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 --> 00:00:08,200 Speaker 1: Sexton Show podcast. Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton Show. 3 00:00:08,240 --> 00:00:10,800 Speaker 1: We're rolling through the Thursday edition of the program, and 4 00:00:10,920 --> 00:00:13,800 Speaker 1: yesterday you may have heard us talking about maybe it 5 00:00:13,880 --> 00:00:15,280 Speaker 1: was a couple of days ago. Certainly we've been talking 6 00:00:15,280 --> 00:00:18,840 Speaker 1: about it for a long time, but in earnest the 7 00:00:18,920 --> 00:00:22,520 Speaker 1: conversation has been kicked up about Mexico and the drug 8 00:00:22,560 --> 00:00:26,600 Speaker 1: cartels because four Americans were kidnapped. Two of them were murdered, 9 00:00:27,040 --> 00:00:30,800 Speaker 1: one injured, and the other one is I believe alive. 10 00:00:30,960 --> 00:00:35,479 Speaker 1: And honestly, Buck, I saw Jesse Waters yesterday opened his 11 00:00:35,560 --> 00:00:39,480 Speaker 1: show doing a story on the dangers that currently exist, 12 00:00:39,520 --> 00:00:42,680 Speaker 1: for instance in Cancoon as many people get ready for 13 00:00:42,760 --> 00:00:44,839 Speaker 1: spring break, a lot of college kids, a lot of 14 00:00:44,880 --> 00:00:48,200 Speaker 1: parents out there regularly go down to the Yucatampa Pencil. 15 00:00:48,200 --> 00:00:53,640 Speaker 1: It's beautiful and the cartel killings have even spiraled into 16 00:00:54,200 --> 00:00:56,480 Speaker 1: that area. And actually saw Jesse. I don't want to 17 00:00:56,520 --> 00:00:59,080 Speaker 1: kill anybody's spring break plans here, but I saw Jesse 18 00:00:59,200 --> 00:01:01,080 Speaker 1: at the end had like my parents say, I can't 19 00:01:01,080 --> 00:01:04,080 Speaker 1: go to kid kun now because if you're open, so 20 00:01:04,120 --> 00:01:06,040 Speaker 1: I don't want to try to kill anybody's spring break 21 00:01:06,080 --> 00:01:11,119 Speaker 1: plans here. But the violence in Mexico has become so 22 00:01:11,240 --> 00:01:14,679 Speaker 1: pronounced that it is spilling over the border regularly. We 23 00:01:14,760 --> 00:01:17,039 Speaker 1: know we've got five million illegals who've entered the country 24 00:01:17,040 --> 00:01:20,680 Speaker 1: since Joe Biden became president, around one hundred thousand people 25 00:01:20,680 --> 00:01:23,360 Speaker 1: a year or dying of drug overdoses. And so the 26 00:01:23,400 --> 00:01:27,280 Speaker 1: conversation has ticked up to what should we in America 27 00:01:27,360 --> 00:01:30,840 Speaker 1: do about the cartels effectively taking over in Mexico and 28 00:01:30,920 --> 00:01:35,160 Speaker 1: certainly controlling access to the border of the United States. 29 00:01:36,080 --> 00:01:39,240 Speaker 1: And the Mexican president, as we told you, would likely 30 00:01:39,280 --> 00:01:41,720 Speaker 1: be the case, Buck has come out and said basically 31 00:01:41,800 --> 00:01:44,160 Speaker 1: he's not going to do anything to the cartels, and 32 00:01:44,440 --> 00:01:48,680 Speaker 1: that is not necessarily a bad political move because that 33 00:01:48,760 --> 00:01:53,320 Speaker 1: does allow him an element of protection because he can say, oh, 34 00:01:53,320 --> 00:01:56,320 Speaker 1: this wasn't me, this was the Big Bad Usa, even 35 00:01:56,360 --> 00:01:59,560 Speaker 1: when he could be behind the scenes kind of acknowledging 36 00:01:59,560 --> 00:02:01,400 Speaker 1: that he's okay with some of this. And I would 37 00:02:01,400 --> 00:02:04,520 Speaker 1: bet Bucky would prefer the United States to take action 38 00:02:04,520 --> 00:02:07,480 Speaker 1: against the cartels as opposed to the Mexican police and government. 39 00:02:07,840 --> 00:02:11,160 Speaker 1: But this is where we are that this conversation is 40 00:02:11,160 --> 00:02:14,520 Speaker 1: now taking place about how engaged do we become. Look, 41 00:02:15,280 --> 00:02:19,320 Speaker 1: I do think that the cartels are an even bigger 42 00:02:19,400 --> 00:02:23,360 Speaker 1: national security threat to US than many of the terrorist 43 00:02:23,480 --> 00:02:26,600 Speaker 1: entities globally that people know by name. I think the 44 00:02:26,720 --> 00:02:30,079 Speaker 1: numbers speak to that. But also remember it's it's we 45 00:02:30,320 --> 00:02:33,760 Speaker 1: look at drug overdoses. Drug overdoses also have a lot 46 00:02:33,800 --> 00:02:40,280 Speaker 1: of there's additional downstream destruction from that of addicts law, 47 00:02:40,919 --> 00:02:46,960 Speaker 1: you know, destroyed families, criminal behavior tied to these drug sales, 48 00:02:46,960 --> 00:02:50,240 Speaker 1: and all these different cities across America, people that are 49 00:02:50,280 --> 00:02:53,680 Speaker 1: engaging in lower pettier crimes in order to feed their 50 00:02:53,760 --> 00:02:55,880 Speaker 1: drug habit. I mean, if you go around, you see 51 00:02:55,880 --> 00:02:58,400 Speaker 1: what's happening in a lot of these cities. And we 52 00:02:58,880 --> 00:03:01,079 Speaker 1: watch as there are people of wandering around in San 53 00:03:01,080 --> 00:03:04,720 Speaker 1: Francisco and Portland and Philadelphia and some of the downtown 54 00:03:04,840 --> 00:03:07,959 Speaker 1: areas who look like they're acting almost like zombies. They're 55 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:11,520 Speaker 1: drug addicts and they're overwhelmingly fentinil addics. And so there's 56 00:03:11,560 --> 00:03:15,359 Speaker 1: tremendous societal degradation that comes from this. So the threat 57 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:18,919 Speaker 1: of the cartels is enormous to the They're doing enormous 58 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:21,760 Speaker 1: damage now every day in this country. That much we know, 59 00:03:22,160 --> 00:03:23,760 Speaker 1: so then we get to how do we deal with it? 60 00:03:24,320 --> 00:03:27,960 Speaker 1: And you know, Vicente Fox, the president of Mexico, was 61 00:03:27,960 --> 00:03:31,160 Speaker 1: really the first one to take on the cartels, and 62 00:03:31,400 --> 00:03:34,080 Speaker 1: he had I didn't even know what the final account was, 63 00:03:34,120 --> 00:03:37,040 Speaker 1: but certainly it was over fifty thousand dead over the 64 00:03:37,080 --> 00:03:42,120 Speaker 1: course of what was considered that cartel conflict, and mostly 65 00:03:42,240 --> 00:03:44,680 Speaker 1: vast majority of those were civilians, a lot of people 66 00:03:44,760 --> 00:03:47,760 Speaker 1: killed in the crossfire, police officers being killed. To get 67 00:03:47,800 --> 00:03:50,240 Speaker 1: a sense of I think the scale that you would 68 00:03:50,280 --> 00:03:53,640 Speaker 1: have to take it take on in order to fight 69 00:03:53,720 --> 00:03:59,680 Speaker 1: a narco war in Mexico. President Bukeley down in El Salvador, 70 00:04:00,960 --> 00:04:04,040 Speaker 1: he's decided that they are fighting effectively a civil war 71 00:04:04,560 --> 00:04:08,840 Speaker 1: all out against MS thirteen, a Mara Salvatruccia. That it's 72 00:04:08,880 --> 00:04:12,000 Speaker 1: a drug gang, really, but it's a massive international drug gang. 73 00:04:12,280 --> 00:04:14,960 Speaker 1: There are MS thirteen murders that have happened in Long Island, 74 00:04:14,960 --> 00:04:17,440 Speaker 1: New York. They're MS thirteen murders that have happened just 75 00:04:17,520 --> 00:04:20,400 Speaker 1: outside of Washington, DC, right all over the country. The 76 00:04:20,760 --> 00:04:24,480 Speaker 1: tentacles of this vicious, ultra violent group have spread. So 77 00:04:24,600 --> 00:04:29,240 Speaker 1: Bukeley has decided to mobilize all of El Salvador against 78 00:04:29,240 --> 00:04:31,800 Speaker 1: this to the point where even and you may have 79 00:04:31,839 --> 00:04:34,840 Speaker 1: seen this story a few months ago, they had sent 80 00:04:34,960 --> 00:04:40,040 Speaker 1: in prisoners to destroy the grave sites, the grave stones 81 00:04:40,560 --> 00:04:44,359 Speaker 1: of MS thirteen members because MS thirteen people killed in 82 00:04:44,360 --> 00:04:46,960 Speaker 1: the drug wars have on their grave that they are 83 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:51,000 Speaker 1: a member of MS thirteen. And so Bukeley has decided 84 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:54,040 Speaker 1: that they're going to eliminate this from society because the 85 00:04:55,040 --> 00:04:58,880 Speaker 1: other gang members were gathering at the sites in El Salvador, 86 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:01,680 Speaker 1: at these graves, sights all of the gang members, and 87 00:05:01,720 --> 00:05:04,720 Speaker 1: this became a common activity for them. So one, people 88 00:05:04,720 --> 00:05:06,960 Speaker 1: didn't feel safe going into the graveyards who were in 89 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:09,960 Speaker 1: these gangs. And two he's taken the position and he's 90 00:05:09,960 --> 00:05:12,000 Speaker 1: had some clips that have gone very viral over this. 91 00:05:12,080 --> 00:05:15,479 Speaker 1: The president of Al Salvador that they're treating this like 92 00:05:15,520 --> 00:05:20,200 Speaker 1: the Nazis in Germany, that they're they're eradication of everything 93 00:05:20,400 --> 00:05:25,359 Speaker 1: involving MS thirteen in the country of Al Salvador. Is 94 00:05:25,360 --> 00:05:28,480 Speaker 1: he gonna win this fight? We'll see has he turned 95 00:05:28,520 --> 00:05:31,440 Speaker 1: all of society into or rather has he made this 96 00:05:31,480 --> 00:05:33,920 Speaker 1: an all of society fight for the future of his country. 