October 3, 2024 • 36 mins
Media buries massive Biden-Harris Hurricane Helene response failure. Harris goes to GA, offers Hurricane victims $750, FEMA says it's out of money, but we have billions for illegal aliens and Ukraine. Biden-Harris slow-rolling assistance because victims are mostly Republicans. Civilian rescue efforts blocked by Feds. Doug Emhoff accused of hitting ex-girlfriend in 2012. FL sends help to NC. Elon Musk sends Starlink internet to impacted area.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome in everybody. Thursday edition of The Klay Travis en
Buck Sexton Show gets going right now and got a lot.
First of all, the October surprise from the Democrats has
been unleash. We have Jack Smith's filing in response to
(00:21):
the Supreme Court. Womp, womp. No Boddy cares player. I
agree with you one hundred percent.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
I was at my eighth grader's football game when everybody
starts engaging in history onics over this. Nobody cares about
this at all. I mean, I know the media is
going to try to make it an issue, zero zero
zero care.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
I honestly think that this is not even a top
This has now turned into not even a top ten
issue overall. I think the whole thing has been played
out and absurd. Look the media, very they're the people
that care about it. They're all hoping that this will
salvage Kamala's campaign somehow, like dude, the insurrection, Remember you
(01:03):
have to say it like that, the insurrection. But I
think that Clay, we'll talk a little bit about it.
We got Julie Kelly in third hour. We'll dive into
it with her. Nothing new and that was I would
look as I was doing drinking my crocket coffee this morning,
watching Morning Joe, as is my habit. As I'm getting
ready to read in the for the radio show, and
they're like, oh, can you imagine the Jack Smith report.
(01:26):
I'm sitting here, I'm like, nobody cares. So let's just
put this aside. We're aware, We'll dive into it, we'll
dissect it. We're not going to avoid it. But I mean,
you know, it's a nothing burger that we have to cook.
But we got more important things to do, so we
will do that also. And that brings me to the
most important issue today, which is what's going on in
North Carolina and the surrounding areas of states like eastern Tennessee,
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parts of Georgia that have just been so badly hit
by Hurricane Helene. To third hour, we'll have former NFL
player Jack Brewer on those hurricane relief efforts. But not
only do we have to update you all on what's
going on with the hurricane aftermath, which it's now clear
this is one of the most devastating hurricanes that has
(02:12):
made landfall in the United States in years. The death
toll is high and going higher, but the relief efforts
at this point. It is it is I think very
clear the relief efforts at the federal level, FEMA specifically,
not only insufficient, but there are things going on that
(02:35):
are enraging people. Clay. There are local efforts that involve
people who just have air assets. Some people, Oh, you know,
I drive, you know, flyhealth, drive, fly a helicopter. I
can get my boat to the area. Whatever it may be.
They're being turned away, they're being stopped, they're being told no,
(02:56):
you can't. Supplies are all being consolidated in Asheville, North Carolina,
the main city in this area. Again, I've got family
that was hit badly by this hurricane. As we talked
about ur in the week, so spent some time in Asheville.
Play This is a moment where we're not trying to
tie something into politics. Politics and the hurricane have now
(03:19):
smashed into each other because they have had to admit
and it is almost hard to say this out loud,
and this is from majorcas the head of DHS, that
they don't have enough money to get through this hurricane season.
They don't have enough money. FEMA doesn't have enough money
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on hand and resources on hand to handle this right now,
and that comes at a time when not only Clay,
have they spent Lord knows how many billions of dollars
on illegal migrants comforts, you know, paying for hotels, paying
for culturally sensitive meals, paying for you know, English is
a second language training whatever. They've also shown now that
(04:03):
there have been funds allocated from FEMA moved temporarily, but
moved to deal with the migrant crisis, and people are
absolutely outraged. Kamala Harris, play, let's just play. This is
cut one that you can tell me what you're seeing here.
Kamala Harris coming out in Georgia to tell everybody, Oh,
(04:25):
don't worry, some of you will get seven hundred and
fifty dollars. Play one.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
The federal relief and assistance that we have been providing
has included on FEMA providing seven hundred and fifty dollars
for folks who need immediate needs being met.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Clay, this isn't now. This is an outrage and a
slap in the face to Americans who are in a
very tough spot right now.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Yeah, and let me say this. I'm going to be
in East Tennessee next weekend and maybe the weekend after
because I'm go cover college football for what we do
at OutKick, And there's a Florida Tennessee game for those
of you who not familiar, on October twelfth, and then
it looks like there's going to be a big Alabama
Tennessee game on October nineteenth. So let me say this.
(05:12):
I texted producer Ali this earlier. I'm not well versed
in every affiliate station that we have. We have five
hundred of them all over the nation, and I also
don't know how many of them are struggling right now
given their locations. Buck you and I went down to
the Florida area to our listeners in the Fort Myers
(05:35):
Naples area. The station that we broadcast from was completely flooded.
We couldn't get down there for some time because they
had standing water. Even when we went back down I
think it was last year, they were still recovering. They
had to strip out basically everything from the studio. We
love everybody down there. We went and did an event.
(05:56):
So let me say this, and you guys may be
able to listen in East Tennessee and western North Carolina,
North Georgia, all that area. I would like to broadcast
from a station in that area, if I'm not getting
in the way, and if you have the ability to
host me, and I would like to help to raise
whatever funds or awareness or materials that we could help
(06:20):
for on this show. I'm already going to be in
East Tennessee. If you would reach out and figure out
if I can come to your station, if I can
help in that area, I would like to be a
small part of helping.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Now.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
I also understand sometimes and this is a challenge, we
don't help by coming in because there's so much going
on and it's so chaotic, and you just kind of
cloud up and crowd up what's.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Going on there.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
But I do think there are places in East Tennessee
where our signal is strong and where we have stations,
Western North Carolina, Northern Georgia, wherever it is, we want
to be there to help because but the story right
now is good, hardworking, reasonable Americans in those areas are
doing far more to help than the federal government is.
(07:09):
And it's not even close.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
It's even worse than that. Yeah, it's worse than that
because the federal government is incredibly slow. There's a sense
of the lethargic here in this particular and a lot
of people are looking at it and saying, hmm, what
part of the country is this.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
I think you have to put it into politics here.
Let me just say it out loud. I think if
this were a blue area that was overwhelmingly voting for Kamala,
the federal government response would have been far different than
what it has been. I think you can even argue,
given Georgia and North Carolina are battlegrounds that the Kamala
Biden administration benefits by responding slowly here because it makes
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it less likely those people can vote. Because let's be honest,
if you're worried about survival, you're not thinking about voting.
