May 29, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 1 of The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show kicks off with Buck Sexton solo-hosting while Clay Travis is on vacation. Buck dives into a range of high-impact political and cultural topics, offering sharp commentary and insider insights that define the show’s conservative voice. The hour begins with a breakdown of the latest developments involving the FBI and internal debates within the GOP about whether Trump administration officials like FBI Director Patel and Deputy Director Bongino are moving fast enough on key reforms. Buck emphasizes the importance of managing expectations while supporting the broader mission of government accountability.
A major segment focuses on Elon Musk’s departure from his role as a special government employee. Buck discusses Musk’s impact on reducing government waste (DOGE) and his return to leading companies like SpaceX, Tesla, and X (formerly Twitter), highlighting Musk’s role as a tech visionary and free speech advocate.
The show then transitions into a deep dive on the “Big Beautiful Bill,” a major legislative effort by the Trump administration. Buck addresses conservative concerns about the lack of visible spending cuts and explains the role of rescissions in the budget process. He features commentary from OMB Director Russell Vought, who confirms that a rescissions package targeting foreign aid and public broadcasting (including NPR and PBS) is being sent to Congress. Buck critiques government funding for media entities, arguing that taxpayer dollars should not support partisan outlets.
Another key topic is the Trump administration’s push to limit foreign student enrollment at elite U.S. universities like Harvard. Buck reacts to a federal judge’s injunction blocking the administration from revoking Harvard’s ability to host foreign students. He frames this as part of a broader judicial resistance to Trump’s agenda and criticizes the high percentage of foreign students in STEM fields at top institutions, particularly from China. Buck argues that this undermines national security and American competitiveness, calling for a rethinking of U.S. higher education policy.
Throughout the hour, Buck underscores the Trump administration’s aggressive, multi-front strategy to implement its agenda despite legal and political obstacles. He praises the administration’s persistence and contrasts it with the more cautious approach of past Republican efforts. Listeners are also treated to Buck’s personal anecdotes, including his thoughts on the New York Knicks’ playoff hopes and a nostalgic reflection on his early media career. He wraps the hour by reaffirming the importance of conservative media, grassroots support, and staying engaged in the fight for America’s future.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to today's edition of The Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show podcast. Welcome everybody to the Thursday edition of
The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. Some quick housekeeping.
Buck is back, as in I'm normal today. Yesterday was
a bit of a challenge. I appreciate all of you
rolling with me. Had to hydrate in the breaks and
(00:20):
it was a little touch and go. But I'm back,
I'm healthy, ready to rock and play. Is having a
great time with his family. He's on vacation. I think
he's in Disney World or one of those places. I'm
not sure where he is today, but we're all hoping
he's having a great time with the fam. He'll be
back with us, as we know, a week from tomorrow.
So it's just going to be me informing you, entertaining you,
(00:43):
rolling with you here for a week. So looking forward
to getting to chat with you. All the calls, the talkbacks,
we love them. Both. Give us light us up on
those lines and send those talkbacks. Let's lay out where
we're going today on the show real quick. So you know,
some stuff coming out on the FBI and there's a
little bit of pushback I think from some people on
(01:03):
the right, our Director Patel and Deputy Director bon Gino
moving fast enough? Are they doing the things? I was
on Fox earlier this morning with Dana Perino, who's always
so lovely, like such a nice person and very good broadcaster,
and we were talking about this issue. I want to
address it a bit because I think that there's a
(01:24):
little bit of expectations management that our side should have.
Not in terms of result, no, no, we all agree
on the results, but in terms of timing, we need
to give the people the time that they need. Speaking
of which, Elon has said that his time is a
special government employee has come to a conclusion. He put
(01:49):
this out on x the platform that he owns, which
now is actually a free speech platform. As my scheduled
time as a special government employee comes to an end,
I would like to thank President or Trump for the
opportunity to reduce wasteful spending. The DOGE mission will only
strengthen over time as it becomes a way of life
throughout the government. So Elon is going to go back
(02:12):
to being the most important single CEO. And you know, business,
I don't like the term of thought leader right because
it's like the thought leader I mean, the guy is
a thought leader, but I don't like to use that term.
But he's going to go back to doing the full
Elon routine, which is going to be I think great
for SpaceX, for Tesla, for X, for Boring Company, for
(02:34):
all the things that he is involved in. So this
is where we get into a little bit speaking of
expectations management of they've done what they could do. He
did not unilaterally and this was known all along. He
does not unilaterally have the authority the power. Doge didn't
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have to just say these cuts are going into effect
money that Congress has appropriated. If Congress says this, uh,
you know, this program for fiscal year twenty twenty five
has ten million dollars or ten billion dollars, Doge couldn't
just come along and say, yeah, they don't have ten
(03:16):
billion dollars anymore. But this is where recisions come in.
This also goes to our conversations over the big Beautiful Bill.
There's been a little bit of pushback here, including from
some of the most pro Trump voices you will find
in the Senate and just in general, who are saying, hey, Trump,
(03:37):
I love you with all respect, You're doing great things.
We all get that. This isn't like some never trumpy
wine fest you'd think, but like, and I like the
way you said it. No, that's for libs, that's for
fake Republicans. Uh, this is just about Okay, it's halftime,
or it's not even halftime, to be clear, it's early.
It's a time out in the first quarter. All this
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administration and we're all huddled together, and some of us
are saying, Hey, Trump, thank you for being the quarterback.
But you know, can you hit that guy on the
button hook? Clay would be proud, by the way. I'm
just gonna say, look at that button hook. But yeah,
you know what I'm saying that that's the mentality, or
rather that's the the rationale behind some of the pushback
(04:23):
on this from people like Senator Ron Johnson, people like
Senator Ran Paul. They're on board for the mission, but
they want to shape this. And this is why it
goes to the Senate. I bring it up because you know,
yesterday I said we can't let the perfect of the
enemy of the good. And I think I'm trying to
so many administrations said it later that day. I'm trying
to remember. I don't want to misquote. But somebody I
(04:43):
heard somebody else say it. I'm like, oh, yeah, that's right.
They listened to this show. So I'm happy to happy
to help, happy to help. And if that means I
throw around a cliche that somebody else will have in
their head later, great. But we've talked about the process
and Steven Miller I read his post on the big
beautiful Bill still in process, and there are big things
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in this bill that will affect us, that will affect
your family budget, that will affect the business that you
own or that you work for in your town. I mean,
there's this real stuff, right. This isn't sitting around arguing
about the naming of the next post office in Topeka.
