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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and buck
Sexton Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Welcome in our number three Wednesday edition Clay Travis buck
Sexton Show. A couple of quotes will hit you with
from President Trump courtesy of Axios. If you are out
there and you are wondering what is going on? The
latest in Iran quote from President Trump. Anytime I want
the war to end, it will end. Also, the war
will end soon. There's practically nothing left to target. President
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Trump on the road right now, preparing to have events
in both Ohio and Kentucky as primaries near particularly in
Kentucky where I know there's a big battle over the
Senate in particular, but also what's going to happen with
Congressman Massey there we head now. I believe she is
in Georgia. I know she is on with us to
talk about the goings ons in Georgia, one of the
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chief battlegrounds that exist in the country for the midterm,
where they're going to have John Assoff, the existing sitting senator,
up for re election and they're determining who the Republican
is going to be challenging him. And Marjorie Taylor Green
is being replaced in her North Georgia district. That primary
I believe just happened yesterday. Ashley Brassfield with us. Now
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let's start right there. Ashley, thanks for coming on with us.
The Marjorie Taylor Green race is to replace her. They
now have Democrat and Republican nominees. How does that look
and what can you tell us overall big picture about
the state of Georgia.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Yeah, well, that Marjorie Taylor Green brace that you saw yesterday,
the primary happen with the GOP A ton of people
in that race, and we saw Trump endorse candidate Clay
Fuller come out on top there. Colton Moore was another
name that a lot of people were speculating, a state
senator in Georgia that's pretty well known that could have
come on that race. It ended up being Clay Fuller, though,
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and we'll see him go against the Democrat with the
last name Harris and that runoff to see who fills
that seat. Of course, Marjorie Taylor Green's district is actually
where I'm from in Georgia, so I know it well,
and it's a very rural area in the north west
part of the state, and so I think a GOP
stronghold there, even without Taylor Green holding that seat. But
like Kentucky, like you were talking about, the city of
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Georgia is seeing a big Senate race take place, a
three way tie right now with Buddy Carter, Mike Collins,
and Derek Dooley. And it's very similar into that Kentucky
race and what we are just now seeing in the
Texas GOP Senate primary where there's going to be a runoff.
Texas and Georgia very similar, where they both have that
fifty percent mark that the candidates have to get to
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in order for there to be no runoff. So that's
going to be coming up on May nineteenth, and it's
going to be a big race.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Hey, Ashley, it's Bock. Thanks for being here with us.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
So I know you're covering this and as you mentioned,
it hits particularly close to home as your district. You
are a Georgian and your district is one of the
ones where they'll be quite an interesting matchup playing out.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
But what can you tell us about the.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Situation of the governor's race at this At this point,
obviously Camp is term limited, right, he can't run again,
So you've got a pretty big field here of Republicans
and Democrats. Can you can you break down for us
what that's looking like at this stage.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Yeah, Well, that governor's race is going to be very intense,
and I think there is that dynamic and I've kind
of touched on this in my Senate piece of that
dynamic between Trump and Kemp and the Trump endorsed candidate
here and who the Kemp endorsed candidates are going to
be here. Well, at the governor's race, I think you're
going to see the Lieutenant governor Burt Jones get both
endorsements from Trump and Camp on that one. Where it
differs in the Senate is that Camp has already endorsed
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former football coach at Tennessee Derek Dooley here and this race,
and Trump has not endorsed the Senate candidate. So that's
kind of the difference is in the race is here.
But you see Brad Raffensberger, who's also running for governor.
That's a familiar name you might remember back from twenty
twenty two and the attorney general that you made the
call from the President during the election fraud scandal. So
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there's a long history of few It's happening in the
state of Georgia. As many know, it's a purple state,
and so I think it's going to be a battleground.
It's kind of been this powder keg that's been waiting
kind to explode. It's been kind of this Southern charm
aspect to it, where nothing's quite happened yet. But these
primaries coming up, I had my eye on it personally.
