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Speaker 1: Welcome in Clay Travis buck Sexton Show. Appreciate all of

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Speaker 1: you hanging out with us. Happy Monday. And it is

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Speaker 1: week three of the Trump administration and basically the legacy

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Speaker 1: media and all their cronies essentially unable to keep up

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Speaker 1: with anything that is going on on a day to

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Speaker 1: day basis. On Saturday, Trump said I'm going to put

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Speaker 1: a twenty five percent tariff on Mexican goods, twenty five

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Speaker 1: percent on Canada, ten percent on Canadian fuel. Within the

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Speaker 1: last hour, essentially, Mexico has folded in its standing up

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Speaker 1: to the Trump tariff threats. They have agreed to send

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Speaker 1: ten thousand additional soldiers to the border. They have agreed

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Speaker 1: to work harder to interdict the flow of fentanyl to

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Speaker 1: the the United States, and they have also been held

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Speaker 1: to a new standard, which is Trump is postponing the

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Speaker 1: impact of the tariffs for thirty days in the event

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Speaker 1: that Mexico makes good on its on its goals here,

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Speaker 1: which are really the United States goals Canada, I believe

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Speaker 1: there is a three pm deadline of sorts buck on

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Speaker 1: exactly what may happen with Canada. A lot of throat

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Speaker 1: clearing and threats coming from America's top hat to the north.

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Speaker 1: But I would expect that very quickly Canada will recognize

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Speaker 1: that they need the United States far more than the

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Speaker 1: United States needs Canada. And so what really is happening,

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Speaker 1: Whether buck you look, we've got a pattern now, Whether

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Speaker 1: you look at Columbia and its president refusing the return

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Speaker 1: of illegal immigrant migrants. Trump threat this retaliatory action, Columbia buckles.

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Speaker 1: Panama says, hey, we're not doing anything wrong. Even though

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Speaker 1: the Panama Canal is now being managed by Hong Kong.

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Speaker 1: We have Marco Rubio make his initial visit there. Panama's

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Speaker 1: president comes out to a large extent, bends the knee.

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Speaker 1: American power is back. We're not going to apologize, We're

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Speaker 1: going to use it. And all of the people who

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Speaker 1: going to work just look foolish. As one after another.

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Speaker 1: America's adversaries in many ways been the knee to US diplomacy.

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Speaker 1: It's amazing, Clay. I know you were sick this weekend,

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Speaker 1: and Clay fought through it. Everybody and is here on Monday.

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Speaker 1: Clays were hysterical by the way that you guys, Apparently

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Speaker 1: if you play the flute enough shirtless, your fever goes away.

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Speaker 1: According to the memes, that was good to know. But Clay,

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Speaker 1: I just this weekend, I was out at the shooting range.

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Speaker 1: It was a busy weekend here in South Florida. The

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Speaker 1: amount of amazing things Donald Trump is doing. It's tough

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Speaker 1: to keep up with what's going on, and you keep

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Speaker 1: seeing things. And my first reaction, my ex feed is

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Speaker 1: has ever been. Okay, so remember when everyone was like, oh,

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Speaker 1: Elon's going to destroy Twitter. No, actually, I think that

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Speaker 1: played a large role in getting the truth out about

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Speaker 1: all things Trump related for this election, which I believe

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Speaker 1: strongly helped Trump in the election. You know, it was

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Speaker 1: And now when I open up my ex feed, it's,

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Speaker 1: you know, Trump threatens tariff with Mexico, Mexico caves. Trump

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Speaker 1: says Panama needs to change its Belton Road initiative with China.

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Speaker 1: I mean, this is again through people in the cabinet,

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Speaker 1: through Mark Rubio, but it's his administration and Panama now

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Speaker 1: is saying, you know what, we're not gonna renew with

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Speaker 1: Belt and Road initiative, and we're going to change things

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Speaker 1: by the way, that's not over yet. And then on

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Speaker 1: top of it, you've got Elon Musk and Doge shutting

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Speaker 1: down USAID effectively. I'm not even sure what this is

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Speaker 1: so unprecedented that you would be seeing a tweet that

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Speaker 1: there's no longer a government, federal bureaucracy spending the billions,

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Speaker 1: the tens of billions that you have to say to yourself, wait,

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Speaker 1: is this really? Is this really what's happening? And the

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Speaker 1: week three. So what Elon basically has decided is and

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Speaker 1: I saw him just tweet this, But the number one

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Speaker 1: it's a form of shock treatment because whatever business you

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Speaker 1: extremely excruciatingly frustrating that is. And that's a for profit business,

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Speaker 1: and there's still complete messes. Imagine what our federal government

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Speaker 1: looks like, where you have just layered trillions upon trillions

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Speaker 1: an intelligent way to spend money? And the people who

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Speaker 1: a minute, what is the taxpayer actually getting in exchange

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Speaker 1: for all this money we've been spending. I love this,

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Speaker 1: but you see this and you go, is this really?

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Speaker 1: Is this really happening? Look? Trump, Trump is blown out.

