1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:03,320 Speaker 1: Welcome to today's edition of The Clay Travis and Buck 2 00:00:03,360 --> 00:00:07,320 Speaker 1: Sexton Show podcast. Welcome to The Clay Travis and Buck 3 00:00:07,400 --> 00:00:13,360 Speaker 1: Sexton Show. The final US troop presidents out of Afghanistan. 4 00:00:14,200 --> 00:00:17,599 Speaker 1: We are going to talk to you about what this 5 00:00:17,760 --> 00:00:20,920 Speaker 1: means for the country, what the implications are for our 6 00:00:21,040 --> 00:00:23,560 Speaker 1: national security, for our standing in the world, for the 7 00:00:23,560 --> 00:00:27,040 Speaker 1: Biden administration, the politics around this, Will they pay a 8 00:00:27,080 --> 00:00:33,080 Speaker 1: price at the polls for the debacle in cobbol And 9 00:00:33,640 --> 00:00:36,800 Speaker 1: first and foremost, let's look at the fact that they 10 00:00:36,960 --> 00:00:40,880 Speaker 1: did leave people behind. We'll talk about this. American citizens, 11 00:00:41,280 --> 00:00:44,360 Speaker 1: by their own admission, left behind. Whatever happened to the 12 00:00:44,400 --> 00:00:46,520 Speaker 1: promise that Joe Biden made, and well, the promises weren't 13 00:00:46,520 --> 00:00:49,800 Speaker 1: worth very much. Plus a reminder, we're gonna have number 14 00:00:49,840 --> 00:00:55,320 Speaker 1: forty five President Trump himself joining former President Donald J. 15 00:00:55,440 --> 00:00:57,440 Speaker 1: Trump in the third hour of the programs. That'll be 16 00:00:57,480 --> 00:01:01,920 Speaker 1: two o five eastern end of our twenty year war 17 00:01:02,080 --> 00:01:07,199 Speaker 1: in Afghanistan, basically today, and the former commander in chief 18 00:01:07,280 --> 00:01:09,920 Speaker 1: joining us to talk about what he sees going on here, 19 00:01:10,319 --> 00:01:13,920 Speaker 1: what the future looks like, and maybe what his future 20 00:01:13,959 --> 00:01:17,280 Speaker 1: looks like with all this, plus more on COVID, The 21 00:01:17,319 --> 00:01:20,640 Speaker 1: localities and cities that are fighting against Governor Rhonda Santis 22 00:01:20,640 --> 00:01:23,800 Speaker 1: in Florida despite the clear power he has as the 23 00:01:23,840 --> 00:01:28,600 Speaker 1: governor to protect people from mask mandates in schools and 24 00:01:28,760 --> 00:01:31,240 Speaker 1: my own school, Amer's College with some of the craziest 25 00:01:31,280 --> 00:01:33,319 Speaker 1: COVID policy you've ever heard. That's all coming up in 26 00:01:33,360 --> 00:01:36,360 Speaker 1: just a bit, but let's start with where we are 27 00:01:36,520 --> 00:01:40,199 Speaker 1: right now. The Biden administration wants you to just focus 28 00:01:40,200 --> 00:01:44,119 Speaker 1: on the fact that it's done. The war is over. 29 00:01:44,280 --> 00:01:47,800 Speaker 1: Our presence has gone down to at least our official 30 00:01:47,840 --> 00:01:52,120 Speaker 1: presence zero. But how could this have happened? They actually 31 00:01:52,160 --> 00:01:55,040 Speaker 1: got out in advance of the deadline. This was announced yesterday, 32 00:01:55,080 --> 00:01:58,160 Speaker 1: just a little bit after we Clay and I finished 33 00:01:58,160 --> 00:02:01,200 Speaker 1: our show. Let's go back to a couple of weeks ago, 34 00:02:01,680 --> 00:02:06,240 Speaker 1: Joe Biden saying that day would stay. We would keep 35 00:02:06,240 --> 00:02:09,760 Speaker 1: our troops there until every American came home. Are you 36 00:02:09,760 --> 00:02:12,680 Speaker 1: committed to making sure that the troops stay until every 37 00:02:12,720 --> 00:02:16,840 Speaker 1: American who wants to be out without Yes. So Americans 38 00:02:16,880 --> 00:02:19,079 Speaker 1: should understand that troops might have to be there beyond 39 00:02:19,080 --> 00:02:22,200 Speaker 1: August thirty. First, no, Americans should understand that we're going 40 00:02:22,240 --> 00:02:24,280 Speaker 1: to try to get it done before August but if 41 00:02:24,280 --> 00:02:27,919 Speaker 1: we don't. If we don't, will determine at the time 42 00:02:28,120 --> 00:02:33,320 Speaker 1: who's left and and if the American force, if there's 43 00:02:33,320 --> 00:02:36,240 Speaker 1: American citizens left, we're gonna stay to get them all out. 44 00:02:36,960 --> 00:02:39,360 Speaker 1: That was what he said on National TV very clear. 45 00:02:39,400 --> 00:02:42,400 Speaker 1: You heard him. He is the commander in chief for 46 00:02:42,480 --> 00:02:44,720 Speaker 1: better or for worse. We know for worse is the 47 00:02:44,800 --> 00:02:49,760 Speaker 1: reality play. This is a broken promise. This is a 48 00:02:49,919 --> 00:02:53,680 Speaker 1: an obligation that he has to get out all of 49 00:02:53,680 --> 00:02:56,359 Speaker 1: the Americans. We got out a lot of Afghans, as 50 00:02:56,400 --> 00:02:59,200 Speaker 1: we know, how can we leave Americans behind the battlefield. 51 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:04,200 Speaker 1: Joe Biden is done, I think as a viable candidate 52 00:03:04,240 --> 00:03:07,000 Speaker 1: to the extent that he was at all in twenty 53 00:03:07,120 --> 00:03:13,119 Speaker 1: twenty four. Based on these clips, it is the very 54 00:03:13,200 --> 00:03:17,560 Speaker 1: foundation if you combine that with the July eighth, I 55 00:03:17,639 --> 00:03:20,400 Speaker 1: believe it was clips where Joe Biden said there's no 56 00:03:20,440 --> 00:03:23,519 Speaker 1: way the Taliban's going to be able to take over Afghanistan. 57 00:03:23,840 --> 00:03:26,440 Speaker 1: Will play that clip and just think about listen to this. 58 00:03:26,960 --> 00:03:30,120 Speaker 1: In conjunction with what you just heard, these are two 59 00:03:30,280 --> 00:03:33,440 Speaker 1: different fundamental failures by Joe Biden that go to the 60 00:03:33,560 --> 00:03:35,920 Speaker 1: very essence of what the commander in chief is supposed 61 00:03:35,960 --> 00:03:39,400 Speaker 1: to do, and I believe they will be the foundation 62 00:03:39,760 --> 00:03:44,040 Speaker 1: of a lot of twenty twenty two campaign ads, and 63 00:03:44,080 --> 00:03:47,480 Speaker 1: I think that effectively destroys Joe Biden's chances to be 64 00:03:47,520 --> 00:03:50,200 Speaker 1: the nominee in twenty twenty four. I really do listen 65 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:54,040 Speaker 1: to this, think about these in concert together. No, it 66 00:03:54,120 --> 00:03:58,680 Speaker 1: is not because you have the Afghan troops that's three 67 00:03:58,760 --> 00:04:02,880 Speaker 1: hundred thousand, well equipped as well as equipped as any 68 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:07,440 Speaker 1: army in the world, and an air force against something 69 00:04:07,480 --> 00:04:13,720 Speaker 1: like seventy five thousand Taliman. It is not inevitable. That's 70 00:04:13,760 --> 00:04:16,640 Speaker 1: a really really well armed Taliban by the way, I 71 00:04:16,640 --> 00:04:18,600 Speaker 1: mean just by the numbers there. So we had three 72 00:04:18,720 --> 00:04:20,960 Speaker 1: hundred thousand in the books, we got them all armed up. 73 00:04:20,960 --> 00:04:23,440 Speaker 1: We got seventy five thousand Taliban. Guess what we could 74 00:04:23,440 --> 00:04:25,680 Speaker 1: all do the math on that one, Clay. But those 75 00:04:25,720 --> 00:04:29,840 Speaker 1: are the intelligence failure here, and what I say, it's 76 00:04:29,839 --> 00:04:31,520 Speaker 1: not just the intelligence community to the White House, it's 77 00:04:31,560 --> 00:04:35,159 Speaker 1: the national security apparatus in general. On the dissolution, I 78 00:04:35,160 --> 00:04:36,960 Speaker 1: mean not even at the It's not that the Afghan 79 00:04:37,040 --> 00:04:41,039 Speaker 1: national