January 16, 2025 • 36 mins
Biden’s farewell address was truly awful. LA fires destroy Hunter’s artwork – will insurance cover it? How LA residents will rebuild. Are some last minute pardons coming? People with dogs overwhelmingly vote Republican.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome in Thursday edition Clay Travis buck Sexton show. Can
we start the count now? I think we fairly can
for long days until Joe Biden is a distant memory
of the nation. We will discuss right off the top
here in a moment his farewell address, which was basically
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just a hectoring old man screams at the clouds while
mangling a large percentage of the words that were written
on his screen and being almost incapable of communication. Also,
there are a bunch of other things that are out there,
the ongoing confirmation hearings of the Trump team, which I
(00:44):
would describe honestly as a home run. I mean, the
Democrat attempt to levy some blame has just completely failed.
We've got all sorts of continued fallout from what we
hope is going to be a lasting cease fire that
gets the hostages back healthy, and israel An argument over
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who exactly deserves the credit for all of that.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
What is Biden's legacy.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
There is now talk of what exactly will happen with that,
and many different aspects associated with that. But I would
start with this, Buck, I watched Joe Biden's farewell address
to the nation, and it was awful.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
I mean truly awful.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
It started with a strange metaphor about the statue of
Liberty and how it can move in the wind and
yet it does not fall. I don't know who thought
that that was poetic and that that was something that
should be should be defined, and that it was going
to somehow resonate through history. It feels to me like
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every time Biden is trying to speak to history, and
I know that he has had, unfortunately for him, historians
advising him. Which I know we've said this on the show,
but let's just hammer this home. Historians should never advise you,
because historians are good at telling you one hundred years
after something happened why it mattered, not in contextualizing the
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modern era. And in fact, much of the historical analogies
that Biden has drawn, for instance, January sixth, worst day
since the Civil War, you're either on the side of
Jefferson Davis or you're on the side of truth and justice.
And when he talked about the Georgia voting rights bills,
he's really just totally maladroit when it comes to making
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even somewhat resonant historical analogies and I thought that continued
with his speech, which just felt like the old man
yells at the clouds Simpsons meme to me. I want
to play a couple of these cuts in the event,
because I bet most people out there did not watch this.
(03:06):
We should also mention, by the way, Ashley Moody, who
I believe was the Florida Attorney General, is now going
to replace Marco Rubio in the Senate. That is the
announcement of Ron DeSantis. She was a top DeSantis ally.
I think that is a very solid choice.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Buck. She is now one of your senators. We'll talk
about that.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
But Biden, I think this is important to remember. Joe
Biden pardoned his own son despite the fact that his
own son committed a bevy of felonies, and he tried
to imprison his chief political rival. And just last week
or ten days ago, he gave George Soros a presidential
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medal of honor. And yet he's telling us and oligarchy
is taking shape in America. Yeah, you have been rewarding
your rich political allies for four years, much to the
detriment of America.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Into Cut eight, I want to warrant a country some
things they've given me a great concern. This is a
dangerous content and that's the dangerous conversation of power in
the hands of a very few ultrawealthy people, the dangerous
consequences if their abusive power is left unchecked. Today, oligarch
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is taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power and
influence that literally threatens our entire democracy. Are basic rights
and freedoms and a fair shot for everyone to get ahead.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Okay, I mean this is lunacy. So does George Soros
go on the bad list or the good list of
the arts? Does ried Hoffman of LinkedIn?
Speaker 2 (04:43):
You know?
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Does Jeff Bezos until about five minutes ago. I mean,
think about their billionaires are humanitarians? Who are you know,
writing huge checks to save democracy or whatever. Any billionaire
that is right of center is an oligarch is a threat.
It's a delusion. And it's also delusional because the election
showed us very clearly the Democrats are overwhelmingly the party
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of the rich in this country. Now they still cling
to this fiction that the Republicans are like the Wall
Street fat cats jumping on cigars and the Old Boys Club.
That is laughable. Silicon Valley hedge fund bros. People that
have billions, hundreds of millions, or billions of dollars of
personal wealth are disproportionately Democrat industries that generate massive amounts
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of money for the individuals, and the companies involved disproportionately
massively donate to Democrats. By the way, this stretches back
even to Hillary and Obama. I mean, this has been
going on for a long time. The notion that the
billionaire oligarchs are all right wing or some right wing
specific threat is a fantasy that Democrats tell themselves. The
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entire climate change movement is limousine liberals of old writing checks,
and sometimes it's the x Y, a very rich, you know,
tech guys writing big checks to these lunatic NGOs that
pretend like the world's gonna melt. I mean, but first
of all, Biden didn't even care what was in this speech.
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I think that he's just gonna read whatever's put in
front of him. At this point, he has no legacy
to speak of. The guys defeated. He's humiliated. It's the
you know, it's the end stage for his political career,
and obviously he's in the twilight of his year's period.
And the whole thing was just kind of sad and
kind of pathetic. Honestly, that was my That was my takeaway.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Yeah, and building on what he said there, Remember Kamala
raised more money in a short period of time for
her presidential campaign than any candidate in the history.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
What did she raise?
Speaker 1 (06:45):
One and a half billion dollars buck that she raised
basically in one hundred days. She wildly outspent and wildly
outspent Trump. So this idea that, oh, the Republican Party
is going to be a wash in cat Remember Trump
was outspent in sixteen, in twenty and in twenty four.
I know, in sixteen and twenty four by massive amounts.
(07:07):
I think twenty twenty was closer because he was the
president of the United States and was able to fundraise higher.
But money has actually been on the side of Democrats.
And you just hit on the other part which they
talk about all the time. Hey, we shouldn't politicize a crisis, right,
this is crazy. And then Biden comes out and says
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the threat of climate change from North Carolina to California,
directly calling in to account Hurricane Helene, which there are
still a lot of people in western North Carolina that
the government can't manage to take care of It's a
shame they're not in eastern Ukraine. I think they probably
would have a lot more help there. But listen to Biden.
(07:50):
Try to tie what's happening right now with the wildfires
in California, which on this program we pointed out since
the moment that southern California was discovered by the Europeans,
there have been an average of four point five million
acres of that area consumed by wildfire every year. But
listen to Biden and try to make that case. Here's
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the farewell address.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
The existential threat of climate change has never been clear.
Just look across the country from California to North Carolina.
