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 --> 00:00:07,360 Speaker 1: Sexton Show podcast. Wednesday edition of Clay in Buck starts 3 00:00:07,520 --> 00:00:09,799 Speaker 1: right now. Thanks for being with us from all over 4 00:00:10,119 --> 00:00:14,560 Speaker 1: the US of a big news, my friends. Oh, we 5 00:00:14,560 --> 00:00:17,959 Speaker 1: were talking about it yesterday. We had a feeling and 6 00:00:18,120 --> 00:00:22,200 Speaker 1: the folks of Chicago have had a moment, a burst 7 00:00:22,320 --> 00:00:29,680 Speaker 1: of sanity as Lorie Lightfoot how possibly the worst mayor play? Right? 8 00:00:29,720 --> 00:00:32,200 Speaker 1: I think worst mayor? We could say it is soon 9 00:00:32,280 --> 00:00:36,400 Speaker 1: to be the former mayor of Chicago. A crushing defeat 10 00:00:37,120 --> 00:00:41,200 Speaker 1: from seventy three percent of the vote in her election 11 00:00:41,400 --> 00:00:46,440 Speaker 1: win to getting seventeen percent of the vote. Now, granted 12 00:00:46,479 --> 00:00:48,640 Speaker 1: there was a pretty big field, but you would think 13 00:00:48,880 --> 00:00:52,479 Speaker 1: the sitting mayor could do better than less than a 14 00:00:52,520 --> 00:00:56,920 Speaker 1: fifth of the overall vote. Chicago, you're coming back to 15 00:00:56,960 --> 00:00:59,840 Speaker 1: sanity Land and we welcome you, which is great. We'll 16 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:03,880 Speaker 1: discuss more of this. Of course, a big, big loss 17 00:01:04,040 --> 00:01:09,639 Speaker 1: for the progressive prosecutor week on crime. Let's just blame 18 00:01:09,720 --> 00:01:13,400 Speaker 1: the cops left. You know. That's because that's been at 19 00:01:13,400 --> 00:01:16,640 Speaker 1: the center of Lightfoot's time as mayor, and it was 20 00:01:16,680 --> 00:01:18,720 Speaker 1: also how she ascended to the mayor's office in the 21 00:01:18,720 --> 00:01:21,400 Speaker 1: first place. And Clay will explain in a couple of 22 00:01:21,440 --> 00:01:25,760 Speaker 1: moments here what she's blaming for her loss spoiler alert, 23 00:01:26,600 --> 00:01:29,920 Speaker 1: not her incompetence, as Mayor's gonna put that out there. 24 00:01:30,640 --> 00:01:33,800 Speaker 1: That's yeah, I think you might know where this is going. Also, 25 00:01:34,760 --> 00:01:39,760 Speaker 1: really interesting breakdown in the Washington Post about the debate 26 00:01:40,480 --> 00:01:44,080 Speaker 1: in advance of the marl Lago document raid. Remember that, 27 00:01:44,160 --> 00:01:48,800 Speaker 1: remember the FBI, the guys and windbreakers, FBI special as 28 00:01:48,880 --> 00:01:52,920 Speaker 1: in Johnny Utah. They showed up and they seized those 29 00:01:52,960 --> 00:01:55,800 Speaker 1: records at mar Lago, and we were saying, this is outrageous. 30 00:01:55,840 --> 00:01:59,320 Speaker 1: It was outrageous. And from the reporting in the Washington Post, 31 00:01:59,320 --> 00:02:02,160 Speaker 1: which Clay and I both believe comes from direct FBI 32 00:02:02,240 --> 00:02:06,200 Speaker 1: sources who wanted to get this on the record, they 33 00:02:06,280 --> 00:02:09,880 Speaker 1: knew it was outrageous, they knew that there was a 34 00:02:09,960 --> 00:02:12,920 Speaker 1: political impetus behind all. We'll break that down for you. 35 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:16,359 Speaker 1: Two important stuff going on there. Also being joined by 36 00:02:16,360 --> 00:02:18,720 Speaker 1: Congressman Jim Banks of Indiana and the second hour of 37 00:02:18,720 --> 00:02:21,600 Speaker 1: the program, who's going to tell you all a bit 38 00:02:21,639 --> 00:02:24,760 Speaker 1: about this hearing or having on China and what to 39 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:27,400 Speaker 1: do about it. It's looking like they made band TikTok, 40 00:02:28,080 --> 00:02:31,040 Speaker 1: which Clay Where am I going to learn the best 41 00:02:31,040 --> 00:02:34,520 Speaker 1: way to serious steak or how to do the perfect 42 00:02:34,720 --> 00:02:37,200 Speaker 1: role technique with my filet Mignon. I guess I'll have 43 00:02:37,240 --> 00:02:40,400 Speaker 1: to get it elsewhere. And then two thirty pm Betsy 44 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:43,760 Speaker 1: Devas former education secretary, we'll talk to her about was bris' 45 00:02:43,840 --> 00:02:46,679 Speaker 1: school choice education? What's going on in that world? I 46 00:02:46,720 --> 00:02:48,440 Speaker 1: think she got a book out as well. Am I 47 00:02:48,480 --> 00:02:52,040 Speaker 1: corrected that one. She did have a book out. So Clay, 48 00:02:52,120 --> 00:02:55,480 Speaker 1: let's start with Lori Lightfoot. We could sit here and 49 00:02:55,720 --> 00:02:59,520 Speaker 1: go into at some length about what's going on Chicago. 50 00:02:59,560 --> 00:03:02,240 Speaker 1: I broke down the basic numbers yesterday, call it roughly 51 00:03:02,320 --> 00:03:05,320 Speaker 1: an average of seven hundred murders a year over the 52 00:03:05,400 --> 00:03:09,800 Speaker 1: last few years, which is just completely unacceptable. And then 53 00:03:09,840 --> 00:03:13,359 Speaker 1: you also look at shooting incidents, you look at theft, 54 00:03:13,440 --> 00:03:16,000 Speaker 1: you look at criminal sexual assault, you look at robbery. 55 00:03:16,520 --> 00:03:23,560 Speaker 1: Overall crimes through this second month of it, well through February, 56 00:03:23,680 --> 00:03:28,240 Speaker 1: according Daily Mail here, overall crimes are up fifty two, 57 00:03:29,360 --> 00:03:31,760 Speaker 1: which is just I don't even know how that's compared 58 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:34,560 Speaker 1: to twenty twenty two. Clay, think about that, a fifty 59 00:03:34,639 --> 00:03:38,000 Speaker 1: percent year over year increase in overall crimes. Does lawyer 60 00:03:38,040 --> 00:03:40,640 Speaker 1: Lightfoot say to everybody, you know what, I'm just not 61 00:03:40,680 --> 00:03:44,520 Speaker 1: good at this. No, what does she say, Clay. She 62 00:03:44,720 --> 00:03:50,840 Speaker 1: blamed her loss on racism and sexism, which is so 63 00:03:51,440 --> 00:03:55,120 Speaker 1: par for the course on identity politics. But last night, 64 00:03:55,160 --> 00:03:58,920 Speaker 1: when I saw these results coming in, I felt compelled 65 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:03,720 Speaker 1: Buck to gratulate Lorie Lightfoot. They made such a big 66 00:04:03,760 --> 00:04:05,640 Speaker 1: deal about the fact that she was the first black 67 00:04:05,760 --> 00:04:08,800 Speaker 1: lesbian to be mayor of a major American city, and 68 00:04:08,960 --> 00:04:12,720 Speaker 1: I have to congratulate her on being the first black 69 00:04:12,840 --> 00:04:17,599 Speaker 1: lesbian mayor to lose eighty three to seventeen in a 70 00:04:17,760 --> 00:04:22,480 Speaker 1: reelection bid. She's the first Chicago mayor in over forty 71 00:04:22,600 --> 00:04:25,840 Speaker 1: years who was an incumbent not to be a reelected Buck, 72 00:04:25,920 --> 00:04:30,400 Speaker 1: I mean, this was to me a seismic repudiation of 73 00:04:30,440 --> 00:04:33,320 Speaker 1: everything that we reject on this show on a daily basis. 74 00:04:33,560 --> 00:04:35,520 Speaker 1: And one of the things that we've been upset about. 