June 5, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 1 of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show kicks off with Buck Sexton hosting solo while Clay Travis is away. Buck opens with reflections on a recent gathering of prominent conservative media figures in Palm Beach, setting a celebratory tone before diving into a packed hour of political commentary and analysis. The hour centers heavily on the leadership and policy direction of President Donald Trump. Buck highlights President Trump’s recent call with Chinese President Xi Jinping, emphasizing the administration’s focus on trade negotiations and the significant drop in the U.S. trade deficit. Buck underscores how Trump’s economic strategies are proving effective, citing recent data that shows a dramatic reduction in the trade deficit and a boost to GDP. A major theme of the hour is the proposed “Big Beautiful Bill,” a sweeping legislative package aimed at strengthening border security, funding deportation efforts, and advancing economic reforms. Buck passionately supports the bill, arguing that it represents the most significant investment in U.S. border enforcement in history. He references insights from Kentucky Senators Rand Paul and Ron Johnson, as well as Trump Senior advisor Stephen Miller, to frame the bill as a necessary step for long-term fiscal and national security. The show also covers the political fallout surrounding former Biden White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, who has recently declared herself an independent. Buck critiques her tenure and the broader implications of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) hiring practices, tying the discussion to a recent Supreme Court ruling that he views as a win against DEI overreach. President Trump’s newly announced executive order instituting a travel ban on several countries—including Yemen, Somalia, Haiti, and Libya—is another focal point. Buck defends the policy as a common-sense national security measure and criticizes the left’s opposition as rooted in anti-American sentiment. He argues that Democrats increasingly view America as a nation that deserves punishment rather than pride, contrasting that with Trump’s America First agenda. The hour concludes with commentary on national identity, immigration, and assimilation, with Buck asserting that maintaining a shared American culture and enforcing immigration laws are essential to preserving the nation’s sovereignty and prosperity.
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Episode Transcript
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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. Clay is recovering
from a late night of partying with me and Jesse Kelly.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
And Glenn Beck.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
And go on my Instagram you'll see we're all together
in Palm Beach last night having a great time and
ESMD was a lot of fun. So if my voice
sounds a little raspy, because we're all celebrating freedom, swapping
stories about our beloved audiences and our shows in America,
(00:39):
and it was a great time. Like I said, this
is some of the photos off. Sean Hannity was there
at golen Beck was there. I mean, it was like
a meeting of the five families of radio and we
had a great time. More than five families, obviously Harol
Markowitz and Tutor Dixon and David Rutherford, Clay and Buck
podcast folks were there, so it was a lot of fun.
Clay is traveling though, you know, he had a party
(01:01):
last night, he had golf. It's rough, but a rough
week for Clay. Now he's on vacation. He'll be in tomorrow.
I'm actually gonna take tomorrow off, which is probably good
because my voice sounds like it's about to give out.
Today we have a lot, oh my, a lot of
news to dive into here, which is great. It's actually
always more fun when there's so much going on because
(01:21):
we're going to cover a lot of ground and make
sure that we make the best use of every minute
we have together. Today we got Trump on his call
with Shijin Ping of China talking about trade.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Give you some of that stuff.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
We've got more on the US trade deficit dropping substantially,
almost like.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
What Trump said would happen is happening. Because it is
like that, we've got the the moved. Sorry, there's that voice.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
We've got that move toward being an independent for Corine
Jean Pierre. That's right, she is now an independent the
White House President Secretary under Biden. It's like, look, let
me tell you guys something that Biden administration.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Was a disaster.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
How many of these Democrats this is the Tapper move.
Now she's going full Tapper. You commit the crime and
then you want to go into the police and be
there be their star tipster, their star witness. In the
situation right, like, hey, let me tell you, guys, what happened.
Somebody robbed a bank yesterday. It's like you robbed the
bank yesterday. Ah, but I'm telling you about it now.
(02:31):
And it actually would be more like if the person
had already been arrested for robbing the bank, and they're
like you guys, no, no, no, hold on a second,
I've got to tell you who robbed the banks.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
I think we know. I think we know.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Karine Jean Pierre is coming out with this with this book,
and also now Democrats are all trashing her and saying
that she was never up for the job.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
She she was.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
It was a preposterous choice. It was a DEI choice.
They did it because of diversity, equity inclusion. They did
it because they want to be able to say, we
have a black LGBTQ Press secretary and you sit here
and you go okay. And so then also we're not
allowed to criticize her because that would make you a
bad person. But now the Democrats are criticizing her saying
(03:15):
that she was actually never up for the job, almost
like DEI sometimes results in people getting jobs that they're
not actually qualified or even capable of doing. Oh and
there's a Supreme Court case that goes to this as
well that came down today. Man, we are not tired
of winning. It is fantastic. So much to get into.
Plus we got another Trump video on a travel ban
(03:37):
from twelve countries to talk about. We've got more on
the masking of ICE agents, more on the Big Beautiful Bill,
and I mean, honestly, we got so much show I'll
just I'm just going to dive into it now.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
We got a whole lot more we'll get to and
we'll talk about this.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
We also have a senior official from ICE will be
joining us talk about what's going on with the masking
and the Interior enforcement and the latest numbers on this huge,
huge surge in ICE efforts to deport people who are
not supposed to be in the country.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
So that's all to the good. Oh and on the
Big Beautiful Bill, I'm just going to tell you this.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
I've wanted to have it out here where we can
discuss what's really going on and have all sides of
it represented.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
And I really mean this. I thought this through. We've
heard from Rant.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Paul, we had him on the show, and you all
know I have tremendous respect for Senator Paul, even though
I feel like sometimes when he calls he's he sounds
almost like he's bored.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
You know, he's not. He's not. He's not a constant
party that guy. But he's super.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Super smart and and I think incredibly principled for remember
the United States Senate.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
And uh and we always enjoy when he when.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
He calls in because he has worthwhile, worthwhile things to
add to the conversation. Same thing with Senator Ron Johnson.