That's why I sign the most significant climate and clean
energy law ever ever in the history of the world,
and the rest of the world trying to model it now.
The powerful forces want to wield their unchecked influence to
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eliminate too steps we've taken to tackle a crimate crisis
to serve their own interest for power and profit. We
must not be bullied the sacrifice in the future, the
future of our children and our grandchildren. Must keep pushing
forward and push faster.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
There's no time to.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Waste just cut him off. Yeah, it's clay.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
He cares about the existential threat of climate change change
with the same authenticity that he cares about, you know,
the rights of trans adolescence. This is what the left
wing staffers put in front of him, and he reads
it because this is what the donors for the Democrats
want to hear from their puppet president in the last days,
(09:17):
Joe Biden doesn't give a crap about climate change.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Have you actually read?
Speaker 3 (09:23):
And I'm embarrassed by how much time I spend on
this because I want to have good talking points. The
world warming would actually lead to less human death than
the world is right now, right, more people die of
it or it's all across like you know, northern England again,
it would be fantastic.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
I mean more people today, which no one will talk about.
They talk about the existential threat of climate change. More
people today by far die of extreme cold than extreme heat.
So if there is a warming of the of the
planet to the extent that it is occurring at all,
which has occurred throughout the I mean, go look at
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the history of planet. Cycles warn't and getting colder and
all these things happens constantly to the extent that it
is happening. First of all, the population is projected to
collapse by half in the next one hundred years, and
nobody talks about it. Human population, But that's math.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
That's actually just math.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Yes, and that's actually way scarier if you want to
talk about the future of humanity. If you ask me
right now, hey, what are you scared about, Clay, one
hundred years from now, it's that nobody wants to have
kids anymore, and that the population around the world is collapsing,
And in fact, one hundred years from now, we may
have half as many people as exist now, which would
probably go a long way towards curing climate change. Unfortunately,
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it might lead to destruction of humanity. But the data
doesn't even support what he's saying, this existential crisis. And
there was one more thing that I wanted to hit
that I thought we could react to. Maybe we react
to it on the back side here buck. But it's
him saying this is radical. I'm surprised it's not getting
more attention. The Constitution needs to be invended out.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Of no way.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
He's just saying, hey, we need to make sure that
the president is it is actually not immune from crimes well,
let's talk about this a little bit when we come back,
because it's so crazy Buck that he also, I think,
is his brain is broken.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
It should be remembered that based on everything that the.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Democrat Party and media one on the same has said
for eight years now, Joe Biden was swept aside in
a debate, didn't even make it to election day as
a sitting president against a fascist, criminal, lying insurrectionist, blah
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blah blah, all that stuff. What could be a bigger
what could be a bigger way to get dunked on clay?
Then to be pushed aside as a sitting president by
a guy that you claim is the first felon president
who tried to overthrow the government and a threat to democracy?
Speaker 2 (12:01):
What does that say about Joe Biden? Did you see
what imp here? I think on the flip side too,
what does it say about Trump? He beat too? He
talked about that a lot.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Yeah, but I mean even even still, I think it's
underrated that he knocked out Joe Biden on June twenty seventh,
in the panic, they suddenly decided, hey, we've got to
put forward a new person. And then Trump won the
biggest presidential election since nineteen eighty eight against her and Buck.
As we go to break here another fun story that's
out there. Did you see the Wall Street Journal had
(12:33):
a story that Kamala is upset that Biden keeps saying
he would have beaten Trump and that their relationship has
become increasingly frosty.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
I want to talk, you know, I want to talk
about that. I'm still bitter, dude, World's most expensive stake
Joe Biden. Joe Biden cost me because did anybody couldn't
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Speaker 2 (13:01):
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Speaker 3 (13:05):
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a smoking jacket playing the flute.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Very distinguished clip, very distinguished. I'm impressed.
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Speaker 3 (14:43):
And you know, there's a lot of news that is
coming out from California because of these wildfires still clay
and it's obviously heartbreaking and incredibly serious. And as we
have been all along, we are following what's going on
there at our Hearts and Prescot there everybody affected by it,
and we give praise to the firefighters who are and
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first responders who are doing what they can. The blazes
are still not contained, it's still under threat, still more
houses at risk. But as an aside to all of this,
as an aside to all of that which is obviously
quite serious, we've been discussing. I couldn't believe that this
was a story yesterday, but it is a story. Did
you see this Clay Hunter Biden artwork worth millions of
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dollars destroyed in Los Angeles fires?
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Have you seen this? No? I didn't see this story.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
I'm hoping this is not from like, you know, what's
it called the Babylon b or something, but it is
a reminder to me.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
No, this is from the New York Post. A trove
of nearly two.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Hundred pieces of art by Hunter Biden have been destroyed.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
It was stored.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
It The art was in storage in the Pacific Palisades
home of Hunter's Hollywood attorney, Kevin Morris. This is the
guy who bailed him out, who wrote, you know who
paid for the.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Yeah, gave him like hater or nine million dollars I think,
I mean that was a bad.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Millions of dollars. But now under this is fascinating to me.
Does the insurance company pay millions of dollars for insured
Hunter Biden artwork? Is that really gonna fly? I mean,
when you told me this just and this is the
first time I'm hearing it, it sounds like a textbook
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case of insurance fraud. You could never sell Hunter Biden artwork,
and you have it valued at a rate that no
one would ever pay, and then it suddenly goes up
in smoke. Like if they're trying and I don't know
the answer, if they're trying to argue, hey, I lost
millions of dollars in art. What is the value right
(16:56):
now of Hunter Biden artwork? I bet you could barely
get one hundred dollars for that stuff? Like, who's gonna
buy a Hunter Biden painting? Unless it's somebody like you
or me that just wants to have it to put
up and be like, ah, let's look at what a
joke this was, right, Like it's it's that's the entire
purpose of it.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
At this point.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
I mean, I think you should buy a Hunter Biden
original and original have in your house, just just cuz
I'm gonna tell you this. Though I've seen photos of it.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
It's not that bad.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Some of it well you actually it's actually like better
than I thought.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
It would be.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Here's the problem, all of this contemporary art work. I
have no earthly idea whether it's good or bad, right.
I mean, that's the like if you're a great pianist
and you sit down in front of a piano.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
I know nothing about the piano. I can tell if
you're good or not. Right.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
I even the flute, which I ridicule all the time.
