May 10, 2022 • 52 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show podcast. Welcome in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show
Tuesday edition of the program. Appreciate all of you hanging
out with us as we roll through and discuss all
of the issues of the day. Right off the top
here Joe Biden currently speaking on inflation. We will pull
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any cuts from that that are relevant. There are a
ton of stories out there that are continuing to percolate.
Among them, we'll talk about this inflation. Biden address also
abortion scare tactics that are spreading widely in the wake
of the opinion that has been proposed by Justice Alito.
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I think it's important for Republicans to start to address
some of these scare tactics. We have continued speaking of
scare tactics, marching going on in the front yards and
basically the front lawns, nearly front streets of many Supreme
Court justices. Why is that being allowed to continue, considering
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that there is a federal law to keep it from continuing.
The NBA, Buck and I want to hit on this
a little bit later. But the NBA which pulled its
All Star game out of Charlotte North Carolina because of
a transgender bathroom bill that they did not like. Is
going to be playing actual games in the United Arab Emirates,
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where homosexuality is punishable by death. Seems to be a
bit of hypocrisy there as it pertains to the NBA.
But we begin with the biggest issue that continues to
dominate the American political sphere, and it is inflation. Tomorrow
we will get a reading on the month of April
to see whether or not inflation has accelerated or decelerated
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a bit from a forty year high of eight point
five percent. What will not change, however, is Joe Biden
is going to continue to come up with a shifting
rationale under which he bears no responsibility for the policies
that he has implemented that have helped to ensure that
the United States has one of the highest inflation rates
among Western democracies. And it's worth noting, as Biden speaks
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and we begin this show that it wasn't very long
ago that Joe Biden claimed his infrastructure bill would help
to stop surging inflation. In fact, this was just November
of twenty twenty one. Basically, every single policy idea including
build back better. Joe Biden has tried to argue that
by spending trillions of dollars, inflation will get better. Here
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is Biden. In November of twenty twenty one, the House
of Representative passed my Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill, Following on other
plans that I'm advancing. This bill is going to reduce
the cost of goods to consumers, businesses, and get people
back to work, helping us build an economy from the
bottom up in the middle out where everybody's better off.
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You know, I'm tired of this trickle down economy stuff.
If only we had trickled down economy. What do you
think is the only thing trickling down from Biden is incompetence.
It's amazing to watch this in real time, claim, and
I can see on the screen you've got lowering costs,
tackling inflation. The Democrats really do seem to believe, and
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maybe it's just because their own ideology boxes them into
this and they can't find a way out from it,
that the way to lower costs and tackle inflation is
to have the federal government spend more money. Oh and
of course, to raise a whole lot of taxes. Which
is something that they're not talking about very much now,
but they will be by all means if they if
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they can find themselves in a position to actually pass
legislation to do that, they will, and I think that
that's probably going to happen. But they keep saying, now,
Biden's big talking point is, well, there's the Putin price hike,
which he said during the speech, which he's giving right
now as we're talking to you, And they've got the
little the actual talking points behind him, lowering costs, tackling inflation.
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And then I listen to him, I go, none of
the things that he's saying will do either of those things.
They will actually make inflation worse and they will make
costs higher. They are this is a little bit like
the paradigm of defund the police. Defund the police is
only going to make crime worse and make everybody less safe.
But they kept saying, oh no, no, just just give
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this defund thing more time, treated more seriously, spending more money.
When you're in an inflationary period, as you pointed out,
the worst inflation we've seen in forty years, he's only
going to make the problem worse. But they refuse to
accept that they're wrong. I mean, that's really what this
comes down to. It. So it's like the mask issue.
They will not turn around and say, hold on a
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second government. Additional spending will simply make things that are
already getting bad far worse than they would otherwise be.
So that that's why I think we're just seeing the
beginning of this. I think that you're going to see
a really rough summer going into the fall, with the markets,
with inflation, with the price of food, the price of gas,
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it's all gonna be a nightmare for the Democrats. Look,
we hit yesterday a low in the SNP five hundred
going back to March of twenty twenty one, and we
are becoming perilously close to going negative for the entire
Joe Biden administration. And we have continued to talk about
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this buck but the incompetence of Biden on every single front.
This is what I would ask everybody out there. It's
a simple question, but it goes to the essence of
very many political elections. How many people out there are
better off now than they were when Donald Trump was president?
How many of our listeners are better off today than
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they were the last day Donald Trump was president on
January very nineteenth of twenty twenty, twenty twenty one. I
don't think there's very many. And it's not just Republicans,
it's independence, it's Democrats. If you took away, to your point, Buck,
the preexisting party alliances that are out there whereby a
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certain percentage of people are just going to refuse that,
to refuse to acknowledge that things could be worse because
they're so died in the wool in supporting the Democrat Party.
Nobody really supports Joe Biden. They support the fact that
a Democrat is in office. If you take away those people,
and even those people, if you gave them truth serum
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and you ask them, hey, really, let's be honest. Were
you better off when Trump was president or you better
off when Biden's in office? I think one hundred percent
of Americans would have to acknowledge that Joe Biden has
failed on every single front. He's failed on the border,
he's failed on international relations, he's failed on inflation, he's
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failed on crime. I just think we have to keep
beating this. He's failed on COVID, certainly, he's failed on
kids being better off because of COVID. I just think
we have to keep beating this drum because there isn't
a story that Republicans can lose on when it comes
to Joe Biden's performance in office, and I think they're
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recognizing it. It's very Big brother esque. Buck to your point,
I'm looking at the screen and they have all these
messages that they're trying to get across behind Biden through
just repetition, as if he has an answer in any
way for what's going on with inflation. His answer for
inflation is spend more money, which is truly the worst
thing that could happen for the government right now. There's
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no way that Democrats can hold on to a majority
in the House or the Senate with the I mean,
we know they're going to almost certainly lose the House,
but I don't think they could even hold the Senate
majority if this current trend economically continues. I mean, when
you look at the data, just so everyone knows, this
is not just like Clay and Buck we think. I mean,
you look at Biden right now. I said this to
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clayby force. I'm gonna say this to all you because
we're all part of the same Clay and buck family here. Okay,
this guy as president is absurd. I'm just gonna he's
not up for this. He was never a very bright guy.
He is way too old for the job. He looks decrepit.
I'm sorry, it's true, and I mean that in terms
of not cognitively physically capable of doing this in a
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meaningful way. And Democrats act like everything's fine. I'm sorry.
The emperor has no clothes and people are realizing this.
There's a CNN poll not you know, right wing crazies
dot com y CNN poll last week, eight and ten
adults said the federal government wasn't doing enough to curb
inflation seven and ten and the Democrat Party seven and
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ten Democrats approve of Biden on the economy. Eighty six
percent of Democrats overall approve of his performance. These the
people who voted for Biden don't seem to understand the
cause and effect of what they keep saying. The federal
government can't solve this. The federal government isn't doing I'm sorry,
isn't doing enough to solve this. They are saying the
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federal government is causing the problem, and Joe Biden's management
of the federal government's causing the problems. So Democrats are
in denial and delusion about this. The numbers with Independence
though and Republicans in the tank. You look at overall
approval of the economy nationwide, everyone recognizes these guys don't
know what they're doing. They simply don't have the skill set,
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they don't have the vision, and their ideas are crappy.
You just I mean, I just looked at the Build
Back Better framework, Clay. It's really straightforward. Spending a whole
lot more money, giving universal PreK. Think of it, the
size of that. You're basically going to expand out the
federal school system, right, the Department of Education and the
Universal pre K. That's just gonna be a whole new entitlement,
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more money, more spending. It's just gonna get worse and worse. Yeah,
I don't think there's any doubt, and I'm not sure
where they're going to be able to make arguments going forward.
The best thing we can do, and I mean this
for the country, is run out the clock on Joe
Biden in twenty twenty two, essentially, don't allow him to
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pass any more truly substantive bills. Now we can get
into a big debate about what exactly counts as substantive.
I'm not happy that we're spending forty billion dollars plus
to give Ukraine aid when our moms can't find any
formula baby formula out there on the shelves right now.
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I'm not happy that we're sending Ukraine forty billion dollars
to help protect their borders when we won't protect our
own southern border. I think there are many reasons why
you can be angry about the way money is being
spent and what the significance of the dollars that we
are spending is. But we really have to keep is
any sort of transformative, lasting legislation from being passed, whether
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it's a tax increase, whether it's some form of build
back better that creates government expenditures that ride off into
the sunset of trillions of dollars. We have to run
out the clock because once we get to the summer,
everything pivots towards the campaign, and if Democrats haven't passed
anything buck, they're not going to be able to pass
much in twenty twenty three and in twenty twenty four.