No offense Topeka. But this is about big economic issue,
(05:29):
structural issues, and setting the economy on a footing that
will allow it to get to the best possible places, right,
I mean tremendous prosperity, which I'm very confident in. You.
I have not been gloom and doom about the Trump
economy since he won that election for one moment, for
one day, even when oh the Trump procession is here,
(05:51):
all the market is dropped, you can go back and
listen to those shows. We're like I kept saying, he
knows what he's doing. Everyone just who's freaking out needs
to as I believe they would say here in South Florida, tranquilo.
Everyone just needs to calm down. It's fine, okay, nothing
terrible has happened. He knows what he's doing. Part of
the complaints about the big beautiful Bill, though, have been
(06:13):
on where is where are the cuts? Where is DOGE
and the ethos of DOGE being made real? And this
is where you have OMB Director Russell Vaught, who was
on the Cudlow Show saying that yes, in fact, the
(06:34):
administration is sending a recisions package to Congress. Let's hear
it from the OMB director himself, play for I can.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
We'll be sending that up on Monday or Tuesday, whenever
the House is back in session. They will get our
first Decisions bill. And again this has been we're proposed,
and we've talked about it. We want to make sure
that Congress passes its first recisions bill, including the DOGE,
and we will send more if they pass it. And
so this is the first one is Foreign Aid. USAID
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cuts many of the waste and garbage that was funding
not only wasteful but hurting our foreign policy, but also
the Corporation for Public Broadcasting at NPR will be sending
that up. And we're working with Congress and we've had
good conversations to make sure that they knew what was coming.
They had some input is to changes that could be
made to make it something that could pass the House,
(07:25):
and we're excited for that to occur next week.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
There you have it. I said, hold on a second,
where are the doge cuts in the big beautiful bill.
And Stephen Miller, who understands this process as well as
anybody because he is look, he is at the center
of what's going on in this White House. He is
absolutely dialed in and he explained it to everybody and
(07:50):
he said, look, this is how it has to happen
within the system. And let's be honest, even if you
follow government and politics for a living, some of this
stuff unless you I'll tell you this, some members of
Congress don't even know this stuff that well. Their staff
members do. Their staffers do, and they brief them on it,
but they're like, wait, I gotta do that. The who's
the what's it here? How does this work? Steven Miller
(08:11):
came out and said, here is what has to happen
for the cuts to become real and final or to
come to fruition. And now that process has gone to
the next step. And now you'll see, Okay, does usaid,
does the budget? Does Congress do what it's supposed to do?
Does PBS get its government funding cut? I have I
(08:34):
think the most perfect argument about this of anybody or
anyone else is welcome to the bar. But I like to
make arguments that other people can borrow them. That's fine.
I just want the truth to win. But PBS and
anybody else who is getting straight up government funding as
a media entity, they cannot claim simultaneously, oh, we don't
really need that funding. It's only a small percentage of
(08:55):
our budget. And Comma, how dare they cut our budget?
What are we going to do? This is tyranny. You
are not entitled to federal funds as a media entity.
This is insane. You know, I imagine all of a sudden,
I would just say this, why is PBS getting money
(09:16):
from the government? Claim Buck shut doesn't get any money
from the government. We're a capitalist enterprise. Thanks to all
of you who listen, and thanks to all of you
who make our sponsors so successful, in the campaigns we have,
in the partnerships we have on this show. Is thanks
to you that this show exists. There's there's no there's no.
I mean, it would be kind of nice. I don't know,
(09:38):
you get a check for ten million dollars for the government,
you know, we give we give bonuses for the New
York team or something out of that, right, I mean,
this is this is the kind of thing that you
sit there and you say, how has this even been
able to exist as long as it has? And I
want to get into this a little bit more on
the Trump fight with Harvard, which I'll dive into in
(09:59):
the bottom, which I think, I think, I think this
stuff is important. And there's a new addition to this
too about foreign students from China. What's going on here?
You know, were we bringing Were we bringing the best
and the brightest from Moscow to study at cal Tech
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and MIT and I don't know, nuclear engineering or something.
Were we doing that during the Cold War? I'm not
aware of it in any real numbers. I mean, there
was a lot of espionage going on, but I don't
think we were welcoming, you know, uh, tens of thousands
of students from Moscow to come work at high levels
(10:41):
of sensitive But we're doing that with China. We are,
we have been doing and it's so dumb and so
contra the national interest that when you say it out loud,
it almost feels like, how is this? How is this possible?
And then you can even take it a step further.
How many Americans are getting access to the research being
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done by I don't know what the top Chinese universities are,
but you know, let's say the equivalent of University of Beijing.
How many Americans are sitting in there classes learning about
five G, learning about artificial intelligence, learning about next generation
of microchips and what they're mean supercomputers. All that. We
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all know the answer, Even if you don't follow the issue,
you know the answer because you'd say, well, China is
not that dumb, but we are. Trump comes along, This
is one of his superpowers. The dumb things that we
have as a country have been doing for such a
long time that we just start to think that this
is the way it has to be, because it seems
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like it's always been that way. Trump comes along and says,
you know, that's a dumb thing. And we should stop
doing it. Whether it's getting involved in foreign wars that
we're not going to win and that aren't bringing any
benefit to us or even the people in that country
over the long term, or it's something as straightforward is
why are we educating at the highest possible levels insensitive?
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They want to study Shakespeare. Okay, I'm a little more
open to it as long as there's no Americans who
are losing that spot in that school. Whole other conversation,
but the top electrical engineering, top, microprocessor top, you know,
theoretical physics, astrophysics. We're educating our biggest adversaries students, and
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by the way, in numbers that would blow your mind.
I actually had a conversation randomly with the guy in
the Princeton University electrical engineering labs a long time ago,
and he said that if they wanted to, This was
a long time ago, was back when I was just
out of school. He said, if they wanted to, they
could take three classes or you know, three times as
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many students as they have from just China with perfect
perfect scores for engineering, I mean perfect math scores. Everything.
He is, you know, they don't take that. It's not
one hundred percent, but they could because they all want
to come and they take a lot of them. And
that's true of a lot of these schools that needs
to stop because they operate in America and they have
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to start seeing themselves as part of this country. They
are not islands unto themselves. They do not have global tenure. So,
if anything, what you're seeing right now is Trump putting
into action that very important but very straightforward theory the
dumb things that prior administrations have done that there can
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be no intelligent defense of. Whether it is funding PBS.
