Buck Sexton
Appearances
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking NSA Chat Logs, Bezos Causes New WashPost Staff Revolt, and White House vs. Press, with Buck Sexton | Ep. 1015
They're being entrusted with top secret and compartmented information, and they're clearly nuts. And this needs to be said, these people, when I applied to the CIA, it was, do you have any gambling debts? What kind of credit card debt do you have? What kind of relationships do you have with women, anyone overseas?
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking NSA Chat Logs, Bezos Causes New WashPost Staff Revolt, and White House vs. Press, with Buck Sexton | Ep. 1015
I mean, they ask you all these very invasive questions, but apparently if you wanna have a hermaphrodite baby to run some kind of social experiment where you can raise them as the perfect trans kid and want everybody else to be on board for this, the NSA has a special spot for you. This what is being shown here is critical that people figure out what the heck has happened here.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking NSA Chat Logs, Bezos Causes New WashPost Staff Revolt, and White House vs. Press, with Buck Sexton | Ep. 1015
The Wesleyan faculty lounge is now running the CIA, the NSA in these places, and it needs to stop. It has gone on far too long.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking NSA Chat Logs, Bezos Causes New WashPost Staff Revolt, and White House vs. Press, with Buck Sexton | Ep. 1015
Hey, Megan. Thanks for having me.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking NSA Chat Logs, Bezos Causes New WashPost Staff Revolt, and White House vs. Press, with Buck Sexton | Ep. 1015
Yes. Well, this is why it's it's a very serious business that the intelligence community does. And it's it's sad to see what it has turned into in terms of the reputation. Remember, the FBI is part of the intelligence community. I think there's now 17 agencies that fall under the umbrella overall. I can't even name them all off the top of my head. And I used to be a part of it.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking NSA Chat Logs, Bezos Causes New WashPost Staff Revolt, and White House vs. Press, with Buck Sexton | Ep. 1015
And that's because they've added a few since I was in there. but they do have a very serious mission. It's bloated, it's ineffective, it's become incredibly DEI-obsessed. All of that is very true, but you actually do need somebody to keep an eye on what the Russian SVR is doing.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking NSA Chat Logs, Bezos Causes New WashPost Staff Revolt, and White House vs. Press, with Buck Sexton | Ep. 1015
You actually do need somebody looking at the transcripts of whatever the latest sat phone call is from al-Shabaab to some terrorist group that is trying to blow, to their terrorist cell that's trying to blow up an embassy or something somewhere. So this is a critical mission that they have.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking NSA Chat Logs, Bezos Causes New WashPost Staff Revolt, and White House vs. Press, with Buck Sexton | Ep. 1015
And a huge part of this is the sense of esprit de corps that the workforce has, which I will tell you was there under the Bush years when I was in the CIA. There was a sense of we know why we're showing up every day. It wasn't perfect. It was sometimes bureaucratic and slow and there were challenges, but people were deploying to war zones.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking NSA Chat Logs, Bezos Causes New WashPost Staff Revolt, and White House vs. Press, with Buck Sexton | Ep. 1015
People were doing high level missions and interesting stuff that has just changed. And it changed, like I said, the same way so many of these government institutions, the moment that you have changed, the moment that you start to bend the knee to this madness, to the point about, you know,
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking NSA Chat Logs, Bezos Causes New WashPost Staff Revolt, and White House vs. Press, with Buck Sexton | Ep. 1015
who are these people and why are they demanding that you not focus on national security for the country and they're inside the intelligence community, the moment you start to bend the knee, they just demand more.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking NSA Chat Logs, Bezos Causes New WashPost Staff Revolt, and White House vs. Press, with Buck Sexton | Ep. 1015
And if you're somebody who says, who tries to blow the whistle on them, by the way, before Trump came along in this administration, if you try to do that under the Biden years, you are the problem. You know, everyone always says it's impossible to get fired from the federal government. If you were on the wrong side of the DEI gods, oh man, bad things.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking NSA Chat Logs, Bezos Causes New WashPost Staff Revolt, and White House vs. Press, with Buck Sexton | Ep. 1015
And again, I know because I've talked to people who have had this happen to them. If you said something that offended somebody who is trans or whatever in the office, you'll be lucky if they don't send you to the HR re-education camp right away.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking NSA Chat Logs, Bezos Causes New WashPost Staff Revolt, and White House vs. Press, with Buck Sexton | Ep. 1015
Yes. No, I completely agree with you. And the CIA in these places are notoriously hard, particularly the CIA, is incredibly hard to get hired by, or at least it used to be. I don't know how it is these days. And there was a really rigorous process. And like I said, there was all of this incredibly intrusive.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking NSA Chat Logs, Bezos Causes New WashPost Staff Revolt, and White House vs. Press, with Buck Sexton | Ep. 1015
And, you know, some of it I can't even get into because technically it's not something that I can speak about publicly. But they're allowed to know basically everything about your life to look for any weakness in you that could be exploited by a foreign intelligence service. And we've got people, I mean, like the stuff that you're, I'm not one to blush that easily, Megan.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking NSA Chat Logs, Bezos Causes New WashPost Staff Revolt, and White House vs. Press, with Buck Sexton | Ep. 1015
The stuff you're reading about that Chris Ruffo found, I had to look up some of this stuff. I don't even know what some of these words are. I didn't know what a polycule was. Crossed a Rubicon. And to your point, this is supposed to be the most elite of the entire national security intelligence apparatus. You're talking about CIA and NSA. Those are really the flagship agencies.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking NSA Chat Logs, Bezos Causes New WashPost Staff Revolt, and White House vs. Press, with Buck Sexton | Ep. 1015
No offense to anybody from the other ones. But the fact that you have people wasting their time and also just the brazenness. They're on a company server. I won't even say that Dolores from accounting looks nice in her dress on a company server. Do you know what I'm saying? Like I like we've had to live by such different rules.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking NSA Chat Logs, Bezos Causes New WashPost Staff Revolt, and White House vs. Press, with Buck Sexton | Ep. 1015
The people who show up and want to do the real mission are living in constant fear of, oh, you know, did I mansplain or something? And yet on the other side of things, you're allowed to be recruiting for your bizarre trans fantasies. It's crazy stuff. And so I'm glad Rufo found it. But I can't. This has been far more widespread. This is the thing about Doge, too.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking NSA Chat Logs, Bezos Causes New WashPost Staff Revolt, and White House vs. Press, with Buck Sexton | Ep. 1015
It's the thing about the Rufo leak of these chats. This is tip of the iceberg. We're just beginning to see this because they have taken over these federal institutions. Once you control HR and the hiring and internal enforcement mechanism, Just look at the colleges. Just look. This has happened in big law firms now. This is why everyone's putting the pronouns until now in their signature.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking NSA Chat Logs, Bezos Causes New WashPost Staff Revolt, and White House vs. Press, with Buck Sexton | Ep. 1015
This is why everyone's been hiding from insane people. It's finally stopping. Thank God. But I'm just trying to tell everybody this is opening innings. It's not like, oh, we've just we've found it. And now the problem can be fixed. There's a lot more of this stuff that you're going to see.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking NSA Chat Logs, Bezos Causes New WashPost Staff Revolt, and White House vs. Press, with Buck Sexton | Ep. 1015
Well, this goes right to why we are in the midst of, and Megan, I'll be honest, I didn't know that we would ever get here because it feels like it's been forever. I think I've been doing media now, left the CIA, I've been doing media for almost 15 years.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking NSA Chat Logs, Bezos Causes New WashPost Staff Revolt, and White House vs. Press, with Buck Sexton | Ep. 1015
And there just were these these edifices of these these, you know, institutions, monoliths of so-called journalism, whether it's CNN, The New York Times, The Washington Post. And it's all in freefall right now. And it should be because, you know, they've lied so much. They've been so dishonest. whether it was the covering up or Biden dementia, which we may get to.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking NSA Chat Logs, Bezos Causes New WashPost Staff Revolt, and White House vs. Press, with Buck Sexton | Ep. 1015
I know that's another thing that everyone's looking at right now. But they've lied on so many things. But the biggest thing that I think they have to deal with right now is what is their purpose? The purpose of CNN, the purpose of The New York Times, The Washington Post is not to tell people the objective truth. We know that. And anybody who still believes that is truly delusional.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking NSA Chat Logs, Bezos Causes New WashPost Staff Revolt, and White House vs. Press, with Buck Sexton | Ep. 1015
And there are very few people who believe it. Beyond that, They can't even say that their purpose is to serve the interests well of the Democrat Party because they humiliated their own audience. And as you know, I mean, this is among the cardinal sins of doing any kind of, whether it's journalism, commentary, if your audience turns on you because you've turned on them, it's all over, right?
