June 2, 2026 • 36 mins
In Hour 1 of The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show, the hosts deliver a wide-ranging, high-energy discussion centered on California primary election coverage, national political trends, foreign policy, legal battles, and major global events, making this hour especially relevant for listeners following U.S. politics, elections, and current events analysis.
The hour opens with a strong focus on California’s primary election day, highlighting the Los Angeles mayoral race and California gubernatorial contest as key political flashpoints. Clay and Buck analyze the potential for Republican upsets in traditionally blue California, emphasizing candidates like Steve Hilton in the governor’s race and Spencer Pratt in the LA mayoral race. They frame these contests within broader voter frustration over governance failures, particularly in Los Angeles. A major theme is anti-establishment sentiment, as the hosts discuss how political outsiders are gaining traction by criticizing entrenched leadership, arguing that voter dissatisfaction with crime, homelessness, and wildfire mismanagement could reshape the political landscape. Polling data and prediction market trends are cited to show both Hilton and Pratt within striking distance, reinforcing the narrative of a potentially competitive election cycle.
A significant portion of Hour 1 also examines Los Angeles infrastructure failures and wildfire recovery issues, including criticism of leadership response and rebuilding delays after destructive fires. The hosts connect these issues to broader dissatisfaction among urban voters, suggesting this could influence election turnout and outcomes. Additionally, they highlight concerns about slow vote counting in California, contrasting it with quicker election systems in other states, and raising questions about election integrity, efficiency, and public trust in voting systems.
On the national and global stage, the hosts briefly discuss U.S. foreign policy and Iran nuclear negotiations, referencing comments from Marco Rubio and expressing skepticism about diplomatic progress. They also touch on political rhetoric, including criticism of comparisons between MAGA supporters and historical extremist movements, framing it as part of ongoing media and political polarization.
A major featured segment in Hour 1 is an in-depth interview with Andrew Giuliani, who discusses the upcoming FIFA World Cup in the United States. This segment explores the economic impact, national security planning, and global significance of the tournament, emphasizing its expected $30 billion economic boost and massive international viewership. Giuliani outlines extensive security measures, infrastructure planning, and fan experience logistics, positioning the World Cup as a key moment for showcasing American exceptionalism and large-scale event execution. The discussion includes practical insights on ticket demand, pricing, stadium access, and travel expectations, making it highly relevant for sports fans and event attendees.
The hour also features commentary on military policy and legal challenges, particularly a court ruling involving transgender service members. Clay and Buck debate the implications of military readiness standards, comparing eligibility requirements across medical conditions, and predicting the issue will escalate to the U.S. Supreme Court. This segment ties into broader cultural and political debates around military policy, health standards, and identity politics.
Additional topics include a brief mention of a controversial political candidate in Maine, critiques of economist Paul Krugman’s political commentary, and ongoing discussions about prediction markets and political betting trends, which the hosts describe as increasingly influential in analyzing election outcomes.
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Episode Transcript
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome everybody. Tuesday edition of The Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show kicks off right now. It is primary election
day out in California. We are gonna be talking about
the LA mayors race, the governor's race. Steve Hilton is
gonna be with us in just a little bit. We'll
(00:21):
discuss how it's all looking with him. Got the latest
facts and figures on this one, and I'm hopeful, I'm
hopeful that there can be at least one, if not two,
big upsets from Republicans in this thing. But remember it
is it is the the communist headquarters of California that
(00:44):
we're talking about. So if you ever thought that you
knew someone, you had a neighbor, you had a buddy,
a friend, who was completely divorced from reality when it
came to their politics, you ain't seen nothing if you
haven't spent time in California or New York. But they're
really pretty wacko out there. So we'll see are We
are hopeful. We are praying for a good outcome out there.
(01:06):
We've also got more from Mark or Rubio this morning
on the Iran deal. Clay, We've got them right where
we want him. They may not know it, but we've
got them right where we want them' That's what I'm
getting from this. Any moment now, they're gonna come crawling
back to us with the deal done exactly as we
want it to be. They are not stalling, they are
(01:28):
not running out the clock. Or maybe they are. We
will see. We will take a look at all of that.
And we've also got let's see, you talked about this
guy who is Graham Platner running in Maine yesterday. I
know I was listening in on the show. It is
not a shock that the guy who mistakenly got a
Nazi prison guard tattoo is not a great guy. This
(01:51):
should come as a shock to absolutely no one. So
we have that to work through. I believe that they're
in an unwinnable position for that set, but we'll see.
Also Paul Krugman, who I think Clay as I have said,
his greatest contribution as a Nobel laureate is showing everyone
that you can win a Nobel Prize in economics and
still be a total moron. So that should be encouraging
(02:14):
to everybody out there that you know, anyone can win
that thing. He compared MAGA to Nazis, and we need
to have a d Nazification, like a D magafication. That
is something that maybe we'll get some time on in
a little bit. Oh, also some great guests. We've got
Kelly Paul's, the children's book author, and Rand Paul's wife,
Senator Paul's wife. She'll be with this third hour. Andrew Giuliani,
(02:37):
whom Clay I have known for I can't even really
do the math at least thirty years now. Andrew was
my little brother's classmate at Saint David's. And Andrew's a
great guy, and he's running the US World Cup situation.
So which is happening here? The World Cup? I know
(02:59):
a lot of you are hugely excited, hugely excited about soccer,
So there is that. There's that to discuss. I want
to jump into this because the main question I'm being
asked right now, Clay, you know, yesterday, thank you for
holding down the fort. I appreciate that after the keg
party you cleaned up. It's like it didn't even happen.
There's a faint smell of beer in the studio, but
not too overpowering that yesterday people were coming up to
(03:22):
me or texting me, and the main thing they were
asking me was do you think really more Steve Hilton.
We love Steve Hilton, He's probably the greatest Steve Hilton
of all. But people are asking about whether Spencer Pratt
can actually win this thing in Los Angeles. This guy's
really captured the hearts and minds of a lot of
the country with this way that he's done this race.
(03:44):
And here here is the central point in it. This
has cut fourteen. Spencer Pratt talking about remember today is
the day, big voting day out in California in LA
saying that, yeah, the other people that are supposed to
be so qualified, they're terrible at this play fourteen.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
My opponents of the reason the city's failing, So anything
they say is just moral lies. They know with me,
we're changing what's going on. We're stopping it. So it's
not like a closing arment. They're already excited about me.
The reason I'm here is because I'm not like these people.
I don't have the experience of failing like they have.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
I think that's key, Clay. The people that are saying
look at my resume or he's how could he do this,
and particularly the individuals who have been in these positions,
like Karen Bass, they have done a terrible job. So
why is that? Why is doing a terrible job a
qualification for keeping a job? So a couple of things.
Go vote.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
There's also a big decision in Iowa. There are many
different states having primaries today, but in particular all of California.
And we played it yesterday, but I do think you
have to go vote for Steve Hilton if you are
a Republican because I don't think there's any way Chad Bianco,
based on all the numbers, is going to make the runoff.
(05:03):
And if Chad Bianco doesn't make the runoff and Steve
Hilton doesn't make the runoff, then you're gonna have double
Democrats and that's gonna be significant down ballot in LA.
We're gonna end up, I hope, with Spencer Pratt against
Karen Bass. And then Spencer Pratt is going to have
multiple more months to make the argument that he represents sanity,
(05:25):
not that he represents the Republican Party, just that he
represents a repudiation of the choices that have been made.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
You sent me.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
We played it on the show yesterday, great television show.
