1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:03,320 Speaker 1: Welcome to today's edition of The Clay Travis and Buck 2 00:00:03,360 --> 00:00:06,800 Speaker 1: Sexton Show podcast. Welcome back to The Clay Travis and 3 00:00:06,880 --> 00:00:10,000 Speaker 1: Buck Sexton Show. Lines are open eight hundred two eight 4 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:13,640 Speaker 1: two two eight eight two, and please go to Client 5 00:00:13,680 --> 00:00:16,680 Speaker 1: and Buck dot com for stories that we're talking about 6 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:21,160 Speaker 1: here extra reading and prep from our shows. A good 7 00:00:21,160 --> 00:00:22,920 Speaker 1: place for you to see all the things that we're 8 00:00:22,920 --> 00:00:26,600 Speaker 1: thinking about talking about here dive deeper into it. Just first, 9 00:00:26,600 --> 00:00:28,960 Speaker 1: thoughts and prayers go to everybody in the path of 10 00:00:29,240 --> 00:00:31,880 Speaker 1: Hurricane Ida right now. We know it has moved inland. 11 00:00:31,920 --> 00:00:35,760 Speaker 1: It's now downgraded to a tropical storm. Hit Louisiana really 12 00:00:36,080 --> 00:00:39,840 Speaker 1: badly in the last twenty four hours. Expectations from Louisiana 13 00:00:39,880 --> 00:00:43,080 Speaker 1: governor that the death toll could rise considerably. As of 14 00:00:43,159 --> 00:00:46,960 Speaker 1: right now, Governor Bell Edwards saying that only one confirmed 15 00:00:46,960 --> 00:00:49,720 Speaker 1: fatality from the from the hurricane, but he's very clear 16 00:00:49,760 --> 00:00:52,840 Speaker 1: that that is likely to rise as there's a greater 17 00:00:52,880 --> 00:00:56,200 Speaker 1: ability for search and rescue crews to actually get to people, 18 00:00:56,600 --> 00:01:00,200 Speaker 1: hopefully getting everybody to safety, but they may find some 19 00:01:00,720 --> 00:01:04,320 Speaker 1: tragic circumstances as well. But thoughts and prayers to everybody 20 00:01:04,319 --> 00:01:06,480 Speaker 1: and hope that you are in a safe place and 21 00:01:06,520 --> 00:01:08,720 Speaker 1: all your loved ones that everyone you know are now 22 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:13,360 Speaker 1: out of the worst of this. Accountability for Afghanist stands 23 00:01:13,400 --> 00:01:16,960 Speaker 1: gonna be something we talk a lot about here. You're 24 00:01:16,959 --> 00:01:21,280 Speaker 1: going to have people that are trying to say that 25 00:01:21,360 --> 00:01:23,800 Speaker 1: the Biden administration made the right call, and so the 26 00:01:23,880 --> 00:01:30,240 Speaker 1: circumstances of this do not really change the ultimate choice, right, 27 00:01:30,280 --> 00:01:34,920 Speaker 1: The ultimate decision here was the right one, even if 28 00:01:34,920 --> 00:01:39,080 Speaker 1: it came down through all these disasters on the way. 29 00:01:39,120 --> 00:01:42,119 Speaker 1: That's what they'll eventually say. We haven't even gotten there yet, though, 30 00:01:42,120 --> 00:01:43,880 Speaker 1: So I'll put a pin on that for a moment 31 00:01:44,600 --> 00:01:48,760 Speaker 1: and remind everybody that we are reliant in the next 32 00:01:48,760 --> 00:01:53,240 Speaker 1: twenty four hours on the Taliban, a terrorist entity that 33 00:01:53,360 --> 00:01:56,840 Speaker 1: once allied directly with al Kaeda, refused to give al 34 00:01:56,880 --> 00:01:59,120 Speaker 1: Qaida over to US after nine to eleven. That's same 35 00:01:59,280 --> 00:02:03,600 Speaker 1: entity with Hakani also very tired to Hakani network, tied 36 00:02:03,640 --> 00:02:06,680 Speaker 1: at the very top level. We are working directly the 37 00:02:06,800 --> 00:02:10,760 Speaker 1: US government with them to provide security. And to Clay's 38 00:02:10,800 --> 00:02:13,560 Speaker 1: point from last hour, it is very likely that we 39 00:02:14,240 --> 00:02:17,280 Speaker 1: perhaps were tipped off by the Taliban about isis K 40 00:02:17,480 --> 00:02:20,760 Speaker 1: so who even knows, Although that would go into sources 41 00:02:20,760 --> 00:02:22,679 Speaker 1: and methods that neither Clay nor I have access to 42 00:02:22,800 --> 00:02:26,920 Speaker 1: at this point. But here's blink in the Secretary of State, 43 00:02:26,960 --> 00:02:30,640 Speaker 1: who I think has looked befuddled at some of the 44 00:02:30,639 --> 00:02:34,320 Speaker 1: worst moments here in this whole situation, saying that the 45 00:02:34,360 --> 00:02:38,280 Speaker 1: Taliban promises they won't seal off the country. First, just 46 00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:42,240 Speaker 1: about twenty four hours ago, a very senior Taliban leader 47 00:02:42,800 --> 00:02:46,359 Speaker 1: spoke on television and on the radio throughout Afghanistan and 48 00:02:46,440 --> 00:02:49,119 Speaker 1: repeatedly assured the Afghan people that they would be free 49 00:02:49,120 --> 00:02:52,239 Speaker 1: to travel after August thirty. First, I'm not saying we 50 00:02:52,280 --> 00:02:55,919 Speaker 1: should trust the Taliban on anything. I'm simply reporting what 51 00:02:56,040 --> 00:02:58,640 Speaker 1: one of their senior leaders said to the Afghan people. 52 00:03:00,080 --> 00:03:02,560 Speaker 1: Actually are saying, because we have no choice that we 53 00:03:02,600 --> 00:03:04,320 Speaker 1: have to trust the Taliban on some of these things, 54 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:07,120 Speaker 1: or rather, they have no option other than to try 55 00:03:07,120 --> 00:03:10,720 Speaker 1: to take them at their word. For right now, we're 56 00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:14,720 Speaker 1: looking at a situation where the Taliban is in charge 57 00:03:14,919 --> 00:03:18,080 Speaker 1: of the US evacuation at some level. That's what no 58 00:03:18,120 --> 00:03:20,920 Speaker 1: one's really been willing to say. That's true right now. 59 00:03:21,680 --> 00:03:24,519 Speaker 1: Not only is that true right now, it's going to 60 00:03:24,600 --> 00:03:27,520 Speaker 1: be true for a long time to come, buck because 61 00:03:27,680 --> 00:03:31,239 Speaker 1: even in the absolute best case scenario, we are going 62 00:03:31,280 --> 00:03:35,600 Speaker 1: to be leaving behind a large group of US citizens 63 00:03:36,160 --> 00:03:40,040 Speaker 1: and according to multiple reports that basically the White House 64 00:03:40,080 --> 00:03:45,760 Speaker 1: has confirmed we handed over the name of all American 65 00:03:45,920 --> 00:03:51,520 Speaker 1: citizens and their location to the Taliban, which is a 66 00:03:51,760 --> 00:03:56,640 Speaker 1: sign that basically we are desperate for them to not 67 00:03:56,840 --> 00:04:00,520 Speaker 1: do anything of a negative nature those people, or too 68 00:04:00,520 --> 00:04:04,360 Speaker 1: many of the allies that worked with us, And this 69 00:04:04,440 --> 00:04:09,440 Speaker 1: is going beyond buck negotiating with terrorists. Remember the ideas, 70 00:04:09,520 --> 00:04:12,040 Speaker 1: and you well know you worked in the CIA. You 71 00:04:12,080 --> 00:04:15,880 Speaker 1: don't negotiate with terrorists because you legitimize terrorist groups by 72 00:04:15,920 --> 00:04:20,000 Speaker 1: negotiating with them. We're not even negotiating with the terrorist. 