May 11, 2022 • 38 mins
Actor James Cromwell leads vegan milk protest at NYC Starbucks in a scene that Clay and Buck say could have come right out of Succession, the acclaimed HBO series that C&B both love and Cromwell appears in. Clay says, "If you are protesting the price of vegan milk, you are self-satirizing yourself." UNEXPECTEDLY! Biden economy gets crappier, inflation higher at 8.3%. Buck notes this constant surprise means, "It's like idiots rule over us, really." Gasparino: Bigwig Wall Street Democrats have no confidence in Biden. Pelosi quotes Bible more than once to defend $40B aid package to defend Ukraine's border, while they do nothing to defend our southern border. C&B callers on the baby formula shortage are all in sync: They mostly can't find it, even after going to as many as 10 stores.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show podcast. Welcome in everybody to the Wednesday edition
of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. We're racked
in stack today. I'll lot to discuss with all of you. Obviously,
the new inflation number is in unexpectedly all caps exclamation point,
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unexpectedly worse than economists had been anticipated somehow, Clay, Buck,
all of you, we were thinking it was gonna be bad.
But we'll give you that number. What it means plus
forty billion dollars going to Ukraine four zero billion with
a bee. You used to think that was a lot
of money, you know, forty billion here, forty billion there.
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It feels like it adds up after a while. But
while we have a baby formula shortage in this country,
the taxpayers are, without any conversation about it, on the
hook for forty billion dollars getting sent to Ukraine. So
we'll discuss what that means. I also want to take
a look at the reality of what are strategy is
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at this point in Ukraine. You're noticing that people just
keep the Ukraine flags and there are Twitter profiles and
their Facebook pages, but Okay, well, what does the US
government want to do? If you look at some of
the recent rhetoric, there's there's real reason for concern over
a Biden administration expansion in the strategy, the role in
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that conflict that could get very ugly, very quickly. These
things when you look at miscalculation in retrospect, it seems
like it was so obvious. But right now, does anyone
feel like this government has any sense of where this
is going and what they're trying to do? Plus a
lunatic on Broadway if you're famous, play that's how you
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say it, apparently, if you're a Broadway famous person, right,
you go Broadway yells at a bunch of a one
person actually in the audience, not for being unmasked, but
mass beneath the nose. If you just want to know,
is the lib mask hysteria over? That's certainly not the case.
And then a milk protest love poking the soy loving
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commies over this stuff. They get so angry, drag me,
soy commies, drag me. I don't care. This was. Do
you watch Succession? Right? Yeah, of course, Oh it's such
a good show on HBO, so entertaining, so well written
the character who was protesting in New York City. It's
like they pulled it directly out of succession, like they
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should use this footage as a part of the series.
He couldn't be playing any more perfect to type based
on that, based on that clips by you right where
what it's near where you live, right where the protest
was going on, very much so. But let me since
we're talking about well, we'll give you the CPI number
and inflation and all this and you created a second
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since we're talking This guy's James Cromwell. He plays the
green piece obsessed environmentalist, smug lib brother of the patriarch
of the of the family. And the show that that
it's it's essentially a very loosely based on Fox is
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the idea behind the show of a massive media empire,
and this brother just as rich because he's the brother
and was there early on and so now he's kind
of the classic elite lib lunatic in the show. In
real life, he superglues his hand a few blocks from
where I live to the top of a Starbucks counter
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because the vegan milk prices are too high? Can you imagine? Now?
When will you stop charging us? More for vegan built
When will you stop breaking in huge profits, clout customers,
animals and the environment suffered. The senseless of charge hurts animals.
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So you know, Clay, there's so much here. First of all,
you know, it's it's plant juice. It's not milk. The
plants don't lactate. Okay, there's no milk involved here. I
understand they could say it's a branding thing, but you know,
spell it mylk or something, because it's not actually milk.
And all the libs who gets to amnimu of capitalism?
It's more expensive for the vegan milk because it's more expensive.
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Of all the things that you could protest in America
right now, is there anything that you could protest that
would make you more out of touch with America than
the price of vegan milk? I mean, I hear that.
And the reason why I say it feels like it
should be on a television program is it's so easy
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to satirize out of touch left wing Let's be honest,
rich people, if you are protesting the price of vegan milk,
you are self satirizing you yourself to such an extent
it's almost impossible if you and I were sitting around
and we were like, Hey, what's the most out of
touch protest that you can think of the price of
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vegan milk for your coffee being too high at Starbucks?
Might win? Like, I don't know that we could come
up with a more out of touch protests. In fact,
if they put this in the show Succession and this
same green piece enviro wacko, environmental wacko commy actor had
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a secret had this as a scene, you'd be like,
that's really funny, Like that's really you know, because he
super glues his hand to the Can you imagine you're
the hourly wage employee at Starbucks. You're just trying to
get through your day like everybody else and get your
paycheck and go, and you've got this lunatic super gluing
his hand to the desk. And you know, beyond this,
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you sit here, you say to yourself, we could see
a protest right now. If he had done this somewhere
and said, hey, we need to draw attention to the
razy high price, in fact, the scarcity of baby formunes, right,
I would say, you know what, Like, this guy's got
a point. More people need to pay attention to this.
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But saying that your your oat milk or your your
vegan soy tumeric latte is a little too pricey. You
cannot make this stuff up. It's not real milk. This
is utter madness. Oh well played you Also, if it's
too expensive, drink water, right, you don't have to have coffee,
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which to your point on the baby formulas shortage, and
when did this idea? But when did this come about?
Because it started to happen at NBA games too, where
these activists are trying to superglue themselves to things, like
they tried to superglue themselves to the basketball court. Now
this seems to be a new trend in protest that
you superglue yourself to the venue in some way. When
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did this start? And how how do they unsuperglue you? Right? Like,
it doesn't seem like it would be a very safe
way to protest either, right Like, I don't know how
you re super anything to anything. That sounds like a
really bad idea. I don't know why anybody would think
this is. I mean, at least do the old you know,
handcuff yourself to the pipe or something, right, at least
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that seems a little more civilized. I just I just
don't get it. But this is uh. And imagine if
you were buck just busy at work, like like let's
say you were just trying to go in and get
a coffee and then you walk in and some guy
has superglued himself to the Hey, this sucks. I would
have assumed if actor James Cromwell so, by the way,
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was the president in some of the Jack Ryan movies,
right like Clear in Present Danger for some of our
audience out there that might not know him from succession, Yeah,
he had if you remember, I think it was in
Clear and Present Day. He's in the Green Mile as well,
if you remember The Green Mile. I think he's the
one whose wife you know, had is very sick and
that that act. If you watch movies at all, you
would recognize this guy from you know, the last twenty
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five years. I mean he's actually a good Actor's great,
he's a good actor. To put that aside, but Clay,
it's also amazing because, as we were saying, if you
were constructing an out of touch and he wasn't the
only one. There are other people there like make my
soy milk cheaper, you know, And I'm gonna tell you
this right now, the only males who get upset about
soy milk jokes actually suffer from a lack of testosterone.
