May 1, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 3 of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show features an engaging discussion with Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana. Senator Cassidy is also the chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee. He is the first physician to sit as HELP chair.
The senator shares insights on various topics, including his efforts to pass legislation to protect Jewish students from harassment on college campuses. He highlights the importance of supporting American values and the positive response from students in Louisiana.
The conversation shifts to the recent New Year's Eve terror attack in New Orleans, with Senator Cassidy providing updates on the investigation and the arrest of a suspect with ISIS links. He emphasizes the resilience of New Orleans and the importance of international cooperation in combating terrorism.
Senator Cassidy also assesses the first 100 days of President Trump's administration, praising the swift action to control illegal immigration and reduce fentanyl trafficking. He discusses significant investments in economic development, including major projects in Louisiana, and expresses optimism for continued progress.
The hosts then discuss the breaking news of Mike Waltz's departure as National Security Advisor and his nomination as the next US Ambassador to the United Nations. They analyze the implications of this move and the appointment of Marco Rubio as interim National Security Advisor.
The hour includes a segment on the challenges of moving, with listeners sharing their experiences and opinions on the etiquette of helping friends and family with moves. The hosts engage in a light-hearted debate about the role of a "hot girlfriend" in the moving process.
The show concludes with a discussion on crime and law enforcement, highlighting the efforts of Jessica Tisch, NYPD Police Commissioner, to reduce crime and improve public safety. The hosts express optimism for a nationwide drop in violent crime as police are empowered to do their jobs effectively.
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Episode Transcript
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome and everybody. Third hour Clay and Buck kicks off.
Now we are joined by Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana. Senator,
appreciate you coming to hang out on Clay and Buck today.
How are you doing.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
I'm doing well, man. I love your music. I love
you interest because it just kind of drives it. I
that's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Thank you, Thank you. Clay is friends with the band,
so that always helps it. By your worst enemy. Fabulous
song that it has become an iconic sports anthem all
over the United States. So those guys have got a
real lasting song. We're happy they let us use it.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
So wow, well healthy every time you use it. I mean,
does that you know, benefit them financially? Are you just
give them some free free airtime?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Mat you ask good questions? My understanding is they get
something for that. But we wanted to make sure that
we had a band that loved what we say on
this program because some musicians you probably have experienced it
or you've seen it in politics, when people that they
don't like politically use their music, they decide to try
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and keep you from using it going forward. And so
I never wanted that to happen with this program. I
knew the guys behind litt. I love that song, and
it for many people who remember the nineteen nineties has
become an anthem of the nineteen nineties. So they make
some money, but primarily it's just that we're in political
alignment and that song is phenomenal and I thought it
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fit very well the audience as we had to pick
something new.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Doctor.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
By the way, Michael Jordan once said, Republicans buy tennis
shoes as well, and so like, you know, whenever somebody says,
don't use my music, I'm thinking, hmm, they must not
think that Republicans listen to music. I'm glad, exactly know.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
I think that that's I think that that is changing
a little bit now. At least people are more aware, Senator,
that cutting out half of the country from their possible
audience or their possible consumer base is unwise. And we
pay attention and we remember so well, Yeah, everybody out there,
whatever you're listening to, you know, go to the iHeart app,
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go listen to some lit because they love all of you,
They love all of us, all right, doctor Cassidy, Senator Cassidy, uh,
let's talk about the Senate Health Education Labor and Pension Committee,
So you're the first physician to sit on that. How
are we making America healthy again? How's that coming along?
I know RFK Junior is the one who's most talked
about in that in that regard, But what are we
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doing for Americans health? What are we doing to make people,
you know, healthier going forward?
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Well, one thing we tried to do yesterday was passibility
to keep Jewish students from getting arrassed and beat up
on campus. Some of my Democratic colleagues opposed it. Can
you believe that we're trying to pass ability to keep
some kid from being arrested when he's walking to like
biology class? And folks oppose that. It'd be nice to
keep people healthy by keeping them from being chased into
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a room and people pounding on the door. So that
may not be the normal definition of keeping America healthy again,
but not getting beat up fits my definition. And that's
what we worked on yesterday, and that's what we'll complete
sometime next week.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Senator, you're down in Louisiana. One of the schools that
went viral for anti anti Israel protests was LSU. There
were a lot of Southern schools where the kids just said, yeah,
we're not going to stand up for this. And as
a result, SEC applications and for Clemson Florida State schools
such as those as well that had the same sort
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of cultural response have skyrocketed. What does that say about.
Let's give a little bit of positivity here the kids
going to school in Louisiana and their ability to see
right from wrong, even if maybe some of the kids
at Harvard and U C.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
L A.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
And Columbia and places like that can't.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
I can tell you some of these bastions of kind
of democratic strongholds may not appreciate the United States of America,
but my folks do. And and a lot of those kids,
maybe their parents didn't go to college. They are getting
the opportunity to take their lives to another level because
their parents sacrifice to send them to school. And they're
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not about They're not about to feel guilty about something
happening around the world. It's being mischaracterized as somehow an
attack by the Israelis on others, when October the seventh
was an attack upon the Israelis. You know, this is
not upside down day. And so I'm proud of my people.
My people love America and they are going to support
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Jewish students when they realize that supporting those students and
supporting American values Sator Cassidy.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
And the last time we had you on was right
after the New Year's Eve terror attack in New Orleans,
and the FBI has been working on this case for months. Iraqi.
I'm sorry, and authorities have apparently arrested somebody with an
ISIS link. Can you tell us just as a follow
up to that, because last time we talked to you
about it, we're talking about terrorism in Israel. We've got
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terrorism concerns here at home. What do we know about
the full scope of what happened and who was involved
in that New Orleans terror attack.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
FBI is still pretty confident this guy was a lone actor.
So we're learning details from the situation in Iraq. And
let's just you know again, we need to as Americans,
thank our friends around the world when they are friends
to us. And I am grateful to our friends in
Iraq who helped find this fellow and are sharing information
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to find if there is a connection. Reading about the
fellow that did the New Year's Day terrorist attack, he
seemed kind of a lone wolf. Type of a person
like he had broken up, divorced, his wife, had very
few friends, that sort of thing. But if there is
a connection there, we'll find it out. We don't know yet,
but I want to point out that New Orleans and
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Louisiana and our country did not let that terrorist or
that terrorist act win the Super Bowl shortly thereafter was
a fantastic experience. And so we don't yet know the
complete ramifications. We do know that our country are state.
My city responded in an incredibly positive way.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Donald Trump, President of the United States, just finished one
hundred days. He's going to be speaking in a place
that may not be particularly fond place for your constituents.
