1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:03,320 Speaker 1: Welcome to today's edition of The Clay Travis and Buck 2 00:00:03,360 --> 00:00:06,240 Speaker 1: Sexton Show podcast. We are in the third hour of 3 00:00:06,280 --> 00:00:08,959 Speaker 1: the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. Thanks for rolling 4 00:00:09,039 --> 00:00:14,680 Speaker 1: with us. Everybody all across the country have found Fauci, 5 00:00:15,040 --> 00:00:18,720 Speaker 1: so to speak, a little lab coat tyrant. He is 6 00:00:19,280 --> 00:00:22,600 Speaker 1: still out there. He's not done. We've been telling you 7 00:00:22,800 --> 00:00:27,280 Speaker 1: he has a lot more charanny left in him. In fact, 8 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:30,280 Speaker 1: he will never be done as long as there's someone 9 00:00:30,280 --> 00:00:34,440 Speaker 1: who will put him on TV or radio or perhaps 10 00:00:34,560 --> 00:00:40,199 Speaker 1: even a YouTube show with hundreds of viewers. Fauci is 11 00:00:40,240 --> 00:00:43,680 Speaker 1: not done here. He is saying exactly we've been telling 12 00:00:43,720 --> 00:00:46,920 Speaker 1: you that he is not, in fact going to walk 13 00:00:46,920 --> 00:00:50,479 Speaker 1: away from restrictions. We have to be careful that if 14 00:00:50,520 --> 00:00:54,640 Speaker 1: we do see a surge as a result of that, 15 00:00:54,640 --> 00:00:58,680 Speaker 1: that we're flexible enough to reinstitute the kinds of interventions 16 00:00:59,440 --> 00:01:03,960 Speaker 1: that could be necessary to stop an additional surge. He 17 00:01:04,120 --> 00:01:07,600 Speaker 1: never stopped a surge. It never worked. He says the 18 00:01:07,680 --> 00:01:10,640 Speaker 1: same crap all the time. He's out of his mind. 19 00:01:10,920 --> 00:01:14,039 Speaker 1: This is basically after the CDC director, and he's really 20 00:01:14,080 --> 00:01:16,120 Speaker 1: a bigger name and has more influence than she does. 21 00:01:16,160 --> 00:01:17,800 Speaker 1: And he's been in the government for longer than I've 22 00:01:17,800 --> 00:01:22,920 Speaker 1: been alive, the top of the pyramid of bureaucratic COVID 23 00:01:22,959 --> 00:01:26,440 Speaker 1: tyranny play. He's straight up saying it. We've been telling everybody. 24 00:01:26,680 --> 00:01:29,640 Speaker 1: He just escaped from the underground bunker. I think that 25 00:01:29,680 --> 00:01:32,360 Speaker 1: the Biden administration has been keeping him in. Do you 26 00:01:32,440 --> 00:01:34,800 Speaker 1: know where that interview was buck that we just played 27 00:01:34,800 --> 00:01:40,559 Speaker 1: the audio cut from local San Diego News. So doctor 28 00:01:40,640 --> 00:01:45,039 Speaker 1: Fauci now is so desperate to be relevant they have 29 00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:49,960 Speaker 1: sidelined him from CNN or MSNBC or any of those 30 00:01:50,040 --> 00:01:53,800 Speaker 1: other usual outlets that he was on all the time, 31 00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:58,240 Speaker 1: and he now is appearing on local San Diego news 32 00:01:58,320 --> 00:02:02,040 Speaker 1: stations to let everybody know that the mask mandate may 33 00:02:02,040 --> 00:02:04,360 Speaker 1: need to be reinstituted, that there may need to be 34 00:02:04,680 --> 00:02:09,440 Speaker 1: indoor crowd restrictions, everything else, all of those measures which 35 00:02:09,480 --> 00:02:12,680 Speaker 1: have statistically been proven time after time not to work. 36 00:02:12,919 --> 00:02:17,000 Speaker 1: Great example from the state of California, Orange County, no 37 00:02:17,120 --> 00:02:24,480 Speaker 1: mask mandate, LA aggressive mask mandate, vaccine mandates, yet they've 38 00:02:24,639 --> 00:02:28,560 Speaker 1: essentially ended up with the same levels of COVID infection 39 00:02:28,639 --> 00:02:31,880 Speaker 1: in Orange County and LA County. If you look at 40 00:02:31,919 --> 00:02:37,120 Speaker 1: the overall chart, it's absolutely identical. No matter that those 41 00:02:37,160 --> 00:02:40,800 Speaker 1: two counties have made drastically different decisions as to what 42 00:02:40,960 --> 00:02:44,239 Speaker 1: policies to put in place, and yet here we are 43 00:02:44,720 --> 00:02:49,000 Speaker 1: still hearing from Fauci, still having to live with the 44 00:02:49,040 --> 00:02:52,959 Speaker 1: madness of Faucism lingering out there in the background. Which 45 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:55,320 Speaker 1: is why we can't give this up. And it's also 46 00:02:55,360 --> 00:02:57,200 Speaker 1: why I think, and we may be joined here by 47 00:02:57,200 --> 00:02:59,920 Speaker 1: Senator and Paul momentarily we're trying to track them down. 48 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:04,320 Speaker 1: But the idea that they're going to eliminate Fauchi's position 49 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:08,320 Speaker 1: from Nyati, there have to be consequences for being wrong, 50 00:03:08,400 --> 00:03:12,920 Speaker 1: your professional consequences people, I mean, if you can't lose 51 00:03:12,960 --> 00:03:17,520 Speaker 1: your job in the government over being Essentially the covids 52 00:03:17,560 --> 00:03:19,840 Speaker 1: are and a reels are in the sense that it 53 00:03:19,960 --> 00:03:22,560 Speaker 1: was whatever you said was what went right. There was 54 00:03:22,639 --> 00:03:28,040 Speaker 1: no real check on the power of the Fauchiites because 55 00:03:28,440 --> 00:03:30,560 Speaker 1: the government said it was their decision, and they said 56 00:03:30,600 --> 00:03:32,480 Speaker 1: it was the I mean, the elected officials said it 57 00:03:32,480 --> 00:03:34,800 Speaker 1: was their decision, and they pointed the elected officials and 58 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:37,160 Speaker 1: said they were the ones who were actually doing it. 59 00:03:37,520 --> 00:03:40,680 Speaker 1: And this is why, I mean, every doctor with doctor 60 00:03:40,720 --> 00:03:44,160 Speaker 1: Marty McCarry on yesterday, Clay, we're going to go into 61 00:03:44,200 --> 00:03:48,320 Speaker 1: another COVID season. Clearly, the shots do not save you 62 00:03:48,360 --> 00:03:51,480 Speaker 1: from COVID infection forever, not even for really more than 63 00:03:51,680 --> 00:03:54,600 Speaker 1: what sixty or ninety days before it dramatically drops off 64 00:03:54,960 --> 00:03:58,840 Speaker 1: after six months and a new variant. It's probably close 65 00:03:58,920 --> 00:04:01,320 Speaker 1: to worthless for of folks at least in terms of 66 00:04:01,560 --> 00:04:05,280 Speaker 1: infection control. And we're going to be back there and well, 67 00:04:05,640 --> 00:04:07,720 Speaker 1: you're gonna see the same arguments from the same people 68 00:04:07,840 --> 00:04:11,480 Speaker 1: mask up. There's no doubt and buck if you look 69 00:04:11,560 --> 00:04:14,640 Speaker 1: at I saw a study out or an article out yesterday, 70 00:04:14,880 --> 00:04:17,359 Speaker 1: you know that you look at wastewater to determine the 71 00:04:17,440 --> 00:04:20,240 Speaker 1: rates of COVID infection. It's ticking back up. In the 72 00:04:20,320 --> 00:04:23,919 Speaker 1: United States, we got through omicron, everything came down on 73 00:04:23,960 --> 00:04:28,400 Speaker 1: a substantial level. And now we're talking about looking at 74 00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:32,960 Speaker 1: Western Europe, England, Germany. Some of the rates of COVID 75 00:04:33,040 --> 00:04:36,800 Speaker 1: there have gone back up substantially. And so it's not 76 00:04:36,880 --> 00:04:39,000 Speaker 1: as