November 11, 2024 • 36 mins
California, AZ, NV still counting votes. CNN data guru on Trump's gains with minorities, young voters. CNN guest says it's a slur to say boys shouldn't play girls sports. Democrat Rep. Seth Moulton slammed for women's sports comments. Lib journo spars with Scott Jennings on CNN. Missouri Senator Eric Schmitt joins C&B to discuss who should be Trump's AG, the best way to implement Trump's agenda, the race for Senate majority leader, election reform and more. VIP emails.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Oohack in.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
I appreciate all of you hanging out with us on
the Monday edition Clay Travis buck Sexton Show, as we
continue to celebrate the big win of Donald Trump and
also break down all of the different moving parts associated
with the new administration. We're going to be joined bottom
of the hour by Eric Schmidt, Senator from Missouri, who
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says that he is not in the running now for
attorney general. We'll find out what he thinks is likely
to happen there two thirty Riley Gains. Of course, these
are Eastern time. We're going to be joined by her Buck.
As I sit with all of you and look at
the ongoing counting. First of all, one thing that I
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would say Republicans should consider doing in this coming year
is mandating that these never ending counts in elections. We
need federal election law that to me, mandates that you
have to complete the counting in a reasonable time. As
I am talking to you right now, Buck, according to
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the New York Times, over only seventy two percent of
California votes have actually been counted. We are now six
days since the election, and nearly thirty percent of the
ongoing vote in California is still outstanding. Arizona ninety two
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percent in still to me not acceptable. Every state that
is continuing to count. We are fortunate that Trump won
such a landslide victory, but it could still be outstanding
that we don't know who the next president of the
United States is going to be because Arizona and Nevada
have taken forever to actually get their counts in. With
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that in mind, Trump is rapidly approaching seventy five million votes,
Kamala Harris sitting right around seventy one million votes. The
New York Times estimates ninety four point five percent of
the vote has been counted. They now have given Trump
all three to twelve, the one all seven of the
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battleground states. And the biggest win is we have been
telling you for a Republican candidate since nineteen eighty eight,
and the data on where exactly those votes have come
from are starting to become more and more apparent out there.
And I want to play this for you from Harry Inton.
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This is CNN's data guru talking about the rise that
Trump saw with black voters and Hispanic voters and how
it is unprecedented for a Republican presidential candidate to have
gotten this level of support.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Cut twelve, Trump gained.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Ground in forty nine states and the district of Columbia
compared to twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
I went back through the record books.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
When was the last time a party gained in so
many different places? You have to go all the way
back to nineteen hundred and ninety two. Trump's was the
best GOP showing among eighteen to twenty nine year.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Olds in twenty years.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
You have to go all the way back to two
thousand and four. How about among black voters, it was
the best performance for Republican candidate for president in forty
eight years, and among Hispanic voters. The exit pos only
go back since nineteen hundred and seventy two, but Donald
Trump's performance on Tuesday was the best for Republican presidential
candidate in Exit Paul history. If the twenty sixteen election
was about Donald Trump breaking through white working class voters,
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this election was about breaking through and going that Democratic
coalition and tearing it apart.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Buck.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
I was reading this Saturday slash Sunday Wall Street Journal,
the weekend edition because they don't have both days, and
they said that Trump improved his performance among men eighteen
to twenty nine by fourteen points, and so I want
to put something out into the cosmos.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
I'm curious what your reaction to this is. Buck.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
I was driving home. I went and watched the sports bar,
went to watch NFL games. My fourteen year old was
in the car next to me and we were talking
about the twenty twenty four election and he said, Dawn,
I'll be able to vote in the next election. And
that was for if you've got a kid around that
age like that was like a holy crap moment for
me was I'll have two voting age sons in the
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next election, and they both would vote for Trump and Buck.
In the school that my kid attends, they do sort
of a mock election Trump ones boys only Trump won
eighty to twenty in his.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
School, their school. I think what we.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Are seeing, and I don't know the Democrats have realized
this yet, is a political realignment with young men the
likes of which we have never seen in any of
our lives. My fourteen year old, if he could have voted,
would have voted Trump. Most of his friends would have.
I think white, Black, Asian, Hispanic young men are breaking
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Republican in a way. That's going to have generational impact.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
I think that it's very hard for the Democrats to
recover when it comes to the brand on this issue.
Let me give you an examp ample, Clay, because this
went super viral over the weekend and it goes to
exactly what you're talking about. On CNN, they had a
panel okay, and there's some guy who he's a he's
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a rabbi who completely loses mind and says it is
a it is a slur to say that boys should
not play in girls sports. And you might say, where's
the slur, like, where where is the horrible boys should
not play in girls sports?
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Oh, because you're supposed to say trans girls should not
play in girls sports. I want to I want to
unpack this with you to second, but let everyone should.
I want you to listen in and remember remember I
was on Bill Marshall and the woman next to me
was like, why aren't you talking about minorities and women
when the topic was working class men? And I looked
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at her I said, this is why Kamala is going
to lose, and she did. Clay, this moment on CNN
is also Kamala lost so big, and we'll explain why
I play too.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
I think there are a lot of families out there
who don't believe boys should play girls sports.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
They're not boys. I'm not going to listen to transphobia.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
I am not going to.
Speaker 6 (06:15):
Trans girl.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
When you use that word.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Changed, they're not boys, they're playing I'm not going to
sit there.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
Listener a second, because look, this is a really heated issue,
right and share, Michael. I know you, I know that
you understand that people have different views on this. I think,
out of respect for Jay, like, let's try to talk
about this in a way that is respectful.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Okay, So let me rephrase this since I'm being targeted here.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
I don't know that you are not going but I'm
specifically saying that. I know that you are not intending
to be transphobia.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
He should know that.
Speaker 7 (06:56):
But you want, but I want you to use that's
not regular people.
Speaker 8 (07:07):
There's no consensus to these are actually boys.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Yes there is. These are boys. You can say whatever
you want, you can dance around, you can call people transphobic,
you can do all the things the Democrats have done.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Clay, but they have male genitals, they are x Y chromosome,
They are boys, and they are men, and they are
playing in women's sports. This is why it's not just
about the trans issue, by the way, it's about the
mandatory madness, the mandatory delusion.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Most people don't really care what adults do as long
as it's not illegal in the privacy of their own lives.
