September 21, 2022 • 37 mins
Stocks fall as Fed raises rates as expected and promises more. The latest on the civil case filed against Trump by NY AG Letitia James. Montage of James vowing to get Trump. Democrats now seem almost certain to indict Trump for something. Caller agrees with Buck on the royals. Fauci scolds Biden: The pandemic isn't over. Former Trump WH staffer Brian Morgenstern dishes to C&B on "St. Anthony" Fauci behind closed doors. House of the Dragon and Clay and Buck's favorite party dips.
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Welcome back in our number three Wednesday edition Clay Travis
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Breaking news. We anticipated told you it was coming, but
the Federal Reserve has officially raised its key rate by
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three quarters of a point for a third straight time
to fight inflation. This was not a particular surprise, although
Buck maybe suggesting that Wall Street is getting nervous about
the Fed not being aggressive enough. Stocks are now down
a couple of hundred points in the wake of this decision.
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I did not hear very many people arguing that they
needed less than a three quarter rate increase. A lot
of people out there were saying maybe a full point
was justified, and I wonder on some level whether that
is the on Wall Street regardless, stocks now down. Biden
has been in office for almost two years, and I'll
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get the staff to look this up again because I
can't remember the exact number. But effectively, if you had
bought stock on the day that Joe Biden entered into
the White House January twentieth, I believe a twenty twenty one,
I believe at best you are essentially break even, and
I think you're down a little bit now, which is
not that common to have a two year process where
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the stock market has essentially not moved and or gone down.
One of many things that Joe Biden has gotten wrong.
A lot of discussion out there, although I think it
will fade quickly. The New York Attorney General, who is
running for reelection in forty eight days, Letitia James, has
made the decision to file a lawsuit criminal in nature, sorry,
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civil in nature, not criminal, alleging that Trump had committed
fraud on some of his applications for loans in the
state of New York. This feels transparently political, and again
it is civil, not criminal in nature. Meaning it is
effectively a money based argument. She's seeking two hundred and
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fifty million dollars in penalties. Good luck, but associated with that,
the former attorney general under Trump and under George H. W. Bush,
Bill Barr, he's on Fox right now. I just saw
the quote a second ago though, that this Letitia James,
the Attorney General of New York civil suit is the
result of Trump derangement syndrome. Bars. I know, people other
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criticisms of them sometimes in this audience. He did some
very good things under Trump. He you know, him and
Trump had a parting of ways towards the end of
the administration. He's a very smart lawyer. And if he
says that this is crazytown, it's crazytown. Well and Buck,
we said this in the first hour. As soon as
this news came down, and you see that it is
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civil and not criminal, I just immediately kind of toss
it on the scrap heap of This is not a
story that is very significant. Now. She says that she
referred what she believes are criminal acts to the federal
government to the irs. But my point on this is,
if she had the goods, she would have brought the
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case herself under state statutory law of a criminal nature.
She wants Trump badly. The fact that all she could
put together were civil charges, civil lawsuit related allegations as
opposed to criminal is I think a very big deal here.
And remember the Southern District of New York. I believe
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I'm correct in that buck whatever district had the official
Trump investigation that was going. Alvin Bragg is the newest
am I correct in this. I think I've got all
this right. You're the New Yorker. I'll defer to you
if I get it wrong. But reports have been that
he has essentially said there doesn't seem to be much
of a criminal nature that he's going to be able
to bring in the Southern District of New York against
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Trump either. And so so Alvin Bragg is a district
attorney for New York City, So okay, Southern District of
New York would be all that that. I don't know,
I don't even know who the US attorney came out basically, Yeah,
So I apologize for getting that wrong. There was a
report that came out of it may have been five
or six months ago that essentially said the federal courts
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in New York that had been investigating Trump. They basically
let it go. Let let that, let that grand jury expires.
Just to be clear, Damian Williams, who I've honestly never
even heard of before, I believe, is the uh the
US Attorney for the Southern District right now nominated, oh well,
nominated by Biden in August of twenty twenty one. So
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it's only been a year. And Williams this is but
this is interesting. So Damian Williams only been in office
as the as the US Attorney for the and the
Southern District is, by the way, it's where our friend
Andy McCarthy spent over twenty years as an a USA.
They handle a lot of I mean, the two courts
you're gonna get sort of the biggest stuff going on
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is usually the Southern District and the DC Circuit. Right.
DC Circuit courts handle a lot of the federal government stuff.
The Southern District gets all the big Wall Street cases.
Obviously because of where Trump is and the Trump organization is,
it would fall under the Southern District of New York.
In that respect, I dealt with the World Trade Center
case bombings and things like that, a lot of terrorism cases.
Southern District Clay Damian Williams is not a name that
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people know, and that might change depending on how this
all goes forward. You know, we all know that prosecutors
at this level often take very big cases to make
their careers, and even if they higher aspirations. But yeah,
I know, the Bragg, who is the attorney district Attorney
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for New York City as basically said, look that the
Trump tax evasion thing for New York state taxes all
the other thing dealing with state tax authorities is annoying.
Dealing with the federal tax authorities can send you to prison, right,
I mean, it's usually a different level as well. So
my point on it is and I kind of got
all that mixed up. But there has not been any
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suggestion that criminal charges are coming out of the State
of New York, either federal, state, or city related charges
of a variety of degrees. So Alvin Bragg basically has
kind of waved the white flag. We don't know necessarily
what the Southern District of New York would do. That
would certainly be under the purview to a large extent
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of Merrick Garland, the Attorney General, And it's hard to
believe that if he's making a case elsewhere, he would
want the charges brought there. But the big picture here
is I think it's significant these are civil allegations. Letitia
James has spent years trying to get Donald Trump. She
promised that she was going to do it. She is
running for reelection in forty eight days. She's on the
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ballot as the ag of New York and she has
only been able to make civil Now allegations stick against
Donald Trump. Still nothing criminal. I would also like all
these voices that we always hear from in the media,
and these former government officials talk about our sacred democracy
and our institutions and their institutions of government and how
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important is to protect them. Always in the context of
Donald Trump and the Republicans are tearing all this down.
What could be more damaging to the public's faith in
The most fearsome weapon the federal government has against its
own citizens, short of just turning the military on everybody,
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is the prosecutor's office, and the one that's by far
the most likely to ruin your life. If a federal
prosecutor decides that he or she is coming after you,
you're probably going bankrupt. Your reputation is probably destroyed and
you may end up in federal prison for a long time.
There is very little you can think of. I believe
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that would be more damaging to the public's faith in
the apparatus in the government. Then this maniacal get Trump,
bring the suit, bring the investigation, look for more charges,
leak more stuff from the prosecutor's offices. At some point,
everyone's got to realize this is just nuts. These people,
the little commissars, have gone too far, and we have
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to think about what the motivations are. Our staff, Greg
did a good job for us whipping this thing up.
