1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:03,040 Speaker 1: Clay Travis and Buck Sexton, the dynamic duo I like 2 00:00:03,080 --> 00:00:05,600 Speaker 1: to call them. We'll be back next week to guide 3 00:00:05,600 --> 00:00:08,119 Speaker 1: you through a new session of Congress and all of 4 00:00:08,160 --> 00:00:10,200 Speaker 1: the and hopefully you'll be home by then. If you're 5 00:00:10,200 --> 00:00:14,800 Speaker 1: flying Southwest or any airline, let's not pick on Southwest. 6 00:00:14,800 --> 00:00:17,520 Speaker 1: Obviously they had the most glitches this Christmas season. But 7 00:00:17,840 --> 00:00:20,759 Speaker 1: if you've got an industry that's reduced their capacity to 8 00:00:21,440 --> 00:00:26,360 Speaker 1: full capacity plus one extra seat, any disruption is going 9 00:00:26,400 --> 00:00:29,520 Speaker 1: to cause a backlog. And that's really what's happened. I 10 00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:33,560 Speaker 1: remember years and years ago, Warren Buffett, I believe, said, 11 00:00:33,600 --> 00:00:36,680 Speaker 1: I don't invest in airlines because it's a it's a 12 00:00:37,360 --> 00:00:41,680 Speaker 1: bad investment basically, because they're always dealing with excess capacity. 13 00:00:41,960 --> 00:00:45,320 Speaker 1: When you've got empty planes, why you got, you know, 14 00:00:45,960 --> 00:00:49,120 Speaker 1: a drive down on revenue or a push down to 15 00:00:49,159 --> 00:00:52,000 Speaker 1: the lowest possible revenue projections and all the rest. So 16 00:00:52,080 --> 00:00:56,800 Speaker 1: they followed buffets prediction or his cure, and they cut 17 00:00:56,840 --> 00:01:00,840 Speaker 1: their capacity like crazy. And now you've got capacity plus 18 00:01:00,920 --> 00:01:05,720 Speaker 1: one seat. And that is a big, big reason why 19 00:01:05,760 --> 00:01:08,560 Speaker 1: you've got these problems, as well as you've got a 20 00:01:08,560 --> 00:01:11,279 Speaker 1: screwed up air traffic control system. These guys are hard 21 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:17,160 Speaker 1: work hard, I should say, but it still needs to 22 00:01:17,160 --> 00:01:20,440 Speaker 1: be reformed. And then you've got infrastructure that's run amuck, 23 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:25,520 Speaker 1: not doing the right things with infrastructure, real infrastructure. And 24 00:01:25,560 --> 00:01:28,760 Speaker 1: then of course you've got a staff shortage, pilot shortage 25 00:01:29,480 --> 00:01:31,679 Speaker 1: across the board coming out of the pandemic. All of 26 00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:34,800 Speaker 1: these things have conspired to make it early, really bad Christmas. 27 00:01:34,800 --> 00:01:36,520 Speaker 1: One thing I wanted to get to you with John 28 00:01:36,600 --> 00:01:38,840 Speaker 1: Lott before we had to let him go was the 29 00:01:39,160 --> 00:01:42,600 Speaker 1: what we mentioned, the defensive gun uses. Now his outfit, 30 00:01:42,680 --> 00:01:47,040 Speaker 1: the Crime Prevention Research Center, has put together a number 31 00:01:47,040 --> 00:01:49,680 Speaker 1: of good investigations on this. One was in Real Clear 32 00:01:49,720 --> 00:01:53,360 Speaker 1: Investigations a year ago where he said, if you believe 33 00:01:53,480 --> 00:01:58,000 Speaker 1: the media headlines, If you believe the media headlines, you 34 00:01:58,040 --> 00:02:00,560 Speaker 1: would think the only time guns are used at the 35 00:02:00,560 --> 00:02:02,920 Speaker 1: Mall of America or any place in Times Square, you 36 00:02:03,040 --> 00:02:09,680 Speaker 1: name it, are gun crimes shootings. America's five largest newspapers, 37 00:02:10,160 --> 00:02:13,160 Speaker 1: The Times, the Washington Posts, LA Times, USA Today, in 38 00:02:13,160 --> 00:02:16,640 Speaker 1: the Wall Street Journal have published a combined total of 39 00:02:16,760 --> 00:02:22,120 Speaker 1: ten news stories in twenty twenty one that report a 40 00:02:22,280 --> 00:02:28,480 Speaker 1: civilian using a gun to successfully stop a crime stop 41 00:02:28,480 --> 00:02:31,680 Speaker 1: a crime. By contrast, they had a total of seventeen 42 00:02:31,800 --> 00:02:37,280 Speaker 1: hundred stories containing murder, murders or gunfire. Now that's very 43 00:02:37,320 --> 00:02:41,000 Speaker 1: interesting because if you look at the seventeen surveys or 44 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:44,560 Speaker 1: so that doctor Lott put together between seven hundred and 45 00:02:44,600 --> 00:02:47,639 Speaker 1: sixty thousand to all the way to three and a 46 00:02:47,680 --> 00:02:52,120 Speaker 1: half million defensive uses of guns to ward off a criminal, 47 00:02:52,160 --> 00:02:54,840 Speaker 1: to expot just merely brandishing a weapon will do it. 48 00:02:56,200 --> 00:03:00,359 Speaker 1: They average about two million a year, and yet attend 49 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:04,919 Speaker 1: news stories. That's what helps Michael Bloomberg of the world 50 00:03:04,919 --> 00:03:07,639 Speaker 1: the media half his back. Well, guns are only used 51 00:03:07,639 --> 00:03:12,280 Speaker 1: to commit crimes, nor they're used to prevent crime. You know, 52 00:03:12,400 --> 00:03:16,959 Speaker 1: it's a reason. It's the Second Amendment, folks, if you 53 00:03:17,080 --> 00:03:22,600 Speaker 1: applied under what constitutionalists call incorporation doctrine, where a bill 54 00:03:22,600 --> 00:03:26,520 Speaker 1: of rights apply to the states. If you apply the 55 00:03:26,560 --> 00:03:30,440 Speaker 1: First Amendment, the third, fourth, fifth Amendment to this out 56 00:03:30,440 --> 00:03:32,720 Speaker 1: the fifth Amendments primarily federal. But if you apply the 57 00:03:32,760 --> 00:03:36,640 Speaker 1: sixth Amendment to the states, you don't apply the second. Well, 58 00:03:36,680 --> 00:03:39,920 Speaker 1: actually the Supreme Court did in Heller and McDonald, and 59 00:03:40,080 --> 00:03:43,760 Speaker 1: now states like New York are simply ignoring the court. 60 00:03:44,520 --> 00:03:48,280 Speaker 1: We don't care. We're gonna keep regulating. We're gonna keep 61 00:03:48,320 --> 00:03:51,440 Speaker 1: preventing you from defending yourself even though criminals are running amuck. 