1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:03,320 Speaker 1: Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck 2 00:00:03,360 --> 00:00:07,760 Speaker 1: Sexton Show podcast. Welcome back to Clay and Buck eight 3 00:00:07,520 --> 00:00:10,239 Speaker 1: two eight eight two. On those lines you want to 4 00:00:10,320 --> 00:00:13,160 Speaker 1: chat with us. We're covering a lot of ground today 5 00:00:13,240 --> 00:00:17,480 Speaker 1: because there's some interesting stories percolating, not one dominant headline 6 00:00:17,480 --> 00:00:20,239 Speaker 1: all across the board. Although I do think that the 7 00:00:20,360 --> 00:00:24,959 Speaker 1: failures of the Biden regime in a number of capacities 8 00:00:25,520 --> 00:00:27,960 Speaker 1: deserve a whole lot more attention. Something will certainly be 9 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:32,320 Speaker 1: doing here and on the issue of crime. Something that 10 00:00:32,400 --> 00:00:37,920 Speaker 1: I feel is a reality in New York that is 11 00:00:37,960 --> 00:00:39,600 Speaker 1: in escapable right now, and I'm sure it's true in 12 00:00:39,680 --> 00:00:43,120 Speaker 1: other place is as we've discussed last let's call it 13 00:00:43,200 --> 00:00:47,320 Speaker 1: last roughly twelve months in pretty much every major American 14 00:00:47,360 --> 00:00:48,959 Speaker 1: city where there are a couple of cities Clay where 15 00:00:48,960 --> 00:00:52,040 Speaker 1: I said, I hadn't pulled the numbers, the data, and 16 00:00:52,320 --> 00:00:55,040 Speaker 1: we still should do that. I'm wondering, what's what's happened 17 00:00:55,080 --> 00:00:57,800 Speaker 1: in Tampa, what's happened in Miami? But every other major 18 00:00:57,800 --> 00:01:01,240 Speaker 1: city I can think of has been going through a 19 00:01:01,360 --> 00:01:05,160 Speaker 1: rough time, and we know why this is. There was 20 00:01:05,200 --> 00:01:09,039 Speaker 1: a decision made largely pushed by the political pressure of 21 00:01:09,080 --> 00:01:12,800 Speaker 1: the BLM movement to start being a whole lot more permissive, 22 00:01:13,480 --> 00:01:18,399 Speaker 1: not only about violent crime, shorter sentences, bail reform laws, 23 00:01:18,440 --> 00:01:21,200 Speaker 1: things of that nature, but just day to day crime. 24 00:01:21,240 --> 00:01:25,360 Speaker 1: I mean, shoplifting has been almost legalized in some major 25 00:01:25,400 --> 00:01:30,800 Speaker 1: American cities, with predictably disastrous consequences, along with turnstile jumping 26 00:01:30,800 --> 00:01:34,440 Speaker 1: and public urination. All these these are lessons that we're 27 00:01:34,560 --> 00:01:37,120 Speaker 1: learned in major cities in the eighties and the nineties, 28 00:01:37,440 --> 00:01:40,160 Speaker 1: and Democrats decided, you know what, let's just try it again. 29 00:01:40,240 --> 00:01:43,440 Speaker 1: Let's just see what happens when we abandon law and 30 00:01:43,600 --> 00:01:47,720 Speaker 1: order in the name of social justice. Criminal justice gets 31 00:01:47,720 --> 00:01:51,480 Speaker 1: sidelined for social justice. And the Mayor of New York, 32 00:01:51,520 --> 00:01:53,480 Speaker 1: who I have been a skeptic of from the beginning 33 00:01:53,480 --> 00:01:57,720 Speaker 1: and find deeply disappointing, a few months in Eric Adams 34 00:01:58,680 --> 00:02:01,720 Speaker 1: says that it is actually they're gonna try this clay. 35 00:02:01,760 --> 00:02:04,800 Speaker 1: They're just gonna see what will what will fly? You know, 36 00:02:04,800 --> 00:02:07,120 Speaker 1: They're gonna try all kinds of stuff. Here. He is 37 00:02:07,160 --> 00:02:10,880 Speaker 1: telling everybody that it is Republicans who are guilty of 38 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:14,440 Speaker 1: defunding the police or wanting to because they won't pass 39 00:02:14,520 --> 00:02:18,360 Speaker 1: build back back. You've heard the narrative beforehand about defunding 40 00:02:18,400 --> 00:02:20,359 Speaker 1: the police. Let me tell you what the defunders of 41 00:02:20,440 --> 00:02:23,160 Speaker 1: police are. Those are those who did not vote on 42 00:02:23,240 --> 00:02:26,560 Speaker 1: the Buildback Better bill. Money was in that bill for 43 00:02:27,120 --> 00:02:30,360 Speaker 1: police officers. We have twenty four hundred ATF ages in 44 00:02:30,400 --> 00:02:33,160 Speaker 1: our country, only eight in New York. We need to 45 00:02:33,200 --> 00:02:35,960 Speaker 1: double that amount. We need to go after the gold's guns. 46 00:02:36,160 --> 00:02:38,640 Speaker 1: Needs to put ahead to ATF in place, put in 47 00:02:38,680 --> 00:02:41,440 Speaker 1: place a real gun tracing program, and then we have 48 00:02:41,480 --> 00:02:46,080 Speaker 1: to be preventive. Many of these generational social problems have 49 00:02:46,320 --> 00:02:49,560 Speaker 1: become the pipeline to violence, and the only thing that 50 00:02:49,680 --> 00:02:52,360 Speaker 1: is beating that pipeline is the pipeline of guns that 51 00:02:52,400 --> 00:02:55,280 Speaker 1: are coming in out inner cities. This is all politics. 52 00:02:55,320 --> 00:02:59,120 Speaker 1: This is not actually law enforcement expertise speaking in any capacity. Clay. 53 00:02:59,280 --> 00:03:01,440 Speaker 1: We could even look at the recent shooting on the 54 00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:04,600 Speaker 1: New York City subway which a disappeared from the news. 55 00:03:04,639 --> 00:03:07,360 Speaker 1: I'm not a lot of coverage of a mass casualty 56 00:03:07,480 --> 00:03:09,720 Speaker 1: terror attack on the New York City subway system, but 57 00:03:09,800 --> 00:03:12,480 Speaker 1: a few days ago I also tried to find the 58 00:03:12,639 --> 00:03:16,720 Speaker 1: victims to see who was targeted by this. I can 59 00:03:16,760 --> 00:03:19,800 Speaker 1: only find two. They still haven't released the identities of 60 00:03:19,840 --> 00:03:21,720 Speaker 1: the victims of that attack, at least that I've been 61 00:03:21,760 --> 00:03:24,640 Speaker 1: able to find, which I think is noteworthy. But Clay 62 00:03:24,800 --> 00:03:29,359 Speaker 1: he bought his firearm legally. So what what what exactly 63 00:03:29,440 --> 00:03:32,200 Speaker 1: is Eric Adams put aside? How stupid the build back 64 00:03:32,280 --> 00:03:35,520 Speaker 1: better plan is? In general? How would that have actually 65 00:03:35,520 --> 00:03:38,400 Speaker 1: affected crime in the city over the last six months? 66 00:03:38,520 --> 00:03:40,960 Speaker 1: How would have affected the last the incident last week? 67 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:42,760 Speaker 1: The answer is not at all at f Aigens would 68 00:03:43,160 --> 00:03:46,640 Speaker 1: wouldn't have done a damn thing. We're going back in time, 69 00:03:47,280 --> 00:03:50,600 Speaker 1: and for those of us who remember a high crime 70 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:57,400 Speaker 1: New York City, a high crime basically every city in America, 71 00:03:57,640 --> 00:04:00,240 Speaker 1: there was a fear that things were going to get 72 00:04:00,280 --> 00:04:04,320 Speaker 1: worse in the nineteen nineties. You remember this. And the 73 00:04:04,440 --> 00:04:07,520 Speaker 1: one thing that Joe Biden might have gotten right in 74 00:04:07,560 --> 00:04:11,680 Speaker 1: his entire career was the nineteen ninety four Crime Bill, 75 00:04:12,200 --> 00:04:18,400 Speaker 1: which really legitimately brought back down crime. And we continued 76 00:04:18,480 --> 00:04:22,080 Speaker 1: to ride the legitimacy of that bill, which was passed 77 00:04:22,200 --> 00:04:27,000 Speaker 1: Democrats and Republican said, crime is a disgrace. Let's solve it. 78 00:04:27,480 --> 00:04:33,680 Speaker 1: And this is important. Being concerned about people being in 79 00:04:33,800 --> 00:04:36,960 Speaker 1: prison for too long is a luxury of a low 80 00:04:36,960 --> 00:04:40,720 Speaker 1: crime era, and what happened time after time after time 81 00:04:41,040 --> 00:04:45,600 Speaker 1: was people said, oh, we're punishing criminals too much. And 82 00:04:45,839 --> 00:04:50,120 Speaker 1: as all the DA's started to lead, you know, this 83 00:04:50,160 --> 00:04:52,159 Speaker 1: guy's been arrested, the one who shot on the subway 84 00:04:52,480 --> 00:04:56,240 Speaker 1: twelve times, buck nine times in New York and three 85 00:04:56,320 --> 00:04:59,600 Speaker 1: times in New Jersey. And I understand that the three 86 00:04:59,640 --> 00:05:03,320 Speaker 1: stripe in Your Out Crime Bill, which basically said, hey, 87 00:05:03,760 --> 00:05:07,600 Speaker 1: you'd commit three felonies, you're gone. There were people who 88 00:05:07,680 --> 00:05:10,839 Speaker 1: got caught up in that and ended up getting draconian 89 00:05:10,960 --> 00:05:15,200 Speaker 1: sentences as a result. But as a group, we put 90 00:05:15,240 --> 00:05:18,520 Speaker 1: people who were violent behind bars, and crime came down 91 00:05:18,560 --> 00:05:20,560 Speaker 1: for the rest of us. And now those same people 