Back in the day Entourage Doug Ellen represents. He was
the creator of Entourage. Doug Ellen represents I think a
traditional Democrat voter that's just fed up with the reality
of what's happening on the ground in LA. And the
question is, are people fed up enough that they could
(05:54):
go in the direction of Rudy Giuliani. It's also, to
me buck kind of intriguing because LA and New York
are obviously our two biggest cities in America, and New
York said, hey, we're frustrated by a lot. We're going
to put basically a communist in office in mom Donnie,
and the question is just going to be what is
he actually capable of doing and how much worse can.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
He make things? On the flip side.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
The other argument here is is La going to go
the exact opposite direction and say we've reached a break
the glass moment when it comes to basic issues, and
Karen Vass is wildly unpopular and so as a result,
we're going to find a way to try and replace her.
There still is a lot of anger, and maybe we
need to get Adam Carolla on. He's a friend of
(06:40):
the show, and he posted the other day Buck. Basically
nothing has been rebuilt in Malibu. Basically nothing has been
rebuilt in the Palisades. So to me, there's two frustrating
elements here, and I actually think President Trump could address
these frustrating elements for a lot of people in La
One is that they allowed all of the houses to
(07:01):
burn down, and that Karen Bass was in Ghana at
the time that it occurred.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
The mayor was. That's frustrating, that's infuriating.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
The second part is people still can't get their homes rebuilt,
so it is futility in both directions. You both allowed
my home to burn down because of the incompetence of
not having water in the reservoirs, because you weren't able
to deal with what should have been a very easily
dealt with wildfire, which was set by an arsonist. I
(07:32):
know everybody still wants to talk about, Oh, this was
an example of global warming. No, a crazy left winger
decided to light this fire and that's why these houses
burned down.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
A fan of Luigi the Murderer, Yes, an explicit fan
of Luigi. I mean, this is a guy who wanted
to do his part to bring down civilization. Didn't assassinate
a CEO, but burned down thousands of homes because he's
such a alludatice.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
So both directions buck the burned down and the rebuild.
They can get either to happen, which is symptomatic. I
think of a broken Los Angeles and the question is
are people frustrated enough to break the glass and go
grab Spencer Pratt, who is a political novice because they're
so upset about what the professional politicians have done.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
We are in a different era, as we know. Donald
Trump leading the charge on this one. He was a
political novice, and he has really defined not just the
two terms that he will have had in office, but
also the Biden interregnum, if you will. This has been
the Trump era of politics. And he's a guy who
never held elected office before he ran for president. So
(08:37):
the notion that Spencer Pratt cannot be or that Steve
Hilton cannot be in elected office, I think, on its
face it's just preposterous. And to that end, Clay I
pulled some of the data. It was actually even a
little bit more encouraging. We'll talk to Steve Hilton today.
Spencer Pratt hasn't come on the show. I don't know.
(08:57):
You know, I love his hummingbird's doing a great jobs.
I'm on the show, but we haven't been able to
track him down for some reason. Maybe he doesn't you know,
he doesn't know how much we love freedom America and
the beautiful California coast that might think communists. I'm just
going to point this out. There are a lot of
people that just they don't realize how big this show is.
And I think that's true for a lot of people
(09:19):
that maybe are non traditional in the political universe. And
I understand it because it's challenging. You're getting so many
different invites to go on and do so many different shows.
This show has six hundred affiliates. I mean most of
the Republican Party side gets it. But I think Spencer
Pratt is a political novice. He DM me and said
(09:40):
he's going to come on. We've emailed with his team.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
I think when he becomes a finalist and the campaign continues,
I'm confident we'll get him.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
So here are the numbers that I was able to pull.
Steve Hilton's chances as of today. But there's a huge
slew of candidates. If you see this is about hit
how many people are in this governor. But he's a
very serious, not just contender, but top contender. Latest Emerson
polling from just a couple of days ago Emerson College
(10:09):
polling had him tied for second place. Clay, So this,
Steve Hill, this is not a vanity campaign. This is
not Oh, I want attention. He could certainly come in second,
he could come in first. He could win this thing
today based on the most recent polling data you can
pull in fact and by the UCA. But if he
(10:30):
was here, he'd be like Buck. What about U C. Berkeley.
The UC Berkeley poll bowl has him at second place,
ahead of Stire. So he's just and he's a couple
of points behind Bessera in any of the he's within
striking distances the point. So he absolutely can win by
the numbers today, depending on turnout and a few other things.
You know, Clay, this isn't he's behind ten or fifteen
(10:51):
points in every poll, or he's you know, in ninth
place among ten candidates or something. He's very serious. And
then in the Spencer Pratt side of things, Clay, he's
two three points behind Bass. He's also within striking distance
of the first place position, not of you know being
a contender. So a couple of things here.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
I go to the I go to all of the
data on the prediction markets, so I don't even trust polling.
Polling always made me a little bit nervous. It appears
right now based on the odds. Everybody go vote. Everybody
go vote, everybody go vote that the two finalists in
California are likely to be Xavier Bessera.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Javier, Javier should be Xavier be I be well, it
could be Xavier or Javier, but I live in South Florida.
I can't, I can't. I got to help you out
with this one.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
It's Javier be Sarah and this guy's name I can
get right, Steve Hilton. So Besarah is ninety one percent
likely to advance. Steve Hilton seventy seven percent likely to advance.
Tom Steyer in third place at thirty five percent. Only
the top two advance on the La Mayor. This is
(12:03):
the live prediction markets, with millions of dollars wagered on
what's going to happen in the Los Angeles Mayor. Karen
Bass is still favored to win, but Karen Bass Spencer
Pratt are favored to be both in the runoff and
Spencer Pratt has about a quarter percent chance one in
four of winning according to the current odds. Buck On Calshi,
(12:28):
forty million dollars has been wagered on the La Mayor race.
Forty million dollars. These things are huge. These markets have
become massive. That's why I would rather pay attention to
them than the polls, because the.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Polls are you getting in on that action? Hold on
a second, here, buddy, you getting in on that action?
Am I gonna find half this.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
I have right now? Buck, you'll appreciate this. I'll just
be public with it.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
I have.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Six open political wagers that I have placed. I'll tell
you what those are when we come back. Yes, I'm
super fascinated by it. These are not big dollar wagers,
but I'm trying to put my money where my mouth is.
Right now, I have three thousand dollars in a prediction
market account. I'll tell you what predictions I have made
(13:19):
polymarket Calshi. I am fascinated with them. When it comes
to the political angle, and we will discuss and when
we come back. But I want to tell you as
we go to break it is right now continuing to
be tumultuous and dangerous in Israel, and a huge part
of that tumult and danger is trying to be addressed
(13:42):
by what the IFCJ is doing. This is an organization
I've seen their work. It's American based International Fellowship of
Christians and Jews. They are there to help try and
provide safety and security for people in Israel, and they
are using the connection between Jewish and Christian people to
(14:02):
help and stand with Israel.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
You can go join, You.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
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That's PREYIFCJ dot org. This is incredible work. Whether it's
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(14:28):
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Speaker 1 (14:41):
Looking for normal in a world of crazy. Clay and
Buck have your back. Welcome back in Clay and Buck.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
You've got a bunch of guests coming your way, including
Andrew Juliani at the bottom of this hour, Steve Hilton
at the bottom of the next hour, and then ram
Paul's y Kelly, who I think you guys are gonna
enjoy hearing from. I'll get into maybe at the top
of the next hour. I'll tell you what predictions I
have made in the political marketplace. But Roxanne and Los Angeles.
(15:08):
One big frustration a lot of us have, even those
who lives those of us who live outside of California,
is how frigging long it takes for you guys to
count the votes primaries today? When are we going to
know who won?
