December 1, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 1 kicks off with Clay and Buck recapping the Thanksgiving holiday, sharing personal anecdotes about family traditions, football, and travel during one of the busiest weekends of the year. From there, the conversation pivots to major breaking news and political developments shaping the national narrative.
The hosts lead with prayers for the West Virginia National Guardsman critically injured in a Washington, D.C. shooting and mourn the loss of a 20-year-old servicewoman. They highlight growing concerns about immigration and security failures tied to the Biden administration’s chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal, emphasizing the need for stricter vetting of refugees.
A major focus of this hour is the high-stakes special election in Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District, where Republican candidate Matt Van Epps faces a well-funded Democratic challenger. Clay urges voter turnout, warning that Democrats are “playing with house money” to flip a deep-red district for narrative momentum ahead of the midterms. President Trump’s endorsement of Van Epps is featured, along with an analysis of why Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is campaigning in Nashville. The discussion underscores how even one seat could impact the GOP’s razor-thin majority.
Economic issues dominate the next segment, with gas prices hitting four-year lows, averaging around $3 per gallon nationally. Clay and Buck frame affordability as the defining issue for the 2026 elections, contrasting falling fuel costs with persistent inflation on other goods. They note how energy prices influence voter sentiment and political strategy.
International affairs also enter the mix, as the hosts examine reports of potential U.S. action against Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro. They explore the geopolitical stakes, including oil production, regional stability, and the fight against narco-trafficking, while speculating on whether military intervention or diplomatic pressure is imminent.
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Episode Transcript
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome in Monday after Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Addition, probably some of.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
You a little bit, a little bit maybe possibly a
little bit too much fun over the course of the
holiday weekend. I had an awesome time. Buck had an
awesome time. We hope all of you did. Traveled on
the busiest travel days of the year, and I thought
everybody handled themselves pretty well, at least based on the
(00:25):
airports that I was in.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
I imagine Buck, you found the same to be true.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
It did not appear that there was any sort of
mass related issues when it came to travel, with over
eighty million of US projected to be on the road,
So I hope, friends, family, and I was stunned how
few people actually do play football on Thanksgiving Day. I
put up a poll on my own site, Buck only
sixteen percent of people join me in running around and
(00:53):
playing a family Thanksgiving game. So football game. I watched
a lot of football. That's pretty much all I did
Buck Thursday for US Saturday. Did you watch any of
the football at all? Did you see any games going
on over the course of the weekend. Did your brothers
or your dad kidnap you and holds you hostage in
front of the television at any point.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
I tried to turn on at one point when we
were all in Food Cooma some college football, and my
family mocked me and said, you don't have to pretend Buck.
We'll just tell Clay that you watch some if he
asks us, And then we ended up I think turning
on Bluey from my little nephew. Oh yeah, I've heard
that's a killer show for all the kids out there. Yes,
(01:35):
so that was I learned about blue Instead. We got
a lot to dive into. First of all, we are
praying for the National guardsman from West Virginia who is
still in critical condition after a deranged Afghan one of
the people who shouldn't have been led in this country
in the wake of Joe Biden's disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan
(01:59):
after he was shot. We unfortunately lost the life of
a twenty year old service woman from West Virginia. That
happened legitimately as the news was breaking as we went
off the air on Wednesday headed into the holiday, so
we will continue to monitor that positive news. It appears
the Ukraine Russia peace talks have accelerated substantially, and there
(02:22):
may be some positivity associated with where that is going
gas prices will tell you about this at.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Four year lows.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Many of you may have noticed that as you were
on the road, ninety percent of people were traveling via
car for Thanksgiving. But we began and we're going to
talk to him and the Speaker of the House, Mike
Johnson in about an hour from now. Matt Van Epps
in the Tennessee seventh Congressional district. He is running against
(02:51):
a crazy, deranged, lunatic woman from my living in my
hometown of Nashville. This is my congressional district. I am
going tomorrow morning to drop my son off at school
and then vote in the precinct at his school. I
will be voting for Matt Van Apps, the Republican. I
know everybody's still in the food coma, so to speak,
(03:13):
waking up from the Thanksgiving holiday, But if you are
in the Tennessee seventh Congressional District, it is time to
get out and vote.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
We're gonna talk with Matt Van Epps and like I said,
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, who is here campaigning
with him right now in the Nashville area. We will
talk to those guys a little bit after one o'clock
on the East coast, so one hour from now. But
President Trump has weighed in on this race, and this
is what he said this morning over the phone at
(03:44):
a rally for Matt Van Epps. Listen, cut one hebe.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
You can vote.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
Matt van Apps.
Speaker 6 (03:49):
He's a winner, he's gonna be great. Don't let him
so for you. The Democrats spending a fortune, and we
don't want people that want to.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
Raise your taxes.
Speaker 6 (03:58):
You want to raise your taxes up a bird is
But she said two things above moleelse that voted me.
Number one, she hates Christianity. Number two, she hates country Visy.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
How the hell can you elect the person like that?
I just want to get my total support.
Speaker 6 (04:16):
And he's added from right from the beginning to Matt
ban Apps, he's going to be a fantastic congressman.
Speaker 7 (04:22):
He's going to represent you so well. And we'll keep
barge in the gun.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
All right, So get out and vote. I am going
to be there. I'm telling you to do exactly what
I do. And look, my wife asked me about this
race yesterday because there's a lot of conversation obviously in
my circuit. She said, how worried should we be about
the outcome of this race, and Buck, what I told
her is and this is, you know, kind of a
(04:47):
sports analogy Democrats are playing, or a gambling analogy. They're
playing with house money. They basically are pouring a ton
of money into this district. It should be a Trump
district through and through, it should be a Republican district,
but they're gambling on Republicans not showing up because it's
an awkwardly timed election because the district is brand new.
(05:09):
People have not even really gotten used to what congressional
district they're in because all these lines were redrawn in
twenty twenty two. And so they are basically gambling that
they can pull off the upset and embarrass Republicans and
set better momentum for themselves going into the midterms.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
In CIA analyst Nerd School, we would call this low probability,
high impact. It's unlikely that they'll be able to take
this seat, but if they did, it would give a
lot of momentum at least psychologically and for fundraising to Democrats.