I think I could tell whether somebody's a good floutest
or not. I have no idea on contemporary art. It
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We are rolling through the Thursday edition of the program,
four days away from Donald Trump taking the oath of
office and kicking Joe Biden to the curb. I mentioned
this so I want to play it in the Biden
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farewell address. Buck, and there are lots of stories out
there that are really going to be fascinating as we
get closer and closer to the Trump inauguration. For instance,
the CEO of TikTok is scheduled to be at Trump's
inaugural address. Meanwhile, TikTok is saying they will shut down
the entire app on Sunday, the day before the inaugural address.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Some interesting drama that is underway.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
If you're interested in media, if you're interested in that
aspect of these stories, the law, how it's going to
apply as it comes forward with social media. But I
wanted to play Biden saying in his farewell address, which
was awful in his farewell address, Hey, we want to
do a We need a constitutional amendment to make sure
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that that presidents are not above the law.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Listen to this.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
We need to mend the constitution to make clear that
no president, no president's immune from crimes he or she
commits while in office. President's powers not women. It's not
absolute and shouldn't be.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Does he not?
Speaker 1 (20:18):
To your point, Buck, he doesn't know anything. They're writing
this for him. The Supreme Court opinion is not particularly complicated.
It is an important issue, but the Supreme Court to
reiterate here did not say that the president is above
criminal charges. The Supreme Court said you cannot charge the
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president with criminal offenses based on his actions that are
directly related to presidential powers. In other words, let's use
an example from Biden. We've talked about this on the
show before. Remember in Afghanistan when they thought they had
a terrorist and it turns out they just blew up
a dad in his entire family and there was no
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terrorism Allah seven kids. I mean, it's an awful screw
up Joe Biden or Joe Biden's administration committed potentially in Afghanistan.
I'm sure if you put them on trial criminal negligence, right,
there should be a massive payment. It's a wrongful death
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suit under American law. All these things, okay, but Joe
Biden shouldn't be prosecuted for a manslaughter charge or acts
the you know, unintentional homicide in some way because he
was acting to try to protect in theory American interest
and kill a terrorist that would be protected.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
And this this is similar to what the what the
Democrats wanted with Bush and Cheney was it was always
remember at war crimes, war criminals, and that was what
they were hoping to convince the you know, International Criminal Court, well.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
And this is what they're trying to do buck to
net Yahoo. Right now, they have a warrant out for
net Yahu, who's arrest over what he's done in Gaza.
So they are trying to prosecute legitimately the presidential powers.
And the Supreme Court said, rightly, I think whether you're
a Democrat, Republican or independent, no, we need to protect
presidents from being charged with crimes for engaging in presidential acts.
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And there's there's also a tremendous amount of precedent and
and already existing h you know, law and legislation that
is similar to this. You know when when I was
when I was in the CIA, if I was doing
something for the CIA within the scope of my job,
I was covered as a you know, federal government agent
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and federal government employee. But you know, they made it
very clear to us, like, yeah, if you're on your
way home from work and you get drunk at the
bar and then you like mow three people down with
your car, it's not oh, well, I'm a CI you know,
I'm a federal agent like doing business or something.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
You know that that's you're on your own buddy.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Like the point being, when you're operating within thiscpe of
your powers and your employment, there is a degree of
immunity because otherwise you couldn't do anything, because if somebody
comes along and doesn't like how you did your job,
they could say they're throwing you in prison, and so
clearly that has to be the case. This comes up
usually with police and qualified immunity, but also with prosecutors.
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For example, you know, unless you can prove that somebody
who's a prosecutor actively broke the law to prosecute someone,
you can't put them in prison because they made the
decision to prosecute somebody and you don't like that.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
This is also buck basic labor and employment law. Take
it outside of being a federal employee. If you are
driving a truck, let's say, for UPS, and you get
into an accident driving in that truck, your work life
implicates UPS. If you to your point, if you commit
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a violent crime and you are a UPS employee, typically
typically that's not going to be UPS's fault. Their exceptions
if they knew you had a history. Like again, lawyers
can get into this, but it's a very clearly defined
difference between you're acting within the scope of your job
as president or and we've made this analogy on the
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program for some time. If the president engaged in a
act of violence, if he murdered someone during a West
Wing meeting, that's probably going to be prosecuted as a murder.
If the president were charged with a sexual assault, that
would be something that would be investigated as a crime
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and a constitutional amendment. The Supreme Court decision is actually
really important and applies to everyone. This is an example
of Biden just not understanding and also I think delegitimizing
what the Court did when I actually think the Court,
whether you're a Democrat or Republican, did a really good
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job of laying out a parameter a principle that would
apply no matter who the president is for the next
two hundred years as it pertains to what is an
official act and what is an unofficial act.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
And it seems quite clear.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Yeah, I mean, if if the president has to make
a call about whether you as commander in chief, there's
a there's a plane that we think has been hijacked
and it's on the way to strike the White House,
right now, do we shoot it? Down, you know, and
the Presidentville Pennsylvania honestly example that they didn't really have
the president for, but they were prepared, I believe, with
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that final jet to shoot it down as necessary. If
the president were wrong like that would be a huge issue.
But he shouldn't go to prison. And the same reason
why you can't also have civil suits against a president
for acting in his in his official capacity, because he
would just have a president who would be completely incapable
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of operating because they would just be spending all he'd
be spending all his time in court. Now, they tried
to do that to the president and the people around
him anyway, but that now has been I think I
think that there's more clear precedent than before for the
immunity that a president has while while in office. So
this is clear to anybody who pays attention to it.
But Joe Biden on the way out with the talking,
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but it's also that's just not going to happen. To
know they're not going to amend because anyone who understands
what the ruling really is knows that to amend the
Constitution in the way that Joe Biden seems to suggest
suggest should happen is moronic because it requires a misunderstanding
of what the Supreme Court's ruling actually does and does
not do. But you've had this also with Democrats. They'll
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just shout.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Citizens United, corporations are people, Citizens United.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
They have no idea what Citizens United says. They have
no idea the Obama administration claiming that the federal government
should be able to ban books about politics in advance
of an election if it was within a certain period.
