September 7, 2024 • 36 mins
Ohio Republican U.S. Senate nominee, Bernie Moreno, joins Clay and Buck to discuss his race against socialist Democrat Sherrod Brown. Brian Stelter returns to CNN, brings out Buck’s spot-on impression. Merrick Garland holds press conference to say Russia and Iran are trying to influence the 2024 election. Beliefs in alpha or beta versions of masculinity may influence presidential election. Funny VIP email closes the show.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome back in our number three Wednesday edition Clay Travis
buck Sexton show. My thanks to Freedom one oh four
point seven DC's Real News, Real Talk for hosting me
in the studio here as I spoke on GW's campus
this morning. Headed to LA a little bit later. We'll
do some fun things in La later in the day.
(00:23):
But we are joined now by Bernie Marino, who is
probably fired up about the Ohio State buck Eyes, and
certainly I bet is fired up about the Cleveland Browns
and the Cincinnati Bengals both returning to the grid iron
this week as the NFL is returning to action. But Bernie,
I want to like lead in with this aspect of things.
(00:44):
Everyone in Ohio who is listening to me right now,
and at some point this season, we have been number
one in Columbus, we have been number one in Cincinnati,
and we have been number one in Cleveland. So every
major media market in Ohio, you guys love this show,
We love you. And in Ohio you don't just have
the opportunity to cheer for the buck Eyes of the
Browns and the Bengals. You have the opportunity to deliver
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the United States Senate to the Republican Party by voting
for the man who is on with us right now,
Bernie Marino. It's a big election in Ohio, but it's
also a big election in the nation. Ohio has the
opportunity to flip the Senate to control of Republican Party
hands and Bernie, I bet you're seeing some good numbers
out there, as we said sixty two days from election day.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Yeah. Absolutely. First of all, thank you for having me
again on the show. I love being on And let
me just reinforce that on November fifth, our polls close
at seven thirty pm, and I'm hoping within an hour
of that period of time you'll see Brett Baer, because
nobody's gonna be watching CNN, We'll be watching Pottitude comes
up and says we can now say that the Republicans
(01:53):
controlled the United States Senate because Bernie Marino defeated career
politician Shared Brown. So the entire world will breathe a
little collective sigh of relief, knowing that we at least
got to send it in our hands.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Hey, berniez Bock, appreciate you being with us. Just let
everybody know. I mean, I'll set the stage here for
one second, when we were out of Wisconsin for the
RNC and talking to some Wisconsin Republicans, and they also
brought Michigan into the conversation talks to the Michigan Republicans
that they said that the way that Democrats win in
those states is essentially pretending they're not Democrats when they're
(02:34):
talking to Wisconsinites or Michiganders and then going along with
whatever Chuck Schumer or Nancy Pelosi, et cetera wants. Right,
what is the dynastic Is it a similar dynamic in
Ohio with Brown? I mean, how is it? Because Ohio
is pretty solid red, right? Why is it competitive there?
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Well, I'll simplify it from that, they're bull face flyers,
so share Brown, which lie and lie and lie at
TV commercials. The media of course goes along with it.
And if he gets re elected and then he goes
to Washington, DC for five years, acts like crazy Bernie
Sanders and Elizabeth Warren combined and votes in the most
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radical left wing way, and then comes back to Ohio says,
remember me, I'm the moderate, I'm the bipartisan guy. I
want to secure Borner, I want energy independence. You know,
these guys cannot run on the policies that they actually
vote for, because they would lose seventy thirty, so they
have to spend a year, with the media's help, lying
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to the people of Ohio. We're not going to let
them get away with it this cycle. We're going to
make certain that we expose him for the radical leftist
that he is. By the way, there's a guy who
went to college when Richard Dixon was in the White House,
by the way, and majored in Russia study, so he
knows a thing or two about socialists and lying.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Bernie.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
If you look at the state of Ohio, we know
the statewide, you want as many people voting as possible,
But is there a particular area of Ohio that, to
you in this Senate race is the swing area. If
you win that area, you know that you will be
the next Senator from Ohio. Where in particular is the
area that decides this race.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Probably Northeast Ohio because Cuyahoga County is the biggest county
in Ohio in terms of population. There's a lot of
Republican voters up here, but a lot more Democrats. So
in the previous cycle in twenty eighteen, Sharon Brown was
able to win that county by fifty points. We won't
let them get anywhere near that number. I employed thousands
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of people here. My companies were rated the best place
to work in Northeast Ohio. I had twelve dealerships up here,
my tech companies here. This is where I live. Most
people don't see Sharon Brown as a guy who's more
of a creature of DC, except of course, again during
election cycle. So I think we'll be very competitive in Cuyahoga,
in the Mahoney Valley, places like Youngstown, where you've seen thousands,
(05:08):
tens of thousands of manufacturing jobs leave the area under
his watch. We saw a plant there in Lordstown that
got closed under share Brown's watch. We've seen our steel
industry decline under share Brown's watch. There's second tired of
the empty promises of these career politicians that know what
to say to get elected but then do totally different
things when they're where they're an office. So that Northeast
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Ohio quarridor is really important.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
How do you think?
Speaker 2 (05:34):
I mean?
Speaker 5 (05:34):
I think, well, one.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
One aspect of your race that is going to get
a lot of attention or is getting a lot of attention,
is not only possible state control, but also.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
Ohio with JD.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Vance as the VP on the ticket, and then Tim
Walls Minnesota, the middle of the country battle like the
battle for those middle of the road, middle of the
country voters that play out in Ohio, Pennsylvania, really Western
Pennsylvania mostly, and then Michigan Wisconsin. I mean, what are
the core issues and what do you think the deciding
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factor will be for that swath of the electorate that
is likely to determine your race as well as the
presidential election.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Well, let me just say Tim Walls is not somebody
who represents Midwest values at all, so let's take him
out of the equation. But the reason these states matter
so much is because this is the core issue of
this race. Look in nineteen forty nine, six of the
wealthiest fourteen cities in the United States of America were
in Ohio. The wealthiest city in the country was Detroit, Michigan. Why,
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because we've made things here in America. You could go
to high school, go to work right away, and live
a good upper middle class or middle class life where
you can afford a home, afford a car, race kids
in this good community with good schools and elected leaders.