97 00:05:33,960 --> 00:05:37,880 Speaker 1: Guess Al Salvador has six million people. Mexico has about 98 00:05:37,880 --> 00:05:41,360 Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty million people, and you're talking about 99 00:05:41,720 --> 00:05:45,160 Speaker 1: cart If you're looking at cartel operatives, Clay tens of 100 00:05:45,240 --> 00:05:49,880 Speaker 1: thousands of people who are directly tied into, probably carry 101 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:54,240 Speaker 1: arms for, and are willing to engage in all kinds 102 00:05:54,240 --> 00:05:56,680 Speaker 1: of violent and illegal activity on behalf of the cartels. 103 00:05:56,960 --> 00:05:59,480 Speaker 1: So just a drone strike here, there's not going to 104 00:05:59,560 --> 00:06:01,120 Speaker 1: do it as the point, right, this would have to 105 00:06:01,160 --> 00:06:03,320 Speaker 1: be to really go after the cartels, and to do 106 00:06:03,360 --> 00:06:06,480 Speaker 1: it as a as a military or even paramilitary operation. 107 00:06:07,400 --> 00:06:09,600 Speaker 1: You're looking at something the scale of which we haven't 108 00:06:09,600 --> 00:06:12,440 Speaker 1: seen in this country in a long time. We'd have 109 00:06:12,480 --> 00:06:14,800 Speaker 1: to go after the Mexican drug cartels like Trump would 110 00:06:14,839 --> 00:06:18,520 Speaker 1: after ISIS. And honestly, I don't think Joe Biden's going 111 00:06:18,560 --> 00:06:21,080 Speaker 1: to do it, but I would suspect buck that the 112 00:06:21,120 --> 00:06:25,440 Speaker 1: twenty twenty four Republican presidential campaign is going to actually 113 00:06:25,520 --> 00:06:28,200 Speaker 1: lead to a lot of debate over this. Yeah, but 114 00:06:28,240 --> 00:06:31,040 Speaker 1: I mean again, Mexico one hundred and thirty million people, 115 00:06:31,120 --> 00:06:33,880 Speaker 1: has a functioning government, has its own military, has its 116 00:06:33,880 --> 00:06:37,800 Speaker 1: own police and judicial system. And you know, I think 117 00:06:37,839 --> 00:06:42,000 Speaker 1: it's worth everybody remembering, remember this Biden administration to protect 118 00:06:42,080 --> 00:06:45,120 Speaker 1: during the withdrawal to protect our soldiers they had. They 119 00:06:45,120 --> 00:06:47,120 Speaker 1: were very proud of themselves. They came out and they 120 00:06:47,160 --> 00:06:50,400 Speaker 1: bragged about the drone strike. We took action right away. 121 00:06:50,520 --> 00:06:53,640 Speaker 1: We had a drone strike on a vehicle that was 122 00:06:53,680 --> 00:06:59,360 Speaker 1: an svb I suicide vehicle board improvised explosive device suicide 123 00:06:59,360 --> 00:07:02,159 Speaker 1: bombing car. Turned out it was I think a father 124 00:07:02,279 --> 00:07:06,680 Speaker 1: with five or six of his kids in the car. Yeah, 125 00:07:06,720 --> 00:07:08,680 Speaker 1: that's what they got it wrong. They got it as 126 00:07:08,680 --> 00:07:10,720 Speaker 1: wrong as it could be. So when we talk about 127 00:07:10,720 --> 00:07:14,160 Speaker 1: going with a even a paramilitary, even sort of more 128 00:07:14,200 --> 00:07:17,960 Speaker 1: covert action inside of Mexico, the moment you're talking about 129 00:07:18,080 --> 00:07:20,960 Speaker 1: using doing kinetic strikes with drones, planes, anything like that, 130 00:07:21,400 --> 00:07:24,280 Speaker 1: I mean you're going to be pulling children out of 131 00:07:24,320 --> 00:07:27,880 Speaker 1: the rubble in you know, tikuana, Like this is going 132 00:07:27,920 --> 00:07:31,400 Speaker 1: to happen at some point. If you're so just everything's understand. 133 00:07:31,440 --> 00:07:33,560 Speaker 1: If you're really going to do it, be prepared for 134 00:07:34,120 --> 00:07:37,000 Speaker 1: a scale of conflict um in a country that is 135 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:38,760 Speaker 1: on our border, which is also very different than a 136 00:07:38,760 --> 00:07:40,720 Speaker 1: country that has thousands of miles away, a country that 137 00:07:40,760 --> 00:07:43,640 Speaker 1: we have very intricate and an in depth day to 138 00:07:43,720 --> 00:07:47,080 Speaker 1: day relations with. So I'm a little surprised at the 139 00:07:48,760 --> 00:07:50,640 Speaker 1: some of the some of the people on the Republican side, 140 00:07:50,640 --> 00:07:52,120 Speaker 1: they're saying, yeah, we've got to go out you know, 141 00:07:52,200 --> 00:07:54,200 Speaker 1: I know Trump said this, We've got to treat them 142 00:07:54,240 --> 00:07:56,720 Speaker 1: like isis okay? But what is that? You know, the 143 00:07:56,760 --> 00:07:58,440 Speaker 1: devil's in the details. What does that really mean? And 144 00:07:58,480 --> 00:08:00,280 Speaker 1: how we're really going to do it because it would 145 00:08:00,280 --> 00:08:04,080 Speaker 1: be a very complicated and risky fight that would take 146 00:08:04,240 --> 00:08:07,640 Speaker 1: many years and a whole lot of casualties as well 147 00:08:07,640 --> 00:08:11,080 Speaker 1: as also the Mexican government has to be willing to 148 00:08:11,120 --> 00:08:13,600 Speaker 1: go along with this. We don't have the intelligence on 149 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:15,440 Speaker 1: the ground in Mexico to know who's doing what in 150 00:08:15,480 --> 00:08:18,960 Speaker 1: the cartels, not even close. This is I want to 151 00:08:18,960 --> 00:08:20,920 Speaker 1: play a couple of the cuts because what we're talking about, 152 00:08:20,960 --> 00:08:22,480 Speaker 1: if you're out there and you haven't been paying attention, 153 00:08:22,560 --> 00:08:27,000 Speaker 1: it's become a very much topic of the day for sure, 154 00:08:27,040 --> 00:08:28,600 Speaker 1: and I think this is going to continue to build. 155 00:08:28,760 --> 00:08:31,640 Speaker 1: I want to play a couple of senators here. Lindsey 156 00:08:31,680 --> 00:08:34,840 Speaker 1: Graham says, I want every drug dealer in Mexico not 157 00:08:34,960 --> 00:08:37,560 Speaker 1: sleeping well at night, worried that there might be a 158 00:08:37,640 --> 00:08:40,320 Speaker 1: missile coming through the window. Listen to this. The authorization 159 00:08:40,520 --> 00:08:43,640 Speaker 1: use military force is not to invade Mexico, not to 160 00:08:43,679 --> 00:08:47,160 Speaker 1: take the Mexican government down, is to use military force 161 00:08:47,360 --> 00:08:50,720 Speaker 1: to strike at the cartels, the labs, and their infrastructure 162 00:08:50,840 --> 00:08:53,400 Speaker 1: that's killing Americans. We do this all over the world. 163 00:08:53,600 --> 00:08:56,560 Speaker 1: We hit Terris and Syria almost every night. We do 164 00:08:56,600 --> 00:08:59,680 Speaker 1: it in Iraq. Wherever there's a threat to Americans, we 165 00:08:59,760 --> 00:09:02,200 Speaker 1: deal with that threat. The number one job of the 166 00:09:02,200 --> 00:09:06,120 Speaker 1: federal government is to defend this nation. The Biden administration 167 00:09:06,400 --> 00:09:09,000 Speaker 1: has not done all they could do to stop the 168 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:12,360 Speaker 1: fitnol positing of America. They have been slow, they have 169 00:09:12,480 --> 00:09:15,760 Speaker 1: been reluctant. I am changing the game. I want every 170 00:09:15,840 --> 00:09:18,719 Speaker 1: drug dealer in Mexico to not sleep well at night 171 00:09:18,840 --> 00:09:23,000 Speaker 1: wondering fare's a missile coming through the window. I mean, look, 172 00:09:23,160 --> 00:09:25,440 Speaker 1: he's I think he's out of his mind, honestly. I mean, 173 00:09:25,480 --> 00:09:29,360 Speaker 1: Lindsay Grahams has never found a war that he wasn't 174 00:09:29,360 --> 00:09:31,960 Speaker 1: excited for other Americans children to fight. I'm just gonna 175 00:09:31,960 --> 00:09:33,959 Speaker 1: say it, Okay, I don't know what he thinks this 176 00:09:34,040 --> 00:09:36,680 Speaker 1: is going to really be able to accomplish going forward. 177 00:09:37,640 --> 00:09:40,400 Speaker 1: You know how many how many missile strikes are we 178 00:09:40,440 --> 00:09:42,120 Speaker 1: talking about? Let I mean we can all agree that 179 00:09:42,200 --> 00:09:47,120 Speaker 1: cartel is massive, billions and billions about dwarfs the financial 180 00:09:47,240 --> 00:09:51,240 Speaker 1: and military resources if they really wanted to that you 181 00:09:51,280 --> 00:09:55,360 Speaker 1: were seeing in parts of Syria, for example, far more 182 00:09:55,360 --> 00:10:01,320 Speaker 1: sophisticated communications, far more sophisticated training. And we're gonna start 183 00:10:01,320 --> 00:10:04,120 Speaker 1: firing missiles into Mexico. We're gonna treat I mean, I 184 00:10:04,160 --> 00:10:05,760 Speaker 1: don't know how else to say this, Lindsay. You know, 185 00:10:05,880 --> 00:10:09,720 Speaker 1: Mexico City isn't the northwest frontier province of Pakistan. Like, 186 00:10:09,920 --> 00:10:12,839 Speaker 1: there's a whole lot more risk of civilian casualties, a 187 00:10:12,880 --> 00:10:16,200 Speaker 1: whole lot more people. I don't know. I don't see it. 188 00:10:16,360 --> 00:10:18,800 Speaker 1: I don't see Here's what. And then just to build 189 00:10:18,800 --> 00:10:20,800 Speaker 1: on top of it, You're right, Lindsay Graham tends to 190 00:10:20,800 --> 00:10:24,280 Speaker 1: be a hawk. Tom Cotton basically saying the same thing, 191 00:10:24,360 --> 00:10:27,319 Speaker 1: Senator from Arkansas. If ISIS and al Qaida had set 192 00:10:27,360 --> 00:10:30,280 Speaker 1: up shop in Warez or Monterey or Tijuana, what would 193 00:10:30,280 --> 00:10:32,319 Speaker 1: you expect your government to do if they were killing 194 00:10:32,400 --> 00:10:34,760 Speaker 1: one hundred thousand Americans a year and whatever that is, 195 00:10:35,040 --> 00:10:37,880 Speaker 1: That's exactly what we should do to them in Mexico. 