November 13, 2024 • 36 mins
Trump appointments rock Washington, including C and B friend Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense. John Thune elected Senate Majority Leader. Trump appoints Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to lead short-term Department of Government Efficiency. Trump and Biden meet at WH, Biden looks very happy. Did Biden write his own letter pulling out of the race? Callers confess lying about who they voted for.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to today's edition of The Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show podcast. Welcome in everybody. Wednesday edition of The
Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show kicks off right now,
my friends. Great things happening when it comes to Trump
two point oh the next administration. We're seeing more and
(00:21):
more of his picks. We'll give you the latest on
who's going to be doing what why. It matters what
we know about these individuals. But this is a Trump
team that is assembling a collection of all stars to
be in top roles to enact the agenda. To yeah,
(00:41):
I say, make America great again, to do the best
things possible for the future of this country. You can
pick your phrase play. But it's looking really good so far.
We'll break down where Pete hegseath Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswami,
John Ratcliffe, where all of them are fitting, where these
chessboard pieces are going as of the last twenty four hours.
(01:04):
I'm very encouraged by all this. I would tell you
if I wasn't. I think that this is really showing
you that they mean business with this administration. There is
there's no learning curve, and that's important because right, Clay,
if you agree eighteen months, they got eighteen months to
do huge things. After that, it all turns into, oh,
(01:24):
what about the midterms, and then it turns into Trump's
a lamb duck and eighteen months to save the country.
That has to be the mantra. And maybe eighteen is
too generous. It might be one year, right, it might
be twelve months.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
And this is where a lot of people said, Okay,
how is Trump two point oh going to be different
than Trump one point zero buck? Trump one point oh
was a holy crap, we won. Now we have to
figure out how to staff the entire government. Trump was
an outsider without traditional allies inside of the government, and frankly,
(01:58):
I think he would say it was really difficult to
know who you could trust and who you should put
in positions of power. Everything that he's done so far,
every announcement that he has made, has suggested I'm the
president and I'm putting people in who can make a
tremendous difference for what I care about. That's what the
(02:19):
president should be doing. And there doesn't seem to be
any identity politics associated with this. It's just Trump finding
guys and gals that he believes our full adherence to
his policies that he is going to put in place
to execute the game plan that he cares about the most.
And I think it's seismically different already. And how smooth
(02:40):
he's been.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
I love some of these picks. You can go back,
I mean, Clay and I. The thing is, we tell
you what we think and you go back. You can listen.
As a matter of public record. In twenty sixteen, I
was like, Trump is amazing. And then some of the
picks that he was making, I was like, I don't
know if that's who I go with, but it's okay,
you know, it's it's his call, his choice. They have
(03:03):
they have learned a lot. You know, Susie Wiles is
very shrewd. She she's looking for competency and loyalty together
in these picks. Now, let's get into some of the names. Okay,
we're we're giving you the broad strokes. The big one
that I got to tell you, Clay my phone, it
was I was like, you know, did North Korea just
invade Santa Monica? Like what is going on? My phone
(03:27):
goes nuts all of a sudden, they say, did you
see about heg Seth and how fortunately I know it's
a point D time, so I wasn't like, oh my god,
it's Pete okay, and everyone's saying, do you see about
heg Seth our friend, Pete hegg Seth, who is a
weekend host on Fox and Friends Now And before I
say anything else, a longtime veteran of the United States Army,
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served in a rock, served the Afghanistan, ser of the
Guantanamo Bay, went to Princeton, went to Harvard, worked on
veterans affairs. I just want to put that out there
right away, because the media is all news host, you know,
like they're doing the usual stuff. Pete Hegseth has been
named as Trump's appointee for Secretary of Defense. I had
(04:11):
veteran friends of mine and special operations guys who were
all saying, you know, Pete, I'm so excited. You know
he's up for this, right, like he's gonna do amazing things.
I said, absolutely, he's gonna do great things here. So
we can talk more about that one. I think it's
the one clay that the the left, the Democrats, the system,
(04:32):
the swamp is the most freaked out. Yeah, so far right,
I pretty pretty clearly. I mean I started my career
in media in twenty eleven. That was when I officially
like got rid of I think that's when my clearances lapsed,
and you know, I left government. I went to work
for Glenn Beck's The Blaze and we had a show
called Real News, and one of our most frequent panelists
in those early days was Pete hegg Sets. So Pete
(04:54):
and I go back a long ways. I know you
were with him just on election night, right. I was
with him for about seven hours on election night. So
it's funny.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
I called you because I was picking up my kids
at school and my phone blew up as as it
often does not in the Hamasque blow up way, with
text messages about about Pete.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
And obviously I work at Fox News. I know Pete. Well.
I was celebrating the.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Trump win with him, But if he knew that Defense
Secretary was in play, huge poker face. I mean, he
was just incredibly excited that Trump had gotten the win.
And I think super smart. He's been on this show
a bunch buck. I think he's gonna do a really
good job.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
I'll put it to you this way. Also, first of all,
I know Pete very very high. IQ absolutely loves veterans
and loves our military. I mean, loves the men and
women who serve. There's no question about that. And veterans
know this, and he has a long history of so
I know he'll be active in the sense he'll be
(06:02):
running the Pentagon. But people who are in that family
of the United States military, Pete Hexseth truly cares about
them and wants to do great things for those who
are still serving. And by the way, I haven't I
don't think we've seen who the VA who's gonna have
the VA, But whoever that is, they'll get whatever support
they need, certainly from Pete and from Trumpet from the
whole administration. Clay I had heard in back channel previously
(06:25):
that Pete was considered for Veterans Affairs, so it was
not you know which the cabinet position. Was not surprising
to me that he was in the mix for an
appointee slot like this, But Secretary of Defense. I mean, really,
for most people, the big three are President, Secretary Defense,
Secretary of State. In terms of appointments, Attorney General.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
I think is massively Maybe because I'm a lawyer and
I'm a legal nerd like, I.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Think that one is now bigger than it used to be.
Looms larger in the minds of the public because Clay
that used to be almost considered a nonpartisan, functionary position,
and now you know, you need a warrior. You need
somebody that will fight back against the forces of the
deep state and of the far left trying to weaponize
the law. So that's critical. We haven't even gotten some
(07:11):
of the other appointments and Clay, I'll just throw them
out there. I want to you know, you can, you
can give me your your quick reaction on these ones,
not that we can really do a quick one, because
it's pretty amazing.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Elone, some breakthrows that just happened. Buck john Thune has
been elected Senate Majority Leader.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
So Rick Scott came on.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Tried to make an argument it's a closed not public vote,
so I have not seen the numbers yet of how
the voting went to the extent that they're going to
publicly release that at all. But John Thune is replacing
Mitch McConnell as Senate Majority Leader. Trump did not weigh
in interestingly and decide to say put his finger on
(07:52):
the scale. He's already endorsed Mike Johnson for speaker. But
that literally just breaking right now. I appreciate this.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
I was being too positive and half be not sounding
enough like the e or that I can be. And
so Clay is bringing me back down to reality here
with this breaking news that Thune will be sent at
majority leader. It should have been Rick Scott. I let's
just be this is not the time for anyone to
hold back on what they believe in what they think
because the future of the country is so much in play.