security forces lost Clay, it's that they disappeared. Yeah, 80 00:04:41,080 --> 00:04:43,520 Speaker 1: there were no Afghan national security forces as soon as 81 00:04:43,520 --> 00:04:47,000 Speaker 1: the US said the bid administration said they're leaving. Between 82 00:04:47,040 --> 00:04:50,240 Speaker 1: that and breaking the promise, you would think he would 83 00:04:50,279 --> 00:04:52,560 Speaker 1: pay a very high political price. But I actually have 84 00:04:52,600 --> 00:04:55,239 Speaker 1: some concerns about whether that's actually going to happen. Well, 85 00:04:55,600 --> 00:04:57,279 Speaker 1: you think they're going to try to pivot, and I 86 00:04:57,320 --> 00:04:59,680 Speaker 1: think they certainly are, and they're going to be allies 87 00:04:59,680 --> 00:05:02,400 Speaker 1: in the media that now that there isn't that day 88 00:05:02,440 --> 00:05:07,480 Speaker 1: to day reaction of Afghanistan shots where we can see 89 00:05:07,560 --> 00:05:10,520 Speaker 1: all of the chaos going there, much of the media 90 00:05:10,560 --> 00:05:16,280 Speaker 1: will leave. We know that people have short attention spans, 91 00:05:16,279 --> 00:05:18,840 Speaker 1: and this is really the question that we have debated. 92 00:05:19,320 --> 00:05:23,200 Speaker 1: I think the general argument Buck is that foreign affairs 93 00:05:23,240 --> 00:05:26,960 Speaker 1: don't dictate success or failures of presidents. It's a general argument. 94 00:05:27,480 --> 00:05:30,000 Speaker 1: I think the problem for Joe Biden is all of 95 00:05:30,040 --> 00:05:35,040 Speaker 1: the failures in Afghanistan, the way we left, leaving people behind, 96 00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:39,440 Speaker 1: how quickly the country collapsed in total contravention to everything 97 00:05:39,480 --> 00:05:42,599 Speaker 1: that Joe Biden had told the American public. It ties 98 00:05:42,640 --> 00:05:46,240 Speaker 1: in with the COVID failures, It ties in with the 99 00:05:46,279 --> 00:05:50,560 Speaker 1: inflation rate skyrocketing, It ties in with the border being 100 00:05:50,600 --> 00:05:54,320 Speaker 1: a sieve and nobody's stopping anything there, and the ongoing 101 00:05:54,400 --> 00:05:58,919 Speaker 1: murder rates and other words. It sells the message of incompetence, 102 00:05:59,240 --> 00:06:02,480 Speaker 1: and it's like, hey, Joe Biden is not just incompetent 103 00:06:02,560 --> 00:06:07,520 Speaker 1: in the domestic sphere, he's also completely incompetent internationally. And 104 00:06:07,680 --> 00:06:12,920 Speaker 1: I think those audio and video in commercials are devastating 105 00:06:12,920 --> 00:06:15,320 Speaker 1: to Joe Biden to put them back to back, because 106 00:06:15,320 --> 00:06:18,880 Speaker 1: it just brings home that incompetence on a different level. 107 00:06:19,440 --> 00:06:22,080 Speaker 1: It's amazing for those of us and I know you 108 00:06:22,120 --> 00:06:24,520 Speaker 1: are in this camp who thought the Biden presidency would 109 00:06:24,520 --> 00:06:27,360 Speaker 1: be a disaster from day one, that Clay, this first 110 00:06:27,400 --> 00:06:30,919 Speaker 1: year has been a lesson and how it could always be. 111 00:06:31,160 --> 00:06:35,200 Speaker 1: It could always be worse. That's what we've seen from Biden. However, 112 00:06:35,240 --> 00:06:39,920 Speaker 1: the timing of this, unfortunately may work in his favor 113 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:41,960 Speaker 1: in some way, as you know, a year from now, 114 00:06:42,320 --> 00:06:44,440 Speaker 1: who knows what's going to be going on? Right, so 115 00:06:44,640 --> 00:06:47,360 Speaker 1: bad so early, it's like a big event. When you're 116 00:06:47,360 --> 00:06:49,560 Speaker 1: down thirty five nothing in the first quarter, it's like 117 00:06:49,600 --> 00:06:51,680 Speaker 1: it can't get worse. You're probably not gonna lose a 118 00:06:51,760 --> 00:06:54,680 Speaker 1: hundred to nothing. So here's here's how I think. Here's 119 00:06:54,680 --> 00:06:57,040 Speaker 1: how I think this goes. I mean, I say, give 120 00:06:57,040 --> 00:06:59,000 Speaker 1: it a week, I see other people saying, oh, it's 121 00:06:59,040 --> 00:07:02,560 Speaker 1: already happening. I think there's some evidence of that. But 122 00:07:02,680 --> 00:07:04,800 Speaker 1: give it a week and the Democrat corporate media is 123 00:07:04,800 --> 00:07:07,599 Speaker 1: going to be talking and get ready for this, everybody. 124 00:07:07,640 --> 00:07:10,520 Speaker 1: The gas lighting is going to be thermonuclear. It's gonna 125 00:07:10,560 --> 00:07:13,120 Speaker 1: be rough. In a week, they're gonna be talking about 126 00:07:13,120 --> 00:07:18,280 Speaker 1: Biden's bravery in ending this war and the amazing improvisation 127 00:07:18,400 --> 00:07:22,520 Speaker 1: and on the spot leadership his team showed under tremendous pressure. 128 00:07:23,040 --> 00:07:25,120 Speaker 1: And they look at anybody who questions what will be 129 00:07:25,160 --> 00:07:31,040 Speaker 1: a Soviet style rewriting of history like they are crazy clay. 130 00:07:31,080 --> 00:07:34,600 Speaker 1: It's just going to turn into we Biden got us out. 131 00:07:34,840 --> 00:07:37,800 Speaker 1: It doesn't matter how he did it. He's the best 132 00:07:37,880 --> 00:07:40,680 Speaker 1: because he did it. And anybody who says, wait, hold 133 00:07:40,720 --> 00:07:43,600 Speaker 1: on a second, what about the whole collapse, what about 134 00:07:43,600 --> 00:07:47,920 Speaker 1: the leaving Americans behind? What about the thirteen service members 135 00:07:47,960 --> 00:07:50,960 Speaker 1: that we lost because we were reliant and let's never 136 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:56,320 Speaker 1: forget this on taliband checkpoints for our last foothold of 137 00:07:57,960 --> 00:08:03,920 Speaker 1: evacuation territory in Afghanistan, they're gonna be saying nothing's perfect Biden. 138 00:08:04,240 --> 00:08:06,280 Speaker 1: I mean, they're gonna be dismissive. About it. They're gonna 139 00:08:06,280 --> 00:08:08,040 Speaker 1: be I think I think there's some truth to that. 140 00:08:08,160 --> 00:08:09,840 Speaker 1: I think it's even I don't even think they're gonna 141 00:08:09,920 --> 00:08:12,880 Speaker 1: argue it. I think they're gonna rely on the American people, 142 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:16,440 Speaker 1: having in many ways the memory spans of Goldfish Buck, 143 00:08:16,800 --> 00:08:20,440 Speaker 1: and I think they will just stop talking Afghanistan at 144 00:08:20,480 --> 00:08:24,240 Speaker 1: all and expect and hope that much as for the 145 00:08:24,280 --> 00:08:27,600 Speaker 1: last twenty years, most of the time nobody talked about Afghanistan. 146 00:08:27,760 --> 00:08:29,920 Speaker 1: They're gonna hope this is gonna fade. I think a 147 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:35,439 Speaker 1: good campaign will use these clips and keep recirculating them 148 00:08:35,480 --> 00:08:38,720 Speaker 1: to re emphasize. Look, what was the number one thing 149 00:08:39,040 --> 00:08:41,880 Speaker 1: that Biden sold to the American people. I'll be normal. 150 00:08:42,160 --> 00:08:44,160 Speaker 1: Things are gonna be back to normal, and you can 151 00:08:44,160 --> 00:08:47,320 Speaker 1: trust me. Things are not back to normal, Buck, And 152 00:08:47,400 --> 00:08:51,800 Speaker 1: you can't trust him, the very foundation of his electoral legitimacy. 153 00:08:51,960 --> 00:08:54,600 Speaker 1: And then you toss in COVID. He said, it's gonna 154 00:08:54,880 --> 00:08:56,640 Speaker 1: you can trust me. I'm gonna get things back to normal. 