Most people, some people disagree, but by and large, I
don't think people who vote Trump really care if a
dude who's twenty eight wants to dress up in a
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skirt and walk around and pretend to be a woman.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
But as you know, that's that's really irrelevant. Now, that's
not the trans movement. That's not what they want.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
I mean, yeah, that's totally right, and I think it's
very interesting. And actually Dave Chappelle started to point this
out in a big way, and I think you're starting
to see the identity politics of this. Foray, think about
what gay people asked for. By and large, gay people
just said, hey, we want the freedom to live as
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gay people, and a lot of people said, okay, that's fine.
Trans people are demanding that you like that guy on
that on that show, that you acknowledge their lie and
live your own life based on it, and that this
is the at some point, inclusion becomes exclusion. And that
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is what happens when you have a man taking a
women's championship or a women's trophy. And I believe we
have the Democrat Seth Moulton here saying recently and he's
getting ripped to shreds because you're not even allowed to
say what he said, which is a position that Shermichael,
the guy on CNN, was correct on.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
This is a nine to ten issue. I know Shermichael.
He's a good guy. He's a very he's astute, he's
he's very you know, cordial and polite on air. And
the fact that this guy is shouting over him and
saying that he's used a slur. It's like, these are
dudes if they by the way, just a notion they
have to call them trans girls. Clay, Yeah, it was
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great because you just call them girls. There's something different here.
I'm sorry, we have to acknowledge ready, But to your
point about Seth Moulton, he just let's play.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
This is cut through this, this is this is a
Democrats are coming to grips with their loss. And Seth Moulton,
Democrat congressman, said this.
Speaker 9 (09:54):
One of the consensus views that I've been hearing is
that kids played co ed sports all the time, right.
I mean, I got a little who are just on
co ed soccer teams and everything, and that's totally normal.
It's been fine for generations. But it's very different when
you get to competitive sports at the college level, for example.
And I've heard anecdotes from parents who've reached out to
me over the past several days who share these concerns,
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who think it's just unfair that, you know, transgender women
or men are able to compete against their daughters. And
so that's the debate that we really have to have,
and I think there are some reasonable questions about what's
fair from a competitive this perspective, and also what's safe
at those levels.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
I think he said, and I don't know if we
can get this. He also said, I've got two daughters
and I don't want them getting run over. I'm paraphrasing
him on the field by a dude, And again I'm
paraphrasing him, But this is something that is so fundamentally
broken that I think a lot of these young boys
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are looking around, these young men as they become eighteen
years old, and they say the Democrat party is filled
with a bunch of people lecturing me about things that
I don't believe are true. It ties in remember the
girl we had call I think her name was Maddie
from Utah saying she had voted for the first time,
college kid and she was still angry over what had
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happened because of COVID. I think it's the combination of
a lot of these kids. Imagine just think about this.
You're playing a sport, you're sixteen, and suddenly your season
gets shut down. You don't get to go to prom,
you don't get to even finish your school year, and
you look around and you're like, wait a minute, who
were the people that were hectoring me, that were lecturing
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me telling me, oh, a man pretending to be a
woman is a woman, and oh, you've got to have
a mask on. You've got to play basketball wearing a mask.
It's all Democrats, and young men are finally rebelling against this,
and Buck, I don't think this is going away. I
think in twenty eight the young male movement towards Republicans
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is going to be even more pronounced than it was
in twenty four. And this is important generationally because usually
men and women don't become more liberal if they as
they age. So if you've got eighteen and twenty year
old men who are saying, I'm all in for Trump,
we got to bring back sanity to this country, I
don't think when they're forty bucks they're suddenly going to
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be saying, hey, you know what we were wrong. Turns
out dudes pretending to be chicks are chicks. Democrats have
a major problem here, and it's getting worse. It's not
getting better.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
You know, when you have a party that, as part
of it's fundamental philosophy, demands lies from people, it really
it has a corrosive effect on a lot.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Of what they believe.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
That this is the problem, right because because it was
Democrats who were cutting holes in masks, So the obol
players and flute players in high school, I don't even
know how that is supposed to work with, but this
was they were cutting holes and masks so that you
could blow on your obo that's what they do and
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not get COVID. And it was mandatory. I mean, all
these you know, lib airline attendance or stewardesses or whatever
were shouting at me to pull my mask up. Faster
between bites. They were all Democrats who were doing this. Somehow,
there's something emotionally psychologically that had burrowed deep in the
Democrat party and made these people nuts. It is Democrats
that say things like it's a slur to say boys
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shouldn't play girls sports. No, it's an objective observation of reality.
And even Bill Maher and other Democrats are saying, guys,
you gotta stop being so crazy. Okay, You've got to stop.
And I'm kind of hoping I was.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Just gonna say, bog think about the lecturing, and also
we should mention The host of that CNN show chastised that,
uh Shermichael, the guy on the argument for even saying
that they.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Know not I mean, this is sher Michael's a good man.
I'm a texting right now. Let's see we get Schimichael
to join us sometime this week and tell us what
it's like to be you know, I'm Michael. You know
we already had one Buddy Bend and Claysman Bend. Sir Michael,
better watch out and not say that a man is
a man on CNN, or else you might get in
a lot of trouble I'll text.
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Speaker 1 (15:33):
Welcome back into Clay and back. We're just talking about
my friend, Shermichael Singleton, who was on CNN and he
committed the grave sin of saying that a boy is
a boy and boys shouldn't play in girls' sports because
you're not allowed to call them boys.
Speaker 6 (15:46):
It's a slur.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
No, it's not. Actually, it's reality.
Speaker 6 (15:49):
It's tough.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
It can be a tough thing for some democrats these days,
and that includes journals are shorthand for the journalists who
are having a tough one here, Clay, because they decided
to go all in with I'm not exaggerating. As you know,
Trump is a Hitler, which is both moronic and really
offensive as well for anybody who knows anything about Hitler
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or the Holocaust, World War two. Uh, it's insane. It's
an unhinged thing. But the journals are having a little
soul searching moment here maybe are they well?
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Here?
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Is one of them. Washington Post columnists Catherine Rampell. I
am not a Democrat, sir, play.
Speaker 8 (16:26):
For he just won a mandate from the American people
to execute on the program that he laid out in
this election. It wasn't particularly close, and I think he
ought to put people in place who are gonna do it.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
That's what the case his enemies. I mean, that's that's
that's not what you ran. Yes, it is explicitly.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Because what he said in the past week, he literally
said that he was going to to to exact vengeance.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
You still don't understand how you lost. He ran on immigration,
he ran, he ran on immigration. You don't say me, Clay,
I'm not a Democrat. I am a journalist that doesn't
work anymore. Only morons or deluded people believe that. Did
that not sound to you?