That is the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa tonight. I believe,
for those who don't know, LSU, Alabama big rivals, some
of the biggest rivals in all.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Of college sports.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
But notwithstanding him being in enemy territory from a football perspective,
how would you assess the first hundred days of the
Trump presidency and what do you think going forward Congress
can do, particularly the Senate when it comes to passing
this big, beautiful bill that would help to enshrine the
tax cuts and ensure the American economy is on stronger footing.
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How would you break down where we're headed there?
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Well, first, starting off on one hundred days. I start
off on the first thirty days. President Trump inherited a
southern border in which millions of literally millions of people
were crossing illegally, and along with that came drug trafficking
with fentanyl. By the way, seventy four thousand roughly Americans
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diannglely from drug overdose from fentel overdose, and within thirty
days that was shut down. He says, Okay, Mexicans, if
you don't control this, we're going to put a twenty
five percent tariff on you. Suddenly the President of Mexico
six the Mexican army on the cartels, starts breaking up
the migrant caravans. Now we are just the lowest level
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of illegal immigration across that border in decades, and the
cartels are on the run with their fentanyl labs. So
I like to talk about the first thirty days in
which that promise to control the illegal immigration across our
southern border. It was controlled, and by the way, the
flow of fentanyl across that border greatly reduced hopefully down
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to zero. That's number one. Number two he is pushing
now for increased economic development. Last night, I was at
the White House with a group of about three or
four of the Senators, with a lot of business leaders,
talking about the investments they are making in our country
five point eight billion dollars. But ye Hundai to build
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something in what we call the river parishes of Louisiana,
like a seventeen billion dollar investment in Plaqumin's parish in
Louisiana by Venture Global for LNG export. He didn't even
mention Woodside and Woodside's putting seventeen billion dollars in Louisiana
for another LNG export facility, but he did speak about
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other states other projects with huge investment. That's more jobs,
better paying jobs for working Americans. That's in the first
hundred days. I am hoping we keep this pace up
for the next three and a half something years.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Senator, the tariffs are getting a lot of attention for
obvious reasons all across the country. You might have seen
Kamala Harris last night, if you've stayed awake for it,
you might have seen Kamala Harris talking about the greatest
man made economic disaster I think she said in modern
history today administration. Yeah, I mean no, we we really
(09:11):
did think of like this is the worst. She thinks
this is the worst man made economic disaster and let's
call it the last you know in the post World
War two era. Wow. Okay, but put aside, put aside,
Kamala Harris economist for a second. Here the tariffs. What
should people know about where you think this is going
and and is it right fundamentally for Trump to take
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this approach specifically to China but also more broadly to
other countries that have tariffs against us?
Speaker 4 (09:40):
And why?
Speaker 1 (09:41):
I mean, I just want to hear your thinking on
the tar on the Trump tariffs.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Well, first, to use tariffs initially with Mexico, as we spoke,
as a tool of foreign policy to get the Mexicans
to address the cartels and the caravans coming from Central America.
That worked. That was a pretty effective use of terror
as foreign policy. Secondly, trying to ensure equal market access.
And we've seen countries I think Cambodia is the first,
(10:08):
but Vietnam, with whom we trade a heck of a lot.
Israel immediately coming forward saying we will drop our tariffs.
Let's enter into negotiations. Now. The biggest problem is obviously China,
and frankly, we don't know how that's going to play.
There is a lot of stuff that comes from China
that we don't make in the United States. Now, the
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Chinese terribly unfair trading partners, who will if there is
an American competitor, slash the price of their goods below
their cost of production, put our folks out of business,
and then jack their price back up. So these tariffs
are trying to correct a lot. But China is a
huge economy. We are mutually we are dependent upon them,
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they are dependent upon us, and so the President's going
to really have to do the art of the deal
to make that work.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Well, some news coming out day about Mike Waltz, the
National Security Advisor. What should happen there? What do you
expect to happen? I know this is an area you
have some knowledge and expertise of.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Well, first, I think Mike Waltz. I think the guy
got three bronze stars. He served in the Bush w administration.
He's been a congressman. This guy has served our country.
I don't know his reason for his departure. But he
serves at the He serves at the pleasure of the president,
and if the president decided it would be better to
move in a different direction, well that's why he election
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to have consequences, that's why he's the commander in chief.
But I also want to just acknowledge, Mike, anybody that
has three bronze stars in the Special Forces is pretty
high up there in.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
My book, no doubt, Senator. We appreciate the time, happy
to have you on any time and look forward to
you guys getting this big bill passed through sometime by
Memorial Day and getting the economy really rolling.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Thanks sir, Hey, thank you man.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
That is Senator Bill Cassidy from the great State of Louisiana.
You heard us talking about the impact of antisemitic protests
on so many different college campuses out there and his
attempts as Senator to help combat that. Going on today,
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Speaker 3 (13:34):
Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show. Appreciate all
of you rolling through the program. Buck we got breaking
news during the break. I don't know that you've even
seen this yet. I'll hit you with it. You may
well have. Trump just put out the statement I am
pleased to announce I will be nominating Mike Waltz to
the next US Ambassador to the United Nations. From his
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time in uniform, on the battlefield, in Congress and as
my National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz's work hard to put
our nation's interest first. I know he will do the
same in his new role. In the Interim Secretary of State,
Marco Rubio will serve as National Security Advisor while continuing
his strong leadership at the State Department. Together, we will
continue to fight tirelessly to make America and the world
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safe again. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
So at least Stephonic was the UN Ambassador for the
United States. Decision was made because of the tight nature
of the congressional race and that she might potentially be
giving up in New York State, that she should stay
in that office and now Mike Waltz to the UN
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ambassador role. Your thoughts on this decision in general?
Speaker 1 (14:45):
I like it because, as I said at the beginning,
I like Mike Waltz. I think he's a good guy
and I respect what he's done for the country, and
it seems to me more Remember I laid out two
reasons for why this move would occur. I think there
may be a a difference of policy opinion at a
high level within the Pentagon, particularly on the Iran issue,
with some of the other folks around him. But that
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doesn't mean that Mike Waltz isn't a you know, excellent
patriot who should continue to serve the administration in another capacity.
So he'll be US ambassador the United Nations. So I
think it's less about signal gait, so to speak, and
more just about there they need to put him in
a different area than where he is in the Pentagon
right now because of some of those disagreements. That's my sense.
