March 4, 2026 • 36 mins
Hour 3 of The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show delivers a packed rundown of the day’s major political, cultural, and geopolitical stories, with an emphasis on unfolding developments in the Iran conflict, the dramatic outcomes of the Texas primary races, and the broader political climate heading into November. The hour opens with Clay and Buck recapping key takeaways from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s press conference, highlighting how the U.S. is rapidly achieving total air superiority over Iran, degrading its missile‑launching and retaliatory capabilities at a faster‑than‑expected pace. The hosts note that America’s precision strikes are progressing so efficiently that Iran’s ability to wage counterattacks is collapsing, and they project cautious optimism about the trajectory of the operation.
From there, Hour 3 shifts heavily into Texas political fallout following the Democratic Senate primary upset. Clay and Buck discuss the defeat of Rep. Jasmine Crockett by James Talarico, joking about liberal infighting and the optics of a white male candidate unseating a Black female candidate in a party that brands itself as championing diversity. They emphasize how Talarico’s victory emerged amid controversy surrounding CBS and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, which declined to feature him unless Crockett was also given airtime under equal‑time rules. The hosts argue that Democrats effectively “rigged” the primary in Talarico’s favor and that his public record—embracing gender‑ideology extremism, claiming “six biological sexes,” declaring God “non‑binary,” endorsing open‑border immigration, and justifying abortion via biblical interpretation—will become a massive liability in a general election in deeply conservative Texas.
The hour also revisits the stunning loss of Rep. Dan Crenshaw in the GOP primary, analyzing how his relationship with grassroots conservatives deteriorated. Clay and Buck highlight the looming showdown between Ken Paxton and John Cornyn, who finished neck‑and‑neck and now advance to a runoff that will determine the Republican Senate nominee. With President Trump yet to issue an endorsement, the hosts predict a brutal, high‑stakes contest loaded with national implications, especially given the narrow margins needed for Senate control.
The program then pivots to the American political media landscape, discussing how MSNBC and other left‑leaning outlets are beginning to highlight rising gas prices as a potential line of attack against President Trump, attempting to tie short‑term oil‑market volatility to the administration’s Iran strategy. Clay and Buck argue that Democrats are preparing to weaponize economic fear in lieu of any coherent foreign‑policy critique. They analyze how persistent anti‑Trump sentiment has hardened into an identity for many Democratic voters, making thoughtful policy reassessment nearly impossible and feeding into distorted social‑media narratives that rarely match real‑world public sentiment.
Crime and public safety also enter the conversation as the hosts reference new research showing Republican district attorneys dramatically reduce violent crime by increasing prosecution of repeat offenders, contrasting that with the failures of Soros‑aligned progressive prosecutors in major cities. Clay and Buck highlight significant crime drops in Washington, D.C., Memphis, and New Orleans following federal intervention—results they say the media conveniently ignore to avoid validating Trump‑aligned policy approaches.
Hour 3 maintains a lighter edge as the hosts switch between hard news and cultural commentary, including a discussion of the U.S. men’s hockey team being celebrated across the country despite social‑media narratives predicting backlash. They also continue the recurring jokes about Clay’s new Tesla and Buck’s Pellegrino habit, using humor to balance the heavier segments of the day. The hour closes with a final look at the ongoing situation in Iran—where U.S. airpower continues to dismantle the regime’s military infrastructure—and a reaffirmation of their belief that the Trump administration and Secretary Hegseth understand the stakes and are executing the mission with clarity and discipline. With the Texas Senate race, national crime trends, and Middle East conflict all intensifying, Clay and Buck wrap Hour 3 by promising continued analysis and updates in the days ahead.
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Episode Transcript
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome back in our number three Clay Travis buck Sexton Show.
It is a significant news Wednesday, as many of these
days often are. Let's take you back into exactly what
has transpired. We had a very powerful press conference, as
we discussed earlier in the show, from Pete Hegseth on
(00:22):
the situation in Iran. We will update you on that,
but the big takeaway is that we are close to
complete and total air superiority in Iran, and that I
do believe things are going better and faster than anticipated
if they had tried to forecast how this attack was
(00:45):
going to go. We'll come back to that in a
sec and play a couple more of those cuts from
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. But in Texas, as we
told many of you was likely to be the case,
we had James town Rico beat our good friend Jasmine Crockett.
It pains me, as we said earlier in the program,
(01:06):
to see the Texas Democrat Party engage in such blatant racism. Buck,
for a white man to beat a black man like
the black woman like this? Can I just point out
this painful to my heart?
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Can I just point out that Clay suddenly wearing his
Crockett gear a whole lot more. I'm seeing Crockett t shirts,
Crockett sweatshirts. He says it's for the coffee company that
we own. But I thought it was a little suspicious
that right when Jasmine Crockett was in the political fight
of her life, Clay was mister Crockett all of a sudden.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
I'm just saying, so, Jasmine Crockett goes down. We talked
about this earlier in the show. We had some deep
dive into it. Buck, I think the reality is, this
is kind of what you wanted. And MSNBC or ms NOW,
whatever the heck they're called, CNN the view they're all
going to be throwing money at Jasmine Crockett to become
(02:00):
a television personality.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Her congressional career is over.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
And the other big name I would say that went down,
as we discussed earlier in the program as well, Buck,
is Dan Crinshaw. I did not know Dan Crinshaw well,
but he had quite the public profile. Have we ever
had him on the program? I think maybe we did.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
I think that Clay, before you and I teamed up,
I might have interviewed him one time early on, and
I remember, Look, I'm just gonna say it, there was
so much enthusiasm around because you go, oh, gosh, this
guy is a combat veteran, Navy seal, wounded veteran. You know,
this is just like what you would create in a
(02:43):
you know, conservative laboratory of congressional excellency, like, well, this
is the guy we want in Congress. And I have
tremendous respect obviously for what he did as a seal,
and and I none of that changes.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
But man, the base turned on him, and we had
neither you nor I have.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Look, you guys know, when we don't like somebody, I
try to be honest about it, but also be fair
about it.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
You know, if we don't like somebody. I never met
the guy. I have no beef with him, no problem
with him.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
So many people I know in politics and in media
despise that guy. And it just strikes me as how
you know, I mean, we asked Michael Berry. Michael Berry
was not holding back on it. You can go back
and listen to the interview.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Well, so that's the big upset. I would say that
came out of the Republican primary. We told you that
this was likely to happen as well, and man, get
your two by fours, because I think it's gonna get
even nastier. Ken Paxton and John Cornyn basically ran dead
even in the Texas Republican Senate primary, so tall Ico
(03:48):
has advanced it. He is the Democrat nominee. He's way
more radical go figure than they have let you know,
and we will certainly dive into that race as it
gets closer to November. But in the meantime, John Cornyn,
current incumbent senator, and Ken Paxton are going to go.
