April 18, 2022 • 37 mins
Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves joins Clay and Buck to celebrate his state just passing its largest tax cut in state history. Over half a billion going back to taxpayers and the 4% tax bracket is being eliminated. Governor Reeves discusses his state's response to the massive waves of illegal immigration and inflation caused by Biden policies. Trump-appointed federal judge blocks CDC mask mandate for public transportation. Caller reports real-time airport reactions to lifting of mask mandate.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show podcast. The third hour of The Clay Travis
and Buck Sexton Show is here, everybody, Thanks for rolling
with us. We've got now joining the Governor of Mississippi,
Tate Reeves is with us. Mister governor, thanks for calling in.
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Thank you for having me, adding always, it's great to
be on the show. How are you all today? We're good, sir,
Thank you. Let's just talk. Let's talk taxes for a minute,
if wee can. I know you're doing some things in
your home state of Mississippi to try to ease the
tax burden. But why is it that there are there
are some red states out there that still have state
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income taxes? What can you do to get rid of it?
And why is our tax code at a federal level
thousands of pages long? Well, you know that's a that's
a couple of questions in there, and they could take
a couple hours. Dan, Well, let's start with the federal
tax code. It's a couple thousand pages is long because
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the federal government continues to spend irresponsibly and somebody's got
to pay for it. You know, we believe down here
in Mississippi that that government doesn't have anything that it
doesn't first take from somebody else. And at the federal level,
they literally take trillions of dollars from the taxpayers and
constantly spend and spend and spend. And today is just
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an example that more and more people hopefully are paying
attention to how much they are paying in taxes. You know,
technology is a good thing, but the technology that allowed
American workers to take out on a weekly or a
bi monthly or a monthly basis of their check what
they pay and owe the federal government makes a lot
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of individual Americans forget how much they're paying to the
federal government. And I think that's creates some of the challenges.
I appreciate you coming on, Governor. I'm curious how much
attention with COVID mobility meanings so many people were able
to work or remotely and move to different parts of
the country. It feels like among the business centric states,
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which obviously a lot of them have Republican governors, there's
been an attempt to make an appeal to that group
by declining the amount of state income tax. And obviously
I live in Tennessee. People know Florida, Tennessee and Texas
don't have any state income tax in the South at all.
How much of that is competition that you're seeing To
try to help Mississippi give a little bit more of
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a reason for somebody to move to your state potentially,
and also obviously help the people who are already there
well as usual, you have absolutely hit the proverbial nail
on the head. I tell my legislators and the people
across my state, you don't have to be a genius
to look at a map and recognize that to Mississippi's
west is Texas, to our northes Tennessee, and to our
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east is Florida. And if we want to be competitive,
if we want to be competitive in our attempts to
see additional capital investment, if we want to be competitive
in our attempts to create jobs, we want to be
competitive in our attempts to lure more residents than to
our state, we have to recognize that both that all Texas, Tennessee,
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in Florida all have zero income tax. And that's the
reason earlier this year I propose the complete elimination of
the income tax in Mississippi so that we would be
on level playing ground. We didn't get one hundred percent
of what we asked for, but we did get a
major move in the right direction. Wherein today, based upon
the line of the law that I found in the
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law last week, we now have the fifth lowest marginal
tax rate in America amongst those forty one states that
have an income taxes. You know, there are nine income states,
including Texas, Florida, and louis and Tennessee that do not
have an income tax. But amongst those forty one states
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that do have an income tax, Mississippi had number one
the highest exemptions. Of the first thirty six thousand, three
hundred dollars of income is not taxed or is taxed
as zero percent in Mississippi. And then we also have
the fifth lowest marginal rate, so that even at our
highest earners pay a flat four percent income tax, which
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again is lower than some thirty six other states in America.
And so well, we do it because I think it's
good public policy, but as you, as you so correctly
said in the question, we also do it because we
have to because that's exactly who we compete with. And look,
the results are obvious when you look at Florida. You
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look at Tennessee and you look at Texas, three of
the fastest growing GDP states in all of America. And
you look at the other states across America, and what
you see is that in terms of economic growth, in
terms of GDP growth, and in terms of population growth,
those individual states that do not have an income tax
are doing better almost without exception, the those states to
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do have an income tax. Tsissippi, Governor, the numbers are
in for the last month on immigration when it comes
to our southern border, there were, according to a federal
court filing two and twenty one, three hundred and three
migrants encountered, which means processed and arrested for illegal entry
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at the southern border in March. That's the highest for
any months since Biden took office. Eighty thousand of them
were released into the US. The other one hundred and
nine thousand, give or take, were expelled via Title forty
two authority. That Title forty two authority goes away in
about a month's time, and there's already a number of
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major migrant caravans making their way to the US Mexico border.
How do you see this playing out? And what is
the Biden administration doing in preparation for a surge that
we can all see well, I can only assume that
the Biden administration is doing the same thing in preparation
today after announcing their decision on Title forty two that
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they've been doing for the last year, and that is
basically absolutely nothing. It is extremely concerning to me and
to other Southern state governors, particularly that we've seen this
huge uptick in illegal immigration in this country. It frustrates
me to no end, to be honest with you, that
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within the last two weeks, Vice President Kamala Harris has
found time in her schedule to visit Greenville, Mississippi, to
highlight whatever it is that she wanted to highlight. But
she hasn't had time in the last year during her
tenure as being in charge of the border crisis, to
actually visit the southern border. It is extremely frustrating to me.
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It is bad for the country, but it's just shows
on issue after issue after the Biden administration and particularly
those at the top, really have no understanding of what's
happening on the ground because they refuse to visit places
like the southern border. We're talking to Mississippi Governor, Tate Reeves, Governor, obviously,
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today is tax Day and you've done a good job
of helping to rescind some of the taxes that are
obligated to be paid by your citizens. Are you as
you look towards I know you're a state elected official,
but as you look toward twenty twenty two and what
feels like and I bet you feel it in Mississippi,
what's going to be a red wave? Are you concerned
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at all that Democrats may try to pass through a
tax increase on the national level while they still have
a majority in the Senate and in the House, regardless
of what that economic impact might be, because come November
they're not going to have the power to do it anymore. Well,
I certainly hope that there are enough members of the
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US Senate that are reasonable that that would not happen.
