1
00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:02,759
Speaker 1: It's the third hour of the Clay Travis and Buck

2
00:00:02,800 --> 00:00:06,040
Speaker 1: Sexton Show. Now play will be touching down here in

3
00:00:06,080 --> 00:00:08,840
Speaker 1: Miami soon any minute.

4
00:00:08,840 --> 00:00:11,400
Speaker 2: For having you go one well of landed.

5
00:00:12,640 --> 00:00:15,520
Speaker 1: But we're gonna keep going on this third hour, just

6
00:00:15,600 --> 00:00:18,119
Speaker 1: me solo talking to all of you, and tomorrow the

7
00:00:18,560 --> 00:00:21,159
Speaker 1: Dynamic Duo will be back together in action here on

8
00:00:21,239 --> 00:00:25,560
Speaker 1: the air and talking about everything that matters. We have

9
00:00:26,239 --> 00:00:28,520
Speaker 1: a big focus today on the economy, which I think

10
00:00:28,640 --> 00:00:31,840
Speaker 1: is the single most important. This is not like a

11
00:00:32,600 --> 00:00:34,280
Speaker 1: out there on a limbed kind of thought. This is

12
00:00:34,280 --> 00:00:39,120
Speaker 1: the single most important issue politically in the country right now.

13
00:00:40,159 --> 00:00:46,320
Speaker 1: The concerns over prices have gotten to be very, very loud.

14
00:00:46,360 --> 00:00:50,080
Speaker 1: You're hearing a lot about this, and I've seen some

15
00:00:50,200 --> 00:00:54,080
Speaker 1: of the data. For example, on things like housing, you

16
00:00:54,080 --> 00:00:58,120
Speaker 1: can basically afford half the house you could four years ago.

17
00:00:58,200 --> 00:01:00,600
Speaker 2: Now half the house, so to speak.

18
00:01:01,640 --> 00:01:05,480
Speaker 1: You've had nationwide something like a fifty sixty percent increase

19
00:01:05,520 --> 00:01:10,320
Speaker 1: on average. I believe in in housing prices. This is unsustainable.

20
00:01:10,600 --> 00:01:14,560
Speaker 1: This is crazy. So there's a bunch of reasons for that.

21
00:01:15,280 --> 00:01:22,480
Speaker 1: Where there's the under the failure to construct enough houses

22
00:01:22,640 --> 00:01:24,800
Speaker 1: is a big part of it. But we will get

23
00:01:24,959 --> 00:01:28,680
Speaker 1: we will get into some more of this. First up, though,

24
00:01:29,760 --> 00:01:33,679
Speaker 1: we have Caroline Levitt who has been talking about the

25
00:01:33,840 --> 00:01:36,080
Speaker 1: economy today and I want to this is cut twenty

26
00:01:36,240 --> 00:01:39,040
Speaker 1: nine and what the President is doing on this. She

27
00:01:39,280 --> 00:01:41,920
Speaker 1: just said this, so let's hear from the White House

28
00:01:41,920 --> 00:01:42,759
Speaker 1: Press Secretary play.

29
00:01:42,959 --> 00:01:46,160
Speaker 3: He's focused on digging our country and our economy out

30
00:01:46,200 --> 00:01:48,640
Speaker 3: of that hole. Every day things are getting better and

31
00:01:48,680 --> 00:01:52,000
Speaker 3: they will continue to. And President Trump understands better than

32
00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:55,000
Speaker 3: any politician in this city the pain that the American

33
00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:57,880
Speaker 3: consumer has been feeling for years now because of the

34
00:01:57,960 --> 00:02:01,480
Speaker 3: last administration's policies. You heard him and the Great Commonwealth

35
00:02:01,520 --> 00:02:05,240
Speaker 3: of Pennsylvania this past week campaigning and talking to these

36
00:02:05,320 --> 00:02:08,920
Speaker 3: voters saying I was elected to fix this problem, and

37
00:02:08,960 --> 00:02:11,760
Speaker 3: I am fixing it. Don't forget who created it, and

38
00:02:11,800 --> 00:02:13,840
Speaker 3: that's the Democrats. And I think when you hear the

39
00:02:13,880 --> 00:02:17,640
Speaker 3: President talk about affordability, he's saying the Democrats are the

40
00:02:17,639 --> 00:02:20,480
Speaker 3: greatest con artists in history because they are now trying

41
00:02:20,760 --> 00:02:24,200
Speaker 3: to claim ownership of an issue that they created. And

42
00:02:24,320 --> 00:02:27,840
Speaker 3: every data point and every economic metric does, in fact

43
00:02:27,880 --> 00:02:30,520
Speaker 3: show that the economy is improving. And so I do

44
00:02:30,639 --> 00:02:33,120
Speaker 3: wish more people would report on those facts. I do

45
00:02:33,240 --> 00:02:35,839
Speaker 3: wish that more people would remind the American public how

46
00:02:35,880 --> 00:02:37,880
Speaker 3: we got here and why. It does not mean this

47
00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:40,800
Speaker 3: president is discarding the feelings of the American people. He

48
00:02:40,919 --> 00:02:43,440
Speaker 3: gets it better than anyone, which is why his entire

49
00:02:43,440 --> 00:02:46,360
Speaker 3: administration has been focused on the issue of the economy

50
00:02:46,520 --> 00:02:49,520
Speaker 3: and energy prices since day one.

51
00:02:49,840 --> 00:02:53,480
Speaker 1: So that is what we need to be hearing a

52
00:02:53,480 --> 00:02:58,680
Speaker 1: lot more of. I think the laser like focus from

53
00:02:58,760 --> 00:03:05,000
Speaker 1: this administration on these issues that really matter. I mentioned

54
00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:09,120
Speaker 1: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessen and what he thinks needs to

55
00:03:09,120 --> 00:03:11,400
Speaker 1: happen here. Look, this is a guy who has operated

56
00:03:11,440 --> 00:03:14,320
Speaker 1: at the highest levels of finance.

57
00:03:14,800 --> 00:03:17,040
Speaker 2: Finance. Finance. I feel like in you.

58
00:03:18,840 --> 00:03:21,680
Speaker 1: Am I the only one I've heard people say finance,

59
00:03:21,760 --> 00:03:24,560
Speaker 1: But then I kind of want to smack them finance, right,

60
00:03:24,600 --> 00:03:29,200
Speaker 1: we say finance. So he has been advocating for the

61
00:03:29,200 --> 00:03:31,480
Speaker 1: FED to bring down interest rates even faster. I know,

62
00:03:31,520 --> 00:03:34,320
Speaker 1: we just had a rate cut. I think the FED

63
00:03:34,360 --> 00:03:37,560
Speaker 1: is too little, too late on this, which is a frustration.

64
00:03:38,520 --> 00:03:41,800
Speaker 1: The whole notion of the Federal Reserve too well creature

65
00:03:41,800 --> 00:03:43,200
Speaker 1: from Jacko Island the book.

66
00:03:43,280 --> 00:03:44,560
Speaker 2: We can have a whole talk about this.

67
00:03:44,720 --> 00:03:48,440
Speaker 1: I feel like we could get into Ron Paul's greatest

68
00:03:48,520 --> 00:03:50,680
Speaker 1: hits on this, like what exactly is the FED doing?

69
00:03:51,080 --> 00:03:53,720
Speaker 1: How do we have this thing that operates as a

70
00:03:53,840 --> 00:03:57,320
Speaker 1: quasi government entity without actual oversight from the government in

71
00:03:57,360 --> 00:04:02,600
Speaker 1: a meaningful way? There are problems here. There are problems here,

72
00:04:03,280 --> 00:04:08,680
Speaker 1: And to be clear, I think I think that the

73
00:04:08,720 --> 00:04:12,160
Speaker 1: FED has been slow. I think the FED has been

74
00:04:12,280 --> 00:04:17,839
Speaker 1: operating in a way that you know, why not bring

75
00:04:17,839 --> 00:04:20,839
Speaker 1: those Well, they would say it's because inflation, but inflation

76
00:04:20,960 --> 00:04:23,880
Speaker 1: has been pretty steady for a while. That's a big

77
00:04:23,960 --> 00:04:28,080
Speaker 1: challenge getting the FED to move quickly enough so that

78
00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:33,200
Speaker 1: you don't have this over demand and lack of supply

79
00:04:33,279 --> 00:04:36,840
Speaker 1: in the housing market. And then you know, Besentt is

80
00:04:36,960 --> 00:04:43,080
Speaker 1: talking about even things like a how's declaring a national

81
00:04:43,880 --> 00:04:45,320
Speaker 1: housing emergency?

82
00:04:45,400 --> 00:04:45,479
Speaker 4: Right?

