January 6, 2025 • 36 mins
Congress certifies Trump’s election victory. Biden gives Medal of Freedom to some curious recipients. Fox covers moment of silence in response to ESPN’s blatant disregard for recognizing the NYE terror attack. Clay’s son Nash gets his tonsils out. Right wing propaganda? Golden Globes.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome in our number three Monday edition Clay Travis buck
Sexton Show. Appreciate all of you hanging out with us
as we are rolling through the Monday program breaking news.
As we were talking to Julie Kelly, I wanted to
make sure all of you could hear it. Glass ceilings shattered.
(00:22):
Kamala Harris just became the first black woman in American
political history to preside over her own election defeat.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
This is what it sounded like. The vote Hosident.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Larius States are as follows.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
Donald J.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Trump of the state of Florida has received three hundred
and twelve votes. Kamala de Harris Kamala D. Harris of
the state of California has received two hundred and twenty
six votes. The votes for Vice President of the United
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States are as follows.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
JD.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Vance of the state of Ohio has received three hundred
and twelve votes. Tim Walls of the state of Minnesota
has received two hundred and twenty six votes. This announcement
of the state of the vote by the President of
the Senate shall be deemed a sufficient declaration of the
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persons elected President and Vice President of the United States.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Oh, what a historic moment.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
I just want to thank Kamala Harris for shattering that
glass ceiling and becoming the first black woman to announce
that she got her ass kicked in a presidential election
live at the certification ceremony that just happened in the
last hour. Oh, it's such a historic moment black Indian woman,
What a moment for women across America. I just let's
(01:56):
just all pause for one or two seconds here and
consider the profundity of what we just heard. God bless America,
a country that is capable of letting a black woman
announce that she got her ass kicked.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Glass ceiling shattered.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
I hope Hillary Clinton was watching with her Presidential Medal
of Honor just provided by Joe Biden. We didn't even
talk about that, by the way, Joe Biden deciding to
give the Presidential Medal of Honor to Hillary Clinton and
George Soros and Lionel Messi and Messi was like, I'm
not showing up soccer player. I don't know what he
(02:32):
did to deserve a Presidential Medal of honor. Miami's not
even that good in soccer. To my understanding. He came
here to finish his career. I don't blame him. Miami's
not a bad place to live. But I just thought
that was fantastic. So that has just happened four years
after the worst day since the Holocaust according to Sonny Hostin,
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when America nearly collapsed according to Joe Biden, worst day
since the Civil War according to Kamala and Joe Biden.
We now have the official electoral vote count. Two weeks
from today, Donald Trump will be elected president of the
United States, and Trump is also weighing in on Canada.
(03:15):
So earlier today, Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada, stepped down.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
This was just posted by Donald Trump.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Many people in Canada love being the fifty first state.
The United States can no longer suffer the massive trade
deficits and subsidies that Canada needs to stay afloat. Justin
Trudeau knew this and resigned. If Canada merged with the
United States, there would be no tariffs, taxes would go
(03:49):
way down, and they would be totally secure from the
threat of Russian and Chinese ships that are constantly surrounding them.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Together. What a great nation it would be.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Now this is initially Trump made jokes about Justin Trudeau
becoming the governor of the fifty first state. But when
you consider Trump's interest in Greenland, which actually from a
real estate perspective, is one hundred percent logical because the
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shipping routes in the vicinity of Greenland are becoming more
and more through the Arctic Circle, are becoming more and
more traversible, and therefore having an asset like Greenland for
resupply makes a lot of sense. That is, according to
people who know way more about Arctic shipping lanes than me,
They say Greenland is actually very, very valuable and becoming increasingly
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more valuable as it is becoming easier to push ships
through for longer periods of time in that direction from
east to west and vice versa. Okay, He's also arguing
that the Panama Canal, which has initially built and owned
by the United States, Panama now has control over it,
(05:07):
that we need to assert more control over that shipping
route because, in Trump's words, we are being extorted. I
don't again know enough about shipping rates. Some of you,
I bet are in fact experts on Panama City. I'm
not even kidding about this. I bet many of you
out there listening are actually experts on both Arctic shipping
(05:27):
channels as well as the Panama Panama Canal shipping, because
so much of it goes to the cost of goods,
and if you're bringing things from east to West and
vice versa, it matters to such an extent. So I
bet many of you have had experiences dealing with that.
But I think if you combine them all, there is,
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as Trump is coming into office, very much of an
expansionist element of Donald Trump's vision for the United States
such that I'm not sure we have seen in a
long time. In fact, here's a history assignment for the crew.
What was the last property territory that the United States acquired?
(06:14):
I lived in the US Virgin Islands. My recollection is
that in around nineteen seventeen, the United States acquired the
territories of the United States Virgin Islands for shipping related
purposes in the vicinity of the World War One from Denmark.
I think that's correct. Have we added any and I
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know when Alaska and Hawaii became states, but that was
in the forties, if I'm remembering correctly, But those were
already territories of the United States at the time. Have
we added any territories to the United States footprint since
the nineteen teens, because everybody out there, initially they ridiculed
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the idea of acquiring greenland, But anybody who has actually
studied history knows that acquiring property from foreign governments was
actually the hallmark of American manifested destiny for much of
our history. Eighteen o three, again getting a little bit
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of a history lesson this all off the top of
my head. Eighteen oh three, we purchased from the French
the Louisiana purchase Thomas Jefferson did, which was the most
of all expansionist moves. In eighteen ninety eight, obviously we
had the Spanish American War and added I remember, I believe,
Puerto Rico and other assets in the Caribbean. At that
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time Gadsden purchase. Eighteen forty six to forty eight, we
had the war with Mexico, which led to the annexation
of substantial lands in the American Southwest. Seward's folly was
the purchase of That's what they called it when Teward
purchased Alaska, which now looks like one of the most
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brilliant purchase decisions of all time based on the natural
resources in Alaska. I think that was in the sixties,
if I remember correctly, the eighteen sixties. So I've put
given everybody a historical assignment. My point here is what
Trump is arguing for, and some of.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
This is laughable, right.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
I don't think the Canadians want to be the fifty
first state, and frankly, I don't know that we want
Canada as the fifty first state, because if you actually
run through the permutations of that, Canada would put two
left leaning senators by and large, typically at least into
the United States in the same way that Puerto Rico
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would likely do so and Washington, d C would likely
do so, And so I think as you break all
of that down, I'm not sure that that necessarily makes
rational sense. But again, I think this is a bargaining
chip being floated by Trump as it pertains the tariffs
and international trade agreements that pertain to the United States
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and Canada. I do think though Greenland acquiring it could
be a very smart historic move relative to the direction
that historic shipping roots are being opened up in the
Arctic area, and there is increased value with Greenland. And remember,
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of all the things you could criticize Trump for, I
think real estate would be almost the last on the list.
