May 1, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 1 of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show kicks off with a warm introduction and a special appearance by Buck Sexton's newborn son, adding a personal touch to the program. The hosts then dive into the day's major news topics, starting with a detailed analysis of White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller's press briefing, highlighting his impressive performance and key points. They discuss the latest developments surrounding Kilmar Abrego Garcia, including new information from Fox News and the implications for the Democratic Party.
The conversation shifts to the departure of Mike Waltz as National Security Advisor, exploring the reasons behind this significant change in the Trump administration. The hosts also touch on Donald Trump's recent comments on News Nation, suggesting that Stephen A. Smith should run for president, sparking a humorous debate about potential political matchups.
Clay Travis and Buck Sexton provide insights into the Cuomo Town Hall with Trump and O'Reilly, sharing notable soundbites and discussing Trump's stance on investments in America. They emphasize the strategic importance of morning press conferences for the White House, allowing them to set the agenda and respond to opposition media effectively.
The show features a passionate segment on common sense in politics, with White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller advocating for policies grounded in practicality and safety. The hosts critique the Democrats' lack of common sense and their inconsistent arguments against Trump's administration.
Economic discussions follow, with Clay Travis highlighting the stock market's recovery and the benefits of buying the dip. They contrast this with the Democrats' focus on Abrego Garcia, questioning the logic behind their support for individuals with violent records.
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller's fiery remarks on MS-13 gang members and the hypocrisy of reporters living in safe neighborhoods while advocating for leniency towards criminals are a key highlight. The hosts underscore the disconnect between left-wing media's rhetoric and their actual lifestyles.
The hour concludes with a critique of Kamala Harris's political career and her potential future as a presidential candidate. The hosts analyze her lack of substance and the challenges she faces within the Democratic Party.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome everybody to the Thursday edition of the Clay Travis
and Buck Sexton Show. We have a lot of news
to get to with you, but I will just burst
hould up. Little James Speed Sexton making his radio debut,
and he's gonna get fussy, so I'm gonna give him
a mommy here. But you can see, honey, would you
come around and grab our beloved son here? You watch
(00:21):
us on the video stream of playing Buck, you will
see those dans doing that. It's getting a good expective, honey, Buck.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
And you know Judy plays him by the way. Super
cute little guy. He is coming up on Is it
three weeks old tomorrow?
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Is that right? Three weeks old? He's eight pounds in change,
looking good, looking like he's a blue eyed redhead from
what we can tell so far. So he's a We
got a Ginger, which would be kind funny because that's
the dog's name. But we definitely have a Ginger in
the making.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
And in South Florida, you're gonna have to spend a
lot of money on sunscreen.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Yes, like me, he will probably. People always ask me
how often you get to the beach. I'm like, I
cannot remember last time I went to the beach here,
even though I live a mile away. We got big news.
Let's get into it. You know, sometimes you gotta start
the show with a baby because it's fun and he's
so cute and I have to help babysit. So here
we are. We've got let's see how the Stephen Miller
press briefing this morning was absolutely fantastic. Really impressed with
(01:20):
what Stephen Miller was doing. What he had to say,
it was excellent stuff. We'll give you some of the
highlights of that. Also, more on Abrego Garcia. There's more information.
Fox News has additional, let's say, background on this fellow
that they have turned into a cause for the Democrats,
(01:41):
their new hero, Sir Abrego Garcia. Something a little bit
on the unfortunate side of things. Mike Waltz is out
as National Security Advisor, so our first senior level departure
from the Trump administration. It lasted one hundred days. But
Mike Wallace a couple of I think one of his
top aids already going with him. There may be others
(02:02):
as well. We can discuss what happened there, but I
think that there were a number of issues that led
to this change in personnel. Also, Donald Trump last night
called in on News Nation and said Clay that he
thinks Steven A. Smith should run for president. That was
an interesting side note. If Stephen A.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Smith is the Democrat nominee, I might have to run
for president as the Republican and just like slay him
in every debate. I mean, I'm just going to toss
that out there, because I can't let him be the
sports media guy running for president all by himself, right,
I mean, I think I would have to step up
and run against him. We've got all that more from
(02:45):
that Cuomo town hall with Trump, O'Reilly, some others, some
interesting interesting soundbites we want to share with you.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
On all of that, Trump has addressed the investments going
on in America, which I also think we will spend
some time on. But let's start with this one. They
said they've done this thing now where they're having mourning
press conference. I think this makes so much sense. I'm surprised,
actually this hasn't been done sooner, This hasn't been the
(03:14):
standard for a longer period of time, because, yeah, this
lets them set the agenda, This lets them get out
there and tell everybody this is where the White House
is on this issue. They don't have to respond in
the same way to the morning news cycle of the
opposition media. They get to say, here's what we are
(03:37):
focused on. Oh we saw that report. Before you run
another one, we are telling you what actually happened, or
before you run another fake news piece. Here is the background.
You need to maybe print a correction or a retraction,
whatever it may be. But today's morning briefing was about
common sense. This is cut to Caroline Levett, the White
House Press Secretary, laying out the overw you before she
(04:00):
handed it over to Steven Miller.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Plays Everything in President Trump's agenda is grounded in one thing,
common sense. While the Democrat Party went off the deep
end and doubled down on pure craziness, President Trump pledged
to restore common sense back to the United States of
America in a little more than three months. That's exactly
what he's done. He recognized that America is a sovereignation
(04:22):
that cannot survive if it does not protect its territorial borders.
President knows his top responsibility is ensuring the safety of
the American people, which is why he's arresting violent illegal
alien invaders in our communities who threaten our public safety.
And it's unacceptable to President Trump to allow rampant waste, fraud,
and abuse of American's precious tax dollars, which is why
(04:43):
the President championed a historic doge effort that saved nearly
two hundred billion already. President Trump stood up for the
Constitution's promise of colorblind equality before the law. So he
terminated radical DEI preferencing and federal contracting, and directed federal
agencies to relentlessly combat private sector discrimination.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Clay, common sense is actually, if you have to find
one principle or one theme where Democrats are just on
perpetual defense and Republicans can continue to just stomp them
into oblivion, they lack common sense.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
It is I think as we come out of the
one hundred days, one of the clarion calls of the
first hundred days has been trying to come up with
an argument that Democrats have against what Trump has done.