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking NSA Chat Logs, Bezos Causes New WashPost Staff Revolt, and White House vs. Press, with Buck Sexton | Ep. 1015
I mean, this is like 101 most basic stuff. They've ridiculed their own audience because everything that they told them did not, that would come true, did not come true. All of the fear mongering is now clearly just hysteria about Trump and he's going to end the constitution. It's the end of the country and all these horrible things will happen and we need to prosecute him.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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And he's a rapist and he's at this and he's at that all lies, all lies. And I think that there's a core group of them. You know, I used to watch, this is actually a guilty pleasure of mine, Megan. I watched Morning Joe for about the 90 days leading up to election day, every day.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking NSA Chat Logs, Bezos Causes New WashPost Staff Revolt, and White House vs. Press, with Buck Sexton | Ep. 1015
They were so crazy. I don't know how they even had the energy.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking NSA Chat Logs, Bezos Causes New WashPost Staff Revolt, and White House vs. Press, with Buck Sexton | Ep. 1015
Every morning it was Mika like, oh, the Nazis and Trump. And Joe, oh, yeah, I know.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking NSA Chat Logs, Bezos Causes New WashPost Staff Revolt, and White House vs. Press, with Buck Sexton | Ep. 1015
I just got off the grass courts over at the country club. And let me tell you, I'm really worried. I mean, the whole thing was just vomit on toast, man. I mean, it was preposterous.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking NSA Chat Logs, Bezos Causes New WashPost Staff Revolt, and White House vs. Press, with Buck Sexton | Ep. 1015
But this is a perfect example. This is what I mean, Megan. If you're a morning Joe, not kind of, you know, mock. I was a mockery watcher. But if you were really watching them. What do you have? What do they stand for? What are they doing for you now, if you were their true audience? And I think this is true of The New York Times, The Washington Post and all these places now as well.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking NSA Chat Logs, Bezos Causes New WashPost Staff Revolt, and White House vs. Press, with Buck Sexton | Ep. 1015
They created an alternate reality for these people to live in. And that reality has come crashing down, which is why Joy Reid has to get fired and I think the view is maybe going to have to make some shakeup soon and why Jeff Bezos has told the Washington Post to stop being insane. You're not actually allowed to be communist anymore.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking NSA Chat Logs, Bezos Causes New WashPost Staff Revolt, and White House vs. Press, with Buck Sexton | Ep. 1015
I may, you know, this is the this is the necessary reckoning that the traditional corporate legacy media is having right now. And you're even seeing parts of it on CNN, that Tore guy. I mean, that's an argument that was, it was stupid six months ago. It's, and it's been annoying for eight years, but no one believes this now.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking NSA Chat Logs, Bezos Causes New WashPost Staff Revolt, and White House vs. Press, with Buck Sexton | Ep. 1015
No one actually thinks, I mean, when I say nobody, the people who believe it will believe absolutely anything.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking NSA Chat Logs, Bezos Causes New WashPost Staff Revolt, and White House vs. Press, with Buck Sexton | Ep. 1015
Well, this is where we have to start to look at who is truly at a moment of recognition that they had been wrong or they had been backing the wrong team. Who's been red-pilled versus who is going with where the winds are right now? I mean, I don't believe for one second. As somebody who was absolutely hounded by the New York Times did a hit piece on me during COVID.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking NSA Chat Logs, Bezos Causes New WashPost Staff Revolt, and White House vs. Press, with Buck Sexton | Ep. 1015
Everything I said during COVID turned out to be true, by the way. You know, masks are a joke. Lockdowns are idiotic. But it didn't matter, right? Facebook shut me down. I've had multiple YouTube shows banned. Anyway, you know, poor me. I'm just saying the point is these tech barons, when it mattered, were not just MIA, they were worse than that, actually.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking NSA Chat Logs, Bezos Causes New WashPost Staff Revolt, and White House vs. Press, with Buck Sexton | Ep. 1015
Well, to be fair, I think that the former president's wife was about as much the president as he was. I mean, Jill Biden was probably making more decisions behind the scenes of any consequence than Joe Biden was, which now even the Democrats and the Democrat-aligned media more or less admit, at least they do for the last year of his term. But yes, obviously, Megan, the
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking NSA Chat Logs, Bezos Causes New WashPost Staff Revolt, and White House vs. Press, with Buck Sexton | Ep. 1015
They were leading the charge to shut us down. I think there's no question, you look at somebody like Elon, he has been truly red-pilled, and his story, I mean, I think it's quite clear to everybody, I have a tremendous amount of respect for the guy, his story about what happened to his son, where they transed his son, and he shared this publicly.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking NSA Chat Logs, Bezos Causes New WashPost Staff Revolt, and White House vs. Press, with Buck Sexton | Ep. 1015
I believe Elon is truly and dearly on our team now, you know, on team sanity, on team... you know, freedom and Western civilization. There is a contingent of the Democrat Party, and that's, you mentioned this, or showed us also this person from the Washington Post. There's a contingent of the Democrat Party that honestly is deeply ideologically and emotionally tied to barbarousness and evil.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking NSA Chat Logs, Bezos Causes New WashPost Staff Revolt, and White House vs. Press, with Buck Sexton | Ep. 1015
And this is something that I saw after 9-11 when I was in college and there were Democrats. We had a whole school meeting, Megan. I know I'm taking a little bit of a step back here. We had an all school meeting on 9-11. People were finding out that they had relatives who were killed that day in my school.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking NSA Chat Logs, Bezos Causes New WashPost Staff Revolt, and White House vs. Press, with Buck Sexton | Ep. 1015
And one of the main professors for our foreign relations political science department said, this is what happens when you make people mad at you through your arrogant policy. And that was a really that was a really oh, my moment. Right.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking NSA Chat Logs, Bezos Causes New WashPost Staff Revolt, and White House vs. Press, with Buck Sexton | Ep. 1015
I mean, that was a holy I cannot believe how how sort of fetid and decrepit the ideology of the left that, you know, this guy was a self-described Marxist, by the way. So it wasn't really a surprise. October 7th. And this is where I'm bringing up was another moment of of of you're either you know, you're either with the good guys, the bad guys on this. And I know people like to.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking NSA Chat Logs, Bezos Causes New WashPost Staff Revolt, and White House vs. Press, with Buck Sexton | Ep. 1015
pretend that they care so much about Palestine. The Americans who care so much about Palestine, they know nothing. There is no Palestine, put that aside. They're ignoramuses on the issue. They view it as a racial conflict because they're so dumb that they don't understand that Israel is actually a multi-ethnic society. The 20% of Israel is of Arab and often Muslim background.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking NSA Chat Logs, Bezos Causes New WashPost Staff Revolt, and White House vs. Press, with Buck Sexton | Ep. 1015
They don't know anything. All they know is
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking NSA Chat Logs, Bezos Causes New WashPost Staff Revolt, and White House vs. Press, with Buck Sexton | Ep. 1015
israel it must be a bunch of guys who look like jerry seinfeld it's all a bunch of like rich white guys in israel and they're hurting the brown people who are the palestinians and that will get you a column at the washington post this is the point that kind of mentality until now uh was absolutely supported and platformed at a lot of these legacy institutions so the fact that that's turning around now a bit is a good thing but to your point about jeff bezos um
The Megyn Kelly Show
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I'm not you know, he's not Elon. You know, I mean, I'm not.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking NSA Chat Logs, Bezos Causes New WashPost Staff Revolt, and White House vs. Press, with Buck Sexton | Ep. 1015
Yeah, no, I mean, just anti-white solidarity has been a weapon used by the left, by the Democrat progressives with reckless abandon for years. And effectively, unfortunately, I mean, this is just, they always can retreat into this, oh, you're taking the side, again, with the Palestinians, you're taking the side of Israel because they're white. It's like,
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking NSA Chat Logs, Bezos Causes New WashPost Staff Revolt, and White House vs. Press, with Buck Sexton | Ep. 1015
Criticism is increasingly desperate and pathetic, I think, from the media, specifically about Elon. I mean, here you have the richest man in the world, self-made, richest man in the world, and every CEO that I've talked to, and I know you've talked to the titans of industry,
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking NSA Chat Logs, Bezos Causes New WashPost Staff Revolt, and White House vs. Press, with Buck Sexton | Ep. 1015
That this is so this is so ahistorical and absurd, but it doesn't matter because people get scared. It's like calling people a racist in the 90s. Right. You call someone a racist in the 90s. Oh, I'm so sorry. You know, into the 2000s. And then they elevated it and it became white supremacist. Right. That was the next.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking NSA Chat Logs, Bezos Causes New WashPost Staff Revolt, and White House vs. Press, with Buck Sexton | Ep. 1015
I mean, you remember when a white supremacist was like a lunatic with a shaved head and swastikas like tattooed all over him or whatever? Then all of a sudden, the New York Times in the Obama years start saying that white supremacy is not being an active anti-racist. You're like, hold on a second. This is this is a complete transformation.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking NSA Chat Logs, Bezos Causes New WashPost Staff Revolt, and White House vs. Press, with Buck Sexton | Ep. 1015
I just one word about Jeff Bezos, Megan, and I'm not I'm putting this out there. I'm not totally convinced of this, but I will say I think that and I have observed this as a guy, as an American male. I think that, you know, the guy's obviously gone on a regimen. He's got probably a peptide stack, maybe taking more than just peptides, if you know what I mean. He looks dramatically different.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking NSA Chat Logs, Bezos Causes New WashPost Staff Revolt, and White House vs. Press, with Buck Sexton | Ep. 1015
Yes. I think if you start taking roids and working out, you get more right wing as a guy.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking NSA Chat Logs, Bezos Causes New WashPost Staff Revolt, and White House vs. Press, with Buck Sexton | Ep. 1015
So maybe there's some chance because I do think that this I honestly believe. I think that for men generally, this is a very broad statement, but like medically low testosterone levels correlates with far left thinking and Democrat solid.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking NSA Chat Logs, Bezos Causes New WashPost Staff Revolt, and White House vs. Press, with Buck Sexton | Ep. 1015
I mean, I know he was growing as he was growing that muscle. I think he's been getting more right wing. Maybe that's the only thing I could say for him.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking NSA Chat Logs, Bezos Causes New WashPost Staff Revolt, and White House vs. Press, with Buck Sexton | Ep. 1015
I agree with you. It hasn't proven it yet.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking NSA Chat Logs, Bezos Causes New WashPost Staff Revolt, and White House vs. Press, with Buck Sexton | Ep. 1015
Everyone respects this guy and then some, and a lot of people will just say he's a genius, specifically at what he's trying to help our government do, which is address inefficiencies, bureaucracy, bloat, waste, break through the really hard problems. Why is Elon the richest man in the world? Why is Tesla, SpaceX? now X after Twitter, all these, the boring company, all these different things.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking NSA Chat Logs, Bezos Causes New WashPost Staff Revolt, and White House vs. Press, with Buck Sexton | Ep. 1015
Why has he been so incredible at it? It's because when everyone else says, this can't be done, this can't be fixed, somehow this guy fixes it. That we have him involved in trying to write our government and figure out where a lot of this money is going and where a lot of the bottlenecks are for transparency and where the bureaucracy has just
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking NSA Chat Logs, Bezos Causes New WashPost Staff Revolt, and White House vs. Press, with Buck Sexton | Ep. 1015
So I have two main feelings about this one. And I'll sort of start with your stated concern, which I think you you preface properly as we don't know yet. But the stated concern is, well, maybe this won't be it's an important job. And if the media doesn't decide, it won't be handled as well. What I would say to that is this team that Trump has brought in is the pro team.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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You know, I know them pretty much all personally, you know, talking with the different cabinet members, not all of them, but I'd say 75 percent, 80 percent of them. I know you do, too. These are very capable, competent people that are making these decisions. You know, Stephen Miller, deputy White House chief of staff, is an actor. Absolutely brilliant guy. I mean, you look at Caroline Levitt.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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I know she's young. She is a superstar. And I know that, too, because before she was on the Trump campaign, we tried to hire her for something over at at iHeart. So, you know, these are very talented people. And I think, Megan, they've they should be given the room to cook, you know. They should be given the ability to handle it their way.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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If there are problems with the pool, you and I know we'll hear about it. So I think they can figure this out is what is kind of what I'm getting to.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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huddled together and decided they're completely unaccountable, should be a dream come true. And here's the big problem, Megan. It should be a bipartisan dream come true. This isn't, in any meaningful way, a partisan issue. Meaning, if Medicare is paying billions of dollars to straight-up fraudsters, not just here, but overseas as well, which everyone has known this has been going on for years.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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I think your example there is, though, what we've what we've dealt with with all Democrat administrations, which is that you effectively have regime. You have the regime picking regime media to cover the regime.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Look, I absolutely admit that there are complexities here, and I also do want there to be, look, I think that there should be, no matter how much somebody loves what this administration is doing, and I'm very frank about this, I thought the beginning of the Trump first term And I think Trump admitted, I mean, Trump admitted this. I've talked to him about it. It was messy.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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They were screwing things up. They didn't have the right people in place. And I bring it up. I don't think that's the case this time around. And it's even gone beyond my expectations. But put that aside for a second.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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I think that no matter what, you want there to be a degree of at least objectivity in the facts and in the sense of getting facts about what's going on day to day about an administration, because you want them to have you want people to have some ability to judge what's really going on.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Now, that all said, I also think, Megan, that these that this role of the press pool and you said you had done this. So just.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Right. But you've been covering the White House. I've never done that role, right? So I don't want to go beyond what I know. But I do think it's quite clear that... President Trump is sharing thoughts directly with the people via Twitter or Truth on a daily basis.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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I think the access that we all have to information, it's not like if there isn't some court, I mean, not court, some press stenographer who's standing there writing it down, we're not necessarily gonna know what's happening.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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No one's done anything about it. If Elon Musk can stop that, does anyone want to be in favor of it? Democrats have put themselves in a place where they have to root for the bad thing just because they want to oppose Trump, Elon, and everybody involved with them. And I think this cabinet meeting is a perfect example.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Again, I think the problem, Megan, I mean, everything that you're saying, I hear you and it makes sense and it's very rational, but it's like we're assessing a problem that hasn't occurred yet, meaning that they may pick people who are highly competent and do an excellent job. And so that's what I meant by they've brought in the A-team so far. So I'm not as- But why should they get to choose?
