September 23, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 3 of The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show dives into explosive political and cultural stories shaping the national conversation. The hour begins with a deep look at the New Jersey governor’s race, where Democratic candidate Mikie Sherrill faces scrutiny over allegations of questionable stock trades. Clay and Buck break down reports that Sherrill’s net worth skyrocketed from a few million to roughly $12 million while serving in Congress, despite an annual salary of $174,000. They discuss her awkward response to Charlemagne tha God’s question about making $7 million in trades and explore the broader issue of insider trading in Congress, calling for mandatory blind trusts or index fund requirements to restore public trust.
The conversation then pivots to breaking news: a guilty verdict in the second assassination attempt on President Donald Trump. The hosts detail how the would-be assassin set up a sniper position at Trump’s West Palm Beach golf course just weeks after the Butler, Pennsylvania rally shooting. They highlight the alarming rise in left-wing political violence, citing a new Atlantic report showing far-left attacks now outnumber those by the far right for the first time in decades. Clay and Buck argue that incendiary rhetoric from Democrats—such as Kamala Harris comparing Trump to a “communist dictator” during her Rachel Maddow interview—fuels this dangerous trend.
The hour also covers media and cultural flashpoints, including Disney+ hiking subscription prices amid ongoing backlash over Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension and return. Clay and Buck note how streaming costs now rival or exceed traditional cable bills, undermining the original promise of savings. They also tackle the bizarre downfall of former media star Keith Olbermann, who issued an apology after a tweet interpreted as a violent threat against CNN’s Scott Jennings.
The hosts reflect on Olbermann’s trajectory from ESPN icon to MSNBC anchor to controversial figure, contrasting his past influence with his current controversies.
Listener calls and talkbacks close out the hour, featuring reactions to congressional stock trading scandals, Trump’s salary donation, and the tightening New Jersey governor’s race, where Republican Jack Ciattarelli is polling neck-and-neck with Sherrill. The segment ends with shocking courtroom drama: the convicted Trump assassin reportedly attempted self-harm after the verdict.
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Episode Transcript
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome in everybody. Third hour of play and Buck kicks
off right now. We've had Trump at the UN this
morning saying the trumpy things, very very good stuff from
our commander in chief. We shall get into some of
that here momentarily, but I would ask for a moment here.
(00:21):
I just wanted to throw this in the mix before
too much time has passed play and put out maybe
a call for any of our New Jersey listeners to
email us or VIPs email us or send in some
talkbacks in New Jersey and we'll get some of them
later on about this, because there are Gubna toil races
that are underway. Some of them are going to be
(00:42):
hotly contested in important states, places like Virginia. We had
win some seers on she's a lieutenant governor, a very
impressive woman.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
But in New.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Jersey, remember New Jersey was a much closer election. What
was it, Clay was not this, but it was in
the off year that that Glenn was in.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Point or two in twenty twenty one. And remember Trump
only lost New Jersey by five last year. And they
think the Trump team does if they had had Commawea
level money that.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
They could have flip New Jersey into their column.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
So New Jersey is still blue, but it's it's more
interesting than they wanted to be, but for sure, and
this might help a bit more. This is just one
of the great moments on Charlemagne the God on the
Breakfast Club. Mister the God was sitting down with Democrat
candidate New Jersey governor Mikey Cheryl. So the Democrat, sorry,
(01:44):
Democrat candidate for governor, Mikey Cheryl.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
And I'm not familiar.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
That's why I'm asking people to weigh in a little
bit on what do I need to know about Mikey Cheryl.
But this was a great moment, and mister the God
asked about this, and I think it was worth us
all just hearing for a second, because people are very
sick and tired of members of Congress, particularly who seemingly
(02:13):
are trading in a way in the stock market that
mirrors information that they would only have access to because
of things that they're doing in Congress and making a
lot of money. She was asked Mikey Cheryl about this,
and here is the response from the Breakfast Club. A
couple of days ago, play this.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
One when Newsmax claimed that you made seven million dollars
from stock trades.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
What are they talking about?
Speaker 6 (02:36):
News Max is first of all, a very questionable organization
that is paying multiple fines. I'm not sure what they're
talking about.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Well, did you make seven million in stock trades at all?
Speaker 7 (02:48):
I I haven't.
Speaker 6 (02:50):
I don't believe I did. But I'd have to go
see what that was alluding to. Again, what kind of
came from clay?
Speaker 1 (03:00):
I think if you're a member of Congress making about
one hundred and eighty grand by the way, I think
that if you made seven million dollars trading the stock market,
whether somebody else is making those trades on your behalf
where you're making them, I think you should know, unless
you're a billionaire and so rich that you could plausibly
(03:24):
say I don't know what happened with seven million dollars.
Ninety nine point nine nine percent of people in America
would know if they made seven million dollars or not
in the stock market. A lot of you out there
would know if you made seven hundred dollars in the
stock market or not. Certainly seven thousand or seventy thousand,
(03:44):
to say nothing of seven million.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
These people are so bad at this buck. I just
I watched so.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Many of these politicians, and we've reached out, by the
way to Jack Ciarelli, who is the Republican contender who
almost won in twenty twenty one. He is the nominee
on the Republican side for this race. To remind all
of you, Virginia and New Jersey and the mayor of
New York City are all off calendar elections, so they
(04:13):
will be taking place this November. That's in basically six weeks.
Some of you basically can already go early vote on
these I just I mean credit to Charlott Magne and
the god who is of the left, I think, but
is kind of pointing out, hey, seven million dollars. Can
you follow up and just kind of tell us what
you've been here?
Speaker 1 (04:32):
All right, I've got some I've got some some stats
and numbers to throw into the mix here. Cheryl makes
I said one hundred and eight one hundred and seventy
four grand as New Jersey's eleventh Congressional district rep. So
she remember, they have financial disclosures everybody, so we can
know this public it's public record how much money these
(04:56):
individuals have within a range. But you have some sense
of it right. So in twenty nineteen, she reported total
assets between seven hundred and thirty and I'm just gonna
abbreviate the numbers here, but seven hundred and thirty thousand
and four point three million dollars. Now that's a huge range.
By the way, Yes, does that includes your house? You know,
to anybody listening, the difference in being worth seven hundred
(05:16):
grand on paper and being worth four million on paper
feels like a lot. But anyway, that's where she was.
