November 18, 2023 • 36 mins
Israel-Hamas war latest. Las Vegas teens arrested in fatal beating of 17-year-old classmate. Texas Senator Ted Cruz joined Clay and Buck to discuss the presidential race, his race for Senate reelection, the blue state refugees moving to Texas, his new book: Unwoke: How to Defeat Cultural Marxism in America -- plus, can C&B hang with the senator in pickup basketball on Capitol Hill? Trouble with roundabouts.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Third hour play and Buck kicks off right now.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
We're talk to you about the Israel Hamas war with
updates from what's going on over there and force the
political impact here and in other Western countries. So we
have the IDF, these really defense forces have gone into.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
The Al Shifa Hospital in Kaza.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
This is the largest hospital complex in all of Gaza,
and it's also a place where thousands of people have
gathered for shelter apart from medical care. Now the IDF
has gone in because they have been able to ascertain
that there is a tunnel network that Hamas is using
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under the hospital. So this is specifically and this is
right in line with Hama's tactics stretching back for decades,
not just using civilians in general human shields, but trying
to use those you know, infants or in you know,
incubators and and you know, elderly who have severe health
(01:10):
issues who are in the hospital getting or anybody who
has a severeation in the hospital. So they're hiding behind
the wounded and tiny babies in this hospital. That is
that is what Hamas is up to Here is John
Kirby speaking for the Biden administration, talking about what's going
on here.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Play twelve Amas.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
And the Palestinian Islamic Jihad use some hospitals in the
Gaza Strip, including Al Shifa and tunnels underneath them, to
conceal and to support their military operations and to hold.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Hostagist now Clay on the on the one hand, the
IDF ground campaign is underway and they're going to methodically
go through and and Yahoo has said that anyone who
is in Hamas uh and and was involved in the
attack in any way plotting it, planning it supporting it
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will be captured or killed. And that is the mission
here that Hamas can no longer co exist alongside the
state of Israel. But in the West you still see
that there is this desire to create a false equivalency
between these two sides in the reporting. Here is the BBC,
which has been which is and has been among the
(02:24):
most pro Palestinian and pro Hamas major news entities on
the planet. The BBC is really left wing on a
range of issues, but on this issue for sure, and
they're apologizing here for claiming that the IDF was targeting
medical staff.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
Play thirteen, an apology from the BBC a BBC News
as it covered initial reports that Israeli forces has entered
Garza's main hospital. We said that medical teams and arab
speakers were being targeted. This was incorrect and misquoted Arroid report.
We should have said IDF forces included medical teams and
(03:04):
Arabic speakers for this operation. So we apologize for this era,
which fell below our usual editorial standards. The correct version
of events was broadcast minutes later.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Kind of, but see this is not a minor thing, right.
Let let's let's take a look at this. The BBC
state supported media in the UK. They went from Israel
went in their targeting meaning killing, that's what that means,
or arresting, you know, with military force, medical personnel and
anyone who speaks Arabic.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
To actually is play.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Israel showed up with additional medical personnel alongside the IDF
to help support medical operations inside this hospital. They're even
discussing ways that they can move for example, babies. I
mentioned babies who are in the you know, incubators to
hospitals either in Egypt or in Israel. And they brought
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Arabic speakers which Israel has many of and the IDF
has many of so that they could communicate effectively with
everyone inside to let them know we're not here to
harm you. We're actually here to help. We're only here
to look for hamas leadership, and we'll do what we
can to make not only make make sure that you're safe,
but that you get better medical treatment than you would
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have if we were not here with our resources. It
feels like, I mean, for the BBC, the BBC went
from Israel was targeting doctors to Israel's providing doctors.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
That's a pretty big difference. It's a huge difference.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
And what I would point to is this comes on
the heels of everyone uniformly accepting what Palestine said about
a hospital being destroyed, which you later found out was
actually a parking lot, And when Palestine said over five
hundred innocent people died, it actually ended up maybe being
a handful. If you knew that you had already failed
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by accepting the Palestinian side of a story as truth,
wouldn't you be even more likely to exercise safeguards going
forward so.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
That this did not happen again?
Speaker 1 (05:14):
I would, And it points to something that I've been
hammering for a long time, which is if you always
air in the same way, it isn't a sign of
journalistic failure or of negligence. It's the intent. And the
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example I've used for all of you out there is
how many times did the Washington Post get a Donald
Trump's story that was favorable to him wrong?
Speaker 2 (05:44):
And I would.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Always it's always fun to just point out, like, let's
pretend that Donald Trump saved a bag full of kittens
that somebody tried to throw off the bridge in Washington,
d c. From being drowned. He was out playing golf,
he had a ball near the water. Somebody threw a
bag of kittens. He found the bag of kittens and
(06:05):
he saved them. Oh, that's a super positive story about Trump,
and then it ends up being not true. Can you think, Buck,
of any story that the Washington Post or the New
York Times have had about Donald Trump that they've had
to retract that put him in too favorable of the light?
Speaker 2 (06:22):
No, it was too positive. Never happens, No, have they
because they.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Well, it's I think it started out for a lot
of people thinking they get these stories wrong. And this
certainly applies to the Israel Hamas conflict, they get it
wrong in good faith, and that's just because they're trying
to be so so even handed to double You know,
if the Hamas you know, medical authority says that fifty
thousand people have died, I think they say eleven thousand
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people have died so far.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
But whatever the number is, we should just report.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
It and act like it's likely to be true. But
the odds are or rather, if you look at this numerically,
at some point, there would have to be a story
that went, as you pointed out with the Trump thing,
in the other direction of terms of political damage, right,
it'll be just reporting. Then there would be errors in
both directions. And I also feel like whenever Israel reports something,
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there tends to be a there's a specificity for some
of these news that works and like, well, this is
the Israeli government saying it, and those are like, oh
my gosh. But all these casualties that are mostly children
in Gaza, it's just only only like women and children
being killed in Gaza according to Hamas. But what you also,
I think recognize Klay with all this is that a
lot of times there there will be reporting because there's
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a pretext to do damage to the other side, and
even if you know it's likely to be false, you
want to get the story out there. And that's what
you saw with Trump for years, and that's what you
see with some of these news networks with Israel as well. Oh,
it's unlikely that this is going to be true. In
the New York Times, five hundred people Israel killed five
hundred people in one missile strike by accident. That would
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be a massive story. It is highly unlikely to be true.
But it was a way of immediately creating the perception
that Israel is being reckless and wanton in its destruction
and killing civilians before it even really began the campaign
in a meaningful way in Israel, right, So you get
to push the perception and then the you see this
also with you see it more. But on Twitter, right,
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somebody would say something defamatory about a Republican.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Fifty thousand retweets, and then you'd.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Go to their replies and they'd say, oh, actually, that
was totally untrue twenty retweets. Yeah, and you realize that
the damage was done and they're happy that they did it,
and the fact that they were wrong doesn't matter to them.