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Because I think the press has shown itself to be, I think the whole notion of an objective journalism or objective media is a farce and has always been.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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But who gets to decide? See, this is the problem, Megan. There's a cartel that has existed. The White House Correspondents Association. This I do know a little bit about, having gone to one of their balls, by the way, and thought it was the most boring and self-important and annoying thing ever and never went back. But knowing some of the people involved in that, why should they get to choose?
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking NSA Chat Logs, Bezos Causes New WashPost Staff Revolt, and White House vs. Press, with Buck Sexton | Ep. 1015
And that's been the case for a long time.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking NSA Chat Logs, Bezos Causes New WashPost Staff Revolt, and White House vs. Press, with Buck Sexton | Ep. 1015
But who's the press, Megan? We keep coming back to this.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Right, I know. And who determines who's in that? And why has that been the case?
The Megyn Kelly Show
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I'm not saying there aren't good people who are part of it. And by the way, Fox's presence there, which a lot of times, as you know, they have been the only voice and they don't get called on that much. And so there's the table is not set or level rather. Right. Like there's been some skewing that's gone on even.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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But look, Trump, the notion that Trump is going to shy away from he he loves how many times did he sit down with Maggie Haberman? Why are they controlling pool? Because I think they're going to have a good mix of different people in there. I think that there's an assumption that's being made that it's only going to be people that the that the left wing Democrat media is going to freak out about.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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You know, it's not I don't want to say anybody throw them under the bus, but it's not just going to be like Daily Caller and Breitbart in there. There'll be other people involved in the coverage.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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He's talking about ending or limiting, bringing down the numbers on government fraud, waste, and abuse. And they're attacking this guy as if he isn't incredibly talented, able, and capable of doing this. Probably more so than, I don't know, anyone else on the planet.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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I traveled with Pompeo once in his press pool, and it was a bunch of left-wing cat ladies who hated his guts. So, I mean, I just think that this is, you know, that's just the truth.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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So I don't know that this is necessarily the vaunted institution that we need to keep going.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking NSA Chat Logs, Bezos Causes New WashPost Staff Revolt, and White House vs. Press, with Buck Sexton | Ep. 1015
Now, that was Secretary of State, not the president.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking NSA Chat Logs, Bezos Causes New WashPost Staff Revolt, and White House vs. Press, with Buck Sexton | Ep. 1015
We got to come back to this thing because I think in time you're going to say that they surprise you with how well they handled this. But if I'm wrong, I will come on here and give you a mea culpa.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking NSA Chat Logs, Bezos Causes New WashPost Staff Revolt, and White House vs. Press, with Buck Sexton | Ep. 1015
So fun to hang out, Megan. Thank you so much.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking NSA Chat Logs, Bezos Causes New WashPost Staff Revolt, and White House vs. Press, with Buck Sexton | Ep. 1015
Yes, well, everyone was, I think, rightly outraged, although sometimes it was almost amusing if the numbers weren't so high in terms of the wasted money for the transgender puppet shows in Mongolia and DEI theory in Guatemala and the things that everyone's paying for. That's one thing. It's another thing, and I think even more egregious,
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking NSA Chat Logs, Bezos Causes New WashPost Staff Revolt, and White House vs. Press, with Buck Sexton | Ep. 1015
to look at what was just being discussed there, which is money being funneled to some of the most vicious and vile terrorist groups in the world under the under the guise of this somehow advancing U.S. interests. And that's what's key. USAID is not supposed to be a global charity. It is not a soup kitchen for the world. It is supposed to advance U.S. interests. Is is frivolous and absurd.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking NSA Chat Logs, Bezos Causes New WashPost Staff Revolt, and White House vs. Press, with Buck Sexton | Ep. 1015
But but some of those things, the expenditures, for example, going to Hamas and Al-Shabaab in Somalia and some of these terrorist groups that I used to track when I was in the CIA years and years ago. And let me tell you, these are very, very bad individuals. Some of this money is clearly working against U.S.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking NSA Chat Logs, Bezos Causes New WashPost Staff Revolt, and White House vs. Press, with Buck Sexton | Ep. 1015
interests and not being deployed in a way that would make any sense if the if the American people knew about it, which is, again, I think why a lot of the a lot of the outrage is not just justified, but entirely necessary. We can't have this happen going forward. You can't have.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking NSA Chat Logs, Bezos Causes New WashPost Staff Revolt, and White House vs. Press, with Buck Sexton | Ep. 1015
Yes, and they're showing also the American people how obtuse they are in their approach to this at every step of the way. These are not 50-50 issues. These are not even 60-40 issues. This is much more like an 80-20 where 20% of the far left of this country or the 20% that comprises it is in favor of, say, Hamas, or they're in favor of trying to buy off terrorist groups with humanitarian aid.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking NSA Chat Logs, Bezos Causes New WashPost Staff Revolt, and White House vs. Press, with Buck Sexton | Ep. 1015
And the rest of the American people are saying, what the heck are you doing? This is completely insane. And I would just say, you know, you've seen, I'm sure, Megan, I mean, I think everyone's seen now, these chat logs from inside of the NSA and the CIA. We haven't yet talked about that.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking NSA Chat Logs, Bezos Causes New WashPost Staff Revolt, and White House vs. Press, with Buck Sexton | Ep. 1015
Oh, sure. Sorry. I just go ahead.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking NSA Chat Logs, Bezos Causes New WashPost Staff Revolt, and White House vs. Press, with Buck Sexton | Ep. 1015
Look, as you know, Megan, I worked in the CIA for a number of years. It's been a while, but I still have a lot of friends on the inside and people throughout the intelligence community. And what you're hearing about in terms of how left wing and insane it is, this is just the tip of the iceberg. This has been going on for years. This is a systemic problem.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking NSA Chat Logs, Bezos Causes New WashPost Staff Revolt, and White House vs. Press, with Buck Sexton | Ep. 1015
No, we were trying to find Osama bin Laden. I mean, literally trying to find Osama bin Laden. That was my job. I was in CTC, in the CIA's counterterrorism center. And there was a sense, now remember, I was there in the early, you know, starting around 2005. So there was a very clear mission set.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking NSA Chat Logs, Bezos Causes New WashPost Staff Revolt, and White House vs. Press, with Buck Sexton | Ep. 1015
You had us working very closely with military, including tier one strike units going after the worst of the worst. But Starting around the Obama era, which is when I left, things started to shift and they got very adept.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking NSA Chat Logs, Bezos Causes New WashPost Staff Revolt, and White House vs. Press, with Buck Sexton | Ep. 1015
And this is kind of a longer narrative, but these agencies, and this is why I was thinking about it when we were talking about USAID a moment ago, these agencies have really mirrored what you saw happen, Megan, in the university system. where it's almost like an invasive species in nature gets a foothold and then takes over an entire ecosystem and blocks out all the other species.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking NSA Chat Logs, Bezos Causes New WashPost Staff Revolt, and White House vs. Press, with Buck Sexton | Ep. 1015
What you have is people inside of the federal bureaucracy who are radical left partisans. And this usually comes through HR, the DEI office, the left-wing commissars, if you will, they start to demand certain policies. They start to hire certain kinds of people. They create a pipeline for more of this madness.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking NSA Chat Logs, Bezos Causes New WashPost Staff Revolt, and White House vs. Press, with Buck Sexton | Ep. 1015
Just like how we saw the faculty lounges across America, even at the most elite universities, just have gone completely insane over the last 20 years. You could say it's maybe longer than that. This has happened throughout the intelligence community too. And when you don't have people showing up
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking NSA Chat Logs, Bezos Causes New WashPost Staff Revolt, and White House vs. Press, with Buck Sexton | Ep. 1015
You know, you had this post 9-11 generation, which I was a part of, where we're just saying, our country's under attack, let's fight Al Qaeda. Okay, that's why a whole wave joined. If you joined the CIA in the last 10 years, a lot of people are joining and they had to mouth the preferred slogans of the DEI commissars about things like the trans agenda. I have friends in the CIA who say,
The Megyn Kelly Show
Shocking NSA Chat Logs, Bezos Causes New WashPost Staff Revolt, and White House vs. Press, with Buck Sexton | Ep. 1015
that it feels like it's Trans Awareness Week every other week in the Central Intelligence Agency. And when you look at the issue of security clearances, which Tulsi Gabbard there brought up, these are not just people who are doing some, you know, they're not working in the bowels of the Department of Agriculture.
