May 1, 2025 • 59 mins
Talking Left, Living Right
Hour 1 of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show kicks off with a warm introduction and a special appearance by Buck Sexton's newborn son, adding a personal touch to the program. The hosts then dive into the day's major news topics, starting with a detailed analysis of White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller's press briefing, highlighting his impressive performance and key points. They discuss the latest developments surrounding Kilmar Abrego Garcia, including new information from Fox News and the implications for the Democratic Party.
The conversation shifts to the departure of Mike Waltz as National Security Advisor, exploring the reasons behind this significant change in the Trump administration. The hosts also touch on Donald Trump's recent comments on News Nation, suggesting that Stephen A. Smith should run for president, sparking a humorous debate about potential political matchups.
Mike Waltz Out
National Security Advisor Mike Waltz's departure from the Trump administration. Clay and Buck discuss the implications of this change, including the potential reasons behind it, such as the Signalgate controversy and policy disagreements over U.S. support for Ukraine and military actions against Iran. They emphasize the significance of the National Security Advisor role and speculate on the future direction of Trump's national security team.
Liberals 101
Clay and Buck discuss crime and law enforcement, highlighting the efforts of Jessica Tisch, NYPD Police Commissioner, to reduce crime and improve public safety. The hosts express optimism for a nationwide drop in violent crime as police are empowered to do their jobs effectively.
LA Sen. Bill Cassidy
Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana. Senator Cassidy is also the chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee. He is the first physician to sit as HELP chair.
The senator shares insights on various topics, including his efforts to pass legislation to protect Jewish students from harassment on college campuses. He highlights the importance of supporting American values and the positive response from students in Louisiana.
The conversation shifts to the recent New Year's Eve terror attack in New Orleans, with Senator Cassidy providing updates on the investigation and the arrest of a suspect with ISIS links. He emphasizes the resilience of New Orleans and the importance of international cooperation in combating terrorism.
Senator Cassidy also assesses the first 100 days of President Trump's administration, praising the swift action to control illegal immigration and reduce fentanyl trafficking. He discusses significant investments in economic development, including major projects in Louisiana, and expresses optimism for continued progress.
The hosts then discuss the breaking news of Mike Waltz's departure as National Security Advisor and his nomination as the next US Ambassador to the United Nations. They analyze the implications of this move and the appointment of Marco Rubio as interim National Security Advisor.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome everybody to the Thursday edition of the Clay Travis
an Buck Sexton Show. We have a lot of news
to get to with you, but I will just first
hold up little James Speed Sexton making his radio debut,
and he's gonna get fussy, so I'm gonna give him
a mommy here. But you can see, honey, would you
come around and grab our beloved son here? If you
(00:20):
watch us on the video stream of playing Buck, you
will see.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
What he's Dante's doing.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
It's getting good intent you, honey, and you know Judy
plays him by the way. Super cute little guy. He
is coming up on is it three weeks old tomorrow?
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Is that right? Few weeks old?
Speaker 1 (00:37):
He's eight pounds in change, looking good, looking like he's
a blue eyed redhead from what we can tell so far.
So he's a We got a Ginger, which would be
kind of funny because that's the dog's name.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
But we definitely have a Ginger in the making.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
And in South Florida, you're gonna have to spend a
lot of money on sunscreen. Yes, like me, he will probably.
People always ask me how often you get to the beach.
I'm like, I cannot remember the last time I went
to the beach here, even though I live a mile away.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
We got big news. Let's get into it.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
You know, sometimes you gotta start the show with a
baby because it's fun and he's so cute and I.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Have to help babysit. So here we are.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
We've got let's see how the Stephen Miller press briefing
this morning was absolutely fantastic. Really impressed with what Stephen
Miller was doing. What he had to say, it was
excellent stuff. We'll give you some of the highlights of that. Also,
more on Abrego Garcia. There's more information. Fox News has additional,
(01:34):
let's say, background on this fellow that they have turned
into a cause for the Democrats, their new hero, Sir
Abrego Garcia. Something a little bit on the unfortunate side
of things. Mike Waltz is out as National Security Advisor,
so our first senior level departure from the Trump administration.
(01:55):
It lasted one hundred days. But Mike Wallace a couple
of I think one of his top aides already going
with him. There may be others as well. We can
discuss what happened there, but I think that there were
a number of issues that led to this change in personnel. Also,
Donald Trump last night called in on News Nation and
(02:17):
said Clay that he thinks Steven A. Smith should run
for president. That was an interesting side note.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
If Stephen A.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Smith is the Democrat nominee, I might have to run
for president as the Republican and just like slay him
in every debate. I mean, I'm just going to toss
that out there, because I can't let him be the
sports media guy running for president all by himself, right,
I mean, I think I would have to step up
and run against him. We've got all that more from
(02:45):
that Cuomo town hall with Trump, O'Reilly, some others, some
interesting interesting soundbites we want to share with you. On
all of that, Trump has addressed the investments going on
in America, which I also think we will spend some
time on. But let's start with this one. They said
(03:05):
they've done this thing now where they're having mourning press conference.
I think this makes so much sense. I'm surprised, actually
this hasn't been done sooner, This hasn't been the standard
for a longer period of time, because, yeah, this lets
them set the agenda. This lets them get out there
and tell everybody This is where the White House is
(03:26):
on this issue. They don't have to respond in the
same way to the morning news cycle of the opposition media.
They get to say, here's what we are focused on.
Oh we saw that report. Before you run another one,
we are telling you what actually happened, or before you
run another fake news piece. Here is the background. You
(03:48):
need to maybe print a correction or a retraction, whatever
it may be. But today's morning briefing was about common sense.
This is cut to Caroline leve At, the White House
Press Secretary, laying out the overview before she handed it
over to Steven Miller.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Plays.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Everything in President Trump's agenda is grounded in one thing,
common sense. While the Democrat Party went off the deep
end and doubled down on pure craziness, President Trump pledged
to restore common sense back to the United States of
America in a little more than three months. That's exactly
what he's done. He recognized that America is a sovereign
nation that cannot survive if it does not protect its
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territorial borders. President knows his top responsibility is ensuring the
safety of the American people, which is why he's arresting
violent illegal alien invaders in our communities who threaten our
public safety. And it's unacceptable to President Trump to allow
rampant waste, fraud, and abuse of Americans precist tax dollars,
which is why the President championed a historic Doge effort
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that saved nearly two hundred billion already. President Trump stood
up for the Constitution's promise of colorblind equality before the law.
So he terminated radical DEI preferencing and federal contracting and
directed federal agencies to relentlessly co that private sector discrimination.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Clay common sense is actually, if you have to find
one principle or one theme where Democrats are just on
perpetual defense and Republicans can continue to just stomp them
into oblivion, they lack common sense.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
It is I think.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
As we come out of one hundred days, one of
the clarion calls of the first hundred days has been
trying to come up with an argument that Democrats have
against what Trump has done. And if you notice, yesterday
I referred to it as sort of a drunken, flailing argument.
They can't keep the focus on anything. I'll give you
(05:43):
an example right here. As we sit one hundred and
two days out. Did you know Buck that stocks actually
ended up higher at the end of April than they
were at the beginning of April. That is, after all
that chaos where they said, oh my goodness, look at
where the stock market is, and we tried to say, hey,
stay calm, don't overreact, recognize that there is a plan
(06:07):
in place. If you bought the dip, you have now
made ten percent on the dip alone. And in the
past year, as I am looking at the S and
P five hundred, stocks are up twelve percent. On average,
stocks are going to be up eight or nine percent.
So in the last year you've actually done better than
(06:28):
you would over the historic average. And if you're saying, okay,
well what about clay compared to where they were in
January or February, Okay, they're down from January or February,
as stocks sometimes are, but they're almost identical to where
they were at the beginning of November last year. And
if seven months ago you didn't feel like you were
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incredibly poor and your family finances were completely lost, then
you're basically the same place you were seven months ago.
Stock's ebb and flow. If you bought the dip, you've
actually made a lot more so they left behind the
stock market as it's come back up substantially buck and
they went to what they went to a Braille Garcia
(07:09):
and El salvadoran gang member that we now know has
multiple different reports in the state of Maryland, including one
where his girlfriend at the time I think now wife
said he's threatened to kill her and she needs protection
from the state and told her that he could kill
her and get away with it. Yes, which sounds like
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something that a hardened gang member would say to me.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
I don't know many people that I.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Make that most people wouldn't know how to dispose of
a body and get away with a murder. But also
it is indicative I think of how desperate and deluded
the attempt to make him the front facing opposition to
the deportation crisis has been that you would pick a
guy who has this demonstrated record of violence. I don't
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know what percentage of men do you think have threatened
to kill their wives and dispose of their bodies and
get away with it. I have maybe five percent to me, really,
you know, like it doesn't happen that often, and I
think probably there's women out there listening right now that
have been more likely to tell in a joking way
their husbands that they could kill them and distribute the
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body and get away, like the number of men that
would have threatened their wives in a serious way that
would have made you fear for your life such that
you needed to go to the police and file a report,
letting everybody know, Hey, this guy's probably the person who's
gonna kill me. He's made this threat. I don't think
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it's that common out there in husband wife relationships. And if,
by chance you are listening to me right now and
you have a husband that you are afraid might kill
you one day, I would suggest to you that's probably
not a healthy relationship and maybe you should be somewhere else,
or a boyfriend.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
For that matter.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
And I think this is just symptomatic of sort of
the drunken inconsistencies, jumping from one thing to another. I'm
not even sure what the opposition to Trump is. And
people say, okay, well, Trump's approval ratings after the first
one hundred days are not great. Well, what I would
say is, okay, tell me a Democrat who is within
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fifteen or twenty points nationwide that has anywhere near the
approval of Trump. People in general, I think just don't
like politicians. Right now, there's a generally speaking, an anti politician,
anti incumbent universe, and so I think the fact that
Trump is in that position right now is actually not
(09:43):
a sign of any incredible lack of strength from him.
I think it's just that Democrats haven't been able to
find any kind of opposition figure for him. And you
have Stephen Miller stepping in at this press conference, going
absolutely score sure earth and touching on a whole range
of issues. But this is one of my favorites because
(10:04):
these reporters, and this is true of Democrats so often,
these reporters pretend they care so much about Abrego Garcia
and his rights and everything else. But as Miller points out,
they don't want to live next to any suspected MS
thirteen illegal alien gang members. They want to go to
country clubs where nobody like this would even be allowed
to serve them food, right. They want to go to
places that are very exclusive. And yet here we are
(10:29):
watching them all pretend go through these motions like suddenly
they are all about the downtrodden and the downtrodden gang member.