if this is going to disappear. And this is 77 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:42,520 Speaker 1: why we keep telling all of you that the midterms 78 00:04:42,600 --> 00:04:46,520 Speaker 1: have to be a time for consequences for Democrats and 79 00:04:46,560 --> 00:04:49,480 Speaker 1: that the vote needs to be predicated on the idea 80 00:04:49,560 --> 00:04:52,880 Speaker 1: that they will bring back restrictions as fast as they can, 81 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:56,120 Speaker 1: that your kids will be in masks, that you will 82 00:04:56,160 --> 00:05:01,440 Speaker 1: be forced to go back to the idiocy that has 83 00:05:01,480 --> 00:05:04,120 Speaker 1: not worked, these mitigation measures that have no impact. I 84 00:05:04,160 --> 00:05:07,240 Speaker 1: know that everyone who's in a red state right now 85 00:05:07,440 --> 00:05:10,440 Speaker 1: is like, Okay, well, the planes thing, it's crazy. You 86 00:05:10,520 --> 00:05:13,080 Speaker 1: guys are right, but it's not really our problem. Everyone 87 00:05:13,200 --> 00:05:15,360 Speaker 1: kind of knows at some level that this stuff is nuts. 88 00:05:15,480 --> 00:05:23,960 Speaker 1: Right here is World Health Official doctor Maria van Kirkov Kurkova. 89 00:05:23,960 --> 00:05:27,320 Speaker 1: I don't know whatever on CNN because that CNN audience 90 00:05:27,320 --> 00:05:29,160 Speaker 1: they want to hear that they have to wear an 91 00:05:29,279 --> 00:05:32,000 Speaker 1: N ninety five mask on their bicycle and the bike 92 00:05:32,120 --> 00:05:35,800 Speaker 1: lane alone. Here they are wearing of a mask. It 93 00:05:35,880 --> 00:05:39,640 Speaker 1: is a simple measure. They are well stocked around the world. 94 00:05:39,960 --> 00:05:43,320 Speaker 1: They reduce the spread distancing, you know, being careful. We're 95 00:05:43,360 --> 00:05:47,320 Speaker 1: asking people to be careful. We're asking policies in countries 96 00:05:47,360 --> 00:05:50,800 Speaker 1: to use a layered, tailored approach and target it based 97 00:05:50,839 --> 00:05:53,279 Speaker 1: on the needs. It's too soon to lift measures. It's 98 00:05:53,320 --> 00:05:56,039 Speaker 1: far too soon to lift all measures, and in particular 99 00:05:56,160 --> 00:05:59,960 Speaker 1: in certain countries. But we do recognize that countries are 100 00:06:00,160 --> 00:06:03,800 Speaker 1: very different situations. We are just asking people and policies 101 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:07,720 Speaker 1: to remain cautious. No, I say no, I say you're 102 00:06:07,760 --> 00:06:10,119 Speaker 1: wrong all the time. Lady, You've been wrong the whole time. 103 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:13,400 Speaker 1: None of it worked, None of it helped stop Buck. 104 00:06:13,880 --> 00:06:17,039 Speaker 1: This is why I think paying attention to what's going 105 00:06:17,080 --> 00:06:20,599 Speaker 1: on in your hometown of New York City is so significant. 106 00:06:20,640 --> 00:06:24,560 Speaker 1: We're coming up on baseball returning on April seventh, and 107 00:06:24,839 --> 00:06:26,919 Speaker 1: I saw this this morning, and I was texting with 108 00:06:26,920 --> 00:06:29,640 Speaker 1: one of my buddies who is a big Mets fan, 109 00:06:30,160 --> 00:06:35,880 Speaker 1: and it was absolutely wild to think about because the 110 00:06:36,040 --> 00:06:39,039 Speaker 1: Mets right now, so many baseball players are not being 111 00:06:39,160 --> 00:06:42,760 Speaker 1: willing to admit whether or not they're vaccinated. And by vaccinated, 112 00:06:42,760 --> 00:06:45,440 Speaker 1: I mean they got the COVID shot. And this is 113 00:06:45,480 --> 00:06:49,800 Speaker 1: from Mike Puma, who is a Mets reporter. He said 114 00:06:49,800 --> 00:06:53,279 Speaker 1: he walked around and tried to pull New York Mets players. 115 00:06:53,680 --> 00:06:57,599 Speaker 1: Only three would say that they were vaccinated, and a 116 00:06:57,760 --> 00:07:01,880 Speaker 1: bunch of big names including Jake of De Graham, Nemo Alonso, 117 00:07:02,120 --> 00:07:05,840 Speaker 1: Smith Davis. They all refused to say whether or not 118 00:07:06,120 --> 00:07:08,679 Speaker 1: they have gotten the COVID shot. So we're talking about 119 00:07:08,720 --> 00:07:12,080 Speaker 1: think about this, Buck, We're talking about New York Mets 120 00:07:12,080 --> 00:07:16,960 Speaker 1: and New York Yankees playing outdoor games in New York City, 121 00:07:17,440 --> 00:07:22,360 Speaker 1: potentially a large number of those guys not being able 122 00:07:22,520 --> 00:07:26,320 Speaker 1: to play baseball in what a little bit over two 123 00:07:26,360 --> 00:07:28,880 Speaker 1: weeks because of the rules that are in place in 124 00:07:28,880 --> 00:07:31,040 Speaker 1: New York City, and to make it clear, they would 125 00:07:31,120 --> 00:07:34,760 Speaker 1: be able to play. This is wild. They would be 126 00:07:34,840 --> 00:07:39,320 Speaker 1: able to play any other city in America, and they 127 00:07:39,320 --> 00:07:42,040 Speaker 1: would be able to play if they were visiting players. 128 00:07:42,320 --> 00:07:47,240 Speaker 1: We're talking about outdoor baseball games two years after baseball 129 00:07:47,320 --> 00:07:49,840 Speaker 1: shut down. The Yankees and the Mets. I know we've 130 00:07:49,840 --> 00:07:51,920 Speaker 1: talked a little bit about Kyrie Irving and the Brooklyn 131 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:54,880 Speaker 1: Nets and how that's been impacted, but this would be 132 00:07:54,960 --> 00:07:57,280 Speaker 1: next level buck even us not a big sports fan. 133 00:07:57,360 --> 00:07:59,600 Speaker 1: You know, people are pretty excited in New York for 134 00:07:59,640 --> 00:08:01,880 Speaker 1: Opening Day, and I know Kyrie Irving is I work 135 00:08:01,920 --> 00:08:04,240 Speaker 1: in the media. Yeah, but the Mets and the Yankees 136 00:08:04,320 --> 00:08:06,600 Speaker 1: are a big deal in New York in a way 137 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:09,720 Speaker 1: that frankly, I think the Nets aren't. I think this 138 00:08:09,760 --> 00:08:12,520 Speaker 1: will be a much bigger story because there's potentially a 139 00:08:12,560 --> 00:08:16,440 Speaker 1: lot of big names, maybe Alonso on the Mets, maybe 140 00:08:16,480 --> 00:08:20,520 Speaker 1: you've got big names on the Yankees as well. When 141 00:08:20,520 --> 00:08:23,040 Speaker 1: you start to talk about guys who are not vaxed 142 00:08:23,880 --> 00:08:26,000 Speaker 1: and not being able to play two years later. I mean, 143 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:28,440 Speaker 1: this is gonna be a monster story. I think that 144 00:08:28,480 --> 00:08:33,360 Speaker 1: they're they're leaving this employer mandate in place in New 145 00:08:33,440 --> 00:08:37,640 Speaker 1: York so that they have that COVID restriction light switch 146 00:08:37,720 --> 00:08:40,640 Speaker 1: that becomes the first one. And remember it was such 147 00:08:40,679 --> 00:08:43,480 Speaker 1: a bad sign play when you we have these vaccine 148 00:08:43,520 --> 00:08:45,440 Speaker 1: passports in New York. I don't know if they're the 149 00:08:45,480 --> 00:08:48,360 Speaker 1: same everywhere, but I think they are. The CDC card, right, 150 00:08:48,679 --> 00:08:51,400 Speaker 1: they have these things. There are all these slots on it. Yeah, 151 00:08:51,440 --> 00:08:53,360 Speaker 1: and there were all these slots on it when they 152 00:08:53,520 --> 00:08:55,880 Speaker 1: first gave you your card, when you first got Now, 153 00:08:55,920 --> 00:08:58,160 Speaker 1: I'd waited as long as humanly possible until they were 154 00:08:58,160 --> 00:09:00,680 Speaker 1: gonna bar me from being able to you my job 155 00:09:00,800 --> 00:09:03,520 Speaker 1: or go anywhere in New York City. But you know, 156 00:09:03,640 --> 00:09:06,320 Speaker 1: it's almost like they at some level new We're probably 157 00:09:06,360 --> 00:09:08,240 Speaker 1: gonna have to give you more shots. And there's a 158 00:09:08,240 --> 00:09:10,440 Speaker 1: lot more shots coming your way. So at least we'll 159 00:09:10,480 --> 00:09:14,280 Speaker 1: give you the spots on your VAX's passport for this, 160 00:09:14,720 --> 00:09:16,760 Speaker 1: and and think about how they're going to come back 161 00:09:16,760 --> 00:09:21,760 Speaker 1: to everybody with the justification next fall. You know, here's 162 00:09:21,800 --> 00:09:24,439 Speaker 1: the only thing how much of this is tempered the 163 00:09:24,640 --> 00:09:27,400 Speaker 1: how much honesty are they willing to actually show about 164 00:09:27,400 --> 00:09:31,920 Speaker 1: their intentions with an election coming up? You gotta wonder. 