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But again I'm I'm not involved in those discussions, so
reading reading the tea leaves from the outside as best
as I can. But I like this. There's no there's
no humiliation, there's no anger, there's no Trump's just like,
all right, look a little bit of friction over there
at the Pentagon for whatever reason, Let's get you somewhere
else where. I think you can do good stuff, right
so I and it also shows you know, Trump's looking
out for his people. Waltz gave up a Congressional seat
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to serve him US ambassador. UN's a nice gig. It's
a high profile gig, and I think he'll be very good.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
So that is the breaking news that just came out
right after we talked with Senator Cassidy. As we were
breaking all that down, wanted to make sure we hit
you with that.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
We also have breaking news from Scott in South Carolina
Clay on our talkback because this is a great one.
Let's get to this DD talkback hit it playing buck.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
I disagree hot girlfriend has to show up and be
eye candy encouragement to help you move.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Don't expect you to carry anything. That's what your buddies
are for. You're right, she should at least help by
showing up.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
This is sky rolling out of the for people who
missed it earlier, one of our guys said that he
broke up with his hot girlfriend because she wouldn't help
him move. You and I disagreed with that decision. But Scott,
I think an important analysis here.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Scott is saying, if the hot girlfriend will show up
in gene shorts and a tank top and encourage you.
That's enough. I'm not going to disagree with Scott from
South Carolina. I think if you get that from her,
you're doing really well. But do not expect hot girlfriend
when you're a guy. I know a lot of you
have him been single in a very long time. You
do a guy does not expect hot girlfriend to carry
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heavy things on moving day. I'm sorry, it willn't happen.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
I will say, Buck, this is like your Miami gym theory.
If you have attractive people walking around, you work harder
like that is basically the entire theory of the of
the process. And this is also it's the number one
rule of bar life. The prettier the girls, the more
money in general, the bar is gonna make. It's true.
(17:33):
So I used to have ladies night, right, I don't
think they can do Ladies' night anymore because all the
bars started getting sued for you know this, They started
getting sued for equal protection violations because they were being
discriminating on the basis of sex. So women could come
in and drink for free or get in for free,
and it turned into a lawsuit. Festival, I don't think
they advertise Ladies' Night hardly in any bars anymore. Because
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of that reason, there's gonna be a lot of talk
about the value of rare earth minerals within you Ukraine
in the days ahead because of the deal that Trump
administration has going on. Big opportunity for our nation, big
opportunity for Ukraine. But in this country, we've also got
some unburied treasure enough to possibly establish our own sovereign
wealth fund or something close to it. A fund like
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that takes the proceeds of a natural resource and distributes
it to the people within a nation or a state. Now,
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who are very well informed about these matters who think
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debt four times over. Thanks to a recent Supreme Court decision,
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for by Paradigm Press. Welcome back in Clay Travis buck
Sexton Show. Appreciate all of you hanging out with us.
We've talked some about one hundred days of Trump, and
I did think Buck this was interesting. Harry Inton, I
believe on CNN was discussing something that I think is
really important. So if you're out there and you are
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a Trump voter, maybe you have people in your life
that are not Trump voters, and after one hundred days,
they're coming around saying, hey, do you regret your vote?
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Now?
Speaker 3 (19:28):
We know your answer is no, but they may try
to say, well, if you say no, I don't regret
my vote at all. That's the way that I would
vote if I could today. As well, they may follow
up by saying, well, you may feel that way, but
lots of Trump voters definitely wish they had voted a
different way. This is an argument they try to make. Well,
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CNN has a poll at one hundred days of Trump,
who do you think would be doing a better job
right now? Trump or Kamala and Interestingly, Trump has a
little bit bigger of a margin now than he did
over Kamala in the twenty twenty four election. Let's listen
to Harry Inton break it down.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
We asked the question our last CNN pul who would
be doing a better job as president? Guess who comes
out on top within the margin? Urper comes on top.
This looks a lot like the election result, right Trump
forty five percent, two points ahead of Harris at forty
three percent. It's not just about regretting that vote, it's
literally saying who would be doing the better job right now?
And Trump continues to score a higher percentage of the
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vote than Kamal Harris.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
This looks a heck of a lot like the election result.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
We have just seen this in poll after poll after Paul.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
I do think that's significant, and it's what I was asking.
Anytime somebody says, oh, Trump's got low poll numbers, say okay,
what democrat poll's better? And there is no answer because
there is no Democrat that is more popular than Trump.
Whereas there were certainly a lot of Democrats and Republicans
when we were talking about during the Biden Airy era
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that would have polled higher. So again, I think I
think that's significant.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Yeah, and I think I think Democrats are running into
the problem that exists between criticism and complaining. Right, criticism
in politics is they're not doing a good job. Comma,
we would do the following, which would be so much better. Right,
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broadly speaking, this is how, this is how I break
it down. You know, Trump's economy is floundering because of
X or Y. We would do this, and you need
someone making that case who can get the attention to
be listened to. They're just complaining. They're just sitting around
going everything's terrible. You go, wait a second. The border
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is certainly not terrible, and the economy is not terrible either,
despite what they're saying. So what exactly is so awful?
The deportation of illegal alien. Isn't it an amazing a
breako Garcia? No one denies that this guy is in
illegal so he should not be in America. But I'm
supposed to care so much that he's not in America anymore.
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I don't care. I cannot be made to care. I'm
not going to weep over this. They can weep, and
it won't change my mind. He's not supposed to be
here he's not here, He's not my problem. They just
complain though, because they don't have an alternate plan and
they don't have a leadership to make the case even
if they did. Yes.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
And also, as the details continue to come out about
a Brao Garcia, what we told people over the last
couple of weeks that he was the worst front facing
individual that they could have picked to be the opposition
figure to the Trump deportation process. We just keep getting
proven right more and more. His wife said that he
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threatened to kill her and said that he if he
did it, he would get away with it. She has,
i believe six different times, gone to Maryland authorities and
asked for protection from him. This is not a good dude.
This is not a dude who should have been here.
There is ample evidence that he was a gang member.
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There is ample evidence that he was human trafficking. There
is ample evidence that he was beating and threatening to
kill his girlfriend then wife. This guy should not be
in the country, and the country is actually safer without him.
Vip email Bert loved the phrase talks left lives right.
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I think I'll use it instead of libousine liberal. I look,
once you see this, I was talking about this earlier
because Buck was pointing out the great take from Stephen
Miller calling out everyone in the press who was fine
with illegal violent predator immigrants in this country as long
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as they weren't in their own neighborhoods in as long
as they didn't have to interact with them on a
regular basis, didn't have to deal with the threat or
the danger that they provide. This is left wing politics,
one oh one. It is in your own life. Make
decisions that people who are right leaning would make in general.
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Get married before you have kids, move to the school
district where your kids could go to the best school,
or if that's not possible, potentially put them in private school.