(08:21):
I don't get it. Maybe we can invite on, We'll
bighte on Ted Cruz, We'll bite on some senators that
we know. I think we'll be willing to at least
explain how this process went. I don't think they'll tell
us about the secret vote, necessarily because it's a secret.
But to me, look, this isn't it's not a It's disappointing,
but I don't think it should interrupt our flow here.
(08:42):
Of well, it's interrupting the flow. Fine, I don't know, Clay,
you've made me sad. Now you talk for a minute.
I'm with that out publicly.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
I don't think that I think Trump is going to
have so much power in terms of the number of
people that are pulling in the same direction for his
agenda that I don't think who Senate majority leader is
is going to dictate what is able and not able
to be passed. I do think that the senators there
(09:10):
feel like there are procedural hurdles and a learning curve
that they feel like John Thune is more capable of
managing than Rick Scott. I would have, probably if I
were in the Senate right now, voted for Rick Scott.
I probably would have if I were a senator right now.
I'm curious to see what the total vote reflects, because
(09:33):
I think he.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Is more likely to support Trump.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
And Trump just won a you know, pretty substantial election victory,
and so we should do whatever we can to make
sure his policies are implemented.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
I'm gonna take us back into happy land here for
a second. Yes, it was breaking news, and Clay is
right to break in with it, so I give him
full credit. But okay, let's get to Elon and Elon
and Vivek. Okay, yay, Elon and Viveke. From a President
Trump's statement on this, I am pleased to announce that
the great Elon Musk working in conjunction with American patriot
(10:07):
Vivek Ramaswami will leave the Department of Government Efficiency Doze Doge.
Together these two wonderful Americans will pave the way for
my administration to dismantle government bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut
wasteful expenditures, and restructure federal agencies essential to the Save
(10:29):
America movement. This will send shockwaves through the system and
anyone involved in government waste, which is a lot of people,
according to mister musk Clay after the deportation of criminal aliens,
and I think we need to start specifying that because
we're not going to be able to even look at
the cases of you know, kindly old grandmas who are
(10:53):
here illegal for years, no matter how fast we try
to ramp up deportation. So let's not get all caught
up in what will be a more difficult conversation or
more difficult situation. Right now, it can just be sending
people home to their home countries who are criminals, who
have done criminal stuff here or who have serious criminal
(11:13):
records when they entered. They've all got to go clay,
depending on the s and we're talking millions of people
that would be millions of people, certainly a couple two
to three million. I don't even know what the full
estimates are. No one does right now, because it would
be everybody in custody who's in illegal as well as
anyone else who's floating around who should have been deported
under existing orders. No more sanctuary city crap. Sorry, I'm
(11:35):
getting diverted because I get excited about that subject. But
Clay Clay, this I think is number two. The Elon
Vivek Vivek mission of truly training the swamp is they're
showing up like the guys that drain the pool at
the end of the season, to drain this swamp. Both
of these guys have run successful businesses. Elon arguably is
(11:57):
the most successful businessman in any of our lives. I mean,
I think if you consider Tesla's SpaceX boring company, what
he's doing now with Twitter, no one else has had
as big of an impact in any of our lives
as what Evon is doing.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
And you have to look at the government. I have
said this for a while. Easily half of all federal
employees could be fired and the government would work just
as efficiently. I think numbers probably seventy five percent Buck.
They don't even bother going into office. I mean, one
of the things Trump's going to have to do, I
think when he returns is just say, hey, if you're
a federal employee, you have to be here five days
a week, and if you don't show up five days
(12:33):
a week, we're going to fire you. I think that's
an easy message to send.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
I will tell you you know my experience the CIA,
and I think we discussed this before the show, but
any was asking yes. Trump and I did have a
conversation in twenty twenty about me being the cabinet appointee
for I think set.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
It on the air with us that he was having
a CIA director. So I'm I'm I am very committed
to what we are doing right now. But there was
if anyone was wondering, Yeah, we had had talks before
about that and when the President asked you to come
to the Oval office and discuss whether you would serve
the answer is yes, But that was back.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
In the day. I am totally committed to what we're
doing here now, and this is the best way that
I can help the country, I think is to be
a part of Clay and Buck and what we're doing
here on this show, because I've gotten some emails and
text messages Clay about this. But now I just lost
my train of thought. Where was I a second ago?
Speaker 2 (13:22):
We were talking about the impact of what ELA and
in the federal government and workforce and everything else.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
My experience in the CIA was, and look, I'll be
I wasn't there that long, but I briefed the president
a few times. I mean, I was pretty damn good
at what I did, and that was that was widely
recognized inside the building. I can tell you this, Clay,
ten percent of that building shouldn't be there because they're
actually against the mission, meaning that they're ideologically opposed to
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particularly if there's a Republican administration, and it might even
be more like twenty percent, then call it. You know,
seventy or eighty percent are just showing up. And then
ten percent are the true public servants who view this
as a mission, as a calling, and they are badasses.
(14:14):
Even in the CIA, my friends, there are people who
if you got to know them, you would realize, oh
my god, these guys and gals are absolutely the real deal.
You know, go back and watch zero Dark thirty, Like
those people exist and they are real, but Clay to
the point about elon very small percent of the whole,
very small percent of the whole.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
We'll come back and talk a little bit more about
the Senate Majority Leader vote. There are some reports out
there about how the vote tally went, and we'll discuss
that and more.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Obviously, Trump is in DC.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
We'll keep rolling in the event that there's any public
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Senate majority race. These are out there the voting. It's private.
Some people came out and said how they were voting.
(16:12):
John Thune got twenty three votes in the inaugural vote
the opening vote, John Cornyn fifteen, Rick Scott thirteen, so
he came in third place. Rick Scott was then eliminated
narrowly losing to John Cornyn, and then Thune beat Cornyn
twenty nine to twenty four to become Senate Majority leader.
(16:33):
So that is a very close final race and a
close I would say first ballot race as well. But
that is what the data reflects. By the way, we
don't need guest schedule today. So if you are out
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Now let me say this, Buck, I do not want
people to call in and say I didn't lie. When
I am asking for one particular type of caller, I
(17:16):
don't need to hear from you that you did the
opposite of which I am asking for callers. So I
do not want people to call in and say.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
I told everybody.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
There's lots of you. There's seventy some odd five million
of you me Buck, that all said hey, we're going
to tell you exactly how we're voting. I'm talking about
people who want to make the confession to just a
few million of our friends out there. You can use
a pseudonym, you can use a alias as you see necessary.