(04:09):
Both of them around forty one, forty two percent of
the vote. Wesley Hunt, who we had on the program yesterday,
got around thirteen or fourteen percent in third place, so
he is eliminated and now tons of money will get spent.
I would imagine both Paxton and Cornyn are going to
be asking President Trump for an endorsement. So far, President
(04:32):
Trump has not endorsed anybody in this race. We'll see
what he does in late May, so a little over
two months from now, we will officially have a Republican nominee.
So I was texting with Buck some as these results
came in. No big surprises in Arizona, sorry, Arkansas, or
North Carolina. Our friend Michael Wattley is going to run
(04:53):
against former Governor Roy Cooper. We got to invite out.
We almost had him scheduled the other day. I'm sure
Michael Wattley is going to be hugely important as we
looked towards the Senate because that is a Republican seat
in North Carolina and Democrats have to flip four Senate
seats given jd Vance having the tie break buck in
(05:15):
order to be able to take back control of the
US Senate.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
We had Corny in scheduled and they just said they
had a scheduled conflict. Maybe that is the case, but
you would think he would come on this show at
some point given the primary that he's in now you know,
the extended primary, and if he doesn't, I think it's
telling us something that I will say, Look, schedule, stuff
(05:40):
comes up, even if it's very last minute, and even
if it's after our good friend Michael Barry throws a
roundhouse kick with his cowboy boots on right to the
face of your campaign.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
However, However, maybe.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
It was just a little change, but we'd like him
to come on at some point, we have some questions
for mister Cornyn.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Well, it's fair and again we also invited tall Rico
into Jasmine Crockett because unlike CBS, and I do think
this is a big story buck in general. Again, the
CBS attempt it may well have been the difference maker
for tall Rico, who outspent Jasmine Crockett by five to one.
(06:20):
I think it was twenty five million to five million,
something like that, and that added rays of money that
he got from the censorship that they claimed on Colbert
might have been what propelled him to the victory. I
mean he won by a relatively slim amount. I mean
it was very close, and I know some of you
(06:41):
flipped over and voted in the in the Democrat side,
but tall Rico won by about six seven points with
ninety three percent of the vote in at least, and
I do think that that is maybe the part of
the result is that they helped rig it for him
and the Democratic.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
I would say Clay that in the interest of fairness,
because we have invited tallerco on, I still would love
to have Jasmine Crockett on. I willieve if Jasmine Crockett
comes on, unless there's some ethics thing with cheese in Congress.
There's all these weird you know, ethics rules in Congress.
Now you basically can't buy someone more than a coffee,
and it causes a problem. I was gonna say, I'll
send her a Crockett sweatshirt, like I would love to
(07:23):
have Jasmine Crockett on the show. We would have a
very fun conversation. But for James taller Rico, I'll even
give him the questions in advance. It's like he's getting
a little sneak peak of the test. I would first
want to ask him, is the future female? James, I
just want to hear what he has to say to that,
and then Clay, if you wanted to follow up with
can a man become a woman? I feel like we'd
(07:43):
have a robust conversation with James Tallerico about this, and
then you can ask him about whether God is non binary,
which also came up recently.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
He said that.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
He also said, and again he's got a lot of clothes.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
I'm triggered by this. God is clearly trans, James.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
We all know God is non binary.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
He also said that basically we should have a wide
open southern border. So again the fever dream of the
Democrat Party has been that they can flip Texas. They've
been trying to do it for a long time now.
They have not won a statewide race in the state
of Texas since nineteen ninety four. But that is at
(08:24):
least worth contemplating how that's going to shake out. You're good, buddy,
Joe Scarborough said, boy, Republicans really blew it. Here is
cut three. How MSNBC is covering all of all of this,
the outcome in the Texas primary.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Cut three.
Speaker 5 (08:45):
Here's yet another example. I swear, I just wish these
Republicans weren't so stupid.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
I wish that.
Speaker 5 (08:51):
Listen to me. I'm trying to help them out a
little bit here, just to make it a fair fight
in the fall. But what did we say? What did
we say? First of all, when they took Beart off
the air, you're gonna pay for it. They did pay
for it with South Park three or four days later,
deciding they're going to lean in even harder, right and
so here they try to keep Tall Rico off the show.
What happens they give him a boost. If you talk
(09:13):
to Jasmine Crockett, she'll say the same thing. I was
ad until that controversy. So the very person they were
trying to defeat, the very person whose message scared them,
is the very person who they helped win this race.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Is so his political analysis is what you would expect
from a guy who told us in twenty twenty four
that Joe Biden was the sharpest he had ever been
in his entire life. Play this is not a surprise
that Joe Scarborough doesn't know his ass from his elbow.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
This is so dumb that it honestly kind of blows
my mind that either he is really, really legitimately not
informed on this story, or or he is intentionally lying.
There's only two options here, because Republicans had nothing to
do with this, nothing at all. The Colbert Show, for
(10:06):
those of you have forgotten, set up a fake story
which was we're gonna have James tallerco on. CBS's lawyer said, Hey,
if you're gonna have tall Rico on, you need to
have Jasmine Crockett on as well, because she is a
contender in this race on the equal time doctrine, and
maybe arguably you should also have Republicans on. But that's
(10:29):
a whole nother debate, and they pitched a fit. All
they had to do was put on Jasmin Crockett too.
This is one where I think Jasmin Crockett actually is
legitimately had a rig job run against her. But this
was all a Democrat operation. They desperately wanted tall Rico.
What he's got backward is a lot of us would
(10:51):
have preferred Jasmine Crockett because Jasmin Crockett had a zero
percent chance of winning. I think tall Rico has a
five to ten percent chance of winning. Still whoe, but
zero to five to ten. If you gave me a
choice between the two options, and I was wanted the
Republicans to win, I'd.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Take the zero.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
I'm with you, though, I just I feel like I
need to go find a safe space and to weep
some liberal tears about all the mansplaining and the racism.
I'm sorry, I thought the future was female. James Tallerico,
Joe Scarborough, Stephen Colbert. Apparently not if we're talking Jasmine Crockett.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
You know what, you have a.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Black woman who could be the next standard bearer of
the Democrats, and they did everything they could. They Bernie
sanders Her, so the Bernie sanders Her, they.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Totally Bernie sandswers her And you know what is actually
also funny about this story. On the national political stage,
Kamala endorsed Jasmine Crockett on Sunday, I believe this weekend
and did a robo call and said, everybody, get out
and vote for Jasmin Crockett. Jasmine Crockett then lost, and
(12:05):
Kamala now has flipped and or endorsed tall Errico.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
I just think it's.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
When you endorse a person and then the next day
you endorse the other person. Basically, that's a tough that's
a tough situation to find yourself in. She could have
just set out the whole thing. I'm sure that Kamala's
advisor has got in her ear and they said, hey,
this is another black woman who's running for office. You
need to, you know, continue to lock down black female support,
(12:34):
speak out for her, but do it late so the
impact will be minimal. If she loses, people won't talk
about it as much, and then immediately flip and endorse
the white guy once the black woman loses. I mean,
it is very funny that we ended up in this situation.