He's a little jolly Senator Johnson a little jolly earth
than Senator Paul, but both very high IQ and very
high principle individuals. We've heard from them on this issue
of the big beautiful bill, and I've seen the Elon
stuff and just based on the immigration provisions alone in
(05:15):
the bill, we got to do this thing. In my mind,
now this is my opinion on this. Now, I know
it doesn't handle the debath the way Elon wants. Elon
is not wrong on the numbers, Senator's Paul Johnson, others
to Representative Massy, they're not wrong on the numbers, but
we got to do this thing. They may be wrong
on the politics of what will happen. Think about what
(05:36):
happens the Trump administration if we hand a massive midterm
when to the Democrats in eighteen months time, which is
I do believe what would happen if you start trying
to really the only way to mess with the spending
in a way that matters, to change the spending in
a way that matters, is to make the cuts that
(05:58):
nobody wants to have happen right now to entitlements. And
as Steven Miller points out, again, I've gone through every
stage of this. I've looked at all the arguments. As
Steven Miller points out, for the White House, you can't
even do the automatic spending changes you would want to
do in a reconciliation bill. So it's now you're talking
(06:20):
about a negotiation with Chuck Schumer because of the sixty
vote threshold. So unless the argument is we need to
nuke the filibuster and ram this thing through and ram
through the cuts now and take that political risk right
now this time, I don't really see what else is
going to happen here, unless someone's gonna tell me Steven
Miller's wrong, which I would never bet on that one.
(06:42):
Wrong on the facts, I don't think so, not this
guy not in this White House, so I think he's.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
If there's anyone who I think you could take it
to the bank.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
When he says here's the deal, I think Deputy Chief
of Staff Miller is is that guy. And I also
think that everyone's having this out now, which is a
good thing, and we're having the discussion about what needs
to occur for this to be a big, beautiful bill
for a flourishing, booming economy. We have not forgotten about
(07:17):
the issue of the debt, but this begins to put
into place long term reforms.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
You can ease people into this.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
You can ease people into this, and look, if we
can maintain the House and the Senate of the midterms,
Trump is not going to be as much as he
likes to poke the Democrats, He's not running for a
third term and so he will be in a position
then I think to tell everybody, look at this amazing
economy I've given you. Now is the time when we
can actually have a really serious conversation.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
About changing some of that.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
And it's not about cutting anyone's Medicare today or changing
anyone's Social Security today. It's when I'm ready for Social
Security in twenty years basically, it's going to there will
be some changes that.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Will have been enacted.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
My age can can make the we can make the
sacrifice for the country of Hey, we have to have
a different pathway here, at different footing. If that means
we're changing some of the tax code, there's there's a
whole conversation there, but that's what it's about. And I
think Trump would be in that position to make that case.
So I think that's really important. Also on the on
(08:20):
the trade deficit issue, Remember we were told that there
was going to be a massive, a massive stock market
crash slash. Economy was going to be a mess, and
the truth is that's not that has not happened. And
one thing that I believe should get a lot more
(08:41):
attention than it does is what the trade negotiations that
Trump has engaged in, what they have done so far
for the economy. Here is this is cut one. Here's
CNBC's Rick Santelli talking about the trade deficit, and I
want you to listen to him. This is the numbers.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
We'll talk more about these numbers, but listen to this
play cut.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
One on the trade balance.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
And do remember last week's advance only included goods. This
one includes goods and services comes in at minus sixty
one point six billion. That's about five billion less than
we are expecting in terms of the deficit, but it
does follow a revised one hundred and thirty eight billion
with a minus sign That was one hundred and forty billion,
(09:25):
and that of course was an all time record trade
balance of goods and services, and as you can see,
it is now being cut by more than half. And
the big dropping imports seems to be where everyone's pointing.
The big news there is how much it bolsters GDP.
Just look at Atlanta fed GDP now, which is at
(09:46):
four point six four percent.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
US trade deficit fell the sixty one billion dollars cut
by more than half compared to Marches. So this is
the month to month March is one hundred and thirty
eight billion dollar bolstering GDP. Almost Sorry, I told you,
I did warn you guys. I had to talk so
much yesterday and everything else. This is where the extent
of my vocal cords. Clay and I are vocal cord athletes.
(10:12):
As you know, we've got sexy vocal cords or vocal
cords have six packs.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
But even that can run. We can be run ragged.
You know too much.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
But here's the point about where we are in these
trade negotiations and what's actually happening. The things that Trump
said would happen are happening, and the catastrophists and the
people who said they knew better and were smarter were wrong.
I think this also ties into the reason to pass
the big beautiful bill, because he's earned.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
He's earned.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
When Trump says this is awesome, It's going to be
amazing for the economy, why would I sit there and say, no,
it won't think about that for a moment. I mean,
there would be a degree of hubris that I think
would be required if somebody in my position, who's trying
to inform all of you and have this ongoing conversation
with all of you across this nation, to think that
(11:02):
I know better in this moment than Trump on this issue,
given what is happening now. I will always criticize an
administration if I think they air on an issue where
I feel passionately that they may be taking us in
the wrong direction.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Or but.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
You know, it's like the guy, the guy who has
the hot hand on the basketball court and just has
hit four three pointers in a row. Should I let
him take the next shot or do I want to
you know, is it my turn? I mean, if he
wants to take the shot, I think he should take
the shot. And that's what we see right now with
Trump on not just the trade negotiations talking to China
about it, I might add, but also on the direction
(11:41):
of the economy right now we're just beginning to see it.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
We're only six months into this administration.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
They have packed so much into such a short period
of time, and it is way more than what Trump
accomplished in the first six months of his first term,
which makes sense. He knows more now, has got the
team in place now, and that was that was really good.
But this is a whole other level. They're moving on
so many fronts. And remember that phrase when he said
(12:09):
you're going to get tired of winning. We're certainly not
tired of winning yet, but we could see I think
how that could be a thing by the end of
this administration, like, oh my gosh, we just need we
need the opposition to get a win, just so we
remember that there is an opposition.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
I mean, Trump is doing great things now.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
I know about the judicial the judicial supremacy stuff, seizing
executive authority, shutting down Trump.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
We're going to talk about some more of that.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
You know, there are certainly pitfalls and challenges and everything.