Let's just face it, from both parties for twenty or
thirty or forty years destroyed that version of the American
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Green shipped our jobs in China and Mexico, and we're
going to get that back. We're going to get energy
dominance back here. We're going to make things that we
can make here in America. We're going to support this
idea of a strong vibrant middle class. This is what
our party is now fully centered on doing. Give huge
credit to President Trump for re orienting the party in
that way.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Yesterday I was in West Virginia. West Virginia is going
to vote to put a Republican in the Senate. Joe
Manchin is on his way out. We know that in Ohio,
which is going to be a red state, President Trump
is going to win it. In Montana, which is going
to be a red state, President Trump is going to
win it, two potential.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Seats to flip.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
They are spending money like crazy against you, But I
saw Guy Benson put up a poll internally that shows
you leading right now in Ohio. Are you comfortable with
how this race is going right now? Do you have
enough money? What would you tell our audience out there
again number one in Columbus, number one in Cincinnati, number
(08:03):
one in Cleveland. Have the ability to deliver the state
for you that you need from them down the stretch
run here.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
You can't vote for President Trump and Share Brown. If
you give President Trump Share Brown, what's he going to do?
He's probably gonna make it to that Chuck Schumer is
a majority leader. It means they're going to impeach him again.
They'll block every one of his agenda items. They'll not
allow him to put the proper people in the cabinet.
So if you're out there and you're gonna support President Trump,
(08:30):
you like President Trump's policies, you've got to vote for
Bernie Marino to the United States Senate. That's NOTSS his
number one turns of message Number two. We feel really
good about where we stand in the polls. That one
percent plus that you talked about was before our advertising campaign.
And let me just say it this way. We opened
a can of whoopass on him on TV about a
(08:51):
week and a half ago. So we're going to actually
have more messaging on TV than Sure Brown will have.
We're not unlike him. We're not going to make it
about personal attach some personal insult. That's all he's got
on me. We're going to make it about his voting record,
his track record, and the fact that he's overstated is welcome.
Fifty years as an elected official, never having had a
(09:12):
job in the private sector is way too long. We're
going to get rid of them. We're going to retire them.
We're going to win. But everybody out there know this.
You can vote on October eighth. Please go vote early.
It allows us to know who's voted who's not. It
saves us a ton of money. And by the way,
if you never want to get another text message or
email from me, then go vote early. Will stop communicating
(09:34):
with you, I promise.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
Well, I'm just wondering.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
One area where there's clearly going to be some real
political impact in this cycle is on the illegal immigration crisis.
It is hilarious, Bernie. I'm sure you've seen this. I
know you're very busy, but if we turn on some
of the national Democrat media, they're like, oh my gosh,
Kamala Harris and Joe Biden are just shocked at all
the illegals that have come in recent years, and they're
working so hard to stop it. Where's your opponent Jerrod Brown,
(10:03):
on this.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Well, first of all, as you know, I'm a legal
immigrant to this country. I find it disgusting that this
country keeps rewarding people who skip the line, break our rules,
refuse to learn the language, don't assimilate, and are here
to have handouts. It's totally against what immigration is supposed
to be in this country. Where shere Brown shere Brown
is voted against every single border measure that President Trump
(10:27):
put forward. He said the wall was stupid, the wall
was racist. He said that there is no problem at
the border. That is a made up right wing conspiracy theory.
How many times have we heard those words now? Of course,
he hides behind this supposed bipartisan bill which would have
allowed five thousand illegal crossings a day, so almost a
million and a half people to break our laws and
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break into our home, which is exactly one point five
million too many. We should have a zero tolerance policy
for illegal immigration. And by the way, sheer Brown at
Kamala Harris believe that the people who did break into
our country that are here I legally should be allowed
to be United States citizens. I think we've got to
deport them if they're in this country illegally, because again
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that's common sense. If I broke into your home, you
wouldn't allow me to stay, and you certainly wouldn't let
me take better care of me than the people who
live in your home. So this is common sense. The
Democrats like to make this about being u xenophobic and racist.
I can tell you, as a legal immigrant to every
American citizen living listening to this who was born here,
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stop rewarding people who break our immigration laws to come here.
It's infuriating for us that had to follow the process
to watch America do that. It's going to stop next year.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
How are you looking with the Latino community in your
home state, Bernie? And also how do you think Trump's
going to do nationally with the Latino vote?
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Croquet Mumbian and in Ohio and Ohio in what please
find the sounds.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
Good to me? Ah, that's great, Bernie, Bernie.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
We're gonna win the Hispanic vote. We're gonna win the
Hispanic vote because look, I Ispanics care about family, they
care about community. We've seen what happened in Venezuela. And
let me just tell you something again for Americans that
inherited this country through birth, whether it's your grandfather, grandfather,
great grandfather, or whatever. Do not allow these leftist lunatics
to turn this country into Venezuela. Please, I'm pleading with you.
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My family came here for the America that we understand
to be the country. This country can easily turn into Venezuela.
This election. You put Kamala Harris and Tim Waltz with
a Democrat majority in the Senate House, one generation, this
country becomes Venezuela.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
Bernie.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
A couple of things here, I think that you just
hammered home that are significant. I want you to hammer
him home again. One the importance of going out and
voting early. We are telling everybody in this audience get
your vote in Buck and I are both going to
go vot vote early, but I want you to lay
out specifically how that can help in Ohio. Second thing,
(13:06):
you said, you cannot have split voters. People can't vote Trump,
which they're going to do by ten and also vote
for Sharad Brown. Brown called Trump a racist. He said
Trump's a racist. Now he's trying to to say, oh,
I'll work with Trump. If you are voting Trump, you
have to vote Marino and you need to go vote early,
(13:27):
but explain again in detail why that can help you
so much at being able to win and flip control
of the Senate.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Absolutely. So, if we think about the last four weeks
of the selection like a football game, it's four quarters.
It's four weeks of early voting, So we don't know
how people voted, but we know that they're Republican inclined
to vote. So we see that people are voting early.
We don't have to chase you. We don't have to
send you emails or text messages, we don't have to
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go knock on your door. We know that one county
is doing well but another county is not, so we
can put resources and we can end each quarter say okay,
for the first week of early voting, what's the score,
Then the second week, the third week, in the final week,
if we don't have people Republicans go out there and
vote early in mass, then we have to communicate with
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the entire population of voters consistently for four weeks and
it's very, very expensive. So it allows us to shift
our resources. Look, you imagine playing a football game and
you couldn't watch the score until the game was over,
and that's insane. So we have to make certain that
people go out there and vote early. It's very easy
to do it in Ohio. And on top of that,
(14:38):
you never know what's going to happen to number fifth.
By the way, we could have a snowstorm, we could
have a blizzard, we could have a power outage. We
don't know. Bank that vote, get it done. This is
the easiest election to do that because it's not confusing.
