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Speaker 1: Welcome everybody.

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Speaker 2: Wednesday edition of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

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Speaker 2: gets going right now. We're going to dive into all

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Speaker 2: of the news with you, as we always do.

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Speaker 1: Clay.

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Speaker 2: We've got a few things here, including Scott Bessant, the

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Speaker 2: Treasury Secretary, giving a bit of a reality check to

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Speaker 2: anybody who thinks that this administration does not know what

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Speaker 2: they are doing on the economy. The Conclave of Cardinals

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Speaker 2: is underway to elect a pope. Very important for those

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Speaker 2: who are members of the Catholic flock, but very interesting

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Speaker 2: to the media, I suppose because of all of the

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Speaker 2: well because it's one point five billion Catholics, and also

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Speaker 2: a lot of pageantry and ceremony and smoke coming out

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Speaker 2: of the chimney. To say whether the conclave has elected

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Speaker 2: a pope or not, I think they've vote a few times.

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Speaker 1: Today. We're going to have Raymond Arroyo on this right.

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Speaker 2: We've got somebody who follow this, Yes, from Fox News,

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Speaker 2: follows this closely. He is joining us live from Rome.

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Speaker 2: Oh man, pretty cool. That's that's tough. That's tough duty.

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Speaker 2: You think he's I.

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Speaker 1: Was as well.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: First of all, you might.

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Speaker 2: Escape is the second plate of Carbonara in order to

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Speaker 2: hang out with us.

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Speaker 5: This is the perfect story to be covering because you

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Speaker 5: really don't even have to You can't interview anybody, right,

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Speaker 5: I mean, the the all of the cardinals are locked

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Speaker 5: in the conclave. You just kind of sit and wait

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Speaker 5: for the white smoke to emerge from the Saint Peter's

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Speaker 5: chimney that they put in. Uh, this is going to

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Speaker 5: be fun to follow, Buck. I don't know if you

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Speaker 5: because you're far less flawed than I am when it

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Speaker 5: comes to gambling. Did you know that there is wagering

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Speaker 5: you can bet on who the next pope is going

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Speaker 5: to be? Twenty sounds million dollars has been wagered already

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Speaker 5: with people putting money out on the table on who

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Speaker 5: they think is going to be the next pope, which

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Speaker 5: is amazing and also probably not very saintly, but that

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Speaker 5: is going on right now. That is the number one

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Speaker 5: way to track the odds market from what's going on

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Speaker 5: in the conclavet because everything else is shut down.

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Speaker 2: Now we've got that and a bunch of other stories

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Speaker 2: we're going to be getting to with you here, including

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Speaker 2: that there's been military strikes inside of Pakistan by India.

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Speaker 2: I know it's far away in countries we don't talk

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Speaker 2: about that much, but they're big countries and they have

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Speaker 2: nukes and they are now on the well, there's limited

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Speaker 2: hostilities going on since you'd call this an incursion, Clay,

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Speaker 2: this is just like the exercises during CIA analyst training.

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Speaker 2: We would have to come up with ways to assess

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Speaker 2: is this an escalation or is this a limited strike?

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Speaker 2: Is this going to result in crossing a red line?

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Speaker 2: And right now they've gone after non the Indian military

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Speaker 2: and Indian Air Force has gone after non military terrorist

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Speaker 2: training camps in Pakistan and they're saying this is quote

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Speaker 2: non escalatory. But you know, if you go up to

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Speaker 2: a guy in a bar and you slap him across

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Speaker 2: the face, you could say, hey man, that was non escalatory.

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Speaker 1: I didn't use a fist. Doesn't mean he's gonna agree

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Speaker 1: with you, right, So.

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Speaker 2: We got to see where this goes. Hopefully things calm

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Speaker 2: down there, because yeah, war is bad and nuclear war

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Speaker 2: is very bad. I don't think that's gonna happen. I

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Speaker 2: think this is all gonna calm down. But you know, people,

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Speaker 2: it's worth paying attention to, worth understanding that there are

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Speaker 2: hot spots that can crop up very quickly around the globe.