92 00:05:20,880 --> 00:05:23,680 Speaker 1: back out on the streets, not suffering any sort of 93 00:05:23,720 --> 00:05:27,159 Speaker 1: significant consequences for their criminal behavior, and all of us 94 00:05:27,200 --> 00:05:29,320 Speaker 1: are bearing the price. And I'm just gonna tell everybody this, 95 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:31,560 Speaker 1: and I know that everyone's gonna like to hear it, 96 00:05:31,600 --> 00:05:34,719 Speaker 1: but it's true. Trump administration got caught up in some 97 00:05:34,800 --> 00:05:37,560 Speaker 1: of this stuff. We're gonna be honest about this. Let's 98 00:05:37,560 --> 00:05:40,760 Speaker 1: be honest about this. Trump administration was pushing the First 99 00:05:40,760 --> 00:05:43,680 Speaker 1: Step Act. The Trump administration after bl Now, when I 100 00:05:43,680 --> 00:05:47,119 Speaker 1: say caught up in some of this, maybe they're maybe 101 00:05:47,120 --> 00:05:49,719 Speaker 1: they were five percent or ten percent as caught up. 102 00:05:49,760 --> 00:05:51,960 Speaker 1: As you know, the ninety or ninety five percent of 103 00:05:51,960 --> 00:05:55,400 Speaker 1: this was Democrat policies and ideas. But this became fashionable 104 00:05:55,440 --> 00:05:57,400 Speaker 1: on the right as well for a while, not just 105 00:05:57,760 --> 00:06:00,719 Speaker 1: when I say Trump administration, I mean that more generally, 106 00:06:00,720 --> 00:06:03,320 Speaker 1: also with the GOP, the Trump Whitehouse, but also a 107 00:06:03,360 --> 00:06:05,200 Speaker 1: lot of people in the GP were talking about criminal 108 00:06:05,240 --> 00:06:08,480 Speaker 1: justice reform. This became fashionable for a while, and it 109 00:06:08,520 --> 00:06:11,719 Speaker 1: was always we're locking up too many people for non 110 00:06:11,880 --> 00:06:16,480 Speaker 1: violent drug offenses. That's not really the case when you 111 00:06:16,520 --> 00:06:19,160 Speaker 1: look at what the drug offense is actually usually involved. 112 00:06:19,360 --> 00:06:23,040 Speaker 1: Drug offenses are often easy to prove, and so federal 113 00:06:23,040 --> 00:06:25,040 Speaker 1: prosecutors will say, well, we'll get you on the drugs, 114 00:06:25,480 --> 00:06:29,680 Speaker 1: will We're not even going to go after the weapons possession. 115 00:06:29,720 --> 00:06:32,960 Speaker 1: We're not even gonna go after the violent gang assault 116 00:06:33,040 --> 00:06:35,920 Speaker 1: or whatever the other charges may be. So all you 117 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:39,480 Speaker 1: see for an individual are possession of you know, x 118 00:06:39,520 --> 00:06:43,799 Speaker 1: ounces of filling the blank with with illegal with illegal drug. 119 00:06:44,200 --> 00:06:46,440 Speaker 1: We weren't actually locking up a whole lot of people 120 00:06:47,080 --> 00:06:50,120 Speaker 1: for decades for just having a bag of marijuana. And 121 00:06:50,120 --> 00:06:52,479 Speaker 1: I think that started to become the perception that was 122 00:06:52,520 --> 00:06:54,600 Speaker 1: pushed by a lot of people to get I mean, Clay, 123 00:06:54,640 --> 00:06:56,920 Speaker 1: why else do we have all these We had all 124 00:06:56,920 --> 00:07:01,800 Speaker 1: these criminal justice reform laws going into effect eighteen twenty, 125 00:07:01,839 --> 00:07:05,040 Speaker 1: nineteen twenty twenty, and then the BLM movement came about 126 00:07:05,080 --> 00:07:08,440 Speaker 1: the undermining of police as racist. You know, I think 127 00:07:08,440 --> 00:07:09,960 Speaker 1: we have to take stock and look at how this 128 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:12,920 Speaker 1: whole thing happened. Yeah, the progressive prosecutors are out of 129 00:07:12,920 --> 00:07:15,760 Speaker 1: their minds, but obviously, and they have to be dealt 130 00:07:15,800 --> 00:07:17,640 Speaker 1: with first. But there were some Republicans that were a 131 00:07:17,720 --> 00:07:20,200 Speaker 1: little a little off on this one. I'm just gonna 132 00:07:20,240 --> 00:07:24,880 Speaker 1: say it, a little off well, and again the consequences 133 00:07:25,120 --> 00:07:27,720 Speaker 1: of I think you have to combine this with social media, 134 00:07:27,760 --> 00:07:32,560 Speaker 1: buck because what happens is there's one social media video 135 00:07:32,640 --> 00:07:35,760 Speaker 1: that goes viral, and this is frequent for many different issues, 136 00:07:36,080 --> 00:07:39,560 Speaker 1: but certainly, as it pertains to George Floyd that video, 137 00:07:40,120 --> 00:07:42,840 Speaker 1: instead of people saying, okay, let's find out whether or 138 00:07:42,840 --> 00:07:46,080 Speaker 1: not these police officers are responsible for committing a crime 139 00:07:46,080 --> 00:07:50,600 Speaker 1: and prosecute them, as occurred, immediately, the idea became, we 140 00:07:50,640 --> 00:07:55,680 Speaker 1: have to destroy the entire policing system and all police 141 00:07:55,920 --> 00:08:00,240 Speaker 1: are awful and not worthy of our respect, and that 142 00:08:00,440 --> 00:08:03,080 Speaker 1: is what the argument became. I mean, I'm sitting here 143 00:08:03,160 --> 00:08:08,280 Speaker 1: right now doing the showbuck in my OutKick fund the 144 00:08:08,360 --> 00:08:13,280 Speaker 1: Police t shirt, it says fund the police. That actually 145 00:08:13,280 --> 00:08:17,480 Speaker 1: became a slogan because defund the police, which is fundamentally 146 00:08:17,560 --> 00:08:22,960 Speaker 1: the dumbest slogan in the history of modern American politics, 147 00:08:23,480 --> 00:08:26,760 Speaker 1: became what democrats wanted to run on. And there were 148 00:08:26,840 --> 00:08:29,800 Speaker 1: so many people who were afraid of being called racist 149 00:08:29,800 --> 00:08:32,840 Speaker 1: in the wake of the George Floyd of tape that 150 00:08:32,960 --> 00:08:37,360 Speaker 1: they weren't willing to say, Hey, let's pause here, do 151 00:08:37,480 --> 00:08:41,040 Speaker 1: we really need to tear down the entire criminal justice system? 152 00:08:41,320 --> 00:08:44,600 Speaker 1: In an effort to try and respond to this video, 153 00:08:44,840 --> 00:08:48,520 Speaker 1: here's former New York City Police Commissioner Bill Bratton, famous 154 00:08:48,559 --> 00:08:53,079 Speaker 1: for being a part of the bringing crime down movement 155 00:08:53,120 --> 00:08:55,000 Speaker 1: here in the city of New York. Here he is 156 00:08:55,120 --> 00:08:57,840 Speaker 1: the scales right now. It's shipped very heavily in favor 157 00:08:57,920 --> 00:09:02,040 Speaker 1: of the reforms of the progressive left, well intended, some needed, 158 00:09:02,480 --> 00:09:06,400 Speaker 1: but tip too far. And what we have as a 159 00:09:06,480 --> 00:09:09,440 Speaker 1: result is is growing fear of crime, is growing actual 160 00:09:09,480 --> 00:09:12,959 Speaker 1: amount of crime as evidence in almost every major American city. 161 00:09:13,880 --> 00:09:16,920 Speaker 1: That's exactly what happened. It just went too far towards 162 00:09:16,960 --> 00:09:20,120 Speaker 1: the left. And what you see now is the areas 163 00:09:20,280 --> 00:09:23,960 Speaker 1: of real challenge and the areas of real problems in 164 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:28,439 Speaker 1: America from a policy perspective, wide open border, way too 165 00:09:28,480 --> 00:09:32,120 Speaker 1: much spending, obviously, way too much COVID restriction from my 166 00:09:32,240 --> 00:09:35,679 Speaker 1: perspective as well, but also permissiveness toward crime and criminality. 167 00:09:36,280 --> 00:09:39,560 Speaker 1: These are maladies of the left. These are things that 168 00:09:39,600 --> 00:09:42,439 Speaker 1: you can trace directly to the ideology of one major 169 00:09:42,480 --> 00:09:45,200 Speaker 1: political party of this country. And look, I try to 170 00:09:45,240 --> 00:09:47,679 Speaker 1: hold everybody accountable for their decisions. And that's why I'll 171 00:09:47,720 --> 00:09:50,439 Speaker 1: say some Republicans, I think we're a little too favorable 172 00:09:50,440 --> 00:09:53,479 Speaker 1: toward this, but it's you know, it's a ninety ten proposition. 173 00:09:53,559 --> 00:09:57,720 Speaker 1: This is ninety percent Democrats responsibility and maybe five or 174 00:09:57,720 --> 00:10:00,840 Speaker 1: ten percent Republicans pushing for the mat that we're suffering 175 00:10:00,840 --> 00:10:05,720 Speaker 1: through major cities right now. Positive is buck people forgot. 