Like we just saw in Texas, it kind of exploded
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all of a sudden, and.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
We don't know who the Trump guy is. Just to
be clear, right, there's still angling for a Trump endorsement
in that governor's race on the Republican side.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Yes, I believe so, if if not, bur Jones hasn't
gotten it yet, but I think there are bird Jones
is kind of the guy that everybody's looking at. He's,
of course the former football Georgia football player, and I
will say that football characteristic and Georgia seems to play.
I mean, we saw herschel Walker back in twenty twenty two.
Bur Jones I was on the campaign trail. Back in
twenty twenty four, he was at the Georgia Tech rally
with President Trump on stage.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
So these are characters that are very familiar.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
You know, I would say that, you know, when the
Gut then the President was in Rome just about two
and a half weeks ago, you saw on the stage
very louder Milk, Mike Collins and Brian Jack and those
are kind of the key players here in these races.
And if you really want to get into the lore
and the deep insider knowledge of Georgia, I mean you
can go back to the dynamic with Governor Kemp and
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Trump and people like Steve Whitcoff, Lindsey Graham. Same characters
were kind of seeing in this Iram war stuff, playing
those middlemen and making deals in the state. So I
think you're going to be seeing more of that possibly
as well.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Actually, this primary is May nineteen. I think you can
correct me on the exact date.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
That's correct.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
We just talked yesterday with Michael Wattley, who is running
in North Carolina, and he said, and I can't believe
this number. Actually he said it might cost six hundred
million dollars for that Senate race in North Carolina. I
would have to think the numbers would be somewhat similar
in Georgia, because this is why Georgia is so important
for people out there who aren't paying attention to the map.
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It is by far the best chance for Republicans to
take back a Democrat seat. And there is no math
if Republicans could win the Senate seat in Georgia. There's
basically no math under which the loss of the Senate
could occur. Usof's a favorite right now, but that's why
so much attention. I know that governor's race is big,
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but in terms of national politics, that Senate seat.
Speaker 5 (06:11):
Is huge, right and it's going to be a challenge
for Republicans.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
We've seen that back since twenty twenty when Leffler and Purdue,
you know, we're running to replace and you know, take
over those seats Democrats Rafael Warnock and John Ossoff took them.
We saw Rafael Warnock be challenged in twenty twenty two
and that was unsuccessful. So it's going to be a
real test for the GOP without Trump's name on the
ballot like in twenty twenty four, to see if they'll
be successful here. And you know, to differentiate the candidates,
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you have the Kemp endorsed Derek Duley and he has
that governor's endorsement behind him.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
From the start, nothing from Trump yet.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Mike Collins, he's done a great job of getting behind
the grassroots support in Georgia, going to i believe one
hundred and fifty nine counties accounting. He was also at
that from Georgia event not too long ago with Trump
on stage. And so while we also have Ratt Brody Carter,
they Collins and Carter have been Trump allies for a
very long time. Derek Dooley was not voting in those
earlier elections for Trump, but still has that support from Kent.
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I think that's going to be a very interesting dynamic
of who can go up against somebody where John oss
Off is perceived by a lot of people as still
a moderate even though he might not be to a lot,
but also in the state where it's purple, but he
also has really great constituent affairs, and that's what I'm
hearing from mayann State people who live there. So I
think it's going to be a very big challenge for
the GOP in the state, much like North Carolina is.
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And if you look at Georgia North Carolina, the situations
are flips with account whether it be with the governors
and the senators there so it's very interesting.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Ashley Brassfield with us from the Daily Caller and she's
in Georgia and she's covering that Georgia election as the
primary is coming up here very closely. Ashley, what if
you just refresh my memory? You know, we have to
pay attention to a lot of political stories here. I
recall Marjorie Taylor Green was among the most pro Trump
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trumpy members of Congress. And then there's been some like
falling out, like a pretty big one.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
What happened? What was the issue or where did this
all go?
Speaker 4 (08:09):
It seems like one of the crazier turnabouts I've seen
on the Republican side in a while.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Right, it felt like, I think for a lot of
people that weren't following closely for a long time, as
this big explosion that all of a sudden happened, and
you know, I think a lot of it left everybody
in dismay. But this, I mean, can go back all
the way to you know, when Trump got into office
in twenty twenty four, who was he picking as secretaries?