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Because I think you're correct that there will be an
overwhelming red wave in November. So long as Republicans continue
to bring home the failures of the Biden and this
station so far, I want to also bring this with
this is another CNN poll just to give everyone to say,
the public's view of the economy overall is the worst
that has been in ten years. Okay, the worst that
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has been in ten years. That was actually the top
line of the pole. So the overall everyone realized it's
a bad economy right now, it's not good. And inflation,
I know, is the primary driver of that. But yeah,
how expensive everything is? Gas, food, rent, new cars, used cars, everything.
How expensive this is? You know, I've got a family
member who's a small business owner. All of his costers
is going up all the time. Yeah, of course. And and
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and if you're trying to just get to that point
where you're a profitability, it can eat away at your margins.
It could kill your business. Right. This is and this
is why so much of this, Oh, here we go,
Biden deficits exploded under my predecessor. It's always somebody else's fault.
It's Putin's fault, It's Trump's fault. Joe Biden didn't come
into office saying I'm going to complain a lot about
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what other people are doing and not fix anything. He said,
Clay Steady handed the economy middle class folks will do great,
and that was just all absurd. Also, deficius exploded because
of COVID. Right if you look at the economy and
you freeze frame it in February and March, right before
COVID hit, we were trending towards the greatest economy that
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has ever existed in the United States. In fact, you
can argue we were there. And I think we have
to continue to hammer home that the people who were
employed in February of twenty twenty, when wages were rising
for all races, White, Black, Asian, Hispanic, when unemployment rate
was lower for all races than we've ever seen before,
we still haven't regained the jobs that we had from
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the Trump economy in February of twenty twenty. There's still
over a million people who are not in the workforce
that we're working then. And I gotta tell you, by
the way, right now, everybody's trying to save money. Biden's
talking about inflation eight point five percent is going to
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Buck Sexton show, everybody, we want to talk more about
what's going on outside these Supreme Court justices homes. Right now,
we've got Doug Blair with us now. He's a news
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producer of The Daily Signal and co hosts of The
Daily Signal podcast. Doug, thanks for being with us. Hey, guys,
thanks so much for having me on. So I understandings
you were out there watching some of these protests. You know,
nice house, he got their Supreme Court justice kind of protests.
You know what I mean. People were worried about this,
People worried about the security safety of these justices. What
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you see. Yeah, no, you're absolutely right. I was out
there watching these protesters march around and find their way
suddenly in front of the houses of some of the
most important justices in the land. It was it was horrifying.
I mean, these people are so angry, they're so spiteful,
and the fact that they thought it was appropriate for
them to go to the houses, the private residences of
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some of these justices. It's it's literally only for one reason.
It's to intimidate them. It's to force them to think
that they're in danger. And if they don't vote a
certain way on Rov Wade, they're gonna do something and
we don't know what that's something is, but assuring good Doug,
what is the overall vibe of the crowd that you
found yourself in outside of these homes? Did it feel dangerous?
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Did it feel potentially violent? How sustained? Do you get
the sense that this is going to be for those
of us who haven't been around these crowds, take us
inside their midst and tell us what it felt like.
So I've been to a couple of these protests right now,
and it depends on which person it is. Justice John
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Roberts felt like, you're very average, Like I'm mad, I'm
going to protest in front of somebody's house, so I
don't like, which is ideally not what you're doing. But
this is where we're at now with the modern left.
They were upset, but they weren't that upset. I mean,
it got so much worse when they got to Bret
Kavanaugh's house. Something in the air just changed. You could
feel it turned like a switch. They just viewed this
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person as like a monster, as subhuman, and they wanted
him to know that they were out there and they
hated his guts. So I heard one protester yell and scream,
I can see you Brett. I hope that God he
was wrong. I hope that Brett wasn't actually at his house,
that Justice Havana wasn't at his house. But it was.
It was. It was terrifying. I was I was scared
for the police officers who were there, because this crowd
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was just so agitated and so angry. Doug, what what
was the security presence like? Were there a police officers
that were doing crowd control of these protesters. We were
discussing earlier in the program that this would seem to
be a violation of law in the state of Virginia
in the state of Maryland, respectively. But were there a
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police on scene and what was that like? Absolutely so,
there were, thankfully police on presence. There. There was a
police presence at the at the houses. I think it's
it's kind of scary, though, the fact that there had
to be a police presence at these places, because it
just shows you how far down the discourse in America
has gotten. Where these protesters felt like the response to
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a decision that they might not like from the Supreme
Court is to go and intimidate these justices. I think
it's just terrifying that we've we've reached this point where
the last field empowered to go and harass people where
they live to try and get what they want. And
thankfully there were police officers there, but I shudder to
think what would have happened if there weren't. You know, Doug,
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one of the things we were talking about and discussing
is the challenges associated with enforcing these laws, whether it's Maryland,
whether it's Virginia, whether it's DC where some of these
justices may live. What do you think would have happened,
based on being in that crowd if there had started
to be arrests made? Does this make protest more likely
going forward? Does it make martyrs of the people who
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are arrested? Or would that nip these protests in the
bud and the people that you saw are unlikely to
keep showing back up? How would you assess that aspect
of these protests. It's funny you ask me that because
I actually had a circumstance where I was watching these
protests happen and the police showed up in full force.
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About five cop cars showed up outside of Justice Cavanaugh's house,
and you wouldn't even believe it that there have been
a hundred people there because they scattered to the wind.
They were terrified of the police coming to arrest them.
And I think that they're terrified overall two of this
movement that's happening right now right I think America is
sort of seeing a revitalization of a culture of life
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that has been gone for fifty years since Rob Wade
was formally put into place. I think that these protesters
feel as if they're seeing the demise of an abortion
type regime that is just it has been existing in
this country for far too long. And I think when
they do a sort of a cops show up, they
recognize that, you know, time was not on their side anymore,
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they were going to lose this fight, and that they
didn't want to be around to see what the results
were going to be. Speaking of Douglass Blair, he's a
producer of The Daily Signal co host of the Daily
Signal podcast, Doug, is the expectation that they are just
going to be ongoing protests every day or are they
going to try to camp out somewhere in the neighborhood
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occupy style what's going to happen is based on what
you're hearing from people who were there and from the
authorities who are trying to keep it relatively orderly. It's
an excellent question, because I don't see these ending anytime soon.
So there's a planned protest for tomorrow. They're going to
go to all the conservative justices houses. So far, they've
only hit Alito, Robert and Kavanaugh. There's plans for tomorrow
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to hit the rest of them. But I easily could
see this going on for a long long time. This
is not a group that gives up. Yesterday, I actually
got some very concerning footage of Black Block and Antifa
members who had attended these protests. All of the other
protests I had seen, there were angry people, for sure,
and they were definitely upset, and they did inappropriate things
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in front of the houses of these justices, but there
was no Black Block presence. I'm from Portland, Oregon, so
I know exactly what happens when Antifa and Black Block
show up to a protest. It gets real bad, real quick.
So that was incredibly disturbing for me to see that
these people were attending these protests. And I do want
to note one thing very quickly, as we are starting
to see these protests get more and more aggressive and
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more and more threatening to the lives of the justices,
I think it's despicable how we haven't seen a response
from the administration to this. We saw a very lukewarm,
very milktoast statement come out from President Biden Jansaki about
how you know violence is unacceptable in protesting. Well, sure,
that's fine, but like I think we need actual condemnation
of what is happening right now in these particular protests.
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It's not acceptable for you to go to somebody's house
and threaten them and harass them to get the judgment
that you want. Doug, last question here for you. You're
talking about the duration of these complaints in these protests,
what sense do you get if any of the neighbors,
Because if I were living in these neighborhoods, regardless of
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what my politics would be, I would be really really
angry about people taking over my neighborhood and chanting political slogans,
regardless of what they were, because I'm trying to get
my kids the Little League, I'm trying to get in
and out of school. Did you get any sense for
the neighborhoods that these justices live in and what that
response might be. Oh, guys, it's it's funny you mentioned
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that because these are suburbs of Washington, DC. Washington is
clearly one of the most blue cities in the country.
It's it's very, very, very less leaning. So these sometimes
the neighbors would come out and join the marches. We
would see people who would come out of their houses.
They would cheer, they would clap. As I mentioned, some
would begin to walk with the protesters. One of the
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protesters in charge of the Kavanaugh protests was his neighbor.
This was a person who thought that he was a
an evil person. And to again, I think that's just
so sad that we're at this point in the country
where your neighbor, somebody that you should at least have
friendly terms with or at least, you know, interact with,
is deciding that the best way to deal with you
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is to go out side and to harass you where
you live. It seems like that is just such a
strange place for us to be right now, and the neighbors,
the fact that they were joining in on it, I think,
just really adds fuel to that fire. That this is
a completely inappropriate way to do it, that they were
in on the game dog. Appreciate the time, Appreciate the work.
Will continue to follow you and your coverage of these
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potential protests. Appreciate my maam. Absolutely, thank you so much
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with us. We start off the show talking about the
fact that Joe Biden was addressing inflation at the same
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time that we began the show, and he was asked
about how much responsibility Democrats had to own for inflation.
