September 24, 2025 • 59 mins
Assassination Trends
A sniper attack at a Dallas ICE facility, which prompts Clay and Buck into a deep dive on the rise of left-wing political violence and domestic terrorism. The shooter reportedly engraved anti-ICE messages on bullets, echoing previous politically motivated assassinations, including the killing of Charlie Kirk and United Healthcare’s CEO, Brian Thompson. Buck Sexton, drawing on his counterterrorism background, categorizes the incident as ideologically driven terrorism, criticizing mainstream media outlets like CNN for downplaying motives when violence originates from the political left.
The hosts explore the broader implications of anti-law enforcement rhetoric, citing statements from California Governor Gavin Newsom and Senator Ted Cruz. Cruz calls for an end to inflammatory language targeting ICE and CBP agents, warning of real-world consequences. The discussion also highlights how political figures and media narratives may be fueling radicalization by portraying conservatives and law enforcement as fascists.
OH Rep. Jim Jordan
A conversation with Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan. A deep dive into Big Tech censorship, as Jordan discusses YouTube’s recent admission of suppressing conservative voices, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic. The hosts and Jordan explore the First Amendment implications, the lack of accountability, and the financial damage inflicted on independent creators and media outlets. Jordan highlights pending legislation that would allow individuals to sue government officials who pressure platforms to censor speech, reinforcing the need for free speech protections in the digital age.
The discussion shifts to the Let Experienced Pilots Fly Act, a bipartisan effort to address airline staffing shortages and reduce flight delays. Buck and Clay advocate for keeping skilled pilots in the air, citing safety, efficiency, and passenger satisfaction. Congressman Jordan supports the initiative and recommends engaging Transportation Committee Chairman Sam Graves for further insight.
Next, the conversation turns to the Score Act, a bill aimed at reforming college athletics. Jordan outlines its goals: promoting competitive balance, protecting non-revenue and Olympic sports, and ensuring athletes pursue education. The bill seeks to preserve Division I standards and address concerns over frequent transfers and lost academic opportunities.
Buck Going to Taiwan
In a geopolitical pivot, Buck announces his upcoming fact-finding trip to Taiwan, where he’ll meet with senior officials to discuss national security, semiconductor production, and the growing threat from China. He emphasizes Taiwan’s strategic importance, noting that it produces 90% of the world’s advanced semiconductors, making it a critical flashpoint in global politics.
FL Sen. Rick Scott
Clay and Buck explore the broader implications of left-wing political violence, tying it to inflammatory rhetoric from Democratic leaders. Vice President JD Vance’s powerful comments condemning the demonization of law enforcement is played and endorsed, followed by a passionate response from Senator Rick Scott of Florida, who calls for national support of law enforcement and criticizes Democrats for fostering hostility toward officers.
Senator Scott also addresses the looming government shutdown, blaming Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer for obstructing budget negotiations. He supports Senator Ron Johnson’s proposal to maintain government operations using previous funding levels, arguing it’s better than halting essential services. Scott also updates listeners on the confirmation process for Trump administration nominees, revealing that Democrats are systematically blocking appointments, forcing Republicans to change Senate rules to push through over 100 nominees.
Clay and Buck ask Senator Scott about the Jimmy Kimmel controversy, with the guys analyzing Nexstar and Sinclair’s decision to pull the show from local affiliates. Senator Scott calls Kimmel “toxic” and praises networks for making business decisions that reflect audience values. The hosts argue for a return to balanced late-night comedy, suggesting that shows like Colbert and Kimmel have become vehicles for Democrat propaganda rather than genuine humor. They propose relocating late-night programming to cities like Nashville to escape the ideological echo chambers of New York and LA.
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Episode Transcript
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome man that we are here Wednesday edition of the program.
A lot of stories to discuss with all of you.
Congressman Jim Jordan gonna be with us at one point
thirty to talk about Google admitting that YouTube canceled. Conservatives Sorry,
He's gonna be with us at one here in about
an hour, and then in the third hour we're going
(00:21):
to be joined by Florida's Senator Rick Scott to talk
about the latest on the budget battle on Capitol Hill.
Shutdown or no shutdown. Buck and I have told you
for years that this is probably the story that always
ends with the government being funded and yet turns into
a multi day, multi week drama filled. Oh my goodness,
(00:44):
what's going to happen? Spoiler alert. They're all going to
spend a lot more of your money. This is how
it's going to win. But people will get fired up
and we will discuss that. But unfortunately, breaking news in
the last hour and a half or so, a shooting
has taken place at a Dallas ice facility. A sniper
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on a roof who has engraved anti ice messages on
his bullets. Not dissimilar to what happened with Luigi Mangioni
left wing shooter who assassinated the United Healthcare CEO, not
dissimilar to the person who killed Charlie Kirk in an
act of cold blooded political assassination. This has become quite
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the left wing trend. If you want to know what
the motivation is, all you have to do is actually
check the bullets and let's go to the latest news
announcements on that, which begins.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
I believe with cut one maybe most of all, I
want to think to people who don't.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Support well, that's nice. We'll get to Jimmy Kimmel in
a little bit. But the top of the list here
for the shooting that just took place, this is going
to be if I need to pull up the exact number,
right off the top of the of the list. Cut
to FBI Special Agent in Charge Joe Rothrock is telling
(02:17):
us just what happened in Dallas.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
I can confirm at this time that the FBI is
investigating this incident as an act of targeted violence. It is, unfortunately,
just the most recent example we've seen of targeted violence
to include here in North Texas. We're back on July fourth,
we saw a coordinate attack carried out against an immigration
detention center in Albado, Texas. What I can also share
(02:40):
with you is it early evidence that we've seen from
rounds that were found near the suspected shooter contain messages
that are anti.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Ice in nature.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Again, this is just the most recent example of this
type of attack.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Okay, so Buck, this is direct result of hetic we've
been hearing for some time.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
This is left wing terrorism. This is anti Republican, anti Trump,
anti rule of law terrorism. I don't know why there's
a hesitation to say this, Maybe because I think I
would still qualify as a terrorism expert. I feel like
I can just say this. I used to argue with
with people about this when it was in the old
(03:22):
Jihadis days. We had all this jihatas terrorism happening, and
as we know, there'd be very clear, very clear motivation,
and they would always say, we'll never know the real motives.
We now targeted violence. Yeah, just it's terrorism. If you
want to say suspected terrorism, fine, you know, in the
in the opening hours after incident like this, but this
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was targeting a government facility with anti government messages written
on the bullets. And as we know, this was also
the case with the Charlie kirk assassin. And there's a
very clear pattern that is emerging here everybody. First of all,
these terrorists, the Charlie kirkissas was a terrorist. This individual
who took his life, we don't know much more about
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him than that also engaged in an act of terrorism. Remember, Clay,
you're an insurrectionist terrorist according to Democrats, if you non
violently entered the Capitol building on video for sixty seconds
with police officers waving you in and with people walking
and respecting the velvet ropes and statuary hall. I'm not
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saying everybody was in that category. There are some people
that scuffled with cops, but there were a lot of
people who just walked into the building and were treated
like terrorists. We now have people who are murdering people
at government facilities because they are angry with government policy.
This is textbook definition political violence terrorism. And they feel
the need, these terrorists now to write their beliefs on
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the bullets because I think they want everyone to know.
I think they are worried, and I mean this, I
know this sounds crazy. I think they are worried that
CNN is going to say we may never know the motive.
We may never know the motive of this guy. This
isn't about left or right. This isn't this guy is
like no ices fascism. Here's why I'm doing this. I'm
(05:13):
a maniac because I listen to what the New York
Times and cnnsay every day that. Let me ask you,
I think he wants to make it explicit. You are
more knowledgeable and weaponry than me.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
This whole engraving messages on bullets thing, it obviously is
becoming a trend. I think to your point, the reason
is becoming a trend is because these left wingers have
heard left wing media say every time a left winger
does something.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
We may never know the reason that he did this.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Right, anytime somebody has a connection to the right or Trump,
instantaneously it's well, this is what happens in Trump's America.
Anytime somebody engages in left wing political violence terrorism, as
you just said, the media response to the media is, well,
you know, there's a lot of conflicting stories here. We
may never know the motives. So they're saying, here is motive,
but how weird is it to engrave bullets? Is this
(06:03):
easy to do? Is this common? What have you seen
in your like sort of gun background.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
It's yeah, I mean it's not It's not hard to
do at all. It's odd. But is this a popular trend?
I mean, like I just I have. I mean, if
you're asking, I have fired tens of thousands of rounds
in my life. I have never seen or done this
bullet engraving in my life. Now, this is not a
This is not a thing that people generally do for fun.
(06:28):
I mean, think about it. It makes if you're going to range,
it makes no sense. Why would you do this?
Speaker 1 (06:32):
That was my general idea. But you're more more knowledgeable
and weaponry than me. But it has become a left
wing trend with luigim ANDNGIONI.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
With now this shooter of Charlie Kirkin Allen, I think
we've stumbled on for everybody here and this will now
reverberate through the broader ecosystem, and I hope that it does.
I hope people on the right understand this. They are
writing their motives on the bullets because the terrorists want
everyone to know, and they're sick of CNN, for political reasons,
pretending that we may never know what the motive is.
(07:02):
I think that's right. This is absolutely what is going
on here. You know, this is the This is like
somebody leaving a suicide note because they want to, you know,
have their say or they want to tell people why.
In this case, this guy committed it was a murder
suicide and it just couldn't be more clear to me
that that's what's going on here. And I'm sorry, but
I also have to point out that this person who
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did this, and there are people who are dead. I mean,
this is there are two people who have been murdered
by this maniac. Their families are getting the worst news
imaginable today. Those families are shattered. They have to deal
with this. You know, we don't know much of the
details of either the victims or the shooter yet. But Clay,
you had Gavin Newsom, who is currently I think the
(07:44):
de facto leader of the Democrat Party. I mean, people
could argue that, but I think that's a fair assessment,
talking about how it's fascism for members of ICE to
have their identities protected while they're doing their completely lawful jobs,
because he wants them to be able to be docs
by Antifa, and he wants their families to get death threats,
so he is sending a signal to everybody. The governor
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of California are largest state. The people who are doing
the work of immigrations and customs enforcement are fair game
for all kinds of things, and some people take it
to this extreme. It's certainly, by the way, fair game
to be having this like obstruction and gathering at these
facilities and shouting epithets at them. These are law enforcement officers.
(08:27):
Gavin Newsom should be a shamed He's incapable of shame.
But this is what's going on.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Cashptel, by the way, has posted photos of the ammunition
ammunition rounds already on social media showing that I mean legitimately.
Now it looks like it's written in a pen, maybe
not an engraver, but anti ICE is written on the
on the rounds and again.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Something yeah ahead, go ahead. I'm gonna.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Ted because Ted Cruz is also our friend from senator
from Texas saying this, this is cut one.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
This must stop.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
To every politician who is using rhetoric demonizing ICE and
demonizing CBP, stop to every politician demanding that ICE agents
be doxed and calling for people to go after their families.
Stop this has very real consequences. Look, in America, we disagree.
That's fine, that's the democratic process. But your political opponents
(09:32):
are not Nazis. We need to learn to work together
without demonizing each other, without attacking each other. And I
want to say thank you. I want to say thank
you to the brave men and women at law enforcement.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Okay, I mean everything he says, Everything Senator Cruz says
is correct, it needs to be said. It will have
no impact. They're not going to stop. I'm not saying
he shouldn't say, it needs to be said, but they're
not going to stop. And that's what we need to
recognize here because this is is the resistance. Now, this
is the center of Democrat opposition to Trump, to Maga,
to all of it, and Clay to the point I
(10:08):
was making, and I know you're on board for this,
because I think we just assessed this very straight in
a very straightforward way. The terrorists, and they are terrorists,
are writing their motives on their bullets so that CNN
can have a spin room thing of like, well, we
may never know. And obviously they need to do things
like that because look at Jimmy Kimmel. Jimmy Kimmel goes
on the air and says that it was one of
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the Maga gang who killed Charlie kirk Er. It was
one of their people or whatever it is that he said.
So it's not strange at all that these terrorists are
making it. Even when they make it explicit, there are
people who are going to be saying, oh, this isn't
for the purpose that you are engaged in this terrorism.
So I think they want to make it completely inescapably obvious.
(10:51):
I think that's one hundred percent true. I also think.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
At some point in time, and we've been talking about
this on this show for a long time. We even
mentioned yesterday on The Atlantic, there's going to have to
be a real discussion, and I think it's going to
have to come from the left of the fact that
there are a lot of people that have been told
for a decade that we're all Nazis. Just almost everybody
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listening to this program right now, that we're Nazi stormtroopers,
and that our lives are as a result, not worthy
of protection and in fact are worthy of being taken.