75 00:04:35,560 --> 00:04:37,920 Speaker 1: And I'm curious if this reckoning is actually going to 76 00:04:37,960 --> 00:04:41,680 Speaker 1: boomerang back around in twenty four is none of the 77 00:04:41,680 --> 00:04:44,000 Speaker 1: people who got everything wrong on COVID have had to 78 00:04:44,040 --> 00:04:47,000 Speaker 1: bear the cost for getting everything wrong on COVID, Right, 79 00:04:47,279 --> 00:04:50,640 Speaker 1: Gretchen Whittmer gets re elected if you're listening to us 80 00:04:50,640 --> 00:04:54,440 Speaker 1: in Michigan. You remember when there was literal crime scene 81 00:04:54,440 --> 00:04:58,560 Speaker 1: tape over your ability to buy some things in a 82 00:04:58,640 --> 00:05:02,080 Speaker 1: department store, right, I mean they literally shut down and 83 00:05:02,160 --> 00:05:06,400 Speaker 1: said only certain essential products could be bought. You couldn't buy, 84 00:05:06,440 --> 00:05:10,320 Speaker 1: for instance, if I remember correctly, seeds for your garden. 85 00:05:10,760 --> 00:05:13,320 Speaker 1: If you went out to the grocery store, they had 86 00:05:13,400 --> 00:05:17,480 Speaker 1: that part of the store taped off with crime scene 87 00:05:17,480 --> 00:05:20,360 Speaker 1: tape to disallow people from being able to go in there. 88 00:05:20,760 --> 00:05:26,039 Speaker 1: And so Lori Lightfoot, Chicago, I believe, alongside of La 89 00:05:26,200 --> 00:05:31,920 Speaker 1: New York, Philadelphia, Washington, DC, drastically awful decisions were made there, 90 00:05:32,520 --> 00:05:36,320 Speaker 1: and the leadership was indefensible, and all the masking and 91 00:05:36,400 --> 00:05:39,440 Speaker 1: all the social distancing and all the stand in your circles, 92 00:05:39,960 --> 00:05:45,440 Speaker 1: all of it, I think finally led to someone Lori Lightfoot, 93 00:05:45,480 --> 00:05:48,880 Speaker 1: having to pay the price. And I just I looked 94 00:05:48,880 --> 00:05:52,000 Speaker 1: at it and I said, hallelujah. Chicago is our third 95 00:05:52,160 --> 00:05:54,720 Speaker 1: largest city in the country. What were we talking about yesterday? Buck, 96 00:05:54,920 --> 00:05:58,599 Speaker 1: Illinois is the only reliably blue state in the center 97 00:05:58,640 --> 00:06:00,600 Speaker 1: part of the country. I just want you to think 98 00:06:00,600 --> 00:06:05,480 Speaker 1: about that from a geographic perspective, the only non East 99 00:06:05,480 --> 00:06:08,479 Speaker 1: Coast or West coast state that you can point to 100 00:06:08,640 --> 00:06:12,240 Speaker 1: and say with virtual one hundred percent certainty is going 101 00:06:12,279 --> 00:06:17,400 Speaker 1: to be blue. Finally, there were consequences for incompetence and 102 00:06:17,880 --> 00:06:20,360 Speaker 1: the fact that Lorie Lightfoot I believe we have audio 103 00:06:20,400 --> 00:06:22,600 Speaker 1: of her we're trying to track down. I don't know 104 00:06:22,640 --> 00:06:24,720 Speaker 1: if she officially sat in public. I saw the New 105 00:06:24,800 --> 00:06:27,640 Speaker 1: York Post with the headline about her saying this is 106 00:06:27,640 --> 00:06:30,720 Speaker 1: because of racism and sexism. One of the two finalists, 107 00:06:30,760 --> 00:06:33,320 Speaker 1: by the way, is a black guy. So it seems 108 00:06:33,320 --> 00:06:36,960 Speaker 1: to me hard to justify racism when someone else of 109 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:39,920 Speaker 1: your own race was chosen to be more competent than you. 110 00:06:40,720 --> 00:06:43,880 Speaker 1: But here is Lori Lightfoot cut three talking about all 111 00:06:43,880 --> 00:06:47,200 Speaker 1: the great things she accomplished en route to the worst 112 00:06:47,360 --> 00:06:51,320 Speaker 1: beatdown of an incumbent mayor in a reelection campaign that 113 00:06:51,440 --> 00:06:55,200 Speaker 1: I can remember in modern history. Listen, Obviously, we didn't 114 00:06:55,200 --> 00:06:58,800 Speaker 1: win the election today, but I stand here with my 115 00:06:58,880 --> 00:07:05,359 Speaker 1: head held high and a heartful and regardless of tonight's outcome, 116 00:07:05,800 --> 00:07:08,680 Speaker 1: we fought the right fights, and we put this city 117 00:07:08,880 --> 00:07:13,920 Speaker 1: on a better path, no doubt about it. I'm grateful 118 00:07:13,960 --> 00:07:16,800 Speaker 1: that we worked together to remove a record number of 119 00:07:16,800 --> 00:07:22,120 Speaker 1: guns off our streets. Reduced homicides and started making real 120 00:07:22,160 --> 00:07:25,880 Speaker 1: progress on public safety. She can say whatever she wants, 121 00:07:26,080 --> 00:07:28,880 Speaker 1: but I mean it's ridiculous, right, I mean, and the 122 00:07:28,880 --> 00:07:32,360 Speaker 1: people of Chicago, the Democrat voters of Chicago, I mean, 123 00:07:32,440 --> 00:07:34,520 Speaker 1: let's be honest about what we're really talking about here. 124 00:07:35,160 --> 00:07:37,400 Speaker 1: They said, this is just too much, this is crazy. 125 00:07:37,440 --> 00:07:39,920 Speaker 1: And you know, I think a big part of it 126 00:07:40,040 --> 00:07:44,520 Speaker 1: was the videos that you would see the kind of 127 00:07:44,560 --> 00:07:46,760 Speaker 1: crimes that were occurring in Chicago. You know, there's just 128 00:07:46,800 --> 00:07:48,760 Speaker 1: one this week as well in Saint Louis. I know, 129 00:07:48,840 --> 00:07:50,720 Speaker 1: we have a lot of listeners in Saint Louis, and 130 00:07:50,840 --> 00:07:54,360 Speaker 1: you know there was that broad daylight execution of a 131 00:07:54,720 --> 00:07:57,760 Speaker 1: homeless man on the street and just broad daylight on video, 132 00:07:58,040 --> 00:08:01,800 Speaker 1: guy pulls out a gun and just calmly, you know, 133 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:06,640 Speaker 1: murders a fellow human being. You were seeing things similar 134 00:08:06,720 --> 00:08:09,880 Speaker 1: to that in their depravity and the way that they 135 00:08:09,880 --> 00:08:12,960 Speaker 1: were hitting the conscience of the public. Going on in Chicago. 136 00:08:13,040 --> 00:08:15,000 Speaker 1: You know, a woman walking her dog in a quiet 137 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:19,280 Speaker 1: neighborhood and car screeches up. Guys with hoodies on, you know, 138 00:08:19,520 --> 00:08:21,920 Speaker 1: run at her, grab her, pull a gun out on her, 139 00:08:21,960 --> 00:08:25,160 Speaker 1: maybe pistol whipper and maybe killer I mean the things 140 00:08:25,160 --> 00:08:28,560 Speaker 1: that were happening in Chicago, and people were seeing videos 141 00:08:28,640 --> 00:08:31,120 Speaker 1: of these happening over and over again. Eventually it just 142 00:08:31,720 --> 00:08:34,720 Speaker 1: became too much. It's a shame, I think, part of 143 00:08:35,559 --> 00:08:37,040 Speaker 1: a shame that we had to learn this lesson in 144 00:08:37,080 --> 00:08:39,200 Speaker 1: this way. But I do think one of the things 145 00:08:39,200 --> 00:08:41,880 Speaker 1: you've seen in a lot of these cities is that 146 00:08:42,160 --> 00:08:48,880 Speaker 1: the threshold for punishment from bad Democrat policies is higher 147 00:08:48,880 --> 00:08:51,160 Speaker 1: for Democrats than it would be for just a normal 148 00:08:51,320 --> 00:08:55,640 Speaker 1: rational person. So eventually the crime level gets too high 149 00:08:55,720 --> 00:08:59,280 Speaker 1: in San Francisco, in Chicago, it just takes a whole 150 00:08:59,360 --> 00:09:03,319 Speaker 1: lot more awfulness and a whole lot more suffering before 151 00:09:03,360 --> 00:09:05,200 Speaker 1: they come to the right decision. But as we see 152 00:09:05,200 --> 00:09:10,520 Speaker 1: in Chicago, even hard and fast Democrats don't want