And these are overwhelmingly read areas about ground states, they
would be getting the golden illegal immigrant treatment, I think
buck if they were Blue voters.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Yeah. So there's also federal government getting in the way
of the local efforts that we mentioned, which this is
where people, you know, this is where people really start
to lose their minds understandably. So this is look Florida
because Ron DeSantis is a very competent governor, far more
competent than Cooper of North Carolina. Florida has set and
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obviously very good in a hurricane, and Florida very good
in a hurricane. That's not news to anybody, Like this
is a state that prepares for tremendously. You know, Montana
and Minnesota handle snow, Florida handles hurricanes. They've sent up
relief efforts, and here you have a Florida State guardsman.
This is cut to Jonathan Howard, who is just ripping
(08:52):
the hurricane response from the government side. Play two.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
I'm gonna tell you everything that is happening from the
ground one actually seeing, because what they're telling you is
complete bulls on the news, and these politicians don't have
to including their line. Yesterday, me and my team did
the rescue of that eleven day year old baby, and
all these government officials and social media they're showing that video,
that pictures and video of that rescue and claiming that
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like they have some like government helped with that. No,
it was me and my buddy Charlie and a civilian
named zeb with his own personal helicopter out of Wilmston,
North Carolina. Like without that civilian, that baby would be dead.
And the old lady we went and rescued after that,
she'd be dead too, because she had one day left
of oxygen. No one was going to go get them.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Not only is the so again it's insufficient, federal response
too slow, lack of urgency, lack of planning and coordination.
They are getting in the way of local efforts. I'm reading,
and look, it's tough to verify all this, and if
anything that I say, we get contrary reports. But I'm
reading that they're not allowing civilians to fly drones, you know,
(10:02):
little drones that have cameras on them to try to
find people. They've told people that have air assets, whether
a propeller plane or a helo, a rotary wing, that
they can't get up in the air space, that they
won't let people who have supplies get through roadblocks. What
are these people, what are these Feds doing.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
It's a disaster, obviously, the disaster of the flooding itself,
but the federal government response. Buck It's a week. It's
been a week now since this happened, and there are
still people basically with no supplies, unreachable, unable to get
any help at all, and the federal government is actually
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making it harder for good people in this area to
be able to help respond to people in desperate need.
It's just it's indefensible. And again, you're right, and I
think it's so important to tie this in. FEMA says
they're out of money because FEMA money has been going
to all the illegal immigrants coming into our country. And
(11:05):
this is a perfect distillation of America. Last I don't
know if you've seen on social media people have been
putting Tennessee and North Carolina as if it was Ukraine
on the map instead of Tennessee and North Carolina and saying, hey,
maybe then the federal government would care. As we've spent
whatever it is, two hundred billion dollars plus on Ukraine
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and making sure that the people there are okay, we
can't take care of the actual people in our own
backyard that need the support and the help the most.
And again I think the analogy with Katrina ties into
I mean, think about how the media covered George W.
Bush over Katrina. This is it seems to me, buck
(11:50):
a bigger failure than Katrina, because Katrina, at least was
located in one particular area. Was awful, but it was
easier to manage in some ways because it was right there,
and that government got ripped to shreds. They're not even
getting to the people in need yet.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
It also it feels it stings, particularly because the Biden administration,
which isn't really even the Biden administration. It's just sort
of this Democrat apparatus that functions irrespective of having no
real leadership. We know Joe Biden's not really running the
country in any meaningful way. We know that he hasn't
been for years. Kamala Harris is not a leader, is
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not a coordinator, is not a not a logistics capable individual.
So who is really overseeing this response? Mayorcus is a
clown who has overseen the worst border in the history
of the United States, the biggest infiltration of immigration fraud
through a whole range of means in the history of
this country, and majorcas through FEMA. Is now directing this
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whole thing. Clay to tell people that there's any problem
with FEMA funding, never mind the actual usage of that funding,
because you had to give it to migrants. You sit there,
This isn't like, you know, we raided the I don't know,
the highway fund or something a couple of year years early,
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and we're going to put the money back. These are
emergency funds that were meant for the American people, and
you've reallocated some of them because you want to deal
with foreigners who were showing up to pillage our system,
you know. I mean, imagine if you haven't eaten in
three or four or whatever it is now a week.
Imagine if you haven't eaten in almost a week because
(13:35):
no one can get to you when you run out
of food, and it's because migrants needed more resources. I
don't you know. To me, this should be the end
of the Kamal campaign. I mean, this one issue alone
should be enough that everyone's like, this is crazy, but
we live in a crazy country, at least half of it.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
I think we also should talk about when we come back.
This area has not had a flood like this in
one hundred years. I think it was since nineteen sixteen,
So I think a lot of people in no living
memory has this occurred. So for people who are living there,
sometimes things happen and you can be somewhat prepared that
they might occur. This had never happened in living memory
(14:14):
for anyone here. I can talk about this from my
own experience in Nashville, which had a five hundred year
flood recently, there were places that nobody even knew could
flood that got flooded. Buck And I think that's important
about this disaster. A lot of people in Florida have
things set up, you have your hurricane prepared inness everything.
I don't know that anybody in these regions really understood
(14:36):
that this could even happen. It was such an out
of the ordinary, truly extraordinary weather event that no one
in living memory had any sort of preparation for it.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
Well.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
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and what's going on, if you're involved in it, or
if you are in the area of this disaster, of
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(17:21):
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Speaker 6 (19:00):
In the unacceptable slow federal relief efforts with the damage
and destruction wrought by Hurricane Helene.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
We were informed by Majorcis, the head of DHS, that
there's not enough money to get through the hurricane season.
So basically they're tight on funds. And this comes not
only when you've had I mean, I've got to think
the migrants of costs somewhere in the hundred billion dollars
or hundreds of billions of dollars. I don't even know
(19:34):
what the real tally is. They don't know what the
real tally is. To be clear, new York City alone,
it's billions. And that's one place. It's probably ten billion
dollars a year in New York City. So do the
math across the rest of the country with far far
more migrants. But they're telling us they don't have the money.