And all of these people believe this is important. I
think too, they think they're heroes, like they think they
are the good guys that are standing up to evil
(11:41):
because their politicians have convinced them of it.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
You've brought up that it's kind of intentionally surreal or
absurd Baby Hitler analogy right, which people talk about and
especially online. We don't even have to make it absurd.
We could bring it into the present day if it
were in fact true. And to be very clear, it
is not right. We all know that, yes, if it
were in fact true that immigrations and customs enforcement were
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making people quote disappear off the streets, never to be
seen again again, explicitly a lie. This is not true.
But if that were true, would it be morally justified
to take up arms against them? Well, before we even
have to pose an answer to the hypothetical, we see
what maniacs are doing. We see that people believe they
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have a right to obstruct these law enforcement officers physically,
to threaten their families, and in this case, to open
fire on a government facility. How many ice facilities were
under fire during all four years of Biden? Did it
ever happen? I don't you know. Within a rifle like this,
I'm not aware of it. And people are starting to
see I think Morclay as well that and this is
(12:52):
why I appreciate what Ted Cruz is saying. But this
is now the whole game for the left of the
Democrats is hysteria. They can't climb down from this because
to climb down from saying that ice are fascists is
to admit that they were lying, and to admit that
they are lying is to further limit their political power.
And you know, this just becomes zero sum for them.
(13:14):
So we're in a very dangerous moment here as a country,
and they're just making it worse every single day.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Amen, we'll take some of your reactions, and certainly as
we continue the show, Jim Jordan going to join us
top of the next hour. Senator Rick Scott, I do
think Jim Jordan's discussion we're going to have is important
because what we can only do to combat this is
call it out. And in order to call it out,
you have to have free and fair access to many
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of the platforms that everybody uses, and we didn't have
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the time, sir. Thank you to be with you. Be
good to be with you. Guys.
Speaker 6 (15:35):
Let's have you hit one hundred. Have you hit one hundred.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
It's been raining. It's been raining a lot of Miami,
so the courts have been wet. But it's happened in Congressman,
I'm telling you this right now. You're reminding me that
a deal is a deal, a bet is a bet.
I'm gonna get out there, Laura Travis very excited for
me to cross that one hundred mile per hour mark.
I'm only get ninety seven, so it's really quite a
leap to get there. But I'm going to get there,
and I promise you, Congress and you will be among
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the first to know it's going to happen this calendar year.
Now that good to hear.
Speaker 6 (16:09):
Thank you, Thank you the video you said, by the way,
I was impressed it was. I mean, I don't I
like watching sports. I'm not a tennis player, but I
was impressed. Good for me, you hit the ball. I mean,
I did think you'd hit it that close to one hundred,
but it was pretty impressive.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
So I think, hey, I appreciate that. You know, I'm
a middle aged guy and I can pretty much crank
that serve at ninety seven miles an hour, I said Clay.
I told Clay one hundred initially, So it's not like
I was way off. All these people are saying sixty
in the replies. These people are nuts. They need to
get a speed gun, all right. So so since we've
got that out there, thank you for the reminder though,
because that is going to happen. I'm in Taiwan next week,
(16:42):
so not a lot of tennis. Oh I just kind
of let that slip, didn't I But not a lot
of tennis going there, but I will be doing it
when I get back here to lovely Miami Beach. Okay, YouTube,
YouTube YouTube, let's take a look here. Here's where I
am on this. And maybe you're talking to the to
the more cynical of the duo, as you may know, Congress,
as you as you do know. Okay YouTube admits what
(17:04):
we've known from the beginning. They censored, and they've been
censoring terribly. So what does anything happen because of us?
What's the action item? The information is important. I think
people need to know. It's sure, but what.
Speaker 6 (17:15):
Happens, well, they put it in writing, so if in
the it's in the future they go back on their word,
then there's you know, you can't lie to Congress. There's
eighteen USC one, one thousand and one, So there's there's
going forward. I think there's that second. They are reinstating
people who they took their channel with people, I mean
there was there was big names like Dan Bongino. He
gets his you know, he gets his channel back, he
gets he gets to go back. I think more importantly
(17:37):
it's the thousands of people that they that they cut
off will get to come back to. So, uh, that's helpful.
But you're right, you know what what happened to him
in this. I mean some of this is four or
five years uh, you know, because it goes back to
the COVID and people speaking out against all the false
things that the government told us. And when you spoke
out against it, you got censured, you get you lost
your you lost your uh your channel on YouTube. So
the yeah, that's tough, but you know, I look at
(17:59):
the glass half half full. Going forward. People are being reinstated,
they've admitted to it, they've they've said they will never
use fact checkers like some of these other platforms did,
because we all know, you know, these fact checkers were
Leski's who's you know, labeled all kinds of things misinformation,
disinformation and censored people. So I think all that's positive,
but I get what you're saying. All we can do, though,
is the best we can and as we're as we're moving.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Forward, Jim, I appreciate you coming on with us, and
I appreciate you calling out Buck because I've forgotten. And
it is interesting how the rain has been coming down
and disallowed of its.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Very rainy season hurricanes. Excuse me, very tough for the
outdoor courts here. But you may you may proceed Clay,
we were banned, OutKick was banned. You had me your
credit to come testify. I think back in February or
March of twenty one, they made me wear a mask.
I think it's like the only time I ever wore
a mask, even to testify at the hearing that was
(18:52):
at the absolute apex of we're going to restrict speech.
So you've been fighting these battles for a long time.
I think you deserve a lot of credit with that
in mind. One of the things that buck and I
are super frustrated by is there basically are no consequences.
And I'm curious what you think here.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
When YouTube banned us, when they gave us strikes, when
they took us down, when they didn't allow our videos
to circulate, it had very real financial consequences for a
company that I owned at the time, OutKick now Fox owns.
But they're as Bucket's pointing out, there are a lot
of people out there that are just trying to make
two three four grand a month off YouTube and that
(19:30):
is a huge part of their ability to fund what
they're doing, and saying shouldn't there be some sort of consequences,
shouldn't Google slash YouTube have to make some sort of
I'm just tossing this out there.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Huge payment to fund free speech.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
So that they could actually be sued by lawyers actually
committed to free speech, not what the ACL you used
to do, Like what organization, what way are their consequences,
because it seems pretty convenient for YouTube now to say, oh, yeah,
we did this. We wouldn't allow this in a court
of law. By and large, when you admit wrongdoing, usually
there is a consequence for the wrongdoing. Here there seems
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to be nine.
Speaker 6 (20:10):
Yeah, And we're working on We have legislation. Harrot Hageman,
a wonderful member from Whales, all on our committee, and
she's got a bill that says if the government, you
can go after the government if they're pressuring people to
censor you. You know, that's that's you know, classic violation
of First Amendments. So we're looking at that like individuals
in the government, like you'd have a private right of action.
So we're looking at that legislation we passed this last
(20:32):
Congress out of committee. We're looking to bring that back.
But it is tough to go after. I mean, maybe
you can get a class together and see if it
works and say, you know, these people were all kicked off,
they were all lost, you know, such and such revenue.
This is their damage. You might be able to do that,
but I think that's again, I think it's tough, and
so what we're trying to focus on is, look, they've
(20:52):
admitted to what they did. They admitted that it came
from the Biden administration, they cave to it. They did this.
It's not going to happen. Very similar frankly to the
letter Mark Zuckerbert sentis last August where he said the
same thing. Biden administration pressure is the censure.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
We did it.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
We're sorry, we're going to stop. And to his credit,
they've actually changed policy there that use the community notes
approach to posts that are put on their site or
on their platform, just like Elon does at X. So
again I look at the positive, but I get it.
You know it happened to you directly. I was shadow Band.
There was four of US members shadow Band back in
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twenty eighteen by Twitter, before Elon had purchased that company.
So I know it's tough, but we've got to move
forward and look at the bright sid.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
I think Congressman something that as I mentioned I'm gonna
be traveling a lot next week and the weeks after,
and Clay and I are actually gonna doing a bunch
of events. So flying is on my mind. And I've
seen some reporting again, because I think the most frustrating
thing is when it's crystal clear skies. Everything's fine, everyone's there,
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we got there, we got through TSA, we did the
whole they did the whole thing, and then we're told
there's no crew there. Sorry, you don't have people to
actually do the plane flying thing. You know, there's this
let pilots, let experienced pilots fly bill that's been kicking
around like Cruise as a sponsor Marshall Blackburn Center sponsor,
(22:17):
as a sponsor on the Senate side, is this actually
something you guys on the House side are looking at
doing too, because this is one of those things where
we could get some of the best pilots. We have
to keep flying, which means everybody's one in safe hands.
Two the newer pilots get better instruction, and three we
have to wait less at the gate for a couple
of hours at a time. Can you guys get this done?
Where is this?
Speaker 6 (22:37):
I'm all for it. I'm not on the Transportation Committee.
But I'm all for it. I travel, like the last
three weekends, I've been in Vegas and Sacramento one weekend,
Dallas the next weekend. Last week, and I went from
North Carolina to North Dakota. So I mean, I'm just
like you. We fly all the time, and you want
the best pilots, and you want it to be on
time and not have to I mean the delays when
it's backed up and you can't even use land and
(22:59):
you can't even get to a game because the gates
are off, well, I mean they're just on and on
and on. So it's frustrating. Yeah, and the to the
to the extent that you know, allowing good pilots to
stick around and continue to operate, I think that's great.
In fact, I had a pilot talk to me at
a fundraising. I forget what state we were in, but
he talked to me about this very bill, and I said, yeah,
this makes sense. I hope we hope we do.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Get who on the Transportation Committee you think, I mean,
who can we have on to talk about this?
Speaker 6 (23:22):
Damn Graves to have the chairman, Chairman Graves, good Man,
He's shared that committee for a number of years have
him on and he can he can tell you in.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Clay, I'm telling you, yeah, I know you're a big
Southwest fan. We get this thing through and you're gonna
thank me because your delays are going to drop. And
by the way, the older pilots are all the Clay
and buck listeners too, They're the ones that are all
about this show.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
My I fly Southwest everywhere. You know, I'm not a bragger.
I don't like to draw attention to myself, as everyone
well knows. I have two million Southwest Airlines points, That's how.
And and on my last Southwest Airlines flight from New
York City to Nashville, I don't think I said this
on the air. The pilots wanted to come out and
shake hands. They're like love the shows. Like I was
(24:04):
posing for photos with the flight attendants. So I've got
a lot of awesome people at Southwest and I enjoy
meeting everybody there. Congressman, what is the latest? You were
working hard and I don't know the absolute latest, but
the score act. I know there are a lot of
people out there that are big college football fans, college
sports fans in general. We're in the midst of the
fall football season. What's the latest there? What can you
(24:26):
tell us.
Speaker 6 (24:27):
We're working on getting some Democrats to vote for it.
We have some great supporters out there who want to
you know, looking at some changes. You know, we got
Cody Campbell, great guy with a big, big booster Texas Tech,
talking about some things that he thinks can happen, particularly
I think maybe better suited for the Senate, but we're
looking at those as well. The bill is through committee.
(24:47):
We do have some Democrats support for it. I think
there's strong support for it. To use your lingo play with,
you know, people in the Southeast Conference part of the
country and the Big ten part of the country. So
we'll we'll see. But we do want to get this
done and we continue to work on it. We think
it's a darn good start, uh to help with you know,
(25:09):
I when we started this process, I said, I think
there are three things we want to focus on. We
want we want real competition. Want some parody. You don't
want just the same teams winning all the time, as
much as I'd like to see the Badgers and the
buck guys, you know always at the top. You want
you want some parody. Uh. You you don't want to
diminish opportunity for athletes. Uh, the USOC is very concerned
(25:29):
about what happens to the so called non revenue sports,
the Olympic sports and women's sports, and so we're trying
to see how we can be helpful there. And part
of the thing in the bill is we we don't
want any school to drop the sports at state Division one,
you got to have sixteen. We kept that in the
we put that in the bill. And then finally, I
do think we at some point got to remember it's
(25:49):
supposed to be about getting an education. You got some
of these athletes in football and basketball who transfer, you know,
six times in five years and and and never get
a degree. I don't think that's helpful to the system
or to to that individual. So we're trying to have
those overall objectives in mind when we put this legislation together.
So we're not quite there yet.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
What should happen with Jimmy Kimmel.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
We're going to talk about this, I think at some
point during the course of the show. But you know,
with the YouTube we started off the show by saying,
and I think it's really important, Jimmy Kimmel is a
small pinprick of the importance of what Google and YouTube
were doing. Any comedian would be relative to the policies
those companies come in place, and Next Star and Sinclair
are still not caring. Meaning I'm not sure where your
(26:34):
affiliate station is, Jim, but I know here in Nashville,
I couldn't watch last night if I wanted to. They
have news on I'm a Next Star affiliate here in
the ABC Nashville market. What in your mind is the
right solution here? If you were the magic wand guy
and you got to analyze this.