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Speaker 1: I knew term two was going to get off, you know,

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Speaker 1: I think we knew based on the team that he

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Speaker 1: trumpet Clay's We're in the third week here. The New

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Speaker 1: Treasury's payment systems. The Treasury Secretary Scott Besson gave Musk's

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Speaker 1: representatives at the so called don't you love The New

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Speaker 1: mean no. It's called the Department of Government Efficiency, a

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Speaker 1: powerful tool to monitor and limit government spending. Clay Elon

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Speaker 1: and his boys have the checkbook now, Yeah, they can

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Speaker 1: see exactly what's going. I mean, you want to talk

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Speaker 1: this causes those who have been aiding a betting and

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Speaker 1: And I think this is indicative of and this is

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Speaker 1: You really just do meetings, and everybody is trying to

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Speaker 1: I understand that what Elon Musk, through Trump, who has

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Speaker 1: And that seems to be the goal that Elon Musk

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Speaker 1: This is something if you wrote the book, people would

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Speaker 1: that is happening right now. It's incredible. It's like the

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Speaker 1: And I mean if I told you two years ago, Clay,

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Speaker 1: You have a skill set that very few people do,

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Speaker 1: and Elon's skill set is so rare that other supremely

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Speaker 1: kind of illustrates what I'm talking about, just a fundamental

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Speaker 1: inability to respond. The dynamics of the deal change so

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Speaker 1: quickly that whatever they say publicly is outdated almost immediately.

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Speaker 1: Listen to this.

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Speaker 5: Let's just take Super Bowl Sunday. Okay, it's going to

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Speaker 5: affect beer. Okay, most of it Corona here comes from Mexico.

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Speaker 5: It's going to affect your block because what is guacamole

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Speaker 5: made of avocados both from Mexico.

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Speaker 1: Okay, as awkward as this is, they're like, hey, politician

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Speaker 1: who does not know what normal people are like, We're

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Speaker 1: going to give you a beer, and we're going to

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Speaker 1: give you an avocado, and we're going to have you

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Speaker 1: argue that Super Bowl Sunday is going to be an impact.

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Speaker 1: And first of all, Buck, most beer doesn't come for Mexico.

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Speaker 1: You could buy Impact. You could buy virtually all your

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Speaker 1: beer in the United States born. And that's one of

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Speaker 1: the best things that America does is create a bevy

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Speaker 1: of beer. I'm not a beer drinker for obvious reasons,

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Speaker 1: but I used to be, and I could tell you

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Speaker 1: if Corona was so great, you wouldn't have to drop

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Speaker 1: a line in it. I'm just saying. And then on

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Speaker 1: the notion that your avocado is going to get so

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Speaker 1: much more expensive and all this stuff, Okay, first of all,

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Speaker 1: not true to your points, not even what's happening. But

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Speaker 1: let's just unpack this for a second. Trump is trying

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Speaker 1: to get the necessary assistance from Mexico so that we

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Speaker 1: don't have a wide open border with ten million illegals

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Speaker 1: piling in. Whatever the number is, guys, Okay, don't you know,

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Speaker 1: maybe it's fifteen million. Who cares. Point is ten million

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Speaker 1: plus illegals piling in every four years, one hundred thousand

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Speaker 1: people dying every year of fentanyl overdoses or something close

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Speaker 1: to it, cartel activity, human smuggling, all of this stuff.

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Speaker 1: You know, if we can get help on that, and

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Speaker 1: it means our avocados are a little more expensive, the

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Speaker 1: American people are actually okay with that. You know, this

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Speaker 1: is the part of the Democrats don't seem to understand.

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Speaker 1: Trump is using leverage for more important goals. He's not

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Speaker 1: just you know, lightened mounds of avocados on fire in

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Speaker 1: spite he's trying to get foreign partners to actually be partners,

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Speaker 1: and turns out some of them are realizing there is

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Speaker 1: a new sheriff in town. But their response is, we're

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Speaker 1: gonna have Chuck Schumer show up and hold the avocado.

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Speaker 1: And back to the optics of it, they're absurd. They're absurd.

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Speaker 1: But if it is where they are and they're so

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Speaker 1: far behind, it's important. Who's a better symbol for the

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Speaker 1: Democrats right now than Chuck Schumer? Who's more effective. I'm

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Speaker 1: not saying Chuck Schumer is effective, he's better. I don't

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Speaker 1: think they do you, I mean, really, do you think

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Speaker 1: they have one right now? AOC would get laughed at.

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Speaker 1: I think it's funny. I think Fetterman because at least

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Speaker 1: him holding up a beer and I don't think he

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Speaker 1: would do it, but at least he's way too nice

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Speaker 1: to Republicans for the Democrat basis right, right right, I

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Speaker 1: totally get that. And he's also wrong on Israel from

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Speaker 1: their perspective. I'm just saying, who could hold up an

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Speaker 1: avocado and a beer talking about their Super Bowl party

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Speaker 1: and me not think they look ridiculous? At least I

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Speaker 1: think Fetterman's going to probably have a beer in some

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Speaker 1: avocado at his super Bowl party. I don't think that

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Speaker 1: Chuck Schumer is going to watch the super Bowl other

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Speaker 1: than to be like, oh, this is what you know

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Speaker 1: the humans are doing right Like So, one of the

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Speaker 1: who have none of his wealth advantages or upbringing. How

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Speaker 1: is that even possible? Like? How is Trump better at

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Speaker 1: Welcome back in to Clay and Buck. We haven't really

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Speaker 1: gotten into this yet because there's been so much big

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Speaker 1: stuff happening. But it turns out that the deep state

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Speaker 1: is not so comfortable over at the FBI anymore. In fact,

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Speaker 1: there have been some senior level resignations, people being pushed

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Speaker 1: out looking for more about who was involved in J six.