73 00:04:20,400 --> 00:04:23,680 Speaker 1: We are allowing the terrorists to tell us what we 74 00:04:23,880 --> 00:04:28,200 Speaker 1: can and cannot do. And frankly, I'm stunned that this 75 00:04:28,279 --> 00:04:32,280 Speaker 1: hasn't been a bigger part of the storyline. Twenty years ago, 76 00:04:32,320 --> 00:04:36,679 Speaker 1: the Taliban allowed Al Qaida to attack US. Twenty years later, 77 00:04:36,800 --> 00:04:41,240 Speaker 1: after two trillion dollars, we are saying, hey, Taliban, you 78 00:04:41,320 --> 00:04:44,080 Speaker 1: tell us what to do and we'll do it. Clay, 79 00:04:44,200 --> 00:04:48,080 Speaker 1: we're asking them for favors. Yeah, We're saying, hey, guys, 80 00:04:48,480 --> 00:04:52,080 Speaker 1: can you do us a solid Taliban? Can you make 81 00:04:52,080 --> 00:04:53,839 Speaker 1: sure you let the Americans through, by the way, I 82 00:04:53,839 --> 00:04:55,599 Speaker 1: was getting reports over the weekend that there were even 83 00:04:55,640 --> 00:04:58,200 Speaker 1: some Americans not being let through them and the whole 84 00:04:58,240 --> 00:04:59,520 Speaker 1: thing is a mess. I mean to give you an 85 00:04:59,600 --> 00:05:03,360 Speaker 1: idea of how much of a mess this is. Here's 86 00:05:03,400 --> 00:05:07,760 Speaker 1: PBS's Jane Ferguson, she was on ABC's This Week, just 87 00:05:07,839 --> 00:05:10,640 Speaker 1: given a sense of what it was really like on 88 00:05:10,680 --> 00:05:13,719 Speaker 1: the ground during some of the moments here of the evacuation. 89 00:05:13,920 --> 00:05:16,120 Speaker 1: We also saw panicked crowds, so the soldiers when we 90 00:05:16,120 --> 00:05:19,160 Speaker 1: talk about security at the time, much of the discussion 91 00:05:19,200 --> 00:05:21,920 Speaker 1: of security was how to keep the soldiers, but also 92 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:25,280 Speaker 1: the people safe from the panicked crowds, from stampedes, from 93 00:05:25,320 --> 00:05:27,760 Speaker 1: the heat. There were people lost to the stampedes and 94 00:05:27,880 --> 00:05:30,440 Speaker 1: killed there right there in the street. So to say 95 00:05:30,440 --> 00:05:32,760 Speaker 1: it was chaotic is an understatement. To say that there 96 00:05:32,800 --> 00:05:36,320 Speaker 1: was a semblance of security checks is a misunderstanding of 97 00:05:36,320 --> 00:05:39,800 Speaker 1: what was actually happening. To heard Tony Blinkin say, oh, look, 98 00:05:39,800 --> 00:05:42,960 Speaker 1: it's just like an embassy. Not like an embassy. Not 99 00:05:43,120 --> 00:05:45,760 Speaker 1: like an embassy. It's like a stampede of people trying 100 00:05:45,760 --> 00:05:49,599 Speaker 1: to be controlled by various armed groups. A complete mess, 101 00:05:49,720 --> 00:05:54,840 Speaker 1: an abject disaster, in terms of the organization and the control, 102 00:05:54,880 --> 00:05:57,640 Speaker 1: and obviously from a security perspective too. On the ground, Clay, 103 00:05:58,080 --> 00:06:03,080 Speaker 1: there's nothing that Again, I understand your point of, Hey, 104 00:06:03,640 --> 00:06:06,880 Speaker 1: let's see what happens with the final evacuation before we 105 00:06:06,920 --> 00:06:10,680 Speaker 1: start making sort of decisions about the way this thing 106 00:06:10,720 --> 00:06:14,320 Speaker 1: went down. But here's what I'm afraid is going to happen, Buck, 107 00:06:15,200 --> 00:06:17,840 Speaker 1: I think the Biden White House is going to just 108 00:06:17,920 --> 00:06:20,880 Speaker 1: pretend that this story never happened, right, They're going to 109 00:06:20,960 --> 00:06:22,960 Speaker 1: try to turn the page. I think a lot of 110 00:06:23,080 --> 00:06:28,280 Speaker 1: media are going to acquiesce in that request, and they're 111 00:06:28,279 --> 00:06:31,760 Speaker 1: going to immediately move back to what's Ron de Santis 112 00:06:31,839 --> 00:06:34,520 Speaker 1: doing in COVID. You pointed out before we came on 113 00:06:34,560 --> 00:06:37,760 Speaker 1: the air that they're already trying the drumbeat of the 114 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:43,640 Speaker 1: insurrection on January six in Trump's family's phone records on 115 00:06:43,720 --> 00:06:46,200 Speaker 1: January sixth, the Trump family, they're gonna be pulling it 116 00:06:46,279 --> 00:06:49,400 Speaker 1: in Vanka and Don Junior's phone records. Congress is actually 117 00:06:49,440 --> 00:06:51,520 Speaker 1: going to do that. Of course, this is all just 118 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:55,320 Speaker 1: meant to feed that that craziness, But that's the idea. 119 00:06:55,600 --> 00:06:59,480 Speaker 1: But and to the point, there may not be any 120 00:06:59,560 --> 00:07:05,360 Speaker 1: cons sequences for this failure. The American public, I think, 121 00:07:05,440 --> 00:07:08,400 Speaker 1: is going to render a verdict next year, which is 122 00:07:08,440 --> 00:07:12,680 Speaker 1: going to be incredibly damning for the overall Joe Biden 123 00:07:12,720 --> 00:07:16,560 Speaker 1: White House. But in terms of there being somebody who 124 00:07:16,600 --> 00:07:19,840 Speaker 1: loses a job, you know, Buck, what's crazy is the 125 00:07:19,920 --> 00:07:23,120 Speaker 1: only person I've seen so far that has lost a 126 00:07:23,240 --> 00:07:27,120 Speaker 1: job in the American military over this situation is the 127 00:07:27,160 --> 00:07:29,960 Speaker 1: lieutenant colonel who spoke out and said, and I'm sure 128 00:07:29,960 --> 00:07:33,160 Speaker 1: you saw that video too, Hey, the leadership has been 129 00:07:33,160 --> 00:07:35,120 Speaker 1: a failure. This is all a mess. Now. He did 130 00:07:35,120 --> 00:07:37,920 Speaker 1: it in uniform, and I can understand. But the idea 131 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:40,320 Speaker 1: that the only guy that would lose his job over 132 00:07:40,360 --> 00:07:43,880 Speaker 1: Afghanistan as a lieutenant colonel who points out how much 133 00:07:43,920 --> 00:07:49,120 Speaker 1: of a failure this entire process is, is frankly totally unacceptable. 134 00:07:49,120 --> 00:07:52,080 Speaker 1: Lieutenant Colonel Stuart Scheller, he was the one who published 135 00:07:52,080 --> 00:07:54,600 Speaker 1: that video that went viral, who was calling out his 136 00:07:54,720 --> 00:07:59,080 Speaker 1: superiors for the massive failure underway right now in Afghanistan, 137 00:07:59,160 --> 00:08:06,160 Speaker 1: specifically the from a tactical perspective, yes, completely insane decision 138 00:08:06,240 --> 00:08:08,880 Speaker 1: to abandon Bogram Air Base, which, as we remember, General 139 00:08:08,920 --> 00:08:11,880 Speaker 1: Millie a few months ago was saying, hey, Bogram schmogram 140 00:08:11,920 --> 00:08:15,120 Speaker 1: who cares Millie all worked up about white rage and 141 00:08:16,520 --> 00:08:18,840 Speaker 1: but he can't actually protect this people. Well, when it 142 00:08:18,840 --> 00:08:20,800 Speaker 1: turns out, when you're passing out reading list with a 143 00:08:20,800 --> 00:08:23,000 Speaker 1: lot of you know, Robin DeAngelo on it, you don't 144 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:25,160 Speaker 1: have as much time to think about actual battle plans 145 00:08:25,200 --> 00:08:27,360 Speaker 1: as the chairman of the Joint chiefs of Staff. But yeah, 146 00:08:27,360 --> 00:08:31,280 Speaker 1: we're talking about accountability. I mean Lieutenant Colonel Stewart Sheller, 147 00:08:31,360 --> 00:08:33,840 Speaker 1: he was relieved of duty and then he resigned. He's 148 00:08:33,880 --> 00:08:36,840 Speaker 1: got his whole pension apparently now that that is at 149 00:08:36,960 --> 00:08:40,720 Speaker 1: risk from all