January 28, 2025 • 36 mins
Big news out of Michigan. Jim Acosta quits live on the air and Trump weighs in. Joy Reid compares deportations to Nazi Germany while Sunny Hostin calls deporting criminals racist. Google is updating their maps to the Gulf of America and Mount McKinley. Denmark freaking out over Greenland.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome in. We are excited to roll with all of you.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Tuesday edition play Travis buck Sexton Show of all of
you are having fantastic starts to your week wherever you
may be around the country or around the world. Trump
keeps winning. We're going to dive into the ongoing successes
at the border and with deportations and more.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
But Trump's not just winning.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
There also major moves afoot in the world of media.
We're going to dive into that political news state of Michigan.
All of you Michiganders listening to us right now, a
two term thing, Senator Gary Peters, I believe I've got
(00:47):
his name right, is not going to be running for
reelection in twenty twenty six. That's also when Gretchen Whitmer's
tenure as governor comes up. The House and the Senate
are in play. My wife's family is all from Michigan,
so I pay a lot of attention there. We know
Trump won Michigan by eighty thousand votes. The Senate race
(01:08):
came down to nineteen thousand votes. If you had to
point to a state that you wanted to star and say,
this is going to be the epicenter of the referendum
on the first two years of Trump's second term. I
would drive big Star right now on Michigan because you've
basically got the Senate, You've got the governor's race, You've
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got the House and the Senate in that state, and
they're all going to be wide open with no incumbents
running in a state where Trump dominated frankly in twenty
twenty four, winning by eighty thousand votes. That's the most
he's won the state of Michigan by the most that
anyone has won the state of Michigan by for a
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Republican since the nineteen eighties.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Star It.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
We'll talk about that a little bit later, but Buck,
I wanted to start with this. MSNBC and CNN have
completely fallen off the face of the earth in terms
of their audience. Right now, on any given day of
the week, if you watch news on television, and I
would bet that a lot of you watch news on television,
(02:17):
around seventy two to seventy five percent of all cable
news viewing is going to Fox News. Historically, Fox News
has been around the fifty percent range. Since Trump's election,
the bottom has fallen out for MSNBC and CNN, but
This has been something that has been going on for
(02:39):
some time. On Inauguration Day, CNN, for instance, Buck lost
eighty three percent of the audience that it had compared
to twenty twenty one. Now, part of this is just
media environments shifting in general, cord cutting. There are a
lot of different aspects to this, but I want to
(02:59):
hit you with two different things that I think are
emblematic of why this is occurring for those of you
who have not been paying attention. First, Jim Acosta, it'd
be fair to say Buck he was the most antagonistic
of the CNN anchors and or employees towards Donald Trump
in his first term. I know that's a tough standard
(03:20):
to meet, but would you accept that that's probably the
data point that would be fair to say the most
antagonistic current employee still at CNN.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Oh, I mean, he built his career for years on
being as aggressive and disrespectful to Trump when he was
president as possible. That was his brand. Actually, So yeah,
and so he just announced CNN has fired him. He
just announced that he is leaving CNN.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
This happened in the last hour or so, I believe
it has cut twenty seven.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Here is what he said.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
It is never a good time to bow down to
a tyrant. I've always believed it's the job of the
press to hold power to account. I've always tried to
do that here at CNN, and I plan on going
doing all of that in the future. One final message,
don't give into the lies. Don't give into the fear.
Hold on to the truth and to hope. Even if
you have to get out your phone, record that message.
I will not give into the lies. I will not
(04:18):
give into the fear. Post it on your social media
so people can hear from you too. I'll have more
to say about my plans in the coming days, but
until then, I want to thank all of you for
tuning in. Has been an honor to be welcomed into
your home for all these years. That's the news reporting
from Washington. I'm Jim Acosta.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
So Jim Acosta has about the same grip on reality
as somebody who just escaped from North Korea does. He
has absolutely no idea what it's like in the rest
of the country right now, outside of the very limited
precincts of Washington, DC, in which he spends I'm sure
almost all of his time. The country's doing fine. Trump
(04:56):
is not a tyrant, what is it. It's hard to
eat even criticize some of this lunacy, Clay, because it
is like talking to a crazy person. You know, it's
I don't know. See you didn't you haven't spent as
much time on the streets of New York City. Sometimes
a true lunatic will come up and start shouting profanity
and saying things, and if you try to engage them,
(05:18):
you're wasting your time because they are deeply mentally ill.
R Yes, they are living in it. They're having paranoid delusions.
They're living in an alternate reality. CNN's Jim Acosta and
a whole lot of these other journalists are still clinging
to this even after everything we've seen. I mean, you
brought this up to me, Joy Reid, here, this is five.
(05:39):
Do you want to do the joy read thing now?
I feel like we might as well, Joy Reid comparing
what's going on with deportations to not see Germany.
Speaker 5 (05:49):
Joseph Goebbels launched a massive propaganda campaign that labeled Jews
as carriers of deadly diseases and violent terrorists, defeating the
Jews of Europe, who they viewed as subhuman was a
question of good conquering evil, which conditioned millions of Germans
to celebrate Hitler and turn a blind eye to his brutality.
(06:10):
That sounds vaguely familiar.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
That's because it is.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
Similarities to what happened in Germany and what's happening now
in America are just undeniable. History may not repeat verbatim,
but it sure does rhyme. Trump and Stephen Miller depict
non white immigrants as carriers of deadly diseases who are
violent terrorists. Trump was returned to the presidency after staging
a coup and has exerted control of media or social
(06:35):
media in order to parrot anti immigrant vitriol and openly
hateful anti LGBTQ language.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Okay, Claike, she's comparing a historical, historical period where people
were slaughtered in the millions to the Trump administration enforcing.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Existing federal immigration law. No one doubts that this is
the law.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
No one disagrees that this is under our constitution, had
passed by our Congress, the actual law of the land.
And they are taking people into custody and putting them
back in their home country where they are free to
do whatever they like, they are citizens of whatever country there.
And she's comparing that to Dachau and Auschwitz. And as
we know, she says, go Bills, it's Goobbiles. But whatever
(07:20):
point b So how dumb is she allowed to be
before they say we shouldn't put her on TV anymore? Well,
that's the question for Comcast to me, because this is
a written monologue. And whatever you think of Trump, the
continued attempts to compare him to Nazi Germany on the
day of Holocaust Remembrance Day is actually an incredible insult
(07:44):
to anyone who's Jewish or frankly anyone it's family who
fought against actual Nazis in World War II, some of
whom are still listening to us right now.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
We're still fortunate enough.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
To have some of some of those veterans who still
lie from war World War two.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Would anyone want to take the other side of this argument?