83
00:04:45,520 --> 00:04:48,479
Speaker 1: I mean that there has been real conversation out there

84
00:04:48,520 --> 00:04:52,560
Speaker 1: about what can the administration really do, what has what

85
00:04:52,680 --> 00:04:57,040
Speaker 1: is possibly on the horizon getting rid of the regulations

86
00:04:57,160 --> 00:05:01,359
Speaker 1: and the additional costs that are some of you you

87
00:05:01,400 --> 00:05:04,960
Speaker 1: know what, I bet we have some home builders, you know,

88
00:05:04,960 --> 00:05:08,000
Speaker 1: people that are either general contractors or do home buildings

89
00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:10,240
Speaker 1: from the ground up, who could weigh in on this one.

90
00:05:10,279 --> 00:05:13,159
Speaker 1: And I know we have many of you listening talk

91
00:05:13,200 --> 00:05:15,440
Speaker 1: about some of this. You know, give us what it's like.

92
00:05:15,920 --> 00:05:17,520
Speaker 1: What is it like when you try to build a

93
00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:21,480
Speaker 1: house from scratch, specifically in a place like New York

94
00:05:21,560 --> 00:05:25,279
Speaker 1: or California? What are the hoops you have to go through.

95
00:05:25,680 --> 00:05:28,279
Speaker 1: I'm here in Florida, and I'll tell you even to

96
00:05:28,400 --> 00:05:32,240
Speaker 1: do home renovations. Now, this is a Miami thing. This

97
00:05:32,320 --> 00:05:35,400
Speaker 1: is not a State of Florida thing. But because of Miami,

98
00:05:36,040 --> 00:05:40,440
Speaker 1: which is not a super efficient government, you can wait

99
00:05:40,480 --> 00:05:43,760
Speaker 1: months and months for permits. Why should you wait months

100
00:05:43,760 --> 00:05:46,919
Speaker 1: for permits to do things that are totally lawful and

101
00:05:46,960 --> 00:05:48,520
Speaker 1: you have every right to do to your own property.

102
00:05:48,520 --> 00:05:49,080
Speaker 2: It's crazy.

103
00:05:50,080 --> 00:05:56,480
Speaker 1: So now take that and multiply it out millions of times,

104
00:05:57,279 --> 00:06:01,919
Speaker 1: and you see the housing crist isis that has played

105
00:06:01,960 --> 00:06:06,320
Speaker 1: out across the country. Right, You see, why is it

106
00:06:06,360 --> 00:06:10,279
Speaker 1: that we don't have the supply that we need. Well,

107
00:06:10,839 --> 00:06:16,240
Speaker 1: everything is slower, everything is more expensive, and it's artificial.

108
00:06:17,240 --> 00:06:18,720
Speaker 2: It's artificial. These are things.

109
00:06:18,720 --> 00:06:22,120
Speaker 1: These are decisions that governments have made, particularly state governments,

110
00:06:22,680 --> 00:06:24,839
Speaker 1: and a huge percentage of the cost comes from this.

111
00:06:24,920 --> 00:06:27,400
Speaker 1: So getting rid of these regulations and red flags and

112
00:06:27,440 --> 00:06:32,600
Speaker 1: all this stuff that go up would be really helpful

113
00:06:33,200 --> 00:06:35,680
Speaker 1: and that's something that I think we can count on

114
00:06:35,720 --> 00:06:39,520
Speaker 1: this administration to continue to focus on and do more. Oh,

115
00:06:39,520 --> 00:06:45,320
Speaker 1: by the way, I am, we're monitoring this. The alleged

116
00:06:45,400 --> 00:06:49,240
Speaker 1: assassin of Charlie Kirk is appearing in court now.

117
00:06:49,279 --> 00:06:50,680
Speaker 2: It is a closed session.

118
00:06:51,800 --> 00:06:56,880
Speaker 1: We will have Charlie's widow, Erica Kirk, also the CEO

119
00:06:57,040 --> 00:06:58,360
Speaker 1: now of Turning Point USA.

120
00:06:58,640 --> 00:06:59,920
Speaker 2: We will have her on the show tomorrow.

121
00:07:00,040 --> 00:07:02,159
Speaker 1: She wants to talk to all of you about her book,

122
00:07:02,200 --> 00:07:04,839
Speaker 1: about Charlie's legacy, but a whole range of things. So

123
00:07:04,880 --> 00:07:09,360
Speaker 1: we will be talking to her in well in twenty

124
00:07:09,400 --> 00:07:12,280
Speaker 1: four hours or so. But I know there's a lot

125
00:07:12,280 --> 00:07:16,440
Speaker 1: of eyes on the transparency that people want to see

126
00:07:17,080 --> 00:07:20,600
Speaker 1: when it comes to the way this Charlie Kirk assassin

127
00:07:21,320 --> 00:07:26,800
Speaker 1: has tried the government's information about everything surrounding the assassination.

128
00:07:27,840 --> 00:07:32,440
Speaker 1: I'm absolutely all in favor of that transparency, and I

129
00:07:32,520 --> 00:07:36,240
Speaker 1: hope that any questions that people have will be put

130
00:07:36,280 --> 00:07:39,480
Speaker 1: to rest that you know, whether it's like the guy

131
00:07:39,600 --> 00:07:43,320
Speaker 1: who at the assassination stood up and tried to obstruct

132
00:07:43,320 --> 00:07:45,720
Speaker 1: a lot, Like what was that guy doing? And there

133
00:07:45,720 --> 00:07:48,680
Speaker 1: were comments that seemed to be made online from some

134
00:07:48,880 --> 00:07:54,920
Speaker 1: people in the alleged assassins in the alleged assassins circle,

135
00:07:55,440 --> 00:07:58,400
Speaker 1: indicating that he may have had or that they may

136
00:07:58,400 --> 00:08:00,920
Speaker 1: have had rather some advance warning or knowledge of this.

137
00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:03,720
Speaker 1: So that's why the transparency in this case is going

138
00:08:03,760 --> 00:08:05,600
Speaker 1: to be so important. But he is in court now,

139
00:08:06,240 --> 00:08:12,200
Speaker 1: and that's something that we will certainly continue to follow closely.

140
00:08:12,280 --> 00:08:16,760
Speaker 1: You know, actually, I'll play this, Erica Kirk has said,

141
00:08:17,480 --> 00:08:20,360
Speaker 1: and this was she sat down with CBS News's new

142
00:08:20,640 --> 00:08:24,720
Speaker 1: editor in chief, Barry Wise, and she was asked about

143
00:08:24,760 --> 00:08:29,600
Speaker 1: these people. Erica was asked about those who are so

144
00:08:31,720 --> 00:08:37,600
Speaker 1: morally uh, what's the corrupted? That's not even that's not

145
00:08:37,640 --> 00:08:39,920
Speaker 1: a sufficient word. I'm trying to think of a better

146
00:08:39,960 --> 00:08:44,880
Speaker 1: word for it. Deformed, so morally deranged.

147
00:08:45,760 --> 00:08:51,839
Speaker 2: That they would celebrate that what happened to him. It

148
00:08:51,920 --> 00:08:53,440
Speaker 2: was a.

149
00:08:52,760 --> 00:08:56,880
Speaker 1: Horrific and traumatic and and all all of that. Here

150
00:08:56,960 --> 00:08:59,760
Speaker 1: is you know, for any normal person you see this

151
00:08:59,800 --> 00:09:01,280
Speaker 1: in the this is one of the worst things I

152
00:09:01,280 --> 00:09:05,040
Speaker 1: can remember seeing ever. I can remember, because we read

153
00:09:05,080 --> 00:09:07,760
Speaker 1: about horrible things, sure, we hear about horrible things in

154
00:09:08,040 --> 00:09:09,040
Speaker 1: other countries, and.

155
00:09:10,160 --> 00:09:13,600
Speaker 2: We saw it. We saw what happened. Charlie saw the

156
00:09:13,640 --> 00:09:18,800
Speaker 2: video and it was very clear and it was. It

157
00:09:18,880 --> 00:09:19,520
Speaker 2: was traumatic.

158
00:09:20,720 --> 00:09:27,560
Speaker 1: And here is Charlie's widow, Erica, addressing those people that

159
00:09:27,640 --> 00:09:32,360
Speaker 1: I saw, for example, on Blue Sky after the hours

160
00:09:32,480 --> 00:09:37,880
Speaker 1: after the assassination, they were glee, they were expressing glee.

161
00:09:37,960 --> 00:09:41,439
Speaker 1: And I told you this was this was very disturbing,

162
00:09:42,240 --> 00:09:45,680
Speaker 1: very disturbing, and very real. It was out there. I

163
00:09:45,720 --> 00:09:46,480
Speaker 1: saw it myself.

164
00:09:46,559 --> 00:09:46,920
Speaker 2: I read.