This is Letitia James talking about how she's gonna go
after Donald Trump. This is again the current New York
Attorney General talking about going after former president Donald Trump.
This is a a montage. Listen to this. We're going
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to be read into the office every day. I mean,
so Buck, when you're a prosecutor and you bragged that
you're going to sue Trump and then you sue Trump.
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I think there are a lot of people out there
who say, yeah, this doesn't really feel like justice being blind,
especially in an era in New York City and New
York State when crime is rampant, all of the resources.
I would love to know how much money they've spent
investigating Donald Trump over this issue. To file a civil lawsuit,
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not a criminal lawsuit. It feels like a swing in
a miss by someone who was desperate to try to
get Trump and send him away. And this is also
why I think it's really important, it has been important
and will continue to be going forward, that the benefit
of the doubt with any of this stuff, for any
fair minded person needs to go to Trump every time,
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meaning anytime you hear all the walls are closing in
another investigation, Trump did this crime or that crime. No, no, no,
this is a tactic. This is what they do. And
this is why when we see the nuclear secret story
in the Washington Post about the Marlago documents, it's no, no, sorry.
We do not trust the libs who push this stuff.
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We do not trust the prosecutors and FBI and investigators.
They have broken our trust. They do not deserve our trust.
Anything involving Trump. You have to start from this premise
of this is dirty politics. Once again. Yeah, and I
think this is also worth mentioning for people who might
not have heard the first hour You and I are
now However, in agreement that they are going to charge.
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I think it's probable or they will charge. I never
thought they will never go to charge Trump. I just
have thought at different times. I think it's been you know,
it's like the odds in Vegas have been changing right
on the elections. I think that they've been seeing how
it all plays out. I mean, the one that I know,
the one that I look, I'm gonna have to come
out here and do a big bay of culpa. If
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with federal criminal charges against Hunter Biden, that will be
a shock to me. If they bring an obstruction charge
against Donald Trump for classified documents, I mean I think
the chance of that probably is sixty forty right now. Yeah,
I think they're gonna do it, And the timing on it,
I don't think they'll do it before the election. But
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I do think it's worth contemplating for everybody out there,
because there'll be a lot of attention for this for
a couple of days and then it's gonna get bogged
down in civil litigation and go on for years. Trust
me on this, The big story will be Oh, she
referred so many documents and so much information of criminal nature,
and she claim that she had it all. If she
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had it, and if she had the president dead to
rights on criminal charges even close to it, she would
have brought these charges her self. Buck. She wouldn't have
passed it off to the federal government. She would have
found the state statute to attach it to she wants.
And there's so many of these prosecutors, the one down
in Atlanta, Letitia James, so many of these investigations. They
want to become effectively made men in the Democrat Party
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by being the person who took down Donald Trump because
for their own political legitimacy, that gives them the next
generation worth of things to run on. I just want
to know, how do we get the Libs to come
down off the ledge here of their Trump's Arrangement syndrome.
I mean, what happens to them. Let's say, let's say
Trump doesn't run or you know, let's let's say that
they don't have this anymore. There's really this expectation that
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has been created in the NPR, listening CNN, watching New
York Times reading audience that this is this pivotal moment
in the country. I mean, and they believe this. There
are people who think that they are completely on solid
ground saying that Donald Trump could destroy the entire country
if he's president again. I mean, we don't sit here.
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I'm not saying Biden himself is going to end America.
He's just kind of a dumb guy who's doing bad
things that are making everything more expensive, less safe, and
more annoying. But I'm not saying that he's going to
end the Republic as we know it. He's not smart
enough to figure out how to do it. I think
they actually say that about Trump all the time. Yeah,
my concern is they're going to pivot that allegation no
matter how. It's gonna be Ronda Santis or they will
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move to Rhonda Santis is actually Trump is worse than Hitler,
and Rhonda Santis is worse than Trump, who is worse
than Hitler. They will do it without batting an eyelash.
So I don't know that it's going to go away.
I think they bought in so aggressively to the idea
that their opponents are evil that the opponent doesn't even
matter that much. Trump is to a large degree a
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The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. Welcome back to
Clay and Buck A little bit of backup for Team Buck.
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Over here, mister Clay coming courtesy of Alan from Albuquerque,
New Mexico. Alan, you have some thoughts on the royals, Yeah,
for sure. You guys love to talk about meritocracy. That's
what we're all about. Man. You know George Washington, they
wanted to make him king. He said, no way, So
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we should not be engaging and enjoying any anything that's
just by virtue of being born, you're suddenly important. No way. Look,
I'm not saying I want an American royal family, all right.
I'm not saying that I support it. I'm just saying
that it's entertaining and that I can't look away, and
that I care about the drama in the same way
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that I care about drama every Look. I want drama
to exist everywhere except in my own life and in
my own house. I want drama free existence for me.
I want everybody else to have drama everywhere we look.
I like it. I promised you guys. If Claire shows
up wearing a crown with like a big a cape
with like white trim and it's all red or purple
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or whatever, I promise I will call him out. Alan,
thanks for calling in. He's with me on the Royals
at least, not everybody's brought in by this. And then
there's something else that I wanted to mention for everybody,
and that is that Fauci is still making the rounds here.
He is on the Biden pandemic comment, because we're gonna
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talk about this more in a second, saying that we're
not where we need to be. The intensity of the
outbreak now, even though it is I believe, unacceptably hot,
where we're having full hundred deaths per day when you
compare it to the fullman in stages we've experienced over
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the past year or so, where we used to have
eight hundred to nine hundred thousand cases per day and
over three thousand deaths per day. We are much better
off now, but we are not where we need to
be if we're going to be able to quote live
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with the virus. No, we actually are where we need
to be. Man, man whose entire reason for existence is
virus continues to find virus important. I mean, that's kind
of the story here, right. If Aucie ever came out
and said, you know, COVID's over, he would have no
reason to exist anymore. No, one would care what he
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had to say on anything. So of course he and
all these other COVID experts and experts is in quotation
mark are going to be arguing that COVID hasn't gone anyway.
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back in Clay Travis buck Sexton Show. We are joined
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now by Brian Morgan Stern. We were just talking about
the hippocrisy out there from our good friend doctor Fauci.