Here's Steven Miller play three.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Each and every one of.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
You that sides over and over again with these MS
thirteen terrafts should extentt that you at the financial means
to do so, you all choose to live in condos
or homes or houses as far away from these kinds
of gang bangers as you possibly can have. I offered
any one of you a rent free home with no
taxes to pay in any of these gang neighborhoods. And
I saidighbors or mster ting terrorists or Mexican mafia or
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Sinaloa cartel or trained Iragua.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
I couldn't pay you to live there. But yet you,
with your coverage.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
Are trying to force innocent Americans to have these people
as their neighbors, and that one day their daughter may
be abducted from their home and raped and murdered. So
you're not going to get an ounce of sympathy from
this administration or President Trump for the terrorists who've invaded
our homes in our country.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Play.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
It's true all these reporters, a lot of whom live
in you know, northern Virginia, right across the Potomac River.
You know, they live in condos in Balston or they
maybe have a place in Glover Park where they are
paying down the mortgage or whatever. They absolutely do not
want any gang members around them. It's somebody else's problem,
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but they get to preen for the cameras. The number
of people who claim that walls don't work that live
in gated communities is off the charts. Oh yeah, I
mean just almost anybody who makes a significant living in
DC lives in to your point, northern Virginia where it's
comparatively safe, or southern Maryland in the Rock Creek area
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that Montgomery County, right, or they live in super safe
parts of DC, often with security everywhere surrounding them. And
so it is the case that very often, and people
see through this, that the people who are having to
deal with day to day crime in their lives overwhelmingly
(12:29):
want more police insecurity. And then the people who have
absolutely no risk whatsoever in their day to day existence,
they somehow look at the people who want more police
insecurity and argue, oh, the police are too much of
a hindrance for you. Is the height Someone wrote this
and said this, and once you hear it or see it,
(12:50):
you cannot stop recognizing it. People on the left in
this country. They talk left and they live right.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Once you see it.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
They get married, they have nuclear families, they have houses
in very safe suburbs. They put their kids in private schools,
and then they lecture everyone else about how they it's
fine to make decisions that are not beneficial. Have as
many kids as a single parent as you want. Oh,
don't worry about your school districts. The amount of lecturing
(13:23):
from people who don't live the way they lecture you
you should be comfortable with people living is off the charts.
Everybody in left wing media talks left and they live
right in their actual lives.
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(17:24):
I think I have to go run the Trump campaign.
Comms true, And we were like, that's okay, what's cool. We
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first time running for Congress in twenty twenty two. You
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she is the badass press secretary who is regularly slaying
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very first time we had her on the program was
I think the summer of twenty twenty two when she
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that is coming Buck, I wanted to make sure we
hit this. National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, formerly the congressman
from Florida from the Daytona area right of Florida am
I read or Saint Augustine. He's been replaced now in
his congressional seat. But he is now out, and I
(18:31):
wanted to to make sure that we played that audio reportedly.
I don't think it's officially official yet, but this is
our friend Dana Perino announcing this on America's news Room
a little bit earlier today on Fox News.
Speaker 6 (18:47):
All right, there's a breaking news that happened in the
commercial break. So what you're looking at a photograph right
now of Michael Waltz. He is the President's National Security Advisor,
except for we just got news that he is going
to be leaving the administration along with his deputy, Alex Wong.
Of course, if you might remember the story of Signal Gate.
I don't know if that's a particular reason, but there
(19:09):
was some consternation among some people about Mike waalt So
you might remember as a congressman, green Beret, a long,
long history and career in foreign policy.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
All right, so Buck, you were formerly in the CIA.
I think a lot of people don't really understand candidly
all of the different Foreign Affair Advisor universe appointees. What
is this job and what is the significance of someone
new just after one hundred days in this job? From
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your perspective, well, it always depends with each administration how
much sway the National Security Advisor can have for a
president and how important he is. Right, you have people
who are at that Kissinger level. The first for the
genesis of the the NSC system was back in nineteen
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fifty three, who became the President's Special Assistant for National
Security Affairs. Right, So there's been a history of this
for a while, the NSC system and the National Security Advisor.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
That Robert Cutler, like I said, was the first one.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
This situation though, as I see Clay with Waltz, you
get a couple of things, and I'm not sure which
holds more sway right now which was the bigger factor,
But you get two things going on. One, you had
signal Gate, which I know we shouldn't call it a
gate because it wasn't really as big a deal as
they were making it sound.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Trust me.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
A few minutes before the Hoothy strikes happened, the Hoothies
were not about to be you know, hacking into this
chat and finding out where things were going and changing
it up. But nonetheless, you want to be careful about
your comms, and you want to have secure comms if
you're going to talk about things like that. But why
was Jeffrey Goldberg even this whole thing about who was
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added to the chat? Well, what does that mean? I mean,
how would you add somebody that you don't know to
a chat? You would have to have their contact information? Okay,
So I think this is the It's one thing if like,
if I'm trying to text Clay and I'm making fun
of Jesse Kelly and Jesse, you know, for being too
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tall or I don't know, maybe not having the most
luxurious man have haired these days, and I accidentally text
Jesse at the same time, thus blowing myself up in
the process. Both of those guys are in my phone,
So that could happen, right if I had never texted Jesse,
I had no contact with in my life, But somehow
he was on that text where I'm talking smack. Well,
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that makes no sense, and it made no sense when
Mike Watz was saying that initially. So I think that
got a lot of people, you know, They're like, well,
is this because Jeffrey Goldberger it's.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Not just a reporter.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
He's a reporter who's written national security stories to destroy Trump,
to throw elections. I mean, he's he is as anti
Trump and the national security establishments you can be. So,
why is the national security advisor for Trump? You know,
in contact with him? That was the question that people
were looking at, right, Yes, yes, well I was just
going to say, to be fair, Trump just did an
interview with Jeffrey Goldberg, so.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Like and and.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
I will say the one thing about Trump that I
find endearing and also sometimes crazy. There are probably many
things that you can point put in that category, but
he legitimately believes that anybody who hates him he can
convince they should like him, and continues to do interviews
with people who truly hate him. Well, well, yes, Trump
likes to stick his head in the lion's mouth, so
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to speak. There's no question about that, and even tweets
about that. But the Jeffrey Goldberg think if Mike Waltz
command said, yeah, look, I like to try to push
back on the false narratives, and so I will discuss
with certain journalists who are oppositioned to the Trump agenda
why they're wrong. You know, I would have said, okay, fine,
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but he said, oh no, somebody else added this guy.
I didn't add him, but I would never talk to him.
And it just it didn't make sense. Man, there was
something weird. But look, maybe that was nothing, and maybe
that has nothing to do with it. That's one component
of this. And I'll say this. I mean Mike Wallace,
you know, is a patriot, a good guy. I like
Mike Waltz. I'm just trying to understand or trying to
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surmise why he's no longer the National Security.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Advisor after one hundred days.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
And the other one, though, is I think maybe the
bigger issue, which is more of the policy dispute level,
and that is that Waltz and I know this from
interviewing him, is very hawkish on US support to Ukraine
and very hawkish on US strikes against Iran to my recollection,
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And there is a ascendant faction within the Trump national
security world, including Secretary of Defense Hegseth, who are cautious
and limited in their support for Ukraine and would rather
see US avoid a military strike and possible entanglement against
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Iran by going after the reactors or backing Israel too
much in a strike it may do. And that's those
are big issues. And when you see those very differently,
the friction, I think clay can be a problem for
the people making the national security decisions. So those are
the two things that I see. Do you see it
that way? And is there a third?
Speaker 2 (24:33):
No? I think you're right on that.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
I would also add in that there have been people
who have believed that Waltz was not sufficiently die hard Trump.
If you go back through his history, there have been
talks that in twenty sixteen he wasn't officially enough on
the Trump train. Now, the reason why I would I
think you have to just kind of put that out
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there on the discussion point. The reason why I would
discount it is Trump has proven time and again that
once you are on board the Trump train with him,
he is not a grudge guy. But I do think
there are people in his administration that are grudge guys
and gals that will constantly kind of come back if
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there's tension over a current situation and try to reinforce Well,
you know, back in twenty eighteen, he did say this,
or he did say this in twenty sixteen, and so
I would also point this out. Buck Trump does not
want to give the media anything that the media wants.
He didn't act right after the signal event. He won't
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give them Pete Hegseth's head on a platter, which is
what they seem to be demanding time after time after time.
I actually see this in some way as strengthening heg
Seth's hand, because there has been talk that these two
guys were at loggerheads at time. Over to your point,
what the response should be to Iran, And here's my look. Iran,
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I think is going to be an issue for the
rest of all of our lives. I don't think miraculously
it's going to go back to nineteen seventy eight in Tehran,
when women could walk around in many skirts and heels,
and they were relatively as a Islam focused country, relatively modern.
I think at some point they are going to get
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a nuclear weapon, and when they get a nuclear weapon,
we're never going to be able to do anything to
them again. Because that's why they want the nuclear weapon,
because it strengthens them domestically, but also internationally. It sends
the message of if you come after us, we can
really obliterate you. It's why Kim Jong un wants it.
(26:48):
So I don't want war, but if there were a
way to ensure that Iran never got a nuclear weapon,
I think you have to listen to that argument, and
I'm skeptical that any sort of negotiation is going to
lead to Iran giving up that opportunity because the value
of having a nuclear weapon is so massive that if
I were Iranian and I were in some way involved
(27:11):
with the Iotola Komini, if we could make it the
Iotola Clay, Iotola Clay would want a nuclear weapon. And
we've talked about this with Ukraine Libya. You mentioned we
had this conversation a few weeks ago. Libya gave up
nuclear weapons. Kadafi was gone soon after Ukraine gave up
nuclear weapons. Russia has now invaded and taken away what
twenty percent of their overall territory. Kim Jong un wants them,
(27:35):
the Iotola wants them, because when you have nuclear weapons,
you basically create a situation where nobody can come and
try to overthrow you. And that's why I don't think
Iran is going to give this up. Whatever perspective you
want to adopt, attack or not attack, I don't think
Iran is going to give up through negotiation their capability
to get nuclear weapons. It doesn't make sense to me.