But Clay in her most recent one, in her most
recent disclosure form, she's worth more.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Like twelve million. Yeah, this and so and so.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
You say to yourself, wait a second, she's making one
hundred and seventy four It's not like she had some
huge trust fund, because we would know that from the
financial disclosure forms previously. So somehow she has and Jack
Chiarelli has come out and hammered her on this somehow
while a member of Congress sitting on the Arms Services Committee,
(05:56):
who allegedly has a fondness for trading Clay and defense stocks, saying, interesting,
she has gone from being worth you know, let's call
it a couple million dollars to put it in the
middle to being worth about twelve million dollars. I mean
she could be worth as much as four million there
even still, that would be a tripling of her net
(06:17):
worth while making one hundred and eighty grand a year.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Now, sometimes spouses make the money, which can also sometimes
be suspect, right because they'll say, well, this is not
the money that I'm making, this is my spouse. I
think this is what happened with And I don't even
know who her spouse is now. But Evon Holman, now
he's we'll get he's an investment banker, so his compensation
(06:41):
may be a significant part of this. But Clay, she
was fined for failing to disclose stock sales in twenty
twenty one. Well, this is where it gets very shady. Okay,
correct me if I'm wrong on this, because this seems
like something that shouldn't be allowed. You basically cannot prosecute
elect officials like congressmen and senators for insider trading, correct,
(07:05):
because they get all sorts of information that is not
public and then they're allowed to trade on it. And
this is where it gets super shady. This is like
the Nancy Pelosi situation. The spouse oftentimes is the person
who's actually trading on this, and they are able to
monetize this in a way that is hyper shady. Remember,
(07:27):
if you look at Nancy Pelosi's trading record for stocks,
she's somehow better than Warren Buffett at buying and selling stocks.
There's a Nancy tracker out there where you can look
at all the moves Pelosi makes because they have to
disclose it. I don't understand why it isn't basic required
(07:50):
for everybody out there to put their holdings in a
trust and just use that. Let me give you an example, Buck,
most of my money after I sold out Kick that
is not in real estate is in SMP five hundred
index funds. That is, I just buy the five hundred
largest companies in America. Ninety percent of the time, the
(08:14):
s and P five hundred outperforms experts. I am not
buying large buying and selling very many stocks. Now, there's
no restriction on me buying and selling very many stocks
in the first place. But I would say about five
percent of my stock assets are in physical stocks that
I control, and about ninety five percent is effectively a
(08:36):
SMP five hundred index funds. I don't understand why it
isn't standard for everybody Democrat, Republican, Independent, who is elected
to Congress to put their assets, their four oh one
k their individual stocks, just put it into a index
fund and say I'm not going to buy and sell
individual stocks while I'm a representative of the United States Congress.
(08:57):
What am I missing here to me? That seems like
it's could be standard for everyone out there. And if
they're arguing otherwise, I think it's highly suspect for people
to be trading hundreds of times in a year. And
remember what happened during COVID, because I haven't forgotten this.
Remember when they got the briefings about how dangerous COVID
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was going to be and what was going to happen,
and a ton of congressmen and women immediately sold all
their stocks before the stock market started to decline. They
got access to information that you and I didn't have
access to about what was going to happen in terms
of shutdowns.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
The stock market plummeted.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
And a lot of congressmen and women sold before the
stock market collapsed and then bought at bottoms and made
a ton of money off information that's not public. I
don't know what I'm missing here. This candidate, I think
is lying. I think she has likely benefited off inside information.
But this is important. When it comes to corruption. We
(10:01):
don't just focus on corruption itself. We focus on the
appearance of corruption because it's so toxic to public trust.
How is there not a direct appearance of corruption when
individual congress men and women are making trades and destroying
the greatest investors of our lifetimes in their results.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Just just so everybody understands, in something like the National
Defense Authorization Act or one of those big omnibus or
you know, Perculus or whatever you want to call it,
these big bills that come out where they're just full
of pork and they're full of all this spending. If
you're on some committee and you know that a certain
defense contractor, for example, is about to get correct a
(10:46):
three or five or ten billion dollar government contract, guess what,
It's probably gonna go up as a stock. Okay, yes,
I think we all understand that. And so if you
are essentially now you know the rules. They've changed the
rules so that technically there's like a little more reporting
and stuff, but you're not barred from trading. And let's
just let's just take let's just be honest about this.
(11:09):
Have you seen anybody get in trouble for insider trading
from the United States Congress?
Speaker 2 (11:13):
No, I'm not aware of it right now.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
I think buck that they're not You're not allowed to
be prosecuted for it.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
I think the case they changed the rules. Let me
let me check on it. They made some the Stock Act,
they made some adjustment to it. But I think it's
like you can't be prosecuted for knowledge that comes from
the course of your job, which is the whole point
of that. Let me let me check on this one.
I got to see what the rules are because this
was clay. This has been a push for over a decade.
(11:38):
People have been trying to you know, trying to figure out,
uh why members of Congress are able to get so
so rich.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
But larger issue, yes on that. To me, it's just
it shouldn't be allowed. Minor issue or secondary issue as
it pertains to this race. If you made seven million
dollars in stock trades, you better have a good explanation
for how that happened. And again the husband may well
(12:10):
be the reason. But to claim, oh, I don't know,
I'd have to look into that. How out of touch?
Are you if you can make seven million dollars and
not recall whether or not it happened, unless you're a
billionaire and your stock price valuation is constantly going up
and down. Again, all I'm saying is, I'm not a
congress person. SNB five hundred index funds a good option.
(12:32):
Why would we not make that standard for anybody who's
in the elective office. Now, there are some complexities, usually
blind trust, and this is getting into specifics. Let's say
you own a company and that company is publicly traded.
You can just say, hey, I'm not going to buy
or sell stock, or it's a blind trust, I'm not
managing it. There are lots of ways to handle this
(12:53):
that do not create this huge, this huge impression of
impropriety that to me would make a lot of sense.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Well, I just would know, Clay. So, two former members
of the House of Representatives have been prosecuted and convicted
for insider trading, which the Stock Act of twenty twelve,
that's what I referred. So this has been going on
for a while. So there is this Stock Act. It
doesn't bar them from trading. Obviously there's disclosure requirements. But
here's the thing. It's super hard because of the information
(13:24):
that they're coming into contact with is of a political nature.
It can be very like if you're going to invest
in a big defense contractor what's how do you know
that you don't just you know, they get into this
mosaic defense strategy for white collar criminals of like, well,
did I do it because I thought of this bill
that's coming up, or because I love the fundamentals and
I know I read the latest ten K. I mean
(13:45):
that's well, also curious on whatever, I would be curious
what the prosecution for insider trading is because those guys
could have been prosecuted for actual insider trading that had
nothing to do with Congress.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Right.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
In other words, I believe the testimony that you hear
behind closed doors is not allowed to be prosecutable for
insider trading. You could still be prosecuted if, for instance,
you're out of office and your cousin calls you and
he sits on the board of X company and he says, hey,
we're about to.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
That's what happened. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
By the way, they actually were not prosecuted. This is
very important clarification. They were not prosecuted for anything under
the Stock Act or anything having to do with Congress.