196 00:10:38,120 --> 00:10:40,800 Speaker 1: With or without the Mexican government. We have a long 197 00:10:40,920 --> 00:10:44,120 Speaker 1: history of our military protecting us from these threats from 198 00:10:44,200 --> 00:10:48,000 Speaker 1: drug traffickers and narco terrorists. If the Mexican government will 199 00:10:48,080 --> 00:10:52,320 Speaker 1: not or cannot stop these cartels from killing hundreds of 200 00:10:52,320 --> 00:10:57,000 Speaker 1: thousands of Americans, then America should, Oh it's gonna I'm 201 00:10:57,040 --> 00:11:01,040 Speaker 1: telling you, bucket's gonna get super spicy. In terms of 202 00:11:01,040 --> 00:11:02,800 Speaker 1: this debate, can I can I tell you what's really 203 00:11:02,800 --> 00:11:05,520 Speaker 1: going on here, Clay. They know Biden's not gonna do it, 204 00:11:05,559 --> 00:11:07,560 Speaker 1: so they get to sound they get to talk tough, 205 00:11:07,640 --> 00:11:09,439 Speaker 1: and people in the base, well, some of them will 206 00:11:09,520 --> 00:11:12,079 Speaker 1: like to hear this stuff, but it's not gonna happen. 207 00:11:12,440 --> 00:11:14,319 Speaker 1: It's not gonna have Joe. Biden's not gonna do it. 208 00:11:14,640 --> 00:11:17,080 Speaker 1: So then you get to where it gets really interesting. 209 00:11:17,240 --> 00:11:20,520 Speaker 1: Is the Republican nominee for twenty twenty four what is 210 00:11:20,559 --> 00:11:22,240 Speaker 1: his plan? Because this isn't As I said, I think 211 00:11:22,600 --> 00:11:26,080 Speaker 1: it's gonna be urging to be a Republican primary debate decision, 212 00:11:26,160 --> 00:11:28,280 Speaker 1: because you're right, Biden's not gonna do it, right, So 213 00:11:28,280 --> 00:11:30,440 Speaker 1: so we consider how they'd be, like, yeah, like sending 214 00:11:30,520 --> 00:11:33,760 Speaker 1: everybody and do everything, and you know, then people go, yeah, 215 00:11:33,800 --> 00:11:37,040 Speaker 1: nothing's gonna happen. Biden's nothing. Biden's not even gonna secure 216 00:11:37,080 --> 00:11:40,120 Speaker 1: the border, you know, with the most basic plan possible, 217 00:11:40,120 --> 00:11:41,920 Speaker 1: which would at least start to stem the flow offender 218 00:11:41,960 --> 00:11:45,360 Speaker 1: they could care less. 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I'll 254 00:13:35,640 --> 00:13:37,080 Speaker 1: talk about that in a second. We want to make 255 00:13:37,120 --> 00:13:40,120 Speaker 1: sure all of you go subscribe to the podcast search 256 00:13:40,120 --> 00:13:42,600 Speaker 1: Out by name Clay Travis, search Out Buck Sexton. You 257 00:13:42,640 --> 00:13:47,040 Speaker 1: can join tens of millions of downloaders already this year 258 00:13:47,160 --> 00:13:49,800 Speaker 1: and make sure that you take us wherever you may 259 00:13:49,840 --> 00:13:53,040 Speaker 1: be going around the world. And we're joined now by 260 00:13:53,040 --> 00:13:55,720 Speaker 1: one of the senators from my home state of Tennessee, 261 00:13:55,760 --> 00:13:58,319 Speaker 1: Marsha Blackburn. And before we even get into questions, I 262 00:13:58,400 --> 00:14:00,600 Speaker 1: want to give a shout out to Senator Blackburn and 263 00:14:00,720 --> 00:14:04,040 Speaker 1: her staff. My kids. You have to get new passports 264 00:14:04,080 --> 00:14:07,560 Speaker 1: for your kids every five years. My kids, two of them, 265 00:14:07,600 --> 00:14:10,200 Speaker 1: had their passports held up for like twelve weeks. We 266 00:14:10,200 --> 00:14:11,880 Speaker 1: didn't know when they were coming back. We were going 267 00:14:11,920 --> 00:14:17,800 Speaker 1: to Italy. Caroline and Savannah, who work in Marcia Blackburn's office, 268 00:14:18,080 --> 00:14:20,760 Speaker 1: helped to ensure that we got our passports. One of 269 00:14:20,840 --> 00:14:24,960 Speaker 1: the most primary, I would say responsibilities of any representatives 270 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:28,200 Speaker 1: take care of their constituents. So thank you, Senator Blackburn 271 00:14:28,320 --> 00:14:31,640 Speaker 1: and your staff. Caroline and Savannah hooked us up. Thank you. 272 00:14:32,200 --> 00:14:35,800 Speaker 1: Oh yes they did that. Caroline's a miracle worker. I 273 00:14:35,920 --> 00:14:38,880 Speaker 1: tell you she is a good one. Savannah too, But 274 00:14:39,120 --> 00:14:43,160 Speaker 1: when it comes to those passports and taking care of 275 00:14:43,200 --> 00:14:49,040 Speaker 1: our Tennesseeans, our veterans. We, by the way, handled about 276 00:14:49,080 --> 00:14:54,640 Speaker 1: two thousand cases trying to get Americans and our Afghan 277 00:14:55,040 --> 00:15:01,480 Speaker 1: SIV applicants out of Afghanistan. We've got a good team 278 00:15:01,520 --> 00:15:04,560 Speaker 1: and I am very blessed to have them working on 279 00:15:04,680 --> 00:15:07,440 Speaker 1: behalf of the people of our state. Okay, I want 280 00:15:07,480 --> 00:15:09,320 Speaker 1: to start here because Buck and I were just talking 281 00:15:09,360 --> 00:15:13,600 Speaker 1: about it. Are you surprised by the outrage that has 282 00:15:13,640 --> 00:15:19,360 Speaker 1: arisen from Tucker Carlson's showing previously unseen January sixth footage? 283 00:15:19,840 --> 00:15:23,440 Speaker 1: And what does it say that there are Republicans who 284 00:15:23,520 --> 00:15:27,160 Speaker 1: are also ripping this review? What are your thoughts on this? 285 00:15:28,360 --> 00:15:31,640 Speaker 1: There are so many hours of footage from different angles, 286 00:15:31,680 --> 00:15:35,520 Speaker 1: and what we know is that the January sixth committee 287 00:15:36,160 --> 00:15:42,160 Speaker 1: created a narrative. They cherry picked components to build out 288 00:15:42,200 --> 00:15:46,920 Speaker 1: their narrative, and then if anybody shows something or says 289 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:52,400 Speaker 1: something to contradict that narrative, then they want to publicly 290 00:15:52,640 --> 00:15:57,200 Speaker 1: shame those individuals. Now, let me carry it a little 291 00:15:57,200 --> 00:16:00,320 Speaker 1: bit further into COVID. Look what is happening. What we're 292 00:16:00,320 --> 00:16:05,240 Speaker 1: finding out from doctor Redfield and about doctor Fauci. He 293 00:16:05,400 --> 00:16:09,280 Speaker 1: created a narrative of oh COVID could not possibly have 294 00:16:09,600 --> 00:16:13,680 Speaker 1: come from the lab. It appears that what doctor Fauci 295 00:16:13,880 --> 00:16:17,080 Speaker 1: was doing was trying to play a world class game 296 00:16:17,680 --> 00:16:22,440 Speaker 1: of cya and doing it at the expense of the 297 00:16:22,520 --> 00:16:27,480 Speaker 1: American people, so much so that the CDC director the 298 00:16:27,760 --> 00:16:31,280 Speaker 1: Center for Disease Control, he didn't even read him in 299 00:16:32,080 --> 00:16:37,520 Speaker 1: because he had a more scientific approach that everything should 300 00:16:37,600 --> 00:16:41,280 Speaker 1: be on the table and all of it should be 301 00:16:41,960 --> 00:16:45,520 Speaker 1: reviewed and then you can carry it over to DJ. 302 00:16:45,840 --> 00:16:49,360 Speaker 1: We had the hearing with Merrick Garland last week and 303 00:16:49,520 --> 00:16:52,120 Speaker 1: it was, well, you know, why are you not going 304 00:16:52,200 --> 00:16:57,400 Speaker 1: after these groups that are firebombing churches and pregnancy centers. 305 00:16:57,400 --> 00:17:00,880 Speaker 1: A pregnancy center is there to give women who are pregnant, 306 00:17:01,520 --> 00:17:06,680 Speaker 1: prenatal care, post natal care, in diapers, for babies, in formula. 307 00:17:06,920 --> 00:17:13,600 Speaker 1: And what he is out here arresting eleven Tennesseeans who 308 00:17:13,600 --> 00:17:17,040 Speaker 1: are singing and preying on the sidewalk across from an 309 00:17:17,040 --> 00:17:21,760 Speaker 1: abortion clinic. And his response to me as to why 310 00:17:21,800 --> 00:17:26,359 Speaker 1: he was going after those protesters and not going after 311 00:17:26,400 --> 00:17:29,760 Speaker 1: the people firebombing the clinics was well, you know, it's 312 00:17:29,760 --> 00:17:32,840 Speaker 1: easier to catch people that do crime in the daytime 313 00:17:33,640 --> 00:17:38,240 Speaker 1: and the fact that he would even think that under 314 00:17:38,280 --> 00:17:41,919 Speaker 1: oath he could make such a statement. The fact that 315 00:17:41,960 --> 00:17:45,200 Speaker 1: they have this narrative that it is hard to find 316 00:17:45,240 --> 00:17:48,720 Speaker 1: these people because they do crimes at night, and that 317 00:17:48,880 --> 00:17:53,200 Speaker 1: people would believe that and accept that. But there again, 318 00:17:54,280 --> 00:17:58,359 Speaker 1: this administration creates a narrative and if you cross them, 319 00:17:58,880 --> 00:18:01,040 Speaker 1: then they're going to try to make you look like 320 00:18:01,080 --> 00:18:05,000 Speaker 1: an idiot. Senator Blackburnet's buck, thanks for being with us. 321 00:18:05,520 --> 00:18:07,439 Speaker 1: How are you to weigh in, if you would, on 322 00:18:07,480 --> 00:18:11,240 Speaker 1: the DC crime bill situation? Clay and I laid this 323 00:18:11,320 --> 00:18:14,920 Speaker 1: out for the audience earlier in the week, But tell 324 00:18:14,960 --> 00:18:17,480 Speaker 1: everybody what's going on here. We know the DC Council 325 00:18:18,119 --> 00:18:22,200 Speaker 1: passed effectively a soft on crime bill, less prison time, 326 00:18:22,640 --> 00:18:27,119 Speaker 1: less severe sentencing, stuff like that. But even Biden is 327 00:18:27,119 --> 00:18:30,200 Speaker 1: backing away from what Democrats on the DC Council has done. 328 00:18:30,200 --> 00:18:34,320 Speaker 1: It explain how this process is working. Yes, DC, of 329 00:18:34,440 --> 00:18:40,520 Speaker 1: course is under the jurisdiction of Congress, and at Senator appropriations, 330 00:18:40,840 --> 00:18:45,520 Speaker 1: Senator Haggarty is on the committee that oversees DC. And 331 00:18:45,760 --> 00:18:49,159 Speaker 1: when they did this, Senator Haggerty said, oh no, you 332 00:18:49,240 --> 00:18:52,479 Speaker 1: don't do a soft on crime and lessen crime because 333 00:18:52,560 --> 00:18:54,800 Speaker 1: there are so many people that we talked to every 334 00:18:54,880 --> 00:19:00,919 Speaker 1: day who have been mugged or assaulted, our cardjackings or robberies, 335 00:19:01,680 --> 00:19:06,000 Speaker 1: and they want something done about crime. So DC Counsel, 336 00:19:06,119 --> 00:19:09,120 Speaker 1: instead of getting tough on crime and hiring more police 337 00:19:09,160 --> 00:19:12,879 Speaker 1: and supporting the police and giving the money, what they 338 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:15,879 Speaker 1: wanted to do was to go soft on crime and 339 00:19:16,160 --> 00:19:19,640 Speaker 1: lessen the penalties and put it in a position where 340 00:19:19,720 --> 00:19:22,040 Speaker 1: people don't have to go to court. You got a 341 00:19:22,160 --> 00:19:25,480 Speaker 1: risk lab and it's put in a record, and you 342 00:19:25,600 --> 00:19:28,000 Speaker 1: can just go back out and go back to doing crime, 343 00:19:28,119 --> 00:19:34,119 Speaker 1: going back to your way of life. So when we 344 00:19:34,400 --> 00:19:39,880 Speaker 1: voted on Senator Haggardy's resolution, we had brought by partisan support. 