But yes, I'm very concerned about it. If you if
you look at one of the biggest problems domestically today
in America is inflation. It is the fact that when
Mississippi residents and others across the country, when they go
to their gas stations to fill up, their gas costs
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thirty forty fifty percent more to day than it did
just a year ago. One of the biggest problems in
America today is the rising cost of bread and milk
and other goods that individuals are buying at the grocery store.
And there is no doubt that all of this rising
inflation is a direct result of the bad economic policies
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put in place by the Biden administration. So I would
not at all put it past the Biden administration to
propose yet another bad economic policy light raising taxes on
the hard working people of this country who are struggling
right now to pay the bills because of the fact
that inflation is eating up the dollar every single day.
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Governor Reeves, have you seen the latest out of a
federal court in Florida where they have struck down a
judge is struck down the federal mask mandate. Just wondering
what your thoughts are on this, and how do you
see this playing out in your state in so many
other states. Now it would seem like now people shouldn't
have to mask up on planes, trains or elsewhere. Well,
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I will tell you I literally was just told about
that as I was walking into this particular interview, and
good for the federal judge in Florida. My understanding is
the basic arguments in his striking down is this is
yet another federal overreach by the Biden administration that is
not justified by the science, and that is something that
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has become more and more evident. In fact, I'm scheduled
to fly sometime in the next two or three days,
and I think what you just said is exactly right.
I don't think anybody after this ruling by this federal
judge in Florida should be required to where a mask
on an airplane. Governor, I appreciate you joining us here
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on this day. When you look towards twenty twenty two,
what do you expect to see? What are you seeing
on the ground in Mississippi? What do you expect to
see come November. Well, obviously, I'm extremely optimistic for the
twenty twenty two elections, particularly those elections in the US
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House of Representatives as well as the US Senate, as
well as governors racists from around the country, because the
American people are a lot smarter than the Democrat politicians
in Washington think they are, and the American people and
the American voters recognize that the reason prices are going
up is because of the excess spending by the Biden administration.
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They recognize that when you look at red states and
you see GDP growth, and you see the lowest unemployed
rates in our country's history. For instance, in Mississippi today,
we literally had the lowest unemployment rate we've ever had
in our state. But when you look at blue states,
they continue to have unemployment rates that are nowhere near
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their all time lows, and that is in large part
because of the policies that were enacted during the pandemic.
You see states who believe in freedom try to ensure
that we focus not only on protecting lives, but also
protecting livelihoods, making sure that our people could get up
and go to work and provide for themselves and provide
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for their families. We never wanted individuals in Mississippi to
have to make a choice between doing what was best
and providing for their families and their ability to put
food on the table, and what the CDC or some
federal agency told them that they had to or had
not or could not do. And so I think the
American people have seen what's happened, They have seen what
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leadership looks like in the different decisions that have been
made in red state versus blue states, or at least
in those states that are run by Republican governors versus
those that are run by Democratic governors. They've seen the
days spending in Washington that has led to significant additional
burdens on every single working family across America. And I
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think they also recognize that literally, were it not for
one or two senators joining the the fifty Republicans in
the United States Senate, were it not for them, literally
just a razor thin margin of senators, the body of
indistruction would have been successful at getting three or three
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and a half trillion dollars more of their Christmas wish
lists in spending that would have simply called our prices
for gas and food and milk and bread, etc. To
go up even further. So I'm optimistic of by the
twenty twenty two elections. But I'll also tell both of y'all,
and I mean this, uh, it is just April of
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twenty twenty two, our candidates across the country running for
a House, for Senate, for governor, and every legislative seat
in every local race, we still got a lot of
work to do. And I've always believed that the harder
you work, the luckier you get. And we've just got
to keep working hard and keep explaining to the American
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people why our policies are good for the American people
and Joe Biden's policies are bad. And I think if
we continue to focus that message over the next six months,
I think we'll be very successful in November. Governor Reeves
of Mississippi, sir, great to have you on. Thanks for joining.
It's always great to be on y'all. Have a great day.
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talk about this a little bit because we got some
good news, and I feel like a lot of times
there's bad news. Don't know how long it's gonna last.
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But a hero Federal District Court judge in the state
of Florida, not surprisingly a Donald Trump appointee, has struck
down the mask band date on airplanes, saying the CDC
has exceeded its authority in implementing them, particularly this fifteen
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day extension, which I believe runs now until May third.
Am I right about that? Buck? I think that I
am the fifteen day extension now, and so the question
will be one, how quickly will the appeal be filed?
And two will there be other judges, potentially in the
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state of Florida who will agree that the CDC has
exceeded its authority. I think this is something that should
have happened a long time ago. I have not read
the opinion, but we have been making the argument on
this show for some time. How in the world can
the CDC say that COVID is not an emergency at
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the border under Title forty two and wipe that out
and allow basically the border at the south to be
wide open while simultaneously saying it's not safe enough to
fly on airplanes, particularly because buck all ten major airline
CEOs have written a letter to the Biden administration saying
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it's time to remove the mandate. The CEOs of American
Airlines and Southwest Airlines actually hastified in front of Congress
that based on air filtration systems, airplanes are one of
the safest places you can be. So there's no merit
to this idea in the first place. It's really beyond
parody that the final group that the left wants masked up,
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or the one that they have they've clung to the
most they've made mask up are those at lowest risk
children as we know. And in terms of group settings
congregate settings, as Fauci calls them to sound more scien
see he loves that mitigation congregate. All this stuff uses
these terms, so he sounds smart to dump people. But
of congregate settings out there, planes are probably the safest
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place you can actually be when it comes to COVID,
and that's the final place that they're mandating masking as well.
They don't just have the science wrong, they have it
wrong in the worst way. In the most way on
these things. You know they're the furthest from possibly correct
in fact in all things. Because if we're talking about
pregnant man emojis and masks on two year olds and
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be able to fly or take an amtrack in the
next couple of days without having to mask up your
face with a cloth mask, as if that really does
anything to stop the spread. This is a fascinating moment
because the judge Clay, what's the who's the judge? Is
the Trump appointee? I believe, thirty four years old female
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judge in Florida. Right, yeah, just I'm gonna give her
credit because again I haven't read the opinion, but I
know what the opinion is going to be based on
because we've been talking about this for a year on
this show. So US District Judge Katherine Kimball Myzelle, I
might have been mispronouncing that President Trump appointee. By the way,
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the important thing here so far is Justice Department spokeswoman
said the department was reviewing the ruling, but decline further comment.
