1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,960 Speaker 1: Welcome in Wednesday edition, Clay and Buck. 2 00:00:04,080 --> 00:00:07,200 Speaker 2: We appreciate all of you, and we have got. 3 00:00:07,080 --> 00:00:13,160 Speaker 1: Breaking news across a series of locations around the world. 4 00:00:13,720 --> 00:00:18,479 Speaker 1: In particular, President Trump is in Davos, and he spoke 5 00:00:18,680 --> 00:00:22,120 Speaker 1: earlier today and set a great deal about a huge 6 00:00:22,200 --> 00:00:26,960 Speaker 1: variety of topics at that event. Also last night, Buck, 7 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:29,120 Speaker 1: as I was getting ready to go to bed, they 8 00:00:29,120 --> 00:00:33,760 Speaker 1: had to turn around to Air Force one and switch 9 00:00:33,880 --> 00:00:37,280 Speaker 1: to a different plane to fly to Davos. I know 10 00:00:37,560 --> 00:00:41,680 Speaker 1: that it doesn't get talked about very much, but it 11 00:00:41,760 --> 00:00:47,879 Speaker 1: is pretty extraordinary that President Trump flew all night to Switzerland, landed, 12 00:00:48,400 --> 00:00:51,839 Speaker 1: and now is going to spend a full day doing 13 00:00:52,280 --> 00:00:57,400 Speaker 1: a ton of serious and intense representation of the United 14 00:00:57,440 --> 00:00:59,320 Speaker 1: States on the global stage. 15 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:02,639 Speaker 2: For those of you who have taken overnight flights, and. 16 00:01:02,600 --> 00:01:05,119 Speaker 1: People say, oh, well, he's got a he's got a bed, 17 00:01:05,200 --> 00:01:08,360 Speaker 1: he can just I mean, he's working most of the time. 18 00:01:08,920 --> 00:01:12,160 Speaker 1: And no, he's not actually sleeping very much. And he's 19 00:01:12,280 --> 00:01:15,760 Speaker 1: rolling straight in and nailing all of these things. So 20 00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:19,399 Speaker 1: let's start with this. And uh, it's probably the most 21 00:01:19,440 --> 00:01:22,800 Speaker 1: significant aspect of all the things that he said. He 22 00:01:22,880 --> 00:01:25,960 Speaker 1: has said, I will not use force to take Greenland 23 00:01:26,040 --> 00:01:28,440 Speaker 1: as we told you was the case. But the media 24 00:01:28,480 --> 00:01:31,360 Speaker 1: had been losing their mind over Oh my god, Trump's 25 00:01:31,360 --> 00:01:33,479 Speaker 1: gonna invade Greenland and we're going to have a war. 26 00:01:33,560 --> 00:01:34,800 Speaker 1: And here's cut five. 27 00:01:35,280 --> 00:01:38,319 Speaker 3: We never asked for anything, and we never got anything. 28 00:01:38,640 --> 00:01:41,399 Speaker 3: We probably won't get anything unless I decide to use 29 00:01:41,440 --> 00:01:46,360 Speaker 3: excessive strength and force, where we would be frankly unstoppable. 30 00:01:46,600 --> 00:01:48,240 Speaker 3: But I won't do that. 31 00:01:48,440 --> 00:01:48,760 Speaker 4: Okay. 32 00:01:49,040 --> 00:01:52,640 Speaker 3: Now everyone's saying, oh good, that's probably the biggest statement 33 00:01:52,920 --> 00:01:55,320 Speaker 3: a man, because people thought I would use force. I 34 00:01:55,320 --> 00:01:57,120 Speaker 3: don't have to use force. I don't want to use force. 35 00:01:57,160 --> 00:02:00,000 Speaker 3: I won't use force. All the United States has asked 36 00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:03,600 Speaker 3: King for is a place called Greenland, where we already. 37 00:02:03,240 --> 00:02:07,040 Speaker 5: Had it as a trustee, but respectfully returned it back 38 00:02:07,080 --> 00:02:11,440 Speaker 5: to Denmark not long ago after we defeated the Germans, 39 00:02:11,480 --> 00:02:14,160 Speaker 5: the Japanese, the Italians and others. 40 00:02:13,840 --> 00:02:18,240 Speaker 2: In World War Two. We gave it back to them, Okay, buck. 41 00:02:18,840 --> 00:02:22,440 Speaker 1: Last night I was doing reading on the history of 42 00:02:23,440 --> 00:02:27,360 Speaker 1: of you know, American expansion, as one does, and a 43 00:02:27,400 --> 00:02:30,960 Speaker 1: buddy of mine, who was also a Virgin Island lawyer, 44 00:02:31,360 --> 00:02:34,200 Speaker 1: he sent me this article that was really interesting about 45 00:02:34,240 --> 00:02:35,079 Speaker 1: the acquisition. 46 00:02:35,360 --> 00:02:38,520 Speaker 6: Yes, as gonna say, two Virgin Islands lawyers walk into 47 00:02:38,520 --> 00:02:38,799 Speaker 6: a bar. 48 00:02:38,919 --> 00:02:40,639 Speaker 2: It sounds like a start of a great joke. 49 00:02:40,720 --> 00:02:40,800 Speaker 4: There. 50 00:02:41,240 --> 00:02:43,760 Speaker 1: There's not a lot of US. But he sent me 51 00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:46,000 Speaker 1: an article and it was a good read. And I've 52 00:02:46,040 --> 00:02:49,040 Speaker 1: been talking about the fact that we acquired the US 53 00:02:49,160 --> 00:02:53,640 Speaker 1: Virgin Islands in nineteen seventeen, paid twenty five million dollars 54 00:02:53,639 --> 00:02:58,280 Speaker 1: in gold, and bought it from the Dutch. Here is 55 00:02:58,320 --> 00:03:05,080 Speaker 1: an article about that negotiation. Lancing. This is highlighted. Insinuated. 56 00:03:05,120 --> 00:03:08,040 Speaker 1: This is the I believe the Secretary of State back 57 00:03:08,040 --> 00:03:12,560 Speaker 1: in the day. Lancing in nineteen seventeen insinuated that if 58 00:03:12,600 --> 00:03:16,560 Speaker 1: Denmark didn't sell the US the islands, it just might 59 00:03:16,680 --> 00:03:21,200 Speaker 1: go and seize them to prevent Germany from getting to them. 60 00:03:21,560 --> 00:03:25,040 Speaker 1: It was a bullying tactic and it worked eager to 61 00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:29,680 Speaker 1: prevent a US military attack. Denmark was currently a neutral 62 00:03:29,760 --> 00:03:33,840 Speaker 1: party in World War One. Denmark negotiated a treaty with 63 00:03:33,919 --> 00:03:38,320 Speaker 1: the US that President Wilson signed in nineteen seventeen. On 64 00:03:38,480 --> 00:03:43,800 Speaker 1: March thirty first, nineteen seventeen, Denmark formerly transferred governance over 65 00:03:43,880 --> 00:03:47,240 Speaker 1: the islands to the US, and the US reciprocated by 66 00:03:47,240 --> 00:03:51,440 Speaker 1: paying Denmark twenty five million dollars in gold coin. What 67 00:03:51,680 --> 00:03:54,160 Speaker 1: is old can be new again. Now we're going to 68 00:03:54,200 --> 00:03:57,520 Speaker 1: get into a bunch of what Trump said, But I 69 00:03:57,560 --> 00:04:00,400 Speaker 1: did think it was intriguing that one hundred years ago, 70 00:04:00,880 --> 00:04:04,560 Speaker 1: one of the negotiation tactics involved in the United States 71 00:04:04,600 --> 00:04:07,440 Speaker 1: taking control of the Virgin Islands was, if you don't 72 00:04:07,480 --> 00:04:11,080 Speaker 1: sell it, we're just gonna take it, Mike. Throughout history, 73 00:04:11,120 --> 00:04:17,040 Speaker 1: buck has often made right. Trump understands this, and I 74 00:04:17,040 --> 00:04:20,800 Speaker 1: think it's a sign of how significant his pursuit of 75 00:04:20,839 --> 00:04:23,960 Speaker 1: Greenland has become that of all the things that he said, 76 00:04:24,279 --> 00:04:28,560 Speaker 1: I think it is receiving the most consequential attention surrounding 77 00:04:28,880 --> 00:04:31,760 Speaker 1: the Greenland decision. Did that stand out to you the 78 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:36,359 Speaker 1: most in terms of newsworthy statements of the moment to 79 00:04:36,440 --> 00:04:39,479 Speaker 1: you or was there other things that stood out in particular? 