January 28, 2025 • 36 mins
Karoline Leavitt's first press briefing. Confirmation hearings: we predict all three will get through (Kash, Tulsi and RFK Jr.) The race industry. Congrats, Sean Duffy, on transportation secretary.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, welcome back into Clay and Buck. And as
we were discussing a couple of things going on right now.
One is our friend Caroline Levitt. The White House Press
is kicking off her first press gathering, you know, first
press briefing, So that was the word I was looking for, briefing.
(00:22):
So that's going on right now, and we will bring
you the highlights of it. I think, Clay, I'm making
a prediction here in real time. I could be wrong,
but probably not that they're not going to be particularly
ferocious in that press room today because I mean, look
at the media right now. Sad, sad. They are not
(00:42):
in a position to throw their weight around. A couple
of other things that are on the near horizon. We have
RFK Junior's confirmation on Capitol Hill. Senators going to be
sitting there doing their thing tomorrow, and I believe Thursday,
we have Cash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard, so the HHS secretary,
(01:06):
the FBI director, and the Director of National Intelligence the
DNI all to be voted on play. Do you think
all three get through? Speaking of predictions, I do. I
do think all three get through. And if they don't,
(01:27):
that the two that I think are most in peril
are Robert F. Kennedy Junior and Tulsi Gabbard and Buck.
The crazy thing about that is they were Democrats. It
sold just a couple of years ago, so they'll be
getting shot down by unless. I mean, this is a
question for you.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
If we had a truly honest political class, wouldn't at
least a few Democrats have to support Tulsi Gabbard and
or RFK Junior, considering that both were Democrats up until
about six months ago.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
I think some will.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
I think Tulsi will get some Democrat votes, and if
that's true, then I think they'll definitely get I'll both
get through. But I just question whether they might hate
Trump so much that they see it as a wound
to him to oppose even former Democrats that he's trying
to put in his cabinet.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
It's interesting to me because I think that RFK may
create the most fireworks up on Capitol Hill. Possibly not
that he is like that, but I mean, I think
that there'll be some staunch opposition from some Democrats. They'll
try to make a scene about it. I think that
the one that they should be the most. I hope
(02:39):
the Democrats are not listening. The one they should be
the most worried about, in my mind, is probably Cash,
just because Cash knows what they've been up to in
the DOJ. Cash knows about the weaponization of government and
he's ready to go. So I think that he'll get through.
But they'll try to create some issues there. Anyway, we
will bring that to you. I will be on the air,
(03:01):
I think, because that's all going on tomorrow the next day,
so we'll bring you the highlights of that, the things
you need to know about. But I agree with Clay.
I think all three will get through. A couple they
may be close votes, but I think all three will
get through. Look Pete, Hegseth, and we didn't mention this.
JD vance had to be the tiebreaker, and JD tweeted
(03:21):
that he thought he was done voting in the Senate
when he took this new job. But turns out he
was needed to be the tiebreaker for Pete, who's hit
the ground running over at the Pentagon. Yes, sir, just
you know I like to look at these markets. Cholsey
Gabbard on the poly market gambling markets is now an
(03:41):
underdog to be confirmed again forty eight percent, basically saying
it's a coin flip, but two million dollars bet cash
basically going to sail through. I actually thought that Cash
might be the one that would end up getting way.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
More opposition than he had as everybody else RFK Junior
seventy five percent gambling chance of being confirmed. But Tulsi
now has slipped below fifty to fifty. So that would suggest,
at least based on people who are trying to read
the room and put money out there, that what I
said might happen Buck, which is a couple of Republicans
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might bail on her and then no Democrat support, which
is crazy Buck, because she ran for president as a
Democrat in twenty twenty, and she was a congresswoman from
Hawaii for a fairly substantial amount of time, and now
Trump wants to put her as a part of his
cabinet at in a very important role, and every Democrat
(04:43):
is going to oppose her potentially based on these odds
because they're just trying to score political points against Trump.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
It's pretty staggering, honestly. Yeah, So we'll see how they
actually go with all of these. I'm interesting that the
interesting to me that Tulci Gabbard's the one that's I
also always have in the back of my mind the
rule that the more the Democrats, especially somebody like an
Adam Schiff, you know, those kinds of Democrats, the more
the Democrats hate a Republican, the more necessary and clear
(05:12):
it is that this is who we should have, right,
the ones that they get upset about. I mean, I'm
sure Ratcliffe is a good guy, but you had, like
everybody vote for him to be CIA director. I'm not
sensing there's gonna be a lot of shaking or rattling
of the cage over there. Tulci has d and I
all of a sudden, there's all this opposition. Me makes
me think that's better. So we will follow all that
(05:33):
for you, and we'll also bringing here shortly if there's
any interesting exchanges with Caroline Levitt. Gosh, I remember what
Caroline was like, the youngest person ever run for Congress.
We were having her on this show. Remember she's running
up in New Hampshire. She explained Grantite's granite state Grantite
staters to us. I did not know that that was
a thing. And now she's White House Press Secretary. What
an arc a career arc she has had. We're very,
(05:57):
very proud of her, if I may say so. Now
back to the immigration issue, MSNBC hosts Alex Witt, I
love this clay because I want people to know just
how unrepentant these libs are about all the all the
propaganda they engage in, all the things they do. Here
she is correcting Priya Stridar. I don't know, I've never
(06:21):
seen her before. She sounds like me trying to pronounce
the name, by the way, But I think I think
I hit it. I think I nailed it. I think
I stuck the landing. But Priya Sridhar used the term
illegal alien, and the MSNBC host corrected her play it.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
I want you guys to take a look at this
video that we saw just this morning from the DEA
ATF and Homeland Security investigators out of the Rocky Mountain
Division in Colorado. There you can see a raid that
was conducted this morning. They say that they were targeting
event as will in gang and they were able to
see cash, sees, cash weapons and actually made an arrest
(06:56):
of quote fifty illegal aliens right there.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Ali, yep, we call them undocumented immigrants, but that again
was in the release from the DEEA oh, hold on
a second, we call them undocumented immigrants. The official legal
term now, thank you, President Trump, is once again, as
it was for our entire adult lives until Biden came along,
illegal alien. So Clay, what is this now? Now? The
(07:21):
legal term is not what the the anchor on the
news channel is going to use undocumented. Also, is that
that's like the third iteration. Remember it was just you know,
it was just illegal immigrants, and.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
You're seeing this is actually I think significant, Buck, because
it in many ways is indicative of what they're trying
to do to attack the deportations that Trump is putting
in place, which so far have been a violent criminals.