Speaker 6 (26:51):
Well, I looked at this the way you've always described
to Claiy. I looked at this as Republicans by sneakers too.
Republicans watch late night TV two And I think Next
Star and Sinclair just said, you know, our our, our,
we we just don't think it's appropriate that you know,
excuse me, if your late night talk show hosts, you
should you should not do two things. You shouldn't tick
off half the potential audience and you and and you
(27:11):
should be funny. And it seems like Jimmy Kimmel was
failing on both of those those two things. So I
think I think Next tarn and uh Next Star and
Uh Sinclair said, we just like something different. Frankly, so
I think this is a business decision largely, and you
know it couldn't just be the government censoring because ABC
or Disney putting back on. Yeah, I did. I think
(27:33):
I looked at it all throughout this whole thing, and
I understand what what Commissioner Carr said, but I looked
at it largely as this was a business deal. Next
Star came Forard and said no, we want we want
something different, and you can't blame him for that because
I think I think they're losing money on the show
ABC is. I didn't really thought he was really that funny.
Was all just we know, it was all just attacking
(27:54):
Trump all the time, and and half the country doesn't
doesn't particularly care for that. So that's how I've versus
government government doing what they did in all these areas
where we have emails from the Biden administration saying take
down this tweet asap. And it was a tweet from
RFK Junior when he was running for president against Joe Biden,
for goodness sake, So that's as bad as it gets,
(28:15):
it said, the Biden administration set up the disinformation governance
for most Oldwellian thing in history. Oh yeah, bunch of bureaucrats,
tell you what you can say.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Nia Jenkowits, I haven't forgotten her name.
Speaker 6 (28:25):
Totally, totally. So so that's a that's a completely different
animal than next to our saying we don't think our
audience really likes this show. We just assumed be something else.
That's a business called my mind.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Totally agree, Congress and Jim Jordan will have you back
and there will be video of one hundred mile an
hour service. It will happen. I will not be doing
it's thank you, sir, Thank you, all right, thank you guys.
Speaking of speaking of serving up one hundred miles an
I'm glad we were reminded of this important, this important
milestone that middle aged buck is going to hit one way,
one way or another.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
And I like that you're now calling yourself middle age.
This happened out of nowhere. You used to be like,
I'm a youthful guy, and now like the middle aged
Like I'll tell you to be able to get out
of bed in the morning.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
I'm I'm gonna let you a little secret. And now
this probably isn't unique to tennis, but I think it's
more common in tennis. Everyone who plays tennis, I don't
you all know those those who play on a regular basis,
you know, play some USTA matches, or play the club
championship or the you know, local ladder in their neighborhood
or whatever. They're always like, oh, I haven't played so long.
(29:36):
Oh my shoulder has been really awful. Like every time
you talk to somebody you're about to play tennis with,
it's Oh, my achilles has been so tight. I haven't
had surgery on it yet, but I'm really you know,
plub andy blah. It's all a big psychout game. So yeah,
of course I'm playing up the middle aged thing now
clay technically true, so I'm milking it for all that
it's worth. But middle aged buck is going to get
(29:56):
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more mph on my surf or been the last time
out there, I did get a better system. But you
know what part of my system is chalk, friends, Because
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And Chalk is like in the corner there, urging me on,
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I don't want to end up like one of these
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to brag about being good at.
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Buck podcast. Let's take a look at what is going
on with mister Gavin Newsom for a second, shall we?
Speaker 7 (31:24):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (31:24):
And this is going to transition into also my uh
comologist deep dive. As I was reading the memoir last night,
it was very hell late.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Did you stay up with your friend Kamala's book? I
spent a solid hour before I went to bed just reading.
I was very excited. It had automatically downloaded to my
kindle because I was a pre purchaser, so I gotta
I gotta pump those number one, What is your What
does your wife think when she comes to get in
bed and you are just curled up comfortably reading Kamala
(31:55):
Harris's book?
Speaker 2 (31:56):
Does she make fun of you at all? What is
her take on this?
Speaker 1 (31:59):
I could come up with something clever to say here,
but the truth is the baby's been waking up about
every hour all night long, so she's just thinking how
are we going to get through the night? So you
are now because for a while there you had angel
baby that was sleeping perfectly on.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
So I'm just gonna tell you guys this because yeah, okay,
maybe I need to, you know, learning a little humility
on this one. As a new parrot. A lot of
people are like, oh, are you okay in the first
three four months, and I was like, okay, the baby
is adorable and sleeps seven eight hours a night every night.
It was just like, we didn't do anything. The baby
just sleeps. And I told my sister this, you know,
(32:35):
I've got a little nephew, and she had a very
tough sleep schedule kind of baby situation, and she couldn't
believe it. She's like, what do you mean your baby
sleep seven? I said, look, he just I don't know
what to tell you. The baby just as I've had.
Note how many times have I showed up Clay and said, you, oh,
not getting any sleep? And I'm like, no, it's been fine.
That has changed and the last month it has been.
Uh it has been And now Carrie's taking the brunt
(32:57):
of it. But you know, I try to help out.
And I'm also in the room when she's getting up
to go tend to the baby. I understand what you
parents are talking about. When You're like, are you okay? Yeah,
Now I need people to ask if I'm okay because
the sleep situation, I mean, Carrie's a trooper pushing through
all this every hour, I don't know, just every hour
little guys wake it up. I mean he's I think
(33:18):
it's called the sleep regression. They say the five month
or six months sleep regret. I heard it's very common.
Our first was I get Wara was an unbelievable trooper
with our oldest. It was. It was brutal how bad
he was at sleeping. But it was funny to me
because for a few months, little baby Speed was just
always smiling and so happy and just sleeping and so smiling.
(33:38):
And people were like, how are you guys doing? And
I was like, this is amazing, and I have ten
more of these like this is now I'm like, this
parent thing is tough, this could be this can be
a little bit of a challenge sometimes. So I've learned.
I've learned the the curve has bent in the other
direction right now for the effort and the challenges here, Okay,
now to so yes, I was reading Kalmalist. Look reading
(34:00):
this thing. I want to get into a more fulsome
discussion of it when we're more focused on on where
Kama is and all this, I would just say it
is very boring. And it is very clear that she
I didn't even know if she spent any time at
all even telling the ghostwriters what you're right, This thing
is is a book by committee. It's got They've got
(34:21):
a couple of people, probably three or four writers who
were working on it or something. Kamala didn't write a
word of it. Now, I know that's not unusual, but
it just comes across as completely just like it's just
so inauthentic. It's I figured that it would read like
it was a like a McKenzie consulting platform where eight
(34:42):
different people have all weighed in and it's just bland
and inauthentic. Well, and she and she knew. I mean,
I'll tell So this is the phase of the book
that I'm in. The phase of the book is Kamala
discussing the lead up to her becoming the nominee, and
I'm only a few chapters in. I didn't read that
much last night. And also the disastrous debate, and of
(35:03):
course she's like I was worried about him going into
this debate and by the way, she affirms what I
had said all along, because people were saying that they
pushed him to debate so they could push him outsolutely
made no sense. That's absolutely not true. His advisers thought.
And this is from Kamala. Now I understand, this isn't
a book, so it's all you know. This is in
(35:24):
intelligence circles. You would say, this is meant to influence
as well as inform. Right, this is not just someone
giving you information. They're trying to create a narrative. I
get that, But this is Kamala Harris saying, Oh, the
advisors thought that they could just get through this one
night and then it would all be fine. And she
(35:44):
claims in the book that she was of the mind
that Joe should just not debate at all, because basically
all of the strategizing Clay, if I may say so,
that I was doing from a Democrat mindset, he shouldn't debate.
It's a disaster. Trump didn't debate. He should just she says,
whether you believe it or not, she agreed with that,
and that a few of Biden's inner circle were convinced
(36:09):
that he would be able to not be okay for months,
but for one night he could pull it off. And
they said, look, they said in original sin. Yeah they really,
so that really just to be clear, everybody that really
was they thought they could, you know, hoodwink everybody. They
thought they could bamboozle us one more time, and that's
all they had to do. So it was a giant
(36:30):
roll of the dice and it came up snake eyes, right,
mister gambling man, that's bad. That's correct. You don't want
the snake eyes, thank you. So that's one part of
it that I thought was interesting so far. I'll give
you more comolologist analysis as I get further and deeper
into the book. I also mentioned that I am going
to be clay Is solo on the radio next week,
and I was gonna wait until Thursday to talk about this,
(36:52):
but I talk a little bit today. I am going
on a fact finding mission to Taiwan. I am scheduled
to meet with some of the most senior people in
the Taiwanese government. I want to speak to them, Clay
about national security with China and how that's looking, how
the Trump administration is doing visa v not just Taiwanese
but regional relations. How do the Tiwhenese feel about allies
(37:16):
like Japan in this moment and where do you know,
where do they feel about the future? By way, this
is the most important national security flashpoint and the most
important economic choke point in the world right now. Taiwan
makes ninety percent of the top and chips silicon, the
silicon wafers that are needed to make an integrated circuit. Essentially,
(37:38):
they make ninety percent of the top end ones and
sixty percent of overall. Clay, none of the smart tech
that we have anywhere can function without Taiwanese production. Nowhere
else in the world can they make this stuff. And
China is saying they're going to take this island in
the next two years. So I talked to Clay about
this as a Clay I just you know, I'm going
on my own time, but it's also on behalf of
(37:58):
the show because I'm going to be interviewing peace people
and I'm going to be and Clay said, go for it.
Originally we were going to go together, but we realize
the logistics of that We're going to be a little
more challenging. But so I'll be out next week, but
I'll be in Taiwan trying to find out as much
as I can about what I think in the next
two years will be the most important geopolitical challenge in
the world. I mean, Ukraine is already a hot war
(38:20):
and we got to figure out how to wind that
thing down. But I think that's just going to grind
on for another few years. I don't think it's going
to change very much. This is a situation Clay with
China you've talked about. Remember when they hit Iran Iran
with the reactors and also when there Ukraine war started,
You're like, maybe China's going to go for it. China
goes for Taiwan in any meaningful way. We have a
(38:40):
We wake up in a different world, truly, all of us,
all of you, whether you care about foreign policy or not.
The markets will the markets will be absolutely rocked. You'll
see trillions of dollars of wealth evaporate. I mean, it's
it's scary stuff. So I want to know what's going Look,
hopefully none of that happens. They continue as sort of
status quo and everything is great. But I think this
(39:01):
is uh. You know, part of what we do on
this show is try to get ahead of where things
are going. I'm telling you this is going to be
a big issue and it's going to be a big
issue that the Trump administration has to figure out. We're
not just going to be able to backburner this. So
that's a big trip. That's a long airplane flight.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
So you are headed over there all of next week
and then you'll be back. Maybe you'll send some stuff
in from Taiwan, but that I'm I'm hoping can.
Speaker 2 (39:26):
Get some high level interviews. You know, it's not it's
not all set in stone because they've got some very
important stuff going on over there. But I am going,
you know, and we're going to air some some of
it on the show, assuming that the people that I'm
trying to sit down with will sit down with me.
But we're just gonna learn as much as we can
over there, and that's the that's the plan. So really,
you for to go ahead?
Speaker 1 (39:47):
No, I was gonna say, do you want to play
Gavin Newsom here because we started off with you We're
going to play.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
Yeah, yeah, Sorry, I I digress, But I realized I
left the Taiwan thing rip when I was talking to
Jim Jordan. It's kind of like when some of you
found out that I was having a Carrie, but we're
having a baby. Because the top of the show, it
just it bled into the audio and I was like, well,
you know, carry's foremost things that of all the things
that could have leaked, the fact that you were having
a baby was the thing that leaked off. It was
(40:14):
very nice, Honestly, it was very touching because my inbox
and mentions and everything were just full of wonderful listeners
who were saying the sweetest things. But the fact that
we were expecting a little baby boy. But it was
funny because I was going to do like a real
announcement about it, and I just kind of let it
fly in an off moment break to Clay and it
went on the air. Okay, Gavin Newsom back to the
(40:35):
meat and potatoes here of the news cycle, Gavin Newsom.
Here he is saying the kind of stuff that really
ticks me off, but this is very normal for him.
That we're not even going to have this is nineteen,
not going to have election in twenty eight. We're struggling
to communicate.
Speaker 8 (40:52):
We're struggling to win back now the majority in the
House of Representatives, and that's a big part of what
I'm doing today in terms of the work out here
raising money but also raising awareness around how Donald Trump
is trying to rig the midterm elections and how I
fear that we will not have an election in twenty
(41:12):
twenty eight. I really mean that and the core of
my soul unless we wake up to the code red
what's happening in this country, and we wake up soberly
to how serious this moment is.
