March 15, 2025 • 36 mins
Department of Education cutting nearly half the workforce. Secretary of State Marco Rubio making progress on ending war. Egg prices, bird flu and the Biden administration. The worst inflation in 40 years occurred on Biden's watch and began when he took office. Transgender identity meltdowns. NGO's in name only. Inflation Reduction Act did not reduce inflation, it made it worse. Buck wishes he had a yard so he could have chickens. President Trump looks at the government like a fixer-upper. It’s going to take work, but he’ll get it done and our country will look better in the end. Don’t listen to the noise in the media. You can't pluck Trump like a chicken. Ukraine ceasefire. Zelenskyy agreed and now the ball is in Russia's court and it's Putin move. What did President Biden to end the war in Ukraine? Buck predicted how much the war would cost three years ago. Trans member of Congress. Mahmoud Khalil is a scumbag, but we need clarity on the case because at some point Democrats will be in charge again. Crockett Coffee.
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Episode Transcript
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome everybody to the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show.
Excited to have you all with us. Clay on vacation
this week, as you know, having a great time out west.
He'll be back with us on Monday. He sends his
warmest regards to all of you, and I know he
will be fired up to get back to the mic.
He's with his boys, he's having a great time towards
(00:20):
some colleges. We have a lot of news going on here,
my friends. I want I'm going to start with this one,
although I think we're going to dive into the economy
first today, but just for headlines sake. Department of Education
has fired more than thirteen hundred employees, closed offices for
(00:41):
security reason reasons yesterday. So that's actually happening, my friends.
The Department of Education is getting cut down substantially, so
they had what are being called sweeping layoffs. We shall
discuss because this raises so many interesting issues. What does
the Department of Education do? Again? Right the moment you
(01:04):
get into that, you start to think, do we want
it doing that? Has it done a good job of
doing that? Is it worth what we're paying for it
to try to do the job that it may not
be doing so well. Of that, we will discuss all
of it. We've got some progress to speak of on
the Russia Ukraine war cease fire negotiations underway. We've got
(01:26):
Secretary Rubio with some quotes on that one coming up
in a little bit, which is a very good thing.
We want that war to stop, we want the bloodshed
to stop. We want stability to slowly but surely return
to that region. Also. It's interesting, isn't it. Yesterday I
told you about the whole courtesy thing with trends identifying
(01:50):
individuals and how you are to be kind to them.
You are to be, you know, Christian or whatever your
faith tradition is a good person to all people, of course,
including trans people. But you don't have to lie, right.
You don't have to pretend somebody who's fifty is actually
ten because they say so. And you don't have to
(02:11):
pretend that somebody who's a man is actually a woman
because they say so. This came up in Congress yesterday.
We have the clip and you will want to hear it.
Turns out I'm not the only one who feels this way.
There are some members of Congress who no longer wish
to refer to trans colleagues by their preferred pronoun or
their preferred gender. But I want to start with the
(02:35):
back and forth already on the economy today, because well,
look at effects all of us, and I get it.
You know, my wife's family has chickens in the backyard.
It's funny. Who would have thought that chickens now by
laying eggs. It's like they're laying golden eggs. Because eggs
are very expensive. They've gone up substantially. But you know
(02:59):
who do well of this is that they had to
kill so many ch I'm sorry, I shouldn't say had to.
They chose to kill so many chickens because of bird flu.
That's part one of why there's been a run up
in prices. We've seen a run up in prices for staples,
for food goods going back for years in the Biden administration. Remember,
just by way of context, the worst inflation in forty
(03:22):
years occurred on Joe Biden's watch and began when he
took office. I think we can often forget about this,
right because Trump's come in and it's like, oh, look
at the look at the price of eggs. Trump's been
in office thirty days, and yes, the price of eggs
is coming down. I'm going to get to some of
the good economic news today because you'll notice they're going
(03:43):
to find something else to freak out about because things
I'm not saying we're out of the woods. You know,
you could have a big stock market drop next week.
But there are plenty of data points to look at
here to suggest that everything is going to be just fine.
But Biden had the worst inflation in forty years and
it started right when he came into office because he
spent trillions of dollars completely unnecessarily, and as we've seen
(04:05):
now in part because of the work of Doge, some
of this money just gets handed out to left wing
interest groups that are NGOs really in name only because
their government funded non government organizations. And there's all this money,
the green energy slush fund that has been part of
(04:29):
the Biden spending spree, and including these so called Inflation
Reduction Act which did not at all reduce inflation. It
didn't even really address inflation, and if it did, it
made it worse, or rather, in the ways that it did,
it made it worse. Now we are starting to see
that the Trump plan is going to require fixing some things.
(04:52):
And you know, when you go into an old house
and you know you're kicking at the wooden boards and
you're checking out, you know you got to fix a upper.
And some aspects certainly of our government but also of
our spending. You're in a unique fixer upper opportunity. When
you start to look at the different pieces. Sometimes you're
gonna pull a board off the wall end, maybe a
(05:13):
piece of the ceiling comes down. Stuff is gonna happen
a little bit, But the fundamental structure is sound, and
the fundamental approach of Trump and his team is the
right one. And here, first of all, Trump is talking
about since I talked, I spoke about the price of eggs,
And now you know, I don't have a yard here
in Miami, and I do wish that I had a yard,
(05:35):
because well, one I would convince my wife that a
pet fox, which you can legally have in Florida if
you get a certain license, would be really cool. But
put that aside. Maybe that's just a weird thing with
me having chickens and even ducks. I hear ducks are
great for the laying of eggs. Save yourself a bunch
of money eggs at my local. Uh So, first of all,
I've gone in there. There's been basically no eggs some days.
(05:57):
So that's a thing. But that's a supply shortage, in
large part caused by the killing of all the euthanizing
of chickens to prevent the bird flu thing, which I
think was excessive. But anyway, here's Trump, this has cut
five talking about how look everybody, the things are happening.
You gotta just be patient. Don't let the don't let
(06:18):
the anti Trump Trump Derange media get you all worked up.
Play five.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
But we didn't have these problems. I had no inflation.
I had a great economy. He gave you high prices.
You couldn't buy bacon, you couldn't buy anything. And also
I inherited a situation with eggs. The price of eggs
was through the roof. Well, now the price of eggs
has come down a lot. Interest rates have come down,
gasoline prices have come down.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
It's all coming down.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
It's all a beautiful thing.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
I can do it the right way, the wrong way.