Make decisions to live in very safe, often gated communities
with private security in ample measure, and then simultaneously lecture
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all of us and wag our fingers because we're asking
for more police support, or we're asking for more violent
predators to be removed from the country. You live in
a place where that threat is not a existential reality,
and yet you feel compelled to lecture us for trying
to make the world safer. I always think the the
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biggest flaw of BLM was actually, and there were many.
And the saddest result of BLM was there thousands of
young black kids dead because of BLM because the police
were not allowed to do their jobs, and the murder
rate skyrocketed, overwhelmingly the kids, and oftentimes, sadly, they were
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young kids, teenagers getting killed, were getting killed because police
were not able to do their job. Buck, you were
talking about the job you had with the NYPD, I
wanted to give a shout out. I don't know if
you've been reading about this woman, but she's evidently doing
incredible work right now with the NYPD. Do you know
Jessica Tish at all? Yes, I knew jesse Tish when
I worked at the NYPD. She was a fellow analyst.
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Then yeah, I think she was an intern at Fox
News back in the day. And now I read a
big profile of her recently. Now she is maniacally focused
on reducing crime in New York City and she is
having a tremendous amount of success. I believe she is
a part of a very wealthy family in New York City,
which is the Tish family.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
They own the Giants. I mean, I know the family.
I grew up with Benisch, so yeah, I'm familiar with
these peeps.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
Kind of kind of a cool thing to own an
NFL franchise, among other things. But she has been I
meant to mention her when you were talking about working
with the NYPD earlier. She has been maniacally focused on
trying to make New York City safer and has been
having a lot of results. And you know what she's doing,
locking up bad guys, locking up bad guys, and giving
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the New York Police Department the ability that they did
not have during the BLM era to focus on where
crimes are committed, shift resources there, and start to make
things safer. And I'm seeing a lot of positive results
also happening nationwide now as Trump has back to the
law and order era prediction, I think we are going
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to see in twenty twenty five a massive drop in
violence crime nationwide because police are being put back in
a position to police and keep our community safer. And
the ironic part of this, of course, is if Trump
and the federal level support for law and order is
successful enough, it may give more cover for Democrats in
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blue states or even some very blue cities to be
more law and order in their approach. You know, like
they have no choice or ei they're going to go
along with it. It gives them the ability to do it.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
And that's what you would need, you know, if you
had somebody come along and turn around San Francisco. Let's say,
if you had a Democrat turn around San Francisco and
you had all that the thing of San Francisco. Just
to be clear, they always say, oh, violent crime. Yeah,
it's not violent crime. It's property crime and quality of
life stuff there. Okay, it's like one giant homeless encampment.
(27:52):
It's not a nice situation. Clay was just there pretty recently. Yeah,
And if you had somebody who cleaned that up and
had some government program that actually seem to show some
promise for getting people off drugs, et cetera, et cetera,
whatever it may be, that's the kind of Democrat who
you could then run nationally and say, we're not insane,
vote for this guy, and then you ram through your
socialist left wing policies. Once you fool the American people.
(28:15):
The problem they have right now is everybody who's already
in a Democrat position somewhere has a garbage record, and
they're not you know, so they don't have a bench,
which is why Kamal is still coming out and saying,
oh yeah, like I'm, you know, a leader of the
Democrat Party. They don't have a successful Democrat running a
major city or a very a very blue stand not
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talking purple because you know, you look at a place
like Kentucky. They got a Democrat governor. But because the
people are mostly red state voters, they won't allow things
to get as crazy. I think that, you know, the
turnaround at Clay it's such a shame. The turnaround to
New York, it's just waiting. I will always love New
York City. I will always love the Tri State areas
(29:00):
up It's my home. I mean, I'm a New Yorker
in Florida in a lot of ways. Still I always
will be. And it would be so incredible to turn
around all you the Giuliani miracle. It's there, like there's
a template, right, there's a yes, you could. You could
even hire some of the people that were involved. I'm
sure you can hire Rooty Juliani as an advisor if
you would wanted to, if you really were trying to
clean things up. But they just won't do it. They
(29:23):
just although maybe in New York. The new the new
police commissioner jesse is going to do it. I don't
will see.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
I think Jessica Tish is having some success. But to
your point, it's just cyclical. You have awful crime, and
you decide we need to be tough on criminals, and
when you're tough on criminals, crimes gets lower. And then
when crime gets lower, leftists decide we're being too tough
on criminals. You start going easy on criminals. Crime goes
(29:48):
up again. It's just it's that data.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
And I want one way that I think would be
really helpful if somebody wanted to find a way to
cut through some of this. The the Democrat leadership approach
on crime and the way that they, I think exploit
things politically is they will say, and I can speak
to this in New York because I know the crime
data very well and I was in that system for
(30:13):
a while and I grew up in that city. The
Democrats will say, our law enforcement efforts are falling short
because or you know, there's a problem with them. They're
racist because we have been too aggressive with members of
the black and brown community in this city in our policing.
What really needs to be understood is that the aggression
(30:36):
is toward a very sort of speak is sort of
a very small subset of the overall black and brown
population of New York City who are law abiding and
who are the primary beneficiaries of lower crime rates because
they disproportionately live in the neighborhoods where this bad stuff
is happening. So you get the you know, the Kathy Hogals,
(31:02):
or you get the you know what's his name, Eric,
Eric Eric Adams, and you get these these politicians who
are Democrats who are like, Okay, we need to change
our approach. We need to have no cash bail. They
need to do these things because the system is disproportionately
hurting people who are black and brown. And the real
truth of it is that if you fix the streets
(31:25):
and make them safer, the primary beneficiaries are the you know,
ninety nine percent of black and brown New Yorkers who
are not committing violent crimes. Correct, this is the this
is the this is where you know. But they just
they kind of play to this narrative of all the
police are being racist. It's like, no, let the police
(31:45):
make us all safe. They're gonna make people safer in
the high crime, neighborhoods.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
I actually think buck as we go to break here,
I'm gonna say something positive about San Francisco.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
First of all, it's a beautiful, unbelievable, patiful, maybe the
most beautiful place in the in the United States. I
think they actually have a pretty good mayor. All of
a sudden, Daniel Lurie just started San Francisco mayor. I
think he's gonna do a decent job. And there is
some shoots of optimism, some green shoots that are coming
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up as they return to some form of sanity. I
just wish they didn't have to make such awful decisions
in so many places in order to make the same decision.
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I had to pick either me or my wife as
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a moving padre companion, she's way better at moving and packing.
Not as strong. That's the only advantage that I think
I would have.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
But she would probably say your wife not as strong. No,
your wife is jacked. She's like an She can lift
ten times for bodyweight. I've seen her for one hundred
and and ten pound. Allen's ish.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
My wife is very very strong, but it is hard
to be super strong at one hundred and ten pounds.