And if you notice, I mean yesterday I referred to
it as sort of a drunken, flailing argument. They can't
(05:41):
keep the focus on anything. I'll give you an example
right here, as we sit one hundred and two days out.
Did you know Buck that stocks actually ended up higher
at the end of April than they were at the
beginning of April. That is, after all that chaos where
they said, oh my goodness, look where the stock market is,
(06:01):
and we tried to say, hey, stay calm, don't overreact,
recognize that there is a plan in place. If you
bought the dip, you have now made ten percent on
the dip alone. And in the past year, as I
am looking at the S and P five hundred, stocks
are up twelve percent. On average, stocks are going to
(06:23):
be up eight or nine percent. So in the last
year you've actually done better than you would over the
historic average. And if you're saying, okay, well what about
clay compared to where they were in January or February, Okay,
they're down from January or February, as stocks sometimes are,
but they're almost identical to where they were at the
(06:43):
beginning of November last year. And if seven months ago
you didn't feel like you were incredibly poor and your
family finances were completely lost, then you're basically the same
place you were seven months ago. Stock's ebb and flow.
If you bought the dip, you've actually made a lot
more so they left behind the stock market as it's
(07:04):
come back up substantially buck and they went to what
they went to a Braille Garcia and El salvadoran gang
member that we now know has multiple different reports in
the state of Maryland, including one where his girlfriend at
the time I think now wife said he's threatened to
kill her and she needs protection from the.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
State and told her that he could kill her and
get away with it, Yes, which sounds like something that
a hardened gang member would say. To me. I don't
know many people that I.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Make that most people wouldn't know how to dispose of
a body and get away with a murder. But also
it is indicative I think of how desperate and deluded
the attempt to make him the front facing opposition to
the deportation crisis has been that you would pick a
guy who has this demonstrated record of violence. I don't
(07:59):
know what percentage of men do you think have threatened
to kill their wives and dispose of their bodies and
get away with it. Maybe five percent to me, really,
you know, like it doesn't happen that often, And I
think probably there's women out there listening right now. That
have been more likely to tell in a joking way
their husbands that they could kill them and distribute the
(08:20):
body and get away, like the number of men that
would have threatened their wives in a serious way that
would have made you fear for your life such that
you needed to go to the police and file a report,
letting everybody know, Hey, this guy's probably the person who's
gonna kill me. He's made this threat. I don't think
(08:41):
it's that common out there in husband wife relationships. And if,
by chance you are listening to me right now and
you have a husband that you are afraid might kill
you one day, I would suggest to you that's probably
not a healthy relationship and maybe you should be somewhere else,
or a boyfriend for that matter. And I think this
is just symptomatic of sort of the drunken inconsistencies, jumping
(09:06):
from one thing to another. I'm not even sure what
the opposition to Trump is. And people say, okay, well,
Trump's approval ratings after the first one hundred days are
not great. Well, what I would say is, okay, tell
me a Democrat who is within fifteen or twenty points
nationwide that has anywhere near the approval of Trump. People
(09:28):
in general, I think just don't like politicians. Right now,
there's a generally speaking, an anti politician, anti incumbent universe,
and so I think the fact that Trump is in
that position right now is actually not a sign of
any incredible lack of strength from him. I think it's
just that Democrats haven't been able to find any kind
(09:50):
of opposition figure for him.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
And you have Stephen Miller stepping in at this press conference,
going absolutely gorgs to earth and touching on a whole
range of issues. But this is one of my favorites
because these reporters, and this is true of Democrats so often,
these reporters pretend they care so much about Abrego Garcia
and his rights and everything else. But as Miller points out,
(10:13):
they don't want to live next to any suspected MS
thirteen illegal alien gang members. They want to go to
country clubs where nobody like this would even be allowed
to serve them food, right. They want to go to
places that are very exclusive. And yet here we are
watching them all pretend go through these motions like suddenly
they are all about the downtrodden and the downtrodden gang member.
(10:37):
Here's Steven Miller play three.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
Each and every one of you that sides over and
over again with these MS thirteen terrafts should extentt that
you at the financial means to do so, you all
choose to live in condos or homes or houses as
far away from these kinds of gang bangers as you
possibly can. If I offered any one of you a
rent free home with no taxes to pay in any
of these gang neighborhoods, and I said your neighbors are
(11:00):
mster ting terrorists or Mexican mafia or Sinaloa cartel or
trained Aragua, I couldn't pay you to live there.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
But yet you, with your coverage.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
Are trying to force innocent Americans to have these people
as their neighbors and that one day their daughter may
be abducted from their home and raped and murdered. So
you're not going to get an ounce of sympathy from
this administration or President Trump for the terrorists who've invaded
our homes in our country.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Play. It's true. All these reporters, a lot of whom
live in you know, uh, Northern Virginia, right across the
Potomac River. You know, they live in condos in Balston,
or they maybe have a place in Glover Park where
they are paying down the mortgage or whatever. They absolutely
do not want any gang members around them. It's somebody
(11:45):
else's problem, but they get to preen for the cameras.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
The number of people who claim that walls don't work
that live in gated communities is off the charts. Oh yeah,
I mean just almost anybody who makes a significant living
in DC lives in to your point, northern Virginia where
it's comparatively safe, or southern Maryland in the Rock Creek
area that Montgomery County, right, or they live in super
(12:12):
safe parts of DC, often with security everywhere surrounding them.