And Marjorie Taylor Green at one rally in South Carolina
voice that she would not mind taking the DHS position.
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You follow along, she became, you know, a big player
in that Doge effort on the Oversight Committee, and I
think she started to see some things happening within the
Trump administration in those first six months that she wasn't
exactly pleased with some policy changes, whether it be immigration,
the tariffs that she was heading for a while, which
kind of switched her tune on. And then I do
think she wanted to run in that Georgia Center race.
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She's made comments about many of these and it's in
that race that she's not thrilled about them. So I
believe that there was some internal polling shown by the
White House to Taylor Green that showed her being, you know,
be in the I guess the general election with Asau.
So I don't think she was pleased with that, and
I think that's where things started to take a turn there.
She kind of saw where the puck was going, and
I think the relationship just continued to sour, especially you know,
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she's become this very anti involvement and more type of individual.
And then you saw the big explosion take place back
in you know, December November time period, and she is
no longer in Congress. So now we're seeing this special election,
but I don't think people understand the full scope of
that story. And I think it was a very interesting
one to see happen within the first year of the
Trump administration from somebody like Taylor Green who's been a
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cheerleader for the president for the last four and.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
A half years.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
And has there been any effort to reach out, you know,
Brian Kemp. A lot of the Trump Bass nationwide. I
think they've expressed it here on the show and it
emails they're frustrated with Camp on different things. But Camp
is I understand, and it has been very popular within
the state of Georgia. And while he can't run again,
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is there an effort underway or is there any attempt
at a reproachmall between Trump, MAGA and Brian Kemp just
for the purposes of making sure that we don't lose
a third winnable and really should win Senate seed in
the state of Georgia, because it's starting to feel like
we got a problem in your home state.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Yeah, well, you thought there would be some kumbaya after
twenty twenty four, and it seemed like Kemp got on board.
He went on an appearance on Fox News saying he
supported the president. But I think it's kind of been
this consistent cold war with the governor and the president
since then. And you saw this when he decided not
to take a run at the Senate and that GOP
seat and instead he endorsed Air Duley, which I don't
think was something that the White House looked fondly.
Speaker 5 (10:49):
Upon when he did it.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
So I'm not sure if it's a total Kumbaya moment
quite yet. We're going into twenty twenty six, which might
need to happen here if the GOP wants to secure
the seat in general, so.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
Of you know, time to watch how it goes.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
I think that people probably need to keep an eye
on Governor Kemp for higher aspirations of offices in twenty
twenty eight.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
We'll see there.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
But I think that's a strategic move by Kemp on purpose,
and it seems like in the state there's a big
players like the.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
Brian Kemp's, you know, Mike Collins.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Buddy Carter's, Derek Dooley's, and then even in the governor's
race where you're seeing a lot of changing dynamics and
one name that's not there is of course Stacy Abrams anymore.
So it's really this inner party war that's happening within
the party right now.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
I'd say, yeah, I know a little bit about this. Actually.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Brian Kemp obviously is a wildly popular governor and Georgia
has done a really good job. He believes Derek Dooley's
the best pick, and he had tried to persuade the
Trump White House to also endorse Dooley. Instead, they have
so far stayed out of this primary, which is about
two months away, and hopefully we can wed the turnout
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the vote of Brian Kemp with the passion of Trump supporters,
because that might bend. It's one hundred percent necessary I
think to actually manage to win the Senate race. One
question for you, Ashley on the way out, because I
know you're a former athlete. If I remember correctly as
we're talking to you, the Iranian women's soccer team, I
think the story deserves way more attention than it's getting
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a lot of the girls women on that team refuse
to seeing the Iranian national anthem at an event competition
in Australia. Six or seven different reports of those members
of that team did not want to go back to
Iran afterwards because they were terrified of what might happen
to them, so Australia granted asylum to them. They have
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landed in Malaysia and reports are that most of the
women on the team do not want to continue on
to Iran because they are terrified of what is going
to happen to them when they land.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
We have a lot of.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Examples of people like Megan Rapino, as you well know, Ashley,
speaking out aggressively against the United States. Why do you
think so many women's athletes that are quick to degrade
the United States from soccer in particular, are not speaking
out to protect these women that actually put their lives
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legitimately on the line to speak for freedom in their
home country.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Feels to me like this story should be way bigger
than it is.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Right well, it seems to only matter to people like
Megan Rapino when she's not getting paid.