The guy has got an incredible eye when it comes
to buying real estate assets. Anybody who's been to mar
A Lago and I've been several times, mar A Lago
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might be worth a billion dollars now, And some of
you out there are gonna say, what are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (09:54):
A billion?
Speaker 4 (09:54):
Does?
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Have you seen what properties sell for war in Palm
Beach now mar A Lago I believe is eighteen acres.
Rush had a house in mar A Lago that just
sold for over one hundred million dollars. I've never been there.
I've heard it's a beautiful place. I think some of
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the staff have been there before. But his individual residence
just sold for one hundred million dollars. It's nowhere near
the property size, or the scope or the ambiance of
mar A Lago. And then you look, and I've been
to a lot of the Trump golf courses all over
the world. They're incredible, phenomenal jewel assets. Trump has an
(10:43):
eye for those. And if you maybe have ever walked
past Trump Tower, kind of a pretty good location.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Have you had to pick anywhere to be?
Speaker 1 (10:55):
So all of that is a sign that he has
a pretty good eye for real date, and I do
think as he's now been certified, the electoral votes have
been counted, Kamala Harris, historic moment for black women everywhere
to officially announce her own defeat. Glass ceiling shattered in
the sentence, never happened before. Really historic moment, very proud
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moment for black women all over America and Indian women.
He does have a really good eye for real estate,
and so if you look at Greenland, I actually kind
of think it would be a smart acquisition. Canada, the
fifty first Canada as the fifty first state is really funny.
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But I think he's just continuing to gig a bit
Canadians as he gets ready to now have a conservative
prime minister, Pierre Polyev it appears, is going to be
taking over in Canada to interact with it, and i'd
encourage you, by the way, to go subscribe to the podcast,
make sure you don't miss a moment. Because we talked
about off the time of the show, the dual connections
(12:02):
here between the electoral vote certification of Trump's big win
simultaneously occurring with Justin Trudeau stepping down and how to
me this is a connection of Western civilization fighting back
against the woke virus, and you are seeing that occur
all over Europe, now in the United States, now in Canada.
(12:24):
I don't think it's coincidental that many different countries are
all moving as one in the similar direction. I'll take
some of your calls, by the way, in this hour,
no guest scheduled to eight hundred and two two two
eight A two.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Buck is out with the flu. Please wish him well.
He thinks he.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Will be back tomorrow. He is back in the United States.
I'm excited to hear about his trip. He was over
in Spain with Carrie. We'll talk about that when he
gets back healthy. A lot of people out there.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
With the flu.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
As some might note, the flu has returned suddenly, but
for years the flu didn't exist. Now you can get
the flu again.
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News you can count on and some laughs too. Clay
Travis and Buck Sexton.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Find them on the free iHeartRadio app or wherever you
get your podcasts. They were all terrified of being called
election deniers. Lots of them objected in two thousand, Lots
of them objected in two thousand and four, lots of
them objected in twenty sixteen. Not one single Democrat objected
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to Donald Trump's landslide twenty twenty four election because they
were afraid of being dragged all through social media and
the media streets. If they had done so, which is
some form of a victory, I would say, I wanted
to play this speaking of a victory. Last week on Friday,
I shared with you that ESPN chose not to show
(15:04):
the moment of silence or the national anthem, the USA
chance Notre Dame running on the field with the American
flag in the immediate aftermath of the New Orleans terror attack.
They didn't show that on Thursday. We talked about it
on the program Friday. Well, the impact resonated in a
big way. Many of you out there were furious at ESPN.
(15:27):
I also on Saturday talked to people at CBS, NBC, Fox,
Every network could not believe that ESPN chose not to
show that national anthem, not to show the moment of
silence for the terror victims.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
So on.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Sunday when the NFL played, every single network showed CBS, NBC,
and Fox showed the moment of silenceationwide for the terror attack.
I had the team clip it because I do think
this is significant. Sometimes people say, Okay, what is the impact?
(16:08):
How do you change things? If you point out things
like this and you get attention on it the right
people can ultimately look around and say, yeah, that's ridiculous,
that's indefensible. Let's make sure that we don't make that
error again. This is what it sounded like before the
New Orleans Saints game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Tampa,
(16:30):
first game the Saints have played since the terror attack
on Bourbon Street.
Speaker 5 (16:33):
Listen earlier this week, our nation experienced a horrific act
of violence with heartbreaking tragedy in New Orleans. Our hearts
are with the New Orleans community, including the brave first responders.
