August 1, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 2 of the Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show delivers a powerful and emotionally charged segment centered on urban crime, political accountability, and Senate gridlock, featuring exclusive interviews with Senator Bernie Moreno (OH) and Senator Markwayne Mullin (OK).
The hour opens with a deep dive into the viral Cincinnati mob attack on Holly, a middle-aged single mother of a special needs child, and her friend. Senator Moreno recounts the brutal incident, highlighting the failure of local law enforcement, the understaffed Cincinnati police department, and the lack of leadership response from figures like Congressman Greg Landsman and the city’s mayor. Moreno calls for urgent reform, threatening to push for federal funding suspension if Cincinnati fails to implement a safety plan within 30 days. The story underscores broader concerns about violent crime in American cities, with parallels drawn to issues in Columbus, Cleveland, Toledo, and Dayton.
The conversation pivots to media bias, with criticism of outlets like CNN and The New York Times for downplaying the attack and misidentifying Holly as a Russian national. The hosts and Moreno argue that if racial roles were reversed, the incident would dominate national headlines, sparking debates on white supremacy and racial justice.
Later in the hour, Senator Markwayne Mullin joins to discuss the Senate nomination bottleneck, revealing that Democrats have filibustered nearly every Trump administration nominee, breaking historical norms. Mullin outlines potential rule changes, including invoking the nuclear option, to overcome the gridlock and accelerate confirmations of U.S. attorneys, judges, and executive appointments.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton Show. Appreciate all
of you hanging out with us. We are rolling through
the Friday edition of the program, taking you into what
we hope is going to be a fabulous weekend. We've
got a couple of different guests coming to you this hour.
We're going to head to the Senate, Ohio Senator Bernie
Moreno about to be with us, and then Mark Wayne
(00:24):
Mullen from Oklahoma going to be with us. At the
bottom of the hour. We'll get into a variety of
different topics with them. And Senator Marino is with us.
Now let's go ahead and bring him up. One of
the reasons that Republicans have a fifty three to forty
seven majority in the Senate is he flipped Ohio Senate
seat and we're going to get into a bunch of
(00:44):
stuff with you. Senator congratulations again on the big win
back in November. But you have been aggressively following a
story that when megaviral, an attack on what appears to
be innocent people in the streets of Cincinnati that has
been in it feels like clarion call for many people
all over the country to acknowledge crimes of violence taking
(01:06):
place in many of our cities, and how they've been
allowed to happen. So let's start here for people who
do not know this story, kind of tell us a
little bit about it and what has happened to what
appeared to be a man and a woman who were
victims of violent mob beatings in the Cincinnati area, what
(01:27):
the response has been, and where we are. And thank
you for joining us in congrats again on your election
win in November.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Well, thank you very much. Let me just start saying
that Cincinnati is a great American city, amazing people, they're
amazing companies, is a storied city with amazing assets, but
with obscenely awful political leaders. So let me tell you
this story from the perspective of Holly. Holly's a middle
aged woman. She's a single mom of a special needs child,
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live not too far from downtown Cincinnati. She wanted to
have a night out. She hadn't had a night out
in a long time. You know, for those people who
have special needs children, as they know what this is like.
It's ay all consuming mission of love. So she decided
she was going to go celebrate a friend of her
with a friend of hers his sixty second birthday. She's
(02:18):
a little bit younger than that, but not much. They
went to downtown Cincinnati. They went to a nice club.
There's a jazz fest going on, so they participated in
those activities and went out to a place. As they
were walking out the door, a gentleman knocked him in
the head, and you saw a brawl that ensued. Now
I say brawl, probably a mob of fifty people attacked
(02:39):
this gentleman, knocked them unconscious three times on the ground,
drigged him by the foot into the middle of the street. Hawley,
of course, like any woman watching that, tried to stop
the fight, and a complete thug beat her to the
edge of her life, knocked her down on the ground.
Her head fell on the ground, she got unconscious. When
(03:01):
she woke up, as she told me the story, all
she could think about is just how much blood she saw.
I mean, just completely drenched with blood all over her. Finally,
towards the end, one police officer came over. The mob scattered.
The police didn't do much of a report, you know,
the society police unfortunately completely overwhelmed. They're down anywhere between
(03:25):
one hundred and three hundred officers. She went home in
an uber, didn't an ambulance that didn't go to the hospital,
no police report. Literally got on her phone, called an
uber and went home. Of course, when she got home,
realized the severity of her injuries, went to the hospital
and has had suffering from breathing problems, from cognitive issues. Again,
(03:47):
this is the lady who's literally this is attempted murder.
There's really no other way to say that. She was
knocked within an inch of her life. And here's what's
most distressing about this. You and I understand trolls online
and people online say the stupid thing. So I'm going
to talk to you about the leadership of the community,
the political leadership. The congressman for that area, Greg Lansman,
didn't make any comments about this. Instead was tweeting about
(04:11):
why we should send more money to Ukraine. Now, however
you may feel about Ukraine, when your citizens are viciously
attacked like that, I think that takes priority, at least
I think it should. The mayor had gone to a
Mayor's Misfit, a conference of misfit mayors up in Cleveland,
and then went to Canada on vacation. Didn't come back
until yesterday. This thing happened last Friday night. The vice
(04:31):
mayor didn't make a statement until yesterday, and basically her
statement was leave us alone. We don't have any help
or get here. The chief of police blamed social media
instead of acknowledging that they're down one hundred and three
hundred officers and said that the whole story wasn't exactly told.
I'm not sure what other story you want to know,
other than you had a middle aged woman that got
the crap keep out of her. Then a city council member,
(04:55):
Victoria Parks, remember that name, Victoria Parks. She went on
social media and that they deserved the beating they got.
You heard that right, that this midlgy woman who did
nothing other than to try to stop a mob from
killing her friend and got the life almost taken away
from her, got the beating she deserved. The judge Mallory
(05:19):
had set the guy who beat her up. He had
been in front of that judge a few weeks earlier
for all kinds of gun charges, led them off on
a four hundred dollars bail. This is top to bottom
system failure in the Cincinnati political leadership. I've told them
they have thirty days to put together a plan to
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protect the civil rights of their citizens, staff the police
properly and come up with a safety plan for their citizens.
And if they don't do that in the next thirty days,
the only tool I have is to ask the President
of United States to suspend federal funding to that city
until they do. Now, of course, the citizens have to
do the long term work, which is to get rid
(06:02):
of these morons and replace some top to bottom.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
That's an incredible story, and I want to make sure
our team clips it because I think you illustrated it
all so very well. We're talking to Senator Bernie Marino,
who is discussing what happened in Cincinnati.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Holly, you shared her photos.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
I want everybody to see them, and so I have
retweeted it. Let's make sure that the Clay and Bucks
social feed. They're brutal to look at. But to your point,
the fact that a police officer let her get into
an uber and after what happened to her is staggering
to me. I am somewhat encouraged. Jd Vance has spoken
(06:45):
out about this. I believe he lives in Cincinnati. The
veak Ramaswami aggressively has spoken out about this. I know
he's running for governor. You are speaking out aggressively about this,
and it sounds like a lot of citizens, including rests.