White House didn't respond to a re quest for comment either.
That's somewhat interesting, Buck, because my thought would be that
they would immediately say, we believe this is you know,
this is an incorrect ruling, and we intend to immediately appeal.
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I'm stunned that they haven't already put that statement out.
It is likely hasn't happened yet. It is likely that
a federal appeals court will weigh in with some kind
of stay and say, pending further review, the lower court
decision here out of Florida cannot be or should not
be enacted, and therefore we'll go back to masking. Unfortunately,
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I think that's what's going to happen. I'm not sure
that's what's going to happen, but it certainly looks likely
at this stage. What I'm fascinated by is who will
who will make a real argument in favor of this
in public? I mean, Jen Saki will go out there,
She'll say anything, as we know, She'll go out there
for the White House and say, well, we believe that
we need to take this seriously, and taking it seriously
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means continuing, you know, just blather, just blast your say.
You know, impersonation is underrated by the way. I listen
to her a lot. It's pretty good. And those press conferences,
you know, put me in a red wig. I could
do a pretty good Saki impersonation. But there's nobody out
there who actually makes a real argument, like what is
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the purpose of masking up? On planes. I mean, really
get to its core. It's its essence here. It's to
stop the spread of coronavirus. That's moronic beyond words, right,
whether there's there's coronavirus spreading all over the country everywhere,
and planes are actually never proven as a high level
or even low level source of transmission because of the
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hepiphiltration systems that they have installed. So there is absolutely
zero basis for this in terms of stopping the spread.
And then from an individual risk perspective, any person who
thinks I need my mask on the plane or I'm
at too much risk, are they masking up in every
restaurant they go to, in every workplace they go to,
and every bar they sit in, and every other facet
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of their lives. If the answer to that is no,
then we are just viewing with their emotional unwellness and
pretending that this is actually having to do with science.
There is no good faith argument for this. It does
not exist. Which is why I'm fascinated that there are
all these people, apparently Clay, all these blue checks on
the Twitter who are saying this is terrible, it's reckless,
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it's so awful. I mean, in New York, you get
people in line to go to a Broadway play, Clay,
I would wag your seventy five percent of them, or
either doing a pre theater or post theater meal in
New York City at a restaurant next door, A lot
of the same people are going to sit in the
theater with no masks. No masks well, and by the way,
if you are in need of your security blanket, if
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you are, and I think we need to start calling
these people huge losers, then you can still wear a mask.
There's not anything in this federal judge ruling that says
you cannot wear a mask. It's just saying that everyone
doesn't have to wear a mask. Apologies to the people
in the City of Brotherly Love. Are Clay and Buck
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fans in Philadelphia in that area who are listening to
us right now. Other than Philadelphia right now, Buck, I
don't believe there is any place in America that is
requiring that people wear masks indoors other than airplanes, trains, airports.
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In other words, I and many out there listening to
us right now. Certainly, if you live in a red state,
the only place in the state of Tennessee that requires
a mask is the airport and the airplane. Otherwise, I
can be anywhere in my entire state and there is
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no mask mandate to go or see or do anything.
Yet when I pull my car up park walk into
the airport, I have to put a mask on. It's
the only place in the entire state now where I
have to do that, and then I have to keep
it on theoretically when I get on the airplane. So
it is utterly nonsensical on every level. And I give
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credit to this woman, this judge appointed district court judge
by Trump, for actually standing up against this. And by
the way, we should mention it's not going to be
a surprise to anyone out there, but Florida Governor Ron
DeSantis has already weighed in great to see a federal
judge in Florida follow the law and reject the Biden
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transportation mask mandate. Both airline employees and passengers deserve to
have this misery end. A man. Indeed, I gotta tell
you one reason that Democrats have been so dug in
on the plane mandate is because it's a place where
it's federal law. So this is where all you read
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staters out there, all you people in places like Tennessee
and tech Is the Libs get their opportunity to poke
you in the eye or the face over this one.
So they love that. You know. Otherwise, if you live
in Tennessee, Texas, Florida, Wyoming, you know, go down the
list right the Dakotas. You don't have to worry about
all the COVID madness of the Blue states. Oh yes
you do when it comes to flying on planes, when
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it comes to traveling. So the Libs love that, right,
That's just they just enjoy agitating those people who live
in red states that don't have to continue to pretend
to go through the make believe that the anxiety blankets
that people have over their faces do anything. But you know,
you see this Clay, And I think there's also for
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a lot of people a recognition that planes are the
place where they have the most authority. You know, you
think about restaurants. Restaurants really don't want to get into
There's a lot of other places you can go, a
lot other places you can eat, you can sell it, right,
they don't really want to get into it with you
over and like if it let's be honest, if I'm
in a restaurant and I want to make someone's life
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miserable because they don't you know, they want to make
me mask up as I go to sit to the table. Yeah,
what are they gonna call the cops? Oh, I'll be
gone before the cops get there. Like just being realistic
about it. If you argue with any of the masks
Stazi on your American flight, your Delta flight, United or
Heaven Forbid, Spirit Airlines, which is obviously my airline of choice,
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if you argue with any of them, not only will
they ruin your day, kick you off the flight, and
there's no with fans or butts, they might ban you
from the flight forever. I mean, you know, imagine Joe's
Pizzeria being like, I'm gonna ban you forever for the mask.
You like, I'll get my pizza somewhere else. But the
airlines had a lot of authority over this, more than
any other place. It really felt like in America they
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could just ram home the COVID anxiety madness, and the
libs just loved it. They loved it. It was always
reinforcing their neuroses. Well, not only that, it's way easier
to ban someone on an airplane when you have to
provide so much information in order to get on an airplane.
Right If Joe's Pizza gets mad at you one day
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and they're like, you're never allowed in here again said
I love you, Pizza, the odds of them really follow
it through are low. Uh Whereas I mean, like, I'm
gonna be honest, I know there are people listening to
us right now who probably have gotten a band over
this stupid mask mandate from an airline. It kind of
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sucks when you want to go to a town and
in your hometown the only place and way that you
can fly NonStop is through that particular airline, and then
you can't even book it. Like that's like, I don't
know what they would have to say to me. People
make fun of me because I'm on Southwest Airlines all
the time, but it's the easiest airline to fly in Nashville.