155 00:08:56,720 --> 00:09:00,320 Speaker 1: I will beat COVID. He's fundamentally failed on all I'm 156 00:09:00,720 --> 00:09:03,480 Speaker 1: gonna crush the virus, not the economy, which which is 157 00:09:03,480 --> 00:09:05,920 Speaker 1: what he said. And I know right now you know 158 00:09:05,960 --> 00:09:08,480 Speaker 1: the stock market's really high, but that's because people are 159 00:09:08,480 --> 00:09:11,400 Speaker 1: getting ready for inflation. And if you have assets, if 160 00:09:11,400 --> 00:09:15,000 Speaker 1: you have hard assets, if you have the money into stocks, 161 00:09:15,040 --> 00:09:16,680 Speaker 1: this is what you're gonna do. You're gonna put money 162 00:09:16,679 --> 00:09:19,400 Speaker 1: into places where asset values will rise with the rest 163 00:09:19,440 --> 00:09:22,440 Speaker 1: of as a result of our monetary policy, which is 164 00:09:22,440 --> 00:09:25,400 Speaker 1: also a tax on wage earners, is a tax on 165 00:09:25,480 --> 00:09:28,679 Speaker 1: people that they don't see. But that's also before the 166 00:09:28,760 --> 00:09:31,319 Speaker 1: huge spending bill is coming. But I just feel, like Clay, 167 00:09:31,760 --> 00:09:36,280 Speaker 1: we are seeing already the pivot is coming. Biden's going 168 00:09:36,320 --> 00:09:39,679 Speaker 1: to be speaking today. It's it's supposed to be one 169 00:09:39,800 --> 00:09:42,720 Speaker 1: thirty Eastern time, folks. We will join it in progress 170 00:09:42,720 --> 00:09:44,920 Speaker 1: if we can. Who knows how late it will be, 171 00:09:45,200 --> 00:09:48,280 Speaker 1: but I will say this for us, we know and 172 00:09:48,320 --> 00:09:54,000 Speaker 1: we saw the true weighing of the Biden administration and 173 00:09:54,120 --> 00:09:57,200 Speaker 1: its team at a in a moment of crisis, and 174 00:09:57,240 --> 00:09:59,679 Speaker 1: they have been found wanting. They are not up for us. 175 00:10:00,120 --> 00:10:02,720 Speaker 1: They are not the smartest guys and gals in the room. 176 00:10:03,040 --> 00:10:08,160 Speaker 1: They're not some team of exults as they claim rely on. 177 00:10:08,600 --> 00:10:13,440 Speaker 1: Exactly So because we know this going forward, we can 178 00:10:13,480 --> 00:10:16,360 Speaker 1: assess everything else they do with the full confidence that 179 00:10:16,760 --> 00:10:19,400 Speaker 1: this is the buffoon squad. These are the people that 180 00:10:19,400 --> 00:10:23,440 Speaker 1: couldn't figure out which way was up in Afghanistan. Let's 181 00:10:23,440 --> 00:10:25,480 Speaker 1: not pretend like they know how to secure the border, 182 00:10:25,720 --> 00:10:27,720 Speaker 1: or how to handle crime in cities, or how to 183 00:10:27,760 --> 00:10:29,720 Speaker 1: be good stewards of the economy, or how to push 184 00:10:29,760 --> 00:10:32,880 Speaker 1: back against the socialists that are overtaking their own ranks. Really, 185 00:10:33,080 --> 00:10:36,200 Speaker 1: the Socialist party is the Democrat Party. Now, that's what 186 00:10:36,360 --> 00:10:40,480 Speaker 1: we can all remember. I also am curious whether the 187 00:10:40,559 --> 00:10:44,959 Speaker 1: failures in Afghanistan are going to immediately translate into the 188 00:10:44,960 --> 00:10:48,960 Speaker 1: Biden budget, the Bernie budget, and how that is going 189 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:50,920 Speaker 1: to play out in both the House and the Senate, 190 00:10:50,960 --> 00:10:53,520 Speaker 1: because that is the pivot that's going to happen after 191 00:10:53,679 --> 00:10:57,040 Speaker 1: Labor Day, when the Congressman and the Senators come back 192 00:10:57,120 --> 00:11:00,920 Speaker 1: into DC and that budget policy he begins to be 193 00:11:00,960 --> 00:11:05,320 Speaker 1: debated in earnest. Has Biden potentially lost some moderate support 194 00:11:05,360 --> 00:11:08,360 Speaker 1: in the House. Have Cinema and Mansion looked at this 195 00:11:08,440 --> 00:11:11,439 Speaker 1: and said, man, we don't really want to tie our 196 00:11:11,480 --> 00:11:14,800 Speaker 1: electoral futures to Joe Biden's regime. This is a one 197 00:11:15,040 --> 00:11:17,640 Speaker 1: term president. We're going to lose the majority next year. 198 00:11:18,200 --> 00:11:21,040 Speaker 1: That those are all big questions directly connected to what 199 00:11:21,080 --> 00:11:24,120 Speaker 1: happened in Afghanistan. But first what you got for us? Well, also, Clay, 200 00:11:24,120 --> 00:11:26,320 Speaker 1: we should come back and look at they're still Americans 201 00:11:26,320 --> 00:11:27,920 Speaker 1: on the ground and oh, there's no doubt. What are 202 00:11:27,920 --> 00:11:29,280 Speaker 1: we going to do to prove it? What are we 203 00:11:29,280 --> 00:11:31,720 Speaker 1: going to do to get them out? 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Now, 245 00:13:42,320 --> 00:13:45,960 Speaker 1: we were talking as we went to break there about 246 00:13:46,080 --> 00:13:50,080 Speaker 1: Joe Biden breaking his promises, and some people already Buck 247 00:13:50,160 --> 00:13:52,440 Speaker 1: to your point or saying, well, there's not really any 248 00:13:52,480 --> 00:13:55,640 Speaker 1: Americans left on the ground or anybody that's left in 249 00:13:55,679 --> 00:13:58,720 Speaker 1: Afghanistan at this point, Well, they just didn't want to 250 00:13:58,800 --> 00:14:02,760 Speaker 1: go back to a man Erica. That's not true at all. Buck. Yeah, 251 00:14:02,760 --> 00:14:07,000 Speaker 1: the Bullcraft machinery is underway here. Yeah, and there are 252 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:09,400 Speaker 1: people making those arguments already. But I gotta give credit 253 00:14:09,520 --> 00:14:12,320 Speaker 1: Clarissa Ward, who has been doing a fantastic job on 254 00:14:12,360 --> 00:14:17,160 Speaker 1: the ground in Kabul for CNN, a legitimate reporter. She 255 00:14:17,559 --> 00:14:20,720 Speaker 1: analyzed this and said, hey, I can talk about a 256 00:14:20,800 --> 00:14:24,600 Speaker 1: family that expressly wants to get out of Afghanistan and 257 00:14:24,680 --> 00:14:27,800 Speaker 1: has not been able to do so. This is her 258 00:14:27,840 --> 00:14:30,600 Speaker 1: telling their story. I spoke earlier on in the day 259 00:14:30,600 --> 00:14:33,960 Speaker 1: with a family of four from Houston, Texas. They told 260 00:14:33,960 --> 00:14:37,240 Speaker 1: me they had been going to the airport for two 261 00:14:37,320 --> 00:14:41,479 Speaker 1: weeks trying desperately to get out. They all have American passports. 262 00:14:41,520 --> 00:14:44,920 Speaker 1: They had gone to Afghanistan to visit the mother's family, 263 00:14:45,120 --> 00:14:48,400 Speaker 1: and essentially the issue was they couldn't get past the Taliban. 264 00:14:48,800 --> 00:14:51,160 Speaker 1: They were in touch with the US military. The military 265 00:14:51,240 --> 00:14:54,440 Speaker 1: was trying to facilitate their departure. I spoke to another 266 00:14:55,040 --> 00:14:58,400 Speaker 1: US citizen, a translator, a female translator who worked with 267 00:14:58,440 --> 00:15:01,320 Speaker 1: the military. She was She told she could leave, but 268 00:15:01,440 --> 00:15:04,840 Speaker 1: her friend, who was a SIEVE holder, as Special Immigrant 269 00:15:04,920 --> 00:15:07,040 Speaker 1: Visa holder, would not be allowed to leave, and so 270 00:15:07,080 --> 00:15:12,520 Speaker 1: she made the decision to stay. We're leaving people behind directly. 