They're telling us that the resources are a problem. So
that's a big issue and as I said, a slap
in the face to the American people from the Biden
(19:56):
Harris regime. But Clay, you also as this continues to
get worse, Remember there's the storm, and then there's what
happens after the storm. That's when people, you know, people
run out of food, people run out of medicine. People
can still lose their lives in precarious situations like whether
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it's down power lines or there's a whole range of
things that remain real dangerous. Here and here we mentioned before,
this is a Florida State guardsman. As I said, Florida
has sent help to North Carolina, and faster, it seems
than what the federal government is capable of doing. I
want to ask why that is. Here he is saying
(20:39):
that not only is the relief insufficient, but they are
blocking other people, meaning state, local, you know, neighbors, people
from nearby states who can get there from helping. Play three.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
We have all these people here, We have law enforcement,
we have State Guard, National Guard. They have no way
to go get these people. We're in Nashville and I
saw two Air Force helicopters sixties and I knew there
were pjs just looking at them. And I went up
to him like hey, guys, like what are you all doing,
and like this is what you need to be doing. This,
this this is how I'm finding people. And they're like,
we can't go we're waiting on Title ten orders and
(21:15):
I'm like what They.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Just they can't get any authority.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
There's military helicopters all over here sitting on the ground
and they can't do nothing. Even my JASAW boys in
Fayetteville they can't get orders to come out here. It
is just the most disgusting thing.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
And they're killing these people. That is just that is
on Biden play, that is on the commander in chief.
They're not getting orders to do things with the resources
that they have.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Did you see the footage? And again I watched this morning.
I spent a lot of time because you're finally people
are being able to actually see what has happened in
East Tennessee and in North Carolina. And look, I don't
want to forget the upstate area of South Carolina. We've
had a lot of callers and the Augusta, Georgia area
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telling us all about what's going on there. It is
devastation on a level that frankly, we have rarely seen
in United States history to involve buck at least four
different states. The scope and magnitude here is unparalleled. And
I'm not trying to demean what has happened elsewhere. I
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mentioned in Nashville we had a five hundred year flood
just a few years ago, and there were people and
I did a lot of work. I was doing local
radio at the time. We went out and we helped
people in homes that weren't even in the five hundred
year floodplane map for people out there who you buy
(22:45):
a home and you can go look, and you can
go say, okay, sometimes you understand that you're buying in
an area that is somewhat somewhat of a floodplane. There
were places flooded that people never even conceived the water
could get to. And where we lived in downtown Nashville
at the time, our house was on a little hill.
Everywhere around us was flooded downtown Nashville from the Cumberland River.
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People never understood that that was even possible where we
lived all throughout the city. My point on this, with
what's happened to these people in these four different states,
there are people that never even conceived the water could
be near them, buck who had water rushing through their
homes as a result of this, because it's not even
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one hundred year flood. It might be in this case,
like what we had in Nashville, a five hundred year flood,
where it almost never happens.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
And so these.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
People are struggling on a level that we can't even
conceive of because they didn't even comprehend that this danger
could come to their homes. They weren't prepared for in
any way, and the federal government is nowhere to be found.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
I mean, unless you're in Florida a few other places, right,
very few people ever imagine that they're going to have,
you know, eight feet of rushing water and they're going
to have to run to their rooftop correct escape. I mean,
that's that's a very on I mean, this it almost
is like a tsunami hitting Ohio, Okay. I mean what's
going on here in the Asphal area, to your point,
is not something that anybody could have ever really considered
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or would have considered under a you know, normal or
you know, likely circumstances. And that's why when you have
a thousand people missing in Buncombe County, right now you
have overall, I think one hundred and thirty dead confirmed
people are dying still. So when you have a people
are dying still situation, when you have families that are
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trying to find out, Remember there's no cell service for
a lot of people, there's no electricity, so refrigeration down.
You know, the longer the days go here, the more
desperate the situation becomes for people who are cut off.
They cannot get out of these areas that they're in. Yeah,
you have one hundred and thirty three people already Clay
confirmed dead in this and there are people there are
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videos now circuling. By the way, thank god for just
in terms of communication stuff that X exists. Well, actually
a couple of things. So recently, Elon Musk had to
save the astronauts because our government can't do that. They
couldn't get them out of the International Space Station. It
didn't get it.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
They were supposed to be their eight days buck they
had to stay eight months and Elon Musk had to
go save them to bring them back because your federal
government couldn't manage to get the astronauts home.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
And he's getting starlink up in this whole devastated area
and making it free for everybody who has access to
a starlink so that they have internet, which we all
understand essential for you to be able to communicate. Right,
How can you find people, get them the resources, get
them medical care. Member, there are people for whom you know,
if they don't get insulin. I mean there's urgency here.
(25:47):
Gaming matters a tremendous amount. Elon once again doing amazing stuff.
But I what I was going to say is on
X a lot of what you were seeing about this,
And I mean I don't hesitate to say this at all. Actually,
I mean I think people need to hear this. We
need to sort of let this go. Both barrels play, CBS,
even News CNN. It's October before an election. Biden is
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a vegetable. They everyone knows now, no one even disagrees.
The federal response is obviously a huge political weakness. We
wouldn't know what we know about this already, and there
would be a lot less reporting on it if it
wasn't for Elon and X. Yes, right, you know, to
think of how much information because people are saying, Hey,
(26:32):
I'm running relief ops. This is what's going on. Here's
video of first of all, what the devastation is. People
can show it from all over, so we see how
whole towns are gone. The town has.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Completely swept away towns. I mean, they just don't exist anymore.
If you watch these videos and.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Then you have and you gotta remember also people say, oh, floods.
You know, if you're an able bodied person and you
know you're you might think, oh, I can get First
of all, it's more like a mud slide than you know.
It's not like a swimming pool slowly fl It's like
a mudslide. The water all comes in, It's full of
all kinds of stuff you don't want to be anywhere near.
But you know, there are babies, they're elderly people. There
are people that are on oxygen. I mean, you know
(27:10):
what happens to them when this goes on, right, I mean,
you know there's vulnerable people that got caught up in
these floods. Do you get any I mean, I'm being
totally honest. Do you get any sense of urgency from
this administration at all about this? I mean not even
on the optic side of it. It's like they're like, yeah,
we'll get to it when we get.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
To it, Buck, There's some of these stories are heartbreaking,
some of the videos, some of the pictures are heartbreaking
of people losing their lives. They are on top of
roofs homes that got completely swept away. To your point,
young and elderly in particular, there's a story out there
about a seventy five year old guy who was caught
(27:45):
in a tree screaming help for hours and hours that
eventually got swept away in this in this absolute ravaged flood.