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Buck like lunch room when all the girls at the
lunch room are mad at one guy or something, and
the guy's trying to defend himself and they all just
start yapping back at him. Scott Jennings, let me just
say this, he's been on the show. If CNN really
cared about trying to go and serve the entire voting public,
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they would give Scott Jennings his own show, because I
think he's the most talented TV person that CNN has
on right now. They probably won't because they'd be afraid
of what people might say about it. But I think
he would host an actually interesting show on CNN, and
if they cared about growing audience, they would do that.
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Cleat Travis and Buck Sexton on the front Lines of Truth.
Welcome back in Clay Travis and Buck Sexton show. We
are joined now by Missouri Senator Eric Schmidt. Been fighting
a lot of battles with big tech. He's been on
the program several different times. Appreciate you joining as a senator.
And you had some news that came out a little
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bit a little bit earlier today about the Attorney General position,
and I saw you tweet about it. But for our
audience out there, what have you decided as it pertains
to potentially joining Trump's cabinet.
Speaker 6 (19:23):
Well, first of all, thanks for the Rick Asthley Bumper
music on the way in.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
You appreciate that.
Speaker 6 (19:28):
As a ges near and dear in my heart. Yeah,
it was an honor to be considered for the AG position,
but I talked to the transition folks and had my
name with drawn from consideration for that really important role.
Because I think it's important for me to serve up
my attorney United State Senate. President Trump needs, you know,
actual real America first fighters in the Senate who are
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going to move this agenda forward. I mean, he got
a mandate on Tuesday, but we actually have to deliver
on that, and I think that's the that's the place
for me to go do that. So I'll have a
role with judges, picking some judges and then also once
we get back into Congress next year of trying to
deliver here. So that's the right place for me. And again,
it was an honor to be considered and mention, but
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this is the right thing I think right now, do.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
You know who the ag might be? Do you give
an endorsement as you step out? What do you think
about that role and who.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Might get it?
Speaker 6 (20:20):
Well, it's an important one, and you know there's some
names that are out there, and I don't want to
get too far ahead of the President on any of that,
but I'm always willing to sort of weigh in, and
I do intend to be helpful between now in January
and then beyond. I mean, there's a lot of things
that there's a lot of important positions AG's one of them.
There's gonna be a lot of judges to fill. That's
another thing that a lot of people aren't talking about yet.
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He's going to have an opportunity again to sort of
remake the federal judiciar and continue to put judges who
interpret the law as it's written, not how they want
it to be. The people that Joe Biden is picking
here now are just activists, many of which have no
experience at all, but they just want to deliver the results,
and that's really not what it's for. So he's got
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a great opportunity. I think here he's going to put
together an incredible cabinet.
Speaker 7 (21:07):
I know that.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
What do you think about the possibility of some some
major appointment Senator happening in a recess that is essentially,
you know, pre planned, so that that can happen without
the intransigence and the obstruction that Trump faced in twenty
sixteen when he was being slowed down and prevented in
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ways that we're bordering on just absurd to prevent him
from getting the people that he wanted in those key roles.
Would you agree that's the way forward or do you
think that with regular order the Democrats will fall in
line enough that it won't make that much of a difference,
and there can be the speeches and the and the
votes and all the rest of it to get through nominations.
Speaker 6 (21:49):
Well, I think the recisch appointments. He's put that out there.
I think it's a good idea. I think we should
move forward on it. I also think that if we're
pretty clear when we get up there, that that you know,
we've got the numbers, we've got majority, and we're united,
we can accomplish all these things. And I tell you,
the Democrats are good at this when they get these
sort of opportunities. And that's exactly what we have to do.
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I mean, and President Trump was really clear about what
he wants to do. I mean, in addition to the appointments,
but we're going to secure the border, we're going to
be energy dominant, we're going to have an economy that
works for real people and working people, and we're going
to be respected around the world. All of those things
can happen. And by by the way, the ninety four
executive orders that Joe Biden undid when president when they
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got into office, that you turned around all the successes
we had at a forty five year low, and the
legal immigration with Trump left, I fully expect him coming
in and doing that to remain in Mexico policy was
incredibly effective. I fully anticipate that coming back on board.
And then whatever we need to back to the legislatively
to give him additional authorities, we can do that. And
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then on the permitting and on the leasing. A lot
of these things can be done when you've got the
White House. But I will tell you one thing to
sort of look out for a lot of those tax
cuts that came into play in twenty seventeen for middle
class families and small businesses, those all expire at the
end of twenty twenty five, and so we can move
those things, get those permanently extended. And here's the sort
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of in the leads. We can do that by the
way of a process of reconciliation where you don't need
sixty votes, you just need fifty one voice in the Senate,
and so I think we do that. On tax reform,
one of the things that I'm going to advocate for
is regulatory reform as well, because there's a lot of
budget savings, which is the key that can come by
way of regulatory reform that we ought to have in
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that bill, so I would anticipate we'll spend a lot
of time on that too.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Coming back, we're talking to Senator Eric Schmidt of Missouri.
Big decision wednesday as to who the Senate majority leader
will be. I believe Wednesday is the vote. There are
three known finalists out there, Thune, Cornyn and Scott. Have
you made your decision about how you will vote? How
would you assess the horse race? So to speak?
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Of the Wednesday decision on cine majority leader.
Speaker 6 (24:03):
It's hard to know. I'm not sure any the three
of them who I'm talking to all the time know
either actually where the votes are all at. I think
the input that you get from folks back home is
all good. But wait, I'm hearing all of them out
and I mean that sincerely. Like I'm talking to people
literally today. There's a candidate forum tomorrow what is it, Monday,
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tomorrow night when we get back up there. I think
there's a lot of people who still haven't made their
mind up. And here's what's important to me, and this
is what I communicate, And I'm just again wanting to
hear what the response is. I want an agenda that
is reflective of what the American people want, what they
voted for on Tuesday, right, I will tell you my
first two years up there. The biggest disappointment often is
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that the conversations in Washington are so detached from what
people really talk about at home. Like you know, when
people say the most important thing that we need to
do is send another sixty billion dollars to Ukraine. Nobody
in Missouri has ever told me that. No, not one
person has said, Eric, that's the most important thing you
can do when you go up to Washington. But in
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our lunches, in just sort of that totoon that people
live in in DC, that is a lot of the conversation.
So I want an agenda that's reflective what real people want.