I would argue that if Benjamin den Yahoo were a
US citizen and able to vote, there's no question he
would vote for Donald Trump over Kamala Harris, no question
at all, not even just that any Democrat Israel. The
country of Israel, if it were a state voting in
the presidential election, we just had would have voted, like
(08:24):
Wyoming in West Virginia seventy thirty for Trump. I don't
think that Adolph Hitler would poll that well in Israel.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
So I mean, this argument is absolutely absurd. But what
CNN's doing is they're saying, Okay, we're firing Jim Acosta.
We're trying to remake what our network is going to be.
Joy Reid is still a face of MSNBC, And I
think about this a lot. You know, the immigration issue
has been illegal immigration, illegal aliens has been something Clay
that for a decade now I've thought is one of
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the most important things in the country.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
And I'm seeing this happen again. They're positioning themselves themselves as, oh,
we're kind, we're the humanitarians. We care about people. That's
why we take the positions we do. Meanwhile, they just
did a bunch of ICE ICE arrests, you know, detainment
in New York City right New DHS Chief Nome is
(09:17):
there and they're doing all they are detaining right now.
The people that they're going after are gang members, people
who are wanted for felony assault, for rape, for attempted murder.
And it is the position of the people like Joy
Reid and the Democrats who are trying to complain about
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this that even though it is a violation of law,
that Democrats, keep in mind, don't try to It's not
like Democrats are saying, you know what, we should legalize
all of them right now. They're not saying that. They
won't tell you that that that's what they.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Want to do.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
They want you in your community to have rapists and
murders and people who have no business being in this
country whatsoever.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
How is that kind?
Speaker 3 (09:58):
And this is why the Lake and Riley Act is
so powerful, And this is why the change in the
public consciousness about these illegal alien criminals is so powerful,
because right now they are going after criminals, and Joy
Rida is saying it's Nazi, you know, violent, dangerous criminals.
And Joy read is saying, this is straight out of
Nazi Germany. Oh okay, So you know, your kids, if
you're listening this, your kids should have to be subject
(10:19):
to some trend to Aragua savage killing or raping or
murdering somebody. I mean, that's what we're supposed to say,
is okay?
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Also, and this massively matters This wasn't remotely controversial for
any of our lives until about six or seven years
ago Obama deported a lot of violent criminals. In fact,
I think we had the audio Did we play that
yesterday or did I just share it of Obama saying like,
(10:47):
if you commit a violent crime, you're gonna get taken
out of the country. Until Joe Biden just basically stopped
doing anything in the last four years, this was standard.
You are identifying the key dishonesty, and this is why
I was talking about. Democrats won't say, you know what, guys,
what we should really do is just legalize all the
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gang members who are here illegally in the country, because
come on, America as a nation of immigrants, that's the
day facto policy they want, but they won't argue for
it publicly. Right, they want everyone who's here to be
able to stay, but they won't say, we'll change the
laws so that our fingerprints are our You know, power
is behind this. And what you're talking about, though, is
(11:29):
Democrats have for a long time lied about what they
want to do with the border, and lied about their
border policies and gotten away with it. But now that
they don't control the pipes of information the.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Way that they had previously, it has become more difficult
for them.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
I think what happened was we had this new media
that just basically landed in America, and it was suddenly
in everybody's phone, which was simultaneously in everybody's pocket and
around all day.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Nobody had any idea how to deal with social media.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
And again, historically, I think twenty thirty forty years from now,
people are going to look back and say, it's no
coincidence that BLM emerged right as Twitter and Facebook and
Instagram were taking off, and we ended up with this
fundamentally artificial algorithm driven by the West Coast, which suddenly
attacked the foundational values that most Americans had come to
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agree to, even if they were from different political parties.
And we talk about on this show, Buck used to
be you argue about what the corporate tax rate should be.
That's like the eighties, nineties, two thousands era political battles.
And suddenly the battle became America is it a fundamentally
racist country or not? And every social media platform said
it was, and so it turned into white supremacy and
(12:46):
the KKK and a lot of people were looking around
and they're saying, this is not the America I live in.
And now with Elon's purchase of Twitter, suddenly some semblance
of reality is returning. I just think it's not only
interesting to think about the world as we see it today,
to start to think about it on a broader scale.
Twenty years from now, what this era is going to
look like. People are going to think that we all
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went insane, and I think social media is what drove
that and is a huge part of how we ended
up where we are right now. Hopefully sanity is returning,
common sense is returning, but really all Trump's advocating for
is things that almost everybody agreed was normal fifteen years ago.
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Speaker 3 (14:33):
All right, welcome back into Clay and Buck. So the
immigration arrests, we call them raids, I don't know. Arrests
have been going on in a bunch of places, including
New York City, some high profile arrests going on there
of illegal alien criminals. By that we mean somebody who
was in the country illegally but has also committed serious
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crimes in the country, which means under our laws, not
only are they subject to deportation, they are under our
laws and under DOJ and Ice guidance supposed to be
at the top of the list of people deported. So
we are doing exactly what the law says, and the
Trump administration is following through on this early stages. Yes,
(15:16):
I know the numbers have to get a lot bigger.
But the point here is they're doing this, and you
have people pretending like this is some kind of shock one.
Trump said he would do it, and he's doing it too.
It's the law. But if you recall we Clay had
us pull this clip from twenty fourteen, this is what
Obama president. When he was president, Obama used to say
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a decade ago about.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Being an illegal who commits crimes. Here play it.
Speaker 7 (15:42):
If you're a criminal, you'll be deported. If you plan
to enter the US illegally, your chances of getting caught
and sent back just went up. The actions I'm taking
are not only lawful, so are the kinds of actions
taken by every single Republican president and every single Democratic
president for the past half century.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Yeah, what happened Democrats.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
By the way, Obama, you know, there's a whole other
conversation about what the plan was with him with amnesty.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
But still, Clay, this.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Is pretty straightforward stuff, and yet no one's saying Obama
was racist, Obama was xenophobic.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
This is what I'm talking about. That's twenty fourteen.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Right about then is when the country went insane, and
I think it was because of social media algorithmic engineering
that suddenly made far left wing opinions supposed to be
quote unquote mainstream. And that's really when the stifling of
any argument to the contrary began.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
That's racist.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Is not an argument, it's an attack, but it's not
an argument against a policy. And that is when I
would say, buck that that's racist. Arguments began in their ascendancy,
and so many people curled up in the fetal position
afraid of actually how arguments about this?
Speaker 3 (17:01):
I mean, if I were invited on MSNBC, which we
all know that's not gonna happen, but if I were
and I could have a conversation with some of their
hosts about what's going on with these deportations, they would
immediately just be oh Trump, and they try to make
it about Trump. I'd say, what, explain to me why
enforcing the law? Federal agents enforcing the law. We all
agree it is the law. We all agree these are
people who have broken the law. Why is that a
(17:24):
bad thing? Why is this a problem for you? They
never actually explain that. They just talk around it, and
they shriek and they get emotion all they melt down
and oh my gosh. But I don't think they have
an answer, Clay, because if they said what the answer is,
which is that anybody who is from the third world
should be able to stay here no matter what they do,
(17:44):
even if they come illegally and they do horrible crimes,
the American people are actually aren't with them on that.