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Like it's there's like a because otherwise, why do you
care if people say, oh, I have lactose intolerance, right, so,
then drink a romin milk. That's fine. People who take
offense to this, it does kind of cut them for
some reason. They get they get angry. But right now,
while they're complaining about the price of fancy nut milk,
I mean, I think that's what we would call it,
that there's there, you know, there's coolcon nuts and uh
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and almonds and all these Anyway, while that's actually happening,
I'm just saying, inflation barreled ahead. Yes from CNBC eight
point three percent unexpectedly is all over the place every
time we get a new inflation reading. And I'm just saying,
at some point, wouldn't the economist have to if you're
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surprised twelve straight months, wouldn't you have to adjust your
expectations at some point? This is like the this is
like the media lib or Democrat politician gets sick. Bill
Gates just got just right. I just want to say
I'm thankful for being vaccinated and boosted and look whatever.
Just the fact that you have to feel the need
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to genuflect in that way, as though the vaccine gods
are expecting their praise is absurd. But it's the same
thing with the economists. If you want to be invited
on I don't watch the Financial Networks, but you know,
if you want to be invited on CNBC or whatever,
you've got to play this game of oh wow under Biden,
who's just so good at the economy on so smart,
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and Kamala really knows what's going on, you know, YadA, YadA, YadA,
all the rest of it. You gotta say that you
were expecting a different number, because if people start to
realize that it's not a surprise, Clay, then they asked
the question, We'll hold on a second. Why should we
expect the economy keeps getting crappier? Maybe because the people
in charge aren't good at this, right They want to
avoid that recognition. And just to give us the most
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recent number I saw, if you saw different numbers, Clay,
let me know, gasoline up forty three percent, use cars
up twenty two percent, meat fish eggs fourteen percent, new
cars thirteen percent, food at home up ten point eight percent,
transportation eight percent. That's unsustainable for a lot of families.
That means a lot of families start running in the red,
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start running up credit card debt, millions and millions of families.
And then you had the baby formula thing on top
of it, and we got famous lib actors running around
complaining about soy milk. It's amazing. Yeah, and Buck, what
we should continue to emphasize, and I know a lot
of people out there listening know exactly what this feels
like is inflation is a default tax for all of
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the lies basically that Joe Biden has spread about how
he's middle class Joe from Scranton, Pennsylvania, and he cares
about families. You basically, if you have had a job,
let's say you were making sixty thousand dollars a year,
you have gotten a roughly ten percent cut in your
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overall income around six or seven thousand dollars just since
Joe Biden became president, based on inflation alone. So I mean,
I can say this as a guy who and I
can't speak for you in this regard, Clay, but by
all means I'm a guy who's made who's made forty
thousand dollars a year? Oh, certainly my salary. Yep. I'm
a guy who's made sixty thousand dollars a year, and
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I'm a guy who's made seventy five thousand dollars a year.
And the differences in though, you know, once you get
to a certain level, you know, it's nice and maybe
you can do a little bit. But but the difference
in forty and sixty for folks, and the difference between
even you know, fifty and fifty five and forty and
forty five, that is substantial. And Nancy, I know because
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I lived it right like you understand, you understand. Two,
Nancy Pelosi in her fifteen million dollars or whatever it
is San Francisco mansion, has no clue. She doesn't know
how to pump gas. She doesn't buy her own groceries.
She hasn't done that in fifty years. Folks, give me
a break buck. I had two kids that I was
responsible for, and I was making forty thousand dollars a year.
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And so when you're making forty thousand dollars a year
and you got kids and you got expenses, hanging out
there when you're talking about almost double digit inflation, you're
taking four thousand dollars out of a forty thousand dollars salary.
I mean that is a massive amount in terms of
how much it can impact your budget. Look, neither of
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my parents, Buck ever made fifty thousand dollars a year.
So when you're talking about what the impact is of
a day to day existence for so many people out
there across the country, they are struggling, Biden has no answers.
Biden has become Buck Jimmy Carter without the accomplished. No,
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We've agreed on this one for a long time, Clay,
it is unfair to compare him to Jimmy Carter's farm.
Carter's smarter and more, way more competent than Joe Biden is.
I think that's that much as clear. So we'll dive
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Appreciate all of you hanging out with us as we
roll through the Wednesday edition of the program had to
think there for a minute. It feels like there's so
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much news happening on a day to day basis now
that I'm always like, hey, is it only Wednesday? And
we are having a good time here. And I wanted
to point out that many of you, as you continue
to struggle over what might be the baby formulas shortage,
we're going to open up phone lines. I'm actually curious.
We have a ton of moms out there and dads
who buy baby formula. I've done this before, where you're
(15:13):
running in late at night you suddenly realize that you've
got a baby formulas shortage. You need to be able
to take care of your kid, and you're going in
post midnight, like a lot of dads and moms have
had to do during the course of those young, early
days of taking care of a baby. I'm curious what
the moms and dads out there are finding. You can
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call us one two two two eight eight two and
let us know what you are seeing and how difficult
maybe it has been to try to get that baby
formula purchase. But what you're seeing is an incompetence when
it comes to the economy, the likes of which we've
never seen. And as Buck and I were just talking about,
it's unfair at this point to even compare Joe Biden
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to Jimmy Carter, because Jimmy Carter was far more competent.
And on Fox Business Network when the eight point three
percent inflation numbers for April came out, Charlie Gasparino said,
this is a belief out there that Biden is just
totally incompetent. Listen to this. One of the problems that
we have right now, obviously is inflation. Obviously is with
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the markets and the economy. Obviously, it's rising interest rates
and that will slow down the economy. But the other
part of the equation here is a lack of confidence
in the guy running the country. And it's becoming increasingly
obvious from listen. I'm not going to mention names. I
talk the bank CEOs all the time. These are people
that voted voted for him. They believe he's incompetent, and
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they believe the people around him in are incompetent, and
they don't believe they're getting anything done. This is really
bad on the economy, and we're at a very treacherous
time in the economy. You know, this can go south fast.