Very early, we're already in a moment here where people
(05:50):
are thinking about the midterms. Yes, and soon we're going
to be in a midterm election year just weeks away,
really a couple of weeks a wee. Because a lot
of people, obviously Congress at the front of the line,
stop doing a whole lot of work once we get
close enough to the Christmas holiday and to New Year's
and so this is this is important also, and I
say this only half joking, they really want to spike
(06:13):
the football in Clay Candice, Tommy the Daily Wire, et cetera,
et Cetera's backyard, which would be true quite a moment.
So they're the Democrats. You could sort of see the
ads now and the way that they'll be writing and
talking about this.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Oh, even with.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
All of this conservative media firepower concentrated in this very
red state of Tennessee, we're able to pull this off.
The only way they pull it off is that people
just don't care, don't show up, think that it's going
to be fine. People decide that someone else is going
to take the time out of their day to make
sure that this lunatic aften bait. I mean, she is
(06:55):
among the craziest congressional candidates science AOC.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Look moderate that it's the person that Democrats are running.
I don't even think that's a crazy take.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
And if they're able to sneak this one, it is
because people are still in their post turkey and stuffing
and candied yams and maybe even cobbler food comas and
not really focused on what's going on in this one district.
I understand for a lot of you're like, Buck, it's
one district, it's one seat. Yeah, but politics is a
(07:24):
lot about narrative and a lot about emotion, and this
is going to be held up as much more important
than it is. And it's going on. I mean, we're
we're in the heat of it, the thick of it
right now. So for all of you in this seventh
Congressional district, get it done, get out there. Don't make
Clay very sad with some communist member of Congress representing him.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
I mean, this would be this is just like somebody why,
I can't even imagine. I'm apoplectic at the idea, Buck,
that this crazy chick could be my congresswoman, That this
could in any way be allowed to occur is just
absolutely crazy to me. And so I think again, what
(08:08):
they are banking on is people not knowing they're in
this district. People who have been on the road, you're
focused on Thanksgiving, you're focused on your family, and you
aren't thinking about voting. So I would ask you, go
look up and what's the worst case scenario. Go try
to vote. Go to your local polling place. That's what
I'm doing tomorrow. And if you are not in the district,
(08:30):
if they look you up and they say, hey, you're
actually in the sixth district or you're in the fifth
district because Nashville is cut in three different districts, then okay,
you did your due diligence. This is like I told
my wife. She got me buck. Have you ever done
a TRX class? Have you ever done one.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Of these bands?
Speaker 4 (08:49):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Or you pull at the bands? I know I have
not done this one, but I've seen that. Okay.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
So my wife got me in a TRX class with
her on Friday morning. So we walked and Laura is
a ridiculous like Kerry, ridiculously good shape, like she can
do all the ridiculous you know, band work in the TRX.
And we were there and we walked in and the
class wasn't there yet. It was a nine am class
(09:13):
and I was like, you know, it was eight fifty five,
and Patrick, the guy who runs it, wasn't there yet.
And I said, maybe you got the time wrong. Maybe
maybe we're not going to have to do this. And
she said, you're hoping that the class is not going on.
I said, yeah. What I want is the credit for
actually having shown up in the in the at the
(09:34):
workout at the gym, and then the TRX class isn't
actually going on. That would be the best possible outcome
for me. Now it was going on. I labored my
way through the TRX class with the bands and everything else.
My point on that analogy is ninety percent of success
is just showing up.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
If you show up and you.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Happen to not be in the seventh Congressional district, you
don't have to stand in line. You just get to
turn around. You don't have to vote, You just get
to turn around and go back. But I'm going to
be there. I can't wait to be able to go
vote here, and I'm going to be hopefully on Tuesday
night when the results start to come in, thankful that
we kicked this crazy chicks ass. I mean, this is
(10:14):
the lead right now on MSNBC Buck They've got Aftonbane on.
This is their opening. This is their you know, to
your point, low probability, high impact. This is them with
all the chips in the table saying, hey, let's embarrass
Republicans and steal a district. And this matters if you're
on the national scale. The reason speaker Mike Johnson is
(10:36):
here and I bet he tells us this next hour
is it only takes a couple of people getting sick
or a couple of things going wrong when your majority
is this small, and you don't even have a House
majority this year. So that's also unfortunately, we got a
lot of Congress people who are over seventy years old.
You've seen this happen. They have health related issues. It
doesn't take very much all of a sudden you don't
(10:57):
have a majority anymore. So that's part of this democratic
calculus I think as well. Absolutely we'll be taking your calls.
By that way, we have missed chatting with all of you.
We were away from the show for a few days
and it just feels like a few days too long.
So and also a lot of stories Clay I'm just
seeing here that are going to be added into our
(11:18):
mix today. Alina Habba, they ruled against her in an
appeals court in New Jersey as the US attorney. They're
saying that she is not a lawfully appointed US attorney,
So that's going to get some attention. President Trump also
weighing in on these boat strikes in the Caribbean and
the offer that was made to President or from President
(11:39):
Trump saw this, i'm sure, over the weekend to Maduro Venezuela,
basically saying like, no sweetheart treatment here other than you
can get out safely, but you better get out.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
That's what's being reported right now, and that is.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
A hard right now that there is a meeting on
Venezuela that's going to happen in the Oval Office soon.
What I would point out is this reminds me a
little bit of right before Israel struck Iran, when they
tried to say, hey, negotiations are still ongoing, and then
you looked up and all of a sudden, the attack
had already begun. I wonder on some level whether they
(12:16):
have already decided exactly what they are going to do,
and if that's true, what we think about the Venezuela decision.
I actually and I don't know what the percentages are here,
but I think we should take Maduro out. Ideally he
would leave of his own volition. He lost the election,
he's clung to power. I know we have a lot
of Venezuelan listeners, A ton of them live close to
(12:39):
where you are in Miami.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Buck.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
That would be able to tell us in great detail
how much of a difference that could make to size
stabilizing Latin America so we don't have as many illegal
immigrants trying to come in the country. Tons of Venezuelans
just were fed up with the kleptocracy in their country.
Would also go a long way towards bringing down oil
prices even more because in the western hemisphere of Venezuela
(13:04):
is the highest producing country basically when it comes to
oil and gas, so there are a lot of American
interests there. In particular, I think it's Chevron basically had
the entire Venezuelan oil business, and then they tried to
turn it into a state owned business and all these
different things. So I do think that storyline is one
(13:24):
to pay a lot of attention to. We could have
an accelerating situation there, to say nothing of all the
drugs as a narco state that they are pouring in here.