At this time, please stand and join us in a
moment of silent reflection and memory of the victims, their
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families and loved ones. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Fox.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Fox Sports played that nationwide again before the Saints game. Now,
I don't have a perfect I didn't get to write
what they're gonna read. Instead of saying it a violent act,
I would say it's a terror attack. So That's not
the exact phrasing that I would choose if I were
in charge of what the Tampa Bay Buccaneers said in
their statement. But I do think it's an important win
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that NBC, CBS, and Fox all uniformly rejected the decision
made by ESPN to not show the moment of silence,
to not show the national anthem, to not show the
American flag. Every single one of them rejected it and
showed all those things on Sunday, small memorial to those
(17:47):
who the fourteen individuals innocent who were murdered in cold
blood by an awful, deranged ISIS terrorist. It's important that
we not forget what that guy did, and we don't
forget the people whose lives he took from us. And
I think this show and others who pointed that out
had a substantial impact in the way they handle that
games much less significant than what happened. But the games
(18:10):
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(19:01):
Appreciate all of you hanging out with us. By the way,
we want to take a moment. My ten year old
doesn't listen. He's not particularly gung ho about all the
topics on this show. He's very interested in what's going
to happen in the NFL Draft. Tennessee Titans, worst team,
my team in the NFL. They now have the number
(19:21):
one pick. But I do want to say this because
his mom listens and he may hear this with Mom
playing it. He got his tonsils out today. So I
was at the hospital or the surgery center with him
earlier this morning, and he was a real trooper and
he got his tonsils out, and so he is eating
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abundant amounts of ice cream right now. And I want
to tell Nash, who may well be overhearing because Mom
listens to the program, that I was very impressed with
how brave he was getting his tonsils out. And he's
probably going to get strep throat a lot less now now,
so once he's healed up, and it's not a bad
thing to get to eat a lot of ice cream
right now.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
That I thought he was very brave.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
And maybe you out there have got boys or girls,
kids or grandkids that are this kind of you know,
tonsile season. I would say, so if perchance some of
them might be listening and also headed to go get
their tonsils out, you're probably gonna be fine, and you're
gonna get to eat a lot of ice cream, and
you're eventually going to feel.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
A lot better.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
So that in and of itself is something that you
can trust Mom and Dad and grandma and grandpa about.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Now, what you should not trust is. NBC News call
it an amazing transition.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
NBC News, Do you guys remember when June I went
back and because I wanted to reread it, Buck and
I came on and we were talking about all of
the videos of Joe Biden in the summer which were
going viral that clearly demonstrated he did and have the
mental and physical capacity to be president.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
This is before the June twenty seventh debate, and.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
It kind of got lost in the shuffle because Biden
got completely obliterated June twenty seventh by Trump, and then
on July thirteenth, the assassin tried to kill Trump and
Butler Pennsylvania, and so people forget what they attempted to argue,
but they tried to trot out the idea that anything
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that suggested Biden wasn't able to be president was a
cheap fake. Do you remember that little phrase that Christine
Jean Pierre KJP tried to put out into the public.
Everybody went and ran with it, including NBC News, which
accused me in an article some of you may remember
this of being a disinformation expert misinformation disinformation. They kind
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of rolled all those together because I was sharing videos
on social media which suggested that Joe Biden might not
be able to do the job of president now or
for another four years, and I wanted to just demonstrate
how much things have changed. I know a lot of
you remember this, but yesterday on Meet the Press, Kristen Welker,
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who now hosts Meet the Press, was actually out there
and she decided she was gonna quiz Chuck Schumer about it.
But first in back in June, late June, NBC News
wrote an entire article accusing me of spreading cheap fakes,
and I wanted to share with you because I thought
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it was interesting.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
They asked me for a comment. This was on June.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Fourteenth, just two weeks, less than two weeks until they
would air the debate and then everybody would suddenly suddenly say, oh,
you know, Biden can't do this. NBC News asked me
for a comment and they said he was sharp as
attack and I shared this comment with them, which they
did not include in the article.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Kind of poor journalism. My comment for them was, Joe
Biden has dementia and isn't fit to be president. Pretending
otherwise is a lie. That was me to NBC News
on June fourteenth of last year, when they accused me
of spreading cheap fake videos. Well, now here was Chuck
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Schumer around that same time telling all Americans that Joe
Biden was sharp as attack.
Speaker 6 (23:34):
Listen, I talked to President Biden, you know, regularly, or
sometimes several times.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
In a week.
Speaker 6 (23:41):
Well usually several times in a week. His mental acuity
is great, it's fine, It's as good as it's been
over the years. All this right wing propaganda that his
mental acuity has declined is wrong.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Right wing propaganda, Chuck Schumer called it, which is not
much different than what NBC News was also calling it. Well,
now Biden's out. Trump is coming in. Kristen Welker, who
runs NBC's Meet the Press, had Chuck Schumer on played
him that video and this is what it sounded like.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
Rich Schumer, what do you say to Americans who feel
as though you and other top Democrats misled them about
President Biden's mental accounty.
Speaker 6 (24:21):
Look, we didn't, and let's look. Let's look at President Biden.
He's had an amazing record. The legislation we passed one
of the most significant groups of legislation since the new
since Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, putting in two hundred and
thirty five judges a record, and he's a patriot, he's
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a great guy. And when he stepped down, he did
it on his own because he thought it was better
not only for the Democratic Party, for the America. We
should all salute him. We should all salute him.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Then she followed up by saying, do you think he's
capable of being president for four more years? And Schumer
said he wasn't going to get engaged in hypotheticals. Okay,
My question for Kristen Welker. You're at NBC News. You
are part of the organization that accused me and others
in print or at least digital print. It's still up
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online at nbcnews dot com of spreading cheap fakes for
saying that we did not believe Joe Biden was capable
of being president. And here was evidence of videos which
were not fake, they were real of Joe Biden clearly
incompetent and unable to do his job.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
When is NBC News going to apologize?
Speaker 1 (25:40):
It's one thing to say, oh, I'm going to hold
Chuck Schumer accountable for what he said. Okay, When are you,
as a news network going to acknowledge that you also
spread propaganda arguing that Joe Biden was totally fine to
be president. If you wonder why legacy media has lost
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so much credibility out there, it's not because they just
don't ask tough questions of Democrats.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
It's because they.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Actually are working alongside of Democrats to spread propaganda. And
this is how stories get laundered, and it's really important
and it should be talked about way more. Most reporters
don't work that hard. Okay, most people in journalism. Journalism
don't actually work that hard. I know, I've worked in
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media a long time. They take something that you sent
to them as a press release, they rewrite it, they
hit publish on it. It's easy for them. They don't
have to do any work. Actual real reporting is really difficult,
and most people don't want to work that hard at
(26:55):
their jobs. So you have a lot of people, do
you know how they get story ideas? Campaigns or political
parties go to a journalist and they say, hey, here,
let me just those of you on video. Let me
just lay down all this information, PLoP right on your desk.