Speaker 2 (41:24):
Claycy, what is that? What is he really doing here
saying that he and his soul believes we're not even
going to have an election in twenty twenty eight? Like,
what's the play as you see it?
Speaker 1 (41:35):
First of all, I went on Twitter and I reiterated
what I said the last time he said this. I
will put ten million dollars up against Gavin he can
get it from his donors that we will have an
election in twenty twenty eight. I don't even I think
the Democrat base eats this up. And I think this
is already starting the race in twenty twenty eight. I
(41:57):
think that's the reality. He can't possibly believe this. If
you believe it, why are you already effectively running for president?
What does he think this is going to happen that
Trump's going to announce when, first of all, because the
presidential race is going to start in January of twenty
seven in earnest, and by January of twenty eight will
(42:20):
have the primaries actually starting, So when exactly would Trump
cancel the twenty twenty eight election. I think Trump's going
to eat up the twenty twenty eight election because He's
going to see it as some form of an apprentice.
It's a reality television show made for him to be
the king maker on the Republican side of the equation,
(42:40):
and probably to weigh in a lot on the Democrat
side of the equation too. I just I look at
this and I think that it must be that the
base of the Democrat Party is so crazy that telling
them that Trump is going to cancel elections in some
way paradoxically makes Gavin Newsom a bigger favor it in
twenty twenty eight. So that's the motivation, I think what's
(43:04):
going on here. He clearly does not believe it, And
this is part and parcel, unfortunately, of why we're getting
all these left wing political attacks, because enough of the
base of the Democrat Party believes this that they're willing
to kill Charlie Kirk, and that they're willing to try
to kill President Trump, and that they are willing to
(43:26):
frankly burn down Josh Shapiro's governor's mansion. By the way,
that was left wing political violence too, even addressed against Democrats.
There is a lot of crazy. There are a lot
of crazy people out there, and the Democrat base is
overwhelmingly made up of a lot of crazy people, and
they want to hear this fear porn is. I think
(43:50):
it titilates them. I think it drives them. And Gavin
Newsom is playing on it even though he knows it's untrue,
which is I think one of the most dishonest things
as a politician can do. And it's one thing if
you actually have a strong opinion that might be controversial,
we might disagree with. I think Bernie Sanders has a
lot of opinions that he truly believes that are wrong,
(44:11):
and I disagree with him, but I at least respect
his right to make the argument. Gavin Newsom doesn't believe this.
He's lying. He just knows it's politically advantageous to say it,
and he's trying to take advantage of it. And that's
the reality, and it's hard to respect anybody adopting that perspective.
Speaker 2 (44:29):
Some of these lunatic Democrats that you'll hear, I think
they actually believe the lunatic stuff, lunatic stuff that they say.
I don't think Gavin Newsom believes one iota, well a
sentilla of this nonsense. That's right. He's just playing them
for fools.
Speaker 1 (44:46):
And there's ten million dollars. Take me up on it, Gavin.
I feel really good about me winning the ten million.
I'll donate it to people out there so they can
sue for some amendment cases. He's not going to respond
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Also a little comic relief. Clay Travis at buck Sexton.
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Speaker 1 (46:09):
Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton Show. Appreciate all
of you hanging out with us. We're joined now by
Senator Rick Scott of Florida. We'll get into a bunch
of different stories from him, but Vice President jd Vance
just spoke about the shooting that occurred earlier today at
the Dallas Ice facility, and this is what he said.
(46:30):
And then we will bring in Senator Scott because I'm
curious how he would respond to this.
Speaker 2 (46:34):
Here is jd Vance.
Speaker 9 (46:36):
When you go around and lie about our law enforcement
and you tell them that they're mistreating five year old girls,
what do you think is gonna happen? When Democratic politicians
incur doxing, when they encourage us to unmasked ice enforcement officers.
What do you think is going to happen? When the
mayor of Los Angeles encourages violent protesters to get in
the face of our law enforcement. What do you think
(46:58):
is gonna happen. What's gonna happen is political violence. And
political violence has gotten out of control in this country.
Speaker 2 (47:05):
We got to stop it.
Speaker 9 (47:06):
We got to condemn it. And that starts, unfortunately, at
the very top of the Democratic Party. If you want
to stop political violence, stop attacking our law enforcement as
the Gestapo. If you want to stop political violence, stop
telling your supporters that everybody who disagrees with you is
a Nazi. If you want to stop political violence, look
(47:27):
in the mirror. That's the way that we stop political
violence in this nots me.
Speaker 2 (47:31):
I agree with everything. JD.
Speaker 1 (47:33):
Vance, Vice President of the United States said, there, I
suspect that you do as well, Senator Rick Scott. Your
reaction to that here as we start the interview with you.
Speaker 6 (47:44):
Absolutely, you know it makes you mad.
Speaker 10 (47:47):
When I was governor, we lost fifty one members of
law enforcement, and you go to their funerals. These are
this is a family. Once their own personal family. Then
law enforcement is a family, and they unfortunately with under Democrats,
under Democrat rule, under Democrat rhetoric, there they attack our
law enforcement. What do you want in your house? You
(48:08):
you know you want it breaks and you want somebody
to show up. Who shows up, whether they know you
or not, it's law enforcement. You want to make sure
your school is say for your kid, you want to
make sure that safe. Go get a job, you will
make it, make sure the restaurant safe.
Speaker 6 (48:22):
Who does it for you? Law enforcement? You might never know.
Speaker 10 (48:26):
So the Democrats that has got to stop this attack
on law enforcement. When I grew up in a country
where if my mom thought I would ever talk back
to a law enforcement or say something battle band, I
got the biggest whipping in the world. I would never
have done that.
Speaker 6 (48:44):
I bring my grand.
Speaker 10 (48:45):
Kids when we see when they see law enforcement, they
thank them. That's what everybody in this country ought to
be doing, say, thank god, somebody's willing to put on.
Speaker 7 (48:52):
The uniform and depend our freedoms and depend their safety.
So these democrats got to stop this rhetoric. Charlie's hurt dead.
Speaker 2 (49:04):
Okay, Senator Scott, We're gonna have to have you call
back in because I Clai. I don't know if you
could hear. I cannot hear what he's saying on the line.
Speaker 1 (49:10):
This is one of those things where I just I
look around and I'm like, cell phones are never just
going to work perfectly, are they?
Speaker 2 (49:16):
Like, I guess not.
Speaker 1 (49:17):
I don't know what ago we would have thought, Hey,
the signals will eventually be flawless, like, but it's amazing
how often you can't have a normal conversation on a
cell phone.
Speaker 2 (49:26):
Now, maybe Elon will fix that, you know, maybe Elon
will all have sat phones essentially. I remember that was
such a thing when I was overseas twenty years ago
with the agency to have a satellite phone. I was like, oh,
it was, you know, sixteen dollars a minute or something
to actually talk to anybody on it. You would think
that we would get to a place where this stuff
would all work much more. We got them back. We
can hear him now. I want to hear what the
(49:46):
good senator has to say.
Speaker 10 (49:48):
Yeah, so we have got to stand up for our
law enforcement and the Democrats have got to stop this.
Where don't their families want to be safe? Don't there
voters want to be safe?
Speaker 6 (49:58):
Don't there?
Speaker 2 (49:59):
But Senator, let me ask you this hold on a second,
because because Gavin Newsom in California, I know that the
law doesn't go into effect until January, and I assume
that they're smart enough to know that they can't tell
federal law enforcement how they can tactically do their jobs
the state of California. But I mean, what message could
be more clear than what he's saying, which is the
governor of America's largest state, Gavin Newsom is telling everybody
(50:23):
that these are basically fascist stormtroopers and they're hiding their
identities because there's something immoral about enforcing immigration law.
Speaker 6 (50:33):
Look, they might have a mask because they're scared to
death of people like Gavin Newsom as telling telling people
right to attack law enforcement, don't cooperate with them, get
in their face. I mean who I mean, Like, doesn't
Gavin Newsom care about the situisans of his state? Well,
I was governor Florida. You know what I wanted.
Speaker 10 (50:53):
I wanted every family to be safe. I wanted every
business to be safe. I wanted every restaurant, every.
Speaker 6 (50:57):
School to be safe.
Speaker 10 (50:59):
So why didn't Keavin Newsom care about the people in
the state, about their safety. That's what I don't get.
You don't build a business, you don't want your kids
to go to school, you don't want to live in
a community that is unsafe. Support law enforcement. It's real simple.
They will defend your freedom and your safety.
Speaker 1 (51:17):
We're talking to Senator Rick Scott Florida a lot of discussion.
I was texting with Senator Ron Johnson a little bit
earlier about the potential for a shutdown. He's got a
peace up in the Wall Street Journal about ways to
end this conflict once and for all. What should our
listeners know about the latest battle over funding the government.
Speaker 6 (51:37):
Well, here's where it works. We only need a majority
in the hospital. We have to have sixty votes in
the Senate. Chuck Schumer, for whatever god forsaken reason, wants
to shut down government. So some services will be stopped
beginning at midnight September thirty. He that's what he wants,
that's what he wants.
Speaker 10 (51:54):
He doesn't care. He wants to shut down government. Well,
Ron Johnson's proposing, which is really smart. Let's just let's
just make sure that we just keep funding government. Well
we should be. We should have done our budget bills,
which we haven't done again this year, which we should
have done. But if we don't, then we'll just continue
to keep government open and last year's funding, which is
(52:14):
too high. I want to balance budget, but it's better
than shut down and shutting down government and shutting down services.
And by the way, federal workers, when they don't come
to work, they still get paid. How crazy is that?
When you don't go to work, you don't get paid.
But federal workers, which I love them, right, we have
a shutdown, they get paid. That doesn't make any sense.
(52:35):
They don't get paid until we go back to work.
But they don't come to work and they get paid.
This makes no sense. That's why Ron's Ron Johnson's proposal
is very smart. They will never have the Chuck Schumer shutdowns.
Speaker 2 (52:48):
Senator Scott, how is the confirmation process going in the
Senate for Trump nominees there. We had I think talk
to you about this a few months ago that there
have been a lot of concerns raised those who are
paying attention that Democrats are doing everything except the pull
the fire alarms, so to speak, to try to prevent
nominees from getting through. Has that process started to work
(53:10):
a little bit more efficiently? Are you getting Trump's picks
in place? How's that been going in the Senate side.
Speaker 10 (53:17):
It's like they don't They don't think that Trump should
have anybody work with it. So he needs to put
together a team. That's what presidents do, right. This is
the first time in the history of the country that
the opposing party of the president will do everything they
can to block all nominees. I don't care who who
the nominee is. And so what we've had to do
(53:38):
in the Senate is we had to change the rules
because the Democrats are Democrats are blocking every every every nominee,
even nominees that they will vote for they've been blocking.
They don't, so we've changed the rules. We had quite
a few of our nominees approved last week. That we
will be back next week.
Speaker 6 (53:59):
And we'll get my goal.
Speaker 10 (54:01):
I think the goal is we're going to have over
one hundred nominees done in the next ten days. So
we've got to get Trump's nominees done, and we you know, unfortunately,
but what Chuck Schumer's doing with all these antics is
he's saying that SIMATE was was set up to force
us to work together. He's just saying, no way. You know,
we don't ever have to work together anymore because Chuck
(54:23):
Schumer is going to fight everything, and so we have
to change the rules to get anything done. Schumer needs
to go.
Speaker 1 (54:30):
What do you think about the Trump Library? On a
positive side here, I mentioned this Deback. He lives in Miami.
He's one of your constituents now, Senator I spend a
lot of time in Florida as well. What does it
say about the state of Florida, the trajectory of the
country overall that a big city like Miami. I think
a lot of people listening to us right now in
Miami are saying, this is great, We're going to have
(54:52):
the Trump Presidential Library here. What does it say about Miami?
What does it say about Florida?
Speaker 6 (54:57):
Well, Florida's become the center of the Republican Party.
Speaker 10 (55:00):
Look at his whole team. So many of them Pam, Bondi, Susie,
while so many of them come out of Florida. So
he and you know, as you know, the President moved
out in New York and moved down to Florida. So
I you know, whether it's in Palm Beach, whether it's
in Miami, it's going to be. You know, it's going
to be in I can't imagine it's not going to
be in Florida. I know the piece of propert they
were talking about Miami. I was just down at the
(55:20):
Freedom Tower just the other day that they've completely recently redone.
That's where all the Cuban refugees were processed when they
were coming in the sixties and seventies. So I, you know,
look wherever it is, I look forward to bringing my
grandkids there to see it.
Speaker 1 (55:37):
One last question for you, Jimmy Kimmel. The story surrounding that.
As we're talking to you, Next Star and Saint Clair
local affiliates are not carrying the show and they just
said you come out of the business world. Next Star
is continuing to evaluate and we're engaged in discussions. We
(55:58):
want diverse interests of the communities we serve to be
reflected and respected. What should happen here? In your mind,
what's the right solution?