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Speaker 2: But Clay, I wanted to start with this, you know,

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Speaker 2: because I think we do a fair amount of high

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Speaker 2: fiving the team, so to speak, for the administration so

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Speaker 2: far doing a great job, which they are, and a

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Speaker 2: lot of members. I think we had a great conversation

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Speaker 2: with Senator Rampaul yesterday. I was really pleased to hear

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Speaker 2: him explain he's not opposed to all tariffs, but he

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Speaker 2: doesn't think that blankets tariff's you know. He wants it

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Speaker 2: targeted and precise. He understands we're not in some free

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Speaker 2: of free trade. But he also doesn't want things to

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Speaker 2: escalate unnecessarily. Anyway, we do a lot of good work

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Speaker 2: is being done. We want to tell you about that.

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Speaker 2: The administration wants to tell you about that. But we

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Speaker 2: also sometimes have to have a conversation when someone on

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Speaker 2: our team, so to speak, Team Republican comes up way

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Speaker 2: short and Clay and I have been looking into looking

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Speaker 2: into what's happened here with Senator Tillis in North Carolina.

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Speaker 2: We have a lot of North Carolina listeners. He made

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Speaker 2: it clear yesterday that he would not support ed Martin,

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Speaker 2: will not be will to support Tom Tillis is not

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Speaker 2: willing to support Trump's US attorney for DC. This is

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Speaker 2: a really important position. This is not just something that

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Speaker 2: is another US attorney. Some US attorneys are more important

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Speaker 2: than others in terms of the kinds of cases politically

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Speaker 2: that they handle. But Clay before we dive into this,

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Speaker 2: this is what Senator Tillis, a Republican mind, you had

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Speaker 2: to say about why he will not allow Ed Martin,

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Speaker 1: Play two.

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Speaker 6: I think anybody that breached the perimeter should have been

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Speaker 6: in prison for some period of time.

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Speaker 4: Whether it's thirty days or three years is debatable.

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Speaker 6: But I have no tolerance for anybody who entered the

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Speaker 6: of the friction was. Mister Martin did a good job

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Speaker 4: But they made the stupid decision to come through.

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Speaker 6: A building that had been breached and that the police

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Speaker 6: officers and others were saying stay away. So the difference

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Speaker 6: wasn't that they to be charged in my estimation, it's

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Speaker 6: by how much.

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Speaker 4: That's an argument I'm willing to have.

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Speaker 6: But we have to be very very clear that what

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Speaker 6: happened on January the sixth was wrong.

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Speaker 4: It was not prompted or created by other people to

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Speaker 4: put those people in trouble.

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Speaker 6: They made a stupid decision, and they disgraced the United States.

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Speaker 2: I've never heard Tom Tillis speak this angrily about anything

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Speaker 2: else with this kind of force. I am so ticked

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Speaker 2: off by this Clay He's saying that that basically taking

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Speaker 2: the position that because ed Martin worked as an attorney, right,

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Speaker 2: we all know about what happened with John Adams and

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Speaker 2: were treated horrifically unfairly by the system, and now we

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Speaker 2: Trump's pick in the maybe the most important seat in

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Speaker 2: We should say to Tom Tillis's office, Yeah, I want

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Speaker 2: him on the show. I want him on the show.

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Speaker 2: I want to have it out with him on this

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Speaker 2: January sixth. They needed to be punished more severely.

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Speaker 5: Well, look, I've donated money to the Defense Fund for

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Speaker 5: January sixth defendants. We've had Julie Kelly on the show,

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Speaker 5: probably more than almost any single guest.

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Speaker 2: Tom Tillis would say, you shouldn't be able to be

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Speaker 2: a US attorney play anywhere in the country, even though

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Speaker 2: you're a lawyer and you know a lot of excellent

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Speaker 1: We don't have to get into that right now.

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Speaker 5: But yeah, look, I mean I think that Tom Tillis

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Speaker 5: should come on the show. We have extended an invite

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Speaker 5: to him to explain this decision, and I'll just kind

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Speaker 5: of continue to hammer my perspective on this. President won

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Speaker 5: a victory landslide. Every all fifty states moved more conservative.

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Speaker 5: He won all seven battleground states, including North Carolina, by

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Speaker 5: a substantial amount. I'm confident that Trump is more popular

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Speaker 5: power that it wields. Trump is making Washington, d C.