I'm not a I'm not euphoric right now, but everything's
going on with Trump. But I'm trying to look at
this with clear eyes and I'm trying to come away
with the best possible assessment of what we should do
now and what the country should do now moving forward
(12:52):
on this.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
And I think that I think Trump knows what he's
doing with this. I think the people that are pushing
this bill know what they're doing with it.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
And there's a lot of reason right now for you know,
you can be optimistic but stay focused, and that's that's
how I feel for the country right now. I am optimistic,
truly and have been all along since Trump came into office.
And I also, though, just want to just I want
them to keep going, you know, I want them to
keep moving the way that they are pushing on all fronts.
(13:21):
And we'll get into some of this, We'll get into
the travel band, We'll get into the from certain countries,
we'll get into the next steps here on the big
beautiful bill. Also what I think is a very important
win in the Supreme Court. Nine oh win. I might
add nine oh win. That's going to have some real
ramifications that will affect all of us in this country.
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(14:04):
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if we can't on the Big Beautiful Bill. I want
to know if you are where I am on this
or you still have your concerns. I've tried to cover this.
(15:18):
It's important. I mean, when Trump is saying something's big,
maybe even huge, it's pretty big. Let's take your calls
on an eight hundred two two eight A two. I
do think the right option is passage. I do think
the right option is to go forward with this.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Now.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
I've heard the and I know they're good faith concerns.
I've heard the concerns. I think moving forward on this
is the move. This is Senator John Thune, a majority
leader here, he is this has cut ten play it please.
Speaker 5 (15:45):
We had a very positive discussion about the path forward
on the Big Beautiful Bill and the Reconciliation Bill, and
I think it was a reminder that we are all
in this together. This is a team effort and everybody
is going to be ruling in the same direction to
get across the finish line. Failure is not an option,
and we didn't intend to deliver along with the President
(16:06):
for the American people on the things that he committed
to do and that we committed to do in terms
of the agenda. And so the reconciliation build will be
positive for growth, it'll be good for the economy, it'll
create better paying jobs. And we intend on energy, on
national security, on spending reductions, on tax policy, on border security,
(16:27):
all of those areas to address the issues the American
people care about to make them more safe, more secure,
and more prosperous.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Now, I do think it's fair to say this would
be the single most important funding mechanism for border security
and enforcement and deportations and wall building in the history
of the United States. That's that's a big deal. It
is huge, and we've got to get this. Lose on sovereignty.
(17:01):
If we lose on border security, if we lose on
the future of controlling who is an American and who
is just showing up here, we lose on everything else.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
You can't lose on this issue. If you lose this,
you lose everything.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
And so getting that funded the way that they are,
I mean again, this White House, these people trump those
around him JD. Van Stephen Miller when they say this
is what is necessary for our border. There they know Okay,
they've they've been very much focused in on this and
(17:37):
this is the team to get it done. The wall
construction that's going to happen. Look, we're going to be
talking to Ron Vitello, who is a senior advisor at
US Customs and Border Protection and just a little bit
about this, so we'll dive into the details. I don't
just how it's a three hour radio show. I've got
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Speaker 2 (18:54):
Buck. Welcome back in here.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
To play and Buck And let's uh take a look
at where we are. Her Trump was just sitting down.
Was a prime minister or no, prime minister of Germany? Right, guys,
it's tough to keep up with all this stuff. I
think there's some Prime Minister of Germany stuff going on.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
So gluten talk.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Let me see here is that, right, guys? Right Prime
Minister of Germany. We got a bunch of we got
a bunch of clips for that one that we will
I'm sorry. No, the Chancellor, the chance yeah. I now,
you know, like Angela Merkel, do you remember a little
angler like, oh, she's walking around, She's like, oh, you're
so naughty.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
I'm angler. I'm going to let millions of people from
all of us the world just come into Germany and
they don't even have to speak German. Yeah, Angela Merkel
not she was. I remember someone tweeted this.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
I would give credit to camera, but that Angela Merkel
when she allowed I think it was a million Syrians
and a Rockies to come into her country in one
year and legally by not illegally legally allow a million
to come in one year. Someone called her like a
European Nationalism's woman of the Year or something like that,
because there were some problems. It turns out when you
(20:10):
take that many people into a country at one time,
there were some challenges. So we'll get into these some
of the key clips here, key moments from that conversation.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
But speaking of.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
National identity national borders, Trump put out a video where
he's just saying, look, we just can't take people from
countries that are effectively failed states, hotbeds of terrorism, radicalism,
or just the kind of disorder that we don't want
to import into America. But there's nothing wrong with saying
(20:47):
we the American people, and we are a country of
you know, people of all different skin colors and all
different religions. We're Americans, and we have to maintain something
about our America can miss. And this is where the
Democrats fall apart. It can't be that you arrive yesterday
(21:08):
and come here illegally and you're as not you, but
this person is as American as you and me, because
then that means there's nothing about being an American. Being
an American is like buying a ticket to an amusement park,
or even stealing a ticket to an amusement park. You
just got to show up and then all of a sudden,
you're all the same. So there have to be borders,
(21:31):
there have to be laws, and there has to be
shared political and cultural identity for us. And this is
also where you look at assimilation, and you look at
what the numbers are that we can bring in and
that we can as a society make sure they are
adopting our culture, our ways, our americanness, and not the
(21:54):
other way around. Where there's so many coming in from
so many places under illegal pretenses, and what.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Does it even mean to be an American. Well, they
want to redefine it.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
You see this in some European countries now where there
are non European minorities who have showed up in such
numbers that they're just explicitly saying, yeah, we're we're forming
our own statelets within this place. We don't want to
adopt to the majority. We don't want to adopt the
majorities ways we want to change this country. And you
know that's what that's the plan. Too late for you.
(22:27):
We're finally able to have adult conversations in America about
this issue without people just shouting all.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
The time, zenofhol you know, racist, racist.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
I'm saying, we need to secure our border from one
hundred and eighty countries of illegals coming here. So what
is the race? That is Uh, that's the problem. It's
just the illegalness of it all that is the problem.
So it's not you can't even identify. You've got people
from all over the place. You got people from all
over coming in illegally. I don't want any illegals coming in.