I saw the local downtown restaurant group, the Ruby conglomer
(07:06):
and I think they have a great steakhouse. I know
they've got one in Nashville. They got them all over
the place. But it sounds like citizens are using this
viral incident as evidence that they're fed up with what's
been allowed to take place in Cincinnati.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
And I think this is a sort.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Of a larger, smaller story of Cincinnati, but I think
every city in America has a story like this, which
is why it's caught so much fire.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Yeah, you're exactly right. I think this is a moment
where we say enough is enough. We're not just going
to continue to move out in the suburbs of rural
America to have law and order. We're going to take
back our great American cities. You see the Mindami movement,
I call it on the other side, which is lawlessness,
defunding the police, all kinds of insane communist policies. And
(07:52):
I think, honestly, as conservatives, by the way, as just
normal Americans, we gotta say no, I'm sorry. We're not
going to relinquish our Greater Amria and cities to the
to these lawless mobs. And we're gonna take our cities back.
And for me, that is restoring Cincinnati, the greatness, Columbus, Cleveland, Toledo, Dayton,
these are cities that have been completely mismanaged for decades.
(08:13):
You know, my wife is from near Chicago. She used
to love going to Chicago. After watching that video, my
wife is about Holly's age. If that happened to me
and my wife, I can't even imagine what this would
be feel What would if that was your mom? What
would you feel like if that happened to her? And
then I'll give you one little more wrinkle to the
(08:33):
story that's happening as I speak to you right now.
The police Department, now they deny that they did. The
New York Posts says they did. They claim that Holly
is a Russian national that fled back to her country
because of course Russia, Russia, Russia. Holly was born and
raised in Ohio, has no ties. She's Germanic background, has
no as are a lot of people there have nothing
(08:53):
to do with Russia. But you see how they're trying
to disparage her and the mob angry machine on the
Democrats side. These are evil, horrible people. And I said
to the chief of police, I actually told my team
to tell her I have no interest in talking to
her until they correct that record. Because the New York
Times ran a story the headline was Russian woman attacked.
(09:16):
It's not a Russian woman. It's an American citizen that
was brutally attacked, an innocent person. I was on with
another friend of yours earlier and he wanted to start
a gold fund Me. PAGES said, please don't do that
with Holly's permission. I called Holly just this morning and
she said, I really don't want anybody doing that for me.
(09:36):
This is somebody who just wanted She's just an normal
American you wants to live a good life. And the
idea that they even attempt to villify it. I called
Jake Tapper on Sunday. I asked Jake Tapper to cover
the story. He said he'd look into it. Silence from CNN. Silence.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Well, by the way, that's a you called Jake Tapper
to cover this story.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Let me tell you, Senator Marino covering the story that's
that's a waste of your phone call. I've known what
It is.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Interesting to point out because if you flip the races
here in any way, it would be the number one
story in America. We'd be having a national conversation about
white supremacy and how unsafe it is for black people
to go anywhere in this country. And the fact that
you got a mom of a special needs kid getting
knocked out in the streets of Cincinnati, it does say
something that's CNN and MSNBC.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
Just ye, I mean, there's also there's no we all
saw the video the woman getting attacked. She's doing She's
just trying to stop somebody from being beaten to death
in the street and then punch her in the face.
It's such a vicious and criminal thing to do. Fellon me,
criminal thing to do. Where's Governor Dawine on this center Marino,
what's up with him?
Speaker 2 (10:42):
So the governor, as this is even crazier part of
the story, So the governor offered the city of Cincinnati,
state highway patrols, all kinds of assets, different task forces
that he can bear, that bring to bear for Cincinnati
no charge. By the way, say, look the will provide this.
We won't charge you a cent. The vice mayor turned
(11:03):
it all down, and then the mayor over wrote her
and they took just a piece of it, which is
just this the troopers doing traffic routine, traffic stops. But
this was the mayor's like, we don't need any help.
We're good.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
So Governor de Wine wants to help, and they don't
want the help like they've got.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
They don't want to help. Great, and what's happened as
a result, two big conventions have been canceled this week
in Cincinnati, one company's leading downtown. We again, we can't
let this happen. We can't let our cities just just
be taken over by these lunatics. And by the way,
this is about the destruction of America. Let's just be
clear about that. This isn't about just Hawley. This is
(11:42):
a pattern of destruction of our country, starting with our
big cities, and we have to take those cities back.
And that's why I'm on this story. That's why we'll
be relentless on this story, because we cannot just turn
the other way and say, well, yeah, New York and
so is Chicago, and oh well no, we're gonna take
these cities. Fact, look what Preident Trump has done here
in Washington, d C. This is becoming a different place
(12:05):
because President Trump is said, I'm not putting up with it.
This should be a shining city. This is our nation's
capital and it's not going to be disgraced by moronic leaders.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Bernie, you mentioned the disaster.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
I thought press conference from Cincinnati's sheriff for the person
who's in charge in theory of protecting the people of Cincinnati.
What in the world are they even saying when she said, oh,
we don't have the full context of the video. Buck
and I came on and talked about this. I don't
know what context you need to see to know that
twenty dudes trying to beat up one other guy is
(12:38):
not in any way or I mean, this is not
self defense, This is not it no matter what happened.
Have they even tried to contextualize that and say what
she was even attempting to explain, do we have any idea?
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Well, what she's trying to do is just brush it
all onto the carpet, right, She's not explaining why she
didn't get called into an ambulance and taken to the hospital.
Immediately why there weren't cops on the scene, And the
answer is because she has to then admit they're down
anywhere between one hundred and ten to three hundred police officers.
And how do you let that happen? How do you
How are you a leader of a police department, a
police chief in a major American city and you and
(13:13):
you're down one hundred and three hundred officers? This is
this is insanity. And then to disparage the victim, by
the way, there's no context you need for Holly. Holly's
a middle aged woman that almost got murdered by a mob.
Totally yeah, right, so there's no context needed. That's it.
So look, the chief is a mess. We need a
top to bottom flushing out of political leaders there people
(13:38):
just care about one. It's very simple. This isn't a
complicated thing. When you get elected, your job is to
ensure the safety and prosperity of your citizens. That's it.
That's all you have to do. And this is the
opposite of that. It's it's sad because look again, Cincinnati
is an amazing, great place. We have all kinds of
incredible assets there with incredible people, and they just deserve
(13:59):
better and these leaders. It just can you imagine the
mayors in Canada? In Canada, he flipped the stript and
was there any context that George Floyd, Was there any
conversations about maybe this or maybe that, when in reality
there needed to be a lot more conversation there, but
instead that caused their entire country to have our cities
(14:20):
burned down. And here it's like, well it doesn't fit
our narrative. Jake Tapper would become a citizen of Cincinnati
if the races were flipped, he'd be broadcasting their live
for any years.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
In your mind, based on what you've seen, do you
think race played in? We got to go quickly. But
I'm just curious she thinks it did.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
You know, I wasn't there whether she feels definitely that
it did. That they were one hundred percent targeted. They
think it was a setup. That's why they think so
many cameras are there. I don't know about that. You know,
Cash Betel and Attorney General Pambondi and Harvey Dillon are
going to be leading an investigation there, so they're going
to answer those questions. All I know is a middle
(15:01):
aged woman from Ohio should be able to go to
dinner in Cincinnati and not get beaten to dusk. Very simple.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
Hey Man Center, Marino Sanity, thank you so much. Appreciate
you calling in. We'll talk to you. And anytime you
need someone who's going to talk about important stories and
bring some ethics to it, you need to come to
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Man. Well, by the way, you have ten times more
people that listen to you, so that you're also true,
also true, welcome any time, Centator, Thank you so much.