62 00:03:52,280 --> 00:03:57,520 Speaker 1: This is insanity, and it's one reason why people are 63 00:03:57,640 --> 00:04:02,000 Speaker 1: leaving places like New York. In rows, the census numbers 64 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:06,360 Speaker 1: are out and the state of New York lost two 65 00:04:06,480 --> 00:04:10,000 Speaker 1: hundred and ninety nine thousand, five hundred and fifty seven 66 00:04:10,400 --> 00:04:16,599 Speaker 1: residents last year net domestic migration or outmigration. So you 67 00:04:16,680 --> 00:04:19,800 Speaker 1: might be asking, gosh, if the major metropolitan area in 68 00:04:19,839 --> 00:04:24,640 Speaker 1: New York, New York City is bleeding people literally unfiguratively, 69 00:04:25,760 --> 00:04:28,560 Speaker 1: what is the Mayor Eric Adams of New York up 70 00:04:28,600 --> 00:04:31,360 Speaker 1: to these days? Well, have a listen. You know, this 71 00:04:31,440 --> 00:04:36,840 Speaker 1: is my second Christmas without my mother, and last year 72 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:42,359 Speaker 1: I was really the state of depression and what I 73 00:04:42,400 --> 00:04:46,200 Speaker 1: put my staff through, and I said, I can't do 74 00:04:46,279 --> 00:04:50,040 Speaker 1: that again. So after three hundred and sixty five days 75 00:04:50,120 --> 00:04:53,839 Speaker 1: of commitment to the city, I decided to say two 76 00:04:53,920 --> 00:04:57,479 Speaker 1: days to reflect on a mommy and to watch how 77 00:04:57,520 --> 00:05:01,080 Speaker 1: you responded to my two days out of this city 78 00:05:01,839 --> 00:05:07,400 Speaker 1: was really alarming. I deserve good life balance like you do. 79 00:05:07,480 --> 00:05:09,960 Speaker 1: I bet you went on a vacation. I bet you 80 00:05:09,960 --> 00:05:12,400 Speaker 1: have not wroke three hundred and sixty five days in 81 00:05:12,480 --> 00:05:16,839 Speaker 1: the city. So let's just say you're a CEO and 82 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:21,640 Speaker 1: you haven't had a quarter in the black in years, 83 00:05:22,600 --> 00:05:27,080 Speaker 1: well ever since twenty twenty election. I'm just saying there's 84 00:05:27,080 --> 00:05:29,760 Speaker 1: a coincidence there. Let's just say that you are your 85 00:05:29,800 --> 00:05:34,000 Speaker 1: shareholders are losing money hand over fist, and you take 86 00:05:34,040 --> 00:05:39,280 Speaker 1: a vacation. That is the best business analogy I can 87 00:05:39,320 --> 00:05:42,360 Speaker 1: come up with. No, you'd be fired. You'd be fired, 88 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:45,360 Speaker 1: and they are being fired. If you take a look 89 00:05:45,400 --> 00:05:49,800 Speaker 1: at these census numbers, the new Census Bureau population data 90 00:05:49,839 --> 00:05:56,880 Speaker 1: that just came out, Blue states are losing literally millions 91 00:05:56,880 --> 00:05:59,320 Speaker 1: of people over time, maybe not million in a year. Well, 92 00:05:59,320 --> 00:06:02,000 Speaker 1: you got three hundred and forty three thousand left California, 93 00:06:02,200 --> 00:06:05,000 Speaker 1: three hundred thousand left New York, one hundred and forty 94 00:06:05,040 --> 00:06:10,960 Speaker 1: one thousand left Illinois, sixty five thousand left Jersey, Massachusetts 95 00:06:10,960 --> 00:06:16,040 Speaker 1: lost seven or excuse me, fifty seven. Hey, hey, Minnesota 96 00:06:16,080 --> 00:06:19,360 Speaker 1: lost twenty Yeah, maybe a million. And guess where these 97 00:06:19,360 --> 00:06:23,240 Speaker 1: people are going. Florida gained three hundred and eighteen thousand, 98 00:06:23,360 --> 00:06:27,880 Speaker 1: Texas two hundred and thirty one thousand, the Carolinas another 99 00:06:28,080 --> 00:06:33,560 Speaker 1: what one hundred and eighty thousand Tennessee eighty thousand, Arizona 100 00:06:33,760 --> 00:06:39,640 Speaker 1: seventy one thousand. So let me get this straight. The 101 00:06:39,839 --> 00:06:46,440 Speaker 1: people who are governing these blue states have driven their 102 00:06:46,440 --> 00:06:51,520 Speaker 1: own citizens away, and yet they all get reelected, just 103 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:56,640 Speaker 1: like Joe Biden in a landslide in twenty twenty. If 104 00:06:56,680 --> 00:07:01,599 Speaker 1: you question that, you're a denier, it's kind of like 105 00:07:01,680 --> 00:07:04,920 Speaker 1: questioning global warming in a Buffalo snowstorm. You can't do that. 106 00:07:05,320 --> 00:07:08,680 Speaker 1: You're gonna believe me or your own lion eyes. This 107 00:07:08,760 --> 00:07:12,960 Speaker 1: is the great conundrum. It really is the great conundrum. 108 00:07:13,200 --> 00:07:16,360 Speaker 1: The very people that have brought places like what used 109 00:07:16,360 --> 00:07:22,040 Speaker 1: to be idyllic metropolitan areas, Portland, the Twin Cities, you 110 00:07:22,200 --> 00:07:27,680 Speaker 1: name it, the very same people, the media, the local 111 00:07:27,720 --> 00:07:31,600 Speaker 1: media in Oregon, the local media in Minnesota, the Democrats 112 00:07:31,640 --> 00:07:37,720 Speaker 1: who rule Portland and Oregon, in Seattle, in LA and 113 00:07:37,920 --> 00:07:41,440 Speaker 1: New York and Minneapolis and Saint Paul, which are setting 114 00:07:41,440 --> 00:07:45,880 Speaker 1: homicide records. The Democrats who rule these places into the 115 00:07:46,160 --> 00:07:53,240 Speaker 1: ground just keep getting reelected and people leave these places 116 00:07:54,200 --> 00:07:59,480 Speaker 1: governed by these people, And yet is that not incongruent 117 00:08:00,240 --> 00:08:03,440 Speaker 1: to how they keep getting reelected. If these places were 118 00:08:03,480 --> 00:08:08,320 Speaker 1: the blue state utopia that the election reflected, the Biden election, 119 00:08:09,240 --> 00:08:12,200 Speaker 1: the Democrat holding the Senate election. If they're so wonderful, 120 00:08:12,320 --> 00:08:16,760 Speaker 1: why are people leaving? There is a disconnect here of 121 00:08:16,840 --> 00:08:23,240 Speaker 1: immense proportions, and the disconnect, well, I smell a rat. 122 00:08:24,160 --> 00:08:30,400 Speaker 1: I smell a big rat. I mean, if it doesn't 123 00:08:30,400 --> 00:08:35,640 Speaker 1: add up, does it not? That you get an overwhelming 124 00:08:37,679 --> 00:08:45,160 Speaker 1: impromoter of liberal policies by via the elections Minnesota? They 125 00:08:45,240 --> 00:08:48,800 Speaker 1: gained the House of Representative or the state House, I 126 00:08:48,800 --> 00:08:51,880 Speaker 1: should say they gain that now, and the state Senate 127 00:08:52,320 --> 00:08:54,320 Speaker 1: and the governor and the Secretary of State and the 128 00:08:54,320 --> 00:08:57,200 Speaker 1: attorney general. It is totally blue, and the Twin Cities 129 00:08:57,240 --> 00:09:01,000 Speaker 1: are absolutely in a free fall. But they keep getting elected. 130 00:09:01,040 --> 00:09:04,880 Speaker 1: And yet twenty thousand people left Minnesota. So I'm a 131 00:09:04,920 --> 00:09:08,319 Speaker 1: little confused here. Maybe you've got the answer. How can 132 00:09:08,360 --> 00:09:12,200 Speaker 1: it be that people are voting with their feet massively 133 00:09:12,400 --> 00:09:17,680 Speaker 1: leaving blue state governance, moving to red states, and yet 134 00:09:18,880 --> 00:09:22,480 Speaker 1: the liberals who implement these blue state policies keep getting elected. 