165 00:09:32,080 --> 00:09:33,520 Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know how much this really 166 00:09:33,600 --> 00:09:37,520 Speaker 1: moves moves the needle. I mean in Blue states, it's fine. 167 00:09:37,840 --> 00:09:39,559 Speaker 1: People in the Blue states aren't done with this. That's 168 00:09:39,559 --> 00:09:42,199 Speaker 1: really the problem. They've made this a part of their culture. 169 00:09:42,640 --> 00:09:44,960 Speaker 1: As I've said, the mask is the maga hat of 170 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:48,160 Speaker 1: the left, like this is something that they're perfectly fine with. 171 00:09:48,400 --> 00:09:51,800 Speaker 1: They think they're keeping their children more safe and fauci 172 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:57,120 Speaker 1: he's you know, he stays certainly until Republicans take Congress. 173 00:09:57,160 --> 00:10:00,560 Speaker 1: He stays until Republicans can bring him on cap Hill 174 00:10:00,840 --> 00:10:02,760 Speaker 1: and ask him some real questions that he doesn't want 175 00:10:02,760 --> 00:10:05,680 Speaker 1: to answer, like, Hey, wasn't this supposed to stop the spread? 176 00:10:05,679 --> 00:10:08,320 Speaker 1: And wasn't that a massive failure? Give us the data 177 00:10:08,520 --> 00:10:10,760 Speaker 1: on the stopping of the spread with the fact, why 178 00:10:10,760 --> 00:10:13,240 Speaker 1: haven't you seen that? Has anyone seen that? How effective 179 00:10:13,240 --> 00:10:15,640 Speaker 1: are the vaccines that we just went through we were 180 00:10:15,640 --> 00:10:18,520 Speaker 1: made to take, how effective they were firing people from 181 00:10:18,520 --> 00:10:21,600 Speaker 1: the military for not taking them stopping the spread? Do 182 00:10:21,679 --> 00:10:23,960 Speaker 1: we know any numbers on that one? 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I've got Tennessee 219 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:29,439 Speaker 1: beating Gonzaga in the championship game. Buck has Villanova. We're 220 00:12:29,480 --> 00:12:33,240 Speaker 1: joined now by Senator Ran Paul from the state of Kentucky. 221 00:12:33,559 --> 00:12:35,640 Speaker 1: Senator Paul, do you fill out a bracket? Buck had 222 00:12:35,720 --> 00:12:38,040 Speaker 1: never filled one out in his life before this year. 223 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:41,520 Speaker 1: Where has he been under our raucous hole? I know, 224 00:12:41,920 --> 00:12:45,120 Speaker 1: my goodness, Well, see my bracket. I haven't looked at 225 00:12:45,160 --> 00:12:49,680 Speaker 1: it lately, but it would include Baylor, UK and Kentucky. 226 00:12:49,720 --> 00:12:51,200 Speaker 1: But I don't know if all four, all three of 227 00:12:51,200 --> 00:12:53,160 Speaker 1: those can make the final four. Somebody has to beat 228 00:12:53,200 --> 00:12:56,320 Speaker 1: somebody somewhere. Yeah, Baylor and Kentucky could end up going 229 00:12:56,320 --> 00:12:58,640 Speaker 1: head to head before all is said and done. But 230 00:12:59,280 --> 00:13:01,800 Speaker 1: let's die him. He just played a cut Senator with 231 00:13:02,960 --> 00:13:05,520 Speaker 1: doctor Faucci, who appears to be in a bunker by 232 00:13:05,520 --> 00:13:08,280 Speaker 1: the Biden administration. They're trying to hide him. But he 233 00:13:08,320 --> 00:13:10,040 Speaker 1: did an interview I don't know if you've seen this 234 00:13:10,160 --> 00:13:14,000 Speaker 1: yet with a local San Diego news station where he 235 00:13:14,120 --> 00:13:18,120 Speaker 1: said it may be necessary to reimplement masks and all 236 00:13:18,120 --> 00:13:22,680 Speaker 1: the other restrictions if we have another surge. Your reaction 237 00:13:22,720 --> 00:13:26,480 Speaker 1: when you hear that. If there ever was one American 238 00:13:26,520 --> 00:13:29,960 Speaker 1: who would have a pessimistic approach to, you know, the 239 00:13:30,040 --> 00:13:32,840 Speaker 1: pandemic going away, would have to be Fauci. I was 240 00:13:32,840 --> 00:13:35,560 Speaker 1: hoping that he was in the witness protection program and 241 00:13:35,600 --> 00:13:37,920 Speaker 1: we wouldn't ever see him again. But you know, he 242 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:40,600 Speaker 1: keeps creeping back up. But no, this has been through 243 00:13:40,800 --> 00:13:43,320 Speaker 1: every at every stage of the game. When we talked 244 00:13:43,320 --> 00:13:45,520 Speaker 1: about kids going back to school, he's like, well, we 245 00:13:45,600 --> 00:13:48,200 Speaker 1: just don't know. When we talked about whether or not 246 00:13:48,240 --> 00:13:50,240 Speaker 1: you get immunity from the disease, you know, when you 247 00:13:50,360 --> 00:13:53,520 Speaker 1: had COVID you have immune protection, Well, we just don't know. 248 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:58,920 Speaker 1: But his conclusion would all, did we just lose a 249 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:03,920 Speaker 1: senator freedom? There are you still there? Yes, sir. At 250 00:14:03,960 --> 00:14:09,439 Speaker 1: every turn though, Fauci, really his inclination is towards authoritarianism. 251 00:14:09,440 --> 00:14:12,319 Speaker 1: His inclination is towards taking our liberty away. He's even said, 252 00:14:12,400 --> 00:14:16,280 Speaker 1: when asked, you know, is individual liberty important, He's like, well, 253 00:14:16,320 --> 00:14:19,320 Speaker 1: not so much so. But no, I think we should 254 00:14:19,400 --> 00:14:22,400 Speaker 1: quit taking advice from him. And I think the American 255 00:14:22,400 --> 00:14:24,280 Speaker 1: people already. I mean, we had to vote this week 256 00:14:24,360 --> 00:14:26,840 Speaker 1: where fifty seven of us voted to get rid of 257 00:14:26,840 --> 00:14:29,600 Speaker 1: the mask mandate on planes. We had eight Democrats join us, 258 00:14:29,600 --> 00:14:32,120 Speaker 1: which is a first. What is wrong with I mean, 259 00:14:32,160 --> 00:14:34,960 Speaker 1: I'm just going to ask you, Senator, the Democrats in 260 00:14:34,960 --> 00:14:37,960 Speaker 1: the Senate, do they do they actually believe this. I mean, 261 00:14:38,080 --> 00:14:40,440 Speaker 1: I would like to think that at some level they're 262 00:14:40,440 --> 00:14:44,560 Speaker 1: smart enough to understand that just masking on planes is idiocy, 263 00:14:44,760 --> 00:14:46,880 Speaker 1: but that this is just about the political optics for them. 264 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:49,560 Speaker 1: Or are some of your Democrat colleagues in the Senate 265 00:14:50,040 --> 00:14:55,720 Speaker 1: so emotionally damage from the COVID and the masking and 266 00:14:55,760 --> 00:14:59,560 Speaker 1: faucism that they really, somehow think that masking for less 267 00:14:59,560 --> 00:15:01,800 Speaker 1: than one percent of a person's life is going to 268 00:15:01,840 --> 00:15:05,120 Speaker 1: keep them safe from the virus. Very few of them 269 00:15:05,120 --> 00:15:07,720 Speaker 1: have ever had a science course, I mean about eighty 270 00:15:07,800 --> 00:15:09,720 Speaker 1: years ago, when they're in high school. They might have 271 00:15:09,800 --> 00:15:12,600 Speaker 1: had some basic science, but we've got very few on 272 00:15:12,640 --> 00:15:17,520 Speaker 1: the other side that are scientists, physicians, chemists, engineers. So 273 00:15:17,560 --> 00:15:19,960 Speaker 1: we have people that are not very knowledgeable on science. 