And Brian has got a great book out. He was
a former White House Deputy Press Secretary. He's the owner
of Win the Future Strategies and his book is out
Vignettes and Vino Dinner Table stories from the Trump White
House with the recipes and cocktail pairings behind the scenes. Brian,
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I read this and I was like, it doesn't surprise
me at all. Doctor Fauci actually mocked the stupidity of
restaurant restrictions where you had to wear a mask until
you sat down at your table. Yes, play and Buck,
it's great to be with you, and yes, of course
he did. My blood was boiling because everyone was suffering
from pandemic restrictions, and of course people would walk into
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a restaurant wearing a mask and then sit down at
the table and have a conversation and a whole meal
with no mask on. Anyone was common sense knows that
that was ridiculous, including Fauchi, because I was in a
meeting with him when he commented on that and laughed
about how ridiculous it was. But of course he wouldn't
then go out and tell the people that some of
the restrictions were ridiculous. He would just kind of laugh
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behind their backs, including at his own comment about wearing
goggles and multiple masks, which he made on television after
of course he was against masks before he was for them,
and then when he was for them, he was for
multiple masks and goggles. And behind the scenes he was
laughing about how ridiculous his own comments were and how
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he could really just get everybody to believe anything this
guy said. But he was wrong about everything. Over the
course of the pandemic, the media painted this guy to
be America's doctor, but speaking to myself, I don't want
him to be my personal doctor, let alone the country's doctor,
because he was wrong about every major thing throughout the pandemic. So, Brian,
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it's Buckett. You were obviously Deputy Press Secretary Trump White House.
You're there in the early stages the pandemic. All this
stuff is going on. For me, the original sin of
Fauciism was the flip flop on masks. Right, He initially
is going, look, masks doesn't really do anything and might
make people feel better, and then all of a sudden,
it's just they're all these mask policies going in all
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across the country, the federal mask mandate on planes. Was
there an awareness in the White House of that Fauci switch, Like,
how did that actually come to be? And I also
want to ask you we were I was told, I
was told who wasn't a senior White House official? I
cant remember who was now who actually claimed that doctor
Burkes was as bad as Fauci on the duplicity and
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all this stuff. So I wanted to tackle both of those.
So there was a sense that Faucci and Burkes both
actually were really airing on the side of caution. That
is the understatement of the century in terms of advocating
for restrictive policies. And Scott Atlas, remember President Trump brought
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him onto the task force. He was the kind of
voice who would say, the cure can't be worse than
the disease. There was an atmosphere in the country that
COVID was this unknown silent killer, and so we should
be safe rather than sorry, and so the kind of
voices of caution one out At that time. We knew
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that Fauci and Burths liked to get a lot of attention,
and in order to get a lot of attention, they
had to scare people, and so they did that a lot.
The sort of fine line we had to walk was
let people know that President Trump was taking the pandemic seriously,
but again that the cure can't be worse than the disease.
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I don't know if that kind of answered both of
your questions in one, but I'm happy to take another
swing at it. Yeah, Brian, Obviously we know Fauci is
a fraud, and we've been frustrated with him on this
program for the entire length of the time that we've
been on the air together, and before that when we
had solo shows, we were super frustrated with him. What
was his overall what was the overall vibe of Fauci
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behind the scenes in the White House. In other words,
how much you've told us that he would say things
privately which were very different than what he would say publicly.
How much of a difference was there in Fauci in
public in private in general. So he was the joke
that we used to tell what was We were referred
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to him as Saint Anthony because of how he was
portrayed in the media. But what we had learned in
dealing with him was that he was really an egomaniac
who was wrong a lot, and that's very dangerous when
you're talking about science in medicine. Of course, he was
wrong about the severity of the virus early on, he
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said it was not something people should worry about. He
was before four masks, or against the masks, before he
was for them. He said vaccines could not possibly be
created in less than eighteen months. Now we created them
in nine months. He can argue about the efficacy, but
the process was nine months. He was wrong by exactly
one hundred percent. He said he was wrong about when
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President Trump should be vaccinated because he had already had COVID.
I mean, I can go on and on, but he
was not an easy person to deal with. Of course,
he's the only person I ever encountered to use the
term latins un ironically when he would always talk about
the vaccine studies that we got to get more Latinics
in the studies, you got to have more Latini. That's
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actually a promocatic example of how left wing he is too.
By the way, it's also a pretty good Faucci that
Brian pull there. I'm feeling, you know, Brian's give good pressure.
Putting a competition, So Brian so Faucci was obviously, I mean,
I joke around with people, but I'm not really that
joking that. I don't think anyone thinks Fauci's worse than
I do. Did Trump figure this out? Like I mean,
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this is because right now, you know, we support the
big guy, and there are a lot of things that
he did that were fantastic. But he says I did
the opposite of everything Fauci told me to do. Unfortunately
that's not true. At what point did Fauci did Trump
rather realize this guy's meaning Faucci is a problem. So
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there were comments that President Trump made that I think
it leaked out. I think he was making them on
a Teletown hall to some donors at the time, if
my memory serves, and he basically articulated the position that
most of us had at that time from a purely
sort of campaign public relations standpoint, and again walking that
fine line of taking the virus seriously but also trying
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to do the right thing for the people and not
having the cure be worse than the disease. The President said,
I'm basically stuck between a rock and a hard place.
I'm paraphrasing. He said, if I fire the guy, I
pull him off, I take him away, then all of
a sudden, there's this huge bomb that comes out about
how I'm not trusting the science and all of this,
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Whereas if I just kind of let him run his mouth,
but then I also say my opinion, you know, at
least it's kind of equal. Basically, he said, we're gonna
have bombs thrown at us either way. So sometimes in
life you only have bad choices. And I would say
that the way Fauci was propped up by the Democrats
and the media left President Trump with only bad choices.
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It's either let him run his mouth and also counter him,
or fire him and have one giant explosion all at once, Brian,
do you think Trump's gonna run again? And how much
do you think? Obviously the sort of legal troubles surrounding
him impact whether he's going to run again or not.
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So I would say, given what I've observed since the
White House, he's involved at every level, He's got the
most powerful endorsement, he's still doing rally. It seems to
me more likely than not Trump runs. He also wants
to counter those who are out to get him by saying,
you know, this is for political purposes. I think they're
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actually sort of baiting him into running. I think it's
more likely than not. The other side of the coin,
which I think is again less than fifty percent, would
be he says, you know what, I'm having so much
fun doing live golf. I'm having so much fun in
the private sector, just kind of being a kingmaker, living
in paradise at Marlago. Why would I get back into politics.
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It's such a nasty business. So I think he's weighing
those things, but I would say more than fifty percent,
I think he runs. Brian. Your book Vignettes and Veno
dinner table stories from the Trump White House with recipes
and cocktail parags. Quite a cocktail book. Tell me a
cocktail table book. I mean, tell me a bit about
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either give me a story, a recipe, or a cocktail
pairing that forty five himself would approve of. Oh my gosh,
Well okay, so first recipe. You know we all know
he likes a nicely charred steak. Oh my gosh, you
went to well done steak, Brian, We're about to dump
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this audio. Go ahead. My steak recipe is not that.