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It's easy to book on and off. You know, they
should be sponsoring this show, probably for the amount of
time I fly on their airline. But if they told
me that I couldn't fly Southwest anymore, I wouldn't be
able to travel anywhere easily in Nashville. I mean, Rob
O'Neill's a friend, a great guy Navy seal guy who
shot bin Laden, best known as remember when they This
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was from Business Insider back in August of twenty twenty,
Navy seal who killed Osama bin Laden banned from Delta
for refusing to wear a mask and tweeting about it.
So that also, that also was a thing that could happen.
So if you spoke out publicly against the mask policy
on these planes, they might decide to punish you even
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further for your insolence. Yes, but this has been so stupid,
and honestly, there should be such a sense of growing
shame for the Siberian prison guards of the Sky who
were enforcing this stuff. I'm not talking about the people
who were cool about them, like, hey, they're gonna yell
at you unless you know, can you just do me
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a favor, like of course, right, Like I don't want
anyone getting fired for this either. But that's not what
I had. I had people that were like, you mask up,
and you mask until I tell you you can't mask up.
I had some psychopaths in the sky. When they do
all the retrospectives on the COVID era, and there are
a lot of people who are going to have kids
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and grandkids that are either so young that they won't
remember it, or they haven't even been born yet. They're
going to see this and they're gonna say, wait a minute,
Mom and dad, Wait a minute, grandma and grandpa. You're
telling me that they told you that you had to
wear a mask on the airplane, but you took it
off when you ate or drank, and they claimed that
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that made you safe on the airplane. And you're gonna say, yes,
that was the rule that everybody had to follow. And
the kid, the grandkid or the kid, they're going to say, man,
you guys were all idiots, and you're going to say yes,
much like buck. Do you ever talk to people about
when you used to be able to smoke on an airplane?
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You know, and you see like the nineteen sixties or
the nineteen fifties television shows or movies or whatever that
are set there, and you're like, man, that must have
really he sucked to have everybody just smoking cigarettes on
an airplane when you have the air filtration system that
defeated the whole purpose. Yeah, it was kind of crazy,
kind of dumb. Well, masks are that for our generation.
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Let's hope. I don't think they will, but let's hope
that the Biden administration just chooses not to appeal and
fight back against this. I think we all know that
they will. But until they actually do and put out
that statement, and at least so far they haven't done it,
maybe there are some people in the Biden administration saying, hey,
this absolutely makes no sense, and so yeah, the blue
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checks are furious. This blue check says. The judge who
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to tweet out the judgment from the hero judge down
in the state of Florida that has at least been
willing to acknowledge that the mandate exceeds the CDC statutory authority,
violates the procedures required. I'm reading from her order right
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now saying the party's competed. Basically, the court concludes the
MASK mandate exceeds the CDC's statutory authority and violates the
procedures required for agency rulemaking under the APA. Accordingly, the
Court vacates the mandate and remands it to the CDC.
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This is the federal court judge thirty five year old
now Trump appointee Heroic. I'm I'm not exaggerating this right now, Buck,
I mean, as I'm reading this opinion, I am just
I feel like, finally sanity is starting to prevail now again.
I'm sure it's going to be appealed. I'm sure it's
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going to be stayed pending that appeal. All these things
would be my expectation. So far, the Biden Justice Department
has not issued a statement saying, hey, we believe there's
no basis whatsoever for this. And we've got some callers
who are saying they are excited people at airports who
are finding out that this news now exists and it's spreading,
at least for the moment, this is the law of
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the land. We've got Kevin in Houston, Texas says his
wife is at the airport right now. Kevin, what's going on. Yeah,
she's actually at the air Orlando airport with my daughter,
and it's spreading. She said that people are literally like
checking their phones, taking off the mask, walking down down
the jolways and whatnot. So it's definitely getting out there,
which I think is a fantastic thing. Oh, I think
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you're gonna see You're gonna see some airline employees who
think that they're gonna just enforce us anyway. And there'll
probably be videos of this breaking in the next few hours,
because this is going to get clay for some people.
They have a they have a mask based mental illness.
It really they think that unless you mask up when
they say so, you're literally killing people. They actually still
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there are people out there who think that they all
vote Democrat. By the way, I would just note that
that is an unfortunately direct correlation and that's why we
need to kick their ass in November. But yeah, I
bet there are people listening to us right now driving
to the airport who are thinking to themselves, and by
the way, as long as this ruling is officially in effect,
who are going to walk into the airport, take their
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masks off, and when they're told to put a mask
back on, are going to say, actually, federal court judge
just struck down the authority that the CDC has to
implement this policy. Sean in New Orleans, Sean, what's going on? Hello? Hello, Hey,
I quick store. I just flew home from Vegas on
Southwest two days ago and we'll lay over in Houston.
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And I got to the airport in Vegas. Nobody had
a mask on. I didn't wear one. TSA made me
put one on to go through security. I took it
right back off. No problems, all the way through boarding
the airplane, the flight, all the way to Houston, no issues.
They did the standard spiel. Hey, this is a federal mandate,
put your mask on. Hardly anybody on the plane had
it on. Switched planes in Houston to my follow through
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late coming back home on Southwest again, and there was
an absolute mask Nazi flight attendant. That I mean, it's
a forty minute flight from New Orleans Vegas, and she
probably talked about the mask the whole time. It was unreal.
I couldn't believe. It. Is interesting because I have noticed this, Buck,
and I think you have probably as well, that the
individual policing of masks varies wildly now depending on which
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flight attendant crew and an airline crew you get on
a particular flight. I had a check in person at
one of the I wasn't even checking in. Pull me
aside and say your mask looks too thin, you need
to put a different one on, to which I kind
of just looked at this woman like, you know, you
have no authority, right, Like I'll do this, but I'm
about to go walk away and put my old mass
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back on. But Clay, it's a mental illness. This is
the problem they have. They actually there's no reason, there's
no rationality, there's no data. They've been told, they've been brainwashed.
Tens of millions of our fellow Americans, my friends, have
been brainwashed by the Democrat psycholib fauciite apparatus. But today
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the skies are parting and the sun is shining at
least a little bit on this issue, at least as
we finished the show today. We'll see whether or not
that still is the case by the time we come
back on the air tomorrow. But for today, rejoice, smile.