You are not confused out there if you're thinking that
you're going to vote for President Trump, Orkamala Harris, because
that's not a hard decision. And like you just said earlier, Look,
Sharon Brown, we don't have to wonder what he we
(15:00):
will do. We just look at what he did when
he was in office as a senator from Ohio President
Trump was in the White House. He fought President trumpet
every step of the way at every major vote that mattered.
Let's not let him do that again.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
Amen.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Bernie Marino, next senator from the state of Ohio. He's
going to flip control to the Republican Party. Bernie, we
appreciate the time. Keep the sprint going the man.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
You got it. Thank you, guys.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
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Speaker 3 (17:37):
Guess what, Merrek Garland, Fernie General just how the press
conference on all the.
Speaker 7 (17:43):
Scary disinformation sites from Russia for the election?
Speaker 5 (17:48):
Oh that's a real thing.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
We'll talk about it.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
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Speaker 1 (18:45):
Clay Travis and Buck Sexton on the front lines of truth.
Welcome back in Clay Travis, Buck Sexton show Buck our
good buddy. Brian Stelter, the mister Potato head of CNN back.
He is indeed back. CNN, not content with collapsing ratings,
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has decided to go back and rehire Brian Stelter to
come back to the network. Last week, Buck, when you
were out, we played Joe Scarborough lecturing everyone on MSNBC
that they were morons for believing that the Hunter Biden
laptop was anything other than Russian disinformation. Of course, Joe
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Scarborough has never discussed with his audience the fact that
he was one hundred percent wrong on that story. But
as Brian Stelter, who was, it's worth mentioning the guy
who was supposedly the smart man in the room when
it came to misinformation and disinformation. Brian Stelter, who memorably
said that he had to cry himself a good deep
(19:51):
cry over COVID. Do you remember that, Buck?
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Oh yeah, I just describe myself to sleep thinking about
what would happen if one of my three b fell
off by faith.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Brian Stelter here he is. I do think this is
really worth continuing to hammer home. Last week, Mark Zuckerberg
said publicly in a letter to Jim Jordan that the
FBI had briefed him and told him and all the
top Facebook executives to expect Russian disinformation connected to Hunter
Biden and Beisma that is inside of our own United
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States government. They helped to rig the election for Joe
Biden by claiming that a laptop that was one hundred
percent real was actually Russian disinformation, even though they knew
it was real. And then they had people on CNN
like Brian Stelter go on and tell their audience how
the laptop disinformation actually worked and claimed that it was
Russian disinfo.
Speaker 8 (20:44):
Listen, it's about emails again, this time emails from Joe
Biden's son Hunter. So let's take a look at how
a storyline is manufactured, in this case, a loudly anti
Biden storyline redounding to Trump's benefit. First, it helps to
really view this as storytelling, not so much just news coverage,
but as political entertainment, where crushing the other party is entertaining.
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Fox News, the beating red heart of the right wing media,
machine molds reality into a serialized TV drama. That's how
Vox recently put it. Think Lost or twenty four, Think
Game of Thrones for breaking bad, think Westworld for the wire.
Every day, every night there are what appear to be
new developments in this entertainment drama, some new twist to
(21:25):
keep you watching.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
Okay, and it turns out a blacktops one hund Yes.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
This is the kind of amazing television that got Brian
canceled and sent the potato scurrying out the door the
first time I d Buck.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
I was thinking about this as I watched Stelter. Scott Galloway,
who is I think a fairly smart guy, Professor I
believe at NYU if I'm not mistaken. He said something
that I thought was true. He smart, He's a LIB,
but he's smart. Yeah, high IQ. He said, this election
actually comes down I was thinking about this as I
watched Stelter come back to see an end. He said,
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the twenty twenty four election actually comes down to whose
version of masculinity wins. Is it the beta male version
of the Democrat Party or is it the alpha male
version of the Republican Party. Listen to Scott Galloway make
this argument.
Speaker 9 (22:25):
Fortunately, we know that Russia is not the only foreign
power seeking to interfere in our elections. As the US
intelligence community noted two weeks ago, we have.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
I mean, that's an amazing beta male. That's the wrong
beta male speaking. That was Merrick Garland. Let me go
ahead and give you now we have Galloway. Listen to that.
Speaker 10 (22:45):
What I think wins or loses this election joys ironically,
whose vision for masculinity wins here? Because a lot of
young men are not so much moving towards the Republican Party.
Your network has spoke very coachingly about what is the
largest gender divided history across the part arties among young people.
It's not men moving towards the Republican Party. They are
just as supportive of gender rights as every other group.
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They're moving away from the Democratic Party because, quite frankly,
they don't feel seen. If you go to the DNC's website,
it says explicitly who we serve and at list sixteen
demographic groups, so as far as I can tell, cover
about seventy five percent of the population, or specifically don't
cover young men, white.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Men, but white by the way, particularly white men is
actually the demographic that the Democrat Party is the most
uninterested in serving because they don't get any virtue signaling
points for it. So that's the real left out demographic.
But also men in general, black men and hispatic men,
but particularly the Democrats are like white men, You're on
your own. Clay Galloway wants to keep in mind, Galloway
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wants Kama to win. Okay, he's saying this as a
warning to the Democrat Party because you know what we've
been talking about. We're talking to Bernie who's going to
determine the election of the swing states. White guys without
college degrees.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
It's going to be white guys without college degrees. You
can talk about all these other things and the women
in the suburbs and the proportion of the black vote,
and maybe there's some movement in the Hispanic vote, but
at the end of the day, when you look at
the numbers, two or three percentage points in the white
vote and the white male, non college educated vote in
those states, that's the election.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
And here's the problem I see for Democrats. We just
played you a Merick Garland clip while we have been
on the air today the Department of Justice. Our esteemed
Attorney General Merrick Garland has come out and said, I
can't believe they're going to try to rerun twenty sixteen
and twenty twenty all over again. Russia is trying to
influence the election. Here is Merrick Garland for all of
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you to know that this is what their storyline is
going to be. They're so fresh out of ideas that
it's Russia, Russia, Russia again.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
Listen to this guy.