But we got a couple of different people who went
to weigh in quickly here at the end of the program.
But she would also say, Buck, I would break a
lot more things. Uh, Marie from Florida wants the way in.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Ee Hey, Clay and Buck.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
It's Marie in Florida, And I just wanted to say
that I also.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
Disagree with hot girl not having to help her boyfriend move.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
She should at least show up, drive the truck, make
some kool aid, do something.
Speaker 3 (36:33):
I mean, that just shows what kind of a caring,
reciprocal person you are.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
So from a female perspective, she should have at least
participated and tried to act like she was going to
carry a box. I'm gonna say I like her. I
like her the thought proces on this play. But she's
talking about future wifey girlfriend when you're just talking about
hot girl girlfriend. I don't know if she shows up
for anything, but there's some there's a lesson there
Welcome and everybody. Third hour Clay and Buck kicks off.
Now we are joined by Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana. Senator,
appreciate you coming to hang out on Clay and Buck today.
How are you doing.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
I'm doing well, man. I love your music. I love
you interest because it just kind of drives it. I
that's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Thank you, Thank you. Clay is friends with the band,
so that always helps it. By your worst enemy. Fabulous
song that it has become an iconic sports anthem all
over the United States. So those guys have got a
real lasting song. We're happy they let us use it.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
So wow, well healthy every time you use it. I mean,
does that you know, benefit them financially? Are you just
give them some free free airtime?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Mat you ask good questions? My understanding is they get
something for that. But we wanted to make sure that
we had a band that loved what we say on
this program because some musicians you probably have experienced it
or you've seen it in politics, when people that they
don't like politically use their music, they decide to try
(01:03):
and keep you from using it going forward. And so
I never wanted that to happen with this program. I
knew the guys behind litt. I love that song, and
it for many people who remember the nineteen nineties has
become an anthem of the nineteen nineties. So they make
some money, but primarily it's just that we're in political
alignment and that song is phenomenal and I thought it
(01:23):
fit very well the audience as we had to pick
something new.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Doctor.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
By the way, Michael Jordan once said, Republicans buy tennis
shoes as well, and so like, you know, whenever somebody says,
don't use my music, I'm thinking, hmm, they must not
think that Republicans listen to music. I'm glad, exactly know.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
I think that that's I think that that is changing
a little bit now. At least people are more aware, Senator,
that cutting out half of the country from their possible
audience or their possible consumer base is unwise. And we
pay attention and we remember so well, Yeah, everybody out there,
whatever you're listening to, you know, go to the iHeart app,
(02:03):
go listen to some lit because they love all of you,
They love all of us, all right, doctor Cassidy, Senator Cassidy, uh,
let's talk about the Senate Health Education Labor and Pension Committee,
So you're the first physician to sit on that. How
are we making America healthy again? How's that coming along?
I know RFK Junior is the one who's most talked
about in that in that regard, But what are we
(02:24):
doing for Americans health? What are we doing to make people,
you know, healthier going forward?
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Well, one thing we tried to do yesterday was passibility
to keep Jewish students from getting arrassed and beat up
on campus. Some of my Democratic colleagues opposed it. Can
you believe that we're trying to pass ability to keep
some kid from being arrested when he's walking to like
biology class? And folks oppose that. It'd be nice to
keep people healthy by keeping them from being chased into
(02:50):
a room and people pounding on the door. So that
may not be the normal definition of keeping America healthy again,
but not getting beat up fits my definition. And that's
what we worked on yesterday, and that's what we'll complete
sometime next week.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Senator, you're down in Louisiana. One of the schools that
went viral for anti anti Israel protests was LSU. There
were a lot of Southern schools where the kids just said, yeah,
we're not going to stand up for this. And as
a result, SEC applications and for Clemson Florida State schools
such as those as well that had the same sort
(03:28):
of cultural response have skyrocketed. What does that say about.
Let's give a little bit of positivity here the kids
going to school in Louisiana and their ability to see
right from wrong, even if maybe some of the kids
at Harvard and U C.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
L A.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
And Columbia and places like that can't.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
I can tell you some of these bastions of kind
of democratic strongholds may not appreciate the United States of America,
but my folks do. And and a lot of those kids,
maybe their parents didn't go to college. They are getting
the opportunity to take their lives to another level because
their parents sacrifice to send them to school. And they're
(04:06):
not about They're not about to feel guilty about something
happening around the world. It's being mischaracterized as somehow an
attack by the Israelis on others, when October the seventh
was an attack upon the Israelis. You know, this is
not upside down day. And so I'm proud of my people.
My people love America and they are going to support
(04:27):
Jewish students when they realize that supporting those students and
supporting American values Sator Cassidy.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
And the last time we had you on was right
after the New Year's Eve terror attack in New Orleans,
and the FBI has been working on this case for months. Iraqi.
I'm sorry, and authorities have apparently arrested somebody with an
ISIS link. Can you tell us just as a follow
up to that, because last time we talked to you
about it, we're talking about terrorism in Israel. We've got
(04:54):
terrorism concerns here at home. What do we know about
the full scope of what happened and who was involved
in that New Orleans terror attack.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
FBI is still pretty confident this guy was a lone actor.
So we're learning details from the situation in Iraq. And
let's just you know again, we need to as Americans,
thank our friends around the world when they are friends
to us. And I am grateful to our friends in
Iraq who helped find this fellow and are sharing information
(05:24):
to find if there is a connection. Reading about the
fellow that did the New Year's Day terrorist attack, he
seemed kind of a lone wolf. Type of a person
like he had broken up, divorced, his wife, had very
few friends, that sort of thing. But if there is
a connection there, we'll find it out. We don't know yet,
but I want to point out that New Orleans and
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Louisiana and our country did not let that terrorist or
that terrorist act win the Super Bowl shortly thereafter was
a fantastic experience. And so we don't yet know the
complete ramifications. We do know that our country are state.
My city responded in an incredibly positive way.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Donald Trump, President of the United States, just finished one
hundred days. He's going to be speaking in a place
that may not be particularly fond place for your constituents.
That is the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa tonight. I believe,
for those who don't know, LSU, Alabama big rivals, some
of the biggest rivals in all.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Of college sports.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
But notwithstanding him being in enemy territory from a football perspective,
how would you assess the first hundred days of the
Trump presidency and what do you think going forward Congress
can do, particularly the Senate when it comes to passing
this big, beautiful bill that would help to enshrine the
tax cuts and ensure the American economy is on stronger footing.
(06:44):
How would you break down where we're headed there?