All of the people doing absolutely fantastic work at the
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I failed this in terms of in context of abortion
because before God comes over Mary and we have the incarnation,
God asks for Mary's consent, which is remarkable. I mean,
go back and read this in in Luke. I mean
the angel comes down and asks Mary if this is
(14:36):
something she wants to do, and she says, if it
is God's will, let it be done, let it be,
let it happen. So to me, that is an affirmation
in one of our most central stories that creation has
to be done with consent. And so that's why I
that's how I come down on that side of the issue.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
So there you had James Talerico back in twenty twenty five.
He's now the Democrat nominee for that set up seated Texas.
The silver tongued and serpentine tallerco Who's whose special gift,
it seems, Clay, is to tell progressive Democrats that the
Bible justifies Hey, you want to train to your kids,
(15:15):
Well check out Matthew three seventeen.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
You wanna I'm making that up.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Obviously, you know you want to have abortion all nine
months of a pregnancy. Obviously, all you have to do
is look up Corinthians twelve.
Speaker 8 (15:27):
Like, this guy's whole spiel is to tell lunatics who
have no room for an actual God or accountability for
themselves in their lives, that the Bible justifies their every
urge to please Molik.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
That is this guy's role in life. It's pretty disgusting.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Actually, yeah, not only that, by the way, so that
is a tough argument I would think to make for
most Texans.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
I know.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
This one is the southern border should be a giant
welcome Matt. This is from a debate with Jasmine Crockett
just back a couple.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Of weeks ago. Cut one.
Speaker 7 (16:09):
Our southern border should be like our front porch. There
should be a giant welcome mat out front.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
I mean, I think solution of America. He's just he's
just saying America should stop being America.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
I don't even think that you need to hardly run
any other ad other than the southern border should be
a giant welcome at. I think that ends the race
in Texas, and so I understand people are saying oh,
this is going to be competitive, But.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
I've heard it for too long.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
We heard it all about with Beato and how he
was going to beat ted Cruz and that didn't happen.
And then we heard, oh, this is going to be close.
In Texas, Trump's in trouble, and Trump won by fourteen
I think I think the state of New York was
closer to being a Trump state than Texas was to
being a Kambal estate. Now everybody needs to show up,
(16:59):
and you certainly are going to have to deal with
a lot of enthusiasm on the Democrat side because so
many of the Democrat base has Trump derangement syndrome. But
I gotta tell you, I just think this guy is
going to be way too radical to be elected in Texas.
And I think as more and more people become aware
of the things that he has said, and we just
(17:19):
played a couple of cuts of that, I think again
we're going to have a real battle between Cornyn and Paxton,
but ultimately that's going to be the result. All Right,
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Truth after Truth. You can handle the truth. Clay Travis
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Speaker 1 (18:43):
Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton Show. We are
rolling through the Wednesday edition of the program. You just
heard us breaking down all of the outcome in Texas
the big primaries there the first real opportunity to hear
from voters as the midterms move closer and closer. And Buck,
let me give you a little bit of a storyline
(19:04):
that I think is becoming paramount. We're efforting Yale Extein,
our friend from the IFCJ. As you can imagine, there's
lots of challenges with communication going on there right now.
She may or may not be about to join us.
But I was watching this morning as I was doing
my prep to get ready for the show. I have
(19:27):
not seen MSNBC cover gas prices in the entirety of
the Trump era, because they have been coming down and
they are at historic lows. This morning I watched MSNBC.
I do it so you don't have to, and Buck,
(19:47):
they have started to show oil prices going up. This
is going to be the primary line of attack. I
think that's going to come from Democrats because they recognize
it's hard to say, well, this guy is a terrorist
who's killed you know, one thousand or more Americans as
well as tens of thousands of his own people, KAMENI,
(20:10):
and he can't ever have nuclear weapons.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
But what Trump did is unacceptable, right.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
That is a really difficult argument to make, and I
think Democrats are recognizing it. So their pivot is going
to be this is a bad decision and Americans are
paying the price at the pump when it comes to
gas prices. I'm just telling you this. Eventually, I believe
is going to become their primary line of attack. Now again,
(20:39):
historically oil and gas prices are at very record, near
record lows over the last four years, but they're going
to look at how much they go up in the
short term. Straight of horror moves, the dangers there, Iran's
attacks on other Middle Eastern oil powers, all of that
(21:00):
as a sign that Trump is making things more expensive,
that's going to become their line of attack. You buying
or selling that as Eventually Democrats will decide that is
their way to oppose what's going on in the war.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Absolutely, They're going to need an economic message, and it
has to be an attack message. They don't have anything
constructive to say about any of this, and they're just
hoping that people forget that everything the Democrats do when
they're in charge makes all of the problems that they
identify worse. This is the part of it that's really maddening.
They'll say, oh, well, you know, price of homes is high.
(21:38):
Who do you think who do you think does more
things to make it harder for people to afford homes,
Republicans or Democrats. Price of gas is high? Oh, I'm
sorry the party that thinks that we should all live
off of windmills and solar panels. They're all of a
sudden so worried about the price of energy, the price
of gasoline. It's absurd, but absurdity is an area in
(22:00):
which Democrats excel. They have no shame, which means they
have no limits. They can say whatever in order to
achieve power. So I think you will see that kind
of economic messaging from them. I think that they're going
to try and attack You'll notice usually they'd be attacking healthcare.
(22:20):
I think more people are starting to realize what an
actual disaster Obamacare has been, and how the whole promise
of that. Remember that huge fight we had in the
John Roberts Court saved Obamacare by changing the language of
an actual statue to match it up with something else.
All thing was just such a debacle and it's made
(22:40):
everything worse. And this is the reality of it. So
when you look at how they're going to try to
attack the President and his administration on economics, it's just
going to revolve around rewriting history and praying upon the
ignorance of people who are understandably frustrated. Look finances, paying bills.
(23:00):
The stuff is always frustrating. This is stress. Everyone feels
this stuff. People deal with it at varying levels, but
you're always thinking do I have enough for what I need?