176 00:10:06,240 --> 00:10:09,320 Speaker 1: But we know how to fix this, and it's a 177 00:10:09,320 --> 00:10:12,640 Speaker 1: matter of making those fixes happen. That's what the nineties 178 00:10:12,640 --> 00:10:16,760 Speaker 1: were about, right, fixing many of these social ills. Now 179 00:10:17,360 --> 00:10:21,240 Speaker 1: is there the political wherewithal to actually fix them. That's 180 00:10:21,679 --> 00:10:25,320 Speaker 1: why we need to have a landslide in November, because 181 00:10:25,360 --> 00:10:29,240 Speaker 1: that will change, It'll crystallize a lot of Democrats into 182 00:10:29,280 --> 00:10:32,719 Speaker 1: recognizing how much they overreached. Yeah, it would be good 183 00:10:32,720 --> 00:10:35,240 Speaker 1: if we could get to a place where somehow I 184 00:10:35,240 --> 00:10:36,959 Speaker 1: see this all the time on social media, Clay where 185 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:39,360 Speaker 1: there's a video of police officers that are trying to 186 00:10:39,960 --> 00:10:42,520 Speaker 1: tell someone you know, you can't block traffic where you can't. 187 00:10:42,520 --> 00:10:45,400 Speaker 1: What you're doing is illegal, and there's this attitude of vote, well, 188 00:10:45,440 --> 00:10:48,800 Speaker 1: I'm just not getting arrested today, yeah, and then the 189 00:10:48,800 --> 00:10:51,760 Speaker 1: cop will say you're under arrest and they say no, no, sorry, 190 00:10:52,360 --> 00:10:56,240 Speaker 1: until people understand that that's actually, in itself, that is 191 00:10:56,280 --> 00:10:58,600 Speaker 1: the problem. Right if you think you can just wrestle 192 00:10:58,600 --> 00:11:01,080 Speaker 1: with cops because you don't feel like getting arrested today, 193 00:11:01,280 --> 00:11:03,320 Speaker 1: and some portion of the public goes along with you 194 00:11:03,360 --> 00:11:05,720 Speaker 1: and says, yeah, if you don't feel like getting arrested, 195 00:11:05,760 --> 00:11:07,880 Speaker 1: no problem, go for it. See if you can escape. 196 00:11:08,320 --> 00:11:10,640 Speaker 1: We are going to have lawlessness in a way that 197 00:11:10,720 --> 00:11:15,040 Speaker 1: really makes people unsafe and makes our society miserable. Every 198 00:11:15,200 --> 00:11:20,200 Speaker 1: single violent police encounter, virtually every single one of them, 199 00:11:20,320 --> 00:11:23,680 Speaker 1: would not exist if the initial person just complied with 200 00:11:23,760 --> 00:11:28,600 Speaker 1: police officer request period comply I send it to my 201 00:11:28,640 --> 00:11:32,600 Speaker 1: kids all the time. Your dad is an attorney. If 202 00:11:32,640 --> 00:11:36,440 Speaker 1: your constitutional rights are violated, you get an opportunity, thankfully 203 00:11:36,480 --> 00:11:40,319 Speaker 1: in this country, to defend yourself against any way that 204 00:11:40,360 --> 00:11:42,920 Speaker 1: you might have been mistreated. But if you don't comply 205 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:46,960 Speaker 1: with the police officer, things get worse in a hurry. 206 00:11:47,120 --> 00:11:49,400 Speaker 1: I don't know why every parent doesn't have this conversation. 207 00:11:49,720 --> 00:11:52,520 Speaker 1: It is remarkable that if you told somebody, hey, I 208 00:11:52,600 --> 00:11:54,920 Speaker 1: want to have a module in school, just a module, 209 00:11:54,960 --> 00:11:58,120 Speaker 1: not even a full class where we teach kids about 210 00:11:58,200 --> 00:12:00,880 Speaker 1: you know, if you have to have an interaction with police, 211 00:12:01,480 --> 00:12:04,360 Speaker 1: here's how to go about it safely. You know your rights, 212 00:12:04,400 --> 00:12:06,840 Speaker 1: Here are your rights, here's what they can do, here's 213 00:12:06,880 --> 00:12:12,160 Speaker 1: what they can do. That is crazy totalitarianism. But teaching 214 00:12:12,240 --> 00:12:17,240 Speaker 1: kids about pan sexualism and thirty seven different genders is 215 00:12:17,280 --> 00:12:19,880 Speaker 1: science and is necessary. This is the modern Left for 216 00:12:19,920 --> 00:12:22,520 Speaker 1: you folks. Look, there's something to be said about joining 217 00:12:22,600 --> 00:12:25,559 Speaker 1: voices together and what you collectively believe in. That's one 218 00:12:25,559 --> 00:12:30,040 Speaker 1: of the benefits of AMAK, the Association of Mature American Citizens. 219 00:12:30,080 --> 00:12:32,720 Speaker 1: This is an organization meant to offer both a unified 220 00:12:32,800 --> 00:12:35,360 Speaker 1: voice and benefits that come from being part of an 221 00:12:35,360 --> 00:12:38,600 Speaker 1: association created to improve quality of life for its membership. 222 00:12:39,160 --> 00:12:44,520 Speaker 1: AMAK is right. Our nation faces unprecedented challenges. 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Stand with AMAC 232 00:13:14,480 --> 00:13:18,479 Speaker 1: and join us today at amack dot us slash freedom. 233 00:13:18,520 --> 00:13:28,400 Speaker 1: That's AMAC dot us slash freedom. Join AMAC today, Welcome 234 00:13:28,400 --> 00:13:31,520 Speaker 1: back into play. And Buck was just talking about this 235 00:13:31,559 --> 00:13:35,319 Speaker 1: a second ago. Here story up from the Washington Examiner 236 00:13:35,440 --> 00:13:40,240 Speaker 1: by Jerry Dunlevy. CIA has known Trump Russia collusion data 237 00:13:40,679 --> 00:13:46,480 Speaker 1: not technically plausible since twenty seventeen. Durham says an agency 238 00:13:46,520 --> 00:13:50,120 Speaker 1: believed to be the CIA conclude the data underpinning certain 239 00:13:50,200 --> 00:13:55,439 Speaker 1: Trump Russia collusion allegations was not technically plausible by early 240 00:13:55,480 --> 00:13:59,760 Speaker 1: twenty seventeen, casting further doubts on claims pushed by the 241 00:14:00,240 --> 00:14:05,640 Speaker 1: campaign before the twenty sixteen election. Democratic cybersecurity lawyer Michael 242 00:14:05,679 --> 00:14:10,600 Speaker 1: Sussman was indicted last September for allegedly concealing his clients 243 00:14:10,679 --> 00:14:15,079 Speaker 1: Hillary Clinton twenty sixteen presidential campaign and a tech executive 244 00:14:15,080 --> 00:14:19,400 Speaker 1: known to be former New Star executive Rodney Joffe from 245 00:14:19,480 --> 00:14:23,720 Speaker 1: FBI General Council James Baker twenty sixteen when he pushed 246 00:14:23,720 --> 00:14:27,280 Speaker 1: since debunk claims of a secret back channel between the 247 00:14:27,280 --> 00:14:33,240 Speaker 1: Trump organization and Russia's Alpha Bank. September twenty twenty one 248 00:14:33,240 --> 00:14:36,400 Speaker 1: indictment alleged Sussman lied when he said he was not 249 00:14:36,480 --> 00:14:39,400 Speaker 1: providing a domain name system data allegations to the FBI 250 00:14:39,520 --> 00:14:42,200 Speaker 1: on behalf of any client when he was Clay. This 251 00:14:42,320 --> 00:14:44,680 Speaker 1: is you know, it's frustrating because we find out this 252 00:14:44,720 --> 00:14:48,400 Speaker 1: information later on in the process, when it's much less 253 00:14:48,440 --> 00:14:51,560 Speaker 1: likely to have the same degree of political impact that 254 00:14:51,640 --> 00:14:54,600 Speaker 1: it would have had only we known about it earlier. 255 00:14:55,560 --> 00:14:59,360 Speaker 1: This was disinformation. This wasn't a mistake, and I think 256 00:14:59,360 --> 00:15:03,400 Speaker 1: that's whatever the whole Russia Trump collusion thing, which is 257 00:15:03,440 --> 00:15:05,800 Speaker 1: not over insofar as we still are waiting for the 258 00:15:05,880 --> 00:15:09,120 Speaker 1: final report, at least from Durham, who is doing a 259 00:15:09,160 --> 00:15:12,960 Speaker 1: full scale investigation of this. This was the primary method 260 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:16,360 Speaker 1: through which the Democrats rallied their base and tried to 261 00:15:17,800 --> 00:15:22,000 Speaker 1: slow and even destroy the Trump administration. They knew the 262 00:15:22,120 --> 00:15:24,280 Speaker 1: people pushing it early on knew it was a lie. 263 00:15:24,360 --> 00:15:27,120 Speaker 1: It's not even that they believed their own bs Clay. 264 00:15:27,200 --> 00:15:29,520 Speaker 1: That's what's starting to emerge more and more. This was 265 00:15:29,640 --> 00:15:33,760 Speaker 1: Russian style disinformatzia, which means they knew it was crap 266 00:15:33,880 --> 00:15:36,160 Speaker 1: and they were pushing it anyway because it could hurt 267 00:15:36,200 --> 00:15:39,760 Speaker 1: their political rivals. It's also super frustrating, and this is 268 00:15:39,800 --> 00:15:42,600 Speaker 1: me speaking as someone who was involved in a media company. 269 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:46,280 Speaker 1: The amount of dollars that they were talking about that 270 00:15:46,360 --> 00:15:52,000 Speaker 1: Russia was spending to influence the twenty sixteen election was minuscule. 