(27:15):
This is what so and so reporters said, and this
is what so and so candidate said on so and
so day.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
All we want you.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
To do is write this story attacking our opponent, because
then we can say, hey, the New York Times says,
CNN says, The Washington Post says. They launder attacks through
the newspaper, through the media companies, and then they use
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those attacks, which they conveyed to then justify the attack
in the first place. It's really diabolical and it's very underhanded,
and I don't think most people really think about how
these stories come to be. It's not random investigator reporter
out there being like, oh, I wonder maybe I'll just
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call on my own and see if there's anything to this. No,
you actually saw it a little bit. I thought the
Pete Hegseth story where they tried to go after him
and say, Pete Hegseth was never admitted to West Point
and he didn't even apply. Do you think that's something
that they just thought of on their own. No, somebody
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tipped them off, and they tried to do an attack
through the media using West Point, and probably whoever on
the Democrat side tipped them off using that news organization.
So they could then circle back around and share it.
It's wandering. You know how you wander money. You go in,
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you take dirty money and you take it to a
place where you hope you can turn it into clean money,
and then you pull it out on the other side
and you act like you had nothing to do with it.
You're like, oh, look all this money, this is actually
what really goes on at casinos.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
You ever wonder.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
How some people in casinos have so much cash. Sometimes
they're just really rich, Like there's lots of really rich people,
there's also a lot of laundering. Guy comes in there
with one hundred grand in cash, sits down at the
blackjack table. You're gonna win almost half the time. Maybe
you'll lose a few thousand dollars. You get it back
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in comps. Then you get a ticket. If you make
over ten thousand dollars, they give it back to you
and they say, oh, look you won x amount of dollars.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Oh wow, now that's clean money. You can explain where
it came from.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
They do that with stories. They wander stories all the time.
It'd be one thing if they put out their own
press release and they directly attacked at least it would
be honest. They use the media to attack. So my
point to Kristen Welker here, star reporter at and at
Meet the Press on NBC News, why don't you acknowledge
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NBC News's failures as it pertains to reporting about people
like me who you accused of spreading cheap fakes. Now
you are questioning the former Democrat Senate leader Chuck Schumer,
now the minority leader.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Why don't you hold your.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
Own organization accountable at the same level that you're holding
politicians accountable. I think it would increase the overall trust
of legacy media institutions if you did. Monday, January sixth,
tremendous day. Justin Trudeau down Donald Trump in big wins
in both directions, both in this country and to America's
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top hat. But maybe some of you out there don't
feel like you have the same amount of energy as
you were hoping to coming out of the holiday break.
This is the number one return to work day after
New Years. A lot of you snuck out Thursday and Friday.
A lot of you checked out before Christmas a couple
of weeks and not working very hard.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Maybe maybe a little.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Bit of additional little extra weight, little cushion. Maybe from
all the holiday parties. Maybe a few of you might
have sampled a few alcoholic beverages. Maybe a few of
you might have had a few extra desserts compared to normal.
Maybe you're sitting there on the Monday and you're thinking, man,
I don't feel that good. I don't have that great energy.
(31:29):
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I thought we could have some fun. I watched last
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was so funny at the Tom Brady Roast, that I
wanted to see how she did at the open I
was hoping she would be Ricky Gervais. Like for those
of you who had watched Ricky Gervais about five years
ago at the Golden Globes, it was one of the
greatest opening monologues that I have seen of skewering Hollywood elites. Ever,
(33:29):
Nicki Glazer was okay, not great, not awful. I would say,
you know, a solid ground ball single to left field.
But here was one part of that making fun of
their support of Kamala.
Speaker 7 (33:41):
Listen, I am not here to roast to tonight. I
want you to know that. And how could I really?
You're all so famous, so talented, so powerful. I mean,
you could really do anything, I mean except tell the
country who to vote for.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
But it's okay, you'll you'll.
Speaker 7 (33:57):
Get up next time if there is one.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
I'm scared, all right, So making fun of them a
little bit, and then also playing in with the idea
that there might be danger from the Trump administration, which
of course there's not.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
This one I thought was her best joke of the day.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
She was talking about Ditty's arrest, and she said, after
parties may not be as good.
Speaker 7 (34:22):
Listen, Challengers girl, Oh my god, it was so good.
I mean that movie was more sexually charged than Ditty's
credit Card. I mean seriously, oh no, no, I know,
I'm sorry. I'm upset to the after party is not
going to be as good this year.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
But we have to move on.
Speaker 7 (34:37):
I know what Stanley Tucci freakoff just doesn't have the
same ring to it. But no baby oil this year,
just lots of olive oil.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
Okay, all right, So that was the Golden Globes. I
watched the open, then I flipped it over and watched
Congratulations Detroit Lions number one overall.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Seed.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
I want you in the Super Bowl down in New Orleans.
They beat the Minnesota Vikings. I want to close, though.
Do we have time to play Sonny hoston the dumbest
statement made on television? I'm quite confident in twenty twenty
five has already been made. Sonny Hostin says jan six
congratulations Trump officially certified election.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
It's just like the Holocaust historically.
Speaker 4 (35:16):
Listen, I think we need to fine moral clarity, you know,
in this country. And I just remember after January sixth,
you had someone like Mitch McConnell placing the blame on
January sixth where it belonged squarely on Donald Trump's shoulders.
And then you started seeing people backtrack that and losing
their moral center. You had Condoaliza Rice I believe, on
this very show saying, you know, we need to move
(35:38):
on from January sixth. I say no, you don't move on,
because January sixth was an atrocity. It was one of
the worst moments.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
In American history. When you think about the worst.
Speaker 4 (35:48):
Moments in American history, you know, like World War two,
things that happened, you know, like the Holocaust, chattel slavery.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
We more will continue to have fun with you. Thank
you for hanging with us.