(22:59):
That's that's of course what we've seen in recent years.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
So this is Trump. He released his video.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
This has cut six on the travel on the new
travel Oh, they're going to get so so ticked off
about this, the new travel band play six.
Speaker 6 (23:13):
Very simply, we cannot have open migration from any country
where we cannot safely and reliably vet and screen those.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Who seek to enter the United States.
Speaker 6 (23:24):
That is why today I am signing a new executive
order placing travel restrictions on countries including Yemen, Somalian, Haiti.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Libya, and numerous others.
Speaker 6 (23:37):
The strength of the restrictions we're applying depends on the
severity of the threat posts. The list is subject to
revision based on whether material improvements are made, and likewise,
new countries can be added as threats everge.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Around the world.
Speaker 6 (23:55):
But we will not allow people to enter our country
who wish.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
To do us ho.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Yep, makes sense, doesn't It makes sense?
Speaker 2 (24:08):
And yet they will of course oppose this. They will say, oh,
my gosh, why why would he ever? Why would he
ever do this thing?
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Because you start to feel like, not only do they
oppose things that are are just because Trump does them,
I increasingly think that there are Democrats who have this
innate loathing for the country and want to They want
to see us punished This was a belief that I
(24:39):
saw among even some fellow New Yorkers when I lived
in New York City where the things that I just
had a conversation actually with some of our some of
our friends, producers from the from the Handy Handy radio show.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
I was talking about this.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
You know, it's it's so fun when we all get
together because we get to see you know, we've all
known each other now for for years and years. I know,
I'm we a little bit here, but some of them
are fellow New Yorkers, and I was talking to them
about how what happened here in or rather I'm not
in New York anymore. What happened in New York was
things got so bad in the early nineties under the
Dinkins administration.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
They got so.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Bad that for a second we could all look at
each other and say, as New Yorkers, hey, And of
course Rudy Giuliani, and I'm forever grateful to him.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
People say, oh, they don't agree with some of the
stuff he said or done recently. I don't care. Rudy
Giuliani saved New York City. I will always say thank you,
mister Mayor, for that and always appreciate the Giuliani name
in New York and what they've done, what they did.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
For millions and millions of people.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
But Giuliani came in led this miracle, but it was
only possible because the people who lived there. Enough of
us in New York. I was a kid, of course,
but enough New Yorkers said you know what, I just
I don't want you know, I don't want the schizophrenic,
homeless drug addicts urinating on my front door and you know,
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attacking my grandma on the street anymore.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
How about that? Can we all agree on that?
Speaker 1 (26:05):
And there was this Yeah, we decided we're gonna agree
on that. We're gonna stop that from happening. And then
what I saw the Deblasio administration, because the brain virus
of leftism had spread so far among New York Democrats
that as Deblasio was just was just punishing New York
City with stupid decisions that were really hurting people. I mean,
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it was like his mission was, I'm going to ruin
America's largest city. And I lived there, and I was
I saw it all happening. And what happened was a
lot of Democrats turned around and said you know what,
even if this is bad, we deserve this. This is
the price we have to pay.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
They wanted New York to suffer.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
They thought that New Yorkers desert And that was when
I said, I'm out and I miss all of you,
all of you conservative and right thinking New Yorkers. I
miss you, including my own family. But they just said,
I said, I can't do this anymore. What we saw
with the BLASIO and then COVID and then the BLM stuff.
I'm like you people, you just you just want to
watch the city burn because you think that it deserves
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it or something.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
It was nuts.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
A lot of Democrats feel that way about America, about
the country, that we have to suffer, we have to
take in the problems of the world because of all
the bad think about it, all the stuff they've been taught,
especially in colleges, all the things they're seeing on MSNBC
and CNN. I remember when I was in China, China
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in twenty nineteen, and the only English language programming I
could get on the TVs were Premier League soccer or
you know, like high level European soccer games, which I
think were dubbed in Chinese. But whatever, doesn't, I mean
the voiceover, but I could watch the soccer put that aside,
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and CNN International and CNN International in Beijing, you might
have thought that the CCP was actually putting on in americversion,
because it's all, you know, American war mongering against Iran,
America doing this bad thing, America doing that bad thing.
And this is the a lot of the Democrat mentality,
especially on the world stage. We are the problem. They
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really believe that we are the cause of all of
these problems. And this it's it's a bizarre you know,
really a mental illness. And you have to get into
the the intricacies of how anyone could why people would
be attracted to this, why they would want this ideology.
As I've said, there are people who take pride in
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being Americans, you and me, and we love this country.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
And just like when you say when you say.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
I love my any name family member, you're not saying
I think that family members perfect. Of course not none
of us are perfect, but you love that family member.
I love this country.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
And I don't think we need to.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Do this throat clear enough right for all of it's
all of its challenges in the past and present.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
I love America.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
But of course, you know, we did bad things to
the Native Americans and slavery was evil. So yeah, we know,
we know, okay, but you're still allowed to love your
country with Democrats. And you're seeing this more and more,
and I really mean, this is at the heart. This
is at the heart of Democrat ideology now. And it
wasn't the same way twenty years ago, maybe even ten
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years ago, but it's the heart of Democrat ideology now.
You and I love this country and we take pride
from being American. Democrats take pride in thinking they are
better than America, and that's a very different thing. And
you see this in so many of their reactions to
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a lot of the Trump policies, because the Trump policies
are ultimately rooted not just in America first, but in
pride even this country, in America and its americanness. And
so once you have this framework in place, you can say,
hold on, now, I see why they make these choices
or why they push for these things, meaning the left,
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meaning the Democrats that so clearly are not in the
interests of the American people. They they think we deserve
the suffering, right they they and this is you know,
there are a lot of you go back and you
get into a lot of cults, and there's a lot
of punishment involved with these cults and things you have
to do and humiliation rituals you go through as part
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of your purification.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
Democrats, to be a really true blue.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Democrat, you have to constantly want to undermine America historically
and the history of this country, but also in present.
And this is why there's all this opposition to Trump saying, look,
we're not taking in more people from uh cities. We're
not taking foreigners. Remember these are foreigners, Okay, they're not Americans,
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not people of this descent who are now Americans, of course,
not these are foreigners.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
These as.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
We're not taking people from Afghanistan. Mian mar Mayan mar
I never actually know how to say that one properly.