274 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:22,400 Speaker 1: But there are also people who have a tendency to 275 00:15:22,520 --> 00:15:26,400 Speaker 1: like collectivism, to like the collective judgment of somebody telling 276 00:15:26,440 --> 00:15:29,200 Speaker 1: them what to do, and the idea of submission. And 277 00:15:29,280 --> 00:15:31,040 Speaker 1: this is a real problem. I mean, there was a 278 00:15:31,040 --> 00:15:34,840 Speaker 1: pole about a month ago that asked Democrats, if someone 279 00:15:34,920 --> 00:15:38,520 Speaker 1: is unvaccinated, would you be fined with incarcerating them? Over 280 00:15:38,600 --> 00:15:41,200 Speaker 1: half of Democrats thought to be fine to indefinitely detain 281 00:15:41,280 --> 00:15:43,800 Speaker 1: people who chose not to be vaccinated. So's the kind 282 00:15:43,840 --> 00:15:46,840 Speaker 1: of people we're dealing with. And we're just on opposite 283 00:15:46,840 --> 00:15:49,520 Speaker 1: sides of the coin on this. But I think what 284 00:15:49,600 --> 00:15:52,440 Speaker 1: they've finally discovered. Eight of the Democrats who voted to 285 00:15:52,440 --> 00:15:55,280 Speaker 1: get rid of the mandate this week for them are 286 00:15:55,320 --> 00:15:58,440 Speaker 1: in competitive races so and the other couple are in 287 00:15:58,520 --> 00:16:02,040 Speaker 1: Republican states. I think it's pushing forward. I think there 288 00:16:02,080 --> 00:16:05,080 Speaker 1: are moms and dads who are Democrats and independents that 289 00:16:05,240 --> 00:16:08,960 Speaker 1: see the hypocrisy of oh, yeah, my two year old 290 00:16:08,960 --> 00:16:11,240 Speaker 1: has to wear a mask, and yet I see eighty 291 00:16:11,320 --> 00:16:15,520 Speaker 1: year old senators, you know, having a chummy conversation with 292 00:16:15,600 --> 00:16:18,520 Speaker 1: the President Biden, you know, in the Oval office. So 293 00:16:18,760 --> 00:16:21,080 Speaker 1: there's no consistency or any science to any of this, 294 00:16:21,560 --> 00:16:24,040 Speaker 1: and I think people are just tired of the submission 295 00:16:24,080 --> 00:16:27,120 Speaker 1: just for submission's sake. Senator Paul, I'm assuming you saw 296 00:16:27,200 --> 00:16:30,400 Speaker 1: the New York Times has acknowledged that now, oh, those 297 00:16:30,560 --> 00:16:33,640 Speaker 1: Hunter Biden emails in the laptop, it's real. I know 298 00:16:33,720 --> 00:16:36,560 Speaker 1: we've talked with you about the possibility of getting an 299 00:16:36,560 --> 00:16:41,280 Speaker 1: investigation going of Fauci and also of everything surrounding COVID 300 00:16:41,320 --> 00:16:45,520 Speaker 1: in general, it's imperative that people vote for the House 301 00:16:45,560 --> 00:16:47,640 Speaker 1: to be taken back and the Senate to be taken 302 00:16:47,640 --> 00:16:50,120 Speaker 1: back to give you guys the power to ask these 303 00:16:50,200 --> 00:16:53,840 Speaker 1: kind of important questions, isn't it. I can tell people 304 00:16:53,880 --> 00:16:56,280 Speaker 1: for certain that if the Senate is taken over, I 305 00:16:56,320 --> 00:16:59,360 Speaker 1: will have a chairmanship, but I will use subpoena power 306 00:16:59,440 --> 00:17:01,800 Speaker 1: to get to the bottom of this. In particular, I 307 00:17:01,840 --> 00:17:03,720 Speaker 1: want to know the origins of the virus, and I 308 00:17:03,760 --> 00:17:06,160 Speaker 1: want to know if doctor Fauci and doctor Collins covered 309 00:17:06,200 --> 00:17:08,520 Speaker 1: it up. We have a great deal of evidence that 310 00:17:08,560 --> 00:17:10,920 Speaker 1: they did, but we still have several emails that were 311 00:17:10,920 --> 00:17:13,760 Speaker 1: redacted and I want to know what happened there, and 312 00:17:13,800 --> 00:17:15,880 Speaker 1: We're going to find that out. Some of that information 313 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:17,760 Speaker 1: does exist, and we're going to get to the bottom 314 00:17:17,800 --> 00:17:19,639 Speaker 1: of it. We're also going to get to the bottom 315 00:17:19,680 --> 00:17:23,080 Speaker 1: of a CDC that is leaving out large segments of 316 00:17:23,119 --> 00:17:27,600 Speaker 1: studies to try to bolster their conclusions. So should a 317 00:17:28,640 --> 00:17:31,000 Speaker 1: twenty year old get a booster, which I think is 318 00:17:31,040 --> 00:17:33,399 Speaker 1: crazy on the surface of it, Well, they studied the 319 00:17:33,480 --> 00:17:36,600 Speaker 1: question and they found it. A large study that does 320 00:17:36,640 --> 00:17:39,919 Speaker 1: between eighteen and forty nine, which is one hundred and 321 00:17:39,920 --> 00:17:42,399 Speaker 1: thirty two million people that there was no benefit of 322 00:17:42,440 --> 00:17:44,919 Speaker 1: a booster. So what did they do? They left it 323 00:17:44,960 --> 00:17:47,280 Speaker 1: out of the study. See, if you were in charge 324 00:17:47,280 --> 00:17:49,399 Speaker 1: of a scientific journal, you should be fired. But if 325 00:17:49,400 --> 00:17:53,840 Speaker 1: you're in part of government and you're picking, picking and 326 00:17:53,920 --> 00:17:56,600 Speaker 1: choosing the different parts of the data and leaving it 327 00:17:56,640 --> 00:17:58,960 Speaker 1: out if it doesn't fit your conclusion, that's a fire 328 00:17:59,040 --> 00:18:01,560 Speaker 1: upple offense. And yet doing that on a routine basis, 329 00:18:01,800 --> 00:18:04,880 Speaker 1: and they're destroying the reputation of the CEC and government 330 00:18:04,880 --> 00:18:07,919 Speaker 1: in general. Sender Paul, thank you so much for joining us. 331 00:18:07,920 --> 00:18:11,960 Speaker 1: We'll talk to you again soon. Thanks. All right, get 332 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:13,560 Speaker 1: hooked up right now. I want to save you a 333 00:18:13,600 --> 00:18:15,920 Speaker 1: bundle up to twelve thousand dollars a year with our 334 00:18:15,920 --> 00:18:18,320 Speaker 1: friends at American Financing. 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I 349 00:19:05,760 --> 00:19:11,159 Speaker 1: am now joined by the former Attorney general under President 350 00:19:11,280 --> 00:19:13,760 Speaker 1: Trump and the three General once before that, as well. 351 00:19:13,800 --> 00:19:18,800 Speaker 1: Also author of One Damn Thing after Another, which is 352 00:19:18,840 --> 00:19:21,200 Speaker 1: already a big bestseller. It's available now. I want to 353 00:19:21,240 --> 00:19:23,760 Speaker 1: go pick it up. Get your copy of it. Bill Barr. Bill, 354 00:19:23,800 --> 00:19:26,320 Speaker 1: good to see you. Great to be here, Buck. So 355 00:19:26,560 --> 00:19:28,959 Speaker 1: you already made some news earlier today. You talked on 356 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:33,919 Speaker 1: Fox about the Afghanistan withdrawal from the Biden administration and 357 00:19:34,080 --> 00:19:39,000 Speaker 1: how you think that that created a pathway, a green light, 358 00:19:39,119 --> 00:19:43,080 Speaker 1: a perception among Putin and his top advisors about Ukraine. 