Welcome in our number three Monday edition Clay Travis buck
Sexton Show. Appreciate all of you hanging out with us
as we are rolling through the Monday program breaking news.
As we were talking to Julie Kelly, I wanted to
make sure all of you could hear it. Glass ceilings shattered.
(00:22):
Kamala Harris just became the first black woman in American
political history to preside over her own election defeat.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
This is what it sounded like. The vote Hosident.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Larius States are as follows.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
Donald J.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Trump of the state of Florida has received three hundred
and twelve votes. Kamala de Harris Kamala D. Harris of
the state of California has received two hundred and twenty
six votes. The votes for Vice President of the United
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States are as follows.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
JD.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Vance of the state of Ohio has received three hundred
and twelve votes. Tim Walls of the state of Minnesota
has received two hundred and twenty six votes. This announcement
of the state of the vote by the President of
the Senate shall be deemed a sufficient declaration of the
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persons elected President and Vice President of the United States.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Oh, what a historic moment.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
I just want to thank Kamala Harris for shattering that
glass ceiling and becoming the first black woman to announce
that she got her ass kicked in a presidential election
live at the certification ceremony that just happened in the
last hour. Oh, it's such a historic moment black Indian woman,
What a moment for women across America. I just let's
(01:56):
just all pause for one or two seconds here and
consider the profundity of what we just heard. God bless America,
a country that is capable of letting a black woman
announce that she got her ass kicked.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Glass ceiling shattered.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
I hope Hillary Clinton was watching with her Presidential Medal
of Honor just provided by Joe Biden. We didn't even
talk about that, by the way, Joe Biden deciding to
give the Presidential Medal of Honor to Hillary Clinton and
George Soros and Lionel Messi and Messi was like, I'm
not showing up soccer player. I don't know what he
(02:32):
did to deserve a Presidential Medal of honor. Miami's not
even that good in soccer. To my understanding. He came
here to finish his career. I don't blame him. Miami's
not a bad place to live. But I just thought
that was fantastic. So that has just happened four years
after the worst day since the Holocaust according to Sonny Hostin,
(02:54):
when America nearly collapsed according to Joe Biden, worst day
since the Civil War according to Kamala and Joe Biden.
We now have the official electoral vote count. Two weeks
from today, Donald Trump will be elected president of the
United States, and Trump is also weighing in on Canada.
(03:15):
So earlier today, Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada, stepped down.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
This was just posted by Donald Trump.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Many people in Canada love being the fifty first state.
The United States can no longer suffer the massive trade
deficits and subsidies that Canada needs to stay afloat. Justin
Trudeau knew this and resigned. If Canada merged with the
United States, there would be no tariffs, taxes would go
(03:49):
way down, and they would be totally secure from the
threat of Russian and Chinese ships that are constantly surrounding them.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Together. What a great nation it would be.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Now this is initially Trump made jokes about Justin Trudeau
becoming the governor of the fifty first state. But when
you consider Trump's interest in Greenland, which actually from a
real estate perspective, is one hundred percent logical because the
(04:22):
shipping routes in the vicinity of Greenland are becoming more
and more through the Arctic Circle, are becoming more and
more traversible, and therefore having an asset like Greenland for
resupply makes a lot of sense. That is, according to
people who know way more about Arctic shipping lanes than me,
They say Greenland is actually very, very valuable and becoming increasingly
(04:45):
more valuable as it is becoming easier to push ships
through for longer periods of time in that direction from
east to west and vice versa. Okay, He's also arguing
that the Panama Canal, which has initially built and owned
by the United States, Panama now has control over it,
(05:07):
that we need to assert more control over that shipping
route because, in Trump's words, we are being extorted. I
don't again know enough about shipping rates. Some of you,
I bet are in fact experts on Panama City. I'm
not even kidding about this. I bet many of you
out there listening are actually experts on both Arctic shipping
(05:27):
channels as well as the Panama Panama Canal shipping, because
so much of it goes to the cost of goods,
and if you're bringing things from east to West and
vice versa, it matters to such an extent. So I
bet many of you have had experiences dealing with that.
But I think if you combine them all, there is,
(05:49):
as Trump is coming into office, very much of an
expansionist element of Donald Trump's vision for the United States
such that I'm not sure we have seen in a
long time. In fact, here's a history assignment for the crew.
What was the last property territory that the United States acquired?
(06:14):
I lived in the US Virgin Islands. My recollection is
that in around nineteen seventeen, the United States acquired the
territories of the United States Virgin Islands for shipping related
purposes in the vicinity of the World War One from Denmark.
I think that's correct. Have we added any and I
(06:36):
know when Alaska and Hawaii became states, but that was
in the forties, if I'm remembering correctly, But those were
already territories of the United States at the time. Have
we added any territories to the United States footprint since
the nineteen teens, because everybody out there, initially they ridiculed
(06:59):
the idea of acquiring greenland, But anybody who has actually
studied history knows that acquiring property from foreign governments was
actually the hallmark of American manifested destiny for much of
our history. Eighteen o three, again getting a little bit
(07:20):
of a history lesson this all off the top of
my head. Eighteen oh three, we purchased from the French
the Louisiana purchase Thomas Jefferson did, which was the most
of all expansionist moves. In eighteen ninety eight, obviously we
had the Spanish American War and added I remember, I believe,
Puerto Rico and other assets in the Caribbean. At that
(07:42):
time Gadsden purchase. Eighteen forty six to forty eight, we
had the war with Mexico, which led to the annexation
of substantial lands in the American Southwest. Seward's folly was
the purchase of That's what they called it when Teward
purchased Alaska, which now looks like one of the most
(08:02):
brilliant purchase decisions of all time based on the natural
resources in Alaska. I think that was in the sixties,
if I remember correctly, the eighteen sixties. So I've put
given everybody a historical assignment. My point here is what
Trump is arguing for, and some of.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
This is laughable, right.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
I don't think the Canadians want to be the fifty
first state, and frankly, I don't know that we want
Canada as the fifty first state, because if you actually
run through the permutations of that, Canada would put two
left leaning senators by and large, typically at least into
the United States in the same way that Puerto Rico
(08:43):
would likely do so and Washington, d C would likely
do so, And so I think as you break all
of that down, I'm not sure that that necessarily makes
rational sense. But again, I think this is a bargaining
chip being floated by Trump as it pertains the tariffs
and international trade agreements that pertain to the United States
(09:06):
and Canada. I do think though Greenland acquiring it could
be a very smart historic move relative to the direction
that historic shipping roots are being opened up in the
Arctic area, and there is increased value with Greenland. And remember,
(09:26):
of all the things you could criticize Trump for, I
think real estate would be almost the last on the list.