It was supposed to be transitory, Buck, and now it
feels like it's never going to end. This is not
a surprise, right, I mean, they mandated as much as
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they do the whole unexpectedly, as we've been talking about economists. Expectedly,
they mandated the shutdown of whole economic sectors. They spent
trillions of dollars and sent people checks to stay at home,
all of which did nothing to stop COVID or limit
debts from COVID in any statistically meaningful way. And now
we have inflation, and the people in charge are surprised
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by this, like, like Joe Biden his advisors, Wait a second,
you mean you can't just spend trillions and trillions and
trillions of dollars while artificially reducing productivity in the economy,
the underlying actual value that our currency is tied to,
and we get inflation, and this is supposed to be
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a surprise. It's like idiots rule over us. Clay, Honestly, Yeah,
and I thought it was interesting. Gasparino there is pointing
out that many of these executives voted for Biden, and
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Travis and Buck Sexton show. We see the lines are
lighting up over people across the country who are having
trouble finding baby formula, or who are just really suffering
with this inflation situation, the high price of gas, the
high price of everything, food, rent, you name it, and
we want to hear from all of you. We want
people to know what's really going on, because if you know,
(19:35):
if you listen to the Biden regime mouthpieces in the
Democrat corporate media, they'll tell you it's not bad, it's transitory. No,
it is bad, actually, And everyone's starting to realize that
you can't avoid this truth anymore. You can't hide this.
And so now I wonder what the Democrat playbook will be.
I think January six and the insurrection aren't going to
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cut it when it comes to people voting this fall
when everything is more expensive and everything feels more dysfunctional,
and people who live in cities feel like the crime
situations to a lot of control, a lot of things
to deal with there. But you know, Claire, one thing
I always tell people is when a Democrat tells you,
it's for the children, be worried anytime they tell. And
I've been saying that for ten years. Given what's been
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going on recently with the whole you know, trans identity
for five year old stuff in Florida, rest the country
more than ever. But anytime someone like a Nancy Pelosi
or Chuck Schumer says we're doing this for the children,
be worried because they're not doing it. They're not doing
it for the children. A corollary to that is whenever
you have a Democrat politician who in so many ways
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is really just an affront to all biblical truth, to
natural law, you name it. But when they start citing
the Bible for their policies, then you also should be
prepared for When Democrats, especial people like Pelosi speak of
something from the Bible, you can always tell it's like
they're translating it from another language. You know, It's like
how I used to sound when I was in German
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class after leaving French class, because I took both of
those languages at the same time. Uh vis buck and
what a show off. Yeah that's about all. That's about
all I did Latin and French, Latin, French, German and
Arabic in school. Wow. And okay, no, we're gonna stop
anyway point because literally all I can say of those
(21:29):
like good at accents, I I'm not good at accents.
So my wife is a French professor. By the way
of all things, Yeah, got French Italian. She got all that.
I didn't get those genes up my French game. My
French accent on the show better be a flaws. But
I just want to say, but Pelosi's out there trying
to defend because the Democrats have decided, and this also
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makes me concerned. Clay, we need to go even even
more into this Ukraine Russia war with forty billion dollars.
As we said at the beginning, you and I were
talked texting about this yesterday, and last night we got
a forty billion dollars eight package on top of the
ten billion or so they've already gotten. So we're looking
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at fifty billion dollars. And I know this might sound
crazy to some Democrats out there. Fifty billion dollars, even
in America today, that's actually a lot of money. It's
a lot of money, and we're giving them fifty billion dollars.
Pelosi justifies it, of course, by saying, well, this is
what the Bible. The Bible requires. When you're home thinking
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what is this all about, just think about when I
was hungry, you fed me in the Gospel of Matthew.
Here she is again, by the way she did it
wasn't the first time that she invoked the Gospel of Matthew.
I think a staffer wrote this for her. I think
this is the only quasi biblical line from a gospel
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she could she could actually name. Here she is, though
she likes this talking point. Oh, not vain of the
we're talking about When I was hungry, you fed me.
When I was needed shelter, you sheltered me. When I
was homeless, you sheltered me. We're talking about the Gospel
of Matthew. We're talking about fundamental values in our country.
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Never trust a kami who cites the Bible, Clay, Well,
how about fundamental values in our country? Be let's take
care of people in our country first. And I believe
you were the first person who pointed this out, Buck,
or at least the first person that I heard talking
about it. Why are we not focused on the tens
of billions of dollars that we are shipping to Ukraine
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as we are rapidly approaching a cataclysmic situation at our
own southern border. Why in the world are we focused
on the territorial integrity of a European country when we
aren't focused on our own territorial integrity. And by the way,
you can build this on a large your scale. But
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if Nancy Pelosi wants to quote from the Bible, I'm
gonna be honest with you, Nancy. I'm more concerned about
all the moms and dads out there who can't find
baby formula on their shelves or having to deal with
double digit inflation for a variety of different products than
i am what's going on in Ukraine. And I'm troubled
by the fact, Buck, that we spent forty billion dollars,
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which by the way, was even more than Joe Biden requested.
I think his initial request, Buck was thirty three billion,
and there was almost no debate, and seventy percent of
Republicans just went ahead and spinning. Now, look, I'm not
saying that we need to turn our back on Ukraine,
because inevitably people will write that. No. Look, I want
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Ukraine to defeat Russia. I think that benefits us, but
I'm not sure that it benefits us the same way
to be spending tens of billions of dollars on Ukraine,
which by the way, is a corrupt, kleptocratic country. Where
are we sure that that money that we're spending is
being adequately distributed? We know how much, For instance, even
(25:08):
of the money we spent here in America for PPP
was totally wasted. Do we feel like we're getting good
bang for our buck here relative to what it means
to American interest when so many Americans are struggling. I
don't buy into that. Let's remind everybody you brought up
our porous, lawless Southern border, and and you know, to
(25:29):
be fair always, it's what we do here. And you know,
a military invasion is not the same thing as a
mass illegal migration invasion, but they are violations of sovereignty,
and one matters here in America a whole lot more
than the other, despite what you know, the Beltway elites
and some of the media may say to our day
(25:51):
to day what's going on at the southern border matters
a whole lot more than the situation playing out tactically
day by day in Ukraine. This is one of your colleagues,
Fox News reporter David Spunt on the backlog of cases.
Let's talk about what this means. In two weeks, Officials
expect and even greater surgeon crossings, as Title forty two
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will no longer be enforced once Title forty two is lifted.
Immigration judges are also planning for a surge in courtrooms,
but thanks to a backlog of one point seven million cases,
some migrants won't see a courtroom for three to seven
years from now. The backlog includes cases from two hundred
countries around the globe. Clay, Let's just think about this
(26:37):
for a second. There is no way that you could
reasonably do a real asylum case to find out if
someone's telling the truth or not in any of these circumstances.
The whole point here, with the backlog at one point
seven one point seven million cases, if we think about this,
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this would take years, sever years. Particularly the whole program here.
The plan is to effectively dissolve the backlog by saying, look,
we're just going to give everybody legal status and then
they're going to give them citizenship and let them vote.