I know they do it because it's left wing propaganda,
but there's no real defense of this, not a serious defense,
not an intellectually consistent one, or spending too much money,
fraudulent stuff, sending money to people overseas, the stuff that
Doge has found dumb. Right, we can all agree, or
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training the foreign adversaries brightest minds in the most sensitive technologies,
when the wars and the economies of the future will
be determined by technological prowess, very dumb. And it is,
as I said, Trump's superpower among several, but one of
his superpowers is to come along and say I no
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breaking just today that a judge has blocked the Trump
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administration from revoking Harvard's ability to enroll federal students. Federal
judge in Boston, no surprise, just happened today. She plans
to issue a preliminary injunction blocking the Trump administration. This
is from Fox from revoking Harvard's certification a host foreign students.
What a shock and a pointee of Barack Obama has
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stepped in. I mean, this is all they've got now.
Just to be clear that the judicial resistance is so
out of line and so unconstitutional and has gone so rogue,
because this is all they have right now. They don't
really have other Yeah, I understand, we've got a very
small margin in the House. Yes, I understand. You can't
trust Republicans too. There are challenges to enacting the Trump
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agenda in general, but the only way they have to
really slam it down and stop it in a data day.
Since are these federal judges with these universal injunctions which
are absurd. This whole thing has gone and you look
at the numbers, it's absurd. But on the one hand,
I just want to bring to your attention that that's
(17:13):
why they don't care anymore. They're in the break the
glass phase. They don't care about the danger, are the
damage done to public faith and the judiciary. They don't
care how partisan and how absurd this looks. It's all
they got. Nobody cares what CNN says about anything. Nobody
thinks The New York Times is honest. That's gone. Okay.
Even the people who like what those places say know
(17:34):
they're a bunch of liars. Look at the whole Biden
book tour going on right now. But let's talk about
why the administration's fight with not just Harvard, but the
fight over these universities in general and their policies is important.
It's important to this country. I'll explain more in a second.
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you all to keep in mind is the Trump administration
learned I think a very important lesson from the first
at bat that Trump had. I think a Trump administration
learned something really critical, and that is keep pushing and
keep moving on all fronts. The first time around when
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they did these universal injunctions and it was a different team,
and they've they've got the seasoned crew in place. Now,
these people all know this game. They don't have people
that are like, hey, I've never done politics before, and
you know, I kind of like Trump and like, oh
you can be you know, White House communications director. It's
a different world. So they have brought in people who
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understand that if you allow the process to get bogged down,
and if you allow them to weaponize the process essentially
to thwart the agenda, you're dead in the water. So
you have to just keep going. So that's why I
even though this is what I do for a living
and I'm every day reading, researching, reading, researching, it's tough
to keep up on. Oh wait, what's the latest universal injunction?
(20:08):
And what are they saying? What is this judge saying
about Trump or that judge saying about Trump? Because they're
not taking the approach that I think was really just
more of the Republican way. Oh, we're gonna do this thing.
Oh the judge is gonna fight us on this.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
M m.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Okay, Well, we don't want to seem like we're pushing
too hard on stuff. So let's see how this goes.
Is you know, is it gonna go to the appeals court? Okay,
let's wait, is this Supreme Court? And you hear it?
You know, and next thing you know, a year is passed.
And on this issue, you've allowed them to run out
the clock and that's their whole game. So much of
(20:42):
what they did, and this was one of my great
frustrations with the Russia collusion. Lie. People always say, oh,
it wasn't successful, and I have to correct them. It
wasn't totally successful. In the end, I think you can
argue it was defeated and shown to be a fraud.
But there were costs. You know, we took casualties so
to speak, along the way in the Trump movement because
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they were able to make people show up for depositions
and they testify under oath and get lawyers and the media,
and you know, the whole thing was just kicking mud
up in the air, being haha, you can't you can't
do what you were elected to do, because we're we're
saying now, we're saying, I don't hear you, la la
la la, I don't hear you. I'm a Democrat. You know,
whatever childish nonsense they had to do, they did well.
(21:29):
This time around. The Trump team is going, Okay, let's
do this, oh universal injunction. Cool day, day two, next day,
let's do this, oh universal injunction. Guess what we got
something else? And this is the only way available within
the system. We have to continue to play offense. So
now what this means is that the left and the
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Democrats are going to be saying, look, oh, he's dictator
and he's tired, and look at all these things he's doing,
because there's a lot going on. But we want there
to be a lot going on. We want this move
movement to be happening on all these different fronts, and
these processes are playing out. So once again we all
want the same result on this stuff. The people that
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are trying to do this in this White House, they
are pursuing this. I've never seen anything like this before.
Most of my life in conservative media has been telling
the truth about Democrats when their media outlets have all
together much bigger, you know, ecosystem, and have us outgunned,
so to speak. I know, you know, the biggest talk
(22:33):
radio shows are conservative, and yes, Fox is the biggest
cable channel. But when you add all those different and
remember now we're like the unsinkable aircraft carriers are free
speech and the Democrat media is like a little dinghy
you no beep beep, you know, I don't think they
have horns, but you know what I'm saying, maybe boats
have horns, right, I'm not a boat guy, but you know,
(22:55):
they're not what they used to be, right, They're they're
like they're ships that they look like the whole is
dipping low, the close to the water, and you know
they're sputtering a little bit. It's not working the way
you used to. But one of the big things that
I think we had to do on the conservative side
of the media was just to deal with the constant
(23:16):
incoming and so we were playing a lot of defense,
playing a lot of defense, and the Trump term a
first Trump term, playing a lot of with all the
like I said, Russia collusion stuff. Right, they tried to
make us play a lot of defense on the Biden.
Now that didn't work as well as they had hoped.
But you know what we see here with Trump is action.
(23:40):
Action is its own, is its own strategy. Just keep going.
Just you know, motion creates emotion, like make things happen.
And that's why I think the stuff you see with
the College is I know, they say you can't do this,
they say you can't do that, They say you can't deport. Okay,
Trump's team is going to fight that out in corp.
(24:01):
But while that's happening in every area where the agenda
can be pursued by the executive branch, they continue to go.
And this is excellent. Okay, Now let's talk what's going
on here with Harvard. You have this this injunction now
from an Obama Judge Obama, I'm gonna be honest with you.
One of the smartest things, one of the most damaging
things about Obama's eight years in office, and I think
(24:24):
he did horrific long term damage to the country in
a whole range of ways. I think the Obama presidency
was a disaster for America that has continued to do
harm well beyond his eight years. Well yeah, I mean
on so many issues, I can't get in them all now. Also,
I'll address Michelle Obama now that people are seeing what
(24:46):
she actually thinks. I don't think we're gonna hear anyone
talking about how she should be a presidential candidate anymore.