Have you seen a lot of the headlines now are
trying to say that Trump is deporting immigrants. They're not
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even saying that they are illegal immigrants. There is I
think a concerted ft to create panic among the legal
immigrant population of the United States such that they are
supposed to feel like they may be targeted by these raids,
and I think it's very intentional. And the policing of
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language like you just heard on MSNBC, how antiquated. Does
that start to feel We're going to talk about it
a little bit later, but I feel like some organizations
out there are still living in the BLM summer of
twenty twenty. Do you remember everybody out there, how suddenly
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every company that you've ever done business with was emailing
you about how much they thought black lives matter. I
remember we got an email from our cat litter company,
and I remember my wife just walking in, like, I
don't freaking And it was not freaking that she said,
but like, I don't freaking care what my cat litter
(09:01):
company thinks about anything in America other than whether my
cat litter is going to show up scheduled for the cats.
And I think many of you out there had that
same reaction as every single company felt compelled to email you.
And probably whatever company you went to UH and you
worked at, you probably had brand new HR briefings and
(09:24):
everything else. And there's a couple of entities out there
that are refusing to kind of acknowledge that that era
was a mistake and we're moving into a new era.
And the MSNBC's of the world are like that, Look,
I love Costco. Have you seen Costco right now? Is
saying why we're going to be from Costco a minute ago.
(09:44):
I hate to say this, Costco is my favorite place
to shop in America. I'm not sure that I go
anywhere else to shop in America, but that's why it's
my favorite. It was just there this weekend. Costco is
one of the few companies that's saying, hey, we're not
going to change our DEI policies at all, And many
different groups out there are saying to Costco, what in
(10:08):
the world are you talking about? Why wouldn't you acknowledge
that many of these DEI policies. I give credit to
the University of Michigan buck huge article. They did a
huge investigation. They spent two hundred and fifty million dollars
I think it was on DEI at the University of Michigan.
They discovered that doing DEI actually makes people more racist
(10:30):
because it alienates and identity politics stratifies so many different
groups that everyone ends up more racist than they were
before they started DEI. So, whatever you think of DEI
as it has been applied, it is actually divided and
created more racism than would have existed if it had
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not existed at all, which I think you and I
would expect because what it does is it creates this
illusion when you're starting about microaggressions. It creates this idea
that people don't get along and that you should think
about race before you think about anything else, when in reality,
most people just treat humans like humans. And anyway, the
(11:14):
fact that it's now collapsing everywhere is I think a
really strong sign of reality coming back. But there are
still places like MSNBC that are staying committed to that
what I would say summer of twenty twenty ideal that
they tried to to basically take over the country with
when BLM protests were ascended.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Language circling back to the msmec anchor correcting the reporter
language that we use matters. I was going to say, also,
migrant has become the term now even more than undocumented
that we're all supposed to use. When you don't call
someone an illegal alien, you are inherently conceding something that
you shouldn't in the discussion, which is that they have
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done something, they have committed a crime. Look, not illegal aliens,
Not all bad people, get it right, There are a
lot of them, very nice, very hard working. But by
changing the language, that doesn't mean they should be able
to stand in the country. Though. By changing the language,
you change the terms of the debate, and that is
something that they're going to continue to do as this
rolls on play because I think the more that people
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learn about what's really gone on with the illegal invasion
of the country, the more upset a lot of Americans
are going to be whencause they've been lied to by
their own media about it for thirty years now. Basically
it's been always the numbers are less than what the
numbers actually are. The reality of the cost, the reality
of the social cost, not just financial costs that you know,
(12:41):
whether it's all the emergency rooms dealing with illegals, or
English is the second language expense in school systems, all
these things that are going on. Mostly wondered, what do
you think Trump is going to come forward with? Why
isn't English to the national language? Great question? Where's the
executive order on English should be the national language of
the United States? Stop? And I know that that's an
(13:02):
argument I would love to have. That's a debate. Every
every ballot measure, every everything should be in English. That's it.
No doing this in fifteen different languae. Have you ever
oh of course not. You know, lived never lived in
New York. Play the ballots in New York City. If
I gave them to you, yeah, you'd get like English Spanish. Friends,
You'd see you flip it over. You're like, what is that?
I don't have no idea. Is is it Taie? Is
(13:24):
it Swahili? I have no idea what these languages are?
In the back like why why should you be able
as an American to cast a vote that affects the
destiny of all of us if you don't speak the
language that we all communicate in daily across the country,
and you know this is a problem for me. I
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Speaker 2 (14:57):
Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck sc Show. We are
going to give you some of the cuts from our
friend White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt, including coming out
straight off the top and addressing New Jersey drones, which
so many people had been concerned about.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
We'll get to some of those clips uploaded.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Just wants you to know that she has been doing
the press briefing, replacing at long last Karine Jean Pierre,
and already starting to answer some questions. Also want to
give some congratulations to Sean Duffy, who now replaces Mayor
Pete as the Transportation secretary.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
That is a major upgrade.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
I would argue, Transportation secretary is a little bit like
being an official buck. If you get recognized, it's probably
a bad sign. Most of the time, we don't know
who the Transportation Secretary was. So much was bad and
screwed up and awful during the by in term that
we all knew about Mayor Pete, particularly when he was
(16:04):
on his paternity leave when we had the worst supply
chain crisis in basically American history. Yes, he was on
paternity leave, even though he's married to a man, and
neither one of them actually had the baby, which is
its own story in and of itself. Remember they climbed
into bed together, the birthing bed, to have their picture
taken with the baby. I still can't believe that picture
(16:26):
is real. But Mayor Pete now Buck, and we may
talk to our friend Tudor Dixon who's part of the
Clay and Buck podcast network. Mayor Pete is rumored to
be the top contending Democrat to take over and run
for Senate in Michigan. He and his husband have relocated
(16:47):
to northern Michigan, and that feels almost like a setup
that they knew that seat was going to open up.