Other than the fact that it's tax Day, at least
someone in the court system has the stones to stand
up to the unconstitutional authority that has been levied against
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us in the skies. Talked about it with you tomorrow.
Come hang with Sleet, Travis and Section on the front
lines of truth. M
Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show podcast. The third hour of The Clay Travis
and Buck Sexton Show is here, everybody, Thanks for rolling
with us. We've got now joining the Governor of Mississippi,
Tate Reeves is with us. Mister governor, thanks for calling in.
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Thank you for having me, adding always, it's great to
be on the show. How are you all today? We're good, sir,
Thank you. Let's just talk. Let's talk taxes for a minute,
if wee can. I know you're doing some things in
your home state of Mississippi to try to ease the
tax burden. But why is it that there are there
are some red states out there that still have state
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income taxes? What can you do to get rid of it?
And why is our tax code at a federal level
thousands of pages long? Well, you know that's a that's
a couple of questions in there, and they could take
a couple hours. Dan, Well, let's start with the federal
tax code. It's a couple thousand pages is long because
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the federal government continues to spend irresponsibly and somebody's got
to pay for it. You know, we believe down here
in Mississippi that that government doesn't have anything that it
doesn't first take from somebody else. And at the federal level,
they literally take trillions of dollars from the taxpayers and
constantly spend and spend and spend. And today is just
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an example that more and more people hopefully are paying
attention to how much they are paying in taxes. You know,
technology is a good thing, but the technology that allowed
American workers to take out on a weekly or a
bi monthly or a monthly basis of their check what
they pay and owe the federal government makes a lot
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of individual Americans forget how much they're paying to the
federal government. And I think that's creates some of the challenges.
I appreciate you coming on, Governor. I'm curious how much
attention with COVID mobility meanings so many people were able
to work or remotely and move to different parts of
the country. It feels like among the business centric states,
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which obviously a lot of them have Republican governors, there's
been an attempt to make an appeal to that group
by declining the amount of state income tax. And obviously
I live in Tennessee. People know Florida, Tennessee and Texas
don't have any state income tax in the South at all.
How much of that is competition that you're seeing To
try to help Mississippi give a little bit more of
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a reason for somebody to move to your state potentially,
and also obviously help the people who are already there
well as usual, you have absolutely hit the proverbial nail
on the head. I tell my legislators and the people
across my state, you don't have to be a genius
to look at a map and recognize that to Mississippi's
west is Texas, to our northes Tennessee, and to our
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east is Florida. And if we want to be competitive,
if we want to be competitive in our attempts to
see additional capital investment, if we want to be competitive
in our attempts to create jobs, we want to be
competitive in our attempts to lure more residents than to
our state, we have to recognize that both that all Texas, Tennessee,
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in Florida all have zero income tax. And that's the
reason earlier this year I propose the complete elimination of
the income tax in Mississippi so that we would be
on level playing ground. We didn't get one hundred percent
of what we asked for, but we did get a
major move in the right direction. Wherein today, based upon
the line of the law that I found in the
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law last week, we now have the fifth lowest marginal
tax rate in America amongst those forty one states that
have an income taxes. You know, there are nine income states,
including Texas, Florida, and louis and Tennessee that do not
have an income tax. But amongst those forty one states
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that do have an income tax, Mississippi had number one
the highest exemptions. Of the first thirty six thousand, three
hundred dollars of income is not taxed or is taxed
as zero percent in Mississippi. And then we also have
the fifth lowest marginal rate, so that even at our
highest earners pay a flat four percent income tax, which
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again is lower than some thirty six other states in America.
And so well, we do it because I think it's
good public policy, but as you, as you so correctly
said in the question, we also do it because we
have to because that's exactly who we compete with. And look,
the results are obvious when you look at Florida. You
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look at Tennessee and you look at Texas, three of
the fastest growing GDP states in all of America. And
you look at the other states across America, and what
you see is that in terms of economic growth, in
terms of GDP growth, and in terms of population growth,
those individual states that do not have an income tax
are doing better almost without exception, the those states to
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do have an income tax. Tsissippi, Governor, the numbers are
in for the last month on immigration when it comes
to our southern border, there were, according to a federal
court filing two and twenty one, three hundred and three
migrants encountered, which means processed and arrested for illegal entry
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at the southern border in March. That's the highest for
any months since Biden took office. Eighty thousand of them
were released into the US. The other one hundred and
nine thousand, give or take, were expelled via Title forty
two authority. That Title forty two authority goes away in
about a month's time, and there's already a number of
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major migrant caravans making their way to the US Mexico border.
How do you see this playing out? And what is
the Biden administration doing in preparation for a surge that
we can all see well, I can only assume that
the Biden administration is doing the same thing in preparation
today after announcing their decision on Title forty two that
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they've been doing for the last year, and that is
basically absolutely nothing. It is extremely concerning to me and
to other Southern state governors, particularly that we've seen this
huge uptick in illegal immigration in this country. It frustrates
me to no end, to be honest with you, that
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within the last two weeks, Vice President Kamala Harris has
found time in her schedule to visit Greenville, Mississippi, to
highlight whatever it is that she wanted to highlight. But
she hasn't had time in the last year during her
tenure as being in charge of the border crisis, to
actually visit the southern border. It is extremely frustrating to me.
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It is bad for the country, but it's just shows
on issue after issue after the Biden administration and particularly
those at the top, really have no understanding of what's
happening on the ground because they refuse to visit places
like the southern border. We're talking to Mississippi Governor, Tate Reeves, Governor, obviously,
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today is tax Day and you've done a good job
of helping to rescind some of the taxes that are
obligated to be paid by your citizens. Are you as
you look towards I know you're a state elected official,
but as you look toward twenty twenty two and what
feels like and I bet you feel it in Mississippi,
what's going to be a red wave? Are you concerned
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at all that Democrats may try to pass through a
tax increase on the national level while they still have
a majority in the Senate and in the House, regardless
of what that economic impact might be, because come November
they're not going to have the power to do it anymore. Well,
I certainly hope that there are enough members of the
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US Senate that are reasonable that that would not happen.
But yes, I'm very concerned about it. If you if
you look at one of the biggest problems domestically today
in America is inflation. It is the fact that when
Mississippi residents and others across the country, when they go
to their gas stations to fill up, their gas costs
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thirty forty fifty percent more to day than it did
just a year ago. One of the biggest problems in
America today is the rising cost of bread and milk
and other goods that individuals are buying at the grocery store.