That was the Obama Solicitor General opinion in that. So
you know, he's just playing to the ignorance of Democrats
on the way out. And I really think that this
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is I think the whole thing was kind of just
a pathetic show because I think that he failed his
own team as well as failed the country.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
And it's already gone.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
We talked about this, But I do think as the
Biden administration comes down on its final four days, the
only question that's really remaining is is he going to
throw out a bunch of last minute pardons? Would would
you agree with me that at this point the only
question that's still out there floating around And if he were,
when would they come down? Would they come down on
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the night before he's leaving. Would they come down on
the Friday evening running into the weekend, like that's the question.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
One thing I think is funny about all this is
there are these people who don't want pardons, the preemptive
part in discussion, and yet as they get closer and
closer to Joe Biden can't do you know, if he
doesn't do it and he's no longer in office, It's
not like he could say, whoopsie, you know, can I
can I get a do over on that one? So
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very tough right now in the media saying oh, I
would never even take a part in from Biden preemptively
so that Trump can't go after me.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Okay, well, we'll see.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
They they clearly have set a precedent of Donald Trump
getting prosecuted for nonsense, So prosecuting people malicious prosecution and
prosecuting people for nonsense.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
There can be laws that are broken in that process.
There can be there can be.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
Violations of statute that would have occurred that should be
lawfully prosecuted. So I think that you will see some
pardons at the last minute. I'm not sure you'll see
some of the high profile preemptive stuff that we've talked about,
and I also just think Clay that the final days
of the Biden administration, it's really quite fitting nobody will
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remember it, including Joe Biden himself.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
I think that is very likely to be the case.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
We'll come back, We'll take some of your calls, by
the way eight hundred and two two two eight a
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Speaker 2 (31:46):
She was this is not the dog ate my homework.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
The dog ate my book that I had signed for her,
and we got her a new one, so the dog
did not win in the end. I think that dog
is probably a Democrat. I'm thinking I'm Altie. Yeah, maybe
a chow chow. Just throwing it out there. I'm just saying, folks,
you know some does It wasn't a lab. Labradors vote Republican.
We all know it. I'm thinking it was probably a Maltese.
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People with dogs overwhelmingly vote Republican. It's kind of an
interesting Remember we had that discussion and it was funny.
They made fun of jd.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
Vance.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
But if you are a woman who has a cat
and no other animal in your home, you overwhelmingly voted Kamala.
Every other pet owner voted Trump, which is super I
mean again, the people made fun of the cat ladies
for Kamala context or cat ladies for Biden. But Jadvance
was actually correct. If you are a single cat lady,
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you voted Kamala.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
That's her base. Fair enough.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Now, right now, you know what's gonna happen, Buck, Single
cat ladies are going to deluge us angry, and they're
going to be like, I have a cat and I
voted for Trump. So it's not everybody, but that's the numbers.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
Don't worry. This would be one of these moments where
they start yelling at me. Even though you're the one
who said it, that's probably true. You've always got that fallback.
That's a good point. Buck is the one who said it.
Go ahead and let them have it.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
Charlie in California. What have you got for his Charlie.
Speaker 5 (33:04):
Bay Clan Buck, thanks for taking my call. I'm so.
I used to be a large loss fire adjuster for
a major carrier and I currently work for a major
fire restoration company in southern cal So I have a
little bit of insight. Yeah, how the system works towards
these fires. And one of the things I was going
to bring up. I heard you guys yesterday talking and
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I couldn't get through, but I wanted to. I'm going
back to the conversation you had, which is people who
are getting insurance checks. Let's say their home is worth
a million bucks. The insurance company is not going to
write a check for that. They've got a thing in
there called recoverable depreciation, so that might take the price down,
you know, twenty thirty percent. Then they also have the
building codes. You you know you're gonna have to upgrade
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most likely your home to the current building codes, you
can't get any of that money until you actually do
the work. Then there's also policy limits on things like
what's called other structures, which could be swimming pool sidewalks,
retaining walls, detached from the house, storage buildings. Those items
might already be over what it takes to replace in
their own policy and their policy limits. So when we
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talk about folks saying, well, the insurance company is going
to write me a check and I'm going to pack
up and go to Florida, even if their house on
the market might have brought one point two million or something,
they only end up with five six seven hundred thousand
dollars on the front end. If they don't go do
any of that work and they sell that lot, they
don't get any of that money.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
How long do you think, how long do you think
if someone lost let's just make this sort of easy numbers.
If someone lost their home, let's call it a you know,
a thirty five hundred square foot home, a million dollar
home in the Pacific palis Ads, which I'm sure it
would be more like five million there, but whatever, how
long do you think it'd take if their house has
been burned down to senders for them to be able
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to rebuild based on what you know about the insurance
companies in southern California.
Speaker 5 (34:52):
I hate to say it, but as someone who now
i'm in, I'm a contractor of former licensed CC from
Tennessee as a matter of fact, until I build, and
that's what I'm doing with the restoration company. You're talking
three years, maybe five depending on the structure. And you're
talking also about it hazardous materials. California is huge on
his bestess, which that's fine, it's an environmental issue. But
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if your houses three quarters burnt to the ground and
it's got positive as bestest materials in it, such as drywall,
joint compounds and you know roof penetrations and things like that,
you've got to go through the asvestis process and you know,
get the money from insurance to cover the remediation of that,
the mitigation of that. So here again, if you if
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you just sell your house, you don't get that money.
You know, you got to sell it or sell the lot.
Then the next person taken over has to come in
and deal with any of the environmentals as well.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
Thank you for the call. This is great stuff. Buck.
I was after our show yesterday. I was on the phone.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
There are the people who have a lot of money,
and some of the people that lost their homes do
have a lot of money. I am told that a
lot of them are just calling right now and there's
a huge frenzy going on because they're buying new houses
in LA and people are getting their doors knocked on
and they're like, okay, I'm going to sell. And now
they're also then leaving and saying I got this money
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because somebody else is rich and they need a house
because they don't have anywhere to stay.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
And that's the people that have the money. But what
he just said, Buck, so many of those people who
lost their homes, their most of their network for their
family was in that home because they might have had
it for thirty or forty years and the appreciation associated
with it. What he just laid out, that sounds awful.
So they are struggling and this is going to be
brutal world. That was really interesting because he knows both
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ends of it right, the insurance side of it and
the rebuilt side of it. If he's telling me three years,
telling all of us three years, I think it's going
to be two or three years, and that's just not
tenable for people.