And also there's some reform these omnibous bills at midnight,
where two or three people are writing the bill, people
don't read them, and you vote them. That has to end, Like,
let's do individual appropriations bills, let's have real amendments. I
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think that's what people think we do up there, But
a lot of it's kabuki theater and very scripted, and
that has to change. So those are the two things
that I'm talking about. You know, with the people who
are on do you.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Think that their senator is any appetite for well, I'll
just say it for deciding that the filibuster as a
means to prevent Trump's agenda from being achieved, may have
to be something that, as Trump would say, you're going
to look at.
Speaker 6 (26:02):
Well, I think everything's sort of on the table. But
I think one of the big concerns, of course, is
that the Democrats have run on this specifically if the
filibuster's gone to pack the court, you know, to pack
the court at States of the Union, federalized elections and
grant am this the to fifteen million people. So I
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think everything can be on the table, I think about it.
But also if you did it, what would you do?
What are the Democrats willing to do? Right? So there's
not I don't think any real discussion about that right now.
But but again I think that moving forward, we have
to be able to deliver I think for the American.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
People, Senator.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Right now, California has only counted about seventy two percent
of its overall ballots. You mentioned federal elections. We're fortunate
that Trump won by such a substantial majority that the
electoral college wasn't thrown into question, but Nevada, Arizona it's
taken them forever to count. How do we go back
to elections being decided in at least twenty four hours,
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because it certainly seems to a lot of us like
we're going back in time and now count vote slower
than we did in the eighteen hundreds.
Speaker 6 (27:14):
Yeah. My hope, honestly, guys, is that this system, it
doesn't help anybody. Okay, so just take yourself out of
you know, our red and blue jerseys for a minute.
The idea that you don't know for a week who
won is insane. It doesn't happen anywhere in the world.
It only furthers the belief in the distrust right in
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our system, and that just has to change.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Now.
Speaker 6 (27:40):
I think that there are probably some things you can
do on the federal level, but as Republicans who sort
of adopted this position that this should be this is
a state decision, right like how you run the elections.
The states sort of decide these things. But what you're
starting to see what the Democrats want to do is
have federal laws that don't allow you to have voter ID,
you know, like those are the sorts of things that
they want to do. I don't think even in Democrat states,
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this is a good thing. So I think persuasion is
a piece of it. I think photo ID one of
the things that we can do on a federal level
which we should do, which is the Save Act, which
is to make sure that illegal immigrants aren't voting in
our elections. For the people who tell you it's already illegal,
we don't need to do anything, well, it's also illegal
to be here illegally, like, but people do it. And
(28:24):
once you get a driver's license, which you can get
at an illegal immigrant, all you got to do at
the DMV is just say yes when they ask you
do you want to register to vote. No one really
checks it after that unless there's something crazy that happen.
So there are some things we should do, but this
wasn't controversial, guys. Even just like a decade ago, there
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was the Carter Baker Commission. They had ten recommendations, many
of them were same day. You know, make sure you
have the election results come in that day, have voter
ID if you're going to have mail in baling, make
sure you have signature verification, I think that maybe the
Democrat if they've learned their lesson these crazy positions they've
taken have been rejected by the American people, and they
come back a little bit. But we'll see.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
We're talking to Senator Schmidt of Missouri and one more
for you, Senator. It seems like Chuck Schumer is playing
some games here, not allowing Dave McCormick, who is clearly,
by the vote of the people of Pennsylvania going to
be the next senator from that state, but he's not
being invited to orientation by Schumer. What the heck is
going on.
Speaker 6 (29:26):
It's being a baby, is what's going on? Just apl
move on. The AP's called it. I and Mike Lee
and some others have offered to escort mister McCormick to
his orientation if that is necessary. All of this is
just well, you guys have to understand and you know,
and your listeners probably to some degree, Chuck Schumer is
a total control freak. Like this guy consolidates power and
(29:51):
wants to execute it. He can't handle the fact that
he lost one of his incumbents lost in state like Pennsylvania,
so he's just thrown kind of a temper tantrum. But
Dave McCormick has every right to be there. The people
of Pennsylvania deserve to have their senator understand where like
the bathrooms are, and get their letter head together and
start to get you know, phone lines operating for constituent issues.
(30:13):
So these are the things that you start to do
in that orientation. Because you know, I was there two
years ago. There's a lot. I mean, it's it's a
new gig, it's a new town. You've got to hire staff,
and we will make sure that he gets off to
a good start. So I'm confident that he'll be there.
And if you need somebody to help them get in
the door, I'll have to help.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Senator Schmid. Appreciate you, Sarah, Thanks for being with us.
Speaker 6 (30:32):
All right, guys, take care.
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Speaker 2 (33:18):
Clay.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
I celebrated trump victory week out at the shooting range
on Saturday. I had a lot of fun. You sir,
were at You had a game of the football.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
What were you doing?
Speaker 1 (33:27):
I did.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
I went to South Carolina Vanderbilt, but it was my
twentieth law school reunion, so I got to hang out
with a lot of people that I hadn't seen legitimately
in twenty years.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
It was cool.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
Laura was in my law school class, so she enjoyed.
My wife enjoyed being able to see everybody too. And
I can't believe that's been twenty years since I graduated
from law school. Is passed in a flash, and I
was talking about earlier Buck. I also went and watched
with my fourteen year old foot ball games on Sunday
(34:01):
at a local sports bar. And it's also staggering to
me that I have by the time we'll have another election,
I'll have two adult sons, which is just threw me
for a total loop. When my fourteen year old I
just hadn't done the math. It was like, hey, you know, dad,
I'll be able to vote in the next election, and
I was just I'm just in disbelief by the fact
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that by twenty twenty eight I'll have two adult sons,
which is which is pretty crazy.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
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And what a simple message for us. One nation under God,
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Somebody who fought in the Korean War.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
Buck, I told you in my neighborhood, ninety eight year
old went and voted for Trump, fought in World War Two.
I mean for you and I who are history buffs.
There are so few individuals remaining who served, and that's
why I watched a lot of the D Day Anniversary,
seventieth anniversary just from this past June. But I would
(35:33):
imagine if you're of that age and you were able
to watch Trump win, the vast, vast majority of veterans
who are certainly who fought in World War Two and
in Korea, I would imagine, voted Trump, and so I
think a lot of them, in their elderly age probably
are super super excited to think about what's going to
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happen in January.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
Phil Vip, Phil still basking in the Globe, Clay and Buck,
as Joe would say, not a joke, true story. Indeed,
my friends, it is not a joke, and it is
a true story that Donald Trump has won a massive victory.