to 153 00:09:10,559 --> 00:09:12,559 Speaker 1: walk down the streets and get worried about whether there's 154 00:09:12,600 --> 00:09:14,520 Speaker 1: going to be a drive by in their neighborhood, by 155 00:09:14,520 --> 00:09:16,360 Speaker 1: the way, in any neighborhood in Chicago, and that was 156 00:09:16,400 --> 00:09:18,360 Speaker 1: a part of it. Two, It's not just the Southside, 157 00:09:18,400 --> 00:09:20,560 Speaker 1: not just the high crime areas. There was a lot 158 00:09:20,600 --> 00:09:22,560 Speaker 1: of stuff happening in Lincoln Park, a lot of stuff 159 00:09:22,600 --> 00:09:25,160 Speaker 1: happening in you know, there was a shooting it happened 160 00:09:25,160 --> 00:09:27,720 Speaker 1: in Millennium Park right after I was there. That stuff 161 00:09:27,800 --> 00:09:30,120 Speaker 1: is what really makes I think people realize this is 162 00:09:30,160 --> 00:09:33,920 Speaker 1: too much. Buck think about how difficult it is with 163 00:09:34,080 --> 00:09:37,000 Speaker 1: all of the values of incumbency. You hit on this 164 00:09:37,080 --> 00:09:39,880 Speaker 1: in the open she got seventy three percent of the 165 00:09:39,960 --> 00:09:44,440 Speaker 1: vote four years ago. To go from seventy three percent 166 00:09:44,480 --> 00:09:48,000 Speaker 1: of the vote. I believe she won all fifty voting 167 00:09:48,080 --> 00:09:51,839 Speaker 1: districts in Chicago the last time when she was elected, 168 00:09:52,520 --> 00:09:56,640 Speaker 1: to fall all the way to seventeen percent of the vote, 169 00:09:57,320 --> 00:10:01,480 Speaker 1: when you have all the powers of incumbency, when virtually 170 00:10:01,520 --> 00:10:05,400 Speaker 1: everyone knows you. To me, this is a story that 171 00:10:05,559 --> 00:10:10,080 Speaker 1: is more significant than Chicago. If I am a Democrat 172 00:10:10,120 --> 00:10:13,840 Speaker 1: and I am looking at the refuse of this result, 173 00:10:14,480 --> 00:10:18,720 Speaker 1: I am saying we are in some significant trouble potentially 174 00:10:19,280 --> 00:10:23,120 Speaker 1: when it comes to incumbency in twenty twenty four. I 175 00:10:23,400 --> 00:10:27,200 Speaker 1: mainly do think so for mayor's races, that's obviously the case. 176 00:10:27,360 --> 00:10:29,600 Speaker 1: I think at some state level races it will matter. 177 00:10:30,320 --> 00:10:33,120 Speaker 1: I will say that you know Joe Biden all along, 178 00:10:33,600 --> 00:10:35,840 Speaker 1: He's been in the game a long time, and as 179 00:10:35,920 --> 00:10:39,120 Speaker 1: much as we talk about his lack of sharpness and 180 00:10:39,400 --> 00:10:43,160 Speaker 1: mental acuity, these days, which is all very true. He 181 00:10:43,240 --> 00:10:45,880 Speaker 1: does know some things, and he understands at the national level, 182 00:10:45,920 --> 00:10:48,280 Speaker 1: the American people are not anti cop, They're just not. 183 00:10:48,760 --> 00:10:52,400 Speaker 1: And so he never he never really went down that 184 00:10:52,520 --> 00:10:54,079 Speaker 1: full on. He would give a lot of praise to 185 00:10:54,160 --> 00:10:56,960 Speaker 1: you know, the VLM and progress and all the stuff 186 00:10:56,960 --> 00:11:00,440 Speaker 1: that you know, oh reform, but he never went in cop. 187 00:11:00,480 --> 00:11:02,720 Speaker 1: He never went defund police. So I don't know if 188 00:11:02,760 --> 00:11:07,200 Speaker 1: that's going to be in the presidential election as big 189 00:11:07,240 --> 00:11:09,440 Speaker 1: of a factor as I would obviously wish it to be. 190 00:11:09,520 --> 00:11:11,120 Speaker 1: But I do think at some of the city and 191 00:11:11,200 --> 00:11:13,319 Speaker 1: state levels you're going to see people who are in 192 00:11:13,360 --> 00:11:15,240 Speaker 1: big trouble. I just want to be clear, though. Clay 193 00:11:15,320 --> 00:11:19,240 Speaker 1: Lori Lightfoot rejects this entirely, and she does view this 194 00:11:19,320 --> 00:11:22,840 Speaker 1: as a referendum, a referendum on how racist the people 195 00:11:22,840 --> 00:11:27,640 Speaker 1: of Chicago are, which is so weird because seventy three 196 00:11:27,760 --> 00:11:30,479 Speaker 1: percent of them voted for her the last time. Somehow, 197 00:11:30,520 --> 00:11:37,000 Speaker 1: between a sweeping electoral victory and mandate by Chicagoans, Chicago 198 00:11:37,120 --> 00:11:39,440 Speaker 1: just got super racist in the last few years. A 199 00:11:39,440 --> 00:11:42,920 Speaker 1: lot of people wandered around the streets with maga hats on. 200 00:11:43,040 --> 00:11:46,320 Speaker 1: I guess millions of them she said to The New 201 00:11:46,440 --> 00:11:49,600 Speaker 1: Yorker over the weekend. This is the quote. I am 202 00:11:49,640 --> 00:11:53,600 Speaker 1: a black woman. Let's not forget certain folks frankly don't 203 00:11:53,640 --> 00:11:57,960 Speaker 1: support us in leadership roles. Oh so that's why Chicago 204 00:11:58,080 --> 00:12:01,680 Speaker 1: just had the biggest swing against a mayor in terms 205 00:12:01,720 --> 00:12:05,080 Speaker 1: of electoral politics. I think I've never seen anything like 206 00:12:05,120 --> 00:12:08,400 Speaker 1: this before. A lot of racism and sexism suddenly took over. 207 00:12:08,480 --> 00:12:12,480 Speaker 1: This was my argument that the media missed in twenty sixteen. Buck, 208 00:12:12,800 --> 00:12:15,840 Speaker 1: a huge number of people in the Midwest voted for 209 00:12:15,920 --> 00:12:19,240 Speaker 1: Barack Obama in two thousand and eight and two twelve, 210 00:12:19,480 --> 00:12:22,960 Speaker 1: millions of people and then flip their vote to Donald Trump. 211 00:12:23,400 --> 00:12:27,280 Speaker 1: And the immediate reaction was Trump won because of racism. 212 00:12:27,679 --> 00:12:30,400 Speaker 1: And my question was, well, if you're willing to vote 213 00:12:30,400 --> 00:12:32,920 Speaker 1: for a black guy to be president of the United 214 00:12:32,960 --> 00:12:36,280 Speaker 1: States and then you flip to Donald Trump, it seems 215 00:12:36,320 --> 00:12:38,960 Speaker 1: like that's not racism. And this is, of course, because 216 00:12:38,960 --> 00:12:40,760 Speaker 1: this is the only game they know how to play, right, 217 00:12:40,800 --> 00:12:45,440 Speaker 1: the identity politics driven Democrat party. Lori Lightfoot can't say 218 00:12:45,559 --> 00:12:48,360 Speaker 1: she won seventy three percent of the vote because people 219 00:12:48,480 --> 00:12:51,080 Speaker 1: chose her as the best candidate irrespective of whether she 220 00:12:51,200 --> 00:12:54,440 Speaker 1: was black or lesbian. That's not the reason they voted 221 00:12:54,480 --> 00:12:58,040 Speaker 1: for her. It's only the reason they can vote against her. Right, 222 00:12:58,120 --> 00:13:01,520 Speaker 1: she can only be a victim of her race and sex. 223 00:13:01,679 --> 00:13:04,520 Speaker 1: She can never benefit from it at all. It's so 224 00:13:04,559 --> 00:13:07,360 Speaker 1: strange too, because when she's running, and this is true 225 00:13:07,360 --> 00:13:11,720 Speaker 1: in many different elections, when she's running, the media and 226 00:13:11,760 --> 00:13:15,720 Speaker 1: the Democrat Party and some Independence and some Republicans, we'll 227 00:13:15,760 --> 00:13:21,080 Speaker 1: all talk about the groundbreaking nature, the glassuming shattering nature 228 00:13:21,240 --> 00:13:23,800 Speaker 1: of having not just the first black female mayor but 229 00:13:23,880 --> 00:13:28,280 Speaker 1: the first black lesbian female mayor of Chicago, and I 230 