345 00:19:40,320 --> 00:19:43,880 Speaker 1: It did pass. The Democrats in the House were furious. 346 00:19:44,040 --> 00:19:47,600 Speaker 1: Pelosi said, well, Biden could have told them first that 347 00:19:47,760 --> 00:19:50,320 Speaker 1: he was not going to veto this, that if it passed, 348 00:19:50,560 --> 00:19:54,080 Speaker 1: it would go through, because you had more than half 349 00:19:54,240 --> 00:19:57,560 Speaker 1: of the Democrats in the House vote against it. But 350 00:19:57,840 --> 00:20:00,280 Speaker 1: of course this is going to be signed into the 351 00:20:01,240 --> 00:20:06,000 Speaker 1: DC Council is going to be overruled by Congress. They 352 00:20:06,119 --> 00:20:08,560 Speaker 1: cannot do this, and they're going to have to get 353 00:20:08,640 --> 00:20:12,560 Speaker 1: tough on crime and make the nation's capital safe for 354 00:20:12,880 --> 00:20:16,479 Speaker 1: all the Tennesseeans and everyone else who is coming up 355 00:20:16,560 --> 00:20:20,160 Speaker 1: to visit us, people that are conducting business. This week, 356 00:20:20,280 --> 00:20:22,720 Speaker 1: we have had school groups in town. We've had families 357 00:20:22,760 --> 00:20:27,080 Speaker 1: in town for spring break. We have had our disabled veterans, 358 00:20:27,280 --> 00:20:32,199 Speaker 1: our veterans of foreign wars, our community help senters. They 359 00:20:32,280 --> 00:20:34,800 Speaker 1: have all been here, and we want people to be 360 00:20:34,920 --> 00:20:38,240 Speaker 1: able to walk around, see the capital, see the monuments, 361 00:20:38,440 --> 00:20:42,960 Speaker 1: and not be accosted or robbed as they are walking 362 00:20:43,080 --> 00:20:46,440 Speaker 1: on the street. You raised a really interesting point there, 363 00:20:46,440 --> 00:20:49,240 Speaker 1: and I want you to analyze it politically. So this 364 00:20:49,480 --> 00:20:54,240 Speaker 1: past Senator Haggarty's resolution eighty one to fourteen in the Senate, 365 00:20:54,400 --> 00:20:58,440 Speaker 1: even Chuck Schumer voted for it, landslide. Hey, we're not 366 00:20:58,680 --> 00:21:02,640 Speaker 1: going to allow this in DC to continue to lessen 367 00:21:02,800 --> 00:21:08,240 Speaker 1: punishments to criminals. Yet a hundred and seventy three Democrats 368 00:21:08,560 --> 00:21:12,119 Speaker 1: before it passed in the Senate voted to oppose this. 369 00:21:12,680 --> 00:21:15,280 Speaker 1: A lot of those Democrats are in toss up districts. 370 00:21:15,320 --> 00:21:18,119 Speaker 1: A lot of them are supposed to be representing a 371 00:21:18,240 --> 00:21:21,680 Speaker 1: lot of people in very competitive districts. Why do you 372 00:21:21,760 --> 00:21:25,240 Speaker 1: think the Biden administration cut the legs out from underneath 373 00:21:25,280 --> 00:21:28,560 Speaker 1: those hundred and seventy three Democrats. Do you think they 374 00:21:28,720 --> 00:21:30,840 Speaker 1: didn't know that this was going to pass, They didn't 375 00:21:30,880 --> 00:21:32,920 Speaker 1: have a good accounting. Did they get scared by what 376 00:21:33,040 --> 00:21:36,440 Speaker 1: happened to Lori Lightfoot in Chicago? What was the calculus 377 00:21:36,480 --> 00:21:38,919 Speaker 1: here and why did Biden basically cut the legs out 378 00:21:38,960 --> 00:21:43,040 Speaker 1: from under his own party in the House In your opinion, well, 379 00:21:43,200 --> 00:21:45,440 Speaker 1: you just touched on it. They saw what happened to 380 00:21:45,560 --> 00:21:49,919 Speaker 1: Lori Lightfoot. They're hearing from people in blue cities who 381 00:21:49,960 --> 00:21:52,320 Speaker 1: were saying, you've got to be kidding me. A lot 382 00:21:52,400 --> 00:21:54,920 Speaker 1: of these folks that live in New York, they are 383 00:21:55,160 --> 00:21:58,920 Speaker 1: tired of having to pay for a driver to take 384 00:21:58,960 --> 00:22:01,520 Speaker 1: them from point eight point be when they used to 385 00:22:01,640 --> 00:22:05,159 Speaker 1: walk there and it was faster to walk than it 386 00:22:05,400 --> 00:22:07,720 Speaker 1: was to get in a car. They can't take the 387 00:22:07,840 --> 00:22:11,240 Speaker 1: subway in New York anymore because of the crime and 388 00:22:12,160 --> 00:22:16,080 Speaker 1: people that are living in the subway, so it runs 389 00:22:16,200 --> 00:22:19,040 Speaker 1: up the cost of living. This is coming up to 390 00:22:19,240 --> 00:22:24,040 Speaker 1: people when you see cities like Boston and New York 391 00:22:24,680 --> 00:22:31,159 Speaker 1: and Chicago and Denver and San Francisco in LA and 392 00:22:31,920 --> 00:22:36,480 Speaker 1: you cannot go and move freely in public spaces because 393 00:22:36,720 --> 00:22:42,040 Speaker 1: of the element of crime that is existing. And while 394 00:22:42,080 --> 00:22:45,359 Speaker 1: the Biden administration will not do anything about the border 395 00:22:45,840 --> 00:22:48,879 Speaker 1: and the gangs and the criminals and the terrorists that 396 00:22:48,960 --> 00:22:51,720 Speaker 1: are coming across that border. I think they felt like 397 00:22:51,840 --> 00:22:56,080 Speaker 1: the one thing they could do is support overriding the 398 00:22:56,240 --> 00:22:59,359 Speaker 1: DC Council and use that as hey, look at us, 399 00:22:59,440 --> 00:23:03,119 Speaker 1: we're tough crime. Senator Blackburn, I want to ask you 400 00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:06,760 Speaker 1: also about the plan it seems for credit card companies 401 00:23:06,880 --> 00:23:12,879 Speaker 1: to start tracking gun purchases and what some of the 402 00:23:12,920 --> 00:23:15,600 Speaker 1: Second Amendment concerns are that you have about this, as 403 00:23:15,680 --> 00:23:20,680 Speaker 1: it seems there's a continued effort to, if not legislate 404 00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:25,919 Speaker 1: away Second Amendment rights, to use the corporate corporate power 405 00:23:26,119 --> 00:23:29,200 Speaker 1: to make sure that people can have Second Amendment rights. Yeah, 406 00:23:29,359 --> 00:23:31,480 Speaker 1: you know, Buck. And one of the things to bear 407 00:23:31,600 --> 00:23:36,600 Speaker 1: in mind there is I led that amicus brief with 408 00:23:37,080 --> 00:23:41,439 Speaker 1: many of my Republican colleagues on the pistol brace issue 409 00:23:42,600 --> 00:23:46,480 Speaker 1: for as that goes to the Supreme Court, and I 410 00:23:46,640 --> 00:23:49,600 Speaker 1: was pleased so many joined me and weighing in on 411 00:23:49,760 --> 00:23:52,200 Speaker 1: that issue. The other thing I think you have to 412 00:23:52,320 --> 00:23:56,119 Speaker 1: keep in mind is that the Second Amendment is the 413 00:23:56,400 --> 00:23:59,520 Speaker 1: only one of our Bill of Rights freedoms that in 414 00:23:59,800 --> 00:24:02,639 Speaker 1: order or to exercise that freedom you have to go 415 00:24:02,840 --> 00:24:07,600 Speaker 1: get a license from a local official. And what we 416 00:24:08,040 --> 00:24:13,200 Speaker 1: are looking at is how when the Democrats cannot get 417 00:24:13,320 --> 00:24:17,560 Speaker 1: something through Congress, what they do is go to corporations. 418 00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:21,320 Speaker 1: You're seeing it with all of this woke corporation, a 419 00:24:22,119 --> 00:24:27,600 Speaker 1: d EI, all of this e SG, that is policies 420 00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:31,280 Speaker 1: that they couldn't get through a vote if they had to. 421 00:24:31,640 --> 00:24:34,880 Speaker 1: People don't support that and they know it, so they're 422 00:24:34,920 --> 00:24:38,240 Speaker 1: trying to force the corporations. So if they try to 423 00:24:38,359 --> 00:24:44,040 Speaker 1: do this through a rulemaking authority, then we will pull 424 00:24:44,119 --> 00:24:50,640 Speaker 1: it up in a Congressional Review Act resolution of disapproval. 