The guy has got an incredible eye when it comes
to buying real estate assets. Anybody who's been to mar
A Lago and I've been several times, mar A Lago
(09:49):
might be worth a billion dollars now, And some of
you out there are gonna say, what are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (09:54):
A billion?
Speaker 4 (09:54):
Does?
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Have you seen what properties sell for war in Palm
Beach now mar A Lago I believe is eighteen acres.
Rush had a house in mar A Lago that just
sold for over one hundred million dollars. I've never been there.
I've heard it's a beautiful place. I think some of
(10:17):
the staff have been there before. But his individual residence
just sold for one hundred million dollars. It's nowhere near
the property size, or the scope or the ambiance of
mar A Lago. And then you look, and I've been
to a lot of the Trump golf courses all over
the world. They're incredible, phenomenal jewel assets. Trump has an
(10:43):
eye for those. And if you maybe have ever walked
past Trump Tower, kind of a pretty good location.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Have you had to pick anywhere to be?
Speaker 1 (10:55):
So all of that is a sign that he has
a pretty good eye for real date, and I do
think as he's now been certified, the electoral votes have
been counted, Kamala Harris, historic moment for black women everywhere
to officially announce her own defeat. Glass ceiling shattered in
the sentence, never happened before. Really historic moment, very proud
(11:18):
moment for black women all over America and Indian women.
He does have a really good eye for real estate,
and so if you look at Greenland, I actually kind
of think it would be a smart acquisition. Canada, the
fifty first Canada as the fifty first state is really funny.
(11:41):
But I think he's just continuing to gig a bit
Canadians as he gets ready to now have a conservative
prime minister, Pierre Polyev it appears, is going to be
taking over in Canada to interact with it, and i'd
encourage you, by the way, to go subscribe to the podcast,
make sure you don't miss a moment. Because we talked
about off the time of the show, the dual connections
(12:02):
here between the electoral vote certification of Trump's big win
simultaneously occurring with Justin Trudeau stepping down and how to
me this is a connection of Western civilization fighting back
against the woke virus, and you are seeing that occur
all over Europe, now in the United States, now in Canada.
(12:24):
I don't think it's coincidental that many different countries are
all moving as one in the similar direction. I'll take
some of your calls, by the way, in this hour,
no guest scheduled to eight hundred and two two two
eight A two.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Buck is out with the flu. Please wish him well.
He thinks he.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Will be back tomorrow. He is back in the United States.
I'm excited to hear about his trip. He was over
in Spain with Carrie. We'll talk about that when he
gets back healthy. A lot of people out there.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
With the flu.
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As some might note, the flu has returned suddenly, but
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Find them on the free iHeartRadio app or wherever you
get your podcasts. They were all terrified of being called
election deniers. Lots of them objected in two thousand, Lots
of them objected in two thousand and four, lots of
them objected in twenty sixteen. Not one single Democrat objected
(14:41):
to Donald Trump's landslide twenty twenty four election because they
were afraid of being dragged all through social media and
the media streets. If they had done so, which is
some form of a victory, I would say, I wanted
to play this speaking of a victory. Last week on Friday,
I shared with you that ESPN chose not to show
(15:04):
the moment of silence or the national anthem, the USA
chance Notre Dame running on the field with the American
flag in the immediate aftermath of the New Orleans terror attack.
They didn't show that on Thursday. We talked about it
on the program Friday. Well, the impact resonated in a
big way. Many of you out there were furious at ESPN.
(15:27):
I also on Saturday talked to people at CBS, NBC, Fox,
Every network could not believe that ESPN chose not to
show that national anthem, not to show the moment of
silence for the terror victims.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
So on.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Sunday when the NFL played, every single network showed CBS, NBC,
and Fox showed the moment of silenceationwide for the terror attack.
I had the team clip it because I do think
this is significant. Sometimes people say, Okay, what is the impact?
(16:08):
How do you change things? If you point out things
like this and you get attention on it the right
people can ultimately look around and say, yeah, that's ridiculous,
that's indefensible. Let's make sure that we don't make that
error again. This is what it sounded like before the
New Orleans Saints game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Tampa,
(16:30):
first game the Saints have played since the terror attack
on Bourbon Street.
Speaker 5 (16:33):
Listen earlier this week, our nation experienced a horrific act
of violence with heartbreaking tragedy in New Orleans. Our hearts
are with the New Orleans community, including the brave first responders.