this, he's taking a real stand, and 150 00:08:40,840 --> 00:08:44,160 Speaker 1: Kevin McCarthy is saying there's got to be accountability for 151 00:08:44,200 --> 00:08:46,320 Speaker 1: the people who actually failed us. Here. I say, my 152 00:08:46,400 --> 00:08:48,680 Speaker 1: moment in this time, at this moment is getting every 153 00:08:48,720 --> 00:08:51,280 Speaker 1: American out. When we get beyond that point, we're going 154 00:08:51,320 --> 00:08:53,160 Speaker 1: to collect all the data and we're gonna we have 155 00:08:53,160 --> 00:08:57,120 Speaker 1: a constitutional responsibility to hold people accountable and we will 156 00:08:57,120 --> 00:09:02,439 Speaker 1: take it wherever the facts bring that forward. Constitutional responsibility absolutely, 157 00:09:02,520 --> 00:09:05,760 Speaker 1: But Clay, right now, next twenty four hours, I think 158 00:09:05,760 --> 00:09:07,439 Speaker 1: everyone needs to get ready for what I think is 159 00:09:07,480 --> 00:09:13,000 Speaker 1: going to be a Biden administration spin cycle, because they 160 00:09:13,080 --> 00:09:15,640 Speaker 1: are going to withdraw They're gonna keep going forward with 161 00:09:15,679 --> 00:09:18,360 Speaker 1: the withdrawal of US troops, and at that point they're 162 00:09:18,360 --> 00:09:21,520 Speaker 1: gonna be saying, we're still in contact with the Taliban 163 00:09:21,720 --> 00:09:24,319 Speaker 1: to let people, let people leave the country. And I 164 00:09:24,360 --> 00:09:26,480 Speaker 1: think I've been hearing from folks that they're worried that 165 00:09:26,559 --> 00:09:29,319 Speaker 1: this is going to turn into you're essentially gonna have 166 00:09:29,320 --> 00:09:31,800 Speaker 1: to pay off the Taliban to get especially for any 167 00:09:31,840 --> 00:09:34,120 Speaker 1: Afghans that we want to get out still, so it's 168 00:09:34,200 --> 00:09:38,200 Speaker 1: it's it turns into a a hostage situation, they're going 169 00:09:38,240 --> 00:09:41,400 Speaker 1: to call something else, and that's a massive one, and 170 00:09:41,440 --> 00:09:47,199 Speaker 1: that's what we're facing. It is incompetence on a generational level. 171 00:09:48,080 --> 00:09:52,920 Speaker 1: And my concern is you should learn from incompetence on 172 00:09:52,960 --> 00:09:57,120 Speaker 1: a generational level, multigenerational level. Buck, You and I have 173 00:09:57,240 --> 00:10:02,040 Speaker 1: not been alive for a more disastrous I would argue 174 00:10:02,120 --> 00:10:07,520 Speaker 1: foreign policy individual discreet event like this, the leaving of Afghanistan. 175 00:10:08,760 --> 00:10:12,280 Speaker 1: And yet Biden and his administration are just going to 176 00:10:12,320 --> 00:10:15,840 Speaker 1: try to play, you know, the sort of the distraction 177 00:10:15,920 --> 00:10:20,640 Speaker 1: game where if you've ever had a kid who is 178 00:10:20,760 --> 00:10:22,240 Speaker 1: got to go to the doctor and they got to 179 00:10:22,280 --> 00:10:24,839 Speaker 1: get a shot, and you try and like draw their 180 00:10:24,880 --> 00:10:27,160 Speaker 1: attention away from the fact that they're about to get 181 00:10:27,160 --> 00:10:29,840 Speaker 1: a shot, because you don't want them to see with 182 00:10:29,920 --> 00:10:32,600 Speaker 1: the painful thing that's about to happen to them. That's 183 00:10:32,600 --> 00:10:34,800 Speaker 1: what the Biden administration is going to try to do 184 00:10:34,840 --> 00:10:37,320 Speaker 1: with Afghanistan in general. They're going to try to distract 185 00:10:37,400 --> 00:10:41,360 Speaker 1: the American public and find something new for everybody to 186 00:10:41,400 --> 00:10:44,280 Speaker 1: focus on. Whether it's going to be COVID, whether it's 187 00:10:44,320 --> 00:10:48,120 Speaker 1: going to be constantly obsessing with January sixth. I don't 188 00:10:48,120 --> 00:10:51,360 Speaker 1: think there's going to be any real consequences for the 189 00:10:51,360 --> 00:10:55,920 Speaker 1: biggest American foreign policy failure since nineteen seventy nineteen seventy 190 00:10:55,960 --> 00:10:58,320 Speaker 1: five and psigon and I take some of your calls 191 00:10:58,360 --> 00:11:00,240 Speaker 1: on this coming up here in a moment and all. 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Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show, 221 00:12:28,360 --> 00:12:33,360 Speaker 1: Monday edition. Want to continue to offer our best watching 222 00:12:33,440 --> 00:12:37,320 Speaker 1: a lot of the footage from the damage of Hurricane 223 00:12:37,360 --> 00:12:39,480 Speaker 1: Ida down in Louisiana. We know we have a lot 224 00:12:39,480 --> 00:12:42,640 Speaker 1: of you listening in that area, all over that state 225 00:12:42,679 --> 00:12:46,480 Speaker 1: and beyond. As the hurricane now spins off into the 226 00:12:46,559 --> 00:12:50,520 Speaker 1: rest of the Southeast, may give some of you some 227 00:12:50,600 --> 00:12:55,080 Speaker 1: issues with tornadoes, certainly flooding and high winds coming across 228 00:12:55,160 --> 00:12:57,800 Speaker 1: the entire Southeast. Wants you to know that we are 229 00:12:57,840 --> 00:13:01,160 Speaker 1: thinking about you and want you to stay safe. We're 230 00:13:01,200 --> 00:13:06,800 Speaker 1: just talking about the disaster of the departure in Afghanistan 231 00:13:06,880 --> 00:13:08,800 Speaker 1: and Buck, I wanted to hit you with some of 232 00:13:08,840 --> 00:13:12,040 Speaker 1: the data here where they finally been able to figure 233 00:13:12,040 --> 00:13:16,040 Speaker 1: out exactly how much we left behind, and some of 234 00:13:16,080 --> 00:13:21,640 Speaker 1: these numbers are absolute madness. Here's some numbers I'm gonna 235 00:13:21,679 --> 00:13:25,680 Speaker 1: hit you with, Buck. We left over twenty two thousand 236 00:13:25,840 --> 00:13:33,440 Speaker 1: hum vs for the Taliban, eight thousand trucks, one hundred 237 00:13:33,520 --> 00:13:39,040 Speaker 1: and sixty nine armored personnel carriers. We left forty two 238 00:13:39,200 --> 00:13:43,400 Speaker 1: thousand pickup trucks and SUVs in addition to the big 239 00:13:43,520 --> 00:13:48,040 Speaker 1: trucks that we left behind three hundred and fifty eight 240 00:13:48,160 --> 00:13:55,680 Speaker 1: thousand assault rifles, sixty four thousand machine guns, thirty three 241 00:13:55,720 --> 00:14:03,640 Speaker 1: Blackhawk helicopters, thirty three m I seventeens, four C one 242 00:14:03,800 --> 00:14:11,400 Speaker 1: thirty transport planes, twenty three jets. I mean, as you 243 00:14:11,520 --> 00:14:18,280 Speaker 1: run through all of this, this is unbelievable futility that 244 00:14:18,320 --> 00:14:23,160 Speaker 1: we would leave behind all of this gear for an 245 00:14:23,280 --> 00:14:28,320 Speaker 1: organization that is effectively a terror based organization that has 246 00:14:28,360 --> 00:14:32,600 Speaker 1: spent twenty years trying to kill as many Americans as possible, 247 00:14:32,920 --> 00:14:37,400 Speaker 1: and we just gave them more material than many countries 248 00:14:37,600 --> 00:14:40,640 Speaker 1: that are our allies have. Let's be very clear about 249 00:14:40,680 --> 00:14:45,280 Speaker 1: what this is the taxpayer has now effectively, I mean 250 00:14:45,280 --> 00:14:49,840 Speaker 1: this is the end result. Yes, armed thoroughly the largest 251 00:14:50,160 --> 00:14:53,200 Speaker 1: terrorist army in the world. That's actually where we are, 252 00:14:53,400 --> 00:14:57,800 Speaker 1: and we're now hoping going forward that this Taliban is 253 00:14:57,840 --> 00:15:00,520 Speaker 1: going to be so different from the previous Taliban. Remember 254 00:15:00,920 --> 00:15:03,880 Speaker 1: we said to the Taliban after nine to eleven, hand 255 00:15:03,960 --> 00:15:06,800 Speaker 1: over everybody in al Qaeda or were coming, and they said, nope, 256 00:15:06,920 --> 00:15:11,160 Speaker 1: not hand over anybody. So maybe they've changed some of 257 00:15:11,200 --> 00:15:15,480 Speaker 1: their strategic some of their strategic thinking since then since 258 00:15:15,480 --> 00:15:18,800 Speaker 1: they've seen what US power can actually do in the 259 00:15:18,800 --> 00:15:21,320 Speaker 1: early stages of this war, and at different stages when 260 00:15:21,320 --> 00:15:24,280 Speaker 1: we had troops that were in actual forward combat roles. 