Speaker 9 (25:00):
We know that Russia is not the only foreign power
seeking to interfere in our elections. As the US Intelligence
community noted two weeks ago, we have observed increasingly aggressive
Iranian activity during this election cycle. That includes recently reported
activities by Iran to compromise former President Trump's campaign and
to avoid an election outcome that it regards as against
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its interests. Those recently reported Iranian activities also include efforts
to obtain access to individuals who themselves have access to
the presidential campaigns of both political parties. The Justice Department's
message is clear, we have no tolerance for attempts by
authoritarian regimes to exploit our democratic system of government. We
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will be relentlessly aggressive encountering and disrupting attempts by Russia
and Iran as well as China or any other foreign
malign actor to.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Let me let me just cut him off here and
being a beta males Garland there buck, here's what I
would love to hear someone ask Merrik Garland. I understand
people are afraid of Iran, China, Russia. It's a boogeyman
in the closet of the American presidential election. How about
we find out who lied about the Hunter Biden laptop
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and told Facebook and Twitter internally in our own United
States government that the laptop was not real and you
should be aware that it was going to be spread
through Russian disinformation. I understand that the foreign adversaries have
things that they try to do to America all the time.
I am far less concerned by what any foreign country
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is going to try to do associated with our election
than I am our own United States Department of Justice, FBI, CIA,
everybody else, because we still don't know who tried to
rig the twenty twenty election internally inside of our own government.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
And we know who did externally in the sense that
they signed their names for right the fifty one to
fifty one offs.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Right.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
You know Saga and Jetty who does a digital show
now he used to I know Sagar used to work
with him at The Hill years and years ago, and
he shared this.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
I just thought this was so classic.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
One of the dummy social media accounts that the DOJ
sites as part of a so called massive Russian influence
op is called CNN California and had seven followers. I
mean Clay Clay if a.
Speaker 11 (27:31):
Random x account Twitter account that no American thinks is real,
And even if they did, there are only seven of
them in a country of three hundred and fifty or
sixty or seventy million.
Speaker 5 (27:45):
However, many illegals are on top.
Speaker 7 (27:48):
You know what like this is? This is insane. I
don't know what else to say. There's something truly wrong.
Russia guests information, Merrick Garland, Brian Stealter, It's all the same.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Boy, Russian disinformation.
Speaker 5 (28:02):
Like what exactly are we supposed to do?
Speaker 3 (28:04):
The Internet allows people to write stuff that is not
true and to say it's election interference if they hack
into machines and change the vote total. I want to
hear about that, and I wanna want proof of that, right,
But that's election interference to say that a Twitter account
with seven followers that's lying because it's based in Russia.
Speaker 5 (28:26):
I mean, the Russians have got to be lat the Democrats.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
There's such a bunch of hysterics, I mean, just such
a bunch of of WIMPs on this stuff.
Speaker 5 (28:34):
But you know, there's a reason they do this, just real.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
The reason they do this is it's preparing their side
for the built in excuse when they lose, because they're
they're starting to worry that they're gonna lose and Clay
They're not going to certify Trump's win. I mean, just
everyone mark it down. I'm telling you now, they will
not certify. Democrats will will. It doesn't matter if they
(28:57):
have to lock arms in front of the building. They
will not certify Trump's election. The question for you, as
a former CIA office, oh, one of those, how many
foreign elections do you think the United States is involved
in potentially impacting? That's a great question. Can either confirm
nor deny.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
So my thing is, I think it's always funny with
the United States pretends that we aren't involved in trying
to impact other foreign elections, as if we're the sole
victims and we're just kind of sitting here, and we
never ever put our fingers on the scale in any
way for external elections.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
I mean, look, Putin is a goon. I mean he's
a bad guy, don't get me wrong. But if I'm
Putin and we were running all these democracy initiatives in
Russia for years, which were basically foreign, foreign funded NGOs
that we're operating in Russia that were like, hey, you
know the guy that runs your country, he's really bad.
You should get rid of him. We we do all
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kinds of stuff all over.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
The world, exactly. And if you remember, in twenty sixteen,
they found a few hundred or a few thousand dollars
in Russian Facebook ads when we had elections that cost
billions of dollars, and they said, oh, this was a
malin Russian influence. Now look, I'm not saying that that's
a good thing, but the idea that would have to
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be the most successful ad campaign in history for you
to spend a few hundred dollars and swing a multi
billion dollar election, I mean, this is really the is
the intellectual equivalent what they're doing with is Russia.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
And again the reasons very clear. It's it's preparing the ground.
It's the escape patch, the emotional escape patch for Democrats
if Trump, if and when Trump wins.
Speaker 5 (30:47):
So it's oh my gosh, but there was Russia, and
there was.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
And you could say, well, buck, there's so many things
that they're going to say. Yeah, but that's the point.
You give them all. You give them this whole menu
of excuses, and Russia will be one of them. It
would be like saying, Clay, if you in an election
with you know, one hundred and fifty million votes cast
or whatever it's going to be, you find one guy
who double voted and you're just like, sorry, there was
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cheating in this election. I mean, that's a true statement.
If you find one guy who double voted, you could
say there was cheating in the election. But is that
really a fair way to assess the election overall? If
you only found one vote out of one hundred and
fifty million, that's what they're doing online. Seven followers of
a Twitter account getting named in a DOJ press conference
(31:31):
as Russian disinformation. I mean, you can make the determination
for yourself.
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I was supposed to be over there in August, but
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By the way, Buck, this is a VIP email. I
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I don't think I could keep it straight face.
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I think we'd have to create a character for you, since,
like I know, you put up a video lifting weights.
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weights but like the little ones that the ladies do
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Ones with like Clomo when he was like claiming that
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But I did that
Welcome back in our number three Wednesday edition Clay Travis
buck Sexton show. My thanks to Freedom one oh four
point seven DC's Real News, Real Talk for hosting me
in the studio here as I spoke on GW's campus
this morning. Headed to LA a little bit later. We'll
do some fun things in La later in the day.
(00:23):
But we are joined now by Bernie Marino, who is
probably fired up about the Ohio State buck Eyes, and
certainly I bet is fired up about the Cleveland Browns
and the Cincinnati Bengals both returning to the grid iron
this week as the NFL is returning to action. But Bernie,
I want to like lead in with this aspect of things.