We should call it Burma, right.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
That's what we That's what people want to call it.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Chad, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan
and Yemen. And citizens of Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo,
and Turkmenistan and Venezuela are subject to partial restrictions Okay,
So suspending travel to the US for citizens of those
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twelve countries based on national security concerns. This is in
the interests of the American people and to those countries.
Dannyone who says, but what about the really nice person
from Equatorial Guinea who wants to come to America. Coming
to America as a privilege, not a right, even visiting
this country. It's not a privilege. I'm sorry, it's not
a right. It's a privilege.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
And if your.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Nation is not willing to have the measures in place
that we the American people and this administration thinks you
are vetted enough that we don't have to worry about
our own safety, uh well, then take.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
It up with them.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
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He will be a boomer sooner.
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you know, a lot of US military power in Hawaii.
It's a very important strategic place for US. It is
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So we could just get like a migration of people
from other states that could.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
Maybe you know, you get what I'm saying.
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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. Clay is recovering
from a late night of partying with me and Jesse Kelly.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
And Glenn Beck.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
And go on my Instagram you'll see we're all together
in Palm Beach last night having a great time and
ESMD was a lot of fun. So if my voice
sounds a little raspy, because we're all celebrating freedom, swapping
stories about our beloved audiences and our shows in America,
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and it was a great time. Like I said, this
is some of the photos off. Sean Hannity was there
at golen Beck was there. I mean, it was like
a meeting of the five families of radio and we
had a great time. More than five families, obviously Harol
Markowitz and Tutor Dixon and David Rutherford, Clay and Buck
podcast folks were there, so it was a lot of fun.
Clay is traveling though, you know, he had a party
(01:01):
last night, he had golf. It's rough, but a rough
week for Clay. Now he's on vacation. He'll be in tomorrow.
I'm actually gonna take tomorrow off, which is probably good
because my voice sounds like it's about to give out.
Today we have a lot, oh my, a lot of
news to dive into here, which is great. It's actually
always more fun when there's so much going on because
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we're going to cover a lot of ground and make
sure that we make the best use of every minute
we have together. Today we got Trump on his call
with Shijin Ping of China talking about trade.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Give you some of that stuff.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
We've got more on the US trade deficit dropping substantially,
almost like.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
What Trump said would happen is happening. Because it is
like that, we've got the the moved. Sorry, there's that voice.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
We've got that move toward being an independent for Corine
Jean Pierre. That's right, she is now an independent the
White House President Secretary under Biden. It's like, look, let
me tell you guys something that Biden administration.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Was a disaster.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
How many of these Democrats this is the Tapper move.
Now she's going full Tapper. You commit the crime and
then you want to go into the police and be
there be their star tipster, their star witness. In the
situation right, like, hey, let me tell you, guys, what happened.
Somebody robbed a bank yesterday. It's like you robbed the
bank yesterday. Ah, but I'm telling you about it now.
(02:31):
And it actually would be more like if the person
had already been arrested for robbing the bank, and they're
like you guys, no, no, no, hold on a second,
I've got to tell you who robbed the banks.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
I think we know. I think we know.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Karine Jean Pierre is coming out with this with this book,
and also now Democrats are all trashing her and saying
that she was never up for the job.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
She she was.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
It was a preposterous choice. It was a DEI choice.
They did it because of diversity, equity inclusion. They did
it because they want to be able to say, we
have a black LGBTQ Press secretary and you sit here
and you go okay. And so then also we're not
allowed to criticize her because that would make you a
bad person. But now the Democrats are criticizing her saying
(03:15):
that she was actually never up for the job, almost
like DEI sometimes results in people getting jobs that they're
not actually qualified or even capable of doing. Oh and
there's a Supreme Court case that goes to this as
well that came down today. Man, we are not tired
of winning. It is fantastic. So much to get into.
Plus we got another Trump video on a travel ban
(03:37):
from twelve countries to talk about. We've got more on
the masking of ICE agents, more on the Big Beautiful Bill,
and I mean, honestly, we got so much show I'll
just I'm just going to dive into it now.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
We got a whole lot more we'll get to and
we'll talk about this.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
We also have a senior official from ICE will be
joining us talk about what's going on with the masking
and the Interior enforcement and the latest numbers on this huge,
huge surge in ICE efforts to deport people who are
not supposed to be in the country.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
So that's all to the good. Oh and on the
Big Beautiful Bill, I'm just going to tell you this.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
I've wanted to have it out here where we can
discuss what's really going on and have all sides of
it represented.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
And I really mean this. I thought this through. We've
heard from Rant.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Paul, we had him on the show, and you all
know I have tremendous respect for Senator Paul, even though
I feel like sometimes when he calls he's he sounds
almost like he's bored.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
You know, he's not. He's not. He's not a constant
party that guy. But he's super.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Super smart and and I think incredibly principled for remember
the United States Senate.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
And uh and we always enjoy when he when.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
He calls in because he has worthwhile, worthwhile things to
add to the conversation. Same thing with Senator Ron Johnson.
He's a little jolly Senator Johnson a little jolly earth
than Senator Paul, but both very high IQ and very
high principle individuals. We've heard from them on this issue
of the big beautiful bill, and I've seen the Elon
stuff and just based on the immigration provisions alone in
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the bill, we got to do this thing. In my mind,
now this is my opinion on this. Now, I know
it doesn't handle the debath the way Elon wants. Elon
is not wrong on the numbers, Senator's Paul Johnson, others
to Representative Massy, they're not wrong on the numbers, but
we got to do this thing. They may be wrong
on the politics of what will happen. Think about what
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happens the Trump administration if we hand a massive midterm
when to the Democrats in eighteen months time, which is
I do believe what would happen if you start trying
to really the only way to mess with the spending
in a way that matters, to change the spending in
a way that matters, is to make the cuts that
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nobody wants to have happen right now to entitlements. And
as Steven Miller points out, again, I've gone through every
stage of this. I've looked at all the arguments. As
Steven Miller points out, for the White House, you can't
even do the automatic spending changes you would want to
do in a reconciliation bill. So it's now you're talking
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about a negotiation with Chuck Schumer because of the sixty
vote threshold. So unless the argument is we need to
nuke the filibuster and ram this thing through and ram
through the cuts now and take that political risk right
now this time, I don't really see what else is
going to happen here, unless someone's gonna tell me Steven
Miller's wrong, which I would never bet on that one.