That is the whole game plan the Democrats. That's people
(27:18):
want to know what they're doing. That's how they hope
to not only reward people for illegally crossing into the
country by the millions, but also get around the fact
that the American people right now, by the way, including Latinos,
are overwhelming recognizing the Democrat Party is bad at governance.
Worst numbers for Joe Biden Inflation second, worse numbers right
(27:41):
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appreciate all of you hanging out with us and Buck.
This baby formula shortage is becoming a bigger and bigger story,
(30:01):
and we put out kind of the bat signal to
see what kind of experiences you guys all over the
country might be having as you are going out and
trying to purchase baby formulas. Becoming a bigger and bigger
story as more and more people realize how pronounced it
truly is. One eight two two two eight eight two
in the buck, I think we got a bunch of
people who who want to weigh in on what this
(30:22):
experience has been like. Lines are lit, Let's get to it.
Tom in Alabama on the baby formula situation. What's going on?
Tom's and I was a big race supporter. I want
to thank you guys for carrying the torch for him
and God bless you for doing what you do. Thank you,
thank you with the baby shorts. I'm a i'm retired
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military drive a truck and I'm I'm a i'm a
local truck driver. Of the baby formula is not effecting me,
per sis. It's my daughter, my grand baby. She's four
months old. She lives in Birmingham, Alabama. I live in
the southeastern part of the state, in the in the
Birmingham married my my daughter and her husband. They can't
(31:04):
find baby formula. Uh, it's I mean, we're talking about
a big city in Birmingham, by the way, A lot
of you listen, there were number one in that market.
And so your daughter's having to drive around I'm assuming
all different sorts of places where ordinarily you be able
to go to one, you might have to go to
four or five or more to try to find baby formula.
Yes or uh. And when we're when we can when
(31:24):
we can find it, which has been rare, I'm I'm
male formula two or the drive the powdered formula. But
it's it's it's it's a little safer than just the formula.
A lot of children, like my daughter, my granddaughter, Um,
she has digested problems. Yeah, And there's there's there's different
finds of formula, right, specific formulas. Yeah, And and that's
(31:47):
it's just it's just not there. It's not on the shelf.
And would you have ever believed by the way that
you and your wife would be not just to help,
but to deal with this crisis that is hitting the
country right now now that you'd be having to shop
for baby formula for your granddaughter because your own daughter
couldn't find it in Birmingham. No, sure, I've never thought
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I would ever have to do that. I never thought
i'd ever see my country in this shape. Baby. Yeah,
thanks for calling it from Alabama and sharing your thoughts. Um.
We got another Clay and Buck team trucker here, I
think Fred in California. Hey, Fred, how you doing? Yes, sir,
good to hear from your Clay and Buck. I've been
trying to get formula now I had I had my baby,
(32:31):
my girlfriend hit or my daughter had the baby Friday,
so it's only been about three or four days. But
I've gone too probably, oh, I'd say ten different stores.
And I got lucky they had a shipment while I
was standing there, come in, so I bought the two
two small cases that they had. But you know, I'm
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still where are you in California? What part of the country?
Where are you going around that you had to go
to in places to find formula? Santa Barbara. Yeah, you
would think that it's crazy. Yeah, you'd think that they
would be able to have supply chain more efficient than
this and it's just nuts. Fred. Thanks for calling in
from Santa Barbara. Um Mike in Savannah, Georgia one of
(33:17):
my favorite talents. Hey Mike, Hey, how are you good?
So you know to to everybody else's pointy. I live
in Savannah, or really just south of Savannah, but uh,
you know, hitting a bunch of places. Uh. And I
went up to the Bluffton Uh Sam's Club yesterday. Didn't
have the right brand, but honestly, I would rather not
have my child starving, so I bought an off brand. Uh,
(33:42):
you know, a different form of semilac. But the shelf
is about seventy feet long, and I would tell you
that it was four fits of the way empty. Nothing
on the shelf phone dry. Usually you got palettes of
this stuff in a place like that, and those places
get stuffed first. This is crazy, Buck. I mean, we're
talking about the width and breadth of the country we
(34:03):
got just right now in Alabama, in South Carolina, in
Santa Barbara, California. People, it's the same story everywhere. Mike.
Thanks for calling in from Savannah. Clay. I just think
it's worth pointing out here. You know, we can point
to high you know, High Steak prices or high milk
prices or things. And that's that's hurting people's bottom line.
(34:23):
That that's annoying, it's frustrating. It puts more stress on families.
Can you think of a food product that is more
essential to have in stock of all the you know,
of all the of all the veggies and fruits and
dairy and point anything that is more essential to have
on the shelf that is a food than baby formula.
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I don't know if one exists. It's number one on
the list of things that you can't compensate for. We're
making fun of the succession Guy Cromwell, who was a
lot you know, super gluing himself to the counter. But
much of what we buy is fungible. That is, if
you go in to buy gatorade and they don't have gatorade,
you can buy power aid right, Okay, when they run
(35:07):
out of your mountain dew? What is your number two?
Meliello For the Southerners out there will know exactly what
I'm talking about. So, yes, there are lots of products
that are fungible. Baby formula isn't one of them. You
have to have it. And of all the things that
there could be a shortage of I'm not sure that
we could point to anything and buck. What I get
(35:28):
nervous about is when you look at what's going on
in Shanghai, I feel like supply chain crisises are going
to get worse. And we saw this with toilet paper, which,
by the way, I don't think anybody I mean, if
you run out of toilet paper, you run out. But
when people see these shortages, the shortages get worse because
people go in and they say, well, I may not
need it right now, but I definitely get to need
(35:50):
it in the future. And that's why I think this
baby formula thing is likely to get really massively worse
in a hurry for that exact reason. Well, if this
could happen to baby formula, and I do know that
there there was a specific incident that one major laboratory
had an issue, had a recall. So, yeah, because I
think a couple of babies died from their correct Yeah,
(36:11):
there was a bacteria. There was some kind of a
bacteria that they were worried was had tainted the baby formula.
But I don't think anybody would have expected that if
one baby formula company has a recall, now you're driving
coast three hours coast to coast across the country. They're
trying to find baby formula. Right just goes to show
you how fragile our supply chains are, how honestly, how
(36:34):
fragile different components of the economy Right now? Are you
starting to think about it? I mean, you know, I
talked to small business owners. One particularly recently was saying
the consumer hasn't even really felt the full impact of
the price raises, the rise in price that they're going
to see for the things that they're buying all the time,
because it's just making its way into this just like
(36:56):
inflation has been creeping and creeping and now all of
a sudden it's really hitting supply chain issue price of goods.