Speaker 5 (13:22):
Enough in her book.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Is my the way I look at this, And of
course she's getting on you know, this cover of Sports
Illustrated in magazines like that, but she doesn't care about
the global issues like the what those women on the
Iranian soccer team are now facing. So I think that's
just you know, first world problems from Megan Rapino really
not paying attention to this. But it is sad to
see women, you know, especially women that are well known
like Serena Williams, they haven't spoken out on even you know,
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men and women's sports. In fact, they've been more supportive
of it if anything. So I think that's the progressive
agenda here being seen playing out within sports. And I
think that even in places like Iran, where yes, you've
seen Comedie being you know, taken out by the United
States and Israel, now we have his son of taking
his spot in leadership at this point, I think that's
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going to be a problem for these women going back
to the country. And luckily, you know, Australia has granted
them a place to stay. But I would be also
fearful if I were them. I mean, Iran is not
his place that's safe for women. And I think it's
interesting that they even have a women's soccer team, that
they've even been granted that in a place like Iran.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
No doubt.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
I mean they didn't allow him to even go watch
soccer games for multiple generations since the Mulus came into power.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Hey, we appreciate you, Ashley. Keep up a good work.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
That battlefield in Georgia is going to be significant when
it comes to control of the Senate and we appreciate
the update.
Speaker 5 (14:40):
Yeah, thank you guys.
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We have some things were talking about, including the latest
on the Save America Act, the Save America Act, Gonna
save it, Gonna save America with the Act. But first off,
also just a quick one here the economy c NBC's
Rick Santelli Core inflation. Let's talk about this for a
second cut one hit it.
Speaker 6 (16:21):
If we strip out food and energy and come up
with the core expected up two tents, that's exactly where
it comes out, up two tents. Here we go to
the year over year numbers and zero progress, but not
losing any ground. It remains at two point four on
year over year headline. Two point four really is to
find a lower number. You're going back to April of
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last year at two point three to find a higher
number here at December of last year at two point seven,
just to give you some context there. Now, my opinion,
the most important number year over year core remains a
two point five percent.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
The economy is moving along well.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
It's not ever gonna make everyone happy, but trust me,
you'd be hearing a lot more negativity if inflation was
still kicking off at four or five, six percent, et cetera.
Things are actually in pretty good shape.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
What matters is growth rate minus inflation. Inflation is not
going up despite what everybody told you, and the overall
performance of the economy is strong becoming stronger, and so
we'll continue to update you on that. We are scheduled
to talk with Senator Tommy Tubberville of Alabama, he's running
for governor as well, about the latest on the Save
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America Act and more.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
We'll see if we can get him or not.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
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Speaker 2 (19:01):
We are joined now by Senator Tommy Tuberville, The next
governor of Alabama. We'll get into a bunch of things
with him, but let's go ahead and start with this Senator,
because everybody, every day we get asked about to Save
America Act. I know you've been in meetings all day
on Capitol Hill. People are fired up about the fact
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that this is not necessarily going to be coming up
on the floor. What's the latest and what would you
tell our audience to do if they're fired up about
this as most of them.
Speaker 7 (19:33):
Are, Yeah, call your congressman, call your senator. Let everybody
know what you feel about the Save America Act, because
it is exactly what it means. We have to save
America about making sure our voting is true and effective.
You know, when I'm in Alabama, play people asking me, coach,
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is my vote on count or is it just a
false sense of security? And we want to make sure
that people across the country know that their vote counts. Now,
we have fifteen states in this in the United States
of America that are totally crooked, all the blue states.
They want to make sure that they get elected, they
elect their officials. But we have to give us some
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kind of opportunity to make these things as fair as possible,
because we have no chance and if we continue to
lose to blue states, eventually we're going to lose the
White House and they are going to open the border
up again, no law in order get money away, right
and left still from the country, still from the taxpayers,
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and the country that you and I know we'll be
over with.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
Let me ask you, Senator Trubarviltz back, thanks for being here.