Thank you. Guys.
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Speaker 1 (16:51):
Welcome back in Bernie Marino. I thought that is a
story that has a lot of legs and I think
is important and it's not going to shock you that
you will find almost no coverage of it in many
of the outlets that focus on the left from legacy media.
They're just pretending it didn't happen. Even though it's on video.
(17:13):
Encourage you to go check out again. It's awful, but
you need to see what happened to this woman, Holly,
who's out for a night out on the town. Could
be anybody out there and suddenly gets attacked by a mob.
There need to be severe consequences. Also, speaking of news,
we'll talk about this a bit more. We're about to
be joined by Senator Mark Wayne Mullen of Oklahoma coming back.
(17:36):
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on the highly provocative statements of the former President of Russia,
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just in case these foolish and inflammatory statements are more
(17:56):
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Speaker 3 (19:01):
Appreciate all of you hanging out with us. You just
heard us talking.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
With Senator Bernie Marino about everything going on right now
surrounding that awful situation in Cincinnati. I mentioned that we
would be talking to another senator. He's joining us now,
Mark Wwayne Mullen, Senator. Appreciate you joining us. I think
the last time I saw you was pretty awesome. Event
was the NCAA Wrestling Championships. President Trump was there. It
(19:28):
was incredible in Philadelphia, so it was good to meet
you in person. There there's a huge back bottleneck right
now inside of the Senate, one hundred and fifty different
some odd nominations being held up. What's the latest there
and what should happen in your mind with that bottleneck?
Speaker 6 (19:48):
Well, I wanted to talk about that because I just
want to point out something. The Democrats always talk about diversity,
but I want to talk about the diversity inside the
inside the Republican commerce. I mean, just look at the
difference the way that Bernie and I are built. I mean,
Bernie is built like a tech guy and I'm built
like an athlete. See, there's a big diversity between the two.
(20:09):
I mean, if you know Bernie, I mean he's a
he's a car salesman, and you know I was. I
was a plumber. But if you also also know that
he he he, Bernie could become a professional in one sport.
By the way, you're not fighting, obviously, he's probably one
of the best pickleball players I've ever played against.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
What is his strength on? You know, by the way,
I played pickleball for the first time ever. My wife
Laura got me out there. We had a good time. Yeah,
what's his what's his strength as a pickleball player.
Speaker 6 (20:37):
He is very precise with his hits, and he can
get more spin and lift off the ball that I've
ever seen.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
He is.
Speaker 6 (20:47):
He is a technician when it comes to it, and
it drives me freaking. He will make me run all
over court and he won't move two steps and it
makes me so mad. In the matter you get at
pick a ball, the worse you get. And that is
not my strength.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
That's really funny.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Told that up.
Speaker 6 (21:03):
So the bottleneck. So dealing with the bottleneck. We have
a unique situation going on right now, is you know.
And I just want to throw some numbers out there
to you. In Bush forty one, ninety eight percent of
his civilian nominees, which is ninety nine percent of the
nominees we do. Ninety eight percent went by either UC
which is unanimous consent or a voice vote, meaning that
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the Senate actually never had to take a vote on it,
and it speeds a process up in Obama or Clinton,
I'm sorry. Ninety eight percent of his nominees also went
through by boy volte or unonymous consent ierneed Bush forty three,
ninety percent of his went through ninety percent of Obama's
went through, and then when Trump came in, that's when
(21:49):
this first term, that's when the bottleneck happened. And so
this time last year or this time in twenty seventeen,
there was only fifty five nominees that Trump had got through.
Now we have already confirmed one hundred and twenty one nominees.
But this is the first time in history in history
(22:10):
that a president of the United States has not had
one single nominee go by unanimous consent or voice vote.
In fact, the only nominee that hasn't been philibustered is
Marco Rubio and that was our very first one. Every
since then, they had literally philibustered every single nominee, which
(22:33):
is why we had this bottleneck. But we're still we
still have one hundred and twenty one compared to President
Trump's first term for fifty five. So Food has done
really good at saying we're going to do this hard
way or the easy way. And that's why this Congress
has voted more times than any Congress in three hundred
or the last thirty five years, because we're having to
take it takes four votes per nominee to get him confirmed,
(22:56):
and that's crazy if you think about that, because we
have to vote to go in and out of session,
meaning we got to go from legislation session to executive session.
We got to vote to invote culture, we got to
vote to end culture, and then we got to vote
on the nominee. So it is, it's a it's a
it's a long process, and underneath the current process, it's
(23:17):
it's impossible to do if you do it all in
one day, if you take everyone of those votes every
every day, it's it's almost impossible to do more.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Than to a day.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
So what should happen now, Senator?
Speaker 4 (23:31):
What what do you want to see to break the logjam?
But we've had a few of your colleagues on talking
about this. I've been very frustrated by this. I've seen
Democrats once again. Of course, they're in the break the
glass era of anything goes to stop Donald Trump in
whatever way they can, as petty as it has to be.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
They don't care.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
They're stopping US attorneys from getting through, they're stopping judges
from getting through. All good faith out the window.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
So what do we do? What do you want to
see your Republican colleagues do?
Speaker 6 (23:58):
It only leads us with really choice if they won't
allow the log in to be broken, start allowing bipartisan nominees,
at least those that are come out of committee and
a bipartisan vote. We have fifty five of those setting
right now. If they would at least allow those fifty
five to come through in a voice vote or a
(24:19):
UC un consent, then if they won't allow us at
least do that, then we don't have a choice about
to change the rules. That's kind of the nuclear option,
because it goes two ways, right, if you do the
nuclear option, and then the nuke option will always stay
in place. Harry Reid kind of did this, and then
Chuck Schumer really did this in twenty seventeen, which Mitch
McConnell the irony of that, mch McConnell actually warned about
(24:42):
where we're going to be if that happens, and sure enough,
is exactly what he said in twenty seventeen is where
we're at. And that's when they ended the debate on
every nominee being thirty hours to two hours. And what
you're probably going to see is that we're going to
have to take that option even farther to where instead
of having four votes well, we've got to go in
and out of executive session. Will do a day where
(25:03):
you just you stay in executive session all day and
you limit the eight to maybe fifteen minutes, or you
limit the bait to ten minutes, or you'd or you
limit or you or that you make the nominees where
they're non debatable. Even at that, with the way the
rules are in the Senate, you could get done about
two an hour if you were to do If you
(25:24):
could get that passed. The problem we have in the
Senate is we have some old guards that wanted to
want to protect the quarm what they call it, the
way the Senate's always operated, and they don't want to
change it. And so we have some people that are
very protective of those rules. And to get fifty one
(25:45):
votes on there, I believe we can do that. I
wouldn't be surprised if if if Jade Vance would have
to come up here, a vice president would have to
come up here and break the tie, because I think
we'd probably lose some and he would have to come
up and break However, that's probably going to be our option,
and that's actually what we're currently talking about as you
(26:06):
and I speak I stepped out of a conference that
we're having, and this has been a very structured and
passionate meeting that I stepped out of to discuss what
our next options are. And I believe the Democrats are
going to force this, so it wouldn't be us changing
the rules. They have got away from the decorm the
Senators and on the Senate side, from the Democrats. On
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the on the Democrat side, I mean, underneath the leadership
of Chuck Schumer, they have got away from the decorm
or the Senate, which is going to.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Force the rules to change.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
We were just talking about earlier in the show the craziness.