But we're going to turn our sites here to what
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the next steps look like, what the mission may be.
How Democrats are processing this other than crying and drinking
a lot of wine coolers. Democrats are very upset, very upset,
So we will discuss what they've got going on there too.
Plus Clay Riley Gaines of OutKick fame, very fast swimmer. Also,
(36:36):
no doubt I was with her on election night, and
the fact that a man decided to win an NCAA
championship in women's swimming may have ultimately been dispositive on
this election.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
We'll talk about that with her and more
Oohack in.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
I appreciate all of you hanging out with us on
the Monday edition Clay Travis buck Sexton Show, as we
continue to celebrate the big win of Donald Trump and
also break down all of the different moving parts associated
with the new administration. We're going to be joined bottom
of the hour by Eric Schmidt, Senator from Missouri, who
(00:23):
says that he is not in the running now for
attorney general. We'll find out what he thinks is likely
to happen there two thirty Riley Gains. Of course, these
are Eastern time. We're going to be joined by her Buck.
As I sit with all of you and look at
the ongoing counting. First of all, one thing that I
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would say Republicans should consider doing in this coming year
is mandating that these never ending counts in elections. We
need federal election law that to me, mandates that you
have to complete the counting in a reasonable time. As
I am talking to you right now, Buck, according to
(01:06):
the New York Times, over only seventy two percent of
California votes have actually been counted. We are now six
days since the election, and nearly thirty percent of the
ongoing vote in California is still outstanding. Arizona ninety two
(01:26):
percent in still to me not acceptable. Every state that
is continuing to count. We are fortunate that Trump won
such a landslide victory, but it could still be outstanding
that we don't know who the next president of the
United States is going to be because Arizona and Nevada
have taken forever to actually get their counts in. With
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that in mind, Trump is rapidly approaching seventy five million votes,
Kamala Harris sitting right around seventy one million votes. The
New York Times estimates ninety four point five percent of
the vote has been counted. They now have given Trump
all three to twelve, the one all seven of the
(02:08):
battleground states. And the biggest win is we have been
telling you for a Republican candidate since nineteen eighty eight,
and the data on where exactly those votes have come
from are starting to become more and more apparent out there.
And I want to play this for you from Harry Inton.
(02:28):
This is CNN's data guru talking about the rise that
Trump saw with black voters and Hispanic voters and how
it is unprecedented for a Republican presidential candidate to have
gotten this level of support.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Cut twelve, Trump gained.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Ground in forty nine states and the district of Columbia
compared to twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
I went back through the record books.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
When was the last time a party gained in so
many different places? You have to go all the way
back to nineteen hundred and ninety two. Trump's was the
best GOP showing among eighteen to twenty nine year.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Olds in twenty years.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
You have to go all the way back to two
thousand and four. How about among black voters, it was
the best performance for Republican candidate for president in forty
eight years, and among Hispanic voters. The exit pos only
go back since nineteen hundred and seventy two, but Donald
Trump's performance on Tuesday was the best for Republican presidential
candidate in Exit Paul history. If the twenty sixteen election
was about Donald Trump breaking through white working class voters,
(03:24):
this election was about breaking through and going that Democratic
coalition and tearing it apart.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Buck.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
I was reading this Saturday slash Sunday Wall Street Journal,
the weekend edition because they don't have both days, and
they said that Trump improved his performance among men eighteen
to twenty nine by fourteen points, and so I want
to put something out into the cosmos.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
I'm curious what your reaction to this is. Buck.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
I was driving home. I went and watched the sports bar,
went to watch NFL games. My fourteen year old was
in the car next to me and we were talking
about the twenty twenty four election and he said, Dawn,
I'll be able to vote in the next election. And
that was for if you've got a kid around that
age like that was like a holy crap moment for
me was I'll have two voting age sons in the
(04:11):
next election, and they both would vote for Trump and Buck.
In the school that my kid attends, they do sort
of a mock election Trump ones boys only Trump won
eighty to twenty in his.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
School, their school. I think what we.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Are seeing, and I don't know the Democrats have realized
this yet, is a political realignment with young men the
likes of which we have never seen in any of
our lives. My fourteen year old, if he could have voted,
would have voted Trump. Most of his friends would have.
I think white, Black, Asian, Hispanic young men are breaking
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Republican in a way. That's going to have generational impact.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
I think that it's very hard for the Democrats to
recover when it comes to the brand on this issue.
Let me give you an examp ample, Clay, because this
went super viral over the weekend and it goes to
exactly what you're talking about. On CNN, they had a
panel okay, and there's some guy who he's a he's
(05:14):
a rabbi who completely loses mind and says it is
a it is a slur to say that boys should
not play in girls sports. And you might say, where's
the slur, like, where where is the horrible boys should
not play in girls sports?
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Oh, because you're supposed to say trans girls should not
play in girls sports. I want to I want to
unpack this with you to second, but let everyone should.
I want you to listen in and remember remember I
was on Bill Marshall and the woman next to me
was like, why aren't you talking about minorities and women
when the topic was working class men? And I looked
(05:53):
at her I said, this is why Kamala is going
to lose, and she did. Clay, this moment on CNN
is also Kamala lost so big, and we'll explain why
I play too.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
I think there are a lot of families out there
who don't believe boys should play girls sports.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
They're not boys. I'm not going to listen to transphobia.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
I am not going to.
Speaker 6 (06:15):
Trans girl.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
When you use that word.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Changed, they're not boys, they're playing I'm not going to
sit there.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
Listener a second, because look, this is a really heated issue,
right and share, Michael. I know you, I know that
you understand that people have different views on this. I think,
out of respect for Jay, like, let's try to talk
about this in a way that is respectful.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Okay, So let me rephrase this since I'm being targeted here.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
I don't know that you are not going but I'm
specifically saying that. I know that you are not intending
to be transphobia.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
He should know that.
Speaker 7 (06:56):
But you want, but I want you to use that's
not regular people.
Speaker 8 (07:07):
There's no consensus to these are actually boys.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Yes there is. These are boys. You can say whatever
you want, you can dance around, you can call people transphobic,
you can do all the things the Democrats have done.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Clay, but they have male genitals, they are x Y chromosome,
They are boys, and they are men, and they are
playing in women's sports. This is why it's not just
about the trans issue, by the way, it's about the
mandatory madness, the mandatory delusion.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Most people don't really care what adults do as long
as it's not illegal in the privacy of their own lives.