They were prosecuted for insider trading access they had before
being in Congress. Yes, that's a difference.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
This is what I said, Like you basically get a
free reign to insider trade at Congress.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
So my initial premise of like, no one in Congress
has ever that no one in Congress has ever been
prosecuted for insider Congress insider Congression information.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
That is true.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Which, by the way, some breaking news as we go
to commercial break here, Buck, there has been a verdict
reached in the second assassin attempt of President Trump in Florida,
the West Palm Beach assassin. I would imagine that he
has been found guilty, but we will see what that
result is. They're going to announce that shortly.
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want to mention this. We've been talking about Jimmy Kimmel.
He's returning. Quick turn here, Buck, but Disney Plus has
elected to raise prices three dollars a month today.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
I don't know who.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Advises some of these companies on pr but if you
are out there and you're either angry about what Disney
did with Jimmy Kimmel and you're a leftist, or you're
on the right and you're saying, hey, they censor us
all the time, I don't know that now is the
time when I would decide to announce that everybody has
to pay three more dollars a month for their Disney
(17:36):
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up paying way more in streaming cost than we ever
paid in cable costs.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
That a whole idea of.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Oh I'm gonna save money in streaming, it's gone out
the window. We all pay a lot more and get
it a lot less. It feels like to me.
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this is the second would be assassin of Donald Trump
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who set up an assassin's position firing position on a
golf course in West Palm Beach about an hour's drive
from where I'm currently sitting, and was ready to commit
the deed, had a secret service fired at him at
close range, did not hit him, and then had to
(19:26):
chase him down. He got, I don't know, got about
an hour or two away, I think, on the highway
before they were able to finally get him. Clay, what
is the I don't think it's big surprise here. What
is the verdicts?
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Guilty on all counts, And I would point out I
played this Trump West Palm Beach golf course with tunnel
to towers. Last year, they pointed it out exactly where
this would be assassin was set up. The fact that
he was able to be there all day, one month
after Trump had his ear buzzed by another be assassin
(20:00):
in Butler, Pennsylvania and Corey Competore lost his life at
that Butler, Pennsylvania rally. The fact that this was ever
allowed to happen, even that he could get close. Remember
the story is that a Secret Service agent saw the
sunlight glinting off his gun barrel. The guy was there
(20:21):
for hours all day waiting for Trump to come by
playing golf. And I have to tell you this is
I mean, the guy would have been thirty or forty
yards away from Trump in that tea box. I just
I know this story doesn't get talked about very much.
And the fact that a Secret Service agent fired at
(20:43):
him missed only because a woman took down the license
plate number of the car. Reportedly, were we able to
later get him driving somewhere on the floor to Turnpike
to Bucks Point, a long distance away from where he
tried to kill Trump. And the fact that he did
it because he believed Trump was Hitler, and he was
(21:05):
a crazy Ukraine fanatic, and he believed that he needed
to save America from fascism. All of the arguments that
democrats have been making for the last decade, the same
arguments frankly and sadly that the assassin of Charlie Kirk
embraced as well. I mean, even the Atlantic, no great
bastion of fair handedness or sanity. I saw this just
(21:29):
a little bit ago.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Buck.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
The Atlantic is even now having to write stories about
left wing political violence. And our friend Senator Mike Lee
shared it. But the Atlantic has a headline right now
left wing terrorism is on the rise. For the first
time in more than thirty years. Attacks by the far
left outnumber those by the far right, and they continue
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to stack up, and no one is out there saying, hey,
you know what, we may disagree with Trump, but he's
not actually Hitler. In fact, do we have the cut
of Kamala Harris with Rachel Maddow now saying Trump is
a communist dictator. I guess now they've decided that instead
of Hitler on the right, he now is Fidel Castro
on the left. Can we play the communist dictator line
(22:16):
from Kamala.
Speaker 7 (22:17):
Right now, we are dealing with, as I called him
at my speech on the Ellipse, a tyrant. We used
to compare the strength of our democracy to communist dictators.
That's what we're dealing with right now. Donald Trump and
these titans of industry are not speaking up, and perhaps
(22:40):
it is because his threats and the way he has
used the weight of the federal government to take out
vengeance on his critics is something that they fear. And
I get that. I understand why they do. We've seen
the demonstration of it.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Yeah, I mean, next thing, you know, Oh, he may
try to bankrupt in prison and kill his political adversaries.
Can you imagine if we tried to put a top
political figure in prison on trumped up charges that made
absolutely no sense whatsoever and were entirely filed based on
political basis. Can you imagine if the state of Georgia
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did that, if they did it in Florida, if they
did it in Washington, DC, and if they did it
in New York. I mean, we might even find a
situation where four different jurisdictions could be trying to put
the president in prison for the rest of us. Oh wait,
that's what they did.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Yeah, this is why you have a discussion with them
about this, because they're so far apart.
Speaker 8 (23:44):
You know.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
It's like if you're in a negotiation with somebody and
you think their house is worth one hundred thousand dollars
and they think the house is worth a million dollars,
it's really not allowed to talk about. Yeah, that's where
we are on political violence. Like Democrats are just operating
in an alternate reality where whether it's a question of
this is like a both sides sting, or you know,
we just need to cool the temperature down a little bit.
They need to cool the temperature down. They're the ones
(24:05):
that do censorship. They're the ones that act in or
a thorn. I mean, to call us authoritarian. It's like
we're all supposed to forget about how they acted during COVID.
I mean that was the most clear That was the
biggest opportunity to show whether or not you were a
true authoritarian. Wanted the government's boot to be at your disposal,
to put on someone else's neck. And it was all
(24:26):
the Democrats who were pushing that stuff, and it was
the Right that was saying, hold on a second, like
what's going on here? Why are you doing this? I
also was gonna mention this, A lot of you have
been reaching out. Keith Oberman is crazy, and I asked
Buck about this off air, but I'll say it on
air too. I don't know where the Keith Olberman story
is going, but I don't think it's going to be
a very positive destination. And I feel bad in many
(24:50):
ways because this was a guy that was one of
my idols when I was a kid. Buck, I would
get up in the morning, get ready for school, eat
my cereal Clay. That's worse than me downloading Kamala's book.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
No, No, I bet there's tons of people out there listening.
He was great on Sports Center with Dan Patrick back
in the day. They if you were a sports fan.
I bet huge percentages of our listeners out there that
are sports fans did the same thing as me. You
would wake up in the morning, you would put on SportsCenter,
you would eat your breakfast and Dan Patrick, who was
(25:23):
still doing great work distributed by iHeart on sports Talk
Radio Legend of Sports Talk Radio and Keith Olberman were
an incredible duo. They were really funny. They made sports
more fun. And now I really feel like he's he's
gone off the deep end, buck, and he just issued
an apology. Producer Greg just got my back, he said,
(25:45):
I'm one of those guys. I loved Olberman and Dan
Patrick on Sports Center. There are a lot of us
out there that grew up. I used to love them.