That are killing so many Americans every year.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Yeah, I mean, you've got Canada and Brazil are big
oil producers and Venezuela's producer. Venezuela's production is way down,
but it has the largest proven reserves in the world,
So that is quite a prize. If that actually starts
getting going the way that it should without a lunatic
socialist running it, there's quite a deal to be made there.
Perhaps we'll get into all of this, my friends. But
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All right, welcome back in here to Clay and Buck.
Clay mentioned this very important. We're going to continue to
hammer this because the fate of the Congress in terms
of control, the election that is going to be the
focus of this show in a lot of different ways
over the next twelve months, is probably going to be
determined by affordability.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
We're already seeing this.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Things can change, you know, maybe Venezuelaku crazy things happen fine,
But right now everyone is looking very much at this
affordability question and understanding that the people of America really
care about this. A lot of you really care about
this because you're dealing with it, and it's a problem,
and it's not one that you created. It's a problem
(15:57):
that's been created by government policy overspend all of that.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
But some good.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
News to that end, some good news on gas prices
play cut two.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
For the first time in four and a half years.
Speaker 8 (16:10):
Gas prices are averaging three dollars a gallon national in
court in TRIPLEA, down by seven cents in just the
past week.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Gas PRIs were low a.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
Year ago as well, but they're even cheaper now. This
is encouraging to see because late last month there was
a period where gas prices were actually higher this year
than last year, but that has reversed again and now
we've just fractions of a penny.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Away from breaking below three dollars a gallon.
Speaker 8 (16:37):
We've got twenty states across the country where the average
is actually less than two seventy five a gallon, including
North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Iowa, Wisconsin, and.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Colorado as well. Certainly nice to see this.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Glay, Gotta bring down prices, Gotta bring down prices.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
No doubt.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
I think it is the number one story of the
twenty twenty six election. And the fact that gas prices
are down, and the fact that they're down to four
and a half year lows as we were just playing
that audio from CNN is significant in the context of
the price of everything else is up over twenty percent,
so inflation adjusted, the price of gas is even lower
(17:20):
than we might realize.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
But this is one that is tangible.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
When gas prices were up around five dollars a gallon,
as many of us remember it out there in different jurisdictions.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
It was brutal.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Now they are very much under three dollars and it
is a transformative difference there in terms of what it
could mean. And again, other prices have to stabilize, continue
to come back down. But this is going to be
the battle, It's going to be the story. It is,
in fact, the number one issue as we move and
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to the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson and Matt
Van Epps, who is the individual candidate at Tennessee seven,
and Alan is a VIP. We appreciate all of you
out there who loved the show. I did not realize.
(22:04):
He says that he was a part of the Tennessee
seven congressional district. He lives in the Clarksville area near
Fort Campbell. For those of you who know the military,
My wife and I will be at our local voting
place tomorrow to make sure this deranged leftist doesn't represent
Tennessee in any way. I can't believe she holds any
kind of state seat. As it is now time to
(22:26):
flush her down the toilet, send her packing. Keep up
the great work. We appreciate you, Alan, and we're glad
that you have found out that you were in that district.
Kathy in Houston. We love our Houston listeners. Thanks to
everybody down there. Kathy, what you got for us?
Speaker 9 (22:44):
Hello, good morning. I hope you guys had a great Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
We did, Thank you. I appreciate you, and hope you
guys did too as well.
Speaker 9 (22:52):
Yes we did, Mary, Christmas to you. Yes, I actually
work for Harris County and a lot of people do
not know what districts they're in, and a lot of
them don't know the county either, because our cities overlap
a lot. So I mean we have, like an example, friends,
would we have friends would in almost three counties Paris,
(23:13):
Gallaston and Basooria. Yeah, well it's very confusing, but yes,
I mean go to the website. I mean, I know
you guys have have Davidson County there. Go to Nashville
votes dot com. I think it has like a metropolitan
Nashville and try to put in maybe your zip code.
(23:34):
I'm not sure that's how we have it here in
Harris County. Put in your zip code and see if
you're I mean, if you're registered to vote, you will
show up. And if you don't know if you're registered
to vote, just put in your name and it's pretty
much that easy to do that.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
So thank you, thank you. Yes, I encourage people. You
can go online find out the challenge. Here again, I'm
speaking specifically because I'm in this district. It's a brand
new district, relative speaking, and they have split Nashville in
three different parts so you can be represented. This was
true in my neighborhood. I can have one congressman. A
(24:09):
neighbor two streets over can have a different congressman. So
it's not separated by county lines. If you're in Williamson County,
if you're in Davidson County, if you're in in the
Clarksville area, all the way down to the border with Georgia,
all the way north to the border with Kentucky. The
seventh cuts all the way down the whole state. So
this is a long district and a lot of people
(24:30):
are finding out they don't know They just don't know
what district they're in. This If Mark Green was your congressman,
you are in this district. If you don't know your congressman,
go do the research and figure out whether or not
you are in that district. Let's go Bb talkback.
Speaker 10 (24:49):
What do we got here, Hey, Clay Buck, appreciate both
of you hanging out with me. So Dylan, truck driver
from northern Minnesota, wanted to win on Clay's girl out
and I think if she gets elected it could benefit
the Publican party because then she becomes one of the
faces of the Democratic Party as we move into the midterms.
Your district may be forced to go on to spare,
(25:09):
but the rest of the country could benefit and we
could have a bigger majority in the House and the
Senate than we're already to do.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
This is a truck driver who listens to the program
a lot. I appreciate the logic there. He is now
throwing my logic from New York City with Mom Donnie
as the mayor back on me. If I end up
with a crazy left wing chick representing me in my
congressional district, the difference I would humbly point out here,
although I do appreciate the humor, is the makeup of
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the overall congressional districts. I'm look, if Mike Johnson is
here and we're going to talk to him at the
top of the next hour. He is incredibly nervous about
what is going on in this district and also his
overall majority. So if he's coming here, President Trump is
taking time out of his program, out of his busy
schedule to call into the rally. And the White House
(25:59):
reached out to me and said, hey, Clay, can you
get Matt van ebbs On. We know this is in
your backyard. This is going to be a close race.
And so again they're relying on people not knowing what
district they are in and the fact that there's going
to be a Thanksgiving hangover and turnout is not going
to be high enough. And this is where you know
this is true. All of you out there, the people
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on the left, the crazy, childless cat ladies of America.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
They show up and vote.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
They show up and vote for everything because they have
such Trump derangement syndrome that in these special elections, Democrat
hardcore voters are the most reliable people to turn out.