That's a solid majority of Americans don't want, you know,
murderers from South America or Asia or wherever showing up
up here.
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Speaker 2 (19:00):
Welcome back in Clay, Travis Buck Sexton Show. Appreciate everybody
hanging out with us. I know we could have some fun.
They pulled some retrospective Trump versus Jim Acosta. Now that
Jim Acosta has been fired by CNN, Trump weighed in
on truth social Buck.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
He said, Wow, really good news.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Jim Acosta one of the worst, most dishonest reporters in
journalistic history.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
A major sleeves bag has.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Been relegated by CNN Fake News to the Midnight Hour
Death Valley because of extraordinarily bad ratings and no talent. Actually,
Trump was too kind. He's been relegated too lo longer
working at the network. Word is he wants to quit?
That would be even better. Jim's a major loser who
will fail no matter where he ends up.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Good luck, Jim.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
That is Donald Trump reacting to Jim Acosta at CNN
and Greg producer. Greg grabbed some audio that I thought
was indicative for those of you who want to go
back in time and experience what it was like when
Jemma Costa decided that he was going to brand himself
as the foremost anti Trump individual out there. And I
(20:12):
believe we have a series of several short clips of
the best moments of those interactions. If you guys want
to pop that out, let's enjoy.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Miss President.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
Did you say that you want more people to come
in from Norway? Did you say that you wanted more
people to come in from Norway? Is that true, Miss President?
Speaker 8 (20:30):
I want them to come in from everywhere, everywhere, Thank
you very much, everybody.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
Just Caucasian or white country, sir? Or do you want
people to come in from other parts of the world
where they are people of.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Colors, out Jimmy, and then they continued. I believe we
have multiple of these buck but it is I think,
just an interesting window into this modern era that we're in.
Trump made a lot of anti Trump media into superstars
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during the first term, and now there doesn't seem to
be a lane to be the anti Trump individual, partly
because many of these people blew themselves up during COVID
and most viewers, frankly just don't trust any of the
anti Trump media.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
So what is the angle? If you ran.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
MSNBC and CNN right now, what would you do. Do
you just slowly ride out the collapse of the network?
Do you try to have a pivot and change the
way that you do the broadcast? Acosta's out, they have
they forced out Don Lemmon a couple of years ago.
I genuinely am curious what is their plan going forward?
(21:42):
What does the business do? I don't think they have
a good option or a good plan. Look, the premise
of the underlying premise of anti Trump media was take
the hysteria to eleven on the dial.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
There is no eleven, but they take get to eleven.
Take the Hysaria to eleven and then eventually he will
be defeated, And that was baked in, I think, to
everything they were doing also with the prosecutions, and you know,
Trump just had a bunch of prosecutors fired who were
out of DC who were involved in the Trump prosecution.
(22:19):
So yeah, yeah, that's right. If you were a person
who was working to try to imprison Donald Trump, you're
no longer working for the DJ I think that makes
a lot of sense. So the people in the media, though,
were promising that there would be some kind of consequence
for Trump, and if anything, I think you could argue
that this was the greatest own goal by the media
(22:41):
of all time. I mean, they created an unstoppable Trump
because it was the environment that the media that the
media created I think that led to or or they
thought would make it possible to push criminal prosecution and
the two impeachments and all of this stuff. So what
I'm saying, Clay is they failed on every level, and
everyone knows that, including their own. Like it's one thing
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when the other team hates you, that can be great
for business, but when your own team looks at you
and says you're a bunch of clowns. You promised us
this wouldn't happen, and I've been watching you. You know,
this is why it's remarkable to me, Like the fact
that Rachel Maddow's audience has never looked at her and said,
rush a collusion. You were out of your mind. Trump's
tax returns, you were out of your mind. You know,
(23:23):
how can any but you know, at some level it
just turns into people will make any excuses for somebody
that they think is some kind of deity on TV.
It's like they just don't care. I don't think there
is a pathway like to really just answer your question.
I think that these networks are going to continue to
bleed viewers unless they do a huge overhaul. I mean,
there is an opportunity here, but you would have to
(23:44):
be willing to burn whatever audience you have now to
the ground entirely and rebuild.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
I don't think they're willing to do that. Yeah, that's
what I would do. I mean, I think you basically
have no audience left. I would go hire Megan Kelly.
I would give her a show. I would give Scott
Jennings a show. I would just remake the entire network,
and I wanted to play this because they pulled it.
This is Rush flashback January seventeenth, twenty eighteen. Remember when
(24:11):
Trump tossed Jim Acosta out out of the Oval office.
This was them reacting to this six years ago Cut
twenty four? Did we played cut twenty four? All right,
it's described differently. This is cut twenty five. Here's Trump
calling Jim Acosta rude, terrible person.
Speaker 8 (24:32):
I think you should let me run the country. You
run CNN, and if you did it well, you're ratings.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Let me as much.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
If I may ask one of the questions, thats president.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
If I may ask another question, are you worried? That's enough?
Speaker 4 (24:42):
That's a president that ask one of the other folks.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
That's enough.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
Pardon me, ma'am, I'm miss president.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
That's enough, this president.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
I had one of the If I may ask, on
the Russian investigation? Are you concerned that that you may have?
Speaker 8 (24:55):
I'm not concerned about anything with you may investigation because
it's a hoax.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Are you that's enough? Put down the mic, this president.
Speaker 4 (25:01):
Are you worried about indictments coming down in this investigation?
Speaker 8 (25:07):
Mister president, I'll tell you what CNN should be ashamed of.
Itself having you working for them. You are a rude,
terrible person. You shouldn't be working for CNN.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Go ahead. I think that's on your very rude person.
Speaker 8 (25:21):
The way you treat Sarah Huckabee is horrible, and the
way you treat other people are horrible. You shouldn't treat
people that way.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Verbal spanking.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
We have not seen any sort of real aggressive Trump
interaction with the media so far. I think it's because
the again the wane of being the anti Trump zealot,
which is the one that Jim Acosta tried to occupy
that eventually Don Lemon tried to tried to occupy as well.
(25:53):
Rachel Maddow, I know she's they're saying she's going to
be on five days a week for the first hundred days,
which is very funny. We're going to bring back Superwoman,
the MSNBC Superwoman. But I think she's what lit her
own credibility on Firebuck and I would say they don't
acknowledge that she was wrong her audience, but they stop watching.