Why not get rid of the filibuster if this is
really about saving America? Because it feels like this is
the game that we end up having to play. United
States senators want to do something on the Republican side,
but we need six Steve votes, we need sixty. That's
not a constitution mandate, that's just a self imposed restriction
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from the Senate. If it is saving America, then why
not at least have the discussion about whether this is
the time to do that, because otherwise aren't we just
hoping for a filibuster, a standing filibuster at best.
Speaker 7 (21:14):
Well, first of all, you're exactly right, and when the
Democrats take over, they're going to do away with the
philibuster immediately. So we have talked about twenty five or
thirty of SCEP talked to our blue in our face,
to our colleagues who keep saying, oh, it's about tradition
of the Senate, and I tell them, listen, I don't
work for the Senate. I work for the people of
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this country and the people of Alabama. And if it's
time to understand, this country has changed. We are not
the same republic that we used to be. We have
the enemy is inside the gates. They are changing our culture,
are moral values changing, our religions change just overtaking everything
that we're doing. And so now is the time. Don't panic.
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Let's just bust a filibuster and vote everything in we
possibly can under the best president we've ever had, and
get this country back where it's going again. And do
not let them cheat on us in elections again.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Senator Someverville, the other big question we're getting is about
how to wind down the war in Iran. And I'm
sure you're hearing from some of your constituents. Price of
oil and gas a major concern. I know Alabama, like Tennessee,
fortunately still has very low gas prices compared to much
of the country. But you may have already talked about
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this with President Trump. If the President asked for your
advice on how to handle the wind down in Iran,
what would you tell him?
Speaker 7 (22:39):
Well, first of all, he asked me about three orple
weeks ago, what do you think, Coach about Iran? I said, well,
we've got them as wikis ever ever been. They're killing
their own people. They have a radical group of people
running that government. If we're ever going to make sure
that the Middle East is safe to take out all
these these terrorist groups all across the Middle East and
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in our country, now now's the time to do it.
And thank goodness, I truly believe that it was the
right thing to do it. We'll never have this opportunity again. Now.
This doesn't need to be one of those forever wars,
and it won't be. He's gonna do what he needs
to do and it's gonna be over with. And you know,
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he said, four weeks, five weeks. I don't want to
put a time limit on it. Let's do the job
right and then get out and turn it over to
the people in the Middle East where they can whether
they've got Comane's son or whatever, they're gonna be so
weak that they'll get help from the outside and hopefully
turn this thing around. But this is the only way
we could do it. Guys. We couldn't sit back and
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let him get a nuclear weapon in the future, because
it's not like some of these other countries that have
nuclear weapons. They have a lot more sense than this cure.
These people live off of death. They preached death. They
preached death to America, and we were gonna get lit
up Israel or somebody who was gonna get it up
with a nuke if we allowed them to get a nuclear.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
Weapon, speaking of Senator Tuberville, Senator, so you have, I
assume full faith in President Trump, Secretary of War heg
seth the immediate team in the White House, Secuary Rubio,
to make sure that they know when it's time to
bring our assets home from overseas or at least to
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stop the bombing. That's something you have a high level
of confidence in.
Speaker 7 (24:27):
You'd say, uh, And I've been in classified hearings, I've
been in non classified I talked to them individually quite often,
even the President, And this is not one of those
where we're going in to try to build back their country. Now,
we might give them help in some ways to some point,
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but again, this is not a prolonged fight. We cannot
afford to do it. I heard you talk earlier about
gas prices. Folks. If we can't live a few weeks
with higher gas prices be able to take out one
of the most dangerous groups in the world that want
to destroy the United States of America, then something's wrong
with us. We have to put up with some high
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gas prices. But let me tell you this. I was
coaching at Texas Tech back in twenty ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen. Okay,
every year I coached there, I lived right in the
middle of the heart of all country in the United
States of America. Love of Texas. All under Barack Obama
was over one hundred and ten dollars a barrel the
entire time we were there. Nobody complained about it. We're
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paying three dollars four dollars a gallon, and nobody really
complains under Barack Obama. Now a couple of weeks we
have a little bit of a high gas price, and
everybody's panicing. It's not gonna happen. This will help not
just gas prices go down, but it will also help
us put Chinese to where they should be, and that
is maybe a very problem than I ran.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
We're talking to Senator Tommy Tuberville, next governor of Alabama.