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Well, first, starting off on one hundred days. I start
off on the first thirty days. President Trump inherited a
southern border in which millions of literally millions of people
were crossing illegally, and along with that came drug trafficking
with fentanyl. By the way, seventy four thousand roughly Americans
(07:07):
diannglely from drug overdose from fentel overdose, and within thirty
days that was shut down. He says, Okay, Mexicans, if
you don't control this, we're going to put a twenty
five percent tariff on you. Suddenly the President of Mexico
six the Mexican army on the cartels, starts breaking up
the migrant caravans. Now we are just the lowest level
(07:28):
of illegal immigration across that border in decades, and the
cartels are on the run with their fentanyl labs. So
I like to talk about the first thirty days in
which that promise to control the illegal immigration across our
southern border. It was controlled, and by the way, the
flow of fentanyl across that border greatly reduced hopefully down
(07:49):
to zero. That's number one. Number two he is pushing
now for increased economic development. Last night, I was at
the White House with a group of about three or
four of the Senators, with a lot of business leaders,
talking about the investments they are making in our country
five point eight billion dollars. But ye Hundai to build
(08:10):
something in what we call the river parishes of Louisiana,
like a seventeen billion dollar investment in Plaqumin's parish in
Louisiana by Venture Global for LNG export. He didn't even
mention Woodside and Woodside's putting seventeen billion dollars in Louisiana
for another LNG export facility, but he did speak about
(08:31):
other states other projects with huge investment. That's more jobs,
better paying jobs for working Americans. That's in the first
hundred days. I am hoping we keep this pace up
for the next three and a half something years.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Senator, the tariffs are getting a lot of attention for
obvious reasons all across the country. You might have seen
Kamala Harris last night, if you've stayed awake for it,
you might have seen Kamala Harris talking about the greatest
man made economic disaster I think she said in modern
history today administration. Yeah, I mean no, we we really
(09:11):
did think of like this is the worst. She thinks
this is the worst man made economic disaster and let's
call it the last you know in the post World
War two era. Wow. Okay, but put aside, put aside,
Kamala Harris economist for a second. Here the tariffs. What
should people know about where you think this is going
and and is it right fundamentally for Trump to take
(09:35):
this approach specifically to China but also more broadly to
other countries that have tariffs against us?
Speaker 4 (09:40):
And why?
Speaker 1 (09:41):
I mean, I just want to hear your thinking on
the tar on the Trump tariffs.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Well, first, to use tariffs initially with Mexico, as we spoke,
as a tool of foreign policy to get the Mexicans
to address the cartels and the caravans coming from Central America.
That worked. That was a pretty effective use of terror
as foreign policy. Secondly, trying to ensure equal market access.
And we've seen countries I think Cambodia is the first,
(10:08):
but Vietnam, with whom we trade a heck of a lot.
Israel immediately coming forward saying we will drop our tariffs.
Let's enter into negotiations. Now. The biggest problem is obviously China,
and frankly, we don't know how that's going to play.
There is a lot of stuff that comes from China
that we don't make in the United States. Now, the
(10:29):
Chinese terribly unfair trading partners, who will if there is
an American competitor, slash the price of their goods below
their cost of production, put our folks out of business,
and then jack their price back up. So these tariffs
are trying to correct a lot. But China is a
huge economy. We are mutually we are dependent upon them,
(10:51):
they are dependent upon us, and so the President's going
to really have to do the art of the deal
to make that work.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Well, some news coming out day about Mike Waltz, the
National Security Advisor. What should happen there? What do you
expect to happen? I know this is an area you
have some knowledge and expertise of.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Well, first, I think Mike Waltz. I think the guy
got three bronze stars. He served in the Bush w administration.
He's been a congressman. This guy has served our country.
I don't know his reason for his departure. But he
serves at the He serves at the pleasure of the president,
and if the president decided it would be better to
move in a different direction, well that's why he election
(11:32):
to have consequences, that's why he's the commander in chief.
But I also want to just acknowledge, Mike, anybody that
has three bronze stars in the Special Forces is pretty
high up there in.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
My book, no doubt, Senator. We appreciate the time, happy
to have you on any time and look forward to
you guys getting this big bill passed through sometime by
Memorial Day and getting the economy really rolling.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Thanks sir, Hey, thank you man.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
That is Senator Bill Cassidy from the great State of Louisiana.
You heard us talking about the impact of antisemitic protests
on so many different college campuses out there and his
attempts as Senator to help combat that. Going on today,
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Speaker 3 (13:34):
Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show. Appreciate all
of you rolling through the program. Buck we got breaking
news during the break. I don't know that you've even
seen this yet. I'll hit you with it. You may
well have. Trump just put out the statement I am
pleased to announce I will be nominating Mike Waltz to
the next US Ambassador to the United Nations. From his
(13:57):
time in uniform, on the battlefield, in Congress and as
my National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz's work hard to put
our nation's interest first. I know he will do the
same in his new role. In the Interim Secretary of State,
Marco Rubio will serve as National Security Advisor while continuing
his strong leadership at the State Department. Together, we will
continue to fight tirelessly to make America and the world
(14:18):
safe again. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
So at least Stephonic was the UN Ambassador for the
United States. Decision was made because of the tight nature
of the congressional race and that she might potentially be
giving up in New York State, that she should stay
in that office and now Mike Waltz to the UN
(14:40):
ambassador role. Your thoughts on this decision in general?
Speaker 1 (14:45):
I like it because, as I said at the beginning,
I like Mike Waltz. I think he's a good guy
and I respect what he's done for the country, and
it seems to me more Remember I laid out two
reasons for why this move would occur. I think there
may be a a difference of policy opinion at a
high level within the Pentagon, particularly on the Iran issue,
with some of the other folks around him. But that
(15:09):
doesn't mean that Mike Waltz isn't a you know, excellent
patriot who should continue to serve the administration in another capacity.
So he'll be US ambassador the United Nations. So I
think it's less about signal gait, so to speak, and
more just about there they need to put him in
a different area than where he is in the Pentagon
right now because of some of those disagreements. That's my sense.
(15:33):
But again I'm I'm not involved in those discussions, so
reading reading the tea leaves from the outside as best
as I can. But I like this. There's no there's
no humiliation, there's no anger, there's no Trump's just like,
all right, look a little bit of friction over there
at the Pentagon for whatever reason, Let's get you somewhere
else where. I think you can do good stuff, right
so I and it also shows you know, Trump's looking
out for his people. Waltz gave up a Congressional seat
(15:55):
to serve him US ambassador. UN's a nice gig. It's
a high profile gig, and I think he'll be very good.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
So that is the breaking news that just came out
right after we talked with Senator Cassidy. As we were
breaking all that down, wanted to make sure we hit
you with that.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
We also have breaking news from Scott in South Carolina
Clay on our talkback because this is a great one.