I'll put it that way. Michelle Obama not a grateful
person and not a wise person, and doesn't seem like
a very nice person either, not a surprise to some
of you. But when she's on these podcasts, she's not's
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not doing herself any favors with with a broader electorate,
that's for sure. I mean, I'm sure they're you know,
super fans of Michelle Obama who think everything that she
says is brilliant. It's not. And I think that people
feel more comfortable just speaking the truth about that now
than ever before. But Obama did a lot of damage
to the country, and Trump is trying to undo that damage.
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But one of the most lasting points of damage in
all of this has been the seating of the Federal
Judiciary with activists, people who just do not care. You know,
the call it the Sodo my yours because she's a
she is really the the the pinnacle example of this.
(25:47):
She just knows she's supposed to deliver for her team,
team Democrat, team left wing, team race and identity politics,
you know, team wise Latina like she she knows that
she is supposed to make it happen for them in
whatever and now she's only one vote of nine, but
that's every She never there's never a moment where you go, Wow,
(26:11):
Sodamor is really angering her own side with that? How
is that possible? She never lets the home team down.
The progressive leftist, communist Democrat is never frustrated with Soda
my Or. Now she we're aware of this because of
her role in the Supreme Court. There are hundreds of
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sod my Ors in the Federal Judiciary, hundreds of them
because of what Obama and Biden were able to and
Biden's case the people around him, as we know, but
what they were able to accomplish. So this is a
major challenge for the administration on the issue of foreign
students in this country. I have objections to this on
(26:56):
many levels, not all foreigns students. Please don't tell me, oh,
but you know, I you know, my family we were
so close. You know. We had a foreign exchange student
from Singapore and he was lovelier. We had somebody visiting
our you know, was in class at Brigham Young with
my son and he was from you know, wherever. And
I know, Okay, it's not that we don't want any
(27:17):
foreigners here, that that would be too much, but we
also don't want nothing but foreigners in the top echelon
of critical industries, critical academic disciplines for our economy and
our national defense, and that is happening. We also don't
want foreigners, non Americans of any kind, to be here
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in numbers where they get to box out essentially Americans
from access to the schools that, as we now all know,
are getting billions of dollars of taxpayer money, and they
really want that money. So they're taking taxpayer dollars, but
they're not prioritizing Americans. You know. You know, you start
(28:05):
to do this, what percent of Harvard students are for
You start to look at these numbers and you say
to yourself, thirty percent of Harvard or foreigners. Do you
know that thirty it's like twenty seven, twenty eight percent.
We'll just say thirty percent because it's basically a third, okay,
a third of Harvard or foreign So this is our
(28:26):
most elite university. Blah blah, all that stuff. I meant.
At Stanford and Yale, people send your plays on vacation,
send angry emails to him. We're supposed to sit here
and say that that's okay, that's insane, that's completely preposterous.
The only reason that Harvard can have all these people
(28:46):
sitting around with tenure, including oh, this is beautiful, including
a professor of honesty I kid you not, who was
just fired from her tenure job at Harvard Business School
for dishonesty. It's real. You can look it up. I'm
not making it up. And it just happened. Her expertise
(29:09):
is whether people are honest or not, and they fired
her for being dishonest about her expertise and about the data.
They say, one of the highest paid professors at Harvard
Business School, I might add, I mean, these are the
kind of people that I remember. This is like, because
I was in this rat race for a while remember
until Glenn Beck came along and saved me. I was
on my way to Columbia Business School. And I don't
(29:30):
mean I was thinking about it. I was in. I
was going and Glenn was like, Buck, come work with me,
you know, did his Glenn thing. I was like, yes, sir,
that is a great let's do that thing. The Blaze
early days, got to work with Pete Hegseeth and Will Kine,
and I mean I can't even I can't even name everybody.
I mean, early days, it was just like everybody that
(29:52):
you see on Fox now practically came through the Blaze
either as you know, somebody who was a guest or whatever.
So it was those are fun days. Those are fun days.
I got a lot of nostalgia about it. My point
is merely, I understand this world where people are going
through all this stuff. They'll do anything to shove people
out of the way to get into these places so
(30:13):
they can study under a professor of honesty who's actually
really dishonest. I mean at Harvard at heart. What has
happened to these places? Do I think that Harvard? I mean,
you look at some of these schools, you know, they
used to have like an ancient ancient Greek and Latin
requirement requirement at some of these at some of these
universial you look this up, I mean the core curriculum.
(30:34):
You actually had to be smart to go to these
places and pass these classes. Whether it's you know, talking
about back and I don't know, the fifties. I think
the sixties ruined everything. Sorry boomers, I think the sixties
ruined you know, because that's when you seeded the radicals
in these schools and that's where But you go back
earlier than that, and you had to actually be pretty
smart at these places. You had to know. My college
(30:56):
Amherst when I went there, and it's only gotten more
competitive since then. It's a small schools. Those who the
Northeast know what. The rest of the country doesn't know it.
But because it's kind of like an insider. First of all,
you can't pronounce the age. It's not Amhurst, It's Amherst,
just so you know. And that's always the tell. If
somebody says Amhurst, it's like, oh sweetie, or what do
you say in the south? Bless your heart, Oh, bless
(31:17):
your heart. The whole thing was that they would take
I think they had a fifteen percent admission rate. So
one hundred people apply, eighty five of them get SAD
letters home. Eighty five of one hundred people get sad
letters home. Okay, And and I think now it's less
than that. Harvard's like one percent or two percent or
something insane. And there was remedial math and remedial English
(31:43):
basically required for a big chunk of students coming in.
I remember sitting here thinking like, how how elite can
this place be when you have people who can't you know,
can't math good and need help on on writing and
basic reading, Like, how can this be an a lite
(32:04):
institution when that's the well, this is where the left
uses these places as credential factories to do social engineering
in the broader society, and we all see it. So
I have I want to come back to this issue
with the foreigners and schools though, because this is also
a national security thing. I'm passionate about this. I don't
think this is a small thing at all. You sit there,
you say, how is it that the Biden administration was
(32:26):
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Look at college campuses. That's where it all starts. Where
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Hey man? How are you?
Speaker 1 (35:06):
What's going on?
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Hey?