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Can't get that in the mainstream media, which is why you've got to listen to some Clay and Buck for another point of view. Buck, why are you going third person? Because, Clay, I think this ad is running in places that might not exactly align with all of our politics or even know who we are. It's impossible.
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Those jellyheads in June would be intellectual warriors by August.
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This podcast, like a daily dose of that, minus the campfires, archery, and pranking the girls.
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Trump ROCKS State of the Union, while Democrats RAGE in Fury
Those jellyheads in June would be intellectual warriors by August.
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Trump ROCKS State of the Union, while Democrats RAGE in Fury
This podcast, like a daily dose of that, minus the campfire's archery and pranking the girls.
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Trump ROCKS State of the Union, while Democrats RAGE in Fury
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Verdict with Ted Cruz
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BONUS: The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show - Daily Review Podcast
Senator Thune, when they vote against it, though, are they claiming publicly? I'm just wondering because this has just happened and it's hard to believe that they just did this for a lot of us. But I guess if you've been paying attention to Democrats, insanity is not new to them. But are they saying there's some problem in the text of the bill or some procedural?
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Or are they openly just saying we think dudes should be able to play against ladies and that's the way it should be?
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So what can you hopefully get done through that reconciliation process as some of the top agenda items? We've seen this slew of executive orders coming out from Trump. A lot of them we've been talking about here on the show. We think they're doing great things. Of course, we all also know that executive orders can be overturned by the next administration if, in fact, it's a Democrat.
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So legislation matters, and we don't have a supermajority. So, Senator Thune, you're the majority leader. What are some of the top things you're hoping can get through the Senate, the House, and get signed by the president using that reconciliation process?
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Majority Leader Thune, appreciate you making the time for us on Clay and Buck. We'll talk to you again soon.
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Well, Trump is doing what he does, which is a non-traditional approach to try to solve problems. And I think that the people who have, at every step of the way, questioned him, undermined him, said he's crazy, said he's a dictator, are doing what they always do, which is more of that.
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We are joined by Uncle Bill. Very exciting. Bill O'Reilly, best-selling author and commentator. No spin news. Go check out what he's got there. And also many, many best-sellers. Too many to read off on radio, but the last one was Confronting the Presidents, and you all know the Killing Series very well. He's also got the Three Americans Tour kicking off March 30th in Long Island.
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So, Bill, let's jump into this, actually, because this was news to Clay and to me. It sounds like it's going to be a lot of fun. You, Stephen A., and Chris Cuomo, all under one roof, all talking to the folks. What's going on?
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when you look at what has already occurred, it does seem to be that Trump is using the leverage that he should use on issues that matter to get us to a better resolution. All that really counts – and this is contra the diplomacy, State Department –
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Bill, if I could direct your attention here for a second, I'm really curious what your take is on all this tariff stuff. We haven't really dove into it yet today on the show. I mean, we mentioned at the top, but we haven't really done our full segment on it. So just by way of... of prepping everybody for what you're going to say.
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You got Justin Trudeau, who's talking tough and saying that Trump wants to take over all of Canada, destroy their economy, Mexico tariffs, China tariffs, Canada tariffs, all this stuff. What do you make of this whole thing? Because I think it's tough to keep up with a lot of the arguments and a lot of the specifics.
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foreign policy consensus mindset all that really matters is the results right all that really matters is when something happens in response to a decision an action an agreement that trump has taken how we get there uh i i think is far less important and so yes was it A little bit of a surprise to see that dust up in the Oval Office. Sure.
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Do I think that Zelensky was the one who instigated it largely? Yes, I do. And now are we back in a place where Zelensky is saying all the things that we wanted to hear from him the first time around? Yes. So that to me indicates that Trump is on the right track.
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Bill, can I ask you, because I think this is really important. The people that, you know, you've articulated this well. Clay and I have talked about this. You, me, Clay, we all see this in the same way, which is, I think, just reality-based. The opposition to this... Is it just opposition to Trump getting a win?
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Is it just the emotions of supporting Ukraine and putting a little flag on your Facebook page is too exciting for people to give up? Because it seems to me if Ukraine can't win, and if we don't want to keep paying for this for years ad infinitum, as you say, what is the alternative to what Trump is trying to accomplish right now?
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I also think that this is forced out into public view that the people who just are all about the Ukrainian fight and don't ever go beyond Ukraine is the good guy. Russia is the bad guy are being forced to justify in public. What exactly is your plan? If this war goes on for another five years, in what way is Ukraine in a better position then than they are in now?
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I mean, that is just so cynical, even for Democrats. You've got people just in a meat grinder, dying in huge numbers on both sides.
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Is the tour going to do some extra cities, or is it just out in Long Island?
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I would be there, Bill, but I'm expecting a baby within days of the event, so I think I've got to hug her down. Clay has no excuse, and he loves Long Island.
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We would not be surprised. Is he also 6'7"? Because that helps in politics.
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Russia has more men, more materiel, more North Korean troops, I might add, pouring in. Russia has allies who are working directly in this fight, and we refuse to do that. That is our red line. So how is Ukraine going to be in a better position other than losing a lot of our money and a lot of their men? They don't have an answer to this. Trump knows that.
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Bill O'Reilly, everybody. Bill, thank you so much as always. Let's talk again before the event and make sure everybody, we've got a big Long Island listenership. Let's make sure we get a lot of folks out there because then Clay's going to make you go to Nashville and we're going to take this thing on the road. Thanks for your time.
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All right, so welcome back to Clay and Buck. We had mentioned this. We'll just spend a couple minutes on this. Then we're going to get into the tariffs and the big news. But I think it is interesting because we both watch this show because our wives like the show and it's good enough that we enjoy it too. White Lotus on HBO.
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And there was a scene where these three, you can tell there are three women of means in their throats. I'd say they're all about 45-ish, right? Maybe something like that, 45. And they figure out while they're in this five-star resort in Thailand, which is where the whole show is set, and they figure out, wait a second, one's from L.A., one's from New York, one is from Austin, Texas.
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Now, Texas, obviously, red, but Austin, you never know. This is how the exchange goes. Play it.
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I just love this whole scene, Buck. I have had versions of that. That is exactly how it goes. The libs keep digging in, digging a little more. They're a little outraged, but they want that reassurance. Wait, wait, wait. I've been on first dates where it was like that, except it was, wait, you work for Glenn Beck? Like that Glenn Beck? Do you like guns?
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So we're trying to get to where we are with the deal now. Clay, if the negotiations were to break down because what Putin wants is just so unthinkable, is so beyond the pale. Well, at least we would know that, right? At least then we could have a conversation. OK, Putin really is being crazier than anticipated on this. So maybe he does need to suffer the consequences a little bit more or whatever.
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And I'm like, yes, that's Glenn Beck, and I love guns. And that was the end. There was no second date.
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They're not going. They're not going. Tom Hanks from SNL. That's right. where he really he really just it was unfunny and took cheap shots. And they're not even it's just pathetic because the cheap shots don't even land. And it just showed that he's living in some alternate political reality. But no, that's that's what's so interesting is, is the Trump voter woman.
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If you watch this scene, you know, all through the women are like, you know, they're very attractive. They're very well dressed. Right. So there's no wealthy.
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But the Trump voter is the most, at least in this exchange. Now, there's more episodes to come. And for all we know, she could have, like, a pill addiction and be crazy. You know, this is what happens on the show.
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Democrats for a long time now think in any social situation, in any whether you're in the workplace, whether you're at a friend's barbecue, a cocktail party, if they are surprised to find a Trump voter or a Republican, which same thing now, but in the midst. They think that they're allowed to take some kind of umbrage and put you through some interrogation.
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Whereas on the other side, it's like, yeah, you voted for Kamala. Like, sorry, you don't have good judgment, but enjoy your burger. Like, we don't care.
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But right now, there's no reason to believe that the option that the Ukraine hardliners want to take is better.
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You know, five years ago, or maybe even two years ago, maybe even six months ago, the Trump voter in a pop culture context on an HBO show would have been, you know,
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It would have been much more likely to be, oh, aren't they, they're right to be outraged that this woman voted for Trump or that, you know, we're led to believe she voted for Trump. Whereas now, what it exposed a little more was these libs, these left-wingers are living in this delusion where they don't realize that
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More than half the country voted for Trump, and they probably know a lot of people who voted for Trump.
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Speaking of women who drink too much Chardonnay, Justin Trudeau. Here he is.
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Thank you. Here he is on the tariff issue. He was in Ottawa, Canada today, and he's very upset. He is not having a good one here. Very upset with the tariffs, and this is what he says is going to happen. Play one.
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Clay, how much of what's going on? Bill O'Reilly mentioned this earlier in the hour. It was a great interview. Go back and listen if you missed it on the Clay and Buck podcast. How much of this? We know Mexico, there's very real national security, fentanyl, economic, a whole range of issues that the tariffs touch on there. That's its own set of things.
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With Canada, how much of this is just Trump wants to give Justin Trudeau a wedgie and push him into the locker in front of everybody? You know, I wonder how much of this is driven by just teaching Trudeau a lesson.
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I think what Trump wants ultimately is reciprocity from these countries because there are a lot of tariffs that they have against U.S. goods. And this is where people in this argument, I understand, we're told by the economic expert industrial complex that tariffs are a tax and tariffs are bad and tariffs won't help us. There's still, I think, a pretty broad sense of that.