And so it is the case that very often, and
people see through this, that the people who are having
to deal with day to day crime in their lives
overwhelmingly want more police insecurity. And then the people who
have absolutely no risk whatsoever in their day to day existence,
(12:36):
they somehow look at the people who want more police
and insecurity and argue, oh, the police are.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Too much of a hindrance for you.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Is the height Someone wrote this and said this, and
once you hear it or see it, you cannot stop
recognizing it. People on the left in this country, they
talk left and they live right, and once you see it,
they get married, they have nuclear families, they have houses
(13:06):
in very safe suburbs. They put their kids in private schools,
and then they lecture everyone else about how they it's
fine to make decisions that are not beneficial. Have as
many kids as a single parent as you want. Oh,
don't worry about your school districts. The amount of lecturing
from people who don't live the way they lecture you
(13:27):
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(15:14):
Travis Buck Sexton Show. Appreciate all of you hanging out
with us as we are rolling through the Thursday edition
of the program. You just heard, Hey, I want to
keep giving them credit that clip that we played Morning
Press Availabilities. They are really aggressively setting the agenda and
forcing the media to cover what they want them to cover.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Now, will they.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Be angry at Steven Miller and will they potentially not
show the full video or even show it. Maybe, But
when you are there and you are taking control of
the morning's agenda, like Caroline Levett has been doing, like
Stephen Miller has been doing, like they did earlier this
week with Tom Homan and a variety of other different
(15:55):
administration officials, not only do you make yourself answerable to
the public whatever you want to criticize the Trump administration
for there has never been a cabinet and there has
never been a president who has been more available to
answer questions from the media, which are theoretically the conduit
(16:16):
to the American public. So you know exactly what is
going on from one day to the next. Doesn't mean
you're going to agree with all of it. But unlike
Joe Biden, who they hid for four years because he
was decrepit and didn't have the ability to do the job,
Trump is standing up there answering questions without knowing what
the questions are in advance, every day, all day long.
(16:36):
In fact, I think he's talking right now as we
are speaking. The amount of interaction that he has is
an energy, frankly, the likes of which we've rarely seen
before in White House history.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
It's fascinating, isn't it That the anti Trump media, which
is really the DC Belwey media, by and large, they
should welcome all the transparency access The problem is, right,
this is transparency and access from people who know what
they're doing, know their brief and understand that they're going
(17:12):
to put their message out and not have it be
through this filter right necessarily, you know, yeah, they'll they'll
take questions after they let Steven Miller go and fuego
for twenty minutes, right, and that's going to be part
of the news for the day. And this is going
to fill Look that they're very smart. This is going
to factor into the way that commentary shows on radio
(17:36):
and TV. I mean, here we are playing a clip, right,
but it will also give people a sense of where
the White House is on this stuff. And we're just
in a completely new media environment, Clay, and I think
it's a much better one, a much more honest one
than it has ever been before. And I can get
into why I think that is because I know the
Democrats hate it, but that's actually a good sign.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
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So we've been discussing not only the Trump agenda here
(19:01):
but also the opposition to it the Democrats. Who is
the leader of the Democrat Party. I could be wrong
on this one. I've thought all along that Kamala Harris
would end up as the provost of a UC school,
getting paid, you know, a nice fat salary, probably a
million dollars a year to go to a few cocktail
(19:23):
parties with donors and give like one speech a year
at commencement or something like. That's what I thought was
going to be in her future. But Democrats are talking
about having her run for governor of California. That's in
the mix right now. Democrats are also holding her up
as perhaps the future of the Democrat Party, which I
(19:43):
think we should embrace as Republicans with open arms. The
more it can be Kamala's party, the better, because I
think that she is a uniquely untalented, unlikable politician, and
we don't say that about everybody.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
You know.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
I notice I've never AOC I think is actually a
talented politician. I don't think she's very knowledgeable, wise, or
you know, would be good for anything in the country.
But she plays the game. She knows what she's doing,
she knows her audience, she knows how to play up
to them. Kamala Harris is horrible at this. Kamala Harris,
(20:23):
in essence, I think is a as a politician representative
of the pinnacle of DEI within the Democrat Party, which
was if you check the following boxes and you just
play the game a little bit. You played that, well,
let's play the game a little bit. You can be
elevated and elevated, elevated more and again. YO, say it,
(20:45):
Jill about Barack Obama. He defeated Hillary Clinton, right, which
was no small feat. I think Kamala Harris was just
elevated right, just sort of picks to be a senator,
picks to be the vice president by the party machinery itself.
Clay he or she is. She spoke last night for
twenty minut and it's here she is trying to connect
with the audience and asking them, I don't really know
(21:06):
what this is. This is cut twenty one. Here's Kamala
up on the stage.
Speaker 5 (21:10):
Please allow me, friends to digress for a moment. Okay,
it's kind of dark in here, but I'm asked a
show of hands. Who saw that video from a couple
of weeks ago, the one of the elephants at the
San Diego Zoo during the earthquake.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Google it if you've not seen it.
Speaker 5 (21:28):
So that scene has been on my mind. Everybody's asking
me what you've been thinking about these days?
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Well, I honestly think that I honestly think she's cringe inducing,
even when she's trying to just be casual than normal.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
We dodge such a tremendous bullet that Kamala Harris is
not president of the United States. I'm not sure that
there has ever been someone who more personifies DEI Thanamala Harris.
I think that she owes her entire career to the
fact that she looks like the person that Californians want
(22:09):
to be in charge of California, and I put a
lot of liberal white women in that category. In particular,
they want Kamala to be the person who represents the
state because to them, it reflects well on them that
they would be the kind of person that would support
Kamala Harris and I just I mean her entire career,
(22:34):
maybe accepting the first race that she won in San Francisco,
although I would tell you that that was likely a
function of what exactly what I'm talking about. She has
no substance, she has no base, she has no foundational belief,
and yet she came within what's the math, two hundred
(22:54):
and twenty thousand votes of being elected president of the
United States. I know we're all celebrating the great victory
that Trump had on November fifth, twenty twenty four, but
as Buck and Ey have run through the math with
you again and again and again, it's important to realize
it was very, very close to Kamala winning Pennsylvania, Michigan,
(23:15):
and Wisconsin. And if she had won those three states,
she would have won the electoral College. Even if she
lost the popular vote two seventy to two sixty eight
The fact that they could get Kamala Harris this close
to being elected is a sign of how many brain
dead people there are in this country well and how
close we came to four years of utter disaster.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
And also a reminder that if they had somebody who
was truly good at this, yes, we would have a
big problem the next time around, because it's not going
to be Trump, so we can't rely on the Trump
factor the next time around. They may have somebody who
is a talented politician, who is good at connecting with people,
who is good on his or her feet, does inspire
(24:00):
some degree of enthusiasm excitement. That none of that was
true for Kamala Harris, and that's quite obvious because the
Democrats ran a dementia patient instead of her until ninety
days before the election. Okay, so it's not like we
just think this. They thought this too, the same way
that we all knew that Biden had the cognitive decline issue,
(24:21):
but Democrats just were all lying about it like they
were in a cult. Well, it's gonna pretend it's all fine.