It is a steak sandwich recipe that my wife came
up with that is thinly sliced, well seasoned. It's got
a delicious garlic aoli on it, served on. I think
we have it on Shabbada with a rugula on there.
It's absolutely delicious. It's an honor of a story of
when I was with President Trump in Bedminster. Of course
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they make his favorite steak in Bedminster. I would say.
Story my my first week at the White House was
something I dealt with with Fauci. He got himself invited
to throw out the first pitch for Major League Baseball
when we were going to have President Trump throw at
the first pitch, but before they could announce it, Faucci,
whose friends with the Washington National owners, got himself invited,
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So we had to come up with an alternate event,
which actually worked out great because we had Marianna Rivera
with some little leaguers, and we had ESPN and Barstool
Sports there and it was like a total home run
of a day. Sorry for the metaphor, it was absolutely outstanding.
And the poetic justice is that when Fauchi throughout the
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first pitch, other than Carle Ray Jepson's, it was the
worst first pitch ever thrown. He based stole the first
pitch honors from Trump. Wow. Yes, So our staff was
in Tonsag with Major League Baseball. They were going to
have President Trump throughout the first pitch before there was
any announcement. Fauchi and the Nats conspired to get Fauchi
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invited instead, and they put the announcement out before the
White House in Major League. Wow. I mean that's a
great story. I didn't know that. Um, thank you for
doesn't it. Yeah, I mean that's insane, that's so ridiculous.
Thank you, Brian. The book obviously, we'd encourage people to
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that I try to steak sandwich. It's not I'm getting hungry, Clay,
this would happen. This is the lunchtime the I love
this time slot. It's a lot of fun doing the show.
But it's impossible to have a normal lunch, by and
large when you're on from eleven to two where I am,
twelve to three where you are. Yeah, I have perfected
(32:14):
the art of eating a cheeseburger in less than the
four minutes we have on a station break, which, let
me tell you, you got to wolf that thing down. Man,
It's you're not your four minutes for a cheeseburger sounds
like enough time. But you know what, Clay, I'm just
not a quitter. You know, I'm a guy who gets
it done. It is a it's a tight fit. It's
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the only bad thing about this, uh this time slot
is it's tough to figure out how exactly to balance
out your lunch. But we are managing to survive, fortunately are.
But you know it's not managed to survive some of
the characters on the House of the Dragon show. Have
you been watching this one? Oh? Of course, yeah, I
gotta say episodes. It's pretty good when I watch a
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show that is based upon another while the successful show
and a new version of it. This is a prequel,
of course, and I'm like, oh, wow, they're actually doing
the whole good writing thing or or staying true to
what made the original so good, a little bit like
the Top Gun Maverick phenomenon, right where it's like, just
take the things that we're amazing, update them, execute it well.
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I think that it's a pretty it's a better prequel
than I expected. Honestly, at this stage it's been it's
been pretty good. I don't know how much what percentage
you think of our audience are House of the Dragon
watchers twenty great question. Ten I don't know ten percent.
I mean there's a monster audience. I think like twenty
million people globally or something like that watch that. Yeah right,
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But I mean it's a small percentage of Americans in
general that watch any show basically except for NFL football,
which everybody watches. Um but I would guess that's it's
a great question. What percentage of really play. Everybody watches
NFL football, everybody playing much everybody, every normal American but
l football. I know people have been antagonized over the
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political related I'm just talking about total numbers. Oh, I
just meant me like, I haven't seen in the NFL.
Did you watch the Super Bowl last year? I think
I did watch. That's just an excuse to hang out
with my dad and my brothers. But I you know,
let's I mean a lot of people watch the super
Bowl who have no interest in the NFL over you know,
one hundred million. I am more concerned with the with
the food situation a super Bowl part, yeah, which is
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I mean the dip if you if you don't go
all out with your Super Bowl dip. I feel like
that's a huge missed opportunity because no matter did the
caloric content, the macros, none of that matters. All that
matters is this the most delicious liquid you could put
on a chip of some kind to eat. That is
the mission. That is I I love that. I'm trying
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to think. By the way, the chicken dip, I think
is the greatest. Have you ever had a buffalo chicken?
Was gonna say the cheese artichoke like artificis and artichoke tip.
I mean, that's a solid you know, you can always
order it. A restaurant's impossible to go wrong, hard to
screw up. It's like chicken tenders, Like, I don't know what,
uh what if you screw up chicken tenders, you can't
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be trusted to cooking. That's the safest thing to order
in any restaurant by far. If you're if you're in
a restaurant, you're like, I don't even trust the cleanliness
of this place. Never mind the cooking skills. Get the
chicken tenders, you'll be good to go. It's everybody likes them.
It's impossible to screw it up. But yeah, the buffalo
chicken dip, it might be buffalo chicken ranch dip. I
can't remember exactly what it's called. I could I could
literally eat, you know, chunks of chicken in the dips.
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I always feel like dip is See, we really are hungry, guys.
It is this part of the day. I mean, we're
driving your body. I mean I sometimes you try something
and you're like, I could eat this entire ten with
just the you know, the Freedo chips you by the way,
do you I know you're not like, I've never boiled
water in my life, Buck, not exactly. You don't even
have like your buffalo chicken recipe. No, there's zero that
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I make that. I have not cooked anything in my
entire made. I made bacon wrap dates with stuff with
blue cheese for the Super Bowl last year. That's how
I roll. That sounds pretty good. I've never bacon wrapped,
and I mean bacon wrapped my old workout sneaker is
pretty good. So yes, bacon wrap date with blue cheese.
Definitely blue cheese and ranch either one. I like both,
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but ranch dressing is incredible. Are you are you finishing
the show today and grabbing a turkey and cheese sandwich
right away? By the way, because I am starving so
I will probably go I got to do a show
after the show, and then I will go eat. Then
I got to write on this book which is coming along,
so I'm interested to see how it's gonna end up
doing very exciting. When's the book? When's the book? Draft? Dude?
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December one? So I managed to put everything that I
have to do all around football season. So I've got
a book draft dude, December one won't be out till
next year. There's a long lag time, so I really
want to see the mid term results so I can update,
you know, and get some data and analysis at least
from the preceding election. So I've got to fill that in.
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Now I'm your whole chapter about the state dinner you
take me out for when I'm right about Hunter Biden.