And here was that question as well as Biden's response,
I want to let you guys all hear it. Let's
play it. I don't believe so many Americans believe that
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your administration is not doing enough to combat inflation. And
do you believe that you and your administration bear some
measure of responsibility for the inflation that we're seeing in
frost the country? First is we're in power, so first,
and you justifiably right, we control all three branches of government.
Well we don't really. We had fifty fifteen to Senate.
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You need sixty votes to get in Majors. Thanks John.
I've been pushing the things I've been proposing here and
you've heard me speak to the nay since I got
in office, and I need he gets sixty votes to
be able to even passion. Do you take any responsibility
your policies? I think our policies help not hurt the luck,
help not hurt. Like, let's just dive into help not hurt.
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What does that mean? How is there not a follow
up there? Because what would the inflation rate be if
he's helped? Or at eight point five percent? So it's
double digit if he's not president? Yeah, you have to
wonder in what universe he is living, because it's not
the one we're living in. And you think about the
one point nine trillion dollars that Democrats spent without a
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single Republican vote. His thing about we can't get anything
done is just not true. They got one point nine
trillion in spending and they were about to get five
trillion in spending until Democrats said a couple of them,
you guys are out of your gosh, jarn mind's okay,
you can't do this, all right, Joe man And I
remember I said this, do you callay? Like six months ago.
I think Joe Manchin may have saved the Democrat Party
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from complete complete financial implosion, or rather implode because of
the financial policies there personally admit it the country. I
think he may have been the guy standing athwart the
Democrats insanity, yelling stop, so to speak. And it's funny that,
Joe Biden, But what else are you gonna say? This
is the problem running with Democrats. First of all, they
could have pushed for just and not that infrastructure would
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have fixed inflation, because it wouldn't have. But notice they
always tied inflation, I mean, sorry, infrastructure to build back better.
It was always it's got to be both. It's got
to be both or else we don't want to do this.
So they wanted all this massive spending, and they now
would have to recognize, well, that was a really dumb idea.
But the only option for them is to admit that
they're wrong, and to admit that they're wrong is to
admit that Republicans were right, and they won't do it.
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That's why they won't turn the ship around. That's why
we're heading toward the Rocks and Joe Biden sharing full
steam ahead. It's also why you need multiple questions on
top of that, because your immediate alarm bells buck when
I see that answer, I think it would have been worse.
Do you bear any responsibility? I think it would have
been worse. That's a record scratch moment where you go
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back and say, wait a minute, we're at eight point
five percent inflation. That's the highest in forty years. When
you came into office, inflation was under two percent. What
you are telling the American public is if you were
not in office, if Republicans were in control right now,
inflation would be double digits. You're telling me if Donald
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Trump had beaten you in twenty twenty, that inflation right
now in this country would be over ten percent. You've
made it better at eight point five, the worst in
forty years. That is not an argument that the American public.
Here's buck and they even will countenance on the most
basic level. That's a lie. This is and you need
to be held accountable for it. This is speech today.
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And here we are in the third hour of the
Clay Traumas and Buck Sexton Show. As promised, we're joined
right now by Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee. Senator, thanks
for coming. I appreciate it. It is good to be
with you. Thank you so much. So. I'm sure you
saw the President Biden's speech on the economy just a
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couple of hours ago. Seem like a lot of blame deflection,
some talking points about lowering prices, not clear on how
they would actually achieve that. What wore as a legislator,
as a member of the US Senate. What were your
biggest takeaway? Senator Biden does not want to admit that
this is his fault, it is his problem. All you
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have to do is look at what the cost were
in twenty twenty and compare that to now. When you
look at a carton of eggs, it's up forty three percent.
When you look at coffee, it's up over one hundred
and forty cents for a pound of coffee beans. When
you look at milk, it is up. When you look
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at bread, it is up, and it's going up even
more with the situation in Ukraine. Now, why did this
not happen under President Donald Trump? It is because we
were energy independent. There was a reduction in regulation. We
were holding China to account for how they dealt with
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us on trade and other issues, and other countries knew
they needed to be our friend and not our adversary. Senator,
appreciate you coming on. There's been a lot of talk
about the leaked opinion from Justice Alito. In the event
that that opinion is accurate and Roe v. Wade is
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overturned and given the power back to the states, you
are in the Senate. Do you think the Senate should
have any role then, or do you believe it should
just go back to the states and let every state
make their own determination. Kind what we should do is
have the states step forward. This is what conservatives have
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fought for for years to see Row overturned and then
to see the issue of regulations and restrictions on abortion
go back to the states. Now, are there some areas
where the federal government does have some jurisdiction. Of course,
when it comes to report language in budget documents, the
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High Amendment language, the Mexico City policy. Yes, those components
are there, making certain that no taxpayer funds are expended
for abortion. There's also the opportunity to do a plus
up tax credit for expectant moms. Those are areas where
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the federal government will have a say. But when it
comes to the regulations and restrictions, the federal government and
federal legislators need to give the states the opportunity to
exercise the authorities they've been asking for and that conservatives
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have been asking for the states to have for decades.
We're speaking of Senator Marshall Blackburn of Tennessee. Senator, your
colleagues and you, of course, passed a bill to expand
security for Supreme Court justices and for their families. They
are ongoing protests, very aggressive ones at the homes of
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these members of the Supreme Court, obviously targeting people based
upon perceived political ideology of these justices. So do you
think that that is sufficient and what do you think
about the DOJ role in enforcing the federal statute that
says that you're not allowed, as a matter of law,
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to intimidate judges to try to bring about a different outcome.
The federal statute should be enforced, and DJ should move
forward with going out there rounding up these people that
are parading in the streets, of blocking the neighborhoods where
someone who is a federal a Supreme Court justice lives.
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This is against the law. There is a federal statute
that is there eighteen US fifteen oh three. People can
look it up. This prohibits this type of using this
activity in order to influence the outcome of a judicial decision.
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So the step we took is an important step. I
hope is that the House will join us in this.
It is something that Senator Cotton and I had supported
last year. We were joined by others on the Republican
side of the aisle to provide the type security that
a judge needs. You know, we had a federal judge
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last year, I think it it's about fifteen months ago
whose son was shot when he opened the front door
of their home thinking that he was opening the door
to a delivery man, and it turned out to be
someone who was trying to shoot the judge. Senator. I
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don't know if you've seen this news. It just came
down a little bit earlier today, but I know we've
had conversations about this with you before as it pertains
to the NBA in China. But for people out there
who have forgotten the NBA pulled their All Star game
out of Charlotte, North Carolina over a transgender bathroom bill,
they now the NBA Senator is going to the UAE,
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the United Arab Emirates, to play basketball games in the NBA.
The UAE punishes homosexuality with death in some cases. What
do you think about these woke corporations that lecture America
and will tell us what laws we can and cannot
pass here, But then they'll go over receives two countries
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where homosexuality is potentially punished by death, show up and
play and not uphold American values at all. It's astounding
to me to see how these corporations continue to couch
out to the Chinese Communist Party, how they will set
aside their beliefs and principles in order to chase the dollar.
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What they're looking at is what they perceive to be
a lucrative market, and in the interest of profit, they
are saying, Okay, we will go over here and we
will play these games because we think it's going to
be a revenue stream for us. And look at what
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has happened in China. They're in Jinjang where they have
their practice academies and they have their facilities, and they
have Nike merchandise licensed, NBA licensed merchandise being made by
slave labor, and they say absolutely nothing about any of
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that other than the Chinese people like basketball. And now
you see them moving forward, as you said, a new market,
a new opportunity for them to make more money. So
again they set aside their beliefs and they have one
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set of standards in the US, they have another set
of standards globally. Instead of saying, we are the NBA
from the United States of America and we're going to
stand against these human rights violations, we're going to stand
against slavery, which is what they should do. They should
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be ambassadors for truth and for freedom and for consistency
and for pursuing your dreams. And that is not what
they choose to do because they're chasing the profit. Senator
Blackburn in just a couple of weeks time. Title forty
two was set to end at the US Mexico border,
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the CDC authority that had been used to turn away
a pretty large percentage of illegal migrants over the course
the pandemic. A federal judge had temporarily blocked it, but
it seems it's just a matter of time before it
is removed. The Title forty two authority is gone, and
then everyone expects a massive surge of illegal crossings at
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the border. Can you just tell us what are the
expectations of people like you in the Senate and what's
going to happen once that expires. Once that expires, you're
going to see a rush to the border. Now, the
estimate is that we will go from six thousand illegal
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crossings a day to eighteen thous and illegal crossings a day.
This is something that has the potential to completely overrun
our border patrol. What we are aware of is that
the cartels, having been given a six month, six week
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lead time that this was going to happen, the cartels
are working globally. They are lining up people from across
the globe. Indeed, last year we had people from one
hundred and sixty different countries that showed up at our
border to seek asylum. So the cartels are working globally.
