1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:03,120 Speaker 1: Welcome back in our number three Wednesday edition Clay Travis 2 00:00:03,160 --> 00:00:06,120 Speaker 1: buck Sexton Show. Encourage all of you to go subscribe 3 00:00:06,200 --> 00:00:08,559 Speaker 1: to the podcast. You can search out my name Clay Travis. 4 00:00:08,560 --> 00:00:11,400 Speaker 1: You can search out Buck Sexton. You will be able 5 00:00:11,440 --> 00:00:17,000 Speaker 1: to see and hear every single aspect of our program there, 6 00:00:17,160 --> 00:00:22,040 Speaker 1: including some podcasts specials that will not be airing on 7 00:00:22,079 --> 00:00:24,320 Speaker 1: the radio. We think you guys will enjoy it. Encourage 8 00:00:24,320 --> 00:00:27,080 Speaker 1: you to go subscribe. It's free. Search out my name 9 00:00:27,160 --> 00:00:30,040 Speaker 1: Clay Travis. Search out Buck Sexton on iTunes, on Stitcher, 10 00:00:30,080 --> 00:00:34,080 Speaker 1: on Spotify, wherever you're podcasting needs maybe boom go ahead 11 00:00:34,120 --> 00:00:36,319 Speaker 1: and sign up and give us five stars while you're there. 12 00:00:36,400 --> 00:00:39,519 Speaker 1: Breaking news. We anticipated told you it was coming, but 13 00:00:39,680 --> 00:00:43,520 Speaker 1: the Federal Reserve has officially raised its key rate by 14 00:00:43,680 --> 00:00:47,839 Speaker 1: three quarters of a point for a third straight time 15 00:00:47,920 --> 00:00:53,160 Speaker 1: to fight inflation. This was not a particular surprise, although 16 00:00:53,800 --> 00:00:57,720 Speaker 1: Buck maybe suggesting that Wall Street is getting nervous about 17 00:00:57,760 --> 00:01:02,040 Speaker 1: the Fed not being aggressive enough. Stocks are now down 18 00:01:02,240 --> 00:01:05,800 Speaker 1: a couple of hundred points in the wake of this decision. 19 00:01:06,160 --> 00:01:08,440 Speaker 1: I did not hear very many people arguing that they 20 00:01:08,480 --> 00:01:12,959 Speaker 1: needed less than a three quarter rate increase. A lot 21 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:15,360 Speaker 1: of people out there were saying maybe a full point 22 00:01:15,720 --> 00:01:20,039 Speaker 1: was justified, and I wonder on some level whether that 23 00:01:20,160 --> 00:01:24,360 Speaker 1: is the on Wall Street regardless, stocks now down. Biden 24 00:01:24,400 --> 00:01:27,520 Speaker 1: has been in office for almost two years, and I'll 25 00:01:27,520 --> 00:01:29,320 Speaker 1: get the staff to look this up again because I 26 00:01:29,360 --> 00:01:32,560 Speaker 1: can't remember the exact number. But effectively, if you had 27 00:01:32,600 --> 00:01:36,000 Speaker 1: bought stock on the day that Joe Biden entered into 28 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:39,080 Speaker 1: the White House January twentieth, I believe a twenty twenty one, 29 00:01:39,920 --> 00:01:43,120 Speaker 1: I believe at best you are essentially break even, and 30 00:01:43,200 --> 00:01:46,039 Speaker 1: I think you're down a little bit now, which is 31 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:49,720 Speaker 1: not that common to have a two year process where 32 00:01:49,760 --> 00:01:53,560 Speaker 1: the stock market has essentially not moved and or gone down. 33 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:56,640 Speaker 1: One of many things that Joe Biden has gotten wrong. 34 00:01:56,960 --> 00:01:58,960 Speaker 1: A lot of discussion out there, although I think it 35 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:01,840 Speaker 1: will fade quickly. The New York Attorney General, who is 36 00:02:01,920 --> 00:02:05,560 Speaker 1: running for reelection in forty eight days, Letitia James, has 37 00:02:05,720 --> 00:02:12,120 Speaker 1: made the decision to file a lawsuit criminal in nature, sorry, 38 00:02:12,160 --> 00:02:16,200 Speaker 1: civil in nature, not criminal, alleging that Trump had committed 39 00:02:16,240 --> 00:02:19,600 Speaker 1: fraud on some of his applications for loans in the 40 00:02:19,639 --> 00:02:23,840 Speaker 1: state of New York. This feels transparently political, and again 41 00:02:23,880 --> 00:02:26,920 Speaker 1: it is civil, not criminal in nature. Meaning it is 42 00:02:26,960 --> 00:02:32,239 Speaker 1: effectively a money based argument. She's seeking two hundred and 43 00:02:32,240 --> 00:02:36,080 Speaker 1: fifty million dollars in penalties. Good luck, but associated with that, 44 00:02:36,160 --> 00:02:40,160 Speaker 1: the former attorney general under Trump and under George H. W. Bush, 45 00:02:40,160 --> 00:02:42,119 Speaker 1: Bill Barr, he's on Fox right now. I just saw 46 00:02:42,120 --> 00:02:45,600 Speaker 1: the quote a second ago though, that this Letitia James, 47 00:02:45,680 --> 00:02:48,920 Speaker 1: the Attorney General of New York civil suit is the 48 00:02:48,960 --> 00:02:53,440 Speaker 1: result of Trump derangement syndrome. Bars. I know, people other 49 00:02:53,520 --> 00:02:55,760 Speaker 1: criticisms of them sometimes in this audience. He did some 50 00:02:55,880 --> 00:02:58,680 Speaker 1: very good things under Trump. He you know, him and 51 00:02:58,720 --> 00:03:00,760 Speaker 1: Trump had a parting of ways towards the end of 52 00:03:00,760 --> 00:03:04,280 Speaker 1: the administration. He's a very smart lawyer. And if he 53 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:09,680 Speaker 1: says that this is crazytown, it's crazytown. Well and Buck, 54 00:03:09,720 --> 00:03:12,200 Speaker 1: we said this in the first hour. As soon as 55 00:03:12,240 --> 00:03:15,040 Speaker 1: this news came down, and you see that it is 56 00:03:15,160 --> 00:03:18,840 Speaker 1: civil and not criminal, I just immediately kind of toss 57 00:03:18,880 --> 00:03:22,359 Speaker 1: it on the scrap heap of This is not a 58 00:03:22,400 --> 00:03:25,920 Speaker 1: story that is very significant. Now. She says that she 59 00:03:26,080 --> 00:03:29,040 Speaker 1: referred what she believes are criminal acts to the federal 60 00:03:29,080 --> 00:03:32,520 Speaker 1: government to the irs. But my point on this is, 61 00:03:32,840 --> 00:03:35,640 Speaker 1: if she had the goods, she would have brought the 62 00:03:35,680 --> 00:03:40,240 Speaker 1: case herself under state statutory law of a criminal nature. 63 00:03:40,760 --> 00:03:43,680 Speaker 1: She wants Trump badly. The fact that all she could 64 00:03:43,680 --> 00:03:48,960 Speaker 1: put together were civil charges, civil lawsuit related allegations as 65 00:03:48,960 --> 00:03:54,160 Speaker 1: opposed to criminal is I think a very big deal here. 66 00:03:54,200 --> 00:03:57,360 Speaker 1: And remember the Southern District of New York. I believe 67 00:03:57,400 --> 00:04:01,080 Speaker 1: I'm correct in that buck whatever district had the official 68 00:04:01,160 --> 00:04:05,960 Speaker 1: Trump investigation that was going. Alvin Bragg is the newest 69 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:07,360 Speaker 1: am I correct in this. I think I've got all 70 00:04:07,400 --> 00:04:09,400 Speaker 1: this right. You're the New Yorker. I'll defer to you 71 00:04:09,440 --> 00:04:12,040 Speaker 1: if I get it wrong. But reports have been that 72 00:04:12,160 --> 00:04:15,600 Speaker 1: he has essentially said there doesn't seem to be much 73 00:04:15,640 --> 00:04:17,280 Speaker 1: of a criminal nature that he's going to be able 74 00:04:17,360 --> 00:04:19,680 Speaker 1: to bring in the Southern District of New York against 75 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:23,480 Speaker 1: Trump either. And so so Alvin Bragg is a district 76 00:04:23,560 --> 00:04:26,800 Speaker 1: attorney for New York City, So okay, Southern District of 77 00:04:26,839 --> 00:04:28,479 Speaker 1: New York would be all that that. I don't know, 78 00:04:28,520 --> 00:04:32,960 Speaker 1: I don't even know who the US attorney came out basically, Yeah, 79 00:04:32,960 --> 00:04:34,640 Speaker 1: So I apologize for getting that wrong. There was a 80 00:04:34,680 --> 00:04:36,640 Speaker 1: report that came out of it may have been five 81 00:04:36,720 --> 00:04:40,560 Speaker 1: or six months ago that essentially said the federal courts 82 00:04:40,680 --> 00:04:44,000 Speaker 1: in New York that had been investigating Trump. They basically 83 00:04:44,120 --> 00:04:47,640 Speaker 1: let it go. Let let that, let that grand jury expires. 