And Buck, here, get your pen. I've got a winner
(17:47):
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(18:32):
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Speaker 1 (18:39):
I'm very yes, absolutely say Quon will not let us
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prizepicks dot com code Clay. I got to tell you,
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the response of the Democrats to some of these picks
is very telling. One thing I can say without question,
Clay the worst people are the angriest about Trump's picks
so far, which is always a good sign. Y. You know,
you have to see who completely freaks out. You know
who's gone from Trump is Hitler to Trump's Director of
(19:26):
Health and Human Services is Hitler. I mean, you know
whoever it is.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
How about the fact that Trump and Biden just showed
up and set down in front of a roaring fireplace
that I think is still going on, and Biden looks
like he's just getting to hang out with his long
lost best friend.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
You and I have said this. I think we've been
totally but I'm just gonna say this too. I cannot
confirm this. This is rumor. Okay, this is a rumor,
and I probably shouldn't say roomor on the air, but
I believe it because I thought this is what happened initially.
There are rumors, Clay, did you see in this that
Biden wasn't actually didn't actually write the resignation not resignation,
(20:11):
but you know, this step down from the campaign, and
that it was put out without his consent. And then
they went to him and they said, okay, old man,
we've pulled the pin in the grenade, so to speak.
What are you going to do about it? That's a story.
It is not confirmed, and I understand that. But I'm
telling you, if you're asking me what I think happened there,
(20:32):
I think something like that happened. And this is why
I was so confident that Joe. There is no world
in which Joe Biden. Now, let's think about it. Kamala
got destroyed by Trump. I told you every single day,
Kamala can't win, she will lose. Kamala can't win, she
will lose. Biden knew that too. There is no world
in which Biden voluntarily just said, you know what, You're right,
(20:55):
the polls are bad. I'm going to give it up.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
I actual behind the scenes machinations here. This is first
of all scary because the idea that Joe Biden doesn't
know how to post anything on Twitter, like we agree
there right, Like if you told Joe Biden, hey, you
have to put up a picture of a letter on Twitter,
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he would have no earthly idea how to do it.
And by the way, a lot of you out there
listening right now wouldn't be great at that. And and Buck,
I don't have acts like I have a TikTok account
I don't know how to post anything on TikTok, like
I have their staff that posts stuff from me on TikTok. Right,
So if that happened, though, first of all, it's like
(21:39):
House of Cards on steroids, because even House of Cards,
for those of you who watched that Netflix show back
in the day, did not have a story like this
about the president. How's that not treason? I understand why
he's not able to call it out because it makes
him look bad.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
But but if that happened, well, so I want to
get back to this. But I was trying to say
also about it is I think Biden has more there's
a sort of respective rivals now between Biden and Trump.
Now I'm not saying Biden was a good guy in
this thing, because he wasn't, and he said horrible things
and he fired people with the vaccine men, and I
think Biden's a jerk. But I do think that now
(22:16):
he sees Trump a little bit more as a worthy
adversary and there's no longer any need for them to
be acrimonious toward each other. I think his disdain is
for kamalaw and the pro Kamala forces that pushed the
coup inside the White House, So I go ahead. No,
I was just gonna say building on that in the
same way that Biden actually looks better now, I think
(22:39):
in his mind because he's like, I'm the only guy
that can beat Trump right from his perspective, who has
a better in ten years, who has a better political
legacy as Democrat, whose last name will still get their
great grandchildren just right into Harvard, right into Brown University.
The bidens because Joe Biden went out a winner. I
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know something. You don't like to hear that, but you
know it's true. Kamala goes out a loser, and they
can always say Biden. The more it comes out that
Biden didn't voluntarily step down, the more clear it is
that it's not on him that this Kamal luss happened.
But okay, I just I think that part of this
is fascinating. I wanted to go back, though, Clay, because
this ties into Biden's dementia, decline, whatever you want to
(23:27):
call it. There are people out there right now who
are making all the or whining about Trump's appoint ee picks,
which the President's supposed to get the people that he wants.
You know, unless there's some horrible reason the Senate has
to step in. I think only two people in history
have gone for Senate confirmation and gone to a floor
(23:47):
vote and failed. Okay, so it's very very rare for
someone to be blocked at the but the floor usually
people withdraw beforehand. I also say to Clay and everybody,
I had a lot of crocket this morning. I'm sorry, Clay.
People used to drop out of cabinet positions because they
had employed an illegal. Yeah, go back and take a
(24:08):
look at this. The Democrat Party, which is now You
wonder like, are are illegal supposed to be their you know,
their sort of secret base in waiting. It used to
be if you had paid a maid who didn't have
her papers, and then you were gonna be you know,
a cabinet secretary. Oh no, you paid an illegal off
the books. Yeah. Think about how much the country has
(24:30):
changed since then. Okay, Clay, here we have Scott Jennings.
I think is he a dark horse candidate for uh
White House Press secretary. Still they're reporting on Alina Habba,
who a lot of the guys.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
That Hannity had her on last night and grilled her
about whether she was gonna take it. Caroline Levitt, who
is a campaign spokesperson now is in the mix.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
I think it would be fun.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Personally if Trump let a variety, if people serve as
White House Press secretary, for instance, Buck, I would love
to be honorary White House Press Secretary for one day
and get to advocate for Trump, or even one week,
like I would take vacation to go volunteer, belay the
media for a week about every different story, and then
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you know, pass the baton back. In other words, I
think there are a lot of really good and zealous
Trump advocates. I would like for him to put together
the greatest advocacy team ever. Would be one thought I had,
I think anything. I think that would be fun, amazing. Yeah,
of course I would.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
I would love it. But you have to understand the
particularly among the male journals at CNNMSNBC. There are rumors
that Delon Musk could buy MSNBC. I think that's just rumor.
I don't think he's gonna do it, but those that
would be amazing. It'd be amazing. It'd be amazed. Clay
and Buck, like you know, it would be amazing anyway,
(25:54):
But Clay, they're going after Pete Hexeth and I just
Scott jennings On, I think did a very good job.
We'll continue this job when we come back from the
clip of explaining to Carl Bernstein over at CNN. You
know what, live in reality, Trump's picks are more than
capable of doing the job, not just well better than
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everybody Biden has had in these roles the last four
years play five.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
I'd say I've had just about enough of the so
called insiders running the Defense Department. I think we ought
to give Pete Haggs at the chance because he's got
two daughters. All the criticism of him is that he's
not the expected Washington pick. And I'm just saying to
you that the American people just voted against the expected
Washington pick. So he's got twenty years in service Afghanistan, Iraq,
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two Bronze Stars, Princeton, Harvard. Yeah, he's on TV, but
so are the rest of us. Pete Heggs said he's
an American hero. The man won two Bronze Stars for
his service, and he's been a champion for veterans. I
don't I mean, he's gonna have to go up there
just like everybody else, improve his knowledge of how to
do this job. He's not immune from that, but we
ought to give this man a chance.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
In my opinion, I mean, you know, you look at Clay,
the people that were put forward under the Biden administration.