261 00:15:24,880 --> 00:15:28,480 Speaker 1: But Clay, you know, you go down that list, you 262 00:15:28,560 --> 00:15:31,920 Speaker 1: just say, how can anyone see this as anything other 263 00:15:31,960 --> 00:15:35,680 Speaker 1: than an utter failure of the entire apparatus of national 264 00:15:35,720 --> 00:15:39,280 Speaker 1: security analysts, elites and the people at the top of 265 00:15:39,400 --> 00:15:41,880 Speaker 1: the of the food chain, so to speak, who were 266 00:15:41,920 --> 00:15:44,160 Speaker 1: telling us, I mean, so I us see, I was 267 00:15:44,200 --> 00:15:47,360 Speaker 1: in Afghanistan a decade ago, and and what people would 268 00:15:47,360 --> 00:15:51,120 Speaker 1: say then was every twelve months, it's oh, we figured 269 00:15:51,120 --> 00:15:53,240 Speaker 1: it out now, and we'll implement it in the next 270 00:15:53,240 --> 00:15:57,560 Speaker 1: twelve months. Every twelve month cycle, which coincided with deployments 271 00:15:57,560 --> 00:16:00,200 Speaker 1: of whoever was, you know, the theater commander or whever 272 00:16:00,320 --> 00:16:02,000 Speaker 1: was the ambassador at the time, whatever it may be, 273 00:16:02,680 --> 00:16:05,640 Speaker 1: they'd say, Okay, we're making progress. We're making progress. And 274 00:16:05,680 --> 00:16:07,600 Speaker 1: there were some people all on Clay who were saying 275 00:16:07,880 --> 00:16:11,520 Speaker 1: the progress is a phantom, it's not real. We're propping 276 00:16:11,560 --> 00:16:14,760 Speaker 1: it all up. And we see that those voices were 277 00:16:14,840 --> 00:16:17,720 Speaker 1: drowned out. They didn't get promoted, they weren't told that 278 00:16:17,760 --> 00:16:20,080 Speaker 1: they were put in charge, and the people who did 279 00:16:20,120 --> 00:16:23,240 Speaker 1: get to make the decisions. We're so wrong that it's 280 00:16:23,240 --> 00:16:25,360 Speaker 1: still unbelieved. You still sit here and say, how is 281 00:16:25,400 --> 00:16:28,720 Speaker 1: this even possible to put into perspective how much gear 282 00:16:28,800 --> 00:16:33,760 Speaker 1: we left for the Taliban? I saw a rough approximation 283 00:16:33,800 --> 00:16:38,120 Speaker 1: of the value, and the suggestion was that per capita, 284 00:16:38,480 --> 00:16:43,640 Speaker 1: every single American citizen basically handed the Taliban over two 285 00:16:43,760 --> 00:16:47,560 Speaker 1: hundred and fifty dollars in taxpayer funds that we have 286 00:16:47,600 --> 00:16:51,280 Speaker 1: allowed them now to be able to use better than 287 00:16:51,320 --> 00:16:56,960 Speaker 1: any terrorist organization ever has the utmost technology and equipment 288 00:16:57,000 --> 00:16:59,560 Speaker 1: that we have created. We just handed it all off 289 00:16:59,560 --> 00:17:01,760 Speaker 1: to them, and it may well be used against us 290 00:17:01,800 --> 00:17:04,919 Speaker 1: in terror attacks in the years ahead. And for anyone 291 00:17:04,960 --> 00:17:07,320 Speaker 1: out there who's trying to argue in the Biden administration, oh, 292 00:17:07,359 --> 00:17:10,400 Speaker 1: this wasn't a panicked withdrawal, I would think the fact 293 00:17:10,400 --> 00:17:13,560 Speaker 1: that we handed over billions and billions of dollars of 294 00:17:13,560 --> 00:17:17,439 Speaker 1: our best equipment to these guys is basically ends the argument. 295 00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:19,680 Speaker 1: Of course it was a panic withdraw I mean, every 296 00:17:19,720 --> 00:17:22,000 Speaker 1: one of those Blackhawks, you said it cost about six 297 00:17:22,640 --> 00:17:26,040 Speaker 1: million dollars, every single one of those helos never I mean, 298 00:17:26,119 --> 00:17:27,840 Speaker 1: I don't even know what the price tag is on 299 00:17:27,880 --> 00:17:30,239 Speaker 1: a C one thirty. But it's a lot more than that. 300 00:17:30,359 --> 00:17:33,639 Speaker 1: I mean, this is it's hard to think about how 301 00:17:33,680 --> 00:17:36,760 Speaker 1: you can have so many people with such resources on 302 00:17:36,800 --> 00:17:39,800 Speaker 1: our end so wrong that they end up arming. As 303 00:17:39,800 --> 00:17:42,960 Speaker 1: I said, we have armed thoroughly what is now the 304 00:17:43,040 --> 00:17:44,840 Speaker 1: largest terrorist arm in the world. Though, will we take 305 00:17:44,840 --> 00:17:46,840 Speaker 1: them off the terror list in the next year or so? 306 00:17:47,359 --> 00:17:49,560 Speaker 1: A whole other conversations. I think that's what they're going 307 00:17:49,600 --> 00:17:51,960 Speaker 1: to try to get going to. Let's just take a 308 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:53,359 Speaker 1: break from that for a second. 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Legacybox dot com, slash Buck. 329 00:18:54,400 --> 00:18:57,119 Speaker 1: Welcome back to Clay Travison Buck Sexson Show. This is 330 00:18:57,160 --> 00:19:00,840 Speaker 1: Buck and we are continuing to monitor very closely as 331 00:19:01,520 --> 00:19:05,359 Speaker 1: the footage comes out of damage from Ida Hurricane Ida 332 00:19:05,480 --> 00:19:09,199 Speaker 1: in Louisiana. Any news updates we have from that we 333 00:19:09,200 --> 00:19:12,320 Speaker 1: will bring to you as they unfold. Still thinking about 334 00:19:12,320 --> 00:19:14,640 Speaker 1: everybody in the Louisiana area who was hit by this. 335 00:19:15,040 --> 00:19:18,800 Speaker 1: The footage shows it was a pretty awful storm, and 336 00:19:18,960 --> 00:19:22,040 Speaker 1: I know it's also on the anniversary of Katrina from 337 00:19:22,119 --> 00:19:24,200 Speaker 1: years ago, so it brings up a lot of very 338 00:19:24,200 --> 00:19:27,120 Speaker 1: tough memories. We hope everyone listening is okay, and we'll 339 00:19:27,119 --> 00:19:29,919 Speaker 1: continue to look at this for news updates as we 340 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:32,040 Speaker 1: go along. Also, the lines are open eight hundred two 341 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:33,920 Speaker 1: Ay two to eight eight two. If you want to 342 00:19:33,920 --> 00:19:35,800 Speaker 1: call and talk about anything we've gotten into today, or 343 00:19:35,840 --> 00:19:38,880 Speaker 1: if there's something that we haven't hit on, please let 344 00:19:38,960 --> 00:19:43,040 Speaker 1: us know and we will address it. But Fauci versus 345 00:19:43,080 --> 00:19:46,879 Speaker 1: disantis is one way to look at the at the lockdowns, 346 00:19:46,880 --> 00:19:49,000 Speaker 1: to the situation of COVID in the United States. If 347 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:53,840 Speaker 1: you're looking for