84 00:04:47,960 --> 00:04:51,360 Speaker 1: Just to be clear, Damian Williams, who I've honestly never 85 00:04:51,360 --> 00:04:55,359 Speaker 1: even heard of before, I believe, is the uh the 86 00:04:55,480 --> 00:04:59,839 Speaker 1: US Attorney for the Southern District right now nominated, oh well, 87 00:05:00,240 --> 00:05:02,640 Speaker 1: nominated by Biden in August of twenty twenty one. So 88 00:05:02,640 --> 00:05:05,320 Speaker 1: it's only been a year. And Williams this is but 89 00:05:05,360 --> 00:05:08,080 Speaker 1: this is interesting. So Damian Williams only been in office 90 00:05:08,080 --> 00:05:10,320 Speaker 1: as the as the US Attorney for the and the 91 00:05:10,400 --> 00:05:13,240 Speaker 1: Southern District is, by the way, it's where our friend 92 00:05:13,240 --> 00:05:16,920 Speaker 1: Andy McCarthy spent over twenty years as an a USA. 93 00:05:17,160 --> 00:05:20,040 Speaker 1: They handle a lot of I mean, the two courts 94 00:05:20,040 --> 00:05:23,040 Speaker 1: you're gonna get sort of the biggest stuff going on 95 00:05:23,279 --> 00:05:26,520 Speaker 1: is usually the Southern District and the DC Circuit. Right. 96 00:05:26,600 --> 00:05:29,200 Speaker 1: DC Circuit courts handle a lot of the federal government stuff. 97 00:05:29,279 --> 00:05:31,880 Speaker 1: The Southern District gets all the big Wall Street cases. 98 00:05:32,240 --> 00:05:35,800 Speaker 1: Obviously because of where Trump is and the Trump organization is, 99 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:38,240 Speaker 1: it would fall under the Southern District of New York. 100 00:05:38,480 --> 00:05:40,560 Speaker 1: In that respect, I dealt with the World Trade Center 101 00:05:40,600 --> 00:05:43,200 Speaker 1: case bombings and things like that, a lot of terrorism cases. 102 00:05:43,240 --> 00:05:47,400 Speaker 1: Southern District Clay Damian Williams is not a name that 103 00:05:47,480 --> 00:05:51,600 Speaker 1: people know, and that might change depending on how this 104 00:05:51,680 --> 00:05:54,800 Speaker 1: all goes forward. You know, we all know that prosecutors 105 00:05:54,800 --> 00:05:58,560 Speaker 1: at this level often take very big cases to make 106 00:05:58,600 --> 00:06:03,440 Speaker 1: their careers, and even if they higher aspirations. But yeah, 107 00:06:03,480 --> 00:06:09,039 Speaker 1: I know, the Bragg, who is the attorney district Attorney 108 00:06:09,080 --> 00:06:11,680 Speaker 1: for New York City as basically said, look that the 109 00:06:11,720 --> 00:06:15,800 Speaker 1: Trump tax evasion thing for New York state taxes all 110 00:06:15,880 --> 00:06:18,599 Speaker 1: the other thing dealing with state tax authorities is annoying. 111 00:06:18,839 --> 00:06:21,680 Speaker 1: Dealing with the federal tax authorities can send you to prison, right, 112 00:06:21,680 --> 00:06:24,400 Speaker 1: I mean, it's usually a different level as well. So 113 00:06:24,720 --> 00:06:26,360 Speaker 1: my point on it is and I kind of got 114 00:06:26,360 --> 00:06:29,159 Speaker 1: all that mixed up. But there has not been any 115 00:06:29,200 --> 00:06:34,360 Speaker 1: suggestion that criminal charges are coming out of the State 116 00:06:34,360 --> 00:06:38,960 Speaker 1: of New York, either federal, state, or city related charges 117 00:06:39,279 --> 00:06:42,760 Speaker 1: of a variety of degrees. So Alvin Bragg basically has 118 00:06:42,800 --> 00:06:44,919 Speaker 1: kind of waved the white flag. We don't know necessarily 119 00:06:44,920 --> 00:06:46,960 Speaker 1: what the Southern District of New York would do. That 120 00:06:47,040 --> 00:06:50,479 Speaker 1: would certainly be under the purview to a large extent 121 00:06:50,680 --> 00:06:53,960 Speaker 1: of Merrick Garland, the Attorney General, And it's hard to 122 00:06:53,960 --> 00:06:56,480 Speaker 1: believe that if he's making a case elsewhere, he would 123 00:06:56,520 --> 00:06:59,480 Speaker 1: want the charges brought there. But the big picture here 124 00:06:59,600 --> 00:07:04,040 Speaker 1: is I think it's significant these are civil allegations. Letitia 125 00:07:04,120 --> 00:07:08,159 Speaker 1: James has spent years trying to get Donald Trump. She 126 00:07:08,360 --> 00:07:10,400 Speaker 1: promised that she was going to do it. She is 127 00:07:10,520 --> 00:07:13,240 Speaker 1: running for reelection in forty eight days. She's on the 128 00:07:13,320 --> 00:07:16,520 Speaker 1: ballot as the ag of New York and she has 129 00:07:16,560 --> 00:07:20,960 Speaker 1: only been able to make civil Now allegations stick against 130 00:07:20,960 --> 00:07:24,000 Speaker 1: Donald Trump. Still nothing criminal. I would also like all 131 00:07:24,040 --> 00:07:28,320 Speaker 1: these voices that we always hear from in the media, 132 00:07:28,720 --> 00:07:32,240 Speaker 1: and these former government officials talk about our sacred democracy 133 00:07:32,320 --> 00:07:35,600 Speaker 1: and our institutions and their institutions of government and how 134 00:07:35,640 --> 00:07:38,600 Speaker 1: important is to protect them. Always in the context of 135 00:07:39,040 --> 00:07:42,320 Speaker 1: Donald Trump and the Republicans are tearing all this down. 136 00:07:43,200 --> 00:07:47,520 Speaker 1: What could be more damaging to the public's faith in 137 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:52,680 Speaker 1: The most fearsome weapon the federal government has against its 138 00:07:52,680 --> 00:07:56,440 Speaker 1: own citizens, short of just turning the military on everybody, 139 00:07:56,880 --> 00:07:59,640 Speaker 1: is the prosecutor's office, and the one that's by far 140 00:07:59,760 --> 00:08:03,120 Speaker 1: the most likely to ruin your life. If a federal 141 00:08:03,160 --> 00:08:06,880 Speaker 1: prosecutor decides that he or she is coming after you, 142 00:08:06,880 --> 00:08:11,200 Speaker 1: you're probably going bankrupt. Your reputation is probably destroyed and 143 00:08:11,320 --> 00:08:14,239 Speaker 1: you may end up in federal prison for a long time. 144 00:08:14,760 --> 00:08:17,280 Speaker 1: There is very little you can think of. I believe 145 00:08:17,760 --> 00:08:20,560 Speaker 1: that would be more damaging to the public's faith in 146 00:08:20,600 --> 00:08:25,600 Speaker 1: the apparatus in the government. Then this maniacal get Trump, 147 00:08:25,880 --> 00:08:29,600 Speaker 1: bring the suit, bring the investigation, look for more charges, 148 00:08:29,880 --> 00:08:34,079 Speaker 1: leak more stuff from the prosecutor's offices. At some point, 149 00:08:34,120 --> 00:08:37,320 Speaker 1: everyone's got to realize this is just nuts. These people, 150 00:08:37,559 --> 00:08:40,960 Speaker 1: the little commissars, have gone too far, and we have 151 00:08:41,040 --> 00:08:44,160 Speaker 1: to think about what the motivations are. Our staff, Greg 152 00:08:44,160 --> 00:08:46,880 Speaker 1: did a good job for us whipping this thing up. 153 00:08:47,120 --> 00:08:51,280 Speaker 1: This is Letitia James talking about how she's gonna go 154 00:08:51,360 --> 00:08:54,520 Speaker 1: after Donald Trump. This is again the current New York 155 00:08:54,559 --> 00:08:58,520 Speaker 1: Attorney General talking about going after former president Donald Trump. 156 00:08:58,559 --> 00:09:09,480 Speaker 1: This is a a montage. Listen to this. We're going 157 00:09:09,520 --> 00:09:23,960 Speaker 1: to be read into the office every day. I mean, 158 00:09:24,160 --> 00:09:28,679 Speaker 1: so Buck, when you're a prosecutor and you bragged that 159 00:09:28,760 --> 00:09:32,560 Speaker 1: you're going to sue Trump and then you sue Trump. 