I just there's a difference what you're talking about with
X I think is so important, Buck, because there's two
different ways for stories to get out. There's the top
(28:06):
down method, which is, oh, I'm the head of CBS
News and we're going to go out and we're going
to tell this story about sixty minutes, and we're going
to sit down with somebody who's powerful, and we're going
to do an interview. That's top down, top down journalism.
Bottom up journalism is what X is allowing. That is
you me, normal people out there with our phones with
(28:28):
the ability to tell and show what is going on
out there. What X is allowing is the bottom up journalism.
And what you're talking about is the top down. Journalism
doesn't want to tell this story because the victims are
the wrong people, overwhelmingly white Appalachian Trump voters. They don't
want to tell that story. They don't want to focus
(28:52):
on the fact that the reason FEMA, I think has
partly been so bad is not only for politics, but
also because all the money got spent on the legal immigrants.
So this is the definition of America. Last I've said,
it's a meme on Twitter on x If you make
Tennessee and North Carolina Ukraine, maybe left wingers will care
(29:13):
about it.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Maybe that's what we need to do.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Just stamp it on the map and say, boy, there's
a lot of people struggling here. Maybe we can give
some of the billions of dollars in aid that we
gave to Ukraine. Maybe, just possibly, we could put some
of that money actual for American citizens. And again, I'm
going to go up. I'm trying to plan it right now.
I was already going to be in East Tennessee. But
I want to see it and I want to do
(29:37):
something to help, and I know a lot of you
do as well. But it's infuriating to your point, Buck
that a lot of good, great decent people all over
this region are trying to go in and help, and
the government's actually not allowing them to do so. They're
actually restricting the good graces and decency of the American
public from being able to fulfill the response abilities that
(30:00):
your federal government and my federal government that our federal
government won't do. And I just thirty three days from
an election, it's hard for me to look at this
and say that part of this is not intentional, Buck,
Because if you've got tight races in Georgia, and you've
got tight races in North Carolina, and suddenly overwhelming red
areas of the country are not able to vote because
(30:20):
they're worried about life or death, it feels like if
this were a blue area, they would have been in
there and they would have taken care of these people.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Well, Asheville is very blue, as we know the city itself,
but it's a tiny break the overall area, right, But
the surrounding area, well, I mean it's a population center,
so I mean there's you know, I'd have to look
at the numbers, but yes, the overall point is that
this is not an area that first of all, it's
not just the Biden Harris administration. Clay Journals who live
(30:47):
in New York and DC. They don't even know where
this is, you know what I mean, They don't. They don't.
This is not a This Appalachia is not an area
that really they think about in any meaningful or consistent
sense at all. This is kind of a They just
think of it as you know, rural and red state
and flyover. So I think that's one thing to keep
in mind. I also, I don't disagree at all with
(31:09):
your sense that. I mean, I've said it too, that
there's a lack of urgency here. I think because you know,
this isn't you know, like hitting You know, this isn't
hitting was I gonna say Philadelphia or something. This isn't like
there was some hurricane that came ashore in a Democrat enclave.
But beyond that, the people in charge are also really stupid. Clay,
(31:30):
and I don't say that to score some cheap political points.
Joe Joe Biden has dementia, and you know clearly in
a matter of months he's going to be with a
blanket across his knees, feeding squirrels somewhere and spending time
with the grand kids. Which is nice, but he should
have been doing that for the last four years and
not pretending to be president. Kamala Harris is not bright.
My Orcus is not bright. These are not capable smart people.
(31:52):
So do you know what I'm saying about it. It's
two things going wrong at the same time. They don't
care that much and they're just not that bright. And
that's why you look at this situation and you say
they this is the best they can do. It's been
a week. I mean we should Ron DeSantis got the
after the hurricane they hit the west coast here, got
that bridge up in like five days or something. Yes,
(32:15):
I forget what it was, but it was like it
was crazy. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
And and honestly, people like Ron DeSantis, who are governors,
are doing far more to try to help all these
people than the federal government is. I mean, Florida has
sent resources to North Carolina and Tennessee. I just saw
that Florida's trying to help with the longshoreman strike too.
I mean, I also think that I think that I
mentioned X is getting information out. I think that there
(32:39):
was a shaming of the administration that occurred here. I
think they knew that under normal under normal order Clay
normal circumstances. National, you know, national news media wasn't going
to focus too much on this.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
Oh yeah, we'll get to it. Give it a few weeks.
You don't know, you know, the usual stuff they they
this is this has become a problem. The only thing
they care about is and this has become a problem
for them in terms of winning the election and staying
in power. So now there's all this, Oh, I guess
we better do something.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Also, let's not fail to point out how often usually
journos want to be wearing the mud boots standing in
the water for that shot, you know, when the hurricanes
come in. You got Anderson Cooper standing, Oh I'm in
ankle deep water.
Speaker 5 (33:23):
Here, I'm in real black or whatever.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
It got to have the type black tactical T shirt Anderson.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
And remember that great video where it has the guy
coming by and the guy pretends to be in a
boat and then somebody like walks by him. Like a
lot of this is for show. They're not even managing
to do it for show. And to your point, Buck,
a lot of these guys in New York City, it's
not that far to Asheville. It's not that far to
North Carolina or East Tennessee. I mean this is not
you know, out of the country situation.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
Did you see also speaking of XT what Elon said
here that North Carolina would have nineteen thousand, five hundred
and twenty two working starling kits that would have been
in place, but the FCC under Biden revoked it in
bad faith. And Elon wrote, had the FCC not illegally
revoked the space X starlink award, it probably would have
(34:11):
saved lives in North Carolina.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
And credit to Elon, as you said, we need to
go to break here, but they are giving to your point,
starlink all over this affected region if you can get uploaded.
They have put tons of satellite resources here so that
people can be able to upload and get on the
internet to be able to get help. Elon again not
only rescuing everybody from the spaceship, but doing more than
(34:37):
our federal government to try to help people all over
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Take some of your calls in the next hour. But
we've spent two hundred billion dollars on Ukraine. We've spent over,
you know, over one hundred billion dollars easy on illegal aliens.
They're right now saying affected people in these states South Carolina, Tennessee,
(36:14):
North Carolina, and Georgia gets seven hundred and fifty dollars.
I mean, this is absolutely insane, It's an outrage, it's absurd,
and I just can't believe to Buck's point, given all
these journalists who want to stand in the refuse of floods,
that none of them can manage to tell this story
(36:37):
right now, it's outrageous. We're going to talk more about this.
We're going to dive into a variety of different stories,
including the Doug m Hoff, the drop of the latest
news from Jack Smith, all that in more next couple hours.