Speaker 4 (15:23):
Join the club. You won't even know how many ballots
have been cast in this election for a full week,
and then the election isn't certified until the end of
the month.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
How is that possible? Like, can you just give us
a little window into this? It just seems absurd, beyond words.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
I don't know. I'm from a third world country, the
island of Jamaica, where we dip fingers in ink and
get a count the same night. So I'm the US immigrant,
I'm chairman of the Republican Party of LA and it
has always been a mystery to me.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Oh wow, very cool. Well your story is very cool.
Not not getting an answer for a week.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Oh yeah, look, I actually think that this, and I
understand that there's lots of things that people are talking about,
but Roxanne, I imagine you would endorse this. The longer
it takes to count votes, the less trustworthy the results
are across the board. The fact that we're potentially going
to have another House of Representatives on the fine line
(16:30):
between who's going to win and not, and that we're
gonna be waiting weeks this fall to see what the
outcome is potentially based on some California races, It's crazy,
Like this seems to me like a federal issue that
should be addressed. Every state should count as fast as
your state. Now Florida does buck it's flawless. After two thousand,
(16:51):
Florida said we're fixing this. We're not going to do
the Chad's ballots, we're not going to do all of
the butterfly ballot ridiculousness.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
And they fixed it. Why can't California.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
Well, here's the good news. When we vote for sanity,
we actually overwhelm that. So we voted to make crime
I legal again seventy thirty. A couple of years ago,
we also kicked out George gascon A, Soora's prosecutor and
we elected Nathan Hoffman seventy thirty. We can do that
again because people are so excited about Steve, they're so
excited about Spencer and fingers crossed. Just don't maybe pop
(17:26):
the champagne tonight, but know that that people are turning
out and they need to go vote today.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Fantastic. Hey, thank you so much for the call. Appreciate
hearing from you. And get get your fellow Republicans in La.
See they listened Clay, they listened to the show. Get
them out there, get them voting, and it would be
such a I think Klay a great indicator of where
the country could be heading going into Put the gas
prices aside for a second. And also it just to
(17:54):
be great for California, you know, make entourage California again.
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Speaker 3 (18:58):
Welcome back in Clay and Buck. Appreciate all of you
hanging out with us. It is World Cup in America
season and they're gonna be matches played all over the
United States.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
And if you're upset.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
At all with anything surrounding the World Cup, this guy
is to blame. Andrew julian I saw the New York
Times had a huge profile that I was reading. I
think it was in Sunday or Saturday of you and
the way that it was a great actually was a
pretty good article, like as these things go. I was
reading it and I was like, as New York Times,
(19:32):
they're gonna be awful. But it was actually, I thought
relatively fair. But the very last paragraph was if anything
goes wrong, Andrew's.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Gonna have to bear all the blame. We had dinner recently.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
You're running through all the different challenges that his official
title as Executive Director White House Task Force on the
FEEFA World Cup US plays June twelfth, on Friday of
next week. I believe that is in La. This thing
starts next Thursday. You can correct me if I'm wrong
on that. But I know you have been working all
(20:06):
the time, all hours, dealing with mayors all over the
country about these big events. What should our audience know
about the World Cup coming up starting next week, it's
going to go on for a month, and how significant
it's going to be for the country.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
Yeah, Clay, Well, always great to be with you over here.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
You know.
Speaker 6 (20:23):
The funny thing was that was from Curtis Sliwa, who
was a radio partner of mine. Oh yeah, way back when.
So I don't know what that tells you and what
you and Buck should get from that right there, But
I guess don't allow your radio partner to do a
New York Times interview otherwise they spill the beads. But no, really, Look,
we have the largest sporting events here in world history coming.
(20:43):
When you look at the viewership numbers, and I know
I've said this to you before, but about one hundred
and thirty million people watched the last Super Bowl, one
point six billion watch the last World Cup finals. So
this really is unlike anything else from a security setup.
I was with Secretary Mullen yesterday in Dallas looking at
the stadium there they are setting up all eleven stadiums
(21:04):
in the United States of America, all seventy eight matches,
exactly like it would be like from a perimeter perspective,
from a counter uas perspective, like it was a Super Bowl.
So you could just see the exact same perimeter setup
that they used in Levi Stadium last year in February
for the Super Bowl. That's exactly what they're going to
be doing for the World Cup. So look, we've been
(21:26):
telling fans get there early, spend the day at the stadium.
Speaker 5 (21:30):
You want to make sure that.
Speaker 6 (21:31):
You have the opportunity to get in because we are
not going to compromise our security, especially in light of
some of the issues that are going on. So that's
been our main focus. And Clay, you know this, and
you've seen this in a lot of the lead up
to this. The excitement and the energy around the World
Cup internationally, it's been going on for months. You're starting
to feel that it's starting to become palpable here in
(21:54):
the United States. But once that first game kicks off
in the US on June twelfth, you're right, we're starting
in me.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
Too on June eleventh.
Speaker 6 (22:01):
The next day, the US will play Paraguay at Sofi
Stadium on June twelfth. Once that game kicks off, it
is going to be an incredible energy in this country
over the course of the thirty nine days that the
World Cup will be here.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Now, Andrew, I can bring a little special perspective to
this because I recall almost I don't know, thirty years ago,
your own soccer career, sir, so you've been at this
for quite some time. You were a goalkeeper. If I
remember correctly. They called you the Great Wall of Giuliani
and then nothing got past you. And on the Saint
(22:36):
David's Red team, which was like the varsity team, you
were the goalkeeper and people would you'd run for that
ball and they would scatter in fear, knowing the dropkick
that was about to happen. So I just want ever know.
And you're not new to the soccer situation, and you're
certainly bringing a lot of enthusiasm to something that's gonna have.
(22:56):
What kind of money is this going to bring in?
What kind of attendance numbers looking at overall?
Speaker 6 (23:02):
Yeah, well, the Great Wall of Juliani and wearing the
red team uniform. I just want to make sure you
know that I'm working for the United States of America.
I love the United States of America. No issues with China.
They're from that perspective. But you're absolutely right. We go
way back here, Buck. I can tell you that this
is going to be, from an economic perspective, a massive driver.
We're expecting thirty billion dollars in economic impact.
Speaker 5 (23:24):
That's just for the eleven host cities.
Speaker 6 (23:26):
When you think about the fact that thirty nine of
the teams will be basing in the United States. So
think about the Croatian team will be based in Alexandria, Virginia.
You'll have the Brazilians based in Morristown, New Jersey. You
have England in Argentina based in the Kansas City suburbs there.
That's where you're going to have tens of thousands, depending
(23:47):
on the country, tens of thousands of fans coming on out,
spending their time, spending their dollars. That's where you're really
going to see a major, major economic impact. The average
traveler that comes here for the World Cup, they may
go to two games and spend and spend twelve days.
That's what we've been trying to do. We've been trying
to then push them to freedom to fifty events, all
(24:08):
these celebrations around our semi quin centennial.
Speaker 5 (24:12):
When I first spoke to the President about this, and
I actually just spoke to.
Speaker 6 (24:15):
Them on Sunday again, kind of about the legacy aspect
about this. The thing that I like to say is
there is no larger platform that you're going to be
able to go and get out the truth about American exceptionalism.
We know that much of the media, especially the international media,
has lied about American exceptionalism for the last many decades.
(24:37):
This is an unbelievable opportunity to show firsthand that America
is capable, truly of hosting some of the great cultural
events here in the world.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
I know, and you have met a lot of the
Fox people that are putting this on Fox Sports. Awesome
guys and gals that are going to be a part
of this big festivity. And even in those conversations, there's
been some talk about, Hey, what should we be telling
people who are going to these matches? You mentioned eleven
(25:07):
different stadiums, You mentioned the security. I've heard it's Super Bowl.