00:13:28,360 --> 00:13:30,920 Speaker 1: believe of a major city of that size in the 231 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:34,400 Speaker 1: United States as an asset, and then it is spoken 232 00:13:34,440 --> 00:13:38,400 Speaker 1: of as an asset clearly like the incredible accomplishment. So 233 00:13:38,880 --> 00:13:41,719 Speaker 1: the game that is played in the whole diversity and 234 00:13:41,880 --> 00:13:45,839 Speaker 1: inclusion rhetoric is isn't this so great? Don't we all 235 00:13:45,880 --> 00:13:48,320 Speaker 1: agree that this is great? Just these you know, the 236 00:13:48,360 --> 00:13:52,560 Speaker 1: immutable characteristic set issue, the identity politics involved. But then 237 00:13:52,600 --> 00:13:56,000 Speaker 1: if it goes against that person after a huge win, it's, well, 238 00:13:56,000 --> 00:14:00,440 Speaker 1: everybody's racist and homophobic or sexist or whatever. We hold 239 00:14:00,480 --> 00:14:03,200 Speaker 1: on a second, I thought it was it was an 240 00:14:03,240 --> 00:14:06,040 Speaker 1: asset before, but now it's a huge it's a huge 241 00:14:06,480 --> 00:14:10,120 Speaker 1: electoral liability. 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We're having some fun 266 00:15:28,800 --> 00:15:34,000 Speaker 1: with Lori Lightfoot getting waxed in Chicago and immediately blaming 267 00:15:34,280 --> 00:15:38,320 Speaker 1: racist and sexist voters, the same racist and sexist voters, 268 00:15:38,320 --> 00:15:41,880 Speaker 1: maybe also homophobic voters who had previously given her a 269 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:44,960 Speaker 1: landslide victory before she proved that she was not up 270 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:47,680 Speaker 1: to the job. Speaking of someone else who was not 271 00:15:47,840 --> 00:15:50,120 Speaker 1: up to the job, Joe Biden continues to prove that 272 00:15:50,240 --> 00:15:54,520 Speaker 1: he can't even read a teleprompter. This was yesterday in 273 00:15:54,600 --> 00:15:57,760 Speaker 1: the White House. Listen to stay Well, how can that be, Joe? Well, 274 00:15:57,880 --> 00:16:01,120 Speaker 1: right now, the government our tax dollars out through medicare 275 00:16:01,200 --> 00:16:04,120 Speaker 1: that help for the prescription drugs. If they had to 276 00:16:04,160 --> 00:16:06,600 Speaker 1: pay out one hundred and fifty times one hundred fifty 277 00:16:06,680 --> 00:16:14,360 Speaker 1: nine billion dollars lead less for prescription drugs, then it 278 00:16:14,480 --> 00:16:18,360 Speaker 1: reduces the deficit. Yeah, China's terrified of this guy. Buck 279 00:16:18,480 --> 00:16:21,160 Speaker 1: can't even read what a prescription drug bill is going 280 00:16:21,200 --> 00:16:23,840 Speaker 1: to cost off a teleprompter. And you know, we talked 281 00:16:23,840 --> 00:16:26,760 Speaker 1: about this. I know they always say, well, he's got 282 00:16:26,800 --> 00:16:29,640 Speaker 1: a stutter, he's got challenging You go listen to Joe 283 00:16:29,640 --> 00:16:33,680 Speaker 1: Biden talk twenty years ago. There is no comparison. He slurs, 284 00:16:33,760 --> 00:16:36,360 Speaker 1: he can't speak, he can't read, and it's getting worse 285 00:16:36,440 --> 00:16:39,560 Speaker 1: every single day. No, I also think it's it's really 286 00:16:40,440 --> 00:16:44,160 Speaker 1: it's really odious what they do to try to hide 287 00:16:44,320 --> 00:16:47,840 Speaker 1: behind things, to try to create shields. For example, to 288 00:16:47,880 --> 00:16:50,160 Speaker 1: say that Joe Biden has a stutter, I mean I 289 00:16:50,200 --> 00:16:52,240 Speaker 1: had an annunciation disorder as a kid. I had a 290 00:16:52,320 --> 00:16:56,800 Speaker 1: real speech impediment that had to go see speaks therapists 291 00:16:56,840 --> 00:16:59,000 Speaker 1: for and get worked on. You've talked about it on 292 00:16:59,040 --> 00:17:02,040 Speaker 1: this show. Yeah yeah, But to do the whole oh, 293 00:17:02,080 --> 00:17:04,080 Speaker 1: here's a stutter. So if you criticize him, you're no, 294 00:17:04,240 --> 00:17:06,600 Speaker 1: we're not criticizing his stutter because he doesn't have one. 295 00:17:06,800 --> 00:17:09,679 Speaker 1: We're criticizing the fact that he is in deterioration of 296 00:17:09,720 --> 00:17:12,960 Speaker 1: the brain because he's too old for the job. They 297 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:14,880 Speaker 1: do the same thing with Fetterman. By the way, Oh 298 00:17:14,920 --> 00:17:17,920 Speaker 1: it's able, is m Yeah. No, No, one's making fun 299 00:17:17,920 --> 00:17:20,879 Speaker 1: of Fetterman because he's in a wheelchair. They're saying his 300 00:17:21,040 --> 00:17:23,439 Speaker 1: brain doesn't function. He's not in a wheelchair, but you 301 00:17:23,440 --> 00:17:26,200 Speaker 1: know what I mean. They're saying his brain doesn't function 302 00:17:26,280 --> 00:17:29,360 Speaker 1: properly because of the stroke. But they make it sound like, oh, 303 00:17:29,400 --> 00:17:31,560 Speaker 1: you're making fun of handicapped people or people with a 304 00:17:31,600 --> 00:17:35,480 Speaker 1: disability nor abilities. What they do. Your ability to do 305 00:17:35,640 --> 00:17:39,280 Speaker 1: the job, your availability is a huge part of whether 306 00:17:39,320 --> 00:17:40,560 Speaker 1: or not you should have a job. I mean, take 307 00:17:40,560 --> 00:17:43,240 Speaker 1: it outside of being a politician. If you have a 308 00:17:43,280 --> 00:17:46,080 Speaker 1: broken arm and you're a quarterback and it's your throwing arm, 309 00:17:46,200 --> 00:17:48,440 Speaker 1: you can't do the job. You're not ableist. You're saying, 310 00:17:48,560 --> 00:17:50,760 Speaker 1: I wouldn't sign that guy to a long term contract. 311 00:17:50,760 --> 00:17:53,480 Speaker 1: His health is not good. 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But this certainly falls into that category. 338 00:19:11,040 --> 00:19:14,040 Speaker 1: Doctor Faucci he's still out there, He's still given his 339 00:19:14,720 --> 00:19:19,720 Speaker 1: advice and his thoughts. You know, after representing science for 340 00:19:19,800 --> 00:19:24,560 Speaker 1: two years, here we have Faucci wanting everyone to know 341 00:19:25,600 --> 00:19:29,400 Speaker 1: that as far as he is concerned. You know, we 342 00:19:29,480 --> 00:19:32,720 Speaker 1: may never know where COVID came from. But this is 343 00:19:32,760 --> 00:19:34,159 Speaker 1: just how interesting Before we played this, I want to 344 00:19:34,160 --> 00:19:37,240 Speaker 1: remind everybody that this is the guy who knew everything, 345 00:19:37,600 --> 00:19:40,000 Speaker 1: and he was science and it was all so clear 346 00:19:40,040 --> 00:19:45,160 Speaker 1: and true, and then there were the barbarians, the troglodytes 347 00:19:45,320 --> 00:19:49,800 Speaker 1: like me and Clay and others out there who were questioning. 348 00:19:51,320 --> 00:19:53,639 Speaker 1: And here he is telling everybody we're just probably never 349 00:19:53,640 --> 00:19:56,000 Speaker 1: going to know. Play Levin, we must all keep an 350 00:19:56,000 --> 00:20:00,200 Speaker 1: open mind as to all possibilities need to be entertained. 