271 00:15:12,680 --> 00:15:15,280 Speaker 1: Even CNN, at least right now buck Sex then is 272 00:15:15,320 --> 00:15:18,400 Speaker 1: reporting that, and not even just as we're discussing this. 273 00:15:18,480 --> 00:15:22,160 Speaker 1: The She mentioned SIV holders a Special Immigrant visa. Some 274 00:15:22,200 --> 00:15:23,920 Speaker 1: of those are translators. A lot of them are people 275 00:15:23,920 --> 00:15:26,800 Speaker 1: who worked for a US company or contractor. And we're 276 00:15:26,800 --> 00:15:30,680 Speaker 1: also there were two trunches of SIEVE holders. There's the 277 00:15:30,720 --> 00:15:34,200 Speaker 1: immediate military assistance SIEVE that those are the terps. Those 278 00:15:34,200 --> 00:15:37,200 Speaker 1: are the people that guys I know in special operations 279 00:15:37,080 --> 00:15:39,960 Speaker 1: and special operations are going over there, and I mean 280 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:41,440 Speaker 1: they'll they'll go to the ends of the Earth to 281 00:15:41,440 --> 00:15:43,360 Speaker 1: save those guys because they view them as their brothers 282 00:15:43,360 --> 00:15:45,600 Speaker 1: in arms and they were promised to get out. There's 283 00:15:45,640 --> 00:15:49,160 Speaker 1: also people that worked in construction for a US based contractor, 284 00:15:49,280 --> 00:15:51,240 Speaker 1: or they worked at the embassy as as a clerk 285 00:15:51,360 --> 00:15:53,840 Speaker 1: or whatever, but they also are under a different trunch 286 00:15:53,960 --> 00:15:57,360 Speaker 1: of SIV. But we're talking about American citizens. She was 287 00:15:57,360 --> 00:16:01,960 Speaker 1: a blue passport holder. As families that were left behind, 288 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:04,600 Speaker 1: you think, how is this possibly? In the Brits, the French, 289 00:16:04,720 --> 00:16:08,360 Speaker 1: they were sending out convoys. We saw the video of it. 290 00:16:08,560 --> 00:16:10,680 Speaker 1: The Brits were sending out their guys saying, we're coming 291 00:16:10,720 --> 00:16:14,600 Speaker 1: to get our people. I mean, I know that American 292 00:16:14,600 --> 00:16:17,840 Speaker 1: military if they're told here's your objective, go pick up 293 00:16:17,880 --> 00:16:22,720 Speaker 1: American citizens where I mean the especially a family book 294 00:16:22,800 --> 00:16:25,520 Speaker 1: in the gates of Hell Clay, they will go and 295 00:16:25,600 --> 00:16:28,520 Speaker 1: get them. If asked to what happened here, I mean, 296 00:16:28,520 --> 00:16:30,280 Speaker 1: how is that possible that we didn't get them out? 297 00:16:30,840 --> 00:16:34,960 Speaker 1: It's utter incompetence, It's utter incompetence. It's relying on the 298 00:16:34,960 --> 00:16:38,000 Speaker 1: freaking Taliban. And I have to be careful using the 299 00:16:38,040 --> 00:16:40,320 Speaker 1: words in front of Taliban. There nobody would be mad 300 00:16:40,320 --> 00:16:43,120 Speaker 1: if you slipped talking about the Taliban, but maybe the FCC, 301 00:16:43,280 --> 00:16:45,760 Speaker 1: but everybody else. FCC would be mad, our audience would 302 00:16:45,760 --> 00:16:48,280 Speaker 1: not be mad. But I mean, the idea that we 303 00:16:48,440 --> 00:16:53,440 Speaker 1: are relying on a terrorist organization to safely get our 304 00:16:53,520 --> 00:16:57,720 Speaker 1: people out of that country is again I'm gonna keep 305 00:16:57,720 --> 00:17:02,600 Speaker 1: beating the drum. The biggest foreign policy failure of most 306 00:17:02,640 --> 00:17:06,639 Speaker 1: of our lives, certainly the biggest foreign policy failure going 307 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:09,760 Speaker 1: all the way back to the Vietnam War. I don't 308 00:17:09,800 --> 00:17:13,680 Speaker 1: think there's any doubt, maybe past Saigon when you really 309 00:17:13,720 --> 00:17:15,440 Speaker 1: start to think about do you remember we were talking 310 00:17:15,440 --> 00:17:18,560 Speaker 1: about the Sigon moment and we're thinking, oh gosh, we 311 00:17:18,600 --> 00:17:20,040 Speaker 1: could be and I think that we all believe that 312 00:17:20,040 --> 00:17:22,960 Speaker 1: we could be heading to something like that. This was 313 00:17:23,160 --> 00:17:26,800 Speaker 1: and this felt worse than the Sigon moment. It's way worse. 314 00:17:27,040 --> 00:17:30,760 Speaker 1: I mean, we are letting Taliban shoot off fireworks while 315 00:17:30,760 --> 00:17:34,560 Speaker 1: they fly around in our helicopters, dangling people who are 316 00:17:34,960 --> 00:17:39,919 Speaker 1: who are hangs Yeah, from the underside of American helicopters. 317 00:17:39,920 --> 00:17:42,600 Speaker 1: It's crazy. 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Want to remind you 340 00:19:00,320 --> 00:19:05,199 Speaker 1: that forty five himself, Donald Trump, will be joining us 341 00:19:05,280 --> 00:19:08,879 Speaker 1: in the top of the third hour of the program. 342 00:19:09,040 --> 00:19:12,160 Speaker 1: So what about an hour and a half from now, Also, 343 00:19:12,280 --> 00:19:16,840 Speaker 1: Joe Biden scheduled to speak on Afghanistan. In one hour 344 00:19:17,040 --> 00:19:19,520 Speaker 1: from now, we will be rolling and maybe take some 345 00:19:19,640 --> 00:19:22,600 Speaker 1: of you there live if he is able to come 346 00:19:22,600 --> 00:19:25,520 Speaker 1: out on time, and we'll see whether or not he 347 00:19:25,720 --> 00:19:29,080 Speaker 1: is fielding any calls. And this is a big story, buck, 348 00:19:29,119 --> 00:19:31,400 Speaker 1: and it kind of is getting lost a little bit 349 00:19:31,440 --> 00:19:35,640 Speaker 1: in the Afghanistan shuffle, I would say, but the federal 350 00:19:35,760 --> 00:19:41,520 Speaker 1: government is investigating five different states that have allowed parents 351 00:19:41,600 --> 00:19:45,600 Speaker 1: to make decisions about whether or not their kids wear masks. 352 00:19:45,920 --> 00:19:51,720 Speaker 1: Among those states, Florida, Tennessee, Texas, I believe, Oklahoma, and 353 00:19:51,880 --> 00:19:55,960 Speaker 1: also a fifth state, obviously not a surprise, Red states 354 00:19:56,080 --> 00:20:01,159 Speaker 1: are being investigated by federal civil rights investigators at the 355 00:20:01,200 --> 00:20:05,720 Speaker 1: Department of Justice. This is pure madness designed to try 356 00:20:05,720 --> 00:20:10,080 Speaker 1: to make everybody make the exact same decisions. So when 357 00:20:10,200 --> 00:20:16,080 Speaker 1: buck as happens, and is already happening, this curve that 358 00:20:16,280 --> 00:20:20,800 Speaker 1: now the cases are diminishing in Florida, in Texas, and 359 00:20:20,840 --> 00:20:24,640 Speaker 1: they're starting to diminish in Tennessee. Already happened in Missouri 360 00:20:24,720 --> 00:20:29,040 Speaker 1: and Arkansas. When this happens, what usually occurs is the 361 00:20:29,080 --> 00:20:33,080 Speaker 1: Blue check Brigade and all the mask mandate losers out 362 00:20:33,119 --> 00:20:36,120 Speaker 1: there say, oh, well, the reason cases started to go down. 363 00:20:36,200 --> 00:20:38,639 Speaker 1: They've been arguing this for eighteen months, it's because people 364 00:20:38,680 --> 00:20:42,520 Speaker 1: started wearing their masks. Well, the data doesn't work if 365 00:20:42,520 --> 00:20:46,680 Speaker 1: there's no mask mandate. So Ron de Santis is now 366 00:20:46,800 --> 00:20:49,280 Speaker 1: in the middle of a mask fight. We talked about this. 367 00:20:49,359 --> 00:20:51,600 Speaker 1: Was it on Friday? I think it was buck when 368 00:20:51,760 --> 00:20:56,680 Speaker 1: a local court in Tallahassee, Florida said the governor had 369 00:20:56,720 --> 00:21:00,040 Speaker 1: exceeded his authority. They now are going to appeal of 370 00:21:00,080 --> 00:21:03,080 Speaker 1: the Department of Justice is involved. Here's Ron de santist 371 00:21:03,160 --> 00:21:07,000 Speaker 1: on the mask wars. Well, this is going to be appealed. Obviously, 372 00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:09,440 Speaker 1: it's problematic. If you look at the ruling, he's basically 373 00:21:09,480 --> 00:21:12,600 Speaker 1: saying that it had it violated the school school boards, 374 00:21:12,600 --> 00:21:14,760 Speaker 1: the Parents' Bill of Rights, violas the school board. But 375 00:21:14,840 --> 00:21:17,400 Speaker 1: in reality, the school boards weren't even parties to the case. 376 00:21:17,560 --> 00:21:19,240 Speaker 1: So I think we're gonna have really good grounds to 377 00:21:19,280 --> 00:21:22,880 Speaker 1: appeal in terms of the First District Court of Appeal. 