Like I've been to a few Super Bowls. They tell
you to arrive hours early because it's not the same
as going to a regular baseball game or a regular
football game. What would you tell anybody that's out there
going to a game, Hey, if the game starts at
four o'clock in the afternoon, how much time do you
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think they should give to get into the stadium? Given
all the security issues, what should they budget get?
Speaker 6 (25:37):
Give an hour and a half? Definitely, at least give
an hour and a half, I would say. And soccer
fans are notorious for coming to the gates here within
the last fifteen to twenty minutes. That's not going to
work unless you're going to miss the first half of
the game, So we really really want you to get
in there. FIFA's set up a lot of different fan
activations for those that have tickets within the perimeters, so
they're fascinating things to do. You can go and watch
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your team warm up for the hour before the game,
so get there an hour and a half, two hours before.
We know gates are going to open two to three
hours for the final four hours before, so make sure
you get there. Look, people have paid a premium for
these tickets. We want to make sure that they're able
to really really enjoy this.
Speaker 5 (26:16):
And you know, Clay, I'm glad you mentioned the Super.
Speaker 6 (26:19):
Bowl again because I was talking about the physical perimeters
there and how you'll have three ticket checks unlike your
typical NFL game where you normally have one. But I
think one incredible story really to tell is on counter
UAS mitigation and what we've been able to do so
in twenty twenty five, for all the seer event ratings
around the United States, that would be the Super Bowl,
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that would be the Boston, New York Marathon, events like that.
For all of them, only five were covered for counter
UAS mitigation drone mitigation. In twenty twenty six, for the
World Cup alone, all seventy eight games will be covered
for counter UAS mitigation and one of the fan fest
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in each and every one of the cities. So just
for the World Cup alone, you're talking about over one
hundred and fifty six different games sites that are being covered, compared.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
To five last year.
Speaker 6 (27:13):
That's not even including sail Forth to fifty Freedom to
fifty f IndyCar that's going to be on the National mall,
all those other events. So this has really been an
amazing work here by the federal interagency led by the
Air Sovereignty Task Force, with President Trump signed and the
White House Task Force on the World Cup Andrew.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
One of the big conversation points has been dynamic pricing,
cost of tickets. I've actually seen that the cost of
tickets has started to come down in many of these
different matches. I want to take my kids. I think
there's a lot of people out there that are just
sports fans in general, may not be diehard soccer fans,
but want to see what the experience is like. What
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would you say about cost, What would you say about
the the comfort level when it comes to taking your
family security wise, what would you just say about that
experience for families.
Speaker 5 (28:07):
Yeah, look, I.
Speaker 6 (28:08):
Agree with the President what he said a month ago
or so. Costs are expensive, and I think part of
that is the fact that FIFA had over five hundred
million ticket requests. This is going back to January at
the half billion mark for what is about seven million
tickets between the three countries here, and so that obviously
creates a supply and man now some of those ticket
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requests were overloaded to games like Columbia versus Portugal or
Brazil versus Morocco, where you might have some of the
smaller countries or some of the newer countries think Currasau
where there are only three hundred thousand residents. There are
games that are available for less than two hundred dollars,
and you can look in most cities, you'll be able
to now access a stadium for less than two hundred
(28:53):
and fifty dollars for some of these games. So that's
just the way that dynamic pricing works. Look at something
that we've done discussed. We certainly are aware of the
price of this we have a as a federal government
has made sure that we put in Federal Security brands
grants here for the states, for the eleven states that
are going to be hosting World Cup and World Cup
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related events, and that's helped made the fan festivals free
or very very low cost for everybody. So we want
to make sure that whether or not you're able to
take your family to the stadium or whether you're going
to a fan fest, that you're going to be able
to have the opportunity to enjoy this World Cup here
in the United States.
Speaker 5 (29:32):
Over our two hundred and fiftieth birthday.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
Andrew, we appreciate the work. I know your wife, your daughter,
You've been traveling all over the place. I can't wait
to see how this is going to shake out, and
I know it's going to be fantastic.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
And thanks for everything you're doing.
Speaker 5 (29:47):
Clay, thank you for your friendship. And Buck.
Speaker 6 (29:49):
I don't know who actually soccer career ended first, you
or me, but you know, I think we're in the
right places where we need to.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
I'm gonna tell you something, Andrew. I know, I know
you're very humble man, but if the USA soccer team
gets into a little trouble. I just think they should
have a jersey on standby for you to get in
that net, because ain't nothing getting past my man, Andrew.
I've seen it before. Man, I've seen you in that net.
Speaker 6 (30:12):
Well, Buck, I appreciate it, but I'll put it this way.
If we want the US to win and guarantee you win,
you put me on the other team in goal there,
and something tells me we're gonna win eight games and
be World Cup champs. But thank you for the I
got to bring you on as my PR guy.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
This is amazing, so I do what I can. Andrew Giuliani, Everybody,
Andrew good luck with this huge endeavor. I think World
Cup's going to be amazing and we'll be talking to
you as it goes.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
Thanks, guys, that's Andrew Giuliani. He's doing great work. I'm
excited about the World Cup. Buck's excited about the World Cup,
but I hope a lot of you are. I think
it's gonna be a really cool I know there's the
anti soccer element out there, but I actually think this
is going to be pretty awesome. And I remember it
being awesome back in ninety four when we hosted the
last time and there weren't very many soccer fans in
(30:57):
general in the United States at that time. Way more now.
I think this is gonna be cool. Hopefully the US
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Just preset them on the iHeart a welcome back into
Clay and Buck so play. It's something that we didn't
get to yet, but I just wanted to make note
of this because the Secretary of War, Pete Hexath has
already weighed in on it publicly, and it is just
a reminder of where I know these are judges, but
they're Democrat judges. We understand this. The appeals court here
(32:53):
in DC, US Court of Appeals for District I'm in
DC by the way, so it feels like I'm nearby
all this mad this. They say that the Pentagon illegally
banned transgender troops from military service. There's a divided panel
on the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, and so they're
(33:13):
saying that the Pentagon policy is unconstitutional. The band is
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Court let it go through. Last year there's still litigation.
The Appeals Court put their own ruling on hold to
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Is the point here, I think, Clay. But the bigger
point is you can be You can be denied like
(33:40):
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because I have Celiact disease. I didn't want to join
the CIA, and actually I don't know if it might
have been a problem the CIA. I found out when
I was in my thirties. But you can be denied
for celia Act disease, literally, gluten intolerance. You can be
denied I think for peanut allergy because if you're at
some you know, fob and there is a somebody you
(34:00):
know opens up, you know. I'm trying to think of
like a candy bar that has peanuts in it, like
a Snickers bar, and you need you're going to antaphlexis
That's all she wrote, right, I mean so so like
there's my point here though, is you can be a
guy who thinks that he should have a vagina instead
of a penis and is taking massive amounts of estrogen
(34:22):
exogenous estrogen doses and that makes you fit and ready
for combat. The Pentagon can't say anything about it. That
is insane. I mean truly insane on every level. And
it just shows how embedded in the ideology even at
the DC Circuit Court, this is.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
Yeah, it's crazy, and I would just say leave aside
the transrelated issue. I'm glad you brought up all of
the health conditions that can lead to you not being
able to serve in the military. Can you imagine being
in the military and needing the constant medical treatment that
you do for gender reassignment surgeries and trying to be
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involved in any way in a significant health related capacity.