425 00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:54,800 Speaker 1: That's what we did to the DC Council. That's the 426 00:24:54,920 --> 00:24:59,160 Speaker 1: same format we use to take down the ESG requirements 427 00:24:59,240 --> 00:25:04,560 Speaker 1: on retirement funds last week. So there are things that 428 00:25:04,800 --> 00:25:07,280 Speaker 1: we can do. The Democrats are a little bit short 429 00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:11,880 Speaker 1: on members right now. They have three members that are out. 430 00:25:12,800 --> 00:25:16,440 Speaker 1: And what we are going to do is continue to 431 00:25:16,640 --> 00:25:22,240 Speaker 1: watch this and then fight back at them every time 432 00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:25,119 Speaker 1: they try one of these things and point out what 433 00:25:25,280 --> 00:25:27,720 Speaker 1: they're trying to do. They cannot get their way, so 434 00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:30,560 Speaker 1: they're trying to force their way. And you know, Buck, 435 00:25:30,640 --> 00:25:34,040 Speaker 1: I did a telephone town hall with Tennessee. In's last Night. 436 00:25:34,160 --> 00:25:37,880 Speaker 1: Every county and the state gets a personal visit from 437 00:25:37,920 --> 00:25:40,760 Speaker 1: me every year, and they also get a telephonetown hall 438 00:25:41,359 --> 00:25:44,440 Speaker 1: from me. And one of the things that kept coming 439 00:25:44,520 --> 00:25:47,000 Speaker 1: up over and over. They would talk about policies, but 440 00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:49,560 Speaker 1: they would talk about the effect this has on our 441 00:25:49,640 --> 00:25:53,000 Speaker 1: freedoms and on our liberties, and how concerned they are 442 00:25:53,080 --> 00:25:58,320 Speaker 1: about what these leftist legislators, how far left the Democrats 443 00:25:58,359 --> 00:26:01,439 Speaker 1: have gone, and how it concerns them that they are 444 00:26:01,600 --> 00:26:05,359 Speaker 1: losing their freedom of speech, the freedom of religion, they 445 00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:09,560 Speaker 1: are losing Second Amendment rights, they're losing that right to privacy, 446 00:26:09,680 --> 00:26:13,400 Speaker 1: they're losing states rights, and they feel as if all 447 00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:19,399 Speaker 1: of this is transforming the country not for the good 448 00:26:20,040 --> 00:26:23,480 Speaker 1: but for the bad. We're to be a country I'm 449 00:26:23,520 --> 00:26:28,520 Speaker 1: buying for the people, and this erosion of freedoms in 450 00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:33,800 Speaker 1: the way they're thwarting the exercising of those freedoms, that 451 00:26:34,240 --> 00:26:37,720 Speaker 1: is something that in every one of these questions that 452 00:26:37,880 --> 00:26:42,320 Speaker 1: came in on a policy issue, there was a nugget 453 00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:44,639 Speaker 1: of that, look at what this is doing to our 454 00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:47,080 Speaker 1: freedoms and what is it going to do to our 455 00:26:47,160 --> 00:26:51,720 Speaker 1: kids and grandkids. Last question for you, Senator Blackburn. Joe 456 00:26:51,760 --> 00:26:54,960 Speaker 1: Biden has put out a new budget proposal, and it 457 00:26:55,080 --> 00:27:01,399 Speaker 1: includes massive tax increases both on individuals and on corporations. 458 00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:04,760 Speaker 1: Based on having the House and the control to some 459 00:27:04,920 --> 00:27:08,640 Speaker 1: extent of the party in the in the Senate, you guys, 460 00:27:08,800 --> 00:27:11,760 Speaker 1: I would imagine would all stay together on this. Is 461 00:27:11,800 --> 00:27:14,520 Speaker 1: it fair to call these budget proposals basically debt on 462 00:27:14,680 --> 00:27:17,480 Speaker 1: arrival in terms of the massive, massive tax increases the 463 00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:22,159 Speaker 1: Biden wants. Yeah. Absolutely, And it is ludicrous that they 464 00:27:22,280 --> 00:27:28,760 Speaker 1: have their spokesperson Kareem out there, Kareem John Pierre, out 465 00:27:28,840 --> 00:27:33,800 Speaker 1: there saying that this is going to cut the federal 466 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:39,200 Speaker 1: debt by three trillion dollars. I mean, that is just 467 00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:46,000 Speaker 1: a stounding that they would have her saying that. And 468 00:27:46,359 --> 00:27:49,960 Speaker 1: here's the thing, Clay on the tax increases, what they're 469 00:27:50,040 --> 00:27:52,880 Speaker 1: going after is a lot of your mom and pop shops, 470 00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:59,520 Speaker 1: your locally owned businesses, your small business retailers, manufacturers, things 471 00:27:59,560 --> 00:28:03,439 Speaker 1: of that that may have a gross of four hundred 472 00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:08,320 Speaker 1: thousand a year, but by the time they pay employees 473 00:28:08,359 --> 00:28:11,800 Speaker 1: and vendors, they may be taking fifty thousand a year 474 00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:15,960 Speaker 1: out of that business because their overhead is high. Well, 475 00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:19,880 Speaker 1: those are the people they're going after and they're going 476 00:28:19,960 --> 00:28:22,960 Speaker 1: to make it impossible for them to stay in business 477 00:28:23,119 --> 00:28:27,960 Speaker 1: or to grow their business. And because they're looking at 478 00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:31,560 Speaker 1: that gross, not that net, so we need to be 479 00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:36,600 Speaker 1: very careful about that. Also, they are implementing their program 480 00:28:36,720 --> 00:28:39,920 Speaker 1: where they're going to monitor tips, and they say, well, 481 00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:43,959 Speaker 1: it's a voluntary program, but they're going to end up 482 00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:51,000 Speaker 1: trying to course these restaurants and hair salons and entities 483 00:28:51,120 --> 00:28:56,560 Speaker 1: where people work on tips uber things of that nature, 484 00:28:56,920 --> 00:29:02,680 Speaker 1: and force them to enter into this program that monitors 485 00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:08,320 Speaker 1: tip income so that they can increase the taxes disease 486 00:29:08,520 --> 00:29:13,800 Speaker 1: individuals are paying. And I asked Danny Warful, who is 487 00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:18,080 Speaker 1: the nominee for IRS Commissioner, when he came before US 488 00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:22,000 Speaker 1: Senate Finance Committee. I said, listen, I don't know anybody 489 00:29:22,080 --> 00:29:24,880 Speaker 1: that works for tips. It's making four hundred k a 490 00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:30,360 Speaker 1: year and it's great poet, you know, I asked him, 491 00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:32,800 Speaker 1: I said, how many people do you know that are 492 00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:36,320 Speaker 1: making four hundred thousand dollars a year? And he did 493 00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:40,120 Speaker 1: not answer the question. He sat there for a few 494 00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:43,440 Speaker 1: seconds and couldn't answer me. So great. It's a great 495 00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:46,040 Speaker 1: point because they've tried to argue, as you know, Senator Blackburn, 496 00:29:46,080 --> 00:29:48,160 Speaker 1: They're only going to go after the super wealthy and 497 00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:50,280 Speaker 1: all of their tax searches. I think all of us 498 00:29:50,360 --> 00:29:51,880 Speaker 1: know that it's not going to be the case at all. 499 00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:54,360 Speaker 1: Thank you for all the work, good stuff as always, 500 00:29:54,360 --> 00:29:56,360 Speaker 1: and we'll talk to you again soon. You got it, 501 00:29:56,480 --> 00:29:59,600 Speaker 1: Take care by bye, Senator Marshall Blackburn of Tennessee. Do 502 00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:01,920 Speaker 1: you know Pure Talk saves the average sized family over 503 00:30:02,040 --> 00:30:04,680 Speaker 1: nine hundred thousand, nine hud Oh, that would be a 504 00:30:04,720 --> 00:30:07,320 Speaker 1: big deal, nine hundred dollars a year. I wish they 505 00:30:07,360 --> 00:30:09,680 Speaker 1: could save the average family nine hundred thousand dollars a year. 506 00:30:09,680 --> 00:30:12,680 Speaker 1: I was thinking about the irs coming after everybody when 507 00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:15,120 Speaker 1: they switch from Verizon AT and t R T Mobile. 508 00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:18,160 Speaker 1: That's right, nine hundred dollars a year. How much would 509 00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:20,800 Speaker 1: that mean to you and your family in your pocket? 510 00:30:21,240 --> 00:30:23,480 Speaker 1: Especially when you get the same fast five G service. 511 00:30:23,560 --> 00:30:25,840 Speaker 1: You can keep the same phone and the same phone number. 512 00:30:26,160 --> 00:30:29,080 Speaker 1: Plus pure Talk has the same values as you. 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So the Biden budget 523 00:31:04,280 --> 00:31:07,400 Speaker 1: is out. The fact sheets have been distributed to the media, 524 00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:10,520 Speaker 1: and it is exactly what you would think now. Now, 525 00:31:10,600 --> 00:31:15,200 Speaker 1: the budget as a monetary matter that the president puts 526 00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:20,120 Speaker 1: out that Biden's putting out right now doesn't really make 527 00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:23,560 Speaker 1: any difference because it's not going to be the actual budget. 