We're doing it the right way.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
And I have tremendous confidence in this country and the
people of this country. Tremendous company, much more so than
if I sat back for four years and had a
good time in the ovelope.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Just remember this. There are some fundamental and obvious truths
about our situation right now, and Trump was getting to
some of this in that sound bite. Yes, price of
eggs coming down a little bit, still needs to come
out more. But we know that there's an artificial specifically
with eggs, there's an artificial reason for why the price
has been so high. You can't kill all the chickens
(07:17):
and wonder where the eggs are pretty straightforward. But the
fundamental recognition that we should all remember is that Donald
Trump is better at this than the people who used
to be in charge until a minute ago. And then
the people who are criticizing him, what do they know
about any of this? What do these journals know about
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supply and demand and how to actually get the American
economy up and running. Trump has done it. He has
done this successfully. He has a track record, he has
been in the big chair before. So all this stuff
and I see I I want to say, conservatives or
people on the right are they're not panicking about the
(08:02):
libs panic because it's trumped arrangement so that they look
for opportunities to panic. You know, everything is, oh did
I leave the gas on? Is the house going to explode?
They're constantly freaking out because that's who they are. But
on our side, yeah, the market drops a little bit. Yeah,
there's some stuff back and forth on the tariffs, but
the conversation about tariffs, you have to keep in mind
(08:23):
it changes within a twenty four hour news cycle. Okay,
well we're gonna we're gonna delay that one. Okay, we're
gonna drop this one down a little bit. You know,
there's plenty of stuff that needs to happen that Trump
is doing that we need to let play out a
little bit. So the double tariff on Canadian medals, for example,
has been called off by Trump, and people say, oh,
(08:44):
this is so abrupt that how can markets react? He
is trying to negotiate with sovereign governments over trade agreements.
There's going to be some stop and start this. You know,
we've seen Trump before, right, and we've seen him before
on the economy when he's doing this stuff. And I
keep reminding everybody who will listen to me, you know,
I knew a couple of people who were true trade
(09:08):
nerds in the best sense in DC. I used to
have them on my old radio show back in the day.
I I knew a couple of people who were really
good on trade. They're the only ones early on in
Trump twenty seventeen who were saying to me, yeack, yeah, actually,
we need to do something about China's trade barriers. We
shouldn't just sit here and take it. Yeah, we need
to do something to update the US Mexico Canada agreement.
(09:30):
We shouldn't just sit here and take it. And then
there's the same thing, Oh my gosh, what's Trump doing.
It's crazy, you know, it's no, it's all all within
his skill set, his strategy and the people he has
in charge. Now, look, I don't want to be fatalistic
about this, but when you look at Trump, you look
at Elon Musk. If they can't fix this, nobody can.
(09:54):
I hate to you know, in those jobs, in these roles.
If Trump can't fix this, if Elon can't give Trump
the advice necessary to have him take the actions to
pair things back with the spending and all the mission
that DOJE has, We're throwing our best at it right now. Okay,
the electorate sent us their best this time, and everyone
(10:15):
needs to just either let the things happen here that
are happening. Everything that is being done is one stuff
that Trump talked about doing, whether it's the border or
it's ending the Ukraine War with a ceasefire, and he's
taking all of these actions. But it's just so funny
to me to see that. It's like all contacts with
the media is gone. Oh my gosh, you know things
(10:37):
were what things were so good before under Biden the
puppet dementia patient. You got to be kidding me, right,
what is it? The only job Joe Biden knows how
to create was a corrupt pay to play for hunter.
All right, he has no idea what's going on, truly
had no idea what's going on. Look at the auto
pen stuff that's being talked about now. And now we
(10:58):
have a team that understands capitalism, understands markets, understands business.
So don't don't let them start to get into your
head because you know, now they start to look at
the numbers. Now they start to pretend that they're objective
reporters again in the media. Oh, it's not that I
hate Trump, it's that I'm I'm worried about the stock
market suddenly. Okay, well here you go. Here's CNN. This
(11:21):
has cut four saying that, you know what, there's actually
some good news in the economy this week on some
things that really matter. Play it.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Finally we have some good news on the economy and
really the number one issue for many Americans the cost
of living. So we just learned that consumer prices in
February increased by two point eight percent year over year,
zero point two percent month of a month. Both of
these figures were a step in the right direction, and
both were better than expected. So this is definitely very
(11:50):
encouraging to see because it's going to I think relieve
some fears that inflation was perhaps reaccelerating, because this actually
breaks a streak of four were straight months where I
think you could see it on the chart all the
way to the right, where the inflation rate was going
in the wrong direction. Right, it was going higher and higher.
Finally we're seeing it dip.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Finally. Trump hasn't even been an office two months. Keep
that in mind. Now, I know they're going back even before,
but this, this is the data now that we're seeing.
And remember the Biden data was suspiciously manipulated so that
the jobs numbers were always higher than they actually were.
That the recession that happened under Biden two quarters of
(12:33):
negative GDP growth. Oh, but is that really a recession.
Let's change the definition of recession. Don't forget what they
have done to try to do this perception management, operation
information operation SYOP on the economy because they know that
more than anything else that drives votes, that that drives
power come election time. So they'll say whatever they have
(12:55):
to say about it. Trump is in charge, His team
is awesome, They're doing good things. They know what they're doing.
If I feel like things are going off the rails,
or I'll tell you and the people that are around
Trump who listen to this show, maybe they'll pass that along.
I've seen none of that. I've seen none of that.
All I see is Trump doing what Trump does. And
(13:17):
this week, I think is a reminder to all of
us that the same media that told you that Trump
should go to prison for the rest of his life
for whatever the nonsense case was, there are four different ones.
Is now the media is saying, oh, can he really
bring down inflation? What they don't want you to think
about us, how all of this is connected. What causes inflation?
Monetary supply, government spending, what causes that government doing dumb things?
(13:44):
Biden the Democrats by addressing that, by having those do
what it does, guess what, it addresses the inflation problem.
Democrats think you can mandate lower prices because I say so,
because they fundamental league want to pretend we live in
a different world than we do, and that they can
(14:04):
artificially suspend the laws of supply and demand. They can't.
Trump knows that you want to address inflation. That's what
Trump is doing, That's what Elon is doing. That's what's
going on right now. So just but you know, tell
them to just stuff it. You've had enough of the
noise from oh my gosh, the recession depression Trump, Please, okay,
(14:26):
Biden didn't even know what year it was, and he
was a commander in chief and the economy didn't collapse.
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Speaker 1 (15:43):
Welcome back here to play and Buck we've got so
much going on with the economy, and also, of course tariffs,
which is a big part of the discussion. And here Trump,
he says he's talking about we're talking about eggs before.
Now we're gonna get what are We're gonna talk about
getting plucked like chickens when it comes to tariffs. This
(16:05):
has cut six This is Trump. You want to hear them.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
I have to tell you, I'm very optimistic about the country,
much more optimistic this way than if I did it
the easy way I could have done it the easy
way I could have cost it.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Biden left us a mess.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
He left us tremendous inflation, tremendously high costs of products.
He left us a mess. But he also left us
a mess with millions of people that poured into our
country that are criminals. Millions of those people happen to
be criminals, and we're looking for them all over the place.