They a lot of them come from within these systems
and have no record of achievement really whatsoever. And I
would just note, you know, you want Pete Hegseth, who
is who has seen combat and who's a young, vibrant,
brilliant guy in his own right right you look at
(27:21):
like Leon Panetta. I mean, look at some of the
people that have had these jobs. I had to laugh
when I've told that everybody about when Trump talked to
me about CIA, people like you qualified, I was like, well,
I served in the CIA for five years. I went
to I went to rock, I went to Afghanistan. Ever CIA,
look at the recent CIA directors. Look at some of these.
These are schla meals? Are these are schmos.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
What I think is interesting is just this question take
away the government. How often does someone deserve to be
promoted from inside of something that is failing to try
to fix it. I thought this is a really compelling
argument that Trump made about Kamala Is you want to
give her a promotion from a government that has failed
(28:05):
that she's been second in command of over the last
four years. How often just take it outside of government?
How often does the mechanic who is at a bankrupt
mechanic place deserve to be elevated inside and management in
some way?
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Why would you.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Elevate someone from a system that is broken and expect
them to fix it?
Speaker 1 (28:25):
In a sense, Kamala's presidency or I'm sorry, uh, candidacy
not presidency. Kamala's candidacy in many ways, I think felt
like a nationwide referendum on DEI honestly, because she is
the ultimate DEI candidate in many respects. She's somebody who
has been elevated and elevated and elevated, and no one
can point to any reason why, no particular skills, no
(28:47):
particular accomplishment, but she, you know, she looks the part,
she plays the role, and so they say, let's just
bring her along, let's elevate her, let's promote her. And
I think that when she was finally in the and
let me just be clear, even as VP, she was
a huge disappointment to Democrats and they knew it and
her numbers were horrible and even to Democrats, Clay, this
(29:07):
is the thing. Democrats in twenty twenty were like, no,
she's not good, We're not She had no constituency. She
was like a two percent of the electorate Democrat primary
candidate and this timer. But bringing it back for a
second to the Pete hex at the appointee. Clear the
Democrats voted for a dementia pation to be president, supported
(29:29):
him until the very last minute. They actually put somebody
with cognitive damage in charge of the nuclear codes. And
they're going to lecture us now on who's a good appointee.
They're gonna lecture us on who should run the Department Defense.
Look at who they thought should be commander in chief.
I don't want to hear anything from them.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
I'll also point out, by the way, Buck, I still
love your question about did Biden know that his stepping
down announcement was going up on Twitter? I'll just point
this out. It was always strained that it was up
for like fifteen minutes, and then he endorsed Kamala. Why
would he not have announced? That's never made any sense
to me. I've never seen anybody explain why. In the
(30:11):
same letter, you wouldn't say, Hey, I'm stepping down and
I'm endorsing the vice president to take over for me.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
H Clay, if I'm Biden's senior advisor in the White
House in the in the days before his step down,
and I wanted the best for Biden, forget about whether
the decision was I wanted the best for Biden. You
have him do a little fireside chat. You have him
on video, yeah, you know, reading off a prompter. You
(30:41):
have him on video, and you have him just you know,
explain we're all getting older. I've done my best for America,
but the rigors of the office the last four years
has really taken a toll on me. And Kamala Harris
is my vice president. This is why we have a
vice president. This is you know ready mean yes. To
put it out on Twitter just made it feel like
(31:03):
somebody was twisting his arm. I think somebody was twisting
his arm or maybe even just pretending to be him.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
And look how happy he looks. Again, we'll share from
Clay and Buck. I mean, the guy looks like he's
got a long lost relative that just came by for
an unexpected visit.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
I mean, he's beaming, just something is going on here
that I can't wait to hear. The full story about
Biden's political legacy is I think the Biden name after
the I think Obama is still the biggest political brand
of the Democrat Party. Biden is right behind that. Eight
years as a successful vice president for Barack Obama defeated
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Donald Trump in twenty twenty. I'm just telling you what
the historians will say. Okay, don't say no, he didn't
defeated Barack Obam. I mean a defeated Donald Trump in
twenty twenty, and then his own party said he was
too old and they made a mistake. That is how
history is going to look back on this clay, which
is pretty remarkable given really so Joe Biden is in
so many ways. Well you know, I was just talking
(32:03):
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Speaker 2 (33:27):
Going to be Senate majority leader, Trump visiting with Biden
in DC. As Republicans have both the House and the Senate.
Even the New York Times about to announce a House
control that is going to happen. Looks like around two
hundred and twenty two total Republicans in the majority. But
(33:48):
several people out there want a way in. I was saying,
you can have absolution, you can confess from people out there.
Walker in Virginia, you've lied to your neighbors about who
you voted for.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
Why?
Speaker 4 (34:04):
Oh, it was painful. I live in the suburbs. Play
what else can you do? I mean, everyone's walking around
with the little Harris time, even Harris hats, which is
a little unusual because who really wants one of those?
But now I lied to my neighbors. It's my confession.
But I was honest with my family.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Thank you for the call.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
Walker, a given or given absolution confession time voting style.
Harry in New York, you lied to your co workers.
Why Harry, Harry he's in the office. Maybe he's scared
they could hear him. I don't know where Harry went.
(34:46):
Darren in Ohio lied to one of your kids. Darren,
Why I he is.
Speaker 4 (34:57):
Gay and need he hates Trump? And he hates me
for being in service. Sorry, I'm emotional.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
Well, so let me ask you this.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Your son Trump was the first president to ever take
office supportive I mean of gay marriage, supportive of gay rights.
Whatever you think of Trump, I think the idea of
attacking him for not being supportive enough of gay people
is actually totally without any factual basis whatsoever. I mean,
(35:30):
a New York City Republican tends to be pretty lenient
on that issue, given the huge gay population. I'm sorry
that that is going on with your family, but you
don't even feel like you could tell him that you
voted for Trump because he believes that Trump doesn't like
gay people. Yeah, well, Darren, thank you for the call.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
I actually.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
It really disappoints me when I hear those kind of
things from family members, because Darren son has bought in
buck to something that is completely divorced from reality, and
so the fact that he would feel compelled to lie
to his gay son about who he voted for. I
think I saw the map from some of the exit polling,
(36:16):
around a third of gay people voted for Trump. In fact,
I've met, I met you have two buck a ton
of gay people that absolutely loved Trump. All my Florida
based gay friends, and I have a whole bunch of them,
all of them, without exception, voted for Trump.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
Now maybe that's just because they're friends with me. But
I'm just saying a lot of gays for Trump down
here in South Florida, which you love to see it.