Welcome in Thursday edition Clay Travis buck Sexton show. Can
we start the count now? I think we fairly can
for long days until Joe Biden is a distant memory
of the nation. We will discuss right off the top
here in a moment his farewell address, which was basically
(00:24):
just a hectoring old man screams at the clouds while
mangling a large percentage of the words that were written
on his screen and being almost incapable of communication. Also,
there are a bunch of other things that are out there,
the ongoing confirmation hearings of the Trump team, which I
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would describe honestly as a home run. I mean, the
Democrat attempt to levy some blame has just completely failed.
We've got all sorts of continued fallout from what we
hope is going to be a lasting cease fire that
gets the hostages back healthy, and israel An argument over
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who exactly deserves the credit for all of that.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
What is Biden's legacy.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
There is now talk of what exactly will happen with that,
and many different aspects associated with that. But I would
start with this, Buck, I watched Joe Biden's farewell address
to the nation, and it was awful.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
I mean truly awful.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
It started with a strange metaphor about the statue of
Liberty and how it can move in the wind and
yet it does not fall. I don't know who thought
that that was poetic and that that was something that
should be should be defined, and that it was going
to somehow resonate through history. It feels to me like
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every time Biden is trying to speak to history, and
I know that he has had, unfortunately for him, historians
advising him. Which I know we've said this on the show,
but let's just hammer this home. Historians should never advise you,
because historians are good at telling you one hundred years
after something happened why it mattered, not in contextualizing the
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modern era. And in fact, much of the historical analogies
that Biden has drawn, for instance, January sixth, worst day
since the Civil War, you're either on the side of
Jefferson Davis or you're on the side of truth and justice.
And when he talked about the Georgia voting rights bills,
he's really just totally maladroit when it comes to making
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even somewhat resonant historical analogies and I thought that continued
with his speech, which just felt like the old man
yells at the clouds Simpsons meme to me. I want
to play a couple of these cuts in the event,
because I bet most people out there did not watch this.
(03:06):
We should also mention, by the way, Ashley Moody, who
I believe was the Florida Attorney General, is now going
to replace Marco Rubio in the Senate. That is the
announcement of Ron DeSantis. She was a top DeSantis ally.
I think that is a very solid choice.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Buck. She is now one of your senators. We'll talk
about that.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
But Biden, I think this is important to remember. Joe
Biden pardoned his own son despite the fact that his
own son committed a bevy of felonies, and he tried
to imprison his chief political rival. And just last week
or ten days ago, he gave George Soros a presidential
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medal of honor. And yet he's telling us and oligarchy
is taking shape in America. Yeah, you have been rewarding
your rich political allies for four years, much to the
detriment of America.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Into Cut eight, I want to warrant a country some
things they've given me a great concern. This is a
dangerous content and that's the dangerous conversation of power in
the hands of a very few ultrawealthy people, the dangerous
consequences if their abusive power is left unchecked. Today, oligarch
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is taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power and
influence that literally threatens our entire democracy. Are basic rights
and freedoms and a fair shot for everyone to get ahead.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Okay, I mean this is lunacy. So does George Soros
go on the bad list or the good list of
the arts? Does ried Hoffman of LinkedIn?
Speaker 2 (04:43):
You know?
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Does Jeff Bezos until about five minutes ago. I mean,
think about their billionaires are humanitarians? Who are you know,
writing huge checks to save democracy or whatever. Any billionaire
that is right of center is an oligarch is a threat.
It's a delusion. And it's also delusional because the election
showed us very clearly the Democrats are overwhelmingly the party
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of the rich in this country. Now they still cling
to this fiction that the Republicans are like the Wall
Street fat cats jumping on cigars and the Old Boys Club.
That is laughable. Silicon Valley hedge fund bros. People that
have billions, hundreds of millions, or billions of dollars of
personal wealth are disproportionately Democrat industries that generate massive amounts
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of money for the individuals, and the companies involved disproportionately
massively donate to Democrats. By the way, this stretches back
even to Hillary and Obama. I mean, this has been
going on for a long time. The notion that the
billionaire oligarchs are all right wing or some right wing
specific threat is a fantasy that Democrats tell themselves. The
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entire climate change movement is limousine liberals of old writing checks,
and sometimes it's the x Y, a very rich, you know,
tech guys writing big checks to these lunatic NGOs that
pretend like the world's gonna melt. I mean, but first
of all, Biden didn't even care what was in this speech.
(06:12):
I think that he's just gonna read whatever's put in
front of him. At this point, he has no legacy
to speak of. The guys defeated. He's humiliated. It's the
you know, it's the end stage for his political career,
and obviously he's in the twilight of his year's period.
And the whole thing was just kind of sad and
kind of pathetic. Honestly, that was my That was my takeaway.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Yeah, and building on what he said there, Remember Kamala
raised more money in a short period of time for
her presidential campaign than any candidate in the history.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
What did she raise?
Speaker 1 (06:45):
One and a half billion dollars buck that she raised
basically in one hundred days. She wildly outspent and wildly
outspent Trump. So this idea that, oh, the Republican Party
is going to be a wash in cat Remember Trump
was outspent in sixteen, in twenty and in twenty four.
I know, in sixteen and twenty four by massive amounts.
(07:07):
I think twenty twenty was closer because he was the
president of the United States and was able to fundraise higher.
But money has actually been on the side of Democrats.
And you just hit on the other part which they
talk about all the time. Hey, we shouldn't politicize a crisis, right,
this is crazy. And then Biden comes out and says
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the threat of climate change from North Carolina to California,
directly calling in to account Hurricane Helene, which there are
still a lot of people in western North Carolina that
the government can't manage to take care of It's a
shame they're not in eastern Ukraine. I think they probably
would have a lot more help there. But listen to Biden.
(07:50):
Try to tie what's happening right now with the wildfires
in California, which on this program we pointed out since
the moment that southern California was discovered by the Europeans,
there have been an average of four point five million
acres of that area consumed by wildfire every year. But
listen to Biden and try to make that case. Here's
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the farewell address.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
The existential threat of climate change has never been clear.
Just look across the country from California to North Carolina.
That's why I sign the most significant climate and clean
energy law ever ever in the history of the world,
and the rest of the world trying to model it now.