two people who symbolize their respective sides here, 348 00:19:54,400 --> 00:19:57,520 Speaker 1: Fauci at at every turn, has been the face and 349 00:19:57,800 --> 00:20:05,439 Speaker 1: voice of lockdown, of absurd pointless mitigation, measures of prognostications 350 00:20:05,480 --> 00:20:10,320 Speaker 1: that don't come true, and always giving cover to the 351 00:20:10,440 --> 00:20:15,120 Speaker 1: left wing authoritarian lockdowners. That's what Fouchi's done when schools 352 00:20:15,160 --> 00:20:17,800 Speaker 1: wanted to be shut down, even though kids were at 353 00:20:17,920 --> 00:20:21,000 Speaker 1: very low risk. Oh, he was perfectly happy to give 354 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:24,120 Speaker 1: the teachers unions what they wanted. Somehow, this guy has 355 00:20:24,200 --> 00:20:29,640 Speaker 1: never upset his own side. He's never upset the MSNBC, CNN, 356 00:20:29,680 --> 00:20:33,600 Speaker 1: watching New York Times subscribing audience. He only annoys those 357 00:20:33,600 --> 00:20:35,959 Speaker 1: of us who believe in individual liberty and freedom and 358 00:20:36,600 --> 00:20:39,399 Speaker 1: know that the data does not support many of the 359 00:20:39,400 --> 00:20:43,679 Speaker 1: things they've been pushing for. Here is how Fauci responded 360 00:20:43,760 --> 00:20:49,119 Speaker 1: over the weekend to the suggestion that Florida stands in 361 00:20:49,160 --> 00:20:51,560 Speaker 1: the way of his madness and calls him out. Here's 362 00:20:51,560 --> 00:20:54,880 Speaker 1: how the fouch response. Whoever is attacking me and attacking 363 00:20:54,960 --> 00:20:58,800 Speaker 1: me just the reflection of the politicization of what should 364 00:20:58,840 --> 00:21:02,760 Speaker 1: be a purely public health issue. And it's really unfortunate. 365 00:21:02,800 --> 00:21:06,520 Speaker 1: You know, they're attacking personally me because I'm a visible person. 366 00:21:06,600 --> 00:21:11,640 Speaker 1: But I'm merely articulating the proper public health practices that 367 00:21:11,720 --> 00:21:16,760 Speaker 1: are recommended strongly by an organization, and that organization is 368 00:21:16,760 --> 00:21:19,919 Speaker 1: the CDC. So they like to pick out a certain 369 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:22,760 Speaker 1: person because they could make that person, you know, the 370 00:21:22,760 --> 00:21:27,639 Speaker 1: personification of political divides, which is so unfortunate. Jake. We 371 00:21:27,680 --> 00:21:31,080 Speaker 1: should put all of that aside. We have an extraordinary 372 00:21:31,119 --> 00:21:35,040 Speaker 1: problem that's killing people in the United States. I don't 373 00:21:35,080 --> 00:21:37,760 Speaker 1: know if there's ever been a bureaucrat who's more catastrophically 374 00:21:37,760 --> 00:21:42,800 Speaker 1: wrong and more serially dishonest than this guy. Yeah, Clay, 375 00:21:42,840 --> 00:21:45,639 Speaker 1: it's interesting the CDC. He's just he doesn't work at 376 00:21:45,680 --> 00:21:48,320 Speaker 1: the CDC, So why is he the guy who's on 377 00:21:48,359 --> 00:21:52,679 Speaker 1: TV every five minutes explaining the CDC guidance and all 378 00:21:52,720 --> 00:21:55,280 Speaker 1: the rest of it. This guy's the absolute worst. You've 379 00:21:55,280 --> 00:21:57,760 Speaker 1: seen it from the beginning. I've seen it from the beginning. Yeah, 380 00:21:57,840 --> 00:22:00,480 Speaker 1: and we should give people some updates because I think 381 00:22:00,480 --> 00:22:01,960 Speaker 1: this maybe we need to get into this. At the 382 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:04,480 Speaker 1: top of the third hour a little bit, we told 383 00:22:04,520 --> 00:22:07,920 Speaker 1: you that this was likely to happen. Alex Barrenson has 384 00:22:07,960 --> 00:22:12,160 Speaker 1: been banned from Twitter, and that is significant for those 385 00:22:12,200 --> 00:22:14,639 Speaker 1: of you who regularly listen to this program. We're going 386 00:22:14,720 --> 00:22:18,800 Speaker 1: to continue to have Alex on. But it is anti 387 00:22:18,880 --> 00:22:23,240 Speaker 1: science at its most basic levels. Science is about uncertainty 388 00:22:23,520 --> 00:22:28,960 Speaker 1: and being aggressive in challenging all of the preconceived, exception 389 00:22:29,680 --> 00:22:34,200 Speaker 1: conceptions of what is the truth in order to get 390 00:22:34,280 --> 00:22:40,840 Speaker 1: at the essence. Science is about challenging everything all the time. 391 00:22:41,760 --> 00:22:47,120 Speaker 1: And with COVID, scientists have constantly told us all the time. 392 00:22:47,600 --> 00:22:51,239 Speaker 1: You can't say that you can't say that COVID may 393 00:22:51,359 --> 00:22:56,520 Speaker 1: have escaped from a Chinese lab. You can't say that 394 00:22:56,560 --> 00:23:02,119 Speaker 1: the vaccine might only be strongly effective for around six months. 395 00:23:02,560 --> 00:23:08,280 Speaker 1: You can't say that young people are virtually without danger 396 00:23:08,800 --> 00:23:12,160 Speaker 1: from COVID. All of those things are true. You can't 397 00:23:12,320 --> 00:23:15,679 Speaker 1: question whether schools should be open or closed. You can't 398 00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:20,879 Speaker 1: question whether lockdowns make sense. Buck just right now, the 399 00:23:21,040 --> 00:23:24,680 Speaker 1: data is out Israel, which is one of the most 400 00:23:24,760 --> 00:23:29,119 Speaker 1: vaccinated countries in the world, just set a new high 401 00:23:29,320 --> 00:23:34,520 Speaker 1: all time for COVID infections COVID cases in their country. 402 00:23:35,400 --> 00:23:39,720 Speaker 1: All right, science about looking at data and searching for 403 00:23:39,880 --> 00:23:44,119 Speaker 1: why that data is telling you that story. What is 404 00:23:44,240 --> 00:23:47,399 Speaker 1: clear it would appear from the Israeli data. And this 405 00:23:47,440 --> 00:23:50,160 Speaker 1: is part of the reason that Alex Berenson got kicked 406 00:23:50,200 --> 00:23:53,520 Speaker 1: off of Twitter because he was right about this, is 407 00:23:53,600 --> 00:23:57,760 Speaker 1: that COVID zero isn't a reality. The vaccine is not 408 00:23:57,800 --> 00:24:01,680 Speaker 1: going to wipe COVID away. Same story just happening right now. 409 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:09,480 Speaker 1: Australia is effectively abandoning their COVID zero strategy. Australia island continent. 410 00:24:09,720 --> 00:24:13,640 Speaker 1: They basically had wiped out COVID in that country. Now 411 00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:16,239 Speaker 1: the delta variants there. Same thing is happening in New 412 00:24:16,320 --> 00:24:20,359 Speaker 1: Zealand and it's skyrocketing. All of these strategies are failing. 