80 00:04:39,720 --> 00:04:40,400 Speaker 4: There are a. 81 00:04:40,839 --> 00:04:44,799 Speaker 6: Few funny aspects of this. One is you could really 82 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:50,320 Speaker 6: feel the exhale from so many of the assembled Eurocrats 83 00:04:50,520 --> 00:04:51,159 Speaker 6: in that room. 84 00:04:51,680 --> 00:04:55,240 Speaker 2: Oh, he's not actually going to just seize it by force. 85 00:04:56,080 --> 00:04:59,520 Speaker 6: No, dude, He's not going to seize your island with 86 00:05:00,080 --> 00:05:02,719 Speaker 6: the marines. We're not going to be sending F thirty 87 00:05:02,720 --> 00:05:07,320 Speaker 6: five's in the sky and blowing up Greenland air defenses. 88 00:05:07,600 --> 00:05:10,160 Speaker 6: We're not going to make them throw harpoons at our 89 00:05:10,240 --> 00:05:13,560 Speaker 6: tanks like it's fine, okay, We're not going to do that. 90 00:05:14,680 --> 00:05:17,640 Speaker 6: And it's just the fact that there was real, apparently 91 00:05:17,680 --> 00:05:20,520 Speaker 6: real concern as it was reported among the assembled that 92 00:05:20,560 --> 00:05:22,880 Speaker 6: Trump is just gonna be like, it's mine, I'm taking it. 93 00:05:23,360 --> 00:05:25,080 Speaker 2: So that's that's one aspect of it. 94 00:05:25,120 --> 00:05:28,400 Speaker 6: There's also clay something else because I've been looking into 95 00:05:28,400 --> 00:05:31,320 Speaker 6: this as well. Now I am not licensed to practice 96 00:05:31,400 --> 00:05:34,320 Speaker 6: law in the US Virgin Islands, but I am good 97 00:05:34,360 --> 00:05:36,520 Speaker 6: at deep dive internet research. 98 00:05:36,560 --> 00:05:37,159 Speaker 2: So I was wondering. 99 00:05:37,160 --> 00:05:39,640 Speaker 6: I was like, where else does the United States have 100 00:05:40,680 --> 00:05:46,120 Speaker 6: something that is a analogous arrangement or territory. 101 00:05:46,800 --> 00:05:49,200 Speaker 2: A territory, I mean, there is the official legal term. 102 00:05:49,760 --> 00:05:53,960 Speaker 6: Well, but there's something else actually you jump in and yes, 103 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:55,080 Speaker 6: that's part one, part two. 104 00:05:55,520 --> 00:05:57,200 Speaker 2: We have territories like the Virgin Islands. 105 00:05:57,279 --> 00:06:00,560 Speaker 6: We also have something that I I on it had 106 00:06:00,640 --> 00:06:06,880 Speaker 6: not heard of before, which is a voluntary compact essentially, 107 00:06:06,960 --> 00:06:13,240 Speaker 6: and now we have this with Micronesia, so that is 108 00:06:13,480 --> 00:06:17,880 Speaker 6: a situation that is similar here. It's called a compact 109 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:22,000 Speaker 6: of free association, and we have this with a number 110 00:06:22,080 --> 00:06:26,080 Speaker 6: of islands in the Pacific. Now it gives us defense, 111 00:06:27,160 --> 00:06:30,839 Speaker 6: but basically it gives us the right to provide their defense, 112 00:06:30,920 --> 00:06:32,160 Speaker 6: but we get basing rights. 113 00:06:32,800 --> 00:06:35,760 Speaker 2: We also have total control over their. 114 00:06:35,680 --> 00:06:39,599 Speaker 6: Waterways for strategic military purposes and their air but we 115 00:06:39,720 --> 00:06:43,760 Speaker 6: totally defend them visa free migration to the US. A 116 00:06:43,800 --> 00:06:48,240 Speaker 6: lot of US federal assistants given to them economic assistance 117 00:06:48,240 --> 00:06:52,200 Speaker 6: for education, health, infrastructure. But if they decide they don't 118 00:06:52,320 --> 00:06:56,839 Speaker 6: like the situation, they can end it. This requires just 119 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:01,039 Speaker 6: vote of This is not a two third Senate treaty situation. 120 00:07:01,560 --> 00:07:05,360 Speaker 6: A compact or free association would just be a majority 121 00:07:05,720 --> 00:07:08,240 Speaker 6: in the Congress, a majority in the House and the Senate, 122 00:07:08,279 --> 00:07:11,040 Speaker 6: signed by the President. So it's a lot easier to 123 00:07:11,080 --> 00:07:14,120 Speaker 6: do Now, it's not as it's not as enduring. But 124 00:07:14,160 --> 00:07:16,240 Speaker 6: I'm just saying we already have this with thousands of 125 00:07:16,280 --> 00:07:18,560 Speaker 6: little islands in the Pacific, where we say, look, we're 126 00:07:18,560 --> 00:07:20,640 Speaker 6: gonna protect you, we're gonna hook you up with some stuff. 127 00:07:20,960 --> 00:07:23,440 Speaker 6: But if we need to like build an air base somewhere, 128 00:07:23,640 --> 00:07:25,840 Speaker 6: we're all good, right, and like we have control. 129 00:07:26,520 --> 00:07:26,760 Speaker 2: Yeah. 130 00:07:26,880 --> 00:07:30,720 Speaker 1: Look, some of the Danes would argue, based on the 131 00:07:30,760 --> 00:07:34,040 Speaker 1: World War II relationship that we had with Greenland, that 132 00:07:34,080 --> 00:07:37,560 Speaker 1: we have access to Greenland to protect for purposes of 133 00:07:37,680 --> 00:07:41,640 Speaker 1: military related issues. That's why I think this is actually 134 00:07:41,680 --> 00:07:44,000 Speaker 1: twofold buck, and I think Trump is being a little 135 00:07:44,040 --> 00:07:47,600 Speaker 1: bit sneaky on this. He's primarily selling that we need 136 00:07:47,640 --> 00:07:51,120 Speaker 1: Greenland for military reasons, and I do think there's a 137 00:07:51,120 --> 00:07:54,960 Speaker 1: lot of legitimacy for that. But the secondary part is 138 00:07:55,240 --> 00:07:59,200 Speaker 1: he wants to control the long range future of Greenland, 139 00:07:59,600 --> 00:08:03,240 Speaker 1: as the minerals there are potentially able to be mined. 140 00:08:03,640 --> 00:08:06,400 Speaker 1: So I think he's trying and again a lot of 141 00:08:06,440 --> 00:08:08,520 Speaker 1: times this happens with any of you who've dealt with 142 00:08:08,600 --> 00:08:12,440 Speaker 1: real estate developers. There can be a mutuality of goal, 143 00:08:12,880 --> 00:08:15,520 Speaker 1: and so the lead is, oh, we need this for 144 00:08:15,600 --> 00:08:18,720 Speaker 1: military purposes, and it gets a lot of attention. But 145 00:08:18,760 --> 00:08:21,400 Speaker 1: if we have the ability to defend Greenland in a 146 00:08:21,400 --> 00:08:25,400 Speaker 1: way that is significant already. The secondary and maybe primary 147 00:08:25,440 --> 00:08:28,000 Speaker 1: in many ways aspect of this buck is I really 148 00:08:28,040 --> 00:08:32,160 Speaker 1: do think that he wants to have complete title to 149 00:08:32,360 --> 00:08:35,080 Speaker 1: Greenland so that the United States has the ability to 150 00:08:35,120 --> 00:08:39,280 Speaker 1: profit off of it in the years ahead. And that 151 00:08:39,400 --> 00:08:42,560 Speaker 1: is why I think the territory example, like the US 152 00:08:42,679 --> 00:08:45,400 Speaker 1: Virgin Islands Guam, that to me is where we would 153 00:08:45,440 --> 00:08:48,199 Speaker 1: wedge Greenland in if I were trying to project how 154 00:08:48,200 --> 00:08:48,839 Speaker 1: it should happen. 