This is gonna be big problem for us. But we
got we got some smart folks to talk about this
with later on the show, David Mark, Is, vek Rama, Swamy,
and Clay. I'm gonna ask you a very important question
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Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show podcast. Welcome in everybody to the Wednesday edition
of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. We're racked
in stack today. I'll lot to discuss with all of you. Obviously,
the new inflation number is in unexpectedly all caps exclamation point,
(00:22):
unexpectedly worse than economists had been anticipated somehow, Clay, Buck,
all of you, we were thinking it was gonna be bad.
But we'll give you that number. What it means plus
forty billion dollars going to Ukraine four zero billion with
a bee. You used to think that was a lot
of money, you know, forty billion here, forty billion there.
(00:43):
It feels like it adds up after a while. But
while we have a baby formula shortage in this country,
the taxpayers are, without any conversation about it, on the
hook for forty billion dollars getting sent to Ukraine. So
we'll discuss what that means. I also want to take
a look at the reality of what are strategy is
(01:06):
at this point in Ukraine. You're noticing that people just
keep the Ukraine flags and there are Twitter profiles and
their Facebook pages, but Okay, well, what does the US
government want to do? If you look at some of
the recent rhetoric, there's there's real reason for concern over
a Biden administration expansion in the strategy, the role in
(01:26):
that conflict that could get very ugly, very quickly. These
things when you look at miscalculation in retrospect, it seems
like it was so obvious. But right now, does anyone
feel like this government has any sense of where this
is going and what they're trying to do? Plus a
lunatic on Broadway if you're famous, play that's how you
(01:49):
say it, apparently, if you're a Broadway famous person, right,
you go Broadway yells at a bunch of a one
person actually in the audience, not for being unmasked, but
mass beneath the nose. If you just want to know,
is the lib mask hysteria over? That's certainly not the case.
And then a milk protest love poking the soy loving
(02:09):
commies over this stuff. They get so angry, drag me,
soy commies, drag me. I don't care. This was. Do
you watch Succession? Right? Yeah, of course, Oh it's such
a good show on HBO, so entertaining, so well written
the character who was protesting in New York City. It's
like they pulled it directly out of succession, like they
(02:29):
should use this footage as a part of the series.
He couldn't be playing any more perfect to type based
on that, based on that clips by you right where
what it's near where you live, right where the protest
was going on, very much so. But let me since
we're talking about well, we'll give you the CPI number
and inflation and all this and you created a second
(02:51):
since we're talking This guy's James Cromwell. He plays the
green piece obsessed environmentalist, smug lib brother of the patriarch
of the of the family. And the show that that
it's it's essentially a very loosely based on Fox is
(03:12):
the idea behind the show of a massive media empire,
and this brother just as rich because he's the brother
and was there early on and so now he's kind
of the classic elite lib lunatic in the show. In
real life, he superglues his hand a few blocks from
where I live to the top of a Starbucks counter
(03:33):
because the vegan milk prices are too high? Can you imagine? Now?
When will you stop charging us? More for vegan built
When will you stop breaking in huge profits, clout customers,
animals and the environment suffered. The senseless of charge hurts animals.
(03:57):
So you know, Clay, there's so much here. First of all,
you know, it's it's plant juice. It's not milk. The
plants don't lactate. Okay, there's no milk involved here. I
understand they could say it's a branding thing, but you know,
spell it mylk or something, because it's not actually milk.
And all the libs who gets to amnimu of capitalism?
It's more expensive for the vegan milk because it's more expensive.
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Of all the things that you could protest in America
right now, is there anything that you could protest that
would make you more out of touch with America than
the price of vegan milk? I mean, I hear that.
And the reason why I say it feels like it
should be on a television program is it's so easy
(04:44):
to satirize out of touch left wing Let's be honest,
rich people, if you are protesting the price of vegan milk,
you are self satirizing you yourself to such an extent
it's almost impossible if you and I were sitting around
and we were like, Hey, what's the most out of
touch protest that you can think of the price of
(05:07):
vegan milk for your coffee being too high at Starbucks?
Might win? Like, I don't know that we could come
up with a more out of touch protests. In fact,
if they put this in the show Succession and this
same green piece enviro wacko, environmental wacko commy actor had
(05:28):
a secret had this as a scene, you'd be like,
that's really funny, Like that's really you know, because he
super glues his hand to the Can you imagine you're
the hourly wage employee at Starbucks. You're just trying to
get through your day like everybody else and get your
paycheck and go, and you've got this lunatic super gluing
his hand to the desk. And you know, beyond this,
(05:49):
you sit here, you say to yourself, we could see
a protest right now. If he had done this somewhere
and said, hey, we need to draw attention to the
razy high price, in fact, the scarcity of baby formunes, right,
I would say, you know what, Like, this guy's got
a point. More people need to pay attention to this.
(06:09):
But saying that your your oat milk or your your
vegan soy tumeric latte is a little too pricey. You
cannot make this stuff up. It's not real milk. This
is utter madness. Oh well played you Also, if it's
too expensive, drink water, right, you don't have to have coffee,
(06:33):
which to your point on the baby formulas shortage, and
when did this idea? But when did this come about?
Because it started to happen at NBA games too, where
these activists are trying to superglue themselves to things, like
they tried to superglue themselves to the basketball court. Now
this seems to be a new trend in protest that
you superglue yourself to the venue in some way. When
(06:58):
did this start? And how how do they unsuperglue you? Right? Like,
it doesn't seem like it would be a very safe
way to protest either, right Like, I don't know how
you re super anything to anything. That sounds like a
really bad idea. I don't know why anybody would think
this is. I mean, at least do the old you know,
handcuff yourself to the pipe or something, right, at least
(07:18):
that seems a little more civilized. I just I just
don't get it. But this is uh. And imagine if
you were buck just busy at work, like like let's
say you were just trying to go in and get
a coffee and then you walk in and some guy
has superglued himself to the Hey, this sucks. I would
have assumed if actor James Cromwell so, by the way,
(07:41):
was the president in some of the Jack Ryan movies,
right like Clear in Present Danger for some of our
audience out there that might not know him from succession, Yeah,
he had if you remember, I think it was in
Clear and Present Day. He's in the Green Mile as well,
if you remember The Green Mile. I think he's the
one whose wife you know, had is very sick and
that that act. If you watch movies at all, you
would recognize this guy from you know, the last twenty
(08:04):
five years. I mean he's actually a good Actor's great,
he's a good actor. To put that aside, but Clay,
it's also amazing because, as we were saying, if you
were constructing an out of touch and he wasn't the
only one. There are other people there like make my
soy milk cheaper, you know, And I'm gonna tell you
this right now, the only males who get upset about
soy milk jokes actually suffer from a lack of testosterone.