Am I making progress? Am I falling further behind? And
the Democrats tend to get away with playing the envy game,
or rather the class warfare game. Point the finger at
(23:22):
somebody else. It's somebody else's fault, and in reality, it
is actually the Democrat system, the Democrat party, that makes
all this stuff harder. They're the reason for your high taxes,
They're the reason for regulations that make home building more expensive.
They're the reason for energy prices. Look at the cost
of gas in California. What else do you have to see?
So I think that the Trump team is going to
(23:46):
be able to put a lot of results on the scoreboard, Clay.
But this is one of the great challenges we have
in twenty first century America. Sometimes reality is not enough. Well,
Joe Biden became president, for heaven's sake.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Not only is reality not enough, people have so embraced
their anti Trump delusion as their personal brand that recognizing
that the choices you are making is actually leading to
a disastrous outcome is I think a function of just
(24:19):
how broken our political system is. Because I think if
you and I I really mean this, and I think
the vast majority of people out there listening to us
right now, I think if you make a compelling argument
that what we are arguing for is bad economically or
bad culturally for the United States, I could look at
(24:42):
it and say, hey, you know what, I'll reconsider my priors.
I think Republicans as a group are more rational right now,
certainly than Democrats.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Now.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
It doesn't mean that there's not a lot of diehards
who would refuse to look at facts no matter what.
That's a challenge I think of our current political climate,
and also, I think frankly of social media because a
lot of people get locked into whatever algorithm they're on,
and they don't ever challenge their thinking because they're being
fed constantly stories that reconfirm their priors. And I think
(25:16):
if you go back historically and they look at social media,
I don't think it's a I don't think it's a
coincidence that suddenly Democrats went insane right as social media
became popular and they started trying to curry favor with
everybody on social media. I mean, I saw it happen
in sports. I read a whole book about it, and
(25:37):
that is a cultural impact that I think is significant.
And Buck, if you know, I know we talked about this,
but the US men won their gold medals and then
we saw crowds overwhelmingly cheer them in New Jersey, Pittsburgh,
and Toronto, and also in New York City at the
Saturday Night Live. Those are not places that are big
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Trump supporting audiences. Yet people want to cheer gold medals.
And certainly we saw it in Washington, DC when they
came out for the State of the Union. But if
you had read social media, you would have expected in
New Jersey, Pittsburgh, and Toronto that the players were going
to be drenched in booze deluge of derision. It did
(26:19):
not happen. And so I think to your point, unfortunately
for Democrats, they're in a situation where they believe a
lot of things that make everything worse. In fact, I
think we are going to have a conversation about this.
You know, you see the study that came out that
said the number one way to make people safer is
to put Republican district attorneys in office. Did you see
(26:42):
that study?
Speaker 2 (26:43):
I mean, it's not I feel like that's been our
mantra here for years, but now the data.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
But the data says, and you know what the data reflects,
Republican district attorneys put bad guys behind bars for longer,
and it actually makes everybody way safer. And so it's
not just that Democrats are making poor choices, it is
that they are that that tangibly, those poor choices are
(27:09):
resulting in worse outcomes. And unfortunately, because of their anti
Trump delusion, they're making poor choices and not even recognizing
that they are the instrument of their own demise.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
It's all true.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Does make you wonder sometimes what would have to happen
for Democrats on issues like crime for Democrats on what
would have to happen for them to admit.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
That they're wrong.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
You know, we we have seen what happens in all
of these sorts. Every sorrow spacked prosecutor, and that's a
real thing. They tried to shut this down like, oh,
it's some it's a scare tactic of the right. No,
there are prosecutors who got money from Soros affiliated or
Soros financed NGOs, and they realize this was a very
(27:57):
effective way to undermine law and order and bring about
some form of anarcho tyranny in Democrat enclaves and even
some non Democrat enclaves because they were able to sneak
in some left wing district attorney, right, and so we
see what ends up happening.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
It's worse for.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
Everybody except the very small percentage of the population and
I mean very small percentage that are effectively responsible for
all of the major crimes.
Speaker 4 (28:29):
There have been articles played New York City.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
I think it was a former Attorney General bar did
an analysis from the DOJ's numbers that in New York City,
if you would arrest I think it was three or
four thousand people. And when I say arrest, if you
would incarcerate three to four thousand people in the five boroughs,
which has eight point five million people, statistically, violent crime
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would plummet seventy percent seven zero. This is a huge win,
just waiting for someone to grasp it.
Speaker 4 (29:06):
But no, they won't do it.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
No, they don't like the demographics of who's going to
be disproportionately incarcerated, and they ignore the demographics of the
lives that will be disproportionately saved.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
Which is the same by the way, in these major cities.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
I will just point out that everybody told Trump when
he surged support in Washington, DC, that DC didn't need it, right,
the DC was safe. That was the talking point that
went out and that it would never work. And I'll
look up the numbers and I'll hit you with him
tomorrow to make sure. But through February, murders had declined
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by nearly seventy percent compared to last year. Memphis, I mean,
we can probably we should probably talk about Memphis and
take some calls from Memphi ends tomorrow. Put a star
in this buck. Memphis is like a completely different city
New Orleans. What the President has done is kind of remarkable,
(30:03):
and no one is talking about it. And when the
President does something that really has great results, you sometimes
find out because the story just vanishes.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
Right, nobody's talking all of a sudden.
Speaker 4 (30:15):
All of a sudden.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
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Speaker 2 (31:49):
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Year in the show. It is crazy.
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Look at how much gray we have at our beards.
Now you go back to the beginning.
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We were just kids man, five years ago, and now
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It's crazy.
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We've been telling you, teasing that there's gonna be more
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We're we're We're on Serious, We're on We're on YouTube.
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I will also say, Clay, my friend man, I got
lit up over Pellegrino. I didn't know that Pellegrino was
like now that the Champagne.
Speaker 4 (33:13):
Of sparkling water. People like, if it was Sarah Toga water,
it would be okay.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
I'm like, now, I'm now my my sparkling water taste
from Costco is too fancy.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
That is uh, that is really really funny. I We
played a bunch of these earlier in the hours, but
I'm gonna I'm gonna this is not gonna surprise you, buck.
I'm gonna die on the hill that my Tesla take
is going to age amazingly well. There's a lot of
old people out there that are like, I'll never drive
(33:44):
an autonomous vehicle, primarily older. I am telling you your
grandkids are going to live in a world where most
people do not drive vehicles. And I feel even more
that's the case the more time I spend letting my
Tesla self drive. It is absolutely incredible. And I'm telling
(34:08):
you I'm living in the future and some of y'all
are living in the past. I'm gonna go to war
on this one. You heard some of the talkbacks the
very funny, but this is one that I'm one hundred
percent confident.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
I am right on.
Speaker 4 (34:20):
I'm gonna have to.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
I gotta, I gotta come check out your Tesla.