But in the meantime from Alabama, you had to feel
like your worlds were colliding. You just mentioned when you
were coaching at Texas Tech. I was up in the
White House Friday. Urban Meyer's there, Nick Saban is there.
You've got a lot of people talking about the future
of college athletics.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
You know this better than anybody.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
I just saw a Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut chirping
at you on the internet on social media.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
What should happen?
Speaker 2 (26:25):
What's going to happen when it comes to fixing college athletics.
Speaker 7 (26:30):
Well, Chris Murphy's for tearing down college athletics. He's trying
to unionize that. That's the worst thing we could do.
But at the end of the day, he's not relevant
in this talk. Uh. That was a good uh talk.
Last Friday, I didn't go. I had other things I
had to do. But I've had a bill young on
this for three years. I've put together a bill which
was really good, but it's all about unionization. The Democrats.
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We can't get a bill passed. Okay, So we're basically
talking into the wind when this happens. The only person
that can do anything to this is Donald Trump, and
I've talked to him about this. I'm not into all
this anti trust stuff. You know, the commissioners were there.
They need more money, this or that and and that's fine,
but you can't get that passed. Let's talk about reality.
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Here's what President Trump can do do an executive order
for the rest of his term. Okay, folks, you got
when you start your clocks in college sports, you got
five to play five. So that's it. Nobody goes over that.
The second thing is you get one transfer, one free
transfer without penalty. Now you can transfer again, but you
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have to go back to the old rule. You transfer,
you set a year. We've got to do something about
the transfer portal. The money is out of the back.
I don't care what kind of money they make, because
eventually what's going to happen is there's going to be
a donor fatigue. It can't keep spending this kind of money.
He can't do it. And so we've got to get
the transfer portal back, put education back into it, get
your butt back in class. You're gonna make money, that's fine.
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But you're gonna go to class, You're gonna keep your
grade point up like you used to have to. And
if you don't fulfill that requirement of going towards a
degree every year in school, then you're gonna end up
losing your scholarship and you're gonna end up losing eligibility.
But now there is no penalty for doing anything other
than just going making money and playing. And what's happening
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is we're losing fans. And fans are the reason college
sports are important because they pay money to go watch
these and I'm telling you they're they're getting the tig
from all this because of the non loyalty of the athletes.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Last question for you, and this just came down you
probably knew it was coming. Mark Wayne Mullen, one of
your senate colleagues, is going to have his confirmation hearings
to be elevated to run the DHS. What can you
tell us about Mark Wayne? And do you presume that
those will go fairly smoothly, And not only will he
get Republican support, but he'll even get I know Fetterman
(28:58):
has already said, hey, I'll be supporting this. He'll even
be getting some I would imagine Democrat support.
Speaker 7 (29:05):
Yeah, perfect choice made. He'd make a great head football
coach back in the seventies and eighties, walking in the room,
demand respect, motivate people to do their job work ethic
is unbelievable, understands this country, loves this country, and he
is for America first, not illegal immigration. And so he's
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gonna be perfect. And he's gonna get quite a few
Democrat votes. So he will get He will get pushed
through nomination next week. That probably might be his toughest
is getting out of committee. Once he gets out of committee,
he'll he'll have plenty of votes to get in. We
need somebody hard knows, an offensive line coach, basically go
in and say, Okay, we're gonna put our nose at
the grindstone here and we're gonna grind and we're gonna
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get this job done. I don't care about being on
TV or doing any of that fancy stuff. We're going
to be successful in immigration.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Awesome, good luck, senator, We appreciate the time. Good luck
that governor's campaign. I'm sure we'll talk to you again soon.
Speaker 7 (30:03):
Oh gout. Thanks.
Speaker 4 (30:05):
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see a lot of toys in the ground for ginger
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Speaker 1 (31:42):
Shot today on Clay and Buck.