He's no longer in South Bend, Indiana, in the state
of Indiana, where he could never win a race statewide.
He's now in Michigan, and there is talk that he's
going to run for the Senate as the replacement. If
you didn't know, Senator Gary Peters from Michigan has announced
(17:08):
he's not going to run going forward. That's something to
keep an eye on.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
I don't think Mayor Pete is somebody who could win
an election in Michigan. I don't know that. I think
it's a great question. I hope he runs, because I
don't think he'll win, because he has never He's somebody
that the media loves and the voters do not, and
that has been hit a story of his political He
is the mayor of South Bend, Indiana. I know, I know, Clay.
(17:35):
I think you could be the mayor of South Bend, Indiana.
If you wanted tomorrow like, just show up and say
I'm Clay Travis, make me your mayor lovely town. I'm
just saying, it's not that many people.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
It would be embarrassing if I couldn't get elected the
mayor of South Bend, Indiana. Maybe it's super left wing
and maybe they wouldn't like me for that reason. But
it's not a coincidence that he left Indiana and suddenly
showed up in Michigan and now they're talking, Oh, he's
going to run for Senate.
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Speaker 1 (18:57):
Welcome back into Clay and Buck. We're getting some interesting
breaking news coming out of the right now Live Press
Secretary briefing in the West Wing of the White House,
Caroline Levett the one running that we will bring you
some of it in a moment. Here is the teas
(19:18):
for all of you. We know about the drones. Now
we've gotten an answer on the drones. We've gotten some
answers on some other things as well, including illegal immigration.
But this is now going to be, I think a
staple of the news cycle for a while, a Clay
Press briefings where one we will actually get information. I
(19:39):
feel like so much of the Karine Jean Pierre time
in the West Wing was just telling us things that
first of all, wasn't always true, which I know they'll
say that about the Trump spokesperson as well, but also
so much of it was about hiding Biden, and so
(20:03):
you had, you know, Trump handles a lot of the
big stuff himself. Trump goes forward and does briefing. After briefing,
takes questions. He's funny, he's laying it out there. He's
talking policy. The access that we shall have to Trump,
that everybody will have to Trump compared to what they
saw before with Biden. I think is going to be
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a huge change that we'll all notice. So the White
House Press Secretary can focus on the day to day
of policy and everything else. Okay, we've got here the drones.
Remember that was the big story across the country. This
is cut thirty one. White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt
on the drones.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
Your answer is, after research and study, the drones that
were flying over New Jersey and large numbers were authorized
to be flown by the FAA for research and various
other reasons. Many of these drones were also hobby, recreational
and private individuals that enjoy flying jones. In meantime, in time,
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it got worse due to curiosity. This was not the enemy.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Basically said, it was nothing to see here. A little
bit of public hysteria over this clay. That's what the
White House Press secretary is telling us.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
I appreciate addressing us directly. Trump said he would look
into it. I did on this show. I think we
discussed Buck that some people, as soon as the hysteria started,
were definitely going to put their drones up in the sky,
more likely than before, to just create a little bit
of mayhem.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
I'm just going to toss it out there.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
I think there's a lot of teenagers and twenty somethings
that are particularly adept at using drones, and as soon
as all the chaos started, there's a little bit of
mayem a foot with that. So it doesn't surprise me
that that would increase. Do you buy it? Do you
think this was entirely normal activity?
Speaker 1 (22:00):
I do. I thought this all along. I'm also the
guy who tells you there's gonna be nothing interesting the
JFK files, and I'm going to be right about that too,
just telling you all right now, putting the marker down. Oh, Buck,
but what about your deep state blah blah. No, I
am correct, there's gonna be nothing.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
On Let me say I agree with you on that,
just because the government is not going to incriminate itself
in government files, correct, which is you know, this is
what everyone's gonna say.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Well, of course, when the just remark my words, when
the JFK files are released, every's gonna say, well, of
course there's nothing in there. They would never put it
down on paper. It's like, Okay, well that's what I'm
gonna say. Just for the record, That's exactly what I'm
gonna say. I am going to be the voice of
every man that Buck just gave you. That's gonna be me.
That's what I'm gonna say.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
I do think there's gonna be some revelations in the
MLK files that are gonna make a lot of people. Again,
I just don't think that most people know what a
what's the right word, serial philanderer that the MLK was.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
It has been a it has been a national pastime
in America to turn Martin Luther King Junior into a
civil saint, if you will. And this does not you know,
this is separate from the righteousness of the civil rights
movement itself. This is just you know, people, and a
lot of people will say this about their favorite politician too.
(23:24):
It's not about are they perfect it's about are they
doing the things that I need them to do that
are the best for the country. But yes, I think
some of the MLK stuff that comes out maybe uh not.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Not be it's gonna make Let me put it this way, Buck,
I actually think I'm cautiously optimistic that we have moved
through the Oh, you can't celebrate anyone because they also
have flaws, sometimes big ones in their past, and therefore
you can't celebrate their accomplishments. I think MLK is going
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to make it really hard to cut after Thomas Jefferson
and George Washington and other people for things in their backgrounds,
because he is going to have a lot of skeletons
in his closet on a personal level, to your percenting,
doesn't distract from what he accomplished.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Right, Well, what you're saying is true for someone like
you who approaches this with with with a principle in mind.
For a lot of people that they just like two standards,
so they could say, well, MLK is perfect and he's
a saint and Thomas Jefferson was horrible and own slave.
You know, this is not going to change their areas.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
It's actually going to be even worse than that, Buck,
it's going to be. I think you're gonna hear this
is an attempt by the Trump administration to tear down
a black civil rights hero by tarnishing his legacy and
sharing more of.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
The historical record. That's the argument.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
That's what the al Sharptons of the world are gonna say,
That's what the Jesse Jacksons of the world are gonna say.