At this time, please stand and join us in a
moment of silent reflection and memory of the victims, their
(16:54):
families and loved ones. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Fox.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Fox Sports played that nationwide again before the Saints game. Now,
I don't have a perfect I didn't get to write
what they're gonna read. Instead of saying it a violent act,
I would say it's a terror attack. So That's not
the exact phrasing that I would choose if I were
in charge of what the Tampa Bay Buccaneers said in
their statement. But I do think it's an important win
(17:25):
that NBC, CBS, and Fox all uniformly rejected the decision
made by ESPN to not show the moment of silence,
to not show the national anthem, to not show the
American flag. Every single one of them rejected it and
showed all those things on Sunday, small memorial to those
(17:47):
who the fourteen individuals innocent who were murdered in cold
blood by an awful, deranged ISIS terrorist. It's important that
we not forget what that guy did, and we don't
forget the people whose lives he took from us. And
I think this show and others who pointed that out
had a substantial impact in the way they handle that
games much less significant than what happened. But the games
(18:10):
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Appreciate all of you hanging out with us. By the way,
we want to take a moment. My ten year old
doesn't listen. He's not particularly gung ho about all the
topics on this show. He's very interested in what's going
to happen in the NFL Draft. Tennessee Titans, worst team,
my team in the NFL. They now have the number
(19:21):
one pick. But I do want to say this because
his mom listens and he may hear this with Mom
playing it. He got his tonsils out today. So I
was at the hospital or the surgery center with him
earlier this morning, and he was a real trooper and
he got his tonsils out, and so he is eating
(19:44):
abundant amounts of ice cream right now. And I want
to tell Nash, who may well be overhearing because Mom
listens to the program, that I was very impressed with
how brave he was getting his tonsils out. And he's
probably going to get strep throat a lot less now now,
so once he's healed up, and it's not a bad
thing to get to eat a lot of ice cream
right now.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
That I thought he was very brave.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
And maybe you out there have got boys or girls,
kids or grandkids that are this kind of you know,
tonsile season. I would say, so if perchance some of
them might be listening and also headed to go get
their tonsils out, you're probably gonna be fine, and you're
gonna get to eat a lot of ice cream, and
you're eventually going to feel.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
A lot better.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
So that in and of itself is something that you
can trust Mom and Dad and grandma and grandpa about.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Now, what you should not trust is. NBC News call
it an amazing transition.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
NBC News, Do you guys remember when June I went
back and because I wanted to reread it, Buck and
I came on and we were talking about all of
the videos of Joe Biden in the summer which were
going viral that clearly demonstrated he did and have the
mental and physical capacity to be president.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
This is before the June twenty seventh debate, and.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
It kind of got lost in the shuffle because Biden
got completely obliterated June twenty seventh by Trump, and then
on July thirteenth, the assassin tried to kill Trump and
Butler Pennsylvania, and so people forget what they attempted to argue,
but they tried to trot out the idea that anything
(21:27):
that suggested Biden wasn't able to be president was a
cheap fake. Do you remember that little phrase that Christine
Jean Pierre KJP tried to put out into the public.
Everybody went and ran with it, including NBC News, which
accused me in an article some of you may remember
this of being a disinformation expert misinformation disinformation. They kind
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of rolled all those together because I was sharing videos
on social media which suggested that Joe Biden might not
be able to do the job of president now or
for another four years, and I wanted to just demonstrate
how much things have changed. I know a lot of
you remember this, but yesterday on Meet the Press, Kristen Welker,
(22:18):
who now hosts Meet the Press, was actually out there
and she decided she was gonna quiz Chuck Schumer about it.
But first in back in June, late June, NBC News
wrote an entire article accusing me of spreading cheap fakes,
and I wanted to share with you because I thought
(22:41):
it was interesting.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
They asked me for a comment. This was on June.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Fourteenth, just two weeks, less than two weeks until they
would air the debate and then everybody would suddenly suddenly say, oh,
you know, Biden can't do this. NBC News asked me
for a comment and they said he was sharp as
attack and I shared this comment with them, which they
did not include in the article.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Kind of poor journalism. My comment for them was, Joe
Biden has dementia and isn't fit to be president. Pretending
otherwise is a lie. That was me to NBC News
on June fourteenth of last year, when they accused me
of spreading cheap fake videos. Well, now here was Chuck
(23:28):
Schumer around that same time telling all Americans that Joe
Biden was sharp as attack.
Speaker 6 (23:34):
Listen, I talked to President Biden, you know, regularly, or
sometimes several times.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
In a week.
Speaker 6 (23:41):
Well usually several times in a week. His mental acuity
is great, it's fine, It's as good as it's been
over the years. All this right wing propaganda that his
mental acuity has declined is wrong.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Right wing propaganda, Chuck Schumer called it, which is not
much different than what NBC News was also calling it. Well,
now Biden's out. Trump is coming in. Kristen Welker, who
runs NBC's Meet the Press, had Chuck Schumer on played
him that video and this is what it sounded like.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
Rich Schumer, what do you say to Americans who feel
as though you and other top Democrats misled them about
President Biden's mental accounty.
Speaker 6 (24:21):
Look, we didn't, and let's look. Let's look at President Biden.
He's had an amazing record. The legislation we passed one
of the most significant groups of legislation since the new
since Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, putting in two hundred and
thirty five judges a record, and he's a patriot, he's
(24:43):
a great guy. And when he stepped down, he did
it on his own because he thought it was better
not only for the Democratic Party, for the America. We
should all salute him. We should all salute him.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Then she followed up by saying, do you think he's
capable of being president for four more years? And Schumer
said he wasn't going to get engaged in hypotheticals. Okay,
My question for Kristen Welker. You're at NBC News. You
are part of the organization that accused me and others
in print or at least digital print. It's still up
(25:17):
online at nbcnews dot com of spreading cheap fakes for
saying that we did not believe Joe Biden was capable
of being president. And here was evidence of videos which
were not fake, they were real of Joe Biden clearly
incompetent and unable to do his job.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
When is NBC News going to apologize?
Speaker 1 (25:40):
It's one thing to say, oh, I'm going to hold
Chuck Schumer accountable for what he said. Okay, When are you,
as a news network going to acknowledge that you also
spread propaganda arguing that Joe Biden was totally fine to
be president. If you wonder why legacy media has lost
(26:05):
so much credibility out there, it's not because they just
don't ask tough questions of Democrats.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
It's because they.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Actually are working alongside of Democrats to spread propaganda. And
this is how stories get laundered, and it's really important
and it should be talked about way more. Most reporters
don't work that hard. Okay, most people in journalism. Journalism
don't actually work that hard. I know, I've worked in
(26:35):
media a long time. They take something that you sent
to them as a press release, they rewrite it, they
hit publish on it. It's easy for them. They don't
have to do any work. Actual real reporting is really difficult,
and most people don't want to work that hard at
(26:55):
their jobs. So you have a lot of people, do
you know how they get story ideas? Campaigns or political
parties go to a journalist and they say, hey, here,
let me just those of you on video. Let me
just lay down all this information, PLoP right on your desk.