We're sitting here going we can all see this, guys.
And eventually, when the debate happened, they couldn't hide it anymore.
It was also clear that they thought Kamala was not
up to the task, because if they thought Kamala was good,
they would have pushed Biden out a lot sooner. They
(24:42):
would have made the determination, Hey, she's better than a
dementia patient. They didn't make that determination, which I think,
in my opinion, by the way, they were right in
thinking that they were better off just trying to ride
the Biden train until the very end. But I wanted
to do something I wanted to no. I was just
gonna say.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
A lot of people will know this, and I think
it's a good way to view your entire life. In baseball,
there's a stat called win a wins above replacement, and
I think you can apply it to all of life.
And basically the idea is Aaron Judge, for instance, New
York Yankee, is having an unbelievable start to the year,
and he is far better than anybody else you could
(25:23):
replace him with. I think Trump for the Republican Party
is an incredible asset that is above what an average
Republican would be able to produce because he brings in
so many different voters. I think Kamala is probably a
negative two. I think Trump's probably a plus two if
you think about it in that context. And to your point,
(25:45):
the argument that is coming Buck, prepare yourselves and some
of you are going to say you're crazy, Clay. By
twenty twenty seven, they're going to move from Trump is
hitler to Trump is a uniquely talented politician that Republicans
can't reproduce. And the Democrat Party is not in trouble.
It's just we need our own version of Trump. Prepare
yourselves for it. They're going to go from he's awful
(26:08):
to actually, he's a uniquely talented politician. It's going to
be hard for Republicans to replace him.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Just get ready, now, Kamala Harris, if you asked her
very basic things about the economy, I think that she
would give you a word salad response. I think she
truly has no idea. I don't think she's ever worked
in the private sector in a meaningful sense in her
entire life. I think that her resume speaks to that
she has done the prosecutor and politician thing and done
(26:37):
it in the most left wing parts of the country.
Here she is, though, slamming Trump. This has got twenty
on tariffs and will dissect this in a moment play.
Speaker 5 (26:47):
It took puris of Americans who are banding together in
the face of the greatest man made economic crisis in
modern presidential history. Americans across the political spectrum Clara declaring
that the President's reckless tariffs hurt workers and families by
(27:12):
raising the cost of everyday essentials, devastate the retirement accounts
that people spent a lifetime paying into, and paralyze American
businesses large and small, forcing them to lay off people,
to stop hiring or pause investments decisions.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
What country is she living in? Where is she getting this?
Where is this crisis that she is speaking of? You
mentioned where the stock market is. Take a look also
where unemployment is. Look at where investment, particularly foreign investment
in the United States. But what is the crisis exactly?
I need to understand what she thinks the crisis is. Well,
(27:54):
she was free behind. She's two weeks behind the crisis
talk right, two weeks ago or maybe seventeen days ago.
Oh my goodness, the economy's gonna collapse. The stock market's
a disaster. Well, now the stock market is back up,
I don't know, seven hundred points since then, and not surprisingly,
her talking points are a couple of weeks still behind buck.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
She hasn't but she's barely spoken. She talked for sixteen minutes,
even after not speaking for months. She came out and
only spoke. I think it was for sixteen minutes and
forty three seconds. Most think about how often Trump speaks
for hours. I mean, he spoke in a two hour
public cabinet meeting yesterday. For better or worse, She's speaking
(28:38):
for sixteen minutes because there is no depth to her.
She gets exposed if she talks for very long at all.
And even in that sixteen minutes, we played that clip
of her giggling like a maniac talking about the elephant
when the earthquake viral video happened, and she didn't even
explain it very well as a metaphor.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Let's go radio freud here for a second. Do you
think Kamala thinks that she is up to it for
another round?
Speaker 3 (29:11):
Like?
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Do you think she you know, is she being pushed
into this by people who are saying, look, we need
you out there right now. Or do you think her
belief is, oh, I'll win the next time. Oh? Such
a good question.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
So I don't think she has anything, so let me
try to Freudian analyze Kamala. I think Kamala doesn't have
anything else in her life. And I don't want to
like totally be devastating here, but I was like, that's
a little mean. I mean, seriously, Doug im Hoff is
(29:47):
not a man that I think very many women would
want to spend the rest of their lives with. I
think she needs this, and I don't think she has
anything else to hold on to, and I that really
is devastating, and I'm not trying to be mean about it,
but sometimes they're well, I mean seriously, sometimes Buck there
(30:08):
are guys who have jobs men. I think this happens
to a lot and as they age, if they don't
have that job, they have nothing else. I think there's
a lot of congress people, congressmen and women who hang
on to the job for too long because their entire
identity is built up in what they do for a
(30:29):
living and they don't have any external escape where you say, Okay,
that's something that I would do otherwise, and they basically
are going to die in the job. I don't think
Kamala has anything else, so I think she needs the
oxygen of mattering in the political arena in order for
(30:52):
her to continue. And I think she's gonna run. She
may run for governor, because I think the the odds
of her los or low, and I think it's just
them sitting around and saying, does the governorship help you?