Let's get to this DD talkback hit it playing buck.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
I disagree hot girlfriend has to show up and be
eye candy encouragement to help you move.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Don't expect you to carry anything. That's what your buddies
are for. You're right, she should at least help by
showing up.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
This is sky rolling out of the for people who
missed it earlier, one of our guys said that he
broke up with his hot girlfriend because she wouldn't help
him move. You and I disagreed with that decision. But Scott,
I think an important analysis here.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Scott is saying, if the hot girlfriend will show up
in gene shorts and a tank top and encourage you.
That's enough. I'm not going to disagree with Scott from
South Carolina. I think if you get that from her,
you're doing really well. But do not expect hot girlfriend
when you're a guy. I know a lot of you
have him been single in a very long time. You
do a guy does not expect hot girlfriend to carry
(17:10):
heavy things on moving day. I'm sorry, it willn't happen.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
I will say, Buck, this is like your Miami gym theory.
If you have attractive people walking around, you work harder
like that is basically the entire theory of the of
the process. And this is also it's the number one
rule of bar life. The prettier the girls, the more
money in general, the bar is gonna make. It's true.
(17:33):
So I used to have ladies night, right, I don't
think they can do Ladies' night anymore because all the
bars started getting sued for you know this, They started
getting sued for equal protection violations because they were being
discriminating on the basis of sex. So women could come
in and drink for free or get in for free,
and it turned into a lawsuit. Festival, I don't think
they advertise Ladies' Night hardly in any bars anymore. Because
(17:54):
of that reason, there's gonna be a lot of talk
about the value of rare earth minerals within you Ukraine
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for by Paradigm Press. Welcome back in Clay Travis buck
Sexton Show. Appreciate all of you hanging out with us.
We've talked some about one hundred days of Trump, and
I did think Buck this was interesting. Harry Inton, I
believe on CNN was discussing something that I think is
really important. So if you're out there and you are
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a Trump voter, maybe you have people in your life
that are not Trump voters, and after one hundred days,
they're coming around saying, hey, do you regret your vote?
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Now?
Speaker 3 (19:28):
We know your answer is no, but they may try
to say, well, if you say no, I don't regret
my vote at all. That's the way that I would
vote if I could today. As well, they may follow
up by saying, well, you may feel that way, but
lots of Trump voters definitely wish they had voted a
different way. This is an argument they try to make. Well,
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CNN has a poll at one hundred days of Trump,
who do you think would be doing a better job
right now? Trump or Kamala and Interestingly, Trump has a
little bit bigger of a margin now than he did
over Kamala in the twenty twenty four election. Let's listen
to Harry Inton break it down.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
We asked the question our last CNN pul who would
be doing a better job as president? Guess who comes
out on top within the margin? Urper comes on top.
This looks a lot like the election result, right Trump
forty five percent, two points ahead of Harris at forty
three percent. It's not just about regretting that vote, it's
literally saying who would be doing the better job right now?
And Trump continues to score a higher percentage of the
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vote than Kamal Harris.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
This looks a heck of a lot like the election result.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
We have just seen this in poll after poll after Paul.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
I do think that's significant, and it's what I was asking.
Anytime somebody says, oh, Trump's got low poll numbers, say okay,
what democrat poll's better? And there is no answer because
there is no Democrat that is more popular than Trump.
Whereas there were certainly a lot of Democrats and Republicans
when we were talking about during the Biden Airy era
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that would have polled higher. So again, I think I
think that's significant.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Yeah, and I think I think Democrats are running into
the problem that exists between criticism and complaining. Right, criticism
in politics is they're not doing a good job. Comma,
we would do the following, which would be so much better. Right,
(21:22):
broadly speaking, this is how, this is how I break
it down. You know, Trump's economy is floundering because of
X or Y. We would do this, and you need
someone making that case who can get the attention to
be listened to. They're just complaining. They're just sitting around
going everything's terrible. You go, wait a second. The border
(21:43):
is certainly not terrible, and the economy is not terrible either,
despite what they're saying. So what exactly is so awful?
The deportation of illegal alien. Isn't it an amazing a
breako Garcia? No one denies that this guy is in
illegal so he should not be in America. But I'm
supposed to care so much that he's not in America anymore.
(22:04):
I don't care. I cannot be made to care. I'm
not going to weep over this. They can weep, and
it won't change my mind. He's not supposed to be
here he's not here, He's not my problem. They just
complain though, because they don't have an alternate plan and
they don't have a leadership to make the case even
if they did. Yes.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
And also, as the details continue to come out about
a Brao Garcia, what we told people over the last
couple of weeks that he was the worst front facing
individual that they could have picked to be the opposition
figure to the Trump deportation process. We just keep getting
proven right more and more. His wife said that he
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threatened to kill her and said that he if he
did it, he would get away with it. She has,
i believe six different times, gone to Maryland authorities and
asked for protection from him. This is not a good dude.
This is not a dude who should have been here.
There is ample evidence that he was a gang member.
(23:09):
There is ample evidence that he was human trafficking. There
is ample evidence that he was beating and threatening to
kill his girlfriend then wife. This guy should not be
in the country, and the country is actually safer without him.
Vip email Bert loved the phrase talks left lives right.
(23:32):
I think I'll use it instead of libousine liberal. I look,
once you see this, I was talking about this earlier
because Buck was pointing out the great take from Stephen
Miller calling out everyone in the press who was fine
with illegal violent predator immigrants in this country as long
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as they weren't in their own neighborhoods in as long
as they didn't have to interact with them on a
regular basis, didn't have to deal with the threat or
the danger that they provide. This is left wing politics,
one oh one. It is in your own life. Make
decisions that people who are right leaning would make in general.
(24:14):
Get married before you have kids, move to the school
district where your kids could go to the best school,
or if that's not possible, potentially put them in private school.
Make decisions to live in very safe, often gated communities
with private security in ample measure, and then simultaneously lecture
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all of us and wag our fingers because we're asking
for more police support, or we're asking for more violent
predators to be removed from the country. You live in
a place where that threat is not a existential reality,
and yet you feel compelled to lecture us for trying
to make the world safer. I always think the the
(25:00):
biggest flaw of BLM was actually, and there were many.
And the saddest result of BLM was there thousands of
young black kids dead because of BLM because the police
were not allowed to do their jobs, and the murder
rate skyrocketed, overwhelmingly the kids, and oftentimes, sadly, they were
(25:20):
young kids, teenagers getting killed, were getting killed because police
were not able to do their job. Buck, you were
talking about the job you had with the NYPD, I
wanted to give a shout out. I don't know if
you've been reading about this woman, but she's evidently doing
incredible work right now with the NYPD. Do you know
Jessica Tish at all? Yes, I knew jesse Tish when
I worked at the NYPD. She was a fellow analyst.