413 00:24:21,359 --> 00:24:25,919 Speaker 1: And on the point about censorship, it doesn't even matter 414 00:24:26,520 --> 00:24:30,679 Speaker 1: if what someone says was correct. It doesn't matter that 415 00:24:30,760 --> 00:24:33,120 Speaker 1: in retrospect some of the things that people have been 416 00:24:33,119 --> 00:24:37,040 Speaker 1: censored for turns out to be true. And the censors 417 00:24:37,080 --> 00:24:41,000 Speaker 1: of social media, the big tech oligarchs, will even admit it. 418 00:24:41,280 --> 00:24:45,800 Speaker 1: The point is you are to comply. The point is 419 00:24:45,880 --> 00:24:51,280 Speaker 1: they're turning the whole country into the airline attendance who 420 00:24:51,320 --> 00:24:55,120 Speaker 1: will tell you that you better mask up in between 421 00:24:55,240 --> 00:24:57,080 Speaker 1: bites or else we're going to kick you off the 422 00:24:57,160 --> 00:25:00,399 Speaker 1: gosh darned plane. And everybody, look, is one of these 423 00:25:00,440 --> 00:25:02,240 Speaker 1: areas that Arvan's is all. I will not comply with 424 00:25:02,280 --> 00:25:04,680 Speaker 1: this or that, And I applaud that sentiment. And I'm 425 00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:07,359 Speaker 1: always I've been an unmasked band that as much as 426 00:25:07,400 --> 00:25:09,640 Speaker 1: I can be. But they'll get to the point where 427 00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:12,560 Speaker 1: they force you. And planes is the perfect example. Everyone 428 00:25:12,560 --> 00:25:14,320 Speaker 1: who thinks right now, oh well, I won't bend the 429 00:25:14,359 --> 00:25:16,680 Speaker 1: knee you've ever flown in the last eighteen months because 430 00:25:16,680 --> 00:25:19,440 Speaker 1: you're you're wearing a mask, which is idiotic on a plane. 431 00:25:19,440 --> 00:25:22,679 Speaker 1: We all know it does nothing, and it doesn't matter 432 00:25:22,760 --> 00:25:25,639 Speaker 1: to the people in charge, because what's most essential to 433 00:25:25,680 --> 00:25:28,760 Speaker 1: them is that you do what you're told. We are 434 00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:33,560 Speaker 1: reordering American society right now. We are rewiring millions of 435 00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:37,760 Speaker 1: people's brains to think that they should operate like lab 436 00:25:37,880 --> 00:25:41,400 Speaker 1: rats instead of citizens who go through the maze as 437 00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:43,720 Speaker 1: they are told, or else they get a little electric 438 00:25:43,760 --> 00:25:46,800 Speaker 1: shock and this is happening day in and day out, 439 00:25:47,040 --> 00:25:49,600 Speaker 1: and we have not yet come up with an effective 440 00:25:49,640 --> 00:25:52,360 Speaker 1: response to this. You know, there are a few places, 441 00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:55,159 Speaker 1: a few holdouts where things, but even look at what 442 00:25:55,440 --> 00:25:59,359 Speaker 1: Ronda Santis deals with in Florida Clay, he says, masks 443 00:25:59,520 --> 00:26:03,040 Speaker 1: option old based on parents. At the state level, Notice, 444 00:26:03,119 --> 00:26:05,640 Speaker 1: democrats don't sit around and wring their hands about, oh, 445 00:26:05,680 --> 00:26:07,480 Speaker 1: we don't want to abuse our power and you know, 446 00:26:07,520 --> 00:26:09,479 Speaker 1: do some double speak so they can bend the need 447 00:26:09,520 --> 00:26:13,400 Speaker 1: of corporate interests. Democrats in cities say, you know what, 448 00:26:13,760 --> 00:26:16,240 Speaker 1: We're just gonna defy you and we're gonna have mask 449 00:26:16,320 --> 00:26:20,040 Speaker 1: mandates for everybody. Anyway. That's how they're playing the game, 450 00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:22,760 Speaker 1: while our side sits around and basically is hoping that 451 00:26:22,840 --> 00:26:26,119 Speaker 1: we don't have federal vaccine mandates. Which let's see how 452 00:26:26,119 --> 00:26:29,000 Speaker 1: close we get to it. And this is an interesting question, Buck, 453 00:26:29,040 --> 00:26:30,760 Speaker 1: because a lot of people say what should we do? 454 00:26:31,160 --> 00:26:34,040 Speaker 1: And I'll give you an example here locally, we had 455 00:26:34,080 --> 00:26:39,160 Speaker 1: tickets to go to an outdoor concert called the Pilgrimage Fests, 456 00:26:39,240 --> 00:26:43,800 Speaker 1: great event in the Nashville area. They just sent out 457 00:26:43,960 --> 00:26:48,199 Speaker 1: notice that you have to provide proof of vaccination or 458 00:26:48,480 --> 00:26:51,119 Speaker 1: you have to provide a negative test to go to 459 00:26:51,160 --> 00:26:55,359 Speaker 1: an outdoor concert. My wife immediately upon getting that email, 460 00:26:55,800 --> 00:26:59,520 Speaker 1: said send me a refund, right. I think that's the 461 00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:01,760 Speaker 1: response for people out there who are like, what can 462 00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:06,520 Speaker 1: we do in the marketplace if you have a market 463 00:27:06,720 --> 00:27:08,239 Speaker 1: that is behaving in a way that you don't think 464 00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:12,640 Speaker 1: is rational. It's an outdoor concert. My wife has been vaccinated, 465 00:27:13,080 --> 00:27:16,880 Speaker 1: but I've got COVID, a natural immunity, and we talk 466 00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:19,560 Speaker 1: about this buck I'm not I have no desire to 467 00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:23,680 Speaker 1: go get a vaccine. So email came without even asking 468 00:27:23,680 --> 00:27:28,480 Speaker 1: me anything. She immediately said, we're out. There's no way 469 00:27:28,520 --> 00:27:30,840 Speaker 1: that we are going to do this. By the way, 470 00:27:30,920 --> 00:27:34,240 Speaker 1: Joe Biden looks like he's about to speak, We'll see 471 00:27:34,280 --> 00:27:38,240 Speaker 1: how in the world this goes. He's at FEMA addressing 472 00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:40,400 Speaker 1: what's going on with Hurricane Ida, and of course he's 473 00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:44,560 Speaker 1: got his mask hanging from his mask on. I mean, 474 00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:47,960 Speaker 1: this is it's just so stupid, friends. I honestly, I've 475 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:50,439 Speaker 1: lost so much patience with all the mask, theatrics and 476 00:27:50,480 --> 00:27:52,880 Speaker 1: all the rest of it. It's it's absolutely absurd. Maybe 477 00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:55,640 Speaker 1: we'll come back in if Biden says anything interesting here. 478 00:27:55,800 --> 00:27:58,600 Speaker 1: It's a Hurricane Ida, briefing. This is just you know, 479 00:27:58,720 --> 00:28:00,560 Speaker 1: this isn't even really meant for I had to give 480 00:28:00,880 --> 00:28:03,800 Speaker 1: necessary information to the public, I would say, more than anything, 481 00:28:03,840 --> 00:28:06,399 Speaker 1: it's to look like he's doing something and oh to 482 00:28:06,520 --> 00:28:08,560 Speaker 1: have people focus on now, of course, the very very 483 00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:11,679 Speaker 1: serious issue Ida. But the Biden administration is happy to 484 00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:14,159 Speaker 1: focus on IDA instead of having people look at the 485 00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:18,760 Speaker 1: ongoing disaster in Afghanistan that is clearly Biden's fault. Ida 486 00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:21,560 Speaker 1: is a natural disaster that does unfolding, so they want 487 00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:23,600 Speaker 1: to look like they're in command of this thing. 