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going on and yet why does why does china have all these tariffs against u.s goods why does canada have all these tariffs why does the eu have all these tariffs against u.s goods if it's so manifestly not advantageous to have tariffs why do these countries have them against us and clay i think that also leads to what trump wants is for them not to do that
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And so by saying, and this is a little bit like the trade war issue with China from the first Trump administration, people kept saying, oh, no, he's going to start a trade war with China. Anybody who understood the U.S.-China trade situation would tell you we were already in a trade war. It's just they were fighting it and we were getting the short end of the stick.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
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So, you know, instead of a one way trade war, all of a sudden it turned into both people were playing hardball. So I think that's just his baseline mentality on this. But it might get a little rocky here, everyone. And I went I went yesterday. I couldn't find any eggs in the grocery store. You ever see you had that yet?
Verdict with Ted Cruz
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Verdict with Ted Cruz
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There are some there's some very fundamental questions here that I think Trump sees properly. And one of them is.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
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Do we care enough, do we as Americans care enough about who's in control of 25% or so, 15, 20% of Ukraine that we're willing to lose American soldiers and spend billions, perhaps even trillions of dollars, never mind the possibility of a nuclear exchange, which is the euphemism, of course, we use for nuking each other's militaries in the theater, which would be horrifying.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
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Are we willing to do those things? No, we're not. And so at some level, this is all just, I think, a recognition that there's going to be an ability that Russia has in its sphere of influence here or to expand its sphere of influence here because it's not a NATO country and because we don't want to do their fighting for them. And so there are limitations on what we're willing to do.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
BONUS: The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show - Daily Review Podcast
There are also limitations on the time frame in which we're willing to continue doing what we are already doing in terms of the money and materiel and training and everything else that we have been giving them. This is a messy situation. It's terrible how much life has been lost here. You brought up, Clay, and this is true, you go back to the, you know,
Verdict with Ted Cruz
BONUS: The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show - Daily Review Podcast
Yanukovych and the efforts to figure out who's going to be in charge of Ukraine stretching back now over a decade, the West backing one side, Russia backing another. You know, we've been playing with this as some kind of a proxy territory for much longer than there have even been bullets flying over there.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
BONUS: The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show - Daily Review Podcast
So to get this thing to be no longer a festering sore, but to be in a position where there's an agreement going forward, as far as the Russians are concerned, look at the dismemberment that the Soviet Union suffered into all these different countries and all these breakaway republics. For them, the notion that the map is now and forever going to remain the map is laughable, clearly.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
BONUS: The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show - Daily Review Podcast
And they very much feel that way, and that's why they've been willing to go to this extent. And you'll notice that no one even talks anymore about how Putin's going to be overthrown or all this. People said moronic stuff. And I mean U.S. senators. I don't have to name them. I could name them. In the very beginning of this conflict, delusional.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
BONUS: The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show - Daily Review Podcast
about how we'd be able to defeat the Russian war machine in this theater without actually engaging U.S. military forces in the process. So we just want this whole thing to end. I think there's tremendous frustration with it. I think it also, Clay, comes out of fighting in multiple decades-long counterinsurgency GWAT wars in the Mideast that what did we get? What did we get in Afghanistan exactly?
Verdict with Ted Cruz
BONUS: The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show - Daily Review Podcast
That's a really tough one to answer. What did we get in Iraq? Maybe even... Isn't it funny? Afghanistan was the good war. We basically got nothing. We ended up killing bin Laden in Pakistan, everybody. So, you know, we didn't really get very much for our Afghanistan efforts, did we?
Verdict with Ted Cruz
BONUS: The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show - Daily Review Podcast
And then you look at Iraq, and, you know, it's marginal right now that it's better now than it was under Saddam Hussein. So there's been a lot of reason for us to see what's going on with U.S. foreign policy and military interventions and say... Have we learned the lesson, Clay? And I think that's I think that's Trump's fundamental guiding principle on this. Have we learned the lesson?
Verdict with Ted Cruz
BONUS: The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show - Daily Review Podcast
I think that's a very good. Yes, I think that, unfortunately, there are a lot of people still who think, oh, no, you don't understand. We could do this. And I don't know if they've just been playing too much Call of Duty or I don't I don't get it. I don't know why they would think that this is going to be something that we want to get deeper or more involved in.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
BONUS: The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show - Daily Review Podcast
I do not care who is in charge of Crimea. Meaning, I do not care enough that I want to sacrifice a single American or any American interest for Crimea, for Donbass, for Luhansk and Donetsk and these places. I do not care. Now, that doesn't mean I don't care about the suffering of the people there. I do.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
BONUS: The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show - Daily Review Podcast
But, Clay, I care about the suffering of the people in South Sudan as well, which is going through yet another mass genocide situation in slow motion. But we're not about to land troops there either.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
BONUS: The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show - Daily Review Podcast
I think that he recognizes that, you know, Trump Trump is willing to upset the apple cart. You don't want to tick him off. No one even thought Biden was leading the country. So who cares? Doesn't matter what he says.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
BONUS: The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show - Daily Review Podcast
You just heard Clyde say it, and it's true. Trump can't fix all of our problems. He's doing great stuff, but there's a lot that is still going to be very challenging over these next four years and are going to be problems for years to come. The debt is very high, maybe even top of that list. So what can you do in the meantime?
Verdict with Ted Cruz
BONUS: The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show - Daily Review Podcast
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Verdict with Ted Cruz
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Verdict with Ted Cruz
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Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton - Mar 20 2025
We have our friend Ryan Groduski joining us at the bottom to talk about some data and particularly diving into what we learned about white college-educated women yesterday. They idolize Vladimir Zelensky. which is very strange for a lot of women who I think have probably, very likely, very few of them ever seen combat, know anything about war or the military, but they're all about Zelensky.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton - Mar 20 2025
But one, I think they are up to the task of... Tackling. And then Ryan Groduski on some of the numbers, including Clay. That discussion yesterday that we had, I had a lot of people reaching out to me off air, either about hearing us on the show, talking about that, or even just in my life who had seen those numbers.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton - Mar 20 2025
So the propaganda there has clearly, clearly been effective. We'll talk to Ryan about that. Democrats are turning on Schumer, which is not a surprise because they're in the panic phase of things. This is where in Lord of the Flies they all start sharpening sticks and just poking each other with them because they don't know what else to do and there's no real leadership. It's a great book.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton - Mar 20 2025
You remember reading Lord of the Flies in school back in the day?
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton - Mar 20 2025
Well, that's like a lot of people now with Harry Potter. No offense, because I know you read a lot of other things, too, and you're a Harry Potter guy. But everything is Voldemort. Everything is the Quidditch. You know, Harry Potter became so dominant.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton - Mar 20 2025
I did neither. So there we go. I probably should get on that. Now, we have the Democrats turning at each other, turning on Schumer, and we've got all that happening. But I wanted to spend some time here on the war on Tesla and how it...
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton - Mar 20 2025
factors into as well the democrat approach to the economy so let's just let's look at what's going on here right now the fact that you have these democrats openly rooting against a an all-american car company one that you know the cars are manufactured here i mean they've got the huge facility in in texas um I think 80,000 people work for Tesla, Clay, 80,000 jobs.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton - Mar 20 2025
If you believe that climate change is any kind of threat, never mind existential, you should think that what Tesla is doing, because remember, it's not just the cars, it's the technology, it's autonomous driving, it's the interface, it's the battery technology, it's
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton - Mar 20 2025
How far are we from Starlink being able to control all the cars and maybe we get VTOL, so vertical takeoff and landing, meaning basically flying cars? I mean, things are going to get really interesting in our lifetime, folks. So that's pretty cool, right? Well, not if you're Tim Walz. Who thinks he can beat you up, I might add. And I mean you, not Clay. Like you, listen to me.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton - Mar 20 2025
Tim Walls thinks he can take you in a fight. I think we have legions of guys over 75 that would smoke Tim Walls.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton - Mar 20 2025
I know the conservative talk radio audience, and there are guys over 75 that will whoop my ass. So I definitely know they would take Tim Walz in a fight. But Caroline Leavitt at the White House speaking as the press secretary just goes after this. I mean, it's astonishing. It's outrageous that he is rooting for the failure of a company. Again, because Elon wants to cut government waste.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton - Mar 20 2025
And we got to put some of these questions out there again, like college educated white women. Zelensky is the thing that they are the biggest outliers on how much they love Volodymyr Zelensky. There's some crazy NDEI.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton - Mar 20 2025
Play eight.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton - Mar 20 2025
It is sad, and his defeat was devastating. It's sad, though, that somebody would be rooting for America. Think about what that means. It's not just Tesla. You and I have never sat here and been like, you know what I want? I want Amazon to go bankrupt because it employs huge numbers of people. It's an enormously valuable company, and it has been incredibly effective. I mean, it has saved...