That is how the pro Hamas media in the West
reports on this conflict.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Yeah, and by the way, you're out there, you may
be saying, okay, that's BBC. Well, the New York Times
had to apologize for the hospital strike believing Palestine without
actually doing due diligence.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
This just happened. Positive.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Two hundred and ninety thousand people showed up in Washington,
d C. To rally in defense of Israel and in
defense of Israel's ability to defend itself. That's a very
positive story. The Washington Post didn't cover it as a
national story book. Did you see this? They buried it
on the metro section as a local news story. Two
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hundred and ninety thousand people in Washington, d C. They
filled the National Mall to support Israel. I would mention,
by the way, a one hundred percent peaceful protest. None
of this trying to tear down American flags or kick
indoors or attack police officers like we've seen at so
(09:46):
many of the pro Palestine and pro Hamas rallies that
have taken place all over this country. Two hundred ninety
thousand people show up express support for Israel, and there
is absolutely zero negativity associated with it at all. Washington
Post doesn't cover as major news story seems like kind
of a big story buck. Instead, they bury it in
(10:09):
the Metro section of the Washington Post.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
They had a meeting.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
When bias always occurs news coverage, bias always occurs in
one direction. When errors always occur in one direction, you
have a clear problem in the way that you are
reporting the news. And an honest news organization would recognize
those blind spots if they were intent on trying to
keep the car between the lines right, if they were
(10:36):
just trying to call balls and strikes to use a
sports metaphor, and they knew that they were consistently failing,
they would try to address it instead.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
They and you have to remember that on this issue
of the of the Arab Israeli conflict or Middle East piece,
the Israeli Palestinian issue, of people in newsrooms that have
been there for a while, they've been dug in on this,
in some cases for decades. And so there are a
lot of people who work at the New York Times,
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the Washington Post, CNN who have been Palestinian sympathizers and
therefore very critical of quick to jump on, quick to
criticize and unfair toward Israel for so many years. Now
they're faced with this difficult reality of Hamas has just
blown through all the lines here. Hamas has shown the
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world a barbarism and an evil that is unmistakable, and
that has really separated these two sides with greater clarity,
I think than ever before. And so you have a
lot of people who don't want to believe it, you know,
who still are in denial about it.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
I'm talking in the newsrooms. Yeah, never mind the lunatics.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
We're walking around pulling down posters of those Israelis and
Americans who have been kidnapped by Hamas still to this day,
and then people are calling for for ceasefire and all
this stuff. How many days is Israel supposed to sit
back and allow Hamas to hold all these captives and
God knows what they're doing to them. I mean, how
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many days is this supposed to continue on? I mean,
and we're coming up on two months. It's crazy to
think about. I mean, they took these people hostage initially
on October seventh. We're over halfway through now, basically November,
and we still don't know where they are.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
I mean, some of these people are babies.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
I mean, it's totally absurdly ridiculous that we've even allowed
this to become a conversation. In my opinion that anyone
with a functional brain would be arguing in favor of
a ceasefire. But that's where we are, and I think
we'll talk about this. We need to update people on
that Las Vegas story, which we talked about yesterday. Give
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them the absolute latest on this seventeen year old kid
who was beaten to death in a high school by
a mob of fifteen other students. We'll give you an
update on that. But I think what you're seeing is
stories so often now are percolating up that violate the
existing narrative, and when the worldview is challenged, instead of reassessing,
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Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show. Appreciate all
of you hanging out with us. As we roll through
the Wednesday edition of the program. A lot of different
(14:40):
topics UH to dive into, but I wanted to mention
this to all of you. We talked about this yesterday.
There was a seventeen year old kid beaten to death
on video by a mob at his Las Vegas area school. This,
I believe buck happened on November the first, and yesterday
(15:03):
we said it's been two weeks and there had been
no charges at all brought. We brought the story to you.
We wanted to update you. This just happened yesterday or
early this morning. Eight high school students in Las Vegas
between the ages of thirteen and seventeen have been arrested
(15:24):
on murder charges in the fatal beating of a seventeen
year old classmate.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
This was at a Tuesday evening.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
News conference, and I'm reading from the article here at
CBS News. Las Vegas Police homicide Lieutenant Jason Johansson said
investigators were still working to identify two more students believed
to are participated in the November first fight that he
said was over a pair of wireless headphones. They said
(15:54):
the local FBI office had been involved, and the additional
two students will also face murder charges, bringing to ten
the number of people who will be charged in this case.
The seventeen year old victim, Jonathan Lewis Junior, died a
(16:15):
week after the fight. They have ruled the beating a homicide.
The social media video described as extremely disturbing by the police.
Officer said it was that video that allowed investigators to
identify the suspects.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Here's a quote from him.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Many of you and many people in the community have
seen the violent video that is circulated throughout our community
via social media. If you, or your child or someone
you knew has seen that violent video and recognized anybody
that may have been a participant participant in this senseless crime,
you need to get a hold of us again. This
(16:52):
is pretty crazy. It looks like ten different kids are
going to be charged with murder. That's the right result.
Buck Again, for those of you know seeing this video,
it's a white kid beaten to death by a mob
of black kids at a Las Vegas school. You said yesterday,
and I one hundred percent agree with you. If ten
white kids had beaten a black kid to death, every
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person in America would know what has happened and there
would be cities burning.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
It took two weeks for them.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
To identify anybody from a video, and I think only
with media pressure has there actually been any charges so
far brought. We'll see whether these kids are charged as
adults with right, whether that's.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Three of extinction ailes, because if they're treated all as juveniles,
some of them you know, clearly could be charged as
adults based on their ages. So we'll hopefully see justice
actually done it some way in this because you know, anyone,
anyone should be able to know that what this did,
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Speaker 2 (18:51):
Welcome back, everybody.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Senator Ted Cruz is with us now from the great
state of Texas. He's got a new book out, Unwoke,
How to Defeat Cultural Artism in America. Senator Cruz, great
to have you back.
Speaker 6 (19:03):
Sir clay Buck, great to join you both. Thank you
for having me.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Can we start with this?
Speaker 3 (19:09):
I don't know if you've get a chance to see
it centric, because that just came out.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Recently in the last few hours.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
I believe Quinnipiac poll first one that we have seen
here where Trump is up two points nationally on Biden.
We are seeing a lot of encouraging numbers in the
Swing States with a Trump or honestly even some other
Republican candidates as well against Biden. Are you are you
(19:35):
cautiously optimistic or are you worried? People are seeing these
numbers far too soon.
Speaker 6 (19:41):
Well, look, we're a year out, so the world can
change dramatically at a year. But I will say this, the
Biden record is a train wreck. Biden came into office
three years ago and he inherited peace and prosperity, and
we now have inflation hammering working men and women, the
cost of everything a skyrie bucketed. We have crime rates
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that are out of control. We have the worst illegal
immigration in our nation's history, and we have two wars waging.