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Speaker 1: Julie Kelly joins us now. She is the author on

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Speaker 1: sub Stack of Declassified with Julie Kelly, and I highly

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Speaker 1: recommend you see what she is writing these days. Julie,

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Speaker 1: bring us up to speed, because you know these aren't

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Speaker 1: just random names and news stories. You've been following some

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Speaker 1: of these characters at the FBI and what they've done

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Speaker 1: to j six people you know at the senior level

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Speaker 1: in particular. But bring us into the shock waves that

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Speaker 1: have MSNBC putting former FBI people on the TV to

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Speaker 1: tell us that fascism is here. What's going on?

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Speaker 3: Right?

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Speaker 2: So, we know about the purge at the DOJ of

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Speaker 2: some top officials who were involved in this ongoing law

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Speaker 2: fare against President Trump. Some of them were reassigned to

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Speaker 2: an immigration enforcement unit, and at least one of them

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Speaker 2: resigned because he really doesn't want to get his fingernails dirty.

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Speaker 2: He'd rather be doing the dirty work of the Democratic Party.

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Speaker 2: Those days, of course, are over. We also know that

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Speaker 2: several assistant US attorneys in the DCUs Attorney's Office, the

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Speaker 2: office that has been handling or was handling the January

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Speaker 2: sixth investigation and prosecution, they also have been terminated. But

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Speaker 2: now we're focused on this purge at the FBI, several

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Speaker 2: top officials, including the deputy director at the Washington Field office.

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Speaker 2: It looks like the head of the Las Vegas field

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Speaker 2: office and a few more have been retired, resigned, let go.

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Speaker 2: We're not really sure what the circumstances how they went

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Speaker 2: about that. Really interesting. What I'm keeping an eye on today,

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Speaker 2: you guys, is this questionnaire that was sent out over

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Speaker 2: the weekend or maybe it was Friday, to every employee

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Speaker 2: asking them to account for their involvement in the J

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Speaker 2: six prosecution and investigation. Now we know, because Chris Ray

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Speaker 2: used to brag about every single one of the fifty

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Speaker 2: six FBI field offices were involved in that investigation prosecution.

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Speaker 2: What the acting FBI director has been asked to do,

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Speaker 2: and it appears, when we can talk about him as well,

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Speaker 2: that he is being somewhat defiant in executing this order

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Speaker 2: and this questionnaire to all of these employees asking them

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Speaker 2: what they did or they witnesses at trials? Did they

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Speaker 2: surveil Americans? Were they handling search warrants? Were they handling

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Speaker 2: these armed raids? That questionnaire is due back this afternoon

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Speaker 2: and then we will see from there what the acting

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Speaker 2: DOJ officials want to do with that hold off and

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Speaker 2: tell Pamboni is confirmed or take some immediate action.

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Speaker 1: Julie, is there anything Trump hasn't done yet that you

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Speaker 1: think he should done? Should do your way out in

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Speaker 1: front on part in all the jan sixers, he did that.

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Speaker 1: The blowback has been almost non existent. I think partly

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Speaker 1: that's because of how absolutely indefensible many of the pardons

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Speaker 1: that Biden gave on his way out were. But you

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Speaker 1: won that battle. It has been transformative, I think for

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Speaker 1: many people out there had to deal with those prosecutions.

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Speaker 1: What's on your checklist that Trump hasn't done yet? And

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Speaker 1: can you believe what he's already done in basically fourteen days.

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Speaker 2: No, I can't. I mean I think I said the

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Speaker 2: other day, this is something that I used to like

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Speaker 2: dream about, is that these prosecutors would feel the same

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Speaker 2: sort of pain that they've inflicted on j six Ers.

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Speaker 2: Now certainly all of the FBI agents who were involved

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Speaker 2: as well. So yes, I mean, this is stunning, And

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Speaker 2: again kudos to President Trump, the acting Attorney General James McHenry,

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Speaker 2: the acting Deputy Attorney General A. Mil Bove, who will

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Speaker 2: remain in the Department of Justice after Pam Bondi, and

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Speaker 2: the permanent Deputy Attorney General Todd Lanche is confirmed. So

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Speaker 2: this has exceeded my wildest dreams, and they really were

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Speaker 2: wild dreams because I thought these people are never going

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Speaker 2: to be held accountable for what they're doing. But a

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Speaker 2: few things. I really hope that the President considers pardoning

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Speaker 2: the rest of the people. Those fourteen individuals whose sentences

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Speaker 2: were commuted, a few of them Thomas Caldwell for example,

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Speaker 2: and I hope you guys have him on your show.

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Speaker 2: He wasn't sentenced to prison, He was not a member

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Speaker 2: of the oath keepers. He had one charge left against

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Speaker 2: him at the end of the day, and that was

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Speaker 2: tampering with documents because he got rid of his Facebook account,

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Speaker 2: believe it or not, and that was even vacated by

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Speaker 2: the judge. So I really would like to see the

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Speaker 2: President consider pardoning those individuals as well. Also, we have

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Speaker 2: the whit murph fed napping hoax. We have two men

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Speaker 2: in super max prisons being tortured. I mean they are

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Speaker 2: with the country's most hardened repeat offender, serious criminals, serious terrorists,

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Speaker 2: and of course those men also in trapp by the FBI.