160 00:09:33,240 --> 00:09:34,560 Speaker 1: I think there are a lot of people out there 161 00:09:34,600 --> 00:09:39,160 Speaker 1: who say, yeah, this doesn't really feel like justice being blind, 162 00:09:39,920 --> 00:09:42,959 Speaker 1: especially in an era in New York City and New 163 00:09:43,040 --> 00:09:46,680 Speaker 1: York State when crime is rampant, all of the resources. 164 00:09:46,679 --> 00:09:48,560 Speaker 1: I would love to know how much money they've spent 165 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:53,319 Speaker 1: investigating Donald Trump over this issue. To file a civil lawsuit, 166 00:09:53,400 --> 00:09:56,040 Speaker 1: not a criminal lawsuit. It feels like a swing in 167 00:09:56,080 --> 00:09:58,240 Speaker 1: a miss by someone who was desperate to try to 168 00:09:58,280 --> 00:10:00,720 Speaker 1: get Trump and send him away. And this is also 169 00:10:00,760 --> 00:10:03,960 Speaker 1: why I think it's really important, it has been important 170 00:10:03,960 --> 00:10:08,040 Speaker 1: and will continue to be going forward, that the benefit 171 00:10:08,080 --> 00:10:10,480 Speaker 1: of the doubt with any of this stuff, for any 172 00:10:10,520 --> 00:10:13,360 Speaker 1: fair minded person needs to go to Trump every time, 173 00:10:13,480 --> 00:10:16,440 Speaker 1: meaning anytime you hear all the walls are closing in 174 00:10:16,480 --> 00:10:20,480 Speaker 1: another investigation, Trump did this crime or that crime. No, no, no, 175 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:24,160 Speaker 1: this is a tactic. This is what they do. And 176 00:10:24,600 --> 00:10:27,560 Speaker 1: this is why when we see the nuclear secret story 177 00:10:27,559 --> 00:10:31,360 Speaker 1: in the Washington Post about the Marlago documents, it's no, no, sorry. 178 00:10:31,760 --> 00:10:35,400 Speaker 1: We do not trust the libs who push this stuff. 179 00:10:35,400 --> 00:10:39,640 Speaker 1: We do not trust the prosecutors and FBI and investigators. 180 00:10:39,880 --> 00:10:43,000 Speaker 1: They have broken our trust. They do not deserve our trust. 181 00:10:43,240 --> 00:10:45,880 Speaker 1: Anything involving Trump. You have to start from this premise 182 00:10:45,920 --> 00:10:49,960 Speaker 1: of this is dirty politics. Once again. Yeah, and I 183 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:52,520 Speaker 1: think this is also worth mentioning for people who might 184 00:10:52,520 --> 00:10:55,040 Speaker 1: not have heard the first hour You and I are 185 00:10:55,080 --> 00:10:59,400 Speaker 1: now However, in agreement that they are going to charge. 186 00:10:59,520 --> 00:11:02,400 Speaker 1: I think it's probable or they will charge. I never 187 00:11:02,440 --> 00:11:04,520 Speaker 1: thought they will never go to charge Trump. I just 188 00:11:04,679 --> 00:11:07,920 Speaker 1: have thought at different times. I think it's been you know, 189 00:11:07,960 --> 00:11:10,199 Speaker 1: it's like the odds in Vegas have been changing right 190 00:11:10,880 --> 00:11:14,560 Speaker 1: on the elections. I think that they've been seeing how 191 00:11:14,559 --> 00:11:16,400 Speaker 1: it all plays out. I mean, the one that I know, 192 00:11:16,679 --> 00:11:18,200 Speaker 1: the one that I look, I'm gonna have to come 193 00:11:18,240 --> 00:11:20,240 Speaker 1: out here and do a big bay of culpa. If 194 00:11:20,960 --> 00:11:24,840 Speaker 1: with federal criminal charges against Hunter Biden, that will be 195 00:11:24,880 --> 00:11:27,640 Speaker 1: a shock to me. If they bring an obstruction charge 196 00:11:27,640 --> 00:11:32,280 Speaker 1: against Donald Trump for classified documents, I mean I think 197 00:11:32,280 --> 00:11:35,520 Speaker 1: the chance of that probably is sixty forty right now. Yeah, 198 00:11:35,559 --> 00:11:38,240 Speaker 1: I think they're gonna do it, And the timing on it, 199 00:11:38,280 --> 00:11:41,000 Speaker 1: I don't think they'll do it before the election. But 200 00:11:41,040 --> 00:11:43,920 Speaker 1: I do think it's worth contemplating for everybody out there, 201 00:11:44,080 --> 00:11:45,800 Speaker 1: because there'll be a lot of attention for this for 202 00:11:45,840 --> 00:11:48,000 Speaker 1: a couple of days and then it's gonna get bogged 203 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:51,600 Speaker 1: down in civil litigation and go on for years. Trust 204 00:11:51,640 --> 00:11:55,200 Speaker 1: me on this, The big story will be Oh, she 205 00:11:55,360 --> 00:11:59,559 Speaker 1: referred so many documents and so much information of criminal nature, 206 00:11:59,600 --> 00:12:01,720 Speaker 1: and she claim that she had it all. If she 207 00:12:01,880 --> 00:12:04,640 Speaker 1: had it, and if she had the president dead to 208 00:12:04,760 --> 00:12:08,160 Speaker 1: rights on criminal charges even close to it, she would 209 00:12:08,160 --> 00:12:10,560 Speaker 1: have brought these charges her self. Buck. She wouldn't have 210 00:12:10,640 --> 00:12:12,520 Speaker 1: passed it off to the federal government. She would have 211 00:12:12,520 --> 00:12:16,240 Speaker 1: found the state statute to attach it to she wants. 212 00:12:16,280 --> 00:12:18,160 Speaker 1: And there's so many of these prosecutors, the one down 213 00:12:18,160 --> 00:12:21,720 Speaker 1: in Atlanta, Letitia James, so many of these investigations. They 214 00:12:21,800 --> 00:12:25,720 Speaker 1: want to become effectively made men in the Democrat Party 215 00:12:26,040 --> 00:12:29,400 Speaker 1: by being the person who took down Donald Trump because 216 00:12:29,440 --> 00:12:32,640 Speaker 1: for their own political legitimacy, that gives them the next 217 00:12:32,679 --> 00:12:35,760 Speaker 1: generation worth of things to run on. I just want 218 00:12:35,760 --> 00:12:37,960 Speaker 1: to know, how do we get the Libs to come 219 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:40,480 Speaker 1: down off the ledge here of their Trump's Arrangement syndrome. 220 00:12:40,480 --> 00:12:43,520 Speaker 1: I mean, what happens to them. Let's say, let's say 221 00:12:43,520 --> 00:12:45,440 Speaker 1: Trump doesn't run or you know, let's let's say that 222 00:12:45,440 --> 00:12:48,840 Speaker 1: they don't have this anymore. There's really this expectation that 223 00:12:48,880 --> 00:12:52,720 Speaker 1: has been created in the NPR, listening CNN, watching New 224 00:12:52,800 --> 00:12:56,559 Speaker 1: York Times reading audience that this is this pivotal moment 225 00:12:56,600 --> 00:12:59,079 Speaker 1: in the country. I mean, and they believe this. There 226 00:12:59,080 --> 00:13:02,319 Speaker 1: are people who think that they are completely on solid 227 00:13:02,400 --> 00:13:06,600 Speaker 1: ground saying that Donald Trump could destroy the entire country 228 00:13:06,640 --> 00:13:09,199 Speaker 1: if he's president again. I mean, we don't sit here. 229 00:13:09,400 --> 00:13:12,800 Speaker 1: I'm not saying Biden himself is going to end America. 230 00:13:12,960 --> 00:13:15,480 Speaker 1: He's just kind of a dumb guy who's doing bad 231 00:13:15,520 --> 00:13:17,920 Speaker 1: things that are making everything more expensive, less safe, and 232 00:13:17,960 --> 00:13:20,240 Speaker 1: more annoying. But I'm not saying that he's going to 233 00:13:20,400 --> 00:13:22,360 Speaker 1: end the Republic as we know it. He's not smart 234 00:13:22,440 --> 00:13:23,719 Speaker 1: enough to figure out how to do it. I think 235 00:13:24,160 --> 00:13:26,640 Speaker 1: they actually say that about Trump all the time. Yeah, 236 00:13:26,720 --> 00:13:29,000 Speaker 1: my concern is they're going to pivot that allegation no 237 00:13:29,040 --> 00:13:32,840 Speaker 1: matter how. It's gonna be Ronda Santis or they will 238 00:13:32,880 --> 00:13:36,640 Speaker 1: move to Rhonda Santis is actually Trump is worse than Hitler, 239 00:13:36,920 --> 00:13:40,560 Speaker 1: and Rhonda Santis is worse than Trump, who is worse 240 00:13:40,559 --> 00:13:44,120 Speaker 1: than Hitler. They will do it without batting an eyelash. 