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Wrong on the facts, I don't think so, not this
guy not in this White House, so I think he's.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
If there's anyone who I think you could take it
to the bank.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
When he says here's the deal, I think Deputy Chief
of Staff Miller is is that guy. And I also
think that everyone's having this out now, which is a
good thing, and we're having the discussion about what needs
to occur for this to be a big, beautiful bill
for a flourishing, booming economy. We have not forgotten about
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the issue of the debt, but this begins to put
into place long term reforms.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
You can ease people into this.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
You can ease people into this, and look, if we
can maintain the House and the Senate of the midterms,
Trump is not going to be as much as he
likes to poke the Democrats, He's not running for a
third term and so he will be in a position
then I think to tell everybody, look at this amazing
economy I've given you. Now is the time when we
can actually have a really serious conversation.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
About changing some of that.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
And it's not about cutting anyone's Medicare today or changing
anyone's Social Security today. It's when I'm ready for Social
Security in twenty years basically, it's going to there will
be some changes that.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Will have been enacted.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
My age can can make the we can make the
sacrifice for the country of Hey, we have to have
a different pathway here, at different footing. If that means
we're changing some of the tax code, there's there's a
whole conversation there, but that's what it's about. And I
think Trump would be in that position to make that case.
So I think that's really important. Also on the on
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the trade deficit issue, Remember we were told that there
was going to be a massive, a massive stock market
crash slash. Economy was going to be a mess, and
the truth is that's not that has not happened. And
one thing that I believe should get a lot more
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attention than it does is what the trade negotiations that
Trump has engaged in, what they have done so far
for the economy. Here is this is cut one. Here's
CNBC's Rick Santelli talking about the trade deficit, and I
want you to listen to him. This is the numbers.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
We'll talk more about these numbers, but listen to this
play cut.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
One on the trade balance.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
And do remember last week's advance only included goods. This
one includes goods and services comes in at minus sixty
one point six billion. That's about five billion less than
we are expecting in terms of the deficit, but it
does follow a revised one hundred and thirty eight billion
with a minus sign That was one hundred and forty billion,
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and that of course was an all time record trade
balance of goods and services, and as you can see,
it is now being cut by more than half. And
the big dropping imports seems to be where everyone's pointing.
The big news there is how much it bolsters GDP.
Just look at Atlanta fed GDP now, which is at
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four point six four percent.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
US trade deficit fell the sixty one billion dollars cut
by more than half compared to Marches. So this is
the month to month March is one hundred and thirty
eight billion dollar bolstering GDP. Almost Sorry, I told you,
I did warn you guys. I had to talk so
much yesterday and everything else. This is where the extent
of my vocal cords. Clay and I are vocal cord athletes.
(10:12):
As you know, we've got sexy vocal cords or vocal
cords have six packs.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
But even that can run. We can be run ragged.
You know too much.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
But here's the point about where we are in these
trade negotiations and what's actually happening. The things that Trump
said would happen are happening, and the catastrophists and the
people who said they knew better and were smarter were wrong.
I think this also ties into the reason to pass
the big beautiful bill, because he's earned.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
He's earned.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
When Trump says this is awesome, It's going to be
amazing for the economy, why would I sit there and say, no,
it won't think about that for a moment. I mean,
there would be a degree of hubris that I think
would be required if somebody in my position, who's trying
to inform all of you and have this ongoing conversation
with all of you across this nation, to think that
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I know better in this moment than Trump on this issue,
given what is happening now. I will always criticize an
administration if I think they air on an issue where
I feel passionately that they may be taking us in
the wrong direction.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Or but.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
You know, it's like the guy, the guy who has
the hot hand on the basketball court and just has
hit four three pointers in a row. Should I let
him take the next shot or do I want to
you know, is it my turn? I mean, if he
wants to take the shot, I think he should take
the shot. And that's what we see right now with
Trump on not just the trade negotiations talking to China
about it, I might add, but also on the direction
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of the economy right now we're just beginning to see it.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
We're only six months into this administration.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
They have packed so much into such a short period
of time, and it is way more than what Trump
accomplished in the first six months of his first term,
which makes sense. He knows more now, has got the
team in place now, and that was that was really good.
But this is a whole other level. They're moving on
so many fronts. And remember that phrase when he said
(12:09):
you're going to get tired of winning. We're certainly not
tired of winning yet, but we could see I think
how that could be a thing by the end of
this administration, like, oh my gosh, we just need we
need the opposition to get a win, just so we
remember that there is an opposition.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
I mean, Trump is doing great things now.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
I know about the judicial the judicial supremacy stuff, seizing
executive authority, shutting down Trump.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
We're going to talk about some more of that.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
You know, there are certainly pitfalls and challenges and everything.
I'm not a I'm not euphoric right now, but everything's
going on with Trump. But I'm trying to look at
this with clear eyes and I'm trying to come away
with the best possible assessment of what we should do
now and what the country should do now moving forward
(12:52):
on this.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
And I think that I think Trump knows what he's
doing with this. I think the people that are pushing
this bill know what they're doing with it.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
And there's a lot of reason right now for you know,
you can be optimistic but stay focused, and that's that's
how I feel for the country right now. I am optimistic,
truly and have been all along since Trump came into office.
And I also, though, just want to just I want
them to keep going, you know, I want them to
keep moving the way that they are pushing on all fronts.
(13:21):
And we'll get into some of this, We'll get into
the travel band, We'll get into the from certain countries,
we'll get into the next steps here on the big
beautiful bill. Also what I think is a very important
win in the Supreme Court. Nine oh win. I might
add nine oh win. That's going to have some real
ramifications that will affect all of us in this country.
(13:43):
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(14:04):
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Speaker 2 (14:07):
I know you know that.