Speaker 4 (34:23):
I've never driven one or been driven in by one.
I've only been in one.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
Where somebody was actually operating. But see, this is my
my vision is that I'll be in self driving Tesla,
drinking my Pellegrino, listening perhaps to some Chopin or some
of you.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
You're a Pellegrino argument is not helping me on the
tesla argument, but a lot.
Speaker 4 (34:44):
Of tesla self driving people like Pellegrino. Let's be honest.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
Clay, Okay, I'm sorry you're getting You're getting just swooped
in with this one a little too far to say
that Clay is a pistachio crembrewle ga.
Speaker 4 (34:55):
That's me.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
I take the heat on that one. But then again,
he's a rose end up bring Angel drinker. So as
Kaylee mcinenny, our good friend, has had to point out
to the public, Clay wears many hats. Sometimes he's sec
football bro getting high fives, drinking out of a red
Solo cup. Sometimes he's drinking whispering Angel out of a
fluted glass.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
All I will point out is that there was no
other alcohol on the table, and as the gentleman that
I am, I was pouring drinks for everyone else, including myself.
We will continue to update you on the Iran situation.
The battle going on in in Texas is going to
continue to grow, but again cautiously optimistic. As we talked
(35:39):
about in the first couple of hours, the data is
reflecting that Iran's ability to fire weapons is continuing to
be degraded, and as that occurs, more and more air
superiority coming. And so I think things are going again
about as well as we could hope that they are going.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
And I think the Trump team is absolute on it.
They understand the implications here of what would happen if
this went too far, we get too deep into this.
I think they have, with so many things, earned a
degree of trust. Let them cook, as they say, let
heg Seth and Trump cook.
Speaker 4 (36:15):
They know what they're doing on this one. I have faith.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
If that changes, we will certainly be the first to
say that on this show. But until that, my friends, great.
Speaker 4 (36:24):
Hanging with you here. We'll be back with you on Thursday.
We'll talk to you then
Welcome back in our number three Clay Travis buck Sexton Show.
It is a significant news Wednesday, as many of these
days often are. Let's take you back into exactly what
has transpired. We had a very powerful press conference, as
we discussed earlier in the show, from Pete Hegseth on
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the situation in Iran. We will update you on that,
but the big takeaway is that we are close to
complete and total air superiority in Iran, and that I
do believe things are going better and faster than anticipated
if they had tried to forecast how this attack was
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going to go. We'll come back to that in a
sec and play a couple more of those cuts from
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. But in Texas, as we
told many of you was likely to be the case,
we had James town Rico beat our good friend Jasmine Crockett.
It pains me, as we said earlier in the program,
(01:06):
to see the Texas Democrat Party engage in such blatant racism. Buck,
for a white man to beat a black man like
the black woman like this? Can I just point out
this painful to my heart?
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Can I just point out that Clay suddenly wearing his
Crockett gear a whole lot more. I'm seeing Crockett t shirts,
Crockett sweatshirts. He says it's for the coffee company that
we own. But I thought it was a little suspicious
that right when Jasmine Crockett was in the political fight
of her life, Clay was mister Crockett all of a sudden.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
I'm just saying, so, Jasmine Crockett goes down. We talked
about this earlier in the show. We had some deep
dive into it. Buck, I think the reality is, this
is kind of what you wanted. And MSNBC or ms NOW,
whatever the heck they're called, CNN the view they're all
going to be throwing money at Jasmine Crockett to become
(02:00):
a television personality.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Her congressional career is over.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
And the other big name I would say that went down,
as we discussed earlier in the program as well, Buck,
is Dan Crinshaw. I did not know Dan Crinshaw well,
but he had quite the public profile. Have we ever
had him on the program? I think maybe we did.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
I think that Clay, before you and I teamed up,
I might have interviewed him one time early on, and
I remember, Look, I'm just gonna say it, there was
so much enthusiasm around because you go, oh, gosh, this
guy is a combat veteran, Navy seal, wounded veteran. You know,
this is just like what you would create in a
(02:43):
you know, conservative laboratory of congressional excellency, like, well, this
is the guy we want in Congress. And I have
tremendous respect obviously for what he did as a seal,
and and I none of that changes.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
But man, the base turned on him, and we had
neither you nor I have.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Look, you guys know, when we don't like somebody, I
try to be honest about it, but also be fair
about it.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
You know, if we don't like somebody. I never met
the guy. I have no beef with him, no problem
with him.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
So many people I know in politics and in media
despise that guy. And it just strikes me as how
you know, I mean, we asked Michael Berry. Michael Berry
was not holding back on it. You can go back
and listen to the interview.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Well, so that's the big upset. I would say that
came out of the Republican primary. We told you that
this was likely to happen as well, and man, get
your two by fours, because I think it's gonna get
even nastier. Ken Paxton and John Cornyn basically ran dead
even in the Texas Republican Senate primary, so tall Ico
(03:48):
has advanced it. He is the Democrat nominee. He's way
more radical go figure than they have let you know,
and we will certainly dive into that race as it
gets closer to November. But in the meantime, John Cornyn,
current incumbent senator, and Ken Paxton are going to go.
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Both of them around forty one, forty two percent of
the vote. Wesley Hunt, who we had on the program yesterday,
got around thirteen or fourteen percent in third place, so
he is eliminated and now tons of money will get spent.
I would imagine both Paxton and Cornyn are going to
be asking President Trump for an endorsement. So far, President
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Trump has not endorsed anybody in this race. We'll see
what he does in late May, so a little over
two months from now, we will officially have a Republican nominee.
So I was texting with Buck some as these results
came in. No big surprises in Arizona, sorry, Arkansas, or
North Carolina. Our friend Michael Wattley is going to run
(04:53):
against former Governor Roy Cooper. We got to invite out.
We almost had him scheduled the other day. I'm sure
Michael Wattley is going to be hugely important as we
looked towards the Senate because that is a Republican seat
in North Carolina and Democrats have to flip four Senate
seats given jd Vance having the tie break buck in
(05:15):
order to be able to take back control of the
US Senate.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
We had Corny in scheduled and they just said they
had a scheduled conflict. Maybe that is the case, but
you would think he would come on this show at
some point given the primary that he's in now you know,
the extended primary, and if he doesn't, I think it's
telling us something that I will say, Look, schedule, stuff
(05:40):
comes up, even if it's very last minute, and even
if it's after our good friend Michael Barry throws a
roundhouse kick with his cowboy boots on right to the
face of your campaign.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
However, However, maybe.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
It was just a little change, but we'd like him
to come on at some point, we have some questions
for mister Cornyn.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Well, it's fair and again we also invited tall Rico
into Jasmine Crockett because unlike CBS, and I do think
this is a big story buck in general. Again, the
CBS attempt it may well have been the difference maker
for tall Rico, who outspent Jasmine Crockett by five to one.