165
00:09:47,040 --> 00:09:49,120
Speaker 1: I read what the people were saying on Blue Sky,

166
00:09:49,240 --> 00:09:51,480
Speaker 1: the lib social media site where you got to go.

167
00:09:51,520 --> 00:09:54,760
Speaker 1: If you're like an MS now watching New York Times

168
00:09:54,800 --> 00:09:58,360
Speaker 1: subscribing loon, I saw what they said. Anyway, here's Erica

169
00:09:58,640 --> 00:09:59,920
Speaker 1: weighing in on this play nineteen.

170
00:10:00,160 --> 00:10:03,520
Speaker 2: What do you say to people who justified his death?

171
00:10:03,760 --> 00:10:08,880
Speaker 5: You're sick. He's a human being. You think he deserves that.

172
00:10:09,920 --> 00:10:14,880
Speaker 5: Tell that to my three year old daughter. Excuse me,

173
00:10:16,280 --> 00:10:19,679
Speaker 5: you want to watch and hi res.

174
00:10:21,240 --> 00:10:26,440
Speaker 6: The video of my husband being murdered and laugh and

175
00:10:26,520 --> 00:10:31,800
Speaker 6: say he deserves it. There's something very sick in your soul.

176
00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:35,600
Speaker 6: And I pray that God saves you.

177
00:10:36,840 --> 00:10:41,199
Speaker 5: I pray because that is what is so wrong. The

178
00:10:41,240 --> 00:10:47,480
Speaker 5: Internet in this world has dehumanized us.

179
00:10:47,960 --> 00:10:54,600
Speaker 1: I understand certainly her sense of really almost a bewildered outrage.

180
00:10:54,640 --> 00:10:58,360
Speaker 1: How could someone be so sick that they would see

181
00:10:58,360 --> 00:11:04,359
Speaker 1: this happen to anyone. And Charlie obviously was a phenomenon

182
00:11:04,600 --> 00:11:08,000
Speaker 1: and doing so much important work. If I saw that

183
00:11:08,120 --> 00:11:10,760
Speaker 1: video and it was someone I had never heard of before,

184
00:11:11,480 --> 00:11:13,440
Speaker 1: and I knew that he had a wife and children

185
00:11:13,440 --> 00:11:15,280
Speaker 1: at home, and that he was giving a speech at

186
00:11:15,280 --> 00:11:18,360
Speaker 1: a college campus, I would have been sick to my

187
00:11:18,360 --> 00:11:20,560
Speaker 1: stomach as I was when I saw what happened to Charlie.

188
00:11:20,920 --> 00:11:24,199
Speaker 1: I mean it, truly, you know, it gave you that deep,

189
00:11:25,200 --> 00:11:32,640
Speaker 1: this truly visceral, gut level revulsion of something demonic unfolding

190
00:11:33,200 --> 00:11:37,960
Speaker 1: before your eyes in this world, and that we as

191
00:11:38,120 --> 00:11:44,280
Speaker 1: Americans really just as human beings, aren't all absolutely crystal

192
00:11:44,320 --> 00:11:49,200
Speaker 1: clear on that. That there are leftists out there still

193
00:11:49,240 --> 00:11:52,560
Speaker 1: to this day, I might add, and immediately on that day,

194
00:11:54,240 --> 00:11:56,880
Speaker 1: we're mocking this thought it was funny. We're making jokes

195
00:11:56,920 --> 00:12:02,880
Speaker 1: about it, and we're celebrating it. We have a fight

196
00:12:02,960 --> 00:12:08,559
Speaker 1: against evil in this country alongside the fight for political

197
00:12:08,559 --> 00:12:10,679
Speaker 1: sanity and all the rest of it. In fact, those

198
00:12:10,720 --> 00:12:14,120
Speaker 1: two things go really hand in hand. We are fighting

199
00:12:14,160 --> 00:12:17,760
Speaker 1: against often. Sure, we can talk about tax rates, and

200
00:12:17,800 --> 00:12:21,680
Speaker 1: I was just talking to you about building codes and

201
00:12:21,720 --> 00:12:25,080
Speaker 1: regulations and stuff that. Sure, that's in the realm of

202
00:12:26,400 --> 00:12:30,160
Speaker 1: government and regulation and what's best for society, and we

203
00:12:30,240 --> 00:12:33,199
Speaker 1: can have agreed disagree on some of that. There's no

204
00:12:33,320 --> 00:12:35,640
Speaker 1: greed disagree on whether or not what happened to Charlie

205
00:12:35,720 --> 00:12:39,319
Speaker 1: Kirk was a horrific and monstrous act. There's the truth,

206
00:12:39,360 --> 00:12:41,160
Speaker 1: which is that it was those things, and then there's

207
00:12:41,240 --> 00:12:46,640
Speaker 1: the spiritual derangement of those who do not see that truth.

208
00:12:47,960 --> 00:12:50,040
Speaker 1: And they are not a tiny, tiny group in this

209
00:12:50,080 --> 00:12:54,680
Speaker 1: country unfortunately. This is one of the reasons why I

210
00:12:54,720 --> 00:12:59,000
Speaker 1: think it is so important that we stay focused on

211
00:12:59,160 --> 00:13:00,680
Speaker 1: not just the things that Trump is trying to do

212
00:13:00,720 --> 00:13:04,120
Speaker 1: as a matter of policy, but that people who still

213
00:13:04,160 --> 00:13:08,679
Speaker 1: stand for things and have principles speak out because the

214
00:13:08,720 --> 00:13:13,440
Speaker 1: forces of the dark side, the forces of evil in

215
00:13:13,440 --> 00:13:17,520
Speaker 1: this country, are very much on the march. And sure,

216
00:13:17,640 --> 00:13:20,120
Speaker 1: things have been good this year in a lot of ways.

217
00:13:20,120 --> 00:13:22,600
Speaker 1: Obviously I'm talking about the horrific assassination of Charlie Kirk,

218
00:13:22,640 --> 00:13:26,920
Speaker 1: but you know, there's been a lot of positivity around

219
00:13:26,920 --> 00:13:31,920
Speaker 1: Trump and around the restoration of sanity, and we've talked

220
00:13:31,920 --> 00:13:32,720
Speaker 1: about that here.

221
00:13:34,120 --> 00:13:36,120
Speaker 2: I worry that the right is.

222
00:13:36,080 --> 00:13:40,360
Speaker 1: Losing focus right now, and I say the right politically,

223
00:13:40,360 --> 00:13:43,880
Speaker 1: but also those who are in the right. I worry

224
00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:45,880
Speaker 1: that we're taking our eye off the ball a little

225
00:13:45,880 --> 00:13:47,480
Speaker 1: bit here. There's a lot, like I said, a lot

226
00:13:47,520 --> 00:13:52,760
Speaker 1: of squabbling, a lot of the preening and personal you know,

227
00:13:52,880 --> 00:13:56,480
Speaker 1: tit for tat on stuff. We got a country to save.

228
00:13:57,800 --> 00:14:00,400
Speaker 1: We got a country to save, you know. And I

229
00:14:00,440 --> 00:14:02,240
Speaker 1: can tell you there are some people in the administration

230
00:14:02,400 --> 00:14:05,560
Speaker 1: who come from the media world, and they know that

231
00:14:05,800 --> 00:14:08,800
Speaker 1: as long as they're doing good stuff for Trump, the

232
00:14:08,840 --> 00:14:13,520
Speaker 1: American people, for the Constitution, we support them irrespective of

233
00:14:13,559 --> 00:14:15,559
Speaker 1: whether we were buddies back in the media days, or

234
00:14:15,559 --> 00:14:17,960
Speaker 1: whether we were competitors or anything else, because there's some

235
00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:21,840
Speaker 1: stuff that matters more than that sort of petty nonsense.

236
00:14:21,960 --> 00:14:25,720
Speaker 1: And we'll talk to Erica Kirk more about all this tomorrow.

237
00:14:25,760 --> 00:14:29,480
Speaker 1: But I just I had to note that the yes,

238
00:14:29,600 --> 00:14:32,320
Speaker 1: the assassin, I have to say, alleged for legal reasons, right,

239
00:14:32,320 --> 00:14:35,280
Speaker 1: But the alleged assassin of Charlie Kirk is in court

240
00:14:35,400 --> 00:14:37,760
Speaker 1: now as I speak to you. All right, because so

241
00:14:37,880 --> 00:14:42,080
Speaker 1: many of you are generous with your dollars, Preborn was

242
00:14:42,160 --> 00:14:45,240
Speaker 1: able to rescue nearly seventy thousand babies this past year.