Welcome to today's edition of The Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show podcast. Welcome in everybody. Wednesday edition of The
Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show kicks off right now,
my friends. Great things happening when it comes to Trump
two point oh the next administration. We're seeing more and
(00:21):
more of his picks. We'll give you the latest on
who's going to be doing what why. It matters what
we know about these individuals. But this is a Trump
team that is assembling a collection of all stars to
be in top roles to enact the agenda. To yeah,
(00:41):
I say, make America great again, to do the best
things possible for the future of this country. You can
pick your phrase play. But it's looking really good so far.
We'll break down where Pete hegseath Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswami,
John Ratcliffe, where all of them are fitting, where these
chessboard pieces are going as of the last twenty four hours.
(01:04):
I'm very encouraged by all this. I would tell you
if I wasn't. I think that this is really showing
you that they mean business with this administration. There is
there's no learning curve, and that's important because right, Clay,
if you agree eighteen months, they got eighteen months to
do huge things. After that, it all turns into, oh,
(01:24):
what about the midterms, and then it turns into Trump's
a lamb duck and eighteen months to save the country.
That has to be the mantra. And maybe eighteen is
too generous. It might be one year, right, it might
be twelve months.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
And this is where a lot of people said, Okay,
how is Trump two point oh going to be different
than Trump one point zero buck? Trump one point oh
was a holy crap, we won. Now we have to
figure out how to staff the entire government. Trump was
an outsider without traditional allies inside of the government, and frankly,
(01:58):
I think he would say it was really difficult to
know who you could trust and who you should put
in positions of power. Everything that he's done so far,
every announcement that he has made, has suggested I'm the
president and I'm putting people in who can make a
tremendous difference for what I care about. That's what the
(02:19):
president should be doing. And there doesn't seem to be
any identity politics associated with this. It's just Trump finding
guys and gals that he believes our full adherence to
his policies that he is going to put in place
to execute the game plan that he cares about the most.
And I think it's seismically different already. And how smooth
(02:40):
he's been.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
I love some of these picks. You can go back,
I mean, Clay and I. The thing is, we tell
you what we think and you go back. You can listen.
As a matter of public record. In twenty sixteen, I
was like, Trump is amazing. And then some of the
picks that he was making, I was like, I don't
know if that's who I go with, but it's okay,
you know, it's it's his call, his choice. They have
(03:03):
they have learned a lot. You know, Susie Wiles is
very shrewd. She she's looking for competency and loyalty together
in these picks. Now, let's get into some of the names. Okay,
we're we're giving you the broad strokes. The big one
that I got to tell you, Clay my phone, it
was I was like, you know, did North Korea just
invade Santa Monica? Like what is going on? My phone
(03:27):
goes nuts all of a sudden, they say, did you
see about heg Seth and how fortunately I know it's
a point D time, so I wasn't like, oh my god,
it's Pete okay, and everyone's saying, do you see about
heg Seth our friend, Pete hegg Seth, who is a
weekend host on Fox and Friends Now And before I
say anything else, a longtime veteran of the United States Army,
(03:49):
served in a rock, served the Afghanistan, ser of the
Guantanamo Bay, went to Princeton, went to Harvard, worked on
veterans affairs. I just want to put that out there
right away, because the media is all news host, you know,
like they're doing the usual stuff. Pete Hegseth has been
named as Trump's appointee for Secretary of Defense. I had
(04:11):
veteran friends of mine and special operations guys who were
all saying, you know, Pete, I'm so excited. You know
he's up for this, right, like he's gonna do amazing things.
I said, absolutely, he's gonna do great things here. So
we can talk more about that one. I think it's
the one clay that the the left, the Democrats, the system,
(04:32):
the swamp is the most freaked out. Yeah, so far right,
I pretty pretty clearly. I mean I started my career
in media in twenty eleven. That was when I officially
like got rid of I think that's when my clearances lapsed,
and you know, I left government. I went to work
for Glenn Beck's The Blaze and we had a show
called Real News, and one of our most frequent panelists
in those early days was Pete hegg Sets. So Pete
(04:54):
and I go back a long ways. I know you
were with him just on election night, right. I was
with him for about seven hours on election night. So
it's funny.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
I called you because I was picking up my kids
at school and my phone blew up as as it
often does not in the Hamasque blow up way, with
text messages about about Pete.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
And obviously I work at Fox News. I know Pete. Well.
I was celebrating the.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Trump win with him, But if he knew that Defense
Secretary was in play, huge poker face. I mean, he
was just incredibly excited that Trump had gotten the win.
And I think super smart. He's been on this show
a bunch buck. I think he's gonna do a really
good job.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
I'll put it to you this way. Also, first of all,
I know Pete very very high. IQ absolutely loves veterans
and loves our military. I mean, loves the men and
women who serve. There's no question about that. And veterans
know this, and he has a long history of so
I know he'll be active in the sense he'll be
(06:02):
running the Pentagon. But people who are in that family
of the United States military, Pete Hexseth truly cares about
them and wants to do great things for those who
are still serving. And by the way, I haven't I
don't think we've seen who the VA who's gonna have
the VA, But whoever that is, they'll get whatever support
they need, certainly from Pete and from Trumpet from the
whole administration. Clay I had heard in back channel previously
(06:25):
that Pete was considered for Veterans Affairs, so it was
not you know which the cabinet position. Was not surprising
to me that he was in the mix for an
appointee slot like this, But Secretary of Defense. I mean, really,
for most people, the big three are President, Secretary Defense,
Secretary of State. In terms of appointments, Attorney General.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
I think is massively Maybe because I'm a lawyer and
I'm a legal nerd like, I.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Think that one is now bigger than it used to be.
Looms larger in the minds of the public because Clay
that used to be almost considered a nonpartisan, functionary position,
and now you know, you need a warrior. You need
somebody that will fight back against the forces of the
deep state and of the far left trying to weaponize
the law. So that's critical. We haven't even gotten some
(07:11):
of the other appointments and Clay, I'll just throw them
out there. I want to you know, you can, you
can give me your your quick reaction on these ones,
not that we can really do a quick one, because
it's pretty amazing.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Elone, some breakthrows that just happened. Buck john Thune has
been elected Senate Majority Leader.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
So Rick Scott came on.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Tried to make an argument it's a closed not public vote,
so I have not seen the numbers yet of how
the voting went to the extent that they're going to
publicly release that at all. But John Thune is replacing
Mitch McConnell as Senate Majority Leader. Trump did not weigh
in interestingly and decide to say put his finger on
(07:52):
the scale. He's already endorsed Mike Johnson for speaker. But
that literally just breaking right now. I appreciate this.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
I was being too positive and half be not sounding
enough like the e or that I can be. And
so Clay is bringing me back down to reality here
with this breaking news that Thune will be sent at
majority leader. It should have been Rick Scott. I let's
just be this is not the time for anyone to
hold back on what they believe in what they think
because the future of the country is so much in play.