351 00:20:00,320 --> 00:20:04,160 Speaker 1: I think we'll ever know how the pandemic originated. Might 352 00:20:04,240 --> 00:20:07,040 Speaker 1: not very well, might not. We may not ever know. 353 00:20:07,280 --> 00:20:10,280 Speaker 1: That's unfortunate, but that's the possibility that we might not 354 00:20:10,359 --> 00:20:14,400 Speaker 1: ever known. Buck, Here's what I would say, and I 355 00:20:14,440 --> 00:20:19,480 Speaker 1: am nowhere near the esteemed genius of doctor Fauci. Wouldn't 356 00:20:19,520 --> 00:20:24,000 Speaker 1: we have found the animal that originated COVID? By now? 357 00:20:24,359 --> 00:20:28,360 Speaker 1: If there was an animal that had originated COVID, think 358 00:20:28,400 --> 00:20:31,240 Speaker 1: of the incentive the Chinese would have to do just 359 00:20:31,400 --> 00:20:35,199 Speaker 1: that obvious if we could count the Chinese to not 360 00:20:35,320 --> 00:20:37,840 Speaker 1: be helpful about the lab leak theory. But if there 361 00:20:37,840 --> 00:20:40,560 Speaker 1: were a pangulin walking around that was you know, the 362 00:20:40,640 --> 00:20:43,239 Speaker 1: first one would have trotted it out with like a 363 00:20:43,280 --> 00:20:47,159 Speaker 1: major press conference. I would think to reflect, and I 364 00:20:47,320 --> 00:20:50,439 Speaker 1: presume that they have tried to find an animal that 365 00:20:50,560 --> 00:20:54,119 Speaker 1: could have been the origin of COVID for a long time. 366 00:20:54,600 --> 00:20:57,640 Speaker 1: To me, this has always been a simple question. And 367 00:20:57,640 --> 00:21:00,600 Speaker 1: this is where I think the innate American intelligence of 368 00:21:00,640 --> 00:21:06,560 Speaker 1: the average person comes through. People who lie usually lie 369 00:21:06,600 --> 00:21:11,480 Speaker 1: because they are trying to hide something. Who had something 370 00:21:11,520 --> 00:21:15,000 Speaker 1: to hide here? The Chinese government which was ashamed and 371 00:21:15,040 --> 00:21:18,840 Speaker 1: embarrassed that they had unleashed potentially COVID. And by the way, 372 00:21:19,080 --> 00:21:22,280 Speaker 1: the scary thing here that probably should be addressed as 373 00:21:22,320 --> 00:21:27,159 Speaker 1: this lab leak becomes more understood. Did someone actually do 374 00:21:27,240 --> 00:21:30,920 Speaker 1: it on purpose? Right? I mean, so there never could 375 00:21:30,920 --> 00:21:34,520 Speaker 1: have been a bio weapons component here. It's like nobody 376 00:21:34,520 --> 00:21:37,080 Speaker 1: can even ask that question, right, But well, that and 377 00:21:37,359 --> 00:21:40,800 Speaker 1: Fauci both would lie. Well, so, so I know that 378 00:21:41,040 --> 00:21:44,560 Speaker 1: there was the guest who was the Chinese research specialist 379 00:21:44,600 --> 00:21:48,879 Speaker 1: who went on on virology and and viruses like this 380 00:21:49,040 --> 00:21:51,840 Speaker 1: who want to Tucker Show and said that she believes that. 381 00:21:51,880 --> 00:21:54,800 Speaker 1: Now she went on early like Mark twenty twenty, she 382 00:21:54,840 --> 00:21:57,040 Speaker 1: went on, Aaron said, this is from a lab. Yeah, 383 00:21:57,040 --> 00:22:00,439 Speaker 1: and she was right. So when you went on and 384 00:22:00,480 --> 00:22:02,840 Speaker 1: said something that's true, I do think that you get 385 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:06,200 Speaker 1: extra credibility points at this point. Right. But she's saying 386 00:22:06,240 --> 00:22:08,680 Speaker 1: that it was intentional. I think we need to really 387 00:22:08,720 --> 00:22:11,000 Speaker 1: parse that or be very clear about what that means, 388 00:22:11,080 --> 00:22:15,239 Speaker 1: because I don't understand. It may have been an an 389 00:22:15,280 --> 00:22:18,280 Speaker 1: intentionally engineered virus, it may have been something that they 390 00:22:18,280 --> 00:22:20,720 Speaker 1: were They act like, oh, it's just escape from a lab. 391 00:22:20,760 --> 00:22:22,840 Speaker 1: We had no and no, maybe an escape from a lab. 392 00:22:22,840 --> 00:22:24,639 Speaker 1: And they were looking at how could we make this 393 00:22:24,680 --> 00:22:27,399 Speaker 1: a really dangerous pathogen and not just for you know, 394 00:22:27,440 --> 00:22:30,439 Speaker 1: benevolent research purposes. But why would you un you know, 395 00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:33,520 Speaker 1: if you're working on a small pox and a vaccine. 396 00:22:33,640 --> 00:22:35,960 Speaker 1: I read a book a while back, a novel I 397 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:38,560 Speaker 1: Am Pilgrim and this guy, you know, he's a terrorist, 398 00:22:38,640 --> 00:22:40,200 Speaker 1: A very good book, by the way, very good novel 399 00:22:40,800 --> 00:22:43,200 Speaker 1: Terry Hayes and if you like that kind of Jack 400 00:22:43,320 --> 00:22:47,800 Speaker 1: Ryan stuff, and he he engineers smallpox to be even 401 00:22:47,840 --> 00:22:50,080 Speaker 1: more dangerous so it can get around whatever vaccines we have. 402 00:22:50,160 --> 00:22:52,399 Speaker 1: That's sorry spoiler alert, but that's that's what's happens in 403 00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:54,960 Speaker 1: the book. You wouldn't he's trying to get it to 404 00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:57,159 Speaker 1: America though, right, I mean, you wouldn't unleash it on 405 00:22:57,160 --> 00:22:59,439 Speaker 1: your own country first. That's the part of this that 406 00:22:59,560 --> 00:23:02,760 Speaker 1: I the intentional release of the virus doesn't make any 407 00:23:02,800 --> 00:23:05,720 Speaker 1: sense to me, just to be very honest, less unless 408 00:23:05,760 --> 00:23:08,720 Speaker 1: it is akin to a pilot who decides to take 409 00:23:08,760 --> 00:23:12,640 Speaker 1: down a plane. Right, there are some people whose brains 410 00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:20,200 Speaker 1: just for whatever reason short circuit and they make suicidal 411 00:23:20,520 --> 00:23:23,760 Speaker 1: decisions because they just want to see the world burn 412 00:23:24,359 --> 00:23:28,040 Speaker 1: and at a minimum, So that would be my answer 413 00:23:28,119 --> 00:23:31,040 Speaker 1: as to why you would potentially take it out. There 414 00:23:31,480 --> 00:23:34,320 Speaker 1: was that a slide Batman begins, reference to Michael Caine 415 00:23:34,440 --> 00:23:37,240 Speaker 1: is like, some men just want to save one of 416 00:23:37,280 --> 00:23:41,760 Speaker 1: the great all time superhero trilogies, movies that may be 417 00:23:41,880 --> 00:23:44,440 Speaker 1: my favorite superhero movie of all time, actually the original 418 00:23:44,480 --> 00:23:47,000 Speaker 1: Batman begins Christopher Nolan. It's certainly in my top three. 