271 00:15:52,560 --> 00:15:57,200 Speaker 1: And anyone who is involved in a media company at all, CNN, 272 00:15:57,520 --> 00:16:02,400 Speaker 1: New York Times, Washington Post, this is the essence of 273 00:16:02,440 --> 00:16:06,480 Speaker 1: their business. They would understand. Anyone who's involved on the 274 00:16:06,480 --> 00:16:10,600 Speaker 1: business side would there that the hundred grand in advertisements 275 00:16:10,640 --> 00:16:13,800 Speaker 1: that Russia might have been trying to buy to influence 276 00:16:13,880 --> 00:16:18,320 Speaker 1: the twenty sixteen election was not even enough to be 277 00:16:18,360 --> 00:16:22,040 Speaker 1: considered a drop in the bucket, and so the entire 278 00:16:22,200 --> 00:16:25,360 Speaker 1: narrative that they tried to run with buck what's so 279 00:16:25,440 --> 00:16:29,440 Speaker 1: frustrating to me is I saw and knew what we 280 00:16:29,520 --> 00:16:33,600 Speaker 1: spent on advertising on Facebook and what was spent by 281 00:16:33,680 --> 00:16:38,320 Speaker 1: competitors and everybody else, and it's so much money that 282 00:16:38,480 --> 00:16:40,480 Speaker 1: the idea that they were selling that this could have 283 00:16:40,520 --> 00:16:43,280 Speaker 1: ever been impactful was such a lie, and they knew 284 00:16:43,280 --> 00:16:46,000 Speaker 1: it was a lie. 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Let's 312 00:18:11,560 --> 00:18:14,240 Speaker 1: see if we can set another all time record here 313 00:18:14,280 --> 00:18:17,119 Speaker 1: in April. It is tax day. A lot of people 314 00:18:17,160 --> 00:18:20,560 Speaker 1: cutting checks that are painful to cut today. A lot 315 00:18:20,600 --> 00:18:23,200 Speaker 1: of people also not cutting checks at all because they're 316 00:18:23,280 --> 00:18:26,040 Speaker 1: part of nearly I think the number is sixty percent 317 00:18:26,160 --> 00:18:29,880 Speaker 1: of Americans Buck are not going to pay any federal 318 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:34,440 Speaker 1: income taxes at all today. One guy who is I believe, 319 00:18:34,560 --> 00:18:39,119 Speaker 1: paying potentially the largest tax bill in the history of 320 00:18:39,119 --> 00:18:42,520 Speaker 1: the United States, Elon Musk, who sold some of his 321 00:18:42,720 --> 00:18:46,360 Speaker 1: Twitter some of his Tesla stock and as a result, 322 00:18:46,960 --> 00:18:52,480 Speaker 1: is in line for a monster tax bill. And one 323 00:18:52,480 --> 00:18:55,080 Speaker 1: of the things that has been intriguing over the weekend, 324 00:18:55,160 --> 00:18:59,120 Speaker 1: we've talked a lot about this free speech battle that 325 00:18:59,240 --> 00:19:02,760 Speaker 1: has a urged over whether or not Elon Musk is 326 00:19:02,800 --> 00:19:06,119 Speaker 1: going to be able to purchase Twitter. Twitter stock, by 327 00:19:06,119 --> 00:19:08,399 Speaker 1: the way, as we speak right now up about a 328 00:19:08,480 --> 00:19:12,919 Speaker 1: dollar fifty. They implemented the poison pill on Friday to 329 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:18,000 Speaker 1: try to keep Elon Musk from taking control of the company, 330 00:19:18,480 --> 00:19:23,560 Speaker 1: and over the weekend Elon Musk fired away, fired off 331 00:19:23,640 --> 00:19:28,160 Speaker 1: several different tweets relating to that battle. And I saw 332 00:19:28,320 --> 00:19:30,320 Speaker 1: this and I was kind of stunned by it. Buck 333 00:19:30,480 --> 00:19:35,600 Speaker 1: Jack Dorsey, who was the longtime CEO of Twitter, also 334 00:19:35,880 --> 00:19:40,680 Speaker 1: was a co founder. He said that the board of 335 00:19:40,720 --> 00:19:44,359 Speaker 1: which he is a member has quote consistently been the 336 00:19:44,480 --> 00:19:48,639 Speaker 1: dysfunction of the company. He also said the plots and 337 00:19:48,800 --> 00:19:51,520 Speaker 1: coups of the Twitter board could be made into a 338 00:19:51,560 --> 00:19:56,119 Speaker 1: Hollywood thriller. One day, and earlier in the day, another 339 00:19:56,200 --> 00:20:00,560 Speaker 1: capitalist was quoted for saying good boards don't create good companies, 340 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:04,080 Speaker 1: but a bad board will kill a company. Every time, 341 00:20:04,720 --> 00:20:08,240 Speaker 1: Jack Dorsey responded big facts. And then he was asked 342 00:20:08,240 --> 00:20:10,960 Speaker 1: by a Twitter user if he's allowed to say these 343 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:15,120 Speaker 1: things about the Twitter board, and he simply responded no. 344 00:20:16,600 --> 00:20:19,719 Speaker 1: So all of this was happening. Of course on Twitter, 345 00:20:19,840 --> 00:20:24,919 Speaker 1: there's an outstanding fifty four dollars and twenty cents offer 346 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:28,880 Speaker 1: from Elon Musk so far no competing bid that has emerged, 347 00:20:29,359 --> 00:20:32,359 Speaker 1: and buck uson and all. This is so fascinating because 348 00:20:32,560 --> 00:20:36,200 Speaker 1: the Washington Post and the New York Times and all 349 00:20:36,240 --> 00:20:40,840 Speaker 1: these companies that are owned by billionaires, rememberably the Washington 350 00:20:40,880 --> 00:20:44,600 Speaker 1: Post owned by Jeff Bezos, are arguing, oh my goodness, 351 00:20:44,640 --> 00:20:47,280 Speaker 1: can you imagine if Twitter is owned by a billionaire 352 00:20:47,320 --> 00:20:49,919 Speaker 1: and he has the ability to say and do what 353 00:20:50,119 --> 00:20:54,440 Speaker 1: he thinks is right for this company, with the hypocrisy 354 00:20:54,560 --> 00:20:58,640 Speaker 1: staggering because their companies are effectively owned by billionaires as well. 355 00:20:59,400 --> 00:21:03,760 Speaker 1: And there is a monster debate that has ensued about 356 00:21:03,800 --> 00:21:08,400 Speaker 1: First Amendment free speech. Who can and cannot be permitted 357 00:21:08,440 --> 00:21:12,479 Speaker 1: to say what they think? But do you think that 358 00:21:12,560 --> 00:21:15,960 Speaker 1: Elon Musk is going to be ultimately successful here or 359 00:21:16,040 --> 00:21:19,320 Speaker 1: do you think the forces are so aligned against Elon 360 00:21:19,400 --> 00:21:21,639 Speaker 1: Musk that even though he's the richest man in the world, 361 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:25,359 Speaker 1: they're not going to allow him to be successful. I 362 00:21:25,400 --> 00:21:28,439 Speaker 1: think he's gonna end up taking control of Twitter. But 363 00:21:28,520 --> 00:21:33,719 Speaker 1: I would add that I'm so psychologically invested in that 364 00:21:33,800 --> 00:21:36,760 Speaker 1: outcome that I have to say I think it's probably 365 00:21:36,880 --> 00:21:41,800 Speaker 1: tainting my ability to be entirely objective. And I still 366 00:21:41,800 --> 00:21:44,880 Speaker 1: think that the most fascinating part of it for me 367 00:21:45,840 --> 00:21:49,480 Speaker 1: isn't yeah, sure, a free speech A free speech platform 368 00:21:49,480 --> 00:21:52,200 Speaker 1: would be pretty amazing. I think in the early days 369 00:21:52,200 --> 00:21:54,760 Speaker 1: of Twitter it was much closer to that. It was 370 00:21:54,840 --> 00:21:58,280 Speaker 1: also kind of out last. I mean, Twitter was crazy 371 00:21:58,320 --> 00:22:00,639 Speaker 1: in those early days, but it was closer to a 372 00:22:00,680 --> 00:22:03,159 Speaker 1: free speech platform. In recent years, it's become more and 373 00:22:03,200 --> 00:22:07,760 Speaker 1: more restrictive. But for me, seeing the way that while 374 00:22:07,800 --> 00:22:10,520 Speaker 1: they were lecturing the whole country, the Democrats were electuring 375 00:22:10,560 --> 00:22:13,720 Speaker 1: the country. About how one hundred thousand dollars spent on 376 00:22:13,760 --> 00:22:19,000 Speaker 1: Facebook by Russian bots or whatever by Russian interests was 377 00:22:19,320 --> 00:22:23,040 Speaker 1: election interference? You might have had one of the most 378 00:22:23,040 --> 00:22:27,640 Speaker 1: powerful platforms and media companies when it comes to particularly 379 00:22:27,680 --> 00:22:31,560 Speaker 1: direction of political conversation in this country. Lying to the 380 00:22:31,560 --> 00:22:34,080 Speaker 1: American people and actively putting its thumb on the scale 381 00:22:34,080 --> 00:22:36,159 Speaker 1: for one side or the other, not just in a 382 00:22:36,200 --> 00:22:40,159 Speaker 1: presidential election, and a whole range of political affairs. I 383 00:22:40,200 --> 00:22:45,239 Speaker 1: think seeing the extent of Twitter censorship and elevation simultaneous, right, 384 00:22:45,280 --> 00:22:48,480 Speaker 1: it's not just pushing some people down, it's lifting other 385 00:22:48,600 --> 00:22:52,320 Speaker 1: ideas and individuals up to make them seem more popular, 386 00:22:52,359 --> 00:22:56,080 Speaker 1: to make them seem more mainstream. The mainstreaming effect that 387 00:22:56,119 --> 00:22:58,800 Speaker 1: Twitter can have, I think has been an enormous asset 388 00:22:58,840 --> 00:23:01,199 Speaker 1: for the left. Oh well this, you know, this idea 389 00:23:01,200 --> 00:23:04,560 Speaker 1: of you know, teach five year olds gender stuff. It's 390 00:23:04,600 --> 00:23:06,959 Speaker 1: trending on Twitter. It must be normal, right, I mean, 391 00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:09,520 Speaker 1: there's been a lot that they've been able to engage in. 392 00:23:09,800 --> 00:23:12,080 Speaker 1: I think they're terrified of that, and I think there 393 00:23:12,080 --> 00:23:15,080 Speaker 1: are a lot of people, even in the legacy media, 394 00:23:15,240 --> 00:23:17,679 Speaker 1: who don't