Speaker 10 (56:06):
Well, they don't make a business decision. Jimmy Kimmel has
become just toxic.
Speaker 2 (56:12):
Uh.
Speaker 10 (56:13):
You know, his audience, audience has gone down. People are
saying they don't want to see it. Like I remember
when Johnny Carson had a show. Uh and and Jay
Jaylen know they were funny, right they This is just
toxic with guys like Jimmy Kimmel. Do So, I've never
seen a show. I don't plan on watching a show.
(56:33):
I assume that they're making a decision. Is this good
for our audience? And is it fiscal Is it financially beneficial?
And think about it. If it's not, you think why
would they keep him on the air? So, and I
heard his audiences. His viewership has gone way down.
Speaker 7 (56:51):
Uh.
Speaker 10 (56:51):
So, I don't know why. You know, I'm not going
to watch it. I know, I don't know why Republicans
would ever watch the guy.
Speaker 6 (56:56):
He just he doesn't.
Speaker 10 (56:58):
I mean what he what he said about Charlie Kirk
was it was just completely inappropriate. It was I mean,
Charlie was a friend of mine. I did a show
post Mondays and for anybody to to say what they
said so is just.
Speaker 2 (57:15):
Toxic appreciating here?
Speaker 10 (57:19):
Yep, yeah, all right, well it's going to get better.
So I'm very optimistic we're gonna make it better.
Speaker 2 (57:26):
Thank you, Thank you all the work that he is doing.
Speaker 1 (57:29):
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Welcome man that we are here Wednesday edition of the program.
A lot of stories to discuss with all of you.
Congressman Jim Jordan gonna be with us at one point
thirty to talk about Google admitting that YouTube canceled. Conservatives Sorry,
He's gonna be with us at one here in about
an hour, and then in the third hour we're going
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to be joined by Florida's Senator Rick Scott to talk
about the latest on the budget battle on Capitol Hill.
Shutdown or no shutdown. Buck and I have told you
for years that this is probably the story that always
ends with the government being funded and yet turns into
a multi day, multi week drama filled. Oh my goodness,
(00:44):
what's going to happen? Spoiler alert. They're all going to
spend a lot more of your money. This is how
it's going to win. But people will get fired up
and we will discuss that. But unfortunately, breaking news in
the last hour and a half or so, a shooting
has taken place at a Dallas ice facility. A sniper
(01:08):
on a roof who has engraved anti ice messages on
his bullets. Not dissimilar to what happened with Luigi Mangioni
left wing shooter who assassinated the United Healthcare CEO, not
dissimilar to the person who killed Charlie Kirk in an
act of cold blooded political assassination. This has become quite
(01:32):
the left wing trend. If you want to know what
the motivation is, all you have to do is actually
check the bullets and let's go to the latest news
announcements on that, which begins.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
I believe with cut one maybe most of all, I
want to think to people who don't.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Support well, that's nice. We'll get to Jimmy Kimmel in
a little bit. But the top of the list here
for the shooting that just took place, this is going
to be if I need to pull up the exact number,
right off the top of the of the list. Cut
to FBI Special Agent in Charge Joe Rothrock is telling
(02:17):
us just what happened in Dallas.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
I can confirm at this time that the FBI is
investigating this incident as an act of targeted violence. It is, unfortunately,
just the most recent example we've seen of targeted violence
to include here in North Texas. We're back on July fourth,
we saw a coordinate attack carried out against an immigration
detention center in Albado, Texas. What I can also share
(02:40):
with you is it early evidence that we've seen from
rounds that were found near the suspected shooter contain messages
that are anti.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Ice in nature.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Again, this is just the most recent example of this
type of attack.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Okay, so Buck, this is direct result of hetic we've
been hearing for some time.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
This is left wing terrorism. This is anti Republican, anti Trump,
anti rule of law terrorism. I don't know why there's
a hesitation to say this, Maybe because I think I
would still qualify as a terrorism expert. I feel like
I can just say this. I used to argue with
with people about this when it was in the old
(03:22):
Jihadis days. We had all this jihatas terrorism happening, and
as we know, there'd be very clear, very clear motivation,
and they would always say, we'll never know the real motives.
We now targeted violence. Yeah, just it's terrorism. If you
want to say suspected terrorism, fine, you know, in the
in the opening hours after incident like this, but this
(03:43):
was targeting a government facility with anti government messages written
on the bullets. And as we know, this was also
the case with the Charlie kirk assassin. And there's a
very clear pattern that is emerging here everybody. First of all,
these terrorists, the Charlie kirkissas was a terrorist. This individual
who took his life, we don't know much more about
(04:04):
him than that also engaged in an act of terrorism. Remember, Clay,
you're an insurrectionist terrorist according to Democrats, if you non
violently entered the Capitol building on video for sixty seconds
with police officers waving you in and with people walking
and respecting the velvet ropes and statuary hall. I'm not
(04:26):
saying everybody was in that category. There are some people
that scuffled with cops, but there were a lot of
people who just walked into the building and were treated
like terrorists. We now have people who are murdering people
at government facilities because they are angry with government policy.
This is textbook definition political violence terrorism. And they feel
the need, these terrorists now to write their beliefs on
(04:50):
the bullets because I think they want everyone to know.
I think they are worried, and I mean this, I
know this sounds crazy. I think they are worried that
CNN is going to say we may never know the motive.
We may never know the motive of this guy. This
isn't about left or right. This isn't this guy is
like no ices fascism. Here's why I'm doing this. I'm
(05:13):
a maniac because I listen to what the New York
Times and cnnsay every day that. Let me ask you,
I think he wants to make it explicit. You are
more knowledgeable and weaponry than me.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
This whole engraving messages on bullets thing, it obviously is
becoming a trend. I think to your point, the reason
is becoming a trend is because these left wingers have
heard left wing media say every time a left winger
does something.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
We may never know the reason that he did this.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Right, anytime somebody has a connection to the right or Trump,
instantaneously it's well, this is what happens in Trump's America.
Anytime somebody engages in left wing political violence terrorism, as
you just said, the media response to the media is, well,
you know, there's a lot of conflicting stories here. We
may never know the motives. So they're saying, here is motive,
but how weird is it to engrave bullets? Is this
(06:03):
easy to do? Is this common? What have you seen
in your like sort of gun background.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
It's yeah, I mean it's not It's not hard to
do at all. It's odd. But is this a popular trend?
I mean, like I just I have. I mean, if
you're asking, I have fired tens of thousands of rounds
in my life. I have never seen or done this
bullet engraving in my life. Now, this is not a
This is not a thing that people generally do for fun.
(06:28):
I mean, think about it. It makes if you're going to range,
it makes no sense. Why would you do this?
Speaker 1 (06:32):
That was my general idea. But you're more more knowledgeable
and weaponry than me. But it has become a left
wing trend with luigim ANDNGIONI.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
With now this shooter of Charlie Kirkin Allen, I think
we've stumbled on for everybody here and this will now
reverberate through the broader ecosystem, and I hope that it does.
I hope people on the right understand this. They are
writing their motives on the bullets because the terrorists want
everyone to know, and they're sick of CNN, for political reasons,
pretending that we may never know what the motive is.
(07:02):
I think that's right. This is absolutely what is going
on here. You know, this is the This is like
somebody leaving a suicide note because they want to, you know,
have their say or they want to tell people why.
In this case, this guy committed it was a murder
suicide and it just couldn't be more clear to me
that that's what's going on here. And I'm sorry, but
I also have to point out that this person who
(07:22):
did this, and there are people who are dead. I mean,
this is there are two people who have been murdered
by this maniac. Their families are getting the worst news
imaginable today. Those families are shattered. They have to deal
with this. You know, we don't know much of the
details of either the victims or the shooter yet. But Clay,
you had Gavin Newsom, who is currently I think the
(07:44):
de facto leader of the Democrat Party. I mean, people
could argue that, but I think that's a fair assessment,
talking about how it's fascism for members of ICE to
have their identities protected while they're doing their completely lawful jobs,
because he wants them to be able to be docs
by Antifa, and he wants their families to get death threats,
so he is sending a signal to everybody. The governor
(08:06):
of California are largest state. The people who are doing
the work of immigrations and customs enforcement are fair game
for all kinds of things, and some people take it
to this extreme. It's certainly, by the way, fair game
to be having this like obstruction and gathering at these
facilities and shouting epithets at them. These are law enforcement officers.
(08:27):
Gavin Newsom should be a shamed He's incapable of shame.
But this is what's going on.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Cashptel, by the way, has posted photos of the ammunition
ammunition rounds already on social media showing that I mean legitimately.
Now it looks like it's written in a pen, maybe
not an engraver, but anti ICE is written on the
on the rounds and again.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Something yeah ahead, go ahead. I'm gonna.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Ted because Ted Cruz is also our friend from senator
from Texas saying this, this is cut one.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
This must stop.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
To every politician who is using rhetoric demonizing ICE and
demonizing CBP, stop to every politician demanding that ICE agents
be doxed and calling for people to go after their families.
Stop this has very real consequences. Look, in America, we disagree.
That's fine, that's the democratic process. But your political opponents
(09:32):
are not Nazis. We need to learn to work together
without demonizing each other, without attacking each other. And I
want to say thank you. I want to say thank
you to the brave men and women at law enforcement.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Okay, I mean everything he says, Everything Senator Cruz says
is correct, it needs to be said. It will have
no impact. They're not going to stop. I'm not saying
he shouldn't say, it needs to be said, but they're
not going to stop. And that's what we need to
recognize here because this is is the resistance. Now, this
is the center of Democrat opposition to Trump, to Maga,
to all of it, and Clay to the point I
(10:08):
was making, and I know you're on board for this,
because I think we just assessed this very straight in
a very straightforward way. The terrorists, and they are terrorists,
are writing their motives on their bullets so that CNN
can have a spin room thing of like, well, we
may never know. And obviously they need to do things
like that because look at Jimmy Kimmel. Jimmy Kimmel goes
on the air and says that it was one of
(10:30):
the Maga gang who killed Charlie kirk Er. It was
one of their people or whatever it is that he said.
So it's not strange at all that these terrorists are
making it. Even when they make it explicit, there are
people who are going to be saying, oh, this isn't
for the purpose that you are engaged in this terrorism.
So I think they want to make it completely inescapably obvious.
(10:51):
I think that's one hundred percent true. I also think.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
At some point in time, and we've been talking about
this on this show for a long time. We even
mentioned yesterday on The Atlantic, there's going to have to
be a real discussion, and I think it's going to
have to come from the left of the fact that
there are a lot of people that have been told
for a decade that we're all Nazis. Just almost everybody
(11:19):
listening to this program right now, that we're Nazi stormtroopers,
and that our lives are as a result, not worthy
of protection and in fact are worthy of being taken.
And all of these people believe this is important. I
think too, they think they're heroes, like they think they
are the good guys that are standing up to evil
(11:41):
because their politicians have convinced them of it.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
You've brought up that it's kind of intentionally surreal or
absurd Baby Hitler analogy right, which people talk about and
especially online. We don't even have to make it absurd.
We could bring it into the present day if it
were in fact true. And to be very clear, it
is not right. We all know that, yes, if it
were in fact true that immigrations and customs enforcement were
(12:07):
making people quote disappear off the streets, never to be
seen again again, explicitly a lie. This is not true.
But if that were true, would it be morally justified
to take up arms against them? Well, before we even
have to pose an answer to the hypothetical, we see
what maniacs are doing. We see that people believe they
(12:30):
have a right to obstruct these law enforcement officers physically,
to threaten their families, and in this case, to open
fire on a government facility. How many ice facilities were
under fire during all four years of Biden? Did it
ever happen? I don't you know. Within a rifle like this,
I'm not aware of it. And people are starting to
see I think Morclay as well that and this is
(12:52):
why I appreciate what Ted Cruz is saying. But this
is now the whole game for the left of the
Democrats is hysteria. They can't climb down from this because
to climb down from saying that ice are fascists is
to admit that they were lying, and to admit that
they are lying is to further limit their political power.
And you know, this just becomes zero sum for them.
(13:14):
So we're in a very dangerous moment here as a country,
and they're just making it worse every single day.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Amen, we'll take some of your reactions, and certainly as
we continue the show, Jim Jordan going to join us
top of the next hour. Senator Rick Scott, I do
think Jim Jordan's discussion we're going to have is important
because what we can only do to combat this is
call it out. And in order to call it out,
you have to have free and fair access to many
(13:42):
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Speaker 6 (15:35):
Let's have you hit one hundred. Have you hit one hundred.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
It's been raining. It's been raining a lot of Miami,
so the courts have been wet. But it's happened in Congressman,
I'm telling you this right now. You're reminding me that
a deal is a deal, a bet is a bet.
I'm gonna get out there, Laura Travis very excited for
me to cross that one hundred mile per hour mark.