And there is no doubt that all of this rising
inflation is a direct result of the bad economic policies
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put in place by the Biden administration. So I would
not at all put it past the Biden administration to
propose yet another bad economic policy light raising taxes on
the hard working people of this country who are struggling
right now to pay the bills because of the fact
that inflation is eating up the dollar every single day.
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Governor Reeves, have you seen the latest out of a
federal court in Florida where they have struck down a
judge is struck down the federal mask mandate. Just wondering
what your thoughts are on this, and how do you
see this playing out in your state in so many
other states. Now it would seem like now people shouldn't
have to mask up on planes, trains or elsewhere. Well,
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I will tell you I literally was just told about
that as I was walking into this particular interview, and
good for the federal judge in Florida. My understanding is
the basic arguments in his striking down is this is
yet another federal overreach by the Biden administration that is
not justified by the science, and that is something that
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has become more and more evident. In fact, I'm scheduled
to fly sometime in the next two or three days,
and I think what you just said is exactly right.
I don't think anybody after this ruling by this federal
judge in Florida should be required to where a mask
on an airplane. Governor, I appreciate you joining us here
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on this day. When you look towards twenty twenty two,
what do you expect to see? What are you seeing
on the ground in Mississippi? What do you expect to
see come November. Well, obviously, I'm extremely optimistic for the
twenty twenty two elections, particularly those elections in the US
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House of Representatives as well as the US Senate, as
well as governors racists from around the country, because the
American people are a lot smarter than the Democrat politicians
in Washington think they are, and the American people and
the American voters recognize that the reason prices are going
up is because of the excess spending by the Biden administration.
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They recognize that when you look at red states and
you see GDP growth, and you see the lowest unemployed
rates in our country's history. For instance, in Mississippi today,
we literally had the lowest unemployment rate we've ever had
in our state. But when you look at blue states,
they continue to have unemployment rates that are nowhere near
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their all time lows, and that is in large part
because of the policies that were enacted during the pandemic.
You see states who believe in freedom try to ensure
that we focus not only on protecting lives, but also
protecting livelihoods, making sure that our people could get up
and go to work and provide for themselves and provide
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for their families. We never wanted individuals in Mississippi to
have to make a choice between doing what was best
and providing for their families and their ability to put
food on the table, and what the CDC or some
federal agency told them that they had to or had
not or could not do. And so I think the
American people have seen what's happened, They have seen what
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leadership looks like in the different decisions that have been
made in red state versus blue states, or at least
in those states that are run by Republican governors versus
those that are run by Democratic governors. They've seen the
days spending in Washington that has led to significant additional
burdens on every single working family across America. And I
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think they also recognize that literally, were it not for
one or two senators joining the the fifty Republicans in
the United States Senate, were it not for them, literally
just a razor thin margin of senators, the body of
indistruction would have been successful at getting three or three
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and a half trillion dollars more of their Christmas wish
lists in spending that would have simply called our prices
for gas and food and milk and bread, etc. To
go up even further. So I'm optimistic of by the
twenty twenty two elections. But I'll also tell both of y'all,
and I mean this, uh, it is just April of
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twenty twenty two, our candidates across the country running for
a House, for Senate, for governor, and every legislative seat
in every local race, we still got a lot of
work to do. And I've always believed that the harder
you work, the luckier you get. And we've just got
to keep working hard and keep explaining to the American
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people why our policies are good for the American people
and Joe Biden's policies are bad. And I think if
we continue to focus that message over the next six months,
I think we'll be very successful in November. Governor Reeves
of Mississippi, sir, great to have you on. Thanks for joining.
It's always great to be on y'all. Have a great day.
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talk about this a little bit because we got some
good news, and I feel like a lot of times
there's bad news. Don't know how long it's gonna last.
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But a hero Federal District Court judge in the state
of Florida, not surprisingly a Donald Trump appointee, has struck
down the mask band date on airplanes, saying the CDC
has exceeded its authority in implementing them, particularly this fifteen
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day extension, which I believe runs now until May third.
Am I right about that? Buck? I think that I
am the fifteen day extension now, and so the question
will be one, how quickly will the appeal be filed?
And two will there be other judges, potentially in the
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state of Florida who will agree that the CDC has
exceeded its authority. I think this is something that should
have happened a long time ago. I have not read
the opinion, but we have been making the argument on
this show for some time. How in the world can
the CDC say that COVID is not an emergency at
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the border under Title forty two and wipe that out
and allow basically the border at the south to be
wide open while simultaneously saying it's not safe enough to
fly on airplanes, particularly because buck all ten major airline
CEOs have written a letter to the Biden administration saying
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it's time to remove the mandate. The CEOs of American
Airlines and Southwest Airlines actually hastified in front of Congress
that based on air filtration systems, airplanes are one of
the safest places you can be. So there's no merit
to this idea in the first place. It's really beyond
parody that the final group that the left wants masked up,
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or the one that they have they've clung to the
most they've made mask up are those at lowest risk
children as we know. And in terms of group settings
congregate settings, as Fauci calls them to sound more scien
see he loves that mitigation congregate. All this stuff uses
these terms, so he sounds smart to dump people. But
of congregate settings out there, planes are probably the safest
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place you can actually be when it comes to COVID,
and that's the final place that they're mandating masking as well.
They don't just have the science wrong, they have it
wrong in the worst way. In the most way on
these things. You know they're the furthest from possibly correct
in fact in all things. Because if we're talking about
pregnant man emojis and masks on two year olds and
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next couple of days without having to mask up your
face with a cloth mask, as if that really does
anything to stop the spread. This is a fascinating moment
because the judge Clay, what's the who's the judge? Is
the Trump appointee? I believe, thirty four years old female
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judge in Florida. Right, yeah, just I'm gonna give her
credit because again I haven't read the opinion, but I
know what the opinion is going to be based on
because we've been talking about this for a year on
this show. So US District Judge Katherine Kimball Myzelle, I
might have been mispronouncing that President Trump appointee. By the way,
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the important thing here so far is Justice Department spokeswoman
said the department was reviewing the ruling, but decline further comment.
White House didn't respond to a re quest for comment either.