So I'm excited about how that's gonna be. I if
Hunter Biden gets indicted, I just want the entire universe
to come undone praising me over up Barllion. I was Fleet,
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Welcome back in our number three Wednesday edition Clay Travis
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Breaking news. We anticipated told you it was coming, but
the Federal Reserve has officially raised its key rate by
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three quarters of a point for a third straight time
to fight inflation. This was not a particular surprise, although
Buck maybe suggesting that Wall Street is getting nervous about
the Fed not being aggressive enough. Stocks are now down
a couple of hundred points in the wake of this decision.
(01:06):
I did not hear very many people arguing that they
needed less than a three quarter rate increase. A lot
of people out there were saying maybe a full point
was justified, and I wonder on some level whether that
is the on Wall Street regardless, stocks now down. Biden
has been in office for almost two years, and I'll
(01:27):
get the staff to look this up again because I
can't remember the exact number. But effectively, if you had
bought stock on the day that Joe Biden entered into
the White House January twentieth, I believe a twenty twenty one,
I believe at best you are essentially break even, and
I think you're down a little bit now, which is
not that common to have a two year process where
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the stock market has essentially not moved and or gone down.
One of many things that Joe Biden has gotten wrong.
A lot of discussion out there, although I think it
will fade quickly. The New York Attorney General, who is
running for reelection in forty eight days, Letitia James, has
made the decision to file a lawsuit criminal in nature, sorry,
(02:12):
civil in nature, not criminal, alleging that Trump had committed
fraud on some of his applications for loans in the
state of New York. This feels transparently political, and again
it is civil, not criminal in nature. Meaning it is
effectively a money based argument. She's seeking two hundred and
(02:32):
fifty million dollars in penalties. Good luck, but associated with that,
the former attorney general under Trump and under George H. W. Bush,
Bill Barr, he's on Fox right now. I just saw
the quote a second ago though, that this Letitia James,
the Attorney General of New York civil suit is the
result of Trump derangement syndrome. Bars. I know, people other
(02:53):
criticisms of them sometimes in this audience. He did some
very good things under Trump. He you know, him and
Trump had a parting of ways towards the end of
the administration. He's a very smart lawyer. And if he
says that this is crazytown, it's crazytown. Well and Buck,
we said this in the first hour. As soon as
this news came down, and you see that it is
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civil and not criminal, I just immediately kind of toss
it on the scrap heap of This is not a
story that is very significant. Now. She says that she
referred what she believes are criminal acts to the federal
government to the irs. But my point on this is,
if she had the goods, she would have brought the
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case herself under state statutory law of a criminal nature.
She wants Trump badly. The fact that all she could
put together were civil charges, civil lawsuit related allegations as
opposed to criminal is I think a very big deal here.
And remember the Southern District of New York. I believe
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I'm correct in that buck whatever district had the official
Trump investigation that was going. Alvin Bragg is the newest
am I correct in this. I think I've got all
this right. You're the New Yorker. I'll defer to you
if I get it wrong. But reports have been that
he has essentially said there doesn't seem to be much
of a criminal nature that he's going to be able
to bring in the Southern District of New York against
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Trump either. And so so Alvin Bragg is a district
attorney for New York City, So okay, Southern District of
New York would be all that that. I don't know,
I don't even know who the US attorney came out basically, Yeah,
So I apologize for getting that wrong. There was a
report that came out of it may have been five
or six months ago that essentially said the federal courts
(04:40):
in New York that had been investigating Trump. They basically
let it go. Let let that, let that grand jury expires.
Just to be clear, Damian Williams, who I've honestly never
even heard of before, I believe, is the uh the
US Attorney for the Southern District right now nominated, oh well,
nominated by Biden in August of twenty twenty one. So
(05:02):
it's only been a year. And Williams this is but
this is interesting. So Damian Williams only been in office
as the as the US Attorney for the and the
Southern District is, by the way, it's where our friend
Andy McCarthy spent over twenty years as an a USA.
They handle a lot of I mean, the two courts
you're gonna get sort of the biggest stuff going on
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is usually the Southern District and the DC Circuit. Right.
DC Circuit courts handle a lot of the federal government stuff.
The Southern District gets all the big Wall Street cases.
Obviously because of where Trump is and the Trump organization is,
it would fall under the Southern District of New York.
In that respect, I dealt with the World Trade Center
case bombings and things like that, a lot of terrorism cases.
Southern District Clay Damian Williams is not a name that
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people know, and that might change depending on how this
all goes forward. You know, we all know that prosecutors
at this level often take very big cases to make
their careers, and even if they higher aspirations. But yeah,
I know, the Bragg, who is the attorney district Attorney
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for New York City as basically said, look that the
Trump tax evasion thing for New York state taxes all
the other thing dealing with state tax authorities is annoying.
Dealing with the federal tax authorities can send you to prison, right,
I mean, it's usually a different level as well. So
my point on it is and I kind of got
all that mixed up. But there has not been any
(06:29):
suggestion that criminal charges are coming out of the State
of New York, either federal, state, or city related charges
of a variety of degrees. So Alvin Bragg basically has
kind of waved the white flag. We don't know necessarily
what the Southern District of New York would do. That
would certainly be under the purview to a large extent
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of Merrick Garland, the Attorney General, And it's hard to
believe that if he's making a case elsewhere, he would
want the charges brought there. But the big picture here
is I think it's significant these are civil allegations. Letitia
James has spent years trying to get Donald Trump. She
promised that she was going to do it. She is
running for reelection in forty eight days. She's on the
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ballot as the ag of New York and she has
only been able to make civil Now allegations stick against
Donald Trump. Still nothing criminal. I would also like all
these voices that we always hear from in the media,
and these former government officials talk about our sacred democracy
and our institutions and their institutions of government and how
(07:35):
important is to protect them. Always in the context of
Donald Trump and the Republicans are tearing all this down.
What could be more damaging to the public's faith in
The most fearsome weapon the federal government has against its
own citizens, short of just turning the military on everybody,
(07:56):
is the prosecutor's office, and the one that's by far
the most likely to ruin your life. If a federal
prosecutor decides that he or she is coming after you,
you're probably going bankrupt. Your reputation is probably destroyed and
you may end up in federal prison for a long time.
There is very little you can think of. I believe
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that would be more damaging to the public's faith in
the apparatus in the government. Then this maniacal get Trump,
bring the suit, bring the investigation, look for more charges,
leak more stuff from the prosecutor's offices. At some point,
everyone's got to realize this is just nuts. These people,
the little commissars, have gone too far, and we have
(08:41):
to think about what the motivations are. Our staff, Greg
did a good job for us whipping this thing up.
This is Letitia James talking about how she's gonna go
after Donald Trump. This is again the current New York
Attorney General talking about going after former president Donald Trump.
This is a a montage. Listen to this. We're going
(09:09):
to be read into the office every day. I mean,
so Buck, when you're a prosecutor and you bragged that
you're going to sue Trump and then you sue Trump.