243
00:14:45,840 --> 00:14:49,720
Speaker 1: Abortion has been at exponential levels, and the easy to

244
00:14:49,800 --> 00:14:52,840
Speaker 1: access abortion pill is taking such a toll day in

245
00:14:52,840 --> 00:14:55,920
Speaker 1: and day out. Vulnerable women are facing this situation of

246
00:14:56,000 --> 00:14:59,000
Speaker 1: having this pill pushed on them by so many forces,

247
00:14:59,400 --> 00:15:01,480
Speaker 1: more than ever, and so babies are in danger. But

248
00:15:01,520 --> 00:15:04,720
Speaker 1: Preborn is there to save these tiny babies. For just

249
00:15:04,840 --> 00:15:07,920
Speaker 1: twenty eight dollars, you can introduce at risk babies to

250
00:15:07,960 --> 00:15:11,640
Speaker 1: their mothers through ultrasound. That's the gift that Preborn provides

251
00:15:11,680 --> 00:15:13,840
Speaker 1: to any pregnant mother that visits one of their clinics,

252
00:15:14,040 --> 00:15:16,600
Speaker 1: because once she sees that precious life and here's their heartbeat,

253
00:15:16,640 --> 00:15:19,400
Speaker 1: cheese twice as likely to choose life. Please donate a

254
00:15:19,400 --> 00:15:22,280
Speaker 1: gift of any amount. It will go directly towards saving babies' lives.

255
00:15:22,560 --> 00:15:26,400
Speaker 1: Dial pound two fifty and say the keyword baby. That's

256
00:15:26,440 --> 00:15:29,960
Speaker 1: pound two five zero say baby. Or go to preborn

257
00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:33,320
Speaker 1: dot com slash buck that's preborn dot com slash b

258
00:15:33,600 --> 00:15:36,400
Speaker 1: u c K sponsored by Preborn.

259
00:15:37,120 --> 00:15:41,120
Speaker 7: News and Politics but also a little comic relief Clay

260
00:15:41,200 --> 00:15:45,240
Speaker 7: Travis and Buck Sexton. Find them on the free iHeartRadio

261
00:15:45,280 --> 00:15:47,800
Speaker 7: app or wherever you get your podcasts.

262
00:15:48,240 --> 00:15:51,240
Speaker 1: Nothing gets me in the Christmas mood like some synthesizers

263
00:15:51,240 --> 00:15:55,720
Speaker 1: courtesy of my favorite Mannheim steam Other. Baby, that is

264
00:15:55,800 --> 00:16:00,680
Speaker 1: how we roll. That's how we steamroll. In fact, that's

265
00:16:00,720 --> 00:16:04,120
Speaker 1: what we say. That's how the steam roll Nation gets

266
00:16:04,160 --> 00:16:05,520
Speaker 1: it done.

267
00:16:05,800 --> 00:16:08,040
Speaker 2: That's how we roll. Okay, we are going to get

268
00:16:08,040 --> 00:16:09,240
Speaker 2: into some of your calls and talkbacks.

269
00:16:09,240 --> 00:16:14,040
Speaker 1: Also, Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, we'll be with us next.

270
00:16:14,160 --> 00:16:15,520
Speaker 1: He'll be a great guy to talk to you about

271
00:16:15,560 --> 00:16:20,000
Speaker 1: the housing issue and also healthcare and to work through

272
00:16:20,200 --> 00:16:22,520
Speaker 1: what the problems are, what the solutions are, what Trump

273
00:16:22,600 --> 00:16:27,600
Speaker 1: is doing to get on this stuff, because you know,

274
00:16:28,400 --> 00:16:32,040
Speaker 1: unfortunately Biden messed it up so badly, we can't fix

275
00:16:32,040 --> 00:16:37,000
Speaker 1: it quickly enough. Even though true is not a is

276
00:16:37,040 --> 00:16:38,840
Speaker 1: not a powerful message going into the midterms.

277
00:16:38,920 --> 00:16:40,640
Speaker 2: It's just not is this not?

278
00:16:41,440 --> 00:16:44,120
Speaker 1: This is like when they remember that they tried to

279
00:16:44,160 --> 00:16:46,520
Speaker 1: say that the good Trump economy was actually the Obama

280
00:16:46,600 --> 00:16:49,680
Speaker 1: economy and never kind of laughed about that. But oh

281
00:16:49,720 --> 00:16:52,040
Speaker 1: my gosh, Trump's doing like the Trump economy. At first

282
00:16:52,040 --> 00:16:53,680
Speaker 1: they said he was going to crash the economy. This

283
00:16:53,800 --> 00:16:57,440
Speaker 1: I'm going back to twenty sixteen, twenty seven or twenty seventeen,

284
00:16:57,480 --> 00:17:00,760
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen, and they said it's gonna be terrible and

285
00:17:00,800 --> 00:17:02,360
Speaker 1: then it was really good, and they said, oh, it's

286
00:17:02,360 --> 00:17:03,280
Speaker 1: because of Obama.

287
00:17:03,360 --> 00:17:06,440
Speaker 2: Right, you know, you're in charge. You're in charge, for

288
00:17:06,600 --> 00:17:08,399
Speaker 2: better or worse. You're in charge.

289
00:17:08,440 --> 00:17:11,320
Speaker 1: So you take the good, you take the bad. You

290
00:17:11,359 --> 00:17:12,960
Speaker 1: got to deal with it. But we'll talk to you

291
00:17:12,960 --> 00:17:16,800
Speaker 1: with Senator Ron Johnson about all of this stuff, and

292
00:17:16,840 --> 00:17:21,240
Speaker 1: then can we get Brian in Connecticut real quick here? Brian,

293
00:17:21,320 --> 00:17:24,200
Speaker 1: go ahead, buck big fan.

294
00:17:24,359 --> 00:17:26,800
Speaker 8: Let me first say that you are a natural and

295
00:17:26,880 --> 00:17:31,000
Speaker 8: you are the rightful air of Russia's spot and I

296
00:17:32,240 --> 00:17:35,119
Speaker 8: love the show when it's just you. But I wanted

297
00:17:35,160 --> 00:17:38,840
Speaker 8: to talk about what's going on in Connecticut with the

298
00:17:38,880 --> 00:17:45,040
Speaker 8: Democrat supermajority. They have rammed through a law.

299
00:17:45,080 --> 00:17:47,560
Speaker 4: That effectively and.

300
00:17:49,160 --> 00:17:54,520
Speaker 9: Single family standalone homes in Connecticut because they're allowing developers

301
00:17:54,600 --> 00:18:01,080
Speaker 9: to circumvent any local zoning control of of their town

302
00:18:02,119 --> 00:18:05,040
Speaker 9: and they have to allow apartment.

303
00:18:05,040 --> 00:18:06,240
Speaker 4: And so forth.

304
00:18:06,400 --> 00:18:11,600
Speaker 9: And it's clearly to give thedemic past an electoral advantage.

305
00:18:11,640 --> 00:18:13,919
Speaker 1: And let me let me return to this because we

306
00:18:13,920 --> 00:18:15,600
Speaker 1: we got thank you for the call. I'll address this

307
00:18:15,640 --> 00:18:17,119
Speaker 1: in a second here, but I want to tell you

308
00:18:17,160 --> 00:18:18,480
Speaker 1: about Tunnel the Towers Foundation.

309
00:18:18,760 --> 00:18:20,960
Speaker 2: You all know Tunnel the Towers. I love what they do.

310
00:18:21,359 --> 00:18:25,240
Speaker 1: They provide mortgage free smart homes to America's heroes, severely

311
00:18:25,240 --> 00:18:29,200
Speaker 1: injured veterans, gold Star families. It's a beautiful charity doing

312
00:18:29,240 --> 00:18:32,679
Speaker 1: incredible things and keeping our sacred compact with our heroes

313
00:18:32,680 --> 00:18:34,920
Speaker 1: in this country that we will never forget and we

314
00:18:34,960 --> 00:18:37,119
Speaker 1: will be there for them. Tunnel the Towers Season of

315
00:18:37,160 --> 00:18:40,040
Speaker 1: Hope campaign is our opportunity to stand united and make

316
00:18:40,080 --> 00:18:42,040
Speaker 1: a difference in the lives of those who have sacrificed

317
00:18:42,040 --> 00:18:44,720
Speaker 1: so much. Donate eleven dollars a month Tunnel Towers at

318
00:18:44,720 --> 00:18:45,960
Speaker 1: T two t dot org.

319
00:18:46,359 --> 00:18:49,680
Speaker 2: That's t the number two t dot org. Come back

320
00:18:49,720 --> 00:18:51,040
Speaker 2: in here to Clay and Box.

321
00:18:51,080 --> 00:18:56,520
Speaker 1: Senator Ron Johnson is with us from the great state

322
00:18:56,680 --> 00:18:58,320
Speaker 1: of Wisconsin's Senator.

323
00:18:58,520 --> 00:19:01,160
Speaker 2: Appreciate you, sir, well Buck.

324
00:19:01,400 --> 00:19:02,480
Speaker 4: Merry Christmas.