(26:14):
And that's what's happened with her audience because over time
they have said she was wrong. She's lucy with the
football and they're Charlie Brown. How many times has she said, Oh,
We've really got Trump now, And every time at the
last second, the football gets yanked away. And now Trump
is not only in office, he's at his most popular
(26:35):
level ever as a politician, and so at some point
people just have to not listen to her.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
And I think that's what's occurred. Well, that's what I
mean by the view of this, and we should get
to the view in a second, because there's some great
clips from the view as well, But the view of
this from people who have been watching CNN and MSNBC
for years. And remember I was actually a conservative political
commentator on CNN leading up to Trump's election, so I
(27:04):
really saw it firsthand what was going on. And they
were losing their minds in real time. Well, I should
say initially they thought it was all a joke, and
then they lost their minds when it became clear that
he was a real contender and was actually gonna and
actually won. But they absolutely despised Donald Trump. Clay everything
that these other media companies have been promising, or these
(27:28):
channels have been promising, the opposite happened. What was supposed
to happen. Trump was supposed to be criminally convicted four times.
He was supposed to be removed from office through impeachment.
He was supposed to go to prison, lose this election,
you know, lose more of his base.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
All this sort of stuff. The opposite happened on all levels.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
If I were somebody who had been watching CNN for
the last ten years, I'd be like, why do I
watch you morons anymore?
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Ah?
Speaker 3 (27:57):
And I think that is exactly what has happened so well.
The media landscape has changed, but they still are saying
some of the same things. They're not learning any lessons.
I did mention this clay about the view Sunny Houston's
claiming that it is racist for Trump to deport This
is called forward to deport criminals.
Speaker 9 (28:18):
If you look at the numbers, yes, the number of
immigrants that come from Mexico or of Mexican born are
the largest, but the next largest are Asians. Twenty eight
percent of them come. I don't think they walk across
the southern border. I think they come by plane. They
overstay their visus, they overstay their visas, so they're undocumented.
The Europeans that come here that overstay their visas are undocumented,
(28:40):
but they don't come across the southern border. So I
think there's a very clear message as to what this
president wants the look of a criminal migrant to look
like what an undocumented migrant.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
And I think that's racist. What does she even say?
Speaker 3 (28:56):
What does she think she's saying when the going and
they're arresting dangerous criminals right now, and she says that,
it's like Trump is manufacturing the look of what these
criminals are.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
It's just just crazy.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
An easy follow up, which doesn't ever occur on the view,
would be, so you think Trump is purposely choosing not
to deport violent criminals who have committed crimes here based
on their ethnicity. That's the argument that you are attempting
to make. Nobody ever follows up. But that's actually the
argument that she's making. Because the other thing they're doing,
(29:31):
Buck is there.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
Are a lot more gang members in South America just
by per capita than there are in East Asia. Just
this is just the reality of the criminal stats you
can look at. So if you're talking about MS thirteen,
you're talking about trend to Aragua, you're going.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
To have more of them.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
And also this is a natural outgrowth of the argument
they made during the height of BLM, which was that
the criminal justice system is racist. And if you point
back and say, okay, is it sexist? The entire thing
just collapses, right because.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
About Yeah, women don't commit murders, so she'd be stopping
forcing laws about murder because men are the ones that
command of the murders. No, of course not that makes
no sense. They're just going after people who are public
safety risk. I'm sorry that a lot of the Latin
American criminal gang members look like Latin American criminal gang members.
I don't know what she thinks is supposed to happen here.
(30:26):
I can assure you if there were guys who were
flying in from South Korea who were murdering people and
we're here illegally, Trump would want them gone too. So
her whole premise is crap. Her old premise is nonsense. Also, look,
I mean, what do we think the numbers are for
Europeans who do visa overstays? How many commit murders, how
many commit a serious felony for Europe I would bet
(30:49):
pretty well. I mean, you know, I think it's probably
incredibly low for people. Now, if we're gonna talk about numbers,
how many people come from Latin America. Obviously a lot
come illegally as an over percentage, not that many are
committing a very small number as an overall percentage of
that huge number are committing serious crimes. But because there's
so many millions of them, that's a lot of really
(31:09):
serious criminals running around.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
This is the way it works. This is the truth, Clay.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
I think there are something like six hundred thousand that
ICE has already identified or criminal aliens. In addition to
their status meaning they've done something seria a felony, they've
committed a felony.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Six hundred thousand of them. That's a lot of people.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Not only that, when you come in under visa, theoretically
you're getting cleared, right, So in addition to the fact
that you're unlikely to have committed a crime, you're also
in some way supposed to be vetted. That's the entire
purpose of applying for a visa. So it's just such
a dishonest argument, and it's one that if that show
(31:50):
were in any way committed to multiple views, somebody would
push back, and Sunny Hostin is the dumbest member. I
think it's quite clear of the view, which is the
dumbest show on television.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
Yeah, I would also want to ask something, why is
it that Asian Americans commit so few murders? What's her
what's her response for that?
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Good question?
Speaker 3 (32:09):
By the statistics, it is true, why do Asian Americans
commit so so less than any other demographic? You can
look at a soho should we try to find more
Asian Americans to lock up because they commit so few murders.
I'm just wondering we got to equal this out a
little bit. I don't understand what's your point of view
on this?
Speaker 1 (32:25):
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All right, welcome back into Play and Buck. A second
hour coming up here in a second dive into some
of the latest moves by the Trump administration. There is
a lot in this already in the second week to
dive into. We've also got just one fun thing. Google
(33:56):
has announced, Clazy see this. They're updating the names of
two geographical regions and response. So it's going to be
the Gulf of America. Clay pretty much owns property on
the Gulf of America.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
I do say it. You know, he's a Gulf of
the Property resident. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
And also Mountain Denali is going to be called McKinley
again according to Google. I gotta say I like this.
I know some people think, oh, what difference does it
really make.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
I'm into it. Actually.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
I also like the Greenland is freaking out and rather
Denmark is freaking about Greenland, which is very amusing.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
I think the amount of Golf of America T shirts
will be sold, I'm telling you on Panama City Beach
July fourth on Destin, Florida, my area of thirty A.
Any of you that have ever been Orange Beach, alabamaches
right there, Pensacola, any of you that have ever been
mobile down along the Gulf coast of it States now
(34:53):
the Gulf of America, I'm telling you it is going
to be. Some of these shirts that you're going to
see for fourth and Memorial Day, but particularly for July fourth,
are going to be incredible. I'm already giddy thinking about
thinking about what I'm going to be wearing on July
fourth as I celebrate, likely on the Gulf of America. Also,
Buck Gulf of America got smoked with a snowstorm, which
(35:18):
has never happened before. New Orleans got like eight inches
of snow. Pensacola, Florida got seven inches of snow. The
white sand beaches of the Gulf of America were covered
in snow. I've never seen anything like it. It was
pretty awesome. I know we mentioned it a little bit
last week, but I did think it was funny that
(35:39):
Trump renamed the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America
and then immediately the biggest snowstorm in like seventy five
years arrived. So he beat global warming too, I guess.
Speaker 3 (35:50):
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of America coffee because it comes from a whole bunch
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into a fight with Columbia or the president over there?
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let's dive into some more of what's going on with
immigration in New York, I mean the immigration raids New
(36:48):
York City other places, what Trump has in store, and
also a little more on FEMA that's coming up.