(09:33):
I think there are a lot of people out there
who say, yeah, this doesn't really feel like justice being blind,
especially in an era in New York City and New
York State when crime is rampant, all of the resources.
I would love to know how much money they've spent
investigating Donald Trump over this issue. To file a civil lawsuit,
(09:53):
not a criminal lawsuit. It feels like a swing in
a miss by someone who was desperate to try to
get Trump and send him away. And this is also
why I think it's really important, it has been important
and will continue to be going forward, that the benefit
of the doubt with any of this stuff, for any
fair minded person needs to go to Trump every time,
(10:13):
meaning anytime you hear all the walls are closing in
another investigation, Trump did this crime or that crime. No, no, no,
this is a tactic. This is what they do. And
this is why when we see the nuclear secret story
in the Washington Post about the Marlago documents, it's no, no, sorry.
We do not trust the libs who push this stuff.
(10:35):
We do not trust the prosecutors and FBI and investigators.
They have broken our trust. They do not deserve our trust.
Anything involving Trump. You have to start from this premise
of this is dirty politics. Once again. Yeah, and I
think this is also worth mentioning for people who might
not have heard the first hour You and I are
now However, in agreement that they are going to charge.
(10:59):
I think it's probable or they will charge. I never
thought they will never go to charge Trump. I just
have thought at different times. I think it's been you know,
it's like the odds in Vegas have been changing right
on the elections. I think that they've been seeing how
it all plays out. I mean, the one that I know,
the one that I look, I'm gonna have to come
out here and do a big bay of culpa. If
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with federal criminal charges against Hunter Biden, that will be
a shock to me. If they bring an obstruction charge
against Donald Trump for classified documents, I mean I think
the chance of that probably is sixty forty right now. Yeah,
I think they're gonna do it, And the timing on it,
I don't think they'll do it before the election. But
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I do think it's worth contemplating for everybody out there,
because there'll be a lot of attention for this for
a couple of days and then it's gonna get bogged
down in civil litigation and go on for years. Trust
me on this, The big story will be Oh, she
referred so many documents and so much information of criminal nature,
and she claim that she had it all. If she
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had it, and if she had the president dead to
rights on criminal charges even close to it, she would
have brought these charges her self. Buck. She wouldn't have
passed it off to the federal government. She would have
found the state statute to attach it to she wants.
And there's so many of these prosecutors, the one down
in Atlanta, Letitia James, so many of these investigations. They
want to become effectively made men in the Democrat Party
(12:26):
by being the person who took down Donald Trump because
for their own political legitimacy, that gives them the next
generation worth of things to run on. I just want
to know, how do we get the Libs to come
down off the ledge here of their Trump's Arrangement syndrome.
I mean, what happens to them. Let's say, let's say
Trump doesn't run or you know, let's let's say that
they don't have this anymore. There's really this expectation that
(12:48):
has been created in the NPR, listening CNN, watching New
York Times reading audience that this is this pivotal moment
in the country. I mean, and they believe this. There
are people who think that they are completely on solid
ground saying that Donald Trump could destroy the entire country
if he's president again. I mean, we don't sit here.
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I'm not saying Biden himself is going to end America.
He's just kind of a dumb guy who's doing bad
things that are making everything more expensive, less safe, and
more annoying. But I'm not saying that he's going to
end the Republic as we know it. He's not smart
enough to figure out how to do it. I think
they actually say that about Trump all the time. Yeah,
my concern is they're going to pivot that allegation no
matter how. It's gonna be Ronda Santis or they will
(13:32):
move to Rhonda Santis is actually Trump is worse than Hitler,
and Rhonda Santis is worse than Trump, who is worse
than Hitler. They will do it without batting an eyelash.
So I don't know that it's going to go away.
I think they bought in so aggressively to the idea
that their opponents are evil that the opponent doesn't even
matter that much. Trump is to a large degree a
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The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. Welcome back to
Clay and Buck A little bit of backup for Team Buck.
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Over here, mister Clay coming courtesy of Alan from Albuquerque,
New Mexico. Alan, you have some thoughts on the royals, Yeah,
for sure. You guys love to talk about meritocracy. That's
what we're all about. Man. You know George Washington, they
wanted to make him king. He said, no way, So
(15:41):
we should not be engaging and enjoying any anything that's
just by virtue of being born, you're suddenly important. No way. Look,
I'm not saying I want an American royal family, all right.
I'm not saying that I support it. I'm just saying
that it's entertaining and that I can't look away, and
that I care about the drama in the same way
(16:04):
that I care about drama every Look. I want drama
to exist everywhere except in my own life and in
my own house. I want drama free existence for me.
I want everybody else to have drama everywhere we look.
I like it. I promised you guys. If Claire shows
up wearing a crown with like a big a cape
with like white trim and it's all red or purple
(16:25):
or whatever, I promise I will call him out. Alan,
thanks for calling in. He's with me on the Royals
at least, not everybody's brought in by this. And then
there's something else that I wanted to mention for everybody,
and that is that Fauci is still making the rounds here.
He is on the Biden pandemic comment, because we're gonna
(16:47):
talk about this more in a second, saying that we're
not where we need to be. The intensity of the
outbreak now, even though it is I believe, unacceptably hot,
where we're having full hundred deaths per day when you
compare it to the fullman in stages we've experienced over
(17:08):
the past year or so, where we used to have
eight hundred to nine hundred thousand cases per day and
over three thousand deaths per day. We are much better
off now, but we are not where we need to
be if we're going to be able to quote live
(17:28):
with the virus. No, we actually are where we need
to be. Man, man whose entire reason for existence is
virus continues to find virus important. I mean, that's kind
of the story here, right. If Aucie ever came out
and said, you know, COVID's over, he would have no
reason to exist anymore. No, one would care what he
(17:48):
had to say on anything. So of course he and
all these other COVID experts and experts is in quotation
mark are going to be arguing that COVID hasn't gone anyway.
But we'll find out what the VT Fouci was saying.
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now by Brian Morgan Stern. We were just talking about
the hippocrisy out there from our good friend doctor Fauci.