We have the largest land war in Europe since World
War Two. We have the worst war in the Middle
East in fifty years. All of that has happened under
Biden's failed leadership. So I think the American people, a
large majority, recognize we're on the wrong track. I think
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it is an enormous opportunity to change track, and I
hope and pray we do that. I'm committed to doing
everything I can to fight to win the election in November.
In my race, I'm running for reelection in Texas, and nationally,
we've got to win the White House back.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
You've run several races in Texas, You've run national campaigns.
What are the numbers look like in Texas right now
for Trump because we've heard and also for you, but
we've heard a lot about Hispanic voters moving to the
Republican camp, and certainly we saw that to a large
extent down on the border in twenty twenty and twenty
twenty two, both. Are you still seeing those trends in
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Texas based on the numbers you're seeing. Is the Hispanic
movement towards Republicans continuing to grow based on the data
you're seeing on the ground in Texas.
Speaker 6 (21:10):
So yes, and that part of the story is encouraging.
Right now, Trump is leading in Texas right now, I'm
leading in Texas. That being said, Texas is a battleground state.
You're right that Hispanics are trending right. But at the
same time, we've seen nationally the two biggest demographic trends
in the country have been blue collar voters moving right.
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That's moved Midwestern states more Republican. But at the same time,
suburban voters, particularly suburban women, moving left, and that's moved
big suburban states more Democrat. You know, for Texas. For
my reelect, we're anticipating a very serious fight in Texas.
My last reelect six years ago was the most expensive
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Senate race in US history. We were out spent three
to one, and I won by less than three points.
I won by two point six percent. Chuck Schumer has
made clear I'm his number one target in the country.
And if you want to give a warning sign of
why Texas is a battleground, look no further than Georgia
and Arizona. Georgia and Arizona four years ago they had
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four Republican senators. Today they have four Democrat senators. Both
voted for Biden over Trump. And and that challenge is
the suburban women. Georgia is dominated by suburban women around Atlanta.
Arizona is dominated by suburban women around Phoenix. And in
both instances, those voters throughout two Republican senators and elected
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two Democrat senators instead. That's why Schumer has put a
bullseye on Texas because our demographics are very, very similar
to Georgia and Arizona, and so we're anticipating a real fight.
We're gonna win, but we're gonna win because we're doing
the hard work. We're raising the money. By the way,
go to Ted Cruz dot Org. Tedcruz dot Org, Ted
cruz dot org support the campaign because we're working eighteen
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hours a day to make sure we win next November,
no doubt.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
And I wanted to build on that too, because you know,
I live here in Tennessee bucks in Florida. I would
say Texas, Tennessee and Florida have seen a monstrous amount
of new residents coming in.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
And I'm sure you hear it all the time.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
You see don't Texas or don't California, my Texas. Yeah,
the same thing happens Tennessee in Florida. To what extent
do you believe the new residents in Texas politically help
or hurt you? And Trump and anybody else's who's fighting
for truth to justice in the American way in Texas.
Speaker 6 (23:36):
So look, it varies and they're cross cutting currents. There's
some people who are in blue states California and New
York or Illinois, and they're fed up. They're fed up
with the high Texas, the high regulations, they can't stand
the woke policies, they couldn't stand the COVID shutdowns, and
they decide they want to leave. And they look across
the country and the folks that pick Texas, they decide
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I want to be in Texas. The data show they're
actually more conservative than the media and Texas voter. They
come to Texas, they buy a pickup truck and boots
and a hat and a shotgun, and I call them
refugees for freedom. I want those folks come to Texas
and live free in our great state. The challenge in
Texas is we also have a second group of folks
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coming in, and that is when a company moves to
Texas and they're fleeing terrible economic policies, but they then
transfer their employees, and those employees didn't make an affirmative
decision I want to be in Texas. They just see
their job move and they stick with their job. And
I think the data shows those employees vote exactly like
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they did where they came from. And so, for example,
you had a bunch of tech companies moving into Austin, Texas.
That's great for economic growth, but they're bringing tech workers
that are voting like blue state California Democrats. And how
those two groups intersect I think we'll say a lot
about the impact on Texas or Tennessee. Tennessee has a
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lot of companies moving into it as well, so you've
got both kinds as well. I think Florida in some
ways is better off, and that the people coming too
Florida are predominantly Category one people fleeing seeking freedom. So
Florida's getting reader. But Texas and Tennessee we got so
many companies coming. In some ways, we're victims of our
own success.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
Speaking of Senator Ted Cruz, he's got a new book out, Unwoke,
How to Defeat Cultural Marxism in America. Senator Cruz want
to give you the opportunity to just tell us he
wrote the book on this one. It feels like the
wokeness has been actually taking some losses, whether it's the
bud Light phenomenon or some of these box office bombs
that were trying to be very you know, ultra dei based,
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et cetera.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
How do we win, how do we keep the momentum?
Speaker 6 (25:47):
Well, that is exactly what the book is about. It
just came out this past week. And what the book
does is two things. It number one describes how the
radical left took over the major institutions in America. So
every chapter of the book addresses a different institution. I
start with universities, and chapter one is universities. I call
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universities the Wuhan lab of the woke virus. That's where
it was created, that's where it mutated, that's where it
spread from universities. The book goes on to chapter two
on K through twelve education, then to journalism, then to government,
then to big business, then to big tech, then to entertainment,
to movies and TV and sports and music, then to
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science and the politicization of science. And the last chapter
is on China as a central nexus intertwined with all
of them. The book explains number one, how these institutions
were seized, but number two exactly what your question is. Critically,
It lays out a practical battle plan for how we
take them back, how we recover these institutions, because if
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we don't take them back, we're going to lose our country.
And you pointed to one of the examples that I
describe at great length, which is big business, which and
I talk at length about bud Light and Target. In
both instances, you had woke executives who didn't give a
damn what the customer said, and they essentially tried to
force their political ideology on their customers, and it blew
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up in their faces. Both bud Light and Target lost
tens of billions of dollars in market cap. And what's
powerful about that? In terms of strategies? I argue number
one for transparency in Sunlight, but number two for on
the cost benefit ledger of going woke, significantly increasing the
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costs so that rational actors will say no. And I
think on big business we are seeing real and meaningful victories.
We need to see that across those institutions.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Talking to Senator Ted CRU's new book, encourage you to
check it out. You ever think about challenging anybody to
a fight during a Senate subcommittee hearing.
Speaker 6 (27:57):
You know, I'm going to stick to the verbal and
argumentative sword and and and probably.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
We saw we saw you in we saw you thrown.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Down the basketball court, sir. It's not it's not just
the verbal pugilism for you. You you can box out.