241 00:13:44,760 --> 00:13:46,200 Speaker 1: So I don't know that it's going to go away. 242 00:13:46,240 --> 00:13:48,640 Speaker 1: I think they bought in so aggressively to the idea 243 00:13:48,679 --> 00:13:51,720 Speaker 1: that their opponents are evil that the opponent doesn't even 244 00:13:51,720 --> 00:13:54,000 Speaker 1: matter that much. Trump is to a large degree a 245 00:13:54,080 --> 00:13:57,320 Speaker 1: symptom of their insanity, not the cause of it. That's 246 00:13:57,360 --> 00:14:00,840 Speaker 1: my thesis. Now, business owners don't have it easy these days, 247 00:14:00,880 --> 00:14:03,960 Speaker 1: particularly when it comes to managing staff, hiring good and 248 00:14:04,040 --> 00:14:08,840 Speaker 1: talented people, keeping up with changing regulations, HR compliance, processing payroll. Look, 249 00:14:09,280 --> 00:14:10,920 Speaker 1: you know what I'm talking about. If you were trying 250 00:14:10,920 --> 00:14:12,760 Speaker 1: to run a business now, right now, there's a limit 251 00:14:12,800 --> 00:14:15,320 Speaker 1: to what you can do to keep your employees engaged 252 00:14:15,440 --> 00:14:20,800 Speaker 1: and simultaneously be able to run your business. Thankfully, inspirities 253 00:14:20,840 --> 00:14:24,119 Speaker 1: out there. They put thirty plus years of HR experience 254 00:14:24,160 --> 00:14:26,400 Speaker 1: to work to help you develop a people strategy that 255 00:14:26,440 --> 00:14:30,640 Speaker 1: supports your business strategy focusing on the health of your organization. 256 00:14:30,760 --> 00:14:33,880 Speaker 1: What if your HR strategy included access to better benefits 257 00:14:33,880 --> 00:14:36,640 Speaker 1: to help you keep the employees you have and attract 258 00:14:36,720 --> 00:14:38,760 Speaker 1: new ones. What if it also offered training for your 259 00:14:38,760 --> 00:14:43,160 Speaker 1: employees to increase their skills so they became more productive. 260 00:14:43,160 --> 00:14:45,680 Speaker 1: There will always be challenges to face in business, no 261 00:14:45,720 --> 00:14:49,040 Speaker 1: matter where they come from. Insparities ready to help you 262 00:14:49,080 --> 00:14:52,760 Speaker 1: move past them by providing the HR solutions you need. 263 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:59,120 Speaker 1: With inspiity, nothing seems impossible. Inspirity HR that makes a difference. 264 00:15:00,120 --> 00:15:04,840 Speaker 1: The torch of truth past and still lit every day. 265 00:15:05,160 --> 00:15:16,120 Speaker 1: The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. Welcome back to 266 00:15:16,200 --> 00:15:20,360 Speaker 1: Clay and Buck A little bit of backup for Team Buck. 267 00:15:20,360 --> 00:15:25,200 Speaker 1: Over here, mister Clay coming courtesy of Alan from Albuquerque, 268 00:15:25,280 --> 00:15:31,360 Speaker 1: New Mexico. Alan, you have some thoughts on the royals, Yeah, 269 00:15:31,400 --> 00:15:34,960 Speaker 1: for sure. You guys love to talk about meritocracy. That's 270 00:15:34,960 --> 00:15:38,760 Speaker 1: what we're all about. Man. You know George Washington, they 271 00:15:38,760 --> 00:15:41,440 Speaker 1: wanted to make him king. He said, no way, So 272 00:15:41,600 --> 00:15:46,080 Speaker 1: we should not be engaging and enjoying any anything that's 273 00:15:46,120 --> 00:15:50,480 Speaker 1: just by virtue of being born, you're suddenly important. No way. Look, 274 00:15:50,560 --> 00:15:53,920 Speaker 1: I'm not saying I want an American royal family, all right. 275 00:15:53,960 --> 00:15:57,200 Speaker 1: I'm not saying that I support it. I'm just saying 276 00:15:57,240 --> 00:16:00,760 Speaker 1: that it's entertaining and that I can't look away, and 277 00:16:00,840 --> 00:16:03,960 Speaker 1: that I care about the drama in the same way 278 00:16:04,040 --> 00:16:07,040 Speaker 1: that I care about drama every Look. I want drama 279 00:16:07,080 --> 00:16:10,520 Speaker 1: to exist everywhere except in my own life and in 280 00:16:10,600 --> 00:16:13,680 Speaker 1: my own house. I want drama free existence for me. 281 00:16:14,080 --> 00:16:17,320 Speaker 1: I want everybody else to have drama everywhere we look. 282 00:16:17,520 --> 00:16:20,400 Speaker 1: I like it. I promised you guys. If Claire shows 283 00:16:20,480 --> 00:16:23,160 Speaker 1: up wearing a crown with like a big a cape 284 00:16:23,160 --> 00:16:25,720 Speaker 1: with like white trim and it's all red or purple 285 00:16:25,840 --> 00:16:28,240 Speaker 1: or whatever, I promise I will call him out. Alan, 286 00:16:28,280 --> 00:16:30,840 Speaker 1: thanks for calling in. He's with me on the Royals 287 00:16:30,880 --> 00:16:35,400 Speaker 1: at least, not everybody's brought in by this. And then 288 00:16:35,480 --> 00:16:39,640 Speaker 1: there's something else that I wanted to mention for everybody, 289 00:16:39,840 --> 00:16:44,720 Speaker 1: and that is that Fauci is still making the rounds here. 290 00:16:44,760 --> 00:16:47,600 Speaker 1: He is on the Biden pandemic comment, because we're gonna 291 00:16:47,640 --> 00:16:50,920 Speaker 1: talk about this more in a second, saying that we're 292 00:16:50,960 --> 00:16:54,080 Speaker 1: not where we need to be. The intensity of the 293 00:16:54,160 --> 00:16:59,920 Speaker 1: outbreak now, even though it is I believe, unacceptably hot, 294 00:17:00,200 --> 00:17:03,400 Speaker 1: where we're having full hundred deaths per day when you 295 00:17:03,520 --> 00:17:08,000 Speaker 1: compare it to the fullman in stages we've experienced over 296 00:17:08,040 --> 00:17:11,600 Speaker 1: the past year or so, where we used to have 297 00:17:12,320 --> 00:17:17,399 Speaker 1: eight hundred to nine hundred thousand cases per day and 298 00:17:17,680 --> 00:17:21,919 Speaker 1: over three thousand deaths per day. We are much better 299 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:24,920 Speaker 1: off now, but we are not where we need to 300 00:17:24,960 --> 00:17:28,760 Speaker 1: be if we're going to be able to quote live 301 00:17:28,880 --> 00:17:32,399 Speaker 1: with the virus. No, we actually are where we need 302 00:17:32,440 --> 00:17:36,040 Speaker 1: to be. Man, man whose entire reason for existence is 303 00:17:36,200 --> 00:17:40,080 Speaker 1: virus continues to find virus important. I mean, that's kind 304 00:17:40,080 --> 00:17:42,160 Speaker 1: of the story here, right. If Aucie ever came out 305 00:17:42,200 --> 00:17:45,399 Speaker 1: and said, you know, COVID's over, he would have no 306 00:17:45,480 --> 00:17:48,840 Speaker 1: reason to exist anymore. No, one would care what he 307 00:17:48,920 --> 00:17:52,119 Speaker 1: had to say on anything. So of course he and 308 00:17:52,200 --> 00:17:55,800 Speaker 1: all these other COVID experts and experts is in quotation 309 00:17:55,840 --> 00:17:58,800 Speaker 1: mark are going to be arguing that COVID hasn't gone anyway. 310 00:17:58,800 --> 00:18:01,440 Speaker 1: But we'll find out what the VT Fouci was saying. 311 00:18:01,800 --> 00:18:04,960 Speaker 1: From our next guest buck. 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That's get refunds dot Com. 330 00:19:02,119 --> 00:19:13,919 Speaker 1: No risk, high reward at get refunds dot Com. Welcome 331 00:19:13,920 --> 00:19:17,040 Speaker 1: back in Clay Travis buck Sexton Show. We are joined 332 00:19:17,040 --> 00:19:19,920 Speaker 1: now by Brian Morgan Stern. We were just talking about 333 00:19:19,920 --> 00:19:23,720 Speaker 1: the hippocrisy out there from our good friend doctor Fauci. 