And Brian has got a great book out. He was
a former White House Deputy Press Secretary. He's the owner
of Win the Future Strategies and his book is out
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House with the recipes and cocktail pairings behind the scenes. Brian,
(19:41):
I read this and I was like, it doesn't surprise
me at all. Doctor Fauci actually mocked the stupidity of
restaurant restrictions where you had to wear a mask until
you sat down at your table. Yes, play and Buck,
it's great to be with you, and yes, of course
he did. My blood was boiling because everyone was suffering
from pandemic restrictions, and of course people would walk into
(20:02):
a restaurant wearing a mask and then sit down at
the table and have a conversation and a whole meal
with no mask on. Anyone was common sense knows that
that was ridiculous, including Fauchi, because I was in a
meeting with him when he commented on that and laughed
about how ridiculous it was. But of course he wouldn't
then go out and tell the people that some of
the restrictions were ridiculous. He would just kind of laugh
(20:25):
behind their backs, including at his own comment about wearing
goggles and multiple masks, which he made on television after
of course he was against masks before he was for them,
and then when he was for them, he was for
multiple masks and goggles. And behind the scenes he was
laughing about how ridiculous his own comments were and how
(20:46):
he could really just get everybody to believe anything this
guy said. But he was wrong about everything. Over the
course of the pandemic, the media painted this guy to
be America's doctor, but speaking to myself, I don't want
him to be my personal doctor, let alone the country's doctor,
because he was wrong about every major thing throughout the pandemic. So, Brian,
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it's Buckett. You were obviously Deputy Press Secretary Trump White House.
You're there in the early stages the pandemic. All this
stuff is going on. For me, the original sin of
Fauciism was the flip flop on masks. Right, He initially
is going, look, masks doesn't really do anything and might
make people feel better, and then all of a sudden,
it's just they're all these mask policies going in all
(21:31):
across the country, the federal mask mandate on planes. Was
there an awareness in the White House of that Fauci switch, Like,
how did that actually come to be? And I also
want to ask you we were I was told, I
was told who wasn't a senior White House official? I
cant remember who was now who actually claimed that doctor
Burkes was as bad as Fauci on the duplicity and
(21:54):
all this stuff. So I wanted to tackle both of those.
So there was a sense that Faucci and Burkes both
actually were really airing on the side of caution. That
is the understatement of the century in terms of advocating
for restrictive policies. And Scott Atlas, remember President Trump brought
(22:15):
him onto the task force. He was the kind of
voice who would say, the cure can't be worse than
the disease. There was an atmosphere in the country that
COVID was this unknown silent killer, and so we should
be safe rather than sorry, and so the kind of
voices of caution one out At that time. We knew
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that Fauci and Burths liked to get a lot of attention,
and in order to get a lot of attention, they
had to scare people, and so they did that a lot.
The sort of fine line we had to walk was
let people know that President Trump was taking the pandemic seriously,
but again that the cure can't be worse than the disease.
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I don't know if that kind of answered both of
your questions in one, but I'm happy to take another
swing at it. Yeah, Brian, Obviously we know Fauci is
a fraud, and we've been frustrated with him on this
program for the entire length of the time that we've
been on the air together, and before that when we
had solo shows, we were super frustrated with him. What
was his overall what was the overall vibe of Fauci
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behind the scenes in the White House. In other words,
how much you've told us that he would say things
privately which were very different than what he would say publicly.
How much of a difference was there in Fauci in
public in private in general. So he was the joke
that we used to tell what was We were referred
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to him as Saint Anthony because of how he was
portrayed in the media. But what we had learned in
dealing with him was that he was really an egomaniac
who was wrong a lot, and that's very dangerous when
you're talking about science in medicine. Of course, he was
wrong about the severity of the virus early on, he
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said it was not something people should worry about. He
was before four masks, or against the masks, before he
was for them. He said vaccines could not possibly be
created in less than eighteen months. Now we created them
in nine months. He can argue about the efficacy, but
the process was nine months. He was wrong by exactly
one hundred percent. He said he was wrong about when
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President Trump should be vaccinated because he had already had COVID.
I mean, I can go on and on, but he
was not an easy person to deal with. Of course,
he's the only person I ever encountered to use the
term latins un ironically when he would always talk about
the vaccine studies that we got to get more Latinics
in the studies, you got to have more Latini. That's
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actually a promocatic example of how left wing he is too.
By the way, it's also a pretty good Faucci that
Brian pull there. I'm feeling, you know, Brian's give good pressure.
Putting a competition, So Brian so Faucci was obviously, I mean,
I joke around with people, but I'm not really that
joking that. I don't think anyone thinks Fauci's worse than
I do. Did Trump figure this out? Like I mean,
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this is because right now, you know, we support the
big guy, and there are a lot of things that
he did that were fantastic. But he says I did
the opposite of everything Fauci told me to do. Unfortunately
that's not true. At what point did Fauci did Trump
rather realize this guy's meaning Faucci is a problem. So
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there were comments that President Trump made that I think
it leaked out. I think he was making them on
a Teletown hall to some donors at the time, if
my memory serves, and he basically articulated the position that
most of us had at that time from a purely
sort of campaign public relations standpoint, and again walking that
fine line of taking the virus seriously but also trying
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to do the right thing for the people and not
having the cure be worse than the disease. The President said,
I'm basically stuck between a rock and a hard place.
I'm paraphrasing. He said, if I fire the guy, I
pull him off, I take him away, then all of
a sudden, there's this huge bomb that comes out about
how I'm not trusting the science and all of this,
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Whereas if I just kind of let him run his mouth,
but then I also say my opinion, you know, at
least it's kind of equal. Basically, he said, we're gonna
have bombs thrown at us either way. So sometimes in
life you only have bad choices. And I would say
that the way Fauci was propped up by the Democrats
and the media left President Trump with only bad choices.
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It's either let him run his mouth and also counter him,
or fire him and have one giant explosion all at once, Brian,
do you think Trump's gonna run again? And how much
do you think? Obviously the sort of legal troubles surrounding
him impact whether he's going to run again or not.
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So I would say, given what I've observed since the
White House, he's involved at every level, He's got the
most powerful endorsement, he's still doing rally. It seems to
me more likely than not Trump runs. He also wants
to counter those who are out to get him by saying,
you know, this is for political purposes. I think they're
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actually sort of baiting him into running. I think it's
more likely than not. The other side of the coin,
which I think is again less than fifty percent, would
be he says, you know what, I'm having so much
fun doing live golf. I'm having so much fun in
the private sector, just kind of being a kingmaker, living
in paradise at Marlago. Why would I get back into politics.
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It's such a nasty business. So I think he's weighing
those things, but I would say more than fifty percent,
I think he runs. Brian. Your book Vignettes and Veno
dinner table stories from the Trump White House with recipes
and cocktail parags. Quite a cocktail book. Tell me a
cocktail table book. I mean, tell me a bit about
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either give me a story, a recipe, or a cocktail
pairing that forty five himself would approve of. Oh my gosh,
Well okay, so first recipe. You know we all know
he likes a nicely charred steak. Oh my gosh, you
went to well done steak, Brian, We're about to dump
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this audio. Go ahead. My steak recipe is not that.