You were talking about the difference in the Republican caucus
in the Senate. You got Eric Swallwell posting videos of
him bench pressing one hundred and thirty five pounds, which
is good, you know, maybe good for my ninth grade
son who's trying out for a football team.
Speaker 6 (26:57):
Pounds.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
Come on, oh man, what updates all?
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Well?
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Yeah, so you understand, like, yeah, hey, if you're a
one plate on the bench guy like that doesn't really
motivate a lot of guys to think, hey, this is
a big this is a dude that I can look
up to. But you also have you know, this Sidney
Sweeney thing has taken over all week where you got
a pretty girl doing a Jeens commercial and h and
Democrats have decided basically that this is a code word
(27:25):
for Nazism. Big picture here, did you ever think that
Democrats would go this insane? And what Buck and I
were talking about is privately, are there guys on the
Senate floor who are Democrats and they just will say
to you privately like this whole men and women's sports
is just absolutely insane. I mean, they still have to
have some dudes right even on the Democrats side, who
(27:47):
privately will point out that this is just absolute insanity.
Or are they like that in private too. I'm not
asking you to out guys who say it necessarily, but
I'm just kind of curious and normal guy conversations. Do
acrats acknowledge how ridiculous all this is?
Speaker 6 (28:02):
And they this is this is quote what they say,
we have lost lost her f in mind, I didn't
say the whole word. I said they they say that,
And yes there is several of the guys and some
of the ladies.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
Oh they just.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Us Okay, there we go. So you got cut off
there for a sec. You said, there's several guys and
some of the women that will say privately, this is crazy.
Speaker 6 (28:31):
Yeah, well that actually say we've lost her ever loving
mind or their fing mind. Yeah, And and they they
absolutely have. But this that they can't move. And the
reason why they can't move is because they would lose
their primary election because their their party has went so
far that they can yes, win a primary, but they're
going to have a hard time winning the general. That's
why you see these polls, it's that there's a thirty
(28:52):
point swing between favorable and unfearriable. Is because this base,
their base has become so woke, so so list, so
anti everything that makes common sense that they can't move.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Off of it.
Speaker 6 (29:07):
But that's the base they built. And it started honestly
during the twenty fifteen twenty sixteen election, and they and
then and then they just fed into it for four
years underneath President the Trump's first term. And and and
they they wanted they I mean, I that debatable if
they want an election. I actually don't say that, but
I'm just saying they put Biden office one way the
next and and at the and then at the during
(29:30):
that four years. It destroyed our economy, destroyed the morale
and and the and the service industry. It destroyed the
morale and and and uh within our men and women
in uniform. It destroyed the the morale of our uh,
you know, of just common sense and and in any
day walk of life. We saw what happened in schools.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
We saw it.
Speaker 6 (29:52):
Happen during the school boards. I mean, it just got crazy.
And American people woke up and said we're not doing
that anymore, and they put President Trump back in office.
They can get away from that baso. But privately they
know it's destroying their party. I think if they had
their choice, they would love to go back and to
the JFK Democrats. But you see what happened to Chuck Schumer.
(30:13):
Let's just look at what happened to Chuck Schumer. Chuck
Schumer voted with us to do a continued resolution to
keep to keep the government open. He got destroyed at home.
I mean, here's a guy that's never had a tough
reelection and he got destroyed at home. And now AOC
is threatened to run against him. His behavior changed so
(30:34):
much because now he can't allow AOC to be to
his left that now he has to behave just like that,
which is causing them to not be reasonable on anything
we're doing moving forward.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Good studer, Senator, We appreciate the time. Good luck on
the pickle ball court. Tell Bernie that that will challenge
him at some point.
Speaker 6 (30:55):
I will never play Bernie Marino in pick a ball
ever again. Ever, it was the most unblin thing I've
ever had done to me in my life.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
Tell your wife congrats.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
By the way, I'm being able to out bench the
most manly democrat of all, which is obviously Eric.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
Yeah, mister, thank you all right, appreciate that. I have
a good week.
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Speaker 1 (32:35):
Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton Show. Appreciate all
of you hanging out with us as we are rolling
through the program. Good stuff from Senator Bernie Marino and
from Senator Mark Wayne Mullen. There we got a bunch
of you weighing in on a variety of different topics.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
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Speaker 1 (32:56):
Is the talkback working again now? Because I see it
looks like we have a new talkback, so it is
back up and running. Let's first hit AA and get
that response from the talkback universe.
Speaker 7 (33:09):
Fire away, guys, Clay, I can't stand it anymore. I
just saw you on Jesse. You need help. Your clothes
man in a bad way. I've been in the clothing business,
cust and clothing business forty years. If you want some help,
tell your staff to call me. I won't charge anything
for the console, just I'll just show you what to buy.
(33:30):
Call me.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
You need help horribly. I need help horribly.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
I thought I actually looked okay. Every time I go
on television, people don't did you hear that?
Speaker 3 (33:41):
Buck?
Speaker 1 (33:42):
People don't pay attention at all to what I say.
And it doesn't matter what I wear. I could go
on television in a full tuxedo and people would be
reacting angrily to what I'm wearing. I'm on television with
Fox News almost every day. I gotta have a bunch
of different blazers, you know this, buck Like, I'm usually
in shorts. Otherwise it's not like I'm dressed, you know.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
To the tea here.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
I thought I actually looked pretty solid. So I wear
a lot of different color blazers. Guys, just tee it
off on me. Last night, I go on Jesse Waters,
doesn't point out the brilliant arguments I made, doesn't point
out any of the great lines.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
Just put teas off on me. On clothes, sometimes.
Speaker 4 (34:17):
You look a little bit like you're trying to offer
somebody a great deal on a timeshare.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
But you know your analysis is very high level. I
don't even know what that look. I don't.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
I'm clearly not an expert on clothing, but I bet
if I took a picture, I bet I have twenty
five different suit coats, sport coats, whatever you want to
call them, in my closet, and I don't always want
to wear the same color, so I try to wear
a different one, like a rotation of like question for.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
You, this is important. Laura is very well dressed. Carrie
is very well dressed. Like they have style and fashion. Carrie.
Sometimes I'm just gonna say it, shell.
Speaker 4 (34:56):
Veto like there was there was the home Depot shirt
in incident of twenty earlier twenty twenty four. I thought
I was wearing a cool kind of electric blue polo,
and she was like, am I getting a deal on
a new washer dryer like she did not like. Didn't
she say that you were going to work at best Buy?
That was best?
Speaker 5 (35:15):
Fine?
Speaker 4 (35:15):
I'm sorry, yeah, I said home deep, I'm in best Buy? Yes,
the best Buy incident of twenty twenty four, which everyone
agreed with her. And by the way, I gave that
shirt away. I'm just gonna tell you I actually gave
it away. Clay does ever veto does she have to veto?
What you wear?
Speaker 3 (35:32):
She does occasionally veto.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
What I have found to be the far more common
wife response is are you gonna wear that?
Speaker 3 (35:40):
Are you just the question are you gonna wear that?