334 00:19:23,920 --> 00:19:25,720 Speaker 1: And Brian has got a great book out. He was 335 00:19:25,720 --> 00:19:29,760 Speaker 1: a former White House Deputy Press Secretary. He's the owner 336 00:19:29,800 --> 00:19:32,920 Speaker 1: of Win the Future Strategies and his book is out 337 00:19:33,040 --> 00:19:35,920 Speaker 1: Vignettes and Vino Dinner Table stories from the Trump White 338 00:19:35,960 --> 00:19:41,120 Speaker 1: House with the recipes and cocktail pairings behind the scenes. Brian, 339 00:19:41,280 --> 00:19:43,320 Speaker 1: I read this and I was like, it doesn't surprise 340 00:19:43,400 --> 00:19:47,359 Speaker 1: me at all. Doctor Fauci actually mocked the stupidity of 341 00:19:47,440 --> 00:19:50,240 Speaker 1: restaurant restrictions where you had to wear a mask until 342 00:19:50,240 --> 00:19:53,760 Speaker 1: you sat down at your table. Yes, play and Buck, 343 00:19:53,800 --> 00:19:55,800 Speaker 1: it's great to be with you, and yes, of course 344 00:19:55,800 --> 00:19:58,800 Speaker 1: he did. My blood was boiling because everyone was suffering 345 00:19:59,119 --> 00:20:02,639 Speaker 1: from pandemic restrictions, and of course people would walk into 346 00:20:02,680 --> 00:20:05,959 Speaker 1: a restaurant wearing a mask and then sit down at 347 00:20:05,960 --> 00:20:08,120 Speaker 1: the table and have a conversation and a whole meal 348 00:20:08,359 --> 00:20:11,960 Speaker 1: with no mask on. Anyone was common sense knows that 349 00:20:11,960 --> 00:20:15,040 Speaker 1: that was ridiculous, including Fauchi, because I was in a 350 00:20:15,080 --> 00:20:18,040 Speaker 1: meeting with him when he commented on that and laughed 351 00:20:18,080 --> 00:20:20,560 Speaker 1: about how ridiculous it was. But of course he wouldn't 352 00:20:20,560 --> 00:20:22,520 Speaker 1: then go out and tell the people that some of 353 00:20:22,520 --> 00:20:24,760 Speaker 1: the restrictions were ridiculous. He would just kind of laugh 354 00:20:25,080 --> 00:20:29,640 Speaker 1: behind their backs, including at his own comment about wearing 355 00:20:29,760 --> 00:20:34,480 Speaker 1: goggles and multiple masks, which he made on television after 356 00:20:34,560 --> 00:20:37,760 Speaker 1: of course he was against masks before he was for them, 357 00:20:37,800 --> 00:20:39,480 Speaker 1: and then when he was for them, he was for 358 00:20:39,680 --> 00:20:42,760 Speaker 1: multiple masks and goggles. And behind the scenes he was 359 00:20:42,880 --> 00:20:46,800 Speaker 1: laughing about how ridiculous his own comments were and how 360 00:20:46,800 --> 00:20:49,880 Speaker 1: he could really just get everybody to believe anything this 361 00:20:49,920 --> 00:20:52,720 Speaker 1: guy said. But he was wrong about everything. Over the 362 00:20:52,720 --> 00:20:55,439 Speaker 1: course of the pandemic, the media painted this guy to 363 00:20:55,560 --> 00:20:59,400 Speaker 1: be America's doctor, but speaking to myself, I don't want 364 00:20:59,440 --> 00:21:03,000 Speaker 1: him to be my personal doctor, let alone the country's doctor, 365 00:21:03,160 --> 00:21:08,680 Speaker 1: because he was wrong about every major thing throughout the pandemic. So, Brian, 366 00:21:08,920 --> 00:21:12,720 Speaker 1: it's Buckett. You were obviously Deputy Press Secretary Trump White House. 367 00:21:12,800 --> 00:21:16,159 Speaker 1: You're there in the early stages the pandemic. All this 368 00:21:16,200 --> 00:21:19,359 Speaker 1: stuff is going on. For me, the original sin of 369 00:21:19,440 --> 00:21:23,680 Speaker 1: Fauciism was the flip flop on masks. Right, He initially 370 00:21:23,800 --> 00:21:26,200 Speaker 1: is going, look, masks doesn't really do anything and might 371 00:21:26,240 --> 00:21:28,399 Speaker 1: make people feel better, and then all of a sudden, 372 00:21:28,400 --> 00:21:31,080 Speaker 1: it's just they're all these mask policies going in all 373 00:21:31,080 --> 00:21:34,480 Speaker 1: across the country, the federal mask mandate on planes. Was 374 00:21:34,520 --> 00:21:39,520 Speaker 1: there an awareness in the White House of that Fauci switch, Like, 375 00:21:39,560 --> 00:21:42,080 Speaker 1: how did that actually come to be? And I also 376 00:21:42,119 --> 00:21:45,239 Speaker 1: want to ask you we were I was told, I 377 00:21:45,280 --> 00:21:47,879 Speaker 1: was told who wasn't a senior White House official? I 378 00:21:47,840 --> 00:21:50,359 Speaker 1: cant remember who was now who actually claimed that doctor 379 00:21:50,520 --> 00:21:54,480 Speaker 1: Burkes was as bad as Fauci on the duplicity and 380 00:21:54,520 --> 00:21:56,639 Speaker 1: all this stuff. So I wanted to tackle both of those. 381 00:21:58,320 --> 00:22:03,280 Speaker 1: So there was a sense that Faucci and Burkes both 382 00:22:03,280 --> 00:22:07,480 Speaker 1: actually were really airing on the side of caution. That 383 00:22:07,600 --> 00:22:11,000 Speaker 1: is the understatement of the century in terms of advocating 384 00:22:11,040 --> 00:22:15,720 Speaker 1: for restrictive policies. And Scott Atlas, remember President Trump brought 385 00:22:15,840 --> 00:22:18,159 Speaker 1: him onto the task force. He was the kind of 386 00:22:18,840 --> 00:22:21,320 Speaker 1: voice who would say, the cure can't be worse than 387 00:22:21,359 --> 00:22:24,639 Speaker 1: the disease. There was an atmosphere in the country that 388 00:22:24,720 --> 00:22:28,920 Speaker 1: COVID was this unknown silent killer, and so we should 389 00:22:28,960 --> 00:22:31,800 Speaker 1: be safe rather than sorry, and so the kind of 390 00:22:31,840 --> 00:22:35,719 Speaker 1: voices of caution one out At that time. We knew 391 00:22:36,080 --> 00:22:39,520 Speaker 1: that Fauci and Burths liked to get a lot of attention, 392 00:22:39,960 --> 00:22:42,840 Speaker 1: and in order to get a lot of attention, they 393 00:22:42,880 --> 00:22:46,159 Speaker 1: had to scare people, and so they did that a lot. 394 00:22:46,640 --> 00:22:49,159 Speaker 1: The sort of fine line we had to walk was 395 00:22:49,240 --> 00:22:52,520 Speaker 1: let people know that President Trump was taking the pandemic seriously, 396 00:22:52,960 --> 00:22:55,800 Speaker 1: but again that the cure can't be worse than the disease. 397 00:22:56,560 --> 00:22:57,960 Speaker 1: I don't know if that kind of answered both of 398 00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:01,120 Speaker 1: your questions in one, but I'm happy to take another 399 00:23:01,119 --> 00:23:04,480 Speaker 1: swing at it. Yeah, Brian, Obviously we know Fauci is 400 00:23:04,480 --> 00:23:07,520 Speaker 1: a fraud, and we've been frustrated with him on this 401 00:23:07,560 --> 00:23:10,400 Speaker 1: program for the entire length of the time that we've 402 00:23:10,400 --> 00:23:12,320 Speaker 1: been on the air together, and before that when we 403 00:23:12,359 --> 00:23:16,200 Speaker 1: had solo shows, we were super frustrated with him. What 404 00:23:16,320 --> 00:23:19,880 Speaker 1: was his overall what was the overall vibe of Fauci 405 00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:22,680 Speaker 1: behind the scenes in the White House. In other words, 406 00:23:22,720 --> 00:23:24,600 Speaker 1: how much you've told us that he would say things 407 00:23:24,600 --> 00:23:27,679 Speaker 1: privately which were very different than what he would say publicly. 408 00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:32,159 Speaker 1: How much of a difference was there in Fauci in 409 00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:37,879 Speaker 1: public in private in general. So he was the joke 410 00:23:38,200 --> 00:23:40,719 Speaker 1: that we used to tell what was We were referred 411 00:23:40,760 --> 00:23:43,439 Speaker 1: to him as Saint Anthony because of how he was 412 00:23:43,520 --> 00:23:48,359 Speaker 1: portrayed in the media. But what we had learned in 413 00:23:48,480 --> 00:23:52,000 Speaker 1: dealing with him was that he was really an egomaniac 414 00:23:52,080 --> 00:23:55,320 Speaker 1: who was wrong a lot, and that's very dangerous when 415 00:23:55,320 --> 00:23:57,840 Speaker 1: you're talking about science in medicine. Of course, he was 416 00:23:57,880 --> 00:24:00,840 Speaker 1: wrong about the severity of the virus early on, he 417 00:24:00,840 --> 00:24:03,080 Speaker 1: said it was not something people should worry about. He 418 00:24:03,200 --> 00:24:05,760 Speaker 1: was before four masks, or against the masks, before he 419 00:24:05,800 --> 00:24:08,919 Speaker 1: was for them. He said vaccines could not possibly be 420 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:12,200 Speaker 1: created in less than eighteen months. Now we created them 421 00:24:12,200 --> 00:24:14,919 Speaker 1: in nine months. He can argue about the efficacy, but 422 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:18,120 Speaker 1: the process was nine months. He was wrong by exactly 423 00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:21,440 Speaker 1: one hundred percent. He said he was wrong about when 424 00:24:21,560 --> 00:24:24,680 Speaker 1: President Trump should be vaccinated because he had already had COVID. 