528 00:31:25,040 --> 00:31:28,680 Speaker 1: It's just more of a mission statement. Um, what was it? 529 00:31:28,760 --> 00:31:30,680 Speaker 1: What was it that Jerry McGuire said. It's not a memo, 530 00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:33,400 Speaker 1: it's a mission statement. Right. This is such a great movie. 531 00:31:33,760 --> 00:31:35,560 Speaker 1: Great I just keno Carry had never seen it. We 532 00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:37,880 Speaker 1: watched it together a little while ago. It's did it 533 00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:40,160 Speaker 1: hold up? I haven't seen it like it five or 534 00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:43,120 Speaker 1: six years. It does. It's still very still, very solid, 535 00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:48,440 Speaker 1: very good for what it is. And this is something 536 00:31:48,520 --> 00:31:50,880 Speaker 1: of a budget mission statement that Biden has put out. 537 00:31:51,160 --> 00:31:53,240 Speaker 1: This is what happens now. I think it's mostly a 538 00:31:53,360 --> 00:31:56,760 Speaker 1: template for what the primary issues are that the the 539 00:31:56,920 --> 00:32:00,720 Speaker 1: Democrats will be running on next time around. And because 540 00:32:00,840 --> 00:32:03,680 Speaker 1: Biden will be, as we think right now, as we 541 00:32:03,760 --> 00:32:06,960 Speaker 1: believe right now, we'll be running for reelection, that means 542 00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:08,840 Speaker 1: he's at the top of the ticket, and so the 543 00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:13,040 Speaker 1: White House, unlike in the mid term, will be a central, 544 00:32:13,760 --> 00:32:16,440 Speaker 1: a central component of all the stuff that's happening, certainly 545 00:32:16,440 --> 00:32:18,680 Speaker 1: at the national level and the big and the big 546 00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:22,040 Speaker 1: races that are going to get attention. So there are 547 00:32:22,120 --> 00:32:26,080 Speaker 1: some things on here. Biden's budget lowers energy costs, combats 548 00:32:26,320 --> 00:32:30,320 Speaker 1: the climate crisis. I think you're going to be hearing 549 00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:34,160 Speaker 1: a lot more about that. I find this fascinating because 550 00:32:35,080 --> 00:32:39,560 Speaker 1: the climate crisis is something that only Democrat activists really 551 00:32:39,760 --> 00:32:43,280 Speaker 1: believe in. Only the hard left of the Democrat Party 552 00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:48,080 Speaker 1: gets worked up about this. But there are people you 553 00:32:48,200 --> 00:32:50,520 Speaker 1: see this, you come across this who really do believe 554 00:32:50,600 --> 00:32:54,640 Speaker 1: that there's an incentive for people to not have children, 555 00:32:54,680 --> 00:32:58,760 Speaker 1: for example, because we're overpopulated, which is actually the complete 556 00:32:58,800 --> 00:33:02,600 Speaker 1: opposite of reality. We need more people, yes in America, 557 00:33:02,640 --> 00:33:05,320 Speaker 1: specifically in the in the Western world and developed world, 558 00:33:05,480 --> 00:33:07,000 Speaker 1: and really just the world in general, we just need 559 00:33:07,080 --> 00:33:10,080 Speaker 1: more people. Actually, we should be we should be trying 560 00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:13,360 Speaker 1: to be multiplying as much as we can and not 561 00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:19,040 Speaker 1: dividing down into smaller and smaller humanity. But for example, 562 00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:20,760 Speaker 1: I mean, the climate crisis is something gets a lot 563 00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:24,480 Speaker 1: of attention from Democrats in Congress. They make a lot 564 00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:27,080 Speaker 1: of well, they give a lot of sound bites on it. 565 00:33:27,240 --> 00:33:32,640 Speaker 1: Here is a Congresswoman Corey Bush talking about climate justice 566 00:33:32,840 --> 00:33:36,080 Speaker 1: play nineteen. How does making investments in people through safe 567 00:33:36,200 --> 00:33:40,800 Speaker 1: energy systems and people benefit climate justice and energy security. 568 00:33:41,040 --> 00:33:44,400 Speaker 1: One of the exciting things from the Inflation Reduction Act 569 00:33:44,520 --> 00:33:48,720 Speaker 1: are the domestic content requirements, and so private capital can 570 00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:52,880 Speaker 1: receive additional tax credits by paying prevailing wages for the 571 00:33:53,080 --> 00:33:57,080 Speaker 1: construction of renewable energy and battery storage projects as well 572 00:33:57,160 --> 00:34:00,800 Speaker 1: as domestic sourcing of the components for these jis thank you. 573 00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:06,200 Speaker 1: We must make massive investments in climate jobs and environmental justice, 574 00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:10,200 Speaker 1: and frankly, this is a need that is overdue. So 575 00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:14,000 Speaker 1: clay this this concept of environmental justice. Pete Buddha Judges 576 00:34:14,040 --> 00:34:17,960 Speaker 1: talked about this when he says that there's you know, 577 00:34:18,120 --> 00:34:23,480 Speaker 1: tree equity is something that roll well, yeah, rhoades highways 578 00:34:23,480 --> 00:34:26,880 Speaker 1: in particular highways and bridges are racist. Tree equity, as 579 00:34:26,920 --> 00:34:30,879 Speaker 1: in some neighborhoods have more trees than others, is also 580 00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:36,200 Speaker 1: an issue of racism, we are told. And this you 581 00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:38,920 Speaker 1: just sent this to me. Yes, this is kind of 582 00:34:39,040 --> 00:34:45,520 Speaker 1: a window into the mentality of the climate catastrophe activist mindset. 583 00:34:45,960 --> 00:34:48,480 Speaker 1: This is a real I thought Clay was kidding. This 584 00:34:48,680 --> 00:34:51,160 Speaker 1: is a real piece published today in the Los Angeles 585 00:34:51,320 --> 00:34:55,360 Speaker 1: Times by a staff writer under the Climate and Environment 586 00:34:55,600 --> 00:35:01,600 Speaker 1: heading White drivers are polluting the air breathed by LA's 587 00:35:01,800 --> 00:35:06,600 Speaker 1: people of color. That is an actual Los Angeles Times 588 00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:11,200 Speaker 1: piece right now, White people are polluting the air that 589 00:35:11,440 --> 00:35:15,480 Speaker 1: brown that people of color, black, brown, etc. Are breathing in. 590 00:35:16,200 --> 00:35:19,320 Speaker 1: That is what we are being told. I've been on 591 00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:21,040 Speaker 1: the four or five a lot, because i spent a 592 00:35:21,040 --> 00:35:24,759 Speaker 1: lot of time in LA in my career. I've seen 593 00:35:24,800 --> 00:35:26,480 Speaker 1: a lot of people have a lot of different colors 594 00:35:26,520 --> 00:35:29,319 Speaker 1: buck driving around. I'm just gonna toss it out there. 595 00:35:29,360 --> 00:35:30,840 Speaker 1: We got a lot of people listening to us in 596 00:35:30,920 --> 00:35:33,279 Speaker 1: southern California right now. If you're listening to us in 597 00:35:33,360 --> 00:35:36,640 Speaker 1: the car, maybe sneak a glance to the right. Sneak 598 00:35:36,680 --> 00:35:39,359 Speaker 1: a glance to the left. I think you're gonna see 599 00:35:39,360 --> 00:35:41,440 Speaker 1: a lot of people who aren't white just tossing it 600 00:35:41,480 --> 00:35:43,480 Speaker 1: out there. You may be driving the car right now 601 00:35:43,560 --> 00:35:48,200 Speaker 1: listening to us, not white yourself. You're killing everybody with 602 00:35:48,440 --> 00:35:51,040 Speaker 1: your vehicle. Shame on you. I mean, but this is 603 00:35:51,840 --> 00:35:57,160 Speaker 1: I don't know how these news organizations and I'm putting 604 00:35:57,239 --> 00:35:59,799 Speaker 1: news organizations in quotation marks buck, I don't know how 605 00:35:59,840 --> 00:36:04,279 Speaker 1: they come back. I don't know how they ever instill 606 00:36:04,560 --> 00:36:09,520 Speaker 1: trust again, buy and large, having gotten so much wrong 607 00:36:09,680 --> 00:36:12,719 Speaker 1: during Trump and then following it up with COVID. I'll 608 00:36:12,760 --> 00:36:15,520 Speaker 1: be honest with you, Before Trump came into office, I 609 00:36:15,920 --> 00:36:20,360 Speaker 1: was somewhat trusting of the media somewhat, and I'm in 610 00:36:20,440 --> 00:36:23,120 Speaker 1: the media, so I knew that we got a lot wrong. 611 00:36:23,520 --> 00:36:27,080 Speaker 1: I could see it happen myself. But by the time 612 00:36:27,160 --> 00:36:30,319 Speaker 1: hated the communists forever. But yes, I'm glad. Yeah. I mean, 613 00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:33,080 Speaker 1: look in two thou and fourteen, I wasn't like two 614 00:36:33,160 --> 00:36:36,160 Speaker 1: thousand and twelve. I wasn't like the media is all 615 00:36:36,560 --> 00:36:39,480 Speaker 1: incredibly awful at their jobs because I was in the media. 