Speaker 6 (28:14):
Uh, you know it's uh. I will say you come
play hoops with me, and and we I played twice
a week, and I'll tell you our game has has
more violence than skill. But but but we play no blood,
no foul, and there are regularly fouls because we beat
the living crap out of each other. In fact, I
had one of my staff members literally broke my thumb
(28:34):
playing hoops. I went up for a rebound, he came
down hard. His guy named Tony from Brooklyn. He's law cler,
hell of a ballplayer, but he plays like he plays
like Tony from Brooklyn with with you know, a gold chain,
and he's like ready to rumble. And I told my
daughters when when my thumb was broken, I said, Daddy
yelled out a very bad word. But we finished the game.
(28:55):
You'd be proud to know we finished the game. And
actually I scored again with a broken thumb. I couldn't shoot.
It hurt too bad, but I did a finger roll,
scored a layup, and we won the game. And then
I was out for about six weeks.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
In my thought, what, I'm just kind of curious, what
does Tony's reaction because Doug Bergham, I think, tore his
acl right or his achilles right before one of the debates,
and we asked him about that. But if you're a
staff member who breaks the bone of your boss in
a pickup basketball game, how nervous do you think Tony
was when he realized that he had actually injured you?
Speaker 6 (29:29):
Yeah, look, he's he's a really good guy. I will
tell you I I I sort of had my revenge
on Tony because I went that night on my podcast
Verdict with Ted Cruz and I just made fun of Tony.
I said, dude, look, I'm all for playing hard, but
you have to break my thumb. Yeah, And so that's
that's sort of my blowback was to make a little
fun on the podcast. But he's a great guy and
he did did terrific work. And and look it, Actually,
(29:53):
you guys need to come play hoops with us, cause
you know, Clay, you're a sports guy. Get it, get
out there.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
And I would actually like to.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
Play buck you were just because I don't like college football.
I've played three sports growing up competitively.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
I'm ready to rock, Senator.
Speaker 6 (30:09):
What sports did you play?
Speaker 2 (30:10):
I was tennis, soccer, and basketball. Ready to go?
Speaker 6 (30:13):
All right, well, both of you come on it. And
by the way, you guys, I'm sorry to tell you
so we play, we play old guys against young guys.
I'm sorry to tell you you're both thoroughly on the old
guys side.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Toushed by this because he's a different generation than me.
This is this is a shot to Buck's ego in
a big way that he's on the old guys.
Speaker 6 (30:32):
All right, Buck, how old are you?
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Buck? I'm forty one, soon to be forty two.
Speaker 6 (30:37):
Okay, So so we play mostly with Capitol Hill staffers.
You know what, typically the cutoff for young guys is
on Capitol Hill with staffers thirty. What about about twenty six?
And so we play with all these young guys who
are body guys. A bunch of them were college athletes.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
Do you keep a lot of like icy hot and
bandages for the old guys because I I things start
to hurt.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
You know, my back hurts, my knees, so we could
use some help.
Speaker 6 (31:03):
So look, you will be happy to know the old
guys win almost every single game. And there's a reason.
So listen. The young guys who they're stronger than we are.
They're faster, they have more endurance, they have more skill,
but they play like horny puppy dogs. They're so excited.
They go in a triple team. I gotta score, I
gotta score, I gotta score. They go in a triple team,
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and they screw it up. Old guys, we know we
can't do that anymore, So we do things like we
set picks, we help on defense, we talk on defense,
We pass to the open man, and we play a
little bit dirty. If someone's going up for a rebound,
you grab their shorts and just pull it down and something.
We don't get the rebound. I mean, that's that's old
man basketball.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Better, that is old man YMCA basketball. What time do
you play about? We will play. We'll come play the
next time. We'll do our show from up in DC.
What's the usual game time?
Speaker 6 (31:51):
So we usually play Thursday afternoon. So I'll have my
team connect with you and when we get good games.
A number of other senators have played with us, some
house members play with us, and so you guys will
come out and we'll have some fun.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
That'll be fun. That'll be a lot of fun. We'll
do it.
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Speaker 1 (33:39):
Although I'm thinking about that basketball game I do when
I run around with my kids in the backyard. Now, Buck,
I've never torn my acl or my achilles tendon or
anything like that, but now that I'm over forty, I
definitely think gotta be careful on the jumping, like I don't.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
I got severely juer myse lot, I got my hammies.
My hamstrings, men, they're like a violin string.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
I go.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
I gotta make sure loosen those guys up, because you know,
we're at the age nine two.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
It used to be you get injured and you're like,
I'll you know, you could play through it, Yeah, and
then you just a week or two you'd be fine.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
You pull a muscle. Now it's like a six to
eight week ordeal, no doubt.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
And speaking of ordeal, I don't know why roundabouts exist
anywhere in the country.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
We've taken him from Europe and we brought him here.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
But I've been mentioning that I've got my fifteen year
old and I take him out and I'm training him,
teaching him how to drive.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
Right now.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
This past weekend, Buck, we hit a roundabout in downtown Franklin,
the main little town square there. I don't know what
I was thinking. They're taking him on that road. He's
written around the roundabout with me driving before, the panic
on his face. Buck, when we got to the roundabout
and trying to explain to him how to deal with
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what inevitably ended up being a completely packed round It
made me forget about how insanely difficult it is to
hit a roundabout if you've never been in one before,
and there aren't that many. There's that great scene in Vacation,
I think it's European Vacation where Chevy Chase gets caught
and he's like, hey, what kid's big Ben and Uh
(35:18):
And as you're driving around, you think to yourself, this
is going to be a disaster. Washington Square in DC.
I used to live right off of it, Washington Circle
right there. Many people will know what I'm talking about.
Right up in between the George Washington Area and UH
and DuPont Circle. Nobody knows how to drive on a
roundabout and trying to teach a kid how to drive
on a roundabout is a disaster too. I think I
(35:41):
think I've heard this, and this may just be this
may just be socialist propaganda. Yes, but I've heard that
roundabouts have lower traffic issues than it stops on. I
don't believe it because I'm terrible. When I was driving
in Scotland on the wrong side of the freaking road,
yes and gunning these roundabouts are people ripping through them,
(36:01):
and they were like four lanes deep in the roundabout.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
I saw my life flashing before my eyes.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
You've got pedestrians, You've got like four or five different exits.
I think they look kind of cool, right, I can
see why from a design purposes you can be like, oh,
this roundabout in the neighborhood, it's fantastic. Nobody has any
idea how to drive on them, and if there's anything
more than one lane, it's a recipe for disaster. I
really legitimately thought there's no way we're ever getting off
(36:28):
this roundabout without this car being totaled. We made it,
but this is now the scariest thing that I've done.
And the driving training process is get on a roundabout
with a kid trying to learn again, even hardly explain
with him. Buck, you've got the show solo tomorrow, I've
got the Patriot Awards with Fox all day.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
Keep the shift afloat. I'll see you guys on Friday.
Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Third hour play and Buck kicks off right now.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
We're talk to you about the Israel Hamas war with
updates from what's going on over there and force the
political impact here and in other Western countries. So we
have the IDF, these really defense forces have gone into.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
The Al Shifa Hospital in Kaza.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
This is the largest hospital complex in all of Gaza,
and it's also a place where thousands of people have
gathered for shelter apart from medical care. Now the IDF
has gone in because they have been able to ascertain
that there is a tunnel network that Hamas is using
(00:50):
under the hospital. So this is specifically and this is
right in line with Hama's tactics stretching back for decades,
not just using civilians in general human shields, but trying
to use those you know, infants or in you know,
incubators and and you know, elderly who have severe health
(01:10):
issues who are in the hospital getting or anybody who
has a severeation in the hospital. So they're hiding behind
the wounded and tiny babies in this hospital. That is
that is what Hamas is up to Here is John
Kirby speaking for the Biden administration, talking about what's going
on here.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Play twelve Amas.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
And the Palestinian Islamic Jihad use some hospitals in the
Gaza Strip, including Al Shifa and tunnels underneath them, to
conceal and to support their military operations and to hold.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Hostagist now Clay on the on the one hand, the
IDF ground campaign is underway and they're going to methodically
go through and and Yahoo has said that anyone who
is in Hamas uh and and was involved in the
attack in any way plotting it, planning it supporting it
(02:03):
will be captured or killed. And that is the mission
here that Hamas can no longer co exist alongside the
state of Israel. But in the West you still see
that there is this desire to create a false equivalency
between these two sides in the reporting. Here is the BBC,
which has been which is and has been among the
(02:24):
most pro Palestinian and pro Hamas major news entities on
the planet. The BBC is really left wing on a
range of issues, but on this issue for sure, and
they're apologizing here for claiming that the IDF was targeting
medical staff.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
Play thirteen, an apology from the BBC a BBC News
as it covered initial reports that Israeli forces has entered
Garza's main hospital. We said that medical teams and arab
speakers were being targeted. This was incorrect and misquoted Arroid report.
We should have said IDF forces included medical teams and
(03:04):
Arabic speakers for this operation. So we apologize for this era,
which fell below our usual editorial standards. The correct version
of events was broadcast minutes later.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Kind of, but see this is not a minor thing, right.
Let let's let's take a look at this. The BBC
state supported media in the UK. They went from Israel
went in their targeting meaning killing, that's what that means,
or arresting, you know, with military force, medical personnel and
anyone who speaks Arabic.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
To actually is play.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Israel showed up with additional medical personnel alongside the IDF
to help support medical operations inside this hospital. They're even
discussing ways that they can move for example, babies. I
mentioned babies who are in the you know, incubators to
hospitals either in Egypt or in Israel. And they brought
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Arabic speakers which Israel has many of and the IDF
has many of so that they could communicate effectively with
everyone inside to let them know we're not here to
harm you. We're actually here to help. We're only here
to look for hamas leadership, and we'll do what we
can to make not only make make sure that you're safe,
but that you get better medical treatment than you would
(04:19):
have if we were not here with our resources. It
feels like, I mean, for the BBC, the BBC went
from Israel was targeting doctors to Israel's providing doctors.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
That's a pretty big difference. It's a huge difference.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
And what I would point to is this comes on
the heels of everyone uniformly accepting what Palestine said about
a hospital being destroyed, which you later found out was
actually a parking lot, And when Palestine said over five
hundred innocent people died, it actually ended up maybe being
a handful. If you knew that you had already failed
(04:58):
by accepting the Palestinian side of a story as truth,
wouldn't you be even more likely to exercise safeguards going
forward so.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
That this did not happen again?
Speaker 1 (05:14):
I would, And it points to something that I've been
hammering for a long time, which is if you always
air in the same way, it isn't a sign of
journalistic failure or of negligence. It's the intent. And the
(05:34):
example I've used for all of you out there is
how many times did the Washington Post get a Donald
Trump's story that was favorable to him wrong?
Speaker 2 (05:44):
And I would.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Always it's always fun to just point out, like, let's
pretend that Donald Trump saved a bag full of kittens
that somebody tried to throw off the bridge in Washington,
d c. From being drowned. He was out playing golf,
he had a ball near the water. Somebody threw a
bag of kittens. He found the bag of kittens and
(06:05):
he saved them. Oh, that's a super positive story about Trump,
and then it ends up being not true. Can you think, Buck,
of any story that the Washington Post or the New
York Times have had about Donald Trump that they've had
to retract that put him in too favorable of the light?
Speaker 2 (06:22):
No, it was too positive. Never happens, No, have they
because they.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Well, it's I think it started out for a lot
of people thinking they get these stories wrong. And this
certainly applies to the Israel Hamas conflict, they get it
wrong in good faith, and that's just because they're trying
to be so so even handed to double You know,
if the Hamas you know, medical authority says that fifty
thousand people have died, I think they say eleven thousand
(06:49):
people have died so far.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
But whatever the number is, we should just report.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
It and act like it's likely to be true. But
the odds are or rather, if you look at this numerically,
at some point, there would have to be a story
that went, as you pointed out with the Trump thing,
in the other direction of terms of political damage, right,
it'll be just reporting. Then there would be errors in
both directions. And I also feel like whenever Israel reports something,
(07:14):
there tends to be a there's a specificity for some
of these news that works and like, well, this is
the Israeli government saying it, and those are like, oh
my gosh. But all these casualties that are mostly children
in Gaza, it's just only only like women and children
being killed in Gaza according to Hamas. But what you also,
I think recognize Klay with all this is that a
lot of times there there will be reporting because there's
(07:37):
a pretext to do damage to the other side, and
even if you know it's likely to be false, you
want to get the story out there. And that's what
you saw with Trump for years, and that's what you
see with some of these news networks with Israel as well. Oh,
it's unlikely that this is going to be true. In
the New York Times, five hundred people Israel killed five
hundred people in one missile strike by accident. That would
(07:58):
be a massive story. It is highly unlikely to be true.
But it was a way of immediately creating the perception
that Israel is being reckless and wanton in its destruction
and killing civilians before it even really began the campaign
in a meaningful way in Israel, right, So you get
to push the perception and then the you see this
also with you see it more. But on Twitter, right,
(08:20):
somebody would say something defamatory about a Republican.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Fifty thousand retweets, and then you'd.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Go to their replies and they'd say, oh, actually, that
was totally untrue twenty retweets. Yeah, and you realize that
the damage was done and they're happy that they did it,
and the fact that they were wrong doesn't matter to them.