Most people, some people disagree, but by and large, I
don't think people who vote Trump really care if a
dude who's twenty eight wants to dress up in a
(08:06):
skirt and walk around and pretend to be a woman.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
But as you know, that's that's really irrelevant. Now, that's
not the trans movement. That's not what they want.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
I mean, yeah, that's totally right, and I think it's
very interesting. And actually Dave Chappelle started to point this
out in a big way, and I think you're starting
to see the identity politics of this. Foray, think about
what gay people asked for. By and large, gay people
just said, hey, we want the freedom to live as
(08:35):
gay people, and a lot of people said, okay, that's fine.
Trans people are demanding that you like that guy on
that on that show, that you acknowledge their lie and
live your own life based on it, and that this
is the at some point, inclusion becomes exclusion. And that
(08:58):
is what happens when you have a man taking a
women's championship or a women's trophy. And I believe we
have the Democrat Seth Moulton here saying recently and he's
getting ripped to shreds because you're not even allowed to
say what he said, which is a position that Shermichael,
the guy on CNN, was correct on.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
This is a nine to ten issue. I know Shermichael.
He's a good guy. He's a very he's astute, he's
he's very you know, cordial and polite on air. And
the fact that this guy is shouting over him and
saying that he's used a slur. It's like, these are
dudes if they by the way, just a notion they
have to call them trans girls. Clay, Yeah, it was
(09:39):
great because you just call them girls. There's something different here.
I'm sorry, we have to acknowledge ready, But to your
point about Seth Moulton, he just let's play.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
This is cut through this, this is this is a
Democrats are coming to grips with their loss. And Seth Moulton,
Democrat congressman, said this.
Speaker 9 (09:54):
One of the consensus views that I've been hearing is
that kids played co ed sports all the time, right.
I mean, I got a little who are just on
co ed soccer teams and everything, and that's totally normal.
It's been fine for generations. But it's very different when
you get to competitive sports at the college level, for example.
And I've heard anecdotes from parents who've reached out to
me over the past several days who share these concerns,
(10:15):
who think it's just unfair that, you know, transgender women
or men are able to compete against their daughters. And
so that's the debate that we really have to have,
and I think there are some reasonable questions about what's
fair from a competitive this perspective, and also what's safe
at those levels.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
I think he said, and I don't know if we
can get this. He also said, I've got two daughters
and I don't want them getting run over. I'm paraphrasing
him on the field by a dude, And again I'm
paraphrasing him, But this is something that is so fundamentally
broken that I think a lot of these young boys
(10:54):
are looking around, these young men as they become eighteen
years old, and they say the Democrat party is filled
with a bunch of people lecturing me about things that
I don't believe are true. It ties in remember the
girl we had call I think her name was Maddie
from Utah saying she had voted for the first time,
college kid and she was still angry over what had
(11:17):
happened because of COVID. I think it's the combination of
a lot of these kids. Imagine just think about this.
You're playing a sport, you're sixteen, and suddenly your season
gets shut down. You don't get to go to prom,
you don't get to even finish your school year, and
you look around and you're like, wait a minute, who
were the people that were hectoring me, that were lecturing
(11:38):
me telling me, oh, a man pretending to be a
woman is a woman, and oh, you've got to have
a mask on. You've got to play basketball wearing a mask.
It's all Democrats, and young men are finally rebelling against this,
and Buck, I don't think this is going away. I
think in twenty eight the young male movement towards Republicans
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is going to be even more pronounced than it was
in twenty four. And this is important generationally because usually
men and women don't become more liberal if they as
they age. So if you've got eighteen and twenty year
old men who are saying, I'm all in for Trump,
we got to bring back sanity to this country, I
don't think when they're forty bucks they're suddenly going to
(12:22):
be saying, hey, you know what we were wrong. Turns
out dudes pretending to be chicks are chicks. Democrats have
a major problem here, and it's getting worse. It's not
getting better.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
You know, when you have a party that, as part
of it's fundamental philosophy, demands lies from people, it really
it has a corrosive effect on a lot.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Of what they believe.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
That this is the problem, right because because it was
Democrats who were cutting holes in masks, So the obol
players and flute players in high school, I don't even
know how that is supposed to work with, but this
was they were cutting holes and masks so that you
could blow on your obo that's what they do and
(13:09):
not get COVID. And it was mandatory. I mean, all
these you know, lib airline attendance or stewardesses or whatever
were shouting at me to pull my mask up. Faster
between bites. They were all Democrats who were doing this. Somehow,
there's something emotionally psychologically that had burrowed deep in the
Democrat party and made these people nuts. It is Democrats
that say things like it's a slur to say boys
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shouldn't play girls sports. No, it's an objective observation of reality.
And even Bill Maher and other Democrats are saying, guys,
you gotta stop being so crazy. Okay, You've got to stop.
And I'm kind of hoping I was.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Just gonna say, bog think about the lecturing, and also
we should mention The host of that CNN show chastised that,
uh Shermichael, the guy on the argument for even saying
that they.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Know not I mean, this is sher Michael's a good man.
I'm a texting right now. Let's see we get Schimichael
to join us sometime this week and tell us what
it's like to be you know, I'm Michael. You know
we already had one Buddy Bend and Claysman Bend. Sir Michael,
better watch out and not say that a man is
a man on CNN, or else you might get in
a lot of trouble I'll text.
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Welcome back into Clay and back. We're just talking about
my friend, Shermichael Singleton, who was on CNN and he
committed the grave sin of saying that a boy is
a boy and boys shouldn't play in girls' sports because
you're not allowed to call them boys.
Speaker 6 (15:46):
It's a slur.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
No, it's not. Actually, it's reality.
Speaker 6 (15:49):
It's tough.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
It can be a tough thing for some democrats these days,
and that includes journals are shorthand for the journalists who
are having a tough one here, Clay, because they decided
to go all in with I'm not exaggerating. As you know,
Trump is a Hitler, which is both moronic and really
offensive as well for anybody who knows anything about Hitler
(16:10):
or the Holocaust, World War two. Uh, it's insane. It's
an unhinged thing. But the journals are having a little
soul searching moment here maybe are they well?
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Here?
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Is one of them. Washington Post columnists Catherine Rampell. I
am not a Democrat, sir, play.