359 00:19:43,240 --> 00:19:47,000 Speaker 1: Tell us more about this. Yeah, Well, his Putin's red 360 00:19:47,080 --> 00:19:50,040 Speaker 1: line has always been he doesn't want NATO right on 361 00:19:50,080 --> 00:19:52,440 Speaker 1: the border of Russia. So we didn't want Ukraine going 362 00:19:52,440 --> 00:19:56,479 Speaker 1: into NATO. But there was no urgency about that. It 363 00:19:56,520 --> 00:19:58,920 Speaker 1: wasn't as if that was going to happen anytime soon. 364 00:20:00,160 --> 00:20:04,639 Speaker 1: And I felt after Biden won the election that Putin 365 00:20:04,680 --> 00:20:07,960 Speaker 1: would decide he didn't need to negotiate. He could take 366 00:20:07,960 --> 00:20:10,119 Speaker 1: what he wanted under Biden. And then when there was 367 00:20:10,160 --> 00:20:13,199 Speaker 1: Afghanist and I put that in my book, and then 368 00:20:13,240 --> 00:20:18,640 Speaker 1: when Afghanistan occurred, I think that, you know, crystallized Putin's 369 00:20:18,720 --> 00:20:21,000 Speaker 1: view that this guy was weak. How do you think 370 00:20:21,040 --> 00:20:25,320 Speaker 1: it's been handled since the invasion, since the tanks rolled 371 00:20:25,359 --> 00:20:28,640 Speaker 1: in into Ukraine from the Biden point of view, the diplomacy, 372 00:20:28,680 --> 00:20:32,399 Speaker 1: all of that, Well, it's hard to It's hard to 373 00:20:32,400 --> 00:20:35,639 Speaker 1: say since the tanks rolled in, because he should have 374 00:20:35,720 --> 00:20:39,040 Speaker 1: been putting these the weaponry in before the tanks roll 375 00:20:39,160 --> 00:20:41,640 Speaker 1: We knew that this was a big risk of him 376 00:20:41,680 --> 00:20:44,400 Speaker 1: moving in and the name of the game was deterrence. 377 00:20:44,520 --> 00:20:47,200 Speaker 1: But he didn't put the weapons in at that point. 378 00:20:47,280 --> 00:20:50,159 Speaker 1: That would have made a Putin's a stop if the 379 00:20:50,280 --> 00:20:54,480 Speaker 1: mags had been transferred and weapons had been transferred. Now, 380 00:20:54,600 --> 00:20:59,520 Speaker 1: since since the invasion, I think generally he's been doing 381 00:20:59,560 --> 00:21:02,280 Speaker 1: the right thing in terms of arming and supplying the 382 00:21:02,400 --> 00:21:07,440 Speaker 1: Ukrainians and rallying NATO support, although sometimes it's NATO rallying 383 00:21:07,480 --> 00:21:10,360 Speaker 1: our support. We always seem to be half a step behind. 384 00:21:11,080 --> 00:21:15,000 Speaker 1: And I want to ask you about election integrity because 385 00:21:15,240 --> 00:21:18,760 Speaker 1: we got a midterm coming up here. Democrats are not 386 00:21:18,800 --> 00:21:21,199 Speaker 1: looking like they're in a good spot. That's based on 387 00:21:21,480 --> 00:21:24,840 Speaker 1: every poll that anybody could point to and see. People 388 00:21:24,920 --> 00:21:28,080 Speaker 1: still have very intense feelings as you know about the 389 00:21:28,160 --> 00:21:33,359 Speaker 1: last election and going forward, there should be some questions 390 00:21:33,359 --> 00:21:36,399 Speaker 1: that are answered about what either went wrong or could 391 00:21:36,400 --> 00:21:39,080 Speaker 1: go wrong the next time around? Went wrong that time 392 00:21:39,080 --> 00:21:41,399 Speaker 1: could go wrong the next time. What are the biggest 393 00:21:41,480 --> 00:21:44,080 Speaker 1: challenges as you see it, as the former Attorney General 394 00:21:44,080 --> 00:21:46,080 Speaker 1: and somebody who was right on the forefront of this issue, 395 00:21:46,520 --> 00:21:49,880 Speaker 1: to an election in this mid term that people can 396 00:21:49,920 --> 00:21:52,480 Speaker 1: say it's not perfect, but it's good enough that we 397 00:21:52,520 --> 00:21:55,840 Speaker 1: can have full faith in it. Well, I feel there 398 00:21:55,840 --> 00:21:59,800 Speaker 1: are really two issues. One issue is, and I stressed 399 00:21:59,840 --> 00:22:02,680 Speaker 1: this from my confirmation hearing all the way through, we're 400 00:22:02,840 --> 00:22:06,240 Speaker 1: very divided country. All we have going for us is 401 00:22:06,280 --> 00:22:10,399 Speaker 1: peaceful transfer of power through elections, and if we lose 402 00:22:10,440 --> 00:22:12,880 Speaker 1: confidence in that, we're in a very bad spot. So 403 00:22:13,040 --> 00:22:16,639 Speaker 1: everything has to be done to ensure the integrity of 404 00:22:16,640 --> 00:22:20,399 Speaker 1: the election. In my opinion, the Democrats throughout the country 405 00:22:20,440 --> 00:22:23,479 Speaker 1: have been reckless and irresponsible because they essentially have been 406 00:22:23,480 --> 00:22:27,560 Speaker 1: pushing for elections on the honor system, and I believe 407 00:22:27,600 --> 00:22:30,560 Speaker 1: we should have The fact of the matter is, unless 408 00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:32,800 Speaker 1: you have the system in place at the time of 409 00:22:32,800 --> 00:22:35,760 Speaker 1: the election, it's hard to come back afterward and find 410 00:22:35,800 --> 00:22:39,520 Speaker 1: the fraud and have a remedy. And so I am 411 00:22:39,560 --> 00:22:43,120 Speaker 1: all for stepping up all the integrity measures we can 412 00:22:43,520 --> 00:22:47,680 Speaker 1: stopping this idea that we should roll back or dilute 413 00:22:47,680 --> 00:22:51,560 Speaker 1: these measures because if you do, people won't have confidence 414 00:22:51,600 --> 00:22:53,600 Speaker 1: in the election. Whether or not you can prove fraud, 415 00:22:53,920 --> 00:22:57,000 Speaker 1: they will not have confidence. Now, as you know, on 416 00:22:57,119 --> 00:23:01,920 Speaker 1: this particular election, I did not evidence and I'm fairly 417 00:23:01,960 --> 00:23:06,719 Speaker 1: confident that there was not fraud at the at the 418 00:23:06,840 --> 00:23:09,200 Speaker 1: level that would have affected the outcome of the election. 419 00:23:09,280 --> 00:23:13,120 Speaker 1: But that does not mean that we should uh not 420 00:23:13,359 --> 00:23:16,520 Speaker 1: step up all the efforts we can to make sure 421 00:23:16,600 --> 00:23:21,159 Speaker 1: they're they're fair. Speaking to former Attorney General Bill Barr, 422 00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:24,040 Speaker 1: the book One Damn Thing after Another is out and 423 00:23:24,080 --> 00:23:27,359 Speaker 1: out those you want to hear a read rather more 424 00:23:27,440 --> 00:23:29,800 Speaker 1: about what it was to be the attorney general under 425 00:23:29,800 --> 00:23:32,159 Speaker 1: President Trump. Would he had to deal with? And I 426 00:23:32,160 --> 00:23:34,760 Speaker 1: want to ask you because you came into the center 427 00:23:34,880 --> 00:23:37,600 Speaker 1: of the storm on Russia collusion. You came in when 428 00:23:37,640 --> 00:23:41,560 Speaker 1: that was already a maelstrom meant to harm the Trump 429 00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:44,560 Speaker 1: administration and every way possible. It is beyond any doubt 430 00:23:44,880 --> 00:23:49,199 Speaker 1: that this was rooted in lies, that this was false 431 00:23:49,240 --> 00:23:53,320 Speaker 1: intelligence laundered through the top reaches of the government. And 432 00:23:54,240 --> 00:23:56,200 Speaker 1: you know, we can't I can't get into everything right now. 433 00:23:56,240 --> 00:23:58,320 Speaker 1: People know, listening about all the things that happened here, 434 00:23:58,359 --> 00:24:01,440 Speaker 1: the media, working with the deep state, all this, Are 435 00:24:01,480 --> 00:24:03,800 Speaker 1: we ever going to get a full accounting for what happened? 