I mean, it's just crazy to me. If you can't
do it with peanut allergies, then chopping your penis off
should I think impact your ability to be able to
be a soldier.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
And this is just science. Taking estrogen shots, for example,
it creates emotional instability. This is not should not be
a surprised anybod if you're injecting estrogen, if you're messing
with your hormones in that way, the same way that
if people start running large doses of trend blown as
a guy, which is a very heavy anabolic steroid or
kind of one of the nastier ones. That roid rage
(35:43):
is a real thing for some people, for a lot
of people if they take it at certain doses, because
you are changing your hormones and that affects your your
psychological response to your environment. You're in a military combat
situation and you're going to be on cross sex hormones,
and it's clay. It is manifestly insane, and that these
(36:03):
judges say it was about essentially bigotry and that's why
it was I'm trying to remember the word. It was
like antipathy or hostility. That's what the policy is rooted in,
and therefore it's invalid under the equal Protection clause. I mean,
is there antipathy against people with peanut allergies? Like, there's
real reasons for this. It's crazy.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
And by the way, I think this also factors in
the Supreme Court, Remember is still going to render a verdict.
I believe it was on Idaho and West Virginia and
whether states can restrict boys from being able to compete
in girls sports. I think the trans push has run
into real opposition because a lot of people said, hey,
(36:45):
if an adult wants to make a decision, that's one thing.
As soon as you're making us tell lies to make
them feel better, that's an entirely different world. When we
come back. The latest on main and more
Welcome everybody. Tuesday edition of The Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show kicks off right now. It is primary election
day out in California. We are gonna be talking about
the LA mayors race, the governor's race. Steve Hilton is
gonna be with us in just a little bit. We'll
(00:21):
discuss how it's all looking with him. Got the latest
facts and figures on this one, and I'm hopeful, I'm
hopeful that there can be at least one, if not two,
big upsets from Republicans in this thing. But remember it
is it is the the communist headquarters of California that
(00:44):
we're talking about. So if you ever thought that you
knew someone, you had a neighbor, you had a buddy,
a friend, who was completely divorced from reality when it
came to their politics, you ain't seen nothing if you
haven't spent time in California or New York. But they're
really pretty wacko out there. So we'll see are We
are hopeful. We are praying for a good outcome out there.
(01:06):
We've also got more from Mark or Rubio this morning
on the Iran deal. Clay, We've got them right where
we want him. They may not know it, but we've
got them right where we want them' That's what I'm
getting from this. Any moment now, they're gonna come crawling
back to us with the deal done exactly as we
want it to be. They are not stalling, they are
(01:28):
not running out the clock. Or maybe they are. We
will see. We will take a look at all of that.
And we've also got let's see, you talked about this
guy who is Graham Platner running in Maine yesterday. I
know I was listening in on the show. It is
not a shock that the guy who mistakenly got a
Nazi prison guard tattoo is not a great guy. This
(01:51):
should come as a shock to absolutely no one. So
we have that to work through. I believe that they're
in an unwinnable position for that set, but we'll see.
Also Paul Krugman, who I think Clay as I have said,
his greatest contribution as a Nobel laureate is showing everyone
that you can win a Nobel Prize in economics and
still be a total moron. So that should be encouraging
(02:14):
to everybody out there that you know, anyone can win
that thing. He compared MAGA to Nazis, and we need
to have a d Nazification, like a D magafication. That
is something that maybe we'll get some time on in
a little bit. Oh, also some great guests. We've got
Kelly Paul's, the children's book author, and Rand Paul's wife,
Senator Paul's wife. She'll be with this third hour. Andrew Giuliani,
(02:37):
whom Clay I have known for I can't even really
do the math at least thirty years now. Andrew was
my little brother's classmate at Saint David's. And Andrew's a
great guy, and he's running the US World Cup situation.
So which is happening here? The World Cup? I know
(02:59):
a lot of you are hugely excited, hugely excited about soccer,
So there is that. There's that to discuss. I want
to jump into this because the main question I'm being
asked right now, Clay, you know, yesterday, thank you for
holding down the fort. I appreciate that after the keg
party you cleaned up. It's like it didn't even happen.
There's a faint smell of beer in the studio, but
not too overpowering that yesterday people were coming up to
(03:22):
me or texting me, and the main thing they were
asking me was do you think really more Steve Hilton.
We love Steve Hilton, He's probably the greatest Steve Hilton
of all. But people are asking about whether Spencer Pratt
can actually win this thing in Los Angeles. This guy's
really captured the hearts and minds of a lot of
the country with this way that he's done this race.
(03:44):
And here here is the central point in it. This
has cut fourteen. Spencer Pratt talking about remember today is
the day, big voting day out in California in LA
saying that, yeah, the other people that are supposed to
be so qualified, they're terrible at this play fourteen.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
My opponents of the reason the city's failing, So anything
they say is just moral lies. They know with me,
we're changing what's going on. We're stopping it. So it's
not like a closing arment. They're already excited about me.
The reason I'm here is because I'm not like these people.
I don't have the experience of failing like they have.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
I think that's key, Clay. The people that are saying
look at my resume or he's how could he do this,
and particularly the individuals who have been in these positions,
like Karen Bass, they have done a terrible job. So
why is that? Why is doing a terrible job a
qualification for keeping a job? So a couple of things.
Go vote.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
There's also a big decision in Iowa. There are many
different states having primaries today, but in particular all of California.
And we played it yesterday, but I do think you
have to go vote for Steve Hilton if you are
a Republican because I don't think there's any way Chad Bianco,
based on all the numbers, is going to make the runoff.
(05:03):
And if Chad Bianco doesn't make the runoff and Steve
Hilton doesn't make the runoff, then you're gonna have double
Democrats and that's gonna be significant down ballot in LA.
We're gonna end up, I hope, with Spencer Pratt against
Karen Bass. And then Spencer Pratt is going to have
multiple more months to make the argument that he represents sanity,
(05:25):
not that he represents the Republican Party, just that he
represents a repudiation of the choices that have been made.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
You sent me.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
We played it on the show yesterday, great television show.
Back in the day Entourage Doug Ellen represents. He was
the creator of Entourage. Doug Ellen represents I think a
traditional Democrat voter that's just fed up with the reality
of what's happening on the ground in LA. And the
question is, are people fed up enough that they could
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go in the direction of Rudy Giuliani. It's also, to
me buck kind of intriguing because LA and New York
are obviously our two biggest cities in America, and New
York said, hey, we're frustrated by a lot. We're going
to put basically a communist in office in mom Donnie,
and the question is just going to be what is
he actually capable of doing and how much worse can.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
He make things? On the flip side.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
The other argument here is is La going to go
the exact opposite direction and say we've reached a break
the glass moment when it comes to basic issues, and
Karen Vass is wildly unpopular and so as a result,
we're going to find a way to try and replace her.
There still is a lot of anger, and maybe we
need to get Adam Carolla on. He's a friend of
(06:40):
the show, and he posted the other day Buck. Basically
nothing has been rebuilt in Malibu. Basically nothing has been
rebuilt in the Palisades. So to me, there's two frustrating
elements here, and I actually think President Trump could address
these frustrating elements for a lot of people in La
One is that they allowed all of the houses to
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burn down, and that Karen Bass was in Ghana at
the time that it occurred.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
The mayor was. That's frustrating, that's infuriating.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
The second part is people still can't get their homes rebuilt,
so it is futility in both directions. You both allowed
my home to burn down because of the incompetence of
not having water in the reservoirs, because you weren't able
to deal with what should have been a very easily
dealt with wildfire, which was set by an arsonist. I
(07:32):
know everybody still wants to talk about, Oh, this was
an example of global warming. No, a crazy left winger
decided to light this fire and that's why these houses
burned down.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
A fan of Luigi the Murderer, Yes, an explicit fan
of Luigi. I mean, this is a guy who wanted
to do his part to bring down civilization. Didn't assassinate
a CEO, but burned down thousands of homes because he's
such a alludatice.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
So both directions buck the burned down and the rebuild.