135 00:09:22,520 --> 00:09:26,120 Speaker 1: Could it be? Could it be the elections don't reflect 136 00:09:26,160 --> 00:09:29,520 Speaker 1: the true views? Could it be the media that underreports 137 00:09:29,600 --> 00:09:33,200 Speaker 1: defensive gun uses so it can hight gun control don't 138 00:09:33,240 --> 00:09:39,120 Speaker 1: reflect the population's views. Could that possibly be why who knows? 139 00:09:40,320 --> 00:09:43,240 Speaker 1: One eight hundred two eight two two eight eight two. 140 00:09:43,280 --> 00:09:45,680 Speaker 1: Maybe you know, let's come back and we'll continue with 141 00:09:45,720 --> 00:09:47,520 Speaker 1: the calls. In fact, we'll to vote the rest of 142 00:09:47,520 --> 00:09:49,360 Speaker 1: the hour to your calls. Get caught up here on 143 00:09:49,400 --> 00:09:52,000 Speaker 1: the Clay and Buck Show. I am Jason Lewis. Do 144 00:09:52,080 --> 00:09:55,960 Speaker 1: not touch that dial. Okay one eight hundred two eight 145 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:59,040 Speaker 1: two to eight eight two. That's the contact line as 146 00:09:59,080 --> 00:10:01,680 Speaker 1: always for the Clay t Amazon Buck Sexton Show. The guys, 147 00:10:02,080 --> 00:10:05,920 Speaker 1: the Dynamic Duo will return on when next week. Right, 148 00:10:07,320 --> 00:10:09,640 Speaker 1: you know, it's great when you get old. These short 149 00:10:09,720 --> 00:10:12,480 Speaker 1: naps are fantastic. Let's get to the calls. Catch up, 150 00:10:12,520 --> 00:10:16,839 Speaker 1: as I promised. Paul in Berlin, New Hampshire. How's that, Paul? 151 00:10:16,960 --> 00:10:19,120 Speaker 1: A lot of people say Berlin, but no, it's Berlin. 152 00:10:20,120 --> 00:10:26,560 Speaker 1: I pronounted Berlin. There you go. And Jason, as you 153 00:10:26,600 --> 00:10:30,800 Speaker 1: were speaking a few minutes ago about the people leaving 154 00:10:31,040 --> 00:10:37,000 Speaker 1: the Blue cities or the Democrats, I'm sorry the Republicans. 155 00:10:37,200 --> 00:10:41,240 Speaker 1: I assume the Republicans are leaving because they don't like 156 00:10:41,440 --> 00:10:44,760 Speaker 1: living in a Blue city anymore because of the officials 157 00:10:44,760 --> 00:10:50,760 Speaker 1: always you know, ruining their own city. But so let's 158 00:10:50,800 --> 00:10:53,920 Speaker 1: just say it's logical to assume that if there are 159 00:10:53,960 --> 00:10:57,280 Speaker 1: just Democrats left in those blue cities, who's going to 160 00:10:57,360 --> 00:11:00,000 Speaker 1: be voting against them? Because you know, if they go least, 161 00:11:00,400 --> 00:11:03,440 Speaker 1: they're only going to be there by themselves voting for 162 00:11:03,520 --> 00:11:07,640 Speaker 1: each other. And you know, it's really crazy because I think, well, actually, 163 00:11:07,679 --> 00:11:11,280 Speaker 1: your assumption is a little bit off. Anecdotally, at least, 164 00:11:11,880 --> 00:11:15,400 Speaker 1: the data shows that there are as many liberals leaving 165 00:11:15,600 --> 00:11:19,839 Speaker 1: the policies they put in place and the chaos they've created, 166 00:11:20,200 --> 00:11:26,000 Speaker 1: which explains why places like the Carolinas are trending blue, 167 00:11:26,320 --> 00:11:30,160 Speaker 1: Georgia blue because the people that ruin New York and 168 00:11:30,240 --> 00:11:34,960 Speaker 1: California Arizona as well are bringing their same idiotic policies 169 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:38,520 Speaker 1: to where they escape. It makes no sense, but that's 170 00:11:38,559 --> 00:11:42,880 Speaker 1: why they're liberals, and so it doesn't bode well for 171 00:11:42,960 --> 00:11:47,200 Speaker 1: some of those new places. Well, how about the people 172 00:11:47,240 --> 00:11:50,959 Speaker 1: who are independent. I happen to live in a town 173 00:11:51,040 --> 00:11:56,839 Speaker 1: where we have mostly independence. They lean towards the Democratic Party, 174 00:11:57,760 --> 00:12:01,440 Speaker 1: and you know, the lumptions here don't have any chance. 175 00:12:01,520 --> 00:12:04,000 Speaker 1: We have a mayor that's been an office for like 176 00:12:04,160 --> 00:12:10,680 Speaker 1: at least twenty years. Yeah, I know, I know. Well, look, 177 00:12:10,720 --> 00:12:15,320 Speaker 1: I mean I feel the same way about Minnesota. I think, look, 178 00:12:15,360 --> 00:12:17,880 Speaker 1: I can't help but keep going back to this because 179 00:12:18,640 --> 00:12:25,920 Speaker 1: either there are lax voting laws exponentially made worse by 180 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:30,160 Speaker 1: COVID voting rules caught up with us, or twenty twenty 181 00:12:30,679 --> 00:12:34,120 Speaker 1: was the most anomalous election in US history. And I 182 00:12:34,120 --> 00:12:37,600 Speaker 1: could go down the list for you that are circumstantial 183 00:12:37,720 --> 00:12:40,559 Speaker 1: that courts don't allow. It's a it's a great catch. 184 00:12:40,600 --> 00:12:43,480 Speaker 1: Twenty two. They won't allow forensic audits, but they won't 185 00:12:43,520 --> 00:12:47,640 Speaker 1: allow circumstantial evidence. So carry Lake. You know you can't 186 00:12:47,640 --> 00:12:49,200 Speaker 1: get the court and say, well, let's do a forensic 187 00:12:49,240 --> 00:12:51,640 Speaker 1: audit of Maricopa County. Well, can't do that. There's only 188 00:12:51,640 --> 00:12:54,880 Speaker 1: circumstantial evidence, and that we don't. We don't go by 189 00:12:54,920 --> 00:12:58,960 Speaker 1: circumstantial evidence. It happens everywhere. So you've got a situation 190 00:12:59,080 --> 00:13:03,520 Speaker 1: where an incumbent president who does better in the primaries 191 00:13:03,520 --> 00:13:06,200 Speaker 1: than he did the last time never loses. Trump loss. 192 00:13:06,559 --> 00:13:09,320 Speaker 1: You got a situation where an incumbent president, who I 193 00:13:09,320 --> 00:13:12,160 Speaker 1: think Ohio was the state that wins Ohio rarely loses. 194 00:13:12,200 --> 00:13:15,280 Speaker 1: He lost. You can go right down the circumstantial evidence. 