419 00:23:47,480 --> 00:23:49,960 Speaker 1: So good but so but but that would be my 420 00:23:50,040 --> 00:23:52,480 Speaker 1: answer to that question. Buck would be like, how would 421 00:23:52,520 --> 00:23:55,040 Speaker 1: it get out in China if it could be intentional, 422 00:23:55,480 --> 00:23:59,520 Speaker 1: but at a minimum, we should want to know how 423 00:23:59,640 --> 00:24:01,919 Speaker 1: this iris got out to try to whore that it 424 00:24:01,920 --> 00:24:04,600 Speaker 1: never happens again. You're thinking, you're thinking, you're thinking way 425 00:24:04,600 --> 00:24:08,560 Speaker 1: too logically. Doctor Michael Osterholm wants you to know that 426 00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:12,639 Speaker 1: all this conversation that we are having here right now, guys, 427 00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:15,840 Speaker 1: come on, it's a waste of time to know where 428 00:24:15,960 --> 00:24:19,280 Speaker 1: the greatest pandemic of the last hundred years came from. 429 00:24:19,560 --> 00:24:21,760 Speaker 1: Why are you wasting your time on this. Let's talk 430 00:24:21,800 --> 00:24:24,560 Speaker 1: about pronouns more here play thirteen. Let me just say 431 00:24:24,600 --> 00:24:26,720 Speaker 1: at the outset, you know, we have the top ten 432 00:24:26,840 --> 00:24:29,680 Speaker 1: criminal cold cases the last century. They've never been solved 433 00:24:30,040 --> 00:24:32,679 Speaker 1: despite extensive efforts. This is going to be one of 434 00:24:32,720 --> 00:24:35,880 Speaker 1: those in a sense, because even if the Chinese were 435 00:24:35,880 --> 00:24:37,760 Speaker 1: to come forward and say nobody in their lab had 436 00:24:37,800 --> 00:24:40,480 Speaker 1: been infected, that they did not have those virus in 437 00:24:40,480 --> 00:24:42,520 Speaker 1: the lab, would do anybody in the world believe them? 438 00:24:43,040 --> 00:24:45,600 Speaker 1: And so I think we have to move on, and 439 00:24:45,680 --> 00:24:48,919 Speaker 1: I worry that we're wasting time getting prepared for the 440 00:24:48,960 --> 00:24:52,119 Speaker 1: next virus to hit us, where both lab leaks and 441 00:24:52,600 --> 00:24:56,040 Speaker 1: the potential for spillover our real possibilities that's what we 442 00:24:56,280 --> 00:25:00,280 Speaker 1: be spending our time doing right now. It's amazing. We've 443 00:25:00,359 --> 00:25:04,240 Speaker 1: gone from shut up peasant, we have all the answers, 444 00:25:04,760 --> 00:25:08,280 Speaker 1: double mask alone in your car listening to Michael Bolton 445 00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:11,080 Speaker 1: going down the highway, because otherwise you're gonna get COVID 446 00:25:11,119 --> 00:25:14,160 Speaker 1: and you're gonna give it to Gramman killer. We've gone 447 00:25:14,200 --> 00:25:18,600 Speaker 1: from that to guys, this whole origin is a COVID thing. 448 00:25:18,920 --> 00:25:20,920 Speaker 1: Kind of a waste of time. We're never really gonna 449 00:25:20,960 --> 00:25:24,240 Speaker 1: know a lot of a lot of open questions. This is, 450 00:25:23,920 --> 00:25:27,920 Speaker 1: this is this is gaslighting on a thermonuclear scale. I mean, 451 00:25:27,920 --> 00:25:31,160 Speaker 1: this is It's hard to top this. It is crazy. 452 00:25:31,480 --> 00:25:36,000 Speaker 1: And also to me, if we created and I'm using 453 00:25:36,040 --> 00:25:41,280 Speaker 1: the global we right, humans, if we created COVID in 454 00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:45,840 Speaker 1: a lab and it got out and inflicted the damage 455 00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:48,960 Speaker 1: that it did in this world and in this country, 456 00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:54,280 Speaker 1: for sure, shouldn't the number one thing we do be 457 00:25:54,400 --> 00:25:58,359 Speaker 1: attempting to ensure that this never happens again. Why in 458 00:25:58,400 --> 00:26:01,960 Speaker 1: the world are are we still in any way doing 459 00:26:02,080 --> 00:26:05,920 Speaker 1: gain a function research. I understand the argument of well, 460 00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:08,600 Speaker 1: gain a function research helps us to figure out how 461 00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:12,520 Speaker 1: to fight viruses in the future, but on some level, 462 00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:17,080 Speaker 1: if you're balancing equities. We just had, hopefully a once 463 00:26:17,119 --> 00:26:20,320 Speaker 1: in a hundred year brand new novel virus that we 464 00:26:20,600 --> 00:26:25,600 Speaker 1: created move around the world in a rapid rate. Why 465 00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:28,119 Speaker 1: in the world would we be trying to create in 466 00:26:28,160 --> 00:26:33,240 Speaker 1: a lab more dangerous and more deadly versions of viruses 467 00:26:33,840 --> 00:26:36,840 Speaker 1: and presume that we are not going to screw up 468 00:26:37,160 --> 00:26:40,640 Speaker 1: and get them out there or again, buck, this thing 469 00:26:40,680 --> 00:26:43,000 Speaker 1: could get stolen and end up in the hands of 470 00:26:43,040 --> 00:26:46,199 Speaker 1: the wrong people. Now, I do think that's why, you know, 471 00:26:47,040 --> 00:26:50,040 Speaker 1: someone just wants to see the world burn. I think 472 00:26:50,080 --> 00:26:54,520 Speaker 1: the idea that you could create a global deadly virus 473 00:26:55,040 --> 00:26:58,800 Speaker 1: and unleash it only in one particular country, it's been 474 00:26:58,840 --> 00:27:01,680 Speaker 1: proven that that wouldn't work. Right. We're such a global 475 00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:05,800 Speaker 1: society now that ultimately every virus is going to make 476 00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:08,240 Speaker 1: its way around the globe no matter what we do. 477 00:27:09,119 --> 00:27:12,959 Speaker 1: But why would we create them? I really do believe 478 00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:15,960 Speaker 1: this was a Chinese created virus based on the evidence. 479 00:27:16,040 --> 00:27:19,080 Speaker 1: I think that it was American taxpayer partially funded the 480 00:27:19,119 --> 00:27:22,600 Speaker 1: gain of function research in Wuhan, maybe not this specific strain, 481 00:27:23,040 --> 00:27:26,320 Speaker 1: but that doctor Fauci helped to provide your and my money, 482 00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:28,199 Speaker 1: which why in the world are we doing this in 483 00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:31,760 Speaker 1: the first place to the Chinese to conduct this investigation, 484 00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:36,520 Speaker 1: this gain of function research. It then got out and 485 00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:41,080 Speaker 1: China panicked and tried to destroy every record and went 486 00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:44,200 Speaker 1: to all the doctor Fauci's of the world and said, oh, 487 00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:46,639 Speaker 1: this came from an animal. And as we said when 488 00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:51,160 Speaker 1: we started this conversation, Buck, okay, where's the animal. You've 489 00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:55,840 Speaker 1: theoretically been looking for this animal that transferred COVID to humans. 