And we know when Trump's not on the ballot, a
lot of Trump voters don't show up. So this is
a Trump plus twenty two district. Trump won my district
(26:48):
by twenty two points. But if people don't show up.
That's what they're banking on. They're trying to embarrass and
humiliate us by pulling off this upset. Let me tell you,
as we've got a break here and we'll come back.
We'll take some of your calls. Continue to react to
everything that you have out there. The prospect of peace
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Speaker 2 (28:42):
All right, welcome back in here to Clay and Buck.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
We have much to discuss with all of you.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
Including this very important congressional seat that is going to
be up for grabs with the election special election tomorrow.
Right man, it's already December. I'm trying to keep straight
all the things that are going on here, but that
is something that we want to really dial in on,
and we are going to have a continued coverage of
that here on the show. We also have Jonathan Albert
(29:13):
will be joining us. He is a psychotherapistlay he's got
a book coming out, Therapy Nation. But he's a guy
who's just saying and I've been saying this for years,
and I am not a psychotherapist or an MD or
anything like that, but it's quite obvious to me that
Trump arrangement syndrome is actually a true disorder of the mind,
(29:37):
that people become irrational unreasonable in a clinical way. So
I want to talk to him about that because he
has made that case in a recent Wall Street Journal
op ed. He's gone on Fox News people have gone
nuts over Trump. Is really the point. And I don't
just mean that in a general sense. I mean no,
I think there's a clinical diagnosis that should be made here.
(29:57):
They need help, no doubt. And he wrote you and
I both became aware of him.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
He wrote a great editorial about this in the Wall
Street Journal, and we actually were just texting about the editorial,
and so I believe after we talked about it or
shared it, he reached out. And so in the wake
of Thanksgiving, when some of you may have been surrounded
by maybe possibly deranged anti Trump family members or friends.
(30:28):
You may appreciate and enjoy and feel a bit enlightened
by the arguments that he is going to make. There
By the way, let me play this because this is
a positive update. West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrissey on the
surviving National guardsman who has been in critical condition Wednesday
since that shooting in Washington, d C. We've got a
(30:52):
positive report on the latest there cut twenty seven.
Speaker 5 (30:56):
Andrew remains in serious condition. We did have some positive
news that we were told that Andrew was asked if
he could hear the nurse who asked the question to
give a thumbs up, and he did respond, and we
were told that he also wiggled his toes, So we
take that as a positive sign.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
So again, shot on Wednesday. Unfortunately, the awful attack which
illuminated for many many of you already knew it, the
fact that we have let too many violent people into
this country, people with a proclivity to hate this country,
people with a proclivity to act out against the brave
(31:41):
service members of this country. These people were targeted in Washington,
d C. For violence buck the president's mobilization of the
National Guard is having substantial impact. Whether it's Washington, DC,
whether it's Memphis. The media has basically stopped covering it.
But violent crime, the director of the FBI, Cash Bettel,
(32:02):
told us on Wednesday. In Memphis, for instance, murders are
down fifty five percent in Memphis. The violent crime numbers
that I have seen coming out of Washington d C.
Since the President mobilized resources are down nearly half. That's
a real seismic impact. I mean, imagine if you had
given that prediction beforehand, a lot of people would have
(32:22):
said it would never have occurred. It's actually serving as
an interesting test case, I think for what could be
successfully deployed to drive down somewhere around twenty thousand murders
that we have every single year in the United States.
Here's the President this has cut seven speaking on that
shooting of the two National Guard members and calling it
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an active terror play it, this.
Speaker 11 (32:46):
Heinous assault was an active evil and active hatred and
an active terror. It was a crime against our entire nation.
It was a crime against humanity.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
We're not going to put up with.
Speaker 11 (32:58):
These kind of assaults on law and order by people
who shouldn't even be in our country.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
We must now re.
Speaker 11 (33:06):
Examine every single alien who has entered our country from
Afghanistan under Biden, and we must take all necessary measures
to ensure the removal of any alien from any country
who does not belong here or add benefit to our country.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
This is causing or forcing a discussion now, Clay both
about the resettled Afghans that were brought into the country,
who a lot of people now are saying, hold on
a second, Well, there was this discussion before, but there's
a renewed focus on where they actually vetted.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
Do we know who these people are?
Speaker 3 (33:44):
And there's also I think an understanding that there should
be no if you're taking in people as refugees, effectively,
you should these should be the people that love that
you your certain love America the in a way that
you know you would risk your life on it. I mean,
you would be willing to risk the safety of your
(34:06):
fellow Americans on it. Not everybody who claims they did
something for coalition forces hop on the plane, We're getting
you out of here, which is a lot of what happened.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
And also I think we have to contemplate what is
occurring in this country because there are some discussions that
his radicalization might have been accelerated by his exposure to
American media. And we tend to think, oh, okay, these
guys are radicalized entirely in their prior country. But what
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does it say if the radicalization this guy being convinced
and obviously he's mentally unstable, But this guy being convinced
in some way that his actions are justified by crazy
left wing arguments that he's being exposed to in the
United States. That's scary in and of itself because it
makes you realize that while this guy might have been
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born in Afghanistan, this is the same kind of radicalization
procedure that may well have occurred that led to the
guy shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania, that led to the attempted
killing in West Palm Beach, and that led to Charlie
Kirk's assassination. We are creating and breeding a awful contingent
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of super left wing predators that are convinced that they
are heroes based on the media that they're consuming in
this country. And that is alarming wherever the individuals are
coming from. But certainly the idea that we could take
tens of thousands of young men from Middle Eastern countries
and suddenly PLoP them down in the United States and
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there weren't going to be cultural consequences for the United States.
Is I think laughably absurd, especially from a country as
radicalized as Afghanistan.
Speaker 3 (35:55):
We're going to continue to discuss the situation of immigration
enforcement here in this country. Also more follow up onto
the conversations going on about the programs that led to
the Afghans coming into this country and that the shooting
of two National guardsmen that just occurred, one fatally, So
(36:17):
we shall have that conversation here as well. Team, we
have a lot that's going on. When do we have
Matt van Epps joining.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
Us again literally top of the next hour with the
Speaker of the House, so they will be with us.
Speaker 3 (36:27):
From Nashville in about eight minutes. That's like an alley
oop right there. I throw it up, Clay throws it down.