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Speaker 5: Better in conjunction, honestly with Muriel Bowser, who showed up

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Speaker 5: be taking place there. Buck, I was just up in

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Speaker 5: a couple of months ago. I'm gonna be up. You're

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Speaker 5: gonna be up in June. I was just up two

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Speaker 5: weeks ago. I think that that DC is and you

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Speaker 5: lived there. I went to college there. We spent a

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Speaker 5: several decades. There they are making it safer. They are

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Speaker 5: starting to put violent criminals in prison. But make no mistake,

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Speaker 5: when Joe Biden came into office, they decided through the

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Speaker 5: US Attorney's Office in DC, that they were going to

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Speaker 5: wasn't just that they went soft on crime. It's that

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Speaker 5: in this particular office they went soft on crime, on

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Speaker 5: themselves in any way affiliated with January sixth. Some, as

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Speaker 5: people who walked inside open doors grandmas with selfie sticks

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Speaker 5: This appointment is very important. The idea that Tellus would

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Speaker 5: be saying, oh, January sixth was somehow Look, I'm not

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Speaker 5: defending January sixth, but in the context of how BLM

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Speaker 5: think that this is an easy decision ed Martin should

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Speaker 2: Frankly, I know that North Carolina is a competitive state,

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Speaker 2: and people will make the argument, oh, well, maybe Tillis

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Speaker 2: is you know the best we can do. No, it's

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Speaker 2: not Maine. You can do better than Tom Tillis. Because

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Speaker 2: this is a guy who doesn't know what time it is,

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Speaker 2: be right now. His problem, apparently with Ed Martin is

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Speaker 2: that as an interim US Attorney, Martin opened up an

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Speaker 2: office handling of J six cases, and there were some

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Speaker 2: federal prosecutors who were fired during during that you know,

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Speaker 2: that period, and I think it all should have been fired.

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Speaker 2: I think that using your office to destroy American citizens

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Speaker 2: to make some kind of political point when they haven't done.

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Speaker 1: Anything bad or really bad. You know, depends on who

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Speaker 1: we're talking about here, right, Yeah, I mean, am.

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Speaker 2: I pro trespassing? No, I'm not pro trespassing. I think

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Speaker 2: you could get a fine, you know, it depends on who. Now,

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Speaker 2: are you able to punch cops in the face and

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Speaker 2: get away with it? No, unless you're a Democrat Biden voter,

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Speaker 2: then it's okay to punch cops in the face.

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Speaker 1: You just have to say you're doing it. For George Floyd.

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Speaker 2: We have all seen the way that this game was played,

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Speaker 2: and we are furious about it. And I think what

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Speaker 2: Tom till us to me, Clay, this is like somebody

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Speaker 2: who was, you know, supported like faucyite vaccine mandates. This

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Speaker 2: the way of a of a solid choice from the

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Speaker 5: It's you have to look at this from the perspective

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Speaker 2: He's up for reelection in twenty six. So but I

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Speaker 5: Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton show Breaking down

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Speaker 5: the battle over the US Attorney in Washington, DC. There are,

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Speaker 5: it's a ghost town. In many of these blocks. Businesses

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Speaker 5: which is something that everybody who lives in DC honestly wants,

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Speaker 5: So it feels like a no brainer to me. And

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Speaker 5: again offers out to Tom Tillis, Senator from North Carolina

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Speaker 2: Yes, And I think he should because if he feels

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Speaker 1: A US attorney? What is that?

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Speaker 2: Think about the scumbags that Democrats and high profile Democrat

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Speaker 1: All right, welcome back into Clay and Buck.

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Speaker 2: Calling out Senator Tillis, we're blocking Trump's former now that's

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Speaker 1: What's going on, Sean.

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Speaker 8: Hey Man, thank you for taking my call, just you know,

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: How is it? How is it there now?

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Speaker 8: And well it's been you know. They keep saying, well,

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Speaker 5: But I wanted to know how things were going there.

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Speaker 5: Thank you for that feedback. Now you wanted to tell

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Speaker 8: I've already called his office. I have been a long

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Speaker 1: So yes, we agree.

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Speaker 8: He's I don't know what he knickers in a ward for,

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Speaker 5: Yeah, thank you for the call. Is take a couple

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Speaker 5: and I, it just doesn't add up to me. And

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Speaker 5: this is why I would like him to come on

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Speaker 2: Remember remember when Mitt Romney was marching with a mask

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Speaker 9: Hey, great show, guys, Miss Rush, But you guys are

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Speaker 9: called his office. It took me two days to get

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Speaker 9: to remind you guys that the North Carolina Republican Party

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Speaker 9: censored Tom Tillis in twenty twenty three for his banking

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Speaker 9: of g LGBTQ plus rights, immigration and gun violence pallaces.