425 00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:27,680 Speaker 1: I mean, I can go on and on, but he 426 00:24:27,840 --> 00:24:30,800 Speaker 1: was not an easy person to deal with. Of course, 427 00:24:30,840 --> 00:24:33,320 Speaker 1: he's the only person I ever encountered to use the 428 00:24:33,440 --> 00:24:37,600 Speaker 1: term latins un ironically when he would always talk about 429 00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:40,440 Speaker 1: the vaccine studies that we got to get more Latinics 430 00:24:40,480 --> 00:24:42,840 Speaker 1: in the studies, you got to have more Latini. That's 431 00:24:42,880 --> 00:24:45,960 Speaker 1: actually a promocatic example of how left wing he is too. 432 00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:48,000 Speaker 1: By the way, it's also a pretty good Faucci that 433 00:24:48,119 --> 00:24:51,199 Speaker 1: Brian pull there. I'm feeling, you know, Brian's give good pressure. 434 00:24:51,280 --> 00:24:56,440 Speaker 1: Putting a competition, So Brian so Faucci was obviously, I mean, 435 00:24:56,920 --> 00:24:58,600 Speaker 1: I joke around with people, but I'm not really that 436 00:24:58,720 --> 00:25:01,360 Speaker 1: joking that. I don't think anyone thinks Fauci's worse than 437 00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:05,480 Speaker 1: I do. Did Trump figure this out? Like I mean, 438 00:25:05,520 --> 00:25:08,159 Speaker 1: this is because right now, you know, we support the 439 00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:10,359 Speaker 1: big guy, and there are a lot of things that 440 00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:13,679 Speaker 1: he did that were fantastic. But he says I did 441 00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:16,240 Speaker 1: the opposite of everything Fauci told me to do. Unfortunately 442 00:25:16,280 --> 00:25:20,199 Speaker 1: that's not true. At what point did Fauci did Trump 443 00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:25,560 Speaker 1: rather realize this guy's meaning Faucci is a problem. So 444 00:25:25,720 --> 00:25:29,080 Speaker 1: there were comments that President Trump made that I think 445 00:25:29,119 --> 00:25:30,840 Speaker 1: it leaked out. I think he was making them on 446 00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:33,440 Speaker 1: a Teletown hall to some donors at the time, if 447 00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:36,840 Speaker 1: my memory serves, and he basically articulated the position that 448 00:25:36,880 --> 00:25:39,800 Speaker 1: most of us had at that time from a purely 449 00:25:40,119 --> 00:25:43,480 Speaker 1: sort of campaign public relations standpoint, and again walking that 450 00:25:43,520 --> 00:25:46,520 Speaker 1: fine line of taking the virus seriously but also trying 451 00:25:46,520 --> 00:25:49,679 Speaker 1: to do the right thing for the people and not 452 00:25:49,720 --> 00:25:53,359 Speaker 1: having the cure be worse than the disease. The President said, 453 00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:56,760 Speaker 1: I'm basically stuck between a rock and a hard place. 454 00:25:56,760 --> 00:25:59,280 Speaker 1: I'm paraphrasing. He said, if I fire the guy, I 455 00:25:59,320 --> 00:26:02,720 Speaker 1: pull him off, I take him away, then all of 456 00:26:02,760 --> 00:26:05,879 Speaker 1: a sudden, there's this huge bomb that comes out about 457 00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:08,080 Speaker 1: how I'm not trusting the science and all of this, 458 00:26:08,359 --> 00:26:10,240 Speaker 1: Whereas if I just kind of let him run his mouth, 459 00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:13,359 Speaker 1: but then I also say my opinion, you know, at 460 00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:17,480 Speaker 1: least it's kind of equal. Basically, he said, we're gonna 461 00:26:17,520 --> 00:26:20,600 Speaker 1: have bombs thrown at us either way. So sometimes in 462 00:26:20,680 --> 00:26:23,560 Speaker 1: life you only have bad choices. And I would say 463 00:26:23,640 --> 00:26:26,240 Speaker 1: that the way Fauci was propped up by the Democrats 464 00:26:26,280 --> 00:26:29,560 Speaker 1: and the media left President Trump with only bad choices. 465 00:26:29,760 --> 00:26:32,280 Speaker 1: It's either let him run his mouth and also counter him, 466 00:26:32,520 --> 00:26:36,880 Speaker 1: or fire him and have one giant explosion all at once, Brian, 467 00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:41,040 Speaker 1: do you think Trump's gonna run again? And how much 468 00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:45,720 Speaker 1: do you think? Obviously the sort of legal troubles surrounding 469 00:26:45,840 --> 00:26:49,560 Speaker 1: him impact whether he's going to run again or not. 470 00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:54,520 Speaker 1: So I would say, given what I've observed since the 471 00:26:54,560 --> 00:26:57,320 Speaker 1: White House, he's involved at every level, He's got the 472 00:26:57,359 --> 00:27:01,800 Speaker 1: most powerful endorsement, he's still doing rally. It seems to 473 00:27:01,840 --> 00:27:05,960 Speaker 1: me more likely than not Trump runs. He also wants 474 00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:08,919 Speaker 1: to counter those who are out to get him by saying, 475 00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:11,280 Speaker 1: you know, this is for political purposes. I think they're 476 00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:14,280 Speaker 1: actually sort of baiting him into running. I think it's 477 00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:18,240 Speaker 1: more likely than not. The other side of the coin, 478 00:27:18,280 --> 00:27:21,119 Speaker 1: which I think is again less than fifty percent, would 479 00:27:21,119 --> 00:27:23,480 Speaker 1: be he says, you know what, I'm having so much 480 00:27:23,520 --> 00:27:26,080 Speaker 1: fun doing live golf. I'm having so much fun in 481 00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:29,200 Speaker 1: the private sector, just kind of being a kingmaker, living 482 00:27:29,240 --> 00:27:33,000 Speaker 1: in paradise at Marlago. Why would I get back into politics. 483 00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:36,280 Speaker 1: It's such a nasty business. So I think he's weighing 484 00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:39,879 Speaker 1: those things, but I would say more than fifty percent, 485 00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:44,680 Speaker 1: I think he runs. Brian. Your book Vignettes and Veno 486 00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:48,040 Speaker 1: dinner table stories from the Trump White House with recipes 487 00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:52,879 Speaker 1: and cocktail parags. Quite a cocktail book. Tell me a 488 00:27:52,920 --> 00:27:55,600 Speaker 1: cocktail table book. I mean, tell me a bit about 489 00:27:55,920 --> 00:27:59,880 Speaker 1: either give me a story, a recipe, or a cocktail 490 00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:06,040 Speaker 1: pairing that forty five himself would approve of. Oh my gosh, 491 00:28:06,080 --> 00:28:08,679 Speaker 1: Well okay, so first recipe. You know we all know 492 00:28:08,800 --> 00:28:13,720 Speaker 1: he likes a nicely charred steak. Oh my gosh, you 493 00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:17,080 Speaker 1: went to well done steak, Brian, We're about to dump 494 00:28:17,160 --> 00:28:20,760 Speaker 1: this audio. Go ahead. My steak recipe is not that. 495 00:28:21,520 --> 00:28:24,280 Speaker 1: It is a steak sandwich recipe that my wife came 496 00:28:24,359 --> 00:28:27,720 Speaker 1: up with that is thinly sliced, well seasoned. It's got 497 00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:31,640 Speaker 1: a delicious garlic aoli on it, served on. I think 498 00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:33,680 Speaker 1: we have it on Shabbada with a rugula on there. 