(27:15):
This is what so and so reporters said, and this
is what so and so candidate said on so and
so day.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
All we want you.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
To do is write this story attacking our opponent, because
then we can say, hey, the New York Times says,
CNN says, The Washington Post says. They launder attacks through
the newspaper, through the media companies, and then they use
(27:47):
those attacks, which they conveyed to then justify the attack
in the first place. It's really diabolical and it's very underhanded,
and I don't think most people really think about how
these stories come to be. It's not random investigator reporter
out there being like, oh, I wonder maybe I'll just
(28:10):
call on my own and see if there's anything to this. No,
you actually saw it a little bit. I thought the
Pete Hegseth story where they tried to go after him
and say, Pete Hegseth was never admitted to West Point
and he didn't even apply. Do you think that's something
that they just thought of on their own. No, somebody
(28:30):
tipped them off, and they tried to do an attack
through the media using West Point, and probably whoever on
the Democrat side tipped them off using that news organization.
So they could then circle back around and share it.
It's wandering. You know how you wander money. You go in,
(28:51):
you take dirty money and you take it to a
place where you hope you can turn it into clean money,
and then you pull it out on the other side
and you act like you had nothing to do with it.
You're like, oh, look all this money, this is actually
what really goes on at casinos.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
You ever wonder.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
How some people in casinos have so much cash. Sometimes
they're just really rich, Like there's lots of really rich people,
there's also a lot of laundering. Guy comes in there
with one hundred grand in cash, sits down at the
blackjack table. You're gonna win almost half the time. Maybe
you'll lose a few thousand dollars. You get it back
(29:29):
in comps. Then you get a ticket. If you make
over ten thousand dollars, they give it back to you
and they say, oh, look you won x amount of dollars.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Oh wow, now that's clean money. You can explain where
it came from.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
They do that with stories. They wander stories all the time.
It'd be one thing if they put out their own
press release and they directly attacked at least it would
be honest. They use the media to attack. So my
point to Kristen Welker here, star reporter at and at
Meet the Press on NBC News, why don't you acknowledge
(30:05):
NBC News's failures as it pertains to reporting about people
like me who you accused of spreading cheap fakes. Now
you are questioning the former Democrat Senate leader Chuck Schumer,
now the minority leader.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Why don't you hold your.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
Own organization accountable at the same level that you're holding
politicians accountable. I think it would increase the overall trust
of legacy media institutions if you did. Monday, January sixth,
tremendous day. Justin Trudeau down Donald Trump in big wins
in both directions, both in this country and to America's
(30:47):
top hat. But maybe some of you out there don't
feel like you have the same amount of energy as
you were hoping to coming out of the holiday break.
This is the number one return to work day after
New Years. A lot of you snuck out Thursday and Friday.
A lot of you checked out before Christmas a couple
of weeks and not working very hard.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Maybe maybe a little.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Bit of additional little extra weight, little cushion. Maybe from
all the holiday parties. Maybe a few of you might
have sampled a few alcoholic beverages. Maybe a few of
you might have had a few extra desserts compared to normal.
Maybe you're sitting there on the Monday and you're thinking, man,
I don't feel that good. I don't have that great energy.
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a couple of things that I want to play for you.
I thought we could have some fun. I watched last
night the opening monologue of the Golden Globes because Nicky Glazer, comedian,
(33:09):
was so funny at the Tom Brady Roast, that I
wanted to see how she did at the open I
was hoping she would be Ricky Gervais. Like for those
of you who had watched Ricky Gervais about five years
ago at the Golden Globes, it was one of the
greatest opening monologues that I have seen of skewering Hollywood elites. Ever,
(33:29):
Nicki Glazer was okay, not great, not awful. I would say,
you know, a solid ground ball single to left field.
But here was one part of that making fun of
their support of Kamala.
Speaker 7 (33:41):
Listen, I am not here to roast to tonight. I
want you to know that. And how could I really?
You're all so famous, so talented, so powerful. I mean,
you could really do anything, I mean except tell the
country who to vote for.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
But it's okay, you'll you'll.
Speaker 7 (33:57):
Get up next time if there is one.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
I'm scared, all right, So making fun of them a
little bit, and then also playing in with the idea
that there might be danger from the Trump administration, which
of course there's not.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
This one I thought was her best joke of the day.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
She was talking about Ditty's arrest, and she said, after
parties may not be as good.
Speaker 7 (34:22):
Listen, Challengers girl, Oh my god, it was so good.
I mean that movie was more sexually charged than Ditty's
credit Card. I mean seriously, oh no, no, I know,
I'm sorry. I'm upset to the after party is not
going to be as good this year.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
But we have to move on.
Speaker 7 (34:37):
I know what Stanley Tucci freakoff just doesn't have the
same ring to it. But no baby oil this year,
just lots of olive oil.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
Okay, all right, So that was the Golden Globes. I
watched the open, then I flipped it over and watched
Congratulations Detroit Lions number one overall.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Seed.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
I want you in the Super Bowl down in New Orleans.
They beat the Minnesota Vikings. I want to close, though.
Do we have time to play Sonny hoston the dumbest
statement made on television? I'm quite confident in twenty twenty
five has already been made. Sonny Hostin says jan six
congratulations Trump officially certified election.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
It's just like the Holocaust historically.
Speaker 4 (35:16):
Listen, I think we need to fine moral clarity, you know,
in this country. And I just remember after January sixth,
you had someone like Mitch McConnell placing the blame on
January sixth where it belonged squarely on Donald Trump's shoulders.
And then you started seeing people backtrack that and losing
their moral center. You had Condoaliza Rice I believe, on
this very show saying, you know, we need to move
(35:38):
on from January sixth. I say no, you don't move on,
because January sixth was an atrocity. It was one of
the worst moments.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
In American history. When you think about the worst.
Speaker 4 (35:48):
Moments in American history, you know, like World War two,
things that happened, you know, like the Holocaust, chattel slavery.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
We more will continue to have fun with you. Thank
you for hanging with us.
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