part

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Speaker 1: ago he is in the pocket of big Farmer. I mean,

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Speaker 1: they would be writing the craziest stuff imaginable about how

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Speaker 1: the vaccines have corrupted Trump. But that said, I do believe.

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Speaker 1: I think that there is a clear psychological link between

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Speaker 1: if Trump was the president. And that's why I've said

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Speaker 1: to you before my biggest goal when I got to

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Speaker 1: a bad idea, mask mandates were crazy. I was in

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Speaker 1: was very clear they understood this. But I remember I said,

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Speaker 1: not going to do anything. He said, absolutely. It wasn't

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Speaker 1: a lot of thoughts on the ao AOC. Two interesting things. One,

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Speaker 1: she's somebody who doesn't mind, actually a scratch that she

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Speaker 1: encourages the harassment of public officials, including Supreme Court justices.

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Speaker 1: And I want everyone to understand judicial intimidation is in

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Speaker 1: a different category. Prosecutorial intimidation is in a different category

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Speaker 1: from even harassing members of Congress. There are laws against

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Speaker 1: this stuff, right, but they've been saying, forget it, it's

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Speaker 1: so important all this other stuff. She got a little

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Speaker 1: that story. But Biden is shuffling around. What did he did?

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Speaker 1: He had to get led to his seat in the

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Speaker 1: video and clap for no reason. But there's a viral video.

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Speaker 1: He's in Israel right now and he's done this thing

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Speaker 1: sure Biden right now buck is worse because he probably

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Speaker 1: thirty more months of this, and he had his schedule truncated.

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Speaker 1: running He's running out of gas. Okay, he's running out

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Speaker 1: The media is happy to have Biden on the world stage, right,

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Speaker 1: Biden astride the globe kind of shuffling though, taking tiny

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Speaker 1: much ground politically. But I also think this is reminding

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Speaker 1: and we've got mister McGoo. Biden here wandering around as

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Speaker 1: On the one end, you have Iran trying to get

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Speaker 1: So when Ron's enrichment's going up, Iran getting nukes could

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Speaker 1: very well happen on Biden's watch, Clay, very very possible,

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Speaker 1: No and Buck were simultaneously now talking in the wake

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Speaker 1: talking about a one point basis point rise three quarter

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Speaker 1: close to recession. I think we're in one now. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: But you raise the interest rate one point, you are

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Speaker 1: And look, at some level, there are people who are

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Speaker 1: who understand these mechanisms. They're saying, we gotta we gotta

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Speaker 1: Some of us we're warning about this situation that we're

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Speaker 1: heading into that we're just seeing the beginnings of. Now.

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Speaker 1: When it came to COVID lockdowns, when it came to

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Speaker 1: spent what was it, six trillion dollars. Additionally, in the

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty. Yes, in time for Easter. Remember they were

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Speaker 1: That's the problem. Biden likes to brag about the economic recovery,

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Speaker 1: I think it's like August sixteenth or something in that

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Speaker 1: appears she's going to get totally and utterly destroyed, so

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Speaker 1: she's no longer going to be a congresswoman once we

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Speaker 1: get to August. Really, I mean, she loses the Republican primary.

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Speaker 1: I know the election is in November, but what exactly

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Speaker 1: is going to occur once they lose the House, which

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Speaker 1: there's a virtual certainty that Democrats are going to lose

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Speaker 1: the House. The Senate is more of a toss up

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Speaker 1: as you look at as you look going forward, Buck,

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Speaker 1: I just I really it's difficult for me to contemplate

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Speaker 1: what the goal is even now, because the goal has been, Hey,

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Speaker 1: we're going to attack Donald Trump as much as we can.

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Speaker 1: It's clearly not registering politically to help Joe Biden in

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Speaker 1: any way. And so it's a distraction in nine point

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Speaker 1: one percent inflation times. Do you have a sense for

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Speaker 1: I mean, do they think, oh, this January sixth hearing

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Speaker 1: is really working for us? I mean, what would Democrats

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Speaker 1: say if you gave them truth serum and they weren't

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Speaker 1: just trying to spend in public I mean even are awful.

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Speaker 1: I think it's almost a delay tactic clay where they

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Speaker 1: know there's no good stories to tell about the administration.

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Speaker 1: So this is the safe space that they can emotionally,

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Speaker 1: they can emotionally run to the Democrat Party, faithful, the base,

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Speaker 1: the left. They can just watch night after night insurrection coverage,

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Speaker 1: insurrection coverage, because otherwise CNN would have to say, yeah,

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Speaker 1: so the inflation rates really bad, and the crime rate

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Speaker 1: is still really high, and the border is all the

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Speaker 1: things we talking about, the borders wide open, it's a

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Speaker 1: total mess. They don't want to discuss those things. They

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Speaker 1: don't want to talk about the price of gas. So

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Speaker 1: this is something else for them. But on the insurrection issue,

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Speaker 1: and this was really interesting aoc here was speaking to

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Speaker 1: a journalist. I guess, I know somebody came up and

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Speaker 1: asked some questions on the Capitol steps and she said

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Speaker 1: something that I know what she was trying to convey here.