155 00:08:49,280 --> 00:08:51,800 Speaker 6: And also though, wouldn't be Trump if he didn't take 156 00:08:51,840 --> 00:08:55,960 Speaker 6: this opportunity, like the right wing uncle at Thanksgiving, to 157 00:08:56,040 --> 00:08:58,199 Speaker 6: just lay down the facts of life a little bit 158 00:08:58,400 --> 00:09:01,280 Speaker 6: for some of the commune he's sitting around and some 159 00:09:01,440 --> 00:09:05,840 Speaker 6: of the whiny libs, the snowflakes as we used to 160 00:09:05,840 --> 00:09:08,680 Speaker 6: call them a decade or so ago. Here he is 161 00:09:08,760 --> 00:09:11,839 Speaker 6: telling all those Europeans, you know it's coming. Well at us, 162 00:09:12,120 --> 00:09:14,239 Speaker 6: you'd be speaking German and Japanese. 163 00:09:14,240 --> 00:09:14,760 Speaker 2: Play four. 164 00:09:21,600 --> 00:09:25,640 Speaker 3: We saw this in World War Two when Denmark fell 165 00:09:25,679 --> 00:09:30,520 Speaker 3: to Germany after just six hours of fighting and was 166 00:09:30,559 --> 00:09:34,640 Speaker 3: totally unable to defend either itself or Greenland. So the 167 00:09:34,760 --> 00:09:37,280 Speaker 3: United States was then compelled. 168 00:09:37,480 --> 00:09:37,960 Speaker 4: We did it. 169 00:09:38,040 --> 00:09:41,240 Speaker 3: We felt an obligation to do it, to send our 170 00:09:41,240 --> 00:09:45,960 Speaker 3: own forces to hold the Greenland territory, and hold it 171 00:09:46,040 --> 00:09:49,480 Speaker 3: we did at great courts and expense. They didn't have 172 00:09:49,480 --> 00:09:54,400 Speaker 3: a chance of getting on it, and they tried. Denmark 173 00:09:54,440 --> 00:09:59,280 Speaker 3: knows that we literally set up bases on Greenland for Denmark. 174 00:10:00,760 --> 00:10:03,520 Speaker 3: We fought for Denmark. We weren't fighting for anyone else. 175 00:10:03,559 --> 00:10:08,800 Speaker 3: We were fighting to save it for Denmark, big beautiful 176 00:10:09,040 --> 00:10:11,120 Speaker 3: piece of ice. It's hard to call it land, it's 177 00:10:11,160 --> 00:10:15,520 Speaker 3: a big piece of ice. But we saved Greenland and 178 00:10:15,640 --> 00:10:21,000 Speaker 3: successfully prevented our enemies from gaining a foothold in our hemisphere. 179 00:10:21,120 --> 00:10:24,320 Speaker 3: So we did it for ourselves also. And then after 180 00:10:24,360 --> 00:10:29,000 Speaker 3: the war, which we won, we won it big without us. 181 00:10:29,600 --> 00:10:33,120 Speaker 3: Right now, you'd all be speaking German and little Japanese. 182 00:10:33,160 --> 00:10:40,199 Speaker 3: Perhaps after the wager we gave Greenland back to Denmark. 183 00:10:41,080 --> 00:10:44,319 Speaker 2: How stupid were we to do that? But we did it. 184 00:10:45,360 --> 00:10:46,360 Speaker 4: But we gave it back. 185 00:10:47,160 --> 00:10:49,160 Speaker 3: But how ungrateful are they now? 186 00:10:49,760 --> 00:10:53,160 Speaker 6: Okay, So, by the way, there's a great podcast opportunity, 187 00:10:53,360 --> 00:10:57,520 Speaker 6: Trump does History. So then we crushed the Nazis, huge 188 00:10:57,600 --> 00:11:01,280 Speaker 6: crushing of the evil, evil, bad Nazi. And the Japanese 189 00:11:01,360 --> 00:11:04,080 Speaker 6: very bad too, the Japanese good cars in the eighties, 190 00:11:04,480 --> 00:11:08,200 Speaker 6: bad World War two Japanese. Would you not listen to 191 00:11:08,360 --> 00:11:12,920 Speaker 6: Trump does History as a podcast? It'd be amazingly extemporaneus 192 00:11:12,920 --> 00:11:16,200 Speaker 6: allowed though it is great too for him to go 193 00:11:16,400 --> 00:11:20,400 Speaker 6: in front of that entire European community and remind them 194 00:11:20,400 --> 00:11:23,360 Speaker 6: that the only reason they have freedom and the only 195 00:11:23,400 --> 00:11:26,240 Speaker 6: reason that they're not speaking German and perhaps a little Japanese, 196 00:11:26,280 --> 00:11:28,400 Speaker 6: which is a just a great aside the way to 197 00:11:28,480 --> 00:11:30,560 Speaker 6: the way that Trump delivered it. 198 00:11:31,920 --> 00:11:34,600 Speaker 2: I do think when you break all. 199 00:11:34,440 --> 00:11:37,760 Speaker 1: Of this down, I'm gonna make a prediction, Buck, I 200 00:11:37,760 --> 00:11:42,320 Speaker 1: think we're gonna get Greenland. I just I don't know 201 00:11:42,640 --> 00:11:46,080 Speaker 1: exactly what the timeframe is going to be, but I 202 00:11:46,120 --> 00:11:49,920 Speaker 1: think it's going to fit some form of territorial like 203 00:11:49,960 --> 00:11:54,199 Speaker 1: the Virgin Islands, like Guom, some form of construct like that. 204 00:11:54,280 --> 00:11:56,920 Speaker 1: I think it'll be more substantial than the agreement you're 205 00:11:56,960 --> 00:11:57,520 Speaker 1: talking about. 206 00:11:57,559 --> 00:11:58,959 Speaker 2: Buck. Now, they may. 207 00:11:58,960 --> 00:12:02,600 Speaker 1: Argue for purposes of trying to look like they are 208 00:12:02,760 --> 00:12:05,440 Speaker 1: just completely relenting to Trump. They may say, well, this 209 00:12:05,559 --> 00:12:08,760 Speaker 1: is just a mutual He's not getting anything that he wants, 210 00:12:08,800 --> 00:12:10,840 Speaker 1: right Like, there could be an element of the way 211 00:12:10,880 --> 00:12:15,440 Speaker 1: the media plays it, But I think Trump wants, you know, 212 00:12:15,760 --> 00:12:19,640 Speaker 1: free and clear title of Greenland and the ability to 213 00:12:19,720 --> 00:12:22,480 Speaker 1: develop its resources for the next hundreds of years for 214 00:12:22,559 --> 00:12:24,880 Speaker 1: the United States. I think he's going to get it, 215 00:12:25,400 --> 00:12:27,280 Speaker 1: and I think it may lead to us having to 216 00:12:27,360 --> 00:12:30,360 Speaker 1: pay off all of the fifty seven thousand of the 217 00:12:30,360 --> 00:12:32,520 Speaker 1: people who live in Greenland. Right It's not going to 218 00:12:32,559 --> 00:12:34,880 Speaker 1: be cheap and we're not going to seize it to 219 00:12:34,920 --> 00:12:37,240 Speaker 1: your point. With boots on the ground, there's not going 220 00:12:37,280 --> 00:12:41,160 Speaker 1: to be paratroopers coming into Greenland. But I do think 221 00:12:41,200 --> 00:12:44,200 Speaker 1: that there's going to be some form of agreement reached. 222 00:12:44,760 --> 00:12:47,920 Speaker 6: You know what this really means. We're heading toward Clan 223 00:12:48,040 --> 00:12:53,120 Speaker 6: Buck's excellent Greenland adventure. I'm already doing the research. It's happening. 