195 00:13:15,679 --> 00:13:18,760 Speaker 1: I collected more votes in the state of Minnesota in 196 00:13:18,760 --> 00:13:23,880 Speaker 1: twenty twenty than any other statewide Republican to date. Ever, 197 00:13:25,080 --> 00:13:28,080 Speaker 1: I was one point behind in October, and yet I 198 00:13:28,160 --> 00:13:30,960 Speaker 1: lose by four points or five points, whatever it was. 199 00:13:31,640 --> 00:13:35,880 Speaker 1: And this is why if we don't, as I said yesterday, 200 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:41,400 Speaker 1: if we don't get serious about voting reform and voting, 201 00:13:41,640 --> 00:13:44,480 Speaker 1: and the Democrats are doing the opposite, Klobaschar's bill would 202 00:13:44,480 --> 00:13:49,640 Speaker 1: federalize elections, would may have automatic registration, would basically open 203 00:13:49,720 --> 00:13:54,040 Speaker 1: the floodgates, overturned the Constitution, which says states shall run 204 00:13:54,040 --> 00:13:57,760 Speaker 1: election law, not the state Supreme Court in North Carolina, 205 00:13:57,880 --> 00:14:01,679 Speaker 1: but state legislatures. If we go down that road and 206 00:14:02,280 --> 00:14:06,800 Speaker 1: this electoral nonsense continues, Republicans will never win another close 207 00:14:06,880 --> 00:14:10,160 Speaker 1: race in any congressional district or any center race in history. 208 00:14:10,280 --> 00:14:13,040 Speaker 1: They better get back to integrity when it comes to 209 00:14:13,080 --> 00:14:16,720 Speaker 1: the ballot that ought to be issued number one. And sadly, 210 00:14:17,280 --> 00:14:20,040 Speaker 1: too many goopeters don't want to talk about that because 211 00:14:20,080 --> 00:14:23,000 Speaker 1: somebody in the media might say something bad about them. Anyway, 212 00:14:23,080 --> 00:14:26,080 Speaker 1: Gotta move, Paul, thank you, here's candy and Mini Soviet, 213 00:14:26,160 --> 00:14:30,080 Speaker 1: I mean Minnesota Freudian slipped their candy. Welcome to the program. 214 00:14:30,520 --> 00:14:35,000 Speaker 1: Why thank you so much? I just wanted to give 215 00:14:35,040 --> 00:14:40,600 Speaker 1: you something to discuss al franking When he ran, he 216 00:14:40,760 --> 00:14:43,240 Speaker 1: wasn't winning, and then all of a sudden, loans behold, 217 00:14:43,240 --> 00:14:45,640 Speaker 1: there were just the number of votes he needed to 218 00:14:45,680 --> 00:14:51,040 Speaker 1: win founding a trunk three days later that was two eight, right, right? 219 00:14:52,240 --> 00:14:55,720 Speaker 1: And then you got to ohan Omar. You've got all 220 00:14:55,760 --> 00:14:59,560 Speaker 1: the nepotism with the Key Tellson and his family, and 221 00:14:59,600 --> 00:15:02,640 Speaker 1: nobody talks about all that, and it's so mad mean, 222 00:15:03,280 --> 00:15:06,200 Speaker 1: and Minnesotans have this attitude up. Why don't you read 223 00:15:06,200 --> 00:15:08,600 Speaker 1: about it in the Star Tribute? Wait? Wait, wait, why 224 00:15:08,680 --> 00:15:11,560 Speaker 1: don't you read about it in the Star Tribute newspaper, 225 00:15:11,840 --> 00:15:14,240 Speaker 1: the largest paper in Minnesota. Why don't you read about 226 00:15:14,240 --> 00:15:17,960 Speaker 1: it at Carol Levin, which you know as their trans 227 00:15:18,120 --> 00:15:22,160 Speaker 1: reporters out there, but rarely covers this stuff. Where is 228 00:15:22,200 --> 00:15:29,720 Speaker 1: the Minnesota media back in the sixties. Back in the sixties, 229 00:15:29,800 --> 00:15:33,560 Speaker 1: my father was a Democrat and then he uh during 230 00:15:33,560 --> 00:15:36,600 Speaker 1: the gold Water years he pushed over to a Republican 231 00:15:36,720 --> 00:15:41,720 Speaker 1: and he was saying that Chris Mondale, all these guys 232 00:15:41,800 --> 00:15:43,720 Speaker 1: used to come for they'd sit around the table and 233 00:15:43,760 --> 00:15:45,520 Speaker 1: they had it all planned out. Who was going to 234 00:15:45,560 --> 00:15:48,600 Speaker 1: be vice president one day? Who was going to move off, 235 00:15:48,640 --> 00:15:51,680 Speaker 1: and they had it all planned out and it was 236 00:15:51,760 --> 00:15:54,440 Speaker 1: the fix was in. And that's how the demon crafts work. 237 00:15:54,800 --> 00:15:57,880 Speaker 1: They just they just yeah, I'm afraid. Yeah, they're a 238 00:15:57,920 --> 00:16:00,840 Speaker 1: long term strategy and game plan and they run the 239 00:16:00,880 --> 00:16:05,480 Speaker 1: plays and that's how they win. Candy thinks I agree 240 00:16:05,520 --> 00:16:09,880 Speaker 1: with your analysis. I mean, it is bizarre. Incumbent presidents 241 00:16:09,920 --> 00:16:14,360 Speaker 1: who gain votes in Trump's case ten million, don't lose reelections, 242 00:16:14,360 --> 00:16:19,040 Speaker 1: at least not since eighteen ninety two. And yet and yet, oh, 243 00:16:19,040 --> 00:16:20,680 Speaker 1: you can't say that. You can't say that. I don't 244 00:16:20,680 --> 00:16:23,000 Speaker 1: too bad. We just did. Then you might too when 245 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:26,800 Speaker 1: we come back. More calls coming up. You know, I 246 00:16:26,840 --> 00:16:29,840 Speaker 1: have it on good authority that I think McCarthy you 247 00:16:29,840 --> 00:16:31,880 Speaker 1: will get the speakership. You may have to give in 248 00:16:31,920 --> 00:16:35,440 Speaker 1: on this one vote recall or vacate the chair speakership, 249 00:16:35,480 --> 00:16:37,920 Speaker 1: which is kind of silly in my view, But let's 250 00:16:37,960 --> 00:16:40,479 Speaker 1: just move on. In the House. The House should be okay, 251 00:16:40,920 --> 00:16:44,240 Speaker 1: they will do the bidding of conservatives. It's the Senate 252 00:16:44,240 --> 00:16:46,280 Speaker 1: that's the problem, and that's what we ought to be 253 00:16:46,320 --> 00:16:48,320 Speaker 1: focused on. But be that as a methought. I'd passed 254 00:16:48,400 --> 00:16:50,800 Speaker 1: that long. You know, yesterday I was talking about this 255 00:16:50,920 --> 00:16:55,720 Speaker 1: great study from the Committee to Unleashed Prosperity Pain Americans 256 00:16:55,800 --> 00:16:58,480 Speaker 1: not to work, A family of four can receive over 257 00:16:58,560 --> 00:17:02,560 Speaker 1: one hundred thousand dollars annualized equivalent in cash and benefits 258 00:17:03,040 --> 00:17:05,679 Speaker 1: in three states. And when I say the Senate's the problem, 259 00:17:05,760 --> 00:17:10,399 Speaker 1: remember this the omnibus bill. This is so derelict on 260 00:17:10,480 --> 00:17:13,840 Speaker 1: the part of these eighteen GOP senators working to the Democrats. 261 00:17:13,880 --> 00:17:16,000 Speaker 1: I was on the Budget Committee, I was on the 262 00:17:16,119 --> 00:17:19,720 Speaker 1: Edin Workforce Committee in Transportation. In my long tenure in Washington, 263 00:17:19,760 --> 00:17:23,560 Speaker 1: that would be one term. Nevertheless, more got done in 264 00:17:23,600 --> 00:17:26,200 Speaker 1: those two years than at any time since Reagan's first 265 00:17:26,200 --> 00:17:31,760 Speaker 1: two years. And there's data to prove that. If you 266 00:17:31,920 --> 00:17:37,480 Speaker 1: look at that Omnibus bill, in this study the Committee 267 00:17:37,480 --> 00:17:42,480 Speaker 1: to Unleashed Prosperity, they both show how expanding the American 268 00:17:43,400 --> 00:17:47,560 Speaker 1: the ACA studies American Healthcare Act, this was Obamacare, has 269 00:17:47,640 --> 00:17:52,120 Speaker 1: incentivized people not to work. Some people had joblock. I'm 270 00:17:52,119 --> 00:17:53,760 Speaker 1: only going to go to work because I need the insurance. 