I used to love Keith Olberman, Dan Patrick very funny.
I still love Dan Patrick. Co Olberman's crazy. Here is
what he just had to do. He tweeted at Scott Jennings,
our friend on CNN, your next m you gotta get
(26:08):
an idea er, and then he just I'm guessing his attorneys.
Yesterday I wrote and immediately deleted two responses to Scott
Jennings about Kimmel because they could be misinterpreted as a
threat to anything besides his career. I immediately replaced them
with one specifying what I actually meant. I oppose and
(26:31):
condemned political violence and the threat of it. All times
are the wrong time to leave, even an inadvertent impression
of it, but this time is especially wrong. I should
have acknowledged the deletion and apologized yesterday. I'm sorry I delayed.
This is what happened, he says. I apologize without reservation.
(26:54):
To Scott Jennings, your next expletive, keep mugging to the camera.
And this was turned into the FBI because it sounds
like a threat, and he meant. Oberman is saying that
he believes Scott Jennings should be canceled from television like
Jimmy Kimmel was.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
That is his explanation.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
But again, I just I think this guy is on
a fast track to crazy town. He may already be there.
And this was one of the most successful people in media.
I mean, what years did Keith Oberman? Was he the
straw that stirred the drink at MSNBC early two thousands
when he was like and look, I'm talking about watching
(27:37):
him on Sports Center back in the nineties, which was
when he had his apex as a sports figure. But
early two thousands, Keith Oberman was about as big as
you could get in media. And now he's having to
apologize because people are reading his tweets and thinking he's
threatening to kill someone.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Remember he had that period where he was on Current
TV where Al Gore's absurd statements about climate change in
that preposterous documentary made him so much money that he
then bought a whole TV station to put left wing
loons on, and Keith Oberman was the what are you
looking like? He didn't he sell that network for five
(28:16):
hundred million dollars or something?
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Yes, he did something like that.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
Yes, So I mean, not only did he create a
network that none of us have ever heard of before
prior he sold it, what happened to Current TV? I
mean that feels like somebody just gave him five hundred
million dollars. I feel like it was purchased in the
Middle East?
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Am I wrong? I think it was cutter?
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Yeah, yeah, and that tar as people like to say
these days.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
Yes, and now you know Gore got five hundred million
dollars for that. But yeah, Oberman got paid a ton
of money to go to Current TV. Nobody watched him,
and now he lives in an apartment overlooking Central Park
and he looks and sounds like a crazy person more
so every single day. So I'm glad he apologize because
(29:01):
obviously I hope I never send a tweet where people
are like Clay Travis is saying we need to kill someone.
But I think this is the sign of kind of
where Oberman is falling up.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
You know, what's a really important lesson, though, Clay. The
way to avoid that is not to put tweets out
that suggest that you think somebody should be killed. So
you and I don't have it. We don't have a
problem here. There's not a nil thought. Really, you know,
so far I have not done that in twenty some
odd years. I hope I never have to apologize for
saying that people thinking that I want to kill someone.
But that is where Keith Oberman is.
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the way. Current TV sold in twenty thirteen for five
hundred million dollars. They renamed it Al Jazeera Media Network
US version English language, and then there was not enough
(31:21):
of an audience and so they shut it down in
twenty sixteen due to financial losses. So several different callers
variety of perspectives.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Otkay, I just tell.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
You that they asked me many times to go on
that channel, Oh you got to do terrorism analysis. And
I always was like, you guys are like a like
an enemy media, Like I have no interest in talking
to you. But they used to ask all the time.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
I mean, I don't know how often a company would
sell for five hundred million dollars in media and get
shut down a couple of years later because there's no
audience for it. So, I mean, al Gore really basically
got paid off by the Kataris because it's shut down
three years later and they bought it for five hundred
(32:06):
million dollars. Yeah, I mean that's hard to explain. Phil
in North Carolina, what's up, Phil?
Speaker 5 (32:14):
I'm just calling about the uh, the trading, you know
with everybody in congrast trading, Yeah, yeah, trading on inside.
Well it's really inside trading. But how is it they
are still I mean, they're so rich and they still
take money from the taxpayer. I mean, can't they pass
a law saying, hey, if you're worth five million or
ten million dollars, you shouldn't be taking any money from
(32:35):
the during taxpayer. I'm sorry, I mean that's that's.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
Great, thanks, thanks for the call. Trump is not taking
a salary, doesn't get talked about very much, but he donates.
I believe the President of the United States makes four
hundred grand if I'm not mistaken buck, and Trump donates
the entirety of it back to the federal government.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Bloomberg as mayor did the same thing.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
Bloomberg did the same thing. Not a big uh, not
a big hardship for him.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
He's doing okay, Bloomberg, same thing with Trump.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Not a big hardship.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
I mean, if I were a senator or a governor,
I wouldn't take the salary. I would donate it back.
I mean, I feel like I've got enough to take
care of my family now. Some people, to be fair,
they need the money. I mean, they are working. It's
a job that requires a lot of effort and energy,
and a lot of them do not have the independent
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wealth to not be able to take the salary. But
I give credit to people like Trump and to your point,
people like Bloomberg. And again I'm nowhere near as wealthy
as those guys. But if I were serving in office,
I would donate my entire salary to charity. I mean
that seems like something that's reasonable. There probably are other
wealthy senators and congressmen out there that don't get a
(33:45):
lot of attention to it. Maybe they don't want to
draw attention to it. That I would bet also make
that same decision. But I think it's a fair question
to ask. If you're worth massive amounts of money, why
not just say I'm doing this for the public end.
I think it eliminates a lot of the arguments that
you're conflicted out when you say, as Trump does, Hey,
(34:06):
I'm doing this because I think it's in the best
interest of the country. I'm not doing it for the
salary that I'm paid. Been in Morristown, New Jersey, you
got to take force Morristown sight of a famous Revolutionary
War battle.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
If I'm not mistaken. Is that correct?
Speaker 9 (34:21):
That's absolutely correct.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
I'm reading this great book, the Trilogy about the Revolutionary War,
and I was reading as Nerds Do about the Battle
of Morstown last night as I got ready for bed.
All right, but you've got a big governor's race going on.
What did you want to tell us?
Speaker 9 (34:37):
Yeah, there's the latest poll out by National Research is
showing that Chitdarelli is actually up by one percentage point.
And there's another pollster who's a startup who's using AI
and it's called Zeus Political Index, and he's showing very
similar results. So I think book some of the polls
(34:59):
that show that he's behind by seven or eight points
are not very accurate.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
Okay, thank you, and certainly anyone listening to us in
New Jersey, it's going to be a close race. Get
out and vote and support sanity, and that is voting
for the Republican candidate.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
Shitarelli, who I believe.