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton - Mar 20 2025
millions maybe billions of man hours for people and look i know jeff bezos is more on our team now than he used to be but he's still not really on our team we're all very aware of this but to root for a huge american company it'd be like sitting here clay and just saying you know i want ford and general motors to just cease to exist and all their people to get fired because i don't like what this i don't like who the ceo voted for there's something deranged about this
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton - Mar 20 2025
And you've got a couple of voices weighing in on this, defending the... Remember, it's not really about defending Elon personally. This is about the company. This is about Tesla, which is doing great things. It's innovating. It's employing people. It's making incredible products. There's so much about it. It's here in America. The cars are made here in America.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton - Mar 20 2025
It's not some... We're not having some sweatshop somewhere putting together iPhones. Just saying. Again, I wish I could tell you I don't have an iPhone. I do, but it's because I don't like the other options, but I'm aware of what goes on here, right? It's not always perfect to make these kinds of choices. Kevin O'Leary, though, points out that Tim Walsh is a bozo. This is Mr. Wonderful cut nine.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton - Mar 20 2025
He's pointing out the economic illiteracy of somebody like it's in walls. Companies like Tesla are what have been moving the market in recent years, which means 401ks, which means pension plans. The growth of the major American corporations is lifting up the overall market. And even if you think, oh, I'm not in the market. Oh, no, you're in the market. Because it affects the cost of borrowing.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton - Mar 20 2025
It affects the cost of your rent or your mortgage or the payments on your car or the credit card interest rates that you have. There is no escaping the market if you're operating in America today.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton - Mar 20 2025
And to want companies, whether it's Tesla or NVIDIA or the magnificent seven stocks I'll talk about, when you root for those to fail, you're rooting actually for the American economy to feel pain and there to be less wealth in this country. And that's what they're doing because they don't like Elon because he's too nice to Trump.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton - Mar 20 2025
The Commerce Secretary, Howard Lutnick, who has been very outspoken about a lot of things in the economy, he spoke, he straight up said, he's a senior government official cabinet member. Well, I'll let you listen to what he said about Tesla. Play 10.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton - Mar 20 2025
Yeah. The Commerce Secretary effectively saying this is the most impressive CEO living today in the world. It's a big deal, I thought. And he's trying to help the government instead of just running his incredible companies. So says something.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton - Mar 20 2025
All right, welcome back into Clay and Buck. Our friend Ryan Gerduski joins us now. It's a numbers game is his podcast. It's also true about life, but it's his podcast on the Clay and Buck Network. Go subscribe. Also, National Populist Newsletter is his sub stack. Make sure you subscribe to the podcast first, though. Mr. Grodowski. Yeah. Great to have you with us. How are you?
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton - Mar 20 2025
Yeah, we're good, man. So we have a lot of things to run by you. But first off, what was your biggest takeaway when you looked at those numbers that were released yesterday where the outlier extraordinaire was white college-educated women who are apparently obsessed with Zelensky and DEI? Interesting.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton - Mar 20 2025
So we've also got some updates on the border. Tom Holman pointing out that they are rocking on all cylinders here to enforce the law, comparing it to Biden. We'll give you those updates. Trump on the recession that people are predicting. This is not a recession. He is not worried at all, which is, I'm sure, not a surprise to any of you. The war against Tesla, which we discussed a bit yesterday.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton - Mar 20 2025
So, Ryan, I wanted to ask you about this slew of people, including Gayle King, Nancy Pelosi, and others, who are really giving Schumer some rough stuff. Is this just about the CR that he went along with so that the government didn't shut down? I mean, we could expect that. Or is this going deeper to the power struggle within the Democrat Party right now? And if so...
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Bonus: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton - Mar 20 2025
Who is angling to take over what feels like a ship that has sprung many leaks over at Democrat land?
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton - Mar 20 2025
Who is the best fundraiser, Ryan? Because you'd actually know this, and I'm just curious. Who's the best Democrat fundraiser now who's under 65?
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton - Mar 20 2025
But I'm talking about the younger generation. Is there anybody who's already starting to be?
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton - Mar 20 2025
There's more on that. It is... Just insane and destructive and wrong on every level. And I know yesterday I shared that I'm thinking about getting a Tesla. I'm trying to convince Carrie. The problem is we don't really use the car that we have that much. We still have a lease on it.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton - Mar 20 2025
But we have a lot of guests who come over here. So we have friends that come visit. So it's nice to have a little guest spot. Anyway, thinking about getting a Tesla and people think, oh, Tesla's for rich. You can get a Tesla right now. I know I sound like a Tesla salesman for about what you can get a like reasonably equipped, you know, Toyota Corolla for a new Toyota Corolla.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton - Mar 20 2025
That's amazing, Stan. That is amazing. Yeah.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton - Mar 20 2025
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Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton - Mar 20 2025
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Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton - Mar 20 2025
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Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton - Mar 20 2025
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Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton - Mar 20 2025
I mean, you can get a Tesla for like three something a month. which is really low compared to what you can see across the car marketplace. Cars have been very expensive recently. Anyway, we have that.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton - Mar 20 2025
So I know people have their problems with the EVs and everything else. OK, I get it. But the point is they're going after Elon and they're trying to hurt his company and they're celebrating in its madness. But let's talk about something else for a second here or something that has gotten both of our attention on this week. And that is the Chuck Schumer.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton - Mar 20 2025
It really bothers me, Julie, to see how much the D.C. Circuit Court is essentially an extra branch of government. It's like the fail-safe for the deep state, right? They can bring any case they want there, and they know that unless the Supreme Court steps in, they'll get their way. And this is very clear.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton - Mar 20 2025
The fact that they didn't... I always have to remind people of this, that none of the J6-related individuals were able to get a different... a different venue for the trial. I think Timothy McVeigh was given a different venue for his trial from Oklahoma City, if memory serves.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton - Mar 20 2025
Like, this is a standard thing in the justice system for people if there's considered to be a prejudiced jury to be able to get it. No one, right? No one got the court or got the jurisdiction, the venue moved from D.C. So that's very troubling. Some of these district judges, though, the stuff that they've come up with, the ones that to me
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton - Mar 20 2025
Well, the turning around of the plane with the trend of Aragua guys, that seems to be the most egregious, I think, to most of us. But a couple of other ones, Julie, and you're familiar with these different judges I know, too, so that's a thing. You know who these individuals are from covering them. The judge who said that you can't ban transgenders from serving in the military.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton - Mar 20 2025
And now there's a judge that I believe has ordered the DOJ to return men to a women's prison who say they're transgender. Like this is just they're just making up laws now.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton - Mar 20 2025
Chuck Schumer as a leader, I guess, of the Democrat Party still. You know, he's one of the gray hairs. He's been around for a long time, been in the game a long time. And you're starting to hear a little bit of the resentful. It reminds me of the Obama era.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton - Mar 20 2025
You didn't build that because Trump has completely cornered the narrative on robust capitalism, winners, building, creating wealth for the country and individual prosperity and all that stuff. Democrats are the party in. I don't know. And here's Chuck Schumer on The View complaining about Americans who want to keep more. This is 14. Keep more of their money.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton - Mar 20 2025
Can I just jump in really quick, Julie, to say that from my understanding from friends in the legal world, if you defend like if you would defend Osama bin Laden, you obviously that won't happen. But if someone could do that, that would be considered a feather in their legal cap going forward. They could say it's like John Adams defending the red coats like everyone deserves.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton - Mar 20 2025
But no one felt that way in a lot of the big law firms and in sort of the big law world about J6 Americans. Yeah.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton - Mar 20 2025
They're just a left-wing authoritarian party, Clay. That's really what the Democrats have become. They want to tell you what to do with everything, and they control everything, even though they're imbeciles.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton - Mar 20 2025
I haven't lived in New York in, what, going on three years now, two and a half years? And they still want me paying taxes there somehow. It's crazy, okay? The system we have is absolutely nuts.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton - Mar 20 2025
It's by the day. It's by the work day. Same thing in New York City. Same thing, I think, in Utah, if I remember correctly. When I've been to Salt Lake City in the past, I've had to pay, like,
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton - Mar 20 2025
hundreds of dollars in income tax for the privilege of being in salt lake it's a beautiful place uh it is lovely but i just i was surprised that utah was uh was grabbing uh grabbing into my pocket there point we appreciate everybody who listens in salt lake city where i believe we're number one and we are yeah you're number one consistently for three uh three plus years now thank you salt lake great station
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton - Mar 20 2025
There's also some big philosophical distinctions here that I think should be made. Clay, for example, as we have seen from the efforts of Elon and Doge, thank you, Trump, for putting them in the game to do this, every dollar of government spending is somehow sacred to Democrats. This is what we've seen. Have they actually said... On anything that Doge has done, look at what Doge has been finding.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton - Mar 20 2025
Look at some of the ways that your money, you know, we talked about the transgender Muppet shows in Mongolia and all this stuff that's going on. Every dollar the government spends is both sacred and it's not enough. There always should be. You can never cut and there always should be more. Meanwhile, the American people whose hours, labor, creativity and effort are what is actually the economy.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton - Mar 20 2025
This is the thing that Democrats in the government don't really understand. It's not that the government creates the economy. The government, if it's operating well, should create some of the guidelines, the rules of the road, and enforcement mechanisms for contracts within the economy.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton - Mar 20 2025
But it is all of you listening who show up somewhere and build a good, provide a service, do something that is worthwhile to society, and you get money for that. That is the actual economy, the productive economy. And anybody within that who feels like the government, that every dollar is sacred and never isn't enough spending, if we say that something needs to change, that's terrible. Yes.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton - Mar 20 2025
This whole thinking needs to be flipped on its head because... What are you really getting for your money with so many of these things? What is really worthwhile? Remember, we have a state government, too. The fact that Trump's about to shut the Department of Education, right? That executive order is going to come down and people go, oh, no, education.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton - Mar 20 2025
The Department of Education has nothing to do with educating your children. All it does is make it worse and create a holding pen for boring bureaucrats that get paid to do nothing.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton - Mar 20 2025
And they now are at the point where I think they're on the edge of seeing the Department of Education get officially shut down. There have already been cuts made. I know a judge is going to reverse it if he hasn't or she hasn't already, and they'll also reverse the shutdown.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton - Mar 20 2025
And the whole plan here is essentially to have the judicial coup in effect for really Trump's whole term, if they can get away with it, to stop him from doing what he should be able to do. But yeah, the Department of Education, it employs around 4,200 people until the most recent round of cuts. When you look at what does it do, what does the Department of Education actually do?
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton - Mar 20 2025
Everything that it does is either superfluous. Political or could be done by the states much more effectively and much more within the federalist system that we have. Right. Why should if you if you live in if you live in Texas, why should some bureaucrats in D.C. be influencing the curriculum of your school in Texas? Amen. Oh, because they have to make sure.
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Bonus: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton - Mar 20 2025
Well, they have to make sure the test scores don't actually budge, and if anything, get worse over the last 40 years, because that's what's happened. Failure within government needs to be treated much more like failure within the private sector, where you and I have been at places, Clay, where it's a fire sale, and everyone's getting fired, and it stinks, and like, you know, but...