want it to come out that they've had 395 00:23:18,400 --> 00:23:21,160 Speaker 1: a whole bunch of assistants though this whole time. Another thing, 396 00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:24,639 Speaker 1: Clay that this something I tweeted, I tweeted about this 397 00:23:24,680 --> 00:23:29,160 Speaker 1: other weekend. Same thing's true at Facebook, folks, with likely 398 00:23:29,320 --> 00:23:34,080 Speaker 1: even more effect on the national political conversation. And when 399 00:23:34,080 --> 00:23:35,520 Speaker 1: I say the same thing as true, I mean, there's 400 00:23:35,720 --> 00:23:39,480 Speaker 1: massive censorship going on at Facebook. They have this whole 401 00:23:39,560 --> 00:23:42,160 Speaker 1: strikes thing that you get and you have to appeal 402 00:23:42,200 --> 00:23:45,680 Speaker 1: and you have you know, they're constantly playing games. And 403 00:23:45,800 --> 00:23:48,159 Speaker 1: remember they always say, oh, it's about hate speech or 404 00:23:48,160 --> 00:23:50,800 Speaker 1: it's about the most vile things that a person could say. 405 00:23:50,920 --> 00:23:53,440 Speaker 1: That's a lie. I was getting Twitter. I was getting 406 00:23:53,440 --> 00:23:55,879 Speaker 1: Twitter and Facebook strikes for saying, hey, look at this 407 00:23:55,920 --> 00:23:58,920 Speaker 1: study on masks. Turns out masks don't work. By the way, 408 00:23:58,960 --> 00:24:02,000 Speaker 1: I'm right and they're wrong. The little Twitter conversational health 409 00:24:02,359 --> 00:24:05,400 Speaker 1: morons owe me an apology, but that will never come. 410 00:24:06,640 --> 00:24:09,160 Speaker 1: It's a real deal. And we talked to the Babylon 411 00:24:09,280 --> 00:24:13,360 Speaker 1: b CEO Seth Dillon, who pointed this out. But as 412 00:24:13,359 --> 00:24:17,520 Speaker 1: someone who ran a media company, I testified in Congress 413 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:23,080 Speaker 1: that we could see buck as soon as we did anything. 414 00:24:23,080 --> 00:24:25,000 Speaker 1: And I don't have the data in front of me 415 00:24:25,200 --> 00:24:27,959 Speaker 1: right now, but the first time that we had Donald 416 00:24:27,960 --> 00:24:34,080 Speaker 1: Trump on the OutKick Show, our Facebook traffic immediately declined 417 00:24:34,280 --> 00:24:38,760 Speaker 1: eighty percent because we had several stories which were positive 418 00:24:38,760 --> 00:24:42,040 Speaker 1: in nature with Donald Trump in the headline. You can 419 00:24:42,080 --> 00:24:44,920 Speaker 1: go look at the I don't know what the Facebook 420 00:24:44,920 --> 00:24:48,200 Speaker 1: algorithm is obviously, because they keep that hidden. But you 421 00:24:48,240 --> 00:24:54,560 Speaker 1: can go look buck at the trajectory of Outkicks traffic 422 00:24:55,040 --> 00:24:58,359 Speaker 1: and as soon as we had Trump on, the traffic 423 00:24:58,560 --> 00:25:02,320 Speaker 1: fell off for two or three weeks before it comes back. 424 00:25:02,359 --> 00:25:04,800 Speaker 1: We lose eighty percent of our traffic for having positive 425 00:25:04,840 --> 00:25:08,240 Speaker 1: stories about Donald Trump at OutKick. And this kind of 426 00:25:08,280 --> 00:25:11,440 Speaker 1: thing would happen at Facebook, and we did mask stories. 427 00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:14,320 Speaker 1: When I would come out and say hey, even quoting 428 00:25:14,359 --> 00:25:17,040 Speaker 1: from the CDC Zone website, they would ding it as 429 00:25:17,160 --> 00:25:22,000 Speaker 1: not scientifically accurate when we did those stories, and people say, okay, 430 00:25:22,040 --> 00:25:25,719 Speaker 1: what's the impact of that. Well, the traffic is a 431 00:25:25,840 --> 00:25:29,120 Speaker 1: huge part of the revenue for the company, so I 432 00:25:29,119 --> 00:25:33,080 Speaker 1: could quickly see why so many companies end up end 433 00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:36,240 Speaker 1: up towing the line of what is the line that 434 00:25:36,280 --> 00:25:40,920 Speaker 1: they're going to expect and accept. At Facebook, we're never 435 00:25:41,040 --> 00:25:44,560 Speaker 1: crossing that line because if we do, that's going to 436 00:25:44,680 --> 00:25:49,440 Speaker 1: cost us hundreds of thousands, potentially millions of dollars in revenue. 437 00:25:49,520 --> 00:25:52,760 Speaker 1: And that's how you end up with group think is Facebook, 438 00:25:52,800 --> 00:25:55,159 Speaker 1: and to a large extent, I think Twitter is as well. 439 00:25:55,440 --> 00:25:58,560 Speaker 1: They decide what's acceptable and if you cross that line, 440 00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:01,960 Speaker 1: there's financial consequence. We've also seen this with the massive 441 00:26:02,040 --> 00:26:06,480 Speaker 1: hypocrisy about election acceptance. I guess you could call it. 442 00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:11,800 Speaker 1: Where after Hillary Clinton lost, that's right, in twenty sixteen 443 00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:17,399 Speaker 1: to Donald Trump, social media was an enormous megaphone for 444 00:26:17,560 --> 00:26:22,200 Speaker 1: all kinds of crazy conspiracy theories about Russia Trump collusion, 445 00:26:22,680 --> 00:26:27,920 Speaker 1: about a secret bank that are a secret processing of 446 00:26:28,480 --> 00:26:32,520 Speaker 1: transfers from a Russian bank to Trump tower, and about 447 00:26:32,840 --> 00:26:35,879 Speaker 1: meetings that never actually took place, and about a dossier. 448 00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:39,480 Speaker 1: And I mean, let's just understand, the p tape dossier 449 00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:44,359 Speaker 1: thing was spread all over social media constantly. The whole 450 00:26:44,359 --> 00:26:46,639 Speaker 1: thing was a line. Okay, the entire thing was just 451 00:26:46,760 --> 00:26:50,840 Speaker 1: absolute crap, and that was shared all over social media. 452 00:26:50,920 --> 00:26:54,240 Speaker 1: So I do understand there is a very real, a 453 00:26:54,359 --> 00:26:59,000 Speaker 1: very seething frustration because after a twenty twenty election where 454 00:26:59,040 --> 00:27:00,800 Speaker 1: there were a lot of things things that went on 455 00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:05,240 Speaker 1: that were I think violations of law, but treated as 456 00:27:05,280 --> 00:27:07,159 Speaker 1: though they weren't. Whether it was the extension of the 457 00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:11,240 Speaker 1: voting deadline in Pennsylvania or the way that there was 458 00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:14,720 Speaker 1: an abuse of any safeguards of mail and balloting. We 459 00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:17,399 Speaker 1: weren't even allowed to have a conversation about that in 460 00:27:17,440 --> 00:27:20,200 Speaker 1: the open. After the election. It was shut it down, 461 00:27:20,560 --> 00:27:22,960 Speaker 1: shut it all down. So it's not only that we 462 00:27:23,080 --> 00:27:26,119 Speaker 1: weren't able to work out, okay, what election fraud or 463 00:27:26,119 --> 00:27:30,120 Speaker 1: what election fraud possibilities even for the next time around 464 00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:33,119 Speaker 1: are real? What are exaggerated? Where did we go? Where 465 00:27:33,119 --> 00:27:36,320 Speaker 1: did the Democrats maybe cheat? Where did actually things just 466 00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:38,960 Speaker 1: look that way? But we couldn't have an open discussion 467 00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:41,840 Speaker 1: about that. And that came after four years of Democrats 468 00:27:41,840 --> 00:27:44,840 Speaker 1: pretending Trump stole the election and use Facebook and Twitter 469 00:27:44,880 --> 00:27:47,919 Speaker 1: and other platforms to constantly share that information. So the 470 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:52,439 Speaker 1: double standard on that issue alone, of election integrity and 471 00:27:52,520 --> 00:27:57,600 Speaker 1: stolen elections, let's be Honesta's breathtaking and infuriating for people 472 00:27:57,840 --> 00:28:00,840 Speaker 1: who actually wanted to be able to share their ideas 473 00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:03,520 Speaker 1: and learn about other people's ideas for what really happened. 