224 00:12:53,200 --> 00:12:57,199 Speaker 6: I'm working on my dog sledding skills. I'm gonna get 225 00:12:57,200 --> 00:13:00,000 Speaker 6: it all going. We're gonna be ready for Greenland, hopefully 226 00:13:00,120 --> 00:13:02,440 Speaker 6: by this summer. 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Find them on 255 00:14:49,240 --> 00:14:52,840 Speaker 1: the free iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcast. 256 00:14:52,920 --> 00:14:56,360 Speaker 6: Good morning listening to Trump's comments at Davos, and we're 257 00:14:56,400 --> 00:14:59,000 Speaker 6: gonna break down more of this. It's not just Greenlands 258 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:03,720 Speaker 6: gott Be talked about. He talked about Venezuela, crime in California, 259 00:15:04,520 --> 00:15:08,280 Speaker 6: homes in America, building homes, the US economy. It was 260 00:15:08,320 --> 00:15:11,480 Speaker 6: really just a Trump athon. He did the usual Trump 261 00:15:11,520 --> 00:15:14,200 Speaker 6: stuff hour and twenty minutes or something. The speech was, 262 00:15:14,240 --> 00:15:16,080 Speaker 6: he went on for a bit. We'll bring in the 263 00:15:16,120 --> 00:15:18,280 Speaker 6: highlights of it because it touches on a lot of 264 00:15:18,320 --> 00:15:21,560 Speaker 6: the most important things here on the show, something that 265 00:15:21,560 --> 00:15:24,000 Speaker 6: would not go in the category of most important things 266 00:15:24,040 --> 00:15:25,760 Speaker 6: on the show, but I did because we'd like to 267 00:15:25,840 --> 00:15:28,800 Speaker 6: keep you entertained. Think it was worth noting. Is that Trump, 268 00:15:28,960 --> 00:15:32,520 Speaker 6: the Leader of the Free World, noted that Emmanuel Macron 269 00:15:33,040 --> 00:15:38,400 Speaker 6: of France he was wearing sunglasses at the summit. And 270 00:15:38,480 --> 00:15:39,520 Speaker 6: here's what Trump said. 271 00:15:40,040 --> 00:15:43,520 Speaker 3: So what I called up Emmanuel Macrone? I watched him 272 00:15:43,600 --> 00:15:47,400 Speaker 3: yesterday with those beautiful sunglasses. What the hell happened? 273 00:15:49,080 --> 00:15:51,040 Speaker 2: Beautiful sunglasses? What the hell? Now? 274 00:15:51,040 --> 00:15:55,480 Speaker 6: There were a lot of comments about Brigitte Macron having 275 00:15:55,920 --> 00:15:59,600 Speaker 6: quite a left hook, perhaps much more than one would expect, 276 00:15:59,680 --> 00:16:02,520 Speaker 6: for reasons that one couldn't surmise on their own. 277 00:16:02,880 --> 00:16:05,640 Speaker 2: But I'm just putting out there that there are people that. 278 00:16:05,640 --> 00:16:08,480 Speaker 6: Think these things. I'm not saying, Clay, I think these things. 279 00:16:08,800 --> 00:16:10,240 Speaker 6: I am merely saying but. 280 00:16:10,280 --> 00:16:13,560 Speaker 1: They had the video of her shoving him as well, 281 00:16:13,600 --> 00:16:16,480 Speaker 1: like punk kind of grappling him in some way on 282 00:16:16,520 --> 00:16:18,200 Speaker 1: the face right as he was trying to come off 283 00:16:18,280 --> 00:16:21,000 Speaker 1: the French plane. So in addition maybe having a meat 284 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:24,200 Speaker 1: hook of a right or a left, there's also video 285 00:16:24,280 --> 00:16:25,600 Speaker 1: of her kind of shoving him around. 286 00:16:26,120 --> 00:16:30,080 Speaker 6: Look, maybe maybe Emmanuel got a little mouthy and Brigitte 287 00:16:30,080 --> 00:16:31,280 Speaker 6: had to tune him up a little bit. 288 00:16:31,320 --> 00:16:32,840 Speaker 2: You know, it happens. It happens. 289 00:16:32,880 --> 00:16:35,720 Speaker 6: But apparently he had like a burst burst blood vessel 290 00:16:35,800 --> 00:16:37,440 Speaker 6: or something in the eye. He's fine, it's mine or 291 00:16:37,440 --> 00:16:41,400 Speaker 6: it's a cosmetic thing. But it's funny because I told 292 00:16:41,400 --> 00:16:44,280 Speaker 6: Clay we're talking about this, and I said, I think 293 00:16:44,320 --> 00:16:47,040 Speaker 6: I just go instead of being indoor sunglasses guy, I 294 00:16:47,040 --> 00:16:49,880 Speaker 6: would go eye patch. And Clay just started ripping on 295 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:50,760 Speaker 6: me for this one. 296 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:53,520 Speaker 1: I I I don't want to and I don't want 297 00:16:53,520 --> 00:16:55,720 Speaker 1: to go after the people with eye patches in our 298 00:16:57,240 --> 00:17:00,480 Speaker 1: audience because you're probably quite a dept at sword fights 299 00:17:00,640 --> 00:17:07,439 Speaker 1: and piracy. 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Like I think that 301 00:17:10,280 --> 00:17:12,240 Speaker 1: everyone assumes that it's a medical if you have an 302 00:17:12,280 --> 00:17:14,399 Speaker 1: eye patch on, everyone assumes it's a medical If you're 303 00:17:14,440 --> 00:17:16,760 Speaker 1: wearing sunglasses, people are like, what do you think you're 304 00:17:16,800 --> 00:17:17,640 Speaker 1: like some cool guy? 305 00:17:17,760 --> 00:17:20,399 Speaker 6: You know you you play, you play in the you know, 306 00:17:20,600 --> 00:17:23,280 Speaker 6: the the trombone indoors by yourself, or something like, are 307 00:17:23,280 --> 00:17:24,640 Speaker 6: you a jazz guy? 308 00:17:24,720 --> 00:17:25,360 Speaker 2: What's going on? 309 00:17:25,920 --> 00:17:30,840 Speaker 1: It has to be so egregious to wear sunglasses indoors 310 00:17:30,880 --> 00:17:33,760 Speaker 1: like that, because no one pays any attention to what 311 00:17:33,840 --> 00:17:36,639 Speaker 1: you say, because you are drawing your attention to yourself, 312 00:17:36,640 --> 00:17:38,360 Speaker 1: and this is one thing you're one hundred percent right 313 00:17:38,359 --> 00:17:42,199 Speaker 1: about on They definitely did this with Biden because it 314 00:17:42,280 --> 00:17:45,680 Speaker 1: made him look less old and you didn't notice as 315 00:17:45,800 --> 00:17:48,760 Speaker 1: much his wondering eyes. 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He made a great deal of news earlier 340 00:18:59,720 --> 00:19:05,840 Speaker 1: today speaking in Europe. We talked about the decision on 341 00:19:06,119 --> 00:19:08,080 Speaker 1: Greenland and how that's going to play out. 342 00:19:08,400 --> 00:19:09,360 Speaker 2: I thought that was. 343 00:19:09,400 --> 00:19:15,600 Speaker 1: Clearly the most newsworthy aspect of his address. But his 344 00:19:15,760 --> 00:19:19,800 Speaker 1: comments on Minnesota, and we're going to talk with Michelle Tafoya, 345 00:19:19,880 --> 00:19:22,119 Speaker 1: who has announced that she is going to be running 346 00:19:22,119 --> 00:19:25,399 Speaker 1: for the Senate as a Republican in Minnesota. That happened 347 00:19:25,440 --> 00:19:27,800 Speaker 1: earlier this morning. She's going to join us at the 348 00:19:27,840 --> 00:19:31,959 Speaker 1: top of the third hour. But the protests in Minneapolis continue, 349 00:19:32,800 --> 00:19:37,000 Speaker 1: and here is Trump saying, the situation in Minnesota is 350 00:19:37,480 --> 00:19:41,440 Speaker 1: about culture and what happens when you embrace the wrong cultures. 