That's how we do it. We're gonna be talking to
you with Matt van Apps coming up here in a second.
He's got to win this race, everybody. We've got a
congressional election tomorrow. It's a big deal. Do you want
to see tears on MSNBC or MS now, which is
(36:48):
what they call it.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
Make sure Matt Wins will talk to him in a
few minutes.
Welcome in Monday after Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Addition, probably some of.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
You a little bit, a little bit maybe possibly a
little bit too much fun over the course of the
holiday weekend. I had an awesome time. Buck had an
awesome time. We hope all of you did. Traveled on
the busiest travel days of the year, and I thought
everybody handled themselves pretty well, at least based on the
(00:25):
airports that I was in.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
I imagine Buck, you found the same to be true.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
It did not appear that there was any sort of
mass related issues when it came to travel, with over
eighty million of US projected to be on the road,
So I hope, friends, family, and I was stunned how
few people actually do play football on Thanksgiving Day. I
put up a poll on my own site, Buck only
sixteen percent of people join me in running around and
(00:53):
playing a family Thanksgiving game. So football game. I watched
a lot of football. That's pretty much all I did
Buck Thursday for US Saturday. Did you watch any of
the football at all? Did you see any games going
on over the course of the weekend. Did your brothers
or your dad kidnap you and holds you hostage in
front of the television at any point.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
I tried to turn on at one point when we
were all in Food Cooma some college football, and my
family mocked me and said, you don't have to pretend Buck.
We'll just tell Clay that you watch some if he
asks us, And then we ended up I think turning
on Bluey from my little nephew. Oh yeah, I've heard
that's a killer show for all the kids out there. Yes,
(01:35):
so that was I learned about blue Instead. We got
a lot to dive into. First of all, we are
praying for the National guardsman from West Virginia who is
still in critical condition after a deranged Afghan one of
the people who shouldn't have been led in this country
in the wake of Joe Biden's disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan
(01:59):
after he was shot. We unfortunately lost the life of
a twenty year old service woman from West Virginia. That
happened legitimately as the news was breaking as we went
off the air on Wednesday headed into the holiday, so
we will continue to monitor that positive news. It appears
the Ukraine Russia peace talks have accelerated substantially, and there
(02:22):
may be some positivity associated with where that is going
gas prices will tell you about this at.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Four year lows.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Many of you may have noticed that as you were
on the road, ninety percent of people were traveling via
car for Thanksgiving. But we began and we're going to
talk to him and the Speaker of the House, Mike
Johnson in about an hour from now. Matt Van Epps
in the Tennessee seventh Congressional district. He is running against
(02:51):
a crazy, deranged, lunatic woman from my living in my
hometown of Nashville. This is my congressional district. I am
going tomorrow morning to drop my son off at school
and then vote in the precinct at his school. I
will be voting for Matt Van Apps, the Republican. I
know everybody's still in the food coma, so to speak,
(03:13):
waking up from the Thanksgiving holiday, But if you are
in the Tennessee seventh Congressional District, it is time to
get out and vote.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
We're gonna talk with Matt Van Epps and like I said,
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, who is here campaigning
with him right now in the Nashville area. We will
talk to those guys a little bit after one o'clock
on the East coast, so one hour from now. But
President Trump has weighed in on this race, and this
is what he said this morning over the phone at
(03:44):
a rally for Matt Van Epps. Listen, cut one hebe.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
You can vote.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
Matt van Apps.
Speaker 6 (03:49):
He's a winner, he's gonna be great. Don't let him
so for you. The Democrats spending a fortune, and we
don't want people that want to.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
Raise your taxes.
Speaker 6 (03:58):
You want to raise your taxes up a bird is
But she said two things above moleelse that voted me.
Number one, she hates Christianity. Number two, she hates country Visy.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
How the hell can you elect the person like that?
I just want to get my total support.
Speaker 6 (04:16):
And he's added from right from the beginning to Matt
ban Apps, he's going to be a fantastic congressman.
Speaker 7 (04:22):
He's going to represent you so well. And we'll keep
barge in the gun.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
All right, So get out and vote. I am going
to be there. I'm telling you to do exactly what
I do. And look, my wife asked me about this
race yesterday because there's a lot of conversation obviously in
my circuit. She said, how worried should we be about
the outcome of this race, and Buck, what I told
her is and this is, you know, kind of a
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sports analogy Democrats are playing, or a gambling analogy. They're
playing with house money. They basically are pouring a ton
of money into this district. It should be a Trump
district through and through, it should be a Republican district,
but they're gambling on Republicans not showing up because it's
an awkwardly timed election because the district is brand new.
(05:09):
People have not even really gotten used to what congressional
district they're in because all these lines were redrawn in
twenty twenty two. And so they are basically gambling that
they can pull off the upset and embarrass Republicans and
set better momentum for themselves going into the midterms.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
In CIA analyst Nerd School, we would call this low probability,
high impact. It's unlikely that they'll be able to take
this seat, but if they did, it would give a
lot of momentum at least psychologically and for fundraising to Democrats.
Very early, we're already in a moment here where people
(05:50):
are thinking about the midterms. Yes, and soon we're going
to be in a midterm election year just weeks away,
really a couple of weeks a wee. Because a lot
of people, obviously Congress at the front of the line,
stop doing a whole lot of work once we get
close enough to the Christmas holiday and to New Year's
and so this is this is important also, and I
say this only half joking, they really want to spike
(06:13):
the football in Clay Candice, Tommy the Daily Wire, et cetera,
et Cetera's backyard, which would be true quite a moment.
So they're the Democrats. You could sort of see the
ads now and the way that they'll be writing and
talking about this.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Oh, even with.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
All of this conservative media firepower concentrated in this very
red state of Tennessee, we're able to pull this off.
The only way they pull it off is that people
just don't care, don't show up, think that it's going
to be fine. People decide that someone else is going
to take the time out of their day to make
sure that this lunatic aften bait. I mean, she is
(06:55):
among the craziest congressional candidates science AOC.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Look moderate that it's the person that Democrats are running.
I don't even think that's a crazy take.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
And if they're able to sneak this one, it is
because people are still in their post turkey and stuffing
and candied yams and maybe even cobbler food comas and
not really focused on what's going on in this one district.