That is how the pro Hamas media in the West
reports on this conflict.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Yeah, and by the way, you're out there, you may
be saying, okay, that's BBC. Well, the New York Times
had to apologize for the hospital strike believing Palestine without
actually doing due diligence.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
This just happened. Positive.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Two hundred and ninety thousand people showed up in Washington,
d C. To rally in defense of Israel and in
defense of Israel's ability to defend itself. That's a very
positive story. The Washington Post didn't cover it as a
national story book. Did you see this? They buried it
on the metro section as a local news story. Two
(09:22):
hundred and ninety thousand people in Washington, d C. They
filled the National Mall to support Israel. I would mention,
by the way, a one hundred percent peaceful protest. None
of this trying to tear down American flags or kick
indoors or attack police officers like we've seen at so
(09:46):
many of the pro Palestine and pro Hamas rallies that
have taken place all over this country. Two hundred ninety
thousand people show up express support for Israel, and there
is absolutely zero negativity associated with it at all. Washington
Post doesn't cover as major news story seems like kind
of a big story buck. Instead, they bury it in
(10:09):
the Metro section of the Washington Post.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
They had a meeting.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
When bias always occurs news coverage, bias always occurs in
one direction. When errors always occur in one direction, you
have a clear problem in the way that you are
reporting the news. And an honest news organization would recognize
those blind spots if they were intent on trying to
keep the car between the lines right, if they were
(10:36):
just trying to call balls and strikes to use a
sports metaphor, and they knew that they were consistently failing,
they would try to address it instead.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
They and you have to remember that on this issue
of the of the Arab Israeli conflict or Middle East piece,
the Israeli Palestinian issue, of people in newsrooms that have
been there for a while, they've been dug in on this,
in some cases for decades. And so there are a
lot of people who work at the New York Times,
(11:07):
the Washington Post, CNN who have been Palestinian sympathizers and
therefore very critical of quick to jump on, quick to
criticize and unfair toward Israel for so many years. Now
they're faced with this difficult reality of Hamas has just
blown through all the lines here. Hamas has shown the
(11:31):
world a barbarism and an evil that is unmistakable, and
that has really separated these two sides with greater clarity,
I think than ever before. And so you have a
lot of people who don't want to believe it, you know,
who still are in denial about it.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
I'm talking in the newsrooms. Yeah, never mind the lunatics.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
We're walking around pulling down posters of those Israelis and
Americans who have been kidnapped by Hamas still to this day,
and then people are calling for for ceasefire and all
this stuff. How many days is Israel supposed to sit
back and allow Hamas to hold all these captives and
God knows what they're doing to them. I mean, how
(12:09):
many days is this supposed to continue on? I mean,
and we're coming up on two months. It's crazy to
think about. I mean, they took these people hostage initially
on October seventh. We're over halfway through now, basically November,
and we still don't know where they are.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
I mean, some of these people are babies.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
I mean, it's totally absurdly ridiculous that we've even allowed
this to become a conversation. In my opinion that anyone
with a functional brain would be arguing in favor of
a ceasefire. But that's where we are, and I think
we'll talk about this. We need to update people on
that Las Vegas story, which we talked about yesterday. Give
(12:49):
them the absolute latest on this seventeen year old kid
who was beaten to death in a high school by
a mob of fifteen other students. We'll give you an
update on that. But I think what you're seeing is
stories so often now are percolating up that violate the
existing narrative, and when the worldview is challenged, instead of reassessing,
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they pretend that they aren't occurring, or they argue that
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of you hanging out with us. As we roll through
the Wednesday edition of the program. A lot of different
(14:40):
topics UH to dive into, but I wanted to mention
this to all of you. We talked about this yesterday.
There was a seventeen year old kid beaten to death
on video by a mob at his Las Vegas area school. This,
I believe buck happened on November the first, and yesterday
(15:03):
we said it's been two weeks and there had been
no charges at all brought. We brought the story to you.
We wanted to update you. This just happened yesterday or
early this morning. Eight high school students in Las Vegas
between the ages of thirteen and seventeen have been arrested
(15:24):
on murder charges in the fatal beating of a seventeen
year old classmate.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
This was at a Tuesday evening.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
News conference, and I'm reading from the article here at
CBS News. Las Vegas Police homicide Lieutenant Jason Johansson said
investigators were still working to identify two more students believed
to are participated in the November first fight that he
said was over a pair of wireless headphones. They said
(15:54):
the local FBI office had been involved, and the additional
two students will also face murder charges, bringing to ten
the number of people who will be charged in this case.
The seventeen year old victim, Jonathan Lewis Junior, died a
(16:15):
week after the fight. They have ruled the beating a homicide.
The social media video described as extremely disturbing by the police.
Officer said it was that video that allowed investigators to
identify the suspects.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Here's a quote from him.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Many of you and many people in the community have
seen the violent video that is circulated throughout our community
via social media. If you, or your child or someone
you knew has seen that violent video and recognized anybody
that may have been a participant participant in this senseless crime,
you need to get a hold of us again. This
(16:52):
is pretty crazy. It looks like ten different kids are
going to be charged with murder. That's the right result.
Buck Again, for those of you know seeing this video,
it's a white kid beaten to death by a mob
of black kids at a Las Vegas school. You said yesterday,
and I one hundred percent agree with you. If ten
white kids had beaten a black kid to death, every
(17:13):
person in America would know what has happened and there
would be cities burning.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
It took two weeks for them.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
To identify anybody from a video, and I think only
with media pressure has there actually been any charges so
far brought. We'll see whether these kids are charged as
adults with right, whether that's.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Three of extinction ailes, because if they're treated all as juveniles,
some of them you know, clearly could be charged as
adults based on their ages. So we'll hopefully see justice
actually done it some way in this because you know, anyone,
anyone should be able to know that what this did,
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Welcome back, everybody.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Senator Ted Cruz is with us now from the great
state of Texas. He's got a new book out, Unwoke,
How to Defeat Cultural Artism in America. Senator Cruz, great
to have you back.
Speaker 6 (19:03):
Sir clay Buck, great to join you both. Thank you
for having me.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Can we start with this?
Speaker 3 (19:09):
I don't know if you've get a chance to see
it centric, because that just came out.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Recently in the last few hours.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
I believe Quinnipiac poll first one that we have seen
here where Trump is up two points nationally on Biden.
We are seeing a lot of encouraging numbers in the
Swing States with a Trump or honestly even some other
Republican candidates as well against Biden. Are you are you
(19:35):
cautiously optimistic or are you worried? People are seeing these
numbers far too soon.
Speaker 6 (19:41):
Well, look, we're a year out, so the world can
change dramatically at a year. But I will say this, the
Biden record is a train wreck. Biden came into office
three years ago and he inherited peace and prosperity, and
we now have inflation hammering working men and women, the
cost of everything a skyrie bucketed. We have crime rates
(20:01):
that are out of control. We have the worst illegal
immigration in our nation's history, and we have two wars waging.