351 00:19:41,480 --> 00:19:46,040 Speaker 4: Cut one, the situation in Minnesota remind us that the 352 00:19:46,160 --> 00:19:50,320 Speaker 4: West cannot mass import foreign cultures which have failed to 353 00:19:50,400 --> 00:19:53,000 Speaker 4: ever build a successful society of their own. 354 00:19:53,480 --> 00:19:58,120 Speaker 3: I mean, we're taking people from Somalia, and Somalia is a. 355 00:19:58,200 --> 00:19:59,640 Speaker 2: Failed it's not a nation. 356 00:20:00,640 --> 00:20:03,200 Speaker 3: Got no government, got no police, got no millie, got 357 00:20:03,200 --> 00:20:08,680 Speaker 3: no nothing. And then we have this fake congressperson who 358 00:20:08,720 --> 00:20:11,480 Speaker 3: they just reported is worth thirty million dollars. You believe 359 00:20:11,600 --> 00:20:16,000 Speaker 3: is elan Omar talking about the constitution that provides me. 360 00:20:16,560 --> 00:20:19,119 Speaker 3: She comes from a country that's not a country, and 361 00:20:19,200 --> 00:20:21,200 Speaker 3: she's telling us how to run America. 362 00:20:21,440 --> 00:20:23,040 Speaker 2: Not going to get away with it much longer. 363 00:20:23,119 --> 00:20:27,919 Speaker 1: Let me tell you, okay, Buck, So the older I get, 364 00:20:28,240 --> 00:20:32,800 Speaker 1: as I move into squarely into unk status, culture is 365 00:20:32,840 --> 00:20:35,920 Speaker 1: everything I think. The culture you create in your family, 366 00:20:35,960 --> 00:20:38,280 Speaker 1: the culture you create in your business, and your state, 367 00:20:38,359 --> 00:20:41,359 Speaker 1: and your cities and your church and your communities. The 368 00:20:41,440 --> 00:20:45,960 Speaker 1: culture that you create dictates success across the board, and 369 00:20:46,240 --> 00:20:50,439 Speaker 1: the culture that Minnesota embraced was one of piracy from Somalia. 370 00:20:50,960 --> 00:20:55,400 Speaker 1: Is it any surprise at all that Somali pirates effectively 371 00:20:55,480 --> 00:21:00,320 Speaker 1: pirated the Minnesota culture there, And it's a very different 372 00:21:00,359 --> 00:21:04,600 Speaker 1: culture between frankly a lot of the Scandinavian countries that 373 00:21:04,720 --> 00:21:09,080 Speaker 1: overwhelmingly make up Minnesotans and the Somalis. 374 00:21:09,600 --> 00:21:09,919 Speaker 2: Well. 375 00:21:10,160 --> 00:21:14,040 Speaker 6: It also, though Clay, it goes right into a much 376 00:21:14,280 --> 00:21:20,600 Speaker 6: longer and broader narrative of these recent arrivals into the 377 00:21:20,680 --> 00:21:26,879 Speaker 6: country who are taking advantage of the American people. Now, 378 00:21:27,240 --> 00:21:30,439 Speaker 6: this is something that I think is particularly galling. This 379 00:21:30,560 --> 00:21:35,320 Speaker 6: really rightly upsets all Americans. We saw this, for example, 380 00:21:35,880 --> 00:21:40,400 Speaker 6: with the abuse of our asylum system. We saw this 381 00:21:40,560 --> 00:21:44,520 Speaker 6: with people showing up at the border with children that 382 00:21:44,560 --> 00:21:48,080 Speaker 6: weren't even theirs, because they knew if they claimed that 383 00:21:48,160 --> 00:21:50,720 Speaker 6: they were their kids, they would be able to be 384 00:21:50,800 --> 00:21:54,000 Speaker 6: released in the American interior, never to be seen again. 385 00:21:54,040 --> 00:21:56,280 Speaker 6: At least that was the plan, so that they would 386 00:21:56,359 --> 00:21:59,000 Speaker 6: just evade all of our immigration systems. When you're talking 387 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:02,480 Speaker 6: about people who are not only going on welfare, which 388 00:22:02,520 --> 00:22:05,439 Speaker 6: I think you could argue for any immigrant, feels a 389 00:22:05,440 --> 00:22:12,399 Speaker 6: bit ungrateful but beyond that, to defraud the incredible kindness 390 00:22:12,960 --> 00:22:17,280 Speaker 6: of the American people and really the American taxpayer, that's 391 00:22:17,480 --> 00:22:20,080 Speaker 6: just too much. We saw this also in New York 392 00:22:20,080 --> 00:22:22,560 Speaker 6: City where you have all these migrants who show up 393 00:22:22,840 --> 00:22:26,160 Speaker 6: and they enter the country illegally. They lie about how 394 00:22:26,160 --> 00:22:29,440 Speaker 6: their asylum seekers or rather their asylum stories a rather 395 00:22:29,520 --> 00:22:32,399 Speaker 6: made up, or there's no way they're actually deserving of asylum. 396 00:22:33,040 --> 00:22:36,240 Speaker 6: And then they're getting EBT cards and they're getting free 397 00:22:36,280 --> 00:22:38,880 Speaker 6: housing or the free hotel rooms and all this stuff. 398 00:22:39,440 --> 00:22:41,639 Speaker 6: We didn't sign up for that, like we the American people, 399 00:22:41,640 --> 00:22:44,240 Speaker 6: didn't want this. And then when you have this, the 400 00:22:44,240 --> 00:22:47,879 Speaker 6: Somali situation, you would think that these should be people. 401 00:22:47,920 --> 00:22:49,600 Speaker 6: I mean, and I'll speak to this in the context 402 00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:53,040 Speaker 6: Clay of Florida. And you know this is a generalization, 403 00:22:53,800 --> 00:22:57,199 Speaker 6: but one thing about people who have tasted tyranny, of 404 00:22:57,280 --> 00:23:01,960 Speaker 6: real tyranny abroad in a particular from communism, is they 405 00:23:01,960 --> 00:23:04,639 Speaker 6: come here and they often have a real love of 406 00:23:04,720 --> 00:23:09,120 Speaker 6: this place. And I've experienced this with the Cuban American 407 00:23:09,160 --> 00:23:13,240 Speaker 6: population in Miami, Venezuelans. Many of them who have come here, 408 00:23:13,359 --> 00:23:16,680 Speaker 6: they hate socialism, they hate communism, They love this country. 409 00:23:16,800 --> 00:23:20,520 Speaker 6: They wish their country hadn't been ruined by Maduro and Chaves. 410 00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:26,360 Speaker 6: They appreciated here. You don't get that sense from ilhan 411 00:23:26,440 --> 00:23:29,760 Speaker 6: Omar's speeches as a refugee in this country. You surely 412 00:23:29,840 --> 00:23:34,120 Speaker 6: don't get that sense from the Somali community in Minneapolis, which, 413 00:23:34,160 --> 00:23:39,120 Speaker 6: instead of expressing their outrage that this is happening among them, 414 00:23:39,359 --> 00:23:41,760 Speaker 6: they immediately go into this sort of defensive posture of 415 00:23:41,800 --> 00:23:44,160 Speaker 6: how dare you, how dare you ask these questions? Look 416 00:23:44,160 --> 00:23:47,960 Speaker 6: at us like, well, you're ripping us off and it's illegal, 417 00:23:48,040 --> 00:23:49,720 Speaker 6: and we're allowed to be upset about this. 418 00:23:50,760 --> 00:23:52,400 Speaker 2: Aren't you embarrassed by this? 419 00:23:52,760 --> 00:23:55,840 Speaker 6: Shouldn't the Somali community, you know, the claim we're supposed 420 00:23:55,880 --> 00:24:01,080 Speaker 6: to be embarrassed about the you know, the Apache people 421 00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:04,879 Speaker 6: losing their land two hundred years ago with these But 422 00:24:05,200 --> 00:24:08,119 Speaker 6: the Somali community Minneapolis, there's no sense of embarrassment that 423 00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:08,800 Speaker 6: they're involved in. 424 00:24:08,880 --> 00:24:12,000 Speaker 2: Nine billion dollars is estimated of fraud. What's going on? 425 00:24:12,560 --> 00:24:15,000 Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's well said. I also think it 426 00:24:15,080 --> 00:24:18,480 Speaker 1: goes to the larger cultural question. I believe this number 427 00:24:18,520 --> 00:24:22,760 Speaker 1: is correct. Fifteen point six percent of the United States 428 00:24:22,840 --> 00:24:26,000 Speaker 1: population right now is not born in the United States. 