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Bonus: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton - Mar 20 2025
Welcome, everybody. Thursday edition of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton show kicks off now. And we've got a lot to break down with all of you. Our friends, plural there. I had to make sure I threw in plural. Our friends, Julie Kelly and Ryan Groduski, will be joining Julie in the second hour on the judicial coup that is still very much underway and a major challenge for the Trump agenda.
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Bonus: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton - Mar 20 2025
That is what happens. And this notion that the government is and always will be not just existing as it is, but growing and getting more money. That is a change in the way that we are governed that absolutely needs to happen. And look, we were just talking about the the tax situation here. IRS is a pain. All right. I mean, I'm hoping that the IRS gets a nice doge audit of of itself going here.
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Bonus: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton - Mar 20 2025
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Bonus: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton - Mar 20 2025
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Bonus Pod: Democrats hold Government Hostage plus Trump vs the Department of Education
This podcast, like a daily dose of that, minus the campfire's archery and pranking the girls.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus Pod: Democrats hold Government Hostage plus Trump vs the Department of Education
Those jellyheads in June would be intellectual warriors by August.
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Bonus Pod: Democrats hold Government Hostage plus Trump vs the Department of Education
Those jellyheads in June would be intellectual warriors by August.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus Pod: Democrats hold Government Hostage plus Trump vs the Department of Education
This podcast, like a daily dose of that, minus the campfire's archery and pranking the girls.
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Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
Remember that? Oh, I was an avid Hannity and Combs watcher back when I was in college. So, yeah, I remember that.
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You can take it all the way back to Firing Line with William F. Buckley and William F. Buckley and Gore Vidal at the convention.
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What I think happened with the Democrat media ecosystem, which we used to call the mainstream media, but I think rightly people abandon that term because why give them the credibility of calling them the mainstream media? Why are they mainstream? So I agree with that.
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But the corporate Democrat media, legacy media, however you want to describe it, they used to control so much of the piping, if you will, that
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that the contents could be whatever they wanted to be and there wasn't really much in the way of an infrastructure on the other side for competition exceptions being of course rush talk radio fox news but those were relatively recent when you start to compare this to the new york times and we when you compare this to some of the outlets uh... that the democrats have been able to rely on they they've been running this game for a long time you go all the way back to uh...
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Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
What's his name? Cronkite. And you go back to the days when there were only a handful of TV news anchors that had tremendous sway over over public opinion. They were libs, by the way, but not libs in the current context, libs back then. And I would just say what's happened, Clay, is that the social media gave them a big jolt of control all over again.
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Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
And then they became these echo chambers of insanity. Where you could just start promoting the craziest ideas from college campuses in the I don't know, I want to say maybe in the early 2000s, you start to see this maybe toward the end or middle to end of the Bush administration bubbling up more and more.
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Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
Obama administration comes along and all of a sudden you have the mainstreaming of socialism, left wing radical ideas, extremely poisonous DEI and race politics. And all of this, you know, gets gets completely injected into the American body politic for eight years of Obama. But then things just got crazier and crazier. And under Biden, well, under covid really.
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Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
And then, you know, for Biden's term, I think they just reached. I don't know if you know, there's like terminal velocity. Isn't that when you're you jump out of a plane and you go to the absolute fastest speed that your mask can travel? I think that's terminal velocity. There was a bad movie in the 90s based on that.
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Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
But I think that's terminal velocity. I think Democrats under Biden politically have reached terminal insanity. They got about as crazy as they could be, and now they're dealing with the backlash from a majority of the American people of, you guys can't just be totally insane.
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Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
You can't have a dementia puppet as the president, and we all then see it, and we all know it, and you don't suffer political consequences. The Democrats... deeply deserve the pathetic and ignominious post-election party that they are mired in right now. It is exactly what they should have. They earned this. They own this. So let them wallow a bit. Let them be sad.
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Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
Of course. But on the Hitler comparison, which we used to talk about here with some frequency in the lead of the election, because it was it was daily programming at MSNBC. It was he was Hitler. He was Hitler. And it's you're really how can you think you're a serious person worthy? How could you think of yourself as a public intellectual or however they want to?
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Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
a pundit, whatever, however you want to describe yourself, if you're going to say that a recent American president who is leading your candidate in the polls... who also happens to be by far the choice of the entire state of Israel. If they were able to, we all know this, I think Trump is, outside of America, probably more popular in Israel than any other country in the world.
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Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
And I just think if you were trying to be at all a serious person, you'd have to say, I don't think the guy who has the overwhelming support of the entire population of the Jewish state is Hitlerian. Yes. I don't think you could be a serious person. And I... I remember, you know, I when I had the the sit down, you mentioned Bill Maher and Bill was trying to be reasonable.
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Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
Your analysis is always as astute, sir.
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And there were a couple of Democrats at that table. They were just shrieking about the same nonsense about racism and the insurrection and all this stuff. And they forgot that people actually care about what's happening in the country right now. That's reality to them. They care about the economy. They care about the border. They care about crime. They care about things.
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Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
that are measurable and real not just narratives that create emotionally destabilized zombies running around talking about the insurrection all the time and so this is i think it's this is my way of saying clay democrats need this it's like a cleansing of their souls that is going on right now it's it's a it's a reset that must occur because they really went insane i think there's a lot of truth to that and
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Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
Yes. And I don't think it's going to get better for them any any time soon. I think it's likely to continue as it is right now on the points about Democratic leadership. I mean, Harry Enten, this is cut five. He says that at the speech, the Democrats reaction to Trump's speech, which we talked to you about earlier in the week.
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Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
Clay, there's really nothing for them to point to right now that I think is positive for their party in a broad sense of trying to go into the midterms and the inevitable presidential campaign. I think, if anything, they may put themselves in a position where they're preparing to fight the last political war because all they've done now for 10 years is run against Trump.
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Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
Unsuccessfully, in the end, I might add, right? When push came to shove, Trump beat them. and their whole party turned into this anti-Trump, they have to go through a metamorphosis.
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Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
There is a transformation that I think Democrats will have to... Now, it's not going to be on every... I'm not saying they're going to become a pro-life party, or they're not going to change that kind of stuff, but in the way they present, and in the way they focus on issues and fight the media war to try to sway that middle 3% to 5% of voters... You know, which doesn't, it's funny, isn't it?
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Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
That's all we're really talking about, but they're going to have to change the way that they're presented because there are a lot of people that will vote Democrat no matter what. We know that. They just, 75 million of them voted for Kamala.
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Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
A quarter of a million people voting for Democrats over Republicans in a handful of, well, in half a dozen states would have changed the election toward the Democrats. So it's not like we're sitting here saying the Democrats don't have a massive infrastructure and millions and millions of people who are voting for any Democratic candidate they put up.
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Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
But how will they not have the same result going forward? And also, how will they avoid the public repudiation that comes every time they try to present their arguments now? I mean, the stuff they're saying is silly. They look silly.
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Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
Welcome back into Clay and Buck. Okay, we're marching our way through to get to exactly the heart of the matter. New York Times big headline today about Gavin Newsom breaking with his party. I don't think that's what happened just based on what we've already heard. Clay heard the full clip before. I only seen a partial transcript, and I didn't hear a break with anything.
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Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
I heard Gavin Newsom being unctuous, oleaginous Gavin Newsom. I did not hear any all of a sudden little hint of bravery coming from him. So with that said, oh, and also I would just note, we thought today we might be talking about a big executive order that would shut down the Department of Education effectively. That has been delayed for now. We don't know.
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Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
It is being reported that's not happening today. It was reported last night it would happen today. So we're on that. We're aware, but... For now, that's not going to be a new story we're diving into because it hasn't happened yet. Okay, back to Newsom. Let's play now this clip because, Clay, from what I heard, it's funny. You heard the whole thing. I've just heard pieces.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
And just from the snippets, I'm going, I don't think this guy, Gavin Newsom, is changing anything. I think he's playing games here. This is the continuation. He had our friend Charlie Kirk on. This is the continuation of that conversation.
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Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
Now that I've heard this, Clay, this is merely a tactical retreat back to what it used to be with this issue, which is it's about consideration. Let's just try to be more courteous to each other. So just use their preferred pronoun out of courtesy.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
Note, when they could, when they finally got what they wanted with the Democrats, it turned into use their preferred wrong pronoun or you lose your job. Now they're going back to, can we just be courteous to each other? That's the game he's playing.
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Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
You left out the IA++, and I'm literally shaking right now.
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Honest question, honest question. Does he just have no idea what's going on?
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But that still doesn't explain the answer from Hakeem. What is he talking about? I have no idea.
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Who's talking about sexual predators with the high school sports thing?
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Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
I think if you ask Tim Walz a really simple and straightforward question, you're unlikely to get a particularly intelligent answer. So to ask him something for which I think, to be fair, there really isn't a good answer right now. Yes. Puts him on the spot. To me, it's more about the obvious state of the Democrat Party than it is how Walz answered the question one way or the other.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
We had mentioned Bill Maher before, who I think is also more making tactical retreats than ideological conversions on issues, but he is willing to say, and has been before even this election, that some of the stuff that his side is doing is just nuts and self-defeating. He doesn't like the school marm, you're not allowed to say this, you're not allowed to say that stuff. He's never liked that.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
The only place, and I think you and him cross over on this, Clay, I would I would largely agree with the two. He's he's pretty solid on the First Amendment when it comes to free speech. That's about it. Right. And for a long time, I mean, but he's been very solid on that issue for a long time. But here he is. He's talking to one of the pod save bros.
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Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
These were some of the young Obama White House speechwriters. And they have a podcast that at one point had a big following. And it's it's gone down a lot from my understanding. But whatever. He's talking to him. And this is fascinating. There's a long study that was done, a 10-year-long study that was done about the outcomes for people that have trans surgeries.
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Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
And Bill Maher is pointing out that this study was intentionally withheld and hidden because the, guess what? The outcomes are bad. This is not good. Because we're told all the time, if you don't give gender-affirming care, people commit suicide, the worst kind of moral blackmail ever.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
In reality, the people who go through the, quote, gender affirming care, formerly known as a sex change operation. So we called it, you know, back in the 90s and even before a sex change operation have terrible long term outcomes. And they justify this hiding. This guy justifies a play clip 30.