Speaker 3 (35:17):
I mispronounced earlier and hopefully I pronounced correctly schitterrelly.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
It's close.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
I might have mispronounced it and did it with a
curse word at the front.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
Shitterrelly, chit chit, shitterrelly.
Speaker 6 (35:33):
Shit.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
Sorry, I'm sorry, FCC, I'm trying to pronounce the guy's name.
By the way, this is crazy. Speaking of crazy, according
to Fox News, the would be Trump assassin Ryan Ruth,
who was just convicted Ralph however you pronounced his name,
was just convicted of of all counts of assassination attempt
(35:54):
tried to stab himself in the neck with a pin
in the courtroom after the guilty verdict was read. Yeah,
so anyway, that is the update the second Trump assassin.
Of course, the first one is dead and they tell
us we know nothing about him and they were unable
(36:14):
to find out anything about him.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
Remember that.
Speaker 3 (36:16):
But the second Trump assassin now found guilty and will
be spending the rest of his life in prison, and
there is a conviction there. Tomorrow we'll break down more
of the craziness. We'll see if I can correctly pronounce
the new tomorrow unless they arrest me by the FCC violation seal.
Welcome in everybody. Third hour of play and Buck kicks
off right now. We've had Trump at the UN this
morning saying the trumpy things, very very good stuff from
our commander in chief. We shall get into some of
that here momentarily, but I would ask for a moment here.
(00:21):
I just wanted to throw this in the mix before
too much time has passed play and put out maybe
a call for any of our New Jersey listeners to
email us or VIPs email us or send in some
talkbacks in New Jersey and we'll get some of them
later on about this, because there are Gubna toil races
that are underway. Some of them are going to be
(00:42):
hotly contested in important states, places like Virginia. We had
win some seers on she's a lieutenant governor, a very
impressive woman.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
But in New.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Jersey, remember New Jersey was a much closer election. What
was it, Clay was not this, but it was in
the off year that that Glenn was in.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Point or two in twenty twenty one. And remember Trump
only lost New Jersey by five last year. And they
think the Trump team does if they had had Commawea
level money that.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
They could have flip New Jersey into their column.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
So New Jersey is still blue, but it's it's more
interesting than they wanted to be, but for sure, and
this might help a bit more. This is just one
of the great moments on Charlemagne the God on the
Breakfast Club. Mister the God was sitting down with Democrat
candidate New Jersey governor Mikey Cheryl. So the Democrat, sorry,
(01:44):
Democrat candidate for governor, Mikey Cheryl.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
And I'm not familiar.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
That's why I'm asking people to weigh in a little
bit on what do I need to know about Mikey Cheryl.
But this was a great moment, and mister the God
asked about this, and I think it was worth us
all just hearing for a second, because people are very
sick and tired of members of Congress, particularly who seemingly
(02:13):
are trading in a way in the stock market that
mirrors information that they would only have access to because
of things that they're doing in Congress and making a
lot of money. She was asked Mikey Cheryl about this,
and here is the response from the Breakfast Club. A
couple of days ago, play this.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
One when Newsmax claimed that you made seven million dollars
from stock trades.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
What are they talking about?
Speaker 6 (02:36):
News Max is first of all, a very questionable organization
that is paying multiple fines. I'm not sure what they're
talking about.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Well, did you make seven million in stock trades at all?
Speaker 7 (02:48):
I I haven't.
Speaker 6 (02:50):
I don't believe I did. But I'd have to go
see what that was alluding to. Again, what kind of
came from clay?
Speaker 1 (03:00):
I think if you're a member of Congress making about
one hundred and eighty grand by the way, I think
that if you made seven million dollars trading the stock market,
whether somebody else is making those trades on your behalf
where you're making them, I think you should know, unless
you're a billionaire and so rich that you could plausibly
(03:24):
say I don't know what happened with seven million dollars.
Ninety nine point nine nine percent of people in America
would know if they made seven million dollars or not
in the stock market. A lot of you out there
would know if you made seven hundred dollars in the
stock market or not. Certainly seven thousand or seventy thousand,
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to say nothing of seven million.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
These people are so bad at this buck. I just
I watched so.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Many of these politicians, and we've reached out, by the
way to Jack Ciarelli, who is the Republican contender who
almost won in twenty twenty one. He is the nominee
on the Republican side for this race. To remind all
of you, Virginia and New Jersey and the mayor of
New York City are all off calendar elections, so they
(04:13):
will be taking place this November. That's in basically six weeks.
Some of you basically can already go early vote on
these I just I mean credit to Charlott Magne and
the god who is of the left, I think, but
is kind of pointing out, hey, seven million dollars. Can
you follow up and just kind of tell us what
you've been here?
Speaker 1 (04:32):
All right, I've got some I've got some some stats
and numbers to throw into the mix here. Cheryl makes
I said one hundred and eight one hundred and seventy
four grand as New Jersey's eleventh Congressional district rep. So
she remember, they have financial disclosures everybody, so we can
know this public it's public record how much money these
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individuals have within a range. But you have some sense
of it right. So in twenty nineteen, she reported total
assets between seven hundred and thirty and I'm just gonna
abbreviate the numbers here, but seven hundred and thirty thousand
and four point three million dollars. Now that's a huge range.
By the way, Yes, does that includes your house? You know,
to anybody listening, the difference in being worth seven hundred
(05:16):
grand on paper and being worth four million on paper
feels like a lot. But anyway, that's where she was.
But Clay in her most recent one, in her most
recent disclosure form, she's worth more.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Like twelve million. Yeah, this and so and so.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
You say to yourself, wait a second, she's making one
hundred and seventy four It's not like she had some
huge trust fund, because we would know that from the
financial disclosure forms previously. So somehow she has and Jack
Chiarelli has come out and hammered her on this somehow
while a member of Congress sitting on the Arms Services Committee,
(05:56):
who allegedly has a fondness for trading Clay and defense stocks, saying, interesting,
she has gone from being worth you know, let's call
it a couple million dollars to put it in the
middle to being worth about twelve million dollars. I mean
she could be worth as much as four million there
even still, that would be a tripling of her net
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worth while making one hundred and eighty grand a year.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Now, sometimes spouses make the money, which can also sometimes
be suspect, right because they'll say, well, this is not
the money that I'm making, this is my spouse. I
think this is what happened with And I don't even
know who her spouse is now. But Evon Holman, now
he's we'll get he's an investment banker, so his compensation
(06:41):
may be a significant part of this. But Clay, she
was fined for failing to disclose stock sales in twenty
twenty one. Well, this is where it gets very shady. Okay,
correct me if I'm wrong on this, because this seems
like something that shouldn't be allowed. You basically cannot prosecute
elect officials like congressmen and senators for insider trading, correct,
(07:05):
because they get all sorts of information that is not
public and then they're allowed to trade on it. And
this is where it gets super shady. This is like
the Nancy Pelosi situation. The spouse oftentimes is the person
who's actually trading on this, and they are able to
monetize this in a way that is hyper shady. Remember,
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if you look at Nancy Pelosi's trading record for stocks,
she's somehow better than Warren Buffett at buying and selling stocks.