(00:44):
Everyone in Ohio who is listening to me right now,
and at some point this season, we have been number
one in Columbus, we have been number one in Cincinnati,
and we have been number one in Cleveland. So every
major media market in Ohio, you guys love this show,
We love you. And in Ohio you don't just have
the opportunity to cheer for the buck Eyes of the
Browns and the Bengals. You have the opportunity to deliver
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the United States Senate to the Republican Party by voting
for the man who is on with us right now,
Bernie Marino. It's a big election in Ohio, but it's
also a big election in the nation. Ohio has the
opportunity to flip the Senate to control of Republican Party
hands and Bernie, I bet you're seeing some good numbers
out there, as we said sixty two days from election day.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Yeah. Absolutely. First of all, thank you for having me
again on the show. I love being on And let
me just reinforce that on November fifth, our polls close
at seven thirty pm, and I'm hoping within an hour
of that period of time you'll see Brett Baer, because
nobody's gonna be watching CNN, We'll be watching Pottitude comes
up and says we can now say that the Republicans
(01:53):
controlled the United States Senate because Bernie Marino defeated career
politician Shared Brown. So the entire world will breathe a
little collective sigh of relief, knowing that we at least
got to send it in our hands.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Hey, berniez Bock, appreciate you being with us. Just let
everybody know. I mean, I'll set the stage here for
one second, when we were out of Wisconsin for the
RNC and talking to some Wisconsin Republicans, and they also
brought Michigan into the conversation talks to the Michigan Republicans
that they said that the way that Democrats win in
those states is essentially pretending they're not Democrats when they're
(02:34):
talking to Wisconsinites or Michiganders and then going along with
whatever Chuck Schumer or Nancy Pelosi, et cetera wants. Right,
what is the dynastic Is it a similar dynamic in
Ohio with Brown? I mean, how is it? Because Ohio
is pretty solid red, right? Why is it competitive there?
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Well, I'll simplify it from that, they're bull face flyers,
so share Brown, which lie and lie and lie at
TV commercials. The media of course goes along with it.
And if he gets re elected and then he goes
to Washington, DC for five years, acts like crazy Bernie
Sanders and Elizabeth Warren combined and votes in the most
(03:17):
radical left wing way, and then comes back to Ohio says,
remember me, I'm the moderate, I'm the bipartisan guy. I
want to secure Borner, I want energy independence. You know,
these guys cannot run on the policies that they actually
vote for, because they would lose seventy thirty, so they
have to spend a year, with the media's help, lying
(03:38):
to the people of Ohio. We're not going to let
them get away with it this cycle. We're going to
make certain that we expose him for the radical leftist
that he is. By the way, there's a guy who
went to college when Richard Dixon was in the White House,
by the way, and majored in Russia study, so he
knows a thing or two about socialists and lying.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Bernie.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
If you look at the state of Ohio, we know
the statewide, you want as many people voting as possible,
But is there a particular area of Ohio that, to
you in this Senate race is the swing area. If
you win that area, you know that you will be
the next Senator from Ohio. Where in particular is the
area that decides this race.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Probably Northeast Ohio because Cuyahoga County is the biggest county
in Ohio in terms of population. There's a lot of
Republican voters up here, but a lot more Democrats. So
in the previous cycle in twenty eighteen, Sharon Brown was
able to win that county by fifty points. We won't
let them get anywhere near that number. I employed thousands
(04:44):
of people here. My companies were rated the best place
to work in Northeast Ohio. I had twelve dealerships up here,
my tech companies here. This is where I live. Most
people don't see Sharon Brown as a guy who's more
of a creature of DC, except of course, again during
election cycle. So I think we'll be very competitive in Cuyahoga,
in the Mahoney Valley, places like Youngstown, where you've seen thousands,
(05:08):
tens of thousands of manufacturing jobs leave the area under
his watch. We saw a plant there in Lordstown that
got closed under share Brown's watch. We've seen our steel
industry decline under share Brown's watch. There's second tired of
the empty promises of these career politicians that know what
to say to get elected but then do totally different
things when they're where they're an office. So that Northeast
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Ohio quarridor is really important.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
How do you think?
Speaker 2 (05:34):
I mean?
Speaker 5 (05:34):
I think, well, one.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
One aspect of your race that is going to get
a lot of attention or is getting a lot of attention,
is not only possible state control, but also.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
Ohio with JD.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Vance as the VP on the ticket, and then Tim
Walls Minnesota, the middle of the country battle like the
battle for those middle of the road, middle of the
country voters that play out in Ohio, Pennsylvania, really Western
Pennsylvania mostly, and then Michigan Wisconsin. I mean, what are
the core issues and what do you think the deciding
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factor will be for that swath of the electorate that
is likely to determine your race as well as the
presidential election.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Well, let me just say Tim Walls is not somebody
who represents Midwest values at all, so let's take him
out of the equation. But the reason these states matter
so much is because this is the core issue of
this race. Look in nineteen forty nine, six of the
wealthiest fourteen cities in the United States of America were
in Ohio. The wealthiest city in the country was Detroit, Michigan. Why,
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because we've made things here in America. You could go
to high school, go to work right away, and live
a good upper middle class or middle class life where
you can afford a home, afford a car, race kids
in this good community with good schools and elected leaders.
Let's just face it, from both parties for twenty or
thirty or forty years destroyed that version of the American
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Green shipped our jobs in China and Mexico, and we're
going to get that back. We're going to get energy
dominance back here. We're going to make things that we
can make here in America. We're going to support this
idea of a strong vibrant middle class. This is what
our party is now fully centered on doing. Give huge
credit to President Trump for re orienting the party in
that way.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Yesterday I was in West Virginia. West Virginia is going
to vote to put a Republican in the Senate. Joe
Manchin is on his way out. We know that in Ohio,
which is going to be a red state, President Trump
is going to win it. In Montana, which is going
to be a red state, President Trump is going to
win it, two potential.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Seats to flip.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
They are spending money like crazy against you, But I
saw Guy Benson put up a poll internally that shows
you leading right now in Ohio. Are you comfortable with
how this race is going right now? Do you have
enough money? What would you tell our audience out there
again number one in Columbus, number one in Cincinnati, number
(08:03):
one in Cleveland. Have the ability to deliver the state
for you that you need from them down the stretch
run here.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
You can't vote for President Trump and Share Brown. If
you give President Trump Share Brown, what's he going to do?
He's probably gonna make it to that Chuck Schumer is
a majority leader. It means they're going to impeach him again.
They'll block every one of his agenda items. They'll not
allow him to put the proper people in the cabinet.
So if you're out there and you're gonna support President Trump,
(08:30):
you like President Trump's policies, you've got to vote for
Bernie Marino to the United States Senate. That's NOTSS his
number one turns of message Number two. We feel really
good about where we stand in the polls. That one
percent plus that you talked about was before our advertising campaign.
And let me just say it this way. We opened
a can of whoopass on him on TV about a
(08:51):
week and a half ago. So we're going to actually
have more messaging on TV than Sure Brown will have.
We're not unlike him. We're not going to make it
about personal attach some personal insult. That's all he's got
on me. We're going to make it about his voting record,
his track record, and the fact that he's overstated is welcome.