Or you so well known at this point that it
doesn't really matter whether you hold political office when you
(31:12):
run for president again. I would I would wager a
lot of money that she's going to run for president
again in twenty eight I really am. I don't see
her as an al gore somebody who loses and then
just kind of vanishes or Michael Ducaccus. The party may
not be that excited about her, but I think she
needs this.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
I do think that one thing she has going for her, Clay,
is that she's it's not all downside, Okay, it's very
very sad. I was like feeling very emo there for
a moment. No one thing she has going for her
is that she wouldn't be running against Trump again. I
think the matchup of Trump part two would be Nobody
(31:53):
would want to see that for her a second time,
at least right now. That would seem like a really
bad idea. But her running against an open field and
not against Trump, against some other Republican, probably Jade Vans,
but we'll see that may be to her benefit. But
I'm sticking with my she's eventually going to be a
provost at a UC school or a chancellor to UC
(32:15):
school or something like that. I don't think she's really
going to stay in this game because I think the
people who are smart within the Democrat ranks were cunning
with the Democrat ranks. No, she's just not good at this.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
Well, that's why I don't think they're even going to
force her out buck because the second part of this
is she's not.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
Going to be the nominee.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
If she runs, she's going to lose because Democrats really
don't like her that much. She wouldn't have been the
nominee in twenty twenty four because remember she had less
than one percent support in twenty twenty. They'll knock her out,
but she will run. That would be my prediction right now. Look,
I love Major League Baseball. My Atlanta Braves. Well, they
(32:52):
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I think you're like five and one hundred and sixty
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of the world baseball teams of all time, but you
did win two one Yesterday Lebron James lost speaking of Kamala,
Sorry Laker fans, Lebron James out of the playoffs in
the first round again. And I have to say on
(33:12):
the positive side, he can go to work already for
Kamala Harris's twenty twenty eight presidential campaign.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
He can get out.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
Community organizing, getting a lot of people fired up to
go support his girl, Kamala. He doesn't have to worry
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Welcome everybody to the Thursday edition of the Clay Travis
and Buck Sexton Show. We have a lot of news
to get to with you, but I will just burst
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and he's gonna get fussy, so I'm gonna give him
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see those dans doing that. It's getting a good expective, honey, Buck.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
And you know Judy plays him by the way. Super
cute little guy. He is coming up on Is it
three weeks old tomorrow?
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Is that right? Three weeks old? He's eight pounds in change,
looking good, looking like he's a blue eyed redhead from
what we can tell so far. So he's a We
got a Ginger, which would be kind funny because that's
the dog's name. But we definitely have a Ginger in
the making.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
And in South Florida, you're gonna have to spend a
lot of money on sunscreen.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Yes, like me, he will probably. People always ask me
how often you get to the beach. I'm like, I
cannot remember last time I went to the beach here,
even though I live a mile away. We got big news.
Let's get into it. You know, sometimes you gotta start
the show with a baby because it's fun and he's
so cute and I have to help babysit. So here
we are. We've got let's see how the Stephen Miller
press briefing this morning was absolutely fantastic. Really impressed with
(01:20):
what Stephen Miller was doing. What he had to say,
it was excellent stuff. We'll give you some of the
highlights of that. Also, more on Abrego Garcia. There's more information.
Fox News has additional, let's say, background on this fellow
that they have turned into a cause for the Democrats,
(01:41):
their new hero, Sir Abrego Garcia. Something a little bit
on the unfortunate side of things. Mike Waltz is out
as National Security Advisor, so our first senior level departure
from the Trump administration. It lasted one hundred days. But
Mike Wallace a couple of I think one of his
top aids already going with him. There may be others
(02:02):
as well. We can discuss what happened there, but I
think that there were a number of issues that led
to this change in personnel. Also, Donald Trump last night
called in on News Nation and said Clay that he
thinks Steven A. Smith should run for president. That was
an interesting side note. If Stephen A.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Smith is the Democrat nominee, I might have to run
for president as the Republican and just like slay him
in every debate. I mean, I'm just going to toss
that out there, because I can't let him be the
sports media guy running for president all by himself, right,
I mean, I think I would have to step up
and run against him. We've got all that more from
(02:45):
that Cuomo town hall with Trump, O'Reilly, some others, some
interesting interesting soundbites we want to share with you.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
On all of that, Trump has addressed the investments going
on in America, which I also think we will spend
some time on. But let's start with this one. They
said they've done this thing now where they're having mourning
press conference. I think this makes so much sense. I'm surprised,
actually this hasn't been done sooner, This hasn't been the
(03:14):
standard for a longer period of time, because, yeah, this
lets them set the agenda, This lets them get out
there and tell everybody this is where the White House
is on this issue. They don't have to respond in
the same way to the morning news cycle of the
opposition media. They get to say, here's what we are
(03:37):
focused on. Oh we saw that report. Before you run
another one, we are telling you what actually happened, or
before you run another fake news piece. Here is the background.
You need to maybe print a correction or a retraction,
whatever it may be. But today's morning briefing was about
common sense. This is cut to Caroline Levett, the White
House Press Secretary, laying out the overw you before she
(04:00):
handed it over to Steven Miller.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Plays Everything in President Trump's agenda is grounded in one thing,
common sense. While the Democrat Party went off the deep
end and doubled down on pure craziness, President Trump pledged
to restore common sense back to the United States of
America in a little more than three months. That's exactly
what he's done. He recognized that America is a sovereignation
(04:22):
that cannot survive if it does not protect its territorial borders.
President knows his top responsibility is ensuring the safety of
the American people, which is why he's arresting violent illegal
alien invaders in our communities who threaten our public safety.
And it's unacceptable to President Trump to allow rampant waste, fraud,
and abuse of American's precious tax dollars, which is why
(04:43):
the President championed a historic doge effort that saved nearly
two hundred billion already. President Trump stood up for the
Constitution's promise of colorblind equality before the law. So he
terminated radical DEI preferencing and federal contracting, and directed federal
agencies to relentlessly combat private sector discrimination.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Clay, common sense is actually, if you have to find
one principle or one theme where Democrats are just on
perpetual defense and Republicans can continue to just stomp them
into oblivion, they lack common sense.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
It is I think as we come out of the
one hundred days, one of the clarion calls of the
first hundred days has been trying to come up with
an argument that Democrats have against what Trump has done.
And if you notice, I mean yesterday I referred to
it as sort of a drunken, flailing argument. They can't
(05:41):
keep the focus on anything. I'll give you an example
right here, as we sit one hundred and two days out.
Did you know Buck that stocks actually ended up higher
at the end of April than they were at the
beginning of April. That is, after all that chaos where
they said, oh my goodness, look where the stock market is,
(06:01):
and we tried to say, hey, stay calm, don't overreact,
recognize that there is a plan in place. If you
bought the dip, you have now made ten percent on
the dip alone. And in the past year, as I
am looking at the S and P five hundred, stocks
are up twelve percent. On average, stocks are going to
(06:23):
be up eight or nine percent. So in the last
year you've actually done better than you would over the
historic average. And if you're saying, okay, well what about
clay compared to where they were in January or February, Okay,
they're down from January or February, as stocks sometimes are,
but they're almost identical to where they were at the
(06:43):
beginning of November last year. And if seven months ago
you didn't feel like you were incredibly poor and your
family finances were completely lost, then you're basically the same
place you were seven months ago. Stock's ebb and flow.