Welcome in. We are excited to roll with all of you.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Tuesday edition play Travis buck Sexton Show of all of
you are having fantastic starts to your week wherever you
may be around the country or around the world. Trump
keeps winning. We're going to dive into the ongoing successes
at the border and with deportations and more.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
But Trump's not just winning.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
There also major moves afoot in the world of media.
We're going to dive into that political news state of Michigan.
All of you Michiganders listening to us right now, a
two term thing, Senator Gary Peters, I believe I've got
(00:47):
his name right, is not going to be running for
reelection in twenty twenty six. That's also when Gretchen Whitmer's
tenure as governor comes up. The House and the Senate
are in play. My wife's family is all from Michigan,
so I pay a lot of attention there. We know
Trump won Michigan by eighty thousand votes. The Senate race
(01:08):
came down to nineteen thousand votes. If you had to
point to a state that you wanted to star and say,
this is going to be the epicenter of the referendum
on the first two years of Trump's second term. I
would drive big Star right now on Michigan because you've
basically got the Senate, You've got the governor's race, You've
(01:31):
got the House and the Senate in that state, and
they're all going to be wide open with no incumbents
running in a state where Trump dominated frankly in twenty
twenty four, winning by eighty thousand votes. That's the most
he's won the state of Michigan by the most that
anyone has won the state of Michigan by for a
(01:53):
Republican since the nineteen eighties.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Star It.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
We'll talk about that a little bit later, but Buck,
I wanted to start with this. MSNBC and CNN have
completely fallen off the face of the earth in terms
of their audience. Right now, on any given day of
the week, if you watch news on television, and I
would bet that a lot of you watch news on television,
(02:17):
around seventy two to seventy five percent of all cable
news viewing is going to Fox News. Historically, Fox News
has been around the fifty percent range. Since Trump's election,
the bottom has fallen out for MSNBC and CNN, but
This has been something that has been going on for
(02:39):
some time. On Inauguration Day, CNN, for instance, Buck lost
eighty three percent of the audience that it had compared
to twenty twenty one. Now, part of this is just
media environments shifting in general, cord cutting. There are a
lot of different aspects to this, but I want to
(02:59):
hit you with two different things that I think are
emblematic of why this is occurring for those of you
who have not been paying attention. First, Jim Acosta, it'd
be fair to say Buck he was the most antagonistic
of the CNN anchors and or employees towards Donald Trump
in his first term. I know that's a tough standard
(03:20):
to meet, but would you accept that that's probably the
data point that would be fair to say the most
antagonistic current employee still at CNN.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Oh, I mean, he built his career for years on
being as aggressive and disrespectful to Trump when he was
president as possible. That was his brand. Actually, So yeah,
and so he just announced CNN has fired him. He
just announced that he is leaving CNN.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
This happened in the last hour or so, I believe
it has cut twenty seven.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Here is what he said.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
It is never a good time to bow down to
a tyrant. I've always believed it's the job of the
press to hold power to account. I've always tried to
do that here at CNN, and I plan on going
doing all of that in the future. One final message,
don't give into the lies. Don't give into the fear.
Hold on to the truth and to hope. Even if
you have to get out your phone, record that message.
I will not give into the lies. I will not
(04:18):
give into the fear. Post it on your social media
so people can hear from you too. I'll have more
to say about my plans in the coming days, but
until then, I want to thank all of you for
tuning in. Has been an honor to be welcomed into
your home for all these years. That's the news reporting
from Washington. I'm Jim Acosta.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
So Jim Acosta has about the same grip on reality
as somebody who just escaped from North Korea does. He
has absolutely no idea what it's like in the rest
of the country right now, outside of the very limited
precincts of Washington, DC, in which he spends I'm sure
almost all of his time. The country's doing fine. Trump
(04:56):
is not a tyrant, what is it. It's hard to
eat even criticize some of this lunacy, Clay, because it
is like talking to a crazy person. You know, it's
I don't know. See you didn't you haven't spent as
much time on the streets of New York City. Sometimes
a true lunatic will come up and start shouting profanity
and saying things, and if you try to engage them,
(05:18):
you're wasting your time because they are deeply mentally ill.
R Yes, they are living in it. They're having paranoid delusions.
They're living in an alternate reality. CNN's Jim Acosta and
a whole lot of these other journalists are still clinging
to this even after everything we've seen. I mean, you
brought this up to me, Joy Reid, here, this is five.
(05:39):
Do you want to do the joy read thing now?
I feel like we might as well, Joy Reid comparing
what's going on with deportations to not see Germany.
Speaker 5 (05:49):
Joseph Goebbels launched a massive propaganda campaign that labeled Jews
as carriers of deadly diseases and violent terrorists, defeating the
Jews of Europe, who they viewed as subhuman was a
question of good conquering evil, which conditioned millions of Germans
to celebrate Hitler and turn a blind eye to his brutality.
(06:10):
That sounds vaguely familiar.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
That's because it is.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
Similarities to what happened in Germany and what's happening now
in America are just undeniable. History may not repeat verbatim,
but it sure does rhyme. Trump and Stephen Miller depict
non white immigrants as carriers of deadly diseases who are
violent terrorists. Trump was returned to the presidency after staging
a coup and has exerted control of media or social
(06:35):
media in order to parrot anti immigrant vitriol and openly
hateful anti LGBTQ language.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Okay, Claike, she's comparing a historical, historical period where people
were slaughtered in the millions to the Trump administration enforcing.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Existing federal immigration law. No one doubts that this is
the law.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
No one disagrees that this is under our constitution, had
passed by our Congress, the actual law of the land.
And they are taking people into custody and putting them
back in their home country where they are free to
do whatever they like, they are citizens of whatever country there.
And she's comparing that to Dachau and Auschwitz. And as
we know, she says, go Bills, it's Goobbiles. But whatever
(07:20):
point b So how dumb is she allowed to be
before they say we shouldn't put her on TV anymore? Well,
that's the question for Comcast to me, because this is
a written monologue. And whatever you think of Trump, the
continued attempts to compare him to Nazi Germany on the
day of Holocaust Remembrance Day is actually an incredible insult
(07:44):
to anyone who's Jewish or frankly anyone it's family who
fought against actual Nazis in World War II, some of
whom are still listening to us right now.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
We're still fortunate enough.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
To have some of some of those veterans who still
lie from war World War two.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Would anyone want to take the other side of this argument?
I would argue that if Benjamin den Yahoo were a
US citizen and able to vote, there's no question he
would vote for Donald Trump over Kamala Harris, no question
at all, not even just that any Democrat Israel. The
country of Israel, if it were a state voting in
the presidential election, we just had would have voted, like
(08:24):
Wyoming in West Virginia seventy thirty for Trump. I don't
think that Adolph Hitler would poll that well in Israel.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
So I mean, this argument is absolutely absurd. But what
CNN's doing is they're saying, Okay, we're firing Jim Acosta.