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Speaker 9: He was back in the red the red Flag law,

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Speaker 9: and he was against moving military funds, military construction funds

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Speaker 9: from matt to the building or of the border wall.

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Speaker 9: We have never been, Tilli, says my wife, and I

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Speaker 9: only voted for him because President Trump becked him and

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Speaker 9: said he had turned a corner. Well, I think he's

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Speaker 9: going to turn around and has gone back to his

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Speaker 9: little ways. He doesn't show up at our conventions, he

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Speaker 9: never comes to the eastern portion of North Carolina, and

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Speaker 9: we're through with him.

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Speaker 1: Do you think you might get primaried.

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Speaker 9: We're looking for somebody.

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Speaker 2: I figured you might be. Well, you know, you're putting

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Speaker 2: the word out to a lot of people listening right now.

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Speaker 2: I'm sure there's some exceptional patriot out there in the

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Speaker 2: state of North Carolina who may want to give them

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Speaker 2: better representation in the Senate. Sharon in Raleigh, North Carolina,

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Speaker 2: you're up next.

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Speaker 3: Hi, Joy, listen to your show. And I just wanted

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Speaker 3: to voice the same sentiments that the gentleman just basically stated.

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Speaker 3: Mister Chillis sends out emails to his constituents and asked

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Speaker 3: about how he doing, how he wants to you know,

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Speaker 3: how we think he needs to proceed. And I feel

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Speaker 3: what most everybody's probably given him the indication that we

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Speaker 3: want him to support mister Trump. And as you stated earlier,

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Speaker 3: I think this is to do with the upcoming re

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Speaker 3: election issue, and I feel like he needs to reconsider

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Speaker 3: his position. And I'm hoping I called him up the message.

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Speaker 3: I've not heard back from him, and I've also told

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Speaker 3: him I think he needs to call your show. He

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Speaker 3: needs to voices why why he needs to stands this

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Speaker 3: way if as constituents we need to understand, but what

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Speaker 3: you stated, it makes no sense basically because anybody that

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Speaker 3: supported Trump is aware of the January sixth issue, and

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Speaker 3: like you said, it really just doesn't Uh, it's not

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Speaker 3: logical for his dease it.

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Speaker 2: It feels like it feels a bit sharing to me,

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Speaker 2: like moral preening or some kind of just vain show

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Speaker 2: voting maneuver. I don't get it. I mean, and maybe

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Speaker 2: he thinks it'll do better for him in re election somehow,

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Speaker 2: but that's a political calculation that I can't square. I

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Speaker 2: don't see that. So to me, it just feels like

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Speaker 2: it just feels like really bad judgment. I think that's

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Speaker 2: the easiest way to put it. Thank you for calling in, Sharon.

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Speaker 2: We'll take one more here. Alan in eastern North Carolina.

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Speaker 2: What's going on?

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Speaker 10: Yeah, I've always thought of Tom Tillis as a Rhino,

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Speaker 10: but I covered I used to work in the local

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Speaker 10: news here and I covered him when he was first

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Speaker 10: running for the Senate. At the time, it was held

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Speaker 10: about him.

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Speaker 11: But he was a John McCain Republican. John McCain came

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Speaker 11: here and campaigned for him, and it just seems like

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Speaker 11: ever since he's been in there, he's been that opposition

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Speaker 11: with Trump on a lot of things, even though he's

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Speaker 11: changed his vote on dozens of things.

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Speaker 1: It seems like, yeah, thank you, thank you. I just

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Speaker 1: don't get it.

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Speaker 5: And again, open invite to Tom to to come on

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Speaker 5: and explain this guy. Ed Martin is already the acting

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Speaker 5: director of the office, so he's already doing the job.

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Speaker 5: It feels personal to me, and sometimes senators have personal

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Speaker 5: conflicts with individuals that otherwise would be confirmed. That's not

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Speaker 5: necessarily uncommon. But the rationale that he has provided so

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Speaker 5: far to me is not compelling as to why Ed

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Speaker 5: Martin shouldn't be able to get this job. And again,

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Speaker 5: this is a very important job when it comes to

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Speaker 5: who's in charge of justice in Washington, d C. He's

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Speaker 5: come in and tried to clean up the office. He's

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Speaker 5: fired a bunch of people that he thinks are two

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Speaker 5: left wing in their prosecutorial basis.