I understand for a lot of you're like, Buck, it's
one district, it's one seat. Yeah, but politics is a
(07:24):
lot about narrative and a lot about emotion, and this
is going to be held up as much more important
than it is. And it's going on. I mean, we're
we're in the heat of it, the thick of it
right now. So for all of you in this seventh
Congressional district, get it done, get out there. Don't make
Clay very sad with some communist member of Congress representing him.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
I mean, this would be this is just like somebody why,
I can't even imagine. I'm apoplectic at the idea, Buck,
that this crazy chick could be my congresswoman, That this
could in any way be allowed to occur is just
absolutely crazy to me. And so I think again, what
(08:08):
they are banking on is people not knowing they're in
this district. People who have been on the road, you're
focused on Thanksgiving, you're focused on your family, and you
aren't thinking about voting. So I would ask you, go
look up and what's the worst case scenario. Go try
to vote. Go to your local polling place. That's what
I'm doing tomorrow. And if you are not in the district,
(08:30):
if they look you up and they say, hey, you're
actually in the sixth district or you're in the fifth
district because Nashville is cut in three different districts, then okay,
you did your due diligence. This is like I told
my wife. She got me buck. Have you ever done
a TRX class? Have you ever done one.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Of these bands?
Speaker 4 (08:49):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Or you pull at the bands? I know I have
not done this one, but I've seen that. Okay.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
So my wife got me in a TRX class with
her on Friday morning. So we walked and Laura is
a ridiculous like Kerry, ridiculously good shape, like she can
do all the ridiculous you know, band work in the TRX.
And we were there and we walked in and the
class wasn't there yet. It was a nine am class
(09:13):
and I was like, you know, it was eight fifty five,
and Patrick, the guy who runs it, wasn't there yet.
And I said, maybe you got the time wrong. Maybe
maybe we're not going to have to do this. And
she said, you're hoping that the class is not going on.
I said, yeah. What I want is the credit for
actually having shown up in the in the at the
(09:34):
workout at the gym, and then the TRX class isn't
actually going on. That would be the best possible outcome
for me. Now it was going on. I labored my
way through the TRX class with the bands and everything else.
My point on that analogy is ninety percent of success
is just showing up.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
If you show up and you.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Happen to not be in the seventh Congressional district, you
don't have to stand in line. You just get to
turn around. You don't have to vote, You just get
to turn around and go back. But I'm going to
be there. I can't wait to be able to go
vote here, and I'm going to be hopefully on Tuesday
night when the results start to come in, thankful that
we kicked this crazy chicks ass. I mean, this is
(10:14):
the lead right now on MSNBC Buck They've got Aftonbane on.
This is their opening. This is their you know, to
your point, low probability, high impact. This is them with
all the chips in the table saying, hey, let's embarrass
Republicans and steal a district. And this matters if you're
on the national scale. The reason speaker Mike Johnson is
(10:36):
here and I bet he tells us this next hour
is it only takes a couple of people getting sick
or a couple of things going wrong when your majority
is this small, and you don't even have a House
majority this year. So that's also unfortunately, we got a
lot of Congress people who are over seventy years old.
You've seen this happen. They have health related issues. It
doesn't take very much all of a sudden you don't
(10:57):
have a majority anymore. So that's part of this democratic
calculus I think as well. Absolutely we'll be taking your calls.
By that way, we have missed chatting with all of you.
We were away from the show for a few days
and it just feels like a few days too long.
So and also a lot of stories Clay I'm just
seeing here that are going to be added into our
(11:18):
mix today. Alina Habba, they ruled against her in an
appeals court in New Jersey as the US attorney. They're
saying that she is not a lawfully appointed US attorney,
So that's going to get some attention. President Trump also
weighing in on these boat strikes in the Caribbean and
the offer that was made to President or from President
(11:39):
Trump saw this, i'm sure, over the weekend to Maduro Venezuela,
basically saying like, no sweetheart treatment here other than you
can get out safely, but you better get out.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
That's what's being reported right now, and that is.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
A hard right now that there is a meeting on
Venezuela that's going to happen in the Oval Office soon.
What I would point out is this reminds me a
little bit of right before Israel struck Iran, when they
tried to say, hey, negotiations are still ongoing, and then
you looked up and all of a sudden, the attack
had already begun. I wonder on some level whether they
(12:16):
have already decided exactly what they are going to do,
and if that's true, what we think about the Venezuela decision.
I actually and I don't know what the percentages are here,
but I think we should take Maduro out. Ideally he
would leave of his own volition. He lost the election,
he's clung to power. I know we have a lot
of Venezuelan listeners, A ton of them live close to
(12:39):
where you are in Miami.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Buck.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
That would be able to tell us in great detail
how much of a difference that could make to size
stabilizing Latin America so we don't have as many illegal
immigrants trying to come in the country. Tons of Venezuelans
just were fed up with the kleptocracy in their country.
Would also go a long way towards bringing down oil
prices even more because in the western hemisphere of Venezuela
(13:04):
is the highest producing country basically when it comes to
oil and gas, so there are a lot of American
interests there. In particular, I think it's Chevron basically had
the entire Venezuelan oil business, and then they tried to
turn it into a state owned business and all these
different things. So I do think that storyline is one
(13:24):
to pay a lot of attention to. We could have
an accelerating situation there, to say nothing of all the
drugs as a narco state that they are pouring in here.
That are killing so many Americans every year.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Yeah, I mean, you've got Canada and Brazil are big
oil producers and Venezuela's producer. Venezuela's production is way down,
but it has the largest proven reserves in the world,
So that is quite a prize. If that actually starts
getting going the way that it should without a lunatic
socialist running it, there's quite a deal to be made there.
Perhaps we'll get into all of this, my friends. But
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Speaker 3 (15:17):
All right, welcome back in here to Clay and Buck.
Clay mentioned this very important. We're going to continue to
hammer this because the fate of the Congress in terms
of control, the election that is going to be the
focus of this show in a lot of different ways
over the next twelve months, is probably going to be
determined by affordability.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
We're already seeing this.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Things can change, you know, maybe Venezuelaku crazy things happen fine,
But right now everyone is looking very much at this
affordability question and understanding that the people of America really
care about this. A lot of you really care about
this because you're dealing with it, and it's a problem,
and it's not one that you created. It's a problem
(15:57):
that's been created by government policy overspend all of that.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
But some good.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
News to that end, some good news on gas prices
play cut two.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
For the first time in four and a half years.