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Speaker 2: I would like to see his DJ if not part

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Speaker 2: in those two individuals, but launch an investigation into what

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Speaker 2: happened there. So, but I'm not complaining because this is,

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Speaker 2: as I said, a far better start than any of

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Speaker 1: What do you think comes next? Is this all, Julia?

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Speaker 1: I know you've been following this so closely. Is this

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Speaker 1: going to just get tangled up in the courts really fast?

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Speaker 1: Because really, at the heart of this, it seems to

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Speaker 1: me that there is this belief that if you work

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Speaker 1: for the federal government you just can't be fired. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you know that you get to just do what you

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Speaker 1: do and nothing ever happens. And then when you have

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Speaker 1: a president who comes in and with presidential power and

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Speaker 1: with his appointees and saying no, I'm sorry, there is

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Speaker 1: going to be accountability. What would it mean if the

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Speaker 1: courts overturned this and said no, sorry, you actually can't

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Speaker 1: fire these FBI? Did you see what I mean? What

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Speaker 1: do you think happens next? And what are the implications

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Speaker 1: of it?

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Speaker 3: Right?

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Speaker 2: So, this very well could end up in the courts.

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Speaker 2: You had normalize in our favorite lawfare architect and Mark

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Speaker 2: zaid send a letter to the Department of Justice yesterday

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Speaker 2: warning that you'll love this, you will love this. That

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Speaker 2: thed process and constitutional rights of these prosecutors and FBI

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Speaker 2: agents are being violated, that they are going to be

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Speaker 2: subject to doxing and harassment because they are being exposed

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Speaker 2: for what they've done, especially in the j sixth investigation,

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Speaker 2: and that these lawyers will pursue some sort of legal

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Speaker 2: means to defend these government andoyees from getting the acts.

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Speaker 2: So it could end up in the courts. The problem

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Speaker 2: is it will probably end up in the DC courts

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Speaker 2: before the very same judges who have put their informader

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Speaker 2: on every aspect of this lawfare, from President Trump down

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Speaker 2: to some of his associates and associates that of course

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Speaker 2: almost one thousand and six hundred JA six defendants. So

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Speaker 2: I figured this will be a battle, but you know

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Speaker 2: there's going to be risk involved for that side as well,

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Speaker 2: and that is arguing why they should have been fired

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Speaker 2: and what they did, whether it was top DOJ officials

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Speaker 2: or you know, an FBI case agent out of a

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Speaker 2: field office in Nevada or in Texas. So this full

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Speaker 2: accounting is going to be very eye opening, and I

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Speaker 2: think that they're kind of setting the table for Pambody

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Speaker 2: and Cash Pattel to take this information that they have

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Speaker 2: and then decide how they want to pursue their own

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Speaker 2: investigations or inquiries into the DOJ and FBI.

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Speaker 1: This is all very importan, and you've done tremendous work,

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Speaker 1: as has Trump. How impressed Be honest, Julie, are you

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Speaker 1: with my unbelievable recovery from the flu and also the

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Speaker 1: fact that I have barely talked about it at all.

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Speaker 2: I just I just want to give thanks to God

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Speaker 2: for sparing you from the sniffles. I mean it's really

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Speaker 2: sounded touch and go. And now we have to send

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Speaker 2: prayers out to Jesse.

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Speaker 1: Kelly, I know you're weighing in. Jesse's entire family is

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Speaker 1: about to go down with the flu. And I was

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Speaker 1: very brave. I stayed in bed, I watched twelve hours

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Speaker 1: of college basketball and they I frankly think it was

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Speaker 1: a heroic battle. I was fighting.

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Speaker 5: Well.

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Speaker 2: I painted save Clay on water tower outside my house,

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Speaker 2: and now I'm going to have to go change it

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Speaker 2: save Jesse because and who knows who's next? I mean,

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Speaker 2: this is this is quite quite the cult.

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Speaker 1: The men in America are under siege. I mean, we

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Speaker 1: just don't talk about our health as often as we should.

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Speaker 1: But it were really all very steadfast troopers, and Julie

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Speaker 1: just you know. You may think it's ai that Fauci

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Speaker 1: visited Clay with a special check in to make sure

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Speaker 1: he got his fourteenth booster, but there are some people

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Speaker 1: out there who don't accept that explanation and think that

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Speaker 1: really it was just surveillance footage the Fauci memes that.

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Speaker 2: I really showed up. We would have a far different.

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Speaker 1: Outcome for Clay, So that's very true.

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Speaker 2: I'm glad that's not real.

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Speaker 1: Julie, you continue to dominate. We appreciate you taking the

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Speaker 1: time to come on. And also I want to give

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Speaker 1: producer Greg a shout out because it was his creation

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Speaker 1: of that Fauci meme that as I was deliriously rolling

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Speaker 1: over in a fever, wasn't sure if I was going

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Speaker 1: to make it or not. That was the thing that

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Speaker 1: was on my phone. So I appreciate Greg. Julie, I

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Speaker 1: expect that when you get the flu, you'll also be

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Speaker 1: doing eight other jobs at the same time as most

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Speaker 1: women do. But we we appreciate you.