I'm only get ninety seven, so it's really quite a
leap to get there. But I'm going to get there,
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(16:03):
the first to know it's going to happen this calendar year.
Now that good to hear.
Speaker 6 (16:09):
Thank you, Thank you the video you said, by the way,
I was impressed it was. I mean, I don't I
like watching sports. I'm not a tennis player, but I
was impressed. Good for me, you hit the ball. I mean,
I did think you'd hit it that close to one hundred,
but it was pretty impressive.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
So I think, hey, I appreciate that. You know, I'm
a middle aged guy and I can pretty much crank
that serve at ninety seven miles an hour, I said Clay.
I told Clay one hundred initially, So it's not like
I was way off. All these people are saying sixty
in the replies. These people are nuts. They need to
get a speed gun, all right. So so since we've
got that out there, thank you for the reminder though,
because that is going to happen. I'm in Taiwan next week,
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so not a lot of tennis. Oh I just kind
of let that slip, didn't I But not a lot
of tennis going there, but I will be doing it
when I get back here to lovely Miami Beach. Okay, YouTube,
YouTube YouTube, let's take a look here. Here's where I
am on this. And maybe you're talking to the to
the more cynical of the duo, as you may know, Congress,
as you as you do know. Okay YouTube admits what
(17:04):
we've known from the beginning. They censored, and they've been
censoring terribly. So what does anything happen because of us?
What's the action item? The information is important. I think
people need to know. It's sure, but what.
Speaker 6 (17:15):
Happens, well, they put it in writing, so if in
the it's in the future they go back on their word,
then there's you know, you can't lie to Congress. There's
eighteen USC one, one thousand and one, So there's there's
going forward. I think there's that second. They are reinstating
people who they took their channel with people, I mean
there was there was big names like Dan Bongino. He
gets his you know, he gets his channel back, he
gets he gets to go back. I think more importantly
(17:37):
it's the thousands of people that they that they cut
off will get to come back to. So, uh, that's helpful.
But you're right, you know what what happened to him
in this. I mean some of this is four or
five years uh, you know, because it goes back to
the COVID and people speaking out against all the false
things that the government told us. And when you spoke
out against it, you got censured, you get you lost
your you lost your uh your channel on YouTube. So
the yeah, that's tough, but you know, I look at
(17:59):
the glass half half full. Going forward. People are being reinstated,
they've admitted to it, they've they've said they will never
use fact checkers like some of these other platforms did,
because we all know, you know, these fact checkers were
Leski's who's you know, labeled all kinds of things misinformation,
disinformation and censored people. So I think all that's positive,
but I get what you're saying. All we can do, though,
is the best we can and as we're as we're moving.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Forward, Jim, I appreciate you coming on with us, and
I appreciate you calling out Buck because I've forgotten. And
it is interesting how the rain has been coming down
and disallowed of its.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Very rainy season hurricanes. Excuse me, very tough for the
outdoor courts here. But you may you may proceed Clay,
we were banned, OutKick was banned. You had me your
credit to come testify. I think back in February or
March of twenty one, they made me wear a mask.
I think it's like the only time I ever wore
a mask, even to testify at the hearing that was
(18:52):
at the absolute apex of we're going to restrict speech.
So you've been fighting these battles for a long time.
I think you deserve a lot of credit with that
in mind. One of the things that buck and I
are super frustrated by is there basically are no consequences.
And I'm curious what you think here.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
When YouTube banned us, when they gave us strikes, when
they took us down, when they didn't allow our videos
to circulate, it had very real financial consequences for a
company that I owned at the time, OutKick now Fox owns.
But they're as Bucket's pointing out, there are a lot
of people out there that are just trying to make
two three four grand a month off YouTube and that
(19:30):
is a huge part of their ability to fund what
they're doing, and saying shouldn't there be some sort of consequences,
shouldn't Google slash YouTube have to make some sort of
I'm just tossing this out there.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Huge payment to fund free speech.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
So that they could actually be sued by lawyers actually
committed to free speech, not what the ACL you used
to do, Like what organization, what way are their consequences,
because it seems pretty convenient for YouTube now to say, oh, yeah,
we did this. We wouldn't allow this in a court
of law. By and large, when you admit wrongdoing, usually
there is a consequence for the wrongdoing. Here there seems
(20:09):
to be nine.
Speaker 6 (20:10):
Yeah, And we're working on We have legislation. Harrot Hageman,
a wonderful member from Whales, all on our committee, and
she's got a bill that says if the government, you
can go after the government if they're pressuring people to
censor you. You know, that's that's you know, classic violation
of First Amendments. So we're looking at that like individuals
in the government, like you'd have a private right of action.
So we're looking at that legislation we passed this last
(20:32):
Congress out of committee. We're looking to bring that back.
But it is tough to go after. I mean, maybe
you can get a class together and see if it
works and say, you know, these people were all kicked off,
they were all lost, you know, such and such revenue.
This is their damage. You might be able to do that,
but I think that's again, I think it's tough, and
so what we're trying to focus on is, look, they've
(20:52):
admitted to what they did. They admitted that it came
from the Biden administration, they cave to it. They did this.
It's not going to happen. Very similar frankly to the
letter Mark Zuckerbert sentis last August where he said the
same thing. Biden administration pressure is the censure.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
We did it.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
We're sorry, we're going to stop. And to his credit,
they've actually changed policy there that use the community notes
approach to posts that are put on their site or
on their platform, just like Elon does at X. So
again I look at the positive, but I get it.
You know it happened to you directly. I was shadow Band.
There was four of US members shadow Band back in
(21:26):
twenty eighteen by Twitter, before Elon had purchased that company.
So I know it's tough, but we've got to move
forward and look at the bright sid.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
I think Congressman something that as I mentioned I'm gonna
be traveling a lot next week and the weeks after,
and Clay and I are actually gonna doing a bunch
of events. So flying is on my mind. And I've
seen some reporting again, because I think the most frustrating
thing is when it's crystal clear skies. Everything's fine, everyone's there,
(21:53):
we got there, we got through TSA, we did the
whole they did the whole thing, and then we're told
there's no crew there. Sorry, you don't have people to
actually do the plane flying thing. You know, there's this
let pilots, let experienced pilots fly bill that's been kicking
around like Cruise as a sponsor Marshall Blackburn Center sponsor,
(22:17):
as a sponsor on the Senate side, is this actually
something you guys on the House side are looking at
doing too, because this is one of those things where
we could get some of the best pilots. We have
to keep flying, which means everybody's one in safe hands.
Two the newer pilots get better instruction, and three we
have to wait less at the gate for a couple
of hours at a time. Can you guys get this done?
Where is this?
Speaker 6 (22:37):
I'm all for it. I'm not on the Transportation Committee.
But I'm all for it. I travel, like the last
three weekends, I've been in Vegas and Sacramento one weekend,
Dallas the next weekend. Last week, and I went from
North Carolina to North Dakota. So I mean, I'm just
like you. We fly all the time, and you want
the best pilots, and you want it to be on
time and not have to I mean the delays when
it's backed up and you can't even use land and
(22:59):
you can't even get to a game because the gates
are off, well, I mean they're just on and on
and on. So it's frustrating. Yeah, and the to the
to the extent that you know, allowing good pilots to
stick around and continue to operate, I think that's great.
In fact, I had a pilot talk to me at
a fundraising. I forget what state we were in, but
he talked to me about this very bill, and I said, yeah,
this makes sense. I hope we hope we do.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Get who on the Transportation Committee you think, I mean,
who can we have on to talk about this?
Speaker 6 (23:22):
Damn Graves to have the chairman, Chairman Graves, good Man,
He's shared that committee for a number of years have
him on and he can he can tell you in.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Clay, I'm telling you, yeah, I know you're a big
Southwest fan. We get this thing through and you're gonna
thank me because your delays are going to drop. And
by the way, the older pilots are all the Clay
and buck listeners too, They're the ones that are all
about this show.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
My I fly Southwest everywhere. You know, I'm not a bragger.
I don't like to draw attention to myself, as everyone
well knows. I have two million Southwest Airlines points, That's how.
And and on my last Southwest Airlines flight from New
York City to Nashville, I don't think I said this
on the air. The pilots wanted to come out and
shake hands. They're like love the shows. Like I was
(24:04):
posing for photos with the flight attendants. So I've got
a lot of awesome people at Southwest and I enjoy
meeting everybody there. Congressman, what is the latest? You were
working hard and I don't know the absolute latest, but
the score act. I know there are a lot of
people out there that are big college football fans, college
sports fans in general. We're in the midst of the
fall football season. What's the latest there? What can you
(24:26):
tell us.
Speaker 6 (24:27):
We're working on getting some Democrats to vote for it.
We have some great supporters out there who want to
you know, looking at some changes. You know, we got
Cody Campbell, great guy with a big, big booster Texas Tech,
talking about some things that he thinks can happen, particularly
I think maybe better suited for the Senate, but we're
looking at those as well. The bill is through committee.
(24:47):
We do have some Democrats support for it. I think
there's strong support for it. To use your lingo play with,
you know, people in the Southeast Conference part of the
country and the Big ten part of the country. So
we'll we'll see. But we do want to get this
done and we continue to work on it. We think
it's a darn good start, uh to help with you know,
(25:09):
I when we started this process, I said, I think
there are three things we want to focus on. We
want we want real competition. Want some parody. You don't
want just the same teams winning all the time, as
much as I'd like to see the Badgers and the
buck guys, you know always at the top. You want
you want some parody. Uh. You you don't want to
diminish opportunity for athletes. Uh, the USOC is very concerned
(25:29):
about what happens to the so called non revenue sports,
the Olympic sports and women's sports, and so we're trying
to see how we can be helpful there. And part
of the thing in the bill is we we don't
want any school to drop the sports at state Division one,
you got to have sixteen. We kept that in the
we put that in the bill. And then finally, I
do think we at some point got to remember it's
(25:49):
supposed to be about getting an education. You got some
of these athletes in football and basketball who transfer, you know,
six times in five years and and and never get
a degree. I don't think that's helpful to the system
or to to that individual. So we're trying to have
those overall objectives in mind when we put this legislation together.
So we're not quite there yet.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
What should happen with Jimmy Kimmel.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
We're going to talk about this, I think at some
point during the course of the show. But you know,
with the YouTube we started off the show by saying,
and I think it's really important, Jimmy Kimmel is a
small pinprick of the importance of what Google and YouTube
were doing. Any comedian would be relative to the policies
those companies come in place, and Next Star and Sinclair
are still not caring. Meaning I'm not sure where your
(26:34):
affiliate station is, Jim, but I know here in Nashville,
I couldn't watch last night if I wanted to. They
have news on I'm a Next Star affiliate here in
the ABC Nashville market. What in your mind is the
right solution here? If you were the magic wand guy
and you got to analyze this.
Speaker 6 (26:51):
Well, I looked at this the way you've always described
to Claiy. I looked at this as Republicans by sneakers too.
Republicans watch late night TV two And I think Next
Star and Sinclair just said, you know, our our, our,
we we just don't think it's appropriate that you know,
excuse me, if your late night talk show hosts, you
should you should not do two things. You shouldn't tick
off half the potential audience and you and and you
(27:11):
should be funny. And it seems like Jimmy Kimmel was
failing on both of those those two things. So I
think I think Next tarn and uh Next Star and
Uh Sinclair said, we just like something different. Frankly, so
I think this is a business decision largely, and you
know it couldn't just be the government censoring because ABC
or Disney putting back on. Yeah, I did. I think
(27:33):
I looked at it all throughout this whole thing, and
I understand what what Commissioner Carr said, but I looked
at it largely as this was a business deal. Next
Star came Forard and said no, we want we want
something different, and you can't blame him for that because
I think I think they're losing money on the show
ABC is. I didn't really thought he was really that funny.
Was all just we know, it was all just attacking
(27:54):
Trump all the time, and and half the country doesn't
doesn't particularly care for that. So that's how I've versus
government government doing what they did in all these areas
where we have emails from the Biden administration saying take
down this tweet asap. And it was a tweet from
RFK Junior when he was running for president against Joe Biden,
for goodness sake, So that's as bad as it gets,
(28:15):
it said, the Biden administration set up the disinformation governance
for most Oldwellian thing in history. Oh yeah, bunch of bureaucrats,
tell you what you can say.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Nia Jenkowits, I haven't forgotten her name.
Speaker 6 (28:25):
Totally, totally. So so that's a that's a completely different
animal than next to our saying we don't think our
audience really likes this show. We just assumed be something else.
That's a business called my mind.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Totally agree, Congress and Jim Jordan will have you back
and there will be video of one hundred mile an
hour service. It will happen. I will not be doing
it's thank you, sir, Thank you, all right, thank you guys.
Speaking of speaking of serving up one hundred miles an
I'm glad we were reminded of this important, this important
milestone that middle aged buck is going to hit one way,
one way or another.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
And I like that you're now calling yourself middle age.