378 00:21:23,080 --> 00:21:25,919 Speaker 1: And look, at the end of the day, what the parents' 379 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:29,520 Speaker 1: bill of rights requires and our judgment is that parents 380 00:21:29,600 --> 00:21:34,800 Speaker 1: be given the right to opt out. That's all of 381 00:21:35,040 --> 00:21:38,760 Speaker 1: the authoritarian impulse. They will always find some way. You know, 382 00:21:38,760 --> 00:21:42,000 Speaker 1: when I remember when the first wave of lockdowns was happening, 383 00:21:42,280 --> 00:21:45,960 Speaker 1: people were very rightly at the time arguing that plenary 384 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:49,240 Speaker 1: powers for the states under our constitution are very broad. 385 00:21:49,480 --> 00:21:53,760 Speaker 1: That essentially, if you don't violate a federal constitutional right 386 00:21:53,840 --> 00:21:57,520 Speaker 1: and you don't violate federal law, states can do all 387 00:21:57,640 --> 00:21:59,639 Speaker 1: kinds of things. There's a lot of areas where they 388 00:21:59,680 --> 00:22:02,160 Speaker 1: have a true tremendous amount of leeway. And under health 389 00:22:02,240 --> 00:22:05,960 Speaker 1: policy they also have a lot of leeway. And here 390 00:22:05,960 --> 00:22:08,880 Speaker 1: we are where finally of a state like Florida where 391 00:22:08,880 --> 00:22:10,880 Speaker 1: they are pushing. And by the way, there's already some 392 00:22:10,960 --> 00:22:14,600 Speaker 1: talk in GOP circles there with a narrow a much 393 00:22:14,600 --> 00:22:18,200 Speaker 1: more narrow majority about trying to get through an end 394 00:22:18,240 --> 00:22:22,000 Speaker 1: to employer mandates for vaccine. That's what we've talked about before. 395 00:22:22,200 --> 00:22:26,040 Speaker 1: They have already banned at the state level vaccine passports 396 00:22:26,040 --> 00:22:29,280 Speaker 1: in Florida for customers. So they can't say show me 397 00:22:29,359 --> 00:22:31,760 Speaker 1: your vacs or you can't come in, but they can 398 00:22:31,840 --> 00:22:34,840 Speaker 1: still right now say get the vacs or you get fired. 399 00:22:35,080 --> 00:22:38,879 Speaker 1: The legislative session in Florida doesn't go into effect until January, 400 00:22:39,119 --> 00:22:42,000 Speaker 1: but they're thinking right now about how they could maybe 401 00:22:42,200 --> 00:22:44,520 Speaker 1: get ahead of that because, oh, it's kind of like 402 00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:47,200 Speaker 1: how some of us are worried that if we wait 403 00:22:47,280 --> 00:22:50,160 Speaker 1: and don't take action, everything turns into New York City 404 00:22:50,160 --> 00:22:52,840 Speaker 1: and Clay. Once everyone gets the shot, then they've gotten 405 00:22:52,880 --> 00:22:55,439 Speaker 1: their way. That's the whole point. Delay is not on 406 00:22:55,480 --> 00:22:58,200 Speaker 1: our side here. Time is not on our side. Well, 407 00:22:58,240 --> 00:23:01,040 Speaker 1: and again, I think the appeal year is significant, and 408 00:23:01,080 --> 00:23:05,080 Speaker 1: I just want to keep emphasizing this. There's a constant 409 00:23:05,240 --> 00:23:09,000 Speaker 1: talk from the Fauciites out there that what Ronda Santis 410 00:23:09,160 --> 00:23:13,200 Speaker 1: is doing is denying people from wearing masks. That's not 411 00:23:13,359 --> 00:23:17,200 Speaker 1: what's occurring. He's giving it's a lie. He's giving parents 412 00:23:17,280 --> 00:23:21,480 Speaker 1: the opportunity to choose whether or not their kids wear masks. 413 00:23:21,600 --> 00:23:25,119 Speaker 1: If you are convinced that masks are going to save 414 00:23:25,160 --> 00:23:27,400 Speaker 1: your children, by the way, the data reflects that that's 415 00:23:27,440 --> 00:23:30,960 Speaker 1: one hundred percent not true. But as a parent, if 416 00:23:30,960 --> 00:23:33,360 Speaker 1: you believe your kid needs to wear a mask, they 417 00:23:33,440 --> 00:23:36,080 Speaker 1: have the right to wear a mask to school in Florida. 418 00:23:36,240 --> 00:23:39,520 Speaker 1: All this does right now, Buck, As I think as 419 00:23:39,560 --> 00:23:43,800 Speaker 1: important to keep emphasizing is give parents the choice about 420 00:23:43,840 --> 00:23:47,080 Speaker 1: whether or not their kids should be able to wear masks, 421 00:23:47,080 --> 00:23:49,680 Speaker 1: and that's not being allowed. I think a lot of 422 00:23:49,720 --> 00:23:53,480 Speaker 1: the so called mitigation measures and the lockdown mentality Clay 423 00:23:53,600 --> 00:23:57,320 Speaker 1: all along has also been infused with it. There's an 424 00:23:57,359 --> 00:24:01,679 Speaker 1: insecurity that people have. They want you to have to 425 00:24:01,720 --> 00:24:05,520 Speaker 1: suffer along with them because of their anxiety around COVID. 426 00:24:05,960 --> 00:24:08,920 Speaker 1: Because if you let's just let's take gyms for example. 427 00:24:09,240 --> 00:24:11,560 Speaker 1: I mean, if you're gonna go into the gym and 428 00:24:11,600 --> 00:24:13,040 Speaker 1: you're gonna be on a treadmill and you're gonna be 429 00:24:13,040 --> 00:24:15,320 Speaker 1: sweating through your stupid little cloth mask that does nothing, 430 00:24:15,359 --> 00:24:17,199 Speaker 1: which I'm gonna tell you the truth, I had to 431 00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:19,879 Speaker 1: do that for a while, and I'm never forget. My 432 00:24:19,920 --> 00:24:21,800 Speaker 1: wife lost her mind when they tried to make her 433 00:24:21,840 --> 00:24:24,200 Speaker 1: do and people say, oh, you should not comply, Well, 434 00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:26,480 Speaker 1: it's private property and they could evict me from the building, 435 00:24:26,480 --> 00:24:28,160 Speaker 1: which is what they were threatening to do if you didn't. 436 00:24:28,320 --> 00:24:31,119 Speaker 1: You know, if you didn't comply, so you could you. 437 00:24:31,240 --> 00:24:33,480 Speaker 1: But if you're that person and there's a person next 438 00:24:33,520 --> 00:24:35,600 Speaker 1: to you who's roughly the same age, you know, same 439 00:24:35,680 --> 00:24:38,679 Speaker 1: physical condition, who's not wearing a mask and enjoying their workout, 440 00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:40,679 Speaker 1: you start to think, I don't know, man, is this 441 00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:42,680 Speaker 1: really should I really be doing this? Is this really 442 00:24:42,720 --> 00:24:46,360 Speaker 1: worth it? But if everyone has to suffer together, if 443 00:24:46,359 --> 00:24:51,280 Speaker 1: the collective can override an individual's common sense, then you 444 00:24:51,280 --> 00:24:53,919 Speaker 1: don't have to worry about being the idiot choking on 445 00:24:53,960 --> 00:24:56,800 Speaker 1: your mask as you're on the elliptical machine. Yeah, and 446 00:24:56,840 --> 00:24:59,240 Speaker 1: this goes by the way, buck to What it's so 447 00:24:59,359 --> 00:25:05,080 Speaker 1: frustrating to me is the fundamental misapprehension of risk. That's 448 00:25:05,119 --> 00:25:09,080 Speaker 1: the essence of this in general, right is COVID has 449 00:25:09,119 --> 00:25:12,840 Speaker 1: been turned into something where there's a huge number of 450 00:25:12,880 --> 00:25:14,960 Speaker 1: twenty four year olds out there who think they're going 451 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:16,760 Speaker 1: to die if they get COVID. There's a lot of 452 00:25:16,760 --> 00:25:18,959 Speaker 1: fourteen year olds out there who think that. There's a 453 00:25:18,960 --> 00:25:21,159 Speaker 1: lot of parents who think that that is the truth. 