Welcome in everybody. Thursday edition of The Klay Travis en
Buck Sexton Show gets going right now and got a lot.
First of all, the October surprise from the Democrats has
been unleash. We have Jack Smith's filing in response to
(00:21):
the Supreme Court. Womp, womp. No Boddy cares player. I
agree with you one hundred percent.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
I was at my eighth grader's football game when everybody
starts engaging in history onics over this. Nobody cares about
this at all. I mean, I know the media is
going to try to make it an issue, zero zero
zero care.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
I honestly think that this is not even a top
This has now turned into not even a top ten
issue overall. I think the whole thing has been played
out and absurd. Look the media, very they're the people
that care about it. They're all hoping that this will
salvage Kamala's campaign somehow, like dude, the insurrection, Remember you
(01:03):
have to say it like that, the insurrection. But I
think that Clay, we'll talk a little bit about it.
We got Julie Kelly in third hour. We'll dive into
it with her. Nothing new and that was I would
look as I was doing drinking my crocket coffee this morning,
watching Morning Joe, as is my habit. As I'm getting
ready to read in the for the radio show, and
they're like, oh, can you imagine the Jack Smith report.
(01:26):
I'm sitting here, I'm like, nobody cares. So let's just
put this aside. We're aware, We'll dive into it, we'll
dissect it. We're not going to avoid it. But I mean,
you know, it's a nothing burger that we have to cook.
But we got more important things to do, so we
will do that also. And that brings me to the
most important issue today, which is what's going on in
North Carolina and the surrounding areas of states like eastern Tennessee,
(01:50):
parts of Georgia that have just been so badly hit
by Hurricane Helene. To third hour, we'll have former NFL
player Jack Brewer on those hurricane relief efforts. But not
only do we have to update you all on what's
going on with the hurricane aftermath, which it's now clear
this is one of the most devastating hurricanes that has
(02:12):
made landfall in the United States in years. The death
toll is high and going higher, but the relief efforts
at this point. It is it is I think very
clear the relief efforts at the federal level, FEMA specifically,
not only insufficient, but there are things going on that
(02:35):
are enraging people. Clay. There are local efforts that involve
people who just have air assets. Some people, Oh, you know,
I drive, you know, flyhealth, drive, fly a helicopter. I
can get my boat to the area. Whatever it may be.
They're being turned away, they're being stopped, they're being told no,
(02:56):
you can't. Supplies are all being consolidated in Asheville, North Carolina,
the main city in this area. Again, I've got family
that was hit badly by this hurricane. As we talked
about ur in the week, so spent some time in Asheville.
Play This is a moment where we're not trying to
tie something into politics. Politics and the hurricane have now
(03:19):
smashed into each other because they have had to admit
and it is almost hard to say this out loud,
and this is from majorcas the head of DHS, that
they don't have enough money to get through this hurricane season.
They don't have enough money. FEMA doesn't have enough money
(03:40):
on hand and resources on hand to handle this right now,
and that comes at a time when not only Clay,
have they spent Lord knows how many billions of dollars
on illegal migrants comforts, you know, paying for hotels, paying
for culturally sensitive meals, paying for you know, English is
a second language training whatever. They've also shown now that
(04:03):
there have been funds allocated from FEMA moved temporarily, but
moved to deal with the migrant crisis, and people are
absolutely outraged. Kamala Harris, play, let's just play. This is
cut one that you can tell me what you're seeing here.
Kamala Harris coming out in Georgia to tell everybody, Oh,
(04:25):
don't worry, some of you will get seven hundred and
fifty dollars. Play one.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
The federal relief and assistance that we have been providing
has included on FEMA providing seven hundred and fifty dollars
for folks who need immediate needs being met.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Clay, this isn't now. This is an outrage and a
slap in the face to Americans who are in a
very tough spot right now.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Yeah, and let me say this. I'm going to be
in East Tennessee next weekend and maybe the weekend after
because I'm go cover college football for what we do
at OutKick, And there's a Florida Tennessee game for those
of you who not familiar, on October twelfth, and then
it looks like there's going to be a big Alabama
Tennessee game on October nineteenth. So let me say this.
(05:12):
I texted producer Ali this earlier. I'm not well versed
in every affiliate station that we have. We have five
hundred of them all over the nation, and I also
don't know how many of them are struggling right now
given their locations. Buck you and I went down to
the Florida area to our listeners in the Fort Myers
(05:35):
Naples area. The station that we broadcast from was completely flooded.
We couldn't get down there for some time because they
had standing water. Even when we went back down I
think it was last year, they were still recovering. They
had to strip out basically everything from the studio. We
love everybody down there. We went and did an event.
(05:56):
So let me say this, and you guys may be
able to listen in East Tennessee and western North Carolina,
North Georgia, all that area. I would like to broadcast
from a station in that area, if I'm not getting
in the way, and if you have the ability to
host me, and I would like to help to raise
whatever funds or awareness or materials that we could help
(06:20):
for on this show. I'm already going to be in
East Tennessee. If you would reach out and figure out
if I can come to your station, if I can
help in that area, I would like to be a
small part of helping.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Now.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
I also understand sometimes and this is a challenge, we
don't help by coming in because there's so much going
on and it's so chaotic, and you just kind of
cloud up and crowd up what's.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Going on there.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
But I do think there are places in East Tennessee
where our signal is strong and where we have stations,
Western North Carolina, Northern Georgia, wherever it is, we want
to be there to help because but the story right
now is good, hardworking, reasonable Americans in those areas are
doing far more to help than the federal government is.
(07:09):
And it's not even close.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
It's even worse than that. Yeah, it's worse than that
because the federal government is incredibly slow. There's a sense
of the lethargic here in this particular and a lot
of people are looking at it and saying, hmm, what
part of the country is this.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
I think you have to put it into politics here.
Let me just say it out loud. I think if
this were a blue area that was overwhelmingly voting for Kamala,
the federal government response would have been far different than
what it has been. I think you can even argue,
given Georgia and North Carolina are battlegrounds that the Kamala
Biden administration benefits by responding slowly here because it makes
(07:50):
it less likely those people can vote. Because let's be honest,
if you're worried about survival, you're not thinking about voting.