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if we can't on the Big Beautiful Bill. I want
to know if you are where I am on this
or you still have your concerns. I've tried to cover this.
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It's important. I mean, when Trump is saying something's big,
maybe even huge, it's pretty big. Let's take your calls
on an eight hundred two two eight A two. I
do think the right option is passage. I do think
the right option is to go forward with this.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Now.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
I've heard the and I know they're good faith concerns.
I've heard the concerns. I think moving forward on this
is the move. This is Senator John Thune, a majority
leader here, he is this has cut ten play it please.
Speaker 5 (15:45):
We had a very positive discussion about the path forward
on the Big Beautiful Bill and the Reconciliation Bill, and
I think it was a reminder that we are all
in this together. This is a team effort and everybody
is going to be ruling in the same direction to
get across the finish line. Failure is not an option,
and we didn't intend to deliver along with the President
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for the American people on the things that he committed
to do and that we committed to do in terms
of the agenda. And so the reconciliation build will be
positive for growth, it'll be good for the economy, it'll
create better paying jobs. And we intend on energy, on
national security, on spending reductions, on tax policy, on border security,
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all of those areas to address the issues the American
people care about to make them more safe, more secure,
and more prosperous.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Now, I do think it's fair to say this would
be the single most important funding mechanism for border security
and enforcement and deportations and wall building in the history
of the United States. That's that's a big deal. It
is huge, and we've got to get this. Lose on sovereignty.
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If we lose on border security, if we lose on
the future of controlling who is an American and who
is just showing up here, we lose on everything else.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
You can't lose on this issue. If you lose this,
you lose everything.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
And so getting that funded the way that they are,
I mean again, this White House, these people trump those
around him JD. Van Stephen Miller when they say this
is what is necessary for our border. There they know Okay,
they've they've been very much focused in on this and
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this is the team to get it done. The wall
construction that's going to happen. Look, we're going to be
talking to Ron Vitello, who is a senior advisor at
US Customs and Border Protection and just a little bit
about this, so we'll dive into the details. I don't
just how it's a three hour radio show. I've got
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To play and Buck And let's uh take a look
at where we are. Her Trump was just sitting down.
Was a prime minister or no, prime minister of Germany? Right, guys,
it's tough to keep up with all this stuff. I
think there's some Prime Minister of Germany stuff going on.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
So gluten talk.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Let me see here is that, right, guys? Right Prime
Minister of Germany. We got a bunch of we got
a bunch of clips for that one that we will
I'm sorry. No, the Chancellor, the chance yeah. I now,
you know, like Angela Merkel, do you remember a little
angler like, oh, she's walking around, She's like, oh, you're
so naughty.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
I'm angler. I'm going to let millions of people from
all of us the world just come into Germany and
they don't even have to speak German. Yeah, Angela Merkel
not she was. I remember someone tweeted this.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
I would give credit to camera, but that Angela Merkel
when she allowed I think it was a million Syrians
and a Rockies to come into her country in one
year and legally by not illegally legally allow a million
to come in one year. Someone called her like a
European Nationalism's woman of the Year or something like that,
because there were some problems. It turns out when you
(20:10):
take that many people into a country at one time,
there were some challenges. So we'll get into these some
of the key clips here, key moments from that conversation.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
But speaking of.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
National identity national borders, Trump put out a video where
he's just saying, look, we just can't take people from
countries that are effectively failed states, hotbeds of terrorism, radicalism,
or just the kind of disorder that we don't want
to import into America. But there's nothing wrong with saying
(20:47):
we the American people, and we are a country of
you know, people of all different skin colors and all
different religions. We're Americans, and we have to maintain something
about our America can miss. And this is where the
Democrats fall apart. It can't be that you arrive yesterday
(21:08):
and come here illegally and you're as not you, but
this person is as American as you and me, because
then that means there's nothing about being an American. Being
an American is like buying a ticket to an amusement park,
or even stealing a ticket to an amusement park. You
just got to show up and then all of a sudden,
you're all the same. So there have to be borders,
(21:31):
there have to be laws, and there has to be
shared political and cultural identity for us. And this is
also where you look at assimilation, and you look at
what the numbers are that we can bring in and
that we can as a society make sure they are
adopting our culture, our ways, our americanness, and not the
(21:54):
other way around. Where there's so many coming in from
so many places under illegal pretenses, and what.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Does it even mean to be an American. Well, they
want to redefine it.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
You see this in some European countries now where there
are non European minorities who have showed up in such
numbers that they're just explicitly saying, yeah, we're we're forming
our own statelets within this place. We don't want to
adopt to the majority. We don't want to adopt the
majorities ways we want to change this country. And you
know that's what that's the plan. Too late for you.
(22:27):
We're finally able to have adult conversations in America about
this issue without people just shouting all.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
The time, zenofhol you know, racist, racist.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
I'm saying, we need to secure our border from one
hundred and eighty countries of illegals coming here. So what
is the race? That is Uh, that's the problem. It's
just the illegalness of it all that is the problem.
So it's not you can't even identify. You've got people
from all over the place. You got people from all
over coming in illegally. I don't want any illegals coming in.
(22:59):
That's that's of course what we've seen in recent years.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
So this is Trump. He released his video.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
This has cut six on the travel on the new
travel Oh, they're going to get so so ticked off
about this, the new travel band play six.
Speaker 6 (23:13):
Very simply, we cannot have open migration from any country
where we cannot safely and reliably vet and screen those.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Who seek to enter the United States.
Speaker 6 (23:24):
That is why today I am signing a new executive
order placing travel restrictions on countries including Yemen, Somalian, Haiti.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Libya, and numerous others.
Speaker 6 (23:37):
The strength of the restrictions we're applying depends on the
severity of the threat posts. The list is subject to
revision based on whether material improvements are made, and likewise,
new countries can be added as threats everge.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Around the world.
Speaker 6 (23:55):
But we will not allow people to enter our country
who wish.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
To do us ho.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Yep, makes sense, doesn't It makes sense?
Speaker 2 (24:08):
And yet they will of course oppose this. They will say, oh,
my gosh, why why would he ever? Why would he
ever do this thing?