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I owned an international foreign exchange business where we basically
only brought in Chinese age high school kids or high
school Chinese kids, and you know, listening to a lot
of the talk about the international students, I think one
of the things that's missed are these kids who are
(35:34):
coming in, particularly the kids we dealt with, because they
were coming here when they were, you know, thirteen fourteen
years old. They get very indoctrinated into American culture. And
a lot of the kids who are in college in
the United States also matriculated through US high schools and
by the time those kids get to you know, their
(35:57):
late teens. They've been extremely in doctrinated into American culture,
and a lot of us don't want to go back
to China. And it's not because they're Manurion candidates and
their Yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
This is a little bit though, Like this is a
little bit like, but what about the illegals who come
in and do good things for me, like with my yard,
But you know, most of them are nice and they Yeah,
this is a broader policy than individuals who come here
and like the country. Patrick got on me to cut
you off. We're actually at time. I'll come back and
address this a little more. I didn't say no foreign
exchange students, and it's not about any one foreign exchange student.
(36:29):
We can't have these people studying advanced aerodynamics at MIT
and be half of the class and go back to China.
I'm not really talking about eleven and twelve year olds.
But we'll get back to this in a moment.
Welcome to today's edition of The Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show podcast. Welcome everybody to the Thursday edition of
The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. Some quick housekeeping.
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he's having a great time with the fam. He'll be
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So it's just going to be me informing you, entertaining you,
(00:43):
rolling with you here for a week. So looking forward
to getting to chat with you. All the calls, the talkbacks,
we love them. Both. Give us light us up on
those lines and send those talkbacks. Let's lay out where
we're going today on the show real quick. So you know,
some stuff coming out on the FBI and there's a
little bit of pushback I think from some people on
(01:03):
the right, our Director Patel and Deputy Director bon Gino
moving fast enough? Are they doing the things? I was
on Fox earlier this morning with Dana Perino, who's always
so lovely, like such a nice person and very good broadcaster,
and we were talking about this issue. I want to
address it a bit because I think that there's a
(01:24):
little bit of expectations management that our side should have.
Not in terms of result, no, no, we all agree
on the results, but in terms of timing, we need
to give the people the time that they need. Speaking
of which, Elon has said that his time is a
special government employee has come to a conclusion. He put
(01:49):
this out on x the platform that he owns, which
now is actually a free speech platform. As my scheduled
time as a special government employee comes to an end,
I would like to thank President or Trump for the
opportunity to reduce wasteful spending. The DOGE mission will only
strengthen over time as it becomes a way of life
throughout the government. So Elon is going to go back
(02:12):
to being the most important single CEO. And you know, business,
I don't like the term of thought leader right because
it's like the thought leader I mean, the guy is
a thought leader, but I don't like to use that term.
But he's going to go back to doing the full
Elon routine, which is going to be I think great
for SpaceX, for Tesla, for X, for Boring Company, for
(02:34):
all the things that he is involved in. So this
is where we get into a little bit speaking of
expectations management of they've done what they could do. He
did not unilaterally and this was known all along. He
does not unilaterally have the authority the power. Doge didn't
(02:55):
have to just say these cuts are going into effect
money that Congress has appropriated. If Congress says this, uh,
you know, this program for fiscal year twenty twenty five
has ten million dollars or ten billion dollars, Doge couldn't
just come along and say, yeah, they don't have ten
(03:16):
billion dollars anymore. But this is where recisions come in.
This also goes to our conversations over the big Beautiful Bill.
There's been a little bit of pushback here, including from
some of the most pro Trump voices you will find
in the Senate and just in general, who are saying, hey, Trump,
(03:37):
I love you with all respect, You're doing great things.
We all get that. This isn't like some never trumpy
wine fest you'd think, but like, and I like the
way you said it. No, that's for libs, that's for
fake Republicans. Uh, this is just about Okay, it's halftime,
or it's not even halftime, to be clear, it's early.
It's a time out in the first quarter. All this
(03:59):
administration and we're all huddled together, and some of us
are saying, Hey, Trump, thank you for being the quarterback.
But you know, can you hit that guy on the
button hook? Clay would be proud, by the way. I'm
just gonna say, look at that button hook. But yeah,
you know what I'm saying that that's the mentality, or
rather that's the the rationale behind some of the pushback
(04:23):
on this from people like Senator Ron Johnson, people like
Senator Ran Paul. They're on board for the mission, but
they want to shape this. And this is why it
goes to the Senate. I bring it up because you know,
yesterday I said we can't let the perfect of the
enemy of the good. And I think I'm trying to
so many administrations said it later that day. I'm trying
to remember. I don't want to misquote. But somebody I
(04:43):
heard somebody else say it. I'm like, oh, yeah, that's right.
They listened to this show. So I'm happy to happy
to help, happy to help. And if that means I
throw around a cliche that somebody else will have in
their head later, great. But we've talked about the process
and Steven Miller I read his post on the big
beautiful Bill still in process, and there are big things
(05:05):
in this bill that will affect us, that will affect
your family budget, that will affect the business that you
own or that you work for in your town. I mean,
there's this real stuff, right. This isn't sitting around arguing
about the naming of the next post office in Topeka.
No offense Topeka. But this is about big economic issue,
(05:29):
structural issues, and setting the economy on a footing that
will allow it to get to the best possible places, right,
I mean tremendous prosperity, which I'm very confident in. You.
I have not been gloom and doom about the Trump
economy since he won that election for one moment, for
one day, even when oh the Trump procession is here,
(05:51):
all the market is dropped, you can go back and
listen to those shows. We're like I kept saying, he
knows what he's doing. Everyone just who's freaking out needs
to as I believe they would say here in South Florida, tranquilo.
Everyone just needs to calm down. It's fine, okay, nothing
terrible has happened. He knows what he's doing. Part of
the complaints about the big beautiful Bill, though, have been
(06:13):
on where is where are the cuts? Where is DOGE
and the ethos of DOGE being made real? And this
is where you have OMB Director Russell Vaught, who was
on the Cudlow Show saying that yes, in fact, the
(06:34):
administration is sending a recisions package to Congress. Let's hear
it from the OMB director himself, play for I can.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
We'll be sending that up on Monday or Tuesday, whenever
the House is back in session. They will get our
first Decisions bill. And again this has been we're proposed,
and we've talked about it. We want to make sure
that Congress passes its first recisions bill, including the DOGE,
and we will send more if they pass it. And
so this is the first one is Foreign Aid. USAID
(07:05):
cuts many of the waste and garbage that was funding
not only wasteful but hurting our foreign policy, but also
the Corporation for Public Broadcasting at NPR will be sending
that up. And we're working with Congress and we've had
good conversations to make sure that they knew what was coming.