Is that what you're wearing?
Speaker 1 (35:44):
Not even you shouldn't be wearing that, as if it's
my choice to change. But it's just like the question
of are you gonna wear that? That's the bless your
heart of the fashion world. I will also, to be fair,
point out that I have been married for twenty one
year roughly I've been asked probably eighteen thousand, six hundred
(36:04):
and forty eight times what should I wear? Meaning she
asks me about events that we are going to and
then doesn't listen a single time.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
Well, I don't know the answer. I've never known what
my wife should wear to any event. In twenty one
years of marriage, still don't have no idea.
Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton Show. Appreciate all
of you hanging out with us. We are rolling through
the Friday edition of the program, taking you into what
we hope is going to be a fabulous weekend. We've
got a couple of different guests coming to you this hour.
We're going to head to the Senate, Ohio Senator Bernie
Moreno about to be with us, and then Mark Wayne
(00:24):
Mullen from Oklahoma going to be with us. At the
bottom of the hour. We'll get into a variety of
different topics with them. And Senator Marino is with us.
Now let's go ahead and bring him up. One of
the reasons that Republicans have a fifty three to forty
seven majority in the Senate is he flipped Ohio Senate
seat and we're going to get into a bunch of
(00:44):
stuff with you. Senator congratulations again on the big win
back in November. But you have been aggressively following a
story that when megaviral, an attack on what appears to
be innocent people in the streets of Cincinnati that has
been in it feels like clarion call for many people
all over the country to acknowledge crimes of violence taking
(01:06):
place in many of our cities, and how they've been
allowed to happen. So let's start here for people who
do not know this story, kind of tell us a
little bit about it and what has happened to what
appeared to be a man and a woman who were
victims of violent mob beatings in the Cincinnati area, what
(01:27):
the response has been, and where we are. And thank
you for joining us in congrats again on your election
win in November.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Well, thank you very much. Let me just start saying
that Cincinnati is a great American city, amazing people, they're
amazing companies, is a storied city with amazing assets, but
with obscenely awful political leaders. So let me tell you
this story from the perspective of Holly. Holly's a middle
aged woman. She's a single mom of a special needs child,
(01:57):
live not too far from downtown Cincinnati. She wanted to
have a night out. She hadn't had a night out
in a long time. You know, for those people who
have special needs children, as they know what this is like.
It's ay all consuming mission of love. So she decided
she was going to go celebrate a friend of her
with a friend of hers his sixty second birthday. She's
(02:18):
a little bit younger than that, but not much. They
went to downtown Cincinnati. They went to a nice club.
There's a jazz fest going on, so they participated in
those activities and went out to a place. As they
were walking out the door, a gentleman knocked him in
the head, and you saw a brawl that ensued. Now
I say brawl, probably a mob of fifty people attacked
(02:39):
this gentleman, knocked them unconscious three times on the ground,
drigged him by the foot into the middle of the street. Hawley,
of course, like any woman watching that, tried to stop
the fight, and a complete thug beat her to the
edge of her life, knocked her down on the ground.
Her head fell on the ground, she got unconscious. When
(03:01):
she woke up, as she told me the story, all
she could think about is just how much blood she saw.
I mean, just completely drenched with blood all over her. Finally,
towards the end, one police officer came over. The mob scattered.
The police didn't do much of a report, you know,
the society police unfortunately completely overwhelmed. They're down anywhere between
(03:25):
one hundred and three hundred officers. She went home in
an uber, didn't an ambulance that didn't go to the hospital,
no police report. Literally got on her phone, called an
uber and went home. Of course, when she got home,
realized the severity of her injuries, went to the hospital
and has had suffering from breathing problems, from cognitive issues. Again,
(03:47):
this is the lady who's literally this is attempted murder.
There's really no other way to say that. She was
knocked within an inch of her life. And here's what's
most distressing about this. You and I understand trolls online
and people online say the stupid thing. So I'm going
to talk to you about the leadership of the community,
the political leadership. The congressman for that area, Greg Lansman,
didn't make any comments about this. Instead was tweeting about
(04:11):
why we should send more money to Ukraine. Now, however
you may feel about Ukraine, when your citizens are viciously
attacked like that, I think that takes priority, at least
I think it should. The mayor had gone to a
Mayor's Misfit, a conference of misfit mayors up in Cleveland,
and then went to Canada on vacation. Didn't come back
until yesterday. This thing happened last Friday night. The vice
(04:31):
mayor didn't make a statement until yesterday, and basically her
statement was leave us alone. We don't have any help
or get here. The chief of police blamed social media
instead of acknowledging that they're down one hundred and three
hundred officers and said that the whole story wasn't exactly told.
I'm not sure what other story you want to know,
other than you had a middle aged woman that got
the crap keep out of her. Then a city council member,
(04:55):
Victoria Parks, remember that name, Victoria Parks. She went on
social media and that they deserved the beating they got.
You heard that right, that this midlgy woman who did
nothing other than to try to stop a mob from
killing her friend and got the life almost taken away
from her, got the beating she deserved. The judge Mallory
(05:19):
had set the guy who beat her up. He had
been in front of that judge a few weeks earlier
for all kinds of gun charges, led them off on
a four hundred dollars bail. This is top to bottom
system failure in the Cincinnati political leadership. I've told them
they have thirty days to put together a plan to
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protect the civil rights of their citizens, staff the police
properly and come up with a safety plan for their citizens.
And if they don't do that in the next thirty days,
the only tool I have is to ask the President
of United States to suspend federal funding to that city
until they do. Now, of course, the citizens have to
do the long term work, which is to get rid
(06:02):
of these morons and replace some top to bottom.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
That's an incredible story, and I want to make sure
our team clips it because I think you illustrated it
all so very well. We're talking to Senator Bernie Marino,
who is discussing what happened in Cincinnati.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Holly, you shared her photos.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
I want everybody to see them, and so I have
retweeted it. Let's make sure that the Clay and Bucks
social feed. They're brutal to look at. But to your point,
the fact that a police officer let her get into
an uber and after what happened to her is staggering
to me. I am somewhat encouraged. Jd Vance has spoken
(06:45):
out about this. I believe he lives in Cincinnati. The
veak Ramaswami aggressively has spoken out about this. I know
he's running for governor. You are speaking out aggressively about this,
and it sounds like a lot of citizens, including rests.
I saw the local downtown restaurant group, the Ruby conglomer
(07:06):
and I think they have a great steakhouse. I know
they've got one in Nashville. They got them all over
the place. But it sounds like citizens are using this
viral incident as evidence that they're fed up with what's
been allowed to take place in Cincinnati.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
And I think this is a sort.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Of a larger, smaller story of Cincinnati, but I think
every city in America has a story like this, which
is why it's caught so much fire.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Yeah, you're exactly right. I think this is a moment
where we say enough is enough. We're not just going
to continue to move out in the suburbs of rural
America to have law and order. We're going to take
back our great American cities. You see the Mindami movement,
I call it on the other side, which is lawlessness,
defunding the police, all kinds of insane communist policies. And
(07:52):
I think, honestly, as conservatives, by the way, as just
normal Americans, we gotta say no, I'm sorry. We're not
going to relinquish our Greater Amria and cities to the
to these lawless mobs. And we're gonna take our cities back.