If you bought the dip, you've actually made a lot
more so they left behind the stock market as it's
(07:04):
come back up substantially buck and they went to what
they went to a Braille Garcia and El salvadoran gang
member that we now know has multiple different reports in
the state of Maryland, including one where his girlfriend at
the time I think now wife said he's threatened to
kill her and she needs protection from the.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
State and told her that he could kill her and
get away with it, Yes, which sounds like something that
a hardened gang member would say. To me. I don't
know many people that I.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Make that most people wouldn't know how to dispose of
a body and get away with a murder. But also
it is indicative I think of how desperate and deluded
the attempt to make him the front facing opposition to
the deportation crisis has been that you would pick a
guy who has this demonstrated record of violence. I don't
(07:59):
know what percentage of men do you think have threatened
to kill their wives and dispose of their bodies and
get away with it. Maybe five percent to me, really,
you know, like it doesn't happen that often, And I
think probably there's women out there listening right now. That
have been more likely to tell in a joking way
their husbands that they could kill them and distribute the
(08:20):
body and get away, like the number of men that
would have threatened their wives in a serious way that
would have made you fear for your life such that
you needed to go to the police and file a report,
letting everybody know, Hey, this guy's probably the person who's
gonna kill me. He's made this threat. I don't think
(08:41):
it's that common out there in husband wife relationships. And if,
by chance you are listening to me right now and
you have a husband that you are afraid might kill
you one day, I would suggest to you that's probably
not a healthy relationship and maybe you should be somewhere else,
or a boyfriend for that matter. And I think this
is just symptomatic of sort of the drunken inconsistencies, jumping
(09:06):
from one thing to another. I'm not even sure what
the opposition to Trump is. And people say, okay, well,
Trump's approval ratings after the first one hundred days are
not great. Well, what I would say is, okay, tell
me a Democrat who is within fifteen or twenty points
nationwide that has anywhere near the approval of Trump. People
(09:28):
in general, I think just don't like politicians. Right now,
there's a generally speaking, an anti politician, anti incumbent universe,
and so I think the fact that Trump is in
that position right now is actually not a sign of
any incredible lack of strength from him. I think it's
just that Democrats haven't been able to find any kind
(09:50):
of opposition figure for him.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
And you have Stephen Miller stepping in at this press conference,
going absolutely gorgs to earth and touching on a whole
range of issues. But this is one of my favorites
because these reporters, and this is true of Democrats so often,
these reporters pretend they care so much about Abrego Garcia
and his rights and everything else. But as Miller points out,
(10:13):
they don't want to live next to any suspected MS
thirteen illegal alien gang members. They want to go to
country clubs where nobody like this would even be allowed
to serve them food, right. They want to go to
places that are very exclusive. And yet here we are
watching them all pretend go through these motions like suddenly
they are all about the downtrodden and the downtrodden gang member.
(10:37):
Here's Steven Miller play three.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
Each and every one of you that sides over and
over again with these MS thirteen terrafts should extentt that
you at the financial means to do so, you all
choose to live in condos or homes or houses as
far away from these kinds of gang bangers as you
possibly can. If I offered any one of you a
rent free home with no taxes to pay in any
of these gang neighborhoods, and I said your neighbors are
(11:00):
mster ting terrorists or Mexican mafia or Sinaloa cartel or
trained Aragua, I couldn't pay you to live there.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
But yet you, with your coverage.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
Are trying to force innocent Americans to have these people
as their neighbors and that one day their daughter may
be abducted from their home and raped and murdered. So
you're not going to get an ounce of sympathy from
this administration or President Trump for the terrorists who've invaded
our homes in our country.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Play. It's true. All these reporters, a lot of whom
live in you know, uh, Northern Virginia, right across the
Potomac River. You know, they live in condos in Balston,
or they maybe have a place in Glover Park where
they are paying down the mortgage or whatever. They absolutely
do not want any gang members around them. It's somebody
(11:45):
else's problem, but they get to preen for the cameras.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
The number of people who claim that walls don't work
that live in gated communities is off the charts. Oh yeah,
I mean just almost anybody who makes a significant living
in DC lives in to your point, northern Virginia where
it's comparatively safe, or southern Maryland in the Rock Creek
area that Montgomery County, right, or they live in super
(12:12):
safe parts of DC, often with security everywhere surrounding them.
And so it is the case that very often, and
people see through this, that the people who are having
to deal with day to day crime in their lives
overwhelmingly want more police insecurity. And then the people who
have absolutely no risk whatsoever in their day to day existence,
(12:36):
they somehow look at the people who want more police
and insecurity and argue, oh, the police are.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Too much of a hindrance for you.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
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(13:06):
in very safe suburbs. They put their kids in private schools,
and then they lecture everyone else about how they it's
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many kids as a single parent as you want. Oh,
don't worry about your school districts. The amount of lecturing
from people who don't live the way they lecture you
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Travis Buck Sexton Show. Appreciate all of you hanging out
with us as we are rolling through the Thursday edition
of the program. You just heard, Hey, I want to
keep giving them credit that clip that we played Morning
Press Availabilities. They are really aggressively setting the agenda and
forcing the media to cover what they want them to cover.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Now, will they.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Be angry at Steven Miller and will they potentially not
show the full video or even show it. Maybe, But
when you are there and you are taking control of
the morning's agenda, like Caroline Levett has been doing, like
Stephen Miller has been doing, like they did earlier this
week with Tom Homan and a variety of other different
(15:55):
administration officials, not only do you make yourself answerable to
the public whatever you want to criticize the Trump administration
for there has never been a cabinet and there has
never been a president who has been more available to
answer questions from the media, which are theoretically the conduit
(16:16):
to the American public. So you know exactly what is
going on from one day to the next. Doesn't mean
you're going to agree with all of it. But unlike
Joe Biden, who they hid for four years because he
was decrepit and didn't have the ability to do the job,
Trump is standing up there answering questions without knowing what
the questions are in advance, every day, all day long.