We're looking for him, and Homan and Christy are doing
an incredible job. But he left us a horrible situation,
(16:39):
and we're changing it. But one of the things we're
changing is we're gonna make our country really wealthy again.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
We're gonna bring our jobs back right now.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
We're like a chicken that's being plucked at from all
over the world.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
We're not gonna let that happen anymore. You can't. You
can't pluck Trump like a chicken. All right, that's just
you know Trump quote, don't pluck me, don't pluck me
like a chicken. I think that's fair to say, and
I think world leaders are gonna be well aware of
that one. So yeah, that's the situation that we have here.
(17:14):
And I do appreciate his reminding everybody. I mean, Biden
was terrible at this. We really lost four years post
COVID of what another thing that that people forget now
and all this. Biden was terrible at this. Yes, the
economy should have been in boom, but they kept a
lot of it artificially shut down because of the vaccine
(17:35):
mandates and all the lunacy, and then they pretended it
was better by one misreporting stuff, but also just spending
us into oblivion. Spending us into oblivion that wasn't real productivity.
That's why you had twenty five percent government jobs. So
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moves happening with the trumpetn crations efforts to get a
(19:01):
ceasefire in the Ukraine Russia war. And here we have
this has cut three. President Trump announcing a first step here.
It's a first of many steps, and the Russians haven't
even come to agree to this point yet, but there
is progress to speak of for right now. And this
is cut three here.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
It Ukraine ceasefire just agreed to a little while ago.
Now we have to go to Russia and President hopefully
President Putin will agree to that also, and we can
get this show on the road. We can get this
horrible war where two three thousand soldiers a week, every week,
two three four thousand. Sometimes I get the reports and
they're not American soldiers, they're Ukrainian and they're Russian. But
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people are being killed outside of that. People are being
killed in the cities as things explode throughout the cities,
and we want to get that war over with. I
think it's a big difference between the last visit you
saw at the Oval Office, and so that's a total
ceasefire Ukraine has agreed to it, and hopefully Russia will
agree to it. We're going to meet with him later
on today and tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
So the big outstanding component of this thing left to
be uh said, or to be done here to get
it into a new phase is obviously Russia has to
agree to the ceasefire. So that hasn't but Ukraine has
agreed for its part. I think that there's clearly been
(20:28):
some pressure from Trump and his team. First, he's you know,
now it all starts to make more sense. Right. First,
he makes it clear a little Zelenski that the endless
spigot of money is no more. He makes it clear
to Zelenski that you got to focus on bringing this
(20:49):
thing to a conclusion and not just drag it out
and hope for a different situation, because that's not We're
not paying for it, and that's not in anyone's interest
and a lot of people are gonna die time. So
he has managed to I think pressure Zelenski not just
with the words and the whole dust up in the
White House in the Oval Office, but by pulling intelligence sharing.
(21:13):
I told you there's there's what we talk about generally
in terms of support to Ukraine a lot of money,
first and foremost, and munitions arms. It is tough to
supply the Ukrainian army, even for American industry, because you know,
we're not in the middle of a war, so we
haven't gotten on a war footing, and we're supposed to
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be sending them, you know, the bullets and the artillery
shells and all these things, and they're going through a
lot of that stuff. You're talking about a long front,
a stalemate across what is it essentially a digital age
trench war. That's what's going on. It's trench warfare, but
with satellite pictures and drones and thermal imaging, right, It's
(21:58):
it's a new era of trench warfare. But as we
all know, what's the thing about trench warfare, war of attrition.
War of attrition with men, which is a problem for Ukraine.
War of attrition with materio, which is a problem for
Ukraine because we're the ones that have to make up
the shortfall. So Trump has managed to get the Ukrainians
to accept for their part in Secretary Rubio, who from
(22:21):
everything I see, is just doing a fantastic job so far,
which is not a surprise. But everything he's doing has
been spot on. I know it's early days, but calin
like I see it, this is cut one. He's just
pointing out because he's involved very directly in the process
as the intermediary here, what's happened with Ukraine play it today.
Speaker 5 (22:40):
We've made an offer that the Ukrainians have accepted, which
is to enter into a ceasefire and into immediate negotiations
to end this conflict in a way that's enduring and
sustainable and accounts for their interests, their security, their ability
to prosper as a nation. I want to personally think
we both want to thank the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's
majesty for hosting us, for making this possible. They've been
instrumental in this process, and we're very grateful to them
(23:01):
for hosting us here today. And hopefully we'll take this
offer and out of the Russians, and we hope that
they'll say yes, that they'll say yes to peace. The
ball is now in their court. But again, the President's
objective here is number one above everything else. He wants
the war to end, and I think today Ukraine has
taken a concrete step in that regard. We hope the
Russians will reciprocate.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Now the ball is in Russia's court, Putin's court, and
now we can see, we can test for the first time.
Is he willing to stop the bloodshed and come to
some kind of a deal. And if his demands are
completely unrealistic or you know, unfair, fair, of course in
(23:43):
these kinds of a all's fair in love and war.
But you know what I mean. If it's just a
non starter, and if he says, well, I get keV
and everything east of it, you know they're not going
to agree to that, right. But let's see what it
is that he says. Does he engage, Does he accept
the cease fire? That's part one? Does Putin say okay,
let's let the guns go silent for a while, let's talk.
(24:05):
If he says no to that, well, at least then
we know that his plan is to grind this thing
out and probably take at least half, if not all,
of Ukraine over time, and we have to do it.
And then we can look at this and say, okay, well,
what are we going to do about this? How much
do we But we'll have more information, will have critical information.
What do we know about what Biden did you notice
(24:25):
there's a trend here today?
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Right?
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Because Biden was president for at least theoretically president for
four years. So what did he do when it came
to Ukraine? First of all, the war starts on his watch,
as we know, and there was a whole thing, Are
there Russians really going to invade?
Speaker 2 (24:39):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
They're massing all these forces on the Ukraine and border,
they're really going to invade? And yeah they did on
Now I understand there have been smaller incursions in the past.
I understand there was the plebiscide in Crimea, which people
say was, you know, fraudulent whatever, But those were taking
little bites around the edge of the cookie. They took
a big bite of the cookie in this invasion, a
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very different level, a very different scale of military incursion,
trying to take the whole country, trying to the capital city.
But let's not forget that the Biden all these people
who are Ukraine flags out their windows and Ukraine flags
in their bio, A lot of whom honestly couldn't find
Ukraine on a map and probably still can't. They'll tell
you they can. Certainly, I have no idea how many
(25:22):
casualties have occurred in this conflict. Hundreds of thousands, hundreds
of thousands of people dead, named, homes, businesses destroyed, in
numbers that will never even know productivity, future generations, future
families lost. I mean, the carnage. The cost of this
(25:43):
is appalling. And yes, is it Putin's fault for starting it? Yeah,
but what's more important figuring out whose fault it is
or stopping it? Right, This is the nature of warfare.
You have to understand how you're going to get it
to a conclusion around The costs are borne by people
who have no ability to make it end. And this
(26:04):
is where Trump and Rubio and the rest come in.
So we'll see does Russia play ball in this initial phase?