(08:27):
Like it's there's like a because otherwise, why do you
care if people say, oh, I have lactose intolerance, right, so,
then drink a romin milk. That's fine. People who take
offense to this, it does kind of cut them for
some reason. They get they get angry. But right now,
while they're complaining about the price of fancy nut milk,
I mean, I think that's what we would call it,
that there's there, you know, there's coolcon nuts and uh
(08:49):
and almonds and all these Anyway, while that's actually happening,
I'm just saying, inflation barreled ahead. Yes from CNBC eight
point three percent unexpectedly is all over the place every
time we get a new inflation reading. And I'm just saying,
at some point, wouldn't the economist have to if you're
(09:10):
surprised twelve straight months, wouldn't you have to adjust your
expectations at some point? This is like the this is
like the media lib or Democrat politician gets sick. Bill
Gates just got just right. I just want to say
I'm thankful for being vaccinated and boosted and look whatever.
Just the fact that you have to feel the need
(09:31):
to genuflect in that way, as though the vaccine gods
are expecting their praise is absurd. But it's the same
thing with the economists. If you want to be invited
on I don't watch the Financial Networks, but you know,
if you want to be invited on CNBC or whatever,
you've got to play this game of oh wow under Biden,
who's just so good at the economy on so smart,
(09:54):
and Kamala really knows what's going on, you know, YadA, YadA, YadA,
all the rest of it. You gotta say that you
were expecting a different number, because if people start to
realize that it's not a surprise, Clay, then they asked
the question, We'll hold on a second. Why should we
expect the economy keeps getting crappier? Maybe because the people
in charge aren't good at this, right They want to
avoid that recognition. And just to give us the most
(10:16):
recent number I saw, if you saw different numbers, Clay,
let me know, gasoline up forty three percent, use cars
up twenty two percent, meat fish eggs fourteen percent, new
cars thirteen percent, food at home up ten point eight percent,
transportation eight percent. That's unsustainable for a lot of families.
That means a lot of families start running in the red,
(10:37):
start running up credit card debt, millions and millions of families.
And then you had the baby formula thing on top
of it, and we got famous lib actors running around
complaining about soy milk. It's amazing. Yeah, and Buck, what
we should continue to emphasize, and I know a lot
of people out there listening know exactly what this feels
like is inflation is a default tax for all of
(11:00):
the lies basically that Joe Biden has spread about how
he's middle class Joe from Scranton, Pennsylvania, and he cares
about families. You basically, if you have had a job,
let's say you were making sixty thousand dollars a year,
you have gotten a roughly ten percent cut in your
(11:20):
overall income around six or seven thousand dollars just since
Joe Biden became president, based on inflation alone. So I mean,
I can say this as a guy who and I
can't speak for you in this regard, Clay, but by
all means I'm a guy who's made who's made forty
thousand dollars a year? Oh, certainly my salary. Yep. I'm
a guy who's made sixty thousand dollars a year, and
(11:41):
I'm a guy who's made seventy five thousand dollars a year.
And the differences in though, you know, once you get
to a certain level, you know, it's nice and maybe
you can do a little bit. But but the difference
in forty and sixty for folks, and the difference between
even you know, fifty and fifty five and forty and
forty five, that is substantial. And Nancy, I know because
(12:03):
I lived it right like you understand, you understand. Two,
Nancy Pelosi in her fifteen million dollars or whatever it
is San Francisco mansion, has no clue. She doesn't know
how to pump gas. She doesn't buy her own groceries.
She hasn't done that in fifty years. Folks, give me
a break buck. I had two kids that I was
responsible for, and I was making forty thousand dollars a year.
(12:26):
And so when you're making forty thousand dollars a year
and you got kids and you got expenses, hanging out
there when you're talking about almost double digit inflation, you're
taking four thousand dollars out of a forty thousand dollars salary.
I mean that is a massive amount in terms of
how much it can impact your budget. Look, neither of
(12:48):
my parents, Buck ever made fifty thousand dollars a year.
So when you're talking about what the impact is of
a day to day existence for so many people out
there across the country, they are struggling, Biden has no answers.
Biden has become Buck Jimmy Carter without the accomplished. No,
(13:08):
We've agreed on this one for a long time, Clay,
it is unfair to compare him to Jimmy Carter's farm.
Carter's smarter and more, way more competent than Joe Biden is.
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Appreciate all of you hanging out with us as we
roll through the Wednesday edition of the program had to
think there for a minute. It feels like there's so
(14:53):
much news happening on a day to day basis now
that I'm always like, hey, is it only Wednesday? And
we are having a good time here. And I wanted
to point out that many of you, as you continue
to struggle over what might be the baby formulas shortage,
we're going to open up phone lines. I'm actually curious.
We have a ton of moms out there and dads
who buy baby formula. I've done this before, where you're
(15:13):
running in late at night you suddenly realize that you've
got a baby formulas shortage. You need to be able
to take care of your kid, and you're going in
post midnight, like a lot of dads and moms have
had to do during the course of those young, early
days of taking care of a baby. I'm curious what
the moms and dads out there are finding. You can
(15:34):
call us one two two two eight eight two and
let us know what you are seeing and how difficult
maybe it has been to try to get that baby
formula purchase. But what you're seeing is an incompetence when
it comes to the economy, the likes of which we've
never seen. And as Buck and I were just talking about,
it's unfair at this point to even compare Joe Biden
(15:56):
to Jimmy Carter, because Jimmy Carter was far more competent.
And on Fox Business Network when the eight point three
percent inflation numbers for April came out, Charlie Gasparino said,
this is a belief out there that Biden is just
totally incompetent. Listen to this. One of the problems that
we have right now, obviously is inflation. Obviously is with
(16:18):
the markets and the economy. Obviously, it's rising interest rates
and that will slow down the economy. But the other
part of the equation here is a lack of confidence
in the guy running the country. And it's becoming increasingly
obvious from listen. I'm not going to mention names. I
talk the bank CEOs all the time. These are people
that voted voted for him. They believe he's incompetent, and
(16:42):
they believe the people around him in are incompetent, and
they don't believe they're getting anything done. This is really
bad on the economy, and we're at a very treacherous
time in the economy. You know, this can go south fast.
It was supposed to be transitory, Buck, and now it
feels like it's never going to end. This is not
a surprise, right, I mean, they mandated as much as
(17:05):
they do the whole unexpectedly, as we've been talking about economists. Expectedly,
they mandated the shutdown of whole economic sectors. They spent
trillions of dollars and sent people checks to stay at home,
all of which did nothing to stop COVID or limit
debts from COVID in any statistically meaningful way. And now
we have inflation, and the people in charge are surprised
(17:30):
by this, like, like Joe Biden his advisors, Wait a second,
you mean you can't just spend trillions and trillions and
trillions of dollars while artificially reducing productivity in the economy,
the underlying actual value that our currency is tied to,
and we get inflation, and this is supposed to be
(17:51):
a surprise. It's like idiots rule over us. Clay, Honestly, Yeah,
and I thought it was interesting. Gasparino there is pointing
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(19:13):
Travis and Buck Sexton show. We see the lines are
lighting up over people across the country who are having
trouble finding baby formula, or who are just really suffering
with this inflation situation, the high price of gas, the
high price of everything, food, rent, you name it, and
we want to hear from all of you. We want
people to know what's really going on, because if you know,
(19:35):
if you listen to the Biden regime mouthpieces in the
Democrat corporate media, they'll tell you it's not bad, it's transitory. No,
it is bad, actually, And everyone's starting to realize that
you can't avoid this truth anymore. You can't hide this.