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Speaker 2: I think here's a good data point to add into this.

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Speaker 2: They made damn sure that every j sixter k stayed

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Speaker 2: in the DC US Attorney's docket because they didn't want to.

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Speaker 2: They didn't want him to get a fair trun Yes, right,

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Speaker 2: So what does that tell you They knew that it

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Speaker 2: was like the legal wood chipper for anybody who had

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Speaker 2: been been involved with Trump j six, any of that. Well,

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Speaker 2: clearly there's a problem there when the when the weaponized

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Speaker 2: Justice Department, or rather when the weaponization of justice is

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Speaker 2: so consolidated that they clearly would rather have everybody who

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Speaker 2: was I think there was not a single change of

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Speaker 2: venue Clay was there. I'm not aware of a single

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Speaker 2: change of venue out of the district of Columbia. It

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Speaker 2: was not almost because they knew, Yeah, they knew that.

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Speaker 2: It was just it was a an assembly line of

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Speaker 2: destroying and humiliating Trump voters who were at the Capitol

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Speaker 2: on January sixth. That was the whole point of what

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Speaker 2: the US Attorney's Office was doing. And all the people

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Speaker 2: who got fired deserved it.

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Speaker 5: And by the way, I said, and I still would

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Speaker 5: echo this, they need to give everybody who gets charged

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Speaker 5: with federal crimes the opportunity to take those cases to

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Speaker 5: their actual location, that is your your particular domisi. You

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Speaker 5: shouldn't be able to prosecute someone in Washington, d C.

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Speaker 5: Without them being able to remove it federally to their

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Speaker 5: local jurisdiction, That to me, would be one way to

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Speaker 5: try to take away some of the power that Democrats

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Speaker 5: have embedded in the DC court system in general. But

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Speaker 5: in the meantime, here's a question for you, and maybe

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Speaker 5: some of you can find them. Did any nominee that

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Speaker 5: Joe Biden put forward not get confirmed by Democrats? Did

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Speaker 5: this happen anywhere to Joe Biden? Did any major office

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Speaker 5: in the Department of Justice that Joe Biden wanted an

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Speaker 5: appointment confirmed? Did any Democrat senator stand up and say no,

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Speaker 5: I won't allow this. Elections this is when Barack Obama

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Speaker 5: got right have consequences, and one of those consequences is

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Speaker 5: the president should get to pick the people that he

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Speaker 5: wants to represent him in important offices.

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Speaker 2: I'm also says I don't like this blue slip thing,

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Speaker 2: which I know un has said he's going to he's

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Speaker 2: going to, uh, you know, agree to. This is just

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Speaker 2: when the Senate Judiciary Committee has this practice of making

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Speaker 2: sure that the senators in the home state they get

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Speaker 2: a blue piece of paper to put their opinion of

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Speaker 2: the nominee on.

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Speaker 1: And so you you know, why do we do this?

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Speaker 2: Because I'm gonna tell you something the Democrats get through

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Speaker 2: their communist left wing legislate from the bench people under

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Speaker 2: the guise of remember Tom Tillis voted for Merrick Garland.

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Speaker 2: I know, like Merrick Garland is okay with me, aok Merrick.

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Speaker 2: But if this is the thing, we always get screwed

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Speaker 2: by this game of oh well, we have this idea

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Speaker 2: things down with the blue slip process. We should be

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Speaker 2: we should be, you know, letting the freight train loose here.

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Speaker 2: We should not be slowing things down for these Democrats,

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Speaker 2: not now, not after what.

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Speaker 1: Happened amen opening in.

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Speaker 5: hanging out with us. We've got a bunch of different

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Speaker 5: reactions obviously pouring in not a surprise to the Tom

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Speaker 5: Tillis decision and how it does not make a great

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Speaker 5: deal of decision. Here's Mike from North Carolina one oh

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Speaker 5: six point one FM talk radio. Uh here's his reaction

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Speaker 5: as well.

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Speaker 12: Listen, hey Clayon Buck Mike here in North Carolina, and

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Speaker 12: I gotta say, I am super ashamed to hear Tom

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Speaker 12: Tillis take that position.

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Speaker 1: And I think I speak.

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Speaker 12: For a lot of like minded, level headed people here

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Speaker 12: in North Carolina that he will now be the Senator

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Speaker 12: for much longer. He's not going to win the next

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Speaker 12: the next selection, No way.