490 00:27:56,240 --> 00:28:01,080 Speaker 1: Why have we not found this virus organically in an 491 00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:04,080 Speaker 1: animal to prove that that's where it came from despite 492 00:28:04,119 --> 00:28:09,200 Speaker 1: the Chinese theoretically looking forward for years. Okay, we're just 493 00:28:09,240 --> 00:28:11,240 Speaker 1: not supposed to ask these questions anymore. All of a 494 00:28:11,280 --> 00:28:15,080 Speaker 1: sudden question, the most important question right that astra homing 495 00:28:15,160 --> 00:28:17,399 Speaker 1: want to see answered, you would think, and for anyone 496 00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:20,960 Speaker 1: who I understand, there's there's a desire now and I 497 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:23,680 Speaker 1: share it at some level. Two to just be like, 498 00:28:23,760 --> 00:28:25,560 Speaker 1: h's more like no more covid. I don't want to 499 00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:28,480 Speaker 1: think about it talking anymore. Here's a headline from today's 500 00:28:28,560 --> 00:28:32,119 Speaker 1: Daily Mail. Bird flu has mutated to infect people, fresh 501 00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:36,480 Speaker 1: pandemic fears as scientists in Ground zero of Cambodia find 502 00:28:36,720 --> 00:28:39,520 Speaker 1: H five N one strain that killed eleven year old 503 00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:43,080 Speaker 1: girl and has evolved to better infect humans. So I 504 00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:45,480 Speaker 1: think it's actually really important that we do have a 505 00:28:45,520 --> 00:28:48,080 Speaker 1: system in place to get to what is true about 506 00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:51,040 Speaker 1: all this stuff and not just hope that the lunatics 507 00:28:51,040 --> 00:28:52,760 Speaker 1: who got it all wrong the next of the last 508 00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:54,880 Speaker 1: time won't get it all wrong the next time, because 509 00:28:55,480 --> 00:28:59,240 Speaker 1: they will. If you're concerned, my friends, about the lives 510 00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:01,840 Speaker 1: of unborn children in our nation, your instincts are right on. 511 00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:04,400 Speaker 1: Never has it been easier or more convenient for pregnant 512 00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:06,800 Speaker 1: mothers to and the life of an unborn child. 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This may be even more crazy. 541 00:30:42,440 --> 00:30:45,680 Speaker 1: I am going to praise joy Behar, who I've previously 542 00:30:45,720 --> 00:30:49,360 Speaker 1: called the dumbest woman appearing on any program daily in 543 00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:52,720 Speaker 1: America maybe in the world. Joy by Harbors on the 544 00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:55,960 Speaker 1: View yesterday, Buck, I said, whoopee, Goldberg nailed it. I mean, 545 00:30:56,520 --> 00:30:58,520 Speaker 1: maybe maybe I'm gonna end up one of the chicks 546 00:30:58,520 --> 00:31:01,000 Speaker 1: on the View at this direct, gonna be on the View. 547 00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:05,000 Speaker 1: A Joy's gonna say you're handsomer in person, mister Travis. 548 00:31:05,600 --> 00:31:07,960 Speaker 1: I mean, they might end up adding me as a dude, 549 00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:10,680 Speaker 1: just to have a dude on the View, not just chicks. 550 00:31:10,840 --> 00:31:13,560 Speaker 1: And uh, maybe I'd end up agreeing with them because 551 00:31:13,680 --> 00:31:15,200 Speaker 1: I don't know if you get to call them chicks 552 00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:17,160 Speaker 1: if you're on set with them. I'm just throwing that 553 00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:22,160 Speaker 1: out there. Is chicks an offensive term, not to me, 554 00:31:22,440 --> 00:31:25,400 Speaker 1: but I'm a dude. I mean it's interesting. I remember 555 00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:30,520 Speaker 1: when I was practicing law, we had a new attorney, 556 00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:33,440 Speaker 1: new female attorney, and I said, who's the new girl, 557 00:31:34,160 --> 00:31:37,280 Speaker 1: And they were like. One of the women partners was like, oh, 558 00:31:37,440 --> 00:31:41,120 Speaker 1: you would never say who's the new boy. And I 559 00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:43,240 Speaker 1: was like, no, but I would say who's the new guy. 560 00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:45,920 Speaker 1: She was like, oh, yeah, I guess that's right. But 561 00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:48,720 Speaker 1: I mean, so this whole idea of you know what 562 00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:52,160 Speaker 1: words can you use. I don't think that chicks is 563 00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:57,120 Speaker 1: is an offensive term. Certainly not gonna gonna call them babes. 564 00:31:58,280 --> 00:32:01,600 Speaker 1: But Joy Behart, this has this happened to you ever? Buck? 565 00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:06,040 Speaker 1: So Marjorie Taylor Green was out to dinner, I think, 566 00:32:06,480 --> 00:32:10,600 Speaker 1: and she was confronted by someone who disagreed with her politically. 567 00:32:10,680 --> 00:32:13,080 Speaker 1: Have you had or been in any scene where you've 568 00:32:13,120 --> 00:32:16,280 Speaker 1: seen a situation like this happened? Wait to me, or 569 00:32:16,320 --> 00:32:18,440 Speaker 1: have I st with somebody you're sitting with. I've had 570 00:32:18,440 --> 00:32:22,160 Speaker 1: it happen once. So I will tell you I was 571 00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:26,480 Speaker 1: very disappointed. Where I lived in DC was also a 572 00:32:26,480 --> 00:32:29,080 Speaker 1: place during the Trump administration where there were some Trump 573 00:32:29,080 --> 00:32:31,800 Speaker 1: White House officials that bringing up because there were and 574 00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:35,240 Speaker 1: I mean the most blue haired, you know, nose ring 575 00:32:35,360 --> 00:32:40,720 Speaker 1: wearing lunatic libs had gathered right under my window. Yeah, 576 00:32:40,760 --> 00:32:44,120 Speaker 1: and they were banging drums and cow bells and they're like, oh, 577 00:32:44,120 --> 00:32:47,160 Speaker 1: like you support like the white nationalist in the White 578 00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:49,000 Speaker 1: House and all this stuff. And there's a part of 579 00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:50,600 Speaker 1: me that's like, these people are super annoying. It's a 580 00:32:50,640 --> 00:32:52,160 Speaker 1: Sunday I want to sleep. But also a part of 581 00:32:52,160 --> 00:32:54,400 Speaker 1: me that was like, oh, moving up in the world. 582 00:32:54,440 --> 00:32:57,640 Speaker 1: I gotta they were going for Stephen Miller, and he 583 00:32:57,720 --> 00:33:00,200 Speaker 1: lived on the other side of the building, which one 584 00:33:00,240 --> 00:33:03,520 Speaker 1: was so unfair. He never heard a peep from these lunatics, 585 00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:05,240 Speaker 1: but I thought they were there for me. Turned out 586 00:33:05,280 --> 00:33:07,520 Speaker 1: not so much. But no, this actually hasn't happened to 587 00:33:07,560 --> 00:33:09,360 Speaker 1: me yet. Got a lot of very nice people in 588 00:33:09,360 --> 00:33:11,560 Speaker 1: our radio audience come up and say wonderful things about us, 589 00:33:11,600 --> 00:33:14,040 Speaker 1: and I love them. But I haven't had the nasty 590 00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:16,920 Speaker 1: then I've had. When I worked at CNN, I had 591 00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:19,560 Speaker 1: a guy look at me on the subway and he 592 00:33:19,640 --> 00:33:23,480 Speaker 1: stared at me and he said, I see you on CNN, 593 00:33:24,120 --> 00:33:27,360 Speaker 1: says you sound eloquent, but I hate everything you say. 594 00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:29,920 Speaker 1: So that was a little bit of a thing. What 595 00:33:30,040 --> 00:33:32,400 Speaker 1: did you have? What happened to you? I've had. I've 596 00:33:32,440 --> 00:33:37,040 Speaker 1: been screamed at twice while doing stand ups. Yeah, once 597 00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:40,920 Speaker 1: last year, meaning twenty twenty one. So I was at 598 00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:43,520 Speaker 1: a Tennessee, Georgia game, I think, or I don't remember. 