325
00:19:02,920 --> 00:19:04,120
Speaker 2: Merry Christmas to you.

326
00:19:04,880 --> 00:19:07,080
Speaker 1: Let's tell you're a business guy, right, You're not just

327
00:19:07,119 --> 00:19:09,560
Speaker 1: a politician, although there's nothing wrong with the politician, but

328
00:19:09,600 --> 00:19:13,080
Speaker 1: you're a business guy as well. What is going to

329
00:19:13,200 --> 00:19:17,439
Speaker 1: have to happen here for more people to see the

330
00:19:17,480 --> 00:19:20,919
Speaker 1: good things that the administration is doing. What things does

331
00:19:20,960 --> 00:19:24,160
Speaker 1: the administration have to focus on more? What changes, if any,

332
00:19:24,240 --> 00:19:28,000
Speaker 1: have to be made to deal with prices, bring them down,

333
00:19:28,080 --> 00:19:31,080
Speaker 1: make housing more affordable. What's going on here.

334
00:19:32,119 --> 00:19:34,960
Speaker 4: Well, they actually had to have see results, and in

335
00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:38,760
Speaker 4: many cases they are. Now. The problem the present faces

336
00:19:38,960 --> 00:19:42,040
Speaker 4: is you have forty your high inflation. Under the Biden administration,

337
00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:46,480
Speaker 4: for again, you devalued the dollar. I've been talking about

338
00:19:46,520 --> 00:19:49,400
Speaker 4: this since from nineteen ninety eight, that dollar is worth

339
00:19:49,400 --> 00:19:53,080
Speaker 4: fifty one cents. From twenty fourteen, it's worth seventy four cents.

340
00:19:53,320 --> 00:19:55,919
Speaker 4: Twenty nineteen that dollar is only worth eighty cents. So

341
00:19:55,920 --> 00:19:59,840
Speaker 4: that's permanent devaluation. That raised the prices of everything. Now

342
00:20:00,280 --> 00:20:04,200
Speaker 4: there are some products, you know, commodity products, things like oil,

343
00:20:04,600 --> 00:20:08,280
Speaker 4: the things like eggs that because of the Avian flu

344
00:20:08,400 --> 00:20:10,439
Speaker 4: that type of thing, you know, destroy hers and you

345
00:20:10,480 --> 00:20:14,480
Speaker 4: have you know, lower supply, so that artificially drives up

346
00:20:14,560 --> 00:20:16,320
Speaker 4: or temporarily drives up the price. And some of those

347
00:20:16,359 --> 00:20:20,240
Speaker 4: things come down, and they are coming down. But I

348
00:20:20,240 --> 00:20:23,080
Speaker 4: think the administration has to be very careful in terms

349
00:20:23,080 --> 00:20:26,120
Speaker 4: of promising things that they can't deliver. When of times,

350
00:20:26,280 --> 00:20:30,240
Speaker 4: just generalized prices I mean that evaluates the dollars occurring.

351
00:20:30,520 --> 00:20:33,560
Speaker 4: Those prices are where they are. But what you can

352
00:20:33,720 --> 00:20:36,280
Speaker 4: do you know, for example, housing starts. I mean to

353
00:20:36,920 --> 00:20:39,719
Speaker 4: do everything you can in terms of you know, lowering

354
00:20:39,800 --> 00:20:44,080
Speaker 4: regular licensing and per me that type of thing. Now,

355
00:20:44,160 --> 00:20:46,600
Speaker 4: Democrats don't cooperate with that, so it's hard to pass

356
00:20:46,640 --> 00:20:49,800
Speaker 4: a law to do that. President Trump is obviously in

357
00:20:50,080 --> 00:20:54,520
Speaker 4: overdrive in terms of executive orders to try and do

358
00:20:54,640 --> 00:20:57,520
Speaker 4: right by the American people and improve our economy. But

359
00:20:57,520 --> 00:21:01,440
Speaker 4: but here's the here's what he really faces. The shutdown

360
00:21:01,560 --> 00:21:03,520
Speaker 4: was not really about health care. That was the excuse

361
00:21:03,560 --> 00:21:07,360
Speaker 4: they used. That was the issue they used. The shutdown

362
00:21:07,480 --> 00:21:10,080
Speaker 4: is all about making sure that President Trump is not successful.

363
00:21:11,119 --> 00:21:14,080
Speaker 4: That's how devious the Democrats are. They want to see

364
00:21:14,960 --> 00:21:17,520
Speaker 4: a paint economy that They don't want health care prices

365
00:21:17,520 --> 00:21:20,000
Speaker 4: to go down, they don't want any prices go down.

366
00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:22,359
Speaker 4: They want President Trump to be blamed for it so

367
00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:25,120
Speaker 4: that they can win elections, so they can regain their

368
00:21:25,160 --> 00:21:29,320
Speaker 4: power and maintain it. But for Democrats, it's all about power.

369
00:21:29,400 --> 00:21:32,359
Speaker 4: I wish their voters. I wish Americans would understand that

370
00:21:32,400 --> 00:21:35,640
Speaker 4: about Democrats, that they're not doing it for you. They're

371
00:21:35,680 --> 00:21:38,040
Speaker 4: not thinking of you, the American people. They are thinking

372
00:21:38,040 --> 00:21:40,800
Speaker 4: of themselves and the power. They want to accumulate and

373
00:21:40,840 --> 00:21:41,359
Speaker 4: hold over.

374
00:21:41,400 --> 00:21:47,760
Speaker 1: You tell me about this or these dueling healthcare bills.

375
00:21:47,840 --> 00:21:51,199
Speaker 1: You had a Senate vote today didn't pass, which wasn't unexpected,

376
00:21:51,200 --> 00:21:53,480
Speaker 1: But trying to get the word out about this. What

377
00:21:53,640 --> 00:21:58,680
Speaker 1: is the Republican approach to making health care prices stop

378
00:21:58,720 --> 00:22:01,919
Speaker 1: being so crazy? What is the Democrat response to this?

379
00:22:02,080 --> 00:22:03,119
Speaker 1: And what do people need to know?

380
00:22:04,320 --> 00:22:07,639
Speaker 4: So, the root cause of our healthcare problem is a

381
00:22:07,680 --> 00:22:11,800
Speaker 4: healthcare financing problem, and it's caused by the third party

382
00:22:11,800 --> 00:22:16,600
Speaker 4: payer system. Patients pay probably at most ten cents of

383
00:22:16,640 --> 00:22:22,600
Speaker 4: every dollar bent on healthcare. Otherwise it's the insurance companies

384
00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:26,640
Speaker 4: or it's government, either for Medicare, Medicaid VA, whatever. So

385
00:22:27,080 --> 00:22:29,840
Speaker 4: when you have somebody else paying for things, when you

386
00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:34,360
Speaker 4: removed consumers and the benefits of free market competition out

387
00:22:34,359 --> 00:22:37,600
Speaker 4: of out of the marketplace, you're not going to get

388
00:22:37,800 --> 00:22:39,800
Speaker 4: low prices, you're not going to get better quality, you're

389
00:22:39,800 --> 00:22:42,120
Speaker 4: not going to get a high level customer service. That's

390
00:22:42,119 --> 00:22:45,399
Speaker 4: what a free market does. So what we have in

391
00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:50,119
Speaker 4: our healthcare system, every incentive you Obamacare led to a

392
00:22:50,720 --> 00:22:55,560
Speaker 4: dramatic consolidation of every sector in the healthcare system. Hospitals,

393
00:22:55,600 --> 00:23:01,640
Speaker 4: hospital associations, insurance, companies, PBMs, Drug just a massive consolidation.

394
00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:07,520
Speaker 4: There's not one incentive to lower costs. Everybody's making a cut.

395
00:23:07,760 --> 00:23:09,159
Speaker 4: And the example I use, I mean, if you're a

396
00:23:09,160 --> 00:23:11,840
Speaker 4: realtor and you're making the seven cent commission, you'd much

397
00:23:11,920 --> 00:23:15,240
Speaker 4: rather have that house sell for a million dollars than

398
00:23:15,280 --> 00:23:19,040
Speaker 4: the one hundred thousands. Worse right, so they're selling us

399
00:23:19,080 --> 00:23:21,720
Speaker 4: all kinds of products. It could be dramatically lower. Rick

400
00:23:21,760 --> 00:23:26,480
Speaker 4: Scott had a marvelous hearing in his Aging committee and

401
00:23:26,560 --> 00:23:28,240
Speaker 4: he brought in I think Mark Cuban is one of

402
00:23:28,280 --> 00:23:30,920
Speaker 4: the witnesses. But he brought in a surgeon from Oklahoma

403
00:23:32,359 --> 00:23:37,800
Speaker 4: who set up a cash only surgical center, which attracted

404
00:23:37,880 --> 00:23:40,199
Speaker 4: some other surgeons wanted to be part of this venture.