And for me, that is restoring Cincinnati, the greatness, Columbus, Cleveland, Toledo, Dayton,
these are cities that have been completely mismanaged for decades.
(08:13):
You know, my wife is from near Chicago. She used
to love going to Chicago. After watching that video, my
wife is about Holly's age. If that happened to me
and my wife, I can't even imagine what this would
be feel What would if that was your mom? What
would you feel like if that happened to her? And
then I'll give you one little more wrinkle to the
(08:33):
story that's happening as I speak to you right now.
The police Department, now they deny that they did. The
New York Posts says they did. They claim that Holly
is a Russian national that fled back to her country
because of course Russia, Russia, Russia. Holly was born and
raised in Ohio, has no ties. She's Germanic background, has
no as are a lot of people there have nothing
(08:53):
to do with Russia. But you see how they're trying
to disparage her and the mob angry machine on the
Democrats side. These are evil, horrible people. And I said
to the chief of police, I actually told my team
to tell her I have no interest in talking to
her until they correct that record. Because the New York
Times ran a story the headline was Russian woman attacked.
(09:16):
It's not a Russian woman. It's an American citizen that
was brutally attacked, an innocent person. I was on with
another friend of yours earlier and he wanted to start
a gold fund Me. PAGES said, please don't do that
with Holly's permission. I called Holly just this morning and
she said, I really don't want anybody doing that for me.
(09:36):
This is somebody who just wanted She's just an normal
American you wants to live a good life. And the
idea that they even attempt to villify it. I called
Jake Tapper on Sunday. I asked Jake Tapper to cover
the story. He said he'd look into it. Silence from CNN. Silence.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Well, by the way, that's a you called Jake Tapper
to cover this story.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Let me tell you, Senator Marino covering the story that's
that's a waste of your phone call. I've known what
It is.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Interesting to point out because if you flip the races
here in any way, it would be the number one
story in America. We'd be having a national conversation about
white supremacy and how unsafe it is for black people
to go anywhere in this country. And the fact that
you got a mom of a special needs kid getting
knocked out in the streets of Cincinnati, it does say
something that's CNN and MSNBC.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
Just ye, I mean, there's also there's no we all
saw the video the woman getting attacked. She's doing She's
just trying to stop somebody from being beaten to death
in the street and then punch her in the face.
It's such a vicious and criminal thing to do. Fellon me,
criminal thing to do. Where's Governor Dawine on this center Marino,
what's up with him?
Speaker 2 (10:42):
So the governor, as this is even crazier part of
the story, So the governor offered the city of Cincinnati,
state highway patrols, all kinds of assets, different task forces
that he can bear, that bring to bear for Cincinnati
no charge. By the way, say, look the will provide this.
We won't charge you a cent. The vice mayor turned
(11:03):
it all down, and then the mayor over wrote her
and they took just a piece of it, which is
just this the troopers doing traffic routine, traffic stops. But
this was the mayor's like, we don't need any help.
We're good.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
So Governor de Wine wants to help, and they don't
want the help like they've got.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
They don't want to help. Great, and what's happened as
a result, two big conventions have been canceled this week
in Cincinnati, one company's leading downtown. We again, we can't
let this happen. We can't let our cities just just
be taken over by these lunatics. And by the way,
this is about the destruction of America. Let's just be
clear about that. This isn't about just Hawley. This is
(11:42):
a pattern of destruction of our country, starting with our
big cities, and we have to take those cities back.
And that's why I'm on this story. That's why we'll
be relentless on this story, because we cannot just turn
the other way and say, well, yeah, New York and
so is Chicago, and oh well no, we're gonna take
these cities. Fact, look what Preident Trump has done here
in Washington, d C. This is becoming a different place
(12:05):
because President Trump is said, I'm not putting up with it.
This should be a shining city. This is our nation's
capital and it's not going to be disgraced by moronic leaders.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Bernie, you mentioned the disaster.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
I thought press conference from Cincinnati's sheriff for the person
who's in charge in theory of protecting the people of Cincinnati.
What in the world are they even saying when she said, oh,
we don't have the full context of the video. Buck
and I came on and talked about this. I don't
know what context you need to see to know that
twenty dudes trying to beat up one other guy is
(12:38):
not in any way or I mean, this is not
self defense, This is not it no matter what happened.
Have they even tried to contextualize that and say what
she was even attempting to explain, do we have any idea?
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Well, what she's trying to do is just brush it
all onto the carpet, right, She's not explaining why she
didn't get called into an ambulance and taken to the hospital.
Immediately why there weren't cops on the scene, And the
answer is because she has to then admit they're down
anywhere between one hundred and ten to three hundred police officers.
And how do you let that happen? How do you
How are you a leader of a police department, a
police chief in a major American city and you and
(13:13):
you're down one hundred and three hundred officers? This is
this is insanity. And then to disparage the victim, by
the way, there's no context you need for Holly. Holly's
a middle aged woman that almost got murdered by a mob.
Totally yeah, right, so there's no context needed. That's it.
So look, the chief is a mess. We need a
top to bottom flushing out of political leaders there people
(13:38):
just care about one. It's very simple. This isn't a
complicated thing. When you get elected, your job is to
ensure the safety and prosperity of your citizens. That's it.
That's all you have to do. And this is the
opposite of that. It's it's sad because look again, Cincinnati
is an amazing, great place. We have all kinds of
incredible assets there with incredible people, and they just deserve
(13:59):
better and these leaders. It just can you imagine the
mayors in Canada? In Canada, he flipped the stript and
was there any context that George Floyd, Was there any
conversations about maybe this or maybe that, when in reality
there needed to be a lot more conversation there, but
instead that caused their entire country to have our cities
(14:20):
burned down. And here it's like, well it doesn't fit
our narrative. Jake Tapper would become a citizen of Cincinnati
if the races were flipped, he'd be broadcasting their live
for any years.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
In your mind, based on what you've seen, do you
think race played in? We got to go quickly. But
I'm just curious she thinks it did.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
You know, I wasn't there whether she feels definitely that
it did. That they were one hundred percent targeted. They
think it was a setup. That's why they think so
many cameras are there. I don't know about that. You know,
Cash Betel and Attorney General Pambondi and Harvey Dillon are
going to be leading an investigation there, so they're going
to answer those questions. All I know is a middle
(15:01):
aged woman from Ohio should be able to go to
dinner in Cincinnati and not get beaten to dusk. Very simple.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
Hey Man Center, Marino Sanity, thank you so much. Appreciate
you calling in. We'll talk to you. And anytime you
need someone who's going to talk about important stories and
bring some ethics to it, you need to come to
Clay and Buck, don't go over to CNN.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Man. Well, by the way, you have ten times more
people that listen to you, so that you're also true,
also true, welcome any time, Centator, Thank you so much.
Thank you. Guys.
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Speaker 1 (16:51):
Welcome back in Bernie Marino. I thought that is a
story that has a lot of legs and I think
is important and it's not going to shock you that
you will find almost no coverage of it in many
of the outlets that focus on the left from legacy media.
They're just pretending it didn't happen. Even though it's on video.
(17:13):
Encourage you to go check out again. It's awful, but
you need to see what happened to this woman, Holly,
who's out for a night out on the town. Could
be anybody out there and suddenly gets attacked by a mob.
There need to be severe consequences. Also, speaking of news,
we'll talk about this a bit more. We're about to
be joined by Senator Mark Wayne Mullen of Oklahoma coming back.