Fifty years as an elected official, never having had a
(09:12):
job in the private sector is way too long. We're
going to get rid of them. We're going to retire them.
We're going to win. But everybody out there know this.
You can vote on October eighth. Please go vote early.
It allows us to know who's voted who's not. It
saves us a ton of money. And by the way,
if you never want to get another text message or
email from me, then go vote early. Will stop communicating
(09:34):
with you, I promise.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
Well, I'm just wondering.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
One area where there's clearly going to be some real
political impact in this cycle is on the illegal immigration crisis.
It is hilarious, Bernie. I'm sure you've seen this. I
know you're very busy, but if we turn on some
of the national Democrat media, they're like, oh my gosh,
Kamala Harris and Joe Biden are just shocked at all
the illegals that have come in recent years, and they're
working so hard to stop it. Where's your opponent Jerrod Brown,
(10:03):
on this.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Well, first of all, as you know, I'm a legal
immigrant to this country. I find it disgusting that this
country keeps rewarding people who skip the line, break our rules,
refuse to learn the language, don't assimilate, and are here
to have handouts. It's totally against what immigration is supposed
to be in this country. Where shere Brown shere Brown
is voted against every single border measure that President Trump
(10:27):
put forward. He said the wall was stupid, the wall
was racist. He said that there is no problem at
the border. That is a made up right wing conspiracy theory.
How many times have we heard those words now? Of course,
he hides behind this supposed bipartisan bill which would have
allowed five thousand illegal crossings a day, so almost a
million and a half people to break our laws and
(10:48):
break into our home, which is exactly one point five
million too many. We should have a zero tolerance policy
for illegal immigration. And by the way, sheer Brown at
Kamala Harris believe that the people who did break into
our country that are here I legally should be allowed
to be United States citizens. I think we've got to
deport them if they're in this country illegally, because again
(11:10):
that's common sense. If I broke into your home, you
wouldn't allow me to stay, and you certainly wouldn't let
me take better care of me than the people who
live in your home. So this is common sense. The
Democrats like to make this about being u xenophobic and racist.
I can tell you, as a legal immigrant to every
American citizen living listening to this who was born here,
(11:31):
stop rewarding people who break our immigration laws to come here.
It's infuriating for us that had to follow the process
to watch America do that. It's going to stop next year.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
How are you looking with the Latino community in your
home state, Bernie? And also how do you think Trump's
going to do nationally with the Latino vote?
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Croquet Mumbian and in Ohio and Ohio in what please
find the sounds.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
Good to me? Ah, that's great, Bernie, Bernie.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
We're gonna win the Hispanic vote. We're gonna win the
Hispanic vote because look, I Ispanics care about family, they
care about community. We've seen what happened in Venezuela. And
let me just tell you something again for Americans that
inherited this country through birth, whether it's your grandfather, grandfather,
great grandfather, or whatever. Do not allow these leftist lunatics
to turn this country into Venezuela. Please, I'm pleading with you.
(12:29):
My family came here for the America that we understand
to be the country. This country can easily turn into Venezuela.
This election. You put Kamala Harris and Tim Waltz with
a Democrat majority in the Senate House, one generation, this
country becomes Venezuela.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
Bernie.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
A couple of things here, I think that you just
hammered home that are significant. I want you to hammer
him home again. One the importance of going out and
voting early. We are telling everybody in this audience get
your vote in Buck and I are both going to
go vot vote early, but I want you to lay
out specifically how that can help in Ohio. Second thing,
(13:06):
you said, you cannot have split voters. People can't vote Trump,
which they're going to do by ten and also vote
for Sharad Brown. Brown called Trump a racist. He said
Trump's a racist. Now he's trying to to say, oh,
I'll work with Trump. If you are voting Trump, you
have to vote Marino and you need to go vote early,
(13:27):
but explain again in detail why that can help you
so much at being able to win and flip control
of the Senate.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Absolutely. So, if we think about the last four weeks
of the selection like a football game, it's four quarters.
It's four weeks of early voting, So we don't know
how people voted, but we know that they're Republican inclined
to vote. So we see that people are voting early.
We don't have to chase you. We don't have to
send you emails or text messages, we don't have to
(13:55):
go knock on your door. We know that one county
is doing well but another county is not, so we
can put resources and we can end each quarter say okay,
for the first week of early voting, what's the score,
Then the second week, the third week, in the final week,
if we don't have people Republicans go out there and
vote early in mass, then we have to communicate with
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the entire population of voters consistently for four weeks and
it's very, very expensive. So it allows us to shift
our resources. Look, you imagine playing a football game and
you couldn't watch the score until the game was over,
and that's insane. So we have to make certain that
people go out there and vote early. It's very easy
to do it in Ohio. And on top of that,
(14:38):
you never know what's going to happen to number fifth.
By the way, we could have a snowstorm, we could
have a blizzard, we could have a power outage. We
don't know. Bank that vote, get it done. This is
the easiest election to do that because it's not confusing.
You are not confused out there if you're thinking that
you're going to vote for President Trump, Orkamala Harris, because
that's not a hard decision. And like you just said earlier, Look,
Sharon Brown, we don't have to wonder what he we
(15:00):
will do. We just look at what he did when
he was in office as a senator from Ohio President
Trump was in the White House. He fought President trumpet
every step of the way at every major vote that mattered.
Let's not let him do that again.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
Amen.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Bernie Marino, next senator from the state of Ohio. He's
going to flip control to the Republican Party. Bernie, we
appreciate the time. Keep the sprint going the man.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
You got it. Thank you, guys.
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Scary disinformation sites from Russia for the election?
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Oh that's a real thing.
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Clay Travis and Buck Sexton on the front lines of truth.
Welcome back in Clay Travis, Buck Sexton show Buck our
good buddy. Brian Stelter, the mister Potato head of CNN back.
He is indeed back. CNN, not content with collapsing ratings,
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has decided to go back and rehire Brian Stelter to
come back to the network. Last week, Buck, when you
were out, we played Joe Scarborough lecturing everyone on MSNBC
that they were morons for believing that the Hunter Biden
laptop was anything other than Russian disinformation. Of course, Joe
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Scarborough has never discussed with his audience the fact that
he was one hundred percent wrong on that story. But
as Brian Stelter, who was, it's worth mentioning the guy
who was supposedly the smart man in the room when
it came to misinformation and disinformation. Brian Stelter, who memorably
said that he had to cry himself a good deep
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cry over COVID. Do you remember that, Buck?