(06:20):
I think it was twenty five million to five million,
something like that, and that added rays of money that
he got from the censorship that they claimed on Colbert
might have been what propelled him to the victory. I
mean he won by a relatively slim amount. I mean
it was very close, and I know some of you
(06:41):
flipped over and voted in the in the Democrat side,
but tall Rico won by about six seven points with
ninety three percent of the vote in at least, and
I do think that that is maybe the part of
the result is that they helped rig it for him
and the Democratic.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
I would say Clay that in the interest of fairness,
because we have invited tallerco on, I still would love
to have Jasmine Crockett on. I willieve if Jasmine Crockett
comes on, unless there's some ethics thing with cheese in Congress.
There's all these weird you know, ethics rules in Congress.
Now you basically can't buy someone more than a coffee,
and it causes a problem. I was gonna say, I'll
send her a Crockett sweatshirt, like I would love to
(07:23):
have Jasmine Crockett on the show. We would have a
very fun conversation. But for James taller Rico, I'll even
give him the questions in advance. It's like he's getting
a little sneak peak of the test. I would first
want to ask him, is the future female? James, I
just want to hear what he has to say to that,
and then Clay, if you wanted to follow up with
can a man become a woman? I feel like we'd
(07:43):
have a robust conversation with James Tallerico about this, and
then you can ask him about whether God is non binary,
which also came up recently.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
He said that.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
He also said, and again he's got a lot of clothes.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
I'm triggered by this. God is clearly trans, James.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
We all know God is non binary.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
He also said that basically we should have a wide
open southern border. So again the fever dream of the
Democrat Party has been that they can flip Texas. They've
been trying to do it for a long time now.
They have not won a statewide race in the state
of Texas since nineteen ninety four. But that is at
(08:24):
least worth contemplating how that's going to shake out. You're good, buddy,
Joe Scarborough said, boy, Republicans really blew it. Here is
cut three. How MSNBC is covering all of all of this,
the outcome in the Texas primary.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Cut three.
Speaker 5 (08:45):
Here's yet another example. I swear, I just wish these
Republicans weren't so stupid.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
I wish that.
Speaker 5 (08:51):
Listen to me. I'm trying to help them out a
little bit here, just to make it a fair fight
in the fall. But what did we say? What did
we say? First of all, when they took Beart off
the air, you're gonna pay for it. They did pay
for it with South Park three or four days later,
deciding they're going to lean in even harder, right and
so here they try to keep Tall Rico off the show.
What happens they give him a boost. If you talk
(09:13):
to Jasmine Crockett, she'll say the same thing. I was
ad until that controversy. So the very person they were
trying to defeat, the very person whose message scared them,
is the very person who they helped win this race.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Is so his political analysis is what you would expect
from a guy who told us in twenty twenty four
that Joe Biden was the sharpest he had ever been
in his entire life. Play this is not a surprise
that Joe Scarborough doesn't know his ass from his elbow.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
This is so dumb that it honestly kind of blows
my mind that either he is really, really legitimately not
informed on this story, or or he is intentionally lying.
There's only two options here, because Republicans had nothing to
do with this, nothing at all. The Colbert Show, for
(10:06):
those of you have forgotten, set up a fake story
which was we're gonna have James tallerco on. CBS's lawyer said, Hey,
if you're gonna have tall Rico on, you need to
have Jasmine Crockett on as well, because she is a
contender in this race on the equal time doctrine, and
maybe arguably you should also have Republicans on. But that's
(10:29):
a whole nother debate, and they pitched a fit. All
they had to do was put on Jasmin Crockett too.
This is one where I think Jasmin Crockett actually is
legitimately had a rig job run against her. But this
was all a Democrat operation. They desperately wanted tall Rico.
What he's got backward is a lot of us would
(10:51):
have preferred Jasmine Crockett because Jasmin Crockett had a zero
percent chance of winning. I think tall Rico has a
five to ten percent chance of winning. Still whoe, but
zero to five to ten. If you gave me a
choice between the two options, and I was wanted the
Republicans to win, I'd.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Take the zero.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
I'm with you, though, I just I feel like I
need to go find a safe space and to weep
some liberal tears about all the mansplaining and the racism.
I'm sorry, I thought the future was female. James Tallerico,
Joe Scarborough, Stephen Colbert. Apparently not if we're talking Jasmine Crockett.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
You know what, you have a.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Black woman who could be the next standard bearer of
the Democrats, and they did everything they could. They Bernie
sanders Her, so the Bernie sanders Her, they.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Totally Bernie sandswers her And you know what is actually
also funny about this story. On the national political stage,
Kamala endorsed Jasmine Crockett on Sunday, I believe this weekend
and did a robo call and said, everybody, get out
and vote for Jasmin Crockett. Jasmine Crockett then lost, and
(12:05):
Kamala now has flipped and or endorsed tall Errico.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
I just think it's.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
When you endorse a person and then the next day
you endorse the other person. Basically, that's a tough that's
a tough situation to find yourself in. She could have
just set out the whole thing. I'm sure that Kamala's
advisor has got in her ear and they said, hey,
this is another black woman who's running for office. You
need to, you know, continue to lock down black female support,
(12:34):
speak out for her, but do it late so the
impact will be minimal. If she loses, people won't talk
about it as much, and then immediately flip and endorse
the white guy once the black woman loses. I mean,
it is very funny that we ended up in this situation.
All of the people doing absolutely fantastic work at the
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I failed this in terms of in context of abortion
because before God comes over Mary and we have the incarnation,
God asks for Mary's consent, which is remarkable. I mean,
go back and read this in in Luke. I mean
the angel comes down and asks Mary if this is
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something she wants to do, and she says, if it
is God's will, let it be done, let it be,
let it happen. So to me, that is an affirmation
in one of our most central stories that creation has
to be done with consent. And so that's why I
that's how I come down on that side of the issue.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
So there you had James Talerico back in twenty twenty five.
He's now the Democrat nominee for that set up seated Texas.
The silver tongued and serpentine tallerco Who's whose special gift,
it seems, Clay, is to tell progressive Democrats that the
Bible justifies Hey, you want to train to your kids,
(15:15):
Well check out Matthew three seventeen.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
You wanna I'm making that up.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Obviously, you know you want to have abortion all nine
months of a pregnancy. Obviously, all you have to do
is look up Corinthians twelve.
Speaker 8 (15:27):
Like, this guy's whole spiel is to tell lunatics who
have no room for an actual God or accountability for
themselves in their lives, that the Bible justifies their every
urge to please Molik.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
That is this guy's role in life. It's pretty disgusting.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Actually, yeah, not only that, by the way, so that
is a tough argument I would think to make for
most Texans.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
I know.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
This one is the southern border should be a giant
welcome Matt. This is from a debate with Jasmine Crockett
just back a couple.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Of weeks ago. Cut one.