The powerful forces want to wield their unchecked influence to
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eliminate too steps we've taken to tackle a crimate crisis
to serve their own interest for power and profit. We
must not be bullied the sacrifice in the future, the
future of our children and our grandchildren. Must keep pushing
forward and push faster.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
There's no time to.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Waste just cut him off. Yeah, it's clay.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
He cares about the existential threat of climate change change
with the same authenticity that he cares about, you know,
the rights of trans adolescence. This is what the left
wing staffers put in front of him, and he reads
it because this is what the donors for the Democrats
want to hear from their puppet president in the last days,
(09:17):
Joe Biden doesn't give a crap about climate change.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Have you actually read?
Speaker 3 (09:23):
And I'm embarrassed by how much time I spend on
this because I want to have good talking points. The
world warming would actually lead to less human death than
the world is right now, right, more people die of
it or it's all across like you know, northern England again,
it would be fantastic.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
I mean more people today, which no one will talk about.
They talk about the existential threat of climate change. More
people today by far die of extreme cold than extreme heat.
So if there is a warming of the of the
planet to the extent that it is occurring at all,
which has occurred throughout the I mean, go look at
(10:01):
the history of planet. Cycles warn't and getting colder and
all these things happens constantly to the extent that it
is happening. First of all, the population is projected to
collapse by half in the next one hundred years, and
nobody talks about it. Human population, But that's math.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
That's actually just math.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Yes, and that's actually way scarier if you want to
talk about the future of humanity. If you ask me
right now, hey, what are you scared about, Clay, one
hundred years from now, it's that nobody wants to have
kids anymore, and that the population around the world is collapsing,
And in fact, one hundred years from now, we may
have half as many people as exist now, which would
probably go a long way towards curing climate change. Unfortunately,
(10:40):
it might lead to destruction of humanity. But the data
doesn't even support what he's saying, this existential crisis. And
there was one more thing that I wanted to hit
that I thought we could react to. Maybe we react
to it on the back side here buck. But it's
him saying this is radical. I'm surprised it's not getting
more attention. The Constitution needs to be invended out.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Of no way.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
He's just saying, hey, we need to make sure that
the president is it is actually not immune from crimes well,
let's talk about this a little bit when we come back,
because it's so crazy Buck that he also, I think,
is his brain is broken.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
It should be remembered that based on everything that the.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Democrat Party and media one on the same has said
for eight years now, Joe Biden was swept aside in
a debate, didn't even make it to election day as
a sitting president against a fascist, criminal, lying insurrectionist, blah
(11:43):
blah blah, all that stuff. What could be a bigger
what could be a bigger way to get dunked on clay?
Then to be pushed aside as a sitting president by
a guy that you claim is the first felon president
who tried to overthrow the government and a threat to democracy?
Speaker 2 (12:01):
What does that say about Joe Biden? Did you see
what imp here? I think on the flip side too,
what does it say about Trump? He beat too? He
talked about that a lot.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Yeah, but I mean even even still, I think it's
underrated that he knocked out Joe Biden on June twenty seventh,
in the panic, they suddenly decided, hey, we've got to
put forward a new person. And then Trump won the
biggest presidential election since nineteen eighty eight against her and Buck.
As we go to break here another fun story that's
out there. Did you see the Wall Street Journal had
(12:33):
a story that Kamala is upset that Biden keeps saying
he would have beaten Trump and that their relationship has
become increasingly frosty.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
I want to talk, you know, I want to talk
about that. I'm still bitter, dude, World's most expensive stake
Joe Biden. Joe Biden cost me because did anybody couldn't
stick to it? Did anybody get buck on Buck Island
and AI? I didn't see it. I want well defined
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Speaker 2 (13:01):
Island as it's being overrun like Atlantis.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
All the AI of you in a turtleneck with like
a smoking jacket playing the flute.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Very distinguished clip, very distinguished. I'm impressed.
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Speaker 3 (14:43):
And you know, there's a lot of news that is
coming out from California because of these wildfires still clay
and it's obviously heartbreaking and incredibly serious. And as we
have been all along, we are following what's going on
there at our Hearts and Prescot there everybody affected by it,
and we give praise to the firefighters who are and
(15:05):
first responders who are doing what they can. The blazes
are still not contained, it's still under threat, still more
houses at risk. But as an aside to all of this,
as an aside to all of that which is obviously
quite serious, we've been discussing. I couldn't believe that this
was a story yesterday, but it is a story. Did
you see this Clay Hunter Biden artwork worth millions of
(15:29):
dollars destroyed in Los Angeles fires?
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Have you seen this? No? I didn't see this story.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
I'm hoping this is not from like, you know, what's
it called the Babylon b or something, but it is
a reminder to me.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
No, this is from the New York Post. A trove
of nearly two.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Hundred pieces of art by Hunter Biden have been destroyed.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
It was stored.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
It The art was in storage in the Pacific Palisades
home of Hunter's Hollywood attorney, Kevin Morris. This is the
guy who bailed him out, who wrote, you know who
paid for the.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Yeah, gave him like hater or nine million dollars I think,
I mean that was a bad.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Millions of dollars. But now under this is fascinating to me.
Does the insurance company pay millions of dollars for insured
Hunter Biden artwork? Is that really gonna fly? I mean,
when you told me this just and this is the
first time I'm hearing it, it sounds like a textbook
(16:35):
case of insurance fraud. You could never sell Hunter Biden artwork,
and you have it valued at a rate that no
one would ever pay, and then it suddenly goes up
in smoke. Like if they're trying and I don't know
the answer, if they're trying to argue, hey, I lost
millions of dollars in art. What is the value right
(16:56):
now of Hunter Biden artwork? I bet you could barely
get one hundred dollars for that stuff? Like, who's gonna
buy a Hunter Biden painting? Unless it's somebody like you
or me that just wants to have it to put
up and be like, ah, let's look at what a
joke this was, right, Like it's it's that's the entire
purpose of it.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
At this point.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
I mean, I think you should buy a Hunter Biden
original and original have in your house, just just cuz
I'm gonna tell you this. Though I've seen photos of it.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
It's not that bad.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Some of it well you actually it's actually like better
than I thought.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
It would be.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Here's the problem, all of this contemporary art work. I
have no earthly idea whether it's good or bad, right.
I mean, that's the like if you're a great pianist
and you sit down in front of a piano.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
I know nothing about the piano. I can tell if
you're good or not. Right.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
I even the flute, which I ridicule all the time.