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They are in the process of moving vast numbers of
people to the southern border. Then they're going to begin
to move them to the border crossings and push them
into US control. Our concern is for the safety get
that border. Now. I want you to think about this.
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When I saw this eighteen thousand number, I thought, my goodness,
how does this relate to my state of Tennessee. While
in the state of Tennessee we have three hundred and
forty five cities in towns. Out of that number, ninety
percent ninety percent or eighteen thousand or less in population.
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I looked up the number when it comes to Illinois
also there it was about ninety percent were eighteen thousand
or less. So you can say you've got a typical
Tennessee the population equivalent of a typical Tennessee town, or
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the equivalent of a typical Illinois town or any other state.
I've pulled it for just about every state, and that
is going to become to our southern border for an
asylum claim every single day. So the question is how
long can our border patrols sustained US Senator. Last question
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for you. I know you're working on protecting kids online.
We have seen, certainly in the wake of COVID, the
overall mental health of children taking a precipitous decline that
has been occurring really for the basically the rise of
social media in general has not been healthy to our
overall teenagers mental health. What are you trying to do
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to help protect them? Yeah, so what of course, I've
got legislation. I have the Open App Market Bill that's
ready to be marked up on the Senate floor, the
Kids Online Safety Act that is ready to go through
at Senate Commerce Committee. In addition to that, we have
pulled together a parents guide for a way they can
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increase the protections for their children. Ane. You know, Clay.
One of the things that we were hearing a good
bit about from parents and grandparents was their concern of
what children are being exposed to when they are online,
with it being pedophiles and drug dealers and some of
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the harms that are coming from bullying online. Summer is
coming up, we were getting more questions from individuals on
this issue. So my team and I pulled together a
guide and people can get it from us on social
media on our website. This is to help parents and grandparents,
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caregivers of kids to know how to help those children
take that phone, set those privacy guidelines, and be able
to more effectively monitor of what children are being exposed
to when they get online. Senator Marshall Blackburn of Tennessee, everybody,
Senator appreciate you, thanks so much, got it, Take care, byebye.
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as well. And then there is this Clay. I was
not expecting to talk about this on the show, but
(45:03):
it turns out that Congress is going to hold their
first open hearing on UFOs in fifty years. Two Pentagon
officials are going to be testifying at that hearing next week.
There have been in recent years more and more people
(45:23):
who have been coming forward to say, Look, I don't
want to sound crazy, all right, I'm not trying to
say there's little greed men about to overthrow the governments
of countries all over the world, etc. But there is
some weird stuff that at least deserves some explanation. Here
is this funny. I have no idea where you you know?
(45:44):
Are are you Scully or Molder? You know? Where do
you fall on the that's for those of course, that's
a reference to the X Files, which I didn't see
that much of. I saw some of. Are you a
believer or a skeptic when it comes to UFO's Clay,
I don't believer. I just I think every generation thinks
(46:06):
that they know everything, doesn't matter what the subject is.
If you went back and read in the seventeen hundreds,
people are like, this era is the most brilliant ever.
And it's always true because you're advancing in terms of
the knowledge of society as a whole. So I think
that there's tons of things we don't know about the
larger universe, and I believe that there are There is
(46:29):
likely intelligent life somewhere else in the cosmos, and so
I believe in UFOs. I think that not only is
intelligent life exists, I think that they've probably visited our
planet at some point in time. What about you the best?
A little more skeptical, a little more skeptical. I don't know.
I'm not buying it. I feel like, first of all,
(46:49):
it's always why is it always so shady? Like shouldn't
at some point, shouldn't we just have found some flying saucers.
I think they're probably way smarter than us. You think
they're way smarter than us. I mean, they're way smarter
than They're having to our planet. Then we can't figure
out how to get to their planet or their location
wherever it might be. So yeah. I believe in alien
life somewhere in the cosmos, and I think it's visited here.
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The greatest alien visits Earth movie is I guess there's
probably an obvious answer, but we haven't really you know,
this is a good question. You know, there's a recent
one that I can't even remember. I think it had
like Jodie Foster as a contact. I think it's called
Is that right? I think it's I think that might
be it. I thought that was pretty good. Yeah, um,
(47:30):
I would I would have thought you would have gone
ET given you got to. Oh well, I haven't watched
ET with the boys. I haven't seen ET and probably
the kids now because it's a sad ending. See this
is where Uncle Buck comes through big or it's too
unhealthy delicious food your kid because you don't have to
worry about the tears. I don't want to watch super
sad movies like ET has got a pretty sad component
(47:53):
of what you know, which, speaking of UFOs off, you
know what what really what really busted me up back
in the day. I don't know if you saw this one.
This is about Sasquatch obviously, or the squatch to those
who I believe who were believers Harry, and that was
a tough one. That one was rough. That was like
Old Yeller for me at the end, man I was
I was bustled up by Harry and the Henderson's like
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he was a nice sasquatch. He was a good sass.
Do you know what book broke me back when I
was a young kid. Did you ever read Where the
Red Fern Grows. I kind of vaguely remember it, but
not really well. There were two dogs hunting dogs, and
it's even worse than Old Yeller. And I know there's
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people out there right now who are like, oh, thanks
for bringing up Where the Red Fern Goes. I just
remember being utterly crushed spoiler alert by what happens at
the end of Where the Red Fern Grows. So I
don't even know that I would let my kids read
that book. It's like Old Yeller, except twice as bad. Yeah,
so there's some very good There was a period I
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think of like mid late nineties became a particular fixation, right,
it became something. There was that movie Fire in the Sky,
which was about alien Remember that was the premise abduction, right, Yeah,
the premise for a while was the alien abduction thing, yes,
where they'd grabbed some guy and of course after he'd
run into the town he'd be having flashbacks. He's like,
I swear the aliens all grabby and everyone's like you're crazy,
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and then right, you know that that was the thing
for a while. Um, but you know, the UFO hearing,
I've I've seen some stuff on this that does require
There's been some you know, little lights flicking flickering around
the screen, and you know, there's been some stuff that
people in the military have seen and you can't explain,
and they can't explain. So I'm I'm all in favor of, like,
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let's keep it real, let's keep it rational, right, But
if they can't explain it, well, then we should at
least be open to the possibility that there are explanations
that we either have not considered thoroughly enough or that
we generally dismiss out of hand because we don't want
to deal with the possible reality. I look, this is
the first hearing since what like nineteen sixty eight, I
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think Gerald forty year he was still a congressman, was
the last person to hold hearings in Congress on UFOs.
And by the way, this was how crazy twenty twenty was.
They had a story like in the New York Times
where they're like, hey, we think UFOs are real, and
it was buried on like the eighteenth page because there
was so much chaos going on, people didn't even really
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care that much about the fact that might be real.
I feel like people also play those games with this,
I'm sure, by the way. I remember once I made
some passing reference to Wiccans and witches years ago radio
and members of the wiccan community reached out and they're like,
we know you were just kidding, but we're out here,
we're real and we actually have you know, thoughts, feelings, hopes,
design like they actually I'm not I'm just trying to
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say I'm not trying to offend the UFO community here,
but I do think, which right now, this is going
to be bad, but I think we need to separate
out unidentified flying object from intelligent other being. You know
what I'm saying. There may be some physiological explanation for
why this little thing is flying around that's not green
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spacemen and flying saucer is kind of so just a
UFO is a very broad term. That's all I'm saying
they way, I don't even know that we can trust
the government on anything. They're claiming that they don't have
the technology to replicate what these UFOs are doing, while
there are fighter pilots out there in the air flying
around and seeing these, so they are claiming that this
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is uh, this isn't impossible for them to otherwise replicate
the arrival by the way, is I think what I
might have been talking about the recent movie. I'm wrong.
It's not Contact. Contact was one. It's not that recent.
I think that's like twenty years old. I think the
arrivals about where there's just a spaceship that shows up
and they're trying to give us a message and we
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have to figure out what that message is. It's really
well done. U and Jodie Foster may not be in
that one. I can't remember who I tried to watch
The Martian I fell asleep. I gotta tell you, I
don't know watchst not met Damon's best. He wasn't setting
us his best on that one. But some of these
other ones. I'm telling you the X Files, it's a
good watch from the original X Files, a good watch
from Back of the Dames. No it's fantastic. And the
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movies were good too that they made. Uh that was
um the Fox Molder and and the girl Jillian andrews Man.
She was hot. Well day, I'll tell the story of
years ago when I was making fun of some aspects
of a sasquatch movie and it turned out that one
of the actors who started the movie was listened to
my show and called in and called in that was
(52:35):
that's phenomenal. Yeah, that's fun movie. That was a pretty
good one. Actually kim was called but primal Fear I
think something like that or not. Sleet Travis and Buck
Sexton on the front lines
Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show podcast. Welcome in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show
Tuesday edition of the program. Appreciate all of you hanging
out with us as we roll through and discuss all
of the issues of the day. Right off the top
here Joe Biden currently speaking on inflation. We will pull
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any cuts from that that are relevant. There are a
ton of stories out there that are continuing to percolate.