Speaker 7 (16:09):
Our southern border should be like our front porch. There
should be a giant welcome mat out front.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
I mean, I think solution of America. He's just he's
just saying America should stop being America.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
I don't even think that you need to hardly run
any other ad other than the southern border should be
a giant welcome at. I think that ends the race
in Texas, and so I understand people are saying oh,
this is going to be competitive, But.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
I've heard it for too long.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
We heard it all about with Beato and how he
was going to beat ted Cruz and that didn't happen.
And then we heard, oh, this is going to be close.
In Texas, Trump's in trouble, and Trump won by fourteen
I think I think the state of New York was
closer to being a Trump state than Texas was to
being a Kambal estate. Now everybody needs to show up,
(16:59):
and you certainly are going to have to deal with
a lot of enthusiasm on the Democrat side because so
many of the Democrat base has Trump derangement syndrome. But
I gotta tell you, I just think this guy is
going to be way too radical to be elected in Texas.
And I think as more and more people become aware
of the things that he has said, and we just
(17:19):
played a couple of cuts of that, I think again
we're going to have a real battle between Cornyn and Paxton,
but ultimately that's going to be the result. All Right,
we'll come back. We're still efforting yell Extein out in Israel.
We'll see whether or not we can make contact with her.
But in the meantime, I want to tell you, look,
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Truth after Truth. You can handle the truth. Clay Travis
send buck Sexton.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton Show. We are
rolling through the Wednesday edition of the program. You just
heard us breaking down all of the outcome in Texas
the big primaries there the first real opportunity to hear
from voters as the midterms move closer and closer. And Buck,
let me give you a little bit of a storyline
(19:04):
that I think is becoming paramount. We're efforting Yale Extein,
our friend from the IFCJ. As you can imagine, there's
lots of challenges with communication going on there right now.
She may or may not be about to join us.
But I was watching this morning as I was doing
my prep to get ready for the show. I have
(19:27):
not seen MSNBC cover gas prices in the entirety of
the Trump era, because they have been coming down and
they are at historic lows. This morning I watched MSNBC.
I do it so you don't have to, and Buck,
(19:47):
they have started to show oil prices going up. This
is going to be the primary line of attack. I
think that's going to come from Democrats because they recognize
it's hard to say, well, this guy is a terrorist
who's killed you know, one thousand or more Americans as
well as tens of thousands of his own people, KAMENI,
(20:10):
and he can't ever have nuclear weapons.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
But what Trump did is unacceptable, right.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
That is a really difficult argument to make, and I
think Democrats are recognizing it. So their pivot is going
to be this is a bad decision and Americans are
paying the price at the pump when it comes to
gas prices. I'm just telling you this. Eventually, I believe
is going to become their primary line of attack. Now again,
(20:39):
historically oil and gas prices are at very record, near
record lows over the last four years, but they're going
to look at how much they go up in the
short term. Straight of horror moves, the dangers there, Iran's
attacks on other Middle Eastern oil powers, all of that
(21:00):
as a sign that Trump is making things more expensive,
that's going to become their line of attack. You buying
or selling that as Eventually Democrats will decide that is
their way to oppose what's going on in the war.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Absolutely, They're going to need an economic message, and it
has to be an attack message. They don't have anything
constructive to say about any of this, and they're just
hoping that people forget that everything the Democrats do when
they're in charge makes all of the problems that they
identify worse. This is the part of it that's really maddening.
They'll say, oh, well, you know, price of homes is high.
(21:38):
Who do you think who do you think does more
things to make it harder for people to afford homes,
Republicans or Democrats. Price of gas is high? Oh, I'm
sorry the party that thinks that we should all live
off of windmills and solar panels. They're all of a
sudden so worried about the price of energy, the price
of gasoline. It's absurd, but absurdity is an area in
(22:00):
which Democrats excel. They have no shame, which means they
have no limits. They can say whatever in order to
achieve power. So I think you will see that kind
of economic messaging from them. I think that they're going
to try and attack You'll notice usually they'd be attacking healthcare.
(22:20):
I think more people are starting to realize what an
actual disaster Obamacare has been, and how the whole promise
of that. Remember that huge fight we had in the
John Roberts Court saved Obamacare by changing the language of
an actual statue to match it up with something else.
All thing was just such a debacle and it's made
(22:40):
everything worse. And this is the reality of it. So
when you look at how they're going to try to
attack the President and his administration on economics, it's just
going to revolve around rewriting history and praying upon the
ignorance of people who are understandably frustrated. Look finances, paying bills.
(23:00):
The stuff is always frustrating. This is stress. Everyone feels
this stuff. People deal with it at varying levels, but
you're always thinking do I have enough for what I need?
Am I making progress? Am I falling further behind? And
the Democrats tend to get away with playing the envy game,
or rather the class warfare game. Point the finger at
(23:22):
somebody else. It's somebody else's fault, and in reality, it
is actually the Democrat system, the Democrat party, that makes
all this stuff harder. They're the reason for your high taxes,
They're the reason for regulations that make home building more expensive.
They're the reason for energy prices. Look at the cost
of gas in California. What else do you have to see?
So I think that the Trump team is going to
(23:46):
be able to put a lot of results on the scoreboard, Clay.
But this is one of the great challenges we have
in twenty first century America. Sometimes reality is not enough. Well,
Joe Biden became president, for heaven's sake.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Not only is reality not enough, people have so embraced
their anti Trump delusion as their personal brand that recognizing
that the choices you are making is actually leading to
a disastrous outcome is I think a function of just
(24:19):
how broken our political system is. Because I think if
you and I I really mean this, and I think
the vast majority of people out there listening to us
right now, I think if you make a compelling argument
that what we are arguing for is bad economically or
bad culturally for the United States, I could look at
(24:42):
it and say, hey, you know what, I'll reconsider my priors.
I think Republicans as a group are more rational right now,
certainly than Democrats.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Now.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
It doesn't mean that there's not a lot of diehards
who would refuse to look at facts no matter what.
That's a challenge I think of our current political climate,
and also, I think frankly of social media because a
lot of people get locked into whatever algorithm they're on,
and they don't ever challenge their thinking because they're being
fed constantly stories that reconfirm their priors. And I think
(25:16):
if you go back historically and they look at social media,
I don't think it's a I don't think it's a
coincidence that suddenly Democrats went insane right as social media
became popular and they started trying to curry favor with
everybody on social media. I mean, I saw it happen
in sports. I read a whole book about it, and
(25:37):
that is a cultural impact that I think is significant.