I think it doesn't make sense to them. I'm very
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skeptical that any negotiation is going to lead to a
result like that. So these are these are obviously weighty issues,
and that is why a deep philosophical disagreement among people
I'm talking about in Trump's inner circle, not like between
the Democrats and the Republicans. That may be a part
of what led to the change up here that has
been reported with Mike Waltz's departure as National Security Advisor.
(28:22):
I don't think that this will do what a Pete
Hegseth forced resignation would have done, which is feed the
piranhas and just make them want more in the media.
I think that this is a little more inside baseball
to the Trump team and what they need.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
But I miss I. I wish Mike Waltz well, and I.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Think that Trump does too, and I'm sure he'll be
doing other other good stuff going forward. He gave up
that seat in Congress here in Florida, yeah, which is
now Randy Fines.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
So I hope Randy Fine does a good job.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
We'll see, and that's a tough position to be in
because as we can back, I mean three months in,
I presume he'll probably find a good job going forward.
But I imagine if he had known he was going
to be out in three months, I don't think he
would have given up that congressional seat. Look, we want
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Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton Show. Appreciate all
of you hanging out with us. We've talked some about
one hundred days of Trump, and I did think Buck
this was interesting. Harry Inton, I believe on CNN was
discussing something that I think is really important. So if
you're out there and you are a Trump voter, maybe
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you have people in your life that are not Trump voters,
and after one hundred days, they're coming around saying, hey,
do you regret your vote? Now we know your answer
is no, but they may try to say, well, if
you say no, I don't regret my vote at all.
That's the way that I would vote if I could today.
As well, they may follow up by saying, well, you
(31:11):
may feel that way, but lots of Trump voters definitely
wish they had voted a different way.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
This is an argument they try to make. Well.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
CNN has a poll at one hundred days of Trump.
Who do you think would be doing a better job
right now? Trump or Kamala? And interestingly, Trump has a
little bit bigger of a margin now than he did
over Kamala in the twenty twenty four election. Let's listen
to Harry Inton break it down.
Speaker 7 (31:37):
We asked the question our last CNN Paul, who'd be
doing a better job as president?
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Guess who comes out on top within the margin?
Speaker 8 (31:44):
Urper comes on top.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
This looks a lot.
Speaker 7 (31:45):
Like the election result, right Trump forty five percent, two
points ahead of Harris at forty three percent. It's not
just about regretting that vote, it's literally saying who would
be doing the better job right now? And Trump continues
to score a higher percentage of the vote and Kamala Harris.
This looks a heck of a lot like the election result.
We have just seen this in poll after poll after Paul.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
I do think that's significant, and it's what I was asking.
Anytime somebody says, oh, Trump's got low poll numbers, say okay,
what democrat poll's better? And there is no answer because
there is no Democrat that is more popular than Trump,
where As there were certainly a lot of Democrats, uh
and Republicans when we were talking about during the Biden
are era that would have polled higher. So again, I
(32:30):
think I think that's significant. Yeah, and I think I
think Democrats are running into the problem that exists between
criticism and complaining. Right, criticism in politics is they're not
doing a good job. Comma, we would do the following,
which would be so much better. Right, broadly speaking, this
(32:53):
is how, this is how I break it down. You know,
Trump's economy is floundering because of ex er wa we
would do this, and you need someone making that case
who can get the attention to be listened to. They're
just complaining. They're just sitting.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Around going everything's terrible. You go, wait a second.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
The border is certainly not terrible, and the economy is
not terrible either, despite what they're saying. So what exactly
is so awful? The deportation of illegal alien? Isn't it
an amazing abrego Garcia. No one denies that this guy
is in illegal so he should not be in America.
But I'm supposed to care so much that he's not
(33:33):
in America anymore? I don't care. I cannot be made
to care. I'm not going to weep over this. They
can weep and it won't change my mind. He's not
supposed to be here. He's not here, He's not my problem.
They just complain though, because they don't have an alternate
plan and they don't have a leadership to make the
case even if they did.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
And also, as the details continue to come out about
a Brao Garcia, what we told people over the last
couple of weeks that he was the worst front facing
individual that they could have picked to be the opposition
figure to the Trump deportation process. We just keep getting
proven right more and more. His wife said that he
(34:17):
threatened to kill her and said that he if he
did it, he would get away with it. She has,
i believe six different times, gone to Maryland authorities and
asked for protection from him. This is not a good dude.
This is not a dude who should have been here.
There is ample evidence that he was a gang member,
(34:39):
There is ample evidence that he was human trafficking. There
is ample evidence that he was beating and threatening to
kill his girlfriend then wife. This guy should not be
in the country, and the country is actually safer without him.
VIP email Bert loved the phrase talks left lives right.
(35:02):
I think I'll use it instead of libousine liberal. Look
once you see this. I was talking about this earlier
because Buck was pointing out the great take from Stephen
Miller calling out everyone in the press who was fine
with illegal violent predator immigrants in this country as long
(35:22):
as they weren't in their own neighborhoods in as long
as they didn't have to interact with them on a
regular basis, didn't have to deal with the threat or
the danger that they provide. This is left wing politics,
one oh one. It is in your own life. Make
decisions that people who are right leaning would make in general.
(35:44):
Get married before you have kids, move to the school
district where your kids could go to the best school,
or if that's not possible, potentially put them in private school.
Make decisions to live in very safe, often gated community
with private security in ample measure, and then simultaneously lecture
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all of us and wag our fingers because we're asking
for more police support, or we're asking for more violent
predators to be removed from the country. You live in
a place where that threat is not a existential reality,
and yet you feel compelled to lecture us for trying
to make the world safer. I always think the biggest
(36:30):
law of BLM was actually and there were many, and
the saddest result of BLM was there thousands of young
black kids dead because of BLM because the police were
not allowed to do their jobs, and the murder rate
skyrocketed overwhelmingly the kids, and oftentimes sadly they were young kids,
(36:51):
teenagers getting killed, were getting killed because police were not
able to do their job. Buck, you were talking about
the job you had with the MIPD. I wanted to
give a shout out. I don't know if you've been
reading about this woman, but she's evidently doing incredible work
right now with the NYPD. Do you know Jessica Tish
at all? Yes, I k I knew jesse Tish when
I worked at the NYPD. She was a fellow analyst.
(37:12):
Then yeah, I think she was an intern at Fox
News back in the day. And now I read a
big profile of her recently. Now she is maniacally focused
on reducing crime in New York City and she is
having a tremendous amount of success. I believe she is
a part of a very wealthy family in New York City,
which is the Tish family. They own the Giants. I mean,
(37:34):
I know the family. I grew up with Ben Tisch,
so yeah, I'm familiar with these peeps. Kind of kind
of a cool thing to own an NFL franchise, among
among other things. But she has been I meant to
mention her when you were talking about working with the
NYPD earlier. She has been maniacally focused on trying to
make New York City safer and has been having a
(37:56):
lot of results. And you know what she's doing, locking
up bad guys, locking up bad guys, and giving the
New York Police Department the ability that they did not
have during the BLM era to focus on where crimes
are committed, shift resources there, and start to make things safer.
And I'm seeing a lot of positive results also happening
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nationwide now as Trump has back to the law and
order era prediction, I think we are going to see
in twenty twenty five a massive drop in violent crime
nationwide because police are being put back in a position
to police and keep our community safer. And the ironic
part of this, of course, is if Trump and the
(38:39):
federal level support for law and order is successful, enough,
it may give more cover for Democrats in blue states
or even some very blue cities to be more law
and order in their approach, you know, like they have
no choice or ei they're going to go along with it.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
It gives them the ability to do it.
Speaker 1 (39:01):
And that's what you would need, you know, if you
had somebody come along and turn around San Francisco. Let's say,
if you had a Democrat turn around San Francisco and
you had all that because the things of San Francisco,
just to be clear, they always say, oh, violent crime. Yeah,
it's not violent crime. It's property crime and quality of
life stuff there. Okay, it's like one giant homeless encampment.
(39:22):
It's not a nice situation. Clay was just there pretty recently.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (39:25):
And if you had somebody who cleaned that up and
had some government programs that actually seem to show some
promise for getting people off drugs, et cetera, et cetera,
whatever it may be, that's the kind of Democrat who
you could then run nationally and say, we're not insane,
vote for this guy, and then you ran through your
socialist left wing policies. Once you fooled the American people,
the problem they have right now is everybody who's already
(39:48):
in a Democrat position somewhere has a garbage record and
they're not you know, so they don't have a bench.
Which is why Kamal is still coming out and saying,
oh yeah, like I'm you know, a leader of Democrat party.
They don't have a successful Democrat running a major city
or a very a very blue stand not talking purple
because you know, you look at a place like Kentucky.
(40:10):
They got a Democrat governor, but because the people are
mostly red state voters, they won't allow things to get
as crazy. I think that you know that. The turnaround
at Clay it's such a shame. The turnaround to New York,
it's just waiting. I will always love New York City.
I will always love the Tri state area. It's where
I grew up. It's my home. I mean, I'm a
(40:31):
New Yorker in Florida in a lot of ways. Still
I always will be. And it would be so incredible
to turn around all you the Giuliani miracle, it's there,
like there's a template, right, there's a you could you
could even hire some of the people that were involved.
I'm sure you can hire Rooty Juliani as an advisor
if you would wanted to, if if you really were
trying to clean things up.
Speaker 2 (40:50):
But they just won't do it.
Speaker 1 (40:52):
They just although maybe in New York, the new the
new police commissioner jesse is going to do it, I
don't will see. I think Jessica Tish is having some success.
But to your point, it's just cyclical. You have awful crime,
and you decide we need to be tough on criminals.
And when you're tough on criminals, crimes gets lower. And
then when crime gets lower, leftists decide we're being too
(41:15):
tough on criminals. You start going easy on criminals. Crime
goes up again. It's just it's data. And one way
that I think would be really helpful if somebody wanted
to find a way to cut through some of this.
The the Democrat leadership approach on crime and the way
that they I think exploit things politically is they will say,
(41:38):
and I can speak to this in New York because
I know the crime data very well and I was
in that.
Speaker 2 (41:42):
System for a while and I grew up in that city.
Speaker 1 (41:45):
The Democrats will say, our law enforcement efforts are falling
short because or you know, there's a problem with them.