271 00:17:53,800 --> 00:17:55,760 Speaker 1: Now I can get it for free. I don't need 272 00:17:55,760 --> 00:18:00,840 Speaker 1: to work. Add to that, the unemployment benefits that six 273 00:18:00,960 --> 00:18:04,440 Speaker 1: hundred dollars a week, for Heaven's sakes, and you get 274 00:18:04,480 --> 00:18:07,320 Speaker 1: to a figure of ninety one hundred and twenty thousand 275 00:18:07,359 --> 00:18:12,080 Speaker 1: dollars in cash equivalent benefits if you don't work. This 276 00:18:12,160 --> 00:18:14,520 Speaker 1: is why there are staff shortages. This is why we 277 00:18:14,600 --> 00:18:18,600 Speaker 1: don't have the supply side of the economic equation surging 278 00:18:18,920 --> 00:18:21,440 Speaker 1: like it was after we passed the Tax Cutting Jobs Act. 279 00:18:23,240 --> 00:18:26,600 Speaker 1: And it's not because of lack of revenue. Since the 280 00:18:26,600 --> 00:18:29,680 Speaker 1: Trump tax reform, which I helped certainly voted for, I 281 00:18:29,800 --> 00:18:33,639 Speaker 1: like to think I helped pass on the floor, the 282 00:18:33,720 --> 00:18:37,160 Speaker 1: revenues have risen to record levels, almost twenty percent of GDP. 283 00:18:38,960 --> 00:18:42,440 Speaker 1: They're up billions of dollars. But where's the money going. 284 00:18:42,520 --> 00:18:46,160 Speaker 1: It's going to pay people not to work. It's going 285 00:18:46,200 --> 00:18:48,920 Speaker 1: for Green New Deal tax credits, eight hundred billion worth 286 00:18:49,480 --> 00:18:54,480 Speaker 1: in the Inflation Reduction Act. It's going for a massive 287 00:18:54,480 --> 00:18:58,639 Speaker 1: amount of spending on five pandemic relief bills, on the 288 00:18:58,680 --> 00:19:03,800 Speaker 1: infrastructure bill, on the Semiconductor bailout Chip bill, and on 289 00:19:03,880 --> 00:19:07,280 Speaker 1: the Omnibus bill. They're spending faster than we can raise 290 00:19:07,400 --> 00:19:10,520 Speaker 1: revenue for even though revenues, contrary to media spin, our 291 00:19:10,560 --> 00:19:14,560 Speaker 1: way up now. When I was on the EDIN Workforce 292 00:19:14,600 --> 00:19:19,080 Speaker 1: Committee under the Great chair Person Virginia Fox of North Carolina, 293 00:19:19,240 --> 00:19:24,640 Speaker 1: wonderful person. We were actually doing things to encourage workforce training, 294 00:19:25,400 --> 00:19:27,800 Speaker 1: encouraging people to learn the trades and not get ripped 295 00:19:27,840 --> 00:19:30,280 Speaker 1: off in a four year liberal arts school. All the time, 296 00:19:31,640 --> 00:19:35,280 Speaker 1: we were encouraging work ahead of all of the rest 297 00:19:35,359 --> 00:19:39,200 Speaker 1: of the stuff that Biden is subsidizing now, and he's 298 00:19:39,320 --> 00:19:46,520 Speaker 1: essentially reversed it. This is why people are so frustrated, 299 00:19:46,760 --> 00:19:48,960 Speaker 1: and it's also why, as I say, people are fleeing 300 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:56,120 Speaker 1: Blue states. Overall of this, it's just just amazing. One 301 00:19:56,160 --> 00:19:59,120 Speaker 1: eight two eight two to eight eight two the contact 302 00:19:59,160 --> 00:20:01,879 Speaker 1: line to the calls, we go. Let's see who's been 303 00:20:01,880 --> 00:20:05,119 Speaker 1: waiting patiently. The longest tier of my memory serves How 304 00:20:05,119 --> 00:20:10,320 Speaker 1: about Rochester, New York and Joe Hi. I hope that 305 00:20:10,480 --> 00:20:13,240 Speaker 1: you can shed some light on a couple questions that 306 00:20:13,320 --> 00:20:18,479 Speaker 1: I have. One is why can't mayors and governors of 307 00:20:19,119 --> 00:20:24,840 Speaker 1: blue states to have sanctuary cities be charged and prosecuted 308 00:20:24,880 --> 00:20:31,280 Speaker 1: for aiding at a betting. Also, earlier in the program, 309 00:20:31,359 --> 00:20:35,479 Speaker 1: you have mentioned that we are having foreign invaders because 310 00:20:35,520 --> 00:20:38,760 Speaker 1: of all of the illegal immigration that's coming into our 311 00:20:38,760 --> 00:20:44,159 Speaker 1: country now. Back when I was in school, I was 312 00:20:44,200 --> 00:20:46,200 Speaker 1: told that there was a time where if you did 313 00:20:46,240 --> 00:20:50,000 Speaker 1: not have the proper paperwork in this country, you could 314 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:55,640 Speaker 1: be charged as a spy and be set to a 315 00:20:55,680 --> 00:21:00,920 Speaker 1: military tribunal where you can be deported, arrested, or in 316 00:21:00,960 --> 00:21:06,760 Speaker 1: some extreme cases, executed. So like if you were sabotaging 317 00:21:06,760 --> 00:21:10,639 Speaker 1: the country, let's say with sentinel, maybe some of that 318 00:21:10,680 --> 00:21:14,879 Speaker 1: would be a deterrent to stop some of this illegal 319 00:21:14,880 --> 00:21:19,760 Speaker 1: immigration and illegal drug trafficking. How comes something like that 320 00:21:19,680 --> 00:21:23,080 Speaker 1: that is not being enacted right now with such an 321 00:21:23,080 --> 00:21:26,560 Speaker 1: emergency going on. I believe it was the Brady Gun Law, 322 00:21:26,600 --> 00:21:28,959 Speaker 1: but I may be mistaken on that, but it was 323 00:21:29,040 --> 00:21:31,720 Speaker 1: the case in Arizona. And here's where a little nuance 324 00:21:31,800 --> 00:21:34,719 Speaker 1: is warranted, and be careful. It's not as easy to 325 00:21:34,760 --> 00:21:38,160 Speaker 1: stop local governments, quite frankly, nor should it be, from 326 00:21:38,160 --> 00:21:42,000 Speaker 1: adopting sanctuary cities and ruining their metro areas. The Twin 327 00:21:42,040 --> 00:21:45,840 Speaker 1: Cities is unrecognizable from a couple of generations ago. For instance, 328 00:21:46,119 --> 00:21:48,720 Speaker 1: that's primarily due to the asylum programs, which is quote 329 00:21:48,800 --> 00:21:52,320 Speaker 1: unquote legal immigration, but illegal immigration as well. But it's 330 00:21:52,640 --> 00:21:55,960 Speaker 1: much more difficult, and the reason is years ago when 331 00:21:58,200 --> 00:22:01,200 Speaker 1: I think it was the Obama administration wanted to make 332 00:22:01,800 --> 00:22:05,080 Speaker 1: states enforce federal gun control laws. I think it was 333 00:22:05,080 --> 00:22:08,000 Speaker 1: the Brady Law. Went all the way to the court 334 00:22:08,240 --> 00:22:12,760 Speaker 1: High Court, and they ruled in the right way, Joe, 335 00:22:12,920 --> 00:22:16,680 Speaker 1: and they said, the federal government, under our divided sovereignty. 