This happened out of nowhere. You used to be like,
I'm a youthful guy, and now like the middle aged
Like I'll tell you to be able to get out
of bed in the morning.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
I'm I'm gonna let you a little secret. And now
this probably isn't unique to tennis, but I think it's
more common in tennis. Everyone who plays tennis, I don't
you all know those those who play on a regular basis,
you know, play some USTA matches, or play the club
championship or the you know, local ladder in their neighborhood
or whatever. They're always like, oh, I haven't played so long.
(29:36):
Oh my shoulder has been really awful. Like every time
you talk to somebody you're about to play tennis with,
it's Oh, my achilles has been so tight. I haven't
had surgery on it yet, but I'm really you know,
plub andy blah. It's all a big psychout game. So yeah,
of course I'm playing up the middle aged thing now
clay technically true, so I'm milking it for all that
it's worth. But middle aged buck is going to get
(29:56):
that hundred mile an hour surf. Somehow. I'll find three
more mph on my surf or been the last time
out there, I did get a better system. But you
know what part of my system is chalk, friends, Because
I cannot let this go. I will not be denied,
And Chalk is like in the corner there, urging me on,
giving me that energy, drive and focus. I don't want to.
I don't want to end up like one of these
(30:17):
Biden Kamala voters like I couldn't hit this over one
hundred miles an hour, So I'm doing chalk every day.
The Chalk daily is fantastic. I've also got Chalk's Chad Mode,
which if you can't hit hundred miles an hour with
chad mode, and I don't even know how fast you
can pitch, but it'll add some add some mph there
for you too, or whatever you're doing. Bowling apparently clays
a great bowler, which we need to go bad for bowling.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Honestly, it's kind of not a sport that you want
to brag about being good at.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
But I'm I'm pretty solid. Uh So my point here
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know right? But you could on Sunday hang with and
Buck podcast. Let's take a look at what is going
on with mister Gavin Newsom for a second, shall we?
Speaker 7 (31:24):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (31:24):
And this is going to transition into also my uh
comologist deep dive. As I was reading the memoir last night,
it was very hell late.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Did you stay up with your friend Kamala's book? I
spent a solid hour before I went to bed just reading.
I was very excited. It had automatically downloaded to my
kindle because I was a pre purchaser, so I gotta
I gotta pump those number one, What is your What
does your wife think when she comes to get in
bed and you are just curled up comfortably reading Kamala
(31:55):
Harris's book?
Speaker 2 (31:56):
Does she make fun of you at all? What is
her take on this?
Speaker 1 (31:59):
I could come up with something clever to say here,
but the truth is the baby's been waking up about
every hour all night long, so she's just thinking how
are we going to get through the night? So you
are now because for a while there you had angel
baby that was sleeping perfectly on.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
So I'm just gonna tell you guys this because yeah, okay,
maybe I need to, you know, learning a little humility
on this one. As a new parrot. A lot of
people are like, oh, are you okay in the first
three four months, and I was like, okay, the baby
is adorable and sleeps seven eight hours a night every night.
It was just like, we didn't do anything. The baby
just sleeps. And I told my sister this, you know,
(32:35):
I've got a little nephew, and she had a very
tough sleep schedule kind of baby situation, and she couldn't
believe it. She's like, what do you mean your baby
sleep seven? I said, look, he just I don't know
what to tell you. The baby just as I've had.
Note how many times have I showed up Clay and said, you, oh,
not getting any sleep? And I'm like, no, it's been fine.
That has changed and the last month it has been.
Uh it has been And now Carrie's taking the brunt
(32:57):
of it. But you know, I try to help out.
And I'm also in the room when she's getting up
to go tend to the baby. I understand what you
parents are talking about. When You're like, are you okay? Yeah,
Now I need people to ask if I'm okay because
the sleep situation, I mean, Carrie's a trooper pushing through
all this every hour, I don't know, just every hour
little guys wake it up. I mean he's I think
(33:18):
it's called the sleep regression. They say the five month
or six months sleep regret. I heard it's very common.
Our first was I get Wara was an unbelievable trooper
with our oldest. It was. It was brutal how bad
he was at sleeping. But it was funny to me
because for a few months, little baby Speed was just
always smiling and so happy and just sleeping and so smiling.
(33:38):
And people were like, how are you guys doing? And
I was like, this is amazing, and I have ten
more of these like this is now I'm like, this
parent thing is tough, this could be this can be
a little bit of a challenge sometimes. So I've learned.
I've learned the the curve has bent in the other
direction right now for the effort and the challenges here, Okay,
now to so yes, I was reading Kalmalist. Look reading
(34:00):
this thing. I want to get into a more fulsome
discussion of it when we're more focused on on where
Kama is and all this, I would just say it
is very boring. And it is very clear that she
I didn't even know if she spent any time at
all even telling the ghostwriters what you're right, This thing
is is a book by committee. It's got They've got
(34:21):
a couple of people, probably three or four writers who
were working on it or something. Kamala didn't write a
word of it. Now, I know that's not unusual, but
it just comes across as completely just like it's just
so inauthentic. It's I figured that it would read like
it was a like a McKenzie consulting platform where eight
(34:42):
different people have all weighed in and it's just bland
and inauthentic. Well, and she and she knew. I mean,
I'll tell So this is the phase of the book
that I'm in. The phase of the book is Kamala
discussing the lead up to her becoming the nominee, and
I'm only a few chapters in. I didn't read that
much last night. And also the disastrous debate, and of
(35:03):
course she's like I was worried about him going into
this debate and by the way, she affirms what I
had said all along, because people were saying that they
pushed him to debate so they could push him outsolutely
made no sense. That's absolutely not true. His advisers thought.
And this is from Kamala. Now I understand, this isn't
a book, so it's all you know. This is in
(35:24):
intelligence circles. You would say, this is meant to influence
as well as inform. Right, this is not just someone
giving you information. They're trying to create a narrative. I
get that, But this is Kamala Harris saying, Oh, the
advisors thought that they could just get through this one
night and then it would all be fine. And she
(35:44):
claims in the book that she was of the mind
that Joe should just not debate at all, because basically
all of the strategizing Clay, if I may say so,
that I was doing from a Democrat mindset, he shouldn't debate.
It's a disaster. Trump didn't debate. He should just she says,
whether you believe it or not, she agreed with that,
and that a few of Biden's inner circle were convinced
(36:09):
that he would be able to not be okay for months,
but for one night he could pull it off. And
they said, look, they said in original sin. Yeah they really,
so that really just to be clear, everybody that really
was they thought they could, you know, hoodwink everybody. They
thought they could bamboozle us one more time, and that's
all they had to do. So it was a giant
(36:30):
roll of the dice and it came up snake eyes, right,
mister gambling man, that's bad. That's correct. You don't want
the snake eyes, thank you. So that's one part of
it that I thought was interesting so far. I'll give
you more comolologist analysis as I get further and deeper
into the book. I also mentioned that I am going
to be clay Is solo on the radio next week,
and I was gonna wait until Thursday to talk about this,
(36:52):
but I talk a little bit today. I am going
on a fact finding mission to Taiwan. I am scheduled
to meet with some of the most senior people in
the Taiwanese government. I want to speak to them, Clay
about national security with China and how that's looking, how
the Trump administration is doing visa v not just Taiwanese
but regional relations. How do the Tiwhenese feel about allies
(37:16):
like Japan in this moment and where do you know,
where do they feel about the future? By way, this
is the most important national security flashpoint and the most
important economic choke point in the world right now. Taiwan
makes ninety percent of the top and chips silicon, the
silicon wafers that are needed to make an integrated circuit. Essentially,
(37:38):
they make ninety percent of the top end ones and
sixty percent of overall. Clay, none of the smart tech
that we have anywhere can function without Taiwanese production. Nowhere
else in the world can they make this stuff. And
China is saying they're going to take this island in
the next two years. So I talked to Clay about
this as a Clay I just you know, I'm going
on my own time, but it's also on behalf of
(37:58):
the show because I'm going to be interviewing peace people
and I'm going to be and Clay said, go for it.
Originally we were going to go together, but we realize
the logistics of that We're going to be a little
more challenging. But so I'll be out next week, but
I'll be in Taiwan trying to find out as much
as I can about what I think in the next
two years will be the most important geopolitical challenge in
the world. I mean, Ukraine is already a hot war
(38:20):
and we got to figure out how to wind that
thing down. But I think that's just going to grind
on for another few years. I don't think it's going
to change very much. This is a situation Clay with
China you've talked about. Remember when they hit Iran Iran
with the reactors and also when there Ukraine war started,
You're like, maybe China's going to go for it. China
goes for Taiwan in any meaningful way. We have a
(38:40):
We wake up in a different world, truly, all of us,
all of you, whether you care about foreign policy or not.
The markets will the markets will be absolutely rocked. You'll
see trillions of dollars of wealth evaporate. I mean, it's
it's scary stuff. So I want to know what's going Look,
hopefully none of that happens. They continue as sort of
status quo and everything is great. But I think this
(39:01):
is uh. You know, part of what we do on
this show is try to get ahead of where things
are going. I'm telling you this is going to be
a big issue and it's going to be a big
issue that the Trump administration has to figure out. We're
not just going to be able to backburner this. So
that's a big trip. That's a long airplane flight.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
So you are headed over there all of next week
and then you'll be back. Maybe you'll send some stuff
in from Taiwan, but that I'm I'm hoping can.
Speaker 2 (39:26):
Get some high level interviews. You know, it's not it's
not all set in stone because they've got some very
important stuff going on over there. But I am going,
you know, and we're going to air some some of
it on the show, assuming that the people that I'm
trying to sit down with will sit down with me.
But we're just gonna learn as much as we can
over there, and that's the that's the plan. So really,
you for to go ahead?
Speaker 1 (39:47):
No, I was gonna say, do you want to play
Gavin Newsom here because we started off with you We're
going to play.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
Yeah, yeah, Sorry, I I digress, But I realized I
left the Taiwan thing rip when I was talking to
Jim Jordan. It's kind of like when some of you
found out that I was having a Carrie, but we're
having a baby. Because the top of the show, it
just it bled into the audio and I was like, well,
you know, carry's foremost things that of all the things
that could have leaked, the fact that you were having
a baby was the thing that leaked off. It was
(40:14):
very nice, Honestly, it was very touching because my inbox
and mentions and everything were just full of wonderful listeners
who were saying the sweetest things. But the fact that
we were expecting a little baby boy. But it was
funny because I was going to do like a real
announcement about it, and I just kind of let it
fly in an off moment break to Clay and it
went on the air. Okay, Gavin Newsom back to the
(40:35):
meat and potatoes here of the news cycle, Gavin Newsom.
Here he is saying the kind of stuff that really
ticks me off, but this is very normal for him.
That we're not even going to have this is nineteen,
not going to have election in twenty eight. We're struggling
to communicate.
Speaker 8 (40:52):
We're struggling to win back now the majority in the
House of Representatives, and that's a big part of what
I'm doing today in terms of the work out here
raising money but also raising awareness around how Donald Trump
is trying to rig the midterm elections and how I
fear that we will not have an election in twenty
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twenty eight. I really mean that and the core of
my soul unless we wake up to the code red
what's happening in this country, and we wake up soberly
to how serious this moment is.
Speaker 2 (41:24):
Claycy, what is that? What is he really doing here
saying that he and his soul believes we're not even
going to have an election in twenty twenty eight? Like,
what's the play as you see it?
Speaker 1 (41:35):
First of all, I went on Twitter and I reiterated
what I said the last time he said this. I
will put ten million dollars up against Gavin he can
get it from his donors that we will have an
election in twenty twenty eight. I don't even I think
the Democrat base eats this up. And I think this
is already starting the race in twenty twenty eight. I
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think that's the reality. He can't possibly believe this. If
you believe it, why are you already effectively running for president?
What does he think this is going to happen that
Trump's going to announce when, first of all, because the
presidential race is going to start in January of twenty
seven in earnest, and by January of twenty eight will
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have the primaries actually starting, So when exactly would Trump
cancel the twenty twenty eight election. I think Trump's going
to eat up the twenty twenty eight election because He's
going to see it as some form of an apprentice.
It's a reality television show made for him to be
the king maker on the Republican side of the equation,
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and probably to weigh in a lot on the Democrat
side of the equation too. I just I look at
this and I think that it must be that the
base of the Democrat Party is so crazy that telling
them that Trump is going to cancel elections in some
way paradoxically makes Gavin Newsom a bigger favor it in
twenty twenty eight. So that's the motivation, I think what's
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going on here. He clearly does not believe it, And
this is part and parcel, unfortunately, of why we're getting
all these left wing political attacks, because enough of the
base of the Democrat Party believes this that they're willing
to kill Charlie Kirk, and that they're willing to try
to kill President Trump, and that they are willing to
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frankly burn down Josh Shapiro's governor's mansion. By the way,
that was left wing political violence too, even addressed against Democrats.