(16:36):
In fact, I think he's talking right now as we
are speaking. The amount of interaction that he has is
an energy, frankly, the likes of which we've rarely seen
before in White House history.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
It's fascinating, isn't it That the anti Trump media, which
is really the DC Belwey media, by and large, they
should welcome all the transparency access The problem is, right,
this is transparency and access from people who know what
they're doing, know their brief and understand that they're going
(17:12):
to put their message out and not have it be
through this filter right necessarily, you know, yeah, they'll they'll
take questions after they let Steven Miller go and fuego
for twenty minutes, right, and that's going to be part
of the news for the day. And this is going
to fill Look that they're very smart. This is going
to factor into the way that commentary shows on radio
(17:36):
and TV. I mean, here we are playing a clip, right,
but it will also give people a sense of where
the White House is on this stuff. And we're just
in a completely new media environment, Clay, and I think
it's a much better one, a much more honest one
than it has ever been before. And I can get
into why I think that is because I know the
Democrats hate it, but that's actually a good sign.
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(19:01):
but also the opposition to it the Democrats. Who is
the leader of the Democrat Party. I could be wrong
on this one. I've thought all along that Kamala Harris
would end up as the provost of a UC school,
getting paid, you know, a nice fat salary, probably a
million dollars a year to go to a few cocktail
(19:23):
parties with donors and give like one speech a year
at commencement or something like. That's what I thought was
going to be in her future. But Democrats are talking
about having her run for governor of California. That's in
the mix right now. Democrats are also holding her up
as perhaps the future of the Democrat Party, which I
(19:43):
think we should embrace as Republicans with open arms. The
more it can be Kamala's party, the better, because I
think that she is a uniquely untalented, unlikable politician, and
we don't say that about everybody.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
You know.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
I notice I've never AOC I think is actually a
talented politician. I don't think she's very knowledgeable, wise, or
you know, would be good for anything in the country.
But she plays the game. She knows what she's doing,
she knows her audience, she knows how to play up
to them. Kamala Harris is horrible at this. Kamala Harris,
(20:23):
in essence, I think is a as a politician representative
of the pinnacle of DEI within the Democrat Party, which
was if you check the following boxes and you just
play the game a little bit. You played that, well,
let's play the game a little bit. You can be
elevated and elevated, elevated more and again. YO, say it,
(20:45):
Jill about Barack Obama. He defeated Hillary Clinton, right, which
was no small feat. I think Kamala Harris was just
elevated right, just sort of picks to be a senator,
picks to be the vice president by the party machinery itself.
Clay he or she is. She spoke last night for
twenty minut and it's here she is trying to connect
with the audience and asking them, I don't really know
(21:06):
what this is. This is cut twenty one. Here's Kamala
up on the stage.
Speaker 5 (21:10):
Please allow me, friends to digress for a moment. Okay,
it's kind of dark in here, but I'm asked a
show of hands. Who saw that video from a couple
of weeks ago, the one of the elephants at the
San Diego Zoo during the earthquake.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Google it if you've not seen it.
Speaker 5 (21:28):
So that scene has been on my mind. Everybody's asking
me what you've been thinking about these days?
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Well, I honestly think that I honestly think she's cringe inducing,
even when she's trying to just be casual than normal.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
We dodge such a tremendous bullet that Kamala Harris is
not president of the United States. I'm not sure that
there has ever been someone who more personifies DEI Thanamala Harris.
I think that she owes her entire career to the
fact that she looks like the person that Californians want
(22:09):
to be in charge of California, and I put a
lot of liberal white women in that category. In particular,
they want Kamala to be the person who represents the
state because to them, it reflects well on them that
they would be the kind of person that would support
Kamala Harris and I just I mean her entire career,
(22:34):
maybe accepting the first race that she won in San Francisco,
although I would tell you that that was likely a
function of what exactly what I'm talking about. She has
no substance, she has no base, she has no foundational belief,
and yet she came within what's the math, two hundred
(22:54):
and twenty thousand votes of being elected president of the
United States. I know we're all celebrating the great victory
that Trump had on November fifth, twenty twenty four, but
as Buck and Ey have run through the math with
you again and again and again, it's important to realize
it was very, very close to Kamala winning Pennsylvania, Michigan,
(23:15):
and Wisconsin. And if she had won those three states,
she would have won the electoral College. Even if she
lost the popular vote two seventy to two sixty eight
The fact that they could get Kamala Harris this close
to being elected is a sign of how many brain
dead people there are in this country well and how
close we came to four years of utter disaster.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
And also a reminder that if they had somebody who
was truly good at this, yes, we would have a
big problem the next time around, because it's not going
to be Trump, so we can't rely on the Trump
factor the next time around. They may have somebody who
is a talented politician, who is good at connecting with people,
who is good on his or her feet, does inspire
(24:00):
some degree of enthusiasm excitement. That none of that was
true for Kamala Harris, and that's quite obvious because the
Democrats ran a dementia patient instead of her until ninety
days before the election. Okay, so it's not like we
just think this. They thought this too, the same way
that we all knew that Biden had the cognitive decline issue,
(24:21):
but Democrats just were all lying about it like they
were in a cult. Well, it's gonna pretend it's all fine.
We're sitting here going we can all see this, guys.
And eventually, when the debate happened, they couldn't hide it anymore.
It was also clear that they thought Kamala was not
up to the task, because if they thought Kamala was good,
they would have pushed Biden out a lot sooner. They
(24:42):
would have made the determination, Hey, she's better than a
dementia patient. They didn't make that determination, which I think,
in my opinion, by the way, they were right in
thinking that they were better off just trying to ride
the Biden train until the very end. But I wanted
to do something I wanted to no. I was just
gonna say.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
A lot of people will know this, and I think
it's a good way to view your entire life. In baseball,
there's a stat called win a wins above replacement, and
I think you can apply it to all of life.