There's a Nancy tracker out there where you can look
at all the moves Pelosi makes because they have to
disclose it. I don't understand why it isn't basic required
(07:50):
for everybody out there to put their holdings in a
trust and just use that. Let me give you an example, Buck,
most of my money after I sold out Kick that
is not in real estate is in SMP five hundred
index funds. That is, I just buy the five hundred
largest companies in America. Ninety percent of the time, the
(08:14):
s and P five hundred outperforms experts. I am not
buying large buying and selling very many stocks. Now, there's
no restriction on me buying and selling very many stocks
in the first place. But I would say about five
percent of my stock assets are in physical stocks that
I control, and about ninety five percent is effectively a
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SMP five hundred index funds. I don't understand why it
isn't standard for everybody Democrat, Republican, Independent, who is elected
to Congress to put their assets, their four oh one
k their individual stocks, just put it into a index
fund and say I'm not going to buy and sell
individual stocks while I'm a representative of the United States Congress.
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What am I missing here to me? That seems like
it's could be standard for everyone out there. And if
they're arguing otherwise, I think it's highly suspect for people
to be trading hundreds of times in a year. And
remember what happened during COVID, because I haven't forgotten this.
Remember when they got the briefings about how dangerous COVID
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was going to be and what was going to happen,
and a ton of congressmen and women immediately sold all
their stocks before the stock market started to decline. They
got access to information that you and I didn't have
access to about what was going to happen in terms
of shutdowns.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
The stock market plummeted.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
And a lot of congressmen and women sold before the
stock market collapsed and then bought at bottoms and made
a ton of money off information that's not public. I
don't know what I'm missing here. This candidate, I think
is lying. I think she has likely benefited off inside information.
But this is important. When it comes to corruption. We
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don't just focus on corruption itself. We focus on the
appearance of corruption because it's so toxic to public trust.
How is there not a direct appearance of corruption when
individual congress men and women are making trades and destroying
the greatest investors of our lifetimes in their results.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Just just so everybody understands, in something like the National
Defense Authorization Act or one of those big omnibus or
you know, Perculus or whatever you want to call it,
these big bills that come out where they're just full
of pork and they're full of all this spending. If
you're on some committee and you know that a certain
defense contractor, for example, is about to get correct a
(10:46):
three or five or ten billion dollar government contract, guess what,
It's probably gonna go up as a stock. Okay, yes,
I think we all understand that. And so if you
are essentially now you know the rules. They've changed the
rules so that technically there's like a little more reporting
and stuff, but you're not barred from trading. And let's
just let's just take let's just be honest about this.
(11:09):
Have you seen anybody get in trouble for insider trading
from the United States Congress?
Speaker 2 (11:13):
No, I'm not aware of it right now.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
I think buck that they're not You're not allowed to
be prosecuted for it.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
I think the case they changed the rules. Let me
let me check on it. They made some the Stock Act,
they made some adjustment to it. But I think it's
like you can't be prosecuted for knowledge that comes from
the course of your job, which is the whole point
of that. Let me let me check on this one.
I got to see what the rules are because this
was clay. This has been a push for over a decade.
(11:38):
People have been trying to you know, trying to figure out,
uh why members of Congress are able to get so
so rich.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
But larger issue, yes on that. To me, it's just
it shouldn't be allowed. Minor issue or secondary issue as
it pertains to this race. If you made seven million
dollars in stock trades, you better have a good explanation
for how that happened. And again the husband may well
(12:10):
be the reason. But to claim, oh, I don't know,
I'd have to look into that. How out of touch?
Are you if you can make seven million dollars and
not recall whether or not it happened, unless you're a
billionaire and your stock price valuation is constantly going up
and down. Again, all I'm saying is, I'm not a
congress person. SNB five hundred index funds a good option.
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Why would we not make that standard for anybody who's
in the elective office. Now, there are some complexities, usually
blind trust, and this is getting into specifics. Let's say
you own a company and that company is publicly traded.
You can just say, hey, I'm not going to buy
or sell stock, or it's a blind trust, I'm not
managing it. There are lots of ways to handle this
(12:53):
that do not create this huge, this huge impression of
impropriety that to me would make a lot of sense.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Well, I just would know, Clay. So, two former members
of the House of Representatives have been prosecuted and convicted
for insider trading, which the Stock Act of twenty twelve,
that's what I referred. So this has been going on
for a while. So there is this Stock Act. It
doesn't bar them from trading. Obviously there's disclosure requirements. But
here's the thing. It's super hard because of the information
(13:24):
that they're coming into contact with is of a political nature.
It can be very like if you're going to invest
in a big defense contractor what's how do you know
that you don't just you know, they get into this
mosaic defense strategy for white collar criminals of like, well,
did I do it because I thought of this bill
that's coming up, or because I love the fundamentals and
I know I read the latest ten K. I mean
(13:45):
that's well, also curious on whatever, I would be curious
what the prosecution for insider trading is because those guys
could have been prosecuted for actual insider trading that had
nothing to do with Congress.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Right.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
In other words, I believe the testimony that you hear
behind closed doors is not allowed to be prosecutable for
insider trading. You could still be prosecuted if, for instance,
you're out of office and your cousin calls you and
he sits on the board of X company and he says, hey,
we're about to.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
That's what happened. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
By the way, they actually were not prosecuted. This is
very important clarification. They were not prosecuted for anything under
the Stock Act or anything having to do with Congress.
They were prosecuted for insider trading access they had before
being in Congress. Yes, that's a difference.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
This is what I said, Like you basically get a
free reign to insider trade at Congress.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
So my initial premise of like, no one in Congress
has ever that no one in Congress has ever been
prosecuted for insider Congress insider Congression information.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
That is true.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Which, by the way, some breaking news as we go
to commercial break here, Buck, there has been a verdict
reached in the second assassin attempt of President Trump in Florida,
the West Palm Beach assassin. I would imagine that he
has been found guilty, but we will see what that
result is. They're going to announce that shortly.