They had some input is to changes that could be
made to make it something that could pass the House,
(07:25):
and we're excited for that to occur next week.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
There you have it. I said, hold on a second,
where are the doge cuts in the big beautiful bill.
And Stephen Miller, who understands this process as well as
anybody because he is look, he is at the center
of what's going on in this White House. He is
absolutely dialed in and he explained it to everybody and
(07:50):
he said, look, this is how it has to happen
within the system. And let's be honest, even if you
follow government and politics for a living, some of this
stuff unless you I'll tell you this, some members of
Congress don't even know this stuff that well. Their staff
members do. Their staffers do, and they brief them on it,
but they're like, wait, I gotta do that. The who's
the what's it here? How does this work? Steven Miller
(08:11):
came out and said, here is what has to happen
for the cuts to become real and final or to
come to fruition. And now that process has gone to
the next step. And now you'll see, Okay, does usaid,
does the budget? Does Congress do what it's supposed to do?
Does PBS get its government funding cut? I have I
(08:34):
think the most perfect argument about this of anybody or
anyone else is welcome to the bar. But I like to
make arguments that other people can borrow them. That's fine.
I just want the truth to win. But PBS and
anybody else who is getting straight up government funding as
a media entity, they cannot claim simultaneously, oh, we don't
really need that funding. It's only a small percentage of
(08:55):
our budget. And Comma, how dare they cut our budget?
What are we going to do? This is tyranny. You
are not entitled to federal funds as a media entity.
This is insane. You know, I imagine all of a sudden,
I would just say this, why is PBS getting money
(09:16):
from the government? Claim Buck shut doesn't get any money
from the government. We're a capitalist enterprise. Thanks to all
of you who listen, and thanks to all of you
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I mean, it would be kind of nice. I don't know,
(09:38):
you get a check for ten million dollars for the government,
you know, we give we give bonuses for the New
York team or something out of that, right, I mean,
this is this is the kind of thing that you
sit there and you say, how has this even been
able to exist as long as it has? And I
want to get into this a little bit more on
the Trump fight with Harvard, which I'll dive into in
(09:59):
the bottom, which I think, I think, I think this
stuff is important. And there's a new addition to this
too about foreign students from China. What's going on here?
You know, were we bringing Were we bringing the best
and the brightest from Moscow to study at cal Tech
(10:20):
and MIT and I don't know, nuclear engineering or something.
Were we doing that during the Cold War? I'm not
aware of it in any real numbers. I mean, there
was a lot of espionage going on, but I don't
think we were welcoming, you know, uh, tens of thousands
of students from Moscow to come work at high levels
(10:41):
of sensitive But we're doing that with China. We are,
we have been doing and it's so dumb and so
contra the national interest that when you say it out loud,
it almost feels like, how is this? How is this possible?
And then you can even take it a step further.
How many Americans are getting access to the research being
(11:02):
done by I don't know what the top Chinese universities are,
but you know, let's say the equivalent of University of Beijing.
How many Americans are sitting in there classes learning about
five G, learning about artificial intelligence, learning about next generation
of microchips and what they're mean supercomputers. All that. We
(11:23):
all know the answer, Even if you don't follow the issue,
you know the answer because you'd say, well, China is
not that dumb, but we are. Trump comes along, This
is one of his superpowers. The dumb things that we
have as a country have been doing for such a
long time that we just start to think that this
is the way it has to be, because it seems
(11:46):
like it's always been that way. Trump comes along and says,
you know, that's a dumb thing. And we should stop
doing it. Whether it's getting involved in foreign wars that
we're not going to win and that aren't bringing any
benefit to us or even the people in that country
over the long term, or it's something as straightforward is
why are we educating at the highest possible levels insensitive?
(12:07):
They want to study Shakespeare. Okay, I'm a little more
open to it as long as there's no Americans who
are losing that spot in that school. Whole other conversation,
but the top electrical engineering, top, microprocessor top, you know,
theoretical physics, astrophysics. We're educating our biggest adversaries students, and
(12:28):
by the way, in numbers that would blow your mind.
I actually had a conversation randomly with the guy in
the Princeton University electrical engineering labs a long time ago,
and he said that if they wanted to, This was
a long time ago, was back when I was just
out of school. He said, if they wanted to, they
could take three classes or you know, three times as
(12:50):
many students as they have from just China with perfect
perfect scores for engineering, I mean perfect math scores. Everything.
He is, you know, they don't take that. It's not
one hundred percent, but they could because they all want
to come and they take a lot of them. And
that's true of a lot of these schools that needs
to stop because they operate in America and they have
(13:11):
to start seeing themselves as part of this country. They
are not islands unto themselves. They do not have global tenure. So,
if anything, what you're seeing right now is Trump putting
into action that very important but very straightforward theory the
dumb things that prior administrations have done that there can
(13:34):
be no intelligent defense of. Whether it is funding PBS.
I know they do it because it's left wing propaganda,
but there's no real defense of this, not a serious defense,
not an intellectually consistent one, or spending too much money,
fraudulent stuff, sending money to people overseas, the stuff that
Doge has found dumb. Right, we can all agree, or
(13:55):
training the foreign adversaries brightest minds in the most sensitive technologies,
when the wars and the economies of the future will
be determined by technological prowess, very dumb. And it is,
as I said, Trump's superpower among several, but one of
his superpowers is to come along and say I no
(14:18):
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breaking just today that a judge has blocked the Trump
(16:07):
administration from revoking Harvard's ability to enroll federal students. Federal
judge in Boston, no surprise, just happened today. She plans
to issue a preliminary injunction blocking the Trump administration. This
is from Fox from revoking Harvard's certification a host foreign students.
What a shock and a pointee of Barack Obama has
(16:29):
stepped in. I mean, this is all they've got now.
Just to be clear that the judicial resistance is so
out of line and so unconstitutional and has gone so rogue,
because this is all they have right now. They don't
really have other Yeah, I understand, we've got a very
small margin in the House. Yes, I understand. You can't
trust Republicans too. There are challenges to enacting the Trump
(16:52):
agenda in general, but the only way they have to
really slam it down and stop it in a data day.