Among them, we'll talk about this inflation. Biden address also
abortion scare tactics that are spreading widely in the wake
of the opinion that has been proposed by Justice Alito.
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I think it's important for Republicans to start to address
some of these scare tactics. We have continued speaking of
scare tactics, marching going on in the front yards and
basically the front lawns, nearly front streets of many Supreme
Court justices. Why is that being allowed to continue, considering
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that there is a federal law to keep it from continuing.
The NBA, Buck and I want to hit on this
a little bit later. But the NBA which pulled its
All Star game out of Charlotte North Carolina because of
a transgender bathroom bill that they did not like. Is
going to be playing actual games in the United Arab Emirates,
(01:30):
where homosexuality is punishable by death. Seems to be a
bit of hypocrisy there as it pertains to the NBA.
But we begin with the biggest issue that continues to
dominate the American political sphere, and it is inflation. Tomorrow
we will get a reading on the month of April
to see whether or not inflation has accelerated or decelerated
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a bit from a forty year high of eight point
five percent. What will not change, however, is Joe Biden
is going to continue to come up with a shifting
rationale under which he bears no responsibility for the policies
that he has implemented that have helped to ensure that
the United States has one of the highest inflation rates
among Western democracies. And it's worth noting, as Biden speaks
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and we begin this show that it wasn't very long
ago that Joe Biden claimed his infrastructure bill would help
to stop surging inflation. In fact, this was just November
of twenty twenty one. Basically, every single policy idea including
build back better. Joe Biden has tried to argue that
by spending trillions of dollars, inflation will get better. Here
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is Biden. In November of twenty twenty one, the House
of Representative passed my Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill, Following on other
plans that I'm advancing. This bill is going to reduce
the cost of goods to consumers, businesses, and get people
back to work, helping us build an economy from the
bottom up in the middle out where everybody's better off.
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You know, I'm tired of this trickle down economy stuff.
If only we had trickled down economy. What do you
think is the only thing trickling down from Biden is incompetence.
It's amazing to watch this in real time, claim, and
I can see on the screen you've got lowering costs,
tackling inflation. The Democrats really do seem to believe, and
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maybe it's just because their own ideology boxes them into
this and they can't find a way out from it,
that the way to lower costs and tackle inflation is
to have the federal government spend more money. Oh and
of course, to raise a whole lot of taxes. Which
is something that they're not talking about very much now,
but they will be by all means if they if
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they can find themselves in a position to actually pass
legislation to do that, they will, and I think that
that's probably going to happen. But they keep saying, now,
Biden's big talking point is, well, there's the Putin price hike,
which he said during the speech, which he's giving right
now as we're talking to you, And they've got the
little the actual talking points behind him, lowering costs, tackling inflation.
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And then I listen to him, I go, none of
the things that he's saying will do either of those things.
They will actually make inflation worse and they will make
costs higher. They are this is a little bit like
the paradigm of defund the police. Defund the police is
only going to make crime worse and make everybody less safe.
But they kept saying, oh no, no, just just give
(04:30):
this defund thing more time, treated more seriously, spending more money.
When you're in an inflationary period, as you pointed out,
the worst inflation we've seen in forty years, he's only
going to make the problem worse. But they refuse to
accept that they're wrong. I mean, that's really what this
comes down to. It. So it's like the mask issue.
They will not turn around and say, hold on a
(04:51):
second government. Additional spending will simply make things that are
already getting bad far worse than they would otherwise be.
So that that's why I think we're just seeing the
beginning of this. I think that you're going to see
a really rough summer going into the fall, with the markets,
with inflation, with the price of food, the price of gas,
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it's all gonna be a nightmare for the Democrats. Look,
we hit yesterday a low in the SNP five hundred
going back to March of twenty twenty one, and we
are becoming perilously close to going negative for the entire
Joe Biden administration. And we have continued to talk about
(05:32):
this buck but the incompetence of Biden on every single front.
This is what I would ask everybody out there. It's
a simple question, but it goes to the essence of
very many political elections. How many people out there are
better off now than they were when Donald Trump was president?
How many of our listeners are better off today than
(05:56):
they were the last day Donald Trump was president on
January very nineteenth of twenty twenty, twenty twenty one. I
don't think there's very many. And it's not just Republicans,
it's independence, it's Democrats. If you took away, to your point, Buck,
the preexisting party alliances that are out there whereby a
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certain percentage of people are just going to refuse that,
to refuse to acknowledge that things could be worse because
they're so died in the wool in supporting the Democrat Party.
Nobody really supports Joe Biden. They support the fact that
a Democrat is in office. If you take away those people,
and even those people, if you gave them truth serum
(06:40):
and you ask them, hey, really, let's be honest. Were
you better off when Trump was president or you better
off when Biden's in office? I think one hundred percent
of Americans would have to acknowledge that Joe Biden has
failed on every single front. He's failed on the border,
he's failed on international relations, he's failed on inflation, he's
(07:01):
failed on crime. I just think we have to keep
beating this. He's failed on COVID, certainly, he's failed on
kids being better off because of COVID. I just think
we have to keep beating this drum because there isn't
a story that Republicans can lose on when it comes
to Joe Biden's performance in office, and I think they're
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recognizing it. It's very Big brother esque. Buck to your point,
I'm looking at the screen and they have all these
messages that they're trying to get across behind Biden through
just repetition, as if he has an answer in any
way for what's going on with inflation. His answer for
inflation is spend more money, which is truly the worst
thing that could happen for the government right now. There's
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no way that Democrats can hold on to a majority
in the House or the Senate with the I mean,
we know they're going to almost certainly lose the House,
but I don't think they could even hold the Senate
majority if this current trend economically continues. I mean, when
you look at the data, just so everyone knows, this
is not just like Clay and Buck we think. I mean,
you look at Biden right now. I said this to
(08:06):
clayby force. I'm gonna say this to all you because
we're all part of the same Clay and buck family here. Okay,
this guy as president is absurd. I'm just gonna he's
not up for this. He was never a very bright guy.
He is way too old for the job. He looks decrepit.
I'm sorry, it's true, and I mean that in terms
of not cognitively physically capable of doing this in a
(08:28):
meaningful way. And Democrats act like everything's fine. I'm sorry.
The emperor has no clothes and people are realizing this.
There's a CNN poll not you know, right wing crazies
dot com y CNN poll last week, eight and ten
adults said the federal government wasn't doing enough to curb
inflation seven and ten and the Democrat Party seven and
(08:51):
ten Democrats approve of Biden on the economy. Eighty six
percent of Democrats overall approve of his performance. These the
people who voted for Biden don't seem to understand the
cause and effect of what they keep saying. The federal
government can't solve this. The federal government isn't doing I'm sorry,
isn't doing enough to solve this. They are saying the
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federal government is causing the problem, and Joe Biden's management
of the federal government's causing the problems. So Democrats are
in denial and delusion about this. The numbers with Independence
though and Republicans in the tank. You look at overall
approval of the economy nationwide, everyone recognizes these guys don't
know what they're doing. They simply don't have the skill set,
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they don't have the vision, and their ideas are crappy.
You just I mean, I just looked at the Build
Back Better framework, Clay. It's really straightforward. Spending a whole
lot more money, giving universal PreK. Think of it, the
size of that. You're basically going to expand out the
federal school system, right, the Department of Education and the
Universal pre K. That's just gonna be a whole new entitlement,
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more money, more spending. It's just gonna get worse and worse. Yeah,
I don't think there's any doubt, and I'm not sure
where they're going to be able to make arguments going forward.
The best thing we can do, and I mean this
for the country, is run out the clock on Joe
Biden in twenty twenty two, essentially, don't allow him to
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pass any more truly substantive bills. Now we can get
into a big debate about what exactly counts as substantive.
I'm not happy that we're spending forty billion dollars plus
to give Ukraine aid when our moms can't find any
formula baby formula out there on the shelves right now.
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I'm not happy that we're sending Ukraine forty billion dollars
to help protect their borders when we won't protect our
own southern border. I think there are many reasons why
you can be angry about the way money is being
spent and what the significance of the dollars that we
are spending is. But we really have to keep is
any sort of transformative, lasting legislation from being passed, whether
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it's a tax increase, whether it's some form of build
back better that creates government expenditures that ride off into
the sunset of trillions of dollars. We have to run
out the clock because once we get to the summer,
everything pivots towards the campaign, and if Democrats haven't passed
anything buck, they're not going to be able to pass
much in twenty twenty three and in twenty twenty four.