They're racist because we have we have been too aggressive
with members of the black and brown community in this
city and are policing. What really needs to be understood
is that the aggression is toward a very sort of speak,
(42:08):
it's sort of a very small subset of the overall
black and brown population of New York City who are
law abiding and who are the primary beneficiaries of lower
crime rates because they disproportionately live in the neighborhoods where
this bad stuff is happening. So you get the you
(42:28):
get the you know, the Kathi Hocals, or you get
the you know what's his name, Eric, Eric Eric Adams,
and you get these these politicians who are Democrats who
are like, Okay, we need to change our approach.
Speaker 2 (42:42):
We need to have no cash bail.
Speaker 1 (42:43):
They need to do these things because the system is
disproportionately hurting people who are black and brown. And the
real truth of it is that if you fix the
streets and make them safer, the primary beneficiaries are the
you know, ninety nine percent of black and brown New
Yorkers who are not committing violent crimes. Correct, This is
(43:07):
the This is the this is where you know, but
they just they kind of play to this narrative of oh,
the police are being racist.
Speaker 2 (43:14):
It's like, no, let the police make us all safe.
Speaker 1 (43:16):
They're gonna make people safer in the high crime neighborhoods.
I actually think, Buck, as we go to break here,
I'm gonna say something positive about San Francisco.
Speaker 2 (43:26):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (43:27):
First of all, it's a beautiful, unbelievable it's maybe the
most beautiful place in the in the United States. I
think they actually have a pretty good mayor. All of
a sudden, Daniel Lurie just started San Francisco mayor. I
think he's going to do a decent job. And there
is some shoots of optimism, some green shoots that are
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coming up as they return to some form of sanity.
I just wish they didn't have to make such awful
decisions in so many places in order order to make
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Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, Senator, appreciate you coming to
hang out on Clay and Buck today.
Speaker 2 (45:48):
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Thank you, Thank you. Clay is friends with the band,
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Speaker 8 (46:11):
Wow, welly, every time you use it? I mean, does
that you know benefit them financially? Are you just give
them some free free airtime?
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Mat you ask good questions. My understanding is they get
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Speaker 2 (47:07):
Doctor.
Speaker 8 (47:08):
By the way, Michael Jordan once said, Republicans buy tennis
shoes as well, and so like, you know, whenever somebody says,
don't use my music, I'm thinking, hm, they must not
think that Republicans listen to music. I'm glad, exactly know.
Speaker 1 (47:20):
I think that that's I think that that is changing
a little bit now. At least people are more aware,
Senator that cutting out half of the country from their
possible audience or their possible consumer base is unwise, and
we pay attention and we remember. So yeah, everybody out there,
whatever you're listening to, you know, go to the iHeart app.
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Go listen to some lit because they love all of you,
They love all of us. All right, doctor Cassidy, Senator Cassidy,
let's talk about the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pension Committee.
So you're the first physician to sit on that. How
are we making America healthy again? How's that coming along?
I know RFK Junior is the one who's most talked
about it in that regard. But what are we doing
(48:01):
for Americans health? What are we doing to make people
you know healthier going forward?
Speaker 8 (48:07):
Well, one thing we tried to do yesterday was passibility
to keep Jewish students from getting arrassed and beat up
on campus. Some of my Democratic.
Speaker 2 (48:15):
Colleagues opposed it.
Speaker 8 (48:16):
Can you believe that we're trying to pass ability to
keep some kid from being rast when he's walking to
like biology class? And folks oppose that it'd be nice
to keep people healthy by keeping them from being chased
into a room and people pounding on the door. So
that may not be the normal definition to keep it
America healthy again, but not getting beat up f's my definition.
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And that's what we worked on yesterday, and that's what
we'll complete sometime next week.
Speaker 1 (48:43):
Senator, you're down in Louisiana. One of the schools that
went viral for anti anti Israel protests was LSU. There
were a lot of Southern schools where the kids just said, yeah,
we're not going to stand up for this, and as
a result, SEC applications and for Clemson Florida State schools
such as those as well that had the same sort
(49:05):
of cultural response have skyrocketed.
Speaker 2 (49:08):
What does that say about.
Speaker 1 (49:10):
Let's give a little bit of positivity here the kids
going to school in Louisiana and their ability to see
right from wrong, even if maybe some of the kids
at Harvard and U C. L A And Colombia and
places like that can't.
Speaker 8 (49:22):
I can tell you some of these bastions of kind
of democratic strongholds may not appreciate the United States of America,
but my folks do. And a lot of those kids,
maybe maybe their parents didn't go to college. They are
getting the opportunity to take their lives to another level
because their parents sacrifice to send them to school, and
(49:44):
they're not about They're not about to feel guilty about
something happening around the world. It's being mischaracterized as somehow
an attack by the Israelis on others when October the
seventh was an attack upon the Israelis. You know, this
is not upside down day, and so I'm proud of
my people. My people love America and they are going
(50:04):
to support Jewish students when they realize that's supporting those
students and supporting American values.
Speaker 2 (50:10):
Sator Cassidy.
Speaker 1 (50:10):
And the last time we had you on was right
after the New Year's Eve terror attack in New Orleans,
and the FBI has been working on this case for months. Iraqi, sorry,
and authorities have apparently arrested somebody with an ISIS link.
Can you tell us just as a follow up to that,
because last time we talked to you about it, we're
talking about terrorism and Israel. We've got terrorism concerns here
(50:33):
at home. What do we know about the full scope
of what happened and who was involved in that New
Orleans terror attack.
Speaker 8 (50:39):
The FBI is still pretty confident this guy was a
lone actor. So we're learning details from the situation in Iraq.
And let's just you know, again, we need to as
Americans thank our friends around the world when they are
friends to us. And I am grateful to our friends
in Iraq who helped find this film and are sharing
(51:00):
information to find if there is a connection. Reading about
the fellow that did the New Year's Day terrorist attack,
he seemed kind of a lone wolf type of a person,
like you'd broken up, divorced, his wife, had very few friends,
that sort of thing. But if there is a connection there,
we'll find it out. We don't know yet, but I
want to point out that New Orleans and Louisiana and
(51:24):
our country did not let that terrorist or that terrorist
act win The Super Bowl shortly thereafter was a fantastic experience,
and so we don't yet know the complete ramifications. We
do know that our country, our state, my city responded
in an incredibly positive way.
Speaker 1 (51:41):
Donald Trump, president of the United States, just finished one
hundred days. He's going to be speaking in a place
that may not be particularly fond place for your constituents.
That is the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa tonight. I believe,
for those who don't know, LSU, Alabama big rivals, some
of the biggest rivals in all of college. But notwithstanding
(52:02):
him being in enemy territory from a football perspective, how
would you assess the first hundred days of the Trump
presidency and what do you think going forward Congress can do,
particularly the Senate, when it comes to passing this big,
beautiful bill that would help to enshrine the tax cuts
and ensure the American economy is on stronger footing. How
(52:22):
would you break down where we're headed there?
Speaker 8 (52:24):
Well, first starting off on one hundred days. I start
off on the first thirty days. President Trump inherited a
southern border in which millions of literally millions of people
were crossing illegally, and along with that came drug trafficking
with Sentinel by the way, seventy four thousand roughly Americans
(52:44):
die anglely from drug overdose from CENTERL overdose. And within
thirty days that was shut down. He says, Okay, Mexicans,
if you don't control this, we're going to put a
twenty five percent tariff on you. Suddenly the President of
Mexico six the Mexican Army on the cars, starts breaking
up the migrant caravans. Now we are just the lowest
(53:05):
level of illegal immigration across that border in decades, and
the cartels are on the run with their fentanyl labs.
So I like to talk about the first thirty days
in which that promise to control the illegal immigration across
our southern border was controlled, and by the way, the
flow of fentanyl across that border greatly reduced, hopefully down
(53:27):
to zero. That's number one. Number two he is pushing
now for increased economic development. Last night, I was at
the White House with a group of about three or
four other Senators with a lot of business leaders, talking
about the investments they are making in our country. Five
point eight billion dollars by a Hyundai to build something
(53:48):
in what we call the river parishes of Louisiana, like
a seventeen billion dollar investment in Plaquemin's Parish in Louisiana
by Venture Global for LNGX sport. He didn't even mention
Woodside and Woodside's putting seventeen billion dollars in Louisiana for
another LNG export facility, but he did speak about other
(54:09):
states other projects with huge investment. That's more jobs, better
paying jobs for working Americans. That's in the first hundred days.
I am hoping we keep this pace up for the
next three and a half something years.
Speaker 2 (54:24):
Senator.
Speaker 1 (54:25):
The tariffs are getting a lot of attention for obvious
reasons all across the country. You might have seen Kamala
Harris last night, if you stayed awake for it, you
might have seen Kamala Harris talking about the greatest man
made economic disaster I think she said in modern history
and today the administration. Yeah, I mean no, we we
(54:48):
really did think of like this is the worst. She
thinks this is the worst man made economic disaster and
let's call it the last you know in the post
World War two era.
Speaker 2 (54:57):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (54:57):
Okay, But put aside Kamala Harris economist for a second
here the tariffs. What should people know about where you
think this is going? And is it right fundamentally for
Trump to take this approach specifically to China but also
more broadly to other countries that have tariffs against us?
Speaker 2 (55:18):
And why? I mean, I just want to hear your
thinking on the Trump tariffs.
Speaker 8 (55:22):
Well, first, to use tariffs initially with Mexico, as we spoke,
as a tool of foreign policy to get the Mexicans
to address the cartels and the caravans coming from Central America.
That worked. That was a pretty effective use of tariffs
as foreign policy. Secondly, trying to ensure equal market access.
And we've seen countries I think Cambodia was the first,
(55:45):
but Vietnam with whom we trade a heck of a lot.
Israel immediately coming forward saying we will drop our tariffs,
let's enter into negotiations. Now, the biggest problem is obviously China,
and frankly, we don't know how that's going to play.
There is a lot of stuff that comes from China
that we don't make in the United States. Now, the
(56:06):
Chinese terribly unfair trading partners, who will, if there is
an American competitor, slash the price of their goods below
their cost of production, put our folks out of business,
and then jack their price back up. So these tarifts
are trying to correct a lot. But China is a
huge economy. We are mutually we are dependent upon them,
(56:29):
they are dependent upon us, and so the President's going
to really have to do the art of the deal
to make that work. Well.