474 00:28:04,240 --> 00:28:08,120 Speaker 1: We let Stacy Abrams become a patron saint in this 475 00:28:08,200 --> 00:28:11,120 Speaker 1: country million, certainly of the Democrat Party. She went from 476 00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:13,879 Speaker 1: having a net worth of one hundred thousand dollars to 477 00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:16,600 Speaker 1: having a net worth of over three million dollars and 478 00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:19,440 Speaker 1: buck she refused to concede that she lost the election 479 00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:23,800 Speaker 1: to Brian Kemp, and now she is running again and 480 00:28:23,840 --> 00:28:26,840 Speaker 1: I bet if she loses in twenty twenty two, she'll 481 00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:31,440 Speaker 1: refuse to concede again, and that will further embolden her 482 00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:34,640 Speaker 1: as one of the faces of the Democratic Party. And 483 00:28:34,680 --> 00:28:37,960 Speaker 1: so as you look at the hypocrisy that is being 484 00:28:38,040 --> 00:28:42,280 Speaker 1: played out here, it is so that this is why 485 00:28:42,360 --> 00:28:44,160 Speaker 1: for those of you out there, and I understand it'd 486 00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:46,600 Speaker 1: be fascinating. No, five or ten percent of you maybe 487 00:28:46,640 --> 00:28:51,720 Speaker 1: listening right now, are on Twitter, but that is where 488 00:28:51,760 --> 00:28:56,560 Speaker 1: the stories are built, that's where the narrative comes from. 489 00:28:56,960 --> 00:29:02,600 Speaker 1: And so having a fair minded leader of Twitter, someone 490 00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:06,320 Speaker 1: like Elon Musk, who can take this company private and 491 00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:11,440 Speaker 1: just figure out how to have a publicly available algorithm 492 00:29:11,640 --> 00:29:14,600 Speaker 1: that would show us once and for all what sort 493 00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:16,880 Speaker 1: of discrimination is going on. Because Buck, I come back 494 00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:20,000 Speaker 1: to this time and time again, because people in tech 495 00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:24,000 Speaker 1: always say, well, that's not us, it's the algorithm, and 496 00:29:24,440 --> 00:29:26,720 Speaker 1: they never have to answer the question, yes, but you 497 00:29:26,840 --> 00:29:30,160 Speaker 1: built the algorithm. I could build an algorithm to give 498 00:29:30,240 --> 00:29:34,240 Speaker 1: me any result that I want, Buck, And so that 499 00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:37,800 Speaker 1: is why Twitter is such a rigged game. They've built 500 00:29:37,840 --> 00:29:43,960 Speaker 1: these algorithms to consistently favor far left wing agenda stories. 501 00:29:44,280 --> 00:29:47,760 Speaker 1: They allow them to trend, they make them seem more 502 00:29:47,800 --> 00:29:52,960 Speaker 1: popular and representative of the American public than they actually are, 503 00:29:53,440 --> 00:29:57,560 Speaker 1: and then that has a drastic influence in the overall politics. Now, 504 00:29:57,600 --> 00:30:00,160 Speaker 1: I think the positive is going to be Democrats have 505 00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:04,000 Speaker 1: so given themselves over to what Twitter opinion is that 506 00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:06,320 Speaker 1: it's led them astray from where the most of the 507 00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:09,280 Speaker 1: country is because only about two percent of people are 508 00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:12,280 Speaker 1: tweeting actively on a day to day basis on social 509 00:30:12,320 --> 00:30:14,640 Speaker 1: media and all that factors in, and I think it's 510 00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:17,040 Speaker 1: going to end up being one of the death knells 511 00:30:17,120 --> 00:30:19,680 Speaker 1: of the Democratic Party in twenty twenty two. Yeah, I mean, 512 00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:21,680 Speaker 1: the best part about being a Democrat is that you 513 00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:26,440 Speaker 1: get to be wildly ignorant of reality around you, but 514 00:30:26,600 --> 00:30:29,600 Speaker 1: have all of your in group talking about or showing 515 00:30:29,640 --> 00:30:32,840 Speaker 1: their love for you online for your ideas. The virtue 516 00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:36,800 Speaker 1: signaling Clay is that that's the sweet spot right there. 517 00:30:37,160 --> 00:30:39,040 Speaker 1: This is why you know. You see all these leftists 518 00:30:39,080 --> 00:30:41,239 Speaker 1: who all of a sudden are all about putting up 519 00:30:41,280 --> 00:30:44,720 Speaker 1: that Ukraine flag right next to their photo of themselves 520 00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:48,600 Speaker 1: on their Twitter profile double masks just to be safe outside, 521 00:30:49,240 --> 00:30:52,479 Speaker 1: or blacking out their Instagram. 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Mister governor, thanks for calling in. 554 00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:49,480 Speaker 1: Thank you for having me. Add always, it's great to 555 00:32:49,560 --> 00:32:52,000 Speaker 1: be on the show. How are you all today? We're good, sir, 556 00:32:52,160 --> 00:32:55,840 Speaker 1: Thank you. Let's just talk. Let's talk taxes for a minute. 557 00:32:55,880 --> 00:32:58,120 Speaker 1: If weekn. I know you're doing some things in your 558 00:32:58,160 --> 00:33:02,320 Speaker 1: home state of Mississippi to try to ease the tax burden. 559 00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:06,000 Speaker 1: But why is it that there are there are some 560 00:33:06,040 --> 00:33:09,280 Speaker 1: red states out there that still have state income taxes? 561 00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:11,520 Speaker 1: What can you do to get rid of it? And 562 00:33:11,640 --> 00:33:14,120 Speaker 1: why is our tax code at a federal level thousands 563 00:33:14,120 --> 00:33:19,520 Speaker 1: of pages long? Well, you know that's a that's a 564 00:33:19,520 --> 00:33:21,480 Speaker 1: couple of questions in there, and they could take a 565 00:33:21,560 --> 00:33:23,720 Speaker 1: couple hours to answer. Let's start with the federal tax 566 00:33:23,800 --> 00:33:28,480 Speaker 1: Code US. It's a couple thousand pages long because the 567 00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:32,760 Speaker 1: federal government continues to spend irresponsibly and somebody's got to 568 00:33:32,800 --> 00:33:34,400 Speaker 1: pay for it. You know, we believe down here in 569 00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:38,520 Speaker 1: Mississippi that that government doesn't have anything that it doesn't 570 00:33:38,560 --> 00:33:41,480 Speaker 1: first take from somebody else. And at the federal level, 571 00:33:42,080 --> 00:33:45,560 Speaker 1: they literally take trillions of dollars from the taxpayers, uh 572 00:33:45,640 --> 00:33:49,920 Speaker 1: and and constantly spend and spend and spend. And today 573 00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:53,600 Speaker 1: is just an example um that more and more people 574 00:33:53,600 --> 00:33:57,320 Speaker 1: hopefully are paying attention to how much they are paying 575 00:33:57,320 --> 00:34:00,440 Speaker 1: in taxes. You know, technology is a good thing, but 576 00:34:00,520 --> 00:34:05,680 Speaker 1: the technology that allowed American workers to take out on 577 00:34:05,720 --> 00:34:08,759 Speaker 1: a weekly or bi monthly or a monthly basis of 578 00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:11,480 Speaker 1: their check what they pay and owe the federal government 579 00:34:11,840 --> 00:34:15,040 Speaker 1: makes a lot of individual Americans forget how much they're 580 00:34:15,040 --> 00:34:18,080 Speaker 1: paying to the federal government. And I think that's creates 581 00:34:18,080 --> 00:34:21,719 Speaker 1: some of the challenges. I appreciate you coming on, Governor. 