Speaker 4 (31:43):
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Speaker 1 (31:51):
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Speaker 2 (31:52):
He is pushed away the mic from Buck right now.
But if you go, you can hear a baby very
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Speaker 4 (32:04):
What is he ten months old now? It's almost eleven
almost eleven months old, eleven months old today, I'm sorry,
eleven months old today.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
That's right, and he is about to be a year old,
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Speaker 1 (32:41):
There you go, no doubt.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
It will be It'll be interesting to follow, and you
will enjoy it. We need to talk about this tomorrow, Buck,
because you mentioned it to me, and I know we
haven't talked about it.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
A great deal. By the way, President Trump.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
Speaking at a Ohio pharmaceutical company in Cincinnati right now
as he is on the ground in Cincinnati. But Buck,
we were talking about this continued fleeing of the West
Coast by super rich people as property taxes and income
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tax and billionaire taxes and everything else continues to skyrocket.
The latest to move to Miami Howard Schultz, the CEO
of Starbucks, who started his company out in Seattle, probably
alongside of Microsoft. I would say Boeing maybe the two
or three biggest most iconic brands in Seattle. He's bailing
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on the state as they are now going to be
taxing wealthy people at much higher rates in the state,
and he's going to Florida. Also, Buck they relocated a
ton of their employees to Nashville. They're opening a brand
new corporate office in Nashville with thousands of people employed there.
So Tennessee and Florida to no state income tax state.
(34:00):
More and more people every single day deciding that they
want to abandon high tax blue states or low tax,
well regulated, well run red states.
Speaker 4 (34:10):
Yeah, that couldn't be more clear. But I also find
that there's some deserved frustration what I think is an
obvious hypocrisy here of people who support policies in blue
states and then continue to support them. It's one thing
if you're a convert, if you want to go, if
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you want to go full elon and be like the
left is insane. I get it, now, fine, welcome to
the family. But people who want to still be giant libs,
Seattle style libs and move to Florida so they can
enjoy our Floridas or move to Tennessee to enjoy your
Tennessee in this and not admit that our way is better,
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that these states are better. That's the thing that you know,
there should be a mea culpa before they hop on
the private jet and come down to the because they've
helped fund I mean, look at look at like Steve
Jobs as or a Steve Job's widow. Also, what's an
Amazon's ex wife, you know, Amazon Warren Powell Jobs.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
If I'm not mistaken, See, these.
Speaker 4 (35:13):
Women are using other men's money or the money made
by men to fund the destruction of Western civilization. It's
not a good thing. Kay on the talkbacks is a
nice one. Michael, who's a trucker in Arizona.
Speaker 7 (35:24):
Play it, guys.
Speaker 6 (35:27):
I just wanted to sincerely thank you guys all you
guys do from.
Speaker 7 (35:30):
Service to our country. I feel like you guys are
my friends. Never met you personally, but you're in my
truck with me three hours a day.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
I drive Big Grig twenty six years now, and I'm
surprised Arizona locally and I am well in form because
you guys and you.
Speaker 7 (35:47):
Gentlemen are amazing. So God bless you, keep safe.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
Thank you God, bless you. Michael. We love you too, man.
That's awesome. We love a Clay, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (35:57):
Anyone who listens three hours a day is like a
special of family and our truckers. I love that he
started out with a little two at the beginning too. We
know you guys roll with us all across this nation
for often three hours at a time.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
We're very grateful Jet in Toledo. This is a funny one.
H We appreciate the talkbacks.
Speaker 5 (36:15):
Yeah, Clay, you can save your man card.
Speaker 4 (36:18):
Yet if you just tell us all that you watch
the screen movies because of Nev Campbell.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
That's it. That's why I watched it.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
Nev Campbell, big fan for thirty years, continuing to do
good work.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
I guess you are a brunette guy.
Speaker 4 (36:31):
I'm a redhead guy over here, so you know, remember.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
Back in the day, Wild Things, Denise Richards, Nev Campbell,
incredible work, great film.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
We'll be back with you guys tomorrow speaking truth and
having fun. Clay Travis and Buck Sexton