Do they go to a ceasfire be a thirty day
you know, we have some of the text here, a
thirty day renewable ceasefire, So they go to ceasefire thirty
days they talk. If Russia doesn't do that, well, then
we know that they're going all in, and that you
(26:26):
know that there were in a new phase of our
understanding of the conflict, the old understanding. I remember this
because I came on this show. What did I tell
you this is going to cost a trillion dollars all
in between the US the EU, and yeah, I think
that's prob I told you that three years ago, right
when the war started. I was like, this is going
(26:46):
to be way where people said, oh, Ukraine is going
to win. I said, no, Russia. We're underestimating the Russian
war machine. The Russians will just keep throwing mena material
at this It's very hard to push them back, given
the scale of what the Ukrainian forces can deal with.
Now that you granted, forces have gotten much better. Are
they brave? Yes? Do I respect very much that they're
defending their homeland and their way of life. Absolutely, But
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that doesn't mean that I want us to fund this
thing forever and that I want a lot more of
them to die, because ultimately, this is about who controls
a portion of a country that doesn't really matter to
us all that much. And Putin isn't Nazi Germany. Another
part of this, no one's No one's being taken off
into uh, you know, concentration camps. If in Crimea, there's
no gas chambers there for for for millions of people.
(27:32):
They're not they're not exterminating minorities or anything like that. Okay,
a lot of we had a call or call us
from American from Moscow yesterday. It's not Nazi Germany. I'm
not saying it's free and fair. I'm not saying it's
a Jeffersonian democracy whatever, but it will be. Okay. I
have known you, believe it or not. And you can't
even really say this out loud because people get so angry,
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some of them about this. I know Ukrainians. I know
Ukrainians who are pro Russian conflict, believe it or not.
They're from the Eastern Region, they're from the Dawnbass. They
live in America now, but they'll say, yeah, this should
be part of Russia, we'd be better off. You never
even hear that. And there's a lot of Russian sp
I know, they say, oh, it's Russian propaganda, not justifying
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the invasion, just telling you facts, just telling your reality.
This is the truth. There are people who feel like, hey,
Ukraine is a corrupt kleptocracy. Russia is too, but they
have a lot more oil and a lot more military
and a lot more stuff that benefits this citizen rate
than you know. I'm not saying it's a majority. Maybe
it's five percent. I don't know. The point is this
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is more complicated than it's Hitler and Neville Chamberlain, which
is the way it's all been lined up. Another really
important part of this New York Times. You go back
and find it yourself. I told you it's going to
cost a trillion dollars, which if you look at the
all in costs, I think that's going to look pretty
prophetic in retrospect. I told you they wouldn't be able
to defeat the Russian war machine. You can go back
to February of whatever this thing started, twenty twenty one
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or twenty twenty two. I can't remember now the year.
All these years now blend together in my head. But
when you look at this, they kept telling us, oh,
Ukraine is on the verge New York Times during Biden's
I keep saying Biden's reign, as if he was in charge.
But you know, it just makes it easier for our conversation.
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Ukraine's going to break through this fighting season. Ukraine's gonna
break through. They're going to push the Russians back on
their heels. Just wait, just wait, didn't happen. In fact,
Russia is in a better position now militarily than they
were last year or the year before. So what exactly
are we supposed to do here? The people who are
telling you don't negotiate were the same people, the same voices,
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the same Democrats who were saying that Ukraine was going
to be able to punch through and turn the tide
of this war. They were wrong, wrong in a big way. Wrong,
the same way that people who said, hey, if we
just stick it out longer in Afghanistan, eventually it'll be
a self sustaining sovereign nation with you know, basic pluralistic
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rights and democracy, fantasy land stuff. I was there in
twenty ten. Let me tell you it was obvious in
twenty ten that Afghanistan was not going anywhere good. It
was in the Obama administration. But you know, people didn't
want to look at that and speak the truth about it. Right,
you're oh you're defeatist. Oh okay, well, same thing here
(30:27):
with Ukraine. Oh you're a Putin stooge. Anyone who makes
this argument is just being an idiot. You know, I've
never gotten any money from Pootin. I'm not even I
don't think anyone thinks I'm pro Russian I'm not. I'm
just pro war end and we not pay for it,
which is I think where Trump is on this true.
But for Trump, because of Trump's arrangement syndrome, you get
all this other stuff gets thrown into it of look,
(30:49):
oh he's Putin's puppet and no, no, no, Trump is
first of all, the notion can we just say this
out loud, the notion that Trump is anyone's is insane, Okay, insane?
Like this is like somebody's saying, oh yeah, like there's
a wild grizzly bear in the woods. I'm just gonna, like,
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you know, yoke it up with a saddle and take
it for a ride. No chance, no chance, all right,
it's completely of Look what Putin has the leverage over Trump?
Putin is a This is just but think about how
many times you've heard this, Oh, he's an asset of
the Kremlin. Oh he's People who say this are out
of their minds. It's like they haven't been paying attention
(31:31):
for the last decade to everything that has actually happened,
and it's like they have no idea who Donald Trump is.
Nobody calls the shots with Trump, Nobody puts Trump in
a corner I think that's quite clear. So now we're
at this ceasefire. Now we see whether or not the
Russians will start to play ball. And yeah, I know
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all the there's all the criticism, you know, and the
people up in the bleachers. Oh but what if Russia
uses this to rearm? Oh but what if? It's not easy?
This is not a guarantee. I'm not saying it will work.
I'm saying we have to try to get it to
work because of where things are right now, which is
what Trump had to slap Zelenski around in the Oval
office to get through his head. And I think it worked.
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And also now the intelligent sharing the weapons of support
has come back for Ukraine. So the whole point here was, Hey,
show us you want to cease fire. We'll keep helping
you hold the line for now, but show us you
really want to cease fire. Ukraine says, Okay, we're willing
to go forward with the ceasefire. Let's do this. Now
we see what's going on with Russia. I got news
for anybody who thinks that Trump is Putin's puppet. If
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Russia balks at this whole thing, doesn't want to play
ball at all, Trump's going to turn up the heat
on Russia, almost like he's a deal maker who knows
what the heck he's trying to get done here, almost
like there's some method to the madness, sort of like
with the economy. It's really the theme this week, isn't
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And we should discuss this because people who keep saying
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when they lose the argument, why do you care so much?
Because this is happening in the most important legislative body
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That body also, if it were in Democrat hands, would
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So we are going to dive into some of that.
We've also got some more updates for you on the
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If the president sees you as a threat to the country,
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or not crime committed, he can send you away. I
just want to be clear. I think that the guy
Mahmood Khalil is a scumbag, and I have no tears
for him being sent out of country. I just want
clarity on what if the authority is that the Secretary
of State can say the Secretary of State can say
(36:06):
you're here at a student visa and you're acting like
a jerk because I say so, You're gone. Okay, if
that is the authority that he has, which has rarely
ever been used. But if that's the authority, this guy
should go. I just want us all to be clear
on the authority because now that it's out there and
people know about it, there's going to be democrats who
(36:27):
are in charge at some point. I just want ever
to be clear on that so you know, and is
this the standard now only for anti semitism on campus
or is this going to be for other things that
are activist protests, etc. Again, I'm just asking for clarity
for the administration on what it is so we know
what the standard is. If that is the legal authority
that the Secretary of State has and Trump wants them gone,
(36:49):
good riddance. Just want us all to be clear. More
coming up,
Welcome everybody to the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show.