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Because you start to feel like, not only do they
oppose things that are are just because Trump does them,
I increasingly think that there are Democrats who have this
innate loathing for the country and want to They want
to see us punished This was a belief that I
(24:39):
saw among even some fellow New Yorkers when I lived
in New York City where the things that I just
had a conversation actually with some of our some of
our friends, producers from the from the Handy Handy radio show.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
I was talking about this.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
You know, it's it's so fun when we all get
together because we get to see you know, we've all
known each other now for for years and years. I know,
I'm we a little bit here, but some of them
are fellow New Yorkers, and I was talking to them
about how what happened here in or rather I'm not
in New York anymore. What happened in New York was
things got so bad in the early nineties under the
Dinkins administration.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
They got so.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Bad that for a second we could all look at
each other and say, as New Yorkers, hey, And of
course Rudy Giuliani, and I'm forever grateful to him.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
People say, oh, they don't agree with some of the
stuff he said or done recently. I don't care. Rudy
Giuliani saved New York City. I will always say thank you,
mister Mayor, for that and always appreciate the Giuliani name
in New York and what they've done, what they did.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
For millions and millions of people.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
But Giuliani came in led this miracle, but it was
only possible because the people who lived there. Enough of
us in New York. I was a kid, of course,
but enough New Yorkers said you know what, I just
I don't want you know, I don't want the schizophrenic,
homeless drug addicts urinating on my front door and you know,
(26:01):
attacking my grandma on the street anymore.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
How about that? Can we all agree on that?
Speaker 1 (26:05):
And there was this Yeah, we decided we're gonna agree
on that. We're gonna stop that from happening. And then
what I saw the Deblasio administration, because the brain virus
of leftism had spread so far among New York Democrats
that as Deblasio was just was just punishing New York
City with stupid decisions that were really hurting people. I mean,
(26:28):
it was like his mission was, I'm going to ruin
America's largest city. And I lived there, and I was
I saw it all happening. And what happened was a
lot of Democrats turned around and said you know what,
even if this is bad, we deserve this. This is
the price we have to pay.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
They wanted New York to suffer.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
They thought that New Yorkers desert And that was when
I said, I'm out and I miss all of you,
all of you conservative and right thinking New Yorkers. I
miss you, including my own family. But they just said,
I said, I can't do this anymore. What we saw
with the BLASIO and then COVID and then the BLM stuff.
I'm like you people, you just you just want to
watch the city burn because you think that it deserves
(27:07):
it or something.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
It was nuts.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
A lot of Democrats feel that way about America, about
the country, that we have to suffer, we have to
take in the problems of the world because of all
the bad think about it, all the stuff they've been taught,
especially in colleges, all the things they're seeing on MSNBC
and CNN. I remember when I was in China, China
(27:30):
in twenty nineteen, and the only English language programming I
could get on the TVs were Premier League soccer or
you know, like high level European soccer games, which I
think were dubbed in Chinese. But whatever, doesn't, I mean
the voiceover, but I could watch the soccer put that aside,
(27:50):
and CNN International and CNN International in Beijing, you might
have thought that the CCP was actually putting on in americversion,
because it's all, you know, American war mongering against Iran,
America doing this bad thing, America doing that bad thing.
And this is the a lot of the Democrat mentality,
especially on the world stage. We are the problem. They
(28:13):
really believe that we are the cause of all of
these problems. And this it's it's a bizarre you know,
really a mental illness. And you have to get into
the the intricacies of how anyone could why people would
be attracted to this, why they would want this ideology.
As I've said, there are people who take pride in
(28:36):
being Americans, you and me, and we love this country.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
And just like when you say when you say.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
I love my any name family member, you're not saying
I think that family members perfect. Of course not none
of us are perfect, but you love that family member.
I love this country.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
And I don't think we need to.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Do this throat clear enough right for all of it's
all of its challenges in the past and present.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
I love America.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
But of course, you know, we did bad things to
the Native Americans and slavery was evil. So yeah, we know,
we know, okay, but you're still allowed to love your
country with Democrats. And you're seeing this more and more,
and I really mean, this is at the heart. This
is at the heart of Democrat ideology now. And it
wasn't the same way twenty years ago, maybe even ten
(29:25):
years ago, but it's the heart of Democrat ideology now.
You and I love this country and we take pride
from being American. Democrats take pride in thinking they are
better than America, and that's a very different thing. And
you see this in so many of their reactions to
(29:47):
a lot of the Trump policies, because the Trump policies
are ultimately rooted not just in America first, but in
pride even this country, in America and its americanness. And
so once you have this framework in place, you can say,
hold on, now, I see why they make these choices
or why they push for these things, meaning the left,
(30:08):
meaning the Democrats that so clearly are not in the
interests of the American people. They they think we deserve
the suffering, right they they and this is you know,
there are a lot of you go back and you
get into a lot of cults, and there's a lot
of punishment involved with these cults and things you have
to do and humiliation rituals you go through as part
(30:28):
of your purification.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
Democrats, to be a really true blue.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Democrat, you have to constantly want to undermine America historically
and the history of this country, but also in present.
And this is why there's all this opposition to Trump saying, look,
we're not taking in more people from uh cities. We're
not taking foreigners. Remember these are foreigners, Okay, they're not Americans,
(30:53):
not people of this descent who are now Americans, of course,
not these are foreigners.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
These as.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
We're not taking people from Afghanistan. Mian mar Mayan mar
I never actually know how to say that one properly.
We should call it Burma, right.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
That's what we That's what people want to call it.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Chad, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan
and Yemen. And citizens of Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo,
and Turkmenistan and Venezuela are subject to partial restrictions Okay,
So suspending travel to the US for citizens of those
(31:32):
twelve countries based on national security concerns. This is in
the interests of the American people and to those countries.
Dannyone who says, but what about the really nice person
from Equatorial Guinea who wants to come to America. Coming
to America as a privilege, not a right, even visiting
this country. It's not a privilege. I'm sorry, it's not
a right. It's a privilege.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
And if your.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Nation is not willing to have the measures in place
that we the American people and this administration thinks you
are vetted enough that we don't have to worry about
our own safety, uh well, then take.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
It up with them.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
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