436 00:24:03,840 --> 00:24:06,240 Speaker 1: In your mind? I know there's still the Durham investigation 437 00:24:06,320 --> 00:24:09,520 Speaker 1: under way. Is there something that the American people should 438 00:24:09,560 --> 00:24:12,480 Speaker 1: think at some point will really know the full extent 439 00:24:12,520 --> 00:24:14,879 Speaker 1: of what happened? Yes, I think he will get to 440 00:24:14,920 --> 00:24:17,159 Speaker 1: the bottom of what happened, as far as it is 441 00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:20,800 Speaker 1: humanly possible to get the evidence and lay it out 442 00:24:20,840 --> 00:24:23,600 Speaker 1: for the American people. I mean, that's one of the 443 00:24:23,640 --> 00:24:27,760 Speaker 1: reasons I was persuaded ultimately to come in to the administration. 444 00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:30,040 Speaker 1: I had been Attorney general before, and it wasn't that 445 00:24:30,119 --> 00:24:33,919 Speaker 1: attractive a proposition to me, to be frank, but I 446 00:24:33,960 --> 00:24:36,720 Speaker 1: felt we were heading toward a constitutional crisis. I was 447 00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:40,480 Speaker 1: very skeptical of this whole Russia Gate thing from the beginning, 448 00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:43,879 Speaker 1: and what you say is right. It was a dirty trick. 449 00:24:44,280 --> 00:24:48,119 Speaker 1: It was a sham, and I never felt there was 450 00:24:48,160 --> 00:24:52,760 Speaker 1: a predication for investigating the Trump campaign. And I felt 451 00:24:53,160 --> 00:24:55,639 Speaker 1: very soon that the real issue is how did this 452 00:24:55,720 --> 00:24:59,119 Speaker 1: damn thing get started? And that's why I pointed Durham 453 00:24:59,160 --> 00:25:01,240 Speaker 1: to get to the bottom of it. Now, you know, 454 00:25:01,320 --> 00:25:04,360 Speaker 1: Durham didn't have the benefit of the Inspector General's report 455 00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:07,720 Speaker 1: until the end of twenty nineteen, and then we had COVID, 456 00:25:07,800 --> 00:25:10,080 Speaker 1: So it hasn't been as fast as I wanted, and 457 00:25:10,119 --> 00:25:13,160 Speaker 1: it's frustrating. But there's no doubt in my mind he'll 458 00:25:13,160 --> 00:25:15,440 Speaker 1: get to the bottom of it, and if there's charges 459 00:25:15,480 --> 00:25:17,600 Speaker 1: to be brought, I think he'll bring them. Was it 460 00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:21,359 Speaker 1: even beyond your expectations as a dirty trick? Once you 461 00:25:21,400 --> 00:25:24,840 Speaker 1: were inside of government at the top level of law enforcement, 462 00:25:24,840 --> 00:25:28,560 Speaker 1: the Attorney General got to see and experience and be 463 00:25:28,680 --> 00:25:31,240 Speaker 1: around what was going on. Then I think it's hard 464 00:25:31,240 --> 00:25:33,440 Speaker 1: for people to imagine from the outside what it must 465 00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:36,000 Speaker 1: be like to be the Attorney general when there's essentially 466 00:25:36,040 --> 00:25:39,640 Speaker 1: a soft coup attempt underway. From a collusion, a real 467 00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:43,280 Speaker 1: collusion between the media, some elements of the federal bureaucracy, 468 00:25:43,359 --> 00:25:46,080 Speaker 1: and the Democrat Party and the Hillary campaign all at once. 469 00:25:46,520 --> 00:25:49,520 Speaker 1: That's right. You know, I came in or you know, 470 00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:53,240 Speaker 1: we had had eight years of Obama administration and taking 471 00:25:53,280 --> 00:25:57,159 Speaker 1: over an agency after that, certainly the complexion of the 472 00:25:57,200 --> 00:25:59,560 Speaker 1: agency had changed since the last time when I took 473 00:25:59,600 --> 00:26:06,040 Speaker 1: over after Reagan. But um, yeah, the the I was 474 00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:11,159 Speaker 1: shocked at at the at the lack of basis for 475 00:26:11,320 --> 00:26:14,680 Speaker 1: the FBI's action, And to me, it's an explicabilt. For example, 476 00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:18,720 Speaker 1: you know, the dossier came from somebody who had been 477 00:26:18,760 --> 00:26:22,920 Speaker 1: suspected and investigated of being a Russian agent, and that 478 00:26:23,040 --> 00:26:26,720 Speaker 1: had never been resolved, and yet they seemed to take 479 00:26:26,760 --> 00:26:30,600 Speaker 1: the dossier and run with it, never went back to 480 00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:34,159 Speaker 1: to check on it. So I was shocked at the 481 00:26:34,359 --> 00:26:38,400 Speaker 1: at the lack of basis for the for the FBI's conduct. 482 00:26:38,440 --> 00:26:39,960 Speaker 1: I just wonder if you have any thoughts of somebody 483 00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:45,159 Speaker 1: who knows the DC and federal, UH legal and judiciary 484 00:26:45,400 --> 00:26:49,359 Speaker 1: circuit quite well. Um nominee for the Supreme Court, Katangie 485 00:26:49,520 --> 00:26:53,160 Speaker 1: Brown Jackson, what do you think, you know, I think 486 00:26:53,200 --> 00:26:56,320 Speaker 1: she'll be just what the progressive wing of the Democratic 487 00:26:56,440 --> 00:26:58,879 Speaker 1: Party could hope for, everything they could hope for in 488 00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:03,080 Speaker 1: a nomination, She'll be very very much over on the left. 489 00:27:04,119 --> 00:27:05,840 Speaker 1: Is it kind of sad to watch the Supreme Court 490 00:27:05,920 --> 00:27:08,960 Speaker 1: becomes so I mean, people always say it's not political, 491 00:27:09,040 --> 00:27:11,120 Speaker 1: and then they have a political argument about it. Yeah, 492 00:27:11,119 --> 00:27:13,080 Speaker 1: I don't think that's I think it's un serious at 493 00:27:13,119 --> 00:27:15,200 Speaker 1: this phase now to pretend that it hasn't become at 494 00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:17,359 Speaker 1: some level an instrument of politics. Do you think we 495 00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:20,120 Speaker 1: ever get back from that? Well, I hope that the majority, 496 00:27:20,119 --> 00:27:22,920 Speaker 1: the conservative majority, takes us back from that. But you're right, 497 00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:25,600 Speaker 1: that's where it was headed. And I think that is 498 00:27:25,720 --> 00:27:28,119 Speaker 1: essentially the view of the left, which it's a super 499 00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:32,399 Speaker 1: legislature that should, you know, take their bearings from the 500 00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:37,040 Speaker 1: zeitgeist and then post their will. 