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Speaker 1: And yes, she's hysteric and not very bright, and it's

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Speaker 1: really sad and quite pathetic that the Democrat the younger

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Speaker 1: Democrats particularly, look to her as someone that they should

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Speaker 1: listen to about honestly anything. But here she is saying

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Speaker 1: that they're some stuff we haven't found out yet with

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Speaker 1: all this investigation, Clay, these insurrectionists, and that there were

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Speaker 1: actual officers working with this, and we never got to

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Speaker 1: the bottom of that, and we never got any answers

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Speaker 1: about that, And then to this day we're just supposed

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Speaker 1: to pretend that that never happened. I have no idea

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Speaker 1: what happened to the people on the inside who were

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Speaker 1: very clearly sympathetic with what was going on and opening

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Speaker 1: the doors wide open that, and I'm supposed to sit

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Speaker 1: here and pretend like none of that ever happened. And

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Speaker 1: then right afterwards, you have a massive you know, you

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Speaker 1: just have this idea that throwing money at that problem

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Speaker 1: is going to make it go away. Without any accountability.

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Speaker 1: And so this is this is where these things are

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Speaker 1: breaking down. We're not safe. And it's not just about

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Speaker 1: members of congressot being safe. The afore staff workers aren't safe.

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Speaker 1: The janitors aren't safe. Like we need to get to

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Speaker 1: the bottom of this. Okay, first of all, the janitors

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Speaker 1: aren't safe. Put aside as I said the hysteria for

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Speaker 1: a second. Is she accusing Capitol police at some level

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Speaker 1: of an inside job? That's what it sounds like. Sympathetic

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Speaker 1: opened the doors, you know, told them to come in,

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Speaker 1: told them to go into certain areas. This is AOC

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Speaker 1: saying that. Right, if you or I say Capitol Hill

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Speaker 1: police let people in, we're conspiracy theorists. That's not true.

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Speaker 1: It was an insurrection. What is she saying, Clay, Well,

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Speaker 1: she's pointing out what is true, which is there was

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Speaker 1: almost no security at all at the Capitol on that day. Now,

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Speaker 1: partly that's because the idea of calling out the troops

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Speaker 1: was considered to be racist when Senator Tom Cotton and

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Speaker 1: Arkansas suggested it as a way to provide protection during

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Speaker 1: the summer of riots. But there is on video some

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Speaker 1: Capitol police just opening up the doors and removing the

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Speaker 1: barricades and letting people go in to the Capitol. That

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Speaker 1: has been a defense that has been offered on behalf

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Speaker 1: of some of the January sixth defendants. She is speaking

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Speaker 1: to truth, a truth that Democrats don't want to consider

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Speaker 1: it all, which is many of these people did not

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Speaker 1: violently trespass into the Capitol. They were effectively waved in.

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Speaker 1: If they were holding hearings to get to the bottom

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Speaker 1: of the insurrection instead of the obvious political show trials

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Speaker 1: they're having, why don't we I'm sure we could find

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Speaker 1: out very easily who were the members of Capitol Hill

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Speaker 1: Police who on video, as you point out, were effectively

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Speaker 1: escorting people into certain areas that the Capitol after it

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Speaker 1: had supposedly been blocked off to civilians. Well, what did

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Speaker 1: they do? Why did they do that? Did they tell

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Speaker 1: people it was okay? Did they wave people inside the

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Speaker 1: actual building and say, all right, they're going to go

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Speaker 1: in there. Where's all that testimony? Where's the discussion AOC

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Speaker 1: is bringing it up. I feel like we should be

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Speaker 1: able to bring it up to I think it's a

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Speaker 1: very valid point that she is raising, And if you're

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Speaker 1: truly concerned about January sixth, if you are truly concerned

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Speaker 1: about the precedent that it's set and the danger going forward,

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Speaker 1: wouldn't you instead of retrospectively looking back at what took place,

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Speaker 1: wouldn't you be trying to guarantee that something like that

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Speaker 1: never happened again, which would be a part of an

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Speaker 1: investigation to look forward, not just back. Has there been

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Speaker 1: a single major takeaway from all of the Democrat histrionics

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Speaker 1: on Capitol Hill of this? Next time, our security will

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Speaker 1: be much better because this won't happen again from a

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Speaker 1: security perspective. No, it's all Donald Trump is hitler. That's

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Speaker 1: basically what it all comes down to. And there this is.