They can get either to happen, which is symptomatic. I
think of a broken Los Angeles and the question is
are people frustrated enough to break the glass and go
grab Spencer Pratt, who is a political novice because they're
so upset about what the professional politicians have done.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
We are in a different era, as we know. Donald
Trump leading the charge on this one. He was a
political novice, and he has really defined not just the
two terms that he will have had in office, but
also the Biden interregnum, if you will. This has been
the Trump era of politics. And he's a guy who
never held elected office before he ran for president. So
(08:37):
the notion that Spencer Pratt cannot be or that Steve
Hilton cannot be in elected office, I think, on its
face it's just preposterous. And to that end, Clay I
pulled some of the data. It was actually even a
little bit more encouraging. We'll talk to Steve Hilton today.
Spencer Pratt hasn't come on the show. I don't know.
(08:57):
You know, I love his hummingbird's doing a great jobs.
I'm on the show, but we haven't been able to
track him down for some reason. Maybe he doesn't you know,
he doesn't know how much we love freedom America and
the beautiful California coast that might think communists. I'm just
going to point this out. There are a lot of
people that just they don't realize how big this show is.
And I think that's true for a lot of people
(09:19):
that maybe are non traditional in the political universe. And
I understand it because it's challenging. You're getting so many
different invites to go on and do so many different shows.
This show has six hundred affiliates. I mean most of
the Republican Party side gets it. But I think Spencer
Pratt is a political novice. He DM me and said
(09:40):
he's going to come on. We've emailed with his team.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
I think when he becomes a finalist and the campaign continues,
I'm confident we'll get him.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
So here are the numbers that I was able to pull.
Steve Hilton's chances as of today. But there's a huge
slew of candidates. If you see this is about hit
how many people are in this governor. But he's a
very serious, not just contender, but top contender. Latest Emerson
polling from just a couple of days ago Emerson College
(10:09):
polling had him tied for second place. Clay, So this,
Steve Hill, this is not a vanity campaign. This is
not Oh, I want attention. He could certainly come in second,
he could come in first. He could win this thing
today based on the most recent polling data you can
pull in fact and by the UCA. But if he
(10:30):
was here, he'd be like Buck. What about U C. Berkeley.
The UC Berkeley poll bowl has him at second place,
ahead of Stire. So he's just and he's a couple
of points behind Bessera in any of the he's within
striking distances the point. So he absolutely can win by
the numbers today, depending on turnout and a few other things.
You know, Clay, this isn't he's behind ten or fifteen
(10:51):
points in every poll, or he's you know, in ninth
place among ten candidates or something. He's very serious. And
then in the Spencer Pratt side of things, Clay, he's
two three points behind Bass. He's also within striking distance
of the first place position, not of you know being
a contender. So a couple of things here.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
I go to the I go to all of the
data on the prediction markets, so I don't even trust polling.
Polling always made me a little bit nervous. It appears
right now based on the odds. Everybody go vote. Everybody
go vote, everybody go vote that the two finalists in
California are likely to be Xavier Bessera.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Javier, Javier should be Xavier be I be well, it
could be Xavier or Javier, but I live in South Florida.
I can't, I can't. I got to help you out
with this one.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
It's Javier be Sarah and this guy's name I can
get right, Steve Hilton. So Besarah is ninety one percent
likely to advance. Steve Hilton seventy seven percent likely to advance.
Tom Steyer in third place at thirty five percent. Only
the top two advance on the La Mayor. This is
(12:03):
the live prediction markets, with millions of dollars wagered on
what's going to happen in the Los Angeles Mayor. Karen
Bass is still favored to win, but Karen Bass Spencer
Pratt are favored to be both in the runoff and
Spencer Pratt has about a quarter percent chance one in
four of winning according to the current odds. Buck On Calshi,
(12:28):
forty million dollars has been wagered on the La Mayor race.
Forty million dollars. These things are huge. These markets have
become massive. That's why I would rather pay attention to
them than the polls, because the.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Polls are you getting in on that action? Hold on
a second, here, buddy, you getting in on that action?
Am I gonna find half this.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
I have right now? Buck, you'll appreciate this. I'll just
be public with it.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
I have.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Six open political wagers that I have placed. I'll tell
you what those are when we come back. Yes, I'm
super fascinated by it. These are not big dollar wagers,
but I'm trying to put my money where my mouth is.
Right now, I have three thousand dollars in a prediction
market account. I'll tell you what predictions I have made
(13:19):
polymarket Calshi. I am fascinated with them. When it comes
to the political angle, and we will discuss and when
we come back. But I want to tell you as
we go to break it is right now continuing to
be tumultuous and dangerous in Israel, and a huge part
of that tumult and danger is trying to be addressed
(13:42):
by what the IFCJ is doing. This is an organization
I've seen their work. It's American based International Fellowship of
Christians and Jews. They are there to help try and
provide safety and security for people in Israel, and they
are using the connection between Jewish and Christian people to
(14:02):
help and stand with Israel.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
You can go join, You.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Can send a message of unity at PREYIFCJ dot org.
That's PREYIFCJ dot org. This is incredible work. Whether it's
food banks, whether it's building bombshelters, taking care of people
in hospitals, also providing bulletproof security on vehicles. The IFCJ
(14:28):
does great work with your donations. PRAYIFCJ dot org. You
can send a prayer to someone who is struggling. PRAYIFCJ
dot org.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Looking for normal in a world of crazy. Clay and
Buck have your back. Welcome back in Clay and Buck.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
You've got a bunch of guests coming your way, including
Andrew Juliani at the bottom of this hour, Steve Hilton
at the bottom of the next hour, and then ram
Paul's y Kelly, who I think you guys are gonna
enjoy hearing from. I'll get into maybe at the top
of the next hour. I'll tell you what predictions I
have made in the political marketplace. But Roxanne and Los Angeles.
(15:08):
One big frustration a lot of us have, even those
who lives those of us who live outside of California,
is how frigging long it takes for you guys to
count the votes primaries today? When are we going to
know who won?
Speaker 4 (15:23):
Join the club. You won't even know how many ballots
have been cast in this election for a full week,
and then the election isn't certified until the end of
the month.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
How is that possible? Like, can you just give us
a little window into this? It just seems absurd, beyond words.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
I don't know. I'm from a third world country, the
island of Jamaica, where we dip fingers in ink and
get a count the same night. So I'm the US immigrant,
I'm chairman of the Republican Party of LA and it
has always been a mystery to me.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Oh wow, very cool. Well your story is very cool.
Not not getting an answer for a week.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Oh yeah, look, I actually think that this, and I
understand that there's lots of things that people are talking about,
but Roxanne, I imagine you would endorse this. The longer
it takes to count votes, the less trustworthy the results
are across the board. The fact that we're potentially going
to have another House of Representatives on the fine line
(16:30):
between who's going to win and not, and that we're
gonna be waiting weeks this fall to see what the
outcome is potentially based on some California races, It's crazy,
Like this seems to me like a federal issue that
should be addressed. Every state should count as fast as
your state. Now Florida does buck it's flawless. After two thousand,
(16:51):
Florida said we're fixing this. We're not going to do
the Chad's ballots, we're not going to do all of
the butterfly ballot ridiculousness.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
And they fixed it. Why can't California.