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Oh yeah, I just describe myself to sleep thinking about
what would happen if one of my three b fell
off by faith.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Brian Stelter here he is. I do think this is
really worth continuing to hammer home. Last week, Mark Zuckerberg
said publicly in a letter to Jim Jordan that the
FBI had briefed him and told him and all the
top Facebook executives to expect Russian disinformation connected to Hunter
Biden and Beisma that is inside of our own United
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States government. They helped to rig the election for Joe
Biden by claiming that a laptop that was one hundred
percent real was actually Russian disinformation, even though they knew
it was real. And then they had people on CNN
like Brian Stelter go on and tell their audience how
the laptop disinformation actually worked and claimed that it was
Russian disinfo.
Speaker 8 (20:44):
Listen, it's about emails again, this time emails from Joe
Biden's son Hunter. So let's take a look at how
a storyline is manufactured, in this case, a loudly anti
Biden storyline redounding to Trump's benefit. First, it helps to
really view this as storytelling, not so much just news coverage,
but as political entertainment, where crushing the other party is entertaining.
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Fox News, the beating red heart of the right wing media,
machine molds reality into a serialized TV drama. That's how
Vox recently put it. Think Lost or twenty four, Think
Game of Thrones for breaking bad, think Westworld for the wire.
Every day, every night there are what appear to be
new developments in this entertainment drama, some new twist to
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keep you watching.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
Okay, and it turns out a blacktops one hund Yes.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
This is the kind of amazing television that got Brian
canceled and sent the potato scurrying out the door the
first time I d Buck.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
I was thinking about this as I watched Stelter. Scott Galloway,
who is I think a fairly smart guy, Professor I
believe at NYU if I'm not mistaken. He said something
that I thought was true. He smart, He's a LIB,
but he's smart. Yeah, high IQ. He said, this election
actually comes down I was thinking about this as I
watched Stelter come back to see an end. He said,
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the twenty twenty four election actually comes down to whose
version of masculinity wins. Is it the beta male version
of the Democrat Party or is it the alpha male
version of the Republican Party. Listen to Scott Galloway make
this argument.
Speaker 9 (22:25):
Fortunately, we know that Russia is not the only foreign
power seeking to interfere in our elections. As the US
intelligence community noted two weeks ago, we have.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
I mean, that's an amazing beta male. That's the wrong
beta male speaking. That was Merrick Garland. Let me go
ahead and give you now we have Galloway. Listen to that.
Speaker 10 (22:45):
What I think wins or loses this election joys ironically,
whose vision for masculinity wins here? Because a lot of
young men are not so much moving towards the Republican Party.
Your network has spoke very coachingly about what is the
largest gender divided history across the part arties among young people.
It's not men moving towards the Republican Party. They are
just as supportive of gender rights as every other group.
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They're moving away from the Democratic Party because, quite frankly,
they don't feel seen. If you go to the DNC's website,
it says explicitly who we serve and at list sixteen
demographic groups, so as far as I can tell, cover
about seventy five percent of the population, or specifically don't
cover young men, white.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Men, but white by the way, particularly white men is
actually the demographic that the Democrat Party is the most
uninterested in serving because they don't get any virtue signaling
points for it. So that's the real left out demographic.
But also men in general, black men and hispatic men,
but particularly the Democrats are like white men, You're on
your own. Clay Galloway wants to keep in mind, Galloway
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wants Kama to win. Okay, he's saying this as a
warning to the Democrat Party because you know what we've
been talking about. We're talking to Bernie who's going to
determine the election of the swing states. White guys without
college degrees.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
It's going to be white guys without college degrees. You
can talk about all these other things and the women
in the suburbs and the proportion of the black vote,
and maybe there's some movement in the Hispanic vote, but
at the end of the day, when you look at
the numbers, two or three percentage points in the white
vote and the white male, non college educated vote in
those states, that's the election.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
And here's the problem I see for Democrats. We just
played you a Merick Garland clip while we have been
on the air today the Department of Justice. Our esteemed
Attorney General Merrick Garland has come out and said, I
can't believe they're going to try to rerun twenty sixteen
and twenty twenty all over again. Russia is trying to
influence the election. Here is Merrick Garland for all of
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you to know that this is what their storyline is
going to be. They're so fresh out of ideas that
it's Russia, Russia, Russia again.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
Listen to this guy.
Speaker 9 (25:00):
We know that Russia is not the only foreign power
seeking to interfere in our elections. As the US Intelligence
community noted two weeks ago, we have observed increasingly aggressive
Iranian activity during this election cycle. That includes recently reported
activities by Iran to compromise former President Trump's campaign and
to avoid an election outcome that it regards as against
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its interests. Those recently reported Iranian activities also include efforts
to obtain access to individuals who themselves have access to
the presidential campaigns of both political parties. The Justice Department's
message is clear, we have no tolerance for attempts by
authoritarian regimes to exploit our democratic system of government. We
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will be relentlessly aggressive encountering and disrupting attempts by Russia
and Iran as well as China or any other foreign
malign actor to.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Let me let me just cut him off here and
being a beta males Garland there buck, here's what I
would love to hear someone ask Merrik Garland. I understand
people are afraid of Iran, China, Russia. It's a boogeyman
in the closet of the American presidential election. How about
we find out who lied about the Hunter Biden laptop
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and told Facebook and Twitter internally in our own United
States government that the laptop was not real and you
should be aware that it was going to be spread
through Russian disinformation. I understand that the foreign adversaries have
things that they try to do to America all the time.
I am far less concerned by what any foreign country
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is going to try to do associated with our election
than I am our own United States Department of Justice, FBI, CIA,
everybody else, because we still don't know who tried to
rig the twenty twenty election internally inside of our own government.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
And we know who did externally in the sense that
they signed their names for right the fifty one to
fifty one offs.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Right.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
You know Saga and Jetty who does a digital show
now he used to I know Sagar used to work
with him at The Hill years and years ago, and
he shared this.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
I just thought this was so classic.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
One of the dummy social media accounts that the DOJ
sites as part of a so called massive Russian influence
op is called CNN California and had seven followers. I
mean Clay Clay if a.
Speaker 11 (27:31):
Random x account Twitter account that no American thinks is real,
And even if they did, there are only seven of
them in a country of three hundred and fifty or
sixty or seventy million.
Speaker 5 (27:45):
However, many illegals are on top.
Speaker 7 (27:48):
You know what like this is? This is insane. I
don't know what else to say. There's something truly wrong.
Russia guests information, Merrick Garland, Brian Stealter, It's all the same.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Boy, Russian disinformation.