And these are overwhelmingly read areas about ground states, they
would be getting the golden illegal immigrant treatment, I think
buck if they were Blue voters.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Yeah. So there's also federal government getting in the way
of the local efforts that we mentioned, which this is
where people, you know, this is where people really start
to lose their minds understandably. So this is look Florida
because Ron DeSantis is a very competent governor, far more
competent than Cooper of North Carolina. Florida has set and
(08:31):
obviously very good in a hurricane, and Florida very good
in a hurricane. That's not news to anybody, Like this
is a state that prepares for tremendously. You know, Montana
and Minnesota handle snow, Florida handles hurricanes. They've sent up
relief efforts, and here you have a Florida State guardsman.
This is cut to Jonathan Howard, who is just ripping
(08:52):
the hurricane response from the government side. Play two.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
I'm gonna tell you everything that is happening from the
ground one actually seeing, because what they're telling you is
complete bulls on the news, and these politicians don't have
to including their line. Yesterday, me and my team did
the rescue of that eleven day year old baby, and
all these government officials and social media they're showing that video,
that pictures and video of that rescue and claiming that
(09:19):
like they have some like government helped with that. No,
it was me and my buddy Charlie and a civilian
named zeb with his own personal helicopter out of Wilmston,
North Carolina. Like without that civilian, that baby would be dead.
And the old lady we went and rescued after that,
she'd be dead too, because she had one day left
of oxygen. No one was going to go get them.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Not only is the so again it's insufficient, federal response
too slow, lack of urgency, lack of planning and coordination.
They are getting in the way of local efforts. I'm reading,
and look, it's tough to verify all this, and if
anything that I say, we get contrary reports. But I'm
reading that they're not allowing civilians to fly drones, you know,
(10:02):
little drones that have cameras on them to try to
find people. They've told people that have air assets, whether
a propeller plane or a helo, a rotary wing, that
they can't get up in the air space, that they
won't let people who have supplies get through roadblocks. What
are these people, what are these Feds doing.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
It's a disaster, obviously, the disaster of the flooding itself,
but the federal government response. Buck It's a week. It's
been a week now since this happened, and there are
still people basically with no supplies, unreachable, unable to get
any help at all, and the federal government is actually
(10:45):
making it harder for good people in this area to
be able to help respond to people in desperate need.
It's just it's indefensible. And again, you're right, and I
think it's so important to tie this in. FEMA says
they're out of money because FEMA money has been going
to all the illegal immigrants coming into our country. And
(11:05):
this is a perfect distillation of America. Last I don't
know if you've seen on social media people have been
putting Tennessee and North Carolina as if it was Ukraine
on the map instead of Tennessee and North Carolina and saying, hey,
maybe then the federal government would care. As we've spent
whatever it is, two hundred billion dollars plus on Ukraine
(11:30):
and making sure that the people there are okay, we
can't take care of the actual people in our own
backyard that need the support and the help the most.
And again I think the analogy with Katrina ties into
I mean, think about how the media covered George W.
Bush over Katrina. This is it seems to me, buck
(11:50):
a bigger failure than Katrina, because Katrina, at least was
located in one particular area. Was awful, but it was
easier to manage in some ways because it was right there,
and that government got ripped to shreds. They're not even
getting to the people in need yet.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
It also it feels it stings, particularly because the Biden administration,
which isn't really even the Biden administration. It's just sort
of this Democrat apparatus that functions irrespective of having no
real leadership. We know Joe Biden's not really running the
country in any meaningful way. We know that he hasn't
been for years. Kamala Harris is not a leader, is
(12:30):
not a coordinator, is not a not a logistics capable individual.
So who is really overseeing this response? Mayorcus is a
clown who has overseen the worst border in the history
of the United States, the biggest infiltration of immigration fraud
through a whole range of means in the history of
this country, and majorcas through FEMA. Is now directing this
(12:54):
whole thing. Clay to tell people that there's any problem
with FEMA funding, never mind the actual usage of that funding,
because you had to give it to migrants. You sit there,
This isn't like, you know, we raided the I don't know,
the highway fund or something a couple of year years early,
(13:14):
and we're going to put the money back. These are
emergency funds that were meant for the American people, and
you've reallocated some of them because you want to deal
with foreigners who were showing up to pillage our system,
you know. I mean, imagine if you haven't eaten in
three or four or whatever it is now a week.
Imagine if you haven't eaten in almost a week because
(13:35):
no one can get to you when you run out
of food, and it's because migrants needed more resources. I
don't you know. To me, this should be the end
of the Kamal campaign. I mean, this one issue alone
should be enough that everyone's like, this is crazy, but
we live in a crazy country, at least half of it.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
I think we also should talk about when we come back.
This area has not had a flood like this in
one hundred years. I think it was since nineteen sixteen,
So I think a lot of people in no living
memory has this occurred. So for people who are living there,
sometimes things happen and you can be somewhat prepared that
they might occur. This had never happened in living memory
(14:14):
for anyone here. I can talk about this from my
own experience in Nashville, which had a five hundred year
flood recently, there were places that nobody even knew could
flood that got flooded. Buck And I think that's important
about this disaster. A lot of people in Florida have
things set up, you have your hurricane prepared inness everything.
I don't know that anybody in these regions really understood
(14:36):
that this could even happen. It was such an out
of the ordinary, truly extraordinary weather event that no one
in living memory had any sort of preparation for it.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
Well.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Also, if you have any insights on particularly their response
and what's going on, if you're involved in it, or
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northern Georgia everywhere ravage right now, be able to tell
(16:33):
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Speaker 1 (16:34):
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I'm gonna try to go up and broadcast from the
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is going on. There other stories that are out there, Buck,
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don't think we talked about it yesterday, but there is
(16:58):
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(17:21):
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Speaker 6 (19:00):
In the unacceptable slow federal relief efforts with the damage
and destruction wrought by Hurricane Helene.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
We were informed by Majorcis, the head of DHS, that
there's not enough money to get through the hurricane season.
So basically they're tight on funds. And this comes not
only when you've had I mean, I've got to think
the migrants of costs somewhere in the hundred billion dollars
or hundreds of billions of dollars. I don't even know
(19:34):
what the real tally is. They don't know what the
real tally is. To be clear, new York City alone,
it's billions. And that's one place. It's probably ten billion
dollars a year in New York City. So do the
math across the rest of the country with far far
more migrants. But they're telling us they don't have the money.