429 00:24:26,600 --> 00:24:29,919 Speaker 1: Fifteen point six percent. That's the highest in any of 430 00:24:29,960 --> 00:24:34,040 Speaker 1: our lives. I believe that's basically the highest since all 431 00:24:34,080 --> 00:24:38,000 Speaker 1: the way back to when America wasn't a sea to 432 00:24:38,080 --> 00:24:42,600 Speaker 1: shining sea country. Hardly eighteen eighties maybe was a time 433 00:24:42,680 --> 00:24:46,879 Speaker 1: when we would have had a similar non native born population. 434 00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:53,720 Speaker 1: Any of you know who have expanded companies, who've expanded churches, 435 00:24:54,040 --> 00:24:57,720 Speaker 1: who have expanded organizations. One of the hardest things to 436 00:24:57,760 --> 00:25:02,040 Speaker 1: do when you're maintaining a culture is grow because the 437 00:25:02,119 --> 00:25:05,200 Speaker 1: people who are there that have established the culture suddenly 438 00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:09,120 Speaker 1: have a less significant impact in the culture going forward, 439 00:25:10,200 --> 00:25:12,960 Speaker 1: and you lose touch with what made you successful in 440 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:16,639 Speaker 1: the past. To me, that's what we did with immigration 441 00:25:17,119 --> 00:25:19,480 Speaker 1: and the immigration that I've always bought into. 442 00:25:19,520 --> 00:25:19,760 Speaker 2: Buck. 443 00:25:19,880 --> 00:25:23,159 Speaker 1: I like your analogy of Cubans Venezuelan's people who have 444 00:25:23,280 --> 00:25:27,280 Speaker 1: truly experienced awfulness in their countries and come here and 445 00:25:27,359 --> 00:25:31,360 Speaker 1: are so immensely grateful for the fabric of this nation. 446 00:25:32,040 --> 00:25:35,600 Speaker 1: But what I've always wanted is us to take the 447 00:25:35,680 --> 00:25:39,679 Speaker 1: intellectual first round draft picks of the world, people who 448 00:25:39,760 --> 00:25:42,280 Speaker 1: are highly skilled and are going to be able to 449 00:25:42,320 --> 00:25:45,520 Speaker 1: take advantage of the frameworks that we have created to 450 00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:49,159 Speaker 1: build better businesses, to build better companies, to build a 451 00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:52,639 Speaker 1: better America. The numbers on Somalis that stand out to 452 00:25:52,680 --> 00:25:58,080 Speaker 1: me is eighty percent of the welfare and multi generational welfare. 453 00:25:58,840 --> 00:26:01,440 Speaker 1: Why in the world, and you talked about this, it's 454 00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:04,120 Speaker 1: technically illegal to do this, but we keep doing it. 455 00:26:04,880 --> 00:26:07,320 Speaker 1: How in the world are we able to justify to 456 00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:11,679 Speaker 1: American taxpayers bringing in people from foreign countries and immediately 457 00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:16,520 Speaker 1: giving them American taxpayer dollars. It should be a non starter, period. 458 00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:21,480 Speaker 6: Well, think about the attitude you had from Kars Swisher. 459 00:26:21,520 --> 00:26:23,280 Speaker 6: We played the clip a few days ago on the 460 00:26:23,280 --> 00:26:27,879 Speaker 6: show of You Know you billionaires in California. You're ungrateful 461 00:26:27,960 --> 00:26:31,560 Speaker 6: pieces of bleep because you don't want to go from 462 00:26:31,640 --> 00:26:35,280 Speaker 6: having the highest taxes in the country to even higher 463 00:26:35,320 --> 00:26:39,040 Speaker 6: taxes in the form of really a wealth confiscation act, 464 00:26:39,080 --> 00:26:41,679 Speaker 6: which is what it is. Does anyone think that there 465 00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:43,680 Speaker 6: isn't a lot of fraud going on in California too, 466 00:26:44,280 --> 00:26:46,480 Speaker 6: but they don't want to deal with that. Does anyone 467 00:26:46,480 --> 00:26:50,840 Speaker 6: think the dollars being spent in California are efficient and 468 00:26:50,920 --> 00:26:54,040 Speaker 6: are going to things that make the lives of Californians better, 469 00:26:54,560 --> 00:26:56,480 Speaker 6: but they never want to deal with that. Clib They 470 00:26:56,480 --> 00:26:58,680 Speaker 6: don't want to deal with fraud. Democrats don't want to 471 00:26:58,720 --> 00:27:01,080 Speaker 6: deal with efficiency. They don't want to deal with because 472 00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:04,920 Speaker 6: they like people getting paid by the state because it's 473 00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:07,800 Speaker 6: other people's money. At least that's what you're led to believe. 474 00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:11,240 Speaker 6: And then they distributed to their friends. Then they distributed. 475 00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:13,760 Speaker 6: You know, this is why the teachers' unions and public 476 00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:16,320 Speaker 6: school teachers all across the country in these blue states 477 00:27:16,359 --> 00:27:20,679 Speaker 6: in particular, are rock solid for Democrats. Why bureaucrats are 478 00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:23,280 Speaker 6: rock solid for Democrats. I mean, if you look up 479 00:27:23,640 --> 00:27:27,800 Speaker 6: the city of Chicago and how it's paying for well, 480 00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:31,040 Speaker 6: the percentage of its budget that goes to paying six 481 00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:37,240 Speaker 6: figure retirement packages for former city employees, it would blow 482 00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:41,200 Speaker 6: your mind. This stuff is unsustainable. 