336 00:22:16,720 --> 00:22:19,159 Speaker 1: That's why we're a republic. We have federalism and states 337 00:22:19,160 --> 00:22:24,640 Speaker 1: have sovereignty, cannot commandeer the state's police force to do 338 00:22:24,680 --> 00:22:29,479 Speaker 1: the federal government's bidding. Otherwise you essentially would have no 339 00:22:29,520 --> 00:22:32,399 Speaker 1: state police power. You would have a national police force. 340 00:22:32,640 --> 00:22:35,879 Speaker 1: And that's something that the founding fathers, when they were 341 00:22:35,960 --> 00:22:39,959 Speaker 1: quartering soldiers and under military rule, did not want from 342 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:42,560 Speaker 1: the crown. They left that to the colonies. And that's 343 00:22:42,680 --> 00:22:46,600 Speaker 1: the republic we inherited. And that's true. The constitution protects 344 00:22:46,680 --> 00:22:49,920 Speaker 1: us from the central government. State governments protect us from 345 00:22:49,920 --> 00:22:52,040 Speaker 1: one another when it comes to crime or family law 346 00:22:52,040 --> 00:22:54,760 Speaker 1: and marriage and those sorts of things. So the court 347 00:22:54,840 --> 00:22:58,560 Speaker 1: properly ruled that the federal government cannot commandeer the power 348 00:22:58,600 --> 00:23:02,159 Speaker 1: of the state. Say, oh gosh, then we're helpless with 349 00:23:02,240 --> 00:23:07,040 Speaker 1: the sanctuary cities. No, just because the federal government cannot 350 00:23:07,080 --> 00:23:12,200 Speaker 1: tell the local municipalities to stop sanctuary cities, that doesn't 351 00:23:12,240 --> 00:23:16,600 Speaker 1: mean they have to fund them. And that's the nuance. 352 00:23:17,840 --> 00:23:20,719 Speaker 1: You can't just have a magic wand under our federal 353 00:23:20,760 --> 00:23:23,119 Speaker 1: system and say you can't be a sanctuary city or 354 00:23:23,160 --> 00:23:26,320 Speaker 1: in California's case, a sanctuary state or whatever. But what 355 00:23:26,400 --> 00:23:28,520 Speaker 1: you can do is say, if you're going to do this, 356 00:23:28,560 --> 00:23:32,159 Speaker 1: we're not going to send you money. And that is 357 00:23:32,200 --> 00:23:35,000 Speaker 1: something that should be looked at. They want to defund 358 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:38,479 Speaker 1: the police, will defund sanctuary cities. They shouldn't get federal grants, 359 00:23:38,960 --> 00:23:41,720 Speaker 1: they shouldn't get Clinton cops and all the rest, And 360 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:47,360 Speaker 1: that would be the proposal. Frankly, I would suggest, does 361 00:23:47,400 --> 00:23:52,600 Speaker 1: that make sense? Yeah, Now with the invasion, we have 362 00:23:52,680 --> 00:23:56,239 Speaker 1: foreign invaders coming across our borders. Why can't we get 363 00:23:56,240 --> 00:24:01,439 Speaker 1: our National Guard or our military to help with such 364 00:24:01,960 --> 00:24:06,320 Speaker 1: a massive influx of people with something like that, we 365 00:24:06,480 --> 00:24:11,160 Speaker 1: could use the military to the courts and things like that. 366 00:24:11,560 --> 00:24:13,760 Speaker 1: You're very on topic, my friend. Um, this is what 367 00:24:13,800 --> 00:24:16,280 Speaker 1: the title forty two case was about. So the federal 368 00:24:16,320 --> 00:24:20,120 Speaker 1: government says we're going to invoke a public health provision 369 00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:22,840 Speaker 1: under the CDC that says, if you've got a contagion 370 00:24:23,359 --> 00:24:26,920 Speaker 1: communicable disease, we're going to make people apply for asylum 371 00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:29,480 Speaker 1: in their country. On the other side of the border. 372 00:24:29,480 --> 00:24:31,000 Speaker 1: They're not going to do a catch and release as 373 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:36,399 Speaker 1: it were, so naturally Obama that wants to completely open 374 00:24:36,680 --> 00:24:40,040 Speaker 1: or not Obama, but Obama Biden wanted a completely open border. 375 00:24:40,160 --> 00:24:42,800 Speaker 1: Biden is continuing with that, and so they want to 376 00:24:42,880 --> 00:24:46,000 Speaker 1: undo Title forty two. Well, a number of states, to 377 00:24:46,080 --> 00:24:48,679 Speaker 1: your point, said no, no, no no, no, this crisis is 378 00:24:48,720 --> 00:24:51,399 Speaker 1: hitting us. We don't want to undone. And this is 379 00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:54,600 Speaker 1: what brought this to the court that will rule on this. 380 00:24:54,720 --> 00:24:57,560 Speaker 1: In February. They just issued a stay. They really didn't 381 00:24:57,600 --> 00:25:00,879 Speaker 1: rule on the provision itself. But what's eventually going to 382 00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:05,400 Speaker 1: happen in the arguments there is do states are states 383 00:25:05,520 --> 00:25:10,080 Speaker 1: sovereign entities if they are on the border, That is 384 00:25:10,119 --> 00:25:13,640 Speaker 1: to say, and I believe they are states have sovereignty. 385 00:25:13,800 --> 00:25:16,200 Speaker 1: We have a country of what it's called dual sovereignty. 386 00:25:16,640 --> 00:25:20,400 Speaker 1: The federal government only has the powers in the constitution. 387 00:25:20,480 --> 00:25:23,879 Speaker 1: It's called enumerated powers doctrine. If it is not in 388 00:25:23,920 --> 00:25:29,000 Speaker 1: the constitution, my friends, the federal government may not do it. 389 00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:32,359 Speaker 1: It is reserved to the states and the people. That 390 00:25:32,520 --> 00:25:34,600 Speaker 1: is part and parcel of the Tenth Amendment. But you 391 00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:36,679 Speaker 1: didn't need you didn't need the Bill of Rights to 392 00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:39,600 Speaker 1: know that because the Constitution does not grant the federal 393 00:25:39,680 --> 00:25:44,720 Speaker 1: government unlimited authority. It grants the federal government specific authority 394 00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:46,720 Speaker 1: to do things, and if it's not there, they can't 395 00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:49,080 Speaker 1: do it. So that means the states have sovereignty, and 396 00:25:49,160 --> 00:25:51,600 Speaker 1: that means they have sovereignty over their border. And that 397 00:25:51,640 --> 00:25:53,800 Speaker 1: means if the state wants to send in the National Guard, 398 00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:55,920 Speaker 1: if they want to pass their own Title forty two, 399 00:25:55,960 --> 00:25:58,000 Speaker 1: by God, they should be able to. I hope that 400 00:25:58,040 --> 00:26:01,840 Speaker 1: gets adjudicated in the particular case, because I think it's 401 00:26:02,119 --> 00:26:04,560 Speaker 1: crucially important. You got to move on, Joe, thanks for 402 00:26:04,640 --> 00:26:08,000 Speaker 1: waiting you, Seth. He's on the road from Texas to Arizona. 