582 00:34:21,760 --> 00:34:26,839 Speaker 1: I'm curious how much attention with COVID mobility, meaning so 583 00:34:26,880 --> 00:34:29,600 Speaker 1: many people were able to work or remotely and move 584 00:34:29,680 --> 00:34:33,160 Speaker 1: to different parts of the country. It feels like among 585 00:34:33,239 --> 00:34:36,200 Speaker 1: the business centric states, which obviously a lot of them 586 00:34:36,239 --> 00:34:39,960 Speaker 1: have Republican governors, there's been an attempt to make an 587 00:34:39,960 --> 00:34:43,080 Speaker 1: appeal to that group by declining the amount of state 588 00:34:43,120 --> 00:34:46,520 Speaker 1: income tax. And obviously I live in Tennessee. People know Florida, 589 00:34:46,600 --> 00:34:49,120 Speaker 1: Tennessee and Texas don't have any state income tax in 590 00:34:49,160 --> 00:34:52,239 Speaker 1: the South at all. How much of that is competition 591 00:34:52,320 --> 00:34:55,719 Speaker 1: that you're seeing to try to help Mississippi give a 592 00:34:55,760 --> 00:34:57,839 Speaker 1: little bit more of a reason for somebody to move 593 00:34:57,880 --> 00:35:00,400 Speaker 1: to your state potentially, and also obviously helped people who 594 00:35:00,440 --> 00:35:05,239 Speaker 1: are already there well as usual, you have absolutely hit 595 00:35:05,320 --> 00:35:10,000 Speaker 1: the proverbial nail on the head. I tell my legislators 596 00:35:10,040 --> 00:35:13,080 Speaker 1: and the people across my state, you don't have to 597 00:35:13,080 --> 00:35:15,239 Speaker 1: be a genius to look at a map and recognize 598 00:35:15,280 --> 00:35:18,799 Speaker 1: the two Mississippi's west is Texas, to our north is Tennessee, 599 00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:21,959 Speaker 1: and to our east is Florida. And if we want 600 00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:24,680 Speaker 1: to be competitive, if we want to be competitive in 601 00:35:24,680 --> 00:35:28,839 Speaker 1: our attempts to see additional capital investment, if we want 602 00:35:28,840 --> 00:35:31,759 Speaker 1: to be competitive in our attempts to create jobs, we 603 00:35:31,800 --> 00:35:35,640 Speaker 1: want to be competitive in our attempts to lure more 604 00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:39,040 Speaker 1: residents than to our state. We have to recognize that 605 00:35:39,160 --> 00:35:42,920 Speaker 1: both that all Texas, Tennessee in Florida all have zero 606 00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:45,600 Speaker 1: income tax, and that's the reason earlier this year I 607 00:35:45,680 --> 00:35:49,600 Speaker 1: propose the complete elimination of the income Tact in Mississippi 608 00:35:49,640 --> 00:35:52,120 Speaker 1: so that we would be on level playing ground. We 609 00:35:52,200 --> 00:35:54,200 Speaker 1: didn't get one hundred percent of what we asked for, 610 00:35:54,760 --> 00:35:57,640 Speaker 1: but we did get a major move in the right direction, 611 00:35:58,160 --> 00:36:01,640 Speaker 1: wherein today, upon the line of the law that I 612 00:36:01,719 --> 00:36:07,400 Speaker 1: found in the law last week, we now have the 613 00:36:07,400 --> 00:36:11,760 Speaker 1: fifth lowest marginal tax rate in America amongst those forty 614 00:36:11,760 --> 00:36:14,319 Speaker 1: one states that have an income taxes. You know, there 615 00:36:14,360 --> 00:36:17,400 Speaker 1: are nine income states, including Texas, Florida, and louis and 616 00:36:17,800 --> 00:36:20,480 Speaker 1: Tennessee that do not have an income tax. But amongst 617 00:36:20,520 --> 00:36:24,040 Speaker 1: those forty one states that do have an income tax, 618 00:36:24,080 --> 00:36:28,399 Speaker 1: Mississippi has number one the highest exemptions. Of the first 619 00:36:28,480 --> 00:36:32,160 Speaker 1: thirty six thousand, three hundred dollars of income is not 620 00:36:32,360 --> 00:36:35,799 Speaker 1: taxed or is taxed as zero percent in Mississippi. And 621 00:36:35,840 --> 00:36:39,399 Speaker 1: then we also have the fifth lowest marginal rate, so 622 00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:42,839 Speaker 1: that even at our highest earners pay a flat four 623 00:36:42,920 --> 00:36:47,239 Speaker 1: percent income tax, which again is is lower than some 624 00:36:47,320 --> 00:36:50,319 Speaker 1: thirty six other states in America, and so well, we 625 00:36:50,440 --> 00:36:53,400 Speaker 1: do it because I think it's good public policy. But 626 00:36:53,480 --> 00:36:56,160 Speaker 1: as you, as you so correctly said in the question, 627 00:36:56,520 --> 00:36:58,600 Speaker 1: we also do it because we have to, because that's 628 00:36:58,680 --> 00:37:03,920 Speaker 1: exactly who we compete with. And look, the results are 629 00:37:04,280 --> 00:37:06,440 Speaker 1: obvious when you look at Florida, you look at Tennessee, 630 00:37:06,480 --> 00:37:09,520 Speaker 1: and you look at Texas, three of the fastest growing 631 00:37:09,680 --> 00:37:12,279 Speaker 1: GDP states in all of America. And you look at 632 00:37:12,719 --> 00:37:15,799 Speaker 1: the other states across America, and what you see is 633 00:37:15,840 --> 00:37:19,760 Speaker 1: that in terms of economic growth, in terms of GDP growth, 634 00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:23,320 Speaker 1: and in terms of population growth, those individual states that 635 00:37:23,440 --> 00:37:26,880 Speaker 1: do not have an income tax are doing better almost 636 00:37:27,120 --> 00:37:30,399 Speaker 1: without exception, than those states that do have an income tax. 637 00:37:33,040 --> 00:37:38,440 Speaker 1: Misissippi Governor, the numbers are in for the last month 638 00:37:38,680 --> 00:37:43,920 Speaker 1: on immigration when it comes to our southern border, there were, 639 00:37:43,960 --> 00:37:47,520 Speaker 1: according to a federal court filing, two hundred and twenty 640 00:37:47,520 --> 00:37:51,240 Speaker 1: one thousand, three hundred and three migrants encountered, which means 641 00:37:51,280 --> 00:37:54,880 Speaker 1: processed and arrested for illegal entry at the southern border 642 00:37:54,960 --> 00:37:58,160 Speaker 1: in March. That's the highest for any months since Biden 643 00:37:58,200 --> 00:38:02,319 Speaker 1: took office. Eight thousand of them were released into the US. 644 00:38:02,440 --> 00:38:04,560 Speaker 1: The other one hundred and nine thousand, give or take, 645 00:38:04,600 --> 00:38:08,840 Speaker 1: were expelled via Title forty two authority. That Title forty 646 00:38:08,840 --> 00:38:12,680 Speaker 1: two authority goes away in about a month's time, and 647 00:38:12,760 --> 00:38:16,640 Speaker 1: there's already a number of major migrant caravans making their 648 00:38:16,680 --> 00:38:21,040 Speaker 1: way to the US Mexico border. How do you see 649 00:38:21,080 --> 00:38:23,920 Speaker 1: this playing out? And what is the Biden administration doing 650 00:38:24,239 --> 00:38:28,839 Speaker 1: in preparation for a surge that we can all see coming. Well, 651 00:38:28,880 --> 00:38:32,239 Speaker 1: I can only assume that the Biden administration is doing 652 00:38:32,280 --> 00:38:36,960 Speaker 1: the same thing in preparation today after announcing their decision 653 00:38:37,040 --> 00:38:39,960 Speaker 1: on Title forty two that they've been doing for the 654 00:38:40,040 --> 00:38:44,880 Speaker 1: last year, and that is basically absolutely nothing. It is 655 00:38:45,040 --> 00:38:49,480 Speaker 1: extremely concerning to me and to other Southern state governors, 656 00:38:49,520 --> 00:38:55,040 Speaker 1: particularly that we've seen this huge uptick in illegal immigration 657 00:38:55,080 --> 00:38:58,279 Speaker 1: in this country. It frustrates me to no end, to 658 00:38:58,400 --> 00:39:00,920 Speaker 1: be honest with you, that within the last two weeks, 659 00:39:01,040 --> 00:39:04,960 Speaker 1: Vice President Kamala Harris has found time in her schedule 660 00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:09,360 Speaker 1: to visit Greenville, Mississippi, to highlight whatever it is that 661 00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:12,440 Speaker 1: she wanted to highlight. But she hasn't had time in 662 00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:14,920 Speaker 1: the last year, during her teen year as being in 663 00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:18,760 Speaker 1: charge of the border crisis, to actually visit the southern border. 664 00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:23,120 Speaker 1: It is extremely frustrating to me. It is bad for 665 00:39:23,160 --> 00:39:26,360 Speaker 1: the country. But it's just shows on issue after issue 666 00:39:26,400 --> 00:39:30,160 Speaker 1: after issue, the Biden administration and particularly those at the top, 667 00:39:31,040 --> 00:39:34,840 Speaker 1: really have no understanding of what's happening on the ground 668 00:39:34,840 --> 00:39:37,440 Speaker 1: because they refuse to visit places like the southern border. 669 00:39:38,520 --> 00:39:42,920 Speaker 1: We're talking to Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves. Governor. Obviously, today 670 00:39:43,040 --> 00:39:44,600 Speaker 1: is tax Day and you've done a good job of 671 00:39:44,640 --> 00:39:48,600 Speaker 1: helping to rescind some of the taxes that are obligated 672 00:39:48,640 --> 00:39:51,799 Speaker 1: to be paid by your citizens. Are you as you 673 00:39:51,880 --> 00:39:54,480 Speaker 1: look towards I know you're a state elected official, but 674 00:39:54,520 --> 00:39:58,000 Speaker 1: as you look toward twenty twenty two and what feels 675 00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:00,880 Speaker 1: like and I bet you feel it in mississip what's 676 00:40:00,920 --> 00:40:04,759 Speaker 1: going to be a red wave? Are you concerned at 677 00:40:04,760 --> 00:40:08,280 Speaker 1: all that Democrats may try to pass through a tax 678 00:40:08,440 --> 00:40:11,759 Speaker 1: increase on the national level while they still have a 679 00:40:11,840 --> 00:40:15,120 Speaker 1: majority in the Senate and in the House, regardless of 680 00:40:15,160 --> 00:40:19,160 Speaker 1: what that economic impact might be, because come November they're 681 00:40:19,160 --> 00:40:22,560 Speaker 1: not going to have the power to do it anymore. Well, 682 00:40:22,600 --> 00:40:27,200 Speaker 1: I certainly hope that there are enough members of the 683 00:40:27,280 --> 00:40:30,960 Speaker 1: US Senate that are reasonable that that would not happen. 