That's somewhat interesting, Buck, because my thought would be that
they would immediately say, we believe this is you know,
this is an incorrect ruling, and we intend to immediately appeal.
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I'm stunned that they haven't already put that statement out.
It is likely hasn't happened yet. It is likely that
a federal appeals court will weigh in with some kind
of stay and say, pending further review, the lower court
decision here out of Florida cannot be or should not
be enacted, and therefore we'll go back to masking. Unfortunately,
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I think that's what's going to happen. I'm not sure
that's what's going to happen, but it certainly looks likely
at this stage. What I'm fascinated by is who will
who will make a real argument in favor of this
in public? I mean, Jen Saki will go out there,
She'll say anything, as we know, She'll go out there
for the White House and say, well, we believe that
we need to take this seriously, and taking it seriously
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means continuing, you know, just blather, just blast your say.
You know, impersonation is underrated by the way. I listen
to her a lot. It's pretty good. And those press conferences,
you know, put me in a red wig. I could
do a pretty good Saki impersonation. But there's nobody out
there who actually makes a real argument, like what is
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the purpose of masking up? On planes. I mean, really
get to its core. It's its essence here. It's to
stop the spread of coronavirus. That's moronic beyond words, right,
whether there's there's coronavirus spreading all over the country everywhere,
and planes are actually never proven as a high level
or even low level source of transmission because of the
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hepiphiltration systems that they have installed. So there is absolutely
zero basis for this in terms of stopping the spread.
And then from an individual risk perspective, any person who
thinks I need my mask on the plane or I'm
at too much risk, are they masking up in every
restaurant they go to, in every workplace they go to,
and every bar they sit in, and every other facet
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of their lives. If the answer to that is no,
then we are just viewing with their emotional unwellness and
pretending that this is actually having to do with science.
There is no good faith argument for this. It does
not exist. Which is why I'm fascinated that there are
all these people, apparently Clay, all these blue checks on
the Twitter who are saying this is terrible, it's reckless,
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it's so awful. I mean, in New York, you get
people in line to go to a Broadway play, Clay,
I would wag your seventy five percent of them, or
either doing a pre theater or post theater meal in
New York City at a restaurant next door, A lot
of the same people are going to sit in the
theater with no masks. No masks well, and by the way,
if you are in need of your security blanket, if
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you are, and I think we need to start calling
these people huge losers, then you can still wear a mask.
There's not anything in this federal judge ruling that says
you cannot wear a mask. It's just saying that everyone
doesn't have to wear a mask. Apologies to the people
in the City of Brotherly Love. Are Clay and Buck
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fans in Philadelphia in that area who are listening to
us right now. Other than Philadelphia right now, Buck, I
don't believe there is any place in America that is
requiring that people wear masks indoors other than airplanes, trains, airports.
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In other words, I and many out there listening to
us right now. Certainly, if you live in a red state,
the only place in the state of Tennessee that requires
a mask is the airport and the airplane. Otherwise, I
can be anywhere in my entire state and there is
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no mask mandate to go or see or do anything.
Yet when I pull my car up park walk into
the airport, I have to put a mask on. It's
the only place in the entire state now where I
have to do that, and then I have to keep
it on theoretically when I get on the airplane. So
it is utterly nonsensical on every level. And I give
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credit to this woman, this judge appointed district court judge
by Trump, for actually standing up against this. And by
the way, we should mention it's not going to be
a surprise to anyone out there, but Florida Governor Ron
DeSantis has already weighed in great to see a federal
judge in Florida follow the law and reject the Biden
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transportation mask mandate. Both airline employees and passengers deserve to
have this misery end. A man. Indeed, I gotta tell
you one reason that Democrats have been so dug in
on the plane mandate is because it's a place where
it's federal law. So this is where all you read
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staters out there, all you people in places like Tennessee
and tech Is the Libs get their opportunity to poke
you in the eye or the face over this one.
So they love that. You know. Otherwise, if you live
in Tennessee, Texas, Florida, Wyoming, you know, go down the
list right the Dakotas. You don't have to worry about
all the COVID madness of the Blue states. Oh yes
you do when it comes to flying on planes, when
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it comes to traveling. So the Libs love that, right,
That's just they just enjoy agitating those people who live
in red states that don't have to continue to pretend
to go through the make believe that the anxiety blankets
that people have over their faces do anything. But you know,
you see this Clay, And I think there's also for
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a lot of people a recognition that planes are the
place where they have the most authority. You know, you
think about restaurants. Restaurants really don't want to get into
There's a lot of other places you can go, a
lot other places you can eat, you can sell it, right,
they don't really want to get into it with you
over and like if it let's be honest, if I'm
in a restaurant and I want to make someone's life
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miserable because they don't you know, they want to make
me mask up as I go to sit to the table. Yeah,
what are they gonna call the cops? Oh, I'll be
gone before the cops get there. Like just being realistic
about it. If you argue with any of the masks
Stazi on your American flight, your Delta flight, United or
Heaven Forbid, Spirit Airlines, which is obviously my airline of choice,
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if you argue with any of them, not only will
they ruin your day, kick you off the flight, and
there's no with fans or butts, they might ban you
from the flight forever. I mean, you know, imagine Joe's
Pizzeria being like, I'm gonna ban you forever for the mask.
You like, I'll get my pizza somewhere else. But the
airlines had a lot of authority over this, more than
any other place. It really felt like in America they
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could just ram home the COVID anxiety madness, and the
libs just loved it. They loved it. It was always
reinforcing their neuroses. Well, not only that, it's way easier
to ban someone on an airplane when you have to
provide so much information in order to get on an airplane.
Right If Joe's Pizza gets mad at you one day
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and they're like, you're never allowed in here again said
I love you, Pizza, the odds of them really follow
it through are low. Uh Whereas I mean, like, I'm
gonna be honest, I know there are people listening to
us right now who probably have gotten a band over
this stupid mask mandate from an airline. It kind of
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sucks when you want to go to a town and
in your hometown the only place and way that you
can fly NonStop is through that particular airline, and then
you can't even book it. Like that's like, I don't
know what they would have to say to me. People
make fun of me because I'm on Southwest Airlines all
the time, but it's the easiest airline to fly in Nashville.