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Speaker 2: All right, guys, thanks for having me on.

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Speaker 1: Thank you buck do you that's Julie Kelly who does

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Speaker 1: fabulous work. Do you buy into the fact as women

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Speaker 1: like to argue that all men when they get sick,

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Speaker 1: are complete and total hooses. Is this a unfair attack

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Speaker 1: on masculinity or do you think we're more of hooses

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Speaker 1: when we get sick than women are. I just think

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Speaker 1: that my view on this is that men, particularly when

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Speaker 1: they're sick, they want that feminine nurturing from the misses,

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Speaker 1: and so they ham it up a little bit, you know,

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Speaker 1: a little bit like, oh, I don't know if I'm

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Speaker 1: ever gonna be here the same again. Can you bring

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Speaker 1: me some chicken noodle soup, honey, you know? Or as

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Speaker 1: I think women don't really you know what I mean.

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Speaker 1: I think that they just they don't have any desire

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Speaker 1: for male nurturing. Like I don't think Laura thinks you're

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Speaker 1: gonna make from scratch chicken noodle soup from her because

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Speaker 1: it would probably not taste very good, So she's not

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Speaker 1: angling at accurate. That's actually a good thesis on what's

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Speaker 1: going on here, because women do regularly attack men. But

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Speaker 1: I will say that my battle with the flu this

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Speaker 1: weekend was probably the equivalent of ten labor deliveries by women.

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Speaker 1: That's just how hard I was fighting again humbly. Maybe

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Speaker 1: maybe nine maybe nine baby deliveries. I mean, it's just

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Speaker 1: like my immune system, the battle that I was fighting.

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Speaker 1: I just think it's important for all of you to know.

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Speaker 1: It was the great tear four that wasn't leading Chuck

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Speaker 1: Schumer hosting on Avocado and one hand in a corona

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Speaker 1: in the other and saying your super Bowl party is

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Speaker 1: going to be ruined because of Donald Trump. One thing

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Speaker 1: I would suggest, Buck, maybe the stock market needs to

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Speaker 1: stop being as reactive to trump public commentary. I saw

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Speaker 1: the stock market was down I think like two and

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Speaker 1: a half percent this morning off the start before Mexico

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Speaker 1: pledged ten thousand troops to the border growing fentanyl. They

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Speaker 1: just arrested one of the cartel leaders. And when you

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Speaker 1: look at how the stock market has moved. Since it's

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Speaker 1: all basically come back, there is almost no change to

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Speaker 1: the day's activities so far. Question for you, and I'm

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Speaker 1: going to dive into the Democrat parties ongoing major identity

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Speaker 1: crisis here for you. Do you think Trump putting Mexico's

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Speaker 1: president on notice about border security and the fact that

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Speaker 1: he will not allow the same level of illegal drugs

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Speaker 1: crossing our border actually makes her job easier because it

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Speaker 1: makes her and Mexican government officials able to say, hey,

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Speaker 1: our hands are tied. This is the US. In other words.

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Speaker 1: And I haven't heard a lot of people analyze this,

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Speaker 1: but I'm curious what you would say there has talked

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Speaker 1: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, friend of both of ours, has said,

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Speaker 1: we're prepared to attack the cartels. Mexico may say publicly, no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: this is our sovereign territory all those things. Do you

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Speaker 1: think privately through back channels they actually welcome that in

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Speaker 1: some way because it focuses the cartel's ire on the

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Speaker 1: United States as opposed to Mexican targets. I actually think

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Speaker 1: that's under discussed, but potentially from a negotiating perspective, one

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Speaker 1: of these things where you say one thing publicly and

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Speaker 1: then are saying something else privately. That really gets into

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Speaker 1: I think it's really interesting theory and it gets into

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Speaker 1: a level of understanding the cartels. Maybe we should bring

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Speaker 1: on And if you know who Joan Grillo is, I've interviewed.

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Speaker 1: I love to talk to a cartel expert. Fascinating. He's

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Speaker 1: lived in Mexico for almost thirty years. I think he's

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Speaker 1: a British guy and he's really just been covering the cartels.

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Speaker 1: He was on a Rogan show a while back. But

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Speaker 1: I think getting an understanding of how enmeshed are the

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Speaker 1: cartels with local government national government in Mexico now talking

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Speaker 1: about on that side of things, and what the response

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Speaker 1: would be, I mean, doing military strikes in Mexico without

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Speaker 1: the Mexican government's approval or authority, is that that's a

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Speaker 1: thorny that's a thorny thing to try to grab onto.

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Speaker 1: I doubt that's in the near future. However, if the

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Speaker 1: Mexican government increasingly feels like it's pushed into a corner

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Speaker 1: by Trump on these issues, as sending ten thousand troops

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Speaker 1: of the border seems to be an indication of we

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Speaker 1: could see a change in their posture, and so you know,

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Speaker 1: it's basically clay. I think it's too early to know,

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Speaker 1: but you ask of how does this affect politics internally

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Speaker 1: in Mexico and what is the response going to be.