Just preparing you, I actually think to your point, for
anybody who is a principled student of history, I use
this an example of what Taylor Branch America and the
King Year incredible trilogy he wrote, and he just paraphrasing
told me directly when when he was criticized for writing
(25:07):
about a lot of these things in his books, he said,
imagine what you with no flaws in your background, should
be capable of accomplishing, given what Martin Luther King accomplished
with all of these flaws. And it's a really good
way to push it back on other people, because we're
all flawed. And I'm cautiously optimistic that we're coming through
what I would call the puritanical era of history where
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you have to pretend that because somebody screwed something up
in their life that they're not worthy of lionization. And
if we all acknowledge that all of us are screwed up,
but we can still accomplish great things, then I think
we're in a better place historically.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
But we'll see how I think we are. I think
we are for four years. We'll see what happens after that.
You know, the empire will strike back at some point.
But let's get back to Caroline Levity here for a second.
So Clay, we actually haven't discussed this yet. This is
getting a lot of attention, certainly inside of these See
the White House has paused all federal grants right now.
This was as of this morning Washington Post reporting White
(26:07):
House Budget Office ordering a pause to all grants and
loans dispersed by the federal government. According to an internal
eight internal memo sent to agencies, two page document, Acting
Director of White House OMB instructs federal agencies to temporarily
pause all activities related to obligations or disbursement of all
federal financial assistance. So Caroline Levitt addressed this just now
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in the press conference. Here's what this is. Cut thirty
play it.
Speaker 5 (26:35):
The reason for this is to ensure that every penny
that is going out the door is not conflicting with
the executive orders and actions that this president has taken.
So what does this pause mean. It means no more
funding for illegal DEI programs. It means no more funding
for the Green New scam that has cost American taxpayers
tens of billions of dollars. It means no more funding
(26:57):
for transgenderism and woe across our federal bureaucracy and agencies.
No more funding for Green New Deal social engineering policies. Again,
people who are receiving individual ass assistance, you will continue
to receive that President Trump is looking out for you
by issuing this pause, because he is being good steward
of your taxpayer dollars.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
I think the more people find out clay about the
kind of money that's being distributed and without anyone even
paying attention from the federal government again, the better it
will be for those of us who say, hold on
a second, what's going on here? Because people have no
idea how their money is being wasted, and it is
the public's money, I think so.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
And this is why one of the big battles out
there is going to be how much discretionary funding is
actually available when we come back.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Buck.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Caroline Levitt also went off on what will happen if
you enter the country illegally again. She is making her
first White House statement as the Press secretary, A big
upgrade there from Koreem's Jean Pierre. Remember, Karine Jean Pierre
refused to let John Kirby. According to reports, Buck come
out on her final day at the White House Press
Secretary to talk about the deal in ceasefire in Gaza
(28:12):
because she didn't want the attention taken away from her.
Just to kind of contextualize this, this is a story.
We didn't talk about it because it was going into
the weekend. I think when the ceasefire was taken care of.
I believe the final White House Press briefing was on
a Friday, maybe it was a Thursday, and John Kirby
requested the ability to come out and brief the White
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House Press Corps on that deal which was going to
lead to the return of hostages and a ceasefire in Gaza,
and reports our Karine Jean Pierre would not allow him
to share the rostrum with her because she wanted all
the attention on her as the gay Black Press secretary
to go out in a blaze of what she continued
to considered to be glory, and I don't know they talked.
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About what she's going to do going forward.
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Buck.
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I'm just I'm watching Caroline Levitt's White House Press Briefing
and we're going to play some more cuts of that
for you in the third hour. But I cannot impress
upon you how fabulous of a job she is doing,
particularly compared to the person Karine Jean Pierre that she
just replaced. And it is staggering how well she is
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advocating for the president.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
I knew she would do a good job.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
This first White House Press briefing has been really staggeringly
well done, and we're going to play some of those
cuts for you. I think she is going to become
a superstar. And remember what we had her on four
years ago on this program when she was running for
Congress as a twenty six year old in New Hampshire.
(31:59):
She lost a there in a toss up district. She
is the youngest White House Press secretary ever. We've had
her on this show a lot over the years. We'll
have her on again. We told you we thought she
would do a good job. She's hitting a complete home
run in her inaugural White House Press briefing that is
just taking place while we've been live on the air
(32:20):
with all of you.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Yeah, I think she's been doing a phenomenal job. I
knew she would. We had said before she became the
White House Press Secretary that she would be the best
I think, the best role, or that would be the
job for her. So I'm not surprised at all by it.
And I think she's also very much ready to take
(32:42):
on the Democrats in that press briefing room. I think
they're going to be particularly they're gonna have a challenging
time with her. They're not going to be able to
rattle her. And I also think I've just never seen
the Democrats so completely ideologically neutered as they are right now.
(33:02):
I don't even I don't know what they think they
stand for. I don't know who their leaders are. It is.
I've never seen anything like this before. Maybe after Obama
won in you know, two thousand and nine, early on
the Republicans were in this kind of a position, but
it feels like that, it feels like they are just
(33:23):
they got they got nothing. And the people that Trump
is putting into these roles are particularly media savvy, Whether
it's Pete or it's Toulsi, or it's Cash or it's Caroline.
Caroline obviously has to be that's her job. But everyone
that he's putting in, they'll be able to take on
the press and be able to handle any hostile questioning
from Congress easily. Two things.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
One, I don't think Trump would have had anywhere near
as good of a team around him if he had
been re elected in twenty twenty. I think that being
in the wilderness for those four years showed him who
was tough and who was able to do the jobs
in a way that he didn't know in seventeen. Second
part of this buck Trump winning re election in twenty
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twenty would have been a very newter Trump, given that
he would not have had control of the House, may
not have had control of the Senate. I think part
of the panic that you're seeing set in on the
Democrat side, as it pertains to opposition, is they don't
control anything, and I think they've been stunned at the
rapidity with which Trump has moved to enact so many
of his policies. And this is a credit, I think,
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who's probably the most prominent ESPN employee, and he says
in a sense that he regrets voting for Kamala Harris.
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they are somewhere near being willing.
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To jump on the Trump train.
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All right, welcome back into Clay and Buck. And as
we were discussing a couple of things going on right now.
One is our friend Caroline Levitt. The White House Press
is kicking off her first press gathering, you know, first
press briefing, So that was the word I was looking for, briefing.