Excited to have you all with us. Clay on vacation
this week, as you know, having a great time out west.
He'll be back with us on Monday. He sends his
warmest regards to all of you, and I know he
will be fired up to get back to the mic.
He's with his boys, he's having a great time towards
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some colleges. We have a lot of news going on here,
my friends. I want I'm going to start with this one,
although I think we're going to dive into the economy
first today, but just for headlines sake. Department of Education
has fired more than thirteen hundred employees, closed offices for
(00:41):
security reason reasons yesterday. So that's actually happening, my friends.
The Department of Education is getting cut down substantially, so
they had what are being called sweeping layoffs. We shall
discuss because this raises so many interesting issues. What does
the Department of Education do? Again? Right the moment you
(01:04):
get into that, you start to think, do we want
it doing that? Has it done a good job of
doing that? Is it worth what we're paying for it
to try to do the job that it may not
be doing so well. Of that, we will discuss all
of it. We've got some progress to speak of on
the Russia Ukraine war cease fire negotiations underway. We've got
(01:26):
Secretary Rubio with some quotes on that one coming up
in a little bit, which is a very good thing.
We want that war to stop, we want the bloodshed
to stop. We want stability to slowly but surely return
to that region. Also. It's interesting, isn't it. Yesterday I
told you about the whole courtesy thing with trends identifying
(01:50):
individuals and how you are to be kind to them.
You are to be, you know, Christian or whatever your
faith tradition is a good person to all people, of course,
including trans people. But you don't have to lie, right.
You don't have to pretend somebody who's fifty is actually
ten because they say so. And you don't have to
(02:11):
pretend that somebody who's a man is actually a woman
because they say so. This came up in Congress yesterday.
We have the clip and you will want to hear it.
Turns out I'm not the only one who feels this way.
There are some members of Congress who no longer wish
to refer to trans colleagues by their preferred pronoun or
their preferred gender. But I want to start with the
(02:35):
back and forth already on the economy today, because well,
look at effects all of us, and I get it.
You know, my wife's family has chickens in the backyard.
It's funny. Who would have thought that chickens now by
laying eggs. It's like they're laying golden eggs. Because eggs
are very expensive. They've gone up substantially. But you know
(02:59):
who do well of this is that they had to
kill so many ch I'm sorry, I shouldn't say had to.
They chose to kill so many chickens because of bird flu.
That's part one of why there's been a run up
in prices. We've seen a run up in prices for staples,
for food goods going back for years in the Biden administration. Remember,
just by way of context, the worst inflation in forty
(03:22):
years occurred on Joe Biden's watch and began when he
took office. I think we can often forget about this,
right because Trump's come in and it's like, oh, look
at the look at the price of eggs. Trump's been
in office thirty days, and yes, the price of eggs
is coming down. I'm going to get to some of
the good economic news today because you'll notice they're going
(03:43):
to find something else to freak out about because things
I'm not saying we're out of the woods. You know,
you could have a big stock market drop next week.
But there are plenty of data points to look at
here to suggest that everything is going to be just fine.
But Biden had the worst inflation in forty years and
it started right when he came into office because he
spent trillions of dollars completely unnecessarily, and as we've seen
(04:05):
now in part because of the work of Doge, some
of this money just gets handed out to left wing
interest groups that are NGOs really in name only because
their government funded non government organizations. And there's all this money,
the green energy slush fund that has been part of
(04:29):
the Biden spending spree, and including these so called Inflation
Reduction Act which did not at all reduce inflation. It
didn't even really address inflation, and if it did, it
made it worse, or rather, in the ways that it did,
it made it worse. Now we are starting to see
that the Trump plan is going to require fixing some things.
(04:52):
And you know, when you go into an old house
and you know you're kicking at the wooden boards and
you're checking out, you know you got to fix a upper.
And some aspects certainly of our government but also of
our spending. You're in a unique fixer upper opportunity. When
you start to look at the different pieces. Sometimes you're
gonna pull a board off the wall end, maybe a
(05:13):
piece of the ceiling comes down. Stuff is gonna happen
a little bit, But the fundamental structure is sound, and
the fundamental approach of Trump and his team is the
right one. And here, first of all, Trump is talking
about since I talked, I spoke about the price of eggs,
And now you know, I don't have a yard here
in Miami, and I do wish that I had a yard,
(05:35):
because well, one I would convince my wife that a
pet fox, which you can legally have in Florida if
you get a certain license, would be really cool. But
put that aside. Maybe that's just a weird thing with
me having chickens and even ducks. I hear ducks are
great for the laying of eggs. Save yourself a bunch
of money eggs at my local. Uh So, first of all,
I've gone in there. There's been basically no eggs some days.
(05:57):
So that's a thing. But that's a supply shortage, in
large part caused by the killing of all the euthanizing
of chickens to prevent the bird flu thing, which I
think was excessive. But anyway, here's Trump, this has cut
five talking about how look everybody, the things are happening.
You gotta just be patient. Don't let the don't let
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the anti Trump Trump Derange media get you all worked up.
Play five.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
But we didn't have these problems. I had no inflation.
I had a great economy. He gave you high prices.
You couldn't buy bacon, you couldn't buy anything. And also
I inherited a situation with eggs. The price of eggs
was through the roof. Well, now the price of eggs
has come down a lot. Interest rates have come down,
gasoline prices have come down.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
It's all coming down.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
It's all a beautiful thing.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
I can do it the right way, the wrong way.
We're doing it the right way.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
And I have tremendous confidence in this country and the
people of this country. Tremendous company, much more so than
if I sat back for four years and had a
good time in the ovelope.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Just remember this. There are some fundamental and obvious truths
about our situation right now, and Trump was getting to
some of this in that sound bite. Yes, price of
eggs coming down a little bit, still needs to come
out more. But we know that there's an artificial specifically
with eggs, there's an artificial reason for why the price
has been so high. You can't kill all the chickens
(07:17):
and wonder where the eggs are pretty straightforward. But the
fundamental recognition that we should all remember is that Donald
Trump is better at this than the people who used
to be in charge until a minute ago. And then
the people who are criticizing him, what do they know
about any of this? What do these journals know about
(07:40):
supply and demand and how to actually get the American
economy up and running. Trump has done it. He has
done this successfully. He has a track record, he has
been in the big chair before. So all this stuff
and I see I I want to say, conservatives or
people on the right are they're not panicking about the
(08:02):
libs panic because it's trumped arrangement so that they look
for opportunities to panic. You know, everything is, oh did
I leave the gas on? Is the house going to explode?