We're trying to remake what our network is going to be.
Joy Reid is still a face of MSNBC, And I
think about this a lot. You know, the immigration issue
has been illegal immigration, illegal aliens has been something Clay
that for a decade now I've thought is one of
(08:54):
the most important things in the country.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
And I'm seeing this happen again. They're positioning themselves themselves as, oh,
we're kind, we're the humanitarians. We care about people. That's
why we take the positions we do. Meanwhile, they just
did a bunch of ICE ICE arrests, you know, detainment
in New York City right New DHS Chief Nome is
(09:17):
there and they're doing all they are detaining right now.
The people that they're going after are gang members, people
who are wanted for felony assault, for rape, for attempted murder.
And it is the position of the people like Joy
Reid and the Democrats who are trying to complain about
(09:38):
this that even though it is a violation of law,
that Democrats, keep in mind, don't try to It's not
like Democrats are saying, you know what, we should legalize
all of them right now. They're not saying that. They
won't tell you that that that's what they.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Want to do.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
They want you in your community to have rapists and
murders and people who have no business being in this
country whatsoever.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
How is that kind?
Speaker 3 (09:58):
And this is why the Lake and Riley Act is
so powerful, And this is why the change in the
public consciousness about these illegal alien criminals is so powerful,
because right now they are going after criminals, and Joy
Rida is saying it's Nazi, you know, violent, dangerous criminals.
And Joy read is saying, this is straight out of
Nazi Germany. Oh okay, So you know, your kids, if
you're listening this, your kids should have to be subject
(10:19):
to some trend to Aragua savage killing or raping or
murdering somebody. I mean, that's what we're supposed to say,
is okay?
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Also, and this massively matters This wasn't remotely controversial for
any of our lives until about six or seven years
ago Obama deported a lot of violent criminals. In fact,
I think we had the audio Did we play that
yesterday or did I just share it of Obama saying like,
(10:47):
if you commit a violent crime, you're gonna get taken
out of the country. Until Joe Biden just basically stopped
doing anything in the last four years, this was standard.
You are identifying the key dishonesty, and this is why
I was talking about. Democrats won't say, you know what, guys,
what we should really do is just legalize all the
(11:08):
gang members who are here illegally in the country, because
come on, America as a nation of immigrants, that's the
day facto policy they want, but they won't argue for
it publicly. Right, they want everyone who's here to be
able to stay, but they won't say, we'll change the
laws so that our fingerprints are our You know, power
is behind this. And what you're talking about, though, is
(11:29):
Democrats have for a long time lied about what they
want to do with the border, and lied about their
border policies and gotten away with it. But now that
they don't control the pipes of information the.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Way that they had previously, it has become more difficult
for them.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
I think what happened was we had this new media
that just basically landed in America, and it was suddenly
in everybody's phone, which was simultaneously in everybody's pocket and
around all day.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Nobody had any idea how to deal with social media.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
And again, historically, I think twenty thirty forty years from now,
people are going to look back and say, it's no
coincidence that BLM emerged right as Twitter and Facebook and
Instagram were taking off, and we ended up with this
fundamentally artificial algorithm driven by the West Coast, which suddenly
attacked the foundational values that most Americans had come to
(12:22):
agree to, even if they were from different political parties.
And we talk about on this show, Buck used to
be you argue about what the corporate tax rate should be.
That's like the eighties, nineties, two thousands era political battles.
And suddenly the battle became America is it a fundamentally
racist country or not? And every social media platform said
it was, and so it turned into white supremacy and
(12:46):
the KKK and a lot of people were looking around
and they're saying, this is not the America I live in.
And now with Elon's purchase of Twitter, suddenly some semblance
of reality is returning. I just think it's not only
interesting to think about the world as we see it today,
to start to think about it on a broader scale.
Twenty years from now, what this era is going to
look like. People are going to think that we all
(13:08):
went insane, and I think social media is what drove
that and is a huge part of how we ended
up where we are right now. Hopefully sanity is returning,
common sense is returning, but really all Trump's advocating for
is things that almost everybody agreed was normal fifteen years ago.
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Speaker 3 (14:33):
All right, welcome back into Clay and Buck. So the
immigration arrests, we call them raids, I don't know. Arrests
have been going on in a bunch of places, including
New York City, some high profile arrests going on there
of illegal alien criminals. By that we mean somebody who
was in the country illegally but has also committed serious
(14:54):
crimes in the country, which means under our laws, not
only are they subject to deportation, they are under our
laws and under DOJ and Ice guidance supposed to be
at the top of the list of people deported. So
we are doing exactly what the law says, and the
Trump administration is following through on this early stages. Yes,
(15:16):
I know the numbers have to get a lot bigger.
But the point here is they're doing this, and you
have people pretending like this is some kind of shock one.
Trump said he would do it, and he's doing it too.
It's the law. But if you recall we Clay had
us pull this clip from twenty fourteen, this is what
Obama president. When he was president, Obama used to say
(15:38):
a decade ago about.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Being an illegal who commits crimes. Here play it.
Speaker 7 (15:42):
If you're a criminal, you'll be deported. If you plan
to enter the US illegally, your chances of getting caught
and sent back just went up. The actions I'm taking
are not only lawful, so are the kinds of actions
taken by every single Republican president and every single Democratic
president for the past half century.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Yeah, what happened Democrats.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
By the way, Obama, you know, there's a whole other
conversation about what the plan was with him with amnesty.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
But still, Clay, this.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Is pretty straightforward stuff, and yet no one's saying Obama
was racist, Obama was xenophobic.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
This is what I'm talking about. That's twenty fourteen.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Right about then is when the country went insane, and
I think it was because of social media algorithmic engineering
that suddenly made far left wing opinions supposed to be
quote unquote mainstream. And that's really when the stifling of
any argument to the contrary began.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
That's racist.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Is not an argument, it's an attack, but it's not
an argument against a policy. And that is when I
would say, buck that that's racist. Arguments began in their ascendancy,
and so many people curled up in the fetal position
afraid of actually how arguments about this?
Speaker 3 (17:01):
I mean, if I were invited on MSNBC, which we
all know that's not gonna happen, but if I were
and I could have a conversation with some of their
hosts about what's going on with these deportations, they would
immediately just be oh Trump, and they try to make
it about Trump. I'd say, what, explain to me why
enforcing the law? Federal agents enforcing the law. We all
agree it is the law. We all agree these are
people who have broken the law. Why is that a
(17:24):
bad thing? Why is this a problem for you? They
never actually explain that. They just talk around it, and
they shriek and they get emotion all they melt down
and oh my gosh. But I don't think they have
an answer, Clay, because if they said what the answer is,
which is that anybody who is from the third world
should be able to stay here no matter what they do,
(17:44):
even if they come illegally and they do horrible crimes,
the American people are actually aren't with them on that.