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Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
Well, I also I wish we had some of his response to it. But anyway, but the point is that guy didn't clay respond to do it. And he doesn't back down from this. He's like, yeah, I know. But you have to do that sometimes. The greater good is served by hiding the truth from the public on the trans issue.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
Because to say Kamala would be to steer right into more more of the defeat that they've already been suffering the aftermath of. So I think that's not where they would want to go. And they're the real answer. I mean, the smart answer would be to say, oh, we have. And this is the Democrat Party until a minute ago would have answered it this way.
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Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
I would just point out that this is part of why the activists have pushed this so hard, so fast, because they create a permanent army of parents who have done this and will never want to believe or accept that what they've done to their own children was the wrong thing to do.
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Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
So for every parent who allows their kid to take puberty blockers and all of this, you now have somebody who for the next 40 years will absolutely go to the mat on you need to be able to trans kids. You have to trans kids because they're never going to accept what they did to their own children because of the Democrat left and the medical establishment that have been co-opted by it.
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Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
push them in this direction, very obviously. And this is why when you talk about long-term outcomes, yeah, they're just beginning to figure out what the long-term outcomes are because this whole thing is so new in nature that there have been no long-term studies. And so people say things like gender-affirming care.
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Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
If you say that, you're a drone with no brain because this is a made-up term from just the last few years. Just the last few years. Sex change operation is what it was called for decades. And the reason they don't call it that anymore is because they want to pretend that there's not a change. It's an affirmation of what's already there.
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Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
And this is also why Democrats are so dug in on this clay, because if they can get you to agree to this, they can get you to agree to anything. If they can get you to agree to have your kids take puberty blockers at age 14, you'll do anything they tell you. They can force you to do anything.
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Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
And this is why there's also all kinds of age-related restrictions out there. We all know there's tons of different age-related restrictions, alcohol, sexual activity, all kinds of things. If you're 13 and you said, I want to get married, people might be like, hold on a second. You can't do that. That's illegal. There are reasons why you can't do this.
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Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
But if you want to have your breasts removed... As a girl? Because you think you're actually a boy? You can never change that. That's a surgery they can't undo. And with the puberty blockers with it. But that, you should be able to make the decision at 13. In fact, the state in some places says it should be hidden from parents. Hidden from parents.
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Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
Oh, we have a deep bench or they still love to say that we have a deep. bench and they would rattle off a bunch of names like Gavin Newsom and Gretchen Whitmer and Kamala Harris. And I can't even. And it's up to the Democrat voter who's going to lead in the next election. But we have so many. Instead, he looks completely flabbergasted.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
To me, it should be criminal. We got to go to a break here. Obviously, we get fired up about this topic. I just would say it all just keeps the circle of lies just keeps going because the reason they can't allow it to be an 18 and over thing, Clay, is because then it feels like a lifestyle choice. then it doesn't feel like an innate characteristic.
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Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
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Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
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Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
And I think that a big part of that is any of the people that would come to mind as the names for the Democrat leadership right now, even among Democrats. could be a liability in just a few months.
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Senator, appreciate you being with us. It's Buck. I think first time we've got a chance to talk to you on the show. So Doge and what has been accomplished, what will be accomplished. I know you're looking into this. You're involved with and have had recent conversations with Elon Musk, who's filled you in on what's going on with his team. Can you bring us up to speed? Because there's what?
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Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
has been reported, and then some of this stuff, some of the numbers get a little bit adjusted about what Doge has done thus far, and then what the plans are as you know them. And to the best of your ability, what's confirmed so far? What can we know is solid? Is the $100 billion of savings, is that rock solid? Bring us up to speed.
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Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
It could become very clear that this isn't, or you don't know when it will become clear, that this is not a person that you actually think the Democrats can rally behind and can do anything meaningful to bring their party out of the nosedive that it is still going through.
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Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
So, yeah, I think that when you look at Democrat leadership, you're going to have to see some of these individuals who I just named... presenting themselves to unfriendly media, which will be very interesting. I think they're going to have to go outside of the usual left-wing ideological bubble zones just in order to make them seem normal.
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Speaking to Senator right now out of pardon me, Clay, take this for a second. I got a problem on my earpiece.
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Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
The problem the Democrats have fundamentally is that they became a party led by and led on behalf of weirdos. That doesn't look good. And Tim Walz, of course, tried that J.D. Vance is weird. J.D. Vance is maybe the least weird politician I've ever seen in my life. That was not a good attack.
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Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
Senator Marshall, I'm back, and now I'll be able to hear your answer. Sorry, earpiece came out there for a second. I don't want to have an interview where I can't hear the other side. Tell me what you think about the executive order that is supposed to come down imminently on, I guess, disassembling the Department of Education.
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Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
It's not really clear to me what exactly is going to be in it because it hasn't been released, but I'm sure you're up on it. Is this going to happen, and if it does happen, why is it the right move?
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Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
Well, I think you can only have one alpha dog in any state in American politics right now of the same party. Right. So I think that Gavin Newsom is very clearly trying to I know he just launched his podcast. Clay, are you going to go on the Gavin Newsom podcast?
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I would go on you and your brother's podcast. I think Clay is being very mean.
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Apparently they have a huge following, which is amazing to me.
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Oh, absolutely. I think, look, it's funny because they asked if I would go on Fox this afternoon, Clay, and they have a former Obama guy who we're going to have some debate or something. I mean, it'll be three minutes long. We'll both get to talk one and a half times probably, but I'll make my points. I'll make his points.
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Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
It's interesting, though, because Fox News for a while was, as you know, frozen out by Democrats. They refused to go on. Really, generally, the only Democrats who would go on were clay pigeons. They were there to get blown to smithereens on air and, you know, for the amusement of the audience. And I think that that's changing now because they have to they have to just switch things up.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
They can't continue on with the current trajectory because it's not only that their party lost. It's that they don't have the same control of the information ecosystem that they used to. So they can't just rely on the New York Times, CNN axis of evil to propagate all kinds of nonsense all over the country because people aren't watching and people don't care.
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Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
They don't have the same gravitas that they even were managing, I think, up until this election. So you're going to see more Democrats crossing over into unfriendly media because they have to, which will expose them, by the way, because most of them are actually not up to the task and not up to the challenge of making their arguments. Tim Walz certainly isn't.
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Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
I mean, Tim Walz got so schooled by J.D. Vance in the debate, I almost started to feel kind of bad for him. But then I remind myself that he had a snitch line over COVID. I'm like, nope, nope, he deserves it. But the Democrats don't have anybody right now who I think is particularly adept in that form of presentation and exchange of ideas on the political side.
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Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
I don't think they have a particularly strong team on the media side either right now. I sit here and I keep looking for worthy adversaries on the left. And all I see are people who insist on pretending that men don't actually have an advantage over women in sports, et cetera, et cetera. It's sad out there right now for the Democrats, which is why Trump's got to hit the accelerator and keep going.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
The big goal here, because I think that there has been a sense that the best that Trump is going to have for a wide open field is the next 18 months, which I believe is likely to be the case. People are starting to talk about 60 Senate seats now. I know. And that's now you're talking about anything the Republicans really want to get done. They'd be in a position to do if they got 60 Senate seats.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
I know that the midterms feels like it's a long way up now. We just finished this election. But why not have that goal? Right. Why not look at it as instead of, oh, we're going to lose some seats in the midterms, which tends to be the historical trajectory.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
Why not say, keep the pressure on, keep the executive orders going, keep Doge flowing, keep it all happening, and maybe we can get to 60 Senate seats as the goal, and then you can really transform things.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
And you can do it without Trump having to even face a re-election, which means things could get... If you think his executive orders are interesting, just wait until we get to 60 Senate seats and a majority in the House, although we've got to get there first.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
Yeah, I think the last time, the GOP had 56 seats back in 1929. So that's the high watermark 100 years ago?
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
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Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
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Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
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Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
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Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
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Verdict with Ted Cruz
FAFO Columbia Loses: $400M in federal funds & Antisemitic Organizer Getting Deported
Can't get that in the mainstream media, which is why you've got to listen to some Clay and Buck for another point of view. Buck, why are you going third person? Because, Clay, I think this ad is running in places that might not exactly align with all of our politics or even know who we are. It's impossible.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
FAFO Columbia Loses: $400M in federal funds & Antisemitic Organizer Getting Deported
Well, the only way they're going to find out is if they download the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show podcast on the iHeartRadio app or wherever they get their pods. We're easy to find, unlike your wife at Costco. Clay, you speak the truth, but we're already losing people. I think I gained one or two just now.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
FAFO Columbia Loses: $400M in federal funds & Antisemitic Organizer Getting Deported
In case you haven't noticed, we like to have a lot of fun as well as talk about what's going on in the world.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
FAFO Columbia Loses: $400M in federal funds & Antisemitic Organizer Getting Deported
Be a lot of fun, too. Some Bill and Ted's excellent adventure references thrown in.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
FAFO Columbia Loses: $400M in federal funds & Antisemitic Organizer Getting Deported
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Verdict with Ted Cruz
FAFO Columbia Loses: $400M in federal funds & Antisemitic Organizer Getting Deported
Be a lot of fun, too. Some Bill and Ted's excellent adventure references thrown in.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
FAFO Columbia Loses: $400M in federal funds & Antisemitic Organizer Getting Deported
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Verdict with Ted Cruz
Biden Released 100 Potential Terrorist Illegal Aliens in a Single Year plus POTUS & First Lady Support my Take It Down Act
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Verdict with Ted Cruz
Biden Released 100 Potential Terrorist Illegal Aliens in a Single Year plus POTUS & First Lady Support my Take It Down Act
Those jellyheads in June would be intellectual warriors by August.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Biden Released 100 Potential Terrorist Illegal Aliens in a Single Year plus POTUS & First Lady Support my Take It Down Act
This podcast, like a daily dose of that, minus the campfire's archery and pranking the girls.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Biden Released 100 Potential Terrorist Illegal Aliens in a Single Year plus POTUS & First Lady Support my Take It Down Act
This podcast, like a daily dose of that, minus the campfire's archery and pranking the girls.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Biden Released 100 Potential Terrorist Illegal Aliens in a Single Year plus POTUS & First Lady Support my Take It Down Act
The best way to understand all sides of an issue is to know all sides of an issue.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Biden Released 100 Potential Terrorist Illegal Aliens in a Single Year plus POTUS & First Lady Support my Take It Down Act
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