(17:36):
But Trump just posted in the last few minutes, based
on the highly provocative statements of the former President of Russia,
Dmitri Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Security Council, I've ordered
two nuclear submarines to be positioned in the appropriate regions
just in case these foolish and inflammatory statements are more
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than just that. Words are very important, hush. The situation
in Russia and Ukraine seems to be increasing in significance
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Speaker 3 (19:01):
Appreciate all of you hanging out with us. You just
heard us talking.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
With Senator Bernie Marino about everything going on right now
surrounding that awful situation in Cincinnati. I mentioned that we
would be talking to another senator. He's joining us now,
Mark Wwayne Mullen, Senator. Appreciate you joining us. I think
the last time I saw you was pretty awesome. Event
was the NCAA Wrestling Championships. President Trump was there. It
(19:28):
was incredible in Philadelphia, so it was good to meet
you in person. There there's a huge back bottleneck right
now inside of the Senate, one hundred and fifty different
some odd nominations being held up. What's the latest there
and what should happen in your mind with that bottleneck?
Speaker 6 (19:48):
Well, I wanted to talk about that because I just
want to point out something. The Democrats always talk about diversity,
but I want to talk about the diversity inside the
inside the Republican commerce. I mean, just look at the
difference the way that Bernie and I are built. I mean,
Bernie is built like a tech guy and I'm built
like an athlete. See, there's a big diversity between the two.
(20:09):
I mean, if you know Bernie, I mean he's a
he's a car salesman, and you know I was. I
was a plumber. But if you also also know that
he he he, Bernie could become a professional in one sport.
By the way, you're not fighting, obviously, he's probably one
of the best pickleball players I've ever played against.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
What is his strength on? You know, by the way,
I played pickleball for the first time ever. My wife
Laura got me out there. We had a good time. Yeah,
what's his what's his strength as a pickleball player.
Speaker 6 (20:37):
He is very precise with his hits, and he can
get more spin and lift off the ball that I've
ever seen.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
He is.
Speaker 6 (20:47):
He is a technician when it comes to it, and
it drives me freaking. He will make me run all
over court and he won't move two steps and it
makes me so mad. In the matter you get at
pick a ball, the worse you get. And that is
not my strength.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
That's really funny.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Told that up.
Speaker 6 (21:03):
So the bottleneck. So dealing with the bottleneck. We have
a unique situation going on right now, is you know.
And I just want to throw some numbers out there
to you. In Bush forty one, ninety eight percent of
his civilian nominees, which is ninety nine percent of the
nominees we do. Ninety eight percent went by either UC
which is unanimous consent or a voice vote, meaning that
(21:26):
the Senate actually never had to take a vote on it,
and it speeds a process up in Obama or Clinton,
I'm sorry. Ninety eight percent of his nominees also went
through by boy volte or unonymous consent ierneed Bush forty three,
ninety percent of his went through ninety percent of Obama's
went through, and then when Trump came in, that's when
(21:49):
this first term, that's when the bottleneck happened. And so
this time last year or this time in twenty seventeen,
there was only fifty five nominees that Trump had got through.
Now we have already confirmed one hundred and twenty one nominees.
But this is the first time in history in history
(22:10):
that a president of the United States has not had
one single nominee go by unanimous consent or voice vote.
In fact, the only nominee that hasn't been philibustered is
Marco Rubio and that was our very first one. Every
since then, they had literally philibustered every single nominee, which
(22:33):
is why we had this bottleneck. But we're still we
still have one hundred and twenty one compared to President
Trump's first term for fifty five. So Food has done
really good at saying we're going to do this hard
way or the easy way. And that's why this Congress
has voted more times than any Congress in three hundred
or the last thirty five years, because we're having to
take it takes four votes per nominee to get him confirmed,
(22:56):
and that's crazy if you think about that, because we
have to vote to go in and out of session,
meaning we got to go from legislation session to executive session.
We got to vote to invote culture, we got to
vote to end culture, and then we got to vote
on the nominee. So it is, it's a it's a
it's a long process, and underneath the current process, it's
(23:17):
it's impossible to do if you do it all in
one day, if you take everyone of those votes every
every day, it's it's almost impossible to do more.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Than to a day.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
So what should happen now, Senator?
Speaker 4 (23:31):
What what do you want to see to break the logjam?
But we've had a few of your colleagues on talking
about this. I've been very frustrated by this. I've seen
Democrats once again. Of course, they're in the break the
glass era of anything goes to stop Donald Trump in
whatever way they can, as petty as it has to be.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
They don't care.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
They're stopping US attorneys from getting through, they're stopping judges
from getting through. All good faith out the window.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
So what do we do? What do you want to
see your Republican colleagues do?
Speaker 6 (23:58):
It only leads us with really choice if they won't
allow the log in to be broken, start allowing bipartisan nominees,
at least those that are come out of committee and
a bipartisan vote. We have fifty five of those setting
right now. If they would at least allow those fifty
five to come through in a voice vote or a
(24:19):
UC un consent, then if they won't allow us at
least do that, then we don't have a choice about
to change the rules. That's kind of the nuclear option,
because it goes two ways, right, if you do the
nuclear option, and then the nuke option will always stay
in place. Harry Reid kind of did this, and then
Chuck Schumer really did this in twenty seventeen, which Mitch
McConnell the irony of that, mch McConnell actually warned about
(24:42):
where we're going to be if that happens, and sure enough,
is exactly what he said in twenty seventeen is where
we're at. And that's when they ended the debate on
every nominee being thirty hours to two hours. And what
you're probably going to see is that we're going to
have to take that option even farther to where instead
of having four votes well, we've got to go in
and out of executive session. Will do a day where
(25:03):
you just you stay in executive session all day and
you limit the eight to maybe fifteen minutes, or you
limit the bait to ten minutes, or you'd or you
limit or you or that you make the nominees where
they're non debatable. Even at that, with the way the
rules are in the Senate, you could get done about
two an hour if you were to do If you
(25:24):
could get that passed. The problem we have in the
Senate is we have some old guards that wanted to
want to protect the quarm what they call it, the
way the Senate's always operated, and they don't want to
change it. And so we have some people that are
very protective of those rules. And to get fifty one
(25:45):
votes on there, I believe we can do that. I
wouldn't be surprised if if if Jade Vance would have
to come up here, a vice president would have to
come up here and break the tie, because I think
we'd probably lose some and he would have to come
up and break However, that's probably going to be our option,
and that's actually what we're currently talking about as you
(26:06):
and I speak I stepped out of a conference that
we're having, and this has been a very structured and
passionate meeting that I stepped out of to discuss what
our next options are. And I believe the Democrats are
going to force this, so it wouldn't be us changing
the rules. They have got away from the decorm the
Senators and on the Senate side, from the Democrats. On
(26:27):
the on the Democrat side, I mean, underneath the leadership
of Chuck Schumer, they have got away from the decorm
or the Senate, which is going to.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Force the rules to change.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
We were just talking about earlier in the show the craziness.
You were talking about the difference in the Republican caucus
in the Senate. You got Eric Swallwell posting videos of
him bench pressing one hundred and thirty five pounds, which
is good, you know, maybe good for my ninth grade
son who's trying out for a football team.