(08:21):
I don't get it. Maybe we can invite on, We'll
bighte on Ted Cruz, We'll bite on some senators that
we know. I think we'll be willing to at least
explain how this process went. I don't think they'll tell
us about the secret vote, necessarily because it's a secret.
But to me, look, this isn't it's not a It's disappointing,
but I don't think it should interrupt our flow here.
(08:42):
Of well, it's interrupting the flow. Fine, I don't know, Clay,
you've made me sad. Now you talk for a minute.
I'm with that out publicly.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
I don't think that I think Trump is going to
have so much power in terms of the number of
people that are pulling in the same direction for his
agenda that I don't think who Senate majority leader is
is going to dictate what is able and not able
to be passed. I do think that the senators there
(09:10):
feel like there are procedural hurdles and a learning curve
that they feel like John Thune is more capable of
managing than Rick Scott. I would have, probably if I
were in the Senate right now, voted for Rick Scott.
I probably would have if I were a senator right now.
I'm curious to see what the total vote reflects, because
(09:33):
I think he.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Is more likely to support Trump.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
And Trump just won a you know, pretty substantial election victory,
and so we should do whatever we can to make
sure his policies are implemented.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
I'm gonna take us back into happy land here for
a second. Yes, it was breaking news, and Clay is
right to break in with it, so I give him
full credit. But okay, let's get to Elon and Elon
and Vivek. Okay, yay, Elon and Viveke. From a President
Trump's statement on this, I am pleased to announce that
the great Elon Musk working in conjunction with American patriot
(10:07):
Vivek Ramaswami will leave the Department of Government Efficiency Doze Doge.
Together these two wonderful Americans will pave the way for
my administration to dismantle government bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut
wasteful expenditures, and restructure federal agencies essential to the Save
(10:29):
America movement. This will send shockwaves through the system and
anyone involved in government waste, which is a lot of people,
according to mister musk Clay after the deportation of criminal aliens,
and I think we need to start specifying that because
we're not going to be able to even look at
the cases of you know, kindly old grandmas who are
(10:53):
here illegal for years, no matter how fast we try
to ramp up deportation. So let's not get all caught
up in what will be a more difficult conversation or
more difficult situation. Right now, it can just be sending
people home to their home countries who are criminals, who
have done criminal stuff here or who have serious criminal
(11:13):
records when they entered. They've all got to go clay,
depending on the s and we're talking millions of people
that would be millions of people, certainly a couple two
to three million. I don't even know what the full
estimates are. No one does right now, because it would
be everybody in custody who's in illegal as well as
anyone else who's floating around who should have been deported
under existing orders. No more sanctuary city crap. Sorry, I'm
(11:35):
getting diverted because I get excited about that subject. But
Clay Clay, this I think is number two. The Elon
Vivek Vivek mission of truly training the swamp is they're
showing up like the guys that drain the pool at
the end of the season, to drain this swamp. Both
of these guys have run successful businesses. Elon arguably is
(11:57):
the most successful businessman in any of our lives. I mean,
I think if you consider Tesla's SpaceX boring company, what
he's doing now with Twitter, no one else has had
as big of an impact in any of our lives
as what Evon is doing.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
And you have to look at the government. I have
said this for a while. Easily half of all federal
employees could be fired and the government would work just
as efficiently. I think numbers probably seventy five percent Buck.
They don't even bother going into office. I mean, one
of the things Trump's going to have to do, I
think when he returns is just say, hey, if you're
a federal employee, you have to be here five days
a week, and if you don't show up five days
(12:33):
a week, we're going to fire you. I think that's
an easy message to send.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
I will tell you you know my experience the CIA,
and I think we discussed this before the show, but
any was asking yes. Trump and I did have a
conversation in twenty twenty about me being the cabinet appointee
for I think set.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
It on the air with us that he was having
a CIA director. So I'm I'm I am very committed
to what we are doing right now. But there was
if anyone was wondering, Yeah, we had had talks before
about that and when the President asked you to come
to the Oval office and discuss whether you would serve
the answer is yes, But that was back.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
In the day. I am totally committed to what we're
doing here now, and this is the best way that
I can help the country, I think is to be
a part of Clay and Buck and what we're doing
here on this show, because I've gotten some emails and
text messages Clay about this. But now I just lost
my train of thought. Where was I a second ago?
Speaker 2 (13:22):
We were talking about the impact of what ELA and
in the federal government and workforce and everything else.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
My experience in the CIA was, and look, I'll be
I wasn't there that long, but I briefed the president
a few times. I mean, I was pretty damn good
at what I did, and that was that was widely
recognized inside the building. I can tell you this, Clay,
ten percent of that building shouldn't be there because they're
actually against the mission, meaning that they're ideologically opposed to
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particularly if there's a Republican administration, and it might even
be more like twenty percent, then call it. You know,
seventy or eighty percent are just showing up. And then
ten percent are the true public servants who view this
as a mission, as a calling, and they are badasses.
(14:14):
Even in the CIA, my friends, there are people who
if you got to know them, you would realize, oh
my god, these guys and gals are absolutely the real deal.
You know, go back and watch zero Dark thirty, Like
those people exist and they are real, but Clay to
the point about elon very small percent of the whole,
very small percent of the whole.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
We'll come back and talk a little bit more about
the Senate Majority Leader vote. There are some reports out
there about how the vote tally went, and we'll discuss
that and more.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Obviously, Trump is in DC.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
We'll keep rolling in the event that there's any public
availability there. Conquering hero landing and being back after the
biggest victory for any Republicans since nineteen eighty eight, it's
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Senate majority race. These are out there the voting. It's private.
Some people came out and said how they were voting.
(16:12):
John Thune got twenty three votes in the inaugural vote
the opening vote, John Cornyn fifteen, Rick Scott thirteen, so
he came in third place. Rick Scott was then eliminated
narrowly losing to John Cornyn, and then Thune beat Cornyn
twenty nine to twenty four to become Senate Majority leader.
(16:33):
So that is a very close final race and a
close I would say first ballot race as well. But
that is what the data reflects. By the way, we
don't need guest schedule today. So if you are out
there and you would like to confess to us that
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(17:16):
don't need to hear from you that you did the
opposite of which I am asking for callers. So I
do not want people to call in and say.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
I told everybody.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
There's lots of you. There's seventy some odd five million
of you me Buck, that all said hey, we're going
to tell you exactly how we're voting. I'm talking about
people who want to make the confession to just a
few million of our friends out there. You can use
a pseudonym, you can use a alias as you see necessary.