Speaker 1 (56:36):
Some news coming out today about Mike Waltz, the National
Security Advisor. What should happen there? What do you expect
to happen? I know this is an area you have
some knowledge and expertise of.
Speaker 8 (56:47):
Well, first, I think Mike Waltz, I think the guy
got three bronze stars. He's served in the Bush w administration.
He's been a congressman. This guy has served our country.
I don't know his reason for his departure, but he's
served that He started the pleasure of the president, and
if the President decided it'd be better to move in
a different direction, well that's why he Elections have consequences,
(57:11):
that's why he's the commander in chief. But I also
want to just acknowledge, Mike, anybody that has three bronze
stars in the Special Forces is pretty high up there
in my.
Speaker 2 (57:21):
Book, no doubt. Senator.
Speaker 1 (57:23):
We appreciate the time, happy to have you on anytime,
and look forward to you guys getting this big bill
passed through sometime by Memorial Day and getting the economy
really rolling.
Speaker 2 (57:32):
Thanks sir, Hey, thank you man.
Speaker 1 (57:34):
That is Senator Bill Cassidy from the great State of Louisiana.
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Welcome everybody to the Thursday edition of the Clay Travis
an Buck Sexton Show. We have a lot of news
to get to with you, but I will just first
hold up little James Speed Sexton making his radio debut,
and he's gonna get fussy, so I'm gonna give him
a mommy here. But you can see, honey, would you
come around and grab our beloved son here? If you
(00:20):
watch us on the video stream of playing Buck, you
will see.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
What he's Dante's doing.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
It's getting good intent you, honey, and you know Judy
plays him by the way. Super cute little guy. He
is coming up on is it three weeks old tomorrow?
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Is that right? Few weeks old?
Speaker 1 (00:37):
He's eight pounds in change, looking good, looking like he's
a blue eyed redhead from what we can tell so far.
So he's a We got a Ginger, which would be
kind of funny because that's the dog's name.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
But we definitely have a Ginger in the making.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
And in South Florida, you're gonna have to spend a
lot of money on sunscreen. Yes, like me, he will probably.
People always ask me how often you get to the beach.
I'm like, I cannot remember the last time I went
to the beach here, even though I live a mile away.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
We got big news. Let's get into it.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
You know, sometimes you gotta start the show with a
baby because it's fun and he's so cute and I.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Have to help babysit. So here we are.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
We've got let's see how the Stephen Miller press briefing
this morning was absolutely fantastic. Really impressed with what Stephen
Miller was doing. What he had to say, it was
excellent stuff. We'll give you some of the highlights of that. Also,
more on Abrego Garcia. There's more information. Fox News has additional,
(01:34):
let's say, background on this fellow that they have turned
into a cause for the Democrats, their new hero, Sir
Abrego Garcia. Something a little bit on the unfortunate side
of things. Mike Waltz is out as National Security Advisor,
so our first senior level departure from the Trump administration.
(01:55):
It lasted one hundred days. But Mike Wallace a couple
of I think one of his top aides already going
with him. There may be others as well. We can
discuss what happened there, but I think that there were
a number of issues that led to this change in personnel. Also,
Donald Trump last night called in on News Nation and
(02:17):
said Clay that he thinks Steven A. Smith should run
for president. That was an interesting side note.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
If Stephen A.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Smith is the Democrat nominee, I might have to run
for president as the Republican and just like slay him
in every debate. I mean, I'm just going to toss
that out there, because I can't let him be the
sports media guy running for president all by himself, right,
I mean, I think I would have to step up
and run against him. We've got all that more from
(02:45):
that Cuomo town hall with Trump, O'Reilly, some others, some
interesting interesting soundbites we want to share with you. On
all of that, Trump has addressed the investments going on
in America, which I also think we will spend some
time on. But let's start with this one. They said
(03:05):
they've done this thing now where they're having mourning press conference.
I think this makes so much sense. I'm surprised, actually
this hasn't been done sooner, This hasn't been the standard
for a longer period of time, because, yeah, this lets
them set the agenda. This lets them get out there
and tell everybody This is where the White House is
(03:26):
on this issue. They don't have to respond in the
same way to the morning news cycle of the opposition media.
They get to say, here's what we are focused on.
Oh we saw that report. Before you run another one,
we are telling you what actually happened, or before you
run another fake news piece. Here is the background. You
(03:48):
need to maybe print a correction or a retraction, whatever
it may be. But today's morning briefing was about common sense.
This is cut to Caroline leve At, the White House
Press Secretary, laying out the overview before she handed it
over to Steven Miller.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Plays.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Everything in President Trump's agenda is grounded in one thing,
common sense. While the Democrat Party went off the deep
end and doubled down on pure craziness, President Trump pledged
to restore common sense back to the United States of
America in a little more than three months. That's exactly
what he's done. He recognized that America is a sovereign
nation that cannot survive if it does not protect its
(04:24):
territorial borders. President knows his top responsibility is ensuring the
safety of the American people, which is why he's arresting
violent illegal alien invaders in our communities who threaten our
public safety. And it's unacceptable to President Trump to allow
rampant waste, fraud, and abuse of Americans precist tax dollars,
which is why the President championed a historic Doge effort
(04:45):
that saved nearly two hundred billion already. President Trump stood
up for the Constitution's promise of colorblind equality before the law.
So he terminated radical DEI preferencing and federal contracting and
directed federal agencies to relentlessly co that private sector discrimination.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Clay common sense is actually, if you have to find
one principle or one theme where Democrats are just on
perpetual defense and Republicans can continue to just stomp them
into oblivion, they lack common sense.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
It is I think.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
As we come out of one hundred days, one of
the clarion calls of the first hundred days has been
trying to come up with an argument that Democrats have
against what Trump has done. And if you notice, yesterday
I referred to it as sort of a drunken, flailing argument.
They can't keep the focus on anything. I'll give you
(05:43):
an example right here. As we sit one hundred and
two days out. Did you know Buck that stocks actually
ended up higher at the end of April than they
were at the beginning of April. That is, after all
that chaos where they said, oh my goodness, look at
where the stock market is, and we tried to say, hey,
stay calm, don't overreact, recognize that there is a plan
(06:07):
in place. If you bought the dip, you have now
made ten percent on the dip alone. And in the
past year, as I am looking at the S and
P five hundred, stocks are up twelve percent. On average,
stocks are going to be up eight or nine percent.
So in the last year you've actually done better than
(06:28):
you would over the historic average. And if you're saying, okay,
well what about clay compared to where they were in
January or February, Okay, they're down from January or February,
as stocks sometimes are, but they're almost identical to where
they were at the beginning of November last year. And
if seven months ago you didn't feel like you were
(06:49):
incredibly poor and your family finances were completely lost, then
you're basically the same place you were seven months ago.
Stock's ebb and flow. If you bought the dip, you've
actually made a lot more so they left behind the
stock market as it's come back up substantially buck and
they went to what they went to a Braille Garcia
(07:09):
and El salvadoran gang member that we now know has
multiple different reports in the state of Maryland, including one
where his girlfriend at the time I think now wife
said he's threatened to kill her and she needs protection
from the state and told her that he could kill
her and get away with it. Yes, which sounds like
(07:32):
something that a hardened gang member would say to me.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
I don't know many people that I.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Make that most people wouldn't know how to dispose of
a body and get away with a murder. But also
it is indicative I think of how desperate and deluded
the attempt to make him the front facing opposition to
the deportation crisis has been that you would pick a
guy who has this demonstrated record of violence. I don't
(07:59):
know what percentage of men do you think have threatened
to kill their wives and dispose of their bodies and
get away with it. I have maybe five percent to me, really,
you know, like it doesn't happen that often, and I
think probably there's women out there listening right now that
have been more likely to tell in a joking way
their husbands that they could kill them and distribute the
(08:20):
body and get away, like the number of men that
would have threatened their wives in a serious way that
would have made you fear for your life such that
you needed to go to the police and file a report,
letting everybody know, Hey, this guy's probably the person who's
gonna kill me. He's made this threat. I don't think
(08:40):
it's that common out there in husband wife relationships. And if,
by chance you are listening to me right now and
you have a husband that you are afraid might kill
you one day, I would suggest to you that's probably
not a healthy relationship and maybe you should be somewhere else,
or a boyfriend.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
For that matter.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
And I think this is just symptomatic of sort of
the drunken inconsistencies, jumping from one thing to another. I'm
not even sure what the opposition to Trump is. And
people say, okay, well, Trump's approval ratings after the first
one hundred days are not great. Well, what I would
say is, okay, tell me a Democrat who is within
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fifteen or twenty points nationwide that has anywhere near the
approval of Trump. People in general, I think just don't
like politicians. Right now, there's a generally speaking, an anti politician,
anti incumbent universe, and so I think the fact that
Trump is in that position right now is actually not
(09:43):
a sign of any incredible lack of strength from him.
I think it's just that Democrats haven't been able to
find any kind of opposition figure for him. And you
have Stephen Miller stepping in at this press conference, going
absolutely score sure earth and touching on a whole range
of issues. But this is one of my favorites because
(10:04):
these reporters, and this is true of Democrats so often,
these reporters pretend they care so much about Abrego Garcia
and his rights and everything else. But as Miller points out,
they don't want to live next to any suspected MS
thirteen illegal alien gang members. They want to go to
country clubs where nobody like this would even be allowed
to serve them food, right. They want to go to
places that are very exclusive. And yet here we are
(10:29):
watching them all pretend go through these motions like suddenly
they are all about the downtrodden and the downtrodden gang member.
Here's Steven Miller play three.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Each and every one of.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
You that sides over and over again with these MS
thirteen terrafts should extentt that you at the financial means
to do so, you all choose to live in condos
or homes or houses as far away from these kinds
of gang bangers as you possibly can have. I offered
any one of you a rent free home with no
taxes to pay in any of these gang neighborhoods. And
I saidighbors or mster ting terrorists or Mexican mafia or
(11:03):
Sinaloa cartel or trained Iragua.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
I couldn't pay you to live there. But yet you,
with your coverage.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
Are trying to force innocent Americans to have these people
as their neighbors, and that one day their daughter may
be abducted from their home and raped and murdered. So
you're not going to get an ounce of sympathy from
this administration or President Trump for the terrorists who've invaded
our homes in our country.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Play.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
It's true all these reporters, a lot of whom live
in you know, northern Virginia, right across the Potomac River.