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Well, here's the good news. When we vote for sanity,
we actually overwhelm that. So we voted to make crime
I legal again seventy thirty. A couple of years ago,
we also kicked out George gascon A, Soora's prosecutor and
we elected Nathan Hoffman seventy thirty. We can do that
again because people are so excited about Steve, they're so
excited about Spencer and fingers crossed. Just don't maybe pop
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the champagne tonight, but know that that people are turning
out and they need to go vote today.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Fantastic. Hey, thank you so much for the call. Appreciate
hearing from you. And get get your fellow Republicans in La.
See they listened Clay, they listened to the show. Get
them out there, get them voting, and it would be
such a I think Klay a great indicator of where
the country could be heading going into Put the gas
prices aside for a second. And also it just to
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be great for California, you know, make entourage California again.
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Speaker 3 (18:58):
Welcome back in Clay and Buck. Appreciate all of you
hanging out with us. It is World Cup in America
season and they're gonna be matches played all over the
United States.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
And if you're upset.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
At all with anything surrounding the World Cup, this guy
is to blame. Andrew julian I saw the New York
Times had a huge profile that I was reading. I
think it was in Sunday or Saturday of you and
the way that it was a great actually was a
pretty good article, like as these things go. I was
reading it and I was like, as New York Times,
(19:32):
they're gonna be awful. But it was actually, I thought
relatively fair. But the very last paragraph was if anything
goes wrong, Andrew's.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Gonna have to bear all the blame. We had dinner recently.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
You're running through all the different challenges that his official
title as Executive Director White House Task Force on the
FEEFA World Cup US plays June twelfth, on Friday of
next week. I believe that is in La. This thing
starts next Thursday. You can correct me if I'm wrong
on that. But I know you have been working all
(20:06):
the time, all hours, dealing with mayors all over the
country about these big events. What should our audience know
about the World Cup coming up starting next week, it's
going to go on for a month, and how significant
it's going to be for the country.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
Yeah, Clay, Well, always great to be with you over here.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
You know.
Speaker 6 (20:23):
The funny thing was that was from Curtis Sliwa, who
was a radio partner of mine. Oh yeah, way back when.
So I don't know what that tells you and what
you and Buck should get from that right there, But
I guess don't allow your radio partner to do a
New York Times interview otherwise they spill the beads. But no, really, Look,
we have the largest sporting events here in world history coming.
(20:43):
When you look at the viewership numbers, and I know
I've said this to you before, but about one hundred
and thirty million people watched the last Super Bowl, one
point six billion watch the last World Cup finals. So
this really is unlike anything else from a security setup.
I was with Secretary Mullen yesterday in Dallas looking at
the stadium there they are setting up all eleven stadiums
(21:04):
in the United States of America, all seventy eight matches,
exactly like it would be like from a perimeter perspective,
from a counter uas perspective, like it was a Super Bowl.
So you could just see the exact same perimeter setup
that they used in Levi Stadium last year in February
for the Super Bowl. That's exactly what they're going to
be doing for the World Cup. So look, we've been
(21:26):
telling fans get there early, spend the day at the stadium.
Speaker 5 (21:30):
You want to make sure that.
Speaker 6 (21:31):
You have the opportunity to get in because we are
not going to compromise our security, especially in light of
some of the issues that are going on. So that's
been our main focus. And Clay, you know this, and
you've seen this in a lot of the lead up
to this. The excitement and the energy around the World
Cup internationally, it's been going on for months. You're starting
to feel that it's starting to become palpable here in
(21:54):
the United States. But once that first game kicks off
in the US on June twelfth, you're right, we're starting
in me.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
Too on June eleventh.
Speaker 6 (22:01):
The next day, the US will play Paraguay at Sofi
Stadium on June twelfth. Once that game kicks off, it
is going to be an incredible energy in this country
over the course of the thirty nine days that the
World Cup will be here.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Now, Andrew, I can bring a little special perspective to
this because I recall almost I don't know, thirty years ago,
your own soccer career, sir, so you've been at this
for quite some time. You were a goalkeeper. If I
remember correctly. They called you the Great Wall of Giuliani
and then nothing got past you. And on the Saint
(22:36):
David's Red team, which was like the varsity team, you
were the goalkeeper and people would you'd run for that
ball and they would scatter in fear, knowing the dropkick
that was about to happen. So I just want ever know.
And you're not new to the soccer situation, and you're
certainly bringing a lot of enthusiasm to something that's gonna have.
(22:56):
What kind of money is this going to bring in?
What kind of attendance numbers looking at overall?
Speaker 6 (23:02):
Yeah, well, the Great Wall of Juliani and wearing the
red team uniform. I just want to make sure you
know that I'm working for the United States of America.
I love the United States of America. No issues with China.
They're from that perspective. But you're absolutely right. We go
way back here, Buck. I can tell you that this
is going to be, from an economic perspective, a massive driver.
We're expecting thirty billion dollars in economic impact.
Speaker 5 (23:24):
That's just for the eleven host cities.
Speaker 6 (23:26):
When you think about the fact that thirty nine of
the teams will be basing in the United States. So
think about the Croatian team will be based in Alexandria, Virginia.
You'll have the Brazilians based in Morristown, New Jersey. You
have England in Argentina based in the Kansas City suburbs there.
That's where you're going to have tens of thousands, depending
(23:47):
on the country, tens of thousands of fans coming on out,
spending their time, spending their dollars. That's where you're really
going to see a major, major economic impact. The average
traveler that comes here for the World Cup, they may
go to two games and spend and spend twelve days.
That's what we've been trying to do. We've been trying
to then push them to freedom to fifty events, all
(24:08):
these celebrations around our semi quin centennial.
Speaker 5 (24:12):
When I first spoke to the President about this, and
I actually just spoke to.
Speaker 6 (24:15):
Them on Sunday again, kind of about the legacy aspect
about this. The thing that I like to say is
there is no larger platform that you're going to be
able to go and get out the truth about American exceptionalism.
We know that much of the media, especially the international media,
has lied about American exceptionalism for the last many decades.
(24:37):
This is an unbelievable opportunity to show firsthand that America
is capable, truly of hosting some of the great cultural
events here in the world.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
I know, and you have met a lot of the
Fox people that are putting this on Fox Sports. Awesome
guys and gals that are going to be a part
of this big festivity. And even in those conversations, there's
been some talk about, Hey, what should we be telling
people who are going to these matches? You mentioned eleven
(25:07):
different stadiums, You mentioned the security. I've heard it's Super Bowl.
Like I've been to a few Super Bowls. They tell
you to arrive hours early because it's not the same
as going to a regular baseball game or a regular
football game. What would you tell anybody that's out there
going to a game, Hey, if the game starts at
four o'clock in the afternoon, how much time do you
(25:31):
think they should give to get into the stadium? Given
all the security issues, what should they budget get?
Speaker 6 (25:37):
Give an hour and a half? Definitely, at least give
an hour and a half, I would say. And soccer
fans are notorious for coming to the gates here within
the last fifteen to twenty minutes. That's not going to
work unless you're going to miss the first half of
the game, So we really really want you to get
in there. FIFA's set up a lot of different fan
activations for those that have tickets within the perimeters, so
they're fascinating things to do. You can go and watch
(25:59):
your team warm up for the hour before the game,
so get there an hour and a half, two hours before.
We know gates are going to open two to three
hours for the final four hours before, so make sure
you get there. Look, people have paid a premium for
these tickets. We want to make sure that they're able
to really really enjoy this.
Speaker 5 (26:16):
And you know, Clay, I'm glad you mentioned the Super.
Speaker 6 (26:19):
Bowl again because I was talking about the physical perimeters
there and how you'll have three ticket checks unlike your
typical NFL game where you normally have one. But I
think one incredible story really to tell is on counter
UAS mitigation and what we've been able to do so
in twenty twenty five, for all the seer event ratings
around the United States, that would be the Super Bowl,
(26:41):
that would be the Boston, New York Marathon, events like that.