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It's easy to book on and off. You know, they
should be sponsoring this show, probably for the amount of
time I fly on their airline. But if they told
me that I couldn't fly Southwest anymore, I wouldn't be
able to travel anywhere easily in Nashville. I mean, Rob
O'Neill's a friend, a great guy Navy seal guy who
shot bin Laden, best known as remember when they This
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was from Business Insider back in August of twenty twenty,
Navy seal who killed Osama bin Laden banned from Delta
for refusing to wear a mask and tweeting about it.
So that also, that also was a thing that could happen.
So if you spoke out publicly against the mask policy
on these planes, they might decide to punish you even
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further for your insolence. Yes, but this has been so stupid,
and honestly, there should be such a sense of growing
shame for the Siberian prison guards of the Sky who
were enforcing this stuff. I'm not talking about the people
who were cool about them, like, hey, they're gonna yell
at you unless you know, can you just do me
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a favor, like of course, right, Like I don't want
anyone getting fired for this either. But that's not what
I had. I had people that were like, you mask up,
and you mask until I tell you you can't mask up.
I had some psychopaths in the sky. When they do
all the retrospectives on the COVID era, and there are
a lot of people who are going to have kids
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and grandkids that are either so young that they won't
remember it, or they haven't even been born yet. They're
going to see this and they're gonna say, wait a minute,
Mom and dad, Wait a minute, grandma and grandpa. You're
telling me that they told you that you had to
wear a mask on the airplane, but you took it
off when you ate or drank, and they claimed that
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that made you safe on the airplane. And you're gonna say, yes,
that was the rule that everybody had to follow. And
the kid, the grandkid or the kid, they're going to say, man,
you guys were all idiots, and you're going to say yes,
much like buck. Do you ever talk to people about
when you used to be able to smoke on an airplane?
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You know, and you see like the nineteen sixties or
the nineteen fifties television shows or movies or whatever that
are set there, and you're like, man, that must have
really he sucked to have everybody just smoking cigarettes on
an airplane when you have the air filtration system that
defeated the whole purpose. Yeah, it was kind of crazy,
kind of dumb. Well, masks are that for our generation.
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Let's hope. I don't think they will, but let's hope
that the Biden administration just chooses not to appeal and
fight back against this. I think we all know that
they will. But until they actually do and put out
that statement, and at least so far they haven't done it,
maybe there are some people in the Biden administration saying, hey,
this absolutely makes no sense, and so yeah, the blue
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Welcome and final segment play Travis buck Sexton Show about
to tweet out the judgment from the hero judge down
in the state of Florida that has at least been
willing to acknowledge that the mandate exceeds the CDC statutory authority,
violates the procedures required. I'm reading from her order right
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now saying the party's competed. Basically, the court concludes the
MASK mandate exceeds the CDC's statutory authority and violates the
procedures required for agency rulemaking under the APA. Accordingly, the
Court vacates the mandate and remands it to the CDC.
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This is the federal court judge thirty five year old
now Trump appointee Heroic. I'm I'm not exaggerating this right now, Buck,
I mean, as I'm reading this opinion, I am just
I feel like, finally sanity is starting to prevail now again.
I'm sure it's going to be appealed. I'm sure it's
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going to be stayed pending that appeal. All these things
would be my expectation. So far, the Biden Justice Department
has not issued a statement saying, hey, we believe there's
no basis whatsoever for this. And we've got some callers
who are saying they are excited people at airports who
are finding out that this news now exists and it's spreading,
at least for the moment, this is the law of
(33:32):
the land. We've got Kevin in Houston, Texas says his
wife is at the airport right now. Kevin, what's going on. Yeah,
she's actually at the air Orlando airport with my daughter,
and it's spreading. She said that people are literally like
checking their phones, taking off the mask, walking down down
the jolways and whatnot. So it's definitely getting out there,
which I think is a fantastic thing. Oh, I think
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you're gonna see You're gonna see some airline employees who
think that they're gonna just enforce us anyway. And there'll
probably be videos of this breaking in the next few hours,
because this is going to get clay for some people.
They have a they have a mask based mental illness.
It really they think that unless you mask up when
they say so, you're literally killing people. They actually still
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there are people out there who think that they all
vote Democrat. By the way, I would just note that
that is an unfortunately direct correlation and that's why we
need to kick their ass in November. But yeah, I
bet there are people listening to us right now driving
to the airport who are thinking to themselves, and by
the way, as long as this ruling is officially in effect,
who are going to walk into the airport, take their
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masks off, and when they're told to put a mask
back on, are going to say, actually, federal court judge
just struck down the authority that the CDC has to
implement this policy. Sean in New Orleans, Sean, what's going on? Hello? Hello, Hey,
I quick store. I just flew home from Vegas on
Southwest two days ago and we'll lay over in Houston.
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And I got to the airport in Vegas. Nobody had
a mask on. I didn't wear one. TSA made me
put one on to go through security. I took it
right back off. No problems, all the way through boarding
the airplane, the flight, all the way to Houston, no issues.
They did the standard spiel. Hey, this is a federal mandate,
put your mask on. Hardly anybody on the plane had
it on. Switched planes in Houston to my follow through
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late coming back home on Southwest again, and there was
an absolute mask Nazi flight attendant. That I mean, it's
a forty minute flight from New Orleans Vegas, and she
probably talked about the mask the whole time. It was unreal.
I couldn't believe. It. Is interesting because I have noticed this, Buck,
and I think you have probably as well, that the
individual policing of masks varies wildly now depending on which
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flight attendant crew and an airline crew you get on
a particular flight. I had a check in person at
one of the I wasn't even checking in. Pull me
aside and say your mask looks too thin, you need
to put a different one on, to which I kind
of just looked at this woman like, you know, you
have no authority, right, Like I'll do this, but I'm
about to go walk away and put my old mass
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back on. But Clay, it's a mental illness. This is
the problem they have. They actually there's no reason, there's
no rationality, there's no data. They've been told, they've been brainwashed.
Tens of millions of our fellow Americans, my friends, have
been brainwashed by the Democrat psycholib fauciite apparatus. But today
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the skies are parting and the sun is shining at
least a little bit on this issue, at least as
we finished the show today. We'll see whether or not
that still is the case by the time we come
back on the air tomorrow. But for today, rejoice, smile.
Other than the fact that it's tax Day, at least
someone in the court system has the stones to stand
up to the unconstitutional authority that has been levied against
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us in the skies. Talked about it with you tomorrow.
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