454 00:25:21,560 --> 00:25:25,840 Speaker 1: And the reality is, again, if you haven't been wearing 455 00:25:25,840 --> 00:25:29,800 Speaker 1: a mask for the seasonal flu in your local elementary, 456 00:25:30,119 --> 00:25:34,480 Speaker 1: middle school, or high school, then you have been taking 457 00:25:34,520 --> 00:25:38,280 Speaker 1: a bigger risk in your entire life than you are 458 00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:42,159 Speaker 1: under from COVID, and all of this is what's so 459 00:25:42,280 --> 00:25:47,280 Speaker 1: frustrating is policy should follow facts. That should be what 460 00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:50,639 Speaker 1: happens in this country. Here are the facts. Let's craft 461 00:25:50,680 --> 00:25:55,479 Speaker 1: a policy considering the facts that make logical sense. And 462 00:25:55,520 --> 00:25:58,360 Speaker 1: what we've ended up with is science is now so 463 00:25:58,440 --> 00:26:01,840 Speaker 1: political that if you even talk about facts, you want 464 00:26:01,920 --> 00:26:04,639 Speaker 1: somebody's grandma to die? How dare you? And isn't it 465 00:26:04,640 --> 00:26:07,560 Speaker 1: funny how the people right now who are complaining about 466 00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:12,359 Speaker 1: the politicization early on were the ones politicized it and 467 00:26:12,480 --> 00:26:16,160 Speaker 1: insisted that it was just the science. And now they're saying, oh, 468 00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:20,000 Speaker 1: the whole thing has become political. Is like this is 469 00:26:20,040 --> 00:26:23,240 Speaker 1: like how the the mainstream or I don't like that term, 470 00:26:23,280 --> 00:26:28,119 Speaker 1: actually the corporate democrat media and now decries, oh, media 471 00:26:28,160 --> 00:26:31,200 Speaker 1: has become so partisan. No, it's just because we've realized 472 00:26:31,240 --> 00:26:33,639 Speaker 1: that they're partisans and now there's some answer to it 473 00:26:33,720 --> 00:26:36,280 Speaker 1: on the other side. But they were partisans all along. 474 00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:40,800 Speaker 1: The COVID lockdowners were the original politicizers of this. And 475 00:26:40,840 --> 00:26:42,880 Speaker 1: as you and I have discussed many times on the air, 476 00:26:42,920 --> 00:26:44,520 Speaker 1: and I don't want to go down into this because 477 00:26:44,520 --> 00:26:46,840 Speaker 1: we have other news and things to get to. But 478 00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:49,040 Speaker 1: all you have to remember is the lockdowns with BLM 479 00:26:49,080 --> 00:26:50,480 Speaker 1: and how that true. That's it, That's all you have 480 00:26:50,520 --> 00:26:52,280 Speaker 1: to know. And the way the Blue Check Brigades and 481 00:26:52,280 --> 00:26:57,640 Speaker 1: the Fauciites made excuses for protests that not only were useless, Clay, 482 00:26:57,800 --> 00:27:01,680 Speaker 1: but we're counterproductive for the purpose of making people safer 483 00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:04,520 Speaker 1: and having their rights respected in America. That led to 484 00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:08,359 Speaker 1: more misery, destruction, and death. Congrats be Alm two point zero. 485 00:27:08,600 --> 00:27:13,160 Speaker 1: That's what actually happened. And they were willing to change 486 00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:15,200 Speaker 1: the COVID rules for that anyway, so we know where 487 00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:19,840 Speaker 1: the politicization came. By the way, speaking of craziness, your 488 00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:23,160 Speaker 1: school might be the foundation of all crazies. You your 489 00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:25,600 Speaker 1: alma mater. Oh, we're gonna have to talk about this 490 00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:29,320 Speaker 1: Amherst College, which just changed in the last couple of 491 00:27:29,359 --> 00:27:32,199 Speaker 1: years from the Lord Jeffs who was a lord Jeffrey 492 00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:37,040 Speaker 1: Amherst was a British colonial lord who yes, allegedly there 493 00:27:37,160 --> 00:27:41,440 Speaker 1: is no proof, allegedly gave blankets that they thought might 494 00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:44,360 Speaker 1: have been in contact with smallpox. We don't know this, 495 00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:47,439 Speaker 1: I mean there was never a trial anyway, that was 496 00:27:47,480 --> 00:27:49,680 Speaker 1: the rumor, shall we say, from one hundreds of years 497 00:27:49,680 --> 00:27:52,720 Speaker 1: ago they changed the mascot to I always get to 498 00:27:52,720 --> 00:27:56,679 Speaker 1: confuse if it's the mastodons or the the other like 499 00:27:56,800 --> 00:28:00,920 Speaker 1: big furry elephant, what you know the mammoths amts. Yes, 500 00:28:01,840 --> 00:28:05,440 Speaker 1: I'm sure that we definitely, we definitely have a paleontologist 501 00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:08,000 Speaker 1: who's like, how dare you confuse these the audience anyway 502 00:28:08,080 --> 00:28:11,000 Speaker 1: they change the mascot to the mamots. When you hear 503 00:28:11,040 --> 00:28:14,760 Speaker 1: their COVID lockdown policies, folks, or their COVID policies right now, 504 00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:17,159 Speaker 1: your mind will be blown. And it's gonna it's at 505 00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:19,440 Speaker 1: other schools too. The colleges have completely lost their mind. 506 00:28:19,440 --> 00:28:22,640 Speaker 1: But Clay, you like to help our audience save money 507 00:28:22,720 --> 00:28:25,359 Speaker 1: and get great service. What's a great way they can 508 00:28:25,400 --> 00:28:28,800 Speaker 1: do that? When it comes to loans? Oh? Look, there 509 00:28:28,840 --> 00:28:32,960 Speaker 1: have been rarely throughout history lower fifteen or thirty year 510 00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:36,320 Speaker 1: mortgage rates than exist right now. And our friends at 511 00:28:36,359 --> 00:28:40,480 Speaker 1: American Financing are hooking people up in a massive way. 512 00:28:40,880 --> 00:28:43,120 Speaker 1: They can take care of you and save I just 513 00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:45,360 Speaker 1: want you to think about this as we move. Tomorrow 514 00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:47,720 Speaker 1: is September, right, and you know what happens when it 515 00:28:47,720 --> 00:28:50,960 Speaker 1: gets close to September, Buck, I start thinking I'm gonna 516 00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:55,200 Speaker 1: have to buy so many presents for Christmas and we're 517 00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:58,600 Speaker 1: gonna blow through whatever family budget. In my mind makes 518 00:28:58,640 --> 00:29:01,760 Speaker 1: sense because my wife is gonna go by presence like crazy. 