You know, they live in condos in Balston or they
maybe have a place in Glover Park where they are
paying down the mortgage or whatever. They absolutely do not
want any gang members around them. It's somebody else's problem,
(11:45):
but they get to preen for the cameras. The number
of people who claim that walls don't work that live
in gated communities is off the charts. Oh yeah, I
mean just almost anybody who makes a significant living in
DC lives in to your point, northern Virginia where it's
comparatively safe, or southern Maryland in the Rock Creek area
(12:08):
that Montgomery County, right, or they live in super safe
parts of DC, often with security everywhere surrounding them. And
so it is the case that very often, and people
see through this, that the people who are having to
deal with day to day crime in their lives overwhelmingly
(12:29):
want more police insecurity. And then the people who have
absolutely no risk whatsoever in their day to day existence,
they somehow look at the people who want more police
insecurity and argue, oh, the police are too much of
a hindrance for you. Is the height Someone wrote this
and said this, and once you hear it or see it,
(12:50):
you cannot stop recognizing it. People on the left in
this country. They talk left and they live right.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Once you see it.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
They get married, they have nuclear families, they have houses
in very safe suburbs. They put their kids in private schools,
and then they lecture everyone else about how they it's
fine to make decisions that are not beneficial. Have as
many kids as a single parent as you want. Oh,
don't worry about your school districts. The amount of lecturing
(13:23):
from people who don't live the way they lecture you
you should be comfortable with people living is off the charts.
Everybody in left wing media talks left and they live
right in their actual lives.
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Or am I not supposed to announce it?
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haven't already tripped all over it and announcing it, well,
(17:00):
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And we did have Sean Parnell in our podcast network
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(17:24):
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Comms true, And we were like, that's okay, what's cool. We
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(17:46):
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(18:10):
that is coming Buck, I wanted to make sure we
hit this. National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, formerly the congressman
from Florida from the Daytona area right of Florida am
I read or Saint Augustine. He's been replaced now in
his congressional seat. But he is now out, and I
(18:31):
wanted to to make sure that we played that audio reportedly.
I don't think it's officially official yet, but this is
our friend Dana Perino announcing this on America's news Room
a little bit earlier today on Fox News.
Speaker 6 (18:47):
All right, there's a breaking news that happened in the
commercial break. So what you're looking at a photograph right
now of Michael Waltz. He is the President's National Security Advisor,
except for we just got news that he is going
to be leaving the administration along with his deputy, Alex Wong.
Of course, if you might remember the story of Signal Gate.
I don't know if that's a particular reason, but there
(19:09):
was some consternation among some people about Mike waalt So
you might remember as a congressman, green Beret, a long,
long history and career in foreign policy.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
All right, so Buck, you were formerly in the CIA.
I think a lot of people don't really understand candidly
all of the different Foreign Affair Advisor universe appointees. What
is this job and what is the significance of someone
new just after one hundred days in this job? From
(19:41):
your perspective, well, it always depends with each administration how
much sway the National Security Advisor can have for a
president and how important he is. Right, you have people
who are at that Kissinger level. The first for the
genesis of the the NSC system was back in nineteen
(20:03):
fifty three, who became the President's Special Assistant for National
Security Affairs. Right, So there's been a history of this
for a while, the NSC system and the National Security Advisor.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
That Robert Cutler, like I said, was the first one.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
This situation though, as I see Clay with Waltz, you
get a couple of things, and I'm not sure which
holds more sway right now which was the bigger factor,
But you get two things going on. One, you had
signal Gate, which I know we shouldn't call it a
gate because it wasn't really as big a deal as
they were making it sound.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Trust me.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
A few minutes before the Hoothy strikes happened, the Hoothies
were not about to be you know, hacking into this
chat and finding out where things were going and changing
it up. But nonetheless, you want to be careful about
your comms, and you want to have secure comms if
you're going to talk about things like that. But why
was Jeffrey Goldberg even this whole thing about who was
(20:59):
added to the chat? Well, what does that mean? I mean,
how would you add somebody that you don't know to
a chat? You would have to have their contact information? Okay,
So I think this is the It's one thing if like,
if I'm trying to text Clay and I'm making fun
of Jesse Kelly and Jesse, you know, for being too
(21:22):
tall or I don't know, maybe not having the most
luxurious man have haired these days, and I accidentally text
Jesse at the same time, thus blowing myself up in
the process. Both of those guys are in my phone,
So that could happen, right if I had never texted Jesse,
I had no contact with in my life, But somehow
he was on that text where I'm talking smack. Well,
(21:43):
that makes no sense, and it made no sense when
Mike Watz was saying that initially. So I think that
got a lot of people, you know, They're like, well,
is this because Jeffrey Goldberger it's.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Not just a reporter.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
He's a reporter who's written national security stories to destroy Trump,
to throw elections. I mean, he's he is as anti
Trump and the national security establishments you can be. So,
why is the national security advisor for Trump? You know,
in contact with him? That was the question that people
were looking at, right, Yes, yes, well I was just
going to say, to be fair, Trump just did an
interview with Jeffrey Goldberg, so.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Like and and.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
I will say the one thing about Trump that I
find endearing and also sometimes crazy. There are probably many
things that you can point put in that category, but
he legitimately believes that anybody who hates him he can
convince they should like him, and continues to do interviews
with people who truly hate him. Well, well, yes, Trump
likes to stick his head in the lion's mouth, so
(22:41):
to speak. There's no question about that, and even tweets
about that. But the Jeffrey Goldberg think if Mike Waltz
command said, yeah, look, I like to try to push
back on the false narratives, and so I will discuss
with certain journalists who are oppositioned to the Trump agenda
why they're wrong. You know, I would have said, okay, fine,
(23:01):
but he said, oh no, somebody else added this guy.
I didn't add him, but I would never talk to him.
And it just it didn't make sense. Man, there was
something weird. But look, maybe that was nothing, and maybe
that has nothing to do with it. That's one component
of this. And I'll say this. I mean Mike Wallace,
you know, is a patriot, a good guy. I like
Mike Waltz. I'm just trying to understand or trying to
(23:22):
surmise why he's no longer the National Security.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Advisor after one hundred days.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
And the other one, though, is I think maybe the
bigger issue, which is more of the policy dispute level,
and that is that Waltz and I know this from
interviewing him, is very hawkish on US support to Ukraine
and very hawkish on US strikes against Iran to my recollection,
(23:49):
And there is a ascendant faction within the Trump national
security world, including Secretary of Defense Hegseth, who are cautious
and limited in their support for Ukraine and would rather
see US avoid a military strike and possible entanglement against
(24:12):
Iran by going after the reactors or backing Israel too
much in a strike it may do. And that's those
are big issues. And when you see those very differently,
the friction, I think clay can be a problem for
the people making the national security decisions. So those are
the two things that I see. Do you see it
that way? And is there a third?
Speaker 2 (24:33):
No? I think you're right on that.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
I would also add in that there have been people
who have believed that Waltz was not sufficiently die hard Trump.
If you go back through his history, there have been
talks that in twenty sixteen he wasn't officially enough on
the Trump train. Now, the reason why I would I
think you have to just kind of put that out
(24:55):
there on the discussion point. The reason why I would
discount it is Trump has proven time and again that
once you are on board the Trump train with him,
he is not a grudge guy. But I do think
there are people in his administration that are grudge guys
and gals that will constantly kind of come back if
(25:17):
there's tension over a current situation and try to reinforce Well,
you know, back in twenty eighteen, he did say this,
or he did say this in twenty sixteen, and so
I would also point this out. Buck Trump does not
want to give the media anything that the media wants.
He didn't act right after the signal event. He won't
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give them Pete Hegseth's head on a platter, which is
what they seem to be demanding time after time after time.
I actually see this in some way as strengthening heg
Seth's hand, because there has been talk that these two
guys were at loggerheads at time. Over to your point,
what the response should be to Iran, And here's my look. Iran,
(26:05):
I think is going to be an issue for the
rest of all of our lives. I don't think miraculously
it's going to go back to nineteen seventy eight in Tehran,
when women could walk around in many skirts and heels,
and they were relatively as a Islam focused country, relatively modern.
I think at some point they are going to get
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a nuclear weapon, and when they get a nuclear weapon,
we're never going to be able to do anything to
them again. Because that's why they want the nuclear weapon,
because it strengthens them domestically, but also internationally. It sends
the message of if you come after us, we can
really obliterate you. It's why Kim Jong un wants it.
(26:48):
So I don't want war, but if there were a
way to ensure that Iran never got a nuclear weapon,
I think you have to listen to that argument, and
I'm skeptical that any sort of negotiation is going to
lead to Iran giving up that opportunity because the value
of having a nuclear weapon is so massive that if
I were Iranian and I were in some way involved
(27:11):
with the Iotola Komini, if we could make it the
Iotola Clay, Iotola Clay would want a nuclear weapon. And
we've talked about this with Ukraine Libya. You mentioned we
had this conversation a few weeks ago. Libya gave up
nuclear weapons. Kadafi was gone soon after Ukraine gave up
nuclear weapons. Russia has now invaded and taken away what
twenty percent of their overall territory. Kim Jong un wants them,
(27:35):
the Iotola wants them, because when you have nuclear weapons,
you basically create a situation where nobody can come and
try to overthrow you. And that's why I don't think
Iran is going to give this up. Whatever perspective you
want to adopt, attack or not attack, I don't think
Iran is going to give up through negotiation their capability
to get nuclear weapons. It doesn't make sense to me.
I think it doesn't make sense to them. I'm very
(27:56):
skeptical that any negotiation is going to lead to a
result like that. So these are these are obviously weighty issues,
and that is why a deep philosophical disagreement among people
I'm talking about in Trump's inner circle, not like between
the Democrats and the Republicans. That may be a part
of what led to the change up here that has
been reported with Mike Waltz's departure as National Security Advisor.
(28:22):
I don't think that this will do what a Pete
Hegseth forced resignation would have done, which is feed the
piranhas and just make them want more in the media.
I think that this is a little more inside baseball
to the Trump team and what they need.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
But I miss I. I wish Mike Waltz well, and I.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Think that Trump does too, and I'm sure he'll be
doing other other good stuff going forward. He gave up
that seat in Congress here in Florida, yeah, which is
now Randy Fines.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
So I hope Randy Fine does a good job.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
We'll see, and that's a tough position to be in
because as we can back, I mean three months in,
I presume he'll probably find a good job going forward.