That's a solid majority of Americans don't want, you know,
murderers from South America or Asia or wherever showing up
up here.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Sorry, you know, I think it's pretty straightforward stuff.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
The big wireless phone companies are all about just getting
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Speaker 2 (19:00):
Welcome back in Clay, Travis Buck Sexton Show. Appreciate everybody
hanging out with us. I know we could have some fun.
They pulled some retrospective Trump versus Jim Acosta. Now that
Jim Acosta has been fired by CNN, Trump weighed in
on truth social Buck.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
He said, Wow, really good news.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Jim Acosta one of the worst, most dishonest reporters in
journalistic history.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
A major sleeves bag has.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Been relegated by CNN Fake News to the Midnight Hour
Death Valley because of extraordinarily bad ratings and no talent. Actually,
Trump was too kind. He's been relegated too lo longer
working at the network. Word is he wants to quit?
That would be even better. Jim's a major loser who
will fail no matter where he ends up.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Good luck, Jim.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
That is Donald Trump reacting to Jim Acosta at CNN
and Greg producer. Greg grabbed some audio that I thought
was indicative for those of you who want to go
back in time and experience what it was like when
Jemma Costa decided that he was going to brand himself
as the foremost anti Trump individual out there. And I
(20:12):
believe we have a series of several short clips of
the best moments of those interactions. If you guys want
to pop that out, let's enjoy.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Miss President.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
Did you say that you want more people to come
in from Norway? Did you say that you wanted more
people to come in from Norway? Is that true, Miss President?
Speaker 8 (20:30):
I want them to come in from everywhere, everywhere, Thank
you very much, everybody.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
Just Caucasian or white country, sir? Or do you want
people to come in from other parts of the world
where they are people of.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Colors, out Jimmy, and then they continued. I believe we
have multiple of these buck but it is I think,
just an interesting window into this modern era that we're in.
Trump made a lot of anti Trump media into superstars
(20:59):
during the first term, and now there doesn't seem to
be a lane to be the anti Trump individual, partly
because many of these people blew themselves up during COVID
and most viewers, frankly just don't trust any of the
anti Trump media.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
So what is the angle? If you ran.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
MSNBC and CNN right now, what would you do. Do
you just slowly ride out the collapse of the network?
Do you try to have a pivot and change the
way that you do the broadcast? Acosta's out, they have
they forced out Don Lemmon a couple of years ago.
I genuinely am curious what is their plan going forward?
(21:42):
What does the business do? I don't think they have
a good option or a good plan. Look, the premise
of the underlying premise of anti Trump media was take
the hysteria to eleven on the dial.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
There is no eleven, but they take get to eleven.
Take the Hysaria to eleven and then eventually he will
be defeated, And that was baked in, I think, to
everything they were doing also with the prosecutions, and you know,
Trump just had a bunch of prosecutors fired who were
out of DC who were involved in the Trump prosecution.
(22:19):
So yeah, yeah, that's right. If you were a person
who was working to try to imprison Donald Trump, you're
no longer working for the DJ I think that makes
a lot of sense. So the people in the media, though,
were promising that there would be some kind of consequence
for Trump, and if anything, I think you could argue
that this was the greatest own goal by the media
(22:41):
of all time. I mean, they created an unstoppable Trump
because it was the environment that the media that the
media created I think that led to or or they
thought would make it possible to push criminal prosecution and
the two impeachments and all of this stuff. So what
I'm saying, Clay is they failed on every level, and
everyone knows that, including their own. Like it's one thing
(23:02):
when the other team hates you, that can be great
for business, but when your own team looks at you
and says you're a bunch of clowns. You promised us
this wouldn't happen, and I've been watching you. You know,
this is why it's remarkable to me, Like the fact
that Rachel Maddow's audience has never looked at her and said,
rush a collusion. You were out of your mind. Trump's
tax returns, you were out of your mind. You know,
(23:23):
how can any but you know, at some level it
just turns into people will make any excuses for somebody
that they think is some kind of deity on TV.
It's like they just don't care. I don't think there
is a pathway like to really just answer your question.
I think that these networks are going to continue to
bleed viewers unless they do a huge overhaul. I mean,
there is an opportunity here, but you would have to
(23:44):
be willing to burn whatever audience you have now to
the ground entirely and rebuild.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
I don't think they're willing to do that. Yeah, that's
what I would do. I mean, I think you basically
have no audience left. I would go hire Megan Kelly.
I would give her a show. I would give Scott
Jennings a show. I would just remake the entire network,
and I wanted to play this because they pulled it.
This is Rush flashback January seventeenth, twenty eighteen. Remember when
(24:11):
Trump tossed Jim Acosta out out of the Oval office.
This was them reacting to this six years ago Cut
twenty four? Did we played cut twenty four? All right,
it's described differently. This is cut twenty five. Here's Trump
calling Jim Acosta rude, terrible person.
Speaker 8 (24:32):
I think you should let me run the country. You
run CNN, and if you did it well, you're ratings.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Let me as much.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
If I may ask one of the questions, thats president.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
If I may ask another question, are you worried? That's enough?
Speaker 4 (24:42):
That's a president that ask one of the other folks.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
That's enough.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
Pardon me, ma'am, I'm miss president.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
That's enough, this president.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
I had one of the If I may ask, on
the Russian investigation? Are you concerned that that you may have?
Speaker 8 (24:55):
I'm not concerned about anything with you may investigation because
it's a hoax.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Are you that's enough? Put down the mic, this president.
Speaker 4 (25:01):
Are you worried about indictments coming down in this investigation?
Speaker 8 (25:07):
Mister president, I'll tell you what CNN should be ashamed of.
Itself having you working for them. You are a rude,
terrible person. You shouldn't be working for CNN.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Go ahead. I think that's on your very rude person.
Speaker 8 (25:21):
The way you treat Sarah Huckabee is horrible, and the
way you treat other people are horrible. You shouldn't treat
people that way.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Verbal spanking.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
We have not seen any sort of real aggressive Trump
interaction with the media so far. I think it's because
the again the wane of being the anti Trump zealot,
which is the one that Jim Acosta tried to occupy
that eventually Don Lemon tried to tried to occupy as well.
(25:53):
Rachel Maddow, I know she's they're saying she's going to
be on five days a week for the first hundred days,
which is very funny. We're going to bring back Superwoman,
the MSNBC Superwoman. But I think she's what lit her
own credibility on Firebuck and I would say they don't
acknowledge that she was wrong her audience, but they stop watching.