483 00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:45,320 Speaker 1: It would be one thing if our government was fantastically 484 00:27:45,359 --> 00:27:47,920 Speaker 1: well run. I actually will give credit. Probably didn't expect 485 00:27:47,960 --> 00:27:49,480 Speaker 1: for me to give a shout out to him. I 486 00:27:49,520 --> 00:27:51,720 Speaker 1: think I've mentioned it on the show once or twice before. 487 00:27:52,040 --> 00:27:57,360 Speaker 1: Phil Micholson, who lives in California now said the government 488 00:27:57,400 --> 00:28:00,719 Speaker 1: in California basically takes half my money and and we 489 00:28:00,760 --> 00:28:03,639 Speaker 1: get back really poor resources as a result. He compared 490 00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:05,679 Speaker 1: it with Elon Musk because there's been a fight with 491 00:28:05,720 --> 00:28:08,480 Speaker 1: billionaires said, every time I get a dollar to Elon Musk, 492 00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:11,800 Speaker 1: I get back fifteen dollars. Who better uses the capital 493 00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:15,160 Speaker 1: of Phil Nicholson, who is fortunate former golfer or still 494 00:28:15,240 --> 00:28:19,320 Speaker 1: golfer but successful. I've made a lot of money the 495 00:28:19,359 --> 00:28:23,199 Speaker 1: state of California or investors in California. Who would you 496 00:28:23,320 --> 00:28:26,880 Speaker 1: rather give your money too? It's just a no brainer. 497 00:28:27,040 --> 00:28:29,200 Speaker 1: It's one thing. If they were super efficient, maybe you 498 00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:32,720 Speaker 1: would feel better about it. Our government weighs so much money. 499 00:28:32,760 --> 00:28:34,840 Speaker 1: I can spend it better. You can spend it better, 500 00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:37,199 Speaker 1: all of you can. Okay, So I got I've got 501 00:28:37,240 --> 00:28:38,200 Speaker 1: some great numbers for you here. 502 00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:40,720 Speaker 6: I know we don't talk about Chicago except in the 503 00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:42,800 Speaker 6: context of crime usually on this show, and how it 504 00:28:42,800 --> 00:28:45,640 Speaker 6: has a terrible mayor. Among give credit where it's due. 505 00:28:45,720 --> 00:28:49,280 Speaker 6: Chicago in the worst Mayor sweepstakes, I think it's a 506 00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:51,640 Speaker 6: top five, which is pretty impressive. I think they have 507 00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:53,880 Speaker 6: a top five worst mayor in the country. You know, 508 00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:56,600 Speaker 6: I think he's certainly up there and is only doing 509 00:28:56,600 --> 00:28:58,720 Speaker 6: things to make it worse. But I look this up. 510 00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:01,280 Speaker 6: Gotta love groc Man. Grock is like such a little 511 00:29:01,320 --> 00:29:06,360 Speaker 6: assistant all the time. I look this up and the 512 00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:12,720 Speaker 6: City of Chicago has eighty percent, eighty percent of property 513 00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:18,000 Speaker 6: tax revenue going toward city pensions, forty. 514 00:29:17,720 --> 00:29:20,120 Speaker 2: Percent of all appropriations. 515 00:29:20,120 --> 00:29:22,760 Speaker 6: Of all the money that the City of Chicago takes in, 516 00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:25,680 Speaker 6: forty percent goes to pensions. 517 00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:26,880 Speaker 2: It's crazy. 518 00:29:26,880 --> 00:29:31,000 Speaker 6: That is completely outrageous. And they keep what do you 519 00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:33,040 Speaker 6: think they keep doing in Chicago? Just like they doing this, 520 00:29:33,320 --> 00:29:37,760 Speaker 6: They keep raising property taxes. Gotta get more money, gotta 521 00:29:37,800 --> 00:29:40,360 Speaker 6: get because the Democrats get elected by getting these public 522 00:29:40,440 --> 00:29:42,360 Speaker 6: sector unions to show up and vote for them. 523 00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:45,640 Speaker 2: And here is the problem with that, buck, It's harder 524 00:29:45,640 --> 00:29:48,440 Speaker 2: and harder to raise money because more and more people 525 00:29:48,560 --> 00:29:52,360 Speaker 2: are leaving Chicago because they're charging more and more money. 526 00:29:52,440 --> 00:29:54,320 Speaker 2: And the harder, the most money. 527 00:29:54,520 --> 00:29:56,240 Speaker 1: I mean, you've got a neighbor now down in Miami. 528 00:29:56,320 --> 00:29:59,920 Speaker 1: Ken Griffin, will probably the most successful private equity guy 529 00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:02,640 Speaker 1: in all of Chicago, finally just said I can't deal 530 00:30:02,680 --> 00:30:05,080 Speaker 1: with this anymore. It's not safe, and my guys are 531 00:30:05,120 --> 00:30:07,960 Speaker 1: getting tax to the hilt. And now he's building what's 532 00:30:08,120 --> 00:30:10,680 Speaker 1: like a billion dollar complex. I mean, it's a crazy 533 00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:14,280 Speaker 1: amount that he is building for his new headquarters Citadel 534 00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:17,400 Speaker 1: I believe I'm not mistaken in Miami. This is a 535 00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:21,160 Speaker 1: direct tangible result of failed economic choices. President Trump, by 536 00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:24,880 Speaker 1: the way, speaking again at a CEO reception and dinner, 537 00:30:24,920 --> 00:30:28,200 Speaker 1: will monitor that in Davos, Switzerland, to the extent that 538 00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:31,920 Speaker 1: he is making still more news as he continues on 539 00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:37,680 Speaker 1: his worldwide tour. 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Here AA, Bill in 578 00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:37,880 Speaker 6: New Jersey, a wo r listener, Let's hear. 579 00:32:37,760 --> 00:32:42,360 Speaker 7: It very first, lag chief shots come cruising. So we 580 00:32:42,520 --> 00:32:47,600 Speaker 7: formed ourselves into tight groups, you know, kind of like 581 00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:49,840 Speaker 7: old Squaze in the Battle leg and you see in 582 00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:52,480 Speaker 7: the calendar and the Battle of Waterloo, and the idea 583 00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:54,720 Speaker 7: was shot comes the nearest man. 584 00:32:54,800 --> 00:32:55,440 Speaker 2: Then then he's. 585 00:32:55,240 --> 00:33:02,240 Speaker 7: Start bounding, holler and screaming. Sometimes the shark galay patsy 586 00:33:02,360 --> 00:33:06,120 Speaker 7: lingoi inspite of all the pound and the ull, and 587 00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:12,680 Speaker 7: they all come in repeated pieces. So eleven hundred men 588 00:33:12,720 --> 00:33:15,960 Speaker 7: went in, there were three hundred and sixty men come 589 00:33:16,040 --> 00:33:18,400 Speaker 7: out of the sharks took the rest. During the twenty 590 00:33:18,480 --> 00:33:22,920 Speaker 7: nineth nineteen forty five, Oh. 591 00:33:22,280 --> 00:33:25,120 Speaker 1: Wait ixact, we mixed I think we mixed up. We 592 00:33:25,160 --> 00:33:28,640 Speaker 1: wanted AA first, so I think we stepped on the 593 00:33:28,680 --> 00:33:31,360 Speaker 1: back end joke there. The joke was Bill in New 594 00:33:31,440 --> 00:33:34,240 Speaker 1: Jersey yesterday, as we finished the show, I said, I'm 595 00:33:34,240 --> 00:33:37,200 Speaker 1: increasingly afraid that I would get eaten by a shark. 