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It's gonna be 527 00:28:58,200 --> 00:29:00,520 Speaker 1: closing up shop here in a moment for the Travison 528 00:29:00,600 --> 00:29:03,720 Speaker 1: Buck Sexton Show play to run of the Airport. So 529 00:29:04,480 --> 00:29:08,000 Speaker 1: I'm rolland solo here for a few moments and always 530 00:29:08,040 --> 00:29:10,080 Speaker 1: appreciate the chance to talk to all of you across 531 00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:14,000 Speaker 1: the country. Also reminder the Buck Sexton Show podcasts. You 532 00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:15,760 Speaker 1: can check it out in the morning. The Clay and 533 00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:18,800 Speaker 1: Buck podcast is out also every day, hour by hour, 534 00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:21,600 Speaker 1: so please listen. If you missed any part of it, 535 00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:26,080 Speaker 1: we should absolutely well usually I guess I could go 536 00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:27,680 Speaker 1: back and listen, but I hope you will go and 537 00:29:27,720 --> 00:29:32,160 Speaker 1: listen any part of it that you missed. What are 538 00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:34,480 Speaker 1: we gonna do about Ukraine? There's gonna be more discussion 539 00:29:34,520 --> 00:29:36,960 Speaker 1: of this, certainly in the show tomorrow. Clay's out tomorrow, 540 00:29:37,080 --> 00:29:41,160 Speaker 1: so I'll be rolling solo. There'll be some Ukraine's strategy 541 00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:43,800 Speaker 1: deep diving. We also have some interesting guests in the 542 00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:48,760 Speaker 1: mix that'll be joining here is Victor Davis Hansen, who's 543 00:29:48,960 --> 00:29:51,400 Speaker 1: one of my favorite voices that you'll hear as a 544 00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:55,440 Speaker 1: guest over on Fox, saying that Biden should keep all 545 00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:59,160 Speaker 1: options open at this point. Anytime you assure an enemy 546 00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:01,920 Speaker 1: what you're not going to to do, you're ensuring them 547 00:30:01,960 --> 00:30:04,480 Speaker 1: that they will do it. And Biden is always telling 548 00:30:04,520 --> 00:30:07,280 Speaker 1: putin what we're not going to do. That's a mistake. 549 00:30:07,320 --> 00:30:09,240 Speaker 1: And you know, we've had kind of a missile spree. 550 00:30:09,400 --> 00:30:13,160 Speaker 1: It's not just in Ukraine. After Afghanistan and this administration. 551 00:30:14,280 --> 00:30:17,000 Speaker 1: North Korea let off more missiles in January than it 552 00:30:17,080 --> 00:30:20,040 Speaker 1: has in its entire history. And then we had a 553 00:30:20,160 --> 00:30:23,520 Speaker 1: Rand jump in and send missiles pretty close to a consulate, 554 00:30:23,520 --> 00:30:27,640 Speaker 1: and then we had Putin send missiles near the Polish Bardom. 555 00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:30,440 Speaker 1: All of these players have been watching Afghanistan and this 556 00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:34,600 Speaker 1: administration and they're thinking, you know what, there's no consequences, 557 00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:37,640 Speaker 1: and this is a rare moment to get real strategic 558 00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:41,120 Speaker 1: advantage over the United States and in Salized this is 559 00:30:41,320 --> 00:30:44,760 Speaker 1: very similar in the sense that the weakness of the 560 00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:49,160 Speaker 1: Biden administration does seem to be encouraging that actors around 561 00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:51,160 Speaker 1: the world. Is what the former Attorney General just said here, 562 00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:54,520 Speaker 1: Bill bar a few moments ago that when people who 563 00:30:54,520 --> 00:30:58,760 Speaker 1: are trying to test the limits of American resolve and 564 00:30:59,520 --> 00:31:03,080 Speaker 1: strategy Jake vision, when they see what we've all seen 565 00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:05,520 Speaker 1: over the last year when leaders from countries, whether it's 566 00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:09,360 Speaker 1: Iran or Russia. Perhaps in North Korea, even there's some 567 00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:14,120 Speaker 1: rumbling that there may be more aggressive missile testing to 568 00:31:14,120 --> 00:31:17,240 Speaker 1: see if North Korea can advance its technology there. With 569 00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:21,640 Speaker 1: all of this happening, you have to wonder what would 570 00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:25,880 Speaker 1: it take for the Biden regime to finally recognize that 571 00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:30,320 Speaker 1: they don't have some of the best people making these determinations. 572 00:31:30,360 --> 00:31:34,160 Speaker 1: They don't have the diplomatic edge that they thought coming 573 00:31:34,200 --> 00:31:38,040 Speaker 1: into this. There was always something of an arrogance around 574 00:31:38,080 --> 00:31:42,200 Speaker 1: Biden and the team that he brought in on the 575 00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:45,480 Speaker 1: foreign policy side, and an unearned one at that. I mean, 576 00:31:45,520 --> 00:31:50,080 Speaker 1: what are the victories of foreign policy that the Democrats 577 00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:53,479 Speaker 1: could point to? I would remind everybody Biden was, for 578 00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:56,840 Speaker 1: eight years the vice president to Barack Obama, as we 579 00:31:56,880 --> 00:32:00,840 Speaker 1: all know, but he was brought into that role under 580 00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:03,640 Speaker 1: the promise that he would be a steady hand on 581 00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:07,440 Speaker 1: foreign policy. He knew foreign policy stuff so well. The 582 00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:12,719 Speaker 1: Obama administration for eight years was one long series of 583 00:32:12,840 --> 00:32:17,200 Speaker 1: international mess ups and missteps on the diplomatic front. I mean, 584 00:32:17,240 --> 00:32:19,040 Speaker 1: the only thing if a Democrat were here right now, 585 00:32:19,080 --> 00:32:21,600 Speaker 1: I'll tell you, their argument would be, what about the 586 00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:26,520 Speaker 1: bin Laden raid and that you'd say, okay, that was excellent, 587 00:32:26,600 --> 00:32:30,760 Speaker 1: and thanks to our Navy seals and the night Stalkers 588 00:32:30,760 --> 00:32:33,440 Speaker 1: and the folks that actually conducted the mission, there was 589 00:32:33,480 --> 00:32:37,240 Speaker 1: some measure of justice achieved against Bin Laden. But think 590 00:32:37,280 --> 00:32:40,360 Speaker 1: about this on a national and strategic level. Think about 591 00:32:40,360 --> 00:32:45,000 Speaker 1: Iran and what got worse or got better in terms 592 00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:49,600 Speaker 1: of our relationship with allies around Iran that we were 593 00:32:49,640 --> 00:32:52,400 Speaker 1: hoping to be able to count on to box in 594 00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:56,360 Speaker 1: the ambitions of the Mullahs. Think about Syria. Total mess, 595 00:32:56,440 --> 00:33:01,520 Speaker 1: an absolute disaster playing out in Syria for years