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Think about this, over eight 498 00:28:51,040 --> 00:28:53,880 Speaker 1: hundred dollars a year. So all you have to do 499 00:28:53,960 --> 00:28:56,120 Speaker 1: is what we're telling you right here you make the switch. 500 00:28:56,160 --> 00:28:59,520 Speaker 1: It's so easy you want. It's just better, better customer service, 501 00:28:59,560 --> 00:29:02,320 Speaker 1: even clearer for a lot of people in terms of 502 00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:04,840 Speaker 1: their connection. And you're going to save up to eight 503 00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:06,640 Speaker 1: hundred dollars a year, Clay. And this is because the 504 00:29:06,640 --> 00:29:09,200 Speaker 1: big wireless providers charge you for stuff you don't need, 505 00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:11,680 Speaker 1: and they don't really care. They figure out you'll just 506 00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:14,080 Speaker 1: keep paying what you pay. But pure Talk will give 507 00:29:14,080 --> 00:29:16,080 Speaker 1: you the exact same coverage, but only charge you for 508 00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:18,719 Speaker 1: what you need. And Clay, what's the offer right now? 509 00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:22,560 Speaker 1: Because it's a fantastic offer for those who switch. It's 510 00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:27,040 Speaker 1: great unlimited talk, texts and six gigs of data just 511 00:29:27,360 --> 00:29:30,680 Speaker 1: thirty dollars a month, and if you go over on data, 512 00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:32,840 Speaker 1: they don't charge you for it. Pure Talk makes it 513 00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:36,120 Speaker 1: easy to switch over. Get unimited talk plus six gigs 514 00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:38,160 Speaker 1: of data, all for just thirty dollars a month from 515 00:29:38,160 --> 00:29:41,840 Speaker 1: your cell phone dial pound two fifty and say pure Talk. 516 00:29:42,040 --> 00:29:44,520 Speaker 1: You'll say fifty percent off your first month. That's pound 517 00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:48,200 Speaker 1: two five zero. Say pure Talk. You'll have the option 518 00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:50,640 Speaker 1: to receive a one time auto dial text message from 519 00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:54,000 Speaker 1: pure Talk. Again from your cell phone dial pound two 520 00:29:54,200 --> 00:30:02,840 Speaker 1: five zero say, pure talk. Welcome back in Clay Travis 521 00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:10,560 Speaker 1: buck Sexton. Joe Biden is addressing right now live Hurricane Ida. 522 00:30:10,640 --> 00:30:13,360 Speaker 1: We'll see if he ends up taking any questions surrounding 523 00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:16,720 Speaker 1: this in any way. In the meantime, we want to 524 00:30:16,720 --> 00:30:19,000 Speaker 1: be able to get to some of your calls. A 525 00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:21,560 Speaker 1: lot of people have been waiting a very long time, 526 00:30:21,800 --> 00:30:26,840 Speaker 1: including Jim in Florida. What you got for us, Jim, Well, 527 00:30:28,120 --> 00:30:30,680 Speaker 1: the guy that I was telling you about off the 528 00:30:30,760 --> 00:30:34,320 Speaker 1: air he uh, I can now tell the public those 529 00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:37,800 Speaker 1: you've known it that we got him inside the gate, 530 00:30:38,040 --> 00:30:42,240 Speaker 1: the abbey gate there at the couple of airport. Wait, Jim, Jim, Jim, 531 00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:43,880 Speaker 1: step back, Jim, step back for a second. Well what 532 00:30:44,280 --> 00:30:46,080 Speaker 1: folks don't know, and you've been talking to our people, 533 00:30:46,120 --> 00:30:53,040 Speaker 1: but what's going on here? Okay? Well, Jim, the Americans 534 00:30:53,160 --> 00:30:56,920 Speaker 1: and those loyal to us are no longer allowed on 535 00:30:57,080 --> 00:31:03,840 Speaker 1: to the airport premises. And our translator from India Company 536 00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:09,720 Speaker 1: three sixth Marines second portoon in twenty eleven, we got 537 00:31:09,800 --> 00:31:14,080 Speaker 1: him inside the gate, the abbey gate, and an American 538 00:31:14,200 --> 00:31:18,480 Speaker 1: dressed in a suit came and made him leave the airport. 539 00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:22,600 Speaker 1: So now he's holed up in his house. There were 540 00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:28,360 Speaker 1: three flights, five throughout yesterday with refugees, three throughout today 541 00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:31,240 Speaker 1: with refugees. He has locked in his house and he 542 00:31:31,360 --> 00:31:36,720 Speaker 1: cannot go outside. That is how his tenure with the 543 00:31:36,800 --> 00:31:40,480 Speaker 1: Americans ended. So we're basically thank thank you for the 544 00:31:40,520 --> 00:31:42,920 Speaker 1: call and thank you for the update. Unfortunate as it is, 545 00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:45,280 Speaker 1: Jim and Florida. So basically, and this is not a 546 00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:50,080 Speaker 1: huge surprise, Buck, we are winding down rapidly the ability 547 00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:54,320 Speaker 1: of people to leave Afghanistan as our military prepares for 548 00:31:54,360 --> 00:31:57,560 Speaker 1: what is at least a scheduled evacuation tomorrow. We are 549 00:31:57,600 --> 00:32:03,120 Speaker 1: going to have people American I believe among them whose fates, 550 00:32:03,240 --> 00:32:08,520 Speaker 1: who's whose lives are entirely left in the hands of 551 00:32:08,560 --> 00:32:11,600 Speaker 1: the Taliban, Which for so many who are listening to 552 00:32:11,720 --> 00:32:16,200 Speaker 1: Clay who who fought h these fundamentalists for years and 553 00:32:16,240 --> 00:32:19,080 Speaker 1: went toe to toe with them in the Hindu kush, 554 00:32:19,120 --> 00:32:24,040 Speaker 1: It's just stunning. I can't imagine a situation. Couldn't have 555 00:32:24,040 --> 00:32:27,200 Speaker 1: imagined a situation like this. Dave in Ohio, he's a 556 00:32:27,440 --> 00:32:31,479 Speaker 1: former Air Force guy. What's up, Dave? Who are pretty good? Um? 557 00:32:31,560 --> 00:32:34,240 Speaker 1: I used to work on some of the aircraft left behind. 558 00:32:34,240 --> 00:32:38,440 Speaker 1: I was a communications technician. I'm a retired master sergeant. 559 00:32:38,640 --> 00:32:42,600 Speaker 1: And there's miflications that go beyond which you guys are discussing. 