They're constantly freaking out because that's who they are. But
on our side, yeah, the market drops a little bit. Yeah,
there's some stuff back and forth on the tariffs, but
the conversation about tariffs, you have to keep in mind
(08:23):
it changes within a twenty four hour news cycle. Okay,
well we're gonna we're gonna delay that one. Okay, we're
gonna drop this one down a little bit. You know,
there's plenty of stuff that needs to happen that Trump
is doing that we need to let play out a
little bit. So the double tariff on Canadian medals, for example,
has been called off by Trump, and people say, oh,
(08:44):
this is so abrupt that how can markets react? He
is trying to negotiate with sovereign governments over trade agreements.
There's going to be some stop and start this. You know,
we've seen Trump before, right, and we've seen him before
on the economy when he's doing this stuff. And I
keep reminding everybody who will listen to me, you know,
I knew a couple of people who were true trade
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nerds in the best sense in DC. I used to
have them on my old radio show back in the day.
I I knew a couple of people who were really
good on trade. They're the only ones early on in
Trump twenty seventeen who were saying to me, yeack, yeah, actually,
we need to do something about China's trade barriers. We
shouldn't just sit here and take it. Yeah, we need
to do something to update the US Mexico Canada agreement.
(09:30):
We shouldn't just sit here and take it. And then
there's the same thing, Oh my gosh, what's Trump doing.
It's crazy, you know, it's no, it's all all within
his skill set, his strategy and the people he has
in charge. Now, look, I don't want to be fatalistic
about this, but when you look at Trump, you look
at Elon Musk. If they can't fix this, nobody can.
(09:54):
I hate to you know, in those jobs, in these roles.
If Trump can't fix this, if Elon can't give Trump
the advice necessary to have him take the actions to
pair things back with the spending and all the mission
that DOJE has, We're throwing our best at it right now. Okay,
the electorate sent us their best this time, and everyone
(10:15):
needs to just either let the things happen here that
are happening. Everything that is being done is one stuff
that Trump talked about doing, whether it's the border or
it's ending the Ukraine War with a ceasefire, and he's
taking all of these actions. But it's just so funny
to me to see that. It's like all contacts with
the media is gone. Oh my gosh, you know things
(10:37):
were what things were so good before under Biden the
puppet dementia patient. You got to be kidding me, right,
what is it? The only job Joe Biden knows how
to create was a corrupt pay to play for hunter.
All right, he has no idea what's going on, truly
had no idea what's going on. Look at the auto
pen stuff that's being talked about now. And now we
(10:58):
have a team that understands capitalism, understands markets, understands business.
So don't don't let them start to get into your
head because you know, now they start to look at
the numbers. Now they start to pretend that they're objective
reporters again in the media. Oh, it's not that I
hate Trump, it's that I'm I'm worried about the stock
market suddenly. Okay, well here you go. Here's CNN. This
(11:21):
has cut four saying that, you know what, there's actually
some good news in the economy this week on some
things that really matter. Play it.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Finally we have some good news on the economy and
really the number one issue for many Americans the cost
of living. So we just learned that consumer prices in
February increased by two point eight percent year over year,
zero point two percent month of a month. Both of
these figures were a step in the right direction, and
both were better than expected. So this is definitely very
(11:50):
encouraging to see because it's going to I think relieve
some fears that inflation was perhaps reaccelerating, because this actually
breaks a streak of four were straight months where I
think you could see it on the chart all the
way to the right, where the inflation rate was going
in the wrong direction. Right, it was going higher and higher.
Finally we're seeing it dip.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Finally. Trump hasn't even been an office two months. Keep
that in mind. Now, I know they're going back even before,
but this, this is the data now that we're seeing.
And remember the Biden data was suspiciously manipulated so that
the jobs numbers were always higher than they actually were.
That the recession that happened under Biden two quarters of
(12:33):
negative GDP growth. Oh, but is that really a recession.
Let's change the definition of recession. Don't forget what they
have done to try to do this perception management, operation
information operation SYOP on the economy because they know that
more than anything else that drives votes, that that drives
power come election time. So they'll say whatever they have
(12:55):
to say about it. Trump is in charge, His team
is awesome, They're doing good things. They know what they're doing.
If I feel like things are going off the rails,
or I'll tell you and the people that are around
Trump who listen to this show, maybe they'll pass that along.
I've seen none of that. I've seen none of that.
All I see is Trump doing what Trump does. And
(13:17):
this week, I think is a reminder to all of
us that the same media that told you that Trump
should go to prison for the rest of his life
for whatever the nonsense case was, there are four different ones.
Is now the media is saying, oh, can he really
bring down inflation? What they don't want you to think
about us, how all of this is connected. What causes inflation?
Monetary supply, government spending, what causes that government doing dumb things?
(13:44):
Biden the Democrats by addressing that, by having those do
what it does, guess what, it addresses the inflation problem.
Democrats think you can mandate lower prices because I say so,
because they fundamental league want to pretend we live in
a different world than we do, and that they can
(14:04):
artificially suspend the laws of supply and demand. They can't.
Trump knows that you want to address inflation. That's what
Trump is doing, That's what Elon is doing. That's what's
going on right now. So just but you know, tell
them to just stuff it. You've had enough of the
noise from oh my gosh, the recession depression Trump, Please, okay,
(14:26):
Biden didn't even know what year it was, and he
was a commander in chief and the economy didn't collapse.
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Welcome back here to play and Buck we've got so
much going on with the economy, and also, of course tariffs,
which is a big part of the discussion. And here Trump,
he says he's talking about we're talking about eggs before.
Now we're gonna get what are We're gonna talk about
getting plucked like chickens when it comes to tariffs. This
(16:05):
has cut six This is Trump. You want to hear them.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
I have to tell you, I'm very optimistic about the country,
much more optimistic this way than if I did it
the easy way I could have done it the easy
way I could have cost it.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Biden left us a mess.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
He left us tremendous inflation, tremendously high costs of products.
He left us a mess. But he also left us
a mess with millions of people that poured into our
country that are criminals. Millions of those people happen to
be criminals, and we're looking for them all over the place.
We're looking for him, and Homan and Christy are doing
an incredible job. But he left us a horrible situation,
(16:39):
and we're changing it. But one of the things we're
changing is we're gonna make our country really wealthy again.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
We're gonna bring our jobs back right now.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
We're like a chicken that's being plucked at from all
over the world.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
We're not gonna let that happen anymore. You can't. You
can't pluck Trump like a chicken. All right, that's just
you know Trump quote, don't pluck me, don't pluck me
like a chicken. I think that's fair to say, and
I think world leaders are gonna be well aware of
that one. So yeah, that's the situation that we have here.
(17:14):
And I do appreciate his reminding everybody. I mean, Biden
was terrible at this. We really lost four years post
COVID of what another thing that that people forget now
and all this. Biden was terrible at this. Yes, the
economy should have been in boom, but they kept a
lot of it artificially shut down because of the vaccine
(17:35):
mandates and all the lunacy, and then they pretended it
was better by one misreporting stuff, but also just spending
us into oblivion. Spending us into oblivion that wasn't real productivity.