And so now I wonder what the Democrat playbook will be.
I think January six and the insurrection aren't going to
(19:59):
cut it when it comes to people voting this fall
when everything is more expensive and everything feels more dysfunctional,
and people who live in cities feel like the crime
situations to a lot of control, a lot of things
to deal with there. But you know, Claire, one thing
I always tell people is when a Democrat tells you,
it's for the children, be worried anytime they tell. And
I've been saying that for ten years. Given what's been
(20:20):
going on recently with the whole you know, trans identity
for five year old stuff in Florida, rest the country
more than ever. But anytime someone like a Nancy Pelosi
or Chuck Schumer says we're doing this for the children,
be worried because they're not doing it. They're not doing
it for the children. A corollary to that is whenever
you have a Democrat politician who in so many ways
(20:46):
is really just an affront to all biblical truth, to
natural law, you name it. But when they start citing
the Bible for their policies, then you also should be
prepared for When Democrats, especial people like Pelosi speak of
something from the Bible, you can always tell it's like
they're translating it from another language. You know, It's like
how I used to sound when I was in German
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class after leaving French class, because I took both of
those languages at the same time. Uh vis buck and
what a show off. Yeah that's about all. That's about
all I did Latin and French, Latin, French, German and
Arabic in school. Wow. And okay, no, we're gonna stop
anyway point because literally all I can say of those
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like good at accents, I I'm not good at accents.
So my wife is a French professor. By the way
of all things, Yeah, got French Italian. She got all that.
I didn't get those genes up my French game. My
French accent on the show better be a flaws. But
I just want to say, but Pelosi's out there trying
to defend because the Democrats have decided, and this also
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makes me concerned. Clay, we need to go even even
more into this Ukraine Russia war with forty billion dollars.
As we said at the beginning, you and I were
talked texting about this yesterday, and last night we got
a forty billion dollars eight package on top of the
ten billion or so they've already gotten. So we're looking
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at fifty billion dollars. And I know this might sound
crazy to some Democrats out there. Fifty billion dollars, even
in America today, that's actually a lot of money. It's
a lot of money, and we're giving them fifty billion dollars.
Pelosi justifies it, of course, by saying, well, this is
what the Bible. The Bible requires. When you're home thinking
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what is this all about, just think about when I
was hungry, you fed me in the Gospel of Matthew.
Here she is again, by the way she did it
wasn't the first time that she invoked the Gospel of Matthew.
I think a staffer wrote this for her. I think
this is the only quasi biblical line from a gospel
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she could she could actually name. Here she is, though
she likes this talking point. Oh, not vain of the
we're talking about When I was hungry, you fed me.
When I was needed shelter, you sheltered me. When I
was homeless, you sheltered me. We're talking about the Gospel
of Matthew. We're talking about fundamental values in our country.
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Never trust a kami who cites the Bible, Clay, Well,
how about fundamental values in our country? Be let's take
care of people in our country first. And I believe
you were the first person who pointed this out, Buck,
or at least the first person that I heard talking
about it. Why are we not focused on the tens
of billions of dollars that we are shipping to Ukraine
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as we are rapidly approaching a cataclysmic situation at our
own southern border. Why in the world are we focused
on the territorial integrity of a European country when we
aren't focused on our own territorial integrity. And by the way,
you can build this on a large your scale. But
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if Nancy Pelosi wants to quote from the Bible, I'm
gonna be honest with you, Nancy. I'm more concerned about
all the moms and dads out there who can't find
baby formula on their shelves or having to deal with
double digit inflation for a variety of different products than
i am what's going on in Ukraine. And I'm troubled
by the fact, Buck, that we spent forty billion dollars,
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which by the way, was even more than Joe Biden requested.
I think his initial request, Buck was thirty three billion,
and there was almost no debate, and seventy percent of
Republicans just went ahead and spinning. Now, look, I'm not
saying that we need to turn our back on Ukraine,
because inevitably people will write that. No. Look, I want
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Ukraine to defeat Russia. I think that benefits us, but
I'm not sure that it benefits us the same way
to be spending tens of billions of dollars on Ukraine,
which by the way, is a corrupt, kleptocratic country. Where
are we sure that that money that we're spending is
being adequately distributed? We know how much, For instance, even
(25:08):
of the money we spent here in America for PPP
was totally wasted. Do we feel like we're getting good
bang for our buck here relative to what it means
to American interest when so many Americans are struggling. I
don't buy into that. Let's remind everybody you brought up
our porous, lawless Southern border, and and you know, to
(25:29):
be fair always, it's what we do here. And you know,
a military invasion is not the same thing as a
mass illegal migration invasion, but they are violations of sovereignty,
and one matters here in America a whole lot more
than the other, despite what you know, the Beltway elites
and some of the media may say to our day
(25:51):
to day what's going on at the southern border matters
a whole lot more than the situation playing out tactically
day by day in Ukraine. This is one of your colleagues,
Fox News reporter David Spunt on the backlog of cases.
Let's talk about what this means. In two weeks, Officials
expect and even greater surgeon crossings, as Title forty two
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will no longer be enforced once Title forty two is lifted.
Immigration judges are also planning for a surge in courtrooms,
but thanks to a backlog of one point seven million cases,
some migrants won't see a courtroom for three to seven
years from now. The backlog includes cases from two hundred
countries around the globe. Clay, Let's just think about this
(26:37):
for a second. There is no way that you could
reasonably do a real asylum case to find out if
someone's telling the truth or not in any of these circumstances.
The whole point here, with the backlog at one point
seven one point seven million cases, if we think about this,
(26:57):
this would take years, sever years. Particularly the whole program here.
The plan is to effectively dissolve the backlog by saying, look,
we're just going to give everybody legal status and then
they're going to give them citizenship and let them vote.
That is the whole game plan the Democrats. That's people
(27:18):
want to know what they're doing. That's how they hope
to not only reward people for illegally crossing into the
country by the millions, but also get around the fact
that the American people right now, by the way, including Latinos,
are overwhelming recognizing the Democrat Party is bad at governance.