And Buck, if you know, I know we talked about this,
but the US men won their gold medals and then
we saw crowds overwhelmingly cheer them in New Jersey, Pittsburgh,
and Toronto, and also in New York City at the
Saturday Night Live. Those are not places that are big
(25:58):
Trump supporting audiences. Yet people want to cheer gold medals.
And certainly we saw it in Washington, DC when they
came out for the State of the Union. But if
you had read social media, you would have expected in
New Jersey, Pittsburgh, and Toronto that the players were going
to be drenched in booze deluge of derision. It did
(26:19):
not happen. And so I think to your point, unfortunately
for Democrats, they're in a situation where they believe a
lot of things that make everything worse. In fact, I
think we are going to have a conversation about this.
You know, you see the study that came out that
said the number one way to make people safer is
to put Republican district attorneys in office. Did you see
(26:42):
that study?
Speaker 2 (26:43):
I mean, it's not I feel like that's been our
mantra here for years, but now the data.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
But the data says, and you know what the data reflects,
Republican district attorneys put bad guys behind bars for longer,
and it actually makes everybody way safer. And so it's
not just that Democrats are making poor choices, it is
that they are that that tangibly, those poor choices are
(27:09):
resulting in worse outcomes. And unfortunately, because of their anti
Trump delusion, they're making poor choices and not even recognizing
that they are the instrument of their own demise.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
It's all true.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Does make you wonder sometimes what would have to happen
for Democrats on issues like crime for Democrats on what
would have to happen for them to admit.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
That they're wrong.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
You know, we we have seen what happens in all
of these sorts. Every sorrow spacked prosecutor, and that's a
real thing. They tried to shut this down like, oh,
it's some it's a scare tactic of the right. No,
there are prosecutors who got money from Soros affiliated or
Soros financed NGOs, and they realize this was a very
(27:57):
effective way to undermine law and order and bring about
some form of anarcho tyranny in Democrat enclaves and even
some non Democrat enclaves because they were able to sneak
in some left wing district attorney, right, and so we
see what ends up happening.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
It's worse for.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
Everybody except the very small percentage of the population and
I mean very small percentage that are effectively responsible for
all of the major crimes.
Speaker 4 (28:29):
There have been articles played New York City.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
I think it was a former Attorney General bar did
an analysis from the DOJ's numbers that in New York City,
if you would arrest I think it was three or
four thousand people. And when I say arrest, if you
would incarcerate three to four thousand people in the five boroughs,
which has eight point five million people, statistically, violent crime
(28:56):
would plummet seventy percent seven zero. This is a huge win,
just waiting for someone to grasp it.
Speaker 4 (29:06):
But no, they won't do it.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
No, they don't like the demographics of who's going to
be disproportionately incarcerated, and they ignore the demographics of the
lives that will be disproportionately saved.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
Which is the same by the way, in these major cities.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
I will just point out that everybody told Trump when
he surged support in Washington, DC, that DC didn't need it, right,
the DC was safe. That was the talking point that
went out and that it would never work. And I'll
look up the numbers and I'll hit you with him
tomorrow to make sure. But through February, murders had declined
(29:42):
by nearly seventy percent compared to last year. Memphis, I mean,
we can probably we should probably talk about Memphis and
take some calls from Memphi ends tomorrow. Put a star
in this buck. Memphis is like a completely different city
New Orleans. What the President has done is kind of remarkable,
(30:03):
and no one is talking about it. And when the
President does something that really has great results, you sometimes
find out because the story just vanishes.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
Right, nobody's talking all of a sudden.
Speaker 4 (30:15):
All of a sudden.
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Speaker 2 (31:49):
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I will also say, Clay, my friend man, I got
lit up over Pellegrino. I didn't know that Pellegrino was
like now that the Champagne.
Speaker 4 (33:13):
Of sparkling water. People like, if it was Sarah Toga water,
it would be okay.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
I'm like, now, I'm now my my sparkling water taste
from Costco is too fancy.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
That is uh, that is really really funny. I We
played a bunch of these earlier in the hours, but
I'm gonna I'm gonna this is not gonna surprise you, buck.
I'm gonna die on the hill that my Tesla take
is going to age amazingly well. There's a lot of
old people out there that are like, I'll never drive
(33:44):
an autonomous vehicle, primarily older. I am telling you your
grandkids are going to live in a world where most
people do not drive vehicles. And I feel even more
that's the case the more time I spend letting my
Tesla self drive. It is absolutely incredible. And I'm telling
(34:08):
you I'm living in the future and some of y'all
are living in the past. I'm gonna go to war
on this one. You heard some of the talkbacks the
very funny, but this is one that I'm one hundred
percent confident.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
I am right on.
Speaker 4 (34:20):
I'm gonna have to.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
I gotta, I gotta come check out your Tesla.
Speaker 4 (34:23):
I've never driven one or been driven in by one.
I've only been in one.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
Where somebody was actually operating. But see, this is my
my vision is that I'll be in self driving Tesla,
drinking my Pellegrino, listening perhaps to some Chopin or some
of you.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
You're a Pellegrino argument is not helping me on the
tesla argument, but a lot.
Speaker 4 (34:44):
Of tesla self driving people like Pellegrino. Let's be honest.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
Clay, Okay, I'm sorry you're getting You're getting just swooped
in with this one a little too far to say
that Clay is a pistachio crembrewle ga.
Speaker 4 (34:55):
That's me.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
I take the heat on that one. But then again,
he's a rose end up bring Angel drinker. So as
Kaylee mcinenny, our good friend, has had to point out
to the public, Clay wears many hats. Sometimes he's sec
football bro getting high fives, drinking out of a red
Solo cup. Sometimes he's drinking whispering Angel out of a
fluted glass.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
All I will point out is that there was no
other alcohol on the table, and as the gentleman that
I am, I was pouring drinks for everyone else, including myself.
We will continue to update you on the Iran situation.
The battle going on in in Texas is going to
continue to grow, but again cautiously optimistic. As we talked
(35:39):
about in the first couple of hours, the data is
reflecting that Iran's ability to fire weapons is continuing to
be degraded, and as that occurs, more and more air
superiority coming. And so I think things are going again
about as well as we could hope that they are going.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
And I think the Trump team is absolute on it.
They understand the implications here of what would happen if
this went too far, we get too deep into this.
I think they have, with so many things, earned a
degree of trust. Let them cook, as they say, let
heg Seth and Trump cook.
Speaker 4 (36:15):
They know what they're doing on this one. I have faith.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
If that changes, we will certainly be the first to
say that on this show. But until that, my friends, great.
Speaker 4 (36:24):
Hanging with you here. We'll be back with you on Thursday.
We'll talk to you then
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