519 00:29:02,280 --> 00:29:04,400 Speaker 1: And a lot of people start thinking the same thing, 520 00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:07,960 Speaker 1: and maybe it's time to get your financial house in order. 521 00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:10,760 Speaker 1: Now is the time to make sure that you could 522 00:29:10,800 --> 00:29:13,560 Speaker 1: save a thousand dollars or more. Kids are going back 523 00:29:13,600 --> 00:29:15,880 Speaker 1: to school, the bills are coming in, maybe a little 524 00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:18,960 Speaker 1: bit higher than you anticipated. What could an extra thousand 525 00:29:19,040 --> 00:29:22,600 Speaker 1: dollars a month? What could an extra twelve thousand dollars 526 00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:26,000 Speaker 1: a year potentially mean for you? All you have to 527 00:29:26,040 --> 00:29:29,960 Speaker 1: do is contact American Financing and save up to a 528 00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:32,600 Speaker 1: thousand dollars a month. Buck Sexton, How can they do 529 00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:35,840 Speaker 1: it so easy? Just call this number eight hundred seven 530 00:29:35,960 --> 00:29:39,480 Speaker 1: seven seven eighty one O nine. That's eight hundred seven 531 00:29:39,640 --> 00:29:43,600 Speaker 1: seven seven eighty one oh nine. Or visit this website 532 00:29:43,680 --> 00:29:49,760 Speaker 1: American Financing dot net. That's American Financing dot net, American 533 00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:53,520 Speaker 1: Financing NMLS one eight two three three four NMLS Consumer 534 00:29:53,560 --> 00:30:02,880 Speaker 1: access dot org. Welcome back to Clay Travis and Buck 535 00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:05,720 Speaker 1: Sexton show. We've got lines lip want to get to 536 00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:08,160 Speaker 1: those calls. Remember, we are a schedule to have President 537 00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:10,680 Speaker 1: Trump joining later on the show. In the third hour. 538 00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:16,400 Speaker 1: We've got President Joe Biden who will be speaking allegedly 539 00:30:16,560 --> 00:30:19,200 Speaker 1: or supposedly. I don't think allegedly is the right term there, 540 00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:21,040 Speaker 1: mister lawyer, but I'm sorry, you know what I mean. 541 00:30:21,320 --> 00:30:26,560 Speaker 1: Supposedly at one thirty pm. But we'll we'll see where 542 00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:28,320 Speaker 1: he I think it's gonna be later than that, so 543 00:30:28,360 --> 00:30:30,719 Speaker 1: we might have Biden speak. We'll join that in progress. 544 00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:33,160 Speaker 1: You're gonna hear what he's explaining about the disaster in Afghanistan. 545 00:30:33,280 --> 00:30:35,120 Speaker 1: What he's you know, I think it's gonna be a 546 00:30:35,160 --> 00:30:37,640 Speaker 1: little bit of like a victory lap, a solemn victory lap. 547 00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:39,160 Speaker 1: But that's how he's gonna take it. That's what I'm 548 00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:41,800 Speaker 1: expecting from Biden to already set that narrative and then 549 00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:45,600 Speaker 1: have all the media Toady's go and know exactly what 550 00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:47,760 Speaker 1: they're supposed to do. But we'll see that's coming up, 551 00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:50,520 Speaker 1: and much more to discuss here, including the Americans who 552 00:30:50,560 --> 00:30:53,440 Speaker 1: are still left behind. And our friend Glenn Beck is 553 00:30:53,440 --> 00:30:55,600 Speaker 1: supposed to join us tomorrow on the show to talk 554 00:30:55,640 --> 00:30:58,800 Speaker 1: about his efforts to get his successful efforts to get 555 00:30:58,800 --> 00:31:01,680 Speaker 1: a whole lot of Christians out of Afghanistan. But let's 556 00:31:01,720 --> 00:31:06,480 Speaker 1: go to calls here. We got Megan in Geneva, Alabama. Megan, 557 00:31:06,560 --> 00:31:09,680 Speaker 1: you're on the clan Box Show. How are y'all doing? 558 00:31:09,840 --> 00:31:12,800 Speaker 1: Thank you for taking my call. Um, I just wanted 559 00:31:12,840 --> 00:31:15,320 Speaker 1: to call and say, UM, my friend, and I thought 560 00:31:15,560 --> 00:31:18,880 Speaker 1: immediately about you guys. My friend. Um, she's been in 561 00:31:18,880 --> 00:31:21,520 Speaker 1: the medical field for fifteen years, so is her sister 562 00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:25,480 Speaker 1: longer than that actually, and speaking of just the vaccines 563 00:31:25,560 --> 00:31:29,080 Speaker 1: and you know, the mandating the vaccines and all that. Um. 564 00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:32,080 Speaker 1: She called me the other day hysterical, crying her eyes 565 00:31:32,120 --> 00:31:34,720 Speaker 1: out and said, you know, I just they're trying to 566 00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:36,920 Speaker 1: make me take the shot, and I do I'm scared. 567 00:31:36,960 --> 00:31:39,120 Speaker 1: I don't want to do it. She said. I'm trying 568 00:31:39,120 --> 00:31:41,480 Speaker 1: to decide if I'm gonna uproot my entire life. But 569 00:31:41,560 --> 00:31:43,520 Speaker 1: what am I gonna do the rest of my life? 570 00:31:43,600 --> 00:31:45,480 Speaker 1: You know what I mean? Am I just Am I 571 00:31:45,520 --> 00:31:48,160 Speaker 1: gonna just take the shot? Or am I gonna, you know, 572 00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:51,720 Speaker 1: change my whole career? Her sister has decided to change 573 00:31:51,720 --> 00:31:53,640 Speaker 1: her career, just like y'all were saying the other day. 574 00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:56,920 Speaker 1: The medical people in the medical field, they're just leaving there. 575 00:31:57,280 --> 00:32:00,320 Speaker 1: I appreciate the call. Appreciate the call, Megan, And here 576 00:32:00,560 --> 00:32:03,120 Speaker 1: is what I would say. I actually got a question 577 00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:05,880 Speaker 1: about this today, Buck. You know, I do an anonymous 578 00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:07,600 Speaker 1: mailbag at out Kick's going to be up a little 579 00:32:07,600 --> 00:32:10,600 Speaker 1: bit after we finished the show today. And I think 580 00:32:10,640 --> 00:32:14,280 Speaker 1: there's going to be a competitive advantage because there's all 581 00:32:14,320 --> 00:32:17,800 Speaker 1: this focus, Like seventy five percent of people eighteen and 582 00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:20,200 Speaker 1: up have had at least one shot now of the 583 00:32:20,240 --> 00:32:23,880 Speaker 1: COVID vaccine. That twenty five percent we keep hearing our 584 00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:26,200 Speaker 1: villains and awful people. I think a lot of them 585 00:32:26,320 --> 00:32:29,760 Speaker 1: are potential medical employees who know that natural immunity is 586 00:32:29,840 --> 00:32:33,480 Speaker 1: better than vaccinated immunity, and they're in our boat where 587 00:32:33,480 --> 00:32:35,360 Speaker 1: they don't necessarily want to get the vaccine. But what 588 00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:38,080 Speaker 1: I'm saying is I think there's such a shortage of 589 00:32:38,200 --> 00:32:42,320 