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Because I think you're correct that there will be an
overwhelming red wave in November. So long as Republicans continue
to bring home the failures of the Biden and this
station so far, I want to also bring this with
this is another CNN poll just to give everyone to say,
the public's view of the economy overall is the worst
that has been in ten years. Okay, the worst that
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has been in ten years. That was actually the top
line of the pole. So the overall everyone realized it's
a bad economy right now, it's not good. And inflation,
I know, is the primary driver of that. But yeah,
how expensive everything is? Gas, food, rent, new cars, used cars, everything.
How expensive this is? You know, I've got a family
member who's a small business owner. All of his costers
is going up all the time. Yeah, of course. And and
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and if you're trying to just get to that point
where you're a profitability, it can eat away at your margins.
It could kill your business. Right. This is and this
is why so much of this, Oh, here we go,
Biden deficits exploded under my predecessor. It's always somebody else's fault.
It's Putin's fault, It's Trump's fault. Joe Biden didn't come
into office saying I'm going to complain a lot about
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what other people are doing and not fix anything. He said,
Clay Steady handed the economy middle class folks will do great,
and that was just all absurd. Also, deficius exploded because
of COVID. Right if you look at the economy and
you freeze frame it in February and March, right before
COVID hit, we were trending towards the greatest economy that
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has ever existed in the United States. In fact, you
can argue we were there. And I think we have
to continue to hammer home that the people who were
employed in February of twenty twenty, when wages were rising
for all races, White, Black, Asian, Hispanic, when unemployment rate
was lower for all races than we've ever seen before,
we still haven't regained the jobs that we had from
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the Trump economy in February of twenty twenty. There's still
over a million people who are not in the workforce
that we're working then. And I gotta tell you, by
the way, right now, everybody's trying to save money. Biden's
talking about inflation eight point five percent is going to
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Buck Sexton show, everybody, we want to talk more about
what's going on outside these Supreme Court justices homes. Right now,
we've got Doug Blair with us now. He's a news
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producer of The Daily Signal and co hosts of The
Daily Signal podcast. Doug, thanks for being with us. Hey, guys,
thanks so much for having me on. So I understandings
you were out there watching some of these protests. You know,
nice house, he got their Supreme Court justice kind of protests.
You know what I mean. People were worried about this,
People worried about the security safety of these justices. What
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you see. Yeah, no, you're absolutely right. I was out
there watching these protesters march around and find their way
suddenly in front of the houses of some of the
most important justices in the land. It was it was horrifying.
I mean, these people are so angry, they're so spiteful,
and the fact that they thought it was appropriate for
them to go to the houses, the private residences of
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some of these justices. It's it's literally only for one reason.
It's to intimidate them. It's to force them to think
that they're in danger. And if they don't vote a
certain way on Rov Wade, they're gonna do something and
we don't know what that's something is, but assuring good Doug,
what is the overall vibe of the crowd that you
found yourself in outside of these homes? Did it feel dangerous?
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Did it feel potentially violent? How sustained? Do you get
the sense that this is going to be for those
of us who haven't been around these crowds, take us
inside their midst and tell us what it felt like.
So I've been to a couple of these protests right now,
and it depends on which person it is. Justice John
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Roberts felt like, you're very average, Like I'm mad, I'm
going to protest in front of somebody's house, so I
don't like, which is ideally not what you're doing. But
this is where we're at now with the modern left.
They were upset, but they weren't that upset. I mean,
it got so much worse when they got to Bret
Kavanaugh's house. Something in the air just changed. You could
feel it turned like a switch. They just viewed this
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person as like a monster, as subhuman, and they wanted
him to know that they were out there and they
hated his guts. So I heard one protester yell and scream,
I can see you Brett. I hope that God he
was wrong. I hope that Brett wasn't actually at his house,
that Justice Havana wasn't at his house. But it was.
It was. It was terrifying. I was I was scared
for the police officers who were there, because this crowd
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was just so agitated and so angry. Doug, what what
was the security presence like? Were there a police officers
that were doing crowd control of these protesters. We were
discussing earlier in the program that this would seem to
be a violation of law in the state of Virginia
in the state of Maryland, respectively. But were there a
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police on scene and what was that like? Absolutely so,
there were, thankfully police on presence. There. There was a
police presence at the at the houses. I think it's
it's kind of scary, though, the fact that there had
to be a police presence at these places, because it
just shows you how far down the discourse in America
has gotten. Where these protesters felt like the response to
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a decision that they might not like from the Supreme
Court is to go and intimidate these justices. I think
it's just terrifying that we've we've reached this point where
the last field empowered to go and harass people where
they live to try and get what they want. And
thankfully there were police officers there, but I shudder to
think what would have happened if there weren't. You know, Doug,
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one of the things we were talking about and discussing
is the challenges associated with enforcing these laws, whether it's Maryland,
whether it's Virginia, whether it's DC where some of these
justices may live. What do you think would have happened,
based on being in that crowd if there had started
to be arrests made? Does this make protest more likely
going forward? Does it make martyrs of the people who
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are arrested? Or would that nip these protests in the
bud and the people that you saw are unlikely to
keep showing back up? How would you assess that aspect
of these protests. It's funny you ask me that because
I actually had a circumstance where I was watching these
protests happen and the police showed up in full force.
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About five cop cars showed up outside of Justice Cavanaugh's house,
and you wouldn't even believe it that there have been
a hundred people there because they scattered to the wind.
They were terrified of the police coming to arrest them.
And I think that they're terrified overall two of this
movement that's happening right now right I think America is
sort of seeing a revitalization of a culture of life
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that has been gone for fifty years since Rob Wade
was formally put into place. I think that these protesters
feel as if they're seeing the demise of an abortion
type regime that is just it has been existing in
this country for far too long. And I think when
they do a sort of a cops show up, they
recognize that, you know, time was not on their side anymore,
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they were going to lose this fight, and that they
didn't want to be around to see what the results
were going to be. Speaking of Douglass Blair, he's a
producer of The Daily Signal co host of the Daily
Signal podcast, Doug, is the expectation that they are just
going to be ongoing protests every day or are they
going to try to camp out somewhere in the neighborhood
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occupy style what's going to happen is based on what
you're hearing from people who were there and from the
authorities who are trying to keep it relatively orderly. It's
an excellent question, because I don't see these ending anytime soon.
So there's a planned protest for tomorrow. They're going to
go to all the conservative justices houses. So far, they've
only hit Alito, Robert and Kavanaugh. There's plans for tomorrow
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to hit the rest of them. But I easily could
see this going on for a long long time. This
is not a group that gives up. Yesterday, I actually
got some very concerning footage of Black Block and Antifa
members who had attended these protests. All of the other
protests I had seen, there were angry people, for sure,
and they were definitely upset, and they did inappropriate things
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in front of the houses of these justices, but there
was no Black Block presence. I'm from Portland, Oregon, so
I know exactly what happens when Antifa and Black Block
show up to a protest. It gets real bad, real quick.
So that was incredibly disturbing for me to see that
these people were attending these protests. And I do want
to note one thing very quickly, as we are starting
to see these protests get more and more aggressive and
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more and more threatening to the lives of the justices,
I think it's despicable how we haven't seen a response
from the administration to this. We saw a very lukewarm,
very milktoast statement come out from President Biden Jansaki about
how you know violence is unacceptable in protesting. Well, sure,
that's fine, but like I think we need actual condemnation
of what is happening right now in these particular protests.
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It's not acceptable for you to go to somebody's house
and threaten them and harass them to get the judgment
that you want. Doug, last question here for you. You're
talking about the duration of these complaints in these protests,
what sense do you get if any of the neighbors,
Because if I were living in these neighborhoods, regardless of
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what my politics would be, I would be really really
angry about people taking over my neighborhood and chanting political slogans,
regardless of what they were, because I'm trying to get
my kids the Little League, I'm trying to get in
and out of school. Did you get any sense for
the neighborhoods that these justices live in and what that
response might be. Oh, guys, it's it's funny you mentioned
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that because these are suburbs of Washington, DC. Washington is
clearly one of the most blue cities in the country.
It's it's very, very, very less leaning. So these sometimes
the neighbors would come out and join the marches. We
would see people who would come out of their houses.
They would cheer, they would clap. As I mentioned, some
would begin to walk with the protesters. One of the
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protesters in charge of the Kavanaugh protests was his neighbor.
This was a person who thought that he was a
an evil person. And to again, I think that's just
so sad that we're at this point in the country
where your neighbor, somebody that you should at least have
friendly terms with or at least, you know, interact with,
is deciding that the best way to deal with you
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is to go out side and to harass you where
you live. It seems like that is just such a
strange place for us to be right now, and the neighbors,
the fact that they were joining in on it, I think,
just really adds fuel to that fire. That this is
a completely inappropriate way to do it, that they were
in on the game dog. Appreciate the time, Appreciate the work.