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ninety eight. Welcome back into Clay, and Clay's got some
breaking news for us on the verdict of the Remember
this is the second would be assassin of Donald Trump
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who set up an assassin's position firing position on a
golf course in West Palm Beach about an hour's drive
from where I'm currently sitting, and was ready to commit
the deed, had a secret service fired at him at
close range, did not hit him, and then had to
(19:26):
chase him down. He got, I don't know, got about
an hour or two away, I think, on the highway
before they were able to finally get him. Clay, what
is the I don't think it's big surprise here. What
is the verdicts?
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Guilty on all counts, And I would point out I
played this Trump West Palm Beach golf course with tunnel
to towers. Last year, they pointed it out exactly where
this would be assassin was set up. The fact that
he was able to be there all day, one month
after Trump had his ear buzzed by another be assassin
(20:00):
in Butler, Pennsylvania and Corey Competore lost his life at
that Butler, Pennsylvania rally. The fact that this was ever
allowed to happen, even that he could get close. Remember
the story is that a Secret Service agent saw the
sunlight glinting off his gun barrel. The guy was there
(20:21):
for hours all day waiting for Trump to come by
playing golf. And I have to tell you this is
I mean, the guy would have been thirty or forty
yards away from Trump in that tea box. I just
I know this story doesn't get talked about very much.
And the fact that a Secret Service agent fired at
(20:43):
him missed only because a woman took down the license
plate number of the car. Reportedly, were we able to
later get him driving somewhere on the floor to Turnpike
to Bucks Point, a long distance away from where he
tried to kill Trump. And the fact that he did
it because he believed Trump was Hitler, and he was
(21:05):
a crazy Ukraine fanatic, and he believed that he needed
to save America from fascism. All of the arguments that
democrats have been making for the last decade, the same
arguments frankly and sadly that the assassin of Charlie Kirk
embraced as well. I mean, even the Atlantic, no great
bastion of fair handedness or sanity. I saw this just
(21:29):
a little bit ago.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Buck.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
The Atlantic is even now having to write stories about
left wing political violence. And our friend Senator Mike Lee
shared it. But the Atlantic has a headline right now
left wing terrorism is on the rise. For the first
time in more than thirty years. Attacks by the far
left outnumber those by the far right, and they continue
(21:54):
to stack up, and no one is out there saying, hey,
you know what, we may disagree with Trump, but he's
not actually Hitler. In fact, do we have the cut
of Kamala Harris with Rachel Maddow now saying Trump is
a communist dictator. I guess now they've decided that instead
of Hitler on the right, he now is Fidel Castro
on the left. Can we play the communist dictator line
(22:16):
from Kamala.
Speaker 7 (22:17):
Right now, we are dealing with, as I called him
at my speech on the Ellipse, a tyrant. We used
to compare the strength of our democracy to communist dictators.
That's what we're dealing with right now. Donald Trump and
these titans of industry are not speaking up, and perhaps
(22:40):
it is because his threats and the way he has
used the weight of the federal government to take out
vengeance on his critics is something that they fear. And
I get that. I understand why they do. We've seen
the demonstration of it.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Yeah, I mean, next thing, you know, Oh, he may
try to bankrupt in prison and kill his political adversaries.
Can you imagine if we tried to put a top
political figure in prison on trumped up charges that made
absolutely no sense whatsoever and were entirely filed based on
political basis. Can you imagine if the state of Georgia
(23:20):
did that, if they did it in Florida, if they
did it in Washington, DC, and if they did it
in New York. I mean, we might even find a
situation where four different jurisdictions could be trying to put
the president in prison for the rest of us. Oh wait,
that's what they did.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Yeah, this is why you have a discussion with them
about this, because they're so far apart.
Speaker 8 (23:44):
You know.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
It's like if you're in a negotiation with somebody and
you think their house is worth one hundred thousand dollars
and they think the house is worth a million dollars,
it's really not allowed to talk about. Yeah, that's where
we are on political violence. Like Democrats are just operating
in an alternate reality where whether it's a question of
this is like a both sides sting, or you know,
we just need to cool the temperature down a little bit.
They need to cool the temperature down. They're the ones
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that do censorship. They're the ones that act in or
a thorn. I mean, to call us authoritarian. It's like
we're all supposed to forget about how they acted during COVID.
I mean that was the most clear That was the
biggest opportunity to show whether or not you were a
true authoritarian. Wanted the government's boot to be at your disposal,
to put on someone else's neck. And it was all
(24:26):
the Democrats who were pushing that stuff, and it was
the Right that was saying, hold on a second, like
what's going on here? Why are you doing this? I
also was gonna mention this, A lot of you have
been reaching out. Keith Oberman is crazy, and I asked
Buck about this off air, but I'll say it on
air too. I don't know where the Keith Olberman story
is going, but I don't think it's going to be
a very positive destination. And I feel bad in many
(24:50):
ways because this was a guy that was one of
my idols when I was a kid. Buck, I would
get up in the morning, get ready for school, eat
my cereal Clay. That's worse than me downloading Kamala's book.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
No, No, I bet there's tons of people out there listening.
He was great on Sports Center with Dan Patrick back
in the day. They if you were a sports fan.
I bet huge percentages of our listeners out there that
are sports fans did the same thing as me. You
would wake up in the morning, you would put on SportsCenter,
you would eat your breakfast and Dan Patrick, who was
(25:23):
still doing great work distributed by iHeart on sports Talk
Radio Legend of Sports Talk Radio and Keith Olberman were
an incredible duo. They were really funny. They made sports
more fun. And now I really feel like he's he's
gone off the deep end, buck, and he just issued
an apology. Producer Greg just got my back, he said,
(25:45):
I'm one of those guys. I loved Olberman and Dan
Patrick on Sports Center. There are a lot of us
out there that grew up. I used to love them.
I used to love Keith Olberman, Dan Patrick very funny.
I still love Dan Patrick. Co Olberman's crazy. Here is
what he just had to do. He tweeted at Scott Jennings,
our friend on CNN, your next m you gotta get
(26:08):
an idea er, and then he just I'm guessing his attorneys.
Yesterday I wrote and immediately deleted two responses to Scott
Jennings about Kimmel because they could be misinterpreted as a
threat to anything besides his career. I immediately replaced them
with one specifying what I actually meant. I oppose and
(26:31):
condemned political violence and the threat of it. All times
are the wrong time to leave, even an inadvertent impression
of it, but this time is especially wrong. I should
have acknowledged the deletion and apologized yesterday. I'm sorry I delayed.
This is what happened, he says. I apologize without reservation.
(26:54):
To Scott Jennings, your next expletive, keep mugging to the camera.
And this was turned into the FBI because it sounds
like a threat, and he meant. Oberman is saying that
he believes Scott Jennings should be canceled from television like
Jimmy Kimmel was.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
That is his explanation.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
But again, I just I think this guy is on
a fast track to crazy town. He may already be there.
And this was one of the most successful people in media.