Since are these federal judges with these universal injunctions which
are absurd. This whole thing has gone and you look
at the numbers, it's absurd. But on the one hand,
I just want to bring to your attention that that's
(17:13):
why they don't care anymore. They're in the break the
glass phase. They don't care about the danger, are the
damage done to public faith and the judiciary. They don't
care how partisan and how absurd this looks. It's all
they got. Nobody cares what CNN says about anything. Nobody
thinks The New York Times is honest. That's gone. Okay.
Even the people who like what those places say know
(17:34):
they're a bunch of liars. Look at the whole Biden
book tour going on right now. But let's talk about
why the administration's fight with not just Harvard, but the
fight over these universities in general and their policies is important.
It's important to this country. I'll explain more in a second.
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learned I think a very important lesson from the first
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learned something really critical, and that is keep pushing and
keep moving on all fronts. The first time around when
(19:24):
they did these universal injunctions and it was a different team,
and they've they've got the seasoned crew in place. Now,
these people all know this game. They don't have people
that are like, hey, I've never done politics before, and
you know, I kind of like Trump and like, oh
you can be you know, White House communications director. It's
a different world. So they have brought in people who
(19:47):
understand that if you allow the process to get bogged down,
and if you allow them to weaponize the process essentially
to thwart the agenda, you're dead in the water. So
you have to just keep going. So that's why I
even though this is what I do for a living
and I'm every day reading, researching, reading, researching, it's tough
to keep up on. Oh wait, what's the latest universal injunction?
(20:08):
And what are they saying? What is this judge saying
about Trump or that judge saying about Trump? Because they're
not taking the approach that I think was really just
more of the Republican way. Oh, we're gonna do this thing.
Oh the judge is gonna fight us on this.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
M m.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Okay, Well, we don't want to seem like we're pushing
too hard on stuff. So let's see how this goes.
Is you know, is it gonna go to the appeals court? Okay,
let's wait, is this Supreme Court? And you hear it?
You know, and next thing you know, a year is passed.
And on this issue, you've allowed them to run out
the clock and that's their whole game. So much of
(20:42):
what they did, and this was one of my great
frustrations with the Russia collusion. Lie. People always say, oh,
it wasn't successful, and I have to correct them. It
wasn't totally successful. In the end, I think you can
argue it was defeated and shown to be a fraud.
But there were costs. You know, we took casualties so
to speak, along the way in the Trump movement because
(21:05):
they were able to make people show up for depositions
and they testify under oath and get lawyers and the media,
and you know, the whole thing was just kicking mud
up in the air, being haha, you can't you can't
do what you were elected to do, because we're we're
saying now, we're saying, I don't hear you, la la
la la, I don't hear you. I'm a Democrat. You know,
whatever childish nonsense they had to do, they did well.
(21:29):
This time around. The Trump team is going, Okay, let's
do this, oh universal injunction. Cool day, day two, next day,
let's do this, oh universal injunction. Guess what we got
something else? And this is the only way available within
the system. We have to continue to play offense. So
now what this means is that the left and the
(21:50):
Democrats are going to be saying, look, oh, he's dictator
and he's tired, and look at all these things he's doing,
because there's a lot going on. But we want there
to be a lot going on. We want this move
movement to be happening on all these different fronts, and
these processes are playing out. So once again we all
want the same result on this stuff. The people that
(22:12):
are trying to do this in this White House, they
are pursuing this. I've never seen anything like this before.
Most of my life in conservative media has been telling
the truth about Democrats when their media outlets have all
together much bigger, you know, ecosystem, and have us outgunned,
so to speak. I know, you know, the biggest talk
(22:33):
radio shows are conservative, and yes, Fox is the biggest
cable channel. But when you add all those different and
remember now we're like the unsinkable aircraft carriers are free
speech and the Democrat media is like a little dinghy
you no beep beep, you know, I don't think they
have horns, but you know what I'm saying, maybe boats
have horns, right, I'm not a boat guy, but you know,
(22:55):
they're not what they used to be, right, They're they're
like they're ships that they look like the whole is
dipping low, the close to the water, and you know
they're sputtering a little bit. It's not working the way
you used to. But one of the big things that
I think we had to do on the conservative side
of the media was just to deal with the constant
(23:16):
incoming and so we were playing a lot of defense,
playing a lot of defense, and the Trump term a
first Trump term, playing a lot of with all the
like I said, Russia collusion stuff. Right, they tried to
make us play a lot of defense on the Biden.
Now that didn't work as well as they had hoped.
But you know what we see here with Trump is action.
(23:40):
Action is its own, is its own strategy. Just keep going.
Just you know, motion creates emotion, like make things happen.
And that's why I think the stuff you see with
the College is I know, they say you can't do this,
they say you can't do that, They say you can't deport. Okay,
Trump's team is going to fight that out in corp.
(24:01):
But while that's happening in every area where the agenda
can be pursued by the executive branch, they continue to go.
And this is excellent. Okay, Now let's talk what's going
on here with Harvard. You have this this injunction now
from an Obama Judge Obama, I'm gonna be honest with you.
One of the smartest things, one of the most damaging
things about Obama's eight years in office, and I think
(24:24):
he did horrific long term damage to the country in
a whole range of ways. I think the Obama presidency
was a disaster for America that has continued to do
harm well beyond his eight years. Well yeah, I mean
on so many issues, I can't get in them all now. Also,
I'll address Michelle Obama now that people are seeing what
(24:46):
she actually thinks. I don't think we're gonna hear anyone
talking about how she should be a presidential candidate anymore.
I'll put it that way. Michelle Obama not a grateful
person and not a wise person, and doesn't seem like
a very nice person either, not a surprise to some
of you. But when she's on these podcasts, she's not's
(25:07):
not doing herself any favors with with a broader electorate,
that's for sure. I mean, I'm sure they're you know,
super fans of Michelle Obama who think everything that she
says is brilliant. It's not. And I think that people
feel more comfortable just speaking the truth about that now
than ever before. But Obama did a lot of damage
to the country, and Trump is trying to undo that damage.
(25:27):
But one of the most lasting points of damage in
all of this has been the seating of the Federal
Judiciary with activists, people who just do not care. You know,
the call it the Sodo my yours because she's a
she is really the the the pinnacle example of this.
(25:47):
She just knows she's supposed to deliver for her team,
team Democrat, team left wing, team race and identity politics,
you know, team wise Latina like she she knows that
she is supposed to make it happen for them in
whatever and now she's only one vote of nine, but
that's every She never there's never a moment where you go, Wow,
(26:11):
Sodamor is really angering her own side with that? How
is that possible? She never lets the home team down.