For all of them, only five were covered for counter
UAS mitigation drone mitigation. In twenty twenty six, for the
World Cup alone, all seventy eight games will be covered
for counter UAS mitigation and one of the fan fest
(27:02):
in each and every one of the cities. So just
for the World Cup alone, you're talking about over one
hundred and fifty six different games sites that are being covered, compared.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
To five last year.
Speaker 6 (27:13):
That's not even including sail Forth to fifty Freedom to
fifty f IndyCar that's going to be on the National mall,
all those other events. So this has really been an
amazing work here by the federal interagency led by the
Air Sovereignty Task Force, with President Trump signed and the
White House Task Force on the World Cup Andrew.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
One of the big conversation points has been dynamic pricing,
cost of tickets. I've actually seen that the cost of
tickets has started to come down in many of these
different matches. I want to take my kids. I think
there's a lot of people out there that are just
sports fans in general, may not be diehard soccer fans,
but want to see what the experience is like. What
(27:56):
would you say about cost, What would you say about
the the comfort level when it comes to taking your
family security wise, what would you just say about that
experience for families.
Speaker 5 (28:07):
Yeah, look, I.
Speaker 6 (28:08):
Agree with the President what he said a month ago
or so. Costs are expensive, and I think part of
that is the fact that FIFA had over five hundred
million ticket requests. This is going back to January at
the half billion mark for what is about seven million
tickets between the three countries here, and so that obviously
creates a supply and man now some of those ticket
(28:31):
requests were overloaded to games like Columbia versus Portugal or
Brazil versus Morocco, where you might have some of the
smaller countries or some of the newer countries think Currasau
where there are only three hundred thousand residents. There are
games that are available for less than two hundred dollars,
and you can look in most cities, you'll be able
to now access a stadium for less than two hundred
(28:53):
and fifty dollars for some of these games. So that's
just the way that dynamic pricing works. Look at something
that we've done discussed. We certainly are aware of the
price of this we have a as a federal government
has made sure that we put in Federal Security brands
grants here for the states, for the eleven states that
are going to be hosting World Cup and World Cup
(29:13):
related events, and that's helped made the fan festivals free
or very very low cost for everybody. So we want
to make sure that whether or not you're able to
take your family to the stadium or whether you're going
to a fan fest, that you're going to be able
to have the opportunity to enjoy this World Cup here
in the United States.
Speaker 5 (29:32):
Over our two hundred and fiftieth birthday.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
Andrew, we appreciate the work. I know your wife, your daughter,
You've been traveling all over the place. I can't wait
to see how this is going to shake out, and
I know it's going to be fantastic.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
And thanks for everything you're doing.
Speaker 5 (29:47):
Clay, thank you for your friendship. And Buck.
Speaker 6 (29:49):
I don't know who actually soccer career ended first, you
or me, but you know, I think we're in the
right places where we need to.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
I'm gonna tell you something, Andrew. I know, I know
you're very humble man, but if the USA soccer team
gets into a little trouble. I just think they should
have a jersey on standby for you to get in
that net, because ain't nothing getting past my man, Andrew.
I've seen it before. Man, I've seen you in that net.
Speaker 6 (30:12):
Well, Buck, I appreciate it, but I'll put it this way.
If we want the US to win and guarantee you win,
you put me on the other team in goal there,
and something tells me we're gonna win eight games and
be World Cup champs. But thank you for the I
got to bring you on as my PR guy.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
This is amazing, so I do what I can. Andrew Giuliani, Everybody,
Andrew good luck with this huge endeavor. I think World
Cup's going to be amazing and we'll be talking to
you as it goes.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
Thanks, guys, that's Andrew Giuliani. He's doing great work. I'm
excited about the World Cup. Buck's excited about the World Cup,
but I hope a lot of you are. I think
it's gonna be a really cool I know there's the
anti soccer element out there, but I actually think this
is going to be pretty awesome. And I remember it
being awesome back in ninety four when we hosted the
last time and there weren't very many soccer fans in
(30:57):
general in the United States at that time. Way more now.
I think this is gonna be cool. Hopefully the US
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Speaker 1 (32:30):
Just preset them on the iHeart a welcome back into
Clay and Buck so play. It's something that we didn't
get to yet, but I just wanted to make note
of this because the Secretary of War, Pete Hexath has
already weighed in on it publicly, and it is just
a reminder of where I know these are judges, but
they're Democrat judges. We understand this. The appeals court here
(32:53):
in DC, US Court of Appeals for District I'm in
DC by the way, so it feels like I'm nearby
all this mad this. They say that the Pentagon illegally
banned transgender troops from military service. There's a divided panel
on the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, and so they're
(33:13):
saying that the Pentagon policy is unconstitutional. The band is
going to remain in effect for now. The US Supreme
Court let it go through. Last year there's still litigation.
The Appeals Court put their own ruling on hold to
allow for appeal, So so it's going to Supreme Court.
Is the point here, I think, Clay. But the bigger
point is you can be You can be denied like
(33:40):
the military service for Celiact disease, which I know about
because I have Celiact disease. I didn't want to join
the CIA, and actually I don't know if it might
have been a problem the CIA. I found out when
I was in my thirties. But you can be denied
for celia Act disease, literally, gluten intolerance. You can be
denied I think for peanut allergy because if you're at
some you know, fob and there is a somebody you
(34:00):
know opens up, you know. I'm trying to think of
like a candy bar that has peanuts in it, like
a Snickers bar, and you need you're going to antaphlexis
That's all she wrote, right, I mean so so like
there's my point here though, is you can be a
guy who thinks that he should have a vagina instead
of a penis and is taking massive amounts of estrogen
(34:22):
exogenous estrogen doses and that makes you fit and ready
for combat. The Pentagon can't say anything about it. That
is insane. I mean truly insane on every level. And
it just shows how embedded in the ideology even at
the DC Circuit Court, this is.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
Yeah, it's crazy, and I would just say leave aside
the transrelated issue. I'm glad you brought up all of
the health conditions that can lead to you not being
able to serve in the military. Can you imagine being
in the military and needing the constant medical treatment that
you do for gender reassignment surgeries and trying to be
(35:02):
involved in any way in a significant health related capacity.
I mean, it's just crazy to me. If you can't
do it with peanut allergies, then chopping your penis off
should I think impact your ability to be able to
be a soldier.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
And this is just science. Taking estrogen shots, for example,
it creates emotional instability. This is not should not be
a surprised anybod if you're injecting estrogen, if you're messing
with your hormones in that way, the same way that
if people start running large doses of trend blown as
a guy, which is a very heavy anabolic steroid or
kind of one of the nastier ones. That roid rage
(35:43):
is a real thing for some people, for a lot
of people if they take it at certain doses, because
you are changing your hormones and that affects your your
psychological response to your environment. You're in a military combat
situation and you're going to be on cross sex hormones,
and it's clay. It is manifestly insane, and that these
(36:03):
judges say it was about essentially bigotry and that's why
it was I'm trying to remember the word. It was
like antipathy or hostility. That's what the policy is rooted in,
and therefore it's invalid under the equal Protection clause. I mean,
is there antipathy against people with peanut allergies? Like, there's
real reasons for this. It's crazy.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
And by the way, I think this also factors in
the Supreme Court, Remember is still going to render a verdict.
I believe it was on Idaho and West Virginia and
whether states can restrict boys from being able to compete
in girls sports. I think the trans push has run
into real opposition because a lot of people said, hey,
(36:45):
if an adult wants to make a decision, that's one thing.
As soon as you're making us tell lies to make
them feel better, that's an entirely different world. When we
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