I mean, what years did Keith Oberman? Was he the
straw that stirred the drink at MSNBC early two thousands
when he was like and look, I'm talking about watching
(27:37):
him on Sports Center back in the nineties, which was
when he had his apex as a sports figure. But
early two thousands, Keith Oberman was about as big as
you could get in media. And now he's having to
apologize because people are reading his tweets and thinking he's
threatening to kill someone.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Remember he had that period where he was on Current
TV where Al Gore's absurd statements about climate change in
that preposterous documentary made him so much money that he
then bought a whole TV station to put left wing
loons on, and Keith Oberman was the what are you
looking like? He didn't he sell that network for five
(28:16):
hundred million dollars or something?
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Yes, he did something like that.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
Yes, So I mean, not only did he create a
network that none of us have ever heard of before
prior he sold it, what happened to Current TV? I
mean that feels like somebody just gave him five hundred
million dollars. I feel like it was purchased in the
Middle East?
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Am I wrong? I think it was cutter?
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Yeah, yeah, and that tar as people like to say
these days.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
Yes, and now you know Gore got five hundred million
dollars for that. But yeah, Oberman got paid a ton
of money to go to Current TV. Nobody watched him,
and now he lives in an apartment overlooking Central Park
and he looks and sounds like a crazy person more
so every single day. So I'm glad he apologize because
(29:01):
obviously I hope I never send a tweet where people
are like Clay Travis is saying we need to kill someone.
But I think this is the sign of kind of
where Oberman is falling up.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
You know, what's a really important lesson, though, Clay. The
way to avoid that is not to put tweets out
that suggest that you think somebody should be killed. So
you and I don't have it. We don't have a
problem here. There's not a nil thought. Really, you know,
so far I have not done that in twenty some
odd years. I hope I never have to apologize for
saying that people thinking that I want to kill someone.
But that is where Keith Oberman is.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
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Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton Show will finish
up with some of your talkbacks. I was right by
the way. Current TV sold in twenty thirteen for five
hundred million dollars. They renamed it Al Jazeera Media Network
US version English language, and then there was not enough
(31:21):
of an audience and so they shut it down in
twenty sixteen due to financial losses. So several different callers
variety of perspectives.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Otkay, I just tell.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
You that they asked me many times to go on
that channel, Oh you got to do terrorism analysis. And
I always was like, you guys are like a like
an enemy media, Like I have no interest in talking
to you. But they used to ask all the time.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
I mean, I don't know how often a company would
sell for five hundred million dollars in media and get
shut down a couple of years later because there's no
audience for it. So, I mean, al Gore really basically
got paid off by the Kataris because it's shut down
three years later and they bought it for five hundred
(32:06):
million dollars. Yeah, I mean that's hard to explain. Phil
in North Carolina, what's up, Phil?
Speaker 5 (32:14):
I'm just calling about the uh, the trading, you know
with everybody in congrast trading, Yeah, yeah, trading on inside.
Well it's really inside trading. But how is it they
are still I mean, they're so rich and they still
take money from the taxpayer. I mean, can't they pass
a law saying, hey, if you're worth five million or
ten million dollars, you shouldn't be taking any money from
(32:35):
the during taxpayer. I'm sorry, I mean that's that's.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
Great, thanks, thanks for the call. Trump is not taking
a salary, doesn't get talked about very much, but he donates.
I believe the President of the United States makes four
hundred grand if I'm not mistaken buck, and Trump donates
the entirety of it back to the federal government.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Bloomberg as mayor did the same thing.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
Bloomberg did the same thing. Not a big uh, not
a big hardship for him.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
He's doing okay, Bloomberg, same thing with Trump.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Not a big hardship.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
I mean, if I were a senator or a governor,
I wouldn't take the salary. I would donate it back.
I mean, I feel like I've got enough to take
care of my family now. Some people, to be fair,
they need the money. I mean, they are working. It's
a job that requires a lot of effort and energy,
and a lot of them do not have the independent
(33:23):
wealth to not be able to take the salary. But
I give credit to people like Trump and to your point,
people like Bloomberg. And again I'm nowhere near as wealthy
as those guys. But if I were serving in office,
I would donate my entire salary to charity. I mean
that seems like something that's reasonable. There probably are other
wealthy senators and congressmen out there that don't get a
(33:45):
lot of attention to it. Maybe they don't want to
draw attention to it. That I would bet also make
that same decision. But I think it's a fair question
to ask. If you're worth massive amounts of money, why
not just say I'm doing this for the public end.
I think it eliminates a lot of the arguments that
you're conflicted out when you say, as Trump does, Hey,
(34:06):
I'm doing this because I think it's in the best
interest of the country. I'm not doing it for the
salary that I'm paid. Been in Morristown, New Jersey, you
got to take force Morristown sight of a famous Revolutionary
War battle.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
If I'm not mistaken. Is that correct?
Speaker 9 (34:21):
That's absolutely correct.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
I'm reading this great book, the Trilogy about the Revolutionary War,
and I was reading as Nerds Do about the Battle
of Morstown last night as I got ready for bed.
All right, but you've got a big governor's race going on.
What did you want to tell us?
Speaker 9 (34:37):
Yeah, there's the latest poll out by National Research is
showing that Chitdarelli is actually up by one percentage point.
And there's another pollster who's a startup who's using AI
and it's called Zeus Political Index, and he's showing very
similar results. So I think book some of the polls
(34:59):
that show that he's behind by seven or eight points
are not very accurate.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
Okay, thank you, and certainly anyone listening to us in
New Jersey, it's going to be a close race. Get
out and vote and support sanity, and that is voting
for the Republican candidate.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
Shitarelli, who I believe.
Speaker 3 (35:17):
I mispronounced earlier and hopefully I pronounced correctly schitterrelly.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
It's close.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
I might have mispronounced it and did it with a
curse word at the front.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
Shitterrelly, chit chit, shitterrelly.
Speaker 6 (35:33):
Shit.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
Sorry, I'm sorry, FCC, I'm trying to pronounce the guy's name.
By the way, this is crazy. Speaking of crazy, according
to Fox News, the would be Trump assassin Ryan Ruth,
who was just convicted Ralph however you pronounced his name,
was just convicted of of all counts of assassination attempt
(35:54):
tried to stab himself in the neck with a pin
in the courtroom after the guilty verdict was read. Yeah,
so anyway, that is the update the second Trump assassin.
Of course, the first one is dead and they tell
us we know nothing about him and they were unable
(36:14):
to find out anything about him.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
Remember that.
Speaker 3 (36:16):
But the second Trump assassin now found guilty and will
be spending the rest of his life in prison, and
there is a conviction there. Tomorrow we'll break down more
of the craziness. We'll see if I can correctly pronounce
the new tomorrow unless they arrest me by the FCC violation seal.
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