499 00:28:33,680 --> 00:28:36,679 Speaker 1: It's absolutely delicious. It's an honor of a story of 500 00:28:36,680 --> 00:28:39,200 Speaker 1: when I was with President Trump in Bedminster. Of course 501 00:28:39,360 --> 00:28:42,400 Speaker 1: they make his favorite steak in Bedminster. I would say. 502 00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:46,960 Speaker 1: Story my my first week at the White House was 503 00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:50,920 Speaker 1: something I dealt with with Fauci. He got himself invited 504 00:28:50,960 --> 00:28:53,360 Speaker 1: to throw out the first pitch for Major League Baseball 505 00:28:53,640 --> 00:28:55,320 Speaker 1: when we were going to have President Trump throw at 506 00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:58,200 Speaker 1: the first pitch, but before they could announce it, Faucci, 507 00:28:58,440 --> 00:29:03,200 Speaker 1: whose friends with the Washington National owners, got himself invited, 508 00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:06,160 Speaker 1: So we had to come up with an alternate event, 509 00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:10,080 Speaker 1: which actually worked out great because we had Marianna Rivera 510 00:29:10,200 --> 00:29:13,760 Speaker 1: with some little leaguers, and we had ESPN and Barstool 511 00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:17,960 Speaker 1: Sports there and it was like a total home run 512 00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:21,040 Speaker 1: of a day. Sorry for the metaphor, it was absolutely outstanding. 513 00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:24,080 Speaker 1: And the poetic justice is that when Fauchi throughout the 514 00:29:24,080 --> 00:29:27,520 Speaker 1: first pitch, other than Carle Ray Jepson's, it was the 515 00:29:27,560 --> 00:29:32,000 Speaker 1: worst first pitch ever thrown. He based stole the first 516 00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:36,920 Speaker 1: pitch honors from Trump. Wow. Yes, So our staff was 517 00:29:36,960 --> 00:29:38,800 Speaker 1: in Tonsag with Major League Baseball. They were going to 518 00:29:38,840 --> 00:29:41,240 Speaker 1: have President Trump throughout the first pitch before there was 519 00:29:41,280 --> 00:29:46,800 Speaker 1: any announcement. Fauchi and the Nats conspired to get Fauchi 520 00:29:46,920 --> 00:29:50,320 Speaker 1: invited instead, and they put the announcement out before the 521 00:29:50,320 --> 00:29:53,760 Speaker 1: White House in Major League. Wow. I mean that's a 522 00:29:53,800 --> 00:29:57,000 Speaker 1: great story. I didn't know that. Um, thank you for 523 00:29:57,360 --> 00:30:00,680 Speaker 1: doesn't it. Yeah, I mean that's insane, that's so ridiculous. 524 00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:03,120 Speaker 1: Thank you, Brian. The book obviously, we'd encourage people to 525 00:30:03,200 --> 00:30:05,680 Speaker 1: check it out. Then, yetz in Vino dinner table stories 526 00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:08,600 Speaker 1: from a Trump White House. Our friend Brian Morganster and Brian. 527 00:30:08,760 --> 00:30:11,680 Speaker 1: Good to talk to you, buddy, you guys, thanks for 528 00:30:11,720 --> 00:30:15,200 Speaker 1: having me on. Great to chat. Look, having an emergency 529 00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:19,200 Speaker 1: food supply on hand is a prudent investment no matter 530 00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:22,000 Speaker 1: what's going on. 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We're gonna be closing up shop 553 00:31:44,240 --> 00:31:46,120 Speaker 1: here in a moment on clay in Buck. Appreciate you 554 00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:49,280 Speaker 1: all rolling with us. And uh, I gotta get a 555 00:31:49,280 --> 00:31:53,600 Speaker 1: copy of Brian's Cocktail and Recipe book to make sure 556 00:31:53,680 --> 00:31:57,120 Speaker 1: that I try to steak sandwich. It's not I'm getting hungry, Clay, 557 00:31:57,160 --> 00:32:00,760 Speaker 1: this would happen. This is the lunchtime the I love 558 00:32:00,840 --> 00:32:03,480 Speaker 1: this time slot. It's a lot of fun doing the show. 559 00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:07,680 Speaker 1: But it's impossible to have a normal lunch, by and 560 00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:11,280 Speaker 1: large when you're on from eleven to two where I am, 561 00:32:11,320 --> 00:32:14,120 Speaker 1: twelve to three where you are. Yeah, I have perfected 562 00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:18,920 Speaker 1: the art of eating a cheeseburger in less than the 563 00:32:19,080 --> 00:32:22,440 Speaker 1: four minutes we have on a station break, which, let 564 00:32:22,440 --> 00:32:24,960 Speaker 1: me tell you, you got to wolf that thing down. Man, 565 00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:27,960 Speaker 1: It's you're not your four minutes for a cheeseburger sounds 566 00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:30,160 Speaker 1: like enough time. But you know what, Clay, I'm just 567 00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:31,960 Speaker 1: not a quitter. You know, I'm a guy who gets 568 00:32:31,960 --> 00:32:35,400 Speaker 1: it done. It is a it's a tight fit. It's 569 00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:37,800 Speaker 1: the only bad thing about this, uh this time slot 570 00:32:38,080 --> 00:32:41,160 Speaker 1: is it's tough to figure out how exactly to balance 571 00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:46,239 Speaker 1: out your lunch. But we are managing to survive, fortunately are. 572 00:32:46,480 --> 00:32:49,320 Speaker 1: But you know it's not managed to survive some of 573 00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:52,160 Speaker 1: the characters on the House of the Dragon show. Have 574 00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:54,440 Speaker 1: you been watching this one? Oh? Of course, yeah, I 575 00:32:54,520 --> 00:32:57,240 Speaker 1: gotta say episodes. It's pretty good when I watch a 576 00:32:57,320 --> 00:33:01,000 Speaker 1: show that is based upon another while the successful show 577 00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:03,000 Speaker 1: and a new version of it. This is a prequel, 578 00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:06,640 Speaker 1: of course, and I'm like, oh, wow, they're actually doing 579 00:33:06,720 --> 00:33:10,760 Speaker 1: the whole good writing thing or or staying true to 580 00:33:10,840 --> 00:33:13,360 Speaker 1: what made the original so good, a little bit like 581 00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:15,880 Speaker 1: the Top Gun Maverick phenomenon, right where it's like, just 582 00:33:16,240 --> 00:33:20,240 Speaker 1: take the things that we're amazing, update them, execute it well. 583 00:33:20,520 --> 00:33:23,400 Speaker 1: I think that it's a pretty it's a better prequel 584 00:33:23,440 --> 00:33:26,960 Speaker 1: than I expected. Honestly, at this stage it's been it's 585 00:33:26,960 --> 00:33:29,360 Speaker 1: been pretty good. I don't know how much what percentage 586 00:33:29,360 --> 00:33:32,240 Speaker 1: you think of our audience are House of the Dragon 587 00:33:32,360 --> 00:33:37,680 Speaker 1: watchers twenty great question. Ten I don't know ten percent. 