(00:22):
So that's going on right now, and we will bring
you the highlights of it. I think, Clay, I'm making
a prediction here in real time. I could be wrong,
but probably not that they're not going to be particularly
ferocious in that press room today because I mean, look
at the media right now. Sad, sad. They are not
(00:42):
in a position to throw their weight around. A couple
of other things that are on the near horizon. We have
RFK Junior's confirmation on Capitol Hill. Senators going to be
sitting there doing their thing tomorrow, and I believe Thursday,
we have Cash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard, so the HHS secretary,
(01:06):
the FBI director, and the Director of National Intelligence the
DNI all to be voted on play. Do you think
all three get through? Speaking of predictions, I do. I
do think all three get through. And if they don't,
(01:27):
that the two that I think are most in peril
are Robert F. Kennedy Junior and Tulsi Gabbard and Buck.
The crazy thing about that is they were Democrats. It
sold just a couple of years ago, so they'll be
getting shot down by unless. I mean, this is a
question for you.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
If we had a truly honest political class, wouldn't at
least a few Democrats have to support Tulsi Gabbard and
or RFK Junior, considering that both were Democrats up until
about six months ago.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
I think some will.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
I think Tulsi will get some Democrat votes, and if
that's true, then I think they'll definitely get I'll both
get through. But I just question whether they might hate
Trump so much that they see it as a wound
to him to oppose even former Democrats that he's trying
to put in his cabinet.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
It's interesting to me because I think that RFK may
create the most fireworks up on Capitol Hill. Possibly not
that he is like that, but I mean, I think
that there'll be some staunch opposition from some Democrats. They'll
try to make a scene about it. I think that
the one that they should be the most. I hope
(02:39):
the Democrats are not listening. The one they should be
the most worried about, in my mind, is probably Cash,
just because Cash knows what they've been up to in
the DOJ. Cash knows about the weaponization of government and
he's ready to go. So I think that he'll get through.
But they'll try to create some issues there. Anyway, we
will bring that to you. I will be on the air,
(03:01):
I think, because that's all going on tomorrow the next day,
so we'll bring you the highlights of that, the things
you need to know about. But I agree with Clay.
I think all three will get through. A couple they
may be close votes, but I think all three will
get through. Look Pete, Hegseth, and we didn't mention this.
JD vance had to be the tiebreaker, and JD tweeted
(03:21):
that he thought he was done voting in the Senate
when he took this new job. But turns out he
was needed to be the tiebreaker for Pete, who's hit
the ground running over at the Pentagon. Yes, sir, just
you know I like to look at these markets. Cholsey
Gabbard on the poly market gambling markets is now an
(03:41):
underdog to be confirmed again forty eight percent, basically saying
it's a coin flip, but two million dollars bet cash
basically going to sail through. I actually thought that Cash
might be the one that would end up getting way.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
More opposition than he had as everybody else RFK Junior
seventy five percent gambling chance of being confirmed. But Tulsi
now has slipped below fifty to fifty. So that would suggest,
at least based on people who are trying to read
the room and put money out there, that what I
said might happen Buck, which is a couple of Republicans
(04:20):
might bail on her and then no Democrat support, which
is crazy Buck, because she ran for president as a
Democrat in twenty twenty, and she was a congresswoman from
Hawaii for a fairly substantial amount of time, and now
Trump wants to put her as a part of his
cabinet at in a very important role, and every Democrat
(04:43):
is going to oppose her potentially based on these odds
because they're just trying to score political points against Trump.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
It's pretty staggering, honestly. Yeah, So we'll see how they
actually go with all of these. I'm interesting that the
interesting to me that Tulci Gabbard's the one that's I
also always have in the back of my mind the
rule that the more the Democrats, especially somebody like an
Adam Schiff, you know, those kinds of Democrats, the more
the Democrats hate a Republican, the more necessary and clear
(05:12):
it is that this is who we should have, right,
the ones that they get upset about. I mean, I'm
sure Ratcliffe is a good guy, but you had, like
everybody vote for him to be CIA director. I'm not
sensing there's gonna be a lot of shaking or rattling
of the cage over there. Tulci has d and I
all of a sudden, there's all this opposition. Me makes
me think that's better. So we will follow all that
(05:33):
for you, and we'll also bringing here shortly if there's
any interesting exchanges with Caroline Levitt. Gosh, I remember what
Caroline was like, the youngest person ever run for Congress.
We were having her on this show. Remember she's running
up in New Hampshire. She explained Grantite's granite state Grantite
staters to us. I did not know that that was
a thing. And now she's White House Press Secretary. What
an arc a career arc she has had. We're very,
(05:57):
very proud of her, if I may say so. Now
back to the immigration issue, MSNBC hosts Alex Witt, I
love this clay because I want people to know just
how unrepentant these libs are about all the all the
propaganda they engage in, all the things they do. Here
she is correcting Priya Stridar. I don't know, I've never
(06:21):
seen her before. She sounds like me trying to pronounce
the name, by the way, But I think I think
I hit it. I think I nailed it. I think
I stuck the landing. But Priya Sridhar used the term
illegal alien, and the MSNBC host corrected her play it.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
I want you guys to take a look at this
video that we saw just this morning from the DEA
ATF and Homeland Security investigators out of the Rocky Mountain
Division in Colorado. There you can see a raid that
was conducted this morning. They say that they were targeting
event as will in gang and they were able to
see cash, sees, cash weapons and actually made an arrest
(06:56):
of quote fifty illegal aliens right there.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Ali, yep, we call them undocumented immigrants, but that again
was in the release from the DEEA oh, hold on
a second, we call them undocumented immigrants. The official legal
term now, thank you, President Trump, is once again, as
it was for our entire adult lives until Biden came along,
illegal alien. So Clay, what is this now? Now? The
(07:21):
legal term is not what the the anchor on the
news channel is going to use undocumented. Also, is that
that's like the third iteration. Remember it was just you know,
it was just illegal immigrants, and.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
You're seeing this is actually I think significant, Buck, because
it in many ways is indicative of what they're trying
to do to attack the deportations that Trump is putting
in place, which so far have been a violent criminals.