405
00:23:40,920 --> 00:23:44,040
Speaker 4: They had determined what prices worth. In the end, their

406
00:23:44,080 --> 00:23:48,800
Speaker 4: prices for surgery surgical procedures are ten percent a tenth

407
00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:53,359
Speaker 4: of what hospitals are charging. That is the potential for

408
00:23:53,600 --> 00:23:57,760
Speaker 4: our healthcare pricing if we return consumers. But the problem

409
00:23:57,840 --> 00:24:00,840
Speaker 4: we have Buck is most Americans now, because the third

410
00:24:00,880 --> 00:24:03,680
Speaker 4: party piers has been in place for decades, don't think

411
00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:05,320
Speaker 4: they really ought to pay for health care. They got

412
00:24:05,359 --> 00:24:07,440
Speaker 4: to buy insurance. They'll complain about the price of that.

413
00:24:07,840 --> 00:24:10,800
Speaker 4: They got to pay taxes, complain about that, but once

414
00:24:10,840 --> 00:24:14,480
Speaker 4: that's done, they don't care what they don't even nobody

415
00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:18,199
Speaker 4: knows what anything costs. Doctors don't, nurses don't, the patient

416
00:24:18,240 --> 00:24:21,560
Speaker 4: doesn't know. Only the bean collars and the insurance companies

417
00:24:21,560 --> 00:24:25,919
Speaker 4: and government. That's this. So that's a complete breakdown of

418
00:24:25,960 --> 00:24:28,840
Speaker 4: a market and of consumerism. If so, if you want

419
00:24:28,840 --> 00:24:32,040
Speaker 4: it back. So this is what the Republican alternative was.

420
00:24:32,080 --> 00:24:37,399
Speaker 4: It's a small step, you know, funding hsays, that's the

421
00:24:37,440 --> 00:24:40,560
Speaker 4: way you start transitioning people into getting used to paying

422
00:24:40,560 --> 00:24:42,040
Speaker 4: for things. So when you go to the doctor, you go,

423
00:24:42,720 --> 00:24:46,000
Speaker 4: how much is this fifty minute? Is it going to

424
00:24:46,080 --> 00:24:48,399
Speaker 4: cost me? What's that procedure going to cost? What's that

425
00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:50,040
Speaker 4: tesking to cost you? Do I really need that? Is

426
00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:52,800
Speaker 4: there another way to evaluate this? That's what consumers would do.

427
00:24:53,040 --> 00:24:55,119
Speaker 4: That's what we do it everything else. We need to

428
00:24:55,200 --> 00:24:57,640
Speaker 4: do that in healthcare. So that's the the root cause

429
00:24:57,720 --> 00:25:00,640
Speaker 4: is the third party payer system. The solution is consumerism,

430
00:25:00,960 --> 00:25:04,679
Speaker 4: pre market competition. But we are one hundred and eight

431
00:25:04,680 --> 00:25:06,879
Speaker 4: degrees from that. I mean, we're so far down the

432
00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:09,880
Speaker 4: path of socialized medicine. The question is can we bring

433
00:25:09,920 --> 00:25:12,800
Speaker 4: it back. Can we dial it back? And here's some hope.

434
00:25:13,640 --> 00:25:18,560
Speaker 4: Obamacare is high deductible plans. It's catastrophic coverage, but it

435
00:25:18,600 --> 00:25:21,159
Speaker 4: has all these strings attached to so it's catastrophic coverage.

436
00:25:21,200 --> 00:25:24,680
Speaker 4: This costs a fortune. You go back to true insurance,

437
00:25:25,200 --> 00:25:28,360
Speaker 4: you know, where you're just covering the big things. And

438
00:25:28,480 --> 00:25:31,600
Speaker 4: with HSA's have put people and put money in people's

439
00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:34,120
Speaker 4: pockets through these accounts where they start paying for those

440
00:25:34,160 --> 00:25:37,000
Speaker 4: business they start paying for those procedures. You can see

441
00:25:37,080 --> 00:25:41,160
Speaker 4: just a dramatic reduction. The problem will face is the providers.

442
00:25:41,320 --> 00:25:43,720
Speaker 4: They're not gonna like it. You know, if you've got

443
00:25:43,800 --> 00:25:46,440
Speaker 4: be in business, you'd much rather be in monopoly. You

444
00:25:46,680 --> 00:25:48,480
Speaker 4: you don't really want to have to compete price wise,

445
00:25:49,080 --> 00:25:51,760
Speaker 4: but be fat and lazy, you know, don't compete price wise,

446
00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:53,760
Speaker 4: don't worry about your quality. People just have to come

447
00:25:53,800 --> 00:25:57,560
Speaker 4: to you. It's about consumers and they would love a

448
00:25:57,600 --> 00:25:58,439
Speaker 4: competitive system.

449
00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:05,520
Speaker 1: Going to Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Senator what

450
00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:10,040
Speaker 1: is top priority for you next year in terms of

451
00:26:10,080 --> 00:26:13,120
Speaker 1: what you'd like to see accomplished in the Senate. It's

452
00:26:13,119 --> 00:26:15,160
Speaker 1: a midterm year, going to be a lot of focus

453
00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:18,359
Speaker 1: on things. How are we doing with getting judges through,

454
00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:21,720
Speaker 1: by the way, and Trump appointees, that's an imminent issue.

455
00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:25,160
Speaker 1: And going into twenty six, what's top of your agenda?

456
00:26:26,320 --> 00:26:28,800
Speaker 4: Well, first of all, because we changed the rules because

457
00:26:29,440 --> 00:26:34,080
Speaker 4: Democrats were so obnoxious that, you know, even reluctantly, we

458
00:26:34,160 --> 00:26:36,360
Speaker 4: changed the rules of fifty one votes, so we were

459
00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:38,040
Speaker 4: just you know, I can't remember how many they were,

460
00:26:38,040 --> 00:26:41,080
Speaker 4: something like eighty to ninety nominees that we just confirmed today.

461
00:26:41,119 --> 00:26:44,920
Speaker 4: So the denomination process is fixed. So I want to

462
00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:47,280
Speaker 4: continue to focus on the factor of mortgage at kids future.

463
00:26:47,800 --> 00:26:50,280
Speaker 4: I would love to repair the damage done by biomcare,

464
00:26:50,320 --> 00:26:54,240
Speaker 4: transition to a system that works, or start transitioning, you know.

465
00:26:54,359 --> 00:26:58,840
Speaker 4: As Chairman of PSI I PERMA Subcomming Investigations, I continued

466
00:26:58,880 --> 00:27:04,040
Speaker 4: to be absolutely committed to advocating for the vaccine and

467
00:27:04,119 --> 00:27:07,560
Speaker 4: the COVID injection injured. We're laying the groundwork for that.

468
00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:10,120
Speaker 4: We've had good hearings, we're trying to we're uncovering and

469
00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:14,040
Speaker 4: you probably saw that the doctor Posade leaked memo that

470
00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:17,960
Speaker 4: pretty well conclusively proves that the FDA hid the fact

471
00:27:17,960 --> 00:27:21,400
Speaker 4: that they had autoses that proved ten deaths. Now that's

472
00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:24,160
Speaker 4: just the tip of the surface though. Okay, that's that's

473
00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:26,720
Speaker 4: just the tip of the iceberg in terms of people

474
00:27:26,760 --> 00:27:30,760
Speaker 4: that were that were killed by the COVID COVID injection.

475
00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:34,080
Speaker 4: But again we'll continue to do oversight. The American people

476
00:27:34,119 --> 00:27:36,639
Speaker 4: have to understand the brother way. There's a great book

477
00:27:37,080 --> 00:27:42,000
Speaker 4: for your audience, Vaccines on Them by Aaron Siri. It's

478
00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:44,359
Speaker 4: there are a lot of good books dissolving losions, turtles

479
00:27:44,359 --> 00:27:47,480
Speaker 4: all the way down. McCulloch's book Aaron Series book is

480
00:27:47,520 --> 00:27:50,480
Speaker 4: sort of the feminal book that brings it all together.

481
00:27:50,480 --> 00:27:53,600
Speaker 4: If you want to understand about vaccines, lack of testing,

482
00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:58,040
Speaker 4: you know, really how corrupt our pharmaceutic companies and our

483
00:27:58,040 --> 00:28:01,120
Speaker 4: federal health in SESI when it comes to vaccines childhood

484
00:28:01,119 --> 00:28:04,920
Speaker 4: as well as the COVID dejection. Read Aaron Series book Vaccines.

485
00:28:04,960 --> 00:28:05,480
Speaker 4: I'm in.

486
00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:08,800
Speaker 2: Any predictions or feelings.