Speaker 8 (16:10):
Gas prices are averaging three dollars a gallon national in
court in TRIPLEA, down by seven cents in just the
past week.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Gas PRIs were low a.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
Year ago as well, but they're even cheaper now. This
is encouraging to see because late last month there was
a period where gas prices were actually higher this year
than last year, but that has reversed again and now
we've just fractions of a penny.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Away from breaking below three dollars a gallon.
Speaker 8 (16:37):
We've got twenty states across the country where the average
is actually less than two seventy five a gallon, including
North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Iowa, Wisconsin, and.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Colorado as well. Certainly nice to see this.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Glay, Gotta bring down prices, Gotta bring down prices.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
No doubt.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
I think it is the number one story of the
twenty twenty six election. And the fact that gas prices
are down, and the fact that they're down to four
and a half year lows as we were just playing
that audio from CNN is significant in the context of
the price of everything else is up over twenty percent,
so inflation adjusted, the price of gas is even lower
(17:20):
than we might realize.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
But this is one that is tangible.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
When gas prices were up around five dollars a gallon,
as many of us remember it out there in different jurisdictions.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
It was brutal.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Now they are very much under three dollars and it
is a transformative difference there in terms of what it
could mean. And again, other prices have to stabilize, continue
to come back down. But this is going to be
the battle, It's going to be the story. It is,
in fact, the number one issue as we move and
get ready for twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
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Speaker 1 (18:54):
Welcome back in Clay, Travis Bock Sexton Show. Okay, it
is Cyber Monday, and I don't know when they started.
Everybody knows Black Friday Cyber Monday is what the last
ten years Buck, everybody now refers to it. For those
of you don't know, it's the Monday when everybody goes
back to work, and many of you, I think probably
(19:15):
when work had a faster internet connection than home. It
used to be that people were maybe more excited to
get on the internet at work. I think most people
have pretty good Internet connections at home, generally speaking. But
cyber Monday is the day when everybody starts to pivot
and say, Okay, the holiday season is up on us.
It is the first of December. We are into Christmas month,
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Just go check it out if you haven't already. It's
great website Crocketcoffee dot com. Buck we're getting a bunch
of emails rolling in and again we're going to talk
to the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson and Matt
Van Epps, who is the individual candidate at Tennessee seven,
and Alan is a VIP. We appreciate all of you
out there who loved the show. I did not realize.
(22:04):
He says that he was a part of the Tennessee
seven congressional district. He lives in the Clarksville area near
Fort Campbell. For those of you who know the military,
My wife and I will be at our local voting
place tomorrow to make sure this deranged leftist doesn't represent
Tennessee in any way. I can't believe she holds any
kind of state seat. As it is now time to
(22:26):
flush her down the toilet, send her packing. Keep up
the great work. We appreciate you, Alan, and we're glad
that you have found out that you were in that district.
Kathy in Houston. We love our Houston listeners. Thanks to
everybody down there. Kathy, what you got for us?
Speaker 9 (22:44):
Hello, good morning. I hope you guys had a great Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
We did, Thank you. I appreciate you, and hope you
guys did too as well.
Speaker 9 (22:52):
Yes we did, Mary, Christmas to you. Yes, I actually
work for Harris County and a lot of people do
not know what districts they're in, and a lot of
them don't know the county either, because our cities overlap
a lot. So I mean we have, like an example, friends,
would we have friends would in almost three counties Paris,
(23:13):
Gallaston and Basooria. Yeah, well it's very confusing, but yes,
I mean go to the website. I mean, I know
you guys have have Davidson County there. Go to Nashville
votes dot com. I think it has like a metropolitan
Nashville and try to put in maybe your zip code.
(23:34):
I'm not sure that's how we have it here in
Harris County. Put in your zip code and see if
you're I mean, if you're registered to vote, you will
show up. And if you don't know if you're registered
to vote, just put in your name and it's pretty
much that easy to do that.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
So thank you, thank you. Yes, I encourage people. You
can go online find out the challenge. Here again, I'm
speaking specifically because I'm in this district. It's a brand
new district, relative speaking, and they have split Nashville in
three different parts so you can be represented. This was
true in my neighborhood. I can have one congressman. A
(24:09):
neighbor two streets over can have a different congressman. So
it's not separated by county lines. If you're in Williamson County,
if you're in Davidson County, if you're in in the
Clarksville area, all the way down to the border with Georgia,
all the way north to the border with Kentucky. The
seventh cuts all the way down the whole state. So
this is a long district and a lot of people
(24:30):
are finding out they don't know They just don't know
what district they're in. This If Mark Green was your congressman,
you are in this district. If you don't know your congressman,
go do the research and figure out whether or not
you are in that district. Let's go Bb talkback.
Speaker 10 (24:49):
What do we got here, Hey, Clay Buck, appreciate both
of you hanging out with me. So Dylan, truck driver
from northern Minnesota, wanted to win on Clay's girl out
and I think if she gets elected it could benefit
the Publican party because then she becomes one of the
faces of the Democratic Party as we move into the midterms.
Your district may be forced to go on to spare,
(25:09):
but the rest of the country could benefit and we
could have a bigger majority in the House and the
Senate than we're already to do.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
This is a truck driver who listens to the program
a lot. I appreciate the logic there. He is now
throwing my logic from New York City with Mom Donnie
as the mayor back on me. If I end up
with a crazy left wing chick representing me in my
congressional district, the difference I would humbly point out here,
although I do appreciate the humor, is the makeup of
(25:38):
the overall congressional districts. I'm look, if Mike Johnson is
here and we're going to talk to him at the
top of the next hour. He is incredibly nervous about
what is going on in this district and also his
overall majority. So if he's coming here, President Trump is
taking time out of his program, out of his busy
schedule to call into the rally. And the White House
(25:59):
reached out to me and said, hey, Clay, can you
get Matt van ebbs On. We know this is in
your backyard. This is going to be a close race.
And so again they're relying on people not knowing what
district they are in and the fact that there's going
to be a Thanksgiving hangover and turnout is not going
to be high enough. And this is where you know
this is true. All of you out there, the people
(26:20):
on the left, the crazy, childless cat ladies of America.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
They show up and vote.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
They show up and vote for everything because they have
such Trump derangement syndrome that in these special elections, Democrat
hardcore voters are the most reliable people to turn out.
And we know when Trump's not on the ballot, a
lot of Trump voters don't show up. So this is
a Trump plus twenty two district. Trump won my district
(26:48):
by twenty two points. But if people don't show up.