(26:14):
And that's what's happened with her audience because over time
they have said she was wrong. She's lucy with the
football and they're Charlie Brown. How many times has she said, Oh,
We've really got Trump now, And every time at the
last second, the football gets yanked away. And now Trump
is not only in office, he's at his most popular
(26:35):
level ever as a politician, and so at some point
people just have to not listen to her.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
And I think that's what's occurred. Well, that's what I
mean by the view of this, and we should get
to the view in a second, because there's some great
clips from the view as well, But the view of
this from people who have been watching CNN and MSNBC
for years. And remember I was actually a conservative political
commentator on CNN leading up to Trump's election, so I
(27:04):
really saw it firsthand what was going on. And they
were losing their minds in real time. Well, I should
say initially they thought it was all a joke, and
then they lost their minds when it became clear that
he was a real contender and was actually gonna and
actually won. But they absolutely despised Donald Trump. Clay everything
that these other media companies have been promising, or these
(27:28):
channels have been promising, the opposite happened. What was supposed
to happen. Trump was supposed to be criminally convicted four times.
He was supposed to be removed from office through impeachment.
He was supposed to go to prison, lose this election,
you know, lose more of his base.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
All this sort of stuff. The opposite happened on all levels.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
If I were somebody who had been watching CNN for
the last ten years, I'd be like, why do I
watch you morons anymore?
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Ah?
Speaker 3 (27:57):
And I think that is exactly what has happened so well.
The media landscape has changed, but they still are saying
some of the same things. They're not learning any lessons.
I did mention this clay about the view Sunny Houston's
claiming that it is racist for Trump to deport This
is called forward to deport criminals.
Speaker 9 (28:18):
If you look at the numbers, yes, the number of
immigrants that come from Mexico or of Mexican born are
the largest, but the next largest are Asians. Twenty eight
percent of them come. I don't think they walk across
the southern border. I think they come by plane. They
overstay their visus, they overstay their visas, so they're undocumented.
The Europeans that come here that overstay their visas are undocumented,
(28:40):
but they don't come across the southern border. So I
think there's a very clear message as to what this
president wants the look of a criminal migrant to look
like what an undocumented migrant.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
And I think that's racist. What does she even say?
Speaker 3 (28:56):
What does she think she's saying when the going and
they're arresting dangerous criminals right now, and she says that,
it's like Trump is manufacturing the look of what these
criminals are.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
It's just just crazy.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
An easy follow up, which doesn't ever occur on the view,
would be, so you think Trump is purposely choosing not
to deport violent criminals who have committed crimes here based
on their ethnicity. That's the argument that you are attempting
to make. Nobody ever follows up. But that's actually the
argument that she's making. Because the other thing they're doing,
(29:31):
Buck is there.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
Are a lot more gang members in South America just
by per capita than there are in East Asia. Just
this is just the reality of the criminal stats you
can look at. So if you're talking about MS thirteen,
you're talking about trend to Aragua, you're going.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
To have more of them.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
And also this is a natural outgrowth of the argument
they made during the height of BLM, which was that
the criminal justice system is racist. And if you point
back and say, okay, is it sexist? The entire thing
just collapses, right because.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
About Yeah, women don't commit murders, so she'd be stopping
forcing laws about murder because men are the ones that
command of the murders. No, of course not that makes
no sense. They're just going after people who are public
safety risk. I'm sorry that a lot of the Latin
American criminal gang members look like Latin American criminal gang members.
I don't know what she thinks is supposed to happen here.
(30:26):
I can assure you if there were guys who were
flying in from South Korea who were murdering people and
we're here illegally, Trump would want them gone too. So
her whole premise is crap. Her old premise is nonsense. Also, look,
I mean, what do we think the numbers are for
Europeans who do visa overstays? How many commit murders, how
many commit a serious felony for Europe I would bet
(30:49):
pretty well. I mean, you know, I think it's probably
incredibly low for people. Now, if we're gonna talk about numbers,
how many people come from Latin America. Obviously a lot
come illegally as an over percentage, not that many are
committing a very small number as an overall percentage of
that huge number are committing serious crimes. But because there's
so many millions of them, that's a lot of really
(31:09):
serious criminals running around.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
This is the way it works. This is the truth, Clay.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
I think there are something like six hundred thousand that
ICE has already identified or criminal aliens. In addition to
their status meaning they've done something seria a felony, they've
committed a felony.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Six hundred thousand of them. That's a lot of people.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Not only that, when you come in under visa, theoretically
you're getting cleared, right, So in addition to the fact
that you're unlikely to have committed a crime, you're also
in some way supposed to be vetted. That's the entire
purpose of applying for a visa. So it's just such
a dishonest argument, and it's one that if that show
(31:50):
were in any way committed to multiple views, somebody would
push back, and Sunny Hostin is the dumbest member. I
think it's quite clear of the view, which is the
dumbest show on television.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
Yeah, I would also want to ask something, why is
it that Asian Americans commit so few murders? What's her
what's her response for that?
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Good question?
Speaker 3 (32:09):
By the statistics, it is true, why do Asian Americans
commit so so less than any other demographic? You can
look at a soho should we try to find more
Asian Americans to lock up because they commit so few murders.
I'm just wondering we got to equal this out a
little bit. I don't understand what's your point of view
on this?
Speaker 1 (32:25):
All right?
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Speaker 3 (33:36):
All right, welcome back into Play and Buck. A second
hour coming up here in a second dive into some
of the latest moves by the Trump administration. There is
a lot in this already in the second week to
dive into. We've also got just one fun thing. Google
(33:56):
has announced, Clazy see this. They're updating the names of
two geographical regions and response. So it's going to be
the Gulf of America. Clay pretty much owns property on
the Gulf of America.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
I do say it. You know, he's a Gulf of
the Property resident. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
And also Mountain Denali is going to be called McKinley
again according to Google. I gotta say I like this.
I know some people think, oh, what difference does it
really make.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
I'm into it. Actually.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
I also like the Greenland is freaking out and rather
Denmark is freaking about Greenland, which is very amusing.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
I think the amount of Golf of America T shirts
will be sold, I'm telling you on Panama City Beach
July fourth on Destin, Florida, my area of thirty A.
Any of you that have ever been Orange Beach, alabamaches
right there, Pensacola, any of you that have ever been
mobile down along the Gulf coast of it States now
(34:53):
the Gulf of America, I'm telling you it is going
to be. Some of these shirts that you're going to
see for fourth and Memorial Day, but particularly for July fourth,
are going to be incredible. I'm already giddy thinking about
thinking about what I'm going to be wearing on July
fourth as I celebrate, likely on the Gulf of America. Also,
Buck Gulf of America got smoked with a snowstorm, which
(35:18):
has never happened before. New Orleans got like eight inches
of snow. Pensacola, Florida got seven inches of snow. The
white sand beaches of the Gulf of America were covered
in snow. I've never seen anything like it. It was
pretty awesome. I know we mentioned it a little bit
last week, but I did think it was funny that
(35:39):
Trump renamed the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America
and then immediately the biggest snowstorm in like seventy five
years arrived. So he beat global warming too, I guess.
Speaker 3 (35:50):
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of America coffee because it comes from a whole bunch
of places.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
AOC was all upset. She's like, why is Trump getting
into a fight with Columbia or the president over there?
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immigration in New York, I mean the immigration raids New
(36:48):
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also a little more on FEMA that's coming up.
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