560 00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:45,120 Speaker 1: If they left any of the secure voice equipment on there, 561 00:32:45,840 --> 00:32:47,600 Speaker 1: you know, the Chinese and the Russians are going to 562 00:32:47,640 --> 00:32:51,040 Speaker 1: get a hold of that reverse engineer and it's going 563 00:32:51,080 --> 00:32:54,840 Speaker 1: to have implifications far reaching that we might as well 564 00:32:54,880 --> 00:32:57,640 Speaker 1: open up our airwaves and just announced what we're doing. Dave, 565 00:32:57,680 --> 00:32:59,880 Speaker 1: don't you think, I mean I ask you this you 566 00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:01,720 Speaker 1: were an expert on this. I am clearly not. But 567 00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:05,800 Speaker 1: I'm just wondering would they have had some limitations in 568 00:33:05,920 --> 00:33:07,880 Speaker 1: what they would have left in gear that we gave 569 00:33:07,920 --> 00:33:10,160 Speaker 1: even to Afghan allies in the first place? Though? Do 570 00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:11,440 Speaker 1: you know what I mean? I mean, we don't. We 571 00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:15,240 Speaker 1: don't always give even our friends the full the full, 572 00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:19,680 Speaker 1: uh you know situation? Shall we say? Right? Right? We don't. 573 00:33:20,520 --> 00:33:22,800 Speaker 1: The equipment is on the airplane. Unless they went out 574 00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:25,320 Speaker 1: and physically removed it from the aeroplane before they left 575 00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:29,960 Speaker 1: them behind, it's still there. They were US aircraft. I 576 00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:32,480 Speaker 1: think it's troubling that the Taliban has it period, right, 577 00:33:32,480 --> 00:33:34,640 Speaker 1: I mean, you're talking about China reverse engineering it, but 578 00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:37,160 Speaker 1: the Taliban's got it too, and they can bring in 579 00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:39,480 Speaker 1: people and work with people. They're gonna have a whole 580 00:33:39,520 --> 00:33:42,480 Speaker 1: lot of tools and toys to play with that the 581 00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:46,280 Speaker 1: US government paid for. Dave, thanks so much for being 582 00:33:46,280 --> 00:33:49,320 Speaker 1: with us, Clay, I mean, it's a total calamity, Buck, 583 00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:50,960 Speaker 1: I mean, and for people out there who might have 584 00:33:50,960 --> 00:33:53,080 Speaker 1: missed it. We were just running through all of the 585 00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:56,840 Speaker 1: different roster of material that we left for the Taliban, 586 00:33:57,040 --> 00:34:01,360 Speaker 1: and it is unbelievable how much gear. I mean, they 587 00:34:01,360 --> 00:34:06,320 Speaker 1: are one of now the most well equipped countries when 588 00:34:06,360 --> 00:34:10,360 Speaker 1: it comes to American technology and supplies anywhere in the world. 589 00:34:10,480 --> 00:34:14,200 Speaker 1: Much better armed Clay now, it's not even close by 590 00:34:14,200 --> 00:34:16,279 Speaker 1: the way. Much better armed and equip the Taliban is 591 00:34:16,320 --> 00:34:20,080 Speaker 1: now than they were before the US invasion when they 592 00:34:20,080 --> 00:34:23,200 Speaker 1: were running Afghanistan in two thousand and one. This their 593 00:34:23,239 --> 00:34:27,360 Speaker 1: relevan is stronger, better, faster militarily than the one that 594 00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:30,920 Speaker 1: we had to beat twenty years ago. And we're now 595 00:34:31,040 --> 00:34:33,600 Speaker 1: negotiating with them. We went in twenty years ago to 596 00:34:33,719 --> 00:34:36,719 Speaker 1: kick their ass out of the country, and now we're 597 00:34:36,760 --> 00:34:39,479 Speaker 1: begging them not to kill our people and handing over 598 00:34:39,600 --> 00:34:41,960 Speaker 1: billions of dollars in gear so they can be more 599 00:34:42,040 --> 00:34:45,000 Speaker 1: efficient more effective when it comes to being a terrorist country. 600 00:34:45,040 --> 00:34:46,839 Speaker 1: I spoke to a friend just over the weekend, Clay, 601 00:34:46,880 --> 00:34:50,120 Speaker 1: who's an ex Delta guy from the from the army side, 602 00:34:51,080 --> 00:34:53,279 Speaker 1: and I said, do you think that do you think 603 00:34:53,280 --> 00:34:54,800 Speaker 1: I'm right on this one? Or are we going to 604 00:34:54,880 --> 00:34:59,200 Speaker 1: get to a point where you're gonna have Taliban you know, 605 00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:02,160 Speaker 1: give it a within a year or so, we'll have 606 00:35:02,239 --> 00:35:07,120 Speaker 1: Taliban ministers, you know, showing up for climate change conferences 607 00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:11,480 Speaker 1: in Paris and the UN. And he said, absolutely, because 608 00:35:11,520 --> 00:35:14,840 Speaker 1: they're gonna They're they're seeing this as an opportunity where 609 00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:21,320 Speaker 1: they are effectively leveraging our catastrophic mistake to force themselves 610 00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:24,200 Speaker 1: into a role. How are we going to pretend that 611 00:35:24,239 --> 00:35:26,799 Speaker 1: we isolate the Taliban, Clay, we won't work with them, 612 00:35:26,840 --> 00:35:29,560 Speaker 1: we won't talk to them. We're basically begging them to 613 00:35:29,640 --> 00:35:33,640 Speaker 1: make sure that Americans and Afghans along with us, get out. 614 00:35:34,200 --> 00:35:36,319 Speaker 1: That's what we've been That's what we've had to do. 615 00:35:36,760 --> 00:35:41,480 Speaker 1: It's the biggest American foreign policy disaster in most of 616 00:35:41,520 --> 00:35:46,080 Speaker 1: our lives, and maybe the biggest ever when you consider 617 00:35:46,160 --> 00:35:49,120 Speaker 1: all of the ramifications and all the failures when we 618 00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:51,239 Speaker 1: come back. By the way to start off, the third hour. 619 00:35:51,320 --> 00:35:53,200 Speaker 1: We kind of hinted at it, We've talked around it 620 00:35:53,239 --> 00:35:57,520 Speaker 1: a little bit. Alex Berenson kicked off of Twitter. What 621 00:35:57,560 --> 00:36:02,120 Speaker 1: does it mean? And what lost mighty file. It's gonna 622 00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:04,200 Speaker 1: be intriguing. We'll talk about that a little bit. We've 623 00:36:04,200 --> 00:36:08,520 Speaker 1: got continued fallout in Afghanistan, Israel setting a new COVID 624 00:36:08,640 --> 00:36:14,520 Speaker 1: high Australia, maybe they're abandoning COVID zero. All this these 625 00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:17,440 Speaker 1: different stories to dive into. Plus will continue to update 626 00:36:17,480 --> 00:36:21,760 Speaker 1: you on the President speaking surrounding this Louisiana Hurricane Ida issue. 627 00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:25,440 Speaker 1: What else about I've also got this story about a 628 00:36:25,640 --> 00:36:30,520 Speaker 1: diversity commissar, a chief diversity officer the DJ. I'm want 629 00:36:30,520 --> 00:36:32,640 Speaker 1: to talk about that in the third hour because my, 630 00:36:32,880 --> 00:36:37,520 Speaker 1: oh my, the the apparatus of left wing control is 631 00:36:37,600 --> 00:36:40,239 Speaker 1: getting stronger all the time in all of our institutions. 632 00:36:40,440 --> 00:36:42,160 Speaker 1: I mean, later on the third hour, stick around for 633 00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:48,360 Speaker 1: the Clay and Buck Show. You're listening to Clay Travis 634 00:36:48,440 --> 00:36:51,440 Speaker 1: and Buck Sexton fund the EIB Network.