That's what they're banking on. They're trying to embarrass and
humiliate us by pulling off this upset. Let me tell you,
as we've got a break here and we'll come back.
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All right, welcome back in here to Clay and Buck.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
We have much to discuss with all of you.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
Including this very important congressional seat that is going to
be up for grabs with the election special election tomorrow.
Right man, it's already December. I'm trying to keep straight
all the things that are going on here, but that
is something that we want to really dial in on,
and we are going to have a continued coverage of
that here on the show. We also have Jonathan Albert
(29:13):
will be joining us. He is a psychotherapistlay he's got
a book coming out, Therapy Nation. But he's a guy
who's just saying and I've been saying this for years,
and I am not a psychotherapist or an MD or
anything like that, but it's quite obvious to me that
Trump arrangement syndrome is actually a true disorder of the mind,
(29:37):
that people become irrational unreasonable in a clinical way. So
I want to talk to him about that because he
has made that case in a recent Wall Street Journal
op ed. He's gone on Fox News people have gone
nuts over Trump. Is really the point. And I don't
just mean that in a general sense. I mean no,
I think there's a clinical diagnosis that should be made here.
(29:57):
They need help, no doubt. And he wrote you and
I both became aware of him.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
He wrote a great editorial about this in the Wall
Street Journal, and we actually were just texting about the editorial,
and so I believe after we talked about it or
shared it, he reached out. And so in the wake
of Thanksgiving, when some of you may have been surrounded
by maybe possibly deranged anti Trump family members or friends.
(30:28):
You may appreciate and enjoy and feel a bit enlightened
by the arguments that he is going to make. There
By the way, let me play this because this is
a positive update. West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrissey on the
surviving National guardsman who has been in critical condition Wednesday
since that shooting in Washington, d C. We've got a
(30:52):
positive report on the latest there cut twenty seven.
Speaker 5 (30:56):
Andrew remains in serious condition. We did have some positive
news that we were told that Andrew was asked if
he could hear the nurse who asked the question to
give a thumbs up, and he did respond, and we
were told that he also wiggled his toes, So we
take that as a positive sign.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
So again, shot on Wednesday. Unfortunately, the awful attack which
illuminated for many many of you already knew it, the
fact that we have let too many violent people into
this country, people with a proclivity to hate this country,
people with a proclivity to act out against the brave
(31:41):
service members of this country. These people were targeted in Washington,
d C. For violence buck the president's mobilization of the
National Guard is having substantial impact. Whether it's Washington, DC,
whether it's Memphis. The media has basically stopped covering it.
But violent crime, the director of the FBI, Cash Bettel,
(32:02):
told us on Wednesday. In Memphis, for instance, murders are
down fifty five percent in Memphis. The violent crime numbers
that I have seen coming out of Washington d C.
Since the President mobilized resources are down nearly half. That's
a real seismic impact. I mean, imagine if you had
given that prediction beforehand, a lot of people would have
(32:22):
said it would never have occurred. It's actually serving as
an interesting test case, I think for what could be
successfully deployed to drive down somewhere around twenty thousand murders
that we have every single year in the United States.
Here's the President this has cut seven speaking on that
shooting of the two National Guard members and calling it
(32:44):
an active terror play it, this.
Speaker 11 (32:46):
Heinous assault was an active evil and active hatred and
an active terror. It was a crime against our entire nation.
It was a crime against humanity.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
We're not going to put up with.
Speaker 11 (32:58):
These kind of assaults on law and order by people
who shouldn't even be in our country.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
We must now re.
Speaker 11 (33:06):
Examine every single alien who has entered our country from
Afghanistan under Biden, and we must take all necessary measures
to ensure the removal of any alien from any country
who does not belong here or add benefit to our country.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
This is causing or forcing a discussion now, Clay both
about the resettled Afghans that were brought into the country,
who a lot of people now are saying, hold on
a second, Well, there was this discussion before, but there's
a renewed focus on where they actually vetted.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
Do we know who these people are?
Speaker 3 (33:44):
And there's also I think an understanding that there should
be no if you're taking in people as refugees, effectively,
you should these should be the people that love that
you your certain love America the in a way that
you know you would risk your life on it. I mean,
you would be willing to risk the safety of your
(34:06):
fellow Americans on it. Not everybody who claims they did
something for coalition forces hop on the plane, We're getting
you out of here, which is a lot of what happened.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
And also I think we have to contemplate what is
occurring in this country because there are some discussions that
his radicalization might have been accelerated by his exposure to
American media. And we tend to think, oh, okay, these
guys are radicalized entirely in their prior country. But what
(34:39):
does it say if the radicalization this guy being convinced
and obviously he's mentally unstable, But this guy being convinced
in some way that his actions are justified by crazy
left wing arguments that he's being exposed to in the
United States. That's scary in and of itself because it
makes you realize that while this guy might have been
(35:01):
born in Afghanistan, this is the same kind of radicalization
procedure that may well have occurred that led to the
guy shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania, that led to the attempted
killing in West Palm Beach, and that led to Charlie
Kirk's assassination. We are creating and breeding a awful contingent
(35:22):
of super left wing predators that are convinced that they
are heroes based on the media that they're consuming in
this country. And that is alarming wherever the individuals are
coming from. But certainly the idea that we could take
tens of thousands of young men from Middle Eastern countries
and suddenly PLoP them down in the United States and
(35:44):
there weren't going to be cultural consequences for the United States.
Is I think laughably absurd, especially from a country as
radicalized as Afghanistan.
Speaker 3 (35:55):
We're going to continue to discuss the situation of immigration
enforcement here in this country. Also more follow up onto
the conversations going on about the programs that led to
the Afghans coming into this country and that the shooting
of two National guardsmen that just occurred, one fatally, So
(36:17):
we shall have that conversation here as well. Team, we
have a lot that's going on. When do we have
Matt van Epps joining.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
Us again literally top of the next hour with the
Speaker of the House, so they will be with us.
Speaker 3 (36:27):
From Nashville in about eight minutes. That's like an alley
oop right there. I throw it up, Clay throws it down.
That's how we do it. We're gonna be talking to
you with Matt van Apps coming up here in a second.
He's got to win this race, everybody. We've got a
congressional election tomorrow. It's a big deal. Do you want
to see tears on MSNBC or MS now, which is
(36:48):
what they call it.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
Make sure Matt Wins will talk to him in a
few minutes.
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