And basically the idea is Aaron Judge, for instance, New
York Yankee, is having an unbelievable start to the year,
and he is far better than anybody else you could
(25:23):
replace him with. I think Trump for the Republican Party
is an incredible asset that is above what an average
Republican would be able to produce because he brings in
so many different voters. I think Kamala is probably a
negative two. I think Trump's probably a plus two if
you think about it in that context. And to your point,
(25:45):
the argument that is coming Buck, prepare yourselves and some
of you are going to say you're crazy, Clay. By
twenty twenty seven, they're going to move from Trump is
hitler to Trump is a uniquely talented politician that Republicans
can't reproduce. And the Democrat Party is not in trouble.
It's just we need our own version of Trump. Prepare
yourselves for it. They're going to go from he's awful
(26:08):
to actually, he's a uniquely talented politician. It's going to
be hard for Republicans to replace him.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Just get ready, now, Kamala Harris, if you asked her
very basic things about the economy, I think that she
would give you a word salad response. I think she
truly has no idea. I don't think she's ever worked
in the private sector in a meaningful sense in her
entire life. I think that her resume speaks to that
she has done the prosecutor and politician thing and done
(26:37):
it in the most left wing parts of the country.
Here she is, though, slamming Trump. This has got twenty
on tariffs and will dissect this in a moment play.
Speaker 5 (26:47):
It took puris of Americans who are banding together in
the face of the greatest man made economic crisis in
modern presidential history. Americans across the political spectrum Clara declaring
that the President's reckless tariffs hurt workers and families by
(27:12):
raising the cost of everyday essentials, devastate the retirement accounts
that people spent a lifetime paying into, and paralyze American
businesses large and small, forcing them to lay off people,
to stop hiring or pause investments decisions.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
What country is she living in? Where is she getting this?
Where is this crisis that she is speaking of? You
mentioned where the stock market is. Take a look also
where unemployment is. Look at where investment, particularly foreign investment
in the United States. But what is the crisis exactly?
I need to understand what she thinks the crisis is. Well,
(27:54):
she was free behind. She's two weeks behind the crisis
talk right, two weeks ago or maybe seventeen days ago.
Oh my goodness, the economy's gonna collapse. The stock market's
a disaster. Well, now the stock market is back up,
I don't know, seven hundred points since then, and not surprisingly,
her talking points are a couple of weeks still behind buck.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
She hasn't but she's barely spoken. She talked for sixteen minutes,
even after not speaking for months. She came out and
only spoke. I think it was for sixteen minutes and
forty three seconds. Most think about how often Trump speaks
for hours. I mean, he spoke in a two hour
public cabinet meeting yesterday. For better or worse, She's speaking
(28:38):
for sixteen minutes because there is no depth to her.
She gets exposed if she talks for very long at all.
And even in that sixteen minutes, we played that clip
of her giggling like a maniac talking about the elephant
when the earthquake viral video happened, and she didn't even
explain it very well as a metaphor.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Let's go radio freud here for a second. Do you
think Kamala thinks that she is up to it for
another round?
Speaker 3 (29:11):
Like?
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Do you think she you know, is she being pushed
into this by people who are saying, look, we need
you out there right now. Or do you think her
belief is, oh, I'll win the next time. Oh? Such
a good question.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
So I don't think she has anything, so let me
try to Freudian analyze Kamala. I think Kamala doesn't have
anything else in her life. And I don't want to
like totally be devastating here, but I was like, that's
a little mean. I mean, seriously, Doug im Hoff is
(29:47):
not a man that I think very many women would
want to spend the rest of their lives with. I
think she needs this, and I don't think she has
anything else to hold on to, and I that really
is devastating, and I'm not trying to be mean about it,
but sometimes they're well, I mean seriously, sometimes Buck there
(30:08):
are guys who have jobs men. I think this happens
to a lot and as they age, if they don't
have that job, they have nothing else. I think there's
a lot of congress people, congressmen and women who hang
on to the job for too long because their entire
identity is built up in what they do for a
(30:29):
living and they don't have any external escape where you say, Okay,
that's something that I would do otherwise, and they basically
are going to die in the job. I don't think
Kamala has anything else, so I think she needs the
oxygen of mattering in the political arena in order for
(30:52):
her to continue. And I think she's gonna run. She
may run for governor, because I think the the odds
of her los or low, and I think it's just
them sitting around and saying, does the governorship help you?
Or you so well known at this point that it
doesn't really matter whether you hold political office when you
(31:12):
run for president again. I would I would wager a
lot of money that she's going to run for president
again in twenty eight I really am. I don't see
her as an al gore somebody who loses and then
just kind of vanishes or Michael Ducaccus. The party may
not be that excited about her, but I think she
needs this.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
I do think that one thing she has going for her, Clay,
is that she's it's not all downside, Okay, it's very
very sad. I was like feeling very emo there for
a moment. No one thing she has going for her
is that she wouldn't be running against Trump again. I
think the matchup of Trump part two would be Nobody
(31:53):
would want to see that for her a second time,
at least right now. That would seem like a really
bad idea. But her running against an open field and
not against Trump, against some other Republican, probably Jade Vans,
but we'll see that may be to her benefit. But
I'm sticking with my she's eventually going to be a
provost at a UC school or a chancellor to UC
(32:15):
school or something like that. I don't think she's really
going to stay in this game because I think the
people who are smart within the Democrat ranks were cunning
with the Democrat ranks. No, she's just not good at this.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
Well, that's why I don't think they're even going to
force her out buck because the second part of this
is she's not.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
Going to be the nominee.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
If she runs, she's going to lose because Democrats really
don't like her that much. She wouldn't have been the
nominee in twenty twenty four because remember she had less
than one percent support in twenty twenty. They'll knock her out,
but she will run. That would be my prediction right now. Look,
I love Major League Baseball. My Atlanta Braves. Well, they
(32:52):
lost to the Colorado Rockies last night. Congratulations, Rocky fans.
I think you're like five and one hundred and sixty
four or something like that. I mean, this is one
of the world baseball teams of all time, but you
did win two one Yesterday Lebron James lost speaking of Kamala,
Sorry Laker fans, Lebron James out of the playoffs in
the first round again. And I have to say on
(33:12):
the positive side, he can go to work already for
Kamala Harris's twenty twenty eight presidential campaign.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
He can get out.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
Community organizing, getting a lot of people fired up to
go support his girl, Kamala. He doesn't have to worry
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