There is a lot of crazy. There are a lot
of crazy people out there, and the Democrat base is
overwhelmingly made up of a lot of crazy people, and
they want to hear this fear porn is. I think
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it titilates them. I think it drives them. And Gavin
Newsom is playing on it even though he knows it's untrue,
which is I think one of the most dishonest things
as a politician can do. And it's one thing if
you actually have a strong opinion that might be controversial,
we might disagree with. I think Bernie Sanders has a
lot of opinions that he truly believes that are wrong,
(44:11):
and I disagree with him, but I at least respect
his right to make the argument. Gavin Newsom doesn't believe this.
He's lying. He just knows it's politically advantageous to say it,
and he's trying to take advantage of it. And that's
the reality, and it's hard to respect anybody adopting that perspective.
Speaker 2 (44:29):
Some of these lunatic Democrats that you'll hear, I think
they actually believe the lunatic stuff, lunatic stuff that they say.
I don't think Gavin Newsom believes one iota, well a
sentilla of this nonsense. That's right. He's just playing them
for fools.
Speaker 1 (44:46):
And there's ten million dollars. Take me up on it, Gavin.
I feel really good about me winning the ten million.
I'll donate it to people out there so they can
sue for some amendment cases. He's not going to respond
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Speaker 1 (46:09):
Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton Show. Appreciate all
of you hanging out with us. We're joined now by
Senator Rick Scott of Florida. We'll get into a bunch
of different stories from him, but Vice President jd Vance
just spoke about the shooting that occurred earlier today at
the Dallas Ice facility, and this is what he said.
(46:30):
And then we will bring in Senator Scott because I'm
curious how he would respond to this.
Speaker 2 (46:34):
Here is jd Vance.
Speaker 9 (46:36):
When you go around and lie about our law enforcement
and you tell them that they're mistreating five year old girls,
what do you think is gonna happen? When Democratic politicians
incur doxing, when they encourage us to unmasked ice enforcement officers.
What do you think is going to happen? When the
mayor of Los Angeles encourages violent protesters to get in
the face of our law enforcement. What do you think
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is gonna happen. What's gonna happen is political violence. And
political violence has gotten out of control in this country.
Speaker 2 (47:05):
We got to stop it.
Speaker 9 (47:06):
We got to condemn it. And that starts, unfortunately, at
the very top of the Democratic Party. If you want
to stop political violence, stop attacking our law enforcement as
the Gestapo. If you want to stop political violence, stop
telling your supporters that everybody who disagrees with you is
a Nazi. If you want to stop political violence, look
(47:27):
in the mirror. That's the way that we stop political
violence in this nots me.
Speaker 2 (47:31):
I agree with everything. JD.
Speaker 1 (47:33):
Vance, Vice President of the United States said, there, I
suspect that you do as well, Senator Rick Scott. Your
reaction to that here as we start the interview with you.
Speaker 6 (47:44):
Absolutely, you know it makes you mad.
Speaker 10 (47:47):
When I was governor, we lost fifty one members of
law enforcement, and you go to their funerals. These are
this is a family. Once their own personal family. Then
law enforcement is a family, and they unfortunately with under Democrats,
under Democrat rule, under Democrat rhetoric, there they attack our
law enforcement. What do you want in your house? You
(48:08):
you know you want it breaks and you want somebody
to show up. Who shows up, whether they know you
or not, it's law enforcement. You want to make sure
your school is say for your kid, you want to
make sure that safe. Go get a job, you will
make it, make sure the restaurant safe.
Speaker 6 (48:22):
Who does it for you? Law enforcement? You might never know.
Speaker 10 (48:26):
So the Democrats that has got to stop this attack
on law enforcement. When I grew up in a country
where if my mom thought I would ever talk back
to a law enforcement or say something battle band, I
got the biggest whipping in the world. I would never
have done that.
Speaker 6 (48:44):
I bring my grand.
Speaker 10 (48:45):
Kids when we see when they see law enforcement, they
thank them. That's what everybody in this country ought to
be doing, say, thank god, somebody's willing to put on.
Speaker 7 (48:52):
The uniform and depend our freedoms and depend their safety.
So these democrats got to stop this rhetoric. Charlie's hurt dead.
Speaker 2 (49:04):
Okay, Senator Scott, We're gonna have to have you call
back in because I Clai. I don't know if you
could hear. I cannot hear what he's saying on the line.
Speaker 1 (49:10):
This is one of those things where I just I
look around and I'm like, cell phones are never just
going to work perfectly, are they?
Speaker 2 (49:16):
Like, I guess not.
Speaker 1 (49:17):
I don't know what ago we would have thought, Hey,
the signals will eventually be flawless, like, but it's amazing
how often you can't have a normal conversation on a
cell phone.
Speaker 2 (49:26):
Now, maybe Elon will fix that, you know, maybe Elon
will all have sat phones essentially. I remember that was
such a thing when I was overseas twenty years ago
with the agency to have a satellite phone. I was like, oh,
it was, you know, sixteen dollars a minute or something
to actually talk to anybody on it. You would think
that we would get to a place where this stuff
would all work much more. We got them back. We
can hear him now. I want to hear what the
(49:46):
good senator has to say.
Speaker 10 (49:48):
Yeah, so we have got to stand up for our
law enforcement and the Democrats have got to stop this.
Where don't their families want to be safe? Don't there
voters want to be safe?
Speaker 6 (49:58):
Don't there?
Speaker 2 (49:59):
But Senator, let me ask you this hold on a second,
because because Gavin Newsom in California, I know that the
law doesn't go into effect until January, and I assume
that they're smart enough to know that they can't tell
federal law enforcement how they can tactically do their jobs
the state of California. But I mean, what message could
be more clear than what he's saying, which is the
governor of America's largest state, Gavin Newsom is telling everybody
(50:23):
that these are basically fascist stormtroopers and they're hiding their
identities because there's something immoral about enforcing immigration law.
Speaker 6 (50:33):
Look, they might have a mask because they're scared to
death of people like Gavin Newsom as telling telling people
right to attack law enforcement, don't cooperate with them, get
in their face. I mean who I mean, Like, doesn't
Gavin Newsom care about the situisans of his state? Well,
I was governor Florida. You know what I wanted.
Speaker 10 (50:53):
I wanted every family to be safe. I wanted every
business to be safe. I wanted every restaurant, every.
Speaker 6 (50:57):
School to be safe.
Speaker 10 (50:59):
So why didn't Keavin Newsom care about the people in
the state, about their safety. That's what I don't get.
You don't build a business, you don't want your kids
to go to school, you don't want to live in
a community that is unsafe. Support law enforcement. It's real simple.
They will defend your freedom and your safety.
Speaker 1 (51:17):
We're talking to Senator Rick Scott Florida a lot of discussion.
I was texting with Senator Ron Johnson a little bit
earlier about the potential for a shutdown. He's got a
peace up in the Wall Street Journal about ways to
end this conflict once and for all. What should our
listeners know about the latest battle over funding the government.
Speaker 6 (51:37):
Well, here's where it works. We only need a majority
in the hospital. We have to have sixty votes in
the Senate. Chuck Schumer, for whatever god forsaken reason, wants
to shut down government. So some services will be stopped
beginning at midnight September thirty. He that's what he wants,
that's what he wants.
Speaker 10 (51:54):
He doesn't care. He wants to shut down government. Well,
Ron Johnson's proposing, which is really smart. Let's just let's
just make sure that we just keep funding government. Well
we should be. We should have done our budget bills,
which we haven't done again this year, which we should
have done. But if we don't, then we'll just continue
to keep government open and last year's funding, which is
(52:14):
too high. I want to balance budget, but it's better
than shut down and shutting down government and shutting down services.
And by the way, federal workers, when they don't come
to work, they still get paid. How crazy is that?
When you don't go to work, you don't get paid.
But federal workers, which I love them, right, we have
a shutdown, they get paid. That doesn't make any sense.
(52:35):
They don't get paid until we go back to work.
But they don't come to work and they get paid.
This makes no sense. That's why Ron's Ron Johnson's proposal
is very smart. They will never have the Chuck Schumer shutdowns.
Speaker 2 (52:48):
Senator Scott, how is the confirmation process going in the
Senate for Trump nominees there. We had I think talk
to you about this a few months ago that there
have been a lot of concerns raised those who are
paying attention that Democrats are doing everything except the pull
the fire alarms, so to speak, to try to prevent
nominees from getting through. Has that process started to work
(53:10):
a little bit more efficiently? Are you getting Trump's picks
in place? How's that been going in the Senate side.
Speaker 10 (53:17):
It's like they don't They don't think that Trump should
have anybody work with it. So he needs to put
together a team. That's what presidents do, right. This is
the first time in the history of the country that
the opposing party of the president will do everything they
can to block all nominees. I don't care who who
the nominee is. And so what we've had to do
(53:38):
in the Senate is we had to change the rules
because the Democrats are Democrats are blocking every every every nominee,
even nominees that they will vote for they've been blocking.
They don't, so we've changed the rules. We had quite
a few of our nominees approved last week. That we
will be back next week.
Speaker 6 (53:59):
And we'll get my goal.
Speaker 10 (54:01):
I think the goal is we're going to have over
one hundred nominees done in the next ten days. So
we've got to get Trump's nominees done, and we you know, unfortunately,
but what Chuck Schumer's doing with all these antics is
he's saying that SIMATE was was set up to force
us to work together. He's just saying, no way. You know,
we don't ever have to work together anymore because Chuck
(54:23):
Schumer is going to fight everything, and so we have
to change the rules to get anything done. Schumer needs
to go.
Speaker 1 (54:30):
What do you think about the Trump Library? On a
positive side here, I mentioned this Deback. He lives in Miami.
He's one of your constituents now, Senator I spend a
lot of time in Florida as well. What does it
say about the state of Florida, the trajectory of the
country overall that a big city like Miami. I think
a lot of people listening to us right now in
Miami are saying, this is great, We're going to have
(54:52):
the Trump Presidential Library here. What does it say about Miami?
What does it say about Florida?
Speaker 6 (54:57):
Well, Florida's become the center of the Republican Party.
Speaker 10 (55:00):
Look at his whole team. So many of them Pam, Bondi, Susie,
while so many of them come out of Florida. So
he and you know, as you know, the President moved
out in New York and moved down to Florida. So
I you know, whether it's in Palm Beach, whether it's
in Miami, it's going to be. You know, it's going
to be in I can't imagine it's not going to
be in Florida. I know the piece of propert they
were talking about Miami. I was just down at the
(55:20):
Freedom Tower just the other day that they've completely recently redone.
That's where all the Cuban refugees were processed when they
were coming in the sixties and seventies. So I, you know,
look wherever it is, I look forward to bringing my
grandkids there to see it.
Speaker 1 (55:37):
One last question for you, Jimmy Kimmel. The story surrounding that.
As we're talking to you, Next Star and Saint Clair
local affiliates are not carrying the show and they just
said you come out of the business world. Next Star
is continuing to evaluate and we're engaged in discussions. We
(55:58):
want diverse interests of the communities we serve to be
reflected and respected. What should happen here? In your mind,
what's the right solution?
Speaker 10 (56:06):
Well, they don't make a business decision. Jimmy Kimmel has
become just toxic.
Speaker 2 (56:12):
Uh.
Speaker 10 (56:13):
You know, his audience, audience has gone down. People are
saying they don't want to see it. Like I remember
when Johnny Carson had a show. Uh and and Jay
Jaylen know they were funny, right they This is just
toxic with guys like Jimmy Kimmel. Do So, I've never
seen a show. I don't plan on watching a show.
(56:33):
I assume that they're making a decision. Is this good
for our audience? And is it fiscal Is it financially beneficial?
And think about it. If it's not, you think why
would they keep him on the air? So, and I
heard his audiences. His viewership has gone way down.
Speaker 7 (56:51):
Uh.
Speaker 10 (56:51):
So, I don't know why. You know, I'm not going
to watch it. I know, I don't know why Republicans
would ever watch the guy.
Speaker 6 (56:56):
He just he doesn't.
Speaker 10 (56:58):
I mean what he what he said about Charlie Kirk
was it was just completely inappropriate. It was I mean,
Charlie was a friend of mine. I did a show
post Mondays and for anybody to to say what they
said so is just.
Speaker 2 (57:15):
Toxic appreciating here?
Speaker 10 (57:19):
Yep, yeah, all right, well it's going to get better.
So I'm very optimistic we're gonna make it better.
Speaker 2 (57:26):
Thank you, Thank you all the work that he is doing.
Speaker 1 (57:29):
Positive there, Senator Rick Scott with us, we'll come back,
we'll close up shop, have a little bit of fun
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