We have the largest land war in Europe since World
War Two. We have the worst war in the Middle
East in fifty years. All of that has happened under
Biden's failed leadership. So I think the American people, a
large majority, recognize we're on the wrong track. I think
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it is an enormous opportunity to change track, and I
hope and pray we do that. I'm committed to doing
everything I can to fight to win the election in November.
In my race, I'm running for reelection in Texas, and nationally,
we've got to win the White House back.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
You've run several races in Texas, You've run national campaigns.
What are the numbers look like in Texas right now
for Trump because we've heard and also for you, but
we've heard a lot about Hispanic voters moving to the
Republican camp, and certainly we saw that to a large
extent down on the border in twenty twenty and twenty
twenty two, both. Are you still seeing those trends in
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Texas based on the numbers you're seeing. Is the Hispanic
movement towards Republicans continuing to grow based on the data
you're seeing on the ground in Texas.
Speaker 6 (21:10):
So yes, and that part of the story is encouraging.
Right now, Trump is leading in Texas right now, I'm
leading in Texas. That being said, Texas is a battleground state.
You're right that Hispanics are trending right. But at the
same time, we've seen nationally the two biggest demographic trends
in the country have been blue collar voters moving right.
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That's moved Midwestern states more Republican. But at the same time,
suburban voters, particularly suburban women, moving left, and that's moved
big suburban states more Democrat. You know, for Texas. For
my reelect, we're anticipating a very serious fight in Texas.
My last reelect six years ago was the most expensive
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Senate race in US history. We were out spent three
to one, and I won by less than three points.
I won by two point six percent. Chuck Schumer has
made clear I'm his number one target in the country.
And if you want to give a warning sign of
why Texas is a battleground, look no further than Georgia
and Arizona. Georgia and Arizona four years ago they had
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four Republican senators. Today they have four Democrat senators. Both
voted for Biden over Trump. And and that challenge is
the suburban women. Georgia is dominated by suburban women around Atlanta.
Arizona is dominated by suburban women around Phoenix. And in
both instances, those voters throughout two Republican senators and elected
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two Democrat senators instead. That's why Schumer has put a
bullseye on Texas because our demographics are very, very similar
to Georgia and Arizona, and so we're anticipating a real fight.
We're gonna win, but we're gonna win because we're doing
the hard work. We're raising the money. By the way,
go to Ted Cruz dot Org. Tedcruz dot Org, Ted
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hours a day to make sure we win next November,
no doubt.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
And I wanted to build on that too, because you know,
I live here in Tennessee bucks in Florida. I would
say Texas, Tennessee and Florida have seen a monstrous amount
of new residents coming in.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
And I'm sure you hear it all the time.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
You see don't Texas or don't California, my Texas. Yeah,
the same thing happens Tennessee in Florida. To what extent
do you believe the new residents in Texas politically help
or hurt you? And Trump and anybody else's who's fighting
for truth to justice in the American way in Texas.
Speaker 6 (23:36):
So look, it varies and they're cross cutting currents. There's
some people who are in blue states California and New
York or Illinois, and they're fed up. They're fed up
with the high Texas, the high regulations, they can't stand
the woke policies, they couldn't stand the COVID shutdowns, and
they decide they want to leave. And they look across
the country and the folks that pick Texas, they decide
(23:57):
I want to be in Texas. The data show they're
actually more conservative than the media and Texas voter. They
come to Texas, they buy a pickup truck and boots
and a hat and a shotgun, and I call them
refugees for freedom. I want those folks come to Texas
and live free in our great state. The challenge in
Texas is we also have a second group of folks
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coming in, and that is when a company moves to
Texas and they're fleeing terrible economic policies, but they then
transfer their employees, and those employees didn't make an affirmative
decision I want to be in Texas. They just see
their job move and they stick with their job. And
I think the data shows those employees vote exactly like
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they did where they came from. And so, for example,
you had a bunch of tech companies moving into Austin, Texas.
That's great for economic growth, but they're bringing tech workers
that are voting like blue state California Democrats. And how
those two groups intersect I think we'll say a lot
about the impact on Texas or Tennessee. Tennessee has a
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lot of companies moving into it as well, so you've
got both kinds as well. I think Florida in some
ways is better off, and that the people coming too
Florida are predominantly Category one people fleeing seeking freedom. So
Florida's getting reader. But Texas and Tennessee we got so
many companies coming. In some ways, we're victims of our
own success.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
Speaking of Senator Ted Cruz, he's got a new book out, Unwoke,
How to Defeat Cultural Marxism in America. Senator Cruz want
to give you the opportunity to just tell us he
wrote the book on this one. It feels like the
wokeness has been actually taking some losses, whether it's the
bud Light phenomenon or some of these box office bombs
that were trying to be very you know, ultra dei based,
(25:42):
et cetera.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
How do we win, how do we keep the momentum?
Speaker 6 (25:47):
Well, that is exactly what the book is about. It
just came out this past week. And what the book
does is two things. It number one describes how the
radical left took over the major institutions in America. So
every chapter of the book addresses a different institution. I
start with universities, and chapter one is universities. I call
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universities the Wuhan lab of the woke virus. That's where
it was created, that's where it mutated, that's where it
spread from universities. The book goes on to chapter two
on K through twelve education, then to journalism, then to government,
then to big business, then to big tech, then to entertainment,
to movies and TV and sports and music, then to
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science and the politicization of science. And the last chapter
is on China as a central nexus intertwined with all
of them. The book explains number one, how these institutions
were seized, but number two exactly what your question is. Critically,
It lays out a practical battle plan for how we
take them back, how we recover these institutions, because if
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we don't take them back, we're going to lose our country.
And you pointed to one of the examples that I
describe at great length, which is big business, which and
I talk at length about bud Light and Target. In
both instances, you had woke executives who didn't give a
damn what the customer said, and they essentially tried to
force their political ideology on their customers, and it blew
(27:17):
up in their faces. Both bud Light and Target lost
tens of billions of dollars in market cap. And what's
powerful about that? In terms of strategies? I argue number
one for transparency in Sunlight, but number two for on
the cost benefit ledger of going woke, significantly increasing the
(27:37):
costs so that rational actors will say no. And I
think on big business we are seeing real and meaningful victories.
We need to see that across those institutions.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Talking to Senator Ted CRU's new book, encourage you to
check it out. You ever think about challenging anybody to
a fight during a Senate subcommittee hearing.
Speaker 6 (27:57):
You know, I'm going to stick to the verbal and
argumentative sword and and and probably.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
We saw we saw you in we saw you thrown.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Down the basketball court, sir. It's not it's not just
the verbal pugilism for you. You you can box out.