They're telling us that the resources are a problem. So
that's a big issue and as I said, a slap
in the face to the American people from the Biden
(19:56):
Harris regime. But Clay, you also as this continues to
get worse, Remember there's the storm, and then there's what
happens after the storm. That's when people, you know, people
run out of food, people run out of medicine. People
can still lose their lives in precarious situations like whether
(20:17):
it's down power lines or there's a whole range of
things that remain real dangerous. Here and here we mentioned before,
this is a Florida State guardsman. As I said, Florida
has sent help to North Carolina, and faster, it seems
than what the federal government is capable of doing. I
want to ask why that is. Here he is saying
(20:39):
that not only is the relief insufficient, but they are
blocking other people, meaning state, local, you know, neighbors, people
from nearby states who can get there from helping. Play three.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
We have all these people here, We have law enforcement,
we have State Guard, National Guard. They have no way
to go get these people. We're in Nashville and I
saw two Air Force helicopters sixties and I knew there
were pjs just looking at them. And I went up
to him like hey, guys, like what are you all doing,
and like this is what you need to be doing. This,
this this is how I'm finding people. And they're like,
we can't go we're waiting on Title ten orders and
(21:15):
I'm like what They.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Just they can't get any authority.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
There's military helicopters all over here sitting on the ground
and they can't do nothing. Even my JASAW boys in
Fayetteville they can't get orders to come out here. It
is just the most disgusting thing.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
And they're killing these people. That is just that is
on Biden play, that is on the commander in chief.
They're not getting orders to do things with the resources
that they have.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Did you see the footage? And again I watched this morning.
I spent a lot of time because you're finally people
are being able to actually see what has happened in
East Tennessee and in North Carolina. And look, I don't
want to forget the upstate area of South Carolina. We've
had a lot of callers and the Augusta, Georgia area
(22:01):
telling us all about what's going on there. It is
devastation on a level that frankly, we have rarely seen
in United States history to involve buck at least four
different states. The scope and magnitude here is unparalleled. And
I'm not trying to demean what has happened elsewhere. I
(22:22):
mentioned in Nashville we had a five hundred year flood
just a few years ago, and there were people and
I did a lot of work. I was doing local
radio at the time. We went out and we helped
people in homes that weren't even in the five hundred
year floodplane map for people out there who you buy
(22:45):
a home and you can go look, and you can
go say, okay, sometimes you understand that you're buying in
an area that is somewhat somewhat of a floodplane. There
were places flooded that people never even conceived the water
could get to. And where we lived in downtown Nashville
at the time, our house was on a little hill.
Everywhere around us was flooded downtown Nashville from the Cumberland River.
(23:08):
People never understood that that was even possible where we
lived all throughout the city. My point on this, with
what's happened to these people in these four different states,
there are people that never even conceived the water could
be near them, buck who had water rushing through their
homes as a result of this, because it's not even
(23:29):
one hundred year flood. It might be in this case,
like what we had in Nashville, a five hundred year flood,
where it almost never happens.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
And so these.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
People are struggling on a level that we can't even
conceive of because they didn't even comprehend that this danger
could come to their homes. They weren't prepared for in
any way, and the federal government is nowhere to be found.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
I mean, unless you're in Florida a few other places, right,
very few people ever imagine that they're going to have,
you know, eight feet of rushing water and they're going
to have to run to their rooftop correct escape. I mean,
that's that's a very on I mean, this it almost
is like a tsunami hitting Ohio, Okay. I mean what's
going on here in the Asphal area, to your point,
is not something that anybody could have ever really considered
(24:12):
or would have considered under a you know, normal or
you know, likely circumstances. And that's why when you have
a thousand people missing in Buncombe County, right now you
have overall, I think one hundred and thirty dead confirmed
people are dying still. So when you have a people
are dying still situation, when you have families that are
(24:35):
trying to find out, Remember there's no cell service for
a lot of people, there's no electricity, so refrigeration down.
You know, the longer the days go here, the more
desperate the situation becomes for people who are cut off.
They cannot get out of these areas that they're in. Yeah,
you have one hundred and thirty three people already Clay
confirmed dead in this and there are people there are
(24:57):
videos now circuling. By the way, thank god for just
in terms of communication stuff that X exists. Well, actually
a couple of things. So recently, Elon Musk had to
save the astronauts because our government can't do that. They
couldn't get them out of the International Space Station. It
didn't get it.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
They were supposed to be their eight days buck they
had to stay eight months and Elon Musk had to
go save them to bring them back because your federal
government couldn't manage to get the astronauts home.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
And he's getting starlink up in this whole devastated area
and making it free for everybody who has access to
a starlink so that they have internet, which we all
understand essential for you to be able to communicate. Right,
How can you find people, get them the resources, get
them medical care. Member, there are people for whom you know,
if they don't get insulin. I mean there's urgency here.
(25:47):
Gaming matters a tremendous amount. Elon once again doing amazing stuff.
But I what I was going to say is on
X a lot of what you were seeing about this,
And I mean I don't hesitate to say this at all. Actually,
I mean I think people need to hear this. We
need to sort of let this go. Both barrels play, CBS,
even News CNN. It's October before an election. Biden is
(26:11):
a vegetable. They everyone knows now, no one even disagrees.
The federal response is obviously a huge political weakness. We
wouldn't know what we know about this already, and there
would be a lot less reporting on it if it
wasn't for Elon and X. Yes, right, you know, to
think of how much information because people are saying, Hey,
(26:32):
I'm running relief ops. This is what's going on. Here's
video of first of all, what the devastation is. People
can show it from all over, so we see how
whole towns are gone. The town has.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Completely swept away towns. I mean, they just don't exist anymore.
If you watch these videos and.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Then you have and you gotta remember also people say, oh, floods.
You know, if you're an able bodied person and you
know you're you might think, oh, I can get First
of all, it's more like a mud slide than you know.
It's not like a swimming pool slowly fl It's like
a mudslide. The water all comes in, It's full of
all kinds of stuff you don't want to be anywhere near.
But you know, there are babies, they're elderly people. There
are people that are on oxygen. I mean, you know
(27:10):
what happens to them when this goes on, right, I mean,
you know there's vulnerable people that got caught up in
these floods. Do you get any I mean, I'm being
totally honest. Do you get any sense of urgency from
this administration at all about this? I mean not even
on the optic side of it. It's like they're like, yeah,
we'll get to it when we get.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
To it, Buck, There's some of these stories are heartbreaking,
some of the videos, some of the pictures are heartbreaking
of people losing their lives. They are on top of
roofs homes that got completely swept away. To your point,
young and elderly in particular, there's a story out there
about a seventy five year old guy who was caught
(27:45):
in a tree screaming help for hours and hours that
eventually got swept away in this in this absolute ravaged flood.