But I imagine if he had known he was going
to be out in three months, I don't think he
would have given up that congressional seat. Look, we want
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Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton Show. Appreciate all
of you hanging out with us. We've talked some about
one hundred days of Trump, and I did think Buck
this was interesting. Harry Inton, I believe on CNN was
discussing something that I think is really important. So if
you're out there and you are a Trump voter, maybe
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you have people in your life that are not Trump voters,
and after one hundred days, they're coming around saying, hey,
do you regret your vote? Now we know your answer
is no, but they may try to say, well, if
you say no, I don't regret my vote at all.
That's the way that I would vote if I could today.
As well, they may follow up by saying, well, you
(31:11):
may feel that way, but lots of Trump voters definitely
wish they had voted a different way.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
This is an argument they try to make. Well.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
CNN has a poll at one hundred days of Trump.
Who do you think would be doing a better job
right now? Trump or Kamala? And interestingly, Trump has a
little bit bigger of a margin now than he did
over Kamala in the twenty twenty four election. Let's listen
to Harry Inton break it down.
Speaker 7 (31:37):
We asked the question our last CNN Paul, who'd be
doing a better job as president?
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Guess who comes out on top within the margin?
Speaker 8 (31:44):
Urper comes on top.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
This looks a lot.
Speaker 7 (31:45):
Like the election result, right Trump forty five percent, two
points ahead of Harris at forty three percent. It's not
just about regretting that vote, it's literally saying who would
be doing the better job right now? And Trump continues
to score a higher percentage of the vote and Kamala Harris.
This looks a heck of a lot like the election result.
We have just seen this in poll after poll after Paul.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
I do think that's significant, and it's what I was asking.
Anytime somebody says, oh, Trump's got low poll numbers, say okay,
what democrat poll's better? And there is no answer because
there is no Democrat that is more popular than Trump,
where As there were certainly a lot of Democrats, uh
and Republicans when we were talking about during the Biden
are era that would have polled higher. So again, I
(32:30):
think I think that's significant. Yeah, and I think I
think Democrats are running into the problem that exists between
criticism and complaining. Right, criticism in politics is they're not
doing a good job. Comma, we would do the following,
which would be so much better. Right, broadly speaking, this
(32:53):
is how, this is how I break it down. You know,
Trump's economy is floundering because of ex er wa we
would do this, and you need someone making that case
who can get the attention to be listened to. They're
just complaining. They're just sitting.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Around going everything's terrible. You go, wait a second.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
The border is certainly not terrible, and the economy is
not terrible either, despite what they're saying. So what exactly
is so awful? The deportation of illegal alien? Isn't it
an amazing abrego Garcia. No one denies that this guy
is in illegal so he should not be in America.
But I'm supposed to care so much that he's not
(33:33):
in America anymore? I don't care. I cannot be made
to care. I'm not going to weep over this. They
can weep and it won't change my mind. He's not
supposed to be here. He's not here, He's not my problem.
They just complain though, because they don't have an alternate
plan and they don't have a leadership to make the
case even if they did.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
And also, as the details continue to come out about
a Brao Garcia, what we told people over the last
couple of weeks that he was the worst front facing
individual that they could have picked to be the opposition
figure to the Trump deportation process. We just keep getting
proven right more and more. His wife said that he
(34:17):
threatened to kill her and said that he if he
did it, he would get away with it. She has,
i believe six different times, gone to Maryland authorities and
asked for protection from him. This is not a good dude.
This is not a dude who should have been here.
There is ample evidence that he was a gang member,
(34:39):
There is ample evidence that he was human trafficking. There
is ample evidence that he was beating and threatening to
kill his girlfriend then wife. This guy should not be
in the country, and the country is actually safer without him.
VIP email Bert loved the phrase talks left lives right.
(35:02):
I think I'll use it instead of libousine liberal. Look
once you see this. I was talking about this earlier
because Buck was pointing out the great take from Stephen
Miller calling out everyone in the press who was fine
with illegal violent predator immigrants in this country as long
(35:22):
as they weren't in their own neighborhoods in as long
as they didn't have to interact with them on a
regular basis, didn't have to deal with the threat or
the danger that they provide. This is left wing politics,
one oh one. It is in your own life. Make
decisions that people who are right leaning would make in general.
(35:44):
Get married before you have kids, move to the school
district where your kids could go to the best school,
or if that's not possible, potentially put them in private school.
Make decisions to live in very safe, often gated community
with private security in ample measure, and then simultaneously lecture
(36:07):
all of us and wag our fingers because we're asking
for more police support, or we're asking for more violent
predators to be removed from the country. You live in
a place where that threat is not a existential reality,
and yet you feel compelled to lecture us for trying
to make the world safer. I always think the biggest
(36:30):
law of BLM was actually and there were many, and
the saddest result of BLM was there thousands of young
black kids dead because of BLM because the police were
not allowed to do their jobs, and the murder rate
skyrocketed overwhelmingly the kids, and oftentimes sadly they were young kids,
(36:51):
teenagers getting killed, were getting killed because police were not
able to do their job. Buck, you were talking about
the job you had with the MIPD. I wanted to
give a shout out. I don't know if you've been
reading about this woman, but she's evidently doing incredible work
right now with the NYPD. Do you know Jessica Tish
at all? Yes, I k I knew jesse Tish when
I worked at the NYPD. She was a fellow analyst.
(37:12):
Then yeah, I think she was an intern at Fox
News back in the day. And now I read a
big profile of her recently. Now she is maniacally focused
on reducing crime in New York City and she is
having a tremendous amount of success. I believe she is
a part of a very wealthy family in New York City,
which is the Tish family. They own the Giants. I mean,
(37:34):
I know the family. I grew up with Ben Tisch,
so yeah, I'm familiar with these peeps. Kind of kind
of a cool thing to own an NFL franchise, among
among other things. But she has been I meant to
mention her when you were talking about working with the
NYPD earlier. She has been maniacally focused on trying to
make New York City safer and has been having a
(37:56):
lot of results. And you know what she's doing, locking
up bad guys, locking up bad guys, and giving the
New York Police Department the ability that they did not
have during the BLM era to focus on where crimes
are committed, shift resources there, and start to make things safer.
And I'm seeing a lot of positive results also happening
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nationwide now as Trump has back to the law and
order era prediction, I think we are going to see
in twenty twenty five a massive drop in violent crime
nationwide because police are being put back in a position
to police and keep our community safer. And the ironic
part of this, of course, is if Trump and the
(38:39):
federal level support for law and order is successful, enough,
it may give more cover for Democrats in blue states
or even some very blue cities to be more law
and order in their approach, you know, like they have
no choice or ei they're going to go along with it.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
It gives them the ability to do it.
Speaker 1 (39:01):
And that's what you would need, you know, if you
had somebody come along and turn around San Francisco. Let's say,
if you had a Democrat turn around San Francisco and
you had all that because the things of San Francisco,
just to be clear, they always say, oh, violent crime. Yeah,
it's not violent crime. It's property crime and quality of
life stuff there. Okay, it's like one giant homeless encampment.
(39:22):
It's not a nice situation. Clay was just there pretty recently.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (39:25):
And if you had somebody who cleaned that up and
had some government programs that actually seem to show some
promise for getting people off drugs, et cetera, et cetera,
whatever it may be, that's the kind of Democrat who
you could then run nationally and say, we're not insane,
vote for this guy, and then you ran through your
socialist left wing policies. Once you fooled the American people,
the problem they have right now is everybody who's already
(39:48):
in a Democrat position somewhere has a garbage record and
they're not you know, so they don't have a bench.
Which is why Kamal is still coming out and saying,
oh yeah, like I'm you know, a leader of Democrat party.
They don't have a successful Democrat running a major city
or a very a very blue stand not talking purple
because you know, you look at a place like Kentucky.
(40:10):
They got a Democrat governor, but because the people are
mostly red state voters, they won't allow things to get
as crazy. I think that you know that. The turnaround
at Clay it's such a shame. The turnaround to New York,
it's just waiting. I will always love New York City.
I will always love the Tri state area. It's where
I grew up. It's my home. I mean, I'm a
(40:31):
New Yorker in Florida in a lot of ways. Still
I always will be. And it would be so incredible
to turn around all you the Giuliani miracle, it's there,
like there's a template, right, there's a you could you
could even hire some of the people that were involved.
I'm sure you can hire Rooty Juliani as an advisor
if you would wanted to, if if you really were
trying to clean things up.
Speaker 2 (40:50):
But they just won't do it.
Speaker 1 (40:52):
They just although maybe in New York, the new the
new police commissioner jesse is going to do it, I
don't will see. I think Jessica Tish is having some success.
But to your point, it's just cyclical. You have awful crime,
and you decide we need to be tough on criminals.
And when you're tough on criminals, crimes gets lower. And
then when crime gets lower, leftists decide we're being too
(41:15):
tough on criminals. You start going easy on criminals. Crime
goes up again. It's just it's data. And one way
that I think would be really helpful if somebody wanted
to find a way to cut through some of this.
The the Democrat leadership approach on crime and the way
that they I think exploit things politically is they will say,
(41:38):
and I can speak to this in New York because
I know the crime data very well and I was
in that.
Speaker 2 (41:42):
System for a while and I grew up in that city.
Speaker 1 (41:45):
The Democrats will say, our law enforcement efforts are falling
short because or you know, there's a problem with them.
They're racist because we have we have been too aggressive
with members of the black and brown community in this
city and are policing. What really needs to be understood
is that the aggression is toward a very sort of speak,
(42:08):
it's sort of a very small subset of the overall
black and brown population of New York City who are
law abiding and who are the primary beneficiaries of lower
crime rates because they disproportionately live in the neighborhoods where
this bad stuff is happening. So you get the you
(42:28):
get the you know, the Kathi Hocals, or you get
the you know what's his name, Eric, Eric Eric Adams,
and you get these these politicians who are Democrats who
are like, Okay, we need to change our approach.
Speaker 2 (42:42):
We need to have no cash bail.
Speaker 1 (42:43):
They need to do these things because the system is
disproportionately hurting people who are black and brown. And the
real truth of it is that if you fix the
streets and make them safer, the primary beneficiaries are the
you know, ninety nine percent of black and brown New
Yorkers who are not committing violent crimes. Correct, This is
(43:07):
the This is the this is where you know, but
they just they kind of play to this narrative of oh,
the police are being racist.