(25:42):
Then yeah, I think she was an intern at Fox
News back in the day. And now I read a
big profile of her recently. Now she is maniacally focused
on reducing crime in New York City and she is
having a tremendous amount of success. I believe she is
a part of a very wealthy family in New York City,
which is the Tish family.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
They own the Giants. I mean, I know the family.
I grew up with Benisch, so yeah, I'm familiar with
these peeps.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
Kind of kind of a cool thing to own an
NFL franchise, among other things. But she has been I
meant to mention her when you were talking about working
with the NYPD earlier. She has been maniacally focused on
trying to make New York City safer and has been
having a lot of results. And you know what she's doing,
locking up bad guys, locking up bad guys, and giving
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the New York Police Department the ability that they did
not have during the BLM era to focus on where
crimes are committed, shift resources there, and start to make
things safer. And I'm seeing a lot of positive results
also happening nationwide now as Trump has back to the
law and order era prediction, I think we are going
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to see in twenty twenty five a massive drop in
violence crime nationwide because police are being put back in
a position to police and keep our community safer. And
the ironic part of this, of course, is if Trump
and the federal level support for law and order is
successful enough, it may give more cover for Democrats in
(27:18):
blue states or even some very blue cities to be
more law and order in their approach. You know, like
they have no choice or ei they're going to go
along with it. It gives them the ability to do it.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
And that's what you would need, you know, if you
had somebody come along and turn around San Francisco. Let's say,
if you had a Democrat turn around San Francisco and
you had all that the thing of San Francisco. Just
to be clear, they always say, oh, violent crime. Yeah,
it's not violent crime. It's property crime and quality of
life stuff there. Okay, it's like one giant homeless encampment.
(27:52):
It's not a nice situation. Clay was just there pretty recently. Yeah,
And if you had somebody who cleaned that up and
had some government program that actually seem to show some
promise for getting people off drugs, et cetera, et cetera,
whatever it may be, that's the kind of Democrat who
you could then run nationally and say, we're not insane,
vote for this guy, and then you ram through your
socialist left wing policies. Once you fool the American people.
(28:15):
The problem they have right now is everybody who's already
in a Democrat position somewhere has a garbage record, and
they're not you know, so they don't have a bench,
which is why Kamal is still coming out and saying,
oh yeah, like I'm, you know, a leader of the
Democrat Party. They don't have a successful Democrat running a
major city or a very a very blue stand not
(28:37):
talking purple because you know, you look at a place
like Kentucky. They got a Democrat governor. But because the
people are mostly red state voters, they won't allow things
to get as crazy. I think that, you know, the
turnaround at Clay it's such a shame. The turnaround to
New York, it's just waiting. I will always love New
York City. I will always love the Tri State areas
(29:00):
up It's my home. I mean, I'm a New Yorker
in Florida in a lot of ways. Still I always
will be. And it would be so incredible to turn
around all you the Giuliani miracle. It's there, like there's
a template, right, there's a yes, you could. You could
even hire some of the people that were involved. I'm
sure you can hire Rooty Juliani as an advisor if
you would wanted to, if you really were trying to
clean things up. But they just won't do it. They
(29:23):
just although maybe in New York. The new the new
police commissioner jesse is going to do it. I don't
will see.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
I think Jessica Tish is having some success. But to
your point, it's just cyclical. You have awful crime, and
you decide we need to be tough on criminals, and
when you're tough on criminals, crimes gets lower. And then
when crime gets lower, leftists decide we're being too tough
on criminals. You start going easy on criminals. Crime goes
(29:48):
up again. It's just it's that data.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
And I want one way that I think would be
really helpful if somebody wanted to find a way to
cut through some of this. The the Democrat leadership approach
on crime and the way that they, I think exploit
things politically is they will say, and I can speak
to this in New York because I know the crime
data very well and I was in that system for
(30:13):
a while and I grew up in that city. The
Democrats will say, our law enforcement efforts are falling short
because or you know, there's a problem with them. They're
racist because we have been too aggressive with members of
the black and brown community in this city in our policing.
What really needs to be understood is that the aggression
(30:36):
is toward a very sort of speak is sort of
a very small subset of the overall black and brown
population of New York City who are law abiding and
who are the primary beneficiaries of lower crime rates because
they disproportionately live in the neighborhoods where this bad stuff
is happening. So you get the you know, the Kathy Hogals,
(31:02):
or you get the you know what's his name, Eric,
Eric Eric Adams, and you get these these politicians who
are Democrats who are like, Okay, we need to change
our approach. We need to have no cash bail. They
need to do these things because the system is disproportionately
hurting people who are black and brown. And the real
truth of it is that if you fix the streets
(31:25):
and make them safer, the primary beneficiaries are the you know,
ninety nine percent of black and brown New Yorkers who
are not committing violent crimes. Correct, this is the this
is the this is where you know. But they just
they kind of play to this narrative of all the
police are being racist. It's like, no, let the police
(31:45):
make us all safe. They're gonna make people safer in
the high crime, neighborhoods.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
I actually think buck as we go to break here,
I'm gonna say something positive about San Francisco.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
First of all, it's a beautiful, unbelievable, patiful, maybe the
most beautiful place in the in the United States. I
think they actually have a pretty good mayor. All of
a sudden, Daniel Lurie just started San Francisco mayor. I
think he's gonna do a decent job. And there is
some shoots of optimism, some green shoots that are coming
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a moving padre companion, she's way better at moving and packing.
Not as strong. That's the only advantage that I think
I would have.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
But she would probably say your wife not as strong. No,
your wife is jacked. She's like an She can lift
ten times for bodyweight. I've seen her for one hundred
and and ten pound. Allen's ish.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
My wife is very very strong, but it is hard
to be super strong at one hundred and ten pounds.
But we got a couple of different people who went
to weigh in quickly here at the end of the program.
But she would also say, Buck, I would break a
lot more things. Uh, Marie from Florida wants the way in.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Ee Hey, Clay and Buck.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
It's Marie in Florida, And I just wanted to say
that I also.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
Disagree with hot girl not having to help her boyfriend move.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
She should at least show up, drive the truck, make
some kool aid, do something.
Speaker 3 (36:33):
I mean, that just shows what kind of a caring,
reciprocal person you are.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
So from a female perspective, she should have at least
participated and tried to act like she was going to
carry a box. I'm gonna say I like her. I
like her the thought proces on this play. But she's
talking about future wifey girlfriend when you're just talking about
hot girl girlfriend. I don't know if she shows up
for anything, but there's some there's a lesson there
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