the 596 00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:05,240 Speaker 1: Obama administration presided over. I can't remember the exact figures, 597 00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:09,080 Speaker 1: but it was something like five hundred million dollars spent 598 00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:11,640 Speaker 1: to train a member and I think it was five 599 00:33:11,760 --> 00:33:13,720 Speaker 1: or six members of the Free Syrian Army. It was 600 00:33:13,760 --> 00:33:17,240 Speaker 1: some I mean, unless they were giving everybody iron Man 601 00:33:17,360 --> 00:33:19,840 Speaker 1: suits or something, it made no sense whatsoever. But they 602 00:33:19,920 --> 00:33:22,400 Speaker 1: just were. They had no idea. They were messing up 603 00:33:22,440 --> 00:33:26,400 Speaker 1: all over the place. So keep that in mind. As 604 00:33:26,440 --> 00:33:30,320 Speaker 1: the situation in Ukraine unfortunately grinds on and gets worse, 605 00:33:31,320 --> 00:33:34,040 Speaker 1: we should have very limited confidence, if any at all, 606 00:33:34,160 --> 00:33:36,560 Speaker 1: not just in biding I mean, I think he's clearly 607 00:33:37,760 --> 00:33:40,760 Speaker 1: lost more than a step. But the people around him 608 00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:45,360 Speaker 1: have a legacy a foreign policy failure that let's I'm 609 00:33:45,440 --> 00:33:50,000 Speaker 1: hoping they get this one right enough that calamity beyond 610 00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:52,200 Speaker 1: what we've already seen is not the result. That's where 611 00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:54,000 Speaker 1: I am on this one. Got some calls I wanted 612 00:33:54,040 --> 00:33:57,240 Speaker 1: to get to before we close up shop today. James 613 00:33:57,280 --> 00:34:00,440 Speaker 1: in Texas, James, you have an interesting story. Tell us 614 00:34:00,440 --> 00:34:04,360 Speaker 1: what's going on? Yes, her Megan didas you and mister 615 00:34:04,480 --> 00:34:08,080 Speaker 1: Travis Megan heavenly didos to the rush he sorely missed. 616 00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:11,439 Speaker 1: I am a United States Marine Corps, a US Army 617 00:34:11,600 --> 00:34:14,360 Speaker 1: Reserve veteran almost seven and a half years of service. 618 00:34:15,719 --> 00:34:18,520 Speaker 1: I am choosing to answer to the call for volunteers 619 00:34:18,520 --> 00:34:21,360 Speaker 1: to go to Ukraine and help them fight the Russian invaders. 620 00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:23,920 Speaker 1: Tell us more, tell us more about this. I mean, 621 00:34:23,960 --> 00:34:26,560 Speaker 1: when would you plan to go? Well, for first, why 622 00:34:26,840 --> 00:34:30,160 Speaker 1: why would you as a United States Marine, why do 623 00:34:30,200 --> 00:34:34,000 Speaker 1: you feel compelled to risk your life on behalf of 624 00:34:34,040 --> 00:34:38,800 Speaker 1: the Ukrainian fight against Russia. So through the years, throughout 625 00:34:38,800 --> 00:34:41,160 Speaker 1: the Global War of terrorism and my participation in it, 626 00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:44,000 Speaker 1: I've lost a lot of friends over there, I've lost 627 00:34:44,120 --> 00:34:47,600 Speaker 1: more friends to as far as it didn't show here 628 00:34:49,239 --> 00:34:52,920 Speaker 1: and then with all of our bureaucrats and politicians the 629 00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:57,120 Speaker 1: way those wars had been handled Iraq, Afghanistan and everything 630 00:34:57,160 --> 00:35:01,000 Speaker 1: in between, it doesn't seem like the war on terrorism 631 00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:03,959 Speaker 1: was the correct cause for me to fight for. Uh. 632 00:35:04,160 --> 00:35:07,200 Speaker 1: This cause though, I remember as a child even being told, 633 00:35:07,280 --> 00:35:09,560 Speaker 1: you know, the Russians, even after the Soviet Union fell, 634 00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:12,560 Speaker 1: the Russians wants to rebuild the Soviet Union, and uh, 635 00:35:12,840 --> 00:35:15,319 Speaker 1: Vladimir Putin is dead set on doing that. You can 636 00:35:15,360 --> 00:35:19,160 Speaker 1: even see tanks and armored personnel carriers rolling into Ukraine 637 00:35:19,960 --> 00:35:23,200 Speaker 1: flying the hammer and Sickle flag. So I mean, if 638 00:35:23,239 --> 00:35:26,200 Speaker 1: there hasn't been a just cause to fight in the past, 639 00:35:26,320 --> 00:35:29,880 Speaker 1: you know since Vietnam, uh, I believe firmly that this 640 00:35:30,160 --> 00:35:32,319 Speaker 1: is a just cause to fight. The Ukrainian people are 641 00:35:32,320 --> 00:35:36,320 Speaker 1: more than willing to fight for their freedom and their independence. Uh. 642 00:35:36,440 --> 00:35:39,120 Speaker 1: They they don't ask for anybody else to come and 643 00:35:39,760 --> 00:35:44,120 Speaker 1: onto their land and any other foreign nations militaries to 644 00:35:44,160 --> 00:35:47,439 Speaker 1: come and help them fight directly, but they do ask 645 00:35:47,480 --> 00:35:50,040 Speaker 1: for volunteers, and they do ask for all the tools. James, 646 00:35:50,040 --> 00:35:52,240 Speaker 1: how how can I ask how far along in this process. 647 00:35:52,280 --> 00:35:53,760 Speaker 1: I mean, do you know do you have a plane ticket? 648 00:35:53,800 --> 00:35:55,160 Speaker 1: I mean do you do you know who you'd link 649 00:35:55,280 --> 00:35:57,120 Speaker 1: up with and how you get across the border and 650 00:35:57,160 --> 00:36:00,520 Speaker 1: how far into this are you? So I'm waiting on 651 00:36:00,560 --> 00:36:03,680 Speaker 1: the passport to come in to be expedited. I've been 652 00:36:03,719 --> 00:36:06,759 Speaker 1: told that it'll take another week or so. From there, 653 00:36:07,320 --> 00:36:10,600 Speaker 1: I have to wait for my term for the interview 654 00:36:10,600 --> 00:36:14,560 Speaker 1: with the defensive Hashet at the US consulate. There's one 655 00:36:14,600 --> 00:36:18,640 Speaker 1: here in Houston, so and then from there they'll go 656 00:36:18,719 --> 00:36:21,920 Speaker 1: over my experience, find out where they need me. And 657 00:36:21,960 --> 00:36:25,400 Speaker 1: then I've been told that they've they'll Leaven, the Ukrainian 658 00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:27,239 Speaker 1: government will Leaven, provide air for here and get you 659 00:36:27,320 --> 00:36:29,719 Speaker 1: over there. Well, James, you're a brave man. Thank you 660 00:36:29,760 --> 00:36:33,399 Speaker 1: for your service to this country. And stay safe if 661 00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:35,560 Speaker 1: you do make it over there, sir, Stay safe. Those 662 00:36:35,640 --> 00:36:39,279 Speaker 1: Russians they fight dirty. Thanks for calling in, James, Thanks 663 00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:42,400 Speaker 1: so much. I'll be rocking it with you solo tomorrow 664 00:36:42,480 --> 00:36:44,799 Speaker 1: here on the clay In Buck Show, So please do 665 00:36:44,960 --> 00:36:47,600 Speaker 1: tune in. We've got a lot to talk about, whether 666 00:36:47,600 --> 00:36:51,640 Speaker 1: it's Ukraine, the price of guess, the madness of the Libs. 667 00:36:52,120 --> 00:36:53,839 Speaker 1: You know we're gonna have a good time. Plus we'll 668 00:36:53,840 --> 00:36:57,359 Speaker 1: have some special guests, some fun surprises for you. It's 669 00:36:57,440 --> 00:36:58,920 Speaker 1: all gonna be good stuff. Talk to you tomorrow.