588 00:33:37,760 --> 00:33:40,360 Speaker 1: I mean there's a monster audience. I think like twenty 589 00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:43,920 Speaker 1: million people globally or something like that watch that. Yeah right, 590 00:33:43,960 --> 00:33:46,400 Speaker 1: But I mean it's a small percentage of Americans in 591 00:33:46,440 --> 00:33:50,200 Speaker 1: general that watch any show basically except for NFL football, 592 00:33:50,280 --> 00:33:54,120 Speaker 1: which everybody watches. Um but I would guess that's it's 593 00:33:54,120 --> 00:33:57,200 Speaker 1: a great question. What percentage of really play. Everybody watches 594 00:33:57,320 --> 00:34:02,400 Speaker 1: NFL football, everybody playing much everybody, every normal American but 595 00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:06,040 Speaker 1: l football. I know people have been antagonized over the 596 00:34:06,040 --> 00:34:09,040 Speaker 1: political related I'm just talking about total numbers. Oh, I 597 00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:10,719 Speaker 1: just meant me like, I haven't seen in the NFL. 598 00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:13,839 Speaker 1: Did you watch the Super Bowl last year? I think 599 00:34:13,920 --> 00:34:15,920 Speaker 1: I did watch. That's just an excuse to hang out 600 00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:17,759 Speaker 1: with my dad and my brothers. But I you know, 601 00:34:17,840 --> 00:34:19,799 Speaker 1: let's I mean a lot of people watch the super 602 00:34:19,800 --> 00:34:22,320 Speaker 1: Bowl who have no interest in the NFL over you know, 603 00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:24,839 Speaker 1: one hundred million. I am more concerned with the with 604 00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:28,279 Speaker 1: the food situation a super Bowl part, yeah, which is 605 00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:31,839 Speaker 1: I mean the dip if you if you don't go 606 00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:34,319 Speaker 1: all out with your Super Bowl dip. I feel like 607 00:34:34,360 --> 00:34:37,040 Speaker 1: that's a huge missed opportunity because no matter did the 608 00:34:37,120 --> 00:34:40,920 Speaker 1: caloric content, the macros, none of that matters. All that 609 00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:44,080 Speaker 1: matters is this the most delicious liquid you could put 610 00:34:44,160 --> 00:34:46,200 Speaker 1: on a chip of some kind to eat. That is 611 00:34:46,239 --> 00:34:52,080 Speaker 1: the mission. That is I I love that. I'm trying 612 00:34:52,080 --> 00:34:56,160 Speaker 1: to think. By the way, the chicken dip, I think 613 00:34:56,280 --> 00:34:58,200 Speaker 1: is the greatest. Have you ever had a buffalo chicken? 614 00:34:58,320 --> 00:35:02,919 Speaker 1: Was gonna say the cheese artichoke like artificis and artichoke tip. 615 00:35:02,920 --> 00:35:05,280 Speaker 1: I mean, that's a solid you know, you can always 616 00:35:05,360 --> 00:35:07,960 Speaker 1: order it. A restaurant's impossible to go wrong, hard to 617 00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:11,520 Speaker 1: screw up. It's like chicken tenders, Like, I don't know what, 618 00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:14,879 Speaker 1: uh what if you screw up chicken tenders, you can't 619 00:35:14,920 --> 00:35:16,920 Speaker 1: be trusted to cooking. That's the safest thing to order 620 00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:18,480 Speaker 1: in any restaurant by far. If you're if you're in 621 00:35:18,560 --> 00:35:20,800 Speaker 1: a restaurant, you're like, I don't even trust the cleanliness 622 00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:22,960 Speaker 1: of this place. Never mind the cooking skills. Get the 623 00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:26,160 Speaker 1: chicken tenders, you'll be good to go. It's everybody likes them. 624 00:35:26,200 --> 00:35:28,760 Speaker 1: It's impossible to screw it up. But yeah, the buffalo 625 00:35:28,880 --> 00:35:31,319 Speaker 1: chicken dip, it might be buffalo chicken ranch dip. I 626 00:35:31,320 --> 00:35:34,120 Speaker 1: can't remember exactly what it's called. I could I could 627 00:35:34,239 --> 00:35:37,120 Speaker 1: literally eat, you know, chunks of chicken in the dips. 628 00:35:37,120 --> 00:35:39,919 Speaker 1: I always feel like dip is See, we really are hungry, guys. 629 00:35:39,920 --> 00:35:41,279 Speaker 1: It is this part of the day. I mean, we're 630 00:35:41,360 --> 00:35:44,280 Speaker 1: driving your body. I mean I sometimes you try something 631 00:35:44,280 --> 00:35:47,239 Speaker 1: and you're like, I could eat this entire ten with 632 00:35:47,480 --> 00:35:51,520 Speaker 1: just the you know, the Freedo chips you by the way, 633 00:35:51,560 --> 00:35:54,040 Speaker 1: do you I know you're not like, I've never boiled 634 00:35:54,080 --> 00:35:56,520 Speaker 1: water in my life, Buck, not exactly. You don't even 635 00:35:56,560 --> 00:36:00,600 Speaker 1: have like your buffalo chicken recipe. No, there's zero that 636 00:36:00,680 --> 00:36:03,640 Speaker 1: I make that. I have not cooked anything in my 637 00:36:03,880 --> 00:36:07,200 Speaker 1: entire made. I made bacon wrap dates with stuff with 638 00:36:07,239 --> 00:36:09,279 Speaker 1: blue cheese for the Super Bowl last year. That's how 639 00:36:09,320 --> 00:36:14,080 Speaker 1: I roll. That sounds pretty good. I've never bacon wrapped, 640 00:36:14,120 --> 00:36:17,480 Speaker 1: and I mean bacon wrapped my old workout sneaker is 641 00:36:17,480 --> 00:36:20,560 Speaker 1: pretty good. So yes, bacon wrap date with blue cheese. 642 00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:24,920 Speaker 1: Definitely blue cheese and ranch either one. I like both, 643 00:36:25,120 --> 00:36:29,560 Speaker 1: but ranch dressing is incredible. Are you are you finishing 644 00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:32,240 Speaker 1: the show today and grabbing a turkey and cheese sandwich 645 00:36:32,320 --> 00:36:34,239 Speaker 1: right away? By the way, because I am starving so 646 00:36:34,719 --> 00:36:37,080 Speaker 1: I will probably go I got to do a show 647 00:36:37,120 --> 00:36:39,400 Speaker 1: after the show, and then I will go eat. Then 648 00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:42,440 Speaker 1: I got to write on this book which is coming along, 649 00:36:42,920 --> 00:36:44,440 Speaker 1: so I'm interested to see how it's gonna end up 650 00:36:44,440 --> 00:36:47,239 Speaker 1: doing very exciting. When's the book? When's the book? Draft? Dude? 651 00:36:48,080 --> 00:36:51,319 Speaker 1: December one? So I managed to put everything that I 652 00:36:51,360 --> 00:36:54,920 Speaker 1: have to do all around football season. So I've got 653 00:36:55,320 --> 00:36:58,160 Speaker 1: a book draft dude, December one won't be out till 654 00:36:58,200 --> 00:37:00,000 Speaker 1: next year. There's a long lag time, so I really 655 00:37:00,200 --> 00:37:02,920 Speaker 1: want to see the mid term results so I can update, 656 00:37:03,120 --> 00:37:05,919 Speaker 1: you know, and get some data and analysis at least 657 00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:08,080 Speaker 1: from the preceding election. So I've got to fill that in. 658 00:37:08,120 --> 00:37:10,080 Speaker 1: Now I'm your whole chapter about the state dinner you 659 00:37:10,080 --> 00:37:12,000 Speaker 1: take me out for when I'm right about Hunter Biden. 660 00:37:12,080 --> 00:37:14,480 Speaker 1: So I'm excited about how that's gonna be. I if 661 00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:19,920 Speaker 1: Hunter Biden gets indicted, I just want the entire universe 662 00:37:19,920 --> 00:37:23,920 Speaker 1: to come undone praising me over up Barllion. I was Fleet, 663 00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:28,120 Speaker 1: Travis and Buck Sexton on the front lines of truth.