I just there's a difference what you're talking about with
X I think is so important, Buck, because there's two
different ways for stories to get out. There's the top
(28:06):
down method, which is, oh, I'm the head of CBS
News and we're going to go out and we're going
to tell this story about sixty minutes, and we're going
to sit down with somebody who's powerful, and we're going
to do an interview. That's top down, top down journalism.
Bottom up journalism is what X is allowing. That is
you me, normal people out there with our phones with
(28:28):
the ability to tell and show what is going on
out there. What X is allowing is the bottom up journalism.
And what you're talking about is the top down. Journalism
doesn't want to tell this story because the victims are
the wrong people, overwhelmingly white Appalachian Trump voters. They don't
want to tell that story. They don't want to focus
(28:52):
on the fact that the reason FEMA, I think has
partly been so bad is not only for politics, but
also because all the money got spent on the legal immigrants.
So this is the definition of America. Last I've said,
it's a meme on Twitter on x If you make
Tennessee and North Carolina Ukraine, maybe left wingers will care
(29:13):
about it.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Maybe that's what we need to do.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Just stamp it on the map and say, boy, there's
a lot of people struggling here. Maybe we can give
some of the billions of dollars in aid that we
gave to Ukraine. Maybe, just possibly, we could put some
of that money actual for American citizens. And again, I'm
going to go up. I'm trying to plan it right now.
I was already going to be in East Tennessee. But
I want to see it and I want to do
(29:37):
something to help, and I know a lot of you
do as well. But it's infuriating to your point, Buck
that a lot of good, great decent people all over
this region are trying to go in and help, and
the government's actually not allowing them to do so. They're
actually restricting the good graces and decency of the American
public from being able to fulfill the response abilities that
(30:00):
your federal government and my federal government that our federal
government won't do. And I just thirty three days from
an election, it's hard for me to look at this
and say that part of this is not intentional, Buck,
Because if you've got tight races in Georgia, and you've
got tight races in North Carolina, and suddenly overwhelming red
areas of the country are not able to vote because
(30:20):
they're worried about life or death, it feels like if
this were a blue area, they would have been in
there and they would have taken care of these people.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Well, Asheville is very blue, as we know the city itself,
but it's a tiny break the overall area, right, But
the surrounding area, well, I mean it's a population center,
so I mean there's you know, I'd have to look
at the numbers, but yes, the overall point is that
this is not an area that first of all, it's
not just the Biden Harris administration. Clay Journals who live
(30:47):
in New York and DC. They don't even know where
this is, you know what I mean, They don't. They don't.
This is not a This Appalachia is not an area
that really they think about in any meaningful or consistent
sense at all. This is kind of a They just
think of it as you know, rural and red state
and flyover. So I think that's one thing to keep
in mind. I also, I don't disagree at all with
(31:09):
your sense that. I mean, I've said it too, that
there's a lack of urgency here. I think because you know,
this isn't you know, like hitting You know, this isn't
hitting was I gonna say Philadelphia or something. This isn't like
there was some hurricane that came ashore in a Democrat enclave.
But beyond that, the people in charge are also really stupid. Clay,
(31:30):
and I don't say that to score some cheap political points.
Joe Joe Biden has dementia, and you know clearly in
a matter of months he's going to be with a
blanket across his knees, feeding squirrels somewhere and spending time
with the grand kids. Which is nice, but he should
have been doing that for the last four years and
not pretending to be president. Kamala Harris is not bright.
My Orcus is not bright. These are not capable smart people.
(31:52):
So do you know what I'm saying about it. It's
two things going wrong at the same time. They don't
care that much and they're just not that bright. And
that's why you look at this situation and you say
they this is the best they can do. It's been
a week. I mean we should Ron DeSantis got the
after the hurricane they hit the west coast here, got
that bridge up in like five days or something. Yes,
(32:15):
I forget what it was, but it was like it
was crazy. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
And and honestly, people like Ron DeSantis, who are governors,
are doing far more to try to help all these
people than the federal government is. I mean, Florida has
sent resources to North Carolina and Tennessee. I just saw
that Florida's trying to help with the longshoreman strike too.
I mean, I also think that I think that I
mentioned X is getting information out. I think that there
(32:39):
was a shaming of the administration that occurred here. I
think they knew that under normal under normal order Clay
normal circumstances. National, you know, national news media wasn't going
to focus too much on this.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
Oh yeah, we'll get to it. Give it a few weeks.
You don't know, you know, the usual stuff they they
this is this has become a problem. The only thing
they care about is and this has become a problem
for them in terms of winning the election and staying
in power. So now there's all this, Oh, I guess
we better do something.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Also, let's not fail to point out how often usually
journos want to be wearing the mud boots standing in
the water for that shot, you know, when the hurricanes
come in. You got Anderson Cooper standing, Oh I'm in
ankle deep water.
Speaker 5 (33:23):
Here, I'm in real black or whatever.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
It got to have the type black tactical T shirt Anderson.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
And remember that great video where it has the guy
coming by and the guy pretends to be in a
boat and then somebody like walks by him. Like a
lot of this is for show. They're not even managing
to do it for show. And to your point, Buck,
a lot of these guys in New York City, it's
not that far to Asheville. It's not that far to
North Carolina or East Tennessee. I mean this is not
you know, out of the country situation.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
Did you see also speaking of XT what Elon said
here that North Carolina would have nineteen thousand, five hundred
and twenty two working starling kits that would have been
in place, but the FCC under Biden revoked it in
bad faith. And Elon wrote, had the FCC not illegally
revoked the space X starlink award, it probably would have
(34:11):
saved lives in North Carolina.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
And credit to Elon, as you said, we need to
go to break here, but they are giving to your point,
starlink all over this affected region if you can get uploaded.
They have put tons of satellite resources here so that
people can be able to upload and get on the
internet to be able to get help. Elon again not
only rescuing everybody from the spaceship, but doing more than
(34:37):
our federal government to try to help people all over
these affected states. Look, you don't want to let get
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Take some of your calls in the next hour. But
we've spent two hundred billion dollars on Ukraine. We've spent over,
you know, over one hundred billion dollars easy on illegal aliens.
They're right now saying affected people in these states South Carolina, Tennessee,
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North Carolina, and Georgia gets seven hundred and fifty dollars.
I mean, this is absolutely insane, It's an outrage, it's absurd,
and I just can't believe to Buck's point, given all
these journalists who want to stand in the refuse of floods,
that none of them can manage to tell this story
(36:37):
right now, it's outrageous. We're going to talk more about this.
We're going to dive into a variety of different stories,
including the Doug m Hoff, the drop of the latest
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