I think I could tell whether somebody's a good floutest
or not. I have no idea on contemporary art. It
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We are rolling through the Thursday edition of the program,
four days away from Donald Trump taking the oath of
office and kicking Joe Biden to the curb. I mentioned
this so I want to play it in the Biden
(19:13):
farewell address. Buck, and there are lots of stories out
there that are really going to be fascinating as we
get closer and closer to the Trump inauguration. For instance,
the CEO of TikTok is scheduled to be at Trump's
inaugural address. Meanwhile, TikTok is saying they will shut down
the entire app on Sunday, the day before the inaugural address.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Some interesting drama that is underway.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
If you're interested in media, if you're interested in that
aspect of these stories, the law, how it's going to
apply as it comes forward with social media. But I
wanted to play Biden saying in his farewell address, which
was awful in his farewell address, Hey, we want to
do a We need a constitutional amendment to make sure
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that that presidents are not above the law.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Listen to this.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
We need to mend the constitution to make clear that
no president, no president's immune from crimes he or she
commits while in office. President's powers not women. It's not
absolute and shouldn't be.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Does he not?
Speaker 1 (20:18):
To your point, Buck, he doesn't know anything. They're writing
this for him. The Supreme Court opinion is not particularly complicated.
It is an important issue, but the Supreme Court to
reiterate here did not say that the president is above
criminal charges. The Supreme Court said you cannot charge the
(20:38):
president with criminal offenses based on his actions that are
directly related to presidential powers. In other words, let's use
an example from Biden. We've talked about this on the
show before. Remember in Afghanistan when they thought they had
a terrorist and it turns out they just blew up
a dad in his entire family and there was no
(21:00):
terrorism Allah seven kids. I mean, it's an awful screw
up Joe Biden or Joe Biden's administration committed potentially in Afghanistan.
I'm sure if you put them on trial criminal negligence, right,
there should be a massive payment. It's a wrongful death
(21:21):
suit under American law. All these things, okay, but Joe
Biden shouldn't be prosecuted for a manslaughter charge or acts
the you know, unintentional homicide in some way because he
was acting to try to protect in theory American interest
and kill a terrorist that would be protected.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
And this this is similar to what the what the
Democrats wanted with Bush and Cheney was it was always
remember at war crimes, war criminals, and that was what
they were hoping to convince the you know, International Criminal Court, well.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
And this is what they're trying to do buck to
net Yahoo. Right now, they have a warrant out for
net Yahu, who's arrest over what he's done in Gaza.
So they are trying to prosecute legitimately the presidential powers.
And the Supreme Court said, rightly, I think whether you're
a Democrat, Republican or independent, no, we need to protect
presidents from being charged with crimes for engaging in presidential acts.
(22:17):
And there's there's also a tremendous amount of precedent and
and already existing h you know, law and legislation that
is similar to this. You know when when I was
when I was in the CIA, if I was doing
something for the CIA within the scope of my job,
I was covered as a you know, federal government agent
(22:39):
and federal government employee. But you know, they made it
very clear to us, like, yeah, if you're on your
way home from work and you get drunk at the
bar and then you like mow three people down with
your car, it's not oh, well, I'm a CI you know,
I'm a federal agent like doing business or something.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
You know that that's you're on your own buddy.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Like the point being, when you're operating within thiscpe of
your powers and your employment, there is a degree of
immunity because otherwise you couldn't do anything, because if somebody
comes along and doesn't like how you did your job,
they could say they're throwing you in prison, and so
clearly that has to be the case. This comes up
usually with police and qualified immunity, but also with prosecutors.
(23:19):
For example, you know, unless you can prove that somebody
who's a prosecutor actively broke the law to prosecute someone,
you can't put them in prison because they made the
decision to prosecute somebody and you don't like that.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
This is also buck basic labor and employment law. Take
it outside of being a federal employee. If you are
driving a truck, let's say, for UPS, and you get
into an accident driving in that truck, your work life
implicates UPS. If you to your point, if you commit
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a violent crime and you are a UPS employee, typically
typically that's not going to be UPS's fault. Their exceptions
if they knew you had a history. Like again, lawyers
can get into this, but it's a very clearly defined
difference between you're acting within the scope of your job
as president or and we've made this analogy on the
(24:14):
program for some time. If the president engaged in a
act of violence, if he murdered someone during a West
Wing meeting, that's probably going to be prosecuted as a murder.
If the president were charged with a sexual assault, that
would be something that would be investigated as a crime
(24:34):
and a constitutional amendment. The Supreme Court decision is actually
really important and applies to everyone. This is an example
of Biden just not understanding and also I think delegitimizing
what the Court did when I actually think the Court,
whether you're a Democrat or Republican, did a really good
(24:57):
job of laying out a parameter a principle that would
apply no matter who the president is for the next
two hundred years as it pertains to what is an
official act and what is an unofficial act.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
And it seems quite clear.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Yeah, I mean, if if the president has to make
a call about whether you as commander in chief, there's
a there's a plane that we think has been hijacked
and it's on the way to strike the White House,
right now, do we shoot it? Down, you know, and
the Presidentville Pennsylvania honestly example that they didn't really have
the president for, but they were prepared, I believe, with
(25:30):
that final jet to shoot it down as necessary. If
the president were wrong like that would be a huge issue.
But he shouldn't go to prison. And the same reason
why you can't also have civil suits against a president
for acting in his in his official capacity, because he
would just have a president who would be completely incapable
(25:51):
of operating because they would just be spending all he'd
be spending all his time in court. Now, they tried
to do that to the president and the people around
him anyway, but that now has been I think I
think that there's more clear precedent than before for the
immunity that a president has while while in office. So
this is clear to anybody who pays attention to it.
But Joe Biden on the way out with the talking,
(26:13):
but it's also that's just not going to happen. To
know they're not going to amend because anyone who understands
what the ruling really is knows that to amend the
Constitution in the way that Joe Biden seems to suggest
suggest should happen is moronic because it requires a misunderstanding
of what the Supreme Court's ruling actually does and does
not do. But you've had this also with Democrats. They'll
(26:35):
just shout.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Citizens United, corporations are people, Citizens United.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
They have no idea what Citizens United says. They have
no idea the Obama administration claiming that the federal government
should be able to ban books about politics in advance
of an election if it was within a certain period.