Speaker 6 (26:57):
Pounds.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
Come on, oh man, what updates all?
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Well?
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Yeah, so you understand, like, yeah, hey, if you're a
one plate on the bench guy like that doesn't really
motivate a lot of guys to think, hey, this is
a big this is a dude that I can look
up to. But you also have you know, this Sidney
Sweeney thing has taken over all week where you got
a pretty girl doing a Jeens commercial and h and
Democrats have decided basically that this is a code word
(27:25):
for Nazism. Big picture here, did you ever think that
Democrats would go this insane? And what Buck and I
were talking about is privately, are there guys on the
Senate floor who are Democrats and they just will say
to you privately like this whole men and women's sports
is just absolutely insane. I mean, they still have to
have some dudes right even on the Democrats side, who
(27:47):
privately will point out that this is just absolute insanity.
Or are they like that in private too. I'm not
asking you to out guys who say it necessarily, but
I'm just kind of curious and normal guy conversations. Do
acrats acknowledge how ridiculous all this is?
Speaker 6 (28:02):
And they this is this is quote what they say,
we have lost lost her f in mind, I didn't
say the whole word. I said they they say that,
And yes there is several of the guys and some
of the ladies.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
Oh they just.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Us Okay, there we go. So you got cut off
there for a sec. You said, there's several guys and
some of the women that will say privately, this is crazy.
Speaker 6 (28:31):
Yeah, well that actually say we've lost her ever loving
mind or their fing mind. Yeah, And and they they
absolutely have. But this that they can't move. And the
reason why they can't move is because they would lose
their primary election because their their party has went so
far that they can yes, win a primary, but they're
going to have a hard time winning the general. That's
why you see these polls, it's that there's a thirty
(28:52):
point swing between favorable and unfearriable. Is because this base,
their base has become so woke, so so list, so
anti everything that makes common sense that they can't move.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Off of it.
Speaker 6 (29:07):
But that's the base they built. And it started honestly
during the twenty fifteen twenty sixteen election, and they and
then and then they just fed into it for four
years underneath President the Trump's first term. And and and
they they wanted they I mean, I that debatable if
they want an election. I actually don't say that, but
I'm just saying they put Biden office one way the
next and and at the and then at the during
(29:30):
that four years. It destroyed our economy, destroyed the morale
and and the and the service industry. It destroyed the
morale and and and uh within our men and women
in uniform. It destroyed the the morale of our uh,
you know, of just common sense and and in any
day walk of life. We saw what happened in schools.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
We saw it.
Speaker 6 (29:52):
Happen during the school boards. I mean, it just got crazy.
And American people woke up and said we're not doing
that anymore, and they put President Trump back in office.
They can get away from that baso. But privately they
know it's destroying their party. I think if they had
their choice, they would love to go back and to
the JFK Democrats. But you see what happened to Chuck Schumer.
(30:13):
Let's just look at what happened to Chuck Schumer. Chuck
Schumer voted with us to do a continued resolution to
keep to keep the government open. He got destroyed at home.
I mean, here's a guy that's never had a tough
reelection and he got destroyed at home. And now AOC
is threatened to run against him. His behavior changed so
(30:34):
much because now he can't allow AOC to be to
his left that now he has to behave just like that,
which is causing them to not be reasonable on anything
we're doing moving forward.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Good studer, Senator, We appreciate the time. Good luck on
the pickle ball court. Tell Bernie that that will challenge
him at some point.
Speaker 6 (30:55):
I will never play Bernie Marino in pick a ball
ever again. Ever, it was the most unblin thing I've
ever had done to me in my life.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
Tell your wife congrats.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
By the way, I'm being able to out bench the
most manly democrat of all, which is obviously Eric.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
Yeah, mister, thank you all right, appreciate that. I have
a good week.
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Speaker 1 (32:35):
Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton Show. Appreciate all
of you hanging out with us as we are rolling
through the program. Good stuff from Senator Bernie Marino and
from Senator Mark Wayne Mullen. There we got a bunch
of you weighing in on a variety of different topics.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
Let's go, let's play.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
Is the talkback working again now? Because I see it
looks like we have a new talkback, so it is
back up and running. Let's first hit AA and get
that response from the talkback universe.
Speaker 7 (33:09):
Fire away, guys, Clay, I can't stand it anymore. I
just saw you on Jesse. You need help. Your clothes
man in a bad way. I've been in the clothing business,
cust and clothing business forty years. If you want some help,
tell your staff to call me. I won't charge anything
for the console, just I'll just show you what to buy.
(33:30):
Call me.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
You need help horribly. I need help horribly.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
I thought I actually looked okay. Every time I go
on television, people don't did you hear that?
Speaker 3 (33:41):
Buck?
Speaker 1 (33:42):
People don't pay attention at all to what I say.
And it doesn't matter what I wear. I could go
on television in a full tuxedo and people would be
reacting angrily to what I'm wearing. I'm on television with
Fox News almost every day. I gotta have a bunch
of different blazers, you know this, buck Like, I'm usually
in shorts. Otherwise it's not like I'm dressed, you know.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
To the tea here.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
I thought I actually looked pretty solid. So I wear
a lot of different color blazers. Guys, just tee it
off on me. Last night, I go on Jesse Waters,
doesn't point out the brilliant arguments I made, doesn't point
out any of the great lines.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
Just put teas off on me. On clothes, sometimes.
Speaker 4 (34:17):
You look a little bit like you're trying to offer
somebody a great deal on a timeshare.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
But you know your analysis is very high level. I
don't even know what that look. I don't.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
I'm clearly not an expert on clothing, but I bet
if I took a picture, I bet I have twenty
five different suit coats, sport coats, whatever you want to
call them, in my closet, and I don't always want
to wear the same color, so I try to wear
a different one, like a rotation of like question for.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
You, this is important. Laura is very well dressed. Carrie
is very well dressed. Like they have style and fashion. Carrie.
Sometimes I'm just gonna say it, shell.
Speaker 4 (34:56):
Veto like there was there was the home Depot shirt
in incident of twenty earlier twenty twenty four. I thought
I was wearing a cool kind of electric blue polo,
and she was like, am I getting a deal on
a new washer dryer like she did not like. Didn't
she say that you were going to work at best Buy?
That was best?
Speaker 5 (35:15):
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Speaker 4 (35:15):
I'm sorry, yeah, I said home deep, I'm in best Buy? Yes,
the best Buy incident of twenty twenty four, which everyone
agreed with her. And by the way, I gave that
shirt away. I'm just gonna tell you I actually gave
it away. Clay does ever veto does she have to veto?
What you wear?
Speaker 3 (35:32):
She does occasionally veto.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
What I have found to be the far more common
wife response is are you gonna wear that?
Speaker 3 (35:40):
Are you just the question are you gonna wear that?
Is that what you're wearing?
Speaker 1 (35:44):
Not even you shouldn't be wearing that, as if it's
my choice to change. But it's just like the question
of are you gonna wear that? That's the bless your
heart of the fashion world. I will also, to be fair,
point out that I have been married for twenty one
year roughly I've been asked probably eighteen thousand, six hundred
(36:04):
and forty eight times what should I wear? Meaning she
asks me about events that we are going to and
then doesn't listen a single time.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
Well, I don't know the answer. I've never known what
my wife should wear to any event. In twenty one
years of marriage, still don't have no idea.
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