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Speaker 1: I mean, there's gonna be a lot of ire against

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Speaker 1: Trump no matter what on this stuff. But that's kind

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Speaker 1: of the point. He's trying to shake things up. He's

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Speaker 1: trying to rattle cages. This is not meant to be

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Speaker 1: a big, warm hug from Trump to the Mexican government.

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Speaker 1: So let's see, let's see. I mean, so far, I

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Speaker 1: just feel like, now Trump's got He's just racking up

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Speaker 1: so many wins that I would be or anyone I

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Speaker 1: think should be very slow to questioning is always fine,

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Speaker 1: but to be, you know, overly negative about the outlook

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Speaker 1: I think doesn't make much sense given the recent track record.

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Speaker 1: I mentioned Chuck Schumer standing with avocados in hand and

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Speaker 1: a beer in the other and trying to blame Trump.

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Speaker 1: One reason buck that the Democrat response has been so

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Speaker 1: patently awful. There's an article in the front page of

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Speaker 1: the New York Times and it basically is like, hey,

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Speaker 1: we have no message, And I think that's somewhat interesting,

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Speaker 1: But to me, what's They had a DNC selection over

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Speaker 1: the weekend. A new leader was selected for the DNC,

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Speaker 1: and that new leader was elevated on the premise of, Hey, basically,

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Speaker 1: people don't know what we actually believe that the reason

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Speaker 1: we lost in twenty twenty four was messaging and nothing else.

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Speaker 1: And I actually think that's not true at all. What

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Speaker 1: the problem Democrats have is most Americans know what they

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Speaker 1: stand for and don't like it. A poll came out

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Speaker 1: from Quinnipiac over the last several days. It had Democrats

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Speaker 1: said I think it was fifty seven or fifty eight

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Speaker 1: percent disapproval, the highest level of disapproval for the party

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Speaker 1: in fifteen years. And New York Times today they said,

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Speaker 1: what are Americans' personal priorities? What do they want the

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Speaker 1: government to focus on? And I thought this was interesting.

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Speaker 1: If you're a politician, this would be data that obviously

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Speaker 1: would go to the essence of your job. The things

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Speaker 1: that the average American cares about the economy Number one

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Speaker 1: health care primarily, I would bet buck health care costs, affordability,

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Speaker 1: insurance crisis, all that, immigration, taxes, crime, those are according

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Speaker 1: to the New York times in a poll that they

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Speaker 1: just did the five things that Americans most care about,

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Speaker 1: What do they say Democrats care about number And I

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Speaker 1: want you to think of that and want you to

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Speaker 1: think about how this overlaps with what Americans care about.

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Speaker 1: Abortion No. Number One thing that Democrats care about the most.

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Speaker 1: I think that that's an accurate perception. Second, LGBT policy,

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Speaker 1: I think that that is an accurate perception. Oh my god,

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Speaker 1: Third buck climate change. Third thing that Americans believe Democrats

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Speaker 1: care about the most. Fourth the state of democracy. The

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Speaker 1: first four things that Americans perceive Democrats to care about

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Speaker 1: the most don't rank on the five things that Americans

869
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Speaker 1: care about the most. Healthcare is fifth on the list.

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Speaker 1: Only one of their five priorities do Americans care about.

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Speaker 2: Well.

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Speaker 1: This is why I would offer that Trump's victory is

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Speaker 1: a necessary national corrective, that this was a restoration of

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Speaker 1: sanity and the Democratic Party was truly delusional. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I think the Democrat Party has been rooted in delusion

876
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Speaker 1: for years, but it reached a really a pinnacle. It

877
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Speaker 1: reached a new summit. And this is the beginning of

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Speaker 1: turning this around. Clay. It would be as though we

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Speaker 1: were let's say, if you think of the country almost

880
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Speaker 1: like we are talking about let's say securing our home, right,

881
00:52:25,880 --> 00:52:28,279
Speaker 1: how do you secure your home? And the Republicans sit

882
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Speaker 1: around and they're saying, well, we got to check our

883
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Speaker 1: locks have an alarm system. And it used to be

884
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Speaker 1: maybe Democrats would say, no, you need to make sure

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Speaker 1: that you know you've got you know, trip wires on

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Speaker 1: the outside, or you need to make sure your neighbors

887
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Speaker 1: have a neighbor would watch. That's actually more like Democrats

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00:52:42,640 --> 00:52:45,799
Speaker 1: a neighborhood watch program or something. And now when we

889
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Speaker 1: say let's secure our home, meaning this country, Democrats are saying,

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Speaker 1: I'm worried about the boogeyman. Yeah, I'm worried about you know,

891
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Speaker 1: a monster in the closet. And you're sitting there looking

892
00:52:55,160 --> 00:52:57,319
Speaker 1: at the me like that's not even a thing. What

893
00:52:57,440 --> 00:53:00,799
Speaker 1: are you talking about? How can climate change be one

894
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Speaker 1: of the biggest concerns that Democrats have that there's nothing

895
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Speaker 1: even if they were right, it's not going to change,

896
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Speaker 1: meaning that no one's going to stop. You know, we

897
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Speaker 1: have one hundred and fifty or one hundred and forty

898
00:53:12,800 --> 00:53:17,759
Speaker 1: year fossil fuel infrastructure, as was well stated in Landman, Right, Yeah,

899
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Speaker 1: This isn't going to change. China is not going to change,

900
00:53:21,120 --> 00:53:24,080
Speaker 1: India is not going to change. They're sitting around whining

901
00:53:24,160 --> 00:53:27,840
Speaker 1: about nonsense as the most important thing in the country.