The progressive leftist, communist Democrat is never frustrated with Soda
my Or. Now she we're aware of this because of
her role in the Supreme Court. There are hundreds of
(26:32):
sod my Ors in the Federal Judiciary, hundreds of them
because of what Obama and Biden were able to and
Biden's case the people around him, as we know, but
what they were able to accomplish. So this is a
major challenge for the administration on the issue of foreign
students in this country. I have objections to this on
(26:56):
many levels, not all foreigns students. Please don't tell me, oh,
but you know, I you know, my family we were
so close. You know. We had a foreign exchange student
from Singapore and he was lovelier. We had somebody visiting
our you know, was in class at Brigham Young with
my son and he was from you know, wherever. And
I know, Okay, it's not that we don't want any
(27:17):
foreigners here, that that would be too much, but we
also don't want nothing but foreigners in the top echelon
of critical industries, critical academic disciplines for our economy and
our national defense, and that is happening. We also don't
want foreigners, non Americans of any kind, to be here
(27:42):
in numbers where they get to box out essentially Americans
from access to the schools that, as we now all know,
are getting billions of dollars of taxpayer money, and they
really want that money. So they're taking taxpayer dollars, but
they're not prioritizing Americans. You know. You know, you start
(28:05):
to do this, what percent of Harvard students are for
You start to look at these numbers and you say
to yourself, thirty percent of Harvard or foreigners. Do you
know that thirty it's like twenty seven, twenty eight percent.
We'll just say thirty percent because it's basically a third, okay,
a third of Harvard or foreign So this is our
(28:26):
most elite university. Blah blah, all that stuff. I meant.
At Stanford and Yale, people send your plays on vacation,
send angry emails to him. We're supposed to sit here
and say that that's okay, that's insane, that's completely preposterous.
The only reason that Harvard can have all these people
(28:46):
sitting around with tenure, including oh, this is beautiful, including
a professor of honesty I kid you not, who was
just fired from her tenure job at Harvard Business School
for dishonesty. It's real. You can look it up. I'm
not making it up. And it just happened. Her expertise
(29:09):
is whether people are honest or not, and they fired
her for being dishonest about her expertise and about the data.
They say, one of the highest paid professors at Harvard
Business School, I might add, I mean, these are the
kind of people that I remember. This is like, because
I was in this rat race for a while remember
until Glenn Beck came along and saved me. I was
on my way to Columbia Business School. And I don't
(29:30):
mean I was thinking about it. I was in. I
was going and Glenn was like, Buck, come work with me,
you know, did his Glenn thing. I was like, yes, sir,
that is a great let's do that thing. The Blaze
early days, got to work with Pete Hegseeth and Will Kine,
and I mean I can't even I can't even name everybody.
I mean, early days, it was just like everybody that
(29:52):
you see on Fox now practically came through the Blaze
either as you know, somebody who was a guest or whatever.
So it was those are fun days. Those are fun days.
I got a lot of nostalgia about it. My point
is merely, I understand this world where people are going
through all this stuff. They'll do anything to shove people
out of the way to get into these places so
(30:13):
they can study under a professor of honesty who's actually
really dishonest. I mean at Harvard at heart. What has
happened to these places? Do I think that Harvard? I mean,
you look at some of these schools, you know, they
used to have like an ancient ancient Greek and Latin
requirement requirement at some of these at some of these
universial you look this up, I mean the core curriculum.
(30:34):
You actually had to be smart to go to these
places and pass these classes. Whether it's you know, talking
about back and I don't know, the fifties. I think
the sixties ruined everything. Sorry boomers, I think the sixties
ruined you know, because that's when you seeded the radicals
in these schools and that's where But you go back
earlier than that, and you had to actually be pretty
smart at these places. You had to know. My college
(30:56):
Amherst when I went there, and it's only gotten more
competitive since then. It's a small schools. Those who the
Northeast know what. The rest of the country doesn't know it.
But because it's kind of like an insider. First of all,
you can't pronounce the age. It's not Amhurst, It's Amherst,
just so you know. And that's always the tell. If
somebody says Amhurst, it's like, oh sweetie, or what do
you say in the south? Bless your heart, Oh, bless
(31:17):
your heart. The whole thing was that they would take
I think they had a fifteen percent admission rate. So
one hundred people apply, eighty five of them get SAD
letters home. Eighty five of one hundred people get sad
letters home. Okay, And and I think now it's less
than that. Harvard's like one percent or two percent or
something insane. And there was remedial math and remedial English
(31:43):
basically required for a big chunk of students coming in.
I remember sitting here thinking like, how how elite can
this place be when you have people who can't you know,
can't math good and need help on on writing and
basic reading, Like, how can this be an a lite
(32:04):
institution when that's the well, this is where the left
uses these places as credential factories to do social engineering
in the broader society, and we all see it. So
I have I want to come back to this issue
with the foreigners and schools though, because this is also
a national security thing. I'm passionate about this. I don't
think this is a small thing at all. You sit there,
you say, how is it that the Biden administration was
(32:26):
putting out White House Communica, official White House communications about
how twelve year olds should be able to pick their
gender and get like castration drugs. How could that have happened?
Look at college campuses. That's where it all starts. Where
that's where the disease, initially, the virus of left wing
(32:46):
insanity takes hold and replicates. I will take some calls
on this and dive deeper into it because I think
it's super important. You know, six hundred days ago, life
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I owned an international foreign exchange business where we basically
only brought in Chinese age high school kids or high
school Chinese kids, and you know, listening to a lot
of the talk about the international students, I think one
of the things that's missed are these kids who are
(35:34):
coming in, particularly the kids we dealt with, because they
were coming here when they were, you know, thirteen fourteen
years old. They get very indoctrinated into American culture. And
a lot of the kids who are in college in
the United States also matriculated through US high schools and
by the time those kids get to you know, their
(35:57):
late teens. They've been extremely in doctrinated into American culture,
and a lot of us don't want to go back
to China. And it's not because they're Manurion candidates and
their Yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
This is a little bit though, Like this is a
little bit like, but what about the illegals who come
in and do good things for me, like with my yard,
But you know, most of them are nice and they Yeah,
this is a broader policy than individuals who come here
and like the country. Patrick got on me to cut
you off. We're actually at time. I'll come back and
address this a little more. I didn't say no foreign
exchange students, and it's not about any one foreign exchange student.
(36:29):
We can't have these people studying advanced aerodynamics at MIT
and be half of the class and go back to China.
I'm not really talking about eleven and twelve year olds.
But we'll get back to this in a moment.
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