Will continue to follow you and your coverage of these
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potential protests. Appreciate my maam. Absolutely, thank you so much
for having me. Good deal. We got some major breaking
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with us. We start off the show talking about the
fact that Joe Biden was addressing inflation at the same
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time that we began the show, and he was asked
about how much responsibility Democrats had to own for inflation.
And here was that question as well as Biden's response,
I want to let you guys all hear it. Let's
play it. I don't believe so many Americans believe that
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your administration is not doing enough to combat inflation. And
do you believe that you and your administration bear some
measure of responsibility for the inflation that we're seeing in
frost the country? First is we're in power, so first,
and you justifiably right, we control all three branches of government.
Well we don't really. We had fifty fifteen to Senate.
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You need sixty votes to get in Majors. Thanks John.
I've been pushing the things I've been proposing here and
you've heard me speak to the nay since I got
in office, and I need he gets sixty votes to
be able to even passion. Do you take any responsibility
your policies? I think our policies help not hurt the luck,
help not hurt. Like, let's just dive into help not hurt.
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What does that mean? How is there not a follow
up there? Because what would the inflation rate be if
he's helped? Or at eight point five percent? So it's
double digit if he's not president? Yeah, you have to
wonder in what universe he is living, because it's not
the one we're living in. And you think about the
one point nine trillion dollars that Democrats spent without a
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single Republican vote. His thing about we can't get anything
done is just not true. They got one point nine
trillion in spending and they were about to get five
trillion in spending until Democrats said a couple of them,
you guys are out of your gosh, jarn mind's okay,
you can't do this, all right, Joe man And I
remember I said this, do you callay? Like six months ago.
I think Joe Manchin may have saved the Democrat Party
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from complete complete financial implosion, or rather implode because of
the financial policies there personally admit it the country. I
think he may have been the guy standing athwart the
Democrats insanity, yelling stop, so to speak. And it's funny that,
Joe Biden, But what else are you gonna say? This
is the problem running with Democrats. First of all, they
could have pushed for just and not that infrastructure would
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have fixed inflation, because it wouldn't have. But notice they
always tied inflation, I mean, sorry, infrastructure to build back better.
It was always it's got to be both. It's got
to be both or else we don't want to do this.
So they wanted all this massive spending, and they now
would have to recognize, well, that was a really dumb idea.
But the only option for them is to admit that
they're wrong, and to admit that they're wrong is to
admit that Republicans were right, and they won't do it.
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That's why they won't turn the ship around. That's why
we're heading toward the Rocks and Joe Biden sharing full
steam ahead. It's also why you need multiple questions on
top of that, because your immediate alarm bells buck when
I see that answer, I think it would have been worse.
Do you bear any responsibility? I think it would have
been worse. That's a record scratch moment where you go
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back and say, wait a minute, we're at eight point
five percent inflation. That's the highest in forty years. When
you came into office, inflation was under two percent. What
you are telling the American public is if you were
not in office, if Republicans were in control right now,
inflation would be double digits. You're telling me if Donald
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Trump had beaten you in twenty twenty, that inflation right
now in this country would be over ten percent. You've
made it better at eight point five, the worst in
forty years. That is not an argument that the American public.
Here's buck and they even will countenance on the most
basic level. That's a lie. This is and you need
to be held accountable for it. This is speech today.
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And here we are in the third hour of the
Clay Traumas and Buck Sexton Show. As promised, we're joined
right now by Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee. Senator, thanks
for coming. I appreciate it. It is good to be
with you. Thank you so much. So. I'm sure you
saw the President Biden's speech on the economy just a
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couple of hours ago. Seem like a lot of blame deflection,
some talking points about lowering prices, not clear on how
they would actually achieve that. What wore as a legislator,
as a member of the US Senate. What were your
biggest takeaway? Senator Biden does not want to admit that
this is his fault, it is his problem. All you
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have to do is look at what the cost were
in twenty twenty and compare that to now. When you
look at a carton of eggs, it's up forty three percent.
When you look at coffee, it's up over one hundred
and forty cents for a pound of coffee beans. When
you look at milk, it is up. When you look
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at bread, it is up, and it's going up even
more with the situation in Ukraine. Now, why did this
not happen under President Donald Trump? It is because we
were energy independent. There was a reduction in regulation. We
were holding China to account for how they dealt with
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us on trade and other issues, and other countries knew
they needed to be our friend and not our adversary. Senator,
appreciate you coming on. There's been a lot of talk
about the leaked opinion from Justice Alito. In the event
that that opinion is accurate and Roe v. Wade is
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overturned and given the power back to the states, you
are in the Senate. Do you think the Senate should
have any role then, or do you believe it should
just go back to the states and let every state
make their own determination. Kind what we should do is
have the states step forward. This is what conservatives have
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fought for for years to see Row overturned and then
to see the issue of regulations and restrictions on abortion
go back to the states. Now, are there some areas
where the federal government does have some jurisdiction. Of course,
when it comes to report language in budget documents, the
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High Amendment language, the Mexico City policy. Yes, those components
are there, making certain that no taxpayer funds are expended
for abortion. There's also the opportunity to do a plus
up tax credit for expectant moms. Those are areas where
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the federal government will have a say. But when it
comes to the regulations and restrictions, the federal government and
federal legislators need to give the states the opportunity to
exercise the authorities they've been asking for and that conservatives
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have been asking for the states to have for decades.
We're speaking of Senator Marshall Blackburn of Tennessee. Senator, your
colleagues and you, of course, passed a bill to expand
security for Supreme Court justices and for their families. They
are ongoing protests, very aggressive ones at the homes of
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these members of the Supreme Court, obviously targeting people based
upon perceived political ideology of these justices. So do you
think that that is sufficient and what do you think
about the DOJ role in enforcing the federal statute that
says that you're not allowed, as a matter of law,
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to intimidate judges to try to bring about a different outcome.
The federal statute should be enforced, and DJ should move
forward with going out there rounding up these people that
are parading in the streets, of blocking the neighborhoods where
someone who is a federal a Supreme Court justice lives.
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This is against the law. There is a federal statute
that is there eighteen US fifteen oh three. People can
look it up. This prohibits this type of using this
activity in order to influence the outcome of a judicial decision.
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So the step we took is an important step. I
hope is that the House will join us in this.
It is something that Senator Cotton and I had supported
last year. We were joined by others on the Republican
side of the aisle to provide the type security that
a judge needs. You know, we had a federal judge
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last year, I think it it's about fifteen months ago
whose son was shot when he opened the front door
of their home thinking that he was opening the door
to a delivery man, and it turned out to be
someone who was trying to shoot the judge. Senator. I
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don't know if you've seen this news. It just came
down a little bit earlier today, but I know we've
had conversations about this with you before as it pertains
to the NBA in China. But for people out there
who have forgotten the NBA pulled their All Star game
out of Charlotte, North Carolina over a transgender bathroom bill,
they now the NBA Senator is going to the UAE,
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the United Arab Emirates, to play basketball games in the NBA.
The UAE punishes homosexuality with death in some cases. What
do you think about these woke corporations that lecture America
and will tell us what laws we can and cannot
pass here, But then they'll go over receives two countries
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where homosexuality is potentially punished by death, show up and
play and not uphold American values at all. It's astounding
to me to see how these corporations continue to couch
out to the Chinese Communist Party, how they will set
aside their beliefs and principles in order to chase the dollar.
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What they're looking at is what they perceive to be
a lucrative market, and in the interest of profit, they
are saying, Okay, we will go over here and we
will play these games because we think it's going to
be a revenue stream for us. And look at what
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has happened in China. They're in Jinjang where they have
their practice academies and they have their facilities, and they
have Nike merchandise licensed, NBA licensed merchandise being made by
slave labor, and they say absolutely nothing about any of
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that other than the Chinese people like basketball. And now
you see them moving forward, as you said, a new market,
a new opportunity for them to make more money. So
again they set aside their beliefs and they have one
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set of standards in the US, they have another set
of standards globally. Instead of saying, we are the NBA
from the United States of America and we're going to
stand against these human rights violations, we're going to stand
against slavery, which is what they should do. They should
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be ambassadors for truth and for freedom and for consistency
and for pursuing your dreams. And that is not what
they choose to do because they're chasing the profit. Senator
Blackburn in just a couple of weeks time. Title forty
two was set to end at the US Mexico border,
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the CDC authority that had been used to turn away
a pretty large percentage of illegal migrants over the course
the pandemic. A federal judge had temporarily blocked it, but
it seems it's just a matter of time before it
is removed. The Title forty two authority is gone, and
then everyone expects a massive surge of illegal crossings at
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the border. Can you just tell us what are the
expectations of people like you in the Senate and what's
going to happen once that expires. Once that expires, you're
going to see a rush to the border. Now, the
estimate is that we will go from six thousand illegal
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crossings a day to eighteen thous and illegal crossings a day.