487
00:28:08,840 --> 00:28:12,880
Speaker 1: I know it's it's next doors, it's not your state,

488
00:28:12,880 --> 00:28:16,159
Speaker 1: but I think we're going to have a big open

489
00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:20,479
Speaker 1: Michigan Senate seat right in the next cycle. What are

490
00:28:20,520 --> 00:28:22,480
Speaker 1: you hearing because you're close enough to have your ear

491
00:28:22,520 --> 00:28:24,720
Speaker 1: to the ground a bit about how things are looking

492
00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:27,879
Speaker 1: in the state next to yours. You know, Michigan and

493
00:28:27,920 --> 00:28:31,000
Speaker 1: Wisconsin have a friendly rivalry on many, many levels. If

494
00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:32,840
Speaker 1: Clay was here, we could talk football, but he's out

495
00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:36,639
Speaker 1: right now. But the Senate in general, and perhaps that

496
00:28:36,760 --> 00:28:39,600
Speaker 1: Michigan seat, how are you feeling about our chances to

497
00:28:39,640 --> 00:28:40,480
Speaker 1: stay in the majority.

498
00:28:41,840 --> 00:28:46,239
Speaker 4: Well, you know, Wisconsin's tough, Michigan's a little you know,

499
00:28:46,320 --> 00:28:51,200
Speaker 4: He's even tougher. It really does boil down to how

500
00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:56,400
Speaker 4: well's the economy clipping along? Here? How well do Republicans

501
00:28:56,960 --> 00:29:01,040
Speaker 4: do in terms of communicating to the American public. This

502
00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:03,400
Speaker 4: is what we're trying to accomplish. This is this is

503
00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:06,160
Speaker 4: how obstruction this this is what Democrats aren't allowing us

504
00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:09,760
Speaker 4: to do. Again, it's enormous task because the mainstream, the

505
00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:13,120
Speaker 4: legacy media is the communication wing of the Democrat Party.

506
00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:16,120
Speaker 4: So we've got our challenges, but we have a president

507
00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:19,360
Speaker 4: doing things that nobody, nobody else would do. That's that's

508
00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:21,240
Speaker 4: what you got to love about President Trump. I mean,

509
00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:24,600
Speaker 4: you know, I know he rubs a lot of people

510
00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:27,280
Speaker 4: the wrong way. I don't agree with them in everything,

511
00:29:27,360 --> 00:29:30,280
Speaker 4: but he is a man who loves his country, and

512
00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:34,520
Speaker 4: he is a man who is just heally determination to

513
00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:36,680
Speaker 4: do what has to be done. To clean up the

514
00:29:36,920 --> 00:29:40,760
Speaker 4: enormous messes left by by Biden. But that's also a challenge.

515
00:29:40,800 --> 00:29:44,520
Speaker 4: I mean, people expect things fixed overnight that they they're

516
00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:47,200
Speaker 4: just not blaming Biden for all the damage and the

517
00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:49,360
Speaker 4: Democrats for all the damage they've done with It's our

518
00:29:49,400 --> 00:29:52,760
Speaker 4: healthcare system through Obamacare. You know, the crime in streets

519
00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:57,200
Speaker 4: because the open borders. It's just it's it's a tough environment. Buck.

520
00:29:57,240 --> 00:29:58,560
Speaker 4: I wish you could say, oh, yeah, we got this

521
00:29:58,600 --> 00:29:59,160
Speaker 4: one coverage.

522
00:29:59,280 --> 00:29:59,320
Speaker 10: No.

523
00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:01,840
Speaker 1: I' you always shoot straight with us, and you're a

524
00:30:01,840 --> 00:30:04,440
Speaker 1: guy who has to fight to bring the truth out

525
00:30:04,480 --> 00:30:06,520
Speaker 1: in your state. You're in a competitive state, so I

526
00:30:06,840 --> 00:30:09,120
Speaker 1: get it. I just wanted one more thing for you, Senator.

527
00:30:10,520 --> 00:30:14,240
Speaker 1: This is Howard Lutnik was on this morning on tv

528
00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:18,000
Speaker 1: CNBC talking about the Trump economy. I just wanted you

529
00:30:18,120 --> 00:30:19,920
Speaker 1: to react to what he had to say about it,

530
00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:22,240
Speaker 1: because he's he's sounding very bullish.

531
00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:24,480
Speaker 2: Play this is cut thirty guys, play it. I think

532
00:30:24,480 --> 00:30:25,680
Speaker 2: you bring affordability.

533
00:30:25,680 --> 00:30:29,560
Speaker 11: You focus on housing and bring the affordability of housing down.

534
00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:32,920
Speaker 11: You focus on the farms and bring the price of

535
00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:36,200
Speaker 11: groceries down, and you bring down interest rates. You remember,

536
00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:39,800
Speaker 11: if you bring down interest rates, and you bring down energy,

537
00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:43,960
Speaker 11: you're really grabbing people's pocketbooks and putting more money in them.

538
00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:46,520
Speaker 11: You've got taxes coming down, no tax on tips, no

539
00:30:46,600 --> 00:30:50,000
Speaker 11: tax on overtime, no tax on our social security, things

540
00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:54,400
Speaker 11: like that, these things. And you drive GDP growth, real

541
00:30:54,560 --> 00:30:57,760
Speaker 11: GDP growth, not the middling growth that we've gotten used to,

542
00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:01,480
Speaker 11: this sort of two percent nonsense. This economy, the thirty

543
00:31:01,520 --> 00:31:04,920
Speaker 11: trillion dollar US economy can grow four percent, it can

544
00:31:05,040 --> 00:31:07,440
Speaker 11: grow five percent, and I think under President Trump, you're

545
00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:09,920
Speaker 11: going to see it grow six percent. And people think, oh,

546
00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:13,520
Speaker 11: these things aren't possible. Lower rates, lower energy, You're going

547
00:31:13,600 --> 00:31:16,280
Speaker 11: to have that growth. You're going to fix America doing

548
00:31:16,320 --> 00:31:20,280
Speaker 11: both sides, raising wages, great jobs coming into this country,

549
00:31:20,440 --> 00:31:22,880
Speaker 11: bringing down the cost of energy, bringing down the cost

550
00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:25,680
Speaker 11: of interest rates. You're going to have Americans feel good

551
00:31:25,840 --> 00:31:27,240
Speaker 11: about the United States.

552
00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:29,840
Speaker 2: Of America under Donald Trump. And that's what we're playing for.

553
00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:33,080
Speaker 11: We're playing for fixing both sides of the spectrum.

554
00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:37,120
Speaker 4: What do you make of it, Senator, Well, if you

555
00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:39,440
Speaker 4: had to choose between the president and United States and

556
00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:43,080
Speaker 4: an administration that's laying out those kinds of goals that

557
00:31:43,080 --> 00:31:45,280
Speaker 4: they're going to focus on, those kind of issues, the

558
00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:51,160
Speaker 4: things that actually impact American the American people's lives, versus

559
00:31:51,160 --> 00:31:54,560
Speaker 4: the president who's focusing on Hey, let's let all these

560
00:31:54,560 --> 00:31:59,120
Speaker 4: criminals in from Venezuela. Let's focus on DEI. Let's make

561
00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:04,680
Speaker 4: sure that you know transgenderism, you know, reigns through the country.

562
00:32:05,800 --> 00:32:10,080
Speaker 4: I think the choice is pretty obvious. Now are they

563
00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:13,520
Speaker 4: going to be able accomplish anything? Listen, you know President Trump,

564
00:32:13,560 --> 00:32:16,280
Speaker 4: he sets the sites. Hi, that's a good thing. He's

565
00:32:16,320 --> 00:32:20,640
Speaker 4: focusing on the right things. And again, whether it happened

566
00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:25,120
Speaker 4: is much as well as Howard Lutnik is predicting. I

567
00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:28,080
Speaker 4: sure hope so, but he's they're focusing on the right

568
00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:30,760
Speaker 4: things versus what the Democrats focus on, which is just

569
00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:31,959
Speaker 4: utterly destructive.

570
00:32:32,360 --> 00:32:35,680
Speaker 1: So it's prosperty going to be it's going to be

571
00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:38,960
Speaker 1: all about this economy in this next year. So Senator Johnson,

572
00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:42,120
Speaker 1: always appreciate you making the time. Merry Christmas, sir, Happy holidays,

573
00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:43,160
Speaker 1: Thanks for being here with us.

574
00:32:43,720 --> 00:32:45,400
Speaker 4: Merry Christmas to your new listeners. Take care.