403 00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:12,440 Speaker 1: He joins us next. Hey, Bud, Hey, Hi, I just 404 00:26:12,480 --> 00:26:15,560 Speaker 1: wanted to say about how you're saying people leaving the 405 00:26:15,640 --> 00:26:17,840 Speaker 1: Blue states and moving to Red states. So I travel 406 00:26:17,880 --> 00:26:20,280 Speaker 1: for work all over the country, and I've been in 407 00:26:20,320 --> 00:26:22,920 Speaker 1: Texas for nine months now, and I've met numerous people 408 00:26:22,920 --> 00:26:26,760 Speaker 1: coming from California and Chicago specifically. Well, they left their 409 00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:30,639 Speaker 1: cities and states because of crime and that pay and 410 00:26:30,680 --> 00:26:32,400 Speaker 1: things of that nature, not being able to get job 411 00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:36,000 Speaker 1: since on so forth, and they've moved here to Texas. 412 00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:39,600 Speaker 1: While I've been here and I'm hearing from them, them 413 00:26:39,640 --> 00:26:44,159 Speaker 1: complaining about the very things that make Texas great, you know, 414 00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:46,920 Speaker 1: a good place to stay, and they're complaining about these 415 00:26:46,960 --> 00:26:48,639 Speaker 1: things and acting as if they want to change them 416 00:26:48,680 --> 00:26:52,320 Speaker 1: without even seeing that. That's why the places they were 417 00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:54,919 Speaker 1: at became the problems that they are is because it's 418 00:26:54,960 --> 00:26:59,120 Speaker 1: amazing these rules. That's exactly right, that's exactly by the way. 419 00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:04,919 Speaker 1: You know what we call that replacement They replacement theory. 420 00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:08,640 Speaker 1: This is an odd times it's it's a racial trope. 421 00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:12,639 Speaker 1: It's xenophobic. You can't say replacement theory. That's exactly what 422 00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:18,200 Speaker 1: you're describing. Instead of inter you know, between countries, it's intrustate, 423 00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:21,280 Speaker 1: if you will, or interstate within the United States. But 424 00:27:21,359 --> 00:27:26,000 Speaker 1: when people from liberal California, or liberal Illinois, or liberal 425 00:27:26,040 --> 00:27:29,280 Speaker 1: Minnesota or liberal New York go to Texas and then 426 00:27:29,320 --> 00:27:32,240 Speaker 1: want to change it, they are replacing the voters there. 427 00:27:32,680 --> 00:27:37,600 Speaker 1: The same thing can happen internationally too. But you're right, 428 00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:41,879 Speaker 1: this is why Democrats today are the greatest collection of 429 00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:45,000 Speaker 1: misfits since the Star Wars bar scene. I'm Jason Lewis 430 00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:47,359 Speaker 1: in for playing buck back with more calls. When we 431 00:27:47,359 --> 00:27:51,919 Speaker 1: come back Okay, one more segment to go for your pariety, 432 00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:55,199 Speaker 1: nicey segment. I love three syllables. One more segment to 433 00:27:55,240 --> 00:27:58,440 Speaker 1: go for your Friday Clay, Travis and Buck Sexton Show. 434 00:27:58,960 --> 00:28:01,280 Speaker 1: Thanks to the guys for allowing me to fill in 435 00:28:01,320 --> 00:28:03,159 Speaker 1: the last couple of days. Always a pleasure and what 436 00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:06,000 Speaker 1: a great crew we've got in the control room, as 437 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:08,000 Speaker 1: they like to say. If you like what you hear, 438 00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:12,000 Speaker 1: check out my book Party Animal, The Truth about President Trump, Power, Politics, 439 00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:15,280 Speaker 1: and the Partisan Press, by me the Honorable Jason Lewis. 440 00:28:15,280 --> 00:28:18,400 Speaker 1: It's available of Barnes and Noble wherever e books are sold, 441 00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:20,880 Speaker 1: and you can also find me at Substack Jason Lewis 442 00:28:20,920 --> 00:28:25,680 Speaker 1: dot substack dot com. Fisher, Indiana, Joe, you are on 443 00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:30,840 Speaker 1: the Buck keep saying, I keep saying Buck and Clay. 444 00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:32,399 Speaker 1: I hope Clay isn't gonna get mad at me. I 445 00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:34,080 Speaker 1: don't know how they came up with the arrangement. I'm 446 00:28:34,119 --> 00:28:36,760 Speaker 1: trying to be equitable here, Clay and Buck, Buck and Clay, 447 00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:40,840 Speaker 1: you decide, it's always Clay first. That's what I've learned. 448 00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:46,800 Speaker 1: There you go, Okay, Hey, all those times you filled 449 00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:50,120 Speaker 1: in for Rush may rest in peace. I really enjoy 450 00:28:50,240 --> 00:28:54,000 Speaker 1: when you're on Let's talk about the elephant in the 451 00:28:54,080 --> 00:29:00,840 Speaker 1: room for US conservatives, Mitch McConnell. I think Jeez tied 452 00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:06,200 Speaker 1: to Schumer Pelosi, that whole Washington cabal you've been talking 453 00:29:06,200 --> 00:29:10,760 Speaker 1: about all day. Don't can we ever address that? I 454 00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:16,160 Speaker 1: think he undermineded, you know, the next Congress and we're 455 00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:20,840 Speaker 1: stuck with this behemoth one point seven trillion dollars mess. 456 00:29:20,840 --> 00:29:23,480 Speaker 1: He did it on purpose, and then some of them 457 00:29:23,520 --> 00:29:27,320 Speaker 1: went along with it, like Tom Cotton. When are we 458 00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:32,360 Speaker 1: going to rise up and figure out that McConnell is 459 00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:36,000 Speaker 1: the same as the Democrats. And I don't want to 460 00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:38,720 Speaker 1: go conspiracy theory on it, but his wife is a 461 00:29:38,840 --> 00:29:42,680 Speaker 1: lame channel and he seems to be cozying up to 462 00:29:42,760 --> 00:29:46,520 Speaker 1: the Chinese, just like Biden cozy's up to him. It 463 00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:50,120 Speaker 1: is frustrating that we're debating over the speakership of McCarthy. 