And Buck, here, get your pen. I've got a winner
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Speaker 1 (18:39):
I'm very yes, absolutely say Quon will not let us
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(19:02):
the response of the Democrats to some of these picks
is very telling. One thing I can say without question,
Clay the worst people are the angriest about Trump's picks
so far, which is always a good sign. Y. You know,
you have to see who completely freaks out. You know
who's gone from Trump is Hitler to Trump's Director of
(19:26):
Health and Human Services is Hitler. I mean, you know
whoever it is.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
How about the fact that Trump and Biden just showed
up and set down in front of a roaring fireplace
that I think is still going on, and Biden looks
like he's just getting to hang out with his long
lost best friend.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
You and I have said this. I think we've been
totally but I'm just gonna say this too. I cannot
confirm this. This is rumor. Okay, this is a rumor,
and I probably shouldn't say roomor on the air, but
I believe it because I thought this is what happened initially.
There are rumors, Clay, did you see in this that
Biden wasn't actually didn't actually write the resignation not resignation,
(20:11):
but you know, this step down from the campaign, and
that it was put out without his consent. And then
they went to him and they said, okay, old man,
we've pulled the pin in the grenade, so to speak.
What are you going to do about it? That's a story.
It is not confirmed, and I understand that. But I'm
telling you, if you're asking me what I think happened there,
(20:32):
I think something like that happened. And this is why
I was so confident that Joe. There is no world
in which Joe Biden. Now, let's think about it. Kamala
got destroyed by Trump. I told you every single day,
Kamala can't win, she will lose. Kamala can't win, she
will lose. Biden knew that too. There is no world
in which Biden voluntarily just said, you know what, You're right,
(20:55):
the polls are bad. I'm going to give it up.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
I actual behind the scenes machinations here. This is first
of all scary because the idea that Joe Biden doesn't
know how to post anything on Twitter, like we agree
there right, Like if you told Joe Biden, hey, you
have to put up a picture of a letter on Twitter,
(21:19):
he would have no earthly idea how to do it.
And by the way, a lot of you out there
listening right now wouldn't be great at that. And and Buck,
I don't have acts like I have a TikTok account
I don't know how to post anything on TikTok, like
I have their staff that posts stuff from me on TikTok. Right,
So if that happened, though, first of all, it's like
(21:39):
House of Cards on steroids, because even House of Cards,
for those of you who watched that Netflix show back
in the day, did not have a story like this
about the president. How's that not treason? I understand why
he's not able to call it out because it makes
him look bad.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
But but if that happened, well, so I want to
get back to this. But I was trying to say
also about it is I think Biden has more there's
a sort of respective rivals now between Biden and Trump.
Now I'm not saying Biden was a good guy in
this thing, because he wasn't, and he said horrible things
and he fired people with the vaccine men, and I
think Biden's a jerk. But I do think that now
(22:16):
he sees Trump a little bit more as a worthy
adversary and there's no longer any need for them to
be acrimonious toward each other. I think his disdain is
for kamalaw and the pro Kamala forces that pushed the
coup inside the White House, So I go ahead. No,
I was just gonna say building on that in the
same way that Biden actually looks better now, I think
(22:39):
in his mind because he's like, I'm the only guy
that can beat Trump right from his perspective, who has
a better in ten years, who has a better political
legacy as Democrat, whose last name will still get their
great grandchildren just right into Harvard, right into Brown University.
The bidens because Joe Biden went out a winner. I
(23:02):
know something. You don't like to hear that, but you
know it's true. Kamala goes out a loser, and they
can always say Biden. The more it comes out that
Biden didn't voluntarily step down, the more clear it is
that it's not on him that this Kamal luss happened.
But okay, I just I think that part of this
is fascinating. I wanted to go back, though, Clay, because
this ties into Biden's dementia, decline, whatever you want to
(23:27):
call it. There are people out there right now who
are making all the or whining about Trump's appoint ee picks,
which the President's supposed to get the people that he wants.
You know, unless there's some horrible reason the Senate has
to step in. I think only two people in history
have gone for Senate confirmation and gone to a floor
(23:47):
vote and failed. Okay, so it's very very rare for
someone to be blocked at the but the floor usually
people withdraw beforehand. I also say to Clay and everybody,
I had a lot of crocket this morning. I'm sorry, Clay.
People used to drop out of cabinet positions because they
had employed an illegal. Yeah, go back and take a
(24:08):
look at this. The Democrat Party, which is now You
wonder like, are are illegal supposed to be their you know,
their sort of secret base in waiting. It used to
be if you had paid a maid who didn't have
her papers, and then you were gonna be you know,
a cabinet secretary. Oh no, you paid an illegal off
the books. Yeah. Think about how much the country has
(24:30):
changed since then. Okay, Clay, here we have Scott Jennings.
I think is he a dark horse candidate for uh
White House Press secretary. Still they're reporting on Alina Habba,
who a lot of the guys.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
That Hannity had her on last night and grilled her
about whether she was gonna take it. Caroline Levitt, who
is a campaign spokesperson now is in the mix.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
I think it would be fun.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Personally if Trump let a variety, if people serve as
White House Press secretary, for instance, Buck, I would love
to be honorary White House Press Secretary for one day
and get to advocate for Trump, or even one week,
like I would take vacation to go volunteer, belay the
media for a week about every different story, and then
(25:19):
you know, pass the baton back. In other words, I
think there are a lot of really good and zealous
Trump advocates. I would like for him to put together
the greatest advocacy team ever. Would be one thought I had,
I think anything. I think that would be fun, amazing. Yeah,
of course I would.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
I would love it. But you have to understand the
particularly among the male journals at CNNMSNBC. There are rumors
that Delon Musk could buy MSNBC. I think that's just rumor.
I don't think he's gonna do it, but those that
would be amazing. It'd be amazing. It'd be amazed. Clay
and Buck, like you know, it would be amazing anyway,
(25:54):
But Clay, they're going after Pete Hexeth and I just
Scott jennings On, I think did a very good job.
We'll continue this job when we come back from the
clip of explaining to Carl Bernstein over at CNN. You
know what, live in reality, Trump's picks are more than
capable of doing the job, not just well better than
(26:15):
everybody Biden has had in these roles the last four
years play five.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
I'd say I've had just about enough of the so
called insiders running the Defense Department. I think we ought
to give Pete Haggs at the chance because he's got
two daughters. All the criticism of him is that he's
not the expected Washington pick. And I'm just saying to
you that the American people just voted against the expected
Washington pick. So he's got twenty years in service Afghanistan, Iraq,
(26:40):
two Bronze Stars, Princeton, Harvard. Yeah, he's on TV, but
so are the rest of us. Pete Heggs said he's
an American hero. The man won two Bronze Stars for
his service, and he's been a champion for veterans. I
don't I mean, he's gonna have to go up there
just like everybody else, improve his knowledge of how to
do this job. He's not immune from that, but we
ought to give this man a chance.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
In my opinion, I mean, you know, you look at Clay,
the people that were put forward under the Biden administration.