Have you seen a lot of the headlines now are
trying to say that Trump is deporting immigrants. They're not
(07:54):
even saying that they are illegal immigrants. There is I
think a concerted ft to create panic among the legal
immigrant population of the United States such that they are
supposed to feel like they may be targeted by these raids,
and I think it's very intentional. And the policing of
(08:15):
language like you just heard on MSNBC, how antiquated. Does
that start to feel We're going to talk about it
a little bit later, but I feel like some organizations
out there are still living in the BLM summer of
twenty twenty. Do you remember everybody out there, how suddenly
(08:37):
every company that you've ever done business with was emailing
you about how much they thought black lives matter. I
remember we got an email from our cat litter company,
and I remember my wife just walking in, like, I
don't freaking And it was not freaking that she said,
but like, I don't freaking care what my cat litter
(09:01):
company thinks about anything in America other than whether my
cat litter is going to show up scheduled for the cats.
And I think many of you out there had that
same reaction as every single company felt compelled to email you.
And probably whatever company you went to UH and you
worked at, you probably had brand new HR briefings and
(09:24):
everything else. And there's a couple of entities out there
that are refusing to kind of acknowledge that that era
was a mistake and we're moving into a new era.
And the MSNBC's of the world are like that, Look,
I love Costco. Have you seen Costco right now? Is
saying why we're going to be from Costco a minute ago.
(09:44):
I hate to say this, Costco is my favorite place
to shop in America. I'm not sure that I go
anywhere else to shop in America, but that's why it's
my favorite. It was just there this weekend. Costco is
one of the few companies that's saying, hey, we're not
going to change our DEI policies at all, And many
different groups out there are saying to Costco, what in
(10:08):
the world are you talking about? Why wouldn't you acknowledge
that many of these DEI policies. I give credit to
the University of Michigan buck huge article. They did a
huge investigation. They spent two hundred and fifty million dollars
I think it was on DEI at the University of Michigan.
They discovered that doing DEI actually makes people more racist
(10:30):
because it alienates and identity politics stratifies so many different
groups that everyone ends up more racist than they were
before they started DEI. So, whatever you think of DEI
as it has been applied, it is actually divided and
created more racism than would have existed if it had
(10:53):
not existed at all, which I think you and I
would expect because what it does is it creates this
illusion when you're starting about microaggressions. It creates this idea
that people don't get along and that you should think
about race before you think about anything else, when in reality,
most people just treat humans like humans. And anyway, the
(11:14):
fact that it's now collapsing everywhere is I think a
really strong sign of reality coming back. But there are
still places like MSNBC that are staying committed to that
what I would say summer of twenty twenty ideal that
they tried to to basically take over the country with
when BLM protests were ascended.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Language circling back to the msmec anchor correcting the reporter
language that we use matters. I was going to say, also,
migrant has become the term now even more than undocumented
that we're all supposed to use. When you don't call
someone an illegal alien, you are inherently conceding something that
you shouldn't in the discussion, which is that they have
(11:55):
done something, they have committed a crime. Look, not illegal aliens,
Not all bad people, get it right, There are a
lot of them, very nice, very hard working. But by
changing the language, that doesn't mean they should be able
to stand in the country. Though. By changing the language,
you change the terms of the debate, and that is
something that they're going to continue to do as this
rolls on play because I think the more that people
(12:18):
learn about what's really gone on with the illegal invasion
of the country, the more upset a lot of Americans
are going to be whencause they've been lied to by
their own media about it for thirty years now. Basically
it's been always the numbers are less than what the
numbers actually are. The reality of the cost, the reality
of the social cost, not just financial costs that you know,
(12:41):
whether it's all the emergency rooms dealing with illegals, or
English is the second language expense in school systems, all
these things that are going on. Mostly wondered, what do
you think Trump is going to come forward with? Why
isn't English to the national language? Great question? Where's the
executive order on English should be the national language of
the United States? Stop? And I know that that's an
(13:02):
argument I would love to have. That's a debate. Every
every ballot measure, every everything should be in English. That's it.
No doing this in fifteen different languae. Have you ever
oh of course not. You know, lived never lived in
New York. Play the ballots in New York City. If
I gave them to you, yeah, you'd get like English Spanish. Friends,
You'd see you flip it over. You're like, what is that?
I don't have no idea. Is is it Taie? Is
(13:24):
it Swahili? I have no idea what these languages are?
In the back like why why should you be able
as an American to cast a vote that affects the
destiny of all of us if you don't speak the
language that we all communicate in daily across the country,
and you know this is a problem for me. I
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Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck sc Show. We are
going to give you some of the cuts from our
friend White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt, including coming out
straight off the top and addressing New Jersey drones, which
so many people had been concerned about.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
We'll get to some of those clips uploaded.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Just wants you to know that she has been doing
the press briefing, replacing at long last Karine Jean Pierre,
and already starting to answer some questions. Also want to
give some congratulations to Sean Duffy, who now replaces Mayor
Pete as the Transportation secretary.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
That is a major upgrade.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
I would argue, Transportation secretary is a little bit like
being an official buck. If you get recognized, it's probably
a bad sign. Most of the time, we don't know
who the Transportation Secretary was. So much was bad and
screwed up and awful during the by in term that
we all knew about Mayor Pete, particularly when he was
(16:04):
on his paternity leave when we had the worst supply
chain crisis in basically American history. Yes, he was on
paternity leave, even though he's married to a man, and
neither one of them actually had the baby, which is
its own story in and of itself. Remember they climbed
into bed together, the birthing bed, to have their picture
taken with the baby. I still can't believe that picture
(16:26):
is real. But Mayor Pete now Buck, and we may
talk to our friend Tudor Dixon who's part of the
Clay and Buck podcast network. Mayor Pete is rumored to
be the top contending Democrat to take over and run
for Senate in Michigan. He and his husband have relocated
(16:47):
to northern Michigan, and that feels almost like a setup
that they knew that seat was going to open up.
He's no longer in South Bend, Indiana, in the state
of Indiana, where he could never win a race statewide.
He's now in Michigan, and there is talk that he's
going to run for the Senate as the replacement. If
you didn't know, Senator Gary Peters from Michigan has announced
(17:08):
he's not going to run going forward. That's something to
keep an eye on.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
I don't think Mayor Pete is somebody who could win
an election in Michigan. I don't know that. I think
it's a great question. I hope he runs, because I
don't think he'll win, because he has never He's somebody
that the media loves and the voters do not, and
that has been hit a story of his political He
is the mayor of South Bend, Indiana. I know, I know, Clay.