Speaker 2 (43:14):
It's like, no, let the police make us all safe.
Speaker 1 (43:16):
They're gonna make people safer in the high crime neighborhoods.
I actually think, Buck, as we go to break here,
I'm gonna say something positive about San Francisco.
Speaker 2 (43:26):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (43:27):
First of all, it's a beautiful, unbelievable it's maybe the
most beautiful place in the in the United States. I
think they actually have a pretty good mayor. All of
a sudden, Daniel Lurie just started San Francisco mayor. I
think he's going to do a decent job. And there
is some shoots of optimism, some green shoots that are
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coming up as they return to some form of sanity.
I just wish they didn't have to make such awful
decisions in so many places in order order to make
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Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, Senator, appreciate you coming to
hang out on Clay and Buck today.
Speaker 2 (45:48):
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Speaker 8 (46:11):
Wow, welly, every time you use it? I mean, does
that you know benefit them financially? Are you just give
them some free free airtime?
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Mat you ask good questions. My understanding is they get
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Doctor.
Speaker 8 (47:08):
By the way, Michael Jordan once said, Republicans buy tennis
shoes as well, and so like, you know, whenever somebody says,
don't use my music, I'm thinking, hm, they must not
think that Republicans listen to music. I'm glad, exactly know.
Speaker 1 (47:20):
I think that that's I think that that is changing
a little bit now. At least people are more aware,
Senator that cutting out half of the country from their
possible audience or their possible consumer base is unwise, and
we pay attention and we remember. So yeah, everybody out there,
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Go listen to some lit because they love all of you,
They love all of us. All right, doctor Cassidy, Senator Cassidy,
let's talk about the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pension Committee.
So you're the first physician to sit on that. How
are we making America healthy again? How's that coming along?
I know RFK Junior is the one who's most talked
about it in that regard. But what are we doing
(48:01):
for Americans health? What are we doing to make people
you know healthier going forward?
Speaker 8 (48:07):
Well, one thing we tried to do yesterday was passibility
to keep Jewish students from getting arrassed and beat up
on campus. Some of my Democratic.
Speaker 2 (48:15):
Colleagues opposed it.
Speaker 8 (48:16):
Can you believe that we're trying to pass ability to
keep some kid from being rast when he's walking to
like biology class? And folks oppose that it'd be nice
to keep people healthy by keeping them from being chased
into a room and people pounding on the door. So
that may not be the normal definition to keep it
America healthy again, but not getting beat up f's my definition.
(48:38):
And that's what we worked on yesterday, and that's what
we'll complete sometime next week.
Speaker 1 (48:43):
Senator, you're down in Louisiana. One of the schools that
went viral for anti anti Israel protests was LSU. There
were a lot of Southern schools where the kids just said, yeah,
we're not going to stand up for this, and as
a result, SEC applications and for Clemson Florida State schools
such as those as well that had the same sort
(49:05):
of cultural response have skyrocketed.
Speaker 2 (49:08):
What does that say about.
Speaker 1 (49:10):
Let's give a little bit of positivity here the kids
going to school in Louisiana and their ability to see
right from wrong, even if maybe some of the kids
at Harvard and U C. L A And Colombia and
places like that can't.
Speaker 8 (49:22):
I can tell you some of these bastions of kind
of democratic strongholds may not appreciate the United States of America,
but my folks do. And a lot of those kids,
maybe maybe their parents didn't go to college. They are
getting the opportunity to take their lives to another level
because their parents sacrifice to send them to school, and
(49:44):
they're not about They're not about to feel guilty about
something happening around the world. It's being mischaracterized as somehow
an attack by the Israelis on others when October the
seventh was an attack upon the Israelis. You know, this
is not upside down day, and so I'm proud of
my people. My people love America and they are going
(50:04):
to support Jewish students when they realize that's supporting those
students and supporting American values.
Speaker 2 (50:10):
Sator Cassidy.
Speaker 1 (50:10):
And the last time we had you on was right
after the New Year's Eve terror attack in New Orleans,
and the FBI has been working on this case for months. Iraqi, sorry,
and authorities have apparently arrested somebody with an ISIS link.
Can you tell us just as a follow up to that,
because last time we talked to you about it, we're
talking about terrorism and Israel. We've got terrorism concerns here
(50:33):
at home. What do we know about the full scope
of what happened and who was involved in that New
Orleans terror attack.
Speaker 8 (50:39):
The FBI is still pretty confident this guy was a
lone actor. So we're learning details from the situation in Iraq.
And let's just you know, again, we need to as
Americans thank our friends around the world when they are
friends to us. And I am grateful to our friends
in Iraq who helped find this film and are sharing
(51:00):
information to find if there is a connection. Reading about
the fellow that did the New Year's Day terrorist attack,
he seemed kind of a lone wolf type of a person,
like you'd broken up, divorced, his wife, had very few friends,
that sort of thing. But if there is a connection there,
we'll find it out. We don't know yet, but I
want to point out that New Orleans and Louisiana and
(51:24):
our country did not let that terrorist or that terrorist
act win The Super Bowl shortly thereafter was a fantastic experience,
and so we don't yet know the complete ramifications. We
do know that our country, our state, my city responded
in an incredibly positive way.
Speaker 1 (51:41):
Donald Trump, president of the United States, just finished one
hundred days. He's going to be speaking in a place
that may not be particularly fond place for your constituents.
That is the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa tonight. I believe,
for those who don't know, LSU, Alabama big rivals, some
of the biggest rivals in all of college. But notwithstanding
(52:02):
him being in enemy territory from a football perspective, how
would you assess the first hundred days of the Trump
presidency and what do you think going forward Congress can do,
particularly the Senate, when it comes to passing this big,
beautiful bill that would help to enshrine the tax cuts
and ensure the American economy is on stronger footing. How
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would you break down where we're headed there?
Speaker 8 (52:24):
Well, first starting off on one hundred days. I start
off on the first thirty days. President Trump inherited a
southern border in which millions of literally millions of people
were crossing illegally, and along with that came drug trafficking
with Sentinel by the way, seventy four thousand roughly Americans
(52:44):
die anglely from drug overdose from CENTERL overdose. And within
thirty days that was shut down. He says, Okay, Mexicans,
if you don't control this, we're going to put a
twenty five percent tariff on you. Suddenly the President of
Mexico six the Mexican Army on the cars, starts breaking
up the migrant caravans. Now we are just the lowest
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level of illegal immigration across that border in decades, and
the cartels are on the run with their fentanyl labs.
So I like to talk about the first thirty days
in which that promise to control the illegal immigration across
our southern border was controlled, and by the way, the
flow of fentanyl across that border greatly reduced, hopefully down
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to zero. That's number one. Number two he is pushing
now for increased economic development. Last night, I was at
the White House with a group of about three or
four other Senators with a lot of business leaders, talking
about the investments they are making in our country. Five
point eight billion dollars by a Hyundai to build something
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in what we call the river parishes of Louisiana, like
a seventeen billion dollar investment in Plaquemin's Parish in Louisiana
by Venture Global for LNGX sport. He didn't even mention
Woodside and Woodside's putting seventeen billion dollars in Louisiana for
another LNG export facility, but he did speak about other
(54:09):
states other projects with huge investment. That's more jobs, better
paying jobs for working Americans. That's in the first hundred days.
I am hoping we keep this pace up for the
next three and a half something years.
Speaker 2 (54:24):
Senator.
Speaker 1 (54:25):
The tariffs are getting a lot of attention for obvious
reasons all across the country. You might have seen Kamala
Harris last night, if you stayed awake for it, you
might have seen Kamala Harris talking about the greatest man
made economic disaster I think she said in modern history
and today the administration. Yeah, I mean no, we we
(54:48):
really did think of like this is the worst. She
thinks this is the worst man made economic disaster and
let's call it the last you know in the post
World War two era.
Speaker 2 (54:57):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (54:57):
Okay, But put aside Kamala Harris economist for a second
here the tariffs. What should people know about where you
think this is going? And is it right fundamentally for
Trump to take this approach specifically to China but also
more broadly to other countries that have tariffs against us?
Speaker 2 (55:18):
And why? I mean, I just want to hear your
thinking on the Trump tariffs.
Speaker 8 (55:22):
Well, first, to use tariffs initially with Mexico, as we spoke,
as a tool of foreign policy to get the Mexicans
to address the cartels and the caravans coming from Central America.
That worked. That was a pretty effective use of tariffs
as foreign policy. Secondly, trying to ensure equal market access.
And we've seen countries I think Cambodia was the first,
(55:45):
but Vietnam with whom we trade a heck of a lot.
Israel immediately coming forward saying we will drop our tariffs,
let's enter into negotiations. Now, the biggest problem is obviously China,
and frankly, we don't know how that's going to play.
There is a lot of stuff that comes from China
that we don't make in the United States. Now, the
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Chinese terribly unfair trading partners, who will, if there is
an American competitor, slash the price of their goods below
their cost of production, put our folks out of business,
and then jack their price back up. So these tarifts
are trying to correct a lot. But China is a
huge economy. We are mutually we are dependent upon them,
(56:29):
they are dependent upon us, and so the President's going
to really have to do the art of the deal
to make that work. Well.
Speaker 1 (56:36):
Some news coming out today about Mike Waltz, the National
Security Advisor. What should happen there? What do you expect
to happen? I know this is an area you have
some knowledge and expertise of.
Speaker 8 (56:47):
Well, first, I think Mike Waltz, I think the guy
got three bronze stars. He's served in the Bush w administration.
He's been a congressman. This guy has served our country.
I don't know his reason for his departure, but he's
served that He started the pleasure of the president, and
if the President decided it'd be better to move in
a different direction, well that's why he Elections have consequences,
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that's why he's the commander in chief. But I also
want to just acknowledge, Mike, anybody that has three bronze
stars in the Special Forces is pretty high up there
in my.
Speaker 2 (57:21):
Book, no doubt. Senator.
Speaker 1 (57:23):
We appreciate the time, happy to have you on anytime,
and look forward to you guys getting this big bill
passed through sometime by Memorial Day and getting the economy
really rolling.
Speaker 2 (57:32):
Thanks sir, Hey, thank you man.
Speaker 1 (57:34):
That is Senator Bill Cassidy from the great State of Louisiana.
You heard us talking about the impact of anti Semitic
protests on so many different college campuses out there and
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