599 00:33:43,560 --> 00:33:46,080 Speaker 1: I was standing up doing like a television hit, and 600 00:33:46,160 --> 00:33:49,240 Speaker 1: in between the hits, somebody screamed at me. I can't 601 00:33:49,280 --> 00:33:52,560 Speaker 1: believe you're defending Kyle Rittenhouse in any way. You're gonna 602 00:33:52,560 --> 00:33:55,600 Speaker 1: go to hell in a bunch of curse words. That 603 00:33:55,760 --> 00:34:00,280 Speaker 1: was in Knoxville. And then I was he feels about himself, 604 00:34:00,640 --> 00:34:04,120 Speaker 1: considering Kyle Rittenhouse one hundred percent innocent and did nothing wrong. 605 00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:06,480 Speaker 1: But yeah, interesting, Yeah I was right on that one. 606 00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:08,760 Speaker 1: And then actually, I don't even know that I mentioned 607 00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:10,600 Speaker 1: this to you. I was doing a stand up about 608 00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:14,560 Speaker 1: to do one before the Alabama Texas game in Austin 609 00:34:14,719 --> 00:34:16,600 Speaker 1: when you were you and your family were down there, 610 00:34:16,640 --> 00:34:19,719 Speaker 1: you and your brothers, and somebody came by was like, 611 00:34:19,800 --> 00:34:22,960 Speaker 1: I listened to your show, You're a horrible racist, blah 612 00:34:22,960 --> 00:34:24,800 Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah, like a lot of curse words. 613 00:34:25,200 --> 00:34:28,359 Speaker 1: And I was like, appreciate you listening, and uh. And 614 00:34:28,440 --> 00:34:31,600 Speaker 1: so that's the only two times face to face that 615 00:34:31,680 --> 00:34:35,560 Speaker 1: I've ever held face to face I forgetting. I went 616 00:34:35,560 --> 00:34:37,879 Speaker 1: to a black tie event in New York and there 617 00:34:37,920 --> 00:34:40,279 Speaker 1: was a line of protesters outside and a couple of 618 00:34:40,280 --> 00:34:43,320 Speaker 1: them got right in mind. I'm in a tuxedo, and 619 00:34:43,360 --> 00:34:44,800 Speaker 1: a couple of them got right in my face and 620 00:34:44,840 --> 00:34:47,120 Speaker 1: they're like, they're look, you're not welcome here. We know 621 00:34:47,160 --> 00:34:48,960 Speaker 1: who you are. And I want to be like, no, welcome, 622 00:34:49,080 --> 00:34:51,960 Speaker 1: this is my city. You're probably race. You probably just 623 00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:54,279 Speaker 1: got off a bus from someplace god knows where, Like 624 00:34:54,280 --> 00:34:56,160 Speaker 1: what are you talking about? But you're not welcome in 625 00:34:56,200 --> 00:34:57,840 Speaker 1: New York of this whole thing. And they were screaming 626 00:34:57,880 --> 00:35:00,279 Speaker 1: my face the cop there, so I think they also 627 00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:02,200 Speaker 1: were hoping that I. You know, this is these people 628 00:35:02,239 --> 00:35:03,959 Speaker 1: are so tough. They want to get right in your face. 629 00:35:03,960 --> 00:35:05,960 Speaker 1: They were all nails. I want to get right in 630 00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:08,120 Speaker 1: your face and say really aggressive things. And then the 631 00:35:08,160 --> 00:35:11,960 Speaker 1: moment you like, do anything, Oh my goss, you attacked 632 00:35:12,040 --> 00:35:15,959 Speaker 1: me and throwing a jill. Of course, ninety nine point 633 00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:18,200 Speaker 1: nine percent of all things that I hear in public 634 00:35:18,200 --> 00:35:20,439 Speaker 1: are positive, but I did want to mention that and 635 00:35:20,600 --> 00:35:23,440 Speaker 1: the idea that you would confront someone in a restaurant 636 00:35:23,480 --> 00:35:26,160 Speaker 1: regardless of their politics. And I say this to everybody 637 00:35:26,160 --> 00:35:29,839 Speaker 1: out there listening as well, indefensible. You are not in 638 00:35:29,920 --> 00:35:33,360 Speaker 1: the right when you make this decision. So Marjorie Taylor 639 00:35:33,440 --> 00:35:38,319 Speaker 1: Green was confronted, and this is what Joy Behar on 640 00:35:38,360 --> 00:35:41,879 Speaker 1: the View had to say. Congest Woman Marjorie Taylor Green 641 00:35:41,960 --> 00:35:45,560 Speaker 1: tweeted that she was quote attacked quote unquote by a 642 00:35:45,600 --> 00:35:48,160 Speaker 1: woman in a restaurant on Monday night and was screamed 643 00:35:48,200 --> 00:35:51,919 Speaker 1: at by her adult son, not Marjorie's son, the woman's son, 644 00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:54,720 Speaker 1: while she was sitting at a table with members of herself, 645 00:35:54,800 --> 00:35:56,839 Speaker 1: simply because she claims it was just because she has 646 00:35:56,880 --> 00:36:00,439 Speaker 1: political views that are different. So I have to say 647 00:36:00,560 --> 00:36:03,520 Speaker 1: I'm on Majorie's side for this one, because I don't 648 00:36:03,520 --> 00:36:06,680 Speaker 1: believe that anybody should be going up to any of us, 649 00:36:06,760 --> 00:36:11,759 Speaker 1: anybody in public and harassing us. Amen. Joy Behart nailed, 650 00:36:11,760 --> 00:36:13,719 Speaker 1: they never have said it before on the show. She's 651 00:36:13,719 --> 00:36:17,239 Speaker 1: one hundred percent right. Hi fi for Joy behar On. 652 00:36:17,280 --> 00:36:20,319 Speaker 1: That one's just gonna say it. We will always when 653 00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:22,200 Speaker 1: people speak the truth, they're speaking the truth. I don't 654 00:36:22,200 --> 00:36:23,799 Speaker 1: care who says it. The truth is a good thing. 655 00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:26,520 Speaker 1: She's right. She probably took a little heat from her 656 00:36:26,520 --> 00:36:29,000 Speaker 1: audience in that one. I don't know many Maybe Joy 657 00:36:29,080 --> 00:36:32,280 Speaker 1: be Harror is sick of carrying water for the commies, 658 00:36:32,360 --> 00:36:34,680 Speaker 1: you know, maybe she's starting to see a little a 659 00:36:34,719 --> 00:36:37,160 Speaker 1: glimmer of light. Let's not get crazy. Let's not get crazy, 660 00:36:37,160 --> 00:36:40,680 Speaker 1: but a little tiny bit. And to Joy Beharor's defense here, 661 00:36:41,080 --> 00:36:43,960 Speaker 1: this is the exact opposite of what Congressman Carter's woman 662 00:36:44,080 --> 00:36:46,840 Speaker 1: Maxine Water said. Remember where she said and get everybody 663 00:36:46,880 --> 00:36:49,520 Speaker 1: in the face and screen at him. Basically, the view 664 00:36:49,560 --> 00:36:52,000 Speaker 1: should have us on let's just put that out there. 665 00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:54,640 Speaker 1: The view bookers have on Clay and Buck. But coming 666 00:36:54,680 --> 00:36:57,520 Speaker 1: up next we're talking about the FBI and the Marlago raid.