(17:35):
I think you could be the mayor of South Bend, Indiana.
If you wanted tomorrow like, just show up and say
I'm Clay Travis, make me your mayor lovely town. I'm
just saying, it's not that many people.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
It would be embarrassing if I couldn't get elected the
mayor of South Bend, Indiana. Maybe it's super left wing
and maybe they wouldn't like me for that reason. But
it's not a coincidence that he left Indiana and suddenly
showed up in Michigan and now they're talking, Oh, he's
going to run for Senate.
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Welcome back into Clay and Buck. We're getting some interesting
breaking news coming out of the right now Live Press
Secretary briefing in the West Wing of the White House,
Caroline Levett the one running that we will bring you
some of it in a moment. Here is the teas
(19:18):
for all of you. We know about the drones. Now
we've gotten an answer on the drones. We've gotten some
answers on some other things as well, including illegal immigration.
But this is now going to be, I think a
staple of the news cycle for a while, a Clay
Press briefings where one we will actually get information. I
(19:39):
feel like so much of the Karine Jean Pierre time
in the West Wing was just telling us things that
first of all, wasn't always true, which I know they'll
say that about the Trump spokesperson as well, but also
so much of it was about hiding Biden, and so
(20:03):
you had, you know, Trump handles a lot of the
big stuff himself. Trump goes forward and does briefing. After briefing,
takes questions. He's funny, he's laying it out there. He's
talking policy. The access that we shall have to Trump,
that everybody will have to Trump compared to what they
saw before with Biden. I think is going to be
(20:26):
a huge change that we'll all notice. So the White
House Press Secretary can focus on the day to day
of policy and everything else. Okay, we've got here the drones.
Remember that was the big story across the country. This
is cut thirty one. White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt
on the drones.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
Your answer is, after research and study, the drones that
were flying over New Jersey and large numbers were authorized
to be flown by the FAA for research and various
other reasons. Many of these drones were also hobby, recreational
and private individuals that enjoy flying jones. In meantime, in time,
(21:06):
it got worse due to curiosity. This was not the enemy.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Basically said, it was nothing to see here. A little
bit of public hysteria over this clay. That's what the
White House Press secretary is telling us.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
I appreciate addressing us directly. Trump said he would look
into it. I did on this show. I think we
discussed Buck that some people, as soon as the hysteria started,
were definitely going to put their drones up in the sky,
more likely than before, to just create a little bit
of mayhem.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
I'm just going to toss it out there.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
I think there's a lot of teenagers and twenty somethings
that are particularly adept at using drones, and as soon
as all the chaos started, there's a little bit of
mayem a foot with that. So it doesn't surprise me
that that would increase. Do you buy it? Do you
think this was entirely normal activity?
Speaker 1 (22:00):
I do. I thought this all along. I'm also the
guy who tells you there's gonna be nothing interesting the
JFK files, and I'm going to be right about that too,
just telling you all right now, putting the marker down. Oh, Buck,
but what about your deep state blah blah. No, I
am correct, there's gonna be nothing.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
On Let me say I agree with you on that,
just because the government is not going to incriminate itself
in government files, correct, which is you know, this is
what everyone's gonna say.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Well, of course, when the just remark my words, when
the JFK files are released, every's gonna say, well, of
course there's nothing in there. They would never put it
down on paper. It's like, Okay, well that's what I'm
gonna say. Just for the record, That's exactly what I'm
gonna say. I am going to be the voice of
every man that Buck just gave you. That's gonna be me.
That's what I'm gonna say.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
I do think there's gonna be some revelations in the
MLK files that are gonna make a lot of people. Again,
I just don't think that most people know what a
what's the right word, serial philanderer that the MLK was.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
It has been a it has been a national pastime
in America to turn Martin Luther King Junior into a
civil saint, if you will. And this does not you know,
this is separate from the righteousness of the civil rights
movement itself. This is just you know, people, and a
lot of people will say this about their favorite politician too.
(23:24):
It's not about are they perfect it's about are they
doing the things that I need them to do that
are the best for the country. But yes, I think
some of the MLK stuff that comes out maybe uh not.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Not be it's gonna make Let me put it this way, Buck,
I actually think I'm cautiously optimistic that we have moved
through the Oh, you can't celebrate anyone because they also
have flaws, sometimes big ones in their past, and therefore
you can't celebrate their accomplishments. I think MLK is going
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to make it really hard to cut after Thomas Jefferson
and George Washington and other people for things in their backgrounds,
because he is going to have a lot of skeletons
in his closet on a personal level, to your percenting,
doesn't distract from what he accomplished.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Right, Well, what you're saying is true for someone like
you who approaches this with with with a principle in mind.
For a lot of people that they just like two standards,
so they could say, well, MLK is perfect and he's
a saint and Thomas Jefferson was horrible and own slave.
You know, this is not going to change their areas.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
It's actually going to be even worse than that, Buck,
it's going to be. I think you're gonna hear this
is an attempt by the Trump administration to tear down
a black civil rights hero by tarnishing his legacy and
sharing more of.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
The historical record. That's the argument.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
That's what the al Sharptons of the world are gonna say,
That's what the Jesse Jacksons of the world are gonna say.
Just preparing you, I actually think to your point, for
anybody who is a principled student of history, I use
this an example of what Taylor Branch America and the
King Year incredible trilogy he wrote, and he just paraphrasing
told me directly when when he was criticized for writing
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about a lot of these things in his books, he said,
imagine what you with no flaws in your background, should
be capable of accomplishing, given what Martin Luther King accomplished
with all of these flaws. And it's a really good
way to push it back on other people, because we're
all flawed. And I'm cautiously optimistic that we're coming through
what I would call the puritanical era of history where
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you have to pretend that because somebody screwed something up
in their life that they're not worthy of lionization. And
if we all acknowledge that all of us are screwed up,
but we can still accomplish great things, then I think
we're in a better place historically.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
But we'll see how I think we are. I think
we are for four years. We'll see what happens after that.