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Speaker 1: We'll see these incumbents in red states.

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Speaker 2: Sorry, they somehow managed to hang on.

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Speaker 5: The amount of money that's going to be spent against

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Speaker 5: him from Democrats is monumental because the board is not

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Speaker 5: that great for them. Again in twenty twenty six, and

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Speaker 5: now that we have opened up a three Senate lead

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Speaker 5: and have the tie break, that means Democrats would have

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Speaker 5: to flip four different seats, which frankly, I just I

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Speaker 5: don't think is possible in twenty twenty six. Now, Unfortunately,

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Speaker 5: if you look at the Senate map, there have been

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Speaker 5: individuals out there that had good chances to win Brian

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Speaker 5: Kemp and Georgia, for instance, the current governor who's been

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Speaker 5: very popular, decided not to run for the Senate. So

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Speaker 5: flipping Democrat seats, whether it's in Michigan, whether it's in Georgia,

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Speaker 5: whether it's in some of these places, Arizona where in

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Speaker 5: theory there may I believe be opportunities to flip seats.

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Speaker 5: May not be as easy as we had hoped. New

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Speaker 5: Hampshire another location there. I mean, the map is not

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Speaker 5: bad for Republicans, but the candidate quality is not elite

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Speaker 5: so far in terms of who's going to be able

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Speaker 5: to win those treasons.

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Speaker 2: What always ends up happening is you say, how could

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Speaker 2: this state have such a bad incumbent Republican? They should

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Speaker 2: be able to get a great and then people say, oh,

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Speaker 2: he's better than the guy who tried to beat him,

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Speaker 2: or the gall tried to beat them last time. She

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Speaker 2: was even bigger rhino. Okay, well, how do we fix this?

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Speaker 2: I just think it's an easy answer.

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Speaker 5: And look, if I were in the Senate and a

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Speaker 5: Republican president won election, I would unless it was something

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Speaker 5: totally outlandish in terms of a nominee, I would sign

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Speaker 5: off on all the presidents dominations and the guy is

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Speaker 5: already the acting US attorney. Some of you may be

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Speaker 5: better proceeds, certainly, some of you out there listening right

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Speaker 5: now are better procedurely than I am on this. Can

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Speaker 5: the president? How long can someone be an acting US attorney?

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Speaker 1: A long time? Other a long time?

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Speaker 4: Right?

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Speaker 5: So, if it doesn't become official, what is the timeframe

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Speaker 5: under which this gentleman ed Martin would have to be removed?

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Speaker 5: And also are there any recess appointment opportunities if Trump

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Speaker 5: wanted to make him? I'm not sure again how this

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Speaker 5: works for US attorneys. Some of you out there are

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Speaker 5: procedural experts when it comes to issues like this. I

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Speaker 5: haven't seen it written or talked about, but I do

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Speaker 5: wonder if Tillis refuses to change his opinion on this,

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Speaker 5: what restrictions are in play here such that and options

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Speaker 5: that the president would have if he wants this individual

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Speaker 5: at Martin to be and remaining in the office.

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Speaker 1: Hees are already in Clay. You have us at the

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Speaker 1: top of the next hour.

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Speaker 2: What incredible journey are you going to be leading us

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Speaker 2: on here into the world of news, analysis, commentary and

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Speaker 2: all things.

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Speaker 1: Did you see Buck that Disney. I want to have

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Speaker 1: some fun with this.

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Speaker 5: Disney has decided to build a new theme park in

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Speaker 5: Abu Dobby, Okay, Middle East. Remember they were angry at

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Speaker 5: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis over the so called Don't Say

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Speaker 5: Gay Bill. They filed a lawsuit over at everything else.

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Speaker 5: Were you aware Buck that in Abu Dhabi, if you

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Speaker 5: are gay, you can be beheaded.

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Speaker 1: I was aware, Yes, I was aware.

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Speaker 5: Seems a little bit tougher than kindergarten. First second, third

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Speaker 5: graders can't get taught sexuality related issues. I think this

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Speaker 5: is a really interesting moment, and I'm curious if people

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Speaker 5: are going to hold a company like Disney accountable over

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Speaker 5: how their policies apply around the world versus in this country.

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Speaker 1: We'll have some fun with that.

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Speaker 2: More head