902
00:53:28,520 --> 00:53:32,239
Speaker 1: At least climate change. You can argue, there's something to

903
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Speaker 1: be done to me. The craziest one on here, Buck,

904
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Speaker 1: is lgbt policy. What do they want? That's crazy? And

905
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Speaker 1: the data reflects interestingly, Buck, only four percent of Americans

906
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Speaker 1: care the most about LGBTQ issues. Probably the four percent

907
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Speaker 1: of America that tends to be LBGTQ ish would be

908
00:53:55,160 --> 00:54:00,520
Speaker 1: my argument there. But they say Democrats thirty one percent

909
00:54:00,560 --> 00:54:03,879
Speaker 1: of Americans say it's Democrats top priority. It's just such

910
00:54:03,880 --> 00:54:10,680
Speaker 1: a fundamental misapprehension of the national mood you've seen. But Clay,

911
00:54:10,960 --> 00:54:15,560
Speaker 1: you've seen that. The Trump administration, for example, I think

912
00:54:15,560 --> 00:54:18,200
Speaker 1: has again if I ever say something that's not this

913
00:54:18,239 --> 00:54:20,800
Speaker 1: stuff is happening so fast online. But there's been a change.

914
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Speaker 1: I think they've removed from some government websites the t

915
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Speaker 1: meaning you know, the trans components of all of this,

916
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Speaker 1: or at least that's you know, this is in process

917
00:54:29,040 --> 00:54:31,480
Speaker 1: where it's lgb you know, you said it, You go, okay,

918
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Speaker 1: they're so concerned with LGB T member. It was LGB

919
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Speaker 1: t q I A plus under Biden l g B

920
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Speaker 1: t q I A plus. Do not forget that is

921
00:54:42,080 --> 00:54:44,640
Speaker 1: the acronym that they were forcing us all to say.

922
00:54:45,239 --> 00:54:47,480
Speaker 1: And as if Joe Biden could remember more than two

923
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Speaker 1: or three of those letters. I mean, can you imagine

924
00:54:49,560 --> 00:54:52,839
Speaker 1: if you'd actually, when he's giving a speech, said hey,

925
00:54:52,840 --> 00:54:56,200
Speaker 1: what's the I? What's the A? You know, hey, Joe,

926
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Speaker 1: you're the president. You talked about what got They used

927
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Speaker 1: him as a as a you know, intersex, they used

928
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Speaker 1: that's what I'm here for. They used Actually, no, I

929
00:55:05,880 --> 00:55:08,920
Speaker 1: don't even know what that is. By the way, I

930
00:55:08,920 --> 00:55:10,960
Speaker 1: don't even know. Every now and then there are some

931
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Speaker 1: that are out there is interse. I don't what is intersex?

932
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Speaker 1: Like you're both, it means you're between male and female.

933
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Speaker 1: You're something, go back something else, you shift like one day, No, no,

934
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Speaker 1: that's bisexual or I'm sorry, no, you're talking about you're

935
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Speaker 1: talking about your identity Clay. Pan Sexual is this is

936
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Speaker 1: so ridiculous. Pan Sexual is where you can just be

937
00:55:33,440 --> 00:55:38,279
Speaker 1: like anything, right, You're into every You're into everything in

938
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Speaker 1: terms of your sexual preference, and what is every letter

939
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Speaker 1: your your gender is in between male and female. You're

940
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Speaker 1: neither male nor female. So but but hold on, so

941
00:55:51,000 --> 00:55:55,400
Speaker 1: this is yes, it's crazy, right, But but what what

942
00:55:55,480 --> 00:55:57,480
Speaker 1: you see is when they when you have the Democrats

943
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Speaker 1: say that LGBT rights or whatever are the top five issue,

944
00:56:01,200 --> 00:56:02,799
Speaker 1: what is it? Number three on the list? Number no,

945
00:56:02,840 --> 00:56:05,719
Speaker 1: Number two and two on their list. According to the

946
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Speaker 1: American public, a lot of a lot of gay and

947
00:56:09,719 --> 00:56:14,279
Speaker 1: lesbian Americans in particular, I think, have figured out that

948
00:56:14,360 --> 00:56:16,520
Speaker 1: it's really all about the tea for the Democrat. Yes,

949
00:56:17,160 --> 00:56:20,640
Speaker 1: you know, you know, gay, gay and lesbian Americans can

950
00:56:20,680 --> 00:56:23,799
Speaker 1: get married in all fifty states, have equal rights in

951
00:56:23,840 --> 00:56:26,200
Speaker 1: all fifty states. You know, you go, what is what

952
00:56:26,280 --> 00:56:28,920
Speaker 1: is the great? That's my challenge of the lgbt q

953
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Speaker 1: I plus community. You know, the challenges that the gay

954
00:56:33,400 --> 00:56:36,279
Speaker 1: and lesbian community have mirror the challenges that every other

955
00:56:36,360 --> 00:56:38,799
Speaker 1: American has, because they're just like every other American under