616 00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:43,319 Speaker 1: I don't know how they ever come back. I mean, 617 00:36:43,360 --> 00:36:45,200 Speaker 1: I understand how people like you and I who are 618 00:36:45,280 --> 00:36:48,719 Speaker 1: in the opinion business. People can trust or not trust us. 619 00:36:48,840 --> 00:36:52,280 Speaker 1: We're in the opinion business. I'm not claiming that everything 620 00:36:52,360 --> 00:36:55,840 Speaker 1: I say is objective truth. Clearly, I'm telling you facts 621 00:36:55,920 --> 00:36:59,440 Speaker 1: and then building a opinion based on those. But when 622 00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:01,399 Speaker 1: you're out there and you're the LA Times or your 623 00:37:01,480 --> 00:37:04,160 Speaker 1: CNN or your MSNBC, or you're the New York Times 624 00:37:04,280 --> 00:37:09,719 Speaker 1: Washington Post, and you're claiming we are nonpartisan, objective journalist, 625 00:37:10,200 --> 00:37:13,080 Speaker 1: just trying to chronicle. We're trying to call balls and strikes. 626 00:37:13,160 --> 00:37:16,440 Speaker 1: We're umpires, we're not advocates. I don't know how they 627 00:37:16,520 --> 00:37:19,560 Speaker 1: ever return. I don't know how they ever get trusted 628 00:37:19,640 --> 00:37:24,560 Speaker 1: again as legitimate sources of news. And I think the 629 00:37:24,680 --> 00:37:30,080 Speaker 1: Trump plus COVID was a double barreled destruction of their business. 630 00:37:33,160 --> 00:37:35,480 Speaker 1: Does that make sense? Like, I don't know what could 631 00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:39,120 Speaker 1: occur that would make me think, Oh, I'm so glad 632 00:37:39,200 --> 00:37:41,560 Speaker 1: the New York Times and the Washington Post are around, 633 00:37:42,040 --> 00:37:46,799 Speaker 1: because but for them, I would have done what Like well, 634 00:37:47,040 --> 00:37:49,400 Speaker 1: I think a big part of this is also, and 635 00:37:49,560 --> 00:37:53,360 Speaker 1: this has been gathering together for years, is that the 636 00:37:53,719 --> 00:37:58,960 Speaker 1: instantaneous sharing of the inner thoughts of the journals because 637 00:37:58,960 --> 00:38:04,560 Speaker 1: of social media, has created a exposed a massive trove 638 00:38:04,840 --> 00:38:07,880 Speaker 1: of evidence of what the people that work in these 639 00:38:07,960 --> 00:38:12,160 Speaker 1: newsrooms really think. And there's no putting that, you know, 640 00:38:12,280 --> 00:38:15,360 Speaker 1: Genie back in the bottle, Like, there's no way to 641 00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:20,040 Speaker 1: change the situation now, whereby anybody who would claim that 642 00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:26,800 Speaker 1: you don't have essentially a party line of Democrat leftism 643 00:38:27,239 --> 00:38:29,560 Speaker 1: at the New York Times, the LA Times, the Washington Post, 644 00:38:29,840 --> 00:38:32,400 Speaker 1: every major newspaper except for the Wall Street Journal in 645 00:38:32,440 --> 00:38:36,400 Speaker 1: New York Post would be it's laughable, right, because you 646 00:38:36,480 --> 00:38:38,600 Speaker 1: have all this evidence, and the evidence has been gathering 647 00:38:38,719 --> 00:38:43,960 Speaker 1: for for years. But it's it's fascinating to watch as 648 00:38:44,280 --> 00:38:47,719 Speaker 1: as these different media outlets now. I think they don't 649 00:38:47,760 --> 00:38:50,040 Speaker 1: know how to position themselves to the point you're raised 650 00:38:50,040 --> 00:38:52,239 Speaker 1: earlier about what happens if Trump is the nomity, what 651 00:38:52,239 --> 00:38:55,200 Speaker 1: happens if Trump is the president again? Yeah, I assume 652 00:38:55,680 --> 00:38:58,200 Speaker 1: that at CNN they act like it's deaf Con one, 653 00:38:58,719 --> 00:39:01,600 Speaker 1: you know, def Con Trump all over again, and they 654 00:39:01,719 --> 00:39:05,040 Speaker 1: just go all in because what's the alternative unless they're 655 00:39:05,040 --> 00:39:07,799 Speaker 1: going to empty out these newsrooms and fire unless they're 656 00:39:07,840 --> 00:39:11,440 Speaker 1: gonna fire people that right useless columns about climate justice. 657 00:39:12,080 --> 00:39:15,440 Speaker 1: I mean, I don't take anyone seriously who writes about 658 00:39:15,560 --> 00:39:18,759 Speaker 1: thinks about speaks about climate justice. I mean to me 659 00:39:18,920 --> 00:39:25,799 Speaker 1: that it is inherently a clownish position. It is absurdity. Well, 660 00:39:25,840 --> 00:39:28,040 Speaker 1: what I think is funny about it is not necessarily 661 00:39:28,120 --> 00:39:30,239 Speaker 1: Trump because I think you're probably right, they'll just go 662 00:39:30,400 --> 00:39:33,680 Speaker 1: back and rerun the same Trump playbook that they already 663 00:39:33,760 --> 00:39:35,719 Speaker 1: have executed in the event that he were president of 664 00:39:35,719 --> 00:39:37,719 Speaker 1: the United States, that he's the nominee, all those things. 665 00:39:38,600 --> 00:39:42,000 Speaker 1: What I think is even funnier is if ron de Santis, 666 00:39:42,120 --> 00:39:45,279 Speaker 1: let's say, is the nominee. Once you have told me 667 00:39:45,920 --> 00:39:49,600 Speaker 1: that Trump is Hitler and Trump is the devil and 668 00:39:49,840 --> 00:39:54,120 Speaker 1: nothing could ever be worse than Trump. Arguing that De 669 00:39:54,239 --> 00:39:57,680 Speaker 1: Santis is worse, especially in this context because he would 670 00:39:57,719 --> 00:40:02,800 Speaker 1: have had to beat Trump head to head, is next level, right, Like, 671 00:40:02,920 --> 00:40:06,360 Speaker 1: once you meet the devil, you can't be like, actually, 672 00:40:06,440 --> 00:40:08,280 Speaker 1: I mean, this is what they're probably gonna have to argue, 673 00:40:08,360 --> 00:40:12,520 Speaker 1: Actually the devil's not the worst. There's actually somebody worse 674 00:40:12,600 --> 00:40:18,320 Speaker 1: than the devil. It's like DeSantis is Hitler. Plus you know, 675 00:40:18,400 --> 00:40:21,480 Speaker 1: all the streaming services just add a plus. Well it's ESPN, 676 00:40:21,600 --> 00:40:24,239 Speaker 1: but it's a plus now, so you're gonna be like 677 00:40:24,480 --> 00:40:28,720 Speaker 1: De Santis is Hitler plus de Santis is the devil plus. 678 00:40:28,920 --> 00:40:32,040 Speaker 1: I don't think the plus really works. Right. You tell 679 00:40:32,120 --> 00:40:34,720 Speaker 1: me that somebody is the embodiment of all that's evil 680 00:40:34,960 --> 00:40:38,360 Speaker 1: in American politics, and then somebody else comes along and 681 00:40:38,440 --> 00:40:42,520 Speaker 1: you're like, actually, this guy is evil plus. I think 682 00:40:42,520 --> 00:40:44,800 Speaker 1: it's hard to but that's gonna be their pitch. And 683 00:40:44,920 --> 00:40:48,520 Speaker 1: I think that's even more buck destructive of their underlying 684 00:40:48,640 --> 00:40:51,160 Speaker 1: brands attempting to pull that off, because I think that 685 00:40:51,280 --> 00:40:55,160 Speaker 1: has to be the game plan. I think that they're 686 00:40:55,239 --> 00:40:58,240 Speaker 1: not going to care that we've been saying all along. 687 00:40:58,960 --> 00:41:01,120 Speaker 1: They're just going to try to run the anti Trump 688 00:41:01,160 --> 00:41:03,920 Speaker 1: playbook against a Santists if in fact he becomes the 689 00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:07,680 Speaker 1: nominee and do the he's even worse than Trump. Trump 690 00:41:07,840 --> 00:41:10,520 Speaker 1: was the most unique. What is more likely if we 691 00:41:10,640 --> 00:41:13,320 Speaker 1: just apply you know, Akham's razor to this, right? What 692 00:41:13,520 --> 00:41:16,480 Speaker 1: is more likely that after saying that the most recent 693 00:41:16,560 --> 00:41:20,560 Speaker 1: Republican presidential candidate was a unique danger to the Republic, 694 00:41:20,640 --> 00:41:23,560 Speaker 1: the likes of which we haven't seen since the Civil War? Correct, 695 00:41:23,680 --> 00:41:26,879 Speaker 1: and then the immediate one who comes after him isn't 696 00:41:26,960 --> 00:41:29,600 Speaker 1: as bad, even more of a danger to the Republic, 697 00:41:30,080 --> 00:41:34,160 Speaker 1: Or that LIBS needs some camemeal tea, maybe a Xanex, 698 00:41:34,520 --> 00:41:38,840 Speaker 1: maybe you know, maybe listen to some Kenny g. Calm down, Libs, 699 00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:42,040 Speaker 1: stop being crazy. I don't think they can dial it back. 700 00:41:42,160 --> 00:41:45,200 Speaker 1: That's my thing. I think that they've broken and destroyed 701 00:41:45,320 --> 00:41:48,040 Speaker 1: their brands, and I actually think it becomes far more 702 00:41:48,120 --> 00:41:51,640 Speaker 1: difficult for them if Trump's not the nominee. But we're 703 00:41:51,640 --> 00:41:52,799 Speaker 1: gonna have a lot of time to figure that out 704 00:41:52,800 --> 00:41:54,560 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty three. 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I'm gonna try the 734 00:43:23,840 --> 00:43:29,360 Speaker 1: best of my ability not trend while on vacation for 735 00:43:29,600 --> 00:43:32,160 Speaker 1: saying or doing something like I know what's gonna end 736 00:43:32,239 --> 00:43:35,799 Speaker 1: up happening because people like Buck went off to North Carolina. 737 00:43:35,880 --> 00:43:38,279 Speaker 1: He's trying to have a great getaway. Next thing, you know, 738 00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:40,560 Speaker 1: I looked down at my phone, was that Memorial Day? 739 00:43:40,600 --> 00:43:44,480 Speaker 1: When was that fourth or July in Asheville, which I 740 00:43:44,640 --> 00:43:48,760 Speaker 1: did not realize is the communist enclave in the middle 741 00:43:48,920 --> 00:43:51,680 Speaker 1: of the otherwise fabulous state of North Carolina. I just 742 00:43:51,800 --> 00:43:53,960 Speaker 1: remember looking down at my phone. I'm with the kids 743 00:43:54,040 --> 00:43:56,479 Speaker 1: at the beach, and I looked down at my phone, 744 00:43:56,480 --> 00:43:57,759 Speaker 1: and you know a lot of times I'll hop into 745 00:43:57,840 --> 00:44:02,480 Speaker 1: social media and just see what's rittening, and I see 746 00:44:02,560 --> 00:44:05,680 Speaker 1: Buck in his opinion on Asheville, and masking is like 747 00:44:05,760 --> 00:44:10,400 Speaker 1: the number one story in America wrote a peace trashing me, 748 00:44:11,200 --> 00:44:13,200 Speaker 1: which I think is the biggest newspaper of the state. 