Speaker 8 (16:26):
For he just won a mandate from the American people
to execute on the program that he laid out in
this election. It wasn't particularly close, and I think he
ought to put people in place who are gonna do it.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
That's what the case his enemies. I mean, that's that's
that's not what you ran. Yes, it is explicitly.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Because what he said in the past week, he literally
said that he was going to to to exact vengeance.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
You still don't understand how you lost. He ran on immigration,
he ran, he ran on immigration. You don't say me, Clay,
I'm not a Democrat. I am a journalist that doesn't
work anymore. Only morons or deluded people believe that. Did
that not sound to you?
Speaker 2 (17:11):
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start yapping back at him. Scott Jennings, let me just
say this, he's been on the show. If CNN really
cared about trying to go and serve the entire voting public,
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on right now. They probably won't because they'd be afraid
of what people might say about it. But I think
he would host an actually interesting show on CNN, and
if they cared about growing audience, they would do that.
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Cleat Travis and Buck Sexton on the front Lines of Truth.
Welcome back in Clay Travis and Buck Sexton show. We
are joined now by Missouri Senator Eric Schmidt. Been fighting
a lot of battles with big tech. He's been on
the program several different times. Appreciate you joining as a senator.
And you had some news that came out a little
(19:09):
bit a little bit earlier today about the Attorney General position,
and I saw you tweet about it. But for our
audience out there, what have you decided as it pertains
to potentially joining Trump's cabinet.
Speaker 6 (19:23):
Well, first of all, thanks for the Rick Asthley Bumper
music on the way in.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
You appreciate that.
Speaker 6 (19:28):
As a ges near and dear in my heart. Yeah,
it was an honor to be considered for the AG position,
but I talked to the transition folks and had my
name with drawn from consideration for that really important role.
Because I think it's important for me to serve up
my attorney United State Senate. President Trump needs, you know,
actual real America first fighters in the Senate who are
(19:49):
going to move this agenda forward. I mean, he got
a mandate on Tuesday, but we actually have to deliver
on that, and I think that's the that's the place
for me to go do that. So I'll have a
role with judges, picking some judges and then also once
we get back into Congress next year of trying to
deliver here. So that's the right place for me. And again,
it was an honor to be considered and mention, but
(20:10):
this is the right thing I think right now, do.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
You know who the ag might be? Do you give
an endorsement as you step out? What do you think
about that role and who.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Might get it?
Speaker 6 (20:20):
Well, it's an important one, and you know there's some
names that are out there, and I don't want to
get too far ahead of the President on any of that,
but I'm always willing to sort of weigh in, and
I do intend to be helpful between now in January
and then beyond. I mean, there's a lot of things
that there's a lot of important positions AG's one of them.
There's gonna be a lot of judges to fill. That's
another thing that a lot of people aren't talking about yet.
(20:41):
He's going to have an opportunity again to sort of
remake the federal judiciar and continue to put judges who
interpret the law as it's written, not how they want
it to be. The people that Joe Biden is picking
here now are just activists, many of which have no
experience at all, but they just want to deliver the results,
and that's really not what it's for. So he's got
(21:03):
a great opportunity. I think here he's going to put
together an incredible cabinet.
Speaker 7 (21:07):
I know that.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
What do you think about the possibility of some some
major appointment Senator happening in a recess that is essentially,
you know, pre planned, so that that can happen without
the intransigence and the obstruction that Trump faced in twenty
sixteen when he was being slowed down and prevented in
(21:30):
ways that we're bordering on just absurd to prevent him
from getting the people that he wanted in those key roles.
Would you agree that's the way forward or do you
think that with regular order the Democrats will fall in
line enough that it won't make that much of a difference,
and there can be the speeches and the and the
votes and all the rest of it to get through nominations.
Speaker 6 (21:49):
Well, I think the recisch appointments. He's put that out there.
I think it's a good idea. I think we should
move forward on it. I also think that if we're
pretty clear when we get up there, that that you know,
we've got the numbers, we've got majority, and we're united,
we can accomplish all these things. And I tell you,
the Democrats are good at this when they get these
sort of opportunities. And that's exactly what we have to do.
(22:11):
I mean, and President Trump was really clear about what
he wants to do. I mean, in addition to the appointments,
but we're going to secure the border, we're going to
be energy dominant, we're going to have an economy that
works for real people and working people, and we're going
to be respected around the world. All of those things
can happen. And by by the way, the ninety four
executive orders that Joe Biden undid when president when they
(22:34):
got into office, that you turned around all the successes
we had at a forty five year low, and the
legal immigration with Trump left, I fully expect him coming
in and doing that to remain in Mexico policy was
incredibly effective. I fully anticipate that coming back on board.
And then whatever we need to back to the legislatively
to give him additional authorities, we can do that. And
(22:54):
then on the permitting and on the leasing. A lot
of these things can be done when you've got the
White House. But I will tell you one thing to
sort of look out for a lot of those tax
cuts that came into play in twenty seventeen for middle
class families and small businesses, those all expire at the
end of twenty twenty five, and so we can move
those things, get those permanently extended. And here's the sort
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of in the leads. We can do that by the
way of a process of reconciliation where you don't need
sixty votes, you just need fifty one voice in the Senate,
and so I think we do that. On tax reform,
one of the things that I'm going to advocate for
is regulatory reform as well, because there's a lot of
budget savings, which is the key that can come by
way of regulatory reform that we ought to have in
(23:35):
that bill, so I would anticipate we'll spend a lot
of time on that too.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Coming back, we're talking to Senator Eric Schmidt of Missouri.
Big decision wednesday as to who the Senate majority leader
will be. I believe Wednesday is the vote. There are
three known finalists out there, Thune, Cornyn and Scott. Have
you made your decision about how you will vote? How
would you assess the horse race? So to speak?
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Of the Wednesday decision on cine majority leader.
Speaker 6 (24:03):
It's hard to know. I'm not sure any the three
of them who I'm talking to all the time know
either actually where the votes are all at. I think
the input that you get from folks back home is
all good. But wait, I'm hearing all of them out
and I mean that sincerely. Like I'm talking to people
literally today. There's a candidate forum tomorrow what is it, Monday,
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tomorrow night when we get back up there. I think
there's a lot of people who still haven't made their
mind up. And here's what's important to me, and this
is what I communicate, And I'm just again wanting to
hear what the response is. I want an agenda that
is reflective of what the American people want, what they
voted for on Tuesday, right, I will tell you my
first two years up there. The biggest disappointment often is
(24:46):
that the conversations in Washington are so detached from what
people really talk about at home. Like you know, when
people say the most important thing that we need to
do is send another sixty billion dollars to Ukraine. Nobody
in Missouri has ever told me that. No, not one
person has said, Eric, that's the most important thing you
can do when you go up to Washington. But in
(25:08):
our lunches, in just sort of that totoon that people
live in in DC, that is a lot of the conversation.