596 00:33:38,280 --> 00:33:41,640 Speaker 2: And there and I said. 597 00:33:41,440 --> 00:33:45,080 Speaker 1: Usually people swimming in big groups are safe. And Bill 598 00:33:45,120 --> 00:33:47,200 Speaker 1: in New Jersey AA said. 599 00:33:46,920 --> 00:33:51,480 Speaker 3: This play but Bill in New Jersey, people swimming in. 600 00:33:51,480 --> 00:33:53,640 Speaker 2: Big groups, huh yeah, safe. 601 00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:58,600 Speaker 3: Huh, yeah, tell that to the guys from the Indianapolis. 602 00:33:57,680 --> 00:34:01,240 Speaker 2: All right. And then we had Quinn from Jaws who 603 00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:02,480 Speaker 2: told this one which we. 604 00:34:02,520 --> 00:34:04,160 Speaker 6: Just heard, yes, which is I think one of the 605 00:34:04,200 --> 00:34:06,440 Speaker 6: best parts, maybe the most memorable part in some ways, 606 00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:07,160 Speaker 6: of the whole movie. 607 00:34:07,240 --> 00:34:07,720 Speaker 2: That movie. 608 00:34:07,760 --> 00:34:10,440 Speaker 6: He absolutely crushes it. You know, he's talking about the 609 00:34:11,080 --> 00:34:13,000 Speaker 6: He's like when delivered the bomb. You know, he gets 610 00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:16,440 Speaker 6: into all that stuff. That was an amazing, amazing story. 611 00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:19,520 Speaker 6: But yeah, it turns out that swimming in a big group, well, 612 00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:22,880 Speaker 6: to be fair, I think you probably are safer than 613 00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:27,520 Speaker 6: a solo because sharks are always opportunistic hunters, correct, So 614 00:34:28,640 --> 00:34:30,640 Speaker 6: you know, it's it's like you're probably in better shape. 615 00:34:30,640 --> 00:34:32,880 Speaker 6: But you see, there's been a few more. Just recently, 616 00:34:33,160 --> 00:34:36,200 Speaker 6: some kids jumped in the water in Sydney Harbor. Unfortunately 617 00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:37,600 Speaker 6: he's basically he's. 618 00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:38,200 Speaker 2: Brain dead now. 619 00:34:38,640 --> 00:34:41,840 Speaker 6: A bull shark, a bull shark took off both of 620 00:34:41,840 --> 00:34:44,319 Speaker 6: his legs, like almost on impact in the water. So 621 00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:46,239 Speaker 6: he must have there must have been a big bull 622 00:34:46,239 --> 00:34:48,719 Speaker 6: shark right there. He jumped in the water with a splash. 623 00:34:48,880 --> 00:34:52,040 Speaker 6: So anyway, I know there's only you know, seven shark 624 00:34:52,080 --> 00:34:55,000 Speaker 6: attacks in the world. I don't know I mean there's 625 00:34:55,040 --> 00:34:57,120 Speaker 6: sharks out there. I'll just say there's sharks out there. 626 00:34:57,160 --> 00:35:01,760 Speaker 6: It could be very, very tragic situation if they go wrong. Yeah, 627 00:35:01,840 --> 00:35:02,879 Speaker 6: right after. 628 00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:07,960 Speaker 1: We got back from the Virgin Islands, A it doesn't 629 00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:10,280 Speaker 1: ever happen in the Virgin Islands. A woman got attacked 630 00:35:10,280 --> 00:35:15,880 Speaker 1: and this all started with my take on My concern 631 00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:18,600 Speaker 1: is that I'm like the wounded seal. You have all 632 00:35:18,600 --> 00:35:22,359 Speaker 1: these excellent swimmers on escape from Alcatraz and they're way 633 00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:26,080 Speaker 1: out into the future, and then I am left behind 634 00:35:26,320 --> 00:35:28,240 Speaker 1: looking like the easy prey. 635 00:35:29,239 --> 00:35:31,280 Speaker 2: And that's my concern, right if it's. 636 00:35:31,160 --> 00:35:34,120 Speaker 6: You and Riley Gaines and those like her in the 637 00:35:34,160 --> 00:35:37,360 Speaker 6: water clay, they don't have to outswim the Great White. 638 00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:40,239 Speaker 6: They just have to outswim clay. That's right, pretty easy, 639 00:35:40,560 --> 00:35:42,200 Speaker 6: which I don't think it'd be too hard for them, 640 00:35:42,280 --> 00:35:44,919 Speaker 6: So personally, I think that's the danger here. 641 00:35:45,440 --> 00:35:47,239 Speaker 1: What do you got for top of the next hour, buck, 642 00:35:47,280 --> 00:35:49,040 Speaker 1: We got a bunch of stuff going on out there 643 00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:52,000 Speaker 1: in addition to Davos. As we said, President Trump continues 644 00:35:52,080 --> 00:35:53,520 Speaker 1: to speak live right now there. 645 00:35:54,160 --> 00:35:57,400 Speaker 6: I also want to get into Minneapolis and talk about 646 00:35:57,440 --> 00:36:01,160 Speaker 6: the latest from the front lines of that insanity because 647 00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:08,440 Speaker 6: there's still an effort by the leftist shock troops to 648 00:36:08,520 --> 00:36:10,440 Speaker 6: create this as some kind of a natural thing. I 649 00:36:10,480 --> 00:36:13,360 Speaker 6: do think it's losing some ground. It is very cold 650 00:36:13,440 --> 00:36:16,320 Speaker 6: up there. I mean it's not as snowy as Nashville 651 00:36:16,400 --> 00:36:19,520 Speaker 6: is going to be this weekend clay, but Minneapolis is 652 00:36:19,560 --> 00:36:22,759 Speaker 6: a tough place to be parked outside for hours on 653 00:36:22,880 --> 00:36:25,880 Speaker 6: the street, just hoping and hoping that you're going to 654 00:36:25,920 --> 00:36:27,480 Speaker 6: stop ice from doing their jobs. 655 00:36:28,239 --> 00:36:28,600 Speaker 2: Yeah. 656 00:36:28,719 --> 00:36:32,680 Speaker 1: Look, I am terrified of the white death sweeping closer 657 00:36:32,719 --> 00:36:33,880 Speaker 1: and closer to my city. 658 00:36:34,320 --> 00:36:37,319 Speaker 2: Nashville is done. Pray for us. We'll be back next