684 00:40:31,280 --> 00:40:33,680 Speaker 1: But yes, I'm very concerned about it. If you if 685 00:40:33,680 --> 00:40:37,200 Speaker 1: you look at one of the biggest problems domestically today 686 00:40:38,360 --> 00:40:41,839 Speaker 1: in America is inflation. It is the fact that when 687 00:40:42,160 --> 00:40:45,480 Speaker 1: Mississippi residents and others across the country, when they go 688 00:40:45,520 --> 00:40:49,320 Speaker 1: to their gas stations to fill up, their gas costs 689 00:40:49,440 --> 00:40:52,560 Speaker 1: thirty forty fifty percent more today than it did just 690 00:40:52,600 --> 00:40:54,960 Speaker 1: a year ago. One of the biggest problems in America 691 00:40:55,040 --> 00:40:58,640 Speaker 1: today is the rising cost of bread and milk and 692 00:40:58,760 --> 00:41:02,280 Speaker 1: other goods that that individuals are buying at the grocery store. 693 00:41:02,760 --> 00:41:06,800 Speaker 1: And there is no doubt that all of this rising 694 00:41:06,840 --> 00:41:11,640 Speaker 1: inflation is a direct result of the bad economic policies 695 00:41:11,680 --> 00:41:14,839 Speaker 1: put in place by the Biden administration. So I would 696 00:41:14,880 --> 00:41:16,920 Speaker 1: not at all put it past the Biden administration to 697 00:41:17,040 --> 00:41:21,160 Speaker 1: propose yet another bad economic policy light raising taxes on 698 00:41:21,200 --> 00:41:24,680 Speaker 1: the hard working people of this country who are struggling 699 00:41:24,800 --> 00:41:27,040 Speaker 1: right now to pay the bills because of the fact 700 00:41:27,520 --> 00:41:32,120 Speaker 1: that inflation is eating up the dollar every single day. 701 00:41:32,920 --> 00:41:36,920 Speaker 1: Governor Reeves, have you seen the latest out of a 702 00:41:37,160 --> 00:41:41,560 Speaker 1: federal court in Florida where they have struck down a 703 00:41:41,640 --> 00:41:44,440 Speaker 1: judges struck down the federal mask mandate. Just wondering what 704 00:41:44,480 --> 00:41:46,399 Speaker 1: your thoughts are on this and how do you see 705 00:41:46,400 --> 00:41:48,879 Speaker 1: this playing out in your state? In so many other 706 00:41:48,920 --> 00:41:52,120 Speaker 1: states now it would seem like now people shouldn't have 707 00:41:52,120 --> 00:41:55,799 Speaker 1: to mask up on planes, trains or elsewhere. Well, I 708 00:41:55,840 --> 00:41:58,040 Speaker 1: will tell you I literally was just told about that 709 00:41:58,080 --> 00:42:01,839 Speaker 1: as I was walking into this particular interview. And good 710 00:42:01,880 --> 00:42:05,440 Speaker 1: for the federal judge in Florida. My understanding is the 711 00:42:05,560 --> 00:42:10,879 Speaker 1: basic arguments in his striking down is this is yet 712 00:42:10,920 --> 00:42:14,680 Speaker 1: another federal overreach by the Biden administration that is not 713 00:42:14,840 --> 00:42:18,200 Speaker 1: justified by the science, and that is something that has 714 00:42:18,640 --> 00:42:22,000 Speaker 1: become more and more evident. In fact, I'm scheduled to 715 00:42:22,040 --> 00:42:23,920 Speaker 1: fly sometime in the next two or three days, and 716 00:42:23,960 --> 00:42:25,759 Speaker 1: I think what you just said is exactly right. I 717 00:42:25,800 --> 00:42:29,640 Speaker 1: don't think anybody after this ruling by this federal judge 718 00:42:29,640 --> 00:42:32,440 Speaker 1: in Florida should be required to wear a mask on 719 00:42:32,600 --> 00:42:38,440 Speaker 1: an airplane. Governor, I appreciate you joining us here on 720 00:42:38,480 --> 00:42:43,319 Speaker 1: this day. When you look towards twenty twenty two, what 721 00:42:43,480 --> 00:42:45,560 Speaker 1: do you expect to see? What are you seeing on 722 00:42:45,560 --> 00:42:47,839 Speaker 1: the ground in Mississippi? What do you expect to see 723 00:42:47,920 --> 00:42:55,080 Speaker 1: come November. Well, obviously I'm extremely optimistic for the twenty 724 00:42:55,120 --> 00:42:58,960 Speaker 1: twenty two elections, particularly those elections in the US House 725 00:42:59,000 --> 00:43:02,040 Speaker 1: of Representatives as well as the US Senate, as well 726 00:43:02,080 --> 00:43:06,000 Speaker 1: as governor's races from around the country, because the American 727 00:43:06,040 --> 00:43:09,040 Speaker 1: people are a lot smarter than the Democrat politicians in 728 00:43:09,080 --> 00:43:12,239 Speaker 1: Washington think they are, and the American people and the 729 00:43:12,239 --> 00:43:16,680 Speaker 1: American voters recognize that the reason prices that are going 730 00:43:16,760 --> 00:43:21,120 Speaker 1: up is because of the excess spending by the Biden administration. 731 00:43:21,360 --> 00:43:24,120 Speaker 1: They recognize that when you look at red states and 732 00:43:24,200 --> 00:43:27,000 Speaker 1: you see GDP growth, and you see the lowest unemployment 733 00:43:27,080 --> 00:43:32,280 Speaker 1: rates in our country's history. For instance, in Mississippi today, 734 00:43:32,320 --> 00:43:35,320 Speaker 1: we literally had the lowest unemployment rate we've ever had 735 00:43:35,920 --> 00:43:38,600 Speaker 1: in our state. But when you look at blue states, 736 00:43:38,640 --> 00:43:41,919 Speaker 1: they continue to have unemployment race that are nowhere near 737 00:43:42,000 --> 00:43:44,359 Speaker 1: their all time loads, and that is in large part 738 00:43:44,440 --> 00:43:48,400 Speaker 1: because of the policies that we're enacted during the pandemic. 739 00:43:48,480 --> 00:43:53,280 Speaker 1: You see states who believe in freedom try to ensure 740 00:43:53,320 --> 00:43:55,719 Speaker 1: that we focus not only on protecting lives, but also 741 00:43:55,800 --> 00:43:59,359 Speaker 1: protecting livelihoods, making sure that our people could get up 742 00:43:59,400 --> 00:44:02,120 Speaker 1: and go to work and provide for themselves and provide 743 00:44:02,520 --> 00:44:06,160 Speaker 1: for their families. We never wanted individuals in Mississippi to 744 00:44:06,239 --> 00:44:08,400 Speaker 1: have to make a choice between doing what was best 745 00:44:08,920 --> 00:44:11,120 Speaker 1: and providing for their families and their ability to put 746 00:44:11,120 --> 00:44:13,719 Speaker 1: food on the table, and what the CDC or some 747 00:44:13,800 --> 00:44:16,239 Speaker 1: federal agency told them that they had to or had 748 00:44:16,360 --> 00:44:19,040 Speaker 1: not or could not do. And so I think the 749 00:44:19,040 --> 00:44:24,120 Speaker 1: American people have seen what's happened. They've seen what leadership 750 00:44:24,160 --> 00:44:26,200 Speaker 1: looks like in the different decisions that have been made 751 00:44:26,239 --> 00:44:28,520 Speaker 1: in red states versus blue states, or at least in 752 00:44:28,520 --> 00:44:31,319 Speaker 1: those states that are run by Republican governors versus those 753 00:44:31,320 --> 00:44:34,479 Speaker 1: that are run by Democratic governors. They've seen the days 754 00:44:34,480 --> 00:44:41,080 Speaker 1: spending in Washington that has led to significant additional burdens 755 00:44:41,120 --> 00:44:45,719 Speaker 1: on every single working family across America. And I think 756 00:44:45,760 --> 00:44:50,880 Speaker 1: they also recognized that, literally, were it not for one 757 00:44:51,080 --> 00:44:56,920 Speaker 1: or two senators joining the the fifty Republicans in the 758 00:44:57,000 --> 00:45:00,160 Speaker 1: United States Senate, were it not for them, literally just 759 00:45:00,200 --> 00:45:04,160 Speaker 1: a razor thin margin of senators, the body innistruction would 760 00:45:04,160 --> 00:45:06,360 Speaker 1: have been successful at getting three or three and a 761 00:45:06,400 --> 00:45:10,320 Speaker 1: half trillion dollars more of their Christmas wish lists in 762 00:45:10,480 --> 00:45:14,720 Speaker 1: spending that would have simply cast our prices for gas 763 00:45:14,719 --> 00:45:18,120 Speaker 1: and food and milk and bread, etc. To go up 764 00:45:18,200 --> 00:45:21,440 Speaker 1: even further. So I'm optimistic about the twenty twenty two elections. 765 00:45:21,960 --> 00:45:24,640 Speaker 1: But I'll also tell both of y'all, and I mean 766 00:45:24,719 --> 00:45:29,240 Speaker 1: this is it is just April of twenty twenty two. 767 00:45:29,760 --> 00:45:33,040 Speaker 1: Our candidates across the country running for a House, for Senate, 768 00:45:33,600 --> 00:45:38,560 Speaker 1: for governor, and every legislative seat and every local race. 769 00:45:38,880 --> 00:45:40,880 Speaker 1: We still got a lot of work to do. And 770 00:45:41,280 --> 00:45:44,880 Speaker 1: I've always believed that the harder you work, the luckier 771 00:45:44,920 --> 00:45:47,000 Speaker 1: you get. 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