They a lot of them come from within these systems
and have no record of achievement really whatsoever. And I
would just note, you know, you want Pete Hegseth, who
is who has seen combat and who's a young, vibrant,
brilliant guy in his own right right you look at
(27:21):
like Leon Panetta. I mean, look at some of the
people that have had these jobs. I had to laugh
when I've told that everybody about when Trump talked to
me about CIA, people like you qualified, I was like, well,
I served in the CIA for five years. I went
to I went to rock, I went to Afghanistan. Ever CIA,
look at the recent CIA directors. Look at some of these.
These are schla meals? Are these are schmos.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
What I think is interesting is just this question take
away the government. How often does someone deserve to be
promoted from inside of something that is failing to try
to fix it. I thought this is a really compelling
argument that Trump made about Kamala Is you want to
give her a promotion from a government that has failed
(28:05):
that she's been second in command of over the last
four years. How often just take it outside of government?
How often does the mechanic who is at a bankrupt
mechanic place deserve to be elevated inside and management in
some way?
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Why would you.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Elevate someone from a system that is broken and expect
them to fix it?
Speaker 1 (28:25):
In a sense, Kamala's presidency or I'm sorry, uh, candidacy
not presidency. Kamala's candidacy in many ways, I think felt
like a nationwide referendum on DEI honestly, because she is
the ultimate DEI candidate in many respects. She's somebody who
has been elevated and elevated and elevated, and no one
can point to any reason why, no particular skills, no
(28:47):
particular accomplishment, but she, you know, she looks the part,
she plays the role, and so they say, let's just
bring her along, let's elevate her, let's promote her. And
I think that when she was finally in the and
let me just be clear, even as VP, she was
a huge disappointment to Democrats and they knew it and
her numbers were horrible and even to Democrats, Clay, this
(29:07):
is the thing. Democrats in twenty twenty were like, no,
she's not good, We're not She had no constituency. She
was like a two percent of the electorate Democrat primary
candidate and this timer. But bringing it back for a
second to the Pete hex at the appointee. Clear the
Democrats voted for a dementia pation to be president, supported
(29:29):
him until the very last minute. They actually put somebody
with cognitive damage in charge of the nuclear codes. And
they're going to lecture us now on who's a good appointee.
They're gonna lecture us on who should run the Department Defense.
Look at who they thought should be commander in chief.
I don't want to hear anything from them.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
I'll also point out, by the way, Buck, I still
love your question about did Biden know that his stepping
down announcement was going up on Twitter? I'll just point
this out. It was always strained that it was up
for like fifteen minutes, and then he endorsed Kamala. Why
would he not have announced? That's never made any sense
to me. I've never seen anybody explain why. In the
(30:11):
same letter, you wouldn't say, Hey, I'm stepping down and
I'm endorsing the vice president to take over for me.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
H Clay, if I'm Biden's senior advisor in the White
House in the in the days before his step down,
and I wanted the best for Biden, forget about whether
the decision was I wanted the best for Biden. You
have him do a little fireside chat. You have him
on video, yeah, you know, reading off a prompter. You
(30:41):
have him on video, and you have him just you know,
explain we're all getting older. I've done my best for America,
but the rigors of the office the last four years
has really taken a toll on me. And Kamala Harris
is my vice president. This is why we have a
vice president. This is you know ready mean yes. To
put it out on Twitter just made it feel like
(31:03):
somebody was twisting his arm. I think somebody was twisting
his arm or maybe even just pretending to be him.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
And look how happy he looks. Again, we'll share from
Clay and Buck. I mean, the guy looks like he's
got a long lost relative that just came by for
an unexpected visit.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
I mean, he's beaming, just something is going on here
that I can't wait to hear. The full story about
Biden's political legacy is I think the Biden name after
the I think Obama is still the biggest political brand
of the Democrat Party. Biden is right behind that. Eight
years as a successful vice president for Barack Obama defeated
(31:42):
Donald Trump in twenty twenty. I'm just telling you what
the historians will say. Okay, don't say no, he didn't
defeated Barack Obam. I mean a defeated Donald Trump in
twenty twenty, and then his own party said he was
too old and they made a mistake. That is how
history is going to look back on this clay, which
is pretty remarkable given really so Joe Biden is in
so many ways. Well you know, I was just talking
(32:03):
about what if somebody was pretending to be Biden with
the Twitter that would be a big deal national security issue.
But people can pretend to be you as well. Nobody
wants their online identity stolen. It happens all the time.
All they need is your information, your data, and you're
using your data and it's out there on the web.
You're trusting others to keep it safe. But they get hacked.
There are ways that the system breaks down. It's not
(32:25):
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Speaker 2 (33:27):
Going to be Senate majority leader, Trump visiting with Biden
in DC. As Republicans have both the House and the Senate.
Even the New York Times about to announce a House
control that is going to happen. Looks like around two
hundred and twenty two total Republicans in the majority. But
(33:48):
several people out there want a way in. I was saying,
you can have absolution, you can confess from people out there.
Walker in Virginia, you've lied to your neighbors about who
you voted for.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
Why?
Speaker 4 (34:04):
Oh, it was painful. I live in the suburbs. Play
what else can you do? I mean, everyone's walking around
with the little Harris time, even Harris hats, which is
a little unusual because who really wants one of those?
But now I lied to my neighbors. It's my confession.
But I was honest with my family.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Thank you for the call.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
Walker, a given or given absolution confession time voting style.
Harry in New York, you lied to your co workers.
Why Harry, Harry he's in the office. Maybe he's scared
they could hear him. I don't know where Harry went.
(34:46):
Darren in Ohio lied to one of your kids. Darren,
Why I he is.
Speaker 4 (34:57):
Gay and need he hates Trump? And he hates me
for being in service. Sorry, I'm emotional.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
Well, so let me ask you this.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Your son Trump was the first president to ever take
office supportive I mean of gay marriage, supportive of gay rights.
Whatever you think of Trump, I think the idea of
attacking him for not being supportive enough of gay people
is actually totally without any factual basis whatsoever. I mean,
(35:30):
a New York City Republican tends to be pretty lenient
on that issue, given the huge gay population. I'm sorry
that that is going on with your family, but you
don't even feel like you could tell him that you
voted for Trump because he believes that Trump doesn't like
gay people. Yeah, well, Darren, thank you for the call.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
I actually.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
It really disappoints me when I hear those kind of
things from family members, because Darren son has bought in
buck to something that is completely divorced from reality, and
so the fact that he would feel compelled to lie
to his gay son about who he voted for. I
think I saw the map from some of the exit polling,
(36:16):
around a third of gay people voted for Trump. In fact,
I've met, I met you have two buck a ton
of gay people that absolutely loved Trump. All my Florida
based gay friends, and I have a whole bunch of them,
all of them, without exception, voted for Trump.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
Now maybe that's just because they're friends with me. But
I'm just saying a lot of gays for Trump down
here in South Florida, which you love to see it.
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