Speaker 1: employees out there that mandates inside of hospitals are going 590 00:32:42,360 --> 00:32:45,920 Speaker 1: to increase the staff shortages. And if you're an employer 591 00:32:46,360 --> 00:32:48,520 Speaker 1: that is not mandating a vaccine, you're going to have 592 00:32:48,560 --> 00:32:51,400 Speaker 1: access to a better pool of candidates. Well, I really 593 00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:56,000 Speaker 1: thinks it's been noteworthy all along that in hospital systems 594 00:32:56,480 --> 00:33:01,280 Speaker 1: there has been substantial vaccine reluctance in terms of mandates 595 00:33:01,320 --> 00:33:05,080 Speaker 1: from people in nursing homes. Even there in New York, 596 00:33:05,120 --> 00:33:08,680 Speaker 1: there has been reluctance from people to get the shot. 597 00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:12,160 Speaker 1: And I think and remember there it's always, oh, you know, 598 00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:14,600 Speaker 1: the media narratives. They're monsters, they don't care about science, 599 00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:17,400 Speaker 1: they're bad people, they won't do it. Yes, and putting 600 00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:21,600 Speaker 1: aside that the mandates I think are immoral and the 601 00:33:21,680 --> 00:33:24,680 Speaker 1: government is far over reaching, it also ignores that we're 602 00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:26,080 Speaker 1: talking about, which is how many of those people have 603 00:33:26,200 --> 00:33:29,800 Speaker 1: heard immunity and have natural immunity and therefore have no 604 00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:32,880 Speaker 1: medical need whatsoever for that shot. How many of them? 605 00:33:33,040 --> 00:33:35,400 Speaker 1: They don't want you to know this number, because that 606 00:33:35,520 --> 00:33:45,520 Speaker 1: crushes the mandate narrative. Ryan in Augusta, Georgia, Ryan, welcome. Hello, Yes, sir, 607 00:33:45,640 --> 00:33:48,200 Speaker 1: you're on. Yeah, yeah, Hey, So I just had a 608 00:33:48,240 --> 00:33:51,240 Speaker 1: quick question. And everybody's, you know, worried about what I understand, 609 00:33:51,280 --> 00:33:54,600 Speaker 1: trying military and everybody out of Afghanistan. But I haven't 610 00:33:54,640 --> 00:33:57,240 Speaker 1: heard anything about fundraisers are trying to pull out the canines. 611 00:33:58,040 --> 00:34:01,080 Speaker 1: I didn't police canine training back in Californya work with 612 00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:03,800 Speaker 1: some military canines over in the Rhode Island, and I 613 00:34:03,800 --> 00:34:07,600 Speaker 1: don't think people will understand how important those dogs actually are. 614 00:34:08,080 --> 00:34:09,920 Speaker 1: And I don't know if you guys have heard anything 615 00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:12,759 Speaker 1: or if you know anything about fundraisers or what they're 616 00:34:12,800 --> 00:34:15,520 Speaker 1: actually trying to do to pull these dogs out. Yeah, 617 00:34:15,560 --> 00:34:18,000 Speaker 1: thanks for the Carl, Ryan. We've seen the viral video 618 00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:22,439 Speaker 1: and footage on social media, like many of you have 619 00:34:23,200 --> 00:34:28,520 Speaker 1: of I think just further reinforcing buck the calamitous nature 620 00:34:28,640 --> 00:34:32,040 Speaker 1: by which we withdrew from Afghanistan. We've left behind people 621 00:34:32,520 --> 00:34:36,000 Speaker 1: and we may well have left behind canine guide dogs 622 00:34:36,080 --> 00:34:38,480 Speaker 1: that we were guard dogs that we were using. These 623 00:34:38,520 --> 00:34:40,920 Speaker 1: are dogs, I mean I've I've been around some of 624 00:34:40,920 --> 00:34:44,800 Speaker 1: these dogs in Afghanistan. The relationship that a canine handler, 625 00:34:44,840 --> 00:34:47,480 Speaker 1: I mean Ryan can speak to this. The relations of 626 00:34:47,520 --> 00:34:52,680 Speaker 1: the canine handler has with this animal is it's a 627 00:34:52,719 --> 00:34:55,520 Speaker 1: sacred bond. I mean, the level of because they rely 628 00:34:55,760 --> 00:34:57,839 Speaker 1: on these animals, not just it's not like just a 629 00:34:57,840 --> 00:34:59,839 Speaker 1: companion animal. They rely on them to save their lit 630 00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:03,200 Speaker 1: just sniff out bombs. I mean, they'll have Belgian MALINOIV. 631 00:35:03,360 --> 00:35:05,120 Speaker 1: You get some of the seal teams together and some 632 00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:08,480 Speaker 1: of the different special operations forces and just military in general. 633 00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:10,960 Speaker 1: They'll send these dogs in and they'll end up, you know, 634 00:35:11,080 --> 00:35:14,359 Speaker 1: grabbing a bad guy so that he can't actually use 635 00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:17,160 Speaker 1: the AK and send some of ours home, you know, 636 00:35:17,239 --> 00:35:19,080 Speaker 1: in a coffin. I mean, that's the kind of stuff 637 00:35:19,120 --> 00:35:22,880 Speaker 1: these animals have done. So yes, of course, first priorities 638 00:35:22,920 --> 00:35:25,319 Speaker 1: the Americans, first priorities the human beings going to get 639 00:35:25,320 --> 00:35:27,399 Speaker 1: out of there. We can still be very sad. I'm 640 00:35:27,480 --> 00:35:30,040 Speaker 1: very sad. I mean, I love dogs, Clay, I love them. 641 00:35:30,040 --> 00:35:32,959 Speaker 1: I mean, I just think it speaks to the incompetence, right, 642 00:35:33,080 --> 00:35:35,279 Speaker 1: I mean, And to his answer, I have not seen 643 00:35:35,360 --> 00:35:38,200 Speaker 1: We don't know one hundred percent what the story is there. 644 00:35:38,320 --> 00:35:41,760 Speaker 1: There's so much chaos and confusion. We've seen those viral videos, 645 00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:44,960 Speaker 1: those viral photographs, but I haven't seen a legitimate Hey, 646 00:35:44,960 --> 00:35:48,080 Speaker 1: this is one hundred percent true story on those Yet. 647 00:35:48,239 --> 00:35:50,239 Speaker 1: We should come back in here in a few minutes, 648 00:35:50,280 --> 00:35:52,719 Speaker 1: folks and talk to you. We will talk to you 649 00:35:53,480 --> 00:35:57,759 Speaker 1: about the realities of the Americans on the ground. What's 650 00:35:57,760 --> 00:35:59,120 Speaker 1: going to happen to get them out? Who are we 651 00:35:59,160 --> 00:36:01,560 Speaker 1: going to rely on. What are those operations gonna look like? 652 00:36:01,840 --> 00:36:04,440 Speaker 1: Biden's gonna make it sound like this is mostly done. 653 00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:09,759 Speaker 1: It's not done. We got over a hundred Americans just 654 00:36:10,600 --> 00:36:14,200 Speaker 1: Saki might have said to us a word that we 655 00:36:14,840 --> 00:36:18,439 Speaker 1: investigate here together. Clay's gonna lead us in on that 656 00:36:18,480 --> 00:36:22,560 Speaker 1: situation circumstance. We'll have more for you on the COVID Lockdown. 657 00:36:22,600 --> 00:36:27,640 Speaker 1: Oh we didn't talk about people are out of their 658 00:36:27,640 --> 00:36:30,440 Speaker 1: minds up there um, but we'll get into that and 659 00:36:30,480 --> 00:36:33,239 Speaker 1: remember Donald Trump our three. That's all coming up here 660 00:36:33,239 --> 00:36:42,560 Speaker 1: on the Clay and Buck Show. You're listening to Clay Travis, 661 00:36:42,600 --> 00:36:45,680 Speaker 1: said Buck Sexton on the EIB Network