It is a steak sandwich recipe that my wife came
up with that is thinly sliced, well seasoned. It's got
a delicious garlic aoli on it, served on. I think
we have it on Shabbada with a rugula on there.
It's absolutely delicious. It's an honor of a story of
when I was with President Trump in Bedminster. Of course
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they make his favorite steak in Bedminster. I would say.
Story my my first week at the White House was
something I dealt with with Fauci. He got himself invited
to throw out the first pitch for Major League Baseball
when we were going to have President Trump throw at
the first pitch, but before they could announce it, Faucci,
whose friends with the Washington National owners, got himself invited,
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So we had to come up with an alternate event,
which actually worked out great because we had Marianna Rivera
with some little leaguers, and we had ESPN and Barstool
Sports there and it was like a total home run
of a day. Sorry for the metaphor, it was absolutely outstanding.
And the poetic justice is that when Fauchi throughout the
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first pitch, other than Carle Ray Jepson's, it was the
worst first pitch ever thrown. He based stole the first
pitch honors from Trump. Wow. Yes, So our staff was
in Tonsag with Major League Baseball. They were going to
have President Trump throughout the first pitch before there was
any announcement. Fauchi and the Nats conspired to get Fauchi
(29:46):
invited instead, and they put the announcement out before the
White House in Major League. Wow. I mean that's a
great story. I didn't know that. Um, thank you for
doesn't it. Yeah, I mean that's insane, that's so ridiculous.
Thank you, Brian. The book obviously, we'd encourage people to
check it out. Then, yetz in Vino dinner table stories
from a Trump White House. Our friend Brian Morganster and Brian.
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that I try to steak sandwich. It's not I'm getting hungry, Clay,
this would happen. This is the lunchtime the I love
this time slot. It's a lot of fun doing the show.
But it's impossible to have a normal lunch, by and
large when you're on from eleven to two where I am,
twelve to three where you are. Yeah, I have perfected
(32:14):
the art of eating a cheeseburger in less than the
four minutes we have on a station break, which, let
me tell you, you got to wolf that thing down. Man,
It's you're not your four minutes for a cheeseburger sounds
like enough time. But you know what, Clay, I'm just
not a quitter. You know, I'm a guy who gets
it done. It is a it's a tight fit. It's
(32:35):
the only bad thing about this, uh this time slot
is it's tough to figure out how exactly to balance
out your lunch. But we are managing to survive, fortunately are.
But you know it's not managed to survive some of
the characters on the House of the Dragon show. Have
you been watching this one? Oh? Of course, yeah, I
gotta say episodes. It's pretty good when I watch a
(32:57):
show that is based upon another while the successful show
and a new version of it. This is a prequel,
of course, and I'm like, oh, wow, they're actually doing
the whole good writing thing or or staying true to
what made the original so good, a little bit like
the Top Gun Maverick phenomenon, right where it's like, just
take the things that we're amazing, update them, execute it well.
(33:20):
I think that it's a pretty it's a better prequel
than I expected. Honestly, at this stage it's been it's
been pretty good. I don't know how much what percentage
you think of our audience are House of the Dragon
watchers twenty great question. Ten I don't know ten percent.
I mean there's a monster audience. I think like twenty
million people globally or something like that watch that. Yeah right,
(33:43):
But I mean it's a small percentage of Americans in
general that watch any show basically except for NFL football,
which everybody watches. Um but I would guess that's it's
a great question. What percentage of really play. Everybody watches
NFL football, everybody playing much everybody, every normal American but
l football. I know people have been antagonized over the
(34:06):
political related I'm just talking about total numbers. Oh, I
just meant me like, I haven't seen in the NFL.
Did you watch the Super Bowl last year? I think
I did watch. That's just an excuse to hang out
with my dad and my brothers. But I you know,
let's I mean a lot of people watch the super
Bowl who have no interest in the NFL over you know,
one hundred million. I am more concerned with the with
the food situation a super Bowl part, yeah, which is
(34:28):
I mean the dip if you if you don't go
all out with your Super Bowl dip. I feel like
that's a huge missed opportunity because no matter did the
caloric content, the macros, none of that matters. All that
matters is this the most delicious liquid you could put
on a chip of some kind to eat. That is
the mission. That is I I love that. I'm trying
(34:52):
to think. By the way, the chicken dip, I think
is the greatest. Have you ever had a buffalo chicken?
Was gonna say the cheese artichoke like artificis and artichoke tip.
I mean, that's a solid you know, you can always
order it. A restaurant's impossible to go wrong, hard to
screw up. It's like chicken tenders, Like, I don't know what,
uh what if you screw up chicken tenders, you can't
(35:14):
be trusted to cooking. That's the safest thing to order
in any restaurant by far. If you're if you're in
a restaurant, you're like, I don't even trust the cleanliness
of this place. Never mind the cooking skills. Get the
chicken tenders, you'll be good to go. It's everybody likes them.
It's impossible to screw it up. But yeah, the buffalo
chicken dip, it might be buffalo chicken ranch dip. I
can't remember exactly what it's called. I could I could
literally eat, you know, chunks of chicken in the dips.
(35:37):
I always feel like dip is See, we really are hungry, guys.
It is this part of the day. I mean, we're
driving your body. I mean I sometimes you try something
and you're like, I could eat this entire ten with
just the you know, the Freedo chips you by the way,
do you I know you're not like, I've never boiled
water in my life, Buck, not exactly. You don't even
have like your buffalo chicken recipe. No, there's zero that
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I make that. I have not cooked anything in my
entire made. I made bacon wrap dates with stuff with
blue cheese for the Super Bowl last year. That's how
I roll. That sounds pretty good. I've never bacon wrapped,
and I mean bacon wrapped my old workout sneaker is
pretty good. So yes, bacon wrap date with blue cheese.
Definitely blue cheese and ranch either one. I like both,
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but ranch dressing is incredible. Are you are you finishing
the show today and grabbing a turkey and cheese sandwich
right away? By the way, because I am starving so
I will probably go I got to do a show
after the show, and then I will go eat. Then
I got to write on this book which is coming along,
so I'm interested to see how it's gonna end up
doing very exciting. When's the book? When's the book? Draft? Dude?
(36:48):
December one? So I managed to put everything that I
have to do all around football season. So I've got
a book draft dude, December one won't be out till
next year. There's a long lag time, so I really
want to see the mid term results so I can update,
you know, and get some data and analysis at least
from the preceding election. So I've got to fill that in.
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Now I'm your whole chapter about the state dinner you
take me out for when I'm right about Hunter Biden.
So I'm excited about how that's gonna be. I if
Hunter Biden gets indicted, I just want the entire universe
to come undone praising me over up Barllion. I was Fleet,
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