This is something that has the potential to completely overrun
our border patrol. What we are aware of is that
the cartels, having been given a six month, six week
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lead time that this was going to happen, the cartels
are working globally. They are lining up people from across
the globe. Indeed, last year we had people from one
hundred and sixty different countries that showed up at our
border to seek asylum. So the cartels are working globally.
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They are in the process of moving vast numbers of
people to the southern border. Then they're going to begin
to move them to the border crossings and push them
into US control. Our concern is for the safety get
that border. Now. I want you to think about this.
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When I saw this eighteen thousand number, I thought, my goodness,
how does this relate to my state of Tennessee. While
in the state of Tennessee we have three hundred and
forty five cities in towns. Out of that number, ninety
percent ninety percent or eighteen thousand or less in population.
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I looked up the number when it comes to Illinois
also there it was about ninety percent were eighteen thousand
or less. So you can say you've got a typical
Tennessee the population equivalent of a typical Tennessee town, or
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the equivalent of a typical Illinois town or any other state.
I've pulled it for just about every state, and that
is going to become to our southern border for an
asylum claim every single day. So the question is how
long can our border patrols sustained US Senator. Last question
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for you. I know you're working on protecting kids online.
We have seen, certainly in the wake of COVID, the
overall mental health of children taking a precipitous decline that
has been occurring really for the basically the rise of
social media in general has not been healthy to our
overall teenagers mental health. What are you trying to do
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to help protect them? Yeah, so what of course, I've
got legislation. I have the Open App Market Bill that's
ready to be marked up on the Senate floor, the
Kids Online Safety Act that is ready to go through
at Senate Commerce Committee. In addition to that, we have
pulled together a parents guide for a way they can
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increase the protections for their children. Ane. You know, Clay.
One of the things that we were hearing a good
bit about from parents and grandparents was their concern of
what children are being exposed to when they are online,
with it being pedophiles and drug dealers and some of
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the harms that are coming from bullying online. Summer is
coming up, we were getting more questions from individuals on
this issue. So my team and I pulled together a
guide and people can get it from us on social
media on our website. This is to help parents and grandparents,
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caregivers of kids to know how to help those children
take that phone, set those privacy guidelines, and be able
to more effectively monitor of what children are being exposed
to when they get online. Senator Marshall Blackburn of Tennessee, everybody,
Senator appreciate you, thanks so much, got it, Take care, byebye.
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not expecting to talk about this on the show, but
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it turns out that Congress is going to hold their
first open hearing on UFOs in fifty years. Two Pentagon
officials are going to be testifying at that hearing next week.
There have been in recent years more and more people
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who have been coming forward to say, Look, I don't
want to sound crazy, all right, I'm not trying to
say there's little greed men about to overthrow the governments
of countries all over the world, etc. But there is
some weird stuff that at least deserves some explanation. Here
is this funny. I have no idea where you you know?
(45:44):
Are are you Scully or Molder? You know? Where do
you fall on the that's for those of course, that's
a reference to the X Files, which I didn't see
that much of. I saw some of. Are you a
believer or a skeptic when it comes to UFO's Clay,
I don't believer. I just I think every generation thinks
(46:06):
that they know everything, doesn't matter what the subject is.
If you went back and read in the seventeen hundreds,
people are like, this era is the most brilliant ever.
And it's always true because you're advancing in terms of
the knowledge of society as a whole. So I think
that there's tons of things we don't know about the
larger universe, and I believe that there are There is
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likely intelligent life somewhere else in the cosmos, and so
I believe in UFOs. I think that not only is
intelligent life exists, I think that they've probably visited our
planet at some point in time. What about you the best?
A little more skeptical, a little more skeptical. I don't know.
I'm not buying it. I feel like, first of all,
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it's always why is it always so shady? Like shouldn't
at some point, shouldn't we just have found some flying saucers.
I think they're probably way smarter than us. You think
they're way smarter than us. I mean, they're way smarter
than They're having to our planet. Then we can't figure
out how to get to their planet or their location
wherever it might be. So yeah. I believe in alien
life somewhere in the cosmos, and I think it's visited here.
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The greatest alien visits Earth movie is I guess there's
probably an obvious answer, but we haven't really you know,
this is a good question. You know, there's a recent
one that I can't even remember. I think it had
like Jodie Foster as a contact. I think it's called
Is that right? I think it's I think that might
be it. I thought that was pretty good. Yeah, um,
(47:30):
I would I would have thought you would have gone
ET given you got to. Oh well, I haven't watched
ET with the boys. I haven't seen ET and probably
the kids now because it's a sad ending. See this
is where Uncle Buck comes through big or it's too
unhealthy delicious food your kid because you don't have to
worry about the tears. I don't want to watch super
sad movies like ET has got a pretty sad component
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of what you know, which, speaking of UFOs off, you
know what what really what really busted me up back
in the day. I don't know if you saw this one.
This is about Sasquatch obviously, or the squatch to those
who I believe who were believers Harry, and that was
a tough one. That one was rough. That was like
Old Yeller for me at the end, man I was
I was bustled up by Harry and the Henderson's like
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he was a nice sasquatch. He was a good sass.
Do you know what book broke me back when I
was a young kid. Did you ever read Where the
Red Fern Grows. I kind of vaguely remember it, but
not really well. There were two dogs hunting dogs, and
it's even worse than Old Yeller. And I know there's
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people out there right now who are like, oh, thanks
for bringing up Where the Red Fern Goes. I just
remember being utterly crushed spoiler alert by what happens at
the end of Where the Red Fern Grows. So I
don't even know that I would let my kids read
that book. It's like Old Yeller, except twice as bad. Yeah,
so there's some very good There was a period I
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think of like mid late nineties became a particular fixation, right,
it became something. There was that movie Fire in the Sky,
which was about alien Remember that was the premise abduction, right, Yeah,
the premise for a while was the alien abduction thing, yes,
where they'd grabbed some guy and of course after he'd
run into the town he'd be having flashbacks. He's like,
I swear the aliens all grabby and everyone's like you're crazy,
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and then right, you know that that was the thing
for a while. Um, but you know, the UFO hearing,
I've I've seen some stuff on this that does require
There's been some you know, little lights flicking flickering around
the screen, and you know, there's been some stuff that
people in the military have seen and you can't explain,
and they can't explain. So I'm I'm all in favor of, like,
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let's keep it real, let's keep it rational, right, But
if they can't explain it, well, then we should at
least be open to the possibility that there are explanations
that we either have not considered thoroughly enough or that
we generally dismiss out of hand because we don't want
to deal with the possible reality. I look, this is
the first hearing since what like nineteen sixty eight, I
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think Gerald forty year he was still a congressman, was
the last person to hold hearings in Congress on UFOs.
And by the way, this was how crazy twenty twenty was.
They had a story like in the New York Times
where they're like, hey, we think UFOs are real, and
it was buried on like the eighteenth page because there
was so much chaos going on, people didn't even really
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care that much about the fact that might be real.
I feel like people also play those games with this,
I'm sure, by the way. I remember once I made
some passing reference to Wiccans and witches years ago radio
and members of the wiccan community reached out and they're like,
we know you were just kidding, but we're out here,
we're real and we actually have you know, thoughts, feelings, hopes,
design like they actually I'm not I'm just trying to
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say I'm not trying to offend the UFO community here,
but I do think, which right now, this is going
to be bad, but I think we need to separate
out unidentified flying object from intelligent other being. You know
what I'm saying. There may be some physiological explanation for
why this little thing is flying around that's not green
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spacemen and flying saucer is kind of so just a
UFO is a very broad term. That's all I'm saying
they way, I don't even know that we can trust
the government on anything. They're claiming that they don't have
the technology to replicate what these UFOs are doing, while
there are fighter pilots out there in the air flying
around and seeing these, so they are claiming that this
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is uh, this isn't impossible for them to otherwise replicate
the arrival by the way, is I think what I
might have been talking about the recent movie. I'm wrong.
It's not Contact. Contact was one. It's not that recent.
I think that's like twenty years old. I think the
arrivals about where there's just a spaceship that shows up
and they're trying to give us a message and we
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have to figure out what that message is. It's really
well done. U and Jodie Foster may not be in
that one. I can't remember who I tried to watch
The Martian I fell asleep. I gotta tell you, I
don't know watchst not met Damon's best. He wasn't setting
us his best on that one. But some of these
other ones. I'm telling you the X Files, it's a
good watch from the original X Files, a good watch
from Back of the Dames. No it's fantastic. And the
(52:12):
movies were good too that they made. Uh that was
um the Fox Molder and and the girl Jillian andrews Man.
She was hot. Well day, I'll tell the story of
years ago when I was making fun of some aspects
of a sasquatch movie and it turned out that one
of the actors who started the movie was listened to
my show and called in and called in that was
(52:35):
that's phenomenal. Yeah, that's fun movie. That was a pretty
good one. Actually kim was called but primal Fear I
think something like that or not. Sleet Travis and Buck
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