575
00:32:46,880 --> 00:32:49,000
Speaker 1: It feels like everything moves at two or three times

576
00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:50,720
Speaker 1: in normal speed this time of year. So when you

577
00:32:50,760 --> 00:32:53,320
Speaker 1: make time for holiday shopping, just get right to Cozy

578
00:32:53,320 --> 00:32:55,960
Speaker 1: Earth products Okay, Cozy Earth, this is the best. This

579
00:32:56,040 --> 00:32:57,880
Speaker 1: is just stuff you want to have at home. You

580
00:32:57,920 --> 00:33:01,040
Speaker 1: want to share this with loved ones. Such incredible products,

581
00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:05,600
Speaker 1: so soft, smooth, breathable feel. Their bubble cuddle blanket, that's

582
00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:08,120
Speaker 1: a fan favorite. I've got I've actually got one here

583
00:33:08,160 --> 00:33:11,200
Speaker 1: at home. My parents have two of them. Now Clay

584
00:33:11,240 --> 00:33:14,120
Speaker 1: has one, and he's got family members buying them and

585
00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:16,520
Speaker 1: they're not even necessarily giving us credit for telling them

586
00:33:16,520 --> 00:33:18,960
Speaker 1: about them. So you need to get yourself a bubble

587
00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:21,480
Speaker 1: cuddle blanket and also get some new sheets from Cozy Earth.

588
00:33:21,800 --> 00:33:23,840
Speaker 1: And once you get the sheets, the bubble cuttle blanket,

589
00:33:23,960 --> 00:33:27,040
Speaker 1: you see those in your in your basket, so to speak,

590
00:33:27,040 --> 00:33:29,320
Speaker 1: you're gonna be like, you know what, that that sweatshirt

591
00:33:29,360 --> 00:33:32,280
Speaker 1: or that those pajamas. They look really nice.

592
00:33:32,080 --> 00:33:32,600
Speaker 2: And they are.

593
00:33:33,040 --> 00:33:36,000
Speaker 1: Cozy Earth has got you covered. Give yourself the gift

594
00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:38,560
Speaker 1: of everyday luxury this holiday season. Go to cozyearth dot

595
00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:41,560
Speaker 1: com use my code buck for forty percent off. Make

596
00:33:41,600 --> 00:33:44,640
Speaker 1: sure to order by tomorrow for guaranteed Christmas delivery. So

597
00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:48,960
Speaker 1: act now. Go to cozyearth dot com code buck.

598
00:33:49,880 --> 00:33:52,400
Speaker 2: Want to be in the know when you're on the go.

599
00:33:52,840 --> 00:33:56,880
Speaker 7: The team forty seven podcasts. Trump highlights from the week

600
00:33:57,120 --> 00:33:59,840
Speaker 7: Sundays at noon Eastern in the Clay and Bug podcast.

601
00:34:00,320 --> 00:34:03,440
Speaker 7: Find it on the iHeartRadio, Apple or wherever you get

602
00:34:03,480 --> 00:34:04,440
Speaker 7: your podcasts.

603
00:34:05,040 --> 00:34:06,840
Speaker 2: Close it up. Shot today on Clay and Buck.

604
00:34:07,280 --> 00:34:09,439
Speaker 1: Tomorrow will be Clay and Buck as He'll be back

605
00:34:09,520 --> 00:34:11,920
Speaker 1: and we'll be here in my soft flod to studio

606
00:34:12,040 --> 00:34:16,480
Speaker 1: doing the show. And I'm gonna have a Chrismas party tonight,

607
00:34:16,600 --> 00:34:20,400
Speaker 1: so that'll be fun. Some Christmas holiday cheer going on there.

608
00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:23,399
Speaker 1: Let's get to some of your talkbacks. Always appreciate those

609
00:34:23,440 --> 00:34:27,200
Speaker 1: podcast listener, Ryan, this is a a hit it.

610
00:34:29,040 --> 00:34:32,520
Speaker 10: Oh Man, Clay and Buck, you guys had me rolling

611
00:34:32,600 --> 00:34:36,120
Speaker 10: when you were talking about Christmas. Oh you are my

612
00:34:36,239 --> 00:34:40,080
Speaker 10: spirit animals brothers. I appreciate you both. Been listening to

613
00:34:40,120 --> 00:34:42,719
Speaker 10: you guys from the beginning. Listened back in the day.

614
00:34:42,760 --> 00:34:45,560
Speaker 10: My dad actually turned me on the crush. And I'm

615
00:34:45,560 --> 00:34:47,680
Speaker 10: forty six now and I just feel like when I

616
00:34:47,719 --> 00:34:49,360
Speaker 10: listen to you guys, I'm hanging out with a couple

617
00:34:49,360 --> 00:34:49,880
Speaker 10: of friends.

618
00:34:50,160 --> 00:34:50,399
Speaker 4: Buck.

619
00:34:50,480 --> 00:34:53,000
Speaker 10: The fact that you hate Hamilton amazing.

620
00:34:53,120 --> 00:34:55,080
Speaker 4: I do too. Love you guys. Keep it up.

621
00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:58,920
Speaker 1: Hey, thank you so much, Ryan, and we think of

622
00:34:58,960 --> 00:35:00,520
Speaker 1: all of you who listen as our our friends and

623
00:35:00,800 --> 00:35:01,880
Speaker 1: our our radio families.

624
00:35:01,880 --> 00:35:02,960
Speaker 2: So the feeling is mutual.

625
00:35:02,960 --> 00:35:05,520
Speaker 1: And I'll just say, yeah, I hate Hamilton. I think

626
00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:08,320
Speaker 1: it's terrible. I think it's not I think there's nothing

627
00:35:08,320 --> 00:35:10,440
Speaker 1: about it that is good. The music isn't good, the

628
00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:13,080
Speaker 1: writing isn't good, the premise isn't good. I don't like

629
00:35:13,120 --> 00:35:17,600
Speaker 1: any of it. So that is And during the whole

630
00:35:17,640 --> 00:35:19,480
Speaker 1: thing too, I was like, what are people talking about?

631
00:35:19,680 --> 00:35:22,239
Speaker 1: This is not This is garbage. This is not It's

632
00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:26,040
Speaker 1: like a billion dollar Broadway play. It's total, a total

633
00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:30,360
Speaker 1: mass delusion on its own podcast listener, Eric wants to

634
00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:32,279
Speaker 1: do a little gun talk here, bb hit.

635
00:35:32,200 --> 00:35:36,360
Speaker 12: It, Hey Buck, this is Eric and Arizona, just letting

636
00:35:36,360 --> 00:35:40,080
Speaker 12: you know, with your small hands, the glock nineteen is perfect.

637
00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:44,279
Speaker 12: Us guys with the bigger hands, glock seventeen plus two

638
00:35:44,360 --> 00:35:45,120
Speaker 12: extra rounds.

639
00:35:45,680 --> 00:35:49,080
Speaker 2: Bye. You know, maybe I shoot one handed, buddy. You

640
00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:49,720
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying.

641
00:35:49,800 --> 00:35:53,640
Speaker 1: Maybe I don't need two hands to steady my firearm

642
00:35:53,760 --> 00:35:56,960
Speaker 1: because I practiced enough and so the size of the

643
00:35:57,080 --> 00:35:58,960
Speaker 1: grip doesn't really make much difference to me.

644
00:35:59,280 --> 00:36:00,359
Speaker 2: Just throwing that out there.

645
00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:02,359
Speaker 1: But you know, at least you're not a nineteen eleven guy,

646
00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:04,600
Speaker 1: because then I'd have to make sure we got you

647
00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:07,040
Speaker 1: a sippy cup and got you to bedterly, because that's

648
00:36:07,040 --> 00:36:09,360
Speaker 1: what nineteen elevens are for the older crowd.

649
00:36:10,360 --> 00:36:11,800
Speaker 2: Thanks for hanging with us guys.

650
00:36:11,920 --> 00:36:15,960
Speaker 1: As always, we will have a lot more to discuss

651
00:36:16,520 --> 00:36:20,560
Speaker 1: tomorrow as always, and also go to Crocketcoffee dot com.

652
00:36:20,920 --> 00:36:22,360
Speaker 2: Why aren't you drinking Crockett coff.

653
00:36:22,200 --> 00:36:25,160
Speaker 1: If you're a coffee drinker, you should be drinking Crockett Coffee.

654
00:36:25,560 --> 00:36:29,240
Speaker 1: It is the great American coffee brand, and ten percent

655
00:36:29,239 --> 00:36:30,800
Speaker 1: of our profits goes to Couple the Powers Foundation.

656
00:36:30,840 --> 00:36:32,080
Speaker 2: Go to Crocket Coffee dot com.

657
00:36:32,120 --> 00:36:35,040
Speaker 1: We are gonna have a fabulous Christmas celebration tonight. There

658
00:36:35,080 --> 00:36:38,680
Speaker 1: may be some clayanbuckphotos up at clayanbuck dot com tomorrow.

659
00:36:39,200 --> 00:36:42,440
Speaker 1: Clay may even may even be drinking some rose. We

660
00:36:42,480 --> 00:36:43,480
Speaker 1: will see