That was the Obama Solicitor General opinion in that. So
you know, he's just playing to the ignorance of Democrats
on the way out. And I really think that this
(26:59):
is I think the whole thing was kind of just
a pathetic show because I think that he failed his
own team as well as failed the country.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
And it's already gone.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
We talked about this, But I do think as the
Biden administration comes down on its final four days, the
only question that's really remaining is is he going to
throw out a bunch of last minute pardons? Would would
you agree with me that at this point the only
question that's still out there floating around And if he were,
when would they come down? Would they come down on
(27:31):
the night before he's leaving. Would they come down on
the Friday evening running into the weekend, like that's the question.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
One thing I think is funny about all this is
there are these people who don't want pardons, the preemptive
part in discussion, and yet as they get closer and
closer to Joe Biden can't do you know, if he
doesn't do it and he's no longer in office, It's
not like he could say, whoopsie, you know, can I
can I get a do over on that one? So
(28:00):
very tough right now in the media saying oh, I
would never even take a part in from Biden preemptively
so that Trump can't go after me.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Okay, well, we'll see.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
They they clearly have set a precedent of Donald Trump
getting prosecuted for nonsense, So prosecuting people malicious prosecution and
prosecuting people for nonsense.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
There can be laws that are broken in that process.
There can be there can be.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
Violations of statute that would have occurred that should be
lawfully prosecuted. So I think that you will see some
pardons at the last minute. I'm not sure you'll see
some of the high profile preemptive stuff that we've talked about,
and I also just think Clay that the final days
of the Biden administration, it's really quite fitting nobody will
(28:43):
remember it, including Joe Biden himself.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
I think that is very likely to be the case.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
We'll come back, We'll take some of your calls, by
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are beginning their hearings, and frankly, Democrats are just absolutely
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She was this is not the dog ate my homework.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
The dog ate my book that I had signed for her,
and we got her a new one, so the dog
did not win in the end. I think that dog
is probably a Democrat. I'm thinking I'm Altie. Yeah, maybe
a chow chow. Just throwing it out there. I'm just saying, folks,
you know some does It wasn't a lab. Labradors vote Republican.
We all know it. I'm thinking it was probably a Maltese.
(32:09):
People with dogs overwhelmingly vote Republican. It's kind of an
interesting Remember we had that discussion and it was funny.
They made fun of jd.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
Vance.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
But if you are a woman who has a cat
and no other animal in your home, you overwhelmingly voted Kamala.
Every other pet owner voted Trump, which is super I
mean again, the people made fun of the cat ladies
for Kamala context or cat ladies for Biden. But Jadvance
was actually correct. If you are a single cat lady,
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you voted Kamala.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
That's her base. Fair enough.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Now, right now, you know what's gonna happen, Buck, Single
cat ladies are going to deluge us angry, and they're
going to be like, I have a cat and I
voted for Trump. So it's not everybody, but that's the numbers.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
Don't worry. This would be one of these moments where
they start yelling at me. Even though you're the one
who said it, that's probably true. You've always got that fallback.
That's a good point. Buck is the one who said it.
Go ahead and let them have it.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
Charlie in California. What have you got for his Charlie.
Speaker 5 (33:04):
Bay Clan Buck, thanks for taking my call. I'm so.
I used to be a large loss fire adjuster for
a major carrier and I currently work for a major
fire restoration company in southern cal So I have a
little bit of insight. Yeah, how the system works towards
these fires. And one of the things I was going
to bring up. I heard you guys yesterday talking and
(33:25):
I couldn't get through, but I wanted to. I'm going
back to the conversation you had, which is people who
are getting insurance checks. Let's say their home is worth
a million bucks. The insurance company is not going to
write a check for that. They've got a thing in
there called recoverable depreciation, so that might take the price down,
you know, twenty thirty percent. Then they also have the
building codes. You you know you're gonna have to upgrade
(33:47):
most likely your home to the current building codes, you
can't get any of that money until you actually do
the work. Then there's also policy limits on things like
what's called other structures, which could be swimming pool sidewalks,
retaining walls, detached from the house, storage buildings. Those items
might already be over what it takes to replace in
their own policy and their policy limits. So when we
(34:08):
talk about folks saying, well, the insurance company is going
to write me a check and I'm going to pack
up and go to Florida, even if their house on
the market might have brought one point two million or something,
they only end up with five six seven hundred thousand
dollars on the front end. If they don't go do
any of that work and they sell that lot, they
don't get any of that money.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
How long do you think, how long do you think
if someone lost let's just make this sort of easy numbers.
If someone lost their home, let's call it a you know,
a thirty five hundred square foot home, a million dollar
home in the Pacific palis Ads, which I'm sure it
would be more like five million there, but whatever, how
long do you think it'd take if their house has
been burned down to senders for them to be able
(34:46):
to rebuild based on what you know about the insurance
companies in southern California.
Speaker 5 (34:52):
I hate to say it, but as someone who now
i'm in, I'm a contractor of former licensed CC from
Tennessee as a matter of fact, until I build, and
that's what I'm doing with the restoration company. You're talking
three years, maybe five depending on the structure. And you're
talking also about it hazardous materials. California is huge on
his bestess, which that's fine, it's an environmental issue. But
(35:15):
if your houses three quarters burnt to the ground and
it's got positive as bestest materials in it, such as drywall,
joint compounds and you know roof penetrations and things like that,
you've got to go through the asvestis process and you know,
get the money from insurance to cover the remediation of that,
the mitigation of that. So here again, if you if
(35:35):
you just sell your house, you don't get that money.
You know, you got to sell it or sell the lot.
Then the next person taken over has to come in
and deal with any of the environmentals as well.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
Thank you for the call. This is great stuff. Buck.
I was after our show yesterday. I was on the phone.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
There are the people who have a lot of money,
and some of the people that lost their homes do
have a lot of money. I am told that a
lot of them are just calling right now and there's
a huge frenzy going on because they're buying new houses
in LA and people are getting their doors knocked on
and they're like, okay, I'm going to sell. And now
they're also then leaving and saying I got this money
(36:13):
because somebody else is rich and they need a house
because they don't have anywhere to stay.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
And that's the people that have the money. But what
he just said, Buck, so many of those people who
lost their homes, their most of their network for their
family was in that home because they might have had
it for thirty or forty years and the appreciation associated
with it. What he just laid out, that sounds awful.
So they are struggling and this is going to be
brutal world. That was really interesting because he knows both
(36:38):
ends of it right, the insurance side of it and
the rebuilt side of it. If he's telling me three years,
telling all of us three years, I think it's going
to be two or three years, and that's just not
tenable for people.
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