Worst numbers for Joe Biden Inflation second, worse numbers right
(27:41):
now the border, and they aren't just underwater there, they're
underwater bucked by thirty and forty points oftentimes not just
with Republicans but also with independence. Even Democrats think Joe
Biden is doing a really poor job on inflation and
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got a couple of great guests for you, David Marcus
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the second and the third hours of the program. We
appreciate all of you hanging out with us and Buck.
This baby formula shortage is becoming a bigger and bigger story,
(30:01):
and we put out kind of the bat signal to
see what kind of experiences you guys all over the
country might be having as you are going out and
trying to purchase baby formulas. Becoming a bigger and bigger
story as more and more people realize how pronounced it
truly is. One eight two two two eight eight two
in the buck, I think we got a bunch of
people who who want to weigh in on what this
(30:22):
experience has been like. Lines are lit, Let's get to it.
Tom in Alabama on the baby formula situation. What's going on?
Tom's and I was a big race supporter. I want
to thank you guys for carrying the torch for him
and God bless you for doing what you do. Thank you,
thank you with the baby shorts. I'm a i'm retired
(30:43):
military drive a truck and I'm I'm a i'm a
local truck driver. Of the baby formula is not effecting me,
per sis. It's my daughter, my grand baby. She's four
months old. She lives in Birmingham, Alabama. I live in
the southeastern part of the state, in the in the
Birmingham married my my daughter and her husband. They can't
(31:04):
find baby formula. Uh, it's I mean, we're talking about
a big city in Birmingham, by the way, A lot
of you listen, there were number one in that market.
And so your daughter's having to drive around I'm assuming
all different sorts of places where ordinarily you be able
to go to one, you might have to go to
four or five or more to try to find baby formula.
Yes or uh. And when we're when we can when
(31:24):
we can find it, which has been rare, I'm I'm
male formula two or the drive the powdered formula. But
it's it's it's it's a little safer than just the formula.
A lot of children, like my daughter, my granddaughter, Um,
she has digested problems. Yeah, And there's there's there's different
finds of formula, right, specific formulas. Yeah, And and that's
(31:47):
it's just it's just not there. It's not on the shelf.
And would you have ever believed by the way that
you and your wife would be not just to help,
but to deal with this crisis that is hitting the
country right now now that you'd be having to shop
for baby formula for your granddaughter because your own daughter
couldn't find it in Birmingham. No, sure, I've never thought
(32:09):
I would ever have to do that. I never thought
i'd ever see my country in this shape. Baby. Yeah,
thanks for calling it from Alabama and sharing your thoughts. Um.
We got another Clay and Buck team trucker here, I
think Fred in California. Hey, Fred, how you doing? Yes, sir,
good to hear from your Clay and Buck. I've been
trying to get formula now I had I had my baby,
(32:31):
my girlfriend hit or my daughter had the baby Friday,
so it's only been about three or four days. But
I've gone too probably, oh, I'd say ten different stores.
And I got lucky they had a shipment while I
was standing there, come in, so I bought the two
two small cases that they had. But you know, I'm
(32:55):
still where are you in California? What part of the country?
Where are you going around that you had to go
to in places to find formula? Santa Barbara. Yeah, you
would think that it's crazy. Yeah, you'd think that they
would be able to have supply chain more efficient than
this and it's just nuts. Fred. Thanks for calling in
from Santa Barbara. Um Mike in Savannah, Georgia one of
(33:17):
my favorite talents. Hey Mike, Hey, how are you good?
So you know to to everybody else's pointy. I live
in Savannah, or really just south of Savannah, but uh,
you know, hitting a bunch of places. Uh. And I
went up to the Bluffton Uh Sam's Club yesterday. Didn't
have the right brand, but honestly, I would rather not
have my child starving, so I bought an off brand. Uh,
(33:42):
you know, a different form of semilac. But the shelf
is about seventy feet long, and I would tell you
that it was four fits of the way empty. Nothing
on the shelf phone dry. Usually you got palettes of
this stuff in a place like that, and those places
get stuffed first. This is crazy, Buck. I mean, we're
talking about the width and breadth of the country we
(34:03):
got just right now in Alabama, in South Carolina, in
Santa Barbara, California. People, it's the same story everywhere. Mike.
Thanks for calling in from Savannah. Clay. I just think
it's worth pointing out here. You know, we can point
to high you know, High Steak prices or high milk
prices or things. And that's that's hurting people's bottom line.
(34:23):
That that's annoying, it's frustrating. It puts more stress on families.
Can you think of a food product that is more
essential to have in stock of all the you know,
of all the of all the veggies and fruits and
dairy and point anything that is more essential to have
on the shelf that is a food than baby formula.
(34:46):
I don't know if one exists. It's number one on
the list of things that you can't compensate for. We're
making fun of the succession Guy Cromwell, who was a
lot you know, super gluing himself to the counter. But
much of what we buy is fungible. That is, if
you go in to buy gatorade and they don't have gatorade,
you can buy power aid right, Okay, when they run
(35:07):
out of your mountain dew? What is your number two?
Meliello For the Southerners out there will know exactly what
I'm talking about. So, yes, there are lots of products
that are fungible. Baby formula isn't one of them. You
have to have it. And of all the things that
there could be a shortage of I'm not sure that
we could point to anything and buck. What I get
(35:28):
nervous about is when you look at what's going on
in Shanghai, I feel like supply chain crisises are going
to get worse. And we saw this with toilet paper, which,
by the way, I don't think anybody I mean, if
you run out of toilet paper, you run out. But
when people see these shortages, the shortages get worse because
people go in and they say, well, I may not
need it right now, but I definitely get to need
(35:50):
it in the future. And that's why I think this
baby formula thing is likely to get really massively worse
in a hurry for that exact reason. Well, if this
could happen to baby formula, and I do know that
there there was a specific incident that one major laboratory
had an issue, had a recall. So, yeah, because I
think a couple of babies died from their correct Yeah,
(36:11):
there was a bacteria. There was some kind of a
bacteria that they were worried was had tainted the baby formula.
But I don't think anybody would have expected that if
one baby formula company has a recall, now you're driving
coast three hours coast to coast across the country. They're
trying to find baby formula. Right just goes to show
you how fragile our supply chains are, how honestly, how
(36:34):
fragile different components of the economy Right now? Are you
starting to think about it? I mean, you know, I
talked to small business owners. One particularly recently was saying
the consumer hasn't even really felt the full impact of
the price raises, the rise in price that they're going
to see for the things that they're buying all the time,
because it's just making its way into this just like
(36:56):
inflation has been creeping and creeping and now all of
a sudden it's really hitting supply chain issue price of goods.
This is gonna be big problem for us. But we
got we got some smart folks to talk about this
with later on the show, David Mark, Is, vek Rama, Swamy,
and Clay. I'm gonna ask you a very important question
later too. Could you land the plane yourself like an
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