So I want an agenda that's reflective what real people want.
And also there's some reform these omnibous bills at midnight,
where two or three people are writing the bill, people
don't read them, and you vote them. That has to end, Like,
let's do individual appropriations bills, let's have real amendments. I
(25:32):
think that's what people think we do up there, But
a lot of it's kabuki theater and very scripted, and
that has to change. So those are the two things
that I'm talking about. You know, with the people who
are on do you.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Think that their senator is any appetite for well, I'll
just say it for deciding that the filibuster as a
means to prevent Trump's agenda from being achieved, may have
to be something that, as Trump would say, you're going
to look at.
Speaker 6 (26:02):
Well, I think everything's sort of on the table. But
I think one of the big concerns, of course, is
that the Democrats have run on this specifically if the
filibuster's gone to pack the court, you know, to pack
the court at States of the Union, federalized elections and
grant am this the to fifteen million people. So I
(26:22):
think everything can be on the table, I think about it.
But also if you did it, what would you do?
What are the Democrats willing to do? Right? So there's
not I don't think any real discussion about that right now.
But but again I think that moving forward, we have
to be able to deliver I think for the American.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
People, Senator.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Right now, California has only counted about seventy two percent
of its overall ballots. You mentioned federal elections. We're fortunate
that Trump won by such a substantial majority that the
electoral college wasn't thrown into question, but Nevada, Arizona it's
taken them forever to count. How do we go back
to elections being decided in at least twenty four hours,
(27:05):
because it certainly seems to a lot of us like
we're going back in time and now count vote slower
than we did in the eighteen hundreds.
Speaker 6 (27:14):
Yeah. My hope, honestly, guys, is that this system, it
doesn't help anybody. Okay, so just take yourself out of
you know, our red and blue jerseys for a minute.
The idea that you don't know for a week who
won is insane. It doesn't happen anywhere in the world.
It only furthers the belief in the distrust right in
(27:37):
our system, and that just has to change.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Now.
Speaker 6 (27:40):
I think that there are probably some things you can
do on the federal level, but as Republicans who sort
of adopted this position that this should be this is
a state decision, right like how you run the elections.
The states sort of decide these things. But what you're
starting to see what the Democrats want to do is
have federal laws that don't allow you to have voter ID,
you know, like those are the sorts of things that
they want to do. I don't think even in Democrat states,
(28:03):
this is a good thing. So I think persuasion is
a piece of it. I think photo ID one of
the things that we can do on a federal level
which we should do, which is the Save Act, which
is to make sure that illegal immigrants aren't voting in
our elections. For the people who tell you it's already illegal,
we don't need to do anything, well, it's also illegal
to be here illegally, like, but people do it. And
(28:24):
once you get a driver's license, which you can get
at an illegal immigrant, all you got to do at
the DMV is just say yes when they ask you
do you want to register to vote. No one really
checks it after that unless there's something crazy that happen.
So there are some things we should do, but this
wasn't controversial, guys. Even just like a decade ago, there
(28:45):
was the Carter Baker Commission. They had ten recommendations, many
of them were same day. You know, make sure you
have the election results come in that day, have voter
ID if you're going to have mail in baling, make
sure you have signature verification, I think that maybe the
Democrat if they've learned their lesson these crazy positions they've
taken have been rejected by the American people, and they
come back a little bit. But we'll see.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
We're talking to Senator Schmidt of Missouri and one more
for you, Senator. It seems like Chuck Schumer is playing
some games here, not allowing Dave McCormick, who is clearly,
by the vote of the people of Pennsylvania going to
be the next senator from that state, but he's not
being invited to orientation by Schumer. What the heck is
going on.
Speaker 6 (29:26):
It's being a baby, is what's going on? Just apl
move on. The AP's called it. I and Mike Lee
and some others have offered to escort mister McCormick to
his orientation if that is necessary. All of this is
just well, you guys have to understand and you know,
and your listeners probably to some degree, Chuck Schumer is
a total control freak. Like this guy consolidates power and
(29:51):
wants to execute it. He can't handle the fact that
he lost one of his incumbents lost in state like Pennsylvania,
so he's just thrown kind of a temper tantrum. But
Dave McCormick has every right to be there. The people
of Pennsylvania deserve to have their senator understand where like
the bathrooms are, and get their letter head together and
start to get you know, phone lines operating for constituent issues.
(30:13):
So these are the things that you start to do
in that orientation. Because you know, I was there two
years ago. There's a lot. I mean, it's it's a
new gig, it's a new town. You've got to hire staff,
and we will make sure that he gets off to
a good start. So I'm confident that he'll be there.
And if you need somebody to help them get in
the door, I'll have to help.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Senator Schmid. Appreciate you, Sarah, Thanks for being with us.
Speaker 6 (30:32):
All right, guys, take care.
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I celebrated trump victory week out at the shooting range
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I went to South Carolina Vanderbilt, but it was my
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Speaker 1 (33:39):
It was cool.
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Laura was in my law school class, so she enjoyed.
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I can't believe that's been twenty years since I graduated
from law school. Is passed in a flash, and I
was talking about earlier Buck. I also went and watched
with my fourteen year old foot ball games on Sunday
(34:01):
at a local sports bar. And it's also staggering to
me that I have by the time we'll have another election,
I'll have two adult sons, which is just threw me
for a total loop. When my fourteen year old I
just hadn't done the math. It was like, hey, you know, dad,
I'll be able to vote in the next election, and
I was just I'm just in disbelief by the fact
(34:22):
that by twenty twenty eight I'll have two adult sons,
which is which is pretty crazy.
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Buck, I told you in my neighborhood, ninety eight year
old went and voted for Trump, fought in World War Two.
I mean for you and I who are history buffs.
There are so few individuals remaining who served, and that's
why I watched a lot of the D Day Anniversary,
seventieth anniversary just from this past June. But I would
(35:33):
imagine if you're of that age and you were able
to watch Trump win, the vast, vast majority of veterans
who are certainly who fought in World War Two and
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happen in January.
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But we're going to turn our sites here to what
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the next steps look like, what the mission may be.
How Democrats are processing this other than crying and drinking
a lot of wine coolers. Democrats are very upset, very upset,
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