956
00:56:38,840 --> 00:56:41,520
Speaker 1: the law and otherwise. And so then it's just about

957
00:56:41,520 --> 00:56:43,799
Speaker 1: like do we need to trans kids? And I think

958
00:56:43,840 --> 00:56:46,040
Speaker 1: you know, you and I have gay friends in the

959
00:56:46,040 --> 00:56:48,319
Speaker 1: conservative movement, for example, who look at this and they're

960
00:56:48,360 --> 00:56:53,600
Speaker 1: incredibly not only opposed to it, but angry that somehow

961
00:56:53,680 --> 00:56:57,120
Speaker 1: being gay is supposed to be wrapped in ye with

962
00:56:57,280 --> 00:57:00,400
Speaker 1: I think a twelve year old needs puberty blockers. And

963
00:57:00,440 --> 00:57:02,160
Speaker 1: if you don't think that's a good idea, you're a

964
00:57:02,200 --> 00:57:07,319
Speaker 1: horrible person. You know. Interesting, I tell you I would

965
00:57:07,400 --> 00:57:08,920
Speaker 1: submit to you, Buck, And I don't know if we've

966
00:57:08,920 --> 00:57:11,680
Speaker 1: gotten data on this. I bet Trump got more gay

967
00:57:11,680 --> 00:57:14,680
Speaker 1: and lesbian support in twenty twenty four than any Republican

968
00:57:14,719 --> 00:57:17,960
Speaker 1: presidential candidate ever has in history. Like that. I bet

969
00:57:18,000 --> 00:57:19,440
Speaker 1: on that too. I wouldn't take the other side of

970
00:57:19,440 --> 00:57:22,400
Speaker 1: that bet. Yeah. By the way, we can talk about

971
00:57:22,400 --> 00:57:24,200
Speaker 1: this a little bit more. But I thought it was interesting.

972
00:57:24,480 --> 00:57:27,960
Speaker 1: What does the American public perceive the Republican Party to

973
00:57:27,960 --> 00:57:34,000
Speaker 1: care about? Immigration, the economy, taxes, the things that they

974
00:57:34,040 --> 00:57:38,640
Speaker 1: actually care about. Sometimes we overthink things. The party that

975
00:57:38,720 --> 00:57:43,200
Speaker 1: does the best job of representing the American public typically

976
00:57:43,280 --> 00:57:45,240
Speaker 1: is the party that is talking about the things that

977
00:57:45,280 --> 00:57:48,720
Speaker 1: the American public is most concerned about. Democrats don't have

978
00:57:48,760 --> 00:57:52,320
Speaker 1: a messaging issue, Buck, Huh, they have a party issue. Well,

979
00:57:52,400 --> 00:57:57,040
Speaker 1: the Republican Party has actually become the party of we

980
00:57:57,120 --> 00:58:00,280
Speaker 1: care about whether you can safely walk down the street, eat,

981
00:58:00,680 --> 00:58:06,680
Speaker 1: whether you're able to pay your bills, whether you're able

982
00:58:06,760 --> 00:58:11,600
Speaker 1: to you know, compete in the in the job market fairly,

983
00:58:11,840 --> 00:58:15,840
Speaker 1: job marketplace fairly. You know, the things that actually affect

984
00:58:15,880 --> 00:58:20,960
Speaker 1: you and the things that actually matter. And the Democrats,

985
00:58:20,800 --> 00:58:25,760
Speaker 1: as you've been laying out, are the party of imaginary

986
00:58:25,840 --> 00:58:30,040
Speaker 1: you know, like like tilting at windmills, you know, imaginary challenges.

987
00:58:30,120 --> 00:58:32,920
Speaker 1: And these are things in some cases, like with climate change,

988
00:58:33,360 --> 00:58:35,800
Speaker 1: it's just nuts. And that's why they're even the New

989
00:58:35,880 --> 00:58:37,560
Speaker 1: York Times are saying, guys, we got to come up

990
00:58:37,600 --> 00:58:40,240
Speaker 1: with something else. This can't be what the problem, Clay

991
00:58:40,280 --> 00:58:43,600
Speaker 1: is that this is who they are as a party. Now,

992
00:58:44,040 --> 00:58:46,280
Speaker 1: this is not a you know, this is not some

993
00:58:47,840 --> 00:58:51,160
Speaker 1: digression from the main the meat of what it is

994
00:58:51,160 --> 00:58:55,480
Speaker 1: that they really this is who Democrats are. It's about

995
00:58:55,520 --> 00:58:59,400
Speaker 1: trans and climate change and democracy and anti you know

996
00:58:59,400 --> 00:59:02,560
Speaker 1: on Trump terrain syndrome. That is what their party has become.

997
00:59:02,760 --> 00:59:07,920
Speaker 1: What is their economic message. So the messaging isn't the problem.

998
00:59:08,120 --> 00:59:11,800
Speaker 1: Americans have gotten it and they've rejected it. Right, this

999
00:59:12,000 --> 00:59:15,200
Speaker 1: is important and Democrats still haven't realized it because you

1000
00:59:15,240 --> 00:59:17,520
Speaker 1: know what it requires Buck looking in the mirror and

1001
00:59:17,560 --> 00:59:20,400
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1003
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