That's why you had twenty five percent government jobs. So
that's right, No more treating America like a chicken to
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moves happening with the trumpetn crations efforts to get a
(19:01):
ceasefire in the Ukraine Russia war. And here we have
this has cut three. President Trump announcing a first step here.
It's a first of many steps, and the Russians haven't
even come to agree to this point yet, but there
is progress to speak of for right now. And this
is cut three here.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
It Ukraine ceasefire just agreed to a little while ago.
Now we have to go to Russia and President hopefully
President Putin will agree to that also, and we can
get this show on the road. We can get this
horrible war where two three thousand soldiers a week, every week,
two three four thousand. Sometimes I get the reports and
they're not American soldiers, they're Ukrainian and they're Russian. But
(19:44):
people are being killed outside of that. People are being
killed in the cities as things explode throughout the cities,
and we want to get that war over with. I
think it's a big difference between the last visit you
saw at the Oval Office, and so that's a total
ceasefire Ukraine has agreed to it, and hopefully Russia will
agree to it. We're going to meet with him later
on today and tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
So the big outstanding component of this thing left to
be uh said, or to be done here to get
it into a new phase is obviously Russia has to
agree to the ceasefire. So that hasn't but Ukraine has
agreed for its part. I think that there's clearly been
(20:28):
some pressure from Trump and his team. First, he's you know,
now it all starts to make more sense. Right. First,
he makes it clear a little Zelenski that the endless
spigot of money is no more. He makes it clear
to Zelenski that you got to focus on bringing this
(20:49):
thing to a conclusion and not just drag it out
and hope for a different situation, because that's not We're
not paying for it, and that's not in anyone's interest
and a lot of people are gonna die time. So
he has managed to I think pressure Zelenski not just
with the words and the whole dust up in the
White House in the Oval Office, but by pulling intelligence sharing.
(21:13):
I told you there's there's what we talk about generally
in terms of support to Ukraine a lot of money,
first and foremost, and munitions arms. It is tough to
supply the Ukrainian army, even for American industry, because you know,
we're not in the middle of a war, so we
haven't gotten on a war footing, and we're supposed to
(21:36):
be sending them, you know, the bullets and the artillery
shells and all these things, and they're going through a
lot of that stuff. You're talking about a long front,
a stalemate across what is it essentially a digital age
trench war. That's what's going on. It's trench warfare, but
with satellite pictures and drones and thermal imaging, right, It's
(21:58):
it's a new era of trench warfare. But as we
all know, what's the thing about trench warfare, war of attrition.
War of attrition with men, which is a problem for Ukraine.
War of attrition with materio, which is a problem for
Ukraine because we're the ones that have to make up
the shortfall. So Trump has managed to get the Ukrainians
to accept for their part in Secretary Rubio, who from
(22:21):
everything I see, is just doing a fantastic job so far,
which is not a surprise. But everything he's doing has
been spot on. I know it's early days, but calin
like I see it, this is cut one. He's just
pointing out because he's involved very directly in the process
as the intermediary here, what's happened with Ukraine play it today.
Speaker 5 (22:40):
We've made an offer that the Ukrainians have accepted, which
is to enter into a ceasefire and into immediate negotiations
to end this conflict in a way that's enduring and
sustainable and accounts for their interests, their security, their ability
to prosper as a nation. I want to personally think
we both want to thank the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's
majesty for hosting us, for making this possible. They've been
instrumental in this process, and we're very grateful to them
(23:01):
for hosting us here today. And hopefully we'll take this
offer and out of the Russians, and we hope that
they'll say yes, that they'll say yes to peace. The
ball is now in their court. But again, the President's
objective here is number one above everything else. He wants
the war to end, and I think today Ukraine has
taken a concrete step in that regard. We hope the
Russians will reciprocate.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Now the ball is in Russia's court, Putin's court, and
now we can see, we can test for the first time.
Is he willing to stop the bloodshed and come to
some kind of a deal. And if his demands are
completely unrealistic or you know, unfair, fair, of course in
(23:43):
these kinds of a all's fair in love and war.
But you know what I mean. If it's just a
non starter, and if he says, well, I get keV
and everything east of it, you know they're not going
to agree to that, right. But let's see what it
is that he says. Does he engage, Does he accept
the cease fire? That's part one? Does Putin say okay,
let's let the guns go silent for a while, let's talk.
(24:05):
If he says no to that, well, at least then
we know that his plan is to grind this thing
out and probably take at least half, if not all,
of Ukraine over time, and we have to do it.
And then we can look at this and say, okay, well,
what are we going to do about this? How much
do we But we'll have more information, will have critical information.
What do we know about what Biden did you notice
(24:25):
there's a trend here today?
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Right?
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Because Biden was president for at least theoretically president for
four years. So what did he do when it came
to Ukraine? First of all, the war starts on his watch,
as we know, and there was a whole thing, Are
there Russians really going to invade?
Speaker 2 (24:39):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
They're massing all these forces on the Ukraine and border,
they're really going to invade? And yeah they did on
Now I understand there have been smaller incursions in the past.
I understand there was the plebiscide in Crimea, which people
say was, you know, fraudulent whatever, But those were taking
little bites around the edge of the cookie. They took
a big bite of the cookie in this invasion, a
(25:01):
very different level, a very different scale of military incursion,
trying to take the whole country, trying to the capital city.
But let's not forget that the Biden all these people
who are Ukraine flags out their windows and Ukraine flags
in their bio, A lot of whom honestly couldn't find
Ukraine on a map and probably still can't. They'll tell
you they can. Certainly, I have no idea how many
(25:22):
casualties have occurred in this conflict. Hundreds of thousands, hundreds
of thousands of people dead, named, homes, businesses destroyed, in
numbers that will never even know productivity, future generations, future
families lost. I mean, the carnage. The cost of this
(25:43):
is appalling. And yes, is it Putin's fault for starting it? Yeah,
but what's more important figuring out whose fault it is
or stopping it? Right, This is the nature of warfare.
You have to understand how you're going to get it
to a conclusion around The costs are borne by people
who have no ability to make it end. And this
(26:04):
is where Trump and Rubio and the rest come in.
So we'll see does Russia play ball in this initial phase?
Do they go to a ceasfire be a thirty day
you know, we have some of the text here, a
thirty day renewable ceasefire, So they go to ceasefire thirty
days they talk. If Russia doesn't do that, well, then
we know that they're going all in, and that you
(26:26):
know that there were in a new phase of our
understanding of the conflict, the old understanding. I remember this
because I came on this show. What did I tell
you this is going to cost a trillion dollars all
in between the US the EU, and yeah, I think
that's prob I told you that three years ago, right
when the war started. I was like, this is going
(26:46):
to be way where people said, oh, Ukraine is going
to win. I said, no, Russia. We're underestimating the Russian
war machine. The Russians will just keep throwing mena material
at this It's very hard to push them back, given
the scale of what the Ukrainian forces can deal with.