You know, the empire will strike back at some point.
But let's get back to Caroline Levity here for a second.
So Clay, we actually haven't discussed this yet. This is
getting a lot of attention, certainly inside of these See
the White House has paused all federal grants right now.
This was as of this morning Washington Post reporting White
(26:07):
House Budget Office ordering a pause to all grants and
loans dispersed by the federal government. According to an internal
eight internal memo sent to agencies, two page document, Acting
Director of White House OMB instructs federal agencies to temporarily
pause all activities related to obligations or disbursement of all
federal financial assistance. So Caroline Levitt addressed this just now
(26:32):
in the press conference. Here's what this is. Cut thirty
play it.
Speaker 5 (26:35):
The reason for this is to ensure that every penny
that is going out the door is not conflicting with
the executive orders and actions that this president has taken.
So what does this pause mean. It means no more
funding for illegal DEI programs. It means no more funding
for the Green New scam that has cost American taxpayers
tens of billions of dollars. It means no more funding
(26:57):
for transgenderism and woe across our federal bureaucracy and agencies.
No more funding for Green New Deal social engineering policies. Again,
people who are receiving individual ass assistance, you will continue
to receive that President Trump is looking out for you
by issuing this pause, because he is being good steward
of your taxpayer dollars.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
I think the more people find out clay about the
kind of money that's being distributed and without anyone even
paying attention from the federal government again, the better it
will be for those of us who say, hold on
a second, what's going on here? Because people have no
idea how their money is being wasted, and it is
the public's money, I think so.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
And this is why one of the big battles out
there is going to be how much discretionary funding is
actually available when we come back.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Buck.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Caroline Levitt also went off on what will happen if
you enter the country illegally again. She is making her
first White House statement as the Press secretary, A big
upgrade there from Koreem's Jean Pierre. Remember, Karine Jean Pierre
refused to let John Kirby. According to reports, Buck come
out on her final day at the White House Press
Secretary to talk about the deal in ceasefire in Gaza
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because she didn't want the attention taken away from her.
Just to kind of contextualize this, this is a story.
We didn't talk about it because it was going into
the weekend. I think when the ceasefire was taken care of.
I believe the final White House Press briefing was on
a Friday, maybe it was a Thursday, and John Kirby
requested the ability to come out and brief the White
(28:33):
House Press Corps on that deal which was going to
lead to the return of hostages and a ceasefire in Gaza,
and reports our Karine Jean Pierre would not allow him
to share the rostrum with her because she wanted all
the attention on her as the gay Black Press secretary
to go out in a blaze of what she continued
to considered to be glory, and I don't know they talked.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
About what she's going to do going forward.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Jinsaki immediately stepped in and took a job at MSNBC.
I don't know that we know what the expectation here
is for Karine Jean Pierre coming forward.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
We'll talk about that a little bit more.
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Speaker 1 (31:09):
Buck.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
I'm just I'm watching Caroline Levitt's White House Press Briefing
and we're going to play some more cuts of that
for you in the third hour. But I cannot impress
upon you how fabulous of a job she is doing,
particularly compared to the person Karine Jean Pierre that she
just replaced. And it is staggering how well she is
(31:34):
advocating for the president.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
I knew she would do a good job.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
This first White House Press briefing has been really staggeringly
well done, and we're going to play some of those
cuts for you. I think she is going to become
a superstar. And remember what we had her on four
years ago on this program when she was running for
Congress as a twenty six year old in New Hampshire.
(31:59):
She lost a there in a toss up district. She
is the youngest White House Press secretary ever. We've had
her on this show a lot over the years. We'll
have her on again. We told you we thought she
would do a good job. She's hitting a complete home
run in her inaugural White House Press briefing that is
just taking place while we've been live on the air
(32:20):
with all of you.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Yeah, I think she's been doing a phenomenal job. I
knew she would. We had said before she became the
White House Press Secretary that she would be the best
I think, the best role, or that would be the
job for her. So I'm not surprised at all by it.
And I think she's also very much ready to take
(32:42):
on the Democrats in that press briefing room. I think
they're going to be particularly they're gonna have a challenging
time with her. They're not going to be able to
rattle her. And I also think I've just never seen
the Democrats so completely ideologically neutered as they are right now.
(33:02):
I don't even I don't know what they think they
stand for. I don't know who their leaders are. It is.
I've never seen anything like this before. Maybe after Obama
won in you know, two thousand and nine, early on
the Republicans were in this kind of a position, but
it feels like that, it feels like they are just
(33:23):
they got they got nothing. And the people that Trump
is putting into these roles are particularly media savvy, Whether
it's Pete or it's Toulsi, or it's Cash or it's Caroline.
Caroline obviously has to be that's her job. But everyone
that he's putting in, they'll be able to take on
the press and be able to handle any hostile questioning
from Congress easily. Two things.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
One, I don't think Trump would have had anywhere near
as good of a team around him if he had
been re elected in twenty twenty. I think that being
in the wilderness for those four years showed him who
was tough and who was able to do the jobs
in a way that he didn't know in seventeen. Second
part of this buck Trump winning re election in twenty
(34:07):
twenty would have been a very newter Trump, given that
he would not have had control of the House, may
not have had control of the Senate. I think part
of the panic that you're seeing set in on the
Democrat side, as it pertains to opposition, is they don't
control anything, and I think they've been stunned at the
rapidity with which Trump has moved to enact so many
of his policies. And this is a credit, I think,
(34:29):
to a large extent Stephen Miller, who basically has the flood,
the zone perspective in play do everything all at once,
and they don't really have any idea how to respond,
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Speaker 2 (35:52):
When we come back, I want to I want to
play a cut for you from Bill Maher's show happened
on Friday night. We didn't play it yesterday of Stephen A. Smith,
who's probably the most prominent ESPN employee, and he says
in a sense that he regrets voting for Kamala Harris.
(36:12):
Do you buy it or do you think there are
a lot of false converts that are now pretending that
they are somewhere near being willing.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
To jump on the Trump train.
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But as soon as there's a little bit of criticism
out there, are they going to bail? How deep is
the change, how substantial is the coalition of new Trump supporters,
and how committed are some of those people to the cause.
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