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Speaker 1: This is why normal people who haven't been brainwashed into

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Speaker 1: this go, yeah, it's a riot, Okay, it was bad,

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Speaker 1: don't do it. But the way they're treating people in

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Speaker 1: this riot, Clay, including you, sent this to me, I

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Speaker 1: Why don't we set it up. We'll come back and

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Speaker 1: Consumer access dot org. Welcome back in Clay Travis buck

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Speaker 1: Sexton show. I'm going to talk about the grandma who's

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Speaker 1: got to go to prison for sixty days at the

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Speaker 1: top of the next hour. A little bit of news

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Speaker 1: here that is that is percolating this morning. Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: did an interview with New York Magazine. Now, I want

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Speaker 1: to be clear, I haven't read the full interview yet,

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Speaker 1: but Trump said in that interview, I've already made the

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Speaker 1: decision about whether he's going to run in twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 1: And I think buck Sexton and I've been quite clear

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Speaker 1: with all of you that we would be stunned beyond

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Speaker 1: belief if Donald Trump is not running in twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 1: But here's a direct quote from that magazine interview. Trump says,

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Speaker 1: I would say my big decision will be whether I

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Speaker 1: go before or after the November midterms. In terms of

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Speaker 1: his announcement. Now, my hope, Buck is that Trump does

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Speaker 1: not announce that he is officially running for president until

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Speaker 1: after the midterms and that's because Democrats have virtually nothing

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Speaker 1: that they can run on in terms of accomplishments. And

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Speaker 1: I think you would agree with me, Buck that if

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Speaker 1: Trump announces before the midterms, it's not even about a

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Speaker 1: referendum on Biden. They try to turn the mid terms

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Speaker 1: into a Donald Trump show as opposed to a referendum

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Speaker 1: on their own performance. And let's also look at the

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Speaker 1: cold hard political calculation here as well. If Trump doesn't

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Speaker 1: announce before, it will be interesting to see what the

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Speaker 1: response is or what the feeling is after what could

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Speaker 1: be the biggest red wave we've seen in decades Republicans,

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Speaker 1: possibly especially when you add in governor's mansions. I mean

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Speaker 1: a GOP is going to have, I think on track

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Speaker 1: to have something like thirty one or thirty two governor's

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Speaker 1: mansions after this election. I think that's which is the

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Speaker 1: heighs it's been in a little while. It doesn't I'll

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Speaker 1: check and see what the all time record is. But

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Speaker 1: what is the storyline if Trump is not a part

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Speaker 1: of this election in a major way and the GOP

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Speaker 1: actually does better than it has done or is in

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Speaker 1: a better position than it's been in a long time.

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Speaker 1: For some people, they would say, well, that's irrelevant, and

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Speaker 1: Trump will be great and he'll be the leader that

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Speaker 1: the party you know, could use at this moment now

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Speaker 1: that it's so unified. I think other people, though, will

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Speaker 1: be saying, we'll hold on a second here, and so

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Speaker 1: that's you know, if Trump wasn't announced before, why do

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Speaker 1: we think that we would need to have Trump to

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Speaker 1: be the leader of the party after such a red wave?

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Speaker 1: Are there anyone? Are there any other people that are

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Speaker 1: gonna be in consideration? So I think that will be

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Speaker 1: an interesting conversation. But I also think that that's part

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Speaker 1: of the calculation being made right now to announce before

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Speaker 1: or to announce after, right, I mean, yeah, one way

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Speaker 1: are I think that. I think that's all in play.

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Speaker 1: I believe regardless of when Trump announces, there is going

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Speaker 1: to be a full on royal rumble. For my old

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Speaker 1: British Bulldogs. I actually like super Flight. Oh he was great.

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Speaker 1: He was great, you know very His niece went to

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Speaker 1: I just thought ravishing Rick Rude was a little weird.

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Speaker 1: do you remember the bulldog's name? No, Matilda. It's a

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Speaker 1: great name for a bulldog fight. You talked about getting

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Speaker 1: which dog breed here, I'm just throwing this out. What

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Speaker 1: is she going? What is what is her argument? A doodle?

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Speaker 1: Is it a doodle. She loves those doodles. He loves

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Speaker 1: those doodles. And I'm I'm a bulldog guy, and we're

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Speaker 1: gonna and by the way, you know the bulldog, the boodle,

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Speaker 1: the bulldog doodle. It looks like looks like something that

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Speaker 1: escaped from a lab that wasn't supposed to. It's not good.

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Speaker 1: I didn't even know that existed. Well they had, Ali

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Speaker 1: said that was too me. I'm just saying, oh, wait,

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Speaker 1: but you think of Royal Rumble's coming? Sorry, I don't

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Speaker 1: mean no, no, I mean we got the Royal Rumble

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Speaker 1: is coming in twenty twenty three. On this show, we

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Speaker 1: are going to be daily breaking down the battle for

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Speaker 1: whoever the Republican nominee is going to be. And I

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Speaker 1: think there are going to be a lot of people

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Speaker 1: stepping into that ring. And I don't know that it

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Speaker 1: matters in terms of who the nominee is when they announced,

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Speaker 1: because there's going to be such a battle coming. And

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Speaker 1: other than all the policy and the wonkery and the

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Speaker 1: serious important stuff we're talking about today, a lot of

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Speaker 1: pushback on our French Fries discussion yesterday, Clay, we have

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Speaker 1: not forgotten about this. Some people are like fucking Clay.

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Speaker 1: We got to educate you about the reality of the

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Speaker 1: best French fries. Flat Travis and Buck Sexton on the

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Speaker 1: front lines