Now that you granted, forces have gotten much better. Are
they brave? Yes? Do I respect very much that they're
defending their homeland and their way of life. Absolutely, But
(27:10):
that doesn't mean that I want us to fund this
thing forever and that I want a lot more of
them to die, because ultimately, this is about who controls
a portion of a country that doesn't really matter to
us all that much. And Putin isn't Nazi Germany. Another
part of this, no one's No one's being taken off
into uh, you know, concentration camps. If in Crimea, there's
no gas chambers there for for for millions of people.
(27:32):
They're not they're not exterminating minorities or anything like that. Okay,
a lot of we had a call or call us
from American from Moscow yesterday. It's not Nazi Germany. I'm
not saying it's free and fair. I'm not saying it's
a Jeffersonian democracy whatever, but it will be. Okay. I
have known you, believe it or not. And you can't
even really say this out loud because people get so angry,
(27:52):
some of them about this. I know Ukrainians. I know
Ukrainians who are pro Russian conflict, believe it or not.
They're from the Eastern Region, they're from the Dawnbass. They
live in America now, but they'll say, yeah, this should
be part of Russia, we'd be better off. You never
even hear that. And there's a lot of Russian sp
I know, they say, oh, it's Russian propaganda, not justifying
(28:12):
the invasion, just telling you facts, just telling your reality.
This is the truth. There are people who feel like, hey,
Ukraine is a corrupt kleptocracy. Russia is too, but they
have a lot more oil and a lot more military
and a lot more stuff that benefits this citizen rate
than you know. I'm not saying it's a majority. Maybe
it's five percent. I don't know. The point is this
(28:35):
is more complicated than it's Hitler and Neville Chamberlain, which
is the way it's all been lined up. Another really
important part of this New York Times. You go back
and find it yourself. I told you it's going to
cost a trillion dollars, which if you look at the
all in costs, I think that's going to look pretty
prophetic in retrospect. I told you they wouldn't be able
to defeat the Russian war machine. You can go back
to February of whatever this thing started, twenty twenty one
(29:00):
or twenty twenty two. I can't remember now the year.
All these years now blend together in my head. But
when you look at this, they kept telling us, oh,
Ukraine is on the verge New York Times during Biden's
I keep saying Biden's reign, as if he was in charge.
But you know, it just makes it easier for our conversation.
(29:21):
Ukraine's going to break through this fighting season. Ukraine's gonna
break through. They're going to push the Russians back on
their heels. Just wait, just wait, didn't happen. In fact,
Russia is in a better position now militarily than they
were last year or the year before. So what exactly
are we supposed to do here? The people who are
telling you don't negotiate were the same people, the same voices,
(29:44):
the same Democrats who were saying that Ukraine was going
to be able to punch through and turn the tide
of this war. They were wrong, wrong in a big way. Wrong,
the same way that people who said, hey, if we
just stick it out longer in Afghanistan, eventually it'll be
a self sustaining sovereign nation with you know, basic pluralistic
(30:04):
rights and democracy, fantasy land stuff. I was there in
twenty ten. Let me tell you it was obvious in
twenty ten that Afghanistan was not going anywhere good. It
was in the Obama administration. But you know, people didn't
want to look at that and speak the truth about it. Right,
you're oh you're defeatist. Oh okay, well, same thing here
(30:27):
with Ukraine. Oh you're a Putin stooge. Anyone who makes
this argument is just being an idiot. You know, I've
never gotten any money from Pootin. I'm not even I
don't think anyone thinks I'm pro Russian I'm not. I'm
just pro war end and we not pay for it,
which is I think where Trump is on this true.
But for Trump, because of Trump's arrangement syndrome, you get
all this other stuff gets thrown into it of look,
(30:49):
oh he's Putin's puppet and no, no, no, Trump is
first of all, the notion can we just say this
out loud, the notion that Trump is anyone's is insane, Okay, insane?
Like this is like somebody's saying, oh yeah, like there's
a wild grizzly bear in the woods. I'm just gonna, like,
(31:09):
you know, yoke it up with a saddle and take
it for a ride. No chance, no chance, all right,
it's completely of Look what Putin has the leverage over Trump?
Putin is a This is just but think about how
many times you've heard this, Oh, he's an asset of
the Kremlin. Oh he's People who say this are out
of their minds. It's like they haven't been paying attention
(31:31):
for the last decade to everything that has actually happened,
and it's like they have no idea who Donald Trump is.
Nobody calls the shots with Trump, Nobody puts Trump in
a corner I think that's quite clear. So now we're
at this ceasefire. Now we see whether or not the
Russians will start to play ball. And yeah, I know
(31:51):
all the there's all the criticism, you know, and the
people up in the bleachers. Oh but what if Russia
uses this to rearm? Oh but what if? It's not easy?
This is not a guarantee. I'm not saying it will work.
I'm saying we have to try to get it to
work because of where things are right now, which is
what Trump had to slap Zelenski around in the Oval
office to get through his head. And I think it worked.
(32:12):
And also now the intelligent sharing the weapons of support
has come back for Ukraine. So the whole point here was, Hey,
show us you want to cease fire. We'll keep helping
you hold the line for now, but show us you
really want to cease fire. Ukraine says, Okay, we're willing
to go forward with the ceasefire. Let's do this. Now
we see what's going on with Russia. I got news
for anybody who thinks that Trump is Putin's puppet. If
(32:35):
Russia balks at this whole thing, doesn't want to play
ball at all, Trump's going to turn up the heat
on Russia, almost like he's a deal maker who knows
what the heck he's trying to get done here, almost
like there's some method to the madness, sort of like
with the economy. It's really the theme this week, isn't
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And we should discuss this because people who keep saying
(34:15):
when they lose the argument, why do you care so much?
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That body also, if it were in Democrat hands, would
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We've also got some more updates for you on the
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If the president sees you as a threat to the country,
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or not crime committed, he can send you away. I
just want to be clear. I think that the guy
Mahmood Khalil is a scumbag, and I have no tears
for him being sent out of country. I just want
clarity on what if the authority is that the Secretary
of State can say the Secretary of State can say
(36:06):
you're here at a student visa and you're acting like
a jerk because I say so, You're gone. Okay, if
that is the authority that he has, which has rarely
ever been used. But if that's the authority, this guy
should go. I just want us all to be clear
on the authority because now that it's out there and
people know about it, there's going to be democrats who
(36:27):
are in charge at some point. I just want ever
to be clear on that so you know, and is
this the standard now only for anti semitism on campus
or is this going to be for other things that
are activist protests, etc. Again, I'm just asking for clarity
for the administration on what it is so we know
what the standard is. If that is the legal authority
that the Secretary of State has and Trump wants them gone,
(36:49):
good riddance. Just want us all to be clear. More
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