Speaker 5 (28:02):
Like what exactly are we supposed to do?
Speaker 3 (28:04):
The Internet allows people to write stuff that is not
true and to say it's election interference if they hack
into machines and change the vote total. I want to
hear about that, and I wanna want proof of that, right,
But that's election interference to say that a Twitter account
with seven followers that's lying because it's based in Russia.
Speaker 5 (28:26):
I mean, the Russians have got to be lat the Democrats.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
There's such a bunch of hysterics, I mean, just such
a bunch of of WIMPs on this stuff.
Speaker 5 (28:34):
But you know, there's a reason they do this, just real.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
The reason they do this is it's preparing their side
for the built in excuse when they lose, because they're
they're starting to worry that they're gonna lose and Clay
They're not going to certify Trump's win. I mean, just
everyone mark it down. I'm telling you now, they will
not certify. Democrats will will. It doesn't matter if they
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have to lock arms in front of the building. They
will not certify Trump's election. The question for you, as
a former CIA office, oh, one of those, how many
foreign elections do you think the United States is involved
in potentially impacting? That's a great question. Can either confirm
nor deny.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
So my thing is, I think it's always funny with
the United States pretends that we aren't involved in trying
to impact other foreign elections, as if we're the sole
victims and we're just kind of sitting here, and we
never ever put our fingers on the scale in any
way for external elections.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
I mean, look, Putin is a goon. I mean he's
a bad guy, don't get me wrong. But if I'm
Putin and we were running all these democracy initiatives in
Russia for years, which were basically foreign, foreign funded NGOs
that we're operating in Russia that were like, hey, you
know the guy that runs your country, he's really bad.
You should get rid of him. We we do all
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kinds of stuff all over.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
The world, exactly. And if you remember, in twenty sixteen,
they found a few hundred or a few thousand dollars
in Russian Facebook ads when we had elections that cost
billions of dollars, and they said, oh, this was a
malin Russian influence. Now look, I'm not saying that that's
a good thing, but the idea that would have to
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be the most successful ad campaign in history for you
to spend a few hundred dollars and swing a multi
billion dollar election, I mean, this is really the is
the intellectual equivalent what they're doing with is Russia.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
And again the reasons very clear. It's it's preparing the ground.
It's the escape patch, the emotional escape patch for Democrats
if Trump, if and when Trump wins.
Speaker 5 (30:47):
So it's oh my gosh, but there was Russia, and
there was.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
And you could say, well, buck, there's so many things
that they're going to say. Yeah, but that's the point.
You give them all. You give them this whole menu
of excuses, and Russia will be one of them. It
would be like saying, Clay, if you in an election
with you know, one hundred and fifty million votes cast
or whatever it's going to be, you find one guy
who double voted and you're just like, sorry, there was
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cheating in this election. I mean, that's a true statement.
If you find one guy who double voted, you could
say there was cheating in the election. But is that
really a fair way to assess the election overall? If
you only found one vote out of one hundred and
fifty million, that's what they're doing online. Seven followers of
a Twitter account getting named in a DOJ press conference
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as Russian disinformation. I mean, you can make the determination
for yourself.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
My friends.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
We got more here coming up in a second walls
to take some of your calls and give you a
little preview what's coming up tomorrow? You know, last week
I was on vacation Clays, you know, prime time for
lots of photos and movies. My brother actually took a
photo of a Bobcat running through a field. Was quite majestic.
I didn't get to see it. I was sad, but
I saw the photo and now, guess what. That's because
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we have But back in the day, if my brother
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what would he have done? No Bobcat for future generations
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Speaker 3 (33:10):
Podcasts, and welcome back in closing up shop here on
Clay and Buck for the day. But I wanted to
give you a little heads up about where we're going
to be going tomorrow. First up, we're going to be
joined by my friend Jeff Tigus. He's a former Delta
squadron commander. I mean, the guy is an all around badass,
(33:32):
and he just concluded a tour in Gaza into Israel
rather with IDF to survey the Philadelphi Corridor. I believe
you actually went it to Gaza, is what it says here.
Schedule to meet with the Prime Minister tomorrow. He's going
to bring us some ground truth about what's going on
in Israel, you know, and this is a good time
to remind everybody that the IFCJ has been helping to
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provide as many Israeli citizens as possible with assistance during
this incredibly difficult time of the war against Hamas. IFCJ
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soldiers last October and every day since, they've been feeding
the hungry and protecting the vulnerable.
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We need to help.
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Them, and one solidity to do it is through the
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is like, he'll be with us tomorrow. He's over there.
(34:43):
Dude's a straight badass and he's seen a lot in
his life. You know, he's a gwatt veteran Rock and
Afghanistan Delta. You guys all know Tier one Delta. Guys,
they're the best in the business, and you know them
and sealed Team six. But be interesting to hear what
he's seeing over there in Israel. And I know you're
still planning, right, You're gonna head over there. I'm gonna
(35:05):
be over there in December, which I can't wait. I'll
see what it is like on the ground. I'll do
the show from there.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
I was supposed to be over there in August, but
the flights all got canceled. Let's close out with something funny.
By the way, Buck, this is a VIP email. I
know people like to go off with a little bit
of a laugh. This is a great email from Brian.
I would like to propose an idea. Brian says, no
more steak bets. Instead, let's do a bet where if
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Buck loses, he has to do an entire hour of
the show in full Brian Stelter character.
Speaker 4 (35:39):
Exact, no breaking character a lot.
Speaker 3 (35:42):
If I could do it shirtless, shirtless the whole time,
Brian Stelter, I'll wear a bald cap and I'll do
it shirtless.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
I would laugh so hard, crying tears of unmitigated glee
that I could and would have to call out sick
to work for by far my favorite voice.
Speaker 4 (35:59):
Buck does love the show. Thanks guys, I.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
Don't dislike you want to do drink bets now because
I'm you're gonna have to pay so much for my
stake down in Miamia sto. I can't do voices, so
I don't know what the counter would be, but you
having to do a full hour of the show, as
I don't think I could keep it straight face.
Speaker 3 (36:18):
I think we'd have to create a character for you, since,
like I know, you put up a video lifting weights.
Speaker 5 (36:22):
We might have to create.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
Clay bro where during the show you're like doing those
weights but like the little ones that the ladies do
with the bike classes, you know what I mean, and
you do it on the video or the fake.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
Ones with like Clomo when he was like claiming that
he was curling like two hundred pounds. Remember in his
CNN office they had all those photos of him.
Speaker 5 (36:41):
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