464 00:29:50,280 --> 00:29:52,959 Speaker 1: Who will even if you don't believe he's a movement conservative, 465 00:29:53,080 --> 00:29:55,719 Speaker 1: Kevin will follow the wins And that's all we're asking 466 00:29:55,760 --> 00:30:00,200 Speaker 1: of conservative politicians to do. Go after Biden, do what 467 00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:01,960 Speaker 1: democrats do when they have power, and I think he 468 00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:06,040 Speaker 1: will when the real problem is in the Senate and 469 00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:09,480 Speaker 1: you're quite right, McConnell leads the cabal, if you will, 470 00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:11,560 Speaker 1: and he certainly threw me under the bus in my 471 00:30:11,640 --> 00:30:13,640 Speaker 1: Senate race. We asked for help, he didn't give it, 472 00:30:13,680 --> 00:30:15,680 Speaker 1: and we were right in there. So I kind of 473 00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:19,080 Speaker 1: like Blake Masters, But that's being petty. The larger picture 474 00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:21,800 Speaker 1: is not just the Omnimus Bill, but it is the 475 00:30:21,840 --> 00:30:25,080 Speaker 1: Inflation Reduction Act, It is the infrastructure bill, It is 476 00:30:25,080 --> 00:30:28,640 Speaker 1: a semiconductor chip bill, it is the COVID relief. It 477 00:30:28,760 --> 00:30:31,320 Speaker 1: is all of that that he's gone along with. And 478 00:30:32,080 --> 00:30:35,960 Speaker 1: you know, now we've got a situation where literally there 479 00:30:36,040 --> 00:30:40,480 Speaker 1: was no excuse for crafting a year long budget blowout 480 00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:42,920 Speaker 1: when Republicans were taking control in the House, and they 481 00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:45,880 Speaker 1: could have crafted a bill in January or February with 482 00:30:46,040 --> 00:30:48,600 Speaker 1: less spending. So you do get to the point where 483 00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:51,280 Speaker 1: are you ask whose side are these guys on? And 484 00:30:51,320 --> 00:30:54,840 Speaker 1: then there's the Respect for Marriage bill that you had 485 00:30:54,880 --> 00:31:00,440 Speaker 1: twelve Republican Senators led by Tom tillis basically ask an 486 00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:07,280 Speaker 1: unconstitutional codification of Neil Gorsuch's High Court ruling. That is 487 00:31:07,280 --> 00:31:09,920 Speaker 1: to say, no, get this now, this is so weird 488 00:31:10,040 --> 00:31:14,720 Speaker 1: to me. The Supreme Court in Dabbs says the Constitution 489 00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:18,280 Speaker 1: is silent on things like abortion, and I think they're 490 00:31:18,280 --> 00:31:23,120 Speaker 1: going to say marriage eventually. But the Constitution is silent. 491 00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:25,760 Speaker 1: The federal government has no role. It's left to the 492 00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:28,520 Speaker 1: state's police power. And then what does what do these 493 00:31:28,560 --> 00:31:31,840 Speaker 1: twelve Republican the dirty dozen Senators do with Democrats? They 494 00:31:31,880 --> 00:31:37,480 Speaker 1: pass the law governing marriage when it belongs to the states. If, 495 00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:40,840 Speaker 1: as they fear, they ever overturn Hodges this is the 496 00:31:41,760 --> 00:31:45,160 Speaker 1: mandate of gay marriage, like they did Row, then they 497 00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:48,480 Speaker 1: will overturn the Respect for Marriage Act because the federal 498 00:31:48,560 --> 00:31:51,640 Speaker 1: government does not have the power to make family law 499 00:31:51,720 --> 00:31:54,960 Speaker 1: and marriage and basically the criminal code except for a 500 00:31:54,960 --> 00:31:58,640 Speaker 1: few instances throughout throughout the several states. So they're attacking 501 00:31:58,680 --> 00:32:03,240 Speaker 1: the constitution and quite frankly, you're right McConnell's going along 502 00:32:03,280 --> 00:32:05,920 Speaker 1: with it. There. That is the problem. These people need 503 00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:08,560 Speaker 1: to be primaried. We need new leadership in the Senate, 504 00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:10,560 Speaker 1: and that's where the focus ought to be. I couldn't 505 00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:14,640 Speaker 1: agree more. I think he enjoys being in that number 506 00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:17,760 Speaker 1: two role because he's been able to enrich himself for 507 00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:20,760 Speaker 1: the last thirty years. Well, there have been critics who 508 00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:24,720 Speaker 1: say he'd rather be minority leader as leader than in 509 00:32:24,760 --> 00:32:29,040 Speaker 1: the majority, but not majority leader. Yes, because there's something 510 00:32:29,080 --> 00:32:34,200 Speaker 1: going on there, and you're quite right and Paul Ryan, 511 00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:37,720 Speaker 1: so that's why I'm a little lary about what McCarthy 512 00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:40,400 Speaker 1: can do. Well. I think you got to give him 513 00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:42,720 Speaker 1: a shot. I had good luck in the House with 514 00:32:42,800 --> 00:32:45,280 Speaker 1: some of these guys, but the Senate was a problem 515 00:32:45,280 --> 00:32:47,760 Speaker 1: while I was in Washington. Hey, my thanks to the 516 00:32:47,840 --> 00:32:50,000 Speaker 1: gang back in the control room for doing such a 517 00:32:50,080 --> 00:32:53,240 Speaker 1: great job. Great team here on the Clay and Buck Show. 518 00:32:53,360 --> 00:32:55,479 Speaker 1: My thanks to all of you. 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