749 00:44:13,280 --> 00:44:16,120 Speaker 1: I'm like, wait, what you know? Right wing radio host 750 00:44:16,960 --> 00:44:19,239 Speaker 1: spits venom at the people of that. I'm like, I 751 00:44:19,320 --> 00:44:21,040 Speaker 1: didn't even say. All they said is there's a lot 752 00:44:21,080 --> 00:44:23,080 Speaker 1: of people here wearing masks. That is all I said. 753 00:44:23,239 --> 00:44:25,560 Speaker 1: A lot of people here wearing masks, even compared to 754 00:44:25,760 --> 00:44:27,960 Speaker 1: like New York City. That was it. I'm gonna be 755 00:44:28,400 --> 00:44:31,120 Speaker 1: walking around in the coliseum, you know, and all of 756 00:44:31,160 --> 00:44:33,319 Speaker 1: a sudden, I looked down on my phone blows up 757 00:44:33,360 --> 00:44:36,160 Speaker 1: and somebody's mad about something I did or whatever. So 758 00:44:37,600 --> 00:44:40,520 Speaker 1: I am super excited. Never been to Italy that hopefully 759 00:44:40,560 --> 00:44:43,400 Speaker 1: the flights all go smoothly. But we are taking off 760 00:44:43,440 --> 00:44:45,960 Speaker 1: tomorrow right about time you go on the air, and 761 00:44:46,680 --> 00:44:49,160 Speaker 1: I'll be in Italy all next week. So you were 762 00:44:49,239 --> 00:44:51,160 Speaker 1: on your honeymoon out in the South Pacific. The good 763 00:44:51,200 --> 00:44:54,080 Speaker 1: thing about having us, I would like to think as 764 00:44:54,120 --> 00:44:57,160 Speaker 1: a duo, is unlike a lot of shows where when 765 00:44:57,200 --> 00:45:00,520 Speaker 1: somebody goes on vacation they have to bring in somebody else. 766 00:45:00,680 --> 00:45:03,120 Speaker 1: Nothing wrong with that. Most of the time, either you 767 00:45:03,320 --> 00:45:06,840 Speaker 1: or I are gonna be on pretty much exclusively throughout 768 00:45:06,920 --> 00:45:09,279 Speaker 1: the course of the year, no matter what. So you 769 00:45:09,440 --> 00:45:13,840 Speaker 1: will have the unshable, unsingable aircraft carrier of truth solely 770 00:45:14,640 --> 00:45:17,000 Speaker 1: in your possession for the next seven days or so, 771 00:45:17,440 --> 00:45:20,640 Speaker 1: and and hopefully when I come back, things will still 772 00:45:20,640 --> 00:45:24,200 Speaker 1: be rolling along smooth. I'm hopefully gonna not run it 773 00:45:24,280 --> 00:45:26,880 Speaker 1: into a coral reef or an oil tanker or anything. 774 00:45:26,960 --> 00:45:30,480 Speaker 1: I'm gonna keep this aircraft carrier fittest can be, you know, 775 00:45:30,640 --> 00:45:33,680 Speaker 1: sending those planes a free speech up to go after 776 00:45:33,760 --> 00:45:36,560 Speaker 1: the Commies. But no, man, I think Italy is a 777 00:45:37,480 --> 00:45:41,200 Speaker 1: wonderful country, great place to go, and I think you're 778 00:45:41,239 --> 00:45:43,399 Speaker 1: gonna to be able to experience it for the first time. 779 00:45:43,520 --> 00:45:45,600 Speaker 1: Is one of those really one of those really cool moments. 780 00:45:45,640 --> 00:45:47,520 Speaker 1: I actually actually went when I was thirteen, so I 781 00:45:47,600 --> 00:45:49,640 Speaker 1: went a long time ago, and I've been back a 782 00:45:49,719 --> 00:45:53,640 Speaker 1: couple of times since. But it's definitely for Americans. It 783 00:45:53,800 --> 00:45:56,479 Speaker 1: is always one of the favorite places abroad to visit 784 00:45:56,520 --> 00:45:58,959 Speaker 1: when they do those you know, studies and surveys and things. 785 00:45:59,440 --> 00:46:01,919 Speaker 1: Italy is great and as I've said, I mean there's 786 00:46:01,960 --> 00:46:04,600 Speaker 1: there's some other fun places, you know France, but you know, 787 00:46:04,640 --> 00:46:06,440 Speaker 1: you gotta do with French people. That's the whole other thing. 788 00:46:06,560 --> 00:46:10,800 Speaker 1: So my wife's Italian so fun. If you say, like 789 00:46:11,000 --> 00:46:15,439 Speaker 1: Bonja doing Italian, they appreciate the effort. You know, they'll 790 00:46:15,520 --> 00:46:19,359 Speaker 1: bring you some uh you know, some some homemade papardella 791 00:46:19,520 --> 00:46:21,719 Speaker 1: or something. You know, they're like really welcoming and warm 792 00:46:21,760 --> 00:46:24,919 Speaker 1: about it. If you if you even hinted speaking French 793 00:46:24,960 --> 00:46:27,399 Speaker 1: and your accident isn't good in France, like they're they're 794 00:46:27,480 --> 00:46:30,399 Speaker 1: going to spit in your vici sUAS, So you don't 795 00:46:30,440 --> 00:46:32,319 Speaker 1: want that. That's why you're like Italy, I think a lot, 796 00:46:32,760 --> 00:46:35,200 Speaker 1: Brian and Virginia Beach has some advice for me. Brian, 797 00:46:35,280 --> 00:46:40,239 Speaker 1: what you got, hey, Claire, thanks for taking my call. Guys. Um, Yeah, 798 00:46:40,280 --> 00:46:42,239 Speaker 1: I went to Italy when I was twenty one and 799 00:46:42,560 --> 00:46:45,360 Speaker 1: pretty much lived out of like a backpack, kind of 800 00:46:45,400 --> 00:46:47,640 Speaker 1: like what you guys are going to be doing. Yeah, 801 00:46:47,680 --> 00:46:50,320 Speaker 1: And the advice I had was a lot of the 802 00:46:50,440 --> 00:46:54,440 Speaker 1: hotels or like a little shop right next to the 803 00:46:54,560 --> 00:46:59,000 Speaker 1: hotel have some of the best laundry facilities where you 804 00:46:59,160 --> 00:47:02,400 Speaker 1: have some old and doing your laundry and folding it 805 00:47:02,560 --> 00:47:05,560 Speaker 1: up and pressing it. And I was impressed with the 806 00:47:05,680 --> 00:47:10,160 Speaker 1: quality of the workmanship. Thank you, I mean, look, thanks 807 00:47:10,160 --> 00:47:13,400 Speaker 1: for the call. My idea of travel buck is I 808 00:47:13,560 --> 00:47:16,400 Speaker 1: hate traveling with very much. As long as I have 809 00:47:16,560 --> 00:47:20,000 Speaker 1: a wallet a phone, I can buy whatever I need, 810 00:47:20,200 --> 00:47:23,360 Speaker 1: right if I need toiletaries or I need new clothes, like, 811 00:47:24,360 --> 00:47:25,799 Speaker 1: as long as I got a phone in a wallet, 812 00:47:25,840 --> 00:47:28,840 Speaker 1: I'll be fine. So Laura, like to her credit, I 813 00:47:28,840 --> 00:47:31,280 Speaker 1: don't know how many women go to Italy with one backpack, 814 00:47:31,400 --> 00:47:35,400 Speaker 1: but that's that's her play. I'll tell you that you 815 00:47:35,440 --> 00:47:37,359 Speaker 1: know when you're certainly when you're in the dating phase, 816 00:47:37,400 --> 00:47:40,640 Speaker 1: they're getting to know someone phase. How they handle travel. 817 00:47:40,920 --> 00:47:45,040 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, He's a very important indicator because no matter 818 00:47:45,120 --> 00:47:46,920 Speaker 1: what you're doing, travel always comes as a little bit 819 00:47:46,960 --> 00:47:48,680 Speaker 1: of stress, a little bit of a little bit of 820 00:47:48,680 --> 00:47:51,160 Speaker 1: preparation required, a little bit of on the fly, on 821 00:47:51,280 --> 00:47:53,279 Speaker 1: the go. That's why a lot of a lot of people, 822 00:47:53,280 --> 00:47:55,399 Speaker 1: I know, they're like, oh, everything was going great. Then 823 00:47:55,520 --> 00:47:58,960 Speaker 1: we went away for that ski weekend and things were 824 00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:02,359 Speaker 1: downhill and not in the ah very well said, well, 825 00:48:02,440 --> 00:48:06,600 Speaker 1: I mean we've had an awesome time. Hopefully hopefully nothing 826 00:48:06,760 --> 00:48:08,960 Speaker 1: that crazy will happen in the next week or so. 827 00:48:09,719 --> 00:48:13,120 Speaker 1: And uh, I can't wait. I've never been and I'm 828 00:48:13,120 --> 00:48:15,680 Speaker 1: excited to get my family over there. So if you 829 00:48:15,760 --> 00:48:18,360 Speaker 1: have tips, suggestions, you can slide in my DMS. Let 830 00:48:18,400 --> 00:48:20,040 Speaker 1: me know what we need to see. Will be in Florence, 831 00:48:20,200 --> 00:48:23,399 Speaker 1: Rome and Naples. I'm excited to go to Pompeii, which 832 00:48:23,440 --> 00:48:26,799 Speaker 1: I've heard is incredible. Get to tour so we got 833 00:48:26,800 --> 00:48:28,560 Speaker 1: a lot of awesome stuff set up. I can't wait. 834 00:48:29,400 --> 00:48:31,760 Speaker 1: Are you gonna come back and maybe just have a mustache? 835 00:48:32,000 --> 00:48:33,400 Speaker 1: You know? Are you thinking about is this something you're 836 00:48:33,440 --> 00:48:35,640 Speaker 1: thinking about changing it up a little bit. I'm hoping 837 00:48:35,640 --> 00:48:37,280 Speaker 1: I come back and can still fit in my pants. 838 00:48:37,800 --> 00:48:40,120 Speaker 1: With all the papasta and everything else that I'm gonna beating, 839 00:48:40,120 --> 00:48:43,040 Speaker 1: I would consider that to be a victory. Just reminder, mustache. 840 00:48:43,040 --> 00:48:44,600 Speaker 1: I took the beard off. I've had a beard for 841 00:48:44,640 --> 00:48:47,040 Speaker 1: twenty years. I took it off, and my wife was like, oh, no, 842 00:48:47,360 --> 00:48:49,719 Speaker 1: you need you need to grow that beard back right now. 843 00:48:49,880 --> 00:48:51,719 Speaker 1: I don't like you without a beard. Yeah, not a 844 00:48:51,760 --> 00:48:53,000 Speaker 1: good look. There we go.