Speaker 6 (28:14):
Uh, you know it's uh. I will say you come
play hoops with me, and and we I played twice
a week, and I'll tell you our game has has
more violence than skill. But but but we play no blood,
no foul, and there are regularly fouls because we beat
the living crap out of each other. In fact, I
had one of my staff members literally broke my thumb
(28:34):
playing hoops. I went up for a rebound, he came
down hard. His guy named Tony from Brooklyn. He's law cler,
hell of a ballplayer, but he plays like he plays
like Tony from Brooklyn with with you know, a gold chain,
and he's like ready to rumble. And I told my
daughters when when my thumb was broken, I said, Daddy
yelled out a very bad word. But we finished the game.
(28:55):
You'd be proud to know we finished the game. And
actually I scored again with a broken thumb. I couldn't shoot.
It hurt too bad, but I did a finger roll,
scored a layup, and we won the game. And then
I was out for about six weeks.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
In my thought, what, I'm just kind of curious, what
does Tony's reaction because Doug Bergham, I think, tore his
acl right or his achilles right before one of the debates,
and we asked him about that. But if you're a
staff member who breaks the bone of your boss in
a pickup basketball game, how nervous do you think Tony
was when he realized that he had actually injured you?
Speaker 6 (29:29):
Yeah, look, he's he's a really good guy. I will
tell you I I I sort of had my revenge
on Tony because I went that night on my podcast
Verdict with Ted Cruz and I just made fun of Tony.
I said, dude, look, I'm all for playing hard, but
you have to break my thumb. Yeah, And so that's
that's sort of my blowback was to make a little
fun on the podcast. But he's a great guy and
he did did terrific work. And and look it, Actually,
(29:53):
you guys need to come play hoops with us, cause
you know, Clay, you're a sports guy. Get it, get
out there.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
And I would actually like to.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
Play buck you were just because I don't like college football.
I've played three sports growing up competitively.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
I'm ready to rock, Senator.
Speaker 6 (30:09):
What sports did you play?
Speaker 2 (30:10):
I was tennis, soccer, and basketball. Ready to go?
Speaker 6 (30:13):
All right, well, both of you come on it. And
by the way, you guys, I'm sorry to tell you
so we play, we play old guys against young guys.
I'm sorry to tell you you're both thoroughly on the old
guys side.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Toushed by this because he's a different generation than me.
This is this is a shot to Buck's ego in
a big way that he's on the old guys.
Speaker 6 (30:32):
All right, Buck, how old are you?
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Buck? I'm forty one, soon to be forty two.
Speaker 6 (30:37):
Okay, So so we play mostly with Capitol Hill staffers.
You know what, typically the cutoff for young guys is
on Capitol Hill with staffers thirty. What about about twenty six?
And so we play with all these young guys who
are body guys. A bunch of them were college athletes.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
Do you keep a lot of like icy hot and
bandages for the old guys because I I things start
to hurt.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
You know, my back hurts, my knees, so we could
use some help.
Speaker 6 (31:03):
So look, you will be happy to know the old
guys win almost every single game. And there's a reason.
So listen. The young guys who they're stronger than we are.
They're faster, they have more endurance, they have more skill,
but they play like horny puppy dogs. They're so excited.
They go in a triple team. I gotta score, I
gotta score, I gotta score. They go in a triple team,
(31:24):
and they screw it up. Old guys, we know we
can't do that anymore, So we do things like we
set picks, we help on defense, we talk on defense,
We pass to the open man, and we play a
little bit dirty. If someone's going up for a rebound,
you grab their shorts and just pull it down and something.
We don't get the rebound. I mean, that's that's old
man basketball.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Better, that is old man YMCA basketball. What time do
you play about? We will play. We'll come play the
next time. We'll do our show from up in DC.
What's the usual game time?
Speaker 6 (31:51):
So we usually play Thursday afternoon. So I'll have my
team connect with you and when we get good games.
A number of other senators have played with us, some
house members play with us, and so you guys will
come out and we'll have some fun.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
That'll be fun. That'll be a lot of fun. We'll
do it.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
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Speaker 2 (33:37):
My thanks to Senator Ted Cruz.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
Although I'm thinking about that basketball game I do when
I run around with my kids in the backyard. Now, Buck,
I've never torn my acl or my achilles tendon or
anything like that, but now that I'm over forty, I
definitely think gotta be careful on the jumping, like I don't.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
I got severely juer myse lot, I got my hammies.
My hamstrings, men, they're like a violin string.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
I go.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
I gotta make sure loosen those guys up, because you know,
we're at the age nine two.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
It used to be you get injured and you're like,
I'll you know, you could play through it, Yeah, and
then you just a week or two you'd be fine.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
You pull a muscle. Now it's like a six to
eight week ordeal, no doubt.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
And speaking of ordeal, I don't know why roundabouts exist
anywhere in the country.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
We've taken him from Europe and we brought him here.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
But I've been mentioning that I've got my fifteen year
old and I take him out and I'm training him,
teaching him how to drive.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
Right now.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
This past weekend, Buck, we hit a roundabout in downtown Franklin,
the main little town square there. I don't know what
I was thinking. They're taking him on that road. He's
written around the roundabout with me driving before, the panic
on his face. Buck, when we got to the roundabout
and trying to explain to him how to deal with
(34:56):
what inevitably ended up being a completely packed round It
made me forget about how insanely difficult it is to
hit a roundabout if you've never been in one before,
and there aren't that many. There's that great scene in Vacation,
I think it's European Vacation where Chevy Chase gets caught
and he's like, hey, what kid's big Ben and Uh
(35:18):
And as you're driving around, you think to yourself, this
is going to be a disaster. Washington Square in DC.
I used to live right off of it, Washington Circle
right there. Many people will know what I'm talking about.
Right up in between the George Washington Area and UH
and DuPont Circle. Nobody knows how to drive on a
roundabout and trying to teach a kid how to drive
on a roundabout is a disaster too. I think I
(35:41):
think I've heard this, and this may just be this
may just be socialist propaganda. Yes, but I've heard that
roundabouts have lower traffic issues than it stops on. I
don't believe it because I'm terrible. When I was driving
in Scotland on the wrong side of the freaking road,
yes and gunning these roundabouts are people ripping through them,
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and they were like four lanes deep in the roundabout.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
I saw my life flashing before my eyes.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
You've got pedestrians, You've got like four or five different exits.
I think they look kind of cool, right, I can
see why from a design purposes you can be like, oh,
this roundabout in the neighborhood, it's fantastic. Nobody has any
idea how to drive on them, and if there's anything
more than one lane, it's a recipe for disaster. I
really legitimately thought there's no way we're ever getting off
(36:28):
this roundabout without this car being totaled. We made it,
but this is now the scariest thing that I've done.
And the driving training process is get on a roundabout
with a kid trying to learn again, even hardly explain
with him. Buck, you've got the show solo tomorrow, I've
got the Patriot Awards with Fox all day.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
Keep the shift afloat. I'll see you guys on Friday.
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